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Marxists have now taken over in SOUTH Korea after the last elections.
And they are going to be more friendly with China and North Korea.
The whole world has gone insane. I thought that after TRUMP was elected the world would follow with a trend toward conservatism but the World is going in the opposite direction.
And since South Koreans don’t mind communism, the US might as well withdraw 30,000 troops from there. Perhaps they could be redeployed to Tawain to protect them.
Tousi discusses:
https://www.youtube.com/live/oyXvvNnCpUg
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A couple of the week before Jim Molan died I heard him say on Sky , Oh Taiwan will just roll over
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So true DM, applying your powers of reason finely honed on climate science, you’ve now blurted that north and south are now identical and are effectively reunited.
Can’t wait for your Gaza solution.
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Never Say Never.
Which European country was not a mortal enemy of its immediate neighbour ?
Then joint into a union of two hearts.
And back again…
The ME stalemate is no different from Musk v Trump situation.
Or Russia v Ukraine…
You might have heard that long-long time back Putin and Zelensky had their dachas nearly at the same Foros street ?
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‘ … the World is going in the opposite direction.’
His words were the catalyst for realignment around the world, history will thank him for that.
In China regime change is taking place, all power is now in the hands of the moderates and Ji has been deposed. The future is looking bright, democracy is coming to our biggest trading partner.
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Your words into God’s ears !
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Not quite.
You will notice there is nothing about the coup in the MSM, so what you are getting is nooze before it happens.
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More a case of siding with the looming trade and economic wars winner and saying bye to the loser, rather than political motivation.
Staying well ahead of the curve is important, especially now.
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Too bad it’s 55 minutes, so a warning, but it’s interesting.
How GM sold out America, and Australia (Holden), and became China Motors. Gives insight into the Tariff battles and rationales for Tariffs. Also gives insight to how China is playing the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guAxFDafF1o
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Video:
Topher Field talks about one of the worst of Australia’s large number of very bad taxes, payroll tax, a state-based tax on employment.
The sad thing is with Australia now being an effective One Party State with no meaningful opposition party, and government spending totally out of control and without limit, these taxes won’t be removed or lowered plus there’ll be a whole range of new and bad taxes like wealth taxes and death taxes
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Labor eyed tax exemption for farms, small business – and said no
Members of Anthony Albanese’s top economic team considered exempting family farms and properties from their controversial unrealised capital gains tax.
A prominent ALP source disclosed there were internal discussions about certain assets being exempt.
The senior source revealed a more “pragmatic” approach was considered and should have been adopted because “there is an issue with illiquid assets” such as farms and small business properties.
From the Comments
– How can people with any basic level,of intellect agree to stripping tax out of the population while protecting the ruling class from being treated in the same manner? I cannot fathom the Socialist ideals. Rules for thee, not for me.
– Yet another example of the Labor government having no business experience in their cabinet. They live in their union fantasy bubble with no understanding of finances in the real world
– No for farmers but yes to exempt/defer the PM and all those DB public servants living high on the public purse. Grabby labor elite hypocrisy! Whats the bet those bureaucrats behind to nasty cash grab are on DB scheme. We don’t need farmers the city socialists will feed us.
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SA is not Victoria but still in debt
Both states lack obvious spending restraint or forward planning.
The situation is made worse by the fact that debt is rising and a projected surplus is disappearing at a time when state tax receipts are booming with stamp duty from rising property prices.
The irony is that South Australia has been benefiting from an exodus from neighbouring Victoria of people trying to escape the high taxes and fiscal mismanagement of the Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan governments.
As South Australia correspondent David Penberthy writes, South Australia is making a virtue of being better than its wayward neighbour. But this is nothing to crow about.
It is the scale and trajectory that matter.
On raw numbers, South Australia’s debt may compare favourably with Victoria’s debt load of $167bn and heading to almost $200bn in three years’ time.
But these things are relative.
To put things into perspective, the South Australian economy is about $44bn compared to Victoria’s $108bn. This makes Victoria’s debt load twice as bad on comparable terms.
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In Australia, some states have the King’s Birthday holiday weekend.
His actual birthday is 14th November but it’s not celebated on that date because in Britain the King or Queen have to do the military parade of Trooping the Colour and that’s held during a sunny summer day in Britain, second Saturday of June. Most Australian states follow that but others do their own thing.
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As usual, we’re a week ahead of everyone else, having enjoyed the royal holiday last Monday the 2nd of June. Yesterday was Arbor Day here yet I didn’t notice any Greenies out in force planting trees or praying to trees or even talking to trees (as this would result in exhaling too much carbon pollution).
The next sacred day – and public holiday – is Friday 20 June when Maori celebrate their New Year aka Matariki, also known as the Pleiades, Seven Sisters, Subaru, and countless other indigenous names around the planet. The following day, Saturday 21 June, is Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the imminent return of Summer in 6 months’ time… Hurry up Sun, come back, all is forgiven! 🌞
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I left NZ in December 1988 and missed all this star gazing propaganda of NZ’s original boat people so thanks for opening the story book for a quick read of this fantasy.
According to AI the first Polynesians arrived in NZ between 1250-1300 CE (as in the old AD) and they proceeded to colonise the place. They are NOT indigenous, (adding indigenous in sentences with the word Maori is becoming more prevalent) and this star worship further confirms this because as wiki observes:
“The word matariki or similar, referring to the Pleiades, is found in many Polynesian languages.”
The spelling similarity is complimented by the different cultural stories from around the world similarly identifying the individual stars as being all or mostly female and with being a sign of a new start (ie New Year) with warmer weather (planting/replenishment) on the way.
But forget similarities, we are to accept that the Polynesian culture having arrived in NZ had within 500-years (Cook, the “other” wave of boat people, sailed into Poverty Bay on October 6, 1769) morphed to have their own language, (Maori is part of the Polynesian sub-family of languages) had travelled the width and breadth of all the islands and established settlements everywhere including the cold south island climes (despite having left tropical islands). They had also jettisoned all the established stories of their Polynesian culture that they would have brought with them and made up their own Maori-centric new versions.
(Greg) One last question would have to be did the legislation making this a holiday include laws to ban Subaru cars from being driven on the day to avoid claims of cultural insensitivity?
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The real story is that the dipping and then re-appearance of Pleiades is as near as they all got to having some sort of clock to roughly mark the solstice.
A stellar Stonehenge without all the work.
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She who identified as our Prime Minister – until quitting and going on the US book-selling & preaching tour circuit – introduced this law, but as Subaru are the choice of many a politburo member in Wellington who need to escape to their holiday home / ski chalet (it’s winter!) they have been blessed and have avoided any carboniferous critique of the hypocritical kind. Besides, they’re Volkswagens on steroids.
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Australian Government admits vaccines more harmfull than covid.
https://slaynews.com/news/australian-government-admits-vaccines-more-harmful-covid/
Can anyone educate me on this.
I can’t recall hearing this from the mainstream media.
Mind you I don’t’ watch the nightly emotionally slanted/bias news.
Can’t stand it, very few facts a lot of emotion, suposition and when the truth comes out, it goes quitley away, espeacialy if it does not meet their narrative.
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They don’t really admit that the mRNA covid vaccine is harmful, they will never admit to that because certain parties might get prosecuted or go to jail. They said “outweigh the potential harms” which is a generic statement even applicable to any proper vaccine.
What they say is:
Note that pregnant women are not excluded so are expected to be vaxxed, even though there have been few trials of any kind and according to Dr John Campbell, none on pregnant women.
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I’m guessing because most pregnant women arn’t stupid enough to do it.
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As I recall, pregnant women (perhaps a small number) were included in the Pfizer study, but not studied separately. A high number of miscarriages occurred, but these were not noticed until Naomi Wolf and team analysed the FOIA dump of trial notes.
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Still a good reference point – COVID-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 5,810 studies
https://c19early.org/
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Vaccine agenda was about public obedience, not health”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-agenda-was-about-public-obedience-not-health/
Via SDA
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Philc, they didn’t even admit it publicly. It was just quietly gazetted back in early May via ATAGI/TGA guidelines. Nobody really noticed it, certainly not the useless MSM.
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Time was… Carbon Climate Cultists (CCC) were fighting rising temperatures, heating, boiling, literally Hell On Earth (HOE), yet today apparently that’s all flipped, via NZ MetService re today’s cold wave:
“some places might be fighting to get out of those negatives even through the daytime”, though farmers are “climatised to this type of thing” [sic].
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/563251/weather-south-island-prepares-for-heavy-snow-sub-zero-temperatures-to-strike
Strike… fighting… climatised… who writes this gunk! Meanwhile the mountains have turned white and the planet’s all right and I’m glad I live way up north.
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I found Auckland quite nice in January.
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It generally is pleasant in January as 97% of the population have escaped on holiday to other parts of the country (the city can appear deserted) though some years an errant ex-troppo will drift southwards and the authorities will ‘encourage’ everyone to return to the safety of their little ticky-tacky boxes on the hill.
I’m up the coast north of Auckland – I try to avoid city drivers who have no clue how to drive, or as we call them, Dorklanders.
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Does anyone know what the Snowy 2 tariff is? I bet it was set while the tunnels were wavy lines on a napkin.
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It was supposedly $40 per MWh arbitrage when it was supposedly going to cost $2 billion, so when the cost reaches $20 billion you won’t get any cheap electricity, will you?
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As I forecast months ago, Musk and Trump have fallen out in a big way. Of course this is God’s gift for the MSM, who are having a field day with it, especially Musk’s allegation that Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files.
This one will run for a long time and it will be used to distract from Trump’s successes.
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FWIW – there are gems in there
“While Trump and Elon Do the Fish Slapping Dance, Dodge Reintroduces the Hemi V-8 Ram”
“The company is now talking about what customers want, not what the company wants to give customers, and/or the government will allow customers to have.”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/05/while-trump-and-elon-do-the-fish-slapping-dance-dodge-reintroduces-the-hemi-v-8-ram-n3803503
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It’s a huge shame there’s been a falling out between them.
Neither one will take it well.
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The SMH is having a field day, a chance to denigrate the two men it loves to hate!
“They were meant for each other, but Trump and Musk were always going to blow up like a SpaceX rocket”
“Tesla takes $230 billion hit as Musk-Trump feud escalates… Tesla plunged as CEO Elon Musk’s relationship with Trump continued to sour.”
“Bromance over: Musk accuses Trump of being in Epstein files. Tensions between Donald Trump and his former “first buddy” Elon Musk have erupted into open warfare.”
And another “well, what could go wrong’ moment it that paper today-
“US beef could be allowed into Australia for the first time in decades. Biosecurity laws could be safely tweaked to allow US beef into Australia without compromising safety, risking criticism from farming groups.”
They used the word ‘safe’ twice, so all must be fine, no chance of disease and ill-health coming in with American food. I’ll bet there’s no ‘country of origin’ labelling on it either!
…and the ultimate amusement- Albanese banned from America!
“Could Albanese be caught up in Trump’s visa ban? A hidden announcement about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War.”
https://www.smh.com.au/
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“No chance of disease and ill-health coming in with American food. I’ll bet there’s no ‘country of origin’ labelling on it either!”
The thing with American beef is that it’s not all American, it can be Canadian or Mexican.
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Sundance gives a Good Assessment
President Trump Says Musk “Just Went Crazy” – as World’s Richest Man Continues Public Meltdown, Demands Impeachment and Replacement with JD Vance
June 5, 2025 – Sundance
It was always going to be thus.
However, some who do not carry the mental fortitude to withstand the TRUTH, will proclaim they are witnessing some pre-scripted game of chess or something, where the Trump -v- Musk battle is coordinated. It is not.
President Trump delivers some further consideration about Elon Musk from his perspective.
Musk responds by accusing President Trump of being in the “Epstein files” and later calls for his impeachment and replacement with JD Vance.
If you are a long(ish) time reader of CTH, what we are witnessing is exactly what we said we would see unfold. And it is really good to see it happening now.
I was not looking forward to this battle as the 2026 midterms came around, and I am thankful for delivering it now.
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Be Patient, Retain Integrity, The Tide Is Shifting in Our Favor
June 5, 2025 – Sundance
You Treepers know my top two priorities in the world of politics: Economic Nationalism (MAGAnomics), and capital letter Liberty, the fight against the surveillance state. In these endeavors the “Tech Bros” are opposed to our positions.
President Trump is focused on #1, economic nationalism. He eats, breathes and thinks about it all the time. It is also his #1 priority. However, President Trump has so many other items of great importance on his desk the surveillance state issue does not yet get his focused attention.
But there is good news. Now that Elon Musk has self-detonated, the “Tech Bros” have lost a key source of influence. The Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk, JD Vance and Palantir objective of a comprehensive surveillance state is weakened by President Trump telling Musk to get lost. This is good, and we finally have reason to be optimistic. We need to be patient.
As President Trump works through the priorities of the BBB, ongoing trade negotiations, decoupling from China, working toward the dissolution of the USMCA etc., he is also working through the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Iran nuclear issues and other geopolitical events. Once those challenges are majority cleared, hopefully that’s when we will see a confrontation of the surveillance state surface.
If confrontation with the surveillance state is also a priority for you, be patient.
Musk has self-detonated much earlier than I expected. That is awesome, and I carry a big smile today.
Eventually President Trump will see the Palantir constructs that have been laid around the administration by Machiavellian elements.
Trump’s hindsight will then be a weapon as he starts asking the big questions to those who have sat silently as the constructs have unfolded.
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The irony in this OldOzzie, could be the “Deep State” might have to take Trump’s side, because if the ultimate result of the spat eventuated —Trump pushed aside for JD Vance to take over, then the DS would be in real trouble as the big tech guys and their man JD Vance, would take a Milei sized chain saw to DC.
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I wonder if it has something to do with the dropping of tax breaks(subsidies) in the Trumps Big Beautiful Bill and the report on Telsa profit dropping by half if the Bill passes the Senate
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Spot on.
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Also, with my full sceptic hat on, I’m wondering if this is a stage event. Be a great opportunity to buy Tesla shares as well.
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Even Made it to Main The Australian Web Page – Crew abandons EV ship inferno
A cargo ship carrying around 3000 cars has been abandoned in the Pacific Ocean and left to burn.
The Morning Midas was carrying around 800 electric vehicles from China en route to Mexico when it caught fire about 450km south of Alaska.
The US Coast Guard Alaska Division was called to the scene of the unfolding disaster by a distress call at around 3.15pm on Tuesday (local time) and first witnessed smoke coming from the deck of the vessel, where the EVs were said to be stowed.
The incident has underlined the safety issues with transporting electric vehicles whose lithium ion batteries can catch fire and are very hard to put out – sometime burning for two weeks.
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This will affect already-high insurance premiums for the shipping of EVs.
It’s a metaphor for the whole EV industry – everything on fire before it sinks beneath the waves.
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No comments on that report though.
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FWIW
“Another day, another mRNA”
“BREAKING: mRNA Shots Induce Cancer-Linked Bone Marrow Reprogramming Within Weeks
New study analyzed leukemia patients who developed cancer within weeks of mRNA injection—their bone marrow showed distinct cancer-associated metabolic alterations.”
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-mrna-shots-induce-cancer?
Via https://instapundit.com/724126/#disqus_thread
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Did Queen Elizabeth have the same condition after the jab? Asking for a friend
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Net Zero Is a Net Loser for Democrats
Time to face the facts.
It may be starting to dawn on at least some Democrats that their heavy bet on renewable energy and “net-zero” emissions has been a huge political loser.
Early last month, 35 House Democrats voted alongside their Republican colleagues to kill a law in California—a version of which has been adopted by 11 other states—mandating that all new car and truck models sold in the state would have to be “electric or otherwise nonpolluting” by 2035.
The Senate later followed suit, with Michigan Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin breaking ranks to join the GOP in ending the mandate.
So what gives?
Why are Democrats retreating on an issue that was, until very recently, so central to their agenda?
I’ll tell you why: It’s because Americans, in poll after poll, and now election after election, have shown that their views on a rapid renewable energy transition oscillate between indifference and outright hostility.
Cost and reliability is what voters really care about when it comes to energy.
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How the US deep state feeds the Ukraine war
Bloodthirsty American politicians like Lindsey Graham are eager to drag the war on forever, so they do everything to scupper negotiations
John Laughland, who has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford and who has taught at universities in Paris and Rome, is a historian and specialist in international affairs.
The picture of Lindsey Graham, US Senator for South Carolina, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, grinning into a camera in Brussels on June 2, is worth a thousand words.
Graham is one of the most extreme hardcore warmongers in Washington DC, and the competition is pretty stiff. Ever since he first became a member of the US Congress over 30 years ago – once in, American politicians are rarely voted out – he has devoted his career to arguing vehemently for war.
His remarks are often not just belligerent but also sadistic, such as when he recently posted that he hoped ‘Greta could swim’, meaning that he hoped her Gaza aid ship would be torpedoed. Joking about an attack on a civilian aid ship carrying a young female civilian activist is sick – and typical of Graham.
Like his old friend, the late Senator John McCain, Lindsey Graham is obsessed with the idea of war with Russia. He has been pushing for this since at least 2014. In 2016 he told Ukrainian soldiers, “Your fight is our fight.”
Graham’s presence in Brussels is therefore significant. Ever since von der Leyen’s appointment in 2019, she has pushed herself forward as the principal public face of the Brussels institutions. Six years ago, she said she wanted to make the European Commission into a ‘geopolitical’ body – even though it has no role in foreign or military policy.
Since then, she has done little else than parade on the international stage. She is among the most hawkish and anti-Russian European figures.
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“Your fight is our fight.”
Hear, Hear!
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Amazing how many politicians are keen to get into someone-else’s war. Its not their money they are throwing away and they are never in any danger of dying.
Sure, go get beaten up by Russia, all over the loss of a corrupt third-rate sh1thole that no other country wanted to help. They were happy to let the Yanks rape and pillage it. I’d back any country that fought its wars by targeting the enemy’s leaders, be they political or business. Just cut the head off the snake, its not the voters who want war.
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What usually happens is that some other character takes his place and the cycle continues. Autocrats and dictators look back to a by gone era, hoping to leave a proud legacy, but they don’t have the cards.
There is little doubt that hostilities are coming to an end, probably by the end of summer.
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So… it must be the US shallow state trying to stop it?
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FWIW
Among the unsuspected powers of “Vitamin I”
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/jim_treacher_joe_rogan_06-05_2025-564×600.jpg
https://instapundit.com/724096/#disqus_thread
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So sad.
Elon’s and TRUMP’s falling out gets worse.
See link for the statement by TRUMP that Elon was responding to, it’s an image, not text.
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>so sad
True, Aspergers can be difficult to manage, but in the face of tragedy, see the humour…
https://x.com/coconutpeachi/status/1930727309637718358
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That is very good!
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Elon has called for Donnie’s impeachment, but that would put Vance in charge and he would be totally unsuitable for the task.
Is there anything in the Constitution about calling fresh elections?
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Musk, like Trump, is a BUSINESSMAN not a politician or a diplomat.
Neither has the skillset to run a country (or drag it backwards out of the abyss) but both are passionate and headstrong, so 2 rams headbutting was inevitable.
Musk needs to go back to robotics and AI, dump EV’s and have Starlink as a side benefit. That’s the future.
The cycle will not be denied its completion.
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What is the required skillset?
I don’t necessarily disagree with you because I think there practically isn’t anyone with the “skillset” to run a country.
Here in Aus we have one party (current govt and PM) loaded with people who are career politicians, either through working for politicians straight out of some uni degree and then gaining selection to stand for that party as a candidate. Or coming through the union movement administration. So many never really having broad experience. But they’ve got plenty of “political” and “diplomatic” game. That’s how they get through their faction fights to be the candidate. Being a politician and diplomat is overrated.
A few years ago Jordan Peterson made some reference to politicians and their incompetence. From memory the gist was that we have incompetent politicians. What we need is a normal level of incompetence that we can deal with and not an excessive amount.
I tend to agree with that. I would love it if the PM or President got everything right. But my cynicism means I just hope their good things outweigh their not so good or downright dumb things.
Trump can be a politician and diplomatic when he thinks he needs to be. Is he your classic statesman? No. He’s not of that mould with a school yard vocabulary at times. But not being a politician and not being diplomatic is something our typical politicians don’t do often enough. Sometimes you just gotta cut through the BS. He’ll make mistakes but I hope he does net good. He’s made some good structural change already that I think is a positive. But a country needs certainty and he does like to throw in a bit of chaos. I hope it’s calculated when he does it.
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So for what purpose was Trump pressuring Starlink’s Dragon program to achieve?
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FWIW
“Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant?”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/05/has-the-uk-just-signed-its-own-death-warrant-n4940477
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One of our most enjoyable early cars when I was learning to drive around 1955 was bought by my older brother to go shooting wallabies in plague on some farms owned by family friends.
Itc was a black 1933 straight 8 Buick sedan. The engine was 5.2 litres with a long stroke for its 8 cylinders. It put out about 180 horsepower giving top speed well over 100 mph, which we often achieved. It did not work for wallaby shooting because it was too like an Eliott Ness “Avengers” TV car where the guns were pointed at bootleggers. Too much laughter.
Because there was no boot, just a fold down luggage rack externally, the back seat room was huge. There were privacy blinds so it made a super drive-in movie car. My regards to the then young ladies who agreed.
Reason I mention it involves manual or auto concepts for learning to drive. It had a 3-speed manual floor shift. It sort of combined auto and manual, we discovered. On level ground, you could select top gear, then with no feet on the pedals, press the start button to glide away without shudders all the way from zero to 180 km per hour using just the throttle.
Which modern car can do that? Ah, memory lane. I remember the smell of the luxury leather upholstery even today. Geoff S
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Geoff, thanks for the memory
Never once been into drive-in movie theatre, leave alone reading poetry to a member of opposite gender there.
But I remember vividly the scream of my mother-in-low at the back seat of our car, when driving uphill somewhere well East of Toorak, just as we reached the top, on a huge screen right in front of us, was an unmistakable part of a blond’s anatomy.
Oh, Australia in 1970ies !
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I recall the Holden Sandman panel vans parked at the local ‘drives’ in the 70s, the original ‘Shaggin’ Wagons’, parked backwards with the beds in the back facing the screen.
Some with a bumper sticker that said ‘Don’t laugh, your daughter may be in this car’.
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From The Spectator:
Foundational Liberal values
(Liberal as in Liberal Party, Australia. Traditionally the “conservative party” or centre-right. But some here dispute that they truly are.)
In the wake of the recent election, former Liberal MP Peter Shack states what he believes are Foundational Liberal values.
Shack was the Federal Member in the seat of Tangney, Western Australia, 1977-83 and 1984-93.
https://archive.md/3ACB8#selection-631.0-631.42
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(FWIW – In January 2013, Shack was convicted of stealing $100,000 from his mother-in-law and was sentenced to 14 months gaol. I guess that means the values in the link are the Liberal Party values and not necessarily his 😉 )
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I’m sure Albo would say those are the values that represent the Labor Party right now. Its just the little exemptions that bedevil all these ideas, just how much welfare is enough, just how do we protect people if someone in a picture theater shouts ‘fire!”, is hate speech OK etc.
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Ji doppelganger meets Belarusian leader.
https://www.visiontimes.com/2025/06/05/chinas-leadership-shift-why-xi-jinpings-one-man-rule-may-be-coming-to-an-end.html
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We, in a glass house, should not throw even feathers around.
Like – look at the elections results lately.
Definitely, without a feedback any system is more efficient, including in a way of self-destruction.
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Wang Yang was asked to come out of retirement and take the helm, he agreed but on three conditions.
He wants full control of the military, a totally revamped diplomatic corp, and the factionalism must stop. It appears he got his way.
The man talking to the Belarusian leader was not Ji.
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Youtube stops working for a lot of iPhone users
The Google-owned app has quietly updated its iOS app to version 20.22.1, and now requires iOS 16 or later to install and run.
That means several older iPhone models are no longer compatible with the app.
The affected devices are those that cannot upgrade beyond iOS 15.
So that’s the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and the first-generation iPhone SE.
Alternatively, if you have an iPod Touch 7, you won’t be able to watch YouTube on that either.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14784207/YouTube-stopped-working-5-popular-phones.html
Youtube has been pretty sluggish lately firing up, and I wish all my 300 faves would move elsewhere.
Maybe Elontube is an idea?
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Only 22% of Americans say they enjoy using AI tools like ChatGPT
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1929910191585407028/photo/1
I’ve never used it or want to.
It’s a new toy for the masses rapidly falling out of favour while the co-developments of agents and real AI scream ahead.
Robots in the future will be cute though.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone. 😆
https://www.tumblr.com/thetursithan/785087222503358464/all-the-sci-fi-movies-we-saw-years-ago-are
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Germany admits open border crime crisis
Foreigners commit 59% of all sexual crimes at German trains and train stations, the latest crime data shows.
Sexual violence crimes have doubled between 2019 and 2024.
Foreigners are 15% of Germany’s population.
https://rmx.news/article/germany-foreigners-dominate-in-violent-criminal-offenses-on-public-transport-in-baden-wurttemberg/
Too late now for the EU and UK.
Economic meltdown and war dead ahead.
Time to reap what you have sown.
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NATO will be asking the Russians to help… ‘Please get our countries back for us’!
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Nice one KP. Thinking ahead and out of the square at the same time. I like it.
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75th anniversary edition of ‘1984’ contains trigger warning by American U. professor
It what may be one of the great ironies of the last couple of years, the 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell’s classic “1984” comes with a trigger warning in its introduction.
Courtesy of Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who according to her website has “established herself as a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life” and teaches literature at American University, the intro makes note that “there are no Black characters at all” in the novel.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/75th-anniversary-edition-of-1984-contains-trigger-warning-by-american-u-professor/
Maybe DM can write the 2025 version? 😁
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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FWIW
“Failure Was an Option: Sunnova’s Taxpayer-Funded Solar Flop”
““It is hard to square Meghan Nutting’s parting comments with good, only bad. Her company failed everyone but a few employees, and no one more than founder/CEO John Berger. Her industry has failed its owners and customers too. Her solar journey was a mistake, a mirage, enabled by government.”
Rooftop solar will go down as one of the biggest consumer busts in energy history–and it is just getting started. Sunnova Energy International, with 441,000 rooftop customers, already the subject of mass complaints and lawsuits, can no longer perform on their long-term contracts. So much for promises (still on their website):”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/05/failure-was-an-option-sunnovas-taxpayer-funded-solar-flop/
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FWIW
“A valley forged in timber”
“The prosperity of the Hastings Valley was shaped by the hard work of timber workers and the power of sawmills. ”
More at
https://www.robertonfray.com/2025/06/06/a-valley-forged-in-timber/
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Just look at the photo of Les Pampling, a sleeper cutter in there. In 1949 the guy cutting railway sleepers with an axe was skinny and muscled enough to make a gym-junkie cringe! Find a photo of an Aussie like that these days!
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So much for being a thing of the past – even in Australia it’s a Full House, and/or a Trifecta, and I’m not a gambling man by any means.
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/alpine
NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania
(Thredbo, Mt Buller, Ben Lomond)
snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow!
Seven days snowfall in three states…
must be the hottest year ever!
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Greg, every alarmist knows it is only snowing because of the oceans evaporating from the heat.
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UK – digital ID will stop the boats
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has revealed that Labour is looking for a “digital ID” scheme in a bid to work out which migrants have the right to legally stay in Britain and which do not.
But many Britons have long voiced their resistance to any kind of ID system in the UK. For any ID system to work everyone would need to hold one. By default everyone over the age of 16 would need to have one to ‘prove’ they are a legal citizen of Britain. Campaign group Big Brother Watch warned that the digital system was “Orwellian”, and pointed out that Winston Churchill was applauded for scrapping their analogue equivalents in 1952 after authorities began misusing it.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/digital-ids-will-stop-the-boats-says-yvette-cooper
Yes, they really think you’re stupid enough to believe this.
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It will be their excuse to impose digital ID but then they’ll keep open door immigration going anyway.
Yes, they really do think people are so stupid, well non-Leftoids anyway.
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D-Day seems to have been forgotten about.
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Quite true, not a mention anywhere. Of course these days the Germans are our best friends and the our Russian allies are the hated enemy.. times change quicker than a Govt.
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FWIW
Another box of tricks
“The ICC’s Phantom Authority: Why the United States Doesn’t Answer to Uninvited Judges”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/06/05/the-iccs-phantom-authority-why-the-united-states-doesnt-answer-to-uninvited-judges-n4940502
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FWIW
“Are the Wishy-Washy Elites Finally Getting Their Comeuppance?”
“The legacy media is, of course, trying to spin this as an anti-DEI backlash. Here’s another perspective: How about people with true, consistent values are fed up with milquetoast folks who have no real values and just say what is convenient at the moment?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/05/are-the-wishy-washy-elites-finally-getting-their-comeuppance/
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FWIW
“Trump’s Attack on Harvard Could be a Turning Point in the Battle Against the Climate Cult”
Starts with a parody video
“Ever wish your child was a full-blown liberal idiot? Desperate to turn them into a Jew hating extremist who’d rather burn a flag than think for themselves? Well Harvard University has the answer. For the low, low price of half a million dollars we will transform your kid into the kind of zealot who sets bags of shit on fire in the street, screaming about whatever CNN’s whining about today. Our elite programme guarantees they’ll swap reason for rage and facts for feelings faster than you can say protest permit.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/05/trumps-attack-on-harvard-could-be-a-turning-point-in-the-battle-against-the-climate-cult/
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Is it not strange that Adelaide Desal Plant has produced 18% of its nameplate capacity since 2012 completion?
Maybe 12-13 years is scientifically not long enough period to conclude it was not needed?
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I’ve always thought water desalination is a great idea.
Industry runs on clean water as much as power.
Anyway, would rather see desalination producing excess fresh water than moving back to windmills for power.
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Here is the latest UAH satellite temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere over AUSTRALIA.
That recent broad peak just gets wider. There is some work in progress about that.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahausjun2025.jpg
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Poof that politics in Australia is rubbish?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/brisbane-to-get-free-green-bins-not-fogo/105381040
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So I go to check on my Ukraine/Russia news and of a dozen pages I need about 9 translated. Suddenly tonight, after years of being OK, Google ‘cant translate this page’…. on any of them.
Another new sanction on Russia?? No translation service for anything in Russian from Google.
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Interesting.
Data privacy activists, many of whom are supporters of President Donald Trump, are expressing anger and disbelief following reports that his administration had advanced plans to create a national citizen database with technology firm Palantir.
The White House has reportedly contracted Palantir, a Colorado-based analytics company co-founded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, to assist in compiling a database of personal information on American citizens, according to unnamed government officials and Palantir employees. The purported deal follows project talks Palantir had with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education.
Jimmy speaks with author, activist and investigative journalist Derrick Broze about how Trump’s embrace of Palantir represents a betrayal of MAGA principles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqIHAxDcoU
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Chris Smith’s Explosive U-Turn: Aussie Radio Legend Ditches mRNA Jab Narrative and Joins the Truth Fight
https://www.aussie17.com/p/chris-smiths-explosive-u-turn-aussie
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