If you are interested in a frugal lifestyle go to the above link. You’ll find there lots of ideas how to live a simple life and spending as little money as possible. I mean, those people who’s income gets less and less, have to cut down on spending wherever possible. It is not right to get more and more into debt, is it?
Think about it. If you are a small family, do you need a four bedroom house? Perhaps two of your bedrooms could be rented out to somebody who needs low cost renting?
The government provides some funds for housing of people who lost their homes in fires or floods. Of course these funds are not enough to house everybody in proper houses. My opinion is, that very simple housing should be made available asap to everybody who’s lost their home in a natural disaster. It should be possible to provide very simple basic housing at very low cost. I reckon a very simple hut is better than having no roof over your head. In the past generations of people survived in very simple huts!
The same goes for people that cannot pay the ever increasing mortgage anymore. Let them rent a very simple alternative, or let them share their homes with other people where this is possible. Why have homeless people in a country as rich as Australia? Why such a great gap between rich and poor?
In my previous post I pointed out, how in the past most students in Germany did have a very frugal lifestyle and were able to survive with very little money while having spare time to foster great companionship with other students.
I guess, we are in a cost of living crisis right now. I wonder, how can this cost of living crisis be overcome? Has anyone any ideas about this?
How can people adopt a more frugal lifestyle? https://www.frugalandthriving.com.au/start-here/
My father and one of his brothers studied in Germany from 1925 to 1930. They shared a room at a widow’s place. I believe this widow provided a simple breakfast as well as a daily home-cooked simple meal.
As far as I know, my father and his brother never worked to earn some money, while they were enrolled as students at the Leipzig University. Students in Germany just were not supposed to look for jobs to earn some money. This was the American way, my father said.
So, how did these students live? The answer is, the parents were responsible for their children’s upkeep until they were ready to become employed. That meant, most students were relatively poor and could not afford any ‘luxuries’. They just struggled to survive on very simple food. One cheap supplementary food for instance was called ‘STUDENTEN FUTTER’. This was a mixture of raisins and…
This is a vewry inspiring blog about love. Thank you so much, dear Jan, for publishing all this. The more I can remember what it says about love, the better. Stay safe, dear Jan. Love and HUGS from Uta ❤
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But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Yesterday I looked at a lot of Peter’s books and also at some of my books. I wanted to make a decision, which books I definitly wanted to keep, just to keep, and then which books I also wanted to read. I came up with a plan! So, my plan is to aim at reading two books every week, meaning over the year I should be able to read about 100 books!
Hopefully I’ll be able to read about 100 books every year that I am still alive!
I do like stories where there is a lot of dialogue to read, especially when it comes to a more meaningful dialogue. There is quite a bit of it in ‘HOLY SMOKE’. The book I just started today, seems also to be full of very meaningful dialogue. It is a historical novel. I am very much looking forward to reading it. It is written in German by Renate Feyl and called ‘Aussicht auf bleibende Helle’.
She was left with little time to pursue her diverse interests. Sophia Charlotte died of pneumonia in Hannover on February 1, 1705 at the age of only 36. She had originally planned to celebrate Carnival with her family there. She calmly explained to the priest who had been called that she did not need him—she was prepared for death.
Sophia’s mother, Sophia of the Palatinate and later Electress of Hannover, had great things planned for her only girl. A beautiful, well-educated daughter was a trump on the European marriage market. In line with the spirit of high baroque ideals, the little princess was taught bienséance (propriety), contenance…
Hello, I am a Nunukul, Goenpul, Ngugi salt water Aboriginal person from Quandamooka Country (Moreton Bay – from North Stradbroke Island) with European heritage as well. Let me tell you why it’s important for my people that the Voice, Treaty, and Truth happen hand in hand. Each are important issues and there are arguments for them to be addressed individually, but nonetheless there is no reason why we can’t ask for all three, as one.
Since the colonial era began in 1788 after the arrival of the first fleet in Sydney Cove, the Australian Frontier Wars (1788-1934) which resulted in 100,000 -115,000 genocidal deaths across the Australian continent, plague pandemics brought from overseas, slave labour, stolen wages, the stolen…
Premiere to be held in Melbourne6.30pm, March 22 at the Cinema Nova, Carlton.
A Q&A will follow the screening. Special guests (some featured in the documentary) to join David Bradbury:
John Lander, former deputy ambassador to China, former ambassador to Iran;
Dr Richard Tanter, former President Australian board of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017; Simone Pavavakis: environmental activist, novelist.
(Hobart screening on March 23 at the State Cinema with special guest Bob Brown. Adelaide screening on March 29 at the Capri Theatre. Further screenings in other cities and regional centres TBA).
As international tensions rise to a new level, with the Ukraine war passing its first anniversary and the Albanese Government set to announce its commitment of hundreds of billions of dollars to new weaponry, nuclear propelled subs, Stealth bombers etc, The Road to War brings into sharp focus why it is not in Australia’s best interests to be dragged into an American-led war with China.
The Road to War is directed by one of Australia’s most respected political documentary filmmakers, David Bradbury. Bradbury has more than four decades of journalistic and filmmaking experience behind him having covered many of the world’s trouble spots since the end of the Vietnam war – SE Asia, Iraq, East Timor, revolutions and civil war in Central and South America, India, China, Nepal and West Papua.
“I was driven to make this film because of the urgency of the situation. I fear we will be sucked into a nuclear war with China and/or Russia from which we will never recover, were some of us to survive the first salvo of nuclear warheads,” says the twice Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
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“We must put a hard brake on Australia joining in the current arms race as the international situation deteriorates. We owe it to our children and future generations of Australians who already face the gravest existential danger of their young lives from Climate Change,” says Bradbury.
There is general concern among the defence analysts Bradbury interviews in the film that Australia is being set up to be the US proxy in its coming war with China. And that neither the Labor nor LNP governments have learnt anything from being dragged into America’s wars of folly since World War II – Korea, Vietnam, two disastrous wars in Iraq and America’s failed 20-year war in Afghanistan which ripped that country apart, only to see the Taliban warlords return the country and its female population to feudal times.
“Basing US B52 and Stealth bombers in Australia is all part of preparing Australia to be the protagonist on behalf of the United States in a war against China. If the US can’t get Taiwan to be the proxy or its patsy, it will be Australia,” says former Australian ambassador to China and Iran, John Lander.
Military analyst, Dr Richard Tanter, fears the US military’s spy base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs, will be the first target of any direct confrontation between the US and Russia or China.
“The US military base at Pine Gap is critical to the US military’s global strategy, especially nuclear missile threats in the region. The generals in Moscow and Beijing would have it as a top priority on their nuclear Hit List,” says Dr Tanter whose 40 years of ground-breaking research on Pine Gap with colleague, Dr Des Ball, has provided us with the clearest insight to the unique role Pine Gap plays for the US. Everything from programming US drone attacks to detecting the first critical seconds of nuclear ICBM’s lifting off from their deep underground silos in China or Russia, to directing crippling nuclear retaliation on its enemy.
“Should Russia or China want to send a signal to Washington that it means business and ‘don’t push us any further’, a one-off nuclear strike on Pine Gap would do that very effectively, without triggering retaliation from the US since it doesn’t take out a US mainland installation or city,” says Dr Tanter.
“It’s horrible to talk about part of Australia in these terms but one has to be a realist with what comes to us by aligning ourselves with the US,” Tanter says.
“Studies show in the event of even a very limited nuclear exchange between any of the nuclear powers, up to two billion people would starve to death from nuclear winter,” says Dr Sue Wareham of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.
“The Australian Government, Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, have a serious responsibility to look after all Australians. Not just those living in cities. Were Pine Gap to be hit with even one nuclear missile, Health Minister Mark Butler would be hard pressed to find any volunteer nurses and doctors willing to risk their lives to help survivors in Alice Springs, Darwin and surrounding communities from even one nuclear missile hitting this critical US target,” says Dr Wareham.
“Most ordinary Westerners live their lives trapped within the cocoon of our controlled media, and only a small minority of them may have recognized the magnitude of this historic event, with only a sliver blaming anyone other than the demonized Russian enemy.”
It is interesting to see how widespread our media contgrol really is!
On Friday geopolitical plates of tectonic scale may have visibly shifted as Iran and Saudi Arabia, two of the most important countries in the Middle East and erstwhile bitter adversaries, announced that they had reestablished diplomatic relations after a lengthy round of negotiations held with top Chinese officials in Beijing.
Though sometimes stressed during the 1973 Oil Embargo and in the aftermath of the 9/11 Attacks, the relationship remained our most important in the Arab World, being responsible for the rise of the Petrodollar and the maintenance of our own greenback as the world’s reserve currency. With America’s industrial base having been reduced to a mere shadow of its once global dominance and our country plagued by horrendous annual…
Please, please, listen to what Mr.. Keating has to say.
And compare this with what our leaders tell us.
Do you think we should do everything what the Americans ask us to do?
How would you proof, really proof, that what the Americans want us to do, is to the benefit of Australians?
Former prime minister Paul Keating examines the merits of the AUKUS submarine deal and its implications for China-Australia relations and regional stability.
I’ll be celebrating the awesomeness of this day at an awesome group therapy conference in the awesome city of NYC with other awesome group therapists.
I just described myself as an awesome group therapist because
International Awesomeness Day (according to the awesome National Day website) “is a day where anybody, no matter who they are, may celebrate their awesomeness” and
I am.
Do you see awesomeness in my images for today?
Isn’t that awesome?
To celebrate International Awesomeness Day, here is an awesome song:
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Awesome thanks to all who help me celebrate the awesomeness of life every day, including YOU.
‘To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.’
John Henry Newman
‘Time may change me But I can’t trace time.’
David Bowie
I thought I’d write something about the ways my thinking has changed during my time as an academic. This will probably be of little interest to anybody besides me, so feel free to scroll past this post, if you find the intellectual navel-gazing of an ageing academic a less than appealing prospect. However, since I’ve always believed that one of the purposes of a blog is to provide its author with a space to work out what he or she actually thinks, I won’t be too bothered if the main (or indeed only) audience for this post is me. At the same time, I feel I owe it to the readers of this blog (and I know there are one or two…
AuntyUta 