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Even Canadian fake conservative Erik Kaufmann acknowledges woke progressivism is dead and dying.
Western governments are a bit slow to catch on.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922973741740437843.html
Post-Trump the Left are beginning to wake up and de-woken. They’re licking their wounds, de-constructing, and doing the soul-searching that Australian so-called conservative Liberal parties need to do.
Here in the colonies we’re a bit slow to catch on.
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“Post-progressivism argues that the end of the progressive grand narrative demands a new social science”.
Well I’ll be woken!
And he’s post Trump already!
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etc.
https://archive.ph/6DKHb
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That’s exactly what Once Great Britain does to its dissidents.
Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months in the Goolag for a Tweet she posted in a moment of anger and then deleted after 3.5 hrs.
Details: https://youtu.be/genMHmqOOWI
No doubt under the new regime in Australia such things will soon start happening here now that the Left have a mandate to do whatever they please – and will!
As for visiting countries like Once Great Britain as a tourist, one wonders if foreign tourists might get jailed there for past criticisms of the regime?
And tourists, unless a follower of the official and only permitted religion of Saudi generally do not visit there (they used not to ne permiited at all), only business people. They would be wise not to go if they have ever criticised the regime.
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Tommy Robinson is another political prisoner of Once Great Britain.
He’s in jail for the crime of making a documentary of which not one word has ever been refuted.
Where are the human rights organisations?
People in relatively free countries can watch the documentary here, and it hasn’t yet been banned in Australia:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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Thanks David for that link to the Tommy Robinson saga. Truly horrendous & insidious intrusion into all institutions. Free speech….. hah!
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He’s in prison for contempt of court.
“…the court was told in the morning that Robinson had admitted contempt through 10 breaches of a high court order made in 2021, and which led to the solicitor general issuing two contempt applications.”
He’s repeatedly said something that was found to be libelous.
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That’s great. Now we know how to rid ourselves of the whole Canberra fiasco. We’ll have the lot of them invited to Saudi Arabia for a symposium on good governance & hopefully we’ll never see them again!! Misinformation my ar##.
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Since the UK Government does that same thing to its own citizens, I’ll doubt if they do anything to get this businessman out of jail.
The Saudis probably knew they’d get away with this because they’re just emulating UK actions against their own people.
What’s the UK going to say to them? “You can’t put people in jail for a deleted Tweet?”
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But why did they REALLY go after him? There’s more to that story methinks. Somebody was forensically sifting through his affairs and I don’t believe it was random.
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Agreed but these days there are computer programs to do the type of sifting that totalitarians can only dream of.
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Even as a child, I thought this show waa stupid.
“Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men”.
It waa made 1952-1953, before I was born, but endlessly repeated by Their ABC for many years after that.
https://youtu.be/hcF9JSxkUSE
From Wikipedia:
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In England it was part of “Watch with Mother”.
How about Andy Pandy then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfnJBArxGg
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If you’ve got anything bad to say about Mary, Mungo and Midge, I’ll send my mates Raggety and Rupert the Bear around for a word.
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Rupert Bear was of course owned by Paul McCartney
https://beatlefansomethingnew.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/new-york-magic-the-plaza-a-beatle-and-rupert-bear/
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Any subtle analogies to Australian politicians are coincidental and unintended too! 😆
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Gad Saad comment on Canada:
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Story tip
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/
Caveats in the link, but it looks as if one national supplier of kit has inserted some ‘backdoors’.
I would do the same – and fully intend to do so, if I can work out how to do so in a wooden Welsh lovespoon.
And if it profitably restrict Chinese actions …
Auto
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A Trojan horse.
Just imagine if the Chicomms decided to turn off all Australian rooftop solar?
The grid would probably collapse, especially after the government destroys the next coal power station.
And that’s exactly why during the first TRUMP administration he banned the import of large scale electrical infrastructure from China, a ban reversed by Biden.
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More on that – batteries too
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/w-o-o-d-3-may-2025-russia-wins-germany-bans-globalists-panic-treasuries-stocks/#comment-176987
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More than batteries, just look at any computer operating system, your mobile phone, your car, your TV.. all these gadgets have coding that can or does talk to the manufacturer, for error reporting or usage /performance data.
I cannot see why anyone is worried about solar panels… unless they have been taken in by the American propaganda about how evil China is. I’ll bet every one of those wind towers talks to Siemens!
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In this disarmingly honest, frank and confronting video, various black people comment about the situation in Africa and its overall lack of progress before and after Western colonial powers were kicked out. No, it wasn’t the fault of the colonisers, Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonised and still have the same situation. And all other countries elsewhere that were colonised such as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, NZ, Singapore, United States etc. are all doing fine.
https://youtu.be/YClIfiwBD_8
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Thanks D M, and WOW.
Fascinating.
And explains a lot.
Suspect it applies here in Australia equally.
Cheers,
Dave B
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The reason Natal in South Africa is full of Indians? Ideal for growing sugar but the Xhosa and the Zulu would not work in the fields for the white man, so Indian workers were bought in. Same with Malay slaves in the Cape Province.
The biggest problem is from the colonials drawing lines on a map and declaring them ‘countries’, neatly dividing tribes of natives across borders and cramming ancient enemies in one political entity together.
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FWIW
The best book on race relations in southern Africa (and Africa in general) was written by an ex-patriot international airline pilot who had been stationed in South Africa. I bought it in the late 1980’s. It was was loaned and didn’t boomerang so I lost the reference.
He pointed out that, from Eritrea to Cape of Good Hope, African politics is tribal. And some 500 years of European influence hasn’t changed which tribes hare each others guts – only in some cases which tribes have the balance of power has been changed.
And that we were given a totally distorted picture of tribal balances as pictured as “black vs white”.
The biggest tribe was the Zulu and, at that stage, no-one was going to let them run the show. The second biggest tribe was the whites, who were often the more trusted by smaller black tribes than the larger ones.
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Here is an EXTREMELY powerful piece of piano and violin played by 98 year old survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. They didn’t know each other had survived until recently.
Tragic plus beautiful.
https://youtu.be/KSNWJNXWl0M
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Did you not notice “AI Video”? There’s also the creator comment: “all characters and events presented are fictitious”.
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Fair enough. I didn’t notice. It was linked from another site. Oops.
But even as a work of fiction it was still wonderful. Certainly better than a woke Snow White.
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“This video presents a virtual avatar created exclusively for entertainment purposes, simulated as a participant in a fictitious context and unrelated to the official ‘Got Talent’ program or its real participants or events. This representation is entirely generated and is not intended to deceive, but to offer an artistic and imaginative experience. All characters and events presented are fictitious. Enjoy this content as a virtual entertainment play.”
Create your own today!
Hours of fun!
https://omnihuman-1.com/
They’re getting better – no more weird hands, high contrast and shiny appearances.
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The Administrative Procedures Act is a two edged sword.
Seventeen states misguidedly sue to block Trump from stopping wind power
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/13/seventeen-states-misguidedly-sue-to-block-trump-from-stopping-wind-power/
The beginning: “The attorneys general of 17 green states have jointly sued the President and the heads of a dozen federal agencies. Under the President’s day one executive order (EO), these agencies stopped approving pretty much anything to do with wind power development. The States want the Court to tell these Agencies to stop stopping.
The basic issue is simple, but the possible outcomes are anything but. I think the States have not properly considered where this action might lead. In fact they have probably asked the Court for the wrong thing.”
The ending: “The States specifically ask the Court to find that the Agencies are violating the APA and then to tell the Agencies not to obey the EO. That is all they ask for. I doubt a Court can tell an Agency not to obey a lawful EO. What they can do in this case is tell the Agencies that if they want to obey the EO they must comply with the APA when they do it.
So let the Agencies do that. It would simply require that they each carry out their own investigation under their own authorities, which they can certainly do, jumping through all the APA hoops along the way. They can certainly suspend all their approvals, pending these investigations, because there is no telling where they might lead. Suspending approval pending investigation is fundamental law.
It could all take a very long time with very interesting results, nothing like what the States are hoping for. In particular I would love to see each Agency take public comments on past deficiencies as there have been untold thousands of wind development complaints filed during the Biden years, all ignored. CFACT has filed a number of these.
This may well be a case of the old adage “Be careful what you wish for.” Things could be worse for wind and the wind-loving green states than they already are. Stay tuned to CFACT as this legal drama plays out.”
Lots of details in between.
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There is an amazing channel on YouTube called my mechanics.
He restores old items to the most unbelievable levels of perfection and even makes them better than new. For example he removes casting imperfections. He also makes new parts where necessary. In a recent video he even machined a new wing nut. I’ve never seen that done before.
His latest large scale project is restoring a Datsun 240Z. I have no doubt that car will be far better than it left the factory.
https://youtube.com/@mymechanics
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Word of the day:
tintinnabulum
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Had to have a think but it sort of rings a bell.
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Latest Elon Musk robot.
https://youtube.com/shorts/gOYAfEOeg1Y
Can it replace our politicians, senior public serpents and fake politically-purchased climate and covid “scientists”?
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No way – the increase in intelligence would be noticed almost immediately.
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Beat ya to it! 😁
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FWIW
“Another development
“A potentially scary security threat”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-potentially-scary-security-threat.html
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FWIW – another “defending democracy”
“About That Super Secret German Government Intelligence Report Documenting AfD Extremism”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/15/about-that-super-secret-german-government-intelligence-report-documenting-afd-extremism-n3802805
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‘There has to be a physical manifestation of the party in question – and not just isolated individuals – moving to ‘overcome’ one of their three guiding principles.’
True, the party should be reinstated because the evidence against them is flimsy.
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FWIW
“WIKIPEDIA IS FREE AND WORTH LESS THAN YOU PAY FOR IT:”
https://x.com/JacobALinker/status/1922836036754772257
Via https://instapundit.com/719853/#disqus_thread
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In my eyes the 2025 Australian election was won fair and square by about 1/3 of 3/4 eligible voters.
Happy to be corrected (please do not use $600B argument…)
What offends me however how quickly everyone but everyone forgot 2022 elections and the fake white dress feminists.
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FWIW
“Montana Becomes Latest State To Ban Lab-Grown Meat ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/montana-becomes-latest-state-ban-lab-grown-meat
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FWIW – the latest “improvement”
“Lethal Lidar: Volvo SUV’s Infrared Beam Fries Smartphone Camera”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-volvo-ex90s-lidar-laser-allegedly-burns-smartphones-camera
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..and eventually they will discover what it does to humans too, we were never evolved to handle lasers. Soon every car driving past you as you walk on the footpath will be bathing you in a host of wavelengths for their lane-change checking, their autonomous braking, their cyclist/pedestrian recognition, their internet connections..
So we move the road deaths to deaths in a different part of the medical system. Personally, if you can’t drive a 1950s car you shouldn’t be allowed to drive at all!
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My wifes brand new car got a chipped windscreen right beside the forward Lidar during week 1. “You cant have anything nice” was the response. A man with special resins fixed it for us.
Didnt affect vehicle operation before the repair. Happily it wasnt in front of the optics.
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To OLD OZZIE
You might want to re-think that urge from yesterday to move to southern Italy.
Campi Flegrei super volcano looks ready to blow sometime soonish, and if it does it will make the historic pyroclastic flows of nearby Vesuvius look like a picnic. The Italian government has declared a national state of emergency in readiness for such a conflagration. Ground surface is rising at 2cm/month and accelerating. Magma is building. There have been mass volcanic earthquake swarms around the area, with landslides and cracked buildings, and 6 million people are living on top of and immediately surrounding the old volcano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9be-py5GXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkDIX5MQ0w8
You might also want to avoid Crete and southern Greece. Santorini is stirring too, cracking many houses on Crete, with multiple villages having been evacuated already. Once again, with mass earthquake swarms recently, disrupting the sacred tourist season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKc-fYAEkjI
Probably safest to stay in North Sydney even if for instance we had an energy minister who was a dangerous cretin and a PM who was apparently drunk whilst walking down the stairs of his jet in Indonesia. Hypotheticals of course.
In their defence: they can both pronounce NUCULAR correctly.
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Some years ago (during another Campi Flegrei scare) I saw an interview of a vulcanologist who claimed that they would have about 24 hours definite warning of the eruption. Asked about evacuation of Maples he estimated 5 days.
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For something completely different, a first world problem.
‘Wealthy retirees have begun selling assets and restructuring their investment portfolios to avoid Labor’s planned extra tax on superannuation savings worth more than $3 million, financial advisers say.
‘Some high-income earners aged in their 40s have also stopped putting additional money into self-managed superannuation funds because of the uncertainty caused by the Albanese government’s proposed tax on unrealised gains, advisers said.’ (AFR)
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About Superannuation Reform and just trying to escape the reality (how petty and flat the today’s world leaders are…) started on bio of some Karl Peter Ulrich whose claim on greatness was his teenage marriage to Sophie Anhalt-Zerbst.
My 6th Form text book dedicated hardly 1/2 page to him, clearly bad from all points of view.
To my deep surprise, when you look not at him but at his deeds – he was a Reformer with a capital R, huge for his place at his time. No wonder he could do them for 6 months only when his hemorroids killed him.
Medicare and NDIS, floating the $ and GST, Gun Law and unrealised gains – I’d love to read about them in 2225…
The cherry on the cake’s top and I asked the ladies for forgiveness – the haemorrhoids. Imagine what the courtiers of 2025 will write about their masters in post-mortem memoirs. The truth, only truth and nothing but the truth.
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FWIW
Willis E. looks at ” AI “perplexity.ai” ”
“The Dumbest Genius Librarian”
“I have been using the AI “perplexity.ai” extensively lately both for scientific and general research. I think of it as the world’s dumbest, most unruly genius librarian ever.
By “unruly” I mean that any AI can hallucinate. Flat-out make things up. In addition, they may extrapolate to fill gaps, or use popular claims without fully checking if they are true.
Over the time I’ve been using perplexity, a number of such issues have arisen. So I started developing a set of standard instructions to avoid the issues as they arose. The first instruction was that it could cite the sources that Wikipedia cites, but it couldn’t cite or quote Wikipedia itself. (Wiki articles are totally unreliable, because any fool can write or edit them.)”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/15/the-dumbest-genius-librarian/
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Wind turbine jammed under a bridge in Brisbane. Way to go
https://7news.com.au/video/news/car-accidents/oversized-truck-carrying-wind-turbine-crashes-into-bridge-bc-6372866482112
There will be few questions asked LOL
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