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Just a quick reminder. Earth day 2025 is on Tuesday 22 of this month.
Prepare now with extra extension cords, lamps etc. to light up the night to protest the darkness of Green zealots who are bringing blackouts to our grid.
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Earth Day – that’s the one where we do street parties with bonfires and fireworks yeah?
That’s what I remember we used to do before all the lockdowns and stuff…
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On Earth Day, we should celebrate the gifts of the Earth that bring us warmth, light and a high standard of living like coal, gas and uranium.
We shouldn’t celebrate cold, darkness and poverty (for non Elites) as the Left want us to.
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“We shouldn’t celebrate cold, darkness and poverty”
Samhain (early May), which acknowledges the coming of darkness, has never really been a celebration as such ; it is more of a heads- up that the next three months will be tough – a warning that you may not be around for Oimelg/Imbolc, which is the first week of August in the Southern hemisphere.
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A day to rejoice by eating nature’s bountiful blessings.
Bonza beef, beautiful bacon, burpy beer and big burgers.
/stuff the vegans within smelling distance of the bbq.
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Mann’s DC Trick
The Statistics of Mann’s Grant Damages
From Stephen McIntyre’s Substack, Russiagate and Other Analysis
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/06/manns-dc-trick/
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So he faked his drop in grants as well! Of course to allege massive damages and get the settlement. How frustrating that this worked again. The very same trick, faulty and deliberate logic.
It shows how a scientist can fool people if they believe the scientist is being honest, the same deceit used in all of the man made Climate Change story. Respect for authority. Especially with lawyers and judges who are often completely unable to understand mathematics, statistics and graphs. Their skill is with words. This mathematics blindness is a great weakness as almost all cases are about money and such concepts as compound interest are beyond their skill level. And as Steyn let the lawyers argue the damage was zero, the damage was done. The judge was convinced by more fake data. How ironic and consistent and evil.
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Very informative article.
The truth defense was that Mann really was the Jerry Sandusky of climate change. The lawyers focused on the question of damages. Probably appropriately in terms of the best possible outcome available which was damages of $1.
It is one of the truisms of litigation that the clients are inevitably surprised that the legal dispute is not the actual dispute.
And Stein’s life was arguably ruined.
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Court Delivers Massive Blow to Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics
From THE DAILY CALLER
Nick Pope Contributor
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/05/court-delivers-massive-blow-to-famed-climate-scientist-who-sued-critics/
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Excellent news. The scam is drawing to a close. Along with the lawfare to protect the Hockey Stick.
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Yes. And it should be pointed out that the actual legal costs will be many times what was awarded or assessed.
If you want justice keep the dispute out of the courts.
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Elon Musk is supporting the case of Lucy Connolly who is doing 31 months for a tweet on ‘X’. After learning of the murder of three little white girls by a black man, Lucy Connolly wrote, “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f’ing hotels full of the b’ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.” But after she took her dog for a walk she returned home and deleted the post – it was visible for less than four hours. Despite that, she was arrested and denied bail. Lucy is being jailed for a post on ‘X’. There is no free speech in Britain – JD Vance was right. Elon Musk has just put up the tweet again on ‘X’. Its had 32.7 million views and reposts in America. Britain is now famous for being the rape capital of the world. We in Britain fear the Police are busy arresting thousands of people for being angry about black people raping and killing little white girls. Elon is being fined a billion dollars for allowing us to speak freely on ‘X’, Trump is fighting back with tariffs: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1908663432309842111
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An Excellent Article on this in the UK Telegraph – UK is going to the Dregs
The Telegraph Via Yahoo News
I heard the full story of the woman jailed for two years for a tweet. Her injustice shames Britain
Allison Pearson
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The Left’s Localvore Betrayal: Tariffs Expose Climate Hypocrisy
Charles Rotter
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/05/the-lefts-localvore-betrayal-tariffs-expose-climate-hypocrisy/
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Again, the staggering hypocrisy of the regressive Left (a tautologyI know).
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https://propagandainfocus.com/the-normative-pressure-manipulation-loop/
The normative pressure nudge (commonly referred to as ‘social proof’) exploits the fact that human beings tend to feel uncomfortable if they think themselves to be in a deviant minority – in contrast to believing one is at the centre of the herd, a view that generates a sense of safety and security. Therefore, awareness of social norms, the prevalent views and behaviours of our fellow citizens, can exert pressure on us to conform. If government actors can convince the sceptical target group that the majority of people are already onboard with state-approved beliefs and behaviours, this normative pressure nudge constitutes an effective weapon in their manipulation armoury.
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maybe the tide is turning: the winter 2024 version of the Public Attitudes Tracker found that the proportion of respondents concerned about climate change had fallen to 80% (as compared to 85% in 2021), a statistically significant reduction. Perhaps ordinary folk are becoming less inclined to accept the pronouncements of official, nudge-infused, communications? Let us hope so.
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The success of Trump is shattering the hold the media have over the people. And 95% of what I see in the press is anti Trump. Even those who compliment him do so as a backhander. For example “There may be method in his madness”. Do you have to be mad to fix a broken system? Clearly it is bad form to praise Trump for doing what he was elected to do. It is pitched as madness.
The press completely ducked giving Trump and Musk fantastic hero status for rescuing the two astronauts abandoned 8 months in space with no hope. And they can find no good in anything he is doing, especially tariffs and deportations even of gang members. And individual Federal judges are attempting to overrule the President on foreign matters, his exclusive domain, a judicial Coup d’etat. But he is moving forward on so many fronts they cannot keep up. Now, absurdly, one judge demands gang members be flown back to the US so that judges alone can make the call on a case by case basis. Which is insane.
China has put a 35% tariff on US goods. Great. You don’t see a lot of American cars on Chinese streets anyway. And the flood of illegals into the US has dropped to a trickle. Not the first time China has made a wrong move with tariffs, as on Australia after the Wuhan Flu.
The real question for many is whether Trump can stop the flood of fentanyl through Mexico and Canada. There must be up to a million families who have lost a son to this deadly Chinese drug. And America lost as many potential workers and soldiers. Pushing Fentanyl is an act of War.
And we are seeing real foreign policy from the White house, not just opportunism. And soaring popularity for the German AFD, Marine Le Pen, Meloni and Orban and Farage’s Reform party.
What is puzzling in Australia is that the friends of Communist China and vile Hamas, Albanese, Bandt, Wong and Keating are still credible in Australia given the deliberate and rapid destruction of Australia economically and socially as explicit government policy.
Climate Change is just a ridiculous excuse for the devastation and waste. It is the first Federal government in a lifetime which is deliberately working to wreck the joint and amazingly argues that they are doing a great job. Supported by the left leaning press. The extreme left ABC even presumes to ‘fact check’ opposition policy. Why? The ABC/SBS monolith must be closed, sold or at least the anti monopoly media laws also applied to their ABC.
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Nothing TRUMP does or says would have been considered unusual or extreme even about 30 years ago. He is not an “extremist” by any means. He’s actually quite moderate.
E.g. he’s considered an extremist because he believes in only two genders, is against the transgendeting of children, is opposed to massive government debt, he is opposed to government waste, he believes in the American Idea, he wants NATO and others to pay there way and not expect America to pay for them, he believes in free speech and individual freedoms and American constitutional rights, he is against violence (e.g. of the Left), he is against endless war, and many similar examples. It’s all very moderate and normative stuff.
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“he believes in free speech and individual freedoms and American constitutional rights, he is against violence (e.g. of the Left), he is against endless war, . . .”
(Cough!)
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Glenn Greenwald pointed out in March that bombing Yemen is practically a forever war:
Bush was doing it.
Obama stepped it up massively.
Under Trump 1.0, there was “a bombing”.
And Biden dropped “a thousand bombs on Yemen in 2024 alone.”
Now Trump 2.0 is bombing their apartment buildings to get one target person.
You can get Glenn’s independent reporting at https://greenwald.locals.com/ (transcripts if you sign up),
— or just listen to his “System Update” podcast.
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I see Trump as just the same as every other president the US has ever had. The sooner people realize that presidents and politicians are selected, not elected, the sooner people can move forward and see the deception played against them. Trump is just being presented as though he’s anti-establishment, but it’s all smoke and mirrors as far as I can see.
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Judge Napolitano joked last week “It doensn’t matter who you vote for you get John McCain”.
(On his “Judging Freedom” podcast)
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Certainly true that here in Australia, it doesn’t matter who you vote for, you get a politician.
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So Trump is not elected? What does that mean? And the Republicans did not want him because he is not establishment. Twice impeached, two assassination attempts. There are people who want him dead. What more does someone have to do to prove they are genuine?
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Agreed TdeF.
TRUMP was definitely elected, not “selected”.
As you say, what more does he have to do to prove his credentials?
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People actually believe those assassination attempts were real? That’s quite funny. If I ever needed proof that I was living in Alice and Wonderland where black was white and whte was black, this is it.
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Yes, the reasons, among others, that people believe the assassination attempts were real are the fact that 50 year old firefighter Corey Competore was shot to death , two others were wounded and bullets were photographed in the air.
The shootings captured on video are enough to satisfy me, but it’s worth noting the FBI under the Biden Administration conceded it was an assassination attempt.
The crackpot idea that there was a conspiracy between candidate Trump, the secret service, and the FBI, to commit multiple murders in pursuit of an advertising stunt for candidate Trump is just another example of the frothing insanity of the anti-Trump left.
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Ok, I think I came off a little condescending. Sorry for that. My skepticism about the assassination being staged stems from the fact that there were just too many coincidences surrounding the event. Photographing a bullet in mid-air was certainly incredibly lucky — perhaps a one-in-a-million chance, considering the speed at which a bullet from a rifle travels. The fact that Trump had no mark on his ear after the event is, I think, cause for suspicion — it healed miraculously fast and well. Then there’s the fact that a shooter was allowed to scale a building, and the Gematria surrounding the event. And the whole thing just seem contrived. I’m actually amazed people have accepted it so easily. If I had to guess, I’d say the event was staged.
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You’ll have to explain the “smoke and mirrors” to me. I suppose you’re saying he’s conning us in some way? That’s a big call, so what is your evidence?
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>he same as every other president the US has ever had
They haven’t all been the same by any stretch of the imagination.
Certainly the choice of politicians available to us nowadays is limited by narrowing of the field by globalists and internationalists and others, so in that way they are selected for us, and popular candidates like Trump, Georgescu, Le Pen, etc are nobbled, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because there’s a helluva lot of corruption doesn’t automatically mean everyone is corrupt. There are people who are trying to make a difference.
Do you actually have any evidence for your distrust of Trump and your belief the assassination attempts were faked, or are these beliefs just an instinctual part of a generalized distrust?
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ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN
Donald Trump bets his tariff plan will work over time and lower income tax
When US President Donald Trump headed off to play golf while share markets were collapsing, he would have given his Presidential scorecard an approval tick.
Everyone had told him that if he raised tariffs, the inflationary consequences would cause interest rates to rise. Instead, US bond interest rates had fallen, putting great pressure on US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to lower rates.
In the midst of global fears that an out of control President is heading the world into a chaos driven recession, it’s important to understand that he is applying to the business of government the techniques he uses in the commercial world.
In business, Trump, like many of the US billionaires, is famous for taking outlandish risks as he heads in a certain direction. Out of those outlandish steps come opportunities. He may not achieve his original objectives but using radical strategies that head into what he regards as the right direction creates opportunities that would not otherwise be created.
In the corporate world, if radical strategies don’t work, companies often collapse. A severe global recession is a much more serious outcome if Trump’s radical strategies don’t work.
In Trump’s presidential arena, he will measure his long-term success by the Nasdaq index. And if it keeps falling amid world chaos — as the share markets are predicting — then he knows there will be great pressure on him to resign, like any CEO. But, as always, he is supremely confident that won’t happen.
But on the phone would have been his angry billionaire mates complaining that their share prices had fallen dramatically. They had lost paper fortunes. “What are you doing, Donald?” they would have asked.
My guess is that he would have suggested they be patient and allow him to complete the master plan. And in any event, their companies’ shares had been too high and were due for a correction.
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From the Comments
– an absolutely brilliant article – for once someone has written without partisan prejudice of exactly what trump is doing – the handle on inflation is quite brilliant but the markets need to be cooled
– Nice to see a balanced view which admits there are many variables and we’ll have to wait and see how things turn out. Rather than those predisposed to undermine Trump at every opportunity.
– Trump is moving fast with all the spinning plates because he knows that the midterm elections in the US nearly always give more seats to the opposition and he needs to put things in place before that time. Also he is certainly able to keep all the plates moving.
The lack of experience of his cabinet is not necessarily a detriment , look at how all the experienced people have done so far.
Note that Warren Buffett is reported to have 350 Billion in cash just waiting for the right time to invest. I imagine there are others like him. The stock market will recover as it always does.
– At least there is one respected commentator who realises that Trump has a plan.
The rest of them want us to believe he just wants to have his way with the world and to hell with what unfolds.
“The Trump plan is to open up negotiations that simply would not have taken place without the radical steps”.
Fair trade is essential for all.
The West has seen enough redistribution through the globalisation nonsense.
Neither the US nor any other Western nation should be held to account to run other nations.
– The thing that scares other politicians is that when Trump says he is going to do something, there is an overwhelming chance that he will do it. It doesn’t sit well with them.
– Stay calm; don’t panic!
– Yes let’s hope it all works out. Talk about a disruptor! Amazing person.
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deadly Chinese drug ….
Fentanyl was first synthesized by Paul Janssen in 1959 and was approved for medical use in the United States in 1968. In 2015, 1,600 kilograms (3,500 pounds) were used in healthcare globally. As of 2017, fentanyl was the most widely used synthetic opioid in medicine; in 2019, it was the 278th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than a million prescriptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl
I think some of it just leeches out the mainstream system too. + the old favourites – tramadol, valium, xanax….
The prescription pads running hot doesn’t help anyway
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TdeF, I fear that Australians are lazy thinkers. This morning we learn that the Liberal National Party has retreated in its promise to adopt a Trump style purge of the Public Service and also insist on a return to work of those still working from home. Clearly, they fear a loss of a substantial bloc of voters.
This political cowardice is deeply depressing.
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“This political cowardice is deeply depressing.”
Isn’t this the pure definition of politics? You go where the votes are, anything to get power, the only important thing in life!
There is no morality or principles, politicians will change their mind instantly when the pressure goes on, greasing their shoes every morning to make about-faces during the day. You would be mad to trust any of them, its the sort of person who is attracted to power over others.
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It’s becoming very clear that the Libs won’t dump Paris or Net Zero. Not happy.
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It’s the old slightly to the right of the communists. A real conservative would romp home.
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Vicki, my guess would be that they are mostly Government Employees……so dyed in the wool labor voters from the get go. Get after them I say, they aren’t voting for Dutton (or any Libs)any time soon. Musk has exposed the largesse (waste) and total ineptitude of the Government worker class….be exactly the same here, but a smaller $ figure is all.
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Vicki,
with younger women, especially outside Canberra, WFH is important – both my Daughters do balanced WFH, as do Son, Daughter-in-law,and 2 Son-in-laws
Hence if Dutton wants to get Younger People away from Greens/TEALs to come across to Liberal, he needed to drop his approach to WFH
Reality
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WFH = Work From Home?
Another acronym of which I was previously unaware.
So much to learn. So little time.
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So much to learn. So little time.
Fun part about age, you have the time to learn – I say “Just Past 80 & Still Alive”
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How many of the WFH jobs actually produce products that Australia exports?
How many of the WFH jobs actually produce new homes?
How many of the WFH jobs produce paper (or computer bits) related to government rules and regulations?
Is there are reason why X (formerly Twitter) still functioned after having an employment headcount reduction of more than 50%?
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Yes, just show me the productivity figures before spruiking one side or the other!
All those Zoom meetings during covid showed a bit of what goes on while at home. I’d say its up to the person paying the salaries, they should have a good handle on where the employees work best.
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Here’s an interesting video suggesting we may not be the first human Civilisation.
The idea is not new of course, people like Graham Hancock have espoused this idea for a long time.
Anatomically modern humans have been around a lot longer than our modern Civilisation which is perhaps 10,000 years which was the end of the last major glaciation (Consider Gobekli Tepe, that age or a little older.)
But there have been many other warm periods before now in the time when anatomically modern humans existed. And we know that during warm period Civilisation thrives because there is enough surplus to be able to concentrate on activities beyond just survival.
And after about 100,000 years very little remains of what humans might have made, and modern humans might have been around about 300,000 years (perhaps).
Anyway, ideas worth thinking about.
https://youtu.be/8-smG35guio
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And here’s another interesting video related to the above.
No one has come up with a plausible method of how the ancients cut the megalithic rock structures such as in Japan and China as described in the following video.
Note, I don’t necessarily agree that the structures were carved with machines similar to what we have now as suggested by the author but no one has explained another method either.
https://youtu.be/kknPtZsfhVg
As for ancient Egypt, there are plausible explanations for how holes were drilled in rock, how rocks were cut with copper saws with sand abrasive etc. although the method of manufacture of many artefacts remains a mystery.
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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-megalithic-structures-0011761
https://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones.html
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-stone-drilling/
https://www.egyptinsights.com/ancient-egypt-stone-cutting/
One theory is the use of acidic mortar which would soften the block face and pressure would do the rest over time, making precision cutting unnecessary.
Then there’s the theory that the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids but “moved in” to the cities built by a more advanced civilisation before them.
Ignoring alien help, it comes down to them being smarter than we give them credit for, and using tools lost to time.
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Let’s face it, the blocks were too heavy to move.
‘The unknowns of pyramid construction focus mainly on how the blocks were moved up the superstructure. No known accurate historical or archaeological evidence definitively resolves the question.’ (wiki)
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Space aliens checking on their experiment and refreshing their petri dishes.
And using their fingers to point, lift, carry and drill.
You know it makes sense.
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Yesterday I went to a farming expo in Seymour, Victoriastan and the local National Party politician, Annabelle Cleeland had a stand there and her staff were giving away promotional items, as politicians often do.
This one was interesting. It was a 10 litre plastic bucket with her details on it. Being a rural area, a bucket is a highly useful and visible item and is ideal for promotional purposes.
It’s the only useful thing I ever received from a politician in my life, and likely paid for with my taxes from her electoral allowance in any case.
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David, they may be giving with the one hand, and taking away with the other. Dutton has announced a full scale retreat this morning on major policy. We just don’t see that bold, principled policy that characterised Trump’s Republican policy here.
Very depressing.
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Yes. It’s very disappointing Vicki. Dutton confirms once again that the Liberals are fake conservative fence sitters who believe in nothing.
We face the unthinkable scenario of a Labor win and, worse, a nightmare scenario with Greens/Teals holding the balance of power and Adam Bandt as Deputy PM.
And Dutton just sacked a Liberal candidate because he stated a personal opinion that he didn’t think women should be combat troops (he didn’t say they shouldn’t be in the army as in the fake news headline below, just not combat troops, an opinion held by many conservatives).
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/the-liberal-party-has-dumped-the-nsw-candidate-for-the-seat-of-whitlam-over-claims-women-shouldnt-be-in-the-army/news-story/56d1ad1f60c5a4dafef9e9c815d04007
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David you obviously haven’t read the article in the SMH, well, a list of comments received really, stating that the Libs have moved to the Right, the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in years-
“Petro Georgiou wouldn’t recognise today’s Liberal Party, which has lurched to the right without any Liberal principles and has become just opportunistic. ”
They’ve lurched to the LEFT with no principles and have always been opportunistic!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/free-trade-to-blame-for-unsustainable-economy-20250406-p5lphn.html
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David, you might need that bucket on election night.
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Yes. I think I will Gary.
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The weekend channel 7 documentary on the filthy conditions involved in the making of lithium batteries is possibly the most devasting recent environmental story to impact Australian consumers.
You too can be a part of this if you just buy a lithium battery. It’s hard to feel morally superior with replaceables when you know the truth. You are an essential part of an environmental disaster. But it’s Green. Except it’s not.
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Yes, I saw that.
It was about the production of nickel in a particular Indonesian plant. One use of the nickel produced there is that it goes into lithium ion batteries used in EVs. A typical EV has about 25kg nickel.
I thought it was interesting that they took the approach that the unsafe and polluting Third World nickel plant meant EVs were intrinsically environmentally unfriendly. Very unusual for the Leftist Lamestream Media to admit to such a thing.
If the nickel were processed in the West this would not be the case. Nickel would be processed with appropriate safety measures and pollution controls.
But even with “clean” nickel, EVs would still be “dirty” for other reasons such as because they are mostly charged using coal plant. (Because the Official Narrative regards CO2 as a pollutant, which of course it isn’t.)
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Was it –
the unsafe and polluting Third World nickel plant meant Teslas were intrinsically environmentally unfriendly – instead?
Auto
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..so without Lithium batteries we just boost the use of Lead Acid batteries ..?
Yes, they are much more environmentally sensible.
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Chad,
Yeah, they probably are. Have you not noticed how much they *pay* you for old car batteries at metal recyclers? It’s almost like they’re worth recycling.
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..of course they are worth recycling , but have you seen how LA batteries are recycled ?
Lithium batteries are also recycled, but their manufacture rate currently far exceeds the recycle capacity
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Chad,
Rubbish. Please give your source since I suspect they’re using a measure of “toxicity” along the same bogus lines that tell us so many thousands of deaths were due to coal-fired power stations.
Lead is pretty neutral. Colourful stories about Russian spies and thallium-tipped umbrellas or polonium in a teapot wouldn’t have achieved much if they’d used lead instead.
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Majority of Germans ‘want return to nuclear power’
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/majority-of-germans-want-return-to-nuclear-power-survey-says/
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While we’re there.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/04/06/near-disaster-german-wind-turbine-sees-brake-failure-impossible-to-stop/
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Another hyped ‘green’ sustainable energy company files for restructuring
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/03/another-hyped-green-sustainable-energy-company-files-for-restructuring/
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FWIW
“Another worrying way covid jabs can provoke cancer”
“A new peer-reviewed study links the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines to long-term changes in genetic structures that can provoke an inflammatory response, and lead to the onset of cancer and autoimmune disorders.
The study by 19 German scientists was published last week in Molecular Systems Biology. The researchers said their findings may account for ‘post-vaccination inflammatory diseases which occur in a small number of vaccinated individuals.’
Journalist Alex Berenson said the study shows that mRNA vaccines can alter human chromosomes in ways linked to leukaemia and brain tumours. This occurs when the mRNA vaccines ‘train’ immune cells to sustain a pro-inflammatory immune response.”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/another-link-between-covid-jabs-and-cancer-add-it-to-the-list/
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Police in Queensland have new ‘wanding’ powers.
Like this….?
https://old.bitchute.com/video/dr5LLGpNSAS2/
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$15 per Hour. Guy goes into a bar, there’s a robot bartender. Since the minimum wage was increased to $15 the owner had to replace his regular human bartender. The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini.” The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says,” 168.” The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology. The guy leaves, but he is curious..So he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini.” Again, the robot makes a great martini gives it to the man and says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “100.” The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, Budweiser and John Deere tractors. The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar. The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini,” and the robot brings him another great martini. The robot then says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “Uh, about 50.” The robot leans in real close and says, “So, you people still happy you voted for Biden?”
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The robot leans in real close and says, “So, you see what martinis do to you??”
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The Spotlight program covering the nickel mining and smelting in Indonesia aired on 7 last night.
The level of Chinese investment in these operations is staggering. It is an environmental nightmare. The low cost nature of these operations has killed the nickel industry in Australia. They are also killing a lot of locals. The pollution controls are late 19th century by Australian standards. They had one young smelter worker who has 3 times the safe limit for arsenic in his blood. They had to replace his blood to lower the level.
Blackout got shirt-fronted at an EV conference. The interchange was interesting and Blackout looked stupid.
Any genuine “green” owner of an EV would be horrified by the show. They may not be able to bear the scorn.
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What a weird thing to lie about?
What a weird thing to lie about? pic.twitter.com/YvTtV5uPGj
— Liberal Party (@LiberalAus) April 4, 2025
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For those that follow AFL will know the Crows lost by a point under suspect circumstances on the weekend and in doing so broke their 3 game winning streak which of course means I now have to endure another rendition of “we was robbed, robbed I tells ya” for the foreseeable future 🙂
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So the food bowl (Goulburn Valley) is losing 172 hectares of valuable farm land to have a solar “farm” installed. This is reported in our local left biased media paper owned by McPherson Media. They tell us that this solar farm will,
“power 20,000 homes and will have positive impact on the local economy, creating 80 construction jobs and 12 permanent positions, boosting employment opportunities and skills development in the region”
“We’re also looking forward to exploring how the Lancaster solar farm can give back to local organisations, Yorta Yorta people and regional business,”
“We have big ambitions in Australia, and Lancaster solar farm will help deliver energy security for Victoria,”
Representatives of Lancaster solar farm officially launched the project’s construction at the edge of its 172-hectare site on Tuesday, March 25, featuring a traditional Indigenous smoking ceremony and a symbolic ground-breaking event
No where did the paper question the 20,000 homes being powered i.e. for how long during the day, and what was to happen to the solar farm when it’s reached end of life?
172 hectares of prime farming country now no longer being available to produce food, but will now produce and intermittent power supply.
The project is being built and owned by European Energy Australian a subsidiary of European energy. Of course our local indigenous people had no issues with the impact of this farm on their cultural heritage. They did get to perform their smoking ceremony to help start the project.
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In NYC, Arnold Schwarzenegger has the luxury of having 5 bodyguards.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X7_TKd92sJ8
(1 min video)
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He negotiated the steps like Sleepy Joe.
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Hydrogen haters still gonna hate, but I bet they want one
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1908644910401806615
That is so cool!
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Why has Jo given up on trying to discredit AGW ( still looking for evidence ) and switched to political jabs with a parallel circle jerk ?.
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Global warming is a complex issue.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_March_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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She hasn’t, but you’re not on here enough to see her posts. Obviously the clientele here are widespread in their interests, but generally united in their philosophy.
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FWIW
“on here enough to see her posts”!
Ability to read them might be questionable too?
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I have been chastised for my mainstream political opinion.
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There is reason to believe that the top 65 meters of the oceans are spewing out more CO2 than previously thought.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2025/04/whose-co₂-is-it-anyway-ocean-fizz-or-smokestack-blame/
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There are a range of angles with which to discredit AGW. There is the direct science angle, the lack of impact of warming angle, and the political angle. The latter two are the most common angle the proponents of AGW and an activist media group use to push AGW, because they lack scientific proof. So it’s natural that a good amount of time needs to be devoted to those two aspects.
You might think that’s all just politics, despite the science and evidence used by Jo. But politics has infiltrated science so far that some of the fight unfortunately has to revolve around politics. Then there is also pure politics which has to be covered at some level given Jo is trying to stop “A perfectly good civilization is going to waste”.
The vast majority of blog articles revolve around AGW.
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You know the Labour battery subsidy is about AGW at its core yeah?
And that Labour traditionally represent the working class who don’t own property or live in one place (our great mobile workforce that keeps the country running).
I still find Science and Engineering here that is beyond me, but the implications of having it wrong are mind-bending. Politically, socially, economically and developmentally.
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Still high SOI.
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
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AIs greatest challenge yet – make me shoes, shirt and suit:
https://asiatimes.com/2025/04/vietnam-to-trump-just-dont-do-it-on-tariffs/
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