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From the dark recesses of my dark and twisted mind. Therefore, in the current climate of teh information highway, it must be true. If the oil in USA fields is good for everything, what is produced from Venezualean oil?

The problem for the USA is that the oil on their own lands is not suitable for modern vehicles.

Wouldn't you like to still be in the game with gold at $5000/oz? What sort of ounce is that?

They had him down on the ground and under control, and his gun removed. There was no need to put 10 bullets into him after that. I can't go back into my viewing history to pull up a source video, but I did see one that mentioned what had happened previously. However, since I didn't watch the video I can't confirm for which side of the argument it was produced. But what is said to have happened back then did not happen on the day he died. Further, were those ICE agents involved in his death the same ones who were involved in the earlier incident? I would suggest that those associated with the events of his death are not likely to have positively identified him since over that period they no doubt swa and interacted with very many other persons. This back and forth can only be stopped by a full and impartial investigation of the incident. Unfortunately, in present day USA finding an impartial examiner seems like finding a unicorn horn in a pile of rocking horse manure.

It's true that a First World society is in a position to use more energy than othr societies, but I get a bit sick, as a membr of a 27 million strong society, of being accused of being an environmental vandal when in fact most of the energy used in this world is being used by the billions living north of the Equator.

I want to make the distnction between governments making trade arrangements - government to government - and the actions of corporate giants like Nestle, the motor industries, the oil companies. Those entities have no respect for what governments do. They just go on their machiavellian way enhancing their bottom lines.

The problem is that the US debt is owed to the rest of the global economy. If the US goes bust, then the global economy goes bust. While corporate America is a major player in the global economy, don't forget the corporate giants of the EU and Asia.

I think that I have found an indication that Trump's policies are starting to effect the strength of the US dollar. For quite some time, the Australian dollar was buying about 65 to 66 US cents. Over the past month or so, I have noticed that the AUD has been buying more US cents. Today, 29/1/26, I heard the AUD quoted at 70 US cents. The increase in value of the AUD is not likely to be the result of a strengthening Australian economy. Is it a sign of a weakening US economy? I throw the discussion over to Jerry.

COVID also produced measurable decreases in atomospheric pollutants.

Maybe they are "the worst of them" at teh present time, but go back through history and there are any number of human groups that have done the same things to others in their own eras. Humans are a nasty bit of work.

Random thought: The BOM is warning that this heatwave might lead to thunderstorms, but because it is so hot, any rain might evaporate before reaching the ground. This could lead to fires developing due to dry lightning. Here's my thought. I've watched some videos of trees being struck by lightning. Those trees appeared to be live, healthy trees, obviously full of sap, making them good conductors of electricity. I can see a few dead, dried out trees along the road beside my place. I wonder if those dried out trees would not be conductors of lightning. Another thing that I thought of in relation to this heatwave is that eucalyptus trees emit oil into the atmosphere. I wonder if that combustable oil in the air would ignite in the presence of a ligntning bolt and set off a bushfire.

Exercising his Right of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Movement. Right to Express an Opinion.

Thast's what you get for buying on-line.

If Trump is champion at one thing, it must be texting. It is frequently reported that he has sent an enormous number of texts in a short time. I seem to recall 45 texts in one hour. Some are re-tweets, but often they are a few lines, which must take time to create. I still think that he's not creating his longer texts. The grammar and syntax are too correct for a person who we see having trouble forming coherent sentences.

A rare-earth mineral is a mineral that contains one or more rare-earth elements as major metal constituents. The rare-earth elements (REE), also called rare-earth metals, or rare earths, are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. The 15 lanthanides (any of the 14 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–70, from lanthanum through ytterbium) along with scandium and yttrium, are usually included as rare earths. Rare-earth minerals are rare because rare-earth elements have unique geochemical properties that prevent them from easily forming minerals, and are therefore not normally found in deposits large or concentrated enough for mining. This is the reason they are called "rare earths". The term "rare-earth" is a misnomer, because they are not actually scarce.

All the hoo-ha has been about getting rid of anti-semetism. However, I think that it has promoted anti-Islamism. Which ever way you look at it, it has promoted 'anti the other mob' hysteria. What about all the other ethnic or religious mobs that are not the same as one's own. Will the Protestant -v- Catholic wars start up?

The reason that question is asked is because alcohol stays in the mouth for a little while after consumed. The question is asked to ensure that there is no alcohol in the mouth which would result in a positive screening test, but a later analytical test would show a negative result. You have to remember that the roadside test is only a screeing test. A person is only arrested for the purposes of undergoing an analyitcal test using a breath analysis machine if the screening test has indicated that "there may be present in the bloood the prescibed concentration of alcohol". Here's one that happened when I was doing RBT on a Sunday morning. I tested a bloke and the screening device showed an inordinatgely high result. The bloke showed no signes of intoxication, and was astounded at the result. He said he had not been drinking, and then said that he had used mouthwash after cleaninghis teeth a short time before. (He was going to the newsagent to ge the Sunday papers.) I held him at the site for about 15 miunutes and asked him to wash his mouth out with water. I tested him agasin and got a negative result. We both learned about mouth alcohol from that.

Actually, the RBT stop is an "arrest". However reliquishing the right not to be arrested at random is something we do for the greater good. It is a means of protecting ourselves from injury caused by an intoxicated person, and is a means of contributing to the protection of others. For the vast majority of people, being stopped eventually becomes a mnor inconvenience for a few minutes. However, I know that any interaction with police that one does not initiate triggers fear because of all the adverse propaganda we have been fed that police will go looking for some offence not related to RBT. I know I get scared when I'm pulled in.

I thought it was Santa who knew if you had been naughty or nice.

If you think about those production figures, and then extend your thinking to all other types of manufactured products, you might link the destruction of the environment to what those figures indicate - over production. Forget about the environmental effects of obtaining raw materials to make all that stuff. How can the world's population use all that is produced. Just think about the amount of household packaging you have to get rid of each week. Walk through a shopping centre and look at all the clothing shops. Most of what you see is never sold. In fact, look at any shop in a shopping centre. Even supermarkets toss out great amounts of unsold products, and I don't mean only out-of-date foodstuffs.

You don't need to go out into the Wilderness to stay warm. Over the next few days most of the southern part of teh continent will suffer temperatures into the mid-40s. And not a single sign of rain to follow.

Really! Although it is not the most eloquent phrase in the English language, it has become the common expletive in modern speech. Expletives are words or phrases that add emphasis, but the term most commonly refers to swear words, profanity, or curses used when angry, in pain, or excited. Remember when uttering 'bloody' resulted in a threat to have one's mouth washed out with soap? Until recently it was a difficult word to trace its etymology in usage, in part because it was omitted as taboo by the editors of the original OED when the "F" entries were compiled (1893-97). Johnson also had excluded the word, and fuck wasn't in a single English language dictionary from 1795 to 1965. It is ridiculous that this word is censored when used in the various forms of public media. Who does it offend? I'll tell you. The Bible Bashers of America.

OIne of the things I wanted to draw attention to was that China is so far ahead of the rest of the world in solar panel technology.

Bloody Hell! Here's another bit of AI slop using the image of the woman I spoke of in a previous post. The content of the attached video is very dangerous.