@hambo is on the right track. When it comes to wine vintage is by far the most important thing though.
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The 1968 Oak Park Brandavino vintage was also excellent, always drunk at a footy ground late at night. Grandstand at Raeburn Reserve in Pascoe Vale was a popular place.
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This did well in Preston too, in 82.
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The only wine I have seen drunk in OaK Park was outside the Glenroy Coles and always in a paper bag.
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That’s where the rich folks hung out…
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And their kids were at the pedestrian underpass at the Glenroy station
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I remember you saying that so I got myself some 2021 McLaren Vale Shiraz. I’ll give it a try tonight:
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The Oak Park boot boys?
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Horrifying scenes have emerged outside the Honduran National Congress after politician Gladis Aurora López was struck by an explosive device.
Footage captured by multiple witnesses shows the politician, 65, walking towards a group of press and waving before a sphere-shaped device hit the back of her head, detonating instantly.
The attack occurred on Thursday (local time) in the capital, Tegucigalpa, as politicians from the opposition National Party were preparing to give statements to the media.
According to party officials, the device was thrown towards the group before striking the Congresswoman and detonating.
The party alleged the device was thrown by members of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party, led by former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and his wife, Xiomara Castro.
“Political violence is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated under any circumstances,” they wrote in a statement.
Tomas Zambrano, head of the National Party’s congressional caucus, said Lopez suffered significant injuries and was treated immediately by medical teams at the scene.
Local media reports said she sustained visible injuries to her head and back as well as significant bleeding.
She was taken to a private hospital for further treatment. Authorities are still assessing whether others are injured.
The shocking incident comes amid a rising political crisis in Honduras following general elections held in November last year.
The country remains at odds ahead of a presidential transition on January 27, after National Party candidate Nasry Asfura was declared the winner by less than 1 per cent of the vote.
Authorities are yet to announce any arrests related to the attack.
The EU has reached a free trade agreement with South American countries, 25 years after talks began and despite opposition from farmers in several European countries.
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President Cankles makes decisions alone, and without a clear plan for dealing with the probable consequences.
So, IMO, he’s lying.
He has forfeited the benefit of the doubt by barraging everybody with lies on matters involving Russia, by throwing his own intelligence community and public servants under the bus when they contradict him and by ignoring his military experts’ advice whenever it fails to fit into his personal political goals.
He’s not going to take any action and people are dying.
Iran is such a complicated situation and what is the right thing to do for a person in Trump with so much power and the ability to act on it.
Sovereignty is important, but is it more important to protect lives and remove a regime that acts the way it does.
Intervention has rarely worked well for the target country when the US gets involved.
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Iran has had something like 50% inflation in the last year, increasing pensions by 20%. They have shortages of water and power. Economically, the country is screwed and the people are left unable to pay for the basics to live.
That’s what is driving the current protests. Not ideological or freedom. The Iranian regime doesn’t have any good levers left to pull to address broad economic issues. They can shoot people, but that doesn’t put bread on plates.
Iran has two military forces, the army and the IRGC. Both are played off against each other to prevent a military coup. The problem for the protesters is that the IRGC is heavily armed and full of fanatically loyal zealots. I don’t see these zealots willingly transferring power to a secular democracy. I also don’t see how the people stop demanding change when they are left in such an economically desperate situation.
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Just projecting & fast-forwarding a few years for funzies.
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In time they too will become oil. It’s the long game, played for the deformed children of his deformed children and on and on till the sun explodes
Trump will come in at the last minute, take credit and demand the Nobel Peace Prize. It is too far gone now for it to go back. So far the official deaths are at 12, 000, but people are saying more like 20,000. The problem is the ciitizens are not armed and just have rocks and some molotov coctails. Where are all the Free Palestine protesters now?
Presumably trying to figure out how to protest and illuminate the Gazan humanitarian catastrophe without getting arrested. Why do you ask?
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