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Zman said:
Let's just face it Trumpy has delusions of grandeur, not only does he want to be the ruler of his own country he wants to rule the world just like those old tears for fears song many years ago.
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Tony Bennett first sung it commercially if not mistaken. Must be Trumps favorite song.
 
An old chakie mate sent me this:

In June of 1941, Hitler's Army began a rampage through Ukraine, razing towns, unleashing death squads, and massacring Jews by the hundreds of thousands.
In one village, four Jewish brothers enlisted in the military said goodbye to their parents, and walked off to fight the Nazis.
By the war's end in 1945, only one of the brothers, named Semyon, was still alive.
He returned to find that the Nazis had torched his entire village, burning his parents to death.
Semyon's family was dead, and his beloved Ukraine was in ruins. The Nazis had murdered between 1.2 and 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews.
Semyon married a fellow Ukrainian Jew who had survived the war by fleeing her city, in which the Nazis had killed 5,000 Jews.
Two years later, in that same city, they had a son, Oleksandr, keeping alive the family line that the Nazis had brought a razor's width from extinction. Thirty-one years after that, Oleksandr had his own little boy.
That boy was Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up to become the President of independent, democratic Ukraine.
Today, he leads his outmanned, outgunned, ferociously defiant nation against the onslaught of Russia.
As Russia dashes itself against the will of his people, Zelensky, the survivor of survivors, summons the resilience of his ancestors. He does not bend.
 
Richie said:
Thank you to all my good friends for your concern. He says he is gonna lick this one too.
🤗 🤗 🤗 🤗
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Best wishes for your brother from me too Craig.

Cancer is a Dreadful thing often reappearing again years later after remission.
That's what happened to my Parisian sister with her breast cancer. RIP
My eldest brother at 81 in your Sydney Craig has developed bladder cancer to top up a plethora of other serious ailments. My opposite neighbour has lung cancer along with a friend in flooded Lismore... Both smokers, like me currently enjoying my beer and wine too. My father's dreadful dementia makes me not want to follow suit into foggy Nineties. I believe in euthanasia.

Cancer is endemic and more prevalent now we're living longer, so I heard on our ABC health report with our Norman Swan. Likewise Dementia and Parkinson's disease.
Cancer is a Dreadful thing but encouragingly great treatments are currently being developed.
In a trial my neighbour is getting some MRA (?) gene therapy for his lung cancer. A very positive spin-off from Covid research. 👍
I wish your brother well Craig, with an eye on near future medical developments.🙏

Best wishes.
 
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Canada's next PM Mark Carney vows to win trade war with Trump​


Mark Carney has won the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as Canada's prime minister, vowing to win the trade war with the US and President Donald Trump.
The former governor of the Canadian central bank and Bank of England beat three rivals in the Liberal Party's leadership contest in a landslide.
In much of his victory speech, Carney, 59, attacked Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canada and said he wants to make the country the 51st US state. "Americans should make no mistake," he said. "In trade, as in hockey, Canada will win."
Carney is expected to be sworn in the coming days and will lead the Liberals in the next general election, which could be called in the coming weeks. BBC.

I doubt Trump even studied Economics 101. Honours in bullying, conniving, ...
 
Grier said:
An old chakie mate sent me this:

In June of 1941, Hitler's Army began a rampage through Ukraine, razing towns, unleashing death squads, and massacring Jews by the hundreds of thousands.
In one village, four Jewish brothers enlisted in the military said goodbye to their parents, and walked off to fight the Nazis.
By the war's end in 1945, only one of the brothers, named Semyon, was still alive.
He returned to find that the Nazis had torched his entire village, burning his parents to death.
Semyon's family was dead, and his beloved Ukraine was in ruins. The Nazis had murdered between 1.2 and 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews.
Semyon married a fellow Ukrainian Jew who had survived the war by fleeing her city, in which the Nazis had killed 5,000 Jews.
Two years later, in that same city, they had a son, Oleksandr, keeping alive the family line that the Nazis had brought a razor's width from extinction. Thirty-one years after that, Oleksandr had his own little boy.
That boy was Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up to become the President of independent, democratic Ukraine.
Today, he leads his outmanned, outgunned, ferociously defiant nation against the onslaught of Russia.
As Russia dashes itself against the will of his people, Zelensky, the survivor of survivors, summons the resilience of his ancestors. He does not bend.
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Very interesting, Terry. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.:thumbsu:
 
Grier said:
encouragingly great treatments are currently being developed.
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Mate a cure for this insidious disease in the Holy Grail of holy grails. Every year we hear of major treatment discoveries, but little comes of them. This MRNA(?) gene therapy sounds interesting. Any feed back from your neibor?
 
Richie said:
Mate a cure for this insidious disease in the Holy Grail of holy grails. Every year we hear of major treatment discoveries, but little comes of them. This MRNA(?) gene therapy sounds interesting. Any feed back from your neibor?
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I speak regularly with my neighbour Craig. He's doing very well except he gets tired, like a man flu, for several days after his injection treatments.
The injections contain his own blood that's had the MRNA gene therapy ?...
 
Trump won't give Australia any tariff concessions, seemingly because our ex PM Turnbull hurt Donny's feelings with some home truths. Naturally Trump fired back with his usual vitriol.
Turnbull's IQ is about double Trump's.

Meanwhile Trump's edicts are about to wreck global economies, especially the US's that seems likely to start big Inflation and Depression there. Is that DT'S plan?
 
Grier said:
I speak regularly with my neighbour Craig. He's doing very well except he gets tired, like a man flu, for several days after his injection treatments.
The injections contain his own blood that's had the MRNA gene therapy ?...
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Will pass this onto my brother. Was he having chemo or radiation before this. Pass on my best wishes to your brother.
Grier said:
Turnbull's IQ is about double Trump's.
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😆
 
Trump really doesn't like our US Ambassador Kevin Rudd either, and may boot him soon when he remembers Mr Aukus? Mr Bean?
Next up I suggest Tony Abbot 🤼‍♂️, or Jackie Lamby ❤️. Even Pauline Hanson! 😤 😅
Basically, tough Aussies who won't suck up to a big baby buffoon with little knowledge of economics. Nice to see the new Canadian PM giving Trump a tongue clashing.

Better still, in the last few days I've been enlivened by so many global nations' Leaders, Media, feelings, expert economists, ... calling out the great danger of Trump's tariffs, and how they will hurt global trade. Especially the US itself possibly tipping the US into a Recession. Global Stock markets are plummeting already due to the erratic and unpredictable nature of Trump.
Likewise what his deportations program, Razer cuts to important US agencies, ,.,,.,. ... unemployment, ... is doing with the blessing of his faithfull who will probably suffer the most. 🙁 ? "It's the fault of globalisation" I heard bleated. 🐏🐑🐑🐑🐏
 
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