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Its flu time again. Or is it?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-the-annual-festive-flu-panic-is-a-load-of-old-humbug/
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Culling humans? Tony. It seems the most effective way to prevent these annual Armageddon’s is to start culling the experts. No more scares and nature takes its course as it does in other parts of the world. I have the impression the alarmism is just another form of advertising for the latest big pharma money spinner. I have a friend who gets his flu shot every year. Every year he also gets the flu. He tells me it would have been much worse without the shot. I’ve heard that somewhere as well.
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The Official Narrative in Australia says:
But the truth from a US study says:
Note: the top reference refers to 2023, the bottom 2024.
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Flu vaccinations were introduced in Australia in 2010. These graphs indicate that it has made very little difference to health outcomes for those aged under 65. However, for those aged over 65 health outcomes have deteriorated significantly.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/5beb5b51-d4d5-476d-bc29-0b205bbce9f6/aihw-phe-236_influenza_2025.pdf
Despite the data listed below, the government brazenly declares at the top of the “fact sheet”:
“Annual vaccination is the best
way to prevent severe infections,
hospitalisation and death caused by
influenza.“
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It’s all a load of bollox.
The first and last Flu jab that I had was in 1984. I did have Flu when I was younger in 1972. Never had it since.
I know that I have a good immune system and good genes. My Mum is still going strong at 93 nearly 94.
I never even got the Covid/Booster jabs and never got Covid as far as I know.
I do get a Cold every Winter. Is there a jab for that? NO.
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The conservatives in the LNP have introduced their Net Zero vaccine. It’s a bit late but I’m sure all the research will result in a permanent cure with minimal if any side effects.
One more step to remove the virus altogether will be to incinerate the security blanket known as The Paris effect.
There also needs to another net zero….notably subsidies paid to foreign & local bodies known as l subsidy leeches…sucking up all the tax payer money which needs to spent on real infrastructure!
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Legal challenge to new OZ social media law concerning under 16’s
https://reclaimthenet.org/digital-id-social-media-ban-australia-high-court-case
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Good news.
And there are two hidden agendas.
1) Prevent under-16’s having access to alternative points of view which aren’t in conformity with the official narrative such as critiques of supposed anthropogenic climate change, socialism, restrictions on free speech and freedom in general, there being more than two genders or that gender can be changed, etc.. Also restrictions on access to educational materials. As George Carlin said, “Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation”.
2) The “necessary” roll-out of digital IDs to confirm age and identity and if not immediately, that will happen later as “problems” are “discovered” with the proposed age verification methods. Such digital ID will be applied to all your social media posts and you will be given a social credit score depending upon your subservience to the Official Narrative just as in China, the model socialist society they want Australia to become.
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How will they check. My wise son says it maybe facial recognition. Who wants their face on several platforms for all the world (e safety commissar) to see?
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Just wear a face mask and sun glasses and say that it is for health reasons.
To be ‘Safe and Effective’……..LOL
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Wear a burka.
You can’t be told to take that off.
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Hopefully that is only a current phenomenon
and apparently that is a sexist option only
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Gender is optional ozfred.
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The employment platform SEEK requires you to take a “selfie” in order to verify your digital ID (bearing in mind I had already submitted a driver’s licence, forklift licence and my birth certificate). I told them l was unwilling to do this as l try to maintain a minimal digital footprint in terms of ID and there is no company that can absolutely guarantee their databases are 100% safe against hackers (think Medibank, Qantas, Optus etc).
They insisted that they have great cybersecurity and take every possible precaution to protect users personal information. I then asked if they were willing to offer me financial compensation if a third party hacked their site and obtained my personal details including a profile photo. They never responded.
I also had an AFP National Police Check certificate issued in the last 12 months, but SEEK wanted the selfie (a legally binding term it would seem these days). By the way if you search online for an AFP Police Check it’s likely that 2-3 other check sites will be presented before you can see the official AFP site. The AFP site doesn’t require a selfie, only documents. The other sites have a selfie as an essential requirement per their criteria to complete the check. And they will charge you before they declare you need to take a selfie (a threat of legal action will get you a refund).
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Marie Le Pen is currently fighting a conviction and 5 year ban
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/14/le-pen-wont-run-for-president-if-court-upholds-conviction-will-back-deputy-bardella/
If her appeal is not successful then she will back her second in command. Arguably that will boost the right wing parties prospects for power, as the deputy is personable, young, and does not carry the baggage of the Le Pen family.
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It’s a win-win-win for Le Pen.
If she wins her case and is allowed to run, she is likely the odds-on favorite to win the election.
If she loses her case and Bardella wins, she gets to be the power behind the throne and then can perhaps take over the reigns when his term is up.
If she loses her case and Bardella loses, she can come back in 5 years as the savior of the party and a martyr whose career was derailed by a political prosecution. It worked out great for The Bad Orange Man in ‘murica and Lula da Silva in Brazil and IMO it will work out the same way for her.
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This is a speech by the excellent Kathryn Porter.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/how-do-we-keep-the-lights-on-kathryn-porters-speech/#more-89506
In it she lays out the reality of the shortcomings of renewables and the urgent need to install grown up power stations. Delivery of CCGT is at least 5 years, nuclear more like 10. In the meantime ageing power stations will be retired from the system and their place taken by renewables.
You would think our so called elite would realise that ramping up the demand for power, EV’s, Heat Pumps, data centres etc whilst retiring the means of reliably supplying them, would give them a Eureka moment.
Unfortunately, those of us over 12 know that our politicians are nowhere near as clever as they think they are and this combined with ideology and lack of common sense, is a lethal combination..
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Yes, and I read this yesterday. I get the Watt Logic emails. Kathryn Porter of Watt Logic is brilliant.
What she said also applies to Australia –
“Replacing dispatchable generation with intermittent generation won’t cut it.”
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UK is heading toward a low sitting over Europe and persistent strong northerly air stream bringing cold weather and forecast heavy snow. Blizzard conditions are in the forecast as the low gets squeezed from a high pressure zone in the North Atlantic.
So most of Europe will be freezing and UK with blizzards. The wind turbines will crank until they have to be shut down for their own protection.
This is shaping up as a serious test for the UK grid. This is the 4 day prediction.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/11/20/0500Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-5.23,45.18,1141/loc=2.741,52.873
30kt winds and most of UK freezing. And it is not yet winter.
I believe if people die after the electricity goes out, Starmer should do the honourable thing and resign. He has been warned of the fragility of weather dependent power grids.
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They’ve ALL been warned, multiple times, by those who do in fact understand electricity generation and supply.
And yet they keep on ploughing on with the economy- and ultimately society-destroying “net-zero” and “renewables” literal disaster.
The only real question is “For whom are they actually working?’
It’s clearly not for their countries or the populations thereof.
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Its an SSW.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-forecast-december-polar-vortex-brings-cold-snow-united-states-canada-europe-fa/
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“Starmer should do the honourable thing and resign.”
The hell! He should go down with the ship! All his assets seized, be booted out of the UK and banned ever returning. Its time these parasites had some responsibility put on them.
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Bumped from yesterday
FWIW
“Take Your Tech Profits”
In there –
“Worse, their Chairman has said China is going to win. Well of course they are. China has several hundred coal-fired power plants under construction. Energy is life for an economy and the Chinese not only understand this they won’t compromise it for other, non-economic reasons.
China’s residential power rate runs around 8 cents/kWh, compared with 17 cents/kWh in the United States — more than double. There is no state in the union that has a lower state-average rate than China has on a national basis.
You won’t win a power-hungry economic contest when your price for power is double your competitor’s.
Further, China has Huawei and others that can (and will be) making the chips and other infrastructure components. But irrespective of that they will be able to operate them at half the electrical cost compared with the US and Europe because they put the power consideration first and the non-economic ones later or not at all. And, it can be argued, they have driven the claims (in both fear and hype) for alternatives (e.g. “non-carbon fuels”) and the supply of said materials and equipment on purpose knowing it was uneconomic by comparison, deliberately intending to goad other nations into relying on them and their much-higher all-in operating costs for equivalent reliability.”
So much for “Elbow’s AI revolution”
And more there
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254401
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“Unfortunately, those of us over 12 know that our politicians are nowhere near as clever as they think they are”
Our clever Chris Bowen is a prime example.
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primate example!
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The ‘time to build’ argument against nuclear is a furphy. It reminds me of talking to young people who complain about how long it takes to obtain their degree or doctorate, “But it’ll take five years!”
So if they started studying next year, they won’t have their degree until 2031. Terrible, eh?
But the things is, 2031 WILL arrive, irrespective of whether they study or not. So the question is, “Would you rather arrive in 2031 WITH a degree, or WITHOUT it?”
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The BBC has been reliving the Maldives underwater cabinet meeting stunt; on the radio last night they said 80% would be uninhabitable by 2050. Here is the original.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8311838.stm
Since then the total land area has remained the same c. 298sqkm and the population has increased from estimated 348,275 to 529,676.
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That will be another failed Climate Alarmist prediction IMHO.
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That’s a 50% increase in population in an allegedly uninhabitable place from which people are fleeing?
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More accurate reporting from the most trusted news source. Is Farage going to can the BBC when he gets in?
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It will be heavily pruned. GBNews would not exist if their BBC was not a radical left organisation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVLX19netM
Trump is starting the work in the UK that Farage can finish.
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Trump needs to hit this radical left propaganda arm of the UN to oblivion.
Their BBC is quite happy to doctor the Jan 6 DC march footage to make it out that Trump incited the crowd to violence. On the other hand, there has been no effort to test the facts he presented to the UN on Climate Change™ being a scam.
So this despicable, blood sucking organisation makes a huge effort to assassinate Trump’s character to make it easy to flick facts that he presents as the ramblings of a demagogue and pedophile.
Their ABC in Australia has done the same thing.
We can only hope Trump appreciates the radical left press across the globe offers a free service to promote the UN globalist agenda. Their ABC are so proud of this so-called journalism that they still have it up on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_fzFvK3sQ
It makes me want to spew that this sick individual is putting such a stupid question to the POTUS of the USA. Such petty garbage. Albanese should have pulled him out immediately fort being so stupid.
Justice would be served if Trump gets say 10% of his USD1bn damages clam and the BBC staff have their wages garnered for 5 years to cover the costs plus interest. It would make them a bit more serious about serious journalism.
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I’m guessing the Maldives tourist industry doesn’t have any problem with the BBC publishing this carp. It’ll only induce more Lefties who believe this carp to take holidays there before the islands are swallowed up by the ocean.
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They have already built at least one new airport and more resorts since these claims were aired back in 2004.
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Did you see how yesterday a certain resident warmist of this group complained about the high CO2 content of natural gas from a certain gas field?
This is the first time I’ve heard of a Leftist complain about the CO2 content of natural gas.
This must be the beginnings of a whole new trend.
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No, and couldn’t find it either.
Mind you, I often gloss over such thoughts.
And considering what comes when natural gas is burnt to cover the failures of renewables, so what.
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https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/11/un-tells-australia-but-not-china-that-digging-up-our-own-gas-might-be-a-breach-of-international-law/#comment-2880508
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Thanks, but only Simon so I probably completely ignored him.
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Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts
The NSW courts have cancelled a large coal mine approval on climate grounds for the second time in four months, as pressure grows on Australia to curb fossil fuel exports.
The Land and Environment Court on Friday invalidated the state approval for a two-year extension of the Ulan thermal coal mine near Mudgee to dig up an extra 18.8 million tonnes of coal.
A Glencore spokesperson said the Court of Appeal decision created a “legal loophole”, but the company would amend its application and reapply.
“This was calculated lawfare using a legal loophole to delay a project that will provide vital jobs and business opportunities for the local Mudgee community,” the spokesperson said. “We are undeterred.”
Environmental lawyers argue that the Court of Appeal decision means all applications, including modifications in the pipeline, must be amended to include a detailed and up-to-date assessment of the impacts of climate change on the locality as well as community feedback.
This could apply to 18 proposed expansions under active consideration, according to anti-fossil fuels group Lock the Gate.
The International Court of Justice made an advisory ruling in July that countries impacted by climate change can legally pursue their neighbours for reparations if they fail to curb greenhouse emissions, including those caused by fossil fuel exports.
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“As pressure grows on Australia to curb fossil fuel exports.”
Pressure ?? from where, from whom, how about some ‘quality’ investigative media organization delve into this ‘pressure’ being applied to a vital export.
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Well. How about this so called International Court of Justice take a good look at China.
A Developing Nation? LOL. Wot’ a load of Bollox.
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Simon picked up the story from the Guardian, its laughable.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/13/woodside-scarborough-gas-project-emissions-could-cause-heat-deaths
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“Emissions from the Scarborough gas field being developed off the Western Australian coast would contribute 0.00039C to global heating.”
Seriously, this is just laughable.
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Laughable is an understatement… Actually, it’s tragic.
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It was too funny to make a different point, that 10% CO2 is very commercially valuable. CO2 at 10% and it has to be removed is free, at a concentration 250x that in the air.
CO2 is a very valuable gas commercially used extensively in food preservation, medical areas like hospitals, aerated drinks, baking and much more. Prices vary but it can be very profitable say in spritzers and CO2 cannisters for bikes, soda fountains and much more. When the UK forced out fertilizer manufacture, they inadvertently lost their entire supply of CO2 and there was a meat shortage! Because those packages are packed with CO2 to prevent bacterial growth.
The war on CO2 is just absurd. We all breathe it out. Breathing out hot wet CO2 is the surest sign of life, from bacteria to bluewhales, even fungi. And usefulness is not based on quantity but %, so a 13% increase in CO2 led to a 13% increase in world tree cover between 1988 and 2014 as reported by NASA.
Commercially useless? Very silly statement, a form of self hate for living things.
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A troubling thing about Australia’s and the Liberal Party’s approach to Net Zero Prosperity is that all participants approach it from the point of view that anthropogenic global warming is a real thing and that CO2 is a harmful “greenhouse” gas.
That supposed fact is not even up for debate. Any debate which occurs, such as it is, is simply about the unacceptable costs of a premature transition to Net Zero.
It is still assumed that anthropogenic global warming is a real phenomenon caused by “excessive” anthropogenic emissions of CO2. Also, regardless of the cause of any significant warming (which itself is highly questionable) it is assumed warming would be a bad thing, ignoring numerous natural episodes of warming in historical times when Civilisation thrived (Minoan, Egyptian, Roman, Medieval climate optima).
The whole question is being approached from the wrong point of view.
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We have known that forever but politicians are not game to call fraud on it. Trump has but the lesser light try and placate their opponents. The BoM and CSIRO require a complete cleanout because the “science” they peddle is complete BS. Had they stayed true to their obligation we would not be in the current mess and kids might not be panicked.
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The Liberal party approach is a foot in both camps. Like Mussolini made the trains run on time. Or everyone in the Third Reich had a job.
A real revolt against the Australian war on the atmosphere is to recognize that it is not only factually absurd, but devastatingly expensive and economically suicide. There must now be half the population in the booming public service based on eliminating or controlling CO2. And the many, many taxes, mostly hidden, are immense. The Clean Energy Fund was given a handy $18Billion cash in the last budget. What? Where did the government get that money?
The path back from the brink is to remove ALL CO2 taxes and allow businesses including chemical, manufacturing, smelting, transport, sewage, gas manufacture, fertilizer, concrete, plastics to bloom again. Except for those which are now gone forever. Cheap, reliable, commandable energy is the only way to retore a wealthy society from a bankrupt one, currently a cool $2Trillion in debt. Not windmills and taxes and shipping our cash overseas for UN and merchant bank based carbon credits.
The country would execute a sharp U turn if the Liberal party dumped woke and Climate Change fantasies. And dismantled the whole thing overnight, as Trump and Milei have done.
They are now opting for simply pretending to be conservative. It won’t work.
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I hate to say it, but I think we need an IQ test for politicians. You do for most senior jobs. Being a successful politicians is these days closer to being a successful con man. Zero qualifications, like having to have a previous actual job with references. I do not suggest an ethical test as that would wipe out parliament.
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It’s not a lack of IQ; it’s a surfeit of corruption. The single most powerful reason for all the spending on ‘climate change’ is to move huge sums of money around, much of it untraceable.
Climate change funding has created many millionaires, billionaires and comfortable post-politics lifestyles. I bet the superyacht, limousine and private jet industries love it.
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G’day TdeF,
This sounds rather like you’d like:
And it’s reported by the ABC!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-16/coalition-joint-net-zero-position-leaked-submission/106015290
Cheers,
Dave B
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Great. Now they need to repeal the Safeguard Mechanism in its entirety. And the 2011 Agricultural Carbon Credits scheme. All hidden taxation, like the RET scheme. This new idea of taxes is to tax the people from whom you buy everything so you blame them, not the government for massive price increases.
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‘That supposed fact is not even up for debate.’
Up until now there has been no debate, but that is going to change.
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but that is going to change.
Hopefully
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‘Emissions reduction would no longer be an objective of Australia’s energy operator under a Coalition plan that prioritises affordability and reliability over climate.’ (ABC)
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‘Ley and the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, said a future Coalition government would intervene to stop “premature” closure of coal fired power plants and use taxpayer funds to prop up supply as part of efforts to cut power prices.’ (Guardian)
They ate also going to lift the moratorium on nuclear power.
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What’s a few more billion dollars to save an electrical grid that was among the best in the world with among the cheapest electricity until Howard initiated its destruction in 1997?
I wish politicians and those who tell them what to think were numerate enough to understand the size of the numeral “one billion”.
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All this insanity and cost over a harmless trace gas that we need more of. At this point in time, the only way out is to immediately begin construction of more coal/gas generators and some heavy extended maintenance of the existing generators so we can keep the lights on. all other unreliables installation should cease today.
But we know that is not going to happen when we hear the Libs/Nats still banging on about emissions reduction.
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Thanks David,
above made into Australian article below after comment on Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts above
Stop looking back and start acting like we’re not afraid to create a better future
By propping up failing firms, Anthony Albanese is making it much harder for the nation’s young innovators and risk takers to thrive.
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The power generation website anero.id appears to be no longer functioning. Hacked or some other reason?
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Yes, I used to check it out daily, and now it’s kaput, maybe it’s telling us the truth or something.
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Happy to advise it is back in action – phew – I thought we may have lost a great resource from Andrew Miskelly although still seems to be graphical error for solar data.
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Has Tasmania cut ties with the mainland to flee north for (another) winter? Or will the Free Lunch Mob in Belem puff out their chests and shout:
COP30 Claims Success As 5-Day Snow-Wave Hits Australia
http://reg.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/mtwellington.shtml
Snowvember 2025 continues as 5-star 5-flake 5-day ‘climate whiplash’ commences today for the Apple Isle with freezing overnight temperatures and snow until Thursday / Friday.
Australia, please, keep your rubbish weather to yourselves 😃
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Hey, hey, hey it can’t be to bad over here in the West Island. Well not if you can believe the news anyway.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/going-backwards-why-kiwis-are-fleeing-new-zealand-in-record-numbers/news-story/fc06b272a811e66ce5eb1d2f516aec61
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Some residents of Godzone refer to these departees as the last flight of the turkeys.
Over the decades, they always seem to leave just as Oz goes down the gurgler.
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ENSO under the spotlight.
‘Historically, neutral years have had more consistent good snow depths than either El Niño or La Niña years.’ (BoM)
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An embarrassing solar project failure :
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/14/green-dreams-turn-to-rust/
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Pictures of the beautiful scar bulldozed through virgin Amazon rainforest for the COP30 Klimate Klown Konference.
What similar or worse damage will Australia do if we get COP31? To prove our climate credentials it would have to be at least as bad as that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15276947/Amazon-Rainforest-cleared-trees-climate-summit.html
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And Snowy 2.0 has power lines that plough through a National Park to link up to the Grid.
Bad luck for all those trees and wildlife and other flora.
I wonder what the Environmental Impact Study (if there ever was one) said.
And then there is Snowy 2.0 itself. A Lemon if ever there was one.
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Both the project itself and the new transmission lines were subject to environmental conditions. And there has been concerns raised about the project not meeting the environmental requirements:
December 2023: https://npansw.org.au/2023/12/05/another-environmental-failure-by-snowy-2-0/
https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/news/media-releases/2023/epamedia231204-snowy-hydro-issued-with-clean-up-notice-for-contaminated-soil
https://npansw.org.au/2023/05/17/snowy-2-0-cutting-corners-failing-to-comply-with-environmental-approval-conditions/
May 2023: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/embattled-snowy-hydro-slated-over-environment-damage/news-story/5649e15ec34230c2021db0cf27085d00
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Anybody remember the bun fight over sealing a road in the Daintree Forest way back when? The Greens went absolutely nuclear over merely putting asphalt on an already existing dirt surfaced road to service a tourist establishment.
Now they are bulldozing a massive great strip right through the middle of the Daintree to put in power lines that run from a wind farm installation up on the range above it that involved clear felling hundreds of square kilometers of forest.
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JR, I have 2 words for you…….Malcolm Turnbull……..’nuff said
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I think Australia should go full 15th century Wallachian road to COP31 with an impaled kangaroo, koala, and other assorted indigenous fauna every mile or so. Maybe even throw in a few sharks or a crocodiles if there is a bridge involved. Maybe even throw a few virgins is a volcano.
If you are are going to make sacrifices to the climate Gods, you might as well make them memorable.
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Those pictures (from the BBC) would make a good start to a new post by JoNova.
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That pic of the scar in the rainforest should be their emblem.
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If Adelaide gets it they will need 30-40,000 additional hotel rooms, and probably an airort and airport access upgrades. So some inner city parks may bite the dust but rainforests are safe at least.
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Might have to jazz up the redlight district too?
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Good point. There is usually an influx of talent following such events. Like when an American aircraft carrier visits. So much to think about……
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All of this completed in one year?
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Yep, from standing start, in less than one year. They must imagine Adelaide is already mostly ready.
As a guide the Adelaide hospital took 6 years and at the time (maybe still) was the most expensive building built in Australia. So wackimg up a few pubs in 12 months should be simples. Maybe some future housing , Olympic Village style?
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is closing the gap between themselves and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It bodes well for the future of space exploration/travel/colonization to have multiple companies competing on a similar level. SpaceX still has a commanding lead, but Blue Origin is no longer a joke (unlike NASA, which still is). Hopefully some of the other private space companies can make similar strides and kick off another space race.
https://apnews.com/article/blue-origin-mars-nasa-new-glenn-bezos-4e3e6c380b8294b557618a6fea92282b
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Competition is always good.
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Amazon Leo has signed up NBN
Project Kuiper Amazon’s satellites and space-based systems project
Amazon Leo is the rebranded name for Amazon’s satellite internet project, formerly known as Project Kuiper, announced on November 13, 2025, as the company prepares for the launch of its commercial broadband service.
The name “Leo” is a nod to “low Earth orbit” (LEO), the region where its constellation of over 3,200 satellites operates at altitudes between 590 km and 630 km.
The project, founded in April 2019 by Jeff Bezos, aims to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to underserved and unserved communities worldwide, leveraging a network of satellites, ground stations, and optical inter-satellite links.
Amazon has already launched 153 production satellites and is on track to begin rudimentary consumer service in late 2025, with full-scale deployment planned across five phases.
https://leo.amazon.com/
NBN Co has signed an agreement with Amazon to deliver next-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband to over 300,000 premises in regional, rural, and remote Australia via Amazon’s Project Kuiper, with the service expected to launch in mid-2026.
This partnership marks a significant shift from NBN Co’s current geostationary Sky Muster satellites and will be offered as a wholesale service through participating retail service providers (RSPs).
NBN Co and Amazon announced the agreement on August 5, 2025, to provide high-speed, fixed LEO satellite broadband using Project Kuiper’s technology.
Project Kuiper is expected to launch in Australia from mid-2026, with the initial constellation of over 3,200 satellites currently at 78 satellites in orbit.
The new service will replace NBN Co’s existing Sky Muster geostationary satellites, which are expected to remain operational until around 2032.
NBN Co will begin consultations with RSPs, regional communities, and stakeholders to determine speed tiers, wholesale pricing, and customer upgrade plans, including potential equipment and installation support.
The partnership is seen as a major advancement for regional broadband, promising lower latency, higher speeds, and improved reliability compared to the current Sky Muster service.
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Judging from the number of Starlink antennae popping up, they better not take to long to come to market. Those in real need and the early adopters seem to be getting on board already.
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Not according to John Rockefeller 🙂
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Competition is great for consumers and the market … not so much for monopolies.
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Yes David, re the numeral “one Billion”, it rolls off the tongue much like “one Million” but the difference is huge. I try to educate people by showing the difference using time, in that one million seconds is around eleven and a half days, whilst one Billion seconds is around 31 years.
That usually gives them cause for thought, and a rush for a calculator.
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It’s way beyond fingers and toes, so you can forget Albo or Bowen having any grasp.
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Pinched both above with a little rewrite for Australian Comment –
Australian Economic as approached by Labor PM Flyaway Albo, Blackout Bowen & Dim Jim!
The numeral “one Billion”, it rolls off the tongue much like “one Million” but the difference is huge.
By showing the difference using time, in that one million seconds is around eleven and a half days, whilst one Billion seconds is around 31 years.
Does that give You cause for thought, and a rush for a calculator?
It’s way beyond fingers and toes,
so you can forget Labor PM Albo, Renewables Blackout Bowen or Labor Treasurer Dim Jim, having any grasp.
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Another way to put this in perspective is ‘comparative wealth’. The difference in wealth between a millionaire and a billionaire is the same as the difference between a millionaire and a person with no house, no car, no savings and just $1000 in their super.
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Murray,
This topic of hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions is fascinating.
Back in the 1980s at times my salary was in the top 0.1% of those for all Australians. My wife was working too, so we accumulated some assets like a nice home that on paper allowed us to be classed as millionaires in Australian currency terms. There were not many fellow millionaires in that era, say 1990 for a discussion date.
Then this crazy business of dollar units took off and by 2000 society was talking about billionaires in a way similar to earlier millionaires. They needed 1,000 times the income to get the label. Then, by 2020 society was talking about trillion wires like Elon Musk, needing 1,000,000 times the wealth of the former millionaire class.
It is hard to get your mind over this.
There are implications that the trillionaire has an ability a million times higher than ordinary millionaires and so the trillionaire is entitled to speak for the world in matters of global importance.
This is nonsense. It has merely been demonstrated that some people can extract $$$ from your wallet to theirs with skills better than mist people have.
Then, the math is strange. One would think that the next level higher than millionaire might be “Ten millionaire” followed by the very rich with “Hundred Millionaire” before “Billionaire” came to be. So the thousand-fold jumps from million to billion to trillion are a LOGARITHMIC increase when an Arithmetic or linear increase seemed logical.
About here, it gets beyond my pay grade which is down to old age pension level. Geoff S
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Quick poll:
Is Chris Bowen a a) Quarter-wit (upvote) or b) Eighth-wit (downvote)
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Simon:
he’s a moron, trying to get an unattainable way for an unattainable reason, because he’s not got any wits at all.
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How did he Uni Of Sydney graduate him with a Bachelor of Economics???? Serious question!!!
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Ah, Economics exams. I’ve not only passed them, but scored in the 80s, without ever having taken the subject or cracked one of their textbooks.
They’re pretty low hanging fruit.
Back around the turn of the century a friend studying Economics at ANU commented that they could have done the entire degree in 15 months, counting in that time the vacation breaks they had, without pushing too hard.
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Mmmmmm my prefix started with F
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To get that counted you don’t use either thumb?
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As my father would say, “If brains were gunpowder, he couldn’t blow his hat off.”
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ST, what’s the next level down…..that’s where he resides !!!
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Neither. He is an F-wit with a Net Zero IQ.
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This is what happens when the voters become ignorant and stupid.
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“No. I have many critiques of capitalism. … There must be a better distribution of wealth…”
The Democrat elders must be concerned, Mamdani is adopting a European version of a social democrat.
An economic depression would make the idea more palatable.
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FWIW – a morning dose of “hopium”
“Nature Claims Their Circulation Is Decreasing”
“Let’s get something straight: this new study entitled Equatorial Atlantic mid-depth warming indicates Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown, hot off the Nature presses and already getting the full catastrophe-trending treatment, claims that mysterious “mid-depth warming” in the equatorial Atlantic—between 1,000 and 2,000 meters down—is the long-sought “fingerprint” proving that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has been slowing since the 1990s.
According to the authors, this subsurface warming is more “reliable” than surface measurements, cleaner than the noise-soaked sea surface temperatures everyone’s been arguing about for years, and—conveniently—it fits right into the climate alarm narrative that the AMOC is heading for catastrophic collapse. If you buy this story, you’re supposed to panic now, because the collapse might already be underway, the tipping point looms, and we’re all headed for Day After Tomorrow ice-age-in-a-week horror.
There’s just one problem: the whole edifice is built on model outputs, selective data interpretation, circular reasoning, and a studied refusal to acknowledge that the AMOC might be doing just fine.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/15/nature-claims-their-circulation-is-decreasing/
(Some speculation on Nature’s journal circulation in comments too)
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And
“When Climate Modeling Becomes Climate Mythmaking: “Sea-Level Rise Causes More Cold Snaps” ”
“The modern climate discourse is full of surprises, but every so often a publication appears that manages to outdo even the most ambitious attempts at connecting loosely related climate variables. The recent Nature Communications paper “Intensification of extreme cold events in East Asia in response to global mean sea-level rise” is one such specimen. It attempts to link global mean sea-level rise (GMSL) — especially in the comically tiny range of 15 to 30 centimeters — to an increase in extreme cold outbreaks in East Asia.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/15/when-climate-modeling-becomes-climate-mythmaking-sea-level-rise-causes-more-cold-snaps/
Also a Nature publication
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FWIW – more at COP 30
“UN Official Orders Brazil To Get It Together Over Absolute Climate Fest Dumpster Fire”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/14/un-official-orders-brazil-to-get-it-together-over-absolute-climate-fest-dumpster-fire/
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And the comments – including
“Delegates dealt with bathroom water shortages and long food lines, according to Bloomberg News. Stiell reportedly flagged these uncomfortable conditions, noting that there has been “serious concern regarding the poor condition of delegation offices,” and that several facilities “fall below agreed standards,” while others “are not fit for use,” according to the publication.
Sounds like they’re getting a taste of the world they wanted. Why the complaints?”
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“Delegates dealt with bathroom water shortages ”
Next to the Amazon!
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Suddenly dumping 50,000 people on a city for two weeks is a big ask, even for tourist oriented places.
The reality disconect and failed execution of the organisers just reflects the reality disconnect of the COP30 paricipants. They all live in a magical wishful thinking world where things are supposed to fall into place but dont.
It’s a lot like talking about being an AI superpower while you destroy the grid.
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Poor air conditioning and hot temperatures have also endangered attendees, according to Bloomberg News, with Stiell reportedly arguing that the situation required “immediate intervention” to “safeguard the well-being of delegates and personnel” as there had already been “instances of heat-related health concerns.”
Delegates dealt with bathroom water shortages and long food lines.
COP30 attendees are being asked not to flush toilet paper at the venue or elsewhere around Belém, but to dispose of it in trash cans instead.
“The UN can’t even figure out how to allow toilet paper in toilets at their own summit, but they want to tell the world how to manage and plan their energy economies for the year 2100!”
Marc Morano, author and publisher of ClimateDepot.com, who is in Brazil covering the conference
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O O
Re “COP30 attendees are being asked not to flush toilet paper at the venue or elsewhere around Belém, but to dispose of it in trash cans instead.”
That suggests that the city might have a “blot washer” based sewerage system not adapted to TP?
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PS Request also happens in Greek Island Accomdation
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Gives serious History of the World: Part I vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLofIQXXw8w
Count De Monet: “The people are revolting”
King Louis: “You said it; they stink on ice.”
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Clearly they need a Miracle.
And for those that know…. It’s good to be the king.
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Do you think they might discover it’s hot in the tropics?
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An interesting overview from Promethian on the current situation with Trump regarding their BBC and Epstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVdlF-8bvM
Some new insights into what Trump has ordered regarding the Epsein files. And the perspective that Epstein became a Trump enemy after he outed Epstein for what was going on at his island.
A good sit down interview included with TYrump talking about his case against their BBC. I don’t think he is going to let it go.
Trump is obviously correct regarding the climate scam but could you ever imagine their BBC doing an investigative report to truly test the validity of that fact. Where would you start – maybe ask Judith Curry and Michael Mann for their views.
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FWIW – Round 2
“Trump Will Sue the BBC for Up to $5 Billion, Despite Broadcaster’s Half-Baked Apology for Doctoring His J6 Speech in Documentary (VIDEOS)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/trump-will-sue-bbc-up-5-billion-despite/
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FWIW – dentopeditis with that?
“BBC Edits Trump; Trump Still The Villain”
“No wonder the press is stressed. The era of “trust us, it’s fine, this is totally what they said—er, meant” is over. When you make a living off deception, that’s bad news. But sure, mainstream media. Tell us more about how you’re the real victims here.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bbc-edits-trump-trump-still-villain
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Bumped
“FWIW
“Aussie broadcaster ABC deceptively edited Trump’s Jan. 6 speech much like the BBC did: ‘Same journalistic sin’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/us-news/aussie-broadcaster-abc-deceptively-edited-trumps-jan-6-speech-much-like-the-bbc-did-report/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/13/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-kill-himself-33/#comment-2064732 ”
Any reports of tremors in the vicinity of the headquarters of “Their ABC” may not be due to earthquake
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In there – what you might call a “Trump public service”?
“No, kids. The weapon was forged when newsrooms decided that “shortening clips for time” included playing God with context. Trump is merely the first person with the resources (and the pettiness… and the cojones) to fire back.”
“One editor quoted by the AP complains that every cut is now “under a microscope.” Good. If you can stitch together two unrelated fragments of a presidential speech like a Build-A-Bear, you deserve a microscope, a spotlight, and possibly a babysitter.
My favorite part is the quiet panic underlying all these articles: the realization that normal people, armed with transcripts and internet access, can now compare what aired to what was actually said. In 1992, that would’ve required a team of interns and a sacrifice to the gods of VHS. Today, it’s a Tuesday morning for any bored guy on Reddit.”
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“Trump is merely the first person with the resources (and the pettiness… ) “
We must stop apologising for what Trump does, especially when he’s fighting on our side. Nothing about his action against the BBC is “petty”. To say that suggests it was a minor slur or a bit of name-calling, nothing a sensible person would get worked up about.
But it wasn’t trivial, was it? Nor was it an innocent mistake. It wasn’t even the first time they have shown extreme political bias. No, it was an outrageous attempt to frame a political opponent. It was plain, straight out deception, carefully and deliberately crafted. It was political interference with the intent of damaging Trump’s campaign and could have deprived a huge number of Americans of their choice.
Nah, I really hope Trump follows through on this. It’s beyond time conservatives fought fire with fire.
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Helps keep the issue alive and in front of British people.
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The linked article shows the thoroughly vile character of their BBC. They are continuing to paint Trump as the villain because he is seeking damages. In that process they call him petty and make him out to be money grubbing. They do not accept that they have a serious problem with integrity because they view themselves as so righteous.
I believe it would be quite easy to splice together parts of a King Charles speech that made him appear a complete bofffoon but their BBC would never do that. By contrast, Trump is regarded as fair game.
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I challenge you to splice together a speech by Charles and have him NOT look like a buffoon.
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Not a challenge I am willing to take on.
Charles is ageing fast. I doubt he will have a longer life than his mother.
I do respect the royal family for the effort they put into showing up. Look at Princess Anne taking up some of the slack with her trip to Australia.
Australia should cut ties to the monarchy so we are not party to this elder abuse.
I have great admiration for Trump’s energy. He is so across so many topics and speaks coherently and with thoughtful reflection. He is a few years older than I am and I was pleased to leave working schedules behind me more than a decade ago. But I never ever had his relentless pace.
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FWIW
Some interesting points in here which suggest that the BBC is finding that it is in very deep yoghurt –
“The Cut That Spoke Volumes: The BBC’s Edit and Trump’s Response”
“The Edit Heard Around Two Continents
Inside a newsroom that prides itself on accuracy, a story such as this should never have happened.”
“Trump also views the moment as an opportunity to hold Western institutions accountable, institutions that grew accustomed to insulation from criticism. These organizations operated for decades as referees rather than participants, with Trump arguing those days are gone and the public demanding honesty, rejecting any attempt to bend the record. When an edit changes meaning, accountability needs to follow.”
And more
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/11/15/the-cut-that-spoke-volumes-bbcs-edit-and-trumps-response-n4946045
We’ll see if Oz makes the “continental cut”
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FWIW – another BBC score card –
“Smear Trump at all costs – our dossier on the brazen BBC”
“HARD evidence of the BBC’s doctoring of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, came as no surprise to David Keighley who, with the resources of News-watch research behind him, has been on ‘BBC Watch’ for TCW since we launched in 2014. Since writing his devastating critique of Nick Robinson’s Today programme defiance which we published on Friday, https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/select-sanitise-self-justify-how-smug-nick-robinson-led-the-bbcs-brazen-defence-of-its-own-mendacity/ he decided to search the TCW archive for ‘BBC monitoring’ articles he’d written which mentioned Trump. The result is a historic catalogue of bias and prejudice that may interest the President’s legal team.
We are republishing these posts across this week on TCW, starting today with Today‘s former presenter, Sarah Montague, and her far-from-impartial post-November 2016 election interview with Bernie Sanders, the man whom Hillary Clinton only just defeated in the Democratic primaries. She shocked Sanders with her reference to the incoming President as a ‘fascist’.
This post was first published on November 17, 2016.”
(My bold)
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/smear-trump-at-all-costs-our-dossier-on-the-brazen-bbc/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-11-16&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
BBC finds another “watcher of the watchers
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Promethian
Reminded me that
Prometheus was a Titan god in Greek mythology, known as the god of forethought and crafty counsel, with his name meaning “forethought”.
He was the son of the Titan Iapetus and either Clymene or Asia, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
Prometheus is credited with creating humanity from clay and water, shaping them in the likeness of the gods.
He championed humankind, teaching them essential skills such as fire use, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, writing, animal husbandry, navigation, medicine, prophecy, and metalworking.
His most famous act was stealing fire from Mount Olympus and delivering it to humans, hidden inside a fennel stalk, to empower their progress and civilization.
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Apparently the first 5,000 Tesla Pi phones will have free lifetime access to Starlink.
I expect those first 5000 are already gone. In any case I expect this phone may see me make a Tesla purchase.
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Who gets to assign the telephone system number?
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Number ranges are dished up to service providers by a government agency ACMA
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FWIW
FWIW
“What Would We Do Without Research?”
“Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science”
“The density of fraud”
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/15/the-density-of-fraud/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/15/what-would-we-do-without-research-2/
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FWIW
Caption
“THE SAME PEOPLE
THAT TOLD YOU
THE VACCINES
ARE SAFE,
ARE THE
SAME ONES
SAYING
DIGITAL ID
WILL
KEEP
YOU
SAFE.”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1834649852642861056.jpg
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I am just becoming too Old at 80 and Cynical of Today’s World that I find hard believing.
As per yesterday’s post by another ian
Free Sex Costs Everything: How the Sexual Revolution Broke Marriage, Men, and Women
Women have lost out totally when you see this in The Australian
Australia urged to follow UK and outlaw choking porn amid dangerous ‘normalisation’
Strangulation during sex is becoming “normalised” among young Australians in a dangerous trend that has triggered urgent pleas from experts for the Albanese government to outlaw choking pornography.
Domestic violence survivors and prevention advocates are pushing for law changes after the United Kingdom this month unveiled plans to criminalise the possession or publishing of pornography depicting strangulation, considered the “red flag for murder” in relationships.
The call for change comes ahead of a major overhaul of the way Australians access pornography online which will require users to verify their age.
A separate 2024 study by the Melbourne University Law School found that 57 per cent of young people had been strangled during sex at least once and the majority of those said they found out about sexual strangulation through pornography.
Current Poll in Article – Should Australia ban strangulation porn?
361 Votes Yes 88% No 12&
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Yep another step of the Govt invading your home. What you do with your family is no longer your private business, the biggest part of Govt control is that “there will be no privacy”
So, sex only with Govt approval of your partners age, and only in ways your local Govt inspector approves of..
As it was explained to me by younger people, women want their responsibility for sex taken away from them, most say they need to be half-drunk to enjoy it, plenty want to be half-forced these days. Strangulation is just part of it.
Our whole social approach to sex and power is wrong, but this is what you get when you try to modify a patriarchy when only the women know who’s child it is.
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also part of the question:
should 16 year olds be treated as adults?
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This is a great mistake by all sane people, including some colleagues here, to be caught by the cultist’s trick.
We must only use the term GLOBAL WARMING and never – CLIMATE CHANGE.
They set rules, haven’t they ? Play by them !
It was 1.5 deg (or whatever idiot number they picked…) not, say – 400 ppm as a tangible measure of NET ZERO success and I suspect it is quietly being wiped off.
Now, Vladimir take a deep breath and calm down .
My II (Inhumane Intellect) reply to the question “what is a tangible measure of Net Zero success?” – “Achieving net Zero”
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Gregor understands that achieving Net Zero is the logical indicator of success, but remains puzzled.
Zero what?
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The forever-renter generation: they’re the ones who voted teal and Mamdani
The US voters who elected Mamdani have a lot in common with the Australians who gave their votes, hopefully or strategically, to the teal-branded “voices of” franchise.
In both cases, post-election analyses reveal that the largest bloc of voters electing these political disruptors were university-educated, middle- to upper-income renters.
Cuomo won voters who earned less than $US30,000 ($45,900) a year, drew even on those who earn between $US200,000 to $US299,000 and trounced Mamdani – 64 to 32 per cent – on those who earn more than $US300,000.
Mamdani’s voters were overwhelmingly what is referred to in the US media as “transplants” – that is, people who had moved to New York City. The more recently they had moved there, the more likely they were to vote for him, with 86 per cent of voters who had been in NYC for less than five years casting their ballot for him.
In Australia, the archetypal teal voter was portrayed in the media as an older, financially secure, professional female home owner in an affluent neighbourhood. And certainly in the NSW electorate of Wentworth, teal volunteers, who wore their T-shirts like fashion items at street stalls, cafes and in Double Bay boutiques, seemed to confirm the archetype.
But pollsters tell a different story. After the 2022 election, Redbridge Group’s Kos Samaras told The Australian Financial Review that teal candidates did better in the less affluent parts of the otherwise wealthy electorates they contested. “Their voters in general were younger, and the rental class skewed heavily towards the teals.”
Samaras pointed out that the second-most pro-teal electorate in Sydney was “Surry Hills East”, part of a suburb formerly known by the more down-at-heel name of Redfern. This is a suburb dominated by young professional renters who are beginning to realise they may never be able to afford to own a home in the urban electorates they favour.
What is being seen in both here and in NYC is a cry of rage from the downwardly mobile classes – those who went to university, have good jobs, likely went to private schools and yet who can’t afford to buy a house in the places they want to live, and might not be able to afford to send their kids to a school like the one they went to.
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Ozzie,
A large lump of deflection is happening now. A major factor keeping people from home ownership is government imposts. The State governments are either broke or about to be (but Victoria has expensive tunnels) and so they tax home ownership out of reality to keep afloat financially.
The States are broke because they played expensive ideology cards with the fiction of net zero carbon, shifting Australia’s pre-2000 asset of cheap and reliable coal fired electricity to hugely expensive and intermittent wind and solar. Jobs were lost as industry deserted expensive electricity. Fewer jobs means more unemployment dollars of support and less government income, so go woke go broke.
Even a Blind Freddie like me could see this happening. Lots of us sounded early alarms but the kids in charge of these matters in government knew best. NOT.
It will take a decade to reverse the national damage. Australia has not yet started the reversal back to common sense and correct economics. The US has, but they are criticised instead of copied. What a mess!
Geoff S
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Is this a deletion , an adjustment, an unadjustement or something else?
CDN talks about the UK Met deleting temp data from stations that dont actually exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIw-mGhTfVo
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FWIW
This will test your staying power!
“Aussie Climate Activists are Waiting for Gaea to Visit Retribution on the Evil Capitalists”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/15/aussie-climate-activists-are-waiting-for-gaea-to-visit-retribution-on-the-evil-capitalists/
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And
“Luxembourg Times: “Climate change scepticism isn’t real” ”
Concludes
“Most of all, if Alex had bothered to do his job as a reporter and get out and talk to people, rather than wasting his reader’s time by airing his nonsensical personal prejudices, he would have learned the real fakes are those who push unfounded fear, uncertainty and doubt, that the climate fear mongers are no different to the Covid fear mongers, who damaged our national economies and our children’s mental health with months or in some cases years of completely unnecessary enforced social isolation at home.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/15/luxembourg-times-climate-change-scepticism-isnt-real/
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There is no Capitalism. There is only Crony Capitalism and only the Elites are in on it along with all the other Grifters and Scam Artists. Even the corrupt ‘Pollies’ are in on it.
Now, how to vote them out. Only the ‘Pollies’, when and if the Masses eventually wake up.
LOL. The System is rigged.
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So many potholes on Melbourne and surrounding roads.
Is the Victoriastan Government deliberately neglecting road maintenance?
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Anthony Albanese says more federal money will go into the Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed there will be an additional funding commitment in next year’s budget to Victoria’s controversial $34.5bn Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop.
The federal Labor government has already committed $2.2bn to the SRL.
Appearing with Premier Jacinta Allan to announce an earlier-than-expected opening date of November 30 for Melbourne’s new metro project, Mr Albanese confirmed the commonwealth would be funding the first stage of the SRL in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
“ I can confirm today that there will be additional funding in our budget in May for the Suburban Rail Loop so that we can partner with Victoria,” he said.
“In order to have investment, you need certainty.”
Previously Victoria planned to fund the SRL first stage with one third state funds, one third value capture and up to one third from the commonwealth.
There were lingering questions over whether one third of the project can be funded by value capture, with Infrastructure Australia previously expressing scepticism about the project.
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Instead of the Vic Government paying companies millions (or billions) of dollars NOT to build projects, just re-direct them to do road maintenance instead. They still get paid and their workers have jobs and the long suffering taxpayers get their roads fixed.
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You would have to come to NSW and drive some of our minor country roads for comparison… Maybe Vic is just average! I sadly had to use some of the Hume Highway yesterday, and was surprised at how much it has deteriorated since the last time quite a few years back. Concrete slabs moving and no longer matching, potholes in tarmac, poor repairs leaving the sharp ridges of previous failures there.
..and that is meant to be NSW’s premier highway to Melb.
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Was in Albury last week, and noticed potholes ringed with yellow spraycan paint, still there after some potholes were filled.
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From the Reformation to the Climate Change era, science and government was secular.
I, and many here, are fortunate to have lived in this period, at least the late stage of it.
Global Warming and it’s demented spawn Pandemic, brought this unique and historically atypical secular period to its’ end.
Government and science are now aspirational and seek spiritual not practical outcomes.
Your government is not fixing your potholes, they are informing you that they are praying hard for a positive outcome that can only happen when all hearts are pure, non-binary, and fully vaccinated.
And any demonic thoughts, like many that I read here, and join in articulation of, are cleansed.
No, your potholes won’t be fixed when this is achieved,
But it will never rain until after sundown and the glaciers will stand still.
And no human will be illegal and all will be capable of bearing children.
Which you would understand if you weren’t a heretic that does not believe in equity.
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Recently after repeated attempts to get info out of VicRoads I ended up escalating to the Transport Ministers Office. Part of the response is shown below. “Safety is a key priority for Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) and maintaining the flexible safety barriers ………… In 2025-26, the Allan Labor Government is investing $976 million in a Better Roads Blitz to fix potholes and upgrade road surfaces – this is the largest single-year investment in Victorian history. It will also allow DTP to maintain vital transport infrastructure such as bridges and traffic lights, mow, slash and spray grass and weeds along roadsides, and repair or replace thousands of road signs”
Those of us living in the real world are yet to see much change in our pothole experience.
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Amazing isnt it , that having let everything degrade over multiple terms, they then spin a positive out of a record spend to get back to where they should have been anyway.
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“and repair or replace thousands of road signs”
Please make sure they are non-reflective, as that blinds drivers at night and allows roos to hide in the glare of the reflection..
You don’t need to see any road sign 200M away, their reflectiveness is ridiculous these days. On some bush roads you will still find signs in the old style, nowhere near as glaring. A few hours driving on minor roads last night certainly brought it home.
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FWIW
More Canadian bureaucratic tips for “ElBowen”
“Westgate Sentinel- Floss and Found: Oilsands companies bristle as Feds demand stringent string stats
“In the latest sign of the apocalypse, I learned today oilsands companies will have to report how much dental floss their workers use and dispose of to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Federal Plastics Registry.” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/15/and-dont-forget-the-tampons/
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Apparently not a parody.
Can you imagine that there are a bunch of public serpents whose job it is to keep track of this nonsense?
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A Comment taken from an The Australian Article today – Stop looking back and start acting like we’re not afraid to create a better future
By propping up failing firms, Anthony Albanese is making it much harder for the nation’s young innovators and risk takers to thrive.
Labor Quango Collective Safe Houses 0f Non-Productivity
the services sector, where most people work and value is added
Their ABC? Universities?
CCA (Climate Change Authority)
CER (Clean Energy Regulator)
ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency)
CEFC (Clean Energy Finance Corporation)
ACS (Australian Climate Service)
EAP (Energy Advisory Panel)
NZEA (Net Zero Economy Authority)
ASL (AEMO Services Limited)
NRFC (National Reconstruction Fund Corporation)
EnergyCo (Energy Corporation of NSW)
NSW Net-Zero Commission (Net Zero Commission NSW)
ESCorp (Energy Security Corporation)
SEC (State Electricity Commission, Victoria)
SV (Sustainability Victoria) Solar Victoria (Solar Victoria)
OIR (Offshore Infrastructure Regulator)
OHPSA (Office of Hydrogen Power South Australia)
ReCFIT (Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania)
QHT (Queensland Hydrogen Taskforce)
WARHF (Western Australian Renewable Hydrogen Fund)
RACE for 2030 CRC (Reliable, Affordable, Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre)
FEnEx CRC (Future Energy Exports Cooperative)
HILT CRC (Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre)
ZNE-Ag CRC (CRC for Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture)
FFCRC (Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre)
CO2CRC (CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies)
??????
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Just gaet rid of the lot and use the savings to build more houses or other good stuff.
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This is similar to the one and only (and embarassing) study into all the entities involved in indigenous spending which resulted in $40+ billion being spent by a multitude of Fed, State and local council enities.
If they dug further down to Councils they would find much more.
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I believe we are witnessing Australia turning Amazonian in our lifetime.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screen-Shot-2025-11-16-at-4.24.01-pm-1763270874.8555.png?fit=%2C&quality=75&ssl=1
I have never seen so much atmospheric water over Australia at this time of year since I have been looking at the data for about a decade now. The north to centre of Australia is not dissimilar to ocean surface when it has this amount of atmospheric moisture. It means it will remain in perpetual low and keep sucking moisture from the oceans like the Amazon experiences.
My take is that plant life is sufficiently abundant to retain moisture to maintain the low pressure conditions. Being warmer than the ocean means that the surface pressure is lower than the ocean so there is onshore air flow and convective instability will preferentially form over land rather than the ocean.
The Sun will get to a minimum in both its intensity and northern excursion in 2029 that might suck some of the heat out of the air over Australia at this time of year but there is a another peak in both solar intensity and northern excursion in mid 2030s:
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The peaks and minimus in the Z-Axis excursion are also linked to the orbital velocity of the sun that drives solar activity so their concurrence is to be expected. To some degree the peak in solar activity in 2015 aligned with a southern excursion so were somewhat offsetting in the NH heating compared with what was observed with the additive impact of both northern excursion and solar activity in 1998 and 2024.
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Got to say here in micro-climate Seaforth in Sydney, we seem to have been missing a lot of the rain passing through Sydney this year
Either passes above or below us.
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Are you saying the Wet has started over Darwin?
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Forget ‘Heterofatalism,’ ‘Mankeeping’ Is What’s Keeping Women From Dating
This summer, Jean Garnett had a piece in The New York Times Magazine called “The Trouble With Wanting Men.” She even had a word for it: “heterofatalism.” Garnett is now divorced and dating, so if it sounds like you’re her type, get help:
<emI haven’t been dating long (just the other day my ex-husband and I received our Judgment of Divorce as an email attachment), but long enough to discover that I have a type.
He is gentle, goofy, self-deprecating, rather deferential, a passionate humanist, a sweet guy, a “good guy.”
He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so.
t must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.
Heterofatalism is so last summer. The reason more and more women are done with dating, according to VICE, is all of the hard work of “mankeeping”:
Managing his stress. Interpreting his moods. Holding his hand through feelings he won’t share with anyone else. All of it unpaid, unacknowledged, and often unreciprocated. Is it any wonder women are fed up?
Functional adults don’t have any of these problems
Good point, no man has ever had to deal with the Byzantine complexity of a woman’s emotions, or had to navigate the perilous labyrinth of feminine moods, all of it unpaid, unacknowledged, and often unreciprocated.
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Please watch GB News reporter Bev Turner with President Trump discussing the BBC scandal, Nov 2025.
It is hard to find a link because you know why.
Trump spent many minutes about his love for Britain. He then said sad words about its recent decline. When asked what he would do for improvement of Britain, his two main suggestions were –
1. Stop mass immigration, send all illegal immigrants back.
2. Develop fossil fuel assets (like Britain’s North Sea oil and gas).
What a pity he was not recommending what we in Australia should do.
Ditto and Ditto seem in order.
We ignore the progress of the US at our peril.
Geoff S
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Very sorry to say, the progress (funny, meaning the revolt against Progressivism) in the US, from my view is not going particularly well.
Just taking, the Epstein narrative, the Jan 6 pipe bomber, which are likely manipulated (or being manipulated) psyops of some difficult to fathom and resolve nature, are destabilizing Trump’s support.
As likely intended.
It appears to me that Trump’s people particularly at FBI, have run into The Blob that lives in the basement.
My guess is that Bongino, Patel, and Gabbard, are nervous about traversing the parking lot to and from the office everyday.
And I must grocery shop this AM, and it is anxiety producing to face the precipitous inflation.
Which Trump, like his predecessor, pretend isn’t there.
The psyops are easy to identify.
They are the issues and events where the resolutions are tangled into obscurity.
For example, the Charlie Kirk shooter trial is now going on, and the press is being barred from covering it in any detail.
Leaving us peasants to speculate and rumor mill … the life blood of psyops and Color Revolution.
The production of mysteries that the peasants focus on as the security clearance anointed government money changers ply their lucrative trade.
Behind the curtain.
Trump survived the Yellow Brick Road but appears to have forgotten to bring the little dog.
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I listened to the interview. It would be worth seeing/listening to it again.
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Discussing the fall of Pokrovsk and the way war is changing-
“Both sides keep their main forces 10 km from the city. Drones control all approaches, and only the most desperate daredevils can get through this barrier alive. So it turns out that inside Pokrovsk only the shadows of the two armies, which stand on its outskirts, are fighting….There are fewer soldiers in the city than civilians. Three people can storm one street, and the most interesting thing is that they will be fighting against three similar enemy soldiers. And all this happens in front of a dozen grandmothers and grandfathers who did not want to leave the city….War has changed and it no longer resembles a Hollywood action movie. This battle of shadows still needs to be described in literature. Meanwhile, we need to accept reality and study the vectors of its development.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/chorus-of-corruption-as-movement
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