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Happy Easter everyone!
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And to you too. I just learned about bunnies laying candy eggs.
https://germanculture.com.ua/german-traditions/the-german-easter-bunny-the-origin-of-the-osterhase/#google_vignette
I’ve raised rabbits and never once did any lay a candy egg. I must have been doing something wrong. 🙂
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Do you feed them sugar and chocolate?
On the other hand, are you sure it’s your fault? Could it be your rabbits are too busy being rabbits?
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And politicians and bureaucrats are busy behaving like bunnies for the last 20 years.
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The voting Public and Taxpayers are the Bunnies for putting up with at Mob.
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That Mob – I mean.
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Australia has hollow Easter Bunnies in Canberra
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I couldn’t find the Easter eggs I wanted. Gggrrr…
https://imgbox.com/KPN29sLu
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Happy Easter. I hope the Easter Bunny hopped by with plenty of Chocolate eggs. Presumably he is now on his way to Britan to deliver our eggs tomorrow. Do you think the Easter Bunny and Santa share the same transport facilities? Presumably Electric.
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Oh no. They have to be hydrocarbon powered. They can’t waste time charging every 200 miles.
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No problem. It would just mean the Easter Bunny would take about 14 weeks to get from OZ to the UK.
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But renewable energy is free !!!
sarc
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No Easter address from the King?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/insight/king-charles-skips-easter-message-amid-scrutiny-over-royal-greetings/gm-GMBF3E5543
Is this a Henry VIII?
England has a new religion?
Replacement much?
Good luck with the replacements.
Who will be head of the Mosque of England?
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Interesting article in Todays newspaper about the huge number of Data centres coming to Britain , many concentrated in the overcrowded South East. Apparently it is one of dozens planned for the outskirts of London in the Green belt. A single one will cover over 500 acres of farmland use 600 megawatts of power enough the article claims to power 1 million homes.
Britain is a small country, we need to grow much more of our food and retain our rural landscapes, especially those close to Big cities. A great deal of water is also needed. Where the water and power will come from is not mentioned. Who benefits from these data centres. They provide a tiny number of jobs and use equipment that will mostly come from China and the US. What’s in it for the locals?
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>What’s in it for the locals?
Well, apart from social control & mass surveillance, warmth apparently.
Data Centers, Hot Air, and the Reinvention of the Urban Heat Island
“Researchers examined more than 6,000 data centers worldwide and found that surrounding areas experienced an average land surface temperature increase of about 2°C.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/04/data-centers-hot-air-and-the-reinvention-of-the-urban-heat-island/
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I thought that we were meant to keep the temperature down below 1.5 degrees over the pre-industrial temperature, so where will the additional 2 degrees leave us?
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Thats global, the 2C is about the area around the DC
It will probably contribute to global temps less than humans contribute to CO2
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one of the plans for the excess heat from the data centre mentioned is to create an indoor Avocado farm
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Although they use water I’d imagine most of it will be recycled or in a closed system. And the data centers will be integrated into heat networks – another Minibrained wet dream. Seems great until the users are captured and then have no choice to pay wherever is extorted.
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Where will “green” Britain get the electricity for all these data centres?
This is why, as I mentioned yesterday, I think the woke countries will introduce two tier electricity supply, just as Britain already has two tier policing.
There will be coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro for the Elites and their operations such as mass surveillance of the non-Elites, and for non-Elites they will have the dregs of solar and wind electricity which will be enough for a few lights at home, a microwave oven to heat your daily ration of gruel or insects and an Internet-connected appliance to receive Government propaganda and approved entertainment and for Big Brother to keep an eye on you
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for non-Elites they will have the dregs of solar and wind electricity which will be enough for a few lights at home
Well for those lucky enough to have a roof with solar panels, enough power might be generated to keep the refrigerator cool. And for the rural folk, the water pump occasionally running.
But aren’t all the rural folk going to be transferred to cities?
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Reminds me of the days, during my upbringing, when we kids feasted on gravel sandwiches, without the bread!
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This site below is normally a staunchly right wing online place. The title says it all
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/western-elites-are-wrong-to-say-trump-has-been-defeated-by-iran/
However, many of the comments disagree. They are worth reading. A common comment seems to be that Trump rushed into this without consulting his allies and that he underestimated the huge arsenal of weapons Iran has and the fanaticism of their leaders.
It is generally agreed that the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz and the attacks on Middle East allies was all very predictable with the resultant effect on the world economy.
Iran must be prevented from getting a nuclear bomb but the aims of the current US attacks have not been clear cut.
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That’s because America’s supposed “allies”, most of whom are “led” by extreme Leftists, including Australia, couldn’t be trusted to not disclose the battle plans to the enemy.
All of these countries strongly support and import as future Labor or other Leftist party voters, the demographic which is the primary cause of the problem(s) being addressed and do not wish to upset said demographic, of whom they are terrified of electoral, violence or terrorism responses.
Remember, it’s the Red-Green alliance. They are useful idiots of each other, as both are committed to the destruction of Western Civilisation.
Recall also, TRUMP fed false information about his intentions, or lack thereof, to Tucker Qatarlson knowing he would tell the Iranians.
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So why have alliances then? First you dont trust allies, then you want assistance once the missiles are flying. How come you trust them then? will they not blab the next wave of brilliant plans? Never mind , there is no logical answer.
The US has shown itself to not be trustworthy and agreement capable. It is no surprise adversaries just withdraw and make no real effort at meaningful negotiation.
You can argue ad infinitum about who did what to who first, but here we are. The world steadily moves away and does business where it’s safer and easier than with the flailing empire.
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Comments are mixed.
Most agree that nuclear Iran must be prevented, if they mention it at all but don’t know how to do that, except by force. Was the problem urgent? Apparently it was.
US objectives in this war;
1. Remove immediate nuclear threat,
2. Remove the Iranian leadership,
3. Protect the Gulf states from attack,
4. Degrade Iran capacity to strike US forces and neighbouring countries
5. Stop the killing of Iranians protesting the regime,
6. Defeat the IRGC
7. Reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
8. Confiscate the Iranian stockpile of 460kg of enriched uranium.
9. Regime change in Iran.
By my assessment aims 1 and 2 have been achieved. 3, 4 and 5 partially successful so far.
6,7,8 and 9, not yet
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The IRGC said they will exchange the American pilot for 10,000 Palestinian prisoners.
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They’ve missed the bus. The WSO (back seater) has been recovered alive.
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Good news.
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Yes, and there have only been 13 US fatalities so far in the war
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G’day,
On Sunday, April 5 Peter C gave a list of 9 objectives for the Israel/US war against Iran as he saw them, at #4.2:
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/04/sunday-154/#comment-2905678
and his estimate of their achievement at the end.
I have copied his set, including his final sentence, and added my comments for each numbered item.
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Comments are mixed.
Most agree that nuclear Iran must be prevented, if they mention it at all but don’t know how to do that, except by force. Was the problem urgent? Apparently it was.
US objectives in this war:
1. Remove immediate nuclear threat;
If this were true, why is the US not ordering Israel to dismantle its nuclear arsenal?
A more precise wording would be “remove Iran’s capability to build a nuclear weapon”.
In addition, it now seems that this intervention has increased the probability that a nuclear threat could come from Israel’s use its supply.
2. Remove the Iranian leadership;
No, it set out to achieve regime change. Old leadership arguably murdered, but the regime’s new leadership is intact.
3. Protect the Gulf states from attack;
That might have been assumed, but not enunciated in any list I’ve seen, and the opposite has resulted as the Gulf states which were home to US bases have become targets.
4. Degrade Iran capacity to strike US forces and neighbouring countries;
This was supposed to happen within a couple of days, but Iran is still delivering waves of increasingly precise missiles – current count is above 80 waves, and continuing, since Feb 28.
5. Stop the killing of Iranians protesting the regime;
My reading is that the population has rallied behind the regime as a result of the attack of Feb 28, and taken any opportunity to rise against the regime.
6. Defeat the IRGC;
Trying that with just bombing hasn’t worked in previous attempts since WW II.
7. Reopen the Strait of Hormuz;
No. The Strait wasn’t closed on Feb 28, and some ships are still using it.
8. Confiscate the Iranian stockpile of 460kg of enriched uranium;
As far as I can tell, under international law, Iran was legally entitled to do so under existing treaty conditions.
9. Regime change in Iran;
Under what law is that justification for war?
By my assessment aims 1 and 2 have been achieved. 3, 4 and 5 partially successful so far.
6,7,8 and 9, not yet
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I’ve made some punctuation changes to suit my style.
In the interest of brevity, and Jo’s rules about numbers, I’ve not included any references.
I guess my ultimate summary is that I disagree ….
Cheers,
Dave B
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[Don’t be afraid of including references if it shows fact from opinion, or supports the basis of an opinion. – Raquel]
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Thanks Raquel,
It was more the total number of references I’d need to locate and use as the opinions I expressed have evolved rather than been proven directly.
e.g the US objectives have changed as the days have passed…, so multiple sources would have been required. And more discussion.
Cheers,
Dave B
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I would like to see a reference for point 8.
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Mind numbing in the circumstances that anyone thinks international law applies to anything thats gone on in recent weeks. That horse has bolted.
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David, your list of US objectives for the war looks like it’s come from a biased, TDS-garbled mind. I trust you borrowed the list from someone else. My understanding from listening to impeccable sources on this matter (DT) is that the objectives were 1,4, and 8. Number 2 was Israel’s focus as a way to number 9.
Regarding “international law”, I don’t see any relevance at all to the circumstances of torture, rape, murder and terrorism perpetrated by that regime for 49 years on its own citizens and citizens of the world. Natural justice trumps “international law” anytime.
I wonder how the concerns abt the cost of petrol and later perhaps, food… sound to the widows, parents, and siblings of dead protesters (both men and women) in Iran over the past years.
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POTUS Trump warned all nations at the UN general assembly last year that they were foolish to be following the UN Climate Change™ hoax into economic oblivion. It took less than a year to prove his point.
US economy is doing quite well despite the war because they are the world’s largest exporter of oil and gas.
POTUS Trump is doing God’s work ridding the world of the oil funded terrorist threat. The Iranian clerics and their IRGC have proven to the world that they hate everyone.
Europe can only hope that USA is effective in destroying Iran’s will and capability to build a nuclear arsenal because they will have missiles capable of carrying a nuclear bomb into Europe before they will have one able to reach the USA.
Europe and the UK are as stupid as Australia. Pretending to be reducing carbon footprint by not counting the carbon coming from offshore sources. It has built massive dependence on offshore energy and manufacturing. Then Iran raking in billions from oil and gas to buy and build weapons that they use in their global terror campaign.
Place a climate fanatic and an islamic fanatic in a room and it would not be hard to work out which one would survive. It could be argued that UK is now close to being the test case for that tussle. Probably good for the world that UK and Europe are de-industrialising because it keeps powerful economies out of the hands of fanatics.
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The only problem being that due to open borders immigration a certain soon-to-dominate demographic may shortly have their hands on French and UK nuclear weapons.
Vice President Vance gave a (slightly tongue in cheek) warning:
A slightly positive note is that the UK no longer has the capacity to service its own nuclear weapons and gets them maintained by the US. Perhaps TRUMP can secretly organise their gradual disablement to render them inert.
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‘ … was all very predictable with the resultant effect on the world economy.’
Its the end of the American Alliance for ever more.
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What will replace it, fill the vacuum so to speak? There is a Newtonian Law of Politics.
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We’ll all join the non-aligned movement and after Putin has gone we could get involved with BRICS.
Super power rivalry is obsolete, these days its all about middle powers developing their own defensive capabilities. The US military will become an expensive stranded asset.
Beijing is selling US Treasuries at an alarming rate, no doubt its soft power.
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Jeez you’re naive. The age of super powers didn’t die with Rome. Power is eternal.
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Yes, the comments do inject a sense of reality to the hopes of the article.
“A common comment seems to be that Trump rushed into this without consulting his allies and that he underestimated the huge arsenal of weapons Iran has and the fanaticism of their leaders. ”
‘Support of their leaders…’ The demonstrations involving thousands of people in the streets three weeks ago were…
‘For freedom and against the Govt’ according to Western propaganda.
‘For Iran an against the foreign barbarians bombing them’ according to Iran.
“One would presume that he was encouraged by Netanyahu to believe that “something” other than the 125,000-strong IRGC could fill the vacuum, and that something would negotiate American access to Iran’s oil industry – that being the prize. ”
“For years, Washington has complained quietly that NATO is unbalanced.
Now it’s out in the open.
America pays for the system.
Europe benefits from it.
And when the bill arrives in the form of risk — real risk — Europe declines to sign.
Macron didn’t just refuse a mission.
He confirmed the pattern.’
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Actually it was their huge arsenal of weapons that prompted the US to act. The concern was that it was significant and growing to the point where Iran would be able to defend against future attacks on their nuclear development.
If Iran had more than the US thought and is putting up a better fight than anticipated, then it only highlights just how important it was to act now.
This being used to criticise Trump actually shows it was the right thing to do.
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‘ … shows it was the right thing to do.’
Its a religious war between Israel and Iran which can only end badly .
Desalination plants and power grids are next in line, a humanitarian disaster is looming.
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https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/04/germany-restricts-travel-for-all-men-17-45-requires-permission-from-army-to-leave-germany-n3813561
So Germany restricts freedom of speech by criminalizing criticism of their politicians, and now they restrict freedom of movement of their adult male citizens (women and migrants can travel whenever they want without getting a note from Daddy Government). They have also spent years trying to criminalize their most popular political party and erected a ‘firewall’ to keep them from having any input on how the nation is governed.
Why are they still considered a liberal democracy? Why are they still in NATO?
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… and it’s not just ‘Ze Germans’.
France is now actively trying to recruit a coalition of countries to stand AGAINST a fellow NATO member.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/macron-criticizes-trump-and-calls-on-allies-to-unite-against-us
With ‘friends’ like this, who needs enemies?
As far as I am concerned, NATO should be dissolved. It should have been dissolved in the 1990s when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. But even moreso now that so many of the countries that have spent the last 80 years under the American security umbrella openly despise America. If they want to go it alone for a while, I say more power to them. They are having a good old time sowing the wind at America’s expense, now let them reap the whirlwind. Let Vlad and Xi and the various mullahs have a nice long look at Europe’s soft exposed underbelly.
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What on earth do you think Russia or China would want with Europe? apart from being a large market for good a resources? The future is in Eurasia , not Europe.
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would make a great, desirable colony.
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About clear definitions.
I never even visited places East of Volga, not to mention East of Ural, so all I know about 75% of Russia is from 1950ies schoolbooks.
Seeing more YT stories about ideal Russian wife – Chinese husband families (not vice-versa!) I checked Siberian ethnic breakdown today.
She (you know who) said : 70-75% Russians live East of Volga and 78-80% live East of Ural mountains, no one knows exactly…
Hard to call the process “colonisation” when 75% of population formally take over the reminder.
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What on earth do you think anyone would see useful in SE Asia? Many millions too poor to pay taxes but must still be fed. It could only be a stepping stone on the way to Australia. Now WE must look attractive.
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More whataboutism, yawn. The topic was Europe and the alleged intrrest in spending blood an treasure to control some nice tourist sites and millions of African and Arab immigrants
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China is not waging war and has lost all desire to take Taiwan, so only the US is a danger to humanity.
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Where do you get these daft ideas from el gordo?
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El Gordo is pedantically correct, the best kind.
China does not (and never really has) *desired* to TAKE (by *force*) Taiwan, bloodless political reintegration has been the long term goal.
The shoe on the other foot is that the US is in classic late stage empire decline, extracting maximum tribute from its vassal states (AUKUS!, forcing TSMC to build Fabs in the USA, thus ensuring long term economic decline of Taiwan), using its military to smash anyone who dares to defy the “International Rules Based Order”.
Today’s USA (regardless of who sits in the Presidents chair) is by FAR the greatest danger to humanity, if only because it is morally and mentally incapable of even sharing “first place” (in the world) with anyone, let alone being second. So, if you can’t beat ’em, smash ’em is the order of the day (and who cares about the rest of the world….)
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“Where do you get these daft ideas from el gordo?”
Behaviour of countries at war for the last 70years… The bully of the world is still America, always bombing someone somewhere, the country with Marines stationed in 800 bases around the globe…
You can all pretend to be the good guys if you like, but you should consider why so many countries are NOT supportive of America.
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Waging war by proxy is still waging war.
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Yeah but not direct hostilities, its just the arms trade.
‘Since 2011, the U.S. has sold nearly $20 billion in military equipment to its closest allies and friends in Asia. Chinese armament sales have been both much smaller and concentrated in non-India South Asia.’ (Wharton Mag)
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Why are they still in NATO? Because Western countries are fake democracies. They are owned. Take a look at example number one – Donald Trump, got elected on a platform of no more wars. The peace president is destroying the world.
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Spoken like someone who didn’t actually listen to any Trump speeches, just 15 second sound bytes and the corporate media’s biased evaluation of his campaign platform.
Nobody who has been paying attention to Trump’s actual speeches or his military budgets thinks of him as some kind of foreign policy dove. He has been quite explicit in his plans for dealing with Islamists, dating back to his 2016 campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVUG4J_YFkk
Promises made, promises kept.
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Back to the Stone Age
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Old saying: Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first
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The story goes that Bibi Netanyahu was the snake oil salesman who poisoned the brain of a sick old man. There was never a good reason to start this full scale war, Donnie has lost his moral compass, and in the name of god he repeats historical folly.
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47 Years
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You’re too old to believe fairy tales.
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Agree absolutely – sick people (old or young) start the war they have zero chance to win.
Before 7 October the ME Peace was closer than ever – do you like Trump or do you not.
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Trump has caught Starmer interfering in the Hungarian election. British Ambassador to Hungary, Justin McKenzie Smith, held a closed-doors meeting with pro-Western activists and journalists in Budapest on March 4. The event was organised in conjunction with Political Capital, a think tank funded by the European Commission and George Soros. Orban is expected to win. So the British and EU have been caught paying to fix the opinion polls to show the opposition 23 points ahead of Orban. Then when Orban wins, the EU will declare the election illegitimate. Hungary would then be suspended by the EU, removing its EU veto powers. Then the EU can give Ukrainian politicians €90 billion of EU taxpayer money as bribes to prevent elections in the Ukraine, by continuing with the war.
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A week to go (election April 12).
A Quick Look with DuckDuckGo has indicated that this could be true (NOTE to self – must change search engine as DDGo is quite biased).
If the EU tries to dump Orban, then Hungary might leave the EU, since they get gas from Russia which means cheaper electricity and prosperity. Possibly with some other Countries in Eastern Europe deciding that they may join them as well.
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I remember when Starmer interfered in the US elections as well and sent people to work against TRUMP.
There are powerful forces trying to reintroduce communism around the world, it didn’t end with the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/23/keir-starmer-donald-trump-labour-election-interference-claim
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/trump-complaint-uk-labour-party
https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/c9/c959261c-f450-46bb-ac7c-c9c7646434b3/fec-complaint-re-labour-party.pdf
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Hungary under Viktor Orbán also has strict policies against mass immigration of a certain demographic which is flooding Western Europe via open borders. A result is minimal or no terrorism in Hungary and low rates of sexual and other violence compared to the rest of Europe.
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‘Then the EU can give Ukrainian politicians €90 billion of EU taxpayer money as bribes to prevent elections in the Ukraine, by continuing with the war.’
Your source of propaganda is unsophisticated.
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Why no link? I like to read what is said, not what someone says was said.
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Video.
Dr Steve Turley explains why Pam Bondi was sacked/fired.
She was loyal to TRUMP and a patriot but failed to achieve any major prosecutions.
Not mentioned in the video, but I am surprised she is 60 years of age, she looks much younger.
https://youtu.be/TZyCaBlsUm0
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Yeah, she’s still in good standing with Trump personally, but he was unsatisfied with her job performance. Trump is kinda famous for firing people who don’t get the job done, no matter how much he likes them (or not). There are no ‘safe’ jobs in Trumpworld.
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That’s how it works in business. It’s not personal. Bondi made major legal technical mistakes with prosecuting the NY Attorney Journal Letitia James with her use of totally inapplicable public consumer protection law to convict him of fraud in the Mar El Lago case. And being elected on a platform of ‘getting’ Trump, which targetting is itself fundamentally illegal. Presentable and tough and loyal, she really did not know her job well enough and let James walz away.
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And Letitia James is documented as guilty of the very fraud of which she accused Donald Trump,cheating the banks and the tax man, misreporting her buildings and declaring her father was her husband. No consequences if you are Democrat in a Democrat state.
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Steve,
I use the term “deliver the goods”.
Employees can be as nice as apple pie, but not worth keeping if they cannot deliver. President Trump might use “close the deal”.
Ruefully, I was never as good as I wished to deliver the goods. Ended up changing jobs often. Geoff S
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Submit all your personal details or lose your phone. All voluntary of course.will Mexico be the first country to introduce mandatory voluntary digital i.d on a large scale
https://reclaimthenet.org/mexico-speeds-up-biometric-id-rollout
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Since the Australian Government searches the world for the very worst and anti-freedom ideas of others, I expect to see it here soon.
In fact, we have digital ID here in all but name only and already have the Digital ID Act. https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/what-is-digital-id/digital-id-act-2024
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If dealing with the Australian government “my.id” two phase verification seems to be a requirement.
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Since Victoriastan mostly shut down the timber industry, and restrictions on forestry elsewhere in Australia, Australia now imports Australian timber species from Uruguay.
You just can’t make this up….
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Blue gum plantations, anyone? I’ve seen them in Peru, Portugal, Eritrea, California. Great for wild fires.
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Yes, and previously State Forests set aside for sustainable logging and well managed by Forestry Departments handed over (UN Agenda 21 Sustainability) as National Parks registered with the UN and managed by National Parks & Wildlife Services at taxpayer’s expense of course. And just about every activity banned. Also Marine National Parks.
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But it’s OK to destroy forests for wind and solar plantations and their cobweb of transmission lines…
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Destroy and another government department and the green crowd want new Koala habitat.
Access roads, feeder transmission corridors, wind turbine earthmoving for foundations and other connectors, or for solar paddocks.
New only needed for the scattered everywhere across the countryside and hills main transmission line additions.
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Maybe we can use the trees they chop down for wind and solar farms. Bring it on.
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David, In your walk (was it last year?) around the Rubicon Hydro Scheme did you see the magnificent stands of Alpine Ash near the Royston channel car par?. To the greens and other uninitiated this looks like old growth forest, therefore sacred. If the sign is still there it explains how that whole area was resown in the 1970’s. Trees about 150 feet tall and that round it would take several people to join hands around the trunks. The absolute embodiment of a renewable resource. Equally, the road from Healesville over the Black Spur.
More correctly the Blacks Spur. It all looks pristine but all regrown . This area was replanted, from memory, in the 30’s and 40’s. and now a famous tourist drive. burnt to a crisp in 2009, no evidence of that either just beautiful alpine greenery.
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The Sydney NSW Sutherland Shire Royal National Park, the first national park set aside in Australia, was burnt out early 1990s, I was caught outside of Sydney when all roads in West, South and North (East is the ocean) were closed for days and I was needing to return to work. Vehicles and people trapped on motorways had to be given emergency rations by helicopter and road from the other side not subject to the bushfires.
Drive through Royal National Park and contrary to green activist propaganda now fully recovered, after all the Australian “Bush” has been burning periodically for thousands of years, and over 120,000 years ago was covered in rainforests, now just 3% of the land area rainforest, as the climate warmed and became drier, and the Eucalyptus took over, well suited to hot and dry conditions and fire tolerant, in fact requires occasional fire to germinate.
By the way, the 1990s bushfire started in what had been Forestry Department managed, then National Parks & Wildlife took over !!!
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Science and the Resurrection
As Yale theologian Hans Frei insisted, the Resurrection is such a central part of the Bible’s narrative plot that the whole story rises or falls with it. He is thus led to conclude, “To consign the resurrection to the category of myth is a typical species of modern laziness …”.
So please read on…..
https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/articles/can-we-still-believe-in-the-resurrection?vcrmeid=FgSAcfGCEObiPA2XgN1wg&vcrmiid=qXueYm7mKkOgYvpHHXYRIQ
The Apostle Paul:
“And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead …. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men (1 Cor. 15:14-19).
Happy Easter!
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So, therefore you should all convert to Islam because that is what Islam says we should all be doing or else “ we kill you “!!
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I often wonder who the authors of these sort of pieces are trying to convince, especially when it comes down to berating those with other beliefs. It’s really little different to the aggressive aetheists, who just can’t leave it alone and get on with their lives.
Wishing you all a good Easter.
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Have you read the Quran?? You know the instructions manual!!!
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FWIW
“Why weather prediction got brilliant – but not climate predictions”
“Great video by Peter Ridd:”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/04/why-weather-prediction-got-brilliant-but-not-climate-predictions/
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FWIW
“EU Unclear On The Concepts – ideas In Ruts”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/eu-unclear-on-the-concepts-ideas-in-ruts/#respond
FWIW – another look, similar conclusion
“Europe’s Hormuz Armageddon”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/03/europes-hormuz-armageddon/
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The New York Times doesn’t know what NATO is an acronym for. I wouldn’t expect anything better from the wokesters who run that operation.
https://x.com/i/status/2040078016576204989
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They probably aren’t even embarrassed.
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FWIW – remember “geopolitical risk”?
“Canada and natural gas and fertilizer and get on it
And the effect of “driller response”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/04/canada-and-natural-gas-and-fertilizer-and-get-on-it/
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Countries with death penalty for gay people:
Afghanistan
Iran
Nigeria (north)
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Uganda
Yemen
Countries with death penalty for terrorists:
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Belarus
China
Iran
Iraq
Israel (new law)
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
North Korea
Oman
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Taiwan
Thailand
UAE
USA
Yemen
Can you guess which single country has the only law which Leftists are outraged over?
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FWIW – another go at “plastic food”
“Claim: Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/04/claim-climate-change-may-produce-fast-food-phytoplankton/
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I have often made the case for ice being the dominant factor by a long margin in controlling Earth’s radiation balance. The involvement of the gasses in the atmosphere in actual radiation transfer in and out of the atmosphere is primarily the support of ice. Ice is also present on the ground and over ocean surface so it also plays a role beyond the atmosphere.
I found a paper that looks at AIRS satellite spectrum data to actually quantify the change in absorption of CO2 from 2002 to 2019. Over that period, CO2 increased 37ppm or 13% of the pre-industrial level.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.10605v2
The result is that the increase in absorption over that period amounts to 0.36W/m^2. This is somewhat below the average of clime models that predict an average of 0.477W/m^2 for 37ppm increase over the period.
The paper reflects diligent work with analysing a huge amount of data due to the number of bands available in the AIRS data. I was going to do similar analysis but realised the data handling would be time consuming so went looking for something that does the hard work.
The result is interesting but the important factor from my point of view is that the actual data required a massive amount of filtering to provide clean signals suitable for isolating the direct influence of CO2. First, all daytime views were dismissed because the solar radiation overrides OLR. Then only 11% of the nighttime views were sufficiently cloud free to enable analysis. So overall, 5.5% of the available data was useful for this analysis.
So the CO2 influence on OLR can be clearly detected in 5.5% of the data. The rest is dominated by ice.
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Thanks Rick.
So the CO2 influence on our world is next to nothing at best.
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Umm, speaking of those ‘wascally wabbits’, it would seem that the plague proportions have returned with a vengeance here in Australia.
This is from Australian Geographic and dated just three days ago. (02April2026)
It seems that rabbits develop an immunity to the control methods used, myxomatosis from the 50s, and the recent Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus, (RHDV) also known as the calicivirus, from the 90s.
Rabbits cost agriculture around $200 Million a year, so it’s not an insignificant problem really.
This was a good article, and well worth the read.
Still, I suppose it keeps Akubra Hats in work, as it takes around 14 rabbit furs to make each hat.
I have an Akubra Cloncurry I purchased in 1978 at Tamworth for $20. I used the steam from a bucket of boiling water to re-bash the original into a new shape.
Here’s what the original looked like and this is the re-bashed version, and this is yours truly on the Treetops Walk at O’Reilly’s in January 2025 with hat and walking cane. And here’s me in my original which took 45 years to finally wear out, my gardening and mowing hat.
They don’t make the Cloncurry any more.
And for those with an ex military background, there’s, umm, hat fur felt!
Tony.
Tony.
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I have two Akubras, both purchased at Gowings Bros Department Store in Sydney which went out of business after the younger generation of the family took over the company and it tried to transform from being traditional to trendy, disrespecting their traditional and loyal clientele.
Incidentally Tony, I always thought 13 rabbit pelts went into an Akubra, not 14. Actually it’s between 10 and 14 depending on size and 12 being average.
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The roaring trade in wild rabbits when I was a kid. Every large property owner had a “rabbiter”, packs of dogs and rabbit drives. Times have changed. The local trapper was always seen with a ute full of paired rabbits hung on sticks , probably a 100 “pairs” ready to go to places like the Queen Victoria market where they would be dressed and sold.
A source of pocket money for local kids, in the day when under ground mutton was a regular on every dinner table. Best price I ever got was 1/- ( one shilling) a pair 10 cents for the youngsters. Fully dressed and pot ready. Skins stretched on wire frames dried and when many were collected the old man would take them to the buyer. Bought a beautiful Wembley and Scott air rifle with some of the proceeds. Cost about six quid from memory.
Nowadays no wild rabbits can be harvested for sale in Victoria, for your own protection of course, Technically one cannot even give any wild meat to anyone other than consumption by the immediate family, once again, for your protection. No one has any real idea what we are being protected from of course and while the safety police will tell everyone about all sorts of food hygiene and disease, I do not know of any one who actually caught anything. Wild rabbits were always sold liver and lungs in tact for the buyer, who in those days had a bit of general knowledge , to inspect.
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In today’s Nanny State Australia, a kid can’t even buy an air rifle.
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And apparently not an easy task for adults in WA.
And may require a “valid” location with shooting permission.
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Not sure that I would like to see ‘kids’ from certain demographics with access to air rifles.
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They have yet to develope immunity to .22 bullets !
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My air rifle fired .177 waisted pellets.
Good for shooting tins can at up to 25m.
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FWIW
“7 surprising benefits of vitamin D that go beyond bone health”
https://health.yahoo.com/wellness/nutrition/vitamins-supplements/article/benefits-of-vitamin-d-040042576.html
Via https://instapundit.com/787406/#disqus_thread
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NHK Japan Medical Frontiers recently had an interesting, and new, 20 mins video on the impact of Vitamin D on bones and the immune system. It spent over half the show going through the impact of Vitamin D on immunology at the cellular level. There is clear objective evidence of its role in the immune system, and its role in releasing macrophages into the blood stream to go into battle.
For many, this might not be news, but it was presented in easily understood language, with pictures and videos, which made all the difference.
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2026’s cyclone season slowly meanders on.
TL37U between PNG and the Solomons deepened overnight to Cat 1, now christened TC Maila, stationary in the same spot (for a week now) with a chance of an upgrade to Cat 3 in the next 24 hours.
On the other side of the Solomons towards Fiji, TD11F is also going nowhere fast, ie. stationary, in situ, because *climate change*!
Bigger badder faster = neutered (?)
https://www.met.gov.fj/maps-observation/weather-map/
You may have to select latest time.
https://www.met.gov.fj/maps-observation/satellite-image/
Click on top ‘View Product’ for Code Pink image.
Roaring westerlies down south, brisk easterly trade winds up north, big happy autumnal high pressure in the middle… yet we’re called den!ers when we ask: so what exactly has ‘changed’?
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Yes I noticed Cyclone Malia.
I lived in PNG for 10 years when I was young. I don’t remember any cyclones! I am wondering why not. Do they avoid the tropics?
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FWIW
“Exceptional Sky News Global Energy Report Highlights Dependency Risk for Entire British Commonwealth
April 4, 2026 | Sundance | 116 Comments”
“Conway never points the finger to the “net zero” carbon goals of Europe, the U.K and Australia. However, he shows the outcome of their dependence on production and refining by other non-participating nations. The timelines clearly show, as the Green Energy policies were pushed the vulnerability inherent within any supply shock begins to get worse. This is a very well-presented data-driven analysis that is worth watching.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/04/exceptional-sky-news-global-energy-report-highlights-dependency-risk-for-entire-british-commonwealth/
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That kerosene graph looks like you’d better get your flying done very quickly
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FWIW
“The climate scaremongers: Warning! Expect sunshine and extreme lying about weather”
“FOR years the climate change establishment has been desperately trying to convince the rest of us that global warming is making our weather worse. One by one, the scares have fallen by the wayside as the real world refused to co-operate – melting ice caps, famines, rising seas and so on. The only scare left now is the weather.
But the zealots faced one big obstacle. The historical data available provides no evidence of weather becoming more extreme. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, storms, wildfires – you name it, they are no worse now than in the past. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose sole function is to find such evidence, has been forced to admit as much.
So the scientists who work for the climate change establishment decided simply to ignore the data and concoct their own. They called it ‘weather attribution’. They built a set of computer models based on present conditions and alongside this fabricated another model of an imaginary, counterfactual world, which tried to portray what the world’s climate would have looked like in pre-industrial times.”
“Now, for what I believe is the first time, a new scientific study has exposed the deceit and flaws lying behind the weather attribution industry, which is heavily funded by the Green Blob, including the Grantham Foundation and the European Climate Fund.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, which has published this study, has issued a press release which reads:”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-warning-expect-good-sunshine-and-extreme-lying-about-weather/
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Sunday funny: flat battery?
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tcz4kfH9Yn1z23obp.mp4
He’d probably have reversed the cables too, or connected +ve last.
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Hmmm!
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/hemj9ivxaaagzst.jpg
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At least the No kings rallies did what Jenny Craig couldn’t.
Get the blue-haired tubbies out walking! 😆
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Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was.
ie the end of fake time, daylight saving.
May it never return.
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Being sufficiently regional to require satellite free to air signals for reception, the time changes “over east” actually affect the program choice on ABC and SBS. This is because all (Australia wide) programming from those channels are simultaneously available, allowing a modest amount of “time shifting”.
Alas, commercial channels are limited to your local geographic area.
Now if the local channel supporting AFL would eliminate “delayed broadcast” times. 🙁 Though the last “Eagles” game on delay was just as well missed.
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FWIW – for the covid files
“Big Pharma Giants Pfizer and BioNTech Forced to Shut Down COVID-19 Booster Shot Trials After Americans Refuse to Be Guinea Pigs”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/big-pharma-giants-pfizer-biontech-halt-covid-19/
In Pfizzer we don’t trust
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FWIW
“Good news for once.
F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.”
https://x.com/JackMurphyRGR/status/2040563822784647473
“Murphy is a reliable source.”
https://instapundit.com/787561/#disqus_thread
If true New York Times most inconvenienced
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Excellent news, if true.
If captured he would have illegally been held as a hostage and paraded and humiliated as is the practice of the Iranians and their proxies.
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Hostage taking is a declared war crime. But it seems in the Western press that international law only applies to Trump’s action. The mullahs can kill as many as they like and hostage taking is standard. It’s a two speed morality.
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And the mass murder of tens of thousands of young unarmed civilian protestors is never mentioned by the Western Press. But if Trump loses a single pilot, he is at fault and an immoral warmonger. Is there no morality among Western journalists? It’s a bit like WWII where Hitler’s Concentration camps were supposedly a secret. And the murder of tens of millions of unarmed Russian civilians by Christian German soldiers.
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“If captured he would have illegally been held as a hostage”
Rubbish!
Prisoner of war to be held until swapped or the war ends. For the war to end Trump would have to sign an armistice and then a peace treaty, and he’s not good at eating crow. The pilot would be conveniently ignored and forgotten…
If you don’t believe America is at war with Iran, Trump has declared that it is more than once.
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The Australian reports that the missing pilot has been rescued by Commandos.
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There will be a movie. I can’t find confirmation but my son tells me they flew in a C-130 but couldn’t fly out so they burned it. There were special forces and gunfire.
The script is being written already. C-130 Down.
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FWIW – script being re-written
“Well, that tells you something about how America fights wars. Hundreds of special operators, and when the C-130s (I assume) got stuck in the sand, we flew in 3 more and blew up the other two. ”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/04/multiple-reports-that-f-15-weapons-systems-officer-rescued-after-massive-firefight-still-unconfirmed-n3813575
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You say that as if there is something wrong with “whatever it takes” to rescue their own caught behind enemy lines.
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You read wrong
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I’m pleased.
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If you could choose only one phrase to describe the most important/revered concept held by American military personnel, it would be …
Every soldier who has ever found themselves stuck in enemy territory in dire circumstances KNOWS, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that his chain of command is moving heaven and earth to get him out and no resources will be spared. You just have to hold on and keep yourself alive. Help will be coming, soon, and in overwhelming force. And nobody has a problem with it. Not the citizens whose tax money is being used, or the politicians who appropriate it, or the generals who have to take it out of their budget, or the dozens/hundreds of guys who will be asked to risk their lives to rescue one guy. It is ingrained in the American military psyche.
You have no idea how much incidents like this boost morale. Hundreds of soldiers and tens of millions of dollars in equipment put into play to rescue one guy. Just to prove a point, both to the enemy and to our own armed forces. The enemy knows we will spare no expense to protect our guys …. and that their own leadership will throw them into the meat-grinder and abandon them to their fate without losing a wink of sleep.
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POW is different to a hostage.
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Wouldn’t POW need war to be officially declared by both sides?
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No
America hasn’t officially declared war on anyone since WWII, but has been in plenty of wars where POWs were taken.
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FWIW
And someone practicing to be the latest “Lord Haw Haw”?
“Hot Take: Fortunately for Missing Airman, Iran Is Not as Barbaric as Trump or the Genocidal Zionists”
Start at
“HealthRanger, whom we’re surprised we haven’t cited before, because his bio lists him as an “IQ 150+ polymath,” thinks the pilot’s been captured, and it’s fortunate for him that “the Iranians are not as barbaric as Trump or the genocidal Zionists.” ”
And follow down
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/04/04/fortunately-for-missing-pilot-iran-is-not-as-barbaric-as-trump-n2426786
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More on that
“CONFIRMED!!! F-15 Weapons Systems Officer Rescued After Massive Firefight; UPDATED WITH DETAILS”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/04/multiple-reports-that-f-15-weapons-systems-officer-rescued-after-massive-firefight-still-unconfirmed-n3813575
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FWIW
“I Love a Good Rant”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m03Xw0XlW7w
When you watch this British journalist, ask yourself if you could ever imagine a Canadian “journalist” being so outspoken? Of course, the answer is an emphatic NO. The cowards that work for Global News, CTV News and CBC News are nothing more than Lieberal Propagandists. They’re nothing more than good “readers” who will say anything that they’re told to.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/04/i-love-a-good-rant/
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Global warming is not a major player in Greenland ice loss.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/04/04/new-study-reports-a-60-slowdown-in-greenlands-ice-loss-rate-in-the-last-decade/
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What ice loss? Greenland gained 82 m of ice in 50 yrs, exact dates known.
Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F-1-LO Lightning (serial number 41-7630) that was buried beneath 268 feet (82 m) of ice in Greenland for over 50 years before being recovered and restored to flying condition.
The aircraft was part of the “Lost Squadron” forced to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice cap on July 15, 1942, while ferrying to Great Britain during Operation Bolero; all 25 crew members were rescued, but the planes were abandoned and eventually entombed by accumulating snow and ice.
Recovery: In 1992, the Greenland Expedition Society successfully excavated the plane using steam probes and hot-water cannons, transporting it to Middlesboro, Kentucky, for restoration.
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So Glacier Girl was recovered in 1992 after 50 years and in that fifty years the ice cover had increased 82 metres?
The change in CO2 has been quite steady at 0.4% pa, almost a straight line. But the depth of the ice kept increasing? There is certainly zero connection between CO2 levels and ice depth in Greenland at that location.
The very idea that there is even a world temperature is yet to be proven a worthwhile concept scientifically. Man made rapid CO2 driven Global Warming remains wild conjecture, especially after decades of failure since Glacier Girl landed in 1942. You would have to squint and put a bag over your head to see any correlation.
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There are a few more P-38’s still buried where Glacier Girl cane from but it’s deemed too expensive and too difficult to recover them.
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And we are supposed to believe that Greenland ice is melting? (apart from the edges at sea level where people live)
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There are still 5 P-38s and 2 B-17 under the ice. The Confederate Airforce [join and you are a Colonel] must be licking their chops waiting for the ice to melt.
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Can AI match car paint better than a human?
https://youtu.be/5tOHy6IdrIU?si=jw-HPSnXBmvePQ1O
Ah the joys of car paints.
Day 2 of my putting learning into practice. Pretty nice if I do say so and it’s a mid panel blend repair, the hardest of all.
Need to get the colour tweaked and re-do it, again.
Swatches don’t cut it…
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In New Zealand, like Cuba still today, had restrictions on buying imported vehicles and one was the buyer needed foreign currency, many Kiwis worked in Australia to buy that car of their dreams and ship it back home.
As a result there were and still are a few very old cars, when I first started business travel to NZ I was in my early twenties and since, despite changing employers, I have been a regular business and holidays visitor. During the last almost 25 years of employment I travelled there several times a year for a few days or a week or two.
The point is how to repair rust cost effectively and cheaply. Cut out the areas of corrosion, treat the edges against corrosion, insert some aluminium mesh like woven wire or expanded mesh to cover and slightly extend around the edges, fix into place. Apply body filler outside over the mesh and damaged area.
Sand back, undercoat, spray paint and fixed
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FWIW – the NZ E-Type Jag worrier of the 1960 plus era was a Ford Mk 3 Zephyr with Corvette internals
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One of the funniest driving experiences I have had in NZ was me driving with a colleague in the passenger front seat, a car coming from the opposite direction with first nation aboard had a roof rack and as the car approached a pram fell off and was bouncing along and hit the bumper on our hire car. My colleague yelled it was a pram, and I replied yes I know, was there a baby in it.
He was not amused.
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Ah, the days of Allcomer Saloon car racing, Paul Fahey, Rod Coppins and that young kid Whats’isname… Jim Richards! Some epic battles at Pukekohe!
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The life of the serving Russian conscript soldiers …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5rm41g34qo
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My God that’s almost as bad as America!! They call it asset forfeiture… Carry cash and the cops will steal it instantly, then you have to pay lawyers and wait months to see if you can ever get it back, and often don’t!
While it quite likely happened, hell it would be Qld or NSW a few years ago with corrupt police, it really has nothing to do with him being a soldier. Moral- don’t have an argument with your wife and storm out carrying a fortune in cash in a bag!
“Sometimes soldiers have been robbed by their own commanders. One serviceman told the BBC his unit was denied access to shops and ordered to hand over their bank cards and PIN numbers to a sergeant major. The officer allegedly ended up with 50 salary cards, many belonging to soldiers now listed as missing in action.”
That sounds just like Ukraine, and their death rate is low because the Commanders deny they have been killed and keep the deceased’s salary themselves.
Love it- you pick your propaganda and outright lies.. This one is just as bad-
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0q964851po
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FWIW
“Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’ actually a refund to free us from costly offshore wind”
“Headlines last week (NY Times, NPR, CNN) screamed that President Donald Trump was handing nearly a billion dollars to a French energy giant to cancel building offshore wind farms. The coverage was classic gotcha journalism — misleading, incomplete, and designed to fit a tired narrative. The real story is far more straightforward and sensible.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/04/trumps-billion-dollar-giveaway-actually-a-refund-to-free-us-from-costly-offshore-wind/
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The ability of left leaning media to twist and take out of context makes them the masters of deception
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They have been at it all my life Dennis, its only when you get old enough to see what happened to their predictions you realise that the world 50-60years ago was a complete lie in the media.
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FWIW
An example of it is better to have a businessman that turns politician than a politician that tries to be a businessman.
The US has the interest in the billion, the French don’t. But they got their billion back and will likely have a better income stream from gas plants so cuts each way.
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A better deal than Victoria where a certain politician cancelled a road tunnel, told the population that this would cost NOTHING then paid a billion dollars to the company as compensation,
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The collapse of Communism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckdW-E3u-Y
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FWIW
“Feds Arrest Terrorist Soleimani’s Nieces Living in U.S.”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/04/feds-arrest-terrorist-soleimanis-nieces-living-in-the-usa-n4951467
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Wow! Viewer discretion.
Will she be stoned to death?
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