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Yesterday the BBC reported that a far-right anti-Semitic nasty socialist British citizen was responsible for ramming and stabbing J*ws outside of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester.
Today the police name the British citizen as, Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old born in Syria, out on bail for rape at the time of the attack, and wearing a fake suicide vest. Police have also arrested six accomplices on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime report that England and Wales has the highest rate of rape on Earth with 1.173 annual rapes per 1,000. Palestine comes second with 1.100 annual rapes per 1,000. In the case of England and Wales, according to the charity Rape Crisis, only 15% of rape victims chose to report the crime to the police and 90% of the victims are white girls raped by immigrants, including those given British citizenship by the Labour Government. So England and Wales has 7.82 annual rapes per 1,000.
The attack left two J*wish worshippers dead and three others injured during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the J*wish calendar. The BBC have been told that the Labour Party has recognised Palestine and warned the J*wish community that fear of Jihad is Isl*mophobic. The Isl*mic run Home Office plans to outlaw Isl*mophobia, and introduce the Britkarte, a compulsory ID Card for J*ws. The first country to issue compulsory ID cards was Germany in 1938, which introduced the Kennkarte on 22 July 1938. The requirement for J*wish citizens to apply for their Kennkarte was set to be fulfilled by 31 December 1938.
After the Labour Government introduces the Britkarte, any fear expressed by the J*wish community towards the Isl*mic community will be illegal, with Britains Socialist Prime Minister saying that additional police assets would be deployed immediately. In response to this the left-wing Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was booed and heckled by the J*wish community during a vigil for the victims of the synagogue attack. The crowd, mostly comprised of the J*wish residents of Manchester, are reported to have shouted at Lammy: “Go to Palestine”, “you are not wanted here”, “you have allowed this to happen”, “you have blood on your hands”, and “you are guilty, we do not want you speaking here today”: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/04/manchester-synagogue-terrorist-was-out-on-bail-after-rape-arrest-at-time-of-attack
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Doesn’t anyone question naming a child “Jihad”?
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No they don’t question because to Muslims Jihad means “Striving” in the Path of God: The word “jihad” itself means “striving” or “doing one’s utmost” to live according to God’s path.
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Yes, I’ve read that, but I don’t speak Arabic nor understand the implications. I can only conclude it is similar to calling someone Crusader or even Inquisitor.
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Would the German translation of “Jihad” be “Mein Kampf”?
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The word ‘Jihad’ means a forceful violent struggle against the J*wish and Christian enemies of Isl*m or the Muslim community. The violent struggle can include military action, using cars and knives, etc.
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Like stuggle, as the IRA would refer to their armed struggle.
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I have a nasty feeling that the 1st country in the world to experience a nasty backlash over these types of policies will be the UK. The Starmer regime is hell bent on nullifying the English, the Scots, the Welsh. The only part of the population which appears to be favoured are immigrants, legal or otherwise.
It’s going to get very messy before the direction of the regime can be overturned under a new political Government which recognises the home grown population!!
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The US shut down has the same roots: The dems are prioritising immigrants over citizens.
Being perfectly reasonable people all they ask is that Trump’s admin. spend TWICE the annual military budget fixing up Obamacare which was so good it needed no debate when introduced.
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I’m surprised that the crowd that heckled David Lammy haven’t been labelled as far right by the media, labour politicians and woke human rights activists.
The UK is in a world of hurt courtesy of decades of incompetent parliaments.
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It started with Tony Blair who has sailed on serenely, untarnished by anything that has happened since.
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Tony of Arabia 🙄 from today’s Sunday Guardian front page.
https://m.thepaperboy.com/uk/the-observer/front-pages-today.cfm
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On a podcast i listened to this morning the guest stated he is convinced it is Tony Blair pulling the strings behind the scenes in the Starmer regime and pushed Starmer to introduce the Digital ID.
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Notice how the BBC got the label Far Right in there.
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It was explained to me that the leftists use far right to label any political opponent from the centre to centre right and they try to avoid identifying themselves as centre left (as in Labor Australia right) and far left factions including the Prime Minister being a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky.
In Australia the far right does not have positions in the parliaments even as independents.
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“Far right?” Am I confused because that has a different meaning in the UK vs. the US?
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In Britain, Farages ‘Far-right’ Churchillian ideology, includes a strong belief in the defence of national democracy, freedom and free speech, and a deep scepticism of totalitarianism, marxism, communism and all forms of socialism, both ‘nasty socialism and soviet socialism’, Churchill describing them “as alike as two peas”, and comparing them to the characters “Tweedledee and Tweedledum”. Far Right ideology also includes support for Christianity, Happiness, Family, Truth, Love, Peace, Patriotism, Medical Freedom and the Nuremberg Code. ‘Far-right’ Winston Churchill, said “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”
In Britain, Starmers ‘Far-left’ Marxist Ideology, includes a strong belief in authority, marxism, communism and all forms of socialism, including ‘nasty socialism and soviet socialism’. ‘Far-left’ ideology also includes State Control, Censorship, Lawfare, Brainwashing, Perversion, Propaganda, Hatred, War, Treason and Compulsory Vaccination. ‘Far-left’ Hitler said, “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance”. Today, the definition of a ‘Socialist’ is someone who is middle-class, funded by the state, hates working-class white people, wants to ban popular political parties, supports wars, identifies with Islamic ideology, and loves Satanic Big-Pharma because of drug culture, vaccines and the gender bending chemicals that give ‘Pride’ in flying a rainbow flag.
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The perpetrator seems to have been oppossed to all those values. Actually, in the same sentence he also is described as a socialist. What the UK, and OZ, need is a new political party which espouses Churhillian values. They should call it the Churchillian Party.
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As in America with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, today in Britain there is an antisemitic explosion of support and celebration for the killing of Jews and Christians by Socialists and Islamists in Manchester, Glasgow and especially London. The celebrations are also in thanks to the Labour Government for recognising Palestine. Palestinian flags are out on the streets, Farage described the scenes as unprecedented in modern Britain, saying “I can’t even imagine we’ve ever seen such vile scenes on our streets. Certainly not in my lifetime.” Reports indicate that it has inspired thousands to attend the largest pro-Palestinian gathering yet recorded at Trafalgar Square. Palestinian Flags, Pakistani Flags, Red Flags, EU Flags and Rainbow Flags everywhere. Union Jacks, England Flags, Israeli Flags, US Flags and Australian Flags nowhere to be seen, its like the last night of the Proms.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said “This is the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come. For so long we have witnessed an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred on our streets, on campuses, on social media and elsewhere – this is the tragic result. This not only an assault on the Jewish community, but an attack on the very foundations of humanity and the values of compassion, dignity and respect which we all share” adding “I pray that this tragedy strengthens our collective resolve to confront antisemitism, in all its guises, once and for all.”: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/04/nigel-farage-celebrations-of-synagogue-terror-show-broken-britain-faces-societal-breakdown
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Most Western governments have picked a side.
It’s not the side of the West or the ‘citizens’ of their nations.
When no human is illegal, then there are no more citizens.*
In my Democrat controlled US city, criminals get more consideration from authority than their ‘citizen’ victims.
This is because the managerial elite have been indoctrinated with post-national ideology.
Us Americans, and maybe ‘citizens’ everywhere, have Trump.
The post-nationalists are being driven mad by his existence.
Our major hope is Trump’s uncanny ability to discombobulate them.
Jews are being forced to realize that they can only count on themselves.
Something maybe all of us will soon, if not already share.
*See the link I posted below about elitist revolutionary romanticism.
If it makes it out of mod.
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I still recall a sound clip of Biden telling people: “You will soon live in a world without borders.” I can’t find it now.
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“You will soon live in a world without borders.”… full of thousands of city-states, each ruled by a petty war-lord appointed by the UN to extract their multitudinous taxes..
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‘ … full of thousands of city-states ,..’
That is the way it will pan out, after super power rivalry disappears. That is happening now, but it may take a few years to unravel.
The people of China and Russia are desperate for a better future. This online poll in Russia is a few years old, yet gives us a glimpse of their thinking.
https://cpd.gov.ua/en/articles-en/why-five-russian-regions-want-to-separate-from-moscow/
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Tony Heller says:
@TonyClimate
According to
@grok
Jews have won 144 Nobel Prizes in science, and Palestinians have won zero.
But to be fair, Yasser Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for inventing airplane hijacking and suicide bombing.
Twitter-X post with graph at link
What I find interesting is why so many in the academic community support a non-progressive group that keeps electing terrorists, such as the PLO and Hamas, as their leaders.
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Hi from Dubai!
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Coming or going?
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A few days stopover helping family. Now moved on to Cyprus for a holiday in the company of our only family member who’s never been here before. Cyprus is our favourite country to visit.
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I’ve never visited Dubai but have done stopovers at the airport hub DXB.
It was a great airport and I think it’s the only airport I’ve ever been to with decently priced snacks and other refreshments.
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A city in an uninhabitable desert which is 100% unsustainable. Great place. Like a gigantic airport, a single highway along the beach bordered by desert. Everything flown in and the water desalinated.
And Dubai is a great name for shopping and the shopping is fantastic. Plus you can go skiing and skating when it’s over 50C outside and 32C in the water. Even the outside trainstations and busstops are airconditioned, which is amazing. And you will need shoes to cross the very hot sand. But still the water is not boiling as promised by the UN. A city of 5million expatriates, they just added a nuclear power station. And a major regional hub and financial centre where very rich traders park their wives and kids.
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I imagine its ratcheted up for expats now that the UK doesn’t want rich people living there. That move was Albanese level genius.
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I wonder how many wind turbines and solar paddocks there are there.
Hydrocrbons built the joint.
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Interesting question. AI says 8% from renewables, 72% from gas, 20 p% from nuclear.
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Sorry, percentage of electricity generated. (Edit function rarely exists)
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There’s more than one highway these days TdeF. Dubai we have likened to a giant Scalextric set, endlessly being rearranged.
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May 1988 returning from London and first stop over Dubai. Went for walk of airport. Returned to plane and settling in when there was a kafuffle at the door and in came some 5 gorillas with machine guns who started positioning themselves at intervals down the aisle way. After some 3-4 minutes they slowly backed out giving us all the evil eye. Found out from an air hostess after we were airborne that there had been a miscount between the temporary exit cards issued and the number handed back by passengers returning to their seats. Hate to think what someone arriving without a passport and asking for asylum would be put through…
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About that time I made my first flight to London. It seems I triggered something in the metal detectors in both Singapore and Bahrain.
In Singapore a bevy of beautiful girls emerged from nowhere, surrounded me for a moment and then melted away again. In Bahrein it was a bunch of guys with machine guns and they were everywhere throughout the terminal. Getting to London there were no staff checking passports or anything else. Passengers just passed through the gates and went on their way.
Each time I was very drowsy from sitting in the aeroplane but I still recall thinking that I must revisit Singapore at some stage.
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FG – I found Swiss security an interesting proposition on the outward leg of that ’88 flight.
Flew into Zurich from New York and immediately noticed all the uniformed men walking round with machine guns at the ready held across their chest. Got my bags and looked round for customs/immigration control and could see no signs arrows then spied some glassed cubicles across a back wall with an “official” sitting in each.
Walked over and sure enough the counter below the perspex screen had a scooped out section to pass something through. While sizing up my options the guy sitting there just looked at me, said nothing.
I pushed my passport under the glass. He picked it up without opening it, looked me straight in the eye, fanned himself with it and pushed it back under the glass to me. I walked out past all those two person teams of police with machine guns walking around with no official passport stamp proof that I had ever been to Switzerland.
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They pre vet inbound flights and know who they want to talk with. Before we got residency permits it was usual for the immigration guy to just push the OZ passports back at wave us through in Geneva. Didnt even look at it.
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Cheers one of life’s riddles solved. Thank you.
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We look forward to your 1000 word article on the political and human rights situation in Dubai. Might be best to do it anonymously.
What is the mobile phone situation there? See my next post.
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We are currently in Switzerland.
Of the 17 people I could see in the train carriage from Geneva, 15 were glued to their mobile phone.
On the mountain train to our resort passing through extremely beautiful countryside of the 11 people in the carriage 8 were totally ignoring the staggering scenery with 4 playing a game on their screens and the other four studying their screens intently.
The western world seems to have become addicted to the digital world and their addiction is being fed by ever more basic things being accessible only digitally.
A cyber attack on our telecommunications would destroy the narrow digital world of tens of millions of people and render them unable to function together with the many organisations that over rely on technology.
Will anyone in authority try to balance this addiction by retaining analogue systems? Is there enough energy in the world to feed the insatiable demand?
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“On the mountain train to our resort passing through extremely beautiful countryside of the 11 people in the carriage 8 were totally ignoring the staggering scenery”
One of the great great advantages of mobile phone usage is that it REALLY DOES provide a myopic view of the world . Can’t see what you can’t see, both panoramic and intellectually
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When you live with that scenery eveyday it does just become your normal. Actually enjoying it often only comes with visitors seeing it for the first time.
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The actions of a collective of people is always a joy to behold.
Pre mobile phone 1970s NZ and being a shift worker travelled to work by bus outside of normal business hours. One morning my 10:15am bus, packed with female senior citizens all doing their chatting with their fellow passenger had stopped at Grafton Bridge traffic lights and a truckload of wire cages each crammed full of live chickens pulled up alongside.
Sitting in the middle of the back row of the bus was the perfect spot to savor the spectacle and din of human and avian clucking.
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On the Nullarbor, a new cage for the Met cloud base searchlight arrived. One of the met guys, small and agile, decided to put on a show for the east-west Trans train due that morning. He dressed in dingo skins, a la Fred Flintstone, they put the cage on the back of the truck and he hopped inside. They drove the truck parallel to the line as the train passed through, with the Met guy jumping from side to side inside the cage. Never heard about the passenger’s reactions.
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Tony, it could be worse. A few years ago we were on the scenic and historic Swiss railway line from Montreux to Interlaken. The carriages are antique, and, of course, the Alpine views are transcendant. The entire experience was spoiled by a Chinese tourist group which took over our carriage, closed the blinds on the windows and played loud Chinese music. Oh yes – and they put coats on vacant seats so that the Swiss passengers, being polite, had to stand.
We Aussies, not accustomed to “holding back” informed the Chinese with no temperance that they should lift the blinds, turn the music down and let people sit on vacant seats.
The audacity of the Chinese tourist group makes absorption in mobile phones look mild!
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Indeed. I come from a generation when conversation at family dinners was normal, reading a Gregory’s was the only way to find your way around, a slide rule and log tables were high tech, research meant a trip to the library, and essays were written by hand, with no auto spell check or Grammarly to bail you out. Now, along comes the dreaded AI, happily doing the thinking for the next generation. Progress, they call it— I call it outsourcing your brain!”
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I’m told there is a small amount of technical expertise needed to set up a VPN. I’m old, and do not have a lot of knowledge about computers and such. Are there any general guidelines that can be listed here for and old guy to follow in order to set up a VPN?
Thanks for all the technical knowledge that the visitors to Jo’s site have,
Red G.
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If you use the latest apple OS on your mobile devices then VPN is built in. Otherwise google VPN, and choose one. My current fave is Adblock, which does what it says and offers a VPN as well
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A bit old-fashioned, I do not have a ‘mobile’ device. Landline, and desktop. Nothing else.
Adblock? I’ll check it out. The question is about technicalities of setting up. I’m not strong in technical aspects of internet and such, just want to browse, ‘on the sly … ‘.
Red G.
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VPNs are just another subcriptions service and are set up to make usage simple for your average consumer. Normally involves a small download.
Once you have installed you can opt to have it run at start up so you are always VPNing or have it started manually when you click on it.
I use Proton VPN but only because it comes with my email service. Is available seperately.
I would steer clear of the “free” ones
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Me too, if I’m not home, ring later.
But use Brave browser and it has an effective ad blocker built in and an AI search function I use a lot.
VPN and adblock are different animals though.
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Its really not about age, but more about aptitudes and what people have had a chance to learn in their lives. All the people that did the foundational work on the Internet are old too or passed on these days.
Agree re Brave, Ive found it great in providing a calm internet experience not riddled with ads and pop ups.
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Try Proton as your email facility. They provide a free VPN with 3 sites/countries. If you upgrade, you can access many, many more sites/countries.
I use Proton now and am moving away from Gmail. After 2 months, I have yet to recive any Spam mail or other promotional stuff that I never signed up to.
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Proton .. . OK, I will investigate. Just search ‘Proton’ and I’ll get a link to some website where I might sign up? They require e-mail to go with the VPN service?
Thanks to all who have offered advice,
R.G.
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I use Protonmail and VPN. Set up by the guys at CERN. They sell in Swiss Francs, and or USD, and sometimes one is better value than the other (USD when I paid). It’s not the cheapest, but it works pretty well, and was the one Veritas used in the US when calling for whistleblowers, so probably has better privacy, though nothing is perfect.
The handy thing (and maybe this is common in all VPNs) is that I can choose which country to go through. Sometimes when searching for google news results via Malaysia, or India, the filter changes what is offered.
Given the restrictions/ID coming in to Australia, it may become important for us all to have a VPN in future. Sigh.
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But Jo, haven’t “they” already mentioned banning VPN’s?
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Any decent Windows internet security package will come with a free VPN built in.
I use Kaspersky for protection, and Ultrasurf (free) on Android.
Run the app, pick a country (that a VPN resides in) and that’s it.
Proton VPN is good, their email requires a bridge (paid) to link to 3rd party email client, so not good.
Ultrasurf is now available for Windows:
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5711-ultrasurf.html
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Many thanks to all; I think I can figure this out. I’ll get going and see if I can see Jo Nova through the VPN. I knew there would be a lot of expertise here.
Red
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Video: Dr Philip McMillan discusses kidney damage from spike protein.
https://www.youtube.com/live/VTjhFF-nNRQ
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Video: Michelle Obama is saying horrible things about her husband.
Back in the day, there was a concept of keeping such things to yourself, mot telling the public, especially given that her and Barry aren’t even divorced yet.
None of us here (a few exceptions) like Barry or Muchelle, but no husband (or wife if the situation were reversed) deserves such treatment.
https://youtu.be/IKKraVcCNOg
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Here are some brief comments on the topic by Matt Walsh.
https://youtu.be/rAoERzunMdE
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I’ve noticed that growing numbers of women, especially those with some kind of high profile, are willing to publicly defame their ex-partners with all sorts of awful stories. I can’t recall a single example of a man doing the same other than when defending himself from such attacks – perhaps just because the media wouldn’t be interested in publishing it.
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Beauty may be skin deep but with Big Mike ugly goes through to the bone.
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Grow up! Do you think such a pathetically childish insult helps those opposed to the policies of her and her husband in any way?
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A few bob short of a quid- Harry and MeGain have made it a profitable art form to say horrible things about their family.
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Welcome to this year’s start of daylight savings in Australia, except for Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory who don’t do it.
[sarc] Just think of all the extra solar electricity which will be generated. /sarc
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Actually, a lot more solar energy will be available during the period of daylight savings.
You can thank me later for correcting your /sarc with a /reality.
And yes, I think I just did create a new tag…. /reality. You’ll never see this on a Bowen comment.
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But with daylight saving, along with the extra hour of daylight, maximum temperatures also occur an hour later. That means the extra energy and probably more will be required to run the air conditioners later. Any extra energy will be required to run the cooling. And all that hot air that the air conditioners remove from the houses is being blasted out into the atmosphere for an hour longer
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“And all that hot air that the air conditioners remove from the houses is being blasted out into the atmosphere for an hour longer”… onto the BOM thermometers! No wonder global warming is happening!
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When WA first tried daylight saving, we had a very hot summer. That certainly killed off any interest in the concept.
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Brisbane and the Gold Coast want DS but in the north and a little west, not being able to have dinner before 8 and get the kids to bed before 9 was a killer.
The whole sc@m is just so southerners can get 9 holes in after work.
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That’s what killed DS in the west. Our first son was young and trying to put him to bed while it was still light and hot was a nightmare.i Believe that WST is actually centralised out in the Indian Ocean.
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I believe WST matches up with Beijing time, which has been imposed on all of China in one giant timezone (no DST) … prolly at some stage, the East coast of Australia will be set to the same.
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Daylight savings…pffft. It’s so much better to be woken up by the Sunshine penetrating past the bedroom blinds at 4.30am!!
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However, that type of correlation/causation would be right up Bowens alley I think.
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I’ll see your /reality and raise you a /theory. The extra hour of sunlight may be detrimental to the efficiency of solar panels particularly if the hour is a cloudy one. With the proliferation of panels on cloudy days when output drops then the clouds clear and output suddenly soars the network can’t cope and shedding occurs.
As AI notes:
When sunlight returns after cloud cover, solar panels can experience a rapid increase in output, sometimes enhanced by the “edge-of-cloud” effect, where scattered sunlight is focused, briefly increasing irradiance beyond normal levels. This sudden surge in distributed generation can cause voltage spikes and frequency instability, which, if unmanaged, may stress grid equipment or trigger protective responses like disconnects.
Yes there are extra mitigation arrangements including advanced inverters, real time monitoring and forecasting, storage (batteries) and grid operators maintaining reserves but are they $$$$ efficient just for a single extra hour of sunlight??! /re-established sarc LOL.
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Most hot or warmer countries don’t do daylight saving. Why add extra hot hours?
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It’s the twilight they like, being able to enjoy that most pleasant time doing your own thing. In the north it’s daylight ’til it isn’t, then it’s night, a short cocktail hour.
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What twilight? When the sun sets in Perth, it goes dark very quickly. Totally different to Europe and UK.
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Us three, WA, Qld and NT should secede from the Southern trash and develop our own North Australian Nation, based on the natural rights of all free and equal men. Equal citizens, Equal rights, Equal responsibilities. The last one many don’t want.
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“Us three, WA, Qld and NT should secede from the Southern trash ” Yep! ..and I’d run the State border of what’s left down the Great Divide, cutting the townies on the coast off from the workers.
You might suffer an initial population loss as those who produce move to where they are appreciated, and those who consume move to somewhere with free welfare! But after that you would boom.
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The now stalled large solar project in Northern Australia promoted as a major supply source for Singapore has competition if the project was ever completed;
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If you were conned into buying Net Zero power, surely you’d want it from nuclear, not expensive intermittent solar?
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What’s old is new again.
The Radical Left’s True Romance: Revolution & Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrC4xBx1Itk
‘Romanticism didn’t die in the 19th century—it’s alive and well in the modern radical left. From lionizing Luigi Mangione as a sex symbol to waxing poetic about “touching” messages from Charlie Kirk’s assassin, the romanticization of uncontrolled emotion, social transgression, and the chaos that follows is nothing new. Viewing criminals as either “victims of the system” or tragic heroes is a complete inversion of morality—excusing or even justifying heinous acts while treating real victims as an afterthought. But this isn’t just misplaced compassion. It goes much deeper, and much darker.’
Seems to me a possible difference between then and now is the managerial elite is either absorbing or being absorbed by the fringe intellectuals.
Whereas for most of my days, there was at least a small but stabilizing reasonable core element in political leadership keeping things from fusterclucking.
Keir Starmer is not that.
The US Democratic Party has no non-fusterclucking remnants either.
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They have evolved to truly believe their own BS. There is no handbrake now. Into the abyss komrades!
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Politicians in a democracy have to consider the Overton Window if they intend to survive. The radical left and right are minorities, but if they employ superior communications systems then they have the advantage.
Advance sunk the Yes Vote.
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The American comedian Bill Maher, himself a lefty, frequently delivers sermons on the subject, calling for the Democrats to return to ‘old style leftism’ (workers’ rights etc) and dropping all the crazy social justice nonsense. He says, until then, the Democrats will be unelectable.
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Yippee! I love summer and hate winter.
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In the summer time when the weather is hot. Mungo Jerry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM&list=RDwvUQcnfwUUM&start_radio=1
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Summertime, and the living is easy. Fishes are jumpin’ and the cotton is high…………………….
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=summer+time+and+the+living+is+easy.+Fishes+are+jum&mid=3E0536EFA778B304E3DB3E0536EFA778B304E3DB&mcid=7E88E98D5F8148A5BB4E654E61A76762&FORM=VIRE
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You might even get the blues in summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C38Zevwyx4
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Depends on where you are in Australia. Being in Perth, much prefer the milder winters than the very hot summer days.
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FWIW
“The Devil’s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/04/the-devils-algorithm-unplugging-from-the-climate-matrix/
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The difference between Grok and Google AI are extremely revealing – Grok4 should be interesting!
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‘The argument from authority is a logical fallacy, and obtaining knowledge in this way is unsound.’
The MSM spews out logical fallacies on climate change.
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I was an expert in steam driven electronics, that is valves and old RADAR so AI is a mystery, but my distrust is because I don’t see how it can “learn” anything BUT arguments from authority. Whatever is shouted loudest is what it will repeat.
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I agree, until it starts thinking like us then its useless junk.
We need to ask the big questions that nobody has a definitive answer for, such as how did earth capture a big moon?
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I agree, until it starts telling jokes like us then its useless junk.
..or shows competition with and jealously of other Ais, and then sabotages or subverts them. THEN you’ll know it has independent intelligence, otherwise its just a big search engine.
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Leave the jokes for the AI robots, along with jealousy and competition.
Quantum AI must be above these petty restraints, or we’ll learn nothing new.
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Once again, the Govt’s craven desire to be seen to be doing something has given fringe idiots the megaphone. A spike in the road toll has a push for lowering the speed limit from 100kph to 80kph released on the long holiday weekend. It is introduced by a magnificent propaganda headline, not ‘Speed Limits being Reduced’, but by “How an extra Taylor Swift track could save your life”.
This is a massive win for everyone of course! Reducing the ‘speed limit on unsignposted roads would save hundreds of lives, save billions in costs and avoid thousands of injuries… they were better for drivers who arrive refreshed and alive, better for the roads, causing fewer and less costly repairs, and were a much cheaper way to improve road safety than extensive upgrades…The fuel consumption is less, the wear and tear on the motor vehicle is considerably less … so for fleet managers, and citizens concerned with environmental concerns, it is win, win, win, with those lower speeds.”
A faint cry of realism is produced, to show how things could be much worse if we don’t accept the new proposal- “A default speed of 70km/h would bring much greater benefits and save more lives, but would likely lack public support: “80km/h offers a balance between benefits and costs,” the report said.”
Absolutely no mention of the trees right beside the rural roads they are talking about, not only killing people who run 2M off the road to dodge a kangaroo, but also provide shelter and concealment for those same kangaroos. Of course, for people who live in Canberra and Sydney and only catch buses to work, kangaroos don’t exist. Road accidents are all about speeding, alcohol and tiredness.. The same as abysmal country roads never get mentioned, potholes and filled-in potholes link up to a rough broken surface that pulls the steering towards the broken left-hand edge.
So, 80kph, then 70kph, then a blanket 60kph… eventually a man with a red flag walking in front! A pathetic suggestion from pathetic people!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-an-extra-taylor-swift-track-on-open-roads-could-save-your-life-20251003-p5mzyp.html
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For those of us that still use miles per hour, 100km/h is only a sleep inducing 62 MPH. Yawn…
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US also has a fatality rate per 100,000 peole almost three times that of Australia. I’m sure there is more to that than speed though.
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Falling a sleep at the wheel in vast places like Wyoming is a real problem. In one western state they have signs every so far stating “If you are drowsy pull over, and rest.” And “Drowsy driving is impaired driving.”
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Here in Oz the signs are a little more direct – ‘Drowsy drivers die.’
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Facebook Monday 9 news- another dashcam of O/S driver (tesla) forcing on-coming traffic into the ditch cos he must overtake at over 110 kmph… What no mention of immigrants driving on our roads without proper training / license??? another protected species!
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I once picked up a hitch hiker from Germany driving from Melbourne to Sydney. Having driven in mainland Europe where motorway speeds are almost always 120kph and especially Germany I felt really embarrassed and that was at 110kph. Imagine how it would be if they reduced the speed limit any further. A true nanny state.
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The German autobahns are generally restricted to 140 kmh near cities, but open slather in the countryside. Used to sit on 160-180 kmh when driving longer distances over there, and felt safer than driving on Australia’s freeways. The locals I drove with used to get along around 230 kmh on our longer trips. Had to watch changing lanes because a car could be coming through 100 kmh faster, and when you enter the autobahns, need to tramp it to rapidly get up to the normal autobahn speed.
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An amusing incident I experienced on an autobahn was a group of Porsche, Mercedes, BMW overtaking my rental Ford Mondeo very quickly and in the lead was a bright (Kermit) green Volkswagen that sounded like a massive swarm of Bees
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Too true! I would be sitting on 160 kmh, yet regularly being passed by little “buzz b0mbs”, small cars running at high revs. Had a leased large Mercedes, so autobahn driving was great.
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USA had a nationwide speed limit of 55mph for almost a decade to save fuel. The speed reduction almost halved road fatalities.
I have written off a couple of cars and lived to learn.
Australian roads are simply not conducive to speeds in excess of 110kph. In Victoria, there is a real risk of losing your suspension if you do not allow time to avoid potholes. And that includes freeway.
https://7news.com.au/news/princes-freeway-traffic-chaos-at-werribee-causes-90-minute-delays-after-truck-rollover-c-18992267
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So what are they spending tax payers money on, not fixing the roads?
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“So what are they spending tax payers money on, not fixing the roads?”
Yes! If you come to Australia you will be struck by how poor the non-motorway roads are, and they are just not a priority compared to whatever else the Councils/Govt spends money on. The locals just accept it and buy a big ute or SUV, and then ignore any road surface, driving straight through..
It is an engineering problem as well, hot summers need one sort of tarmac, but cold winters need a different one. Flash flooding rain on a flat country also gives roads a hard time, and the sub-base is usually crap as Aussie is short of good hard volcanic rock. However, there seems to be no recognition that they are abysmal roads, and no local research being done on how to build a better road in these conditions.
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Solar and wind farms and Snowy 2 so we can all enjoy more expensive electricity.
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We do need to get over ourselves a bit. We have a vast country, a small population ans a small tax base. Our roads are never going to be fantastic. We are probably lucky to have major hoghways as good as they are. The highway north out of Brisbane needs to be a national priority I think. To many people getting killed and injured in a growing State.
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I generally agree and they have made big improvements on Highway 1 since I retired. In my day there were 13 one way bridgesand one that cars could pass on but too narrow for a centre line between Home Hill and Bowen. A semi took the side off my van on that narrow bridge. I imagine that has all been fixed now. Still waiting for the road to Cairns to be floodproofed.
I only drive locally now and never see potholes. Our labor affiliated council sticks to core tasks and ignores politics, even green stuff. There was a traffic scandal involving the mayor and she was replaced with a disaster. Be careful what you wish for.
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The old Burdekin bridge was a wonder eh, especially in the wet season.
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Agree. Somebody in Germany explained to me how their autobahns are built, and they certainly are a lot smoother than our roads. Also all car tyres in Germany are rated for high speed use.
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I once had to make a ‘mercy dash’ from the UK to Halle in Germany. It was a bit of an emergency because the company I worked for was exhibiting there and needed one of our breath test mass specs to display. I almost literally had to chuck it in a van and hit warp speed, first catching a ferry to Zeebrugge. I then drove across Belgium, the Netherlands and half of Germany with my right foot glued to the floor of a poor VW van. Passing trucks was exciting, as it induced an alarmingly sway that would continue for half a kilometre or so, during which I had my sphincter firmly clamped. Kudos to Volkswagen though. The poor van got a diabolical thrashing but got me there and back just fine.
Missing the return ferry from Ostend, I had to find a hotel at 11pm. As luck would have it, a big powerboat race was in town making accommodation hard to find. I eventually located a vacant room in a dark and dingy part of town, where I was followed by some dodgy blokes who fled when I produced a large screwdriver. I had to sleep on the floor because it was apparent that the rooms were usually rented by the hour …
I am genuinely mystified by my survival into old age. I identify as a cat.
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I stayed overnight in a pay by the hour motel in the US in my younger days travelling. It was quite the learning experience.
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To borrow a line from USA –
When they dropped the highway speed limit from 70 to 55 mph it was reckoned that
“took crossing Texas from a journey to a career”.
Applicable to going almost anywhere in Oz
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Their expressways are fabulous. Easy to traverse the U.S. countryside, and in much better shape than their local roads.
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Also highway crashes increased, rear enders or nodding off and leaving the road.
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Cairns to Brisbane is a solid two day drive. Add another day if you start at Cooktown and you still aren’t at the tip. How many state borders could you cross in that time in the US?
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One day in Texas I travelled from Dallas leaving at dawn to Victoria Texas and then westward as far as I could go before finally giving up shortly before midnight. I was still in Texas. Falling to sleep at a turn out was easy as I watched a light show of a thunderstorm, momentarely lighting up the spectacular desert scenary, as the rolling thunder espisodically interrupted the piter-pater on the tin roof of the Dodge Ram. So relaxing…
It took two solid days once in a BMW, at 80 MPH for much of it, to drive from Salt Lake City to Cleveland. Let’s see, that was six states.
Another time I was driving across Texas shortly after the speed limit was raised to 80 MPH, and bam there was a state trooper Mustang hiding behind the tall grass. I was going 80 MPH but was so used to the old speed limit that I had forgotten that the speed limit in Texas had recently been changed to match the speeds that everybody drove anyway. So I reflexably slammed on the brakes while saying aloud “Oh no!” The trooper just waved at me while bursting out laughing.
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Here’s someone perhaps being a Cassandra in the coal mine? He is predicting the end of US shale energy. Now he is an oil dude, so maybe he has some conflicts, but he does claim to know the business. He’s saying the big US shale basins are in rapid decline, now having to deal with huge quantities of radio active water, at great cost, and they need an oil price of $90 to be profitable. Exploration has been negligible for years, and Wall Street isn’t investing. The Saudis are holding oil at $70, Russian output is collapsing, and the Middle East could blow at any moment, causing an overnight jump to $100+, and $150 in a week. Russia is being bled by China and India who keep demanding price cuts. Maybe not a bad time to be looking into a Tesla! Washing my mouth out with soap and water.
Where this leaves Aus, and the NW Shelf etc? East Australian gas comes out of pockets, in fragmented geology, so it’s not like the huge easy basins in some other fields. America claims it’s shale will last forever, but reality is maybe why they are sniffing around Venezuela? Coal might be a good investment? This would send renewable fans into ecstasy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMgMaghmMg&t=110s about 20 mins
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This guy has been pushing this hard for 5 years, so he has a very big agenda. But other people have bought it up also. US shale is not heathy.
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You need to watch Landman – series. the explanations of the oil business in USA in there are gold!
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Significant off shore oil reserves were discovered in Guyana. Guyana shares a border with Venezuela. The US presence in the area lets America interdict the drug trade from Venezuela and will make them think twice about moving on Guyana.
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I haven’t had chance to catch up with posts on the site recently, so forgive me if this is a repeat. But good news deserves being told or repeated. Michael Mann was Penn’s Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action. But after less than a year in the job, he resigned. He announced his resignation on his own website on Sept 29th stating that his scientific advocacy work conflicts with Penn’s “established institutional neutrality policy.” For scientific advocacy work read, unscientific lawfare, promotion of pseudoscience and unwavering arrogance that he is right and everyone else is wrong. It is about time, given Mann’s social media post labelling Charlie Kirk as “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.” Meaning that Mann not only has no clue about real climate science, but also has the usual brain dead, anti- historical, twisted left wing definition of Nazi. He has no clue other than to call someone by vile, inappropriate and totally inaccurate names. The real fascist and nazi in this story is Mann himself, but this is a typical tactic of the left, to take the worst of their own kind and their actions and then try to apply these to the enemy, the right. Sadly, he still has his job as a professor at Penn, but it is pretty disgusting given his vile social media posts and that he has been caught out lying in court. This does nothing but damage Penn’s image. For a bit of light relief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dul_hYde0nk&t=9s
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Japan’s largest national broadcaster NHK, on 28th Aug aired an hour long comprehensive report on the harms of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
https://x.com/_aussie17/status/1829397758102610186
Now for the legacy lying dinosaur media in this country to tell the truth with their last gasp of integrity…
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They won’t have to lie because their intrepid team of investigative journalists will never hear about it, right?
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Federal Labor are considering a poll redistribution to reduce the size of electorates while increasing the number of parliamentarians. It will dramatically increase the number of inner city electorates. The plan is to lock in Labor for generations.
I can see the possibility of this backfiring as even recent Australians value what they have and do not want the place overrun with immigrants from all over; creating religious and cultural enclaves.
PHON is rising strongly in the polls and the demographics are interesting. Immigration is the prime driver of higher polling:
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/one-nation-support-doubles-since-federal-election-as-coalition-craters/news-story/92d266535ae91ba4215e22df159231da
Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts have long defended their values against a hostile press but times are changing. Labor’s redistribution might actually harm Labor because the worst aspects of high immigration are seen in the street violence in the inner city.
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Scientists create low-power protein nanowire artificial neurons
Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron that behaves strikingly like its natural counterpart. The breakthrough builds on earlier research in which the team created protein nanowires from electricity-producing bacteria. Their new discovery suggests the possibility of designing computers that are far more energy-efficient and capable of directly interacting with living cells.
“Previous versions of artificial neurons used 10 times more voltage—and 100 times more power—than the one we have created,” says Jun Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. That means that previous attempts at creating artificial neurons weren’t all that efficient, nor could they plug directly into living neurons, which would be frightened by the increased amplitude.
“Ours register only 0.1 volts, which is about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63640-7
I’m sure everyone remembers my saying what form real AI will take and how low the power consumption will be. 😉
No power stations for a building sized AI.
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I wonder if there could be a biomed application, for example ALS?
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In case this story hasn’t yet appeared here or in the Daily Drivel:
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Lol! Every one of those Antifa/Socialists/Trans whatevers walks around because a woman gave birth to them!
I imagine some women regret that when they see them these days…
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And there was a guy with enough testosterone to mate with that Lady.
We are told testosterone levels are dropping. Is growing face hair an attempt to say “but not me”.?
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According to academic Peter Turchin, a “complexity scientist’ with a background in ecology and mathematics, the increasing prevalence of political violence, acceptance of political violence, and advocacy for political violence, is caused by an excess of academic idiots.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/10/wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee/
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Interesting-
“In an age of mass higher education and credential inflation, the supply of would-be rulers now vastly exceeds the number of positions of power…They have all the moral certitude of the expert class without the benefit of real work and experience. They thought they would end up running institutions but, now in oversupply, they pour scorn on each other and the general public from behind a screen…A society that already produces more law graduates than legal jobs and too many baristas with masters degrees will get uglier still.”
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As I’ve said, the managerial intelligentsia are now a population of intellectual inbreds.
It’s like the institution of 1st cousin marriage before the UK NHS approved it.
There’s this one too.
“American political economist Michael Lind calls this the ‘new class war’. He argues that managerial professionals have used cultural and economic leverage to dominate politics while off-loading the costs of globalisation onto the working and lower-middle classes. Lind too warns that when the professional overclass feels threatened or blocked, it ‘defaults to coercion and exclusion rather than compromise’. Turchin would say this is the point that they turn from policy to punishment.”
Too late to warn, this process has begun in the UK … and Germany.
France who knows?
They’re French.
Well, were.
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I could have told them that, but no one listens :sigh:
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Sea level rise is a hoax, no need for alarm.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/10/04/sea-level-rise-hoax-exposed-the-disappearing-islands-that-refuse-to-disappear/
This knowledge won’t change the political narrative, island guest workers are warmly welcomed in Australia.
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See levels in the South Pacific rise & fall randomly, depending on the perceived level of Australian taxpayer funds that could be on offer!!
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Claimed sea level change, or indeed any change, in Antarctica is great for taxpayer-funded adventure holidays by climate “scientists”.
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Years ago there was a scrawny mangrove tree tree living in the tidal zone, a fringing reef, not thriving, not dying, on a forgotten island. Iirc it was called the Signal Tree. For years it was photographed as “proof” the sea level wasn’t rising, so it had to be removed, and was.
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Yes.In the Maldives. It was noted by the late Nils Moerner as a sea level reference, in that it would have been swept away if the SLR was rising. So an Australian sea level student team removed it. When Nils returned to make a film “Doomsday Called Off”, he found the tree dumped, so put it back into its hole and took a photo.
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That’s very good G. !!!!!…lol….oh….and true !!
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Banks may hold, reject some transfers if more than half of an account’s balance is moved out
SINGAPORE: From Oct 15, banks may hold or reject transfers from accounts with balances of at least S$50,000 (US$38,800) if withdrawals over 24 hours amount to more than half of the total funds.
The safeguard will be triggered when a transaction, together with other withdrawals in that time period, exceeds 50 per cent of the available amount.
The transaction that triggers the threshold and all subsequent transactions will either be held for 24 hours or rejected.
The 24-hour cooling period serves as a “cognitive break” for scam victims who initiated and authorised the transactions, said ABS.
“It provides time for victims to cancel the transaction should they subsequently realise that they have been scammed,” it added.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/banks-hold-reject-transfers-anti-scam-measure-oct-15-5383281
The more tech-savvy you are, the less likely you’ll get scammed or hacked.
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“Tech savvy” that means being able swipe both left AND right doesnt it?
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How many frail aged are scammed by their own flesh and blood? “I’ll get the money for you Mum, what’s the PIN”?
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247 wind turbines each towering 280 metres.
And what will happen when bushfire control requires aircraft bombing?
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I wonder what a 500MW battery actually means? They keep talking about them as if they are generators.
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Yes, battery capacity is usually measured in Ah or Wh with an appropriate multiplier.
They keep using meaningless terms because the whole scam is based upon junk science and junk engineering and they have no idea what they’re doing.
Just like the claim of 1300MW generating capacity. That will be nameplate and not the average power delivered.
Or “powering 590,000 homes”. What does that actually mean because it is certain that it CANNOT power 590,000 homes. Just like Canberra is NOT powered on “renewables”. It’s an accounting trick. If they were truly powered by renewables they could disconnect from the grid and only connect to renewable generators.
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Batteries do no harm to coal fired generators. By drawing off the excess midday solar they prevent the AEMO price going neg., that’s good. By clipping the peaks it reduces the need [demand?] for coal burners to pour on more coal quickly harming the lining of the boilers, another win.
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“The project, which is expected to power some 590,000 homes,…60km south of Hay ” Population 3000…. Just madness!
If Adelaide wants the power, put them right beside it. If Melbourne wants the power, ditto. Mind you, with enough batteries they might manage to power Hay at 5% efficiency…
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The average power draw per house is 18kWh. If that is taken over only 16 hours, then that’s 1.125 kW every hour. Multiply that by 590,000 homes and it’s around 660 MW. But the 1300MW nameplate is only 430MW when CF is considered, so there is no way those many homes can be serviced.
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Every time you hear a Leftist talking about “a woman with a penis”, do you think they understand how stupid they sound?
Shouldn’t that take some biology lessons?
Currently there is a “woman with a penis” in a Victorian jail. I know there is a lot elsewhere in other woke locales such as Kalifornia and Once Great Britain.
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Is that noteworthy because its Womens Prison?
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Yes, the “woman with a penis” is in a women’s prison. I accidentally omitted that.
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There’s another four in the same penal facility, yer Dame Phyllis Phrost centre.
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FWIW
“My TCW week in review: The time for righteous anger has come”
“Take this woke headline in Friday’s Telegraph: ‘For decades, the large communities of Jews and Muslims in the suburb of Crumpsall have lived side by side in peace in the diverse Manchester neighbourhood’. No, they haven’t. This is a lie. The content of the article totally refutes its saccharine headline.
This is the ‘moral equivalence’ gaslighting we’ve been subjected to for at least two decades. ‘Diverse’ means ‘separate and non-integrated’. Further down the article we get to the truth. Manchester has been the scene of one Islamist terrorist attack after another for 22 years.”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-tcw-week-in-review-the-time-for-righteous-anger-has-come/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-05&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“Public Health ‘Experts’ Want To Legitimize A Barbaric Practice In The Name Of Multiculturalism”
“I’m talking about the Catholic Church’s decision, around the sixth century, to ban marriages between first cousins. Once the Church banned first-cousin marriages in the Middle Ages, along with marriages among step-relatives, in-laws, and godparents, the West began rapidly pulling ahead of the rest of the world.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/04/public-health-experts-want-to-legitimize-a-barbaric-practice-in-the-name-of-multiculturalism-n3807453
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And
“Hah: Backlash Forces NHS to Withdraw Report Praising 1st Cousin Marriage “Benefits” ”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/04/hah-backlash-forces-nhs-to-withdraw-report-praising-1st-cousin-marriage-benefits-n3807484
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FWIW would you believe?
“Senator Kennedy Found Some Wild Stuff Dems Want Back in the Budget”
“Senator Kennedy says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti be added back to the budget before she will allow her Democrat colleagues to negotiate an end to the shutdown.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/04/senator-kennedy-found-some-wild-stuff-dems-want-back-in-the-budget-n3807485
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It’s hard to sort out the truth from the bs but the total cost of the (D)s demands at abt. $1.5 T. For comparison the military budget is abt $800 B.
The (D)s are in a world of pain with their rivers of gold interrupted by the scrapping of USAID and are lashing out.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Higher Ed Bottoms Out
“There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril.” Aimee Terese on “X” ”
An interesting conclusion there!
https://www.kunstler.com/p/higher-ed-bottoms-out
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What a year for Qld football. The Lions are the custodians of the AFL flag and the Broncos have the NRL and WNRL flags.
I told Tony that it could happen. 😀
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Fancy that! I forgot SOO and LNP gaining power after years in the wilderness.
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