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Truly funny:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/13/experts-warn-adjective-climate-crisis-could-lead-to-dramatic-outcome-by-year/
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In a recent report by Babylon Sea, (commonly known as BS) scientists have sounded the alarm about the catastrophic calamitous effects of climate change. According to Alfred E. Neumann, Chief Consultant to BS, if global temperatures rise by just 0.0000001 degrees Celsius, we could see catastrophic impacts, including windmill blades spinning in reverse and sucking whatever electricity is left in the grid back into the air, causing massive lightning strikes in a cloudless sky. Lions and hyenas will stop attacking prey, leaving southern Africa overrun by wildebeest, and giant flies, known to only inhabit sheep farms in New Zealand, will mass and relentlessly attack Australia.
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Gerry, ‘climate change’ to the rescue!
Friday 15 Nov, South Island, NZ,
Snow to 800 metres.
Saturday 16 Nov (ditto),
Snow to 800 metres.
Everywhere else, cold rain, which rhymes with Spain. Is it carbon or is it cosmic: Friday is the moon’s 6th-closest perigee and Saturday it’s full – can you feeeeeel the difference?
Hopefully Maori protesters walking to Wellington (with a little help from buses & vans & motorbikes) don’t catch a cold or pneumonia or sumpfink worserer – it certainly won’t be heat-stroke.
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The top Republican who single handedly frustrated Trump’s Presidency last time was Paul Ryan, former speaker of the House. Donald Trump is ‘unfit for office’ and unelectable. And he is still on the board of Fox.
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And spectacularly about how to win, not a single word about policy! It’s all about personalities and polling. Just like Turnbull whose strategy was to ride public sentiment which by definition is policy as driven by the legacy media, including Fox.
So in Paul Ryan’s view, while not said explicitly, politicians are just popular actors on the stage, liars without policies. Empty suits. You want the most popular, presentable, young, dynamic, and presumably good looking in the right suit, matching tie and good hair. Great image. You can see why Hollywood think they should have an actor like George Clooney in the White House. (Alec Baldwin has been too busy after the disaster with his disastrous film Rust.)
I just rewatched the both incredibly funny and appalling South park film, Team America and the control of the world by actors, members of FAG, the Film Actors Guild led by Alec Baldwin. You have to watch through your fingers. But in hindsight it is an amazingly accurate parody of America and world politics led by Hollywood and image actors like Paul Ryan and John Kerry and George Clooney. When Ryan talks about younger strong image people to run for President, he means himself. Or another member of FAG like George Clooney. Hair is very important too for image. Ask John Kerry, a complete hair head.
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Donald Trump on Socialism.
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Speaking of Turnbull and those with their snouts in the trough, he stood up and said we have to stick by Rudd, for what would he do in a cold heartless world without a high-paid sinecure amongst his mates. Obviously Rupert Murdoch has criticised Turnbull somewhere along the way..
“Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to stand by Rudd, arguing the push against the ambassador was driven by News Corporation’s desire to gain revenge against Rudd for his past criticisms of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire.
““I didn’t have success with Trump as prime minister because I kissed his arse. You have to be tough.” ..said the lapdog poodle talking to the other dogs in the alley.. Everyone knows Australia has absolutely no bargaining power with America, our politicians do as they are told, hoping to become an ambassador after they get booted out of office. Others standing shoulder to shoulder in support of sinecures are-
“Former prime minister Scott Morrison has backed Rudd, as have previous US ambassadors Joe Hockey, Arthur Sinodinos and Kim Beazley….Former prime minister Tony Abbott…Foreign Minister Penny Wong has insisted Rudd was “absolutely” the right person to represent Australia in Washington ”
The Trump Team said- ““Obviously, [Rudd’s criticism] is a little bit tough to take, and maybe we would want to choose someone else.””
Pack your bags, you were useless here and you’re useless over there! We’ll find you a spot as a director in our new Ministry of Censorship, we’ll need hundreds of bureaurats in there!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/key-trump-ally-taunts-rudd-on-social-media-20241113-p5kq6x.html
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KP,
But you do have to admire the deep irony of (“rat effing”) Rudd being called a diplomat.
Incidentally, thanks for your reply in yesterday’s. I have responded there.
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And, in once-great Britain:
https://rumble.com/v5oowzz-they-got-a-big-surprise.html
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It somewhat hypocritical that people in the UK complain about the stuff they voted for. Clearly the meeting inside the church was at odds with the majority of the people outside protesting the meeting inside.
UK is now offering reparations for the crusades a few centuries ago by rehoming the descendents of the then enemy.
Geoff S posted this image on WUWT:
https://www.geoffstuff.com/fans.jpg
This is UK’s future. All those women complaining about adolescent male refugees leering at their young daughters need to be pulled into line. Their primary school daughters are all prospective brides.
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Does anyone have an archive.org account and would care to save the following Web page before it’s “disappeared”?
https://www.paulfletcher.com.au/media-releases/new-disinformation-laws
Or otherwise preserve this page.
It needs preservation because someone mentioned to me that they had no idea that the fake conservative Liberal Party were responsible for the censorship bill.
The following needs preservation as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/21/peter-dutton-now-backs-laws-to-crack-down-on-above-the-law-social-media-companies-over-misinformation
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Did anyone expect anything else?
Top men onto it –
I am an experienced police executive with a demonstrated history in law enforcement and a focus on leadership and diversity.
Traitors the lot of them
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While we’re (me) talking about the AFP…
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My son was telling me about a contractor he knows who contracts to maintain certain local council property. He was called to a meeting in the council offices to discuss pronouns and gender labelling. The meeting opened with the usual welcome to country and then proceeded to discuss the wording in numerous documents and signage that were not gender neutral.
The contractor estimates the rate payer bill for the time of the people involved in the 4 hour meeting was $6,000. This waste is going on in government departments and businesses throughout the country.
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I know of a small country school,about 35kids, that is getting a petting zoo. Kangaroos roam through town every hour of the day and night, deer wander through after dark, area has sheep,cattle,goats, dogs,cats, but hey, the kids need a petting zoo
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I think the Misinformation bill is distraction. It is so draconian it will probably be defeated but in the background the over 16 years for social media is being pushed. This will give the government unprecedented information on every person using the media as everyone will have to prove their age.
This is maybe another step on the road to digital ID. What’s next bank accounts, social credit score, travel?
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