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Seems like a handy link for anyone following the Autism debate.
“Results: Among children aged 8 years in 2022, ASD prevalence was 32.2 per 1,000 children (one in 31) across the 16 sites, ranging from 9.7 in Texas (Laredo) to 53.1 in California.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/ss7402a1.htm
Unlike global temperature, a real hockey stick.
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March 25, 2023 Chart of above ratio from 2000 to 2020. It was 1:36 then. Not long until the larger number is on the left.
https://www.ncsautism.org/blog//cdc-autism-rates-in-us-children-continue-to-rise-to-276-or-1-in-36
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“RFK Jr. Holds Press Conference on new Autism findings from the CDC”
Video is RFK’s take on what the above data means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWn3dkiQr4
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Is this heredity?
Could the sort of people wanting to live in California have children more prone to autism rather than those parents who settled in Texas?
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May also be a comment on the diagnostic leanings of California doctors.
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Former CDC Scientist : Vaccines Cause Autism – ‘WE COVERED IT UP’
A former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist has blown the whistle to warn the public that the federal government has long known that “vaccines” cause autism in children but “covered it up.”
“The MMR vaccine showed an association with autism — and we covered it up.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/former-cdc-scientist-vaccines-cause
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It’s our 44 th wedding anniversary so we decided to celebrate it in jersey, an easy 35 minute flight from exeter.
Jersey has a fascinating history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jersey
It was part of the duchy of Normandy but when England effectively threw off the Norman crown the islands ,although very near to france, remained with England who in turn acquired vast amounts of land in france. As many will know the Normans were effectively norsemen,vikings, rather than french.
We have been surprised as to how English jersey is beating in mind its proximity to france, think Devon and cornwall.although out in the country many street names are in french
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We used to see a lot of Jersey in Bergerac with John Nettles, born in Cornwall but a great promoter of Jersey. And like the Isle of Man and Monaco, it is an economy based on its legal differences in the Financial Services industry. The tax avoidance industry. The island has a maximum 20% personal income tax rate, with no wealth, inheritance, or capital gains taxes. Either that or cheese.
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Congratulation to you both on your 44th wedding anniversary, Tony.
bts.
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One thing I forgot to mention is that the channel islands, of which jersey is one, were the only parts of the British isles to be occupied by Germany in world war two. Liberation in 1945 was a very big thing and still resonates today, with liberation square, liberation shops, chocolates etc. The 80th anniversary of that is coming up in a few weeks and there will be lots of ceremonies.
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It’s good they haven’t forgotten their history like so many others in the UK and the West more generally. (I realise they are a Crown dependency and not part of the UK but have close ties.)
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The UK today has been invaded, not by outside forces, but through the immigration policies of successive governments and the soft approach to boat arrivals. It becomes obvious when the most popular new born boy’s name is Muhammad (including the various spellings.)
“Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers born in England and Wales being Muslim, fresh census figures reveal.The percentage of Muslims among the under-fives is almost twice as high as in the general population.”
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There was a movie about the resistance in Guernsey, a pleasant movie:
The movie “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” (2018) is set in Guernsey, not Jersey, during and after World War II. It portrays a fictional book club formed as a cover for a group of friends who were out past curfew during the German occupation. The title references the islanders’ resourcefulness in creating recipes from limited supplies, such as potato peel pie, after mainland food supplies were cut off. The film stars Lily James and explores themes of resistance and resilience during wartime.
While doing the search I found that there was a new one being released:
Enemy at the Door
television series
A film about the Resistance in Jersey is being funded by the Jersey government. The film will focus on Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who were notable figures in the resistance movement during the occupation of Jersey. More details about the film are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
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US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in a live conversation with Mike Benz, on dismantling the censorship bureaucracy at the State Department, says if Americans located in London are attacked by Starmers OFCOM, we will fight back. The State Department will protect free speech within and without the United States. Rubio says that mainstream newspapers and media like the BBC, spread lies, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation and propaganda all the time, but its not the governments job to shut them down: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1912936840681705543
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I hope Australia’s censorious regime comes to his attention as well.
E.g. Australia’s e Safety Kommissar censoring X which is a US company and apart from censoring X for Australians, you will recall that the Kommissar tried to get Elon Musk to remove content globally, which obviously includes the US.
The Kommissar has even tried to have material by federal senator for Victoria, Senator Babet removed from social media. A sitting senator, a democratically elected representative of the Australian people! The Kommissar tries to silence our representative doing the job we elected him to do!
Obviously the Kommissar censors other platforms as well, most we will never even know about what’s been censored.
Note that the position of e Safety Kommissar was created by the fake conservative Liberal Party. Just like Green Labor, they are no friend of free speech.
Thank you for fighting for free speech for Australians Elon, because our Uniparty politicians certainly won’t. And thank you also Senator Babet.
The following is from Senator Babet:
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“we will never even know about what’s been censored.”
True- the websites just don’t turn up in a search and we are no more the wiser. Perhaps the censor should issue an annual list of websites blocked so we can at least see the extent and the fields she is hiding from us.
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It should be compulsory for the Kommissar to publish daily reports of what’s been censored and why.
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BitChute and Gab are banned in Britain. However you can still watch censored videos in Australia and Britain if you use a VPN to bypass the soviet socialist ban on free speech: https://mullvad.net
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Or George Dantzig, who solved a long standing mathematics (statistics) problem written on the class blackboard at Berkeley, thinking it was the homework assignment.
In fact he solved two!
https://malevus.com/george-dantzig/
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Trump has signed an executive order making English the offical language of the United States of America. Apparently this means that translation services will no linger be available on gov websites.
I just hope that they spell colour the English way, after all the order did specify English not American as the official language
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That was a while ago Peter.
And the American language is indeed a dialect (or set of dialects since there are regional variations) of English.
There is nothing wrong with declaring English to be the official language of the United States. Business and Government and everyday living requires a common language or people can’t communicate. People can still speak whatever language they want, but English is the expected standard means of communication for everyday life. Otherwise it’s a Tower of Babel situation.
And if you don’t like the spelling of colour, how would you have them spell aluminium?
In 1812 Sir Humphry Davy coined the original English spelling as aluminum. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=d6Y5AAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&q=aluminum&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=aluminum&f=false
America has merely gone back to the original English spelling of that word.
Noah Webster did an excellent job of simplifying the spelling of many words for American English.
TDS and anti-Americanism are a terrible thing.
And I also consider anti-Americanism a form of racism.
Also, you as a Leftist no doubt “celebrate diversity”, and yet you don’t accept America having different English spelling or the expectation of a common language as decided by the democratically elected President TRUMP. That sounds hypocritical to me.
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That is the nub of the problem- the order specified English, any variant like American will not be official. For example the specification for the colors of the flag would be illegal due to the spelling
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Wrong. The American language is English. It is a dialect of English but still English.
And it’s differences to other forms of English are extremely minor.
There is no court in America, or any thinking person really, that would say that the English specified in the order means anything but American English with spelling specified by Noah Webster and other evolutionary changes to the language.
Almost all languages have regional variations but they’re still known by the root language.
TDS is a terrible all-consuming condition.
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Spelling is not language.
Colour and Color are identical. Theatre and theater. Center and Centre.
Many early languages had no writing. And historically most people in most countries were illiterate. And Chinese for example has writing but no alphabet. A Frenchman worked out how to read Egyptian from the Rosetta Stone. The Egyptians had no idea. And Mayan was only recently deciphered, which is a great story. But the language persisted, without the writing.
Schooling was not compulsory in England until 1880. The presbyterian Scots made it compulsory in 1688 so everyone could read the bible. This was 200 years earlier which is why so many great engineers, poets, inventors were Scottish. Even today you get Scots colleges, universities and more.
In English languages, phrases are however common and we have a very large number of American phrases in English. Many originated in the gambling palaces.
But the mutual intelligibility is 99.99% between English dialects, especially English and American English. Pronounciation is another aspect of language which is regional, but it also is not language.
Two words I have found which cause problems in America are fortnight and anticlockwise. Americans think anticlockwise is opposition to clocks. They only have counter clockwise. It was a problem when using geometry.
(Nothing as bad as the French who count “8 days a week” as in the Beatles song. The very odd aujourdhui is literally au jour de huit, this day of eight, this day of the week.” And after a week is huit jours, on the eighth day and a fortnight is quinze jours, fifteen days. A bit obsessive but we owe a lot of mathematics to the French. )
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However I would be in favour of subtitles under some Scottish speakers.
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As New Zealanders speak a sub dialect of Scottish, should it also apply?
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I’m not sure subtitles would help much in the case of the Kiwis.
In a Maori pub many years ago I had the unique pleasure of hearing somebody being called a “duck-head”.
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“bi-weekly” is often a source of confusion in my workplace. Every time, someone asks, quite seriously, if it’s every 2 weeks, or twice a week. sometimes it’s one, sometimes it’s the other.
This happens, on average, bi-weekly.
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>“bi-weekly” is often a source of confusion
Not that confusing once you get the hang of it.
An acquaintance of mine is bi weekly. At other times he’s strictly homo erectus.
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In semiotics, a sign is composed of the signified and signifier. For example, color/colour is the signifier and the point of reference is the signified. In this case, if the hue red is taken to be the signified, the variation in the spelling of the signifier doesn’t change the essential character of the hue “red”.
The legitimacy of a color/colour would not be questionable if the preferred spelling was stipulated in a legal document.
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Have you ever tried the Nit Pickers anonymous blog site. You’d do extremely well!
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Two interesting statements.
“TDS and anti-Americanism are a terrible thing.”
These are one in the same.
“And I also consider anti-Americanism a form of racism.”
True.
Because the Left has falsely and insidiously pretzel contorted American culture as exclusively white European.
American culture is fundamentally multicultural and uniquely American.
I will prove it.
With this video.
Jumpin’ Jive – Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
This may be the greatest most uniquely American thing ever created by Americans and there ain’t a white face in it.
Still utterly and exclusively American.
So Mr. Fitzroy … don’t like the way we spell?
Try “palomar, shallamore, swaneeshore”.
Don’t like America?
Top this.
I dare ya’.
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>These are one in the same.
is that the US American version of “one and the same”?
If not, what does it actually mean? One inside the same (as one)?
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Check out the trombone section.
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“Press 1 for English” nowadays and you’re tackled to the ground by a pommy cop! 😆😆
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It hardly matters with Google Translate. Which even works well for Chinese.
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WOW Peter, when I saw your name I instantly looked at the thumbs and it’s 12:8. Congratulations, even before reading it.
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But how do we know that “color” isn’t “right”?
I’ve heard it speculated that American English is olde English which DIDN’T change as it did in England. Did dictionaries exist a few centuries ago and if so, has anyone checked?
English is constantly evolving so it matters nought to me as long as evolution makes sense.
Prolly [a variant I like] the Americanism that grates most with me is the use of “coronated” instead of “crowned”. [Spiel chuck even accepts it, but it ain’t a word].
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Britannica has done some work for you:
https://www.britannica.com/summary/dictionary
Enjoy
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Here is a short video about an island in the United States where Elizabethan English is still spoken.
https://youtu.be/lFvzPWiTCS4
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Short video.
India’s plan to clean up the Ganges, which includes the use of flesh eating turtles to dispose of decomposing bodies.
https://youtu.be/v8lu9ntmPJo
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>flesh eating turtles
Sounds gross but the fruit and veggie shop is grocer.
I know a bit about flesh-eating. Had a sensational 2″ thick aged rib-eye steak last night. It wasn’t what you’d probably call decomposing but it was. It was decomposing slowly. It had been dead 8 weeks.
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Piranhas would be more fun…
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It’s one of those ecological solutions which is bound to backfire almost immediately. It will not be long before there is a government program to eliminate all the flesh eating turtles. Coming to a swimming pool near you.
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Do flesh eatng turtles eat Cane Toads?
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How will Australia survive another three years of Green Labor?
There won’t be much left after then.
😟😟😟😟😟
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Care to list the things that the other half of the Uniparty would do differently?
It will make no difference at all…
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Indeed. It’s hard to identify very much the Libs would do differently. There are perhaps a few things. I think in general they are less bad than Green Labor and will destroy the country more slowly.
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To make sure the Uniparty lines aren’t blurred, Dutton has spent the last couple of days emphasising he believes in climate change.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/anthony-albanese-stunned-by-peter-duttons-climate-change-comments/46wfdu2cn
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That’s sickening.
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Whooa David,
Is Dutton agreeing to climate change or Climate Change?
His answer was ambiguous on that distinction, but the commentary has assumed the latter.
I live in hope.
Cheers,
Dave B
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>It will make no difference at all
One BIG difference voting Albo out would make is sending a clear message.
An even bigger difference is we would be rid of Albo, Bowen, and their pathetic cronies.
If the Australian electorate had the gumption and brains to vote Albo & Bowen out, it might embolden Dutton to find his conservative cojones.
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2025 + 3 = 2028 🙄
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I’m glad President TRUMP removed the requirement for miserable flow rate restricting valves in American showers.
Americans can now enjoy wonderful full flow hot showers and make use of their now-liberated energy supply.
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Twenty years ago NZ’s PM, UN fan-girl Helen Clark, better known as Helengrad, decreed low-pressure shower heads for all (back then bureaucrats only wanted to save water and electricity, now it’s the whole planet!). Members from the local marae came round and installed a ‘dribbler’ on our shower: before the week was out, I’d replaced the original ‘gusher’ to the squeals of delight from my girlfriend at the time.
Talking of govt-sponsored dis/mis/mal info: three days after Cyclone Tam was downgraded to ex-TC Tam, officially now a Tasman Low or a ‘deep subtropical depression’, MetService and RadioNZ are still referring to the storm as a “Cyclone”. If ya cannae trust the gubmint, who can ye trust!
Pleasant, warm, humid northerlies from the tropics, mixed in with epic lightning & thunder shows each night along with torrential passing squalls, is a joy for this time of year. Heck, if you need a decent shower, just step outside and bathe in the manna from heaven – just make sure you leave your keys and kites inside 🔑 🪁 ⚡️
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Note: gubmint = gubermint = government 😁
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Would never pass Pedant Pete’s English validation standards up thread
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PUT COAL IN THE COALITION ENERGY POLICY!
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/put-coal-in-the-coalition-energy
Coal has become a very dirty word in political circles these days. This is a very dangerous situation because we are only one coal station closure away from rolling blackouts every night when the wind is low.
The Coalition has been especially irresponsible because we don’t expect any better from Labour and the Communists.
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Maybe it has to happen.
It may be the only way to wake up the dumbed-down masses.
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Sorta like “change only occurs at the precipice”?
Which is why…the elections won’t fix a damn thing, BUT…will take you to the precipice…
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Apparently in Victoriastan they are using the euphemism “energy park” to describe the wind and solar subsidy farming operations which destroy forests and farmland.
Do a Goolag search for “energy park”.
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I don’t think I’d better look for that. I am already angry enough at the criminal stupidity of the greenie stuff going on.
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The elections are so massively important in Australia, and the voters’ thinking so carefully analysed that we finally come to realise what is important in the country’s leader-
“The great fashion debate: Albanese and Dutton’s style campaign- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have dodged fashion risks on the campaign trail, playing it safe in uncomfortably snug polo shirts, navy suits and business shirts that have the everyman appeal of actors in television commercials for life insurance….”
SMH, once again short of something useful to write, insult their readers once again. Of course they are correct in their estimation of the public’s IQ anyway.
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/the-great-fashion-debate-albanese-and-dutton-s-style-campaign-20250416-p5ls9r.html
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Here is an under 5 min video by Jordan Peterson discussing how it’s almost, if not impossible to train anyone with an IQ below 83 to do anything useful whatsoever. And about 10% of the population have IQ’s below 83.
https://youtu.be/caR69G6wpwU
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Outdone by a dog then!
John Pilley, an 86-year-old retired psychology professor, discovered extraordinary intelligence in his Border Collie, Chaser.
Treated as both a family member and a student, Chaser learned over 1,000 words and commands through daily training over nine years.
She demonstrated not only an understanding of names for objects but also the ability to grasp basic grammar, distinguishing between nouns and verbs.
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/remembering-chaser-the-smartest-dog-in-the-world/
Never mind – the clueless and permanently baffled could always go into politics.
They have? Ohhh…
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Border Collies?
Wonderful pooches!
Watching them work cattle or sheep with minimal “guidance” from a human, is sublime. And they are generally fiercely protective of young children and other critters.
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Possibly a high percentage of the 10% are politicians I suspect.
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Who do you think is the Major Foreign Holder of US Treasury Securities?
Here are the first 10 – numbers in Billions of dollars from this link.
Country (at 2025-02)
Japan……………1,125.9
China, Mainland….784.3
United Kingdom…750.3
Cayman Islands….417.8
Luxembourg…….412.5
Canada………….406.1
Belgium…………394.7
France ………….354
Ireland ………….339
Taiwan ………….294.8
The biggest mover with a gold star are the Cayman Islands, which jumped from 9th on the list to 4th with $108 billion added in the last 12 months.
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Are you sure it’s just 10%. I could swear it’s higher.
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If you look at what the whitehouse.gov site has now about Covid you will all be surprised . Bad Cattitude has covered it and its officially lifted the lid on that can of worms. Enjoy.
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How do you find it? No link. ToM
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ToM,
This should work :https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/breaking-news-here-it-comes . I just assumed that everyone would use a search engine…(yes , I know what they say about “assumed”)
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Thanks old goat. I went into the White House site, but found nothing on Covid. ToM
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Unfortunately, this looks like par for the course Inside the Beltway politics.
A flashy graphic release on a Friday … news death day.
On a holiday weekend no less.
A good statement of facts, but unlikely to result in action.
My guess is the only punishment Fauci will see, is damage to his historical reputation.
If Google and Wikipedia have anything to do with, even that won’t amount to much.
Pandemic was the greatest of crimes.
We haven’t yet cataloged all that was stolen.
Not even the lives.
An there is no moral strength amongst the managerial intelligentsia of the Western world to punish or even identity the origin and structure of the conspiracy …
because it was they what carried it out.
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Given how the govt renewables push is dragging Oz back into the stone age whilst getting WEF kickbacks, I’m producing a new documentary about it.
I’m calling it Jurassic Pork. 😁
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I have said it before but only people who are net taxpayers should be able to vote. Otherwise the tax consumers just vote to have other people’s taxes transferred to themselves. It won’t end well as is becoming obvious.
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Known for a long time DM, but one of the many elephants in the room that never gets acknowledged while the dressing style of the party leaders is so important.
Even the gigantic Govt debt is now being bought up here and there, but never the underlying cause of it, or the total unsutainability of the democratic system.
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Those that vote for Green Labor to get “free stuff” should understand that there will be no more free stuff after that because Australia will be bankrupt and will probably have to sell large amounts of assets to the Chinese.
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By then they could invade and face no resistance.
Disarmed, everyone’s sick, no power, no food, total disarray.
Thank you government, you’re everything I’ve come to expect.
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‘By then they could invade and face no resistance.’
Our drones are state of the art.
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“Our drones are state of the art.”
Yes I agree, all those “drones” in parliament certainly are state of the art!
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A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington, DC.
Nothing was moving.
Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.
The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?”
“Terrorists have kidnapped the entire US Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire.
We are going from car to car, collecting donations.”
“How much is everyone giving, on an average?” the driver asks.
The man replies, “Roughly a gallon.”
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Can someone tell me what the big deal was about the celebrity space tourists that took an 11 minute suborbital ride on Blue Origin New Shepard?
They don’t even technically qualify as astronauts because they took no part in flying the vehicle, nor did they have any ability to control it, and they only went a little above the Kármán Line (6km above).
They were space tourists only. I hope they enjoyed the experience.
What the achievement was, is building a spacecraft suitable for space tourism (and this wasn’t its first tourist flight), not the celebrity wokesters who rode it for 11 mins.
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And brought to you by the producers of Capricorn 1. Or, so many on social media say.
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I believe they really made the flight.
Lack of burn marks on the capsule is no indication it didn’t happen because it was suborbital. No 8km/s re-entry speed.
It’s basically an expensive DEI theme park ride for rich wokesters who want to identify as “astronauts”.
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In reality it was just a very expensive amusement arcade ride.
Apparently Gayle King now believes she deserves the “astronaut” title.
The mind boggles at the ignorance of these pampered “celebrities”.
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Just now I could only just get onto the Saturday thread via Google; not through DDG. What’s up with that?
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There has been a few issues I think.
I haven’t been able to refresh the page for a while. I have had to reload the URL.
Seems to be working now though.
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I’m still directly on Google; haven’t tried DDG again as yet.
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I went to the Saturday market nearby and encountered others who are as livid as we are at the proposed charge, starting in July, of nearly $500 for a red-topped rubbish bin. We don’t need one as most of our stuff is either recyclable, dog-feedable, sheep- feedable or compostible; very little actual rubbish. We collect that and my OH takes it to the local tip, roughly every quarter, for a few dollars. This works for us and for those I spoke to earlier. One had asked a local councillor, an ex-mayor, about this, who said that it is a state government thing for any property living on a bin route!
We just don’t have the amount to justify either the charge or the bin. Follow the money?
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You and the others should get together and refuse to accept a red bin.
When the authorities deliver one make sure that elves or goblins leave these bins somewhere inconvenient e.g. the entrance to the relevant government dept.
Claim that you are colour-blind and it discriminates against you.
Or get everyone to paint Don’t Vote Labor on the bins.
Put the bins out but rope them to a lamp post or nearby tree etc. Make sure that the time to collect costs a lot.
Just a few suggestions.
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I couldn’t make a reply earlier but restarted my tablet and now the up/down thumbs are gone with large numbers in their place?!
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Same boat Annie, never had a bin in 25 years. I have written to the shire CEO, copied the mayor and the local member. No replies as yet, just a week and of course Easter.
So just to make sure we go down the gurgler the beloved state government jacks up our fire services levee, makes the shire collect it, forces a 3 or 4 bin rubbish system on us that we don’t need and charges as you say close to $500. For the first time in my life we don’t have insurance as we can’t afford it. The joys of being old and unable to work to earn extra cash so we can keep up with the taxes. Best part of course is the new system duplicates the system we have always used, recycle through the local resource recovery centre, compost etc. In our case the gate is 700 metres from the house so getting the bin to the gate is an issue, the chap I spoke to at the shire told me to leave the bins at the gate. That’s no damn use I may as well not have them, oh wait, back to square one.
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FWIW -trips “the light sarcastic”
“Kilmar for President!
“Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren”
“So, you wonder why Democrats are so anxious to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the USA. Is it to lead the national ticket in 2028? Who else have they got? Pete Buttigieg doesn’t have half of Kilmar’s charisma. AOC is just pretending to be Sandy-from-the-block — and everybody knows it. Who else best represents the party’s newest constituency: the undocumented (people unfairly deprived of documents by a cruel and careless bureaucracy)? Who best represents the Democratic Party’s number one policy goal: diversity fosterization! Kilmar, of course! Viva Kilmar! ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kilmar-for-president
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Having watched yet another American school board dismiss the anxiety of a female student forced to get changed in front of a male who identified as female, I wondered who the people on school boards were, and how they got there. Based on what I’ve seen, there seems to be a very disproportionate number of progressive leftists compared with conservatives.
Turns out they are ‘elected’. So why is there not the more or less 50:50 political split we see elsewhere? Well, read this from journalistsresearch.org:
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Meanwhile, Moms for Liberty, a conservative political organization, and Run for Something, a progressive political organization, are vying to get their candidates seated on local school boards.
Moms for Liberty, founded in 2021 by two former school board members in Florida, has grown to 130,000 members and 300 chapters in 48 states, according to its X account. Of the 166 school board candidates it publicly endorsed in 2023, 54 won their elections, according to a recent analysis from the nonprofit think tank the Brookings Institution.
Last year, Run for Something endorsed 416 candidates running for various local offices across the U.S. and 226 won, according to the group’s 2024 Strategic Plan. Late last year, Run for Something announced its 50 State School Board Strategy to “fight back and recruit and train young, diverse progressive candidates for school board.””
So the voting itself is clearly a very organised process and, according to the same source, is fought between “nonprofit groups” which of course, on the left, means unions, the Democrat party and certain super-wealthy leftists we might call Sore Ass.
All is revealed!
Note also that, despite HAMMERING Moms for Liberty 226:54, the leftist ‘Run for Something’ described it’s subsequent campaign as “fighting back”. It seems they see even a small turnout for the opposition as an unacceptable result.
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Why are we mucking about in labs to make meat – should be working out how to make these rare earth minerals instead:
https://asiatimes.com/2025/04/australia-holds-key-to-countering-chinas-critical-mineral-ban/
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FWIW
Now that’s a pat on the back!
“Story Tip: Australia is a continental scale loony bin.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/18/help-a-mann-out/#comment-4062912
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Get out the popcorn- the violent death throes of an empire..
“Trump’s 2nd administration is poised to instigate a major crisis and widespread devastation worldwide to prevent its inevitable downfall. Their rise to power and the ensuing actions merely reflect the profound structural and historical changes occurring in the international political economy and the global power architecture.’
‘Survival Or Looting? What Trump’s Revolution Is Really About’
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
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