By Jo Nova
Skeptics have been waiting for this for years
On day one Donald Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement. He’s abandoned the WHO, rescinded 78 executive orders made by Joe Biden, and freed 1,500 political prisoners who came to the Capitol to protest 4 years ago. He declared a National Energy Emergency and removed the EV sales target (the 50 percent zero-emission new vehicle sales by the end of the decade). He has vowed to disassemble the vast Inflation Reduction Act which was a monster Green Climate Fund.
100,000 pointless climate grifter careers have just been extinguished.
For four long tortuous years he was treated like a criminal, derided and mocked, and even shot. He must surely have been planning this day in intricate detail. If it bugged him, he put it on the list, even to the point of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and reversing Denali back to Mount McKinley.
There are already reports of the State of Florida issuing notices about a storm in the Gulf of America.
An Overview Of Trump’s Day One Executive Actions
ZeroHedge
“The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said at the Capital One Arena.
“You know, China, they use a lot of ‘dirty’ energy, but they produce a lot of energy and when that stuff goes up in the air, you know, [it] doesn’t stay there … it floats into the United States of America,” he said.
It is difficult to “fight for cleaner air” when “dirty air is dropping all over us,” Trump said. “Unless everybody does it, it just doesn’t work.”
Withdrawing from the climate pact will save taxpayers $1 trillion, the White House said.
First things, first — free speech is back:
Trump issued an executive order against government censorship, which he vowed would “bring back free speech to America.”
“Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents, something I know something about,” Trump said in his inaugural address.
The executive order establishes as policy that federal employees cannot restrain American citizens’ free speech or use money from taxpayers to that end.
And he will settle the score:
It also directs the attorney general to prepare a report to address abuses against Americans’ free speech under the Biden administration
Furthermore he signed an order demanding all agencies preserve their records “related to political persecutions.” He signed an executive order on the weaponization of government and has asked the attorney general to investigate abuses…
The 51 former intelligence officials who interfered in the 2020 election with a fake story to cover for Hunter Biden’s bombshell laptop — have already lost their security clearances.
It’s been a blockbuster day that will be talked about for years. Already there are calls for the Australian opposition leader to get us out of Paris too.
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Apologies, I am away from the desk alas and will be taking a few days off…
Hey Jo,
your blog, and most of the commentators here, we know which ones I don’t include … the ones that seem to have evaporated along with the Biden administration, …
helped the miserable likes of me get through this dark period.
Thank you.
Maybe there can be some evaporation in Australia.
This doesn’t mean your mission is over.
So take a few well deserved days and get back at it soldier.
I don’t think the SOBs are completely vanquished.
Although it’s hard to believe they can get more awful or dumber.
But I expect they will.
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“it’s hard to believe they can get more awful or dumber. But I expect they will.”
But they won’t be getting Federal Government handouts.
And most of the ‘blue States’ won’t have any money if they try to stall the economic recovery.
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It didn’t even take 24 hours.
Nazi SALUTE?! Liberals ACCUSE Elon Musk, But The ADL DEFENDS HIM; Rising DEBATES ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_IffdzzcE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
There can be no doubt, we are living in a simulation being run by a pranking alien teenager.
Probably the evolutionary outcome of lifeforms after they advance through the internet and TikTok.
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Incidentally the Americans used the so-called Bellamy Salute from 1892 until 1942 when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. It has a superficial similarity to the National Socialist salute.
The National Socialists and Fascists adopted the Roman Salute.
Since the Bellamy Salute appeared similar to the National Socialist salute the US dropped the Bellamy Salute in 1942 and replaced it with the hand-over-heart gesture.
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There are many photos of people on the stage on the night all waving with one arm, especially musicians. It’s a ridiculous slur.
Even Winston Churchill’s V for Victory can be misread easily. Fingers in the air have many bad meanings too.
My memory of the actual Hitler NAZI salute was legs together and heel click. But who cares about facts when you are assaulting a conservative? It’s just HOAX #1.
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All the time not realising that the National Socialists were of the Left, just like them.
That has been discussed many times on these esteemed pages so I won’t repost anything that hasn’t already been said.
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“Even Winston Churchill’s V for Victory can be misread easily”
To replicate Churchill’s sign you have to mimic how he held his cigar
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Fingers in the air have many bad meanings too.
The story I heard and like is that it started as an “up yours” by the English long bow archers to the French to show they still have the two fingers that matter. The story also said that the French cut those fingers off any captured Englishmen.
I’m just telling the story. 🙂
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I believe that is correct. The English archers used that action for just that reason , as I have read in several sources. Those two fingers were used to draw the string on their bows, without them they could no longer be effective archers. This the demonstration to the “frogs”.
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Is it possible that notorious pre-war photo of our deceased Queen relates to Bellamy Salute ?
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I just saw the clip. My heart goes out to you, with the extravagant gesture of throwing his heart.
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LOL. Have a look at this and the ‘klop’ salute as well as other interpretations.
Humour does it best from the ‘Allo Allo’ BBC Comedy TV Programme of the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDDa183URE
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Yes, what happened to the evaporated ones?
Presumably crying and screaming in a dark corner somewhere with an incurable case of TDS.
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In this little corner of the South West Pacific, a major outbreak of TDS erupted over the airwaves yesterday – although whether it was the lousy windy rainy grey non-summer-like ‘climate’ afflicting the country or merely a case of Tuesday-itis among the effluent chatterati on the gravy train, who cares!
Within my select clique of friends, hoots of celebratory joy were the order of the day (despite the lousy ‘climate’) and sure enough, today broke sunny and warm with a hint of calm hope for the future. Even so, the interwebs are full of Chicken Littles squawking like spoiled brats that their utopian plans have been derailed by [insert derogatory name du jour]. I mean, FRIGID SNOW in Florida and Louisiana?
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Naah…the lefties are just in their safe spaces, crying booths and forest screamathons.
They’ll be back.
But on the plus side, every time they post we all get to feel smug in our superiority.😎
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🙂
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So what is the standard by which trump will be measured- will it be financial, will it be confrontational, will it be cost of living, or something else
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If Trump can collect more grift than Biden (all fmaily members included) and issue oardons at the end then Trump wins. Otherwise Biden is thr safest and most effective POTUS of all time.
Trumps term will be assessed at the ballot box in 2028 by the American people.
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Well he knows what a woman is so he starts at +100.
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For a start, he is rebuilding America after decades of decline due to Leftist policies.
Secondly, he has sent all the Leftoids into permanent seclusion, into their “safe spaces”, screaming and kicking with severe cases of incurable TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). This will be suitable punishment for their promotion of their Civilisation-destroying agenda.
And finally, yes, there are ONLY TWO GENDERS as TRUMP says. And no, MEN CAN’T HAVE BABIES.
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‘ … confrontational …’
That is his usual style, but he has set himself a new course as peacemaker and presumably less combative.
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Peter Fitzroy judging by his last term and what he has set out for this term I’d say safer borders , fewer drugs entering the country , less crime by illegal aliens jumping the border , cheaper electricity, cheaper fuel , more employment , fairer sports where men can only compete with men , hiring people on merit rather than gender means more competent public servants , cheaper groceries (because of the reduced energy costs) , more people in employment , lower cost of living , less regulation , less government bureaucracy , etc etc etc . But apart from all that probably not much .
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“So what is the standard by which trump will be measured- will it be financial, will it be confrontational, will it be cost of living, or something else”
Is this a complete thought?
There is no final punctuation.
There has been a decade of Trump being measured by every conceivable standard, a few rational, but most irrational to the point of hysteria.
But one stands out at present … winner.
(Are you a real person?)
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If the anti-energy, anti Western Civilisation lobby of the Left were serious they would have made the world’s largest CO2 emitter comply rather than selectively destroy Western economies. (Not that CO2 emissions matter.)
The fact that China as an advanced military, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and space power was not required to comply is evidence that this was never about “saving the planet” but enabling Chinese world domination.
Of the Western leaders, only TRUMP understood this.
China is by far the world’s largest CO2 emitter, more than twice the next biggest emitter the United States.
Here is a remarkable graph (link below). Notice how CO2 emissions from the US, Japan, EU and Russia are not significantly different (or lower) from 1970 but China and India have shot up. This deserves to be widely shared.
Remind me again why the West is destroying their economies with “green” energy?
Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_fossil_carbon_dioxide_emissions_six_top_countries_and_confederations.png
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Thanks David and OWI Data shows the same data for co2 emissions since 1970.
Other developing countries have been increasing co2 emissions since 1970 and China a faster increase since about 2000.
BTW Aussies are just a near horizontal line for decades and of course no risk except that we are hurting ourselves and becoming more vulnerable every year.
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What you say makes complete sense but sensible lines of thought are not the domain of the Left. I wonder how many of them choose to ignore the fact that China is by far the highest emitter of CO2 and how many of them are simply unaware?
It suits China to a tee. They can can send out the occasional virtue signal about meeting distant renewables targets for the western MSM and politicians to lap up whilst they use every form of energy available to manufacture goods to export.
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Gulf of America is called out in the document.
https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/note-press-executive-order-number-25-13-emergency-management-gulf-winter-weather
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I think renaming it is a fantastic idea.
As is returning Mount McKinley back to its pre-Obama name.
Americans should no longer be ashamed of who or what they are.
Make America Great Again.
Meanwhile, in Australia we just watch from the sidelines as our country is systemstically destroyed by the Uniparty and crime increases and social cohesion decreases.
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Indeed.
The Gulf of America is a more inclusive name than the Gulf of Mexico which was named before Mexico existed. It was named after one of the Aztec peoples, the Mexica.
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I am heartened by what I have seen and heard over the past 48 hours from the United States. Brighter days ahead!
Of course, here in Canada we have a ruling class which believes that any policy which goes against Trump is intrinsically noble and justified, regardless of the damage it does to Canadians.
This type of thinking leads to further squandering of our wealth and further divisions within our population, not to mention damaging the relationship we have with our neighbour to the south.
Of the 50 States in the Union, only West Virginia and Mississippi have a GDP per capita that is lower than Canada’s average. In Canada, the two strongest provinces by this measure depend on oil and gas as the major components of their economies. Our federal government now wants to stop exporting oil to the US to retaliate against Trump.
Mark Carney, former governor of the BOE and of the BOC, and fresh off his gig as UN Envoy for “Climate Action Finance”, is running to replace Justin Trudeau, and has the enthusiastic support of our politically-subsidized main stream media and their gullible audiences.
Trump’s magic power might be to his ability to cause lefties to lose their minds. It’s always funny to watch, but it can be messy to be part of the collateral damage caused by exploding lefty heads.
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Have a nice break Jo
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Would be wonderful if Australia had free speech, but fat chance I suspect. The thought police grow ever stronger.
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Dutton will be a shoe in if he takes a leaf out of the Donald’s playbook.
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But he has already said he is fully committed to Paris as per another post here.
If he wants to win, he needs to grow a pair.
It’s not certain he’ll win with Labor Lite Uniparty policies.
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This is what worries me too, David. Dutton has shown no inclination to move away from Net Zero. Instead he talks about “taking a more sensible approach”. This will get him nowhere. By all means have nuclear as a long time goal, but in the meantime promote coal and gas and push for reliable, cheap energy, please!
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Any leaf in particular or just become a mini Don me too? Petsonally I think that would be a little sad looking. If he stands firm on energy and steers away from mealy mouthed PC speak , I think he is over the line.
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I have a slight issue with TRUMP’s use of language:
“fight for cleaner air” and “dirty air”
In reference to CO2.
It just reinforces the false idea that CO2 is supposedly bad and dirty.
And the reason given is:
“Unless everybody does it, it just doesn’t work.”
The above reason implies that if everybody was compliant then all would be OK.
In fact, if everybody did it we would have even more global economic devastation, including in China, and then the West could no longer enjoy cheap goods made by Chinese slave labour.
He should or at least could have used the opportunity that there was zero scientific evidence of the claim that anthropogenic CO2 was a problem, that it was perhaps only 4% of all atmospheric CO2, that global cooling and warming are perfectly natural phenomena and that, as Tony Heller has proven in the case of the United States, supposed “proof” of catastrophic warming is based on data fr@ud by NASA and NOAA.
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That is because he has Prof William Happer as his scientific advisor instead of TdeF.
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0.04% CO2 @ 400ppm
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It’s 4% of all atmospheric CO2 so 4% of 400ppm or 16ppm.
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Yeah, Trump’s rhetoric is always sloppy, but that’s part of his charm.
He doesn’t sound like a politician who has had speech-writers honing every bit of prose that comes from his mouth, and focus groups making sure it tests well with audiences. It’s just him riffing. The flaws are what make his words feel authentic, rather than sleazy politician-speak.
He also speaks in a style that is more akin to how working-class people speak, rather than how college educated people who are couched in the upper-class lexicon speak. Trump doesn’t use words like lexicon, or Latinx, or praxis, or intersectionality, etc. He uses simple words that guys who work in auto shops and gals who sling hash can understand. He sounds like one of them, so they are more inclined to trush him than some hoity-toity tea drinker who sips with pinky raised up.
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Yep.
He speaks the language of the common man.
They understand what he means.
They despise academic speech.
Of course, CO2 is benign – but now’s not the time to push that line.
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Yes I now is the time to push that.
Trump has just withdrawn from the Paris agreement. IPCC is in trouble.
Push for all we are worth!
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I’m actually kind of bummed he withdrew from the Paris agreement … again.
I was hoping he would opt for something more permanent, like sending the agreement to Congress to ratify as a treaty (where it would fail).
Using an EO to withdraw can be undone by whoever wins the 2028 election (as Biden did after winning the 2020 election). But having it rejected by Congress would make it much more difficult for whoever comes after Trump to rejoin.
Hopefully, the EO is just step one, and he sends it Congress anyway.
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Arguably the US signing of the Paris Accords was illegal anyway because it’s a treaty and treaties have to be ratified by Congress.
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They got around that by making it a non-binding ‘agreement’ rather than a binding treaty. That’s why I think Trump should put it before Congress to ratify as an official treaty. Once it fails, it makes it much harder for the next president to resurrect via EO the zombie ‘agreement’ that Congress just shot down in treaty form.
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Thanks again Jo and I hope you’re able to relax and enjoy your short break.
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He made a similar mistake when talking about pesticide use in Europe, where obviously his definition of “pesticide” was incorrect. I don’t mind because the bloke can literally talk (weave) for hours. Sooner or latter, he will say something out of line. He talked for hours on Joe Rogan , never taking a pee break or even drinking. It was very impressive. Compare that to Biden or Harris…….
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Apologies , should have been reply to #8.
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At DOGE, Musk should set up a website where people can submit examples of Government waste that need to be investigated.
Or examples of products and practices that have been inappropriately banned in the name of “saving the planet”.
One example is the banning of Desflurane, an anaesthetic agent, increasingly banned all over Australia. I don’t know if is also being banned in the United States.
In extremely woke and WEF and UN compliant Australia, it is increasingly banned by woke management in hospitals because it is claimed to be an especially powerful greenhouse gas. Even in the tiny quantities that find their way into the atmosphere. For my anaesthetist friend, it is his favourite anaesthetic gas and in the various woke hospitals he visits, he is forced to use inferior anaesthetic agents.
I hope America doesn’t have that problem or if it does, it will be corrected.
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In oz, a website to register Government waste that needs investigating, would crash within hours due to overload…Our socialist cretins have bloated the public service to obscene levels.
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FWIW – some reading for “Elbow & Co”
“Unbelievable stupidity on the part of Trudeau, Ford and our other moron leaders.”
“Everyone is focused on the US withdrawal from Paris and the tariff threat, but several other Executive Orders yesterday will have even more radical impacts and will require Canada to rethink all our energy and climate policies in response. /… ”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1881738080673239044.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/01/21/unbelievable-stupidity-on-the-part-of-trudeau-ford-and-our-other-moron-leaders/
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From one of the links you gave: “it wasnt just Donald Trump dodged a bullet that day, the whole nation did”. Never a truer word.
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Doesn’t matter how successful Trump’s America becomes my country’s government will ‘double down’ to deliver disaster and ruin. After all, their ideology is far too important to be concerned with empirical pragmatism.
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Are you referring to Australia?
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If the shoe fits.
‘Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has reaffirmed his party’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, despite the United States’ decision to withdraw from the accord under President Donald Trump.
“We’ve been pretty firm in our commitment to net zero by 2050, and that’s a commitment that we take seriously and that we’ll honour,” Mr Dutton told Sharri Markson.
“I think it’ll be interesting to see where the United States goes and what influence that has in Europe and elsewhere around the world over the course of the next couple of years.” (SKY)
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You did not ask me, David but I call it “triple down” – ABC24 (my favourite self-flagellation tool) never fail to deliver the examples.
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What a fantastic way to celebrate:
1) TRUMP
2) The renaming to the Gulf of America.
3) The end of climate change BS (in the US only).
A SNOW STORM hits the Gulf of America coast.
https://www.clickorlando.com/weather/2025/01/21/wild-weather-heavy-snow-sweeps-across-gulf-coast-months-after-damaging-hurricanes/
Meanwhile stupid woke countries like Australia are becoming even more fanatical about “climate change” and even think you can economically smelt aluminium with wind and solar “laughables”.
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They think $2B helps.
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Follow the money trail…
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Another 2 Billion South Pacific Pesos down the toilet.
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Australia-la-la land. If Big Wind Bowen stays energy minister, we won’t be smelting anything…
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Since his victory, Argentinian president Javier Milei has:
Fired 5,000 gov’t employees
Eliminated 380,000 gov’t regulations
Eliminated 12 of 21 cabinet posts
Opened up the oil industry
Shut down the ministry of gender & diversity
…and offered to help Trump and Musk.
When can we do the same here?
*plus the TGA and all rotten medical bodies.
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The lousy TGA, if all is needed is a rubber stamp, why do we need them.
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Fundamentally, Trump’s big picture changes are mostly a reversion to the past.
Many of his reforms have existed and have been shown to work well.
There have been removals of “special pleading” by which special interest groups have lost their privileges. Examples are US and United Nations.
Australia’s Conservative parties might benefit by realising this and selling their policies as a return to what was shown to work well. The golden years of the past saw far less division and more national pride, under one flag.
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Have a lovely break, Jo.
Geoff S
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“Can we do anything here”? Not while Albo-tross is our PM! All he wants to do is subvert Trump by dealing directly with Democrat controlled States. No point in Australia sending a Representative to replace Kevin yet then?
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Dealing directly with woke California, yeah that’ll work.
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In what is commonly attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler (but for which there is no evidence of him writing it) the following is stated as the cycle of civilisations:
America was approaching the end.
Perhaps the refreshing effect of TRUMP, and the unique American Idea will prove that Civilisations can be saved after all.
And it is no small part because former British Empire countries like Australia, NZ, Canada, South Africa etc had as their moral philosopher Jeremy Bentham while America had John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu.
Bentham did not believe in Natural Rights and believed that individual rights were a qualified privilege that could be given by and just as easily taken away by Government.
Locke and Montesquieu believed in inviolable Natural Rights that came either from God or nature, depending upon your point of view.
People in Commonwealth countries are systematically losing what few Rights they had. Our lack of Rights became particularly apparent during the Plandemic.
Americans kept their Constitutionally guaranteed Natural Rights, even if they were illegally removed in many cases.
These inviolable Rights that Americans have, as compared to others, means America’s chances of long term survival are much greater than in Commonwealth countries.
Video about “Jeremy Bentham’s Attack on Natural Rights” at: https://youtu.be/Ecp-PR_K1JI (16 mins)
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We are just awakening to the enormity of what was achieved in the first hours of the new Trump ascendancy. Some will not noticeD that he has already decimated some of the federal bureaucracy that participated in the cloaking of illegalities of the last regime. And in the withdrawal from the Paris Accord and the crazy net zero direction, and now the withdrawal from the sinister World Health Organisation he has provided moral leadership and changed the direction of the western world.
More power to his arm and may God keep him safe.
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A DEI US Coast Guard employee has been fired.
She was paid to do Coast Guard duties, not racist and sexist DEI nonsense.
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Trump taking out the trash:
https://twitter.com/Gypsyforfreedom/status/1881409876255211752
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Uh oh … that looks like a blue recycling bin.
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He’s contaminated, non-recyclable.
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The most important EO regarding the climate scam is requirement for EPA to review the legality of the CO2 endangerment finding:
https://iowaclimate.org/2025/01/21/trump-targets-the-2009-endangerment-finding-a-bold-move-toward-restoring-regulatory-sanity/
This will give oxygen to those in the EPA who know that CO2 does not control the weather or climate. Those scientists and engineers who comer forth now have a future. The scammers can crawl back under their rocks.
I am looking forward to the results of this review next month. Think of how fast EPA need to work to produce a sound report within 30 days. It is more likely to be a legal review than a technical assessment of CO2.
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One of his most important EOs is the one demanding the EPA prove the CO2 Endangerment Ruling in 30 days. Big Ears Obummer brought that in and it has done a lot of damage. He is also reviewing the ‘cost of carbon’ as well.
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If the Demonrats hasn’t cheated and stole the 2020 election, Trump wouldn’t have had four years to educate himself on how to destroy the leftards and right the ship of state, and the bonus, if they hadn’t been so successful in their cheating activities, they would have been waving goodbye to Trump yesterday, for ever.
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Yes.
Even though the 2020 election was stolen, this was ultimately a good thing.
If TRUMP had a second term after his first, he wouldn’t have been able to recognise and remove the Deep State traitors from within his administration or recognise them.
As you say, he has had four years to educate himself about the evils of the Deep State and Left in general and now he fully understands that there is nothing they won’t do to get their way, up to and including murder.
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A lot of commentators say that and I understand, but having lived through a number of leftist governments the damage they can do takes years to fix, some, such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan, is a permanent stain on the nation’s character.
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110% agree with that! And I’m certain it will be something recognised by history.
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Dear Jo,
I hope that you are enjoying a sense of vindication upon President Trump’s return to office.
You certainly deserve it.
Best wishes,
Terence
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BBC and ITV are predictably lamenting the withdrawal from Paris 2015. Special mention of the Chinese commenting that this was bad for the planet’s future. The penny has not dropped yet that those news outlets are being played like a mandolin by the Chinese and that the reason that China and India will never join Paris is that the governments of those countries know very well dat Trump is right about the whole circus being a massive scam.
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It’s quite absurd that China is worried about the impact of American CO2? But not their CO2? Of course it’s a hoax and as Trump says plainly, a Chinese Hoax.
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The worse thing is that we were at this point back in the period 2016-2020 when Trump had already signed the US out of Paris. We’ve probably had at least 8 wasted years since.
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The US has the longest Gulf of America coastline, 1500m / 2414km, Mexico is 1100m / 1770km and Cuba 60m / 97km.
It’s logical that it’s named after the country which has the most coastline.
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He who creates the maps names the features. And the last time I looked, the Mexican space program was floundering. Mexico was founded in 1821 from New Spain while America was founded in 1788. The big change was the successful 1836 fight for the independence of Texas from Mexico. Texas joined America in 1845 providing the rest of the Caribbean coastline.
The Battle of Veracruz
These events brought within the control of the United States the future states of
Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Washington, and Oregon, as well as portions of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana.
The other map battle is between Iran and Saudi with Persian gulf/Arabian gulf.
But the real point is to establish that the critical Panama canal joins the Pacific to the Gulf of America, cementing the claim of sovereignty at least of the Canal.
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And Australians have to get used to their ABC trying to rename all Australian cities to silly made up aboriginal names. It’s useless, pointless and offensive to everyone. Particularly as no aborigine knows these names and cities never existed in the last 50,000 years. Not even a single building in the land without underpants or dental floss or even a brick. Why are we paying public service wages to an organization of uncontrolled and unaccountable people who do this? And the woke corporate elites who comply to add a fashionable social dimension to their otherwise very well paid but boring jobs.
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Never ever knew they were living on an island.
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I think it’s mainly confusing. Now that Istanbul is known by that name, I’ll no longer call it Constantinople nor any of its other prior names. The Turkish postal service made that call in 1930, it gained momentum and there will be no need for a name change until another momentous historical episode takes place in that region.
A taxpayer funded organisation such as the ABC seems to assume that the majority of their audience is likeminded and therefore is justified in ascribing indigenous names to places- specific or otherwise.
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I think it joins to the Carribean Sea.
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I’ll just check on the English Channel between England and France. Even better on the South China Sea. Vietnam must have a good chance along with the Philippines.
The whole thing is laughable. LOL
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Not sure what the issues is really. Each nation can call the body of water what they like, especially in their own language.
Lake Geneva is variously call Lac de Geneve, Lac Leman and Genfersee depending on who you talk to or who publishes the map you are looking at.
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Is this just a decoy, a bone for the chattering class to chatter about?
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Here’s OWI Data’s countries co2 emissions and OECD co2 emissions are lower in 2023 than 1989 and NON OECD countries co2 emissions are about 14 billion tons per annum higher in 2023 than in 1989.
See also Aussie and NZ co2 emissions at the bottom of the graph. Aussies today about 0.38 Bn ts per annum and NZ about 0.03 Bn tonnes per annum in 2023.
Yet Albo + B O Bowen + all of Labor + Greens + Teals loonies etc lie to us and tell us we can make a difference? And many Aussie voters believe their BS and fra-d.
So why do they want to waste trillions of $ down the drain and destroy our environment and our economy for ZERO change? Why can’t they just look up the data and wake up? They have thousands of so called public servants and yet NOT ONE can take a minute to check the data. Why is it so?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OWID_WRL~AUS~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~OECD+%28GCP%29~NZL
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In light of the biggest producer of CO2 that is subject to CO2 restrictions leaving the Paris Accords, unlike China which produces twice or more but that has no restrictions, it is absurd for Australia or any other country to maintain compliance with the Paris Accords.
In Australia’s case, there is simply no hope under the Labor regime. The alternative Government would be led by Peter Dutton of the fake conservative Liberal Party faction of the Uniparty.
Dutton wants to build nuclear reactors. I have no problem with that but he only wants to build them because he is still a True Believer in the anthropogenic global warming fr@ud. He has made no commitment to leave the Paris Accords.
And every day, more and more extreme economic damage is done to Australia by a fanatical commitment to the anthropogenic global warming fr@ud.
Nuclear reactors won’t come online for probably 20 years in Australia, from tine of inception. There would be too many hurdles such as lawfare, unions, the Left, site approvals etc.. It’s just not going to happen in what is now “the can’t do country“. Australia can’t wait 20 years for cheap, reliable power. We can’t wait one year. We need it now or our country won’t continue to exist in its present sad form, it will get even worse.
We therefore need to leave Paris immediately so the madness can be reversed, we can build power stations and get back to business. And Dutton needs to grow a pair and say it.
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The good thing is that QLD is going to keep all of its Coal Fired Power Stations and that WA is on its own with no Connectors to the the East Coast.
They (the States) will all work it out eventually.
Blackout Bowen begone and never return.
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Madeleine King is doing her best to protect gas. She has made a number of sensible statements over the years, but rarely gets much media attention. It must be tough for her as a much smarter junior minister than her bosses.
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Trump has sacked the female Admiral in charge of the Coastguard for obsessive DEI policies to the detriment of efficient running of the service.
One down, many more to come.
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Also see #17.
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Sorry David, didn’t see yours which is much more informative.
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And the NZ captain who managed to sink a $150Million naval vessel in the almost empty Pacific ocean by running it into a reef on autopilot? That should have been a court martial but it would reflect badly on the people who appointed her as captain.
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And yet despite the captain’s incompetence, she was praised for “saving lives”, a truly Orwellian response.
For a DEI placement, incompetence is usually rewarded with a promotion.
https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/ex-royal-navy-commander-praised-saving-lives-after-new-zealand-naval-ship-sinks
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She needs to be promoted somewhere safe, far away from the complexities of life on the bridge.
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“the Australian way”.
What happened to that.
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Largely “Went Away”?
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You need to reduce your power use so that their data centres can keep on line.
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It didn’t take Trump long to act,
He withdrew from the Paris climate pact,
Abandoned the W.H.O.,
Freed M.A.G.A. prisoners too,
Leaving even supporters gobsmacked.
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His BOLDNESS is breath taking – Theres an old saying ‘fear is contagious’ … but so is courage.
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There would have been a mammoth effort in determining the wording of every one of those executive orders. All signed in a day but more than 4 years in the making and all very considered.
So it could be accepted as a good days work for Trump but that understates the effort to frame the executive orders and the long road back from the results of the 2020 election rigging.
I would be interested in seeing a report from Trmp’s election integrity team on the election fraud they encountered in 2024.
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Well, I find his ‘Free Speech’ executive order disappointing.
As far as I can tell, it would have done nothing to combat the recent bureaucracy-inflicted suppression of conservative speech.
(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof;
….
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
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That ensures no outside interference with the application of the executive order.
The order is NOT there to protect speech. It is there to provide a trigger to terminate the employment of anyone disobeying the order.
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That’s an interesting theory.
I don’t know enough about America to say for sure either way, but here’s why I doubt it:
Under Australian practices, it’s almost impossible to dismiss a public servant.
Apparently, the term is Civil Servant in the US? I use that term to refer to Public Sector employees as opposed to elected officials.
Disobeying the order would not get a public servant sacked.
I thought the US system now gave the President almost unlimited power to dismiss an appointed official already? And I’m pretty sure the President cannot dismiss a civil servant who doesn’t hold a politically appointed office.
So, disappointingly, the executive order would not have changed any of the abuses of the last four years.
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“Second Conversation with Temple Grandin
America’s destructive disdain for vocational-technical education. Innovation’s need for small, nimble firms. Real-world eyeballing as check on academic stats. Different kinds of thinkers. Etc.”
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/second-conversation-with-temple-grandin
https://instapundit.com/697594/#disqus_thread – and comments here
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Bring back ‘Ayers Rock.’
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The agreement Hawle signed was meant to maintain access to it but that agreement was simply ignored and no one noticed or cared.
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It hasn’t gone away as it is still there.
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Climbing was banned.
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So why can’t our so called scientists or pollies or other clueless donkeys etc look up data for themselves and then wake up?
OWI Data provides the data that tells us the world today provides for another 5 billion people since 1961, but required 3.57 times the area of arable land sixty years ago, compared to 2021.
Their world arable land index starts at 1 in 1961 and finishes at 0.28 in 2021.
So what’s the problem with their so called climate crisis or existential threat today when the use of fossil fuels allows us to grow far more food today on the same area of land?
Certainly this is the best and safest climate in Human history. Of course the percentage of farmers has dropped over the last 60 years and with increasing urbanization all over the world compared to 1961.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/arable-land-pin?country=OWID_WRL~AUS~Africa+%28FAO%29~CAN~CHN~USA~GBR~European+Union+%2827%29+%28FAO%29
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BTW in 1960 there were 2 billion people in rural areas and only 1 billion who lived in urban areas.
But in 2022 there are now 1.3 times more people who live in Urban areas, while the total population has grown from 3 billion in 1960 to 7.9 billion in 2022.
So can anyone tell me what’s wrong with the climate today compared to 1960?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population?time=1960..latest
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Sorry that is not the graph I hoped to link to and I hope this works.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population
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The Communist leader of the Australian Greens wrote this:
What a disgusting individual Bandt is.
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Adam Bandt is a P@ss Ant.
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Correction, J R, a P@ssandt.
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Adam Bandt: “[Donald Trump] will make the lives of [] people of colour [] harder”.
Donald Trump: “Today is Martin Luther King Day and in his honor, this will be a great honor but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.”.
OK, they are only words so let’s wait for the actions. But I really do think that Donald Trump meant what he said, and that his way of doing it won’t involve telling people what they have to say and do but instead will involve ensuring that people are empowered to exercise their own choices.
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Unlike the Australian Government who are importing likely terrorists and terrorist supporters, TRUMP issued this Executive Order.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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BTW here’s the most unbelievable statistic I’ve ever heard.
Within the last 10 years the clueless Trudeau loony has reduced Canada’s richest province to now be poorer than the USA’s poorest state.
IOW once wealthy Ontario is now poorer than Mississippi. I think the correct term is GDP per capita and I only hope Canada’s next PM wins in a landslide. See at 28 minutes 11 seconds at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dck8eZCpglc&t=2629s
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I wonder if the American people will eventually tire of wild swings bought about via executive orders and sweeping pardons dished out by each passing President?
This stuff will just escalate till it becomes a farce , with mountains of EOs doing and undoing ideologically opposed positions and a free range for corruption as long as you are on the list for wide ranging and retrospective pardons for thing you are not yet charged with.
Odd way to run a country and probably not how those powers were intended to be used.
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There is going to be some summing up …
‘MSNBC Hosts Go Quiet as Guest Explains Why Dems Have Become Whiny Losers to Most People’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pawcvRpS0k
Here’s a good compilations of Dems and their media sycophants complaining “preemptive Presidential pardons are an admission of guilt” … from 2020 when they were imaging Trump would pardon family members on the way out …
which he DID NOT DO.
The hypocrisy is just off the charts astonishing.
These people are not right in the head.
Real life character parodies ala ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘South Park’.
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Andrew Bolt checks out stupid Albos waste of a further 2 billion $ to try and con voters that the toxic, unreliable W & S disasters should be used for the NSW aluminium smelters.
What a fool we have for a PM , but I suppose he suits the Labor and Greens idiots who are as clueless as their weak leader..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrU_GvZIGQ
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The fact that Anthony Albanese has to spend $2bn of our money on it tells you that it isn’t economically feasible. If it was, the Aluminium smelters would have done it already.
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Here’s an Tucker Carlson chat with a guy that follows the PA assassination attempt.
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
https://rumble.com/v6aerbs-sean-davis-trump-shooting-update-and-the-real-reason-congress-refuses-to-in.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
In it he states that Thomas Crooks’s father first learned that his son had committed a failed assassination attempt and was dead, when contacted by a CNN reporter.
That seems a bit curious.
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Maybe Trump can prompt a resurgence of Irish (or is it Scots, I’m supposed to be Scots-Irish so I confuse them) … dancing among MAGA conservatives.
To practice keeping your arms completely motionless by your side at all times as to not be accused of gesturing allegiance to something or other.
(This man’s affect on culture knows no bounds.)
Remember this one?
‘Jeopardy!’ Slammed By Former Contestants for Winner’s Alleged White Power Hand Gesture I THR News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ET15AOp-6Q
Will The Crazy eventually subside?
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