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Is there a sunset in there somewhere??

Super Bowl - the Eagle

Red, that's not a cat video, you have the wrong FB link.

I'm with Jerry on this one. It has Fake written all over it.

Potato - Pot-eight-O's.

Litespeed, Clive actually makes a vast amount of money from the Chinese-owned and operated, Sino-Iron, magnetite mine on the NW Coast of W.A., as Clive owns the leases that are being mined by the Chinese. Clive also owns the land where the magnetite is being shipped out - but he's been in constant dispute with the Chinese over that deal, too. His lawsuits have sometimes been successful - but usually only because they've been settled out of court to get rid of the nuisance. In most cases where his lawsuits have gone right through to final judgement, he's lost.

As the Phantom says, "For those who came in late" - here's the background (links below) to Clives gripe that "he wus robbed". The former (Liberal) W.A. Govt (led by Colin Barnett) did not approve Clives "Balmoral South" iron ore mine, because his mining proposal (involving an iron ore mine, a slurry pipeline, a desalination plant, a dredged shipping channel, a conveyor, a trestle jetty, and ship-loading facilities) was judged "manifestly inadequate", and therefore undeserving of any serious consideration. So, suffering serious hurt to his money grubbing aims, Clive set out to sue the W.A. Govt for $30 billion over his (purportedly) major losses from the rejection. The W.A. Labor Govt of Mark McGowan countered with a rather draconian piece of legislation that stopped Clive from launching any lawsuit against the rejection of his mining proposal. So then Clive sued over the anti-lawsuit legislation, claiming it was unconstitutional. Fortunately, the High Court rejected Clives claim, stating that the W.A. legislation wasn't unconstitutional - so Clive then moved all his company operations to Singapore and now claims that because his company is based in Singapore, the W.A. Govt (and by default, the Federal Govt), in passing the W.A. legislation specifically targeting his company, has infringed on his international legal rights. It will be interesting to see what the famed International Arbitration Court judges come up with. https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/pquest.nsf/3f9c0f35f2b504544825718e001105c9/88cde76e87b87fd148257cf6001ebb74?OpenDocument https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-did-the-high-court-rule-against-clive-palmer-and-what-does-the-judgment-mean-169633

Clive Palmer looks like he's going to lose another of his money-grubbing lawsuits, with his claim that the Australian Govt owes him $300B for the W.A. Govt cancelling his mining lease, against International laws, he claims. However, his case is starting off on a pretty poor footing, with the Solicitor-General slamming Palmer for withdrawing half his list of witnesses, and then stating he won't cross-examine the 5 high-powered expert witnesses the Govt is producing. The S-G is ripping Clive a new one, basically saying his claim is based entirely on Clives unsupported evidence, and the fact that him not wanting to cross-examine the Govt witnesses, leads to a conclusion that in doing so, his case will evaporate like a Trump lawsuit. The case is only going to be heard over 3 days, so it could be a swift end to this money-grubbing exercise of Clives - until he finds another one to bring up, of course. https://www.bilaterals.org/?clive-palmer-s-300bn-claim-absurd

I just get hungry looking at the photo!

The latest assassin, Ryan Routh, is a former Trump voter who has actually seen the light and appears to have arranged some of his brain cells into some sort of working order. He wrote a book in 2023, and in it, he says - QUOTE: "You are free to assassinate Trump," Routh wrote of Iran in an apparently self-published 2023 book titled Ukraine's Unwinnable War, which described the former president as a "fool" and "buffoon" for both the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots and the "tremendous blunder" of leaving the Iran nuclear deal. Routh wrote that he once voted for Trump and must take part of the blame for the "child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless". I find it interesting that Routh, typifies the average Trump voter - working, but owns little by way of assets, permanently angry about global and U.S. events, has a minor criminal record, obviously spends a lot of time online ranting, is prepared to resort to firearms and kill people to solve problems, at the drop of a hat - but, in a departure for the average Trump voter, was trying to recruit fighters for Ukraine. New bodycam footage shows dramatic arrest of Trump suspect (msn.com) This is the best comment I've seen on Trump for while, and it comes from a Springfield Ohio resident, Felicia Duncan. She wrote a letter on Monday to the Cincinatti Enquirer, saying "he brings out the crazies" - QUOTE: She argued, "Trump "brings a lot of this stuff on himself." "When he continues to push lies about legal immigrants like the ones in Springfield, Ohio; when he continues to insist he was not the loser of the 2020 election; when he continues to spout how he wants to use our military to round up' and deport immigrants who are not white from this country, he brings the crazies out," Duncan wrote. "One of those crazies tries to shoot him."

China is in deep s***, economically. It looks like that invasion of Taiwan might go on the back burner for a while yet. Not many saw this Chinese recession coming - certainly not the Chinese - but every major boom is always followed by a recession, and China has been booming for over 30 years. One of the problems for the rest of the world that is relying on large Chinese sales, is that China has been stockpiling a lot of products it imports - whether it's iron ore or grains, they've got more than enough on hand for their now-shrinking economy, so if you're intent on making a killing cracking into the Chinese market, it looks like you could be well advised to look elsewhere for sales of your products. https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2024/09/16/chinas-fading-hunger-for-grain-spells-trouble-for-world-farmers/

I'm surprised at how nearly all meat-and-bug-eating birds, won't touch dead meat, or dead bugs - they like them alive and warm and wriggling. But crows love anything dead, and actually seem to prefer carrion to a lot of other types of food.

The difference with the "Telstra network" aftermarket phone service providers, is they get throttled back on the Telstra network, and Telstra don't make all their towers available to them. You don't generally find this out, until after you've signed up with them.

Yes, the pressure on the Australian continent as it's pushed NE is the reason we have regular earth tremors and earthquakes. The Australian continent is the fastest-moving continent on the Earth. I reckon we're about due to have another decent earthquake, it's been a long time since we've had a substantial one, they seem to come about every 50-60 years. The Meckering earthquake here in the West in 1968 was a pearler, it would've caused quite a few deaths and a lot more destruction if it had occurred in a more densely populated area. I was driving a dozer when it hit, so I didn't feel a thing. But the brother, who was canvassing for work nearby, came back to my damsinking job just before midday (the earthquake happened just before 11:00AM), and he said he pulled into a farmhouse, and as he arrived, the water tanks on their high stands were wobbling from side to side! Locally, there were reports of concrete water tanks with open tops, that had lost sizeable amounts of water, as it sloshed over the sides of the tanks under the shaking. https://www.ga.gov.au/education/natural-hazards/earthquake

I think the Fonz and Ron Howard look pretty good for their age - unlike a few other actors or actresses that are younger than them, and who show the ravages of alcohol and drugs.

So .... when I ask the love of my life if the Earth moved for her last night, she can say "Yes", without worrying about lying to me?

Where are you located, newsaroundme?

My God! An evangelistic parking enforcer!!

It's been 20 to 27 degrees, and beautiful clear sunny skies here on the left coast, since last Sunday. It's like Winter just shut off in its tracks last Saturday, and Spring has Sprung in full force. The car actually gets hot if you leave it in the sun! The forecasts are 21 to 28 degrees and sunny, for the next week.

It's a pretty stupid idea to add sodium bicarbonate and citric acid together - because one is a strong base and one is a strong acid, and they react strongly and neutralise each other, to produce water and carbon dioxide. I've been using citric acid for rust removal for over 40 years and it works just fine by itself. You just take the item out of the solution and pressure wash it, and if it's still not fully cleaned, you return it to the bath for more acid action. The important thing with citric acid is keeping the acid bath covered, so no sunlight can access it. Sunlight breaks down the citric acid fairly rapidly, and it then loses its rust removal effectiveness. If you really want to improve the cleaning, you use an amine such as EDTA. This amine is called a chelating agent, and it's very effective at rust removal and improves the performance of citric acid. You don't need much of it, because it works so well, and this is a good thing, because it's bloody expensive! The commercial rust removers such as Evaporust use amines, and they just charge huge amounts for a small amount of EDTA. https://allchemical.com.au/shop/edta-disodium-salt/ https://brainly.com/question/30252282

Mick Hucknall of Simply Red. He looks like s***, and he's only 64!! That's what happens to you, when you screw over 1000 women!! (or so he says).

See if this works for you ....

He looks just like the sort of bloke who take a hammer to a chunk of gelignite (or powergel) laying on an anvil, just to see what happens!! 😞

I occasionally look at "idiots at work" videos or "close calls" videos - but these videos always have a partly-naked girl in the primary photo in the link, which never shows up in the video ...... no matter how much I look for her!! 😄