Carolyn Cordon

President of Adelaide Plains Poets, poet, writer, blogger, public speaker, dog lover, cloud watcher, dreamer, admirer of Nature ...
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[Carolyn Cordon @kittycordo]

Community Building and Art - sounds exciting? You bet it does, Adelaide Plains Poets, where poetry & community get together and great things happen. I'm so proud to be President of this wonderful group!

[Alan Baxter ♛ @AlanBixter]

@HalfwayPost What does he mean "the rest of the world"?? NO-ONE respects him! Some Americans just suck up to him hoping he'll give them free cash, or let them off rape or assault charges...

[World Affairs @World_Affairs11]

BREAKING:

China says it doesn't compete with the US, but US will be replaced as World unilateral power very soon.

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

JUST IN: Scandinavian countries, Norway Denmark and Sweden ban all Israeli tourists from entering the country

[Carolyn Cordon @kittycordo]

Yay to all involved:

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

he has a foretaste of how he will be "edited out" of US history soon.

"who? that guy? pedophile friend of Epstein? barely knew him"

[Nikhil Deshpande @Chaseeism]

Massive shoutout to @SBS who have absolutely smashed the FIFA World Cup broadcast in Australia with great coverage, decent panel and no sensationalized commentary and all of it absolutely FREE!

Goated stuff 🐐

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team"

Brilliant titling from @Guardian 🤡

[Joe Thomas @joe97559604]

Fun fact: Albo would never speak to Toto the way One Nations Barnaby Joyce speaks to his dog.
Vote Labor.

[Never vote LNP. @LNPvoterfail]

What a stupid sport. Imagine if this happened at the AFL Grand Final. The media would be all over it.
World Cup?.......crickets 🦗🦗🦗🦗
https://t.co/yUQ9Z9LDQk

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.

We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.

I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.

And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.

The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.

I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

FUCK YEAH!!!! Judge Casper ruled that pompous Trump lacks the authority to oversee elections and rejected the corrupt, authoritarian Trump regime's unsupported claims of "widespread illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error."

JUSTICE 1
TRUMP 0

[NOT a Canberra Bubbler 🌲🌏🌲 @MSMWatchdog2013]

I honestly can't believe how ignorance underpins the wildly unfounded allegations made by Hughes et al., & some people actually fall for it

Has no one heard of budget papers, Austender etc.?

It's all on the public record, if people are genuinely curious

https://t.co/e4Ds6VGIAy

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

GET THE FACTS: There’ve been 30 times the number of businesses starting up than closing down each day on average under Labor, and insolvency rates are almost half what they were under the Howard Government.

More new businesses were created in June, after the Budget, than in any other month on record.

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Tony Burke and Anthony Albanese have slammed the return of "White Australia" rhetoric espoused by Pauline Hanson, saying ending those policies was a landmark bipartisan achievement that helped build the diverse Australia we know today.

#insiders #auspol

[amante2 @AmeliaBee7]

Instead of promoting the USA, the World Cup only cemented the entire world’s view that the former leading country in the Free World is run by a demented, moronic douchebag

The USA will never shake the repugnant stench of Trump

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Despite all we’ve seen, there are still images from Gaza that break me and become imprinted in my mind.

This is Ayham Nasman. A Palestinian boy left alone, grieving his family, because Israel killed his parents and siblings. This is childhood in Gaza.

[أخبار إيران 🇮🇷 IRANNEWS @AAlsadq85680]

عاجـــــــــــــــل 🔥🚀

الحرس الثوري الإيراني: استهدفنا بالصواريخ طائرات للجيش الأمريكي بمطار #العقبة في #الأردن وألحقنا أضرارا بعدد منها

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

Can some tell Hughesy about the PBO, Austrade Tender registry, parliamentary interest register, budget papers as well as all the other reporting tools available to track govt expenditure across all levels of govt. The guys just fucked in the head if he thinks this does exist.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Spain responded harshly to Israel's statements:

"We are not defaming you, Israel, we are describing you: You are a genocidal and criminal regime."

"You will all be held accountable before the International Criminal Court."

[Carolyn Cordon @kittycordo]

What a fabulous reply, what a fabulous person. @aakashgupta

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.

That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.

Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."

His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.

As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.

He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.

Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.

Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.