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It is Wednesday after 4 days of Easter holidays, soon the be ANZAC day, another ‘long weekend. Easy to knock off from Easter Friday 18th April to the end of Anzac weekend, 28th April for 10 days.
My wife took Ill with an ambulance to hospital at 4.30 am on Sat 19th. Still there, still waiting for adequate medical care, fighting a system where the few staff at the hospital laugh at their holidaying mates for missing out on overtime. Their idea of serious talk is to say that there is not enough money to fund Victoria’s health costs anyhow, so the afflicted have to lower their expectations these days. Those medical staff who are at work spend much time on filling in voluminous paperwork instead of observing patients, some joking about it being in English using too many big and technical words that they do not understand.
What an unholy mess. Geoff S
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Sorry to hear about your good lady wife.
I do hope she recovers quickly and totally.
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Apologies for the double post. 1st time didn’t show … Errr.
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Sorry to hear about your good lady wife.
I do hope she recovers quickly and totally.
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First professorship for “Gender Justice in Applied Mathematics” – with 450,000 euros in state funding
The link leads to a German text you easily may translate as I did.
I don’t provide no further comments, you know, criticize Gouvernement in Germany…
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The usual anti-Trump forces are doing their usual bloviating,
and would certainly crash the US economy if they could —
anything to “get Trump”
But the tariffs which are exceedingly modest, looking at the actual collections vs. the size of the economy,
have ripped the band-aide off the point unspoken for 50 years.
The US market consumes a lot, has been among the least protectionist in the world, and as a consequence has
absorbed some damage.
It’s not real good to have your entire pharma supply chain, and much of your high tech supply chain, in a China that is increasingly bellicose.
It’s not cool that virtually anyone can sell cars in the US, and US cars are seldom accepted elsewhere — there isn’t a developed country in the
world where a Corvette, or Ford 150 dealer wouldn’t make money if allowed in on the same terms we allow mfrs. to sell here.
The US farmer is the most productive in the world (A major sources of our productivity) but can’t sell not many markets.
It’s probably not good for the “world’s policeman” not to have steel and shipbuilding capabilities — didn’t see anyone else rushing to take down the Houties.
The tariffs have suddenly opened the door to discussions. The “pause” sets a deadline. You can’t move that fast, wail the ensconced parasitic munchkins.
Bovine Excrement! Nations have been “talking” about these issues for 50 years, Diplomatic jabberwocky being the best way in the world to avoid, you know, actual action.
Git Er Bone! We’ll all prosper. Oz is well on the way to being a resource colony of China. Join the fight please. Oz used to make
stuff too. Probably could again. Making stuff that one can sell produces money, some of which is actually distributed to the workers.
More tha letting a certain nation steal your assets.
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US cars are made in vast quantities in Europe by US firms but they have been adapted to European taste and roads so there is little scope for the US to export vehicles direct to the continent..
Few here would want the original rather brash over large cars
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How much does a Ram pick up truck cost in Australia? It was a six figure amount. After that could you afford the petrol? There was and might still be a company importing them and converting to Right hand drive.
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Political censorship rears its ugly head yet again:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/french-great-replacement-philosopher-renaud-camus-banned-entering/
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