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Good review and comment that sticks 2 fingers up at the establishment
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-final-stand-at-the-gates-of-sanity/
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” Even novels about censorship are being censored. ‘Students are taught to read literature not for beauty or truth, but to spot who’s being oppressed and who needs cancelling.’ ”
Yes, one of the first things Govts do is to make it illegal to tell anyone you are being investigated, or to ban the list of sites they’ve banned. They know they are doing immoral things and will silence the victim so people don’t know about it.
“Govts confiscate your guns because they are going to do things to you that you would shoot them for…”
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Sea life concerns over what will be the Worlds biggest wind farm
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/01/anger-as-snp-backs-biggest-wind-farm-on-the-planet-just-days-after-trump-condemned-turbines/
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Canada concerned at swingeing 35% tariff imposed by Mr Trump.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/mark-carney-canada-donald-trump/2025/08/01/id/1221007/
Presumably they will be looking for new markets in Europe, Australia and the UK where of course Prime Minister Carney was the disastrous Bank of England President.
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Could the EU possibly have got the maths (and science) wrong in their transition to green Hydrogen strategy? Surely not.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/eus-maths-on-costly-green-hydrogen-does-not-add-up-says-expert/
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This tickled my fancy:
Cheers,
Dave B
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There is a big chance ICE vehicles will be replaced by EV in the near future.
Now, let us discuss “how big” and “near”.
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Only 9.5% of Australian vehicles are EVs, up from 8.3%.
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This morning on “Australia All Over”, Ian MacNamara (Macca) called EVs “ugly”.
Macca quite often expresses himself in a way that I think ABC thought police would not approve. How does he get away with it? Too popular, I guess.
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I have noticed he isn’t the lefty I assumed he would be, good on him.
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There is indeed a big chance, as in “fat chance”.
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Airships quickly went out of fashion after the Hindenburg disaster and almost every airship used these days is powered by helium. Helium costs more but is much safer. Airships now primarily serve as a vehicle for advertising and promotion.
The sinking of the Titanic didn’t result in ships becoming a less used vessel, quite the opposite happened during the 20th century. Lessons were learned and engineering improvements saw shipping thrive. If the design and function of form of transport makes it viable, it continues to be relevant.
The only thing keeping hydrogen relevant today is blind faith. The fact that presently it is cost ineffective to produce and more volatile to transport than LPG seems to be lost on the greenwashed minds of its proponents. If it was a viable energy option, it would stand on its own two feet instead of being propped up by subsidies.
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What makes me laugh is that these wind turbines need a hydrocarbon (oil) for lubrication.
Oh dear.
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As do the reduction gears in EVs, but never mind
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The Victoriastan Government wants to ban e-bikes and e-scooters on trains due to the lithium battery fire risk.
But hang on, it’s the Government/Leftists that is or was influencing people to abandon cars in favour of this woke form of “clean and green” transport.
The Left have always hated the freedom that motor vehicles of any kind give non-Elites so this ban is just a further restriction on individual mobility, even though it might be a good idea to avoid lithium fires on trains. The Government certainly won’t be making it any easier for people to buy cars instead of EVs such as reducing fuel taxes, registration charges etc..
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/e-bike-scooter-ban-flagged-for-trains-over-fire-risk-20250722-p5mgyx.html
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Reading the Age…..
You really are taking one for the team. Or have you been sentenced to hard reading?
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An e-bike fire on a train is their problem. A car battery fire in your house is your problem
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We are just seeing the tip of the e-bike problem. You can purchase them, do a quick web search and learn how to modify the speed.
https://7news.com.au/news/pedestrian-fighting-for-life-after-illegally-modified-electric-bike-crash-c-18672390
Given there’s no rego for such bikes, these type of incidents will likely increase. Worst of all, there is going to be a new generation riding hybrid bikes with attention spans moulded by TikTok.
The lines between different modes of transport are blurring, so be careful out there. The government will always be a few steps behind traffic safety…
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the scooters should be petrol powered for safety
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If only previous humans had been as concerned about safety as they should have been and as we are now, there would have been no colonization, and everyone would be indigenous and safe.
Because as we learned from Pandemic, staying home is safe.
Also touching other people is unsafe.
(Especially in Australia where everything evolves to be poisonous. And I for one, would not want to be bitten by an Australian.)
If we had stayed home and safe, we wouldn’t even know what indigenous was because everyone would be it.
We went to the Moon and we thought we were going to the Final Frontier, but that’s obviously not safe.
In fact ‘frontier’ is a colonization word.
Because that’s where the indigenous are.
Except England where the colonizers came from.
And the very indigenous that made indigenous a thing are being taught a long over due lesson by their government, which is all about safety … and punishing the undemocratic practice of voting wrong.
Yes, we live in a tiny sliver of warm in vast very cold universe.
But if it gets only slightly warmer it will be unsafe.
Which means you should even not have have scooter, no matter how it’s powered.
Scooters are precursor, facilitating a non-indigenous to trespass on an indigenous. .
And power itself is unsafe and is the root cause of colonization.
Of course, as our governments have informed us, the greatest threat to safety is words.
So be quiet.
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The Australian government is flat out imposing Apartheid on the population.
New policy now introduces the South African policy of BEE, Black Economic Empowerment.
(( Google it ). Also ask Elon Musk why he won’t open business in South Africa. The government demanded 30% of his South African operation been given to nominated Government officials as well as directorships!! He told them to go whistle or something more colourful.
The Australian version now gives indigenous, would be entrepreneurs financial & administrative assistance which will not be available to others. Given time it will degenerate into the South African BEE model! So much for Equality!!
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For anyone able to read – Apartheid meant “separate path of development” not enslavement.
According to its promoters.
I, for one, do not believe in they were sincere but anyway, they are gone.
What about the current ones?
I call them zookeepers.
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G’day Vlad.
Did you visit the Parliament House in Cape Town or Pretoria’s Union Buildings whilst on your vacation. I I’d love to hear your opinion of the seats of the insincere oppressors .
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Good evening Graham, please tell me more.
I have seen central Africa 25 years ago but never went South.
You will understand that I had some preconceived ideas on the subject.
In my childhood it was freedom fighters (Boers) against colonisers (British). Not for long.
In the 60ies it was Africa of Patrice Lumumba, Kuame Nkrumah and our provincial town full of “students” of military colleges and universities (who were much more affluent than natives…)
In Australia I had couple of colleagues, emigrees like me, who explained few things about John Vorster…
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There’s nothing worse than the pontification of of well meaning folk with little or no knowledge of the subject they pontificate about.
Certainly there were plans for seperate homelands for the major tribes of the southern tip of Africa. 32 tribes made up of various factions. Today there are 11 official languages in South Africa. Should make today’s “ woke “ society happy for the diversity which exists.
I would need pages to detail the social complexity that exists even to this day. The west is responsible for the outcome of the country that has resulted….. a dismal failure. I left that beloved country 36 years ago because I could see history repeating itself. Believe me it’s not anywhere near a pretty picture.
Show me a successful independent African state. Start withe Liberia
which gained independence from America in the mid 1800’s.
The one country that is anywhere near successful is Botswana. A country made up of a proud people with one culture, one language, and governed with a lot of European ( British ) conservative values which were maintained & adopted by the people.
It took 400 years to build that country which has so far taken 32 years to destroy.
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Apartheid was literally and practically segregation. The laws put in place and the attempts to put lipstick on the pig made it much broader than that including creating Bantustans in ‘traditional’ areas under the guise of separate development. That cost a fortune to set up several separate administrations, their seats of government and of course paying their salaries.
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My medical doctor told me that if anyone tells him they are Aboriginal, he is not allowed to question that claim on any basis whatsoever.
It also opens up to the claimant a whole series of tax-payer funded benefits.
Goolag AIvsays:
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Wow!! All those benefits!! Can’t wait to claim Aboriginality.
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I would prefer not to be associated with the most disadvantaged group in society.
Remote living is a problem, they should be given every opportunity to survive in the modern era.
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Always remember, life is a two way street. One must give at least as much as one takes. Expand that to as many situations as possible.
It’s not easy to do but neither is life!
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‘One must give at least as much as one takes.’
This mob have been here for at least 60,000 years and they have trouble assimilating, so its in our interest to keep on trying to bridge the gap.
The news coming out of the NT at the moment is a clear example of the problem. Law and order should come first, but there is pushback.
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In our interest? no its not , and it will never be bridged, because nothing will wver be enough and if bridged the gravy train stops.
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Okay, cut off all monies which support the industry, it might work. The MSM will have to change their tune and fall into line, a big ask.
They’ll argue that the monies spent is small beer compared to a useless AUKUS sub. Straight away word will spread worldwide that Australia has reinvented apartheid, it won’t go down well.
Inclusivity is not an easy road, but its in our financial interest to take it.
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EL + GORDO.
FUNNY YOU CLAIM THE TIME LINE OF 60,000 years. It’s nowhere near accurate. Reason?? When I settled in Australia in July 1989,
I was certainly informed about the indigenous folk, their culture, their languages, their bond with the land, not to mention of course haw many thousands of years they’d been on continent.
An amazing place this Australia of ours. I was amazed to near they’d been here for 30,000 years. Obviously time flies when you’re having fun because in my 36 years of “ occupation “ a further 30,000 years have miraculously passed. Some elders have even hinted at 200,000+ years. Accurate? No calendars, no written language. No written history?? Pull the other one!!
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Why aren’t the indigenous in Britain calling themselves “First Nation” people and claiming special rights and “hands off” rules a la Australia, NZ, Canada etc.
Get Tommy onto it, I say.
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I believe they (‘they’ being some specific lobby group, possibly English MEPs, in the EU parliament), but the UN declared that British people cannot be considered ‘indigenous’ like any other ‘indigenous’ people.
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Being properly educated (see below) I insist on the scientific definition of “nation”.
Brits and Scotts and Irish are nations.
About education – authocratic rulers of USSR (btw, check Iran) said that ideology is uber alles but made engineering and medicine and agronomy, etc, a bit more uber.
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Because the Stone Age Britons are no more.
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I object, Your Honour!
There’s still a few of them staggerin ‘round these parts on certain week-nights mumbling incoherent consonants…
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“Because the Stone Age Britons are no more.”
There will soon be 60million of them!
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There must be a statute of limitations on cultural and territorial infringements Gerry. What that limit is l don’t know, but it must be beyond 237 years as is shown in the case of Australia.
And we can assume it doesn’t predate the late 8th century through to the mid 11th century as none of the original Britons or their descendants petition current Scandinavian nations to atone for the past sins of Viking raiders.
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For what it’s worth. Is Julia Inman Grant our Esafety Commissar taking us down the same path as Russia.
Browser History: The Kremlin’s Newest Weapon
https://cepa.org/article/browser-history-the-kremlins-newest-weapon/
I struggle with how restrictive Australia has become as opposed to when I first came here over 50 years ago. Back then Australia was laid back and free in every sense but what has happened since I don’t understand. Now there are rules, regulations and warnings for absolutely everything.
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I met a friend from Europe in the mid 80’s and she told me Australia felt like a breath of fresh air compared to Europe but the last time she was here she said what the f…k happened and it’s only getting worse.
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In a word – multiculturalism
As compared to a multicultural society behaving as one society
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Big difference between multiculturism and multiple cultures.
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This is an interesting word play I hadn’t noticed before.
Multicultural ism vis-a-vie just plain old multiculture.
Of course, we are constantly being played with words.*
Interesting how so many things offered up to us as virtues get turned the opposite.
I recall when ‘multicultural’ meant jazz and Tex-Mex.
Now it means everyone except me.
And the possible destruction of Europe.
*(Have I mentioned how much I despise the term ‘Climate Change’. The ultimate vacuous agitprop of all time. ‘Multicultural’ close behind.)
Stop Climate Change.
This Atmospheric River is ‘climate change’.
Warmer cause feedback loops that makes it colder, likely from a Heat Dome or a vortex.
Climate Change hits humans of color harder than the humans of no color.
Not to be confused with colored humans.
Climate Change makes MAMs of color desperate to be in England.
To ‘believe’ in Science is to believe in Climate Change.
Gawd.
Maybe the SOBs are right.
Words are violent … when wielded by the multicultural.
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How funny!! They are slagging off Russia for doing exactly what the Australian Govt is doing… censoring free speech!
CEPA will be just another CIA-sponsored Euro-American propaganda machine, not worth wasting your time reading unless you have a fondness for unintentional irony.
Yes, Australia has gone a long way downhill from my first visit in the mid-70s, but I expect the whole Western world has done the same. 50years of Socialism has crushed and destroyed the free societies.
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Russian society is far more liberal than ours these days. Having travelled to Russia on many occasions I have never been put under any form of government harassment at all. Russia must make attempts to stop foreign powers undermining its society – theirs is an existential threat. Big changes since the Soviet era.
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When I came back from a holiday overseas, it struck me how regulated we are, looking around leaving the airport were signs proclaiming ‘ Every K over is a killer’, helmets to be worn riding anything , whereas I never saw a helmet anywhere in the UK, Europe and the US, ‘don’t park here, don’t stand there, don’t do this or that’.
Is it a product of the proliferation of public serpents, trying to justify their existence.
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We are reverting to type … except for South Australia…. We are becoming a nation of prison officers and convicts. Except the bars are regulations, the prison officers the politicians and regulators and the prison visitors are the free lunch services, opportunity shops, etc. So many of us are on Government tick and community dental waiting lists that last for years. Line up, line up.
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Why would you exclude SA, next on our control agenda is to delay home alcohol deliveries by 2 hours to control domestic violence. The whole of Australia has become a Nanny State. Luckily the government is here to help!
Tried to buy a small utility knife recently, they have disappeared from most retail outlets; had to revert to making a flint one to cut up my fish bait. (Sarc)
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Will long straight timber poles be banned next?
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Lucky your in South Aust. One of the few flint deposits in the country along the limestone coast.
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Because they didn’t start out as convicts.
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Time for an new old industry producing Rum?
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Really not speaking for Australia with that comment. A lot has happened in the last cpuple hundred years
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FWIW
“https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/01/grid-on-the-brink-pjms-record-auction-proves-we-must-keep-and-build-more-coal-plants/”
“The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to deal another blow to the green energy industry Friday, announcing that it will consider energy projects’ capacity density and the environmental impacts before permitting them, singling out wind and solar.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed an order Friday directing the agency to prioritize energy projects it deems efficient and low in environmental impact, zeroing in on wind and solar as “holding America back” from achieving energy dominance. The decision comes just days after the agency ended what it called “preferential treatment” for unreliable, foreign-controlled energy sources previously favored under the Biden administration.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/02/trump-admin-moves-to-curb-environmentally-damaging-green-energy-projects/
In comments
“Went and read the order. Is well done. Capacity density is specifically defined as (nameplate*capacity factor)/total acres. Low capacity density prohibited on all federal lands (specifically including offshore) “when reasonable project alternatives with higher capacity densities are technically and economically feasible.”
Goodby wind and solar on all federal lands.”
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FWIW – the droughty side of AI
“Thirsty”
“Your AI chatbot is very thirsty. This week, the Economic Times of India ran a story headlined, “Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers.” The sub-headline noted, “Amidst severe drought in Texas, a clash emerges as AI data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily.””
More at
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thirsty-saturday-august-2-2025-c?triedRedirect=true
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The heated AI data centre water will be a boon in winter as a source of central heating for residential and commercial buildings.
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The water restrictions, plus temperature trends around the data centres and their water discharge points are irrefutable evidence of global boiling
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FWIW
“Attribution Studies Don’t Prove Anything About South Africa’s Floods, Phys.org”
“Climate Realism has explained at length why attribution modelling is not evidence, but it may be helpful to point out that Phys.org is only half right here. It is true that they used a counterfactual world with no warming, but the warmed model is also counterfactual. A number of assumptions, some more robustly backed by available data and evidence than others, go into modelling the “current world.” Statistician Dr. William Briggs has what I consider the best simple summary of how attribution modelling works:
A model of the climate as it does not exist, but which is claimed to represent what the climate would look like had mankind not ‘interfered’ with it, is run many times. The outputs from these runs is examined for some ‘bad’ or ‘extreme’ event, such as higher temperatures or increased numbers of hurricanes making landfall, or rainfall exceeding some amount. The frequency with which these bad events occur in the model is noted. Next, a model of the climate as it is said to now exist is run many times. This model represents global warming. The frequencies from the same bad events in the model are again noted. The frequencies between the models are then compared. If the model of the current climate has a greater frequency of the bad event than the imaginary (called ‘counterfactual’) climate, the event is said to be caused by global warming, in whole or in part.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/02/attribution-studies-dont-prove-anything-about-south-africas-floods-phys-org/
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Obviously the average Aussie has swallowed it all though and “she’ll be right” is all but a myth these days.
Now we have do-gooders with dashcams supplying evidence to the police for victimless crimes, not to mention the much celebrated dobbing during the lock downs early this decade
[Apologies your comments were caught in moderation for so long. – Jo]
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Well, off to AI to fake a whole lot of driving videos showing cop cars doing illegal things, or embittered ex-wives making their ex-husbands do illegal things…
Life used to be that a crime was committed when someone was hurt by your behaviour, and that person had to appear in Court to testify against you. Then it was watered down to where no-one had to be hurt, you only had to break a rule for a cop to testify against you.
He was counted as an ‘expert witness.
Now its meaningless, no-one goes to Court, it will be a fight of those with dash cams against those without, and civil war among dash cam owners.
That ‘following to close’ is rubbish, the follower has a dashcam video showing the followee was driving slowly and holding the traffic up.
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On average, after homogenisation – utilising special AI models, blurring tools & a magic pack of cards – Australian climate scientists have announced August to be the hottest non-summer month recorded downunder EVAAAH!
Despite record-breaking snowfalls on NSW’s Northern Tablelands this weekend, another dusting of snow on WA’s Bluff Knoll, and the Snowy Mountains buried under a healthy dose of wintry snow – the “best seen in years!” – experts’ supercomputers have pre-nounced this month to be the most RED HOT August since HMS Endeavour’s crew invaded the free nation of peace-loving agriculturists & astronomers and decimated their kangaroo cousins, along with a few tonne of fish and turtles for their seafood chowder entree on Fridays.
Combined with the 4.8 earthquake which rattled Perth today, scientists confirm the Tipping Point™️ has been reached and everyone – EVERYONE – should gather on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge to escape the ensuing sea level rise tsunami of boiling ocean and exploding lithium batteries. NB. due to the over abundance of foreign flags, these may be used as ponchos to shelter from the driving rain and bone-numbing cold, and never forget, it’s hot!
/ tongue-in-cheek.
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You must be at the bridge by 9am to complete the welcomer to country ritual.
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Yeah, here in the low part of the high country, at our place we had 14 straight days with frosts, not the light stuff but water freezing in the dogs bucket stuff. Now this is UNPRECEDENTED, well in my limited memory span of over 70 years in and around this place anyhow. Couldn’t ask any older residents cause they have all gone to the other side. Rumour has it its always cold six feet under.
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The Palestinian Activists have chosen a Great Day for the Sydney Harbour Bridge Protest Walk.
Mother Nature has decided for the heavens to open up again and rain on their parade. It is pi$$ing down right now in the Sydney CBD and surrounds.
Long may it continue today.
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The BoM (Bureau of Meterological Propaganda) summary for July 2025.
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I wonder what makes 1961 to 1990 the base range. Why that range and not the next 30 year range? It seems an odd slice to take.
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Why not start at when records began until the present day. I suspect that this sort of range probably plonks the current temps squarely within the “average range”
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You are being much too sensible Sambar!
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Well that date range was when the coming ice age scare was all the rage, so the temperatures would have been lower compared to today. So obviously cherry picking the dates, I guess.
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Nothing unusual for the BoM.
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If an exploration or mining company released their assay data in a press release similar to the BOM report then the ASX listed company would attract the ire of the regulators. I fully appreciate I am comparing temperature data measurements with assay data measurements, but there should be more details provided by BOM, such as:
How are the temperatures measured? (Surface digital equipment or satellite derived etc)
A map showing the data points.
What does area-averaged temperatures really mean . How much weight is given to regions that have wide spaced data points .
What are qualifications of the persons issuing the report and what professional body do they belong to.
How many years experience do the report writers have?
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…and most of all, HOW LONG were those temperatures recorded on that day? One in a 2minute space before the temperature dropped back again? over an hour?
It needs to be time-weighted to mean anything to the people living there, a hot blast from a jet exhaust is different to a long hot day because the wind died.
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“because the wind died.”
Oh no!!!!! why isn’t this on the news, I was out yesterday just enjoying a gentle breeze and now your telling me its dead. How am I going to tell the grand kids they will never feel wind again.
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It makes me doubt the proclamation of the mighty Flim-Flan about rain never hitting the ground again. Also other foolish predictions about ski resorts disappearing.
Maybe they will open a ski resort in Armidale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDPwjiDlwOQ
As the famous FIVE report concludes – CO2 induced climate change is not happening as the model predicted.
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SST unusually warm.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/influences
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I would like to see what the results would be if instead of 1961-90 other time periods were chosen.
Does anyone feel like running the data?
I believe the BoM approach is covered by How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff, 1954.
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From Politibrawl:
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Would the real US debt please stand up
When asked how far the US government has plunged into the red, many fiscally-conscious Americans will tell you the national debt has reached $37 trillion. As distressing as that official number is, America’s true fiscal situation is even worse — far worse. According to a barely-publicized Treasury report, the actual grand total of Uncle Sam’s obligations is more than $151 trillion.
Not even counting the unfunded liabilities that represent the biggest part of the problem, the national debt alone is increasing at something like $156 million per hour.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/think-uncle-sam-owes-37-trillion-its-far-worse
Now, I’ve said this a few times in the past years, and since fake journalists hate the truth, here it is again. $300T anyone? 😉
The reality is that DOGE simply can’t address this debt within the election cycle (..2028..), bringing it down to anything resembling manageable levels, or even slowing it down.
The US, like the EU, is drowning in debt.
There’s no way out except for war.
The governments know it, the masses are waking up to it, but it’s unavoidable now.
It’s all too far gone to save.
Bring in millions of gimmigrants to culturally enrich your country as they did for their own, spend like drunken sailors on renewables. It doesn’t matter now, it really doesn’t.
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No wonder Trump wants the dollar devalued and is intending earning real money by selling tractors, fossil fuels and useful stuff to those holding the debt.
Best deal for all concerned.
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” earning real money by selling tractors, ”
Too late I think. Machinery manufacturing depends on the cost of wages and electricity, and with China now lifted up to a technology level of space craft, they will blitz the West when it comes to wage and power costs. We’re not going to be able to compete with Asia when it come to manufacturing all the things already in the world, we will only be able to make and sell new products that they don’t have yet. I doubt there is anything India and China can’t make that we need, even pharmaceuticals come from there.
Look at F250s and Silverados, the Govt here approves them and as they arrive suddenly every Asian manufacturer starts making bigger utes to compete.
Trump will have to drive wages down to Mexican levels to compete, unless he can find industries that require such large capital poorer countries can’t have them.
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Probably true.
The advantage the US may have apart from its Constitution is the relative size of the local consumer market and there is readily available raw material, energy and a broad acre cropping region not full of land mines and unexploded ordinance like the Steppe.
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‘The US, like the EU, is drowning in debt. There’s no way out except for war.’
Stagflation is going to take hold in the US and economic depression is already happening in China. These two giants don’t have to go to war over a commercial matter, they’ll sit down and make a deal.
The West is already at war with Russia and with the cessation of hostilities the EU will be reinvigorated, all that money being put towards building up military defence, can then be put to more productive ventures.
Same with the US and China, reducing military spending would go a long way to lowering debt.
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6 of the heaviest stones ever moved by man
https://youtu.be/-04LiRtQeaM?si=gsKkqODaPPHQFwui
Deserts. Soft timber. Thousands of stones. Quarries miles away.
Amazing what big whips can do.
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I thought you would at least run with alien tractor beams
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Knew somebody who went to Iceland to lift big rocks. They have specific sites where the rocks can be moved a short distance, and some folks go there just to do that.
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Quality outsourced customer service at the Miami Hotel
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1951498719767183812
Walk out. Go somewhere else.
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Death is not simply a biological fact, but it’s also a social choice.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/death-is-not-simply-a-biological-fact-we-should-expand-the-definition-of-death-nyt-op%E2%80%91ed-argues-broader-criteria-could-save-lives/
Groan…
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Goes along with assisted-suicide and other ways of getting rid of people they don’t want.
Also in there-
“Trump says he is fully prepared for NUCLEAR WAR”
Well, or course he is, underground bunker full of food, wine and women… Note he didn’t say “AMERICA is ready for nuclear war” or especially “AMERICANS are ready for nuclear war”… the peasants get neither a choice nor survival!
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Baby born from embryo frozen 30 years. Longest storage on record.
A baby boy was born in Ohio from an embryo frozen for over 30 years. This is believed to be the longest time an embryo has been stored before birth. The embryo was kept frozen since the early 1990s.
Given the problems with cryo at the time, that’s impressive.
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That’s bizarre. Frozen eggs, frozen sperm , but an embryo? Are the parents still alive?
Is the boy already 30? Is the family name “Crisp”?
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Sunday AI: normal life
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sy4fwbvwFB1z3jogg.mp4
Oohh..Prokofiev’s Montagues and Capulets.
Haven’t heard that for a long time.
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When I think about why people believe CO2 output increases atmospheric CO2 my conclusion is that they have no idea almost all (98% of) CO2 is in the ocean and rapidly exchanges with the air. So the level is set at all times by the ocean, not the air. Long before the industrial revolution. This is such simple science, but it is never mentioned. We could not change CO2 if we tried.
The time to exchange ALL the CO2 is the order of ten years (Table 1) and CO2 output near sea level is much faster. As we have seen from bushfires. CO2 is a constant within 1% from pole to pole when almost no one lives in the bottom 40% of the planet, under 2%. That does need explanation. China has the same level of CO2 as the South pole despite its output of 40% of all industrial CO2.
I can understand that people believe we can fill the air up with car exhaust, but it’s not true. And I would think almost all scientists would know this. Certainly all chemists. So why is it never mentioned?
This was prompted by an eternal Quora question, is Climate Change a hoax? Of course. If we cannot change CO2, it’s all a lie.
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And if someone says this is wrong, my first question is whether they earn a living from Climate Change?
In the media, we only read of people who work in Climate Change or journalists who try to divine the truth from articles they can understand, opinions as science. Who cares what Millibrand or Bowen think? None of the people pushing this CO2 story have a clue about science. And the IPCC as an authority would be pointless if CO2 was 98% natural. So no one even asks the question.
And ultimately the reason for saying any CO2 stays in the air is the idea that the alkali ocean is ‘full’ of CO2, which is a breathtaking idea if you look at a bottle of soda water which is very acidic with a million times the concentration of CO2 and only the pressure below the top 10 metres of ocean. A simple test, throw menthos into sea water.
Still the vast waste of our money continues. Nett zero is just a furphy, meaningless, a silly and very profitable political scam. Humans cannot change CO2 levels. Wiped out by schoolboy science. CO2 has been set by the oceans for all time.
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There are terrorist-supporting rallies on bridges in both Sydneystan and Melbounistan today. It also happens to be the Jewish day of mourning, Tisha B’Av, the date when traditionally many bad things have happened to the Jewish people such as the destruction of the First and Second Temples, the crushing of the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans, the First Crusade began leading to mass murder of many Jewish communities, Himler received approval for the Final Solution, mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka concentration camp began and many other atrocities against Jews. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the terrorist-supporters had deliberately chosen this date.
And remember what the ideology of the terrorists teaches, “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”. It won’t end with their desired destruction of Jews. Most people are however too indoctrinated, ignorant or naive to understand this (along with the overall level of dumbing down in other areas such as anthropogenic climate change as well).
And I still find the red – green alliance of the Left and Islamic fundamentalists truly bizarre. What exactly do they think happens to people with Leftist LGB beliefs, beliefs on the independence of women, women wearing as they please etc. in those societies?
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The problem is, David, that they don’t “think”(ie use their critical thinking capabilities). Rather, they “react” emotionally. The way we see the world has elements of both responses. But it seems to me that what elevated us in the animal world was the propensity to observe, critique, and then react. Emotions often save us from imminent danger. But critical thinking finds the solution to the danger.
As our world increasingly dissolves into hostilities based on defence mechanisms, we are truly regressing once again.
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Taken out to the local KFC for a stacker with extra bacon?
“That meal was good enough for Allah!”. 😎
Right. Who threw that stone?
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The weekend’s temperatures:
+48 Iraq & Arabia
0 (zero) N Pole
-11 Greenland (-22 day before)
-57 S Pole (-64 day before)
See? It’s getting warmer!
Mean as (-4.5*C).
Oh for a balmy average of 15*C.
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Very balmy at the North Pole. It has reached temperatures in the 20s. Nothing like the South pole at 3.5km.
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I think Australia is rapidly getting to the stage that it’s not fixable.
Today’s total government debt (federal, state, local).
$2.132 trillion.
But the low IQ voters are still loving all their “free stuff” and destruction of the energy supply.
Enjoy!
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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As Trump and Starmer (and all the Euro-clowns) will find, The West is not fixable!
No-one will sacrifice their iphones to save the planet, nor to save the society, so we will descend this downwards slope until we run out of people willing to loan us money.
Then the consequences will be worse than cutting off welfare right now, which is the only solution to the problem. Only when a Govt spends less than it earns in taxes will recovery commence, and to start paying off the principal of the loans will mean no Govt subsidies of hundreds of industries, from health to childcare. The future will be exciting, in the medium-term… A plunge in living standards as we all start to stand on our own two feet again, or a plunge in living standards from a war that Govts use to re-set problems they have.
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Herein lies the problem of a democracy: 50%+1 passes. It is easy to reach that voting base to pick the pocket of savers to fund their idle lifestyle.
There is an incessant cry that interest rates are high. Bank interest on $1 mill would only earn about the poverty line for a couple yet Albo believes such a super fund to be “rich” and thus subject to extra tax.
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Insert skit of Basil Fawlty collapsing on the floor when asked if he has a Mrs Richards staying there.
Groan…
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I wonder if there is reliable data on vertical CO2 distribution, say – in one location during steady weather from sea level to end of vegetation ?
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From Chris Kenny: –
The Left: Don’t ban drugs. Also ban plastic bags.
The Left: Gimme free stuff. Also don’t gimme free plastic bags.
The Left: Take care of the poor. Also increase their power prices.
The Left: Leave our borders open for all who arrive. Also stop foreign workers taking jobs.
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As in Australia under Krudd and co from 2007 to 2013, when Bowen told us that the illegal immigrant boats could not be stopped, citing ‘push and pull factors’, it seems England is suffering the same incompetence, 25,000 have landed from France just this calendar year, but a bloke in France waded out in the water where rubber rafts were about to push off for the journey over the millpond that is the Channel this time of year, and stabbed the main air bladder with a small knife, rendering the craft useless, it didn’t state whether he was a Frenchman or other, but job well done.
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UK government figures on daily “small boat” arrivals.
I doubt there are many who are against legitimate asylum seekers, and they do exist, just nowhere near the numbers seen in Europe.
The very high rate of legal and illegal immigration is a feature of the UK, not a bug, and has been for many years.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
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Some time back someone (my apologies to the contributor, I don’t remember who) posted a link to Alexander Mercouris and his daily posts. After some reluctance (his contributions are usually around 90 minutes) I’ve become a regular follower as I try to follow and understand what’s happening in and around the Ukraine/Russian war.
In this episode today, from about 45 minutes in for about 21 minutes, he reports Putin’s recent remarks that the Oreshnik missile system has been deployed to the Russian military.
https://rumble.com/v6x19wu-putin-says-moscows-ukraine-goals-unchanged-russian-army-has-1st-oreshnik-tr.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
The following link is to his basic site, with the latest addition appearing at the top left, and usually posted around 2 am Sydney (Australia) time. He is English and lives there.
https://rumble.com/c/AlexanderMercouris
Cheers,
Dave B
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You must always have your pinch of salt handy. He IS a Russian sympathiser. I once read him “to get a European slant” but when the war started realised how much the RT connection meant.
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The salt is handy, but his approach and coverage is more balanced than I’ve experienced elsewhere. And my specific reference is from a report of what Putin said in Belarus, publicly. As far as I can tell he is very careful to differentiate between verified facts, initial reports and suspected propaganda. And he clearly identifies his own opinions.
I’ve learnt a lot from him.
Cheers,
Dave B
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RT?
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Duran Publishes on RT
The Duran is associated with RT, as it is noted that Peter Lavelle, the director of The Duran, is the host of RT’s political debate program CrossTalk.
Additionally, The Duran has been reported to frequently source content from Russian propaganda outlets such as RT and Sputnik.
Therefore, while The Duran itself is not a direct publisher on RT, it has close ties with RT and often uses content from RT.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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RT=Russia Today.. Russian State media outfit. Banned in the ‘Free West’ such as the EU and private companies such as META. Apparently saying the things RT says is disinformation and must be censored for our own sakes…
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The Duran and Mercouris give you a chewing over the same opinions found in The Times, The Telegraph, the Financial Times.
Using their facts as well.
I use them like an AI on conventional Left opinions on international affairs.
If you want insight beyond the conventional, look elsewhere.
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There’s a shorter version called “The Duran” where the beardy American dude keeps Mercouris on focus a little bit.
https://rumble.com/c/theduran
You probably don’t want to watch both The Duran and the Mercouris channel because it’s much the same … unless you want to really go into one particular issue now and then.
And yes, Mercouris usually has been calling them in favour of Russia, which has worked out mostly accurate from a European perspective but he got it completely wrong on Syria.
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FWIW
“Russia captures Chasov Yar. NATO 2027 war plan”
https://rumble.com/v6x2bvc-russia-captures-chasov-yar.-nato-2027-war-plan.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
You mightn’t believe but not heavy on confidence boosters (IMO)
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“Although Russia has not yet launched a sustained assault on the city itself, each passing day brings Pokrovsk closer to encirclement. Some soldiers predict it could fall within days, others say weeks. Few now speak in terms of uncertainty, only of timing. Soldiers attribute the rapid acceleration to elite Russian drone units that were previously deployed in Kursk and have now been redirected to Pokrovsk. ”
..which attributes a lot of power to ‘drone units’ in this war.
Pokrovsk will follow Chasiv Yar, but faster- The usual Russian method of fighting through the fields to surround 3/4 of a town, cut off the supply roads just leaving one escape route, then sending in sabotage groups.
“Meanwhile, Pokrovsk itself is in the early stages of being stormed—a message from two days ago had already pointed to major Ukrainian losses just from Russian DRGs (diversionary recon and sabotage groups)”
They sow confusion and fear in the defenders, pretending to be Ukie units then ambushing locals, or popping up out of nowhere for an ambush then vanishing.
“Storm units are confirmed in northern Pokrovsk near Chaikovsky Street and are fighting near Schmidt (Mazepa) Street by the railway station. Kiev forces were caught off guard, causing panic. Russian troops may split the city into east and west, creating a threat of encircling Mirnograd (Dimitrov). Supply routes are under Russian fire control — about half of Kiev’s transport doesn’t reach the city anymore. ”
The Russians have developed more methods for neutralising drones now, suicide interceptors, interceptors with nets or strings, and now a spike on an interceptor. The Ukrainians are changing the way they use them too, re-supply and cover rather than just dropping grenades.
“a direct drop of (explosive) from a height of several tens of meters will go away, too many drones are lost, and the main task of such a drone will be to deliver ammunition/provisions to the front line, as well as support assault operations. The drops will be replaced by other weapons, primarily ATGMs/grenade launchers, as well as riflemen. It is in these versions that a heavy drone will be developed, which will essentially become an unmanned attack helicopter, capable of both supporting assault groups with fire and providing front-line logistics. Our industry and army are moving in this direction and soon we will see assaults on strongholds, where fire support for the troops will be provided by a heavy quadcopter, destroying the enemy with fire from special small arms and flamethrowers/ATGMs/grenade launchers.”
The future of ground war is being developed right before our eyes..
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-8125-chasov-yar-falls-pokrovsk
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FWIW
For those who cherish older cars
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/17540029437002561520137130831988.jpg?w=500
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LOL! I must find an old typewriter!
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