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Jerry, with all due respect, you are living in a different country, and have done so for many years. You have to be living where things are happening to understand what is occuring in those places. Even those members here who live in our major cities don't experience the things that we who live in rural areas do. Let me give you an example. The local indigenes in my town wanted their flag flown at the ANZAC Day service. That's sort of OK by me as many Aborigines have served. So the RSL committee which was organising the ceremony asked them to provide a flag to be flown in accordance with the protocols for displaying flags. Despite the request being made in plenty of time, no flag was made available. As you know, I volunteer at our Community OP shop. It is rare to see any Aboriginal person visiting the shop. I once mentioned this to another volunteer and was told that Aborigines have too much money to have a need to buy stuff at the minimal prices we charge. Another thing that I notice is that the local indigenes do not seem to be involved in activities organised for the whole town. There is definitely a feeling of Them/Us. I would really love it if Aboriginal people would make an effort to integrate with the rest of Society as the people from other societies have done.

Nature bounces back so quickly! I've been bitching for months about the lack of rain at my place and how the pastures have been drying up. A couple of days ago I was thinking of posting a photo of the almost bare paddocks whick looked like they had been mown like a bowling green. Then on the same day a very strong thunderstorm came right overhead and doused the ground. I don't have a rain guage, but I hear that some nearby places recorded more than 25 mm. The next day there was another, more steady fall of rain. This morning, a couple of days later, there is a distinct green tinge across the paddocks. If it does not get too hot and there is no strong wind, the plants might be able to put on a few centimetres of growth and things will be better for grazing.

Hmm. Maybe this idea might be applied in a certain Antipodean country where feeling guiltless about events three or four generations ago is considered arrogant.

Me mum's one of them.

What about Hitler's boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend or HJ)? By 1945 some of these boys were only 12 years old. By now any survivor would be in their nineties. https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-boy-soldiers.htm

I beleive he revels in the honour of mouthing the worst Cockney-ish accent in movie history.

It is clear that this issue has been seized upon by "the Other Side" for point scoring. I bet that we can easily find similar examples from the times when the Other Side was in power. Is it worth getting worked up by the "righteous indignation" of any politician? It's all bluster.

I wonder if the number of deaths and casualties suffered by the Russian forces was not as result of poor military skills. I have an impression of Russian infantry engaging in human wave attacks against Germans. That is contrary to what the Germans and Western Allies learned on th Western Front. I suppose, too, that Russian officers were happy enough to use threat to shoot slackers to move troops forward.

The parallels with Germany from 1933 are striking. However, Trump does not have to talk of lebensraum as corporate America conquered the the global community starting in September 1940 with the Leand Lease Act.

Buigger going to the USA. I reckon it would be easier to get into North Korea.

This is a video made by an Englishman about the visa requirements. It contains images of the list of information an applicant must provide. The creator also brings up the economic effects associated with decreaased attendance at FIFA matches. CAUTION: At the moment these requirements have only been put up for consideration. They are not in force - yet. Here is an Australian story

What alchemy! His lead foot has turned to gold.

Forget planning a trip to Disneyland or Las Vegas. The Trump Administion now requires people requiring a visa to enter the USA to disclose not onloy their own digital presence for teh past ten years, but also that of family members. If you have posted in this thread, or the "Only in America" thread here, you won't get a visa if you have not laid down your life for Trump. The Administration has effectively destroyed the FIFA World Cup. Thousands of fans will be denied entry to the USA. Billions in tourist income will be lost. But Trump has his Peace Prize.

No pit lane?

It's so dry out my way that the mud-dauber wasps are building nests using fibro.