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Xi's reference to America as a "declining nation" was a direct slap in the face to Trump - and in his finest form, he managed to twist the statement like a pretzel, with his normal level of astounding BS, about America's economic performance, under his leadership. He claimed Xi was referring to America led by Biden - and stated, that under his Presidency, America was booming, claimed he was responsible for the booming share market, a massive investment in American manufacturing, pension funds making good profits, and a dozen other BS claims, such as a "thriving relationship with Venezuela", "military victories", and a "booming jobs market". His claims are such contorted BS, it's hard to know where to start. 1. The state of the share market has little relevance to any of his decision-making. Share prices go up and down like a yo-yo, and if anything is driving shares higher, it's the amount of money in circulation that America has printed with no asset backing - the so-called "quantitive easing". 2. The "massive investment in American manufacturing", has only come about due to Trumps threats to virtually cease trading with any country that doesn't invest in America. Those decisions are economic decisions by the companies, and can be reversed at a moments notice. There are plenty of "stalled" American manufacturing projects, put on hold due to political and market uncertainty. 3. The pension funds are always looking for good returns and have trillions to invest, and Presidential decisions have little bearing on where or what the pension funds put their money into. Interestingly, a lot of American pension funds have substantial monetary and corporate investments in Australia. 4. His "thriving relationship with Venezuela" is only in his mind, and in his dreams. I seem to recall the last time we had any serious news from on the ground in Venezuela, the locals were waving firearms around, ready to repel any American military force landings. 5. The "military victories" he claims are total fiction. You have a successful military victory when you have gained territory/territories, had opponents sign surrender agreements, or have gained major concessions that amount to a serious loss for the "enemy combatants". No such thing has occurred, and Trump and his buddies are still hip-deep in the Iranian swamp, with the crocodiles ready to bite them on the arse. 6. The "booming jobs market" in the U.S. is a total fabrication. The labour market in the U.S. has flatlined, and is showing signs of heading towards stagflation or recession. The final straws are - A. Trump promised to immediately end the Ukraine War - in 1 day - once re-elected. Nothing has happened as regards the Ukraine War, the Ukrainians fight on steadily. B. Trump promised to "bring down the price of groceries and all consumer items, including fuel" - on "day one" again, of course. The exact opposite has happened, virtually all grocery and living costs in the U.S. have risen under Trumps Presidency. Fuel prices have soared up to 40% above the pricing from Bidens era, aviation fuel costs have soared 70%, resulting in increased air fare costs, beef prices have soared, and inflation is rearing its ugly head again, as increased transport and shipping costs are starting to bite. Trump is the master of perpetual BS, lies and broken promises - a fact not lost on Xi.

The American economy thrives, and is largely built on, the manufacture of armaments. Even seemingly unrelated industry manufacturers such as Caterpillar and John Deere make huge profits from Military supply contracts. However, the wealth of America is dependent on the American companies selling their armaments and associated industrial production to other countries - thereby getting rich on fighting by other countries. But when that military hardware expenditure is wasted on Americans own war activities - with little gain to show for it - either financial, territorial, or in any other form - then those losses can only weaken the American economy, and lead to huge American wealth destruction.

No, Govt by AI will be a total failure. It will fail us, just as we need it. Get a look at this, it fails even a basic request 😄 ......

As did the storepeople - selling picks, spades, panning dishes, pots and pans, tents, boots, hats, flannette shirts, moleskin trousers, bedrolls, pistols, tobacco, and all the stuff that miners need to survive in rugged terrain. Leather pouches for holding gold nuggets were a must, and even small gold scales were in high demand. https://www.teachersuperstore.com.au/assets/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Australian-Gold-Rushes-Daily-Life-in-the-Goldfields-Sample-Pages.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoognpJMnehL-vguNxLwGH8D-mVtaStuRkHpYIh5fYWxlKe1IS01

He's a class act, our Willie. He's very selective with his scrap bin exploits. Only the finest bins meet his exacting standards. 😄

A large, moisture-laden air mass is feeding into a trough in front of a huge high pressure system, over Western Qld and Northern NSW. As you say, any decent amount of rain originates from the Northern maritime region latitudes. This tropical air mass is feeding in from the Northern section of the Indian Ocean, and it's bound to carry some reasonable amount of rain to SW Qld and Northern NSW. When the Bureau say there's a "100% certainty" of rain, they're not often wrong. Only the total amount of rainfall is in doubt, and that can vary widely over a relatively small area. I thought the weak cold front that came through W.A. on Thursday morning had nothing behind it. But the tip of another cold front followed it, and we got 8mm of rain in the City on Thursday night. However, the rain didn't penetrate very far inland. http://satview.bom.gov.au/

Willie, it's a Lake LA-4 amphibian yoke. https://baspartsales.com/lake-la-4-amphibian-control-yoke-assembly/?srsltid=AfmBOopFfbDmE4BcC52kNRcV9IE4eU08wTVYK_YIUP5JflOc0h75eehh They come up nicely when beab blasted. https://baspartsales.com/lake-la-4-amphibian-control-yoke-assembly-bead-blasted-diameter-7-8/?srsltid=AfmBOorPMarLKq9xxaiWzt0qwUAzBaC7XoZgtZcGp-SEWSt8LwPP4XzO

It was well known amongst the farmer clients I did contract work for in the 1970's and 1980's, that trusts were necessary to avoid paying tax. They were rampant in that period, with many "smart" accountants promoting them.

OME is gonna be drookit on Monday and Tuesday, nothing surer. https://www.bom.gov.au/places/nsw/gilgandra/forecast/

It needs some juvenile deliquent boot camps to be set up, with decent instructors teaching these kids the basics of acceptable social behaviour, so they can learn to be useful citizens. Remember a lot of these kids just fend for themselves, they get fed poorly, get no boundaries set for them, follow no routines, stay up all night, get abused, get involved with drugs and alcohol. A lot of young girls indulge in bad behaviour because they're being sexually abused, get angry about it, and take out their anger on anything they can lay their hands on. Boot camps with strict but fair discipline, instructors who can teach the kids about relationships, behaviour, how to handle emotions, how to handle abusive behaviour - in general, all the life skills one needs to survive in the big bad world - are needed. But where you get these people from, I don't know. Most parents have their hands full with their own offspring playing up. The W.A. Govt started a few remote region boot camps for young Aboriginal criminals, but most fell over after a while as the people running them threw in the towel due to the demands on them. Getting the kids away from the city and into the bush takes away a lot of the source of the criminality problem. The cities are breeding zones for criminality.

By far the worst and most corrupt, personal greed move by Trump, will be carried out before May 20th. On that date, District Court Judge Kathleen Williams (note, not a U.S. Supreme Court Judge, and an appointee of Barack Obama) hands down her decision in Trumps lawsuit against the IRS. In that lawsuit, Trump is suing the IRS for $10B for releasing his tax records, when an IRS employee leaked information to the NY Times for a story. Note that Trump has resisted all and every attempt to release his tax records. But Judge Williams has indicated she must rule on whether there is a "case and consistency". This essentially means, because Trump controls the IRS, the Presidency, the DOJ and every other party involved in the lawsuit (including all the lawyers - because Trump essentially "owns" and "controls" all the IRS lawyers), Judge Williams is saying, there cannot be any viable case as there are no "opposing parties" (i.e., a defendant and plaintiff). So, in the best Trump fashion, Trump is now racing to reach an out-of-court settlement with the IRS, to beat Judge Williams decision being handed down on the 20th, where she will almost certainly declare there is no case to answer, and Trumps lawsuit is unsustainable and invalid. The IRS is being pressured (by Trumps administration, of course) to reach an out-of-court settlement. This has happened before, to prevent adverse findings where complainants lodging unsustainable lawsuits reached a mediated settlement, and received major payouts. It's a classic Clive Palmer modus operandi. Threaten to take someone to the cleaners over a spurious, dubious and legally unsustainable claim - then settle on the doorstep of the court. If Trump settles with the IRS before the 20th May (as is highly likely to happen), he will then be in line for a major monetary settlement, possibly running into hundreds of millions of dollars. The scumbbaggery will continue. https://newrepublic.com/article/210408/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement-scandal

With regard to the pressing immigration problem that's on everyone lips, and which PHON is making a killing out of, by promising to address it with an anti-immigration stance - I was quite surprised when surfing the 'net (looking for something completely different, of course), to come across this vicious American anti-immigration electoral poster from 1920 (link below). I knew the Americans were frightened of a Chinese invasion in the mid-1800's, and passed a law banning them from entering the country - specifically, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892. This Act was as a result of enduring hostility towards the Chinese, and the Americans fear of cheap Chinese labour. So, little has changed in over 175 years. Key Aspects of the Anti-Chinese Movement & Legislation: Initial Acceptance Turns to Hostility: Chinese immigrants arrived in large numbers during the 1850s California Gold Rush and played a critical role in building the western portion of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. However, as numbers grew (exceeding 105,000 by 1880), they faced severe animosity. The "Invasion" Narrative & Violence: White workers, particularly in California, feared losing jobs to "cheap" Chinese labor. This led to organized violence, including the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese massacre, the 1877 San Francisco riot, and the 1885 Rock Springs massacre. The Page Act of 1875: Before the 1882 act, the Page Act was passed, which technically banned forced labor and prostitution but was broadly applied to restrict the immigration of Chinese women. The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): Signed by President Chester A. Arthur, this act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country for 10 years and denied those already in the U.S. the ability to become citizens. It allowed exemptions for teachers, students, merchants, and diplomats, but these were difficult to obtain. Permanent Exclusion: The exclusion was extended in 1892 by the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. These restrictions remained in place until 1943. The laws were justified by politicians who described the Chinese as undesirable, arguing they could not be assimilated, and threatened the "American Anglo-Saxon civilization". But by 1920, it was a different race that the Americans feared - it was the Japanese, this time. Anti-Japanese sentiment was riding high when James D. Phelan was up for election in 1920, and anti-Japanese posters abounded. Phelan wasn't elected, but continued his anti-Japanese immigration activities until the new Immigration Act of 1924 banned Japanese from entering America. So, the seeds of WW2 were planted early. The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, severely restricted U.S. immigration by establishing strict national origins quotas based on the 1890 census. It heavily favored Northern/Western Europeans, dramatically reduced immigration from Southern/Eastern Europe, and effectively banned immigration from Asia, setting an exclusionary policy that was in place for decades. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343554

We had the tip of a cold front come through the State today, it was a real fizzer. The forecast was up to 6mm in Perth, but we only got a light shower, barely enough to wet the ground. The cold front dissipated rapidly into just low clouds, and only a few coastal areas got a couple of millimetres. A bit disappointing, and there's no sign of any decent cold front, for close on another fortnight. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/JAWF_Monitoring/Australia/GFS_forecasts.shtml

But you're still a millionaire, Peter - because of the massive increase in your house value. Asset-rich, but cash poor, that's for sure. There are thousands of baby-boomers just like you, and they are trapped to a certain degree, by the distortion in property prices. But at the end of the day, you can always cash in on that major value in your house, and purchase something smaller and newer and easier to maintain, such as an apartment. A sizeable number of my baby boomer friends have "downsized", and ended up with a major amount of cash to invest, thus allowing them to improve their lifestyle. You seem to have a lack of understanding as regards legalities and taxes around deaths. "Probate" is the act of determining the validity of a will, and the Court examines the will, determines if it's valid and then issues a "Grant of Probate", which allows the executor of the estate to proceed with asset distribution and finalisation of the Estate. If the family home os passed onto children, it can be sold within 2 years without payment of capital gains tax. If a superannuation death benefit is paid out, it can sometimes be taxed, depending on the circumstances of the beneficiary. As you have no super, there's no super tax to worry about. As to the shares, there's no tax payable upon inheriting them, only CGT when they are sold. There are no death duties in Australia, and there haven't been for many years. I feel our Govt should probably start looking at death duties, just as Britain had to reintroduce them, due to massive untaxed wealth gains.