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The title says it all
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/11/the-right-is-being-shut-out-of-government-across-europe/
Of course, amongst the ruling elite that headline would say “Far right” with the clear inferences to fascism. The latest example being Rumania whose Former President was arrested and then barred from standing.
It will be interesting to see what Happens in Canada. I would perceive Carney as being a useless individual who caused the UK much harm.
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Well, when you’re defending democracy, ya’ can’t be going around being all democratic about things.
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Unelected Soviet Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who brought free speech to Russia, said the European Union is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes. Both the old Soviet Union and the new European Union regard their enemies as Far-right. Until Gorbachev, the Soviet Union banned right-wing political parties and free speech.
Unelected European Union Führer, Ursula von der Leyen, said that free speech is a virus, and that censorship is the vaccine to ‘Shield’ EU citizens from ‘disinformation’. Von der Leyen also uses the term ‘Democracy’ in much the same vein as North Korea, officially called the ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is also a Far-left regime that bans right-wing political parties.
Until 1989, Romania was a Communist country under far-left dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, who also banned right-wing political parties and candidates. Now the European Union member has once again banned a right-wing candidate for being a popular populist and therefore the favourite to be the next President of Romania. But Calin Georgescu has been banned from the May elections because he is not left-wing, like every one else approved by the Soviet system now adopted by the European Union.
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As Trump wages economic warfare on his closest allies, new tariffs have been put on the UK and EU.
Canada has retaliated to ones imposed on them earlier with the previously very close relationship souring.
Mr Trump reportedly said he didn’t care about Europe or Taiwan. I wonder what he thinks of Australia? Is he aware of where it is? Does he see it as a potential supplier of rare earths and uranium so a deal can be done, or a useful aircraft carrier to ward off the threats from China?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14490999/canada-new-tariff-computers-sports-gear-trade-war.html
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Some health concerns in Vienna over young children fasting for Ramadan
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/03/vienna-teachers-sound-alarm-as-ever-younger-children-fast-for-ramadan/
Vienna is one of those cities where the majority of school children under 12 are muslim as the demographics and consequences of mass migration work up through the ages.
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Some good news on free speech as conservative writer Douglas Murray wins a libel case against the Guardian newspaper
https://thepostmillennial.com/journalist-douglas-murray-wins-libel-claim-against-the-guardian-media-group
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As we are on the subject “free speech”
BREAKING: Judge sanctions Michael E. Mann for “Bad-Faith Trial Misconduct” in Mann v. Free Speech:
From Steve Milloy’s X account
“The record plainly shows the deliberate and knowing misconduct of Dr. Mann’s counsel in eliciting false testimony from Dr. Mann and misrepresenting his grant funding.”
👍🤣😂
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Europe (EU and UK) have joined flanks with the Chinese Communist Party (the government of China) against Trump.
The adage >Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are< fits so well.
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The EU is close to launching the digital Euro, which the EU, up to a year or so ago claimed that the claim of digital Euro was a conspiracy theory. It has become so common that conspiracy theories turn into realities.
The EU’s economy is in tatters — Germany’s one of the worst. The digital Euro is just a fudge to hide the debacle.
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Rat plague is back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uf7DIwH1U8
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Plenty of rats in the Sydney CBD starting with that building in Macquarie Street………..
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Does this mean they couldn’t keep the air conditioning running on wind mills?
Amazon, Google, and Meta sign pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/business/amazon-google-and-meta-sign-pledge-to-triple-nuclear-power-by-2050/
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The captain of the Solong that rammed the US hired tanker ship full of military aviation fuel supply has been arrested.
The US ship was in a marked anchorage area with several other ships. Various ships successfully navigated through and around the anchored vessels before the collision.
The captain is a Russian.
Conspiracy material aplenty.
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Being Russian he probably wasn’t sober, at the helm and more than likely in his cabin.
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Yes, thats an interesting one. The ship the Russian captain rammed was a US one full of jet fighter fuel-so it is claimed. Collisions happen all the time as do conspiracy theories, so guess we will just have to wait to see what truths emerge from all this.
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Massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for upcoming COP30 climate summit’s 4-lane highway: ‘This is a loss’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/world-news/amazon-rainforest-destroyed-to-build-road-for-climate-summit/
Somebody get Greta on the horn!
Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
The eight-mile stretch of new highway — dubbed Avenida Liberdade, or Avenue of Liberty — has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to convene to discuss how much they care about the Amazon rainforest….
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From the Spectator Australia –
“Wind droughts would have been the most important discovery in the 20th Century but the discovery came too late to avert the rush to wind and solar power.
Nobody who knew about wind droughts would have tried to replace cheap and reliable conventional power with intermittent inputs to the grid.
This suicidal detour from the main road of power generation has cost trillions of dollars globally and delivered more expensive and less reliable electricity with massive collateral damage to the planet.
This must be one of the worst public policy blunders in recorded history and quite likely the worst in peacetime.”
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And more –
“Wind droughts are the weak link in the electricity chain if we ever depend on intermittent energy and that is why the coal fires will have to be kept burning until we have nuclear power at scale.
The work by Lang and Miskelly has not yet made any difference, despite the support of Jo Nova with her blog and briefing notes from the Energy Realists of Australia.”
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