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Donald Trump removes the US from 66 international organisations - here's the full list: https://www.tyla.com/news/politics/donald-trump-us-remove-66-international-causes-608973-20260108

Muck over, Rye back kina, Saba lent car, Kova Chev vick, Naka sheen ahh.....

I hate cheap thongs, and only wear Slappas thongs during Summer. Cheap thongs nearly killed me once, I went sprawling over a rock embankment of the Ashburton River bridge, when I lost my footing as I started to climb down the rocks, taking a shortcut back to the caravan park. I was just lucky I landed on my side on a huge flat rock, not a big sharp-edged one, like all the rest were. I would have incurred very major injury, maybe even killed myself, if I'd landed anywhere else. I still did a lot of damage to my outer thigh muscle, I couldn't walk for a week afterwards, and I was in agony for most of that week. Dirt-cheap footwear is a mistake when you get older. Spend the money to get good foot support, it not only assists with balance, but you walk better in them. A lot of Chinese footwear puts you off-balance from the word go, because the soles are rubbishy design and they consist of crappy materials.

I reread the article. It mentions morality, not mortality, three times. It should all be over, he has no morality.

The definition of "duress" is being forced to commit a crime under a physical threat of some kind, that makes you feel you cannot avoid committing that crime without incurring physical injury, or by psychological pressure, which is the same as a threat of physical injury, but done with mind pressure. You can claim a defence to any crime committed, if you can show it was carried out under duress. But National Service is not duress, because no crime is being committed. You are obliged to carry out National Service as a obligation, as a citizen of your country, and where legislation authorising National Service has been enacted. If you had claimed conscientious objection to serving in the military, you could have avoided serving in Australia's military forces.

Correcting your spelling there. I knew very little about solicitors then, if anything at all, at 20 years of age. None were assigned to us, we were just bullied into signing without any legal representation. This happened in Australia, but somehow you think that that was OK. However, not in the US, oh no, it's not allowed to happen there!

That's thie thing about life. Ship happens. Pick yourself up, learn from it, and move on.

You're right. It was a copy and paste I didn't check.

Besides, it's not a war if nobody is fighting back.

I think there is a misspelling in that sentence. 'Own mortality' looks more like it.

Trump announces US land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico and chillingly declares his 'own morality' is the only limit on his unchecked global power after Maduro capture Read the report here.

Dozens of houses lost in Harcourt and Sutton Grange, including my daughters. We are OK due to a wind change.

Funny you should say that, thanks for pointing that out. What it means is, the documents I had to sign when I was conscripted into the Army weren't valid either. I was under duress of a two year jail sentence. Had I used my noggin, I wouldn't have signed them.

OME, At that price buy 10 pairs of thongs for any sudden blowouts...the shoes are a ripp off.

Density altitude. Worse at Alice Springs where the runway is at 1100 ft asl. Nev

Should change the thread name to Crikey it's Hot. Top temp today 42.9°, 44° at Tulla. They had to unload some cargo from some planes, they were too heavy for the heat.

Stay SAFE. Easier said than done in this RAW Country. Top half Flooded. The rest burning.. Nev

I wonder what it would have come out like after it went through those voice recognition things. Nev

Stay safe.. hope it doesn't reach your property

Heat, visibility, gusts and lack of Oxygen are a problem for Aircraft. It's easy to overstress the Aircraft and have insufficient LIFT and power. Nev

It's been so dry at my place since April that there is hardly anything in the paddocks to carry a fire. I'm even noticing that trees in the paddocks away from the creeks and gullies are starting to die.

It's halfway through summer and the pair of thongs I have ware standing up to daily use quite well. The sole is compressed a bit under my foot, and my son's dog chewed a bit of the sole off, but not enough to make the thongs unserviceable. However, years of experience have taught me that a good pair of thongs can suddenly have a strap broken or suffer some other catastrophic failure. So today I went into town to get a spare pair in case the inevitable happens, leaving me unshod without replacements. So I drove the 75 kms to town and hit Big W and K-Mart. I had no success at K-Mart because they had no stock, but Big W did. Would you beleive that the regular retail price for the pair of thongs I got was only $1.50? Nice! While I was in the shopping centre I had a look for a pair of casual shoes to backup the ones I have been wearing this summer. You could have knocked me down with a feather. A pair I saw was priced at $160.00, and I bet they were pumped out at some Chinese manufactory.

Heading our way.

That's easy for you to say.