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I see that the unbiased conservative press is calling for Rudd's recall. Who do you think lead the discussions that lead to the confirmation of the AUKUS and minerals deals? It was Australia's Ambassador to the USA - one Kevin Rudd. Rudd has more diplomatic skill in a hair on his arse than Trump's whole Executive.

Do you remember the half-giant who is the gamekeeper and groundskeeper at the wizarding school Hogwarts? His surname is Hagrid. Hag-ridden seems to have first appeard in literature in the 1680s, meaning "ridden by hags or witches". It changed meaning a bit so that from 1702 it had the meaning "oppressed, or harassed". By 1758 it came to mean "afflicted by nightmares". At some time hagridden was a term term for sleep paralysis (the sensation of being held immobile in bed, often by a heavy weight, and accompanied by a sense of alien presence). J.K.Rowling took a bit of leeway when she said it means "you'd had a bad night" and she explained that Hagrid "has a lot of bad nights" due to his heavy drinking. Alcohol is not necessarily the only reason for being hag-ridden. Any number of stressful life events can affect one's dreaming, leading to frightening dreams resulting in one waking hag-ridden.

Happy Birthday. And adfter SpecSavers, let's hope you see a lot more of them.

Therein lies the rub! You might have been astute enough to take a lot of control of your superannuation investment, but the vast majority of Australians don't even know which organisation is running the fund their employers are using. I paid into a fund for near on 30 years. I don't know who ran it, or where the money was invested. How much of my money contributed to the betterment of Australia?

Give Rudd his due. He holds a diplomatic post, maintaining relationships with the US Government, not just the Executive Branch. He has ben involved in international diplomacy for years. He knows what Trump is. Rudd also knows that in diplomacy, personal feelings have to be supressed. Imagine the furore if Rudd had said something like, "that puts me amongst the millions across America who marched in protest last weekend". Rudd's reactions to Trump's statement can be seen as an effort by Rudd to bite his tongue in the interests of Australia.

Yes, but over the years that your money has been invested overseas, it has not been used to develop Australia.

Have a look at this video. Notice that it was produced in San Antonio, Texas.

Intersting coments about personal experiences, BUT my point relates to the money that Australians aree putting into superannuation is not being invested in things to improve Australia's future. It's going to line the pockets of foreigners by allowing them to invest in money-making projects and returning a pittance on the capital our sweat is producing.

Good, bad or indifferent, Australian workers benefit from having money in superannuation funds. The money might only be that compulsorily contributed by employers, or it could also include their own contributions. Considering the size of the Australian workforce, and the amount paid in wages and salaries, the amount of money going into superannuation annually is incredible. The problem for fund managers is how to use that money to cover administration costs and to keep head of inflation. The obvious answer is to invest the money. But invest in what? And here is the source of what I am calling a scam. It was announced during the meeting between Albo and Trump that within a few years aroung one trillion dollars from Australian's superannuation would be invested in the USA. Why should our money go to bolster the economy of another country? There's lots of income-producing things that we have not implemented simply becasue the start-up money wasn't there. We just signed a deal with the USA to supply the metals required to make electonics etc. Why not use that superannuation money to establish a refining industry. Why are raw iron ore and coal exported for steel production elsewhere when it could be value added here? The same holds for our wool, and cotton and other agricultural products. What about re-establishing petroleum refining so that we can lift our storage capacity to beyond 25 days? Charity begins at home, so why don't we start being charitable to our kids and grandkids by keeping the money our efforts have created here in Australia?

Getting back to Trump. During his meeting with Albo and the subsequent question time, Trump undiplomaticaly said that he did not like Australia's Ambassador to the USA - Rudd. No doubt that Rudd thought, 'right back at ya!"

In New South Wales, this applies: UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 10.20 (2)(b) any originating process in the Local Court must be served in one of the following ways-- (ii) it may be left, addressed to the defendant, at the defendant's business or residential address, with a person who is apparently of or above the age of 16 years and apparently employed or residing at that address, Therefore a document could be addresses to the location of a church (God's House) and left with a member of the clergy since clergy may apparently be employed at the church. However, in terms of employment of clergy, there is some argument at Law whether clergy are actually employees.

My interpretation of the reports of Hamas attacks on Palestinians is that these attacks ar similar to what the Taliban did when they took over Afghanistan - going over alleged collaborators. A report I heard suggested that Hamas was going after gangs which were not aligned to Hamas. That's a bit like the drug wars in Sydney or the tobacco wars in Melbourne.

There has been - barbarity amounting to genocide. I mentioned earlier that Hamas is not a secular organisation as is the Palestine Liberation Organisation, but a fundamentalist religious organisation similar to the Taliban. It seems likely that the Iraeli government is a religious organisation. It might be possible to discuss a peaceful settlement with a secular organisation, but not with religious ones. Remember Belfast?

Remember the movie, The Man Who Sued God ?

Maybe a camera obscura, but that term dates from 1604, many long years after his baby photo.

I wonder what role the Palestine Liberation Organisation is having in this HAMAS-led conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization

Will a little child of 10 years old ever forget the trauma experienced over the past two years? Look ahead five to ten years and that child will still carry the mental scars of those years. Only a fool would believe that peace and understanding will exist in that part of the world.

AI, being a tool, in a similar class to robots, should adhere to the Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

The problem wiht the use of AI is that it is a two-edged sword. It seems that it can be incredibly useful if the uses to which it is put are not malicious. However, there are those amongst us who have a malicious mentality and use good things for evil purposes. Unfortunately, the anonimity of the Internet precludes us from defeating thos evil purposes.

Because someone is off rocker.

Give tne many examples of Trump's recent speeches, doesn't this tweet appear to be too coherent to have come from his mind? Who is writing these things in his name?

I couldn't help noticing today as I walked through a shopping mall in Dubbo, how many retail chainstore premises had closed down. I must admit that most of these were clothing stores.

Not many of us know just how many migratory birds move from Australia to Asia as part of their life cycle. That's a source of infection that really can't be stopped.

Regarding CTP insurance, we are lucky how it is applied in Australia. The insurance coverage applies to the vehicle, not the driver. In otherwords, if the owner of the vehicle paysthe CTP, then anyone who drives the vehicle is covered under teh vehicle's CTP policy. ( I don't know how that works if third party is injured by a stolen vehicle, but I think there would be a work-around in the legislation.)I was watchingsome traffic court cases from Texas and it sewem that there, the individual has to be personally covered, not the vehicle.

Question: If Sovereign Citizens do not accept the system of government and laws created by those governments, how can they use the legal system based on those laws to seek redress for alleged wrongs?