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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 media version of Trump is what too many believe.
I’m currently listening to Trump’s 100 day address in Michigan on GB News. It’s just ended.
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“most successful first 100 days of any administration”
That is the MSM version, he flatters himself.
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a) I hope you said “bias” in a good sense. Some bias is programmed in everyone psycho. Trump deserves hatred from the Left (naturally) and from the Normal people, as a traitor.
b) It is not for nothing Canadians rejected the previous prime minister. All the factual problems are still there and maybe the “lefty banker” will deal with them more efficiently then so called conservative. Remember – Bob and Paul ?
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The Canadians are thinking the country is in safe hands in difficult times, someone with business acumen is perfect for the job.
On Net Zero they are just as mindless as the Australian uniparty, but no doubt the Spanish blackouts will have the boffins talking.
The key take out is that the right in Canada and Australia were leading in the polls at the start of the year, then the whole world was turned upside down.
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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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State/Province secession could also go either way – Maine would fit nicely in Canada.
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As you’re a new member to the blog may I be the first to introduce you to the “/sarc” tag.
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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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You are talking of the Canadian who was governor of the Bank of England? Oh dear!
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Don’t forget his “practice run” at the Bank of Canada
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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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I am looking at installing a 20kVA Three Phase Gas Standby Generator $10K, with 100A Three Phase Automatic Transfer Switch $1.5k
Luckily I have Natural Gas as well as 3 Phase Electricity connected to my property
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TdeF April 30, 2025 at 6:36 am · Reply
In the Telegraph, the whole episode in Spain has been buried. You have to search for it. Clearly no interest to the UK public!
Que? – Top of Page – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Blair: Starmer’s net zero plan ‘doomed to fail’
The five seconds that plunged Spain into blackouts
How would Britain cope without electricity? Very badly
European power outages provide a warning to the UK. Experts tell The Telegraph that nationwide blackouts could quickly lead to disaster
The five seconds that plunged Spain into blackouts
Fresh details emerge about the sequence of events that crippled the country’s grid
It seems the cause of Europe’s biggest-ever power cut can be traced back to just five crucial seconds.
Red Eléctrica de España, which manages the Spanish national grid, says the crisis erupted owing to a rapid sequence of events that unfolded at Monday lunchtime.
On Tuesday, the company revealed it was “very possible” that the fault which tipped the system over the edge originated from solar farms in the country’s south-west.
Seconds from chaos
According to Red Eléctrica, at 12.33pm on Monday, the country’s grid was hit by an event similar in nature to a sudden loss of power generation, seemingly in the south-west of the country.
Such disruptions can be serious because supply and demand must be balanced at all times for electricity grids to function, with the system’s frequency used to measure this.
Following the first event, which would have caused the frequency to drop, the Spanish grid’s computer systems reacted instantly to stabilise the network.
But after just 1.5 seconds, another loss of generation occurred. This was followed, 3.5 seconds later, by the failure of the electricity interconnectors linking Spain and France.
That left Iberia isolated from the rest of Europe, preventing grid operators from importing power to restore balance – and triggered a domino effect whereby solar and wind farms automatically disconnected from the grid en masse to protect themselves.
What followed was a cascading effect across the whole of Spain and Portugal as grid systems and generators shut down to prevent any damage.
At the lowest point, the power being generated fell to zero megawatts – a total blackout, and the first of its kind in Spanish history.
One ongoing question is also whether a low level of “inertia” on the system – the amount of power from generators with spinning parts such as gas, coal and hydro plants – at the time of the problem left the grid more vulnerable.
Inertia acts as a shock absorber, slowing down changes in frequency that may result from drops in generation. However, solar and wind farms do not generate it.
Experts have therefore speculated that the high amounts of solar and wind on the system – which were generating a combined 70pc of power before the power cut – may have left the system more exposed to shocks.
On Tuesday, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo also reported that Red Eléctrica had warned its investors two months previously of the risk of “generation disconnections due to the high penetration of renewables”.
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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!”
The blackouts have been very widely reported here in the UK in the Press Tv and radio. There have been long features with experts looking at the likely cause which is increasingly said to be due to solar.
It coincided with the warmest spell of the year so far. So whether the consequences have been realised of this sort of event happening here during the winter with wind failure, is doubtful.
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Spain’s Renewables summed up by
Don Quixote, a character from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel “Don Quixote,” famously tilts at windmills, mistaking them for giants.
This iconic scene symbolizes the act of attacking imaginary enemies or pursuing unrealistic goals.
The phrase “tilting at windmills” has since become an idiom in English, often used to describe efforts that are futile or based on misperceptions.
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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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“The sheep spends their whole life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.”
When you understand this statement, only then can you truly start to
understand politics.
4 days…
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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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How about an innocent girl mercilessly raped by conservative minister staffer just in time for election?
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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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🤣😂
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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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Danielle Smith (Alberta) has a list of questions and a deadline for answers on this
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More around that
“Western Standard- Alberta sets groundwork for referendum day after Liberal election victory”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/29/lowering-the-bar-2/
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And tempt the top end of British Colombia and there is the US connection to Alaska
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FWIW
“O’Leary: Mark Carney Faces ‘Hell of a Time’ Fixing Trudeau’s Economy”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-04-29/oleary-mark-carney-faces-hell-time-fixing-trudeaus-economy
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FWIW
“9 Changes New Prime Minister Will Bring To Canada”
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-improvements-new-prime-minister-will-bring-to-canada
Note source
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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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I just heard on the radio that Senator Penny Wrong said “an indigenous voice to parliament is inevitable”.
But Australia just had a half billion dollar referendum on this on 14 October 2023 and overwhelmingly decided NO.
We tell the poliscums what we want and they STILL ignore us.
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I think that Wong just handed Dutton an election victory!
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The VOICE would have been a 4th Arm of Government. 👩⚖️👩⚖️👩⚖️
Everything in the Australian Constitution is all about law makers and the laws they can make.
Note there was no process in law for appointing / electing such persons unlike the other 3 Arms of Govt. 🤪🤪🤪
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Is an argument between 2 vegans still called a beef?
Why do they want plant-based meat substitutes when they never eat meat anyway?
Why not meat-based veggies for carnivores?
“Tastes just like a real carrot but made from 100% beef.”
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Some divisions remain.
When did you last meet a woman in childbirth asking for a male midwife? Geoff S
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Wednesday funny: when eco-terrorism goes wrong
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ste80i2SI61qigfjt.mp4
This needs Benny Hill music.😉
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FWIW
“Jack The Aussie’s Karen Collective Competition!”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/?__cf_chl_tk=90rDUh1jpymqvYedP.H6NxeW4wg_8vBi.nuuanT._UM-1744315810-1.0.1.1-JvlacAmK30PgfI2HjgOMBqmaV6mXGdMUasoMU4wZRAQ
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The UK was hit by unusual power activity hours in the hours before the massive blackout in Spain.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1917189963017314331
Then there’s this warning to the UK:
https://x.com/BerwickJeff/status/1916922851774587244
Anyone in the UK confirm this?
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“Authorities are envying all efforts to resolve the situation and restore power supply..”
Sounds about right…
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I am stunned that no one in Australia, including Sky and other normal commentators.., mentioned few simple facts, like
– the system collapsed not due to high demand-low supply but in quite opposite period,
– just prior they boasted 100% renewable (read: Solar+Wind) supply
– and problems with negative kWh price…
Any Housewife (Lenin’s expression) should understand what it led to.
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Oh yes they did!
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNewsAustralia/search?query=spain%20blackout
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Thanks, I missed that.
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JC II
I saw something like that at another site this morning. Can’t trip over it now
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Why Dutton never said it ? Where are his technical advisors ? Is there a single engineer in his team ?
An A grade electrician would see caught political importance of those facts 3 days ago !
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Children in the UK required to learn about Islam
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1916956002550796592
Good idea! Let them learn all about it.
Read the Quran and ask lots and lots of questions.😎
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Particularly taqiyya
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FWIW – another FDA triumph?
“SHOCK: Large-Scale Abortion Pill Study Finds Almost 11% Suffer Serious Adverse Event”
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/04/29/is-the-abortion-pill-as-safe-as-the-left-claims-n4939333
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“The Obama-era Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) reduced the number of doctor visits to one and stripped away the requirement to report adverse effects, ”
Its a shame the adverse effects data was dropped, all they need is a publicly-available database of adverse effects for anyone about to take the drug to read. Covid could have done with that too..
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When life imitates art.🎭🎭
You have read the book, seen the movie, and now you can live the experience in your own live reality show. 😱😱
Enjoy the show 🔥💰😭😭😭
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The ABC Scaremongering again:
EV prices could rise by more then $15,000!
EV prices under standard novated leases could rise by more than $15,000 if the Coalition proceeds with its vow to scrap their exemption from fringe benefits tax.
The Coalition has recommitted to the promise, saying it would save the budget $3 billion over the forward estimates.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/coalition-electric-vehicle-fbt-tax-exemption-prices-up-thousands/105210784
Hang about, doesn’t that mean that the cars will return to their standard retail price as they will no longer be subsidised, i.e., paid for with our taxes so the rich can have their cars cheaper? So the prices are not really rising, they are returning to the same price in the first place that you and I would have to pay without the FBT exemption. So the buyers would can no longer claim a 100% “rebate” on their FBT to reduce their tax on their income.
So if they do buy an EV under a novated lease, they can still claim a portion of their repayments and expenses and receive a GST “discount” so they return to the status quo in place before this little 100% rebate perk was put in place by Labor.
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ALL subsidies, tax credits, rebates on all Climate Change / renewables must be scrapped, starting first of June. Remove all the emissions regulations which will force ICE vehicles to rise in price. Those regulations are only being enforced to provide funding for the CC hoax.
The foreign companies building & investing in wind & solar energy generation must be investigated. In addition any payments to third parties involved in decision making !!
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Now this is a pampered pooch!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_svds39aVH01z23obp.mp4
Meanwhile men are happy with their combination bodywash/car wash/driveway cleaner.😆
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Catastrophic thunderstorms in Texas and Oklahoma.
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FWIW -more covid mysteries
“Why is a Fauci HIV vax sequence in a Moderna’s C19 vaccine?”
https://anandamide.substack.com/p/why-is-a-fauci-hiv-vax-sequence-in
Via https://instapundit.com/717251/#disqus_thread
From there
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ba4bccbcc836db678e49e805cbe1a144c7ac37bf8d897c95a0486a6d5c1b1745.jpg?w=800&h=450
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FWIW
“Truth Bombs from a Canadian Lawyer in Nashville”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/30/truth-bombs-from-a-canadian-lawyer-in-nashville/
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