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Nuremberg Code Society – News
On 20th August 2022, a group of international speakers travelled to Nuremberg to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Code. Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav outlined the historical context of the Code. She stated that the Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers, but was preceded for nine years by incremental government restrictions on personal freedoms and the suspension of legal rights. Firstly, it was to control reproduction through forced sterilisation. Then, it was to eliminate those seemed to be sub-human (Untermenschen in German). She points out violations of the Nuremberg Code in both 1933 and 2020. In both years, government dictates forbade doctors to prescribe life-saving medicines. Doctors where sacked if they chose to follow the Hippocratic oath over government protocols. The media broadcast a single government-dictated narrative. Strict censorship silenced opposing views. Few individuals objected. Those who did were sacked or imprisoned, with doctors and scientists who challenged the approved narrative being maligned, their reputations trashed, losing their license to practice, as well as having their homes and workplace raided by representatives of the government.
Vera Sharav’s speech in Nuremberg was to commemorate the anniversary that everyone else, especially the medical ethics community, ignored. In a speech, there’s a limit to how much information one can convey. A book has no such limits. Thus, we are announcing the new book “Diabolical Errors: The Strange and Unsettling History of Vaccine Science.”
It is not hyperbole to say that mass compulsory vaccination is a tool of authoritarianism, and this book tells the history clearly and simply, with details you probably have not heard before: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FXWQW2XR
– The Nuremberg Code Society
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Lots of parallels between CCP in China and what happened in Germany back in 1930. This from an article I have been reading on China:
Certainly has overtones of a master race. “Training Centres” has similar objectives as “Concentration Camps”
The surveillance now means that the world is now China’s training centre. Tens of thousands of surveillance centres watching you. No one is free from CCP surveillance. The attacks on the JoNova site could well be from CCP’s effort to punish dissenting views.
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As if they care about dissenting views. 341,000 Giant Windmills is a huge cash business. And best of all, they rapidly need replacement. Meanwhile China is consuming coal as fast as it can.
Don’t do as I do. Do as I say.
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Its more like 1984, the Ministry of State Security is big brother.
‘In October 2025, the MSS deployed an AI-generated anchor in uniform called “Agent 012339” on its WeChat channel to deliver national security narratives.’ (wiki)
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So glad that I never got the jabs or boosters. I’m 73 years young this month and fit as a fiddle. My Mum is still going strong at 93 and hopefully I have her good genes.
Stay safe everyone.
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Hyperbole would be too kind. Would you rather have polio ??
The fascism equals socialism schtick is so desperate.
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Some vaccines work.
The COVIDVAXX was grossly misrepresented to us..
Tis extended to the suppression of truth. Authorieties lied to is..
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Some vaccines work.
And apparently some batches of vaccines work better than other batches.
And reading history will point out that the use of the polio vaccine had a “unstable” start.
In the end though, reasonably effective and useful.
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Which vaccines work?
Who says the current polio vaccine is reasonabley stable and effective? What does that even mean?
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The Covid Jabs and Boosters were NOT a vaccine.
They were MRNA shite delivered and made at Warp Speed and givien Emergency Approval by peopple with NFI.
Noice.
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The Covid Jabs and Boosters were not a vaccine.
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They were developed at Warp Speed and given Emergency Approval.
‘Safe and Effective’ meant that the Big Pharma Companies were Safe and Effective from prosecution from being murderers.
Big Pharma are crooks with blood on their hands.
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Would you rather have polio?
You assume vaccines do what they are supposed to do rather than what Paul Cottingham has suggested they may actually do. But how can you be so certain? Take your polio example…
Polio was already vanishing before the vaccine. U.S. paralytic polio cases peaked in 1952 (~21,000) but mortality had fallen 90 % since 1900 thanks to clean water, sewers, and nutrition. The 1955 Salk vaccine arrived after the worst was over.
Diagnosis rules were quietly tightened in 1954–55. Pre-vaccine: paralysis lasting 24 hours = “polio.” And post-vaccine: needed 60 days + lab-confirmed virus + two exams. This single change erased ~50–80% of cases overnight on paper.
Pesticides (DDT, arsenic, lead) caused most paralysis. Summer polio epidemics matched DDT spraying seasons. Tonsillectomies also triggered paralysis. In India today, “acute flaccid paralysis” (AFP) is 10× higher than historic polio and tracks on graph oral-polio-vaccine campaigns.
Early vaccines backfired. 1955 “Cutter Incident”: bad batches paralysed 204 kids, killed 10. Live oral vaccine still causes ~100 identical paralysis vaccine-derived cases yearly worldwide.
Polio was renamed, not eradicated. Today’s “AFP,” “Guillain-Barré,” or “transverse myelitis” are the old polio syndrome minus the label.
So, it is difficult to be certain vaccines halted Polio, there are too many confounding variables. Maybe Paul is correct, maybe vaccines do something entirely different.
Here is another excellent book with an excellent chapter on the history of Polio.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dissolving-Illusions-Disease-Vaccines-Forgotten/dp/1480216895
https://dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-images/#charts
Humphries & Bystrianyk argue polio’s “miracle cure” was 90 % sanitation + 10 % rebranding, with vaccines adding risks.
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Polio is a real disease and the vaccine for it is a real vaccine. Covid-1984 was a fake, at worst a form of the common cold, and the ‘vaccine’ for it was never a vaccine. It didn’t even work and made so many otherwise healthy people tragically sick. When the injections were at a peak, there were an astonishing number of deaths from blood diseases and just falling over dead on the football field.
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Anyone slightly to the right is these days called a fasc*s*. Mr Farage is no exception. Here is a refutation of that term which is overdone these days. Farage similar to an Austrian house painter from the last century? I think not.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/farage-a-fascist-it-takes-one-to-know-one-lord-heseltine/
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To the Left, anyone to the right of Pol Pot is “far right”.
And it’s really strange, because the ideology they like to equate to “far right”, National Socialism, a variant of Fascism, is actually of the Far Left.
Fascism is just another variant of socialism. And like all socialists, they hate all the other types of socialists.
The moral philosopher of Fascism was Giovanni Gentile.
Also see Dinesh D’Souza, “The Big Lie: Exposing the (National Socialist) Roots of the American Left”.
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Description of D’Souza book from Amazon:
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I drive on the left and vote on the right. But the right ones never always get in.
Next………….
The way Australia is now, the Feral LayBore Guv’ment led by Bob Hawke in the 1980s would be considered right wing. LOL
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Nigel says he’s not a populist.
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Of course not. He is a Man of the People.
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The word “populist” is used as some sort of smear, whereas populist refers to a person, or his policies being “popular”.
Being popular is not a bad thing, it is the feature of being what the people want/are looking for. When it comes to democracy, it is the foundation, the most popular/populist candidate or his policies get elected. Supposedly.
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People who attend Dulwich College just fill in the gaps where they can’t fit an Eton boy in.
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So the Fascists call you fascist. As the late, great writer Keith Windshuttle explained, this is reversal accusation is standard Marxist attack perfected over a century. Nothing more. He knows because he was one.
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There have been an inordinate number of crashes on our motorways recently
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2128618/m60-traffic-live-crash-delays-prestwich
I think the problem is threefold.
Firstly, the over bright headlamps which dazzle from in front and behind
Secondly, the over large screens now in most cars. If people aren’t allowed to phone why should it be ok to have to look at a screen in order to carry out a variety of functions?
Thirdly, my particular bete noir and one i complain of here when I hire a modern car whilst on holidays overseas. That is the excessive nannying from cars determined to scream at you if they think somewhere is too narrow, if you are reversing, if you approach the centre line or if you don’t stop when the car thinks you should. How can anyone build up proper driving experience when they are continually being told what to do?
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My 2019 pickup truck has just a few of those “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” (ADAS). I particularly dislike the “gas saving” one of turning the engine off when I stop at a traffic light. Thankfully, it is easily disabled. A corollary to the ADAS are the initial costs and the follow-on cost of repairs. I will likely stop driving in 3 years (age & location related) and hope the truck holds on too.
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I think the rot set in about 2020. Because the technology was available the makers used it to excess.i don’t like the engine cutting out at traffic lights or electric handbrakes rather than physical ones.
The device currently driving me mad is a reversing beep that seems to be a new idea from kia its bad enough when a lorry makes a reversing beep but visibility must be limited but if a car driver can’t look behind then perhaps they shouldn’t be driving.
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As usual, these unwanted additions are the fault of Government.
Through their supposedly independent Safety Organisations ANCAP (Australia) NCAP (Europe) etc, governments have gradually mandated the ADAS anti-features to get 5 star ratings. In Australia, car manufacturers have withdrawn models, and replaced them with variants with more ADAS in order to retain 5-star ratings.
So not mandated, just like the vaccines, but if you want people to buy your cars in Australia you have to have them, despite what the average driver wants or needs.
There are some features that are actually legislated, ABS and Auto-Emergency-Braking. Just like seat belts you can’t sell a car without them.
So blame your local member, not the carmakers.
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My Kia doesn’t like it when I drive too close to the car in front. It has a nasty habit of slamming on the brakes and frantically beeping at me in panic. Have you ever suddenly found yourself stationary in heavy 90 kph traffic? And they call it a ‘safety feature’?
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Yes and if you are drifting up to the car in front at the traffic lights and decide to move into the adjacent lane, getting a bit close, the brakes jam on and bring you to a dead stop. It can be turned off. As can the auto stop of the engine ar traffic lights. I do agree though, having to take one’s eyes off the road to find the right spot on the large screen, instead of feeing for the know position of a switch or button is disastrous. Luckily at my age on retirement status I have a co-driver who knows where everything is (although she also tends to tell me which lane to be in, what colour the traffic lights are, how close I am to the car in front and whether I am above the speed limit – can’t help loving her though!)
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That “feature” to turn off the engine when stopped at traffic lights etc., I wonder how much extra wear and tear is caused to the engine by loss of oil pressure every time there is a stop then restart? And extra wear on battery and starter motor? At the very least there should be an auxiliary electric oil pump to maintain oil pressure so surfaces are separated during start up.
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My friend has an Alfa Romeo and he tells me that the feature cannot be permanently disabled in his car. He has to alter settings every time he starts the car.
Also, that car doesn’t have an oil dipstick. There is a bar indicator on the dash. It’s always good to be able to check the colour and the texture of the oil using the dipstick.
A lot of modern cars don’t have a transmission dipstick either.
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Turn it off.
You are killing your engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu8cJ2t_ja8
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There are numerous articles on how cylinder deactivation and stop light engine shutdowns shorten engine life.
No doubt the engineers designed them to fail just outside the warranty period too.
“It’ll be $10k+ mate!”
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There are many ways the engine shutdown systems will affect engine and component life?..
…but the oil pressure issue oss not one of them .
Engine crank and other oil bearings are “Hydrodynamic” , not “Hydrostatic” ,…meaning that the bearings do not need pressure to function only a constant supply of oil when the engine is in use
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There’s a couple of YT videos out there showing the wear caused by these idiotic start/stop systems. All to ensure the cars meet their green credentials and save a thimble of petrol. I live and drive mostly in the country so I’m rarely needing to stop at red traffic lights but when I do come to a stop at a stop sign and it can turn off your engine there, I don’t think that’s very safe.
My car has it and you can turn it off, but you have to do it every-time you start the car, so I’ve just got a thin strip of plastic and wedged it into the off switch so the damn thing stays off and I don’t have to remember to turn it off every-time I get in the car.
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If you are driving a diesel or turbo assisted petrol car, the constant switching off is doing the turbo bearings much harm and is shortening its life.
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Mobile phone hand held use remains a problem while driving, yesterday in Sydney twice a car stopped at lights and did not move when the green light was displayed.
One did it three times in front of my vehicle and to turn left at the next lights I pulled alongside and noted a young woman obviously with a phone down low and head bent texting.
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NO. They are just crap drivers. Probably all recent Migrants.
Every Migrant to Australia should be able to speak and read English. Know how to swim and get driving lessons for driving on the Left.
And further, how to vote Right. LOL
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…and a dangly bit of bacon from the rear vision mirror too…
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Climate Change.
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Aiming to Buy Suzki Ignis as being phased out
No Keyless Entry and Start System – simple with nothing to go wrong
https://www.suzuki.com.au/vehicles/suv/ignis/specifications/
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Great little car indeed – we have an Ignis 2020 1.2 L so drag racing is not on.
But it is keyless entry and has a Start button, no key insertion. Apart from that, no distracting features
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Van driver friends tell me you can always cut in on a Prius or Tesla – the car makes sure the idiot driving it doesn’t hit you
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This is that time of the year when clocks are changed, hens stop/start laying eggs (depending on hemisphere), water in the Panama Canal reverses direction, low- and high-pressure systems of the atmosphere begin to spin in opposite directions. Likewise for water in your loo. What? Okay, never mind.
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And everyone goes round the Bend.
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After the exceptional warmth of most of the year since late January, October 2025 in the UK followed the September theme of a return to pretty average temperatures for recent years. It was jointly ranked 39-45th warmest in the 370 year or so Central England mean temperature series. As a result the mean CET for YTD is not currently a new record, but still very close.
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We are still resisting putting our central heating on. A couple of chilly nights coming up then the rest of the week is supposed to have mild nights.
The trouble is that once you turn it on it is very difficult to brace yourself to turn it off if the weather gets milder again.
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Earth’s relationship with the Sun this year will result in increased advection this fall and winter. Depending on the temperature, that will be experienced as heavier rain or snowfall.
The Himalayas have already had “unprecedented” early snow and it is now apparent across India, Tibet and China.
Iceland set a new snowfall record for October.
Mostly rain in the UK for now but the cold will eventually get there and that means snow.
You do not see many stories on the end of snow anymore. Likewise not many stories on how the autumn snowfall across the NH has a strong upward trend.
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Not only have the Himalayas had “unprecedented” early snow, our very own Sydney has just had the hottest October on record!
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Strange because Perth has been fairly cool, with one warm day
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After three whole years when the temperature never exceeded 32C. Homogenise that!
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Something is happening.
‘Most parts of northern China have entered winter earlier than usual, while temperatures across the country are expected to remain above or close to seasonal averages in the coming days, according to the National Climate Center.
‘Compared to the same period in previous years, winter arrived more than five days earlier in areas such as parts of Northeast China, North China, Northwest China and Central China, said Gao Rong, deputy director of the center.’ (China Daily)
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It is what I predicted a few months back based on Earth and Sun orbits:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sWC0kakLE14H1MdVoduOtR-GsLSvlTfh/view?usp=sharing
Advection in the NH is up due to the higher warming season sunlight and the lower cooler season sunlight.
The SH is responding to the increased heating season sunlight. The Coral Sea is up to 3C warmer than the average:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=126.80,-34.18,528/loc=164.891,-22.332
There is not much that happens in climate that is not readily explained by Earth’s relationship with the Sun. And Earth orbital precession dominates over all other things by a long margin.
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‘The Coral Sea is up to 3C warmer than the average:’
That is interesting, we might expect massive coral bleaching, but there is nothing in the MSM.
This is a litmus test to see if warmer water bleaches coral. ENSO is neutral and may momentarily become negative, then return to neutral, so we have a perfect test bed to verify a theory.
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None of the Coral Sea is at regulating temperature yet. It isanomously high for this time of year and will likely reach 30C a bit earlier than average but still only around 28C on the reef.
Given the high moisture over Australia already, I expect cyclone activity to be subdued. There is already signs of persistent lows developing over NT. They greatly reduce the risk of cyclones developing offshore but it is still early days on the warming cycle in the SH.
Presently bodes well for greening central Australia. But that is more the long term trend than an anomaly for this year.
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ChatGPT says the estimated total abortions in the UK for 2024 was 321,500. A US provisional investigation into commercial markets created by abortion found profiting from the NHS foetal distribution chain. Foetal tissue and foetal organs from aborted babies are sold for profit by abortion clinics to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industry, and were even found in kabab meat.
The preservation of viable desired tissue and organs for use in vaccines, means that foetal body parts and other valuable tissue from the baby, have to go through a procedure of inverting the unborn child to the breech position, so that the body itself will continue to dilate the cervix during the forced death, and will maximise the chances that the head and the foetal brain can be extracted without being destroyed.
The Human cell lines of aborted babies used in the production of vaccines are (1) WI-38. The lung tissue of a female fetus to make the MMR vaccine. (2) MRC-5. The lung tissue of a male fetus to make the MMR vaccine. (3) HEK-293. The kidney cells of a female fetus to make the Janssen and Vaxzevria Covid Vaccines. (4) PER.C6. The retinal cells of a fetus to make the J&J Covid Vaccine.
The presence of Human DNA in vaccines can cause autoimmune disorders, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.
Other Human cell lines from aborted babies are (1) IMR-90. A human diploid fibroblast cell line derived from the lung tissue of the female fetus. It is widely used in biomedical research for studying ageing, senescence, and viral susceptibility. (2) Lambda.hE1. A human embryonic liver cell line, which is used in the production of certain biopharmaceutical drugs. (3) fHDFs. Cells from the dermis of a fetus that are known for their ability to repair wounds without scarring. (4) FL. Fetal Lung tissue, which is used in disease modelling, and potential for lung regeneration. (5) JEG-3. A human choriocarcinoma cell line derived from placental trophoblastic cells. They are an established model system for research on placental function, cancer biology, and endocrine signalling.
Fetal cells are also used by the cosmetic industry in anti-ageing products, and by the biotechnology industry focused on creating flavourings for the food and beverage industry.
However, the use of fetal cells from aborted babies is controversial and not widely publicised in Britain.
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Fascinating! A whole new line of problems leading to modern diseases. I thought feeding cows other cows was bad enough!
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This utterly disgusts me. Thankyou for opening our eyes to this evil.
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Video.
Hollyweird actors like Hanks lose their fans because they’re all woke and try to tell us what to think.
And most recent movies are woke garbage and lose money.
Get woke, go broke!
The sooner the Hollyweirdos are replaced by AI actors, the better. The digital actors don’t have tantrums, don’t have TDS, don’t have strange demands, don’t demand extravagant fees, don’t promote weird woke beliefs, don’t talk down to us, etc..
Their job is is simply to entertain us like court jesters, not tell us what to think. Sing, act and shut up.
https://youtu.be/GbWVWbvrFII
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Tom Hanks!
He seems like such a nice guy.
But this is what he said about the upcoming 2016 election.
So yes. TDS laid bare.
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The clown is seriously deluded.
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The clowns own the media in America. A lot of Americans are utterly misinformed. Even in Australia and in Murdoch papers, the TDS is barely concealed.
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In places like ‘their’ ABC, they don’t even try to conceal it.
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This is why Actors should stick to what they are not bad at.
Acting and sticking to the Script.
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This is a video that has all the predictions that Trump would never be president:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Oczyk6nCw
Hanks is one of the many.
These people were so wrong on Trump gaining the presidency but never admit they were wrong.
Only Gates has come out on Climate Change™.
I enjoyed Trump educating KRudd on being respectful. The accounts from his staffers indicate he is one of the most disrespectful humans on the planet. Humble pie was hard for this horrible person to digest.
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In one of my answers on Quora, I was asked by a Bill Gates to explain further. He used Bill’s photo. It was likely a fake question, certainly surprising but may have been genuine. So I went on to explain why CO2 is provably not man made, cannot be man controlled and whether it caused Global Warming was a moot point. We humans could not change CO2. And the increase was overwhelmingly a good thing. Just the facts.
I dismissed it as likely phishing. But that was a few weeks ago. So maybe I was not wasting my time on an endless cavalcade of Computer Scientists and real loonies and the occasional ‘horologist hygenicist’.
My view is that a lot of people are skeptical, but the older people are misinformed by the legacy media on just about everything. Even older Australians hate Donald Trump. Except when you dig further, they have done no research and are just repeating what they have read and what they have been told now for twenty years. They must be scratching their heads now, wondering as Trump does what Joe Biden never did, fixed problem after problem not only at home but internationally. I consider Bill Gates and Tom Hanks and others are starting to reconsider what they were told.
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Reminds me of Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes when he told all the wokesters to come up on stage, accept their awards and f#@k off!
The look on Tom Hanks face was priceless.
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But.. they can be manipulated to do so , (and far worse) , if required !
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Video.
Machining a log into a water wheel mill shaft by hand using ancient techniques. From Eutope, 1964. Maybe Austria or Germany?
https://youtu.be/h9iOMcPPQxA
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1964! That was a long time ago.
And it was very interesting to see how they made a huge wooden shaft using their old technology.
I wonder if they made another movie showing how they made the rest of the water wheel?
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Have the pleasure of being a member of a club that possesses some of these talents. Interesting points to note old blokes tend not to rush into things but just sort of work a bit like an ant nest, each person seems to know how to fit into the group work to achieve the desired result.
Years ago we had a still practising older psychologist lady join our group and off we went to retrieve very large, heavy trees that had come down in a blow. Trimming, docking, chocking, chaining, slinging all happening with the blokes talking about footy, weather, cattle prices and the lady with a very confused look on her face.
I asked her why the worried look, bear in mind a still practicing psychologist, and her response was ” how does this happen, everyone just working at a task with not necessarily a common end point but clearly all going in the same direction”. I laughed, she then said that it would be impossible for a group of women to work like that, there would be disputes, arguments and general unrest with each female wanting to be involved with what the other were doing.
Viva la Difference I suppose.
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Video.
America’s most remote territory, Palmyra Atoll.
And a unique ecosystem.
https://youtu.be/fif1YA5r3hQ
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Comments about the Leftist takeover of Wikipedia from 2022.
https://www.republicanherald.com/2022/04/27/leftists-take-over-wikipedia/
I’m glad Elon has started up Grokipedia (only in v0.1) which will be a balanced alternative to Left-biased Wikipedia.
https://grokipedia.com/
You can’t edit it but you can make suggestions to Grok to make edits, so if you see wrong information it can be corrected, just like Wikipedia used to be, back in the day.
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Don’t forget Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally today.
Two hours drive from Melbournistan.
https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/
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The giveaway of Australia to the Chicomms has been going on for decades.
Article from 2014:
You have to wonder why Green Labor politicians, past and present, work so hard for the interests of China.
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They are only leasing.
https://kai-australia.com.au
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Vertical interesting comments about Canada and the rest of the West.
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Moderator, please remove this version (above). It’s an uncorrected duplicate.
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Very interesting comments about Canada and the rest of the West.
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FWIW
“Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me”
“There was a song that formed a repeated “bit” on the old Hee Haw show that went: “Gloom, despair, and agony on me / deep dark depression, excessive misery.” Every week, the cast would wail it between exaggerated groans before collapsing into laughter. The point was clear: when tragedy is performed loudly enough, it becomes comedy. Reading the 2025 BioScience special report, “The State of the Climate: A Planet on the Brink,” one hears that same tune—only without the laugh track.”
“We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet’s vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now.”
“That’s the opening line, not of a movie trailer, but of a peer-reviewed paper. If the intent was to conjure images of dashboard lights blinking before the cosmic engine explodes, it succeeded. The trouble is, science is supposed to illuminate, not hallucinate. Instead of laying out data, this report launches straight into revelation. The planet is “on the brink.” Humanity has “failed foresight.” Only collective repentance can save us. Swap “carbon dioxide” for “sin,” and you have Sunday service at the Church of the Imminent Apocalypse.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/01/gloom-despair-and-agony-on-me/
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“science is supposed to illuminate, not hallucinate.”
Well said! Exactly what has happened to science from 1960 to now.
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The planet is “on the brink’ of seeing something extraordinary, they say that 3I/atlas is slowing down and will set up camp in the asteroid belt.
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The backlash against so-called ‘renewable’ energy projects is real, it’s global, and it’s growing
For proof of that, look no further than Australia, where local communities from Perth to Brisbane are telling Big Solar and Big Wind to take their projects and put them where the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
This week, the Institute of Public Affairs unveiled a new database, which is a “national record of over 150 community-led rejections of ‘renewable’ energy projects since 2008. It highlights a growing grassroots movement of Australians who reject the imposition of these projects upon them.”
https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/media-releases/renewables-rejection-database-demonstrates-nation-wide-opposition-to-net-zero
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The people don’t want them but our fanatically woke Governments (including the “Opposition”) just won’t listen to us.
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That would be a very strange place. Certainly not my place where the sun don’t shine. You would not want a lit match near that place either.
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From John Anderson this morning: If God disappears from Government the Government becomes God.
It pains me deeply to see a monstrous NO MORE NEW MINES board at the St. Paul door on Swanston Street.
Not a member of organised religion, I prefer modest boards with words of Jesus. As was at many lesser Melbourne temples few short years ago.
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I think it is a disgrace for St Paul’s to display that. I am glad we are no longer in Melbourne diocese (OK, Archdiocese). I’m ashamed to be an Anglican these days but glad to be a Christian.
Well said by John Anderson and thankyou Vladimir for passing it on.
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FWIW
“Is the IEA Now Telling Us That We Need More Oil for Longer?”
“In its recent report “The Implications of Oil and Gas Field Decline Rates,” the International Energy Agency reminded us that hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent each year to keep global oil and gas output steady. This is the latest in a series of pivots by the IEA back to recognizing the importance of oil and gas in the long-term energy balance.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/01/is-the-iea-now-telling-us-that-we-need-more-oil-for-longer/
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FWIW
“In practice, ‘Net Zero’ Was Exactly How Much Such Pledges Were Worth”
“The public “net zero” pledges by countless corporate and political entities in recent years were always baffling. How could the United States or much of the industrialized world reach “net zero” emissions without destroying modern living?”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/01/in-practice-net-zero-was-exactly-how-much-such-pledges-were-worth/
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Tail wags dog.
‘Giving Matthew Canavan and “the ghost of Barnaby Joyce” responsibility for climate and energy policy “is like handing Dracula the keys to the blood bank,” the environment minister, Murray Watt, has said.
‘Commenting on ABC TV’s Insiders on the expectation that the Nationals will formally drop their commitment to a net zero target by 2050 today, Watt said it seemed like “the tail wagging the dog in the Coalition”. (Guardian)
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There have at least been some vague stirrings to get rid of net zero. Thank you Barnaby Joyce!!👏👏👍👍👌
I will remain unconvinced until the Liberal wing of the LNP says. What needs to be said!!
“ The net zero policies of the LNP coalition have been scrapped, permanently, from both parties, along with all subsidies, taxes & charges. This is the policy of the Coalition & is immediately applicable. There will be no turning back these policies , there are to be no loopholes thru which any members can manoeuvre to perpetuate any part of previous policies. “
The chances of a total withdrawal from net zero are very slim indeed as the Labor/Green members entrenched in both party members will never agree!
Proceed with utmost caution, examine every statement , beware of weasel words which could allow reversal of their decisions. New leaders are in both parties are needed. Current leaders are weak, confused & not fit for purpose!
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It is far more than NetZero. They have to proudly bear the label of climate denier.
The most important aspect is to call out the climate scam. Get the heads exploding. So far Malcolm Roberts is the ONLY politician who articulated that aspect with any basic knowledge on how the scam has been perpetuated.
I vote for One Nation because Malcolm Roberts is still there.
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Liberals ‘not ruling out’ abandoning Paris agreement, Angie Bell says
‘The Liberals are “not ruling anything out” when it comes to their revised energy policy – including abandonment of the Paris agreement – shadow minister for the environment, Angie Bell, has said.
‘Speaking on the Sky News program, Sunday Agenda, Bell was at pains to note that the party was going through a long-term project to rethink their energy policy, including net zero, and were “not quite at the end of that process” yet.’ (Guardian)
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Au contraire: by this stance they are ruling themselves out for so many.
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The city electorates are their main concern, which they might lose if they pull out of the Paris Agreement.
A lot of career politicians are pathetic, lacking imagination and intelligence.
After the dust settles I expect Andrew Hastie’s promotion to the shadow minister of climate and energy.
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“‘The Liberals are “not ruling anything out” when it comes to their revised energy policy –”
The ultimate, disgusting, spineless fence-sitters supreme! Its obvious what will happen, it will be ‘not ruling out anything’ right up to the election, when a decision and a big press release ‘will be delayed’ until they figure out which side of the fence to jump to. Then it will be a weak ‘oh, we need to revive the economy and delay our commitment to net zero’ or ‘oh, we need to push on to save the world with our commitment to net zero, but not like Labor does’.
Anyone who votes for them is a fool!
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The Coalition is a little wobbly at the moment, so if the Libs hang onto net zero and the Nats abandon it then there will be a split.
The Nationals won’t lose any seats in the bush over this, while the Libs might become irrelevant.
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The Libs are caught between a rock and a hard place, lets see how the Nats handle question time.
‘The National party has unanimously decided to its scrap net zero commitments after a party room meeting on Sunday, piling pressure on Sussan Ley as the Liberals continue to debate its own energy platform.
‘The party leader, David Littleproud, said the Nationals would focus on “aspirations” rather than targets and align Australia’s emissions reduction to other OECD countries. Littleproud said he was “proud” of the decision.’ (Guardian)
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I am certain there will be solar panels destroyed from the hail in Queensland yesterday:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/thousands-without-power-after-wild-storms/ar-AA1PDG3Y
Protos show hail bigger than 25mm – the size the panels are designed to withstand.
The panels need to be mounted at steeper angles or increased rating for Queensland (and Indian) conditions. Maybe if India gets a solar manufacturing industry they will make stronger panels. But a lump of ice 80mm in diameter travelling at 350kph will be hard to stop – better to deflect.
The big insurance cost this time around is still vehicle write off. More vehicles parked without protection is bound to increase claims.
The hail is a sign of the level of atmospheric moisture over Queensland right now. Ideal for big convective storms over warm land. At least until the monsoon sets in.
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I wonder how these motor vehicles went with the hail?
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/chinese-cars-stockpiled-near-australias-largest-air-base-labelled-a-security-threat
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The supercell was to the south of Amberley.
Every Chinese vehicle is a surveillance device for the CCP.
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More vehicles parked without protection is bound to increase claims.
And premiums. Hopefully there is some regulation to separate the claims/premiums by geography.
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Can someone remind me the name of the clown who stated Australia will be so hot that the rain that does fall will never hit the ground. History has certainly proven him a clown (with reference if possible):
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-31/october-rain-records-broken-australia/101573566
Has their ABC asked the clown why his prediction was so wrong?
And there are people out there who still believe they have not been scammed with the Climate Change™ minchiata.
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Tim Flannery:
Became (under Labor) as Climate Expert.
We are still waiting in Adelaide for lack of rain causing the place being abandoned.
In 2005, Flannery predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry in as little as two years because global warming was drying up the rains, leaving the city “facing extreme difficulties with water”.
In 2007, Flannery predicted cities such as Brisbane would never again have dam-filling rains, as global warming had caused “a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas” and made the soil too hot, “so even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems … “.
In 2007, Flannery predicted global warming would so dry our continent that desalination plants were needed to save three of our biggest cities from disaster.
As he put it: “Over the past 50 years, southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming …
In 2008, Flannery said: “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”
“In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.”
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Tim Flannery:
We are still waiting for Adelaide to be abandoned because of lack of rain.
In 2005, Flannery predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry in as little as two years because global warming was drying up the rains, leaving the city “facing extreme difficulties with water”.
In 2007, Flannery predicted cities such as Brisbane would never again have dam-filling rains, as global warming had caused “a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas” and made the soil too hot, “so even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems … “.
In 2007, Flannery predicted global warming would so dry our continent that desalination plants were needed to save three of our biggest cities from disaster.
As he put it: “Over the past 50 years, southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming …
In 2008, Flannery said: “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”
“In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.”
We got the desalination plant but it only works a few hours a year (apparently a clause – maintenance?) but the diesel generators work quite well when needed.
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And that kind of Woke rubbish earned him an AOTY in 08. One wonders if he has offered to hand that token back.
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https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/flannery-says-it-again-the-dams-wont-fill/news-story/fc39cd244faba3e29b842e09e5b4dd5c
Tim Flannery
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The BOM has a new measure of rain/water. It is called a ‘Flannery’ and it seems to have come out of nowhere.
Mother Nature has been blamed but NO. Not her fault.
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The Herald Sun link still works but the one to their ABC has gone. Must be an embarrassment now.
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Why didn’t I notice?
My dog can’t be as tall as theirs.
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Haven’t read/heard of any hail damage from the recent storms that ravaged Qld and NSW?
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Wife told me that the news reported every windscreen in a parking area broken. I SE Qld.
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Which would be less costly?
Hail damage to cars parked in a large area.
Hail damage to solar panels (from the same storm) which are used to cover said car park?
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If the panels did more than slowed down the hailstone then protecting the cars would be lower cost than panels being destroyed.
Cars usually deemed unrepairable after severe hail storm.
Cost of panels to protect a car say $4k. Car replacement say $30k.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Dark Tidings
“. . . the fake news isn’t reporting on Operation Arctic Frost. It’s not that they’re trying to cover it up. . . but that they actually think it was totally normal and legitimate.” — Hans Mahncke”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/dark-tidings
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AUKUS was created by President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Morrison early in 2019 in the US and of course they consulted with UK Prime Minister Johnson.
The AUKUS agreement was signed late in 2021 by President Biden and PMs Morrison and Johnson in the UK.
President Trump recently commented that AUKUS was under review and many in the media took that to mean could be cancelled, but the President has recently commented that he wanted progress (too slow) reviewed and blamed the Biden period for not giving AUKUS the priority it should have.
Considering Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance and the Canada and New Zealand positions now, as described above by David, I wonder what the Trump view is of our Labor Federal and State close relationship with China-CCP?
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Australia’s relationship with China is primarily commercial and definitely not military, this might change in the years ahead but at the moment the Alliance is looking strong.
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The Alliance with WHO? If the USA then great,
China is ruled by a Dictator and we know how that always ends up.
There is no relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
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You may have missed my memo, there has been regime change in Beijing and Xi is doing as he is told. This is essentially to save face and retain stability. There will be some subtle changes now that the reformers are in control.
It is widely believed that the CCP will collapse next year, replaced by democracy.
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E+G, many thanks, please continue.
Moscow, morning of the Boxing Day 1991, a dishevelled man comes down to a street kiosk and asks for a packet of Kazbek and Pravda.
The vendor gives him pack of papirosa to him, the change and says gruffly – “no Pravda this morning.”
The man returns his change back and says – ” … and Pravda, please.”
The vendor, looks at him closely, pushes the change across and says, “Have you seen last night Gorbachev on TV, dissolving USSR, dis – …?”
The man, again – ” …and newspaper, please…”
The vendor blows up – “You, deaf idiot, you ! No more USSR, no more CPSU, no more Pravda !”
The man – “Oh, please ! Keep talking…”
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Pravda still exists and still full of propaganda.
In the old USSR they joked that you have to read between the lines of Pravda to see the truth.
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Who are the people who believe that the CCP will collapse next year?
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“Who are the people who believe that the CCP will collapse next year?”
Wishful thinkers and CIA mouthpieces..
I expect China will take a hit from the upcoming collapse of America, but it won’t be as bad as the West will suffer.
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‘Wishful thinkers and CIA mouthpieces..’
Not at all, this is political science. There is something else, China is buying back the Far East, the war is coming to an end, the Russian Federation is history.
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The Chinese are a superstitious lot and there have been many natural phenomenon to suggest that the end is nigh for the CCP.
Most importantly, there is the Five Star Prophecy which predicts the collapse of the CCP next year. Believe it or not.
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There is trouble brewing in the bush.
‘Victoria greenlights mega solar farm despite local fury.
‘The proposed solar farm will take up prime agricultural land the size of 280 MCGs in Victoria’s picturesque King Valley, with the permit granted despite more than 500 objections.’ (Oz)
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Let’s pray for a hailstorm right over the place and then a hurricane to blow it all away.
I wonder if this ‘Farm’ is insured?
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Nice solar “farm” they have there, it would be a shame if anything happened to it.
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Does anyone watch the daily Elon Musk podcast Mind To Goals where he talks for half an hour every day? I’ve been finding them preachy and increasingly boring, wondering how such a busy man has so much spare time.
I am now convinced it is AI. His patchy shave, fur lined jacket and library setting never change and he pronounces “US” (the country) as “U S”. A few tells.
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AI ruins lots of things. I was looking for comments on a movie the other night and searched on X. I came across post after post that contained flowing and unlikely compliments about the film (one battle after another) that did not convince. I found another from someone I follow who had been given free tickets to the film and said that even that was too expensive for a dreadful movie.
As my husband was volunteer projectionist for the film the same night I was interested to confirm the known entity’s opinion after he had shown it. Half the audience walked out during the first half of the film and he said it was utter dross.
I am pleased I was able to tell and that it is still too weak to fool us sometimes – but they will get better at it I suppose.
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” post after post that contained flowing and unlikely compliments ”
Yes, very recognisable at the moment, they’ll have to dumb them down to make them sound like people..
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Let’s pray for a hailstorm right over the place and then a hurricane to blow it all away.
I wonder if this ‘Farm’ is insured?
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Jo, your system posted this twice. You must have Gremlins somewhere.
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FWIW – some project relativity
A Russian canal project
https://youtu.be/KcpLiPXz5p8
Relative to that Russia canal –
The latest cost estimate for the Snowy 2 pumped water scheme in Oz ($A)
“Snowy 2.0 fiasco – déjà vu, all over again, for the umpteenth time ”
“When unveiled in 2017, Snowy 2.0 was to be completed in four years (2021) for an indicative cost of $2 billion, with no government funding required.”
“Snowy 2.0’s total cost is likely to be approaching $30 billion when all project components are included, especially financing (by the government) and Snowy 2.0’s fair share of the cost of transmission connections.”
https://reneweconomy.com.au/snowy-2-0-fiasco-deja-vu-all-over-again-for-the-umpteenth-time/
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And your super will be confiscated to pay for it.
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Does anyone know what happened to the Michael Smith News website?
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FWIW
He had problems with Typepad. Came back up for a while on WordPress IIRC, latest I’ve seen was “Site under construction” message and that has been there for a while
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I was a big fan of the site in Larry Pickering’s times, someone who carried the epithet “colourful racing character” with aplomb.
Knowing he was dying of cancer I looked forward to his autobiography. While I suspect he wrote it no publisher would risk it.
He claims to have nearly won the Melbourne Cup, been shot up in a helicopter smuggling blood diamonds out of S. Africa and flying mercy missions in his ‘copter after the tsunami – among other things.
Oh! He had all the gos on the corrupt Qld cabinet at the time too. He wasn’t really liked in those circles. His “R” rated calendar seems to have been cleansed but his subjects loved it.
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H
You can get a refresher – “The Pickering Post”
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/6491104
IIRC after his death some of Pickering’s family required a name change and it became
https://richardsonpost.com/
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This week is NOT going to be an ordinary week in financial markets and Au/Ag today are part of international “smart” money.
But I may be wrong, sitting in my shorts, on my laptop with no one txting me, on the other side of the world. lol
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