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      Steve

      …. and the rest of the EU countries are stuck with that decision, since they’ll have freedom of movement to go to any other EU country once they are in.

      Which might be what Spain is counting on. While Spain arguably has the best climate in Europe, it’s in the bottom half of the EU in terms of per capita GDP and has a double-digit unemployment rate. Economic migrants generally settle where there are more jobs, and welfare leeches generally settle where the tax base is the highest and can support the most generous public dole programs. Spain is neither.

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      David Maddison

      Europe is in full self-destruct mode, much more so than even Australia (as bad as things are here and we are flying in nearly 3,000 future Labor Party voters per day).

      Since the Saracen replacement population for Europe doesn’t believe in most art or alternative historical narratives not in accordance with their beliefs, it is important that Europe’s legacy such as the contents of libraries, art galleries and museums be preserved. I think therefore they should be, as much as possible, moved to the United States, the last bastion of Western Civilisation, for safe keeping because they will be certain to be destroyed when the replacement population fully dominates.

      Remember the Library of Alexandria!

      They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: ‘If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.’

      Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics

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        Vicki

        Well recognised, David. The elimination of all records of our civilisation would be consistent with the principles and beliefs of the Caliphate.

        It is clear that more Western commentators and politicians are recognising the peril threatening Western Civilisation. John Anderson is transforming his Substack with a recognition of the urgency of the situation. This site, and others, are a fightback that must be supported. Otherwise we may see a transformation of society that no longer supports the spirit of inquiry that has supported the great achievements of our civilisation.

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        KP

        All those rabid Catholic migrants will crash the country!

        “Spain’s 50 million-strong population has swelled in recent years to include around 10 million people living in Spain who were born abroad. There are around 840,000 undocumented migrants in Spain, the majority of whom are from Latin America, according to data from the Funcas think tank.”

        That makes sense from a language and cultural point of view, easier to leave South America for Spain than the USA.

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      David Maddison

      It doesn’t really matter.

      With open borders, importing people with no intention to work or assimilate, Spain will soon be a Third World country.

      They won’t need reliable electricity.

      Like in Third World countries, electricity will be available sporadically, in this case, in accordance with solar and wind activity.

      They can use firewood or dung for heating and cooking and horses or their own feet for locomotion. The newcomers will show them how.

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      RickWill

      I pointed this out years ago.

      If you build a generator and it has limited opportunity to generate then it is just a carbon emitter due to what it used to build it.

      All the solar farms across Australia are dead assets. People who own a roof have worked out they can make their own electricity at lower cost than using electricity from a solar farm hundreds of kilometres away.

      My off-grid solar system has averaged 3.8% capacity factor for the last 14 years. I could have purchased 50 tonne of coal for what I paid to install that and still have lots left but it would have been a bit messier. And I would have needed to tend a furnace each day.

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        Vladimir

        I admire your efforts, Rick.
        Yes, the judgement day is coming, not sure is it months or years away…
        Pity that our universities, CSIRO, leading corporations did not assess “the progress” correctly 1/4 century ago, that was their job and they failed.

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          RickWill

          Australia needs to reset the entire government before it will change.

          Blackout has doubled down and is now donating current and next generation’s tax payments to international consortiums and Chinese factories to produce junk. The upside is that the wind turbines will not need to kill birds to make money. They can just be parked up once commissioned. They will still earn income without the need to produce anything.

          Since Abbott left, I have only heard one politician stand firm against the anti-science of the UN Climate Change™ hoax. Remember Malcolm Roberts – he deserve a medal for his tireless pursuit of incompetent morons. The bosses of CSIRO, Snowy 2, BoM and other radical left agencies hate facing Malcolm Roberts. Their stock reply is we will get back to you. Because they clearly know nothing.

          Malcolm Roberts would be the best choice of current crop for energy minister. Hopefully One Nation will get many more like him in the next parliament. Real industry experience and can see a scam for what it is.

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    Ronin

    Lots of ducking and diving to avoid taking responsibility for Spains preview of net zero, what a bunch of sooks.

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    David Maddison

    Wokeness gone crazy. Sounds like Australia.

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15775407/Woke-Canadian-judge-halts-deportation-Indian-trucker-killed-sixteen-hockey-players-crash-fears-mental-wellbeing.html

    Woke Canadian judge halts deportation of Indian trucker who killed 16 hockey players in crash over fears for HIS mental well-being

    29 Apr 2026

    A Canadian judge has halted the deportation of an Indian trucker who killed 16 members of a junior ice hockey team over fears for his mental well-being.

    Justice Jocelyne Gagne granted a temporary stay of deportation for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu just three days before he was scheduled to return to India this week.

    Sidhu, 37, was driving a semi-truck full of peat moss when he barreled through a stop sign at 53 to 60mph before striking a bus carrying players from the Humboldt Broncos in rural Saskatchewan on April 6, 2018.

    He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and was jailed for eight years in March 2019, but he was released on parole after just four years and four months behind bars.

    The Immigration and Refugee Board removed Sidhu’s permanent resident status and ordered his deportation just one year after his release from jail.

    ‘The applicant is a convicted criminal and he’s responsible for the deaths of 16 Canadians,’ Menticoglou told the court. ‘This ranks along the worst tragedies in Canada’s history, and we don’t have to assess the applicant’s moral blameworthiness for that crime because-‘

    But Justice Gagne interrupted him, stating that Sidhu’s crimes were ‘dealt with in the criminal court and the sentence that was imposed.’

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Steve

      The Canucks are in a race with the Brits to determine which country becomes an Islamist caliphate first, and the snow Mexicans are giving it their all. America is going to need two walls in the near future.

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        RickWill

        It was only a little over a year ago that Canadians were saying they would need to build a wall. Remember all the people who said they would leave USA if Trump won.

        This is a confirmed list of those who said they would. It is not exhaustive.

        | Cher | Direct quote about leaving if Trump won | |
        | Sharon Stone | Considering moving to Italy | |
        | Barbra Streisand | Said she couldn’t live in U.S. under Trump | |
        | Amy Schumer | Said she’d move to Spain/elsewhere | |
        | Bryan Cranston | Said he’d leave if Trump won | |
        | Bruce Springsteen | Said he’d move to Australia | |
        | Ellen DeGeneres | Reportedly moved to UK after election | |
        | Whoopi Goldberg | 2016 statement resurfaced | |
        | Miley Cyrus | 2016 statement resurfaced | |
        | George Lopez | 2016 statement resurfaced | |

        The last three followed up on 2016 saying it was definite in 2024.

        This is the list of those above who have left USA.
        Ellen DeGeneres

        Their property in the UK suffered flooding after he arrival. But she appears to be enjoying UK life for now.

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          David Maddison

          According to reports Ellen DeGenerate and her “wife” have been unhappy in the UK and have purchased property in Commiefornia to spend their time between UK and there.

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      another ian

      And

      FWIW – more Canada and native title

      “Left Coast, Lost Cause”

      “On 24 October 2019, B.C.’s left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) government enacted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), requiring the government to take “all necessary measures” to ensure its laws are consistent with UNDRIP. British Columbia thereby became the first jurisdiction on the planet that not only endorsed UNDRIP in the abstract (as Trudeau and other national leaders had done) but actually cemented its guarantees into law. In 2021, the province added a further legislative amendment explicitly requiring that “every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with UNDRIP.”

      Behind the scenes, then-Premier John Horgan and his cabinet were assuring legislators that the law would simply ensure that B.C. took advice and guidance from Indigenous groups. But as judges (predictably) concluded, that’s absolutely not what the law says.”

      https://quillette.com/2026/04/28/british-columbias-undrip-fiasco/

      Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/28/left-coast-lost-cause-3/

      In comments there –

      “There is a simple solution; namely for all government laws, regulations, agreements, permits, maintenance repairs, etc. to require approval from all of the following:
      – all BC First Nation band councils
      – all BC First Nation hereditary chiefs
      – all BC First Nations elders
      (I say all because land claims overlap, and what happens in one area could affect other areas)

      Also First Nation approvals from Alaska and Washington state will be required.
      And the U.S. State Department must also sign off because the rights of the United States might be affected.

      Similarly the government of Mexico and the Aztecs must approve (Aztecs had to traverse this land and were once indigenous to this land).

      Next, provincial, state, and federal judges must approve all of the original items, plus approve that all of the approvals from First Nations etc. were properly obtained, and full environmental assessments were done for each permit, project, repair etc.

      In addition, all correspondence and documentation must be done in English, as well as in each of the First Nations languages.

      Finally the UN must approve.

      Hey First Nation, got a pot hole that needs fixing? All of the above must be done before repairs can commence.

      It’s called malicious compliance.”

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        Greg in NZ

        Don’t forget the sign-off* needed from Torres Strait islanders and a hundred or more Maori tribes – remember, we’re all in this together.

        * sign-off / pay-off whatever.

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          Dennis

          When will the Moriori people be compensated by Maori?

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            KP

            “When will the Moriori people be compensated by Maori?”

            Aren’t they one and the same? When you eat something it becomes you…

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          Greg in NZ

          If mountains and rivers can now possess ‘legal personhood’ – a gift from the Crown – why not the moa and the pouakai and the huia, long-extinct* native birds [*due to their flesh or feathers]: surely their voice from the other side is as relevant?

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    RickWill

    Jews were targeted in London. Two stabbed:

    Two Jewish men were stabbed in London on Wednesday by a knife-wielding terrorist — and an Iranian regime-backed group has claimed responsibility for the antisemitic attack

    The two men were seriously injured in the heavily Jewish Golders Green neighborhood in a horrific rampage. Iranian proxy group Islamists Ashab al-Yamin soon took credit for the onslaught.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-jewish-men-stabbed-by-knife-wielding-maniac-trying-to-attack-jews-in-london/ar-AA21ZKzS

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      Steve

      The Labour party government will engage in hand-wringing and tearful proclamations of the importance of stopping Islamaphobia (and if the jews are lucky they might mention antisemitism too). Then they will proceed to do nothing, which is what they are best at.

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      David Maddison

      Some discussions here:

      Here the BBC cuts off Jonathon Sacerdoti as he criticises them for helping create the environment that causes such atrocities as well as discussing other contributors to this hatred. Very good comments from Sacerdoti despite the hostile BBC. https://youtu.be/ybu7QPRv_bA

      Here Jeff Taylor discusses. https://youtu.be/5ZG6QbFtKYg

      This antisemitism is why so many Jews are leaving Europe and even Australia for Israel or other countries and as a result there is a residential building boom in Israel, and booming real estate prices as well.

      I hope Europeans enjoy the replacement of some of the world’s most educated people for some of the least educated and most violent but in much larger numbers than the tiny population of European Jews.

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    Steve

    It seems like just a couple of days ago Jo had a post up about Snowy 2.0 being a green elephant with a price tag of $42 billion. I resisted the temptation of compare it to California’s Bakersfield to Merced high speed rail project. Alas, I can resist no more, as new cost estimates have come out for California’s train to nowhere.

    Two days ago, the most current cost was estimated to be $126 billion.

    The new estimates now place the cost at a whopping $231 billion. That’s SEVEN times the original 2008 cost estimate of $33 billion.

    https://kmph.com/news/local/california-high-speed-rail-price-tag-jumps-to-231b-nearly-seven-times-2008-estimate

    The funniest part of the article above is they talk about trying to attract private investment for this boondoggle. The opposition rightly points out that no private investor in their right mind would sign up for such a project that is so dysfunctional it’s spent billions of dollars over 18 years, has yet to lay a single inch of track, and has seen the budget sextuple with nothing to show for it. But what they didn’t point out is …. California is looking to impose a 5% wealth tax on private capital. So not only would the investors be stuck with a dog’s breakfast of a project, but they would be expected to pay 5% for the privilege of saving California’s government from it’s own incompetence.

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      RickWill

      California wins in the stupid stakes.

      Europe/UK probably second. They are wasting trillions on “renewable” energy.

      Snowy 2 will be an expensive battery that will get use even after new coal fired power stations come on line.

      Yesterday I was prompted to look at who is backing “renewables” in Australia. Spain is actually the biggest investor but of course all the junk comes from China.

      Turnbull Renewables is only a bit player:
      https://www.turnbullrenewables.com.au/our_team/

      This is why no one in their right mind would vote for LNP.

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        KP

        Politics in plain sight! Set up a massive compulsory scheme to transfer Govt money to private companies, then design a company to sit right in the middle of it with yourself and your wife as the owners…

        These are the people who throw words like ‘moral’ and ‘ethical’ around like they believe in them!

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        Hanrahan

        Turnbull is no longer in parliament. Labor IS.

        BTW it is now Snowy eleven.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    Quite a list this morning at Coffee and Covid

    “Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday! Hang on to your seats. We have the biggest good news roundup yet in six years of C&C history. It was too much to do in the normal C&C style; I couldn’t stand leaving any of these stories on the cutting room floor. Two federal indictments, fourteen thousand SNAP recipients in Maseratis, the petrodollar dying in less than a week, and a Google co-founder switching teams. And it’s only Wednesday. Welcome to the most-packed good-news roundup in C&C history.”

    More at

    https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/happenings-wednesday-april-29-2026?

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      KP

      He does ramble on, but this is interesting-

      “So this news marks the beginning of the end of the petrodollar era and a death blow to OPEC’s control over global oil supply. It also proves that the Trump administration’s strategy of forging strong bilateral alliances in the Middle East is paying off, effectively breaking the cartel’s generations-long stranglehold on energy markets.”

      So if UAE start selling oil outside of OPEC, do they become a target for Iran and does the rest of OPEC side with Iran against USA/UAE? I am sure they will only sell in $US, Trump is bankrolling them at this stage, which may push OPEC to move away from the dollar.

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    another ian

    FWIW – more “Oh Canada”

    “Is Our Diversities Learing?”

    “Our Managing Editor, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa has obtained a secret, internal bombshell report from the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School. This 15 page document exposes shocking military secrets that Mark Carney is not sharing with the public.

    One critical platoon was revealed to be 83% non-citizen residents – many in Canada for just three months – and it descended into total dysfunction.

    Cultural infighting between Cameroonian and Ivorian factions within the CANADIAN Armed Forces.

    Repeated allegations of racism flying between squabbling tribes.

    A shocking lack of respect toward female members and instructors.

    Graduation rate? A catastrophic 48%.”

    https://www.junonews.com/p/exclusive-caf-training-platoon-with

    Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/28/is-our-diversities-learing-23/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Norton Returns to the U.S. With 2026 Manx and Manx R Superbikes
    A legendary British brand is back, and its high-tech V-4 superbikes rewrite the script.”

    https://www.motortrend.com/news/norton-manx-manx-r-us-return-2026

    Via https://instapundit.com/793073/#disqus_thread

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    David Maddison

    Remember the bizarre purchase of 40 Maseratis by PNG for the 2018 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Leaders Summit? (I wouldn’t be surprised if Australian taxpayer money was used.)

    Being a Third World country, it’s unlikely they could even navigate the heavily pot-holed roads.

    Did Malcolm Turnbull organise it?

    https://www.thenational.com.pg/bulk-of-maseratis-not-sold-lying-idle-in-a-warehouse/


    Bulk of Maseratis not sold, lying idle in a warehouse

    Jan 20, 2026

    http://www.thenational.com.pg

    THE bulk of the 40 controversial Maserati luxury vehicles brought in for the Apec Leaders’ Summit in 2018 are yet to be sold – lying idle, uninsured and exposing State to the risk of loss in an event of fire or theft, a 2021 audit reveals.

    Auditor-General Gordon Kega said the value of these assets could also be depreciated.

    At the time of the audit, 38 vehicles were yet to be disposed of but by October 2024, there were 33 gathering dust in a warehouse.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Hanrahan

      The classic car market in England is collapsing. In a recent auction no car reached it’s lower estimate and none with a reserve sold, and Mas is about to go under so good luck with selling these.

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        KP

        Yes- “The [collectable whisky that no-one drinks] market in England is [reaching its real level]… along with many other over-priced rip-off schemes where people who had too much money bought ‘assets’ hoping to sell to a bigger sucker later.

        Maybe I can afford a nice old car in a year!

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    David Maddison

    The attempt to rewrite Australian history.

    I have no doubt this BS will soon end up as compulsory indoctrination in Australian “schools”.

    See short Sky News Australia video (3m16s):

    https://youtu.be/DWqcVjRejSA

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    another ian

    Did someone find a copy of the Koran in the dreaming stories?

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    KP

    …and the usual hit piece blaming Trump for everything! It would be Putin if the Dems had won!

    “Everyone’s getting mugged by inflation – and you’ve got one man to blame. Inflation jumped to a three-year high of 4.6 per cent. But if oil prices – which had fallen through January and February – had simply remained flat through March, then the annual rate of inflation would have fallen to 3.4 per cent.

    In March alone, instead of a 1.1 per cent increase in inflation, overall prices would have been flat. High-priced petrol in March contributed to three quarters of the rise in overall inflation. That’s the price being paid by all of us because of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s foray into Iran.”

    The whole story is about as ridiculous as the rates they talk about, any sane person can see inflation is well above 10%. However, its all a fiction to hide Albosleazy and his cheap energy policies.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/everyone-s-getting-mugged-by-inflation-and-you-ve-got-one-man-to-blame-20260429-p5zs1w.html

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Co-op City: What It Looks Like When Energy Reality Catches Up To You”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/29/co-op-city-what-it-looks-like-when-energy-reality-catches-up-to-you/

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      Steve

      Crazy story.

      It’s the epitome of ‘Green Jim Crow’. A bunch of supposedly well-meaning affluent white progressives from city hall mandate intermittent renewable energy generation, resulting in a giant diverse working-class co-op complex having to QUADRUPLE it’s maintenance payments in order to comply with the mandates. All those bureaucrats in city hall don’t even take the cost of living into consideration when they make these decisions. It doesn’t even occur to them that they are destroying communities in their quest to control the weather. Now 10s of thousands of working class folks, the vast majority of whom are non-white, are staring down financial ruin or fighting city hall (who has a monopoly on legal violence and has unlimited funds to crush people in court).

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    SteveR

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVZ48LaQn9Y
    Remember when the Sack Dan Andrews Party was formed to trick voters by sending preferences to Dan Andrews? The left said nothing.
    Now Avi Yemini, Rebel News, is doing exactly the same thing with Save Palestine Party (“from Hamas” in small print) giving preferences to One Nation and the left media are up in arms. It’s hilarious and totally in line with the law.
    Pauline is using it to draw attention to the undemocratic preference system and the way it is used to sway elections by the major parties. She has long called for reform and now the tables are turned maybe it will happen. Personally I certainly do not want to tick a box voting for a person I do not want in power even it is last.
    The u tube link is the unedited version of Paulines MSM interview which was edited to leave out her real opinion.

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    John Connor II

    22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust

    Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport in Sri Lanka with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said.

    “Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage,” the spokesman said, adding that the monks had been handed over to police.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monks-arrested-sri-lanka-airport-record-drug-bust-kush/

    “This is good stuff man… hey look! That snake’s talking to me!” 😆

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    John Connor II

    Well, it does solve the light year issue

    Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says the American public is on the verge of getting long awaited answers, and hints proof of non human life is about to be revealed, describing them as “interdimensional beings.”

    Lawmakers, according to Luna, have been briefed on incidents involving movements “outside of time and space,” based on credible witness testimony and visual materials shown in secure settings.

    https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2049482127721312438

    Can’t wait! 😎

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Iran selected for a vice presidency post at UN’s nuclear non-proliferation confab
    US envoy tells conference that Tehran’s selection is an ‘affront’ to the NPT, given that the Islamic Republic has ‘long demonstrated its contempt for non-proliferation commitments’ ”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-among-dozens-selected-for-vice-presidency-post-at-un-non-proliferation-confab/

    Via https://instapundit.com/793263/#disqus_thread

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    another ian

    FWIW

    A different view on the latest assassin –

    “Avoid being badly written”

    https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/04/29/avoid-being-badly-written/

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    RickWill

    Those would-be supporters of the UN-party will be shocked by this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GQ5NhP8UwE

    Listen to who this guy approached to get attention on the terrorist problem.

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      Sambar

      Interesting that he arrived in Australia as a refugee, then went back to the country he fled to study. Hmmmm, it’s either a very oppressive regime, or it isn’t. Does he have dual citizenship?

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        RickWill

        He talks about his heritage and connection to his faith.

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          Honk R Smith

          I watched up ’til the woman asked him something like, ‘we know Muslim women can’t learn English easily because of the Muslim tradition of women staying in the home caring for children’.

          Holy Gaia … no lady, that’s a human species tradition.
          This is why we are in trouble.

          I might also point out, this fine fellow demonstrates something that the West seems to fail to understand, the Sunni/Shia divide.

          As the West enlightens its’ women* to abandon the ‘tradition’ of family and child care, it won’t take long until the keepers of that oppressive tradition are all that’s left.

          After which the survivors will set about eliminating each other.
          And there will be no Donald Trumps to do the hard lifting for them.

          *I apologize to the governments of the Commonwealth for assuming traditional gender reproductive roles.
          As we know ‘Science’ can change this oppressive evolutionary construct.
          Just like the weather 100 years from now.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “An absolutely fascinating report of a Sumarian tablet that recorded a “2nd moon” which eventually broke up as it crossed the Roche Limit and caused a mess on earth. The Video has reports of similar records from other nations, craters on the ground, and more.”

    “What is also interesting is that it is about in line with a 2000 BC climate excursion (need to sort that a bit more…)

    Link at

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/w-o-o-d-20-april-2026-oil-shock-contracting-global-economy/#respond

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      KP

      That was Venus, smashed out of Jupiter and made its way passed Earth to its current orbit. Moved Mars outwards as it did it. Hence Venus is so young and volcanically active.

      “Venus is a new terrestrial planet, the more volatile elements of which have still not been able to settle on its surface because of its great internal heat. Venus today comprises the most dense elements in molten form covered with a thin basalt crust which will become the mantle of the planet. This is the reason it has no magnetic field. The surface temperature  is 444 degrees C  – hot enough to melt lead and zinc, due to its fiery ejection from an impact on Jupiter only 6,000  years ago.  Evidence of the internal source of this heat lies in the fact that the temperature is exactly the same over the entire planet, both the day and night sides, in spite of the fact that the length of a Venus- day is 243 Earth-days. Planetary Scientists claim this is due to its very dense atmosphere in spite of surface winds of  a few meters per second.

      In Dec. 1978 the main NASA Pioneer Venus probe descended slowly through the planet’s atmosphere, its mass spectrometer measuring all of the compounds up to 208 amu (atomic mass units). Unfortunately, the most significant atmospheric data was thrown out, because it did not show what the project scientists ‘expected’ to see.  When the data showed that the favored CO2 was virtually absent as the probe descended from 50 km (157,000 ft) down to 31 km, it was promptly declared that both inlet ‘leaks’ of the mass spectrometer had been occluded by droplets of sulfuric acid which subsequently evaporated at 31 km altitude, at which altitude, what was believed to be CO2 reappeared. Although other compounds were measured in that elevation range, they were attributed to ‘contamination’ of a cleaning solution that had been used on the probe prior to launch.

      As a result of this finding, it becomes clear that the entire lower atmosphere of Venus is almost completely dominated by S8. Moreover, Figure 1 also suggests that what the project scientists ‘expected’ to be CO2 below 31 km is actually another  high-temperature sulfur compound, CS (carbon sulfide), ‘masquerading’ as CO2. CS and CO2 have very similar masses – 44.0686 and 44.0096 amu, respectively. The evidence indicating CS in the lower atmosphere is present in the form of the red haze observed from 31 km up to the LCL. Again, a simple look-up of the temperature at which rising hot CS gas would form small red crystals (200 C) coincides exactly with the lower level of the red haze as annotated in Figure 1.”

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      Dennis

      It is also interesting to read about the beliefs and observations of the Mayan Prophecies including;

      * The rise and fall of world ages and civilisations coincides with sun-spot cycles
      * Reduced sun-spot activity caused a decline in Mayan fertility and the sudden death of their civilisation
      * The Egyptians and the survivors of the flooding of Atlantis founded the ancient civilisations of Central America

      The Maya 5,000 years ago – ruined pyramids and temples in Central American rainforests are alive with inscriptions that have baffled researchers for years.

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      Dennis

      Also Babylonia tablets have similar information and can be cross referenced with the Christian Bible records.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    Well “yes but”?

    “Orbán Lost. Congratulations, Everyone”

    “The Most Celebrated Defeat in Modern History

    On April 12, 2026, the democratic world erupted in joy. Viktor Orbán — the man Brussels loved to hate, the villain of every progressive dinner party from Washington to Warsaw — conceded defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary elections. The champagne flowed. The tweets flew. Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Hillary Clinton, Donald Tusk, Alex Soros, Ursula von der Leyen, and even Volodymyr Zelensky rushed to their keyboards to declare that democracy had triumphed, history had turned, and the long European nightmare was finally over.

    There is just one small, nagging, impolite question that nobody in that celebratory chorus seems to be asking:

    What if Orbán wanted this?”

    More at

    https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2026/04/27/orban_lost_congratulations_everyone_1179159.html

    Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/04/29/orban-lost-congratulations-everyone-n3814365

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    David of Cooyal in Oz

    I found this interesting. 14 mins.
    ” Why BYD’s Rise in The CAR INDUSTRY Looks Like the BIGGEST SCAM Ever!! ”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB86LpdtkGY

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    David of Cooyal in Oz

    This claims success with a small modular nuclear reactor by the Chinese. Interesting, and I think it’s genuine.

    “China’s Silent Nuclear Revolution: Mini Reactors Already Powering Real Homes”
    24 mins

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

    I don’t like the reference to CO2.

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