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Quiet isn’t it?
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It’s the calm before the the “East coast bomb cyclone”.
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Yes…a quite common East Coast Low is now a ” bomb cyclone “. Climate hysteria alive and well it appears.
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previously known to the old time residents as a “Southerly Buster”
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Bimbogenesis made worse due to planet-heating hysterical wailing ‘n’ gnashing of teeth – panic!
Thankfully we’re on the warmish northerly side of the low while NSW cops another coolish southerly blast… so it goes.
Typical BoM naming a regular weather occurrence after itself, ie. bombogenesis, to make it sound scarier. Give it a few days and the surf will be pumping: it’s called weather.
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I think you meant Bombogenesis, but Bimbogenesis is good too, especially these days. 😁
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Quiet?
99% of ‘COVID Deaths’ in New Zealand Were Vaccinated – Official Data Bombshell.
Spain to jail patents for 2 years if they object to trans surgery for their kids.
Catastrophic flooding in China.
Campi Flegrei supervolcano part collapses into sea after quake.
Michelle Obama says the ability to create life is the least significant function of a woman’s reproductive system.
German woman arrested for using thumbs-up emoji.
RFK Jr. Launches criminal probe into Fauci’s crimes against humanity.
Scientists create a remote controlled robot 0.5mm wide.
Musk calls GOP the Porky Pig Party.
J.K. Rowling rips into Stephen Ireland.
Pentagon ends real-time satellite weather tracking.
UK gimmigrants get free Wimbledon tickets where locals are denied them.
China’s digital Yuan plan is collapsing and being rejected en-masse.
That enough for you?
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Do you have a link for that?
Cheers!
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At 7am Sunday I said that total Australian Government debt (federal, state, local) had rolled over to $2.114 trillion.
Now, 440am Tuesday, it has just rolled over to $2.115 trillion.
In just about 45.5 hours they’ve blown another $1 billion dollars.
They’re spending without restraint and with no opposition political party to stop them and those few members left in the “opposition” party don’t even express disapproval of such outrageous expenditure.
And not even a concern from the Lamestream Media.
$1 billion in 45.5 hrs is $6,105 per second.
In another year they will have blown an additional $192 billion at the current rate but they’re spending even more all the time.
And people wonder, most present company excepted, why Australia is one of the few Western countries where the standard of living is declining.*
How’s it going to be repaid?
How’s it going to end?
With the opposition fake conservative woke Liberal Party under Sussssssan Ley, how are things going to be different?
One thing is certain: It won’t end well.
NOTES
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
* https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/research-note/six-more-measures-of-australias-declining-living-standards
* https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/06/australian-living-standards-in-decline/
* https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/how-australia-became-the-world-s-biggest-cost-of-living-loser-20241118-p5krgk
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I haven’t heard any scary stories about “a new dangerous form of covid” fir at least a month.
What’s going on?
And just after the Victoria Government “invested” $50 million in Moderna’s mRNA factory in Melbourne with a 100 million dose per year capacity. An unknown amount was given by the Federal Government.
And why are Australian Governments giving taxpayers’ money to rich multinational corporations anyway?
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/world-leading-moderna-vaccine-facility-opens-in-victoria
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/monash-university-welcomes-$50m-government-funding-for-mrna-vaccine-development-and-manufacturing
Plus, $18 billion of taxpayer money was spent by the Federal Government on “vaccines” and “treatments” as part of the covid response. What exactly did that achieve?
And what about this?
Hey, it’s only Aussie taxpayer money that’s being thrown away. Just add it to the National Debt…
Big Pharma profitability is down in the United States as the TRUMP Administration asks them for actual evidence for the efficacy of their products. I guess they’ll just move their operations to woke countries like Australia who ask for little or no evidence of efficacy and where taxpayer money is spent without limit.
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Bored, DM?
Put some Alka-Seltzer in your mouth then when it starts foaming run into Woolies screaming ” the virus…it’s mutated!”
Hours of fun. Do Coles too!
Don’t worry, you’ll get your excitement soon enough (next year) and it won’t be Slovid, but you’ll wish it was.
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“And why are Australian Governments giving taxpayers’ money to rich multinational corporations anyway?”
“Spillage” / “kickbacks”??
SOP?
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My wind vs eagles Report is out:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/29/cfact-report-feds-fail-to-offset-wind-turbine-eagle-kills/
The short Exec Summary on the WUWT page makes the basic point. Electrocution offsets do not work so new wind must stop.
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Good work, David.
Are any new windmills being built under the TRUMP Administration?
And what happens to the existing windmills?
I think if any other non-green infrastructure was responsible for such wildlife destruction they would be shut down. But anything “green” is allowed to cause environmental destruction. Hopefully not so much under TRUMP.
A good use for the existing windmills would be to cut the blades off, and leave the towers and nacelles in place so the eagles can build their nests on the nacelles. To stop the nests blowing off in high winds put a non slip surface on top such as steel mesh so the nest has something to “lock” into.
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There is a temporary freeze on new eagle kill permits but windmills with permits are going up. Bear in mind the FWS (falsely) claims that every wind kill is offset by a prevented electrocution. That is the real problem.
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A wind turbine blade broke loose from a truck and crashed into traffic on Interstate 70 in Maryland. The blade struck the guardrail causing it to go partially into the eastbound lanes, then it was clipped by a tractor trailer traveling. Then it was parked on the wide shoulder.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/wind-turbine-blade-crashes-traffic-busy-northeast-interstate-injured
Good picture of the blade and these are the smaller onshore blades. I live not far from where this happened.
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This is how wind turbines should be painted:
https://9gag.com/gag/adPO4P2
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Well, this 2012 prediction didn’t work out so well, did it?
One comment is correct however. Australian skiers do often go overseas but not because of lack of snow but because as with all vacation travel within Australia, it’s often cheaper to go overseas for a ski holiday such as going to NZ, Japan or the USA than doing so in Australia.
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Love it! All these stories by the sort of people who get to work in the morning and immediately do a web search for their names to see what has been written about them overnight. The look of embarrassment and dismay when she reads your post and realises she can’t expunge such stupid predictions, and will look like a fool alongside Mr FlimFlam and others for decades to come…
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And David, what is Associate Professor Catherine Pickering doing now?
Well on the Griffith University website it is still telling us she is an expert in plant ecology, climate change, alpine ecosystems recreation, and protected area management.
Reckon she needs to be questioned about her questionable 2012 prediction and the fact that it is not aging well, and why that is the case.
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I hate such people with passion rare in my age.
Of course it is just jealousy.
My apprenticeship started before I was 15, got through the Uni and 3-4 interesting workplaces, emigrated, started again, have done very well for myself, thank you.
So, why the hatred?
Because I see very clearly how they impact the lifepath of my grandchildren, from the kindergarten up and it breaks my heart.
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Looking at last week’s snowfall around the planet, the 5 usual suspects in the southern hemisphere all received a touch of la blanc stuff dropping out of the sky: Australia, NZ, Chile/Argentina, Lesotho/SA, and Antarctica (yes, kiddies, it’s still snowing down there in Penguin Land).
Shockingly – and to climate experts’ amazement – it also snowed in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, a number of areas in Russia (west and east) as well as up on the Tibetan Plateau, regions most of us here know are not only in the northern hemisphere but where it is presently in the season referred to as ‘summer’.
So it’s hot around the Mediterranean Basin… break-out the togas & grapes and party like it’s 3 B.C.! Meanwhile Greenland’s summit is -16*C, the Arctic North Pole is hovering barely above 0*C freezing (spot-on the mean for this time of year) and our South Pole is -45*C with passing snow flurries.
Change? What change!
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They try to explain the European heatwaves, its climate change we warned you, but then go on to explain its only weather. Apparently there is a high pressure ‘heat dome’ over the Mediterranean and a ‘hot air plume’ from the Sahara is the result.
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A weak, mellow NH jetstream will do that (summer) while in the SH it’s raging up & down (winter), therefore warmer temps make for a calmer planet: aka My Theory™️ and I’m sticking to it.
A breathless, young, female British reporter sounded genuinely surprised that [parts of] Spain could get ‘hot’ in summer, ie. low 40s. All that expensive education yet still no clue.
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The great climate shift of 1976 gets a mention.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/hottest-opening-day-at-wimbledon/
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For those in Melbournistan there’s apparently plenty of snow at Mt Donna Buang but check reports before you go, including the relevant Farcebook pages.
Mt Donna Buang is only a marginal snow area and only suitable for sightseeing, snow shoe walking and tobogganing for kids.
It being a marginal snow area is nothing to do with “climate change”. It’s just a marginal area which is why it was abandoned as a ski resort in the 1930’s.
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As they say, it’s “The closest snow to Melbourne”. Mt Donna Buang summit is only 1250m.
No dogs allowed as it’s in a national park.
Toboggan run and fun for kids. BYO toboggan.
This guy at Mountain Tucker gives good updates
https://www.facebook.com/share/1Aen1FUoVq/
and there’s this page too
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mtdonnabuang/
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Odd event N of Cairns the other day. Several helicopters flying back and forth over the N suburbs for several hours. Luckily I had my $29 Coles 20x binocs for a closer look. Strange attachments on at least one of them. I’ll let you know if I drop dead of chemtrails. Meanwhile can’t see anything similar in an image search.
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A common one in NSW would be geomagnetic surveys for mining as companies map potential new mines on geological maps. They run back and forth moving across the sky each time, with survey gear in a streamlined container underneath. Only needs one machine though…
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I regularly go to flightradar to recognise something I hear overhead and then look around. One flight that I had seen a few times out of Mackay was a chopper heading east, straight out to sea, and wondered why. My son reminded me that is Hydrographers Passage where ships are mandated to have pilots aboard before passing through the GBR.
Recently I was tracking the flurry of activity of US tanker aircraft around the world and saw these small depictions over Germany. They were gliders, Germany being the home of gliding since the ’30s. Checking windy.com Germany was having a beautiful sunny day with glider pilots making the best of it. I thought it was interesting anyway. 🙂
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I see helibuckets here in central Washington State.
Wiki has a page: Helicopter_bucket
Images galore on the web.
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Alzheimer’s protein found in newborns helps, not hurts.
Researchers have discovered that newborns have high levels of the tau protein, which is elevated in older people with Alzheimer’s disease, but that it causes them no harm.
The earlier the birth, the higher the p-tau217 level, suggesting the protein played a role in early brain development. Healthy newborns were found to have much higher levels of p-tau217 in their blood than healthy children, adults, or even people with Alzheimer’s. Indeed, p-tau217 levels in newborns were about three times higher than those in Alzheimer’s patients.
https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/3/fcaf221/8158110
Red herring…
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Called tau tangles in Az patients and again we differ on significance.
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A handy guide to help decipher posts from our on narrative contributors.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/translation-guide-progressive-slavespeak
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“Environmental sustainability: On its face, this means achieving a stable, positive relationship between
nature and human civilisation.
In slavespeak, it parades under this innocent banner, but really it means demonising economic production and
industrialisation, and putting the purity of “nature” and the minimisation of carbon output ahead of any
possible gains that could come from modern agriculture, industry, or travel by air or by car.”
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Conquered by passport and treaty: How Islam is outsmarting and overrunning the west
The West is being conquered not by bombs but by doctrine—through hijra, taqiyya, and “peaceful” jihad, Islam advances under the banner of coexistence, while our leaders—crippled by guilt and complicit in deception—crush those who dare speak the truth.
In an era of cultural amnesia and ideological surrender, the West continues to retreat from confronting the one force most openly committed to its transformation: political Islam.
https://rairfoundation.com/conquered-passport-treaty-how-islam-is-outsmarting-overrunning/
3rd time lucky for them?
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What’s the excuse for this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/last-christian-town-west-bank-attacked-and-besieged-israeli-settlers
It’s not an isolated incident.
As you would know if you’ve seen “No Other Land” (Oscar winning film) … or “Rooted in the West Bank” (on Al Jazeera).
Perhaps someone can explain to me why it’s necessary for Occupation Forces to:
1. pour wet concrete down the well shaft on an Arab farmer’s land (in the first film), and
2. bulldoze to rubble another farmer’s reservoir which he built to collect the rainwater that falls on his land (shown in second film).
Any takers?
(BTW link mentions Ted Cruz getting booed off stage in 2014)
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Reprogrammed E. coli turns plastic waste into Paracetamol
Engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a way to turn the common plastic used for disposable bottles into the popular painkiller paracetamol (acetaminophen). All it takes is a bit of bacteria and time to ferment the treated waste.
The entire process is carried out at room temperature, takes less than 24 hours, and produces no carbon emissions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01845-5
Well, that’s different!
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But wait! There’s more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-0YHNQ1_E
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FWIW
“MIT’s high-tech ‘bubble wrap’ turns air into safe drinking water — even in Death Valley”
https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/mits-high-tech-bubble-wrap-turns-air-into-safe-drinking-water-even-in-death-valley
Via a comment at Chiefio
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Czech Study Finds Covid Vaccine Linked to One-Third Drop in Fertility Among Women
Women of child-bearing age and parents of young girls should weigh seriously the real world consequences of infection against the potential loss of fertility.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/czech-study-finds-covid-vaccine-linked-to-one-third-drop-in-fertility-among-women/
Via https://instapundit.com/729295/#disqus_thread
A comment there –
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Is there anything it can’t do? (Other than prevent COVID.)”
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FWIW – another possibility
“A JFK Assassination Riddle: Was John Connally the Target?”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/a_jfk_assassination_riddle_was_john_connally_the_target.html
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“COVID” – decoded :-
“This was a stress test of how quickly a free society could be transformed into something unrecognizable, and we failed spectacularly.
Anyone who actually followed the science understood that the only pandemic was one of cowardice.
Worse, most people didn’t even notice we were being tested.
They thought they were just “following the science”—never mind that the data kept changing to match the politics, or that questioning anything had somehow become heretical.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cowards-bargain
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Sorry…bad steering, meant green.
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‘Gas crisis as Bowen calls on reserve supplies.
‘Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says any new gas developments will be forced to provide supply to the domestic market, opening up a review into the sector that may consider an east coast reservation scheme.’ (Oz)
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Could it be? Could the light have come on in the dimmest energy minister bulb in the West? I guess when you are lagging Milliband it must get a bit embarassing.
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