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Even Canadian fake conservative Erik Kaufmann acknowledges woke progressivism is dead and dying.
Western governments are a bit slow to catch on.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922973741740437843.html
Post-Trump the Left are beginning to wake up and de-woken. They’re licking their wounds, de-constructing, and doing the soul-searching that Australian so-called conservative Liberal parties need to do.
Here in the colonies we’re a bit slow to catch on.
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“Post-progressivism argues that the end of the progressive grand narrative demands a new social science”.
Well I’ll be woken!
And he’s post Trump already!
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etc.
https://archive.ph/6DKHb
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That’s exactly what Once Great Britain does to its dissidents.
Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months in the Goolag for a Tweet she posted in a moment of anger and then deleted after 3.5 hrs.
Details: https://youtu.be/genMHmqOOWI
No doubt under the new regime in Australia such things will soon start happening here now that the Left have a mandate to do whatever they please – and will!
As for visiting countries like Once Great Britain as a tourist, one wonders if foreign tourists might get jailed there for past criticisms of the regime?
And tourists, unless a follower of the official and only permitted religion of Saudi generally do not visit there (they used not to ne permiited at all), only business people. They would be wise not to go if they have ever criticised the regime.
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Tommy Robinson is another political prisoner of Once Great Britain.
He’s in jail for the crime of making a documentary of which not one word has ever been refuted.
Where are the human rights organisations?
People in relatively free countries can watch the documentary here, and it hasn’t yet been banned in Australia:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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Thanks David for that link to the Tommy Robinson saga. Truly horrendous & insidious intrusion into all institutions. Free speech….. hah!
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That’s great. Now we know how to rid ourselves of the whole Canberra fiasco. We’ll have the lot of them invited to Saudi Arabia for a symposium on good governance & hopefully we’ll never see them again!! Misinformation my ar##.
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Since the UK Government does that same thing to its own citizens, I’ll doubt if they do anything to get this businessman out of jail.
The Saudis probably knew they’d get away with this because they’re just emulating UK actions against their own people.
What’s the UK going to say to them? “You can’t put people in jail for a deleted Tweet?”
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But why did they REALLY go after him? There’s more to that story methinks. Somebody was forensically sifting through his affairs and I don’t believe it was random.
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Even as a child, I thought this show waa stupid.
“Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men”.
It waa made 1952-1953, before I was born, but endlessly repeated by Their ABC for many years after that.
https://youtu.be/hcF9JSxkUSE
From Wikipedia:
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In England it was part of “Watch with Mother”.
How about Andy Pandy then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfnJBArxGg
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If you’ve got anything bad to say about Mary, Mungo and Midge, I’ll send my mates Raggety and Rupert the Bear around for a word.
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Rupert Bear was of course owned by Paul McCartney
https://beatlefansomethingnew.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/new-york-magic-the-plaza-a-beatle-and-rupert-bear/
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Gad Saad comment on Canada:
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Story tip
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/
Caveats in the link, but it looks as if one national supplier of kit has inserted some ‘backdoors’.
I would do the same – and fully intend to do so, if I can work out how to do so in a wooden Welsh lovespoon.
And if it profitably restrict Chinese actions …
Auto
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A Trojan horse.
Just imagine if the Chicomms decided to turn off all Australian rooftop solar?
The grid would probably collapse, especially after the government destroys the next coal power station.
And that’s exactly why during the first TRUMP administration he banned the import of large scale electrical infrastructure from China, a ban reversed by Biden.
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More on that – batteries too
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/w-o-o-d-3-may-2025-russia-wins-germany-bans-globalists-panic-treasuries-stocks/#comment-176987
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More than batteries, just look at any computer operating system, your mobile phone, your car, your TV.. all these gadgets have coding that can or does talk to the manufacturer, for error reporting or usage /performance data.
I cannot see why anyone is worried about solar panels… unless they have been taken in by the American propaganda about how evil China is. I’ll bet every one of those wind towers talks to Siemens!
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In this disarmingly honest, frank and confronting video, various black people comment about the situation in Africa and its overall lack of progress before and after Western colonial powers were kicked out. No, it wasn’t the fault of the colonisers, Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonised and still have the same situation. And all other countries elsewhere that were colonised such as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, NZ, Singapore, United States etc. are all doing fine.
https://youtu.be/YClIfiwBD_8
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Thanks D M, and WOW.
Fascinating.
And explains a lot.
Suspect it applies here in Australia equally.
Cheers,
Dave B
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The reason Natal in South Africa is full of Indians? Ideal for growing sugar but the Xhosa and the Zulu would not work in the fields for the white man, so Indian workers were bought in. Same with Malay slaves in the Cape Province.
The biggest problem is from the colonials drawing lines on a map and declaring them ‘countries’, neatly dividing tribes of natives across borders and cramming ancient enemies in one political entity together.
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Here is an EXTREMELY powerful piece of piano and violin played by 98 year old survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. They didn’t know each other had survived until recently.
Tragic plus beautiful.
https://youtu.be/KSNWJNXWl0M
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Did you not notice “AI Video”? There’s also the creator comment: “all characters and events presented are fictitious”.
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Fair enough. I didn’t notice. It was linked from another site. Oops.
But even as a work of fiction it was still wonderful. Certainly better than a woke Snow White.
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The Administrative Procedures Act is a two edged sword.
Seventeen states misguidedly sue to block Trump from stopping wind power
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/13/seventeen-states-misguidedly-sue-to-block-trump-from-stopping-wind-power/
The beginning: “The attorneys general of 17 green states have jointly sued the President and the heads of a dozen federal agencies. Under the President’s day one executive order (EO), these agencies stopped approving pretty much anything to do with wind power development. The States want the Court to tell these Agencies to stop stopping.
The basic issue is simple, but the possible outcomes are anything but. I think the States have not properly considered where this action might lead. In fact they have probably asked the Court for the wrong thing.”
The ending: “The States specifically ask the Court to find that the Agencies are violating the APA and then to tell the Agencies not to obey the EO. That is all they ask for. I doubt a Court can tell an Agency not to obey a lawful EO. What they can do in this case is tell the Agencies that if they want to obey the EO they must comply with the APA when they do it.
So let the Agencies do that. It would simply require that they each carry out their own investigation under their own authorities, which they can certainly do, jumping through all the APA hoops along the way. They can certainly suspend all their approvals, pending these investigations, because there is no telling where they might lead. Suspending approval pending investigation is fundamental law.
It could all take a very long time with very interesting results, nothing like what the States are hoping for. In particular I would love to see each Agency take public comments on past deficiencies as there have been untold thousands of wind development complaints filed during the Biden years, all ignored. CFACT has filed a number of these.
This may well be a case of the old adage “Be careful what you wish for.” Things could be worse for wind and the wind-loving green states than they already are. Stay tuned to CFACT as this legal drama plays out.”
Lots of details in between.
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There is an amazing channel on YouTube called my mechanics.
He restores old items to the most unbelievable levels of perfection and even makes them better than new. For example he removes casting imperfections. He also makes new parts where necessary. In a recent video he even machined a new wing nut. I’ve never seen that done before.
His latest large scale project is restoring a Datsun 240Z. I have no doubt that car will be far better than it left the factory.
https://youtube.com/@mymechanics
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Word of the day:
tintinnabulum
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Had to have a think but it sort of rings a bell.
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Latest Elon Musk robot.
https://youtube.com/shorts/gOYAfEOeg1Y
Can it replace our politicians, senior public serpents and fake politically-purchased climate and covid “scientists”?
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No way – the increase in intelligence would be noticed almost immediately.
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FWIW
“Another development
“A potentially scary security threat”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-potentially-scary-security-threat.html
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FWIW – another “defending democracy”
“About That Super Secret German Government Intelligence Report Documenting AfD Extremism”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/15/about-that-super-secret-german-government-intelligence-report-documenting-afd-extremism-n3802805
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‘There has to be a physical manifestation of the party in question – and not just isolated individuals – moving to ‘overcome’ one of their three guiding principles.’
True, the party should be reinstated because the evidence against them is flimsy.
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FWIW
“WIKIPEDIA IS FREE AND WORTH LESS THAN YOU PAY FOR IT:”
https://x.com/JacobALinker/status/1922836036754772257
Via https://instapundit.com/719853/#disqus_thread
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In my eyes the 2025 Australian election was won fair and square by about 1/3 of 3/4 eligible voters.
Happy to be corrected (please do not use $600B argument…)
What offends me however how quickly everyone but everyone forgot 2022 elections and the fake white dress feminists.
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