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For those interested in how the “Uniparty” operates, the Duran interview Dr Neema Parvini. It is mostly about the situation in Britain, but can be easily translated to any country. Unfortunately, none of us really live in a democracy, it’s just a show.
https://theduran.locals.com/post/5711836/uk-elections-and-democracy-erosion-w-dr-neema-parvini-live
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My advice to the young – don’t go on the electoral rolls, where d’ya reckon they gonna start looking to conscript. I know, means no anti-war voters – but not like any anti-war options are presented to vote for – just suck it in and Serenity Prayer it.
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Vietnam was a long time ago. Why on earth would the army want thousands of poorly trained soldiers now?
If we get ANY form of conscription it will be a political decision, not a military one. The services would demand a big increase in their budget for “baby sitting” lazy, temporary soldiers with no new big budget weapons systems being bought.
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You’re dead right there H, but Ukraine is scaring the NATO members now and they realise they might be up for a war of attrition and large loss of life. If its full-scale boots into Ukraine all the West will be busy enlarging their cannon-fodder.
Do we send our best to help? or save them for defence at home? All we need is China to start moving when NATO is tied up in Europe.
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I was reminded recently that, in contrast to today, when Roman armies took the field they were led by Senators, Equestrians and Tribunes, all elected by the people to both govern and lead in battle. After the battle of Cannae the Roman Senate was only at half strength because many Senators were killed in the battle. When the government takes the field it must sharpen the mind when deciding which battles must be fought and which can be left alone.
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Why do you think China is more competent than Russia who can’t overrun the poorest nation in Europe? They are just as corrupt and their men and machinery are untested in the heat of battle. Remember Ru has already lost more men in Ukraine than the US did evicting Japan from all their island strongholds in WWII.
If Ru carries out their threat and introduces nukes to the arena, China will NEVER be able to attack Taiwan, that long seaborne invasion would be impossible if nukes were an option.
What non-nuclear option do you see as Russia’s strength which would worry the West? You should acquaint yourself with Operation Desert Storm if you think the US can’t fight.
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I love how you pre suppose strategy and then ctiticize the Russians for what failing to do what only exists in your head. Makes thing easier I guess.
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“Over time, people are selected for their loyalty rather than their skills and talents…” The ugly Leviathan
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I would not call Trump v Biden a uniparty.
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Twins I tell you! Like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
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Trump was off script in 2016, hence Russia-gate. He had to be removed in 2020.
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If your vote mattered, they would ban it.
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Ronin, if I could I’d give you 5 green thumbs!
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Recommended Quadrant Online “After Covid: Now it’s the Lawyers’ Turn.” Allegations of illegal acts by judiciary concerning “vaccine”status.
An authoritative coverage. Geoff S
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Link to that
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/covid/2024/06/after-covid-now-its-the-lawyers-turn/
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Great share, thank you. Meantime in Queensland the police service has somewhat quietly acknowledged that court case that got the “unlawful” outcome a couple of months ago and are now liaising directly with the individuals concerned or their legal teams. Seems there wont be an appeal and no fuss just quiet talk to keep it off the radar. After all their female mandate head has been replaced in the same way the heads of Qantas, Virgin and state labor have gone and woolies “bad” Brad the price gouger is about to go.
Never forget never forgive.
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Ah yes, the problem with that, Geoff, is that both Houses of Federal Parliament (LNP, ALP, Greens) have absolutely no interest in doing anything public about the genetic modification vaccines – all of those politicians and bureaucracies pushed those vaccines to the point of deliberately destroying those who questioned, resisted. Publicly, they will just sit on their hands.
As for the Federal Court judge in question (and her like-minded Chief Justice), again, nothing will be done publicly. Some time down the track, she will be given a very unpleasant jolt about something seemingly unrelated. That will be for allowing this issue to be observed in sunlight (her ultimate mistake). It’s also noted that a considerable proportion of these legal activists reside in the Federal Court system … who appoints them, one wonders ?
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The Völkisch Origins of Environmentalism
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I refute the notion that it emanates from the Right.
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I’m sure you’re correct Glen, but businesses pile into any fashionable trend as soon as there is money to be extracted from Govts.
It a long way from grubbie hippies holding placards to billionaires paying millions to politicians.
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I fear raising ire, but I believe ‘CBDCs’ (or at least the backbone technology of distributed ledgers) could play an important role in our financial infrastructure by providing a backbone overnight facilities for Councils to be able to operate local banking infrastructure which provides citizens (assuming there is a desire, reflected in Votes, for the Councils to move into this area) an access to International Finance for purposes of trade. I know, I know, corruption in Councils. But in return I ask you, how did Bundy boy Lex get access to the highest levels of UK Tory leadership during the scam-demic? Thinking induced by this: https://gerardrennick.com.au/treasury-the-rba-should-be-working-together/ ie – a finance chain from the Centre (currency / seniority) to local levels directly.
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Well, those are certainly words. Are they the right ones? Did you get them in the right order? I fear not.
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Wrong kinda crowd I reckon. Sorry to bother you with this pondering – much pondering at the moment on the ways we can negate the role/power of State Governments – I fear much of the problems we have are structural rather than technical. States seem to only serve the Federal government needs – ease being one, that Canberra cannot manage intergovernmental fiscal relations with hundreds of councils. Back in the day, anyway, but now there seems tech that could help, but it is being implemented for the wrong problems within the current structure of Federal – State – Councils. (Still mad at border closures etc etc). Bundy Boy Lex = Lex Greenshill – a whole heap of business that did nothing but trade finance – there is a gap.
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Bot Bot
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No, I fight Robots. You nearly got me there, I nearly spilled out a whole heap of my IRL-ness in here to try and prove I am human, for you and your bot army to soak up into your AI interfaces, like we are made to train you with the ‘I am not a robot’ picture games – I always get the first few wrong on purpose just to confuse the robots. But I see you Jon-bot so I give you only weird bot-ness reply.
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The Right Whale Consortium has abandoned their whales to wind.
Freedom advocates are the Right Whale’s best hope
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/06/03/freedom-advocates-are-the-right-whales-best-hope/
The beginning: “Who would have guessed that we would be the saviors of the desperately endangered North Atlantic Right Whales? If it can be saved from extinction, which remains to be seen. But when the green left goes uselessly industrial in the name of better weather, it starts to make sense. This seeming paradox is briefly explained below.
The North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium (NARWC) has long been the leading advocate for their namesake whales. They do lots of research and have promoted both reduced ship speeds and so-called “ropeless” fishing as ways to save the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Sadly. when it come to offshore wind they look to have abandoned the whales in favor of green nirvana. The tip-off came with the email announcement of their annual meeting in October. It included a number of so-called news links, two being about offshore wind, and neither was good news for the whales.
The most important was a direct attack on us for daring to try to protect the right whales. This hit-piece is from Science Friday, a radio show I used to like. It labels us as “anti-wind”, which is true enough, but they are clearly pro-wind, hence anti-whale. They say the whales are a pawns in the game, so to push the chess metaphor, it is a pawn we are trying to protect.
The URL gives the flavor of the attack: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/offshore-wind-misinformation-right-whale-deaths/. It is the usual Bidenesque stuff claiming there is no evidence or even reason to believe offshore wind development harms Right Whales. No mention of the thousands of federally authorized harassment takings and their potentially deadly consequences, or the strong statistical evidence, etc.
There is one interesting bit, however, namely a link to a map of some of the alleged Right Whale protection groups and people put together by students at Brown University. In addition to many friends, there are folks on there that I was not aware of and hope to contact. But it is incomplete as I am not on it.
The extreme rhetoric that comes with the map is itself revealing. They really do not like us and here is an example: “As public relations and obstruction specialists actively engage local groups to block offshore wind projects, the climate and environmental justice consequences are dire. Offshore wind projects may struggle to get off the ground, locking us into catastrophic climate consequences experienced disproportionately by Black, Indigenous, Latino, and low-income communities.”
Anyone who believes this nonsense is likely willing to sacrifice a whale species or two. This is the fanaticism we are fighting.”
More in the article. Please share it.
Save the whales from offshore wind.
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“catastrophic climate consequences” = C^3
There are none in sight. I suppose there could be a Black Swan Event – unknown and unknowable.
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Someone recently commented on the chanting of religious dogma to ward off ‘bad weather’, ie. CCC or Catchy Climate Catechism(s). The above is another prime example of the Cult In Action.
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Very much so.
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Here in Australia, all the swans are black. So a visit to a park is a Black Swan event.
And in Brazil, the black necked swan., which in Australia would be the Collingwood swan.
And the leading football team is the Sydney Swans, originally from South Melbourne and Albert Park which has about 170 black swans.
Australia’s a bit like that. Picnics are usually black swan events.
What is weird in one part of the world is very common in another. Still the IPCC have created a meaningless world temperature, across the seasons, pole to pole, night and day and places where no one lives. And insist it is correct. There is every chance it is not very useful, that what happens in the bottom half of the planet is disconnected, full of black swans.
Personally I prefer the Prof Weiss 250 year temperatures from 6 European cities with real thermometers. And it’s a very different picture. And you can see why warmists plot from 1870 as they cannot explain the other half of the graph. And Prof Weiss’ team has a brilliant fit with just the oceans and the sun. No CO2.
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Half the world is the Pacific ocean, a body of water on average 3.5km deep. And largely peaceful, which is why it was called the Pacific by Ferdinand Magellan. On the other half you have the Atlantic which is very different, turbulent, stormy and complex, constricted. Africa and South America almost touch.
So I have never seen the value in presuming that these two bodies are connected in any real sense and in a short time scale. Even though they contain 90% of the surface heat of the planet.
In the Pacific the rainfall in South America is the inverse of Australia, another continent on the other side. There are cycles and patterns like El Nino/La Nina. But they have nothing to do with the cycles of the Atlantic. India has the Indian Dipole and India’s climate is nothing to do with Greenland’s climate.
To get gross effects which connect them all you may need timescales of at least a thousand years, maybe much more. But each year we are told the ‘world’ is hotter and it’s our fault because of Carbon Dioxide.
I call shennanigans on this whole planet temperature as being meaningful in the time scale of the last 150 years, from 1870 to 2024. I am sure many places are cooler and others hotter, so what’s the meaning in adding them together to a thousandth of a degree?
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If we go back to the swans, the IPCC says all swans are grey on average. In all cases they are wrong.
Their averages are not useful or meaningful and not the truth.
What Gallileo should have done is dropped a cannon ball and a feather and demonstrated that on average there is no fundamental truth.
Science was in fact developed by isolating cause and effect, so he dropped different cannon balls and proved something. Not the IPCC.
All our weather comes from the vast heat bank we call the oceans and that ball of fusion energy in the sky we call the sun. And we should be modelling the oceans, not the highly dependent fluctuation of local surface temperature. And claiming India which just missed a major monsoon is suffering from long term Climate Change. No, it’s just the weather, a yearly event. And bad luck.
When Climate Change people distinguish ‘Climate’ totally from ‘Weather’, why is every weather event, even an annual weather event proof of Climate Change? On a time scale of one year? Or in the case of a hurricane, a week? And professional meteorologists who have studied the weather and causes of weather professionally are told they know nothing about the climate. For that you have to talk to Al Gore or Tim Flannery. Both innumerate non scientists, science fiction generators.
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Talking about black swans and picnics… In Perth, during summer, we often meander down to the river foreshore opposite Perth city to enjoy an evening outdoor meal from the food trucks. The black swans, about 25,000 now on the Swan River, now know about these regular events and come visiting looking for takeaways. One large swan had the right idea – stroll up to a group enjoying a meal spread out on a rug, scare off the diners, then help itself. Not much anybody could do about this.
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.. Cricket bat ! .?
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Talking of Perth beaches and picnics: years ago, when one of our sons and his wife lived in Perth, we took our fish and chip supper onto the beach at Scarborough. We watched the wonderful sunset and were honoured by a visit by a bobtail lizard. He/she/it didn’t appear to be begging for food!
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In the Museum where I volunteer, we have a resident bobtail named Kevin, who makes occasional appearances. The guides have left a water bowl out for him in one corner.
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Aaaah TdeF,
Looks like this researcher has has just updated the ground rules with her new base line:
” Extreme heat days between May 15, 2023 and May 15, 2024 where temperatures exceeded the 90th percentile for each location compared to the 1991-2020 reference period ”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/world-the-hottest-on-record-12-months-in-a-row/103904150
(/ sarc, just in case.)
Cheers
Dave B
PS I also am a fan of Prof Weiss.
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So they say Australia has
Days of extreme Heat 35.1
Without Climate Change 18.1
Who says? The ABC?
For three years the temperature in Sydney did not pass 32.0C
And in Melbourne we have been luck in the last ten to reach 37 on a few occasions, usually followed immediately by
a huge change and cold.
But the ABC says Australia had 35.1 days of Extreme Heat. Where? It’s fantasy science.
I remember 47C in Melbourne. And usually a week of 37C, the week school went back. But not in the last three decades!
The climate has changed. It’s cooler.
A bit like England getting over 40C at huge concrete Heathrow airport. They quickly found somewhere else which had instantaneously hit 40C not from a jet exhaust. It’s a game this climate change. Faux science. Absurd claims. And fabricated data.
And places getting cooler is not newsworthy at all. Or itself more proof of Climate Change, a bet each way. Like storms becoming less frequent but apparently more intense. Millions of jobs now depend on rapid man made Global Warming.
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“One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day” Aristotle.
But one hot day does prove Global Warming. Every storm, drought, flood, volcano. All Climate Change. Caused by toxic industrial carbon dioxide.
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TdeF, my first home in Australia, in 1981, was the Place of the Black Swan, Maroochydore, on QLD’s Sunshine Coast. Very formative years 😃 Left in 1984. Never seen a black swan since… yet apparently the sea level’s still the same, the temperature’s still the same, give-or-take.
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Collingwood? Therefore most likely a goose.
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Marxist ideology,’Énds Justify Means.’
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs…
free speech, energy, whales (and other critters,)
every sacrifice must be made for THE CAUSE
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I keep getting an advert on YouTube from Goolag AI about how they are supporting research into the DNA of the giant Tasmanian kelp, 95% of which has supposedly been wiped out due to anthropogenic climate change (sic).
Scientists are trying to interfere with nature to breed varieties which are more heat tolerant.
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“That sudden change in current is due to human-induced climate change.”
Really? They know changes in currents have never happened before. They are sure of this because of data gathered over the last 5,000 years. They will soon provide a link to that data.
Can you say poppycock?
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You certainly can; also codswallop and gobbledegook. I like poppycock though.
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I hope thats not the same Tasmanian Kelp that they are going to feed all the cows in Australia to stop them belching methane!
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LoL.
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“Scientists are trying to interfere with nature to breed varieties which are more heat tolerant.”
Or not as the case may be –
FWIW – a comment at Chiefio
“The less fit you are, the more the government will make sure you stay alive so you can transmit your defective genes ( or your defective ” culture” ) to another generation of defective people.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/trump-convicted-of-being-not-a-democrat-pawn/#comment-170564
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Good point, Ian.
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Good point indeed.
And also not restricted to Australia [and the USA].
Tyranny of democracy. Although it was – IIRC – Churchill who said it was ‘the least bad system’ or similar.
Longer term [let’s say a century, about 3 or 4 or 5 generations] how many of the population will need ‘support’ throughout their lives?
And that support must, perforce, come from the others able – and willing – to work, so creating wealth.
Those whose progeny are supported primarily by the state [not by the parents] are likely to come to be more common [percentage wise] in the population, as the parents have no downside to a bigger family, and sex is a natural function, with – normally – subsequent babies.
If you subsidise something, you get more of it.
Does something need to be done about this?
If so – what? And how?
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YouTuber Granniopteryx talks about the outright lies from the British press about the peaceful, conservative, pro-British rally held on the weekend.
The media are unashamedly lying and making stuff up that never happened. It’s just like Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four.
https://youtu.be/p_MyMB0t67s
Concerning the main newspaper mentioned in Nineteen Eighty Four, James Taylor wrote:
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Like this?
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Why do all other organisations or groups get recognition periods of (usually) one day, but alphabet people get an entire “pride” month which is endlessly promoted to all, even to people not members of the community?
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SEE excellent comments by Dr Jordan Peterson.
https://youtu.be/n5fUW1HuVIQ
(5.5 mins)
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It is not our role to validate someone else’s mental illness.
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It shoukd end at G, then start a new one at T. The T-onwards are very anti the up-to-Gs, but somehow the media never notices
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Climate change is sexist in Oz?
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1797617364542128435/
Poor woman is talking total bollox.
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Peter Whittle interviews Gareth Roberts about a new book he has written about “Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the new Homophobia”.
It’s about how people who might otherwise turn out to be homosexual are instead transgendered, which incidentally is precisely what the Iranians do.
https://youtu.be/ymlxgqgAV84
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Fully how A-Listers have more transexual children than the population average.
Yet further evidence that that transexualism is a form of Munchausen by Proxy
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness and a form of child abuse. The caretaker of a child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick
https://www.them.us/story/celebrity-parents-trans-nonbinary-kids-support
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I think that the more times Biden describes Trump as a “convicted felon”, the more things will backfire for the DemoncRATs and the better chance there will be for Trump to get elected, despite massive anticipated electoral fraud against Trump.
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The fake conviction – Newt Gingrich
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fake-conviction-gingrich
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There are still those who maintain that this is all show ; that Trump is the Deep State’s man , bought and paid for.
Is this all an elaborate camouflage?
No idea.
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Refuting the cheap renewables scam.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/guardian-withdraws-cheap-renewables
The two links under notes for editors are worth bookmarking if you haven’t seen such a clear analysis before.
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Politics is a branch of the entertainment industry.
It’s a distraction from what’s actually happening.
They keep holding peace talks without Russia, showing they’re not interested in peace, they’re interested in conquest. All these peace conferences are the same thing: lots of presentations about the trillions to be spent on “rebuilding” and who gets those contracts. There’s usually also talk about how to divide up Russia into a bunch of smaller countries, but under the guise of “bringing Democracy to the Russian people”.
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I wonder if she will still manage to arrive at inappropriate cackling over the bodies of 100’s of thousands.
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“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa
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Australia is sending Bill Shorten, the NDIS minister, to the peace talks, to say “Australia stands with Ukraine.” Apparently Ukraine asked Australia for coal last year but haven’t yet received a response. Probably why the Defence Minister and P.Wong declined the invitation. Thus the need for Bill Shortens $320,000 a year speech writer to explain why leftist ideology is more important than sending coal to Ukraine on humanitarian grounds.
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That’s one expensive wordsmith.
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Since a lot of politicians are lawyers, theatrics would come naturally to them.
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“Aboriginal group hopes to win native title case which will give them control over huge area of land in Central Queensland”
Massive native title claim over over Coalfields in Queensland with more to come
ALSO:
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We should all identify as Aboriginal.
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There are around 80,000 Australians who can speak an Aboriginal Language vs 812,000 people identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in the 2021 Census of Population and Housing.
Jump onto the Aboriginal Gravy Train before it leaves the station!
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White Australians are fast becoming second class citizens because of race based laws introduced by the Australian Labor Party.
Divide and Conquor is part of Albo the Trot’s mindset in what brains he has.
So do not Forget or Forgive.
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We are not becoming second class citizens, the indigenous population are getting no real financial benefit from this.
They are keeping the seat warm to prevent rapacious multinationals taking over the place.
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“vast mineral, oil and gas reserves which has been guaranteed as collateral for the World Bank and the State’s major mortgagee, Rothschild Bank.”
Well, that’s fascinating! EG we are following NZ and handing control over to the Aborigines, and once they have their hands on the land they will start the endless rent-seeking. The coast will be next, the beaches and the fishing, as NZ is doing right now.
The rapacious multinationals only get anything because our politicians sell it to them, and if we had pollies with morals they wouldn’t be so easy to bribe/buy! We either let the multinationals rape the country or we end up like Argentina and similar 2nd-world places where they seize the rights back and the World bank cripples the country in retaliation.
The enormous wealth in modern countries is too easy a target for all sorts of groups, from protesters to native tribes to corporations, and its all controlled by the most useless members of society, those elected to power.
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You make a good argument, I’ll give it a lot of thought.
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We shouldn’t get carried away, it won’t pass muster.
‘Meetings among groups have been held and we believe there will soon be a call by Aborigines and Islanders to halt all future claims until such time the vast areas awarded by the Federal Court create economic benefits.
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To my mind, native title is virtue signalling – the title you give when you’re not giving title. Now they are using globalism to remove even that title. We need a big re-think to start treating all Australians equally. Turning down The Voice was just the start.
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We are at this point in Australia now:
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The Albanese Communist Government hates 95% of Australians
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When Delusion and Reality Collide
The prime minister and energy minister have travelled to coal mining heartland in the New South Wales Hunter Valley in two separate jets to announce a $1 billion program that aims to boost the number of solar panels made in Australia.
A former coal-fired power station will be turned into a solar manufacturing hub as part of a $1 billion federal program.
The government says it will provide incentives for solar panels to be built in Australia.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/06/04/wind-solar-transition-myth-busted-when-delusion-reality-collide/
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The stupidity of producing a useless product in an already-saturated market, with high labour, energy and land costs, high taxes, feral unions, massive government over-regulation, politicians being scientifically and engineering clueless, a nation full of grifters (among Elites) and so much solar that domestic owners are being penalised for having it is simply incomprehensible.
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Don’t forget to include the high costs of panel grade silicon etc.
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Australia is in full self-destruct mode now.
And present company excepted (but not the resident Leftists who come here to play) almost no one has a clue what’s going on.
Are you enjoying the national debt?
https://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Total government debt, Federal, State and Local:
Over $1.9 trillion.
Assuming it was shared evenly among 26 million citizens, that’s over $73,000 per person.
But it’s far worse than that because a lot of those are too young or too old to work, and many are net wealth consumers such as those on welfare or public serpents, so how is it ever going to be repaid? There are very few net wealth producers.
It is certain that it won’t end well.
Not even the pretend conservative Liberal Party cares about debt levels or government expenditure like they once did, back in the day.
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A thought…
I think we have language models, not genuine self-teaching, information seeking, curiosity driven AI – yet. When that happens, we will be in big trouble.
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Hyped up search engines – GiGo – garbage in -> garbage out – just look at how much Google gets things wrong. Wikipedia even more so. If people go around assuming that their information source is 100% correct and reliable when then they are actually basing themselves on potentially false and misleading information that causes problems :- Google thinks I have a dog and a cat and that I play computer games – I don’t. Google maps thinks that I have a road (driveway) where my southern firebreak is – a couple of people have got bogged following that. Google also thinks that I live on a farm in South Australia north of Adelaide.
AI is still a bucket of nuts and bolts. It can’t tell if it’s being crazy, not using common sense, not being in touch with reality, not understanding people and the situations. And it finds evolving very hard to do. In those situations people do workarounds.
If a house of cards is built up on false assumptions and false information that potentially, and very likely, can come crashing down destroying all. Trying to correct the mistakes can be a nightmare.
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Col. Douglas Macgregor: The West Strikes Russian Territory
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I submitted a post yesterday asking about great Australian literature of the past and I got some great responses. Thanks to everyone who contributed. I look forward to dig into these books. It’ll be a great way to get in touch with the Australiana of old. When Australian culture was truly something unique (perhaps this still exists in rural Australia but definitely not in the cities).
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An extract from the Adventures of Barry McKenzie – Barry Humphries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfDro1UGUo
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Also check Austen Tayshus’ “Australiana”.
A spoken word comedy sketch heavily reliant upon Australia-specific equivocations, place names, words and products specific to the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Most non-Australians would not understand it, neither would most younger Australians.
https://youtu.be/StcXGhuliRk
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Well , I got nearly all of that , and I don’t even talk strine.
Never been outta new zild.
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The original Shell documentaries that covered the Australian outback in the 1950s are well worth watching, particularly the one about travelling the Birdsville Track. Not sure if they are available on streaming services.
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The original Shell documentaries that covered the Australian outback in the 1950s
The original Shell documentaries that covered the Australian outback in the 1950s were likely the “Northern Safari” series.
These documentaries were produced by Shell Australia in the mid-1950s and featured footage of the Australian outback, including the Gibson Desert, the Kimberley region, and the lives of indigenous Australians.
One of the documentaries, “Northern Safari (1956) clip 1”, contains footage of a crossing of the Gibson Desert in the 1950s and life in the outback at that time. This documentary provides a unique glimpse into the harsh and beautiful landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s.
Another documentary, “Championship Chase (1970)”, also produced by Shell Australia, features footage of the 1956 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, which was sponsored by Shell. This documentary highlights the company’s involvement in motor sports and its commitment to documenting Australian culture and history.
These documentaries are significant not only for their historical value but also for their portrayal of the Australian outback and its people during a time of great change and transformation.
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Curator’s notes Championship Chase (1970) on ASO – Australia’s audio and visual heritage online
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Northern Safari (1956) clip 1 on ASO – Australia’s audio and visual heritage online
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Titles from the 1950s
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Books by Len Beadell
Beadell, Len (1976). Beating about the bush. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 0-7270-0226-0. OCLC 5172386.
Beadell, Len (2001) [1967]. Blast the bush. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: New Holland. ISBN 1-86436-736-9. OCLC 223042596.
Beadell, Len (1971). Bush bashers. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 0-85179-153-0. OCLC 148179.
Beadell, Len (1994) [1983]. End of an era. Sydney: Lansdowne Pub. ISBN 1-86302-405-0. OCLC 38352930.
Beadell, Len (1975). Still in the bush. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 0-7270-0020-9. OCLC 2401985.
Beadell, Len (1994) [1965]. Too long in the bush. Sydney: Lansdowne Pub. ISBN 1-86302-406-9. OCLC 38352847.
Beadell, Len (1992) [1979]. Outback highways. Sydney: Weldon. ISBN 1-86302-241-4. OCLC 27620293.
Beadell, Len (1998) [1997]. Around the world in eighty delays (2nd ed.). North Adelaide: Corkwood Press. ISBN 1-876247-01-0. OCLC 39292475.
Graeme#4,
At the link on Books by Len Beadell are links to where you can Buy, Borrow or epub
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Australian Screen an MFSA Website
All documentaries
544 titles – sorted alphabetically or by year
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The Birdsville mail run is “The Back of Beyond”
Even Wikipedia likes it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Back_of_Beyond
There is more on the making of the film in
Kristin Weidenbach “Mailman of the Birdsville Track”
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Back of Beyomd & Back to Back of Beyond available free on Prime Video if you are a Member or if you go for 30 day free trial membership
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Hollyweird just doesn’t learn.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE
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The Original Max Max – Mel Gibson
As a Sedevacantist, Gibson believes that since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 or Pope John XXIII in 1963, all subsequent popes are not Catholics nor true popes, but instead are heretics because they supported Modernism. ‘There was nothing wrong with the Catholic Church before Vatican II’s reforms.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10453757/Mel-Gibson-says-Catholic-Church-needs-housecleaning.html
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“Who is Mel to preach? Gibson says the Catholic church needs to do some ‘housecleaning’ but fails to address his own anti-Semitism”
Well the headline has instant diversion! Move the focus away from the Catholic Church and try to put it on Mel Gibson being anti-semitic.
Why would the Church need to change anything?? Has humanity changed? Has God changed? Surely the Church was set up at a time much closer to Jesus and his teachings than we are now. The bigger any organisation gets the more corrupt it becomes, why would anyone expect differently? Contraception killed the Pope’s credibility, its been all downhill since then.
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Hollywierd going broke? Two questions:
Who cares?
What I can I do personally to accelerate the process?
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“California ‘clean energy’ company set to bulldoze more than 3,500 Joshua trees, so coastal homes can go ‘carbon neutral’”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/california_clean_energy_company_set_to_bulldoze_more_than_3_500_joshua_trees_so_coastal_homes_can_go_carbon_neutral.html
This is incredibly stupid. Joshua Trees are a protected species, most are over 100 yrs old, and the area to be bulldozed is habitat for desert tortoises another protected species.
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Also known as Yucca trees.
Beautiful trees.
It’s so tragic watching greens/Leftists destroy our beautiful planet.
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“With the US election coming soon, Biden moves on the Southern Border”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/with-the-us-election-coming-soon-biden-moves-on-the-southern-border.html#tpe-action-posted-6a0177444b0c2e970d02dad0c5ab17200d
And
“Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up Biden’s Border Executive Order As Only He Can”
“”President Biden is in trouble politically — he’s polling right up there with fungal infections,” Sen. Kennedy quipped in a Senate press conference. “Part of the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon-wing of his party and he dissolved the southern border.”
“Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it,” the Louisiana Republican continued. “Hence this executive order. He expects you to report this epiphany that he has had, take what the White House is telling you, balance on your noses like trained seals, and report it uncritically,” Sen. Kennedy said, speaking to reporters gathered for his remarks. ”
And more
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/06/04/why-biden-is-in-trouble-politically-according-to-sen-john-kennedy-n2639965
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Biden hardly moves at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWN0lEEpJs
More like Obama and Clinton move on the Southern Border
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My only point of disagreement with the report is that Biden is extremely unlikely to be involved in any way either with dissolving the southern border or an executive order pretending to restore it.
The powers that be have people to take that type of decision. In my estimation Biden doesn’t even choose what flavour of ice cream to eat.
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And
“Hilarious: Joni Ernst Nails Biden With What May Be Best Hot Mic Moment Ever”
Read it all
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/06/04/watch-joni-ernst-gets-caught-on-hot-mic-with-perfect-hilarious-assessment-of-joe-biden-n2175042
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That’s called ‘Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted’.
Too late. The damage has been done.
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Looks like “Run, don’t walk”
“Windows 11 Feature That Takes Thousands of Screenshots of Your PC Branded ‘Disaster’ ”
“After a week of testing, Kevin Beaumont discovered that Recall stores data in a database in plain text. Without encryption, that could make it trivial for a hacker to extract data about everything you’ve been doing on your PC.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/06/04/windows-11-feature-that-takes-thousands-of-screenshots-of-your-pc-branded-disaster-n3789619
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Time to migrate to Linux.
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Do your reading on that amoebic blob called “System D” before you leap
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another ian,
I don’t like systemd. It strikes me as someone’s bright idea to make some things simpler. Indeed it does, but they didn’t think about the things it makes more complicated. My guess is that it mostly upsets people like me (who have been using flavours of Unix for a long time), and won’t greatly worry people coming from Windows which has always behaved in mysterious ways.
Spelling it the way you did makes me wonder whether you’re talking from experience.
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RS – from reading Chiefio on the subject.
I’m a user “software tied to Windows at the moment” but willing to bolt when that expires so watching.
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RS
More on System D starting here
“jim2 says:
5 June 2024 at 12:33 pm
Here is a comment on SystemD by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/oh-gawd-windoze-11-to-record-all-your-screens-are-belong-to-us/#comment-170607
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another ian,
In that stream (a little above your link), I have to agree with you when you say:
Downstream from it, I also agree with the later part of what E.M.Smith said. The reason I don’t endorse the first part of his comment is that I don’t know *anyone* who likes systemd. The foregoing hardly amounts to a “food fight”.
I’m past being an operating system evangelist. Stick to Windows for whatever reasons you wish — it’s no odds to me — but you do yourself a disservice pretending to know about things you don’t. It may have lowered E.M.Smith’s opinion of you, and it has lowered mine.
There is a cure for the pretence of knowledge: learning. Why not take John Connor II’s advice below, and try some flavour of Linux in a VM under Windows?
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LOL…
You do know the difficulty in running over 200 Windows apps (like on my pc) on Linux don’t you?
Or that Linux has overtaken Windows in virus/malware attacks and holds the #1 spot now?
Just stick with Win 7, or Win 10 at worst.
Or run Linux in a VM to see how you like it first.
Win 11 has gone off the rails and getting worse if you intend to use the latest “AI” components.ie buy a new pc, specific brands in fact.
Win 12 – I’d imagine it’ll be a total flop.
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John Connor II,
That’s surprising. I hadn’t heard it, and a quick Google only got me old figures. E.g.
I don’t think Linux is popular enough with desktop users for it to be worth the malware writers’ time, but I’m sure they have a bit of fun hacking badly secured web servers.
Have you a decent reference for your you do know claim?
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And FWIW
“Avoid Ecosia Search Engine”
Why?
“DO NOT USE THE ECOSIA Search Engine. It is malware / adware.”
More in comments
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/06/04/avoid-ecosia-search-engine/
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Hey. It’s not fair to post about Wednesday while it’s still Tuesday here.
Did anything interesting happen on Wednesday? Did we all die of global warming?
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I did.
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NDIS double gasp of air courtesy their ABC “news” breakfast show. Chat at couch on NDIS and their wheel chair bound “reporter” comments that while you hear a few stories about issues the NDIS is great and helps so many people. But that IS THE ISSUE it is “helping so many people” who work into the system ie not direct beneficiaries and are ripping it off. How is it that their ABC reporter who should be so intimately across the service not just as a reporter but as one who uses it has no idea of the latest claim of $4bn annually being supposedly ripped off by some 90% of care providers who are not legit??
Then the second gasp comes when the same reporter states how good it has been for him because he is sitting on $35k at ABC – no not his salary but the cost of the wheel chair he is sitting in which, he adds, has to be replaced every 4 or 5 years.
Then swap over to chnl 7 and their fully mobile muppet of a reporter states that usually politicians talk about fixing things in 10 years or longer but Bill Shorten has announced he is going to have a crack down with results in 3 years. Hey muppet last year (2023) delayed-action man Bill proposed bringing the 10-year review of NDIS forward. Back then the fraud was put at $1bn annually and now 1 year later its apparently jumped to $4bn in the last year.
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I think Bill Shorten is genuine on NDIS. Let’s face it, someone has to sort it out.
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But for that you need a “sorter”
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Christopher Pyne was a ‘fixer’. Close enough?
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FWIW
“Newt Gingrich: The Fake Conviction”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/newt-gingrich-fake-conviction/
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I’m shocked. “high operating and regulatory costs”
No one saw this coming.
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It is simply not profitable to run any form of honest business in Australia anymore.
Only grifting businesses like wind, solar and Big Battery plantations and other things associated with government grants and subsidies, and businesses where you just have to dig rocks out of the ground and send them overseas unprocessed
Australia is in full shutdown mode.
I was going to say could the last person turn off the lights when they leave, but the lights will turn themselves off as the power stations continue to be shut down.
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FWIW – car insurance in USA
“Why car insurance costs are going through the roof”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/06/why-car-insurance-costs-are-going.html
Convince me that it isn’t similar here
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All is not well in Boganville. His recruitment comes after the Jacqui Lambie Network advertised for staffers last month following the departure of its entire parliamentary staff on the eve of the return to parliament.
Took them a long time to wake up.
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120,000 Chinese Millionaires Flee, Leading to Huge Currency Drain and Economic Collapse
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Warmest May eva
reply to question by Roy Spencer (my bold)
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and my ambiguity – Roy wrote this in reply to a question about what is causing the warm spike.
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I can’t get it, could you spell it out?
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Looks very different to the Geoffstuff chart below, no warming for nearly a decade.
“Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong..” Dire Straits
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His graph is different because it is different data. He is plotting Australia only.
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Roy is skeptical about Hunga Tonga, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_May_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg
‘ … but can explain a tendency for each El Nino to be warmer than the last.’
That is nonsense, we just had a moderate El Nino and we are entering a phase change of more La Nina and less El Nino.
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And here is the clean air theory to explain the spike.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/06/01/oops-cleaner-fuels-mean-less-clouds-more-warming/
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The debate about the minor historical warming, based on questionably accurate conglomerate observations promulgated by political factions, is moribund.
All that matters at this point are the political and cultural consequences of the perception and expression of the belief.
There are many examples … it is common for progressives here in the US to blame immigration and civil war in the Mid East on ‘Climate Change.’
The consequences of the belief in CAGW will overtake us long before any effect of the alleged ‘anthropogenic’ warming.
This is the true Jungian anthropogenic disaster that looms.
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An interesting blog post on vaccines
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2024/06/04/subtleties-of-vaccine-science/
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Australia’s eSafety Commissar has ordered the following post be taken down in Australia, so Australians, don’t look at it or the Stormtroopers might come for you.
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1797861986203816306
Those living in free countries might wish to tell us what the content is.
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Senator Babet, United Australia Party, reposted it.
The Commissar will have to also ban all the reposts and censor a Member of Parliament who’s doing their job.
https://x.com/senatorbabet/status/1797866242788966808
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Leftists will be loving all this censorship we now have in Australia.
They have nothing to say, so have nothing to lose by not being allowed to speak.
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“It was brought to my attention that there was a certain kind of club being run in a Melbourne Primary School, so I looked into it.
A “Queer Club” was started in May 2023 at Montmorency South Primary School for students in Years 3-6.
For those overseas, that means children 8-12 years of age. The club was signed off by the schools co-Principals and is facilitated by Trish/Patsy Munro.
“The aim of Queer Club is to foster a safe environment that is supportive and inclusive of the queer community. The club will be open to Years 3-6 students who identify as LGBTQIA+ and also for allies, with the main purpose to help make our school queer friendly so that students and families feel accepted and welcome at Monty South.”
The school is also renowned for it’s “gender inclusive” language models, not referring to students as boys/girls, but focusing on “inclusive terms.”
Parents have left the school due to these programs.
There is absolutely NO place for any type of LGBTxyz club in a PRIMARY SCHOOL, or any school for that matter.
Children should NOT be learning about sexualities at such a young, impressionable age.
This is foul. Leave the kids ALONE.”
Those using Android might look at an app called UltraVPN (freeware).😎😆
Make men masculine again.
Make women feminine again.
Make children innocent again.
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Why would the Australian Government not want people to know that?
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Yes, its news, agree or disagree with it, but banning it is just typical of tyrannies the world over. Winston (the Churchill, not the Smith) wasted his time it seems.
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You got that wrong. These children, under this extreme thinking, will be mentally affected at this early age and will grow up so confused. We owe it to the children to kick these extremists out of our education system.
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David, see my comment #31.5 above.
The many Jungian chickens finding their way home to roost.
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FWIW
“Wind and Solar Resource Availability Fatal Flaw”
“As a retired electric utility meteorologist, I have been following issues associated with wind and solar resource availability for many years. My thinking has evolved to the point where I now believe that in a rational world it would be recognized that any electric grid relying on wind and solar is doomed to failure. This post explains why.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/04/wind-and-solar-resource-availability-fatal-flaw/
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From Rafe Champion this morning
“NOT MUCH WIND ABOUT LAST NIGHT ZERO IN WA!”
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76,798 fans
Ah, cheap as chips
Free travel too
Ah, free tickets
Thought so
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“This page isn’t available”
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What did you think? That 76000 is a large number of people who wanted to go to an international friendly with no consequences?
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Are men allowed to play for the Matildas like in other Australian female soccer teams?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13247863/Womens-soccer-team-fielded-trans-players-20-years.html
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no
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Why not?
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Each sport federation makes rulings. That was the ruling ie No.
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All this inclusive stuff is out of control, same but different, time to form an extension so that they have men, women and trans football.
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Trans football?
Is that cow leather?
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Only Swagmen
lol
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Given that Football Australia is still developing a transgender High Performance policy and says they currently “allow all players to participate in the competition which best represents their gender identity”, and given that FIFA allows trans women to compete in women’s international soccer subject to hormone therapy and testing, it seems that there is eligibility for someone with XY chromosomes to play.
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The UAH satellite temperature for the lower troposphere over Australia is njow to end of May 2024, a few days ago.
There has been no positive (warming) trend for the last 105 months, being 8 years and 9 months, calculated in the style of Viscount Monckton.
Despite unusual effects such as the large Hunga Tonga submarine volcano, the Australian picture differs from the global picture in visually significant ways. I have no idea about the physics or meteorology of this variation and there appears to be no shared scientific understanding yet, from those paid to study such matters.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahjune2024.jpg
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Rapid warming across West Antarctica has reversed over the past 20 years, with the region now experiencing significant cooling, according to new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2023/cool-change-for-west-antarctica/
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Those two spikes look like Hunga Tonga followed by a modest El Nino.
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PRIDE month being cancelled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7rLIP9zkkQ&t=25s
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ABC Radio, Melbourne ratings plunge to 5.4% of listening audience.
How could that be? Vic in general and Mlb in particular are still crazy left. Is Their ABC not kooky enough for them?
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Dunno, its a tale of two cities.
‘The public broadcaster has sunk to a historic low in Melbourne, heaping pressure on its high-profile line-up, while the ABC’s Sydney network hit an audience peak.’ (Oz)
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If that was after the move to Parramatta think what a move to, say Broken Hill, might have achieved
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FWIW
“Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century.”
“Reporters dubbed Daphne the “prince of carbon,” but it wasn’t just his flamboyant charisma that elevated him to criminal royalty. So did the nature of his new fraud. Daphne was scamming the fight against climate change by exploiting a policy flaw that left billions for the taking. ”
More at
https://magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-france-europe-carbon-fraud-scam-vat-betrayal/
Via Instapundit
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Its just because your sweeping generalization from afar is wrong.
>should have been nested under #38
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I was told today about the Chief of Clean Energy Australia. And it struck me. That’s a job? “Clean Energy”
So what is “Dirty energy”. Of course it is Carbon Dioxide Energy. CO2.
But carbon dioxide is invisible and every living thing is made from it. So how is it dirty?
Really, I would love to know. Why is carbon dioxide dirty?
As I read last week, coal is the filthiest source of energy. Fine coal is filthy.
But if you are turning it all into invisible, healthy, essential CO2, isn’t that good? Isn’t that clean?
Aren’t coal power stations cleaning the planet, removing filthy coal and replacing it with invisible plant food?
It’s a puzzle this denigration of carbon dioxide by government repetition.
Clean Energy
Clean Energy Finance
Clean Energy Council
Clean Energy Regulator
and the
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
When did (man made) Climate Change become a real thing? And when did the gas we all breathe out become dirty, toxic, industrial pollution?
How many tens millions of jobs world wide at every level of government are based on the utterly absurd idea of dirty carbon dioxide?
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What basis does this have in science? None. It is straight propaganda.
As Psychologist Jordan Petersen could point out, the labeling of CO2 as ‘dirty‘ against ‘clean‘ and coal as ‘filthy‘ is an appeal to a fundamental emotion of revulsion, a blatant attempt to manipulate thinking by association. Compulsory Green certificates are a device which tax breathing, living, moving, eating and even on dying even with taxes on cemeteries and on crematoria.
And through all this the population is being deceived, thinking twisted and scared endlessly with apocalyptic visions. When fossil fuel CO2 and breathing contribute almost nothing to atmospheric CO2 which is determined by the vast oceans alone. 98% of all CO2 is dissolved in the oceans and these maintain CO2 levels within 1% from pole to pole staying constant from year to year with a tiny 0.2% a year regardless of ’emissions’.
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FWIW
“”…so we ran a search in the text of “Mein Kampf” and replaced the word “Jews” with the word “white men” and the paper was accepted…” ”
More at
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/superb-thank-you-men.html
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FWIW
“Biden Eclipses Trump’s Worst Effigy”
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HZFAT37A08JX5WHT8QJZRYXR.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
https://patriotpost.us/memes/107369-biden-eclipses-trumps-worst-effigy-2024-06-04
Via SDA
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Been noticed
“Australia: Authorities will take no action against jihad preacher who praised stabbing of bishop”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/australia-authorities-will-take-no-action-against-jihad-preacher-who-praised-stabbing-of-bishop
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Neil Oliver: “It’s Going To Get Ugly!”
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FWIW
“Toxic Biosolids Threaten U.S. Farmland And Livestock”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/toxic-biosolids-threaten-us-farmland-and-livestock
I guess they increased soil carbon – if you only talked that up
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Increased carbon in the soil is beneficial as it aids moisture retention. That’s a proven fact.
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Well that’s a relief.
Tonga water vapour cancelled itself out by the ash release.
Gosh.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/05/earth-warms-at-record-rate-no-evidence-climate-change-accelerating-study/
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“last year was 1.43C warmer than the 1850 to 1900 average”
Consider 1.43C in 100 years. Which does not actually mean the place is hotter. It means spring comes a little earlier and winter ends a little earlier and winter is not quite as cold. On average. The only time the place is actually hotter is on those rare days at the very hottest end of the scale. Otherwise there is no change.
Antarctica at 10,000′ and -25C even in summer is not going anywhere.
And if the entire ice cap at the North Pole melted, it would make no difference as it is thin floating ice 4 metres thick on average over 4km of sea water. And melting floating ice makes no difference.
So I cannot see the reason to shut down coal power. Except of course that coal is ‘dirty’ when CO2 is not. Which is a good reason to get rid of all the dirty coal and turn it into clean useful CO2.
And I note the farmers storming Brussels at the moment have their own phrase. “Green communism”. It’s accurate. There is no truth at all in CO2 being dirty or responsible for global warming or any sort of threat to humanity. The International Green Communists are behind it all. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a policy. Like anti semitism.
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Is that supposed to be a recommendation, is it actually a damnation, or is it just what it looks like, a load of hot cockerel?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22vl99vwro
‘Ban fossil fuel ads to save climate, says UN chief’
But it’s the BBC.
Full quota of tendentious ‘facts’; quotes from anthropophobes; a dodgy graph; and, of course, attribution that is nothing of the sort.
No suggestion of a dicussion of the effect of an immediate global ban on fossil fuels – about six billion dead in fairly short order.
The proposed ad ban will – obviously – only apply to the West – China is virtuous, of course.
More –
“”Every degree matters; every tenth of a degree matters,” says Ko Barrett, WMO Deputy Secretary General.
“”The difference between 1.5C and say 2C could mean […] dire consequences, for coastal communities, for fragile ecosystems, and the biodiversity that is contained within them, and for glaciers and the frozen parts of the world.””
Wave that shroud – wave that shroud high and handsome!
Auto
A flavour –
“”We are living in unprecedented times,” says Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus.
“This does not constitute a breach of the Paris climate agreement, in which nearly 200 countries pledged to try to keep temperature rises below 1.5C, in order to try to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change.
“That is because the Paris agreement is generally understood to mean a 20-year average – to smooth out natural variability. Taken as a whole, the past decade was about 1.2C warmer than pre-industrial levels.”
Perhaps the BBC might explain where this 20-year average comes in.
It’s new to me, at least.
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Sounds like a job for Australia’s Orwellian eSafety Commissar.
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Today, the 6th of June is the 80th Anniversary of the D Day Landings in 1944.
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Thanks Johnny.
When I searched using Goolag for D-Day memes, I got a warning “Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or hurtful”. Gosh, we wouldn’t want to offend the National Socialists.
Disgraceful.
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Hello Thursday.
Where are you?
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