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Trump has now imposed a tariff of 104% on China. Things will get interesting - two hard heads banging together tit for tat. Both want to be top dog. An interesting exposé on Xi Jin Ping last night on Four Corners. Should be availabke on iView.

If you think you've seen some looney tunes stuff out ofAmerica, wait till you read this: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trumps-maga-goes-after-masturbation-with-insane-new-us-sex-laws/news-story/cd237454ca9278dc1c0883ad3fc46329?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers

Very good Spacey. She was the first female to get a pilot's licence in the USA, and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. That got no publicity, because she did it the day after the Titanic sank, which monopolized the news.

Don't cheat and Google it. From your memory only. Who was Harriet Quimby?

Trump Didn’t See This Coming https://rb.colofandom.com/viet/trump-didnt-see-this-coming-canada-breaks-13-billion-deal-with-us-and-turns-to-eu/

Trump knew he was imposing tariffs on uninhabited islands. The link gives his explanation: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2025/04/07/why-did-trump-impose-a-tariff-on-uninhabited-penguin-islands-commerce-secretary-explains.html

If you wish to view it, here is the streaming link: https://7plus.com.au/7news-spotlight?autoplay=true

Dunno. Copied from Dull Men's Club post on FB.

Did anyone watch the Spotlight report on Channel 7 about the dirty nickel production in Indonesia, run by China for producing EV batteries, with no concern for the workers health or safety, or in environmental destruction?

Former child star Jay North passed away, at age 73, peacefully at his Lake Butler, FL home on Sunday at noon following a long battle with colorectal cancer. He became famous as Dennis The Menace.

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Brits should prepare a 72 hour 'survival kit' as Putin plots to sabotage gas pipelines and cause mass blackouts, warn spies https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14575537/Brits-prepare-72-hour-survival-kit-Putin.html?ito=social-facebook

Musk is distancing himself from Trump's tariff madness. The president's special adviser told a political rally he hopes to see a 'zero tariff situation' between the US and Europe to create a free trade zone. On Wednesday, Trump introduced a controversial 20 percent tariff for Europe along with even higher tariffs for other global trading partners as what he dubbed 'Liberation Day'. But while the president has been pushing US isolationism, Musk espoused a more collaborative approach. 'I hope that the United States and Europe can establish a very close partnership,' the Tesla CEO said during the virtual rally of Italy's Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini. 'I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the United States should move ideally in my view to a zero tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America,' the SpaceX founder continued. Earlier Saturday, Trump appeared to distance himself even further from the tariffs plan as he ripped a top Trump trade advisor in an extraordinary outburst on X. Musk's dissent comes just days after it was announced he would be stepping down from the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Edit: Copy and paste. I think 2nd last para should read "Earlier Saturday, Musk appeared to distance himself...."

He has warned Iran that if they don't agree to his nuclear deal within 2 months, there would be “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before”.

This isn't a great photo of the panels. They were at right angles to the road closer up, and trees and bushes obscured them from further down the road. I guess the line of bushes are to block sunlight reflection into the eyes of drivers approaching along the road.

Trump's 'Biden moment'. Read story and watch video.

As mentioned on another thread, my son was flying out orf Melbourne today to attend his mate's wedding in Thailand. His Jetstar flight was due to leave at 3:30,. I had a bit of a look out Sunbury Rd, then had lunch at Macca's. After lunch I had a bit of a look around Esssendon, then went and visited my brother. I got home about 5:45, and my daughter said he had just taken off. They were taxying out then returned to the terminal to offload a couple of passengers. He didn't know the reason, as they were at the other end on the aircraft, a B787 Dreamliner.

OME. stop confusing Spacey.

Visited Tullamarine airport today to take my son to catch a plane. After I dropped him off. I drove a short distance out Sunbury Rd. to the aircraft viewing area and turned down the side road. I was amazed to see a solar panel farm with an area of 405 x 395 metres (measured on Google maps).There was approximately the same number on the airport at the end of the north-south runway, indicated by the red arrow.

An interesting video of Trump's eating habits. Could be BS, and possibly should be in the Funny Videos thread. It shows Trump in his pyjamas eating a couple of Big Mac's in bed at 6:30 pm. It claims that he eats Big Macs because they are made before they are ordered and therefore won't be poisoned. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16KXw3fD7u/

I've written about this two or three times before. When my wife passed away 3 years ago, it was in the middle of the Covid pandemic lockdown, and funerals were limted to about 7 attendees. We deided to take up a relatively new option of unattended funerals. My wife passsed away at home. The ambulance came and confirmed that she had died, and told as to call a funeral home. We called one cremation company, who came and placed her in a vinyl body bag, and wheeled her out to their vehicle. They took her to their mortuary. My daughter contacted them about providing an outfit for her to be cremated in. They advised us that they did not dress the body, so we contacted another company, Fixed Price Cremations, who advised they wash the body, and dress it in the clothes supplied. If clothes are not supplied, they wrap the body in a shroud. The company operates in Melbourne and Sydney. Transport from other locations is at additional cost. We arranged for them to collect the body from the other company, (I won't name them, but they advertise on TV). They also came to collect my wifes clothing my daughter had picked out. The body was taken to a country crematorium, cremated, and the ashes returned in a casket we chose. A memorial at our church with about 40 mourners a couple of months later, when the lockdown had been lifted. The casket of ashes sits in our loungeroom. The covid lockdown dictated these arrangments, but I have decided when it comes my time, I wish to be treated similarly. The cost savings are tremendous. Funeral directors, mourning cars, coffins, burial plots can run into many thousands. I just checked their website and their all inclusive price is $1,950 which includes a standard metal ashes container and documentation including death certificate.You can choose alternate containers ranging from scattering tubes about the size of a Pringles tube, at $77.00 to marble caskets at $671.00. The Rosewood casket we choose for my wife was $242.00. All prices include GST.

A guy tried to sell me a coffin. I said, "That's the last thing I need."

Johnny Tillotson, the two-time Grammy-nominated singer behind the song Poetry In Motion, has died at age 86. Tillotson passed due to complications from Parkinson's disease, his wife Nancy Tillotson told TMZ.