And I just downloaded and installed free version of Panda Dome Antivirus, hope Panda people know the difference. In passing bill gates is still at it, Spybot upgrade wouldn't install, nor would Bitdefender, Kaspersky and others I tried, but the Spaniards program seems to be working Ok. Wanted an Antivirus program to support Malwarebytes which does a good job but can't really defend its self.
Sounded like they might invite Donald to manage Britain's economy !! American educated (I think) Boris might become Donald's ambassador !!
Perhaps for a change the UK will install an honest person as PM, (that would be different automatically disqualify May & Boris) Britain might signe up to the One Belt Initiative. Hold hands with France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany outside the EU....!!
Federal police raid home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst
AFP officers execute search warrant over 2018 report about new powers for intelligence agencies to spy on Australians
In April 2018 Smethurst reported that the heads of the defence and home affairs ministries had discussed draconian new powers to allow the Australian Signals Directorate to spy on Australian citizens for the first time.
Under the mooted plan, spies would be allowed to secretly access emails, bank accounts and text messages with approval from the defence and home affairs ministers.
Why the raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy
The AFP linked the raid to "the alleged publishing of information classified as an official secret".
This stemmed from Smethurst's 2018 article, which contained images of a "top secret" memo and reported that senior government officials were considering moves to empower the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to covertly monitor Australian citizens for the first time.
there has been an ongoing inquiry for quite a while Think you'll find New Zealand is running one relating to their SAS as well
Key points:
The AFP said there would not be any arrests today ABC managing director David Anderson said the broadcaster "stands by its journalists" and "will protect its sources" An AFP statement said the warrant was not linked to an AFP raid on a Canberra News Corp journalist's home on Tuesday
Australia is member of the Chinese one belt initiative, China is Australia biggest trading partner.
Australia & NZ are both pacific / south east Asian nations, both were dumped by the UK who they had of course trusted and heavily dependent upon. Both countries have been for years trading with Asian nations including of course China.
Malaysia was threatening a Singaporean Island, also recently Widodo told PM Lee to get out of Singapore, so Lee popped over here and spent up big time. Australia has already passed Legislation allowing Singaporeans to setup their business here in the Northern Territory. Russia sold Widodo probably the best fighter jet in the world, China supplied 2250 short sea ships, and is building roads all over the place but still they liealot, China has even tunneled under part of India into Pakistan its all very fluid, yes China controls rare earth, but bigger threat is its quite capable of killing capitalism by flooding the world (again) with free goods
bit like brothers and sisters hehehe, American sanctions forced Russia into bed with China, however Russia also has good relationships with Japan, Vietnam, North Korea and India so until push becomes shove i dunno.
Russia and China share boarders and i really don't know how close that relationship actually is..
I think China was probably the biggest winner from the Iraq war, it gained most from it Kuwait, China sign agreements for $9bn project... The project will secure Kuwait, the world's fourth-largest crude exporter, a solid outlet for its oil, ahead of competitors such as Venezuela, Russia and Qatar, all of which are planning refineries in China.
Kuwait aims to more than double its crude exports to China to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd), versus last year's sales at just under 200,000 bpd.
Taliban have strengthened their grip across the nation. The Kabul government tenuously controls barely more than 50 percent of Afghanistan’s district lithium: India has spent $3 billion in aid in Afghanistan and has massive goodwill in Afghan society—interestingly social media posts by Afghans supporting India in the latest India-Pakistan conflict viral. It has also moved the needle of its aid from civilian to military aid, providing two tranches of military helicopters—a total of eight to be concluded this year. Taliban, Islamic State Make Millions From Mining Afghan Minerals The lapis mines in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan region are a microcosm of a problem that is replicated across the country, where mining is the Taliban’s second biggest source of income.
The Chinese market is also a key driver for Afghanistan’s lapis mining, with the vast majority of lapis being exported to China where it is prized as jewellery. The fact that Chinese lapis sales are funding the Taliban comes in contrast to the Chinese government’s official position as peace-broker on Afghanistan in regional security talks. China has invested in security forces along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan; pumped money into similar structures in Gilgit Baltistan; provided training, funding and equipment to Afghan forces; and has hardened its own direct border with Afghanistan.
Some of the routes of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” – Xi Jinping’s massive infrastructure plan – that cross the Eurasian continent would benefit from transit through Afghanistan. Beijing’s mineral extraction firms view the country’s natural resources with interest.
The lure of Afghanistan as a war-torn Klondike is well established: In 2006, the George W. Bush administration conducted aerial surveys of the country to map its mineral resources. Under President Barack Obama, the Pentagon set up a task force to try to build a mining industry in Afghanistan
From Wikipedia Mining in Afghanistan is controlled by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, which is headquartered in Kabul with regional offices in other parts of the country. Afghanistan has over 1,400 mineral fields, containing barite, chromite, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, natural gas, petroleum, precious and semi-precious stones, salt, sulfur, talc, and zinc, among many other minerals. Gemstones include high-quality emerald, lapis lazuli, red garnet and ruby. According to a joint study by The Pentagon and the United States Geological Survey, Afghanistan has an estimated US$3 trillion of untapped minerals. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world
Afghanistan has abundant non-fuel mineral resources, including both known and potential deposits of a wide variety of minerals ranging from copper, iron, and sulfur to bauxite, lithium, and rare-earth elements. This assortment of rare earth elements includes, clockwise from top, praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium.
The aerial surveys determined that Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan's Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with rare earth elements.
The Afghan government has already signed a 30-year, $3 billion contract with the China Metallurgical Group, a state-owned mining enterprise based in Beijing, to exploit the Mes Aynak copper deposit, and awarded mining rights for the country's biggest iron deposit to a group of Indian state-run and private companies.
A decision to invite a Muslim cleric to say a prayer at an Anzac Day service has sparked an anguished backlash from veterans.
The Returned and Services Association (RSA) branch at Titahi Bay near Wellington has moved the Muslim prayer from its 6am dawn service to its 10am civic ceremony after some veterans said the dawn service should remember only NZ and Australian soldiers who have died in wars.
That is correct the adrenaline spoils the taste of the meat. Father Galrads I confess, as young fella before joining army aged 15 every fortnight i was tasked to kill sheep, slit sheeps throat and today i can still remember the sheep pleading eyes. Once shot pig tasted awful. Often shot rabbits, wild deer and goats. No wonder oh Vietnam worries theee. Chinese shown on TV here the other night stampeding hundreds of pigs into the dark where they fell into a hole e.g. : - Some Chinese pig producers are resorting to mass live burials as authorities struggle to control a deadly pig virus ravaging the world's biggest commercial herd.
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In some Asian countries you can apparently purchase live monkey with its skull hacked open so you can eat live monkey brain, tis Chinese tradition i think...Chinese and Cambodians eat lot of insects to.
Then Japanese prefer Whale Meat and defend there right to choose to eat whale meat instead of sea food, fowl, horse, deer, cows, sheep, camel and goat.
Now I perceive without doubt in my mind Tibetans by deduction they are of course correct all sentient beings (term they use Mother Sentient Beings) have countless times given us birth, fed and protected us. So I for one am F..ked, because taken life has certain consequence leading to ones own death bound up in time. Tis why we should sow seeds for teachings to be available to us in our certain to occur future lives, due to the causes. Make no mistake I mean what I have said friends
of course you realize the land you grow your mango upon was used by Buddhist people many thousands of years before the lunatic persians invaded Afghanistan and all of India but then i suppose you'd also be interested another aspect of human like as i was just listening on our TV regarding the development of a mango picking machine, I couldn't locate a link to the information but did turn up quite lot mango related news
For those interested in Mahayana view that debates using logic and reason: life is beginningless, without end
You cannot find the me the "I" as our psychical form is in a constant flux of change, tiny wee cells are constantly dying, constantly being replaced. In relation to our temporary human form, nothing exists just from its own side. The "I" Ali / Rob is merely label. Emptiness: Emptiness: The Most Misunderstood Word in Buddhism. ... In his book on the Heart Sutra the Dalai Lama calls emptiness “the true nature of things and events,” but in the same passage he warns us “to avoid the misapprehension that emptiness is an absolute reality or an independent truth.” and or
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: We ordinary beings who haven’t realized emptiness don’t see things as similar to illusions. We don’t realize that things are merely labeled by mind and exist by mere name.
Death is often a taboo subject and even those who hold strong beliefs may avoid talking about it. But death was once an integral part of family life. People died at home, surrounded by loved ones. Adults and children experienced death together, mourned together and comforted each other.
Location i spent some years listening to Geshe Tashi Tsering: Extracted from Dying Well, by Geshe Tashi Tsering, Chenrezig Institute, Queensland, transcribed and edited by Tom Vichta from a teaching to the Amitayus Hospice Service, Mullumbimby, NSW, in April 1995.
The Death Process At the time of death, the winds associated with the four elements (earth, water, fire, air) deteriorate, until those elements can no longer act as a basis for consciousness. We are constituted of the five aggregates, the six sense powers and the four elements, and our remaining as beings depends on these twenty factors. At the time of death, these twenty factors undergo deterioration in a series of eight dissolutions. If one is aware of the death process and has studied and practised it, then over the course of this serial dissolution one is simply understanding that now earth is dissolving into water, water into fire and so on, and one is able to follow the process completely without fear.
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Probably not, perhaps you have forgotten the outstanding derivatives, what was it! 74 trillion US$ worth of outstanding debit. floating about your kidding mate!! On the last business day of fiscal year 2018, which was Friday, Sept. 28, UK total debt had grown to $21.516 trillion. Friday was the first day in history the national debt rose above $21.5 trillion.
then have regard to the United States Of America's outstanding navel accomplishments, no other navy in the pays US$9 million per year to run windows XP operating system. No other navy in the world parks its ships in the path of super tankers.....
I use telstra mobile phone network for my internet. I connect my computer via Wi-Fi to the mobile phone network. Pre-paid I purchase AU$150.00 block (50gig) of data that is good for one whole year, though it usually only last me around 3 to 4 months. I get to use what i pay for, its as fast as it 4g gets, i think charged at $1.27 per MB. When, or just before i use it up I purchase another block. I do not have a landline telephone and travel quite a bit so that suits my needs Ali
Four ships 'sabotaged' in the Gulf of Oman amid tensions
Saudi Arabia confirmed that two Saudi oil tankers sustained "significant damage".
Another vessel was Norwegian-registered, whilst the fourth was reportedly UAE-flagged.
The U.S. official said each ship sustained a 5- to 10-foot (1.5- to 3-meter) hole in it, near or just below the water line, suspected to have been caused by explosive charges.
US Air Force F-15s and F-35s, along with B-52 bombers, are now flying visible air patrols over the Persian Gulf
he military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with over 300,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.
The US military is exploring a plan to deploy 120,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran intensify
Farmer up the road showed me his brand new 75 cc chinese chainsaw today, really lovely bit of gear, AU$160.00 delivered to his door. The Yuan otherwise known as Renminbi that's floating about in in trade war giving rise to Donald Ducks plucking. The Renminbi in Foreign Exchange During the command economy, the Chinese Yuan Renminbi was set to unrealistic exchange values and as a result, severe currency guidelines were put in place. When China's economy opened in 1978, the Yuan Renminbi was only used domestically and foreigners used exchange certificates; this led to a powerful black market. From 1997 to 2005, the Chinese government pegged the Chinese Yuan Renminbi to the US Dollar at approximately 8.3 CNY to 1 USD. In 2005, a flexible mechanism of exchange rates was phased in, with the RMB being re-evaluated to 8.1 Renminbi per US dollar. The Chinese government launched a pilot program in 2009, allowing some businesses in Guangdong and Shanghai to execute business and trade transactions with counterparties in Hong Kong, Macau, and select nations. The program has since expanded to all areas of China and all international counterparties. China has also made agreements with Australia, Japan, Thailand, Russia, and Vietnam to allow for direct currency trade, instead of converting to the US Dollar. As a managed float, the Renminbi's value is determined by a basket of foreign currencies.
The only thing the French stuck together in Vietnam was mass murder after the stupid catholic pricks invaded the country. Eisenhower continued the stupid christian attempt to screw the people of Vietnam when the idiot, along with Australian prime minister put together S.E.A.T.O in 1954 and attempted to resettle all the christian converts in north Vietnam in South Vietnam, America shipped thousands of christian Vietnamese into the south and gave the Christians land owned by South Vietnamese Buddhists. TTKSpectr your talking utter rubbish: Buddhism in Vietnam (Ð?o Ph?t or Ph?t Giáo in Vietnamese), as practised by the ethnic Vietnamese, is mainly of the Mahayana tradition. Buddhism may have first come to Vietnam as early as the 3rd or 2nd century BCE from the Indian subcontinent.
Before i studied Mahayana a guy in a pizza shop in Brisbane Hugh, he gave me the book called The Way of Zen, I spent a lot of time reading and putting into practice advice given in it. Like in I spent days contemplating whether a tree in a near by park existed, if it did, in what way did it. That book offers good advice. Friends of the same guy introduced me to numerology, Dave and Sandy a Jewish couple they were right into numerology. I need to correct numerology is not Mahayana practice, but interesting, entertained my mind for quite a long time.
Then I checked out a born again christian group near Nambour in Qld, however I didn't feel comfortable with that.
And finally ended up taking teachings over few years at Chenrezig Institute in Queensland.
During ww2 Tibet and Japan shared time exchanging niceties and that I now understand triggered invasion by Mao Zedong as of course Chinese were not at all happy with the Japanese invasion or there conduct. (to my mind that subject goes to what i mentioned before, Mahayana is a complete form of Buddhism)
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RE: Attraction...
Just opened to program and it certainly looks like they know one end