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Hope there was lots of support for Australia day this year.
It is amazing that no matter how much you tell true believers of the down sides of Renewables, EV’s, Heat Pumps etc, excuses will always be made as they are “green”.
Ed Miliband doesn’t seem to mind that the solar panels that will be used in the next splurge of UK taxpayers money, will likely be made by slave labour. Let’s not mention the coal fired power stations used in their manufacture, The child labour used to excavate the minerals used, nor the extreme destruction of the environment in mining and processing. Its all “Green”, so it must be ok.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/01/24/ed-miliband-admits-well-buy-slave-products-for-his-solar-panel-splurge/
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Australia Day is about to dawn.
Reset your timepiece.
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Miliband is like our Most Useless Minister Bowen. Neither seem capable of reading the news from around the world which says that sensible governments are moving away from renewables and back to reliable sources such as coal, gas and uranium.
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When was the last time we have heard from Boofhead Bowen. Seems to have gone very quiet since he got his Deputy Dawg COP job. Perhaps that is a blessing.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/european-summit-that-will-really-wind-up-donald-trump-offshore-energy-hamburg-declaration/ saya it all: the DUMMY is there – no word about it on UK news so far – saw it on Sat tv.
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Hopefully OZ is not thinking of concluding any new trade deals with China or allowing them to control any of your ports or you may be hit by the 100% tariffs that Canada is being threatened with.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qww3w72lo
Our highly respected and beloved PM Keir Starmer will be in China next week for Trade talks. Fortunately I am sure he will not have the faintest idea on how to conclude Trade deals, so we should be safe.
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More CDS?
I don’t t know if you are aware of this, but NZ and OZ are both located in Australasia.
Accordingly, we trade in Asia.
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Not sure of your point as you trade internationally, not just in Asia. The article references the threat by Mr Trump that a deal by Canada with China might mean Trump would punish Canada with a 100% tariff.
I was facetiously referencing that the same threat might be levied against Australia if the country came up with new China deals and that the UK had nothing to fear as Starmer-in China soon- couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag..
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‘ … the same threat might be levied against Australia …’
Highly unlikely, that would be madness, China is our biggest trading partner.
Nevertheless, if big brother says we are Oceania and have to do his bidding, then the Alliance would be in jeopardy.
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Our trade with China is only 25.7% of our total. USA is 10%, Japan 9%. Then the rest, which includes European countries.
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We don’t need the US as much.
China is dependent on Australia’s iron ore, without it their economy would grind to a halt.
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They can get it from one of their colonies in Africa if need be.
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Australia and China have a complimentary arrangement.
‘In November 2025, China exported $8.7B and imported $11.4B from Australia, resulting in a negative trade balance of $2.68B.’ (Aus Trade)
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Presumably it would be OK for the United States to conclude a trade agreement with China. Why should any country need the permission of the United States to do so.
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Over a long period Japan has been a V good trade partner who respects contracts and isn’t constantly changing the rules.
It’s hard to trade with a wolf warrior like China.
[What have I said now?]
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TB – your ‘great’ leader has been acutely embarrassed over the Chagos deal – according to GB News – and it seems Donald might have forced a withdrawal, so it proves what a clown your great leader is. Ayaan Hirsi Ali a Somalian Intellectual described Pollies like him as ‘Watermelons:- green on the outside and red on the inside.’
And we in the west should be listening to Ayaan, as her views are spot on. She has been interviewed recently by Dave Rubin and Konstantin Kisin separately.
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Absolutely we should.
But talking about her views, even listening to them or reading her books might be a prohibited activity under Australia’s new censorship laws.
She cancelled her last tour to Australia in 2017 because of threatened violence from the Left and the other extremists they are in alliance with.
If she wanted to come today, I think the Government would deny her a visa, as they do for most public conservatives.
People should download her videos and buy her books while they are still accessible in Australia.
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You are right, our mate Albanese could not cope. You probably already know this, but some crazy threatened to kill her for her views after he assassinated some Dutch guy.
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That watermelon analogy is classic. Makes me think of former Greens leader Adam Bandt amongst others.
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The title link says it all.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/01/24/the-pandemic-industry-is-preparing-for-its-next-bonanza/
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Try to stay on topic.
You’re welcome.
🙂
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What? Is this a general thread or solely about Australia Day? If the latter it would generally head an article on the subject by Jo.
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Excellent article Tony, the same scam as global warming played in the same way-
“Mirages such as Disease-X become existential threats to humanity, survivable only by giving lots of money to the right people and disrupting the lives of the rest in ‘whole-of-society’ approaches. This matters because the WHO and World Bank are seeking in total over $30 billion for this, and about another $10.5 billion for One Health. By contrast, the world spends just $3.5 billion on malaria, which really does kills over 600,000 actual children each year and is getting worse.”
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I will be marching today at 12.00 Noon and starting at Prince Alfred Park in Sydney.
Now it is our turn to take over the Streets with a Peaceful March.
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I hope it goes well.
I shall be stepping off from Flinders St in Melbournistan.
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Our Victorian Senator , Ralph Babbet, is abandoning us to speak at the Brisbane Rally today along with Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts.
I hope he stays in parliament at the next election.
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Best of luck. There’s so many Somalians in the CBD now that it doesn’t even look like Mumbai anymore….
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Same
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The NetZero destruction of UK industry and the catastrophic security risks having to rely on foreign countries for critical supplies. The last salt plant in the UK?
https://youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo
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Post-Brexit Britain should have been doing everything in their power to keep raw materials extraction and chemical sector plants on-shore, and to reshore as many new ones as possible, in the event they ever had to go it alone and be self-sufficient. Instead, they have let both sectors wither on the vine and die, assuming that they can rely on their neighbors/trading partners to provide them with whatever they need in the event of an emergency. Bad idea IMO, but excusable in a pre-2020 world where everyone still believed that global agreements could be relied on in the event of a global emergency.
But post-2020 when we saw supply chains break when Covid panic and lockdowns hit, it is inexcusable. EVERY country in the world should seek to protect critical industries and build some degree of self-sufficiency just in case everything goes tits-up again. What is Britain going to do if WWIII breaks out and they lack the chemical industry, or the extraction industry, or the steel industry needed to build weapons to protect their islands or the fertilizer needed to grow crops, or the fossil fuels to run those war machines and the farm machines? What if their neighbors are in a similar situation and decide to hoard their resources rather than meet contracts (as the Chinese did with PPE during Covid, or as wealthy nations in general did with vaccines during Covid)?
Across the board, 21st century political leadership is myopic and unable to discern or plan for future threats, and Britain’s leadership is arguably the worst among a bad lot.
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The Blob wanted – and is succeeding in their desire – to punish the UK for the temerity of voting leave, when our ‘betters’ ordered ‘stay’.
So – “doing everything in their power to keep raw materials extraction and chemical sector plants on-shore, and to reshore as many new ones as possible” was exactly what these folk didn’t want.
What is Britain going to do if WWIII breaks out and they lack the chemical industry, AND the extraction industry, AND the steel industry … lose – or that seems the hope of the treasonous Blobbites.
And we don’t ‘do’ responsibility – so we will go on paying the [generous, index-linked, and tax-payer-funded] pensions of these nasty pieces of work until they die laughing at us.
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“Across the board, 21st century political leadership is myopic and unable to discern or plan for future threats, and Britain’s leadership is arguably the worst among a bad lot.”
If you’re trying to make sense of modern western political strategies by lining them up against traditional objectives such as a strong economy, a cohesive society and effective public safety then you’re wasting your time. You won’t find any correlation.
Instead, adopt the position that all politicians, especially those at the top, are essentially grifters using their brief time in power to enrich themselves, and secure good positions in their post-politics lives.
Put glasses like these on and suddenly much of the apparent chaos and contradiction makes sense.
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Sadly, I have to agree with you. Unfortunately, most voters don’t follow politics all that closely and those that do are more concerned with their ‘team’ winning than recognizing that ALL OF THEM are self-interested narcissists who are feathering their nests, regardless of which ‘team’ they play for.
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“What is Britain going to do if WWIII breaks out and they lack the chemical industry, or the extraction industry, or the steel industry needed to build weapons to protect their islands or the fertilizer needed to grow crops, or the fossil fuels to run those war machines and the farm machines? What if their neighbors are in a similar situation and decide to hoard their resources rather than meet contracts (as the Chinese did with PPE during Covid, or as wealthy nations in general did with vaccines during Covid)? Across the board, 21st century political leadership is myopic and unable to discern or plan for future threats, and Britain’s leadership is arguably the worst among a bad lot.”
….but THAT is why we need a One-World Govt, then our wars just become arguments between States of one country and we all share.. Except the mega-mega-rich at the top!
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Interesting non comment on the efficiency of solar power in the UK. Salt production requires energy input. Here in Oz salt is genuinely produced with solar power, evaporation basins as far south as Geelong in Victoria, in the U.K. caught in the cleft stick of using solar (or wind) to produce electricity to produce heat. I’m not an engineer but it seems obvious that the more steps that are built into anything, the more expense. Now one of the big problems with salt is, its cheap, just a few cents per kilo, the whole industry is only profitable by producing huge volumes and as one comment in the video was “the biggest increase in production costs are environmental taxes”.
So once again, people in governments, that have little experience in how businesses run, have priced a cheap ( but vital ) commodity out of existence. Government solution, bail out the company. The stupid really does burn. Tax a company out of existence, bail the company out with the very taxes it was charged rather than simply supplying cheap energy.
It does create work in the government sector though, one dept to oversee new inventive taxes, one dept to give it back. Some could see this as circular economy other would just see it as plain stupid!
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Even in Australia, massive over-regulation harms the salt industry.
Have you noticed how in supermarkets a lot of salt is now imported or just packaged in Australia, or part Australian and part inported ingredients?
Gulag AI:
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Salt, like coal, virtually free. Yes there are recovery expenses but these were low enough to allow profits to be made, ergo a viable business model. Enter government, then the application of taxes by a miriad of different names. Environmental levies, sustainability levies, government royalties, we don’t contribute anything to your business but we will certainly tax you for the pleasure of employing people, paying other taxes, improving standards of living, providing some of the necessities of modern life, creating wealth as real industry as opposed to service industries that just make money go round. Oh did we mention, we will then demonise your company, allow protests to interrupt your processes and find endless other ways to make your business unviable, and what, you then want subsidies to stay afloat!
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I didn’t know that salt was still produced in Geelong. The Cheetham salt works at Moolap closed a long time ago and is now the site of a high security CSIRO lab. I don’t know what goes on in there.
Salt production moved to Avalon but that has also closed.
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Cheetham produces in Corio which is a suburb of Greater Geelong.
https://www.cheethamsalt.com.au/sites-locations
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No, Cheetham does not produce salt in Corio. THat is the head office for the Salt Division, housed at the Distillery building.
Peter C is correct. The salt works in Geelong was closed years ago (I worked there in the 90’s and it was closed then) and salt production had stopped at Avalon and they were doing research into fish farming. I dont know what it is used for now. They also had salt works in WA, SA (multiple) and QLD (multiple).
The largest cost for salt is transport. So in addition to more environmental costs, the transport costs have now risen. That is why it is cheaper to import salt and package it, than mine it here. I noticed that Cheetham has a salt works near Sea Lake which looks to be operational. That might be where the pink salt comes from.
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>The largest cost for salt is transport. … the transport costs have now risen.
That is why it is cheaper to import salt
That’s not making sense to me.
Importing obviates transport costs?
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Correct. Located at Moolap, it closed more than 30 years ago.
I recall the piles of salt beside the animal shelter (dog pound) at he Alcoa turn off. (Alcoa also closed, Point Henry)
The council has some plan about rehabilitating the salt works area to something more aesthetic.
https://www.marineandcoasts.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0040/757696/Final-Moolap-Coastal-Strategic-Framework-Plan-August-2019-FINALweb.pdf
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Regarding Peter’s comment about the CSIRO lab.
It’s at the western extremity of the salt works. Not sure that land was part of the salt works, but it may have been. A very small portion if it was.
The Lab was built in the early 80’s for animal disease research. The story at the time was that people couldn’t have cattle / horses / sheep within a couple of miles of the place. Not that there would have been many in East Geelong, Newcomb, or Moolap. Moolap had some large lots that may have housed some livestock. Dunno if that exclusion zone was instituted.
I see it is now called Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. Wiki says it was formerly known as Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL). But I recall it’s first name was Australian National Animal Health Laboratory (ANAHL). The name change removing the N from ANAHL to AAHL didn’t take long because all we juvenile types are always going to make fun of an abbreviation like ANAHL and pronounce the acronym as if the H wasn’t there.
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King Charles gets a new ‘eco’ car. Considering an average EV could need to do up to 60k miles to beat an ICE on total CO2 emissions, how is a 600 or 900bhp hyper-EV pottering around Sandringham ever going to be anything but a catastrophic wildly extravagant waste of earth’s resources?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15496477/King-Charles-lotus-electric-car.html
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And the King drives how many km’s per year? 10km maybe?
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Trump’s Greenland Strategy approved by NATO chief, Mark Rutte.
https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/41547/trumps-greenland-strategy-gains-support-from-nato/
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It seems that Donald Trump’s somewhat OTT approach to diplomacy is getting good results on Greenland and the Arctic, and fast. NATO is on board and beefing up. The only ones still left behind are the left wing mainstream media, and even they now aren’t saying much.
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The Left and the Lamestream Media just don’t have a clue.
TRUMP was never going to invade Greenland, these people are sooooo stupid.
Nevertheless, the US has been wanting to buy Greenland since 1867. I’m sure TRUMP would love to negotiate this ultimate real estate deal.
And Greenlanders would be far better off attached to a free country like the United States rather than live (and die) under the rule of the fanatical followers of 7th century warlord who will soon dominate Western Europe (there by invitation this time, not invasion like last time, they only have themselves to blame).
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I had a chuckle at a meme of FB just now. It said something to the effect that it’s surreal when you see the French currently believe their greatest problem is Greenland.
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‘Rutte said that China and Russia were becoming increasingly active in the Arctic Circle, and acknowledged that this posed a problem for the alliance.’
Cleaver of Rutte to agree on this (even though China and Russia are no threat in the Arctic) it will take time to implement those forces.
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Then why are Chinese and Russia ships accidentally dragging their anchors and ripping up submarine cables, especially in the Baltic? The key is the access to polar orbit satellites, even without ICBM routes.
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The anchor dropping happened last year, but NATO has brought a stop to it.
‘The key is the access to polar orbit …’
Presumably the Golden Dome.
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How has NATO done that?
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They have been boarding ships, elite troops in helicopter drops, seizing the vessels and taking them into custody.
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“even though China and Russia are no threat in the Arctic”. So why is NATO overreacting when there is no threat?
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Not NATO,
That was the USN and Venezuela!
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“Not NATO, That was the USN and Venezuela!”
France too, seized a Russian-linked ship last week. They are all realising that the Somalis were right, piracy pays!
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‘So why is NATO overreacting when there is no threat?’
Its to make Donnie think he’s the man with the big ideas, knowing full well that the Midterms will make him a lame duck.
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‘Not NATO.’
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Russia-linked-cable-cutting-tanker-seized-by-Finland-was-loaded-with-spying-equipment
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It has been pointed out that one of the purposes of Australia’s new open-ended “hate” speech and censorship laws is to be able to falsely accuse people like Pauline Hanson and Ralph Babet, conservatives, of “hate , thus silencing and potentially jailing them.
Remember, a supposedly aggrieved party only has to claim they were “intimidated” or “felt fear” by someone’s peaceful statement (not calling for violence) for prosecution to be initiated. Even if the speaker is eventually found innocent, the process is the punishment. They could easily be bankrupted by the lawfare.
It will have a chilling effect on free speech, as intended. We won’t even be able to discuss or criticise the violent terrorist ideology behind the Bondi terrorist attack. In fact, arguably the suppression of discusdion of this ideology, which has brought so much death and destruction to the world, is the entire purpose of the legislation as the followers are Labor voters and whose support is essential to entrench Labor in power forever, at least until the supporters of that ideology take over.
The laws mean either faction of the Lib/Lab Uniparty will be free to rule with unlimited power without any pesky annoyances from the pro-freedom conservative parties.
The mere fact that pro-freedom conservatives think they might not be able to say a true statement because of the potential of five years jail, a far more serious penalty than for the crime of “common assault”, typically 2 years max. if a judge bothers to do their job, will silence the conservative parties like One Nation and UAP.
It’s truly Orwellian. The fake conservative Liberals and the communist-infiltrated and led Labor Party should never be forgiven for their collusion in this crime against the Australian people.
Australia was already well on the way to an Orwellian state but now truly is. And if you are sceptical and don’t think the Australian Government wasn’t prepared to brutally enforce totalitarian decrees, we’ve already had a trial run with among the world’s most oppressive covid lockups beside China (whom most of our politicians look up to for totalitarian ideas).
The truly evil consequences of these new laws are yet to be appreciated.
Even worse, most younger people and the slave army of useful idiots of the Left don’t even value or appreciate freedom or freedom speech.
In addition, the dramatic demographic change caused by the mass importation of future Labor Party voters of people who come from non-Western cultures with no tradition or who place no value in Western concepts of freedom or democracy and who have no plans to assimilate will help further entrench totalitarianism in Australia.
One final point. Senator Babet said in an interview with Topher Field that in the time frame allowed, it is very unlikely that the Uniparty could have drafted the 500 pages of censorship legislation. It is highly likely it had already been written and ready to go, just looking for the right excuse to introduce it. (Never forget also that the e Safety Kommissar was a Liberal idea and they supported the censorship of social media for under 16’s.)
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Listened to Murray Watt being interviewed and his comment that Andrew Hastie was “Extreme Right” was worth noting. Labour are masters of the art of deflection and distraction. Always getting in the throw away lines that literally mean nothing, unless of course the people that only hear headlines get a message about fear of the unknown.
Maybe Hastie could test these new laws by suing Minister Watt for defamation. After all by what definition is extremism a “crime”. Hastie has not incited violence or social unrest he just appears to have a view of Australia that many other residents may also have.
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Extreme right, hard right and other descriptions are a long way from the original Menzies Australian Liberal Party and what former Prime Minister Howard once referred to as a “broad church” of factions. In my experience over decades knowing many Liberal Members of Parliament they have been no further to the right of centre than is described as centre right, or centre.
On the opposite or Labor side the Labor right factions are centre left and the factions dominating Labor today are further left or far left, and Greens included in far left. The Prime Minister, one example, has since student activist period been a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky.
During the 1950s there was a split within Labor (ALP) and the Labor right formed their DLP being Democratic Labor Party to get away from the far left factions dominating at that time.
It was explained to me during the period in Federal politics from 1970s that NSW Labor Premier Wran QC had recommended to his colleagues that to try and beat the Coalition of Liberal and National Labor needed to be seen as a centre position party, and the left must cooperate. Wran recommended the strategy to Hawke Labor prior to the 1983 election that installed Bob Hawke as Prime Minister, and if you remember those years Hawke Labor did mostly present as sensible right.
The Teals have used a similar presentation and that party of independents funded by Climate200 candidates referred to themselves as being from the “sensible right” obviously in opposition to traditional Liberal sensible right but maybe hoping voters are not well informed?
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ChatGPT replying to a simple question : voting pattern of some Members has used my “love to hate” word construct, eg – the Member’s voting behaviour about emigration matters aligns with security-first stances, not with the progressive foreign policy rhetoric. That is – Security v Progress.
And I considered her as a friend !
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Of course the legislation will have to meet approval by the High Court of Australia if challenged before a first precedent in law is established
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And charging a senator wouldn’t be a good starting point.
A bit fascist, actually.
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Who can afford a $1 million++ to take a challenge to the High Court?
That’s the whole process of lawfare.
The process is the punishment.
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The three primary precedents are binding, persuasive, and distinguishable.
Established precedents must be adhered to by courts below them in the same legal jurisdiction. For instance, if the United States Supreme Court issues a decision on a question of constitutional law, those lower courts must follow it across the entire country.
Persuasive precedents are those that may be followed by lower courts, though they are not legally binding. Such decisions can come from higher courts within the same jurisdiction or from lower courts in other jurisdictions. For instance, a ruling by the Supreme Court of California could influence a court in Oregon, but it would not be obligatory.
Precedents that can be identified as unique from the facts in question are distinguishable. It is possible to differentiate such a precedent, allowing a court to disregard it even if it is authoritative or persuasive. As an example, if a court is considering a free speech issue and finds that there is no relevant precedent, it may opt to discern an existing ruling dealing with another matter (e.g., libel) rather than abide by it.
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Please delete my post, it was not the one I intended to post
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The High Court will go with the legislation, it’s packed full of leftards.
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America packs their High Court, but Australians are less partisan.
‘Of the seven justices on the High Court, three were nominated by Labor Prime Ministers and four by Liberal Prime Ministers though there is far less public concern over ideological differences in the High Court.’ (USSC 2023)
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FWIW
“Australians to Receive Free Midday Grid Solar Power – But Don’t Charge your EV”
“h/t Observa – Happy exploding transformer day: “… very high levels of consumption during the free-power period … may lead to increases in network costs. …” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/25/solar-australia-to-get-free-midday-grid-solar-power-but-dont-charge-your-ev/
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Just imagine if everyone tries to charge their batteries with 24 hrs worth of energy in 3 hrs to take advantage of this “free” electricity.
It’s too bad politicians, their advisors, and the useful idiots don’t understand any basic mathematics, physics or engineering.
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Even with the proposed limit of 24 kWh per day of “free”, I think it will still put a huge load on the grid. And for a lot of people in Australia, that would be about their average daily use, not counting EV use and not too much heating, cooling or swimming pool use.
If someone uses more than 24 kWh per day, and someone else uses less, it would be nice if it were possible to sell any surplus of free power they have to the consumer who needs more.
Of course, I don’t support this arrangement. I believe in low cost, reliable, coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2) power. I am just stating what would be good within the context of the decaying and dysfunctional electricity system Australia now has.
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As I called it before – Miyagi renewable energy.
Lights on, lights off, lights on, lights off.
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Never mind, night time “reverse solar” panels are on the way
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/scientists-pioneer-reverse-solar-panels-create-energy-night
Small issues like minuscule output, but no doubt full production is just around the corner.
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You would have to absorb staggering amounts of heat during the day for that to work at night and even molten salt solar power towers are a disaster so imagine how much worse these would be.
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FWIW
Some more on “Elbow’s Mate” (Sunday #30)
“Has Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Made the Dissolution of Canada a Done Deal?”
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/01/25/has-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-made-the-dissolution-of-canada-a-done-deal-n2198499
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There might be a few northeastern US States happy to align with the Canadians following recent events in Minnesota.
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Mmmmmm,Minnesota and Ilinois (tragic loss both) for Alberta and Saskatchewan. Sounds good.
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And at least a couple of western Canadian provinces might be happy to go the other way.
But would even the north eastern US states really want to tie themselves to Quebec?
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Canadian hydro power is currently keeping their lights on.
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Who OWNS the Niagara water?
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This is amusing – I wonder if anyone has done this for Oz.
All 10 Canadian Provinces Stereotypes Explained
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And
“The “Master” Negotiator”
“THE OFFICIAL RECORD @SatireSquadHQ • 3h
Using Mark Carneys own words against him.
Mark Carney announcing a Trade Deal With China
Mark Carney to Media today.
We have no trade deal with China.
10:21-4)”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Capture-13-600×485.jpg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/25/the-master-negotiator-2/
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On the surface Carney seems to be suffering from cognitive dissonance, but in reality that have to put something in writing before they can claim that a deal is done.
Reading through the comments they all appear to be brain dead.
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Question.
Has anyone run the numbers of how much it would cost to produce electricity at home from the natural gas supply to power a generator?
I suspect it’s not economical now Australian gas is so expensive since Howard was behind selling much of Australia’s gas supply to the Chicomms on a bizarre 30 year contract with no provision for inflation or market prices at world’s cheapest prices.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
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This came up on Chiefio the other day. USA and diesel but might help as a start to translation.
“I think I’ve had to live with the consequences more than most as I was in California which was leading the “effort” – the land of “Load Shedding” rolling blackouts and time of day electricity pricing. In the Central Valley of California, on an August afternoon, TOD price is $1 / kW. And, at over 100 F for hours, A/C is necessary (I lived there for about 25 years…). At that price, it is CHEAPER to buy a portable Diesel Generator and use it to make your own electricity even at outrageous California Diesel prices. (About $4 to $5 / gallon).
I priced it out. Small (10-12 kW) Diesel generators make electricity for a fuel cost of about 1/10 the price of a gallon of Diesel per kW-hr. Yeah, terribly expensive 40 ¢ to 50 ¢ / kW-hr. But a lot cheaper than $1/kW-hr. That’s just one of the insane side effects. I almost bought one, but decided to leave the State instead.”
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If I am forced to install a home genset, I would choose to power it from natural gas. Seems to be difficult to compare the cost of WA gas vs other states, but I believe WA gas is half the cost.
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FWIW
“Trump Slams Davos Elites Over “Green New Scam” As Climate Crisis Narrative Falls Apart”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-slams-davos-elites-over-green-new-scam-climate-crisis-narrative-falls-apart
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FWIW
“Course Correction”
“I just got a sneak preview of the new state reading list coming out of Texas and it is absolute 🔥
The 5 million public school students in Texas will now be reading:
The Bible, Homer, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Shelley, Poe, Tolstoy, & Tocqueville…
This is the revolution America needs.”
https://x.com/JeremyTate41/status/2015160094049132640
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/25/course-correction/
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Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations?
Gharles Darwin?
I assume that reading a copy of the US Constitution is mandatory.
LOL. Try reading the Australian Constitution without any legal training.
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Meanwhile in Canada
“DDG Search Assist
Several Canadian schools have recently removed books from their libraries due to various policies, including a ban on sexually explicit material and a controversial weeding process that targeted books published before 2008. These actions have sparked significant debate among students, parents, and educators regarding censorship and the preservation of literary works.
Deseret News Global News
Recent Book Removals in Canadian Schools
Alberta’s Library Book Ban
In Alberta, school boards have removed numerous library books due to a provincial ban on sexually explicit material.
Edmonton Public Schools: 34 titles removed, including popular series like Game of Thrones.
Calgary Board of Education: 44 titles removed.
Edmonton Catholic School Division: 6 titles removed.
The government mandated that schools eliminate books with explicit images or illustrations. The lists of removed titles are not publicly shared and can be adjusted over time.
Ontario’s Book Weeding Process
In Ontario, a high school removed all books published before 2008 as part of an “equity-based book weeding process.”
This decision led to significant reductions in library collections, including the removal of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
The Peel District School Board faced backlash for this approach, which was criticized for being overly simplistic and not considering the content’s relevance.
Rural School Library Clear-Out
A rural high school in London, Ontario, lost approximately 5,000 books in a clear-out, reducing its collection from about 7,000 to 2,000 titles. This action has raised concerns about the impact on students’ access to diverse literature.
These actions reflect ongoing debates about censorship, educational equity, and the role of libraries in schools across Canada.
Deseret News
lfpress.com”
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Book “culls”?
Two thoughts:
Very soon they will be down to ONE book; the small volume PRESCRIBED by the sand-pirates, as THE ONLY BOOK you will ever need.
Then there are the words of Heinrich Heine, commenting on “interesting events” in nazi Germany in the 1930s:
“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
Twenty million corpses later…………..
The mad Georgian skipped the theatrics of literary bonfires, preferring to kill over 60 million “un-persons” by starveation, impromtu executions, etc., because he could.
And the beast from the East, Mao, said:
“Hold my rice wine…..”
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As Caliph Omar (Umar ibn al-Khattab) said when burning the Library of Alexandria, “If those books are in agreement with the *****, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the *****, destroy them”.
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FWIW
“Americans Are Growing Increasingly Disgusted with Democrat Politicians”
“Language warning, but well worth a listen:”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/25/americans-are-growing-increasingly-disgusted-with-democrat-politicians/
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Let’s not act like Democrats have a monopoly on voter disgust. Plenty of Americans are disgusted with both parties, which is why the plurality of Americans are registered as independents.
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Australians should not be so naive to think that Australia can’t become a Leftist paradise like Venezuela or pre-Milei Argentina.
We saw what the Uniparty was prepared to do during the world’s most draconian covid lockups outside of China. (The only apparent difference being that I’m not aware of any gates being welded shut yo keep people inside but they did lock people up in apartment blocks in Melbournistan.) That was just a taste if the Lib/Labs aren’t voted out.
Conservatives must drop any support they may have left for the fake conservative Liberals and put their full support behind One Nation and the other minor conservative parties.
It’s One Nation or we’ll soon have no nation, at least not one that isn’t a socialist/communist/green dystopia.
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The most aggressive state during the COVID-19 pandemic was of course Andrew’s Labor Victoria, followed by the other Labor State Governments, noting that primary responsibility for health and interstate borders, policing and even state legislated emergency powers cannot be controlled by a Federal Government. There is potential for Federal legislation to interfere with state responsibilities however at the time the Liberal Attorney General pointed out that to do so would have caused a massive constitutional crisis.
Prime Minister Morrison sensibly decided that cooperation and coordination between the states and territories was needed, he changed the Council Of Australian Governments to National Leaders Cabinet for those purposes, but the Labor Premiers and Federal Opposition Labor decided to use the pandemic as an opportunity to undermine their political opponents, the Coalition of Liberal and National.
Of course Labor’s far left factions were dominant on that side and the Coalition had/has strong influence parliamentary and states executives from since about 1990 Liberals who are somewhere between Labor right and left politically, often called Liberals In Name Only – LINO left.
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NASA appears to want to convince us that this is unprecedented. A gift to moon landing deniers. As reported by news and afp.
«“In just a few weeks, you’re going to see four humans fly around the moon, and if we’re doing that now, imagine what we can do next,” Mr Glover told the media at Kennedy Space Center last week.
“We’re swinging for the fence, trying to make the impossible possible.”
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Jo,
Do not know if this is allowed.
From Dr. Malone’s Sunday Strip and obviously for America but
I cannot see how the number of new people allowed into Australia
is any different.
Somehow or other we got “34% Albo”.
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Albanese Labor 2025 election only 8 Labor MPs gained a seat based on primary votes.
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Is this another fail for AI?
I asked google gemini and it said that Liebor won 12, Nationals won 3 and Lieberals won 1.
ChatGPT said this: Liebor won 8, Nationals won 2 and Lieberals won 1.
The information is obviously available so why are there 2 different answers?
Is this another case of 2+2=4 but it depends on who you ask?
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‘ … and put their full support behind One Nation …’
It won’t work, they are only senators. We have to wait for Hastie to walk away from the uniparty with his radical ideas.
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Happy Australia Day Jo and All.
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Happy Australia Day everyone 🙂
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Aussie flag on the front gate, Asssie flag bunting on the verandah, and even flying an Aussie flag on the tractor as I slash the paddocks. A proud to be an Aussie Day to all.
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I’d like to know what true-blue Aussies think they are supporting when they say they are proud Aussies…
The accident of being born on this island? Although 1 in 3 weren’t..
The Govt and laws that are enforced? Although I’ve yet to find someone who agrees with them at all..
The Govt in Canberra that represents everyone here on the world stage? Well, even fewer support them!
The ‘way or life’ or the culture, that pre-woke, pre-womens lib ephemeral mirage of the 1960s that vanished long before the century ended!
The “freedom and democracy” that has lead us to this benighted place, neither free nor democratic. Voting for your masters once every 4years is not how democracy is meant to work!
Its the same question as what does that flag really mean or represent? Great, fly a flag, but what are you supporting in that?
Not that I’m a patriot of any of the countries I’ve lived in, they all have the same sort of people in power doing the same sort of things that I would never have gone to war to defend.
But I find the one-day patriotism cringy and a bit amusing in a puzzling way.
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‘Voting for your masters once every 4years is not how democracy is meant to work.’
What do you suggest?
You’ll be happy to know that autocracies are increasing around the world and democracies are sliding. Shouldn’t be too long before Orwell’s dystopia becomes reality.
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“What do you suggest?”
No parties, just one vote for your local representitive.
or
Lots of votes all the time, the people vote on all laws.
or
No votes, you get lottery-ed into Parliament to do your best for the country.
or
No compulsory taxes, make whatever laws you want but we only pay for them if we want to.
Lots of options, but no-one in power will allow anything except this system as it is making them rich.
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Maybe if we get rid of compulsory voting, starting with Local Elections.
‘ … you get lottery-ed into Parliament …’
That would be undemocratic.
‘No compulsory taxes …’
Hmmm ….. no armed forces or public hospitals, you haven’t thought this through.
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it might be inappropriate (but relevant) to, on this day, fly the Oz flag; but inverted.
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Not just today, Bruce.
EVERY bloody day!!
Australia is in crisis.
And I wouldn’t ask anyone to do it if I wasn’t doing it myself.
And, I believe there is a Federal politician doing the same.
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‘ … but inverted.’
That would be disrespectful, better to fly a different flag on Australia Day.
Perhaps the stars and stripes would make your heart swell and brain shrink.
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Given the piracy that Oz is having inflicted upon it, the Skull and Crossbones might not be inappropriate.
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Why are so many people from the land of the long white cloud fleeing to Oz?
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Flying the flag inverted is a sign of distress.
It started with The Union Jack.
Most people weren’t able to tell if this flag was being flown upside down or not.
But the British military could.
Which made providing assistance with a superior force made easier by being forewarned.
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There is the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and it has a snake on it.
That should fit a country home to some of the most dangerous snakes in the world, including the eastern brown snake and the inland taipan.
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FWIW
“WHAT SHE SAID: Meme Account Foregoes the Jokes for a Straight FIRE Post About Leftists and Immigrants”
“But we know things are getting bad in America right now, particularly in Minneapolis, when even the memelords (and ladies) set aside the funny and tell some straight truth and hard facts.
Last night, that’s exactly what I Meme Therefore I Am did. She penned an incredible post about the left and immigrants that is an absolute must-read.”
“And here’s the hard truth we’ve lived, the people shouting loudest about “protecting immigrants” and hating on ICE don’t actually care about immigrants like us. They care about looking morally superior. That’s it. ”
“Read her story: ”
More at
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/01/25/what-she-said-meme-account-drops-the-jokes-for-a-straight-fire-post-about-leftists-and-immigrants-n2424338
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‘They care about looking morally superior.’
Rubbish, its freezing outside and they are peacefully demonstrating against ICE. Of course they could just stay home and fume at the gestapo roming the streets.
Reminds me of Crystal Night.
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The joys of Windows 11
https://youtu.be/LtB2L-6buww?si=Cv99ctrccwhmyOTs
It’s a basketcase. How on earth can businesses expect to spend a day or more fixing their systems after an update borks it!
M$ has lost the plot. Stupid AI assistants and bloat with core functionality and reliability gone.
No, Linux is not the answer unless you only want toddler-level basic functionality, like email and web browsing.
Britec09 is a good channel to bookmark too.
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I think people have also forgotten about the hated Clippy (1997) and before that, Microsoft Bob (1995).
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Back in the day, even Microsoft tested the updates.
Nowadays, it’s expected for the user to find any problems. And it’s not just MS thst does this.
And I never allow my printer to update. More than likely the purpose of the updates is to stop consumers using non-OEM cartridges.
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They still do – it’s the canary channel.
But even so, far too many bugs get through…
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Or you get hit the other way and get told that there are no longer drivers with that update for your printer
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I believe that most inkjet printers have a print usage counter, called a waste box counter or maintenance counter. When that count is reached, the printer shuts down.
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America is toast. Loans for junk food now.
Both DoorDash and Uber Eats offer Klarna as a payment option, allowing users to pay for orders in installments or deferred payments.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/america-hits-a-new-low-with-loans-for-burgers-and-fries-klarna-lets-doordash-users-eat-now-and-pay-later/
Over 30% of Americans have no savings and live payday to payday.
The next GFC will make that more like 70%.
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You wrote GFC but my tired old eyes saw KFC.
Not quite sure what to make of that.
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Life hacks – food, kitchen and general
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t99g4bpmpy1zwrq1v.mp4
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t9dcuy3Zfu1zwrq1v_720.mp4
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The only man to escape North Korea who went back
https://youtu.be/2n01_rt2vKg?si=Z_hibSuzf_nap6pv
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Silver hits $105/oz!!
https://x.com/SummitHorizon_/status/2015561500568465747
1st time in history.
A very very bad omen.
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Not really, it is just acting like a commodity.
My Au/Ag investments are finally bringing home the bacon, as Keating would say, but without Mrs H I have no one to spend it with.
I am wondering why the US$ is falling out of bed. I know all the hate diatribe, that has been there for ages, I’m wondering about the last few days. Trump in Davos was just Trump being Trump.
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For gold- too many countries realised the USA was screwing them, and Trump has done nothing to dispel that. So the rise of the BRICS and terrible state of the American debt has seen countries dump dollars for gold.
For silver- an industrial metal that is at the intersection of ordinary people looking to store wealth and whole countries realising they need that resource for industry.
We may be approaching peak money-printing while all the Western Govts lie about their inflation rates, and their subjects do what they can to protect their wealth.
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China is lying about the Great Depression they are sliding into.
Why single out the west?
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‘Why single out the west?’
…’cos no-one cares about the rest..
We set up this whole world-wide economic/industrial system, we are meant to be the golden angels with halos who run the place safely, fairly and responsibly, and only bad dictators in places like Zimbabwe destroy their countries with inflation.
Now the other countries have bent the knee to America and formed central banks with all the same Western-inspired systems, they are all borrowing insane amounts to pay for ‘daily purchases’, not for growth-generating asset investment.
Seems like Russia is the outlier, although when the music stops and no-one wants to repay what they owe, being the only honest person in a room of thieves is not going to be much help.
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‘Trump in Davos was just Trump being Trump.’
They gave him a speech to read, but he put it aside and rambled off the top of his head. He crossed a red line confusing Greenland with Iceland.
There is little doubt among the Europeans that POTUS has lost his marbles.
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Nothing new there.
I asked what has happened to the US$ in the last week.
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‘The US Dollar (USD) ended the week near a four-month low of around 97.80, maintaining a weak tone amid risk aversion in financial markets.’ (FXstreet)
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Australian total government debt (federal, state and local) about to hit $2.225 trillion with absolutely no limit in sight and no one to stop them.
Enjoy!
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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Aussie farmer, Harry Shuster, ploughs an image into his paddock to celebrate Australia Day.
Photo
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HwHxhtQPc/
1 min video from his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CPDRUqKAS/
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Harry Shuster’s image is a terrific tribute to Australia Day.
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He knows how to use the GPS on his tractor. 🙂
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Albo will send him a racism fine.😆
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Claire O’Neil, federal minister for Housing, has posted on her MP social media account a message to “Australians of Indian Heritage” wishing them a happy Republic Day for Jan 26.
But nothing about Australia Day.
I guess there’s no votes in patriotism.
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It’s on he/she/its* Farcebook page. Just about every response is reminding he/she/it that it’s Australia Day.
* I never assume gender or pronouns of Leftists, Australia prosecutes people for “misgendering”. There’s no way of knowing how they might “identify”.
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Strop:
I think this might be a reference to India’s Republic Day (January 26).
And slightly off:
The Physics of Igloos: How a Hole in the Roof Keeps You Warm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wLZfLm3LCk
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Yes G3. It’s definitely a reference to India’s Republic Day, which is also celebrated on Jan 26. The validity of the occasion she is acknowledging is not in question. But it highlights the deliberate omission of acknowledging our/her own national day.
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Just listened to their ALPBC news headlines at 1130 in Queensland.
First cab off the rank was the “Invasion Day” rally.
Then crickets.
No mention of the marches being held Australia wide for
the “Australia Day” Marches.
Nothing quite like continuing the division of the country.
What a great country we live in.
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That’s what I thought they said. I said to my friend, did they just say “Invasion Day” and not “Australia Day”, but I was assured I had misheard. Apparently not. That was in Melbournistan on ABC-RN.
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I heard radio ABC 774 in Vic last year, 1pm news bulletin on Jan 26.
There were three separate reports in that bulletin covering various protest activities of the day, and each were called “Invasion Day”. Australia Day was not mentioned even once. Neither was any mention of celebratory events.
It is disgraceful for our national broadcaster to be an activist service. Legislation requires the ABC to act with integrity and independence, and provide news and information that is accurate and impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism
The ABC charter requires the ABC to provide content that “contribute to a sense of national identity”. Surely they can at least slip one story into the news that doesn’t deliberately avoid that.
I don’t usually listen to their ABC. But, perhaps appropriately, I was in the car dumping Green Waste at the tip. Reception options were limited for part of the journey.
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Australians don’t take Australia Day too seriously, we just luv the holiday.
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I was aghast to read front page in the Australian today that the Extreme Left and the Extreme Right were planning to sabotage Australia Day. I suppose the Extreme Right are people assembling to celebrate Australia Day.
UNITE AND EMBRACE AUSTRALIA DAY. EXCLUSIVE. Richard Ferguson, Paige Taylor.
“The Labor leader, writing in the Australian, has given his strongest ever articulation of the virtues of Australia Da amid far-left and far-right plans to hi-jack January 26 with a variety of anti-Israel, anti-national and anti-migrant protests”.
The endless technique of moral equivalence.
Not wanting 3,000 GAZA Hamas supporters in the country is apparently anti-migrant, people not wanted by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Indonsia, Pakistan,… And if you object to the Albanese/Wong decision, you are un-Australian. You are far right and suffering from Islamaphobia when there is no danger at all.
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‘The endless technique of moral equivalence.’
The far left and far right are outliers, of no particular interest to the great majority.
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I heard a reference to ‘anti-immigration ‘ marchers clashing with ‘Invasion day’ marchers. I remarked to my wife that they were both marching for the exact same thing.
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Mixed memes, brown shirts and black shirts having a blue.
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First Nations of tribes numbering up to 500 claimed, most with different languages and cultures, for example Uluru is the local place name and far away in Arnhem Land those people have Makaratta.
An invasion force would have been a much larger military presence than the few sent ion the First Fleet to guard convicts and provide policing when the first colony was established.
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Australia was never colonized. People were not enslaved, their homes invaded, their goods stolen. The few people who were here had no clothes, no tools, no metal, no cloth, no language, no nation. None could count to ten. No sovereignty ceded because there was no sovereign, nor 300 nations.
Mabo did not overturn the rule of Terra Nullus, empty land, unsettled.
Eddie Mabo simply argued that he was not Aborigine because he was Melanasian, a farmer and did not live in Australia.
So Paul Keating immediately passed a law to give ownership of Australia to the Torres Strait Islanders, a group of 3,000 Melanasians on a few tiny islands in the Torres Strait. And their own flag. On the racist basis that Aborigines has similar coloring. Now we have to Torres Strait islandders and all the aborigines for everything they have done before and since to make Australia what it is today. And they legally own 53% of Australia. And we other Australians pay rent of $42Billion a year plus royalties, all of which vanishes without a trace. And each year we are told that we are not welcome in more and more of their country. Ayers Rock, Mt Arapiles, the first landing at Hobart or for mining the resources no one knew were there. Even the Horizontal falls are being closed to tourists. It seems they were sacred to all aborigines and Torres Strait islanders when most Australians have never seen them.
Australia should be for Australians, everyone. Including Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders. What Paul Keating did was utterly wrong and racist.
Sooner or later this all has to be fixed. And we Australians stop flying other fake flags in every foyer in Australia. That’s not racism. It’s the end of Australian legislated racism, courtesy of Paul Keating.
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And on Australia day, front page of the Australian, aborigines are happily burning an Australian flag. That’s government created, sponsored and approved racism.
Perhaps we should get out the Italian, Russian, Irish, English, Croatian, Serbian, Greek, Israel flags and all burn Australian flags?
Or get rid of any government recognized loyalty on Australia day except to Australia.
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‘Australia was never colonized.’
Britain colonised Australia, there is ample proof.
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Not enslaved, just living in the moment.😎
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/australian-aborigines-chains/
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That was not slavery but criminality. White convicts came in chains too. Murder was common sport. 800 white people were murdered by blacks in Queensland. And 400 aborigines by whites. Hanging was the usual sentence.
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‘The few people who were here had no clothes …’
It is estimated that over 750,000 to 900,000 naked people lived on this island continent in 1788.
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I would estimate a third of that from my reading. And Australia today supports a million wild camels but few people have ever seen one.
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The worlds biggest nudist camp.
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Video:
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‘ … granting America “total access” to Greenland.’
Since the end of WW2 America has had total access to Greenland, nothing new under the sun.
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The important bit was/is/will be keeping Russians and Chinese out of Greenland.
And in the latter case maybe out of the outlying islands of the Philippines
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The natural gas in the Philippines belongs to them and Beijing won’t forcefully get involved.
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Reporting in from the March for Australia in Melbourne.
Estimated 4000 marchers,
We marched for about 3km around Melbourne CBD.
Now at parliament but can’t hear the speeches.
No audio equipment.
Rally was well behaved with a lot fewer police than the last time.
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Economic Rationalism
‘EV dream fades as younger drivers stick with petrol.
‘Electric vehicle sales hit the brakes as Australians discover the hidden costs that could make their green dream a financial nightmare.’ (Oz)
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FWIW – poll results
“Trump has forced the dems into taking the 20% side again.”
https://x.com/unseen1_unseen/status/2015409735550345263
Via https://instapundit.com/771950/#disqus_thread
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Logic tells me that there will be a red wave in the midterms, there are too many such issues. History tells me Trump is at risk.
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The Republicans are on a hiding to nothing, they have to impeach POTUS before the midterms or they’ll find themselves in the political wilderness for a decade.
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Only 30% of the US has TDS.
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Possibly true, but the swing voters will decide the outcome of the midterm election.
‘RealClearPolitics reported 42.6% of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance and 54.7% disapproved as of Jan. 23, 2026.
‘The lowest approval rating in the term was 42.2% on Jan. 16, 2026.
‘The worst net approval (approval minus disapproval) was –13.2 percentage points on Jan. 20, 2026.
‘A CNN/SSRS poll on Jan. 16 found 58% of respondents said Trump’s first year back in office was a failure.
A New York Times and Siena University poll on Jan. 22 showed only 32% of voters thought the country was better off since Trump returned to the White House in Jan. 2025.’ (USA Today)
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Sitting here, in the snow, in the US …
the main problem, is that Trump is not a Republican or a Democrat, and threatens them both.
MAGA populism represents the segment of the population, possibly more than half, that have history of minimal political involvement.
And are dismissed and considered ‘extremist’ by the politically involved and politically experienced classes …
this is true across the Anglosphere.
The famous ‘Deplorables’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rural_Rage
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy is a 2024 book by political science professor Thomas Schaller and op-ed columnist Paul Waldman. The book examines the supposed threat posed to the United States by rural white right-wing extremism.
Trump will not do well in the mid-terms because MAGA lacks a social structure to develop viable candidates and an historically evolved pathway to political power.
MAGA people, and their Anglosphere fellows, are too busy working, and are forced to devote complete energy to economic survival due the decades long destruction of the Western middle class purposely carried out by the EU/UN/WEF Globalists.
Hard to run successfully for Dogcatcher or Congress in your spare time.
The Blob (DS Post-nationalist Security MIC) Homeland Color Revolution is ramping up as we speak in Minneapolis, and it’s still dead of Winter.
Wait til the weather improves.
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Labour opens door to ‘Stalinist’ 15-minute cities across Britain
Labour has approved a rollout of “Stalinist” 15-minute cities across the UK, The Telegraph can reveal.
Ministers have said that they will allow councils to use driver licence databases to impose fines on drivers who fall foul of “traffic filters”, which restrict driving in certain areas.
The controls on motorists, which are to be implemented for the first time in Oxford city centre later this year, have been described as “perverse” by motor groups.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/24/labour-opens-door-stalinist-15-minute-cities-across-britain/
Too late now! 😆
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Don’t know if it is related but my recent experience in London would make 15 minute cities about a mile across if lucky.
I have absolutely no idea how London’s traffic could be unclogged. Good thing they’ve got the underground railways and feet to walk on.
I wonder what problem the 15 minute city idea is intended to solve. It can’t be excessive movement of traffic because there isn’t any.
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FG – they want Control.
No less …
It comes in several guises – what you can say; what websites you can browse; who you can vote for [Sur Sturmur, U-Turn King, is experimenting with relieving the population of the need to vote – gently at first]; where you can go [fears of terrible pollution in ULEZs]; what you can eat or drink [high this, that, or the other, per the latest outpourings of ‘pal-reviewed’ nutritional science]; what heating you may be permitted to have; what your kids are indoctrinated with; what vehicle you drive; whether you can fly for holidays …
And whilst most of the controls are – ostensibly – for ‘Elf n Save-Tee’ surely the limits of that have been reached, or surpassed … and all additional controls are – well – Controls!
Am I a bit peeved? Might be….
We had freedom, and it is being taken away from us.
Auto
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Happy Ocker Day dingos! 🇦🇺
Is your continent finally tipping over the point? Today, Perth is the COLDEST state capital, even colder than Hobart (24*C) and only 1.5 degrees warmer than me, on a chilly 23*C (thanks to a Fremantle Doctor seabreeze?) while inland there’s FLASH FLOOD warnings for the North & South Interior (desert) thanks to ex-TC Luana and her soothing rains.
Apart from Adelaide’s perfectly normal for this time of year 45*C, other coastal capital forecasts – Sydney 27, Melb 30 – are also on the ‘cool’ side for high summer: maybe all the loyal marchers on the street need to SING & SHOUT louder to exhale more carbon dioxide to, y’know, raise the temperature?
Enjoy the beer & BBQs later on, and don’t forget about us on our national day next month, Friday 6 February, Waitangi Day – coincidentally Bob Marley’s birthday, yah mon, irie, lively up yourself 🇬🇳 🎵
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Thanks Greg.
Does this mean we’re forgiven for the underarm?
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‘Does this mean we’re forgiven for the underarm?’
NEVER!!!…..
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As D.M. likes to reiterate:
Never forget & never forgive (too late to prosecute). Apart from that low point in trans-Tasman rivalry, yous fellas are OK – when we can unnerstan watch ewes sayin eh 😃
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😉
.
Mike Whitney tells a story about saving a test for a draw against NZ. And the ongoing story that resulted about Hadlee and the innings ball.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1J8nZG9sWj/
Goes for about 6 mins and you shouldn’t need a Facebook login to view it.
.
And then there’s this classic from Steven Adams which I think typifies everything. 😆
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1811JZ3xVT/
15 sec vid.
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It wasn’t we it was Greg Chappel.
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and Trevor.
But we’re all tarred when it comes to national sports teams. All part of the tribalism.
Plus, ‘we” won.
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Think Before You Post | How the UK fell to a sinister new form of censorship.
A 43min documentary by Spiked Online.
A look at some of the arrests and legal dramas people have endured for social media posts deemed to have contravened “Hate Speech” laws.
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https://youtu.be/T0smxO4WiOA?si=Gq0_4XD8BMB9Hhm9
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Has anyone else had issues with Microsoft Outlook connecting to Telstra Bigpond mail today?
Is anyone else using that combination and it worked fine today?
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Craig Kelly has his hand up for One Nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhNxPmzwhE
In his words, he I up for the fight. Also has some interesting comments on the Canberra bubble.
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This video is support of my claim that Trump is the greatest leader in history due to his global reach:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zo37tPy9tDA
Trump will be in rough water for a long time because he is rocking all the radical left globalist institutions. I may not get to see how history records his time at the helm of the world economy but he strongly favours value creation over theft by stealth.
Would be interesting to get a perspective of Trump from ordinary citizens in China.
Australia is progressing toward de-industrialisation powered by rooftop solar and a handful of clapped out 50+ year old coal fuelled power stations – how sad is that! Wasted billions on grid scale weather dependent generators. Some are already unable to make a profit and the ones that are have narrowing opportunity to generate revenue. All useless inside 10 years.
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I’m pretty sure he is the messiah. And I should know, I’ve followed a few.
Or maybe just a very naughty boy.
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FWIW
Cows win! –
“IT’S HAPPENING: They STOPPED using Bovaer
Norwegian dairy producer Tine has ended the use of Bovaer.”
https://www.petersweden.org/p/its-happening-they-stopped-using
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The systematic destruction of Australia can’t be just due to incompetence. It takes a special effort to cause so much damage to a country in so little time, starting with Howard’s first stages of the destruction of the energy supply. Let’s face it, many, if not most politicians don’t have Australia’s best interests at heart. And every politician and PM since Howard has been progressively worse, ending with the current clowns for whom it’s difficult to imagine they could get any worse.
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Surely democracy always leads to this DM? The non-productive outbreed the productive once you start paying them to have children. The economy moves Left into ‘safety for the workers’ and free money for all needy, while the laws move into Govt control of everything so us all starving in the gutter together is more important than people becoming filthy rich by selling whatever customers want.
The Govt takes over the medical industry, which stifles people taking risks and wastes endless money on ‘saaaafety’. The unions own the left so it becomes much harder to hire and fire, and any union-involved project becomes a white elephant that makes unions and politicians rich while costing the taxpayers dearly.
Now they have eliminated freedom and capitalism, they realise the taxes cannot support their spending and start the borrowing. Of course the Left have bought this all in, and the only way the Right can compete is to join them in the move away from free-market capitalism. There are never enough votes in the productive sector, they are the few who drive the country forward.
The politicians are far more interested in their own boys club, flying off on the taxpayer dime to meet their mates in fancy resorts all around the world. They get pressured by bigger politicians and their donors, so the voters comes a long long way behind, unless its a great photo opportunity that doesn’t cost much money! All stupid decisions are buried eg- Snowy 2 and ignored, and they spend the four years praying no calamity occurs where they will have to show leadership, as they are always hopeless when push comes to shove.
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In praise of Meloni, and describes what she’s achieved. I’d like to think this is the playbook our uniparty is following (but I recognize that’s trusting optimism and hope above realism).
24 mins, and rather appropriate on Australia Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvA1xRUB1w
Cheers
Dave B
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FWIW – coming from behind. I hadn’t seen this
““They Just Found It”: Geologists Discover a $6 Trillion Iron Ore Deposit in Australia That Could Rewrite Earth’s History
In a historic geological breakthrough, scientists have discovered the world’s largest iron ore deposit in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, a find valued at nearly $6 trillion that is set to transform global trade and redefine our understanding of Earth’s mineral resources.”
https://www.energy-reporters.com/industry/they-just-found-it-geologists-discover-a-6-trillion-iron-ore-deposit-in-australia-that-could-rewrite-earths-history/
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If this article was written 70 years ago about a pilot in a low-flying Auster aircraft then I might have been fooled. AI word salad.
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60% ore, so what.
If it is on the surface it would be known already, if it needs earth moving it won’t be competitive.
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Disagree, that percentage is very good. And removing the overburden is not that difficult, as virtually the entire hill that was Mt Price has gone, and RTIO’s Marandoo site switched from dry mining to wet mining as they went down into the water table.
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FWIW
“On Weather Forecasts and “Trusting the Science.”
Notes from a blizzard that didn’t happen. Plus a few thoughts on the current political situation.”
“I’m writing this from Knoxville, Tennessee, where the entire town was more or less shut down by fears of a historically huge blizzard that never happened. At one point last week, there were models showing upward of 29” of snow for us:”
“We actually got a few flurries and some rain and sleet that never even turned into an ice storm as predicted.
Now I don’t mean to fault the weathermen, and women, too much. Theirs is an uncertain and chaotic — in the literal, mathematical sense — discipline”
“And, to be fair, the weather people hype everything now, including naming “winter storms” and summer weather events that used to just be called “blizzards” and “thunderstorms.” I understand that The Weather Channel needs viewers, and so do local news and weather broadcasts, but have too many underperforming hyped storms and people will tune out future warnings, which might actually be correct.”
“So what lessons are there from this experience? First, “trust the science” only goes as far as the science itself. Meteorologists can make predictions, and they’re right more often than they used to be, but they’re still wrong a lot. They simply don’t have the tools to do a better job yet, and there are reasons (like the inherent unpredictability of chaotic systems, which weather pretty much is) to doubt that they will ever be close to perfect”
“Second, because things are unpredictable, you should be prepared for worst cases all the time.”
“And none of this is limited to weather.
Politics is another area where lots of people make confident predictions, and are usually wrong. Usually those are predictions of doom. For extended periods, what might be called “the persistence theory of politics” works pretty well. But, as with weather, politics is a chaotic system — so, too, I have argued, is the judiciary, if you consider that outside politics, which I do not — and after long periods of quasi-stability it is prone to cough up dramatic changes that were not easily foreseeable.
As Lenin supposedly said, some decades nothing happens, and some weeks decades happen.”
More at
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/on-weather-forecasts-and-trusting?r=9bg2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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FWIW – in the spirit of above!
“China’s Sacked Top General Accused Of Leaking Nuclear Secrets To US: Report”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-sacked-top-general-accused-leaking-nuclear-secrets-us
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FWIW
“We Don’t Need No Spying Sparky Cars”
“The managed decline of Canada, by Mark Carney. Pray for The North.”
https://x.com/SemperVeritasX/status/2015516679141298500
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/25/we-dont-need-no-spying-sparky-cars-2/
Reckon “Elbow” will be taking notes on the upcoming visit?
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FWIW
“Germany’s Natural Gas Crisis Escalates … One Storage Site Near Empty …Government Silent”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/25/germanys-natural-gas-crisis-escalates-one-storage-site-near-empty-government-silent/
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FWIW
“Ross McKitrick on Climate Models, Economic Impacts, and the DOE Report
A lot of reading in this – including a “special mention”
“19. Do you believe think tanks—on either side of the climate debate—have made it harder for the public to understand uncertainty honestly? Please include organizations you’ve worked with in your answer.
There are different types of think tanks. I mean, advocacy organizations, like environmental groups, for instance, that don’t really aspire to be called a think tank—they’re more lobbyists and advocacy activist groups. I think they have done a lot to muddy the waters with extreme language.
I would also point out the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I think he’s the most irresponsible voice on this issue in the world. He makes absolutely crazy statements. When the IPCC-6 assessment report came out, he said it was a “code red” alarm and all these things that the report supposedly was warning people about, and it didn’t say any of that. He was just making it up. I would begin with him—Guterres. I think he’s highly irresponsible.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/25/ross-mckitrick-on-climate-models-economic-impacts-and-the-doe-report/
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A LOT of reading
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BBC coverage – made sure to get the Palestinian flags, and Aboriginal flags, in the picture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6y7nxx5jvo
Heatwave warnings across Australia as millions celebrate national day”
And heatwaves – as if it’s the first time it ever got hot in Australia …
Happy Australis Day!
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Happy Australia Day!
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