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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?

It rained here today. I suppose there'll be mozzies by the weekend.

There's lies. Damned lies, and there are statistics. Those figures look like misinterpretation of statistics. For example, 135 firearms were seized. If they were unregistered firearms (most likely), then possession leads to action being taken on the status of the fireams licence. So that woul abccount for many of the 44 licences. Similarly, improper storage could also result in cancellation/suspension. There is no reported data on the number of "unfit person" cancellation/suspension matters. I recently assisted in transporting five registered fireaarms to a gunsmith. I don't have a firearms licence, so, technically I committed an offence buy physically carrying the firearms to and from the car they were carried in. Since I was helping my older sister to carry the firearms to and fro, I suppose I could have used the "reasonable in the circumstances" defence. An aside: As my sister and I were driving from the gunsmith's with the firearms in the boot of the car, we were stopped for RBT. My sister was driving, and her licence was in her bag on the back seat. In a moment of confusion she told the constable , "My licence is in the boot." I yelled out, "Don't look in the boot!", which had the constable laughing. It would have been OK as my sister has a firearms licence and she had all the registration documents in the car with her. Also, each firearm was secured with a trigger guard lock.

Police stationed adjacent to the borders of our States and Territories are usually sworn in as Special Constables in the other jurisdiction. So that in a pursuit, they can effect an arrest in the other jurisdiction, but have to hand the arrested person over to the local police. For example, NSW Police attached to Queanbeyan, NSW, could easily be involved in a pursuit over the border into the ACT.

What's the bloody use of those minute insects that hide by day and come out at night to swirl around the lights in your house? They don't seem to be a food source for any larger insects. The warm weather brings them out to flit around every illuminated light. If you are working at your computer, they dive-bomb you screen after circling around your head and making forced landings on it. Flyscreens on windows and doors don't keep them out because they are smaller than the holes in the flyscreen mesh. Then you turn the lights out to go to bed, and they seem to just drop dead. You come out in the morning and have to sweep their carcases from the floor and flat surfaces.

She does use a product called Oral 7 which is a gel. Doesn't use it all the time. She didn't tell me why she wanted chewing gum. Maybe she heard the song , "I'm forever blowing bubbles ..."

When was the last time you stepped on chewing gum on a footpath? My Mum asked me to get her some chewing gum for her as she suffers from "dry mouth" and chewing gum keeps her mouth moist with saliva. I tries to find some at the supermarket, but could hardly find any. I think I only saw a multi-pack of Juicy Fruit. There was no spearmint gum that would have suited her better. There were many varieties of hard or chewy mints. Have the younger generation abandoned the habit of chewing gum that we Boomers picked up from the influence US troops had on our parents during WWII? For mine, I'm glad if they have. There's nothing worse than chewy stuck the to bottom of you thongs as you walk along a hot footpath.