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I consider myself to have a expanded awareness, a wider point of view, and tend to be an intellectual and analytical thinker. Although I am a socialiser, I am also a bit of a loner.
I am drawn to the mysteries of the very existence of all that is the universe and everything within it.
There is so much to explore, mysteries to solve, to find the irrefutable truth of our universe, planet and our existence yet one life is so short

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What, you never been toasted
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 20, 2022:
definitely not toast he looks fresh
Now you know...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 20, 2022:
cannot beat the logic
Walking around today in the cold weather I found several interesting rocks these 2 were notable.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Amethyst is silicon dioxide with iron and metalic intrusions. It's colour ranges from lavender, violet to dark purple. Amethyst heat treated becomes Citrine Pink Amethyst has only ever been seen by people with colour blindness. A true rarity
Walking around today in the cold weather I found several interesting rocks these 2 were notable.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
The photo identifier is either drunk, stoned or perhaps incompetent.You get what you pay for
“True friendship has no checks or balances.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Why are true friends so rare and hard to find?
Good way to use old pots [ecosnippets.com]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
The human imagination is amazing. So is the human propensity to steal, I'll be stealing this idea. Thanks
That sums it up.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
with age comes wisdom, the price of wisdom is way too high
Amazon's drone delivery pilot test has failed in FL
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
the beer bottle should have been aimed at the drone pilot. (empty of course beer is valuable)
Sunday New York Times Crossword is a Swastika
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
It would have to be a coincidence, but it is remarkable all the same. Did you complete the crossword?
Good grief I've risen to 8.3. I thought I was stuck on 8.2 for ever.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Congrats, is not the whole idea to take part in the forum? numbers mean little and can be a disadvantage Enjoy
Ectolife - company wants/plans to produce babies grown in artificial wombs.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
The ethical, moral and legal implications aside, the question remains , just because we can do it, should we be playing god? (god - figuratively).
mid-December and not much snow.....
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Mid December in the tropics is hot and humid. Sleeping without Air cooling a bit problematic but the hot days are perfect for beer drinking..
The perfect dirty Santa gift
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
it had to happen sooner or later
I really love mystical poetry, like Rumi.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Striking is the similarity between the Nag hammandi and Daoism. I wonder when the divergence in philosophies occured?
Take care out there, it's here
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 19, 2022:
Someone has a problem . Read Sigmund Freud for clarity
Granny doesn't remember so well Jenny
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
The expression on the girls face says it all
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, then you’ll have to settle for the ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
To me being ordinary equates to being a sheeple. Being the captain of my own ship is not easy, sometimes frightening, but by going a different way to the crowd, to myself I am true.
Officially retire from Chrysler on December 31 but today is my last physical shift!!! 😁 Moving...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
Retirement is not only an end but the beginning of a very exciting and rewarding time of your life. Work on your goals and interests, and enjoy every day
At least the German Chancellor Scholtz is showing a modicum of sense unlike most of the Stupid ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
Europe is the meat in the sandwich. both Russia and America win at the expense of Europe. It is all about trade and money. unfortunately the low life scum who profit from the crisis are far removed from it.People are going to freeze and starve so that a few get richer. The German chancellor is well aware of the situation, I surmise he is sending out a plea without pointing finger . I also believe it is not ***directly*** America nor Russia at fault here.
Does this settle the question?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
the mind boggles
It occurred to me a bit ago, that if I’m ever gonna level up I need to be posting more shit!!!! ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
If it works spread it around
Are you susceptible to cholera infection?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 18, 2022:
Lucky I live in an area where Cholera is not a concern. We must abide and adapt to the decrees of big pharma. After all without big phama , Man would never have evolved.
In the Twitter mayhem
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
Human nature we revel when the shit hits the fan on our neighbors but our own fan??? that is tragic
The future of clean energy?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
All the years science has experimented with fusion but has yet to make it economical and stable perhaps zero point energy may be better investigated?
Ok... you can uncross your eyes now
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
Who is the face of she looks familiar, but I cannot put a name to it
I hope he delivers this year.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
Santa can supply you with a can or bottle of Coca Cola because Santa is CocaCola's brainchild. Can't see how Coke is going to do you any good unless laced with a massive dose of alchohol.
I was trying to figure out someone's complicated insurance—a strange brew of higher math and, ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
you are right . this christmas bullshit is grating on the nerves. Santa Clause is a creation of the Coca Cola company. We are definitely a civilisation in decline for the reasons you state. I remember economists warning of a total capital impending economic breakdown for the last 40 years. We may be in the beginning of a worldwide depression that makes the great depression of the 30's look like a minor non event.
This is what happens when disadvantaged youth gets neglected by government: [abc.net.au]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
I fear it is not only the youth that goes on a crime spree. With the high fuel prices, food prices through the roof (for us, exported food is still sold cheaply) , power price climbing in line with the space shuttle, rental accommodation too dear or not available , extra government taxes and charges, it will soon be all the pensioners and poor of our society that will be forced to crime in order to survive. It is happening now
Your secrets are safe
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
So very true.
On the cusp of this
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
it is the true situation for so many of us right now
I used to have an addiction to raw meat. It's cured now.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
been hamming it up?
Helvetica and Times New Roman walk into a bar.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 17, 2022:
Yet Arial and Wde Latin were drinking happily. seems like racial discrimination at work again
I'm glad there's a group for that, kind of an AA for vegans.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Every town should have one
[huffpost.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Do governments know that UFO's aren't real to a large degree? I wonder what happened to the German "die Glocke" or the Philedelphia experiment. Both proved mostly successful experiments and then dropped like a hot brick? Lewis Carrol or Hans Christian Anderson may be fine with that, but I cannot see any government not utilising such expensively developed and successful technologies.
First contact the way I see it.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Aliens could be among us now. We would only know if they desired contact. But honestly why would any race want to expose themselves to us ? we are murderous, barbaric and have very dubious morals and ethics. We see anything we cannot understand as threat and therefore treated with suspicion and death. There must be many different moral and ethical systems in the universe of which we cannot even imagine. I for one believe that the war and conquest mentality would not survive long in the universe.
That waskaly wabbit
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
ludicrous The youth of today are quite capable of corrupting themselves just as we were. Youth also possess some intelligence, which is gigantic compared to the amoeba sized brain of the BAN lobby
The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun, is a monolith carved in the form of an ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
I wonder if the Germans plagerised this design when they built the Berlin gate??? Not identical but take into account the 25% variation of copy right law, Hmmm I wonder.
Damned, Santa is judgmental
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
A profound personal diagnosis from Coca Cola man.
The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun, is a monolith carved in the form of an ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Magnificent now, what would it have been like in its heyday?
I told my therapist I can’t get the Grease soundtrack out of my head.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Olivia Newton John did not tell she sang. to be fair you would have to sing the reply
In case your Western media failed to report your protegé's announcement?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 16, 2022:
Nobody think why this war is going on really?? Russia has space technologies that spy, destroy and disrupt ant desired eletronic traffic in any one area. EMP weapons. Also many secret technologies that can be used but aren't WHY??? Russia could easily win without too much fuss, but are resorting to a military game of cat and mouse. WHY?? Am I alone in feeling that something does not gel??
Bye bye precious [10play.com.au]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 15, 2022:
Australia always has been, and is, racist. I do not blame her. In the 60's I was beaten(by adults) and bullied for being a German immigrant. Then it was the Italians , Poms, Greeks , Vietnamese, Lebanese,Kiwis and so on. underpinning all that is the racism faced by the indigenous population. Truth telling goes beyond the aboriginals and something that we as a nation need to face up too.
Sometimes you can get all sorts of wild fanciful speculations about ancient history, which belong ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 15, 2022:
History as we know it is based on myths. Slowly the truth is surfacing. Man had a previous "civilisation" that we are just starting to learn about. This "civilisation seems to have covered the whole globe at some time, but for yet to be discovered reasons, vanished. A fascinating area to study,
Mm-mm, who else remembers the Esquire magazine pin ups?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 15, 2022:
The pin ups were very risque at the time, now a days you see more revealing poses on billboards, advertising and and televised media.
David DePape, a face of evil: [abc.net.au]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
You will be comforted to know after his 15 minutes of fame and has done some time, he will be out in the community on parole.
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vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
1. How amazing , a composer approaching total deafness to write such a moving piece for a student.
Shrodinger's Denney's...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
Always open to what?? closed to finding out what?
They really didn't think this through.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
Fellows, don't you know the best use of duct tape?? To bind mouth and hands of the politicos and bible thumpers. That bing the one area that is is not utilised enough of
An issue US society needs to get ahead of IMO. [scitechdaily.com]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
The benefits of magic mushrooms are beyond reproach, being time tested. I wish pharma would invest in them. You ever tried a wild magick mushroom??? Eeeeuuuuck.. The taste did not grow on me
Happy Winter from all the gods born on the winter solstice, aka "Christmas" in the modern world.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
The divine creators' TV must have been on the blink or the programs crap forcing them to do what cums naturally.
Oh just because…..🤷🏻‍♂️
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
A missed business opportunity. He should charge admission to the field and..............
Very simple but most get it very late
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
Most married men get it, simple maths The woman spends my money before hers them complains bitterly when she needs to spend her own money.
Follow the law.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
coffin fodder
The Robodebt suicides [9news.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
Don't forget Scomo's MINI ME Peter Dutton. That Arsewipe is still part of our government and carrying on Scomos work. I wonder how many shadow cabinet portfolios he is the hidden minister of?
It's like they were separated at birth
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
When you feel that you are totally inconsequential and socially invisible, this is a good way to get noticed. As said our Kath and Kim TV show " Look at me, Look at me, Look at meeeee.".
Seen elsewhere; worth pondering.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
It is not always the female that is the housekeeper I would love to have a companion that shares the domestic duties equally. My wife never strays away from her computer for any period, so domestic chores, even the most basic are not of her world.
Wacky sports events.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
Australia is no slouch when it comes to wacky sports events. The most bizarre is the nude swimmers in the freezing ocean in the middle of winter, usually on the coldest day of the year. Gum boot throwing contests etc etc.
[youtube.com] Mark Upton & Ivan Hutchinson - POST HORN GALOP!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
These fellows are amazing
Fusion energy breakthrough: Major milestone achieved in US experiment- [cnet.com]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
There have been similar announcements for the last 50 years I am aware of. Fusion energy is just around the corner is touted every year at least once. Hopefully we will still be alive to see the day when they actually can make it work. Perhaps there are as yet undiscovered forms of energy we should be seeking? In regard to Fusion energy perhaps we are flogging a near dead horse?
New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on young buying cigarettes.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
This is what we need in Australia, but our govt has not got the gusts to stand up to the tobacco lobby. Besides ye who pays the piper calls the tune.The tobacco companies contribute generously to party coffers.
Liar liar, pants on fire!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
It is clearly plausible denyability, reminiscent of America just prior to the onset of the Vietnam war.
This is creepy! [youtu.be]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 14, 2022:
An imaginative bit of claptrap. Obviously the speaker likes the sound of his own voice. What purpose are all the people that feature in the video while not having any relevance to the story??
Does the non American 96% of the world population agree with American citizens that the biggest ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 13, 2022:
America has massive internal problems it needs to address in regard to running their own national affairs. Their government needs to do a novel thing work for their people. America is famous for it's chaldestine operations meddling in other nations affairs, now would be a good time to clean and manage their own household
Transmission of germs.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 12, 2022:
And face masks do a great job of concentrating organisms that we breathe in all the time and keep on recycling them. It is therefore most likely that these organisms that are normally expelled harmlessly now concentrated and returned to the lungs to eventually overpower the bodies defenses leading to astma , bronchitis ,colds etc.
Who’s giving Americans spiritual care?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
One thing our technological age has taught man that big institutions cannot be trusted . People are waking up to religion and leaving in droves. The meek (disenfranchised who need strict discipline) seeing that their world is crumbling, are banding around them any vestibule in keeping with their belief/need. That is why there are so many "churches?" offering free ordination, divinity courses and giving the meek somewhere to regroup, gather and soldier on. Preachers with little or no training are now able give sermons, start their own churches with no affiliation to any organisation . Right or wrong these are people who cannot live within their own skin, take responsibility for their own thoughts and actions and need strong leadership. When leadership wains , no vacuum is tolerated so the lessors will fill the vacuum .
Men only want one thing
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
Ky gel would perhaps suffice?
Coffee ☕ break!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
There are several reasons for drinking coffee and one just entered my head. If you can't drink it while your living. then how the hell you gonna drink it when your dead????
While I am in favor of EVs having success hydrogen would have been more environmentally friendly), ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
Elon fudging numbers hmmm I wonder Is the pope a catholic??
Fantastic news! Girl, 13, ‘leukaemia-free’ after world-first use of cell engineering therapy...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
My son had Myeloid Dysplasia from the age of 18 months. He is now 37. he was cured by a South American (Bolivia? Brazil?) naturopath. He gave my son a concoction that was the vilest tasting thing I have ever experienced, but it did the job. He was lucky, many of his fellow patients did not make it despite transfusions and Chemo. It is wonderful that the technology is now able to treat the range of blood cancers. It is the dawn of a new era of treatments. The road ahead will undoubtly be rocky, but at least we now have a road .
Alexa screwed up again!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
And back to today Amazon is still not getting it right. Must be the culture of poor pay and conditions for staff. Back in the Biblical era Amazon would have slave labour. Hang on, has anything changed???
I couldn’t find frank with sense, - so close enough?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
Frankenstein ( Jewish name)makes sense. Christmas is a jEWISH fable after all.
I'm single!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
The time will come eventually. We all find a relationship "in good time"" Pity the relationships can't always be good
One can hope.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
I am not the least bit into American politics, but this poem shows thought and deserves some merit.
Ears are shoulder wide.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
Dumbo flew with his long ears, what does this guy do with his? Aerofoils for when he does backstroke?
A little self promotion here
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
I wish that were true. The plague of my life was a redhead
Why isn't the Western media screaming about this war crime of attacking civilians?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
The politics of war we will never understand. Perhaps it is like as in a video game, the perpetrators are not directly involved in the fighting so it is just a game . Murder is murder whether state sponsored ( war and executions)or personal, the victims loose out.
You know when your having a bad day...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
That sounds like it could make sense somehow.. or could it?
Opinion news talk show Russian style.
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 11, 2022:
She makes strong valid points. 2 American spies who worked for and on behalf of the American people get to enjoy Russian hospitality in their jails while a drug addict of little consequence gets to go free and gets a heroes welcome back home. America you are fine with this???
I never thought of it that way, but it makes sense
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 10, 2022:
The truth is out there. Doesn't it just make your vegan mouth water?
Some of these write themselves!!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 10, 2022:
May be useful as a physio tool. or she could just sell it. Had it been me I would display it in the lounge and tell visitors that using it put me in the wheelchair. he he he
Letter to the religious I personally don't care what anyone believes or has faith in so long as ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 7, 2022:
It will never happen as long as we have the "missionaries" who can't abide anybody elses sanctity. The Mormons, SDAs and JW's. I was continually bothered by some JW's while living in an outback village. I got sick of them so I found a goats head nailed it on a board , painted the pentagram on the background behind the goat skull and below it I wrote the words. COME UNTO ME MY CHILDREN BRING ME THE SOULS YOU HAVE GATHERED I never heard from them again
Senator Gerard Rennick eloquently derides covid vaccinations & previous government policies - a ...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 7, 2022:
Thanks I have never heard of Gerard Rennick I will indulge in some closer scrutiny. Being a card carrying liberal means he is a member of the countries largest criminal organisation. He can't be all bad if he derides covid genetic engineering injections. But being a criminal/ liberal (words interchangeable) one never knows what their real agenda is
Playing With Balls
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 6, 2022:
At least a dog can reach his balls with his mouth and tongue. I'd love to see a man manage that
Waiter, please be nice
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 6, 2022:
One waiter should be given lessons in etiquette, or simply sacked
True words
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 6, 2022:
I find it offensive how overweight people are touted as being gluttons, overindulge or too stupid to take care of their own bodies. Age is a factor the will cause a weight increase( mostly) Diabetic drug insulin is a growth hormone and WILL INCREASE weight. So will some other drugs and medications. Our modern diet where everything is contaminated with chemicals, We no longer walk anywhere or do the exercise our ancestors did of necessity. There is also a genetic factor. Depending where you originated from (racial profile) will determine how your body metabolises the food available in the present. I will explain more fully in my Herbalist group at a later date.
Construction starts in Australia on the world's largest radio telescope [engadget.com]
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 6, 2022:
Interesting idea. If they do find a low frequency communication channel, there would be proof that "intelligent" life exists outside of earth. religion would then have to take a nose dive when people wake up that religion is Bos Tauris/ Bos Indicus feacies. One doth wonder how the Flat Earthers ( bible thumpers) will react.
There is always a way...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 6, 2022:
I am bilingual , it does happen to me often, although nowadays I blame it on age. For me it is a real concern
Professor's answer
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 5, 2022:
a sandwich wih the girl as the filling?
This aggression shall not stand!
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 5, 2022:
my sediments exactly.
From JFK profiles in courage: If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind,...
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 1, 2022:
Our liberal party(the larcenus party) have a ethos. Me first, me second my mates third, my mates fourth,, if your not one of us..FUCK YOU JACK.They work for who ever pays the most to them..
Do we have any here?
vocaloldfart comments on Dec 1, 2022:
Columbus was a conspiratory theorist in his time, everyone knew that the earth was flat. The wright brothers were conspiritory theorists because science knew that heavier than air machines could not fly.. science declared another conspiritory in that powered vehicles would not be able to go over 21 m.p.h because they would kill the occupants. Funny how all of mans progress since the year dot were all conspiritory theories until proven later . So are not conspiritory theories fake news then?
New and Improved! Interested in easy life of money, power, seduction?
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 30, 2022:
you can actually get ordained and become a minister or even bishop and start your own church, See the Universal Life church at https//www. themonestry.org This is actually a real registered church in Amnerica. Go figger
[medpagetoday.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 30, 2022:
I have done check on Jonothan Laxton MD. Interestingly I find that his medical area of expertise, although considerable, is NOT directly related to any vaccine related fields. What he claims may well/ could be true, there is no argument in that. I for one would rather have a motor Mechanic who is trained in my type of vehicle fix my car than give it to a lawnmower mechanic to repair.
They will see the light eventually.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 30, 2022:
THAT IS EXACTLY HOW IT IS NOW A DAYS. Fear and religion . now we have the religion of fear.. Fear the Lord, fear the virus (he sent us) and soon fear the UFO'S" which will appear as soon as the FEAR of covid has gained sufficient immunity
Wise words from a brilliant man -
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 30, 2022:
Me thinks he speaketh the truth. Reality is always better than fiction
Apparently there’s a fruit that is naturally radioactive. I think that’s bananas.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 30, 2022:
That is actually true. Bananas are radioactive. I cannot remember how many cases, or was it tons ,that one needs to consume in order to have an effect on the body. One would suffer technicolour yawns from excess consumption long before any issue of radiation came into play
Quotable Quote: “Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 29, 2022:
Drugs are designed to alleviate one particular SYMPTOM. Not the cause. Each drug carries side effects which require more drugs to counteract the effects of the first one and so it goes on. Very profitable but not ethical. The best way to cure any disease let the expert do it, THE BODY . Each body is designed for survival and generally will cure itself given nutrition, natural therapies and natural medicines ; which do not cure on their own, but allow the body to use the natural compounds for growth, repair and defense. The body will always aim for homeostasis which we regard as good health.
"I'll be upstairs while you watch the game"... she said...
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 29, 2022:
She can be upstairs anytime whenever, BUT the game?? any particular game is only played once, miss it and it is gone forever.
This is what an Australian Trump looks like.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 29, 2022:
Another prime target is Pine Gap. One Nuke there and most of eastern Australia will get to enjoy the radiation fallout
This is what an Australian Trump looks like.
vocaloldfart comments on Nov 29, 2022:
I am heartened to see Labor going after the larcenous Nazi party, the larcenous party most specifically. Scomo did a lot for Australia. Woke us up from the" She'll be right mate"complacency in Australian politics. Nikkio Savva's book bulldozed will be a fun read although no news but perhaps help topple the loudmouth aspirations of the larcenous party. The port of Darwin is owned by the Chinese, therefore giving them the right to look after their own "interests/ ASSETS" The yanks want to have nuclear warships based and stationed close by, perhaps in regard to AUKUS? There will be no reason for China or America to directly attack each other, Australia is a safe battleground for them. Their population will not be decimated. Australia is now living on a power keg when the fuse has been lit and is racing to explode