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“MELBOURNE, June 15 (Reuters) – Australia’s wealthiest person, mining baron Gina Rinehart, has taken a stake of more than $1 billion in the record-setting $75 billion SpaceX (SPCX.O), IPO”
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australias-richest-person-rinehart-takes-1-billion-stake-spacex-ipo-wsj-reports-2026-06-15/
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Good for her. No worries about CGT changes then?
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I’m glad she’s supporting One Nation.
If Federal Labor goes the way of Victoriastan Labor she won’t be able to support them as they have banned large donors to political parties, except if the large donor happens to be a trade union, not a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-03/victorian-electoral-act-changes-to-benefit-new-candidates/106752772
Of course, Labor also has as unofficial propagandists taxpayer-funded Their ABC and SBS, the Public “Service”, specifically imported future Labor voters, grifters associated with “renewables”, grifters associated with large but useless Government projects like the Naarmistan train tunnels and SH2, trade unions etc..
Uplifting One Nation future history video, about 4 mins:
https://youtu.be/Zo11HM2_j0Y
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I refer you to the Sunrise Project story and then please consider Australia’s wealthiest people and their financial support for political parties, example Climate 200 several vested interests donors, Palmer United Party, and of course now after thirty years One Nation.
Gina Reinhardt is I believe a very generous charity donor and a great Australian business women who has contributed a lot to our country, and I am not criticising her or any other Australian supporting a political party. On the other hand it has often been said that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Sunrise and Climate 200 are vested interests in the renewables industry, other political donors have their reasons and usually business interests based and access for lobbying politicians and more importantly oppositions and governments as business interest needs arise.
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That’d be Rinehart Dennis… Maybe go to https://www.ginarinehart.com.au/ to boost the ailing memory.
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In 2010 and 2012, Rinehart lobbied for Australia to bring in more foreign workers.
Rinehart is a supporter of Donald Trump.
Rinehart is a supporter and funder of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
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Her ancestry is similar to mine, Germanic, Scandanian
Reinhardt and Reinhart are both names with Germanic origins, meaning “strong counsel.” They are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct characteristics.
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FWIW
The Magna Carta or ‘Great Charter’ was an agreement imposed on King John of England (r. 1199-1216) on 15 June 1215 by rebellious barons in order to limit his power and prevent arbitrary royal acts.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Magna_Carta/
( wonder if it applies also to Herr Starmer? ) /s
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I wonder how many people even know about Magna Carta these days?
Australia has a 1297 “Inspeximus” version, not the original 1215 version.
These are the surviving copies:
When I was in primary school, back in the day, it was considered a sufficiently important document that school children, such as myself, were taken to Canberra to see it. Now they learn you can change gender.
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At Expo 88 held in Bisbane, thanks to Old Joh getting it for Queensland no other premier was interested, one of the Magna Cartas, the one that was sent to Winchester Cathedral, back in the day IRC correctly, was on display in the UK pavilion. Under very thick glass. Interesting to note that there was no line up waiting to view it, unlike many other “trivial” displays/entertainments.
ps Rusty of Qld
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In Britain, Magna Carta has been replaced by the 1996 Broadcasting Act, the 2003 Communications Act, the 2005 Inquiries Act, the 2023 Online Safety Act and the 2026 Investigatory Powers Act. The hereditary barons have been replaced by the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team (NIIIT), the 77th Brigade Domestic and International Psyops Teams, the GCHQ JTRI Group and Secret Courts issuing Super-Injunctions to cover-up the crimes of the British State.
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Once Great Britain is following Australia’s “lead” by banning children from social media.
Both countries are run by despotic socialists (communists) who want to control The Agenda and don’t want children to have access to alternative opinions outside the Official Narrative and who both want to stay in power forever.
Both Governments already have extensive censorship programs which are already suppressing what can be legally said, even on this site.
It’s not hard to see where this is heading.
To make this work properly, proof of identity will eventually be required for everyone which means everyone’s identity will be matched to their social media missives and in due course, incorrect thoughts will be punished by decrements to your Chicomm-style social credit score, or worse.
In regard to Australia’s lockdown on under-16’s.
Here’s a radical idea, why not have parents responsible for what their children do, not the State?
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Remember at voting time that the Liberals fully supported the social media ban for under 16’s plus also the censorious E Safety Kommissar was their invention.
Children will never learn “dangerous” alternative opinions such as that not everyone believes in anthropogenic climate change or that you can change gender or there are more than two genders or that Western Civilisation and its Judeo-Christian moral foundation is nothing to be ashamed of etc..
And just a couple of years after the ban ends they will be entitled to vote. By then, they will be so thoroughly indoctrinated by their communist “teachers” it won’t be possible to change their minds.
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Penalties and Compliance
Liberal Party: Advocates for a straightforward ban, prioritizing immediate action to restrict access.
Labor Party: Enforces significant penalties for social media companies that fail to prevent underage accounts, aiming for accountability and support for families.
Conclusion
While both parties aim to restrict access to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for users under 16, the Liberal Party emphasizes a direct ban, whereas the Labor Party focuses on penalties and support mechanisms for families.
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Yes and other awful platforms like Substack where non compliant thoughts and ideas may get discussed.
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“support for families.”
Any details on that? Just what would be good about a Communist Govt ‘supporting your family’ to use the internet?? Even worse than their usual ‘I’m from the Govt and I’m here to help’, it seems more like ‘You vill haf to do zis und we vill support your transition to it…’ Even the Libs outright ban seems better!
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The Ministry of Truth (Ofcom) won’t allow children to tell Elon Musk if someone tried to chop their head off, and the parents wont be able to tell Elon Musk about it if they died from head injuries.
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While the United States under TRUMP has progressive energy policies, California maintains regressive policies and is an “energy island” effectively disconnected from the rest of the country.
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What is little known about California by most is that it was once second only to Texas in domestic oil production and had a refining capacity surplus. But successive governments over the past 40 years have done everything in their power to kill off fossil fuel extraction and refining in the state, as well as any pipelines to other domestic sources. There is no reason whatsoever for California to be reliant on fossil fuels shipped in from overseas. It could produce almost all of it’s needs in-state (as it used to do) if they merely unshackled the domestic industry. And what the couldn’t produce, they could easily import for Texas/Arizona/New Mexico if they ended their hostility to pipelines.
But they can’t do that, because everyone knows a hydrocarbon molecule extracted and refined in Iraq/Brazil/Saudi Arabia and then shipped via a bunker-fuel powered tanker is ‘cleaner’ than a hydrocarbon molecule extracted/refined in California or Texas. At least on paper. Which is all that matters to politicians who want to pretend they are cutting carbon emissions by outsourcing them rather than producing them closer to home.
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Deputy Opposition Leader Matt Canavan commented again yesterday at Sky that Australia must undertake more exploration for oil and gas, and open up fields already identified. He said there might not be enough oil to supply our needs for more than several decades (subject to exploration results) but Australia does have an abundance of coal and various other countries already produce transport fuel from coal for at least some of their supply.
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Neighbouring States that relied on the once adundant supply from California instead of developing local supply are also now in trouble. The consequences are rippling out.
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“..have created an aviation fuel crisis. ”
Ah, the B52 ran out of fuel on climb-out…
“Eight dead as B-52 Stratofortress crashes on take-off.- Aerial footage of the crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California showed a charred, smouldering patch of the desert floor.”
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Bluddy ell you are a cynic. Eight men died, but they were Yanks. Who cares?
RIP gentlemen.
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as “Fly-OVER” country?
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Donald TRUMP wrote (quoted):
Australia, Canada and UK are deliberately following this strategy as the socialist regimes of those countries try to embed themselves in power forever. All future Labor Party voters or equivalent. Remember how Tony Burke fast tracked citizenship for some recent immigrants just before the last Federal Election, and now we also have record immigration numbers despite a housing crisis and collapsing economy?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/21/peter-dutton-says-labor-is-fast-tracking-citizenship-so-that-migrants-can-vote-heres-what-we-know-ntwnfb
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Trump told Starmer “if you import people from Third World Countries, you quickly become a Third World Country”
Starmer told Trump “But Its not safe for Third World people to live in the Third World, France is not safe”
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It seems the bears in the western part of Hudson Bay aren’t going hungry.
https://i.ibb.co/qF2n0sv8/masie-all-r10-4km.png
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The planet and climate are not static but constantly changing. We know this even from climate changes in historical times such as the Minoan, Egyptian, Roman and Medieval climate optima which were all very warm and Civilisation thrived.
Polar bears themselves are a product of natural climate change, having evolved from brown bears in only the last 150,000 to 500,000 years, not long in evolutionary terms.
While some bear populations are decreasing, others are increasing. The same with any animal population.
It’s all perfectly natural.
Overall, bear numbers are healthy with 5,000–10,000 bears in the 1960s compared to roughly 26,000-30,000 bears today.
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More CO2 and warmer water means more phytoplankton, which means more krill, which means chubbier seals, which means fat and happy polar bears.
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Maybe the ‘missing ice’ from the Antarctic Peninsula’s west coast is ‘hiding’ up there in Hudson Bay: stranger things have happened in the alternate otherworld of ©️climate sc!ence©️, although if enough Adélie penguins are magically transposed with said ‘missing ice’ north to Canuckistan, those roly-poly polar bears will be feasting until they’re the size of Mr Creosote 🤮
O Lamentations – if only we’d stayed in our caves or hadn’t climbed down from the trees, the planet would be perfectly average, mean, and cold.
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There have in fact been several attempts over the years to introduce penguins into the Arctic. Polar bears, humans and foxes ate them.
Plus in one venture the penguins refused to co-operate.
Here is a penguin recipe:
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Ernie’s penguin recipe:
What – no gumboot nor old leather shoe thrown in for that ‘authentic’ downunder flavour? Not even a splash of whisky in the batter?
Hmm… I’d wait for the Argentinian beef to show up on the menu: chicken-of-the-sea that tasted like fish (or frog’s legs) just ain’t my cup o’ tea.
Keep rowing, boys, keep rowing…
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FIRE THE LIAR advertising campaign has its first advertisement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DmiVIX5cs
It runs for 29 seconds and includes a call for more donations. Time will tell if it is effective. A simple message but not clever or compelling in my view.
Donation target now at $4.4M:
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar
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If Labor wins the next election they will ban truthful ads that offend Albo.
Look at how outraged he was when AI generated pictures of him in a bikini were posted.
And yet he boasts about never having missed for decades a Sydney Gay Mardis Gras. There’s plenty of men in bikinis there.
Typical Leftist hypocrite.
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This advertisement more powerful and far more positive – FIRE THE LIAR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CHl5u96f8
It gives Australian’s new direction and hope that we can regain our prosperity.
The answers are simple and One Nation knows them. Stop forcing the UN globalist bullshit down our throat using our money.
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The greatest leader in history, POTUS Trump, has taken a big step in advancing peace across the middle east:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CQc0X2Sso
Crude $80/B.
USD/IRR 1,375,255
USA gasoline $1.05/litre
A key victory for the world from the conflict is the realisation that the world still runs on carbon based fuels.
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There was general peace in the Middle East before the US attacked. Gaza was being levelled and now South Lebanon is as well. Hard to see what causes such adulation.
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He is the greatest leader in history already because he has defunded the UN Climate Change™ hoax. The kleptocrats have already turned down the alarm level in the hope of appeasing POTUS Trump but he knows their globalist agenda is not going to work for the working voters in the USA.
I have hope that PM Pauline Hanson and One Nation will destroy and defund the UN-party in Australia.
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Shirley you can’t be serious.
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Well, fairly peaceful between now and the USA organising the overthrow of Assad in Syria, and short bit of peace before that as they overthrew Gaddafi, and even vaguely peaceful between that and the invasion of Iraq..
Funny, although there hasn’t been any real peace there, it all seems to be America causing the trouble. These damm independent countries wanting to sell oil outside the $US, they all need disciplining! Of course Wiki lists all sorts of trouble over there, but blames the Arab nations as America never appears on the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East
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“It’s America and oil” is not logic, it’s lazy thinking.
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How about somewhere back beyond about 1400 years ago?
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So to advance peace the US starts wars, puts biological weapons labs near the Russian borders, destabilises and bullies governments around the world; and then when they stop they can be praised for advancing peace. Seems a strange conclusion to me?
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‘The greatest leader in history …’
History will not be so kind.
“We added two senior psychologists to the negotiations’ advisory circle so that we can shape messages intended for President Trump from the perspective of managing what we regard as psychopathic behavior pattern,” an Iranian official told Drop Site.
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30,000 Iranian civilians butchered in the streets – looks a bit like a ‘psychopathic behaviour pattern’.
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Yeah right… That gets thrown around a lot by people who have never shot a gun. So, how many rounds to kill a person? The Yanks used about a million in Vietnam, currently Ukraine is no better on either side, but lets say 5 rounds per person. You will need 150,000 rounds of ammo, that’s 5000 magazines at 30 rounds each.
Take each soldier with one magazine each, you’ll 5000 soldiers lined up on three sides of the protesters.. oh wait, you don’t want the soldiers shooting across the crowd and killing each other, so only two sides. 2500 soldiers lined up down one footpath, and 2500 soldiers lined up at the end of the street as the poor protesters walk into the trap..
Except the soldiers would take up over 2km of road at shoulder to shoulder, so the protesters might get worried, and you need a 2Km wide civic square at the end of the road for those soldiers. Of course you could issue each soldier with two magazines and hope the protesters don’t run away while they all switch mags at once. Naturally protesters don’t take as much room vertically as horizontally, so as you shoot them they fall over, pile up and block the ground. You’ll have to walk around 30,000 corpses to make sure they’re dead, or shoot them again one by one.
Maybe it didn’t happen like that, but an awful lot of people seem to believe it.
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According to wiki.
‘As of 25 January 2026 , the total death toll estimates ranged from 6,488 people to upwards of ~36,500 people, including 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel, making these among the largest massacres in the modern history of Iran.’
There is a wide margin, but in your opinion has POTUS lost his marbles?
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Been shooting since the early 70’s. Know a bit about it. You?
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FWIW
“There Are No Budget Constraints In New York City: “Coastal Resiliency” Edition”
“But how about spending huge amounts of money on pure fantasies that accomplish absolutely nothing? Yes, we have that too. For today’s example, how about “climate resiliency”?
Maybe you don’t even know what that is. I’m not sure that I do either. A good summary is that it is a substance-free buzzword that is being used to dispense tens of billions of dollars on consultants and construction projects along the coastline, without any discernible benefits within the lifetimes of anyone around today.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/15/there-are-no-budget-constraints-in-new-york-city-coastal-resiliency-edition/
A Canberra “think tank” study subject?
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John Anderson podcast had a recent presentation by Anderson, Chris Uhlmann and Aidan Morrison: The Renewable Lie: How Australia Was Sold a False Promise.
Audio quality is a bit so-so, but the material was very good. Here’s the YouTube link. 1 hr 40 minutes.
There’s a lot of good stuff in there, but I’ll quote one little story Aidan Morrison had, pertinent to the uniparty problem (1 hr 15 minutes in, but you might like a minute or so’s context before that):
I’d apply the organised crime label to a fair chunk of the bureaucracy too, but at least a Liberal Party insider can admit what his organisation is really about.
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Matt Keen was a NSW Liberal Cabinet Minister and resigned and left Parliament, later he was employed by Labor Federal Minister for Energy Chris Bowen to head the new Labor climate organisation.
What I have learnt over many years of observing politics and political parties is that candidates elected by voters in their home electorate are not robots and all have a mind of their own, they choose a party or stand as an independent, and if they become a party MP or Senator they tend to join like minded other elected people, as former Prime Minister John Howard once described the Liberal Party – “a broad church”. Labor Party also has factions and more of them than the Liberals or Nationals. Former Labor Opposition Leader Mark Latham once wrote in the Financial Review about the Labor factions, friends and enemies, disagreements and even factional wars. On the other side the factions are not as varied or as militant, and unlike solidarity or trouble Labor approach to MPs the Liberal National permit their members to cross the floor if they feel the need.
The Liberal left (LINO faction) influence was first noticed after the 2007 election when Howard Government was defeated by Rudd Labor, and from then until the LINO leader resigned and left Parliament in 2018 the LINO left were influential but not always enough to get their way. By 2018 the left had lost influence and while still around from Morrison Government 2019-2022 the left did not get their way very often, a change of direction, for example away from renewable energy and transition from fossil fuels stalled. There was a brief one year LINO left return after the 2025 election, that lasted one year, after that the LINO left had been dealt with. Opposition Leader Taylor elected by two thirds majority.
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FWIW
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Why should I click on that?
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“A positive attitude won’t solve all your problems.
But it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort”
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FWIW –
“Putin’s Shift From Diplomacy To Military Victory”
https://rumble.com/v7bbpqc-putins-shift-from-diplomacy-to-military-victory.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
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FWIW
“Story of Human Evolution Rewritten after 1.8-Million-Year-Old Cave Discovery”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/15/story-of-human-evolution-rewritten-after-18-million-year-old-cave-discovery-n3815953
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But after the Earth boiled for hundreds of millions of years with a cyanide-rich atmosphere, when the first life-giving chemical chains linked up, we still don’t know how the first cell membrane formed out of the primordial ooze.
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Intelligent design?
That’s where my creator differs from most. I believe that the earth is nothing more than a science lab and that our creators just looks in from time to time and make a tweak or two. Sort of like a large scale version of the petri dishes biologists use.
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I beleive Lance was talking about this a while ago, in regars to grid expansion.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/power-transformer-lead-times-hit-record-highs-us-grid-equipment-shortage-deepens
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AI data centres have thrown a spanner in the works.
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Chinese are onto it-
“Shougang Steel has been pursuing the development of low iron loss and high permeability grain oriented electrical steels for more than a decade. Grain oriented electrical steel requires a very strong Goss texture and as such a comprehensive control of thermo-mechanical processing parameters is required to achieve a strict control of texture. …Power transmission and distribution loss in China accounts for about 6.6 % of the total power generation, of which transformer losses account for 50 % percent of this figure. In order to reduce transformer losses the Standardization Administration of China issued the compulsory standard “Minimum allowable value of energy efficiency and the energy efficiency grades for power transformers”
It would be a bad time for a Carrington event or a particular EMF blast…
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‘Curtis-led Firmus project threatens $5bn transmission project.
‘Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean has questioned the business case for the $5bn Marinus Link amid a data centre rush that has triggered demand for energy supplies.’ (Oz)
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The Marinus Link was supposed to provide power from the “Battery of the Nation”, aka Robbins Island, back to the mainland. Its cost has risen from $1.8bn to $4.8bn, a 272% increase. Basslink was never profitable, so Marinus also won’t be. There is now no need for this link, so like SH2, shut it down now.
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Was the $1.8billion for both cables at the start, so now we’re getting half the capacity for three times the price? I’m sure it will all be union-controlled and a billion or two will be unexplained…
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The cause of the GPS signal jamming and dropouts in the EU
The story is in the news this week, but the back story when I saw it from 2 weeks ago more so.
https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA?si=iFSyIED4kcgvTM5r
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FWIW
“‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column”
https://redstate.com/tladuke/2026/06/15/no-kings-crowd-gets-wrecked-by-one-brutally-honest-media-column-n2203367
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‘He is thin-skinned and dodges accountability. He threatens and postures ‒ against media, allies and foes alike. He acts too quickly and sometimes crosses the line.’
He is also mentally ill, which helps to explain his behaviour.
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If thats mental illness. I wish I had it.
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Be careful what you wish for, frontotemporal dementia is not a pretty sight.
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Where does it rank beside TDS? That sure ain’t pretty.
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Gosh Gordo. I was on the phone to him last night. He said the nicest things about you.
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Now, remember when the lethal new disease Covid-19 was young and it came from Chinese people eating bats.. Further media reports expanded on bat disease research and how many labs are busy on batshit projects to find novel viruses they can play with.
Yet funnily enough the media report on the 50,000 bats that have moved into Camden in Sydney just ignores that whole topic. Even when they are talking about bat guano over people’s cars, houses, laundry and footpaths, it seems that bat-vectored diseases only exist in China.
Obviously there are no politicians living in the South-West of Sydney, the official advice is shut up and put up with it, they will leave eventually..
https://smry.ai/www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bat-boom-sparks-backlash-as-50-000-flying-foxes-descend-on-sydney-suburb-20260614-p606mt.html?smryFrom=home
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Apparently Australian Diggers are being taught how to make aboriginal weapons, good idea that will deter anyone with a plane boat or missile system from invading the country.
Somehow any one with above the magic I.Q. level of 80 wouldn’t be able to figure this stuff out for themselves. I note in the photos that the trainees are also using traditional battery powered sanders etc. That will scare the daylights out of any nasty aggressors
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/woke-pauline-hanson-slams-department-of-defence-indigenous-weapons-training-program/news-story/c4ac24cb7f101353389c3508edcf98fe
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Were the hollowed tree trunk paddle torpedo canoes mentioned hidden in Mangroves and creeks?
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FWIW
The Guardian gets another pat
“Debate, But Not As We Know It”
“Yes, a series in which the entire breadth of conceivable political thought – as imagined by the Guardian‘s intellectual powerhouse Zoe Williams – is given an airing. And where left-leaning teachers, left-leaning writers and left-leaning university administrators discuss just how awful and stupid those non-leftwing people are, and whether Net Zero is super-imperative or just really, really important.
A series in which totally random Guardian readers – sorry, totally random members of the public – encounter “the opposite point of view,” while chewing on kale and butternut squash. Except that they both vote Green and are named Tamsin and Matilda.”
“I’m reading the Guardian to spare you the pain.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/15/debate-but-not-as-we-know-it/
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Why would you put yourself through that?
Nobody is worth that suffering.
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