That Damn Squeaky Albo is now our PM

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"The human brain can infer one’s own and other individuals’ mental states through metacognition and mentalizing, respectively. A new study in PLOS Biology has implicated distinct brain regions of the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) in metacognition and mentalizing..."

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Down & Dirty Downunder: Election 2022

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"The Liberal Party has tended to avoid worrying the electorate with actual policies, focusing instead on proving the truth of the observation from H.L. Mencken to the effect that ‘the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.’ "

I stopped watching televised news after the 2019 federal election. I just use the TV screen to watch Netflix or DVDs now. For the 2022 election I have avoided most “news” reports about it and have just dabbled here and there on social media and independent online news sites. So much better for my blood pressure!

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Election 2022: Aussies come up for air

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That’s it. Done, dusted and exhausted. My bottle of Proper Twelve Irish whiskey is empty and the worst, most corrupt, cruel and duplicitous prime minister and Australian government in history has been roundly crushed and routed.

It feels less of an historic victory than a return to basic human decency.

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Is there a Solution for the mess in Ukraine?

The wanton destruction and killing by Putin's armies in the Ukraine has shocked the civilised world. Here in Europe we believed this type of thing was all in the past. But now, sights we thought beyond the pale are being re-enacted like it was that Georgian beast Stalin storming into Eastern Europe back in 1945. What a nightmare!

We all want this war to stop, but how?

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Oz Election 2022. Polls say the race is tightening, and ScoMo can still win!

Yes, that's right you latte sippers. It seems the more the Aussie voter sees of 'Albo', the less they like him. And why not; he is just another labor hack that want to raise taxes and waste money on the 'luvvies' favorite causes...

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