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Retired teacher in Australia. On Dharawal country. Posting some of my own stuff and sharing what I find.

Blog: https://neilcommonplacebook.wordpress.com/

President-elect Trump today told an audience in Phoenix it would be "a good idea" for the US to take back the Panama Canal because the Panamanians "haven’t treated us fairly," charging excessive fees for passage. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5052795-trump-suggests-panama-canal-be-returned-to-us-control/

Oh my! Yesterday the laptop died. Then I succumbed for the first time in maybe ten years to really bad food poisoning which continues. Colour of product is concerning. May get an ambulance later today.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Also relying on the phone limits what I can share here. The blog is still going, even if that too will await illness outcome and acquiring a new laptop.

Traditional Georgian folk dance is old. Older than anyone really knows. Archeologists find 4,000 year old pottery that has depictions of folk dancers on it.

The Khorumi is a special dance. It's a sacred 'warrior' dance that tells the story of armies repelling invaders from Georgia.

And, right now, in 2024, the Khorumi dancers of Georgia are dancing towards parliament in Tbilisi to repel their Russian backed illegitimate government out of Georgia.

Video Mariam Geguchadze.

#GeorgiaProtests

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Lucienne Renaudin Vary & Orchestre de chambre de Paris

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Three separate out-of-control bushfires in east, west, and central Victoria

More residents in the state's west under "leave immediately" warnings as hundreds of firefighters battle a blaze that has grown to 28,000 hectares.

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Sydney will need innovative housing solutions and healthier transport to support its growing population

NSW will have nearly a million more people by 2034 and most of them will be living in Sydney, with no suburbs spared an increase. How the city copes with this uplift in population depends on its ability to use innovative housing and healthier transport, experts say.

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Watch Trump’s SCARY ON CAMERA MOMENT, EVERYTHING IN JEOPARDY!

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Trump wants 5% NATO defence spending & continued support for Ukraine (acc. to FT report)

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Tinatin Japaridze - Maidan in Tbilisi - How Close to Ending is Russian Dream of Controlling Georgia?

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