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A Patriotic Australia Day to you All
A BBQ with Lamb chops should be in order – Sam would approve
Just do not buy them from Woolies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4
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Happy Australia Day All! 🙂
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Australia Day and DM nowhere to be seen? 😉
Fire up those barbies, get that non-Wokeworths meat on, and raise your middle finger defiantly to the WEF and Greta.
Let the aroma fill the neighbourhood.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, oi, oi!
We own this country,
It’s not a WEF toy!
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It’s a crying shame this blog never put something Australian as the header, “Friday” is not good enough.
Just the Australian flag or Eureka flag.
Nothing is just taking a knee to these clowns.
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Maybe Jo’s a closet kiwi? 🤭
Putting anything shamelessly Aussie like a flag in the header would, these days, be seen as racist and non-inclusive and no doubt she’d cop some flack.
Maybe a pic of some lamb chops on a bbq, with Ernie Dingo cooking them? That’ll silence the whiners.😎
We were once proud of our country and we will be again.
It’s just a matter of time now.
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Would Kangaroo fillets be more appropriate? Not a product of colonialism which brough sheep to Australia.
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Jo was just busy doing the AEMO take down til 4am. That’s the only reason.
I’ve spoken up at two woolworths, two coles, one Aldi and a kmart this week to ask them where their Australia Day stuff was, and to “ask them to pass on a message to their boss” about how disappointed I am at their unAustralianness.
UPDATE: Fair request MP. Posted. https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/long-live-australia-day/
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Flying through the flack is what she does.
No such thing as a closet Kiwi, if their a Kiwi, they will sure as hell tell you.
CO2, you want to eat dog food be my guest.
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Fush and chups is always a dead giveaway. 😉
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Jandals in the chilly bin – avoid the hip skup and jimping across the beach car park. Still no good with judder bars though.
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Slim Dusty – Waltzing Matilda
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The Man from Snowy River
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Happy Australia day but many don’t seems to like it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13002703/Statue-Captain-Cook-sawed-Melbourne-four-words-sprayed-it.html
Never mind, there will be constant pushback on voting the ‘wrong’ way in your recent referendum. We still get lots of aggro from Remain fanatics following Brexit.
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I don’t know about ‘many’ Tony. It’s more a shouty vandalistic minority trying to bully people into their negative way of ‘thinking’.
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No doubt Greta will want to campaign about energy guzzling ski resorts. No doubt the Sheiks of Dubai will give here a sympathetic hearing as their resort is rated No 4.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-13001461/The-10-popular-ski-resorts-2023-according-social-media-views-Courchevel-France-No-1-DUBAI-ranking-fourth.html
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Does your local council support Australia Day or its it dominated by woke councillors like mine?
My local council is running a “Truth Telling” ceremony starting at dawn where people who are more white than brown and who run around in bear skins relate past wrongs of colonial settlers and how this caused hurt and suffering to “First Nations People” that lingers to the day (sigh).
The 2021 census had 2,410,833 Australians as having Irish ancestry compared to 812,000 who self-identified as being “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders”.
My Irish ancestors left Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 1850s.
No mention is made of how the English had “stolen” Irish land or the fact that the reason why the Irish famine occured was because English landlords where exporting food to England while the Irish starved.
But then the Irish have the wrong coloured skin!
Of course most of the first settlers were convicts who had been forced to come to Australia as the only alternative to a death penality (which applied to stealing anything worth more than a shilling as a typical example) no mention is made of the hurt and suffering they endured being force to leave family and friends behind in the UK.
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I am looking to start a group claim against the Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings and Normans who all invaded England and who looted our treasure and enslaved many of us. I am certain I will get a fair hearing and lots of compensation, or are those invasions somehow different to the one of Australia?
Ireland is a bit problematic and you need to talk to the Norman descendants-not us- about that, who set it all off.. Similarly the Irish may have a case to answer as Dublin was the largest slave market in Europe in Viking times.
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But I also have Viking ancestors in Norway!
Where does that leave me? Should I receive compensation for the hurt suffered by the Irish or pay compensation for the the rape and pillage of the Vikings?
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Norway has far more money than the UK.
They got it selling lots of oil & gas and lots of hydro electricity; both at very profitable rates from those countries so stupid as to think they can “save the planet”.
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Hmmm, tricky. I think you may need to get compensation and then pay it out again. If you would like to send me a consultation fee of $1000 I will look into it for you.
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I also have an English female ancestor sent to Australia as a convict for stealing linen worth a shilling to feed her family.
You need to up the consultation fee to cover this one – this should be worth some compensation
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I am English living in England of 87.5% Yorkshire and 12.5% Irish extraction. My Irish great great granddad left bantry bay in Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 1850s. He obeyed the law and joined the Royal Navy, so he was not transported to Australia. Although his daughter and my mothers grandma was known to have got into trouble for being drunk.
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Only 12 per cent of the convicts transported to Australia were Irish.
About half a million Irish people are believed to have left their homes between 1788 and 1921 to come to Australia – most were not convicts.
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They may not have left as convicts but they are up there in the con department. Need your driveway resurfaced?
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Yes MP why are they always Irish .
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To be sure, to be sure.
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My grandmother left Ballinamore {Béal an Átha Móir}, County Leitrim and sailed on a ship registered in Norway from Derry {Londonderry; Daire Calgaich}. That was in 1900.
We accept no blame for all the troubles caused by the ancient leaders of Europe, England, Ireland, or anywhere else.
However, it is fact that America is so much better for her passage across the Atlantic to Ellis Island. 🙂
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Our local council tried to discourage one of the local townships from having what has become its traditional Australia Day parade. The organizer told them to “get stuffed” Its on today with our local car club supporting with some old Australian cars and other vintage vehicles.
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Good to hear. We are carrying flags/banners in the parade.
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Our council decided to not conduct citizenship ceremonies, Labor Mayor and climate freak.
But the National Party Federal and State MPs have openly criticised the decision.
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In the UK a company has been set up to provide dozens of rapid charging stations for electric vehicles. In five minutes it will provide enough juice to get the car 100 miles.
I had always thought that rapid charging damaged the battery. Has battery technology changed, or will this likely result in more damage and more fires and insurance claims, as I am sure rapid charging will be very popular?
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Likely to have the same fate as a company set up in Australia to provide fast charging
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Tritium stock chart is here:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DCFC/
For the first few years the news of this company had been like a shooting-star. If the chart of its stock is an indication, it has plummeted since August of 2022.
Joe Biden became a big fan — perhaps that was the problem.
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Presumably Tritium failed for financial reasons as perhaps it was in the market too early and Australia is anyway a daft place to promote electric cars with your vast distances.
The UK makes more sense for this service (if EV cars make any sort of sense anyway)
But it doesn’t answer my question as to whether fast charging is a good, bad or neutral thing with modern batteries
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Excellent situation for ageing people who need regular comfort stops.
lol
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But not usually for that long
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Australia Day Honours
Now these are something that should be banned on Australia Day
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Dr Sutton was the side kick mini-me of Dr Evil (Dictator Dan) who did what he was told to do by the evil Dictator
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Money for Sutton
Chics for free
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1/21/24, Lichtenstein had a referendum about 3 points:
mandatory photovoltaics NO 66,6%
on the amendment of the Building Act (BAUG), the Energy Efficiency Act (EEG) and the Energy Performance Certificate Act (ENAG) (implementation of Buildings Directive II and MuKEn 2014) NO 65,2%
on Electronic health dossier NO 53,9%
Very clear results ! 😀
Results referendum (German)
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More Referendums in Australia please for points such as these. That’s Democracy for you. The Swiss have got it right.
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In Swizzerland a referendum pro/contra windmills is in the planning.
https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/albert-roestis-albtraum-koennte-wahr-werden-umweltschuetzer-windkraft-und-strahlungsgegner-sagen-dem-mantelerlass-den-kampf-an-ld.1761347
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Climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation case reveals what critics say is unethical behavior
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/climate-scientists-defamation-case-reveals-what-critics-say-plaintiffs
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To avoid any confusion:
Note that M. Mann was at Penn State (mascot: Nittany Lion; football) in State College, Pa., but a couple of years ago moved 150 miles SE to Univ. Pennsylvania (mascot: Fighting Quaker; breakfast cereal) in Philadelphia.
Penn State University lies at the foot of Mount Nittany, a very low mountain that once was roaming territory for the, perhaps factious, big cat of that name. Philadelphia is supposed to be a more refined site – City of Brotherly Love. That is questionable:
Philadelphia ultimately comes from a nickname given to an ancient Greek ruler of Egypt who gained notoriety for marrying his own full sister. The “brotherly love” in the name originally referred to literal incest.
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Adelaide had 35mm of rain yesterday (from 9am), a bit more than the range-maximum 8mm forecast the previous day and the revised midday nowcast of 18mm!
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The BOM would say its a warm dry rain though.
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CO2 Lover
Re “Tinks etc” – those botersnikes got sold on “dry water swimming”
An aside on those books –
Wiki says “The series is considered a classic of Australian children’s literature and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.”
Maybe no longer, as IIRC our copies were throwouts from the school library
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It came from the tropical low (that RickWill tells us is named 03U) that begun life in December around southern Arnhem Land and slowly tracked SW, then S and now SE across the Kimberly, Pilbara, WA Goldfields and Eucla districts before moisture from it streaming across southern SA and into Victoria. As he wrote yesterday, it is an amazing phenomenon, forming as it did on dry land and maintaining its strength for weeks despite never venturing to the coast. It even gave us a spectacular dawn today in the Adelaide foothills. All my tanks are full too!
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Cyclones that form off WA’s NW coast, when heading inland, often travel right down through Australia to the Bight in a weakened form. One in 1963 filled an ancient riverbed on the Nullarbor and took out the Trans line – I believe that they have now added large culverts on that section. Another picked up one of the railway’s water tank off its stand, last seen bowling merrily along the Plain.
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The Townsville Cat 3 Cyclone that never was.
The Tvlle Airport/common weather station had the highest wind strength recorded was 63kph http://www.bom.gov.au/places/qld/town-common/observations/townsville/
The BOM had it on their cyclone tracker at Cat 3, after it turned into a low they rehashed all the three’s to two’s which is not supported by their own data http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml?trk=public_post_comment-text
Their own rules state a Cat 1 at 63 kph http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/tropical-cyclone-knowledge-centre/understanding/categories/ it was 63 for one hour.
I found this live stream from someones back yard in Tvlle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3cCTHi0YQ
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There is talk that this ex-tropical cyclone will become a rain depression and travel west across the country to the Indian Ocean where it may become a TC again.
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Yeah, there was a lot of talk. 175kph winds, a meter of rain, Lies, Lies and more lies.
When will they be held accountable, the BOM reaped more destruction on this state than the tropical low.
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I thought Cyclones were going to be bigger and more devastating?
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They are, turn your TV back on.
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Not according to the BOM’s cyclone tends graph.
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One could say that they were back when Wright made them
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Indeed; I checked BoM for Qld earlier and the highest wind gust I could see anywhere was at Mt Stuart (Defence) in Herbert & Lower Burdekin at 89kph. Hardly worth the hype, ditto the rainfalls, most of which didn’t reach Adelaide’s lofty 35mm yesterday!
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I think I saw that Lucinda had a gust up to 100km/h, and some in the 80s and 90s km/h, but sustained winds were barely Cat 1 most of the time at Townsville, or at stations north or south.
Pages from the BOM observations downloaded for posterity.
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Another case of “errors and omissions”.
lol
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Is that it – all over before it began?
Maybe the aroma of chops & steaks & snags and the hiss of cans opening scared that doomsday – oops! sorry, Australia Day – Category 11 storm into submission: inland farmers will enjoy some rain showers yes?
Sydney Airport’s 1.5 hour ‘heatwave’ lost the plot too, as well as losing 15 degrees in under an hour:
1.55pm 40C
2.00pm 30C
2.44pm 25C
Climate Change killed Gobull Warming?
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Another fizzer, there will be less cyclones in a warmer world and they won’t be very severe.
They are already forecasting a return of La Nina later this year, the continent will be awash. In my book this is a global cooling signal.
‘It was only last year that we came out of a 3-year La Niña but there is a significant chance that the Pacific Ocean returns to a La Niña state by spring this year, increasing the chances of wet weather across eastern Australia in spring and summer.’ (Weatherzone)
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Reminds me of the cyclone Olwyn in WA in 2015. There was a lot of hype and excitement, police knocking on the doors and saying we were in the direct path and needed to get out (somewhat south of Geraldton). It was a dead calm with some overcast for two days, not a drop of rain. Olwyn resulted in a famous Geraldton meme with a photo of an upturned plastic pool chair (WA salvage pool set type), saying “Cyclone Olwyn – together we will rebuild!”
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Dr John Campbell takes another look at Vitamin D with Dr David Grimes a medical researcher and author. They introduce “calcifediol” the form of Vitamin D that the liver produces from “cholecalciferol”. The video is over an hour but well worth the listen. It gives the listener a better understanding of how to manage their own vitamin D supplementation, both before and during infection. “Calcifediol” is available from Chemist Warehouse at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if it our health authorities make it prescription only if/when they realise people are acquiring it to protect themselves from infection.
Lots of warnings online about the side effects of “Calcifediol”. It’s probably as dangerous as ivermectin and rain water.
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OOPS!! forgot the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp21CPCVNAw
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His chart of excess deaths by country for 2023 lists Canada 16%, New Zealand 14.5%, Australia 14.3%, Chile 12.1% and so on downwards.
The 14000 here in Aussie dwarfs the road toll, the shark attacks and the snake bites by far. What would you worry about being killed by if not the Govt?
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Daily Skeptic points out that Denmark got rid of inconvenient excess deaths by raising the baseline.
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For your “horror of the day”
“Eat your vaccines like a good little boy…”
“Merck outlines a process by which technicians identify “the virus” that could threaten pigs on a farm, then remove genes from that virus, and finally insert a particular “gene of interest” into a customized vaccine.
An RNA vaccine, which deploys nanoparticles.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/01/eat-your-vaccines-like-good-little-boy.html
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If I were to apply for a job as say a doctor and I presented my exemplary CV and consequently got the job and started practicing, only for it to be discovered some time down the track that I had lied in said CV, there is no question that I would not only be removed from that position, but charged and severely punished. Why does this not apply to politicians? Looking at you Albo. The front page of Thursday’s (25th) Daily Telegraph (paywall) was one of the most outstanding I’ve ever seen and shows that we still have a lot more freedom in Shtraya (as Albo calls us) than many other countries. ToM
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So where’s all the people posting about freezing rivers in the UK and subzero temperature maps of Europe? Some said I was being cryptic when I said it would be a distant memory by the next week. Indeed it is now. All very mild.
The Central England Temperature mean is already back above ‘normal’, Jan 2024 will end up another unexceptional month in the mean CET overall, on the mild side.
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And the next freeze is just on the way, so what ? 😀
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Canada
“Tucker Carlson’s Liberation Sermon”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/01/25/tucker-carlsons-liberation-sermon/#comments
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You wait for one London bus fire, then three come along at once.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1859679/putney-london-electric-bus-fire
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Mann’s testiomy yesterday in the Mann v Steyn court case gave me great concern about the depth of the swamp. And the way it protects its own.
He has incurred NO legal costs for this case that is now in its 12th year. Someone is paying to protect this fraudulent academic.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unreported-story-society4/episodes/Ep–6–Manns-Money-e2eu4sk
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Cui bono
Look around at who has buckets worth and is still flogging that hockey stick graph?
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Song for Australia Day, from Malcolm Roberts web page.
OFFICIAL VIDEO – “Don’t Welcome Me (To My Own Country)” – The Emily James Trio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuG3z4cr18
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And another, ditty of truth.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. 3 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZlo0WZ_iU
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Not visible like Harry Potter, tirck or reality 😀
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In Costco’s latest newsletter, there is a special on an “Eco Living” waste bin. It has a motion sensor to raise the lid for you, so must have a battery along with some electronics and a motor. In a WASTE BIN.
Words fail me.
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A notification from The Washington Post
No bias there!
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They don’t seem to realise, still haven’t got it even after over 8 years, Trump is the Center Right’s Rottweiler.
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Remember the traitors.
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Lots of happy Aussies where I am, many boats flying our Flag and vehicles with window flags.
At the waterfront locations even covered eating areas decorated.
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We had our parade of many flags, classic cars led by a wonderful float made by the Men’s Shed, emergency vehicles from the area and a riding group on their beautiful horses. Well done the Lions, who also had their catering van there. After some chats we left as we find socialising with loud music a bit difficult.
Cool cloudy weather until lunchtime with some drizzle but the sun is showing up a bit now. Some neighbours are dropping in for a quick one later; a novelty for us these days as the habit died somewhat with the last few years nonsense.
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I forgot to add that we also discovered Crocodile Dundee in attendance, complete with crocodile!
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None visible at the Gabba, disgraceful. Has the ground banned Oz regalia?
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Actually they did, how did you miss that?
I have not taken any notice of the cricket since the little sandpaper incident, that and under arm, taking the knee and now the banning of Aus day.
Treat them with the same contempt they treat us, do not participate.
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If ABC TV is any guide, ‘Invasion Day’ has already replaced Australia Day.
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Do you trust their reporting?
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Kim’s Rant: Have just got back from a lovely Australia Day breakfast at Cowaramup provided by the Lions and listening to Australian folk music.
To the wokies who hate on Australia: I am proud to live in Australia, proud and thankful to live in this lovely land, and proud to be Australian. If you don’t like it then GTFOOH! is all I can say.
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Ask yourself, would you go to war and die in a trench for Elbow??
I’ve never understood patriotism, it always leads to war.
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I think there may be a horse and cart/cart and horse problem with that statement KP.
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Why are so many places “up” in WA?
Cowaramup is just south of Quidalup, Yallingup, Wilyabrup and Metric cup, (I kid you not). Then after Cowaramup, there’s Mokidup, Kilcarnup, Gnarabup, Boranup, and Mammoth Cave.
What’s up?
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Don’t forget Drink It Up!
Surfed Cow Bay in the 80s: think it’s called Gracetown but we called it Cow Town, beautiful spot on the day… Go WA!
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You didn’t mention Boyup Brook!
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Or Yallingup.
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“up” is aboriginal for water course – brook \ stream \ river. So if your town is called bodjid and it’s on a stream then it will be called bodjidup. Add in an extra ‘o’ and you have a local brook and beach.
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PS: look up “chick on a stick” and “cow on a stick” – for some amusement.
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One thing I’ve also wondered is how does all the transmission costs feed into the cost of electricity. Is it the case that above and beyond what taxpayers pay in their bill how much is paid for infrastructure, research, subsidies etc.I assume these don’t show up on the energy bill but are just represented by tax collections or borrowings. I would be interested to know how much additional taxpayers money has been wasted on an industry that should not exist.
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periodic cost = capital cost over capital lifetime / period
– we pay one way or another 😁️
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Between the 3-5 cents that is actually costs to generate a kWh of electricity,….and the 30-40 cents we consumers pay our service providers for that kWh…….there is a lot of “margin” to pay for the transmission and distribution infrastructure costs.
That is why the debate about how nuch cheaper Renewables are is all BS. Most of the retail cost is not in the generation end of the game. !
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The fall of an empire: 25 states back Texas against Biden’s illegal act.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1750634263739798005
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/war-red-states-rally-round-texas-battle-brews-biden-over-border
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Think positive – start of another one?
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Something to contemplate on “Invasion Day”
If the English had not lost the USA War of Independence (1775-1782) and could no longer send convict to the USA then they may not have bothered to establish a settlement in Australia in 1788.
So who else may have established a settlement in Australia?
So what would have been the alternative “Invasion Day” and by whom and when?
Fun Fact – How Sydney got its name
Lord Sydney was an English politician who, as the British Home Secretary, was responsible for the plan to establish a penal settlement at Botany Bay.
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Why didn’t the Dutch establish a settlement in Australia?
Captain Cook did not discover Australia in 1770.
Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMB Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales
However, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and charted about 300 km of coastline.
Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century, and dubbed the continent New Holland.
Was it because the stone-age Australia natives produced nothing worth trading with Europeans such as spices, cotton cloth, tea, and opium of the East Indies?
There was no demand in Europe for witchetty grubs!
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“Was it because the stone-age Australia natives produced nothing worth trading ”
Ah, but they lived the dream of Socialists, Teals and Greens everywhere! No plastics, no metals, no private ownership, no rich elites, the workers owned the means of production… a sustainable Green, back-to-nature, idyll…
I’m amazed so few voters go to live with them in Arnhem Land
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Well the French were within a few days of planting their flag if Cook had not bothered.
.. and whilst there were undoubtedly othere nations trading ( ??) with coastal tribes, and it is documented that there were europeans living with aboriginal tribes on the West coast befor Cook floated in, the most likely next “colonising” nation would have been the Japanese in the 1940’s … but for some very brave actions by our military !
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And who was included in our military?
The Aboriginal are dead lucky that it was the English who beat the Japanese to Australia.
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…and lucky that the English beat ALL the other nations to Australia
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There seems to be a push to create some sort of ‘First Nations Day’ to celebrate aboriginal culture. No details yet on what it might look like, so here’s my suggestion.
First, men beat the heck out of their wives. Please note that actually killing her, even though the murder of women in proud Aboriginal communities is TWELVE TIMES that of Australia generally, is not officially encouraged.
Once the beatings are accomplished, the men buy one of those huge casks of wine each and find a tree to sit under until they pass out.
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To the tune of Bloodwood’s “Yuendumu Flagon Wagon”?
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“First Nations People”
“If you tell a BIG LIE often enough people willl tend to beleived it” Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda)
At the time of European Settlement there were around 500 warring tribes each with their own language with no King or parliament.
So they were never a “nation”
They were not the first settlers – the Negritoes were the first followed by the Murrayians then the Aboriginals
In other words – All complete bulllshit
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Our ‘indigenous’ Maori arrived here a thousand years ago, give or take, on boats… as did my Scottish & Irish ‘first nation’ people. At least my mob brought whisky and potatoes.
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Kaspersky picks up ‘product of the year’ for 2023
https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/summary-report-2023/
I’ve used Kaspersky for many years and recommended it to all my clients.
Best choice if you’re in the market for pc protection.
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Lithium price plunges on slowing Chinese demand for electric vehicles
Lithium miners are cutting costs and scaling back plans to expand production after slowing demand in China for electric vehicles crushed the price of the battery metal.
The price of lithium has tumbled more than 80 per cent in the past year to $13,200 per tonne, its lowest level since 2020, after excessive levels of supply hit the market, according to data group Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
The fallout has pushed miners — mainly in Australia, which produces 40 per cent of the world’s supplies — to constrain production as decelerating demand for electric vehicles leaves stockpiles of half-processed material through the supply chain.
“We’re going through a period where too many new projects came online in too short a space of time,” said William Adams, head of commodity markets research at Fastmarkets, a price reporting agency. “We’ve just started to see the pullback.”
While lithium has not fallen as low as its 2019-2020 slump, when it hit a trough of about $6,000 per tonne, the profitability of many producers is stretched at current levels.
Goldman Sachs estimates a surplus of 200,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, or 17 per cent of global demand, this year, which will require “substantial supply cuts” to balance the market.
https://archive.vn/RK4n9
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FWIW
“The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part One: Achieving Universal Energy Security”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/delusions-davos-and-dubai-part-one-achieving-universal-energy-security
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British Government Confirms Commitment to WHO Pandemic Treaty
The British government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has expressed its “commitment” to the globalist project of crafting an international Pandemic Treaty by the World Health Organization.
Buried in a “national statement” delivered at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board in Geneva this week, the British government thew its support behind a push by W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for the world to agree to a Pandemic Treaty.
“The UK underlines our commitment to agreement of a new Pandemic Accord and targeted amendments of the International Health Regulations, which together ensure our preparedness for future health threats with stronger prevention, and response, whilst respecting national sovereignty,” Downing Street said in a press release.
This comes despite a petition signed by over 156,000 Britons calling for the government “to commit to not signing any international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness established by the W.H.O., unless this is approved through a public referendum.”
https://www.visionnews.online/post/__who
Bought and paid for pollies, destroying their own futures, but they’re too stupid and arrogant to see it.
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Comes at a good time as I’m watching Dr Campbell & Dr Grimes tear the British system apart…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp21CPCVNAw
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Another magic formula
““SCIENTISTS:” Redefining Earth’s Future: Scientists Advocate for Revolutionary Planetary Commons Framework. “The study, conducted by a collaborative team of 22 leading international researchers – including Professor Louis Kotzé, Senior Professorial Fellow in Lincoln Law School, and Professor Duncan French, Head of College of Health & Science and Professor of International Law – over nearly two years, calls for a paradigm shift in global governance to effectively safeguard the Earth’s critical systems.”
We law professors are the salt of the earth, nature’s noblemen, but we’re not scientists unless we do science, and telling other people how to live isn’t science, it’s something more like oppression.”
https://instapundit.com/628660/#disqus_thread
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Love the comment-
“We law professors are the salt of the earth,”
‘I think it’s a mis-translation…I think it was meant to say that we should use lawyers to salt the earth.’
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Where I live in regional Victoria, the BOM has forecast an overnight minimum of 10°C. Rather than the longer summers that often get mentioned, it seems more like an early autumn
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After the tropical storm made landfall, convection continues unabated.
https://i.ibb.co/wNZJVPM/himawari9-wv-rgb-07-P-202401260600.gif
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I get #404 not found
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https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/
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Numbers to chew on-
“The GDP Number Was Great… There Is Just One Huge Problem”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gdp-number-was-great-there-just-one-huge-problem
Keep an eye on Canberra
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” it now takes $1.55 in budget deficit to generate $1 of growth… and it takes over $2.50 in new debt to generate $1 of GDP growth!”
I’m sure Canberra’s marvelous GDP growth will be for exactly the same reason..
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The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part One: Achieving Universal Energy Security
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Interesting article at Epoch Times on C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength.
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Aussie Legend Indeed
Woke Woolies can get stuffed (in polite Aussie venacular)
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/aussie-legend-hands-out-flags-at-woolies-amid-australia-day-furore/news-story/2d6d235692db8fb6a1b62248794a6400
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Abstract
Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land. Atmospheric model simulations of the last half-century with prescribed observed ocean temperature changes, but without prescribed GHG changes, account for most of the land warming. The oceanic influence has occurred through hydrodynamic-radiative teleconnections, primarily by moistening and warming the air over land and increasing the downward longwave radiation at the surface. The oceans may themselves have warmed from a combination of natural and anthropogenic influences.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-008-0448-9
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Another one
“This Lancet paper on ‘dangers of undervaccination’ should never have been published”
To get you started –
“IF THERE were a group of whistleblowers within a government-funded organisation who wanted to subtly tell the world that there is no longer any credible evidence to support the ‘safe and effective’ narrative about the covid vaccines, they might do the following:
Use their privileged access to extensive health data to show that all the previous publicly released ONS vaccination data were wrong;
Concoct an obviously flawed study which conflates the genuinely unvaccinated with all those who are vaccinated but not ‘fully up to date and boosted’ into a category called ‘undervaccinated’ to ludicrously compare their outcomes with the ‘vaccinated’;
Write the conclusions in such a way that the mainstream media will wrongly be able to claim that those vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalised or die from covid;
Discredit the results by making clear that all the authors are part of a government-funded organisation with a vested interest in the vaccines;
Further discredit the results by stating (in the ‘data sharing’ statement of the paper) that ‘The data that were used in this study are highly sensitive and are not available publicly’;
Submit the paper to the most high-profile medical journal that has a known history of publishing bogus research that promotes the benefits of the vaccines.
Of course, it’s also possible that a group who are part of such a government-funded organisation and who still desperately want to convince the world that the vaccines really are safe and effective might also do the above (because these people are not too bright but are very highly incentivised).
Well, whatever the motive (good or bad), this is exactly what the HRD-UK (Health Data Research UK), authors of the paper just published in the Lancet have done.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lancet-paper-on-dangers-of-undervaccination-shows-how-desperate-they-are-getting/
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FWIW
“Visualizing All The Nuclear Waste In The World”
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Visualizing-All-the-Nuclear-Wast.jpg?itok=RXFWra24
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/visualizing-all-nuclear-waste-world
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Yet Another Electric Bus Fire in London (that’s Three)
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Its rumoured that Xi Jinping has pancreatic cancer and may give up the top job.
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Canada’s EV strategy has cost $4 million a job
https://financialpost.com/opinion/canada-ev-strategy-cost-4-million-a-job
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