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Massive anti-mass migration protests erupt across Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane: https://x.com/pr0ud_americans/status/1962137394762686903
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I was among the hundreds of thousands who marched, all happy faces, Aussie flags, cheery waves and chants of, “Aussie Aussie Aussie – Oi Oi Oi!” I had a ball and met some lovely people. Even as an immigrant myself, I fely perfectly safe and welcome.
However, having read the various media reports on the marches, it turns out that I am apparently a member of the “far right”, possibly a Nazi. How come I didn’t realise sooner?
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Widely reported as racist and white supremicists. Channel 7 makes some attempt to balance with this statement:
https://7news.com.au/video/news/parliament-divided-over-march-for-australia-fallout-bc-6378011530112
But look at the news report.on the link. This is how the marches were portrayed in Victoria.
Victorian Liberals condemned the march.
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Meanwhile in Dublin:
https://youtu.be/VxqdEx-Ufos?si=KGFSMKdyewRz9ct1
Govt: Arrest the citizens for covering the gimmigrant’s knife with their blood!
20 years ago, Dublin was in the top 10 safest places in Europe, today it’s in the top 10 most dangerous.
What changed? The climate?
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Definitely Climate Change.
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Once the immigrants are in the Irish Republic they are also in the EU. In addition a passport is not needed to enter Northern Ireland and, hence , the UK.
Last year we saw one department of the Irish government handing out camping goods to the homeless immigrants, only for a lot of them settling on the banks of the main river running through Dublin. Things got so bad another department put up fencing and sent in workers and front end loaders to clean the homeless out of there.
In many towns in Ireland the locals are fed up with the illegals moving in.
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South Australia Police arrest 39yo man for holding up Dezi Freeman poster
https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/south-australia-police-arrest-39yo-man-for-holding-up-dezi-freeman-poster/news-story/ffba5ab1fb37d1bd02d30326992bcd62
Based on the accusation levelled at Freeman, I hope the Police catch him and justice is done. I have no sympathy for him nor condone his alleged actions. But, it greatly concerns me when police charge someone for a sign like that which the Police consider offensive. Especially when doing nothing about signs and flags celebrating terrorism.
This arrest seems too targeted and subjective to be fair action by the police.
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We deserve better psyops.
I don’t believe this story – the photo of the guy holding the sign seems set up for the media.
What’s his name?
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Ever notice that when we are admonished by authorities to not be swayed by ‘misinformation’, information is seldom forthcoming?
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Bowen provides information to counter what the sensible people are saying. It’s just that he lies to your face.
There should be a significant penalty for destroying a country’s well being and prosperity. Apparently not, else he wouldn’t be doing it.
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UK has had its hottest summer evah, knocking the infamous summer of ’76 out of the top 5.
https://x.com/metoffice/status/1962535540949148135
From the heat map in the above link you can see Central England was the warmest, and summer 2025 is the first to match 1976 in the CET series top spot with an average mean of 17.7C – The average maximum temperatures in 1976 were however about 3/4 of a degree warmer, and obviously the minimums this year were about the same warmer, producing a matching mean.
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Despite the heat and drought, although crop yields have been variable from place to place, overall, far from a disaster.
https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-oilseeds/gb-harvest-progress
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I anticipate Paul Homwood will comment on this in the next day.
I also note, looking at the CET graph, there were a dozen temperature spikes prior to 1900. I wonder why.
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I went back to England for a short visit in July 2018 and it was warm (Hot for England – 30 degrees C) and dry. They hadn’t had any rain for 3 months.
1975 was a good Summer as well. And in 1959, the warm weather went right through to October (Autumn). An ‘Indian Summer’ no less.
I am always skeptical about these – ‘Warmest Summer eva’ claims.
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In Germany it was a little dry and slightly warmer, a typical season during the MWP.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/08/30/germany-projected-2025-summer-of-hellish-heat-ends-up-seeing-a-mean-of-just-18-3c/
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And how warm was it in Roman times and the Medieval period? –
From a 2018 Study –
A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.
German researchers used data from tree rings – a key indicator of past climate – to claim the world has been on a ‘long-term cooling trend’ for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.
This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.
These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.
They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists.
Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: ‘We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.’
https://www.climatedepot.com/2018/08/10/study-it-was-warmer-in-roman-and-medieval-times-previous-estimates-of-historical-temperatures-during-the-roman-era-and-the-middle-ages-were-too-low/
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It occurs to me that people think the world is static. That there is a constant 0.042% CO2 in the air. And if you add more CO2, this atmospheric CO2 increases. The IPCC story is that we humans have increased this static level 50% since 1750 with fossil fuels.
Except that nothing is static. Vast amounts of water evaporate all the time from the oceans and endless rain falls, but ocean levels don’t move. CO2 also evaporates and gets absorbed at an incredible rate. It is long established fact that half of all CO2 is replaced every 5 years. Given that 98% of all CO2 gas is freely dissolved in the ocean, 98% of all CO2 ’emissions’ ends up in the ocean. Very quickly. Except no one seems to believe it. They think the world is static. Because it looks static. Like a swan gliding effortlessly across a lake.
But CO2 is constant within 1% from pole to pole, even in vast areas where no one lives like the bottom 40% of the planet including Australia. 2% of world population. And CO2 in the belt containing China, America, Europe, Russia, Japan has the same CO2 as Australia. That contradicts static. It is incredibly fast CO2 dynamics at a molecular level across 3/4 of the planet’s surface.
As for why CO2 goes up at all, the balance point wanders slightly. Given the ocean to air ratio is 50:1, it does not have to move very much for CO2 to go up or down. Slight warming perhaps, the same ocean currents which control all climates also contain CO2.
Mankind has not changed and cannot changed atmospheric CO2. NASA proved this indirectly by observing that between 1988 and 2014, tree coverage increased 14%. But CO2 went up 14% in this period of 26 years. How is it possible that trillions of tons of Co2 were sequestered in trees and CO2 did not go down? It was just replaced from the ocean instantly.
Still in Australia we have legislated Agricultural Carbon Credits, the basis of the Safeguard Mechanism, a massive hidden CO2 tax on all Australians. And just two of a series of laws based in turn on political science, not real proven science. Science says that growing trees does not reduce CO2. NASA data proved it a decade ago..
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And if you think the world is static, think about your breathing now. It’s the essential sign of life. Exchanging CO2 and O2. All living things are made from CO2 and all living things breathe. The exchange is incredibly rapid. CO2 in at 0.042% and out at 7% to 14%. How CO2 was declared a pollutant is beyond science. But it enabled the use of the Clean Air Act to try to shut down CO2. Based on incredible fake science. Clean Energy. Dirty Coal. All fake.
In a world of living things, the idea that everything is static is absurd. Everything is moving, exchanging, in equilibrium and life is short, but on a sunny day with blue skies, it is easy to see the world as static. It’s not. It’s a dream like a swan on a lake on a warm sunny day, furiously paddling to create an impression of a serene, static world.
I thought the story of King Cnut ordering the waves to recede was silly. Now we have the UN and the Albanese government as well, demanding hundreds of billions every year to control CO2. Cnut had a point. And I thought Henny Penny/Chicken Little and the sky is falling story was also silly. How wrong I was.
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King Canute [another spelling] was a wise man.
His courtiers had praised him – too much for his liking.
He proved to them that – no matter how they had lauded him – he could not control the rising tide.
Well, that’s the story I learnt as a kid, over 60 years ago.
I do wonder if there is any pollie who could, similarly, show the UN and its Brezhnevites that mankind does not affect CO2 levels.
And CO2 of course, has a nugatory – at best – and minuscule affect on the climate.
Auto
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I take my hat off to you, Avto !
(stress on the “o”)
Have not heard that moniker before but it is very apt – that fellow and his times are quite like 2020ies: dazzling tech progress / consumerism but screwing Khrushchov’s Spring to the floorboards.
A Feast In Time of Plague, indeed…
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In a world of living things, the idea that everything is static is absurd. Everything is moving, exchanging, in equilibrium and life is short, but on a sunny day with blue skies, it is easy to see the world as static
Perhaps that is why there are chemistry majors and chemical engineering majors at the university level?
Explaining the difference to a social science major might be “challenging”.
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Challenging ? Impossible, as they close their minds as well as their ears.
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Elon Musk Tweeted:
He was responding to:
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It’s not compassion. It’s communism. The deliberate, wholesale destruction of Western Democracies, their way of life, their peace, their economies, their prosperity, their heroes, their history, their values.
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It’s reported as a 26 room hotel.
7 years is about 2555 days.
£3million for full occupancy for 7 years seems to work out at about £45 a day per room… unless I am doing something wrong?
there must be bigger incentives than an impossibly low daily rate like this. I understand the value of a guaranteed income, but still…
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Occupancy rates and low season and predicable but lower standards probably play onto the rates. Insurance and govt backing for damage would be interesting.
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If there is inflation at a rate of 3% per year, in 7 years he would need £55 just to not lag the current £45.
The government pays a premium for wind energy. He should hold out for a triple rate.
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A mate I haven’t seen for some time dropped around, bought his 13-yr-old son. Son & I were chatting and I asked if he watched Starship last week. That turned into a conversation about Musk, whom I said was the greatest person alive at the moment.
With a shocked look on his face he told me Musk was evil, and had given ‘that arm wave that Germans did in WW2’, and hadn’t started SpaceX but had bought it…
Modern education of the youth… Maybe Musk can get SpaceshipB up and running soon.
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‘ … whom I said was the greatest person alive at the moment.’
Not really, there are far more deserving souls.
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I don’t see any mentioned in your comment EG.. Who else will get humanity off Earth?
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Here’s a very interesting video.
It’s a guy from Vietnam, I presume, who takes extremely rotten corroded engines he finds, that look like they have been at the bottom of the ocean or laying in a beach for a few years and he disassembles them and restores them to running order.
I think the point of the exercise is to get them to run, they are so heavily corroded that they will never be especially useful although they are better than nothing in a Third World country. (Actually, I am not sure if Vietnam is still Third World, a lot of these countries are fast catching up and will soon surpass Australia as the Government continues to destroy our economy.)
In the West such engines would be scrap metal value only.
It’s interesting seeing these badly degraded engines made to run again. He has other engine restoration videos apart from this on another of his channels.
https://youtu.be/MUHky34ExzA
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The viets are an innovative bunch using just basic hand tools. I have another channel which I can’t mention where a guy creates some amazingly good and effective products with timber, glue and basic tools.
Vietnam is the new China too, as westerners abandon Poo Bear world in droves.
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A friend who was there at the time said once : most evil weapon Viet Kong had was very sharp twig, stuck in little ground hollow and smudged with cow dung.
If that was true, I am not sure – must’ve hurt their own, thongs wearing people first.
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Punji stakes Vlad
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Here is a video from Pakistan where they repair a Toyota Hilux truck which is as badly smashed up as you could imagine.
In the West it would be an obvious write-off / totalled.
But they manage to restore it to something that superficially resembles the original.
I wouldn’t trust it’s structural integrity, and I doubt it’s restored to original factiry condition or full functionality but it suffices for Pakistan where such issues are of little importance. At least they have a working vehicle.
It’s amazing what can be done with large amounts of cheap, skilled labour.
https://youtu.be/t4UMbsRmves
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The south Africans do car repairs in record times too, but the paki’s are tops in “squalor engineering”.
Meanwhile in the west, “your ev battery has a tiny tiny dent. The car’s a write-off” 😆
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Meanwhile in the USA:
https://youtu.be/Lu9I3cQHO8w?si=GTHBhRE9CbgIEGsi
Bookmark! 😎
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There are people who make a good living here recovering motor vehicle wrecks from remote communities and removing parts, diesel engines are sought after for export to under developed countries where they are reconditioned and installed into ageing vehicles that are popular.
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In Victoriastan, Australia, the taxpayer was hit with $469,000 to redesign toilets at a certain school to make them more “inclusive”.
Isn’t the whole point of separating genders in toilets to MAKE them EXCLUSIVE?
The “non-binary” architect wants to remove a wall separating the boys’ and girls’ toilets.
It must be very lucrative to get involved in Victoriastan Government contracts…
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$469,000 sounds about right for a government tender to remove a wall between toilets.
• $2000 for the local handyman to knock out and remove the wall, fill and paint the gap.
• $50,000 sweetener to the public serpent who oversees the tendering process.
• $417,000 in the back pocket.
That’s much better than just getting the school janitor to unscrew the male and female signs from the toilet doors.
Who makes money that way?
Economic stagnation!
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Anybody ask the girls and boys what they thought?
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Quite.
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Shoalhaven City Council has recently rejected a community request for a toilet block at Wowly Creek, a popular recreation spot. After much study the council has decided that the block would cost $700,000 and was not feasible.
$700,000 for a basic toilet block?
I built a 2 story brick veneer/tile home a few years ago for less than half that, including all services and landscaping.
The Council obviously has no idea of how to do anything efficiently.
Bureaucracy writ large!
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The joke, I think it was a joke, about the two council employees who arrived in a residential street and began digging holes, one digging and one filling in. An intrigued observer asked why they were doing that and the answer was that the third workman was having a day off, he plants shrubs.
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I posted the linked article yesterday.
It is simply unbelievable that the Victoriastan “leader” of the “Opposition”, fake conservative Liberal Battin, would defend Daniel Andrews’ “reputation” when he is widely hated, even by fellow commies, for what he did during covid and for other matters.
He reprimanded his Party members for besmirching Andrews’ reputation by likening him to a dictator, which of course he was.
Battin has basically disqualified himself and his Party of ever winning an election.
Frankly, I don’t think the Liberals want to win an election. They don’t need to. They have moved so far to the Left that pretty well all Liberal policies are implemented by Labor, including a ban on fracking and “climate change” policies.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/disappointed-and-very-angry-victorian-liberal-leader-brad-battin-unloads-on-own-partys-mps-over-daniel-andrews-stalin-nuremberg-trial-comments/news-story/1e522093f576cbc2cb0b5fd711c6528d
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Following the recent protest marches someone posted an interesting photo of a person carrying a poster with a concise summary of the reason behind the protests.
The message was clear and said something like this:
“Immigration without Assimilation is Invasion”.
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Tomorrow, Bob Carr and Daniel Andrews will be among the few Western politicians or former politicians attending a People’s Republic of China military parade.
No current Western leaders are going but:
Two former NZ PMs are also going, Helen Clark and John Key.
Isn’t it odd that no current Western leaders are attending, only hostile non-Western leaders but Andrews and Carr are attending?
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I’d say Carr and Andrews are pretty hostile towards Australia…
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Andrews Labor Government of Victoria signed a Chinese Belt & Road Agreement, later cancelled by the Morrison Federal Coalition Government because states do not have the authority to enter into foreign country agreements.
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Two former NZ PMs…
Helengrad & Shonkey, aka Left & Right or Chalk & Cheese: the UN green socialist & the millionaire money trader: one coin, two sides, oy vey!
And ye shall know them by their friends – or the foreign military parades they’re invited to.
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Regime change has taken place, a bloodless coup, so its a good thing to have some Australians there at the end of dictatorship.
Proof is required, Zhang Youxia will salute the troops.
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Just like a treaty people voted against. It simply doesn’t matter what the people want we just get what we are given
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“Opposition” “leader” Battin will be pleased.
He has already reprimanded his members who dared refer to Dictator Dan as a … dictator… .
The Liberals are pathetic but once they start defending the most hated ex-Premier of an opposition party, you realise that there’s no hope that the fake conservative Liberals will ever be elected.
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I’m sure we can entice pigeons to visit it. 😉
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>Andrews statue
We should donate it to China.
It would be more at home in Tiananmen Square.
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We could just store it in a safe place like they did with the Captain Cook statue. Never to be seen again,
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FWIW – for the covid record
Start here –
“Now let’s get to the real news, tee’d up by a media mystery that provided President Trump with his opening. First, to set the table, it’s time to play connect-the-dots again. There’s a conundrum; the CDC was, apparently, a much more important target than anyone thought. Not only has corporate media continued the drumbeats over Trump firing his own CDC director for over a week now, but the articles have multiplied and metastasized and filled the newspapers like rabid Tribbles. I gave up trying to find just one; there were simply too many.”
and follow down
“Obviously, I don’t know. But the fight over Kennedy is clearly not really about Susan Monarez, or even the CDC’s org chart. I’m beginning to think the whole thing is a proxy referendum, not on vaccines generally, but specifically on the pandemic vaccines. Maybe neither side realizes that yet, not fully, not consciously. But that’s what the furious argument is really about.”
“Consider the fact that, if Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism gains traction, then the whole pandemic narrative —mandates, lockdowns, “trust the science”— starts unraveling. So, defending the CDC and attacking Kennedy is a way to defend the mRNA vaccines without being too obvious about it.”
“So when you put the pieces together, a child could see it: an mRNA reckoning is on the way. You can be sure the Democrats and their pharma allies can see it coming from miles away.
And that technology —mRNA— is particularly vulnerable to close inspection.”
“The pandemic emergency gave the technology a last-minute reprieve— warp-speed funding, relaxed regulatory hurdles, and a massive guaranteed customer base. But Pfizer and Moderna never solved the platform’s technical problems. They just bulldozed them under in the name of urgency.”
“Now for the part you’ve been patiently waiting for. This morning —while I was innocently working on a nice piece about the progressive origins of Labor Day— President Trump dropped a bunker buster, maybe the biggest political bomb of all. It was nothing less than a declaration of war. Read for yourself:”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/pharmapocalypse-monday-september?
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More around that
“Safe And Effective®”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/01/safe-and-effective-218/
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FWIW
“J.K. Rowling Completely Obliterated Her Critics With One Powerful Post”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/01/jk-rowling-completely-obliterated-her-critics-with-one-powerful-post-n4943230
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My conservative Christian sister never allowed her 2 daughters to watch, nor read, the Boy Wizard tales due to its magical occultic sorcery inspired by the Evil One, the Prince of Darkness himself… yet now she’s an avid fan of Ms Rowling standing up for the health (and sanity) of the little ones.
Not having seen the films nor read the books, I’m no ‘expert’ on the subject; however, that Scottish lass has bigger cojones than your bog-standard cross-dressing freak-in-lipstick effete screaming EQUALITY!
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another ian,
not blaming you but:
Rowling put her argument well, and logic is all on her side, but there wasn’t much obliteration.
PJ Media also puts a good case: that the standard response to Rowling is “fake outrage” stemming only from fear, but their headline was fake triumph stemming from a want of clicks. Credibility slipping down to Slay News levels IMO.
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FWIW
“America’s obsession with British decline”
“The particular essay about the impending doom of the YooKay (and he uses this demeaning nickname quite deliberately) is entitled ‘Mind the gap’, but the subhead gives the gist: ‘A powerful set of systemic factors are threatening to bring chaos unseen in centuries to the shores of the United Kingdom.’ I advise you to read the entire essay yourself. It is articulate, considered, perceptive and, if you are British, quite harrowing. He has given us the gift to see ourselves as others see us. And, my God, it is a dismal portrait.
The author attacks us from all sides. Not with pointless venom, but with outright astonishment at our grotesque and self-harming stupidity. ”
More at
https://archive.is/dV5wo#selection-1181.0-1181.40
Via https://instapundit.com/741627/#disqus_thread
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He’s very accurate- Most Govts have absolutely no fking clue how to solve the problems they are presented with, most Western countries have populations who have no respect for their Govts, and most peoples are about to learn that all the other people hate immigration as well!
“Very broadly, the general ‘social coherence’ of the UK can only be described in bleak terms. Institutional trust is all but gone, and the very real prospect of explosive political violence now exists in the public’s imagination. The bureaucratic class seem totally incapable of solving any of this. In the face of these challenges, who rises to meet them?
Surely not labor, who’s disastrous fumbling has only incited these problems even more.
Reform then? It doesn’t seem like it. Farage remains an awkward fumbler who some describe as a sellout due to his refusal to hold to mass deportations and questionable proposals for continued migration in certain sectors.
The Conservatives (despite the hopes of some) seem to continue to trot down the path towards irrelevancy. Their leader, a black Nigerian woman, has not exactly painted a compelling story of how they will fix the nation.”
https://mrstarstack.substack.com/p/london-bridge-is-falling-down
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In the following video Bret Weinstein agrees with another paper refuting the hypothesis that longer telomeres are associated with longer life. He first published his refutation in 2002.
https://youtu.be/qW2sZuB21n4
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GRIDWATCH TUES 2 SEPT AM
The purpose of this is to encourage all our friends and relations and other associates around the world to look at the dashboard of the local grid at breakfast and dinnertime to see if there is enough RE there to heat it!
Get the punters into the energy debate with incontrovertible evidence that the transition is not going to work, then they can lean on the local candidates for election.
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 15% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 17% IN THE WEST
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.15 PM WIND 7% SOLAR 27%
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.20 PM WIND 56% SOLAR 0
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Word of the day is:
mataeotechny.
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So a degree in Mayan gender studies is worthless then?
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“Too many immigrants are arriving too quickly, without sufficient diversity, language fluency, skills, or familiarity with the customs and culture of their host nations. They often enter with separatist religious and cultural values antithetical to the very place they seek refuge.”
Read the whole here: https://richardsonpost.com/victor-davis-hanson/40487/europe-in-the-balance/
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But that’s the Left’s plan – to create division and social disharmony.
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To divide and conquer.
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FWIW
“While They Breed, We Bleed: Islam’s Plan for Global Domination”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/09/01/breeding-and-bleeding-islams-plan-to-conquer-the-west-n4943216
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And have population demographic changes work silently?
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“They often enter with separatist religious and cultural values antithetical to the very place they seek refuge.”
Australia has absorbed many religions over the past 200 years and should successfully continue. Keep in mind that the children of these immigrants will be playing cricket, getting high academic marks and sharing a joke.
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” Keep in mind that the children of these immigrants will be playing cricket, getting high academic marks and sharing a joke.”
…or maybe they’ll be Muslim.
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2nd word of the day is:
paraskevidekatriaphobia.
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Fear of Friday the 13th! I worked it out from the Greek and then looked it up to check. Lovely word. 🙂
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An Indian Government Minister said the following.
As per the 6.45pm update the Australian Government denies knowledge of this. But do you believe anything from the Albanese Government?
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Thanks David,
worrying read
Update 9.45am 2/9/2025: A video has emerged on Twitter (X) of senior Indian Minister Piyush Goyal spruiking the plan for “hundreds of thousands” of Indians to build Australian homes:
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Pretty amazing, it feels like satire but maybe real.
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“Transgenderism is the only mental illness demanding the rest of society adopt the patient’s delusion as part of the patient’s treatment.”
Dr. Paul McHugh, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“A society dies when it cares more about exhibiting infinite tolerance and empathy than invoking its survival instinct.”
– Gad Saad
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3rd word of the day: Taqiyya
😎
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Lies, in support of a religious stance.
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Specifically and solely in support of ‘The Religion of Peace’, I think?
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Yup.
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A handy reference –
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
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Pieces.
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FYIW
I guess “The Religion of Peace” is “taqiyya” in the open?
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Deuteronomy 17:2-5
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An impressive photo of the 2025 SCO Summit:
https://english.nepalpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SCO-Summit.jpg
These leaders represent half the world’s population. And, more importantly, around 70% of the worlds coal consumption. UN head also attending the summit. I doubt he will find much climate ambition there though.
Europe’s economic demise ensures its irrelevance in global affairs. EU is running low on climate ambition.
I cannot imagine the AUKUS deal going ahead. Australia have Labor representatives attending the victory parade that is timed with the SCO summit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-29/bob-carr-chinese-military-parade/105714668
It appears that Australian Labor is conflicted. They are more aligned with big socialist governments and dsictatorships like China and Russia than Trump’s USA.
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Because of regime change in Beijing the idea of AUKUS becomes irrelevant, so I think we should buy diesel subs from Japan, like the frigates.
‘Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has beaten a German rival in the race to build Australia’s new fleet of warships, with the federal government expecting the first to be ready for service by 2030.
‘Australia will spend $10bn over a decade to buy three Mogami-class frigates, part of a wider deal to replace the ageing Anzac-class frigates and give the navy a bigger and more lethal surface combatant fleet.
The first three will be built in Japan by 2034, before construction moves to the Henderson naval precinct in Western Australia.’ (Guardian)
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DISTURBING: Canadian doctors say they feel ‘Energized’ after euthanizing patients
Doctors are no longer just ending lives, they’re boasting about how it makes them feel.
In haunting echoes of the 3rd Reich’s physicians, some Canadian doctors now admit they feel “energized” after euthanizing patients.
Like a twisted echo of Dr. Mengele, these doctors admit euthanasia leaves them feeling happy.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/disturbing-canadian-doctors-say-they
Getting a rush from murder now…
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We never went to the moon in 1969?
https://x.com/Girlpatriot1974/status/1961858623468163260
https://youtu.be/Rr8ljRgcJNM?si=Kw6oWqS72gqxNbKP
Then there’s the Margaret Hamilton code issue I spotted ages ago. 😉
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Quote for the day:
“I’m not young enough to think I know everything”
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FWIW
“Does ‘Labor Day’ Still Have Meaning?”
“What really killed slavery? Mechanization. Arguably the start of what we are still doing today was the reason slavery was destined to die. The choice of slaves for labor was one of economics more than anything else, and when the economic argument was destroyed as there was a better, faster and cheaper alternative it was simply a matter of time before competitive pressures forced an end to the practice.
Let me put one of the last lines of this article up here so non-contributors can see it: WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH US THAT WE IGNORE HISTORY AND INSTEAD SUBSTITUTE HUBRIS?”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253913
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>killed slavery
Really?
Mechanisation exists, and yet:
The Global Slavery Index 2023:
• approximately 50 million people were living in modern slavery on any given day in 2021. This represents an increase of nearly 10 million people since 2016.
• The illicit profits from modern slavery are estimated to be over US$245 billion annually as of 2021.
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There are plenty of proud memoirs by the “dying off” direct participants published in the Yeltsin time, which describe CCP creation.
The Comintern routinely sent money, gold, and printing equipment to China in the early 1920s. Since there was no reliable banking system, funds were often delivered physically by couriers.
Some memoirs and accounts describe Soviet representatives literally carrying gold in cases or trunks to fund communist cells, trade unions, and newspapers.
This makes the “suitcase of gold” image quite plausible, though the survival of young Soviet Republic was not certain
I am not certain who received more and who – less…
Mikhail Borodin (mid-1920s) worked mainly with Sun Yat-sen’s Guomindang (Nationalist Party).
Moscow’s strategy at that stage was to push for a “united front” between the Guomindang and the Chinese Communists.
Most of Borodin’s funds, arms flowed into Guomindang structures — party schools, propaganda, and military training — with the expectation that the CCP would grow inside that alliance.
Grigori Voitinsky (1920)
He arrived earlier, before the CCP even officially existed.
He gave money and material support directly to small Marxist study groups around Li Dazhao (Beijing) and Chen Duxiu (Shanghai).
The funds went into things like: renting meeting spaces, publishing pamphlets and journals, supporting workers’ education circles.
These groups soon coalesced into the Chinese Communist Party (founded July 1921), with help from the Comintern.
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My thick fingers again – that was a note to #11 above.
Out of what I read: since creation of temporary United Front in 1937 the Chinese (Kuomintang) Army was fighting Japanese Army, while other armed groups, led by Mao, conducted guerrilla attacks against Japanese occupiers and periodically against Kuomintang.
In my school textbooks of course, Kuomintang cooperated with Japanese invaders which naturally caused real Chinese patriots fight with Kuomintang.
May be someone on this blog knows better but I suspect that that war victory celebrated today in China was more a result of horrendous megadeath of Japanese citizens, like Tokyo only – 80k burnt on 8 March.
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France orders hospitals to be ready for war by next year as Germany warns it is on alert
French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministry of health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defense in the health field’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html
2026 you say…
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Nah- The war they are preparing for is on their own people!
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DYK: Camel tears can neutralise the venom of 26 snakes
According to recent research, a single drop of a camel’s tear has the extraordinary ability to neutralize the venom of up to 26 different species of snakes—a discovery that could revolutionize snakebite treatment and improve the lives of thousands across the globe.
The risk of severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) is significantly lower with camel nanobodies compared to horse-derived antivenoms.
Camel antibodies are heat-resistant and stable in extreme conditions—critical advantages in hot, rural climates where refrigeration is a challenge.
The smaller size and unique structure of camel nanobodies allow them to penetrate tissues and neutralize toxins more effectively.
https://news-nest.com/2025/07/05/the-miracle-of-camel-tears-how-a-single-drop-could-neutralize-26-deadly-snake-venoms/
Buy shares!
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How do you make a camel cry? What is a sad story for one?
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“How do you make a camel cry? ”
Prolly the same way you make a 5 day camel a 7 day camel, “brick it”
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Just don’t let your thumbs get caught between the bricks, or YOU cry.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Back to School
“We are living in what I call the 3rd Arc of American history, a period as consequential as the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War.” —Gen. Michael Flynn”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/back-to-school
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Talking of AI- “anything it touches will become crazier than the Democratic Party. That’s not a hard goal to reach either, with literacy at about what used to be age-eight-level for over half the US population. In such a milieu, gnostic communism is sure to flourish. The immiseration of all becomes the greatest good for the greatest number. ”
..and when the sh1t hits the fan and the banks collapse…
” I expect radical simplification of everyday life, including less high-tech, less intrusive government, irregular electric service, falling oil production, and a notable drop in population levels.
I expect a surprising shift in social relations, including a return to divisions of labor based on gender; de-pornified courtship manners and a revival of trad mating behavior, with priorities on motherhood and child-rearing in a crisis of infertility; a revival of religious communion (already underway in America’s youngest generation); a necessary return to the ethic of personal responsibility as government support withers; and a return to swift justice, including execution for significant crimes. I expect some nations to fracture into smaller regional and ethnic units, certainly Canada, possibly even the United States.”
He writes a great article. I can see JCll rubbing his hands right now!
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In the 18th century, the Western world was arching.
Then in 1776, a kink formed in the American colonies.
In the 21st century, the Western world is again arching.
And a kink has once again occurred in America.
A Trump kink.
I hope this new kink is a successful as the first one.
Ax girl gives me a little hope.
Oz is looking up after last weekend.
UK is likely where the deal goes down.
I have difficulty not thinking the the Brit government is purposely creating a situation to justify a crack down.
Made obvious by the unrelenting import of MAMs that have no allegiance and qualms about the preservation of the culture and value system that is garrisoning them.
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FWIW
“Working to Get the Truth Out With a Laugh”
“We just defeated Gavin Newsom’s censorship law in court, so videos like the one below remain legal. It’d be a shame if everyone shared it again.”
https://x.com/SethDillon/status/1961823701554298928
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/09/01/working-to-get-the-truth-out-n3806365
A template for a Victorian version?
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FWIW – noticed from outside
Instapundit lead-in
“LIKE A FEVER, IT MIGHT SAVE THE PATIENT BY KILLING THE VIRUS: Seems like Australia has the fever too.”
Seems like Australia has the fever too,
and are marching.
You can tell by the wording that the ‘news’ clowns don’t like it, everyone is either a neo-national socialist or a ‘far/hard right’ activist, etc. Apparently some decent-sized groups marching, if you can go by the ‘let’s not make them look like a lot of people’ feel you get from it.
Something you might like: “America’s obsession with British decline” ”
https://elmtreeforge.blogspot.com/2025/09/seems-like-australia-has-fever-too.html
Via https://instapundit.com/741750/#disqus_thread
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GRIDWATCH TUES 2 SEPT AM
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 15% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 17% IN THE WEST
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.15 PM WIND 7% SOLAR 27%
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.20 PM WIND 56% SOLAR 0
GRIDWATCH TUES 2 SEPT PM
AT 7.30 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 22% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 5% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4 AM WIND 4% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.25 AM WIND 25% SOLAR 15%
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