"Pauline Hanson has found out about it is going to pay for the operation"

Talk about political grandstanding, The Lovely Pauline should also ditch her poison politics. BTW Hanson will "pay" for it with her taxpayer funded allowance. Far right extremists, like some here who support One Nation style politics, are rioting in Britain, their violence knows no bounds, attacking everyone in sight, disgusting! Be careful there are far right extremists who would unleash the same kind of hate violence here, given half a chance!

Hi Fester,
Maybe I went a little too far with some of the Jewish criticism, and I'm sorry if I caused any offense but I'm not wrong about the Wests MO of overthrowing countries, which by chance is mainly done by a group of Pro-Israel neoconservatives.

Hi Paul,
"Talk about political grandstanding, The Lovely Pauline should also ditch her poison politics. BTW Hanson will "pay" for it with her taxpayer funded allowance."

That's probably a little harsh, but maybe not altogether unfair.
Did I tell you that every now and again I watch pet rescue videos.
Even though I know some people do it for the money they make of youtube, I don't really care.
What matters is that the animals get the care they need.

Just because we have political biases doesn't mean we should kick them when they do something good.
We should recognise good, wherever it is and from whoever it comes from.
It doesn't have to mean Pauline's great, but it does mean that she did a good thing, regardless of her motives and I'm glad for the person involved that she did.

Hi Foxy,
Why are you so concerned about Russia?

- Elephant in the room -

Israel is committing genocide and the U.S. provides the weapons.
What about guilt by association?

If someone goes and shoots up a group of people, then gets away and goes back to an ammunition supplier and the ammunition supplier knows full well what they've done, and then willfully provide more bullets so they can go back out and have another go, then isn't that ammunition supplier equally guilty of committing the terrorist acts?
Guilt by association?

Doesn't that mean the U.S. is equally guilty of genocide?

Hi Paul,
Looks like the breakout of civil war in England.

British patriots have lynched one black man and are attacking middle eastern businesses.
Muslim immigrants have been hunting British patriots with knives, hammers, acid and axes.
Police are overwhelmed.

There goes the great multicultural project.
Was it not inevitable?

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« Can Russia Ever Become a Democracy ? »

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Of course it can, but its current autocratic rulers will not cede power peacefully. They will fight to the end – and who will replace them ? Other autocratic rulers ?

Putin is doing everything he can to sow the seeds of autocracy in the minds of Russia’s children. Will he succeed ? Probably.

Why should Russia become a democracy anyway ? Is democracy better for Russian citizens than autocracy ? That is something for the Russian citizens to decide.

I wish them well - but I'm glad I'm not in their shoes.

The question I find more preoccupying is “Can the United States become an autocracy ?”

Again, I reply, “Of course it can”. The Economist demoted the US from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy” in 2016. It has been a “flawed democracy” for the past 8 years.

Most voters believe the government is led by people who do not act in their best interests. Just 40% of moderates say that there is a party in America that represents their opinions.

America’s score is weighed down by mistrust of elected officials and perceptions of corruption. The same survey by Pew Research found that more than 80% of respondents believed that most political figures “don’t care” about “what people like me think”.

I find Trump’s refusal to accept the democratic result of the presidential election of 2020 preoccupying, to say the least. He has already warned that he will install dictatorial rule immediately “for the first year of his term” if he is re-elected in 2024.

In any event, it seems More than likely, that the US will remain a “flawed democracy”, irrespective of who is elected.

No signs of the trend being reversed.

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Hi Banjo Patterson,
I read or saw yesterday that Trump has openly stated he plans retribution against those who have been acting against him.
The lone-wolf assassination attempt also has some questions over it, like whether it was a Lee Harvey Oswald JFK type scenario.
- There may be more attempts on his life before November.