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Last day of April, May Day next. The universal word for distress in aviation and shipping. A third of year 2025 gone already.
What has Australia achieved in 2025 so far? Mostly negatives, I fear. Questions needing answers more often met with silence, maybe because of the imminent Federal election. More outright lies told, like Labour claiming that CSIRO endorsed that the Dutton nuclear plan would cost $600 million. More demonstrations that Australian defence capability is weak, Chinese 3 ship sail past, inability to supply a few dozen rusty tanks to Ukraine. Difficult relations with US emerging because several Australians like Rudd, Turnbull, Albanese, Wong have spoken public insults about President Trump. Electricity prices continue to rise as the fable of net zero carbon grows. Australia lacking people earning income causes not enough money to support defence, medical and teaching sectors. Australia is too broke to fix potholes or build an airport to Melbourne city link. The bureaucracy grew again. Inflation rose in food prices, cost of living generally.
Up to the reader to list the positives. Geoff S
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Donald Trump was not assassinated. Twice.
Donald Trump was elected. Then the most dramatic resurrection of a Nation since the first Easter.
Spain moves to 100% replaceables. And proves to the world they don’t work. Plus that moving entirely to centralized state controlled electricity is a disaster.
We haven’t had a report of disaster in Gaza for a month.
Iran is on the backfoot in Syria, Gaza, Yemen. And the bombers are in Diego Garcia.
Ukraine is talking peace. Russia is talking peace. Ceasefires are starting. Crimea is conceded. Reality is dawning. While Starmer and Macron fume.
And in Australia, this week we will know if the rich Greens and richer Teals will succeed in wrecking the joint, especially with a massive tax on everyone’s savings, taxing the inflation they have caused.
The world is in flux. Sad about the Canadian election. But in the UK, Farage is looking like the next PM. And the Tories will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Net Zero is possibly the stupidest political move in history, crippling successful countries to pretend to address a hoax. No actual scientist thinks any of it makes sense. In in the UK even Tony Blair is telling Starmer it is madness. Which is a start. We appear to have reached the point where even traditional Labor is to the right of the conservatives.
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The only real puzzle is Trump’s strong support for the Liberals in Canada. Possibly the new PM is a business pragmatist, not really a politician. And that is what Canada needs, not either a firebrand or another Trudeau tyrant. Conservative Polieve has even lost his own seat, which is a surprise. While on the surface the triumph of the left, Canada is very left and Trump knew more than our press.
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Canada will do just fine. They have a smart prime minister who unites Canadians.
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Carney might be smart and he may unite Canadians, but he has fallen into the Trump trade plan according to Sundance!
He is reported to say the all trade deals and military alliances with the US are off.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/28/how-the-nafta-usmca-2016-review-underpins-president-trump-remarks-on-canada/#more-271464
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Canada will do just fine. They have a smart prime minister who unites Canadians.
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Tragically I could find no positive or any report in the lame stream media commemorating Captain Cook’s landfall in Botany Bay 255 years ago yesterday, 29th April, 1770. The Left have completely taken over to change history and the narrative. I will say on behalf of all thinking people, (all 27 of us!), thank you Captain Cook!
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Have you heard of “blue suit gate”?
Leftist Enemedia complained that President TRUMP violated papal funeral protocol by wearing a navy blue suit and not a black one.
But they “proved” this by displaying a zoomed in photo of TRUMP. If you look at the original zoomed out photo, you will see that a very large proportion of the men were wearing a navy blue suit.
And not a word about Zelensky wearing his Ninja outfit.
Liberal Hivemind discusses:
https://youtu.be/3g8m3cVRGeY
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