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Trump says he is determined to stamp out climate hoax
https://slaynews.com/news/trump-defeat-climate-hoaxers-once-all/
Which beggars the question that when climate becomes a non subject what will be the main purpose of this blpg?
Discussions on kittens? How to dispose of electric vehicles? Hobbies and past times?
Still, as gates renews his plans to block the sun I suspect the end of the hoax is still some years away
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I reckon there are still some energy security, food security and improving housing and transport gnarly problems out there that it would be good to see some of the great minds on here set to.
What a republic might look like (Andrew and Harry are sitting a little too close to the throne these days for my liking)….
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It’s the don of a New Age.
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The weather has been the top subject in human history. What is a hoax is man made weather. Controlled by governments and requiring massive taxation and destruction of the quality of life in Western democracies. Communist governments have never believed a word of it.
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According to News.com Trumps inauguration will be forced indoors. This event, traditionally held outside with a crowd of about a million people in Washington will be forced in side as temperatures plummet to between minus 3 and minus 5 degrees. ( assume F ).
Curse this global warming!
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This story confirms that:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-18/trump-inauguration-to-take-place-amid-polar-vortex-across-us/104832288
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Tonyb,
Plenty of scope for this blog to host Making Science Great Again and getting the right material into the polluted education systems.
Enormous harm has been done by some climate change researchers to the ways the public view science. Science is hard, but rewarding. Bring back a proper reputation. Geoff S
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Seasonal influenza and those perpetually mutating strains used to make sense to me as a greenhorn postgrad neurobiologist attempting to gain a PhD; but then I started asking very simple questions and answers were not forthcoming. Questions such as: how does a virus that is reliant on human-to-human transmission survive when humans are not transmitting? Or: where do all those strains live when they are not partying? Or: how come only one strain expresses itself at a time when this animal loves to mutate like there’s no tomorrow?
These are not questions you ask in polite company; such as the common room of your department when greenhorns and laureates alike are fighting for control of the kettle and grumbling over what biscuits have been left by biscuit-munching undergrads that came out of the first lecture early. Ask those sorts of questions at the wrong time in the wrong place and you’ll get snorted at… or someone will peer over their glasses down at the end of their long nose.
https://jdee.substack.com/p/an-enigma-transmission-of-epidemic
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Home owners in the UK are being heavily bribed to switch from gas boilers to heat pumps
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/miliband-admits-heat-pumps-are-to-expensive-to-buy/
There may be a case for them in very well insulated modern houses but most property in the UK is of older stock and would require huge sums to upgrade in order to use a heat pump.
Are they becoming more polar in oz as I understand they also have an air conditioning function,more useful there than here.
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Called air conditioners in Australia and used more to pump heat outdoors.
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We have air conditioners in Brisbane and haven’t used much of either cooling or heating (reverse cycle/heat pump) over the last 12 months. So much for extreme weather.
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I seem to remember that in Obama’s inaugural speech he was very concerned about climate change and said he would stop the oceans rising.
This article shows his four properties, two of which appear to be at around sea level so Obama must have succeeded in holding back the rising waters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14296295/So-Michelle-sit-Trumps-inauguration-Inside-Barack-Obamas-property-empire-including-12million-Marthas-Vineyard-mansion-beach-Hawaii-estate-plush-DC-bolthole.html
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Trumps inauguration to be moved inside due to intense cold
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14296751/Grim-weather-forecast-Trumps-inauguration-cold-crowds.html
Just imagine how cold it would have been for the event if we had not had decades of global warming
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Remember it’s called “climate change” now so cold weather is also mankind’s fault.
Here in Sydney this is the third day of low 20’s, cloudy wet and windy weather… in the middle of January. That’s really really cold for this time of year and feels more like late autumn.
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On the left/right in politics, the most abused word in politics is Liberal. It has been stolen by the communists. DEI, BLM, ESG are all Liberal disasters inflicted on us by people who mean us ill. Even the major party in Australia is called the Liberal party, which is an utterly useless name today as Liberals are often as interested in taxing and restricting people as much as the Greens and Labor.
Labor is another word which no longer means Labor, apart from the unions in the vanishing trades. The waterside workers for example have nearly vanished. Transport strikes too. There are just fewer and fewer people and electricians are making great money working for themselves. Shopkeepers unions when so many retail goods are sold over the internet and service is nearly impossible to find in shops. Labor parties are shrinking. In the US and Australia, the Democrats and Labor have abandoned the workers. Unions are vanishing.
And no party represents the bulk of the people, the ignored Conservatives who do not want The Voice or more billions and land concessions to aborigines who get nothing. Nor do they want socialist posturing on the politics of Israel and the Middle East which has nothing to do with most Australians. Or the division of Australians on race, gender, origin. We are Australians. That’s the deal.
So as true Conservatives rise again in the Nederlands, Hungary, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, the UK and US, our very own Liberal party needs to recast itself as the party of the people. Nigel Farage’s Reform party appeals to the bulk of the UK.
We may need the same, to rename the Liberals for the 21st century to represent the middle class who want problems fixed. And not the weather. And ask who gets the $42Billion which does not go to aborigines. And the $100Billion of hidden off budget scams like Clean Energy and NBN and the other funds. We now have the vision of Albanese ‘tipping’ billions into the NBN to fight off Spacelink. Why? It’s a solution for this vast country. The NBN isn’t.
We need a new platform for the 21st century to reflect the Conservatives at the heart of Australia. And destroy the wedge issue of politician controlled weather. It’s nonsense, the most costly scam in world history. And stop our governments spending our money on fake science and fake aborigines and fake technology and a bit more on actual defence.
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Thoughts? https://peoplefirstparty.au/
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Sorry. Clumsy red. Hard to press green on a mobile.
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We have seen this in the UK. The party of Jeremy Corbyn was totally unacceptable. Then Boris Johnson was the new broom who swept in BREXIT, only to turn greener than green. Now in a lifetime I have never seen such buyers remorse as the election of Sir Keir Starmer who is as incompetent and dishonest as he is extreme. Everyone wants him gone as the Rotherham scandal is up for its fourth attempt to bury the story completely with an ‘inquiry’. They could just read the previous three.
In Australia Tony Abbott was elected in a landslide as a traditional conservative. And defenestrated by the leftists and greens in his own party, led by smarmy Malcolm Turnbull who made off with $444million on his last day. While making sure protege Scott Morrison and not Peter Dutton replaced him. Now the entire country regrets Anthony Albanese and few think Dutton can defeat the Greens in his own party. Voting Liberal is about as attractive as Tory in the UK or Democrat in the US. None represent the people as none are conservative.
Australia, like most fundamentally conservative non left, non right countries needs a conservative party. Not Howard’s Broad Church with massive hidden climate theft, never presented as Liberal party policy.
And a Conservative party would make sure aborigines were better off, stop the theft of Ayers Rock, Mt Arapiles and 53% of all of Australia and kill off the fake aboriginal industry, fake climate industry and the massive growth of the public service, which is an oxymoron as they just want more and more money. State debt in Victoria is $38,000 per human. Federal debt is also $38,000 per human.
It cannot continue, because we are going broke if not already. We need an actual politically and fiscally Conservative party which rejects all the scams of DEI,BLM,ESG,Aboriginal handouts and land grabs and the very idea that a dreamtime blue banded bee could stop a gold mine.
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TdeF:
I’m in the State just west of you and I wonder what we should rename the local Liberals? I think the Stark Raving Looney Party has already been taken. How about the Weird Party although perhaps the Weird Disunited Party would be more truthful. Perhaps the Nearly Extinct lot (would that get any support from the public?). How about Just Like the Vic Libs but Worse?
The Suicidal Nutcases?
I really think there is no real reason to try and resurrect them, just leave them alone and they will fade away.
Of course The Disintegrate Party.
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Problem there G3, is the rise of micro parties that only represent a tiny percentage of the population then uniting to claim a “majority”. The current federal state of play is the prime example. Labours rather pathetic primary vote of ( from memory) only 32% while Liberals primary vote was 38%. Then of course because it’s only about power, align with the greens that only got 10% of the vote. Heh presto, clearly the people wanted what we’ve got.
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The current lower house is 28 Labor, 13 Liberal and 6 Independents (2 of whom under the State Constitution are serving in the Labor Cabinet).
At the last election the seats (from memory) were Labor 26. Liberals 16 and Independents (all former Liberals) 3, so the Liberals have lost 2 seats (both held by former Leaders) and have another 3 walk out since losing that first term in power.
At the last election my local member wanted to resign after 2 years infighting but was persuaded by the public to stay on (as Independent). At the election he won a majority on the first count and after preferences 75+% as against the surviving Liberal at 25-%. This used to be the staunchest Liberal seat in the State (and our Federal Member is also (severaly times reelected) Independent also).
No-one can see any reason to vote Liberal although Dutton may change minds. The Greens vote was boosted by people looking for something other than the 2 majors and will drop (along with the Teals).
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Cybertruck in the UK? Forget it.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/8228/tesla-cybertruck-seized-by-greater-manchester-police
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FWIW
A new political prediction methodology
“The Banana Index”
“Ladies and gentlemen, by the one index that has proven reliable over my lifetime, socialism in the United States is receding. Not on the way out, precisely, but promising to go down instead of up. The index is a little forward-looking, you see.”
More at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/01/15/the-banana-index/
Like Brown’s Milk of old – “Good as any, better than some”?
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https://freebeacon.com/energy/foreign-billionaire-behind-legal-effort-to-take-down-exxonmobil-disclosures-show/
The Foreign Gentleman is an Australian – one ‘Twiggy’ Forrest.
Interesting article – it may even be true.
Auto
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FWIW
“SaskPower now looking to rebuild coal plants instead of shutting them”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/01/17/saskpower-now-looking-to-rebuild-coal-plants-instead-of-shutting-them/
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Politicians benefit from real jobs
In economic hard times it is difficult to beat the experience that comes from having to make decisions with big consequences in the commercial world.
EDITORIAL
It is a longstanding lament that many of today’s politicians have followed a career path through political party networks and, as a result, lack experience in the commercial or broader world.
There is no doubting that community contact is the best education a prospective minister can get. But in economic hard times it is difficult to beat the experience that comes from having to make decisions with big consequences in the commercial world.
With the federal election race starting to form, Peter Dutton has put a spotlight on his working experience, which includes small business and time in the police force. It is difficult not to contrast this with the working background of Anthony Albanese, who spent one year working outside the ALP family as a bank officer when aged 17 to 18. The difference in business experience is not confined to the party leaders.
The Prime Minister’s cabinet team is stacked with former union, party and political apparatchiks. Jim Chalmers was an Australian National University tutor in politics and public policy for one year in 2001. Analysis by political editor Geoff Chambers shows that of the Albanese government’s 23-person cabinet, 10 ministers worked for unions, 16 worked as political staff for state and federal Labor ministers, and three worked as party officials.
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PM’s union-dominated cabinet grapples with real world problems
GEOFF CHAMBERS
Anthony Albanese’s cabinet team is stacked with former union officials, party apparatchiks and political staffers who believe they have the real world experience and business know-how to reboot Australia’s flatlining economy.
As business owners and households buckle under pressure from high interest rates and an inflation-fuelled cost-of-living crisis, the Prime Minister is pitting his election pitch to “build Australia’s future” against Peter Dutton’s promise to “get Australia back on track”.
Stripping away the politics and slogans, there is a striking gap between Labor and Coalition cabinet line-ups in terms of work experience and running businesses.
Analysis of Albanese’s 23-person cabinet shows 10 ministers worked for unions, 17 worked as political staffers for state and federal Labor ministers, seven worked as lawyers including at union-linked firms, and three worked as party officials.
Like Albanese, Conroy and Farrell, Chris Bowen, Jason Clare, Julie Collins, Ed Husic, Tony Burke, Richard Marles, Jim Chalmers, Katy Gallagher, Penny Wong, Mark Butler and Tanya Plibersek have spent the bulk of their careers working across politics and the union movement.
The Coalition shadow cabinet includes a former police officer in Dutton, a military officer, media executive, diplomat, pilot, farmers, teachers, solicitors, bankers and consultants.
Seven of Dutton’s team, including Birmingham and Fletcher, previously worked as staffers in state and federal parliaments but most also boast professional careers outside politics.
Dutton often contrasts the “real world” experience of Coalition MPs versus Labor. Speaking this week in the Ipswich-based, ALP-held target seat of Blair, he said “this modern Labor Party is not the party of the worker … they’re the party of the union boss, not the union member”.
“The Coalition in its modern form is the party for the Australian worker and for small business,” Dutton said.
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““The Coalition in its modern form is the party for the Australian worker and for small business,” Dutton said…. of the Party that undid exactly nothing that the previous Labor party did, and introduced exactly nothing that the Labor party wouldn’t have, and in fact was completely indistinguishable from the other half of the Uniparty.
..and that is normal, no matter which country you go to! The parties are there for the politicians, not for the people. Still, voted in, democracy blah blah best form of Govt… One can only hope the voters get what they deserve, and get it good and hard!
The only party worth voting for would be one that promised to pass no new laws, and to spend 4years deleting laws.
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Yous fellas are copping a bit of weather on both coasts – the NSW low is still sucking up cool southerlies while WA is in for some air-conditioning thanks to TC Sean – while our extremities (north & south) have a little frontal activity, otherwise, fine: stock standard January climate, if somewhat a little on the cool side.
Has the devil gas carbon [sic] taken a holiday? Is it hungover? Perhaps it’s on strike, demanding more pay and more TV/screen-time attention? Is it all the planets (seemingly) lining up in the evening sky? Or the sun-grazing comet Atlas?
Last night’s temps around the planet exhibited perfect equilibrium: both poles were on -27C, and even though some claim otherwise, both were solid frozen ice. With a little altitude, those numbers plummeted, with Greenland’s Summit on -56 and Antarctica’s Dome on -39. Can you feeeeeel the boiling?
Even though Aus should be the ‘hottest’ land on Earth this time of year, couldn’t find one spot above the mythical 42C – lots of high 30s outback yet no real scorchers, unless BoM’s changed game-plans and they’re hiding today’s heat (?) – because as we know, ™️Settled Science™️ has passed its tipping point and is in a (freefall?) crisis. Good riddance.
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B’Cold here in Sydney – Youngsters plus Friends went to Big Bash Cricket At SCG last night – Rain Soaked Cold & Miserable and a lot of Money down the Drain for something that should have been called off and Money Refunded – Cricket Australia had looked at ventusky.com rather than, I assume, being guided by BOM
Big Basket Ball Hoop with large Water Filled base was being pushed, like a sail bfore the wind, last night towards Carport – Huge Winds
What Summer! – BOM hang your head in Shame!
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If climate reanalyzer is to be trusted, the 2m temperature globally is highest for the day of the year in their recent records.
If it’s colder than average somewhere, it’s warmer than average somewhere else, and t’other way around.
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FWIW
“Nine years ago WHO said red meat causes cancer, but insiders say the process was flawed and biased”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/nine-years-ago-who-said-red-meat-causes-cancer-but-insiders-say-the-process-was-flawed-and-biased/
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” but insiders say the process was flawed and biased””
…the very definition of science! The moment you pay a scientist, you’re buying the results you want.
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FWIW
“Joe Biden: An Assessment”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/joe-biden-an-assessment
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FWIW
“They’re Freaking Out (GOOD!)”
“The cancer industry, that is.
Yes, its an industry.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252686
And
” The New York Times dribbled out yet another turbo-cancer story yesterday, this one under the headline, “Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female.” The sub-headline explained, “Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report.” It never mentioned the jabs, so you can stop wondering right now.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/blame-games-friday-january-17-2025?
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Top Oncologist Confirms Ivermectin Cures Cancer
A world-renowned oncologist has confirmed that ivermectin can be used to cure cancer after the top doctor used the wonder drug to treat over 1,000 terminally ill patients.
The announcement was made by Dr. William Makis, a leading Canadian physician with expertise in radiology, oncology, and immunology.
Dr. Makis treated one of Gibson’s friends who made a complete recovery after being told there was nothing more doctors could do to treat the cancer.
https://slaynews.com/news/top-oncologist-confirms-ivermectin-cures-cancer/
“Nothing more they can do”?
Learn to code! 😁
Medicine’s obviously not for you.
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Any Idea what brands of ivermectin on the local market are suitable for you know ,nudge nudge , wink wink deworming horses
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Equineperformance.com.au ?
For all your horse ivermectin paste needs. 😉
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Global debt for 2024 has hit $315 Trillion USD.
Debt as a percentage of GDP is now 333%
Can’t imagine why they want a big reset.😎
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A Lesson for Peter Dutton & the Liberal/National Party re Ending ABC
End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS focused on that, they wouldn’t need to be so good at their side hustle: desperately lobbying Congress not to defund them.
Now that they’re good at. The lobbying efforts have worked every time conservatives have had power, going back to when President Lyndon Johnson created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the late 1960s.
Every Republican president after Johnson has tried to defund, dissolve, or reform public broadcasting. Yet the CPB is still standing, and NPR and PBS remain unreformed.
Weak Republican members of Congress always sweep in at the last second to save public media’s bacon. That is true even for some congressmen who sit in +30 and +40 GOP districts in states as red as Oklahoma and West Virginia, but who nonetheless act as if they’re afraid of their own shadow.
Sources tell me that NPR’s biggest member stations are taking the threat so seriously this year that they have produced an internal document that foresees four outcomes — and strategizes for each: 1. Congress claws back all funding immediately; 2. All funding is clawed back after two years; 3. Congress only cuts back half the funding; 4. Congress maintains the status quo.
This time it must not work.
The only shadow congressmen should see is that of a White House operative knocking on their door. NPR and PBS covered themselves in infamy with their leftist bias while reporting on the 2020 and 2024 elections.
According to a study the Media Research Center published last month, “PBS staff used 162 variations of ‘far right’ labels and only six ‘far left’ labels, an astounding ratio of 27 to 1.”
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