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It’s often said that the Slime Minister got in with only 35% of first preference votes (to relevant Labor representatives in various seats, obviously he is not directly elected by the people) and therefore a majority of people aren’t responsible for electing him.
But that’s not strictly true. People can and should select ALL their preferences, not follow the party recommendations. It’s the stupid act of many of the Sheeple following the party preference recommendations that got hime elected.
So everyone that followed party preference recommendations is in fact personally responsible for electing the worst PM and Government, by far, that Australia has ever had.
Slime Minister Albanese and his Government are a curse upon Australia.
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You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. What is the story behind the story?
WhenTrump belittled Zelensky it was too bizarre for me to believe.
Then we saw two men, I forgetwhich two,,meeting in s room sbout the size of a ten acre paddock,furnished with just two chairs. I don’t recall a table.
This has got to be a great charade..But who is fooling who? And why meet in Alaska?I is not so long ago that the US purchased Alaska froom the Russian government for avery lowprice. My viiewis that ffor Putin to set foot on Alaska and not clsaim We was robbed would represent humiliation.
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Must be painful stretching that far to try and concoct a negative
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” And why meet in Alaska?”
Because its not Europe! Trump is taking over ending the war himself, and dealing America cards in Russia’s growth. He will let the Euros sort out Ukraine, pay to buy American weapons to waste there, let their menfolk be killed if they are stupid enough, and break their countries taking on Russia if they dare. He knows Germany and UK are flat broke, and they are the financiers of Europe. Europe will soon be all Spain or Portugal, quiet- 2-rate countries trying to find a dollar on the pavement.
He wants America great again, not The West great again, and there are all the riches in the Arctic up for grabs. Canada should be part of America, as he said, then the new America and Russia own it all.
The next meeting will be in Moscow, as Putin said.
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Canada is part of America – North America. As is the USA.
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‘The next meeting will be in Moscow, as Putin said.’
That is when Moscow will sue for peace, Zelensky won’t be there.
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You make me laugh!
Putin is dictating the peace terms. Ukraine can have what parts of Zaporizhizhia and Kerson that they still hold. Russia keeps all of the Donbas. Crimea is not negotiable.
Trump gets Russian intel to use against Killary and the Deep State.
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That is fantastic, one of us is on a different planet.
All the territories captured by Russia must be returned, along with the stolen children, before any consideration of suing for peace.
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How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
Michael A. Reynolds August 15, 2025
Trump’s willingness to speak unflattering truths has been key to his ability to rouse the passions of his supporters and opponents alike. His readiness to break from prior policy toward Ukraine and host a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin has again infuriated the US foreign policy establishment.
More than three years into the war, there is no compelling reason to believe Russia will suffer defeat. Its economy has proven resilient in the face of sanctions, and it fields a larger and more capable army than Ukraine.
Yet, in confirmation of Thucydides’ insight that men act on hope when reason fails them, America’s bipartisan elites, out of indignation and wounded pride, cling to the belief that Russia will somehow be vanquished—and so prolong a war they cannot win. Proponents of continuing the war argue that it has weakened Russia.
That is debatable. What is not debatable is that the war has wrecked Ukraine, crippled Europe’s economy, and consumed American resources.
It has also driven Russia into China’s embrace, handing America’s one peer competitor a long, quiet border and secure access to valuable natural resources.
To stifle dissent about the war and its origins, its bipartisan defenders deplore Trump and other skeptics as either ignorant, naïve, or somehow secretly beholden to Vladimir Putin.
The reality is that hardheaded skepticism of the war and the policy that produced it stands in the tradition of some of America’s most accomplished diplomats, intelligence officers, and national security officials who waged—and won—the Cold War.
This elder generation of Cold War veterans spoke loudly against NATO expansion.
Among their successors were those who likewise questioned the wisdom of Washington’s course, yet at the behest of less discerning leaders they carried out that expansion, voicing their candid reservations and objections only in private or in the pages of their memoirs. America’s Ukraine debacle, then, is the product of a bipartisan coalition in which the misguided were full of passionate intensity, while might‑have‑been wise men lacked all conviction.
A Long and Excellent Disseratation on the Subject summed up by Final Paragraph relevant here
Washington’s Eurasian morass has been decades in the making.
Extricating America will be a long-term and perilous challenge.
Almost alone among major Western leaders, Donald Trump has had the fortitude to characterize the Ukraine war as the calamity it is.
May the Alaska summit mark the beginning of a return to an American foreign policy anchored in its earlier tradition of clear-eyed assessments of national interest and the prudent use of power.
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‘ … the prudent use of power.’
That would be wise, there is regime change in China, with the reform movement taking control. They have the freedom to turn their backs on Russia, which would seriously upset Putin.
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While Putin is distracted and weakened, China will raise the issue of “Unequal treaties” (treaties China signed at the end of wars they lost). Two of those treaties ceded what is now much of the Russian Far East from China to Russia. The Chinese want the land, and its resources, back.
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To achieve that Beijing would use soft power, which can only succeed after the Kremlin is brought to its knees. They will buy it back.
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When did Trump belittle Zelensky. I personally recall Zelensky making demands of Trump.
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Come on, it was a deliberate ambush. Donnie thinks he has the cards on this occasion, a land deal that Zelensky can’t turn down.
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The Cold War always had a use by date. when the old guard who could remember conditions before the revolution faded from influence.
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I disagree David.
Your proposition would be valid if the preferential system was optional, but is not achievable while compulsory. It is not possible ro reject multiple unwanted candidates.
My own assessment of the last election is that the Greens were rejected – soundly – and it was a toss up whether to put Labor or the Libs next to last.
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Mandatory addition to all elections with preferential voting:
NONE OF THE REMAINING CANDIDATES
50%+1 of valid votes still required to elect !
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I think those how to vote cards should be banned. I’ve said so here before and got howled down by one of the regulars on here, (something about taking away our democratic rights).
If you need a how to vote card to show you how to place your numbers and preferences on the ballot, then you’re too stupid to vote. They are like a prefilled ballot paper, not filled by you of your preferences but those preferences of the party. So when you vote using the how to vote cards are you really voting your true intentions?
Preferences should not be dictated to the voters by the parties, you should be smart enough to pick your own damn preferences and not those that benefit the party.
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In my opinion if preferential system continues it must be optional and therefore after primary vote [ 1 ] no need to continue marking squares.
Westminster System of Government with some USA system added is what Commonwealth of Australia has and elsewhere there is no preference selection only one vote.
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Speaking of being “too dumb to vote”, each election is an intelligence test and most of us fail it every time.
The most recent Federal election is a case in point.
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I am in Nepal at the moment and tried the Kathmandu bus service.
It is quite chaotic and has no clearly defined routes, stops or timetables.
I did a trip yesterday, about 35kms to a town and that cost A$1.96 one way and took about two hours each way.
Another I did today was within Kathmandu from Ratner Park to the Zoo and took about 30 mins and cost A$0.22.
There is a driver and a “conductor” on each bus. At each “stop” the conductor excitedly shouts out something which I presume is a list of destinations and asks people to hop on. The money is collected as you get off.
As the stops aren’t clearly defined I think you can signal the driver to stop just about anywhere although there are areas generally considered to be “stops”. The conductor communicates with the driver by banging on the panels of the bus and the bus usually starts moving before the conductor hops on.
The system is very chaotic but seems to work.
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DM, thanks for this insight.
Transport for London, under the influence of New Britons, and, possibly Mayor Sir Sadiq, will look to Kathmandu for inspiration, so it is good to know what to expect on the Brighton Road in the next decade or so.
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Love it! Cape Town runs on the same system with Kaffir Taxis, chaotic, unregulated, cheap and effective.
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One morning being driven in Johannesburg South Africa on the radio news a “Taxi” had been stopped, a mini-bus Toyota Hi-Ace, the under age driver was using vice grips as a lever to operate the steering and the steering wheel had been removed to enable one extra passenger to squeeze in.
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Do they have any hydro power there David.
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Yes they do. From microscale systems for villages to large scale systems being built by the Chicomms.
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Dr John Campbell interviews Professor Robert Clancy about ‘the most dangerous Australian book ever written’ showing that Australian Governments and Health Agencies approved dangerous genetic vaccines, and banned medical dissent by doctors with treatments that would have saved lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D_uBVJ1nw4
Covid Through Our Eyes – Dangerous News: https://expose-news.com/2025/08/02/covid-through-our-eyes
Covid Through Our Eyes – Dangerous Book: https://covidthroughoureyes.com.au
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I have just finished reading it. The book is definitely a reference book for the library. The personal stories of”vaccination” victims is heart breaking.
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My copy is due to be delivered tomorrow.
I phoned the publishers and congratulated them for their decision to publish. They told me that orders are heavy with some orders being hundreds of books at a time.
I am aware of the qualifications and experience of only some of the authors. Impressive credentials everywhere.
This coming week will be devoted to close study and reading references cited. I am looking forward to it as seldom before. Geoff S
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As Australia imposes ever more censorship, I am concerned that such information not in conformity with the Official Narrative will become difficult or impossible to access and those that promulgate such information will be severely punished, including deregistration of medical doctors.
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I’ll have to get a copy. I saw Dr McCann speak at a conference a few years ago. I saw this quote in the link you posted:
“Dr. McCann is now spearheading the Covid Vaccine Class Action seeking redress from the Federal Government for the vaccine-injured, most of whom were never compensated and have significant injury costs.”
I personally know a young man who was 18 at the time he was jabbed. Soon after he developed severe POTS. The family applied for compensation, apparently filling out a “mountain of paperwork”, including submissions from specialists. The claim was rejected on the grounds that the vaccine in question (AZ) was not proven, in the opinion of the assessor, to induce POTS. Ironically, that vaccine is no longer considered safe and effective by the government.
If you identify as a member of The Stolen Generations, the government practically throws money at you. It seems that historical wrong doings are more important to politicians than recent transgressions.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxyezqx4r5o
“Erin rapidly intensifies to category five hurricane”
More misdirection it seems
Although the BBC report includes – “Hurricane Erin has rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 160mph (260km/h). National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan told a briefing that the “extremely powerful” storm had “explosively deepened and intensified” overnight after growing from tropical storm strength on Friday.”
Category 5?
Ventusky suggests that this storm, still out in the Atlantic, where nobody much is able to see – let alone measure – it, is possibly not possessed of hurricane [>64kt] winds at ‘ground level’ – perhaps 60-66 Kt winds, at 10 m above sea level.
Certainly at greater altitudes, the wind is stronger – I’ve spotted winds north of 85 kts at about 2000 metres.
The Beeeb report continues – “Hurricane Erin underwent rapid intensification, in which a storm strengthens by at least least 34mph in a 24-hour period. Erin’s winds had intensified from 100mph early in the hours of Saturday morning to 160mph, Mr Brennan said.”
Mr Brennan probably has access to some readings I don’t – but nothing I have seen suggests even Category 3 – let alone Category 5!
Why is this nonsense promulgated?
Is it really Project Fear?
Again??
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Auto, you’re lucky they’re not calling it a Category Six (as some beansprout-munching Greenie demanded we classify them a few years back) or worse, a Category Eleven!!
To compensate Erin, we have a multi-headed 3-eyed low pressure system whirling down over the country, only to be swept aside Monday as Australia’s ex-snowstorm roars across the Tasman Sea and, combining warm/cold air masses, provide New Zealand with a 4-DAY SNOW WAVE (sceptics can play this silly game too).
http://www2.metservice.com/mountain.html
North Island snow levels next 4 days:
1,800m, 1,300m, 500m, 500m.
South Island snow levels next 4 days:
800m, 700m, 500m, clearing… and cold.
One Atlantic hurricane, in the peak of hurricane season, doth not make the End of The World. Besides it looks like Erin will provide East Coast USA surfers the Swell of The Year as it tracks northward, well offshore, aiming for… Greenland? The UK? The Scilly Isles of Atlantis?
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Ten books on ‘Death and Injury’ by Vaccination:
(1) Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective Is Lying: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305975425161
(2) Dissolving Illusions: Censored History of Death and Injury by Vaccination: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/376326515241
(3) mRNA vaccine toxicity: Injury and death on an unprecedented scale: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257055801678
(4) The Crime of Vaccination: Death by scientifically unsound practice: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167684212930
(5) Horrors of Vaccination: Exposed and Illustrated: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/376258887675
(6) Vaccination Voodoo: What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354277672640
(7) The Unfortunate Truth About Vaccines: Death and Injury: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386242916373
(8) Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak: Death by Vax versus Life for Unvaxed: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187192052705
(9) Zero Accountability in a Failed System: How Big Pharma Weaponizes Vaccines: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177304675231
(10) Who Can Parents Trust?: Vaccines: Avoidable and Unsafe: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375801568586
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It’s like the left hand….
‘The UK’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) strategy focuses on reducing carbon emissions from the aviation sector through mandates and incentives. The SAF Mandate, introduced in January 2025, requires fuel suppliers to incorporate increasing amounts of SAF into the UK aviation fuel mix. This mandate starts at 2% in 2025, rises to 10% by 2030, and reaches 22% by 2040. The government is also developing a revenue certainty mechanism to support SAF production and attract investment. ‘
‘Bioethanol layoffs to start next week after rescue ruled out.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24zlel2y5yo.amp
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It will eventually make air travel for non-Elites unaffordable, as is no doubt the plan.
Also, in Australia a 35% hidden “carbon” tax will be applied to Australian aviation as TdeF has previously explained.
And where’s the UK going to get the biomass to produce these “sustainable” aviation fuels? It will come down to a choice of food or fuel. Or will they import the biomass like they do for Drax, chopping down forests in the US and Canada and shipping them across the Atlantic?
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It is cheaper to import biofuel from the US after Starmer/Trump’s latest tariff/trade deal arrangements. It’ll also be too expensive to convert it to SAF in the UK, no doubt, even if there are any fuel/refining/ chemical plants left, as they are shutting down rapidly as a result of energy prices.
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Reminds me of that old saying.
The 9 worst words you can hear anyone say.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
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” after a deal to allow US ethanol to be imported tariff-free.”
So the plant was always uncompetitive, it stayed afloat with subsidies that were paid for by tariffs on imported ethanol.
The Trump Effect may clean out a lot of these stupidities that just cost the public billions.
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As opposed to sending billions out of the country, and instead of that money circulating in the UK economy. You’re not seeing the whole picture.
Anyway, my main points were the reason the UK can’t compete (UK energy prices), and the lack of joined up thinking in policy.
Additionally, a country needs to retain certain levels of independence in areas such as food and energy and industry for security reasons. It won’t be long before the UK has no fuel refining and chemical production facilities left at all.
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” It won’t be long before the UK has no fuel refining and chemical production facilities left at all.”
The Plan is succeeding …
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I became interested in the global warming issue more than a decade ago.
I did my best to learn the ‘science’.
For me the science became a morass, much of it utterly ridiculous.
I now see it as a psychological and political phenomenon disguised as science for manipulative legitimacy.
A religion attractive to the elite convenient to maintenance of their priesthood.
Private jets to COP confabs … really?
Then we were delivered Pandemic, whatever that was … the psychological effect may be the more important long term than the medical.
I think these follow directly.
Stopping a virus or stopping carbon is and was not the actual purpose.
This is a vid explaining the views of Jacques Vallee on the UFO phenomenon.
‘Jacques Vallée, UFOs, and the Case against Extraterrestrial Origins’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLE0X5FRFc
I think the cultural social functions of Climate Change, Pandemic, and the latest UAP iterations are more about us humans remaining superstitious mass formers … more than the evolving rational ‘science’ process observers we’ve believed ourselves to be in the modern era.
We require symbols more than facts.
We mold the facts to accommodate our symbols.
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Decades ago saw a book advertised with the title:
Tranceforming America.
Never read it, however in the ensuing years, it would appear the spell masters weren’t content with only the USA. When I snap my fingers…
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Honk,
Likewise with my recent science experiences.
We have seen in the US under Biden the existence of unnamed persons illegally taking over some aspects of national government.
I suspect that similar shadowy groups are whiteanting our traditional science in similar illegal ways. Once, people born with high intelligence contributed to national/global advancement of society. Now, that seems to be under takeover by people with high intelligence using greed and cunning when once there was the unemotional drive of purity in science.
I see part of the present problem coming from the recent phenomenon of many individuals with extraordinary wealth. They seem to regard their wealth success as a licence, or even an imperative to control other people. The public often joins in their adoration instead of realising the actuality that the main attribute of the super wealthy is their crafty ability to transfer money from your wallet into theirs. Greed. Geoff S
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Yes, put simply, if you took all the money from the super wealthy and distributed it amongst everyone else, within a very short time the wealthy would have it all back again. It’s their stock in trade, raison d’etre.
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What would be a good made up climate alarmist story? Google AI says:-
‘A compelling, alarmist climate story could focus on the fictional collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet due to accelerating global warming, triggering a catastrophic and rapid sea level rise that inundates major coastal cities worldwide. This scenario would be further amplified by the release of massive amounts of methane from thawing permafrost, creating a runaway greenhouse effect and rendering vast swathes of land uninhabitable.’
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So, Goolag’s version matches real-life climate alarmist stories.
Or is Goolag AI itself making up the stories for climate alarmists to propagate and the AI plays a supporting role via biased search results and AI answers?
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It’s largely fiction either way!
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I tried to look up the current status of Spains “grid strengthening” initiatives (basically using more gas plants)
Most of the responses stepped over the question and just waffled about Spains ongoing committment to so called “renewables”
I thought the choice of words when they started talking about “grid strengthening” interesting. Clearly what they were doing prior was grid weakening, but you rarely hear the idealogues admit it.
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It appear “renewables” werent the problem at all but they lack of infrastructure (synch condensors) and related manangement sysytems to operate the “renewables” if you can follow their contorted logic.
So once they apply sufficient band aids they can plunge onwards to a glorious “renewable” future.
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Grim,
Antarctic melting like this would take thousands of years, plenty of time to relocate cities. Not much of a problem, forget it. Geoff S
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Full House called for the DoE “critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate”
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factcheck/index.html
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There is nothing squeals louder than the brakes on the gravy train.
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There are scientists very upset at how their research has been misrepresented: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-the-doe-and-epa-used-and-misused
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Yup. This guy merely points out just how unsettled the “settled” science is and shows just how easy it is to pick and choose the avaibale data to suit what ever message you want. Just like the IPCC didn’t like the CERES data so multiplied it by minus one to get the result they wanted. Just like the IPCC didn’t like the ACRIM data so got the PMOD labs to make up complete lies about instrument faults that didn’t exist. Actually, the BS never stops and this guy is just desperate. To use a great word from my old home town in the north of England, this is complete rangum.
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In comments I found this from Kevin Trenberth.
‘It often seems that the scenarios previously in play for emissions are still in play in spite of evidence to the contrary: The US is no longer a part of the Paris Agreement and will not be involved in the next IPCC.
‘Many other countries have backed away from pledges. I know in New Zealand, where I reside, the government has gotten rid of a dozen worthy initiatives that would cut GHGs. More generally, there are next to no action plans to meet the pledges that were made. The prospects for the future are now much bleaker.’
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We can’t have scientists being upset.
Because then they become mad scientists.
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Sorry, I couldn’t restrain myself.
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Honk, another of your mad countrymen – a true believer in the power of illusionary digital man(n)ipulation – was granted NZ citizenship last week.
Billionaire movie mogul – think sinking ships and magic blue fairies in the forest – Mr C, or JC to his disciples, gets on like the proverbial house on fire with Mr T (KT or Big Kev to his underlings & acolytes).
Birds of a feather f***k together? He may be shocked! to find SNOW all over his high-country private estate/farm tomorrow when yet another snow *bomb* roars up the country, dropping snow to low levels…
Freezing is the new warming, doncha know.
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So what you are saying Simon, is that for the first time ever, the process is finally working as it should. Previously, the reports have been issued with no consultation and no publicly conducted review. All closed shop that ensured the pre-determined outcomes, regardless of the misinformation and downright dishonesty. This time, the authors have asked for public comment and will address all the points raised and make corrections if necessary or merited. So what you and interactive.carbongrift are bitching about is that someone is at last being open and honest and putting the blob to shame using transparency. Makes it more difficult to publish fiction and misinformation in the future.
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Pretty picture.
Little substance.
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I warn to believe “factchecks”, 99.999% if not more, are fakes.
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Wow. They’re really clutching at straws with their criticisms. Even claiming more than 100 false and misleading claims is effectively false and misleading itself, given that the points being raised are by multiple respondents but on the same matter. Not so much 100 or more different things. Actually we don’t really know if it is multiple respondents of any great number because many of the claims are by anonymous.
Carbongrief is labelling claims that CO2 has contributed to increased greening as misleading simply because there are other contributing factors. But when the DoE report lists another contributing factor, the critics label this extra info as contradictory. So the DoE report authors can’t win either way..
BTW, the other factor wasn’t contradictory. It was simply extra information that doesn’t contradict any claim. It was simply honest admission that there are other factors.
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https://notrickszone.com. .https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/complex-systems/articles/10.3389/fcpxs.2025.1617092/full. New study completely dismantles the carbon dioxide driven climate change narrative. Funny how the truth comes out when the Blob starts to loose its grip, real scientists are no longer bullied and coersed in to keeping quiet and the web of lies starts to unravel.
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Here is a video about measurements on ancient Egyptian vases and the extreme precision by which they were made.
It is not yet clear how they were made with that level of precision in the particular shapes and especially with the hard brittle materials most were made with. They would be very difficult to reproduce today, even with five+ axis CNC milling machines.
https://youtu.be/7BlmFKSGBzI
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How about “trial and error” the tried and trusted but laborious method?
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Where are all the erroneous trials then? You know, the evolution in techniques and methods that lead to this outcome… because a less than perfect jar or vase might not be fit for a king, but are surely good enough for others to have kept and used.
Additionally, the meaning of the word “precision” seems to have escaped you.
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As in “Measure twice, cut once” and similar derivatives
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Given that the Egyptian pyramids are being increasingly attributed to a previous more advanced civilisation, maybe not…
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The guest on the video Ben van Kerkwyk’s channel UnchartedX is worth watching if you are interested in ancient Egyptian and South American architecture. His videos are well produced and show a lot of interesting sites.
However he totally jumped the shark when he started going on about the Vases being the product of CNC machines implying the ancients who made them had computers. Even if the vases are the product of machines, cams and templates would be enough to control the machines – no computer required.
I have had a quick look at the STL files that Ben provided of some of the Vases discussed. They are not that accurate, particularly around the handles which is what you would expect if most of the vase was produced on some sort of lathe and then excess material near the handles removed and finished by hand.
The “SGD Sacred Geometry Decoded” YouTube channel is worth checking out, he does practical experiments that show some of the techniques which could have been used to make these vases.
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It has just been confirmed that the earthquake in Australia was due to Tim Flannery dropping his wallet, so full of money from the climate grift.
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I can’t wait until the Australian earthquake is blamed on “climate change”.
In fact, climate alarmists already do that. E.g. see https://theconversation.com/how-climate-change-might-trigger-more-earthquakes-and-volcanic-eruptions-210841
Earthquakes are rare in Australia due to the continent not sitting on any active tectonic plate boundaries but intraplate earthquakes are still possible
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Has anyone yet considered that renaming the tectonic energy as renewable?
So far the world-best practice indicates the physical GWs extracted are not critical for getting G$s.
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DM,
One of my lads looked up global earthquake records and concluded that Australia has its fair share. Many global quakes are within the Ring of Fire. Blank these out, compare the remainder and see if Australia is abnormally low. Son says it is not abnormally low. Geoff S
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And if the ‘dormant’ volcanoes don’t getcha (continually surprised when I discover even more old cones & plugs & lava flows up the east coast) then a meteorite may explode above your head.
WA seems to be crater-central for itinerant space rocks: drove to, then walked around and up and over, Wolfe Creek crater in the 1980s, circumambulating if you will, enjoyable in the cool of ‘winter’, about 30°C. And yet there are so many more out there… heads up!
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The last active volcano in Australia was Mt Gambier in South Australia a mere 5,000 years ago.
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David:
I have been residing in the Adelaide Hills for 21 years and have had 3 earthquakes in that time. Two of about 2.4 magnitude (which I slept through) and one of 3.5 which I noticed as I was having breakfast at that time. There is a fault line on the eastern side of the “mountains”.
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The Eden-Monaro fault forms most of the edge of the hills that face Adelaide. Then you have the Para Fault which forms the scarp that runs from Gepps Cross to Gawler.
Up until she downsized, I had left my Lego collection at my mothers place in the North-East. My model Star Destroyer slowly shook apart due to all the small tremors on the Eden-Monaro
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Have Aum Shinrikyo recently bought any land near Wondai – there is a lot of cheap, brigalow scrub West of there, great for cult activities.
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/banjawarn-station-mystery-aum-shinrikyo-cult/
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Boom boom!
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How Aussie medical doctors are gagged by Government:
Video: https://youtu.be/DPqWwikNVIE
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Some thoughts on American politics from an American trapped behind one of the Blue Rainbow state curtains … where the solution to crime is more therapists.
The Democrats are going to double down on the extreme politics that earned them Trump.
It is ideological, but not in the way most think.
The Democrat DC apparatus is driven entirely by fundraising.
It’s an industry.
The brain trust is focused on this with election success almost an afterthought.
Use whatever hot button moral virtue signal of the moment to feed the flow.
This fringe ideology is a reflection of the urban educated and celebrity elite that over the past decades have moved away form the cultural American mainstream, not to mention reality itself.
The NYT, George (C)looney better than thous run the show with their Ivory Tower Ivy League collaborators.
The celebs that draw the the lesser aspiring better than thous to fund raising events.
The more serious and reflective, dare I say adult, political professionals are drowned out with cash.
It’s like all logistics and no strategy.
Only meet next month’s fundraising goals.
Pet Rock, energy drink politics.
The former anti war party is now against peace if it’s made by Trump.
Because Orange Man Bad sells.
Especially to the vacuous overly comfortable that produce more cash than votes.
I don’t think they’re capable of anything else.
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No doubt we could construct an elaborate flowchart outlining why people become politicians. I imagine it would fill a page, with lots of ‘if this, then that’ etc. Boxes and lines would cover the page with ever-more elaborate and detailed choices. How important is justice to you? Do you believe in public service? Do you want to improve the lives of ordinary citizens? What would success look like to you?
But, no matter what was contained in the boxes, no matter what choices were offered, every single route would eventually land on one big box right at the end, the ultimate objective.
It would be labelled, ‘Get Rich’.
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Who are the Dem leaders at the moment? its not clear from afar. There seems the be a clown car of geriatrics and ranting radicals.
Also is the a clear logical President candidate. It seems tacitly accepted that Vance will run post Trump barring disaster. Do the Dems have anyone or even a top 3 at the moment?
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That’s the problem.
The young blithering radicals like AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani are the only ones that attract energy.
To some extent the Democrats are facing their Trump revolution …
without a Trump.
Both right and left are unhappy with the establishment.
The Republican establishment was not strong enough to stop Trump.
And was anachronized by MAGA.
The Democrat establish was able to maintain internal control, and thwarted reform and new energy.
Moribund, they stuck with Biden too long, then had to force Harris.
The young blitherings will rise.
The Long March through the Universities has birthed a constituency for them.
It might work.
As I said, I think it’s the inevitable path.
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I should add, I do think there is a nebulous but real, obscured Deep State element.
Probably now engaged in a hidden war between the nationalist MAGA sympathetic rank and file, and post nationalist (globalist) anti MAGA non political appointed institutional immortal swamp leadership.
They could cook up something weird from nowhere.
I for one, would never suggest that Pandemic was such a thing.
That would be conspiratorial.
All serious people know that conspiracies never happen in real life.
Billionaires and powerful politicians always achieve their status through diligence and strategic decision making.
Just ask ’em.
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A very good Russian blogger this morning pointed to significance of JD Vance absence at Anchorage – considering his previous input to the issue.
I’d say he definitely wants hedging his bets.
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Wouldnt Vance not being there be similar to Medvedev not being there? Leave the back up red button pusher at home , just in case.
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FWIW – Willis E. has a look at electricity in New Jersey
“The Road To Hell Is Paved With Green Intentions”
“Sometimes you can’t help but marvel at how much we’re all willing to pay for the illusion of “green progress.” New Jersey decided—like half the country—that climate purity would be achieved by wind turbines, solar panels, and endless press conferences declaring victory against bad old fossil fuels. But someone forgot to run the numbers, and now the bill arrives, with a little note attached: “Due immediately. No refunds. See: your monthly utility statement.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/16/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-green-intentions/
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Talking about the use of Ivermectin in treating cancer … Well, kind of.
I can’t find it now, but yesterday I cam across a reel in which a senior cardiologist was delivering a talk at a cardiology conference. What he seemed to be doing was mocking his colleagues for practicing in such a confined and regulated fashion that they didn’t really need higher qualifications. Everything said at this conference was, he claimed, merely affirming current practices. If cholesterol is above this value, prescribe statins (for instance). Job done. “Next patient!”
I think this is how far medicine has fallen. It is being performed by rote, even at the highest levels. Specialists may as well themselves consult ‘Dr. Google’ for all their qualifications are worth. Listen to the heart, mutter something, push a script for statins into his hand, then fly down for a weekend on the new yacht. It is a system fully captured by easy money.
This is not to say outstanding medics don’t exist, despite various governments’ attempts to cram them into a box alongside their more compliant peers. But my impression these days is that truly good doctors are harder to find than ever, and the quality of care similarly difficult to obtain, especially ‘in extremis’.
But I guess this problem isn’t confined to medicine. All ‘scientific’ disciplines are similarly affected by a combination of politicisation, greed and laziness. Perhaps, in terms of the ‘moral application of intellect’, the human race has passed its peak.
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Steve – FWIW
“From “Medical Care” to “Medical Couldn’t Care Less” ”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/from-medical-care-to-medical-couldnt.html
And “Saturday #16”
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“Perhaps, in terms of the ‘moral application of intellect’, the human race has passed its peak.”
Isn’t this at the center of our current cultural revolution or Reformation?
‘Moral application’ amongst the managerial intelligentsia has gone haywire.
I thought I was taught that progress was mitigating one over bearing ‘moral’ imperative from another.
Like the right of lethal force in self defense.
Or a right to differing religious beliefs.
(Oh wait, some smart old guys in my country put both in writing calling them Amendments 1 and 2.)
As I keep saying, our main problem is the intellectual inbreeding of the managerial intelligentsia.
No more need to make a zombie movie, just walk on a college campus in the West and have a chat with the first one you meet.
Brains are being eaten by something.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“The Legacy Media Won’t Touch These Explosive mRNA Vaccine Study Findings”
“But now, stronger evidence has emerged showing that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines actually raise the risk of respiratory infections with each additional dose, leaving the defenders of these shots looking obstinate and unwilling to face reality.
Real-world data out of Switzerland has vindicated what many of us have been warning all along: the risk-benefit equation for mRNA shots no longer makes sense for most healthy people. Just the News breaks down the new Swiss study, and its conclusions aren’t merely inconvenient—they’re downright explosive.”
“Now, instead of thanking leaders willing to correct course, the media is busy smearing RFK Jr. for putting safety first again. That should be celebrated as common sense and long overdue accountability—but the press treats it like heresy.
This underscores the need for Americans to reject the superficial assurances of elected officials and their media allies. The sudden pivot to mRNA wasn’t an accident; it was a plan waiting for the right crisis. And after years of rushed rollouts, endless boosters, and ever-shifting narratives, the public deserves real answers about what was done in the name of “science,” and why.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/16/the-legacy-media-wont-touch-these-explosive-mrna-vaccine-study-findings-n4942757
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Latest comments from Dr Campbell and Prof. Angus Dalgleish about cancer and Vitamin D.
https://youtu.be/LmF1j33Iz1s
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Among other things it is suggested that chemotherapy is much more effective if patients have adequate Vitamin D levels. In fact, that should be the first thing corrected even before chemotherapy starts.
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FWIW
“Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/16/fraud-hunters-sniffing-out-bogus-science-n3805874
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Are the ‘fraud hunters’ ‘green jobs’, too?
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All prominent promoters of climate alarmist, “consultants” on the area and subsidy harvesters should have their personal finances forensically audited.
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And an Independent audit of the Clinton Foundation please along with Bill Gate’s Foundation while they are at it. Fauci should be next along with Pelosi and the Bidens.
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FWIW
““Nature” Article Demands Replacing DEI in Science With Decolonization, Indigenous
Knowledge”
““Nature” Article Demands Replacing DEI in Science With Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge
Based on the scientific method and the data collected, the Professor William Jacobson Theory of Current Academia is correct: It is broken beyond repair.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/nature-article-demands-replacing-dei-in-science-with-decolonization-indigenous-knowledge/
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/16/nature-article-demands-replacing-dei-in-science-with-decolonization-indigenous-knowledge-n3805872
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Indigenous knowledge.
What is it? Where is it written down? Where is it reviewed for value and new information content? Or is it just a rambling bundle of thoughts by carpet baggers?
I spent 20 years with ab affairs in the N.T. I searched long and hard for evidence of the veracity and value of native tradition, legend, wisdom. Summary, in older times the natives did what you or I would do, namely, whatever was available and rewarding to add to the chances of survival in a harsh environment.
I found zero evidence of any insights of value to people now. It is, in simple analysis, whiteys living in a dream of the Noble Savage while trying to make a quid from it.
For the benefit of all, we have to quit this Dreamtime stuff like first nations, sacred traditions, valuable myths, rainbow serpents. Let racism cease, treat all folk similarly, with respect. And behave yourselves. Geoff S
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Yes! In all countries, no Govt should be allowed to question you on your race or make any race-based legislation. They should offer equal opportunities, not ‘equal outcomes’, that current multi-billion dollar boondoggle has run on long enough to see it will never work!
We should all be equal subjects, not ‘all equal but some more equal than others…’
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I’m All for indigenous knowledge. The indigenous knowledge of the people from India that worked so hard on mathematics, the knowledge from Mesopotamia that worked on early engineering, the knowledge from indigenous europeans that worked on lots of other indigenous ground work to develop the sciences like medicine, chemistry, physics etc etc.
Indigenous knowledge was important, what was more important was other groups of indigenous peoples who improved and developed the basics.
I am NOT for indigenous knowledge that stays rooted at one point in time and apparently cannot be questioned, changed or improved upon.
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I always felt that we, ie in Australia more than in many other places, missed a unique chance given to science by history – studying a (I am not afraid of words) primitive man in his own environment.
Like any serious science, it would benefit everyone.
But – every thing, intellectual and material touched by socialists turns into fecalia.
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IIRC you have to dig the rabbit hole to find the reports of those who reported what they encountered way back in BC
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They’re not indigenous – their ancestors got here by boat, same as mine.
For the past quarter-century [is it that long?] mass media here has trance/trans-formed into Maori-speaking te reo lingo while the ability to speak coherent English has collapsed into a mumble, jumble, aaaah, um, like, mish-mash of butchered words uttered by performing seals – and that’s the ‘professional’ news readers, radio hosts, journalists, hex-spurt commentators, etch-shet-error.
I’m no fan of the Queen’s English (BBC-posh) but please, speak proper! /s.
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Xi has been rushed to hospital and Wang Yang is now the head honcho.
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No English speaking press has this news?
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“Claims have emerged that Xi suffered from a “cerebral aneurysm” which left him hospitalised at the end of 2021.”
“26 Jan 2025 … XI JINPING IN HOSPITAL AFTER WATCHING INDIAN AIR FORCE PARADE ON REPUBLIC DAY ”
“18 July 2024 … … Xi had a stroke as of July 18 … ”
Seems pretty common with him, but nothing in the West, or Al Jazeera, or Russia, or ChinaDaily about it today.
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An English news article dated 16 Aug:
https://peoplenewstoday.com/news/en/2025/08/16/1113682.html.Xi-Jinping-Reportedly-Rushed-to-301-Hospital-–-Three-Top-Shanghai-Specialists-Urgently-Flown-to-Beijing-for-Consultation.html
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? Source ?…..
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Social media, nooze before it happens.
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You have to be patient for some of that!
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Looking ahead, the parade held on 3 September will have Zhang Youxia saluting the troops.
The Fourth Plenum should see a formal transfer of power without losing face. That is when the MSM realises there has been a regime change.
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Xi might linger on and sadly die just before their elections. Everyone is happy except him..
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Those who hold the gun have the power, Zhang Youxia supported the reform movement and they beat Xi’s red faction without a shot being fired.
Informing the masses will be a challenge, they will say Xi retired through ill health. He has family in Sydney and could retire there.
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FWIW – science reporting
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1803223832973139968.jpg?w=819
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As an Aussie derived by the Left of convenience products like plastic bags and plastic drinking straws, it has been so exciting on my recent trip to Israel and currently in Nepal, to get plastic bags (falsely called “single use” by the Left) in supermarkets and plastic drinking straws in restaurants and cafes etc..
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When I was in Israel recently I managed to see the one windmill plantation they have. It is in the Golan Heights where there are good winds. The locals complained of it killing various bird life, the noise and the eyesore caused to the otherwise beautiful landscape.
Killing of birds is a particular concern because Israel is on the world’s major north-south bird migration route between Europe, Asia and Africa. Thus the windmills are potentially far more damaging than elsewhere, as bad as they are in other countries.
Apart from that, there are no other wind plantations in Israel that I am aware of. There is a solar tower but that is an economic failure, as they all are.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that polar explorers, engineers, or farmers are rarely attracted to the life behind the desks of the Public Service. It is those who want safety and predictability who are eager for the life of little choice. They imagine a world running as a giant clockwork, with multiple cogs driven by invisible springs. Their job they see as a vital one keeping all the wheels turning in some pre-ordained fashion.
Individual choice never flows from the tip of a bureaucrat’s pen. The choices left for their subjects are always constrained for the convenience of the writers. And yet, humans being humans, those same regulations have to be ‘tightened’ regularly. The result is an increase in illegal activity by those who won’t be cowed and exasperation on the part of the law abiding at the ever increasing complexity of the paperwork. The endless battle to constrain humans from being human leads to evermore laws, rules, regulations and exasperation.“If only” the bureaucrats say to each other “we had the necessary resources to fix this problem”, forgetting that complexity is the mother of loopholes.
“The monkey looked around the laboratory at the bananas hanging from the roof. There were three choices left for it, a scattering of boxes that could be piled up, a light weight step ladder, or a long pole with a hook on the end enabling it to lift the quoit off the hook in the ceiling. For perhaps 25 seconds the monkey obviously thought before it made its choice. Then taking one unresisting but baffled observer by the hand it drew him under the bananas, swarmed up onto his head, seized its reward and fled to the farthest corner to eat the fruit”.
So obey the bureaucrats and don’t monkey around.
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I just escaped emergency surgery by the skin of my teeth!
I woke up in crippling cramping pain last Wednesday and wondered what was going on.
I thought it might be food poisoning as I had prawns on Tuesday for lunch.
No, the symptoms and timing aren’t right I thought, what else could it be?
Diverticulitis? No, had that 7 years ago.
Stopped eating and went to a liquid only diet until Friday. No difference.
I had a theory about something I had Wednesday night.
Got to see a doctor Saturday morning and bought an OTC that as of writing has only just resolved it all.
Thank dawg for that! If it hadn’t, I’d have been in for emergency surgery by Tuesday, and probably have been given vaxxed blood!
Almost 5 days of no food, no sleep, cramping pain is over.
And the cause?
Something everyone here has eaten and probably a favourite item.
Don’t want to say what as I have an email to draft to the manufacturer first.
Something’s changed in the manufacturing (and I noticed that months ago) and the new product is potentially dangerous, and a number of food products seem to be the same now too.
Stay tuned and stay hydrated.😉
/avoid food in metal foil bags…
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According to the fake fact checkers, “experts” say there is nothing wrong with covid vaxxed blood, LoL.
In Australia I don’t believe it’s possible to request non-covid-vaxxed blood, you get what they give you.
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Did you watch the re-run of their ABC’s Insiders?
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You’re not meant to eat the bag John… just sayin’…
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Here in Nepal, which is a Third World country, I am impressed by the large number of schools and colleges of advanced learning to obtain professional qualifications such as in IT or business.
It is particularly impressive to see children immaculately dressed for school wearing proper uniforms, clean and well groomed etc.. It is even more impressive given that typical households do not have hot water or washing machines with which to wash clothes so to get clothes and children clean is a major effort for their mothers.
And at school, they will be learning the basics such as reading, writing, history and arithmetic etc., not the multitude of supposed genders or learning to hate their own history, culture and Civilisation. It seems the Left haven’t yet corrupted their education system or culture.
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Don’t forget to watch out for outbreaks of wokeness, DEI, and gorillas in dresses.
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David, ..i have just been to a lecture from a hiking group who have just returned from Nepal. They were fund raising and supporting the Australian Himalayan Foundation, working in Nepal.
The one point i remember is that there is a massive difference between those areas/villages visited by hiking /tourist groups, and other communities who do not have that international exposure. There is a definite Have/Have not divide within the country, the poorest not benefiting from schooling, clothes, or even sufficient food at times.
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Thanks Chad. I should have specified that these are my observations around Kathmandu. Things are much worse in the mountains although I have still seen children go to school, even there. (They might have to walk 10km to school.) I have never seen a starving person in Nepal, not even in the mountains.
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Bhutanese migrants are happy, the king not so much
For as long as he can remember, Chunjur Rapten knew he would one day leave his idyllic Himalayan homeland of Bhutan – famed for its Gross National Happiness index – in search of greater opportunities elsewhere. He just never imagined it would be in Australia.
The 30-year-old architect, a Curtin University graduate now working in his field in Perth, is among an exploding population of young, skilled Bhutanese compatriots beating a path to Australia’s door.
That is good news for Australia where significant numbers of bright, hardworking Bhutanese are filling jobs in industries with acute labour shortages, such as aged care, child care and cleaning, even as more are gradually finding jobs in their chosen profession.
But it is terrible news for the former hermit Kingdom of Bhutan, often celebrated as the happiest country on earth for its emphasis on wellbeing over economic gain.
In a country with just over 750,000 citizens and only a small band of educated professionals, there is rising alarm over an acute brain drain that is contributing to crippling hospital waiting times, few takers for private-industry jobs and far fewer experienced teachers in public schools.
Australia is now home to Bhutan’s largest diaspora with more than 37,000 Bhutan-born residents, of a total 66,000 overseas citizens – about 8.5 per cent of its population.
Between 2020 and 2024, the annual number of Bhutanese citizens migrating to Australia doubled from 12,424 to 25,363. Almost half of them in that time have been civil servants, the administrative backbone of the country, many of them working in health and education.
At just one school in the capital, Thimpu, 28 of 73 teachers left for Australia in a single year.
So serious has the situation become that Bhutan’s young reformist King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, made a special visit last October to Perth – home to the biggest Bhutanese diaspora outside the country – to ask the diaspora to consider bringing their skills home.
Mr Rapten attended the “emotional” event at Perth’s HBF stadium where the King spent hours moving through the stands to assure a 20,000-strong Bhutanese audience that he understood why they left and was working to improve the economy for everyone.
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Man arrested for saying “we love bacon”: guess the country
Too easy isn’t it!
https://x.com/gbnprotest/status/1956805003248578931
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Grok 4 AI ran the numbers on life’s origins—calling spontaneous abiogenesis “virtually impossible,” and pointing to intelligent design.
https://x.com/ChDaily_News/status/1955977716785697025
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Trumo demands scumbag Zelensky wears a suit
https://x.com/defense_civil25/status/1956796503646687293
Trump should arrest the little weasel for his crimes.
Make liberals head really explode.
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“The White House has informed the Ukrainian delegation that Zelensky MUST wear a suit or there will be no meeting! Bravo White House. It’s a formal meeting, and the presidency of the U.S. is an institution that demands the highest level of formality!”
awww… Not a CCCP sweatshirt? Maybe he hasn’t got the style of Sergey Lavrov!
“Yekaterina Varlakova, owner of SelSovet – the Chelyabinsk-based label that produced the sweater – said demand spiked as soon as Lavrov was seen wearing it. “The photo caused a sensation. All available pieces were gone by yesterday morning. Customers can now only pre-order, with delivery expected in one to one and a half months,” “
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Bill Gates’ company Beyond Meat files for bankruptcy
Beyond Meat, Bill Gates’ pet project that he’s funneled a tidal wave of cash into, is in serious financial trouble. Today, America woke up to reports that the fake meat company is going belly up and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://revolver.news/2025/08/beyond-meat-is-beyond-screwed/
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There still might be a chance that Fate works through Trump.
European Nations in Feb 2022 did not notice the worst European crisis since May 1945.
Yesterday it dawned on some of them – it is their sons, not American, are the next Ukrainian ones.
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‘some of them’ …
Probably Merz’s kids, and his predecessor [the nom-entity who succeeded Mother Merkel]; also little Macron’s offspring.
And Ursie Fond’a Lyin’s kids.
And any number of other ‘Presidents of Europe’ – they have a nap hand, I gather, of these functionaries …
Ah – looking at the wrong list – those nepo-babies are on the ‘non-combatant’ list.
My bad.
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FWIW
“Climate questions from a baffled grandchild”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/climate-questions-from-a-baffled-grandchild/
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I put this up the other day and just read it again, the dream time is closer than I imagined. The Holocene Hypsithermal 8,200 to 5,500 years ago temperatures were warmer than now and there was plenty of water about.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033422000144
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FWIW
“From Green Dreams to Grief Counseling: The Climate Lobby in Five Stages”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/16/from-green-dreams-to-grief-counseling-the-climate-lobby-in-five-stages/
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Why ditching my EV was the easiest break-up of my life
In my short, failed season as an EV driver, I observed a latent sense of entitlement among my fellow green-mobile owners. It’s nice to see the truth finally starting to come out.
GEMMA TOGNINI
Looking back, it was the easiest break-up of my life. Not that I’m someone you’d describe as a subject expert in that space, but believe me when I say ditching my electric vehicle was as easy as breathing.
I allowed myself a chuckle this past week, with a heavy dose of smugness on the side, as I read how, finally, EV manufacturers are on the hook for telling fibs about the range capacities of various models.
Study?
I could have told them all of this for free. I still recall all too well the dark days and nights of creeping range-anxiety.
The many times I decided not to do something, or decided to stay home instead of going somewhere (especially when it was a drive out of Sydney) because of the uncertainty of range and ability to charge the car. One weekend, for a trip to the NSW southern highlands, I swapped my car with a mate’s so I could enjoy the trip and not worry about getting stuck.
There were hours spent sitting in shopping centre carparks with a flask full of tea and my laptop, the car plugged into an “express charger” that still took as much as 50 minutes to get the tank full. Somehow, I think I always knew my old Tesla 3 was based on special Elon Musk kilometres rather than real-world kilometre. Oh, the betrayal.
In my short, failed season as an EV driver, I observed a latent sense of entitlement among my fellow green-mobile owners. A sort of “we’re special, we’re saving the planet” vibe. A sense of superiority based on greater enlightenment.
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The more we learn the more we realise that Waste Of Time owning an EV would be hard to deal with even in retirement.
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I think punters, if they’re that enamoured by the desire to save the planet with their choice of motor vehicle, should take a breath and lease an EV for a month, that should do it for you, when realise the range is nothing like the figures given, and the broken chargers are all things you’ll have to live with.
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Labor leads Australia into oblivion with net zero’s trifecta – grid insecurity, solar’s hidden costs and the blight of wind farms
Kosha Gada has broken down the three reasons why Australia’s net zero push defies economic and ecological logic as the US abandons the tired and costly policy to pursue fossil fuel dominance.
Kosha Gada – SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Energy Commentator
Few issues cut deeper into national survival or division than energy policy.
In 2025, the Western world faces a stark split: the US, under President Donald Trump, has abandoned net zero to pursue fossil fuel dominance, while Canada, Europe, and Australia double down on costly climate pledges.
Australia’s uniquely punishing burden
Australia’s situation is extreme.
A July 2025 ACCC report warns that outdated market rules are driving grid volatility and soaring household bills.
With just 27 million people and a $200 billion fossil fuel export economy, rigid net zero targets mandated by the 2022 Climate Change Act risk crushing both grid and economy.
Net zero requires slashing domestic fossil fuel use while still exporting them- a hypocrisy critics call “starving while selling bread”.
With a sparse population and sprawling grid, renewable intermittency hits harder than in denser nations.
Failures such as Queensland’s $14 billion hydrogen project collapse and soaring transmission costs expose the fragility of the plan.
The physics – not politics – make net zero’s ambitions unattainable without destabilising supply.
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“Transport will have been electrified.”
I’m still waiting to see how they think they will deal with shipping and Air transport.
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Air transport?? At the current rate of increase in battery efficiency you only have to wait another 70years to see a commercial aircraft take off powered by electricity…
With no cargo or people on board!
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Can we start with the rail freight system?
If not, why not?
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Personal view
I hope this report gives the bare facts about what is implied
by committing to a net-zero emissions economy for 2050.
Short of a command economy, it is simply an unattainable
pipe dream, and we will struggle to get 10–20% of the way
to the target, even with a democratic mandate to proceed. I
think that the hard facts should put a stop to urgent mitiga-
tion and lead to a focus on adaptation. Mankind has adapted
to the climate over recent millennia, and is better equipped
than ever to adapt in the coming decades. With respect to
sea-level-rise, the Dutch have been showing us the way for
centuries. Climate adaptation in the here and now is a much
easier sell to the UK citizenry than mitigation.
There is a very strong case to repeal the net-zero emis-
sions legislation, and replace it with a rather longer time ho-
rizon. The continued pressure towards a net-zero economy
will become a crime of sedition if the public rise up violently
to reject it. The silence of the Royal Society, the Royal Acad-
emy of Engineering and the professional science and engi-
neering bodies about these engineering realities is a matter
of complicity.
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https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/03/Kelly-Net-Zero-Progress-Report.pdf?mc_cid=3de10e3d7a&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
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Some great stuff in there! Its cheaper by a factor of 180x to buy a standby diesel generator for your hospital than to buy standby batteries..
Every billion pound project in electricity takes 1000years of profesional engineering time. So 30 engineers and 100 skilled tradesmen. This suggests the total draw will be 42000 engineer and 130,000 tradesmen for the 30years to 2050. The UK only has 38,000 professional engineers now, so are they going to find that many suitable engineers in their boat people?? ..or even in India?
You start to see how hopelessly ridiculous the whole idea is!
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FWIW
“Oh Dear! How terrifying!”
“Watch out, Russia! British Army could come out with all (14) guns blazing”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/watch-out-russia-british-army-could-come-out-with-all-14-guns-blazing/
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