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If accusations are to be believed both Cal and Minnesota have stood idly by while their citizens scammed MANY billions of state and federal money. This loss is twofold: As it stands the money has gone, benefiting only the scammers while neither the population at large nor the gov. revenue services see any of it.
Had it been used to build two Ford class aircraft carriers instead, the nation as a whole would have benefited with many thousands of high paying jobs being created for years, thousands of companies from steel makers to the highly secret systems suppliers all adding to the economy. Money is made round to go round [some say flat to stack] and rapacious governments would have reaped many billions of tax as it circulated.
The (R)s should [but won’t] win the midterms in a landslide.
The world gets to watch The Greatest Show on Earth [American politics] free. Thank you for the entertainment America!
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That the Republicans were going to lose the midterms was pretty much written in stone as soon as the 2024 election wrapped up. Governing trifectas (White House, Senate, House of Representatives) rarely last long at the national level in American politics. There is good reason for many Americans to value a split government to curb the worst instincts of both parties. When both parties suck, gridlock is sometimes the best outcome you can hope for.
The real trick for the Republicans is going to be preventing the midterms from being what Barack Obama called ‘a shellacking’ in 2010. The best they can realistically hope for is holding on to the Senate and their slim majority in the House flips into a slim majority for the other guys. The worst case scenario is that they lose a couple of supposed ‘safe’ seats in the Senate and it flips too, and the Democrats notch big gains in the House and wind up with a substantial majority.
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Hint: it’s not just the USA.
Squandering money? ABC, BOM, NDIS, funding many overseas programs ($5B +) rather than helping your own citizens first…
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The hour has come for Pauline Hanson, the doyenne of the Australian right: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-hour-has-come-for-pauline-hanson-the-doyenne-of-the-australian-right/
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Thanks Paul,
A good summary I hope.
The first test of One Nation will be the SA state election in a few weeks time.
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Very leftard state, it’ll be an uphill battle.
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SA leftard? Victoria says hold my beer!!
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The first time I ever voted was in SA, voted for Don “Queen Adelaide” Dunstan when he ousted Sir Thomas Playford. That’s when the rot started. Blame me. It was a great state ’til then.
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I believe that the two-party system and badly flawed preferential compulsory voting system needs to changed, on the other hand how can that be achieved considering that too many voters follow the How To Vote recommendations of whatever local candidate they vote for and are blissfully unaware of the trickle down of preferences that often result in the candidate with the most primary votes losing to another candidate assisted by preference votes distribution.
Albanese Labor for example attracted just over 34% of the primary vote at the 2025 election and only 8 Labor candidates were elected on primary votes yet the party ended up with a substantial majority of seats in the Parliament. In 2022 Albanese Labor formed government and the ALP Election Report revealed that the primary vote was Labor’s lowest since 1934, therefore in 2025 there was only a slight improvement.
One Nation appears to be winning the published polling favourites right now and the trend will probably continue given the poor state of the Albanese Government and governance incompetence and the Coalition Opposition too busy gazing inwards and shouting at one another publicly.
Beware of the preference voting system at the next election due 2028, and be aware that the cunning politician Prime Minister might call an early election to try and take advantage of the almost no Opposition. One Nation gaining in popularity but far from being opposition in the Parliament with only one House of Representatives MP, Barnaby Joyce a former National Party MP and former Deputy PM. And it appears that despite their political rhetoric One Nation is again seeking to gain balance of power control in the Senate, not to form a government.
The preference voting of conservative voters, and most Australians are in the centre politically including leaning centre left or centre right, could easily end up to the advantage of Labor again.
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Be careful what you wish for Dennis, think of Italy:
We don’t have a two party system, inds and greens get elected, that is what the pref system is designed for. What we do have [had?] is a rather homogenous electorate.
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There is no real difference between Australian Greens and Australian Labor Party far left factions now dominating Labor in government, and in Victoria.
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Genocide in a Suit: Banned by Youtube: Holocaust survivor, Vera Sharav, says “When governments and corporations unite under the banner of ‘public health’, humanity itself becomes an experiment in which people are sacrificed like guinea pigs for the supposed ‘greater good’.”: (rumble . com/v752yeg-genocide-in-a-suit.html)
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Extraterrestrials. What a waste of time and effort.
Due to the Fermi Paradox it is very unlikely extraterrestrials have ever, or will ever, visit earth
It would be better to spend the effort of such “investigations” on real anti-science scams like anthropogenic global warming.
Incidentally, I used to be in the top 2% of the world’s number crunchers for the SETI@home project, I ran up to about 15 computers in a private capacity doing 24/7 number crunching, and found nothing. The project stopped sending out new data 2020.
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SETI caught the wow signal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#/media/File:Wow_signal.jpg
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Being a fully woke publication, I don’t normally reference The Conversation, so don’t trust this without further investigation.
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The Conversation being a fully woke publication, I don’t normally . . . .
FIFY
🙂
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What has trust in the conversation got to do with anything? This is just a report on observed data and a study that links it to a change in human behaviour.
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Still it would be more interesting to see data relating to the period when contracting whooping cough was the source of immunity.
That would be prior to the introduction of a vaccine.
Comparison of this baseline with pre- and post- Covid would be of interest.
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Yes farmerbraun, we should look at the data
Table 10A.64 Notifications of selected childhood diseases, children aged 0–14 years (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)
No difference in measles or Invasive haemophilus influenzae type b as reported
And .. in my opinion both have a significant decrease in infection rates
With Pertussis the change from the normal occured in the last year and this is still within the 10 year period stated as the effectiveness range for the adults already vaccinated. so it may be related to the delivery sytem or some other change in the general population.
The interesting data is the most locked down state Victoria has a lower rate of infection than NSW with Queensland in second place.
So as we would expect from the Conversation we are being fed an opinion and not information. Hence the Caveat by DM:
I wonder if whooping cough symptoms in the years following 2020 were reported as COVID 19 or whether the concern published in 2009 may be a more likely cause of an outbreak of whooping cough with more recent vaccines cancelling out the immunity previously present in the vaccinated community.
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Don’t shoot the messenger?
Trust the messenger blindly? (As the masses do, as it’s easier than having to think)
Ask Attenborough. 😎
Whooping cough is surging because you naughty rebels didn’t get your compliance-testing Covid shot. Silly me!
Immune systems A-ok!
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“In 2024, 57,257 whooping cough cases were detected in Australia.”
“in 2025 with 25,256 cases reported that year.’
Cases have dropped by more than half, so the “whooping cough epidemics every two to three years” has past. Nothing to worry about then, back to your knitting.
Well, actually the thing to worry about is the scientists who developed PCR testing saying it is a laboratory tool for multiplying up DNA, not a diagnostic system.. All those millions of covid false-positives…
“Whooping cough is most commonly diagnosed using PCR testing of a throat swab.”
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Covid PCR testing was one positive in every 3000 tests in Australia. What was that about the false positives?
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Yes, you should not question the tests.
Tanzania: President queries kits after goat, fruit test positive for Covid-19
Look what happened to the Tanzanian President – First Tanzanian President to die in office and only 61 years old:
Meanwhile in Haiti:
as composed by Brave’s search engine:
Maybe The Conversation are correct in not going too far past the official narrative. The end result however, even for our activist for the cause friends, according to Solzhenitsyn we all end up in the Gulag together. The difference is we are happier as we know why we are there.
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Added to the nonsense about PCR is this
No. Someone presents with a persistent and debilitating cough. The doctor is obliged to report any whooping cough so submits a sample for a diagnostic test to make sure of the diagnosis. Doctors are not just testing willy nilly, the PCR test is part of a diagnostic process.
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Mmm right, nonsense that it commonly diagnosed using PCR, but doctors doing non willy nilly testing (God knows where that came from) use PCR tests in diagnosis. I guess there is a point buried in there somewhere.
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These words shouted to a noisy mob of demonstrators who were defying laws and regulations, and NSW Police directions to keep the peace cannot be accepted;
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Correct.
A direct call for terrorism and genocide.
And a vast majority of the useful idiots that shout them wouldn’t have a clue where either place was.
Similarly when they mindlessly shout “from the river to the sea…” not having any clue which river and which sea they are talking about.
During the Oct 7th terrorist atrocities against Israeli civilians, the terrorists these useful idiots march in support of proudly videoed the rapes, tortures, mutilations, murders and kidnappings they committed. They were PROUD of what they did. That is inhuman and collective psychopathy.
I have visited the sites of the atrocities, seen the aftermath, spoken to survivors and seen some of the videos. These people just don’t have a clue, or they they themselves are psychopaths like their beloved Hamassh-les.
Aa for a so-called Palestinian state. They have had 20 years of self-governance in Gaza and billions of dollars to prove their ability to run a functional modern state. Your taxes (Westerners) which were given to them were spent on nothing useful, just hundreds of kms of terror tunnels and making the terrorist leaders into billionaires.
Had the Gazans actually wanted a functional state in Gaza Israel would have loved to embark on joint technology ventures with them to do something useful with their lives rather than Gazans focus on the death and misery that Hamas,,which about 86% of Gazans support and voted for, brought them.
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I heard recently on Sky News that Hamas have just promised compensation to the families of Hamas soldiers who were killed, the Hamas media release mentioned over 50,000 deceased soldiers. Looking at the claims earlier by the Hamas propaganda unit of supposed to be civilians killed the Hamas soldiers represent most of the deaths claimed
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The relatively few Gazan civilian casualties given Hamas’ deliberate efforts to put civilians in harm’s way and installing their military/terrorist facilities in schools, hospitals, apartments etc., plus the dual nature of Hamas “employment” of being part-time terrorist as well as civilian store owner or UN official, was a remarkable achievement.
Military experts agree that for an urban warfare operation it was an excellent outcome compared to similar urban warfare as practiced by other powers at other times. Frankly, Israel should not have been so careful (at great loss to themselves) as the civilians affected supported Hamas and brought it upon themselves. E.g. they cheered when Israeli hostages were brought to Gaza and also participated in the looting etc..
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Rarely reported was the unusual prior notice given to civilians by the IDF before any attack, or that IDF tried to protect civilians who were leaving from Hamas soldiers shooting their “human shields”.
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Dennis, please be careful referencing Sky News or the “miserable ghost” maybe after you !!
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I think he already is since I mentioned the polls he applied to replace Nelson and later Abbott
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David, the videos taken by the attackers themselves on Oct 7 2023 should be compulsory viewing for any outspoken critic (over 18) of Israel’s pursuit of Hamas in Gaza. They are, as you know, horrific and sadly diminish one’s belief in the essential goodness of mankind. They surpass many of the historic atrocities of past wars. Yet, my experience is that few critics of Israel will agree to vie them.
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Tell us what is not fake in today’s Australia !
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https://www.drroyspencer.com/
Dr. Roy Spencer posts UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update often.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
Note the rapid cooling of the last two years. When next year the climate cabal declare that 2026 was the third warmest, just realise that it is the third year of a rapid cooling.
The link below shows the trend that the sun has been on for the past 5 solar cycles, a sequence of reduced sunspots one cycle after the other.
https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/48/2020/02/Screenshot-2020-02-25-at-08.39.36-7d4423e.png
This is how it compares to the Dalton Minimum https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.EBHG1BBLbmelTeymABVMeAHaEV?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3
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This the one I actually wanted to paste https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.RDwTEyVhML6X8oOYWMXmPwHaEu?pid=ImgDet&w=187&h=119&c=7&dpr=1.3&o=7&rm=3
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The data in the image is out of date. The predicted SC25 is wrong. SC 25 was higher than SC24:
http://www.solen.info/solar/images/cycles23_24.png
And SC26 will be higher than SC25. There will be another temperature spike in 2033 that will be similar to 2025 and the peak in 2037 will be higher than 2025. There could well be some sustained cooling after 2037 as the Sun moves south of Earth’s elliptic.
I have not looked closely beyond 2040. Uranus and Neptune are in conjunction in 2165 and Saturn gets closest to being in opposition in 2149. So you could ask a few generations down the track to look out for a solar minimum around 2149.
Global warming as a trend is looked in for a few thousand years. The reason it will stop will be ice accumulation in the northern hemisphere beyond Greenland, where it is already accumulating on the central plateau.
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2149? So we’ve got more than ten years left to sort it out – great, I’ll write King Charlie a letter to let him know he can relax and enjoy talking to his cabbages [40,000 ppm carbon dioxide never hurt nobody, not even a cabbage].
Don’t panic – breathe easy…
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Good observation; the data go up and down in shorter time frames. The trend though is up, which will be strengthened with the developing El Nino
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Which is driven by the Sun:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-67.png?resize=768%2C427&quality=75&ssl=1&_jb=closest
Although the correlation is fair for the Nino34 region, the actual mechanism of differential heating driving the phases is probably occurring on the Eastern side of the Pacific. And that is already occurring now:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-114.97,-8.02,365/loc=-87.997,0.494
but will be hitting the Nino34 region by December.
One of the many failures of climate models is being completely blind to solar power. The NH will take 8 days longer than the SH to get the same amount of energy. So the peak solar power across the SH is considerably higher than the peak solar power in the NH.. Bu the situation will be completely reversed in 9,000. The current trend toward NH warming started in 1700.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but you just agreed with me even though you wrote it like you didn’t. Alex should take note.
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Agreed with which of the four things that you said?
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Confirming that there is a warming trend. Confirming that the down period is short term variation. Confirming an approaching El nino. Agreeing that temps will go up.
that’s 4.
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Yes – I agree that the Pacific Oscillation is to swing into El-Nino phase.
I have some evidence that the oscillation is linked to sunlight.
My bet is that the sunlight over Australia is more important than what it happening in mid Pacific. Climate models are blind to solar power so essentially useless beyond proving that CO2 has not done what they modelled it would do.
I forecast a warm summer in Australia. I am also forecasting a wetter than average winter in Southern Australia. It is for similar reasons I forecast above trend snowfall across the NH this boreal winter.
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Do you see a wetter than average winter being restricted to S.A?
N.Z. weather on land is notoriously difficult, but the Tasman Sea area could be indicative.
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The warmer than average summer flowers higher than average sunlight during the heating season. It will be followed by a wetter than average winter although the cooling season sunlight over the SH is higher than last year.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-65.png?resize=768%2C361&quality=75&ssl=1&_jb=closest
I am showing SH advection at 0.85W/m,^2 up on last year.
Currently Northern Australia is getting a good dose of water due to above trend sunlight coming into summer and Victoria, in particular, has mostly missed out. Some flash fooding in isolated areas but generally dry. Victoria has not maintained enough atmospheric moisture to support convective instability. We may get some storms later today.
I expect the conditions to favour Victprian rainfall being above trend for May and June and that also bodes well for NZ rainfall for same reason.
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‘Confirming an approaching El nino. Agreeing that temps will go up’
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A weak El Nino is expected, with little bounce in temps..
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-96.38,-10.32,530/loc=-109.471,-16.672
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Leaf, this far out I’m forecasting El Nino Modoki.
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A brief abstract on the rainfall difference over Australia.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/22/11/2008jcli2589.1.xml?tab_body=abstract-display
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FWIW – likely effects down the track
“Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Climate Science Chapter — Withdrawn!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/10/federal-reference-manual-on-scientific-evidence-climate-science-chapter-withdrawn/
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FWIW
“Climate Change and Energy: World Leaders in Turmoil”
““There is no evidence that UN COP meetings and more than $10 trillion spent on renewables over the last 30 years have affected the climate. The average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, which is blamed for global warming, has been rising over the last 50 years without any change to the trend.”
World leaders are in turmoil. For 30 years, the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and International Energy Agency, among business and political leaders called for a shift from hydrocarbon fuels to renewable energy. Thousands of laws were enacted to try to force a net zero energy transition. But it’s now clear that green energy is unable to meet the needs of growing developing nations or support the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in advanced nations.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/10/climate-change-and-energy-world-leaders-in-turmoil/
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Common, gents – they never tried to hide their aim.
Transfer of Industry (and wealth, and knowledge, and clout) North to South.
Nearly there, nearly there…
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FWIW
“Ian, what is “Guano-psychosis”?
And “Guano-psychotics”?”
““Guano-psychosis” is an articulate turn of phrase that I wish I could claim to have invented, but I didn’t. I will, however, claim “guano-psychotics”.
It is a delicious and evocative bit of word-smithing that I first ran across somewhere on social media, and it was so eloquent that it immediately stuck in my mind.
“But, Ian,” I hear you say, “What is guano-psychosis?”
Good question. It is, of course, a more polite way to say “bat-[deleted] crazy”, but I tend to use it in a more direct, more focussed sense.”
More at
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/ian-what-is-guano-psychosis
Via https://instapundit.com/775319/#disqus_thread
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This time my best friend did not disappoint me.
I asked – Was one first tall buildings on Collins built on Guano Money ?
She replied – Yes.
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Bird-brain.
Shirley?
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More praise for the greatest leader ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8rB8CAwxOk
This time from Japan’s PM who was endorsed by a supermajority. How is that a Japanese leader can garner more than 2/3rds of the vote?
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FWIW – “Polish the tinfoil hat time”?
“New Epstein’s Records Destroy Official Narratives”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-02-10/new-epsteins-records-destroy-official-narratives
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And the other side again
“NYT: Boy, Were We Wrong About Marijuana”
“Boy, a lot of people got marijuana legalization wrong. And a lot of people tried to warn them about it.
When the issue began percolating to the mainstream of politics, progressives and libertarians argued that criminalizing marijuana was a replay of the Prohibition era. They painted marijuana as just another intoxicant, similar to alcohol, and of no particular consequence to public health. Libertarians argued – with justification – that the enforcement of marijuana prohibition cut into civil rights too often for its value, along with the usual arguments about free choice. That argument certainly appealed to me at the time too, as long as we’re offering mea culpas, with the memory of the marijuana of my youth. Proponents of legalization insisted that the tax benefits would far outweight the social costs of greater marijuana use, and would put the cartels out of business.”
“After more than a decade of experiments in legalization, the policy has utterly failed, as the New York Times editorial board admits today, after pushing for full legalization twelve years ago:”
More at
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/regulate-legalized-marijuana.html
Via
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/10/nyt-boy-were-we-wrong-about-marijuana-n3811751
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And
“Documents Show Epstein Bought 330 GALLONS of Sulfuric Acid in 2018, ON THE SAME DAY the FBI Launched Sex Trafficking Probe on Him”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/documents-show-epstein-bought-330-gallons-sulfuric-acid/
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ON up again as Labor hit by interest rate hike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wjy4nVHxiY
With the religious terrorists now battling the police in the streets, the next poll could see ON topple Labor.
Barnaby and Pauline are getting huge coverage.
It is great to see Pauline sticking it to reporters eho ask silly questions. She is still a long way from having all the answers but her honesty shines through.
Their ABC better start courting her if they want a future. Sky News Australia is on the rise as they get behind Barnaby and Pauline.
I have not seen much from Malcolm Roberts lately though. He should be hitting hard over the green energy scam.
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If their ABC cannot conduct sensible interviews with ON leaders they are not offering balanced reporting.
Can anyone find a recent interview between an ABC reporter and Pauline Hanson?
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Just checked NSW max area -averaged mean maximum temp which BoM claim was 36.5°C, 4.78 °C above the 1961–1990 average, the second-warmest on record for all Januarys since 1910 (behind 2019). Yet when you check the actual anomalies for each site in NSW, less than ten sites are equal to or above that temp (out of around 150 sites). By using a 30 year-average rather than the individual site’s long-term average and use the shading and smoothing techniques, the BoM gets the result it needs.
https://reg.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/nsw/summary.shtml
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Why aliens have NEVER contacted us, NEVER will and why we can NEVER leave the solar system
https://youtu.be/AHTYiVFe7mI?si=bnTgagTgS68YPE5r
When “Wow!” becomes “Noooooooooo!!!”.
He neglected quantum entanglement, wormholes and civilisations post-Black Monolith, but it doesn’t look good for the rapidly de-evolving ape descendants worshipping invisible sky creatures and warring over money and dirt on this speck of dust.
How can we ever spread the vegan word and boast about men having babies to other civilisations now? 😆
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Oh God, a fake Feynman. Great.
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Par for the course now, but the universe doesn’t care, its laws will still slap you down hard.
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World war 3 – the documentaries
https://worldwarthreedocumentary.com/full-interviews/
Remember, your elected (and not) leaders brought us to this point. Populist wannabees don’t have the basic competencies to stop it, so vote away for all the good it’ll do.
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Looks like The Richardson post is down
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Ian.
Now at https://richardsonpost.com.au
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Thanks
Ian
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Thanks Grog, my other ‘virtual pub’ (but not as classy as this one) is back! Thought it might have been cancelled by ‘certain forces’.
Some weirdos and rubbish on it but 10% is gold with some humour, interesting links, articles and news.
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If Bill Gates is willing to slip drugs onto his own wife to cover his crimes then imagine the level of empathy he has for the great unwashed..
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Good point.
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I’m reckoning Pandemic is proof positive, as in our faces like a hurled brick, that the washed view the unwashed as chattel.
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FWIW
Maybe you ought to reconsider?
“”Botched Surgeries And Misidentified Body Parts”: AI Is Off To An Ugly Start In The Operating Room”
“Artificial intelligence is spreading quickly through modern healthcare, promising to make medical treatment faster, more accurate, and more personalized. But as hospitals and manufacturers adopt the technology, safety records, lawsuits, and regulatory struggles suggest that the transition has not been smooth, a new investigation by Reuters shows.
One example involves Acclarent, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which added machine-learning software to its TruDi Navigation System in 2021. The company described the update as “a leap forward,” saying it would help ear, nose, and throat surgeons better guide their instruments during sinus procedures.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/botched-surgeries-and-misidentified-body-parts-ais-rocky-start-operating-room
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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs
Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to access adult content by sharing video selfies or uploading government IDs.
“This is how Discord dies,” another user declared. “Seriously, uploading any kind of government ID to a 3rd party company is just asking for identity theft on a global scale.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/
The old filing cabinets are resistant to cyberattacks. 😁
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Retro tech: a 1935 Marconi-Stille tape recorder
https://imgbox.com/pnGfxtjA
2026 – I can watch 4k colour streamed footage from Mars on a device in my shirt pocket.
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Just sat through the AEMO Q4 report meeting.
This is the report:
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2025/qed-q4-2025.pdf?rev=b29ae0bd014c48f59a259009d246280f&sc_lang=en
Something that is worth noting is Figure 40 on p28. I had not picked this up before but it shows that grid solar in SA was actually down on Q4 2024. That is the impact of distributed PV robbing their demand.
I posed a question on this regarding wind and solar being stranded assets as distributed PV and batteries continues to rise. I managed to get a smile of some recognition that it could be but the question was side-stepped.
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The risk of instability due to low load is recognised but only South Australis has a strategy to manage it.
This was the answer to a question I asked on the high negative prices and frequent minimum load level 2 warnings being issued in the last week of the year.
If Tomago closes, the minimum load instability could hit NSW quicker than they think.
Given other questions around the topic of minimum demand and distributed PV growth, it appears a few others are now seeing that the future of grid wind and solar is economic curtailment and low prices.
Q1 is usually similar to Q4 for distributed PV then there is a slight reprieve for grid assets for Q2 and Q3 before the next ramp up in Q4. By the end of the year there should be many more aware of the impending inability for grid W&S to generate revenue.
I might develop a new metric around revenue per installed MW for grid wind and solar.
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Something for geologists and stackers.
The world’s richest silver deposit
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FWIW
“CBS Caught LYING About Trump’s ICE Arrests (Here’s The Proof)”
“CBS released a new report claiming that less than 14% of ICE arrests under the Trump administration are for “violent” criminals. But when you look at the actual data—and what they define as “non-violent”—the story falls apart. Today, we expose the lie by omission. We break down the actual list of crimes the media considers “non-violent” (including human smuggling and distribution of child pornography) and why this narrative is so dangerous. Plus, we look at the reality of “home country” criminal records, the hypocrisy of the media’s coverage compared to the Obama years, and a massive win for the administration in the 9th Circuit Court regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS).”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/videos/2026/02/10/cbs-caught-lying-about-trumps-ice-arrests-heres-the-proof-n4949346
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