Jerry_Atrick

https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-banana It's official... the world has gone completely bananas

I would not believe that

The car driver had to brake to let the car on the right hand lane get in front so enough time lapse to check, especially if the bike was seen coming at a rate of knots. If the car driver saw the rider coming up at speed, spidey senses should have been tingling for a quick mirror check before. May have been a blind spot or purely focusing on the lane immediately before the car on the right... we have all done it (not necessarily with a bike filtering at the time) Can't really make out the second one but also filtering way too fast

I can only copy one link from the FT, but Skumbag was only wanting to get into the Whitehouse to boost his own wealth - we all know that. But one thing I didn't think of was this: https://on.ft.com/48NWrVG I am only allowed to share one link every two weeks or thereabouts, but there was another chilling article, that was basically saying, with the Supreme court ruling the president could be absolved of almost all criminal liability during office, strap in folks, it is going to be a chilling ride.

Looking at it, I am thinking both contributed to the accident. The bike rider was filtering too quickly - absolutely as the traffic was already slowing and he should have seen it and adjusted his speed accordingly. However, just because a car driver puts on their indicator does not give them right of way to change lanes and they have to check their mirrors and yield to those in the other lane.. Unless the motorcyclist was zipping lanes at the last minute, which at that speed would have been hard to do, the driver looks like they didn't check their mirror properly, otherwise the driver would have seen the bike coming and should not have pulled out, either. Without seeing a bit before where the clip started, it's hard to make a call.. But, yeah, certainly filtering at too quick a speed.

For some reason, the term, "the defence rests it's case" comes to mind

Quite an interesting vid https://youtu.be/MAJafY-4at0?si=XlsyznNqeLBJjGhE

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I must be as dumb as dog ship

Under Biden, inflation was the lowest in the developed world.. agree he seemed to lose control of the border a bit.. What woke craziness are you referring to?

We had a decent inversion about 2 years ago.. Spooked the markets for about a day and all returned to normal. You can be your bottom dollar a recession is coming.. and maybe a depression.. just can't work out when.

One of the many flaws of my character

I heard on Triple M early morning AESuT, from an Aussie correspondent in the US, that the likly offer to Zelensky will be for the Eastern 20% of Ukraine (inc Crimea) to be given to Russia, and a DMZ to be set up as well as Ukraine become a nuetral country (i,.e. can't join any military alliance). I am guessing Triple-M will release the Luke Bono show on a podcast so you may be able to find it. If it is the case, then Biden should say here's the cash/weapons - go hell for leather for 2 months and see how you go.

Whicever way you cut it, this is a big win for Trump: He polled a little under 4m more votes than Harris in the popular vote. While it isn't as big a margin as Biden had over Trump, it is significant that Harris lost the popular vote. No doubt the media didn't help, and therre were reports of bomb scares in democrat leaning polling centres, and of course the Russian interference. But, I think they are suffering what Labour here were to some extent - out of touch clique.. My guess is that, like Trump's last administration, he will do some things that are positve, but largely screw it up. However, it is a different world now, and the challenges he had in terms of the economy, foreign policy, etc, are more volatile and fragile then when he left office. He may well find he, like his Aussie and UK counterparts, will end up on the nose.

If it isn't being asked for and it isn't going to happen, why do you need an answer? There are Koori courts in most states (though the names may differ) they still apply the law of the land

It's all about money, spacey. Make it cheaper to replace than repair https://youtu.be/Vk8x0iRr2ek?si=bprTeyDuNGeiVO06

The UK is full..

It's a hypotehtical question as only a tiny minority of Aboriginal activists are demanding severignty. Most are after a treat that accomodates self-determination (see link above) via a treaty. Whey you boil down Lydia Thorpe's hyperbole, it is about a treaty and not sovereignty (of course, they wouldn't say no to sovereignty). Maybe if they are talking traty but we seem to have a record stuck on them wanting sovereignty, they understand the practical limitations and we just want to find a way of harking on about something they are not asking for which they know they realistically won't get to deprive them the debate of what a treaty may be? "fter all it was not what this country enticed us to come here originally. " If referring to the original settlers, at least you admit it was an invasion. If referring rto yourself, maybe not, but what you did come to is a country which has in its own common law legal system admitted the original settlement was illegal. Like it or not, your adopted country should fess up and make amends. You take your adopted country warts and all. I have with the UK and I am absolutely certain it wasn't quite the country it was when I came here.

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I think this is where people get genuinely confused. There is a small group of Aboriginals, and I cannot remember the name, that want genuine sovereignty in terms of a nation state. Generally, though, Aboriginals, have asserted they never gave up their sovereignty, but that does not mean they want a separate nation state to co-exist. They generally want self-determination. This may give more of an insight: https://aigi.org.au/toolkit/self-determination-for-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples#:~:text=For many First Nations%2C self,want to live their lives. Particularly, "For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, self-determination means having genuine decision-making power and responsibility about what happens: on their lands and waters in their affairs in their governing systems in their development strategies." This does not mean operating outside the legal framework of Australia and not does it mean sovereignty. Today, we give these rights to other religious groups, bot officially and culturally. The rather poor conduct of some institutional religions still benefit from coverups except for the more heinous conduct. They are exempt from taxes, equal opportunity legislation and the like to accommodate their cultural sensitivities. Aboriginals have definitely been granted a lot, too, but they have had a lot more of their cultural lifestyle removed than most, particularly those of Abrahamic religions, of which at least Christianity based faith culture has been mostly imported to Australia since colonisation. In addition, people who have willingly immigrated to Australia should expect to conform with the laws of the country; the Aboriginals didn't immigrate to Australia - so their culture was (attempted to be) taken away from them. I agree, the wheat from the chaff has to be sorted in terms of pursuit of Aboriginal rights - as with any group, you will find the charlatans, opportunists, rabble rousers, etc. But just like with the vegans, the trans, the conservationists, etc, the press will hone in on the more extreme participants/protagonists as the mainstream are boring and won't attract eyeballs. The problem is, this reflects to the population that consumes this information without doing their own background research, that the more extreme is the norm for these groups. I don't blame people of course; we are all too busy to research most things. But the press and the pollies, and the corporations, etc. know this, and it is sort of how one ends up with an increasingly broken political system and fragmented society we have today..

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