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Barmy budgets and Mindless masks
I watched the budget speech. Found it very boring of course. Billions here, billions there, billions almost everywhere. Debt on its way to a trillion. Who cares? I remember caring when debt and deficits mattered. Wayne Swan was always chasing surpluses without ever catching one. Though it didn’t stop him from being named by the…
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Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Shame Henry II had no one to rephrase and explain what the king had meant. Although, as it happens, the American President meant every word of it even if he was supposed to keep it a secret. As discussed here. The President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who is 79 years old and…
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Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for
Came across two very similar articles on the net with almost identical titles and with sentiments very close to my own. First this: “We Live in a Time of Utter Madness and We’re Ruled by Lawless Monsters”. If you would like to see who was saying what, please go to the link. And then there was…
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Lord of the Flies
Last Friday a few hundred young schoolgirls and schoolboys, all of whom should be in school, participated in a “climate strike” outside the Prime Minister’s Sydney residence, Kirribilli House. As we know, this protest about “climate change’ was yet another one of those same school strikes that have been occurring across the West since 2018.…
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A Secret Weapon in Poland?
Joe’s in Poland. A secret weapon? Did he say that any use of chemical weapons would “trigger a response in kind?” Has America stockpiles of chemical weapons at the ready? Deny it if you like, but the words of the US Commander-in-Chief count for something. Don’t they? Did he actually say to American troops in…
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“A war that stood out for its ‘notoriously incompetent international butchery’”
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. That’s from The Charge of the Light Brigade, a reminder for those of you with a…
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Surely he does not want to own “stolen land”?!
@roaming_rn Steven Kuhn explains the Ukraine proxy war better than anyone I’ve heard; and his wife is Ukranian. Well worth…
@BreannaMorello Wow!Mexico suddenly knows how to stop migrant caravans from coming to the United States.I wonder what’s changed…
On a busy day, this would have been a disaster on the beach. Elderly Man Crashes His Car On To…