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Happy equinox to everyone. 12 hours day, 12 hours night across the planet. And real spring in Australia, not the usual 1st September. Dawn in Antarctica of a very long day after a very long night. Presumably they are now back to Global Warming?
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And it’s nice to recognize that mankind has not changed the tilt of the planet. Though I am sure the UN could invent something. The Australian government is going hard now to save Australia from Global Climate Change, based of course on our internationally recognized borders including the Torres Strait islands and Christmas island in the tropics. Clearly we don’t care about anyone else.
I have to wonder about “The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT). This vast territory covers nearly 5.9 million square kilometers, making it the largest national claim on the continent, encompassing approximately 42% of Antarctica.” Which itself is as big as Australia again. I hope the few Australians who have braved the terrible dark winter on the Antarctic peninsula have not used fossil fuel when solar has definitely been off the menu. Is Antarctica on the National Grid from Canberra yet? Or the NBN? Could we be the world’s greatest exporter of ice blocks, an ice super power?
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” And it’s nice to recognize that mankind has not changed the tilt of the planet. Though I am sure the UN could invent something.”
Tilt?
Check out the UN Flag.
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Are the vehicles in Australian Antarctic Territory called ICE vehicles? Comrade Bowen will see to it that their use will be frozen!
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Also due to the miracle of “global warming” the ski season at Australia’s highest resort has been increased until the end of October.
Gotta luv the hotter it gets the longer the snow stays on the ground.
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In 1990 we were told that by 2015 there would be no ski industry as such because the snow line would recede to above 1800 meters. Fast tracking to 2025 and….
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Equilux : (a new term for y’all) the day on which “day & night” are equal.
There’s really more daylight than darkness at the equinox, eight more minutes or so at mid-temperate latitudes.
Equilux, for me, is Thursday. (It differs)
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/equilux.html
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If only the sun was a point source of light and heat.
Being about half a degree wide, as viewed from the Earth, there will always be more light than dark, (if defined by being able to see part of the sun’s disk).
However, have you considered mountains and the shadows they cast? Maybe the days, on average, are actually less than 12 hours.
Just a thought. Don’t get me started on atmospheric refraction.
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The new term is Equitynox.
For orbital and hemispheric justice.
Many have suffered due to historical tilt supremacy.
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How’s about Equality-Nuts
where in this man-made Utopia (not place)
some Nuts are more Equal than other nuts
while the rest of us simply get on with it.
The glorious world of next Tuesday has arrived – tho’ it may be somewhat delayed for our northern cousins where y’all rhymes with Fall.
The sun is returning… at last 🌞
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22 Sept 2025 was the day the Sun zenith moved south of the Equator. And not everywhere has 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of daylight when the Sun is over the Equator.
Today, 23 September 2025, the Earth will pass through 180 degrees in its orbit of the barycentre of the solar system according to the celestial reference system..
Fine points but it is the fine points of the Sun and its relationship with Earth that influence the weather from year to year. And these are the points that get glossed over in climate models.
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It’s not quite spring yet, I have heard the pheasant coucal and koel calling as they do every spring but not often. Same with the magpie’s trill.
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Yeh Hanra, not being swooped by maggies yet either. Don’t expect it to be far off though.
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pesky Maggies got me last week here in Murwillumbah NSW TedM !!!!
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The Magpies where I live have been here since the farm house was built on an existing farm property nearly one hundred years ago and at all times of year they are very friendly. When I walk to the shed I often pass one or more standing on the grass and I say Hello Maggie and often receive a short reply, but I am yet to understand the language!!!
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Mine treat all the residents and the dog as part of the family, visitors however are in for the usual bombing, ducking and weaving for the next few weeks
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The sub-solar point is transitioning to the Southern Hemisphere today. My temperature at dawn was 37°F (3°C) here in central Washington State. I am not happy about this.
I blame Trump! {/s}
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It’s our turn. Hopefully you enjoyed your Global Warming. And it was hard to believe in the middle of winter that man made Global Warming had any credibility.
Our Prime Minister assures us that he will save us from endless summers. Using our money of course. We are reassured that he is not trying to save the rest of the planet. It’s a real solo effort, costing trillions, even if he assures us we will be much richer for the experience. Somehow. I had thought all the money went to China. And all our coal and lobsters. It’s only right.
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Only the high quality coking coal. Thermal coal has China aplenty of its’ own, coking it has little.
So fiercely does Beijing cling to its’ few small coking deposits, I have witnessed the PLA (in Xinjiang province, west of Urumqui) take over a small mining operation of a moderately reasonable quality coking deposit to prevent the “owner” from continuing with his DD to list on the HK Exchange.
About 10,000 troops (local estimate) just arrived over two days, surrounded the mine and its’ villages and used their own geological/engineering staff to run the operation. Apparently the troop numbers were deemed necessary by Beijing to damp down any local resistance, as the local population consistently described themselves as Kazakh.
We had no information as to what happened to the owner. He just disappeared. Our small DD group, including a German bank rep, chose to leave as quickly as airline schedules could get us out.
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But, but this was the hottest winter on record.
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In Sydney, Australia, it is now 9 degrees C and forecast to be be feeling like 5 degrees C at 4 am. ‘Leaping’ to a high of 18 degrees C during the day.
Climate Change at work………………
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Mid North Coast NSW 18C feels like 14C according to my phone app at 12.25
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In the Adelaide Hills the temperature in 7.3℃ (45℉ for those not moving outside until the sun starts shining – apparently it is currently backing up solar (sarc).℃
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Seems like CO2 output (a so called emission) is not going to reduce any time soon.
And Humans breathe out CO2. So with Australia’s increasing population, the human CO2 output is increasing. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
I wonder whether Albo and Blackout Bowen have factored that in.
Not that it matters anyway, as CO2 is plant food.
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I have concluded, from vast amounts of evidence, that the CO2 level is completely independent of how many people are on the planet, how many trees, how many fish and how much CO2 we generate. Fossil fuels, Jet aircraft, Bushfires, volcanoes, natural disasters like limnal explosions.
Thanks to the laws of kinetic evaporation and absorption of dissolved gases and the resulting dynamic equilibrium, total atmospheric CO2 is completely controlled by the oceans which cover 72% of the planet and contain 98% of CO2 and 99.99% of surface heat.
Which is why the UN and governments are taxing ’emissions’, not CO2. Because the effect of human CO2 output is net zero. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Null. ноль. 零 (ling), 零 (rei), 영 (yeong).
It’s all an elaborate hoax with zero physics or physical chemistry. Physics rules, not governments. Cui Bono. ( a principle that probable responsibility for an act or event lies with one having something to gain. )
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On the day NZ’s coalition govt decides to live up to its name by ending Green Jacinda’s importation of dirty Indonesian coal and use our own homegrown fuel which is underground right nextdoor to the Huntly Coal Power Station (the last one standing) Earth Sciences NZ – formerly NIWA – take the proverbial:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573722/weather-supercomputer-aims-to-predict-more-accurately-over-five-days
Chief Scientist for Advanced Technology [sic] Dr Jess Robertson [he/him/his] on the Hewlitt-Packard AI behemoth’s energy- and water-hungry appetite being satiated by *renewable* hydropower said:
“The idea here is that we are not making the climate issues worse as we model them”.
What?! When you start with a nonsense premise, nonsense results are only going to follow: plug hole meet money, lots of money, gurgle…
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Do they’re wasting hydropower water to “save the planet” so then people who have legitimate uses for that power have to burn coal instead?
And has this water-powered model been validated or like ALL climate “models” it has no forecasting or hindcasting ability whatsoever?
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I just did a search on which Indonesian mines supply NZ’s coal and it is confidential, this is part of the answer
While Indonesia is a major coal producer, with significant mining activity in regions like East Kalimantan, the exact sources of the coal imported by New Zealand remain undisclosed.
Coal from Adaro, in Kalimantan, is marketed as “Enviro Coal” because of low impurities, I think aluminium included.
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Satire.
Or is it?
TRUMP speaks to three Left wing disasters, Carney, Starmer and Albanese, who are actively destroying their countries and will soon be sending vast amounts of your tax dollars to the terrorist state of Fakestine whereby most of it will end up in the pockets of their billionaire terrorist leaders.
On the first day of recognition of this fake state by these fools, the Fakestinians got off to a great start with the public summary execution of three people.
Satire? Video:
https://x.com/SatireSquadHQ/status/1970136057594446258
As a taxpayer you’ll be entitled to a front row seat to public summary executions to see your taxes at work. (Sarc.)
Execution article:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/hamas-publicly-executes-three-collaborators/news-story/4934ef42267abf7bd65335f151031fba
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It’s hard to believe that it’s a coincidence that Canada, UK and Australia all have, by far, their worst and most hated PMs ever, all at the same time…and all working hard to destroy their own countries.
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Voted in by equally dumb voters. Albo only had 34% support, the rest from the deluded supporters of the Greens and Teals. Starmer won 48.9% of a 54% turnout. That is about 27% of Britain thought he was the right man. Carney won 169 seats falling short of a majority by 3 seats. The left won in all three countries but only just and in each case more people voted against the winners than for them.
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By Order the United Nations of Comrade leftists.
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Here’s a prediction.
If Australia doesn’t vote for a conservative party (not the leaderless fake conservative Liberals) in all future state and federal elections, in much less than ten years, at best we will be like pre-Milei Argentina and at worst like Venezuela.
Labor’s madness is unstoppable and there is no effective opposition political party. Australia is like a One Party State. It won’t end well.
Wake up people! (Present company excepted, who are already awake.)
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” The left won in all three countries but only just and in each case more people voted against the winners than for them.”
I would imagine very few Aussies could tell you that, I’ll bet nearly all voters believe Albo ‘won the most votes and got into power, its a democracy after all..’
“Labor’s madness is unstoppable and there is no effective opposition political party. Australia is like a One Party State. ”
But its a democracy, the voters can change the Govt at any time, they get the Govt they want. Lol, too bad there’s neither a qualification to become a voter, nor one to become a politician.
Still, suck it up, people tell me democracy is the best system, even if it rips your savings off you and destroys your life.
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“Still, suck it up, people tell me democracy is the best system, even if it rips your savings off you and destroys your life.”
Yup, like the governor ( or should it be governess) of the the reserve bank declaring that “inflation” was falling but don’t expect prices of goods or services to come down.
Apparently once a “good” increases in cost regardless of inputs it never falls to previous levels.
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What goes up, doesn’t always come down.
Stagflation is back again.
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Democracy is at the end of its cycle. It in dysfunctional and useless. Rule by decree and the grace of God. The Idiocene has taken it all away.
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‘ … its a democracy after all..’
We could scrap preferential voting if you think it would help.
‘Australian federal elections use a preferential voting system where voters are required to:
‘Mark a preference for every candidate on the green ballot paper (House of Representatives)
‘Mark a preference for a designated number of preferences on the white ballot paper (Senate)’ (AEC)
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‘ … democracy is the best system …’
We could get rid of the Senate, it could be argued that its surplus to requirement.
‘Former prime minister Paul Keating famously called the members of the Senate “unrepresentative swill”, while Tony Abbott described them as “feral”. (ABC)
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10 years???
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The present company is obviously “been there, done that”, hopefully we all will witness the next Australian election, at least…
It is not clear if Liberals will participate in them, the Nationals for sure – will, and will pick up some urban seats. Ditto, PHON.
The swamp will win nonetheless.
On the globe’s opposite side – neither Ukraine nor Israel disappear.
The green red tsunami will roll back by itself, when 20-30 year old ones will get their office chairs and their families will expect more “tangible staff”, as happened over millenia.
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‘Here’s a prediction.’
Hastie is going to become the Opposition leader and the Coalition will secure the next election.
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Best of a bad lot as the saying goes.
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Hastie has his faults, but he is our best chance of winning government.
‘Members of the Liberal Party are asking Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hastie to ease his campaign for policy changes in a bid to help the party rebuild post the election.
‘Mr Hastie has been vocal in recent weeks about wanting changes to migration, manufacturing, and net zero targets.
‘Several MPs have spoken with The Australian newspaper, calling for Mr Hastie to rethink his stance.’ (Sky)
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“‘Several MPs have spoken with The Australian newspaper, calling for Mr Hastie to rethink his stance.’ (Sky)”
The absolute complete and total reason to never vote for the slimy backbone-less amoral power-mongers ever again!!
No principles at all, just change what you say you believe into win votes then do nothing at all in power in case something goes wrong.
They deserve to break up and vanish, there is no place for them now they are just another version of Labor.
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David M;
This might be of interest to you
LLYGO T-LoRa “pager” – Mesh Network Coms
posted 22 September 2025 by E.M.Smith https://chiefio.wordpress.com/
Forestalling Another Ian
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Thanks Graeme.
These off grid mesh network comms are great.
We may need to rely on them as society continues to collapse and censorship continues to increase.
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Also tucked in there at Chiefio-
“Folks will hear the Marines brag about being “First in and last out”. Unmentioned is that they “go in” to places over bridges built by Combat Engineers under fire and come out over bridges that those same Combat Engineers blow up AFTER the troops have successfully retreated. So just who really is “first in” and “last out”, eh?”
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I haven’t read that there were bridges onto the beach at Iwo Jima, or any other beach for that matter.
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Graeme
I could post that again down a bit – as “reinforcement”!
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It’s pathetic hearing people including those who identify as “scientists” talk about “climate model” predictions into the future like “2.8C” temperature increase in ten years, or whatever.
It’s all fake!
These “models” that are being used to destroy economies like Australia due to the required shut-down of the energy supply that goes with the scam, are not validated and have zero forecasting or even hindcasting ability whatsoever.
You might as well be spinning a wheel to make a prediction which would be equally valid but without the waste of human or computer resources.
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The current ‘model’ in use by the UN cannot predict established temperatures, ie, past temperatures. That being the case, they cannot accurately predict future temperatures.
Worse, instead of fixing the algorithm, global weather organisations have chosen to ‘homogenise’ previous temps to ‘catch up’ with modern technology.
Go to weatherzone.com.au I’m sure it will come as a shock to those in Mackay, QLD, that on 1 September, they had a low of MINUS 44.5 degrees.
This homongenising of temperatures is what clowns like Greta Bowen are using to push the climate change hysteria.
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Interesting video about the life-destroying transgender scam, which is still being heavily promoted by the Left in Australia but being brought under control by TRUMP in the US.
A lot of it is attributable to Leftist social media censorship which didn’t allow alternative critical scientific or psychological opinions or the numerous stories of transgender regret. Or even mention of the biological impossibility of changing genders.
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FWIW
“Big Media’s future is already behind them”
“The ancien regime – aka the analogue realm – is doomed. The digital vortex spares no one and devours all it finds in its path. Eventually, all the Grand-Guignolesque theatrics pulled by Big Media and state bureaucrats will make them less credible, less respectable and more edible to the insatiable maw of ignorance and folly. Yet, paradoxically, lights of dissent and insight flicker within the chaos of social media, hinting at glimmers of hope in a mad and dark void.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/big-medias-future-is-already-behind-them/
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And
“The Media’s Psyop Against Skeptical Climate Scientists”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/22/the-medias-psyop-against-skeptical-climate-scientists/
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Plus
“STEVE MILLOY: Rigged Report By National Academies Aims To Thwart Trump Energy Agenda”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/22/steve-milloy-rigged-report-by-national-academies-aims-to-thwart-trump-energy-agenda/
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Huge digital surge for The Australian
The Australian has recorded its highest ever digital audience, attracting 5.18 million readers in August.
The new benchmark follows the July 30 launch of The Australian’s digital-first section Wealth, which has generated strong online traffic to the masthead’s digital platforms.
By contrast, The Australian’s main commercial rival, The Australian Financial Review, reached an audience of just 3.03 million people in August, according to the Ipsos iris rankings released on Monday.
“To have cracked five million is a wonderful validation of the digital-first storytelling of our staff,” Gunn said.
“They strive every day to break nationally significant, exclusive stories and to reveal the truth behind the spin of politicians and big corporates.
“That is why we have more readers than at any time in our history, and are continuing to grow.”
The Australian’s strong showing in the Ipsos survey follows the most recent readership poll by research company Roy Morgan, which showed the news brand was bucking the trend of softening readership as the only major masthead in the country to increase its cross-platform (print and digital) audience in the first half of 2025.
Overall, News Corp Australia – which owns The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Daily Telegraph, the Herald Sun, The Advertiser, news.com.au and other titles – reached its biggest monthly online audience on record in August with 18.54 million readers, up 4.69 per cent on July.
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The Australian Only Newspaper I subscribe to – Worth Every Penny for it’s Diversity of Views
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One sided on so many issues is The Australian that is akin to the Guardian. The Australian parrots the same old Murdoch neo conservative establishment nonsense. Albrechtsen is the only one that I would give the time day. Old copies are useful in a drop dunny.
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You would have heard that Lachlan is now in control of the empire and is buying into TikTok.
Giving the neo conservatives a voice is not a bad thing in a democracy, especially with most of the MSM in support of democratic socialist values.
Over in the big apple its completely different.
‘Zohran Mamdani has had to overcome a lot during his campaign to be New York City’s next mayor.
‘His age, relative lack of experience and his self-stated democratic socialism could have held him back. Yet the 33-year-old, a relative unknown 12 months ago, sailed through all challenges as he became the favorite to win the election in November.
‘One thing still looms over Mamdani, however: New York City’s billionaire class, and the not-unrelated real estate lobby.’ (Guardian)
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Missing the many articles by Chris Kenny, Chris Uhlmann, Graham Lloyd, Judith Sloan? Their articles are always worth the price of subscription.
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And the comments are gold. Often add a lot more information to a subject.
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Even true on this site
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I do wonder what data the BOM comes up with to prove how warm this last winter (and early spring) has been.
Adjustments or homogenising or both?
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The “trick” is to use anomalies. January temperature on the Greenland plateau is up 10C over the past 50 years; probably more since 1850 – the year of perfect weather.
The 10C increase over the Greenland plateau will be averaged with the 0C increase over central Australia to give a global average increase in January.
Out Jane on Channell 7 is even into. August in Australia was warmer on average. She did go on to say the highs were lower while the lows were quite a bit higher. So warmer when reduced to average anomaly.
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Details
Station:Melbourne Regional Office
Number: 86071
Opened: 1908
Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015
Lat: 37.81° SLon: 144.97° EElevation: 31 m
1957 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2nd 35.7 19.3 21.7 18.8 14.4 22.4 12.5 14.9 16.1 13.3 33.6 20.6
3rd 23.3 19.9 20.9 18.9 16.3 21.6 11.1 13.5 18.6 13.4 20.1 17.3
4th 25.4 22.6 20.2 21.8 17.1 21.3 12.1 13.7 21.2 20.0 23.5 18.9
5th 22.7 32.2 29.0 29.2 16.7 20.3 15.6 16.7 21.6 22.1 19.4 20.8
6th 30.8 31.7 32.9 18.9 15.8 22.2 11.5 18.3 18.3 16.7 19.1 35.0
7th 19.5 22.9 27.9 21.1 22.0 20.6 14.0 15.3 17.3 15.3 16.6 20.9
8th 20.8 24.7 34.2 25.3 21.7 21.8 12.0 15.4 16.1 25.6 17.3 19.9
9th 22.8
1982 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
20th 38.9 26.1 30.2 20.3 15.2 11.3 11.2 22.3 15.3 15.1 21.7 18.0
21st 26.5 21.8 31.8 20.6 11.3 10.6 11.7 17.8 19.3 14.6 19.6 19.4
22nd 21.8 24.2 31.4 23.7 13.5 13.9 14.2 15.0 20.5 16.9 30.8 32.5
23rd 37.9 22.3 18.5 24.3 16.1 12.7 14.5 22.6 22.5 15.9 36.8 32.6
24th 43.3 19.7 22.2 26.4 16.0 12.5 16.0 23.7 23.2 21.3 38.1 18.1
25th 19.0 20.8 27.5 16.0 16.5 11.3 16.7 15.8 16.3 29.7 17.6 19.7
26th 19.7 17.9 25.8 14.5 16.7 11.6 14.4 15.0 14.8 33.0 21.2 28.0
27th 21.4 20.1 25.2 14.2 19.6 14.0 17.0 23.5 13.7 22.7 17.2 28.0
28th 32.0 20.9 19.1 16.5 19.5 13.7 14.6 25.7 18.4 21.6 20.7 23.8
29th 33.3 19.6 15.7 18.0 15.2 11.6 26.5 12.3 30.3 26.1 31.4
30th 22.2 21.4 16.0 18.4 14.0 12.8 15.1 13.3 19.0 34.5 22.0
2013 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
12th 24.1 26.0 36.2 25.1 22.1 13.5 17.5 14.7 16.0 25.5 15.9 24.0
13th 20.8 32.7 27.2 24.3 17.0 13.0 15.1 16.5 16.0 17.4 14.7 22.7
14th 21.8 33.0 24.2 22.5 13.6 15.6 16.1 14.4 19.2 15.0 17.5 20.0
15th 27.7 31.4 23.9 16.0 16.1 14.8 19.5 17.9 21.8 19.5 19.0 21.7
16th 25.5 35.4 23.0 20.2 16.0 14.9 16.7 17.5 16.7 27.4 19.0 21.4
17th 40.8 35.7 19.9 19.3 16.4 12.1 18.2 15.8 19.6 16.0 20.6 22.1
18th 25.9 36.7 21.9 18.5 15.3 15.9 23.3 17.7 20.1 22.1 27.7 26.9
Summary statistics for all years
Move mouse over highest and lowest daily temperature to view dates.
Statistic Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Mean 26.0 25.8 23.9 20.3 16.7 14.1 13.5 15.0 17.3 19.7 22.0 24.2
Highest monthly mean 31.0 30.2 28.9 24.1 19.6 17.7 15.9 17.7 20.1 23.3 27.1 27.7
Lowest monthly mean 22.4 22.4 20.1 17.1 14.6 11.6 11.2 13.3 13.5 15.5 19.2 20.7
Statistic Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Highest Daily
13th Jan 2013 45.6
7th Feb 2009 46.4
11th Mar 1940 41.7
5th Apr 1938 34.9
7th May 1905 28.7
2nd Jun 1957 22.4
18th Jul 2013. 23.3
29th Aug 1982 26.5
28th Sep 1928 31.4
24th Oct 2014. 36.9
27th Nov 1984. 40.9
15th Dec 1876 ,43.7
Lowest Daily
18th Jan 1923. 14.6
18th Fec 1951 14.7
21st Mar 1951 12.0
15th Apr 1900 8.9
7th May 1905 8.3
23rd Jun 1878 5.3
4th Jul 1901 14.4
9th Aug 1872 6.7
11th Sep 1969 8.3
24th Oct 1914 9.0
4th Nov 1914 11.0
12th Dec 1867 10.4
1867
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Meanwhile in Italy, it’s a riot!
https://x.com/THEWATCHTOWERS/status/1970170138981998671
It’s very simple. Don’t get involved in other countries affairs, don’t take sides, don’t supply weapons or fund their wars in any way.
Offer neutral humanitarian aid, nothing else.
/wars over dirt and invisible men in the sky…maybe in another hundred years…
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Meanwhile in the pile of rubble called the UK it’s Palestinian reparations time!
https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/1970047562565488823
Maybe the UK can get a loan.😆
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Karma.
As President TRUMP would say, FAFO.
He and Congress warned the stupid countries that bad things would happen if they recognised the terrorist state of Fakestine.
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The usual… a core group of twenty or thirty guys creating mayhem and a couple of hundred filming it on their phones.
On some substacks I see more demonstrations in non-Western countries than in the West. Rob Campbell is one-
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-07c
Weekly events it seems, and they never make the mainstream media. I wonder if they are just recycling the same photos over and over.
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An amusing and nuanced view of goings on around the planet. We make of truth as we will. De omnibus dubitandum est !
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‘ … disappointment arises out of unreasonable expectation,’ said Vlad. He offers this from first hand experience.
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FWIW –
The “Trump mindreaders” are at it again –
On-line Courier Mail headline just now (behind the Murdoch wall)-
“Don’t take it’: Trump’s autism paracetamol pregnancy warning
US President Donald Trump has advised pregnant women not to take paracetamol or risk their baby getting autism prompting medical experts – including Australia’s TGA – to refute him.”
Today’s Coffee & Covid newsletter
“Talk about a political nuclear strike. Whatever the media might’ve minted from out-of-context clips from Charlie Kirk’s memorial is about to be blown right out of the newspond today. USA Today ran one (of many) stories yesterday, headlined “Trump reveals autism announcement during Charlie Kirk memorial: ‘We found an answer.’” Call it the experts’ great unbafflement.”
“Indeed, during his eulogy for Charlie, the President teased, “tomorrow we’re going to have one of the biggest announcements—medically—in the history of our country.” It’s autism; both preventing the cause and even providing a potential treatment. “How it happens —so we won’t let it happen anymore— and how to get at least somewhat better when you have it,” Trump promised.
In classic Trumpian media-management strategy, they aren’t saying what “it” is. Widespread rumors from a September 12th Wall Street Journal article suggested “it” will be Tylenol use during pregnancy (acetaminophen/paracetamol). This rumor triggered a massive wave of pre-bunking, as corporate media corralled its pet experts to sneer at and wave away all the many studies reporting links between the widely used painkiller and higher autism rates.
But the White House has stubbornly declined to confirm that rumor. And so we don’t know for sure. Meanwhile, the dramatically mounting mystery compels every major media platform’s attendance in the Oval Office this afternoon when Trump finally reveals the cause at 4 pm Eastern time (or possibly at a 1pm briefing by the Press Secretary). Trump made them focus on it.
Oh, how I hope the announcement will be anything besides acetaminophen— only because of how hilarious it would be for the media to have chased its pre-bunking tail for ten days.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/echoes-of-gaul-monday-september-22?
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I recall Trump mentioning paracetamol during the memorial speech.
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The problem is that after the covid “vaccine” disaster, no one in the Thinking Community any longer trusts claims for safety or efficacy of pharmaceutical products pronounced by Big Pharma, the Lamestream Media, politicians, senior public serpents or the Left.
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Inside the world’s fastest car, the Yangwang U9 Extreme EV
The special edition based on the stock Yangwang U9 achieved a top speed of 308.4 mph (496.22 km/h) on September 14th at the Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany. That’s almost 4 mph quicker than the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300+.
The U9 Xtreme uses a 1,200-volt system architecture to provide four electric motors with over 3,000 horsepower. In doing so, it becomes the first EV to utilize this electrical architecture.
Three thousand horsepower makes it twice as powerful as the Bugatti Chiron, and over 1,000 hp more powerful than the likes of the Lotus Evija and Rimac Nevera R, which, by the way, held the previous record for the fastest EV – at 268 mph (431.45 km/h).
https://youtu.be/_K_SUEMlB6c?si=K-82BeguE96kk3wm
https://www.byd.com/mea/news-list/yangwang-u9-xtreme-is-the-worlds-fastest-production-car-with-top-speed-of-496kmh
They’ve gotta change the name!😉
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And cheap too, at only 1.68 million Yuan.
I just checked at the BYD Australia site, and it seems that of the 88 models scheduled to be built, none seem to be listed there!
Ahhhh! Electric cars, coming soon to a garage near you. (Geez, I hope not!)
All got nice ‘fluffy’ sea animal names too. Wonder what an Atto is. Shark looks like a Kia Tasman, just four tones heavier with all the batteries.
Tony.
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How long can it sustain 3000hp before the battery goes flat?
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Interesting that Albanese Labor have turned back the clock and declared gas is now their transition fuel, and coal fired power stations are being paid to extend generating life as transition slows and investors lose interest, notably foreigners.
And green hydrogen is off the agenda after squandering billions of dollars.
Biofuels are back in, no doubt transport operators have pointed out that EV prime movers payloads with the extra weight of batteries would reduce profitability of each load if not be a loss.
Minister Bowen doesn’t care and changes his tune to carry on regardless.
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FWIW – Latest Kunstler
“Personal Note
“I’ve never talked to a Democrat who ever wanted to listen. They start to glitch out if you try.” — Sasha Stone”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/personal-note
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Aurora clip of the day
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sothg0hQL41yk4k9o.mp4
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As the Sun zenith crosses the starting line for its annual trek south, I thought it time to look at the Northern Hemisphere cooling season and the Southern Hemisphere warming season with reference to last year:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sWC0kakLE14H1MdVoduOtR-GsLSvlTfh/view?usp=sharing
The top chart shows how the solar intensity changes from last year to this. Today, the solar intensity at 50S is up about 3W/m^2 on last year. To almost balance that, the solar intensity at 50N is down by 2.5W/m^2. These changes are similar to the years 2020 to 2021.
The seasonal table below the chart shows the area average solar intensity across the NH cooling season is down by 0.95W/m^2. Combined with the NH Heating season being 0.81W/m^2, the winter advection will be higher than last year. Expect a slower than trend start but above trend peak winter snow coverage.
The lower NH trend in Monsoon is consistant with lower than average NH cyclone activity. However there are still active late seasons cyclones in the northwestern Pacific.
SH heating is up substantially by area average 1.2W/m^2. Similar conditions in 2021 wrt 2020 resulted in above average rainfall across Australia.
The main point here is to understand how significantly the solar intensity varies across the hemispheres and seasons. These changes drive year-to-year weather variation and result in climate trends over longer periods. When it comes to temperature, solar power is the most significant driver.
Southern Hemisphere should enjoy better than average warmth this summer. Those in the NH who like snow should enjoy an above trend year.
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There’s an old Maori proverb about the weather on Spring Equinox portends the coming Summer’s outlook: the past few days have seen warm humid northerlies wafting down from the tropics (albeit blowing a gale down south but that’s orographic) with 50/50 sun/cloud and on/off light drizzle… sounds good to me, bring it on!
NB. Contents may differ from advertised material.
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Another proverb:
Oak before Ash,
We’re in for a splash ,
Ash before Oak,
We’re in for a soak.
Our ash trees are coming into leaf but the oaks are still looking very bare. It will be interesting to see whether our rainfall increases after a dry time.
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Tomago smelter in troubled water as Rio tries to extract special energy prices.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/agl-energy-delivers-grim-reality-check-on-tomago-aluminium-smelter/news-story/cf2caace781ac2510b029f4d6a25f5d9
Paywalled but the headline gives the basis of the strife. No one could have predicted that cheap wind and solar power invading the grid could lead to this.
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Indeed, wind and solar electricity is so cheap I don’t even know why they bother metering it.
And if you’te running an aluminium smelter you definitely need the reliability offered by wind and solar.
/SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC /SARC
The Government tells us it is the cheapest, it MUST be true. They wouldn’t lie to us. /SARC
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solar and wind are now the cheapest form of electricity generation in Australia.
Pity most of that (other than solar roof top) is located quite a distance from where it is needed for use?
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Abanese fails to secure meeting with TRUMP
Albanese and his Ambassador KRudd hates Trump, supports the terrorist state of Fakestine, loves the Chicomms and is a lifelong communist. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Trump no longer considers Australia a trusted ally and dumps the AUKUS deal.
Plus TRUMP absolutely hates disloyal, anti-Western, unintelligent fools.
TRUMP has important things to do, not waste time with people like Albanese. I’m sure TRUMP already knows he was brought up by a single mother in welfare housing, no meeting is needed to tell him that.
(For overseas readers, the two most important aspects of our PM’S identity is to have been raised in welfare housing plus never having missed a Sydney Gay Mardis Gras since 1984 and he tells everyone.)
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I understand that the Prime Minster has instead been offered an armchair in the WOT Room – Waste Of Time.
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Imagine being the CEO of a multinational corporation subsidiary in Australia and attending a management conference at head office where you are the only CEO who has not met or even been invited to meet the Chairman and Board of Directors.
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I hope Donnie dumps the AUKUS deal, a waste of money.
The left is naturally delighted that the POTUS is too busy to talk with Albo, the Alliance is becoming irrelevant.
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Australia
United Kingdom
United States
AUKUS Partnership has been described as a forever alliance of closest allied nations and so far established Pillar 01 a project of training RAN crews on board US and UK nuclear submarines, build and supply three US Virginia Class for RAN use followed by designing a new generation nuclear submarine called SSN AUKUS Project.
Pillar 02 is various projects including missiles manufacturing and further development of hypersonic technology missiles.
The future being discussed spans military and including space technology research and development.
AUKUS has accepeted Australia into the exclusive nuclear and other technologies previously exclusive to US and UK.
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Modern warfare is changing and buying nuclear submarines is pointless, Beijing is moving toward Western values, so we don’t have enemies.
A Sydney manufacturer has developed a small submarine which doesn’t require a crew. Surveillance only.
‘ … space technology research and development.’
That would be worthwhile.
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” Beijing is moving toward Western values, ”
Have they given up the Social Credit Score, the organ harvesting, the assassinations? C’Mon El Gordo. If you know something we don’t about China we are all ears, but you never seem to have any details to back up these outlandish declarations.
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” The West is moving toward Beijing values, ” fixed your typo.
All electronic communications recorded and monitored, biometric ID to do anything in daily life, compulsory medical experiments, ruination of the middle-class by chasing ridiculous unattainable CO2 goals, arrests of people for wrong-think, or praying, or internet posts, complete obliteration of free speech..
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“… Partnership has been described as a forever alliance of closest allied nations ”
I’m sure that’s what the French thought when they had a signed contract to build submarines for Australia…
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What rank did you aspire to in the Navy?
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This is unbelievable. A rare case of Leftists actually understanding what’s wrong with their support for Fakestine.
It was on a conservative email list. It appears to be extracts from a discussion thread on Reddit.
Has anyone told Albanese or Wong, both huge supporters of the gay community?
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Thailand freezes over 3 million bank accounts
Thousands of accounts are frozen each week. Panic has ensued. Retailers are no longer accepting cards, demanding payment in cash as they, too, are worried that they will be removed from the banking system.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/regulation/thailand-freezes-over-3-million-bank-accounts/
KP will be all over this one! 😁
/Got cash?
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Coming to Australia no doubt.
Our Government has never seen an example of excessive regulatory over-reach it didn’t like.
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The problem with future cash if our government approves elimination of cash will be hoarders of cash, the transition to decimal currency is an example of cash accounting when Australians were forced within a time limit period to hand in cash and have it exchanged for the new currency, and please explain where your large cash holding came from?
Deceased estates have the problem now and executors via solicitors must explain where cash the deceased person left came from, and otherwise it will be confiscated as suspected of being proceeds of crime including tax evasion.
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You must be able to authenticate that.
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I may not be the most astute student of human nature … but I get this feeling that if sweet rosey cheeks grandchild makes their way down into dead grandad’s basement and finds a big box of cash … and nobody has the slightest idea where it all came from … then nobody is gonna have the slightest idea where it all went to either.
eyebrow eyebrow
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“/Got cash?”
Ah, but what is cash worth in Thailand right now? You have thousand of dollars in your bank account, but the bank won’t let you withdraw more than $20 at a time, due to the run on cash… So you hook up with some shady dealer who will take your bank transfer and give you cash..
$200 transfer for $100 cash? $300 transfer for $100?? $500 for 100bucks?? This will tell us more about Govt money than anything else!
Offer the supermarket an IOU, a promissory note that you will pay them $150 when the banks re-instate your account. The supermarket give your promissory note to a supplier for the apples he delivered, and bang! You’ve become a counterfeiter!
Maybe we can go back to the system of standing in a queue at work on Friday 5pm and getting an envelope full of money handed out through the little glass window of the pay office.
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Is Albanese the first Australian PM that hasn’t been able to get a meeting with a US President?
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“ . . . .racial and ethnic essentialism and chauvinism, masked as victimhood, ensuring critics are recast as victimizers. “
Discuss.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Things We Learned From ACIP”
“The CDC has just been outed in the ACIP meeting hiding their own data on the Covid shots. Specifically, members of the committee basically forced the vendors and others involved (who can’t vote but can attend and comment) to admit that:
IgG4 tolerance occurs after the second dose, worsening with more doses, which is not supposed to happen as it causes tolerance to the virus and is potentially cancer-promoting. Further, this was known to persist in the body for at least months. No data beyond that (they didn’t look, on purpose, after finding it originally.)
mRNA concentrates in the liver, heart, brain and testes — specifically, it crosses the blood/brain barrier. We were told it did not. The CDC knew it did. They lied. (This one I tagged when Japan required this study and published it, specifically concentration in the ovaries.) The companies faked the testing using “stand-ins” instead of actual drug and the CDC knew that too and did nothing about it.
Frameshifting — this one I talked about when it started; they knew it as well. Specifically, pseudouridine is not an actual amino acid (thus the name “pseudo”), constructed to be “stiff” (thus promoting the penetration into the cell of the mRNA payload) and does not exist in nature. This causes transcription error rates to be much higher during cellular processing because while its sort-of uridine its not actually uridine. Nobody knows the impact of this and they stopped looking for the impact despite knowing it occurs. This may be directly cancer-promoting and if it is once you take it there’s no un-taking it; this is a man-made substance designed to thwart natural body processes of exclusion (otherwise the uptake rate on the mRNA is too small to work.) That it thwarts one body process means you ought to presume it likely thwarts others and since the one it thwarts is a protective response one should****ume the same will be true for the other adverse effects, if any.
Contamination — GMP violations (specifically DNA contamination, which is used in creating the mRNA) wildly beyond FDA limits for permitted residual amounts. DNA contamination is especially nasty as that is a known cancer promoter. Several dozen post-shot reports of rapid-onset cancer that were well beyond statistical significance, specifically pancreatic and colorectal, were in fact recorded. Ignored again.
Yeah.
Safe and effective my****; these ghouls, all of them, willfully killed people by deliberately ignoring these facts beyond the point they were discovered and known.
This is just for the Covid shots, of course, which is bad enough, but what it points out is a systemic withholding of information related to the risk and until proved otherwise must be construed against every other vaccine on the schedule.
Why?
Because the burden of proof that no such act has happened isn’t on the side of the person challenging; we are talking about something given to children who cannot on their own give informed consent and neither can their parents if the data is withheld from them.”
More paywalled at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254051
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FWIW
“Who am I?”
“Since everyone is curious.”
“Seems like several of my posts have gotten wider attention, resulting in a slew of new folks dropping by; new folks who don’t seem to be familiar with the old blog.
As is the norm for these fragmented times, everyone seems to want to know my politics.
Well, let’s piss-off everyone, shall we?”
Much more at
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/who-am-i
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FWIW
“The End of Their Authority”
“The American Left is rapidly losing authority. That’s not to say we’re about to live without any version of a political Left. The institutions that organize and distribute the sentiment of the Left aren’t set to dissipate. But we’re entering what will be a much-needed political reformation.”
More at
https://tomklingenstein.com/the-end-of-their-authority/
Via https://instapundit.com/746322/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
And looks like “Elbow” got the message too!
“Canada Tries Clever Counter-Terrorism Strategy Of Giving Terrorists Everything They Want”
https://babylonbee.com/news/canada-tries-clever-counter-terrorism-strategy-of-giving-terrorists-everything-they-want
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/23/tuesday-on-turtle-island-160/
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Apparently applications for handgun licences and related memberships to shooting clubs is running much higher than same time last year year in VIC. If real we can expect some further restrictions to be applied.
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Hopefully not taking lessons from the WA government
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