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Trumps attacks on the media, lawsuits and intimidation threats and having media hosts removed from their jobs if they even poke fun at him is extremely concerning and a prerequisite to criminal Hitlerian tactics. After the Reichstag Fire in 1933, Hitlers emergency decrees suspended individual rights and constitutional protections, giving the police broad power to act without legal limits. Now we see Trump Presidential Decrees of "emergencies", at whim to prosecute his plans to turn America into the MAGA model of an extreme right-wing, Christian-fundamentalist dominated society, with lesser or no rights for immigrants, gays and lesbians and any group that opposes Trump or his supporters. Under the Nazis, specific groups were targeted for arrest, removal from public life, and eventually, genocide. Trump has already had hundreds of leading public servants removed from their jobs because they opposed him. Now we see Trump using the military to replace police forces in various cities to "restore order" and "reduce crime". You only need to replace "the U.S. military" with the Gestapo and Nazi stormtroopers beating Nazi opposition protestors to a pulp, and even killing them outright on the streets, to see where America is heading. Just watch out for Trump suspending the Constitution as a result of another "emergency" - which was Hitlers final criminal act of total control. "Trumped-up" reasons behind so many of his illegal actions is a great irony.

The MAGA mob specialise in maintaining feral, visceral rage, against anything they see as counter to their beliefs, aims and plans. They especially enjoy painting anyone with anti-Republican beliefs, to be "the enemy" of America. It's McCarthyism for the 21st Century.

End up behind bars.

Turn a blind eye.

My sentiments are, I'll take all the gold I can get, cheap! 😄 I thought gold was reaching incredible values in the early 1980's, when it reached US$850 oz in January 1980 - but with pricing adjusted for inflation, the current gold price has already soared above 1980 equivalent values. However, if there comes a sharemarket crash (and there will be one, eventually), then the current gold price will look like a bargain. That's what all gold investors bank on. Not bad for a metal described as a "barbarous relic" by John Maynard Keynes, and also described as useless to any monetary value system, by many economists.

Walking ahead of British Royalty is NOT protocol. But Trump has form, he walked ahead of Queen Elizabeth, too. It's all about Donald. As someone else remarked, they should've just treated him as a badly-behaved toddler, and waited for him to come back, and walk with them.

Here's an interesting, current, Reuters article on the Chinese car industry - and it exposes what a mess the Chinese car manufacturing industry is in, solely due to Govt policies that encourage overproduction, far beyond the capacity of both Chinese and world markets, to absorb the numbers of vehicles being built. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-sending-its-world-beating-auto-industry-into-tailspin-2025-09-17/

The true cost of nuclear power is well hidden, though, and it can't be measured just by accidents, and lives lost in those nuclear accidents. The true cost has to involve the total cost of nuclear waste, and the clean-up costs for those accidents mentioned - and for any potential future accidents. Too many areas selected for nuclear power plants are earthquake-prone. And I can't believe it's only 32 deaths in total - hundreds died from radioactivity exposure during the Chernobyl cleanup, the Russians are good at hiding casualties, they just bury them with falsified records, or non-existent records.

Hey y'all, you gotta understand, this here killin' of Charlie Kirk was a perfect example of how the God-Given 'Merrican Constitution works just fine, to protect the freedoms and liberty of every 'Merrican man and woman!! You see, that Robinson guy was truly fearful of a tyrannical gubbmint coming to get him, threatening his hard-won freedoms, and taking away his hard-won liberty and human rights!! He was truly fearful of a vengeful Kirk and his Big Buddy Donald Trump coming to take his gay and transgender rights offa him, and probably even looking at not being able to get a job, all because of that Tyrannical Gubbmint!! So he did exactly what any gun-loving, red-blooded 'Merican Patriot would do! He killed that TYRANT!! - and exercised his fabulous, God-Given Second Amendment RIGHT, to fight back against a TYRANNICAL Govt, that was a-coming to get him!! This guy is a hero! - not a murderous killer!! I hope some good ol' Second Amendment-loving lawyer explains all this in fine detail to that TYRANNICAL prosecutor!! - and that Robinson guy is set free, lauded as a terrific PATRIOT, as he should be!! Hallelujah and Amen, Brothers in Christ! God works in mysterious ways to ensure that the Land of the Brave and the Free, stays that way!!

Bad intentions.

And now it'll cost you a heap of time, and producing the evidence, to argue you were legally parked. 😞

Sorry to tell you this, Nev - but the CBA was sold off to the private banks in 1997 by the traitorous Keating Govt, and the champagne glasses have been clinking in the boardrooms of the nations Big Four Banks, ever since they removed a Govt-owned bank from opposing their constant greed. King O'Malley is spinning in his grave.

She's holding a couple of butternut pumpkins, right?

I'm getting worried now, virtually all the stars of my younger years and my era are gone, or just about gone. To add to my gloom, I've been looking up all the veterans I served with in Vietnam, and I've found a large number of them have died. The bloke who slept in the bed next to mine in our hut in Nui Dat, just died late last month, I never saw him again after I left 'Nam, and it appears he got dementia and spent the last few years in an aged care home. He was just an ordinary, decent enough bloke, he didn't achieve great fame or fortune, he came from Canowindra, he went back to Canowindra after he did his National Service, and apparently just lived out his life there.

It's in the realm of the finest American conspiracy theories to say that the climate change agenda is run by big, vested interests. It's like saying the fossil fuel industry is controlled by the Arabs, it's not possible, because of the sheer number of players and nations involved in the energy industries - and in the climate change agenda. You can't buy off all the scientists. We get more propaganda from America today than we ever get from China and Russia, the people running America today are in the same mold as the McCarthy mob - which feral mob destroyed a lot of good people with their hunt for largely non-existent "reds" in America, who the McCarthyists decided were ruining America. What a disgusting mob they were - and the mob running America today are little different.

The air quality in Beijing has apparently improved out of sight since the city has started to discourage polluting IC engines, and encouraged transport to move over to EV's. It appears nearly all taxis in Beijing are electric. In addition, large investments in rail to move people around, have done their bit to cut transport emissions. So, there has to be some benefit in any attempt at reducing polluting emissions. The argument that our efforts to cut emissions will only be a drop in the ocean, because China is doing nothing about cutting emissions, is a fallacious one. https://sustainablemobility.iclei.org/air-pollution-beijing/

I thought this biting cartoon was pretty good.........

Jacinta should tell Gina or Clive there's gold under Melbourne, where the tunnels are planned to run, and give the mining rights to them for the ground, and the tunnels will be dug for free!

Whoa, let's not get too carried away. The Texas legislature (run by the Republican majority) has issued CIVIL arrest warrants for the missing Democrat representatives. The arrest warrants are unenforceable outside the State of Texas, and because they are CIVIL warrants, no other State will enforce them. The arrest warrants are largely symbolic. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gop-issues-symbolic-arrest-warrants-for-texas-democrats.html

If you remove the letters that form the word WRONG, you end up with A KISS.

The football clubs names all start and end with the same letter.

That lying scumbag Musk has directly blamed the Left for Kirks death - even though he was shot by a Trump supporter who came from a fundamentalist MAGA family. Musk has created riots in London with his blatantly false claims. Musk and Trump are directly responsible for the upsurge in political murders and attempted assassinations in the U.S., as both have continually urged political revolt and violence, and targeted anyone who doesn't support MAGA as evil. https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/celebrating-murder-far-right-protest-turns-violent-as-musk-blames-the-left-for-charlie-kirk-s-death-20250914-p5muti.html

What goes up, must come down. Nev should know that, straight off! He's never had an aircraft stuck up there, for good! 😄

Bedspread.

Spacey - Folic acid and Thiamin are added to white flour to replace B group vitamins lost during the milling process. Ascorbic acid is also sometimes added to white flour to improve the dough quality. Ascorbic acid is quite safe to eat, it's found in citrus fruit. Calcium peroxide is another chemical often added to white flour, to reportedly strengthen dough and improve its texture, but I would have my doubts about that chemical, as it doesn't seem necessary to add it. Calcium peroxide is an industrial chemical and a known poison, but the manufacturers claim they manufacture a food-grade Calcium peroxide, which is purportedly safe to consume. Your great grandkids teeth are possibly in poor condition due to a number of factors; 1. Poor genetics, many people of Anglo-Saxon ancestry suffer from poor tooth structure. We can only blame our ancestors. A lot of tribal or African people have far better teeth than Angl0-Saxons, due to good tooth DNA. 2. Poor tooth hygiene. Parents are largely responsible for teaching children good oral health. Many young parents fail to do this. 3. Poor diet with lots of sugary, fizzy drinks. I largely destroyed my teeth with too much Coca-Cola when I was young.