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I have been informed many times that my mere demeanor and presence is ‘insulting’.
I’m often of accused of smirking inappropriately.
So no vacation to Germany for me.
Figuring the UK is a bit risky as well.
Is it insulting to say “I don’t want to visit your stupid neo-totalitarian country?”
Is it a crime to correctly point out that those claiming to be anti-fascist are the ones acting like actual fascists?
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In England, Sir Kier Stalin will send two police officers to ‘check your thinking’ about Justice Nicklin, or the former Headmaster of Almondbury School, or thinking about why did the Labour Party bribe everyone at the school with none-disclosure agreements to keep silent, or thinking that Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner like Solzhenitsyn, or criticising Rape Gangs, or thinking about Islam in a bad way, or ‘FEARING’ Islamic terrorists, or thinking that Black men who try to rape or chop off the heads of little white working-class girls, can be illegal-immigrants or terrorists.
In England, we also have the ‘Ministry of Truth’ or the ‘Office For Censorship, Obedience & Manipulation’ (OFCOM), a government agency designed to protect government propaganda, censorship, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation and lies.
Sir Keir Stalin is about to empower OFCOM to destroy anyone posting ‘true facts’ found on ‘X’ not authorised by the government. Facts not authorised by the government are labeled misinformation.
OFCOM will transparently check all facts and verify all video content to protect the government from censored information such as how the Queen died, rape gangs making England the rape capital of the world, the vaccine injured antivaxxers and anyone else who does not support Far-left political parties such as Labour, Libdems, Greens or the loony left-wing Conservitive Party.
Also, GB News will be bankrupted by heavy fines if Nigel Farage does not obey OFCOM’s orders to support government lies, misinformation, malinformation, disinformation, censorship and propaganda.
Sir Kier Stalin was furious, and the BBC said his speech was very ‘DANGEROUS’, when Vice-President Vance said “To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old, entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation,’ who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or — God forbid — vote a different way. Or even worse, win an election,”
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vaccine injured antivaxxers
Now that is an interesting one. To have a vaccine injury, they must have been vaccinated. It’s a bit like that American “anti-vaxxer” with six vaccinated children, now in charge of health.
Maybe they should change the definition of “vaccine” back to what it was before the “vaccine injuries” took off. Then I wouldn’t be a “vaccine injured”. I can cope with that, because I then wouldn’t be an “anti-vaxxer”.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we set out to deceive. – Walter Scott
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“Is it a crime to correctly point out that those claiming to be anti-fascist are the ones acting like actual fascists?”
Its not a bug, its a feature!
You can expect any political movement who are trying to contain you to tell you that you will be free.
You can expect any manufacturer who’s products are crap to label them ‘reliable’ and ‘great value’.
You can expect the tyrants running a country to call it “The Peoples Republic of…”
This paragraph from the SMH talking about Trump being a “sovereigntist” shows it perfectly-
“Today’s sovereigntists aim to weaken non-Western international associations that seek a more democratic international order. They make common cause with similar forces; Giorgia Meloni of Italy and Hungary’s Viktor Orban, for example. Their aim is an illiberal international geopolitical order where domestic political systems resemble “competitive authoritarianism” – multi-party elections embedded in a rigged legal and political environment. Under this model, the media and the machinery of government are used to attack opponents and co-opt critics”
“domestic political systems resemble “competitive authoritarianism” – multi-party elections embedded in a rigged legal and political environment.” Sound familiar?
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Portland Cement was the foundation (scuse the pun) of the WWII construction boom.
Concrete was originally thought to have a 1000 year lifetime, but this was quickly revised down to 80-100 years.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/massive-60ft-sinkhole-opens-middle-130534218.html
All that crumbling concrete … I wonder?
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Roman concrete, also called opus caementicium was used in many buildings in Ancient Rome and many of the buildings are standing to this day. So it depends how its mixed and with what. M<any hospitals built on the cheap 20 years ago of concrete are crumbling and will cost a fortune to fix.
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Roman concrete is still lasting fine after 2000+ years but Roman concrete is a different composition and slower curing.
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Some claim volcanic ash is the secret ingredient.
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A footpath over a sink hole failing is hardly indicative of concrete failure.
The sink hole was caused by a burst water main. It is probably steel construction or cast iron, depending omg its age.
There have been some good examples run Australia of what is termed “concrete cancer”. It is due to the rebar being exposed, rusting and causing the concrete to crack as the rust expansionists. It may be accelerated by using water with high salt content. It was a common problem in NW Australia due to the high salt content of the bore water used up there. Also an issue on the Gold Coast before they started using galvanised rebar.
This concrete dam in the USA was built in in 1763.
https://www.arkansasoutside.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Lake-Conway-Dam-Release.jpg
But it did not use Portkland cement.
There are plenty of concrete structures built using Portland cement, more than 100 years old, still in use.
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Co2 impact miscalculated over 100 years ago and the mistake continues today
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/global-warming-the-fallacy-built-on-a-120-year-old-blunder/
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Really interesting. A hot house gets hotter mainly because the warmer air cannot escape. Not because the glass stops the infrared radiation of heat.
Hot air would normally expand, rise and escape. The glass prevents this escape which creates the hot house effect. The cooling by radiation is not significant. The trapping of warm air is the entire effect.
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It’s doubly funny that the rock crystal hot house was much hotter than the glass one. Because infra red could get in. They had to put glass on top of the rock crystal to cool it down.
Infra red is half the power of the sun. And solar panels cannot use it. I did invent a system to harvest both. It is a core reason solar panels are so inefficient.
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Hi Tony, it’s fascinating to read this sort of analysis in the article when it refers to “science” from way back.
I do recall reading that Arrhenius later reversed his view on this matter.
Arrhenius should be left alone and we should use correct, current science that is free from the political machinations and overlay of influence from the world’s master manipulators.
Once all of the irrelevant distractions are removed, the analysis of the claim that CO2 “heats the atmosphere” can be readily shown in its true light.
We can only hope that reality will eventually take over this shambles and free us from the clutches of the Globalist machine.
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No such thing as the greenhouse effect, so logically no such thing as greenhouse gases. There’s atmospheric gases, that’s it.
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It appears there’s no such thing as greenhouse without a roof.
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Here are some of the results from the Ukraineless peace talks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14409355/marco-rubio-trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal.html
Russia is demanding that Nato withdraws to its pre 1997 borders.
I am, sure Ukraine will be delighted with this if Russia agree to the same criteria and withdraws from Crimea and the other territories it has invaded.
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Crimea and its people were gifted to Ukraine in 1956 by Kruschev. Why is still a mystery. But anyone over 70 years old was born in Russia. And in the Crimean war in 1855 waged without explanation by France and Britain on Russia, the attack was in Crimea. Invasion is a relative term when everyone wanted to leave Ukraine. The army just switched sides.
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Also Crimea in area is only 2% of Ukraine. Even today, the Russian speaking Donbas plus Crimea is only 14%. Given the right of self determination, the majority of the people in these areas would rather be in Russia. The fight since 1812 has been to constrain and subdue and dismember Russia, as with the Ottomans. We are still living with the consequences. The last time German tanks were in Kiev was 1943.
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Elon Musk, DOGE and TRUMP have shown the world what a huge waste of resources just about any program associated with the Left is.
All that wreckless waste and corruption has caused a huge drain of wealth to the United States and helped incur massive debt
No doubt similar waste occurs in other Western countries.
Notable is the fact that the Left are using the taxes of hard working people to pay for their indulgences and their own destruction (of working people).
The money has either gone directly into the pockets of Leftist Elites, corrupt Third World dictators or programs whose only purpose is to destroy Western and American society such as traditional family values, or morality or to lower the standard of living of non-Elites because they regard the non-Elites standard of living as “unsustainable”.
And who the hell gave the Left permission to decide whether the standard of living of non-Elites is “sustainable” or not? The only thing that decides that is if you can pay your bills without going into debt or further debt.
The Left are trying to return the West to how things were before The Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution where we, the “serfs” are confined to our villages (“15 minute cities”) with a low standard of living and ruled over as virtual slaves by a small group of Elites.
At least in the case of the United States TRUMP, JD and Musk will stop them. Western Europe and Canada is already gone. Australia is highly questionable. And the destruction is further compounded by the mass invitation and migration of the military age males who are fanatical followers of the seventh century warlord who have no commitment to Western values as they will freely tell you..
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I assure you, the waste is not wreckless.
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I have previously opined that DC is best thought of as a nearly autonomous Medieval style city state within the US.
My view partly informed by working there for more than a dozen years.
The character of the city state changed greatly after the de-Sovietizing of Russia which pre-dated my exit from the culture by a few years.
The city became much wealthier and international.
But the Russia Russia Russia raison d’etre lingered.
I think DOGE is exposing this obscure autonomous structure that many suspected but few understand.
DC was Constitutionally set up to be autonomous.
This has turned out to be a perhaps unforeseen flaw.
The great Gore Vidal once said, ‘the fall of the Republic began with the invention of air-conditioning because now the SOBs live there year ‘round’.
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And there was I thinking SOB meant Surgery On Birthday, as I’m back under the knife in a few days to repair the skin cancer removal operation on my ear which went wrong… a minor setback in the scheme of things, yet no swimming for another couple of weeks.
Not that there’s a ‘heatwave’ or anything, more the complete opposite, as snow showers are forecast for our Southern Alps during the next 3 days thanks to the remains of last weekend’s Tasmanian Summer Snow Storm combining with yet another cold front and hey presto! high summer in New Zealand and the snow keeps falling… as it did this time last year and the year before that.
Greg, repeat: summer snow is weather, a warm winter’s day is climate cacophony. Obviously my ‘belief’ is faltering, to whom can I pay tax to fix this…
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I keep thinking about Versailles where some people lived a life of luxury paid for by those not allowed inside. The inhabitants schemed and plotted to be the cabal in power and ignored any unrest – if they ever heard of it through the censorship and repression of dissidents – and expected them to “eat cake if bread was too expensive”. There were a few who wondered if this privileged life could continue but were overwhelmed by the Revolution.
Versailles is now a tourist place.
It seems to have been a mistake to have isolated the whole of the executive (including the top bureaucrats) from the rest of the population and the cares of life in general.
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Climate commentator may be forced out of Germany because of new chilling restrictions on free speech
https://notrickszone.com/2025/02/18/germany-is-turning-into-an-unlivable-tyranny/#comments
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At least there will be an election in a few days. With luck the politicians will form a coalition that excludes the current lot from government.
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FWIW
“An important warning about some canned foods”
“A voluntary recall has been issued for some canned tuna products — sold across the country at Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Costco and other stores — because of a pull tab defect that could lead to potentially fatal botulism food poisoning.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-important-warning-about-some-canned.html
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For the covid records –
“Dr. Deborah Birx Proves Conspiracy Theorists Right AGAIN with Not One but TWO Shocking COVID Admissions”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/02/18/birx-thread-covid-conspiracy-theorists-were-right-again-n2408528
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FWIW
“USAID in a Nutshell”
“USAID is/was an octopus, with tentacles extending everywhere.
What did those tentacles do? First and foremost, they extended into the taxpayers’ pockets to extract tens of billions of dollars a year, transferring those dollars to organizations and agencies favored by the transnational elite. The projects could be anything from overthrowing a government or two to putting some spending money into the pockets of the favored elites. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/18/usaid-in-a-nutshell-n3799939
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