My World Diary May 2024.

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This is a photo of rental properties. Anyhow, we can say that these days we have a rental problem, because there are not enough properties for rent. So, the price of rental properties is going up, some people are lamenting that they cannot afford to pay rent this high and blame the landlords for this. But at the same time the landlords find hard to run their properties at a profit to stay in business. So, there are lass landlords and also less rental properties being built. 

Welcome to blog, My World Diary May 2024.

In this blog we write a bit of everything. Anyhow, this is my diary of April and May 2024. Because in April there was no new happenings, so, I thought it was the same old story, the war in Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, and the rental problems that we have in Australia, I thought better wait for the new budget to come out, before I post this new article. But let us say what happened briefly while we wait for the budget, hoping that this government does something to improve the situation. So, to start with, let me post what I have found on the internet, and lately it is about the violence against women.

(And I quote)   

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has urged both the Labor and Coalition governments to deal with the “social disaster” for young people which is rentals.

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The average rent for a house in Sydney has jumped to $750, compared to $570 in Melbourne and $620 in Brisbane.

“Rents have just gone crazy,” Mr Bolt said.

“This is driven in large part by the Federal government’s insane decision to bring in more than half a million immigrants a year.

“When we are not building anything like enough houses for them.”

Property Council of Australia CEO Mike Zorbas says the federal government needs to “apply a lot more cash” to state and local governments to unlock the housing supply.

The cost of living crisis was one of the key issues in last night’s budget, with a major focus on increasing housing with billions of dollars allocated to the sector.

“There could be more money, I say gratefully, you know the government is certainly doing the right thing, and previous governments have not done enough in this space,” Mr Zorbas told Sky News Australia.

This is what I found on the internet. We will continue to talk about rental, when we look at this year budget.

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Now let us talk about violence against women.  

But it is also one of many meetings going on right now as politicians are pushed to finally do something serious to protect women at immediate risk and, hopefully, reduce the numbers who find themselves in that situation. 

This week there has been a meeting of national cabinet, a police ministers meeting, and others in various states, including a meeting of the NSW Cabinet on Friday.

But it is also one of many meetings going on right now as politicians are pushed to finally do something serious to protect women at immediate risk and, hopefully, reduce the numbers who find themselves in that situation. 

This week there has been a meeting of national cabinet, a police ministers meeting, and others in various states, including a meeting of the NSW Cabinet on Friday.

The frustration from many in the community was palpable after Wednesday's national cabinet meeting. The announcement that an existing pilot scheme to help the immediate needs of women fleeing violence with a package of assistance worth $5,000, and some measures to address online misogyny, was met with quite a lot of "is that it?" disbelief, even if it involved new spending of $925 million over five years.

(End of quotes)

This is what I found about violence against women, and it is shocking, it makes me wonder what is wrong with mankind.  

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Now let us talk about the wars.

On the internet

Ukraine killed more than 100 of Putin’s troops in a ballistic missile strike in what could be the largest loss of Russian troops in months.

A drone flying high above ground captured the moment multiple explosions hit a military training ground in occupied Luhansk, some 48 miles behind the frontlines.

The attack is typical of an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile, which showers clusters of hundreds of M74 APAM mini-bombs on targets up to 190 miles away.

It would have taken as little as 95 seconds to wipe out more than 100 Russian troops, pictured on aerial imagery standing next to trees, dirt tracks and an open field.

Footage shows a second area hit not far from the first, with a third strike over a forest. There is a lot more that could be said, with loss of lives on both sides, but let us look at the other war.

The war in the Gaza Strip is just as bad, or perhaps even worse than the Ukraine war. It started because Hamas killed over A thousand people and took hostages about 150 Israelite people. Now over 35000 people have died in the Gaza Strip, there are talks about ceasing hostilities, but they do not seem to come to an agreement how to do it.

I think it is not easy to find an agreement, because these two races have been on and off at war, since the beginning of current Era. But let us hope they stop this war soon.    

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About this year budget and rentals.

I have been waiting for this budget, hoping that it would do something new that could solve the rental problems. But this year budget does not do anything, it only makes a small improvement for renters, since they get more rent assistance, but a lot more is needed to improve the rental situation. For what I understand, the governments are going to spend a lot of money to build more rentals, but even that cannot be enough. So, this present government have no idea how to solve the rental situation. I believe that the real problem is the affordability issue, and that there is not enough money on rentals, so, the people that have got money invest somewhere else.

Anyhow, in answer to this budget on house affordability and rentals, the opposition leader Peter Dutton said that, if they were in government, they would find a way how to make it more affordable to buy a house, how they are going to do that, I do not know, but at least they think to do something about it. Now if they can do that the rental problem is half solved, because if housing becomes cheaper also rental will become cheaper.

But here I must point out that there could be a problem, the biggest political problem is the green party, that don’t like the landlords and want to take away their properties and give it to the poor rent free. What they do not realize is that some landlords might be just as poor as the renters, they just survive because they have a strict budget. Here I also need to point out, that there are no real have not in Australia, since people can get help form Centrelink, and get a fixed income, whereas the landlord might be poor, but cannot get anything from the government, because of the unjust assets test that takes away three time as much as they can earn, from their properties.  

Anyhow, what I want to say here is that they should stop blaming the landlords, because the landlords run a service to the community, and to be a landlord is one of the hardest things to do. So, stop blaming them and try to solve this problem together. This is all I want to say this time, but I am sure that I will write again about rental soon, when I find out something that points out why we are having this rental shortage. 

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Helping you to learn English.

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 Anyhow, in this photo above we missed the letter o. Anyhow, we are showing you the order of the English alphabet and the sound the 26 letters make, if you read them according to the explanation that we are writing in this article. At the bottom is the order of how the letters are set in most computers' keyboards. 

Welcome to our article, English Learning, and How This Article Can Help.

Dear readers, today I am writing an article outside my usual interest, because I have seen some people struggle when they learn English, so, I want to help them by telling them what I know. Then I will go back writing the usual articles next time.  

Anyhow, I must say that English is very important to know today, because we could say that is becoming the universal language of the world, so, most people would like to learn English, for many reasons but English is not easy to learn, because words are written one way, but when we say them they sound completely different; let us talk about number 1 for instance, we write one but we say (uan or wan) and there are many other words that follow the same pattern. However, there are ways that we can help, with some explanations of our own, written hereunder.

Anyhow, this article has been written from a person that has learned English as his second language. It has been written to help those people that want to learn English like I did. I must say that English is not easy to learn, because the sound of the word is not easy to write down, therefore, sometimes you might be able to understand what is written, but it is almost impossible to pronounce them, you must learn that from people that speak English well. Anyhow, I believe that today it is a lot easier to learn English, since there are lots of articles that you can listen to on the internet.

Anyhow, here we will be writing a few things that we hope can help. So, here I will be writing what I found hard to understand. The hardest part to learn English is that it is not phonetic, so, what is written, is not exactly possible to pronounce it right, one must learn the sounds of the words from other English-speaking people. However, there are a few things that can help, if you try hard enough to understand what I am going to show you hereunder, because what I am explaining here, not only will help non-English speaking people, but it can help even children that speak English, when they must learn how to read and write English.

To read and write we need an alphabet and in different languages can be a bit different, but hereunder we are talking about the English alphabet.

 

THE ENGLISH ALPHABET EXPLAINED  

Now, the English alphabet has 26 letters. In "alphabetical order", they are:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Five of the letters are "vowels": a e i o u

The remaining twenty-one letters are "consonants".

We can write each letter as a "large letter" (capital) or "small letter".

Anyhow, each letter of the alphabet has a sound of their own, which when written down may keep their sound value or may even change. Now the greatest change happens with the vowels because most of them have got two vowel sound in them, and not only that they change so many times that the only way to learn English is to learn English word by word.

Now, let us start with an explanation, how the letters of the alphabet should sound, by writing the vowel sound first and then the entire alphabet.

So, let us look at the 5 vowels sound, because they change a lot according to their word position. To do that we need to give a single sound to each vowel, and to understand that sound you should follow this explanation.

If we use a phonetic alphabet where the vowels sound is like the following and do not change, then the letters sound is:

A, =as the beginning of are, art, article etc.

E, =as the beginning of entry, exit etc.

I, =as the beginning of is, in, inside etc.

O, =as in the words stop, most, frost, not, lot etc.

U, =as in the words put, June, July, you etc. 

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If we use this vowel sound value we have written above, then,

 in the English alphabet the sounds of the vowels would be,

A=ei, E=i, I=ai, O=ou, U=iu.     

Having done that, now we can follow with the sound of the letters of the entire alphabet. We will write the alphabet in large capital letters, and below them we will write the sound that we call them in English, according to the explanation we have written above. Here we need to say that also some consonants change their sound, but it is not possible to explain that here easily, and it is easier to learn that when you learn the sounds of the entire word. Anyhow, hereunder is the alphabet.

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LEARNING ENGLISH

Letters and sound of the English alphabet.

  A  B   C   D   E  F  G 

    Ei           bi             si             di              i            ef             gi

H   I  J   K   L   M   N 

Eich        ai        gei          kei             el           em             en

O   P  Q   R   S  T   U 

ou                pi            kiu           ar            es            ti             iu

V   W   X   Y   Z

Vi        double w             eks         uai      zi, zed.

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Now, what we have written above is the order and sounds of the English alphabet, and if you want to use a dictionary, that is the way to find the words you want to check. But today when we use the computer keyboard, the letters are set in a different order, one of which is the following. 

The computer keyboards is set in a different order.

Q   W   E   R  T   Y   U   I   O   P    A   S   D    F   G   H   J    K   L    Z  X  C  V  B  N  M

 

We hope that we have written something useful, and it will help somebody to learn English. Anyhow, to learn English the best thing is to listen to practical conversation, which today can be found easily on the internet, here is a link from you tube to give you a direction you can follow, to find out what is available click on this link, https://youtu.be/henIVlCPVIY.  

This is all I can say in this article. See you next time, with a different article, back the usual issues.   

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My world diary of March 2024.

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Here we are talking about the climatic change, and it does not look good. Anyhow, I believe that this photo is a place in the Middle East, it is surrounded by deserted land, as far as you can see. The entire planet can become like this desert one day.

Welcome to my blog, My World Diary of March 2024, 

These diaries that I am writing here, is to remember what has happened in the world during a certain time of my life, and what were my views about those events that occurred. There are two main things that interest and worry me: One is the climatic change that seems getting worse, the other is the useless wars that are fought around the globe, when humanity should be worried about how to save the planet from becoming hotter, instead of trying to control a small piece of land on it. So, let us talk about hot countries. When you think about the hottest countries in the world, you might think of nations near the Sahara Desert or in the Middle East. But there are many other countries that are just as hot, and the forecast is that it can become worse in the future.

Now let us look at the wars.

Anyhow, it looks like that the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East continue, most of the western world is worried about both wars, because they have the potential to become the third world war, since most countries are becoming involved, even if they are only helping the side they believe deserves their help. Anyhow, once you are involved, it will become harder to pull back, and if something goes wrong, they might start to go to war themselves. I hope and pray God that that does not happen, because it is too dangerous, And I don’t even want to think about what could happen then. 

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NOW LET US LOOK AT THE ELECTIONS

Let us start with the local election in Queensland. The elections have been held. Most of the mayors have been returned, the only thing that we can learn from this election is that the Labour Party has lost some ground, in a by election for the Queensland government, so, there is a small change.   

The presidential Russian elections

Looks like that Putin has won the election, with a large margin. We in the west wished that he would lose, because of the war in Ukraine, but it has not happened. So, now the world is stuck with him for another six years, the only thing we can hope for. Is to pray God that he does not start another war, because he seems obsessed with power. Hereunder is what I found on the internet, and I quote.

(Vladimir Putin's grip on Russia's presidency has tightened after early results in an election some Western governments said was illegitimate indicated he'd won almost 90 per cent of the vote.

Although not everything went his way.

Mr Putin, who has held the office of prime minister or president continuously since 1999, was one of four candidates on the ballot paper, but it was an opposition figure no longer alive who landed the largest blow against him.) end of quote.

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The USA Presidential election.

It looks like that voting in USA, to choose the presidential candidate who can be elected to become next USA president is over, and next November it is up to the people to choose which president they want, whether it will be Joe Biden or Donald Trump, we must wait and see. Usually, this voting takes a lot longer, but this year they have already decided.

But what worries me is this, ex-president Donal Trump is being sued and is many times in court, what could happen if he is found guilty on some serious matters. Could he continue to try to become president again, or he must give it away. Nobody seems to know this. So, we must wait and see.    

But let us see what is happening in the world.

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Views from Australia

I must say that today the lucky country has a few problems. It is hard to understand, how a rick country like Australia can have financial problems. Well, the problems are not very bad, but bad enough to worry a lot of people. So, what is happening is this, the price of everything is going up. So, it is hard to budget anything, the sector that is one of the most affected is the house rental sector. Now, let me explain, in the past houses and units were a lot cheaper to buy, so, the rent was also cheaper, also the overhead to keep a property was less costly, so, somehow people could make ends meet, so to speak. And the landlords were charging a moderate rent, and still be able to run a business. But today is a different story, the landlords find it hard to run their rental business, because there is not enough money in it. So, most landlords want to sell out, but even that can be a problem, because there is not enough money in rental, nobody wants to buy rental properties to run as rentals.

The politicians do not have a clue about what is happening, some of them blame the landlords for being greedy, but they do not look at the levies that they charge the landlords. If you happen to have a house, or a couple of units on a block of land valued at one million dollars, the land tax alone could be over 17 thousand dollars, plus all other fixed expenses that could be as much again. So, here I need to ask, how much rent the landlord must ask to make a small profit?   

But that is not the only problem, to run a rental property is a nightmare, sometimes the tenants don’t want to pay the rent, at other times they argue with each other, and they find a way how to blame the landlord for their arguments, and many other things. Anyhow, today to be a landlord is not possible anymore, that is the main thing there is not enough money.

Anyhow, my views are that everybody is losing because there is not enough money, and there is no way that it can work out by itself, like it was working in the past. You see that balance now is lost, and it is not easy to return to the good old days. We hope that we find a way out soon, but that is not easy.

This is all I want to say this time. See you in our next article. 

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See you next time. 

World diary early 2024, and my views.

WELCOME TO OUR GENERAL BLOG YOU ARE INVITED. Here, we will post articles about world issues, Australian issues, Italian issues. And we will post also my personal life story articles. 

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              Wars bring only destruction, see the photo below. 

 

This photo above shows the destruction in the Gaza strip. Anyhow, at a news conference on Friday Mr. Netanyahu said that his country had "exacted a heavy price from Hamas" Not everything is known to the public yet, nor to Hamas, but the full range of the achievements will be reveled soon. 

  

Welcome to My World Diary and My Views Early 2024.

We are writing these articles, to remind us of what has happened during our lives. Anyhow, we are at the beginning of a new year, and we all hope that the year 2024 brings better things, because most of us are struggling to make sense of what is happening around us. You see, we can say that another year is gone and what humanity has achieved this last year is not much, as we cannot find any improvement at all. Perhaps we are worse off, since there is another war going on in the Middle East, and even worse this war between Israel and Hamas can escalate, because most Arabic countries side with Hamas, and there have been attempts to stop shipping at the exit of the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden.

Strange as it may seem, the world is still finding ways to start a war, instead of trying harder how to avoid wars.

So, let us hope that this does not start larger war. 

Now, let us see what the internet news has reported, about the war between Israel and Hamas on the Gaza strip. And I quote. 

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Talks to agree a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza were "not very promising" in recent days, mediator Qatar said.

Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said he remained optimistic, but added "time is not in our favour".

It comes as Israel's Prime Minister said he would press ahead with plans for a Rafah ground invasion, despite growing international pressure.

 

Hamas has blamed Israel for a lack of progress in achieving a ceasefire deal.

Talks have been taking place in Cairo as senior officials from the US, Israel, Egypt and Qatar meet to try to broker a pause in fighting.

"The pattern in the last few days are not really very promising but, as I always repeat, we will always remain optimistic and will always remain pushing," said Sheik Mohammed, speaking at a meeting of world leaders at the Munich Security Conference.

"I believe in this agreement we are talking at a bigger scale and we still see some difficulties on the humanitarian part of these negotiations," he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he sent negotiators following a request from US President Joe Biden, but added they did not return for further discussions because Hamas's demands were "delusional".

The group has laid out a series of demands, including the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, the full withdrawal of Israel's forces and an end to the war after three 45-day truces.

(End of quote about the Gaza Strip war.

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We know that the war between the Israelite and the Arabs has been on and off for thousands of years. We also believe that this cannot be the last war because there will be many people hurt, but they need to find the strength how to live in a more peaceful way. But it is hard to find peace.   

As we have said. Strange as it may seem, the world is still finding ways to start a war, instead of trying harder how to avoid wars. And what can be done we do not know. 

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               Photo of world leaders meeting in Kiev Ukraine. 

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky and world leaders participate in a joint media conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 24, President Zelensky has marked the second anniversary of Russia invasion, that his country will succeed, by they need help.     

About the Ukraine war.

Anyhow, to understand what is happening in Ukraine, the best way is to post what I found on the internet. 

(And I quote).  

• Zelensky said Trump should go with him to see the 'real war' but added 'it depends on his wishes'
• Harris pledged support to Ukraine and said they must stop the 'aggressor' Russia or Putin would 'keep going' 

President Zelensky invited Donald Trump to go 'to the front line' to see the 'real war' while Kamala Harris pledged 'unwavering' support to Ukraine despite aid stalling in Congress. 

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Vice President Harris stood by Zelensky as she said 'we must be unwavering and we cannot play political games' as it would allow Putin 'to take land with impunity' and 'keep going'. 

But Congress, led by a Republican majority, has been stalled for months over further aid for Ukraine, with $47 billion, as part of a $66 billion aid and migration package, currently stuck.

Meanwhile at the conference, when asked whether it would be a good idea to invite former president Trump to Kyiv, Zelensky said: 'I invited him publicly, but it depends on his wishes.'

'If ... he will come, I'm ready even to go with him to the front line,' he said and promised he would show him the 'real war away from Instagram’. (End of quote)

Anyhow, wars have many sides and many reasons why they happen, and people judge wars according to the side they happen to be in, and they think that the side they are in is always right, because they are told from their leader, that it is so. But non all the leaders can be trusted, and know what they are doing, for instance. Vladimir Putin a few years ago, seemed to be one of those leaders that could not go wrong. But today from the western side of the fence, so to speak, Putin cannot be trusted. You see he started a war that could easily be avoided. Today they say that Putin has ordered the elimination of one of his political opponents. Now this man is dead, and his body cannot be found. If what they are saying is true, how can you trust a man like that. Anyhow, from that the live in the western world, we are waiting to see, what the Russian people are going to do, are they continuing to trust Putin, or are they going to vote Putting out of office?  

Now let us go back to talk about wars, here I am afraid to say that war do not achieve anything good, they only destroy humanity, in many ways. So, in would be helpful if humanity learns how to avoid wars, and concentrate how to keep this planet safe, one of the things they need to work out, is how to stop the climate warming getting worse. So, let us talk about that.

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               These are some of the causes of climatic change. 

Today the weather seems to be hotter than before, and we have a lot of violent storms, the future forecast is even worse, so, we must be worried, and we should do something about it. The main cause seems to be fossil burning, like you see in this picture, so we need to do something about it.  

Our climate warming concerns.

Today we have so much technology and we should be able to solve our climatic problems, but it does not work that well, because we do not make it the most important priority. So, I am afraid to say that we might be running out of time soon, and we will we living on a much hotter planet soon. They say that because the polar ice melts, there could be other changes as well, which can result in some places being colder. Just like in the film, The Day After Tomorrow. Anyhow, when they made the film, we thought that it would never happen, but today with everything changing, even that could be possible.

 Anyhow, let us see what is happening in Australia, and hereunder are some reports that I have found on the internet.   

(And I quote)  

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast heatwave conditions for Western Australia over the coming days.

Temperatures broke records at the weekend, nudging 50 degrees on Sunday in Gascoyne and Central West, marking some of Australia's hottest temperatures ever recorded.

 It was the highest temperature recorded in the world so far in 2024 and the hottest day of summer in the country.

Today temperatures will hit 42 degrees and 39 on Tuesday.

Ex-Cyclone Lincoln is drifting towards the Western state, however fire risk remains high.) (End of quote).

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I hope you can see what I mean. Today politicians continue to make the same mistakes. They fight wars, they spend so much time in organizing how to win their seat in next election and other things. But they do not spend enough time to solve the most important problem, climatic warming.

Anyhow, I hope that in the near future, the elected politicians make global warming their first priority. This is all I can say in this article, because it is becoming too long. 

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