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Part one of a long detailed history at the politics of climate change and that is causing so many problems for the west
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/most-countries-dont-give-a-hoot-about-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
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Offshore wind farms produce much less energy than claimed. This is partly because tightly packed turbines are stealing each other’s energy
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/offshore-wind-farms-produce-much-less-energy-than-projected-study-finds/
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Yes, you need a huge clearance between the fans to reduce interference.
Not also that the above reference refers only to 2MW (nameplate) windmills. Modern ones are MUCH larger.
And the huge amount of land or sea they use greatly increases their dramatic negative effect on the beauty of the environment and noise including infrasound and also shadow flicker for nearby residents.
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Interesting that the calculations are different depending on which way the wind blows.
All that needs to happen is for the wind to move by 90 degrees and what used to be side by side now becomes downwind.
Perhaps the yachtsmen of the world can advise on variability of wind direction.
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Yachting is like “renewables” in the sense that the wind is “free” but you need a lot of expensive, high maintenance infrastructure to collect a randomly available product.
That’s why commercial sail boats were rapidly abandoned as soon as practical, marine-capable steam engines were developed.
Here is a video about the last commercial sailing ships. The owner of the sailing fleet must have done it for love because he hung on to it long after coal or diesel-powered ships were standard.
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David,
Am I missing something? If they are side-by-side facing wind from one direction, if the wind changes direction by 90° then they will be all downstream, except the first one and three rotor distances apart will be insufficient. Warped thinking. If all the planning gurus think like that, no wonder they have a problem.
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The report does not mention curtailment. Adding more wind generators does not result in a linear increase in power generation. Any new turbine competes for the same market as all the other turbines. Unless curtailment is constantly being assessed, analysis of the capacity factor does not give much insight.
Over the last year, the wind generators in SA had a CF of 29.9%. But their curtailment was an additional 4.7%. So they could have produced 4.7% more energy if they were not in competition with each other.
Grid solar competes directly with rooftop solar so it is now experiencing very high curtailment in SA. Over the last year, grid solar in SA achieved CF of 12.6%. The curtailment amounted to 7.6%. The financing assumed that all the output could be used but rooftops have robbed the demand.
One of the presenters at the NZAU conference was from Princeton University, Chris Greig, had reached the conclusion that NetZero and industrialisation were incompatible unless industry was socialised so it was not exposed to market forces. He is openly advocation for a soviet style economy where the academics work out what is best for the rest and get big salaries to do that.
NetZero is an absolute cash cow for academia in Australia because they have put themselves in the position of having all the answers. They are not exposed to market forces. It is why they like Chinese students because, as long as they are compliant with Chinese control, they will get money from China. Anything that challenges their perspective is misinformation.
Their efforts are being refocused as they now view misinformation as the biggest threat to their superiority. Because they are all knowing, they view the same fact from different sources as coordinated misinformation. People complaining about their high electricity bills is coordinated misinformation.
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Lysenko’s ideas eventually passed. So will all of this pretending about controlling the weather and the government directed schemes which keep the gravy train rolling.
Eventually the bad guys will run out of other people’s money. The only question is how much harm they will do before they move on to thier next quest for power and money.
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So grid solar only achieved 20% CF including curtailment. I thought it would have been a little bit higher due to their long sunny summers. But basically, its the same all over for solar at 20%. But people dont realise thats the reason for the massive overbuild. To overcome the very low CF. Doesnt work at night though!! Then you need gas, batteries or coal.
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Solar should be given a headstart anyway because we know it’s unproductive for at least 50% of the day. So 20% is really 40% which is really great. I’m sure the people at Renew could explain it (or maybe Bowen)
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Tony (Anton) has previously advised that averaged over a year, the National Grid wind CF is only 17%.
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Shades of covid. British press hysterical about flu this winter. The unprecentedfigures relate to data only from2021/22 onwards.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/12/the-screaming-super-flu-headlines-vs-the-data/
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the Covid vaccine has the side effect of reducing resistance to the flu.
all that we have is Vit D3 and more than they claimed was needed actually 15X. Its free of patent, Ha Ha
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Agreed Bill, but it’s best to post links to references.
Here is a discussion by Dr John Campbell about the Vitamin D mistake. The recommended dose is way too low based upon a simple arithmetical error which was not detected in 2014 and still hasn’t been acknowledged or corrected. I posted about it a few days ago.
https://youtu.be/AtoxkK7MeKc
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Dr John Campbell did not explain the mathematical mistake very well. Also the corrected amount to achieve a level to 50mmol/L in most of the population seems improbably high.
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Improbably high?
Wait until you see how much Vitamin C we need daily, as calculated by a Nobel Prize winning physicist…
(No /s, because it isn’t)
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A link would be nice.
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That would be Linus Pauling I presume.
But what dose did he calculate and how did he come to that amount?
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Ed Miliband has bankrolled plans to make vegan supplements on the site of the former Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland.
The Energy Secretary announced £1.5m of taxpayer support for the project on Thursday, which will produce “fish-free” Omega 3 from algae.
Mialgie is the vegan supplements business behind the scheme, which is the first government-backed project at Grangemouth since Ineos shut down the refinery earlier this year.
The closure led to more than 400 jobs being lost at the site, sparking outrage from unions and MPs alike.
However, the plan was dismissed by critics who said the site would be better placed as an oil refinery.
It comes after the closure of the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire earlier this year, piling more pressure on the country’s energy security as it moves towards net zero.
“Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, said: “Nations become rich from plentiful cheap oil and gas, not from Omega 3 supplements. This highlights the job-destroying madness of net stupid zero.”
Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, also dismissed the plans: “It’s all very good to have fish-free fish oil, but what the country really needs is refining capacity.”
“Britain has lost a third of our refineries this year and they are collapsing under sky-high energy costs and carbon taxes thanks to Labour’s policies.”
More at –
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/13/moron-miliband-hands-1-5-million-of-taxpayer-money-to-make-vegan-supplements/
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The Left are obsessed with vegaism.
All part of their war against meat (and other animal protein like fish and eggs).
Our human ancestors needed nutrient-dense meat so they could develop large energy-consumung brains while retaining a compact body size and not spend most of their day eating and digesting like ruminant animals.
Veganism is only suitable for beings with small brains.
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Greens equals Vegetables!
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Veganism and environmentalism seem to be linked and do produce some strange comments.
So, there is a proposed solar factory in the shire where I live. This solar array is (potentially) to be built on beautiful pasture land, very productive grazing country. One local comment was supporting this project as the loss of grazing land was not a problem as this land was once forest and that was a problem, the land should ideally be returned to forest or allegedly renewable energy. Now the question is, if there is NO farmland, either for grazing, horticulture or energy production where does the food come from? The mystery commentator wanted everything to go back to forest, thereby sealing their own doom. Victorian forests are beautiful without doubt, but productive in terms of food suitable for humans they are not. There is a marked lack of fruiting varieties of trees that humans can consume. the ground covers are essentially woody and most, not all, not suitable for food. So if our commentator gets their way everything is forest and they then starve to death or eat the little fury things and of course bugs. Oh by the way, this open pasture supports very large reptile populations as well as bird life that prefers open country. I don’t know how to compare populations in various habitats but I would think the reptiles fare much better in the open country than forested. Don’t know. Do know I have encountered many more reptiles on the open river flats than I have ever seen in the forested areas.
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Fish-free fish oils -hmm?
Much like electricity-free renewables? Those are also NATURAL as in wind turbines in dunkelflautes, or solar panels in northern winters.
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Milliband is such a loser isn’t he? the stupid stuff he aligns himself with is amazing. He really is the UK’s Bowen
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Let’s thank our undervalued, in their estimation, politicians by giving them a taste of the success they could never achieve outside the Canberra bubble. We must defend their ‘right’ to spend our money on fine wine, bread and circuses while we languish under ever escalating power-bills and inflation. The Order of the Boot should suffice.
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‘He lied’ A Liberal Senator has lashed the Prime Minister over revelations the government quietly made changes to travel expense rules just weeks before calling the May federal election. And now we hear that The treasurer did something similar with ‘Deeming Rates’. Self funded retirees will now be reassessed on the value of their assets 2-3 times per year.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul-murray/albanese-target-of-nasty-questions-on-the-topic-of-minister-for-freebies-anika-wells/video/e0c736a697b7cccd937fd33172f0673f
A pox on all those who gave Labor such a whopping majority in the last election that now allows them to ride roughshod over us and a double pox on the useless and ineffective opposition!
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As I’ve said before, as Australian Government expenditure, all states, continues with no limit and generally no complaints from “opposition” parties, we will be facing new and confiscatory taxes, including death duties.
Other taxes and charges, both visible and invisible, have already been pushed about as high as they can push them.
Back in the day, even the fake conservative Liberal Party would regularly complain (when in opposition) about excessive Government taxes and charges, now they’re generally silent except for occasional outbursts such as you mention.
It won’t end well.
Total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local now:
$2.202 trillion.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Enjoy!
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Before the election the government said Deeming Rates are frozen, it was a lie.
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“it was a lie.”
Another lie,
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They are losing credibility among the rank and file with their blatant lies.
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What credibility?
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When politicians make promises and then throw them out once elected, the unfreezing of Deeming Rates is another nail in Labor’s coffin.
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My uncle was fond of a saying- “I don’t mind a liar, but a liar that lies about his own lies is a bloody liar”.
Absurd as the saying is, it kind of makes sense nowadays.
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FWIW
“Democrats’ Sneaky Attempt to Defame President Trump as a P*dophile in New Epstein Photo Dump Fails in Embarrassing Fashion When This Unredacted Image Emerges (PHOTO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/democrats-sneaky-attempt-defame-president-trump-as-pdophile/
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One thing I enjoy about President Trump is that he has a happy knack of getting the bad guys to reveal themselves and their nefarious plans.
If only the bad guys had the ability for reflective thought they’d be severely embarrassed.
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FWIW
“Here Are the NEWLY RELEASED Epstein Images Tied to Powerful Democrats”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/here-are-newly-released-epstein-images-tied-powerful/
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FWIW – for the covid record
“FDA Set to Give COVID Vaccines Serious ‘Black Box’ Designation: Report”
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly preparing to place a serious “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines, according to a CNN report citing people familiar with the agency’s plans.
A black box warning is the most serious safety designation the FDA can require — appearing in bold at the top of a drug or vaccine’s prescribing information to alert doctors and patients to potentially serious risks.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/fda-set-give-covid-vaccines-serious-black-box/
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And
“The great unraveling continues. If anything, it is accelerating. Earlier this week we reviewed (in a special edition!) the astonishing Atlantic article admitting babies died from the covid shots— right in the headline. On Thursday, Stanford Medicine News ran a similar but unrelated story headlined, “Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis.” ”
“Which brings us to the study’s first major takeaway. The Stanford researchers’ conclusions weren’t limited to spike proteins. The authors were careful, concise, and cautiously stayed in their lane, but the obvious implication was that all mRNA vaccines —not just covid shots— carry the same risk. Since they didn’t test any, we don’t know whether the risk varies between types of mRNA shots; it could be even worse for other types of mRNA vaccines.”
“In other words, this study is bad news for the entire mRNA platform, not just the covid shots. Until now, the “consensus group” believed that the lipid nanoparticles (tiny globs of artificial fat carrying the mRNA payload) were immunologically neutral, and can safely travel around the body without notice or harm. But this study found that the platform itself could trigger an immune response —sometimes a very bad one— independent of the spike protein and even before many cells had been productively transfected.”
“Curiously, all the work described in the study was completed in 2023. That’s a long runway to publication in mid-December 2025. There is no smoking gun, but it appears the publication of this study was delayed until now. Which raises the question: why now?
As I conjectured before, my best guess is the drug cartel has finally given up on pushing the covid shots, and maybe on the whole mRNA platform. But that only shifts the question one step backwards: In other words, what is now making them give up on the shots?
Which brings us to the next remarkable development.”
Which is the “black box report”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/black-box-saturday-december-13-2025?
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Coffe and covid is always worth a look. I wonder how widely he is read and how the word can be spread.
There are several others which regularly get a mention here as well. They will eventually spark a digital renaissance.
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>digital renaissance
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Interesting. I used the link above and wasn’t required to click any buttons.
Perhaps they aren’t on to my subversive activities yet. Not to self: must try harder!
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>Perhaps they aren’t on to my subversive activities yet
You have a right to access information:
Whether or not you believe that younger people who are still developing the political knowledge which would prepare them for becoming old enough to vote need access to freedom of information:
1. Substack is generally an adults information resource, (no, I don’t mean sexually explicit), yet I, a 73 year-old, am being blocked for age verification..
2. Facebook, and Tik Tok are generally kids websites yet they seem unaffected by the censorship and age-verification requirement.
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There are a whole lot of people in academia, industry and government pushing the lie that electricity prices are coming down. It has become a hard sell because many people’s electricity bills (those who gat them) do not lie.
The Net Zero Australia conference included a presentation from Vinnies (SVDP) Director of Energy. They track retail electricity prices across the States and produce an annual report. This is p[ossibly the best source of price data you will find:
https://cms.vinnies.org.au/media/2badeclx/nem-tariff-tracker-feb-2025-final.pdf?path=2badeclx%2Fnem-tariff-tracker-feb-2025-final.pdf
Chart 1 on page 6 is the money chart – literally.
The Vinnies Director of Energy stated it was a hard sell to convince people that prices were coming down when faced with these facts. But anything contrary to prices coming down is misinformation. Misinformation is fundamentally anything that does not agree with government perspective. It is this sort of disconnect that creates banana republics. And Australia is well on the way.
With regard to chart 6, note that the State with 72% penetration of WDGs is winning the race to the stratosphere for electricity prices.
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I’m currently reading 1984 now.
I’ve got to say it’s a real hard slog getting through it.
Over half way through it now and I’m determined to finish it but it is not a book that I will be going back to. It’s definitely not my cup of tea.
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Sorry to hear you don’t like it Wal.
It’s dark and bleak for sure.
Perhaps treat it as non-fiction and it will might be less depressing for you, after all there isn’t much in it that hasn’t come true or won’t in the near future (if conservative and other pro-freedom groups allow it).
E.g.
Already there is rewriting of history.
Ubiquitous surveillance.
Language policing.
Government propaganda and obvious lies.
Media manipulation.
Censorship.
Perpetual wars.
Etc..
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Long time lurker here. If anyone is in the mood to be really depressed, have a look at https://orwelltoday.com. The site owner, Jackie Jura, has been cataloguing our descent into Dystopia for 25 years. It was a slow slide at the beginning but has certainly accelerated of late.
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There is at least one film version availably on youtube. Like all film adaptations they can’t possibly convey the full depth of the original but might make it less of a “slog”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cN2orF88Jg
One truth about 1984 is that having read it you cannot unread it.
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You might surprise yourself Wal, once you have finished it and had time to digest it. I struggled through a puzzling book once, and eventually found myself going back and rereading it and enjoying and getting more out of it it each time.
Of course there is the option that, for you, its just crap. So there is that I guess.
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Windmills, at optimum conditions, are around 45% efficient.
https://w-wind.com.au/how-efficiently-do-wind-turbines-create-energy/
So they strip energy from the wind, slowing down the average velocity. If a windmill factory has a spacing equivalent to 1:20, ie 19 clear areas compared to 1 blocked by the windmill. Then you could say that the wind energy flowing through the region has been dropped by about 2.5%.
How much damage does that loss of energy do? Reducing the wind must affect the local evaporation potential of the airflow in the region, (for those that have ever dried their washing outdoors, you may understand this better, a windy day is better than a still day). Ultimately, that loss of local evaporation may stop the rain down stream.
I wonder what is the cost of this loss of rain. It might not lead to a drought but it could lead to a continuous percentage reduction in rainfall, ultimately ending farm viability. Unless you could do a study with and then without the windmills operating, (with exactly the same inputs), you’d never know the effect, the blurring effects of weather variability may be hiding the damage that they are doing
And that’s my Sunday thought. And now for the second thought of the day, just a few more hours till I tuck into a bacon sandwich for lunch, a Sunday tradition. In winter, I cook the bacon on a wood fired outdoor bbq. I miss winter.
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An interesting thought. In better times I always wondered about the scale of the effect of trees as windbreaks. And on a recent train trip from London to York I had time to ponder the effect of the hedgerows surrounding the almost endless paddocks in rural England.
Enjoy your Sunday traditions. Your contributions here are highly valued. We are not alone!
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So how did the hedgerows affect things? I started life in the UK and noted the windbreaks too. Back in the day, the windbreaks also included the rows of houses, house after house, all in a continuous build stretching for 5 or 6 units.
The houses were very efficient at trapping the coal fired smog from the home heating. I’m obviously showing my age now. I’m not sure you are allowed to heat your home in the UK anymore. Well certainly not using anything as efficient as a lump of solid carbon anyway.
For the inquisitive, it was Coventry, just a half mile from the city centre. South coast Devon was where my brothers and I would have our summer holidays with one set of grandparents. Strangely when I went back several years ago I didn’t bother with Coventry and I still wonder how I swam in the water in Devon, even a hot day is not generally above the mid 20’s. It was still lovely then, I wonder if the Jurassic Coast has managed to avoid the blight of windmills that were over every bare hillside when you drove to Cornwall. Ugly beasts. Somebody should be seriously ashamed of themselves for legislating and enforcing the preserving of a heritage listed house and from the same office, encouraging those monstrosities to populate the world.
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I’ve yet to see any wind installation obtaining 45% CF in Australia. Where did they dredge that figure up from? As Tony and Paul have advised, the National Grid wind CF averaged over a year is slightly less than 30%. That’s a long way down on the mythical 4*% figure.
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Graeme,
That’s not a CF number it means that the fan has extracted 45% of the energy available from the wind that was going past it. You measure it by looking at the kinetic energy of the wind on the upwind side and compare that to the downwind side. The energy extracted is the difference in the numbers. Compare that to the electricity generated.
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Clintel has a new President, former President of the Czech Republic:
https://link.msgsndr.com/email-preview/DEPKTXDl5dZpwUMIqkdr/j6qOLM0gcif6gDIiORTS?time_stamp=1765623927299
Some details on the new President:
Klaus, an economist who is still active in his own Václav Klaus Institute, became Minister of Finance after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He later became Prime Minister and then President of the Czech Republic for ten years (from 2003 to 2013). During all those years, he was virtually the only head of state who was critical of the climate agenda. In 2007, he wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times in which he stated: It is not the climate, but our freedom that is in danger. How relevant is that at a time when censorship from the EU, Paris, London, and Berlin is advancing ever further?
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FWIW
“IT’S LIKE EVERY INSTITUTION TAKEN OVER BY LEFTISTS: John Stossel: Wikipevil? “An editor of my page even posts pictures of Lenin and Che on his website profile!”
Yes, Wikipedia is run not only by leftists, but by moronic ones.”
“Wikipevil?
https://hotair.com/john-stossel/2025/12/13/wikipevil-n3809834”
Via https://instapundit.com/762207/#disqus_thread
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I gave once or twice to Wikipedia. Now it is a leftist rag. And they demand money to preserve their ‘independence’? It’s a reason to not donate.
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I posted about that on Friday.
Any money you might have intended to donate to them, give to Jo Nova instead. See https://joannenova.com.au/about/donations/
The video by John Stossel is at:
https://youtu.be/Ksrt1zoJT60
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Fortunately Elon has started his Grokipedia project and other alternatives to Wikipedia are under development.
Even the Wikipedia founders are horrified at what has become of it.
And they have a horrible and likely libellous entry on Jo.
The Left destroy everything that is good.
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I remain cautious about anything Musk related.
This is about a transcript of a session with grok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9nixloVJ8
I’m not sure how I came across this but as Sir Humprhey might have said it demonstrates grok being morally flexible and intellectually supple. And I too hate it when computer programs try to be your friend.
You can get the flavour just by watching the start and the end.
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Standard fare here. Nothing is pure enough. Even having tanks roll over your border doesn’t make you a victim if you aren’t lily white.
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Why would that be? Is it because ‘leftists’ have the time, or because they are more educated? Surely political leaning only affect political and economic entries? Most academics try to summarise their topics of expertise dispassionately. Scientific entries are absent of politics.
By definition, ‘leftist’ refers to an outlier fringe. If every institution has been taken over by your definition of leftists, then that is an indicator that you are probably the fringe outlier.
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They are not more educated, they are more indoctrinated as well as being indoctrinators. They are neither pro-science or pro-reason or pro-traditional morality which among other attributes would be a sign of an educated person.
It’s actually very hard to get a proper education today due to Leftist infestation of all the schools and academic institutions.
And Leftists have much more time to spend propagating their misinformation and lies because, the ones who actually “work” have plenty of free time as supposed academics or public serpents, at taxpayer expense. They are funded by the net taxes paid by the people who actually create wealth in the private sector as taxpayer-funded jobs consume wealth, not create it.
Conservatives tend to work hard in private sector jobs and have little spare time after tending to their traditional family units of male (XY), female (XX) and kids raised according to their biological gender. Alternatively they might be self-funded retirees.
It is notable that many of the prominent Leftists on this group ONLY post when it would be public “service” or “university” hours.
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One of the most grotesquely political features of modern culture is the laughable claims by various science communities that they are never political.
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Be a better bot!
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That is a bit unfair, he is only a student in search of knowledge.
‘More than half of all web traffic is generated by bots’. (wiki)
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Are “doctors wives” more educated than an electrician? I accept they prolly went to college but is that a clear demarcation?
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The recording of the memorial service for Viv Forbes:
https://carbon-sense.com/2025/12/12/viv-forbes-memorial-service-recording/
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FWIW
“They Want Your Children: Reddit Files Legal Challenge Against Australia’s Teenager Social Media Ban”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/12/13/they-want-your-children-reddit-files-legal-challenge-against-australias-teenager-social-media-ban/
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Isn’t it always interesting how no issue is unequivocally one sided?
I would happily support anything which tends to reduce screen time among the young and social media is possibly the most insidious form of screen time. So I can imagine that many parents would greatly prefer their children to experience interaction with others and the joys of the natural world. So maybe the ban is a good thing.
And then you get the powers that be grasping another opportunity to control the lives of others. The thought of having a government decide what my new grand daughter might do with her time is worse. Much worse.
And so Reddit mounts a legal challenge? Ok. Have at it. And then we can all find out where that takes us.
Edit: On reflection promoting good ideas is far more worthwhile than having bad people trying to stifle particular things they oppose.
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“Edit: On reflection promoting good ideas is far more worthwhile than having bad people trying to stifle particular things they oppose.”
Yes, no idea should be banned and they rise and fall in the free market of expression.
Its just another part of Simon’s argument above, the Left have spent the last 30years trying to ban certain ideas and force only wokeness upon us. They would ban all Capitalism except it provides the money for their Socialism to operate, they would ban all free enterprise if they could, so they try to control it as per Labor banning supermarkets from making profits. They are trying to ban the family, unless its one of theirs, hence Elbow getting married is OK, and obviously anyone to teh Right of Stalin is a Far Right Fascist!
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https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/never-succeeded-leader-who-brutally-summed-up-aus/news-story/f26c3afaa1dc056a77e4cf149fea1809
30 years ago as Singapore’s prime minister Lee Kuan Yew made several cutting observations about Australia’s welfare state which now seem to be coming true while Singapore flourishes!
“Australians have high consumption, low savings, low competitiveness, high current account deficits and high debt,”
LKY correctly observed that the Australian electoral cycle regularly encouraged spendthrift would be Government which promised the world without tax increases when they knew or should have known that the opposite would come to pass! Just compare exchange rates between SIN$ and AU$ of the 1990’s. Currently 0.17 in AU favour 30 years ago it was more like 0.30.
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Its a flaw in the democratic process, Singapore has a democratically elected one party state.
The US is typical of the problem, the country is $38 trillion dollars in debt.
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“The US is typical of the problem, the country is $38 trillion dollars in debt.”
That’s well over 100% of GDP and they are not even a welfare state! In contrast, people tell me Russia is a one-party State, and…
“Russia Government debt accounted for 14.7 % of the country’s Nominal GDP in Jun 2025,”
Maybe the ‘democratic process’ just sends you broke!
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Russia has kept the rest of the Federation poor and now they have nothing to lose but their chains. They say Putin is the richest man in the world.
‘Russia National Government Debt reached 407.8 USD bn in Oct 2025, compared with 385.9 USD bn in the previous month.’ (CEIC Data)
The problem with the one party state is obviously corruption, whereas in Singapore there are Buddhist and Taoist influences.
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FWIW
“Europe Continues To Interfere In Ukraine’s Last Chance For Peace”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-continues-interfere-ukraines-last-chance-peace
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Europe doesn’t want peace. And NATO would not exist without Russia, it’s their raison d’etre. So they beat the drums of war.
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Could otherwise reasonable and knowledgeable people of this site take a deep breath and think for themselves?
Just for one minute please !
Putin could end the war this morning by just declaring his victory.
Why not ? Crimea is his, he got land access there too – no need for the Bridge, Donbas is in his hands, on and on….
So what is the purpose of the war ? BTW, it has been by now as long as was Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
There is an answer.
In spring of 1945, while German army, industry, spirit, everything.., were at its end, there were weeks until fall of Berlin and they still tried to eliminate the Jews as genotype.
Putin hates Ukrainians more than Hitler hated the Jews.
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I was more or less with you until your implied assertion that you know what is in Putin’s mind.
Suffice to say that mind reading is notoriously unreliable.
Oh, and just as Putin could end the war this morning by declaring victory, Zelenskyy could end the war this morning by declaring defeat and suing for peace.
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With respect, FG.
There is no mind to read.
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FWIW
“Assume” – the word that makes an “ASS” out of “U” and “ME”
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We don’t need to know – he has told the world on many occasions – AI summary
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I’m more interested in the assertion above that “Putin hates Ukranians”.
Your AI summary does not address the issue of hatred within his mind.
Like I said, mind reading is notoriously unreliable. And AI will pretty much tell you what you want to hear.
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Russia’s Systematic Torture of Ukrainian POWs
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..severely Left-wing programmed AI summary..
In reality Putin said-
He wanted NATO pushed back from Russia’s borders so Ukraine and NATO would have to agree Ukraine could not join.
He wanted the Nazis eliminated from the Ukrainian army after their massacres in the Donbass.
He wanted the patriotic areas of the Donbass part of Russia.
He stated those three objectives before the invasion, during the invasion, and after the invasion, but the West just keep ignoring them and pushing their propaganda.
Why would he stop the war when he’s winning. He is costing the West dearly in weapons that just use up money, he is advancing across the land, he is wiping out Ukraine’s military manpower and he is breaking up NATO.
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Did you just pose that question naked or did you do some constraining as in this example?
“The Dumbest Genius Librarian”
“I have been using the AI “perplexity.ai” extensively lately both for scientific and general research. I think of it as the world’s dumbest, most unruly genius librarian ever.
By “unruly” I mean that any AI can hallucinate. Flat-out make things up. In addition, they may extrapolate to fill gaps, or use popular claims without fully checking if they are true.
Over the time I’ve been using perplexity, a number of such issues have arisen. So I started developing a set of standard instructions to avoid the issues as they arose. The first instruction was that it could cite the sources that Wikipedia cites, but it couldn’t cite or quote Wikipedia itself. (Wiki articles are totally unreliable, because any fool can write or edit them.)
That was followed by an instruction to perplexity to stop using “she” for men in dresses. So piece by piece, I’ve developed the instruction set listed below.
When each issue came up, I would point it out to perplexity. Then I would ask perplexity “What can I use as an instruction to prevent you from doing that again?” Perplexity would tell me how to avoid that error. And I would add that new instruction to the list.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/15/the-dumbest-genius-librarian/
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Could you imagine what Russia would do to the remaining male population in Ukraine if President Zelensky capitulates?
I suspect Vladimir could, as well as any descendent of Baltic State refugees lucky enough to escape the Russian takeover after WW2:
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‘After WWII, Germany, South Korea and Japan were forcibly re-occupied by America, becoming American puppet democracies under harsh rules involving military bases and occupying troops, forced capitalism, industrialization, Americanisation, and suppression of culture that lasted years.’
I’m quite sure Putin couldn’t give a crap about the males of Ukraine except the ones in the secret police. Maybe he’d put them all in tents in the snow and starve them to death like we did to the German army in 1944..
I don’t think AI brings anything worthwhile to an argument, its just for lazy people.
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Only Ukrainian Secret Police ?!!
Here is a concise, historian-standard summary of Stalin-era deportations by ethnicity, with approximate totals and mortality rates.
All figures are rounded ranges because Soviet records are incomplete and post-1991 archival work refined but did not fully settle the numbers.
⸻
Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations (1930s–1950s)
Overall deported minorities:
• Total deported: ~3.0–3.5 million people
• Estimated deaths: ~600,000–1,200,000
• Overall mortality: roughly 15–30%, varying greatly by group, timing, and conditions
⸻
Major Ethnic Groups Deported
Kulaks (class-based, multi-ethnic)
1930–33
deported ~1.8–2.0 million
mortality ~400,000–600,000. 20–30%
Volga Germans
1941
deported ~440,000
mortality ~70,000–100,000. 15–23%
Chechens & Ingush
1944
deported ~480,000
mortality ~100,000–150,000 20–30%
Crimean Tatars
1944
deported ~190,000
mortality ~34,000–46,000. 18–24%
Kalmyks
1943
deportaed ~93,000
~14,000–30,000 15–32%
Karachays
1943
deported ~69,000
mortality ~13,000–19,000. 19–27%
Balkars
1944
deported ~37,000
mortality. ~7,000–9,000 19–24%
Meskhetian Turks
1944
deported ~90,000
mortality ~12,000–15,000. 13–17%
Poles (Soviet territories)
1939–41
deported ~320,000
mortality ~30,000–60,000. 10–20%
Baltic peoples (Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians)
1941, 1949
deported ~200,000
mortality ~30,000–50,000. 15–25%
Koreans (Far East)
1937
deported ~172,000
mortality ~10,000–25,000 6–15%
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Only Ukrainian Secret Police ?!!
Here is a concise, historian-standard summary of Stalin-era deportations by ethnicity, with approximate totals and mortality rates.
All figures are rounded ranges because Soviet records are incomplete and post-1991 archival work refined but did not fully settle the numbers.
⸻
Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations (1930s–1950s)
Overall deported minorities:
• Total deported: ~3.0–3.5 million people
• Estimated deaths: ~600,000–1,200,000
• Overall mortality: roughly 15–30%, varying greatly by group, timing, and conditions
⸻
Major Ethnic Groups Deported
Kulaks (class-based, multi-ethnic)
1930–33
deported ~1.8–2.0 million
mortality ~400,000–600,000. 20–30%
Volga Germans
1941
deported ~440,000
mortality ~70,000–100,000. 15–23%
Chechens & Ingush
1944
deported ~480,000
mortality ~100,000–150,000 20–30%
Crimean Tatars
1944
deported ~190,000
mortality ~34,000–46,000. 18–24%
Kalmyks
1943
deportaed ~93,000
~14,000–30,000 15–32%
Karachays
1943
deported ~69,000
mortality ~13,000–19,000. 19–27%
Balkars
1944
deported ~37,000
mortality. ~7,000–9,000 19–24%
Meskhetian Turks
1944
deported ~90,000
mortality ~12,000–15,000. 13–17%
Poles (Soviet territories)
1939–41
deported ~320,000
mortality ~30,000–60,000. 10–20%
Baltic peoples (Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians)
1941, 1949
deported ~200,000
mortality ~30,000–50,000. 15–25%
Koreans (Far East)
1937
deported ~172,000
mortality ~10,000–25,000 6–15%
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The data above is taken from Google, known for its Russo-phobia.
The connoisseurs of precise numbers here will notice the Korean Aberration – yes, Koreans were absolutely unique group.
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Ok. Have it your way. Be governed by your propagandistic fears. Let the war continue. Forever!
There are very rich and powerful people who will be delighted by your proposal.
But I repeat that Zelenskyy could end the war tomorrow by surrendering and suing for peace.
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When the Oblasts that are the subject of the operation are under Russian control we will see. Why on earth would they stop now?
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I saw a video posted on Farcebook, which has apparently gone viral, of someone with kids present picking up what was obviously a blue-ringed octopus, one of the world’s most venomous animals that can kill an adult within minutes and often the bite is painless and unnoticed.
I just can’t believe someone can be so ignorant and stupid.
And they vote.
I can’t send a link because under Australian censorship regulations you would have to be logged into Farcebook and prove you are over 16.
The demonstration of this stupidity could have been an educational experience for Aussie kids but now they’ll have to learn the hard way, but just once.
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I believe that pic could be of a tourist, why wouldn’t know what a blue ringed octopus was.
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In general if you don’t know the danger of an animal you don’t touch it.
And bright colourations of animals are frequently signs that they are poisonous or dangerous.
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More on the story without lowering your standards to farcebook.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/warnings/uk-tourist-handles-blueringed-octopus-before-video-goes-viral/news-story/63402910d1db3053960bce93a07b1acd
Do you ever wonder how such a toxic poison is made and stored? Do you ever wonder why it needs to be so effective? Maybe it’s needed so the bitten prey doesn’t swim too far away. Maybe it’s just that humans are really sensitive to this mix. As always, don’t pat the wildlife and don’t pick it up, especially if it is brightly coloured.
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Don’t pick up the cone shells either. Not to much to warn the uninformed. The Octopus “flashes” its lights to let you know its displeased the cone shell, on the other hand , just spikes the hand that touches it!
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Almost as dangerous as the blue-haired lefty female or short-cropped blonde Karen. 😆
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Can Anyone Believe Anything?
“The fire consuming you is the fire that tempers.” —EKO on “X” ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/can-anyone-believe-anything
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Australia today:
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…and you can see that at work today! Albosleazy is going to ban price-gouging at Woolworths and Coles, so we all get cheaper groceries and live in LaLaLand at the expense of someone else..
” ban price gouging in Coles and Woolworths, following a damning report from the competition watchdog earlier this year that revealed Australian supermarkets were among the most profitable in the world.”
What is price gouging? …whatever we say it is!
“The ban will prohibit very large retailers from charging prices that are excessive when compared to the cost of the supply plus a reasonable margin.”
You can see what this will do instantly- expand the size of the Empire at a greater cost to taxpayers than any grocery saving!!
“The ACCC will get a $30 million funding boost to police the new regulations. ”
The grocery companies said they make less than 3% profit, that the ban will let Aldi charge what it likes, and that the ACCC found no evidence of excessive pricing. So, that old cartoon of those three women in jail discussing why they were there-
“I charged more than my competitors and was jailed for gouging”
“I charged less then my competitors and was jailed for dumping”
I charged the same as my competitors and was jailed for collusion”
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Pretty rich coming from perk gouging pollies, they are costing us way more than a few cents on groceries, no one is forcing us to shop at Coles exclusively, but we are stuck with our govt.
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I charged the same as my competitors and was jailed for collusion”
I will be in big $$ trouble if Coles and Woolworths ever coordinate on their sale pricing. Being able to stock groceries on at least a six week cycle, I am almost always able to find a discounted price during that period. Online purchasing is unlikely to ever happen here unless mark down pricing disappears. A by-product of ultra conservative best buy dates.
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Yes, but what comes next?
What happens after a society is doomed?
Does it stay doomed forever with Orwell’s vision of a boot stamping on a human face forever?
With the only hope for the good people of the world to come in the form of the rapture?
I am even more convinced than ever that every new life has a kind of divine spark within.
It so happens that we have lived in the best of times. And we are not beaten yet. Not yet!
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Lets see what Trump can do, he’s the only leader trying to halt the declines. Aussie has no-one worthwhile unless the Fish & Chip Lady gets power, the Coalition are just Labor-lite and if they got power they would be too terrified to do anything to change our decline.
It will be expensive, and hard, to wind back Govt spending, but it will come. Our debt just gets worse year in and year out, so the longer they wait the harder getting back on our feet will be.
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Good points KP, not sure if it can be wound back as you suggest even for the fish and chip lady
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‘Does it stay doomed forever with Orwell’s vision …’
Only if the Russian Federation conquers Europe.
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What do you imagine they would do with it?
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Demilitarise the EU and life would carry on as normal.
As we speak the daughters of Russian elites are enjoying Paris and Rome.
In Orwells mind there was a limited nuclear exchange and 1984 was the aftermath, but I can’t see that happening.
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Haven’t heard that one before. Do you have a source?
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‘The nations appear to have emerged from nuclear warfare and civil dissolution over 20 years between 1945 and 1965, in a post-war world where totalitarianism becomes the predominant form of ideology, through English Socialism, Neo-Bolshevism, and Obliteration of the Self.’ (wiki)
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>if the Russian Federation conquers Europe
Why on earth would they want it?
What a management nightmare that would be!
They’re not completely stupid.
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‘With the only hope for the good people of the world to come in the form of the rapture?’
The second coming is on time, but no rapture.
Hard to work out who these ‘good people’ are, all the NDE shows has everyone going to heaven. And they really didn’t want to come back.
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FWIW
“‘USED TO’ BEING THE KEY PHRASE: The US and Europe are at odds over the Western values they used to share.”
“The US and Europe are at odds over the Western values they used to share”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-us-and-europe-are-at-odds-over-western-values-they-used-to-share/
Via https://instapundit.com/762171/#disqus_thread
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Europe Picks Canada Over the U.S. in a Trillion-Dollar Defense Shift
If true (who can tell these days), there may be a few unwanted F35’s coming on the market – maybe Australia can benefit from this.
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Still no mention of that on SDA
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As instructed by President Trump, Europe is moving to defend itself.
Using the KP lazy answer..
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“major EU financial initiative providing up to €150 billion in low-cost, long-term loans to Member States and partners (like Canada) ”
Dodgy… When the European Commission borrows for the EU-
“many problems linked to the operation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)…Published earlier this month, the court’s annual report for 2023 highlights that “around one third of the RRF’s grant payments did not comply with the rules.”…There are already plenty of examples where RRF funding has gone to white elephants and other badly designed programmes, or been lost to corruption…As of this year, only four of its member states have more debt outstanding than the EU itself..the Commission has borrowed over €450bn.”..around 90% of the EU’s GDP.
..and for something REALLY funny.. ” All borrowing will be repaid by 2058″ … by borrowing more to pay that debt off!
..and “European Union member countries have an agreement, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), to maintain a general government gross debt of no more than 60% of GDP.”
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Brave search summary
“As of December 14, 2025, the Canadian government has not placed a formal order for Saab’s JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets, though it is actively considering a mixed fleet that could include Gripen E/F aircraft. The decision remains under review by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, which has delayed a final choice on the $27.7 billion F-35 procurement program due to escalating costs, political tensions with the United States, and demands for greater domestic industrial benefits.
Saab has offered to assemble Gripen jets in Canada, potentially creating up to 10,000 jobs, and Bombardier has confirmed ongoing talks with Saab on this possibility.”
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Yes, the SMH has an article on how the Eurocrats are horrified that Trump has accurately described them. They are basically going to sit back and wait for someone to shoot Trump again or vote him out of power and put in a more Socialist President.
“In a new national security strategy report (NSS), the Trump administration painted an excoriating picture of a Europe in terminal decline and ruled by weak, corrupt elites. “Civilisational erasure” loomed for the continent, the NSS claimed, blaming centrist governments for their fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.”
Of course they whipped out a few ‘formers’ to say what the real politicians were too scared to say, the same as the Lamestream here go racing after ‘formers’ to comment on anything new in politics.
“There are things which, once written and published, mean nothing will ever be the same again. The Americans have crossed that line. The contempt, even the hostility, it’s irreversible,” said a former French ambassador to Syria..
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Not from what I read – and even if the talking heads are AI generated, they are not supporting the current US administration’s economic stance.
From this commentary:
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‘ … Trump has accurately described them.’
That is debatable, my impression is that Pax Americana is dead.
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Does your impression matter? No more than mine but I’m not carpet bombing the board.
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‘They are basically going to sit back and wait’ until he becomes a lame duck. There, fixed it.
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The CRASH clock – orbital mayhem
The CRASH (Collision Realization And Significant Harm) Clock is a proposed Key Environmental Indicator (KEI) to give an estimate of how long it would take before a catastrophic collision occurs if collision avoidance maneuvers cease or there is a loss of situation awareness.
The clock is currently 2.8 days, which doesn’t sound too bad until you consider that in 2018, before the mega-constellation launches got underway (yes, Starlink, we’re looking at you), the CRASH Clock was 121 days.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/crash_clock_orbit_collision/
Then the number of satellites doubles or triples…just hours…
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Nevertheless there have only been two major satellite crashes, the operstional Iridium 33 vs unused Russian military Kosmos 2251—(Cosmos) in 2009 because the Russians didn’t bother deorbiting the defunct satellite and the Chicomms irresponsible testing of an antisatellite weapon in 2007 resulting in a huge debris cloud.
There have been several other instances of debris hitting satellites but not deliberate or accidental collisions.
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And how exactly can a satellite orbit the flat Earth?
Please explain.
And all that debris can just be swept off to the side anyway.
/sarc in case you missed it.
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I reckon it’s like old school model aircraft on control wires. Somewhere there is a big tower with wires going up to the satellites holding them in circular orbit above our obviously flat earth. I may have missed some nuances, but yeah, basically that.
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Musk has 9000 and adds 20-odd at every launch, Amazon want half that to start their phone setup. I expect it will be cascading after the first few explode into debris, more and more debris collisions happening faster and faster… lucky space is so big!
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And know we are talking LEO data centres as well.
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Sunday WTF: when a lithium battery terminal is loose, overheating and melting internally and it’s a design feature!
https://youtu.be/XP2yPY57Wjc?si=-IamNI3gXZGJnZH7
Very bad engineering, but the manufacturer responded:
https://youtu.be/7fD3yaRvp3o?si=1GRNow7PuzyNOZne
It’s a thermal disconnect design feature!!!
You MUST be joking.
Their sales are going to collapse faster than if they were woke.
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I’m worried that this ‘feature’ is within more than one battery brand/model. The fabrication of almost everything has gone to china and this kind of fault is not only very dangerous, it could burn your house down and extinguish your family. This is no longer a game or a little fun, this stuff will kill.
Product recalls must be pending, there can’t be any doubt about that. And you know what, those chinese fabricators will not be paying for it, the importers will. The video is from the US, how many of these batteries and their clones are in Oz, just waiting to rattle loose and then to get hot enough to burn.
This will not end till the quality is fixed and when you are talking about china, I’m of the opinion that it will never be fixed. In my opinion, “Made in china” just translates as “crap”, whether it be electronics, (fake chips), dodgy batteries or frozen vegetables. The crap stinks and it’s a stench you can’t wash off.
Buyer beware. And you can’t open the box to check.
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When you think about whats going on in a larger scale battery (car, house and bigger) and all that has to be correct for it to work as a system and work reliably, its a tribute to manufacturing that they are surviving as well as they do.
At a personal level I would not feel comfortable driving around in traffic while sitting on top of one, and that’s a little odd as I have been a risk taker most of my life. Measured risks perhaps and only my own skin not others.
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As the Northern hemisphere descends into to the depths of its winter there will be colds and flus.
We’ve come a long way from 2020 when ivermectin created a media frenzy in April. Well, not the legacy media, just the other types.
Australian scientist Kylie Wagstaff ( Monash Uni) had been researching Ivermectin for 10 x years before she was elevated to hero status after her groundbreaking research:
“Lab experiments show anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin, eliminates SARS-CoV-2 in cells in 48 hours”.
Due to its many modes of actions vs viruses, especially the RNA viruses associated with the cold and flu complex it’s probably the best anti- viral out there. If you can get it.
Combined with high dose vitamin C you can stop a viral infection in its tracks. Not medical advice, I’m not a doctor, do your own research.
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Only seven more sleeps to summer solstice night – could be why it’ll be getting hot in Perth today (40C?) but will their ABC mention the near-freezing hail/sleet/snow falling on Tasmania:
https://www.mountainwatch.com/australia/mount-mawson/snow-cams
Third snowy Sunday in December in-a-row – surely a sign of climate refugee Giblets Wobbling™️ and no doubt unprecedented apart from the time before. The same storm is then lining up NZ with snow forecast Wednesday to 1,400 metres down south.
The hotter they shout, the colder it gets.
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Natural Variables Rule
SAM is negative and coupled with a weak La Nina it was normal weather during the LIA.
https://weather.plus/aao-index.html
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👍 x ∞
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The far-Left “The Conversation” is partly funded by the mostly taxpayer-funded woke universities, subsidy-harvesting corporations and rich Leftists.
Think about that the next time a “university” asks you for a donation.
Full list here:
https://theconversation.com/au/partners
I am frequently asked due to my past association with several universities but if they have money to throw away on The Conversation, they don’t need any of mine (or yours).
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And who determines a Vice Chancellor’s salary, benefits and superannuation?
An Independent body? Themselves?
A lot of them earn over 1 million South Pacific Pesos a year.
And what for?
Senate (If appropriate) enquiry asap.
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https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/the-prime-minister-lied-anthony-albanese-scolded-for-secretly-changing-mp-spending-rules-weeks-before-federal-election/news-story/65259f26cff95dd3ed72b0bc34dd408c
So much for PM Albo assertion that “we don’t meddle with that sort of administration” “We have the independent parliamentary expenses authority for a reason,”
Murky Obfuscation and blatantly untrue!
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Sounds good enough for a double dissolution.
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Best to get a functional opposition in place first…..which is probably still a year or two down the road.
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So? Of course he lied on Wednesday when he said those rules were set at arms length by an independent authority… He’s a politician, its what they do..
“the Prime Minister expanded the framework just six weeks before he called the 2025 federal election. The change to the guidelines, according to The Daily Telegraph, significantly expanded the “party political duties” definition to allow politicians to travel at the taxpayer’s expense…The expanded framework allows MPs and staff to travel for party activity on the taxpayer’s dime so long as they stood up and spruiked a policy at some point during the trip.”
But its a great distraction to pretend there are to sides in Parliament while Govt dept is raging out of control.
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Something that I sort of knew but it was confirmed in fine detail at the NZAU conference on Thursday_
AUSTRALIA DOES NOT COUNT CO2 USED TO MANUFACTURE IMPORTED GOODS.
So the whole NetZero fantasy and claims of reduced carbon is even an illusion in Australia. Look at SA solar farms. At least $1bn invested there and all the hardware imported. A huge carbon footprint. This asset was producing 44MW at 2:30pm yesterday while curtailing 524MW. So a massive waste of installed hardware. All that embedded carbon dioxide producing next to no output.
This is a serious flaw in carbon accounting, which never imagined Australia’s rapid de-industrialisation. It is false accounting to not allow for the embedded carbon dioxide in imports.
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Its standard practice for the country actually causing the CO2 emissions during manufacturing , to be accountable for those emissions.
You could argue that those panels are effectively a carbon SINK for Australias net carbon ballance ?
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Carbon sink
Carbon balance
Not balancing anything
Sinking everything
WTF is ‘sink’ and ‘balance’ concerning the fundamental molecule of organic life?
I’m sure I will be told it’s my ignorance and, of course, and Trump controls my mind.
They may be right and I no longer care.
The managerial intelligentsia live detached from reality lives where they invent and trade inane ‘concepts’ at luxurious ‘conferences’ over tea after the fox hunt.
The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
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It is always useful to know you enemies language and terminology.
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Bye bye Bulgarian government
It can be done!
AI reply: “The post accurately details Bulgaria’s government resignation on December 11, 2025, after weeks of nationwide protests against corruption, budget hikes, and economic policies, drawing thousands to streets in Sofia and other cities, as confirmed by Reuters, BBC, and Al Jazeera reports.
https://x.com/tesssummers98/status/1999449250954920271
Now for all the lies, fraud, waste & incompetence here. They’ve been sacked before for way less.
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Lol.. A quick colour revolution in any country that goes against the USA! The Yanks ban Russia’s Lukoil from operating in Bulgaria, so Bulgaria passes laws to nationalise it and keep it going, so suddenly they are world’s worst corrupt thugs in existence..
“According to a Politico report on Friday, Bulgarian officials fear the sanctions could shut down Burgas – owned by Lukoil and which supplies up to 80% of the country’s fuel – as banks pull support, potentially triggering fuel shortages and protests. Sources said Sofia is seeking an exemption and has asked Washington to delay the measures, although no details of the talks have been disclosed. Separately, Bulgarian lawmakers on Friday passed a bill allowing the government to take control of Burgas if necessary to shield it from sanctions, as well as approve its sale or nationalize it.”
https://www.rt.com/news/627522-bulgaria-romania-dodge-sanctions-lukoil/
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Is Google in cahoots with our e-Safety kommisar? YouTube’s now come with the advisory: “Sign in to prove you’re not a bot’. So now I have to have a Google account to watch a YouTube. It’s not about bots, it’s about Google revenue from paid accounts and data mining as well as control of freedom by yet another petty bureaucrat.
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A thought provoking video on Trump’s efforts to end forever wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h74Fe_M75T0
Talks about 5 global powers working together for sustained peace:
USA, China, Russia, India and Japan. or Core 5.
Leaves EU out in the cold.
Over past decades, USA has been the school ground bully who has strings being pulled by the smarter kids from Europe.
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The US is slipping into isolationism, China wants to embrace European values, Russia is history and India has its own agenda. Japan and Australia should quit the Alliance and become non-aligned.
Trump visualises five spheres of power, but that seems unlikely because superpower rivalry is coming to end.
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“China wants to embrace European values.”
Nope, at least the CCP doesn’t. They are cherry picking those parts of western culture and society they think will work for them but, even then, they’re implemented in a very Chinese way.
Most Chinese believe the west is corrupted, stale, weak and stupid, and has done some wicked things to China during the European and American imperialist phase. They long for the day when China will become dominant, which they believe is their destiny.
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India might have something to say about, that let alone the West and the USA/Canada.
Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and others as well.
Maybe Australia and NZ.
And Taiwan.
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‘Most Chinese believe the west is corrupted …’
You might need a link for that.
‘ … implemented in a very Chinese way.’
Politically the regime could scrap the CCP and become social democrats, a one party state without oppression. The reform movement holds sway and they have the cards.
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Nice list of compounding assertions. I doubt many will pan out.
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“China wants to embrace European values,”
Not at all! Don’t let Western propaganda convince you they are just like us but with yellow skin. There is no time for Western views of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ or ‘fairness in society’ or family before Govt’ or many other points my mate from Hong Kong tells me when he comes down to visit. Besides, look where Europe is going with those values, straight down the gurgler!
“Japan and Australia should quit the Alliance and become non-aligned.” Yep- but America controls both countries and they are both becoming more anti-Chinese with time.
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Based on my visits to China (now more than fifteen years ago) and doing business in China, I can verify that the Chinese think VERY differently to Europeans and Americans. While large numbers covet the western lifestyle and enjoy travel to both places, some of whom even see western culture as superior to Chinese, the vast majority harbour a resentment toward us based on millennia of oppression by westerners, real and imagined.
They see us as an inferior race and hold a type of supremacist attitude, through which they truly believe that China’s future is to revenge itself on us through world dominance.
This is one of the reasons why they have stolen IP on a huge scale and have – and will – screw over any westerner naive enough to sign a contract full of booby traps.
And I continue to believe that Australia will be in China’s sights early on if a real world war kicks off. We have enormous resources they need, an important geographical position in the Pacific and, most importantly, we’re sitting ducks with no real military might. We will be easy pickings and we might well have a huge army of Chinese adversaries in our midst already, waiting for the whistle to blow.
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“Easy pickings”?
Not surprising given all the decades of “softening up”, including some VERY “creative” political deals, some of which fairly reek of TREASON.
China’s traditional and official name has two “translations:
“The Middle Kingdom”; innocuous and misleading at nest.
It can equally be translated as “THE CENTRAL or PIVOTAL Kingdom”; i.e., “that around which all else revolves”.
The only wryly amusing thing about all of yhis is whether China can bluff the rest of the world to pay full tribute BEFORE its own internal “issues” make the place implode. Even that is an “unspoken” threat: If you thought the 1970s /80s Vietnamese Refugee Regatta was “interesting, consider 20 or thirty MILLION hungry, desperate Chinese “refugees” fleeing the collapsing village.
Of course, the pollie-muppets and opinion-shaping churnalists are “cool” with that, just as they are with the sand-pirate invasion.
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A lot of Hong Kong has now moved to Singapore.
When Thatcher agreed to give Hong Kong back to mainland China, Hong Kong built a brand new Airport on that island with road and rail links. And paid for it by emptying the Hong Kong Treasury. When the Communists turned up, the cupboard was bare.
LOL. Great move by the UK.
Up yours China.
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Tuvalu is a low lying coral atoll, average elevation under 2m, and absolutely not a smart place to live, fake sea level rise or not.
So, are we now going to allow the entire population of all the Pacific islands to migrate here for all the “free stuff” Australia is so famous for?
I think the climate doomsters forgot to attend geology classes or even geography lessons, back in the day.
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“As early as 2010, research showed the small island nations of Tuvalu and Kiribati were growing, rather than being submerged beneath rising seas.
As discussed by the BBC, one study examined 27 islands spanning Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Federated States of Micronesia, and found that over the last 60 years, 80 percent of the islands either maintained their size or grew, with some growing dramatically.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/tuvalu-is-not-sinking-beneath-rising-seas-data-shows-its-growing/
Send ’em back and give them internet access! 😁
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Excerpt from Prof. Milton Friedman speech.
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FWIW
A new EU tentacle arises. And circular reasoning hits overdrive. Covered in the first half hour here –
“EU Giant Illegal Step; Russian Assets Indefinitely Frozen; Moscow Takes Court Action Odessa Blockade”
https://rumble.com/v72z5vs-eu-giant-illegal-step-russian-assets-indefinitely-frozen-moscow-takes-court.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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FWIW
Chiefio looks at that –
“WEFies & EU “leaders” & UK Want War & Empire. Take any money out NOW.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/wefies-eu-leaders-uk-want-war-empire-take-any-money-out-now/
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I did a quick check and there’s around 450 alternatives operating as alternatives to The Pirate Bay which ze blob blocked years ago.
They effectively blocked one hole in a cheese grater, as a comparison.
So now we wait for social media “protect the children” phase 2, (protect ze blob from the masses learning the truths they need to know, before it all goes pear shaped next year).
Protect them from pitbulls but not rotweillers.
Up to (or down to) ze blob’s usual level of brilliance.
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FWIW
Re “Protect them from pitbulls but not rotweillers.”
You’ve got a fair chance of getting your kids back from both of those. It is the social workers where you are likely to have difficulty.
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Pitbulls=social media, rotweillers=alternatives and everyone else only to eager to play lapdog like substack, youtube etc, and as we saw with the green agenda, woke, trans etc, the obedient are a plague, ultimately sealing their own fate too, just to stupid to know it.
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The digital id rally, London
https://www.youtube.com/live/TXchML7aj9w?si=pJFfTxjbce8_qKe0
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FWIW
“Regenerative Farming Just Went Mainstream; Here’s Why It Matters”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/regenerative-farming-just-went-mainstream-heres-why-it-matters
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There has been a terror attack at Bondi Beach. Two men in black shot into beachgoers. No details about deaths or injuries yet. Nobody apprehended so far.
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that “The beach was crowded with thousands of tourists and locals at the end of a 30C summer day. There were also large crowds at Bondi on Sunday night for a festival celebrating the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. The event, Chanukah by the Sea, was advertised as a night of family fun.”
Their ABC, in their report, forgot to mention the large numbers of Jews present, on their holy day. Must have slipped their mind or perhaps they didn’t see any significance.
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Sand-pirates fulfilling “religious obligations”?
Watch as the LSM heaps opprobrium on Australian shooters and hunters.
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Seems they had shotguns: Messy up close but they rapidly lose lethality as range increases.
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Yes all the deaths would have occurred at close range the “shootout” on the bridge was a pantomime nothing more as shot guns were supposedly in use but looking at the footage it would appear at least one shooter had a rifle and not a shot gun. The whole thing smacks of amateur hour theatrics…..not saying it as staged but the “terrorists” were definitively amateurs.
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It does make a change from Australians shooting Muslims in NZ though.
But it may not be so very different.
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“large numbers”
All holding candles?
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FWIW
“Another Faulty ‘Climate Change’ Study Gets Busted”
More looking at that Nature retraction
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/12/13/another-faulty-climate-change-study-gets-busted-n4947035
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Same paper as discussed https://joannenova.com.au/2025/12/second-most-popular-paper-of-climate-and-economic-doom-has-now-been-retracted/
It was obvious the paper was worthless back in April 2024. I nearly didn’t bother mentioning the retraction because it was always ridiculous. But it seems this retraction is on it’s second or third lap around the world.
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FWIW
Democrat Covid rules
https://img.patriotpost.us/01KCAB148D2Q2VSZDQRG0GPB8W.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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FWIW – and right next door!
“Timor-Leste Rejects Climate Hysteria, Embraces Development”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/13/timor-leste-rejects-climate-hysteria-embraces-development/
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Another One of the most senior ministers in the Albanese government has been found to have broken parliamentary travel rules by the expenses watchdog and will repay taxpayers for a trip they took in 2023.
They are Albo ‘get out of Jail Free travel rules’ ‘break them in case of emergency or as necessary to minimise public scrutiny’
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The Australian Labor Party Labor Albo, Burke, Husic only look after one demograhic in Australia and it is not Australians – ISIS Brides Gaza Refugees spring to mind
A shooting attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, December 14, 2025, during a Hanukkah celebration, resulting in at least ten deaths and multiple injuries.
One of the gunmen has been identified as [snip – name removed. No names until police issue offcial statements of identity. The ABC source is “speaking on condition of anonymity”, which is not enough to be naming alleged suspects. Thanks – Raquel] , born in 2001, based on a driver’s license photo shared online and confirmed by Australian ABC citing a security official.
The second suspect is in critical condition after being injured during the incident.
Police have confirmed that two individuals were taken into custody, with one suspect killed at the scene and the other detained.
One gunman, identified as [snip], was confirmed by authorities after a photo of his driver’s license circulated on social media.
The second suspect remains in police custody and is in critical condition following the attack.
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Good point, trump and Netanyahu have both embraced the [snip] Ahmed Al sharaa (ISIS leader) and put him in charge of Syria to over see the USA stealing all the Syrian oil.
Albanese is now at the point of crying like a little child on TV (probably because his wife is a coastie) and is now in a conflict of interest.
His government has previously stated they recognise Palestine as a independent state and yet now it would appear (at face value) Muslims have attacked Jews, unfortunate for the Jews but wonderful news for Mossad et al.
Get ready for the massive psy op heading our way over Xmas.
cheers and xmas beers
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And the root cause will never be discussed or debated. Pauline will bring it up and both sides will claim she is trying to make political mileage out of a tragedy. The beautiful country of my youth has gone for ever. Lost to inept politicians who all claim moral superiority.
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Wow Sambar maybe you should run for politics, if you are in the Barossa valley region i will definitely vote for you. The beautiful country you pine for is gone and will never come back, it has been reduced to a shit hole by both major parties and the greens, they trade in hate, anger and fear.
The problem is we are programmed to hate, most people on this site have already decided who the bad guys are and how best to deal with them, this programming inhibits their ability to see the truth, to discern right from wrong. Someone shoots a J@w and it automatically must be a M@slin and the hate gets intensified by the media and social programming (face book etc).
It is a vicious cycle for the common people (us) but the true perpetrators always go unpunished, they always go unpunished.
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I agree we shouldn’t automatically be saying the shooter must be a Muslim. Best to wait for identities to be confirmed formally. But I do wonder why you’re being critical of someone who thinks it is likely a Muslim when you claimed the same in your earlier comment #44.1
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Do you not watch the ABC? They are so conflicted they originally had a muslim woman as the lead reporter (diversity and all that BS)
I accept that you are an Israeli firster and obviously will defend Israel at all costs but truth be told i dont like people like people who are Israeli firsters so i wont take your crap.
The above is straight out of the J@wish play book and has no place here and in fact has no place in Australian conversation
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I see you’re again quoting the comment of mine from #45, that you earlier claimed you would ignore. Well done.
Your claim to ignore my comment is as solid as your other claims.
No. Didn’t watch the ABC. You probably shouldn’t either.
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“No reason? Do haters of Jews need a special reason to kill Jews?”
Check out any of the 23 “known / authorized” versions of their little handbook.
In it, they are OBLIGED to “kill the Jews wherever they find them”.
It is the code of the Sand Pirate.
And dying whilst conducting a Jihad (HOLY WAR) is an instant pass to “Paradise”.
A DEATH CULT. TOTALLY embraced by governments, wankerdemia and churnalistas.
The wryly amusing thing is that they HATE the “godless” even more than they hate the Jews.
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This had to happen sooner or later, Albo stood mute while Jewish folk were threatened and despised in Sydney at the Opera House.
This won’t end well for the govt.
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Lets not jump to conclusions Ronin. This could be a classic false flag from the usual suspects. Albo had recognised Palestine as an independent state so there was no reason for a people of a middle east country to orchestrate these attacks so the logical question is who did this? what was their motive, why would certain people do this if they were in favour of labors view of the Palestinian situation?
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No reason? Do haters of Jews need a special reason to kill Jews? History says no.
The aim of the Oct 7 attacks was not to have Gaza and/or the West Bank recognised as Palestine. So the recognition by Albo and others does not stop the attacks. More likely it just emboldens those who want to attack Jews when they see attacks like Oct 7 being rewarded on some level.
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Thats conjecture on your part with no supporting evidence.
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thats conjecture once again, if the point was not to show the world the barbarism of Israel and therefore force the international community to recognise Palestine then what was the point?????
You have not addressed any of the points i have raised, as usual you have simply produced gibberish and I will therefore ignore your comment.
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Supporting evidence of History suggesting no special reason is needed to kill Jews.
How about the Holocaust? I trust you will not claim that didn’t happen. Or claim that a hatred of Jews is a special reason.
Regarding the recognition of Gaza and/or The West Bank as Palestine not being the objective.
No, that is not conjecture by me. The PLO (previously) and Hamas have stated that recognition of those areas alone are not the objective. That a two state solution is not an option and has been rejected many times. They want Israel gone and a far greater area than Gaza and the West Bank to be recognised as Palestine.
Your not liking my answers does not mean I have not addressed your matters you raise. Your rhetoric is not a rebuttal. It’s just an indication you don’t accept or like the reply.
Your reply counters your claim that you will ignore my comment.
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In light of your comment, I certainly hope authorities will properly examine motives and consider strict unbiased enforcement of law and possibly charge the person who took the g*n from the person trying to unalive him and handling said g*n illegally and, if as I recall from the video, illegally discharging the g*n in the the direction of the people who were trying to unalive him, and not waiting for proper authorities to save his life in a legal manner.
We can’t have people saving their own lives without due process and their own government approved security.
We also can’t end violence if we respond to violence with non state sanctioned violence, which includes not calling violent people violent because words are violence.
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Condolences for the tragic (and unfortunately unsurprising) Hanukkah attack.
Saw the vid of the heroic soul taking one of the guns from an attacker.
Question for anyone especially Brits.
I’m seeing where farmer tractor protests around Parliament where joined by tank(s)?
True?
Where the heck did the tank(s) come from?
Elements of military joining protests?
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Private collections. The weapons are either removed or “neutered..
Because those light tanks have rubber pads on their track elements, they are “road legal”.
Here in the penal colonies, the default answer to people ASKING for permission to do something is either a resounding “NO” or a demand for an obscene amount of money. Try it, sometime.
Some thoughts for a Monday”
“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session”. – Mark Twain, 1866
“The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients”. – Edmund Burke 1899
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty”. – Thomas Jefferson
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”. – Goethe
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”. – C. S. Lewis
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
(If we are forced to resort to whispers and are fearful of the consequences of speaking the truth, we begin to lose our freedom.
We used to argue for the right for freedom of religious expression.) – George Orwell
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin
And finally, and most tellingly, from one of the greatest butchers of the 20th Century:
“Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searchers, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.” – Adolf Hitler, from his decree for the “Protection of the People and the State” in 1933.
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Iran chimes in:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/irans-response-australias-bondi-beach-terror-attack-raises/
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