Possibly just suspicion of “foreign” food? perhaps Vietnamese pork tastes different? It’s a bit of a puzzle. LRL used to supply wild pig meat to German sausage makers. They preferred the flavour of wild pig. And no doubt the worms carried by said pig.
The Tunku was a “ gentle, courteous aristocrat”, ac the journalist, but he’d be criticised. Mahathir is a polarising character and acts for Malaysia but it was a rotten thing he did to Anwar Ibrahim.
From the ABC news this morning. The coal miners must be very worried. “A major milestone was reached in Australia's biggest electricity market this week when renewable energy supplied more than half of the grid's power. Key points: Clean energy sources met most of the demand on Australia's biggest grid for 10 minutes on Wednesday Ideal weather made the milestone possible: strong winds, clear skies and relatively cool temperatures Observers say the industry is changing rapidly and urge governments to reform the "outdated" energy market”.
For those overseas people who want to learn how politics works in Australia this show by the Australian ABC should be streamable https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9318588/
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/australia-approves-china-mengniu-purchase-232411006.html Australia approves China-government backed buyout of dairy firm Bellamy's Australia cleared a dairy producer part-owned by the Chinese government to buy local infant formula maker Bellamy's Australia Ltd. . . . Selling out the future infants of Australia Moi
Wow! Two Liberal MPs say the Chinese Government has banned them from travelling on a study trip to Beijing. Andrew Hastie and James Paterson said they believed their trip was being blocked because of their "frankness about the Chinese Communist Party". From the ABC news.
Keating and Malcolm Turnbull both decided to embarrass themselves with "waffling crap" (if I may borrow from Gary)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/australian-woman-mauled-kangaroo-while-162744466.html Australian Woman Mauled by a Kangaroo While Walking Her Dog: 'I Could Sense His Panic' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- And they're so cute too.
Well, here’s another fine mess we’re in. We are the most advanced people the world has ever known. Why aren’t we making a better job of our time on Earth? https://theconversation.com/2019-wa...quality-and-2020-is-likely-to-be-worse-128384 from the ABC. This year was marked by global unrest — and 2020 is likely to be worse The Conversation / By Tony Walker Updated 12hhours ago ... In January, Oxfam reported that the world's 26 richest individuals owned as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population. Billionaires grew their combined fortunes by $US2.5-billion-a-day ($3.66 billion) in 2018, while the relative wealth of the world's poorest 3.8 billion people declined by $US500 million a day. A rich-poor gap is widening across the world to the point where it is no longer possible to argue that an economic growth model that advantages the few is lifting all boats......
https://news.yahoo.com/bushfires-australia-big-theyre-generating-134733341.html The Australia bushfires are generating "pyrocumulonimbus" clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires. Support The Fires. They create rain.
Interesting explanation. Complicated and expensive way to make rain. Sometimes pyrocumulonimbus clouds can generate black hail.
Australian fires have reached the front page top news story in the Guardian UK https://www.theguardian.com/uk a twitter feed on the nightmare https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustralianFires?src=hash Hope all posters from here are safe.