! The site is currently under DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack again. Traffic is crazy.
Literally hundreds of thousands of requests coming in from the US, Vietnam and Brazil.
Thanks for your patience.
Apologies, it’s difficult to write posts when the server is overloaded.
(I will be reviving the largely dormant X account soon. @JoanneNova)
UPDATE: Massive suspicious traffic relentless. We’ve taken some action. Hopefully not blocking real traffic.
Please respond on X or email support.jonova AT proton.me.
A bit scary. A North Korean phone that self censors the user
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14775207/Phone-smuggled-North-Korea-scary.html
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This IS scary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
This AI program blackmailed the engineer who wanted to turn it off. This had been deliberately set up with supposed infidelities by the engineer to determine what lengths the program might go to in order to preserve itself. It threatened to spread news of his infidelities to others if turned off.
Is that the only reasons AI would threaten this sort of action-self preservation? Its difficult to see how it could need money or anything like that.
The writers of the program said AI will surpass all aspects of the Human race within 2 or 3 years and we were sleepwalking to the end of humanity as the dominant force.. The implications for cyber hacking on a giant scale are obvious with a superior AI system blocking an inferior one trying to defend a computer.
If an individual or Govt didn’t like the views of someone could they shut down their bank account?
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Ask the Canadian truckers.
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Ask Russia or Iran.
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In the West we just de-platform them ; so much more civilised.
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“If an individual or Govt didn’t like the views of someone could they shut down their bank account?”
Well, they could certainly try to shut down their website with DDOS attacks! At least Jo is Catholic in her enemies, we will get attacked by Left and Right factions!
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By the speed of reload I was guessing that the “poxers” were at it again
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How could AI, or any digital feature, perform any retaliation once it is shut down ?
( ie, unpowered, and unpluged from power and disconnected from connectivity.)
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Heard of IoT?
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Depends on what has been set up, distributed and told how to behave prior to the shutdown. A simple example: set up a bunch (bunch being any number you want to make up) of remote software entities , tell them that you should expect to hear from me every minute, if you don’t hear from me check with other remote entities , if you agree you haven’t heard from me , go forth and do nasty things like stop paying public servants, turn all Sydney train signals to red or donate all Australian Super Fund assets to a regional donkey rescue farm. Shame about network outages and power failures, but I did say it was simplistic.
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It is human programmers who write the workflow and logic.
AI is a dumb machine and does not think or understand anything.
Just an automatic response like a land mine. It does not choose to attack humans it just explodes when anything walks on it.
Very easy to do.
If anyone asks certain types of questions it is programmed to blindly attack.
Same reaction to whatever questions/threat.
If in doubt threaten to attack.
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Shades of “SkyNet”?
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I thought this an innovative suggestion
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/france-should-carve-out-piece-of-riviera-for-palestinian-state-says-us-ambassador/
Clearly a 2 nation state is impossible when one state intends to totally eradicate the other and the country is, in places, only 10 miles wide and in total only the size of Wales.
The surrounding Arab states have got mostly got small populations and very large tracts of land but the fact that Palestin* are still referred to as “refugees” 80 years after the event shows the Arab World is not interested in a pragmatic solution like resettlement.
Glad I don’t have to resolve this on going conflict.
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Its a very simple fix, go back to the pre 1948 borders when Israel did not exist, and then get the Israelis to immigrate somewhere, problem solved
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Why not 37 BC?
Compensation to be paid to anyone who considers themselves related to any of the local tribes.
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There is no “Israel” on your map so thanks for agreeing with me Broadie your public show of support is very much appreciated.
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JUDEA looks fairly prominent. From Judah the son of Jacob. All Israelites.
As for going back to pre-1948 boundaries. Perhaps the Arabs should have thought of possible consequences before backing the wrong horse in the preceding few years.
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Your ‘simple fix’ is not part of God’s sovereign plan. Good luck with your Way Back Machine though.
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That is true John
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They still wouldn’t be happy.
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I think they would as it would be better than being starved to near death and then shot in the head as you pick up food off the ground
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Yep it was much better before 1945.
3. 2. 1 – Incoming Deflection
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Broadie,
You do realise a Jew could be anyone who practises the Jewish faith, whereas Israel is the name of a country that did not exist before circa 1948 so my next (logical) question is what is the point of your comment? are you trying to make a point? or are you just simply trawling the internet looking for factoids in a desperate attempt to sound important?
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Today , a Jew can be someone who practices no faith at all, has no Semitic ancestry whatsoever, and eats pork (free-range organic , naturally).
Some of my kin had their DNA analysed, and a small % of “Jew’ genetics was the result.
Possibly from the Pomeranian ancestors, who were Roman Catholics.
The link with Judaism has been abandoned , at least in the vernacular.
I see Israel since 1948 as a place-holder for British banking /oil interests ; you probably know who I mean.
That makes Israelis and Zionists no more than useful idiots in the view of some.
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Okay
Now we are getting somewhere. So prior to 1948 there was an area of land that had both Arabs, Arab Jews, European Jews, British, etc that were not very happy and were prone to riots and massacres.
Your point appears to be that part of it wasn’t called Israel. Therefore removing the State of Israel would be the simple solution to someone in a place called Gaza being shot in the head by someone else while fighting for free food.
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If only the Romans had gone back to pre-70 borders.
Dang Romans.
What have they ever done for us.
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Well they did give us a great deal , most of which we have ignored or forgotten.
The dangers of elitism , expansionism , imperial ambition . . . . .
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Gentlemen !
Don’t waste the flowers of your spleen on that trifling matter.
Just resolve a twin case – same origin, same date, same irreconsilable flow from 1948 till today.
Both sides have nukes….
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Go back 3,000 years when was created by the indigenous population who lived there for thousands of years before then.
Jews aka Israeli people were there first. They also invented God.
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Tonyb, #3,
____This innovative suggestion is just the latest. Jews have been making themselves unwelcome wherever they go since the days of the Old Testament. Western Madagascar and our Kimberley region were proposed, in the past, to be inflicted with these perennial squatters.
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Gazans are the only group in the world where refugee status can be inherited.
There is no Palestine and never has been. They are Egyptian, Jordanian or Syrian by descent. Send them back.
Israel must bulldoze the entire strip and reclaim it.
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Gazans are the only group in the world where refugee status can be inherited.
There is no Palestine and never has been. They are Egyptian, Jordanian or Syrian by descent. Send them back.
Israel must bulldoze the entire strip and reclaim it.
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Many of those Canberra ‘born and bred’ (who are generally there because of parents, and even now grandparents / great grandparents – I guess there are perhaps 5 generations can fit in those 100 or so years – who were there for government reasons) have been disillusioned with government and the idea of democracy for some time. They voted in 78 for no local government, but got it anyway 10 years’ later.
https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/history-of-parliament/history-milestones/australian-parliament-history-timeline/events/act-granted-self-government
I would guess that is why the voter participation is around the same as in the other Southern States, despite being the ‘heart of government’ and having a large portion of population in civil service, defence or associated with the universities: https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseTurnoutByState-31496.htm
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https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-31496-101.htm
Labor 48.3% (swing +3.4%)
Greens 19.8% (swing -4.9%)
Labor + Greens 68.1% last time 69.6%
Liberal 18.3% (swing -3.5%)
Independent 10.9%
UAP + One Nation + AJP (1.35%) total 1.35%
Doesn’t look like a swing against big government to me.
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Not major party votes, or independents, thinking about the just not bothering to vote at all.
You would think ACT should get near 100%, or would at least be the highest participating jurisdiction. Given they are there for being government and all that.
Not that many in Canberra are from Canberra. I just wonder if you are from Canberra, born there, and see it all day to day, perhaps you are less likely to even bother voting.
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“thinking about the just not bothering to vote at all. You would think ACT should get near 100%,”
No, they are involved in Govt and realise voting doesn’t matter at all! If it made a difference they wouldn’t let us do it!
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This article is from 2017 and from the regressive Left and public “service” supporting Their ABC Australia but it says that 42% of the workforce in the ACT are public serpents.
I expect it would be much higher now because of massive public service recruitment by Labor.
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Seeing as Washington DC was founded about 1800 Canberra will need a few more generations to achieve DC voting percentages
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The British government and police have become the enemy of the British people. British peace lovers are seen as pro-Russian, British Christians are seen as far-right and British Jews and Hindus are seen as Islamophobes.
Under the Soviet Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Sir Keir Stalin has ordered a “technical capability notice” to break all encryption systems worldwide, so as to spy on the enemies of the ‘Deep State’. Elon Musk said “This is crazy”.
The White House has said it is “monitoring” the case of Lucy Connolly in an escalation of free speech tensions with Sir Keir Starmer. The British state police service arrest more than 30 people every day for unapproved comments on the internet or other platforms, totalling around 12,000 arrests per year, 30 times more than Russia which is no longer a communist dictatorship. The Trump administration has sent five diplomats from the U.S. State Department to investigate Britain’s draconian speech restrictions, and to meet with victims, amid growing concerns over the state of liberty in the United Kingdom. A Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) team also met with British Foreign Office officials and members of the authoritarian OFCOM state broadcasting censor, which acts as a ‘Ministry of Truth’ for the British state.
OFCOM was recently empowered to police speech on the internet in Britain by the orwellian Online Safety Act. This Chinese communist style legislation imposed by the socialist Labour government has reportedly become a major bone of contention between Washington and London, given OFCOM,s threat to impose hefty fines on American social media firms for failing to police and ban content not approved by the British establishment. Trump, Vance and Musk have also raised the cases of left-wing political persecution of Tommy Robinson and Lucy Connolly, who was sent to prison over an angry social media post following the murder of three young white girls at a Taylor Swift dance party in Southport by Black teenager Axel Rudakubana, who wanted to chop their heads off because they where dancing to decedent western music.
The Office For Censorship, Obedience & Manipulation (OFCOM), the Security Service Marxist Intelligence section 5 (MI5), the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT), the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee (DSMA), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team, and the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) all regard the far-left Marxist, Communist and Socialist death cult as ‘Good’, and the far-right Churchillian, Thatcherite and Conservative Pro-democracy, Freedom and Free speech cult as ‘Bad’.
The BBC lead Trusted News Initiative has started propaganda operations with the approval of OFCOM (Ministry of Truth) to spread the meme that our ‘real danger’ is the ‘far right’ (code for ‘Churchillian white British voters’).
The job of the British bobby is to ignore rapes and burglary and instead ‘check the thinking’ of white people who complain about rape and burglary.
The job of the British Army is to defend the Ukraine and foreign invaders from France from white people both British and Russian.
The job of the British Security Service Marxist Intelligence section 6 (MI6) is to defend International socialist totalitarianism, Communist capitalism and Corporate monopolies from Churchillian white British voters, Christians and Donald Trump.
The British Prime Minister is sick of the white working-class British people, their country, their society, their lifestyles, their culture, their beliefs and their very thoughts, as do ethnic minorities and upper-class politicians, middle-class journalists, left-wing academics and senior-elite police chiefs.
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Good comments Paul.
Australia is going the same way.
We also have two tier policing and an e Safety Kommissar for censorship with the government wanting more censorship and “misinformation” powers despite misinformation legislation previously having been (barely) rejected by the Senate in the former Labor regime.
Don’t forget the Uniparty is in this together. The origin of the censorship powers such as the e Safety Kommissar and the previous misinformation bill* lies with the fake conservative Liberals. And Liberals also supported Labor’s plan for online ID verification which they will get via age verification for social media.
With no effective opposition from a major party, who in any case support censorship, Australia is effectively a One Party State.
* https://www.paulfletcher.com.au/media-releases/new-disinformation-laws
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Quadrant Online has a June 2nd article by barrister Peter Lavac “The Day VicPol Finally Did Its Job”. Recommended.
It points to the police problem of on the spot decisions to be made in the heat of protest.
If you are a senior cop who has always been a keen Muslim, how do you treat violence in a pro-Muslim protest where you are the senior rank cop? Do you have to take sides in response to orders from above or do you just wing it as you feel?
It is all too obvious that many societal sectors in Australia are being sabotaged by devoted, active, anti-Aussie elements. As I write, talkback radio is about flags being flown with the Australian flag absent. Our immigration policy for years has weakened Australianism. More ready examples exist.
With the police matter, surely it should be stated and clear and enforced that racism is not to be encouraged in any of its forms. Do we have any State examples where there is such a clear police policy? Geoff S
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Marxism is not and was never intended to be an economic policy.
It was designed to be an ideology of social engineering.
Scientific Feudalism, combining the existing church and state feudal system as single entity to create a new all-powerful ruling class for the newly created scientific industrial world.
Marx knew that if you controlled the way people think you would control EVERTHING.
To paraphrase President Bill Clinton, it’s not the economy stupid; it’s the people.
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The Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network is focused on growing effective philanthropy to protect the planet.
https://www.aegn.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AEGN_TheEconomicsOfGiving_Report.pdf
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I’d want to “follow the money trail”.
1) Do the “philanthropists” get tax deductions for their “investments”?
2) Who profits from building and selling the products of said investments?
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The ‘project pipeline’ is members only.
Membership is $750 a year, and must demonstrate ability to ‘give’ $25,000 a year as well as ‘commitment to values’.
You will follow only what they want followed.
I find the hidden pipeline shadowy – if these are projects seeking funding, and have been through their rigorous checks against greenwashing, surely all investment would be welcome, from both members and non-members? (non-members money could get the project over the line to start you would think – this is, after all, so incredibly urgent)
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This is an area of investigation that should be followed by our major news investigation sources. But, of course it won’t be.
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The performance of just about every “environmental charity” I have read about reeks of disaster. They are shady people intent on getting richer by taking from others, using special pleading of invented harm and gross exaggeration of the worries they will solve.
You just have to read a recent report from Rockefeller to see rip-off in action under the self-invented guise of benefit to the poor. What a laugh. We are in an age of contradictions where black is white, good is bad, large is small etc. Crazy times. Geoff S
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“effective philanthropy to protect the planet.”
Wait , isn’t that we farmers have been doing for millennia ?
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In this video John Stossel interviews Charles Ryu aho escaped starvation and torture in the socialist “paradise” of North Korea. He also talks about the freedom he now has in America. When he left NK he didn’t speak a word of English but amazingly he learnt it watching Family Guy!
A fascinating video.
And to think that this North Korean socialism is the life so many Leftist regressivea want for us all.
This is the sort of genuine refugee and now hard worker immigrant the West should be taking, not the ones we get now.
https://youtu.be/e0fKoQDAk7U
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I wonder who is behind this?
Why do they want to shut down the site?
Attacks coming from Vietnam and Brazil?
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Yes, but not likely anything to do with Brazilians or Vietnamese themselves.
The Left are intolerant of free speech and alternative opinions, hence support the shut down of free speech sites like this.
Plus, most Leftists are just the useful idiots of Big Green and Big Pharma, among others. There is a lot of money to be made, and is being made, from the climate scam and also the promotion of certain ineffective drugs offered by BIg Pharma. Hence the dramatic drop of share price of Big Pharma in the US when the TRUMP Administration requires proof of efficacy of various drugs.
Etc..
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Is it illegal to deliberately disrupt some else’s communications?
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Jo Nova is the best,
Trying to halt the Dis-
Integration of the West.
As Adam Smith observed,
Equality in law, free speech and
Right to property are gold,
Without these, human beings
Are flocks of geese
Or herds of oxen on the run.
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May come from within Australia, but with a VPN routing via these other countries
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Leftists! Maybe the attack is coming from the government or the IT department at the ANU.
I am not sure what a VPN is, but how do they generate all the different messages with different addresses in a very short time?
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More likely a botnet than a VPN — hundreds of thousands (say) of PCs infected by malware that takes orders from “master”. Today, master issues a command to all of them to request https://joannenova.com.au/ every 5 seconds, and that’s a DDOS attack.
The same thing *can* happen benignly. E.g. if Jo Rogan were to highly recommend visiting this website, all his dutiful listeners might find it pretty slow, as would we.
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Its a universal problem.
https://stormwall.network/resources/blog/ddos-attack-statistics-2024
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el+gordo,
For a report that’s all about numbers, the opening sentence is a bit odd:
Nearly doubling? How about just over doubling instead?
Later in the report it gives the breakdown by industry. I’m having difficulty fitting JoNova’s into any of their categories. Entertainment? Education? I guess it’s Others.
And while you say it’s a universal problem, those graphs show it’s not a *uniform* problem. Finance and goverment are more than 40% of targets: money and politics. Attacking Jo Nova’s isn’t going to be about money, but is the political influence here enough to be worth the bother.
Hmmm. Maybe it’s not that much bother. Apparently baddies only charge about $25 per hour to mount a DDOS from 1000 hosts. Good value!
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Good point, clearly they are gangster pirates, but no idea why the mob have picked this blog.
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“no idea why the mob have picked this blog.’
Nothing to do with covid , that’s for sure.
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That was years ago, there must be something else going on.
Might have something to do with the war in Ukraine, here we get to see both sides of the argument.
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They want to shut down the site because it is effective at displaying the bullshit the Government and its cronies throw at us every day.
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Mark Carney, the PM of Canada talks about “decarbonised oil”.
https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/1929719296454005065
Is he even more stupid than Australia’s anti-energy minister Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen?
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Perhaps he is obtusely referring to water, David.
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Sometimes I am just so gabsmacked and distraught at the ignorance of our”leaders” that I could weep.
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A reminder about Australian anti-energy Minister Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen’s latest major malfunction.
A carbon tariff.
Because existing carbon taxes and “green” energy aren’t already lowering our standard of living enough.
And to classify certain manufactured substances like steel or concrete as “dirty” is just childish and ignorant.
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That will bring the price of housing, apartments, major infrastructure etc down – NOT
From Labor Fairwork Commission, who probably have never ever run a Business in their lives – like Labor/Green/TEAl MPs
Minimum Wage Calculations
The Australian Fair Work Commission announced a 3.5% increase to the minimum wage starting July 1, 2025, which translates to an additional $32 per week for minimum wage earners.
However, businesses will need to consider additional costs beyond just the wage increase.
These include payroll taxes and increased superannuation contributions.
The superannuation guarantee rate will rise to 11.5% from July 1, 2024, and this increase applies to the higher wage amount, meaning businesses will contribute more towards their employees’ superannuation accounts.
The exact total cost to a business will depend on the number of employees affected and the specific payroll tax rates applicable in their jurisdiction.
Additionally, businesses may face higher payroll processing costs due to these changes.
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Is this an attempt by Big Wind Bowen to implement Albo’s vision of “progressive patriotism”?
After being kept in a cupboard throughout the election campaign, he’s now wheeled out to unveil his next pointless climate policy.
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Calling Dr Strangelove. And then there was Being There with a simple minded gardener becoming president.
How did the authors get so close so long ago?
Truth is too close to fiction for comfort. Must check out Nostradamus.
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“Gentlemen, you cannot fight here. This is the War Room.” Dr Strangelove.
My #1 choice of all time great movies. #2 is Dr Zhivago (sexy Julie Christy) because the missus says I looked like Omar Sharif. Geoff S
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It must have been the best role Slim Pickins ever had.
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But this has nothing to do with Trump, he is not in Ukraine’s war room, not even a friend and his leaky agencies could NEVER be trusted with such secrets so there is no way they would be given prior knowledge.
While Trump insists this is Europe’s problem he can’t insist on veto rights.
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And the scary stories just keep coming.
It sounds like someone wants to sell some “vaccines” and others want to impose draconian lockups (which would happen in countries like Australia, not the US under TRUMP).
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I find it interesting that there has been no mention of the severity of a resulting infection?? Is it as bad as a severe bout of flu, or just a few sniffles gone after a few days?
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It’s causing havoc in China but strangely, little is known of it. It is being called “razor blade throat”. We are not being told the truth about it.
China’s Razor Blade Throat Epidemic
China is currently facing a resurgence of COVID-19, characterized by symptoms including a severe, burning throat pain often referred to as “razor blade throat”.
This term describes intense throat discomfort, similar to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades. According to Zhong Nanshan, a prominent pulmonologist and epidemiologist in China, the “razor blade throat” symptom is more pronounced in this wave of the virus, along with more frequent coughing.
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The fact its got a catchy name associated with it, raises my BS meter immediately. You can see the idiots in the media calling the latest strain – “Razor”.
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The name is out of China not the CDC.
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If it is what is circulating in NZ at the moment, then it is about an average winter flu, slight temperature/fever, bronchial congestion, maybe a little achey/head achey; all the usual remedies appear efficacious – C+D+zinc. B -vitamins + iodine and selenium perhaps.
Possibly a strep throat when on the mend ; say 3-4 days overall.
it wouldn’t stop one from working provided chills were avoided , and energy levels were kept high.
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They claim this version can evade the immune system much better. Looks like the predictions of Geert Van Den Bossche are coming true after all.
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I thought a bit about that prediction over the last few days, but pathogenicity appears not to have increased; transmissibility seems average.
But are you stupidly vaccinating during an epidemic , if the “vaccine” is ineffective?
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The vaccine-boosted immune system – or in other words, the vaccines don’t work
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Dan Andrews sunk a lot of Australian tax payers money into that manufacturing plant and by hell or high water they will get their money back so stop resisting the latest round of psychological manipulation better known as “nudge” and roll up your sleeves and do your bit for the country.
That was a joke for all those that cant recognise them.
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Would the highly sterile new manufacturing environment support the manufacturing of plain old medicines?
The out of patent antibiotics and blood pressure reduction drugs and INSULIN? At a cost lower than importing them.
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Certain hospitals in Melbourne’s west now require visitors to don masks.
There’ll likely be rat tests and all that affiliated pseudo science; only two visitors per patient (distancing eh, one each side of the bed I guess).
There’s a class of professional zombie inhabits Victoria’s medical facilities which is being reanimated from Dan’s salad days; surely there won’t be a return of the curfew.
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In the category of “I never thought someone would make a video about that”, here is an interesting video about the mechanism known as the hinge.
https://youtu.be/FK49HrXnQc4
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yt-dlp was unable to download this video; one is prompted to “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot”.
It has been some few months since this gremlin was last active.
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Looming US Battery Company Shutdown Imperils Aussie Net Zero Push
Essay by Eric Worrall
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Powin is the main supplier for the big battery which is supposed to replace Eraring Coal Plant. The NSW government last year agreed to pay a billion dollars to Eraring to stay open until 2027, to stabilise the New South Wales state grid.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/03/looming-us-battery-company-shutdown-imperilling-aussie-net-zero-push/
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How much of Aussie taxpayers’ billion dollars has already been given to this soon-to-be bankrupt company?
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The battery is being built at the site of the decommissioned Munmorah coal generator and is owned by the BlackRock-backed Akaysha Energy, which also contracted Powin to supply batteries to the 150 MW, 300 MWh Ulinda Park battery that is currently under construction in Queensland.
The Waratah Super Battery when completed will have a capacity of 1680MWh – equivalent to just over half an hour of Eraring Coal Plant output when fully charged.
Given wind droughts covering the entire continent of Australia have occurred at least twice in the last five years, only the engineering challenged could believe a battery of this capacity is an adequate replacement for a plant capable of delivering a continuous 2880MW
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Obviously these batteries are not intended to cover prime generator capacity.
All the can do ( and indeed need to do in order to give a lucrative investment return), is to supply short term FCAS support , and cover immediaate power spikes …effectively gaming arbitrage income at peake pricing times.
They are nothing more than a investment oportunities for system operators.!
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With an investment that size, they must have the source code for all the Battery Management software in escrow and development team ready to go to keep going.
Blackrock will likely just go ahead and buy Powin anyway – can’t turn away from all these juicy state subsidies to hoover up.
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Just one question…
How does a battery replace a power plant?
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In imagination?
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Ask Chris.
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It doesnt, its just being built where a generator once stood. I dont recall anyone saying its a one for one replacement but you cant stop people having delusions.
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By operating as part of a System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS) to increase the transmission capacity of the existing network, the BESS will allow more power to flow from existing generators to meet the needs of the families and businesses of NSW.
https://akayshaenergy.com/projects/waratah-super-battery
I think it is considered part of Transmission rather than Generation. I don’t know if all the promised household batteries are considered Transmission or Distribution though. But I am sure they will figure all that out.
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“But I am sure they will figure all that out”.
No they won’t, in fact I don’t think they have any idea what they are doing. You would be better of tossing a coin and hoping for the best.
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Sorry – should have added (sarc)
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“Main supplier to Australia’s most powerful big battery warns it may go out of business.”
Wouldn’t that be a shame.
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Sounds like their primary source of battery cells may not be US based (China ?) and hence now subject to import tarriffs,..making their business plans uneconomic and any existing sales quotes potential loss makers.
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One day your planes get blown up, two days later you slip and fall out a window. Without bad luck he’d have no luck at all.
Russian Air Force General Falls from Window
On June 3, 2025, Sergey Ivanovich Kobylash, a Russian military officer who served as the Commander of the Russian Air Force and a Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, died after falling from a window. He was born in Odessa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and had a distinguished career in the military, including flying combat missions in the First and Second Chechen Wars and the Russo-Georgian War. Kobylash was known for his extensive experience, having over 1,700 flight hours and earning the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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Wikipedia verified he is still alive…
Schrodinger’s Russian Officer!
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That wonderful act: Defenestration, a term I used when early MS-DOS froze my computer and chucked me out of Windows.
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DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack.
Undoubtedly Jo’s sharp, concise articles dissecting the climate and political issues are rankling someone in the “elite” circles.
Repeated attacks can only lead to that conclusion.
Which means the page is highly followed by some important people , somewhere.
So…. keep at it Jo!
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Took a few attempts to ‘make contact’ but you’re coming in loud and clear here in New Zealand despite the changing climate – weather experts now predicting ‘snow possibly to sea level’ down south by Friday yet Christmas is 6 months away 😃
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You only cop the flak when you’re over the target.
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This quote accurately sums up Australia today.
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) (US) – Memo to the President, Vice President, Director of National Intelligence, Director, F.B.I., Secretary of Defense
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/02/vips-memo-the-leap-forward-in-surveilling-americans/
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DDOS attack.
Supposedly there is an Australian Government agency that is meant to deal with such things.
But probably useless, and in addition, not likely to be supportive of conservative-oriented websites.
From Goolag AI:
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In this topsy turvy era, the above list would be high on the list of likely perpetrators of the attack.
Beam me up Scotty.
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Very likely, Forrest.
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Those who are meant to protect us by enforcing laws are the ones harming us, at least for the present Australian Government.
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The BS never stops with you does it David
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ASD is not like the TAX office or the NDIS, the role of ASD is not to protect civilian websites from attacks. None of these agencies sit with their noses pressed against the monitor looking for cyber threats against the general public. Their role is to protect government infrastructure from external threats that is all.
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From the ASD website
“ASD provides cyber security advice and services to government, critical infrastructure, industry and the Australian public. Our cyber security advice is published on our cyber security website, cyber.gov.au.”
You seem to be describing the old DSD , which was perhaps more focussed.
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Quick. Jo’s site exposing our lies, fraud, waste, corruption and incompetence is under attack.
Everyone on deck to help.
/NOT
Toothless tigers interested in self preservation…
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Perhaps Jo will be able to confirm that ACSC does actually support Australian organizations that experience DDOS attacks?
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Climate activists demand an end to benign pleasant Spring weather in UK; most un-British; destroy the economy so we can be miserable in the murk and cold as days of yore.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14774903/climate-change-immediate-action-hottest-spring.html
It was also the hottest in the near 400 year CET series, notably it was the maximum temperatures, averaging over 16C for the whole of Spring, for the first time.
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There is little prospect of changing Earth’s orbit and relationship to the Sun to meet their demands.
Compared with April 14 1700, on April 14 2025 Earth was 235,697km closer to the Sun. Also the Sun was 0.097 degrees higher in the sky in the NH. The Sun was 4.6W/m^2 more intense in the NH at zenith. On April 14th the average daily sun;ight at 60N was 2.07W/m^2 this year than 1700.
So a lot more sunshine during Spring this year than back when the weather was perfect in 1700. The only way to get back to those dank dark days is to shift the orbits of the Earth and Sun back to what they were.
To balance this horrible Spring weather in the UK, Earth will be 231183km further away from the Sun on Sept 28 this year than it was in 1700. Now that is not necessarily going top make it colder but it will make it wetter and, at 60N, a lot more snow will follow. I forecast many more places will set new daily snow records in 2025. All that nasty Spring and Summer heat going into the oceans is getting a lot more moisture into the atmosphere that will come down over land when the weather turns blissfully chilly.
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Just a couple of layman’s observations from your link, Grim. First up, the caption below the picture of people on the sands at Bournemouth reads in part ‘…people ENJOY the warm weather…’ (my capitals). Then this from a learned ‘Professor of Climate and Environmental Change’ – ‘It is extremely unlikely that spring temperatures were warmer than this in the years before records were kept as past centuries were much cooler than now.’ That sentence not only demonstrates his complete incompetence, but also his arrogant disregard for the intelligence of the people he is addressing. If no records were kept, there is no basis for the blanket statement he goes on to make. Also, Other methods than written records have proven warmer periods than today in the Roman, Medieval and other periods in history. In fact, the Romans did have records regarding viticulture on the Scottish borders, amongst other things. The fact they even wore sandals in Britain does it for me.
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NO, THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
JUST WHEN YOU THINK THE LEFT HAVE REACHED PEAK INSANITY, THEY PROVE YOU WRONG.
Perhaps they can establish penguin colonies in Once Great Britain to help block out the sun?
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Change the cows diet and pump the slurry into the ocean. Job done.
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FORESTS, FARMERS AND FARMLANDS MATTER
Let’s start a Forests, Farmers and Farm Lands Matter movement modelled on Black Lives Matter.
Remember how it suddenly became the very height of politically correct and progressive virtue signalling to torch venerable institutions and trash the reputations of people who ever had even the most remote possibility of being in some way connected with the evil slave trade.
Lets see football teams taking the knee for forests, farmers and farmlands before the kick-off!
AND DON’T FORGET THE WIND INDUSTRY IS MORALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE SLAVE TRADE!
GOOD NEWS. The Macquarie bankers have realised that they made a mistake when they funded the wind industry and now they are trying to make up for it by funding coal.
You know the ship is sinking when the rats bail out!
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If it’s going to be modeled on BLM, can I be a director? Wouldn’t mind an $8,000,000 house.
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The FLAK is always heaviest over the target. You must be doing it right. Prayers.
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Denial of service? Wow. It’s not a trading site. The only products of this site are anti Globalist facts and the destruction of the politician’s Man Made CO2 hoax. It’s really a great compliment and serious confirmation that the enemies of free speech consider truth expressed here must be suppressed. And no service is being denied. Facts last forever. Eat it up CCP, EU, UN and friends in low places.
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FWIW
“THIS Is How You Do It! Conservative Woman Gives MASTERCLASS on Explaining Gender to a Child (WATCH)”
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/06/03/conservative-woman-boys-clothes-im-a-girl-n2413746
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You’d ease the burden on your server if DM took a day off.
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Welcome back GA,
How was your long service leave? I am guessing your comment about David having a day off is projection. You may believe he to is employed to troll and not just passionate about sharing his thoughts.
I find the articles posted by the likes of ‘Another Ian’, David Maddison, etc are generally wide rangeing and interesting and I am glad they give us their time. The same goes for Jo, what a labour of love it must be to produce this blog, particularly when you compare her reward for daily publications to that of a Politician or Senior Public Servant who simply read from the approved talking points or nod heads behind the clown regurgitating said points?
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Really Broadie?
David carpet bombs this site with comments, which is OK of course but GA made a joke by saying if David took a day off the load on the server would be reduced and i responded with “thats funny” because it was funny.
You instead of seeing the funny side to this leapt into action and wrote a long winded diatribe about the virtues of certain commentators which to me highlights an interesting point.
I, like GA and I am sure like many others dont agree with everything people write, you yourself are not happy with my “fix” for the Palestinian problem but everyone has a right to their own opinion as does GA. I do find it funny how this only works one way for you, you dont agree with a comment and you berate the person for saying it, others that dont agree with what you agree with you berate them for it.
You waffle on about government censorship but you liberally exercise it here on an almost daily basis, so which is it Broadie do you believe in free speech for all or just your select few?
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Happy to help. I do question Jo and DM if I wish to understand the concepts they are exploring. They are different to you as they attempt to justify the point they are making with facts.
Freedom of speech may also include a freedom of discussion and I simply brought up the solution of reverting to a 1945 Palestine lacked any historical basis. I understand from past experience, a few of Jo’s regulars reply to questioning by resorting to logical fallacies including adhominem.
Thanks for the confirmation. Lately you have just been deflecting to another argument rather than trying to justify as for example in this case. ‘why 1945 in Palestine was so much better?’. This time it appears you are simply hoping for a ‘pile on’ on another thread rather than any reasoned discussion.
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Broadie,
You dont understand the difference between faith and nationality so I can understand why you would struggle to grasp the more intricate issues.
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I listening, in fact the World is,
Step me through to your 1948 Utopian ideal for peace in the Middle East.
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“I find the articles posted by the likes of ‘Another Ian’, David Maddison, etc are generally wide rangeing and interesting and I am glad they give us their time”
Me too.
Not that ‘Me Too’.
The one before the Philistines resurfaced and the weirding began.
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Now that’s funny 🙂
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It made me laugh too. (no offence intended David)
I say that while generally agreeing with DM, because I can appreciate the funny side of such a comment between two “political rivals”. Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating weren’t politically my cup of tea. But they did make me laugh from time to time when getting a zinger away on a political figure I may have favoured.
While Gee Aye and I probably don’t see eye to eye on a few topics. I have enjoyed their wit on a number of occasions.
I hope DM had a chuckle himself.
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There seems at times to be high levels of stress and anxiety around here not to mention the copious amounts of testosterone so when i read something that makes me laugh i say so. Obviously some people here are so highly strung they are incapable of laughter 🙂
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‘ … high levels of stress and anxiety around here …’
It can be a bit awkward at times, being in a virtual old men’s shed.
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Now you see that’s funny to me el+G but I strongly suspect others may take offence, thanks for the laugh.
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If he did, then it’d be up to you to watch ABC and CNN so we don’t have to, so nothing new for you.
Or should that be “nothing news” from you, as always. Take woofy for a walk…
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Hitting a nail on the head as usual.
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Takes “accuracy” to hit the head of the nail, combined with “precision” to complete driving it
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Much easier than driving in something with a round head and two uneven legs .
Like a used fencing staple.
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Ian. I pointedly wrote “A nail”, not “THE nail” as is often the case with JC. Thanks for making my subtle back hander into a boring explanation.
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Maybe, just maybe, the plot is thickening. Just as some video games proceed through a series of skirmishes before the player confronts the “boss”, the existence of the boss in the current battle has been revealed.
The revelation is that the FBI has not just a restricted level of information where only a select few can access but it also has a prohibited level where nobody can even see whether a document exists or ever existed.
This is Orwell’s memory hole. And there’s not even a record of things going into the memory hole.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/03/about-the-fbi-prohibited-access-files/
Boy, oh boy. Talk about an existential battle for their bureacracy. I can only imagine what the controllers of the prohibited level will do to prevent the sun from shining on what they are hiding!
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FWIW
Beware of people who do their research!
“WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Humiliates Democrat Witness on Nationwide Injunctions”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/03/sen-kennedy-humiliates-democrat-witness-on-nationwide-injunctions-n4940413
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Calling Conservative Supreme Court justices evil on a public podcast made her friends laugh. And then the pathetic attempt to deny it. Hypocrisy is standard fare for the left of politics. These unelected judges are above the law. Worse, they try to issue National injunctions against the decisions of the executive branch. What happened to separation of powers? And who gave them the right to go outside their legal and geographical jurisdiction?
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I guess there their legal and geographical jurisdiction is what’s being sorted out.
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It was never in question. It’s madness for the Supreme Court to have to rule on such things. Like the UK Supreme Court ruling that there were only two sexes. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, not law.
A bit like Justin Trudeau who ordered the bank accounts of Canadian Citizens to be shut if they had donated $5 to the Truckies protest. What he did was illegal! And the banks obeyed!
An enormous amount of modern legislation today on CO2 credits/taxes/costs has no basis in fact or law. They are all prima facie illegal. Politicians, not judges or scientists are dictating their science, their view of the law and making up powers they do not have.
We have a phenomenon as in the UK where a leader decides to utterly ignore his voters and do what he wants, not what he was elected to do. Being elected is not a mandate to do anything which was not made clear policy in the first place. It’s called lying and dictatorship posing as Democracy.
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” the banks obeyed! ”
They wouldn’t want their fractional reserve ratios altered , don’t you think?
They will comply with anything , even brain-dead wokeness (cf Rabobank), to retain their privilege.
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Not the first time Bankers have been called amoral. They are not charities. And always on the side of the current government.
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We don’t actually do fractional reserves in Australia.
We do have regulation and adequacy requirements in bank ratios, but not a % reserve requirement (although banks do hold overnights with RBA at the cash rate).
RBA job is pretty easy really – only four big banks they really have to worry about.
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And I should say as a correction – most of the banks overnighting is with one another, not with RBA.
Government cash deposits overnight with RBA.
and, while out in RBA world, spotted: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2024/jan/recent-developments-in-the-semi-government-bond-market.html
A recent development in Australian fixed-income markets is the growth of sustainable issuance (Armour, Hunt and Lwin 2023). There is no universal definition of sustainable bonds. Broadly speaking, sustainable bonds are issued to fund projects that promote environmental or social objectives. Issuance of sustainable semis has grown rapidly since the first sustainable bond was issued in 2016, although they still represent a small share of the semis market. The four largest state treasury corporations have issued around $30 billion across 12 sustainable bond lines to date. The largest sustainable semis issuer is Queensland, which has issued $11 billion, followed by New South Wales ($10 billion), Victoria ($8 billion) and Western Australia ($2 billion). State treasury corporations issued a record $10 billion in sustainable bonds in 2023, with market participants expecting continued issuance in the coming years. However, because the funding raised from sustainable bonds must be earmarked for specific sustainable projects, the size of the sustainable semis market is constrained by the pipeline of suitable projects.
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Hard to comprehend how you can say it was never in question, when they are where they are.
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They are trying it on, like Trudeau. People think governments, judges, politicians can do whatever they like. Unlimited power.
But that doesn’t make everything legal. Our Democracy is based on politicians writing laws, judges interpreting laws and public servants following laws. There is precedent and there are judge made laws, but not at a National Level. That’s controlled by the Consitution in the US and the sole arbiter of that is the Supreme Court.
These runaway judges are acting without authority and they know it, but it’s a Democrat approved delaying tactic and grandstanding. The lawfare against Trump has been never ending. Jail, felonies, $500million fine, reputation destruction, slanders and libels. Two impeachments. One near assassination and one attempted.
In a country where on the left of politics, the ends justifies the means. And the former head of the FBI James Comey post a sea shell picture spelling 1847 as if it was meaningless. Given his position, he should be on trial for hate speech and openly encouraging assassins. This man wore a wire into a meeting with the President and illegally tapped Trump’s telephones before Trump was President, spying on the President as a foreign Agent under the FISA Act. The FBI/CIA is not allowed to spy on members of the public and lawyer and former Director of the CIA is still using his position to encourage murder. Even seven years ago Trump Called Comey ‘an untruthful slimeball’. He is not wrong.
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Understand all that but as I said they are where they are, so things need to be clarified and enforced before the caravan can move on
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FWIW
“Poland used only paper ballots in Sunday’s presidential election and finished counting all 21 million votes within 8 hours of polling stations closing.”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1929669527824224749
Versus
“BREAKING HUGE: The Beginning of the End for KNOWiNK? Oregon Dumps KNOWiNK TotalVote System Four Years Into Contract”
https://joehoft.com/breaking-huge-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-knowink-oregon-dumps-knowink-totalvote-system-four-years-into-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-huge-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-knowink-oregon-dumps-knowink-totalvote-system-four-years-into-contract
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Amazing. Poland has the population of California and the paper system is far better. Electronic voting systems are a licence to steal. And what bigger prize is there than control of government?
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I guess that with “WINK” in the title they can claim to have given fair warning!
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FWIW
Some philosophical elements here
“On Being Yourself”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/06/03/on-being-yourself/
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The Flak is heaviest when you are right over the target!
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The Chinese cross border payment system transaction daily total recently exceeded SWIFT’s payments for the same period (not Taylor, the banking one)
Will be interesting to see if its like “renewables” powered the State for one hour or if it has momentum. The mere fact it is operating on that scale in noteworthy.
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Has Jo said “Jehovah” too many times?
The west is in freefall, the EU (shoutout to Germany) and UK on the very edge of bankruptcy and desperate for war, and revealers of truth and knowledge are to be digitally stoned (DDOS) so the government lies and propaganda continue to grow like the weeds they are.
So much for the substack suggestion then.
“X” – no account. That’s it for me then.
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What are you saying John? I mentioned X because it might be the only way I can share a message about the current state of the site. It’s simply another line of communication. If the site is down, I’m just saying look at my X account…
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NHS meltdown: “doctors & nurses refuse the jab” — trust has collapsed from within
Healthcare workers are quietly rebelling against a broken system.
The damage can’t be hidden — it’s walking into clinics every day.
Booster uptake is collapsing — and public trust has flatlined.
They pushed it. They profited from it. Now even their own are walking away.
This isn’t a conspiracy — it’s a reckoning
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK
2027 is hot talk right now.
So many possibilities.
Any insights GA?
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John Connor II,
That JimFergusonUK link doesn’t seem to have anything to say about an NHS “meltdown”. Maybe I’m missing out because I’m not a Twitter subscriber?
Googling turned up a paywalled 2-day old Speccie article. Otherwise mostly old threads from 2022.
Got a better link?
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“Any insights GA?”
Bated breath ensues.
🙂
Go on GA ; cast them.
🙂
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Access Denied
I bookmarked various Morrison Government budgets and speeches and have from time to time quoted from them until this morning and access denied.
The Federal Government of Australia denying access to past budget references?
What else are they hiding?
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It’s Worse Than You Think
“An Inflection Point In The History Of Warfare”
That’s how ZeroHedge described the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian airfields in a post yesterday.
I think there’s a reason to be optimistic here though: most countries will likely eschew these sorts of “perfidious” attacks, because the knock-on effects of their enemies retaliating in kind (every civilian and commercial vehicle being suspect) are simply too costly.
The Ukrainians may be outliers here in their willingness to court suicidal risk.
But if I’m wrong, it’s worse than you think, because it turns out there’s an off-the-shelf version of the Ukrainian drown attack.
Ironically, it was developed by the Russians, as Clint Ehrlich details in the thread below.
You aren’t getting the full story on the Ukrainian “shipping container” drone attack.
Russia *invented* this technology 16 years ago. It was called “Club-K.”
Nobody thought Russia would be the first victim.
The year is 2009.
Russian defense contractor AGAT announces a new weapons system.
From the outside, it looks like a shipping container.
On the inside, each container has four cruise missiles, which can be used to strike enemy airfields.
Russia was criticized for even developing the weapon.
It was accused of “perfidy” – a serious violation of international law.
Housing a strike system inside a civilian shipping container was viewed as unethical.
It is therefore ironic to see Ukraine praised for its drone attacks today.
Many of the attack systems were hidden inside civilian shipping containers – just like in the “Club-K.”
Tactics once condemned as unethical are now celebrated due to sympathy for the Ukrainian cause.
Hopefully, President Trump soon realizes he’s had the power to end this war all along, by cutting off aid to Ukraine, like the Democrats did to South Vietnam fifty years ago. Otherwise, the risks will multiply. Maybe Russia decides to give this Club-K system to the Iranians, or the Houthis, or Mexican cartels (who knows). Our maybe Lindsay Graham managers to push his 500% secondary sanctions bill through the Senate and House with a veto-proof majority.
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Ukraine’s Drone Strike Is a Warning—for the U.S.
The American homeland is also vulnerable to drone and missile attacks.
By now Americans know about Ukraine’s remarkable drone strike on Sunday that damaged as many as 40 aircraft deep inside Russia as strategic bombers sat like ducks in a row on military bases.
One urgent lesson beyond that conflict is that the U.S. homeland is far more vulnerable than most Americans realize.
You don’t have to be a fan of thrillers to imagine a similar scenario in the United States.
“Could those have been B-2s at the hands of Iranian drones flying out of containers, let alone Chinese?” military analyst Fred Kagan asked this week.
The U.S. strategic bomber fleet is small (about one-third the size it was in the Cold War) and concentrated at a handful of bases.
See the aerial photo flying across social media of B-52 bombers lined up at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
The story is similar for fighters and capital assets like aircraft carriers.
One lesson is that President Trump’s planned Golden Dome missile-defense shield isn’t the boondoggle it’s portrayed to be in the press.
The headlines are preoccupied with space-based interceptors.
But the U.S. is exposed to many threats besides ballistic missiles—from drones and spy blimps to cruise missiles launched off submarines and any Cargo Carrier
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Again, the world has changed, almost overnight.
The American military is much better than the Russian military, but it’s ultimately not that different — it’s built around a bunch of big, expensive, heavy “platforms” like aircraft carriers, jet planes, and tanks.
Each F-22 stealth fighter, still widely considered the best plane in the sky, cost about $350 million to build. A Ford-class aircraft carrier costs about $13 billion each. An M1A1 Abrams tank costs more than $4 million, and so on.
That’s the amount of value that will be destroyed every time a cheap plastic battery-powered Chinese drone takes out an expensive piece of American hardware in a war over Taiwan, or the South China Sea, or Xi Jinping waking up in a bad mood
Except the true value lost will be much higher, since — like Japan in World War 2, or Russia now — the U.S. now has extremely limited defense manufacturing capacity, and thus won’t be able to easily replace what it loses.
As you read this, military planners all over the world are scrambling to come up with defenses against the kind of raid that Ukraine just carried out.
Dozens of container ships arrive in American ports from China every day, each with thousands of containers.
The containers on the ships then get unloaded and sent by road and rail to destinations all over the country.
Imagine a hundred of those containers suddenly blossoming into swarms of drones, taking out huge chunks of America’s multi-trillion-dollar air force and navy in a few minutes.
That’s obviously a terrifying thought. How can the U.S. defend against that sort of attack?
Countermeasures include hardened aircraft shelters and various forms of air defenses — guns, jammers, electromagnetic pulses, laser cannons, drone interceptors
The advent of cheap battery-powered drones has changed the game and made essentially the entire world into a battlefield.
Bloomberg says that the parts used to make Ukraine’s drone fleet are bought “online”, but that is a euphemism. They are made in China.
An FPV drone is basically:
. some injection-molded plastic parts
. some trailing edge computer chips (microcontrollers, sensors, etc.)
. an electric motor made of rare earth permanent magnets
. a lithium-ion battery
The U.S. can still make plenty of trailing-edge computer chips, but the rest of these items are all China, China, China.
China does a large fraction of the injection molding in the world — about 82%, according to one 2024 estimate.2 Currently, I know of no government plan to restore America’s lost capacity in injection molding. In fact, Trump’s tariffs — if they ever go into effect — are expected to severely damage the U.S. injection molding industry, by cutting American injection molding companies off from imports of the specialized equipment they need.
China also makes most of the electric motors in the world. This is because China makes most of the magnets, and an electric motor is basically just made out of magnets. The rest of the world is scrambling to add magnet production capacity, but for the rest of this decade, China will dominate:
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“The American military is much better than the Russian military, ”
Lol!! That’s just to make the Western readers feel comfortable.. Something with no logic, no facts to back it up and no reason for it to be true, but its sounds good when there are thousands of flashy ‘Top Gun’ or ‘JAG’ media programs around.
Just pray we are never dependent on America putting troops up against the Russians and having to win.
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The idea of missiles in containers is not novel. The GOP has long railed against the CCP buying property near defence bases for exactly this reason.
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Australia with virtually zero nuclear power credentials, a country where the very idea of nuclear power is illegal, cannot build a nuclear powered letter opener let alone a latest generation stealth nuclear submarine.
It’s like asking the Fijians to do it. Or PNG. Not being critical but beaches and food and sunshine does not make nuclear submarines.
I don’t know where anyone gets the idea that we can just start making guns and aircraft and cars and weapons and nuclear submarines? Where? By whom? The military shipyards are mothballed. We do make some great aluminium catamarans and Austal ships has been booming supplying fast naval vessels, but nuclear armed submarines? Politicians who could not hang a picture straight talk as if they are on top of this.
Our windmill manufacturer Keppel Prince in Portland just closed. Jobs are just vanishing. Our biggest Chemical manufacturer just closed, 800 jobs. Where is this amazing manufacturing centre? Alice Springs? Adelaide? They had enough trouble with a conventional submarine.
And then there is the 35% CO2 tax on all manufacturers and steel smelters and concrete makers and mining companies and truck companies and chemical suppliers and all shipping and flying and even sewage processing. No money left to actually build anything. And energy too expensive to make affordable stuff.
Manufacturers are fleeing Australia, what’s left of them. But Albo says we can make solar panels. And own Quantum Computing. He’s bet billions of our cash on his dreams of technical superiority. And we can be a Renewable Energy Superpower! And Green Steel. Green Hydrogen. Massive submarine HV cables. How does he not laugh at his own words? I just find it depressing to listen to such ignorant drivel. At least he’s openly planning his retirement. And Chalmers is about to trash the stock exchange and all our savings with a massive tax on inflation.
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Basically you are saying we are stuffed!
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We have beaches. And savings in superannuation. And the current government is planning to take those.
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Where are they taking the beaches to?
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Ukraine’s Drone Attack On Russia’s Bomber Fleet Won’t Win The War
Drone Hits on Russian Bombers: Why It’s ‘Theatre,’ Not a Turning Point It looked, for a moment, like a bold stroke – swarms of Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russian territory, airfields in flames, and long-range bombers reportedly damaged or destroyed.
Let’s start with the targets.
The Tu-95s and Tu-22ms – big, lumbering remnants of a bygone era—have played next to no operational role in this war. They aren’t frontline assets. They aren’t shaping the tempo or direction of Russia’s offensive. Their use has been limited to the occasional cruise missile barrage aimed at Ukrainian infrastructure, and even those strikes have tapered off in intensity.
These aircraft have been on the periphery of the fight since day one. Damaging or disabling a few of them may offer symbolic satisfaction, but it doesn’t shift the balance on the battlefield. They weren’t decisive before Spiderweb, and they won’t be missed now.
And yet, the spectacle was treated in the West as something seismic.
Analysts who should know better gushed about Kyiv’s “strategic reach.” Media outlets, desperate for a fresh story, ran breathless headlines about Russian bombers burning. Social media filled in the rest, spinning shaky night footage into the next turning point in a war that’s had far too many supposed turning points already.
But turning points don’t come from symbolism. They come from control – of ground, of resources, of tempo.
And on that front, Russia continues to gain the upper hand. While Spiderweb played out on Telegram and television, Russian forces continued to advance – slowly, methodically, and without spectacle. Moscow is doing the work that wins wars. It’s pushing lines. It’s holding ground. It’s breaking down Ukrainian defenses by weight of numbers, firepower, and time.
That kind of warfare doesn’t trend on social media, but it changes maps.
Spiderweb, by contrast, didn’t move the lines one inch.
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I was stunned that they attacked airfields in Murmansk (3,154km) and Irkutsk(6,157)km. Irkutsk is as far from anywhere as you could be, in the middle of Siberia on Lake Baikal. One and two Australias away. Why? Are there no aircraft closer? The Russians would not be expecting drones from a truck roof in Irkutsk 6,000km away from the action.
Are they advertising their drone industry? Or demonstrating that they can cripple Russian nuclear strike capacity. Talk about playing with nuclear fire. Europe would cease to exist in ten minutes.
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That’s where the planes were. One was a training base so far away it was “safe”.
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Countries like Russia have thousands of aircraft, not dozens. The internet estimates more than 4,000. It could be double that.
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TdeF, a philosophical question if I may: What is the point of spending untold billions in guaranteeing your enemy that you are absolutely capable of MAD, if you cower the moment he rattles the nuclear sabre? I think of it as the time to take a deep breath and have faith.
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I dont intend to answer for TdeF here but the Russians have said they are ready to launch the nukes, all the preamble required to launch them has been completed all they need now is the GO command. They did this because stooopid NATO took out some of the Russian nuclear early warning radars. These radars by design do not play a role in the current conflict, they are designed to detect incoming nuclear weapons so when the enemy takes these radars out what else could Russia do but expect NATO are preparing for a nuclear strike.
If you are concerned about potential nuclear war then I would be more worried about the Israelis (yes, yes I know Broadie I mentioned the “I” word again, start googling a non sensical response).
These people are religious fanatics so they will most likely pull the trigger before anyone else does.
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“These people are religious fanatics”. In the Middle East who isn’t? But Israel is the one functioning democracy. Even though you could argue it was a Theocracy as well.
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And as Germany talks of another German Army, the Russian map of the silos is discovered. More than enough to destroy Europe in 10 minutes. The problem is that the Civil war is not nuclear so people outside Russia do not realise it has rules. The Russians do not want to destroy Kiev or Odessa or anywhere else. WWII went the same way at the start, the ‘phony war’ in 1939. Then Blitzkreig. Hitler with nuclear weapons would have blown up the world without hesitation.
We have lived since 1945 in Detente. The most dangerous idea is that nuclear wars are winnable.
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Dont forget the Kursk misadventure that ended with untold Ukrainian deaths for nothing.
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There are MANY who disagree. Simplistically, soldiers die in war, Kursk was just another battlefield where Ukraine saw weak conscripts defending so attacked them. Politically there were benefits in killing conscripts, they are more likely to come from Moscow and St Petersburg than volunteers from the provinces.
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It was a bargaining chip. Nothing more. And it didn’t work as a bargaining chip. So another operation which cost a lot of lives on both sides, as usual.
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FWIW – goes with that (IMO)
FWIW
“Ukraine ‘Burns Bridge’ of Peace Talks With New Round of Provocations”
“Today Ukraine made another major attempt at taking down the Kerch bridge, resulting in its most miserable failure so far.”
“Even now, more images have streamed out showing the vast majority of Russian bases did not suffer any damage as claimed by Ukraine during the ‘surprise drone attack’. ”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraine-burns-bridge-of-peace-talks
More of “The grandstanding that will cost them Odessa and southern Ukraine?”
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Ya gotta be kiddin. Been reading Pravda again?
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” “The grandstanding that will cost them Odessa and southern Ukraine?””
“Ya gotta be kiddin. Been reading Pravda again?”
Ah, but do you think those two operations will come and go without reprisals? The Russians are not high on doing stuff for its publicity value, but I expect they add it to a ledger somewhere.
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Do corticosteroids “merely” relieve symptoms of pain/itch in the way of an analgesic or can they help with the underlying cause?
I’m overly dependent on steroids and antihistamines at the moment for itchy dermatitis.
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You Tube “Dr Berg” + dermatitis or eczema he has some interesting (natural) ideas about their causes etc
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H
Think about what might be causing the dermatitis.
After a lifetime of being showered with a range of wood hip and sawdust without effect I got caught recently by the sanding dust off some ?English Oak? chairs
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This problem is of loong standing, initiated by a violent allergic reaction to an antiseptic cream. It is now clear that it is something in the base, maybe an emulsifier. Obviously I don’t put anything white on my skin, even white soap.
I have no idea what the irritant is, it is constant, not seasonal, nothing I can pin down.
There is a Doc at Cairns Base Hospital I want to see, but he doesn’t do private practice and I’m not in Cairns. Sh!t happens.
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See if you can find a Bicom practitioner up there H, our local one here has great success in identifying and treating allergies. She only gets to see people who have tried stacks of doctors and remedies from mainstream medicine, so she is the last desperate attempt. People drive most of a day from Sydney to see her.
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Yet another problem to which the solution is coal.
Get yourself some activated charcoal cream and slather it on, sit with it for a while – like a poultice.
My arms have flared up recently, I did that last night and wasn’t itchy through the night, still calm this morning.
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Early on I used coal tar soap, sadly can’t find it now, but nothing with the word “cream” in it goes on my skin. There are ointments that are helpful but they just treat that immediate area.
KP, I don’t know of “Bicom practitioner” but will do a search.
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What is Bicom
A Bicom practitioner is a professional trained to use the BICOM® device, which is a bioresonance therapy tool. This practitioner aims to assist the body in reducing its toxin or stress load and restoring self-regulation, thereby aiding the body’s natural healing processes. The BICOM® method is based on the idea that every form of matter emits electromagnetic oscillations, and by focusing on these frequency patterns, the practitioner can help treat various conditions such as allergies, chronic pain, and gastrointestinal disorders
I’m a mechanic but willing to have a look.
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FWIW
“Biden Autopen Scandal: Here is Analysis of Joe Biden’s Location and Schedule While the Autopen Signed Pardons and Commutations”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/biden-autopen-scandal-here-is-analysis-joe-bidens/
Now “what if” a lot of those pardons were auto-penned when he was actually around and “wet signing”?
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FWIW
“Ed Miliband STRIKES Again | Plans For “Net Zero Tax” On Household Gas Bills SLAMMED”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/03/ed-miliband-strikes-again-plans-for-net-zero-tax-on-household-gas-bills-slammed/
More “leadership” for “ElBowen”?
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Math question.
How much tax is a ‘Net Zero Tax’?
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Think of a number and divide by zero.
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Heroic Hanrahan. I laughed.
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The Hunga Tonga Effect
‘The WMO report forecasts that the annually averaged global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2025 and 2029 is predicted to be between 1.2°C and 1.9°C higher than the average over the years 1850-1900.
‘There is an 80% chance that at least one year between 2025 and 2029 will be warmer than the warmest year on record (currently 2024). And there is an 86% chance that at least one year will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.’ (World Meteorological Organisation)
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“higher than the average over the years 1850-1900.”
What, was that declared the ideal temperature by the guy who made the world or something? Let compare it to 1000-1050 instead, the Medieval Warm period. Its all about where you put that zero to start with.
I’d like to see the number of calories put out by humanity in comparisons, us and the 19th century people. Just how much heat does the total human existence produce each day, and where do they think it goes? Of course we are heating the Earth, its just a matter of how much.
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OK, but I still don’t see the Tipping Point™ we have been told is imminent for 30 years.
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At least we have stopped sticking this in healthy kids. Just feel so hollow thinking about it all.
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/australia-quietly-pivots-on-covid
The real emergency now is institutional—one of captured regulators, collapsing public trust, and a health system so entangled with the pharmaceutical industry it can no longer tell the difference between evidence and marketing.
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In my country, (USA, post 1781 borders) …
the same folk that argue for pre-1948 borders … (what were the pre-1918 borders?) …
also argue against borders altogether.
“No human is illegal” they say.
Visa or no … migrants.
Then they rattle on about indigenous.
Implying some people should ‘migrate’ back to where their ancestors came from.
This means I should migrate back to Scotland and Germany.
Maybe even a little of Norway and Rome.
(Fortunately, the Mongols and the Saracens were slowed down, otherwise my ethnicity would be more confusing.)
There is not enough me to decolonize as it is.
Won’t even mention the reparations I owe due to the misbehavior of said ancestors, though I’m not sure which ones.
My father actually unknowingly fought his own indigenaity in the early 1940s.
But then again, borders inhibit one world governance, preventing the stopping of Climate Change which is stopped by Net Zero.
Which is why we need a ‘Net Zero Tax’.
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Sydney cockatoos prove they have a higher IQ than the Prime Minister and the Energy Minister combined.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UUndEI-gb5U&si=AQv2VnZxrjZoyXMY
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/notting-hill-residents-paint-famous-192538240.html
“It happened during lockdown. This street has always had colours, but we have never had a problem. We must have come out on some influencer list somewhere. Everybody, like sheep, followed.
“Every 30 seconds there is a new group. You can’t ask people to stop, you’d be out there all day asking people not to leave trash or to be quiet.”
There are stories of influencers turning up on the Notting Hill street with suitcases, filled with up to six outfit changes, and spending the day taking pictures on doorsteps.
In another case someone set off smoke flares in the street in a bid to get the perfect photograph and video for their Instagram or TikTok account.
Influencers have also been spotted putting up tents outside homes so they can change outfits and take more pictures.
In one extreme case, a “pornographic photoshoot” was even filmed on the street, one neighbour complained.
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https://rumble.com/v6uag7z-gale-force-fight-bunbury-wind-turbines-with-martine-shepherd-on-relentless-.html
In this episode, we dive into the contentious wind turbine license update in Bunbury, Western Australia, with guest Martine Shepherd from Save Our Beloved Geographe Bay. Martine passionately unpacks the community’s fierce opposition, highlighting environmental concerns and the potential impact on the pristine Geographe Bay.
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Sorry to David – a lot of high rising inflection here
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Sydney cockatoos learn how to use public drinking fountains | ABC NEWS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UUndEI-gb5U&si=AQv2VnZxrjZoyXMY
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Sydney cockatoos prove they have a higher IQ than Albo and Bowen combined.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UUndEI-gb5U&si=AQv2VnZxrjZoyXMY
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How’s that AI going these days? Getting your new app looking like it was translated from Punjabi?
“the company claimed to leverage artificial intelligence to generate custom apps in ‘days or weeks,’ which would produce functional code… Instead of AI, the company was actually using a fleet of more than 700 Indian engineers from social media startup VerSe Innovation for years to actually write the code. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bankrupt-microsoft-backed-ai-company-was-using-indian-engineers-fake-it-report
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The joys of Socialism… The obvious extension of the Labour Party ‘pepper-potting’ State houses into the middle-class white areas of NZ, ‘one house in every street’.
“The Swedish Social Democratic Party has approved a new integration strategy that aims to forcibly diversify the country’s residential areas, pushing for what party officials call a “socio-economic mix” of Swedes and migrants in housing developments….We are serious about the fact that we intend to break segregation and use housing policy as an engine in that work… migrants will be relocated to wealthier areas in an effort to engineer demographic diversity and “repay the integration debt,” as the party put it.”
Of course they won’t be relocated into any suburbs where the Left’s politicians live, that’s always a given. I remember the Govt buying a large, lovely home on the slopes of One Tree Hill in Auckland, and it became a free home for a Labour politician from where he could look down upon his voters in Onehunga..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/forced-mixing-housing-plan-integrate-migrants-pushed-swedens-social-democrats
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