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Old stories back in the news: Deliberate spread of tics/AGS and diseased mosquitoes to control mosquitoes.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15868603/scientists-create-ticks-meat-allergy.html
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It’s only a matter of time before there is an “accidental” release of this by some Leftist/Green group at war against meat (and the food supply more generally, since modern day Socialists consider that the world has too many “useless eaters”, just like the National Socialists did).
https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/liberal-overpopulation-alarmists-are-exactly-wrong
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The article also refers to Gulag’s plan to release mosquitoes (not tics infected with AGS).
I don’t think mosquitoes or any species should be deliberately extincted. There may be unintended consequences because mosquitoes almost certainly contribute in some unknown beneficial way to the ecosystem.
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‘Socialists’ against ‘useless eaters’?
I give you Heinz Alfred Kissinger* [not his real name*] known in some circles as Henry the Horrible or the Butcher from Bavaria, a (b)right red Republican and advocate of sterilisation & famine to decrease the number of “useless eaters” across vast continents – even though the old coot lived to 100.
The planet sighed in relief when the Kiss of Death was finally put in the ground to rot: he shall not be missed.
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Study reports 96% remission rate of Alpha-Gal syndrome with novel desensitization technique:
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-reports-96-remission-rate-of
Say NO! to Gates airdropping boxes of tics today!
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Jaecoo employee accidentally sent out UK/China war setting update? SUV bonfire at Southampton docks.
https://discover.swns.com/2026/06/33-chinese-jaecoo-suvs-worth-900k-go-up-in-flames-at-southampton-docks/
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‘The cause of the fire is currently unknown.’
Forensics should be able tell if its a battery explosion or something more sinister. Disastrous public relations no matter what.
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Check the photo of the bonnet up and the front bumper bar hanging off the bonnet catch! 4th one down… that bonnet catch is strong
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The cause of the fire is currently unknown and there was a suggestion that ‘electrical systems unrelated to the traction battery’ could have been the source before spreading to cars nearby. Investigations are ongoing.
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A Real-world Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort
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The Clinical Benefit Ratio (CBR) was 84.4%
Assuming CBR simply means “improved”, any new, patentable, drug with such results would be hailed a miracle! and their shares would skyrocket.
I would not take part in a double blind trial testing this and risk being part of the control group, in fact such a trial would be unethical IMHO.
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Unethical trial, that’s what Dr. Didier Raoult in Marseille said as he tested HCQ without control group in the beginning of Cov.
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And what we should be calling for is making them available over the counter at reasonable prices.
Early on in “covid” I went to one of our local ag supplies… Ivermec (active ingredient ivermectin in a propyl alcohol solution – nothing else) was just on $100 a litre. This equated to 50c a dose for an adult human as an anthelmintic.
Do not take this as MEDICAL ADVICE, I am not a doctor.
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One of the most powerful anti-cancer products is the humble Broccoli sprout.
Emphasize SPROUT…
No link, I’m busy.😎
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What happend to my comment about Ivermectin and Mebendazole?
[You posted with a New/Different Email. That created a new user and threw it into the pending bin. I changed the email back to your “old” email and approved it. Then you had posted a duplicate, which was left in “pending” with notice of the duplication and changed email with a request for you to identify which email you preferred to use. There is a lag as I’m in a very different time zone. – LVA]
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How would you account for nicotine from tomatoes, aubergines, potatoes – much lower I know, but still there – in doing wastewater analysis?
Dietary changes could also impact?
Anyone else find this wastewater analysis a bit creepy? – and at risk of highlighting phenomena that are not really new, but just new tech to measure?
https://michaelwest.com.au/new-data-lights-up-enormity-of-tobacco-black-market/
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Absolutely its creepy, but Australian Governments have been doing it for many years. It’s even got a name “National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program (NWDMP)”. It started in Queensland in 2009.
They use it to highlight areas of illicit drug use or illicit nicotine in this case to identify areas of use.
It doesn’t operate at a personal level yet, but I have no doubt they would if they could, put a monitoring device on the sewer outlet of every home.
And no Lefties, don’t give me the BS “if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide”. Law abiding citizens still have a right not to be traced, tracked and monitored.
https://www.connections.edu.au/opinion/wastewater-analysis-what-does-it-mean-aod-policy-and-practice (2018 article)
https://www.acic.gov.au/publications/national-wastewater-drug-monitoring-program-reports
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But isn’t it a common thing for a stash to be flushed when the cops are at the door?
This is too weird – only found out about it when they were testing for “COVID”.
Thanks for that link – the reports are huge to download, got to worry when a (supposedly, but if you really had a technical bent, I guess you wouldn’t want to work there) technical organisation doesn’t know how to compress a pdf-size!
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I am not 100% certain about the origin of testing but I know that the Southeast Queensland waste water recirculating project around 2008 did a lot of analysis of the waste water to determine if it could be safely recycled.
In fact all the recycled water is pumped from the various city based treatment works back up to Wivenhoe dam or for power station cooling rather than direct recycle to overcome some of the potential issues.
There has been no accumulation of all the nasties in the drinking water over the years to date. But it was a project concern in 2008. Paint in the water was one of the problems at the time. NSW does not have the scale of recycling as Queensland but has the highest fines for prescribed industrial waste.
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A Real-world Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort
The abstract is much longer, maybe the reason the earlier post disappeared, as I posted the long veraion.
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There is a lot of propaganda claiming this as some sort of “far right conspiracy theory”, that you can’t possibly use “horse dewormers” for anything else, “stupid right wingers” etc..
Aa during covid, the Left, who back in the day used to be into alternative medicine, now fight hard against repurposed drugs, and as they demonstrated during covid only wanted Big Pharma experimental substances, lockups and obedience masks.
As I said on Sunday about this study:
Australia has already demonstrated its willingness to ban cheap repurposed drugs as a possible covid treatment, even before the “vaccines” were available and persecuted and prosecuted doctors and scientists who didn’t conform to the Official Narrative.
They will no doubt do it again if cheap repurposed drugs are found effective for cancer treatment. At least one is the very same one found effective for covid.
Why are antiparasitics effective as both antivirals and anti-cancer treatments?
Even fully woke Gulag AI acknowledges:
Looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” proven to have a foundation in science.
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I was going to make a comment about mebendazole approvals and use in Australia, but I think the less said the better.
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I can read both your posts KG. Don’t worry about your posts disappearing. There’s time lag etc. Just have a bit more patience. Jo and Raquel are pedalling as fast as they can to keep the blog going.
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I just saw a propaganda advertisement on YouTube promoting the Government’s recent budget. I tried to find a copy of the ad to share it here. I couldn’t, but found this.
Our taxes are paying for this advert from politician’s unused “communications allowance”.
Well, surely if they haven’t used that money, it should be returned to us, the taxpayer, not spent on propaganda?
The economy is in deep trouble- the unused money should be used to pay down national debt!
Plus, the ALP, being the political arm of the feral unions, is a hugely wealthy organisation. They should pay for it out of their own pockets.
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Yes, I saw several lots from the Labor Member for a South Australian seat last week. I must admit I didn’t bother listening to her, or even which electorate either (beyond I gather somewhere in Adelaide).
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Copilot rebuked me yesterday for calling what the Clean Energy Regulator does to low income earners “theft”. It suggested I use the term “regressive, opaque cross-subsidy” instead of the word theft.
Vinnies social justice advocate Margaret Gearon had no idea what the CER does. The acronyms STC, LGC and ACCU had no meaning to her.
The Climate Change™ scam has created this fantasy land of terminology that has destroyed the meaning of words.
Renewable Energy – Very expensive, low output, land destroying junk that can never be replaced.
Clean Energy Regulator – a government funded organisation in charge of taking money from low income earners to give it to wind farm owners, solar farm owners and rooftop solar owners. And to grind heavy industry out of existence by taking money from them to send overseas.
Safeguard Mechanism – Theft from Australian heavy industry owners to send money overseas. A small fraction is returned to burn Australian savanna every year.
Global Warming – a method of temperature measurement and manipulation where increasing winter temperature becomes a scary prospect.
Green Energy – Forest destroying expensive junk made in China.
My current focus is to explain to more low income earners that the Clean Energy Regulator is using electricity retailers as the bagmen to take money from them.
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
From:
Chapter 6; “Through the Looking Glass”, by Lewis Carroll.
See also:
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Chapter 5, “Through the Looking Glass”
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I was looking at the motivations for Lewis Carroll in writing the book because it fits so well with the modern world.
Wonderland is a place where:
rules collapse
authority is absurd
language misbehaves
identity is fluid
Carroll was a mathematician apparently uncomfortable with the hierarchy in Oxford academia.
Not much has changed since 1862. Trump is the only light shining into future prosperity. The rest are all doomers and Sleezy the king of doomers.
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Carroll was also involved in logic, which is a good fit for a mathematician.
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FWIW
From today’s Coffee and Covid
Starts at
“The swamp-draining and accountability at the big health agencies continue apace. Even better: More arrests! Even better than that: more arrests of Fauci-aligned scientists. Yesterday, Newsweek blandly reported, “Why two federal virus researchers just got arrested by the FBI.” Here we go again!”
“Meanwhile, in the VIP lane of international travel, we have The Experts.™
💉 According to a federal criminal complaint recently filed in a city famous for many things, such as flexible balloting, but rarely known for being the primary port of entry for exotic African viral pathogens, two scientists working for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.”
Much more at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/bugs-wednesday-june-3-2026-c-and?
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And
FWIW
“When ‘Public Health’ Officials Jumped the Shark”
Concludes
“But it happened, and public health has not been the same, and the officials who did that wonder why nobody but deep Blue Democrats trust them. They blame Trump, or MAGA, or RFK, Jr. But the truth is that they proved themselves untrustworthy.
So smart people don’t trust them. Simple. ”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/06/03/when-public-health-officials-jumped-the-shark-n3815577
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Cenk Uygur just got banned from entering Britain.
For criticizing a government, not his own the American, and not the British one either.
He was due to speak at the SXSW festival, and had been invited to a debate at Oxford University.
Also means he can’t appear in-person on Piers Morgan’s show.
He recounts the details on The Young Turks podcast.
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I cannot stand Cenk. This is what he said in 2013…
Governments seem intent to ban speakers because of their speech. This is wrong.
We have seen years of people being banned from entering countries for their “right wing” views.
Cenk is one of the few leftists who has been banned.
I wonder if Cenk cheered or criticised governments when those terrible “right wing nazis” were banned from entering those countries?
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>what he said in 2013
On that topic, did you ever see “Simoom: A Passion in the Desert”, a 1997 drama directed by Lavinia Currier?
It’s a beautiful film and I wonder what you would make of it.
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I’ve just seen a trailer and read a short summary of the movie.
Definitely not for me.
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Watch it and you’ll soften your stance
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“Chunk” Uygur is part of the reason he and associates are sometimes referred to as “Goat-F#$%^rs”.
Or: “Livestock enthusiasts”.
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Did all those symbols pass the naughty word filter?
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FWIW
“German Industry Death, a Report On Chinese Buying”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/german-industry-death-a-report-on-chinese-buying/
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‘German industry now largely reports to China, and that is increasing.’
Its illogical to think this is a bad thing, market forces are above ideology and China is not an aggressor.
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If you are making something, selling your cheap labour competitor the tools with which to undercut you is short term profit only.
Not sure if it worked or not but Aus sheep breeders couldn’t export merino genetic material for some time.
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The whole Henry Nowak incident appears to be now getting some traction in the UK. An event which happened quite a while ago now (6 months). The legal case finished last week with a conviction with minimal coverage from the mainstream media. Compare that to the whole George Floyd/ BLM circus.
Then Elon Musk used X social media platform to actually report on it. Without that intervention by EM, less people would know the name Henry Nowak.
Brings up some questions though. Supposedly knife crime is high, even in Australia. Generally the carrying of knives is banned in most states. Yet, for reason, we have some religious exceptions. Which is what happened in the Nowak incident. Why are special groups still allowed to carry ceremonial knives, yet the rest of us could get prosecuted if we are found to be carrying a pocket knife. Seems ridiculous.
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Laws only apply to honest people, not criminals.
For years I carried a Leatherman multitool when it was legal to do so, I even used to fly with it in the cabin before a certain demographic started flying planes into buildings. People constantly asked me to fix or adjust things for them and I had the tool to do it. Now that’s impossible under Australia’s Nanny State laws. And people are still getting stabbed or chopped up with machetes, primarily from certain identifiable demographics. It’s law abiding people like me who are severely inconvenienced.
The Henry Nowak murder is tragic.
Discussed here (non-woke discussion): https://youtu.be/Adj1TNEgfJo
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Same. I had a cheap knockoff leatherman copy confiscated at the airport once. (Forgot it was in my pocket) I know we use the term as a broad descriptor, but both my grandmothers (nannies) were wives of WW1 veterans and very individualistic and feisty. Both of them would be really shocked at all the woke stuff we have to endure.
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You would think, after Boy on Bike nothing would surprise Melburnians.
But it does, it does.
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Ross,
My string of airport confiscations began in 1974 when I told airport security that the box in question contained a HP45. To them, this calculator had to be a gun.
Next year security confiscated a copy of the Queensland Uni student society magazine because it contained dangerous material.
I lost an ivory handled multi use pocket knife, no compensation.
I have never carried a gun on an aircraft. I have fired pistols, German Luger 9mm, several US makes like Colt, Bren gun, Vickers machine gun, Sten Gun, Tommy gun, 30 and 50 mm machine guns, many types of rifle, used to have a .303 rifle and ammo in the home, heavy lock. You might think that I have more experience and knowledge about such guns than the Regulators do, but they do not seem to think that is important.
Perhaps regulators should sit for exams with folk like me as examiners. One fail and you hand in your badge forever.
Geoff S
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Same applies to health and safety inspections at factories, no longer engineering qualifications just qualified as inspectors to tick boxes. I remember the manufacturing manager frustrated telling me about a dumb inspector wanting machinery guards that would have made production impossible, one of many examples.
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I saw a newscaster reporting on this, said her father was a Sikh who fulfilled his obligations by carrying a tiny, harmless, kirpan.
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I saw a newscaster reporting on this, said her father was a Sikh who fulfilled his obligations by carrying a tiny, harmless, kirpan.
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FWIW
“China Rejects Accusations of Cooking the Books on Carbon Emissions”
“Apparently disappearing half of China’s emissions has a perfectly reasonable explanation – and Western nations should look at their own carbon accounting practices.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/03/china-rejects-accusations-of-cooking-the-books-on-carbon-emissions/
Sleight of hand
Sleight of tongue
Now “Sleight of carbon”?
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Article in the SMH discussing the Pope’s message on AI. It talks about the loss of jobs to AI and what the Govt needs to do to balance the cost-benefit ratio of a new penicillin being discovered, the biggest investment boom since the mining booms of the past…
Its by the SMH Senior economics correspondent, so one sentence talks about their use of water and electricity, and not a mention at all about their major use, to spy on the daily lives of every subject in the country! There will be no privacy at all, and a major part of your taxes will be used to buy the data from the likes of Palantir.
Speaking of which, Moon of Alabama had writings of Palantir being up to their eyeballs in running Ukraine’s drone and missile systems attacking Russia.
” The most interesting part is not in the field. CNN shows the command post of one of the GUR units. A live map with flight trajectories, overlaying intelligence data, and characteristic orange-red paving markings. This is the signature of Palantir products: Gotham, MetaConstellation, Palantir Edge AI. The same software that Ukraine has been training targeting and interception models with in the Brave1 Dataroom since January 2026.
On May 12, 2026, Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov officially said – “In cooperation with Palantir, we have implemented AI solutions and integrated them into deep strike planning.” And the company’s CEO, Alex Karp, put it even more bluntly for Reuters: “Part of the Ukrainian targeting system is us.”
Palantir’s AI processes thousands of parameters simultaneously. Satellite images, radio intercepts, telemetry of previously shot down “Lutys”, open sources, tracks of our mobile “Pantsirs”. And most importantly – it remembers where and at what exact moment Russian air defense intercepted previous drones. After each wave, the neural network recalculates the map of holes in our sky and gives operators the optimal route for the next salvo – through the gaps. Every “Luty” we shot down is a free training dataset for the model that will lead the next one. That’s why there are “waves of 200 drones”, “different speeds, different trajectories”, “hundreds of decoys”, and the declared 1900 km range. This is not heroism of bearded operators in red lighting. This is real-time machine learning, from an American server.”
Lets see where AI goes… Based on past human experiences it will revolutionise porn and killing each other before anything else!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ai-could-save-us-or-destroy-us-too-late-now-we-re-up-to-our-eyeballs-in-it-20260603-p603ej.html
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/ukraine-open-thread-2026-113.html#comments
https://x.com/STANISKRAPIVNIK/status/2061131395913617762
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Very sophisticated intelligence will determine the outcome of this war and future altercations between states. A leader of an aggressor nation would have to spend the rest of his life in a safe bunker.
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Pope Leo on AI.
“The search for truth is an essential element of democracy … When questions about what is true lose their appeal, and a pragmatism takes hold that is content with what appears useful or effective, then democratic life is weakened … Indifference to the truth leads, slowly but surely, to a descent into totalitarianism.
“As the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, the ideal subjects of such regimes are not so much those who are ideologically convinced, but rather ‘people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie, the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie, the standards of thought) no longer exist’.”
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FWIW
Microsoft seems to have handed out another “improvement”. Most of my tab saves are now not displaying properly
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Back in the day there was a saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
Now it’s “if it ain’t broke, it needs breaking”.
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Recently they introduced an “update” that made all large WORD documents (I.e., over 100 pages) take over 30 minutes to load and save. Problem persisted for around two weeks, then was magically fixed. By that time I had broken many documents into smaller chunks. Very frustrating.
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I lost two on Monday evening or Tuesday.
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Woohoo I’ve calendarized the $50 discount on my next renewal lol. Their AI improvement was frowned on by ACCC and “we” qualified for a refund of $50 on the last renewal plus the tried and true (read no ai cr4p) edition was grandfathered. Who knows their next strike out might lead to a class action though to me this onedrive hide and seek game they play is already bad enough to prosecute.
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Tweet from Prof. Gad Saad.
Gad Saad has just escaped from fully woke Canada and has migrated to the United States.
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One man’s opinion on truth and freedom is a creation of his frontal cortex, a figment of his imagination.
He won’t find solace in the US as it turns blue in November.
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US turns blue in midterm elections?
I don’t think so. Gerrymandered seats in several states are being corrected which will deliver seats to the republicans.
Voting irregularities (eg proof of citizenship, verification of mail in ballots etc) also being fixed which will deliver more seats to republicans.
ActBlue superPAC being closed down.
Democrat fraud everywhere being exposed almost daily and more exposure still to come.
Illegal Democrat voters being sent home.
All points to republicans getting an increased majority.
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I’ve heard that they’ll lose the senate but retain the house.
I’m only a recent student of US politics, its a completely different world.
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For a newcomer to the crazy world of US politics you have strong opinions.
Trump is good for the US domestically and “should” win in a landslide. Sadly he’s a dog’s breakfast internationally.
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el Gordo
That is a weather prediction then?
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Its hard to predict because there are so many variables in play.
For example, Donald’s state of mind.
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Compared to whom? The Ragin Cajun?
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Then there is this.
https://www.courthousenews.com/in-rebuke-of-trump-house-passes-war-powers-resolution-aimed-at-ending-iran-war/
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Meaningless. Trump has veto powers.
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Old Computer
I am still using my old computer with Windows 10 and it is working fine.
No more updates from Microsoft. Is that a problem?
Is anyone else keeping their old system?
I keep all my important files in a USB stick so a sudden failure should not be a huge problem.
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I am writing this on a windows 10 Laptop.
It has become my main web interface since I replaced my Mac mini with a new Geekom A8 mini PC running windows 11.
I use Thunderbird email with this machine because I want to store my emails on this machine and that seemed impossible to do without an MS subscription for Outlook.
I recently found that the reason the WiFi was shutting down when the laptop went into power saving mode was because the WiFi card was being powered down as well and it would often not restart on power up. That makes it easier to live with the Laptop now.
I am still using Office 2010 on this machine as well.
This laptop is more than an order of magnitude slower in handling big files than the Geekom so time might catch up with it but so far it works as a browser and for email without complaint.
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I am writing this on a windows 10 Laptop.
It has become my main web interface since I replaced my Mac mini with a new Geekom A8 mini PC running windows 11.
After some trepidation I recently bought a GEEKOM A8 as my Windows mc. Brilliant price/performance – the major risk seems to be the frequency of doa units (although these apparently are quickly replaced without nonsense). I have learned to cope with Emperor Xi listening in.
You might consider running Ubuntu on the laptop. More secure on a browser and email standalone and the performance upgrade vs Windows on an older machine will be noticeable. As I understand, W10 still gets security updates, but this expires in October(?) – which will no doubt trigger a rash of exploits by hackers looking to feast on the world of W10 non-upgraders.
Very straightforward to do, no nerding involved, and you can try it out off a USB boot copy before unloading Windows and getting a bunch of disk space back.
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I would be more concerned about the backup storage on USB drives. Have you thought about using small SSDs? They load much faster. I realise that both use flash memory technology, but it seems that SSDs are more robust long-term. I am noticing failures in flash memory modules after three years of continuous use, I.e., 7 hours/day, every day.
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The only HDD failure I have experienced was a SSDD, fortunately it was still within warranty by a few weeks.
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As Graeme said, I wouldn’t be using a USB stick to back-up your important files. you can get a cheap hard drive, (Not Solid State – I don’t recommend them either ) 1 TB or bigger that’s more secure, The USB may not be reliable for back ups, they can fail for no reason.
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Thanks. Yes I have had that happen.
I do backup the USB stick to a hard drive but probably not often enough.
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Yes, I upgraded from XP to Win10 when XP became unusable for gaming a decade back or so.. I installed a little program that blocks Windows from updating and have used it without trouble ever since.
For email I use OEClassic, a free program that downloads emails off Gmail and displays with the old style format, as I have a severe dislike for the modern web-style pages that online email providers use. I want my emails on my computer, and don’t talk to me about the ‘cloud’!
I also have a couple of memory sticks for backups, maybe I can look at getting another hard drive instead. Programs are getting so ridiculously big these days, gaming, image-making, and especially Windows itself, I find them full of Bloatware I never use.
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FWIW
“Possible flesh-eating screwworm case in Texas after pest detected 25 miles from U.S. border, USDA says”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-screwworm-detected-25-miles-us-border-usda/
Via https://instapundit.com/801201/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“NEWS YOU CAN USE: Ranking high blood pressure drug combinations from most to least tolerated.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-high-blood-pressure-drug-combinations.html
https://instapundit.com/801006/#disqus_thread
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People are saying don’t drink the new coffee brew at Maccas, not worth the money.
Coffee is becoming a scarce resource and I blame climate change, particularly ‘cold waves’.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/south-america-week-2-4-outlook-cold-weather-threat-mid-june-2/
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I was just listening to a new song from Ray Stevens that claims his deceased grandpa voted democrat.
In fact, Stevens suggests the majority of dead voters are voting democrat.
Is anyone aware of any concrete evidence that supports this claim?
It would be interesting to see the voting preferences of people aged over 100. Apparently, there is no exit poll for people aged over 100.
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How does one exit poll a mail in ballot?
Removing the formerly living from voting registrations is actually a VERY important activity. Especially when everyone on the roll is sent a ballot (or request form)
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I am sometimes amazed at how complex our US cousins can make things. Some examples:
– dead people on electoral roles? most people here would have dealt with passing of parents. Somehow here electoral roles get adjusted automatically, and Centrelink will certainly send you a caring letter in a few weeks asking for their pension payments back.
– capital punishment gets turned into a complex argument about which method is more or less distressing or effective. All the while tens of thousands die every year from Fentanyl overdoses.
– the massively convoluted and horrendously expensive medical system.
– layers and layers of police forces and 3 letter agencies
I guess a lot of it comes from the fragmentation of everything that is much loved in the US.
Oh well. We all do things differently, nothing is right or wrong, but I do prefer simplicity.
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A news site mostly Australian covering things you may not have seen
http://www.noticer.news
The “White Australia party”
Calks to ban Sikh knives
Australia’s military allows woke to take fitness test of chosen gender
Victoria introduces drug overdose vending machines
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Truly awful
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Worth a look then1
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Yes its awful, we really aren’t supposed to notice such things.
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Blocking impacts Tasmania.
‘Tasmania and Hobart just had their warmest May on record based on maximum temperatures, with Victoria and New South Wales also having an exceptionally warm month.
‘Unusually high pressure over New Zealand in May helped shield Tasmania from cold air and early-season frontal systems. This blocking pattern also caused air to flow over abnormally warm water in the Tasman Sea before reaching Tasmania, further insulating the state from pre-winter cold spells.’ (Weatherzone)
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My part of VIC seems to be having a normal start to winter, albeit very wet. The local newspaper tracks rainfall and depending on the town you pick we are running 200-250% up YTD on last year.
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Snow season has begun on time.
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FWIW –
Did the windmills enjoy the warmth?
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FWIW
As predicted
“As Murray Watt plays down environmental laws, a deep dive suggests big problems”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/as-murray-watt-plays-down-environmental-laws-a-deep-dive-suggests-big-problems/
And
“‘Only a court case will bring clarity’: Landholder advocate’s stark warning on EPBC”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/only-a-court-case-will-bring-clarity-retiring-landholder-advocates-stark-warning-on-epbc/
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So the Age is saying 50% of new car sales last month were EV’s, all because of Trumps war. I wonder if there will be buyers regret and how many wind up in the 2nd hand market in a few months time? I just paid $1.579/l, cheapest I’ve seen it in ages. Fuel excise returns to full next month, pushing prices back up 26 cents, so just under approx. $2 a litre. Still not expensive enough to make me consider an EV. I’ll just drive less.
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They nearly always write EV and ignore the hybrids.
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Not the EV council though. They usually inflate the numbers by including hybrids.
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Tesla had a great month and was superficially the top selling car. Nobody mentions they had supply issues the previous month and deliveries slipped back. You average it out and nothing much happened, but that doesn’t harvest clicks and views.
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And this may have increased the amount of BEVs in use to 2%, a whopping 100% increase over the original figure of 1%. WOW!!
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Philosophical assistance for the next time you are “proving that you are a human” –
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/05/30/day-of-the-living-memes/#comments
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I thought the fuel levy was 59c/l.
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The fuel excise tax in Australia is an excise tax of $0.526 per litre, which is temporarily reduced to $0.206 per litre for petrol and diesel from April 1 to June 30, 2026.
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Isn’t GST added on after all the rest?
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yep, tax on a tax
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President TRUMP has imposed an extra 2.5% tariff on Australian products to make 12.5% because he says Australia uses slave Labor.
The Government says we don’t but they are lying, as usual.
Australia is one of the world’s most fanatical believers in wind and solar
Who does it think mines most of the rare earths for windmill magnets and who does it think makes the solar panels? Mostly African or Chinese SLAVES!
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I love how the Americans deal with their alleged moral concerns. Add a tariff, we will still buy it though. Ypu know, we care, but not enough to go without.
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You must have a hundred examples. Do they have a CO2 tax, a usurious petrol tax?
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With the midterms coming up its a political misstep.
‘China, India, the United Kingdom, Japan and New Zealand are among the other 54 countries facing the 12.5% rate.
‘The 60 economies subjected to the review are responsible for 99.4% of all imports to the US, according to the trade representative’s report’ (Guardian).
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Our Federal basic wage has just gone through $1,000. The Yanks rely on tips for their lowest paid.
In fact they still have a slave mindset. It started with actual slaves but that didn’t work out well. They figured that they could pay some Mandarins to hire slaves that stay in China and get their cheap stuff but that didn’t get the lawns mowed and pools cleaned so they allowed wetb@cks in with a wink and a nod.
I hate hypocrisy!!
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I’m thinking I will live to be 100.
If I have a heart attack and fall mid stride, so be it, but the thought of living with a sclerotic liver for years scares me. “My name is Bill, I’m an alcoholic” has no appeal either.
Is there a safe daily dose (doctors will say “No”) and is “tapering off” a viable solution? I rarely have a drink through the day now but enjoy a tipple or three in the quiet of the night.
There are some smart cookies here who may help, I’m serious.
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Worrying about it will kill you faster than drinking! I have no problem with half a glass of Ginger wine before dinner and a glass of red during, I reckon it will help me live to 100!
Grow your own veges if you don’t already, and avoid any food pre-prepared. If you are buying food remember it was made to maximise a profit, not to make you healthy!
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Speaking of ridiculous conspiracies and climate.
Vid of what appears to be that fine American public servant, John Brennan, speaking about cloud seeding to fight global warming to give us time to transition from fossil fuels.
If you weren’t invited to the Council on Foreign Relations confabs, you might have missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqfFL4BPN4
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