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I really hope they vote conservative, but I suspect America’s cousins in the Great White North have learned nothing from the past decade and will vote liberal yet again. Trump’s needling of Canada as the 51st state and the tariffs have really ramped up the level of Trump Derangement Syndrome among the residents of America’s Hat, and the feeling I am getting from my Canuck friends is that the conservative party is going to reap the whirlwind from Trump sowing the wind.
But who knows? Maybe the liberal comeback over the past few months will turn out to be a media ‘horse race’ narrative and not real. Hope springs eternal.
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“the conservative party is going to reap the whirlwind ”
They HAVE a Conservative Party?? Completely unheard, another half of the Uniparty I am sure.
If they were worth anything at all as a real conservative party I expect they would be in the media along with Trump. have they announced stopping immigration? Lowering taxes? Cutting welfare? Slashing Govt spending??
Thought not..
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Canada has the Progressive Conservative party, using the initials “PC” … known colloquially as the forwards-backwards party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada
They did OK for quite a while before being beaten by Trudeau. They would keep their hands in their pockets, touch nothing and generally be very polite in a Canadian kind of way.
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There is a very big problem with most elections, namely one usually has to vote for a politician. This means that in all probability you will be voting for someone who has no knowledge of energy, the environment, mechanisms of climate change and science in general. It also means that your politician will think that what he has been told by his scientific advisers is true. Bankers that become politicians are particularly to be feared if they have been sold on the idea of anthropogenic global warming and the need to decarbonise the economy!
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I have for many years used the aphorism “No matter who you vote for, a politician gets elected” when I run across people arguing the ‘virtues’ of voting for one candidate over another.
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Here in Oz the incumbent PM is streets ahead for a few simple reasons!
1) he’s a better & more profuse liar.
2) he makes & breaks promises as often as he visits the toilet.
3) We have a really thick electorate who believe his lies & promises due to the attention span & memory of said electorate, being comparable with that of a retarded goldfish. After all we’ve just suffered 3 years of lies & broken promises which the majority have apparently forgotten, whist being “ taken “ for a second time.
Go figure!!😵💫😵💫
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The latest opinion polls show a swing back towards the LNP coalition. Small as yet, but given the inaccuracy of opinion polls in the past, maybe it explains why Labor is spending so heavily on defending safe seats. It isn’t over till it’s over.
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One can only hope & pray. If the LNP do win let’s hope they don’t lie, cheat & break promises like the current mob!
I believe the Opposition Leader to be an upright, genuine individual. His problem is that half the party room should be Labor Party members!
Can only hope his mum taught him how to clean house properly!!
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“If the LNP do win let’s hope they don’t lie, cheat & break promises like the current mob!”
Lol!! How can you be so young! Deep down you KNOW they will lie, cheat and steal to get power, and then rape the voters for everything they can get while bribing the important ones with someone else’s money..
This is politics, they are politicians, all tarred with the same brush and deserve to be feathered as well!
If he was an upright, genuine person he wouldn’t be in that den of thieves! Right now he is selling his principles to make a deal with some other politician, knowing he can lie his way out of it in a few months if needed.
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The punters still have Labor set for a comfortable win.
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The Liberals should have won these election easily, but tried to be the same as Labor (thanks to those “Moderates”).
All they had to do is remind people about Labor promising $275 off your electricity bills and asking what value is on their current promises.
Instead they have given the worst situation with the Libs picking up a few seats and leaving Albanese forming a coalition with The Greens (Yes! I know he said he wouldn’t but that was last week).
The Liberal Party needs to split or become irrelevant.
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Given the fact that the Electoral Act in secs 268(a) and 269 clearly states that there is a legal and formal alternative to how you will be told to vote for an the above the line vote on the senate paper when that when the paper is handed to you ,and demonstrated on the AEC how to vote instructions in the media and printed documents . My question is this. Does this lack of information constitute a breach of the requirement for a full disclosure of all available methods of placing a legally formal ballot and as a result makes the result of the ballot obtained without all these options available to the voter invalid?
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Yes, the Liberals in Canada are ahead in the polls, but an upset victory for conservatives is possible. Comments from political pollster Brian Lilley.
“Elections are decided by those who bother to show up. Which is why a Conservative victory on Monday is still possible and desirable.
We’ve seen a lot of change in the polls already this year from a 15-20 point lead for the Conservatives at the start of the year, to a 12-point lead for the Liberals near the start of the campaign to some polls in the last week having the two parties tied or a slight lead for one or the other. As my maxim goes, voters are fickle, polls can change and campaigns matter.
He also noted a trend over the last several election cycles: Voters are making their minds up late.
“Increasingly, it’s in the last 72 hours. And the reason for that is because partisan attachment isn’t what it used to be,” Bricker said.
“People are making up their minds very late in the election campaign. And, you know, in most of our polls, and we do this globally, in the range of, you know, 5% to 10% actually make up their mind the day they’re voting or actually in the booth. So, there’s still a lot to play for and the momentum at the moment is on the Conservative side.”
We know who Carney’s voters are, they tend to be older, in the 55-plus category. They are retired more often than Conservative voters, and they are wealthy.
This is the most reliable voting block there is in Canadian politics and until Mark Carney and the Liberals harnessed their fear of Donald Trump, many of these voters would have backed Pierre Poilievre.
That said, Millennials and Gen-Z voters far outnumber Baby Boomers now and if those younger voters show up, then victory will go to Poilievre.
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What percentage of Canadians had even heard of this Carney person prior to several weeks ago?
And now he will be PM?
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Honk, Trudeau resigned (since he was losing by the 15-20 points) so they could make Carney PM, and he could run as the incumbent. But his baggage has been made known to the public:
https://rclutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/canada-carney-outsider.png
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Sorry, poorly worded.
I knew he was current party appointed PM.
How well known was he to the average Canadian before?
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Most Canadians are very familiar with Mark Carney. He used to be Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. Having a economist leading the country is refreshing. Look at the financial carnage created when you elect someone who doesn’t understand how tariffs work.
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Simon,
Putting power in the hands of an economist is good or bad. It depends on the beliefs of the economist.
Carney has displayed abundant belief that minimising fossil fuels is good.
Personally, I think that qualifies him as both ignorant and evil. Geoff S
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Must be great to know what most Canadians are familiar with half a planet away. You should get swamped with calls from pollsters pretty son.
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Yes, economists have been doing a great job.*
Professionals.
Very much like public health professionals.
Journalism professionals … also stellar … NYT, WP the best.
It requires accreditation.
Like from a University.
Accredited education professionals are among the best.
In this way we can assure that consensus and Science is followed.
Which requires enforcement of belief.
Belief should be accredited … by professionals.
We can’t just allow beliefs without social monitoring.
*(Thanks to them we have way more billionaires. And a shrinking middle class which is the source of so many unaccredited beliefs … like Climate hesitancy.)
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Strangely, if you do a Goolag search for “terrorist attack Canada” without quotes, you only get the news of the one in Kashmir in India.
You get nothing about the terrorist attack in Vancouver that killed 11 people and injured many more.
Oh, the driver who drove into the crowd had “mental health issues” it officially wasn’t terrorism.
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Not their first incident like that either, I wonder what the word ‘terrorism’ means these days?
I would’ve expected it, at the least, to be called a racist attack.
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‘Terrorism’ usually requires a violence and/or terrorizing people as a means to a political end.
If the goal was ‘I just want to kill a bunch of people’ that’s just plain old murder, not terrorism. Ditto for if the goal was ‘I want to kill a bunch of Filipinos’, although that could get a sentencing enhancement for being a hate crime.
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It depends on what the driver identifies as
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Revolting ! So many words in that article but no name of the suspect !
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Can we please have a verifiable photograph!
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His name is Kai-Ji Adam Lo, and I do not apologise .
1. How did Police knew within minutes (as it often happen lately) it was not related to terrorism?
2. How being a mental case excludes terrorism?
3. Today a Sydney court is looking into reasons of similar case in Bondi . They heard “about Cauchi’s disturbing online activity, including searches related to mass killings and personal notes expressing violent intentions. These findings suggest a level of premeditation…”
4. How much proof is required to tie all these “mental cases” to another definitely mental sickness?
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THE SOURCE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ?
Motivated by recent comments by TdeF about the amount of CO2 contained in the oceans I decided to search for an image I remembered from the Orbiting Carbon Observer 2 satellite (OCO-2). My motivation was to look for evidence of outgassing from upwelling deep cold ocean bottom water. The image is here;
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA18934_modest.jpg
The concentration of CO2 is not quite uniform and varies from place to place with some “hot spots” of CO2 shown in orange/red while areas of lower CO2 are shown as blue/green.
I had anticipated finding the red spots along the west coasts of South America, Africa and Australia, because those areas are said to be places where cold bottom water upwells to the surface. That is not what I found! At the time of publication climate scientists had supposed that the “hot spots” would be found over the industrialised areas of the USA and Europe but that did not happen either. There is a “hot spot” over China.
The surprising thing for me is the “hot spots” over land areas of South America and Africa. These areas cannot be described as heavily industrialised. So what is causing the increased CO2?
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The original OCO mission was a launch failure in 2009. OCO-2 was launched in 2014 and is still active.
https://www.google.com/search?q=oco2+and+oco+3&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari
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I am still wondering how CO2 warms the Earth?
Yes, I know that CO2 absorbs a small amount of infrared in the Troposphere, but that is about 200K (or minus 60-70℃).
Assuming it does absorb then what does it do with that heat? It might do one of
radiate it down to the ground
radiate it to surrounding gas molecules in the Troposphere
radiate it out to Space
Pack the IR and have it sent (with police escort) to Swiss Bank vaults.
Option a) means that the ground would show warming but that doesn’t seem to be the case – even to those capable (they say!) of measuring 0.04℃.
Option b) means the Troposphere would be warming, but that doesn’t seem to be the case – even to those capable (they say!) of measuring 0.04℃.
Option c) would mean that the Earth doesn’t warm at all,
So that leaves Option d). At the very least we should demand that they pay the cost of police escorts.
The problem is that the Earth has been warmer at low levels of CO2 in the past, and cooler at higher levels of CO2 and these intervals occurred when Swiss Bankers weren’t around.
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When the results don’t make sense, it probably means you’re not measuring what you thought you were..
How many people in South America cook on an open fire? Plenty do in Africa still. Would that explain the high CO2 in Indonesia? ..and in the Pacific north of NZ?
The lack of CO2 along the equator is odd too, with global warming pushing it out of the oceans you would expect it to be highest at the equator and less where it is cooler.
Puzzling, so its a good thing it is irrelevant.
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I thought that NASA would publish updated images covering different times of the year. Maybe they have but they are a bit difficult to find. Could it be that the result did not suit the narrative?
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Peter C,
When you look at your CO2 map, you will see some blue/green area indicating lower CO2 in the air.
Are these areas lower because –
a. More than usual CO2 is being taken from the air there; or
b. Less than usual CO2 is being taken from adjacent red areas.
That is, how can you tell if an area is source or a sink for airborne CO2?
Geoff S
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Your last paragraph reminded me of the Lake Nyos disaster on 21 August 1986 when 1,700 folk and 3,500 livestock perished due to release of carbon dioxide from the crater lake in Cameroon.
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Could be related to soil outgassing of CO2? Hotter soils also tend to outgas CO2, with some soils worse than others. It’s why C sequestration via soil inputs (eg high crop trash incorporation in farming) wont work in hot soils, like in Australia. The sequestered C just gets oxidised to CO2 under warmer temps anyway. My impression of African soils are that they tend to be red soils (Red Ferrosols or Kraznosems) which may be more prone again compared to dark soils.
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falling rain absorbs CO2
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/isobaric/850hPa/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=9.03,4.59,392/loc=-91.291,30.767
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‘THE SOURCE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ?’
The oceans are more than just a CO2 sink, they breathe in and out.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2025/04/oceans-giving-back-a-little-c02-the-good-news-from-bud-bromleys-zoom-webinar-on-anzac-day/
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Reply to Peter C – Look at deforestation in South America, Southern Africa & Indonesia in that time period. Australia was still deforesting for agriculture over that time period too, but its land mass was a CO2 sink because of vegetation ‘thickening’ on the much greater land mass area not being cleared. Probable cause – reduction in burning activity following the introduction of domestic livestock & greatly improved management & ability to control fires after WWII.
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Yes forest fires could explain some areas of C02. I am particularly thinking of Indonesia.
The image is a collection of data from the period Oct 1 to Nov 11 2014. That corresponds to late spring in the southern hemisphere.
So the southern ocean was warming up and likely outgassing. Antarctic waters still cold.
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For Peter C: (Apologies for the length of this series of comments. They aim to provide some background as to why the Amazon, southern Africa and Indonesia were net emitters of CO2, as revealed by OCO-2 sensors in 2014, while Australia wasn’t).
The green zealots have had an agenda to attack land clearing in Australia since before the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. This has led to a prolonged and ignorant attack on rural landholders developing land assigned by government for the prime purpose of agricultural production (cropping & grazing); and a complete false accounting of net CO2 emissions over the Australian continent. This was because the huge CO2 sink that exists in Australia’s woodlands (savanna landscapes) was deliberately not included in Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory on two grounds: First, the Canberra based science advisers/bureaucracy claimed the sink was not ‘human induced’ and Second, they had no knowledge of the scale of this sink and simply assumed that any woodland not being cleared was in a climax state and essentially in an equilibrium condition. [‘Nothing to see here’ or ‘there are none so blind as those who will not see’?].
In a nutshell, they had no understanding of the ecology of grazed savannas and how the vegetation responded when the previous hunter-gatherer society management was replaced by European pastoral management. Put simply, regular burning by hunter-gatherers which maintained the vegetation in a sub-climax state was superseded by a regime that deliberately set out to largely suppress fires, wherever it was feasible to do so. Even burning to create a ‘green-pick’ at the end of the dry season has now been replaced by the use of urea-molasses supplements to enable cattle to consume poorly nutritious dry (‘dead’) grass leaves & so at least maintain weight before the rains appear again. [See next comment].
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The dominant trees in the northern savannas belong to the Eucalyptus genus. They seed profusely and this can result in extensive seedling establishment in favourable seasons. The majority of the species develop a lignotuber (underground storage organ) within c. 3-5 years of seedling establishment. Once this lignotuber is in place it is very difficult to prevent such eucalypts from growing into adult trees. This is because the lignotuber enables new growth to quickly resume, even if the above ground portion of the tree is lost (through severe drought, severe fires or human activity). The only way this recovery can be limited is to burn the savanna regularly, frequently or often i.e. at least every 1 to 3-5 years. This ensures that potential seedling propagules are killed before their lignotubers can develop.
The annual extent of fires on the Australian mainland has fallen considerably over the past 100 years – and for many reasons not considered here. But this implies that fires are not going to occur at the frequency which would otherwise prevent many of our seedling eucalypts from developing lignotubers. This means that they will be able to grow out to their adult size and along the way the population will increase, with c.50% of their above and below ground biomass also increasing as carbon is obtained from CO2 withdrawn from the atmosphere (photosynthesis). [See next comment].
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So, in Australia, even when we cut down trees for agriculture there are far more trees than those lost, establishing and growing into adult lifeforms. These ‘new trees’ (& shrubs) are accumulating more carbon sourced from the atmosphere than is lost to it via plant death, decay and land clearing. Therefore, in absolute terms Australia is a net sink for CO2 even when we include sources released to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. It is only a net source when we pretend that the increased biomass in our woodlands (savannas) is not man induced. In other words, humans suppressed fires in the last 100 years through grazing greatly reducing fine fuel loads, and/or by utilising 4WD water trucks, graders, other heavy machinery, petrol pumps and like equipment that became available after WWII to achieve that purpose.
Then why did OCO-2 sensors record the Amazon and Indonesia as huge sources of CO2 emissions in 2014 (See Peter C Comment 6 above). Well, these areas support large areas of rainforests which have been cleared for cattle ranching (Brazil) and palm oil and timber harvesting (Indonesia/Borneo), inter alia. The rainforest remaining in these countries is already vegetation that has attained its climax state. There is no room for increased biomass accumulating in the surviving rainforest areas. In contradistinction, as I attempted to explain above, the Australian savannas at the time Europeans displaced indigenous management were in a fire induced sub-climax state (that most likely existed for millennia – and analyses of stable carbon isotope ratios in the savanna soils support that conclusion). Once fire suppression became widespread (particularly in our grazing lands) the savannas could resume their interrupted journey towards a climax, carbon storing woodland. But when the latter condition is reached net CO2 withdrawal from the atmosphere essentially ceases, all things being equal, in say 50-100 years?
[Postscript: The reason for agonising about CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere is obviously a furphy. In Australia’s case it is exacerbated even further by only partially accounting for the distribution and flow of this alleged pollutant in our landmass for God’s sake. Based on this misinformation/disinformation the agenda driven politicians and their bureaucratic/green zealot masters have persistently and falsely claimed that Australia is amongst the highest per capita emitters in the entire world. They have no shame. Poor fellow my country indeed!].
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Looks like the Houthis might be a bit short of Iranian missiles for a while.
https://youtu.be/da6yaP7BiFk
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Amazing how dumb some people are, stepping out of the somewhat protected confines of their car, to shoot smartphone video. They are well within the area where heavy stuff thrown into the air by such a big explosion can fall back to earth. Even a 1kg brick ejected at high speed is going to give you a life-shortening headache.
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PETER HITCHENS: You’ve been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you’ve been told
(paywalled)
I read a German translation I translated
from here
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Krishna – from your bottom link…
NATO in Europe is a defensive alliance – those ex-USSR countries who did not want to be reunited with the Kremlin were well within their rights to choose otherwise.
Did the Russians expect Ukraine to attack them?? What nonsense. What Russia does not get by coercion (like Georgia or Belarus), it will take by force, hence those choosing not to realign with Moscow would choose NATO membership.
We may well ask how NATO felt after President Putin effectively annexed Belarus. His actions were extremely provocative, definitely not peaceful.
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Read some texts from John J. Mearsheimer about that, f.e.
https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is.pdf
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Give people and their Countries a chance to choose between the Russian autocratic system of Government and western style democracies and guess what….
They choose freedom.
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What source is Grayzone, a good one?
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/
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Fascinating, and quite expected in every detail. It has become clear the Brits are the ones pushing Ukraine to sacrifice itself to hurt Russia.
Maybe this is why he ended up in London as Ambassador.
“Britain – “perhaps Ukraine’s most active and determined ally” – had been pressuring Kiev to use marines “for waterborne operations and deceptive manoeuvres” since the proxy conflict began. However, these proposals reportedly “did not resonate” with then-Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi or President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This changed in early 2023, when Britain dispatched a senior delegation to meet with Zaluzhnyi in Kiev, where London’s contingent promised to provide the Ukrainians with anything and everything they needed to conduct the “waterborne operations” the UK had so far avoided. According to Ukrainska Pravda, this came to pass in May 2023, when “the British team persuaded Zaluzhnyi, and he said: that’s it, we’re creating the Marine Corps.””
The Russians fell back from their front line at Mykolaiv, because they knew they couldn’t keep an army supplied across the Dnieper. It took the British to prove that was true…
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FWIW
“Why the UK/EU fights Russia”
https://rumble.com/v6slvqx-why-the-ukeu-fights-russia.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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Britain can’t even do “waterborne operations” to defend her own borders.
Why don’t they focus on that?
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But we here in Britain are told, repeatedly, that THAT invasion (it is no less than that) is ‘strengthening the UK’.
Some of Brezhnev’s disciples have the ear of tje.mecia, if they dont actually run parts of it!
The Useless Tories let it get wholly out if hand (over 1,600,000 people, net, in 24 months to end-June 2024).
And the yoomin rites bloke – Free Gear, Two Tier, Kier – is mouthing pkatitudes.
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“What source is Grayzone, a good one?”
Obviously part of the Russian Govt and puts out pure propaganda, none of which any reasonable British subject would read…
“The Grayzone has revealed Donnelly as a key figure behind a secret British military and spying cell dubbed Project Alchemy, which was created in early 2022 to keep Ukraine fighting “at all costs.” A core component of that effort was to silence journalistic voices and media outlets – including this one – deemed a threat to London’s control of the proxy war’s narrative…Professor Sakwa has long challenged dominant Western narratives on Putin’s Russia, criticizing both NATO’s rampant expansionism and its refusal to include Moscow in the European security structure following the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse, he was effectively disappeared from mainstream debates on the conflict since the Ukraine proxy war erupted…While recently smeared as a Kremlin apologist and “disinformation” peddler in certain quarters, Sakwa’s works have historically elicited glowing mainstream reviews. ”
No!! Surely the world’s bastion of free speech and freedom wouldn’t be silencing critics of British Govt policy!! Oh wait, didn’t they just jail women for their facebook posts??
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/01/british-intel-top-russia-academic-leaks/
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Very late to the game…
Isn’t there a long-winded application process? I was not aware of NATO requesting others to join.
Did Moscow want to join the EU? They managed to get loans from the IMF in 1995 – wonder if they were ever repaid.
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Have Mosckvichi repaid the 1941 -1945 LendLeaase money ? (Retorical question)
UK finished paying back in December 29, 2006.
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I’d like to hear a debate between Max Blumenthal (“The Grayzone”) and Douglas Murray. That would be ‘fireworks’.
I say that because the educationally privileged Murray (Eton/Oxford) was recently a guest on “Joe Rogan” for a debate against Dave Smith.
On the subject of Gaza, Murray snootily dismissed Smith’s views cos he’s never been there. “You haven’t BEEN there?!” he exclaims. Though his drawling, condescending tone is a pain to listen to, if you can bear it you’ll learn that according to Murray (yes he’s been there), only “experts” should opine in public. You see, you have to “do the courtesy of visiting a place” before you can express a view on it … (Hang on, I thought we had the news media for that? )
Well, Max has been to Gaza too, so he’s an “expert” as Murray would put it. Make this debate happen, someone.
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Why?
Everyone made their minds by evening (AEST) 7 October 2023.
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No. He dismissed Smith’s views because they were wrong before he knew whether Smith had been there. Such as Smith’s description of blockades. It was then that Murray asked Smith if he’d been there. Murray’s opinion is that if someone like Smith is going to devote the many hours he does to the subject then he should visit.
Murray did not say only “experts” should opine in public. Smith suggested that Murray was saying only experts can speak about about it and Murray clearly stated that of course Smith can talk about it and non-experts can talk about it. Murray’s point was we have a number of people who are not experts speaking on podcasts and devoting many hours to the subject of Israel and Gaza, effectively presenting themselves as experts by the number of hours they devote to it. And that Joe Rogan has guests who come on and talk on the topic. In Murray’s opinion, he thinks that in both those situations it’s not adequately stated that the person offering their opinion and account of events is just a casual hobbyist.
We do have the news media for that. However, do you trust many in the news media to present a report sufficiently that you are across all the detail and not just the narrative that media wishes to present?
Murray is talking about the situation for people like Smith who devote a lot of time to the topic and their platform is informing people. Murray said that as journalist he makes a point of visiting places he intends to talk about in detail.
Given the differences of opinion between Smith and Murray about what the blockades do and do not prevent entering Gaza, and the purpose of the blockades, Murray did seem to have a valid point. Whether Smith would have been better informed had he visited and witnessed the checkpoints and process we’ll never know. Because sometimes people don’t want to see what they’re seeing when it doesn’t suit their narrative.
A bit like your interpretation of what Murray actually said even though Murray specifically said he wasn’t saying what Smith and you interpret him as saying.
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There could be no two truths, like there can not be two Gods.
The Gaza war is exactly the same in moral sense as the Ukrainian war – black and white, good and evil.
It is irrelevant if Zelensky is corrupt, inept clown (as some say…) or Nataniahu wants to rule forever, or hundreds more arguments why they must lose.
There were grievances by minorities in both Ukraine in Gaza.
Sending bloodthirsty killers, rapists across the border into another state is not justified by any argument on TV or Internet.
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“Sending bloodthirsty killers, rapists across the border into another state is not justified by any argument on TV or Internet.”
Is intercepting foreign ships in international waters because they ‘might be carrying missiles to Cuba’ acceptable?
Is having Russia’s enemies putting missile on their border acceptable, should they try to stop it??
..or is that privilege reserved for the American’s and their poodles?
“Did the Russians expect Ukraine to attack them??”
No, Rowjay, they expected, quite realistically, that America would put nuclear missiles in Ukraine, too close to Moscow to be intercepted. On top of that the Fascists in Ukraine were shelling Russia-speakers in the Donbass, people aligned with Russia and not aligned at all with the Western Ukies from Romania and Poland, so..
Who do WE go to war with and why?? What was our reason for claiming moral superiority and sending troops to Vietnam, or to Korea.. or East Timor? The Brits in Malaya, the Yanks all over the world.. Russia is small bikkies in Ukraine compared to the West, they have a clearly defined focus and a job to do, not a murky backrooms operation multiplied a hundred times, while denying it all in the so-called ‘Free Press.
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So Russia claiming their “moral superiority” over Ukrainians is OK?
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People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones..
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Strangely no word here about Shahid Rajaee Port explosion.
I have got a feeling that is a game changer in military sense of course, but more drastically – more hardships to plain Iranians.
Yes, there are plain Iranians, like there are plain Russians.
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Was referred to by MrGrimNasty posting a video at comment #8
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The opinion polls seem to indicate a Labor win next Saturday, but I wonder just whose opinions they represent.
People of my age and experience (retired) have seen it all before many times and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of Australians are fed up with what Labor has done these last 3 years.
When I get a phone call to take part in a poll I refuse to do so as I know exactly how I will vote and I’m sure many other conservative types do the same and refuse to take part.
This means that the poll results are distorted in favour of the woke, trendy young voters who want to go with the Labor ‘vibe’ and are eager to take part in the process.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual results are the opposite of what the polls and the media are foisting on us.
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Not sure if as a voting group we are stubborn or simply forgiving and patient. But history says we don’t give just one term to a party.
However, we came close the previous time this mob tried to get re-elected and they had to form a minority government. And this govt. was elected with less than 33% primary vote. So if history is going to be bucked then now seems like as good a chance as any.
However, the opposition has not run a great campaign or promised anything new. It will rely on Labor losing rather than by grabbing the voter’s attention.
Labor were clear favourites in 2019 and lost. So we can ignore polls.
Plus Victoria has been a reliable bank for Labor but they’re on the nose here. Thanks to their own failings and largely due to their state branch. Dropping some seats here and maybe the Teals dropping some more around the country could make it a different result to the mood polling.
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FWIW
“Elect The Third World”
“Become the third world.”
https://x.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1916627167729143825
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/27/elect-the-third-world/
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FWIW –
“British Politicians, Green Energy Company Accused of Polluting a Mississippi Town”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/27/british-politicians-green-energy-company-accused-of-polluting-mississippi-town/
You have to read it all!
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FWIW – re covid jabs and the Pope
“Oh Dear: Pope Covid? Brain Bleed via Spike?”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/oh-dear-pope-covid-brain-bleed-via-spike/
There was a similar “connect the dots” from Coffee and Covid newsletter about a week ago and linked here. Mentioned in the comments at Chiefio above
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the people funding the viruse, spam and hostile attacks are the US big players on the internet … who are trying to shut down everyone else and drive us all into the hands of the US where they can control the whole global “public” … “debate”. Which will neither be the public (as it will only be the US compliant that can be heard) and it will certainly not be “debate” but just an echo box of the latest propaganda.
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FWIW – not an ad for “15 minute cities”
“Sweet clean air, from east to west,
And room to go and come,
I like my fellow man the best,
When he is scattered some!”
Author unknown
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FWIW
“What Does It Cost? The Consequences of the Net Zero Energy Agenda”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/27/what-does-it-cost-the-consequences-of-the-net-zero-energy-agenda/
Summarised in comments –
“In my opinion, cost is not the real issue, no matter how exhorbitant. The thing cannot work technically, period, in those two states. The introductory sections of the referenced written report make that quite clear.
There is simply no grid scale solution for renewable intermittency other than backup fossil fuel CCGT. Hydro is tapped out. Grid scale battery storage is infeasible.
Cost is NOT a winning argument to climate alarmists, who apply the precautionary principle asserting no cost is too high to ‘save the planet’. “
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FWIW –
“Chernobyl Radiation Cut by 47%: Breakthrough or Overhyped?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/27/chernobyl-radiation-cut-by-47-breakthrough-or-overhyped/
And the comments!
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FWIW
” ‘Biggest fake news story in Canada’: Kamloops mass grave debunked by academics”
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-biggest-fake-news-in-canada/
And
“COMMENTARY: Historic septic dig casts doubt on Kamloops residential school burial site claims”
https://irsrg.ca/articles/commentary-historic-septic-dig-casts-doubt-on-kamloops-residential-school-burial-site-claims/
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Meanwhile, in Iberia –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
“Huge power cut causes chaos in Spain and Portugal as trains, traffic lights, and payments hit”
Even, reportedly, into Andorra and parts of France.
Obviously, rumours …
No truth to the rumour that a large cloud passed over Madrid [I made that one up!].
Not sure about the cyber-attack one … I’m sure Poisoner Putin, Fat Boy Kim, and even Chairman Xi, all have alibis …
Auto – before the Marvellous Mr. Miliband sends the UK back to the Seventeenth Century!
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Per the [London] Daily telegraph –
“EU cyber security unit says technical or cable fault behind outages
“The cyber security wing of the European Union has suggested a technical or cable fault is responsible for the mass power outage across Spain and parts of France and Portugal.
“Preliminary findings from the The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) have veered away from a cyber security attack.
“The ENISA said they are “closely monitoring” the situation and that they remain ‘in contact with the relevant authorities at national and EU level.’
“In an emailed statement, a spokesman told The Telegraph: “For the moment the investigation seems to point to a technical/cable issue.” ”
Auto, so glad it’s [apparently] not Fat Boy Kim!
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“All elements are lickable. Some elements are lickable only once”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image016.png?w=560
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