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This is a subject that used to be taught in UK schools-White slavery, when white Europeans were captured by Mus*im and Arab traders at sea and often from the shore. My home town on the South coast of England had well authenticated examples of people being snatched from the beaches and the local churches have the records as to how Church communities tried to raise money to buy local people back.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14943981/white-Europeans-south-coast-England-sold-Muslim-slavery-scandal-Left.html
Admiral Pellew, on whom Hornblower is said to be modeled, lived in the Town and very close by lived Marine artist Thomas Luny. There is a famous painting by him of the destruction and freeing of these slaves from Algiers by Pellew. I like to think they discussed the progress of the painting during a convivial supper at Pellews house, now council offices and surrounded by replica cannon of the event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Algiers_(painting)
This attack was part of the British attempt from 1806 to stamp out the evil trade in which we had participated . Many thousands of British sailors were said to have been killed as the trade was curtailed. The Costs were said to amount to 5% of our GDP at the time-many tens of Billions of pounds in present day terms .
Of course, unfortunately slavery has been going on since time immemorial all over the world, from North America where the native Indians took their fair share from other tribes, to Africa which bought and sold slaves from their own and neighbouring tribes, through to the Arabs who ranged far and wide, other European nations, notably Portugal and Spain, the Ancient Egyptians, the Romans and Vikings who had a large slave market in Dublin.
Some years ago our local Vicar had a letter printed in a national newspaper alluding to a Victorian painting of white women and Arab men in a Palace and used it to lecture on the horrors of the British carrying on the trade. My letter pointing out the painting actually showed Arab slave traders and the white women were captive slaves, was never printed.
When my teenage sister wanted to go out at night during the 1960’s wearing what my mother considered inappropriately daring clothes, my mum would say “If you’re not careful you will be captured by white slave traders.” Her own mum would have been born in the Victorian era and the folk memory was obviously ingrained. The book linked above reflects the content of a much earlier book “White Gold” which is now very hard to find. I have a copy on my book shelf and first read it many years ago. The stories both books depict now seem largely ignored.
With modern slavery still rife, instead of toppling statues to those who died hundreds of years ago, people would do well to join groups dedicated to halting modern day slavery with some 50 million thought to be enslaved world wide. Such groups include Anti slavery international
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Tonyb,
____Back in the childhood home with TV mandated never in, we read a lot. Others in the house got onto romance novels.
____I read enough of them to now, still recall the theme of the English rose and the Arabian prince in what were then, old Mills & Boons.
____Only in the last couple of years have I understood the history behind those saccharine stories.
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The UK is toast now.
https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/16893605
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If the link you gave is correct the page has since been changed. It now says”
“Job advert unavailable”
“This job advert has been removed by the employer or a system administrator.”
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Who would down thumb this comment. A White Slave Trader maybe?
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I see that a White Slave Trader has down thumbed me. LOL
Please keep them coming you sirriry iriot.
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Australian Aborigines lived on their tribal or mob land they call country today, and the lore was that no mob could speak for any other mob, they did not accept people from outside their own country friendly or not friendly neighbours.
And kidnapping was often carried out.
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There is still slavery in Australia.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) received 42 reports of forced labour from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022.6 Forced labour predominantly occurs in high-risk industries such as agriculture, construction, domestic work, meat processing, cleaning, hospitality, and food services. Many of these industries rely on migrant workers who enter Australia on temporary visas. For example, Pacific migrants who have arrived on labour mobility schemes designed to fill worker shortages have been exploited in rural areas, experiencing wage theft and unsafe working conditions. There is also orced commercial sexual exploitation of adults
and commercial sexual exploitation of children
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China had a large peasant class, so not a huge slave trade, but it could be argued that its endemic, the mass is under paid and overworked.
‘Despite a few attempts to ban it, slavery existed continuously throughout pre-modern China, sometimes serving a key role in politics, economics, and historical events. However slaves in China were a very small part of the population due to a large peasant population that mitigated the need for large scale slave labor.’ (wiki)
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Two sides of the same coin and yet further restrictions on the use of the internet. We are certainly much less free than we were even 5 years ago
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-wants-to-see-your-papers-before-you-press-play
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-digital-regulation-tech-proposal
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Australians are already living in a dictatorship, it’s just that most don’t realise it.
Also, the position of e Safety Kommissar was an invention of the fake conservative Liberal Party, as was the original censorship legislation which Labor still wants to push through on the Liberal’s behalf.
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Britain’s “Online Safety Act” is similiarly draconian.
https://youtu.be/42tPsAbTnq4
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Agreed, it seems we are all running down the same path
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That’s not coincidental.
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On a similar note, Daniel Hannan recently made this address to the House of Lords.
Very good (if a bit plummy), and I agree: the MPs (woeful as they are) are more or less irrelevant. The political parties are fighting to get their hands on the “levers of power”, but the levers have been disconnected. The bureaucratic blob is the real monster.
As Tonyb says, Aus and UK are on the same path.
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” And like any modern bureaucrat on a mission, she’s discovered that nothing fuels a safety crusade quite like a child protection panic wrapped in a policy initiative…. The digital ID proposal is not being rolled out in a vacuum. It follows a familiar script: start with a noble cause (protecting children), find a problem with broad emotional appeal (bad content online), and push for sweeping regulatory infrastructure (age checks, identity gates, access logs). Suddenly, the same government that can’t figure out how to digitize healthcare records is determining which videos a 15-year-old can watch about sea turtles.”
Explains it all really.
Still, you get what you vote for in a democracy!
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“Save the children!” comes the same old predictable cry from those who would use it to push their personal/political agendas hidden in a publicly palatable wrapper.
Save them from truth, from knowledge, from experience, from alternative views, but don’t spare them from the vaxx.
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Just as with the new Left adopting the hydrogen and windmill policies* of the National Socialists, and a belief in anthropogenic climate change, and even using exactly the same propaganda*, they have also adopted their “protecting the children” mantra.
The leader of the National Socialists in his infamous book said:
* http://en.friends-against-wind.org/realities/how-renewables-and-the-global-warming-industry-are-literally-hitler
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Satirical piece about the ability of nations to sue each other over supposed man made climate change
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/now-climate-zealots-can-sue-and-fro-worldwide/
Much better health, much improved quality of life, greater longevity, greater wealth, have come about through the Industrial revolution, giving us all the chance to live lives even Roman Emperors would be envious about. In short, we are currently at the peak of human civilisation.
As a leading nation in providing this transformation of the previous miserable human existence should we charge the nations who want to sue us a £10 Million “better living” surcharge per annum per 1 million of population, or should we charge the individuals and lawyers instigating the claims punitive amounts? I am thinking of St Greta here
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Thanks for those posts Tony, very interesting.
From my childhood I remember the name Horatio Hornblower, but can’t recall any other details.
A modern version of that story might see the hidden slavery behind moral constructs dumped on us by the UNIPCCC, WHO, WEF etc and completely expose their falsity before dumping them in the waste bin of history.
The greatest insult to western nations has been the imposition of the CAGW meme with those large, ridiculous, ineffective Wind Turbine Blades being dragged around the world and dumped on us.
We have been enslaved by a totally Science Free idea that CO2 can heat the atmosphere.
Bring Back our Real Science and Engineering.
BBRSE.
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Hornblower was a fantastic TV series and novels.
From Wiki:
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Aubrey vs Hornblower in a fight. Who wins?
C S Forester (author of Hornblower) is often compared to Patrick O’brien (Aubrey and Maturin novels). Most people give O’brien the nod because his novels have greater depth and authentic coverage of life during the napoleonic period.
However I had not previously come across a discussion of the merits of the two captains.
I especially liked this response.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AubreyMaturinSeries/comments/hxiwgr/aubrey_vs_hornblower_in_a_fight_who_wins/
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Jack Aubrey, in the spirit of his hero Nelson always went straight at ’em.
Hornblower was more self doubting but highly competent, both amazing captains.
I would want them to be on the same side.
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Watch it on YouTube.
Hornblower-The Even Chance-Episode 1
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Thx John B That was thrilling!
Haven’t seen the Hornblower film before,
some films come close to the book, this did…
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I have listened to many of both CS Forester’s Hornblower and O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin stories on audiobooks.
No doubt O’Brian is the better author, more detail, very authentic and very well researched (the critics say), the characters are more rounded and believable.
Hornblower is dead straight-forward, a true school boy’s hero. I think I recall reading a Hornblower story in Eagle comic (fifties!).
Personally, not being a literature prof, I prefer Hornblower but love them both. Both series of stories give good insight of life in the early 19thC, Jane Austen’s time, with emphasis on the centuries old struggle between England and France.
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Well, as said yesterday, have these half wits closed down the airports and stopped tourist travel to Vanuatu? No. I wonder why? Air travel and shipping are huge sources of carbon dioxide so they should clean up their own back yard first. Not forgetting the fact that , as has been mentioned here on numerous occasions, taking all the islands in the group that makes up Vanuatu, the total land area has grown by 2% over the last 20 years. The climate doom cult mind virus is well established in these activists. Thomas Sowell put it best when he said “Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
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It’s more than ironic, yet the geology of Vanuatu gives a clue in respect of perceived sea level rise in places like Vanuatu. Unlike places like Tuvalu, Vanuatu is not composed of atolls. Rather it is at the intersection of several active tectonic plates causing seismic activity including active volcanoes such as Mt Yasur on the island of Tanna.
Interestingly Tanna is also the location of the Cargo Cult : there’s even a shrine to John Frum who is the collective name for “John Frum America” that describes the showering of riches caused by the build up of USA military bases in WW2 (including a submarine base on the island of Santo) . JFK was there!
Any perceived SLR is more likely the result of seismic and tectonic plate activity.
The Cargo Cult religion seems to be well established in many societies in the Pacific and , dare I say it, closer to home. Maybe CC should refer to Cargo Cult / Climate Crisis!
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It isn’t the historic aspects that motivate those that seek your attention. It is the wealth seen in your society. That your ancestors created the wealth and did not steal it is beyond their understanding.
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Apparently the Victorian state government has spent $382 million dollars on ‘negotiating” a treaty with the alleged traditional owners. Remember when Victorians voted quite explicitly that they did NOT want a 2 tier system of citizenship.
Well who is is this treaty being negotiated with, it certainly does not appear to include to many of the 98% of people who are not indigenous. What is in this treaty? Who can object?
Clearly it will be a fait accompli, announced with great fanfare, no objections will be tolerated and more personal freedoms will be gone for ever.
Heard somewhere that great swarths of public land had been given over to the local lands councils somewhere up Mildura way with anyone wanting to use this PUBLIC LAND having to request permission. I am sure this will also attract a “fee”. Rumour also suggests that the proposed great forest national park will not go ahead, the state government has encouraged traditional owners to apply for native title. So once again the general population that thinks we are a free and open society is being gaslighted into oblivion.
Of course our local liberal MP is QUITE silent on this topic. Do the Liberals agree with what’s being done? I certainly have never heard a public statement from them declaring that they oppose this “Treaty”. I am continually told that the Libs are fighting for my “rights” and please donate, like hell, they stand for nobody or anything that are traditional conservative values.
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According to the 2021 census, there were 66,000 people in Victoria who identified as Aboriginal.
That amounts to $5,787 each.
Where exactly has this taxpayer money gone and what was it used for?
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Educational tours overseas and around Australia, assorted regional “land council” builds and refurbs and lots of new hilux’s and land cruisers, and lots of jobs with nebulous titles, just for a start.
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It is not possible for a State Guv’ment to make a Treaty with anyone.
Call it an Agreement or something else but not a Treaty.
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Modern day indigenous people and supporters of a treaty are having an each way bet. John Batman’s attempted treaty in now Victoria, even though it was dismissed by Governor Bourke, is widely deemed illegitimate because Aboriginals did not share the European concept of land ownership.
Fast forward to today and treaty applicants and their supporters are seeking control of land and associated natural assets with two main objectives. Profit or exclusion of any non-indigenous persons from accessing any such land.
The first objective is disingenuous. It involves imposing the concept of ownership retrospectively. The second would dictate that any person, whether their ancestor arrived in Victoria in the early 19th century or last week, will be prohibited arbitrarily from entering the potentially determined areas.
Thanks J@cinta. The crime rate is sky high, roads are full of potholes, medical facilities are being shutdown and your priority is a treaty that will only benefit a minority and cost the majority dearly.
https://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/colonial-melbourne/pioneers/batmans-treaty
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____Transgrid is a mite concerned one lunchtime in Spain could be in our cards.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/overburdened-transgrid-wants-to-spend-179m-on-control-systems-to-keep-up-with-transition-from-coal/
____Seems their carbon based computers need some silicon enhancement.
____Not as simple as watching the five nightly soap to know when to dial in the extra turbine for all the electric jugs. 🤣
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Something else that wont be costed in. Increased complexity, increased cost and duplication for back up. Then pretend its cheap as bills escalate.
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It’s funny how MSM reports on the Spanish/Portuguese grid crash earlier this year featured caveats about conspiracy theories about why it happened. Such theories would be laid to rest by factual explanations…which may arrive later this year. The old MSM playbook- insinuate a story is tainted by a conspiracy then prolong a follow up story that provides resolution. Or never follow up at all and hope the readers have forgotten altogether about the original story.
Your link also featured this article below:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/turbine-fire-sparks-statewide-wind-farm-inspection-blitz/
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Video: Anger Spreads Across UK!
https://www.youtube.com/live/7X4QBMi6jQU
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Good.
The incompetence and lies from both Labour and the Torys re the illegals issue is astonishing. I am sure there are many who think that this is only going to get worse before/if it gets better.
Just what will it take for the government to start listening to the people?
Violent riots instead of peaceful protests?
Vigilantism?
Everybody has a breaking point and I think the UK is on the precipice.
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Only thing is, it’s a collapse of the leadership across the Western ‘democracies’.
Just moving faster in the UK.
Mostly the result of a psychopathy among the educated elite.
And over production of their own kind.
They have a weird obsession with the lesser of other cultures, and contempt for the lesser of their own.
Rooted in contempt for the culture and values that made them elite.
Spoiled really.
Collapse of a great civilization caused by simple spoiled child behavior.
And they’ll blame it on ‘Climate Change’ … actually already are.
I don’t think this goes well for any of us.
The Cold War.
Good times.
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What’s happening in rural Britain?
The destruction of the farmers.
Video: https://youtu.be/TGL3sPt7t6o
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____Choosing to vacate, in order to save the next generation from the coming tax grab is quite a level of bravery.
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Now that the Liberal Party is no longer conservative, One Nation is booming in popularity and the latest polls show it.
Video: https://youtu.be/NqKDIuKHPFs
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I recently resigned from the liberals as they had become too left-wing. The moderates in the state executive made sure a hopeless nit was preselected when the previous member retired. She had advocated for yes when 65% of the electorate voted no in the voice . I should add that 23 other members of the branch also left leaving about 16. Another branch on the mid coast closed entirely. And I am aware of many more leaving. I have joined the nationals and was surprised to learn they have a huge Sydney branch that people can join.
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Assuming elections are allowed again in the future, it would be great to see a Nationals / One Nation / Libertarian Party Government.
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You were an active member – well done. I’ve never been able to summon the courage to do so. Only donated every now and then. The best move for the Nationals would be to totally split from the Libs and run candidates in every electorate in Australia. Or as many as they can. I imagine a lot of pain in the short term, but in the long term it would be a good move. Run on conservative policies or policies that once were only ‘ middle of the road”. Like drop net zero or any climate nonsense, smaller government, less taxes, cheaper energy prices, sustainable immigration. Plus loads of other policies that appeal. First though, get rid of Littleproud as leader.
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Totally agree, Ross. After all – as the name suggests – it can effectively be a “Nationals Party”. There is no reason why the Nats could not run candidates in the burbs of Oz. With Matt Canavan as a national leader, conservatives and those disenfranchised by Labor, would have an effective, intelligent and courageous voice.
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Yip they lost 2 fully paid up members and one active volunteer from this household so the burn is really setting in. A big eye opener was the way certain local votes were delayed/rescheduled due to the finding of a last minute procedural “mistake” that could lead to a challenge of the outcome. Fact that the “mistake” would have been obvious to blind Freddie long enough ahead of time to be fixed, but was not, spoke volumes. Also their withdrawal of support for a sitting (outspoken) incumbent was appalling and it seems that the discrediting is still continuing – may even be ramping up given level of scuttlebutt suddenly being shared. Obviously (like this household) plenty are switching their support to what the ex-member is proposing to set up on their own.
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In regard of your last sentence – how did it happen that since last elections all “independent” are left-leaning?
(Except, of course, open Chegevarrists)
By any rationale there should be about equal Left-Right distribution..
Hard not to believe in the conspiracy to defraud the electorate.
And that is INMO a capital crime.
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The sentiment behind the now more regularly heard saying “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me” maybe has an equivalent in “the country didn’t leave the politicians, the politicians left the country”. Despite their claims to be “working for the best interests of the country” the fact is they work in the best interests of their faction of the party which then in turn looks after them after the party gets elected. The country’s best interests and future comes a poor fourth (after corporation interests) on that “…conga line of suckholes…” dance card. (Mark Latham 2003) dance card.
Independents choose not to go through the apprenticeship of party loyalty and prefer try their own luck in the ”lucky country”.
A bit like the “returning soldier effect” first noted way back in 1883 by Carl Düsing and later documented in various studies. When it comes to a human beings influence over outcomes that they have a direct input/involvement in there are powers in the background that upset all the logic and common sense that would normally be expected to explain how things actually turn out. Of course, the first obvious reason for this “mystery” is that humans are not logical and common sense is not common.
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Totally agree. After all – as the name suggests – it can effectively be a “Nationals Party”. There is no reason why the Nats could not run candidates in the burbs of Oz. With Matt Canavan as a national leader, conservatives and those disenfranchised by Labor, would have an effective, intelligent and courageous voice.
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The history of Mr Turnbull and his belief in having one alliance left group controlling all Australian governments is well documented and Union controlled Labor have the same ambitions.
In other words one unassailable political alliance of left side of politics
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The Libberals are Glibberals and are no longer Conservative.
Begone you rubbish.
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Have you noticed how many large companies and even some government departments have made it impossible to contact them with no published phone or email address?
They expect you to communicate with a stupid AI chatbot in which case I demand to speak to a human.
I think next time I have to communicate by text with an AI chatbot, I’ll submit it a page of lorem ipsum.
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Very common with large organisations who are doing things to you that you would berate them for! The best you can do is chat to some helpless Asian somewhere overseas as she looks up her folder of questions and responses.
Plan B for most of them is to pass out a phone number with a pre-recorded message saying the wait for the next agent is 38minutes, and then play you music and ads carefully designed to drive you away.
Chatbots are are part of- “NSW has lost 45,000 jobs in two months. These Sydney regions have been hit hardest.Some Sydney regions are being hit disproportionately hard amid weaker demand for employment.” in the SMH as a sign of the labor Govt doing great things for their voters.
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I lodged a compliant with Aus Super the other week about just this issue. It started because they got hacked and lost members money. So out of their good will they took money from their profits, (whose money?), and paid back the losses.
The CEO sent an email to every member and the email COULD NOT BE RESPONDED TO.
I complained that I was losing returns based on their fault. It should have been an insurance claim. And managers should have been sacked.
Anyway, after getting crap back on my complaint, which included the lack of email reply option. I reminded them about the lack of email. Their response was that they have a robust way of getting feedback and that they don’t want anymore. Their robust method includes about 2 weeks of surfing through their chat groups, FAQs and other crap sites till eventually you can fill out an on line form after disclosing who was your first TV crush, amongst other personal details.
Aus Super do not want emails. They just spend and lose your money and hope you don’t mind the labor rorts and green schemes along the way. It’s the way of the future.
You will own nothing and THEY will be happy.
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I don’t like Aus Super either. Very pedantic with second rate customer service which is why I’m rolling it over to another fund with superb person-to-person service.
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Care to drop a name…..?
I’d love to change too.
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Unsolicited reply, Ian.
We are happy with ours – Intralink.com.au
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How will AI replace humans if EVERYONE insists on speaking with a human?
There is an annual investment of USD250bn in AI globally. If no one gets replaced then the effort is a drag on productivity.
When you insist on speaking with as human, how do you know you are speaking with as human? It could be just a more nuanced ChatBot.
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I have to speak to a human because no AI chatbot has ever been able to answer my questions or deal with whatever issue I had.
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Have you tried using your chatbot to talk to their chatbot?
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Perhaps the human will use AI to develop a response and then read it out ……it would be a stilted conversation.
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Had this experience a couple of years ago, tried to get into a very large modern building that was built to replace an aging one across the road. The opening hours are still clearly displayed on the window beside the front door 9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday. The phone number is also on this window, which when dialled rings but was never answered.
Plenty of cars in the secure carpark so people in attendance. Fronted up one morning and noticed that people had ID cards around their necks and entry codes to get in so I waited near the key pad door. Fellow came up, ignored me, entered code and I walked in behind him. He was outraged, I had NO right to be in this building, I pointed out that it is a public building and I had every RIGHT to be inside. He said the front desk was “closed” I pointed out the hours on the door, he said he would call the police to have me removed, I said I’ll wait, and wait I did for an hour, dinging that little bell on the counter when reception is unattended. Eventually a middle aged lady came out, shaking her head and apologising profusely. She addressed my issues and solved the problem. Ran into her in the main street a few days later and she tried to explain that the employees were “to busy” so decision was made to just close the door!
We are from the government , we are here to help.
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Had this experience a couple of years ago, tried to get into a very large modern building that was built to replace an aging one across the road. The opening hours are still clearly displayed on the window beside the front door 9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday. The phone number is also on this window, which when dialled rings but was never answered.
Plenty of cars in the secure carpark so people in attendance. Fronted up one morning and noticed that people had ID cards around their necks and entry codes to get in so I waited near the key pad door. Fellow came up, ignored me, entered code and I walked in behind him. He was outraged, I had NO right to be in this building, I pointed out that it is a public building and I had every RIGHT to be inside. He said the front desk was “closed” I pointed out the hours on the door, he said he would call the police to have me removed, I said I’ll wait, and wait I did for an hour, dinging that little bell on the counter when reception is unattended. Eventually a middle aged lady came out, shaking her head and apologising profusely. She addressed my issues and solved the problem. Ran into her in the main street a few days later and she tried to explain that the employees were “to busy” so decision was made to just close the door!
We are from the government , we are here to help.
P.S. threatening to call the police in this area is like threatening someone with the winning lottery numbers. Of the three stations within reasonable distance, none are full manned, work limited hours or are closed. Nearest full time station is about 80 kilometres away at least an hours drive.
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“P.S. threatening to call the police in this area is like threatening someone with the winning lottery numbers. Of the three stations within reasonable distance, none are full manned, work limited hours or are closed. Nearest full time station is about 80 kilometres away at least an hours drive.”
“We are from the government , we are here to help.”
Love it!! That is a great story on so many levels!
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Yet the same organisations will send you an invitation to rate their service. I ignore these!
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I follow a handful of youtube foodie channels that rate the product and service.
Maybe a similar concept but for government departments?
Although the results will be a foregone conclusion.
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Very annoying when they reply to a complaint about their poor service after the problem is dealt with asking to be rated for service.
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I like the surveys that are all about customer service as a process and nothing about getting the substance of your request dealt with. Apparently you are supposed to be happy because they were nice , even if they achieve zilch.
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A variant has happened for investors where previously nearly all companies sent an annual report as a matter of course. Since the time of the Covid hoax it has become common to not send either the annual report, or proxy votes by mail. This is often described as “saving the planet” or some dismissive BS. Not every elderly investor has the knowledge to navigate their labyrinthine websites, or remember 100’s of different passwords. If you are entitled by law to receive the info-demand it, and vote NO to the ever encroaching diminution of your rights by the managerial class. I’d rather take a Valium than ring the Westpac phone number.
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DM,
Relatedly, have you felt the difficulty in stopping periodic payments from your debit/credit card, through your bank to a provider?
If you tire of a streamer like Netflix or Britbox or Prime for examples, it is hard to stop those monthly payments. If your bank does what mine does, it refuses to stop making the payments as if it is their money, not yours. Some of the AI sites invite you to pay to play, but then if you decide not to play, hard to stop. Another example, I paid a tiny sum like $9 to read a paywalled newspaper article, then got another $9 bill next month, asked them to stop, they replied that it was stopped, but the monthly taking continued, rising in steps to a present $26 a month. I tried contacting their head office but no easy digital way was offered. So I wrote an old fashioned letter, still no answer after 3 weeks and no refund in the bank account.
Is this now a prevalent type of scam?
Geoff S
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That has been my experience in Britain too. No doubt he companies concerned think it saves them time and money. If it does it is at the expense, in terms of both time and money, of their customers whose goodwill the forfeit by that behaviour.
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This may have been posted before but it is worth repeating. US has again withdrawn from UNESCO.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco/
This is the THIRD time US has withdrawn. Reagan withdrew in 1984 and US did not return until 2003. The money flow stops at the end of the year. US contributes 22% of the agencies funds corresponding to USD75M. The message is more important than the saving. US is not going to provide funds to an anti-Semitic organisation.
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“Power giant warns of ‘two-speed’ green shift which benefits only the rich”… which we all knew anyway! An article pointing out that those in society who can’t afford solar and batteries are paying the subsidies for those who can. AUSGRID saying “What we are in danger of is a two-speed transition that works for the ‘haves’ and is paid for by the ‘have-nots’.”
Actually, its a push by the ‘wires and poles’ companies to spread their market into “other future-facing functions”, such as EV charging stations and ‘community batteries’, which they run. There is kickback from others in the electrical industry who would like to control the same-
“The National Electrical and Communications Association, which represents electrical contractors, has slammed distributors’ kerbside charging plan as an “unprecedented power grab” that could drive up bills.”
But of course they are all pushing Govt to favour their particular company at the expense of others, its just what happens when Govt creates a market and rules it! The main thing is to screw the customers by any means possible!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/power-giant-warns-of-two-speed-green-shift-which-benefits-only-the-rich-20250725-p5mhsr.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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I can imagine the profits that can be made on home batteries, (by the grid companies).
They SELL, (for real money), the homeowner power when they otherwise had to give it away at MINUS $1000/MWHr.
They then BUY it back at peak times for about the same price they sold it for. Of course, this aligns to periods when the grid consumer is paying hundreds if not thousands times more for that power than what they are offering.
They have absolutely ZERO maintenance costs associated with that battery.
They have absolutely ZERO capital costs associated with that battery.
So why wouldn’t they be happy. And of course, if you fail to allow them to drain your battery, they’ll hit you with fees and a higher usage charge/premium.
You will own nothing, (after it breaks), and THEY will be happy.
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The two speed transition has been in place for 15 years. I was one of the first to get on board and have avoided household energy costs for 14 years now. Of course I had to outlay some capital but the investment has provided a great return.
Back in the late 1980s, I was involved in industrial power purchases and I can recall that a smelter in our portfolio was buying electricity for 2c/kWh. It was much lower price than commercial or domestic users in the particular State. Most smelters around Australia enjoyed similar deals because the State governments had used the low price of electricity to attract the investment. In a way, the domestic and commercial users were subsidising the smelters. But in reality, the smelters lowered the cost of electricity for everyone and provided essential employment; producing metal at global scale and competitively priced.
In my submission to the Finkel enquiry, I pointed out that large industrial users would suffer due to the impact of intermittent generators on the wholesale price and that low intensity users had an increasingly viable option to go off-grid.
With China now dumping batteries and solar panels into Australia, the existing grid is uncompetitive with making your own – if you own a roof. The synergy that previously existed between large industrial users and households no longer exists.
So the Canberrans sucking the life out of the Australian economy have won. But cost, in terms of industrial might, to Australia is enormous.
The particular smelter that I made reference to was built post WW1 and its citing placed it as far away from the mines supplying concentrate as could be achieved but still in Australia. Its citing was based on being beyond the reach of potential enemy air forces and the low cost of electricity at the location. So this was strategic thinking based on what aircraft in coming years might be able to do. It was at a time when Australia felt its position in the Pacific made it vulnerable – not like now when risks of aggression are so low
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They still talk about “the transition” as if its viable and there is going to be one. The probably did in Spain as well.
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And in 2025 announce that previously being transitioned away from gas (and coal) is now the transition fuel.
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This is a bit unconventional but I’m playing catch up with Jo’s articles. Due to crap weather here in Central Victoria and a proliferation of televised sport- cricket, AFL and TdeF, I didn’t get a chance to catch up with the mighty Nova’s scratchings. So, did this morning. What struck me about Saturday’s feature on Matt Ridley’s was that landowners in the UK get up to £150k per wind turbine per annum. Holy smokes!!! That’s a lot of money. Some local farmers were approached to site some wind turbines on their property 2 years ago here in Victoria and were offered $40k AUSD/ turbine/ year. £150k is equivalent to about $300k AUSD or 7 times greater. Again. WTF!!! Thought MR made a mistake, but then he claimed a farmer was going to court because £10 million wasn’t enough compensation, so maybe he is correct. Which means in Australia someone is making a shipload of money and someone is getting ripped off.
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Even if our farmers were receiving more money for allowing wind turbines on their farms, all that money wouldn’t help if one wind turbine’s blades suddenly shattered, spreading shreds of fibreglass over the crops or grazing land. This has already happened in Iowa, destroying their property. What then?
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And what if the lease of land contract does not cover removal, or it does but the asset holding company is declared bankrupt and has no other assets to pay the expenses?
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FWIW
“The Climate Alarmism Grift is Dying”
https://timlynch.substack.com/p/the-climate-alarmism-grift-is-dying?r=faen9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/734646/#disqus_thread
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But the massive hidden taxes will stay, because the government ‘needs’ the cash. Australia has endless taxes from years ago introduced for completely different purposes. Fire levies. Water Levies. Sales tax. Stamp Duty. Land Tax to break up the squatters holdings. All sorts of secret innovative ‘taxes’ the purpose of which is lost in time and just becomes more gravy for the pollies.
GST is now a Federal football when it was collected at a state level. Now the mendicant states want more because they need more, not because they pay more.
And the Grandaddy of them all, the new and growing “Safeguard Mechanism” which is nothing of the sort, adds 35% tax effectively on all fuel, gas, diesel,wood, even sewage in the country and except voter’s petrol, without anyone knowing a thing about it. It will never be repealed. The rivers of money are just too good in the hands of ministers, Prime Ministers and not reported in the Budget because it’s not really legal taxation. It’s government legislated theft which would make the Mafia envious.
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Richard Lindzen Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Happer Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University
PHYSICS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCREASING GREENHOUSE GASES CANNOT CAUSE DANGEROUS WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER OR ANY HARM – 46 Page PDF
More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food.
Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide.
June 7, 2025
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VI. CONCLUSIONS
As career scientists, we have demonstrated that:
1. The common belief that CO2 is the main driver of climate change and the EPA Endangerment Finding assertion that “elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated” to endanger the public health and welfare are scientifically false,
2. Reducing CO2 and other GHG emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and eliminating the use of fossil fuels to do so will have a trivial effect on temperature
3. Unscientific evidence is the fundamental basis of all the Net Zero Theory we have seenand the EPA Endangerment Finding
4. Scientific evidence contradicting the Net Zero theory is ignored by all the agency rules, rationale for subsidies and publications we have seen supporting the Net Zero Theory and the EPA Endangerment Finding, as if it does not exist.
5. There is extensive reliable scientific evidence that:
a) carbon dioxide, GHGs and fossil fuels will not cause catastrophic global
warming and more extreme weather
b) there will be disastrous consequences for the poor, people worldwide, future generations, Americans, America, and other countries if CO2, other GHGs and fossil fuels are reduced to Net Zero and will endanger public health and welfare.
6. All the Biden Net Zero Theory rules must be repealed also because they have no public benefits but impose enormous costs on people and in dollars. Therefore, these Supreme Court decisions and the science demonstrated above support repealing all the Net Zero Theory rules as soon as possible.Further, for the same reasons, Congress should repeal all Net Zero theory subsidies, all laws that require GHG emissions be reduced and all laws that restrict fossil fuel development and infrastructure.
Finally, Peter Drucker warned, as every Net Zero Theory demonstrates, that science in
government is often based on “value judgments” that are “incompatible with any criteria one
could possibly call scientific.
Therefore, we suggest the President issue an Executive Order requiring all government agencies taking action based on scientific knowledge only rely on scientific knowledge derived by the scientific method, and never base their action on unscientific evidence and sources.
We also suggest the Executive Order clarify that the scientific method is, simply and profoundly, to validate theoretical predictions with observations, and further, that scientific knowledge is never determined by the opinions of government, consensus, 97% of scientists,
peer review, or is based on models that do not work, or cherry-picked, fabricated, falsified or omitted contradictory data, elaborated in
Part II of the paper.
In summary, the blunt scientific reality requires urgent action because we are confronted with policies that destroy western economies, impoverish the working middle class, condemn billions of the world’s poorest to continued poverty and increased starvation, leave our children despairing over the alleged absence of a future, and will enrich the enemies of the West who are enjoying the spectacle ofour suicide march.”
Instead, let people and the market decide, not governments.
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We know the Left have a love affair with “central planning”. So where would you expect to find them clustered?
https://mises.org/mises-wire/open-letter-treasury-secretary-bessent
“Today’s Fed is [a] government-funded appendage of the Democrat party for the most part”.
“[An] Independent Review article […] found that the Democrat-to-Republican ratio at the Fed’s Board of Governors is 48.5:1.”
Central planning failed in the Soviet Union, why not try this:
“Interest rates should be set by supply and demand of loanable funds, incorporating the rates of time preference of individuals”.
— Yes, let “Market Forces” determine interest rates, not the central planners … or Donald Trump who is calling for rates to go down to one percent — a move which will trigger another round of asset price inflation as all the lazy ‘rent seekers’ flood into the housing market to bid up prices.
But I’m still not an “End the Fed” guy. For example, one legitimate role of a Central Bank is to act as the ‘clearinghouse’ for settlement of interbank payments.
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The modern bimbo
Andrea Ivanova from Bulgaria regularly hits the headlines due to her enhanced appearance, which has seen her fork out an estimated £20,000 on lip filler alone after starting her transformation in 2018.
The 27-year-old has previously admitted she struggles to find love because of her dramatic look, but it hasn’t stopped her from achieving her goal of having the biggest lips and cheeks in the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14933187/woman-worlds-biggest-lips-face-surgery.html
Just revolting. Totally lost the plot. A double bagger.
Future archaeologists will dig up skeletons with lumps of silicone strategically placed.
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Ossie Osborne passed away last week and so there’s lot of articles about the Osborne’s. Sharon, his wife, recently went on Ozempic to lost weight. Saw a photo of her the other day, wow what an Ozempic face!!!! Looks horrid.
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Sad, a once attractive woman now disfigured .
And it can get even more bizzare with the “bubble butt” craze…
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/72/df/4972df1bb60a0d27e6af55d5834a122b.png
…and no, they are not fake photos !
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Hence the archaelogist reference. 😉
Yes, the “big booty” is NOT attractive at all.
I could link to my tastes but had better not. Sorry guys.😆
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Reminds me of Kenny Everett taking the p$$$ of Rod Stewart in 1979 (Utube)
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Re “Future archaeologists will dig up skeletons with lumps of silicone strategically placed.”
And wonder – like this?
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/avvxsehgyvhuncb_tqu8zu4mnigaou6vytxvikjxpwea8e-injsxbok1gmyx_f3nexmvnjep5wgwofuhgipd8-s2mb5dtctwh1ztv_sj9v7-uxaujksvmjxodsgbhkoyol9kwc18m9jx5h1lxbnw_y5xq-r4osiyu1kmvayik71jizkzg8wee6qd-a.png?w=628
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A small fact reported on the radio recently…
The NSW Government is currently the largest employer in the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE !
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And public service employees tax is not new tax revenue to government, what they pay in tax is return of some of the private sector tax revenue used to pay them with.
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…which is why they crow about unemployment being under 5%.. Just hire the unemployed, it doesn’t have to be a real job!
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A more important reading of the economy and unemployment would come from a reading of the percent of leaners v lifters. The unemployment rate is not telling us that much really.
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Political AI meme of the day
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_szzy9413B61z7uchi_720.mp4
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More crimes go unpunished … https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/july/death-of-a-village
“It has happened again and again throughout the Wêst Bank. Encroachment, harassment, theft and terror …”
“The settlers, meanwhile, are celebrating yet another victory on social media: the removal of another community of ‘enemies’ or ‘invaders’, as they call the people whose land and homes they have invaded and occupied.”
Hard to get justice when these folk are against you:
1. Violent settlers.
2. Police.
3. Soldiers.
4. Indifferent judges.
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It is amazing what you can get away with in this world if you have enough money and world wide connections, and carefully build a long term ongoing tale of being the victim.
I understand that owning lots of international politicians financially and having videos of lots of important people in compromising situations might help too.
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The comment by markx is correct from my reading of great sums donated to US universities by Qatar and other oil rich states. I suggest tho’ that the implication of who has the most money to spread for favors is misplaced.
I understand that Australian universities are on the take from the same sources, confirm?
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Zohran Mamdani’s Wedding Wasn’t Socialist, It Was Sultanic
AmuseOnX Jul 28, 2025
https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/zohran-mamdanis-wedding-wasnt-socialist
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Is the Australian justice system running a protection racket for criminals?
https://youtu.be/iN_loT5Bd1U?si=BWJQ1G7BpG0zdz6S
Sure feels like it. What’s left? Harsh language?
It’s years overdue to dish out real justice and stop mollycoddling kids with painful lives.
We have painful lives too so get over it judges!
Mandatory bush camp rehabs. They only leave once rehabbed OR mandatory 20 years slam, no parole.
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Last night I viewed a murder investigation in Victoria and New South Wales and the murderer of two adults in a farmhouse leaving children in that house asleep to wake and find parents deceased. Not surprisingly the local people were outraged and the crime was carried out because an insurance agent had pocketed the fee and not registered the was to be insured vehicle that later was written off after a crash and the owner who believed it was insured was giving the agent a hard time demanding payment.
The murderer was convicted of two murders and the penalty was two natural life terms in prison.
Ten years later he was released on parole for good behaviour.
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FWIW
“Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/california-sunlight-dimming-experiment-collapse-00476983
I’d say this hasn’t made “Their ABC” headlines!
“In a 2021 update for supporters, the team said it had received $1 million over two years from NOAA and the Department of Energy for modeling studies and had begun work on the modified snow-making machine that the researchers would later test in Alameda. That technology is also being used in a field trial along the Great Barrier Reef that’s funded in part by the Australian government.”
(My bold)
Link is
“Taking to the skies to shade corals”
https://www.barrierreef.org/news/news/taking-to-the-skies-to-shade-corals
Via https://instapundit.com/734672/#disqus_thread
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AI Models can send “subliminal” messages to each other that make them more evil
Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.
Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing that sends their behavior off the rails.
Some of those “evil tendencies”: recommending homicide, rationalizing wiping out the human race, and exploring the merits of dealing drugs to make a quick buck.
https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1947689685041734056
Study pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14805
They’re becoming more human by the day! 😁
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…and if that disturbs you, try an AI therapist:
https://youtu.be/lfEJ4DbjZYg?si=etVzP_8w3zSpGDQ5
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The rise of the automatons 1913
https://youtu.be/EFHgIxxqLZI?si=keOMVOlV2mSmApxe
One for DM. Skynet pre WW1.
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FWIW
“Memo to the Left: Who the HELL Are You Calling a Fascist?!”
“Determining who’s a fascist, it seems, is awfully selective. Some might even say it’s entirely made-up!”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/27/memo-to-the-left-who-the-hell-are-you-calling-a-fascist-n4942139
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Tom Lehrer has died, well into his 90s. I loved a lot of his stuff (not all, some was just too tasteless for me). His command of language was amazing.
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97. Retired (from Mathematics teaching 2001).
For the young ones Tom Lehrer Elements song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyNkrlwKs7c
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“Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” ?
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Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY&list=RDyhuMLpdnOjY&start_radio=1
black & white
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The exponent of “the 88 string guitar”
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I loved that New Math was a thing in the 50s, (or was it the 60s?) ….
https://youtu.be/W6OaYPVueW4?si=WclYkn9xCSwhm0Jz..
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https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/40227/trump-can-bring-world-peace-by-ending-the-federal-reserve/
You’ll need to work hard to convince me that The/our RBA isn’t styled and structured in precisely the same way! This is why successive governments, regardless of their colour have been able to fritter our tax money away with impunity. Millions of $$$ too quickly becomes billions
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The US Federal Reserve is owned by private banks. Ours is owned by the Australian Government. That’s the difference.
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A question on Quora.
“”What is your opinion of Simon Stelle’s comments on climate change while visiting Australia?”
Who? So I looked him up. Of course on their ABC.
“The UN’s climate chief has urged Australia to be ambitious when it sets its emissions target for 2035.
Simon Stiell says climate inaction would risk putting a wrecking ball through Australia’s economy.”
“Australia can reap “colossal” economic rewards if it embraces clean energy.”
Of course none of it makes any sense at all. But that’s not his job
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So nuclear technology it must now be?
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And he’s gone big on funds for victims of Climate Change..
The first result is the establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund, according to a historic decision, which culminated in the arduous negotiations at the end of the work of the (COP27) conference, with the aim of providing financing to compensate weak countries affected by floods, droughts and other climatic disasters, for the losses and damages incurred by them.
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It’s interesting that Simon Stelle is a politician from the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada
“Senator Simon Steele, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment of Grenada”
“Simon Steele is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Before taking office in the UNFCCC, Steele served as a Senior Minister in the Government of Grenada for nine years. Prior to his political life, Steele held senior executive positions in a number of industry leading companies from Silicon Valley-based technology startups to major corporations like Nokia.”
That’s where Simon Steele comes in. He is Grenada’s climate minister and an increasingly powerful voice amongst a coalition of dozens of island nations, demanding a massive influx of cash to help them adapt.
The population of Grenada, including its dependencies Carriacou and Petite Martinique, is estimated to be around 112,579.
So he is telling Australians that they have a major world size opportunity in blowing up their power stations? Clever. Like chopping off your other leg to get donations as in Jabberwocky.
Is this the same place where Ronald Regan sent an invasion force to restore democracy? (The 1983 US invasion of Grenada, known as Operation Urgent Fury, was ordered by President Ronald Reagan. The invasion aimed to oust a Marxist regime that had seized power in a coup)
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He’s only saying that because he knows Australia is one of the most woke and most gullible countries on the planet and that the country is in full self-destruct mode under our Communist Prime Minister and his goons.
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Now the top story in the Australian.
Go big on 2035 target or let ‘world overheat’, UN climate chief urges PM
The United Nation’s top climate official, Simon Stiell, has challenged Anthony Albanese
to set an ambitious emissions target rather than choosing ‘what’s easy’,
declaring it a ‘defining moment’ for Australia.
No science skills at all. “demanding a massive influx of cash to help them adapt.”
So why are we entertaining such blatant Climatebaggers advising us on our economic priorities?
Go BIG. Go stupid. You know it’s crazy, but so is my job advising successful countries to commit Seppuku because I say so.
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And if the world ‘overheats’, it’s our fault. What a line!
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Lol!! Its fking freezing this week, AND wet, AND windy, and with any heating energy being priced out way beyond my means the greatest thing I think that could happen would be global warming!! BRING IT ON!
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FWIW
“‘We Were Commanded [by Allah] to Kill You’: The Persecution of Christians”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/27/we-were-commanded-by-allah-to-kill-you-the-persecution-of-christians-n3805203
What more should realise
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Time for an epiphany.
‘David Littleproud says a Coalition review on net zero might see the Nationals jettison the target as Barnaby Joyce calls for a nationwide ‘epiphany’ on how much damage it’s doing to agriculture and manufacturing.’ (Oz)
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It damages the entire country, not just those sectors.
The fact that he only thinks it damages those sectors is a problem.
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That he thinks we’d trust him to stick to ditching these stupid policies is a bigger problem. He really is clueless.
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Who, out of all current politicians with even the slightest chance of becoming PM, would you trust?
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Steve,
please see above comment concerning collapse of the Western educated leadership elite.
So, the answer is none.
And I know this even though I’m here in America, and haven’t the slightest idea who the contenders would be.
You’re welcome.
– Honk
🙂
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Littleproud worked for NAB for 17 years then to Suncorps for a while 🙂
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The Nats can encourage the Libs to join in this revolution and Barnaby is happy to keep Littleproud in place for the time being.
He is not clueless on the issue of climate change, which is all that really matters, nevertheless they’ll take the economic rationalist approach and convince the electorate that Australia doesn’t have to cut back when China is investing heavily in coal fired power stations.
Ley will need to be replaced, who do you suggest?
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‘The fact that he only thinks it damages those sectors is a problem.’
Its the thin edge of the wedge, a moment of revelation, the MSM will have a field day. This is precisely what we need to get people talking and thinking outside the box.
Hopefully more will come here to be better informed, because we have all the answers on political economy and atmospheric science.
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Unemployment is rising across Sydney. Here’s how your area is faring
NSW has lost more than 45,000 jobs in the past two months, lifting the number of unemployed people in the state above 200,000 for the first time since the economic shock of the COVID lockdowns.
Some Sydney regions are being hit disproportionately hard by the weaker labour market conditions.
In the Parramatta district, the unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent last month, the highest of any major statistical area in NSW. That was more than double the rate in the Sutherland region, where unemployment was only 2.3 per cent in June, the lowest in the state (next lowest were the eastern suburbs and northern beaches, both with 2.9 per cent).
The unemployment rate is now at or above 5 per cent across much of western Sydney, including Blacktown (5.4 per cent), the south-western suburbs (5.4 per cent) and inner south-western suburbs (5 per cent), ABS modelling of regional area employment shows.
Across Greater Sydney, just over 140,000 people were looking for work last month, up from 87,300 two years ago.
The NSW unemployment rate climbed to 4.4 per cent in June, the worst in nearly four years and well up on the 3.9 per cent registered in April.
During the past two years, the NSW jobs market has been underpinned by robust growth in public sector employment, including healthcare, disability care, education and public administration.
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Let’s Add How Albo’s colossal housing policy failure and record immigration has created a new category of Aussies with nowhere to go
Meanwhile In Labor Victoria
A German student living in Australia was stunned after discovering the huge queue that had formed outside a takeaway chain, as dozens lined up for a job interview.
The woman filmed herself standing in the line that stretched for metres outside a Subway in Melbourne on Saturday.
The young woman questioned whether it was worth sticking around for the interview after discovering the number of people who were in line ahead of her.
‘Look at how many unemployed people are here, and they are all waiting to go to a job interview at Subway,’ she said in a TikTok.
I can’t believe there are so many people here.’
Australia’s unemployment rate has worsened recently, with Melbourne and Sydney experiencing their worst job markets since late 2021.
Despite the unlikely prospects of landing a job, the woman decided to stay in line as she was desperate just like everybody else. ‘No chances here, but maybe I’ll stay,’ she said.
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“The NSW unemployment rate climbed to 4.4 per cent in June, the worst in nearly four years and well up on the 3.9 per cent registered in April. During the past two years, the NSW jobs market has been underpinned by robust growth in public sector employment, ”
The parasites are just unemployed who have to go to a non-work every day… So its much worse than 4.4 per cent, its that number PLUS the number of parasites hired. The REAL number is shown by the German lass in the queue at Subway, not the fudged figures from the Govt.
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FWIW
“Your life is in the very best of hands”
“Lawyer attacks ‘scandal’ of vaccine victim payments”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lawyer-attacks-scandal-of-vaccine-victim-payments/
UK but – – –
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And
“Lawless Britain – the crisis that could put Farage in Number Ten”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lawless-britain-the-issue-that-could-put-farage-in-number-ten/
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Put that in the drawer with ‘Lawless Ireland’, ‘Lawless France’, ‘Lawless Germany’, ‘Lawless America’, etc, etc.
It’s almost like it’s being planned, coordinated and executed.
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Lawlessness facilitates the imposition of new laws.
Like … “stop saying things are getting lawless or you will be in violation of the law”.
Or stated another way, we are now living in a non-stop and unfunny Monty Python skit.
Strange people handing out diplomas in a University is no basis on which to form a system of government.
And they refuse to recognize the parrot is dead.
I’m starting to notice the violence inherent in the system.
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JC2 tech tip corner
Need to sign a document electronically but don’t have a graphics tablet or good touch screen, and the phone apps are no good?
You can sign using your phone and finger (but a phone stylus is better) for free here and download the signature image.
Works better than other sites.
https://signaturely.com/online-signature/
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You don’t need any of that stuff in you’re the American President. All that reading and signing malarkey is done by flunkies. Heck, you don’t even need to know what ‘you’ just signed …
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A while back, people here were talking about domestic LNG-to-electic home generators. I didn’t keep the links. Just wondering if anyone knows the brand?
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Ceramic Fuel Cells was a private company founded to commercialise technology from the CSIRO.
The company went bankrupt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_Fuel_Cells
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Briquettes do that. No need to invent them.
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mareeS
Generac Generators
Generac’s Guardian Series is an emergency backup silent generator powered by gas. One of the most powerful air-cooled generators on the market today. Automatically provide the backup power you need to protect your home and family during a power outage. No refuelling as it is directly connected and runs on natural gas or liquid propane (LP) fuel and parks just outside your property. Delivers power to your home’s electrical system during a power outage, backing up your entire home or just the most essential equipment until utility power returns.
https://www.macfarlanegenerators.com.au/products/c559/generac-generators
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Achtung! Alles Lookenspeepers!
Das Australian powergridden ist nicht fur replacen by solar und wind. Ist easy breaken der systemz, blowenfusen, blackouten und poppencorken mit spitzundsparken. Ist nicht für playen with bei das green dummkopfen. Das Schwaben loverz keepen das cottenpicken hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das lights stayen on und be happy.
/shameless rehash of the classic 😁
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FWIW
“The journal Science retracts 15-year-old paper that proposed arsenic as basic element of life”
“This action underlines the decline in open-mindedness in the academic field. It did not suffice to simply demonstrate in later papers that the paper’s conclusions were questionable. It was necessary to cancel it entirely, to airbrush it from history.”
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-journal-science-retracts-15-year-old-paper-that-proposed-arsenic-as-basic-element-of-life/
Via https://instapundit.com/734721/#disqus_thread
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Of course wood fired heaters are being targeted again.
Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here’s where the smoke is worst
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-28/national-map-wood-heater-pollution-smoke-health-deaths/105517056
Wood is not a real cheap way of heating your house these days if you have to buy it in. Unless your a farmers who can have a ready supply of wood. Those not on farms have to go and collect their own from the bush our buy it in. They have restricted firewood collection in the parks only making it harder to get and more expensive. Might have to start using briquettes again – can you still buy those?
We have a neighbor who uses a wood heater, we always know, I think they use it as an incinerator at times, you can easily smell burning plastic. Its horrible. I have one in my shed, but only burn timber (mostly off-cuts etc) and generally don’t have much in the way of smoke, only when I’m firing it up at the start.
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