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    tonyb

    No need for digital id in Britain. But will Starmer read this?

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/04/08/britain-doesnt-want-or-need-digital-id/

    Yesterday I posted a link to an article on Mexico whereby it is in effect compulsory to have digital i.d. I think Oz has moved some way down that road as well as has the EU. So we will be tracked 24/7 either by your smart phone, computer, surveillance cameras, your internet habits, banking, purchases, medical records and through utilities.

    It will be a nightmare when (not IF) hackers get control of your details via Govt site, or you lose a smart phone with all your details on it. Forget crooks selling on phones they snatch in the street, the new demand will be for stolen identities.

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      David Maddison

      Yes, if your identity is stolen, you will be unpersoned and it will be almost impossible, if not impossible, to prove your genuine personhood.

      Compulsory digital identity is very dangerous for a whole variety of reasons.

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    tonyb

    What is a conservative. Why did so many traditionally conservative parties veer left?

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/scruton-is-the-antidote-to-the-tragic-misapprehension-of-tradition/

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      Rowjay

      Why did so many traditionally conservative parties veer left?

      More like the left, recognising that socialism has its limits, have veered to the right but brought their socialist baggage with them, subsuming the “moderate” conservative ground which in Australia was occupied by the Liberal Party.
      Therefore, in order to survive, conservatism has had to shift further to the right – alienating the middle ground.

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        You are joking, aren’t you?

        The left has moved further and further to the left, but with their control of the education systems, they are indoctrinating students in their ideology.

        With all of our political class coming out of the extremely left leaning university system they naturally veer left, even while thinking they are still conservative.

        What the left has done is give up on trying to exploit class divisions and created a whole new set of racial and other victim based divisions. Just look at the establishment of multiple racial minority organisations on public money, the Aboriginal “treaties” etc.

        The “moderates” in the Liberal Party these days are considerably to the left of the old ALP Center Unity faction of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

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          Rowjay

          The “moderates” in the Liberal Party these days are considerably to the left of the old ALP Center Unity faction of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

          So the ALP move to the right started last century…

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          KP

          “People moved to the left because that side of politics”…gives more money away for less work! Its extremely simple!

          If Conservatives had move right they would be calling for LESS welfare and more self-responsibility, with far fewer labour laws and limits on hiring and firing, and of course far far smaller Govts and bureaucracies!

          No, they have both moved Left, into big Govts, more laws, more giveaways, more Govt control of our lives and far less freedom or responsibility. That’s why new parties are Right-wing, no-one represents responsible people any more and there is no room for new parties on the Left.

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        el+gordo

        People moved to the left because that side of politics invented global warming alarmism, a mixture of virtue signalling and boiling oceans. Clearly the right had little wiggle room and hopped onboard the gravy train, or risk becoming a political pariah condemning their grandchildren to hell on earth.

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    Ronin

    Today will see us pass one Trillion dollars in debt.

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      Tonyb

      Don’t worry, the next trillion will come much more quickly.

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      MrGrimNasty

      Don’t worry, if it’s anything like the UK, a £trillion today is 40% less than a £trillion a mere decade ago!

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        Custer Van Cleef

        That’s the magic of Fractional Reserve Banking and Fiat Money creation.

        It all benefits the super rich, first and foremost… that’s why it continues on…

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      David Maddison

      It’s actually far worse than that. Taking into account state and local government debt, which most people ignore, it’s over:

      $2.263 trillion*

      Apparently Non-treasurer Chalmers thinks debt is a good thing and the Government can just keep spending and providing free stuff and importing incompatible Third World people and give them welfare and housing in return for Labor votes, forever.

      * http://australiandebtclock.com.au/

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        RickWill

        State and local government debt matters because they are not in a position to print money so are stuck with funding the interest rather than just creating more money.
        This is a list of Moodys rating for Australia and the States/Territories:
        Australia — Aaa (stable)

        Australian states and territories:

        New South Wales — Aa1 (stable)
        Victoria — Aa2 (stable)
        Queensland — Aa2 (stable)
        Western Australia — Aaa (stable)
        South Australia — Aa3 (stable)
        Tasmania — A1 (stable)
        Australian Capital Territory — Aa2 (stable)
        Northern Territory — A3 (stable)

        WA is the only State with AAA rating. Australia will look shabby once the value of iron ore declines.

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          David Maddison

          Australia will look shabby once the value of iron ore declines.

          And that will likely happen once China fully exploits its colonies in Africa plus projects like the Simandou project in Guinea and projects such as the Sul Americana de Metais mine in Brazil.

          With almost no industry left, Australia is relegated to virtual Third World status as a raw commodities supplier, which carries huge market and geopolitical risk, plus as an exporter of dumbed-down university degrees for rich foreigners and a high-priced tourist destination for people to see marsupials like kangaroos and koalas and Ayers Rock in the desert which you are no longer allowed to climb and for which airfares, food and accommodation are ridiculously overpriced.

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            John Connor II

            .. and ze blog has no intention of EVER paying off the debt, not that they could anyway.
            Ze great reset wipes all debts everywhere though (plus super funds, bank accounts…)

            But bigger events are closer.
            NZ is down to 18 days diesel, below MSO (minimum stock obligation) AND tankers in transit now ZERO, followed by Oz.

            With the Iran war going to continue into July at a minimum things are about get very ugly.

            Even the msm is advising people to stock up.
            Some seed growers here have doubled their staff just to cope with demand.

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          Graeme4

          The Australian today reported that Australian mining has put $8.1bn into the government’s pocket.

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            yarpos

            Over what period? sounds very little really. We spend $40bill + pretending to “close the gap” each year.

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              Strop

              “higher commodity prices are projected to add $8.1 bn in additional company tax revenue in 2025-26, compared with estimates in last years pre election budget”

              Attributed to “stronger than expected iron ore prices and higher coal prices since February, as well as sustained elevated gold prices over the past 12 months”.

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      Dennis

      Over $400 billion handed over effectively by Rudd Labor September 2013, that was combined gross debt already borrowed and exceeded Labor’s debt ceiling, plus debt to fund their Budget 2013/14 NDIS, Gonski education grants to States and so on, no provisions made by Labor to pay for those commitments.

      And in November 2007 Rudd 01 Labor inherited zero debt from Howard Government, $22 billion Budget surplus 2007/08, sovereign wealth Future Fund of $60 billion (now close to $300 billion) that since 2008/09 has paid 100% of public service pension liabilities that no longer are a budget liability every financial year, a benefit Rudd and Gillard Labor first enjoyed yet they ran deficits for every 6 years in government.

      Look at the Timeline History from Whitlam to Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison and each Labor period was followed by years of managing back to surplus and repaying debt with interest liabilities meaning Budget Repair first and foremost every time. After Whitlam recession, after Hawke-Keating 1990 on recession, Howard managed Asian Economic Crisis and Rudd GFC but in positions of strength of economy strong, budget in surplus, funds invested, zero debt to manage, etc.

      Morrison from January 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, a State Health and enforcement responsibility with Federal assistance funding. People forget Federation of States came first and they established a Commonwealth or Federal Government with responsibilities and powers set down in the Constitution.

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    Steve

    Big Bad Vlad is openly defying the feckless British prime minister and running his sanctioned oil fleet through the English Channel, escorted by Russian warships. And there is not a damn thing the drydocked Royal Navy can do about it. It wass bad enough that it took them a month to get a ship to defend their base in Cyprus, but now they can’t even defend their home waters.

    Vladimir Putin has openly defied Sir Keir Starmer’s threat to seize sanctioned Russian vessels by sending a warship to escort them through the Channel.

    The Admiral Grigorovich, a Black Sea fleet frigate, accompanied a pair of shadow fleet ships on Wednesday while a British naval vessel followed behind.

    Positioned on the Royal Charlotte, a boat almost 10 miles from Dover, The Telegraph observed Putin’s flotilla cruising past the south coast while RFA Tideforce, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker, trailed in their wake.

    Last month, Sir Keir gave special forces the authority to capture the armada of rusted ships illegally ferrying oil to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, saying he would hit the shadow fleet “even harder” if they sailed through British waters. However, Britain is yet to seize a single Russian vessel.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9226d0225220d270

    But there is good news on the horizon. The destroyer HMS Daring is ready to return to the fray after NEARLY A DECADE in drydock for repairs. At that rate, the Royal Navy should be in fighting trim sometime in the 23rd century.

    Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer HMS Daring is set to return to the fleet later this year following a prolonged period out of service for over 3300 days.

    In response to written questions from Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, Defence Minister Luke Pollard said the Type 45 destroyer, which entered Extended Readiness in October 2017, is nearing completion of major upgrades.

    https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/destroyer-hms-daring-to-return-to-fleet-this-year/

    Daring was laid down in 2003, launched in 2006, and commissioned in 2009. From keel-laying to commissioning, the process took 2,307 days. In contrast, the destroyer has now been out of service for more than 3,300 days, exceeding the entire time it took to build and bring her into the fleet.

    The ship was withdrawn in April 2017 to begin the Power Improvement Project (PIP) and a major refit.

    Admiral Nelson is spinning in his rum barrel.

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      Steve

      https://x.com/HJB_News__/status/2039266638864752878

      More than 25 sanctioned Russian ships passed through Channel despite Keir Starmer’s crackdown threat. Putin recently said Britain is not a threat to Russia as they can’t even stop rubber dinghies in the channel. And they have an imbecile as a leader that the British people hate.

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      Steve

      After seeing the utter incompetence of the Royal Navy to defend Cyprus and now the English Channel, there is not a doubt in my mind that Argentina will soon be taking back the Falklands. Keir Starmer is no Maggie Thatcher, and Javier Milei knows it. He also knows that ‘murica won’t be riding to Britain’s rescue after the poisoning of the ‘special relationship’ with the USA over the Chagos islands and Gibralter giveaways and foot-dragging in the Iran conflict. Trump will tell the Brits to defend their own territory, and they flat-out can’t do it.

      Milei reaffirms Falklands sovereignty, warns oil firms and vows to rebuild the armed forces

      https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/02/milei-reaffirms-falklands-sovereignty-warns-oil-firms-and-vows-to-rebuild-the-armed-forces

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        el+gordo

        ‘ … foot-dragging in the Iran conflict.’

        Article 5 wasn’t triggered, so NATO was legally bound to sit on their hands.

        ‘Trump will tell the Brits to defend their own territory, and they flat-out can’t do it.’

        Yes they can, Donnie warned the Europeans ages ago that he intended pulling up stumps and clearing out. So they are organising their own self defence.

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        Annie

        The Falklands never belonged to Argentina.

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      Steve

      https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2042201949257244970

      NOW – UK Defense secretary says 3 Russian submarines were in UK waters, “To President Putin I say, we see you, we see your activity over our cables and our pipelines, and you should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences.”

      I’m sure Putin is quaking in his boots over the pending sternly-worded letter that the Brits will be sending the UN and the international court in protest of his actions. He’s calling Starmer’s bluff. He knows their threats are empty, their military is toothless, and their terrifying big brother who usually fights their battles for them is fed up and told them they are on their own.

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      Custer Van Cleef

      Why is it Britain’s business who Russia trades with?

      Free trade should be free for everyone.

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      Ronin

      It shouldn’t be that hard to get HMS Victory out of drydock and on the high seas again.

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        Like MOST “vintage” ships, the “Victory”is utterly un-seaworthy.

        The once fabulous “Cutty Sark” (a tea and wool “clipper “parked” just along the Thames), is a badly mutilated relic in permanent dry-dock.

        The US Navy “mothballed” fleet is quite extensive, including a couple of the WW2 IOWA class “battlewagons”. They still keep a couple of these (heavily-upgraded) ships from WW2 on the active register. Because they CAN, the US Navy also keeps the Revolutionary War “USS Constitution” on the ACTIVE register. One of the few things worth seeing in Boston.

        Maintaining serious military hardware in operational condition is an EXPENSIVE hobby; ask the average tank or aircraft “enthusiast”.

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      Rowjay

      Big Bad Vlad is openly defying the feckless British prime minister and running his sanctioned oil fleet through the English Channel,

      According to G-AI – “In March and April 2026, the Trump administration eased specific sanctions on Russia, temporarily allowing certain oil shipments and delisting three vessels to ease global energy price pressures during the Iran conflict.”
      So the UK and NATO was following orders….

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      Dennis

      He needs to get HMS Victory sailing again, and that telecope that Captain (Lord) Nelson used large end and his blind eye?

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      yarpos

      Western “sanctions” have no meaning outside the west and do not justify piracy. So hopefully there was never any intent to do anything stupid, or at least anything that could be tied to the UK.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Perhaps we won’t have to worry about where all that extra electricity will come from after all.

    “OpenAI pauses UK data centre deal over energy costs and regulation” [and maybe a little bit of recent political friction, it was announced alongside U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. in September?].

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyd032ej70o

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      Graeme No.3

      Now all you have to do is “worry about where your electricity will come from?”
      With low diesel, low gas supplies you will rely on Ed Ding-a-Ling’s expertise.

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        John Connor II

        A lifetime without electricity, 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 minutes without air.

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    David Maddison

    Quote attributed to Teddy Roosevelt but I can’t find the original source.

    But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.

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      Steve

      As C.S. Lewis put it, postmodern societies produce ‘men without chests’. All those noble ideals and virtues are worthless if you don’t have the strength, will, and moral clarity to fight for them.

      Or as G Michael Hopf put it:

      Hard times create strong men. (silent generation)
      Strong men create good times. (greatest generation)
      Good times create weak men. (baby boomers)
      Weak men create hard times. (millennials)

      We are living in a 4th turning, and I suspect that Gens Alpha and Beta will endure hard times and emerge from them stronger and more disciplined than their parents and grandparents.

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        Scott

        I believe a quote that goes with that is often attributed to Bruce Lee because of its martial arts roots but I am not sure of the origin, goes along the lines of:

        “Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war”

        Appeasement never works against sociopaths

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        John Connor II

        We are living in a 4th turning

        A subset of the more complex “big picture” but good enough for most, who have never heard of T4T anyway…

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      Teddy Wilson understood history better than Woodrow Wilson, who was not only a history professor, but responsible for the development of “new history” which is the basis for the “progressive” re-writing of history that we see today.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Claim: The Climate Crisis Has Already Caused Society to Collapse”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/09/claim-the-climate-crisis-has-already-caused-society-to-collapse/

    A different sort of prepping

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏’𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄’𝐒 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄”

    “GB News’ Alex Armstrong laid out the geopolitical map that American media refuses to draw: this war isn’t about toppling Iran. It’s about 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 — and America is winning on every front.”

    More at

    https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2041722116316524603

    Via https://instapundit.com/788745/#disqus_thread

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      another ian

      FWIW – more on that in today’s Coffee & Covid newsletter

      “I am pleased to report that we C&Cers aren’t barking in the wilderness anymore. We are no longer the only ones noticing that President Trump has been working from a long-term plan, as though directing construction from a complicated blueprint. More and more, people are starting to connect the dots we’ve long seen. Two quick examples.”

      More at

      https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/sinking-cred-thursday-april-9-2026?

      And the New York Times gets mentioned

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      RickWill

      TDS is a blinding condition. Starmer is a major sufferer. Sleezy just as bad and Milliwatt and Blackout are blind as well as stupid.

      You see the way their ABC spins POTUS Trump’s triumph in Gaza, Venezuela and Iran, Each reported as a crazed womaniser at risk of immediate impeachment.

      It appears BBC is now a little gun shy and are giving more balanced reporting on USA but still myopic rather than just thoroughly blind:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mvrsdXmbWA

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        Ross

        Cant wait for the day someone shows old mate Donald the ABC 4 Corners program hosted by Sarah Ferguson where she accuses him of being a Russian plant. Maybe its on his To Do list- he’s a bit busy at the moment, what with saving the USA and the world.

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      el+gordo

      ” … 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 — and America is winning on every front.”

      In fact he smashed up the global order and now everyone else is playing catchup to the new imperial model.

      Trump could be a lame duck by Xmas so he has to move fast to shore up the numbers, which is why he plans to invade Cuba next.

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      KP

      The last time America tried to starve the Asians of oil the Japanese went to Pearl Harbour.. Do these people think China will do nothing, or are too weak to stand up? America has just shown it can’t control Iran, never mind anyone more a peer power than that.

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        el+gordo

        ‘ … starve the Asians of oil …’

        Different political culture and the situation 85 years ago has no relation to our present predicament.

        In July 1941 Japan invaded southern Indochina in preparation for an attack against both British Malaya, a source for rice, rubber, and tin, and the oil-rich Dutch East Indies. This prompted Roosevelt to freeze all Japanese assets in the US which effectively cut off Japan’s access to American oil. Pearl Harbour was the catalyst which brought the US out of isolationism to confront the Axis of Evil.

        At present China has three months supply of oil and a LNG pipeline to Siberia.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Education is fond of fads: If it feels good, fund it. “Among other things, Pondiscio writes, change is how administrators show they’re leaders. The new superintendent” announces a bold vision, rebrands existing efforts, and introduces a new set of priorities. Three years later, often before results are fully visible, that leader departs,” and a new one comes in with bold new ideas. If the experiment is working, it’s hard to sustain the success.”

    Too many administrators, not enough parental control and oversight.”

    More at

    https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/education-is-fond-of-fads-if-it-feels-good-fund-it

    https://instapundit.com/788521/#disqus_thread

    Sounds like politics in Oz too

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    Rowjay

    President Trump’s “victory timeline” claims on the Iranian conflict makes interesting reading – from 9:45 into this Ytube presentation…
    Could be summarised as “new world disorder”…

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    David Maddison

    I accidentally posted this on the other thread but was asked to repost it in its correct place here. It already got 14 “likes” in the other place…

    More great news from the US.

    https://x.com/i/status/2042198955769950276

    Democrats are in full panic mode as the changes at CBS News and 60 Minutes have become apparent.

    Under the new ownership of Paramount (and Larry Ellison with his son David), CBS News is now doing real reporting exposing government fraud in California.

    Now Ellison is also buying CNN along with all of the assets at Warner Brothers Discovery. The far left wing “reporters” are CNN are in a full blown panic that they will no longer be able to promote their radical left agenda.

    The far left was counting on their Obama allies at Netflix to purchase Warner Bros (and CNN). However the Ellison family outbid Netflix with $110 billion.

    Radical left wing senators like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are trying to claim “national security concerns” to block the merger. In reality, they are terrified at the though of the left losing their control on the media narrative.

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      Paramount and CBS have been joined at the hip since at least the mid-1980s.

      They also OWN the Oz “10” network.

      The “attitude adjustment they can potentially wield is huge.

      See also ALL the “media giants”: Money, power and “influence”.

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    Priceless!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNG2LP2c58

    The feline seems to have escaped the hessian container.

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    John Connor II

    Meanwhile in Ireland, they’ve had enough

    Something very serious is unfolding in Ireland right now.

    Major anti-Government protests have brought the entire Country to a halt for a second successive day, with protesters vowing to ESCALATE if the Government doesn’t meet their demands.

    The government is not messing around. They sent in tanks this morning to stop the protests against their anti-Irish policies and their destruction of the Irish culture.

    https://www.womensystems.com/2026/04/ireland-is-rising-up-and-about-to.html

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    Greg in NZ

    And in other news today:

    It’s snowing in Australia – albeit on Tasmania’s hills – as an Antarctic low the size of Australia slams the southern state with freezing sleet & snow for the next few days…

    Tiny TC Maila, Cat 3, which has been going nowhere for the past week in the Solomon Sea, is still making its mind up what it wants to do with its life – stay put or maybe drift westwards towards QLD’s far north?

    Fiji’s TC Vaianu, Cat 3 max a few days ago but now downgraded to ex-TC Vaianu as it drops southwards into NZ waters, is getting civil defence experts [sic], government suits, and the media, all-a-fluster as they warn of ‘life-threatening’ conditions for this weekend, ie. “clean your gutters and tie down trampolines”.

    To take evasive action I’ve driven 30 minutes west (across country from the east coast to the west coast) to sample the healing geothermal waters of Palm Springs hot pools in Helensville – $16 for retirees, woohoo! – and camp in my van on a buddy’s piece of land halfway up a hill overlooking the Kaipara Harbour in the lee of the expected southeast gales. NB. Tank is still full of pre-Iran war-price diesel, esky chocker with steak & bacon & cider, and I’ve enough whisky to scare any teetotaller into changing their ways 😃

    And if climate botherers haven’t enough on their plate this week, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted this morning sending lahars downslope and Pele’s hair up into the skies, not that it’ll travel far as yet another Kona storm slams the Sandwich Isles with gales, thunder, and sleet/snow on higher elevations: there sure is a lot of weather about… ain’t nothing new.

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      Broadie

      I believe Lesson 3 may apply to your situation!

      Here is a story about a bird who found his lessons in the most unlikely of places:

      Once upon a time, there was a nonconforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started southward. In a short time, ice began to form on his wings and he fell to earth in a barnyard, almost frozen. A cow passed by and crapped on the little sparrow. The sparrow thought it was the end. But then the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings. Warm and happy, able to breathe, he started to sing. Just then a large cat came by and hearing the chirping, investigated the sounds. The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping sparrow and promptly ate him.

      Now, it may seem that there are no lessons here, but there are. In fact, there are three:

      1. Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy.
      2. Everyone who gets you out of shit is not necessarily your friend.
      3. If you’re warm and happy in a pile of shit, keep your mouth shut.

      Source: “The Advantage in Your Disadvantage,” from The Healing Power of Humor, by Allen Klein

      In your case Greg, I believe you are setting yourself up for an earthquake / landslip.

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      el+gordo

      A cold air outbreak.

      https://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf

      Bit early for the ski season, but they’ll say its a weather anomaly and has nothing to do with a changing climate.

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      yarpos

      Make sure to check your filler cap lock. You know what those bloody Kiwis are like, and there is always the risk of Aussie tourists.

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      Greg in NZ

      Um… mokay… I’ll beware of cows, cats, cold and caps, the dreaded 4Cs – can’t be any worse than the UN’s Goracle-inspired dreaded 4Cs:

      Catastrophic Climate Change Crock™️.

      Sometimes life is worth celebrating.

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    John Connor II

    East-west pipeline attacked, reduced output by 700,000bpd

    According to the Saudi Press Agency – the kingdom’s official state news outlet – recent attacks have caused widespread damage across the energy sector:
    Pumping station on the East–West Pipeline hit, cutting ~700,000 bpd in throughputThe Petroline had been ramped up to full capacity in mid-March to sustain exports during the Hormuz disruption, far above its typical peacetime flow of 1.2–2 million bpd.

    https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2042323106367152430

    This is BAD.
    People don’t realise the ramifications of taking out the east-west pipeline or Bab el-Mandeb, compounding the Hormuz shutdown.
    You could forget about fuel rationing and food shortages.
    It’ll be civilisation ending, and no, that’s not chicken little or hyperbole.

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    John Connor II

    Meanwhile in Canada – MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

    https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status/2042038086742225012/

    RIP canada…

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    David Maddison

    Latest Tweet from the White House.

    “If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.” – President Donald J. Trump

    https://x.com/i/status/2042402293446767065

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      David Maddison

      Related Tweet.

      𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗞 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦:

      Ron DeSantis: “The United States should reconsider being close allies with the United Kingdom because they have imported the Third World and we do not share a common culture anymore.”

      DeSantis get it. UK is third world now.

      https://x.com/i/status/2042235888579522834

      Video at link, which says a similar thing.

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      RickWill

      I think it is more about importing the third world ideals that the UN dishes up.
      1. No borders – allow all criminals in.
      2. Demonise carbon to de-industrialise.
      3. Give your productive land back to the First Nations you stole it from who used it so effectively before you took away – embed apartheid so deeply that it keeps the racist agenda alive.
      4. Gag free speech so no one is permitted to say bad things about the UN and their government stooges.

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        Spot on, Rick Will,
        The end of Darwinian Evolution and end of The Enlightenment.

        Demonise carbon, destroy your food source, gag free speech,
        … A civilisation destroyed.

        The end of Darwnian volurion and The Eblightenment.

        Rick Will! and The Enlightenment.

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    David Maddison

    Latest scary story from Australian Government taxpayer-funded propaganda unit, Their ABC.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/tas-emperor-penguins-and-seals-listed-as-endangered/106545150

    In short:
    Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are undergoing significant population reductions because of the impacts of climate change on their habitat and food supply.

    The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) now categorises both species as endangered.

    What’s next?
    Scientists and conservation groups say urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to reduce the risks to the endangered species.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

    Are they going to tell the Chicomms to reduce their “greenhouse” (sic) gases?

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      Greg in NZ

      Give ‘em 6 months – they’ll discover the pingus & furries have relocated to another spot coz the guano was getting chin-deep… just like their ABC’s 💩

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    John Connor II

    Friday funny: we all learned about government at an early age

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_td7d3nWsic1y10rdd.mp4

    I remember those! 😁

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      Graeme4

      At a WA Uni open day, the engineering dept borrowed a plastic arm from the medical dept and rigged it up to do likewise. Believe it was very life-like.
      I once rigged up a male/female detector that worked quite well for an open evening, but never built the “Little Gem Fuse Checker”, that confirmed fuses were ok, but included an extra unmarked switch that blew the fuse.

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    Dennis

    How media mislead us …

    As a question answered on Bolt tonight from an Iranian Australian when she was asked her thoughts on the end of civilisation threat, she answered that DJT comments must not be taken at face value, analyse them. She said her contacts in Iran want the precision targeted bombing to continue as they believe the longer it goes on and the losses are incurred the closer the end is in sight as the regime leadership crumbles and loses assets without which they have less and less power.

    And that the end of civilisation targets the mindset of the religion based supreme leaders and threatens their branch of Islam, not the Iran nation.

    End of civilisation implied threat and meaning ….

    Certain hardline Shiite ideologues interpret the conflict with the U.S. and its allies as a prophetic showdown that could lead to the arrival of the Mahdi, a messianic figure in Islamic eschatology. They view Trump’s threats as part of a larger narrative of an impending final battle, which they believe is foretold in their religious texts.

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      KP

      “She said her contacts in Iran want the precision targeted bombing to continue as they believe the longer it goes on and the losses are incurred the closer the end is in sight as the regime leadership crumbles and loses assets without which they have less and less power.”

      Haha! Easy to say when you’re living on the other side of the world and won’t have any consequences for your words.. She might think differently if she was in Tehran.

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        Hanrahan

        Haha! Easy to say when you’re living on the other side of the world and won’t have any consequences for your words.

        Easy for yourself as you are living the good life with zero chance of your crazy anti west attitude being used as evidence against you.

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          Dennis

          The informant said she heard from family members and friends in Iran

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          Skepticynic

          >your crazy anti west attitude

          I have the same crazy attitude but it’s not anti-West, it’s pro-West.
          However I was was only mildly surprised when I discussed the current Iran situation today with my Muslim Iranian doctor friend who still has family there and he was very happy for the precision targeted bombing to continue.
          He said the more the regime is weakened, the closer they get to the population being able to protest without being murdered. And then the people and the army being able to wrest control from the IRGC and the Mullahs.

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    another ian

    FWIW –

    “GROUNDBREAKING NEW STUDY REGARDING IVERMECTIN AND CANCER”

    “84% of Cancer Patients Reported a Clinical Benefit

    In this human observational analysis, off-label use of Ivermectin+Mebendazole showed a remarkable 84% Clinical Benefit Ratio in the treatment of cancer. These results indicate that the inexpensive and safe off-label applications of these medications could be an important breakthrough in the treatment of cancer.

    The report analyzed 197 cancer patients who were prescribed ivermectin and mebendazole off label. Participants received compounded oral capsules containing 25 mg of ivermectin and 250 mg of mebendazole. After 6-months, participants reported an 84% Clinical Benefit Ratio. With 48% of participants reporting regression or no evidence of cancer, while 36% reported disease stability. Only 15.6% of participants reported disease progression.”

    More at

    https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/groundbreaking-new-study-regarding-ivermectin-and-cancer

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Fall of Islam
    It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.”

    ““Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning: establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood, which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims’ efforts, presents Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic State wherever it is.”

    “This process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan Muslim Brotherhood must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘ sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.” ”

    ““We must possess a mastery of the art of ‘coalitions’, the art of ‘absorption’ and the principles of ‘cooperation’.

    The aforementioned quotes are from a document written on May 5, 1991, by Mohammed Akhram called “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” The group is the Muslim Brotherhood, and the document is their strategic plan for America. This document is open source and was found during a 2004 FBI raid of the home of Ismael Elbarasse, founder of the Dar AL- Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia. Elbarasse was a member of the Palestine Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood had created to support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, in America. In 2008, this same document was translated and presented as evidence in the largest Islamic terrorist organization funding trial, the Holy Land Foundation case in Texas.”

    More at https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-fall-of-islam/

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    David Maddison

    Another sign of a split between Europe and the United States is the development of Euro-Office to replace Microsoft Office.

    https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/industry-initiative-launches-euro-office-as-true-sovereign-office-suite/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Eh? Gawd!”

    “King Charles Explains to Aussie Flood Victims They Should have Done More about Climate Change”

    “As Australia wakes up to the Iran War reality we still need fossil fuel, King Charles chooses now to push his climate obsession.

    The letter from King Charles;”

    More at

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/09/king-charles-explains-to-aussie-flood-victims-they-should-have-done-more-about-climate-change/

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    another ian

    His latest version of “Losing his head”?

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    another ian

    FWIW – another one “FAFO”s

    “‘What a Surprise’ File: Latest Classified Leaker to Get Busted Is Just AWFL”

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/09/what-a-surprise-file-latest-classified-leaker-to-get-busted-is-just-awfl-n3813719

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Lunatic Worker Torches Enough Toilet Paper for 50M People Over Wages, Puts 20 Folks Out of Work”

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/09/lunatic-worker-torches-enough-toilet-paper-for-50m-people-over-wages-puts-20-folks-out-of-work-n3813730

    He wanted them all to use their left hand?

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