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Fay's avatar

Good to hear from you Richard and I see you are still keeping everyone on their toes by not allowing anyone to get away with what ever they want to say without some substantial evidence.

All the best. I look forward to future updates.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Incoming on London where cash payments are rejected 9 times out of 10.

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Stephen Simac's avatar

I like your long forms, and posting less frequently than some of my subscriptions. Can't keep up with them. Canned sunshine was a hot item in Ft. Lauderdale's beachfront t-shirt shops when I was wandering in for the airconditioning, labeled with an underage girl having her bathing suit bottom snatched off by an alligator. It wasn't a sanitary item.

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Richard Seager's avatar

That advertisement image is a very familiar one, pressed into my memory as well.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

The good old English 'mother country '.

Looking forward to hearing about Russia, and not expecting woke!

You might not want to leave.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Not sure that I'm going to Russia. But off to Europe in the next few days.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Are NZers even welcome in Russia.

Given that the NZ government is working against Russia.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Australians seem less welcome. So I think I will try as a NZr.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Visiting the US I took to saying that I was an Aussie as it was tedious hearing how lovely NZ was and having to get enthralled about Lord of the Rings all the time over a casual encounter.

Ah, the good old days.

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Richard Seager's avatar

It would be interesting, if I can get past the barriers, to find out what people actually think there. In my experience previously Putin is far from liked.

Zelensky had to be talked out of bombing the Russian Crimea & Moscow by the Americans apparently. Although the terminology used in the Indian story that I read was that the Americans thought that the timing was not right, not that the idea was wrong.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

This is serious stuff, so why does it make me snort.

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Richard Seager's avatar

The corporate retailers of the UK are leading the charge to WEF dystopia. I was going to attend two other 'sustainable' talks today but I got tired of it.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Yep, all that public private partnership form of neofascism.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

I get your point; that an aspect of the depop is getting rid of NZers to Oz.

Nice to know that we are secure in being Godzone.

Very true about Jabcinda being useless but a reward for previous useful glove puppet.

But I paraphrase you maybe too much.

Excuse me while I read the rest of what you have to say.

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