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In yesterday’s comments there is one about the city of Logan’s green credits. See #31 by MeAgain.
Logan has been buying overseas carbon credits of $1.5 million per year. Its 2025 population is about 430,000.
First: Has no one in AU set up a carbon-indulgence scam?
2nd: Cost is $3.50 per citizen per year. Has no one complained?
3rd: How many other cities in AU have been doings this and what is the total drain of wealth for these indulgences?
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One of Australia’s few growth industries is “carbon” credit scams and anything else to do with Big Bad Green.
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I don’t know if you have been to Logan, but there are a few people around there with not a lot of money.
And at the other end of the chain there are extremely poor people, paid off temporarily from proper use of their land which is where they get their basic food security, eg. ‘bio-diesel’ projects that take land out of food production, then walk away…
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The Censorship-Industrial Complex Has Now Become Self-Perpetuating
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
by Eugyppius
I’ve covered a lot of speech crime indictments here at the plague chronicle. Before Covid, these things hardly ever happened. Occasionally you’d find the odd article about a dumb tourist who was cited for throwing a Nazi salute in public or something, but that was it. The whole area just didn’t matter.
The German state acquired a kind of political Long Covid from the pandemic. Its agents learned from their virus repressions that they could get away with a lot more than they ever thought, and they also learned to view ordinary people as their adversaries. A third thing happened too, in that lockdowns moved a lot of discourse to the internet, and the German elite discovered for the first time that they and their policies suffer a popularity deficit there.
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To take but one example: during Covid, German politicians didn’t like the fact that people were calling them names on the internet. They therefore voted to enhance penalties for insults directed against those ‘in political life’. Then, some of them ran off and founded an internet censorship NGO-cum-startup called So Done, the entire business model of which involves using AI tools to find people insulting politicians and referring these politician-insulters for prosecution. When these malefactors are ordered to pay compensation to their ‘victims’, the insulted politicians split the money with So Done, and everybody is happy.
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We have established an autonomous, self-reinforcing censorship regime that serves no real purpose other than its own propagation, and for the foreseeable future we just have to live with that. It sucks.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/18/the-censorship-industrial-complex-has-now-become-self-perpetuating/
[Original Source: Egyppius. – Jo]
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Germany?
Who ‘da thunk it?
Dig around a bit and you will find that the “Abwehr”, the nazi spook agency nobody talks about, NEVER WENT AWAY.
While the “winners” were ferreting out Gestapo and SS types, the Abwehr became an integral part of the post-war spook agencies of both East and WEST Germany. See also places like Argentina.
The nazis were corporate statists, murderous loonies who were ultimately led to destruction by their own “leader”. They had a better costume designer, Hugo Boss, than the International Socialists, but the party factions and their own “financial operations” and factional rivalries hindered their “war effort” at least as much as the quirky decision making of said “leader”.
The Georgian monster, Stalin, was basically cut from the same raw cloth, but he was a serious “over-achiever”, butchering tens of millions of “class enemies” whilst trashing the food production system that had only just started coming out of the dark ages…
Stalin, in turn was eclipsed in the body-count stakes, by that Chinese bloke with his “Little Red Book”; still the driving force behind the sort of vermin currently trashing selected cities around what remains of the civilized world.
And, for all I know, all this is probably the “best bits” of the “trajectory”.
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A serious lesson to be learnt from European 1920es effort to “squash” Germany AND Russia at the same time.
Abwehr and RKKA cooperation started then, so no wonder from 1933 it was well worn path.
Cost millions of lives to break that partnership.
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The most significant theme of the age of Climate Change and Pandemic.
The transmutation of ‘Science’ and technology from an agent of liberation to an agent of oppression.
Power factions in society simply bought the institutions, and turned them into enforcers of orthodoxy.
This was always there.
Decades observable in ‘’Climate’.
Full open manifestation in Pandemic.
Do you trust your doctor?
In my Democratically controlled US State, your consult with doctor is no longer private.
Hasn’t been for years.
You are a subject for ‘scientific data research’.
Because the big University entity is a functional shadow arm of government.
How long before iatrogenic decline in life expectancy and fertility can no longer be covered up by our institutional enforcers of truth?
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‘How long before iatrogenic decline in life expectancy and fertility can no longer be covered up by our institutional enforcers of truth?’
Article in the SMH this morning about the increase of colon cancer in young people, so maybe turbo-cancers are slowly moving into view.
Of course if you are a trendy young thing, you can go and legally eat lab-grown meat in Aussie now, harvested from quail cells growing freely in vats. The company picked quail and marketed it through restaurants as they figured the name would be exotic enough for chefs and customers, and the protein could be slipped into other dishes without people knowing what they’re eating. A bit like pushing insects into schools where you have a captive audience.
“Why Japanese quail? It’s less easy to compare it to common dinner table staples such as chicken or beef. The team experimented with other species, including crocodile and shark fin, before landing on quail for its umami flavour.”
Guaranteed safe and effective by Australian regulators of course!
A little kick to beer to make you feel safe about it-
“Vow’s factory (sometimes referred to as Sydney’s first “meat brewery”), isn’t too dissimilar to the fermentation process in brewing beer.”
but no, these are avian cells, liable for cancer, bird flu and and uncontrolled growth, not yeasts.
“Hot water lines the tank, for warmth; oxygen and glucose are pumped in the tank, where the tissue scraping is given plenty of space to grow over the course of a month.”
No, you don’t grow meat from glucose, there must be a lot more going into that tank than was written about.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/entrepreneurship/lab-grown-meat-just-became-legal-is-it-any-good-20250617-p5m818.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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The evil regime of Iran will soon (likely) be fallen and there are many defections of officials toward Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran.
I don’t think Pahlavi or anyone want to re-establish the monarchy but he is willing to assist in establishing a democratic regime in Iran.
The Left are in meltdown as they see this wicked, brutal regime fall but the Iranian people will soon (hopefully) be free of their oppressors and no doubt women will have a mass burning of their burkhas.
Sorry Lefties, but living under oppression is not what the Iranian people want. The good guys, not you, are winning this one.
Even the Europeans now see this and TRUMP is no longer willing to negotiate with Iran. They have had their chances to forego their nuclear weapons program and to stop attacking Israel.
Many people also seem to have forgotten that Iran is a leading world sponsor of terrorism including of Hamas and also that in April 24 they also attacked Israel with a 200 ballistic missile strike and in October 24 with another strike of 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles. Apart from multiple missile strikes recently. They were not joking when they said they wanted to destroy Israel. No country would be expected to sit back and take that even though Israel showed remarkable restraint. And people only seem to complain when Israel defends itself, no other country.
Also, even the IAEA, who for the last several decades have turned a blind eye to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, have finally admitted they were enriching uranium and had reached 60% on the way to 90% required for weapons grade. Civilian nuclear reactors only require 2% to 5% U-235 enrichment.
Links to IAEA report and analysis:
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pdf
An analysis of the IAEA report can be seen here:
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/analysis-of-iaea-iran-verification-and-monitoring-report-may-2025/
Mahyah Tousi is an Iranian exhile in Londonistan and has a YouTube channel Tousi TV and has contacts in Iran and just gave this update with many facts you probably won’t see in the Lamestream Media:
https://www.youtube.com/live/1pBUbT3T3Bk (12.5 mins).
By the time you read this Tousi may well have posted another update as things are happening fast now, as they always do when the evil-doers fall.
Also recall what the Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz said:
I think the fact that the Iranian regime has so many supporters among the Left, and even among some others, shows how low the West has sunk morally and its complete lack of moral clarity (with a few exceptions such as TRUMP’s Anerica, and Merz in Germany).
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I’d put my money on it becoming another fragmented destabilised basket case of a country. Out of the frying pan….
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That is the West’s plan for all the Middle East, a backward bunch of tribalists that can be easily controlled while we steal the last of their oil. After that no-one will care. I doubt Israel will let it become a ‘successful democracy’, the Iranians might realise the truth in 15years and the war start all over again.
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Saudia Arabia is an economically successful theocracy, but Iran just needs to be a democracy and the economy will flourish.
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Back to my homeland.
For how long 45 million Kurds could be subservient to good mood of dictators in 2, 3, 4… countries?
Ukrainians decided, more than once.
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Surely the dream of the knee-oh-cons is to have U.S. airbases in north Iran, facing Russia, and the same in eastern Iran facing China.
Isn’t that their plan?
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I might add that regime change was NOT Israel’s objective but an incidental benefit for the Iranian people, if it happens:
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I am sure it wasn’t:
Pure political skullduggery on the part of Netanyahu, and a distraction from the ongoing brutality in Gaza.
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Every leader LOVES a war! All problems are forgotten, everyone falls in line behind him, the propaganda is thick and accepted…
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The British press is speculating about Israel using a nuke. It has to be completely out of the question. Can you imagine the knock on consequence? It would be a green light for Putin to use tactical nukes in Ukraine. It’s crazy stuff.
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>It would be a green light for…
… for Pakistan to Nuke Israel.
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This is all nonsense, nobody is going to use tactical nuclear weapons, it would be too costly.
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Before any army would consider using battlefield nukes it would have to train and equip it’s own army to move through the contaminated area to flank the opposition. Russia struggles to equip it’s own army conventionally.
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“Russia struggles to equip it’s own army conventionally.”
I know, isn’t it terrible!! They’re winning with shovels and stolen washing machine parts!
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At the current rate it will only a hundred years to overrun Ukraine. Sadly you won’t be around to cheer the Red Revolution.
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> to overrun Ukraine
As if that was the goal, or even desirable.
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> the Red Revolution
You’re a bit behind the times mate.
FYI Russia abandoned communism in 1991, 34 years ago.
It was in all the newspapers, I’m surprised you didn’t hear about it.
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More Leftist insanity in the category of “you can’t make this stuff up”…
And people wonder how in Australia people were so ignorant as to elect Dan Andrews three times and Albanese two times and probably more in future…
Personally, I support Chickens for KFC.
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It’s just another example of what happens to any organisation that is captured/hijacked by the left – it swaps focus from its original purpose and becomes another mouthpiece and vehicle to promote leftist politics. They simply can’t help themselves as the ’cause’ is everything to them.
The saying ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ describes this phenomenon in business, but it happens everywhere, from local councils to churches, NGOs to sports clubs, schools to charities.
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Probably got confused when someone said that Iranian gays are well hung.
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Gays for Gaza, Queers for Hamas, gays for Iran.
Chickens for KFC, Turkeys for Xmas.
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David Maddison, #5,
____As I understand it, Dues are not real keen on Christians either, so …
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Is that why we see so many of them beheading Christians or setting fire to their churches?
Oh wait …
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SpaceX has further optimised the design of the Super Heavy Starship booster.
The new design has three grid fins rather than four. These are the steerable fin structures that help guiide the booster back to the Mechazilla for recovery. This represents a weight saving of three tonnes plus a cost saving.
And there are other design changes such as a new design of the interstage ring.
There is video about it here: https://youtu.be/fWkhAJ8HsZo
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Does it make a prettier firework display than the previous incarnation when it blows up/crashes?
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Starship is pushing the limits of technology. At 5,000 tonnes it’s by far the biggest thing ever flown. There are bound to be problems, but Musk treats every failure as a learning experience. I am confident it will be successful sooner or later. Musk wants a fleet of 1000 of them running cargo to earth orbit, Moon and Mars with a turnaround time like an aircraft.
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I know the Musk rationale, but it seems like a counterproductive development strategy to me; that will likely encourage sloppiness, even recklessness.
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Not really sure what the alternative is when you doing something that hasnt been done before. The US blew up a lot of stuff before they got their first launch vehicles sufficiently reliable. I doubt the Russkis were any different.
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If you don’t strive to get it right first time, you never get it right.
You learn from failures of your best efforts, not an attitude of let’s see what goes wrong this time.
Another valuable lesson? No, just a total waste of time by a bunch of what are now looking increasing like incompetents.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1k87l7nre4o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1k87l7nre4o
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..” what are now looking increasing like incompetents.”
No no, the incompetents are those top Govt-approved engineers and rocket scientists at Boeing & Space Launch Alliance, the ones who couldn’t get their capsule to the space station and back even when it was 4 years late and massively over-budget, a budget that paid them millions of dollars more than Musk was paid to do the same job!
He’s the best humanity has got.
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Not mentioned now is the several nation Moon mining venture objective to obtain Helium-3 from the Moon, China refers to Helium-3 as the perfect fuel.
I understand that like thorium fuelled reactors Helium-3 would be a far better choice.
The plan is to build factories on the Moon and use robot earth moving equipment to collect Moon soil that would be processed automatically using the very hot daytimes and freezing cold nights to extract and liquify Helium-3.
One original space shuttle load would apparently power a huge area via power stations.
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Space-X ship just went BOOM! during tests.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1935551942089961728
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Japan study of 18 million C19 mRNA vaccinated people shows that the more times you are vaccinated the more likely you are to die and within just 3-4 months of your last vax.
The truth is coming out and it will be damning of those who claimed “safe and Effective” and hounded those eminent doctors and scientists who stated the opposite
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax-data-18/
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Unfortunately there was no reference to the paper given in the article or associated links, that I could see.
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No study link found either.
However, if you check the source article page:
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax
And scroll down to the 1st graph (bell curve) halfway down the page then zoom in ,then squint ..you’ll notice it’s 2021 data.
Not exactly a breaking bombshell.
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More good news for the multiple vaxxed. Would be interested to see if this ever makes the Lame stream media.
Japan Releases Bombshell Data on Millions of Vaxxed Citizens: ‘The More Doses You Get, the Sooner You Die’
https://slaynews.com/news/japan-releases-bombshell-data-millions-vaxxed-citizens-more-doses-sooner-you-die/
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Despite the worker’s paradise (if you’re a CFMEU union thug member) of Victoriastan being effectively bankrupt, there seems to be no evidence of any attempt to cut back on expenditure. It’s not something Leftists are capable of doing. They just seem to be increasing taxes and fines.
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Here’s some information about Victoriastan’s proposed gas import terminal, presumably to import gas that was originally exported from Australia at world’s cheapest prices…
There appears to be no land-based infrastructure, storage and refining is on moored ships. Only an odorant substance will be added to the gas on land before it goes into a pipeline. It all seems very temporary and jerry-rigged.
And there’s no guarantee it will go ahead anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-30/viva-energy-gas-terminal-project-approved-victoria/105356430
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The way our maritime industry is held hostage by the unions it might be cheaper to buy LNG out of Singapore and have it shipped to MLB on international carriers than local LNG shipped on Australian flagged and crewed ships.
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The Narrabri Gas Project has been given the green light to pump gas into south east Australia, but if the arabs get hold of Santos all bets are off.
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I just looked up this project. It’s a bit rich when people talk about “greedy gas companies” when the company has been trying to sell this gas for six yrs. Too late now for anyone to insist they “give” gas to anyone. If they want it, they pay for it. [Not saying that is your stance, it’s a criticism in general terms]
Santos signs MOUs with Brickworks and Weston Energy for Narrabri gas
Posted on May 9, 2019
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The bidders will have to jump through hoops, which could take years, but if they get it the price of gas should drop in south east Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/political-hurdles-face-santos-36b-deal/105428318
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If supply/demand [not Gov] drops the price, that’s great.
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Japanese paper on the COVID vaccine. The results of the compiled 18 million vaccine recipients.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax-data-18/
The more shots you get, the more likely you are to die, and the faster you go.
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I doubt if you will see this landmark study reported in the general news.
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I presented to hospital a month after my only jab [taken under duress] with a heart issue. I was never asked my vax status then or during the process of fitting my pacemaker.
It the North’s biggest hospital never asks how can they know anything?
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Maybe neither you or the hospital knows, but the AI does….
https://corbettreport.com/genomic-surveillance-in-the-thrill-kill-medical-cult/
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Sen. Ted Cruz dissects the Biden autopen scandal — including stats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnRUBGqY9Y
Skip to 3:19 for examples of 3 different autopen signatures used by the Biden admin at different time periods.
Skip to 4:10 for the graph of autopen use.
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FWIW
“Rare 16th-century shipwreck found at record depth in French waters: ‘Remarkable discovery’ ”
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/rare-16th-century-shipwreck-found-record-depth-french-waters-remarkable-discovery
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/18/rare-16th-century-shipwreck-found-at-record-depth-in-french-waters-n3803915
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Urgent warning to 1.8b Gmail users over hacking update: Make these changes NOW
A major change is rolling out for Gmail, and ignoring it could put you at risk of losing access to your account altogether.
The tech giant is tightening its account security measures, requiring nearly all Gmail users to make key updates to their accounts.
The update will require users to activate 2-Step Verification, which includes their password and a second step such as a smartphone notification, verification app or security key.
Google has begun sending users account-specific warning emails and login prompts directing them to take action.
These notices often include personalized timelines, which typically give 15 to 30 days to comply before access is restricted or blocked.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14820683/Urgent-warning-Gmail-users-update-google.html
I think their message went to spam.
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This seems to have been kept fairly quiet , given its a $100M fine. Optus up to sales shenanigans with disadvantaged people.
https://www.cyberdaily.au/tech/12250-optus-admits-to-unconscionable-conduct-of-sales-staff?
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Zuckerberg is offering $100 million signing bonuses to steal OpenAI’s top engineers.
Mark Zuckerberg is throwing $100 million signing bonuses at OpenAI’s top engineers, trying to rip them from the lab and plant them inside Meta’s new “superintelligence” division. The offers are real. The numbers are confirmed. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said it himself on the “Uncapped” podcast. Meta is flooding inboxes with nine-figure deals. Not stock. Not options. Cash. Upfront.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/zuckerberg-is-offering-100-million-signing-bonuses-to-steal-openais-top-engineers-so-far-not-one-has-said-yes/
AGI and superintelligence is B-I-G money.
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“AGI and superintelligence is B-I-G money.”
So were tulips my friend!
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Iran’s “big surprise” to shock the world, AI version
https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1935480055414530483
LOL…
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The secret to human behavior is funny hats.
The turbulent 18th and 19th centuries where major funny hat periods.
The Turks used to wear fezes.
Then Ataturk said we should all wear Western hats.
Then post WWII, almost everybody stopped wearing hats.
(My father hated hats, because it reminded him of the Army … not kidding.)
Then the funny hats retook Iran.
Then in America, the backward baseball hat became popular.
Then Trump popularized the MAGA hat.
Then in 2024, a US Senator started wearing a baseball hat and shorts.
The least crazy period of human history is when there were fewer hats.
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The World Economic Forum is preparing for a cyber attack that will make ‘the COVID-19 crisis seen as a ‘small disturbance’ in comparison’
Day 1: Your Money Will Be Gone
On the first day of a global cyber attack you’ll wake up to find your bank account frozen. ATMs stop working, and online banking systems have crashed across the world. Your credit card? Worthless. and with no access to your money you won’t be able to buy food, fuel, or anything else. And it won’t be just you—it will hit everyone simultaneously. The stock markets will be in total free-fall, and International trade will be dead on arrival.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/cyberpolygon-the-wef-s-false-flag-cyber-attack-with-covid-like-characteristics-1
How many are prepared?
/count on the fingers of 1 hand
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And how do they know it is going to happen?
Silly question.
They will be the ones doing it.
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Funny how the private jet class hopes for a New Stone Age.
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“How many are prepared?”
I repeat, Dan Murphies Liquor salesgirl said cash just pours in, without cash the country would stop…
So maybe SOME people would starve without internet banking, but a lot would just use cash instead.
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Here is something we can all agree upon.
‘Marles is betraying Australia with his AUKUS fantasy
‘The Defence Minister’s statement amounts to nothing more than a careless betrayal of the country’s policy agency and independence in its ability to make decisions in its own national interest.’ (Oz)
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El Gordo, you often say things that President Xi would be pleased to hear, as does Paul Keating. Feel free to explain why.
To provide a link and source
But thanks for giving me yet an other chance to remind everyone with eyes that the ‘threat’ from China includes leaking a bioweapon for Australia while lying about it, then hitting our coal, beef, barley, red wine and lobster industries with punitive punishing tariffs to stop us asking for the truth about that.
Not to mention the secret kill switches in solar inverters that could cripple our grid. The military practice tests 300 miles off Sydney a few months ago, and the mapping of our submarine cables, or the way the CCP cuts underwater cables around Taiwan and in the Baltic Sea.
The CCP is obviously hostile and untrustworthy, not trying to be a nice global citizen. Brutal to its own people.
The truth is we ceded sovereignty to the USA when we gave up defending ourselves.
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Agreed Jo, Just bought you a box of chocolates.
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There has been regime change in China, the CCP will soon be history, so under the circumstances there is no need for those subs.
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Hallelujah we are saved, the CCP has replaced the CCP.
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They are preparing to announce that Xi Jinping is retiring, through ill health. The doppelgänger in Kazakhstan is probably Shao Jianhua, a pie seller from Changsha City.
Xi has been sidelined and his wife has been missing for months. The CCP structure is still in place, but the factions have put down their arms and have universally decided to introduce democratic norms..
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The truth is we ceded sovereignty to the USA when we gave up defending ourselves.
I don’t think things are as bad as all that. We are in the top spenders worldwide. https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2504_fs_milex_2024.pdf (after all, it is relative – you don’t really have to spend if no one else is).
The land that we need to defend doesn’t change in size, but we are spending more than we ever have: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/aus/australia/military-spending-defense-budget
Our small population means we need to understand our limitations, and focus on diplomacy – but overall, our defence situation is better than it has ever been in my lifetime, by financial measures at least. And I fear that more new ‘kit’ means we realistically need to introduce national service to ‘person’ all the different toys we have…
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The Deadly Salt Myth That Fooled the World
Everything you thought you knew about salt is backwards. This deadly myth is ruining health, fueling disease, and no one’s taking responsibility.
A major study found that low sodium INCREASES your risk of death by 34%.
When you don’t get enough salt, your blood thickens, circulation slows, and clots form.
But what about salt raising my blood pressure? You won’t believe how useless salt restriction actually is.
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-deadly-salt-myth-that-fooled
Calorie counting, dietary fat, carbs, sugar salt, eggs, vitamin D, RDI’s…
All these medical lies and myths…
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What salt though – a lot of it is high in Silica Dioxide (anti-caking agent etc)
https://eatease.nutri-fields.com/blog/2024-11-01-silicon-dioxide/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026265X21004021 – when these guys are into a substance, my spidey senses start tingling….
The focus of the present review is to provide a concise but comprehensive summary regarding the emerging opportunities of silica-based materials within the food industry. In this regard, this study first presents different synthesis pathways of colloidal silicas and silica-metal hybrids, followed by their potential applications within the food sector. Particularly, this review focuses on their application in enzyme immobilization, important in food processing and production; food-related analyte detection (e.g., toxins, pesticides, etc.) related to food safety monitoring; and as inorganic filler in polymer composite films. This last application is discussed as an alternative and practically unexplored approach, being related to the improved properties (e.g., gas barrier, antibacterial, etc.) that the addition of silica-metal hybrids provide on the polymeric matrix, having enormous potential to be used as food packages to improve food shelf life, safety and quality. Consequently, all these applications offer enormous benefits within the food industry, being also in alignment with the global challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, for example the goal for good health and well-being (No. 3; decrease illnesses and deaths) and responsible consumption and production (No. 12; decrease the food waste).
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I figured out that the mainstream were wrong as usual and started using salt again a few years back. However a run through the ingredients found aluminium salts as anti-caking in ground table salt, so its sea-salt crystals in a grinder now.
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How to stop bananas going brown so quickly
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sy2b9hKCc11z23obp.mp4
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German’y meteorologists get a hammering for hyping heat.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/06/18/public-ridicule-hyped-summer-heat-headlines-meteorologists-losing-credibility/
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Dishing up ridicule lands you in German court these days.
A pensioner was recently fined 800+ Euros for calling a government minister a moron (which the report I read seemed to agree with ) and non compliant tweeting
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FWIW
“EPA Gets Moving On Its Push For Energy Deregulation”
“Now coming into view are the specifics of EPA’s strategy to end the Obama/Biden efforts to strangle the energy sector of the economy in the name of “saving the planet” from climate change. A document released by EPA last week on June 11 lays out the plan for repeal of the absurd (and dangerous) regulation that would have ended use of fossil fuels to generate electricity by some time in the 2030s. This EPA document is particularly interesting for the way it treats — and effectively sidelines — the so-called Endangerment Finding, the 2009 regulatory action that is the basis for all of the Obama/Biden fossil fuel suppression efforts.”
“All the environmental groups that have been gearing up to defend the “science” of global warming are going to need to totally re-tool their arguments.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/18/epa-gets-moving-on-its-push-for-energy-deregulation/
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Another perspective on booming EV sales in China and the arrival of 10s of thousandsxon our docks
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-auto-industry-verge-collapse-chinese-cities-run-out-car-buying-subsidies
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/chinas-central-bank-living-life-in-the-trumpian-fast-lane/
In the short run, it’s quite a dilemma that Chinese consumers remain surprisingly willing to open their wallets. China’s retail sales in May jumped 6.4% from a year earlier, the fastest pace since late 2023. Clearly, government subsidy programs are lifting consumption. For now, at least.
Linghui Fu, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics, pointed to Beijing’s trade-in scheme for consumer goods. “The launch of an action plan to promote large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods has boosted sales and services consumption, which strongly supported the economy,” said Fu.
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What happened to the ones that were clogging landing space at some European ports a while back?
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FWIW
“$2M “Women’s Spaces” to “Non-binary” Roller Skating”
“If you’re Australian, some of your taxpayer money, or even ratepayer money is being diverted to programs aimed at promoting specific social agendas in the form of grants. Thank you to viewers for sending these in. For example, the Australian Government’s Play Our Way program, where they’re investing $200 million to give women and girls more opportunities to access, participate and stay”
https://youtu.be/tOEkSbiNeuc?si=RjQ_xTAGOd9cvZRg
Opens like another “Elbow Horror Show”.
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FWIW
“Canada Continues Time-Honored Tradition Of Being Worse Than The USA At Everything”
https://babylonbee.com/news/canada-continues-time-honored-tradition-of-being-worse-than-the-usa-at-everything
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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/four-day-amber-heat-alert-10277236
Don’t worry, it still goes down to under 20 overnight. (heatwave minimums matter as much as the maximum).
In terms of extremes, the little bit of heat is nothing on the cold….
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromhypothermia2019to2023
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FWIW – and another one – – –
“£2 Billion UK Hydrogen Plant Cancelled”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/19/2-billion-uk-hydrogen-plant-cancelled/
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https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-spacexs-starship-static-rocket-test-suffers-major-anomaly
JC2 – way ahead of even ZH..
Post #6.2
/lol
/ignore at your own risk
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From the ZH link:
Strange, I haven’t seen any protests about “emissions” from the people who like to glue their heads to the road.
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