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A wonderful book, Forbidden Facts, was published on September 9. Here is a reader’s review on Amazon which I liked (I wrote it 🙂 ).
“Every parent or person who is thinking about being a parent should read this book. Every politician involved in health matters should read this book.
“It is simply amazing that a book with this much information, this much research, this much importance, could be such a fast, easy read. Kudos to the author.
“It has been known for decades that childhood vaccinations can cause brain damage (neurological developmental problems, autism, etc.), but there has been a concerted effort by many entities to cover that up. QR links are provided on most pages to allow the reader to check the source material.
“Last sentence, in the final Appendix: “Research from Thomas and Margulis (2016) shows that the autism rate in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715, and the autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31.””
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Related.
“Erasing Encephalitis: Why Vaccine Brain Injuries Became Autism”
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/erasing-encephalitis-why-vaccine
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I know ChatGPT is not necessarily reliable, but here’s what it had to say on “please comment on ‘… the autism rate in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715, and the autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31“.
That claim — “the autism rate in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715, and the autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31” — is not supported by credible scientific evidence. Here’s why:
1. No Valid Study Supports Those Numbers
The claim resembles figures circulated in anti-vaccine forums, but no peer-reviewed epidemiological study has found such a difference.
Large, well-designed studies from multiple countries (USA, Denmark, Finland, Japan, etc.) have consistently found no causal link between vaccines and autism.
2. What the Evidence Actually Shows
Danish study (2019): Over 650,000 children followed. No increased autism risk in vaccinated children compared with unvaccinated ones.
Meta-analysis (2014): Pooling data from over 1.2 million children. No association between vaccines and autism.
Other independent replications (Scandinavia, California, Australia) show the same.
3. Where Do Numbers Like 1 in 31 Come From?
1 in 36 is a real figure, but it’s from the CDC’s estimate (2023) of autism prevalence in U.S. children overall — regardless of vaccination status.
The “1 in 715 unvaccinated” number has no scientific source; it seems to be cherry-picked or fabricated from small, biased surveys.
4. Problems With Such Comparisons
Selection bias: Families who avoid vaccines often differ in socioeconomic status, healthcare use, and diagnostic likelihood, which can skew apparent autism rates.
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1 in 36 was the CDC’s figure in 2020, and 1 in 31 was the CDC’s figure in 2022.
https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/index.html
The 2022 study https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/ss7402a1.htm says
How do they get a difference 1 in 9.7 Texas (Loredo) vs 1 in 53.1 California and use results like that to estimate the numbers across a country with any reliability, from limited sites and states. Do we have an assessor in Texas handing out ASD certificates willy nilly for almost any child? Or do we really have more than 10% of 8 year olds around Loredo with ASD?
Now there’s two locations with a big ASD diagnosis difference. Vaccination rate difference too?
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FYI
Latest news:
New York Post now confirming Fox News report that Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner who was transitioning from a male to a female.
Partner now being interviewed by FBI.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/13/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson-lived-with-transgender-partner/
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Investigate Charlie Kirk assassin’s medical history for pre puberty vaccinations.
Big Pharma may be inadvertently causing many of today’s mental health problems in pursuit of profit, or is it an attempt at population control???
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Meanwhile, we still know very little about Trump’s would-be assassin (and the full story of how he managed to do what he did) and the media seem curiously uncurious, especially considering he almost killed the American president.
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Steve,
You are not alone.
One bullet hit Trump’s ear, another killed an innocent bystander. Perhaps the usual slow legal/court process is at work, even slower and more thorough because a President was involved.
Maybe Donald Trump requested informally that certain other procedures run fast or slow because he is busy planning national actions to reduce the numbers of crazy leftist deaths and the mass media grooming weird youngsters to shoot. But mine is just poorly informed speculation.
I cannot understand TDS. I admire the man for clear, sometimes original thinking, determination, outstanding ability to describe complex issues and lack of bitterness. We hear many times “I get on well with XXXX, he is a good man” when such terms are seldom heard from Democrat leaders.
Geoff S
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I have the book:
Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Psychological Analysis of Leftist Ideology
Book by Rachel Morin and Thomas Pappas
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Is TDS a disease or merely an evolution of communism? Since Kevin ’07 and broadband I have come to believe that McCarthy didn’t hate them enough.
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I see it as simply a manifestation of leftists’ conscious or unconscious knowledge that their beliefs are weak and indefensible. As a consequence, they are terrified by anybody who presents a strong and effective attack from the conservative side. On this basis, we could also coin the terms, ‘Thatcher Derangement Syndrome’ and ‘Abbott Derangement Syndrome’. The latter reached its nadir, for me, when Abbott was accused of being sexually attracted to his own daughter.
To paraphrase: “The bombers that are directly over the target will receive most of the flak.”
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Seems quite a few people posted in advance that ot was about to happen. Doesn’t prove for sure they were in on it … but there’s a strong suggestion of teamwork and planning here.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1966982594110845181.html
Looks like I was wrong about it being a professional hit … but there may well have been a little bit of assistance in the background. I don’t believe these young people suddenly turn into ninja masters after playing a few video games.
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Quote from Kevin Bass about the objectives of Leftists.
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The thing is, Marxism is ultimately the weaponization of human envy … built into a political movement, and potentially a violent militia as well.
You can’t crush a human emotion such as envy … you can shoot the human, but the emotional side of our brains will always be there. Maybe in future someone will find a drug that switches off this behaviour but who knows what other side effects this might have?
They say, “Rust never sleeps” but despite the relentless march towards the heat death of the universe we can still have a little fun in the here and now. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, not only from Marxists but from everything … constant corrosion of the inner workings of all societies and all mechanisms.
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“Give Us,” a poem by Primo Levi, descriptive of recent successful and
unsuccessful political assassinations as well as the violent culture of
N* zi Germany that it describes…
Give us something to destroy,
A crown, a quiet place,
A trusted friend, a magistrate,
A phone booth,
A journalist, a renegade,
A fan of the opposing team,
A lamp post, a manhole cover, a bench.
Give us something to deface,
A plaster wall, the Mona Lisa,
A mudguard, a gravestone,
A timid girl,
A flower bed, ourselves
Don’t despise us, we are heralds and prophets.
Give us something that burns, offends, cuts,
breaks, befouls,
That makes us feel we exist.
Give us a club or a Nagent.
Give us a syringe or a Susuki.
Pity us.
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Leftists in the US are getting fired from their jobs for mocking the Charlie Kirk assassination.
People have had enough of the totalitarian, violent, narcissistic, murderous, Left (a multiple tautology, I know).
They have poked the bear (decent people) far too many times.
Decent people are finally fighting back against these deranged individuals.
This is (hopefully) the beginning of the end of Leftism in all its forms, Communism, Fascism and National Socialism.
As President TRUMP would say, F A F O.
Very good video:
https://youtu.be/kA9Kmoecoe0
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Left vs. right may be an outdated way of looking at it.
A big part of what’s on display in that vid is a mental health crisis.
Powerful elements of the political elite are manipulating minds to the point of destruction.
(Remember this next time you see someone wearing a surgical mask alone in their car.)
Social media both facilitates this organized manipulation and is our only way of fighting back … all at the same time.
If Elon Musk had not bought Twitter we would be in a fix.
You can tell by the across the board efforts, often surreptitious, by governments to control the internet.
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There is no doubt a mental health crisis but it always seems to affect people on the political Left. I think that’s partly because post-modernism is a foundation of the modern Left and they don’t believe in object truth, “truth” is whatever they think it is. E g. if a man thinks he’s a woman, then he is, by their definition. Conservatism of the right has its foundations far more connected to reality, science and reason.
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Does anyone suggest that Erin Pattison was insane or stupid? Such incurable agony for her victims and she knew all along. Australia is famous now for English mushrooms on oak trees.
Did the defence offer a plea of insanity? It was work of incredible planning, zero remorse and privately funded defence.
And there was no ‘mental crisis’ in the NAZI party. Violent sadistic murderers, not mad people. As with the communists. When you talk of the tens of millions murdered, as with Pol Pot, each one was murdered by someone. They were not all insane. Unless you redefine insanity.
And the NAZIs were Socialists, National Socialists. AntiFA are Fascists. it’s simple inversion. Like Climate denial where it’s all Climate lies.
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And you cannot say lies any more. So when Star Wars actor George Takei says the murder was \Republican on Republican’ violence, people write that he ‘falsely claims‘.
After 37 years of business as usual, who really believes the world is drowning, the seas are literally boiling and every hurricane is man made Climate Change? This socialist insanity has to stop.
Democratic governments were created fundamentally to protect their citizens, from outside threats.
But now Western governments are encouraging and welcoming invaders with open arms, food, hotel rooms, cash, credit cars, free health care and education and total exemption from any criticism at all or policing. Against all the sense and responsibility of National governments. And they are now destroying all existing power supplies and distribution and manufacturing and water supplies, the first targets of any enemy prior to invasion.
Western democracies are now the most obvious enemies of their own people. Is this the work of foreign adversaries? It’s easy, follow the money trail.
Count the trips Albanese and Wong and Carr and Andrews have made to their bosses in Beijing. And the number they have made to our allies.
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‘Western democracies are now the most obvious enemies of their own people.’
Democracies are not exactly the same.
Are you suggesting autocracies are a better idea? We might want to adopt anarchism, do you have a problem with that?
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Once again verballing. I said no such thing and never suggested it. As Churchill held, Democracy is flawed but better than any alternative. But it needs vigilance!
Lenin and Hitler overthrew Democracy once they seized power and executed their rivals and those who supported them. Kronstadt in St.Petersburg and Ernst Roehm in the night of the long knives.
Hitler after the Munich Beer Hall Putsch worked out that you had to subvert Democracy from within. That is always a possibility, that your enemies are undermining your system from within, especially when you see former State Premiers and our Prime Minister partying with the communists in Beijing as honoured guests of the people who gave us the Wuhan virus.
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” We might want to adopt anarchism, do you have a problem with that?”
Nope! A society without rulers, not without rules…
“Democracy is flawed but better than any alternative. ”
What a load of crap! The last 70 years have shown it is hopeless, the people are worse off with every generation! Its just a way to cement those psychopaths in power!
We need to get rid of professional politicians, so a monarchy or a dictatorship or a ballot for those in parliament!
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‘Is this the work of foreign adversaries?’
Democracies are highly exposed because societies are more open and we are in the midst of an information war.
Now that Beijing is returning to democratic values I suggest they will adopt, what some have called a benevolent dictatorship, the Singaporean model.
‘Singapore is a parliamentary republic and its legal system is based on common law. While it is constitutionally a multi-party democracy where free elections are regularly held, it functions as a de facto one-party state, with the People’s Action Party (PAP) maintaining continuous political dominance since 1959.’ (wiki)
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el+gordo
What democratic values is Beijing returning to?
Have they stopped forced organ donations and abandoned the social credit score?
Have they set free their political prisoners?
Do they allow people in HongKong and Taiwan to rule themselves without interference?
Since when was a “benevolent dictatorship” a democratic principle?
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We’ll have to wait until the fourth plenum in October when Hu Chunhua and Wang Yang replace Xi.
Beijing is going to adopt Western values, stop organ transplants and free political prisoners.
Hong Kong will be liberated and Taiwan has nothing to fear.
Singapore is often referred to as a ‘benevolent dictatorship’ because its a one party state. PAP undermine the Opposition so they never gain power and its worth remembering that 40% of the electorate vote for the other parties.
China is in economic depression and the people will accept a benevolent dictatorship to become prosperous again. Then in time new parties will emerge, forming coalitions and a mature democracy.
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‘Democratic governments were created fundamentally to protect their citizens, from outside threats.’
In the beginning.
‘The Americans’ victory over the British may have been one of the greatest catalysts for the French Revolution. The French people saw that a revolt could be successful—even against a major military power–and that lasting change was possible. Many experts argue that this gave them the motivation to rebel.’ (History.com)
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What nonsense! There was a terrible famine. Thanks to the War of Independence and the fact that France had simultaneously declared war on England in 1778-1783, the French land invasion in SW England in 1779 was a total disaster and the government was broke. Fortunes were wasted and men lost on three fronts for zero benefit to the French people. Plus the Americans never repaid the costs of support which broke the back of the English resistance, sacrificing a win at Gibraltar for their ally in Spain . So the sheer cost of wars in the US, Britain and the unsuccessful siege of Gibraltar. The Spanish did win in Minorca. There was even war in Florida. All because of the long French rivalry with the English. Poor and starving people and losing everything and an empty treasury does that. Marie Antoinette did not say ‘let them eat cake’ but it hardly matters. There was no need for any other motivation, once you lose support of the army and navy. The hatred for the rich nobility and the rich churches was overwhelming. France really invented communism before Marx was born. The French nobility forgot the first rule of keeping people happy, bread and circuses.
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There was a lot going on.
‘France’s direct help was a major and decisive contribution towards the United States’ eventual victory and independence in the war. However, as a cost of participation in the war, France accumulated over 1 billion livres in debt, which significantly strained the nation’s finances.
‘The French government’s failure to control spending (in combination with other factors) led to unrest in the nation, which eventually culminated in a revolution a few years after the conflict between the US and Great Britain concluded. Relations between France and the United States thereafter deteriorated, leading to the Quasi-War in 1798.’ (wiki)
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Western democracies as such are not enemies of their own people, it’s just that the leaders who were elected democratically have turned against their own people. In Algeria, the army stepped in to rescue democracy. In the west the people are now stirring and hopefully can get their democracies back without army action.
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I’ve made the point before that much of history tracks hysterias.
I think the WWII experience softened the external violence tool historic authoritarians used to exert power.
Overt physical violence looks bad.
It might be as the left fails in their rebranded softened authoritarianism they tilt toward more overt violence.
Methinks your view must be based on the notion that a rational human culture is possible. 🙂
Pandemic dissuaded me of that.
You very eloquently and eruditely rant on the Climate scam.
And it is unfortunately a lonely effort that I for one admire.
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Thanks but it’s not meant to be a rant, rather that man made rapid CO2 driven Global Warming causing universally disastrous Climate Change is a long series of propositions each more wrong than the last. And it only takes one wrong statement to invalidate the whole thing.
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And I cannot believe it has lasted this long against overwhelming evidence that every link in a very long chain is broken. And that every prediction in 37 years was proven wrong. Years were declared hotter than the last by by a thousandth of a degree. It’s all made up nonsense, political science. And politicians are the only ones driving it.
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Hey TdeF, did not intend ‘rant’ in a pejorative way.
The Climate scam may the ultimate of all time.
It requires ranting, by the brave souls like yourself that understand this.
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Could you expand on this a bit more as my understanding is that this is not the case.
and
Thoughts?
Cheers!
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I did say the modern Left and many modern regressive Leftists can be observed to subscribe to the following values of post modernism:
1) No objective reality.
2) There is no objective truth.
3) Science and technology are instruments of establishment power structures.
4) Reason and logic are not universally valid.
5) Human psychology is socially determined.
6) Language can mean anything you want it to, it is fluid in its use and interpretation.
7) Rejection of the idea that human knowledge can be developed from basic foundational principles (rejection of belief in self-evident truths as the basis for knowledge).
8) Scepticism of general theories that explain the workings of the natural world.
Obviously there are variations from these points of view but many elements are presented in the “thinking” of the modern Left.
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Marxism weaponises everything for its cause. Post-modernism undermines society and is therefore used by Marxists. Even if they didn’t actually start it, they have happily grown it.
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So does that mean that the “modern Left” is not Marxist but would be better described as post-modern? Most Marxists would not subscribe to the values you’ve listed and would actually disagree with them.
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Count me as one who is NOT in favor of people losing their jobs over idiotic political tweets … with one exception.
I don’t care if the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds, or doing my dry cleaning, or selling me a car, or doing my taxes made an awful tweet about Charlie Kirk. I’ve said and done plenty of idiotic crap over the years that could have got me in trouble but thankfully didn’t. Stuff that I would reflect on later in life and think ‘my God what an idiot I was back then’. So I think people should be given some grace for posting moronic stuff to what is essentially a ‘stream of consciousness’ website.
That said, the exception is medical professionals, schools and government workers. Anyone whose job entails interacting with the entire political spectrum, cannot be making posts about hating one-half of the country. ESPECIALLY when they work with kids. Why would any conservative parent trust their child with a teacher who wishes death on conservatives? Why would any elderly conservative person trust their health to a doctor who hates them for what they believe? How could any conservative who needs to apply for a permit or a government loan expect fair treatment when working with a bureaucrat who thinks all conservatives are racist, fascist, Nazis?
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And you don’t think for a moment that your burger flipper, once knowing your allegiances, wouldn’t spit into your food.
You reap what you sow. I believe in freedom of speech, and of course you can eat anything you like, whatever it’s tainted with. Me, I’ll shop elsewhere.
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Steve,
My wife was in hospital recently. From her bed, some 3m from the nurses’ desk, she heard and watched 3 nurses viewing videos about Palestine and cheering and inviting others to share a view, when each Israeli Defence Force person was killed.
We can do without this hate in Australia. For reasons such as this, I oppose too much immigration to Australia, while fearing that official migration selection is being influenced by the very types of people who are causing problems like mass “protests” every week in many cities. If they do not like it here, they should be sent back home.
Geoff S
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Recall the case of the two Sydney nurses of a certain demographic that made a video that went viral for the wrong reasons in which they said they would kill Israeli (meaning Jewish) patients. Fortunately they were eventually sacked. But no doubt they’ll soon be re-employed in the same area. They do afterall belong to a Labor voting demographic which the Government is systematically importing. And there are no doubt others. yet to be uncovered, with the same attitude. Medical murder is relatively easy to cover up. Who knows how many nurses or doctors of that demographic will or have already done something like that.
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Steve
And “medical professionals, schools and government workers” are prominent among those making stupid, evil,statements. See the two nurses in western Sydney threatening to kill Jewish patients, as a notable examples before the Charlie Kirk murder. There are others.
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And why would any person with a functioning moral compass believe they could peacefully coexist with the members of a cult which believes it is their right and duty to convert or kill anyone who is not a fellow cult member?
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Meanwhile in Federal Electorate where a Man of Principle Tony Abbott was replaced by This!
Teal MP Zali Steggall caught liking social media post saying ‘violence sometimes necessary’ about Charlie Kirk assassination
Teal MP Zali Steggall has liked a social media post that claimed there was an “irony” in Charlie Kirk’s death and which said violence was “sometimes” justified.
Oscar Godsell – Political Reporter
Teal MP Zali Steggall has been caught out liking a controversial social media post that said there was an “irony” in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Ms Steggall liked the post on Instagram, shared by Cheek Media co-founder Hannah Ferguson, within days of Mr Kirk being shot and killed at Utah Valley University.
The post said, “Am I happy that someone shot him in the neck in broad daylight? No,” but also, “Is violence sometimes necessary? Yes”.
Additionally, the inflammatory article promoted by Ms Ferguson claimed there was an “irony” to Mr Kirk’s death.
Ms Ferguson wrote, “You can’t ignore the irony” and that “Charlie Kirk was killed today in an act of gun violence his views permitted”.
“I don’t wish to extend my empathy to Charlie Kirk. I seek to redirect it to those on the margins.”
Sky News contacted Ms Steggall regarding her liking of the post, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
She recently told Sky News that “at this time and place around the world” it was important to be “respectful”.
“I think in these political times, it’s really dangerous to use… inflammatory language,” Ms Steggall said on Friday.
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Charlie Kirk’s brutal murder exposed a far-left problem in Australia’s media and politics that is only getting worse
From a Crikey journo’s vile group chat comment to an unhinged article in The Chaser, certain corners of the Australian media landscape couldn’t hold back at the killing of Charlie Kirk
writes Jordan Knight – SkyNews.com.au Contributor
On Wednesday, conservative commentator, husband, father, and patriotic American, Charlie Kirk, was gunned down while he was doing something his enemies never dared to do: debate.
The aftermath for most normal people was one of horror.
But in certain Australian media corners, some saw a chance to condemn a political opponent while others could barely contain themselves.
Their comments reveal a mainstream media ecosystem increasingly divorced from reality, rapidly diverging from the centre, and veering dangerously left.
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And the election at which sitting MP Abbott was defeated was one of the dirtiest campaigns of all in Australian history according to observers and campaign participants, in particular for Liberal MP/Minister/Speaker Bronwyn Bishop.
Union-Labor GetUp activist organisation assisted the “Independent” candidate who was backed by Climate 200 renewables lobby group of investors.
Many people were brought in from other electorates, including a small group of high school students from a Western Sydney Suburbs school for acting and modelling who presented the climate change worriers.
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Yes certain portions of the left side of the political spectrum revealed themselves for the repugnant faeces of the planet that they are. I make no apology for the preceding accurate and almost flattering statement regarding that section of the left.
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There have been a few surveys in the US which showed that over 50% of Democrats believed in breaking the law, even assassination was justified if it meant winning. Only 20% of Republicans agreed. There is a huge predisposition to violence on the Fascist left and all Fascists are on the left, first cousins to Communists and Socialists. Total government control of everything. Except the Fascists join forces with the business people and we are seeing that in Australia, the US and UK today. And all flying the false flag of being Anti Fascist.
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Agree, except that fascists don’t “join forces with the business people”. When in control they allow businesses to operate provided they do fascist bidding. That’s the difference between communism and fascism. Communism runs all business, fascism instructs it.
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It’s a question of where the profits go. In the case of the Krupp family, the world’s biggest company, everyone made fortunes. And the NAZI leaders were busy stealing from everyone, down to their gold teeth.
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This is where the work of Canadian Psychologist Jonothan Heidt is helpful. Haidt argues that the differences between the minds of the political right and left stem from how they prioritize five fundamental moral foundations. He posits that liberals, or those on the political left, tend to base their morality primarily on two foundations: Care/Harm, which emphasizes compassion and protecting others from suffering, and Fairness/Cheating, which focuses on equality and justice. In contrast, conservatives, or those on the political right, utilize all five foundations more equally. In addition to Care and Fairness, they also highly value Loyalty/Betrayal (group cohesion and patriotism), Authority/Subversion (respect for tradition and hierarchy), and Sanctity/Degradation (purity and spiritual cleanliness). This difference in moral foundations means that political groups will often have different gut reactions to issues. For example, when an issue involves loyalty to a nation or respect for authority, a conservative is likely to feel a strong moral impulse that a liberal may not feel as strongly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86dzTFJbkc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind#/media/File:Haidt-political_morality.png
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Its interesting how rabid women can on this stuff. I guess you can say anything if there is close to zero risk of you personally ever being at risk of ever being exposed to this type of violence.
All very Sydney eastern suburbs hoo rah type of bravery.
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David Maddison – F A F O?? ToM
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It means F— And Find Out .
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The A is for Around
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Oops. Correct.
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Fool Around; Find Out
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‘A minute silence for George Floyd but not for Charlie Kirk?’ — European Parliament leaders reject request to honor murdered US conservative, much to the joy of left-wing MEPs
Conservative lawmakers had wanted a moment of reflection for Charlie Kirk, but their requests were rejected by the European Parliament’s top brass
Left-wing European lawmakers on Thursday refused to observe a moment of reflection for Charlie Kirk, the U.S. conservative activist shot dead during a college debate event in Utah on Wednesday, triggering a heated confrontation in the chamber in Strasbourg and leading to accusations of political bias.
Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers, of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, had emailed European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to propose a minute of silence for Kirk, describing the gesture as symbolic and aimed at defending “our right to freedom of speech.”
However, the request was rejected
Weimers later said in a social media video: “I wanted to honor the memory of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by yielding my time for a moment of reflection prayer. Unfortunately, the Social Democratic deputy speaker did not want to have that.”
He captioned the clip: “How does holding a minute of silence for George Floyd but denying one for Charlie Kirk make sense?”
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I’m afraid a lot of these firing meltdowns are from other events, but ascribed to CK as is the internet way.
But a lot of firing are real too as head offices don’t want to be the next Bud Light.
Every real firing just makes the loony left more insane and resentful…
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Public division was yesterday performative on the public stage of Melbourne’s CBD as warring factions congregated in the same place on the same day providing video and headlines about “extremists” for general public consumption. Stoking social division keeps our focus away from our real problems as pointed out in an excellent talk posted here yesterday.
Video 23:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo
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Two-speed policing sees zero consequences for the anti-Israel mob
GEMMA TOGNINI
This is the tale of two people who both went to Bondi Beach on a weekday morning with their animals. And that’s about where the similarities end – not just their stories but how authorities dealt with them.
Let’s start with an elderly cocker spaniel named Bella. It was 9am on a Thursday a few weeks ago and Bella, who is 10, was ambling along the Bondi Beach path with her owners when the dog was grabbed by a ranger, her microchip scanned. No warning, no conversation.
Now her owners, to whom I have spoken, say yes, Bella was off the lead, but as long-time locals they’ve never had so much as a warning from a ranger. Bella is a geriatric, a risk to nobody. The family was hit with a $330 fine. They appealed, it was denied.
Fast forward to Monday morning this week. Ehtesham Ahmad, a self-proclaimed social media influencer, was caught on film tearing up the sands of Bondi on his Arabian horse – wait for it – brandishing a Palestinian flag.
What happened to this attention-seeking tw@t? He got a move-on order. That’s it. Nothing more.
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Man rides horse on Bondi Beach while waving Palestine flag
Arabian horses are renowned for their high energy, sensitivity, and spirited temperament, which can make them appear “fiery” or “lunatic” when not properly handled or trained, particularly in uncontrolled environments.
While they are exceptionally strong and capable of carrying substantial weight—such as 600 Kgs or more over long distances—this strength is coupled with a need for experienced riders due to their intense nature.
Their reputation for being skittish and reactive, especially in stressful situations like shows or encounters with unfamiliar stimuli, contributes to the perception of danger when ridden at speed without control.
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No, they cannot carry 600kg! Either that’s a typo, or whoever wrote that is profoundly ignorant.
That is more than any Arabian horse would weigh itself.
They are a lightweight breed, rarely weighing 500kg themselves, more often around 450kg.
Horses do not carry more than their own weight!
I used to do a lot of endurance riding (80km and over for official distances), and the most I think I ever saw any horse carry was a rider of around 100kg, but those riders often rode crossbred horses with more bone and substance than the typical Arabian.
I myself rode purebred or partbred Arabians, the heaviest weight I ever rode at was just over 91kg with a heavy saddle, which just put me into the heavyweight division.
The rest of the quoted piece reads as if written by an equally ignorant non-rider.
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No, they cannot carry 600kg! Either that’s a typo, or whoever wrote that is profoundly ignorant.
Bushkid
Fingers Faster Than Brain – Was Meant Say –
600-odd kilograms of Arabian is a significant danger to the public when being ridden at speed in an uncontrolled area.
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The Charlie Kirk asssassin was brought up in a seemingly normal family environment.
At some point he became indoctrinated with violent Leftist ideology, particularly prevalent on “university” campuses even though he spent only one semester in college (which were once centres of science and reason-based open inquiry and a diversity of opinion, back in the day).
There are plenty more like him. Millions in fact. And they infiltrated into all institutions.
Decent people of the world must be wary.
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The single semester was at Utah State University. USU is known for it’s agricultural sciences and engineering emphasis. It’s just another thing about all this that seems so puzzling. If the semester was at the University of Utah it would make more sense. U of U has a very left wing culture, although its medical school is excellent.
Maybe that is why he dropped out? He was currently enrolled at a tech college in St George, his home town, which is a 5 hour drive from where the shooting took place.
He drove a muscle car.
It just so bizzare.
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Not surprised.
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As been a few hours, but still not mentioned in The Australian. Presume they are discussing how to portray this.
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In a luxurious looking family home (if the photos on TV are correct) with 5 bedrooms. This is not what my wrong assumptions were. So much of what I “deduced” from public information was so wrong that I apologise and am doing an overhaul of my personal quality control for future comments.
Geoff S
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Where was the Gun?
Videos released of Tyler Robinson on the stair way and later jumping down from the roof do not show any gun !
Where was it? How did he get get it and what did he do with it?
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It is discussed at the following link with no definitive conclusion. I am guessing he hid the gun under his clothing on the way there and then threw it off the roof which you don’t see, before he jumped, then picked it up and put it in the woods,
https://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow/comments/1nf7joy/tyler_robinson_where_was_the_gun/
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I watched that video and saw the gun. It’s a very grainy video, probably highly zoomed and the gun is only a single pixellated black stick which can vanish, but he jumps with it, unboxed. A barrel at that distance is nearly invisible.
He smssed a ‘friend’ to collect the gun, wrap it in a towel and hide it in bushes where it was later discovered. Which means he has someone in on the plot, likely his transgender friend and roommate. Along with the posted $100K reward, he probably realised the FBI would trace everything at that time. I am surprised they have not arrested the live in lover. And it is a hell of a coincidence that Charlie Kirk was just answering a question on murder by armed Trans people. So it was possibly a team effort with one in the audience acting as spotter, possibly using sms to time the shot. The phones will tell a story.
We are talking of highly motivated intelligent one/two people in the top 1% of American students. And indoctrinated, willing to kill and die for their beliefs. Men of 16-22 are the best for soldiers are they see themselves as invincible and can be brutal, mellowing later in life with their own families. It was the basis of the idea of the Hitler Youth, indoctrination of young men and women. And it worked.
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The complete audio of the conversation between Kirk and the trans person questioning Kirk moments before the shot has been edited in some of descriptions in the news reports.
I saw an early news report, that stopped the video at the moment the shot rang out but didn’t cut the audio. The conversation was on the PA and could be heard throughout the venue. The person was asking Kirk about his views on trans genderism. The person asked Kirk if he thought trans genderism was right or wrong, and when Kirk said it was wrong the person said: ” Okay then.” Then the shot was taken. I’m not saying I know, and I could be mistaken, but to me it was as if it was signal to the shooter to go ahead and take the shot.
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The Charlie Kirk assassination was a pre-emptive coup.
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Quote from Senator Babet (UAP, Victoria) on Farcebook.
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Je Suis Charlie #freespeech
In a play on 2015’s Paris Charlie Hebdo reaction, ThePeoplesCube Oleg Atbashian reinvents the ‘We Are Charlie’ meme (we are / I am?):
https://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24512&start=0
(scroll down to view artwork)
As a Ukrainian-American who, in an earlier life, produced pro-Soviet PR artwork, and now satirises the extreme far-left he fled to the USA to escape, Atbashian also pays tribute to Iryna Zarutska, the young Ukrainian refugee murdered on a train in the Land of the Free and the Slave:
https://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24510&start=0
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Excellent from Babet. Charlie was indeed an interrogator of the truth. And Truth – when it is revealed by reasoning – is the ultimate weapon.
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Very brave to speak like that in Vicdanistan.
Words like that will soon get you 10 years with a warm and loving cell mate. Just after the ‘words that hurt us’ legislation is passed and signed into the constitution.
We’ll need a treaty to get out of this mess.
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Ian, I had to do a Gulag search to see whether the ‘words that hurt us’ legislation you mentioned was real or parody. You can never tell these days….
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You’ll find the first draft on a Slater and Leach website.
One thing for sure, you’ll know that we paid for it’s development and we’ll pay when it is enacted.
And yes, for others, it is currently sarcasm. At least until next March.
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There was a massive rally in London against massive uncontrolled immigration and related crime.
Not by “far right extremists” as claimed, but by ordinary non-Elite working people.
Elon Musk had a message for them:
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More on that
“Tommy Robinson: Britain’s 21st century Wat Tyler”
“YESTERDAY’S Unite The Kingdom protest march and rally was a truly historic event – a people’s revolt led by their folk hero, Tommy Robinson, a 21st century Wat Tyler.
Watching him from the side of the stage, it was hard to believe that just months ago he was in solitary confinement, behind bars, having lost his appeal for release. Yet here he was, unbroken, made stronger by his ordeal, lucid and in command, addressing hundreds of thousands of people – possibly more than a million – who had arrived in central London from all corners of the country to hear him, plus many more watching online from home and from abroad.
Bloody but unbowed. There’s simply nobody for whom the words of the poet William Ernest Henley are more appropriate. And from this son of Luton, standing alone on the stage in Whitehall’s historic political heart of our kingdom, with no degrees or fancy qualifications, flowed pure oratory.”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/britains-21st-century-wat-tyler/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-14&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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Young Australians were claimed to have inadvertently seen the Charlie Kirk assassination on social media, live, without warning.
Thus this is offered as evidence in support for the forthcoming social media ban for under 16’s.
No evidence of serious harm was offered for the claim, as usual. Plus, anyone who saw the assassination live would have been upset. No surprise there. Upsetting things happen to all of us. For children it would be a tragic learning experience. You can’t protect everyone from everything. Bad sh-t happens.
Note the phrase “but warned it could be shared in other ways“.
That implies to me that they (i.e. the e Safety Kommissar) will seek even further censorship. Recall that she tried to stop the video of the terrorist knifing against the priest in Sydney, even though he wanted it shown. Elon Musk fought the Kommissar in court over that. She tried to get it censored globally, something way beyond her authority, but in the end it was censored in Australia “only”.
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“Professor Tama Leaver said Australia’s proposed ban on some social media sites for under 16s may have stopped some from seeing it, ”
How?? What rubbish is this? They would only be stopped from seeing it if the Govt were to ban children under 16 from watching children over 16 talk to a man on a university campus. Seeing children under 16 may be about to go to university, why would they be banned from watching things that go on there?
.. or are they going to ban children under 16 from ANYTHING that might show opinions better then those of the Left??
That Professor should have some more questions to answer, but of course they would not come from the ABC.
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DM,
For that rifle, a shot to the neck is effectively decapitation, among the most ugly sights for any normal human. (I saw it at a truck accident in China and will never forget the shock).
We all were spared the detailed TV of Kirk. It is hard for me to argue about how much TV/media children of various ages should/could have been shown when all people were restricted.
I repeat that the biggest social change I have seen in my 84 years is the increase in the number of people paid to tell others what they can and cannot do. Fix that problem, then we can talk about mollycoddling our youngsters.
BTW, the bigger context is, if correct, the recent increase of the global? population with mental problems like ADHD and the recent increase in violent hate crimes. Some effect is at work as Kennedy is claiming, be it nutrition, exposure to media, illegal drugs or legal drugs like Covid “vaccination” or something else. We need to identify and correct. For now, I do not know if I am one of the affected people, writing and speaking what would be classed as nonsense years ago.
Have I gone mental? Have you? Proof?
Geoff S
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Corrections to my comment, which was theory about a direct throat shot. It appears likely now that the throat was hit by richochet, so no “decapitation”.
It is hard to be wise when primary, correct information is seldom published by officials.
My apologies.
Geoff S
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I really depends (among other things) on bullet type the round being used. The effect on the struck target will vary widely.
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Maybe the e-censorship Kommissar will ban the 1963 JFK video clips too…
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One day when we were young. In the days of Che Guevara and black and white TV. I saw a news clip from Central America somewhere, showing a bloke dressed as an army officer trying to drag a bloke into a truck with a covered wagon type body such as militaries use. The bloke was resisting violently.
The officer bloke pulled out a pistol and fired three shots into the detainee, who then lay on his back in the road dying, his legs kicking.
We were reared on cowboys and indians and war movies, such that we used to joke about how much tomato sauce it took to make the movie. But that news clip was sickening.
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Vaccinations of pregnant women should also be investigated.
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I (somewhat) respectfully suggest that in this case double blind trials may not be appropriate.
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Here is a very interesting 48 sec comment about the change in recent years of the Leftist narrative whereby they call speach they disagree with “violence”, thus setting up the basis of using actual violence against people they disagree with who allegedly use “violent words”.
https://x.com/NickJFreitas/status/1966957671296237633
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me! Looks like that little rhyme is no longer valid!
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One side in America is shooting. that will change:
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
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the moment they fight back –
Solzhenitsyn never visited Piopio in the King Country, yet the quote you reference mirrors the tale of Tom Phillips here in New Zealand who, for the past 4 years, has evaded the law – and his estranged wife – living bush with his 3 young children after the law denied him parental rights.
Some called him a criminal and an outlaw, some admired his tenacity & love for his children (alive after 4 years) yet last week he was confronted by the law on a backcountry road late at night and – the moment they fight back…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/icymi/572893/new-photos-reveal-stash-amassed-by-tom-phillips
This drawn-out saga is most likely unknown beyond NZ’s shores (there’s been a whole lot of shots ringing out day & night around the world this month) and now court injunctions are banning any talk / rumour / mention of the case while the law does its thing behind closed doors: it’s The Law after all.
… men who just wanted to be left alone.
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…court injunctions are banning any talk / rumour / mention of the case while the law does its thing behind closed doors: censorship is The Law after all…
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FWIW
“This New Development About Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Is Huge”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/13/this-new-development-about-charlie-kirks-killer-is-huge-n4943670
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There’s more. I wrote about this in #8.2. It will become clear he did not act alone.
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FWIW
“My less online conservative friends have abruptly awakened this week to the reality that their political opponents are not mere sparring partners in a congenial game of democracy but would celebrate their deaths and those of everyone they love”
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1966936592989515975
“That’s why “it feels like something is different now.” They have realized the left is playing for keeps and sees them as subhuman monsters. Watching otherwise pleasant leftist friends or family or colleagues celebrating Kirk’s death on main with their real names attached. It’ll change you.”
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1966937235606974478
Via https://instapundit.com/744529/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Dear Leftists”
“Dear Leftists,
No matter how hard you may try to gaslight us, it isn’t going to work. You have spent years bandying around words like ‘Nazi,” “stochastic terrorism,” “tyranny,” and “fascist.” And you made a pretty good living doing so. I have to hand it to you, you were adept at it, given the number of intellectual zombies who fell into line and repeated your mantra while burning down cities, breaking windows, beating up people in yarmulkes, and looting Footlockers. And when your rhetoric bears the fruit you had secretly hoped for, all of a sudden you want us to swallow the fabrication that you didn’t really mean what you said, and you are shocked, shocked I say at political violence.
Yes, you did mean it;
No, you aren’t shocked that an innocent man was murdered, but you are shocked that it did not go over the way you had hoped.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2025/09/13/dear-leftists-n4943681
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Rising jobless rate could bring forward RBA’s interest rate cuts
New ANZ chief executive Nuno Matos was part of the alpha-horde at the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner in Sydney on Monday night, mixing it with Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers
The next morning, Matos took the axe to 3500 employees and 1000 contractors.
In 2023 and 2024, 80 per cent of 800,000 new jobs were in the non-market sector. This category is broader than the public service and includes government-funded areas such as healthcare, education, public administration and social services such as aged, disability and child care (all areas with varying levels of private provision). During these years, the market sector was ailing under the big inflation and the RBA’s monetary squeeze.
In the financial year before the pandemic, government employee expenses (federal, state and local, and universities) totalled $190bn; in 2024-25 it was $279bn, a rise of 47 per cent (consumer inflation was 23 per cent over the six years). As a proportion of government spending, employee costs have been relatively steady at 27 per cent.
The big change has been in social benefits, where Canberra provides 90 per cent of the dollars. This is Albo’s cradle-to-grave “no one held back, no one left behind” welfare state incarnate. Spending on health, disability, aged care, childcare and family benefits eats up 18.3 per cent of all public spending (it was 11.5 per cent in 2018-19).
It now costs the federal budget more for these universal in-kind services than tightly means-tested welfare payments.
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OO,
It is not only a problem of the jobless rate. There is also a big problem with the types of jobs.
In a simple view, there are jobs that increase national income and wealth and living standard and there are jobs that do not create wealth.
A few minutes ago I heard on radio that a sporting event would create $X million for the local community such as nearby restaurants. Money estimated this way has no national value. We could do away with restaurants and rely on people feeding themselves, freeing cafe staff to move into the productive sector. One example of the productive sector is my old work if finding new mines. A picture of the non-productive sees barista A brewing coffee for barista B in the morning,then swapping places in the arvo. Who gains?
There IS gain, but it is intangible and related to people having enjoyment. Example, many people enjoy music. Excellent recordings abound, yet many prefer an evening with a full symphony orchestra. This is a cost to society but the benefit is undeniable – and intangible. I cannot work out the detailed economics, but I can propose that the Aussie workforce is way out if balance with far too few productive workers.
Try telling that to our lefty politicians. Geoff S
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You are too old and wise…
Technology and sending industry overseas means we don’t have to work as long each week as our parents did, yet we are poorer. Govt employs more and more people, while the private sector gets more and more efficient, yet we are poorer.
Politicians don’t even want to talk about these sorts of problems, there’s always some new stadium being built that will set one lot of people against another.
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Albanese Labor and State Labor are going to need to employ more public service employees.
sarc.
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When money starts running out, that’s a problem. A Labor government’s reaction to a problem is to throw money at it. So they throw the very money that is running out.
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FWIW – sprung!
“HAHA: Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources: Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
My guess is that they wasted 17+ months on pointless meetings, then threw something together at the last minute, cheating with ChatGPT.”
https://instapundit.com/744357/#disqus_thread
Something about “nullius in verba”?
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More here
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/13/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-self-driving-overlords-194/
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Meanwhile – Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
Diella, formerly a virtual assistant on the government website, will handle public procurement, Prime Minister Edi Rama has said
Albania will soon be the first country to have an AI chatbot as a virtual minister, in an effort to clamp down on corruption by turning to an unbribable digital official.
The Balkan nation ranked 80th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for last year.
Diella, meaning ‘sun’ in Albanian, will be responsible for all public procurement in Albania moving forward, Prime Minister Edi Rama said at a party assembly in Tirana on Thursday.
The bot initially launched earlier in the year on the e-Albania platform as an AI virtual assistant that helped citizens with government services. Its avatar appears as a young brunette woman dressed in traditional Albanian garb.
“Diella is the first cabinet member who isn’t physically present but is virtually created by AI,” Rama said.
“The public procurement must be transformed, which we need to gradually transfer to AI, making Albania a country where public tenders are 100% free from corruption,” he added.
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Interesting Comment on this Article
We need to replace judges with AI, humans have way too much bias, AI learns the laws amd applies it evenly to everyone regardless of class, color, religion, sex etc
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“we need to gradually transfer to AI, making Albania a country where public tenders are 100% free from corruption,”
It will be a race to see who can hack it first!
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AI typically learns by scanning the web. The forces of darkness know this so they are already flooding the web with left wing crap for AI to learn from. If you ask AI – even Grok – a question on any controversial subject now, it will parrot the left wing view, and no matter how hard you try to get it to even up it will still cling to it. The left weaponise everything, and they are weaponising AI from outside, ie, they weaponise AI without changing the AI itself. Well, that’s my perception.
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Ok so we dont bribe the chatbot we bribe the people who control the chatbot.
Bribe is so harsh. A company I worked for used to call them “facilitating payments”
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A company I worked for used to call them “facilitating payments”
We called it “Cost of Sales”
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They liked to seoerate it out so you knew the policies around bribing people.
They also has online courses on business ethics you had to complete
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Zelensky’s Incentive Problem: Unmasking the Media’s Darling
Polling shows Zelensky trailing rivals, mired in corruption woes, and stalling peace talks—his halo fading fast at home and abroad.
You won’t hear this from the mainstream press, but you’ll hear it here first: Volodymyr Zelensky, the Western media’s darling, is in real political trouble at home.
I just commissioned credible polling from inside Ukraine. The war-weary population there wants a new president and a negotiated peace.
This reality makes Zelensky less a heroic statesman and more a vulnerable incumbent with a perverse incentive: to keep slow-walking peace, continue milking Western taxpayers, and delay the elections he’s almost certain to lose.
The Best Data We Have
To learn the truth within Ukraine, we used experienced pollsters who surveyed more than 1,000 citizens. These results represent the clearest and most reliable snapshot of Ukrainian opinion:
In a hypothetical presidential election against General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Zelensky loses by -13 points.
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FWIW
“NATO Shocked Suffers Total Fail With Poland Drones; Starmer Ouster Looms After New Scandal; Pokrovsk”
https://rumble.com/v6yusgg-nato-shocked-suffers-total-fail-with-poland-drones-starmer-ouster-looms-aft.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
In here starting at about 25.00 he makes the interesting comparison between the poor success rate over Poland and the 90+ % rates claimed in Ukraine. It seems the Ukraine rates are based on what Ukraine feeds out – with no verification.
Do we have a bridge buying pandemic?
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Russian Drones Allegedly Swarm Poland in Major Provocation…But Whose?
Last Sunday Russia launched a large-scale drone attack that was again described as the “largest ever” with some sources counting 805 total drones and decoys launched:
It was followed up on Tuesday with another large attack of over 400+ drones and 50+ various missiles.
This strike stood out as a significant number of these drones reportedly flew to Poland, and quite deep into the interior of the country at that, which has never happened before.
As always there were two versions of the story, the “topside” propagandized one where Polish and NATO officials tried their best to carve out an angle of deliberate Russian ‘aggression’, not letting the incident go to waste. And then there was the ‘behind-the-scenes’ version, which painted the incident as much more ‘controlled’ than it seemed, where diplomatic channels calmly coordinated the response.
More specifically, Belarus was said to have warned Poland that wayward drones—which were being affected by Ukrainian EW—were headed their way, with reports even claiming some rogue drones had to be shot down over Belarusian territory as well.
The incident was obviously very strange because, while a few errant Russian drones had maybe fallen over other countries here and there—after likely being jammed off their course—this has never happened in such a large scale. This heavily suggests something very fishy, in the way of either a false flag or a coordinated campaign; that is to say, something like an Israeli Stux-net or “pager” operation where a large amount of Russian drones are “tampered with” before hand, whether that’s by digital infection of firmware via virus, or something else.
There were several signs pointing to the ‘false flag’ explanation, for instance a photo of a Russian drone that landed on a Polish “chicken coop” that shows the drone taped together with literal duct tape—click the first photo to enlarge:
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Yes, that’s the truth. AKA Pravda.
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FWIW
“The History of Islamic Slavery Should be Better Known”
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2025/09/12/the-history-of-islamic-slavery-should-be-better-known/
Via SDA
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“Empires tend to be resisted by native leaders in the name of anti-colonialism. Most of such leaders are either bureaucrats or status-driven military commanders. They are the ones who usually benefit most from independence. As in Scotland today, local control gave many African leaders…and their clients the opportunity to loot their country without supervision from outside, in this case Imperial, authorities.
It follows that most of those who protest against imperialism are those who are closest in spirit to the slave-owning bureaucracy of modern Mauritania which conceals barbarity behind a virtuous façade of ex-underdog liberation. So the rule should be: Never trust the life of a fellow human being to a bureaucrat, ever!”
Makes sense to me… However, people just queue up to go to the welfare office, whatever its called these days.
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AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 33% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST CAPACITY FACTOR 40%
AND 40% IN THE WEST
BEWARE If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Like 1 Sept at 7 PM EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 3% IN THE EAST.
And 2 Sept at 7PM EASTERN TIME WHEN THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 5% IN THE WEST.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
6.30 PM WIND 19% SOLAR 12%
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
12.40 AM WIND 40% SOLAR 0%
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Love your work Rafe.
It would be nice if the kiddies overseeing the transition to unreliables told us how many days worth of battery storage they think would be required to backup their fantasy. And of course the cost of this battery backup.
Only guessing on my part but I would think at least 5 days worth of battery storage would be required.
But, as Greta shouted…“how dare you!”
…question anything about the transition.
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Make Europe Great Again
Tommy Robinson’s speech inspired millions at the huge flag demonstration Unite The Kingdom yesterday.
https://x.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1967016063951839606?t=Cu2-fXLvDCnMO_pQdg5V6Q&s=19
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Meanwhile – ‘Man overboard’ is offensive term, says Royal Yachting Association
Inclusive language guide ‘honours and values’ women and non-binary people within sailing
The phrase “man overboard” is an offensive term that should be avoided, the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) has said.
The national governing body for sailing, which was founded in 1875, has suggested that it should instead be replaced with “person in water” in an inclusive language guide.
It is one of a number of recommendations issued by the RYA to use language that “honours and values” women and non-binary people within the sport and recreational activity.
The guide suggests that while “man overboard” is an important phrase to “raise the alarm where a person has fallen overboard to initiate the emergency procedures”, outside of these situations the term “person in water” is recommended.
Critics said the language guidance was “balderdash” that would have seafarers and sailors from previous eras “turning in their graves”.
Another term the RYA tells its members to avoid is “seamanship”, with people told to use “boat handling”, “navigation”, “deck work” or “maintenance” as replacements.
The guide also recommends using the word “sporting behaviour” instead of “sportsmanship” as it “might not be comfortable for a person who recognises themselves to be a woman or non-binary”.
Royal Yachting Association guidance
Don’t say Do say
Man overboard Person in water
Seamanship Boat handling/Navigation/Deck Work/Maintenance
Sportsmanship Sporting behaviour
Chairman Chair/Chairperson
Mother duties Cooking and cleaning duties
Weather girl Weather report
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“Man overboard” is traditional and sounds much more powerful and a greater call for urgent attention than “person in water”.
A “person in water” might just be going for a swim…
The Old English root word “mann” meant a person of either of the two sexes as they were then understood. “Mankind” for example encompasses all of humanity.
“Other” claimed gender identifications weren’t much of a thing, back in the day.
Goolag’s AI overview:
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As for the term “overboard” and “man overboard” has a specific maritime meaning:
The term is also deeply engrained in maritime tradition.
I wish the wokesters would stop changing the meaning of words. In this case it might kill someone.
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This attention to detail should not be mocked, it is very important. As part of the same review, “SOS” is being replaced because some people think we don’t have souls and therefore could be offended. “SOS” is therefore being replaced by the more accurate and less offensive “ITWIT” (I Think We’re In Trouble) In Morse Code that’s the readily recognisable:
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Naah, they’ve got it completely wrong.
It should be that all personnel should carry on their person, and immediately available in case of emergency, a manual of the whole LGBT… definitions and ensure that any person observed in the water can inform the rescuer of their nominated pronoun so that the appropriate rescue equipment can be retrieved from the sale locker.
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In the International Code of Signals, ‘O’ [Oscar] has the single letter meaning ‘Man Overboard!’
The RYA might want to change it to ‘bod in the oggin’ or whatever.
But this will take an international Conference to change – and, as noted, go thoroughly against the meaning of the word ‘man’ – in that context, as well as many decades [or centuries?] of training and usage.
And, as noted, it may lose lives.
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“If any Member of parliament who represented the people truly, they would’ve come here today and spoken with you…”
Hard to argue with.. the politicians will all be in emergency meetings working out how to shut the people down!
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Here in the UK, they are looking at replacing us, rather than the other way around.
Judging by the migration figures …
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The mood has shifted
Perusing vast troves of information daily as I do, one thing has become apparent post-CK murder, and that is that the patience and mood of the normal half (non loony left) of the world, especially the USA has changed.
Pushed and tormented for years even before the plandemic totalitarianism (and great experiment), forced to watch “mostly peaceful” riots, burning and looting over drug addled criminals and not act, forced to watch sexual degenerates mingle freely with children in ways that previously would have gotten them arrested, forced to endure the incompetent and unworthy move into roles they have no place being in, and often with unfortunate results, and still only express dismay.
Watching as your nation’s history is torn down piece by piece in the name of equality and entitlement, neither of which are deserved.
Watch as the loony left cry and complain about long running waste and crimes being exposed, rather than cheering that they have.
Watch as illegals invade your country turning it into the 3rd world, and the law does nothing and you’re a white racist if you dare say a word.
Feeling the anger well up inside as the loons try to assassinate Trump for trying to drain the swamp and restore the country to its former glory and integrity.
Feel more anger as a champion of truth and freedom is shot and killed in cold blood for
daring to stand up and speak the truth.
CK’s daughter may well say “Why did the Democrats kill my daddy?”
Because that’s their way, they cannot change. And still the left cheered and celebrated.
However the mood has changed. Suddenly. The sane have said that’s enough, CK was the line in the sand, we will take no more.
Our very futures are on the line and we’re not going to take it any more.
Either the left has a conversation on all this and it stops (obviously it won’t) or all those quiet men who just want to be left alone are going to be stirred to action.
Those men – be they rednecks, military, veterans, patriots or just fed up are going to do what has to be done.
As Sun Tzu said, “it’s better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war” (incorrectly attributed to the late Bruce Lee).
Well, the left are gardeners compared to what they’ll be facing. Highly intelligent, resourceful, skilled, experienced opponents that won’t be cutting them any more slack.
That time has passed.
Just look at the HUGE protests in the UK now. They’ve had enough too.
So loony left – you’ve had your fun, you’ve had you’re run. Now it’s time to stop or pay the piper.
As I said, it’s the last quarter in the big game now, and things are going to get very interesting.
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And perhaps not either of them but Miyamoto Musashi in “A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy”.
Otherwise, good comments.
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Maybe neither. Maybe just an ancient Chinese proverb. Maybe Roman origin.
I don’t think anyone really knows for sure.
Maybe it doesn’t matter so long as the point is understood…
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FWIW – Rudyard Kipling
“The Beginnings”
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_beginnings.htm
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FWIW – more Kipling
“The Mother Hive
When Kipling Got It Right and Wrong”
“The point where Kipling goes wrong is the way the story ends, with a bee keeper coming in and destroying all the rottenness. For all that there’s a certain amount of heroism among the loyal worker bees to bring up a new queen in secret, the story requires an external actor to do the big work of clearing out and burning the poisoned parts of the system.
That’s wrong.
There is no all powerful bee keeper who can step in and clean up the mess.
We are all our own bee keepers”
More at
https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/the-mother-hive?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/744593/#disqus_thread
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The real question is what next?
There is always a lot of tough talk after these sorts of events and normally it peters out over time.
Partition of the US seems to loom as a real possibility, however difficult.
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JCII,
excellent comment.
Although I’ve maintained a fantasy of being a gardener on an isolated mountaintop somewhere where I could stay out of the war and feed myself.
I do think The Blob will regroup.
I don’t think Keir Starmer and those that installed him give a happy damn what the British public thinks.
He’s there to dismantle Britain.
My guess is the Brit(EU/UN) Blob cracks down.
Mass jailing of ‘indigenous’ Brits, or worse.
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Plus, the rank and file of the Left are just the indoctrinated mental and emotional conscripts of The Blob.
Thank you, Universities.
May we have another?
But, we probably need a discount coupon this time.
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Don’t forget that the Oz ALP send trainees over to learn from the Democrats.
Got fined for illegal foreign contributions in the (IIRC) 2016 federal election
And I’m waiting for “Two Tier” to get the bill for his manpower contribution to the US 2024 election
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The Week In Pictures: Karen Goes to the Ballpark Edition
It was not a good week for humor. The horrifying murder of Charlie Kirk dominated the news, and the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train continued to reverberate. We have said much, and will say much more, about those stories, and there are a few references to them in the memes that follow.
What happened in a lighter vein? A woman with a profound sense of her own importance and entitlement went to a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. A ball flew into the stands, and, while it landed not far from her, a father sitting nearby beat her to it, and presented it to his young son. What followed was epic, and may define for all time the characteristics of a Karen.
The show must go on, so here is The Week In Pictures, Karen Goes to the Ballpark Edition:
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Excellent analysis of the role of body armour contributing to the death of Charlie Kirk.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y6zPjo5Vogc&si=tg8FHR93IDoizky0
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Bit of a weird click baity perspective. What contributed to his death was being shot at.
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A Disney princess! Wow!
https://twitter.com/TexasRepublic71/status/1966541256806240686
Not long now!😆😆
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That thing is confusing and indoctrinating the children. It’s a man in a dress, not a fairy princess.
No wonder all of Disney’s recent films are woke disasters.
Get woke, go broke.
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I can only hope that is the case.
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“This way little girls, come and see my cave”.
Its been going on since forever..
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A lot of Democrats are shocked that they are in a party which thinks the very public murder of a decent family man is a good result.
Barack Obama has only called for an end to ‘political violence’. The Clintons are silent. Others have demanded gun laws. Or blamed the Republicans.
What happened to sorrow for a National tragedy?
Where are the riots as with career criminal George Floyd?
Apparently millions are now resigning from a Democrat party which by its silence approves of assassination, the party of JFK and RFK.
“If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” – Ronald Reagan
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“the party of JFK and RFK.” and KKK appraently
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Yes, that’s true. Over time there were many parties which merged and split. Joe Biden though was explicitly a defender of black segregation at the start of his long career. People just change sides as if it wasn’t true.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/visualizing-global-gold-production-region
Another strong position we can almost certainly stuff up
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I started stacking when Au was A$700. After being stopped out of the stock market in 2008 I have just sat on what I had and bought a little more but I no longer have the “cash” cash flow so I am limited.
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You may not have cashflow H, but you have assets! No country wants to link their currency to gold, it hampers politicians in their inflation, but when someone does it will panic everyone else.
Generally a politician talking of a gold-backed currency has just signed his death warrant with the Yanks, but with the way the Yankee dollar is losing trust a gold currency can’t be far away.
Like guns, it’s one of those basic commodities that built our societies, and every politician would love to confiscate!
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I was in a strictly cash business. When the accountant did my draft tax I would ask “Were my sales double my purchases?” and if the answer was “Yes” I would declare a modest monthly drawings. My eBay purchases and motor bike could remain private.
Note: The 7 yr limitations period has long gone. 🙂
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2014 for me.
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In the 1850s Melbourne exporting 40% of world gold production. It created Melbourne. The streets were ‘paved with gold’. And it lasted a generation. A lot of grand houses were built. The bubble burst in 1890 and the grand homes became boarding houses for a century. Things can stuff themselves up without human intervention. Exacerbated by Government greed which can be as bad as private greed.
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There was a period Menzies said we rode on the sheep’s back. Graziers were rolling in dough.
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From family experience you’re forgetting the year of double taxation. I don’t recall what it was called ATM.
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Visualizing Global Gold Production By Region
China, Russia, and Australia Dominate Nationally
China remains the top national producer with 380 tonnes, followed by Russia at 330 tonnes. These two countries alone account for almost 20% of global output.
Australia follows with 284 tonnes, making it the leading Western gold producer and a cornerstone of Oceania’s 346-tonne total.
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And current Melbournians rejoicing in their multiple grand local council chambers, now hopelessly inadequate, still believe in Melbournes grandeur but do nothing to preserve this or add to its wealth.
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David,
Worse than that is the demonization of “dirty miners”. I am one of those. You become isolated by the power that be, so you cannot receive thanks, rarely are civil honours awarded, rarely are mining leaders made go-to folk for media stories, rarely is the art of exploration and mining taught in educational institutes, rarely are our beautiful mines on tourism lists, etc.
Some miners do get into news, but almost all are there because of money, not mining, allowing them to preach about personal dogma.
Bob Hawke told me I’d never get civil honours after I criticised him in public.
Geoff S
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Just announced Victoria Premier Jacinta Allen is off the China to unveil a new ‘China Strategy’ while ‘distancing herself’ from her former boss Daniel Andrews who put her in the job. Just part of a long conga line of Labor leaders since Whitlam visiting their bosses in China.
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FWIW
Another tangled web looks to have unravelled
“Fauci Caught DEAD TO RIGHTS in Anti-FOIA Conspiracy, Per Newly Released Emails”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-09-12/fauci-caught-dead-rights-anti-foia-conspiracy-newly-released-emails
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FWIW
“Direction via indirection
Sometimes plausible deniability isn’t plausible.”
“After the murder, privilegium clericale6 was firmly written into English law, outright removing any secular judicial authority, and directing clergy be tried in ecclesiastical courts under canon law.
It also set the precedent in English common law7 that firmly hinting at murder, hoping that someone else would do the deed for you, does not — in fact — keep your hands clean; does not absolve you of some measure of culpability, liability, and/or responsibility — and can be actionable.
Something that some folks might ought to bear in mind these turbulent days.”
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/direction-via-indirection
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Yes “Whitlam visiting their bosses in China”. Back in those days everybody in China rode bicycles, China was a backward country I remember it on TV. A lot has changed since then, they now have almost unlimited energy and they are the worlds factory plus they might beet the USA to the Moon. They also now have the largest navy in the world.
So Jacinta is only going to bend the knee!!!
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It’s a brown water navy. They could not even put a force into the Straits of Malacca. Their latest 003 carrier could not venture past the First Island Chain.
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Why else would she be there.
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Blades fall from Wind Turbine at Aviva’s Perth Site
https://perthgazette.co.uk/2025/09/blades-fall-from-wind-turbine-at-avivas-perth-site/
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