The Melbourne Cup, is the most important horse race in Australia. It is so important that even horses from overseas are brought here to run the race. Anyhow, people follow this race, the horses run the race, while the ladies try who is best dressed.
Welcome to,
World news and views diary, November and December 2022
Dear readers, I am editing this article, and this diary will
cover November and December 2022.Anyhow, the first Tuesday of November, in
Australia they have a house race called the Melbourne Cup, it is like a feast, the
ladies ware fancy dresses and hats, and everybody tries to have good time, it
is like when in Europe they have, a saint patron feast in a town. Anyhow, there
are several horse races run, and the most important one is the Melbourne Cup,
there is a lot of money involved. Hereunder is how they are describing the race.
The
Melbourne Cup is a Group 1 held over a
distance of 3200 metres at Flemington Racecourse with total prizemoney of $7,750,000.
The
Melbourne Cup was last run-on Tuesday, November 1st 2022, and won by Gold
Trip.
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous horse
race held over a distance of 3200 metres at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
Held on the first Tuesday of November each year the ‘race that stops a nation'
is an opportunity to try and back a winner and claim bragging rights over your
friends, workmates, and family.
I say, thanks for the advice, but I am not a betting person, I
will follow the race for fun, just to keep informed what is happening. Now let
us look at more serious issues, that are affecting Australia.
Now above we have talked about the Melbourne Cup, a horse race
that here in Australia everybody watches. But at the end of this month, for the
people that follow sport, there something more important to watch, the FIFA soccer
world cup in Qatar. It feels strange that a small nation has won the right to
hold the games, but that how it is, and the games are starting right now while
I am writing this article, let us hope that we can enjoy the games, and
everything turn out all right, after all the entire world, will be following
these games.
The FIFA. World soccer cup.
The soccer world games started in 1930 and are held every four
years. Since then, the tournaments have been won 5 times from Brazil, 4 times
from Germany and 4 times from Italy, since Italy has not qualified this time,
we wonder who is going to win. At this moment, I am wondering, if the two top
teams win again, or will somebody else win.
The games have started, but as it happens, there are people
protesting, for different things that do not belong to the soccer games, just
because they know that the entire world will be watching them but let us talk
about the progress of the games.
Australia was unlucky, because they ended up playing France that
has a strong team, so, we lost and the score was France 4 goals, Australia 1
goal. Another team to note is Germany, they had a bad start, they lost to Japan,
Germany 1 goal, Japan 2 goals.
Anyhow, Today is the first of December, and Australia won last
night soccer match, so, they have qualified for group 16, but how long they can
last, I do not know, since there are very strong teams in these games, however,
they can be proud for reaching this far, even if they do not qualify for next level.
Just as I thought the Australian was eliminated soon after, and
to make a long story short, the final was between France and Argentina, and
Argentina won the cup. I believe it is a good thing they won, because most
people in Argentina are soccer crazy, so, they are going to have good time for
a while. This is part of how they reported the final. (And I quote).
Argentina
are the world champions. From the moment Lionel Messi put the Copa America
holders ahead in the 23rd minute of the 2022 FIFA World Cup final against
France, Lionel Scaloni's side looked determined to deny the reigning champions
as they survived a late comeback and penalties to storm to a stylish triumph in
the first ever winter tournament in Qatar.
But there is also sad news. Soccer is a sport that
most of the world follows, and the players are in the fan’s hearts, but today
there are sad news, the great soccer player Pele has died, at the age of 82,
and the soccer fan are mourning his loss. That is all about the soccer today.
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This is the world weather problems.
In Australia this year it has rained a lot, every day in the
news we can see entire towns flooded, people evacuating, when they are told to
do so, or trying their best to minimise the flood damage. They say that this is
happening more often because of the global warming. All I can say about global
warming, is that people talk about it a lot, but very little is being done.
Anyhow, this month of November 2022 has been as bad as last
month, it has rained a lot, as you can see from this report, I have pasted
hereunder.
Waves of heavy rainfall left
vast areas of eastern Australia under water in October 2022. By the month’s
end, swollen rivers flooded landscapes from southern Queensland and New South
Wales to northern Victoria.
Flooding in New South Wales and along the border in Queensland is
visible in this false-color image (right) acquired on October 29, 2022, with
the Visible Infrared
Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite.
Water appears light to dark blue. Vegetation is green and bare land is brown.
For comparison, the VIIRS image on the left shows the same area on September
18, 2022, prior to the month of heavy rain.
The flooding visible in the October 29 image occurred along permanent
and impermanent rivers and streams located about 500 kilometers (300 miles)
northwest from the coastal city of Sydney. They are part of the Murray-Darling
basin, which includes Australia’s longest system of rivers. The basin saw its
wettest October on record in 2022, according to news reports. Rainfall totals
across the basin neared 150 millimeters—four times the average for the month
and well above the previous record from 1950.
Anyhow, I hope that one day, we can go back to normal.
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The world of politics these days.
There have been a few changes lately. Italy has now a new
government, the party called Fratelli D’Italia, is the most popular party, so, Giorgia
Meloni the leader has become the new prime minister of Italy.
In England, the prime minister has changed two time lately, after
Liz Truss replaced Boris Jonson, she lasted only 44 days, then she was replaced
by Rishi Sunak, this time we hope it can last long enough until next election.
In USA, the midterm election has had mixed result, so,
everything is about the same, Donald Trump hopes were not realised, but he
still wants to run for the WHITE HOUSE in 2024, so, he is saying a few strange
things, about the election being stolen, see what I found on the internet,
about presidential speeches. (And I quote)
Great Moments In Presidential Speeches: FDR:
"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." JFK: "Ask not what
your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Donald
Trump: "They stole the electron." (This Tweet brought via the old
David Letterman show)
But I must say that Donald Trump can be a
good president, because these days we need a strong man as president, even if sometimes
his ways are strange. You see, today I am wondering, what would Donald Trump have
done, to stop Putin to make war on Ukraine, he delt with the president of North
Korea in a strange way, but in the end, everything was better.
This is all I can say in this last article of this year 2022.
See you next year, and I wish you a happy new
Year.
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