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His debts are estimated to be more than $1.3 billion & that was in October 21. He has loans to Deutche bank of more than $330 million due by 2024 with no obvious way to refinance them. This is why he has to con money out of everyone else, which he does with consumate ease to his idiot rusted on republican supporters.

Over the 4 years he was President he made 30,573 false or misleading claims, an average of 21 a day. He lies so much he beleives his own lies. How all his idiot followers deal with that I cannot fathom.

Currently there are over 1000 immigrants arriving per week in Australia. They all have to live somewhere. Most are bringing substantial funds and this is partially fuelling the rental crisis. People who have been renting for 40-50 years are being given notice and the property re-let at double what they were paying. Where do these people go?. House prices are on the rise again & they were already at ridiculous levels. People whinging at the 3.6% cash rate should check elsewhere in the world. It is now 5.25% in NZ, 5% in the US & 4.25% in the UK. Australia has relied on immigration for many years to bolster the economy and not have to go in to recession when everywhere else had to. To me this is a false economic ploy as the chickens will eventually come home to roost and it only takes a hiccup like the Covid pandemic & reduced house building to trigger it. Homelessness is just one of the most visible cosequences of this.

Religious organisations are businesses like any other business. That they have been able to swindle money out of their members and use that to pay the salaries of their preachers and provide housing and make investments in property proves this beyond doubt. It is just that most who gravitate to politics belong to religions and their religious masters make sure they are reminded of their obligations to maintain the tax free status.

There are still plenty of daily reports coming out with numerous long range attacks using Himars etc on military targets in Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia regions including Melitopol, Berdiansk,and also in Donetsk. The heavy snowfall has slowed fighting around Bakhmut with reports of Wagner forces stalling and exhausted while Ukrainian army has recovered some lost ground. Wagners are reported to have lost 50,000 killed or wounded around Bakhmut this year alone while the infighting between them & the Russian army continues with a shortage of equipment, weapons and ammunition. The Ukrainians are saying little and keeping up the pressure while most likely building up their strength for a counter attack in late Spring or Summer once all the Western supplied equipment arrives and the training to use it is complete.

Given a dogs sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 more acute than a humans it is just pure logic to train them to sniff out anything that may be harmful to you.

Modern tyres only have about 19% natural rubber in them & 24% synthetic polymers. The rest is steel 12%, textiles 4%, fillers like carbon black & silica 26%, curing systems (sulfur & zinc oxide) , antioxidants & antiozonants 14%. All up they seem pretty toxic to me.

That was what we all noticed when crossing the border back into Poland (which was then under Soviet rule) in 1974 in a Combi van. The Polish border guard smiled & joked with us. For the 10 days we'd been in Russia, well direct to Moscow & back through Belarus with a Russian chaperone, none of us could remember anyone smiling. So it's not a new phenomenon. They probably don't know how to. Actually at the time I didn't even know Belarus existed. We were not allowed to stop there.

The latest I heard is that Putin is considering swapping food for ammo with North Korea.

The case may not even get to court for a year so the next election could be over before anything happens. Imagine if he got re-elected & was then found guilty & sentenced to prison. They'd have a President running the country from inside prison. Just like the Mafia but less effective. This is not the only indictment coming his way though with the case of him trying to change the voting in Georgia ramping up, the case of him trying to overturn the election, the financial fiddle of the Trump organisation and Incitement of the insurection on 6th of January. He'll probably die of old age before all these get to court given the glacial pace of the US Justice system

i've not done any research but there are apparently plenty of things that can be made from old used tyres. When you buy new tyres there is a disposal fee for the old one. What does that cover? Presumably taking it to a tyre dump. The cost of recycling is quite expensive. Maybe the fee should increase to assist with the cost of recycling.

Why stop at 0ne? Get 2 or 3 because the todller may be playing with one and it can't be found, the kids have taken it to school or are out the back shooting snails and frogs or even each other.

In 2020, the most recent year for which complete data is available there were 46,222 gun related deaths in the US or 13.6 deaths per 100,000 people, the highest rate since the mid 90s but well below the rate of 16.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 1974. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

Getting back to the title, I have just read of yet another mass shooting in the US. This time 3 staff & 3 students at a school in Nashville were shot dead. The statistics for this hear are almost unbelievable, but after all, this is the land of the free. Free to buy almost any type of firearm and free to shoot anyone. As at 27 March 2023, 9,870 people have died in gun violence since 1 January 2023, that is 115 per day. There have been 132 mass shootings since 1 January 2023 though not all have resulted in deaths and all that in only 86 days. With the freedom and gun culture they find so endearing, Nothing will save America. https://abcnews.go.com/US/116-people-died-gun-violence-day-us-year/story?id=97382759

That's OK given there isn't a god and america disintegrated in the 60s - 70s and was renamed Trumpland not so long ago which is still believed by about 50 million idiots that live there.

Not only that but Old K posted it on this thread a few days ago.

There are so many people who will tell you with conviction that Brown snakes will chase you and attack. Snake experts have debunked this theory many times but the myth continues. I grew up in NZ where there are no snakes except a few sea snakes that get brought down from the tropics and end up on the beach. They don't last long. When I first came to Australia I got a book out of the library on Australian reptiles & went to a demo by a snake catcher. I have never had any fear of snakes or other reptiles but I am suprised at how many Australians I meet who have an almost hysterical fear of snakes and have never taken the time to get any real information on them. We have quite a few pythons around here and I see the large green diamond pythons sunning them selves in the Pandanus trees in the early mornings. They are superbly camouflaged so most people don't know they are there. I get the odd Red bellied Black in my hangar and they are good at keeping the mouse population down. I have only ever had one in the yard & it could have been anything. Young Browns can be any colour & can have various patterns. It did whatever it came for and I never saw it again. Snakes have terrible eyesight but their hearing is good and they detect vibrations and movement very well. When you are out in the bush, make plenty of noise and they will stay away. Their preference is always flight over fight but will fight if there is no other option. Leave them alone & they will leave you alone.

Wishful thinking. Totally fake.

Excellent, now I know what to call them instead of wankers, dickheads, morons, f**** wits, dorks, nutters, the list goes on. I can reserve these names for special individuals now.

I met a beautiful French Woman in London in 1973 when I was looking for somewhere to stay when I got lost looking for the Youth Hostel fresh off the plane . She was so friendly and obliging & gave me a place to stay the first night. Her French English accent was mesmerising & I was instantly in love. She wasn't though but we did become friends for some months. When I finally got to Paris about 6 months later my rose tinted view of the French based on my initial encounter vanished in to thin air. My schoolboy French was terrible and they let me know by completely ignoring me.

It looks like Trumps call for protest has this time fallen on deaf ears. The big time organisers of the Capitol riots have shied away completely and there are only a few fringe nutters on social media who are calling for Police to be blockaded etc. My guess is he won't be indicted on Tuesday & his blatant attempt at publicity will be a total fizzer.

Ukraine didn't have any means to stop Putin in 2014 & the West whinged but did nothing. Putins support for the separatists in the Donbas got Ukraine pretty riled up but somehow Putins intelligence was a complete failure as we all know from the invasion last year. If Putin thinks he is safe in the annexed areas he is sadly mistaken. You can guarantee that anywhere he goes will be a closely guarded secret as the ability of the Ukrainians to strike almost anywhere in Eastern Russia is very real.

The leak is probably non existent & Trump has made up the story. Good for his publicity and for stirring up his adoring bunch of nutters.

I always thought it meant Ahm a geddin outa here.

He'll send that human amoeba Lavrov as he did to the last G20. Then, Lavrov got such a roasting from the other delegates he snuck out to the garden for a cigarette, left, never came back & flew out the next morning.