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Cancel Climate Science – and the Scientists
By Dr. Graham Pinn
There is little debate around climate science, with the much-publicised phrase “The science is settled” used to curtail any dispute. In fact, there is considerable dispute, but it remains unpublished in scientific journals, for fear of loss of job or funding.
A recent international survey, published in The Conversation, found that over 40% of scientists were being harassed or intimidated by their institutions, with climate science being a common indication; the survey did not indicate whether those scientists were protagonist or antagonist to the theory.
There are numerous examples of authors of scientific papers, supporting the CO2 theory, refusing to release underlying details, because others might find errors in their conclusions; there are also many examples of contrary articles being rejected by editors. The “Climategate” scandal of 2009, is just one example of this worldwide phenomenon.
The usual explanation given, is that those against the climate change hypothesis are funded by the fossil fuel industry. There is no mention of the enormous government and renewable industry grants to protagonists. This distortion has led to numerous examples of senior climate scientists, having to wait ‘til retirement, before revealing their opinions. American activist/author of yesteryear, described the phenomenon 100 years ago: ”It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on not understanding”.
More at –
https://saltbushclub.com/2025/03/01/cancel-climate-science-and-the-scientists/#more-2939
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That is the point of this blog. Firstly, to provide a place where real debate can occur. I have yet to hear actual scientists publicly debate the ideas of Al Gore and James Hansen. The second value in Jo’s Blog is to provide a place where at least the other side of the story can be presented for all time. Ideas can be honed and facts and arguments and news shared.
The reality is that an alleged man made CO2 increase, alleged additional CO2 driven warming and warming driven Armageddon including mythical ‘tipping points’, rapid sea rises, storm increases are not debated at in public. Certainly not in what we now call the legacy media.
The new and so called ‘Climate Science’ is entirely political and not scientific. Statements like ‘98% of scientists agree’ are fraudulent fabrications. As are Michael Mann’s Hockey stick and I claim the CO2 Ice Hockey Stick where different measurements (firn, laboratory) are improperly bolted onto metamorphic ice data and the X axis moved up from zero. Political fabrications presented as scientific facts.
Whether ‘world’ temperatures go up or down, in 37 years not a single prediction of Climate Science has come true. We are not talking about the future of the planet any more. We are talking about the past. And nothing has happened in four decades except the biggest waste of public money in world history and the crippling of Western democracies and the explosive military growth of China, the only beneficiary.
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Any discussion of the subject would not be complete without mention of our own climate stalwart, Ian Plimer, a man impossible to cancel. He is an Australian geologist, surprisingly still an Emeritus Professor at Melbourne University, with past University appointments at Adelaide and Newcastle Universities; he is an unequivocal opponent of the climate change hypothesis and has written numerous books on the subject. His views are denigrated as he has, in the past, and still has, connections with the mining industry. Although many years retired, he is still being cancelled at Australian Universities, even had an honorary doctorate cancelled at a European University. He is notable for his phrase about the debate – “They have us outnumbered but we have them outgunned”! He continues to write to put them straight!
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Yes Johnny, Ian Plimer is a great man. In November 2022, he was taking part in a re-enactment of the 1968 London to Sydney car rally (just the Perth-Sydney section), and I drove to Cooma just to meet this great man and shake his hand. He was most cordial and kept us entertained with his stories. as would happen his phone rang whilst we were talking and he said it was his boss and he would have to take it. A short time later he caught up with us and told us it was a call from Gina and she was calling from Mar-a-Lago with the Donald. A few days later pictures of her there were front page news asking “what is she doing there” above her photo with Trump. As we were leaving he asked us to come over to his car as he had something he wanted us to have, and he gave us a handful of “Trump” embossed chocolates, with instructions that if we opened them the case could be refilled with chocolate, for more Trump embossed chocolate. As yet I have not partaken of the chocolate, more interested in keeping this “keepsake”
Yes, Ian Plimer, a wonderful Australian.
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I have read ‘Heaven and Earth’ and ‘ Green Murder’ – both well worth reading, but perhaps more important, are the three ‘Little Green Books’. I recently lent these to the head teacher of our local state PS. She thought they were great apart from Ian’s comments about the indoctrination of children which doesn’t happen at her school. She had to agree that it does probably happen at many Victorian state schools (private ones too, I daresay).
One of our sons was taught by Ian at Melbourne University – when Ian wasn’t (sucessfully) defending himself from some legal challenge or other.
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(1) Calibration of Warming by ‘Carbon Dioxide’ ‘falsified’ by the scientific method and observation: No evidence could be found for the calibration of radiative warming in an atmospheric chamber. “The Theory of Heat Radiation” by Max Planck implies that radiative heating does not occur for a gas with no intermolecular bonds. The reason is that the random nature of the movement or vibration of molecules means that half of the molecules moving towards the particle are slowed down or cooled.
(2) Calibration of Warming by the ‘Adiabatic Lapse Rate’ ‘proven’ by the scientific method and observation: Venus with a quarter of a million times more carbon dioxide than the Earth provides the best evidence for James Clerk Maxwell’s use of the Poisson curve which is mentioned in Chapter IV: Elementary Dynamic Principles: Measurement of Force. ‘Theory of Heat (1871)’ showing that warming is by molar mass not radiative forcing. This is confirmed by the fact that the same pressure at different altitudes on each of the planets, has the same temperature if adjusted for distance from the Sun, despite the different main gases, Nitrogen for the Earth & Titan, Hydrogen for Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn & Uranus and Carbon Dioxide for Venus.
(3) Calibration of Climate Change by changes to ‘Cloud Albedo’ ‘proven’ by the scientific method and observation: Climate Change is mostly caused by a change in low cloud albedo. Professor Shaviv provides the high-energy cosmic ray information that proves that the sun was the primary cause for climate change. This is caused by the Sun wobbling about the barycentre. The centre of the Sun is always within 2.2 solar radii of the barycenter. This motion of the Sun is mainly due to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. For some periods of several decades, the motion is rather regular, forming a trefoil pattern, whereas between these periods it appears more chaotic. After 179 years (nine times the synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn), the pattern more or less repeats, but rotated by about 24°. Correlation’s between Climate Change and the Hale Magnetic Solar Cycle are caused by the speed of the centre of the Sun relative to the centre of mass or barycentre of the Solar System, which determines the length of the solar cycles. This in turn is caused by the orbits and masses of the Planets. Short Hale Magnetic Solar Cycles have higher Solar Magnetic activity due to the increase in the speed of plasma within the Sun. Between 1913 and 1996, only one of eight Solar Cycles was longer than the mean Solar Cycle length of 11.04 years, the last of these was the shortest Solar Cycle for more than 200 years, the strength of the Suns magnetic field more than doubled, the cosmic ray flux fell by 11 percent and there was a 8.6 percent reduction in clouds. These results were provided by Enric Palle in 2004. During the last 100 years high-energy cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds—and a warmer world.
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Whoa!
That is a big list.
Enough for several weeks of discussion.
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Hi Paul, section 1 is a bit confusing.
Could you tease that out some more. Obviously there are bonds holding the molecules of each gas together but the term intermolecular implies that a couple of molecules are linked somehow.
eg H_O_H a water molecule has bonds holding the components together: but haven’t heard of several water molecules being bonded?
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Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave. As Albert Einstein wrote “It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other”. So this means we must use particles for gases with weak intermolecular bonds, and the “Beer-Lambert law” for waves for liquids with strong intermolecular bonds, as proven by a microwave oven.
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Thanks for getting back on that Paul.
Yes, the concept of “wave _ particle” duality is extremely useful in trying to visualise what’s going on in any thermodynamic system, but my concern with the UNIPCCC presentation of the Global Warming concept is that the real science
is never presented.
But we must push on until this core issue is acknowledged.
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As you outline in part 2, the lapse rate says it all and this is where our push against the demonization of CO2 should be focused.
A proper understanding of atomic physics and lapse rate, when combined, should immediately cancel the concept of CO2 being some sort of dangerous “heat trapping gas” and therefore immediately cancel the global warming proposition once and for all.
The very basic science denies the CO2 induced Global Warming concept and it has been held together by politics and cancellation of scientists who have tried to bring out the truth.
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If the science is settled, then it is not science.
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If a “scientific consensus” is claimed it’s also not science.
1) Science is never “settled”
2) Scientific fact is not decided by consensus.
The propagation of these two false ideas by the Left has done enormous damage to science and scientists as a whole and caused a massive corruption of science.
This corruption is especially noticeable in the areas of climate and pharmaceuticals/medicine as well as many other areas that are dependent on taxpayer funding or that involves government regulation and control.
And it also filters down into the indoctrination centres formerly known as “achools” and today, young people are taught many false and/or inappropriate ideas such as climate catastrophism, that there are more than two genders, socialism is desirable, Western Civilisation is evil etc.. And kids are also not taught to think independently, just to follow the Official Narrative, a very dangerous situation.
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The science is settled was the response when Christopher Monckton released his report based on historical records data proving the climate change political hoax.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/cyclone-alfred-unusual-triplet-storm-climate-change-factors/105008704
We knew it was coming, I thought they would wait until after the cyclone, but here it is – the climate change causing cyclones thingy.
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My latest AI functional description article.
AI emulates abstract thinking about Kipling, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/03/04/ai-emulates-abstract-thinking-about-kipling-lady-gaga-and-the-rolling-stones/
The beginning: “CFACT just produced an impressive example of a chatbot emulating several sorts of abstract thought. At their request the bot GROC 3 created three long song poems successively in the styles of Kipling, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones. You can read them here: https://www.cfact.org/2025/02/25/check-out-the-poem-elons-grok-3-ai-wrote-about-cfact/
Chatbots do not think rather they computationally emulate thought. But it is easier to talk as though they actually think so I will do that here. Using emulation language is tedious and clumsy.
The poems are not bad and some lines are really good but that is not my focus. My interest is cognition. To begin with the instruction “write a poem about X” is pretty abstract. It is far more abstract than asking for facts already written about or what someone already said.
Mind you there are thousands of books and articles on poetry and how to write it. A great thing about chatbots is they can read thousands of books in a thousandth of a second so maybe that helped this one.
Asking for a long poem in the style of a specific writer or performer is a whole different critter. To begin with the robot has to figure out what that style is. Then it must come up with an applicable poem in language that fits that style. Being able to do this is truly impressive.
I do not know how to describe a style. Then too I have not read much Kipling or heard Lady Gaga sing, although I am a big Stones fan. So I cannot guess how long it would take me to do what this bot did in seconds or less. Maybe weeks, months, or years. Maybe never because it takes talent or in this case the successful emulation of talent.
I have read people saying that chatbots are just statistical engines that find the text most likely to be the answer to the query. Since these song lines have clearly never been written before that cannot be all there is to it.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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I don’t play with AI but would be intrigued to see what it does “in the style of Kraftwerk”.
They tried to sound like AI, even though they didn’t have a computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
Ironically, Kraftwerk did not own a computer at the time of recording Computer World.
The band is also known for being notoriously reclusive, providing rare and enigmatic interviews, using life-size mannequins and robots while conducting official photo shoots…
anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring.
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My hobby is photography, mostly of motorsports. Like all serious photogs, I shoot in ‘RAW’ format, which provides an undiluted file to be processed later using (i.e.) Photoshop. We do this because formats such as jpeg throw out much of the information in the original file, reducing downstream options for editing.
Processing RAW files can be very time consuming. Think of it as a digital darkroom, where the photog may spend many hours tweaking shots to get the result required.
Just the other day though, I noticed my RAW file editor had an ‘Auto’ button. Now I’ve tried various ‘Auto’ features before, on camera and in editing, with universal disappointment. This new button calls itself ‘AI Auto’ though, so just out of curiosity, I gave it a go. Turns out it did a bloody good job. Not perfect, and a slightly variable results, but way better than anything I’ve tried before. I don’t know if it really is AI, but I’m guessing it learns your preferences over time to produce something approximating your usual style.
I am both impressed and alarmed by this. Impressed that it’s so good but alarmed because I’ve been seeing the human input and skills required to produce high quality photography fall lower and lower, especially since the advent of high-end smartphones which pioneered the use of software to simulate effects that would formerly have required expensive gear and significant experience. So I see this as another step toward destroying the world of pro photography, when literally anybody with a smartphone can match what the experts produce with tens of thousands of $ worth of equipment.
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Steve, I got to judge level with Aust Photographic Society, meaning that I had to keep trying to get better. I was keen on high quality Nikon lenses until I ran out of money. Do you have a thought of two whether the camera lenses are of adequate quality in comparison? Geoff S
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I bought some cameras but didn’t learn how to use them. But with phone cameras the quality of our family album dropped considerably.
But as phone cameras develop I wonder will they soon make all those expensive lenses redundant?
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Hi Geoff. I don’t think we’ve seen much advancement in lens technology, at least in terms of IQ, for a while now. In fact, in Canon’s case (my preferred brand), we’ve seen a step backwards recently, since the introduction of the mirrorless RF platform. Whilst IQ is arguably a little better, the packaging is lousy. Some RF lenses are actually inferior to their EF equivalents IMO, being larger, heavier and slower while being way more expensive. Consequently, I have adapted my EF (L series) lenses to fit my RF bodies.
But whether we’re talking about lenses or bodies, most of my clients simply don’t need the IQ they can produce, because all they’re ever going to do with the pics is view them on a screen. Almost nobody makes big prints these days. Even media clients don’t much care as they’re all online these days, not in print. Some photographic disciplines still require high quality today, but they are few.
But pick any one advantage of good (expensive) lenses and chances are that software will eventually allow ‘cheap’ technology to produce more or less the same result when viewed on a screen. Big apertures won’t be necessary if sensor sensitivity keeps increasing without introducing noise. Nor will you need big apertures to produce OOF backgrounds – smartphones can already mimic that in processing. Sensor photosites will keep getting smaller too, allowing higher and higher resolution, which is already straining the resolving power of even the best lenses.
I’m just going to enjoy it while I can. Arthritis in my hands and arms will eventually force me to call it quits anyway, and that isn’t very far away. My ‘keeper rate’ for high-speed panned shots has pretty much halved recently.
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Lots of images in the media of people holding sandbags to be filled in Qld.
https://www.cmac.com.au/materials-handling/bagging-equipment
Seems odd – are these all photos that are being posed?
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Meanwhile, surf’s up.
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I recall that during the plandemic in 2022, people who had not taken the clot shot were prevented from volunteering to fill sandbags.
I can’t find a link to that story, maybe history has already been rewritten.
But I could find reference to a similar story from Victoriastan from that time.
In Australia it’s considered better to suffer or die from flooding or other natural disaster than to accrpt a volunteer effort from a thinking person that rightly refused an untested experimental mRNA “vaccine”.
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The great internet old story scrub continues…
You need to know WHERE to look and HOW to look.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/politics/unvaccinated-ses-volunteers-banned-from-flood-efforts-despite-pandemic-ending/news-story/ee7b58a65ae7aad764f16582dd5710ca
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????
You posted the exact same link I did.
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That lunacy also prevented firefighters returning to work. Victorian firefighters went to court in October last year, I wasn’t able to find out if they had the ban removed.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/firefighters-in-victoria-and-nsw-remain-barred-from-working-over-vaccine-mandates/video/500766b599c52172b405081b2fa2c4a0
I don’t think anyone on the cusp of burning to death would be asking an approaching firefighter about their vaccine status. The idiocy has lasted long beyond the pandemic.
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Reading the cyclone warnings through to the end, I was surprised to see BoM recommending people requiring to travel to reach a safe space, that they ‘stay Covid Safe and pack a mask’!Concerning to see that masks are still in vogue in some segments of our government.
With almost every service provider urging everyone to ‘stay safe’ and the incessant exaggerated reporting by MSM, I would not be surprised if the powers that be decided to place us in lockdown again. For our safety, of course. (sarc)
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No sarc!
They could be that dumb if they got the opportunity.
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There is more to this than disease control. As evidenced by the mockery of Tony Abbott’s participation in volunteer services, in the eyes of a Marxist, volunteers are scab labour.
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Some could be. Especially if they are in the political arena.
I live right on the coast (Sunshine Coast) and have seen people
filling bags on the beach. Photos not required.
But, the build up for this cyclone reminds me of 2020 and 2021.
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Have they got sandbag filling equipment, or is it one person holding the bag and another filling?
I would think sandbag filling equipment would be a pretty obvious thing to have around.
All the photos I am seeing look like incredibly inefficient operations. We have the technology!
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ABC waking up and starting to smell the MAHA coffee
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2025-03-04/obesity-overweight-increase-children-young-people-australia/105002482
Can’t figure out if they mean that children not yet born will be obese or if those around now will be obese adults.
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Eat more animal protein, animal fats and less or no carbs and no seed oils.
How many fat people were around up until the 1960s or 1970’s before the new dietary guidelines that encouraged less animal protein, less animal fat and more carbs? Not too many.
The 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans featured recommendations developed and released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) but were more or less adopted throughout the Western world.
Those 1980 guidelines were hugely damaging to public health.
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I covered this ages ago and more than once.
People’s eating habits were driven by the Cane sugar industry’s massive misinformation campaign that “fat is bad” and so people just got fatter and sicker (on excess sugar added to food to compensate for the reduction in flavour by lowering fat content).
Carbs are not your enemy and should not be demonised or minimised. They have their place, but like everything, in moderation.
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I blamed the TV cooking shows.
No supporting data, but who needs data?
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At the link:
What a ridiculous Nanny State statement and a summary of just about everything that’s wrong with Australia.
A person (or in the case of a child, the parent) is responsible for everything that goes into their mouth, not the Government.
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“”The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure,””
No, its a sign of success in providing food for a vastly increased world population. Science and technology have responded and succeeded in bringing affordable food to the poor, those who used to starve to death as a form of contraception.
All the rest is just individual choice, ‘you are what you eat’, and people should be left alone to enjoy or suffer the choices they make. The Nanny Statists spend their live trying to make people miserable with their fat shaming. Let people enjoy their food in peace!
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What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow.
I’m more inclined to think its all down to trans fatty acids.
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One of the reasons carbs are so fattening, apart from biochemical reasons, is that eating them does not bring about satiation and people over-consume them in great quantities and they also tend to be highly addictive especially if they contain sugar.
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And 80 years ago people were more active and needed the energy. Not so much these days.
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France doesn’t have obesity rates anywhere near those experienced in the USA. Despite getting carbs from baguettes, regularly drinking wine and eating fat rich foods, French people as a collective seem to be fairly healthy. One thing not mentioned in this article that I’ve read before is that food the French eat is very fulfilling and they do not feel the urge to snack between 3 meals a day. Snacking is rife in the USA.
https://spoonuniversity.com/school/northwestern/french-diet-wont-make-you-fat-heres-why/
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King Canute like Albo Tross commands Cyclone Alfred to retire and come again after he announces the election
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Yes, Albo is a true King Cnut.
Careful on the spelling.
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He has only got until Monday 10 if he wants an election by April 12 – otherwise he will have to allow the WA election out of the way and run in May.
He won’t get another rates cut and with weather worse and the cost of living still on people’s minds he might want to go in April.
The best result for the Labor Party would be if he and Bowen were to do a photoshoot at the foreshore as the cyclone roars in and both are washed away and never seen again.
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Lol
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Tipping May. The cyclone will be just too tempting with photo opps, firm jawed announcements about what the Feds are doing and being on the ground during adversity showing the kind of leadership so well known from Albo.
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King Cnut was wise: Alto’s a tosser.
He may have to postpone his announcement yet again as the storm formerly known as Anthony – now Alfred – has been modelled by your chief guesstimators, once ashore, to wander southwards over Sydney to the Bass Strait where a high pressure then pushes it back north again… rinse and repeat? Or merely BoM-grade guesswork?
As anticipated, a light dusting of snow graces the peaks of the South Island’s north-east, while the cold southerly blast is now hitting the North Island – standard fare for March in these latitudes.
What was it Flippant Flammery forecast about no more rain for your dams?
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Once we’ve worked our way through the alphabet naming cyclones, will we go back and belatedly name a cyclone Anthony? This is assuming Albo is no longer in power and in election mode.
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And so it starts https://old.bitchute.com/video/1X1f7NWliiRT/
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It’s almost impossible to find news on the pretend hydro scheme, Snowy Hydro 2, brought to us by the fake conservative Liberal Party.
You’d think for something that is an endless sink of hard-earned taxpayer dollars, thst we are entitled to daily updates.
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“we are entitled to daily updates”
Lol.. copy and paste for weeks at a time.
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The treasury is funding it, so there is no need to update the taxpayers.
All data will be released after the election, (if ever). One thing for sure, it’ll be bad news and Anal won’t be at the presser.
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Liberal Hivemind (conservative YouTube channel) looks at the Zelensky / Trump meeting.
One of the comments by a viewer is that Zelensky’s agitation and body movements are also suggestive of him being high on cocaine at the time. Apparently he is (allegedly) a known user. Not sure if that’s true or not.
https://youtu.be/GyGc0B9BqKY
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And straight from a meeting with Democrats including Chris Murphy who hate Trump and were determined to scuttle any peace. This was high treason. They could be prosecuted under the Logan Act. And you can be sure Zelensky is regretting it now that Trump has removed US military support. Not only new munitions but likely also critical US strategic and intelligence information. It remains to be seen if Musk turns off Starlink support in a time of war.
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And I note the careful choice of words as Zelensky now thanks ‘America’ but not Trump.
Many countries have criticized Zelensky for his absurd presumption and total lack of gratitude. Especially neighbour Poland. Germany too now that they know it was Zelensky’s men who blew up their gas supply. It is news today that Germany still spent more on Russian oil than on war support for Zelensky. While men are still dying in their thousands, it’s a charade of support by Europe and now Australia. It’s all political posture and obsolete or surplus weapons except for drones from Turkey and Iran.
It’s now entirely a European proxy war on Russia, not an American one. We’ll see how long these old colonial powers can keep pretending want border justice.
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And the only reason he does not want an election is that he would lose.
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Unlikely to lose, before the spat his approval rating was 63% and nobody else within cooee.
Donnie said Z only had 4% popularity and he also believes Vlad won the last election with a stunning 97% of the vote.
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Hard to have an election when all the Ukrainian opposition parties have been banned for several years.
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If true, just following Eastern European “democracy”.
Putin won 87.8% of the vote, the highest ever result in Russia’s post-Soviet history, according to an exit poll by pollster the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) put Putin on 87%. First official results indicated the polls were accurate.
The United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other nations have said the vote was neither free nor fair due to the imprisonment of political opponents and censorship.
The 12.3% that didn’t vote for him had the choice of Siberia or the Ukrainian front lines. (/s of course)
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After the invasion Martial Law came into place and 11 pro Russia parties were banned. As you know elections cannot be held under Martial Law, its in the Constitution.
The Opposition parties which remain accept that reality.
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So how does Martial law end and a democracy restored? The difference between an endless suspended democracy under Martial law and an absolute dictatorship is zero.
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Once hostilities are over there will be free and fair elections and Z will happily give the baton to someone else. I see him in Brussels organising Ukraine’s admission to the EU.
Life imitates art, Winston Smith worked in the Ministry of Truth revising history, apparently this is happening in the higher echelons of the US Administration as we speak.
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63% sounds like a made up number. There is an ice cubes chance in hell Z has that level of support.
I guess it comes down to picking the report that suits the message. Here is another view
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2025/03/03/how-popular-is-zelensky-in-ukraine-what-the-polls-show/
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It’s a farcical election if the people in the area being contested are excluded from the election, about ten million people. They must be able to self determine, not just be taken over by the rest of Ukraine. That is the core problem and cannot be wished away by the militants in Kiev.
The UN could supervise an election in the Donetsk. That is the entire problem, not the rest of Ukraine.
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Reply to TdeF
They must be able to self determine
According to Russia, they already have. They no longer have Ukrainian passports but Russian ones.
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You don’t accept the veracity of Russian elections – or the results from Crimea and the independent oblasts in Donbas, but accept the Ukraine bit. Overthrow an elected president in 2015 and with US involvement insert a puppet or two. The 63% can be taken with a grain of salt. Vlad got 85% in the last election.
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Also the US$350 billion from US taxpayers was a gift, whereas the US$100 billion from Europe was a loan.
Zelensky should have agreed to TRUMP’s mineral deal so at least the US could get something in return and US industrial involvement in Ukraine would be a deterrence for others to invade. It would have been a defacto security assurance which I’m sure is what TRUMP had in mind without having to say it.
But apparently Z. had previously already made a minerals deal with Once Great Britain, even before TRUMP’s inauguration. Keir Stalin lied by omission by not mentioning that to TRUMP and Z. also lied.
In any case, what’s UK or Europe going to do with the minerals without energy or industry? At least under TRUMP, the US is getting its energy and industry back. They can make good use of them.
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David – check out the Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve, Promoting Whole of Government Oversight of the U.S. Ukraine Response link below. Are they lying too?
https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/
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The global order is changing from uni-polar to multi-polar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66XSY6JNpw Professor Glenn DEISEN.
Old authoritarian Europe is going to have to get with it – funding its own defence for a change.
If Europe’s neocons want to continue their long war they will have to foot the bill. Aims require
means, as Professor Geoffrey Blainey observed in his “Causes of War.” And don’t forget DOGE exposing
the massive wasteful spending of USAID. There’s the little matter of US debt amounting to trillioooooons.
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Please provide any evidence whatsoever of this so called deal with the UK.
The amount supplied by the US is exaggerated. The Europeans aid was mostly as a gift, not loans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62002218
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If you watch the WH meeting you will see Z do the old cocaine sniff now and again 🙂
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Not sure if that’s true or not
– but I’ll publish it anyway. That’s a play straight out of the catastrophic climate change manual.
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Tucker Carlson recently interviewed an American/Jewish human rights lawyer who is helping Christian Ministers in Ukraine. Zelensky has taken control of 1500 churches and closed them down. Priests have been beaten and thrown in jail, some have escaped the country. Even old ladies that do the flowers in the churches have been badly beaten.
Tucker who is an ex cocaine user recognised Zelensky’s behaviour and mannerisms as such.
The lawyer stated the it is well known in Ukraine that Zelensky uses cocaine.
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Yes Chris, the viewer comments attached to that YouTube video which I mentioned have comments from a former ten year cocaine addict who recognised Zelensky’s mannerisms and could immediately recognise that he was high on cocaine.
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Maybe he found another rogue baggie that didnt get cleaned up in the transition to the Trump Admin.
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Chris: My guess is, Mr. Z (like many insiders) knew where Hunter stashed his emergency supplies, and expected Hunter would be forgetful on the way out. Couple lines in the cloakroom, and he was ready for his big gig! Z probably thought that he was on SNL, that stuff was so much better than the russians let him have!
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In my writing work, when I do Goolag searches it usually offers first an AI answer.
I frequently find that the AI has errors in it, even on technical or scientific matters.
Just because it comes from AI doesn’t mean it’s true.
In fact AI is less trustworthy than most legitimate sources of information.
It is concerning that many “professionals” in science, engineering, law, medicine, “journalism” and business now rely on AI to do their “research” and “thinking” for them. It is also used to write summaries of meetings, even medical consultations. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s only a matter of time before there is a major engineering or medical disaster that will be attributable to what the AI said or told someone to do.
And if you don’t have knowledge yourself in the first place, or can’t think for yourself, absolutely never use AI. It will just make you more stupid.
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AI is always going to be GIGO. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t evaluate, it just gives weighting to what it is told to tell you.
It will always be the same as talking to a green idiot. Why anyone would quote from them is astounding. Quoting an AI, to justify a comment, is a give away that the author has no value to add to the conversation. I’d rather talk to a government ‘advisor’, (who’ve never worked a day in their life outside of the gravy train).
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True David- The beginning of wisdom is understanding what you don’t know. Anyone, Scientist or otherwise, that claims to know the “Unknowable” e.g. climate trends in 5 years is a dangerous fool. What is more, you don’t have to be a Scientist to be able to detect pseudoscience. A sensitive BS meter is all that is required!
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Yes. It reminds me of the transition from pen, paper and slide rules to calculators. Astute users made the effort to check for reasonableness.
Speaking of which I found my slide rule the other day. I wonder if my Kaye and Laby four figure tables are in the archives somewhere.
And to think of the sheer volume of labour involved in creating just the table of logarithms. All done by hand. Napier’s legacy.
The times they are a changin’
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I remember using my 1st calculator in the 70’s for Tech College.
I was constantly checking the calculators result by doing the problem the old fashioned way – pen and paper.
I can’t remember how long it took for me to trust the calculator but it was a reasonable time. Maybe 1-3 months?
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In the early 70’s, my wife worked in accounts receivable for an iconic Aussie food manufacturer. At that time, the company installed their first computer, which occupied it’s own room. As everybody, including my wife’s boss, was a little sceptical, the girls were required to balance the days takings – to the cent – against the computer printout. Any discrepancies HAD to be reconciled. I would back the girls to be correct every time and any errors to be due to erroneous input to the machine.
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Our eldest son has been an airline captain for nearly three decades. Before take-off important calculations are made to ensure that the take-off power is correct. These calculations are obviously done by on-board computers but he always does a mental calculation first based on his experience.
On the subject of computers, in a former life I was involved in military re-organisation following (yet another) defence review. One consequence of the re-organisation involved the dismantaling of a Lightening flight simulator which had been housed in a large air-conditioned room. The computer’s valves were removed and piled up outside. Local television repairers literally came with wheelbarrows to collect as many of these valves as they could. I got an Avometer from the sales park.!
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Breaking: A Victory for Free Speech: Mark Steyn’s $1 Million Judgment Slashed to $5,000 in Landmark Climate Case
Charles Rotter
Today, we raise a cheer for reason, justice, and the unyielding spirit of free expression! Today, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia delivered a resounding blow to overreach in the long-running defamation lawsuit brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against conservative commentator Mark Steyn. In a Final Judgment Order, Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. reduced Steyn’s punitive damages from an astronomical $1 million to a modest $5,000—vindicating Steyn, protecting open debate, and sending a powerful message about the limits of legal bullying.
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But justice has prevailed! The court’s ruling not only slashes Steyn’s punitive damages to a reasonable $5,000 but also declares the original $1 million award unconstitutional—too excessive, too punitive, and out of step with the actual harm (or lack thereof) Mann suffered.
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Adding to the celebration, Mann has been ordered to pay over $500,000 in legal costs to National Review, Steyn’s co-defendant in the case. This award, rooted in D.C.’s Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law, recognizes the frivolous nature of Mann’s decade-long legal crusade against those who challenged his research.
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Let’s raise a glass to this triumph! The slashing of Steyn’s penalty to $5,000 isn’t just a legal correction—it’s a beacon for free speech, a shield for honest inquiry, and a reminder that truth emerges from open debate, not courtroom battles. The fight for reason continues, but today, we celebrate a monumental step forward.
HT/Stephen McIntyre
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/04/a-victory-for-free-speech-mark-steyns-1-million-judgment-slashed-to-5000-in-landmark-climate-case/
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Good news.
But not a complete victory. Why did Steyn still have to pay one cent, let alone $5,000?
Plus Steyn has already severely suffered financially and health-wise from this lawfare.
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Good news re financial relief for Mark Steyn but
still an act censoring Free Speech. That fight is ongoing.
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That’s wonderful news. Poor sod. He is a brilliant man and his persecution by science fraud Michael Mann makes the late Professor Ball’s humorous words ring true. Belongs in the State Pen, not Pen State. This alleged slander is now legal in Canada.
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Great news. But I fear the case has knocked the stuffing out of this marvellous man.
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I wonder how long it will take for the general view of the legacy media changes, now that the Biden Billions have stopped flowing into every corner of society, undermining the truth. Will we start to hear of the terrible disfigurement and deaths from the very profitable transgender surgery business? The suicides from this butchery? The failures from DEI policies where doors without bolts fall off aircraft or a Naval boat is lost because the captain has the ship on autopilot over a reef?
The number of deaths of whales and raptors from windmills or the total destruction of the inner city in America with AntiFA, BLM, abortion as contraception? We have had over 12 years of the three terms of Barack Obama to destroy America. And Australia with Mt Panorama to join a gold mine and the rock climbing industry in Victoria and Ayers Rock. Plus the use of absolutely ridiculous names for Australian cities given no city was built by aborigines in history.
And how long will it be before the Royal Society, Lancet, Scientific American, National Geographic stop pushing woke science and start trying to win back real scientists who want truth with their coffee?
It’s going to be hard for the extreme Left in most countries to keep ownership of the newspapers. And Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post may be the first of many to dump their leftist readers in search of a wider and older traditionally conservative educated audience. The Age in Melbourne is starting to resemble a medieval bulletin.
As for Hollywood and Disney, they still have a problem making popular films, especially when Snow White doesn’t have skin as white as snow. I assume unicorns will be hornless. Dwarves are already unemployable, replaced by CGI and full size people like Hugh Grant. And Disneyland collapses because people no longer want social justice pushed at them by cartoon characters.
It’s about time. We wondered who was paying for all the woke. And now we know.
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And we know who has been paying for the Climate Change trolls. The impact of the US withdrawing from WHO and IPPC/UN Climate nonsense will mean the money stops too. Snowy II needs to stop too. It is useless. We could have brought water from the Ord river to the Murray Darling system for less effort and cost.
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If all the staggering amounts of money Australia has literally thrown to the pagan wind gods, Anemoi, sun god or Gaia, had been used for something useful, we could have irrigated much of the interior of Australia both from some variation of the Bradfield Scheme and nuclear powered desalination plants. And still had heaps of cash left over.
Thus Australia could become a breadbasket for the world which will be especially important as we come to the end of the present interglacial and enter the next Ice Age. Presumably Australia will have a favourable climate during the next Ice Age, at least in the north.
Money could also have been spent on roads, railways and decentralisation to go with this irrigation.
Of course, there are many other things the money could have been spent on, but taxpayers would decide because it’s money that they wouldn’t be taxed or forced to spend on inflated energy bills.
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Until the Turnbull Government rejected the plan the Abbott Government had campaigned with and proceeded with a plan to extend the Kununurra WA Irrigation Area across and through the NT into NQ building new dams, the area being about the same size as Western Europe.
Together with QLD LNP Premier Campbell Newman Prime Minister Tony Abbott the “Wild Rivers” legislation and UN registration banning development of the northern rivers was lifted, stage one of the plan.
It was a huge project to open irrigation farmland with roads, towns, airstrips, and other infrastructure, a nation building project that would increase off farm produce for export markets and boosting the Australian economy.
Part of the plan involved harvesting wet season rainfall and a Bradfield Scheme water transfer to Southern Australia.
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But problems with all of those schemes is they would “destroy” the environment. Except of course, sea shells in central Australia, fossilised ferns , evidence of forests,
Mungo Man living in a fertile well watered area that is today very dry, to the point of desiccation. etc etc etc.
But no, any clear thinking Greens supporter knows that the environment that they see today is exactly the way it has been since the dawn of time.
Oh, and these people tend not to visit these areas, just tell everyone else how to manage things, que Bob Brown, wind turbines everywhere, except his back yard.
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Mungo man and woman died around 42,000 years ago, same time as the megafauna extinction because of a geomagnetic excursion.
Back in the old days Lake Mungo received water from the ancient Lachlan River, but it changed its course and the lake eventually dried up. I think we can refill it with some clever engineering work, plus attached fishery for employment opportunities.
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Given a choice the taxpayers would vote in whoever made the grander welfare promises with the money. That’s the tyranny of 50% + 1.
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“I wonder how long it will take for the general view of the legacy media changes,”
I was scanning the anti-Trump propaganda in the Sydney Morning Herald a few minutes ago when a pop-up asked me if I would like a digital subscription. Then it asked how much I would like to pay, then how many subscriptions I had and how old I was. It suggests they are still losing subscribers and are searching for a market to sell newspapers into.
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Too true TdeF! Pres Trump’s masterstroke is simply cutting of the funding source. Suddenly the progressive narrative deflates with a puff of smoke. Thus there is no positive reinforcement anymore through “NGOs”. If Govt is kept to core functions and run with efficiency the underlying economy will soar.
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And don’t the journos hate him. Every report of the Ukraine affair questions Trump’s character, morality, greed, lust for power, mental stability, ethics. Trump is the ONLY one trying to end the war. And if he dares speak directly to Putin, he is Putin’s lackey. How on earth is this war going to end if no one speaks to Putin? But that’s the whole idea.
There are a million families in Russia who have lost a son, often to US weapons. As in Afghanistan, Vietnam,Syria,Gaza… but no one in Europe, the UK, Australia or the leftist journalist cabal wants it to end, except the Ukranians and the Russians and Trump’s team. Just another righteous war for freedom. Pull the other leg.
And where’s the UN? What happened to the peace makers? Where is the forum for peace? Are they too busy fighting Climate Change and Boiling Oceans?
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They were previously complaining that TRUMP would start World War 3.
Now they’re complaining that he won’t start World War 3.
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It’s the same old wall to wall denigration of Trump/Putin from the media and political classes. Notice they sing the same song (the left and the neo-con globalists who want to emasculate Russia for it being a proud nation and sticking up for traditional values) every time the issue presents. Strange bedfellows.
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Tdef,
You would think he would have all that done after 5 whole weeks !!!!!! At least that is what the Dems are at him about…..vile, souless people.
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The Australian reporting today that the green hydrogen energy superpower political propaganda of Albanese Labor has all but collapsed in a heap.
“Australia’s green hydrogen industry has failed to fire, with 99 per cent of a $100bn supply pipeline failing to progress beyond the concept stage, punching a hole in the PM’s aim to develop a major export industry and meet net-zero goals.”
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Good news, but how much taxpayer money has already been blown on this?
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“Good news, but how much taxpayer money has already been blown on this?”
Highly confidential and untraceable by very muddied waters of shell companies and NGOs I am sure!
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In an earlier phase of this life, I worked as a consulting engineer. It always disappointed me that I was told to chase every one of these government grants, looking for a secure cash flow, a study here, a study there, just to keep the dollars ticking over.
You can be assured that anyone who actually collected the funds would have found out within a few minutes that the project was not viable BUT they never put their hand up and said STOP.
They sold their soul and they know it.
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I believe voters would be very angry indeed if a list of NGOs was published together with funding to each one and listing their objectives, one of many that seems to be a one person business venture is the Pedestrian Council of Australia, not so active now but around the 1990s almost weekly stories in the Daily Telegraph Sydney and other media.
PCA promoted the banning of 4WD vehicles from shopping centre streets and council carparks, those “behemoths” were bad for pedestrians.
Climate Council of Australia is another!!!
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Dennis, the Victorian government are now proposing dropping speed limits in a lot of suburban streets to 30 km/hr. Premier Barbie (Jacinta Allan) thinks there’s still too many pedestrian accidents. No mention, of course, about pedestrians with earbuds, looking at phones etc. Nope, all the drivers’s fault. But that’s our really smart Premier. Yesterday she said Cyclone Alfred was a result of climate change. 🙁
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They’ve already reduced the speed limit on suburban streets from 60 to 50 to 40 now 30.
It’s all part of the war against motorist.
Next it will 20 then 10 then someone carrying a red flag in front of the car.
And I see so many pedestrians who are not paying attention, or are arrogant and rude and walk slowly in front of your car to annoy you, especially if they also have green or purple hair.
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“Next it will 20 then 10 then someone carrying a red flag in front of the car.”
Only for thee… they will still not get speeding tickets for 150kph in a chauffeured Govt car, going ‘somewhere important..’.
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Hair Starmer attempts credibility!
https://richardsonpost.com/daniel-jupp/38912/boots-on-the-ground-and-aristocrats-at-war/
Those that love the fighting but eschew the dying. Twas ever so!
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If you watch the WH meeting you will see Z do the old cocaine sniff now and again
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Does anyone actually know what is going on or is this just a fun game that anyone can join with any kind of absurd unsubstantiated ideas? Donald Trump has good reason to hate Ukraine for the flow of crooked cash to the Bidens, and he has good reason to get Russia on our side before the shooting war with China starts. I think this tale has a few twists to go, and you might as well use a climate model to predict them.
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Trump wanted Z to sign a minerals deal but Z reneged at the last minute, then we got the WH smack down. Next we hear Z signed a minerals deal with the UK last year, now we hear Z has agreed to sign a minerals deal with the USA.
So a few twists to come for sure 🙂
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he has good reason to get Russia on our side before the shooting war with China starts.
He better hurry up and get that minerals deal signed with Russia. They are quickly running out of war kit (Russia that is) so the USA will have to arm them again, like WW2.
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There’s no way the Russians will trust the USA for at least the next few generations.
Of course, they aren’t stupid enough to trust China either but there’s a basic calculus as follows … if Russia gets onside with the USA to defeat China, the Russians know full well they will be next. Conversely, if China allows Russia to fall to Western interests then for sure China will be next.
Once you understand that, then you can see the situation a bit more clearly. You can be absolutely certain that China a d Russia have already gamed this out both individually and together.
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Three leg stools are always stable even on uneven ground.
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Did you read that in a Chinese fortune cookie LOL
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Maybe…. But it is true…
It’s been a while, I really hope you are doing well.
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FWIW –
Brains of a ?? – you decide
“Dingus Democrats Shame Trump for Buying 1000s OF EGGS for Easter … There’s Just 1 Big Hilarious Problem”
“Do they really think Trump uses real eggs for the Easter egg roll?”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/03/04/democrats-trump-easter-eggs-n2409301
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Not that the SMH is full of propaganda, but… the science is settled!
” But why would Trump do it? The world has long puzzled over his affinity for Putin, the former KGB colonel who seeks to neuter the US, dominate Europe and destroy the West. The attraction is inexplicable. But the evidence now is incontrovertible: We should accept that Trump acts as an agent of Putin…
The professor of strategic studies at Scotland’s St Andrew’s University, Phillips O’Brien, put it this way: “Trump opens his mouth and Putin comes out.”
Trump has adopted the Russian talking point that Ukraine is on the ropes and can’t win.”
and more like that, any chance of blaming Trump for anything in the world, and a fantasyland view of the war in Ukraine! Ukraine IS on the ropes and can’t win!
Will the International Editor and warmonger in the SMH resign when Russia wins? I doubt it, he will be rushing off to stir hatred up against China for the next round in the West’s war on the world.
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FWIW – news for that editor!
“Why Russia Is Not Going To Lose
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Its really rather simple: They have not gone along with “green energy” and as a result they have inexpensive and abundant energy.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252918
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Putin is losing but losing slowly. He is Germany in WW1. Running out of everything, economy dying, can’t keep up with demand for military equipment. If it keeps going, Ukraine will win but the cost in lives, mostly Russians will be horrendous (have empathy for the Russian soldiers too).
Trump will say anything to put pressure on both of them to negotiate. Don’t read too much into what he says, he just wants Europe to step up and pay for its own defence. They have been bludging, relying on the NATO alliance, weakened by unreliable expensive energy.
If Putin didn’t have nukes there would not have been any tiptoeing, they would have been crushed long ago.
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Ethnic Ukrainians NCO were the backbone of Soviet Army in my peaceful time.
The same for my dad – Polish campaign, Finland campaign, “liberation” of West Ukraine and WWII.
I have no stats but suspect that tradition comes from centuries back.
Some people equate Russian and Ukrainian armies (quality-wise), let them…
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Strangely the map of Ukraine keeps showing the area under Russian control creeping slowly westward.
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Only if you have an old map and have a magnifying glass. At this rate they will take 50 yrs to reach Kiev.
Russia has suffered over twice the US casualties, dead and wounded, in the Pacific theatre and they defeated a determined enemy over a vast ocean.
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area under Russian control creeping slowly westward.
True, but at a great cost. There is also an awful lot happening behind the Russian lines every day, with the Ukrainians effectively utilising drones to disrupt resupply efforts.
Day 1105 – Russian losses to date shown at 17 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2O6HS74q5w
They are also hurting badly. No-one expected the Ukrainians to put up such a fight, and it seems that Putin does not care how many of his troops are lost in this crazy “special military operation”.
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More pressure on Ukraine and EU to negotiate a peace with Russia.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/05/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-confirms-president-trump-paused-intelligence-sharing-ie-the-drone-targeting-system-with-ukraine/
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On X recently there have been posts showing how previous US presidents tried to set up a working relationship with Mr Putin. Bill Clinton did an interview in front of a live audience once and proclaimed that he had befriended Putin, because getting to know him meant a possible advantage in negotiations. Bill was then lauded as a negotiating hero! The live crowd all clapped like seals. Yesterday there was footage of George W Bush driving ol’ Vlad around in a pickup truck on his farm in Texas.(maybe early 2000’s?)Both Bill and George applauded for bringing on more detente. Trump tries the same tactic – he’s a “Putin puppet”. The first rule of media these days – assume the public are all idiots. Trouble is, most of the MSM are more idiotic than the public.
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It was Clinton who agreed to move NATO to the East … despite fairly solid advice that this was a bad idea.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997-06/arms-control-today/opposition-nato-expansion
Follow the link above to read the list and the signatories.
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Headline news – 2 world leaders notice reality
I guess in todays world it is unusual
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Seeking help regarding marital problems related to my adoration of Elon Musk. Since Elon Musk (selflessly) came into the political scene and is (selflessly) fixing all our problems, I’ve grown to love this man. And my wife has noticed that I’ve been drifting further and further away from her. I don’t want to end my marriage but I don’t know how to reconcile my love of Elon Musk. This man is the greatest person in human history. He invented EVs, is a loving and doting father of many children, loves to stay outside of the spotlight and is the world’s greatest video game player.
I’m thinking that buying a Tesla could resolve my issue as it can at least act as an idol or an “outlet” for me. There is nothing more impressive to me than a white Model X Tesla. And that beautifully crafted interior makes high-end Rolls Royce’s look cheap. It is an engineering marvel with unparalleled build quality. These Tesla Model Xs you see everywhere in inner city Melbourne will be the 1963 250 GTOs of the future. The capital appreciation of a Tesla is enough to support my retirement.
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Buy the Tesla ditch the wife.
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I read recently about EV recharge station rage directed at owners who dare to continue charging after 80 per cent is reached, apparently the time to achieve 100 percent is much longer than to 80 percent.
I wondered about being restricted to 80 percent while on a long distance country drive where chargers are few and far between?
The theoretical range of an EV even at 100 percent battery capacity is always less on country roads at legal road speeds, depending on load being carried of people and luggage, etc. I understand that with a near new battery system on average expect country range considerably less than theoretical range.
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Go for it Twig. You’ll probably find the missus loves the Tesla more than you will. If you’ve got the ability to have a wall charger on your own property and are semi organised, using an EV make sense. Well actually, the car does most of the worrying for you. (just don’t tell me your stopping man made climate change by buying one , Ok?)
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My concern is that once I buy a Tesla, I’ll never buy another car. Because these cars are near indestructible, never fail and are known for clocking up more miles than 70s series Landcruisers. I’ll never have the thrill of a new car again haha. But I can always sell my Tesla in 10 years time for a gigantic profit (retirement money).
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If one tesla will help then two or three will help more.
You know it makes sense!
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I’m thinking that buying a Tesla could resolve my issue
Wait until they include a chainsaw (electric of course) to help you cut through any red tape, or maybe the charging cords of those who have gone off and left their cars on 100% charge.
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” I don’t know how to reconcile my love of Elon Musk.”
Stand directly under Starship in a few days, the peak of his achievements!
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The Cyclone reported off Brisbane doesn’t look very cyclonic to me.
Just some heavyish rain. Propaganda perhaps?
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I heard a media comment that a cyclone could benefit Albanese’ election chances in QLD with him taking advantage to offer Federal grant monies and sympathise with people impacted to maximum effect.
Propaganda promoted via Labor media releases?
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At this stage just a Cat 2 at most. Just lots of rain and wind. No biggie if you’re a real Queenslander. But definitely smart to cancel events like AFL games. The media hype and public reaction has been a bit over the top. Where have I heard that before?
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There could be some expensive homes slide into the sea. Many days of pounding waves take a toll on foundations of sand.
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I don’t think the propaganda is coming from the BOM but …
The BOM’s calculations are based almost completely on atmospheric pressure and satellite images.
Their technical bulletin currently refers to a central pressure of 981 hPa with an outermost pressure of 1008 hPA at a radius of 500km.
They note: Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to exhibit a sheared, subtropical appearance with little deep convective cloud near the centre. Position is based on animated IR satellite imagery with good confidence.
So computer says cat 2 crossing the coast as cat 1 and rapidly becoming nothing more than a low pressure area. Moreton and Stradbroke islands will take any sting out long before Bris Vegas and the Gold Coast feel anything.
Here in the Sunshine Coast hinterland the guy at the local hardware store tells me he has sold out of generators, my pharmacist tells me that yesterday morning was the busiest he has had in a long time, and yesterday the local woolworths sold out of bread and the milk shelves were empty.
Mind you the bakery was empty when we went in for afternoon tea so it isn’t all bad. I might pop in to Australia Zoo today to see what the animals think of it all.
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Kawana Waters & Mooloolaba estuary were being dredged & built upon in the early ‘80s when I was on the Coast: canal life looked luxurious yet I always preferred a little altitude / height under my feet and house.
Am guessing Buderim Mountain & Maleny & Mapleton and those lovely foothills out-the-back are the spots to be when sea levels rise and the storm surge starts lapping the shores. Are there still house-boats along the Maroochy River or are they casinos & McMansions & shopping malls… long time no been.
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The highest wind speed I can find is 41km/hr on land. And rainfall of 4mm today.
Brisbane airport is 9km/hr, 0.4mm of rain today.
But the media is still running stories about the terrible cyclone. Where?
You cannot trust Climate Change.
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Sorry, 76km/hr at Byron and 6mm of rain today.
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Nullschool shows wind just above 90kph.
The ocean currents in the vicinity of the cyclone give the impression of a turbulent wake behind Australia moving westward:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/currents/overlay=wind/orthographic=-203.20,-26.95,2634/loc=155.868,-29.005
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FWIW – more covid
“WATCH: Pfizer CEO Flops Attempting to Defend Vax Liability Shield”
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/03/04/watch-pfizer-ceo-flops-attempting-to-defend-vax-liability-shield-n4937539
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Those that might be seeking a European view on current events, check out the Times Radio link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wyoG-N0tuI
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“The capricious whims of a man in the oval office”
This is part of the endless character assassination of Donald Trump evident in the chattering classes for many years. And JD Vance,RFK, Elon Musk and others admit they believed it too. Until they met the man. They openly admit they were deceived by the media. As were most people. Trump even cheated at golf according to one insider book. He is beneath contempt.
It’s hard to know where to get your news when nearly journalists lie all the time. I cannot remember reading or hearing any criticism of geriatric Joe Biden. Incredibly and inexplicably he was put directly in charge of Ukraine affairs by Obama. Head of the Biden family he now pardoned his entire family to prevent criminal charges. And it’s as if this didn’t happen and no one asks why?
While the Bidens and those who were paid by the Obama government and groups such as USAID run away with the money and leave a trail of devastation from Gaza to Afghanistan to Ukraine and more than a million young men dead in America from Chinese/Mexican Fentanyl. It is all Trump’s fault and evidence of his ‘deeply flawed’ character.
Liars.
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I cannot remember reading or hearing any criticism of geriatric Joe Biden.
I can’t believe that remark was posted. The wikipedia listing for Biden is as good as any for education purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Joe_Biden#:~:text=Biden%20is%20seen%20as%20a,Kabul%20on%20August%2015%2C%202021.
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During first Trump campaign many years ago I broke with my well read, clever but strongly anti-Trump friend, while I was as strongly anti-Left.
Now, I want to call back and apologise – not only Trump has shown himself as a dangerous fool but his team obviously consists only of dangerous careerists. Not a pip from them!
BTW, where is his ambitious daughter and son-in-law?
Woe to America, woe to the world.
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Trump is the ONLY one trying to end the wars. Everyone I read in the press wants to fight to ‘victory’. It just means endless war. What victory? What would it look like? The same in Gaza. The fighting over boundaries in Europe has been endless since Roman days. People care more about language and religion and family than lines on a map. This war is about lines on a map. And who collects taxes. This war must end. Then it’s just negotiation and people stop dying and houses blown up and life can return to normal.
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“Victory”, by definition, is not endless war. Drip feeding munitions IS.
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Victory achieved can end a war, (unless it’s a GWBush “victory”), but ‘chasing victory’ can drag out war for an awful long time.
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What victory? What would it look like?
Ukraine’s borders back to where they were pre-2014, and the Budapest Memorandum re-signed with a few more guarantors.
I suspect that if Ukraine is successful, its military capabilities – especially drones and autonomous vehicles which are already world-leading, will be able to look after itself.
Don’t take my word for it – listen to General David Petraeus (ret).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vta3Qt30ZQ
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Not really a fella with great judgement which is why he retired.
Also not really an expert in swift military victories, given his command experience is Iraq in Afghanistan before he had to bow out over at the CIA.
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>where is his ambitious daughter and son-in-law?
He doesn’t need the trusted family support this time around because he’s not surrounded by backstabbers, spies, RINOs, and traitors this time. He has a team.
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“Trump has shown himself as a dangerous fool ”
Got any evidence? He seems fine to me, not a smarmy lying career politician, true, but he is getting things done. If he brings Russia in from the cold it will be a great thing, it is better to trade than the fight.
Its not ‘woe to America’, he is saving it. If someone like Biden was elected it would been the end of America, broke, woke and fulla coke!
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Very gentle criticism.
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I think I missed the criticism. Couldn’t find it. Nor mention that he spent half his Presidency at the beach or just not at work. If Trump played a single round of golf in his first term, he was negligent for abandoning his post.
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As with the prime subject of this blog … the core phenomenon is mental health.
Climate hysteria … “the oceans are boiling”.
TDS: Trump derangement Syndrome.
It’s seems clear … the Western managerial intelligentsia is Hell bent to drive a European war with Russia simply to sabotage the hated Donald Trump’s political success.
The Western managerial intelligentsia has gone mad.
If Trump cured cancer …
the NYT would produce pro-cancer editorials …
‘We need cancer to help reduce population to stop World Ending Climate Catastrophe because BIPOC and Trans Non-binary populations will be the hardest hit’.
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Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming.
Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with “mammoth-like traits”. Colossal Biosciences’ eventual goal is to engineer mammoth-like creatures that could help stop arctic permafrost from melting.
Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.
Its stated goal is to create herds of what it calls mammoth-like creatures to live in the arctic tundra. The company says the creatures’ grazing habits would encourage grasslands to flourish and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being released from melting permafrost.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jg4n776evo
Next up, Velociraptors and T-Rex’s.
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Welcome to the world of Political Science Fiction. A new genre which started with innumerate Presidential contender and college footballer Al Gore in 1988. He enlisted the help of the UN to form the IPCC, the International Pushers of Climate Crap. And since then any mad scheme to pump water uphill or install a million giant windmills is given massive funding. No one ever reports on the practical results of this massive spending. Real science has been defunded while whole countries try to become hydrogen megapowers. Except its all IPCC.
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Unicorns. When will scientists create a viable population of unicorns.
Everybody knows their farts can easily power everything.
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The two horned unicorns were wiped out.
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Bicorns?
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Rhinoceros
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Menopause starting earlier? Half of women in their 30s reporting symptoms
It typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55; the average age in the US a decade ago was 51. It’s a natural change and marks the end of a woman’s ability to conceive.
A new survey, commissioned by researchers from Flo Health and the University of Virginia, looked at around 4,500 women, and found that half of all women in the 30-35 age bracket reported experiencing symptoms of early menopause or “perimenopause,” to give the condition its technical name. Over 55% of 30-35 year olds reported “moderate to severe” symptoms, increasing to 64.3% in women between the ages of 36 and 40.
https://studyfinds.org/perimenopause-early-symptoms-women/
Old boilers by 30…
Pick being a mum or having a career.
Climate change strikes again.
At least one religious cult won’t have a problem.
/slap on wrist.
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Anything to do with the clot shot?
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surely not
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Possibly, but it has been acknowledged for some time now – way before Covid – that girls were starting puberty earlier and earlier, so something is going on with female hormones. My guess is it’s the same – or a similar – thing that’s increasing rates of autism. Environmental or lifestyle, who knows, but we all swim in a fog of toxic chemicals and almost everything we eat is contaminated in some way, whether it’s injections and drenches applied to livestock, pesticides applied to growing food or treatments applied to increase shelf life. And that’s before it gets to the food processing plant where it will be mixed with all kinds of mysterious cr4p.
I had a go at growing spuds a few months ago, in cloth ‘buckets’. For this I was told it is important to use seed potatoes rather than supermarket spuds, because those sold as food are ‘treated’ with sprout inhibitors. What the heck is that? Is it safe and effective? What does it do to the consumer?
We are being maimed, made sick and even killed by the food industry, and that’s if the insect-killer spray thingy squirting chemicals into your living room every hour doesn’t get you. Or the various cleaners we use on our countertops. Or the dishwasher detergent residue. Or the air freshener. Or your deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, after shave, talc, skin cream, etc, etc, etc.
Then there’s the alum, lime, ferric chloride, fluoride, carbon dioxide, chlorine, ammonia, tin chloride and sodium hydroxide in your drinking water …
Seriously, 5G is the least of our worries.
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You missed soy which could be a mistake.
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You want to grow spuds?
First of all, Roundup the field stone dead, so its easier to plough. That might take a couple of hits to get it clean.
Then plow in some insecticides and fungicides, and another to kill nematodes etc, you want everything in there dead dead dead..
Plant your spuds. Spray them as they grow to stop 20-spotted ladybirds and similar from eating them. Plenty of insecticides needed with monoculture..
At your best guess time, spray them with a particularly clever hormone that stops the cells dividing, so your spuds will grow bigger but won’t grow any more small ones.
Hit them with a herbicide when any weeds show up, probably some more fungicide/nematocide.
When they’re ready Roundup the whole lot to stop growth where it is, and later on dig ’em up.
Remember, Bayer is your friend… Like Pfizer…
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SERIOUSLY what are the alternatives, assuming you are not in favour of mass starvation.
Is your Privilege™ showing?
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Hormones in the meat?
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Steve,
In my mid-80s, with zero evidence of the contaminations you mention despite extensive searches by pathology.
You might be better if you did not worry yourself to death, with no hard evidence of your alleged poisons. Geoff S
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It’s natures way of saying ‘we don’t need you’.
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Someone’s whispered in Zelensky’s shell like.. You can guess what they said.
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And he could always get on a plane again and sign. Without the cameras and the Coke.
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Or they could just stay where they are and sign in counterparts like non-grandstanding businessmen do.
My only hope is that the Russians have agreed not to advance in the period where Trump turns the financial tap off.
If the world is lucky Trump will effect a ceasefire regardless of what the Ukraine wants.
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And this time wear a nice suit, not your Ninja outfit.
And stay off the coke.
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And try to say thank you when you have your hand out for hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Was the trident on the malevolent manlet’s skivvy a NeoNasty symbol, the equivalent of a Swash Sticker??
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The trident of Ukraine symbolizes the will of our people, the invincibility of our country, and also personifies the connection of generations. Today, the trident is the emblem of our state, which has long become a symbol of the invincibility and struggle of Ukrainians for freedom.
Simon – do you have a link that can back up your symbol description? Otherwise, good on him for displaying it.
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I’ve seen a fair bit of “Coke” use in my time and Zellie has a blown nose. His voice also indicates some long sessions with glass tables.
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A green fantasy: Labor’s hydrogen hopes go up in smoke. Up where? well we all know the fundamental answer to that! Another 100 billion $$$$ and no mention of that in the Albo Tross election pitch! He’s too busy “Canuting” himself in Queensland and NSW.
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What Z anywhere near the WH around 2 July 2023?
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🙂
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Guess who’s the biggest buyer of Russian oil?
Australia, of course!
Go to link for audio story.
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Most of our imports are refined product out of the Singapore hub. That makes the Singapore refiners the largest customers, which is not right, India and China share that honour.
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Singapore may well be the largest buyer of oil from the ghost fleet.
Singapore Buys Russian Oil
Singapore has been a key destination for Russian oil exports, particularly through ship-to-ship transfers that help obscure the origin of the cargo. In May 2024, the SCF Primorye, a Russian oil tanker under US sanctions, made a secret cargo transfer near Singapore to another ship, the Ocean Hermana, to evade sanctions and distance the buyer from any risks associated with dealing with a sanctioned vessel.
More at:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Singapore+buys+Russian+oil+%2B+black+fleet&source=web&summary=1&conversation=0145e2f8be75108b4836bc
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SCF in the ship name stands for Sov Com Flot – the old USSR’S [nominally] Commercial Fleet.
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Paul’s comment above at #1.3 has a lot of good connections to the overall understanding of the global warming theme.
Item 1 however, is about the core issue and is a bit hard to follow.
The term, “intermolecular bonds”, for example, seems to be a bit disconnected?
Can anyone give more background to this first part?
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Robot learns martial arts
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896973157556478071
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It looks AI.
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Ukrainian Battle Bots – they are outnumbered, but are harnessing new technology to save their people in this fight. Nasty but necessary from their point of view. The Russian answer is 1500lb gliding bombs and human wave attacks – equally nasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTHFK0pGIY
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This is odd. Just as EVs are going out of favour, Bank Australia has decided it will no longer lend money for fossil fuel cars.
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Go woke …
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Bank Australia?
It must be a new one.
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I checked out the website of Bank Australia – apparently started out as the CSIRO credit union. Say no more on that.
They have some lovely photos of their ‘customers’, Including ‘Cloe’, who I doubt has borne that name since birth.
I sent them a nice polite email regarding their stance on the dangers of climate change, so will be interesting to see if they reply.
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How do the democrats figure that their unedifying spectacle of tossing their toys outta the cot en masse today broaden their base?
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Politicians… got to be seen to to be doing SOMETHING…
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Head line at the gateway pundit
Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs Doug Collins Named Designated Survivor for Tonight’s Presidential Address to Congress
Is it wise to advertise to your adversaries who will run the country once you remove most of the government through a terrorist attack?
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Hey Peter C
Alfred is now a classic cyclone where the the cloud is centred over the low pressure.
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February temps.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled-1.jpg?ssl=1
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A bit of an update on Alfred projections from Ventusky. They better be wrong! Intensifying to cat 3, sitting just off the Gold Coast for 35 hours, (from 1am Fri, to noon Sat!) with pummelling winds up to 175ks – ‘Bye bye Byron.’ Brisy gets away almost scot free. I was in Bunnings early, and people were buying compost and plants! But masking tape has vanished, along with eggs, pasta, and chicken pieces. No major problems getting anything else locally. The BOM was still unwilling to take a swing, saying it’s hitting somewhere between the Sunshine and Gold coasts. Like I said Ventusky better be wrong.
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Disaster Relief Australia has $38 million of funding ‘being poured in’ to its volunteer ranks – no time period for this funding is specified
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/new-disaster-mobile-alert-system-overdue-not-operational-alfred/105013644
E-safety gets £42.5 million a year (for its volunteer ranks of snitches)
https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/rowland/media-release/record-investment-improve-safety-australians-online
It’s all about priorities.
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I put a £ sign into e-safety money up there – should be $ sorry
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FWIW
“The Carney campaign: “This is what he meant, unburdened by what he said”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/03/04/i-love-semiconductors-i-really-do-i-love-semiconductors/
A useful descriptor for “Elbow”?
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https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/australian-federal-police-finally
As at 8 March 2024, the AFP had recorded 241 workplace incidents related to the Covid vaccine mandate, a number that does not appear to include incidents that took place outside of work hours.
https://www.afp.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-05/LEX%202528.pdf
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Part 5 of the Influenza-like illnesses and mortality review – some interesting charts.
Spanish Flu or WWI chemical warfare?
and why Flu vaccines?
https://jdee.substack.com/p/an-enigma-transmission-of-epidemic-202
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FWIW – “read all about it”
“New Trump Credit-Card Limit for Bureaucrats: Welcome To …”
$US 1.00 limit
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/04/new-trump-credit-card-limit-for-bureaucrats-welcome-to-the-dollar-store-n3800411
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So the supervisor has his 5 bullet points: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, OK’d Bill’s expenses and I had to get outta bed for THAT!
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Extinction Rebellion protest: Woman sitting on oil blocks Primark entrance In Hoofddorp, Netherlands
https://old.bitchute.com/video/BHWTK1ZMQPGT/
They are getting madder and lonelier
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Ventusky Alfred projections – slows down and intensifies off Gold Coast until Friday afternoon, then drifts slowly north before coming into land Sat afternoon, bringing heavy rain and wind onto GC and Brisbane’s southern suburbs. We’ll see.
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Hedge Fund Built on Energy Bets Says ‘Clean Is Dead for Now’
https://archive.is/y7wsK
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$375B Environmental Protection Agency slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier
https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/business/john-podesta-375m-epa-slush-fund-gave-billions-to-newly-formed-charities/
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https://rumble.com/v6pxhj4-gabriel-custodiet-and-urban-hacker-ai-as-dangerous-servant-can-skynet-becom.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
If John Connor were alive today, he would be running his own local instance of AI to find out what Skynet is up to.
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Pharma risk / benefit
Collateral Damage
Is it what the benevolent AI is learning from?
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From Trudopea, the country formerly known as Canada.
Government worker complains senior climate change scientist was naked on video call
https://archive.is/3ISXN
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How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
https://reason.com/2025/03/02/how-to-get-rid-of-a-tenured-professor/
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86pgxqv3z2o
“Giant tortoises move to Leeds after outgrowing home”
Is there nothing climate change isn’t responsible for?
A pleasant, touching, story about five, named, tortoises moved to a zoo – with an excellence award – from one that struggled to look after them.
But the BBC, and one Angela Ferguson, credited as author, cannot resist another push at the hoax: –
“Sulcata tortoises have a life expectancy of more than 70 years. They have no real known predators as adults, due to their large shell and average weight, which is around 80kg for a male. They are the largest of all mainland tortoises and usually reside along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
“The species is classed as endangered. Desertification, where land turns into desert, caused by climate change, is leading to habitat loss and competition for food.”
And I thought CO2 led to greening [‘catastrophic global greening’, natch] …
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Two-tier sentencing enshrined in UK from 1 April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBYBJvqY-o
Disdain for everyone doesn’t really address the problem of discrimination….
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Perhaps the jibe has some effect.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg19gx7vl4o
“Mahmood rejects sentencing changes after ‘two-tier’ claims”
“The justice secretary [That is Shabana Mahmood, Auto] has called for the scrapping of planned changes which would make the background of offenders from minority groups a bigger factor when deciding whether to jail them.
“Shabana Mahmood called for the Sentencing Council to reverse course, after the Conservatives accused Labour of overseeing “two-tier justice”, in which prison sentences are less likely for ethnic or faith minorities.”
But it is – umm – interesting that the Sentencing Council [a quango, M’lud, possibly well-remunerated] thinks it’s okay to treat some ethnic groups differently in law.
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Perhaps the jibe ‘2-Tier’ has some effect.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg19gx7vl4o
“Mahmood rejects sentencing changes after ‘two-tier’ claims”
“The justice secretary [That is Shabana Mahmood, Auto] has called for the scrapping of planned changes which would make the background of offenders from minority groups a bigger factor when deciding whether to jail them.
“Shabana Mahmood called for the Sentencing Council to reverse course, after the Conservatives accused Labour of overseeing “two-tier justice”, in which prison sentences are less likely for ethnic or faith minorities.”
But it is – umm – interesting that the Sentencing Council [a quango, M’lud, possibly well-remunerated] thinks it’s okay to treat some ethnic groups differently in law.
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Duplicate comment. Sorry. Maybe my internet . . .
Auto, suitably red-faced.
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AI make me a shirt.
Textiles and Clothing has been one industry that has not had a lot of automation since the loom and sewing machine – some automated pattern cutting stuff I think, but a lot of, mainly ladies, in large buildings sewing stuff. Although there are now a lot of second hand machines around for making surgical masks, so entry level automation looks to be more common (although they were more in packaging than textile end of things).
Anyway, just thinking of this as I see this display of soft power (scuse the pun, had to do it): https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/03/05/mulungushi-textiles-nears-operational-resumption-as-machine-testing-commences/
The textile industry in Zambia was destroyed pretty much by charity donations (called locally as Salula).
(I don’t donate to charity shops, wear clothes pretty much til they are done for anyway, and then they are great rags)
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War and minerals. Oh, and of course oil.
https://www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/15371/tshisekedi-inks-lobbying-deal-to-bag-minerals-deal-with-trump
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“Mike drop” at BBC: https://old.bitchute.com/video/svf6sjzqZFCi/
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Meta has been blocking Cyclone Alfred searches and posts, sending people to their climate science centre
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