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British News Report:
(1) Starmer says “War (with Russia) is Peace, Freedom (& Free Speech) is Slavery and Ignorance (& Diversity) is (our) Strength”
(2) Dutch Journalist banned from Britain for criticising Starmer, talks to Tommy Robinson
(3) In Beijing, Communist China, Chairman Starmer has announced that all parliamentarians accused of maliciously spreading disinformation about Communist China, are now ‘free’ to travel to Communist China
(4) A Sudanese criminal passed through Italy and Germany to a tent in northern France, before being rescued by a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat, in July 2024, and then placed in a posh hotel in Walsall, by Serco Group plc, under a British government contract, paid for by the British taxpayer. The Sudanese criminal then murdered an English hotel worker whom prosecutors say was stalked and then stabbed to death with a screwdriver 23 times in the head, chest and arm. He returned to the hotel in bloodied clothing while laughing and dancing. In response to the murder, Starmer said that “ diversity is our strength” and warned Elon Musk. Elon Musk reposted “In the UK, a Sudanese migrant who stabbed a hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver has been found guilty of murder”
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Sounds like Australia conservatives can be banned from entering the country based on their political opinions.
Plus under the new censorship laws an opinion not in accordance with the Official Narrative might get you five years in jail.
And our PM Comrade Dear Leader for Life Albanese is upset about him being portrayed in a bikini, even though his regime doesn’t even recognise the concept of biological binary genders and would like to make such portrayals illegal (although he hasn’t done so – yet).
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You know you’ve made it to the bigtime in International diversity when your town starts erecting ‘diversity bollards’ everywhere.
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As in Melbournistan.
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Because nothing says “successful multicultural community” like a freshly delivered pallet of concrete anti-vehicle bollards and a local council cleanup crew hosing away the blood and brains of the latest sacrifices to diversity.
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UK citizens ‘are now ‘free’ to travel to Communist China.’
A lot of Brits also go to Vietnam, a communist state in name only.
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I have visited three times, roughly twenty years ago. No way would I visit now. As insignificant as I am, my criticisms of the CCP are easily found and recorded when you have a massive army of internet surveillance agents, plus a growing AI search ability.
Nobody will be safe, especially as Xi appears to be violently securing and consolidating his dictatorship.
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They are typical fascists, according to the Human Rights Commission.
‘The Vietnamese authorities prohibit independent rights groups, labor unions, media, religious groups, and all other organizations that operate outside government control.’
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It looks like it is all over , bar the shouting:-
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-13026-putin-flatters-trump/comment/207773122
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A feature of the drones that Ukraine has deployed is a camera. They are able to confirm the results of any drone attack by examining the video evidence.
In the last few months of 2025 the number of confirmed deaths based on that evidence has been steadily rising. The target for Russian deaths set for 2026 is 50,000 Russian soldiers. That is a big number even for the Russian army. I doubt anyone will want to identify as a Russian soldier within range of the drones. Putin may be hard pressed to find more fodder to feed Ukrainian drones.
USA has developed high energy EMR pulse technology to destroy drone circuitry. This technology is capable of wiping out a whole drone swarm in a matter of seconds at very little cost. The US laser technology was not up to the task of taking out numerous drones arriving in a swarm. A large proportion would make it through. EMR pulse technology takes them all out.
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“EMR pulse technology takes them all out.”
Wouldn’t it also take out anything electronic in the near vicinity. ?
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With the resources to develop this technology I very much doubt that that a very obvious problem would be overlooked. We’re not talking ALP policy development here are we??
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Indeed it would Ronin.
But propaganda about magic weapons is always popular. Touring the Imperial War Museum in London is a very sobering experience in that regard. The WWI chronology is full of the dangers of magic thinking that the next bright idea would smite the enemy. And of course millions died when it didn’t happen or the smiting went both ways.
History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme.
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Throughout history we see this phenomenon, something to do with kill or be killed. This fellow was ahead of his time.
‘Leonardo drew an exploding projectile, with fins for accuracy, to be fired from a ballista (akin to a huge crossbow). On impact the rear of the missile would be driven into the front part to detonate its load of powder.’ (Royal Collection Trust)
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It is possible to focus electromagnetic energy into quite narrow beams, same as light. Both radar and comms systems do this very effectively.
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Depends how tightly focused the ‘destructobeam’ is I suppose. I know nothing about this new tech but I’m guessing it can be focused onto a very narrow and shallow area.
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Amazing isnt they can absolutely confirm deaths vs casualties with such accuracy.
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Ahhh but were they able to confirm they died with or without covid and whether they were subject to/going through a rare side effect of the inoculation at the time of departure. Or even more to the point were they actually feigning death until the drone flew away.
I know mobile phones can be attached to extensions for that great selfie pic or above crowd view do drones come with prodding sticks?
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A very good morning to everyone assembled here.
Drones and sticks question. It is time to watch Wag the Dog again, it was so accurate regarding plucky naval ratings and girls and their puppies emerging from the ruins.
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Rick,
That’s 50,000 per month.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/20/8017044/
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I didn’t find the comments section at all enlightening. It is just the usual exchange of propaganda and vile slurs.
What I did find interesting was the article itself https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-13026-putin-flatters-trump
That appears to present a more objective analysis. I say “appears” because I have no idea whether it is true or complete.
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My mistake .
The link that you posted was what I intended to post.
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How about the exchanges of dead soldiers graphed in there?
1000 Ukie ones for 38 Russian ones, and its been like that for months. I haven’t seen the Ukies disputing the numbers, and they are often organised through a third party who has never disputed the numbers either.
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I have been under the impression the Russians are being killed on land they control. Are the Ukrainians still going into those territories, or perhaps these are long dead from early in the war?
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Search the Epstein files: www . justice . gov/epstein: Clinton=3,956 Results (blimey), BBC=945 Results (bloody hell), Injunction=758 Results, MI6=61 Results, Starmer=34 Results, Skripal=18 Results including Skripal, Syria, And England Are All Victims Of The Globalist War On Trump.
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I must be in my dubious frame of mind this morning but I’m not sure what this document dump reveals.
It seems to me that Epstein must have had lots of help acquiring that much wealth and influence in one lifetime.
Sadly men can be manipulated because they fail to learn the fundamental lesson that it is better to keep it zipped up or pay by the hour. And having been manipulated they cannot unmanipulate themselves because the stain on their character is permanent. And that gives the manipulator almost perfect cover to do it to others.
The truly revealing information would be who was behind this whole enterprise. And of course that is extremely unlikely ever to come to light because the people who could investigate or reveal are themselves compromised.
So we get bread, circuses and document dumps.
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Bill Gates will struggle to recover from the latest allegations, if proven true. He is said to have contracted some sort of clap from Epstein’s ‘Russian girls’ and then discussed slipping antibiotics into Melinda Gates’ food without her knowledge. That alone should be enough to get him ejected from polite society, but of course he could still be a friend of the Democrat party …
At least as damning as these allegations is the suggestion that Epstein was in fact some sort of Russian mole/activist/operative (see aforementioned use of Russian girls) and was using his harem to gather info and compromat on powerful, influential western figures for Putin, whether for financial reward or ideological reasons isn’t clear.
The Democrats hyperventilation over every single photo of Trump attending an event also attended by Epstein notwithstanding, it might turn out that Trump kicking Epstein to the kerb when he did could be one of the best things the Don ever did. Shame Gates, Clinton and HRH Andrew didn’t have the same foresight.
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(Australia.)
As part of their war against convenience products, and because replacement paper straws are so bad, some people use glass or metal straws. But both, and particularly glass straws are dangerous, apart from having obvious cleaning issues. The dangers of glass straws are discussed in the following video.
Personally, I would never use either, I thought the problems would have been obvious, but apparently not for a lot of people.
https://youtu.be/34Pbxvn3Qok
In addition, I was speaking to friend who is an importer of food and food-related products. He said he used to be able to sell them online for medical purposes. He is in Victoriastan and he got a phone call from the NSW Gestapo about selling his product into NSW telling him it was illegal to send them to NSW but if he put a self-check box on his website to declare they are for medical purposes that is OK.
However, the law or regulation has now been changed and to obtain a plastic straw for medical purposes it has to be a) bendable, b) individually wrapped and c) requires a letter from a medical professional.
Ahhh, the joys of living in one of the world’s most extreme Nanny States, and an effective One Party State where, also, the Left can do whatever they please.
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“A woman was killed when she fell onto a metal drinking straw that pierced her eye socket and entered her brain, an inquest heard.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-dies-metal-straw-elena-struthers-gardner-inquest-coroner-a8996431.html
I read about this initially in some local rag, but can’t find the reports pre-coroner now, but her wife was first charged with murder.
So if you want to stay out of trouble and bother, don’t be around anyone using these straws either!
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In the 60ies, working in our prison, I was shown a quick way to stop cellmate snoring with help of sharp pencil. Maybe the perp just enjoyed scaring impressionable teenager but I believed him fully. Few times I dreamt of pencil pushed into an ear with quick sharp push of big calloused palm,
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An election is due in Victoria this year! It is our only hope!
I pray for a massive swing to One Nation.
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One Nation must run candidates in every seat, upper and lower house. And win a majority.
Apart from that, there is no hope as there is currently no effect Opposition party.
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I will be somewhat surprised if One Nation can have any influence in Victoria.
I get the impression that their ABC has recognised the lunacy of the globalist agenda they have been supporting for so long. They cannot maintain any sense of independence if they keep supporting Sleezy in the way have done in the past. There is now a majority that recognise his incompetence. Their ABC is softening a bit toward One Nation but not enough to make ON influential in Victoria.
Victoria has the best AI resource in the world – lignite. Energy sits at the base of the AI revolution. And Victoria has the lowest cost energy source in the world.
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I fear the sheer numbers of loony left progressives in greater Melbourne will carry the day for Albanese & co.
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I don’t find the paper straws to be THAT bad. But then again the cafes I frequent usually provide two just in case the first one goes soggy.
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Does anyone know trustworthy source for precipitation data?
We know that BOM lies about degrees of air temperature but do they treat mm of rain in a similar fashion?
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I definitely trust my home weather station more for temperatures than the BoM.
Being a city dweller, I don’t take too much notice of the rainfall figures from the weather station so can’t compare rainfall to BoM official figures/fabrications.
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We recorded 0.6mm for January. In the early hours of February we have already recorded 0.6mm! The year’s total now being 1.2mm. Break out the flags!
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How many millimeters are there in a Flannery. ?
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It’s litre, Annie and Ronin, millilitre…
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Talking about depth in the gauge, not volume.
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I’m wrong again, as so often, apologies to all.
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Rain gauges are calibrated so 1 mm equals one litre per sq meter.
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I think Flanneries are measured in millions of dollars.
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No, BOM rainfall data is not reliable. The tipping bucket gauges fail periodically and the BOM takes it’s time getting around to repairing them. Sometimes rain fall that is recorded doesn’t appear to make it to Climate Data Online. At least that is my observation. I have friends with weather stations and they often record rainfall that the BOM doesn’t, and I know that rainfall was recorded only 100 metres from the BOM station. A number of local farmers are skeptical of BOM rainfall records.
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For the Bureau of Misinformation to record no or little rain fulfills their political objective of demonstrating that supposed anthropogenic global warming will cause so little rain that the dams will never fill.
As the guru of Australian climate change politics, Flim Flammery (PhD in macropod evolution) said, “even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems”.
That established the Official Narrative for Australia.
I wonder how many people built on flood-prone land due to his “prediction” and then lost everything when it flooded?
Australia needs a scientific agency to be put in charge of weather records, not a political one like BoM.
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“Australia needs a scientific agency to be put in charge of weather records, not a political one like BoM.”
Both BOM and CSIRO used to be science based, until they weren’t.
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I wonder how BOM explains those magic dams that successfully collect water from catchments that saw little rainfall?
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Don’t know of a more reliable source but my rain gauge always seems to collect way more than the BOM says. It’s a pity that my town’s official BOM station closed when the person who maintained it retired some years ago.
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Are there not wunderground stations in OZ
These are remote stations all internet connected reporting in real time.
There are at least 20 such nearby, and although they are not calibrated, they provide the best local data.
And the ten day forecast generated from their modelling is quite good.
But beware , the site is severely woke/alarmist in what it provides to its US customers.
Don’t even bother to click on the baits.
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Yes. We have them.
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Happy 1st of February!
And now for today’s funnies 🙂
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/the-week-in-pictures-pre-groundhog-day-edition.php
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And it’s National Freedom Day in the US celebrating the 13th Amendment (freedom from slavery).
Also the anniversary of the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry disaster.
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It also could might possibly may be Australia’s Snowiest First Of February EVAAAH since the last time it happened, ie. medium confidence.
Victoriastan has NO heatwave warnings while ‘graziers are warned that cold temperatures [risk] losses of lambs and sheep’, and in Tasmania, a bush walkers alert warns of ‘hazardous conditions’ due to expected ‘snow as low as 900 metres’.
There’s no snow falling as of 7am – it’s 4*C with pre-frontal mist – here’s a link to Mt Mawson’s cam to keep an eye on to witness yet another catastrophe for the theorists of runaway warming:
https://www.mountainwatch.com/australia/mount-mawson/snow-cams
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Indeed Greg but as every alarmist EVAAAH will tell you it is only so cold because it is so hot.
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They will argue that its an example of ‘hydroclimatic whiplash’.
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Only when it’s not a “bomb cyclone”.
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Just before 4pm Hobart-time a few flurries (hail? sleet? snow?) were captured on Mt Mawson’s camera: the closest most-similar weather ‘station’ on Mt Wellington recorded 0.8*C (coldest all day so far) with a -13 C windchill also at 4pm.
If one anomalous hot day can make a ‘heatwave’ then a few flurries fairly flying makes a ‘blizzard’ and I don’t give a flipping frypan what Flimflam Flammery feels about wombat droppings nor dams: it snowed!
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Who really invented the point contact transistor?
Was it Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947?
Or a 13 year old New Zealand boy in 1933 who thought it was unpatentable and obvious since the point contact diode was already in common use and he had merely added a second contact?
https://sravivarman.com/technical-articles/who-really-invented-the-transistor/
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Or a 13 year old New Zealand boy
If he was the son of or related to Richard Pearse he will never be rightfully recognised.
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FWIW
“Latest “Anti-ICE Idea”
“The Anti-ICE Signal Chat Group Is Discovered, So It Moves to (Illegal) Ham Radio? Ummmm, Yeah.”
Read it all
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/01/31/now-that-their-signal-chat-group-is-discovered-they-move-to-illegal-ham-radio-n4948948
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As a licensed radio “ham” I agree that using a ham radio by an unlicensed person or for illegal purposes in any country that subscribes to the rules of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is all Civilised countries and in fact all countries recognised by the UN, is definitely illegal.
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Trust any handsets they buy don’t come with a big “M” on them. Motorola don’t make dedicated amateur radio transceivers. What other recent terrorist communicating device episode comes to mind, wait Moose, Moss? Sad I can’t immediately recall.
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I assume they refer to the use of CB radio sets? I would imagine very few of your typical anti-ICE protesters would posses a ‘ham’ radio set and probably couldn’t use one given to them. CBs are relatively common. I guess CB falls under the same legislation though?
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Just seen Holly Valance’s latest song on ‘tube. Not much musically but an amusing commentary on woke culture. Are you even allowed to watch it in Australia?
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The new censorship laws are so open-ended that no one would know until someone claims they were offended.
Even though YouTube is already fully woke and subject to substantial self-censorship plus “take down orders” from Australia’s e Safety Kommisar, I expect dramatically increased censorship, even for overseas channels, on YouTube. In fact, it might make various social media platforms non-viable in Australia.
The Australian Government will probably end up creating their own approved versions of social media, just like China, with the extreme censorship the Lib/Labs desire.
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The ultimate test of new laws is the courts, which once upon a time could be reasonably assumed to be apolitical and fair.
Not so today. I fear many judges will interpret these laws to suit Labor’s purpose.
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America-hating Somali Leftist Mohammedan Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is one of Congress’s richest women.
She claims that her fortune came from her husband, but her husband’s company apparently has no clients.
Both of them have a lot of explaining to do.
Video: https://youtu.be/socAHxwFX7M
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Americans don’t take multi-million $ ripoffs too seriously but Mr Gates is ruined. Apparently trying to slip your wife antibiotics because you caught an STD from a Russian “lady” is beyond the pale.
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This is brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7yhwFAwIM
It must give Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts some confirmation that their predictions were so accurate. And the message about sticking money up Bowen’s clacker is so well targeted. Bowen will eclipse both Howard and KRudd for wasting taxpayer money on trying to fix the weather.
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Never, ever the dystopia the Left have planned for freedom- and truth-loving people.
Here is a Spanish study claiming “hate speech” against those identifying as meteorologists. (Obviously insulting the meteorologist-identifying community is not appropriate either.)
I have no doubt Australia’s new “hate” speech and censorship laws will be used against those questioning the Official Narrative.
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This video sounds like BS propaganda to me plus AI generated.
It’s how Japanese companies supposedly want to invest in Australia.
The only reason they would want to do that is to harvest subsidies or participate in the massive Government overspending of taxpayer money.
Why else would anyone invest in present day Labor-run Australia?
https://youtu.be/FKveM4SupOs
I’d like to know if there’s a Government entity or subsidy harvester behind the creation of this video.
Thoughts?
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That face and voice belong to a blogger your John AG who posts exclusively [?] on silver. https://www.youtube.com/@yourJohnAG
Jo featured a video of his a few weeks ago and I warned about him then. I take no notice of fr@uds, you have a choice.
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On the economic front.
‘Gold and silver prices suffered a steep and sudden sell-off on Friday, marking one of the sharpest single-day declines in decades, as global markets reassessed the outlook for interest rates following US President Donald Trump’s appointment of Kevin Warsh as the next Chair of the Federal Reserve.
‘The fall came just a day after both precious metals had surged to record highs. It was driven by expectations of easier monetary policy, inflation hedging, and strong speculative interest. Friday’s reversal showed how quickly sentiment can shift when policy expectations change.’ (Republic)
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It’s a three hour drive to the nearest Perth Mint agent. I may do that tomorrow to top up my stack.
Friday was the last day of the month, options expiry, when shorts have to square the ledger. Of course they wanted the price lower.
AND so many options holders are now asking for delivery of the metal rather than the typical cash settlement COMEX doesn’t have the Ag to satisfy a rash of deliveries.
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As an aside [you didn’t mention bitcoin] I have watched it’s price range trade for two months as all the action has been in the precious metals. I formed the opinion that it’s time is over, that it will die of boredom. Those buying likely fall into two groups: Those doing dodgy business and speculators. Speculators have no interest in range trading prices.
In the last few days it fell 12% along with the PMs and from a low base. I may be right. 🙂
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Profit taking sees a slump in gold, on Bitcoin I agree with your assessment.
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Sometimes you need a salutary lesson.
I received one this morning. There I was browsing youtube when https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-xSrlSCwCE caught my eye.
It was entitled “Jeremy Clarkson STRIKES BACK at King Charles Over British Farming | UK News”
It was from a channel I did not recognise but I watched. It laid out an argument that those who regulate farming impose real prospects of business failure with no consequences for those who make the rules for others to follow.
It was only after ten minutes that it seemed to be dragging and seemed overly restrained compared to Clarkson’s usual style.
So I checked the release notes. And right up front there it was “OFFICIAL NOTICE: This channel is NOT Jeremy Clarkson, is not affiliated with him, and does not represent his official views or Diddly Squat Farm. This is an independent creative commentary and storytelling project.”
And I looked through some of the comments expecting that at least one would point out that it wasn’t real. Not one. Full of vitriol against the King. Full of disenchantment with government. It wasn’t until I looked at some of the replies to the comments that anybody pointed that out.
And the salutary lesson was that it took me 10 minutes to realize that I had been sucked in as well. Life on the interwebs is going to get much harder especially if computers can just say no.
Who was it that said life was not meant to be easy (and then disclaimed ever saying it)?
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FG, you may have read my post #13:1.
Having watched many such videos I can spot them more easily now: flowery prose and slow to get to the point.
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Exactly H, I find that with AI used in the printed word. It may find the google results you want faster, but it will take you longer to find them in the rubbish it wrote!
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The AI generated voice on some videos is also annoying. Grrrr!
Not only are some descriptors of what I am seeing totally incorrect but the pronunciation of words and names are incorrect, there are pauses where there shouldn’t be and the script is “flowery”.
Channels such as this I automatically mark as “do not recommend” so I won’t get them in my feed anymore. It’s a bit like my on/off switch for their ABC 🙂
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India is greening up nicely thanks to the fertilising effect of CO2.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/31/new-study-affirms-rising-co2s-greening-impact-across-india-a-region-with-no-net-warming-in-75-years/
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10 min rant from New England, about last weekend’s collapse of wind turbine, and hydro electricity, leaving the region running on diesel from data centres!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft6hLCB7hrU
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I thought it was about South Australia until the reference about cooling came up.
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An article about the Court system complaining that Sovereign Citizens are jamming the system up because it takes so long for the judge to get a word in and declare the person guilty.
“Barrister Erik Dober, the prosecutor during Freeman’s Supreme Court appeal, said the rise of sovereign citizens caused major delays to courts as lawyers and the judiciary were forced to take them seriously….“Busy judicial officers in the lower courts should not be troubled by such nonsense as is developed around the fatuous notions of … sovereign citizen,”…To deal with a post-pandemic rise of sovereign citizens, the judiciary is being trained on how to deal with their impact on the courts.”
So, either they set a time limit for you to put forward an argument, or they make it mandatory to use an approved lawyer. It wouldn’t be in the news if they weren’t going to take some action to silence the dissenters.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/flash-juries-and-bible-verses-how-sovereign-citizens-clog-up-australian-courts-20251127-p5nizw.html
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Another push to force everyone to follow the narrative on vaccines…
“Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley.. “My son would likely be alive today if everyone in my community had been fully vaccinated against whooping cough.”.. Health experts warn that unvaccinated children risk infecting themselves with preventable diseases while lowering herd immunity, leaving others at risk of severe illness or death.”
So an unvaccinated child who gets a disease kills all the vaccinated ones? Don’t these vaccines work at all?
“Vaccine uptake in Australia has stalled below national targets in a global climate of rising anti-vaccine sentiment, partly fuelled by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, ”
Yeah, take a free hit at Trump while you can..
..and the anti-vaccination sentiment must be climbing since the Govt shot themselves in the foot with the way they treated Covid.
“Parents are using an anti-vaccine Facebook group with more than 40,000 members to find doctors or nurses to falsify their children’s immunisation records…In a 2025 study of parents of 2000 under-fives, 47.9 per cent of unvaccinated parents did not believe vaccines are safe, and 46.7 per cent would not feel guilty if their unvaccinated child got a vaccine-preventable disease. Nearly 40 per cent did not believe vaccinating children helps protect others in the community. ”
People must be waking up. I expect AHPRA will have armed SWAT teams smashing down doors and arresting Doctors soon if this keeps up. Just how many medics can they deregister before it affects the health system?
The comments are just what you would expect in the SMH!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/parents-are-paying-2500-to-falsify-vaccine-records-it-s-endangering-babies-like-riley-20260127-p5nxah.html
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One of our sons caught whooping cough at school at the age of 11. He was vaccinated and developed a bad but not whooping-type cough. He was sent home where he promptly infected his young sister with a full blown version that made her very ill and reminded me of how I had suffered it as a child (and why I was pro- vaccination). We had been advised by her paediatrician that she shouldn’t have the vax for various reasons.
Whooping cough is terrifying to the sufferer who has the real deal.
On the other hand, I never considered that there was evidence of the Covid vaxxes being ‘safe and effective’.
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It’s a moral dilemma with no RIGHT answer.
In my early teens I spent a year at an Ag college so came in contact with cattle. Later I did the Mantoux test, positive, I had the TB antibodies, the Xray was clear. Later I joined the services, another clear Xray.
Three years later I was moved interstate with my bride, had the mandatory scheduled jabs, to be hospitalised with TB six months later. I had not been well for months and when I felt crook my left arm felt inflamed. I am convinced of correlation and causation.
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It was a boarding school?
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FWIW
“The comments are just what you would expect in the SMH!”
Known as “approving of them”
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Oink alert! You know who complain about plastic pig in deli window in Italy
A plastic pig displayed in the window of a newly opened delicatessen on the Piazza dei Signori in the Italian city of Padua has triggered a local controversy after a senior representative of the city’s Muslim community called for its removal, arguing that it is offensive and inappropriate.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/muslim-leaders-italian-city-demand-removal-plastic-pig-deli-shop-window
Why move to countries incompatible in every way with your home country, then moan about everything?
A one-way street – westerners get zero slack for going to middle east countries and demanding cultural change as they’re offended.
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Wishful Thinking?
‘Ruston: Liberals don’t need Nationals to win government.
‘Senior Liberal frontbencher Anne Ruston says she believes Sussan Ley has the support of the party and will remain leader, while defending Angus Taylor’s right to harbour leadership ambitions without resigning.’ (Oz)
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Ruston is delusional.
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Possibly, but Ley has the numbers, 25 members of the party support her compared to Hastie’s 20 and Taylor’s six.
Time is on our side, a couple of missteps could see a challenge. Taylor is not a serious contender.
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Nevertheless he thinks its worth a shot.
‘Ahead of a looming leadership spill, Angus Taylor has offered an olive branch to Andrew Hastie’s key backers amid a push for Mr Hastie to become Treasury spokesman in a Taylor-led Liberal Party.’ (Oz)
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They know perfectly well there’s zero chance of them winning government.
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BREAKING >>> OH NO!! United Nations faces imminent financial collapse….
On January 30, 2026, UN Secretary-General António Guterres sent a letter to all 193 member states warning of an “imminent financial collapse” due to a record level of unpaid dues, with cash potentially running out by July 2026. The letter attributes the crisis in part to the U.S. withholding payments and cutting funding under President Trump, who has also withdrawn from various UN bodies and treaties.
This follows Trump’s earlier actions in January 2026 to terminate U.S. involvement in dozens of UN-related entities and end associated funding. The UN’s regular budget relies heavily on U.S. contributions (about 22% of the total), and the outstanding dues reached a record $1.57 billion by the end of 2025.
Good, let the UN fold….
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Sorry, I didn’t see that before I posted my piece.
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Ha, the United Nations of Parasites is facing economic collapse because the United States is no longer feeding the parasites and their anti-US and anti-Western agenda.
And most countries haven’t been paying their dues, relying on the generosity of the US.
Well, the party is over now. The UN might have to start doing something useful or they won’t survive at all.
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DM
I reckon that should be taken as reinforcement
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This is lovely- Govt decrees tech companies must build in back doors so they can spy on their subjects, and China uses the back doors to spy on the Govts! The Salt Typhoon problem-
“The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act in the United States and the Investigatory Powers Act in the United Kingdom require telecommunications carriers to build backdoors into their networks for court-ordered wiretapping. Chinese state hackers found those backdoors. And walked through them…The intelligence value is almost impossible to overstate. For approximately four years, operators linked to the MSS’s Chengdu bureau had the capability to see not just who British officials were calling, but whom the FBI was investigating, which Chinese operatives were under surveillance, what the United States knew about Beijing’s activities, and when counterintelligence was getting close. They could geolocate millions of individuals. They could record phone calls at will. They compromised the surveillance of their own surveillers, achieving the counterintelligence equivalent of reading the other side’s playbook while the game was in progress.”
Further down they realise the 5-Eyes were actually 6! ..and it was all done by Communists working in free enterprise, as the Govt put out contracts for hacking and paid hackers for what they could do. Anyone thinking the Chinese just copy Western stuff and make bad cheap stuff is in for a surprise!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/next-level-spying-how-china-read-wests-wiretaps-years
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FWIW
John Rich “Global warming is freezing us to death”
Dedicated to A Gore
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcmOvdbFg8
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FWIW – Economics in a nutshell
“”Pay us a living wage!”
Economic-Left
“That was a living wage until you voted for more government spending.”
Libertarian”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/624609065_4300372346905089_7858832138437215229_n.png
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Is this the next pandemic?
Nipah virus.
Dr John Campbell discusses.
https://youtu.be/sd2nK61WsXE
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I wonder if the Zelenko-based Covid stopper would work against this virus? Zinc, an ionophore and vitamin D? I reckon it’d be worth investigating.
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I was wondering if they attempt to promote the sequel Pandemic, and no one listens, will they finally figure out no one is listening?
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I open flightradar24 when I hear something interesting o’head. I don’t hear airline traffic but the rescue chopper from the south flies over on it’s way to the hospital. I heard one an hour or so ago and that’s what it was, coming from Mackay. There was also a police chopper flying circles over the town looking for stolen cars, or so I believe. [must have good optical glass, they do that at 2,000 ft] There was also a rescue Bombardier flying in from Cairns.
Looking now, the rescue chopper is heading south again and an RFDS King Air is heading for the Isa. A lot of fuel being burnt on the public purse.
There are three USAF KC-135 arial tankers out of Qatar, doing a loopy over Ireland and flying back and an undescribed drone doing loopies over the Gulf of Aden.
Oh! There’s another rescue chopper low over the bay. The boys are busy tonight.
OK. ‘Tis Sunday night. 🙂
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This sounds to me like a good evaluation of the current situation in Ukraine.
27 minutes. Col Douglas McGregor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liScP3SO0to
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How long have you been listening to McGregor? His tune never changes: Ukraine is about to collapse, tomorrow. Hasn’t changed for the whole war.
The high point of his Army career was as a tank commander during the Battle of 73 Easting.
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How long . . . .?
About as long as you’ve been saying the Ukies are storming Moscow.
🙂
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You are lying. Bad habit.
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Do correct me.
What did you actually say, over and over?
Have you heard of figures of speech?
Exaggeration can be used as ridicule.
Let me guess.
You always knew that Ukraine/NATO would lose bigly.
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Many of you I’m sure have seen this.
Breaking Bad actor declares “time for revolution”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/mAlD6Aw5W48?si=HOh8aX4MvvLgcBmz
Methinks we’ve reached empire hospice stage.
When a fey, rich, elite member of the society, emerges from the reception area, after sipping champagne and sampling caviar, adorned in $20,000 worth of clothing … and calls for revolution.
A Satyricon moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellini_Satyricon
An Edger Allan Poe moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death.
The globalists elite actually believe they can control the hysteria that they seem so desperately committed to igniting.
I’m stunned by the intellectual decline of the most privileged elements of our culture.
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Right at the end of Michael Shellenberger’s talk with Winston Marshall, he mentions that soon after the 2024 election, he was talking with former Dem colleges, and how he found them quite introspective, and questioning their previous radical stances. He has had contact with them recently, and has found that has all evaporated, and they are back to full blast radical hysteria.
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Susssan Lay. The Liberal’s Women’s Commission are backing Lay. The women have organised so they will support women regardless of a better male candidate. They make sure that delegates to pre-selection are mainly women.In a different party in WA lesser qualified women are winning pre-selection because they are women.In the upper house preselection the incumbent for two terms was wipe out at the preselection by the female candidate 🙂
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Even from here, I can hear nails being hammered in.
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