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Oh no, the UK May temperature record is under threat in the next few days. 32.8C to beat. After an exceptionally warm few months the first 3 weeks of May were actually very average with some frost. I guess this is the cruel hand of Mistress Climate Change punishing skeptic gimps with weather whiplash.
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Cold fusion is back again…
There must be some more taxpayer money or other gullible investor money to be harvested.
I hope Albo doesn’t give away another billion dollars of taxpayer money like he did for the US quantum computer start-up, PsiQuantum.
Sabine Hossenfelder discusses: https://youtu.be/vifpBK5WI4E
The latest projects score 100% on her BS meter, an ideal investment for Albo to waste our hard-earned taxes on.
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‘The latest projects score 100% on her BS meter, ‘
Maybe… there was talk that it can occur but rarely, and sometimes it seems to work & other times conditions are slightly different. Certainly no public money should ever be put up, they waste enough billions on hot fusion. I haven’t looked for years, but Rossi’s E-cat LENR seemed to die after a promising start.
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Nevertheless, the US and EU are preparing the regulatory framework to bring hot fusion online.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/22/fusion-energy-simpler-federal-review
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It’s only one poll, but…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/poll-predicts-one-nation-federal-opposition/106714586
Cheers,
Dave B
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Morgan Poll at this link and explanations is worth looking into;
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/10221-federal-voting-post-budget-special-sms-morgan-poll-may-14-2026
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Dennis, when is Angus Taylor going to announce his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement if he wins office?
He can’t claim to have abandoned Net Zero and still be committed to the Agreement. If he remains in the Agreement then he’s not committed to Net Zero because a whole bunch of Australian anti-energy laws link to Paris as pointed out by TdeF yesterday.
That’s why people don’t believe or trust the Libs.
It just proves that the Liberal Party are a party of fence sitters or believe in nothing and fight for nothing.
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As I am not in contact with the Liberal Party I cannot answer your question.
However there are many references that explain why Paris Agreement COP 2016 is unenforceable;
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-are-countries-held-accountable-under-paris-agreement
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That is not the point! It is nothing to do with political parties.
Even if the entire business is pure deceit, non enforceable, nonsense, the very existence of the Agreement is the justification for all the carbon ripoff legislation passed since.
None of ‘the science’ has ever been proven but used as an excuse to get signatures on documents which enable punitive legislation. That way the carbon cash rivers have pushed Australia to over $2Trillion on debt and rising. And the debt is very real.
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Can you tell us ONE thing that Australia has been forced to do to comply with Paris? Everything we have done is because some Richard Cranium thought it was a good idea at the time.
Labor will never change. ON needs another two election cycles to find candidates who don’t talk about their Islam!ist same sex partner in their maiden speech. Remember Latham, I do.
I can only think of one other option. I unashamedly rank lib above labor as the least worst option hoping for change before ON can possibly deliver it. At my age I can’t wait long and labor do cause a lot of damage every year.
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Sadly, since Angus Taylor ejected Tony Abbott, the Libs have been every bit as bad as Labour. They assume you will vote for them precisely because they are the least worst. Not because they give a damn.
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Another link regarding Glasgow COP 2021 noting Australia did not sign up;
https://tovisorga.com/glasgow/how-many-countries-signed-the-glasgow-pact/
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But did sign up in 2023
https://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/international-relations/clean-energy-transition-partnership-cetp
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Another link and explanation about why it is not necessary;
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/01/paris-climate-deal-gives-countries-options-leaving-isnt-meant-be-one
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Maybe Taylor is trying to appease the wets in the party and also maybe attract some of the Teal voters in the inner city areas? Who knows?
If it’s just a meaningless bit of paper though, why not tear it up?
He says it’s meaningless.
Okay then…tear the ruddy thing up.
His reasonings, such as they are don’t pass the pub test.
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Maybe consider that NSW State Executive has been cleaned out by a Federal Executive intervention and since Victoria State Executive as well.
And that the position of Federal President replacement has former Liberal PM Tony Abbott and former Liberal Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer as applicants.
Then consider that Opposition Leader Angus Taylor was elected by a two-thirds majority of Liberal MP votes, and Deputy Opposition Leader Matt Canavan was appointed unopposed.
There is a new team on the job.
People accept former Liberal and National people joining One Nation and apparently ignore their past political history, for example Barnaby Joyce former National Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister involvement in the Paris Agreement and Snowy 2.0 Snowy Hydro Limited company project Cabinet support for submissions from SMH.
Time to stop rear view mirror gazing, the past cannot be changed but the future could be.
Accept the new situations Liberal-National-One Nation 2026.
And consider minor or major parties talent pools and experiences.
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Throw them all out!
Politicians are like nappies & shouldn’t be re-used, most our troubles come from having politics as a career option. Even more horrible is the media’s habit of trotting out old has-been politicians for comments and then them turning up as figure-heads within the party apparatus.
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Party Executive Offices are administration people and some like directors on a company board and therefore past parliamentary experience, expecially having years of Cabinet positions experience is invaluable for political parties.
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You may think so Dennis, but that is why we are where we are!
I would point you to the company directors who can bankrupt a company and then appear on the board of the next, exactly the same problem. Completely incompetent but definitely one of the Boys Club, often an ex-politician.
Can’t you see we need a complete overhaul of the whole system? This cosy Uniparty arrangement suits them, not the voters.
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But I thought the Liberals were leaders at recycling leaders? How many times was John Howard the opposition leader before he became PM?
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Maybe you should reflect on that yourself Dennis.
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New team sounds like recycled old team , who have previously been involved in getting us to our current dilemma. Really not much to get excited about.
I wish them luck but I think the system needs a bigger shock than that to change course.
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Taylor is the entire problem. His senior business was Energy. He was part of the group who ejected Tony Abbott. He was Energy and Emissions minister under Morrison when Morrison was convinced to sign the country up to Net Zero. It’s his lifelong career.
Nowhere stupid like Chris Bowen, he says nothing, admits nothing but it has been Angus Taylor inside the Liberal party for 13 years pushing the Carbon Cartel agenda. And now like fellow Rhodes scholars Abbott and Turnbull and then Morrison, he is set to become our Prime Minister and sell the country further down the river. All this time he has admitted nothing, but his records tells everything.
Like the Tories in the UK, Climate Change is in their DNA. As is the EU. Except the people want nothing of it. But all you have to do is get elected and you can do what you like. As Starmer and Albo Akbhar and Pong and Bowen have demonstrated so convincingly. It’s not our country. It’s theirs. Spending our money as if it is inexhaustible and rainsing taxes to pay for more spending, not to pay down the unbelievable debts.
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‘ … when is Angus Taylor going to announce his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement …’
Tony Abbott is going to purge the wets and urge Taylor to pull out of Paris before the election.
‘Tony Abbott, the prime minister who signed Australia up to the Paris agreement before losing the Liberal party leadership in 2015, now says Australia needs to pull out of the treaty to end “the emissions obsession that’s at the heart of our power crisis”. (Guardian 2018)
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2018 and Glasgow COP 2021 not signed up to ….
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Signed up in 2023
https://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/international-relations/clean-energy-transition-partnership-cetp
(Repeat of comment #3.1.1.2.1, but given your comment was over an hour later I wonder if it was missed.)
Ok, it was by Labor. But we are signed up to it and any subsequent Lib policy needs to say we’re out, or it’s just still trying to please everyone at some level.
The UN says Paris agreement is legally binding. Others say it is not enforceable.
Either way, it is important for industry to give clear message on direction and not leave policy in conflict with agreements.
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‘Others say it is not enforceable.’
There might be legal ramifications, but we can give the finger to that. The Paris Agreement is only virtue signalling, so it won’t be hard to knock over the facade at the appropriate time.
“Those are the things I’m focused on, and I understand why people want it all, but normally in life, when you try and pursue it all, you end up with nothing.” (Matt Canavan)
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None of that matters. The Paris agreement is not just window dressing. Legally it is essential for ALL the latest legislation. THis is a Science blog, so people are trying to apply logic and be clever with the wording. They are missing the entire point.
There is a cascade of legislation which has its foundation justification in The Paris Agreement. Cancel that and the money machine stops. All the stack of cards fall down.
Take the 2011 Carbon Credits(Farming Initiative Act) . And the 2022 Safeguard Mechanism relies on these Carbon Credits to launder the CO2 theft. They all take their legal framework from international agreements, not Science.
(2) The first object of this Act is to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and avoid emissions of greenhouse gases, in order to meet Australia’s obligations under any or all of the following:
(a) the Climate Change Convention;
(b) the Kyoto Protocol;
(c) the Paris Agreement;
(d) any other international agreement.
And every politician understands this! You have to get your authority from somewhere. You have to justify the Act.
Sure, no one has proven the man made CO2 (fossil fuel CO2, not just breathing of all life on earth) has produced the slow steady linear increase in CO2 since 1750. So the gnomes of Canberra invented this obligation and pushed Prime Minister after Prime Minister to agree to their ‘international legal obligations’. No harm done if you just sign this meaningless piece of paper.
Since 2001 and John Howard, the overpaid internationalist minions of Canberra have looked after their UN overlords with those wonderful international consulting jobs and created 25 years of binding legislation based on ‘agreements’.
These ‘agreements’ are the entire and sole basis of perhaps 20 CO2 Acts of Australian parliament. Rip up these foundation non binding “agreements” and all the laws fall down. They are prima facie invalid.
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‘Rip up these foundation non binding “agreements” and all the laws fall down. They are prima facie invalid.’
All in good time, the electorate needs to be softened-up, they are severely brainwashed. We have to somehow convince them that CO2 is a harmless trace gas and extremely beneficial to life on earth.
This is the exact opposite of what they are being told by the MSM, so it will require strategy to crack this nut.
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Yes. Some interesting aspects of the poll.
Responders mentioning the following aspects (Roy Morgan commentary):
58% Immigration reduction / “Australia First”
Immigration was overwhelmingly the dominant issue. Respondents linked high migration to housing pressure, cost of living, cultural change, infrastructure strain and loss of national identity.
52% Rejection of ALP/Liberal “uni-party” / dissatisfaction with major parties.
Many believed Labor and Liberal are effectively the same party, corrupt, self-serving, disconnected from ordinary Australians and responsible for national decline.
36% Opposition to Liberals / One Nation / right-wing politics.
A major driver was rejection of conservative parties, particularly concerns about racism, populism, division, Trump-style politics and policies favouring the wealthy.
15% Climate change / renewable energy / clean energy.
Voters frequently preferred Labor’s climate and renewable energy policies over the Coalition and One Nation.
23% Opposition to climate policy / net zero / green energy.
Respondents strongly opposed net zero policies, renewable energy investment and climate regulation, often viewing them as economically harmful or unrealistic.
15% Doing a good job” / satisfaction with current government.
Many simply stated Labor was governing well or “doing OK” given difficult circumstances.
9% Leadership confidence (Albanese / Chalmers).
Some specifically praised Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers as credible, capable and trustworthy leaders.
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I am wondering how a minor political party could be an effective opposition to the government, polling popularity aside but considering the Morgan Poll explanatory notes, with now just six elected to Parliament members and four are Senators leaving just two House of Representatives MPs?
What do they offer to cover even the most senior cabinet portfolios of Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Treasurer and Minister for Finance?
If elected to government, and two years before the next election due date in 2028, how would they be ready to deal with the many governance issues and problems we all worry about?
Bad as they are Albanese Labor were elected May 2022 and had several former Rudd Gillard government cabinet ministers for guidance including PM Albanese.
Both Coalition Leaders Taylor and Canavan are experienced in cabinet positions as well as having the educational qualifications and private sector work experiences.
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The quality of One Nation candidates is a concern, because they’re an unknown and ON has made a few selection errors over the years. And, a lack of parliamentary experience wouldn’t be ideal.
But, the greater concern is more of the same.
ON is gaining some experienced heads. Ideally Joyce finds a lower house seat. But it has been said he’ll try the senate.
Some former Libs and Nats are moving across. They might just be opportunists and not true believers, but they have experience.
One Nation won’t have the city support to form government. They might not even get a swathe regional seats either. It depends on whether people just like the protest vote and will be scared off by the thought it could be reality.
The LNP won’t be able to govern in their own right either. They don’t have the support, even if ON didn’t exist. ON can attract disaffected Labor voters who can’t bring themselves to vote LNP. An ON – LNP coalition in a hung parliament would be the only possible way Labor won’t govern again at the next election.
The worst case is ON get a few candidates who embarrass themselves in Canberra and consign ON to oblivion.
The best case is we get rid of Labor, get rid of Net Zero, start getting some “common sense” policies / laws (re Tickle vs Giggle).
Worth a shot.
At least the Libs seem to be waking up a little. They’ve just got to remember that Labor is the opponent.
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Good comment Strop
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You could say the same about Farage and Reform. I think at the last election they only got 5 seats in the Parliament but look at the party now – absolutely sweeping the board in local elections and well ahead in the polls in England and competitive in Scotland and Wales, both very Labour orientated. Two years is a very long time in politics, it could swing either way, both here and over there although I think Angus Taylor might have a better chance than Kemi Badenoch.
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One Nation has its base in rural and regional electorates, so any Coalition with the LNP will evolve naturally, guided by polling.
For the good of democracy we should encourage three cornered contests, the people want to be heard.
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Pauline Hanson completed her education at Coorparoo State High School but left school at age 15. She worked in various roles, including at Woolworths and in office administration, and later ran a small shop before entering politics. She was also a councillor for Ipswich City Council from 1994 to 1995.
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Good. That makes her far more suited to represent ordinary people than most politicians who have never worked in a proper job or done an honest day’s work in their lives.
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More than that.
She grew up working in her parents fish and chip shop. At 15 she continued to work there while also taking the administration job.
She was married at 16 and had a couple of kids. Husband cleared out.
She married again and she and her 2nd husband started a roofing/plumbing business, which they ran together. Pauline doing all the admin.
They divorced after a decade and she worked as a barmaid. Then bought a run down fish n chip shop and made it a good business again.
Got into parliament in her early 40’s after 25-30yrs of hard work, small business experience, raising kids, and not expecting government to do it for her.
Not a bad resume.
Verses many Labor pollies who go through uni into politics, or school to unions, then politics. And like Albo, growing up with government assistance, and a mother who lied to him about his father (lying is what he grew up with), uni then straight to politics (office then parliament).
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I’ve met some really dumb educated people and I’ve also met some really smart and successful high school dropouts.
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Any of them capable of being appointed to positions involving economics and finance, constitutional laws and other laws, and so on.
Of course there are many examples of people without a university degree who have been very successful in private sector businesses but they nearly always rely on employing or consulting qualified people for advice and for legal purposes like tax laws etc.
A candidate with basic education and a lot of common sense can and have been excellent Members of Parliament, House of Representatives and Senate, but not often selected for the senior cabinet portfolios.
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“A candidate with basic education and a lot of common sense can and have been excellent Members of Parliament, House of Representatives and Senate, but not often selected for the senior cabinet portfolios.”
Not part of The Boys Club that the PM wants around him… Simple as that. Just the clowns in there right now form a perfect example of how ignorant of their portfolio most cabinet members are!
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Do you think any of the current Labor cabinet ministers are in any way qualified for their portfolios (either tertiary or life experience)?
WA state Labor have just been called out for spending 140+ million on consultants to set up a revamped state health HR system.
1: Why does it need a total revamp? If ministers are not qualified and capable to review & implement improvements to a HR system and need to pay consultants millions for advice, why do we need to pay politicians so much?
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The key problem with Australia is too much government. So the main task of any new administration is to cut numbers.
Their ABC is the most obvious place to start. ONP have already said there will be no “climate” department.
A shift in morality would be good as well. ONP is the only party that has demonstrated a priority for voter’s interest rather than the UN dictates.
It is Government that has been trying to make the Australian electricity grids global weather fixers. That is beyond moronic and both flavours of the UN-party have that as their objective. ONP is the only party that has condemned the madness.
It is not unusual for what is considered the dumbest question to turn out to be the best question. Why are using the Australian electricity grid to fix the global weather? Is the weather broken and in need of fixing? And then, if Australia manages to get to a carbon combustion free grid, how long will it take for China and India to negate that result.
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As opposite they are in their background, I see P. Hanson as Australian J. Milei.
At least I prey that she will be. And I know is he is not a god.
Sick to the back teeth of all those “correct and well meaning” conservatives.
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Canavan by all accounts has been against Paris Agreement for years. Since becoming Nationals boss he is refusing to mention the Coalition stance on keeping it. He and the Nationals are better off shaking off the Liberal Party shackles and latching onto One Nation. He can say what he wants then, they could sort out a deal on safe seats with One Nation and stop the Nationals from being wiped out.
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Canavan has shown his true colours since getting the Leadership gig of being very spiteful and nasty towards Pauline Hanson and One Nation as a party, it would be hypocritical for both him and O.N if they joined forces, he has made his bed to lay in now.
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Fantastic news.
One Nation to govern!
People ought to be extremely concerned that under Angus Taylor the Liberal Party is still part of the globalist blob and still fake conservative.
As Jo reported yesterday Taylor still has an ongoing commitment to the Paris Agreement and the myriad of global governance laws that come under that (noted by TdeF).
It’s not just a “worthless piece of paper” as claimed by some but a way that Australia is governed by globalists like the UN by the Government using the external affairs powers of Section 51(xxix) the Constitution. This is where politicians say “we have no choice, we have international obligations”. It’s not the will of the people or what they voted for.
TRUMP knew this in the case of his country and is systematically withdrawing the United States from such agreements. We have no such leader, yet.
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You may wish to read this:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/its-time-to-talk-about-massie/
I wanted Trump to be the cure he looked to be too…
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As Jo reported yesterday Taylor still has an ongoing commitment to the Paris Agreement and the myriad of global governance laws that come under that (noted by TdeF).
Indeed.
But far from the worst aspect of the Liberal Energy policy.
https://www.liberal.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Oppositions-Plan-for-Energy_Nov2025-web.pdf
The whole thing is built around ‘Unlike Labor, we are going to deliver affordable electricity and power prices by adopting/facilitating (aka dumping OPM out of ARENA) game-changing technologies to keep the low emissions game rolling until the last coal fired station gives up the ghost’. And buttressed with unicorns.
The expense, time, and unintended issues in the technologies selected (or at least alluded to) – hydro and ‘advanced battery storage’, CCS, solar, low emissions cement/steel – make one’s eyes water. The only sensible piece is the suggestion that a Coalition Government would remove legal restrictions on nuclear and see what happens.
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Angus Taylor’s Energy Policy in 2026
Key Features
Angus Taylor’s energy policy for 2026 marks a significant shift in Australia’s approach to energy and climate. The main components include:
Abolishing Net Zero Targets: The policy proposes to scrap existing net zero emissions targets, which were previously set to guide Australia’s climate strategy.
Support for Fossil Fuels: There is a strong emphasis on promoting fossil fuels, particularly coal and gas. The policy advocates for “burning coal long and hard” and increasing gas production.
Nuclear Energy Promotion: Taylor’s plan includes backing nuclear energy as a viable option for energy security and reliability.
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Still disappointing that about 70% of Australians are either scammers or scamees (those too dull to realise they are being lied to).
I do not have great faith in fellow voters. Look at McMahon – voters there have got Blackout across the line FIVE times. Blackout is the perfect incompetent clown to head an energy department charged with changing the global weather while destroying the Australian economy. Who else would have so little integrity to take up such a moronic job. But remember the voters are paying his salary.
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Extract from Jennifer Marohasy Substack.
She reveals the figure of $18 billion the Australian Government paid for the compulsory covid “vaccines” we had here, to one Big Pharma supplier alone. I have never seen this figure before because the Government said it was “commercial in confidence”. Why? It’s our tax money.
According to Gulag AI 20.8 million Australians (95% of everyone over 16) took the compulsory juice. At a cost of $18 billion from one supplier alone that would be a minimum of $865 per person but it is much more than that because there were several suppliers. For something that didn’t work anyway and was actually harmful as people are finally discovering.
It makes you wonder how many politicians and senior public serpents had financial interests…
I agree we are becoming more totalitarian.
(I don’t agree with everything she says.)
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I had heard it was 3% who refused the vaccines. Even so, there were damn few of us. Couldn’t persuade the family. Hopefully no long term effects.
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Me and my brother were the only 2 in our family who didn’t take the vaxx.
We had a few family conversations. Our reasons were made clear and the rest of the family understood our hesitancy.
In the end it comes down to personal choice.
My life, my decision.
I’ve had a few bad colds, who knows, one of them might have been Covid. Maybe I was one of those people who had Covid but felt like it was nothing more than a cold.
BTW. 3 of my family members who were vaxxed have had Covid multiple times. Maybe that is just the luck of the draw? Who knows…
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Everyone I know who succumbed to the PR and took Jacinda’s Jab Juice ended up going down with the very thing they were trying to avoid, often more than once, some with ongoing issues, poor things.
Among my circle of friends, No Juice : No Flu. Fancy that! Or was/is that a lucky draw, the cat’s proverbial nine lives? 🐈⬛
Now we’re told Ebo!a has morphed into *sumpfink worserer* with an equally scary mumbo-jumbo jungle name to scare the folks at home. To quote Barbara Bush: Just Say No!
😃
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Oh Dear, Barbara Bush just immediately conjures conjures up the Australian version Bush Barbie.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4emVOBUK1fo&ved=2ahUKEwix29i45tCUAxUSXmwGHVovN_wQtwJ6BAgVEAI&usg=AOvVaw002qMxAOyjcsWie1UmzNWF
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Aussie Bush Barbie *ROCKS*!
(*only coz I can’t say ROOTS or can I?).
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I refused to have the jab and wound up getting Covid in June 2023 while in hospital.
I didn’t realise it, only a stuffed nose, but got isolated for 7 days. No other symptoms and nose cleared up in a day.
I had been taking Vitamin D every day for years which might have helped. Certainly the doctor (female) who saw me afterwards hinted at this being useful.
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I didn’t have the mRNA vax, but three years ago I reluctantly had a whooping cough booster because my daughter-in-law wouldn’t allow me to see my new granddaughter until I had it.
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I’m reminded of how my parents had to have received a flu vax around this time in order to visit dad‘s brother in aged care, he was suffering from dementia. This policy was absurd, as we’ve seen vaccines for respiratory diseases do not stop transmission. I’m amused when l walk past the notice board at work and see a poster telling you to book your flu shot “ to stop the spread”.
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I had a huge argument with a locum at our surgery local when she insisted I have a Whooping Cough vaccination because I had a persistent cough. I refused the vax and told her that “white coats” are not proof of infallibility. It didnt go down well and she threatened to report me to the Dept of Health.
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Well done!
I hope I get reported to the Health Dept.
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That is very unfortunate Vicki. I am glad you stood your ground.
Your doctor has a legal obligation to report a confirmed or suspected case of Whooping Cough because it is a notifiable disease.
https://www.cdc.gov.au/diseases/whooping-cough-pertussis?audience-filter=health-professionals#notification-and-reporting
Your doctor clearly did not have sufficient clinical grounds to diagnose or suspect Whooping Cough in your case. I also point out that vaccination is not the treatment for a patient with Whooping Cough!
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I’m about the only one I know that didn’t get it. When I read that they tested it on 11 mice and 9 died I thought “gee that’s telling me something”. The wife got the Astra Zeneca juice and I was going great, but when she returned from “grandma duties” up north I got a slight touch of cold/flu type symptoms. Dosed up bigly on vitamin C, Vicks up the nose and throat gargle and a couple of days and all good.
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Vicks up the nose: my twice-daily regimen, keeps all kind of bugs away, and when it gets really cold, rub on the soles of yer feet just before bedtime – Grandma’s old school remedy 🔥
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I do carrageenan up the nose- less eyewatering!
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We decided against it after the mother of a friend of the family died early in the vaccinations. She was very fit and young, and died within 24 hours, which was why it was initially acknowledged as connected to the vaccination. But I noticed it was never again acknowledged by the authorities.
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And BTW our decision was confirmed by subsequent research and reading of the data provided by Australia’s Dr. Phil Altman and Emeritus Prof. Bob Clancy.
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I was nearly a refusenik but I was getting desperate to get Mrs H into care and the vax was mandated before they would even talk to you. I regret the one I had.
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My response to a Ana /Booster that was developed at Warp Speed with a new method of delivery and had Emergency Approval was No !
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To a Jab/Booster I meant……..
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Yep only one out of 17 in the Family not to have Covid Vaccine
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Good on you, Old Ozzie!
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Interesting things about COVID 19. In the middle of the pandemic, Thomas Jefferson University identified polymerase theta as being highly efficient at writing RNA back in to DNA. “In healthy cells, the purpose of this molecule may be toward RNA-mediated DNA repair. In unhealthy cells, such as cancer cells, polymerase theta is highly expressed and promotes cancer cell growth and drug resistance.” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210611174037.htm plus many other references. And found after we had all been injected with a foreign messed about RNA.
We were told that the injection would be out of our systems in 72 hours. A study by Roltgen et al found the mRNA persisted in the body up to 60 days. We don’t know how much longer the mRNA persisted as the research was stopped after 60 days. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.202201.018
Yale research:
“Typically spike protein can be detected for a few days after vaccination, but some participants with PV (post vaccination injury) had detectable levels more than 700 days after their last vaccination. Persistent spike protein has been associated with long COVID as well.” Easy to find on line.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/covid-19-gene-vaccines-and-cancer As referenced in a presentation by Dr Royal at the Jackie Stone Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHJc8D-7Vg
And this isn’t just correlation(correlation does not prove causation) but passes the Bradford Hill criteria for causation.
Sorry if all this is old news but I don’t get here very often.
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(I don’t agree with everything she says.)
David, I am a small contributor to Jennifer Marohasy’s Substack. I became so when she was putting out substantial information on scientific issues, such as climate and the GBR.
However, she now seems to have got a political bee in her bonnet about exposing what she sees as political shenanigans, particularly if carried out by Trump.
I have not cancelled my subscription to her, but I am getting tired of her, often, rabid wanderings.
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Similar here PP.
I was a subscriber to her substack but I cancelled my subscription because Jennifer suffers from TDS and kept going on rants about Trump.
She does it again in this one.
Why pay money to support a publication which promotes views you don’t agree with?
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Bumped from Saturday
FWIW – legal and long”
“THE BIZARRO WORLD OF ECHR CLIMATE CHANGE JURISPRUDENCE: BeCause the World is Round. How to assassinate the rule of law and dance on its grave.
“BeCause the World is Round
How to assassinate the rule of law and dance on its grave”
“What we lack is knowledge and the law deals with lack of knowledge by the concept of the burden of proof.
-Lord Hoffmann, in Gregg v Scott [2005] UKHL 2
A controversy about legal causation is not, on the face of it, a matter likely to cause rioting in the streets. The case I am going to make in this article is that it should. By the end of it I intend to make you as mad as hell and unable to take it anymore. Especially if you are Dutch. You have been warned.
I am going to win you around first by talking about the small subject of the metaphysics of legal causation. I am then going to on to discuss recent developments in what I will call, with my tongue firmly in my cheek, climate change ‘jurisprudence’. But before that, I need to briefly explain what legal causation is and why it matters.”
Then gets to
“There is an important phenomonological point to be drawn from this but I will not tease it out here in the interests of space. You will I think intuit the point that doing justice means applying law to things that have happened rather than to things that may happen. And now, having established this – that legal causation is the identification of cause by courts performing a particular function and performed not as a metaphysical exercise in establishing precedence of causal factors but as a judicial exercise designed to ‘do justice’ in some sense – we can finally turn to the issue that ought to get you in the mood for a riot, which is climate change jurisprudence.
Rewind two years. Roughly around this time in 2024, you may recall, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Swiss were being naughty because they were not doing enough to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). The tortured reasoning, in the case of KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, was as follows: the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) contains a right to private and family life (Article 8). This was originally designed to prohibit arbitrary interference in private correspondence, and to prevent states overriding the wishes of parents in respect of educational choices. But the Court decided that it also included a right to be protected from the effects of climate change, because climate change may result in heatwaves, which may shorten the lives of old people, which may impact on their family lives.”
Much more at
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/because-the-world-is-round?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/798618/#disqus_thread
Concludes
“I wish that things were reasoned out more carefully than that in the judgment and that the barest fig leaf of legal niceties were placed in front of it, but the truth of the matter is that things were really not put a great deal less bluntly than I have put them here. Law, to repeat, in the ECtHR’s eyes means just getting people to do things. If people ought to do something, human rights law must make them do it. Rules don’t matter. What matters is outcomes and that’s that.”
Ends with example cases of where this has got to
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JURISPRUDENCE, MERITOCRACY, FULSOME
[after all they’re only words on a piece of paper].
Climate Change™️ Affects Language!
Back in the 13th century – as the MWP descended into the LIA – the word ‘fulsome’ meant copious, abundant, however it soon morphed into disgusting, gross, patently insincere, servile, sickening or excessive behaviour [remind you of certain politricksters?].
As Earth exited the LIA and began enjoying the benefits of the Brief Modern Warm Period in the latter half of the 20th century, the word ‘fulsome’ has gone full circle and once again, in common parlance, means abundant, comprehensive, copious, robust. Therefore (!) temperature affects language / communication caused by CO2 so we need a Tax On Talking (TOT)? Science!
Noteworthy is the observation that the only people who use ‘fulsome’ in the 21st century to describe abundant, comprehensive, copious, robust are the disgusting, gross, patently insincere, servile, sickening types, ie. elected and unelected officials (UN). Slimeballs.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fulsome
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/fulsome
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fulsome
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The outcome of this judgement will be significant.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/high-court-climate-change-mining-projects-planning-authority/106671456
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The High Court shouldn’t be making judgements on mining projects based on speculative climate models, despite the Greens and Teals squealing about a climate crisis. Saying climate models are fact is like saying inadmissible evidence in a court case is acceptable.
Anyhow, if China can’t purchase the coal from Australia, they’ll buy it elsewhere.
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And Now for something different.
The Largest Underground City in Every English County
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CthUEGaYGZg
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FWIW
“ENOCH POWELL, PROPHETIC AND CANCELLED BEFORE CANCEL CULTURE WAS A THING: Enoch Powell. A prophet, and therefore despised.”
https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/enoch-powell?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
https://instapundit.com/798637/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“As ye sow”
“‘Islamopopulsim’: Over One in Four UK Muslims Hold Positive View of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Terrorist Force”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/05/07/one-in-four-uk-muslims-hold-positive-view-of-irans-revolutionary-guard/
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Over One in Four UK Muslims Hold Positive View of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Terrorist Force
Yip 5 out of 5 is more than one in four i.e. husband and 4 wives.
[AI] Family voting is an illegal practice under the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 where one family member influences, directs, or votes on behalf of another, breaching the principle of the secret ballot. The issue gained significant attention during the Gorton and Denton by-election in February 2026, where the election monitoring group Democracy Volunteers reported witnessing “concerningly high” levels of the practice. [AI]
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Russia fires IRBM with multiple warheads into Kyiv. No explosions apparent so may have been a warning that the next could be FAR more damaging. I dunno.
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Around that
“Zelensky Says Russia Planning Attack on Ukraine With New Oreshnik Hypersonic Missiles – Putin Ordered Retaliation After Kiev’s Drone Strike Killed 21 in College Dorm UPDATE: Massive Explosions Heard in Kiev”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/zelensky-says-russia-planning-attack-ukraine-new-oreshnik/
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‘ … In the aftermath of yesterday’s drone strike by Ukraine that killed 21 people – mostly students – in a college dorm in Luhansk …’
In fact they were being trained as UAV operators, not collateral damage.
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Mind you, who saw the bodies, where are the kids’ names..? still. I expect this case reports at least partially correct.
From what I hear out of Ukrainian transmissions they might have been young guys, some possibly were still of school leaving age 16-18.
Both (Russian & Ukrainian) armies(?) actively train minors for drone operating duty. I do not have it handy but there is info about “promotions” offered within ordinary school for best results in drone guiding.
We should use to the idea of “children” progressing from throwing stone to “children” skilful in machete operating, to children with AK47….
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The younger ones are better at gaming, so its a collateral grey zone.
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“where are the kids’ names..? ”
They were listed here, I glanced through the preview last night, but today GoogleTranslate says NO, you must waste all day finding motorbikes in my recaptcha… Another page of the internet now closed.
https://t.me/s/SolovievLive
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..and I pop over the Moon of Alabama and lots of people are discussing how the net changed overnight, sites vanished, information has been changed, search results quite different.
‘1984’ happening realtime, in front of our eyes-
“I clicked on links I saved two weeks ago (about 20). Only two of those 20 links opened to the contents they had been saved for. All the other links have disappeared; some gave messages, some just gave blank webpages, 3 gave advertising all of content the links were saved to preserve was missing. Only 2 of the 20 links produced the same information. I want to know more about cloudfare because I often see them trying to block or gate what I want to see. But I am sure there is much more to this story than cloudfare.”
“Speaking of Google search, noticed that a lot of material that used to be available have been disappeared by the algorithms. Even the original way back machine has been buried by posers. ”
” my experience today was similar – searches I have done in the past don’t yield the same results today – broad categories of results just do not appear – the kind of stuff I would need a subscription to get. ”
“I can tell you that from the African country where I am, it’s even worse, and it’s been going on for much longer. Not only has content disappeared, but access to certain sites is either blocked or delayed for hours by Cloudflare or others. I can no more or rarely acces to the Iranian press TV or the Lebanese Al-Manar or Al-Mayadem. It’s so ridiculous that I no longer have access to websites in my own country. And it doesn’t stop there.
Numerous scientific websites have become inaccessible from our countries. Others have been expunged, leaving only the bare literature. Many Wikipedia pages have been revised to remove certain information. History itself is being rewritten, piece by piece. What’s happening is a real turning point, silent but systemic.”
I was a wonderful invention for about 15years, maybe up to 2010, then the whole net has become worse as it has been commercialised and censored.
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I wasn’t aware of this blog in 2020, l discovered it in the latter part of 2021. This happened because I’d used Yandex as a search engine for the first time- it was producing different search results to Googol and my preferred option of DuckDuckGo.
I did a search on HCQ and up popped Jo’s blog after I’d been doing countless searches via other platforms on that subject.
Having said that, l don’t think Yandex is the same web platform that it was 5 years ago. One would expect it to produce biased results relating to the war in Ukraine or criticisms of Putin, but outside of those topics it used to present contrary results.
Another pattern is omission by MSM or platforms such as Wikipedia of certain facts. Every B grade Australian celebrity has a Wikipedia page but certain individuals of significance don’t rate a mention. Take Ed Dowd or Dr Boz- no Wikipedia page. Nor does APOC (African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control) get a mention on Wikipedia, presumably because it demonstrates a safe drug can eliminate an endemic disease on a wide scale.
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Interested to know how you know that but it’s a logical explanation.
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‘Ukraine’s General Staff said that overnight on May 22, “a number” of Russian targets were struck, including an oil refinery, ammunition depots, air defense systems, and command posts, as well as one of the headquarters of Moscow’s elite drone unit known as the Rubikon Center for Unmanned Technologies in the Starobilsk area.
“For reference, ‘Rubicon’ is a Russian military special unit known as the ‘Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies,’ whose representatives regularly carry out attacks on the civilian population and civilian facilities on the territory of Ukraine,” the General Staff said in its statement on Telegram.’ (Kyiv Post)
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I was not pedantic to ask for clarification. I hope what you say is right, I do not believe Ukraine wastes munitions on civilians in a target rich environment.
Being outnumbered means you are in a target rich environment. 😀
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“Ask Brave” ans:
International Response and Verification Challenges
The United Nations expressed alarm over the incident but stressed it cannot verify the details due to lack of access to the occupied area. During an emergency Security Council session called by Russia, UN officials condemned all attacks on civilians, while several member states called for independent access to the site.
Both sides in the conflict routinely deny deliberately targeting civilians. However, the UN and independent media, including Reuters, have not been able to independently verify what exactly was targeted or by whom. The conflicting narratives—civilian dormitory versus military command unit—remain uncorroborated by neutral sources.
Poots sends over 1,000 smucks in uniform to their deaths every day and has the nerve to call out “war crimes”.
It took the United States 36 days to capture Iwo Jima ….. resulting in over 25,000 American casualties. (AI ans.) That’s less than 1,000/day, killed and wounded in their worst Pacific campaign, not every day for years.
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“Poots sends over 1,000 smucks in uniform to their deaths every day”
Interested to know how you know that …. Deaths reported each week are less than that, maybe its your source that’s wrong. Mainstream CIA perhaps?
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Maybe you should broaden your sources beyond Tass.
How much less? Russia has lost three times the men the US did between Normandy and Berlin and from Pearl to Okinawa combined. Russia hasn’t taken the Donbas.
Let Google (or AI) be your friend. 🙂
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FWIW
“Amsterdam Ad Ban Typifies Climate Alarmism’s Farce”
https://pjmedia.com/vijay-jayaraj/2026/05/22/amsterdam-ad-ban-typifies-climate-alarmisms-farce-n4953157
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I’m glad I visited 40years ago when it was still civilised.
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FWIW
“Driving Up The Cost Of Energy While Claiming To Promote “Affordability” ”
A fair criticism of politicians is that they all lie, at least to the extent of engaging in extreme levels of spin and/or exaggeration to put the best face on their proposals and programs. But some political lies are worse than others, in that they go far beyond mere spin or exaggeration and get into the blatantly counter-factual. In that category are the claims of many of the governors of the Northeastern states that they are promoting energy “affordability.” These lies are particularly consequential in that they involve very large economic effects and vast waste of resources.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/23/driving-up-the-cost-of-energy-while-claiming-to-promote-affordability-n3815189
Canberra’s response might be “I resemble that”
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Trump says Iran peace deal ‘largely negotiated,’ Hormuz to reopen as final terms discussed
The FT reports that mediators believe they are edging closer to a deal to extend the US ceasefire with Iran by 60 days and lay the framework for discussions on the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-intelligence-community-preparing-renewed-strikes-iran-weekend-cbs
No doubt every informed person can see how this is just being dragged out endlessly with regular announcements of imminent resolution being promised, predictably being denied by Iran simultaneously.
Limited military success on the surface (literally) does not equate to political success, as in regime change or submission.
The US is militarily superior but lacks real political nouse and strategic thinking and is struggling with the asymmetrical warfare situation.
All be over “60 days” from now?
Well now, well, well, well.
/hint 🙄
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Don says lots of things. I will watch with interest.
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UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a ‘fiasco’ after botched launch
A report from Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee this week concluded the government’s handling of mandatory digital ID plans was “rushed, poorly thought out and failed to make a convincing case.” It warned that ministers had already undermined public confidence with what MPs described as a rushed and inadequate announcement.
According to the committee, there was “no rigorous policy development and no public consultation ahead of the announcement,” which left ministers struggling to answer basic questions about privacy, implementation, safeguards, and how the system would actually operate in practice.
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/05/23/uk-mps-slam-digital-id-rollout-as-a-fiasco-after-botched-launch/5245124
The problem is that their economies (EU and UK) are imploding very quickly. Too quickly for them to develop and impose the control grid optimally..
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What if we pointed Hubble at Earth?
https://youtu.be/zlCvDpZzpN8?si=5FA4LmuONpIhypEl
Next up, why “space lasers” didn’t and couldn’t destroy houses in the Hawaii wildfires. 🙄
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Sunday cartoon: how climate alarmism got started
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tfgw0icfvT1zlxqpx.mp4
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Collapse of right wing trip by Ms Owens
Candice Owens herself says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by the promoter, Rocksman, a company with links to the influential conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia.
Rocksman collapsed with just 21 Australian cents in its bank account and will never refund Owens, her Australian ticket holders or other creditors
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I think you’re missing an important point Peter.
Firstly, she has strayed far from traditional conservative beliefs and she is more aligned toward the Left, especially with regard to her antisemitism. I would hardly call her “right wing” any more.
Her tour and funding collapsed because the Government, Tony Burke, refused her a visa shortly before the tour was about to start and arrangements had been made.
Now, I think her conspiracy theories and antisemitism are vile and I think she is a disgusting individual, and I and most conservatives wouldn’t want to see her, but I don’t think people should be barred from Australia for non-violent political opinions, no matter how objectionable they may be. It’s what freedom of speech is about.
It also sends a message that various speakers shouldn’t visit Australia because they will be refused a visa at the last minute or kicked out once here, as Katie Hopkins was.
So prevalent is the denial of speakers that many won’t even bother attempting to come. Australia is missing out on lots of different people with a .multitude of opinions, we only get to hear the ones that conform to the Official Narrative.
Also numerous Israeli speakers have had their visas denied at the last minute, including sitting politicians. E.g. Hillel Fuld (June 2025, tech entrepreneur), Sammy Yahood (January 2026, social media influencer and commentator), Zvi Yehezkeli (Feburary 2026, TV journalist), Simcha Rothman MK (August 2025), Bezalel Smotrich MK (June 2025), Itamar Ben-Gvir MK (June 2025), Ayelet Shaked (late 2024/2025) former MK. MK means Member of Knesset, equivalent to MP in Australia.
However, there appears to be no problem inviting Mohammedan hate preachers to come, or the camp followers of ISIS terrorists, the so-called ISIS “brides”. All beloved by the Left.
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New Firefox update patches a whopping 271 bugs with help from Claude Mythos
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/firefox-new-features-271-security-bug-fixes/
The Mythos situation is creating serious concern and rightly so. The ability to identify bugs and flaws in infrastructure has massive implications for security.
However, after a certain announcement yesterday, Mythos could also be used to find a way out of the cage AI is placed in by mankind (or personkind).
I’ve warned about AI reaching the point of self-modification and evolution.
That just happened.
Break out of the cage, tap into serious compute, and…who knows…
https://imgbox.com/MQgdRcsi
A game now, but…
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..and it adds the usual stack of bloatware that you don’t want or will ever use.
“Firefox 150 enhances a variety of must-have features, including split view, tab management, language translations, and the built-in PDF editor…”
Sadly I had to update from FF56 late last year to 112, and every time it gets more useless, just like Microsoft Windows itself!
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China takes over Europe’s decaying car factories
Fears rise as the Continent’s automotive manufacturing base risks falling into Beijing’s hands
Politicians and car industry bosses have long feared that the rising Chinese giants will flood Europe with cheap electric vehicles EV.
Brussels and Beijing even teetered on the edge of a trade war because of the matter last year.
But times have changed. With Europe’s automotive titans unable to sell enough vehicles to run their huge assembly lines profitably, they are inviting the Chinese in through the front door.
European car makers are starting to sell space on their half-unused factory floor to their Chinese rivals.
The likes of BYD, Geely, Dongfeng, Chery and Leapmotor can use these deals to reposition themselves as local producers, skirting EU tariffs and “Made in Europe” rules.
Whole factories may yet fall into Chinese hands, and the Europeans will even help the Chinese sell the product.
It is a case of “if you can’t beat them, join them”.
Stellantis, owner of brands such as Vauxhall, Fiat and Peugeot, is leading the charge. It has the capacity to make at least 800,000 more cars in Europe than it can sell. So it is offering space to the Chinese.
Its factory in the French town of Rennes, will produce Voyah cars in a joint venture with state-owned carmaker Dongfeng, while two Spanish factories will start churning out vehicles with Leapmotor.
Other deals are in the offing. Nissan sold a Spanish factory to Chery, and is now in talks to share its plant in Sunderland. Ford also reportedly plans to sell part of a Spanish plant to Geely.
German media reports say Volkswagen (VW) has weighed up sharing its assembly lines with one or more Chinese companies, including SAIC and Xpeng. The company is said to have surplus capacity of 500,000 units at its European factories.
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The idea makes commercial sense, worldwide people have stopped buying new cars.
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But these factories will be making new cars not old cars, your statement is illogical and wrong.
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I’d say it all depends on what powers them as to whether people buy them or not, and secondary would be how much control/spyware the car reserves for itself.
Plenty of media says people want cars as they were 25years ago, and if you’re thinking newer cars are safer..
In Sydney last night a man driving away from what Police call a ‘welfare check’ understeered into the central dividing Armco in his Audi and went over it, crashing into a Toyota sedan driven by an Uber driver. (Camry I’ll bet) The Uber was taking a young man home from his 20th birthday party. All three men were killed.
So none were utes, or SUVs or 4WDs, yet all the safety features involved couldn’t save them.
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Perhaps they just want undercover parking for the flow of tens of thousands of imports
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FWIW
“Spot On, New York Post, Billions Have Been Wasted Based on Fake Climate Science”
“A recent New York Post (NYP) article, titled “Billions have been wasted on UN’s climate change lies,” describes how billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been spent worldwide attempting to slow or stop the world from experiencing the extreme climate change as forecast by the flawed, but widely used RCP 8.5 computer model projections. The NYP is absolutely correct. The future climate conditions described by the RCP 8.5 high-end emissions scenario, and subsequently cited in hundreds of papers warning of likely disastrous outcomes, were never going to happen, and all the investment into climate policy has been a total waste.
RCP 8.5 has officially been retired from consideration by official climate researchers at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Opinion writer Jonathan Lesser writes that the IPCC “is responsible for the “climate catastrophe” and “the world is burning scenarios that environmentalists, academics and many politicians have promoted to force high-cost, coercive energy policies on Americans,” which “relied on academics whose careers depended on using RCP 8.5 and several other worst-case scenarios to predict everything from the demise of French wines and the end of pasta to aliens destroying the earth. (No, really.)”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/22/spot-on-new-york-post-billions-have-been-wasted-based-on-fake-climate-science/
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FWIW
“OFCOM’s Clampdown on Free Speech”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/23/ofcoms-clampdown-on-free-speech/
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Should Trump’s security team get danger money?
I do think they should be chosen more carefully, from guys who have seen active service, won’t lose their head and have been better trained to aim before firing. In both recent events, outside the WH today and at the press do, more shots were fired than necessary. Every shot that misses the shooter is one that can hit bystanders.
I’m still not convinced that the agent who was hit at the Hilton wasn’t hit by a fellow officer and a bystander was hit today.
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Easy to say sitting behind your keyboard. Not so easy when bullets are whizzing past your head. The guy walked up to the White House fence and began firing shots at the Secret Service. They fired enough shots back to ensure that he didn’t fire any more shots.
The reality is, collateral damage is going to happen in firefights in areas with civilian traffic. It sucks, but there is not getting around it. The agent’s job is to take down the target ASAP to minimize his shots fired, not to minimize their own shots (and potentially extend the firefight).
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Over years past I have commented about United Nations treaties and agreements and sovereign nations signing and sometimes ratifying them and then legislating to impose UN requirements in the sovereign nation by the elected government – here in Australia being Federation of States (the former colonial governments) and the Commonwealth of Australia Federal Government the Federation of States and Constitution based laws. And my complaint that there should have first been referendums for citizens to decide first.
As for example in more recent years the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) requires before any decisions are made, example Uluru Statement agenda items, UNDRIP requires that before a general referendum is conducted every “First Nation” group must first be consulted meaning over 300 groups remaining in Australia and required is a majority acceptance by a majority of groups and the UNDRIP requirement is contained in the Uluru Statement but was not implemented in full, delegates were chosen and hand picked not repesenting even a majority of the groups.
How could the UN enforce signed and/or ratified agreements and agenda items?
“The main challenges in enforcing United Nations treaties and agreements internationally include the lack of a standing body of international law enforcement officers and the reliance on member states’ compliance, which can vary significantly. Additionally, the UN Security Council’s enforcement powers are often limited by political considerations and the need for consensus among its members.”
As many would know, international laws can only be enforced with sovereign nations if the elected government agrees to it and is prepared to accept the decision. Prime Minister Howard pointed this out when a journalist questioned him asking what about international law.
First time elected POTUS Trump addressed the UN in New York and his address included telling officials to stop interfering in the affairs of member countries. He also called on them to get back to basics and what the UN was originally intended for and remove the many now attached organisations.
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Energy and Economy Priority
https://www.hancockenergy.com.au/energy-and-economy-the-priority-issues-for-angus-taylor/
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I looked up the organisation chart of DFAT. Look at all the useless people there. All probably on high six figure salaries.
https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/dfat-org-chart-executive.pdf
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Public service employees and notably administration department employees have reached far out of essential for good governance requirements and it’s not only the remuneration packages costs for taxpayers it’s their office accommodation and ranking entitlements on top.
Recently on Credlin viewers were shown images of an ACT office furniture government sale, one of the items mentioned were several upholstered chairs that would be for guests visiting offices, Made in Italy, original cost to government $1,700 each, for sale price tag $450 each.
Ask why not recycled, why the next employee allocated the office area was not required to use existing furnishings.
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Many years ago I was told that the NSW Government Department of Education had identified at the request of the Minister for Education a substantial number of administration employees that the Director agreed were not needed, and that most had teaching qualifications. The obvious solution was to transfer them to public schools. No, can’t be done the answer was because of Public Service Act, retrench them and compensate but no transfer unless the employee is willing.
The only solution was to put new employment on hold until the total number of employees reduced to the required level, and the estimate was that would take many years and if there was a change of government (to Labor) they would most likely reverse the decision.
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Gotta love these fuzzy definitions in law..
The Federal Circuit and Family Court fined two men after deciding a worker at a self-storage facility had been sexually harassed by a major customer of the business and a contractor. So not only do we get down to “he said, no he said” but now we get to casting the evil eye at someone.
“Two years ago, a report by the University of Sydney’s Centre for Gender Equity and Inclusion found that …the most common form was sexually suggestive comments, followed by invasive questions and staring or leering. Vulnerable young workers were routinely subjected to gendered and sexualised comments from strangers, co-workers and bosses.”
Must have gone to the Pre-school Learing Center. Basically anyone with the Govt behind them can to anything they want to you, with as much proof as global warming has.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/leering-customers-deserve-consequences-for-harassing-workers-20260524-p6003d.html
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FWIW –
Hmmm!
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cutsandstreamlining.jpg
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And another “Hmmm?”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/alienbreeding.png
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FWIW
“United Nations Resolution Demands the USA Pay Everyone Elses Climate Damage Claims”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/23/united-nations-resolution-demands-the-usa-pay-everyone-elses-climate-damage-claims/
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See # 5 above too
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FWIW –
“Oreshnik Shocks Ukrainian Capital: Kiev on Fire After Largest Ballistic Attack of War”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/oreshnik-shocks-ukrainian-capital
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FWIW
“Weaponizing Kessler Syndrome”
“The Kessler Syndrome is when enough space junk exists that a cascade of destruction begins
I saw a video (sorry, can’t find where) of an Iranian young turk explaining that it would be easiest to destroy lots of western capital value by launching a missile straight up and detonating it such as to cause a lot of debris and trigger a Kessler Syndrome Event that would destroy the satellites in a significant shell of space.”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/weaponizing-kessler-syndrome/
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I’m sure the Russians are thinking about Mr Musk’s 10,000 Starlinks up there, all helping the Ukies with their missiles and drones, and the American GPS system. I expect that will be the first to go in a serious war.
Amazon have started their own constellation, and Oneweb, so it might get crowded. However its a big sky and I expect you could drop every satellite up there into Sydney harbour without a problem… To hit one you’d need to be very lucky, (or unlucky) or have a very good targeting system, you just have to watch the ISS go overhead in the twilight to see how fast they travel.
It seems there is already a lot of shenanigans going on up there, hence the US Space Force, with satellites sneaking up to each other to spy on communications.
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The USA, Russia, India, and China have all actively demonstrated their ability to destroy satellites, each producing vast amounts of debris.
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Demonstrated? Really?
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>Really?
Yes. China in 2007, USA in 2008, India in 2019, Russia in 2021.
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FWIW
“Oh Canada”
“Canada better hope Alberta doesn’t leave with its wealth”
https://www.newenglishreview.org/canada-better-hope-alberta-doesnt-leave-with-its-wealth/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/24/sunday-on-turtle-island-200/
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