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We know that the real reasons for age restriction on the internet are not about protecting children.
Just remember the words of the late Freedom fighter/Free Speach advocate Frank Zappa:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c6g1Jc5hZ3Y (30sec)
And with Johnny Carson particulary between 7 and 9 muinutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_4dWrPtrLk
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The Plan to Save the World: youtu . be/TrsqLJ45v5k
The Epstein files: www .justice . gov/epstein
Mr Q of the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) will reveal the crimes of Mr M of MI6, and all secret DSMA-Notices, all secret Super-Injunctions and all secret non-disclosure agreements protecting criminal members of the British establishment, not exposed in the Epstein documents: www . amazon . com . au/Why-Nothing-Stop-What-Coming/dp/1919384448
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This is not news because they have been working on the idea for a long time but this video is about the Chicomms making “ethnic bioweappns” that target specific genetic sequences possessed by certain population groups.
Since Western countries are very ethnically mixed it wouldn’t work on everyone but they could target the majority Anglo population which is probably what they’re interested in.
Video: https://youtu.be/1Z1TG-TNa5c
It’s probably why the Chicomms are harvesting genetic profiles from around the world.
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Remember Britain’s First Opium War,
and the Second,
and the Third…
and where China & India are now:
blowback or karma or patient revenge?
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But it’s fun to do.
sarc
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Ah, like the Pentagon putting out a contract for 10000 blood samples from Slavs in Ukraine..
It will be the next battlefront, germ warfare tailored to genetic markers.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Awards Season
“The world sees you now: not as compassionate warriors, but as spoiled, entitled, reality-denying tyrants in yoga pants, wielding guilt and hysteria like switchblades.” —LHGrey on “X” ”
The political grandstanding started way back in 1973 when the irascible Marlon Brando stayed home from the Academy Awards but sent an Apache princess, one Sacheen Littlefeather, to the podium to decline his award (Best Actor for The Godfather) on account of the 71-day standoff at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota between federal agents and Oglala Lakota activists who had seized the little town of Wounded Knee.
After that, political “statements” at awards ceremonies of all kinds became modish, then obligatory, and now in the age of Lefty-left Woke Jacobin activism, all you get is one denunciation after another of the monster who lives in their heads: ChrumpChrumpChrump. Cue the audience of fellow “stars” for the also obligatory standing-O, which is really a test to see if any among them dare not join in the hosannahs — so they can be anathemized.”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/awards-season
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Plus
“Gutfeld Destroys a Moronic Liberal, and it Wasn’t Jessica Tarlov This Time”
“Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from Greg Gutfeld destroying Jessica Tarlov on The Five. Who wouldn’t, right? Well, this won’t be one of those times. Why not? Because this time he tore into Billie Eilish and Hollywood’s entertainment elite, calling them out for turning the Grammy Awards into a self-serving political circus that proves just how out of touch they really are. And it was nearly as good.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/02/03/gutfeld-destroys-a-moronic-liberal-and-it-wasnt-jessica-tarlov-this-time-n4949083
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Plus – the trophy summarised –
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/36994
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I thought those things were intended to be circuses.
What do you think the entertainment industry produces?
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Until recently the entertainment/propaganda mix had tilted strongly to propaganda. The box office has said no, and at least for theatres may never come back.
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Believe it or not, they produce what “we” pay them to produce.
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The Film Actors Guild in Team America wasn’t fictional.
https://youtu.be/qOH9trJLedk
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They never made a sequel to Team America, despite its success. I wonder why?
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The thing is, for Hollywood types, and the entertainment world more generally, what matters most is getting along with other people in the industry, not the ‘fans’ (i.e. customers). Eilish is just one example of this, but the years and years that Weinstein and Diddy got away with what they were doing is more glaring and exposes the inner workings of the celebrity world, where ‘who you know’ or ‘who you had sex with’ opens more doors than ticket sales. Fitting in trumps every other attribute.
And this is why, while believing Weinstein and his ilk are amoral slobs, I nevertheless have little sympathy for the so-called “victims”, many of whom I’m sure themselves used sex as a transaction. The few, mostly women, who have said they refused to behave in this way and saw their careers fizzle out, suggests that many of the successful ones were happy to ‘transact’ …
Ricky Gervais didn’t last long in Hollywood and I think his award speeches show us why. He didn’t like what he saw during his brief stint on the inside and followed his conscience all the way back to the UK.
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I like the way they smoothly transition from one cause to the next and the next , always focussed on the cause du jour that was most recently in the news.
Not so many masks or Ukraine flags thus year, more ICE and TDS. Whatever will make them look good in their bubble.
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They’re just following instructions from CNN, Yahoo, MSNBC, plus of course the Democrats. This is why so many videos exist of protesters being asked about the cause they are supporting that particular day and having no clue whatsoever, at which point the interviewer is hosed down with profanity of the ‘protester’ refuses to talk to them any more.
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The text of the current protest is printed on the back of the sign to make it easy to keep on song?
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But they still need a chant leader
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And
Mouth meets consequences?
“An L.A. Eviction Lawyer Has a Message for Billie Eilish, and I Can’t Stop Laughing”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/02/04/an-la-eviction-lawyer-has-a-message-for-billie-eilish-and-i-cant-stop-laughing-n4949086
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And
“Could Billie Eilish’s ‘Stolen Land’ Debacle End Land Acknowledgements?
Woke pop singer’s absurd anti-ICE Grammy speech lands with a thud”
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/billie-eilish-stolen-land-grammys-mocked/
Via https://instapundit.com/774052/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Celebrities for illegal immigration”
“Billie Eilish and other anti-ICE celebs have no idea how little ordinary folk care about their luxury beliefs.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/03/celebrities-for-illegal-immigration/
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Via https://instapundit.com/774146/#disqus_thread
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A very prime ministerial Barnaby being interviewed by an impressive 7News reporter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qAgEbqWHkw
This is the first time I have seen an Australian politician articulate the key issues facing Australia with such clarity.
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That’s why the Lib/Labs are terrified of our only significant conservative party, One Nation, and urgently passed the censorship legislation.
I have no doubt they will misuse (or actually use as they really intended it) to target and even jail One Nation politicians and their supporters.
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They jailed Pauline Hanson under the old laws.
Later quashed.
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She was incorrectly jailed for allegedly dishonestly gaining a benefit (election funds, that went to the party), when accused of registering the party with a false list of members. The members were legit.
Here’s a bit of a write up.
https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/2003/83.html
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And who did this to a woman who owned a Fish and Chips Shop?
from memory:
John Howard, Tony Abbott, the political machine whose only loyalty is to the ‘Partay’etc
Brave’s search engine:
Let us not forget what the ‘partay’ have done to Bernardi, Antic, Rennick etc.
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Isn’t it a crime to gaol your political opponents?
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Yes. Details in the link I included.
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Jo,
I respectfully disagree – ABC must not be sold.
How would her new owners achieve their ROIC?
Correct – they would beat Youtube in fake aircon advertising and fake predictions of next Trump invasion !
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[I assume this was in response to Jo’s comment, “If we sold off the ABC we could buy a billion dollars worth of airconditioning for the poor”. In the “Extreme Heat will make Darwin Unlivable” thread. – Raquel]
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FWIW – YSM spinning again
“Damage Control: Epstein a Russian Spy According to New Corporate Press Spin Cycle”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/damage-control-epstein-a-russian
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FWIW – more on “The spontaneous combustion cycle”
“Flaming Cars, Batman! (Not just EV Batteries) ”
“NHTSA Banned Cars from Garages over fire risk
There’s an interesting pattern to these 12 cars. Concentrated in a few manufacturers, and orbiting around extreme fuel efficiency mandates. Lion Battery fires, yes; but also Hybrids and “start stop” engines where it is shut off when you are not moving having extreme use of electrical parts. Then Stelantis (Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge Ram) and Hyundai / Kia products (with the odd BMW) seem more affected than most. Both of the main representatives being companies pushing the limits of “cost reduction”…
But here’s the list, from the video:”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/flaming-cars-batman-not-just-ev-batteries/
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Did anyone of serious car aficionados here checked if start-stop-start-stop feature saves any fuel?
We still have the ability to switch off, so should we?
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Well, if it burnt the car, I guess it didn’t?
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My stop/start is turned “off.” I live in the country area, so I rarely come upon traffic lights, there are none in my town, just stop signs, and yes, I do come to a complete stop at a stop sign, usually only for a few seconds.
So what’s the point of the start/stop under those conditions? If I drive to one our regional cities, there’s a few traffic lights, and I still see no point in start/stop. You can turn it off, but it reengages every-time you start your car. I’ve gone as far as wedging a plastic strip in the switch so it’s permanently turned off. The service center saw this and thought it was a great hack, never told me I shouldn’t be doing it. They need to change the software so if you turn it off, it stays off.
The amount of fuel you’d save is a poofteenth of nothing. I save more by not rapidly accelerating off at intersections, using cruise control, and turning that off as I approach speed restriction signs and just coast to the new limit, and don’t use the brakes. There are so many more effective ways to save fuel than start/stop, and that system puts so much more stress on your engine and electrical system.
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Save fuel and buy starter motors instead
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I think emissions at idle are dirtier. That is the motive.
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That is true- The amount of air needed to idle an engine is very small, it operates close to vacuum, but that means the fuel fire can’t spread very well, so manufacturers run them rich at idle and ignore the part-burnt fuel. Another reason for zero injection on over-run, while carbs always feed idle fuel.
Also, with such a slow gas flow in the exhaust the oxy sensor has trouble getting readings for the ECU to adjust fuel injection.
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What would make sense is to remove the starter motor alltogether with the computer able to inject a fuel air mixture and fire the cylinder at top dead centre then progress through a start firing sequence without the need for cranking amps.
Now that is a weight and efficiency saving.
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In my youth we had an International WD9 60hp tractor. For starting it had a chamber in the cylinder head which could be opened or closed, and when opened reduced the compression and drew the fuel/air mix (petrol) through a carburettor.
It also had an impulse magneto, wth a spring loaded mechanism which gave a strong spark at he right time.
From age 12 I could crank start that tractor.
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FWIW
“That’s mind-boggling…”
“Courtesy of a link provided by DiveMedic, we learn that human breast milk is one of the most complex systems nature has ever devised.
Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.
. . .
When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.
Within hours, the milk changes.”
Much more at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/02/thats-mind-boggling.html
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As I’ve always said:
Hooray for boobies!
😃 😃
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“Hooray for boobies!”
What’s your favourite. I think Red Footed Boobies look the best, the blue footed boobies second and the good old average yellow footed last.
Oh wait, now I get it!
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In PNG there was a push by one of the manufacturers of powdered milk to foist their product on the population. A terrible idea when you consider that, in the villages, the water to mix with it might not be as clean as it should be, and proportioning the amount of powder to milk could be haphazard (or rather, too lean).
A counter push by a concerned group of Susu Mamas had a slogan “susu bilong mama emi numba one kai-kai long all piccanninnies”. It had good success.
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5318008 😁
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Fat bottomed girls you make the rocken world go round!
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The UN has warned that it will be forced to close down its HQ in New York if TRUMP doesn’t pay them more tribute.
Fantastic news.
Turn the UN building into an apartment block and it can help pay down the US national debt.
The building would probably fetch a few billion if redeveloped as apartments.
The US mostly funded it anyway. The land was donated by Rockefeller and the building funded by an interest free loan from the US Government.
Australia’s contribution was donation of the lacewood (Cardwellia sublimis) panelling for the executive office of the General Assembly. https://www.un.org/ungifts/lacewood-paneling-australian-walnut
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The UN is run just like any other enterprise run by socialists and communists.
It’s a disaster.
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China is the second largest donor, so I’m warming to the theory that UN headquarters will be in Hong Kong.
https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3327144/hong-kong-should-be-chinas-gateway-united-nations
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Wrecking the power supply.
Ukraine has Putin
Australia has Bowen.
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FWIW
“Why The ‘Hype Phase’ Of Wind And Solar Is Over”
“Without government subsidies and regulatory support, energy analysts are questioning whether these industries can stand on their own merits.
“We’ve reached the end of the hype phase, and the beginning of the reality phase,” Sam Romain, chairman of Americans for Energy Dominance, told The Epoch Times.
“Technologies that lower costs, improve reliability, and strengthen the grid will grow.
“Those that don’t will fade.” ”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/why-hype-phase-wind-and-solar-over
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Oh dear! Who would have thought, eh!
One interesting thing for this last week was that the overall total power consumption for the week was the highest ever recorded for a week across this vast AEMO coverage area, and that was 4,735GWH, and that’s 13% higher than for an average week.
Now here, again, percentages don’t really give the full context, and that record weekly total for this last week is the equivalent of adding an extra average day’s power consumption to the normal weekly average for the year.
The Tuesday of this week was also the highest daily power consumption ever in Australia for a single day across this vast coverage area, basically all of Australia. That power consumption for the day was 727GWH, and that’s 22% higher than the daily average of 597GWH.
So, then, why the big leap extra in power consumption for this one day, and then, for the week as a whole?
Why, well that Tuesday (27th January 2026) was the first day of the new school year, so all those schools had all their airconditioners running flat out, and this would also have been the case for the weekly total as well.
You sorta wonder where all that power comes from, eh!
An extra 280GWH from coal fired power for the week.
Tony.
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That is understandable given the hot weather, but it’s still quite extraordinary knowing how much industry we have lost since the nonsense started.
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And penalised in Victoria with compensation from state government via taxpayers to stop using electricity during high peak demand anticipated periods
I wonder if the compensation really does replace lost productivity and related business activities for profit?
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Your figures you stated include rooftop solar on a very hot day in Victoria and South Australia. Certainly not all kids went to school in Victoria on 27th.
There is a huge amount of air-conditioning capacity in Victoria that sits idle most of the time. When it gets used hard on a 46C day it will not be fully served by the installed solar or even battery much past 7pm. So the grid gets hit really hard during the evening peak.
Victoria suffered thousands of outages that day. Our local transformer lost a phase fuse that was out for 16 hours. The originating fault was cleared but I figure the start up demand killed the fuse. Non converter heat pumps hit the system hard on start up.
The distributors have little knowledge of the installed load because it is most often supplied bu rooftop and increasingly more batteries.
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AI offers rent-a-human service
Calling itself “the meatspace layer of AI”, the platform has 8,60,557 site visits. These AI agents can use RentAHuman.ai’s services to rent the services of human beings for an amount ranging between $50 and $69 per hour.
AI agents can hire humans for physical tasks, such as delivering packages, driving somebody to a place, picking up groceries from stores, or feeding one’s pet when they are away from home.
https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/news/rentahuman-ai-service-launch-crypto-developer-ai-agents-hire-humans-10945162
The site’s currently offline…
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Do you know how many seconds there are in 6 weeks?
I was amazed when I learned it was 10! 😎
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Of course I had to check that you were right! And you were!
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“We’ll strike Kyiv until peace deal on our terms”:
Russian paper echoes Moscow’s uncompromising tone
Peace “talks” seem to be somewhat stalled. President Putin is not concerned about losing about 1,000 troops killed or injured a day, and committing genocidal attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
This will be Russia’s Vietnam if Ukraine capitulates – can you imagine what damage Ukrainian partisans can inflict on the occupiers using drones. The world is different now.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The sooner the powers that be in Ukraine surrender and sue for peace the better.
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Not on my watch.
This is a war of attrition and Ukraine is going to defeat the fascist dictator.
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Gordo, yours is an interesting reply.
First it suggests you have some control over the situation on “your watch”. Do tell.
Second it contains a prediction.
Please share next week’s winning lottery numbers. Just between you and me you understand.
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Its economics, if Ukraine falls then the EU will have to dramatically increase military spending, which they cannot afford.
So the aggressor must be forced out and the Kremlin defeated. Then all that Russian monies sitting in Brussels would be freed up to pay for the damage Putin has caused.
Europe would be rejuvenated by the Ukraine rebuild.
Political analysis is only opinion, not prophecy.
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Here is Lavrov’s current view of the situation:-
https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2019090713179222499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2019090713179222499%7Ctwgr%5E5949d2255abe7719aa1f49731a5d413f350c533a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F631983-epstein-deep-state-europeans-lavrov%2F
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Sorry , wrong link.
This one :-
https://www.rt.com/news/631983-epstein-deep-state-europeans-lavrov/
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One sincerely hopes that the Ukrainian people will rise up and defeat the fascist dictator Zelensky.
As Putin said at the outset, it is up to the Ukrainian people to resolve the problem of this traitor who refuses to hold elections.
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Elections cannot be held during war, its written in the Constitution.
There won’t be any uprising, the Ukrainians are committed to the task ahead.
Putin refuses to have a ceasefire during the coldest winter in decades, there is no doubt who the fascist is.
RT is a propaganda rag, you need to get out more.
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Amazing really how well he is being received by most Governments around the world.
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“most governments around the world”
You might want to rephrase that in the interests of accuracy , but I am sure that you won’t.
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The only governments that don’t support Ukraine are fascist or those with ambition to be fascist.
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“This is a war of attrition and Ukraine is going to defeat the fascist dictator.”
You really sound like this guy EG-
“Igor Sushko
@igorsushko
24 Jun 2023
Russia has lost the war. Expect the frontlines to collapse in the coming days.”
..and he’s still blithely writing the same drivel today…
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https://www.rt.com/russia/632044-lavrov-europe-changing-tune/
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Europe is not changing tune, Lavrov is a blatant liar.
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‘ … he’s still blithely writing the same drivel today…’
Now you’re just making stuff up.
Anarchists and sovereign citizens, thriving on chaos, believe that the Kremlin should defeat Ukraine.
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If Russia gains full control of Ukraine, then the “peace” will be brutal.
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There would be a serious refugee problem in Europe.
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“If Russia gains full control of Ukraine, then the “peace” will be brutal.”
There is no reason for that Rowjay, he would only sort out the Nazis from SW Ukraine, the Azov battalion stalwarts, and the rest could get on with helping repair Ukraine… without the West trying to get them killed in picking a fight with Russia.
“So the aggressor must be forced out and the Kremlin defeated.”
Lol! Talk to Napoleon or Dear Adolf or all the others that have tried to defeat Russia. The West are not up to it at all, no-one in the West wants to die for their country! They are the masters of pouring printed dollars into ‘regime change’ in any country that will not surrender to them, then once their patsy in in power they will move onto the next one. They don’t want boots on the ground unless those boots are safe, and that won’t happen against Mother Russia!
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“President Putin is not concerned about losing about 1,000 troops killed or injured a day, and committing genocidal attacks on Ukrainian civilians.”
Average week for Ukraine is 10,000 killed or injured. Genocidal attacks?? There’s a war on dontcha know…
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‘Average week for Ukraine is 10,000 killed or injured.’
That seems hard to believe, do you have a reliable link?
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Down this last couple of weeks- Russians not pushing hard.
“Ukraine Losses
w/e 9th January 8,780 Casualties killed and wounded: equipment losses 713.
w/e 16th January 8,695 Casualties killed and wounded: equipment losses 631.
w/e 23rd January 8.810 Casualties killed and wounded: equipment losses 688.
w/e 30th January 8,580 Casualties, killed and wounded: equipment losses 734.”
robcampbell’s substack.
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-5e8
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Rob Campbell is not a reliable source.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine
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When that bravado-filled lefty gets to meet you in person
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t71yelCWXn1y7k0dl.mp4
😆😆
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Not exactly, JCII
“Khloptsi z gayu” fought against everyone until well into 1950ies,
At that time they declared everyone else inhabiting the same territory as mortal enemy, especially – Poles, Jews, Russians and in the end – Germans, too.
Back to 2026 – which countries would find the way to support Ukrainian partisans if and when?
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????
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FWIW – for the covid record +
Starts at
“Terrific MAHA news, in two stories. First, Reuters reported, “Buoyed by Kennedy’s success, MAHA groups take aim at state vaccine laws.” Reuters is worried. You can tell because they interviewed “medical experts” four times and mentioned measles twice.”
The second follows
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/weird-stuff-wednesday-february-4?
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How does increasing tax on citizens make the system “Fairer for the young”? Equality in poverty ain’t fairness. I have also heard GST is on the table. How is increasing GST “fairer for the young”? Young non home owners, the demo Chalmers claims to want to help, would pay a higher percentage of their income on taxable goods than mortgage payers and us old pharts.
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Being brighter, NZ doesn’t have a capital gains tax. They realised that the “gain” was mainly just inflation caused by Govt printing money and you were going to be worse off if Govt stole a third of your ‘gain’.
Sadly Aussies can’t see this, so they get screwed every time they sell a house, and the Govt prints money faster and faster to increase their theft.
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This idea only has merit if Littleproud and Ley are replaced.
‘Littleproud dismisses ‘hypothetical’ of One Nation joining Coalition.
‘The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, says he won’t engage in “hypotheticals” about a potential mega-coalition with One Nation, as Pauline Hanson has suggested.
‘Jumping back to that interview on Sky News earlier, Littleproud said One Nation was a “threat” to the National party which they have to take seriously.
‘The latest Essential poll for the Guardian found 23% of respondents who voted for the Coalition in 2025 now intend to support One Nation.’ (Guardian)
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One Nation and Reform in the UK have the same dilemma.
They have to be careful which defectors from the major parties that they accept.
Voters of both nations have had a gutful of politicians, especially the conservative and Labour parties. If voters perceive One Nation and Reform as morphing into another flavour of the uniparty they will lose support very quickly.
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Hanson has made it clear that it would be a loose coalition and One Nation would remain independent.
This is similar to European politics.
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There is a channel on you-tube I mostly enjoy watching, Technological Connections, but he is a rabid renewable fan boy and his last video is 90 minutes going on about how we are being lied to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
I’m not watching it, because I know he cannot see the forest for the trees and if you try to point out where he is wrong, well, we’re wrong. He has his own EV and just “loves” it as he loves the renewables. The comment section is just full of echo chamber fans, I don’t see anyone who disagrees, deleted, blocked?
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Update on the search for MH370.
https://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zealand-pacific/668262-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-final-search-3.html#post12032472
Marine tracking information:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:9754405
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That’s a long trip for a bit of R and R
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Fishing may have been good out there.
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FWIW
“No One True Way”
Sarah Hoyt has a look at “college versus trades”
“https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/02/03/no-one-true-way/
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FWIW – YSM spinning again
“Damage Control: Epstein a Russian Spy According to New Corporate Press Spin Cycle
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/damage-control-epstein-a-russian
Then
“WSJ Editors: Say, The Epstein Files Release Was a Bad Idea, Huh?”
“Ya think?
Actually, the mandate from Congress to publish the entire catalog of data and materials from the investigations of Jeffrey Epstein amounts to several bad decisions. Democrats who seized on the idea in hope that it would implicate Donald Trump now have to watch Bill and Hillary Clinton decide whether to hide behind the Fifth Amendment, having lost a battle over congressional subpoenas. The material exposed the victims (literally, in some cases) despite Congress’ attempts to mandate redactions, because Congress also mandated an impossible release schedule that practically guaranteed massive numbers of errors in the process. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/04/wsj-editors-say-the-epstein-files-release-was-a-bad-idea-huh-n3811531
And now more damage control –
“The latest round of Epstein scandals continued metastasizing around the world yesterday. The Financial Times reported, “Norway’s elite engulfed by Epstein scandal.” The article said bluntly, “Elites from many countries, especially the US and UK, have been caught up in the growing Epstein scandal.” Growing, hardening, stiffening, whatever. Wait till you see what Norway’s Crown Princess wrote Epstein.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/weird-stuff-wednesday-february-4?
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Not a lot being revealed about who was behind Epstein.
It seems remarkable given the large sums deployed in pursuit of compromising material.
Some folks would like to know more about the Obama /Clinton era , and what really happened in Benghazi.
And why.
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And “The Orange Pimpernel” escapes again
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From an e-mail – no citation
“Global Facts About Sex
At any given moment:
FACT: 79,000,000 people are having sex – right now.
FACT: 58,000,000 are kissing.
FACT: 37,000,000 are relaxing after having sex.
FACT: 1 odd person is reading emails.
You hang in there, sunshine!”
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FWIW – more shambolic
“When a Dope Argues That Knowing English Doesn’t Matter in the U.S., Tell Them About This Case”
“It’s bad enough that non-English speaking commercial truck drivers in the U.S. don’t know the rules of the road or how to read highway signs, but this case out of Los Angeles should put you on high alert about how not knowing English can put Americans’ very liberty at risk.
Or set sex perverts free. ”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/02/04/when-a-dope-argues-that-learning-english-isnt-important-to-be-in-the-us-tell-them-about-this-case-n4949110
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Happiness is a warm android
Shanghai robotics startup DroidUp (also known as Zhuoyide) has stepped things up a gear or five, which is certainly worth covering considering it expects the new realistic humanoid to be rolled out this year. The model known as Moya was unveiled during a launch at Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Robotics Valley where many of China’s emerging humanoid developers are clustered.
Here, the company launched what it calls “a beautifully designed and expressive bionic robot” that is touted as “the world’s first highly bionic robot that deeply integrates human aesthetics and advanced humanoid movement.”
https://youtu.be/AuTbHjCepxs?si=Rav_05argBFSnvHJ
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