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From The Spectator Australia –
Ian Plimer
22nd of March, 2025
“Each year the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation publishes a scientific report on the state of the climate. For those with a short attention span wanting to move on to the next article, before you leave you need to sit down, take a deep breath, have a drink at hand and read the final conclusion for the 88-page 2024 report by Professor Ole Humlum: ‘Observations confirm the normal overall variability of average meteorological and oceanographic conditions, and do not support the notion of an ongoing climate crisis.’ Throw that drink down, pour another and celebrate that there is no climate crisis, climate catastrophe or, in fact, anything to worry about at all. We have been conned for decades but I’m not telling you something you didn’t already know.”
And, to conclude at the end of the Article –
“What can we conclude? The planet is dynamic and there are constant changes mainly due to changes in the oceans. Very slight warming and cooling are not global and the measurement record is poor. The ocean-atmosphere heat and water exchanges are driven by the Sun and climate on all scales is cyclical. An unequivocal anthropogenic influence on climate has not been detected.
We need to get out of Paris and get on with life.”
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That is a remarkable confession by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
So when are the woke Governments of the world like UK, Australia and Europe going to take notice?
Or are going to let the Left to keep on destroying our Civilisation?
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Remarkable in that it is sensible, nothing more. All water comes from the oceans. All the heat comes from the oceans and sun. The air is only a conduit for this transfer nothing more, what we call the weather.
Even the proposition that the model of a single perfect globe with single temperature is busted as untenable, so constructing and plotting and predicting a ‘world temperature’ has failed. It is a chaotic regional system with almost constant Carbon Dioxide across the planet regardless of our religious beliefs. The very concepts of Al Gore are busted after 37 years of absolute belief in Climate Scientology.
Now we need governments to stop pretending there is a man made CO2 driven Climate Crisis. And repeal all the Climate Taxes, carbon credits, endless government agencies funneling trillions in stolen cash to achieve absolutely nothing. And stop the vast windmill and solar farms.
Are they going to do it? No.
Trump’s very practical solution is to fire the lot of them. Today. Only that stops the ripoff engines.
Carbon dioxide is not pollution. Nor is water, the other product of combustion. Together they are the basis of all life of earth starting with photosynthesis and ending in combustion. They are not pollution. They are proof of life.
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David Maddison,
You don’t recognise the Global Warming Policy Foundation? They’re sceptical of climate alarm. It was hardly a confession.
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Poor choice of words by me.
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David,
It is not only woke Governments that need to take notice
Our Bank Qudos (formerly Qantas Staff Credit Union) is currenly putting a proposal to members for a merger with Bank Australia, who I had never heard of, but has 200,000 Members vs Qudos 100,00 members, with Bank Australia coming from Electrical Trades Union Latrobe Valley, CSIRO & even some Ansett
There was an online presentation on Monday evening at 5.30pm led by Current Brendan Wright CEO, Qudos Bank, along with the man who will replace him, Damien Walsh, the current CEO and Managing Director of Bank Australia
With Damien Walsh, I felt I was watching a Labor Party promotional night, he stated that Bank Australia spend 4% of Revenues on Net Zero 2035, Climate Change & Disinvestment of Fossil Fuels, quoting having helped shut down one of the Latrobe Valley Coal Fired Plants and aiming to hasten shut down of the remaining Coal Fired Plant – He then said Federal Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers was in favour of the Merger, besides yet again reinforcing his Renewables Fanaticism
Brendan Wright, who is working hard to put himself out of a job, came across as Extremely Professional, whilst the Proposed New CEO, came across as a Wet Limp Lettuce Leaf (Shades of Labor Albo) – as I said to my wife, who was also listening “I wouldn’t put him in charge of peeling potatoes in the Army Cookhouse” (Yes I did have/do that job)
The Spiel reads A true merger of equals:
The Merger with Bank Australia is a proactive decision and a true partnership born out of shared purpose and enduring commitment to customer-owned banking. Jennifer Dalitz, our current Chair at Qudos Bank, will become the new Chair of the Merged Bank, with Qudos Bank having equal representation on the Board of Directors on completion of the Merger. Damien Walsh, the current CEO and managing director
of Bank Australia, will lead the new organisation and head office operations will be split across current locations in Sydney and Melbourne.
The Merger Resolution will be:
“That the members of Qudos Mutual Limited approve the total transfer of the business of Qudos Mutual Limited to Bank Australia Limited,
to take effect on 1 July 2025 or on such otherdate as may be specified by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).”
My Wife & I both voted NO
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OO, l would happily put my self out of work if the severance was acceptably large enough. I will bet Mr. Wright will walk away with no concerns about where the next mortgage payment will come from and power bills are just chicken feed.
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IPCC 0 – Science 1
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Grok-3-Review-V5-1.pdf
2025 publication pdf document
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“. Our analysis reveals that human CO₂ emissions, constituting a mere 4% of the annual carbon cycle, are dwarfed by natural fluxes,”
“with isotopic signatures and residence time data indicating negligible long-term atmospheric retention.”
So there is almost zero man made CO2 in the air, 2.03% as determined in 1958 by New Zealander G.J.Fergusson.
And no reason to eliminate or tax CO2 ’emissions’ because they go straight into the ocean where they are quite negligible at 0.02% of ocean CO2.
QED
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“We need to get out of Paris and get on with life.””
There is increasingly widespread recognition in NZ that the Paris Accord is a non-tariff barrier , nothing more , nothing less, and that we have no choice but to continue to pretend to go along with it, while doing nothing that will reduce food production , which for NZ is the only game in town – tourism is over.
Agriculture is the mainstay of the NZ economy , and that will not change, unless our clean , green image is destroyed.
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In the Stupid Country, across the lake from you, our “opposition” “leader” of the fake conservative Liberal Party reiterated his commitment to Paris right after TRUMP abandoned it.
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When I have been approached by climate zealots in the street I simply say “The sun is the driver of climate”, and walk on. Every time they have nothing to say in reply. I suspect they have never actually thought out the conundrum.
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Vicki, stunned mullet is the term for that blank expression, though sometimes it’s followed by a crazed look of rabid hatred – yet those green zealots claim they’re ‘saving’ the planet… from their own fetid breath.
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Johnny Rotten,
Prof. Humlum says:
How can anyone take the idea of a climate crisis seriously? Climate is weather averaged over 30 years. You can’t have a crisis in that without first having some upheaval in the weather (that I’m certainly not seeing).
Since the blob seems to like alliteration, I suggest weather woes.
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Exactly: “ongoing” ?
Something has to start before it can continue, and now in my 3rd climate cycle, three-score plus a few more, apart from minor fluctuations due to the ebb and flow of weather, ie. oceans and sun,
Crisis? WHAT crisis!
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Last night I got a letter from A. Taylor addressed personally to me.
Lo & Behold ! His return email address was not blocked, so I replied :
Dear Angus,
Thanks for taking your time to explain again the debt chasm the Labor pushes my grandchildren into.
There is only one way to pause the destruction of this country – to immediately leave Paris agreement.
Allowing honest debate, debunking the idiocy and actual harm the global warming cult already caused our country will take time which we do not have.
May I humbly suggest to everyone, who agrees with me, to use this opportunity.
BTW – any text improvements are welcome.
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But wait, you also get…more alarm from (un-named) “scientists”:
Global warming is spiralling out of control: Earth could warm by a whopping 7°C by 2200, scientists predict – leading to flooding, famine, and catastrophic heatwaves
Conditions would be too hot for common crops to grow properly, which would cause global food insecurity and even starvation.
Meanwhile, rising sea levels due to melting ice would force people to flee coastal cities as a result of flooding.
Also under such a scenario, intense extreme weather events such as drought, heatwaves, wildfires, tropical storms and flooding would be common.
Especially in the summer, temperatures could reach dangerously high levels, posing a lethal threat to the people of all ages.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14534767/Global-warming-Earth-warm-CO2-emissions.html
As I recall, for every degree of cooling, crops will need to be moved 100 miles closer to the equator to offset it, so for warming presumably the opposite.
Plus by 2200 the vaxxed will all be gone, so that’s most everyone, so no AGW for a long time beforehand.
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The remade woke Snow White is an even bigger failure in China than in the West.
Chinese people are rejecting the stupid self-destructive wokeness of the West and don’t want it imposed on them.
Here is a very good review: https://youtu.be/yd-mefyWJ1o (7.5 mins)
Get woke. Go broke.
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You’d think the CCP would love this film as it has a very socialist themed plot, though perhaps they don’t like the revolution at the end that overthrows the queen as they don’t what to give their citizens any unapproved (and potentially dangerous) ideas.
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The essential fantasy of rare beauty even in Europe was ‘skin as white as snow’. It is obviously implicit in the name ‘Snow White’ and for many a ideal of singular beauty underpinning the story. And everyone in the world knew it when the story was written and knows it today.
So to create a DEI Snow White who isn’t Snow White is a definition of racial abuse, self hate racism posing as equality and inclusion. Even in China and Africa and Asia generally, it is just nuts to change the essential component of the story.
Just go to Thailand and see the women with their umbrellas staying out of the sun. Or the surf beaches where women are looking for the ultimate tan. It is not racism, but an eternal human quest for beauty ideals denied by DEI.
And the happy community of dwarves under the mountain is a another childhood and perhaps racial memory buried deep. As in the Hobbits and dwarves and elves of Tolkien. That relationship also has been trashed under by DEI racism.
Across the world everyone is different and we have our ideals and they should be celebrated and not racist. But not in a Marxist Disney world where individualism has to be stamped out along with our many childhood fantasies. Walt Disney would have been appalled.
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Is not Disney’s CEO’s tribal name Igor?
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Correction: Iger,
very very wealthy Bob Iger.
How many lives has he ruined on the way to the top of the pile…
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[T]he increase in absorbed solar radiation is primarily due to natural variations in cloudiness and surface albedo, which have served as the main forcing factors of the flux above the atmosphere over the last 2 decades.” – Diodato et al., 2025
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Or possibly what happens to cloud cover elsewhere may have implications in the Mediterranean region.
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Dr John Campbell looks at a video by Dr William Makis MD. Radiologist, Oncologist, Cancer Researcher about the use of ivermectin for cancer treatment.
Even though it appears to be a useful agent to treat cancer in laboratory animals there are no formal human trials except some case reports.
https://youtu.be/xkT9Anef-JQ
The absurdities of woke “science” and consensus “science” prevents proper investigation of this agent, especially in the extremely woke countries like Australia which is still persecuting and prosecuting pro-science doctors for daring to use it during the plandemic to treat covid as Jo reported yesterday.
How can science or medicine progress if researchers are too terrified to explore new ideas that don’t conform to the Official Narrative?
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And consider this.
Ivermectin could have been used to treat covid but it was banned for that purpose in Australia.
Thus, people had compulsory “vaccinations” with experimental mRNA products which in many cases are believed to have led to “turbo” and other cancers including relapses.
It is possible that Ivermectin might be able to clean up the mess of these mRNA substances as well but it needs proper clinical trials.
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Dr Malik exposes a problem with the way that clinical research is done.
New therapeutic drugs trials are funded by the Pharmaceutical industry. The trials are supposedly overseen by government regulators.
Cancer patients are out there right now, testing novel therapies on themselves on their own with no support from their oncologist. The oncologist may not even know about it.
These patients are the basis of the individual case reports.
An oncologist like Dr Malik is ideally placed to begin to collate these unreported cases and start to create an uncontrolled trial but there are a number of impediments, such as ethics council approval, lake of time, lack of money and the likelihood of suspension of his medical licence.
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Not entirely true – at least in Australia. I know a retired head of his own company who conducted Random Clinical Trials for our government regulator. He was in the industry for 40 years. He was an outspoken opponent of the introduction of the mRNA Covid vaccines. He was outraged that they were introduced, and for some people mandated, when scant testing was done by the very pharmaceutical companies which were selling them.
Of course he was ignored. He survived persecution because he was retired.
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That is interesting Vicki,
Are you saying that the TGA funded some randomised clinical trials of new therapeuticals?
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>An oncologist like Dr Malik
Dr Malik is a psychiatrist.
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He is an oncologist.
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/william-makis-md-15119255?trk=public_post_follow-view-profile
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I was appalled to read that actor Mike Meyers is a Justin Trudeau fan (I didn’t think there were such people) and is now doing a political ad with new Canadian PM Mark Carney which is also anti TRUMP.
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For those that don’t know, Carney is even more of a lunatic than Trudeau and has even more severe TDS.
Poor Canada!
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Carney, on the surface, shares many of Trudeau’s fake beliefs. However, he is even more of a globalist crook than his predecessor and will perpetuate policies that enrich himself, and his elite pals.
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Talking of ex-PM Justine, perhaps he’ll be sharing his flights of fancy with his old classmate, NZ’s chicken-run ex-PM:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/547524/dame-jacinda-ardern-joins-oxford-university-group-training-leaders
As usual, RNZ have misspelled ‘Damned’ in that link. Comrade Chick has been invited into the “Blavatnik School of Government [and the] world leaders circle [which] aims to improve governance around the world”.
Some of the present academic staff include a Clooney, a Stone, a Wolff, and a Pepper Culpepper (to add flavour?). The BS Govt survives on funds via Leo Blavatnik, a Russian oligarch who ‘gained’ his billions through (cough!) oil and aluminum: the 52nd-most richest man in the world according to wiki-wonker.
Begun in 2012 after a Davos WEF soirée, it was inaugurated by none other than Prince Willy the Bald. Blavatnik caused a stir 8 years ago when he donated funds to… TRUMP.
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Is there an update for the Inquisition of Dr My Le Trinh for her “crime” of competently practicing evidence-based medicine? I couldn’t find anything with a brief search.
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https://x.com/myletrinh123/status/1904367474830921742?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Today I am going on a VIP demonstration flight of this experimental test bed B757 aircraft. A three engine 757 (it has a mount for a third engine for testing) plus fully instrumented on the inside with numerous equipment racks.
https://aerospace.honeywell.com/us/en/about-us/blogs/honeywell-b757-test-aircraft-shapes-future-aviation
That’s assuming I can get to the Avalon Air Show on time as Communist/Green/Labor/anti-Israel (all one and the same really) protesters are expected to block traffic and as usual, VicPol will probably do nothing.
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Does the aircraft have one of these fitted ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_autopilot
Just curious.
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Not likely.
Anf pilots don’t want them.
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You do realise it is possible to be anti “Communist/Green/Labor” and be anti-Israel at the same time? Some people may take offence at the rather broad brush smear job you just applied to them.
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I take my hat off to you for stating your position clearly.
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‘ … all one and the same really …’
Not really.
There has been a lot of disinformation circulating that Democratic Socialists are Communists along with the Greens. Its all nonsense.
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You’re in a War (and You Don’t Even Know It) | Eric Weinstein [ARC 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdJtrXYBZs
The Blobsters are waging war in (and on) our minds and have been intentionally stagnating science.
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Does anyone know of there is definitive evidence that artificial sweeteners are bad for you and also do they trick your body into releasing insulin?
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Not definitive,as “experts” always disagree when money is involved, but err on the side of safety.
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-this-artificial-sweetener-may-cause-heart-damage
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4899993/
https://www.eatthis.com/artificial-sweeteners-side-effects/
I don’t add sugar to anything, in fact there’s no separate sugar in the house.
Yes, the coffee is bitter.
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A couple of weeks ago I questioned an ABC story re the hottest March night on record for Sydney. Good to see the ABC have now apologised for its ‘misinformation’. ABC doesn’t seem to know how the weather data is organised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/corrections/2025-03-20/sydney-s-hottest-night/105074398
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That’s a keeper: their ABC retract/adjust and/or clarify their dis/mis/mal PR*.
On that link, Ian, if you scroll down, the first photo is of your Dear Briber PM performing a double hand-gesture which resembles a Benny Hill ‘Bristol’ manoeuvre – Shirley that’s illegal in these daze of equality and one-size-fits-all?
PR* = Propaganda.
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Maybe a full time job keeping the ABC correct and impartial.
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FWIW
“CA Now Tracking Cow Farts From Space”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/25/ca-now-tracking-cow-farts-from-space-n3801143
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The success of TRUMP highlights further just how defective and deficient Australia’s “leaders” are.
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Is Elon Musk the ultimate hermit?
Why does this man constantly hide from the limelight? Why doesn’t he show his face and share his opinions once in a while? I know that he’s just a terribly humble guy but I am so interested on his thoughts on different matters. How can one man be so humble?
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They say he’s a visionary, which might explain his humbleness.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-town-halls-musk-russia-b2720632.html
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FWIW
“HUGE: President Trump Signs Executive Order Containing Six Important Provisions on Election Integrity to Prevent Democrat Electoral Fraud (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-president-trump-signs-executive-order-containing-six/
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FWIW
“Al Gore’s Phony Climate Alarmism Exposed”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/al-gores-phony-climate-alarmism-exposed/
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Key Takeaways From The US Talks With Ukraine And Russia In Riyadh
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-russia-ukraine-talks-riyadh/33358825.html
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FWIW
“9th Circuit Leftists Triggered When Judge Uses Gun to Show How Clueless They Are”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/03/24/9th-circuit-leftists-triggered-when-judge-uses-gun-to-show-how-clueless-their-anti-gun-decision-is-n4938243
Something about “knowing something about that of which you speak”?
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The new US Secretary of Commerce recently was on a panel, when the question of people not getting their pension checks came up. He came out with the rejoinder that his 94 year old grandmother would be unfazed, knowing that the pension would be just added to the next payment; and no one thought to ask him, how many other grandmothers in the US didn’t have billionaire grandsons? Or the even more pertinent question, what is the 94 year old grandmother of an anti bureaucracy, family values, billionaire doing with social security checks anyway? Unfortunately the wave of common sense that was supposed to have come in with the new government, obviously hasn’t washed up on all the shore lines.
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re: new US Government
My favourite philosopher came us with a new phrase – Better Be Mad Than Red
Which he explains like so: there is 50/50 chance of DJT doing some good for us all.
Those opposite – clever, educated, well spoken spent last 30 years perfecting their West-destructing skills and nearly won.
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Advance Australia had a full page newspaper ad with a picture of Albanese with big letters simply saying:
WEAK
WOKE
SENDING US BROKE
Brilliant!
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MAGA – Make Albo Go Away
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This was brought home with some startling figures published on Paul Murray Live a couple of nights ago.
Paul compared the some Australian budget and demographic figures from 2004/05 with those of 2024/25.
These figures are adjusted for inflation, so we are comparing like for like.
Australia’s population has risen by 33.53%
Income tax has risen by 96.24%
Total tax is up by 99.25%
Total spending is up by 128.5%
These figures confirm we are going backwards and crystalise the sense that taxes and spending are too high.
Unfortunately, the bad news doesn’t end there.
The Federal public service has grown by 45.75%
The cost of those federal public servants has risen by a whopping 427%
Government organisations have increased by 86.2%
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re: tobacco excise increase in last budget
Is it only me or others also noticed late increase in tobacco consumption ?
A bit hard to blame it on Morrison…
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Is it just maybe, perhaps, could it be possible that most of the lefts slurs against their opponents are just projections?? ‘Racist!’ is constantly yelled by people, whose soul criteria for judging competence and character, is skin colour. ‘Naz.. by people who hate Jus, and love big bureaucracies controlling everything. I had lunch with an old friend, who was gravely warning another friend, to purge her phone of any leftist messaging, before entering the US, as they will be checking peoples’ phones. Apart from the history of lefties searching peoples’ social media, for ancient faux pas, the thought of projection never occurred to me at the time. Then the ridiculousness of it slowly dawned – the need for warrants, the time to laboriously work through millions of phones, the personnel! Immigration lines would require camping equipment! Projection. Projection. Projection.
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Trump should identify as female.
That way the loony left will either have to recognise him as the first female US president or admit the absurdity of their gender ideology.
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