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In the great patriotic war for ‘England in Asia’, Lord Starmerston said, “We must defend ‘England in Asia’ as well as in Europe” “and also to go into the Black Sea” to take back Sevastopol from Russia, and give it back to England.
Flying to a foreign land in his foreign made aeroplane, Lord Starmerston said that the war for ‘England in Asia’ “impacted every single family and community in the United Kingdom.”
Lord Starmerston’s patriotic concerns stem from the invasion of his Majesty the Kings Dominion of Ukraine by rapists crossing the French Channel from the Soviet Union with help from the RNLI, and housed in Hotels by pro-Russian collaborators. The foreign invaders are then able to organise the mass rape of the mothers, wives and sisters of Dominion soldiers sent to defend ‘England in Asia’ from Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian mothers, wives and sisters in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and its overseas Dominions.
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Dear Paul,
Do you by any chance, reside in Melbourne?
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The link title says it all. How dare there be a challenge to the Mannstream theory of climate
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/17/activists-run-to-federal-court-to-try-to-ban-official-us-government-report-that-blows-holes-in-settled-climate-science-claims/
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That’s the cunning Michael Mann ploy when your pet theory gets taken apart.
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‘The plaintiffs are worried that the report will be used to justify the removal of CO2 from a 2009 endangerment finding. This would inevitably lead to major rollbacks of rules backing the command-and-control Net Zero project.’
Could Australia duplicate this in some way?
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The general view here is that Putin came out the winner. Don’t know what they thought in Oz
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-putin-ran-rings-round-the-rest-in-alaska/
The Motley EU and UK crew are now at the White house. Lets see what comes out of it. My guess is nothing much.
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I thought it brilliant to have Poots walk off his plane between rows of F-22 Raptors and then have a fly-over of a B-2 flanked by 4 F-35s, none of which Russia can match.
The red carpet looked more like a red mat to me.
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The F35s that keep breaking down, and need more time on the ground being serviced than actually flying?
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Compared to WHAT?
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That is an example of media exaggeration.
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Just the usual show poney stuff while staying well clear of peer enemies
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I wouldn’t have thought there were any winners or losers from Alaska, at this point.
But maybe we have a clearer understanding of one avenue to an end. Which, if reports are true, that maybe Putin will stop if he gets all of the Donbass. But he wouldn’t get all of Ukraine.
If you know what is ambition was when this started then maybe you can judge whether that result is a win or loss for him.
But it’s not a result yet. So there is no winner / loser from the Alaska talks.
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He didn’t stop at Crimea, why would he stop at the Donbass?
He has explicitly and consistently said he intends to recreate the empire of Catherine the Great, so this is likely just the start of his ambitions, which includes the Baltic states and part of Poland.
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” to recreate the empire of Catherine the Great”
Any reference for that ?
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It wouldn’t be this , would it :-
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4548668-putin-in-the-footsteps-of-potemkin-is-trying-to-recreate-the-russian-empire/ ?
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Dear FB,
My wife and I are very grateful for the link you provided.
We did not read the article. It was enough for us to see the Theatre at the start of Lenin’s Street.
World famous Potemkin’s Steps lead down to the Port are to the right.
With your attention to detail and truth in reporting you will notice immediately left of the Theatre a smaller 3-story sandstone building.
This is state registry office where 58 years ago we were married.
So, we did not need to go further than that possibly staged picture.
We saw and heard what Putin said on Russian TV – Ukraine andUkrainian are artificial creation. They do not exist.
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>>explicitly and consistently said…
>it wouldn’t be this would it?
No. That’s someone else’s opinion.
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That is how the thread started – an opinion. How much of what we “know” of Trump is “just an opinion”?
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I’m having a bit of hard time adjusting.
I was taught I might have to fight the Russians because they were Communists.
Are they still Communists?
The next mayor of NYC might be one.
I was told in the 70s that Communists always roll over stuff, like with their tanks.
I understand there’s still lots of them in China.
I’ve heard that the Mao type Communists are the scariest.
One stopped in the early 90s, but the other never did.
Although I’m unclear if I should worry about it now.
But it’s ok we if do bio research, with weapons potential, with them because business partners seldom turn on each other.
If only I had finished college, I would have learned not to worry about Communism.
At least the fear of Communism was quickly replaced with the fear of Global Warming.
Did we win the GWOT?
I thing I need a Venn diagram.
If only there had been lockdowns, a vaccine, and mask mandates to stop the spread of Communism.
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‘Are they still Communists?’
No, Putin is a fascist and so is Donnie.
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I’m thinking you’re off on both.
Half on one, completely on the other.
Unless, it’s not the Donnie I think you mean.
At least one of them isn’t my problem.
The f word has been bent by fools to meaninglessness.
The C word not so much.
I do have a sense of my country being made great again.
And I’m aware that that is a unique feeling in the Western world.
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‘Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.’ (wiki)
Putin is a definite and Donnie is a wannabe.
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“‘Fascism is characterized by . . . . . .”
How many current world “leaders ” do not tick at least some of those boxes/ characteristics ?
Of course it is possible that we never see the real directors , and our so called leaders are merely the useful idiots.
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‘ … we never see the real directors …’
Conspiracy theories not required, but watching the political theatrics I’m warming to the theory that we are only simulations.
Homo sapiens are derived from gracile apes, we shouldn’t be surprised by bad behaviour. A geopolitical rules based system works best.
Putin is the epitome of a fascist, its so last century.
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Can you give me a link to a video with translation where he states this.
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Speaking of links: Can anyone give a link to Trump saying he wants to be a fascist dictator?
Why is a link relevant in one case and not the other?
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It doesn’t matter what he actually says. What matters is what some people imagine he meant. Apparently.
The power of some people’s imagination can even change biology, render solar radiation utterly powerless and turn Gaza into a gay-friendly holiday destination.
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You missed my point. You KNOW what Trump means even though he never says it but Rick insists that Poots has never SAID he wants to revive Greater Russia so therefore he couldn’t possibly have that in mind.
I see double standards, you can’t.
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I said y’day that a cease fire is not peace. VE Day and VP Day were VICTORIES which led to lasting peace: Neither Germany or Japan have started a war since. Proper peace can only occur here if Russia is defeated but I’m not sure anyone wants to take that risk. Kicking the can down the road may be the wisest course for now, and see if Russia slowly drinks itself to death.
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I am hold my breath with hope that some people of Europe, maybe just maybe, started to feel like Honk above – that their own civilisation is worth something.
Look at dear little Ursula :
Minister of Defence (2013–2019) — first woman to hold this position in Germany. Known for supporting gender equality, family policy reforms (such as expanding childcare), and pushing for stronger EU integration.
Since 2022 – Supporting Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion and strengthening EU defence policy.
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Putin will eventually sue for peace, probably after the Coalition of the Willing begin sending volunteer soldiers to the front line.
When that dictatorship crumbles the Europeans won’t need to spend so much on defence, freeing up monies for something more productive.
Russia will have to be broken up to provide real peace and security for Europe.
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Reagan spoke of a “peace dividend” when he and Gorby signed Glasnost, it was short lived.
A true peace and a true peace dividend in Europe can only happen if Russia is demilitarised – permanently.
We, and Australia is part of that “we”, will still have China to handle. I would prefer America not have it’s attention divided, trying to get Europeans to live together while containing China. I think it is a given that Europe will not involve themselves in the Pacific so the US is all there is between us and the dragon.
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By Xmas China will have a new regime, the reformers are in charge and the military supports them. We are living through momentous times, our biggest trading partner is going to become democratic.
Russia is more difficult, we don’t want a repeat of the 1990s, so I’m thinking Gorbachev with a twist.
Political economy, after WW1 the victors made Germany pay for its folly and on a wave of discontent Hitler turned up and we had WW2. At the end of hostilities Germany was divided to prevent a repeat performance.
Japan was uplifted, not penalised, so they went on to become a productive state, I imagine that is how the West will handle a defeated Russia. The masses finally free from propaganda, will universally and enthusiastically get behind the new reform movement.
If Beijing wants Vladivostok they’ll have to pay for it.
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Germany was divided as part of Russia’s 80 year war with the West.
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Agreed, it was also a bulwark against Communism.
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” The masses finally free from propaganda, will universally and enthusiastically get behind the new reform movement.”
You are confusing Russia with the West! No, you will not see the West free from propaganda, no-one will live that long!
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Where do you get your propaganda from? You stated this ‘Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.’
I’d argue that Zelensky, Trudeau, Ardern, Starmer fit that description much more than Putin. Anyway Putin is going to win this, whether or not the Nazi Zelensky agrees or not. All that changes is how much of Ukraine becomes Russia, Poland, Hungry or Romania…
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“Putin will eventually sue for peace, probably after the Coalition of the Willing begin sending volunteer soldiers to the front line.”
Never going to happen, especially if they had to rely on “volunteer soldiers”, despite there being huge numbers of lefties who apparently want a military solution to the Ukraine problem. I reckon they will change their minds right sharpish should their governments start recruiting for the ‘defence of Ukraine’.
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“VICTORIES which led to lasting peace: ”
I guess it depends on your definition of peace.
The U.S. has conducted wars for my entire lifetime.
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And I have lived my life under the threat of nuclear annihilation by a belligerent Russia.
Same screen, different movies.
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Americans are really stupid – in the eyes of some…
They sent their best to save someone clearly not deserving the sacrifice.
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““VICTORIES which led to lasting peace: ”… The U.S. has conducted wars for my entire lifetime.”
…and no victories, unless you were around for WW2! America has bombed the carp out of third world countries all my lifetime and wonders why most the world hate it! They don’t fight peer-group enemies, they would be shown to be the losers they are.
They were at their best when they stayed at home and minded their own business, but that was an idea of the founding father, and was soon lost.
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“. Proper peace can only occur here if…” America and the UK give up their century-long ambition to break up Russia and take it over. 1917 certainly bought out the worst in those countries, but even before then they were trying to crush Russia in The Great Game.
Since Communism started Russia has been the big enemy for the West, its just laughable that now people accuse them of being fascist!
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‘ … winners or losers from Alaska … ‘
When he started the war Putin wanted all of Ukraine, but now he’ll settle for Crimea and the mineral rich Donbas. He is going to be disappointed, a total loser.
He should have signed up to the Alaskan deal that the POTUS offered.
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POTUS can’t sign anything on Ukraine’s behalf.
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No of course not, I should have been more explicit.
POTUS said to Putin, give up any hope of getting the rare earths under the Donbas, Alaska has all we need. Is it a deal?
Putin mumbled something about democracy is a curse and that the next president might walk back on the deal.
Zelensky laughed uproariously at Donnie’s joke (not flattery) about when he is reelected in 2028.
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Strop,
It is possible that all parties will have to concede ground before there can be more progress to a cease fire. If people criticise other people for giving ground, that does not demonstrate who is good and who is bad. Developing dialogue seems desirable at this stage, better than continuing the killing of troops.
Geoff S
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‘Lets see what comes out of it. My guess is nothing much.’
A deal has been struct, clever tactic.
‘Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday after his Washington meeting with Donald Trump and European leaders that security guarantees for Ukraine will likely be worked out within 10 days. He added that it would include the purchase for Ukraine of a package of US weapons. “There indeed is a package with our proposals worth $90bn,” Zelenskyy said.’ (Guardian)
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Scientists from Western Michigan University are pushing a plan to supposedly “fight climate change” that involves deliberately spreading a dangerous tick-borne disease…
via:
https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-push-plan-spread-fatal-meat-allergy-public-fight-climate-change/
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INTERNATIONAL GRIDWATCH
Be a grid-watcher and become wind-literate.
Check your local grid at breakfast and dinnertime to see if there will be enough wind and solar power to give you a hot meal if the RE parasites drive more coal out of the system.
NO HOT COFEE THIS MORNING IN SE AUSTRALIA, AT 7 AM THE WIND IS CONTRIBUTING 14% OF DEMAND!
SEVEN TIMES AS MANY WINDMILLS REQUIRED.
Capacity factor is 30% which is average wind speed. Just as well its not a drought!
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.15 PM WIND 12% SOLAR25%
BRITAIN?
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.15PM WIND 16% SOLAR 0
See the imported power and the nuclear contribution. Australia has neither of those options.
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FWIW –
Oh joy! A new “vaccine” front to tinker on
“HHS, NIH launch next-generation universal vaccine platform for pandemic-prone viruses”
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/hhs-nih-launch-next-generation-universal-vaccine-platform-pandemic-prone-viruses
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RNA Virus’s lack the ability to make high fidelity copies of itself……….everybody knows that now.
DNA can make high fidelity copies of itself, and might possibly pandemic if an alien race or an Ai perhaps created a DNA pathogen specifically to cull the people of earth,….but….hmmmmm.. we have been there, done that….corona is an RNA virus’snd cannot make high fidelity copies of itself and so pandemic is impossible, Propaganda can pandemic lol
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DNA viruses don’t mutate as fast as RNA viruses do, true, but Smallpox was a DNA virus, so they can be “pretty bad” (a 30% mortality rate). Most pandemics are RNA viruses because they do mutate so fast, but most long lived and well adapted viruses are DNA (herpes virus lives with us for the rest of our lives, cold sores, chicken pox-shingles, glandular fever, also hepatitis for decades). Because DNA is more stable, smallpox was able to survive on clothes and benches for weeks.
The RNA mutation rate helps create pandemics. The RNA copies easily and obviously have enough fidelity to spread, despite the lack of DNA polymerases to reduce the error rate. (RNA viruses include influenza, HIV, Ebola, RSV, Dengue, West Nile, Hepatitis, polio, rhinovirus, etc).
But because most (but not all) RNA viruses mutate so fast, vaccines are often less useful because they get outdated too quickly. Though there are a few RNA viruses that have stable antigens purely because any small changes make them less infective, and thus natural selection keeps the same most optimal variant running in perpetuity, despite the mutation rate. (Eg Measles, Mumps, Rubella which are RNA viruses).
The real problem is that even if we develop and test a long running useful vaccine, the patent runs out, so they “have” to change it to keep the profits flowing. And we can’t trust the institutions that are supposed to serve us. Not all vaccines are bad, but all regulatory agencies are captured. 🙁
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Thanks Jo. I agree the regulatory agencies have been captured, and further, for at least a century or two.
My Main focus lately has been the history. The more one digs into the science, the murkier it gets.
This video is by a researcher who has fortunately focused on vaccine history, his specialty.
“1918 1919 When they learned intramuscular injection was fatally dumb (EP 283.A) Lipovaccine to Nasal”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pnxUgt4y1Jyp
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“The more one digs into the science, the murkier it gets.”
Well, No. Not on the question of whether RNA viruses can cause pandemics. No murky there. Due to sheer force of numbers there are probably 100 trillion quadrillion RNA viruses every day with extinction level mutations but natural selection has no trouble finding billions of functional RNA viruses to keep copying from. It is an inexorable process. People have simply got no idea of the numbers involved.
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If it were not for Rnases ubiquitous in the environment, then perhaps the number of RNA viruses out there would all be candidates for causing pandemics, but what makes life incredibly difficult for those battling RNA transcription competent virus survivors might be a problem for life on earth in general, but that is not so…. because of those incredibly annoying rNAses that chop RNA like a high powered wood chipper/…..
RNases are even a massive problem in biology labs etc and are incredibly hard to get rid of for scientists trying to figure out experiments and the like.
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Yet somehow despite the “ubiquitous nature” of RNAses your entire body was successful built and maintained by RNA molecules that defied them? Weird eh?
IF biology didn’t have ways to protect RNA from instant degradation, life on Earth would not exist.
There is some appeal in believing that there are no pandemics, I get that, but alas, they do.
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Retro viruses are RNA viruses that can persist through generations as DNA.
As for this RNA viruses do this and DNA viruses do that… please stop trying to put these things into pigeon holes. Jo pointed out that it doesn’t work.
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What about the dyslexic who tried to get an NRMA vaccine for his car.
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Gee Aye….the invention of tests to pigeon hole variants Delta et al was not my idea…life is tough for RNA corona virus variants..always has been seems.
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that is simple phylogentic classification. It is a convenient way to catalogue their relationship. Clinical observations are layered on top and are ultimately more important for pandemic control.
btw, “the invention” you speak of is as old as Darwin. DNA variation is just a new (ish) way to measure relatedness and inheritance.
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I’d have been happier to hear that they’d declared IVM and HCQ to be safe and effective and available over the counter. Immediately.
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Australia admits three thousand Palestinians, but rejects visa applications of two Israelis. Then, when Israel rejects visa applicationss from Australians, she is upset! Why do we need such a fool?
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FWIW
Chiefio on
“Church of England Decides St Augustine Was Black”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/17/church-of-england-decides-st-augustine-was-black-n3805899 ”
“Near as I can tell, North Africa has never been a “black” area. That is “sub Sahara Africa”.
As a Roman Provence and with Berber genetics (who frequently have red beards, BTW) it is extraordinarily unlikely that St. Augustine was black. At most “swarthy / tan with a red beard” if you want “Muh, diversity”. “
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Swarthy, tan, red beard…
similar to that bloke from the other end of the Mediterranean who, reportedly, upset the religious status quo c.2,000 years ago? The one the prophets said shall be named ‘Emmanuel’, but wasn’t?
I’ve seen lots of paintings of him: oddly he always looks Italian or English or an American hippie at a Grateful Dead concert – unwashed, suntanned, hairy, and wearing organic handmade sandals, man.
‘History’ is whatever you want it to be, in the same mould as ‘Climate Science’ – follow the money.
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I thought it all started with General Bakr Sidqi, not sure if his was (like Gli Pasha…) well educated and experienced in his profession.
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My apologies, I swear I typed all the words correctly…
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Greg
Well now I’m waiting for the next claim that Jesus was also black
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Will you settle for non-white?
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FWIW
Instapundit lead-in “BABY, IT’S JIHAD OUTSIDE:”
“Literally ALL of modern Jihadism was born of Sayid Qutib spending 2 yrs in *Greely Colorado in 1950*
Like. You can’t even conceive of how conservative rural ass Colorado in 1950 was and Qutb was physically repulsed by its excess & liberalism”
https://x.com/ReubenR80027912/status/1957230501170655300 ”
Links to Mark Steyn on the subject
“I’m a reasonable chap, and I’d be willing to meet the Muslim Brotherhood chaps halfway on a lot of the peripheral stuff like beheadings, stonings, clitoridectomies and whatnot. But you’ll have to pry “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from my cold dead hands and my dancing naked legs. A world without “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” would be very cold indeed.”
https://instapundit.com/739124/#disqus_thread
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And
“It’s Past Time to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization”
https://hotair.com/josh-hammer/2025/08/17/its-past-time-to-designate-the-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist-organization-n3805855
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A world without “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” would be very cold indeed.”
Is music revolutionary or counter-revolutionary?
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The prospect of peace between Ukraine and Russia would not be possible without the hard work of Trump. Within a week he has met with Putin in Alaska: held telephone calls with Ukraine and Europe to arrange meetings in Washington; met in Washington; then called up Putin to discuss another meeting between Zelensky and Putin that he will attend if both want him there.
He dominates the global arena through hard work and respect of others who are respectful of him.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/08/18/live-updates-donald-trump-zelenskiy-meeting-ukraine-russia-war-latest/
I expect there will be previous Ukraine territory involved in any peace settlement.
Starmer wants to have far more influence than a piddling country on the side lines deserves. He is counter-productive. Starmer thinks he is the leader of Great Britain rather than the Once Great Britain.
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Looking at a recent US poll it seems that a huge majority of Americans, of both political persuasions, support Ukraine against the fascist dictatorship.
‘I expect there will be previous Ukraine territory involved in any peace settlement.’
No deal on land swap, its a Constitutional matter. Donnie is a realestate guy without a moral compass, not to worry he’ll be knee capped at the Mid Term election. What they commonly refer to as a lame duck.
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So are elections. But they went out the door when the firing started.
It was the amendment in 2019 to seek NATO membership that pushed Putin to increase the Russian buffer zone.
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Elections cannot be held in the midst of war, I suppose they could have a referendum. A yes vote surrenders Ukraine to a megalomaniac. Not on my watch.
Putin wanted all of Ukraine as a buffer zone, send the people to gulags in Siberia. I have Estonian friends and their blood is boiling.
‘ … pushed Putin to increase …’
Straight out of the Kremlin playbook, Putin has imperial ambitions and is happy to waste more than a million Russian lives to achieve it.
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Some wild fantasies there, there seem no end to them on this topic.
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” A yes vote surrenders Ukraine to a megalomaniac. ”
Too late, they are already owned by one, the USA bought them years ago!
” it seems that a huge majority of Americans, of both political persuasions, support Ukraine against the fascist dictatorship.”
Uh-huh.. tells you more about the sort of propaganda Americans get fed as ‘news’. Anyone who thinks Russia is fascist, seeing as they invented communism, or a dictatorship, seeing as Putin gets elected an has more support from his people than most leaders… has been reading a lot of CIA articles!
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It would probably help its believability if you linked to who did it – or not depending
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Re “No deal on land swap, its a Constitutional matter. Donnie is a realestate guy without a moral compass, not to worry he’ll be knee capped at the Mid Term election. What they commonly refer to as a lame duck.”
Would that be classed as “traditional hoping?”
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Please pay attention to words of Mr.Alexander Stubb and even more, to what he does not say directly.
Yesterday at White Hose he pointed to agreement of 1944, probably everyone thought he had in mind – Yalta. (There were other things happening in 1944)
His opinion is critical, considering that Putin dream was “finlandisation” of the whole Europe, which did work so well for both sides until this year.
Did.
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Traditional Hoping
Its not my country, but the polls show a dramatic fall from grace.
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FWIW
“Obviously We Need To Shut It All Down”
“University of British Columbia- Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
Canadian-grown wheat, canola and peas have some of the lowest carbon footprints in the world—so low that, in some cases, they could be shipped to Europe 17 times before matching the emissions of the same crops grown there.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/18/obviously-we-need-to-shut-it-all-down/
And comments!
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Maybe Europe can be conned into paying for contained carbon credits. Give the Canadian crops a 10-star carbon rating and charge accordingly.
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beth the serf posted this link yesterday.
Worth a look.
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The NAPLAN 2024 results reveal that approximately one in three students across Years 3, 5, 7, and 9 nationwide did not meet minimum standards in areas such as reading, writing, grammar, punctuation, and numeracy.
Enough said.
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Ye gods, pass the sick bucket. Poor children.
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NDIS data:
Specific data for children aged 9 to 18 is not readily available which, in my eyes, is one extremely important fact.
Certainly – 154,616 children under the age of 9 and 10,408 children were receiving support through the Early Connections program, ie – before formal acceptance.
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FWIW – over generations!
“Ask Not”
“How it started.” with JFK
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2-ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-ask-what-you-can-v0-q53tm8pghgza1-600×282.webp
To
“How it’s going.” – https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/1957255839191818683
From https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/18/ask-not/
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FWIW
“How do mRNA animal vaccines work, and would they be deployed in a biosecurity emergency?”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/how-do-mrna-animal-vaccines-work-and-would-they-be-deployed-in-a-biosecurity-emergency/
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FWIW
“The Story of an Industrial Flop”
““The mRNA platform is no longer viable,” summarizes Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health.”
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/xP3iTC1A3o/5kdG8QBtO/TNooDw5sfaI?utm_medium=
I hope that their review of literature runs to things like this and isn’t based on “hopes of immunity”
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The price of meat
US: 3 pounds of beef mince $30
That’s 1.4kg and $46AUD, so $32/kg here.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1955237843883729395
Can you even afford to live?:
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1956428147752354017
The cost of vegetables rose almost 40% in July alone.
/fly to Davos 😎
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If you have de-Googled your phone, the EU’s age verification rules will exclude you from using all apps for all services
In late June, the European Union launched a pilot project to test a prototype age verification app in five member states: Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain. The excuse? To protect children online.
The app is built on the technical specifications of the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet and is designed to be open-source, user-friendly and secure. However, as Take Back Our Tech notes, it is less secure than other options. Additionally, age verification can only be made using Google-approved Android devices or on iPhones, effectively requiring a Google or Apple account.
What this means is: If you are in the European Union and have de-Googled your phone, you will not be able to verify your age.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142908/the-eus-age-verification-application-requires-a-google-or-apple-account-and-google-approved-android-device-or-iphone/
How many people have even heard of a de-Googled phone?
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The bigger issue is Europe tying itself to UStech to control what it says is an important population wide ID function. They need to think again.
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“Potentially huge implications” – scientists discover ancient Carbon is leaking into the atmosphere
A new global study reveals that ancient carbon, once thought securely stored in soils and rocks, is leaking into the atmosphere via rivers.
For the first time, researchers have confirmed that carbon trapped in landscapes for thousands of years or longer can return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide escaping from river surfaces.
Rivers transport and release methane and carbon dioxide as part of the global carbon cycle. Until now, scientists believed the majority of this was a quick turnover derived from the recycling of recent plant growth – organic material broken down and carried into the river system in the past 70 years or so. This new study indicates the opposite, with more than half – some 60% – of emissions being attributed to long-term carbon stores accumulated over hundreds to thousands of years ago, or even longer.
https://scitechdaily.com/potentially-huge-implications-scientists-discover-ancient-carbon-is-leaking-into-the-atmosphere/
“Settled science” gets kicked in the spuds again.
/must be getting pretty sore by now. 😆
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The only solution is to lockdown the whole planet – the NWO’s long-held wet dream – just look at the UN’s logo 🌐 a la panopticon.
All I need is the air that I breathe – No! It’s pollution unt vee vilt charge you for every breath, both in & out… The psychos are beyond therapy.
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They’ll discover riverine erosion next..
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Sigh… mistyped the email address again didn’t I
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The 50 best of Mozart
https://youtu.be/RAxDy10bvnM?si=QezeVV5lkTgkBydA
/destress…
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I’m partial to Angus Young myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“An Offer He Can’t Refuse
“This is not our war. The US is not in a war. Ukraine is in a war. . .” — Sec’y of State Marco Rubio”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/an-offer-he-cant-refuse
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We call such people “an actor of a burnt theatre”. No trying to insult anyone.
My mother-in-law (God bless her memory, an orphan at 10, after that no schooling just work, work, work) had a wiser view of the world.
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“Ukraine is exhausted. Ukraine has lost. Sheer intransigence could keep it going a while longer, but then Russia will sweep west with more pointless bloodshed. The argument is over. Territorial realities must be faced. Agreements must be made.”
Never a truer word was spoken. We are now where we were three year ago, except a lot of soldiers have died because politicians refused to accept the reality.
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Australia is doubling down on our RE target to support a bid to host the next COP.
When the Prime Minister and the Energy Minister have been pressed on the issue of wind droughts, they have been saying for years “Well, we store water don’t we?”
They need to know more about water storage and apparently nobody has told them yet. The amount of water in man-made storage is a minute fragment of one per cent of the water stored in the soil and permanent waterways of the world!
This analogy may help to clarify the situation.
Imagine the impact of rain droughts, or even a few hours without rain, on plants, if there were no natural storage in the soil!
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Don’t they realise there will never be enough rainfall to fill the dams?
sarc.
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AI decoding crop circles, it has something to do with Quantum Entanglement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVw3el04_E
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Just as I predicted, death taxes and more. We are being softened up in preparation for these by suggestions from supposed “experts”.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/inheritance-tax-wealth-tax-proposal-could-raise-70-billion-australia-institute-claims/18a33e7d-5bbd-4812-88da-4a5198c508d4
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Do you all agree?? Are you noticing??
“Australia is a low-tax country that does not do a good job of taxing wealth,” Australia Institute senior economist Matt Grudnoff said.”
What absolute BS!! There is nothing ‘low-tax’ about Australia, it is a country of a thousand hidden taxes!
If you want growth and wealth, it is very simple! You will have to steal less from the productive to give to the non-productive, there is no other way! We don’t get ahead now by pouring millions of dollars into children who don’t do well at school, instead of pouring it into those who do best to accelerate the wealth-creators of the future!
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EVENING GRIDWATCH
Be a grid-watcher and become wind-literate.
Check your local grid at breakfast and dinnertime to see if there will be enough wind and solar power to give you a hot meal if the RE parasites drive more coal out of the system.
NO HOT COFFEE THIS MORNING IN SE AUSTRALIA.
HOW ABOUT A HOT DINNER? , AT 7.15 PM THE WIND IS CONTRIBUTING 11% OF DEMAND!
NINE TIMES AS MANY WINDMILLS REQUIRED.
Capacity factor is 21% which is somewhat below the average wind speed but nowhere near a drought.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?
Texas https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4 AM, Not much sun about, WIND 9% LOL
BRITAIN?
Great Britain. https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.15 AM WIND 20% SOLAR 11% NUCLEAR 10% IMPORTED 20%
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FWIW – in
“Zelensky Gets Called To The Principal’s Office”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-08-18/zelensky-gets-called-principals-office
“Why The U.S. Needs Russia”
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FWIW
“How We Know The Putin-Trump Meeting Was A Success”
“All the right people are bitching: Good
In the end, at least for now, as far as the Alaska meeting is concerned, we know it went well because of who is complaining about it: All the Russia-haters. This is a surefire sign. I hope Trump ignores them, or simply ensures that whatever he does, they remain unhappy.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-08-18/how-we-know-putin-trump-meeting-was-success
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“In a chilling development that exposes the deepening tentacles of the globalist elite, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has elevated BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to the position of interim co-chairman of its board, alongside André Hoffmann of Roche. ”
“As CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, Fink controls stakes in virtually every major corporation, wielding Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria as a weapon to enforce woke policies and climate hysteria. Critics have blasted ESG as a “social credit system for corporations,” forcing companies to prioritize globalist goals over American interests.”
The question is, can they force it all on the new immigrants who are taking over the West, those they see as tools to use in breaking up our past culture may not be as amenable to their agenda.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/08/17/larry-fink-ascends-to-wef-throne-blackrocks-puppet-master-takes-command-of-the-globalist-enslavement-machine/
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…and… The Trump Effect- NASA gets told to get back to its knitting!
“”All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA,”..”That’s why we have NASA — is to explore, not to do all of these earth sciences,””
“Three out of four living astronauts who walked on moon are climate skeptics October 18, 2018”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/08/15/cheers-nasa-acting-dir-sean-duffy-says-climate-science-will-move-aside-with-nasa-only-focusing-on-space-exploration/
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