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Carbon …
the divine molecule of our existence.
Someone has to say something nice about it.
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Thank goodness for the Sun. Without it, not much would be here.
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It is responsible for bringing stuff together.
If it weren’t for that wanna be star Saturn, we could be even closer.
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Without our big moon we wouldn’t be here. Intuitively I think it was placed there.
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The film ‘Moonfall’ thought so.
On SBS on Demand and quite a good film.
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Thanks I’ll check it out.
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Carbon, by weight, is near 27.3% of a CO2 molecule. So, without Carbon there would be no Carbon Dioxide, no food for plants, and no humans or cuddly Polar Bears.
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And no oxygen to breathe, the O2 is pretty important too.
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I don’t expect people realise that all living things are almost entirely made from CO2 and H2O. A 50 tonne tree does not grow from the soil, but from the air. Or there would be a huge hole around the tree. And all living things burn when dry because they are basically hydrocarbons and water. Only a little ash is left, the mineral part.
Air is almost entirely Nitrogen N2 78% and Oxygen O2 21%. 1% Argon. CO2 at 0.042% is also heavier with an extra atom, so it sinks and 74% of the world is covered with water.
Plus CO2 is 30 times more soluble than O2 so it gets absorbed. O2 also and fish breathe. Fish drown without oxygen. But the wind keeps refreshing and mixing the oxygen and CO2. The idea that CO2 piles up in the air for some reason is absurd.
The US ruling that CO2 is industrial pollution is ridiculous and soon to be repealed. In fact all living things breathe out CO2. Plus our fossil CO2 only adds a tiny 1% to atmospheric CO2 each year and that is only 2% of the CO2 in the oceans, so 0.02% in total CO2 per year. Absolutely negligible.
It is beyond belief that fossil fuel CO2 alone is somehow stuck in the atmosphere, especially when it all swaps out every over ten years roughly. That is well known.
So I blame the Al Gore and the UN for creating this 37 year old story of rapid man made warming since 1750. It’s very obviously not true. The sky is not falling. The seas are not boiling.
The 38,000 direct employees of the UN need to find another way of paying their wages than inventing new carbon taxes. They are after all not an elected government or a government at all.
So what about saving ten billion a year and reducing the UN to a tenth of the size? First get rid of all the unelected retired socialist politicians and public servants living high on the carbon fund? There must be someone doing some work? Surely? And Donald Trump seems to be the only one interested in stopping wars where the UN wants to arrest the only democratically elected leader in the entire Middle East.
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And the Safeguard Mechanism is built on the Gillard Agricultural Carbon credits, part of a legal structure of taxing Australians and Australian companies going back to 2001 with the Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act. However NASA unintentionally proved growing trees did not change CO2. This would have been a hidden fact except it was a multi national investigation, involved not least Australia. But they say nothing.
The report was that more CO2 meant more trees, but it was not written up like that. They argued CO2 was ‘fertilizing’ the planet, which is an absurd idea, but hides the real conclusion.
https://www.nasa.gov/technology/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds/
It proved that between 1988 and 2014, CO2 increased 14% and the number of trees went up 14%. Trillions of tons of CO2 sequestered and the path of CO2 was not affected in the slightest!
So the real conclusion a scientist would draw is that CO2 is in equilibrium, moving in a straight line slowly and removing trillions of tons of CO2 has zero effect. Because it is replaced entirely and exactly from the world’s oceans. And sequestering, growing plants including trees has zero effect on CO2 or its slow, slight, linear increase. As seen in the data from NZ (Ignore the silly rent seeking text)
So more CO2 means, exactly proportionally, more trees. And more trees do not mean any change to CO2.
So Australian politicians, supported by their ABC and their CSIRO, have passed laws which they know to be factually wrong. These could be challenged in the High Court, much like the giving of Native Title to aboriginals on the basis of Mr Mabo’s win when he actually argued convincingly he was not an aboriginal. But no Australians or Australian object to these laws which are crippling the country.
We in Australia, Canada and the UK have the worst governments in modern history. And amazingly, except Polierve in Canada and Farage in the UK, the worst oppositions in Modern history. Only in the US have the RINOs been slowly removed and only in Trump’s second term, but not in Texas yet. Leftists in Conservative clothing.
What are members of the public to do in a Democracy? Even John Howard said to me that he was ‘agnostic’ about Climate Change. Then why did he cripple the country with massive Green taxes? Surely like doctors, politicians should ‘do no harm’. But the harm is massive and while our actual defences are being shut down including ANZUS, our PM is in China talking to his communist friends for six days and behaving like a tourist even after the devastation of the Wuhan flu? And the crippling Chinese tariffs for just asking.
Why isn’t Albanese and Wong in Washington or Taipei? And why do our PM and Mr Wong hate Israel so much? Like all good communists and South Africa?
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And Rebecca Weisser in the Spectator put it succinctly with our national hatred for Israel. In the new Post Truth world where facts are irrelevant, terrorists are victims, democracies are villains and anti Semitism is social justice. I could say the same about rapid man made CO2 driven Global Warming. The opposite of the truth, not a shred of truth in it. And I could add aboriginal affairs. Nothing to do with aboriginals, $42 Billion a year up in smoking ceremonies.
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44 Billion Australian Dollars a year going to the wrong people/Corruption/Waste/Whatever and no ‘Pollie’ or Public Serpent seems to care.
Let the Australian People have an Audit on where this money is spent right now.
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It is tempting to compare two minorities – Jews and Gypsies.
Historically they had so much in common, the main thing was absolute rejection of assimilation within host population and dislike of them in return.
The dislike expressed itself differently in different times but in the 1940ies Europe about 1/2 of each group was exterminated.
A comparison in this field is extremely hard and unjust but, back to 2025, ChatGPT says: an antisemitic post appears on the Net every ~83 seconds.
One mention of Gypsies in national newspaper every ~3 days in the UK (about the same as always was)
Is that because they are still “victims”?
A 100 years ago Jews attempted to become “like anyone else” – good, I approve.
Strangely enough it was not met with global enthusiasm.
Moreover, the dislike is directly proportional to their material success. If you read anything at all about Evian Conference, you’d expect 80-90% support from UN.
At UN GA (1975) equated their move to Nationhood to racism and racial discrimination but with 49% of members voting against it. What would be that percentage today?
It is a serious question and it is not about Israel, they will look after themselves. It is about other “civilised” countries – who is the next UAR and Rhodesia? Will Ukraine disappear before Taiwan or vice-versa ? If Ukraine is an artificial creation, as putin said, was Commonwealth Australia created in one of 6 days?
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I know TdeF it’s absurd. But let’s focus on that 14% increase in greening validated by NASA. It’s like adding another continent of green to the world’s landmass. Imagine if the reverse were true- you would hear about it nonstop in the “media”. Little old ladies would discuss it over their morning coffee. Politicians would be funding programs of Green re- generation and turning up in their hard hats and hi- vis for photo ops. But no, crickets.
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Just looked it up- 14% is about 3 Australias. 😀👍
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I cannot believe that most of the science community are not aware of the greening occurring across the planet. I can recall listening to a scientist talking at a seminar years ago on the extent of this phenomenon. What a scandal it is that the world has been duped about the so called sinister effects of “global warming”.
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Yes, the amount of greening added is about the size of the continental USA.
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And still the environmentalists bang on about ‘deforestation’, the exact opposite of the truth according to satellites.
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At 78%, it’s fortunate that the climate botherers haven’t found a problem with N2, yet.
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They have. NO2/N2O4. Nitrates, NO3-. After eliminating sulfur/sulphur from petrol/diesel, the new acid rain is HNO3 or nitric rather than sulphuric.
They are the official excuse for the EU demanding the shutdown of masses of farms in the Nederlands. Banning nitrate fertilizer use. Something we hear nothing about today after the farmers actions and the election of Gert Wilders. And at the same time, the reason diesel engines were banned and taxed and fined savagely in France after Macron made their purchase mandatory, leading the the National Gilet Jaune revolts. Again, all news is suppressed.
And now methane, CH4, the output of all decay of plant cellulose and of termites. A tiny, tiny gas but as it is all converts to CO2 in twenty years, an excuse for more taxes and regulations and suppression of agriculture. Especially dairy. Cow farts are being taxed. Methane taxes are the new thing after nitrogen bans. So the MMBW is being taxed as well. And cemeteries are next. Collecting taxes from bacteria, termites and cockroaches will be a problem, so the farmers will be taxed instead.
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As an odd aside, I just found that the Dutch people never existed.
Prior to the unification of Germany and Holland for that matter, all people from NE Europe were called Deutsch from Deutschland, corrupted to Dutch. It was a misunderstanding, particularly in the new United States.
The people in the East of Holland spoke Frisian, low German which is close to the Saxon ancestral basis of English, but the people of Amsterdam spoke what we today call Dutch.
And the Nederlands or Neder (as in Nether regions) ‘low’ lands included Belgium, also well below sea level. This stopped the Germans in WW1 in metres of water in Belgium as the Prince ordered the flood gates opened. Blitzkreig, lightning war, was in part to stop this happening again. And half the Belgians are Flemish, another language root in ‘Dutch’.
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The Germans in WW1 were so impressed with the tactics employed by the Australian General Monash that they adapted them for WW2 and called them ‘Blitzkrieg’, lightning war.
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That man was a genius. Thank god we named many things after him as remembrance of a great human being.
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“CO2 at 0.042% is also heavier with an extra atom, so it sinks”
Perhaps the CO2 emitted higher in the atmosphere takes longer to sink into the ocean, so if CO2 is as bad as we are continually told, the worst CO2 emissions are those emitted higher in the atmosphere such as from the elite people flying all over the planet.
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No one seemed to notice but in 2020 most of the world’s aircraft were grounded. And a billion cars. But there was no change in CO2 at all. (Ignore the commentary, it’s the usual climate change religion)
Consider it a world wide experiment to determine how much CO2 we humans put in the air. All tourist and business and non essential travel stopped world wide and major roads empty in most cities.
So why does anyone think flying and driving affects CO2? The evidence of the Wuhan Flu completely destroys the narrative, especially of electric cars which actually run on coal in Australia. And generate more Co2 than modern cars which have higher efficiency and do not require billions in transmission lines and for which super fast petrol stations already exist at no cost to the public.
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To think, that without carbon paper to run bureaucracy, we wouldn’t have net zero: http://kevinlaurence.net/essays/cc.php
Invented to try to help blind people write with a metal stylus. It took a bit to find this article – a lot on the carbon footprint of paper to sift through….
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I’m too busy manufacturing some more Conzent(R), narrative demands it, can somebody else deal with this?
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Carbon is a girl’s best friend 🙂
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Lol. As long as it’s a diamond.
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.
https://scienceinfo.com/diamond-structure-properties-types/
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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/i/170444106/world-news-and-commentary
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A few problems for the climate cult here, but the author has predictably avoided total apostasy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14982353/Gulf-Stream-weakening-300-YEARS.html
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Oh woe, woe and more woe!
Hang on, haven’t we had all this before?
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Its definitely confusing! Humans are causing global warming that is going to freeze Europe like “The Day After Tomorrow, when the ice age returns overnight.. But somehow with all this extra snow and ice everywhere taking up all the water, sea levels are going to rise because the windmills are making the waves pile up along the American East Coast and “experts say sea levels around the North Atlantic Basin could experience a rise up to nearly 20 inches.”…
Its like a committee of blind men describing the elephant in the room.
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‘The Gulf Stream has been getting weaker for much longer than we thought – and it could be on the verge of total collapse due to climate change.’
This theory has been widely discredited.
‘Their study found that their Gulf Stream moved northward 300 years ago – a sign that the AMOC started slowing down then.’
This is testable, what exactly happened around 1725?
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There was a sharp downturn in temps around 1740, but it bounced back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_England_temperature#/media/File:CET_1659_-_2014_using_Hadley_Centre_Data.png
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https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/your-spouse-started-antidepressants
This is your brain on SSRIs: chemically castrated not just sexually but emotionally, morally, spiritually. The same serotonergic manipulation that’s supposed to lift your mood also severs the invisible threads connecting you to everything that matters. But you won’t realize it’s happening because the drug disables your ability to recognize its own effects.
The psychiatric establishment has convinced millions that flooding the brain with serotonin is as benign as taking vitamin C. They’ve never bothered to mention that serotonin doesn’t just regulate mood; it shapes moral reasoning, empathy, pair bonding, sexual response, and the entire constellation of neurochemical processes that make us capable of authentic human connection
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The article doesn’t directly address “Myphones” , and narcissism, but it does say :-
“But SSRIs are just one weapon in a much larger war against human flourishing.
Look around: We’re poisoning masculinity as “toxic,” redefining female hormonal cycles as psychiatric disorders, and severing our children from nature itself, replacing dirt, sunlight, and real play with screens and synthetic environments.
We’re feeding them processed poison disguised as food, then wondering why their bodies and minds rebel.
We’re replacing human connection with digital interfaces, substituting virtual “friends” for real relationships, and celebrating isolation as “self-care.”
Every institution that once fostered genuine human bonds (family, community, spiritual fellowship) is under systematic attack.”
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” severing our children from nature itself, replacing dirt, sunlight, and real play with screens and synthetic environments.”
One of Michael Leunig’s best :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkc3sqIhlI
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Having been in the business for decades I wonder why anyone would be prescribed a SSRI for mild work-related anxiety. They were a revelation in the late 80s when Prozac appeared for those we called the “worried well” but with chronic problems and lack of enjoyment. Marvellous for reducing suicidal thoughts for people who had suffered a terrible loss and similar. For some they didn’t work. Double the dose. More people relieved of what mentally ailed them. Cures for OCD, panic disorder and such. The reality is, when discussing treatment options, the vast majority of people choose a pill over therapy and therapies have a very poor record, often many years before improvement, when really it’s just time and the maturation of the personality. Some people say they are numbed on such and some people have withdrawals when trying to stop. Some people really do have sexual dysfunction and personality changes but, in the end, psychiatric diagnoses is about clinical judgement.
Is it a big pharma scam? You don’t have to take them but you went to the doctor in the first place.
The big pharma scam is in drug-induced psychoses – too much pot, speed, E or whatever where you have psychotic symptoms for a brief period. In the old days treatment varied but it was mainly a few days of medication to control symptoms and behaviour before discharge when symptom-free. High chance that when you did drugs again you might get symptoms again, a step towards chronic schizophrenia. In the hierarchy of health it was mandated that treatment be for 6 months when the novel antipsychotics, new and expensive. Big money spinner for them, research grants for the researchers providing they recommended longer term antipsychotics. DIP is a big, big problem. Don’t do drugs. LOL. But there are much cheaper options.
I wonder if anyone of the “SSRIs ruined my marriage” cohort were also in therapy cos there are lots of nutty therapists out there pushing their various nutty agendas.
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One of many pharmaceutical scams, I’m afraid. Statins, blood pressure drugs, steroids, diuretics and many more. All have been exaggerated in their claims of both efficacy and safety. Add SSRI’s to the list. Also rather sobering to complete an internet search on all the drugs once approved and since withdrawn from use. Mostly due to safety reasons. Vioxx being the most notable.
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Well I took Sertraline (Zoloft) an SSRI once for sever depression and a total loss of interest in life and all my friends, this was after my mother died. I found it very good. It takes awhile to work but in my case it worked extremely well. I took it for about 4 months and had absolutely no difficulty stopping.
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What happened to prescribing a teaspoon of cement and harden the fk up!
A life with no struggle means a life where people spend far too much time looking inwards and wondering why their life isn’t as wonderful and they think others are. You won’t find many people on the Ukraine front lines worrying about being the “worried well”, that only comes when they get back into society and see how fake it all is.
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Ukraine already had a lot of smackheads before the war, I think they are past the ‘worried well’ stage now: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Ukraine/Ukraine_drug_demand_supply.pdf
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The other great “missing thing” is physical exertion, jobs made easier by machines, lack of initiative to take up sports, just sit inside like Leunig’s cartoon and wonder why your world narrows to only what is delivered through the device. Couple of years ago we were in FNQ at a place where honeymooners go. There were blissful couples from many nations, all on their bloody phones!
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Years ago I remember, on the frontpage only teasers of articles were presented, not the complete articles. I liked that way.
As I’m surfing with a tablet, the frontpage here is hard to handle now.
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Agree. An intro only, then click the link if you want to read the story, rather than force people to wear their fingers down scrolling over the full story to get to the next one.
It’s regarded as bad practice by webmasters.
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A slightly frightening article pointing out AI is up and running in the business world, with AI able to set different prices, depending on an individual’s circumstances! Delta airlines is already selling tickets, and setting prices, after checking what they think a person can afford. They are saying this is great for DEI, in that rich people will have to pay more. Walmart, Kroger and Wendys are going with electronic shelf prices, that can be changed instantaneously. Walmart have a different price if a customer is calling from the carpark, or from a distance away. Boom time for big business they reckon. 18 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyMWig4AR4k&t=62s
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Oh it’s only “fake AI” LLM agents.
The “thing” I mentioned will change everything.
Out of left field, not developed in the USA, EU or China and trashes LLM and Chatbot garbage. The best “AI” products scored ZERO in comparison.
As it’s new it’s v1.0 (around 120 equivalent human IQ) but I predict v2 by this time next year (expected equivalent IQ of 200), and v3 before 2028 (IQ 400) at which point we no longer have the ability to understand it.
All the fake experts predicting AI and superAI will never happen are wrong, and the real experts saying it’s decades away wrong too, as it’s advancing with blistering speed as I have said it would, and it’s imminent.
Sabine H just released a video on the rate of development.
https://youtu.be/Z8BQr07pQa0?si=E-o-YLABItKlRPuJ
It’s like jumping from a VCR straight to a Bluray player technologically, the most profound, expensive and scary event in history. The industrial revolution on steroids.
Don’t underestimate it.
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In the beginning, the human race meant a race to become human, now we seem to be racing to the end.
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“Walmart, Kroger and Wendys are going with electronic shelf prices, ”
That’s how Dan Murphys sells booze, you can vary the price over the day according to who is shopping. Box wine up at 11am for the retirees, slabs of beer expensive at 6pm as the tradies rush in and out.
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US supermarkets have been doing a form of that for years. Cheaper to shop in an affluent suburb store as more likelihood of price comparison with those customers
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Joannes Leak in todays Australian captures The Australian Brains Tryst perfectly. Reporter asks if AI works “well it does for us” is the collective reply
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Hey there Greg in NZ and farmerbraun, Just heard on our local radio that New Zealand has had its warmest winter since 1909 and some ski resorts didn’t even open this year due to lack of snow. Wow you guys must be feeling the strain. The warm temperatures are attributed to Climate Change as expected. The report did not tell us why it was a warm year in 1909. I guess that bit of info isn’t all that important.
Any hoo congratulations on your new found warmth and expect an influx of Ozzies travelling across the ditch to enjoy the beautiful balmy shaky isles.
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According to a modern analysis of von Hann’s 1908 paper, temperatures were as high then as they are today. But then, 2 metres of snow would have been just weather, but one warm season is climate change. Go figure. Anyhow, NZ might, just might, be rooted. The New Zealand National Government’s move to take excise duty off petrol and move to a system of road user charges is interesting. Each vehicle will be fitted with a transponder that will collect data on how far it has travelled and the owner will be charged accordingly. So, not a big step to collecting data on where you have been, when you travelled and what speed you were doing. Is it me or is Big Brother really watching?
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Gentlemen and Ladies,
the rumours of our self-immolation are premature … as well as being toadally fack-to-bront. See:
https://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/nz/next3days/snow
(you can select 4x Last Week / Next Week).
From Stewart Island to the East Cape
From Rakiura (south) to Hikurangi (north)
fabulous frigid falling flakes ❄️ ho ho ho!
Can you FEEEEEEEL the ‘heat’?
Mt Cook summit: max -11, min -18, windchill -32.
Mt Olympus ski field: -8, 30cm freshies, OPEN!
Mt Hutt ski field: -6, 20cm freshies, gale southerly 🥶
Up north we’ve maxed on 12*C with a cutting southerly blasting up from the SNOWLANDS down south, even the North Island’s Desert Road was CLOSED overnight due to frigid white snow & slick black ice – not sure of the modern Maori word for that ‘colourful’ yet inaccurate term.
Sure, it’s been an on/off season for snowhounds, some good early dumps then mediocre iffy dustings until today, thanks to Albotrotsky who (supposedly) flew into Queenstown to stay at a luxury lodge away from the riff-raff in town. Along with sampling fine wine, salmon, lamb, mushrooms (?) he’ll be having a *robust conversation* with our PM Egghead about getting both countries’ population BACK ON TRACK 👁️ safely & effectively™️. They enjoy keeping tabs on us, Lord knows why.
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“New Zealand has had its warmest winter since 1909 ”
Too funny.
There I was just minutes ago looking at the fresh powdery white stuff on the ranges , just north of Wharite; then I stupidly got out of my vehicle to move some livestock.
I’m back inside now with gloves on – warming up.
I had three wool layers on , plus two layers of synthetic thermals.
It’s “warm’ alright.
Oh wait , it’s now early Spring.
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Of course we’ve just had the “hottest/driest/worstest” Summer ever , and that was preceded by the worstest , wettest , springiest ” Spring evah in Southland.
Seems to be a trend . . . .
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“livestock” ?
See, that’s the problem: Bugs save us!
Was going to post this to TdeF’s #1.3.3.1 comment on NIWA’s CO2 article but I’ll plonk it in here if you don’t mind farmerbraun.
PAT (principal atmosphere technician) Gordon ‘Bennett’ Brailsford of NIWA infamy, refers to carbon dioxide as an “increased burden in the atmosphere” which comes from “fossil sources” (via TdeF’s link).
I’m no ‘Doctor’ (of history nor philosophy) however, like many here, my reading interests are vast & varied and I’ve never discovered a dinosaur in my diesel tank – nor a pterodactyl, thank goodness, coz that could get messy – and as for this burden he doth speak of, maybe his PAT badge means he’s a toilet cleaner or bathroom assistant technician.
Fossil sources = Faux silly sauces?
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FWIW
Greg in NZ
If “and as for this burden he doth speak of, maybe his PAT badge means he’s a toilet cleaner or bathroom assistant technician.”
Then he has a song
“My job is to clean a NIWA latrine
I’m the man with the plan for the pan which everyone uses” – – –
With some further adaptation
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“I’ve never discovered a dinosaur in my diesel tank – nor a pterodactyl, thank goodness, coz that could get messy”
Back in the day when Esso was a fuel retailer the adverts were ” Put a Tiger in your tank” the witty response was “I’d sooner have a lady bear on the back seat”
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That used to be “A female lion on the back seat.”
Geoff S
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A cougar , surely?
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The 19th century economist, Frederic Bastiat, once said:
“The state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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FWIW
“Comment Submitted On EPA Proposal To Revoke Biden-Era Power Plant Regulations”
“After a few decades in the wilderness, it looks like the skeptics are now suddenly prevailing in the climate wars. I have long said that this would inevitably happen, and that it was only a question of time, because the laws of physics and economics would inevitably prevail. But what I didn’t know was how much time it would take — perhaps a few years, or maybe many decades. It’s much like North Korea. Their non-functioning communist system will inevitably collapse — but when?
Much credit for the sudden reversal in the climate struggles goes to President Trump. But it is also true that the climate scam was always a house of cards, subject to falling as soon as a critical mass of people started testing its foundations.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/08/comment-submitted-on-epa-proposal-to-revoke-biden-era-power-plant-regulations/
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Mmmm and just bite on a stick during surgery
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? Was supposed to be a replay to 4.2.2
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Trend of adults using pacifiers To ‘Relieve Stress’ is snowballing
There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
Yes, really. Men and women are literally regressing to a pre-toddler state of mind when the world becomes too much for them, the New York Post reports.
Despite the devices being bad for jaws and teeth and being dangerous to sleep with, people are acting like babies and sucking on pacifiers because they can’t handle the real world.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/wtf-trend-adults-using-pacifiers-relieve-stress-snowballing
Move over duck lady, more crazies are coming.
What’s next? Adults wearing diapers (yes, I know, don’t go there!) and pacifiers to cope with evil CO2 and Trump?
Pacifiers under facemasks in public?
Can’t handle reality? And what they see is 10% if that of what they COULD see.😉
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Definitely mental illness, I blame batteries, taking the lithium needed for meds.
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More teaspoons of cement needed!
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That sucks
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Saturday funny: Star Trek “dog”
https://imgbox.com/b5qcjRv8
You’re not fooling anyone.
/You all know where this is going.
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FWIW – for the covid and mRNA records
““This Is a Bombshell”: Dr. Ryan Cole Predicts What’s Coming Next as RFK Jr. Defunds mRNA Vaccines”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/this-is-bombshell-dr-ryan-cole-predicts-whats/
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But the intended damage is done, now we wait.
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I hope he remembers what got Jack and Bobby shot.
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So you’re telling Victorians that our new mRNA production facility in Melbourne is just another waste of public money. I find that hard to believe.
I don’t need a sarc tag do I ?
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with luck ( and a little planning) perhaps the new (and likely underutiilized) mRNA vaccine production facility can be converted to producing medical saline? or insulin?
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Maybe it could be the site for a SMR nuclear power plant?
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Hold your horses!! Our TGA and federal health officials still think mRNA is the best thing since sliced bread. I was reading an article about JFK jnr’s announcement in “The Australian”. You read the story, but the accompanying comments are way more entertaining. Most commentators still credit mRNA vaccines with saving us from COVID. Dare I say, a lot of my extended family and other acquaintances also think the same thing. We’ve got a ways to go yet.
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From the Article –
“By letting the government money run dry, the market will follow, and interest in mRNA will evaporate—quickly.”
As Dr. Cole said, “Follow the money. When the money isn’t there, these are going to fizzle.”
How so true………………………………………………
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Guarantee they’ll be banned in Victoria
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t0nzmdtUV51z23obp.mp4
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Now that Germany has stopped sending armaments to Israel – ouch! the irony stings! – perhaps they’ll be ‘arming’ the IDF with cutting-edge military-grade updated versions of these k!ller toys.
Boy oh boy it’s a LIKUD toy!
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Just what we need a self binning Machete
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JC2 bookmark #8: The vault of the atomic space age
https://www.tumblr.com/thevaultoftheatomicspaceage
Products, lifestyles, concepts, technologies, magazine covers, and marketing for the past 70 years or so.
“I remember that!” I hear everyone say.
/A fascinating trip back into the era of awful fashions and lava lamps! Lol.
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LAST RESORT ‘Vigilante army’ to patrol crime-ridden UK seaside town plagued by spate of murders, stabbings and sexual assaults
More than 200 residents, including ex-military personnel, security professionals and first aiders, have signed up to the Safeguard Force in Bournemouth.
The group have vowed to work alongside Dorset Police to make the streets safer.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36195505/vigilante-army-patrols-uk-seaside-town/
This is what happens when you allow illegal climate change to enter the country.
Reminds me of the Guardian Angels in NYC in the 80’s.
Oh UK, you have fallen that far now.
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A tragedy. It was a lovely seaside town when I visited briefly, on my way to the Bovington tank museum.
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FWIW
If you’ve been following the “school graves story” in Canada here is another chapter
“Things You’ll Never See On The CBC”
“Candice Malcolm (threadrolled);
Meet Jordan Tucker, a former CBC reporter.
This is her own profile picture – note the pride progress CBC logo. It’s too perfect.
Last Spring, Tucker attempted to do what CBC does everyday: push a woke activist agenda and pretend it’s real journalism.
She interviewed Professor Frances Widdowson on April 1, 2024 for a hit piece
But what she didn’t expect is that @FrancesWiddows1 also RECORDED the conversation and posted it on Youtube in July 2025.
Here is a preview of the absolute TRAIN WRECK that unfolded.”
Link at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/08/things-youll-never-see-on-the-cbc-66/
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FWIW – noticed from outside
“Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under”
You can’t cheat Father Physics.
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/nsw-market-meltdown-sparks-energy-transition-warning/103890282)
“The head of one of Australia’s biggest power retailers has warned that Australia’s energy transition is veering out of control, pointing to a major market disruption that hit New South Wales as evidence of the turmoil. During a week in which NSW agreed to extend the life of the state’s biggest coal plant, Alinta boss Jeff Dimery cited dramatic events in the market earlier in the month to argue the system was in distress.
The Australian Energy Market Operator was forced to step into the NSW market and cap wholesale prices between May 8 and 15 after a series of shocks sent costs into orbit. It’s believed to be only the second time the market operator has had to make such an intervention in NSW — the first being the energy crisis of 2022.”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/08/y2kyoto-blunder-down-under-3/
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Closing Tomago will give the NSW region some breathing space. I will be surprised if Tomago makes its into next winter.
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Australia de-industrialises to save the world!!
Can we have a vote on that?
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One of the things that astonishes me about Oz.
You have your own somewhat isolated extraordinarily beautiful continent.
Complete with kookaburras and roos, not to mention a new species of predatory house cats.
Yet your leadership chooses to become more dependent on the outside world.
Following the UK down the drain?
Of course, us Americans are depending one 79 year old drain stop to stop the crazy.
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So next Friday-
“US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in the US state of Alaska…Trump made his remarks about meeting Putin while hosting Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House to sign a joint resolution aimed at ending the long-term conflict between the two countries,”
No Zelensky attending to talk about the end of his country. ..and a little sentence tucked in there “also giving the US development rights along a key Armenian corridor.”
What are Americans going to develop just South of Russia’s border? Why are they there, on the other side of the world, poking around in other peoples’ business?
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-confirms-he-will-meet-putin-very-shortly-but-without-zelensky-20250809-p5mlm3.html
RT expands it to-
“..signed a joint declaration focused on opening a key transport route in the region – the so-called Zangezur corridor. The route connects Azerbaijan to its enclave of Nakhichevan through a narrow strip of land located in southern Armenia, which runs along the country’s border with Iran. The route is set to be developed and operated by American companies and will be known as the ‘Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’. ”
So, its obviously ‘The Trump Route For War With Iran’, and will be packed with American military bases. The CIA will be there in force creating trouble for Russia in all the ‘Stans. ..and any hope that Trump would not be a war-making President like all the others goes out the window.
https://www.rt.com/news/622682-azerbaijan-armenia-peace-trump/
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Won’t change anything.
Prepare for major wars in 2026.
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Stock up on foods only available by importing?
Coffee
Black pepper
Cinnamon
Tea
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Peace will break out in 2026, Russia will be defeated when China joins forces with the West.
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There is still a fair chunk of 2025 to go. A lot WILL happen in those months.
Every day Ukraine survives [every day is a struggle, I know] Russia gets weaker. It will be difficult for either to see in the new year.
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Yes ,they will run out of shovels and washing machine chips any day now
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KP I’m still confident that Donnie will earn a Nobel Peace Prize for not starting a war.
If Putin and Trump think they can divide the spoils of war without Ukraine, they are delusional.
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Guy I work for occasionally dropped in, he’s Romanian, and said the same thing, although i think it was outrage more than any assessment of the military powers involved. Zelensky is history, the USA have no use for him anymore, he can either go in an election or ‘sadly get killed in a Russian missile attack on Kiev.’
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Putin going to Alaska??
Sounds unlikely to me. If such a meeting is to occur I’d expect it to be in a neutral country, for the protection of both leaders.
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I might be wrong but I do not recall much about railway connection between Alaska and Russia.
How is his armoured train is going to cross Bering Sea?
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Wrong again me.
The meeting has been confirmed for Alaska, on Friday 15th.
Mercouris talks about it at the start of his latest post, at some length:
https://rumble.com/v6xd2qk-zelensky-excluded-trump-putin-talks-us-floats-donbass-surrender-kiev-ukeu-r.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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Chilling 66-million-year-old discovery rewrites primate origin story
A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests.
“For decades, the idea that primates evolved in warm, tropical forests has gone unquestioned,” said lead author Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, a researcher at the University of Reading. “Our findings flip that narrative entirely. It turns out primates didn’t emerge from lush jungles – they came from cold, seasonal environments in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Interestingly, the researchers infer that early primates may have survived freezing winters by hibernating like bears do today – slowing down their heart rate and sleeping through the coldest months to save energy.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423833122
More ruffled feathers in the “science is settled” camp.
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For Dr Strangelove Fans
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Well, I wonder if the Australian competitors have Govt backing.. An international drone-flying competition.
“Vying for the 5 million-ruble ($63,000) jackpot will be drone operators, some of whom hold international titles, from Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Spain, Russia, South Korea, Türkiye and France.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/622623-moscow-drone-contest-foreign-participants/
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Trees falling over
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t01qjzU4Z61y82kbt.mp4
It apparently IS rocket science for home owners and councils though..
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They can also be frightening when they stand back up again
https://au.news.yahoo.com/boys-miracle-survival-crushed-fallen-tree-suddenly-sprung-back-083127672.html
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It’s not such a mystery, cutting up fallen trees is rife with uncertainties. Lots of branches under tension that let go in all directions as pruning occurs. So if you have a big rootball held down by the weight and length of the trunk, then remove the trunk what happens, the root ball if its in the right situation simply stands up. Its that pesky thing called physics.
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FWIW- latest Kunstler
“Going, Going Gone. . . .
“Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.” —Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/going-going-gone
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If one were to open windy.com and scroll to the north of Sth America you would see a high over Venezuela/Brazil causing a great wind drought. I expected that when I checked, it is always so.
There is absolutely NO WAY wind power could be useful here [you can’t put up windmills in the forrest anyway] but the people there have as much right to electricity as anyone else. If energy policy is to be meaningful it must be a policy that caters for everyone. The worldwide push for renewables excludes multi-millions.
BTW I have no opinion on how Brazil should get power, I only know that they are entitled to it and should be encouraged in whatever they choose.
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Fortaleza is one of the most consistently windy places in the world.
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Southern South America hit by exceptional cold spell
‘On 30 June, both Chile and Argentina ranked among the coldest places on Earth, excluding the polar regions. It was due to the persistence of a powerful polar-origin anticyclone which extended into parts of Paraguay and Uruguay, causing unusually low temperatures for the season.’
(World Meteorological Organization WMO)
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See, as in New Zealand – and Armidale and Lesotho / South Africa and Antarctica itself –
WARMEST WINTER EVAAAAH!
Could be a song title (by Neil Young?)
Coldwave The K!ller:
It came dancing across the tundra
With its blizzard, frost and cold
It froze everything in sight
Both genders, young and old…
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FWIW
“Thank you Dick Smith”
“I placed this advertisement in The Australian newspaper today 8 August 2025.”
https://x.com/DickSmithFairGo/status/1953608915847102551
Via https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/08/thank-you-dick-smith.html
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Well done Dick.
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And a reply to Michael Smith:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/president-trump-pulls-plug-massive-idaho-wind-farm/
Loverly!
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‘Pentagon officials warn Australia must lift defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP to meet AUKUS commitments and defend itself adequately.’ (Oz)
Its a waste of taxpayers money. Almost time to give the Alliance the flick.
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“Its a waste of taxpayers money”.
No it’s not. When I arrived in Australia the joke was that the ADF couldn’t even defend Botany Bay on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Since then it’s got much worse. I’m not saying the Alliance is everything but the state of the ADF is a sad joke and this current government couldn’t give a toss.
Not sure about all the money for nuclear powered subs but the Collins subs are well past it, normally most of them are out of the water being repaired. As I have said before we should have bought Japanese instead of re engineering the French ones to run on diesel. The Japanese ones would already be coming into service or just about to.
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First we need the nation-wide argument on what our war machine is meant to do, just defend the land against attackers? Join in every hair-brained war the USA gets into? Go for serious wars on the other side of the globe?
Do we fight third-world countries in a land war or peer-group peoples with jet aircraft? Do we go up against a real foe with the latest military weapons and lose badly? Never think we will win, that’s just propaganda!
Where do we put our money, because we certainly can’t afford everything! Tanks. drones, battle-cruisers, aircraft carriers, heavy stealth bombers, missiles, ICBMs…???
One thing for sure, buying American weaponry and using it ourselves will just make sure we are broke when we lose. Buying American weaponry and waiting for the Yanks to come and save us is a poor gamble. Developing all our own weaponry will give us the weapons we can afford, but limit the wars we can get into.
If you’re going to defend the country you need an assault rifle behind every back door and a population who believe in the country. Now, who will go and stand up to be killed so Albo can live??
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As I mentioned upthread, regime change is coming to Beijing and they are moving away from centralised government and adopting democracy. The CCP is going to collapse next year, so there is no need for subs.
In the European theatre a return to the status quo ante bellum (the prewar situation) is paramount for a just and lasting peace.
The ships we bought from Japan are good value for an island nation, but beyond that its all drone warfare. I heard a rumour that the ADF will be encouraging recruits from out near neighbours in the South Pacific.
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Realpolitik.
“You think, by the end of the year, Putin might have to sue for peace?”
“Exactly.”
(Former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov tells Times Radio that Russia’s “contracting” civilian economy will force Putin into peace.)
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This battle in Ukraine is like the 15th round – Ali V Frazier, both vulnerable, neither able to gather the strength for the KO punch. There will be no bell to end the fight and no judges’ decision this time.
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FWIW
“La Niña Continues … Globe To Keep Cooling For Another Year”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/08/la-nina-continues-globe-to-keep-cooling-for-another-year/
The recent Nutrien long range forecast also highlights this. It punts at a colder second half of August that could be wet
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Kevin Long reckons it will start to dry off soon and that continues to 2028. The planetary alignments have peaked for global warming and its cooling for the next century.
https://thelongview.com.au/documents/FORECAST-2025-No3-WINTER-Kevin-Long.pdf
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FWIW
“TCW competition result: The Most Useless National Treasure is . . .”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tcw-competition-result-the-most-useless-national-treasure-is/
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Have thought that for years. I have lots of his DVD but purely for the pictures of hard to get to places.
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Excellent choice.
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American Mormons buying up local farmland, its unAustralian.
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/the-chequebook-of-mormon-500m-on-australian-farms-in-six-months-20250729-p5mird
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Australians won’t fund our own development.
We can now enjoy a lifetime of resentment of those who do. BHP is HATED by the majority of us because they have evil foreigners on their share registry. Gina Rinehart is hated because she is rich and pulled funding of a women’s sport team. Go figure.
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FWIW
“The Lunacy of Green Finance | James Graham”
“Pension funds are supposed to invest your money wisely so they can provide a return when you retire. So why are so many of them obsessed with controversial political causes like Net Zero?
In this special episode of the Sceptic, James Graham, Senior Researcher on Financial Freedoms at the Prosperity Institute, exposes the scourge of Environmental and Social Governance, why your pension fund is costing you money by funding Net Zero, his confrontation with green fanatic fund managers and the ongoing dangers of debanking.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/09/the-lunacy-of-green-finance-james-graham/
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FWIW
“Meta-Analysis of Over 100 Studies Shows Gas Stoves Pose No Increased Risks of Asthma
It turns out, pushing unrealistic green energy schemes onto low- and middle-income people at the expense of a safer fuel source was not only bad science, it was dangerous propaganda.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/meta-analysis-of-over-100-studies-shows-gas-stoves-pose-no-increased-risks-of-asthma/
Instapundit lead-in
“SHOCKED, SHOCKED SHOCKED. HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SHOCKED FACE? Meta-Analysis of Over 100 Studies Shows Gas Stoves Pose No Increased Risks of Asthma.”
https://instapundit.com/737271/#disqus_thread
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https://www.themandarin.com.au/297205-security-alarms-make-parliamentary-workplaces-unsafe-report-finds/
“Most offices lack adequate ICT resources. This severely limits the office’s capacity to implement normal modern work practices and forces staff to purchase and use personal devices for day-to-day work tasks.”
This is ridiculous. Almost AUD$300 million per year for running the place, and they still cannot manage basics. Abandon hope all ye who enter here…
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An interesting conference: https://agrifood.anu.edu.au/made-grown-future-food
You vill eat ze bugs
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Better to spend your $330 at one of the traditional vege plant companies selling seeds online. Diggers or Happy Valley Seeds or Eden Seeds or…
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contemporary medicine finds itself in “an intellectually embarrassing place: medics and others who haven’t thought these matters through and have virtually no training in serious philosophy/theology are making up their moral anthropology as they go to achieve the desired organ outcome.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/when-dead-enough-becomes-a-metric/
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Topher Field’s latest is a shot at government re cane toads and crocs. Quite interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30ZdeNWxm0
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