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Amusing written satire based on Fawlty towers and its new status as a migrant hotel
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welcome-to-asylum-towers/
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Whilst this relates to Boris Johnson who unleashed a huge wave of immigration-when he promised not to- I suspect that it is relevant to Oz as well
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/migration-mad-boris-should-not-be-allowed-into-reform/
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What a disappointment that guy was.
Screwed the pooch on immigration. Went all-in on Net Zero economic suicide. And was arguably the worst Covidian among European elected leaders. The ONLY thing he got right was following through on Brexit.
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Thoughtful article arguing that just because the left promote cancel culture the right shouldn’t follow suit.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/18/we-shouldnt-welcome-right-wing-cancel-culture/
In the light of this, on his plane on the way back from his State visit to Britain Mr Trump suggested that US media who criticised him should have their broadcasting licenses taken away. We are going down a dangerous road as regards Free speech and hope Mr Trump would champion it, not follow the same route as so many on the left.
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There is an argument that media companies which broadcast patent lies add nothing positive to public discourse. Some of these organisations utilise a public resource, namely the spectrum. Why not reallocate that resource to another media organisation in the hope they will be more balanced in their reporting?
I would also suggest the US has already been headed on a dangerous road regarding free speech and it has nothing to do with Trump. Just hearken back to pre-Musk Twitter and the rampant censorship during the COVID years. All supported and amplified by the mainstream media in the US with their outright lies and lies of omission.
Trump is far from perfect. But his Administrations is quite transparent. That’s a good start. His relative openness does not suggest a desire to shut down free speech.
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Trump is as open as Putin is.
Yes, their target are different but methods are the same.
What can I do but hope!
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Apologies for shooting from the hip – of course their methods are incompatible.
Just morning frustration of an old man, Trump is as much Reagan-type POTUS as Jonson was Thatcher-type Prime Minister.
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Whatever road goes Trump down, it won’t lead anywhere near to where Britain has gone.
“Someone Needs To Get A GRIP!” | Kevin O’Sullivan FUMES Over ‘Free Speech Threat’ In UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5WTSb2YPI
A police force has come under fire after threatening to investigate an elderly cancer patient over her social media activity.
Deborah Anderson, a pensioner and supporter of Donald Trump, was approached by Thames Valley Police officers at her home in Slough, Berkshire, earlier this year.
Police accused her of posting “threatening” comments on Facebook and told her to apologise for “upsetting” someone. When she refused, she was warned she could be taken to the station for a formal interview.
(The vid of the maroon sitting in the poor woman’s house and oh so politely intimidating her is played in the report.)
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I saw that video.
As she said in the video, multiple times, what law did she break? There was none listed.
In her case she should have asked the policeman to leave and if arrested for interview, have responded continuously with “no comment”. If they were to charge her, they would have to nominate a criminal offence. There is absolutely no reason for her to accept a guilty plea on any level. All it does is support their statistics that they have solved another crime. A crime that never occurred, unlike the house break-ins and car thefts, etc that she mentioned several times.
This abuse of the law will not stop until the police members are charged with false arrest for dragging a person to the police station without a crime being committed. Clearly the police are hoping to make the legal cost of your defence the cost of using your right to freedom of speech. This has to end.
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The difference between the two is that Left wing cancel culture fires or dehumanises people for saying things that are objectively true such as “there are only two genders” or “men can’t have babies,” or even asking legitimate scientific questions about covid or supposed anthropogenic global warming.
When the right have fired people from corporations its for objectionable behaviour that goes way beyond personal political beliefs. Its been when they have celebrated the death of an innocent person, in this case Charlie Kirk, silenced for his political beliefs. That ties in with the general attitude of the Left that it is legitimate to use violence to silence a person with whom they disagree. In my view that makes such a person potentially violent and dangerous and a risk to workplace safety. I wouldn’t want a person with such violent beliefs working for me either. It’s a risk to staff and there is a duty of care to protect them from known risks.
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Yes and it is important to remember that Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t fired by the Right. He was fired by his own decidedly progressive company after persistent poor ratings and pressure from advertisers threatening to pull their business. Kimmel’s Free Speech was not abridged. His insane utterances were broadcast and he still has the right to repeat them and other vile garbage on any platform that might be foolish enough to let him.
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Here’s what Kimmel said:
The statement refers to Robinson and doesn’t say anything about Kirk. So if someone says a statement like this, it’s ok to fire them?
And DM (I’ve asked this before but you failed to answer), what you’re suggesting is that some “cancel culture” is ok?
What you’re saying is “it’s not ok to cancel people for saying things that are objectively true” but “it is ok to cancel people for “objectionable behaviour”?
While many would find the “celebration” of Kirk’s death distasteful (something that Kimmel didn’t do, btw), should saying the statement above lead to him losing his job?
At the same time the U.S. Government said the following:
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I explained that those who believe that using violence to silence people with whom they disagree, as many on the Left do, is objectionable behaviour. Those with such beliefs pose a risk to others. They should not be in the workplace. They are potentially dangerous individuals.
It is completely different to Leftists firing conservatives for saying objectively true things such as only two genders, men can’t get pregnant etc..
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Originally you said “fires or dehumanises people for saying things that are objectively true” but now you’re saying “using violence” – introducing “violence” is a significant change to your original argument which never mentioned “using violence”.
Kimmel never mentioned “using violence”, far from it. He said that the incident would be used for political ends by the government. That’s an opinion – do you think he should have lost his job because of that?
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I never changed anything.
My original comment on Tuesday was:
I did include the concept of violence in my original comment as in the example of nurses. I further clarified that argument to include the idea that people who celebrate the murder of people like Kirk are those who believe it’s acceptable to use violence to silence a person with opinions they disagree with. They are thus dangerous people and would be dangerous to keep in a workplace, or anywhere.
And when I said “fires or dehumanises people for saying things that are objectively true” that was referring to what Leftists do to conservatives, not what conservatives do to Leftists as you implied I said.
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Kimmel is flat wrong. Sure Tyler Robinson’s family were apparently conservative. But it is clear Tyler Robinson had embraced a sizable chunk of far left ideology. To say he is a MAGA supporter based on his parents’ affiliations is just plain deceitful.
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Is having an opinion that is “flat wrong” a valid reason for someone losing their job?
Isn’t that “cancel culture”?
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If companies want to fire someone who’s job is to lead, influence and entertain people about politics because their political judgement is poor, why is that cancel-culture? Isn’t it just a business decision?
Why should commentators be protected or guaranteed a job if their judgement is poor?
Kimmel used an outdated cheap-tricks commentary style that might have brought in audiences ten years ago, but the jokes aren’t funny anymore. The audience has moved on. He hasn’t moved with the times.
The BLM cancel culture involved sacking people from jobs that had nothing to do with “being a political commentator” and sacked them for things like not endorsing BLM or uttering the awful “all lives matter”. There is no equivalence between them and Kimmell.
EG sports commenter Grant Napear was sacked for tweeting All Lives Matter. So he was unable to speak his political (and honorable) belief. It had nothing to do with his ability as a sports commentator. https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/nba-announcer-grant-napear-fired-over-all-live-matter-comment/. That’s cancel culture.
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How come I can’t reply to DM or JN’s comments? Am I being cancelled, lol?
[Obviously not? – Jo]
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Just playing semantics as if the context doesnt matter, same old BS
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Sure, people can be fired for bad ratings, but that’s not what happened in this case. Kimmel was “cancelled” because the network he worked for feared retribution from the Government with respect to buying another network. Do you think that’s acceptable?
And why should we care about what the BLM movement did or does? Are you saying that because the BLM do something, the Right should do it too?
Are you suggesting that in some cases it’s ok to cancel someone (e.g. Kimmel)?
I’m just trying to work what people here think about these issues.
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How do you know “why” they did it? Motivations are ultimately unknowable, and they benefit from seeding rumors about why they did it. Perhaps they want a wider audience and sense that the mood in the US has shifted and only a small audience wants to hear the same old propaganda. Backlash against stupid remarks is spreading.
Kimmell and Colbert both drove away half or more of their listeners then repeated the same one-sided jokes. It’s a bad business model, especially when all the good jokes are about your team but you can’t say them. It used to be commentators tried to appeal to both sides.
Re BLM, I was (obviously) explaining what cancel culture really is with the BLM example, and you missed the point entirely, because you didn’t even try to define what you think cancel culture is. If every sacking is cancel culture the term has no meaning at all. Kimmell deserved to be sacked because his job is political commentary and he was stupidly incompetent at political commentary. The sports commentator wasn’t hired for a political opinion, so his sacking was “cancel culture”. I abhor cancel culture, but applaud merit based employment.
Why do you feel the need to put words into my mouth that I didn’t say? Because you wish I had said it? Seems you are here to pick fights (or invent them).
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So what contexts are ok if you want to cancel someone?
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Define “cancel” — what do you mean when you say that. True cancel culture is like ostracism in every element. People who say the wrong “political opinion” lose jobs, wives, friends, opportunities. They are completely cancelled. Book stores won’t offer their books. They can’t get government grants. No university will employ them. No media outlet will interview them. It is like pointing the bone in pagan culture. It is not just “getting sacked”.
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And in reply to DM:
So according to you there are certain things that you can’t say?
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FWIW – more on that gent
“New Report: Kimmel Was About to Make Things Even Worse Before Suspension”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/09/19/new-report-kimmel-was-about-to-make-things-even-worse-before-suspension-n2194115
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#3.3.1.1.9 was via https://instapundit.com/745706/#disqus_thread
More reading there
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It is reason enough for affiliated stations to say they won’t broadcast his show, and being “dead wrong” can cost the network millions, plus legals. Fully justified, Trump is resorting to the legal process.
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Here is the official reason:
There are many different definitions of “cancel culture” but for the sake of discussion how about:
Not sure why you’re saying this – I was merely asking questions – where did I try to “put words into your mouth”? And I’m not trying to “pick fights (or invent them)” – it’s your blog, you can say what you like, lol. I want to know what people here think about Kimmel’s show being taken off air. And my initial interest stems from DM’s comments that sometimes it’s ok to use the practice of cancel culture.
No-one has said that.
Kimmel is a television host and comedian. The reason given for him being taken off air was that “what he said didn’t reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we [the network] are located”. I just want to know if people here think that’s ok.
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DL No-one has said that.
I said that. Am I no one?
But thanks for defining what you mean by “cancel Culture”. So by your definition has Kimmell been ostracized, or just sacked?
Thanks for quote from Nexstar. So they say they did it because he was incompetent, and it was incompatible with the public mood / public interest, but you say they did it for a different motive. Speculation is fine, but you stated it like it was fact, not opinion. As I said, motivations are unknowable.
PS: You are not “merely asking questions” you are loading those questions with prejudice. It’s a way to pick fights. Also known as “Baiting”. You ask the question which is the exact opposite of what I said.
EG:” Are you saying that because the BLM do something, the Right should do it too? ”
“Are you suggesting that in some cases it’s ok to cancel someone (e.g. Kimmel)?”
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They’re just questions, pure and simple, I’m interested in how people here see Kimmel’s sacking and whether it’s “cancel culture” (or perhaps a variation) and how this ties in with free speech. I’m not trying to bait or fight with anyone, I’m curious about what people think about this issue. No-one here seems able to give a simple answer. And asking a question isn’t “putting words in your mouth”, just say, “no, that’s not what I think”.
For example, Ted Cruz thinks the following:
The reason he said this is because of what the chairman of the FCC said:
Within hours of saying this ABC pulled the show.
And out of curiosity, where did Nextstar say Kimmel was incompetent? They said his comments were “offensive and insensitive”, I don’t see any mention of competency.
Cheers!
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We see what you’re doing.
People who are genuinely curious ask open ended questions.
People with a different aim ask loaded questions. They misinterpret someone in an obvious way, and then expect them to jump through pointless hoops to correct the record. It’s a way to wind people up and waste time and control the conversation. It’s not done with goodwill. They also make blanket generalizations that are wrong — “No-one here seems able to give a simple answer”.
When caught the baiter says — “I was only asking”.
As for where is the incompetence. DL, read your own Nexstar quote again — Did Nextstar hire Kimmell to be insensitive, not reflect the views, values of communities, and to harm the public interest, you think?
As Another Ian posted, The word is that advertisers and viewers looked like they might run (another Bud Light moment?). And they were afraid Kimmel might make things even worse. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/never-go-full-retard-real-story-behind-jimmy-kimmels-firing
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That’s bordering on the ridiculous. I am not trying to bait anyone. It’s a simple question and I’m interested in what people here think. Strop (below) has answered it very clearly and succinctly (thanks Strop). That’s all I was after.
If every time someone asks a difficult question here you see it as “baiting” then you’re not going to have much meaningful discussion as no-one will pose the question.
Cheers!
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Dry Liberal,
Hard to know if the comment by the FCC Chairman was the reason for suspending the show, or if it was reactions from affiliate broadcasters.
I didn’t find what Kimmell said to be offensive or insensitive. I say that as someone who appreciated what Clarlie Kirk did and stood for. To me it was just another in a long line of silly and inaccurate things Kimmell has said, or accurate things he has avoided saying. I would think that most of his viewers would actually be OK with what he said and largely lap it up. On that basis I can’t imagine any social backlash was significant enough for cancel culture to be at play here.
I suspect the company was concerned about the FCC Chairman’s comments. Management spoke to Kimmell about clarifying his comments on the next show, but it was clear to management that Kimmell’s intentions for the show was only going to make things worse.
I suspect this would make things worse for their position with the FCC. Not with the public. Management would have been hoping Kimmell could demonstrate to the FCC that they could control him, and that the FCC had nothing to fear from the company and planned business ventures.
But that’s all speculation.
Whether the FCC Chairman’s comment was an influence or not doesn’t change my opinion that the FCC Chairman shouldn’t have said what he said. Also that government should not be exerting influence in the programming content or hosts of TV shows, other than ordinary regulations being enforced equally.
As a principle, I do not support cancel culture. Campaigns or actions deliberately exerted to achieve consequence on individuals. But obviously people like Kimmell are a commodity who require a level of popularity and viewership sufficient to justify their position.
I choose not to watch Kimmell and a range of various others as an entertainment option simply on the basis I don’t find them entertaining. It’s not because I disagree politically. e.g. Ricky Gervais makes fun of Christians. Monty Python made a comedy paralleling Jesus’ life. As a Christian myself, I can appreciate the fun being made by both Gervais and Monty Python and have a laugh myself. I say that as an illustration that it’s not Kimmell’s opposing politics that make him unfunny to me.
I dont campaign for others not to watch them, or petition employers to terminate contracts.
Free speech is important. People say free speech doesn’t mean free of consequence. But consequence inhibits free speech. If you fear for your safety or employment and censor yourself, then consequence is impeding free speech.
Some people say well one side is getting cancelled speaking the truth but we can cancel people making stuff up. But to me, when we start judging free speech on the basis of truth or not then we open it to the very subjective opinion of truth. We can’t trust govt to judge truth. We can’t trust the media or govt to give us the truth. We cant trust the general population to judge it.
Now there are certain jobs where public confidence is essential. A Police Commissioner making political or social comments that indicate they may not enforce the law evenly and appropriately probably can’t speak freely.
Restriction on speech has unintended consequences. Accepting cancel culture has unintended consequences. When people adjust their free speech principles based on whether or not they like the speech, they open themselves up to the same treatment without a principle to stand on.
In Kimmell’s case, I’m ok with a natural attrition of viewers resulting in management terminating the show. Like Colbert’s show. Including viewers as individuals doing so on the basis of his recent comments. But I’m not ok with a concerted campaign to end the show. Certainly not ok with govt interference / threats.
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Thank-you!
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Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your employer has to employ you. Speech of any kind has consequences. Say what you like.
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So do you support cancelling someone for saying something you disagree with?
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More around that
“The Real Story Behind Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/never-go-full-retard-real-story-behind-jimmy-kimmels-firing
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LTNs do not reduce car use, surprise, they buried the report.
https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/09/18/ltn-cut-traffic-tfl-report-university-westminster-sadiq-khan/
Whilst China has embraced car-centric cities, Khan with his tube strikes, anti-car policies, and crazy cycle schemes, has turned London into a repeat of the Beijing cycling chaos of the 1980s.
https://images.lbc.co.uk/images/753880?crop=16_9&width=660&relax=1&format=webp&signature=RP0NmjUU_eJg-ojJ1_JFI-fObZQ=
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Grim, spent a day riding amongst that ‘Beijing cycling chaos’ in 1986 on a 1-speed peddle-power Morning Glow bike (helmet-less like everyone else in the constant river/horde of humanity exhaling copious amounts of CO2) and for those millions of inhabitants it was the supreme, and only, means of transport: walking was too slow, buses/trams rare & pricey and the black limos were solely for the dignitary class.
Almost 40 years on, Peking is now THE brave new world while Londonistan has taken a giant leap backwards with added CCTV… Oh the humanity!
Revenge for the (3) Opium Wars maybe?
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(Bumped from yesterday because I posted it late.)
If you look at the atmospheric CO2 vs time graph, there appears to be no identifiable human events. For example, you would think that an event like WW2 would be apparent, or the massive expenditure of money in recent decades to install wind and solar plantations.
No events seem to be visible. Is that correct?
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David M:
I’ve been looking at this matter recently and have to say it is all being made up.
Try https://earth.org/data/global-co2-data/ which claims able to chart CO2 levels back to 1,000 AD.
It also claims to know the global temperature from 1,000 AD to 2025. https://earth.org/data/global-co2-data/
Their claim is that the earlier 1300’s were cold, so wine production would have been impossible in Northern Europe, yet there are records that importers of French wine (taxed) objected to the wines from the Bishop of Durham getting 3 times the price (untaxed) for his wines. Also grape production was known in medieval times to have been in the Netherlands, Denmark. southern Sweden etc. (and grapes were grown at higher elevations in Germany than today).
There are numerous ‘blips’ especially about 1815 – The year without summer – across Europe, North America and China.
And the fact that the global records in HADCRUT from 1855 to 1857 were based on ONE thermometer in the whole southern hemisphere from Indonesia.
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Here is a wonderful educational video from 1947 by the US Air Force explaining how radio antennas work.
Its hand drawn graphics and animations as well as the lucid explanation of the subject matter are amazing.
It makes you wonder what happened to the art of teaching.
Those who are familiar with the subject matter will appreciate it even more.
https://youtu.be/JHSPRcRgmOw
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They certainly knew how to educate in the past. Such as this from the 70’s on How Not To Be Seen.
https://youtu.be/C-M2hs3sXGo?si=vdqIVk1eO-wNErhX
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Video by Liberal Hivemind about the increasingly violent, dangerous and irrational behaviour of the Left as well as ignorance and hypocrisy.
https://youtu.be/gKhizr1TFXQ
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Also looks at racism of the Left.
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Video: A look at a Soviet era Bulgarian-made laboratory grade power supply.
Built like a tank and massively over-engineered.
Amazing!
https://youtu.be/BuHMgJikz08
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A large linear power supply. At least it will keep the room nice and warm.
Your magazine employer published a project recently that used a switchmode supply to get the voltage just above the target and then a linear regulator to trim it to specification. This avoided the switching hash and significantly reduced the waste heat.
The majority of the bulk of that old machine is related to heat sinks. As noted above, you can avoid that now. Progress is good, (for DC supplies).
And on a side line, I do not like digital audio amplifiers. The roll off at high frequencies is still not good enough and because of the dead time required in the output switching circuit, the performance can never approach a linear amplifier for distortion numbers. One day. If the transistors get much better at switch on/off, (eg shorter timing), then this distortion could come down and the switching frequency could go up. One day….. maybe in thirty years, just like fusion power.
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Like an S100 micro computer?
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FWIW – CDC changes to vaccine recommendations –
“Yesterday, the CDC’s new ACIP vaccine committee heard evidence that risks of adverse events increased when the shots are combined, but were lower when the shots are given one at a time. So the committee voted 8-3 to “not recommend” the combo MMRV shot, but instead to “recommend” separate shots— but only for kids aged four or under.”
“Today, the committee will vote on the Hep-B and covid vaccines. Stay tuned.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/gone-fishing-friday-september-19?
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More here
“CDC Panel REFUSES to Recommend COVID Shots for ALL Americans”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/cdc-panel-refuses-recommend-covid-shots-all-americans/
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And
“Jabber About Jabs
The Vaccine Debate”
“One of the big issues of the whole Covidiocy was how “experts” managed to beclown themselves repeatedly on matters regarding health as this long (bad for the blood pressure) article documents in extreme detail”
More at
https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/jabber-about-jabs?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/745804/#disqus_thread
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Given the obsession and reverence many Australian politicians have for China, and also the fact that Albanese is an actual life-long communist and has visited Emperor Xi twice (the second time for five days, a long time for a PM) and has never met TRUMP, I think there is a high risk of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal not going ahead.
If I were TRUMP, I certainly wouldn’t be trusting Albanese to do the right thing both military and in terms of allowing China to inspect the submarines and learn their advanced technology, capabilities and map their acoustic signatures etc.. Afterall, we already know there was no protest when the Chinese Navy did live firing exercises off the coast of Sydney and then circumnavigated Australia.
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FWIW – for anyone feeling practical –
“There are so many great things in a microwave oven. Wood burn etcher, spot welder, and …”
https://youtu.be/1YohtVQZWlA
Via a comment at Chiefio
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Just a safety note. Microwave oven transformers are extremely dangerous and can easily kill you.
Don’t play unless you know what you are doing and keep away from children.
Otherwise, good fun to be had!
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Emphasize extremely.
Even though most units have bleed resistors, it may take hours.
Even if you do know what you’re doing, the one hand rule applies.
Like being hit with a piece of 4×2, thrown across the room and lights out time, possibly permanently.
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And that’s just from the stored energy on the capacitors.
Wait till the magnetron fires up and you have the wave guide pointed outside the box.
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Have been thrown around two metres, from one bench back into one behind me, by 600 volts DC, hand to hand. A painful experience. Another gent at the same place was thrown over three metres by a handful of 1200 volts DC. High voltage electricity certainly needs sone respect.
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FWIW
“The Paris Delusion Collapses: Even the New York Times Admits It”
“It has taken a full decade, but the mainstream press is finally catching up to what we at Watts Up With That (WUWT) have been saying since the day the Paris Agreement was signed: it was built on sand, unenforceable, and destined to crumble under the weight of its own political posturing. Now, in a remarkable piece of candor, the New York Times admits what has long been obvious to anyone outside the climate activist bubble: the age of Paris is over, and the world has lost its appetite for climate politics.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/19/the-paris-delusion-collapses-even-the-new-york-times-admits-it/
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All except Australia that is, as our Government makes ever more fanatical commitments to the madness by the day.
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Thanks a i,
Interesting article, and overall good news, but the authors still ignore the fact that the basic tenet that CO2 causes any significant warming is false.
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IIRC
“Colonial born, colonial bred
Long in the limbs and thick in the head”?
I guess “ElBowen” broke the mould in places?
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EVENING GRIDWATCH FRIDAY 19 SEPT
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 30% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST. CAPACITY FACTOR 56%
AND 6% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4 AM WIND 16% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10 AM WIND 40% SOLAR 13%
MORNING GRIDWATCH SATURDAY SEPT 20
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 35% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST CAPACITY FACTOR 52%
AND 15% IN THE WEST
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.40 PM WIND 10% SOLAR 29%
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
11 PM WIND 20% SOLAR 0% INTERESTING!
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Coal and nuclear power should be friends!
Recall the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma and the song urging farmers and ranchers to be friends, despite their legendary antagonism on the western ranges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5aWawFdaXs&authuser=0
What if coal and nuclear supporters join forces and build a body of public opinion to legalise nuclear power, get wind and solar off the grid, save the forests and farmlands, and enjoy cheap and reliable coal power until nuclear is on deck?
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Coal and gas is a better mix.
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Why are you against Nuclear El+gordo?
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Its political suicide, as Mr Dutton clearly illustrated.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“The Power of God Compels You!
“You have no idea the fire you have ignited.” – Erika Kirk”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-power-of-god-compels-you
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Thanks again,
And Wow!
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Propaganda is heavy in the SMH today-
“‘Too late to avoid any impacts’: The reality of Australia’s climate crisis…Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said: “It’s important that we don’t gild the lily or downplay its impact in any way. We have to be honest with the Australian people.”..Because carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere…“We are going to need a Team Australia moment. We’re going to need to be all in,” ”
lol!!
“Estonia says Russian jets violated airspace for 12 minutes. Three Russian military jets violated the NATO member’s airspace in an “unprecedentedly brazen” incursion, the government said.”
“Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.”
“‘It will be a Putin-type election’: Newsom fears Trump will put an end to free and fair elections”
…and if you think State Govts are not the clean, ethical & moral icons they should be… you are right!
“The police commissioner does not need to be ‘lily-white’, says premier Minns… the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force, which began 30 years ago and found systemic and entrenched corruption, ”
They didn’t do well with their last pick for Police Commissioner, she’s resigning after only 3years of her 5year contract! Is the Wood Royal Commission still going?? Thirty years and they haven’t wrapped it up??
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Is this just a Russian reflexive control strategy?
The disadvantageous decision in this case would be for Estonia to keep hold of and bolster its own air defense capability instead of supplying it to the Ukrainians, when Russia has no real intent on invading Nato countries.
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Vaindloo Island is just slightly South of the halfway mark between Finland and Estonia in the Baltic Sea, connecting Russia to the North Sea.
Like all these incidents between the aircraft of NATO and Russia, its just a game of who can blow up some meaningless incident the most. Its interesting that Estonia has radar so accurate that it can define a border over an open stretch of water for an aircraft moving at high speed.
The Chihuahua’s Prime Minister said “Today is a day when Russia has clearly provoked us, and it is the right moment to tell NATO how they should defend us….Russia’s desperate attempts at escalation must also be taken seriously. ”
Then a long discussion between a journo asking the PM ‘how soon can we shoot these Russian jets down? Can we do it tomorrow?’ Forgetting they are American F35 jets sold to Italy and just helping patrol Estonia skies because Estonia is so weak.
Tomorrow’s storm in a teacup will be the same I’m sure.. Maybe its linked to the Polish drone incident and Russia is just distracting NATO.
https://estonianworld.com/security/estonias-pm-rules-of-engagement-set-for-shooting-down-russian-jets/
“Estonian World is a global independent online magazine, founded in London in 2012 “.. so an MI6 mouthpiece..
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Of course 12 minutes is too slow, they should have been right onto them in a minute. Neither side is threatening hostilities, so no need to trigger Article 4.
Modest brinkmanship before Putin sues for peace.
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in a minute? in the movies maybe
note that down, Putin “suing for peace” any day now
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Putin failed to get his buffer ground, the summer offensive was a disaster.
War should be over by Xmas, the new broom in Beijing will stop supporting the war monger.
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Yet every “glorious victory for Ukraine” seems to have the Russians ever closer to the Dnieper?
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‘ … seems to have …’
Russia has failed to conquer Ukraine after three years and now economic collapse is just around the corner.
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FWIW
“The Strategic Dinosaur”
“People have been baffled as to why Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just apologize and avoid being fired. Also why a lot of the left is doubling down on what’s obviously the 20% side of an 80-20 issue, like…. Oh, standing for illegal immigration. or the 10 side of a 10-90 issue, like outright standing for more criminality.
What you’re failing to understand is that there is a strategy to it. It’s a defective strategy that no longer works, but it was such a good move for so long that it got deep-embedded in the left’s culture and they no longer know the reasons behind the action. They just do it because it always worked before.”
In there
“Add to that that by the fourth generation of dominating certain fields and hiring only on ideological compliance ALL OF THEM ARE ARRANT INCOMPETENTS.”
More at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/09/19/the-strategic-dinosaur/
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‘Add to that that by the fourth term of dominating Parliament and hiring only on ideological compliance ALL OF THEM ARE ARROGANT INCOMPETENTS.”’
Describes all political parties to a T !!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yvtavH3wbM
The “Russian Dude” always has interesting commentary – even an Australian-like sense of irony.
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The comments are funny, some true believers in Western propaganda in there!
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A new era of dementia treatment is coming. We are not ready
Inequality in accessing new drugs, the high cost of treatment, and underprepared hospital systems: these obstacles to the next wave of brain health medicine must be cleared.
DR ANTONIA CLARKE AND DR ONEIL BHALALA
Australia is engaged in what has now become a global debate over how to diagnose and deliver care for people with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia.
Dementia is now the leading cause of death in Australia, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare announced a week ago. More than one million Australians are predicted to have a dementia diagnosis by 2065. This translates to more than one in every 10 people over the age of 65 having dementia. Yet a diagnosis of dementia is never borne by the individual alone. It impacts families and communities, disrupts relationships, reshapes futures, and imposes profound economic and social costs.
The shift in focus for the treatment of dementia has been partly driven by the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s approval in May of donanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Donanemab is only available by private prescription, meaning a person in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease will bear the full cost of treatment – up to $100,000 over 18 months.
Some Australians with Alzheimer’s disease have already signed up for treatment, and many more would like to. Donanemab has been approved for use in about 15 countries, while lecanemab, an earlier drug in the same class, is approved in about 50. However, outside the US and Japan, where these medicines are partly subsidised for eligible patients, governments have not agreed to cover their costs. Health authorities in these other countries have determined that the benefits of therapy do not justify their costs.
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What am I missing here? – Donanemab is only available by private prescription, meaning a person in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease will bear the full cost of treatment – up to $100,000 over 18 months.
August 29th, 2025 – Is lithium the missing essential nutrient for brains that could prevent Alzheimers?
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/08/is-lithium-an-essential-nutrient-for-brains-preventing-and-treating-alzheimers/
Harvard Medical School – August 6, 2025 Research
Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?
Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice
At a glance:
– Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
– Scientists discovered that lithium is depleted in the brain by binding to toxic amyloid plaques — revealing a new way Alzheimer’s may begin.
– A new class of lithium-based compounds avoids plaque binding and reverses Alzheimer’s and brain aging in mice, without toxicity.
What is the earliest spark that ignites the memory-robbing march of Alzheimer’s disease?
Why do some people with Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain never go on to develop dementia?
These questions have bedeviled neuroscientists for decades.
Now, a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School may have found an answer: lithium deficiency in the brain.
The work, published in Nature, shows for the first time that lithium occurs naturally in the brain, shields it from neurodegeneration, and maintains the normal function of all major brain cell types.
The findings — 10 years in the making
The scientists found that lithium loss in the human brain is one of the earliest changes leading to Alzheimer’s, while in mice, similar lithium depletion accelerated brain pathology and memory decline.
The team further found that reduced lithium levels stemmed from binding to amyloid plaques and impaired uptake in the brain. In a final set of experiments, the team found that a novel lithium compound that avoids capture by amyloid plaques restored memory in mice.
The results unify decades-long observations in patients, providing a new theory of the disease and a new strategy for early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
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Lithium Orotate Dementia
Recent research suggests that low-dose lithium orotate, particularly at 5 mg providing approximately 220 mcg of elemental lithium, may play a protective role against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline.
A landmark 2025 study from Harvard researchers found that endogenous lithium levels are significantly reduced in the brains of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to Alzheimer’s, and that lithium deficiency contributes to key pathological changes like amyloid-beta deposition and tau tangles.
The study identified lithium orotate as a promising therapeutic form because it can evade binding to amyloid-beta deposits, allowing it to remain bioavailable in the brain and effectively prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s pathology and memory loss in mouse models.
Mechanism of Action:
Lithium deficiency, particularly when sequestered by amyloid-beta plaques, leads to the activation of the kinase GSK3β, which drives neuroinflammation, synaptic loss, and cognitive decline.
Lithium orotate treatment counteracts these effects by maintaining lithium levels within the physiological range.
Human Evidence:
Observational studies have consistently linked higher natural levels of lithium in drinking water with lower rates of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in large populations, including a Danish study of over 730,000 people.
Human studies on microdoses of lithium have shown a significant decrease in cognitive decline compared to placebo.
Safety and Dosing:
The 5 mg dose of lithium orotate is considered very low, providing only a fraction of the elemental lithium found in prescription lithium carbonate (used for bipolar disorder) and is well below the levels associated with toxicity.
Nutricost, Lithium Orotate, 5 mg, 120 Capsules AU$21.81
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Remember my post on Bhakdi a few days ago?
Well, the situation is a lot worse than that, so much so I don’t even want to post it.
No magic pills will help.
Best option is to do the opposite of what conventional wisdom says.
Turn the food pyramid upside down
Eat meat, eat butter, shun sugar and additives. Nothing and no-one lasts forever.
Old age and failing health is nature’s way of saying you’ve had your time, hope you didn’t waste it.
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“Dementia is now the leading cause of death in Australia, ”
Rubbish! That’s just old age! …and…
“Old age and failing health is nature’s way of saying you’ve had your time, ”
When you can’t remember how to cook, you’re just not a functional human anymore.
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Can you explain why it is being reported that so many of the current youth generation can not cook?
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Never shown how, both parents working, proliferation of fast food, proliferation of delivery services
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lol…
Early-onset old age..
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Simple,,,,, They cannot.They have never been exposed to even the simplest cooking skills. Including boiling water!
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Nuts – particularly walnuts have appreciable lithium content. Also eggs.
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Vicki,
the point I was trying to make was
The shift in focus for the treatment of dementia has been partly driven by the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s approval in May of donanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Donanemab is only available by private prescription, meaning a person in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease will bear the full cost of treatment – up to $100,000 over 18 months. Some Australians with Alzheimer’s disease have already signed up for treatment, and many more would like to.
Donanemab has been approved for use in about 15 countries, while lecanemab, an earlier drug in the same class, is approved in about 50. However, outside the US and Japan, where these medicines are partly subsidised for eligible patients, governments have not agreed to cover their costs.
Health authorities in these other countries have determined that the benefits of therapy do not justify their costs.
The new amyloid-targeting drugs represent only the tip of the iceberg in a closely anticipated wave of therapies aimed at slowing – and one day perhaps halting – Alzheimer’s disease. Their arrival raises an urgent question: not just whether these drugs work, but who will be able to access them? Clinical trials suggest that amyloid-targeting therapies offer a modest benefit but disease progression is inevitable. They slow memory loss and functional decline by several months in people with early Alzheimer’s disease.
For some patients and their families, even a small delay may be meaningful. But unlike conventional medications, these therapies cannot be slotted into existing systems of care without significant reform.
Why in the Heck is the Harvard Lithium Review not being trialled when
Lithium Orotate Dementia
Recent research suggests that low-dose lithium orotate, particularly at 5 mg providing approximately 220 mcg of elemental lithium, may play a protective role against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline.
A landmark 2025 study from Harvard researchers found that endogenous lithium levels are significantly reduced in the brains of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to Alzheimer’s, and that lithium deficiency contributes to key pathological changes like amyloid-beta deposition and tau tangles.
The study identified lithium orotate as a promising therapeutic form because it can evade binding to amyloid-beta deposits, allowing it to remain bioavailable in the brain and effectively prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s pathology and memory loss in mouse models.
Safety and Dosing:
The 5 mg dose of lithium orotate is considered very low, providing only a fraction of the elemental lithium found in prescription lithium carbonate (used for bipolar disorder) and is well below the levels associated with toxicity.
Nutricost, Lithium Orotate, 5 mg, 120 Capsules AU$21.81
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It seems like last week we were being told that one of the biggest medical fr@uds was that amyloid plaques caused Az and that “proper” research had been set back a decade.
My bet is that we are no further advanced than we were decades ago.
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This will sound harsh but accept it as coming from the heart: After 12 years caring for someone you love and looking forward to another darker year, you will question everything you ever did in the forlorn hope of extending that person’s life. $100,000 to slow down the progress of the disease is pure waste.
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FWIW – maybe a “Grey Nomads lithium trail” around the Great Artesian Basin?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X1400569X
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It seems like last week we were being told that one of the biggest medical frauds was that amyloid plaques caused Az and that “proper” research had been set back a decade.
My bet is that we are no further advanced than we were decades ago.
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https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/don-t-mention-hitler-and-you-re-sweet-the-great-march-for-australia-deception-20250909-p5mtlc.html
For those without access, use archive.md to read it.
From the article”
Thoughts?
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A lovely idea, but that sounds far more organised than the Right have ever managed! Just look at the Liberals..
What does Neon stand for? No, I see, you can’t write Neo-Nazi here without it being flagged for the moderators.
So, who invented “Neo-Nazi”? Do they call themselves that, or is it just another Leftist smear? There’s some funny stuff in there as usual-
“Nationalist is a term that white supremacists, including the NSN, have long identified as more palatable to the masses, McSwiney says.”
What, Nationalist as opposed to Socialist? or is the Left horrified that ‘Neon’ have both nationalist AND Socialist in their name? If these guy were really trying to smuggle themselves into the mainstream discourse they would call themselves ‘Socialists’ from their National Socialist idols, while I think the ‘Nationalists’ tag is from the Left-wing media we have.
All fun and games until someone loses an eye…
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In the latest News Poll the Libs are crashing and One Nation is gaining momentum.
https://theconversation.com/coalitions-primary-vote-hits-record-low-in-newspoll-while-one-nation-support-surges-265252
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Last century my mum was considered a very good diagnoser by her colleagues. I remember her sniffing deeply at babies’ breath and prescribing diet change before any new visit and medication.
Actually the explanation was simple – general life quality was poor, parents were stuffing their children with as rich food, as they could afford, resulting in damaged liver(?) and specific breath smell…
A friend and I had a bet: which profession will go first and which – last upon the AI Maidan victory.
(Only joking – there will be no Maidan, humans will do it all voluntary and with songs)
Her List of candidates (her own stats of frequently asked questions?) :
Health Care
Law & Jurisprudence
Engineering & STEM
Poitic & Public Service
Business & Entrepreneurship
Creative Fields (Arts, Design, Media)
Education & Academia
I want to believe that honest Symptom Checkers will survive till the end of this civilisation,
Yet it is hard to reject the reality – the other, not medical doctors are more skilful in the art of survival.
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The politicians will hang on forever, they won’t even notice AI replacing the public service..
Education could be first, we measure academic performance in such simple ways that computers could take education over now.
Business and entrepreneurship last I reckon, people are more ingenious and cunning that any program, AI or not.
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Seems to me the main problem is not AI.
It’s the collapse of leadership.
The result of intellectual inbreeding among the educated elite.
Examples:
1) I live next to a major STEM Uni campus.
I could walk through and ask any random person if men can have children and are millions of people under threat from SLR, or is RFK Jr. is ‘anti-vax’ … all would say yes … some just to avoid being labeled a heretic.
2) Here in the US, the Democrat leadership seems to lack any ability to back away from their extreme, immature, septum pierced unhinged, ‘everyone who disagrees with us is racist’, increasingly fringe politics.
Rich TV celebrities are losing millions of dollars and audience by claiming, void of evidence, that the Kirk assassin was MAGA.
AOC just yesterday kicked off her 2028 Presidential bid by implying Charlie Kirk was a racist on the floor of US House.
And many pundits consider her the leading Democrat candidate.
Effective leadership could manage AI making a potentially positive innovation an economic plus.
Were they capable of adult behavior.
Likely a general population endocrine problem.
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Remember in Black Adder 3rd when Baldrick squanders £400,000 of the prince’s money on a single giant turnip?
And how pleased he was with himself?
Just saying that any similarities between that and the government’s renewables delusion are
purely coincidental and unintendedabsolutely intended! 😆60
Spectator Australia posted this on Farcebook.
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FWIW
“Comment Filed In Support Of EPA’s Repeal Of The 2009 Endangerment Finding”
“Yesterday, along with two excellent colleagues, I submitted a Comment to EPA on the subject of the proposed and pending repeal of the so-called Endangerment Finding of 2009. The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the absurd regulatory action by which the Obama-era EPA purported to find that the trace gas carbon dioxide (CO2) constitutes a “danger” to human health and welfare as it accumulates in the atmosphere from the current level of about 0.04%, to perhaps 0.05% or maybe even (the horror!) 0.06% by some time later this century. The EF is then the basis for all the subsequent regulatory initiatives by the Obama and Biden administrations to regulate and suppress the production and use of hydrocarbon fuels.
These initiatives have included things like rules to force the closure of all coal and natural gas power plants by some time in the 2030s; mileage rules for automobiles that would ratchet up over time until no gasoline-powered car could comply (also by some time in the 2030s); restrictions on oil and gas leases on federal lands; blocking the construction of pipelines; and even regulations that have made it so that dishwashers and washing machines don’t work very well any more.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/09/19/comment-filed-in-support-of-epas-repeal-of-the-2009-endangerment-finding-n3806953
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I saw a plea recently for a new washing machine of 30years ago specification and some phosphate detergent
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Full confession
I recently called a local supplier of parts for obsolete white goods (they have a magnificent record) for some parts for a washer. I have no idea of how old.
Me – “I was wondering if I might be able to get some water valves for a Hoover 200M auto washer?”
First response from the cheerful lady that answered – “My mum has one of those and I’m sure we got her some. I’ll check”. Short pause. “Yes we did. How many?”
And in discussion – “I’ve just been turning the water taps off”. “But that is hardly an auto washer is it?”.
Some people are a joy to deal with.
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‘Cold weather deaths drop omitted in report.
‘Australia’s landmark climate assessment has been accused of cherry-picking data after seemingly ignoring research showing warming temperatures could save more lives than they claim.’ (Oz)
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FWIW
“The Battle of Britain was a stand against tyranny we must be willing to make again
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-battle-of-britain-was-a-stand-against-tyranny-we-must-be-willing-to-make-again/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-20&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
First time the tyrants have been invited in first though
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FWIW
“The speech against assisted suicide that Lord Alton couldn’t deliver”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-speech-against-assisted-suicide-that-lord-alton-couldnt-deliver/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-20&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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Had no idea that the majority of Chinese goods entering Western Europe is by rail through Russia and Belarus. Poland has recently shut its border with Belarus after the Russian/Belarus war games started on its border, and following the drone incidents the border remains closed to road and rail traffic.
China is not happy – interesting times indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFNi-aGjtY
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Interesting! Maybe it was a false flag to stop Chinese selling to Europe!
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???.. so what is in all those hundreds of thousands of containers constantly being offloaded from chinese based ships ?
And you would have to be living under a rock not to have noticed the constant stream of huge car carrier ships from the said country .
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FWIW
“The Starmer-Trump tech deal will deliver less than it promises”
Read the fine print
“Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, and Facebook’s former president of global affairs, told the BBC’s Today programme that the investments touted as pursuant to the deal are ‘crumbs from the Silicon Valley table’. He called for less ‘hype’ and more ‘perspective’. He called for a refocus on Britain’s ‘perennial Achilles heel’: British start-ups go to America for investment.
When Clegg is the voice of economic reason, you know things are really bad.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-starmer-trump-tech-deal-will-deliver-less-than-it-promises/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-20&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“COP30 Accomodation Crisis: UN Pleads with Staff to Trim Delegations”
“They might need to bulldoze more rainforest to accomodate all the climate activists.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/19/cop30-accomodation-crisis-un-pleads-with-staff-to-trim-delegations/
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Wait till the all try and stay in Adelaide.
No probs , just exec jet in and out from Syd/Mel each day.
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FWIW
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/fbgt.png?w=636
Text from image
“YEAH, I’VE GOT OCD
OLD, CRANKY, AND DANGEROUS”
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The ABC is running a story on the abundance of Yellow Fin Tuna down the south east coast NSW. The local fishers haven’t seen anything like it in half a century.
The East Australia Current is particularly warm.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-211.00,-27.21,2120/loc=134.617,-23.524
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A couple of Chinese factory ships will hoover that up no probs
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So herring and/or squid like warmer water.
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At the moment they are focussed on Yellowfin.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/unprecedented-yellowfin-tuna-season-south-coast/105784426
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I’m becoming a bit of a Luddite.
000 outage and related fatalities
US ATC system outage yesterday
Assorted banking and Internet outages
Government IT generally
Hacking, data theft and ransomware a daily occurence
But you know, the cashless society and full self driving will be fine. I guess its all just noise until it affects you you personally.
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FWIW
https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1969139399272382578
“MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)”
“Not as wrong as years of bashing Trump supporters with fake news and obvious hoaxes.”
“Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Not as wrong as years of bashing Trump supporters with fake news and obvious hoaxes.
We lost friends, families, and careers over the TDS hysteria. For nothing. (Not all from Kimmel, of course.)
Barely anyone in MAGA is looking at right and wrong at the moment. The motivating factor here is mutually assured destruction. And it just started.
If you don’t understand what just flipped most of the Christian population to revenge mode, you were asleep for eight years.
Or you thought news is real.”
“Conan O’Brien
@ConanOBrien
·
18h
The suspension of @jimmykimmel and the promise to silence other Late Night hosts for criticizing the administration should disturb everyone on the Right, Left, and Center. It’s wrong and anyone with a conscience knows it’s wrong.”
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/19/mad-mutually-assured-destruction/
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Keir Starmer ‘to unveil major move’ targeting illegal immigration
The PM is reportedly set to announce the launch of digital ID cards for Brits in just days as he looks to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly set to unveil plans for digital ID cards for Brits within days as part of his strategy to tackle illegal immigration.
Sources suggest the PM is keen to press ahead with introducing the digital identification system.
The announcement is anticipated to come as soon as the upcoming Labour party conference beginning September 28, reports the Financial Times.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/keir-starmer-to-unveil-major-32516414
Early 2026, people, is all the time left…
/JC2 knows 😉
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Well, we get the excuse of protecting the children online, they get the excuse of stopping the gimmegrants..
I wonder how the USA will do it?
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A tiny, reptilian fossil has been excavated from layers of ancient sandstone, where it was preserved for over 240 million years – predating the dinosaurs.
“The new fossil shows almost none of what we expected… [it’s] unlike anything yet discovered and has made us all think again about the evolution of the lizard, snakes and the tuatara,” says paleobiologist Dan Marke, also from the University of Bristol.
Though it did have the open temporal bar (similar to a cheekbone) they predicted, Agriodontosaurus’s palate lacked teeth, and its skull had no sign of a hinge, two things scientists expected of the first lepidosaurs. What’s more, its teeth were surprisingly large.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09496-9
Gotta love “settled science”…
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