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Now if I was 90 and bonking a 20 year old supermodel I wouldn't want to be shot. I'd want to read the headlines in the news when it was discovered, give TV interviews and collect a few million in rights to the story.

Which goes to show that the GOP has millions of complete morons that vote for it.

I keep hearing of first peoples assemblys and aboriginal representatives etc but most of these are from the few who have managed to become part of the "White" system. Most of the real aboriginal people get ignored by these so called representatives. These people don't really feel part of Australian society and they are not. They are mentally still part of their old original culture although they are living in what seems to them to be a completely foreign state ingrained now by alcohol, drugs and violence. Many can't or won't get jobs. Again this is not a thing that their subconsious considers. These are the people that those who have managed to rise to an acceptable level of understanding of modern Australia need to slowly bring out of their despair by using the Voice to get funding and use it in their way to improve their lot. Creating or using existing government structures and departments or creating new ones has never worked and never will. When people say I've never seen an aborigine here or there they are right. Most were either killed or kicked out of these places over the past 250 years. In 60,000 years there would not be a square metre of Australia where they have not been at one point or another.

There is little cohesion or agreement within our European/Asian society either. The mobs and tribes need the opportunity to discuss and agree or disagree on every issue that affects their society and how it interacts with modern Australia. We have been doing that for over 200 years and they have been doing it for 60,000 years and working things out for 99.5% of that time, sometimes peacefully and sometimes with conflict and war. As conquerors we haven't allowed that to happen so far. Not even small steps. We started with genocide, progressed to exploitation, then assimilation, all the time infiltrating their society with our values and creating the grand design of what is yours and what is mine and secretly hoping they would all disappear. That's why a voice has to be given a go. It may work or it may end up a total disaster but we'll never know if it is rejected.

At least he wouldn't be around to see it.

That's why I find people with their beliefs in all these writings from different religions total suckers. The books are written by some bloke based on that persons reasoning of what he has learned or what he has invented in his mind to justify things he doesn't or can't understand and then decides it must be his invented God's word. Then once it is all written down in a book people start believing it because they have no better explanation and it saves them from having to come up with an alternative. Using the prose to incite fear is also a great way to suck them in. And so it goes and another religion is born and add another version of God. God number 3001, given there are 3000 identified gods already.

Everything done to date has been reactive. The standard ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Talking to the actual community isn't on the agenda. If it was would officialdom listen anyway? So far they have done neither.

Introducing alcohol to aboriginals is by far the single most devastating thing Europeans have done to destroy them and their culture after the attempted genocide of course.

Americans are so addicted to guns and their so called freedoms they have become obsessed with anything that they believe infringes those freedoms. There were 647 mass shootings in the US in 2022 and as of yesterday there had been 50 so far this year, 7 on New Years Day alone. Now they are removing laws to allow people to carry concealed weapons anywhere and anyone can just walk in to Walmart & buy a gun without any ID or permit. There is not any age limit set in some places. My brother managed an MDF plant in a town called Broken Bow in Oklahoma about 20 years ago & the redneck locals used to drive around in F200 Utes with a Gun rack on the back with 6-10 semi auto rifles in it plus they always had hand guns in the cab. One bloke he befriended was a gun collector and had his own shooting range and literally hundreds of guns. He showed me a video of him firing a 50 calibre pistol this bloke had. It misfired first & the southern drawl was "Pull the hammerr raaaght baaaack" which he did & pulled the trigger. The boom and flash was like nothing I'd ever seen & all my brother could say was "FAAAARRRRKK". It was hilarious to watch but a sad indictment on a completely faarrkked culture

Written from someone who has no concept of another culture that had no need of technology and inventions of Europe and Asia. They were in tune with the harsh land they lived in and managed to survive in every corner of it for those 60,000 years without building empires and monuments. The concept of ownership didn't even enter their minds.

As a Kiwi married to an Aussie & having lived here for 18 years now my observations are these Australians in general are racist. Aboriginals are seen as not equal to Europeans and cause problems. There is a culture of Us and Them. No government has ever done anything effective to deal with what they see as an Aboriginal problem. Politicians have their public opinion and their personal opinion (which is never admitted) but influences their decisions. Historically the treatment of aboriginal people has been absolutely appalling. Obviously these are generalisations and do not apply to everyone. Everything done to date with apologies for past injustices, Closing the Gap, providing handouts, etc has been an abject failure. How could it be anything else with current Aboriginal incarceration rates and the Alice Springs current issues among the hundreds of other things. Some recognition in the constitution and providing a Voice to Parliament may not be perfect but I think it is a good first step. The aboriginal Tribes and Mobs need to become masters of their own destiny and current processes don't provide this. Maybe the Voice will enable them to get together and get some consensus on issues that confront them. Maybe it won't. Trying to modify a many thousands of years old culture in 200 years is far to big an ask. The No campaigners seem to want something more in a sort of Treaty. How can you have a treaty 200 years after conquering these people? I'll be voting yes not because it will make anything perfect but because everything else done in the past has failed, and failed miserably.

So it's Gun God help America. I'll bet Moloch is in cahoots with the god of undertakers, I presume being America there is one among the 3000 or so identified gods around the world.

Somewhere way, way back in this thread there are examples from studies done in Australia of cropping and grazing in solar farms. The panels are not 100% cover like the picture shows over the canals and the result was very low loss of productivity from co-cropping/grazing with reduced water loss and shade/shelter provided by the solar panels. Wool growers reported better quality wool and higher yield from fewer sheep. The term agrivoltaics has been coined to describe the practice https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2022/05/31/graziers-in-nsw-agrisolar-trial-report-improved-wool-quality/ https://esdnews.com.au/growing-crops-under-solar-panels-agrivoltaics-takes-off/

Especially Djokovics father who was saying Long live Russia in Serbian next to the dickhead with the flag with the other dickheads mug on it. Many Serbs are Slavic and they were the ones who created the Omarska concentration camp in the 1990. They had a policy of ethnic cleansing & 4-5000 prisoners were killed & their bodies disposed of at the camp. I'll bet Djokovics father was a supporter of the ethnic cleansing given his support for Putin.

The Soviet union imploded because economically the USSR was bankrupt. They had spent 40 years building a nuclear arsenal, a huge military in terms of personnel and masses of equipment through a process of systematically stripping everything possible from the other Soviet republics without causing enough major dissent to fuel large internal rebellion. They had the best rocketry technology in the world, superb military aircraft and heavy tanks and the worst consumer goods and equipment imaginable. Opening up Russia provided the perfect spawning ground for the rise of Oligarchs and massive corruption while the general populace slowly found better quality food and consumer goods from the West to keep them happy. This was the perfect environment for Putin and others like him to work their way back in to gaining control and authority The Tsars had done this for centuries until dissent amongst the masses got the Bolsheviks in using Lenins philosophy as a cover. It took no time at all for the utter brutality to set in and control was established and once Stalin rose to the fore it reached fanatical levels with millions killed, imprisoned or enslaved. Putin became emboldened with oil and gas reserves that Western Europe was gobbling up at ever increasing rates and the 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for the Donbas rebels caused nothing but a minor irritation from the West who basically stood by and watched. Now Russias economy is in tatters. Putin and Oligarch mates have stripped the money from the country and they have been depleting the Soviet era build up of arms and equipment to the point where the next move is probably the last. Russias reserves are severely depleted but they do have a huge population to throw in as canon fodder. And there is the nuclear option although much of the old arsenal is probably inoperative. So who will make the next move? Russia has been sending equipment and personnel to Belarus on the pretext it is for military exercises. Putin is desperate for any ally but Lukashenko who supports him is deeply unpopular with Belarusians most of whom share more affinity with their other neighbours, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. There are only 9.4 Belarusians so it would not be hard for Putin to take control if Lukashenko was deposed. No wonder Poland is keen on building up its arms capacity and supplying Ukraine. The token Challenger 2, Leopard 2 and Abrams M1 tank supply to Ukraine is useful in a logistics and training perspective but also as a possible deterrent as Putin has nothing that can match any of these. More are likely to follow once the infrastructure for them is established. Another go to take Kiev is pretty unlikely to succeed given they will have no element of surprise and even without the supply of other equipment and ammunition Ukraine will most likely beat them back. It is 11 months since the start of the war. Another 12 months will hopefully see an end with the Russians pushed out and Putin gone. The problem the will be which other nutter will take over while the Russian brainwashed population continues to suffer.

The US is apparently now going to supply some 30 Abrams M1 tanks. While the experts agree it is a very capable tank, it is also very heavy and is a serious gas guzzler with its turbine engine. The logistics requirements are huge for this tank. This seems to be a common thread with high tech US supplied equipment. When the Taliban inherited a large amount of modern high tech US gear the comment from one of the senior US officials was that it didn't really matter what they left there because it was so unreliable, that it all needed specialised trained service personnel and numerous parts that they did not leave behind. The British Challenger 2 is also a very good tank & even the older Challenger 1 is better that any of the Russian tanks according to former NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff. Only 1 was incapacitated in the Gulf war & that was from British Artillery. Apparently Jordan has 400 Challenger 1s that could be purchased quite cheaply. The consensus though is that the German Leopard 2 is the best fit for use in Ukraine. The real issue is that the decisions on tank supply should have been made months ago as getting them to Ukraine plus training and logistics mean they will not be ready for any Spring Offensive and the numbers promised are too small. Ukraine needs several brigades with about 500 tanks plus the logistics support & training according to General Shirreff. This would allow them to take back and hold all of their lost territory with a huge ground offensive. Only nuclear weapons would stop this. Then of course the territory is useless for anyone.

They may not have been able to convict Pell though lack of evidence but he personally orchestrated the system of payouts to victims of abuse from all his Priest mates that cost the catholic church sweet FA, (the maximum was 50k, most got much less) in return for written statements that those poor buggers would never be able to make any further claim or criticise the catholic church. He was a grub. Good riddance.

No the mothership is shaped like a Cup hiding behind the moon so when they get back together the cup and saucer will be used by Dr Who in the blue Police box to poison Daleks who are trying to exterminate umm everything. Sounds plausible.

I am not a great Jazz & Soul fan but Renee Geyer was something else. Her voice has been described as being like "cigarettes rolled in honey". She had the rawness of Janis Joplin with the lift of Aretha Franklin. RIP Renee.

And lifted from TikTok. It's funny how UFOs are mostly depicted as flying saucers. It seems the people creating these scenes think that shape is the most likely one to draw gullible people in.

But did the number of bums match the number of heads? More bums wouldbe cause for concern.

Whatever happened to Bailey bridges? They were cheap to manufacture, easy to transport and easy and fast to erect. After WW2 they were everywhere and some still exist. That may be a good temporary way to get back on track. They are only single lane but that wouldn't matter.

I see that Andrey Medvedev a former high ranking Wagner group member who defected in July and has been on the run ever since has crossed the border to Norway and is seeking political asylum. He is reported to be ready to tell everything he knows about the Wagner group. Could be interesting though likely will just confirm what we already know.

It looks like Wagners have had a small gain in Soledar with Ukrainian forces withdrawing so as not to get cut off in a pincer movement. Ukrainian defence was pretty thin here. Wagners still can't make any progress in Bahkmut though where they have been losing mostly ex Russian prisoners for months.

WA seems to have the illegally parked/abandoned car/upcoming roadworks issue nailed.