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Last day of April, May Day next. The universal word for distress in aviation and shipping. A third of year 2025 gone already.
What has Australia achieved in 2025 so far? Mostly negatives, I fear. Questions needing answers more often met with silence, maybe because of the imminent Federal election. More outright lies told, like Labour claiming that CSIRO endorsed that the Dutton nuclear plan would cost $600 million. More demonstrations that Australian defence capability is weak, Chinese 3 ship sail past, inability to supply a few dozen rusty tanks to Ukraine. Difficult relations with US emerging because several Australians like Rudd, Turnbull, Albanese, Wong have spoken public insults about President Trump. Electricity prices continue to rise as the fable of net zero carbon grows. Australia lacking people earning income causes not enough money to support defence, medical and teaching sectors. Australia is too broke to fix potholes or build an airport to Melbourne city link. The bureaucracy grew again. Inflation rose in food prices, cost of living generally.
Up to the reader to list the positives. Geoff S
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Donald Trump was not assassinated. Twice.
Donald Trump was elected. Then the most dramatic resurrection of a Nation since the first Easter.
Spain moves to 100% replaceables. And proves to the world they don’t work. Plus that moving entirely to centralized state controlled electricity is a disaster.
We haven’t had a report of disaster in Gaza for a month.
Iran is on the backfoot in Syria, Gaza, Yemen. And the bombers are in Diego Garcia.
Ukraine is talking peace. Russia is talking peace. Ceasefires are starting. Crimea is conceded. Reality is dawning. While Starmer and Macron fume.
And in Australia, this week we will know if the rich Greens and richer Teals will succeed in wrecking the joint, especially with a massive tax on everyone’s savings, taxing the inflation they have caused.
The world is in flux. Sad about the Canadian election. But in the UK, Farage is looking like the next PM. And the Tories will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Net Zero is possibly the stupidest political move in history, crippling successful countries to pretend to address a hoax. No actual scientist thinks any of it makes sense. In in the UK even Tony Blair is telling Starmer it is madness. Which is a start. We appear to have reached the point where even traditional Labor is to the right of the conservatives.
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‘Sad about the Canadian election.’
The electorate put aside their bias and chose someone who could stand up to Donnie. The Trump Effect is fortuitous for the left.
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The only real puzzle is Trump’s strong support for the Liberals in Canada. Possibly the new PM is a business pragmatist, not really a politician. And that is what Canada needs, not either a firebrand or another Trudeau tyrant. Conservative Polieve has even lost his own seat, which is a surprise. While on the surface the triumph of the left, Canada is very left and Trump knew more than our press.
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Canada will do just fine. They have a smart prime minister who unites Canadians.
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Carney might be smart and he may unite Canadians, but he has fallen into the Trump trade plan according to Sundance!
He is reported to say the all trade deals and military alliances with the US are off.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/28/how-the-nafta-usmca-2016-review-underpins-president-trump-remarks-on-canada/#more-271464
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Sure. He is using the Trump playbook. First, they only have one military alliance and no other neighbours.
Then if their 200% tariff on US cream and butter is any guide, being bombastic about tariffs is a bit silly. The Trade imbalance was $200Bn in his favour.
What Trump wants is reciprocal tariffs. As he says correctly, no one has free trade. The US tariff on German cars was 5%. The German tariff on US cars was 25%. If Trump can make deals with Xi and Putin and Zelensky and the Mullahs, he can deal with a British Banker.
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That’s right. All TRUMP wanted was fair trade treatment.
The Lamestream Enemedia never mentioned all the tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers other countries imposed upon US goods which were usually far more severe than what the US imposed on goods going into the US from those same countries.
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Also possibly to cause problems to Ottawa when they try to go all “renewables” and annoy Alberta who want to ship oil and gas to the USA.
Succession anyone?
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Secession?
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Bumped
FWIW
“How the NAFTA/USMCA 2025 Review Underpins President Trump Remarks on Canada
April 28, 2025 | Sundance | 77 Comments”
“Only President Trump could get the Canadians to vote for an exit to the USMCA, and he did it brilliantly.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/28/how-the-nafta-usmca-2016-review-underpins-president-trump-remarks-on-canada/#more-271464
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Canada will do just fine. They have a smart prime minister who unites Canadians.
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Especially the salaries of public serpents and associated hangers on.
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Copied from Farcebook.
Where does your preferred political party or politician stand on sterilising and mutilating children?
And did they tell you about the huge amount of regret and destroyed lives and bodies?
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Tragically I could find no positive or any report in the lame stream media commemorating Captain Cook’s landfall in Botany Bay 255 years ago yesterday, 29th April, 1770. The Left have completely taken over to change history and the narrative. I will say on behalf of all thinking people, (all 27 of us!), thank you Captain Cook!
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Have you heard of “blue suit gate”?
Leftist Enemedia complained that President TRUMP violated papal funeral protocol by wearing a navy blue suit and not a black one.
But they “proved” this by displaying a zoomed in photo of TRUMP. If you look at the original zoomed out photo, you will see that a very large proportion of the men were wearing a navy blue suit.
And not a word about Zelensky wearing his Ninja outfit.
Liberal Hivemind discusses:
https://youtu.be/3g8m3cVRGeY
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After decades of trying to destroy or dismiss all established traditions and norms, in favour of their so-called ‘progressive’ reinvention of society and human nature, the left is suddenly in favour of one – just one – old tradition.
Why might that be I wonder?
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Today’s words are:
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And I still love the idea that it was Spain which decided to gamble their entire grid on sunshine and windmills. The land of Don Quixote, originally published in 1605. The ingenious gentleman from La Mancha on the quest for Net zero. And finds Net zero is zero. Everything stops. Even the petrol pumps and traffic lights and elevators and sewage.
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In the Telegraph, the whole episode in Spain has been buried. You have to search for it. Clearly no interest to the UK public!
Enjoy the blindness and the excuse making..
“What exactly caused the massive power cuts that swept Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France?
That is the question on the lips of every energy expert in Europe – and theories abound.
Spanish authorities suggested they were investigating the possibility of a cyber attack on grid infrastructure, while some officials in Portugal initially said it was caused by a freak weather phenomenon before backtracking. Both say the exact cause is still unknown.
At the same time, others have warned that Spain’s growing reliance on renewable energy, particularly solar power, may also have contributed to the crisis.“
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But then we Australians have seen energy idiocy first hand. It has a simple solution. Have as much backup generation as you had before you added unreliables. And don’t go all electric.
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My concern is the inability of modern-day Spaniards to think for themselves when their automated world passes wind –
via CNN: “In Madrid, traffic piled up on the roads after the lights went out”.
Indecision? Inertia? Inability to alternate or take turns? ‘Moving forward’ collapses when free will applies? Aye caramba el loco!
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Former Canadian conservative academic, Prof. Gad Saad, who has sought political refuge in the United States, wrote just before the Canadian election:
To which there was a reply.
Perhaps the same applies to Australia if Green/Teal/Labor are elected.
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David Maddison,
Why do you not include Liberal in that list? Is it that all parties are equal, but some more equal than others in the Uniparty?
The fact is that, whoever wins this election, we’ll have the same band of unaccountable bureaucrats running the place as they see fit.
While I dislike Albanese more than Dutton, the extent to which either of them matters in my life is no more than a click of the TV remote.
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Spectator Australia article:
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Sadly, the Coalition may fail to prevail as a result of the old adage:
“No guts….no glory”.
Sigh…….
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“Our party got hijacked, by a left-leaning imposter and his mates; we want it back. ”
Nope, they deserve to die in an amalgamation with Labor… they are a coalition already, just add Labor and the Greens to it and change the name to Uniparty.
Conservative voters need to rally around another Party completely and let both Liberals and Nationals sink without trace! They have been absolutely useless both as an opposition and an alternative to govern, they offer nothing different!
““No guts….no glory”.”… No reason to vote for them..
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FWIW – Wisconsin
FWIW
“What election fraud? THIS election fraud!”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/a_newly_discovered_algorithm_in_wisconsin_voter_file_is_indisputable_evidence_of_criminal_election_fraud.html
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-election-fraud-this-election-fraud.html
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May Day! May Day!
On the same day one of NZ’s electricity gentailers announced the opening of a ginormous solar subsidy harvesting plantation on the South Island’s Canterbury Plains, another branch of government announced a Yellow Snow Watch for the very same region:
30 April – Gale SE winds, Heavy Snow to 1,600m then 1,200m then 800m overnight
1 May – Gale S winds, Heavy Snow to 700m
At least the sheep can take shelter underneath the array of panels which are ‘cleaned regularly and are hail-proof, eccetera eccetera [sic]’ according to the CEO, who has also imported & stockpiled mega-tonnes of Indonesian coal as an insurance policy just in case sumpfink goes wrong or the climate changes – whichever occurs first I guess.
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FWIW – “Not happy Canadian style”
“Western Canada Secession: Why Does the West stay in Canada?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/29/western-canada-secession-why-does-the-west-stay-in-canada/
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TRUMP’s offer to become a US state remains open, I’m sure.
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FWIW
“Trump Administration Finally Pulls the Plug on the Climate Fear Factory”
“The long-overdue showdown with America’s most bloated, self-important arm of climate alarmism finally arrived this week — and what a spectacle it was. In a move that should have happened years ago, the Trump administration decisively dismissed the hundreds of so-called “experts” who were preparing the next National Climate Assessment (NCA) — a document often weaponized to justify costly and draconian climate policies that the American people neither asked for nor benefit from.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/29/trump-administration-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-the-climate-fear-factory/
And
“Now Scientists Claim Near 20-Year Stable Arctic Sea Ice is “Unsurprising” and Predicted by Models”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/29/now-scientists-claim-near-20-year-stable-arctic-sea-ice-is-unsurprising-and-predicted-by-models/
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