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Day-dream bee-leaf-her!

Hey, Hey, we're the Monkees!

The worrying part is Trump has a visceral hatred of the EU and is intent on breaking it up. He sees the world as having only two main power blocs - America and China. All others that pose credible power blocs that might oppose his will, need to be dismantled, in his view. He doesn't even see Russia as a major power bloc, he's realised now that Putin is actually piss-weak.

This? .... from a bloke who is reputed to have Macca's burgers as his primary diet??

Going limp, and pretending to be dead, would work. 😄

Trump and the U.S. military NEED those NATO bases to be able to operate globally. Losing them would equate to a serious kick in the nuts for Trump, and the U.S. military.

Trump won't let Maduro go under any circumstances, for that to happen would be the greatest slap in the face he's ever endured. He'll appoint a "special prosecutor", a specific Trump loyalist, to carry out his bidding. This is a man who has no concern for legalities, conventions, or even Congress. He does what he likes. Next, it's going to be Greenland. But that will be a totally different kettle of fish that will come back to bite him, if he moves on the country. The Danish PM, Mette Fredrickson, has stated bluntly, (If Trump annexes Greenland) "that's the end of NATO". You can see what she means. It means all European bases owned and used by the U.S. military and air force will be reclaimed by their respective countries, and U.S. forces stationed at those bases, will be ejected from those countries. America could soon be running out of "friends". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm

Barb-rah Eden. Adam and Eve must be American, they can't have any naughty bits uncovered. They should be stark naked if she's still handing him the apple to try.

Yes Siso, my apologies, S.A. was also formed as a free settler State.

Mega-billionaire and premium-grade Trump supporter, Paul Singer, has been identified as the primary beneficiary of the U.S. takeover of Venezuela. His investment company recently purchased all of the oil assets of Venezuela (oil refineries, terminals, and service stations) for$5.9B, in a "distressed sale", ordered by a Delaware court, after the State-owned Venezuelan oil company defaulted on loan repayments - all due to U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil. The Master of the Delaware court who ordered the sale of the Venezuelan oil assets, is also a major Trump supporter. https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/billionaire-trump-megadonor-set-to-make-killing-on-venezuela-oil/

Ahem .... convicts were first sent to Australia in 1788, not 1868. Back to the history books for you, Jerry! W.A. can lay claim to be the only State founded by free settlers (1826 for Albany, and 1829 for Perth), and W.A. only had convicts sent here between 1850 and 1868 - therefore only a small percentage of West Aussies, can claim convict ancestry. My parents arrived as "Ten-Pound Poms", Dad from England in 1925, and Mum from Scotland in 1929. Mum was fond of the old comment, "We arrived as 'Assisted Immigrants', not 'Insisted Immigrants'". 😄

It must have been some wild ride inside that "Sea-Bug", in that heavy sea!! (watch the 2nd YouTube clip). I'll wager they went through a few sick bags!! https://www.jalopnik.com/i-finally-found-what-the-ocean-going-vw-beetle-that-ins-1846145700/

NEWS FLASH! Melbourne, already known for being a bit of a hole, has shown what it can really do, by way of big holes! 😄

You forgot to mention the shocking VW handling at speed. They got the nickname "Turtle" because so many ended up on their back. If I had a dollar for every VW Beetle I've sighted on its roof, I'd have enough for a decent holiday. They would go from understeer to oversteer in a flash on bends, and catch out the unwary, inexperienced drivers. The only thing worse for handling than a Beetle, was the rear-engined Czech Tatra V8. The Tatra's killed quite a number of Nazi officers with their vicious handling - it was possibly one of the Allies greatest secret assets in WW2. The German High Command ended up banning all Nazi officers from owning or driving Tatra V8's .

The C-17's are heavy lift aircraft carrying tactical equipment to Britain, quite likely preparing for an operation such as intercepting oil tankers carrying Russian oil. Don't forget, DT, and his backers, have a major interest in ensuring America once again dominates the world oil market. I've been a little confused about the role Venezuelan oil plays in the world oil market. The initial information was that Venezuelan oil plays only a tiny part amongst the global oil producers, around 2% of world production. So the global oil traders simply shrugged off any impact on their trading from the Venezuelan invasion by the U.S.. But the true picture is, that Venezuelas oil reserves are the worlds largest, bigger than any Arab nation, including Saudi Arabia. What is even better, their oil is heavy, sour crude, which is what U.S. refineries are designed to treat. Canadian and Venezuelan crude are the primary feedstocks for these refineries. But the Canadians are looking to curtail U.S. sales of their crude, and to sell it elsewhere, thanks to Donalds trade war with Canada. The Venezuelans are sitting on 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, but their oil pumping efforts are pitiful, obviously due to lack of American oil money. Donald is all set to fix that. The problem is though, Donald probably thinks he can even control the global oil price by grabbing all the Venezuelan oil - but it doesn't work that way. He's getting set to drill and pump and flood the global oil market with lots of oil, at a time when global oil consumption has plateaued, and it's highly likely oil consumption will start on a path of decline, as the EV's and renewable energy projects continue to increase. This will tend to reduce the global oil price. However, OPEC still controls global oil prices to a very large degree, and they may cut production a little to keep the price up. No doubt Donald even thinks he can increase global oil consumption by encouraging and ramping up IC-engine production, particularly in the U.S. - but I personally think that's going into fantasy land.