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Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the Social Democrats party might be heading for one of the most catastrophic elections since the 1940’s, losing foothold in cities unimaginable only 2-3 years ago. The party’s left-wing politics has been stronger in Sweden than in almost any other country since its parliamentary-democratic breakthrough in 1917, but now the era of the left might be coming to an end. Throughout the summer, a spectacular rise in support for far-right Sweden Democrats has seen the party gaining ground with their eurosceptic and anti-immigration policies.
My BIL lives in Sweden and what this article says, and all the others, are in his words 'Fake News'. Swedes are not against immigration. The reality is that Swedes have had enough of bad immigrants who are committing so much crime and social disharmony, and they have had enough of a Government that refuses to do anything about it because of left-wing PC lunacy, and they have had a gutful of the EU demanding that they take more and more of them, and they see what has happened in the UK and they want out of the EU too. How many Swedes will rise up and vote for change, we will see in a few hours - hopefully it is enough to 'take Sweden back'.
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10 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:
Singapore, or if really really have money central Tokyo
Winner!! Singapore by a mile. Japan is great, but there is very little 'farang' options and the culture is very 'singular' - best place to visit, but not best to live without a Japanese wife/GF.
There aint no better option in Asia when it comes to a high standard of living, law and order, banking system, medical system, food (being OK to eat), restaurants, transport (including the roads and airports themselves), entertainment, building construction, weather, legal rights, land and property ownership is similar to Thailand but you can get residency in a few years and citizenship is possible (dual citizenship allowed), and I could go on and on.
English is the official language of Singapore. Plus, it is a genuine 'hub' for airline transport and from there you can go anywhere in asia in a short time.
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Making America Great again - yeehaa !! As someone that worked in IT for many eyars, I can assure you the ONLY reason they all moved to China, Taiwan etc etc was that the swamp let them. It was all about profits for the rich and the shareholders - not a thought about all the jobs lost. The same thing why call centres all went to India etc. Profits. And all fully supported by those mentioned before, who had 'created' the term Global Economy. Meanwhile slave labour in China was abused and nil working conditions or rights were allowed. And China also manipulated its currency to keep it low and make its exports cheaper. Trump is correcting what was not only bad for the American workers, but was bad for Chinese workers, and was (and still is) a deliberate manipulation of the currency system.
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On 9/4/2018 at 8:46 PM, faranglopburi said:
Sorry to change the subject but I'm curious what do expats do for medical coverage while on a spouse visa? I don't suppose farangs can join the Thai "gold card" scheme, so I'm assuming you take out some sort of insurance? Is it a policy from a company based in Thailand or Aus?
Travel Insurance provides emergency medical coverage, and can include medical repatriation back to Aus if required. I use it for both wife and myself when visiting Thailand. You can get the policy for a few weeks or up to 18 months (depending on the company). I always get the level with bugger all travel related things, like baggage and cancelled flights etc., but the level that covers serious medical (inc repatriation), and liability insurance (in case you are sued for damaging something/someone). It is a 'once off' deal for things like car accidents etc. and it does not cover minor issues - hospital admisions only.
Many companies provide it in Aust and they are all covered under Aust laws, so get it from a reputable Aust company as soon as you have booked your flights. If you are going to do it every year, then I suggest you use the same company each time and become a regular 'valued' customer. I pay about $200 for 1-2 months each visit. I use Woolworths Travel Insurance.
Only downside that I have heard about travel insurance is that some hospitals in Thailand might not accept the insurance company as valid and may require you to pay - because the company isnt a recognised medical insurance organisation. I have never had to use it so I am not certain if that is the case. I have enough in savings back in Aus, so if it was required that I pay first and then get refund when back in Aus, then I am OK.
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Because of all this 'media negativity' about Pensions and Super, it is great that both the main political Parties will now be ‘pitching’ their elections at trying to get the aged vote (55+). It has been a long time since the Libs gave a rat’s rear about the older generation who dont have $1M+ in Super, plus a rental property (or 2+) that they negatively geared for 20+ years. Labor will now be offering ‘sweeties’ to get more of us to ‘convert’ and to vote for them, and making great capital of the fact that it was them that rejected the Pension going out to 70. The Liberals (having now recognised that we are pee’d off) will be offering more ‘incentives’ to try to hang on to what has been for a long time, their base supporting voters. All good.
Which brings me to the main point of my post, and that is the views previously by some TV members that the Age Pension and associated benefits should not be seen as a ‘right’ or an ‘entitlement’ paid for by working and paying taxes. That view is wrong - I always knew it was wrong, and so I did some research to prove that it is wrong. The Age Pension in Aust and the associated benefits, is a ‘right’ - paid for through income taxes – fact.
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Lived in CM for nearly 4 years - I found the smoke/smog much worse than the food - never got true 'poisoning' and only a couple of 'runs'.
Good advice given by others. I would add never eat seafood or any fish type food from a stall/market, and never eat in a restaurant that is empty - only go where there are lots of people and look for places where there are other 'farangs' (who are not tourists). Never drink/use tap water and only buy your water from shops like 7/11 or Makro - and never let them put ice in your beer (it is standard - they dont know). Try to make sure any meats in stalls are very well cooked, and anything boiled in hot water is good (except seafoods). Be very careful of under cooked meat in many places - ask them to cook it for a bit longer and they will no problem. When you are first there I suggest you take it easy with the Thai food and eat it slowly - no big or too spicy Thai meals - let your system get used to it for a few months.
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9 hours ago, Old Croc said:
I guess Morrison will say anything over the next few months in an attempt to win the unwinnable. It remains to be seen what his actual policies would be if the impossible happens and he wins office.
In opposition, his mates, Abbott and Hockey, also made big promises to sway the vote. Promises thrown by the wayside in their first budget which was designed to reward their backers on the big side of town and put the little man down.
How soon people forget the "Budget from Hell" from the same cartel.
'Snowflake in Hell' I would say for the chances of Libs winning. But stranger things have happened - Keating somehow got re-elected :)
Big issue that Pollies say one thing to get elected, and then dont do what they said (except Trump). I can remember many years ago after Howard's 'core and non'core' change of heart, discussing whether a High Court challenge challenge could be successful based on false and misleading statements under the Electoral Laws of Australia. Consensus was that you would have to be able to show that they deliberately lied in order to get elected, knowing that they would never implement the policies being 'advertised'. Still, after many years of Pollie lies and doing one thing in election mode, and another in Govt mode, it could be claimed that past history shows this to be now a standard practice, and the onus should be on the Govt to prove they could not implement their promises, and showing that the reasons why they chose not to were valid. Wish I knew a retired QC like Daryl did (The Castle).
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Whenever you are first at a green light, look both ways (particularly right) before proceeding.
I started doing this in Aus many years ago and a couple of times I was glad I did.
Doing it in Thailand I was very glad I did it, many many times.
No excuse for the truck driver as he is an idiot/a''ole, but if you assume that this will happen at every intersection, then you are ready to stop when you spot one.
I can remember once hitting the brakes for a kid on a scooter going way over the limit - feels good to have 'saved' someone's life - probably not for long though.
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I could answer the liberals questioning the facts with their rhetoric and personal insults, but I will not waste my time and state the obvious:
Guns dont kill - people kill.
Trucks dont kill - people kill.
Knives dont kill - people kill.
etc etc etc etc
The problem is not guns, the problem is people.
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Search posts on TV - there are many covering each of your questions and they all have been answered already.
Visa - get that sorted before you do anything.
Dont buy until you get old and decide to settle someone forever - always rent as that allows you to move easily (many reasons - all in the posts).
Search, Research and Read.
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If anyone wants to know what young stupid 'university educated' liberals look like, view these pictures.
Once they get back home they will undoubtedly become SJWs, and some might even progress to Antifa.
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There has been a few online sports and movies IPTV mobs shut down in Thailand over the last year, most notably sport365. May I suggest you get in contact with the owners/receivers. I am sure they will have a lot of spare server cabinets lying around. ?
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9 minutes ago, simple1 said:Reasons / opinions whatever, you will reject them anyway so why bother.
I stopped reading at 'why bother' - you sound like my teenage daughter when she was going through 'that' phase.
Lets agree to not bother each other anymore.
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33 minutes ago, candide said:
So in the same reply you criticize rethorical arguments and make yourself a purely rethorical statement. Lol.
A few facts:
- First, it depends on the country of origin:
"According to estimates by the German Agency for Labor from early 2016, less than half of the current refugees from Afghanistan, for instance, had more than elementary education, 27 percent did not have any form of formal schooling at all......Refugees from Syria are, by comparison, much better educated. More than 50 percent of Syrian refugees had at least secondary schooling, and 27 percent had some form of tertiary education, if not necessarily a degree."
- On average the level of education is not bad:
"In general, about one fifth of all current refugees from the top sending countries are estimated to have attended a higher education institution, and approximately two thirds have attended secondary school"
https://wenr.wes.org/2017/05/lessons-germanys-refugee-crisis-integration-costs-benefits
I have a new title for this 'liberal consultant' report: "My unicorn and why it is a good thing".
Looks good until you read this: "Much of these projected benefits will depend on the speed and success of integration efforts, and more work is needed."
That is Liberal speak for: 'My unicorn needs more food, so give me more money to feed it. LOL ?
As usual the whole report is not a document based on factual and impartial analysis, it is all about defining what benefits one can have from owning a unicorn.
That unicorns do not exist, and there is no factual evidence to give rise to that claim, is always excluded by liberals in their pursuit of their ideal utopian outcome.
This was noted in the report (no analysis of why of course): "While it is unlikely that Germany will close its doors to refugees anytime soon, the open-door policy of 2015 was a historical exception that has given way to a more cautionary approach."
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10 hours ago, simple1 said:I have given my reasons, you reject them. Why do I push back on those calling the hard right 'patriots' and other nonsense, my complete rejection of hard right ideology.
You are Australian, why are you not listening to our national security, plus other Western governments not dominated by hard right populist ideology, professionals who clearly state hard right divisive social media does not assist against Islamist extremism, criminality and so on.
Have you ever thought about why so many on this forum have attempted to excuse the behaviour of
far right demonstrators in the OP, use the language of the far right, keep liking each others all encompassing vilification posts and then deny they are enablers - LOL
You have not given any reasons.
You have given opinions (and emotional criticisms).
There are none so blind ............. but thankfully, and every day, more liberals do get woke and they #walkaway.
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The facts of an issue being complained about, and the truth of a subject being raised, are completely irrelevant to who is making the complaint or raising the issue.
Liberals extremists will dispute anything a 'conservative' or 'far right' person says or does - as observed in Germany - whether the facts back it, or the truth supports it.
That is the quintessential difference between those liberals that have #walkedaway from liberal dogma, and those that remain emotional and irrational.
It doesn't mean they become conservatives, it means they think each issue for themselves and make their own opinions - such as the immigration problems in Germany.
Extremist liberals 'demand' that anything critical of their dogma is denounced as the views of a Nazi (a far right white supremacist) - as they portray the German protesters to be.
They portray them as this 'label' in order to justify their own intellectual dogma and to 'prove' that what they said/did is wrong.
They play the man, and not the ball - they think emotionally and they allow those emotions to be 'directed' by other liberals (especially academics).
To give a clear example of that extremist liberal views stopping them from making rational decisions:
The Nazi Government in Germany was not all bad.
Liberal extremists just imploded - by I ask them to read below and to #walkaway.
The Nazi Government in Germany was truly evil and had to be destroyed. But they were also the first Government in the world to introduce Laws that protected the environment (National Parks) and the first to make Laws that provided animal rights (Making Cruelty/Killing Illegal). Not everything they did was evil - most was - but not all.
As I stated above - it does not matter who is saying it or who is doing it - what matters are the facts and the truth - case by case, issue by issue.
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12 hours ago, simple1 said:Get over yourself with relentless denials / deflections. Your & others similar posts are classic copy and paste of far right / right of centre / alt right rhetoric. Not claiming you have, but in some cases on TV going as far as applauding deaths at sea of asylum seekers, invoking genocide of Muslims and so on, Mutual 'liking' of OTT anti Muslim / asylum seeker content etc i.e. today's far right propaganda which does include generalised vicious anti migrant content. Numerous examples of far right propaganda in this topic from the same members who post vilification posts of all Muslims, yet, except for a one or two, always deny the origin of their content.
Getting back to the OP, German Police are now seeking some of the far demonstrators for illegal activity i.e. Nazi salutes. Plus many used Nazi era slogans. Not claiming all were active neo-Nazis, but obviously mixing in the same cesspit.
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Try again - instead of abusing myself and stating that what I wrote is wrong, try something different.
Try writing down clearly (articulate) the reasons and the rationale behind your opinions.
Give me (and everyone) everyone some logical reasons for your viewpoint.
The reason you did not do that is provided in my previous response to you - irrational liberal emotions dominate your thinking.
Have a close read and see that I have not 'demanded' that you agree with me/conservatives.
I have merely asked you to think for yourself and to articulate those thoughts and reasons, in order to defend your opinions.
I say again it again - think for yourself and #walkaway from the liberal 'mantra' you follow - walk your own path.
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51 minutes ago, simple1 said:Again look at current definitions of 'far right". Some members commentary precisely, including yours, fall under the definition/s. Accusing me of supporting 'fake immigrants' is a complete lie.
You are using the same tactics you accuse people of using who reject your politics, from the left (which I am not) and so on i.e. attempting to stifle / censor their opinions - time for you to wake up, as well as cease making false accusations against members.
Listen to what you said Simple One - "look at current definitions of 'far right" "commentary precisely, including yours, fall under the definition/s"
You are completely locked into the belief that whatever a liberal academic defines as something, is that something.
Reality - because a liberal academic says something or defines something, does not make it so simple one.
Reality - because you can quote what an academic wrote, does not mean that you or the academic are correct simple one.
You are wrong to use the views of academics as any sort of factual evidence that your own correlating views are therefore correct.
If you cannot defend your own opinions with your own articulated and reasoned thoughts, then your views are invalid - typically this means they are based on emotions and not reasons.
There is still time for you simple one, all you have to do is assess the facts impassionately and impartially, and then form your own views and opinions.
As the twitter trending statement of the month/year says: #walkaway Get wise to the liberal hypocrisy and unreasoned views and get #woke and #walkaway
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This is probably as good a time and place as anywhere to speak about what the liberals are trying to stop people talking about.
This issue of people protesting in the streets in Germany against the apparent and real culture clash that is occuring all over Europe is not as simple a 'racist' issue as liberals believe.
As someone that has been around a long time, I am well aware of the inherent distrust (racist) views of those people living in a country towards those people who come to that country.
I copped a bit of that 'grief' as a Pommie Bast^^^d when we migrated to Australia as a young boy.
Then it was myself and others who gave that the the Greeks and Italians and Lebanese when those waves arrived.
But I was impartial when that grief was then later given to the Vietnamese and Cambodians and other Asians when that wave arrived.
The reason was that I had come to learn that these 'different' cultures actually added to Australias cultures, and although some adults resisted, their children became 'Aussies'.
The truth became very clear to me as the children of the immigrants (like mine) became full on Aussies.
It was to varying degress, but overall each wave 'integrated' and 'changed' Aussie culture - and although aware of their past and customs, their children became more Aussie than not.
We even had shows like WogBoy and My Greek Wedding where we ridiculed and laughed at the inflexible differences of the parents on both sides.
However, I have seen another wave of immigration that has not undertaken this change, and much of that wave has made very little progress at 'integration'.
And it is not a wave of people from a different culture/country, it is a wave from a different religion - Islam.
Aside from some certain countries, the majority of the children and their children's children are refusing to to integrate or adjust to western culture and values.
This is creating a huge discontent - on both sides - and it is the heart of the problem - the absolute refusal to accept western culture, values and rules/laws.
This then goes to the next level when many demand to be able to live in enclaves where western rules and laws do not apply - causing even further discontent.
And no matter how bad it became in the past between any of the waves of immigrants to the west and the 'locals', none of them committed acts of terrorism against innocent locals.
And none of them demanded the locals change their laws and rules to accomodate their different religiously based social, family and society values.
And none of them actively preached to their own people that the west was decendant and evil and should be 'changed'.
And I cannot remember the mayor of any wave changing things because it offended that wave's values (London Mayor banning pictures of girls in bikinis).
But it is not from all countries that the people of this religion are unaccepting of the 'live and let live' mantra and are completely unwilling to adjust.
People of certain countries that do hold that religion are actually adjusting and integrating - such as from Pakistan - as they share some common understandings (eg. cricket).
But most of this wave is coming from countries that do not hold those understandings, and they refuse to adjust and integrate, and their children and their children never will.
That is the core of the problem - immigration is about leaving the values of another country and embracing and accepting (as much as possible) the values of the new one.
That is what all the previous waves of immigration to the west did eventually - all to different levels and all over different times/generations - but they all do it eventually.
This integrationa and adjustment is not possible for most of this wave of immigrants to the west, as they see their country, their culture and their religion as the same thing.
We in the west have seperated Church and State and Laws - but the current wave of people immigrating to the west have not and will not make such a seperation.
The truth is we are expecting too much of them to do that, and they are more and more resenting being expected to do that, and some are becoming more radical.
They actively and forcefully impose their religious values upon their families and children, as was done to themselves - it is the way the religion works - it encompasses all things.
This is the reality that most liberals refuse to acknowledge - they see all negatives and complaints as racist - they cannot see the difference.
They cannot see that most of this wave of 'religious immigrants' will not (and cannot) undertake the same change that previous immigration waves did.
And it is foolish to expect the locals to continually accept this patiently and wait for them to adjust and to change and to accept their values.
The reality is that this is not the same as was the case with immigrants in the past - many years and several generations have shown this to be the truth.
And history has shown this to be the truth too.
Does anyone really think that the Asian peoples in Indonesia and Malaysia 'naturally' changed to another religion - they were 'converted'.
Does anyone really believe that the peoples of Indonesia and Malaysia within a few hundred years gave up a religion that was in place for over 2000 years.
Does anyone know of a country that has been 'taken over' by Islam that has then changed to another religion 'naturally' - it has never happened - they have to be driven out.
Whilst the left wing liberals are happy to accept these ongoing and growing problems as merely 'teething issues, more and more people are not.
More and more people are beginning to see that immigration needs to be controlled and all applicants vetted to ensure they are 'compatible'.
At what point do you think that the Muslim immigrants to Malaysia (and then Indonesia) were of enough numbers to 'convert' the country - 40%? 50%? 60%?
That is what Germans and others are protesting about - that is the core of their fears - that their culture and society will go the way of Malysia and Indonesia.
There is enough remaining in European memories to remember that this is what happened to Italy and Spain - until the Muslims were driven out.
They fear that most Muslims cannot peacefully coexist with other cultures, and that once they get to a certain percentage they will attempt to take over.
What happened in India when the Muslims and the Hindus/Sikhs formed their own countries (India and Pakistan) is what many people fear in Europe.
Shutting down those expressions of fear as being xenophobic and using PC pressure is no longer working - social media is allowing people to speak out.
The people of Europe and the west want to see concrete and real solutions to this growing problem - they are refusing to be 'shut down' anymore.
Unless the western Govts of today acknowledge the issue and address it with real solutions, then the 'real' far right will take advantage and continue to drive violence and change.
Far better it would be for the western Govts to address the 'elephant in the room' before it gets seriously out of hand - vigilantees will be just the beginning otherwise.
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45 minutes ago, simple1 said:No misunderstanding by me. To quote from your reference point...
Markus Frohnmaier said: "If the state is no longer to protect citizens then people take to the streets and protect themselves. It's as simple as that!"
Poland an example of good governance - <deleted>
You are yet another liberal apologist for fake immigrants who are causing concerns all over Europe (that let them in).
And you really should wake up to this reality before your deranged statements get taken too far.
All over Europe there is a massive swing to 'the right' politically - it is happening and trying to insult people by calling them 'far right' etc is not working.
And all attempts by liberal acadenmics and their sycophants to claim that this is only neo-Nazi white supremisists is failing.
Those attempts to use PC to shut down the negative comments (and views of people) are failing because the truth is clear - to those that live there or have relatives there.
There are 'far right' Naxi supremisists who will try tand take advantage of this move, but the vast majority of us do not hold with their racist Nazi views.
Likewise there are 'far left Communists who will take advantage of any social welfare views, but the majority of left wing supporters do not want Communism.
Today is Tuesday - and just because a racist nazi white supremist says that it is Tuesday, does not mean that it is wrong.
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Far right? Or just ordinary Germans sick and tired of being attacked by Merkel's welcomed immigrants?
Same thing is happening all over Europe, where ever these people were allowed to enter en-mass.
No protests in Poland.
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Of all the mass muders committed in the USA, not one was committed by an NRA member.
More proof that responsible gun owners and their guns are not the problem.
And in answer to all those who use a fish as a yardstick to measure a piece of wood.
UK and England have not had gun ownership rights for over 200 years.
Simply changing the laws (like in Aus and UK) will not solve the problem.
Otherwise there would be no shootings/killings in Chicago or Mexico - guns are illegal in both those places (and many others).
Pandora's box was opened in the USA many years ago - closing it now wont change things.
The horse has bolted
The milk has been spilt
That ship has sailed
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
The cat's out of the bag
You can't put the genie back in the bottle
The 'solution' is to reduce the rights to ownership.
Calling for a total removal of the right to own a gun in USA is 'failing to see the forest'.
And it wont remove the 265+ million guns in civilian hands already.
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Funny isnt it. Someone kills an animal and they are 'bad. But when someone kills someone else the gun is 'bad'. Progressive hypocrisy.
Terrorist attacks killing many people with trucks has not resulted in the calling for trucks to be banned.
The reality is that the problem is not guns, it is the mental state of some people and their ability to get a gun.
There needs to be a far greater and a proactive assessment of people with mental problems. If I think someone is a 'nutter' then how can I report them for assessment, like it was done up until the 60s/70s. The answer is that I cannot, and to do so is 'discrimination' and a breach of their ''human rights. Progressives in the 80s changed the system and got rid of the ability for society to protect itself from mentally damaged people who might kill others (with gun or whatever). Sure, there were some that were unfairly locked up. That is the price for being a safer society.
And that is the main reason for so many gun attacks nowadays. Period. The other is terrorism - seperate issue.
The persons that do it are always mentally 'damaged', but if other people knew it, they couldnt do a thing about it.
Switzerland has very open gun laws, but that is 'backed' by very strict mental health laws - very very few such killings occur there.
And the UN says the Swiss laws are a breach of a persons' human rights, because you cant prove that they will kill other people.
Which is true, so the Swiss lock up/detain anyone that might kill other people - and monitor them if/when released - and ignore the liberals in UN.
And they ban anyone who may be mewntally damaged from owning a gun, and they severely punish anyone who sells or gives such a person a gun - and charges them with manslaughter if they do kill someone.
The problem is some people being able to get a gun, not every person and not every gun.
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Morrison probably wont call an early election - he knows the mood is to change. He might even convince Turnbull (he is an ally) to not resign until the next election, so that he can take the time to try and build up his stocks with the people. But then again, with Abbott waiting in the wings like a vulture ready to pounce and destabilise him, maybe he will try to clear the air by calling an election early. Either way the Aussie dollar is crashing again and the ASX will take a hit if Labor is elected - tough times ahead for expats.
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What is this bug? How to get rid of them?
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Get some Geckos - they will eat them up pronto.