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June 15, 2025 · 10:56 am

McGlashan’s Review of the South African ODI Victory at Lords

Andrew McGlashan … in ESPNcricinfo

South Africa 138 (Bedingham 45, Cummins 6-28) and 282 for 5 (Markram 146, Bavuma 66, Starc 3-66) beat Australia 212 (Webster 72, Smith 66, Rabada 5-51) and 207 (Starc 58, Carey 43, Rabada 4-59, Ngidi 3-38) by five wickets
At 12.45pm on a sunny Saturday at Lord’s, South Africa secured the most significant moment in their cricket history with the World Test Championship title. It was not without nerves – how could it be? – but this time there was no agony at the end. Aiden Markram took them to the brink with an epic 136, an innings that will go down as the country’s most important in Tests, before the winning runs were driven through the covers by Kyle Verreynne to spark the celebrations.

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June 15, 2025 · 10:26 am

South Africa snaffle Cricket Title at Lords

Michael Roberts

This important 50-over ODI final was not available on TV in Adelaide, so I am not able to comment as a watcher. Harry Solomons in Sydney has suggested that the Aussies may have been too overconfident. I do not buy into that speculation.

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June 15, 2025 · 1:26 am

“Existential Struggle” — Israel vs Iran + Allies

LISTEN to SCOTT RITTER … Scott Ritter is a former US Marine, Intelligence Officer & UN Weapons Inspector. Ritter outlines the extent of Israels surprise attack on Iran and what will likely be the consequences. Follow Prof. Glenn Diesen: Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/Glenn_DiesenPatreon:   / glenndiesen   Support the channel: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/glenn… Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/gdieseng Go Fund Me: https://gofund.me/09ea012f

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June 13, 2025 · 12:24 pm

Zakir Hussain: Tabla Musician Extraordinary …. Heavenly

Zakir Hussain Played Tabla in Indian Classical Music and Beyond …

 

Written and photographed by Banning Eyre, April 30, 2025

Across genres Zakir Hussain was a master player of the tabla, a pair of small hand drums fundamental to classical music of northern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since the 18th century. Here he performs during the True People’s Celebration in Chichibu, Japan.

The sounds of Indian classical music flowed into jazz, American folk and popular music, modern dance and percussive virtuosity worthy of the man being honored, the late tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. In San Francisco, California’s Grace Cathedral, a parade of musicians took the stage wielding guitars, sitar, violin, banjo, saxophones and all manner of drums and other percussion instruments, summoning a mesmerizing flow of deeply felt music that lasted over four hours.

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June 13, 2025 · 1:01 am

Catastrophe! London-bound Air India Flight Crashes

Yashee Sharma & Jorge Bianco 

An Air India plane headed for London has crashed with more than 240 people on board, including 61 foreign nationals, in the north-west Indian city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state.

The city police commissioner said it “appears there are no survivors” after the plane crashed into a medical college hostel and burst into flames near the airport but later told local media one man survived.
“Some locals would have also died,” Commissioner GS Malik told The Associated Press, adding that exact figures were still be ascertained.
Firefighters work at the site of an plane crash in India’s north-western city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, on Thursday, June12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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June 12, 2025 · 10:43 am

Introducing Wade Frazier …

A NOTE From Wade Frazier, June 2025

Hi Michael: Well, my LinkedIn bio gives my professional background, if that is what you mean by a CV………………………………………………….. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wade-frazier-6b539a10b/

Born in 1958 in Seattle.  My most important activities (at least to me!:) was my involvement in the energy industry in the 1980s.  We had the world’s best heating system (it still is).  We also pursued free energy before we were wiped out, and my partner went to prison.  The CIA offered my partner $1 billion to fold our operation before we had the boom lowered on us.  My story regarding those events is generally unbelievable.  One of my many accounts is here: https://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting

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June 11, 2025 · 2:36 am

Democracy At Peril? A Forum …. to Dine On

Factum EPIGS Summit, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 11–12 June 2025**

Join us at EPIGS’25 for this panel discussion featuring journalists, civic tech leaders, and election experts from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Pakistan, and the Maldives as they unpack evolving electoral narratives and explore challenges to platform integrity across Asia. Hear regional insights, real-world experiences, and ideas for safeguarding democracy in the digital age.

 

THE PANELISTS
o Rohana Hettiarachchi (Sri Lanka) – Executive Director of People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL)
o Che De Los Reyes (The Philippines) – Journalist and Media Development Specialist
o Aishath Adnan (The Maldives) – Co-Founder of Women in Tech Maldives
o Harindra Dassanayake (Sri Lanka) Co-Founder of Muragala
o Dulanjaya Mahagamage (Sri Lanka) – Manager – Social Media and Research at Hashtag Generation
o Usama Khilji (Pakistan) – Co-Founder and Director of Bolo Bhi and the Vice Chair of the Global Network Initiative
• Moderator – Rajni Gamage (Sri Lanka) – Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS).

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June 10, 2025 · 12:32 am

Safeguarding the Ocean’s Resources …. a NICE Gathering

Saroj Pathirana in FACEBOOK, June 2025

A large group of top-level leaders, ministers, princes, and top-level leaders have gathered in France’s port Nice (Nice) to attend the United Nations Third World Ocean Conference.

As several leaders approached Nice city by ship, a massive ship from the Greenpeace Environmental Organization named Arctic Sunrise  was also approaching the city to protest against cannings happening at the bottom.

Samoa State, which made the first announcement to start the conference, announced 9 new sea regions fully insured, protecting 30% of its own seaside. Accordingly, fishing of 36,000 square kilometers is strictly prohibited. And the Samoa Island State’s warning is to fully start its ocean zone into a sustainable management system by 2030.

We will bring further details about this week-long conference, courtesy of Ocean Reporting Network at Pulitzer Centre.

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June 7, 2025 · 2:20 am

An American Outsider’s Appraisal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict unto Death

 

Prefatory Note by Michael Roberts in Adelaide, 7 June 2025 

Brian Victoria was a colleague teaching Japanese in the Asian Studies Department when I moved to Adelaide Univerisity Anthropology in 1977; and we got to know each other at seminars and in faculty corridors. He moved abroad subsequently. While his expertise probably lies in political issues in the Pacific theatre, one of my brainwaves  — rare nowadays — led me to seek his appraisal of the deadly, devastating and unholy conflicts occurring in recent years in Gaza, Palestine, Israel,and their surrounds (an issue piercing TPS because of a sharp division of opinion between two of my friends, David Schokman and Arlen van Der Wall).

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June 6, 2025 · 7:42 pm

LATE NIGHT LIVE’s Searching Stories

A Note from Errol Fernando, early June 2025 **

Dear Michael,  I listened to a very interesting interview on Late Night Live recently which dealt with the whole story of Merle Oberon and her genealogy. Please google Late Night Live and listen to this interview which tells you about her Sri Lankan mother, her efforts to hide her ethnicity, pretending that she was born in Tasmania, etc, etc.

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