By Jo Nova
The handy all-purpose smoke bomb for any occasion is “climate change”
Food prices are rising because we’ve mismanaged the economy and screwed up our energy supplies while we played doctor to the clouds. As sure as night follows day, we stopped digging for coal and oil and now it costs more to transport, process, refrigerate, package and store food. But don’t be fooled, the bigger underlying cause that the Blob doesn’t want you to notice is money.
The inflation starts with the money supply. If we gave everyone a million dollars, the thing we most want would suddenly cost a million dollars more.
As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence they can fund their friends and promise free homes and eternal youth to the voting massess. And the borrowers get to spend the money first, before the price rises.
So since 2008, all the US dollars ever created going back to World War I, have been multiplied five fold. This is the money-base data today from the US St Louis Federal Reserve.
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Climate change (code for CO2) causes crops to grow and greenery to get greener. So articles like The Times magazine one at the top are just there to distract people.
This is pure psychological manipulation — seeding the idea that prices are going up and that the solution is to pump your money into our renewable schemes.
How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive
The Times
If you feel like things have been getting more expensive, you’re not imagining it. The average American household spent $15,400 more for basic necessities in 2025 than it did in 2019, according to research from the Common Sense Institute, a non-partisan research organization. That’s across a number of spending categories. On average, grocery costs increased 25.1%, while shelter and utilities costs increased 33.9%.
There’s a number of explanations for the surge in prices—from pandemic induced supply chain issues, to tariffs, to wars in Ukraine and Iran.
And suggestively post opinion polls….
Yet a significant number of Americans are also pointing to another factor: climate change. In a study released this week by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, 67% of American voters said they think global warming is affecting the cost of living in the United States, while 64% said it is affecting their own cost of living, pointing to increasing costs of home utility bills, groceries, and home insurance, among other things.
The Blob depends on the fiat currency trick to fund their election promises, so they can buy the votes with the wealth they stole from your own purchasing power.
The fiat currency is the engine that feeds greed and corruption.
“As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence”
Like I said.
Time Bandits.
Turn the unrealized productivity of the unborn into realized cash today to fill the accounts of well placed.
The not well placed get a free vaccine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh17LbB8pU8
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Carbon [sic] causes inflation?
Was that part of the original ‘settled science’?
My, how green & luscious those veges look, mmm.
Wholly chlorophyll, Batman!
Who’d buy a Fiat anyway, they’re rubbish. 🇮🇹
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FIAT – Fix It Again Tony.
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OTOH I miss the only off the dealer’s floor new car I ever bought.
A bright yellow 1974 FIAT X1/9
Even if a bit underpowered.
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@simmoneshah You can tell her directly what you think of her article. I did. I used to think disseminating information on Facebook amongst friends and associates was making a difference. I’m not so sure anymore. Now I go to the source.
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Temperature increases force plants transpire at a higher rate, pushing the plant to close stomata, and thereby cut photosynthesis. Higher temps also encourage parasitic attacks on plants. Higher CO2 changes metabolite concentrations also here
While simplistic assumptions have a place, science is not on of those places
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… and yet crop yields continue to grow year-after-year despite higher temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels. Ditto for forest growth and global greening in general. Most plants on earth evolved at much higher temperatures and CO2 levels than today. They are thriving. And so are the fauna who feed off those plants, and the carnivores who feed on the herbivores eating those plants. Global food chains are in better shape than they have been in millennia.
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“Temperature increases force plants transpire at a higher rate, pushing the plant to close stomata, and thereby cut photosynthesis. ”
Which is why Antarctica is so green right Peter?
And why our lawns and gardens are booming in Australia right now, you know how you have to mow it every two weeks in winter…
The part of biology you are missing is that plants just use more water, keep the stomata open, and grow even faster in the heat. Plants LOVE the tropics. The gas exchange of plant stomata means plants have to give up some water to get that wonderful essential molecule CO2. If we were smart and burned more oil, higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere make it easier on plant stomata to get the CO2 they need without giving up as much water.
Plants in arid dry lands benefit the most from extra CO2 in the air, because they don’t have as much water.
And remember in a warming world we get higher humidity as more water evaporates off the ocean.
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Basic biochemistry is that enzymes have an optima.
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Obviously. So after half a billion years of temperatures ranging from -50C to +50C with swings of 2-10 degrees on a regular ice age basis, life loves the tropics.
And your point is?
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Life loves all environments and is optimised to the local one.
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And carries the genes to survive the ice ages and the 125m sea level shifts…
Yes, you’re running hot on trite biological inanities. “Congrats”.
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that is totally false.
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We just have to remember that thanks to modern science, we have the processes of life and global epoch cyclic weather all figured out.
We just have to deal with the political problem of forcing the correct taxation debt construct and lifestyle impositions on the peasants to ensure the cycle of life on the planet continues.
Since we have it totally figured out*.
Of course, there’s the added problem of getting the uneducated that refuse to recognize that we have it totally figured out to be quiet and hand over their as yet unborn children’s credit cards.
Especially since they shouldn’t be having children anyway.
*That’s why the UAPs are here.
To learn from us.
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Meanwhile the higher CO2 allows the plant the “luxury” of a more extensive root system [without robbing the seed/fruit] which can supply the water needed to replace that lost by transpiration. With that water uptake comes nutrients. 🙂
Ain’t nature wonderful?
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So, Peter,
How do you explain NASA’s findings:
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/co2-is-making-earth-greenerfor-now/
that, seemingly in spite of themselves, they have to report that:
“CO2 is making Earth greener,” that in fact, “a rising atmospheric concentration has added 5% to global green leaf area over the past three decades”. For the latter quote I am quoting the writer at:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/15/indias-record-crops-reject-food-warming-alarmism/
You might be tempted to say that this author “would say that, wouldn’t he?”, but, in the context of that article, if plants are so stressed by rising temperatures, as you seem to claim, how do you explain the year-on-year record crop yields in India for the last 5 years? Remember, Peter, India is in the tropics, so one would expect that if there are damaging impacts on plants from rising temperatures, then surely it would be evident in that nation?
Paul Miskelly
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Why then do horticulturalists pump CO2 into greenhouses to increase plant yield?
https://caloxinc.com/blog/how-greenhouses-can-use-co2-carbon-dioxide-increase-yields/
If it works in the microcosm, surely it also works in the macrocosm.
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That would be true if we could control every aspect of the environment like we can in the greenhouse.
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CO2 is rising, thank the gods, we are saved.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/15/indias-record-crops-reject-food-warming-alarmism/
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At the pre industrial age CO2 concentration of 280ppm plants were living at the lower end of tolerance.
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Spot on GA. Easy to control climate inside a car, a little harder to control it in a house (or a greenhouse), harder again in a warehouse, very difficult in a sports stadium with a roof. In layman’s terms, it seems the greater the volume of an area and the higher the roof, the more difficult it is to regulate temperature.
How can you conceivably control the atmosphere of a planet that is mostly covered by aqueous carbon sinks, that is growing increasingly greener and is the recipient of whatever radiation it’s life-giving star chooses to send its way?
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Roman period warmer than today …
https://climatechangedispatch.com/roman-warm-period-3-6f-warmer-than-today-new-study/
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Peter
The photorespiration rates of C4 plants is low and almost negligible.
Now check the world biomass of C3 to C4.
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I reckon there’s more plants in the tropics than there are around the North & South poles. If you paid any attention to this err “science” thing you would also know that surface temperature around the tropics is very stable … thanks to the properties of water and evaporation … and plants grow just fine at that temperature.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/12/argo-and-the-ocean-temperature-maximum/
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That Times writer lives in her own stupid fantasy world, judging by the recent fantasy stories on her list.
But I’m sure there are enough lefty eco loons out there to lap it up.
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Jo and other contributors pass on comments from articles from eg.The Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald or the Melbourne Age. Or when they’ve listened to / watched the ABC. My first reaction is thank goodness it’s them and not me and who the hell reads these papers anyway.
Then I walked into my local coffee shop the other day and there was a customer (who looked quite normal) reading the Age from front to back. So, similiarly there must be still people in the UK who read the Times everyday. Frightening.
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‘Frightening.’
Its not that bad, browsing can be amusing. They come up with talking points, which gives us a chance to do a critique here.
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I was going to move to Tuvalu to escape all of this inflation and bad news, —–until. Oh dear where else can I go to avoid all these problems
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/australias-doomed-neighbour-the-tiny-nation-set-to-vanish-by-2050/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=newscomau&campaignPlacement=realestatemodule
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They’re obviously looking more Australian taxpayer handouts.
I’ve noticed in the past that their sea levels rise when anticipation of taxpayer funds rise!! Originally their island was supposed to disappear about 10 years ago. I guess taxpayer handouts are keeping them afloat. It is however time to test that theory!!
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Its always worth knowing where the data for this “opinion poll” comes from:
https://climatecommunication.gmu.edu/all/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-politics-and-policy-spring-2026/
But it is even better to know the bias of the organisation running this “opinion poll”. What is the George Mason Centre for Climate Change Communication?
https://climatecommunication.gmu.edu/what-we-do/
This mob believes climate change:
Is real!
Is caused by humans!
Experts agree!
Its bad!
Others care!
There’s hope!
Look at some of the other wacky responses in this report:
58% of registered voters would prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming.
49% of registered voters think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the
president and Congress.
77% of registered voters oppose ordering all federal agencies (such as NASA, NOAA, and the EPA) to stop doing research on global warming.
77% of registered voters oppose ordering all federal agencies to stop providing information about global warming to the public.
And yes, those last two are entirely self-serving! So perhaps this report really bears no relationship to a properly run “opinion poll”?
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Notice, as well, they get the Triple-C in their name (CCC) which, if budding young chemistry students were taught the basics of the Periodic Table, they’d easily see the number 666, and no, it doesn’t spell ‘Trump’, it’s simply anti-human.
Don’t quote me, but I may have read somewhere recently that Australia’s latest climate refugee from New Zealand, ex-PM Jacinda of the Ardern, was invited onto the board of the Mason think-tank thingy: she’s so popular [overseas] she’s been honoured with degrees and memberships from all quarters as her bs (oopsala, spellcheck: wisdom) is highly sought after.
Mocking them all is the least we can do.
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Quoth the Raven had an article up this week about the money supply, with Elon’s trillion being his jumping off point rather than climate change, but it’s the same problem regardless of which symptom you want to talk about.
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-elizabeth-warren
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Any time a research organization advertises being non-partisan, one knows immediately that they trade in viewpoint bias.
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“How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive”?
Where is this Climate Change? Has it happened already?
After 40 years of Rapid Climate change, has my climate changed? In what way? The sea levels have not changed, the polar bears, penguins, Caribou, even the Great Barrier Reef are fine, the Millenium drought is over and the chickens have come home to roost. How can anyone push this barrow for so long and expect credibility?
When do we stop Snowy II?
Can we go back to coal power? Then we don’t need to pay forever to ‘transition’. It would probably be cheaper to change all the men to women and all the women to men. Now that would be a transition. And make as much sense.
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Same as COVID TdeF.
You often hear we suffered because of COVID. Or, business has not been the same since COVID. It wasn’t COVID that caused the problems, it was the Government actions vs COVID that caused the pain. Same as our old mate Climate Change. It’s not climate change that is affecting me, it’s all the government actions vs Climate change giving me grief.
Mostly every couple of weeks when I receive my electricity or power bill.
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I spoke with Jason about this on 4BC yesterday morning (Tuesday 16 June 2026). Hear that whistle in the distance? That’s the Pied Piper coming for his pay.
People are screaming about poor infrastructure, bad traffic… When the Nation is 1 $Trillion in debt, and Qld is 170 $Billion in the hole, there’s precious little money in the kitty. Yet people keep coming to South East Qld. What IS in the kitty gets spent on the worst problems. None of them are in Qld, so suck it up up things are going to get a whole lot worse. There is Sweet Felicity Arkwright to be done about it except to cut the size of Government and limit spending. Cope, Electorate. It’s your own stupid fault anyway.
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The Nation is $2.2Trillion in total government debt. Every arm of government is in dept to its neck. And councils just keep ramping up rates and hiring more people. Why? There seems to be a belief not only that should everyone work for the government but they should work from home and a taxpayer funded home office. Meanwhile people in actual productive jobs are being taxed out of existence to pay for more taxation collection people and more laws creating more government departments.
The real value in cancelling all the Climate taxes is that there are tens of thousands of people forcing complliance with nonsense, hidden taxation, illegal green credits and stopping any attempt to make money. As with the blue banded honey bee. Or the payment of $140million for mining Australia without permission from absentee aboriginal landlords. And all the money just vanishes, in carbon credits or off balance sheet as with Snowy II, NBN,.. and all the other mad ‘infrastructure’ like tranmissions lines we never needed before. Plus $42Billion every year on Aboriginal Welfare with the aborigines no better off.
And it’s all “off balance sheet” which means illegal. A recently completed $1Billion water pipline to Gladstone for Andrew Forrest. Unused. How much more is just thrown away? How’s our $1Bn ‘investment’ in a failing possibly hopeless Californian Quantum computer company? Where did the money really go?
At least Malcolm’s wife has fixed the Great Barrier Reef. A steal at $444million in cash with no explanation, autorization, approval by parliament, application or plan. So all illegal, morally wrong and ultimately fraud.
Climate Change should be Cui Bono. And the investigation should start with the next money.
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Add the off budget accounted government owned companies and debt plus interest.
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Repeal all the climate tax laws. Especially the 2001 Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act and Gillard’s 2011 Agricultural Carbon Credits and the 2023 Safegurard Mechanism.
Walk away from all international climate treaties. These underpin all the many climate laws.
Close all the departments created to adminster the mess, thousands of people administering ‘Clean Energy’.
Close Snowy II. The same way it was started. No justification. No possible pay back.
Make $1Bn a year ABC subscription only, not government funded.
Sell the BOM. It should be profitable.
Get an accounting from NBN and consider using Musk’s satellites across regional Australia.
Sell the CSIRO. CSL was a great and continuing success. So was Telstra. Why not let them compete?
Close the office of the Chief Scientist aka climate change department.
Close the Federal Education people. There is no place for a Federal Education department. Trump is doing that in America. Education is not a Federal task.
Close any Federal Health people, unless for international matters like infectious diseases.
Close the Human Rights department. It has no power in law as our laws are not based on rights at all. They can only intimidate, as they have done.
Close ALL the Climate departments. Government and politicians in particular have zero control over Australia’s climate. It’s beyond absurd
Make sure Australian of the year is based on measurable achievement and general acclamation, not media publicity or fashion or politics.
Remove all taxpayer funded incentives for Electric cars.
Remove all subsidies and exceptions, direct and indirect for electric cars. We never received them for petrol cars.
Remove the excise on Tobacco. It is driving a huge criminal industry and having zero effect on smoking, the entire purpose.
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you can add your own list. It’s very long.
What the uniparty would do is fiddle, as happened with Turnbull and Morrison. They have no record of repealing.
And I would love to repeal Keating’s 1988 law where he made Aborigines the same as Torres Strait islanders, handing them absolute ownership of more than half of Australia. For no reason I can fathom except to wreck the joint. We even had to pay for the fantasy flags! Everyone in every country is from somewhere else. When in history has ‘first in, best dressed’ apply in migration or been made law? It’s pay as you go and keep only what you can defend.
Have a long over due Royal Commission into the $42Billion a year to ‘aborigines’ on top of all the rents paid by miners. Why are we paying twice?
Climate Change, Terra Nullus, Paris/Rio/, UNESCO demands. And cut down on our participation in the UN parties and membership to minimal. They have not solved an international crisis ever. And the WHO is run by President Xi of China through his protege Tedros Adhomonen who should be on trial for crimes against humanity. “The virus is not infectious person to person”.
And stop changing all the names to destroy our history. Few enough people know where Australia is without pushing the Gadi Opera House or the Naam Grand Prix or the surf at Yugumbeh (Gold Coast)
Climate is just one of the many ways in which professional politicians are trying to destroy Australia as a nation and its culture and even its economic viability. I can only guess why they are doing it.
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Yep, socialism working fine until they run out of other people’s money…
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They have run out. Now $4.5Billion has been pulled from road repairs. So let the roads collapse. Someone else’s job. The next lot. Dereliction of duty. Why the excise then>
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My goodness, didn’t the Americans elect Donald Trump? Didn’t the orange guy famously say ‘climate change is a hoax’? Why are we still hearing this fetishistic b/s? Slightly off-topic, I discovered a pro-Trump, highly partisan channel which is on both Y/T and Rumble, with decent A+ content called ‘Promethean Action’ which might be worth checking out if you haven’t already.
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Time magazine is a front for climate propaganda. For Australians, the real cause of life being more expensive is the Marxist Albanese government aided and abetted by ineffective opposition from the Coalition.
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Please explain what an opposition can do when government has the majority in the House of Representatives and with like minded other parties and independents in the Senate?
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What has One Nation achieved if not ineffective opposition with four Senators?
sarc
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That is about to change.
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‘study released this week by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, 67% of American voters said they think global warming is affecting the cost of living in the United States, while 64% said it is affecting their own cost of living…’
What was the actual question & available boxes to click? Who were these voters? University lecturers & students?
The Trump voter ratified his policy of voodoo renewables removal, when voting for him.
Interesting – but unsurprising – clip of voodoo advocate Elizabeth Warren a few days ago railing about entrepreneur Elon Musk publicly floating the innovative company he took all the risk to set up, make successful and employ thousands of workers from around the world and him benefiting from that free enterprise investment attracting people who are putting their hard earned into his company.
Now he benefited from that, which by the way included the near failure of the enterprise, Warren claims his wealth for the ‘battlers, the environmental impact of his endeavour, the climate change mitigation, all that sanctimony delivered from the back of a chauffeur driven public vehicle without the least bit of humility.
The hypocrisy of the elites is palpable with every new success in a free market economy.
The Marxist arrogance of character assassination of inventive spirit, but holding their hand out to fund their pet projects because they have no economic acumen, nor the ability to support it must be highlighted, ridiculed and the facts of continued failure of the Marxist ideology.
They may find a new vehicle of guilt after the climate bubble bursts completely, but the lesson must be taught that they are grifters, sponges and incompetent managers of sovereign nations whose deliberate defunding of Trillionaires thru to middle class small business owners is a cycle of doing the same thing and expecting a different result every half century or so.
Trump’s Administration 47 has highlighted the bureaucratic corruption. It’s the lesson conservative politics MUST learn is happening in their jurisdiction as it is a global disease more virulent than any covid.
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By fluke of fate, I got to see the Hagia Sophia church when it was still a museum before it got turned back into a mosque.
I am not well traveled.
I really hope the old Christian art that had been somewhat restored has not been unrestored.
Istanbul was a Christian city for a thousand years.
I was just thinking how Christianity had great promise but got corrupted in the Middle Ages.
Now we have Science.
Science also has, or maybe had, great power and promise.
Only to be corrupted.
The power grows as the promise looks bleak.
Except of course for the anointed adherents of the New Church.
Now we have a new Reformation.
Hoping this one is not as messy.
It is really something to have lived most my life where the word ‘science’ invoked confidence in the future.
Now for me it invokes dread.
And a feeling of not for me, but for thee.
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The new world religion:
Church (of) Cl!mate Conformity: ©️©️©️™️
Constantinople never intrigued me – too many argumentative faiths coming & going – Lhasa in Tibet was more my calling, spending time with monks repainting their monastery wall murals, desecrated during the 60/70s not-so-great Leap Backwards.
Holy men do inspire majestic artworks… though the Naarmistanis of Oz aren’t impressed with ex-d!ctator Dan Andrews’ proposed Napoleonic statue downtown: lest they forget.
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And if we don’t pay, Australians will die from the heat. That doesn’t make sense. This says plainly that we Australians directly control Australia’s atmospheric temperature. It’s not true no matter what climate scientology says.
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