Yenn

I wonder what would happen if the journalists asked our esteemed leaders where they are going with the war in Ukraine. I see it as more serious than what china is doing. We are letting Russia kill and destroy everything in Ukraine and our pollies know that it is not going to stop there. We need them to have a policy and not the current one which is that we don't know what to do until Biden tells us.

No matter what is happening on the ground, I am appalled that we in the West have done so little to help Ukraine. We seem to be afraid that if we do something that an all out war will occur, but as I see it, if we do nothing the Russian bully will keep killing in Ukraine and then go on to all the other previous USSR states. We are lacking in guts and I hark back to Britains declaration of war against Germany, which was because Germany attacked Poland. Joe Biden could not be called corrupt, he is to stupid and sleepy to be involved in corruption, but why on earth did he tell the Russians he would not commit troops to help Ukraine. That was the green light for Putin.

I hope that the corruption will get rid of the LNP, but they are so corrupt that they may get in. There is nothing much between world leaders. Trump was corrupt, Putin is corrupt, Johnson is corrupt, but worst of all is that the parties are fully corrupted. If they had any sense of decency those leaders would all have been removed ages ago. I am just hoping that the electorate can see that it is not just one rotten apple, but the complete bucket load of them that cannot be trusted.

If cars are anything like mobile phones, which are touted as being state of the art, I would not like to meet one of them on the road. Anything with a computer in it is going to go mad at some stage. That is too much of a danger to let autonomous cars onto the road.

The government realized the unemployment figures mean very little when they promised handouts to all those people who are doing it so hard. Why would they have needed the handouts with so many people being employed. They wanted to have it both ways and both Albo and the journalists didn't see it.

Notice how scumbag is trying to deflect the voters away from him and to push his government as being the important thing. He knows that he has a poor reputation, as do all the members of the LNP. If they ant to win they should have dumped him six months ago. Now is too late and it will become apparent that he is nothing but a liability, because he cannot tell the truth or be trusted.

The fault is not only with Australia Post. I have made photobooks using an Australian company. The books are printed and bound in Malasia and then couriered to me. Trouble is that the courier will not deliver past 200 on my road and I am at 455. Delivery is supposedly free, but they will only deliver if I pay extra. The photobook company says their contract with the courier includes delivery. Solution, get it sent to friends at no 120.

Posts are stuck in the ground to support fences and it appears that Australia Pos is no different. I posted a couple of brake shoes from S Grafton on April 1. maybe that date is significant. Today I opened the tracking app and am told they will be delivered to Capalaba on 12 to 14 April. Talk about snail mail!

All the free trade agreements seem to be looking out for the other country. Our governments make a big noise about how well they are looking out for our interests, but they are all baloney. Every trade agreement does very little for our agricultural sector and a lot for the big miners. What we really need is something like South Africa had with the apartheid regulations. S. A. was forced to pick up its game and produce what it needed and that is what we should be doing.

We now have the oft quoted saying among friends. "No politics or religion" Meaning politics and religion are banned as discusson points.

The Irish developed the bagpipes and introduced them to Scotland. The Scots still haven't got the joke.

Not only have we done as Nomad and OME have pointed out, we have also sold primary products to others for less than Australian can buy them here. Gas is sold overseas and too expensive to use here to owner a power station.

Qld is offering $3000 to promote electric cars, but it cuts out at $58000, so there are very few available. Fuel prices are very high, but it cannot be blamed on the price of crude, because it is around $100 per barrel and years ago it was $150 per barrel and petrol$1.5 litre. Could it have anything to do with the fact that we no longer refine fuel in Australia and prices are set by overseas prices?

Will Putin realise that the war cannot be won and give in? I doubt it, he has so much at stake that he is possibly mad enough to use the nuclear option. In which case he could be stopped by the generals, or maybe they are as mad as he is. we really need a way to wage war that takes it out of the hands of politicians when they have failed and puts the top military in control. Over the years they seem to be much more level headed than politicians.

The latest government blue is a woman’s network logo. Some say it is a phallic symbol, but my wife did not see that. It does look that way if you are told, but why was the logo ever made that way? I would have thought some kind of net would be better than what looks like a penis when you are told.

One good thing about Willis photo above. He hasn’t got a load of noddies in the background. He would be far better off doing his job and taking some responsibility, than posing even if he doesn’t have a hard hat or high vis. vest.

China is throwing clog in the works at the moment by questioning if Australia is breaking the nuclear non proliferation act, by getting nuclear fuel in the subs it is supposedly getting under AUCUS. i think they have a good question, we may well be doing the wrong thing, as we may have been doing when we sported the fuel.

Of course there is a god, but most of us call it Mother Nature. Darwin would be the first prophet of that belief. The main tenet of that religion is survival of the fittest.

Why would China want any sort of war, they already have most of the world under their thumb by making themselves indispensable through trade. A war with Australia would leave them in control of a big dry country which could not afford to buy its goods. Easy supply chain for them, but little help in getting dollars.

It doesn’t matter what systems you have, as soon as some petty little bureaucrat gets his hands on it, it will fail. I was one of the first in Qld SES and was involved for many years, mainly rescue training and working at heights. Not long after I left the service we had a cyclone and the local controller asked me if I could help a lady with a fallen tree on her house. He explained that I was no longer qualified to use a chain saw, maybe I could use my own, as flooding meant nobody else could get to her location. This was after many arguments with the experts from Brisbane, who were incompetent, but I will admit they would admit to their mistakes when I pointed them out.

Even they are having trouble painting the present government in a good light.

Similar to the Timorese situation, but currently ignored by all is West Papua. We have no idea what goes on there as the media are prevented from getting in, but it is East Timor all over again. Nobody wants to do anything about it, as was the case in East Timor. The Western nations don’t want to upset the pot and are happy for people to suffer, so long as we can live in blissful ignorance.

It is reported that he was on a get fit course and I don’t doubt it. Now we have lost him and Rod Marsh it makes me think of those other greats of his era. Merv Hughes, what has happened to him? That great Tassie batsman and close in fielder who’s name escapes me, but I have a vivid image of him at silly mid on, taking a wonderful catch. Thommo who looked like a first class batsman as a tail ender trying to save a game for us, how good he looked and how sad that he didn’t succeed. Alan Border who brought Australia out of it’s darkest days and compared with Kim Hughes was a hero. Now cricket doesn’t inspire, after the ball tampering, which was similar to the underarm against N Z. Except for the women’s game, which appears to be fast, but not win at all costs, rather like women’s football

The U S purports to be the policeman of the world but it is falling far short. I cannot understand how these u S and Australia along with all the other powers who think they matter can stand by and let Russia demolish the. Ukraine, but then I am one of only a few left who can remember Hitler and WW2. Do current Aussies have any idea of history and if so why are they so happy to see it repeated?

The lies and deception go on today, or maybe yesterday. The Weekend Australian has a big article about civic, decrying the lockdowns, which it infers had no success and were just a case of state governments bullying the people. They do not mention that the State governments were trying, successfully as it turns out, to prevent our health system from collapsing under overload. They paint the state governments as being bad for us. In reality if we had let the Feds have their way, the hospitals would have become a disaster, with many dieing and the medical staff completely exhausted. That was what the PM was aiming for. Of course the more old people who die, the less the federal government has to pay out for.