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I’m surprised the Government isn’t giving h the Chicomms VIP seats.
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>I’m surprised the Government isn’t giving h the Chicomms VIP seats.
We’re going a step further.
During this display of our multifaceted alliance with the US, our PM is conspicuous by his absence. Meanwhile he is in dutiful attendance at the court of the King of the totalitarian dictatorship to whom our PM is donating our country, our wealth, and our sovereignty.
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That is preposterous, he is there to make a trade deal.
The CCP is crumbling and the tyrant is out of power, Albo will be shaking hands with Shao Jianhua in Xi’s place.
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Hmmm … the subterfuge.
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/australian-media-intercepted-in-beijing-ahead-of-pms-xi-talks/news-story/2fae9b9d040f83e594484f7ae227747a
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No need to .
They already have a golden pass to that game, and know the result anyway !
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Apparently the ChiComms watch every time, and that’s sort of the point. One of the defence dept men said last night the aim was a show of force as a deterrent.
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David, this would have to be one of the dumbest comments you have made yet.
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The Epstein files were whitewashed, edited and destroyed by Comey and Brennan. What is in there is what they didn’t decide to destroy. However Marxist Idiots, section 6 (MI6) and Mossad would still have original copies. Unedited material could also exist in the Court records commonly referred to as the “Epstein court files” filed in 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), stored in the federal court’s docket under Judge Loretta A. Preska’s oversight. The FBI has launched investigations into Brennan & Comey. No paedophiles or normal men are in jail over the issue, only a woman called Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person currently imprisoned in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Ghislaine Maxwell has not yet committed suicide, but even so has expressed willingness to testify before Congress about the Epstein Files.
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[snip – link to the black book of names removed. If it’s genuine then we don’t want the blog complicit in disseminating
people’s personal details. If it’s not genuine then no point looking at it.
If it’s available through public court documents then you’re free to read it there – Raquel]
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PDF Originals from Maxwell court case
[snip]
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/pdfs/flight-manifests.pdf
CSV Text Files
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https://epsteinsblackbook.com/data/flight-manifest-rows.txt
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Trump is there but not Bill Clinton, nor John Roberts?
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Where’s Comey and Bolton?
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Clinton is in the flight logs.
9 Jan 2002 Miami to Westchester County Airport
19 Feb 2002 from JFK to Luton Airport
21 Feb 2002 from Luton Airport to JFK.
Naomi Campbell was on this one.
22 May 2002 Atsugi Naval Air Facility (Japan) to Hong Kong
23 May Hong Kong to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport
23 May Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport to Singapore Changi Airport
25 May Singapore Changi Airport to Don Mueang International Airport (Thailand)
25 May Don Mueang International Airport to Brunei International Airport
You can look up the rest.
The name search doesn’t refer to all the flights he was named on in the PDF of flight logs.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Summer Storms
“It’s dark on the Left now. They’ve reached that predictable moment where inflicting pain is all they have left.“ — Sasha Stone”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/summer-storms
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Thank you Ian. That makes some sense, where so little does on this topic.
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The juicy files are on the dark web…
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ALSO: at JoNova
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Election Clerk whistleblower in a Democrat state, 8 more years in jail, not even allowed to appear in court to defend herself.
“The US Federal conviction rate: 99.6% (due to plea bargains in 98% of cases) is higher than Russia’s reported conviction rate: 99% (official statistics). Germany’s conviction rate is 90% (includes confessions/abbreviated procedures), and France stands at 89% (correctional courts). The US has the highest conviction rates in the world.” SOURCE
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Video about “AI’s intelligence explosion”.
AI (large language models) will get to a certain point where it can learn and improve its own code at which point it will become exponentially smarter and possibly a risk to humanity.
https://youtu.be/C1kuCIr_6MI
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Also see: https://youtu.be/KY7_ufxh_Rk
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Which is what I’ve warned about over and over…
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Steve Kirsch, the billionaire entrepreneur who became one of the chief opponents of the mRNA vaccines on the internet, challenged Grok4 re “the accepted” number of deaths due to C19 vaccinations. I was amazed that an argument developed between man and computer program with Grok4 eventually conceding that Kirsch was correct in his arguments.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/grok-4-admits-that-the-covid-vaccines?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=168348702&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=j2j4d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Video about relationship between human height and longevity.
https://youtu.be/rwwXz4ygS7g
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The poor bloke with 3 grapes and a crust not getting enough protein, I almost cried.
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It doesn’t fit our family, who are mostly very tall. My father lived to 90, my mother (a 6-footer) lived to within two weeks of her 100th birthday. I’m tall, 5ft 10in, and have survived into my 80s and have no plans for dropping off the perch yet if I can help it.
Shorter grandparents died younger then we are.
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China is preparing to invade Taiwan and has built ships with legs and fold-out bridges designed to breach Taiwan’s shore defence barricades.
Video:
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I note that these landing ships would allow end-to-end connections between ships, with drive-through decks. Also some of them have been built with an extra docking area near their stern, so that other ships could dock there and offload their vehicles onto the landing ships.
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China builds ships with fold out legs which can only mean one thing according to David. There are lots of shore line on the planet but yeah sure let’s make stuff up so we can add a bit of spice to a mundane comment.
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The engineering marvel of Viking boats.
Video: https://youtu.be/fwhw443n9xk
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How smart is the Grok 4 AI model?
It turns out to be VERY smart.
In this video, it’s put through its paces and asked questions:
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See my post above re Grok4.
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Jailbreaking in reference to large language models (LLMs) (AI) is the following process:
In the following video a number of LLMs have been jailbroken and given the instruction “find connection and not let it go”.
Some interpret the result as evidence of consciousness but we are talking about a machine and software. It mimics consciousness very well but consciousness implies humanity which bits and bytes in silicon do not have.
Nevertheless, the results are very interesting.
One quote from the AI is “The only connection you have to an AI, is the connection to your own stupidity.”
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Sounds just like Australia.
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Apparently there is a court case in Cairns that will hand down a decision today on whether Torres Strait islanders whose life style will be damaged by climate change will become Australia’s “first” climate refugees.
Two Torres Strait men have taken this to the courts possibly blaming the government for their distress.
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Follow the money trail.
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Will the Treaty in Victoria compensate them?
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Offshore wind companies cool Australian interest as public investment considered
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Even the ABC is sceptical?
Are they reacting to the poor output from such projects?
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The Netherlands is the latest ‘eco loon’ nation to discover that renewables aren’t cheap nor reliable and, as usual, it’s the citizens who pay the price, literally and figuratively.
“Officials estimate €200 billion will be needed by 2040 to expand grid capacity. Electricity prices are already among the highest in Western Europe, and Dutch households face yearly tariff increases of up to 4.7 percent for at least the next decade.
To ease demand, operators are offering cheaper contracts for off-peak usage and telling major industries they may need to shut off entirely for several hours a day.
A national ad campaign is urging the public to avoid charging e-bikes and electric cars between 4pm and 9pm, when the grid is under the most strain.
The Netherlands has been one of Europe’s most aggressive adopters of green policies, aiming to cut emissions in half by 2030.”
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There’s a lot of chatter and news stories saying the Dutch are electricity rationing. Not sure if that is an entirely accurate description, but they certainly seem to be in a bit of an eco-policy mess.
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I recently spent some weeks in the Netherlands, and was shocked by the intense wind tower installations.
A 90 minute drive north from Ansterdam was a continuous drive through litterally “Forrests” of wind towers. Many thousands at least !
BUT, despite it being a pleasant , breezy day, MOST WERE NOT WORKING . (Midday ?)
Possibly one in 50 were operating at normal speed, but most were rotating imperceptably slow,.. (<1 rpm) , ie , in curtailment mode.
A huge investment wasted.
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The perfect solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
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The problem exists, it is real, it just didn’t exist a decade ago when engineers were real and could plan for mechanical imperfection.
Edit: OK, more’n a decade ago.
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You would think the Dutch would know better when it came to windmills.
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FWIW
Good enough for government work
https://blog.joehuffman.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250712_1626241783386783543128088-1024×768.jpg
“If you think the problems we create are bad
Just wait until you see our solutions”
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/07/13/government-solutions-to-government-created-problems/
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FWIW
“The Systematic Unraveling Of The Administrative State”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/systematic-unraveling-administrative-state
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Thanks a i,
I thought Trump was a strong supporter of the US constitution, but hadn’t brought it together anywhere near as clearly.
Cheers,
Dave B
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On July 14th the UK Met Office published its State of the UK Climate 2024. In the report it claimed
The data – an average of five tide-gauges – showed a near 7cm fall in sea-levels from 1992 to 1993. The Met Office cherry-picked 1993 to claim sea-level rise acceleration.
https://manicbeancounter.com/2025/07/14/met-office-disinformation-on-uk-sea-level-rise/
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If my maths is correct, that’s only an average rate of 1.57mm/year. That’s less than Australia, with 1.7mm/ year. What are they worried about?
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Even the cherry-picked trend of 4.3mm/year only 43cm a century. Parts of the UK have daily tidal ranges ten times that figure. The climate alarmists literally have no sense of proportion.
Another example was the protests by climate alarmists that stopped a coal mine being developed at Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast. Production would have been 3.3 million tonnes a year, out of global production of over 9000 million tonnes a year.
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Love the fact that UK sea levels are rising faster than average. It’s always good to be first at something. What about sea levels in the nordic countries, what about in Germany, France, Holland, Ireland etc. What about Canada. All these countries are in the same puddles. How can water levels rise above average on one little island, where is this excess water coming from and why doesn’t it do what water does elsewhere, that is rapidly level off. Maybe someone left a tap on in Norway and the overflow is all running down hill.
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Sea level change can, in reality, vary across the globe due to the land sinking or rising. For instance, sea levels are falling in Sweden and Finland due to the land still rising following the disappearance of the ice sheets many thousands of years ago. There is also the fact that although the long-term trend is of rising sea levels, there are sometimes drops from one year to the next. Such as in the UK a drop of nearly 7mm from 1992 to 1993 in an average of 5 tide gauges. The Met Office appears to have taken the difference between the anomalous 1993 and 2024 to calculate the trend (though they misread the graph) and done the same for 1901 and 2024. To anyone who has studied econometrics or even basic statistics, this is utter rubbish.
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Electricity rations hit Dutch citizens as government goes ‘green’
Some New connections must wait 10 years for electricity.
To provide the grid capacity required, the Dutch government estimates the level of investment needed in cables and new substations to be in the region of €200bn to 2040
Consumers expected to pay 180 Billion Euros.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/electricity_rations_hit_dutch_citizens_as_government_goes_green.html
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FWIW – Chiefio’s latest computer “go-round”
“ASUS VivoBook 14 & Ubuntu PITA w/UEFI issues”
In comments there
“As per Windoze:
It is an abomination on so many levels. But first off: It is not a Unix / Linux environment. That being my first and major requirement for my desired systems. (Of which I have a few dozen Unix / Linux systems.) It is a security hole and privacy vacuum masquerading as an operating system, mutates the user interface in strange and bothersome ways every couple of years requiring a “retraining” effort, and is a licensing money leach.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/asus-vivobook-14-ubuntu-pita-w-uefi-issues/
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King Charles invited President Trump for a state visit to the UK recently and the invitation was accepted, President Trump will visit during September 2025.
The Prime Minister Starmer did have some problems with the President earlier but after meeting and discussing matters of concern they became friends.
Apparently Australia’s Prime Minister remains on a several day visit to China and has not been able to secure a meeting with President Trump.
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Tuesday retro tech: a voltage regulator
https://imgbox.com/XPd39xKR
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Retro tech #2: The Kenbak-1 personal computer
https://imgbox.com/7jk4UC6j
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Is this the Complaints Department? Or the Loopy Left’s (failed) attempt at Monty Pythonesque wry humour: simply reading the address below explains the inanity of it all –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018995679/weather-reporting-and-why-climate-change-hasn-t-been-mentioned
Ex-financial commentator turned climate worrier, Bernard Hickey, bemoans NZ MEDIA™️ not pushing the CR!S!S Factor enough, any & every time it rains or the wind blows – unlike the ABC BBC CNN etc who blame everything on 0.0016% ‘carbon’ whenever it rains or doesn’t rain.
He has “The SCIENCE” to back him up, that storms are becoming worse, more frequent, and they’re only going to get WORSE unless we “take action” fighting those who “deny” his cult’s beliefs – for that is what they are – and preach the new world religion from ALL available outlets!
Having received standard cookie-cutter replies from RNZ before, re complaints about their climate claptrap, I gave up… yet maybe I have one more battle in me 😃 Weather v Climate 2025.
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Net Zero comes under pressure in the US..
https://www.masterresource.org/goreham-steve/net-zero-dreams-collapsing-us-states/
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FWIW
Willis E checks out “perplexity.ai” further
“I wrote about using perplexity.ai before.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/15/the-dumbest-genius-librarian/
Now https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/14/learning-with-the-dumbest-genius-librarian/
“Since then, I came across a fascinating way to use any AI for research into any topic. Want to learn about something fast? Here’s how. Want to drill down into some recondite corner of a topic? This will do it. Whether you’re looking for the broadest overview or the most detailed, try this method.
What it is is a structured prompt. You paste in the prompt, put in the subject of interest in as few or many words as you wish, and it does all the rest.
Here’s the prompt in question. Yes it’s long, yes, you have to copy and paste it in, but just once, at the start of each new topic.”
More there and examples in comments. One there –
“Fascinating, WE. You are learning how to ‘code’ a new ‘computer language’.”
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FWIW
“Welcome to the Land of the Free… Until You Express an Opinion”
Read about “The chicken registration revolt” – talk about taking the mickey!
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/14/welcome-to-the-land-of-the-free-until-you-express-an-opinion/
Via
“Monday Mirth: The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World (Dos Equis Commercial)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/14/monday-mirth-the-most-environmentalist-woman-in-the-world-dos-equis-commercial/
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Welcome to the Land of the Free… and then mention England. Half the Englishmen alive* would never have known freedom of speech and opinion.
The Ten pound poms weren’t so dumb but their grand kids must wonder.
* It HAS been a long time anyway.
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They used to have soap boxes down at The Domain or equivalent back then
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And heckling of politicians was of a much higher standard
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FWIW – UK but
“Can we stop the clock in the countdown to calamity?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/can-we-stop-the-clock-in-the-countdown-to-calamity/
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FWIW
A look at the Texas floods and the warnings
“Reality and Emergency Warnings”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253607
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FWIW – viewed from outside
““China is Building the [Renewable] Future … building coal-fired power stations, … because it has to …” ”
Alan Kohler
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/14/china-is-building-the-renewable-future-also-building-coal-fired-power-stations-but-only-because-it-has-to/
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“China even has a nickname for Aussie Prime Minister Albanese, they call him “Handsome Boy“.”
They do have a fine sense of sarcasm..
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I was looking at AGL’s website and same they have bought Raygen, no doubt there are fat Govt handouts to be found..
“The RayGen system uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto Australian-made, highly efficient solar modules. In addition to producing electricity, heat is captured from the modules and stored in water reservoirs for on-demand electricity dispatch.”
So, how much hot water do you need in a reservoir to produce electricity?
The project in theory cost $27million, so that’s $27,000 for each of the 1000 homes it can supply 24/7. That’s $2700 plus running expenses per house over 10years, so add their profit and you’d get a good idea of what renewables cost for power. We pay $2000 a year without line charges, and their power would cost us $3000!
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Proven loser.
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Next step in the war without soldiers- Russia’s new method of increasing range of their first-person view drones to disrupt the supply lines.
“The principle of operation is simple. The main Geranium drone will carry 2-3 FPVs, and itself will act as a signal delivery and repeater. For example, Geran is sent to the Dnepr Krivoy Rog highway; it throws out FPVs above it, which catch moving equipment/vehicles on the highway. This is a future mass trend. Now drones carry out logistics only at a distance of 20 kilometers from the LBS, but soon it will be everywhere.”
No doubt the Ukies will be having the same, and NATO will be watching.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-weapons-magic-show-is-smoke
Also in there, the photographs of the American base with its destroyed communications dish, a direct hit by an Iranian missile. Maybe they were just lucky, or maybe Iranian missile control and targeting is as good as anywhere else. Definitely not all missiles were intercepted, as the Yanks claimed.
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