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Lucinda van Buuren, a registered nurse and founder of World Council for Health Australia, has uncovered a network of WHO Collaborating Centres operating in Australia, which are institutions designated by the WHO to advance its mandates and agendas.
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Epstein files show that Bill Gates was plotting Global Pandemics with Epstein in 2017, while pretending to ‘Save the World’ with Vaccines. Starting with Ralph Baric, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who “fixed the spike”, meaning, Baric genetically spliced the bat coronavirus spike gene (which determines host entry) onto a human-adapted SARS-CoV backbone in 2015.
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Do I understand correctly that Epstein’s files show that Ralph Baric fixed the bat coronavirus spike gene onto the SARS-CoV in order to produce something super-infectious, so that Epstein and his cronies could then make a fortune by producing a vaccine to counter it?
If true, I’m gobsmacked.
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If true. Lol
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It shows yet another example how Australia is governed by the UN, not our elected “representatives”.
It’s a gross abuse by our politicians of Section 51(xxix) of the Constitution.
How many times do you here politicians say “we have no choice, we have international obligations in the matter”.
It was a dream come true for the Labor Party at the time but used just as much by the fake conservative Liberals later.
The rot really set in to Australia after the Tasmanian Dams Case of 1983 when the High Court ruled that the Commonwealth could invoke its constitutional external affairs power (s 51(xxix)) to pass legislation based on external UN and other treaties and agreements.
This paved the way for extraterritorial governance of Australia by every communist idea the UN or anyone else puts up.
And Australia desperately wanting international recognition for its supposed virtue established a fanatical commitment to any and all UN agreements and treaties.
To this day, nearly half a century later it is prepared (all Uniparty governments) to govern the country by external treaty, not the wishes of the people, no matter how self-destructive these policies are.
It was a hugely damaging decision as far as Australian sovereignty goes.
It’s good to see TRUMP disengaging from these external treaties and agreements for the benefit of his country. I wish Australia had someone who similarly cared.
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To paraphrase Charles iII on Commonwealth countries:- “These countries are self-governing, whatever that may mean”.
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Perhaps Australia could use a Constitutional amendment which said:
If the government of the day signs (agrees to) an international treaty which is contrary to the (existing) Constitution, the signing is null and void.
Or is there sufficient existing legislation to not require this? Or is the High Court already too political?
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How fortunate for the Albanese government to have this war turn up to take everybody’s eyes off the Royal Commission?
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And to blame America for runaway inflation instead of a trillion dollar government debt acheived under Albanese/Chalmers. All inflation is caused by government spending. They just print more money to pay the bills, like every third world country.
As for fuel costs, what about the current 10% CO2 cash grab on fuel for every aviation company? It is ignored by the press. America is to blame as CO2 taxes are of companies now so that the voters think exploding prices are someone else’s fault. And the scientific rubbish of Gillard’s Agricultural Carbon Credits rule supreme. Except no one knows they are paying carbon dioxide taxes on everything they do. All manufacturing. Transport. Farming. Distribution.
The massive off budget spending and CO2 charges of Canberra are just growing and growing and all of it is illegal, given the stolen money does not go into General Revenue, so it is theft, not taxation. They are even proposing to hit more companiees than their original ‘big polluters’. And that means every company paying CO2 hidden chargers, currently 10% and heading to 35% over the next five years. And where does all the cash go? Your paliament has no visibility, no control of this massive robbery of the Australian public. To save the planet? No. It’s just good old communism.
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The commo’s in Canberra could reduce the price of fuel by 10% overnight by removing the g.s.t., a tax on a tax we were not supposed to have, but we have paid since it was introduced in July, 2000. We are paying a tax on the already added tax called fuel excise (tax). Looks like they are addicted to something.
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GST 10% for State and Territories revenue collected by Federal ATO replaced abolished in return Wholesale Sales Tax range 17.5% to 27.5% on goods and with GST 10% at retail sales level goods became cheaper.
However, there are times past when the fuel excise/tax has been cut during times like now.
By the way, PM Howard was pestered by a journalist after the Hewson Opposition GST election defeat if the government he was leading planned for a GST and after saying not on the agenda several times Howard responded frustrated “never ever”. At the next election, and well before that campaign started PM Howard announced a major tax reform programme that included GST, noting that Hawke Labor from 1983 in 1985 implementing Campbell Report based major economic reforms had included GST but the unions stopped Treasurer Keating from proceeding, New Zealand Lange Labour Government did adopt Campbell Report in full and the GST.
Beazley Labor Opposition campaigned on that “never ever” slogan against the Howard Government but did not succeed in winning the election, and Howard proceeded with the major tax reforms.
Another Beazley Labor story involves Macquarie Bank that advised clients by newsletter that a new investment opportunity was emerging, discussions with Beazley Labor about selling the Federal Government owned Telstra if elected to government at the GST election. Later Labor had the hide to attack sale of Telstra, but ignore the sovereign wealth Future Fund then $60 billion and now close to $300 billion despite relieving budgets of the need to make provision for public service pensions, a substantial expenditure every year and first to receive that budget relief advantage was Rudd Labor 2008/09
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Just be a whitewash, like NZ’s Covid one…
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The finding that the Ministry of Health received expert advice on the increased cardiac risk following a second “vaccination” of youth, and did not pass it to the Minister who did not ask for it, is raising quite a few eyebrows.
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Seems there is a reaction to what appears to be a deliberate lie by the commission.
The finding that ministers did not know cannot stand.
Select BEST comments here:-
https://goodoil.news/good-oil-general-debate-631/
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Have a mosey at this erudite comment:-
https://goodoil.news/good-oil-general-debate-631/#comment-6848595683
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“nosey”
This ai prediction is crap.
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Too long [and too many pop-up adverts] but yes I agree: Chipmunk is a self-righteous little UN-tw@t who should be put in a dinghy and pushed out into the Cook Strait [along with Ayesha & Blowhard] & good-bye and good riddance…
As for Herr Royal Horseface: beware Australia, she slithers amongst you now, you have been warned.
To paraphrase a radio talk-back host’s comment this afternoon: It seems I owe an apology to all my consp!racy theor!st friends out there. D’oh!
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Britain is the world leader in arrests for online comments. In Britain you will be arrested if you say that the British establishment is a criminal elite which runs the apparatus of the state. They use the cloak of ‘National Security’ to hide their crimes, using state approved newspapers on sale in supermarkets, the BBC and the Ministry of Truth (OFCOM), etc. The state criminals also cover-up their crimes using the Inquiries Act (2005), Operation Talla, Operation Messenger, Secret Courts, secret DSMA-Notices, secret Super-Injunctions and secret non-disclosure agreements.
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Is it just my imagination or has BBC News been discontinued on FoxTel TV SERVICES.
I’m not complaining. The woke nonsense was so bad I never watched BBC . That’s obviously the reason it took so long to realise it had been removed! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
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Yes, it has ditched BBC – some months ago – and then Foxtel put up the price.
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My latest on wind:
https://www.cfact.org/2026/03/10/house-hearing-on-bird-killing-ignores-wind/
The vulture and cormorant stuff is pretty interesting. But no wind!
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Julius Sumner Miller from 1973.
How many know the answer to the question he presents?
https://youtube.com/shorts/b5lgid8Tn-g
(It is a demonstration of Torricelli’s law.)
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As always with JSM, a truly excellent demonstration, and surprising answer.
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I didn’t know, nor did DM.😁
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While on physics, try this one:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tbop5vrkIF1z23obp.mp4
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David Littleproud quit as leader of the National Party.
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Betting Odds
Matt Canavan is in front, followed by Kevin Hogan, Michael McCormack and Bridget McKenzie.
The punters have it right, finally the Nats have a leader against climate change hysteria.
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Senator Matt Canavan claims “there’s just not credible evidence that droughts or floods are getting worse in this country”.
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Certain sectors of the MSM are becoming apoplectic because the cyclone season has nearly come to an end and there’s not a cyclone in sight. About 7/10 days ago someone noticed a slight movement in a low pressure system up Cape York way resulting in a mention that ( hopefully ) it could come ashore around Townsville as a category 1 cyclone. No such luck, it was a fizzier!!👍
Amazing forecasts some years back claimed we’d be having 10/15 cyclones per year by now!
Having a cyclone season without even 1 event will no doubt bring on some theory that CC is now so far advanced that not even cyclones are possible.
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Exhibit A: global warming causes less cyclones.
https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cyclones/?ref=manninghamlife.com.au
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They switched to fewer but stronger a while ago when their own published info started going off narrative.
So just live in perpetual fear of “the big one” and pay your climate indulgences.
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Canavan is the chosen one, this will surely impact the Coalition.
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Confirmed by SMH:
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….and, he’s not worth talking about!
“Canavan, a trained economist who favours state intervention” Just another power-hungry politician who wants to run our lives while he gets rich! We will end up just like having Elbow run the place.
He can’t even understand politics-
“Pauline has been in politics for more than double the time I’ve been, and I struggle to point to a single dam, single road, single hospital that Pauline has delivered in Australia,” he said.
Politics is about philosophy, not about hardware. You either believe the Govt should run your life for you, or you believe you own your life yourself.
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‘ … or you believe you own your life yourself.’
Only if you can afford the luxury.
Most of us are virtual slaves to the system. The working class have their place in society, but soon even their livelihood will be threatened by AI.
‘Politics is about philosophy, not about hardware’
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The voting public are more interested in the hardware not the philosophy.
Matt Canavan needs time to settle the troops down.
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Gasoline where I’m at is pretty much the same as this same time 2025. $3.00
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Yes, but you have a President who cares.
Australia has no one (in power).
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That’s /US gal, not /liter.
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Roughly $A1.12 a litre. As I filled up yesterday evening I copped $A2.13 a litre.
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Mid NSW North Coast yesterday diesel $2.20 a litre and no supply problems at any of several service stations or lines of vehicles waiting to fill up.
However one service station of the same brand as two others was charging $2.38 a litre, I have noticed that emergency services use that service station, no doubt government tax free pricing, but premium pricing???
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Thanks to President Trump and from his first term in office the lifting of restrictions on oil and gas exploration and extraction has placed the USA ahead of Saudi Arabia as an oil exporter and Qatar for natural gas export.
Australia in 2019 following weekend retreat discussions between President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Morrison (Energy Minister Taylor) as a closely allied like minded nation Australia was granted full supply access to US oil as needed, an order valued at $94 billion was placed at that time and storage in the US organised until new storage facilities were built in Australia. Since 2022 and Albanese Labor there appears to have been no further action taken to build new facilities.
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It’s relatively easy to produce new storage facilities. The simple way, commonly done in properly managed countries, is to cheaply acquire retired oil tankers, moor them, and use then for storage. They are then called floating storage units and can ve used for gasoline and diesel once cleaned. (Over-regulation may restrict or prohibit this in Australia due to issues of secondary containment and general anti-energy opposition from the Left.)
But Australian “leadership” is not so forward or logical thinking. They think our fanatical commitment to wind and solar will save us.
BTW, the fake conservative Liberal Morrison refused an extension of an offshore oil and gas exploration license in the Sydney Basin as I mentioned yesterday and it was also the fake conservative Liberals in Victoriastan who colluded with Labor to ban fracking in the state constitution (which can be altered without a vote of the people).
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Dennis, it was $94 million not billion.
And it was only 1.7 million barrels of crude, one 2 days or so supply for Australia, maybe less once refined into mostly gasoline and diesel.
And it no longer exists anyway, the Albanese regime sold it in 2022.
Australia, a country in full self-destruct mode.
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“Australia, a country in full self-destruct mode.”
Not really, its just how democracy will always work! Politicians will bribe us with more and more of our money to stay in power, that’s the animals they are. So they run out of taxes quite quickly, and have to avoid peeving the peasants off. Next comes borrowing, and they run up a magnificent debt for us to pay off later. Then they start hiding the spending in a lot of clever accounting so we don’t know how deep the shit we are is really is!
After that they sell the family silver, the Govt infrastructure gets privatised and assets like refineries and oil storage get sold in favour of ‘just-in-time” trading with other countries, by private companies in bed with Govt so they get the profits and Govt gets the security of not losing the next election.
It will always be a race to the bottom until we stop electing politicians, I cannot understand why people cannot realise that! They somehow think that politicians are people like them, no, politicians are the worst of the human race, even with lawyers, real estate agents and car salesmen included!
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We have three tiers of government and all are guilty of having big heads looking for a legacy.
So you are against career politicians, but not democracy?
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Actually EG, as I become more cynical about the intelligence of the average human in my old age, I feel we should not be involved in groups larger than small kingdoms, or local councils. Bigger than that and it all becomes too complex for people to understand in 8-sec soundbites and they are not interested in doing the hard work of thinking.
So vote for your local council, but voting for a State Govt is a waste of time, never mind National Govts.
I suppose there are some great safeguards we could put in place-
Tax is purely voluntary, borrowing banned, gold as currency, so Govts only spend what they can raise by selling something to us. They can’t inflate, they can’t put us in debt and if we don’t like something we don’t pay for it.
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All Govt decisions are voted on by the public, not the politicians. They can have all the bright ideas but have to sell them to us every time.
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All Govt money is public knowledge, we can see every dollar on its paper trail from who paid it in to who finally got it in their bank. If a couple of million retired people spent an hour a day looking at sections of it and posting comments up, the public service would be too scared to rip us blind the way they do.
Anyway.. the system is designed to favour them, while charging us, and it won’t change while politicians are in power!
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Local Councils are pathetic, my Council employed a consultant for $300,000 to advise on ways council could gain financial sustainability.
The people are outraged, the Council was advised to put up the rates.
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We could get rid of the House of Reps and leave the Senate in place as we wander down anarchy road.
This “unrepresentative swill” might produce a charismatic individual who could show us the way.
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I wasn’t aware that the storage quantity of reserve oil was so small. I doubt if many, outside government circles, are aware of that.
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Is it the nature of the beast that we accept the good that happens as unremarkable, our due, but we remember everything we think was a slight?
“Drill baby, drill” is just one of many things Trump got right but if the punters have it right he will lose the midterms.
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The phrase “drill, baby, drill” was coined in 2008 by Michael Steele, then-chair of the Republican National Committee and former lieutenant governor of Maryland. He introduced the slogan during the 2008 Republican National Convention as a call to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and promote domestic oil and gas production.
I thought it older than that.
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Why isn’t there outrage about the latest Chicomm 100% deadly, specially cultured (from a deadly mutation) coronavirus?
It doesn’t even make the Lamestream Media.
Dr John Campbell: https://youtu.be/Npf-B5Av7aQ
Paper:
They shouldn’t be playing with these things and the deadly mutant they specially selected and cultured wouldn’t otherwise exist in nature or be in the human domain.
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I’m pretty sure I have mentioned it. It was published two years ago January 4, 2024.
But yes, it ought to be something mentioned in every negotiation with China.
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FWIW Yesterday # 23
“Hanrahan
March 10, 2026 at 8:43 pm · Reply
I am fully aware that YT feeds you the sort of stuff you’ve watched before, and I watch a lot of warries but I’m being fed stuff I’ve never seen before.”
A reaction to that problem
“Real People Youtubers & Avoiding A.I. Slop”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/real-people-youtubers-avoiding-a-i-slop/
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Dr John Campbell is fully aware of the problem of imitations. In many of his presentations he now says “I am not on Facebook, and if you see someone like me on YouTube that does not have 3million followers it’s not me!”
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I’m a long time fan of VDH but check that anything I open is from Daily Signal.
Absolutely the worst is that guy who stole “your John AG” face and voice who now carpet-bombs the interweb. YT will copy write strike incidental music but identity theft is OK.
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Indeed — The original is OG John AG (The Asian Guy) has just been kicked off youtube.
His backup channel is back, with one video from three weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/@OGJohnAG_2
X: https://x.com/OGJohnAG
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FWIW
“Double Deutsch Down on Dummkopf”
“I am beginning to believe that no one doubles down on misery like Germans do. They’ve raised it to a high art.
Now, granted, to some extent, now that we’ve had a chance to sit back and watch the agonizing process of Western European politics unfold, there are the rare bright spots, like the effervescent and extraordinary Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
Yeah.
There’s her…and that’s about it.
The entire parade of weak-kneed, milquetoast, mewling-mouthed, mendacious operators, both nationally elected or appointed to the European Union’s rarified strata, are all cut from that same privileged cloth.”
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/09/double-deutsch-down-on-dummkopf-n3812699
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And laying it on thicker
“Televised! Leading German Political Candidate Tells Schoolchildren CO2 Makes Sun Hotter!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/06/televised-leading-german-political-candidate-tells-schoolchildren-co2-makes-sun-hotter/
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And
“Volkswagen Loses Half Their Profit, Now Plan to Cut 50,000 Jobs Over Next Four Years
March 10, 2026 | Sundance | 27 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/10/volkswagen-loses-half-their-profit-now-plan-to-cut-50000-jobs-over-next-four-years/
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That panda is doing a banned one-arm salute!! Oohh.. shouldn’t be allowed! Where’s Iman-Grant when you need her!
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FWIW – more dubious
“Ghostwriters for the Courts: The Climate Litigation Network Behind a Withdrawn Judicial Manual”
Late last year the federal judiciary quietly released a document that almost nobody outside legal circles normally notices: the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Within weeks one section of that manual vanished.
The reason it vanished reveals something deeply troubling about how climate science, academic institutions, and high-stakes litigation have become entangled.
The manual itself is not obscure inside the legal system. Since the early 1990s it has served as the judiciary’s technical guidebook for evaluating scientific claims presented in court. The need for such a guide arose after the Supreme Court’s 1993 decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which placed judges in the position of evaluating whether expert testimony is scientifically reliable before allowing it to reach a jury.
Judges are not physicists or epidemiologists. They are generalists. The manual exists to translate complex scientific disciplines into language courts can use.
Because of that role, the document carries extraordinary weight. Judges cite it. Lawyers study it. It is produced jointly by the Federal Judicial Center—the research arm of the federal courts—and the National Academies of Sciences.
Neutrality is supposed to be its defining feature.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/06/ghostwriters-for-the-courts-the-climate-litigation-network-behind-a-withdrawn-judicial-manual/
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Concludes
“The disappearance of the climate chapter solved one immediate problem.
It did not solve the deeper one.
The deeper issue is that climate science, climate policy, and climate litigation have become part of the same institutional machinery.
And once those gears start turning together, separating scientific analysis from legal strategy becomes nearly impossible.”
And the comments
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Lots of shuffling of political leanings in OZ it appears.
Godzone has been sorted into five different tribes on two axes- trust, and left/right.
Has similar research been done in OZ , which would enable One Nation to target its meagre resources at the demographics which can move it to electoral prominence?
https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/bryce-edwards-democracy-briefing-the-five-voter-tribes-that-will-decide-who-governs-new-zealand
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‘McLauchlan’s five tribes are: Educated Progressives, the Precarious Left, Middle New Zealand, the Establishment Right, and Alienated Conservatives.’
Across the gap its a bit different, we have the alienated right.
Labor is supported by university types and leftoids, while greens and teals make up a loose coalition.
Swing voters are always in the middle and need to be swayed.
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But the Alienated Conservatives are well to the right.
Are you suggesting the OZ right is not conservative?
It might be semantic confusion.
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The Establishment Right is in disarray, looking for a leader who can raise them above fringe party status.
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Various Gulf states are going to have to soon decide which star they will hitch their wagons to.
Saudi Arabia was invited into BRICS , but elected to fence-sit.
UAE joined BRICS but elected to host U.S.miltary assets : that hasn’t worked so well for them so far.
Depending on the final level of destruction that befalls Israel, some of these oil nations may elect to place their trust elsewhere.
https://heininger.substack.com/p/facts-and-metaphor-the-dock-is-rotting
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Woo! Reading the world it as it is! The Wall St mob-
“The dollar’s up a half point, down a half point, oil ticked here, the VIX twitched there. From this, they spin fairy tales about “safe havens” and “strong fundamentals” in a country that doesn’t make anything, owes everybody, and is now lurching into its most idiotic war in living memory…At the same time, (Biden) doubled down on proxy wars from Ukraine to the Red Sea, all funded by the same magic trick… the rest of the world holding our paper while we sent them back IOUs and shrapnel. You cannot do that forever and keep your “reserve currency” halo. At some point the rest of the planet notices that what you’re really reserving is the right to confiscate their savings on a Tuesday afternoon because some undersecretary woke up cranky.”
The actual letter he is discussing was just as blunt, and open letter to Trump from Gulf billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor.
““Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran?
Who gave you permission to turn our home into a battlefield?”
“You took our money for your ‘peace’ initiatives and delivered us fresh targets painted on our refineries.
You ran against war and you’ve now launched operations in half a dozen countries on our front lawn.
You sold your own people peace and handed them another bill for bombs.””
These are the guys who are meant to be Trump’s backers and supporters! Then he explains how America as the reserve currency is going to crash from this little escapade with Israel, and the options on what happens next.
“Out of that, we get a United States that is no longer a hegemon but a very large, very unprepared country suddenly forced to live within its means after a century of living far beyond them.
For the rest of the world, that’s painful but survivable. For Americans, who have been taught since birth that this is the “indispensable nation,” it will feel like the end of the world.”
A great read!
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Phew! Glad to see that the “Trump, Trump! Rah-rah-rah!, the Iran war is about over” person was right! 😁
You can all go back to your tv cooking and reality shows now.
Negotiations with the wolf do not save the sheep; they set the date for the next hunt.
Midterms for Trump will be a disaster.
Next election 2028…
Can you even imagine what a demonrat POTUS would do then?
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“Midterms for Trump will be a disaster.”
I see no reason for that at all. Why would they be a disaster?? The Yanks are as thick as a plank, the propaganda on how Trump saved America and destroyed Iran will be overwhelming, and there will be plenty of freshly-printed Govt money to throw around to make the peasants feel rich, all as there always is!
America will have plentiful, cheap fuel, the rest of the world maybe not so much, but why would they care?
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The stated reason for the Iran attack, that I accept, was to DESTROY Iran’s nuclear capacity. That can’t be done from the air [as shown] so ground forces will have to go in to finish the job by hand.
It won’t end before then.
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So you discount the story that in the “negotiations”, Iran offered to transfer all its uranium to Russia, which would have scuttled the pretext for Israel to commence hostilities, thereby forcing Israel to commence immediately to punish the Iranian population?
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‘Midterms for Trump will be a disaster.’
He is a political animal and can see the writing on the wall.
‘For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear.’ (The Conversation)
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Trump’s midterm loss was written on the wall before Iran.
This is because of the Congressional elections devolving into a gerrymandering mess.
Which I think is the long term fatal flaw in American ‘democracy’.
Voters don’t choose Congress, Congress chooses voters.
And reached a fatal point with computer technology, allowing them to actually map districts on a home by home, apartment by apartment basis.
Trump is an unusual phenomenon in that he found a way to POTUS outside the system.
And MAGA voters are primarily disaffected from the system and as a result do not have the political infrastructure skills to build a functional oppositional organization to build Congressional power.
Partly because they have real jobs, unlike vast swaths of Democrats.
In my one party Democrat state, our only hope is that they ruin everything so thoroughly, that a natural opposition rises.
They get closer everyday.
Ironically, it is only Orange Man Bad TDS that slows this process.
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Mid terms generally go against the sitting President’s party. With war overly its almost certain the result won’t be great unless it morphs into resounding victory.
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Mathematical help asked for.
We have a large wall clock whose hands hour and minute hands overlap at about 10 minutes to ten.
I am trying to frame the way to calculate to several significant figures what the accurate overlap time is, on any clock with hands.
I am stuck trying to work out how to start the math.
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On the newly-popular subject of missiles, consider two missiles that fly at speeds of 9,000 and 21,000 kph towards each other. How far apart are they one minute before they meet each other?
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Geoff S
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Overlap time?
Not 22 then. 😉
Relative speed 30,000 kph. Divide 60 for 1 minute. 500km.
Hope that helps you out!
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So… explosion sphere 100M diameter?? Probably effective at a lot less.
7.8Km/sec, the interceptor missile has to explode in the exactly the right 0.0125sec to kill the incoming missile. Maybe worse because those little chunks of shrapnel take time to expand from the explosion, maybe better because some may still be inside the sphere after 12ms has passed. You would have to factor in the time to initiate the explosion too, so its unsurprising ground-based interceptors are so ineffective.
Alternatively the THAAD missile have to actually hit the incoming, so their effective radius they have to hit is the few hundred mm of the incoming diameter, and the time window to be in exactly the right place would be around 0.06msec. Even more difficult head-on!
While the politicians say we are perfectly safe, we can intercept all incoming missiles, even videos of Israel last week showed that to be false.
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Then you have the issue of the incoming missile separating into many warheads.
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JCII,
Spot on with missile question. That was quick. Geoff S
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Over 12 hours the minute hand passes the hour hand 11 times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 o’clock.
Therefore gap between overlaps is 12/11 hours = 1.090909 hours = 1 hr 5 mins 27.272727… sec starting but not counting at 12:00:00.
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Sorry DM, but that’s the wrong answer.
That’s the interval between meeting, not the overlap time.
Overlap is trickier 😆
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Well for the actual times you start at 12:00:00 and keep adding 1 hr 5 mins 27.272727… sec.
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No, you’re answering a different question!
They’re the times of the overlaps, not the durations.
Overthinking 101. Can’t be answered.
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There is a period before 10 to 10 when the hands are moving closer together. Then they overlap exactly, before moving further apart again.
What is the exact time when they are closest together?
Geoff S
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From my calculation above of the overlap interval of 1 hr 5 mins 27.272727… sec, the approximate overlap times are:
12:00:00
01:05:27
02:10:55
03:16:22
04:21:49
05:27:16
06:32:44
07:38:11
08:43:38
09:49:05
10:54:33
So the one corresponding to about 10 to 10 is 09:49:05 .
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Geoff Sherrington,
Interesting puzzle. Scratched at a bit of paper to work out the 5-past overlap. Leads to summing a geometric series 5/12^0+5/12^1+5/12^2 … which works out at 5 5/11 minutes past.
Then it dawned that this is just like a vernier scale, but instead of tenths against ninths, it’s twelfths against elevenths.
The eleven comes because the hour hand completes one rotation while the minute hand completes 12, so the minute hand is 11 rotations ahead. The minute hand will only catch the hour hand 11 times in 12 hours.
The formula is just y = h×60/11. Plugging that into R gives: 0.000000 5.454545 10.909091 16.363636 21.818182 27.272727 32.727273 38.181818 43.636364 49.090909 54.545455 60.000000 as decimal minutes for each overlap in a 12-hour period.
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Maybe GS needs to reword his question a bit?
To me, it reads as “calculate the time that the hour and minute hand spend overlapped”
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Robert,
Where did you get the 5 past number?
I am asking about 10 minutes to ten o’clock.
Geoff S
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I was just exploring cases of the general problem. For the 10 o’clock region it’s 9:49.090909.
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Germans getting cold feet over global warming.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/03/08/wake-up-call-survey-shows-majority-of-germans-now-favor-postponing-climate-targets/
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The dirty truth about beef mince
Packing in gas, US:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tbow4mr67v1zlxqpx.mp4
Australian supermarket mince:
https://youtu.be/nYUU7d0w0XM?si=z8UkgsI-JsWH5w0Y
Packed in oxygen!?
Even your pets refuse to eat it?
Support your local butcher instead!
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Been practised in Australia for decades. The supermarkets demanded a 28 day shelf life for fish and meat when in reality these products laid on trays in a butchers window only had a shelf life of 3-4 days. As wth all good marketing ideas, find a different reason to make the change, so, “customers demanded it” its more convenient and its for “product safety”. All sound like good ideas and all BS. A 28 day shelf life maximised buying power and minimised waste in store, ergo maximised PROFIT.
Now as an interesting aside, the packaging that is so convenient also happens to be quite expensive, the process is expensive and then this bit of the purchase is thrown away. With many of the cheaper cut the costs associated with packing and processing are equal to, or greater than the cost of what the customer is buying. The world is screwed.
Then look at how 10 to 14 micron plastic bags were banned to save the planet and in their place highly complex, multi layered materials that are not recyclable due to the different structures and properties of the packing all held together with adhesives and the inclusion of a moisture absorbing pad, all in the bin. Clearly the way to go!
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The Victoriastan Government will settle out of court for $50 million of taxpayer money in a class action lawsuit over the failed hotel quarantine affair.
It will save Government lies and incompetence being exposed in court.
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New ‘Zombie ZIP’ technique lets malware slip past security tools
A new technique dubbed “Zombie ZIP” helps conceal payloads in compressed files specially created to avoid detection from security solutions such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) products.
Trying to extract the files with standard utilities like WinRAR or 7-Zip results in errors or corrupted data. The technique works by manipulating ZIP headers to trick parsing engines into treating compressed data as uncompressed.
The “Zombie ZIP” technique was devised by Bombadil Systems security researcher Chris Aziz, who found that it works against 50 of the 51 AV engines on VirusTotal.
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/976247
I use Virustotal a fair bit so anything that fools 50 AV engines is a worry.
Be careful where you download from!
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The New Turing test: How threats use geometry to prove ‘humanness’
Attackers are increasingly abandoning loud, disruptive attacks in favor of long-term, undetected infiltration.
To support this shift toward stealth, malware developers are aggressively advancing their evasion techniques, designing payloads that are highly context-aware. Moving far beyond basic environment checks, they’re adding mathematically complex human-verification tests and advanced CPU-level time monitoring to their arsenals to help them remain undetected. Instead of blindly executing once inside a host environment, modern payloads now calculate if a real human is behind the keyboard and measure the invisible drag of a hypervisor before detonating.
The Picus Red Report™ 2026, which analyzed more than 1.1 million malicious files and 15.5 million actions mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® throughout 2025, confirms this massive shift. Attackers are pivoting away from bold “smash-and-grab” breaches in favor of sneakier “Digital Parasite” tactics, with 80% of the top ten observed techniques now dedicated strictly to evasion and persistence.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-new-turing-test-how-threats-use-geometry-to-prove-humanness/
As I’ve said a few times now, cyberattacks can go unnoticed for weeks/months or years, but the new generation is going to be extremely difficult to detect.
Fight AI with AI?
Activating Skynet to fight the intrusion worked well…
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FWIW
Courier mail just now
“Matt Canavan wins Nats leadership race”
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Hete’s a thought. China relied on illegal Iranian oil.
If they’re short of oil for shipping, how will they continue to deliver the subsidy harvesting bird choppers and solar panels to Australia which are mostly delivered by Chinese ships?
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” illegal ”
Tricky word that DM… Since when was it illegal for one country to sell oil to another? Otherwise it becomes propaganda by a third country.
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The US embargoed Iranian oil. AFAIK China is free to buy elsewhere. I assume US exporters would sell at spot if asked.
CHEAP oil is harder to find.
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Iranian school bombing update:
Positive proof of US tomahawk missile, DJT apologizes for lying.
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oh, that is not going to happen.
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Well, he sorta acknowledged the birther lie, so I live in hope.
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Who said that?
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Zero results for “Trump apologises…..” Are you lying or just quoting liars?
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Fake news.
Photographic analysis of the impact and the missile strongly suggests it was an Iranian missile. More than likely their own GPS jamming caused it to go off course. And in any case, why did the Iranians put their missile silo right near a school?
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It was a tomahawk
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You found the handle in the video?
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I think you needed a smily Ian. 🙂
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You SAID Trump apologises.
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“Fake news. Photographic analysis of the impact and the missile strongly suggests it was an Iranian missile. More than likely their own GPS jamming caused it to go off course. And in any case, why did the Iranians put their missile silo right near a school?”
Pick your propaganda and believe in it.. ‘We are attacking Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction…’
Quite clearly photographs show a Tomahawk going in behind a building. The IRG had a building next door, aaaand.. lets admit it, American missiles are not THAT accurate!
All irrelevant, what it comes down to is motive, every time, and Iran has less incentive to kill their own children than Israel’s little proxy Trump.
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There are no shades of grey, American missiles are accurate, they are right or they are wrong. Near misses are unusual.
There is still no link to anything giving credibility to the OP or Trump apologising.
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Swiss reject the introduction of a sovereign climate fund
The Swiss public has delivered a clear majority against the introduction of a new climate fund, which would have drastically increased investment in the energy transition.
During a referendum on Sunday, more than 70% of Swiss voters rejected a proposal by the Green Party and the Social Democrats that would have committed the equivalent of 0.5–1% of Swiss economic output (around CHF 4–8bn per year, or £3.8bn–£7.6bn) to tackling climate change.
https://www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-views/briefs/swiss-reject-the-introduction-of-a-sovereign-climate-fund
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I think the Swiss have common sense if they rejected this. Besides what is the Swiss % of world CO2 emissions, even supposing CO2 mattered which it doesn’t.
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Let’s all get MAGA caps. Make Albo/Allen go away
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It worked for us:
Make Ardern Go Away
and she ran… to NSW
(you have been warned) 😃
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Please send your tips and tricks
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Well , whoda thunk it?
https://www.rt.com/news/634384-eu-nuclear-energy-blunder/
So why did they do it?
It was not a mistake: it was calculated and deliberate.
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As for the follow-up article on that link, who won the Afghanistan v Pakistan footy match – seems like it’s been going on since, um, ever… or at least since the Wakkan Corridor was drawn on a map by Crown agents.
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So, Trump reckons he’ll take Kharg Island and control the flow of oil from Iran..
“In a May 23, 1988, print interview with The Guardian (conducted by Polly Toynbee while Trump was promoting The Art of the Deal), he was asked about Iran and responded. “I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools. One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it. ”
Its a cute idea, its come up before in the last few days, but if I was Supreme Leader it would already be wired with hundreds of tons of explosives and that 100kg of enriched uranium!
If Iran can’t have it, why would they let America take it?
“US will take and keep Kharg island, permanent navy, marine, special ops base. It will be a base with big moat. The base will be where the US will keep overwatch on Iran. Iran will not a navy back and will not be allowed to make new missile factories etc… Weeds will be cut from Kharg Island.”
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/03/us-will-take-and-keep-kharg-island-before-war-is-over.html
Daughter says she felt an earthquake in Canberra… a politician must have said something honestly!
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FWIW
FWIW
“Very useful information on long-term emergency food storage
Commander Zero, whom we’ve met in these pages on several occasions, recently wrote an article asking his readers for feedback on cold weather food storage. His exact question was: “If you were going to store foods in a location that was going to be subject to freeze/thaw cycles, what foods would be best choices?”
Many of his readers responded – 44 of them, as I write these words. They’ve provided a great deal of information that’s useful for anyone considering food storage, even if not in a cold-weather environment. I highly recommend clicking over to his place to read his question and explanation, and their responses.
Peter”
https://www.commanderzero.com/?p=12928
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/very-useful-information-on-long-term.html
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