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Isn’t Australia a Commonwealth country?
So Charles is sort of your King?
Apparently the Governor of the Mos .,, I mean Church of the England no longer acknowledges Easter.
So no barbies during Ramadan for you. 🙂
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The first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox is still six months away.
In the Southern Hemisphere.
Watch this space.
🙂
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Pork Chops with apple sauce please.
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And a glass of wine?
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There used to be sound reasons for prohibiting consumption of pig meat, which still apply in certain circumstances.
There are diseases which pigs carry that are transmissible to humans if the meat is not well cooked. It seems that in biblical times this must have been noticed by people in authority.
However the quote from the Bible that I have seen cites all cloven footed animals. That includes cows, sheep and goats, camels?, I think deer etc.
Those diseases are controlled and eliminated in modern production systems.
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>cites all cloven footed animals
All? No. Only those who don’t chew the cud.
Leviticus 11:7–8
Also in Deuteronomy 14:8
And you’re not even allowed to touch the carcass.
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I was at Church of England service this morning as were many hundreds of thousands of other Anglicans. It was definitely a (long) Easter Sunday service complete with Easter eggs at the end.
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King Charles III is infatuated with the religion of the replacement population, if not an actual follower. It seems to appeal to many woke people, just look how the Left in general embrace and celebrate it (e.g. their suppport of open borders immigration which attracts mostly fighting age men of that demographic, not doing anything about the grooming gangs in the UK for decades and two tier policing in that country, their support of the Iranian regime and their proxies such as Hamas, silence about the plight of women and minorities in such countries etc.).
Videos about Charles.
Sky News Australia discusses:
https://youtu.be/vUd6f-qyYb4
Godfrey Bloom discusses:
https://x.com/i/status/2040077171222282462
Extended discussion here:
https://youtu.be/iWKzE6yPtmI
It’s clear why Queens Elizabeth II hung on to her commission to her very last day, she knew her son was not a fit and proper person to be King.
Charles will likely be the last monarch of the UK, the replacement population will want a Caliph, not a King.
Some want to turn Buckingham Palace into a mosque. https://youtu.be/tc0-1Wv_rZ8
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Commonwealth of Australia is a Federation of States much like the USA but based on the British Westminster System of Government and some US system.
Under the Constitution from 1900 when the Commonwealth of Australia was created the King (or Queen) is a Constitutional Monarch with no powers other than ceremonial and signing constitutional law documents presented. A Governor General is selected and nominated by the Prime Minister & Cabinet and the Monarch automatically accepts and approves of the appointment. The Governor General is also bound by constitutional laws and has no other powers.
During the 1930s the British Parliament legislated to remove all the powers a King or Queen had and the effectively covered member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, the former British Empire. During the 1980s the Australian Parliament (Federal) passed complimentary legislation to reinforce the British legislation, however since the 1930s the Monarch had no powers in Australia.
The King or Queen are Australian only when visiting and for ceremonial reasons and purposes.
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British justice must be done,
Not only done but seen,
And now I’ve had it done to me,
I know how done I’ve been.
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Right up there with some words from Humbert Wolfe:
Epigram: British Journalist
You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
Apply as required.
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Good to see you Yonnie!
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Queen Elizabeth was such a great lady. She dedicated her life to her people who she served with devotion and respect. The outpouring of grief and love on her death was a tribute to her life of duty that surpassed all the celebrities of our age.
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I’m not a big fan of dynastic monarchies (NO KINGS!!!), but I will say that if they have to exist, Queen Elizabeth set the standard for how they should conduct themselves. She remained above the fray, stayed out of politics, and never took sides because she realized she was the Queen for EVERYONE in empire, not just those who agreed with her. When something offensive needed to be said, she left it to her husband to be the abrasive (but highly amusing) jerk that he was.
It’s a shame her dipshit son chose to ignore her example and wade into every political issue like a textbook example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I honestly think he’s going to be the death of the monarchy. By the end of his reign, two-thirds of the British people are going to hate the monarchy so much they’ll want it gone even more than they wanted out of the EU.
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I forecast many years ago that Charles, then William, would ruin the British monarchy. Charles is a half-wit lefty, William is also lefty, with a few more smarts but too woke and lazy to repair what damage his father does. The UK will end up with a shriveled monarchy similar to that in Denmark, IMO.
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Similar to Denmark. Hmmm. According to the Danes, I am told, Denmark has Queen Mary and Frederick. Maybe Australia could rescue the British royalty one day – Kanga, we miss you.
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It might be interesting to check out who KC3’s “best mates” were during his time at that exclusive school in Victoria.
How many, (if any) are still “in play”.
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Stuart McGregor and John Burnell were appointed by the school as his official companions. Both still around.
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For 40 years I have been wondering how his classmates fared by comparison in their life experiences.
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‘I honestly think he’s going to be the death of the monarchy.’
‘The Firm’ has resilience and will survive Charlie’s foibles.
‘King George III (reigned 1760–1820) was a dutiful, long-reigning British monarch famously labeled “Mad King George” due to recurring, severe mental illness later in life. Likely suffering from bipolar disorder or porphyria, he exhibited symptoms like manic talking, erratic behavior, and, finally, complete incapacity in 1810, leading to a Regency.’ (wiki)
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The Queen didn’t give a damn about the people when the oldies were being euthanased to prevent hospital overcrowding during COVID lockdowns.
When the populace really needed the protection of the monarchy from the parliament, the Crown refused.
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A women I knew who met the Queen several times and had the honour of dining while seated with her told me that Queen Elizabeth was “normal” women t women and socially a very good companion. In this example both women served their countries during WW2 in women’s auxiliary Army roles.
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Interesting discussion about Space Launch System (SLS) vs Saturn V. See link below.
It appears that the Saturn V, first launched 1967, is superior to SLS first launched 2022.
This is partly because SLS is not a new rocket but a conglomeration of Space Shuttle solid boosters, main engines and a modified main fuel tank plus other legacy bits and pieces.
It doesn’t have sufficient payload capacity to launch both the crew and a moon lander on one single flight. On future missions a lander and other cargo will have to be launched separately.
It looks like the engineers using deep knowledge, pencils, paper and slide rules created a superior and optimal solution in the 1960’s to what engineers with unlimited computing power but not so deep knowledge can do today.
https://youtu.be/HIyBvizoQJk
Ultimately of course, the rocket equation is thr limiting factor in all of this.
See https://youtu.be/IS4t8NlgqaQ
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The Senate Launch System (aka SLS) has always been a way of moving $10 Billion per year into the “right hands”, with an occasional potential use case floated to keep the funding flowing.
As an architecture, it’s a worse design by committee than the shuttle was, from which it’s many parts are derived.
Fundamentally, a rocket is designed from the engines up, to throw a particular quantity of mass to orbit. Using a hydrogen sustainer stage as your primary booster (SLS, Ariane) has long been known (hello Saturn V) as a particularly poor way of getting a large mass to orbit, but hey, keeping the solids guys in business is a necessity if you wish to have an ICBM force.
Absolutely everybody with rocket building experience is moving to MethaLox engines in the first stage, then pick your poison for the second stage, depending on your experience/masochism level (New Glenn is Methalox first, Hydrogen upper as is the upcoming Stoke Space rocket. Rocket Labs next rocket is Methalox/Methalox as is the king of rockets, the SpaceX Superheavy+Starship)
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SLS was a solution to a political problem, not an engineering one. Unlike the Saturn V, SLS started as a rocket with no well defined practical purpose. Given the circumstances, I think you’re too harsh on the SLS engineers.
They built a rocket trustworthy enough to put people on top of it for the 2nd launch, and aside from the solid rocket boosters and engines, it is a distinctly different rocket to any other, so it’d be disingenuous to say it is just the space shuttle external tank with engines on the bottom, as some detractors have tried to assert.
Future iterations of SLS would have had a larger 2nd stage, and larger boosters, both progressively increasing its Lunar payload capacity to that approaching the Saturn V, but this evolution was cancelled last February.
The launch cost and financial mismanagement of the SLS project should rightly have US taxpayers in apoplexy, but we can’t deny the success of Artemis I and (god willing) ongoing success of Artemis II.
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“a rocket trustworthy enough to put people on top of” <- this phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting…
The only other in service rocket capable of lofting Orion is Falcon Heavy, which, even at $150 million fully expended, is vastly cheaper than SLS $4 Billion per launch. Starship V4 will reduce that cost over Falcon Heavy by at least an order of magnitude.
Note that the revised Artemis architecture uses SLS solely to place Orion in LEO, just as FH would…
"it is a distinctly different rocket to any other" Ariane 6 is *also* a Hydrolox sustainer with solid rocket boosters, just smaller and less orange.
You could argue that the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Module (aka second stage, to be replaced by Centaur) and Exploration Upper Stage make it distinctly different, but those are dictated by Artemis requirements, which, as has been noted, have been thrown in the trash by the new mission architecture.
As for the current mission, pray to whatever God(s) you prefer, that the heatshield problems of Artemis 1 are actually solved, or Artemis 2 will go the way of Columbia.
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“pray to whatever God(s) you prefer, that the heatshield problems of Artemis 1 are actually solved, or Artemis 2 will go the way of Columbia.”
Nah- dive out to the ISS and Musk will rescue you!
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“…<- this phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting…"
In case you hadn't noticed, they did it, and it worked… how am I wrong?
"it is a distinctly different rocket to any other" Ariane 6 is *also* a Hydrolox sustainer with solid rocket boosters, just smaller and less orange"
Yes, so you agree, SLS is a distinct rocket… just because they burn the same fuel, and the same basic shape, doesn't make them the same.
You seem keen for Artemis to fail, it's a bizarre and regressive attitude to have, but you're entitled to it.
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Possibility of an eye drops to remove cataracts (experimental, in clinical trials).
Video: https://youtu.be/TgZrTGRRzbc
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I prefer to get a new lens because I will have a better sight at greater distances as with the old but cleared lens.
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I was advised that I had the beginning of cataracts when I was in my sixties and I asked if I could have them removed while they were not a problem and that was done to both eyes at separate times in day surgery and I have been very pleased with the resulting vision, I chose long distance best sight and need reading glasses up close but can read many things like headlines on a newspaper without problem.
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Didn’t know they could do both eyes on the same day. Am having cataract surgery on Friday, but know very little about what’s going to be done, or whether I will still need glasses afterwards. And how do you get on with your existing glasses? Throw them away?
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Yep, throw them away.
They usually give you the choice between long sight and short sight before the operation.
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Ok, thanks for the advice. What about astigmatism? I believe that they can also compensate for that. Would prefer not wearing glasses for long sight.
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Astigmatism is common and generally treatable.
Driving the car without glasses is my preferred option.
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“both eyes at separate times”, Graeme4 it is a comfortable experience and once under anaesthetic you later wake up and wonder what you were worried about.
My surgery was two separate sessions end of one year and start of the following year.
I was given the choice of three options being good long vision or short vision and what I cannot imagine coping with one eye long one eye short vision.
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had mine done a couple of years ago. No waking up as the anesthetic was 7 eye drops in the waiting room with the rest of that morning’s batch.
Surgeon as I was put on the op theatre table-
“You’ll be out of here in about 15 minutes. In fact in exactly 7 and a half”
That included the micro stent
https://www.optometry.org.au/workplace/micro-stent-opens-way-for-glaucoma-treatment-without-drops/
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Incredibly fast.
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Thanks. Am still wondering how you wear multi focal glasses with one eye corrected, but I’m presuming they will explain that.
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I had a 6 week wait before the second eye was corrected. I had been wearing multifocals for years. I was advised to wear my spectacles with the lens removed for the corrected eye. I was glad to have the second op.
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” I cannot imagine coping with one eye long one eye short vision.”
Guy I’m working with had that done, permanent operations leaving one short, one long focus, reckons its great and your brain just automatically compensates.
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there are accredited eye surgeons members of the Bilateral Cataract Surgeons Alliance (or so) who can do both eyes in one go. I had it done and am very happy 10 years later. I chose multifocal lenses so I can see far and near (fine print sometimes problematic if lighing insufficient)
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That was my experience as well. Years earlier, I had lasik surgery on both eyes, done swiftly in a single session.
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Meh. Same old idea. A few percentage points improvement isn’t a cure. Plus, simple eye drops have to permeate through to the lens, a very inefficient method.
Plus, the lens itself loses its flexibility after you hit 50 or so, so you’ll need glasses or contacts anyway.
Actual flexible lens replacements like JelliSee are still years away.
4 months on from my having an IOL in one eye, vision is ultra sharp…
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Mine remain as new and now 12 years later.
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Or there’s DSMO.
But you can’t patent it or copyright it.
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In certain quarters (mostly European lefty press), the US operation to rescue a downed pilot is being criticized as a waste of resources because they had to destroy two of their own planes rather than leave them behind when they couldn’t get off the ground. It’s a total disconnect with how the American military thinks. Americans would make that trade every day and twice on Easter Sunday. A former CENTCOM commander says is best …
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2040823141774086505
It’s no wonder Europeans struggle to fill the ranks of their military. Not when their technocratic leaderships is more worried about losing an expensive piece of equipment than you losing your life. Nice one-way loyalty there Euros. Give up your life for your country, but we’ll have to do a cost-benefit analysis before we come to rescue you. Don’t expect any help if your rescue costs more than a coach plane ticket, a car rental, and a few magazines of ammo.
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FWIW – wasn’t all ways like that –
That was used before – Admiral Cunningham on the evacuation of Crete in WW 2
“Determined that the Royal Navy would rescue the men on Crete, Cunningham pushed forward despite concerns that he might sustain heavy losses. In response to this criticism, he famously responded, “It takes three years to build a ship, it takes three centuries to build a tradition.” ”
https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-battle-of-crete-2361468
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America learned a lot of it’s traditions from the Brits (as did you Aussies), so it’s no surprise there once were a lot of similarities. They kept up those traditions until the ‘end of history’ with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Then they joined the rest of Europe in hollowing out their militaries until they were little more than a decorative deterrent and abandoned their old martial traditions in the process.
The British SAS still gets a lot of well-deserved respect among American troops, but the rest of Britain’s military has seriously decline since then. It’s borderline criminal how far they have allowed the British Navy to fall. The once famed ‘wooden walls’ of England that once dominated the seas and were the engine behind the most far-flung empire in human history are now little more than a folded paper sailboat trundling down a stream. They can’t even get ships into theater anymore to protect their own bases.
https://www.thesun.ie/news/16724141/hms-dragon-cyprus-iran-drone-attack/
https://www.thesun.ie/news/16736447/brit-sailors-use-german-frigate-nato-mission/
Pathetic.
And as bad as the Brits have become …. the rest of western Europe is worse. Far worse. If it weren’t for those hard Polish bastards in the East, Europe would be defenseless.
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The Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain were some of the hardest fighters once they were allowed to join in.
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The Poles charging tanks with horse-mounted cavalry during the initial invasion of Poland to try and give refugees time to escape is still one greatest stories of martial valor from WWII.
A close second is the story of the 43 Polish mailmen facing down 180 Nazi Wehrmacht troops over possession of the local post office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlWcz1aFds0
The Poles greatest failing of WWII was not a lack of courage, but a lack of resources and preparation. With long memories and an economy on the verge of cracking the trillion dollar club in GDP, they aren’t going to make that mistake again.
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I too was going to say that the American officer’s statement was a paraphrase of what Admiral Cunning said during the evacuation of British and Commonwealth troops from Crete but you beat me to it.
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The European attitude is extraordinary.
1) They are quite happy to give away their own countries with open borders leading to dramatically increased terrorism, general violence, sexual violence, assault and robbery etc. plus huge drains on the welfare systems.
2) They are not prepared to help the United States secure their own oil or other energy supplies even though the US is self sufficient in oil and doesn’t need any oil from the Gulf.
Why should the United States continue to support and help save Europe when they themselves don’t wish to continue to exist?
Two concerns remain.
1) What will become of UK and French nuclear weapons when the replacement population takes over?
2) What will happen to European artworks as the replacement population sees most of them as haram and will destroy them? They should somehow be transferred to the United States for protection which under TRUMP is the last hold out of Western Civilisation.
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2) European artworks
“If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them.”
Attributed to Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab with regard to the burning of the Library of Alexandria in the 7th Century.
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‘TRUMP is the last hold out of Western Civilisation.’
That is debatable. He’ll be out of power in a few years, leaving the social democrats to rule the roost.
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Whut?
I thought he was a king and was going to remain in power forever. Any day now, he’s going to light a Rheichstag fire and declare himself the Fuhrer (though he seems to be taking his time, given that Hitler did it within a month of taking power and it’s been nearly a decade since Trump first took power).
Or so lefty NGOs and their paid activists with the spiffy professional signs have told me.
But seriously folks, you are correct. Trump will be gone in three years, and Democrats will likely be favorites to take the presidency in 2028 (it’s been 38 years since the same political party held the presidency for more than two consecutive terms). The hope is by 2028, Trump will have managed to move the Overton window sufficiently that the Democratic Party becomes somewhat sane again. In the 1990s, they were a reasonable yin to the Republican yang. It wasn’t until about 2014 or so that they started to go wobbly, and then the shock of Trump winning in 2016 knocked them completely off the rails and they have been spiraling deeper and deeper into lunacy for the past decade.
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‘ … the Democratic Party becomes somewhat sane again.’
Maybe, a lot could happen between now and then, this exceptional democracy might be in free fall.
‘The Overton Window is the range of policies or ideas acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. Often called the “window of discourse,” it defines the boundary between ideas that are considered mainstream and those deemed too radical, shifting over time to reflect evolving societal values.’ (wiki)
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I wonder if France paid the bribe, $1,000,000 as a French container ship sailed through. That sort of thing not only gives the IRGC hope but cash. Typical Macron. Not his war. He didn’t start it. And besides as the biggest arms supplier in recent history, France always plays both sides. There have been few major wars in the last thousand years in which France was not a player if not the agressor. And in the last hundred nearly all of them.
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More on that
“T. Becket Adams Nails the Moment: Europe Disappointed U.S. Actually Saved Its Pilot in Iran”
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/04/05/t-becket-adams-euros-dont-understand-america-n2426813
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And
“The Daily Mail Sparks Internet Outrage After Posting this Vile Tweet and Article Concerning the Incredible Rescue of F-15 Pilot – Team Trump Responds with FIRE”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/daily-mail-sparks-internet-outrage-after-posting-this/
Looks like they’re serious about dampening “ancestral tourism”?
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The bigger picture is that the Left are so disappointed that Western Civilisation, now represented ONLY by the United States under TRUMP, is winning against the forces of darkness.
The Left are barracking for Iran and their proxies and all the evil they represent.
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And the left however others too do not understand what MAGA really is all about, manufacturing industry and trade.
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Trump is waging a useless religious war, he should have gone to Cuba and avoided Iran.
‘The US president seems to have turned his attention to Cuba in recent weeks, saying that it was ‘next’. Officials from both countries have reportedly been in negotiations since February however the content of the discussions remains unclear.’ (Guardian)
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I have heard multiple claims as to how close the Iranian theocracy was to producing an atomic bomb. The most alarming such claim is ‘two weeks’. I have no basis to confirm or deny that claim.
When the regime called for ‘Death to America’ over the last 47 years, it meant all the West. They’ve already bombed Australia twice through their agents.
Given their history and proclamations it is plausible that Trump acted just in time.
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All 18 US intelligence agencies plus the DNI reported that Iran was not in any way producing a nuclear weapon.
Trump ignored that advice.
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El+gordo, the Guardian is a curious source to explain the actions and thinking of Trump.
The journalists there have a particularly jaundiced view of Trump which they arrived at as soon as he became President the first time. They have pursued the Russian hoax for years, the Sth Korean goldfish feeding debacle, rejected the Biden laptop, turned a blind eye to Trump being called Hitler, supported huge numbers of illegal immigrants entering the US, advocated for Net Zero to help the rich elites fill their pockets even more, etc etc …
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Under Takaichi-san Japan is more western than most western countries.
Once we worked out our relationship with Japan they have been a reliable friend and trading partner.
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And
years ago a friend had a card on his office notice board that proclaimed
“Think Ahead”.
That message started in large print in the top left hand corner of the page and then decreased in size as it progressed around the top right hand corner and about half way down the right hand side.
Sounds like it would be appropriate for the EU/UK community
“European Weaklings Just Handed Trump the Perfect Excuse to Blow Up NATO – And They’ve Only Got Themselves to Blame!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/european-weaklings-just-handed-trump-perfect-excuse-blow/
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I remember “Think Ahead”. Well before ‘puter memes.
Sitting in my shorts a million miles from anywhere that matters, I have no idea if the US will stay in NATO but it seems inevitable that they will refocus on the Pacific and close many bases in the old world.
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I’ve been hoping that someone with more text manipulating skills than I’ve got would re-discover that and digitise it
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https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p/planning_department.asp?srsltid=AfmBOorSEuLAcn3hVLJMYgLFv4EKrtIIjfNJbaWhzX-AixzaPbmFWFfc
Hope this works …
Auto
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US has been building Asia Pacific Region and Indo Pacific Region commitment since at least around 1992 when the Japanese PM travelled to the US and returned to Japan via Canberra, Australia where he met the Prime Minister and they confirmed the defence relationships including that if needed because Japan was threatened US and Australia would help to defend and would take Japanese citizens in for their security until safe to return home.
This was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald so maybe Trove records?
Also US Military stationed on rotation in Australia, ADF Bases and adding to the essential for US communications, intelligence surveillance and other purposes not all disclosed bases notably Pine Gap NT where USAF aircraft land regularly and refuel at Richmond RAAF Base near Sydney.
During the Morrison Government period one of the projects (another is the nuclear submarine facilities at the RAN Submarine Base WA) was to extend runways and increase fuel storage capacity at the NT near Katherine Tindal RAAF Base airport to handle the largest US bombers and other USAF aircraft now visiting regularly.
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Remember those cards. Were postcard-sized. Think they were sold in the 1960s. Had the same “Think Ahead” one. Also others such as “Be Alert. The world needs more Lerts”.
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Like that graffiti my mum made me a homosexual, and scrawled underneath if I give her some wool will she knit one for me?
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My favourite is: “Cunnilingus is a real tongue twister.”
“No it’s not, it’s an Irish airline.”
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Think Ahead.
I can recall the cartoon with diminishing text size and a toppled D squeezed in at the end, back to the 1970s, if that helps.
I filed it on paper with the Mad Magazine cartoon about an afternoon on the moon (Wheels ripped off a moon terrain vehicle left up on blocks).
I no longer have the paper file, but I have the “Think Ahead” example listed in a contemporary PC file that I labelled “Vocabulary Theft” nearly 10 years ago.
Another early line came from Sydney Uni 1961, scribbled on a high wood beam over a walkway “I just love tall Lesbians”.
This was the year that I met Martin Sharp, a writer of humorous satire, who thanked his parents for a new Triumph Herald to get around Sydney Uni, buy cutting off the roof with cold chisels and hacksaws to make it a convertible.
I hope that this can clarify. Geoff S
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And “Their ABC” had their oar in too
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Australia’s public broadcaster continues to wishcast US defeat in Iran.
The loss of one 40 year old airframe over the course of TWELVE THOUSAND (12,000) combat sorties is taken as conclusive evidence of US DEFEAT
This type of left wing agitprop disguised as “journalism” is absolutely poisonous to the future of the Western world because it’s designed to completely paralyse us and make it utterly impossible to conduct foreign policy.
Seriously, if you can’t even risk losing 1 jet per 12,000 sorties, you may as well abolish the US Air Force and dissolve yourself as a nation.
Which is ultimately what leftists like John Lyons want.”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2040288348158493050
Quite a read at https://instapundit.com/787651/#disqus_thread
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He is showing a low level of awareness if he thinks only one aircraft had been lost. Its stretching into the billions now. War is expensive.
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No clue about morale and building the team spirit.
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Go read Simplicius Substack.
Geolocation of the aftermath is FAR from where the USA claims the F-15 went down.
At just 35km from Isfahan, it looks like a failed JSOC raid attempt to recover Iran’s enriched uranium stash, the F-15 was likely flying CAP when shot down and the failure (over $500 million in airfames lost)is being covered up with a “feel good” rescue story.
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The U.S. has explained that deliberately put out false info about the aircraft loss, to divert attention away from the actual location of the downed pilot, who was using an encrypted location beacon.
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Sorry, not the pilot.
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Ah, the no critical thinking response.
Strangely enough, if you have a Special Forces mission going South in a hurry, then POSSIBLY some misdirection as to actual location involved would be useful to those under fire.
To, you know, prevent/divert the arrival of overwhelming Iranian forces before you can escape….
Just a thought.
ps.
Geolocated photos are Geolocated.
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” if you have a Special Forces mission going South in a hurry, then POSSIBLY some misdirection as to actual location involved would be useful to those under fire.”
Yeah right… When your field commander is screaming into the phone about his troops holding down 100 American Special Forces and they’ve blown up two C130s, you’re not going to watch the TV to find out where the Yanks are looking for a pilot. The only misdirection would be to give the public something to rah-rah on.
Simplicious goes into some detail on the whole propaganda and lies of it, but really, who sends two C130s into rescue one pilot? “We had to blow up two C130s because they were stuck in the mud” becomes a photo of burnt-out C130s with propellors bent backwards because they were moving when they crashed. Iranians have been recovering interesting items from the debris field including sunscreen for an ‘extended stay’ in enemy territory..
The Iranian news pointed out that firing the top generals in the USA would have been those who resisted Trump’s mad idea to insert special forces to steal the uranium from Isfahan. Trump really outdid himself over it-
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day all wrapped up in one, in Iran. Open the fuckin Straits you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell- JUST WATCH!
I can’t see Starmer saying that…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/its-official-us-boots-on-ground-deep
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LOL
As an ancestor of pasty white Scots-Irish gingers who came to the United States as indentured servants, I pack sunscreen for any outdoor activity lasting longer than a half-hour. And that’s for a sunny day in the northern hemisphere. I would definitely be packing it for a visit of any length to the Middle East. I’d pack it even if I was just changing planes there.
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Video:
Dr John Campbell looks at mRNA covid “vaccines” and cancer.
https://youtu.be/Jr-WKRRLi9U
Paper (case report):
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I’m thinking in the future, ‘epidemic’ will be reinstated as the term that describes a widely infectious contagion that harms many people.
And ‘pandemic’ will describe when the hysterical reaction to the possibility of an epidemic harms many people.
Especially when propagated for political and financial gain.
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Honk R Smith,
Good idea, but has it not struck you how close ‘pandemic’ is to ‘pandemonium’? I think that’s what it should have been called all along.
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The correct term is “panicdemic”
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Methinks ‘pandemonium’ implies everybody is losing control.
I think ‘Pandemic’ was planned*, and controlled via the planners creating pandemonium amongst the population on whom the experiment was targeted.
I think Pandemic was and is one of the significant historical, political, maybe even biologic if you’re following Dr. John Campbell, events since BC became AD.
*Planned in that the op was prepared to be activated when the opportunity arose.
“Pandemic’ may became a historical word akin to Neolithic, or Feudalism, or democracy which the planners sought to manipulate.
They kinda have.
Many young people now wear medical masks as symbolic jewelry, which covers the septum ring, which is symbiotically attaches their control leash to the UN.
Or fealty to the new Lords.
I don’t think many of us on this blog quite yet understand that the crux of this discussion is the new religion being birthed around us.
Yes, for practical reasons Net Zero is weakening and will fade.
Pandemic may be the rebrand that breathed new life into the the new religion.
And in this rebrand, anthropogenic warming causes anthropogenic colding.
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While Covid was almost certainly a biological weapon, and probably planned, it barely ranks compared to the Bubonic plague which killed 20-60% of the European population or the Black Death which killed a similar proportion. Smallpox killed roughly 1 in 3 in it’s first pass in many countries.
1 in 3.
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I’m wondering Jo if “we” were still in the scientific dark ages as we were then, would the results have been the same.
Methinks it would have been something/nothing. Our assumed sophistication made it worse than it needed to be, and I doubt sailing ships could have carried it across oceans while they certainly could carry a plague infested rat. Jet aircraft have some answering to do.
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The Plague still circulates today. Yersinia Pestis still kills about 100 people a year — but antibiotics improve the odds greatly. And sanitation stops the infestations of rats and fleas that help to spread it.
Smallpox though is a virus. We have some antivirals but Big Pharma would prefer you use a vaccine so they don’t mention the antivirals much.
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If only there had been a highly scientific public health system in 1347.
We could know how many died ‘with’ plague, rather than of it.
Those poor people could have also been made to understand they were not horses and should not attempt to save themselves with ‘horse-de-wormer’.
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The Victorian government has delayed an enquiry into last summers major bushfire. This is because another government dept is also “looking into” this fire and the government doesn’t want both enquiries running at the same time.
Translation. The incompetence of the Victorian government will be on display, yet again. With an election looming in November we need to delay any bad news until after this.
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Noting that VicGov refused to release forestry records on fire hazard reduction
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Doubt the outcome of “boy on the bike” trial will be known before election.
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Reported recently VicGov has spent a huge sum of money on trying to keep court records of COVID19 period hearing away from public viewing
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Easy solution – you know Andrews was in the wrong so vote accordingly
(/s in case needed)
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WHAT!!!! is going on. Nova Scotia burned Australian natural gas this winter despite having it under our feet.
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/imported-natural-gas-resources-electricity-power-heat-coal-plant
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Australia exports more energy that imports, and should be self sufficient as well as being an even larger energy exporter in volume.
It is essential that the primarily State governments with Federal cooperation permit more exploration and development of all energy and minerals natural resources and release the abundance of potential wealth below our country and offshore in Territorial Waters.
And encourage construction of new oil refineries, the last two of six, that were nine, still operating thanks to the Morrison Government are supply 20% of the transport fuel and producing from Australian oil reserves.
No more transition away from fossil fuels and renewable energy transition, stop the incentive subsidies for profit before earning profit from supply and wholesale supply favouring the so called renewables (unreliable and intermittent).
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By the way, Minister for Energy Bowen announced that fuel destined for export produced here was diverted for local use in Australia, he called it “dirty fuel” and many comments I read were about concern that dirty fuel would damage engines. That fuel was until 2025 clean fuel in Australia, the Clean Fuel Act change of specifications is what Bowen referred to.
How ridiculous that our oil refined into fuel for transport was being exported because government here changed the regulations.
Transition away from fossil fuels of course !!!
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“dirty fuel”
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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FWIW
Rumour hath it” around here that that “dirty fuel” is the scrapings from the bottom of the diesel storages and some stations are “out of fuel” to avoid tank contamination.
So maybe spare filter sets in case in your preper stock.
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My 4WD has two diesel fuel filters, original and one added at my request and expense
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There seems to be an ever growing web of ridiculous situations where countries import what they are sitting on top of or just refuse make when they could. All just to allow politicians to virtue signal and line up their next UN/WEF job.
Talk of Oz importing it own gas at one stage
Australia importing oil while sitting on massive oil and coal reserves
Closing refineries and importing refined product (Au and California)
The above Nova Scotia news
Sth Australia blows up coal plant then relies on coal powered interconector.
Importing eucalypt hardwood from South America
The whole EU/Russia gas stupidity
Shipping wood pellets from US to UK to burn for power
Germany destroying it nuclear power plants then relying on French ones
Its a mad world
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Be wary, there is method in their apparent madness
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The owners of Hazelwood in Victoria, a huge operation shut down when at operating at 98% of design power then decided to play it smart in SA with the next power station. So they shut down Pelican Point gas station and sat there.
Whenever there is a crisis with ‘renewables’ they charge a fortune for the power and the terrified politicians facing a blackout pay without fuss. Pure profit. All power suppliers have learned to play the game, not get stuck with the base load at rock bottom prices just to make solar and wind look good when they come on line. And SA polticians brag that they have power to burn, when power is really only available for a third of the day.
And what happened to that ‘free’ solar and wind energy? I am not reading anywhere that ‘renweables’ are free or even cheap. That was always a lie.
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And never is capacity factor achievable average output supply mentioned, always installed capacity
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I agree with TRUMP’s sentiment but not the expletive he used.
(I inserted the asterisks, he spelled the word in full.)
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The elected saviour has turned to the dark side. Just the latest neocon puppet now.
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If anyone was using Epstein to gather ‘kompromat’ on America’s privileged class, think what an easy ‘mark’ Trump would have been – due to his known lusty appetites, and loose morals.
At Epstein properties there were cameras hidden in Kleenex boxes and clocks. Whether he was collecting blackmail material, or a foreign intel agency was doing it, is up in the air.
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“I did not have sex with that woman”
wink!
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Easy when you can argue “the meaning of “is””
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If you think politicians don’t all swear, you would be surprised. Richard Nixon was appalling. Trump is the first one not to care and use it for effect. Personally I do not think anyone is in charge of Iran, let alone the independent batteries on the straits of Hormuz. It must have taken a lot of people running around to let the French container ship through.
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In Australia I give you St Gough the Thrice Dismissed, Little Bobby Bushy Brows, Paul The Stainless Steel Turd Keating, and the Krudd from QLD as exemplars.
All of them as foul mouthed as all hell, especially when crossed.
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Perhaps one needs to consider that when dealing with a mentality that depends on success being created by brute power/force, that the only method of containing that mentality is to use superior force?
Unfortunately, Mr. Trump may have only recently come to terms with the nature of the personnel controlling Iranian society.
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Yes, he looked so good at the start, but then they turned him. Not a word from Musk, who would have told him Iran was a mistake, and now we have this infantile teenager throwing tantrums because someone else won’t do what he is told. Sadly he will destroy the credibility of the Right, letting the Left in for another country-wrecking run in a few years.
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Strait was open Donald, before you rode into town. No point swearing at other people.
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Putin Just CHECKMATE’d Europe That BANNED His Gas — REROUTES ALL Gas To Mexico, No Way Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeYvzy8-Y8k
Very Interesting—Where have I heard that before?
Trump might be upset with Canada with is heading towards bankruptcy but would he be with a resurgent Mexico?
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Mexico won’t import Russian gas until after the war, in the meantime the US is supplying cheap gas.
Oligarchs creating manufacturing business in Mexico wouldn’t worry Donnie.
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FWIW – your savior!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NkXIg5wdKrg
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Oh dear!
That wonderfully non biassed, even, and fair handed (sorry) media giant, the NYT referred to NATO as the North ‘American’ Treaty Organization.
I guess their TDS knows no bounds eh!
Tony.
PostScript – Huh! What’s the bet someone already posted this here at Joanne’s site. (typical Tony, always late to the party.)
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I did…. 😊
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Tony – think positive. Call it reinforcement
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The Dunning Kruger Times strikes again.
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The journalists are Gen Z. They do not know of a world before Windows 95. And nothing about WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq. And considering who has been paying all the bills, it may as well be North American. That’s Trump’s point. The US should get out of Ukraine.
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Oh look, yet another “far right conspiracy theory” comes true.
https://youtu.be/9Gkg2nbIwHk
US Democrats in California caught paying people to 1) sign petitions and 2) to register to vote.
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Back in 1960 I was handing out How to Vote cards for my old man who was the incumbent parliamentarian for our local semi-rural electorate. Apart from myself there was just one other doing the same job for the old mans’ only opponent – an Independent.candidate. It was only a small rural polling booth but at 2 pm the independent’s poll worker ran out of his candidates How to Vote cards. Then he astounded me by asking if he could give out some of my cards too. Naturally I agreed. But of course asked him “Why?”. He said that he had been paid to hand out cards until the polls closed (6pm) . And so for the last 4 hours of voting anyone who asked for a card got the same one setting out how to vote for my old man!
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The wife of a former politician was driven to a polling booth by a relative and when she, an elderly woman, was approached by a Labor worker with How To Vote cards in hand who asked her have you voted yet replied yes comrade, early and often.
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Even though this is from CNN, it’s not a bad description of the Artemis II toilet problems.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/science/artemis-2-toilet-malfunction
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FWIW
Could be described as “a real s-house story from CNN”
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Australiar: nothing says safe and effective more than THIS
Australian Gov’t redacts every single word of 78-page report on Covid vaccine batch tests.
https://t.co/IrPRKBzIgH
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Unbelievable. Or, sadly not.
There is a link and comment posted by Paul Oosterhuis at.
https://x.com/i/status/2040348976789307500
He posts a link to the Official Australian Government TGA website, but you can’t see it all or copy it but it then links to the t.co site JCII posted which is a Twitter/X redirect service to protect users from malicious websites.
It certainly seems to be authentic.
The Elites of the Australian Government treats the Australian people with contempt. Even their useful idiot Leftist ideologues.
It looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” has turned out to be conspiracy, not a theory.
Dr Paul Oosterhuis, you may recall, is the anaesthetist whose medical license was suspended during covid because he questioned the Official Narrative. See https://lighthousedeclaration.org/organisers/dr-paul-oosterhuis/ At thst link you can also find links to the “offensive” Farcebook posts.
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I have the TGA link, so it’s authentic.
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FWIW – a full confession
In Sunday # 27 I posted an early link that the second airman in Iran had been rescued and ended with the guess
“If true New York Times most inconvenienced”.
Which proved wrong.
Here is a summary of the “form guide” behind that –
“YOU REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST:”
“The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. ”
https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/2040841473558466707
And more
Via https://instapundit.com/787729/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The California Refinery Crisis is a national security risk for America”
“California transportation fuel demands are among the highest in the nation and are now beginning to be imported from refineries in foreign countries. The State will be importing transportation fuels from foreign based refineries to run its 30 military airports and 9 international airports – a National Security risk for America.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/05/the-california-refinery-crisis-is-a-national-security-risk-for-america/
Now feed that idea into reviewing the fuel supply and fuel storage reserves of Oz currently
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Woke socialism modern Marxism, climate based political hoax
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FWIW
“Obama’s Tower Of Doom Is Harder To Get Into Than America Itself
“…oh the irony… Obama Presidential Center demands citizenship proof for grand opening…”
“In yet another jaw-dropping display of elite hypocrisy, Barack Obama’s Chicago Presidential Center – long derided as the “Tower of Doom” – now requires proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency just to enter a ticket giveaway for its grand opening ceremony on June 18, 2026.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obamas-tower-doom-harder-get-america-itself
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Meanwhile, in Kanaduh:
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/05/selling-coal-to-newcastle/
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Meanwhile, Australia has a shortage of natural gas (and gasoline).
You just can’t make this up…
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I asked Gulag AI how long the contents of a typical LNG tanker would keep a 1GW gas power station running for.
Answer here:
https://share.google/aimode/bAcfqrlcYDFdqUj61
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And Kalifornia:
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/democracy-is-racist.html
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One Nation now leading the polling in Queensland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXKN0BOfspU
And Qld currently has an LNP government that has recognised they cannot get rid of coal just yet.
No point voting for any mob that does not completely condemn the UN Climate Change™ scam.
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Remember Christiana Figueres in The UN saying’It was never about Climate Change.’
Nope, Wealth Redistribution was the game in town!
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At the time he was co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III “Mitigation of Climate Change”.
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Ottmar Edenhofer will find out that, ironically, his economic agenda actually IS about climate change
when the earth’s Co2 becomes in short supply. Based on studies on plant physiology, the scenario of CO2 at 220 parts per million (ppm)
would have negative impacts on most plant life as it is well below the minimum threshold required for healthy growth.150 ppm is considered
the absolute minimum for survival, 220 ppm is dangerously low. Studies show that plants experience stunted growth at levels around 200 ppm,
as they struggle to photo-synthesize effectively.
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FWIW
“The Iran Operation
Was the secret weapon AI staff work?”
“So this is purest speculation on my part. But watching the incredibly complex multi-domain rescue mission this weekend, it suddenly struck me that new, powerful AI might be behind this. Moving all these units into so many places at once, making sure that they have communications organized, fuel, ammunition, food, the right troops with the right transports, and so on is enormously complex. It normally requires the work of hundreds of staffers to do this sort of thing, and that takes time. But it happened awfully fast, and nearly flawlessly.”
More at https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-iran-operation
Via https://instapundit.com/787686/#disqus_thread
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I have no doubt whatsoever that the planning spanned decades of the 47 years of supreme leader’s crusade against non-believers and their primary target Israel, Israel’s security intelligence agents Mossad embedded from top to bottom of the Iran Government and even military. They had access to IT and even traffic light surveillance cameras enabling them to track and record the movements of people they were keeping under surveillance and reporting on movements and locations.
A former Mossad Chief was interviewed twice on Sky by Sharri Markson, he was in Israel. And he explained how the supreme leaders and their subordinates had no idea that Mossad agents were among them listening and reporting.
And therefore the US CIA and other intelligence officers would also have been very well informed.
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“and nearly flawlessly.””
Lol!! 12 aircraft destroyed and unknown lives lost.. No confirmation of the F15 officer being rescued at all! A total disaster from start to finish!
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🔸️Jan 18: “Iranian patriots, help is coming. We are moving in.”
🔸️Feb 28: “We are launching the decisive operation. It will be very fast.”
🔸️Mar 2: “We will win easily.”
🔸️Mar 3: “We have won the war.”
🔸️Mar 7: “We defeated Iran.”
🔸️Mar 9: “Strike Iran. The war is almost over—clean and decisive.”
🔸️Mar 12: “We have won, but not completely yet.”
🔸️Mar 13: “We won the war again.”
🔸️Mar 14: “We need help to open the strait.”
🔸️Mar 15: “If you don’t help, I will remember it.”
🔸️Mar 16: “We actually don’t need help—I was testing loyalty. If NATO doesn’t help, consequences will follow.”
🔸️Mar 17: “We don’t need NATO help and don’t want it. No Congress approval needed to exit NATO.”
🔸️Mar 18: “Allies must cooperate to open the Strait of Hormuz.”
🔸️Mar 19: “US allies must step up and help open the strait.”
🔸️Mar 20: “NATO is cowardly. We may phase this out.”
🔸️Mar 21: “We don’t use the strait. Others need it, not us.”
🔸️Mar 22: “Final warning. Iran has 48 hours. Iran is finished.”
🔸️Mar 23: “One more week, then we bomb power plants.”
🔸️Mar 24: “The war is nearing its end.”
🔸️Mar 25: “We are negotiating with Iran.”
🔸️Mar 26: “Iran is begging for peace. They gave us a gift. We delay strikes on power plants.”
🔸️Mar 27: “I and the Ayatollah will jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz.”
🔸️Mar 28: “Regime change has occurred in Iran.”
🔸️Mar 29: “Negotiations with Iran are going extremely well.”
🔸️Mar 30: “We are prepared to destroy Iran’s oil and energy infrastructure and occupy Kharg Island.”
🔸️Mar 31: “We are ready to end the war without opening the strait.”
🔸️Apr 1: “War ends in 3 days. We will bomb them for 2–3 weeks back into the Stone Age.”
🔸️Apr 2: “We destroyed three major bridges. Why haven’t they called us yet?”
🔸️Apr 3: “We control the Iranian space, despite fighter jets destrucion”
🔸️Apr 4: “We are giving Iran 48 hours to surrender. Wait, I need to rush to hospital.”
Does he have a clue???
https://youtu.be/4BhAk3CBnO0?si=tj7H0JrODlmI8Cih
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JC II
Are you sure that you are looking in the right place?
FWIW – e.g.
“The Secret to Healthy Eating Might Not Be What You Eat – But Something Else”
“When most people think about “healthy eating”, they usually focus on what they eat.
That might mean trying to eat more fruit and vegetables or less fast food, or counting calories.
But there’s a lot more to healthy eating than just dietary intake. Behaviours and attitudes around food are also important.
Take, for example, orthorexia nervosa, which is an obsessive preoccupation with consuming only “healthy” foods.
If healthy eating only means ingesting healthy foods, then people with orthorexia are super healthy.
But people who live with this eating disorder often struggle with relationships and report poor quality of life, among other issues.
Research suggests that shifting the focus from food itself to our experience of eating can have a range of health benefits. Let’s take a look.”
More at
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-to-healthy-eating-might-not-be-what-you-eat-but-something-else
Via https://instapundit.com/787616/#disqus_thread
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No idea why you’re posting that AI.
A lengthy list of USA “incursions” would take the redthumbers still further out of their comfort zones, so another day.😁
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And
“The one who says “No” ”
“I started following the writing of Salena Zito when I first heard her famous epigram regarding Donald Trump during the campaign:
The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally
I thought that this was one of the most insightful lines about the election. I’ve since seen her several times on TV, she’s very sharp. She’s also an old-fashioned reporter, going out and talking to people, not doing it by phone and online research and email. ”
(My bold)
More at
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/the-one-who-says-no/
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Minister Bowen urges voters to buy an EV to avoid fuel supply crisis and look what happened to EV owners this Easter holidays …
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/disaster-ev-owners-left-waiting-for-hours-in-easter-holiday-chaos/news-story/a5ae4a1eea01e5a512f61881b9397f40
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How long after we convert to electric everything will the govt berate us, ‘leave some power for farmers, industry, hospitals and won’t someone think of the children’
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Many modern vehicles have software “trapdoors” that allow the manufacturer, dealer or government to track movements and performance. If the JoenDeere fiasco in the US is a guide, the power to DISABLE vehicles at will via a few keystrokes or the flick of a mouse.
Keep an eye out for “moves” to eliminate or strictly control the possession and operation of vehicles made before a specific date. At the very least, “Special” (EXPENSIVE) permits will be required.
Can;t happen here? In the Penal Colonies?
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H. L. Mencken.
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The Australian is running an article about the supposed Donut Labs battery: New battery with five-minute charge set to transform the electric vehicle industry
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/new-battery-with-fiveminute-charge-set-to-transform-the-electric-vehicle-industry/news-story/4ba882667cdc0e77d8df7b027924bd46
(Paywalled) The usual claims about a five-minute charge time, neglecting the fact that this requires a charging current of 18,000 amps, which in turn requires two cable thicker than your wrist, and would need some form of cable cooling. Amazing how many commentators actually believe these fairy stories.
And having been close to a few normal capacitor explosions, including one that coated my glasses with metal film, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a very large supercap when it goes up.
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Some comments about the Donut cell here:
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/whats-going-on-with-donut-lab-173007121.html
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On the topic of fast charging:
In a significant leap forward for the field, a group of researchers comprising scientists from the Australian Space Agency, CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne has created the world’s first proof-of-concept quantum battery, charged wirelessly with a laser.
The new prototype, still very far from being practical, took femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) to charge and stored the energy for nanoseconds. Technically speaking, the battery lasted one million times longer than it took to charge.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-026-02240-6#citeas
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Interesting but highly speculative and a LONG way off as to whether it is scalable to a practical device for large scale energy storage. Might be OK to power other quantum devices.
Also, I’m pleasantly surprised that they avoided mentioning “climate change” in the paper, generally a prerequisite for taxpayer funding.
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Re fast charging of EVs
A while back, in the euphoria of yet another astounding EV break through, Willis Eschenbach turned his curiosity on the subject. He worked out that the real limitation wasn’t battery chemistry. It is the physical constraints of squeezing a lot of electricity into the car in a short time.
And that the connection lead would need to be about as thick as your thigh and liquid cooled.
And a bonus for copper thieves.
It was in either “WUWT” or “Skating under the Ice” IIRC
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“DDG Search Assist
Willis Eschenbach discusses that physical limitations to fast charging electric vehicles (EVs) include factors like battery chemistry, heat generation during charging, and the infrastructure needed to support high power levels. These limitations can affect charging speed and battery lifespan.
Wikipedia”
but seems to have been edited out of the Wiki item
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The cable problem gets a mention here
“What Will It Take to Charge Electric Vehicles Faster?”
“Some futuristic charging concepts go beyond the battery. At Purdue University, mechanical engineering professor Issam Mudawar is investigating how new cooling technology could improve EV charging cables. Right now, researchers think that faster-charging EVs would need charging cables that can handle far more amperes—the unit for electric current—than what vehicles can handle today. Most chargers today can provide about 500 amperes. Right now, any additional current would produce too much heat.
But Mudawar, who has previously collaborated with Ford Motor Co., is developing a system that would use special cooling technology to get more than 2,400 amperes—1,400 amperes of current would put five-minute EV charging within reach. Mudawar’s system uses a modified form of liquid coolant that has its roots in technology used by NASA. Rather than using a pure liquid coolant, the system uses a form of subcooling boiling that takes advantage of forming bubbles.”
Gives you an idea of the current handling needed
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-will-it-take-to-charge-electric-vehicles-faster-180982221/
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Why Your EV Won’t Fill Up in Five Minutes
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/04/why-your-ev-wont-fill-up-in-five/
WUWT Willis Eschebach 4 July 2025
I referenced the data in that article in my comments in The Australian. But didn’t realise that it was talking about Huawei’s claim of 1800 mile range, requiring a battery of 600kW. Other commentators in The Australian have provided more correct figures for a standard 75kW battery charge in 5 mins.
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Thanks!
Ian
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Drone swarm over Kazakhstan.
‘A bizarre sighting in Astana, Kazakhstan, is taking the internet by storm after dozens-if not hundreds-of stunned witnesses reported seeing glowing lights forming a distinct L-shape in the night sky.
‘The now-viral footage shows a cluster of bright orbs hovering silently before aligning into an unusual geometric formation.’ (The Caspian Post)
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FWIW
“Eh Gawd”! Means lawyers is going to be an even bigger growth industry?
“BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: California’s fraud problem is so bad the DOJ will ‘never have enough’ prosecutors to fight it.”
https://instapundit.com/787802/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The Islamic Immigrant Problem”
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/04/05/the-islamic-immigrant-problem-n4951479
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