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Maybe @onetrack can confirm this,. A US expat living in Perth since the beginning of the year has posted on Facebook that she was surprised by the unusual negative speed humps in Perth. Instead of the standard speed "hump", these ones are activated by radar, and if a car is exceeding the speed limit, a plate on the exit side drops down, and the car drops a few centimetres into it. If the car is at or below the limit, it remains flat. I haven't heard of this anywhere else.

A woman from Sydney who was a tree hugging, vegetarian and anti-hunter purchased a piece of native bushland in northern NSW . There was a large gum tree on one of the highest points in her property. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big gum. As she neared the top she encountered a koala that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to a local ER to see a doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, vegetarian, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor re-appeared.The angry woman demanded, "What took you so long?" He smiled and then told her, "Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, Native Vegetation, Parks and Wildlife service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a 'recreational area' so close to a Waste Treatment Facility. "And I'm sorry, they turned you down."

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I let this one run for 8 days. Eye of the tiger.

A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning. The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment and said 'How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!' and hung up. The husband said, 'Who was that?' The wife said, 'I don't know, some woman wanting to know if the coast is clear.'

Meghan Markle’s mother has stunned Britain with a fiery demand for inheritance — and HERE is King Charles’ explosive response In a seismic clash that has sent shockwaves from Windsor to Montecito, Doria Ragland, 69, the fiercely protective grandmother of Prince Archie, Princess Lilibet, and the newly announced third Sussex child, unleashed a 1,200-word open letter in The California Sun this morning, demanding unbreakable succession rights, lifelong HRH styles, and sovereign-grant security for her grandchildren “in perpetuity.” “My daughter gave the Royal Family three children,” Ragland wrote in scorching prose that now dominates every headline. “You may strip the mother of her title, but you will NEVER take away the rights of future princes and princesses. Their blood is Windsor. Their birthright is non-negotiable.” The letter, addressed directly to King Charles III and copied to Parliament, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, accuses the Crown of “institutional erasure” and cites the 1701 Act of Settlement, the 1917 Letters Patent, and the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act to argue that “no monarch, no courtier, no colonial relic can sever children born in lawful wedlock from the sacred line.” The most incendiary passage reads: “You stripped my daughter of protection when she begged for it. You allowed the press to hunt her like prey. Now you dare murmur that her children—YOUR blood—might be ‘demoted’ to commoners? Touch one curl on their heads, and you will answer to history, to God, and to every Black grandmother who ever fought for her babies’ names to be spoken with dignity.” Within minutes, #DoriaSpeaks exploded globally. In Montecito, Meghan was photographed clutching the letter outside a prenatal clinic, eyes red. In London, constitutional lawyers were summoned to emergency briefings. Then, at 11:07 a.m. GMT, Buckingham Palace shattered centuries of protocol. A single sheet of heavy cream stationery—bearing the King’s cypher—was delivered by liveried footman to every major newsroom. The response, handwritten in Charles’s unmistakable fountain-pen script, was read live on air by a visibly shaken Nicholas Witchell. It was not a concession. It was a rejection. “Dear Mrs. Ragland, Your letter has reached me not as a plea, but as a demand upon the Crown I am sworn to protect. Let me be unequivocal: the laws of this realm are not subject to negotiation by open letter, nor to the court of public opinion. Archie, Lilibet, and the child yet to be born occupy positions seventh, eighth, and ninth in the line of succession by statute alone. That statute is clear: succession follows blood, not residence, not sentiment, not the volume of one’s voice. Their place is secure until Parliament decrees otherwise—and Parliament has spoken on the matter of titles. The 1917 Letters Patent, issued by my great-grandfather King George V, grants the sovereign sole discretion over the style of HRH for grandchildren beyond the heir’s line. That discretion has been exercised consistently for over a century. It will be exercised again in the 2026 Royal Styles and Titles Review. The children’s courtesy titles of Prince and Princess were granted as a personal gesture by Her late Majesty in 2021. That gesture expires upon the formal withdrawal of their mother’s dukedom, as announced. No trust, no fund, no sovereign-grant lifeline will be extended to children who reside permanently abroad and whose parents have explicitly rejected the duties that accompany privilege. Security is a matter for the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police, not the Crown. The Sovereign Grant is not a private ATM for estranged branches. Your grandchildren will receive the same protection afforded any British citizen abroad—nothing more. Mrs. Ragland, you speak of grandmothers. I speak as a King who buried his own mother under the weight of duty. Duty is not optional. Legacy is not inherited—it is earned. The door to reconciliation remains open, but it swings both ways. Return, serve, and the children’s future will be discussed. Remain in exile, and the 1917 Patent stands. Charles R.

Allan Moffat, the four-time Australian Touring Car Champion and four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, has died at the age of 86. He passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at 11:05 a.m., surrounded by his family, after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

While we are procrastinating over the net zero question, the US House of Representatives has just passed a law that bans future presidents from banning hydraulic fracturing in order to guarantee America's energy supply. DRILL BABY, DRILL! https://defdeal.com/banned-republican-controlled-u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-bill/

Hold that thought. I am having a disagreement with my fund at the moment. I will withhold comment until it is resolved.

BREAKING: New Ukraine “peace plan” leaks — and it reads like Putin dictated it directly to Trump. If you ever wanted to see what happens when the United States and Russia sit down and sketch out the future of Ukraine without Ukraine — and without Europe — the leaked 28-point “peace plan” making the rounds in Kyiv is your answer. And buckle up, because this document isn’t a peace plan. It’s a hostage negotiation written by the hostage-taker. According to Ukrainian media, this Frankenstein treaty was drafted by top U.S. officials with Russian input and approved by Donald Trump — and it reads like the Kremlin’s Amazon wish list wrapped in an American flag. Ukraine’s input? Europe’s input? Apparently optional! Democracy is so 2012. The plan opens with polite diplomatic wallpaper — “Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed” — before immediately carving Ukraine’s sovereignty up like a Thanksgiving turkey. It hands Russia Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk on a silver platter and freezes two more regions in place like they’re leftover pierogi. Ukraine doesn’t just lose territory; it gets told to amend its Constitution to promise it will never join NATO again. NATO, in turn, has to amend its own founding documents to slam the door shut forever. Oh — and Russia promises it probably won’t invade anyone else. “It is expected” they will behave. Expected! As if Putin is a toddler who “is expected” not to color on the walls again. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military — currently fighting for its survival — gets capped at 600,000 troops, because nothing says “peace” like forcing the invaded nation to disarm while the invader keeps the keys to three stolen provinces. But don’t worry — the U.S. will give Ukraine a “security guarantee” as long as Kyiv promises not to invade Russia or launch missiles at Moscow “without cause.” Yes, you read that correctly: Ukraine is warned not to invade the country that invaded Ukraine. In exchange for swallowing all this, Ukraine gets dangled $200 billion in reconstruction money — half of which the U.S. literally profits from. America gets 50% of the profits from rebuilding the cities Putin bombed to rubble. It’s like an insurance scam, except the arsonist gets invited to the ribbon-cutting. And the cherry on top? Russia gets complete amnesty. Everyone. Every war criminal. Every torturer. Every kidnapper. Everyone. All forgiven, all protected, all welcomed back into the “global economy.” They even get a ticket back into the G8 as if nothing happened. It is a peace plan written with the moral clarity of a money-launderer’s tax return. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant? Split 50/50. Frozen Russian assets? Partly handed back through a U.S.–Russia investment fund. Education policies? Ukraine must teach “tolerance,” because apparently the country invaded by its neighbor is the one with the empathy problem. Ukraine must hold elections — in 100 days — while fighting a war, hosting displaced families, and surrendering territory. Because what could possibly go wrong? And at the end of this geopolitical circus? Donald J. Trump chairs the “Peace Council.” Yes, the man who cannot mediate an argument between his own lawyers gets put in charge of enforcing a continent-wide peace agreement between nuclear states. This isn’t a peace plan. It’s not even a surrender. It’s a clearance sale where Ukraine pays the bill, Russia gets the merchandise, and the U.S. gets a corporate partnership out of it. The only accurate title for this document is the one Ukrainian commentators already suggested: “The Aristocrats.” Because only a truly deranged diplomatic performance could end with Russia rewarded, Ukraine disarmed, Europe blindsided, American companies cashing in, war crimes erased, and Donald Trump sitting on a golden throne labeled “Peacekeeper.” If this is the plan, then the world doesn’t need negotiators. It needs a fire alarm.

Tiffany — the only child of Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples — received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, her father's alma mater, before attending Georgetown, where she graduated in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020. Because of this, the graduation ceremony was canceled— and despite acknowledging the Covid pandemic, Trump bizarrely claimed in his speech that the cancellation had something to do with the fact that she is his daughter. "Her graduation got canceled because of Covid, but I say if her name was something else, they probably wouldn't have canceled it," the president claimed.

Further to the donation to Kushner's business: Addressing an audience of business leaders during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Trump announced Prince Mohammed has vowed to invest $1 trillion in America — an increase from his original $600 billion pledge he suggested in the Oval Office on Tuesday.