Probably the Russians, because the USA is the puppet of the global financial elite for whom the word evil is not descriptive enough. I like Americans in general, but most have no idea who is really running their country and how the USA has been used by the global financial elite since Woodrow Wilson pretty much handed control of the US Government to them in 1913.
Cheese eaters? I do agree that drug abusers, alcoholics and drunk drivers should have to fend for themselves. As for suicide attempts, perhaps some instruction on how to do it properly.
That would be strange indeed, because such contracts are written in a specified currency, which cannot be substituted. Most world trade is done in US dollars.
It was a stupid decision for Germany to become part of the Euro experiment, which could never have worked. You cannot shackle a powerhouse such as Germany to basket cases such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, et al. All that has happened is that the failed economies have survived by being vampires on Germany. It would be far better for all concerned if everyone went back to their own currencies.
I loathe smoking. It disgusts me on every level. I do not, however, believe in using the apparatus of the state to impose my lifestyle choices upon others. Anyone who does would be more at home in North Korea. What I would do, however, is withdraw all taxpayer-funded medical treatment for problems caused by smoking. Medical problems caused by smoking are self-inflicted injuries. Also, treatment given is an exercise in futility because they are a smoker. This is why some surgeons refuse to operate on smokers, or bump them to the bottom of the list. Try getting a transplant if you are a smoker. The psychological profile of a smoker is most unflattering. Anyone who is curious should look up the papers published in various journals about the psychology of smokers and how tobacco companies exploit this in advertising.
Just old age, I think. When I was younger I was a serious swimmer, then I did all sorts of things with the army. Running about the bush for weeks on end carrying 40kg of gear, hurdling obstacles and jumping out of aeroplanes tends to catch up with a person when they get older. Young men think that they can do all sorts of physical things . . . which they can at the time . . . but a couple of decades later there is a price to be paid. I have also been a serious student of karate for a long time, but I credit karate for me still being able to move at all. I am stiff as a plank and hurt for the first half hour of training but by the end of second hour I feel young, strong and flexible again. By that stage some of the teens and 20 somethings cannot keep up with me. When I get up the next morning my hips, knees and leg muscles are so stiff that I almost need a Zimmer frame for the first few minutes. I am going through an enforced rest from karate training until the middle of next month, to recover from surgery for a strangled hernia that I gave myself practising roundhouse kicks. I hate getting old. Behind the grey hair, glasses and stiff aching joints and muscles the spirit of the young warrior still dwells. It is bloody frustrating to have a body that will no longer do the job.
I hate mornings. I feel ill, my joints are so stiff that I can hardly walk and I cannot think. I need about an hour and three cups of tea before I can begin to think and feel human. It takes about three hours for me to stop feeling ill.
Yes. I was not diagnosed officially until about 10 years ago, but I believe that I have had what the shrinks classify as major depression since childhood. One does not 'come through it'. This is how our brains are wired. In my case I am a left-handed artistic-creative personality type who has an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the bell curve. Part of that package is usually a predisposition toward severe depression, as well as other things. That is why so many artists, actors, writers, etc are to some degree crazy and self destruct. The best that most of us can hope for is to understand the condition and learn to live with it, in the way that one might learn to live with a big black dog who had a less-than-friendly disposition. In my case, it is controlled by 45mg a day of a drug called Avanza, which is a fairly high dose of that particular anti-depressant. That dose is just enough to stop me reciting Hamlet's soliloquy while fondling my Colt 1911. If it was just me I would not give a damn, but I am still responsible for my three children. Do not, under any circumstances, take anything from the valium family that a doctor may want to prescribe. The latest research shows that regular use of diazepam increases the rate of dementia by 400 per cent. Pedro, if you are wrestling with the black dog, get a referral to a psychiatrist and start reading some of the medical literature. Understanding the condition goes a long way to learning to control it and live with it. I am of the view that depression is not an illness to be cured, or treated. I have found that it gives me a more realistic perspective on things. So-called normal people have an irrational Pollyanna view of the world that irritates the hell out of me. I define optimism as an irrational hope that events will play out in your favour simply by hoping and expecting that they will. It is a bit like planning your financial future based on a lottery ticket. Still, these fools are supposed to be 'normal' and 'sane'. Pffft!
I have not forgiven Channel 10 for dropping the Jerry Springer Show. I refuse to pay to watch television, so I have not seen it since it moved to Foxtel.
Channel 9 has bought some time by converting debt into equity, but today Channel 10 has announced a loss and a plan to ask staff to put up their hands for voluntary redundancies. In the current job market . . . good luck with that plan. I say that inside a month the voluntary redundancies will become large-scale sackings.
Not many single white women in Alice Springs. I think that is a major part of his problem. Someone would have to pay me a hell of a lot of money before I would consider living in Alice Springs. The gender imbalance there is at least as bad as where I spent my first 21 years (Townsville).
Alan Bond also built a good university here on the Gold Coast. Bond University degrees are full fee (an education degree is about $150,000 and a medical degree is about $400,000). Bond is regarded to be among the best universities in the world. The problem with Bond's purchase of Channel 9 was that he paid way too much for the business. There was no way that the business could service the debt incurred when Bond borrowed billions of buy it. Bond and his bean counters should have known that.
Probably has a lot to do with where you live. On another subject, I was wondering why you put a singular possessive apostrophe after the word Australian in the title of the thread? It does not make sense.
Despite a lot of 'he said, she said' claims made about Lance Armstrong, the fact remains that he has been subjected to hundreds of drug tests and not one of them returned a positive result. I would want a lot more than the claims for former associates to condemn a man who has passed every single test to which he has been subjected.
I am certain that it was Channel 7. I say fools because they paid a gazillion dollars for the rights. Channel 9 was there, but not in the venues. It was a weird outside-the-venue coverage. See;
Easy. The purchaser paid $4 billion for the business, which was borrowed money. The business was not producing enough money to service the debt and provide any sort of return to the investors. Alan Bond made the same mistake when he bought the Nine network from Kerry Packer. At the same time as loading the business up with an unpayable debt, the Australian economy began to collapse . . . so advertising revenue has been plummeting toward the bottom of the graph for the past four years. The new owners of Nine were caught between a debt that they could not service and falling revenue. Something had to give. They have essentially signed over the business to the lenders. Such is life. Goes to show that there can be farkwits on mahogony row, as well as down in the cheap seats with the peasants.
I would like to introduce readers of this thread to an artist who calls himself Voltaire. He is not my absolute favourite, but he is toward the top of the list. The following links are worth a few minutes of your life.
No payphones. No point. The noise (what is called music) is so loud that a telephone would be useless. Not interested in the nightclub princesses. I am too bloody old anyway. Some of them would be younger than my own daughter.
See a psychiatrist. Seriously. I have had what the psychiatrists call major depression since childhood. It may be that your life simply sucks, but more likely you are clincally depressed, for which there is psychotherapy and drugs.
What they did was a debt for equity swap with the American pension funds that loaned the money to the current owners of Nine to buy the business. Gingell has, in effect, signed over ownership of the network from the purchaser to the lender. Something had to happen. It will be interesting to see if Channel 9 continues to pay absurd amounts of money to telecast thugby league and cricket. I would rather watch paint dry that watch either sport.
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RE: Putin´s Famous Words.....A Truthsayer Indeed....
Probably the Russians, because the USA is the puppet of the global financial elite for whom the word evil is not descriptive enough.I like Americans in general, but most have no idea who is really running their country and how the USA has been used by the global financial elite since Woodrow Wilson pretty much handed control of the US Government to them in 1913.