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In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment.
. . .means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government.
Beyond this, the concept gets fairly sloppy.
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The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States states a right to freedom of speech and press freedom in more absolute terms than Article 19 of the ICCPR or the equivalent provision of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press …
The text is unqualified. However, the United States Supreme Court has interpreted the right as subject to some restrictions:
‘the question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent’: Schenck v United States 249 US 47 at 52 (1919). This was later refined to the extent that free speech could be restricted without contravening the First Amendment where it is likely to incite or produce imminent lawless action: Brandenburg v Ohio 395 S 444 at 447 (1969).
The Supreme Court has held that defamation law is subject to the principles of the First Amendment. Criticism of public officials and public figures will not give rise to liability in an action for defamation in the US, unless ‘actual malice’ can be proved against the defendant: New York Times Co v Sullivan 376 US 254 (1964).
However, the First Amendment protection afforded to criticism of public officials and public figures does not extend to defamatory statements made in relation to private individuals. Public figures ‘invite attention and comment’, whereas private individuals ‘have not accepted public office or assumed an influential role in ordering society’. See Gertz v Robert Welch, Inc 418 US 323 at 341–46 (1974).
Note: The UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on 16 December 1966.
ICCPR Article 19 states:
Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.
The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
( b ) For the protection of national security or of public order, or of public health or morals.
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/freedom-information-opinion-and-expression#:
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The problemis that he ICCPR starts from the presumption that THEY can “grant” RIGHTS, thereby arrogating to themselves, the power to DEFINE rights.
The US Bill if rights was built on the concepts of “God-Given” or NATURAL rights.
HUGE difference.
The US Bill of rights is, itself, a somewhat beefed-up edition of the now-defunct English Bill of Rights, the signing of which was a key condition for the ascension to the Throne of William and Mary of Orange, the Dutch “cousins”. The same UK “Bill of rights” on which the Oz legal system pretends to be founded, but which is “honoured” almost exclusively in the breach by a steady bombardment of Statute Law.
Without fundamental “cornerstones”, what you get is a “Legal System”, NOT a “Justice System”. HUGE difference.
Dig around and find out how many laws and regulations are now firmly in line with the French / Russian “Napoleonic Code”.
See also:
“Only the future is certain … the past is always changing.”
― Douglas Schofield, Time of Departure
And variations on that “observation”.
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Very concise, very thoughtful, thank-you
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There’s only three natural rights specifically enumerated and those are in the US Declaration of Independence:
* Life;
* Liberty;
* Persuit of happiness.
You could possibly add to that, the ability to consent, and conversely also to withdraw consent and therefore change government. This has been termed the “Right of Revolution” and predates the USA.
The rights listed in the US Bill of Rights are separate from the above, although the US Constitution doesn’t make any sense without the Declaration of Independence coming first … these are based on the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
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The United States First Amendment is not merely a statement declaring speech inviolable, but instead, it is a BUNDLE of Five rights that reinforce each other, stabilising civil society against the state.
These include freedom of religion, freedom to write ad speak publicly, freedom to argue against the government (or “petition” it with “grievances”), as well as the freedom for the people to assemble — the last one, a right violated in both the US and Australia. Egregiously. Outrageously. By wrong-headed endangered health dictates.
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Free Speech Wednesday? So does this mean that you will start charging us on Thursday?
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We might need a Free Speech Thursday, Friday and Saturday, everyday. To clarify — “Long Live Elon Musk”.
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We need to tell politicians on both sides of the aisle to shove their disinformation bill where the sun don’t shine & keep shoving the UN ICCPR article 19 in their faces. After all they are so fond of signing up to UN agreements with such gusto & glee hoping to trample the population into submission.
Where can we obtain a list of the other agreement’s governments have signed up to, in secret, without the electorate having a say! I don’t remember voting for any UN official condoning the agreements our politicians sign up to without our knowledge. Government is supposedly elected to care for the electorate!!!
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Like Jaquie Lambie!
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Imagine if Elon Musk did “a Simon Holmes a Court” and funded Federal election candidates to unseat those MP’s who wanted him jailed? Bring it on, drain the swamp.
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“she told ABC Radio”
Any politician with integrity would not speak to their ABCCC which is the Gold Medal winner for “misinformation” in the Australian media malarkey.
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“Government is supposedly elected to care for the electorate!!!”
I’ll vote for that!
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Elon Musk or Albanese – who do you trust more?
From the Comments
– My first thought was, is this a trick question?
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X is creating ‘social unrest’: O’Neil
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has accused X of creating civil division and social unrest, warning the social media platform has no interest in helping the government fight extremism.
X owner Elon Musk said on Wednesday: “The Australian people want the truth. X is the only one standing up for their rights.”
Billionaire Elon Musk has labelled Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie an “enemy of the people” over her criticism of his social media platform X.
Lambie this week deleted her account on the platform and called on other MPs should follow her lead.
“That bloke should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred, showing all this stuff out there to our kids,” she told Sky.
Musk responded to two separate clips of the independent senator, criticising Lambie’s position.
“This woman has utter contempt for the Australian people,” he said in one post.
“She is an enemy of the people of Australia,” he said in another.
Elon Musk has done something very few have been able to achieve – he’s united Australia’s politicians against him and his social media platform X.
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Albo certainly made it very clear what he thinks about private sector, high wealth individuals and entrepreneurs.
No wonder the Union Labor Inc government he tries to lead is opposed to mining and other sources of wealth creation and tax revenue collection, they must believe that governments have money and do not need tax revenue and mining royalties.
What would the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky say, and what has Albo read about his favourite?
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Reading quotes from the late Marxist Leon Trotsky, Each Way Albo might have read:
“All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.”
Lambie might have read: “When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.”
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Trotsky:
“Hey, what’s with the ice pick, Tovarich?”
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Free Speech and the Pursuit of Happiness. And freedom of thought.
There. I said it.
So, c’mon Tennis Elbow. Shut me down if yer’ can you communist.
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When are these quotes online from Communist / Marxist leaders going to be taken down, “they encourage social unrest, civil division and encourage extremism” There is no end to censorship when it starts off small.
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Censorship has been quietly taking place for some time.
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/5-current-issues-internet-censorship-bullying-discrimination-harassment-and-freedom
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Andrew Bridgen MP in Parliament debating the Covid “excess Deaths”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/andrew-bridgens-masterly-speech-on-excess-deaths-to-almost-empty-benches/
‘We are witnesses to the greatest medical scandal in this country in living memory, and possibly ever: the excess deaths in 2022 and 2023. Its causes are complex, but the novel and untested medical treatment described as a covid vaccine is a large part of the problem. I have been called an anti-vaxxer, as if I have rejected those vaccines based on some ideology. I want to state clearly and unequivocally that I have not: in fact, I am double-vaccinated and vaccine-harmed. Intelligent people must be able to tell when people are neither pro-vax nor anti-vax, but are against a product that does not work and causes enormous harm to a percentage of the people who take it.”
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Britain’s prosperity was not due to colonialism.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/22/kemi-badenoch-was-right-to-deny-britains-economic-prosperity-is-due-to-white-privilege-and-colonialism/
Between 1860 and 1890 Australia was the richest country on Earth
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There was no Australian Nation then. There were the Colonies though. Technical point only.
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Yes, penal colonies and mostly convicts serving sentences imposed by UK courts of law and with a chance of making a new start in life at the end of the time served.
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Life in 18th century England was terrible. Maternal mortality in childbirth alone was 30%, even to the end of the 19th century. A large proportion of children were orphans. Few could read or write, except in Scotland where schooling was compulsory.
So if the offence was minor. Or political (10%). And the person was young, skilled (and in a largely rural society most were skilled then rather than educated) then transportation was a chance of a new life in a free society and everyone won. The alternatives were starvation, execution, prison barges and certain death or an overcrowded prison or set free when they were clearly hopeless. It was always amazing to me how many prisoners had skills like masonry, farming, even architecture, accounting. Brutal Port Arthur in Tasmania was only for people who committed crimes after arriving. It made no sense to ship people half way around the world just to put them in jail.
The people who were sent to Australia cost the British government a great deal of money. And they were sent because it solved all the problems both at home and in Australia and incidentally the personal problems like food and a meaningful life. As stores came home of the good life in Australia, at the end of transportation there were people openly committing minor crimes for the certain hope of a better life. There was a case of three young women asking the judge for transportation.
This was replaced by a system of assisted migration in which Australian residents guaranteed employment and paid in advance. This was refunded if the entire process was successful. And strictly controlled to ensure propriety.
Like everything to do with Colonialism, the improvement of life in both England and in the colonies is ignored because it is fashionable to paint the British Empire as a brutal system imposed by military might. But that was not true. It was very unlike the French, Spanish and Portuguese invasion, better categorised as sails, not swords. I would liken it more to the Roman system which provided Pax Romana, trade, wealth and peace and prosperity and citizenship not rule by terror and rapine. The system lived on in the British empire.
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SA was settled in a completely different manner, as I’m sure you know.
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TdeF,
Unless you have already, listen to Tom Elliott clash with Pippa Tandy (Teachers For Palestine) – she’ll tell you everything there is to know about origins of WW1 and MidEast conflict. It all was started by English (and American) imperialists in order to grab Palestinian land. The words Ottoman Empire were not mentioned.
You may think Cossacks who fought Turks for 300 years were just bandits, but what about Serb and Greek and Armenian and Kurd peasants,.. what about Arab revolt …?
So these teachers run the school system in Victoria?
No wonder our students can not spell English words, can not count without their phones, easier to list what they can…
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Still is mightily blessed in many ways, however most take it for granted.
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I just saw a post on Farcebook from Senator Babet, United Australia Party, that he has been censored on FB and he recommends people move to free speech Twitter/X.
Surely Farcebook censoring our elected representatives is interference with the political process and also election interference?
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David, many have been judged and cast aside by visage hardcover and shadow boxed by u-cylinder.
I am told that a new person that identifies as one, that not is, can post.
It seems we will need to converse online via code.
Ok, if A=1 and Z=(26).
My message is:
453965(18)/(20)89(19)/256(15)(18)5/19/(23)(15)(18)(11)(19)/9(20)/(15)(21)(20).
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Refer to my posts at #8 and #9
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Haven’t we known about that since the sitting President of the most powerful nation on earth was deplatformed?
Don’t people realise, that fact means there is something more powerful than the President of the most powerful nation on earth?
And that that power controls fakebuk, and so much else of our communication and transaction infrastructure?
No. They seem blissfully unaware.
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Free speech – indeed! No restrictions. All opinions accepted & debated. Or are they?
https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/climate-reporting-best-practices/
Command # 11:
11. Do not platform climate denialists
“Platforming climate deniers in an effort to “balance” our coverage not only misleads the public, it is inaccurate. In the year 2023, there is simply no good-faith argument against climate science. And if one accepts the science, one cannot deny the need for rapid, forceful action. Stories or op-eds that dispute the scientific consensus, or ridicule climate activism, don’t belong in news outlets. …”
-Most of the news media are committed to these rules, which is sad.
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Voltaire was the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), a French author and philosopher of the Enlightenment period.
His rallying cry was “écrasez l’infâme” (“let us crush the evil thing”), referring to religious superstition. Also commonly attributed to Voltaire is the saying “I may disagree with you, but I defend to the death your right to say it.” (Author Evelyn Beatrice Hall attributed the saying to Voltaire in her work The Friends of Voltaire [1906]
After defying his father’s wishes that he become a lawyer, Voltaire pursued his first love, writing, which quickly sparked difficulties with the authorities because of his sometimes harsh attacks on the government and the Catholic Church. The result was a series of imprisonments and exiles. In 1713 Voltaire was briefly exiled to the Netherlands. In 1717 he was imprisoned in the Bastille for satirical verses that ridiculed the government, and especially the regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orleans.
So much for “Free Speech”!
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Volt Air, is that a wind turbine?
LOL
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Dunno, but that was volt farce
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The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensable part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution.
In Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills (1992) 177 CLR 1 and Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v the Commonwealth (1992) 177 CLR 106, the majority of the High Court held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an incident of the system of representative government established by the Constitution. This was reaffirmed in Unions NSW v New South Wales [2013] HCA 58.
This allows such political commentry such as “Danger Dan”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTADjwkTLUM&t=5s
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That Tasmanian alleged Senator is an absolute disgrace. Another good one from “Danger Dan”.
And here is more on the Feral Guv’ment’s attempt to stop free speech – And the alleged Feral Opposition are going along with it –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lung9LTqJdc
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See my posts at #9 and #9.1
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It wasn’t there when I posted my post. The internet is slow sometimes and it takes over 4 minutes for a post to actually post (time enough to edit and all that).
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The reason free speech and many other ‘rights’ are not protected is that the British system of government is quite different from the French and American. In Australia everything is legal until there is a law against it. In America, you have a Bill of Rights (Amendments to the constitution) which guarantee specific freedoms.
That is why creating an Australian Human Rights Commission is a total waste of Australian taxpayer money. There are no legislated Australian ‘rights’. So they have operated by extortion, threatening people that they will be sued at great personal expense unless they pay up, say $5000 for asking where is the white computer room if you can have an exclusive black one? It created an Aboriginal complaints industry which existed outside any legal system. Intimidation and extortion.
In one year the Australian HRC paid complainants $350,000 in extorted fines for people who offended others in any way without definition or examination or even justification.
The Australian HRC is utterly against freedom of speech as a human right, which is a total contradiction. At our great expense. And those of its unwitting victims.
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There are many highly paid people in the Australian HRC .
For example there are 126 people including the President $468383 Super 25292 Long service leave 32217
and another seven senior people on $360,000 + the rest before you even get to the other 120 people.
What do they do? What does a Human Rights Sex Discrimination Commissioner do for her $300K plus the rest.
Free speech? They’re against it. It’s their job.
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“What do they do? ”
Like all Govt ‘social’ Depts, they just soak up the unemployables to make the dole figures look better.
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The Australian Uniparty v Musk
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/not-about-freedom-expression-aussie-politicians-unite-against-elon-musks-x
Birmingham is another Malcolm Turnbull who should be in the Labor Party and is a reason for thinking people not to vote for the Coalition
Should imagery of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre be “filtered”? and on what basis? What stance would the 2977 victims take?
No one was killed in the knife attack on the Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel while he was delivering a sermon at the Assyrian church located in Sydney’s Wakeley suburb.
The attack on Musk is politically motivated.
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“On Tuesday, Musk shared a post stating Mr Albanese had given X free advertising after the prime minister said it was the only social media platform that hadn’t bowed to demands by Australia’s eSafety commissioner.
‘I’d like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one,’ Mr Musk said.”
We have already censored the content in question for Australia, pending legal appeal, and it is stored only on servers in the USA.
‘Should the eSafety Commissar (an unelected official) in Australia have authority over all countries on Earth?’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13338507/Elon-Musk-takes-swipe-Anthony-Albanese.html
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Former senior executive at Twitter recruited by the Turnbull Government of LINO majority.
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Note the difference
No call by the Uniparty to “filter” imgages of the knife attack at Bondi Junction which Killed 6 and injured many more including a baby.
However an attack by a member of the “Religion of Peace” which killed no one is now the subject of interest by the eSafety Commissar – why is it so?
Just confirms how eager Politicians are to present a false narrative of the truth when special interest groups pull their strings.
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?.?… i have not been able to find any “uncensored” images of those attacks,..
…where have you seen them ??
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My point being…i think you will find that all we have seen from Bondi has already been censored .!
Everything has been “pixelated” , sound muted, or otherwise hidden from view.
Unless you have other sources. ?
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In regard to Bondi, I am waiting for a discussion of why knife obsessed paranoid schizophrenics are let to roam free range. The logical question is do we reopen the “Mental institutions” to ensure humane compliance with treatment. But society is obsessed with minutiae like the Higgin’s parliamentary security breach which she cynically monetised.
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Simple:
Applied politics.
“Known Wolves” provide the “material” by which further repression of the peasants is “justified”
There is likely NO other valid explanation.
This will continue as long as “terrified / concerned” citizens snivel to the “authorities for “security”. The “flip’ side of that is the obvious hatred of elected and unelected “authorities”, to self-reliance and “competition.
As Thomas Jefferson put it:
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty”.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain,
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Goethe
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If you want to see knife attacks, who needs video. Just move to London. 20% of Londoners have been attacked or threatened in the last 5 years!
In 2019 15,000 knife attacks per year in London resulted in hospital treatment. And Mayor Sadiq Khan has wound back checks for knife carrying on the basis that they are racial profiling. Of course. That’s the profile.
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Oh, so they’re going to allow us one day a week?
Even if you’re unvaccinated?
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A member of the Sunrise Movement.
How the Neo-Nazi Left Brainwashes its Recruits to Kill
https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-neo-nazi-left-brainwashes-its-recruits-to-kill/
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Biden Admin Hands Out Hundreds Of Millions To Subsidize Solar In Some Of America’s Least-Sunny Places
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/22/biden-admin-solar-grants-ira/
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FWIW – another of the thin threads of free speach
“More about our fragile global Internet”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/more-about-our-fragile-global-internet.html
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This goes with that –
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/about-that-critical-infrastructure.html
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We need to know more about the “dark web” so we can use it when the “normal web” is being corrupted.
Is there a need for a special version of “X” that can only be accessed via a VPN?
Other ideas of how to beat our corrupt political class who seek to take away our freedoms.
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A win for the magnificent brood frog.
An email from Ark Energy landed in inboxes, announcing the Korean company had “withdrawn the Wooroora Station Wind Farm proposal from the federal environmental assessment process.”
In other words, the proposed project was dead.
The Korean-owned developer had planned to clear more than 500 hectares of native vegetation next to the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, home to animals including the koala and magnificent brood frog.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-22/environmental-laws-biggest-challenge-for-clean-energy-developers/103750830
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The comedy, hypocrisy and contradictions all write themelves really.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/electric-ford-f150-goes-on-sale-in-australia-for-250000/news-story/af0359e71e3f81a42995e03b35ee1706
Love the pic of Bowen leaning up against this useless behemoth.
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Clueless Dumb and Dumber (Albo and Bowen) have a track record of picking winners!
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Protections for free speech are meaningless unless governments and the justice system recognise and respect that right. Otherwise, those who have power can do pretty much whatever they like and there is no way to stop them from doing so. Note that I have said ‘have power’ rather than ‘hold power’, because it is not just limited to politicians; it can include public officials, judges, academia, the wealthy, the connected and certain ‘protected classes’, such as … well, you can fill that one in for yourself!
Consider countries in which officialdom has an authoritarian bent, being countries in which:
– judges are appointed by politicians and have unlimited tenure and are protected from reasonable public scrutiny, criticism and censure, let alone dismissal;
– the justice system acts as if it were an enforcer for government rather than the protector of people from government, or acts as if it had executive power;
– the predominant culture amongst those who ‘have power’ is not one of cherishing freedoms, but instead is one of imposing one’s beliefs on others and ruthlessly punishing apostates;
– mission creep and ‘gradualism’ are used to slowly bring about authoritarian rule (think of the frog in boiling water apologue); and
– public money, and other privileges, flow freely to those who promote and defend prevailing official narratives, while those who don’t are persecuted.
People in such countries have only those rights that those who ‘have power’ permit them to have, meaning that they have NO rights at all.
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In Australia the following maxim applies:
“Why hire a lawyer when you can buy a judge”
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Seen this?
“Justice” in NYC means “Just us”
NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment ‘Doesn’t Exist in This Courtroom’
From the beginning of Taylor’s trial, it was evident that the court would be biased against the defendant, according to Varghese, who explained that two judges presided over his case before the current official, Judge Abena Darkeh, took over.
The judge disrupted Varghese’s opening statement multiple times as he tried to set the stage for Taylor’s defense. Even further, she admonished the defense to refrain from mentioning the Second Amendment during the trial. Varghese told RedState:
She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.’
Varghese said he had filed the appropriate paperwork to “preserve these arguments for appeal” but that the judge “rejected these arguments, and she went out of her way to limit me.”
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/04/22/brooklyn-man-convicted-over-gun-hobby-by-biased-ny-court-could-be-facing-harsh-sentence-n2173162
Totally corrupt.
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“– the predominant culture amongst those who ‘have power’ is not one of cherishing freedoms, but instead is one of imposing one’s beliefs on others and ruthlessly punishing apostates;
– mission creep and ‘gradualism’ are used to slowly bring about authoritarian rule
– public money, and other privileges, flow freely to those who promote and defend prevailing official narratives, while those who don’t are persecuted.”
Every Govt, everywhere!
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FWIW
“Carrick Ryan
@reaICarrickRyan
If the Australian Government gets to decide what content is allowed on
the internet, why not the Chinese Government? the Saudi Government?
The Russian Government?”
Via https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/great-point.html
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“Mr Albanese …“This bloke thinks he’s above the Australian law, that he’s above common decency. And I tell you what, I say to Elon Musk, that he is so out of touch with what the Australian public want,” he told Sky News.”
Lol!!
“I’m still waiting (but not holding my vreath) to be told WHO DROVE THE 16 YEAR OLD MUSLIM ZEALOT TO THE CHURCH? I believe it was a 90 minute trip from his home that’s one hell of an Uber bill for a 16 year old. “
Good question!
“Pondering on the current state that Australia find itself in as a result of years of political destruction of what it flowered into in the years following the World Wars, as a result of the sacrifices of the ANZACS we will be remembering shortly, I am wondering how many of them would volunteer today to defend what Australia has become since they made those sacrifices?”
Not many! They would be horrified at what they fought for had become.
“Was it the Assyrian Community who were outside rioting or was it the muslim community outside rioting to get the release of the apprentice terrorist being held inside by the Assyrians? Was the rioter arrested afterwards from the muslim or Assyrian community? The media seems to have self censored this information, anyone know?”
Another good question..
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Sydney has a very good train system, not too hard to cross the city alone at the age of 16.
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An Experiment on Human Survival on Alien Planets Turned Into a Nightmare
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Is this about you holiday visit to San Francisco and Los Angeles?
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Moi? Je pense pas!
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“Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space”
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68881369
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A difficult Kenken puzzle if you only do the 6×6 ones.
link at calcudoku.org
This one uses a 9×9 grid, and there aren’t many product equations to solve so I had to evolve new neural pathways to make progress.
Of course there are many more important things to do in life but once you have discharged your duties for the week you are permitted to attempt this puzzle.
If you can’t make any headway after say two hours, read the first hint on the page.
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Free Zero! What’s zero done anyway – it’s innocent, neutral – let it go: Free Zero!
Talking of ‘net freezing’, Tasmania’s Mt Mawson webcam is showing 0.0 C this morning; no snow as yet although BoM’s pointy heads are claiming a “high chance” of it today.
And Darwin’s the only capital to reach into the 30s, all others in their teens or 20s as a high pressure cool wave sweeps north… even a churnalist from Canberra on the radio this moaning was complaining of ‘how cold it was’. Poor dear.
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Victoria debt is now more than the combined debts of QLD NSW TAS and more to be added based on public works projects and other Labor State Government spending.
Yesterday a Minister announced the plan to share revenue from mining and gas extraction etc, and from renewables*, with Victorians based on race, those claiming to have indigenous ancestry.
* Considering that wind and solar hybrid businesses are taxpayer subsidies does sharing revenue with indigenous mean creating more subsidies to pay?
And why not all Victorians to share, not one race based?
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Funny how the Aboriginals had such English sounding names!
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I am amused when I hear or read that X is an ABCDEF man/women – naming mobs claimed to be related to by ancestry.
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Free Speech?
But governments know all and governments know what is best for voters because voters elected the politicians to govern.
Why should voters be told everything, why should media be permitted to report things government does not want reported?
sarc.
What would George Orwell say?
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Unfortunately voters do not pick the candidates to be voted on – that is done by the vested interests in each political party for their own benefit and not for the benefit of the public. So we only get to vote for and elect people who we would not likely choose in the first place.
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Tom Macdonald, short and to the point. Trigger point- 2020s language.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qXxYy4eufq8
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In discussions at Tuesday Lunch yesterday, one of the attendees brought up an interesting point, that the NSW Police are going hell for leather chasing the Christian Mob that turned up after the terror stabbing of their Bishop, and the Question was raised, why do not the NSW Labor Government & NSW Police show the same enthusiasm is chasing a particular ethnic Group disrupting Sydney?
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Members of the Iran octopus arms of terrorist organisations fan club?
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‘The Lotus Eaters’ had a recent blog on criminal coverage in Britain. If a nasty crime is committed by a white person is reported on, (even if they are Albanian) their photo is displayed. If it is a person of some sort of colour, you are shown a picture of a police car.
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Are you sure they were Christians mobbing? Muslims [may have been] assembling and baying “Bring him out”. According to Islam, the stabber was innocent and defending his Profit. Rely on the media present to not interview the “1000” assembled or allow “fefe-booboo speech” aka opinion to be heard. Reading between the lines is a requisite now.
[Check your email! – Jo]
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A relevant story from the ABC:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-24/nsw-sydney-counter-terrorism-raids-wakeley/103763500
SMH also has a similar report, paywalled.
Cheers
Dave B
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We are a multicultural society and the authorities try to maintain religious harmony, to avoid tearing the social fabric.
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What flavour of Kool Aid have you been drinking?
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Its not the foul stuff you drink.
Orwellian dystopia.
‘The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatred toward politically expedient enemies: Goldstein and the enemy super-state of the moment.
‘In re-directing the members’ subconscious feelings away from the Party’s governance of Oceania and toward non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thought crime and the consequent subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.’ (wiki)
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These avatars Jo assigns us are just so good!
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My avatar was given to me by the editor of gutter trash.
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FWIW – From the EV scene
“More: Talk to any dealer … resale is so horrendous most wont keep the cars on the lot (they immediately wholesale a trade in if they can).”
And some numbers from GM
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/23/we-dont-need-no-flaming-sparky-cars-174/
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I laughed when I heard Minister Blackout saying that government fleet and other fleet EV second-hand market opportunities would lick start the EV revolution for most Australians.
So two to three years old EVs, possibly average 60,000 kilometres driven, but how carefully recharged meaning over 80% and close to fully discharge so 10% left but system won’t allow access. Battery pack remaining life would be? Dealer assessment based on system battery check?
As various commentators with experience have pointed out, if you can afford the EV premium price and mostly drive in city and suburban areas EV is ok. But consider the insurance premiums and price paid break even period before saving on fuel costs.
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Try finding a mechanic who can work on an EV
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FWIW – More CDC
“COVID-19 Vaccine Emails: Here’s What The CDC Hid Behind Redactions”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/covid-19-vaccine-emails-heres-what-cdc-hid-behind-redactions
Following the Instapundit link posted yesterday
“Must be a day ending in “y” “
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The Q1 2024 AEMO report is available here:
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2024/qed-q1-2024.pdf?la=en
Some points of interest;
1. Page 7 has details of the number of cooling degree days in the cities in the NEM so excludes Perth. It is evident that the warmer minimums are notable for Brisbane and similar to Sydney. Page 64 has the Perth weather.
2. Figure 4 on Page 8 should be of interest to all investors in grid scale WDGs because rooftop output continues to climb. Up 10% from Q1 2023. Now at average of 3.27GW on average operational demand of 21.55GW. Rooftops are the highest of the WDGs maintaining 12% of the demand.
3.Page 8 points out 2024 had the lowest operational demand of 13.12GW for all Q1s. It occurred on March 30 with rooftops providing 45.5% of the overall demand.
4.Page 16 gives details on the administered price cap. The returns from the cap increased for all states except SA. There is concern that the cap is too low so there is a rule change for it to increase:
https://www.aemc.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-12/Amending%20the%20MPC%20CPT%20APC%20rule%20change%20-%20Information%20sheet.pdf
5. Figure 21 on page 18 is a chart of the Victorian outage on Feb 13. It is quite clear that wind generation stetted collapsing around midday. The towers went down an hour later.
6. Figures 47 and 48 on page 33 show the new generation connection YoY. There were substantial increases in wind and solar in QLD and NSW with relatively small reductions from existing generators. I expect it will be different in Q@ as demand is lower so there will be Moree offloading. Solar offloading 30Mw and wind 14MW. WDGs contributed 39.9% of the total demand. This is the highest of anywhere in the world for an isolated grid and why Australians are paying so much at retail level. 40% percent of all electricity now garners the government mandated theft. So at LGC price of $40/MWh you can add $20 to the wholesale price to cover the theft. (Who thinks electricity prices will come down?)
7. Page 41 discusses the 41GW of grid scale WDGs in the pipeline. Lifting the price cap will be essential; to make these economically viable because they have to compete against rooftops.
8. Page 46 gets in details on FCAS. Costs were lower and batteries now serve 57% of this market.
The RET is supposed to end in 2030. It is now in the time horizon of any WDG project. The increased price cap does not help they WGDs but it will encourage batteries, gas, pumped hydro and maybe diesel.
Has anyone without rooftop solar seen a reduction in electricity prices, which includes the connection fee?
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Ball lightning
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q4mri4lW5h1v7ibmi.mp4
Weird stuff!
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A $250 Million War Game and Its Shocking Outcome
At a cost of $250 million, Millennium Challenge 2002 was the largest and most expensive war game in Pentagon history.
With over 13,500 participants, the US government took over two years to design it.
The exercise pitted Iran against the US military. Washington intended to show how the US military could defeat Iran with ease.
Paul Van Riper, a three-star general and 41-year veteran of the Marine Corps, led Iranian forces in the war game. His mission was to take on the full force of the US military, led by an aircraft carrier battle group and a large amphibious landing force in the Persian Gulf.
The results shocked everyone…
In minutes, Van Riper emerged victorious over his superior opponent and sank all 19 ships. Had it been real life, 20,000 US sailors and marines would have died.
So what did the Pentagon do with these humbling results?
Like a child playing a video game, they hit the reset button. They then rigged and scripted the game so that the US was guaranteed to win.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/23/a-250-million-war-game-and-its-shocking-outcome-2/
Bye bye USA – old equipment, dysfunctional new equipment and mentally ill men in drag won’t win you anything, except pity for what you’ve become under the suffocating corruption and insanity of those in power.
Not even 10 years left for the west.
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“Bye bye USA – old equipment, dysfunctional new equipment and mentally ill men in drag won’t win you anything, ”
Still haven’t changed- They’re years behind what is happening in Ukraine, a US tank driver said the brass still think the worst thing Russia can do to an Abrams tank is use a drone to drop a grenade down a hatch..
The trouble with the world’s biggest military is that it takes the longest to change their point of view. After that it takes even longer to change their weapons! They’ve been trying to move away from .556cal for over 30years that I know of.
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Reclaiming the language. Surely eSafety Commissioner is mis/dis information? How about our ePartyline Commissioner?
We have all sorts of …..days, and ……months. I dont recall any years of…. ,but decades we can get a handle on? Surely the naughties would be the WWW Decade? The 2010s, could be the Smartphone Decade? Although we’re not half way through yet, I’d propose the 2020’s could be the Decade of the Bureaucrat. We are off to a promising start.
Mind you it could be derailed by AI. If there is one career that AI is born to decimate, it should be bureaucracy? But the list of great Aussi PMs that chatgpt came up with yesterday points to a heavy hand on the ideological scales, so it may end being the Decade of the Technocrat!
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As per yesterday, it’s already been done.
1 & 2 aren’t +ve integers and 4=2.
Sounds like what we’ve got now.
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I see “Commissar” rather than commissioner.
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Wednesday sarcasm: evolution gone wrong
https://imgbox.com/8y4ns7WN
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Children As Young As Three Were Used As ‘Guinea Pigs’ In UK Clinical Trials
The true scale of the number of clinical trials that used infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed.
Documents seen by the BBC reveal a secret world of dangerous clinical testing involving UK children, as doctors placed research goals ahead of the needs of their patients.
Children as young as three were used to test whether blood treatments were contaminated with diseases and their families were not told when they later contracted deadly viruses.
The findings are the latest development in the infected blood scandal, which has widely been described as the “worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS”.
BBC reports: The trials involved children with blood clotting disorders, when families had often not consented to them taking part. The majority of the children who enrolled are now dead.
Documents also show that doctors in haemophilia centres across the country used blood products, even though they were widely known as likely to be contaminated.
A shortage of blood products in the UK in the 1970s and 80s meant they were imported from the US. High-risk donors such as prisoners and drug addicts provided the plasma for the treatments that were infected with potentially fatal viruses including hepatitis C – which attacks the liver resulting in cirrhosis and cancer – and HIV.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68831061
First, Aktion T4, then this, now Covid and vaxxes…
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WEF Insider Warns Steaks Will Soon Be Made From “Human Sh*t”
Eating human feces and drinking urine will be an essential part of fighting climate change.
Preparations for the elite’s false flag are underway and if you have been paying attention you can already see evidence of the deception everywhere you look.
Take Japan, for example, where WEF scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda collaborated with Tokyo Sewage to turn human waste into synthetic steak, with Schwab said to be thrilled with the result.
https://rumble.com/v4r7hw6-wef-insider-warns-steaks-will-soon-be-made-from-human-sht.html
How much more will people stand for?
A. Not much.
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OK OK you have convinced me “I will eat ze bugs”.
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Looks like the chain of road kill grills will be popular in Australia.
sarc.
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And a new appreciation for Witchetty Grubs
https://travelfoodatlas.com/australian-witchetty-grub-recipe
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A message for herr Schwab – Eat sh*t and die.
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Albo Broadcating Corportaion does have some uses!
ABC journalist awkwardly apologises on X after mistaking Italian porn account ‘Albo’ for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
An ABC journalist has been forced to apologise after tagging a porn account named “Albo” when referencing the Prime Minister on X, leaving tech billionaire Elon Musk in a fit of laughter.
Journalist Michael Rowland, who fronts the national broadcaster’s breakfast show, mistakenly tagged the explicit social media profile which shares the moniker “Albo” with Australia’s Prime Minister.
The mistake was seized on by one of the world’s richest men, Elon Musk, who responded to the post with laughter. Musk has been locked in a public feud with Mr Albanese after he was ordered to delete confronting footage from his platform X by Australia’s E-Safety Commissioner.
Rowland’s post on X, which recapped the Prime Minister’s earlier comments about Musk on the ABC, read: “PM @albo on @elonmsuk:
“We’ll do whatever’s necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire who thinks he’s above the law.”
Rowland was bombarded with comments from other eagle-eyed X uses who noticed the blunder and told him to check the account he had tagged, which was a self-proclaimed NSFW art account named “Albo draws lewds”.
“Check out the account you tagged,” one user wrote.
Another one said: “You’ve tagged an Italian porn artist”.
The social media platform declared its intention to launch a legal challenge after Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant ordered X to remove graphic content depicting vision from the alleged stabbing of a bishop at church in western Sydney on Monday April 15.
On Monday, Mr Albanese took aim at X’s refusal to censor the content in an attack that caught Musk’s attention.
In a post that quoted comments by Mr Albanese on Monday where he said: “By and large, people responded appropriately to the calls by the eSafety Commissioner. X chose not to,” Musk replied mockingly.
“I’d like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one,” the billionaire said.
From the Comments
– Imagine the horror of the unfortunate porn account owner being associated with Albo!! That could tarnish his name forever!!
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Try looking for him on a porn account tagged “A. Joyce”
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I see “Commissar” rather than commissioner.
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Time to sell you old copies of “Scientic American” – gone full woke
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scientific-american-claims-it-misinformation-there-are-just-two-sexes
“Modern science — in the name of progress — has gone from trying to understand reality to denying it altogether.
Scientific progressivism is a religion. Don’t be fooled by the fact that its priests wear lab coats.”
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Same with that Pommy rag “New Scientist”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/24/why-is-the-new-scientist-denying-biological-reality/
Is there a Russian scientific mag that we could have more trust in?
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“New Scientist”
In places now referred to as
“The Nude Socialist”
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JANUARY 1, 1973
I expanded on this article for a dissertation on the coming “Hydrogen Economy” as part of my Chemical Engineering degree.
But 50 years latter we are no closer to a “Hydrogen Economy”!
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Another one
“Victoria Police loses Supreme Court appeal against Covid-19 vaccination mandate
Wednesday, 24 April 2024”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/victoria-police-loses-supreme-court-appeal-against-covid-19-vaccination-mandate.html
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It seems that the problem was procedural and not the fact that the phoney “Vaccine” was EXPERIMENTAL and forcing a healthy persion to be jabbed was in contravention of the Nuremberg Code.
The Nuremberg Code is one of the most influential documents in the history of clinical research.
Created more than 70 years ago following the notorious World War II experiments, this written document established 10 ethical principles for protecting human subjects.
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Woodside shareholders have voted against the company’s ambitious climate transition plan!
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It would be like chickens voting for KFC!
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Syd Morning Herald has a weekly poll for those signed up to it. Last week it showed-
87% of people think the Govt should do more to stop misinformation online.
68% of people think Trump will receive a fair trial in New York.
24% of people feel less safe at shopping centres after the stabbings.
100% of KPs think the Herald ignores the poll and makes up the statistics, or if not, things are worse than I thought!
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Hear, Hear
Elon Musk vs Australia’s eSafety Commissioner: Rogue Senator posts church stabbing video and has brutal message for cyber censor
‘The eSafety Commissioner is also nothing more than an activist. She wants to censor the internet and censor debate and do it in a way that is consistent with her own ideological views.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13343185/Elon-Musk-vs-Australias-eSafety-Commissioner-Rogue-Senator-posts-church-stabbing-video-brutal-message-cyber-censor.html
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‘ … censor debate …’
No they won’t, we live in a functioning democracy.
‘In a statement, a spokesperson for eSafety said: “The removal notice does not relate to commentary, public debate or other posts about this event. It only concerns the video of the violent stabbing attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.” (Guardian)
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“A Sydney Bishop attacked during the Wakeley church stabbing has sided with tech billionaire Elon Musk in calling for the video to remain online, while the Federal Government and our top security chiefs are still firmly of the view the footage should be taken down.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYQayRz7FQ
Embarrassing for Albo & InmanGrant… Who did you say was out of step in society, Albo??
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FWIW
“Government throws safeguards out of the window in rush for new gene drugs”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/government-throws-safeguards-out-of-the-window-in-rush-for-new-drugs/
Eh Gawd! Read it all
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“Therapeutic Albanese hates this video. Please do your bit to spread it widely.”
https://youtu.be/cVNAuSSAgTk
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/therapeutic-albanese-hates-this-please-do-your-bit-to-spread-it-widely.html
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John Mearsheimer Russia Bombing Ukraine until It’s Uninhabitable
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