old man emu

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." It pays all free peoples to be vigilant to the possible loss of liberties. That means careful monitoring of our system of leadership. Fortunately our Australian system has the means to remove leaders who remove liberties. However that often simply results in placing a similar type in the role.

What the USA is doing is proving that the US style of democracy is a failure. In other countries with true democracies, Trump would have been ousted from power by now.

Oh that we should do the same.

If it was anyone else than Trump, you'd say that this was incredible. Trump orders that a person be extracted from his place of residence by the use of military force. Then the person is transported in chains from his home country to another. There the person is taken before a Court in that destination country and accused of the leader of a terrorist organisation. It looks like the person is done for. However, for the person to be done for, the accusation must be proven. Obviously one thing to be proven is that the organisation at least exists. In a prosecution, every element of the acusation hs to be proven. Don't prove one element and the whole allegation gets thrown out. In the many indictments brought agains Manduro, the alleged terrorist organisation is mentioned 32. The name of this "organisation" is Cartel del al Soles. Unfortunately for Trump, no such organisation exists. The term was created years ago by the Venexualan media to describe government officials who are corrupted by accepting drug money. It's equivalent in US slang is "on the take". It seems that, despite being a totally horrible person, Manduro will walk away a free man. If that happens, and I were him, I'd make a bee-line to a lawyer's office to commence an action against Trump, the US Government, and every individual soldier involved in his detention, abduction, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Take a look at this video. The stuff about the prosecution starts at time marker 3:30.

I mistook that to mean that you were originally from Melbourne and moved away.

Yeah, but you emmigrated for a better place to live.

I wonder what law was alleged that Maduro has broken. He has been indicted in a US Court, but what is the jurisdiction of that law? Here is the indictment. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl The last few ages nominate the actual part of a law that it is alleged to have been broken.

Council turns AJ Burkitt Oval into an aquatic centre. Saves ratepayers a fortune.

You lusty Lethario!

The Chairman of the NRMA was quoted today saying that we can expect petrol prices to drop to about 2020 levels simply because there is a it of a glut in the market. He did not atach the cause of that glut to Trump's latest actions. Perhaps EVs are causing a drop in demand, or maybe Trump's tariff attacks on oil producers are causing the producers to sell in other markets. If the USA cannot meet its own domestic demand for sour crude, then we might see lots of Yank tanks abandoned on the side of the road. Look out for the Amish to take over long haul transport!!

Imagine if they built a car with the mechanical engineering knowlege learned over the past 60 years (passive passenger safety, aerodynamics, weight minimisatione etc.) but without the electronic bells and whistles they have been sticking into cars recently. I reckon they would end up with a simple, easily maintained vehicle at a "low" price. Wouldn't matter if it was an ICE or an EV.

Didn't think of those. It was too early in the morning for analytical thought when I posted.

The Yanks simply have to differ from the rest of the world in most things. One of those is how they write dates. While the rest of the world goes DD/MM/YYYY, the Yanks go MM/DD/YYYY. There is only one day of the year (I think) when the Yanks' format is the same as the rest of the World's - the first day of the year 01/01/YYYY. Also have you noticed that the Yanky way of saying a date is becoming more common? How often are you hearing a date spoken of as Month/Day/Year, as in January First?

The actions of the USA in South America have been empire building under the guise of protecting South American countries from becoming parts of the empires of European countries. It all stems back to what is caled the Munroe Doctrine of 1823. I am short of time this morning to post about the Monroe Doctrine and history arising from it. I'll post something tonight (5/1/26).

The ironic thing about what Trump has done is that the majority of Venezualians are celebrating the arrest of Maduro. But remember that a lot of Sudeten Germans celebrated when Hitler annexed the Sudatenland.