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I have been looking at a potential climate case.
A group is threatening to sue Shell in the UK Courts. They claim Shell, with 2% of historic CO2 emissions from their fossil fuel production, materially impacted the severity of Typhoon Rai. This Cat 5 cyclone hit the Philippines in late 2021, killing 410 people. In brief, I found
1. Shell’s “emissions” likely contributed to around 1% of the global warming 1850-2019 according to the 2021 AR6 WG1. Yet that makes the implausible assumption that all the warming was human-caused.
2. The data shows no increase in the frequency of tropical cyclones since 1980, when consistent global data was available.
3. Yet an attribution study, using sophisticated modelling, found that human-caused climate change had made Cat 5 typhoons in the Philippines 70% more likely. This was by comparing 2001-2021 with 1950-1970. The study did not use actual data, but “a range of gridded observational and reanalysis products”.
4. The only climatic change in tropical cyclones globally was in the western North Pacific. The region of peak cyclone intensity had shifted northward during 1982-2018. That is away from the Philippines.
5. Storm deaths in the Philippines go in cycles. Since 2000, the peak years were 2011-2013 (3700 pa). Since then, the only peak was 2021-2022 (less than 500 pa). The decline is likely due to policy changes, delinking storm deaths from storm severity.
Much more details in my article.
https://manicbeancounter.com/2026/01/25/empirically-baseless-climate-accountability-claim-shell-and-typhoon-rai/
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Pushing that shirt uphill through the courts , if it gets that far , is going to require $tens of millions initially.
Who is going to fund this , should it file the papers?
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I am not sure that Shell is too cash-strapped. The group of Filipinos will, no doubt, get plenty of funding from activist groups. For instance, Greenpeace might chip in.
Shell described the claims as “baseless”. Maybe not so baseless as I found out.
https://www.greenpeace.org/philippines/press/68662/filipino-communities-to-sue-shell-for-damages-linked-to-super-typhoon-odette/
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Shell is enjoying a big write-off in Cali ATM. Like many others, oilers included, they are abandoning the state.
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One fun thing I found out when looking at the Carbon Majors database. It calculates that Shell is “responsible” for 2% of historic CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement. Adding up the emissions from Chinese state-owned businesses gives a figure seven times higher. But that is irrelevant, as we all know that capitalist emissions from oil and gas are hundreds of times worse than communist emissions from coal.
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I’ll go out on a limb , and say that this action by Filipino “useful idiots” will fail as the full extent of the climate rort becomes known to all and sundry.
Truth seems to get out of bed earlier than in pre- internet days when the lie was half way around the world before the Truth woke up.
And it seems that impoverished , indebted ,energy-deprived populations have other more important concerns, like mere survival.
I notice that we hear very little about Fonterra’s electric milk tankers these days.LOL
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Amusing spoof on ed miliband and his net zero delusions
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/ted-willihand-defends-net-zero/
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“50 degree day in victoria”
Only it wasn’t. My physical thermometer (which records min/max) shows it got to exactly 40 in melbourne in the late arvo.
Official record is 42. But I’m sus on that, since my thermometer is usually spot on.
Rest of the state – I clicked around. Mostly 40. A few 42s.
The only exception I could find was the far NW of the state. This area was indeed hot at around 48. Its always hot up there.
But the vast majority of the state was 40-42.
This is NOT a record.
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It seems these days a meteorological “record” is anything in the short memory of the Lamestream Media or the dumbed-down masses, probably about three months. Or they just say it’s a record (true or not) because it fits the Official Narrative of the “oceans about to boil”.
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Even a record is simply the hottest day in Mildura since 1909 when the BOM started. There has to be one. It would be nice if the BOM would look back at the handwritten records which preceded that, say to the Federation Drought.
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And we are talking a record by one tenth of a degree (0.1) wow. New you beaut digital thermometers that change in fractions of a second versus some bloke looking at a column of mercury against a scale. Hmmmm. In the time it takes to read a mercury thermometer a digital one could toggle up and down through fractions of a degree at least a couple of times. Lets just acknowledge that it was hot, no one can tell any difference by fractions of degrees.
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My memory is that Adelaide had a very hot day in 1962.
I was very glad that I was inside with air-conditioning (installed because the firm manufactured them).
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But, but , but. . . . . .
Stuff(and nonsense) says you are wrong.
Who to believe . . . ? 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360930429/australia-swelters-record-heat-wave-temperatures-nea
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Besides that, it’s not that Melbourne is ‘hot’, it’s copping hot desert air blown in from the north west.
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I remember a hot day at Laverton at smoko it was better on the sunny side of the hut than the windy side in the shade.
It’s a pleasant 25 with an expected 29 here in the tropics AND they say it will be dry. 😀
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Was it, by any chance at the corner of Leakes and Fitzgerald?
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RAAF Radio School, 63 yrs ago.
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We had a max of 44C early evening yesterday. At least the air was dry, although not good for dessicating plant life. Summer in Dubai in the mid to high 40s has the added bonus of high humidity! This is the first year after several here to hit the 40s that failed to hit 40C (except for a brief flip once last summer).
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Yesterday i posted on Canada trade deal with China and trumps threat to impose tariffs on Canada as a result. As a result Canada has pulled out. I facetiously asked if australia might also need to worry, although the country seems to be out of trumps firing line.
Carney did say oneinteresting thing at Davis, a first. He said middle powers need to secure their own energy, food and defence sources To that I would add medicine, as traditional allies become sidelined.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/canada-drops-free-trade-deal-with-china-after-us-tariffs-threat/
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https://www.rt.com/news/631536-no-endgame-doctrine-trump/
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Carney did say more than one interesting thing:-
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/mark-carneys-watershed-davos-speech
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From the link..
Is he learning tactics from the orange master?
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‘Is he learning tactics from the orange master?’
No, Carney is saying we have nothing in writing with Beijing.
The reality on the ground is that a coup is taking place in China and Carney is waiting for the dust to settle before he signs anything.
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This is a very slow coup. I guess if you keep mentioning it and one day one happens you can claim to be correct.
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Impeaching Donald Trump is taking a lot longer.
The story goes that the coup was planned for the other night but Xi got wind of it a couple of hours earlier. So Zhang Youxia and his fellow general went into hiding.
Xi told the armed forces to stay in barracks, but they are disobeying that order and its only a matter of time before there is a violent coup.
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The story! Was this the one that they told you?
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By the way… you’ve been talking about this coup for over a year now and the fact that it has morphed into many different forms in that time is as believable as Xi not knowing about it until recently while you did.
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Yeah its amazing, show some patience comrade.
Xi has the police and propaganda ministry under his wing, while Zhang has the support of the military.
The problem now is that Xi has placed Zhang’s family under house arrest and they are terrified.
If Lai’s contacts are wrong, then Australia is in the crosshairs of a mass murderer.
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Why do you dislike Xi Jinping El+gordo?
Do you live in Xiamen?
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Xi is a fascist who has killed thousands of Americans with Fentanyl.
Leaf thinks I’m barking mad, but I’m only reporting Lei.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgP6sitJzk
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Here’s some more reviews on the woke cringeworthy disaster that’s Start Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Two more reviews (there are many more):
https://youtu.be/1uQ0EkyBIOs
https://youtu.be/h6mNvQD7ses
As was pointed out before on this site, Hollyweird doesn’t really care whether they ruin a franchise or lose money or not, as do most of their efforts these days. The true agenda is to constantly push this Leftist woke garbage. It doesn’t matter that normal people hate it. The objective, like any “good” propaganda, is to constantly push the agenda. It eventually does influence the weak-minded.
A further observation is that the obsession with wokeness as observed in the military Starfleet Academy, really is what’s happened to the once-proud militaries of the woke Western countries, except TRUMP’s USA military.
Come on Lefties, aren’t you going to defend it? This is exactly the kind of woke dystopia you work so hard for!
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Just wait until Pedowood does Shakespeare.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15494859/William-Shakespeare-actually-black-woman-feminist-historian-LSE-graduate-claims-new-book.html
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Copied from Quora Digest.
This is totally believable. Younger people seem to lack the basic arithmetic skills to be able to perform transactions such as this. And they only know how much change to give if the cash register tells them. I assume this was the US hence the reference to 25c, a quarter. Or it could have been Canada I guess who also use a quarter.
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For years the registers would calculate change from cash tendered. This example is no different, so the story is fake.
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Yes, but the money was probably given before the transaction was entered. The cashier still has to count the cash before the numbers are entered into the register.
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Not sure TdeF, I had a remarkably similar experience. With todays Tap-and-Go society, the handling of “cash” can confuse “cashiers”.
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For 24 years I taught youngsters to count back change in a retail store. Some caught on quickly and enjoyed the learning experience, others took up to two weeks becoming proficient. One thanked me for showing me how. I think maybe twice I had customers complain about being given the wrong change. I had compliments weekly on how quickly the staff could serve and give change. We had registers but I disabled the ability to calculate change on purpose, brains are for using. Probably couldn’t get away with that now.
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Worked part-time in a pub handling cash transactions. Always had to calculate in my head how much to charge the customers, hand over their cash to the bar, who had cash registers to calculate the drinks cost. If I didn’t get it right, had to pay the difference at the end of the night. Sharpens one mental skills.
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Might be fake. OTOH, EXACTLY THIS has happened to both me and my wife in recent years, always when dealing with a young shop assistant.
For most of my life, doing this in order to make the cashier’s life a little easier was commonplace. Nowadays, it seems you’re setting the poor kid a Mastermind-level challenge.
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Basic numeracy is not a requirement at Mickey D’s.
That said, I suspect most of the kids who work there these days rarely use cash in their everyday lives like us old farts grew up doing, so they don’t understand the ‘life hacks’ we developed to keep our pockets from jingling with heavy coins. Their perspective is that of someone who grew up in a cashless society. They simply wave their phones over readers and watch their account balance shrink. The whole concept of using physical money eludes them.
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Who remembers pounds shillings and pence? The younger generation would have a nervous breakdown trying to cope with it.
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Hi Alan, I remember way back in primary school in arithmetic questions like, a pound of potatoes is two and one-half pence Mrs Smith buys three and a half pounds of potatoes, how much does she pay?
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Never used the term ‘two and one-half pence’. It was always ‘tuppence (twopence) ha’penny (halfpenny).’
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Hi Gazza, I didn’t use the old terms as I thought it would be too obscure for many of the readers.
Do you remember the Farthings?
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Yeah, and half crowns, florins and not to mention guineas. We were poor but life was good.
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Great comment Alan. Those silly young people.
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I was born before man walked on the moon and I have no idea about pounds and shillings. I know of Mike Pence.
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Mike Pence. Not worth two bob.
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A Pound short of a Guinea.
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Rams used to be sold in Guineas 🙂
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I remember going to a bakery once where doughnuts were $1.00 each or $4.00 for six. I ordered 8 doughnuts and the young girl said that would be $8.00. So I said, ‘I’ll just buy six please” and paid her the $4.00. I then bought two more for $2.00. She still didn’t have a clue as to what happened.
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And these kids claim they’re entitled to vote?
Same thing happens here when providing small change (coins) to make the transaction easier / simpler: a high school part-time cashier was astounded when the machine confirmed what the old dude had said would be the correct change ($10 instead of $9.70 in shrapnel).
“That’s magic!” she replied.
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Yeah I remember a confused/ignorant/deficient person of some age once who didn’t know something that I knew. What bunch of buffoons are the people between the ages of x and y!!!
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You knew something? Do tell.
Oh right. You are making things up.
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So denas, treys, bobs, quids are foreign then.
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On a trip to Uluṟu (Ayer’s Rock) late last century, I had this encounter: I went to get a takeaway (takeout) burger from the only facility in the village. There was a queue (line) of about 30 folk (non-English speaking) waiting to be served but there was no movement. I went to the front where the staff were virtually immobile and waiting for a systems outage to be sorted. Like the others waiting I was getting hungry, so I asked the following:
Q: Why can’t you cook a burger since the grill is a gas cooker?
A: The computer system is down so we can’t take orders
Q: Why not, you have kitchen paper and I see there’s a pencil so I’ll have one burger please? Write it down please
A: But we can’t process your order because the system is down
Q: Why not I have $20 cash
A: But we can’t open the till and give you change
Q: Why is there a problem? You have a gas grill, the ingredients, the means to take the order and I can pay you
A: But we can’t give you change of $4
Q: Why is that a problem? You can keep the change as a tip. When the power comes back on you can enter the details retrospectively.
In the end I got my burger while the 30 hungry tourists patiently waited…..
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In the Bermagui pub last year, I was at the bar, cash in hand. The bloke ahead of me with his smartphone poised, got his fancy drinks just as the eftpos went down. The barmaid asked if he had cash and he sneeringly replied ‘What’s cash?’ I showed him my hand and said ‘That’s it,mate, cash is king’.
Took my pint and watched him wait at the bar for another fifteen minutes before he could pay by his ‘convenient’ method.
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Under Obama, 56 people died during encounters with ICE officers. Obama still stated that he would enforce the law, despite the tragedies, and carry out the deportations of illegals. It was his duty.
56 civilians died. There were no violent protests. No hotels broken into and vandalized. No roads blocked to obstruct ICE.
This is why we know this is about so much more than the deportation of illegal criminals.
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These two tweets tell you everything you need to know about the nature of these supposedly ‘grassroots’ protests.
https://x.com/ArthurMacwaters/status/2015937733047578831
Note: there is an eye-opening chart included in the tweet, so you might want to click on it rather than just read the text.
https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2016139628235944427
NOTE: this tweet is REALLY long, so I’m just going to quote the conclusion. Click through if you want to read the whole thing.
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Signalgate tells us it is not grassroots.
What I don’t get is that “knocking on doors” and “taking people down to the station to answer questions” has been SOP when investigating crimes for ever. Why is it not so in Minneapolis today?
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A quick 3min laugh
Ted Willihand Defends Net Zero!
January 27, 2026
Hilarious!!
https://x.com/ChayasClan/status/2015739864562434533
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Demonstrates that Artificial Intelligence is no substitute for real intelligence. But Chris Bowen does it better.
It is impossible to believe that Milliband and Bowen are real people.
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Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
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This is insane. More expense and Australia is the only country mandating it.
Australia is mandating washing machines that require a two step process to activate.
Apparently to prevent children locking themselves inside front loading washing machines, even though that would seem to be impossible because there is no way to pull a door closed from the inside, let alone activate the machine. And if the child had a sibling accompanying them, do the regulators not think that even with a two step process the child won’t work it out? And what actual problem is there to solve anyway? I am not aware of any child dying in such a way.
Another law dreamt up by under-employed public serpents who have nothing better to do than dream up ways to make life more difficult for others.
It’s simply not reasonable or possible to eliminate every imaginable risk. At some point parental and individual responsibility and (un)common sense has to be part of the equation.
It just means more expense and less choice for Australia.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZTTmu8L9yE
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I had a mate whose cat went to sleep in a front loader.
Door shut. Button pushed.
It had done it nine times before.
Her name was “Fluffy”.
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The latest Australian censorship laws had the clear objective of protecting from criticism or analysis the religious ideology behind a vast majority of terrorist attacks around the world, a preferred demographic of Labor.
So, yet again, Tony Burke has banned entry to Australia of another Jewish Israeli, a known critic of terrorist ideology, Sammy Yahood. (Along with several others who have previously been banned, including a sitting Knesset (parliament) member.)
Sammy Yahood criticises the same religiously motivated terrorist ideology that was behind the Oct 7th terrorist atrocities Hamas committed against Israel.
With these bannings of conservative Jews visiting Australia, Burke’s usual tactic is to issue the ban just hours before the visitor boards the plane and arrangements have already been made, venues booked etc., as an additional form of punishment and a discouragement for others with opinions not in accordance with the Official Narrative.
It will be yet another opinion that Australians are not allowed to hear. We are expected to accept the ideology that motivates most terrorists, including the Bondi ones with no further opinions permitted.
Dr David Adler is interviewed on Sky News:
https://youtu.be/gPSrqQRWiOc
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Incidentally, Sammy Yahood boarded his flight anyway, hoping to appeal the decision, of which there was no chance.
He was to change planes in UAE for Australia (as is typical on Israel-Australia flights) but as his appeal was unsuccessful he decided to do some sightseeing in UAE as he was waiting for his return flight.
UAE is an actual Saracen country, and yet they didn’t have a problem with him as a visitor to their country unlike Australia.
Australia it seems, is far more restrictive with their entry requirements than is even the UAE.
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Only for non-Saracens from the Levant.
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Government maths: 1 – 1 = +69
Apart from the UK’s one in one out deal with France only affecting a tiny minority of the people crossing the English Channel and being no deterrent whatsoever, we’ve taken back more replacements than we returned.
https://order-order.com/2026/01/27/listen-mahmood-admits-uk-has-brought-in-70-more-migrants-than-returned-via-one-in-one-out-scheme/
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As Australia and Australians are now prevented from access to alternative opinions under the new censorship laws, it’s only a matter of time before Australians end up like North Koreans, not even knowing there is a whole world of alternative opinions out there.
And how long before the Left erect a giant statue of their beloved Dear Leader Albanese, or even the “gang of three” of Albanese, Burke and Wong?
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David,
Shame on you!
How could you leave out Black-Out Bowen?
On the surface, I know he has nothing to do with the MASS importation of labo(u)r voters, but…..
H’s helping to kill our country.
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Sorry. My bad. Well, it’s the “gang of four” then.
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FWIW
“Even Less Great Britain” has another go
“Some bad ideas are very hard to kill. The World Economic Forum may be in full retreat, but its globalist cockroaches have scurried to more hospitable climates. Like not so Great Britain. On Sunday, the UK Telegraph ran a story headlined, “Labour opens door to ‘Stalinist’ 15-minute cities across Britain.” The sub-headline unnecessarily added, “Traffic restrictions for motorists will promote walking and cycling in city centres.” Welcome back to the Stone Age, morons.”
And more
Concludes
“In other words, fifteen-minute cities necessarily require precisely the kind of dirigiste, Stalinesque collectivist overhead that critics claim will be required. And just wait till people realize that rich folks and politicians always wind up in the best zones.
The good news —for us, if not for our British cousins— is that somebody else is trying it first, so when it catastropically implodes, as it surely will, the cost of proving how profoundly dumb this idea is will be borne by Europeans and not Americans. Sorry, mates. Stiff upper lip, and all that.
The UK is practically sprinting toward Orwell’s dystopian future. The Abolition of Britain continues. Welcome to Oceania!”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-gold-plan-tuesday-january-27?
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The forgotten but very influential link – Fabian Society (Marxists) founded in the UK late 1800s and with branches in various countries including the Australian Fabian Society with members mostly from the Australian Labor Party factions.
One of the original Fabian sayings is The Inevitability of Gradualness – it might take some time to achieve but it will be achieved.
In more recent years Fabian Members of Parliament have managed to achieve influential positions including leadership, Prime Ministers, in many developed countries.
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An example is PM Anthony Albanese ( and some colleagues) who has been a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky since his university activist period at University of Sydney.
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Trotsky was against the dictatorship of the proletariat, Albo knew this.
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FWIW
Something else for BOM to exceed
“Storm” Chandra”
“While the US struggles with some really stormy weather, the increasingly pathetic Met Office try to whip up hysteria with so-called “Strom Chandra”. ”
“In other words it will be a bit wet and windy.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/26/storm-chandra/
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Just watched Pauline Hanson’s new movie.
“A Super Progressive Movie”, “This is a true story”.
A great show. Will be watching it a few more times.
And Albo, so like the old Albo.
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It was banned (censored) in Federal Parliament House
It’s a sad day for Australia that free speech can’t even be expressed in Parliament.
It shows the sad, sorry direction of this country.
I wonder if the Gestapo will try and have the movie banned under the new censorship laws?
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I was impressed, hope you will be too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_V0s0qS8I
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[Please give links a title/description so people can decide if they want to click on it by the content. Rather than them having to click on it just to find out the content. Thanks. – Raquel
The link is to “The Karl Stefanovic Show Live With Pauline Hanson”. 1hr 14min]
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And an approx time length would be handy info.
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FWIW – More Minnesota
“Seems Kind of Funny How All the ‘Organic’ Cockroaches Scatter When the Signal Light Comes On”
Concludes
“What a…dare I say it?”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/27/seems-kind-of-funny-how-all-the-organic-cockroaches-scatter-when-the-signal-light-comes-on-n3811261
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And More Minnesota
“Minnesota’s SignalGate: The Anatomy of a Domestic Insurgency”
“What does it mean to call something a protest. The word carries moral weight. It implies spontaneity, expression, grievance, and a presumptive legitimacy. But words can mislead. What we are witnessing in Minnesota is closer to an insurgency wrapped in a color revolution, a disciplined attempt to deny federal authority on the ground, paired with a narrative operation designed to make that denial look like civic virtue. Read through that lens, the events unfolding in Minnesota are better understood through a different lens, one that does not begin with speech or assembly, but with organization, coordination, and the systematic obstruction of federal authority. Minnesota is not witnessing protest. It is witnessing a deliberate campaign to neutralize federal law enforcement.”
More at
https://x.com/amuse/article/2015889079141883960
Via https://instapundit.com/772434/#disqus_thread
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“It is witnessing a deliberate campaign to neutralize federal law enforcement.’”
That message is not coming across very well in the MSM, so instapundit must be fake news.
It would have been better if POTUS hadn’t gone this way, everybody and their dog know that the whole venture was meant to get the Epstein Files off the front page. That worked.
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“That message is not coming across very well in the MSM, so instapundit must be fake news.”
Or not.
“What interests me the most is that it’s yet another citizen-journalist with the scoop. When was the last time a major news organization broke a yuge story, bigly? Sure, the bigs can sic a bunch of big-name byline reporters on a story, and dig up eyewitness accounts or those gem anecdotes you might not find anywhere else. But when was the last time they exposed something like CrimethInc, or performed a real public service like Data Republican’s ever-growing database? ”
More around that at
“Introducing the Actual Grassroots Lefty Group Helping Organize the Insurrection”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/01/27/introducing-the-actual-grassroots-lefty-group-helping-organize-the-insurrection-n4948790
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Pommy Net Zero satire
https://youtu.be/HpRLtNnuwHc?si=vcj6tspaJMWN200r
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This so called AI just might be useful in the right hands.
No actors required and all the boys like pretty girls.
Satire rules and the enemies of reason just can’t grasp it.
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Volkswagen are recalling over 44,000 TD.4 EVs in the U.S. becuase of risks that their battery might catch fire.
https://www.reuters.com/business/volkswagen-recall-over-44000-us-vehicles-over-battery-fire-risk-nhtsa-says-2026-01-27/
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FWIW
“Amelia Victorious: How to Lose the Culture War With a Video Game”
“There’s something genuinely funny going on in the United Kingdom right now.
The British government’s Prevent office, housed under the Home Office (think Department of the Interior, but allergic to dissent), partnered with a media nonprofit called Shout Out UK (like a PBS focused on preventing “radicalism”) to come up with a clever new way to re-educate British youth.
The concern, as always, was “radicalization.” They thought the solution was inspired: a choice-based video game. Kids like games. Games involve decisions. Decisions shape values. What could possibly go wrong?
Thus Pathways was born, a government-funded interactive morality play designed to gently shepherd British children toward being properly antiracist, properly accepting, and properly enthusiastic about the ever-increasing number of migrants reshaping their country. Civics class, but fun. And digital. And corrective.
As part of this effort, the designers introduced a character named Amelia, a cute, purple-haired, vaguely goth girl who carries a Union Jack and talks about Britain being for the British. She was meant to function as a warning, a living illustration of how nationalism can look attractive, even charming, and yet be dangerous to the impressionable youths of Britain who may not have fully internalized the idea that Brexit is bad and they are to obey their elitist overlords.
What they did not anticipate was that the public would take one look at adorable, charming Amelia and decide she was the good guy.”
Much more at
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/01/27/amelia-victorious-how-to-lose-the-culture-war-with-a-video-game-n4948811
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Another view
“NOPE THE LEFT IS HOIST ON ITS OWN PETARD:”
“Amelia was not created by the “extreme right” ”
On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, A View From Yorkshire points out that the media coverage of the Amelia phenomenon often leaves the audience with the impression that Amelia was created by some far right extremists, which clearly isn’t true:
Lets nuke the myth properly”
Much more at
https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2026/01/27/amelia-was-not-created-by-the-extreme-right/
Via https://instapundit.com/772540/#disqus_thread
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Video: A lawyer explains Australia’s new censorship laws.
They are far deeper reaching than anyone imagined and they were rushed through at lightning speed so it was practically impossible to comment on them (48 hrs).
The Liberals committed an unforgivable sin by voting for these laws after they said they’d oppose them. They have just ensured they’ll remain in “Opposition” forever, not that it matters because they are mostly Laborites anyway, just with slightly more social class.
I wonder who’ll be chosen as the first victim?
I suspect it will be a conservative politician from One Nation or other minor conservative parties. As the only conservative parties Australia has, they are our only hope so the Lib/Labs want to destroy them.
The Lib/Labs want to entrench themselves in power forever.
https://youtu.be/VskqOgr1OtU
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Yes, I did see that one…
The more things fall apart, the more they clamp down on the masses to save their own a$$es.
Almost Feb now. March, April, May, June……..
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The yesterday highest Victorian temperature was recorded at an airport BOM station.
And I heard it on ABC of all places, may be they started to see the sense…
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Did they comprehend the problem of measuring official temperatures at airports, especially with digital thermometers with fast response times?
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Against my evil anti-establishment nature I have checked the flights in and out of Hopetoun Airport yesterday – there were none.
Also, the station there is vying for the record with another one – at Walpeup (there is no airport) 75 km away.
So, most probably those were true readings.
How long were they (at 48.9 C) ?
That is above my pay grade as they say on Netflix.
You right of course – days at 30 C means more to Life then minutes at +42 C
My precious elkhorns told me so, despite all love & care, they are well on the way to their Big Garden in the sky and it is only midsummer.
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Here is the official temps for Hopetoun. The highest temp recorded was 48.3C at 3:10pm. Then it dropped 0.7C in one minute. Somewhere around there it jumped half a degree, but it wasn’t flagged.
27/04:30pm 47.8
27/04:00pm 47.1
27/03:30pm 46.9
27/03:27pm 47.9
27/03:12pm 47.7
27/03:11pm 47.6
27/03:10pm 48.3
27/03:00pm 47.5
27/02:34pm 46.1
27/02:30pm 47.2
27/02:03pm 46.6
27/02:00pm 45.9
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The joys of hysteresis eh ?….
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Yes, it would be just as that Airbus swung around and had to wait on the end of the taxiway with its engine exhausts pointed at the thermometer…
Cloudflare couldn’t find you around 9am this morning Jo-
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Started about 7:40 am
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Grok made a post on X.
https://x.com/i/trending/2016049020695654908
It won’t allow me to copy and paste but the woke Australian rock band Hoodoo Gurus are highly offended by Pauline Hanson being introduced at an Australia Day rally using one of their songs.
AND
Senator Babet commented:
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They look like a smug, smarmy bunch of lefties. Don’t know them, but I hear they are a pretty second rate outfit.
Like most of the arts community, they cannot make a decent living relying on their meagre talents, so rely on grants and handouts. Even the historical greats required the patronage of the rich and powerful to survive.
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None of this is true
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BLEP !! LOL…
Trust the ABC and CNN for they are they are the only providers of truth, sayeth GA…
/evidence optional as usual
What is truth ? Is not truth truth for all?
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What is the “watch you die” bit all about?
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hee hee…maybe I should do a post on doing the things that aren’t possible…
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In the Bermagui pub last year, I was at the bar, cash in hand. The bloke ahead of me with his smartphone poised, got his fancy drinks just as the eftpos went down. The barmaid asked if he had cash and he sneeringly replied what’s cash? I showed him my hand and said ‘That’s it, cash is king’.
Took my pint and watched him wait at the bar for another ten minutes before he could pay by his ‘convenient’ method.
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Meant to be posted as a reply at #6. Didn’t load. Problems with the site today.
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Nice story. Similar thing happened to me. They gave me my drink and said to pay later (which is a real story)
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Dead set true. Try again. By the way, you have to be eighteen to be served in a pub.
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How the day goes here –
“Due to temperature considerations Men’s Shed is working from home today”.
Predicted 43C
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I wonder if banning of free plastic bags had anything to do with this because now people bring their own bags which can hide unpaid items.
Plus, Victoria is basically lawless and crime usually goes unpunished.
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Give us a year or two of this inflation and crashing jobs in industry and they will REALLY see what retail theft is like!
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The local supermarket bans school bags. That I assume is also on their other 5 sides.
I have noticed that the checkout operators seem also keen to examine any bags.
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FWIW
“Shakespeare Was a Black Jewish Woman – Claims Feminist Historian”
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/01/25/shakespeare-was-a-black-jewish-woman-claims-feminist-historian/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/26/monday-on-turtle-island-172/
Bill Bryson did mention the contortions required to make someone else Shakespeare – and Emilia Bassano as maybe the dark lady of the sonnets but not as the writer of the whole caboodle (IIRC)
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“Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash”
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FWIW
“China’s Been Hacking British Government Phones for Years”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/27/chinas-been-hacking-british-governments-phones-for-years-n3811280
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FWIW
“The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know This About the Investigation of Ilhan Omar’s Finances”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/27/the-left-doesnt-want-you-to-know-this-about-the-investigation-of-ilhan-omar-n4948799
Bad enough for the Biden administration to notice?
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FWIW
“Industry is Being Sacrificed to Net Zero Ideology, Says Siemens Energy Boss”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/28/industry-is-being-sacrificed-to-net-zero-ideology-says-siemens-energy-boss/
And to keep shooting feet off
“DDG Search Assist
The latest EU sanctions on Russian gas include a complete ban on imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the end of 2026 and a ban on pipeline gas starting September 30, 2027. This decision aims to reduce reliance on Russian energy sources in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The Moscow Times greenpeace.org”
More
“Hungary, Slovakia vow to sue EU over Russian gas ban
The EU’s landmark ban on Russian fossil fuels is heading for its first major test.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-slovakia-vow-to-sue-eu-over-russian-gas-ban/
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FWIW – a couple of “What if’s”
“WW2 Revisionism?”
“So I privately asked this fellow about what he posted, and whether he truly felt that America’s contribution in WW2 wasn’t needed to achieve victory for the Allies. He said he wasn’t sure and that “we’ll never know”. He also gave me his list of those who deeply contributed to the war effort: Britain, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Brazil, & Mexico. I was curious, so I asked Grok to do some research for me.
Here’s the AI’s response. I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide whether the Vancouver fellow, a huge fan of Trudeau and Carney by the way, was accurate with his summation of WW2.”
“Update: I went back to AI and asked it to speculate on what would have happened had America not directly got involved in WW2.”
Lots more there
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/27/dear-grok/
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FWIW
Hippocrates be damned
“Beyond Alarming – Virginia Commonwealth University Healthcare Providers Brainstorm on Ways to Poison Federal Immigration Officials
January 27, 2026 | Sundance | 232 Comments ”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/27/beyond-alarming-virginia-commonwealth-university-healthcare-providers-brainstorm-on-ways-to-poison-federal-immigration-officials/
Not that far ahead of Canada I guess?
“Canadian woman was euthanized ‘against her will’ after husband was fed-up with caring for her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15489605/canadian-woman-euthanized-ontario-maid.html
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FWIW
“Minnesota #SignalGate”
“The uncovering of the Signal data may provide insight into why Tim Walz and Jacob Frey suddenly appeared to switch into conciliatory mode with Trump:”
“DIGITAL WARRIORS PUT ANTI-ICE FORCES ON THE RUN
Last night, the X community witnessed an unprecedented takedown of anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis through real-time digital warfare.
What started as an infiltration operation exploded into a full exposure of networks involving protesters, funders, and potentially high-level politicians.”
Lots there – including “An Australian connection”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/27/minnesota-signalgate/
Somewhat outshines Horatius at the bridge?
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