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So okay then, where did your last steak come from?
Beef Cattle And Beef As Food
Tony.
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where did your last steak come from?
Millin’s Free Range Butcher
71A New Street West, Balgowlah Heights, NSW
Australia
An ageing room full of treats for Dad this weekend!
Black Onyx Striploin
Produced by Rangers Valley, this cut is our most popular steak, year round. Tenderness guaranteed.
42-day Dry Aged Bistecca
A thick cut of T-Bone usually shared between 2-3 people. This steak is the best of both worlds, sirloin on one side and fillet on the other. Sourced from the Hunter Valley, we are ageing it for 6 weeks. Only available Father’s Day weekend. Orders are recommended.
42-day Dry Aged Sirloin
Steak or Roast on the Bone. This cut is the butchers favourite! Grass fed beef, sourced from the Hunter Valley and held in our ageing room for 6 weeks. You must pre-order this to avoid missing out!
21-day Dry Aged Leg of Lamb
Something new and special this year! Spring Lamb has just hit our cabinets, and we’ve put some away for 3 weeks. We have been pleasantly surprised at the results! Our Aged Spring Lamb has enhanced flavour and tenderness and will make your roast a real show stopper!
Rolled Pork Loin
Sunday roast has always been a tradition in our house and roast pork is always a favourite, it’s a fight to get the crackling and we have spare available to purchase if needed. Roast pork + crackling + apple sauce + gravy = happy Dad 😊
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And
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What interested me was that cattle came out on the First Fleet, sourced from Cape Town. Once they landed, the two bulls and five cows promptly escaped into the wild. They were found again seven years later in 1795, when Convicts on land duty found them south of the Nepean. They had grown to a small herd of around 70 cattle. They were domesticated (again) and by 1801, now built up to more than 500, and then two years later up to between 3000 and 5000 Cattle. These were dairy cattle.
This small Australian history reminded me of the earlier Texas Longhorn history. They were brought out to the Caribbean from Spain by Christopher Columbus (on his later travels) in 1493, moved to Mexico in the early 1500s where they were domesticated. In 1690, a herd of 200 was moved North into what is now Texas. They also went feral, and at the end of The Civil War, after 200 years of feral life in the wild, that herd of Longhorns was estimated at around ten million. They were rounded up and ‘droved’ North to the railhead at Kansas, almost to the point of extinction, and that movement of cattle gave rise to the American cowboy.
It’s hard to believe there are 40 plus breeds of beef cattle just here in Australia.
My butcher of choice is Cavs at Biggera Waters on the Northern Gold Coast, whenever I get the chance. They used to have a Steakhouse at Labrador, now moved to Runaway Bay. Absolutely beautiful Steaks there.
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Health officials can be evil.
“Disease enhancement from a mismatching vaccine is a rarely discussed but well-known problem. For example, a reader and physician who worked in the NIH was assigned to study this issue from 2009-2011 and followed a cohort of vaccinated children and pregnant [sic] months over 3 flu seasons also discovered a clear trend of negative vaccine efficacy. When she submitted her analysis, however, she was removed from the NIH and blacklisted from future employment (and as a result, she understandably harbors great disdain for Anthony Fauci).”
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-do-vaccines-cause-the-illnesses
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Food for thought???? https://richardsonpost.com/george-christensen/40533/whos-trojan-horse-in-australia/
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Sir Starmer’s reshuffle – he wanted to move the Marvellous Mr. Miliband – per the Express – and Miliband refused.
Keir Starmer humiliated after trying and failing to sack Ed Miliband | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
Updated: 15:02, Mon, Sep 8, 2025
Auto – seriously worried for the UK, more than before!
Also – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/08/miliband-refused-to-leave-energy-brief-in-reshuffle/
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Auto only pawn in game of life.
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Indeed so, but I can’t help aspiring to be [a bit] more …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bctYe13iePI
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Thanks!
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Miliband refuses to go??? So who is the actual PM / Boss.
Perfect example of weak & useless leader! 🇬🇧 is definitely is serious trouble. A useless Marxist dictatorship with a useless weak dictator is recipe for for civil war. The current situation with immigration etc could ignite conflict anytime!
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Immigration.
Integration – didn’t someone say – “Immigration, without integration, is Invasion” ????
Taxation.
So ‘benefits’ for anyone who has ever had a headache [it seems] …
Nut zero.
Punishment – we have the crime …
Censorship – of what is not wanted [by …?] to be seen/viewed/read.
[Thanks Skepticynic]
And possibly other things, too.
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This morning with bated breath I expected our national broadcaster to say something about 2 minors hacked to death.
There was much today about pizza but not that.
Even with the Army help (another 500 men?) our police can not find a murderer in a besieged town.
What I do not want to see in Melbourne : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y9_jx-z5lPw?feature=share
My neighbour said that he keeps his Golf Bag next to his bed but I do not play golf.
It is OK – he said and pointed to his shovel, sharpened like a good razor.
Not joking.
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I mentioned Vlad’s knife defence training years ago but relevant again today.
Vladimir Vasiliev, ex Spetznaz, has a training course (which I have, and you can find if you look) but there are good short videos showing defence techniques.
He makes it look easy and after a year or 2, it is.
https://youtu.be/kxw_TY5yTwc?si=DBGpGkSA-aDP9P-R
Grab some cut-proof fabric or clothing.
Info & video: https://cut-tex.com/
Make cut-proof pj’s or pillowcase.
A pillow is a legal and effective defence.
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FWIW – more evidence that he doesn’t read history –
“DUTY OF A PRIME MINISTER”
“SIR,—The following quotation is not without interest at the present time: “When offering me Cabinet office in his Government in 1908, he [Mr. Asquith] repeated to me Mr. Gladstone’s saying, ‘The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher,’ and he added, ‘There are several who must be pole-axed now.’ They were. Loyal as he was to his colleagues, he never shrank, when the time came and public need required it, from putting them aside—once and for all. Personal friendship might survive if it would. Political association was finished. But how else can States be governed? ”
The quotation is from an essay on the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith in Great Contemporaries, by Winston S. Churchill.—Yours
Glasfryn, Llanfyllin, Mont.”
https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th-february-1942/14/duty-of-a-prime-minister
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Get ready for the COP location announcement soon: https://turkishchamber.org.au/728-2/ With this wrapping up, now the COP bid investment for Adelaide is announced…
https://www.politico.eu/article/australia-pay-off-turkey-host-cop31-britain-uk/
Britain’s incentives package included a promise to host a Turkish investment conference in London, as well as U.K. backing of Turkish candidates for several international and U.N. posts. He declined to say which posts.
The U.K. also promised to speak to other countries about classifying Turkey as a “developing country” under the U.N. climate convention — allowing it to receive climate aid.
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The Moon would be a good place to hold the next ‘Cop Out’.
Preferably the Dark Side of the Moon.
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Will Mr. Musk’s marvellous rockets guarantee NOT to bring the delegates back?
Pretty please.
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It’s all about the money.
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With politicians and these sorts of people involved, don’t expect any honesty, integrity or morality..
“the CEO of the Clean Energy Investor Group and a former Australian diplomat.”
..and perfidious Albion..?
“According to .. Ankara’s chief climate envoy.. the U.K. also offered to back Turkey as the COP31 host…“Hypocrisy is everywhere,” said Birpınar. “I clearly remember that [the] U.K. promised to support Turkey,”
versus-
“A current U.K. official .. said the U.K. government agreed to consider a future Turkish bid but did not make a formal offer of support”
Of course the rational for dropping Turkey in the poo will be-
“Turkey’s emissions are surging, and the country recently overtook Germany as Europe’s largest producer of coal-fired electricity. ”
..and besides, Britain is not THEIR Mother-Country, how could the Turks ever expect to break into that monopoly? They’ll get to host a COPS under some sort of DEI system when all the small dogs get thrown a bone.
They should ask the Greeks who should host it… they’re certainly not going to ask the taxpayers here!
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Climate change will make you obese – fat chance! This article is the reverse of my experience. I lose my appetite in hotter weather and actively avoid high sugar/fat as digesting it makes you hotter. People crave comforting stodge etc. in colder weather and as the nights draw in, most people put on weight over winter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15077163/Climate-change-making-OBESE-warning.html
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I always lose weight in winter, being partial to soup. I think I snack too much in summer at bbq’s.
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I vote for home made pea & ham. Mine is famous. Simple, yet tedious to make. It requires a bit of faffing about in order to strip the meat from the very hot hocks (after cooking with the dried peas etc) then to chop the meat up finely. Hurts my arthritic hands. It freezes very well though, so I make a bucket full each time.
Now I’m hungry.
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Adam Bandt, the former leader of the Greens political party has apparently been appointed the new CEO for the Conservation Council of Australia. Selected as the best candidate from about 300 local and international applicants.
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Why, this could get him a soft interview on their ABC.
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“Conservation”?
More likely this will conserve corruption and no vegetation will be involved or “saved”.
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Judges in the UK are all – without exception – wonderful human beings, with tolerance of all viewpoint [not proscribed by law!!].
And all desperate to remain judges – not to ascend the slippery ladder through preferment – to be Law Lords etc.
So will strive – every time – to produce judgements in full accord with the law.
Obviously.
Absolutely not Two-Tier law in the UK. Despite our ‘Wonderful’ (Son of a Toolmaker) leader’s ‘official’ nickname [no – not “Free Gear”. Nor “Not here” … do keep up!]
[Though I gather it helps if you favour Palestinians; or migrants, who have – a judge said – more rights …]
Auto, wondering how long before justice gets – if not ‘denied’ – perhaps … hidden, a bit … sometimes.
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All I can say to you is Sodium Hypobromite 😉
“UK judge wishes convicted al-Qaeda terrorist who killed 52 in London bus bombings “all the best” as he prepares to walk free in Britain”
https://x.com/_/status/1965063112568307966
/The UK has fallen. Too far to recover.
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Despite suffering Australia’s coldest minimum for a state capital this morning (4°C) a warmish east wind off the desert will raise Perth’s temp above that of Hobart & Melburnia: so does two-and-a-half days count as an official ‘coldwave’ in this era of Freudian Sc!ence?
The cold-pulse low is now eyeing up your Snowy Mountains which, even in this Age of Boiling [sic] is well-and-truly living up to its name this year: is there a native word or name for the hills when they’re buried under a winter mantle, similar to Polynesians’ view they were gods and ancestors frozen in time?
As UN grifters gather in New York this week, will the Trump Administration make them aware of the frigid temperatures sweeping the planet:
-56°C South Pole, Antarctica
(-60° up on the higher Dome)
-29°C Greenland Summit
-3°C North Pole, Arctic and getting colder
46°C Arabian Peninsula & Iraq.
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Trump Pivots to the ‘Homeland’: Neocon Deathblow? Or Simply Imperialism Repackaged?
Major outlets are reporting that the US is set to shift its entire geopolitical strategy away from Eurasia and toward its own sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere. This is according to “sources” briefed on a new National Defense Strategy framework whose chief architect is Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
Or did he compare videos of the ‘woke’ U.S. military parade in Washington DC (vid) earlier this year with the recent flawless one in China (vid)?
The difference was indeed glaring. It demonstrated that the U.S. has no chance of winning in a war against China.
Trump seems to concede that China is winning.
All 76 weapons at China 2025 military parade explained. 47 are brand new.
While
Chinese Social Media Users Mock Trump’s June Parade After Xi’s Show Of Power On V-Day
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What are you on about? How does the ability to drill perfectly help you drive a tank or repair an aircraft? In eight years I never “drilled” after boot camp.
That esteemed General Murphy said “Any unit that is combat ready is not inspection ready. Any unit ready for inspection is not combat ready.”
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That paradise so beloved by the Left for their treatment of women and other barbaric behaviour (as evidenced by their silence), has about 4 million drug addicts.
Video: https://youtu.be/OcqP2NBsmH8
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Afghanistan of course.
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75% of the US suffer from chronic disease treated by big pharma, so 260M, and over 100M on opioids alone.
70M over 12 do Marijuana regularly.
30M are alcoholics.
65M addicted to tobacco.
A sad picture.
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I had to give up smoking, they kept putting up the price of beer.
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You could look at the economics of home brewing.
But I doubt that the savings will be enough to lure you back to smoking
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The Prime Minister again has appealed to corporate Australia, urging leaders at the annual Business Council of Australia dinner to back Labor’s plans for an ambitious 2035 emissions reduction target.
If executives and directors judge it is in their companies’ interests to do so, they should consider agreeing. If not, they should get on with business and leave the climate politics to politicians.
Meanwhile in the Real World – Australia under Labor Albo, Blackout Bowen, Greens, TEALs, Labor Lite Liberals- LINOs, look like a Bunch of Fools on their Net Zero Fairyland Fantasy
Russia Builds NATO Turkey’s Nuclear Plant
Russia is building and operating Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, a $25 billion project under a build-own-operate (BOO) agreement, which has significant implications for Turkey’s energy security and NATO’s strategic cohesion.
The project, financed and managed by Russia’s state-owned Rosatom, has raised concerns about Turkey’s long-term dependence on Russian technology and control over a critical national infrastructure asset, despite Turkey being a NATO member.
The Akkuyu plant, located in Mersin Province, is expected to supply approximately 10% of Turkey’s electricity once fully operational, with initial trial production now anticipated by the end of 2025 and full operations planned for 2028.
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So we could have 5000MW of power, 24hrsx365days a year, for what Snowy 2 will cost us!
We should have gone to Putin to start with!
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When I was in Israel recently I learned that the terrorists who committed the October 7th atrocities were drugged up on a drug called captagon or an enhanced version thereof. It’s also used by ISIS and many other lowlife terrorists.
It was a prescription drug until it was banned in 1986.
It keeps terrorists awake, reduces fear and enhances violent tendencies.
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I’m familiar with it. Still big money in the middle east.
Turns you into a superhuman for 2-3 days before the crash.
But for suicide bombers, who cares eh.
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Also ideal for own special forces – Can’t afford to sleep on a mission behind enemy lines.
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Well used, right back to WW2 when both sides used amphetamines.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Jacinda Ardern: “I made mistakes – but I was human”
September 8, 2025 RobertBaiting The Left Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Wuhan Flu 27 Comments
The infamous Kiwi totalitarian thug of the Covid era now wants sympathy:”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/08/jacinda-ardern-i-made-mistakes-but-i-was-human/
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Don’t forgive. Don’t forget.
She knew what she was doing. All the information she needed to make the correct decisions was out there. She could even have looked at this blog. Therefore ignorance was not and is not an excuse.
She’s probably only saying this because she got caught out.
No sympathy from me. She should suffer the consequences although there probably won’t be any.
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“…but I was human” !
When?
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” “I made mistakes – but I was human””
See, she is still lying! Human my ass!
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I think telephone poling is dead.
Last week I opened the door to a woman offering a $20 gift voucher to do a Roy Morgan survey. That took about 1 hour but I was interested to see the questions.
After the survey, I was told I could do an online follow up and get a $40 gift voucher. After 5 hours with an overnight break, I have done the on-line survey. Hardest $40 I have ever learnt. But it was interesting to see the questions. Way more questions than any phone pole. It included almost every brand and store in Australia.
I will be interested to see the results of this pole.
It made me think about how the internet has changed my life experience. I have not looked at newspaper in the last 5 years or more. Amazon is close to my go-to place for non-specific shopping and some specific shopping. Aldi has become our supermarket of choice in the past 3 years. Television streaming and devices like Alexa now dominate our media along with blogs and social media for my wife.
One of the questions made me really think –
Which companies do you trust?
It seems you could list a huge number of companies or none at all. So I listed companies that I have placed trust in. There were two banks, a retirement fund manager, Ausnet, South East Water and Amazon. Amazon because of their prompt delivery and usually ahead of schedule as well as returns policy. Bunnings comes close but I have learnt to always check the label on stuff at Bunning because the wrong stuff can be in a particular bin.
What companies do you trust?
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I trust Bendigo Bank, a community based bank that gives back, until it closes its branches in country towns, removes its ATM’s so cash cannot be accessed and reduces “opening Hours” at the nearest branch to me, over 70 kilometres away. As it turns out the other nearest bank is the Commonwealth, 90 kilometres away, oh well.
I trust the ANZ bank, its just announced another 300 redundancies to, in their words “focus on priorities”, apparently country folk are not on the priority list. Used to be an ANZ, and a Westpac and a Commonwealth and a National in a town just 30 kilometres away, all gone. This place used to have a Bendigo agency, a captive customer base, closed a couple of weeks ago.
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My understanding of Bendigo Bank is there is Bendigo corporate running banks and then separately there are individual Bendigo Community banks that operate with the network support of Bendigo Bank. The community banks are the ones that have to give 40% of their profit (or was it 60%?) back to the community. Bendigo Bank banks don’t. These community branches typically have an investor or group of investors that help start the bank.
My guess would be that if it closed it wasn’t the decision of Bendigo bank (it probably wouldn’t have opened in the first place, or have closed years ago if run by them) and would have been the decision of that community bank because it wasn’t sustainable.
That’s just the gist I got when offered a share in opening a branch some years ago. So don’t take it to the bank.
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I do online surveys a lot, I get asked the trust question a lot about corporations/companies. My answer, I trust none of them. All I want from them is to provide a product or service that meets my standards and is at a reasonable price. I do not care about their DEI, their corporate governance, their climate program etc. I do care about their IT systems protection and how robust they are if they have my data I want that protected, do I TRUST them to do that? hell no.
I cancelled my membership for Qantas FF, six months later they are hacked and my details leaked. I’d cancelled my membership why did they still have my details on file? Thirteen years ago I took out one of those pay no interest purchases with Harvey Norman. Paid it out in six months, their financial provider gets hacked 13 years later and my details are hacked, WTF did they still have me details on file 13 years later?
I don’t trust any of that nor them because they are only doing it to look good in the eyes of the consumer and government. When it comes to their bottom line, they will do what they have to do to stay profitable for their shareholders. None of them give me a good reason to trust them. I’m of the X-files motto, Trust No One!
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I hold savings in bank accounts and financial institutions. I trust these institutions to maintain accurate records of my accounts. It would be a sorrow world if there was no trust. I trust the water supply/disposal company to supply disinfected water and enabling our waste to discharge into their collection system. There is no need to test the quality of the water daily. Electricity is a bit different because I am aware of the service being available or not but I do trust them to regulate the voltage within the tolerance of the stuff I have connected.
In these circumstances, I am reminded of a story a nephew told me after he had worked in Saudi Arabia. He was a panel beater so had first hand experience of tests of faith where drivers would purposefully drive on the wrong side of the road going up a blind crest to test their faith in Allah. This was maybe 30 years ago when there were good roads in certain places but not a lot of cars. In Australia, we constantly put out trust in other drivers to not purposefully target us when approaching. (Maybe not so much in Victoria where you have to be alert to teenagers hooning away from some horrible crime)
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Some good news…😅
Mining giant BHP has dumped plans to build a major renewable energy project at its flagship iron ore operations, sparking claims the company is slowly walking away from efforts to decarbonise.
In 2023, BHP announced it would spend about $US2 billion ($3 billion) building more than 500 megawatts of large-scale wind, solar and battery projects to clean up and electrify its iron ore business in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
This has now been dumped!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/bhp-scraps-renewable-projects-says-emissions-reductions-on-track/105735266
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The only economic project would be to convert their rail fleet to electric. That would be fuelled by gas that is lower cost than diesel. They are testing battery locomotives. I do not know if there are plans to charge them from overhead lines but that would make a lot of sense because these systems are well developed.
Queensland Rail made huge economic gains when it electrified its coal trains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEXtK31ydzc
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It was Premier Joh who enabled Bowen Basin coal mining.
As I recall he approved the mines, prolly giving the miners a royalty holiday, he had the power stations built to power the drag lines. Instead of b!tchin and fighting about the rail line as labor did with Adani he built the line and the trains thus getting a nice little monopoly which became QRNational, an enterprise worth over $6 bill which labor later sold most of.
Joh also started the electrification of the rail line to Abbot Point,
Only after his passing did I recognise that he was a visionary.
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There’s no question that the Gen Z pendulum is swinging back against the woke left, and swinging HARD. We’ve covered multiple polls and studies about those young whippersnappers with their blue jeans and rock & roll, as Americans under 30 are shifting to the right big time, and young men, in particular, are flat-out rejecting gender ideology.
But there is still a lot of work to do with young women, as a new NBC poll shows. The NBC Decision Desk asked young men and women what their priorities in life are, based on who they voted for in 2024. While the results are not surprising in the least, they are extremely scary for the survival of our species.
Check out the differences in priorities for young men who voted for Donald Trump versus young women who voted for Kamala Harris:
Young men want to get married and have children. For young women, however, one of the top priorities is … emotional stability?
We’re not sure how to break this to them, but the person who sits in the White House isn’t going to give that to you (getting married and having children might, though).
In the interest of fairness, NBC also showed the results from young women who voted for Trump and young ‘white dudes for Harris.’
(Just kidding. We don’t know if the men were all white. But they probably were.)
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Safeway introduces the Feminist Aisle
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Did you know that 1 in 5 women have been diagnosed with a mental health issue?
That means 80% are running around loose!
/Calm down Karen, it’s a joke.
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Before retiring from big Corp decades ago, I was amazed at the number of career oriented young ladies who not only wanted, but demanded everything. So not only the high corporate position, but the big house in the flash suburbs, two I knew had stay at home husbands and all wanted children. This is where I struggled with comprehending what they actually wanted. As some went down the pregnancy path and others struggled with IVF, the births happened and then the NEW BORNS were simply put into care. The most important thing was work and status, the Bub was just a statement that “I can do everything”. At catchups and reunions, divorces and separations were high, some had very dysfunctional kids and I got the impression that most were not happy but striving to achieve that “somehow”. The board positions, the international travel, the token husband at home, the kids in the best private schools but not doing well, top of the range imported cars all but not enough! I was of course my old sarcastic self and advised a couple that “there are no shops or high positions in hell”. They didn’t have a clue what I was on about!
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I missed this excellent comment yesterday, but many upticks from me Sambar.
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Ex-Wheeler Dealers host finds issue on UK EVs that garages could charge £10,000 to fix
UK electric car owners could be overcharged by garages dealing with a common EV issue. The ex-host of the classic car restoration show and top mechanic suggested that a welded contactor has the potential to even “write off” models in a serious blow.
A welded contactor means a vital EV component has been fused shut due to extreme current or heat. According to Edd, contactors are located “deep” underneath the vehicle, with garages likely to replace the whole battery instead of fixing the affected part. It could see road users end up paying up to £10,000 to fix the issue instead of just a couple of hundred pounds.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/2105885/wheeler-dealers-edd-china-electric-cars
This is what happens when stupid engineers design cars.
Maybe they should consider power Thyristors instead.
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A “bottomless” hole in a glacier
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t29r6wuLPM1z23obp.mp4
/Inset Bear Grylls here.
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Pfizer’s vax destroys male fertility in utero
In a stunning revelation from the Pfizer documents, Naomi Wolf exposes that the most shocking finding isn’t the known side effects, but the vaccine’s obsessive, 360-degree focus on damaging human reproduction—not the respiratory system.
Pfizer knew the nanoparticles would invade the testes of baby boys in utero, degrading the Leydig cells responsible for masculinity and fertility. They may never develop normally, even if never vaccinated themselves.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1964754916418986098
/The experiment will continue as it is not yet complete.
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FWIW
“We Can’t Value ‘Ancient Wisdom’ Over Scientific Fact”
“Over the past decade there has been an explosion of interest in indigenous knowledge. The United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa have been at the forefront of the movement to integrate ‘ancient wisdom’ with modern science and decision-making by applying it to everything from public health to climate change. The appeal is both understandable and alluring. ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/08/we-cant-value-ancient-wisdom-over-scientific-fact/
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In comments there –
“One reason that these indigenous traditions and beliefs are now supposedly commanding more attention and respect is that it gives governments a chance to leave the impression that they’re not dismissing them as in the past. Whether they pass scientific scrutiny and actually cure afflictions the way their proponents claim is another story.”
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The real problem is a decline in educational standards. Will over-reliance on AI make students smarter, or does it come with darker consequences?
According to a new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the latter might be true.
Researchers found that writing essays with ChatGPT can lead to “cognitive debt” and a “gradual decline in the quality of written assessments.”
Over four months, MIT researchers asked 54 adults to write essays in three groups: those who used ChatGPT, those who used a search engine, and those who used only their own skills. The team tracked brain activity and analyzed the writing to see how engaged participants were. The results were interesting: those who relied on AI showed much less brain engagement and even struggled to remember their own quotes. When later asked to write without AI, they performed the worst of all.
The study was small, with only 18 participants making the final round, but it raises a big question: Does over-reliance on AI make it harder to think for ourselves?
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Already, 89 percent of US college students admit to using ChatGPT for homework, despite its limitations. Adaptation is urgent. Some universities, like Stanford, Barnard, and New York University, have begun offering AI literacy courses, where students learn to evaluate the consequences of AI and understand when not to use it.
Europe is taking a slightly different path. The European Commission’s guidelines emphasize transparency, accountability, and fairness in AI education. Instead of banning the tool, they are trying to integrate it into the learning process. Students may use AI to brainstorm ideas, correct grammar, or support research. The goal is for students to understand how it works, its risks, and capabilities.
Asia, however, is the leader of integration. In South Korea and Singapore, students use AI in classrooms and in assessments.
Singapore, through its second National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (NAIS 2.0), has positioned itself as a global leader. The plan outlines 15 steps over the next 3–5 years to advance AI in manufacturing, finance, healthcare, education, and public services.
AI is a huge part of today’s world. No matter how much universities or schools wish it never existed, it seems like it’s here to stay.
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AI Innovation Sandbox in Singapore
Singapore has successfully leveraged strategic partnerships to create innovation sandboxes for AI development, which have proven effective in sparking experimentation and building business confidence.
The AI Trailblazers initiative, a collaboration with Google Cloud, provided over 80 businesses and government agencies with access to AI toolsets and support services, leading to the generation of novel use cases within 100 days and resulting in over S$10 million in annual efficiency gains and time savings.
This initiative, along with the GenAI Sandboxes for SMEs, has enabled companies to trial pre-approved solutions with grant support, with over 200 SMEs already benefiting.
These programs have been instrumental in demonstrating tangible business value, thereby encouraging further investment in AI.
The AI Trailblazers initiative with Google Cloud linked AI toolsets and expert support to over 80 businesses and government agencies, generating novel use cases within 100 days and yielding more than S$10 million in annual efficiency gains and time savings.
The GenAI Sandboxes for SMEs offer access to nearly 30 pre-approved GenAI solutions in areas like marketing, customer engagement, and talent acquisition, with over 200 SMEs supported to date.
These sandboxes, combined with government grants and incentives, have helped businesses see the potential of AI in achieving their objectives, thereby increasing their confidence to invest further resources.
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Start-Up Sandbox
The South Korean television series Start-Up is set in a fictional Silicon Valley called Sandbox, which serves as a safe space for startups to learn, experiment, and fail.
The drama revolves around Seo Dal-mi (Bae Suzy), a young woman who dreams of becoming Korea’s Steve Jobs, and her journey within the startup world.
She is connected to Sandbox through her father, whose idea for a tech venture inspired the concept of the fictional incubator.
The series, which aired on tvN from October 17 to December 6, 2020, every Saturday and Sunday at 21 KST, is available for streaming on Netflix.
It stars Bae Suzy, Nam Joo-hyuk, Kim Seon-ho, and Kang Han-na, and explores themes of entrepreneurship, love, and personal growth within the competitive environment of startup companies.
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It will absolutely makes users less smart, just like computers and GPS have already done. I’ve noticed this myself over the past couple of decades. age plays a part too, but I have slowly become more and more reliant on my calendar to tell me where I should be and my GPS to tell me how to get there. I used to need just one drive to a place and then I would remember how to get there but nowadays, because I use my GPS so much (to avoid traffic jams and get warning of speed cameras, accidents, etc) I struggle to remember how to get to a place I’ve been to several times before.
Help, me brain’s shrinking!
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“Researchers found that writing essays with ChatGPT can lead to “cognitive debt” and a “gradual decline in the quality of written assessments.””
A mate uses it a lot on a car club website, and it is just cringeworthy! You can tell straight away if AI wrote it, its formal, incredibly wordy and spends a long time telling you what you already knew without telling you anything you didn’t know or couldn’t find out faster with a web search.
I reckon its worthless, I haven’t seen a good use for it yet.
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FWIW
“Rough Couple of Weeks in San Diego for EVs”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/09/08/rough-couple-of-weeks-in-san-diego-for-evs-n3806587
The onset of an EV pandemic?
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Fire Chief: “They also release toxic chemicals into the air. Additionally, they take a significant amount of water to completely extinguish.”
And so I wonder yet again, “Where does all that highly contaminated water go?”
I assume it simply flows into the nearest storm drain, then eventually finds its way into a river and maybe onward into the sea. I wonder where the San Diego storm water system ends up, in light of so many EV fires in a short time? Maybe somebody ought to be testing the water downstream.
EVs might not be terribly good for the environment after all, in so many ways.
As Tim Blair said a long time ago, “Nothing green ever works.”
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Or as The Donald said; ‘Everything woke turns to shit.’
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Junior doctors in the UK are whistleblowing about the state of the NHS treating illegal migrants
Blocking ONE in FIVE patients to treat illegals as a priority
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1964987369259512225
/Let it burn then start again…
Check out Basil’s page.
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD
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Some people in Australia are promoting a 4 day or less work week.
How is that doable given the massive Government debt taxpayers will need to pay off sooner or later (or crash the economy instead).
Australian total Government debt, federal state and local about to roll over to:
$2.152 trillion
Still enjoying all the “free stuff”….?
Enjoy!
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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A significant portion of the current “work” is destructive.
Importing wind turbines, clearing land and making roads to install them and then operating them all reduce Australia’s productivity. A significant portion of government and government funded activity is counter productive. The entire ABC, BoM and CSIRO add no value to Australian economy. Most of their work is counter productive. Schools are dominantly propaganda machines that are counter productive.
The things that produce income are mining and associated export as well as farming and cattle production.. A large proportion of the economy works to reduce this productive activity.
So a shorter working week in government and government funded propaganda machines would benefit the economy.
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“So a shorter working week in government and government funded propaganda machines would benefit the economy.”
Love it! Great point!
25% of America’s income now goes on paying debt interest, having overtaken what they spend on the military. We will be heading up that way soon enough…
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Coming to a town near you – At least 17 people shot dead by police in Nepal as the peasants revolted against internet censorship.
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I’m shocked!
I was just recently in Kathmandu.
Nepalis are usually calm and gentle people.
Given the behaviour of Australian police during the covid lockups, I no longer doubt their willingness to commit ultraviolence against Australians either because “they are just following orders”.
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The good news is that the social media ban was rescinded.
I see no chance that Australia will rescind it’s forthcoming youth social media ban. Our Government is far more of a dictatorship and far less willing to listen to the people. Plus all factions of the Uniparty accept the ban.
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“I see no chance that Australia will rescind it’s forthcoming youth social media ban. ”
What, you can’t see the same thing happening here?
Why? Won’t we bother to demonstrate, or won’t the Police shoot us?
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It feels like the start of a revolution.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/nepal-police-open-fire-on-crowd-protesting-social-media-ban-killing-at-least-17-people#:~:text=KATHMANDU%2C%20Nepal%20(AP)%20—,by%20police%20official%20Shekhar%20Khanal.
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How NOT to install a heatpump
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1dwaiTtYk1yzbs45.mp4
Fisiks is fun!
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It’s ok. He didn’t actually install it that way.
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No, its OK because Superman came to save him…
Darwin at work.
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Interesting you gave to read a Russian News site to get full detail
White House dismisses Trump ‘birthday card’ to Epstein as bulls**t
The Democrats published a note featuring a drawing of a woman’s body and allegedly signed by the US president
Just keep scrolling down and you can read the complete 238 Pages
US Congress releases Epstein ‘birthday book’ (READ IN FULL)
Other released documents include the sex offender’s will and his 2007 non-prosecution agreement with authorities
The House Oversight Committee has published hundreds of pages of records from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, including the financier’s so-called “birthday book,” with chair James Comer (R-Ky.) accusing Democrats of selectively “cherry-picking” documents to smear President Donald Trump.
The professionally bound book, compiled in 2003 by Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, features contributions from dozens of acquaintances, among them former President Bill Clinton and attorney Alan Dershowitz.
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JD Vance@JDVance
The Democrats don’t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That’s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.
No one is falling for this BS.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec
The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false.
As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.
Furthermore, the “reporter” @joe_palazzol who wrote this hatchet job reached out for comment at the EXACT same minute he published his story giving us no time to respond.
This is FAKE NEWS to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein Hoax!
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Looking out my back yard I see an agile wallaby scratching itself which made me wonder how my dog stays flea free. Are there different fleas for the different animals?
Iirc during the plague they worked out that fleas were the vector for the disease and killed off the dogs. Trouble is it was the fleas on the rats that spread the plague and the dogs helped control rats. Sh!t happens, it’s not new.
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“Are there different fleas for the different animals?”
I think they have preferences, so a cat flea will feed on you if the cat has gone out for the night..
Apparently lap-dogs were meant to take the fleas off the humans who had them on their laps.
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Michael Mann spruiking his new book.
‘As we detail in our book Science Under Siege, no media entity has done more to spread climate and Covid-19 antiscience disinformation than Fox News. Much as they have paid the price for their promotion of lies regarding the 2020 election and voting machines, it’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.’ (Guardian)
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Wow, that’s something.
What a marroon.
Let them keep thinking that ‘Fox news’ is their problem.
Mr. Science’s understanding of the media of landscape in 2025 is still so 2020.
Let them remain blind to the fact that since Pandemic, a lot people feel besieged by ‘science’ rather than the other way round.
A fact that resurrected their nemesis Trump from the siege constructed by the huge media army that excluded Fox.
People like him are bringing ruin to the Knowledge Hierarchy.
And Europe.
And US Democrats.
Reckon we’re due for a new one anyway
Faint pleasure since we’re likely getting ruined with them.
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Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Topline Data Demonstrating Robust Immune Response With Their LP.8.1-Adapted COVID-19 Vaccine 2025-2026 Formula
To date, 5 billion doses have been distributed globally of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which continues to demonstrate a favorable safety and efficacy profile supported by extensive real-world evidence as well as by clinical, non-clinical, pharmacovigilance, and manufacturing data.
LOL….
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-biontech-announce-topline-data-104500046.html
The sheeple will be lining up for it.
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I have no doubt that the next mRNA “vaccine” in Australia will be mandatory, as it was last time.
And dissent will be further repressed as Australian censorship and punishment for non-compliance with the Official Narrative increases.
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Have just found this in the ABC’s “Just in”, and post it without comment or evaluation.
“Climate change forces BOM to overhaul El Niño and La Niña analysis.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/climate-change-prompts-bom-el-nino-la-nina-analysis-overhaul/105753896
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“El Niño, the warm episode, is being falsely observed, while the cool state, La Niña, is at risk of going undetected.”
Lol!! That’s because they are always faking the temperatures upwards!
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FWIW – UK has another gusher of “hopium”
“We’ve got trouble with wind”
“‘Britain’s greatest asset is our abundant offshore wind . . . Our mission is the start of a new era of clean energy abundance, where plentiful British wind and solar drives down energy costs, creates jobs, and gives our industries a global competitive edge.’
There’s no solar on a winter evening, just when we need the system to give us every last kilowatt of power. The UK is being deliberately planned to depend on wind.
Every sailor in olden times knew you couldn’t depend on wind.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/weve-got-trouble-with-wind/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-09&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“Why I Drive OLD Subaru and OLD Mercedes Cars”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/why-i-drive-old-subaru-and-old-mercedes-cars/
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#17…
Most older cars are better than new ones as they used metal parts instead of plastic which degrades and breaks way faster in the underbonnet environment.
European cars? Sell them before the warranty expires.
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Yep- Turn of the century is the limit. Cars around 2000 were well-engineered, fast enough, handled well and the limits of their electronics was traction control. They could be stripped and fixed!
The Toyota Altezza I had was brilliant, if a bit heavy as they are actually Lexus IS200s with a rorty 4cyl 2Litre and only sold in Japan. The body fitment was amazing, no rust appeared in 20years and the doors still shut with a quiet thunk like it was new.
Now I don’t even like driving a modern car, anything full of chimes and bells and distractions, or tries to drive instead of me… I’m expecting my 1983 Corolla to last me out.
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FWIW
“Europe: Economics & Cold – “Death Warrant” ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/europe-economics-cold-death-warrant/
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UK’s NHS new vaccination campaign poster
Can you spot the anomaly?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1079005874404885&id=100068864460325
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Weirdest-looking gang of ‘parents’ I’ve ever seen!
Not to mention there is no need to be vaxxed against it, just catch it and get over it.
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FWIW
“What I Read — and What You Should Read”
https://pjmedia.com/raymond-ibrahim/2025/09/08/what-i-and-what-you-should-read-n4943448
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Days of Thunder
“If we hadn’t won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams” — Mike Benz on “X” ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/days-of-thunder
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https://www.sabhlokcity.com/
Power and will must unite for the development of industry. Will depends upon encouragement; power upon 4 means. These means are, what is called in the language of political economy, productive capital. When the question relates only to an individual, his productive capital may be annihilated by a single loss, while his spirit of industry is not extinguished, nor even weakened. When the question is of a nation, the annihilation of its productive capital is impossible; but a long time before that fatal term is approached, the evil may infect the will; and the spirit of industry may fall into a fatal lethargy, in the midst of natural resources offered by a rich and fertile soil. The will, however, is excited by so many stimulants, that it resists an abundance of discouragements and losses. A transitory calamity, though great, never destroys the spirit of industry. It is seen to spring up after devouring wars which have impoverished nations, as a robust oak, mutilated by tempests, repairs its losses in a few years and covers itself with new branches. Nothing is sufficient to deaden industry, except the operation of a domestic and permanent cause, such as a tyrannical government, bad legislation, an intolerant religion which drives men from the country, or a minute superstition which stupifies them.
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