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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Air Water Land: all on Fire
Description: Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at noon, 10 Jan 2020.
Image: Smoke from fires near Port Macquarie in NSW seen from 30,000 feet in early December 2019.
Introduction
Not a very good start to 2020 – what with bushfires everywhere, floods in Indonesia, and now military tit-for-tat between the United States and Iran. This has resulted in the tragic deaths of 176 passengers and crew on a Ukrainian airline. Donald Trump ordered the assassination by drone of the second most important person in Iran, Maj Gen Quasem Soleimani. As hundreds of thousands of people attended Soleimani’s funeral Iran fired missiles at two military bases in Iraq. Thre...