There are people who splash themselves with cheap benzene derivative perfumes. I stay clear. There are also some cleaners and detergents laced with artificial fragrances like "pine mountains" and "fresh sea breeze"... I stay clear as well — and use water and ordinary turps. Lovely. It reminds me I have to go and paint another masterpiece...

In petrol products, some smells and colours are added in order to make them distinguishable. These are the killers, often used by poor kids who "sniff petrol". Avgas has none of those and does not create a "high" when inhaled. Some people are more sensitive to what has been defined as the modern environment, full of stuff we don't know the effects of...

Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that the November election might be tainted by fraud if mail-in balloting is used widely as part of moves to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.

a lion in a cage...

Many people blame Donald Trump for the end of traditional liberalism. And they are right. Yet, our moral compass has been out of kilter for a long time, if we had one in the first place anyway.

Recently, our hypocritical superiority has taken a torpedo in the Covid19 backside. But the change started in 2016, when Hillary — the warrior woman — lost to an idiot. We had to become a bit more humble.

Trump isn't the guilty party, here. Since the end of WW2, instead of a league of nations working together, we've had a one sided view of a fake-currency indebted empire which, as we're seeing at the moment, is becoming short-lived because it has been short-sighted all along: us-good, them-bad.

Written not in honour of, but in deepest respect for tonight's closure of the SA/Vic border to even SA residents.
Has to be done, as did the song rewrite!

South of the border, down Warrnambool way

There's a girl I like to see who drinks at the Lady Bay

The radio told me, I can no longer play

South of the Border, down Warrnambool Way

Ch:  And she sighed as she whispered "Corona"

never knowing how soon I could travel

And I lied as I said that I'd phone her
for my mind had begun to unravel

South of the Border, down Warrnambool way

The director of the World Health Organization has warned that we can never go back to normal after the coronavirus outbreak that has killed approximately 650,000 worldwide. But every year the normal flu kills about that many...so why the lockdowns and forced masks and destruction of the economy for this one? What is the real agenda behind this mass hysteria? Also today - as the Sun Belt "spike" continues to fade, what will be the next tyrant move to terrify - and terrorize - the population? Cuomo's attack on chicken wings. Watch today's Liberty Report...

After President Trump stated his desire to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Germany and South Korea, the bipartisan war party sprang into action.

Spain is fighting to save its embattled tourism industry after the UK government imposed a 14-day quarantine on all arrivals from the country.

In September, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, rattled off terrifying statistics about the warming planet from the storied National Press Club, two blocks from the White House. Then he said he had something exciting to announce.

Several countries, including the US and the UK, have proposed measures to protect Hong Kong residents fleeing potential political persecution from China’s new national-security law.

China passed the new legislation this week, which criminalizes what it deems secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with a foreign country.

Hong Kong police have already arrested at least ten people suspected of violating the law.

Activists have called the enaction of the law the “end of Hong Kong that the world knew before” and “the greatest threat to human rights in the city’s recent history.”

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“The biggest deficit since World War II” was the important phrase repeatedly linked to Josh Frydenberg’s economic update on Thursday.