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New German leader finally gets approved.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/those-pesky-voters-wont-do-as-theyre-told/
“far right” opposition party now the most popular but likely to be closed down. In holland, France and now Germany, the mainstream leftist parties have managed to keep the right out by describing them as far right and refusing to let them into government.
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That will be a long way and they won’t hit their target.
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The Left regard anyone to the right of Pol Pot as “far right”. They are such bores and boors. The Thinking Community no longer takes them seriously, not that they ever really did. But now they are not allowing Leftist bullying to silence them.
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Met office lose hundreds of back up stations that are supposed to replicate the weather data of stations that don’t exist
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/the-met-offices-dog-ate-their-homework/#comments
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Major power outages hits London underground
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14703481/major-tube-chaos-outage-London.html
We were passing through there this time last week to travel on the Eurostar.yesterday stansted airport had a major power outage that disrupted the flights for 10000 people. As we know Spain was completely blacked out last week.
We have built an immensely complicated world with too little reliable energyand too much reliance on digital systems, the Internet and AI. Any determined cyber savvy enemy could surely bring down the house of cards that is the over complex virtue signalling net zero fixated western world
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Sounds like they need more windmills and solar panels.
Or maybe they need to accelerate those sun-dimming experiments.
/sarc
Politicians shouldn’t be alllowed to make engineering decisions.
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Here’s a good summary of the London Underground power failure and also the simultaneous 25C (77F) “heatwave” scary stories from the UK. Some of the scary story headlines are bizarre.
https://www.youtube.com/live/geExE-mlr98
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We have had exceptional spring weather, very sunny and dry and very warm. The CET maximum temperature average is running at a record in the 360ish year long series. Maximum temperatures for April were +4.7C, quite remarkable. I’ve got a plague of aphids and green weevils in my garden, never seen anything like it, the weevils have eaten as much of my garden as the flipping wood pigeons that are as fat as a football. I’m so tanned I could pass as an English channel illegal. But it certainly isn’t hot enough to need a warning!
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25 C a Heatwave?
I keep my home at 24 C. . .
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Message from Senator Babet (Trumpets of Patriots) on Farcebook.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CpPQkNM2Z/
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Senator Babet represents the United Australia Party.
Exactly what the status of the USP is, is incertain. It is currently deregistered but still has a lot of members.
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The UAP is now represented as Trumpets of Patriots. It has something to do with election rules not allowing the name of a deregistered party to be used in the next election even if it is reregistered. Senator Babet states his party affiliation as UAP but also supports Trumpets which is essentially the same party. I do not know the administrative reasons why the UAP was deregistered. I stated his affiliation as Trunpets as the older-named party doesn’t exist any more. As far as I’m aware, UAP members are considered to be Trumpets members.
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Video:
The YouTube channel Liberal Hivemind looks at some of the latest Trump Derangement Syndrome from the Leftist Lamestream Media in the US.
https://youtu.be/v5YOxldZfh4
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Just imagine if the staggering amount of money thrown away on useless “green” energy was used to progress humanity rather than regress it.
Also, I would like to see an estimate for Australia and other countries at just how much money that it is.
And because the money is essentially, literally, thrown to the wind, it has meant that many productive endeavours never got funded such as schools, hospitals, scientific research, roads etc. both due to a direct waste of taxpayer money plus reduced economic productivity and thus fewer taxes to be collected or money to privately fund such endeavours. The opportunity cost is huge.
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This is a real Tweet as it has a tick mark.
Herr Starmer must be terrified of what conservatives are thinking and the huge swing to Reform.
Viva Frei is a conservative and formerly from Montreal but now a political refugee in the United States wrote (and also posted a video clip to prove his point):
But don’t trust Herr Starmer.
Absolutely never, ever trust a Leftist.
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They’ve got absolutely no intention of controlling immigration, he’s about to open the borders to all the young immigrants in the EU, along with the original young ‘natives’.
https://order-order.com/2025/05/12/starmers-eu-deal-opens-uk-to-millions-more-european-migrants/
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Simon of the History Debunked YouTube channel comments on the claim by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper of a reduction in UK immigration. Of course, they have no intention whatsoever.
https://youtu.be/VZyxfPns7uo
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I know some children of friends, one who has done medicine, another who is about to do so
Both went to or go to top private schools in Melbournistan.
Whilst being top students, I have found in both cases a remarkable lack of general knowledge. I think this applies to all students these days, regardless of level of academic achievement.
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Correct David. Questions like ” What is the highest mountain in Australia or Queensland is usually met by a blank stare. Another good one is ” how does your smart phone work “….No idea and no interest….just as long as it can connect to Tik Tok or X is all they care about.
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For any Maldivians out there, today, 13th May is Mother’s Day in the Maldives.
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South African victims of racial violence are welcomed to the US.
You will recall that in 2018 in Australia, Peter Dutton, fake conservative, denied protection visas for these same people:
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America’s gain, Australia’s lost.
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This comment from Farcebook:
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