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If anyone wants to be thoroughly depressed by the real situation in British politics (and likely much of the west) watch this by a former MP. To summarise it: “They know the scams are scams, but they are beyond the point of caring. They don’t read what they are voting on and instead just go into whatever voting booth they are told to take and hope they can sleep at night.
https://youtu.be/TaNtm41Ly9k
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Remember to “keep a smile on your lips , and a song in your hearts”.
In other news, this week in N.Z., what last week in real estate advertisements were deadline sales, have this week become mortgagee sales.
Look out below.
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In Britain, the Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, said the BBC is fuelling vaccine “disinformation” by airing people motivated by money and vanity. Former British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, co-founded Thélème Partners, which invested $500 million in Moderna. Then just before the planned plandemic, Sunak placed his investments into a blind trust, then to top it off in 2020, Sunak as Chancellor of the Exchequer did a deal with Moderna to buy five million doses for the planned plandemic. The BBC has aired interviews with vain and rich Sunak on many occasions, spreading the “disinformation” that his Moderna mRNA jab was “Safe & Effective” on BBC programmes including ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ aired in June 2023, ‘Panorama’ aired in June 2024, ‘Today’ and ‘Question Time, etc. Rishi Sunak’s Moderna jab was one of the jabs that caused an estimated 15,416,140 deaths and injuries in the UK up to the 28th February 2024. This estimate is based on the MHRA report of 489,004 spontaneous suspected adverse drug reaction reports relating to the covid-19 vaccine, up to and including 28 February 2024, sent in a written answer to Dr Neale Hanvey MP, and including the MHRA estimate that only 10% of serious adverse events and 3% of non-serious events are formally reported.
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The real reason electric cars are popular in China is because they have lots of cheap coal-produced electricity, as well as nuclear and real hydro, plus high power cheap charging stations.
They mostly run coal-powered EVs.
Not doable with the expensive wind and solar we have in Australia.
This video by MGUY Australia discusses.
https://youtu.be/CDu6q09ExDA
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… and ABUNDANT power stations. China got EVs right. They built out the charging infrastructure, and the grid infrastructure to handle the demands of that charging infrastructure, and kept the costs down by powering it all with dirt cheap coal.
That is why EVs work in China and not particularly well in Europe and not at all in America (or Australia). Here are the number of charging stations in each country/common market (in thousands).
16,700 China
1,000 EU
64 USA (64K)
3 Australia
EVs are dead-in-the-water in the USA and Australia due to a near total lack of charging infrastructure outside metropolitan areas and a surplus of wide open sparsely populated spaces. They are somewhat viable in Europe due to a fair amount of charging stations (though nowhhere near as extensive as China’s coverage) but are limited to wealthy folks due to higher initial cost and the sky high electricity rates. Even if China floods those markets with cheap EVs that cost less than an ice vehicle, they still won’t sell due to the lack of infrastructure.
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And witless people down under driving EV’s probably think their daily driver is reducing CO2 emissions, blissfully unaware that China’s use of coal steadily increases year after year. Not to mention the massive amounts of coal used by Chinese owned plants such as Morowali to produce dirty nickel for EV batteries.
The aerial shots in the link below depicting the environmental impact below are astounding. The author has blind faith in China’s commitments to a transition to clean energy- but he may well not want to kill the goose laying the GreenGold egg…
Indonesia is on track to be burning more coal than Australia within a few years.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inspired-nature-innovation-needed-solve-indonesias-nickel-coles-rphoc/
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We have 6 ev charging stations in our outback town of 1600 people, about 700 kms from the nearest ‘city’. There is still incomplete coverage for mobile phones between there and here.
Haven’t seen anyone plugged in to the stations so far, and I know of only 2 evs in town, so not expecting a rush.
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Thanks Jo.
Nothing to add, do not want to repeat worn out anecdotes about personal dishonesty.
Unfortunately here we talk about humanity – not a person or two.
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A Climate Discussion Nexus video from 2 months ago.
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There is a foot and mouth disease outbreak in South Africa. This video looks at the staggering incompetence of the SA Government dealing with it.
https://youtu.be/6bewVZSgm50
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Aussie Fiddling
Is here such a think as Aussie folk fiddling? In Scotland there is an enormous number of people fiddling in all kinds of places, all ages and both women and men, whereas I searched online for Aussie folk fiddlers and you appear to be a virtually fiddle free place?
Can anyone suggest Aussie fiddle tunes or artists? Thanks.
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Try concentrating on Canberra.
Of course there are State ones as well. Try CFMEU (but that is more like serious criminal).
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Old one;
I remembered that there was a reported case about a business man who was elected to the House of Commons in 1959, and noticed a man who stood at the foot of the main stairs but didn’t seem to do anything else (apart from disappearing during lunch time and tea breaks).
Upon querying this it turned out that said chap supposedly inherited his position from his grandfather, who had been employed during summer in 1888 to warm any MPs not to use the main stairs as they were revarnished (hence sticky) although MPs in those times were elsewhere in country houses.
Somehow this has become a family benefit for 3 generations.
I tried to get confirmation with AI and I got 2 references
“there was a notable case in the House of Commons regarding an employee named Mr. John J. L. Lacey. He was employed as a clerk”.
And “The reference to an employee of the House of Commons in 1959 who “did nothing” relates to a famous incident involving John Anthony Sweeney. He was appointed as a Clerk in the House of Commons but was widely perceived to have been a “ghost employee.”
His role became infamous as he was effectively paid a salary without contributing to the House’s operations.
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In Victoria, we paid for firemen on diesel trains for 50 years as a union concession in the move from steam engines. Being paid to do nothing is a common job in the public service as compared to being paid and doing nothing as preferred by the CFMEU.
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Don’t forget the ‘flight engineer’ on the Ansett 767, an all glass cockpit.
Now there’s an Aussie fiddle.
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NSW Transport did that when bus conductors were no longer needed and drivers collected tickets or sold tickets to boarding passengers, and more recently the unions have railed against (pun intended) railway without guards and later fully automated on various routes in Sydney.
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In the “good old days, New South Wales Railways, operated a modest fleet of very impressive AD-60 Beyer-Garrett locomotives.
Gratuitous Steam-fan video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZVYszjpD0
Seriously powerful and VERY coal-hungry. Almost anywhere else in the world, these and similar behemoths were not delivered with ‘mechanical stokers”; essentially a “screw-drive” that delivered coal to the firebox at a rate that was appropriate for the conditions.
Due to “union rules” and general bureaucracy, the AD-60 was MANUALLY stoked; (a bloke with a shovel), The Diesel-Electric locomotives that replaced them, as notd above, were “required” to have a “Fireman / Stoker”
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In Canberra Australia I understand that there is a leader fiddling while the nation is burning
Marc
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In the case of politicians, it’s a GOOD thing if they do nothing because when they actually do things they are generally doing harm, unless in the rare cases of removing bad legislation which hardly ever happens.
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Some years ago in I forget which country, the minister said he would simplify the tax laws. He was begged not to do it because “they are complicated enough already”.
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You are right. The Celtic fiddle might be found elsewhere, but not Aussies – any more. I myself play the violin, as my mother did, as my niece does, as my 2nd cousin did and we are descended from a guy who composed fiddle music – but it was long, long ago now – 120 years ago. But I know of no folk fiddlers. I know my neighbour is a drummer and there is much ‘pub rock’…
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I really enjoy listening to Irish folk music, and watching the dancing
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The country music, Celtic music scenes and bluegrass scenes in Australia are resplendent with fiddlers. Some of whom are excellent. One fiddler, from a bluegrass band called The Company, is/ was most excellent….(he may not be playing with them these days).
https://thecompanybluegrass.bandcamp.com/
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Fiddle = Violin
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As much as I disagree with his rabid left politics, the Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns gets his docos right on.
One of the seven I have watched, and all of them are necessarily long, was titled Country Music. And while that title says ….. Country, I perceived it as actually a history of American Music.
It goes right to the roots of the music genre detailing the startup from immigrants who brought their instruments with them when they ‘came to America’, and that was violins, guitars, mandolins, small instruments easily carried, and their voices, and any access to pianos was in churches only, so those places became ‘hives’ of music in early days.
Hence, in early episodes, there’s a lot of fiddle music as the violin per se morphed into that particular musical genre.
Eight episodes in all, seven at 2 hours and one at 2.5 hours.
I was never really into Country Music in my younger days, so this was actually intriguing to watch for me, as that (early) perception I had was shredded as I watched this series.
There was also another amazing revelation. Here in Australia with such a small population (when compared to the U.S.) we had just the one music chart basically because that target musical audience was in fact quite small. However, in the U.S. they have a chart for every type of music imaginable.
So, growing up here in Australia, we listened to the songs that ….. made it onto the one chart we did have. Quite an astonishing number of those hits on our one chart were big hits on the American Country Music scene by the original artists, and the Australian hit was a ‘cover’ by that Australian artist, proving that good music was good music, no matter what the genre, as here in Australia, we didn’t think of it as Country Music, as it was just referred to as ….. ‘Popular’ Music.
This Documentary Series is on the Amazon Prime Streaming service.
Tony.
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I kind of miss the old single Top 40 format. A song, no matter the genre, had to have at least some merit, even if you didn’t like it. And believe you me, there were vanishingly few Top 40 songs that I liked, even when I was in the target audience (teenagers and imbeciles). I particularly hated Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, which was almost totally filled with that saccharine American slop which I have always found utterly nauseating. And yet. Now everything is so niche that any old rubbish can make a Top 40 somewhere. I guess what I’m trying to say is that popular music – country, western, soul, blues, rap, whatever is 1% genius and 99% dross.
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Like this 😕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KyipWOWdYo&list=RD5KyipWOWdYo&start_radio=1
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And this should get you started:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhcI0rRx8w&list=RDxLhcI0rRx8w&start_radio=1
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This is going back a bit:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ep2yhsJAc4&list=PLT2wTYEyRNEkspK59AQW7jcIYF5hHuHwb&index=13
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This is getting weird. I’ve been learning to play the fiddle using Scottish tunes … and Aussie ones … and the result is my botany bay sounds like a Scottish tune. Indeed it uses much the same notes as other Scottish tunes, so it “feels” Scottish. Hence I thought: “it must have originally been a Scottish tune”.
In the US tunes were taken out there and over time the fiddle developed its own style, so I guessed there’d be a similar “Aussie style” fiddle music still played in some remote outback town.
For a Scottish example I give you the Cullivoe Fiddlers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKRYGSmYVfY
(Note they speak with a very strong Shetland accent which I can only just understand)
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One of my grandmothers was born in Australia country pastoral area to parents both migrants from Scotland, and Presbyterians.
She and one of her sisters introduced me at an early age to Scottish music and there was a daughter older than me who was a member of an amateur dance troupe
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Grandmother told me about the local country church near the family property and that one Sunday an elderly Lady sat down and when the Minister was ready to address the congregation she placed a hearing horn (like a hollow cattle horn) to her ear to listen with, the minister, a Scot, looked at her kindly and smiled and said one toot n your oot – can’t write accent
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The difference are the arch radius of the bridge and nut, and often the fingerboard. It’s flatter on the fiddle to make it easier to play double stops. Voilinists play mostly single note runs over a wider octaves range, and with a lot vibrato on sustained notes. The rounder action better facilitates that technique.
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I must congratulate myself because just this very day I was able to achieve something I’ve pursued for many many years.
(I have no talent other than perseverance.)
I was able to play this fiddle tune pretty much note for note for the first time to my satisfaction.
Bonaparte’s Retreat” ~ William H. Stepp, 1937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeQucos9-M&list=RD1yeQucos9-M&start_radio=1
If you’ve never heard this before, it is just the best.
You’ve heard it.
Maybe just not the original.
Straight lifted by Aaron Copeland for ‘Hoe Down’.
W. H. Stepp is likely the true composer of this perhaps greatest piece of American music.
We Southerners are often not suitable enough for polite artistic society to receive credit.
As is common for the human condition I’ve only recently become confident and comfortable with my guitar and fiddle playing now that I most likely will not be physically able to do it much longer.
Better success too late in life than never.
Historical note:
Notice the increase in tempo as the tune progresses. (At just the perfect friggin’ moment.)
“That’s the bony part.”
Southern String Band music got ‘squared off’ for commercial reasons and relabeled ‘Bluegrass’ in an attempt to appeal to tight panted Yankees.
Slavish adherence to mechanical machine tempo is just one of the things taking the life out of modern music IMHO.
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I looked online and there are several difference scores which vary dramatically in their difficulty. This looks achievable (but I will have to learn to trill) https://musescore.com/julianchambers/scores/4967812
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Your remarks about Scottish hints in Fiddle Folk are illustrated be what would be called drones being embellished by the chanter.
So an open string is being used as a drone , and one or two higher pitched strings are replacing the chanter.
And the dominant can be used as the drone , as can the tonic.
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Your remarks on chanters caused me to wonder if a Didgeridoo could be used like a chanter. I then discovered the ideal “circular breathing” used for the Didgeridoo can also reduce snoring.
I am now wondering how I get my wife to learn the Didgeridoo
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Why does Wikipedia and related Wiki platforms love Ramadan? I’m not aware of them celebrating any other festivals from different religions.
https://www.wikilovesramadan.org/
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It’s not pork barrelling.
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US chain Cracker Barrel sales still haven’t recovered after they went woke.
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The touchy feely Marketing people haven’t a clue. Same with Jaguar. Bud Lite. And most of the Arts and writers groups in Australia who burn their own audiences, especially with anti Semitic protests. Gays for Palestine shows how ignorant and out of touch people can be, as with Hollywood actors. Or as South Park would have it, the Film Actors Guild.
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Another FAFO moment for the Aussie Navy. I just wish they’d stop being such whiners about it, if you’re going all the way to China to annoy the Chinese Navy, just get on with it and don’t bitch when the totally expected happens.
“An Australian naval helicopter was forced to take evasive action after a close encounter with a Chinese military aircraft over the Yellow Sea, prompting the federal government to raise concerns with Beijing over what it described as a dangerous midair manoeuvre…The encounter is the latest in a string of tense interactions between Australian and Chinese forces operating in international airspace and waters…“The PLA-N helicopter matched the ADF helicopter’s altitude before closing in to an unsafe distance. The PLA-N helicopter moved slightly ahead, increased speed and then rolled towards the ADF helicopter, which required evasive action to maintain safe flight.””
They’re lucky the Chinese didn’t do an America on them and just sink the Toowoomba, sitting quietly in international waters with no declaration of war, like the Iranian navy’s ship.
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Extraordinary goings on, totally surreal.
Might be time to quit the American Alliance.
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FWIW
“The Anglosphere Has Become Pathetic”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/06/the-anglosphere-has-become-pathetic-n3812595
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‘ … unreliable as partners …’
Good thing too, avoid getting involved in a religious war.
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FWIW
“Revealed: The Story of the United Kingdom’s Betrayal in Operation Epic Fury Is Absolutely Wild”
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2026/03/06/revealed-the-story-of-the-united-kingdoms-decisions-and-failures-in-operation-epic-fury-is-wild-n2199908
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‘You unbelievable coward’: conservative US media in open warfare over Iran.
‘Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin are all trading blows over US involvement – while Sean Hannity says he’s staying out of it.’ (Guardian)
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Iran declared war on the US 47 years ago, have never rescinded that declaration, and now people are getting butt hurt because the US is finally actually doing something about it.
Any Iranian warship has been fair game for US subs and aircraft for that entire time.
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Yep 40 plus years of precedent means nothing and we all know the Korea’s randomly bomb and kill one another because that war isn’t over either. What a rationlization/cope.
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B1tchin IS annoying, isn’t it?
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If the Iranian warship commander thought his ship was safe after all the sinking of lots of other Iranian warships, he must have rocks in his head. His best efforts would have been to give the crew shore leave and stay moored till the war was over.
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Sri Lanka has taken control of an Iranian naval vessel off its coast, a day after the US sank an Iranian warship in the same water
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747vezn7zwo
and are now wondering what to do next
https://www.dailymirror.lk/latest-news/Sri-Lanka-holds-talks-on-fate-of-Iranian-naval-crew-as-repatriation-may-take-time/342-334658
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FWIW – for the covid files
“In two weeks, the CDC’s ACIP Vaccine Committee will meet to discuss (and hopefully approve) a new diagnosis code for covid vaccine injuries. CIDRAP ran an outraged article earlier this week headlined, “The COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real but is now resolved. ACIP’s March agenda pretends otherwise.” Children’s Health Defense:”
“On March 18 and 19, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices —ACIP, the formerly obscure expert panel that quietly decides which vaccines get recommended for every man, woman, child, and infant in America— will hold a two-day virtual meeting. It will discuss three agenda items: covid vaccine injuries, long covid, and changes to ACIP’s recommendation methodology.
Finally.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/an-imperial-judiciary-friday-march?
And more from the Epstein files
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FWIW – things in other places
“Stand by for the next Shifta War…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/stand-by-for-next-shifta-war.html
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FWIW
On the one hand
“The Real Reason Trump Fired Kristi Noem Is Not What You’ve Been Told”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/06/the-real-reason-trump-fired-kristi-noem-has-nothing-to-do-with-what-youve-been-told-n4950316
And on the other
Start here
“Trump’s 2026 org-chart reshuffle continued yesterday. Never one to miss an opportunity to stick the knife in (while always missing the point), the New York Times led with “Timeline: The Rise and Fall of Kristi Noem as Trump’s DHS Secretary.” Chaos in the Cabinet!”
“What happened was: yesterday, President Trump announced on Truth Social (where else?) that DHS Secretary Noem would be shifted to running his new Doral Western security initiative, and that Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, would replace her. The useless Times falsely reported Noem was “fired”— a word that appeared nowhere in Trump’s post, and since she was immediately reassigned to another role, it isn’t “fired” anyway. She remains on the payroll, morons.”
More here
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/an-imperial-judiciary-friday-march?
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For a bloke who creates his own publicity weather and is always sending the bad guys into apoplectic rabbit holes, Trump sure can play his cards close to his chest.
And the good news is that his second coming he has been way better at surrounding himself with people who seem to be on his side and can keep secrets.
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Confirmation that global warming is accelerating:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL118804
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Didn’t work for me, could you give us a sentence or two?
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Usual clowns ‘massaging’ the data to prove warming is happening-
“We remove the estimated influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation. The resulting adjusted and thus less “noisy” data show that there has been acceleration with over 98% confidence, with faster warming over the last 10+ years than during any previous decade.”
When I ‘estimated the influence’ it told me the world was getting colder.
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They removed some natural variables and found the planet is still warming, but at a faster pace.
ENSO is not the only oscillation, climate change is beyond their comprehension.
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You must have failed the CloudFlare bot test.
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Cloudfare has a growing database of ‘malicious fingerprints’.
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Global warming is accelerating because of a positive AMO trend.
https://www.worldclimateservice.com/2021/10/11/atlantic-multi-decadal-oscillation/
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Simon: climate knob.
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…’with faster warming over the last 10+ years than during any previous decade.”
Over a ten year period from 2016-2025, the mean world temp rose from 1.01C to 1.19C, a rise of 0.18C.
Over the ten year period from 1935-1944, the mean world temp rose from -0.2C to 0.2C a rise of 0.40C.
(I have used the actual yearly means here from GISS NASA, not the averages or Lowess smoothing data).
No wonder they wanted to get rid of the “1940’s blip”.
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Politically incorrect humour from The Goodies
Only woke tripe on tv?
Needs some good laughs from the good old days?
Sarth Efrikker, Gender Education, and better throw in some Kung Fu too.
https://ufile.io/zdgloih5
1 zip file, 3 episodes. Totally safe so don’t be a baby.
Gone in 7 days so be quick!
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BlackRock just blocked investors from pulling their own money out.
https://x.com/NoLimitGains/status/2029953260052717603
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Looks like a lot of people picked the wrong week to retire.
I wonder how Australia’s many Superannuation funds are dealing?
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I did a bit of extra research on that and there’s mitigating factors:
* It’s only happening in one fund … not all of Blackrock.
* People are getting money out, but there’s delays and the fund only pays out at a limited rate
* That rate limit exists to reflect the intrinsic duration mismatch risk and mitigate the worst effects.
* This was all explained in the original terms and conditions … the ones many people don’t read.
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I wonder if all the lefties removed their “I stand with Ukraine” car stickers and replaced them with “Free Palestine” ones.
Then with Venezuela ones.
Now Iran ones.
I found the ideal one though:
https://imgbox.com/IZGFXjPR
Only 16 years of peace in the US’s 242 year history…
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Nice.
But all the free palestine slogan tells me is that they can’t even give it away.
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We just need to verify you’re human and not a bot
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tbhlkb7cm51z23obp.mp4
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Starts slow but gets funny.
Select all squares that “might” contain fish!
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What should come first, Electric Vehicles subsidised by government using taxpayer’s own monies to encourage us to changeover from fossil fuels for the politics of net zero and climate or to provide the additional reliable electricity power station generators installed capacity, city and town grids upgrading required to handle the extra significant load from demand if the fleet was changing quickly or intended to increase within a decade or two?
Talk about horses before carts and fiddling while everything burns around Canberra
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No need to be so sequenced. Just promote EVs while you destroy the grid. Its the Aussie way!
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FWIW – CNN goes to Tehran
“THE NEWS WE KEPT TO OURSELVES:”
“https://x.com/michelekelemen/status/2029695118400213410
“I asked the State Dept why it considers the CNN report propaganda. Here’s the response:
The following is on background attributable to a State Department spokesperson:
We encourage media outlets to verify information with official U.S. government sources before publication.”
https://x.com/michelekelemen/status/2029695118400213410
And more at https://instapundit.com/780775/#disqus_thread
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Marco Rubio will be the next president of Cuba, said the POTUS.
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He certainly knows how to stir the honey pot …..you know they’ll (CNN and MS NOW esp) be rushing everywhere to get “learned” comments from any Cuban they can find.
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FWIW
“You’d think the Brits would have learned the risks of uncontrolled immigration from the Saxons, The Danes, and the Normans: Decades in the planning, the Islamic Republic of Britain.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/theres-nothing-accidental-about-the-kashmiri-colonisation-of-britain/
Via https://instapundit.com/780799/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“REASON TV: Wikipedia is in Trouble (Video)”
“The “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thought
A massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core
You do not get information. You get propaganda…. articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activists”
And more at https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2029215384801264092
Via https://instapundit.com/780510/#disqus_thread
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Probably the least surprising revelation in quite a while. In other news Elton John has announced he is gay.
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FWIW
BBC lining up for another go
“UNEXPECTEDLY: BBC altered Hegseth speech on Iran war.”
“BBC Defenders:
‘Mr Trump is a Bad Man. So its perfectly OK to lie about his specches’
‘But how do you know he’s a bad man?’
‘Just listen to his speeches!’
A self-serving, circular, worthless argument.”
https://x.com/latimeralder/status/1989748977953022168
More at https://instapundit.com/780944/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“UNEXPECTEDLY: Canada’s Suicide Culture Is Devolving Into an Assisted Suicide Death Machine.”
https://instapundit.com/780686/#disqus_thread
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In yet another affirmation of the old ‘slippery slope’ argument that progressives refuse to accept when implementing controversial policies, I read earlier today that Canada’s assisted suicide protections, which we were assured would ensure no ‘mission creep’, have indeed been slowly watered down or simply ignored. They were already granting applications from people who weren’t terminally ill. Then they expanded the rules so that mentally ill people could be killed.
But now they are running ‘same day suicides’. That’s right. Despite saying there would be safeguards, policies and strict processes in place to make sure only those who could not be saved or treated in any other way, it is now possible to apply for ‘MAID’ and, within 24hrs, be killed. So now people in the midst of a temporary mental breakdown can be killed by the system before they receive proper counselling, or have time to properly think it through.
Slippery slope strikes again.
I guess the next stage will be drive-through suicide clinics popping up along the highways?
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Perhaps Funeral Homes could offer the “same day” option. A “One-Stop Shop” if you will!
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Would result in less traumatised and PTSD’d emergency services people that have to clean up the DIY alternatives.
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Slippery slope to what? Making it mandatory?
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The slippery slope that starts with offering terminally ill and elderly patients in severe pain a way out, something that had merit, but ends with simply facilitating suicide for those who could be saved with appropriate and timely support, i.e. exactly where Canada is today – and which was ‘never going to happen’.
I suppose it could go even further, such as families arranging MAID for severely disabled or cognitively impaired relatives, who are unable to give informed consent, because they don’t want to be burdened with them.
But they would never do that, would they?
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Well, it make you think carefully about who you appoint as your Power of Attorney, certainly not someone who could gain from your will!
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Your power of attorney should be someone who loves you. I have no problem with that.
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Here’s something out of left field: This group, Cochrane Australia, has caused a suspicious? blip on my radar. They are touted as unbiassed advisors to our medical industry and Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Authority. Any red flags?
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Looks like they are the propaganda controllers for the medical industry, via the Govt.
“Funded by the Australian Government through the National Health and Medical Research Council…(we) Deliver comprehensive systematic review and evidence services,…Advance evidence-based healthcare…Translate complex research into practical guidance for healthcare decision-makers”
Well, they seem a complete failure on translating Covid research into practical guidance for decision-makers! You’d need to find out what they were saying over the Covid period, but if they ever said anything against the official propaganda we would have heard about them. Just another middle-man being paid to back up the WEF.
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Cochrane describes itself as “a global, independent, non-profit network of health researchers and professionals, patients and carers who work together to produce and promote trusted, high-quality health information that improves health and healthcare worldwide.”
It organises the dissemination and commentary on the meta-analyses of various topics ….been round for decades …it feeds “evidence-based research” to the medical and psychology fields and is generally seen as authorative – maybe because it saves lots of people lots of work. It’s not clear to me what filters they pass the research through before it becomes part of a meta-analysis. Considering it’s a “global, independent and non-profit organisation”, its choice of topics, choice of papers, and commentaries on the meta-analyses could be biased left-wards TSTL.
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We have 6 ev charging stations in our outback town of 1600 people, about 700 kms from the nearest ‘city’. There is still incomplete coverage for mobile phones between there and here.
Haven’t seen anyone plugged in to the stations so far, and I know of only 2 evs in town, so not expecting a rush.
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Hastie’s battle plan.
‘Andrew Hastie says the federal opposition must quickly concede that both major parties have made significant errors on immigration and fiscal policy if they are to have any hope of arresting the rapid rise of One Nation.
‘Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Perth on Friday, the opposition industry spokesman lamented that the “emotional vibe” of Australians was being shaped by anxiety, stress and loneliness as online networks disrupt local institutions.’ (AFR)
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Money down the drain.
‘Australia has so far paid upwards of $1.6bn to boost America’s defence industrial capability – as well as another $310m to Britain announced last month. It’s a deal that explicitly allows for promised Virginia class submarines to be withheld by Washington if it is deemed in the American national interest by the president of the day.’ (Guardian)
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Turnbull Times
Because he encouraged that group to establish in Australia.
The President and others from the US Government have some time ago confirmed that the RAN including RAN Bases in Australia submarine and other services are very important strategic locations for US Asia-Pacific interests, and of course Pine Gap NT is now a joint base and critical for US surveillance and communications and other not mentioned activities.
AUKUS Pillar 1.0 is in stages including training RAN personnel on board US nuclear submarines on nuclear propulsion maintenance and operation underway for some time, AUKUS negotiated from 2019 and signed late 2021. Upgrading RAN submarine base. US and UK nuclear submarines rotating via the RAN WA submarine base regularly and an East Coast new base to be built. Reconditioning of the existing RAN Collins Class conventional diesel-electric propulsion submarines as an interim measure and they are already equipped with US technology and operate with US, UK and combined allied forces regularly including exercises to maintain a high level of crew training.
The Virginia Class nuclear submarines on order and progress payments made, first delivery around 2030. Of course if needed for US Navy purposes delivery might be delayed and new building organised.
SSN AUKUS will be a new next Generation design for RN and RAN, contract and orders for nuclear reactors placed early 2025 with Rolls-Royce UK under licence to USA for over 60 years.
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” RAN Bases in Australia submarine and other services are very important strategic locations for US Asia-Pacific interests, and of course Pine Gap NT is now a joint base and”…. all are primary target the moment war break out! America’s war that is, we might be a bystander at the time, a bit like the Arab countries that hosted American bases and now have Iran dropping missiles on them.
The funny thing is, while it showed that Iranian drones and missiles are as accurate as anyone’s, the targeting information was supplied by Russia it seems, a turnaround from the Yanks feeding the Ukies targeting intel for hits on Russia. Things never turn out the way you expect!
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