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One part of Trump’s speech which is generally overlooked is “”The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction”
He is not pointing out the huge amounts of money involved and who asking benefits but asking why they are doing it. And of course that it was all started and is maintained today by the UN, the President of which says the oceans are boiling.
So when Trump meets with PM Albanese in a month, what will he say to the man leading his country down a path of total destruction? How’s the Climate?
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Australia has it’s problems, but it could be worse. You could be in Europe.
I found this little statistic incredible.
https://x.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1969278418924585174
Mississippi has been the butt of jokes among Americans for the better part of a half-century as a backward place with a pathetic economy and ignorant people. Much of that was not deserved, but there was a kernel of truth to it. But it turns out that humble little backwards Mississippi is richer per capita than almost all of sophisticated cosmopolitan western Europe.
In fact, that little chart is out of date, as Mississippi has zoomed past the UK and is on the verge of passing Germany.
https://x.com/hyperionca/status/1969290171452465186
https://x.com/douglasritz/status/1969402759205003712
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Cheer up they said … it could be worse.
So we did cheer up, and sure enough it got worse.
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That is not accurate and that particular statistic was manipulated by excluding London, one of the wealthiest regions in Europe.
The figure is also very dependent on everything being converted to US dollars. Also the relative debt per capita was also ignored.
Here is an up to date list with many European economies wealthier, New Zealand however does not make the cut
https://brilliantmaps.com/richer-or-poorer-than-mississippi/
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I note from my own link that Australia is only a little wealthier than Mississippi and no doubt some parts of some states may well fall belw that level, whilst other parts will be wealthier.
I was interested to see that the second most spoken language in Oz after English, is Chinese.
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“I was interested to see that the second most spoken language in Oz after English, is Chinese.”
…and next, we get onto the most popular babies name in each country…
Those two factors will tell you where each country is heading, GDP/person tells you where it is now.
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That link is really interesting. From it The amount of useable land in Australia is highlighted which makes me wonder what population numbers Australia could support bearing in mind the rapid pulation increase in recent years.The Muslim population is proportionally not a lot less than in the UK.
Presumably, like here, they are very concentrated in certain areas.
The climate map is also interesting, definitely a lot hotter than here with large parts similar to India, much of the rest like California, although parts of Tasmania appear to have the same climate as the UK.
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Define ‘usable land’.
Many American cities were built on land that probably would not meet the definition of ‘usable’. LA is in the middle of one of the hottest and driest deserts in the world, Washington DC and Miami were built on swampland, and much of the American plains in ‘Tornado alley’ were extremely hostile to human habitation (and still are if you live in a trailer). Human ingenuity can make land usable even when Mother Nature makes it very difficult.
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And Phoenix, Arizona, is built in a hot “desert” area, yet supports a large population. And the land around Las Vegas isn’t much better.
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The Netherlands is another country that laughs at the concept of ‘usuable land’. Half that damn country should be part of the North Sea, but those wacky Dutchman told Mother Nature to piss off.
IIRC, South Africa was also empty, desolate un-usable land when the Boer settlers arrived, but they said to heck with it and built cities anyway.
Humans have been settling on un-usable land ever since the Romans starting building aqueducts. Probably sooner.
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Water is a far bigger issue than land
Mississippi is probably a good comparison as its regarded as one of the more depressed States. Big difference is resources.
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‘ … what population numbers Australia could support …’
It has to do with sustainability and fertility, probably around 30 million.
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What would there be to say when the great man TRUMP meets the simpleton Albanese, Australia’s worst and most hated PM ever, and that’s up against some very tough competition?
I think the meeting will start with TRUMP telling Albanese to sit down and shut up and then he will tell Albanese what he thinks of him for 1) implementing Australia’s insane self-destructive anti-energy policies, 2) Albanese’s obsession with and realignment away from the United States and toward China, 3) for supporting the establishment of Fakestine and 4) implementation of extensive internet censorship policies including the ban for under 16’s.
Then he will deliver his judgement and announce the cancellation of AUKUS as he and Australia are no longer considered a trustworthy or reliable ally and given the endless stream of Australian politicians and other officials going to China, he can’t afford for US nuclear submarine technology to end up in Chicomm hands.
Albanese the communist won’t care because many, if not most in Labor don’t want nuclear submarines or even Australia to have a strong and viable defence force or alliance with the US.
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There is more at stake DM- What do they decide about 5-eyes spy center at Pine Gap, and even bigger, we are America’s SE Asian rapid-reaction force base in Darwin. I think the Yanks would force regime change before giving up Darwin.
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And what does idiot features do? He gets a selfie.
Is he 12 or something?
Trump must have walked away thing what a tosspot
Straya on the world stage! yeah
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Nobody else would take a photo of them and he needed to prove they had met.
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‘ … most in Labor don’t want nuclear submarines or even Australia to have a strong and viable defence force or alliance with the US.’
When Putin and Xi have left the stage there won’t be any need for nuclear submarines.
So if Donnie pulls the pin on AUKUS then that is good for Australia’s independence, we could develop our own armaments industry. I’m pretty sure Andrew Hastie would back me on this.
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Trump isn’t the only one who can stick it up the UN.
How about this speech from the Argentinian President –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FjCRUZT-Es
Around 9 minutes of a very powerful speech with lots of home truths.
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Javier Milei is awesome and his success in Argentina has had a huge impact on American conservatism.
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Excellent speech.
Like TRUMP he is trying to undo huge damage from past socialist policies which in Argentina’s case go back decades.
Milei is great and a true leader. I wish Australia had a leader.
I would liked to have seen a view of Albanese, assuming he didn’t walk out. He would have been sitting there with that stupid simpleton look on his face, totally confused and not comprehending the message.
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Milei is supposed to be struggling, and the economy has stopped improving. I think a lot of headwinds are actually caused by the almost total world collapse in confidence and trade. No one wants to deal with real goods. The smart money is in derivatives.
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Because building an economy around derivatives worked so well 20 years ago.
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Thats a generation ago
The brilliant young minds will get it right this time.
Its like socialism and “renewables” all those other people didnt do it properly (if they even know about them)
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From the House Judiciary Committee:
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… but a network canceling/suspending a couple of late night talk show hosts with cratering ratings is the real threat to free speech.
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Kimmel is back! The audience is elated! Both of them!
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Good news but I don’t accept their claim that they believed O’Biden’s censorship was “unacceptable and wrong”.
It was, and remains, a fully woke company. They are only allowing the undoing of this censorship due to pressure from TRUMP.
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I believe the founders of those companies were not fans of the Biden censorship complex, but by 2020 most of the founders were no longer involved in the day-to-day running of the companies and if they were around at all, were strictly there in an advisory capacity.
The old school Silicon Valley guys who were around in the 1990s and started up the social media companies were mostly socially-liberal libertarian visionaries who loved taking risks and despised government interventions in their business. But the people who replaced them are managerial types who have pristine credentials but have never built anything from scratch. They are MBA management types who view their job as avoiding risk and maximizing quarterly profits, and one of the biggest risks is drawing the attention of the government’s Eye of Sauron. So anything the bureaucrats in Washington ask for, they give them without the slightest hint of resistance.
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Skepti,
This forgiveness might catch on, so that we see the splendidly accurate and relevant international journal of note “The Conversation” unlocking my account so that I can comment there again, even write an experienced scientific article or two.
I believe that I was the first scientist globally to have an account locked by The Conversation. The current status is a friendly collegiate one with the Con Boss writing “No further correspondence will be entered into”. Geoff S
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I don’t recall a rash of Google people with their arms in slings.
Nothing happens in a vacuum and this only happened because they saw the mess Disney is in. Kimmel certainly opened a can of worms.
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If all the money the UN has wasted had been spent wisely we could have already climate- proofed the world.
And we’d never have to have our afternoon tea interrupted by emotionally blackmailing appeals for money to drill water wells, food, tents and blankets, medical aid…….. that we thought we’d already paid for.
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JUST IN – The ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ along the White House West Wing colonnade by the Rose Garden features an ‘Auto Pen’ image in place of Biden
Video 0:24
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1970901087185219763?t=xSH–sUGlt2ILXPB97IZsw&s=19
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I wonder if that’s real or AI?
I suspect real.
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It’s real.
Like many things Trump does, it is simultaneously hilarious and petty and beneath the dignity of his office.
I get a chuckle out of it, but I don’t see why Trump is still kicking a vanquished opponent who has no influence in DC anymore. Going after Obama in 2016 made sense because Obama was still a hugely powerful figure and King-maker in the Democratic party, but even Democrats don’t take Biden seriously. They’d like to forget he exists at all. Which might be why Trump still goes after him … because it reminds people of what a disaster he was and prevents Democrats from sweeping him under the rug and pretending the Biden administration never happened.
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>simultaneously hilarious and petty and beneath the dignity of his office
Well said, Steve, that’s one of his more admirable talents. He’s able to operate at that level while largely avoiding the stiff and pompous arrogance lesser people adopt as the dignity of office. Trump uses humour at every opportunity, he’s clever with it, some people don’t get it, most people love it. Humour breaks down barriers and formalities, eases tension and brings people together. Like my grandmother used to say, “life’s too short to be miserable”.
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I got here undeserved kicks in my … for saying Trump is not a human being, he is a natural phenomenon.
So it revolves me more to see all those, so called national leaders crawling back to lick his shoe, which says more about the world than about Trump.
And I repeat again – he was absolutely necessary and pray for him to survive.
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He has only begun fighting the auto pen. There are a lot of pardons to reverse.
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Outstanding video about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
https://youtu.be/O2MBarHzeYM
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Video by Dr John Campbell and Dr Suneel Dhand.
The point is made that you can still be iodine deficient even though you have no clinical signs of deficiency, and very large numbers of people are sub-clinically iodine deficient.
Iodine deficiency is associated with breast cancer among other things.
https://youtu.be/vRg67gUoXyM
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I saw that a little while back, it’s very interesting.
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Video about the tragic practice of transgender and eunuch surgeries, especially, child victims of this barbaric woke practice.
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Most “modified sine wave” inverters are actually square wave.
Don’t use on loads other than purely resistive.
Video: https://youtu.be/9rsEvbUV-98
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David,
You’ve done radio theory, you know that even a straight power lead has inductance. Any idea what the voltage will peak at during the change over from one half wave to the other. Or how about at switch off.
I doubt that I’d use a square wave inverter for anything. And with the exception of a kettle, (or similar heater), what else is ‘purely’ resistive? In our modern world almost everything has a switch mode power supply up front. I doubt that they’d survive a couple of pulses from the square wave as it bounces between states, loaded to idling.
The best inverters have very heavy iron cored transformers in them, hoping that the iron has the capability to absorb high frequencies as eddy current/losses. Those cheap little inverters, as sold at caravan and 4WD shows, have no real mass and are little less than appliance killers. One spark or two.
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Which is why you only use pure sine wave inverters made by reputable companies.
The best ones are the toroidal LF units, as scarce as honest pollies these days but there was an Oz company making them years ago, stopped now though.
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My understanding that the latest inverters use high-speed microprocessors to accurately synthesise the AC waveform. Are square wave versions even being used these days?
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Just ran this query through AI, which advised that square wave inverters are rarely used these days. Have been replaced by stepped and “pure sine wave” inverters.
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AI hasn’t always got the right answers.
There are a heap of “modified sine wave” inverters on Ebay which don’t come close to being pure sine waves and are not good for sensitive electronics.
They would not make the distinction if they were equivalent to sine wave inverters.
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It wasn’t just AI. I prepared the training notes for a solar course, so was aware of the different inverter types and how they worked.
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But but but Orange Man and RFK Jr. are crazy for telling pregnant women not to use Tylenol (Paracetamol).
But what does the manufacturer say?
This was posted in 2017.
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TRUMP and RFK Jr didn’t just make it up either.
The original advice came from Harvard University Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
https://x.com/CloughBrad/status/1970882958342136056
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David, I can’t find this advice in the entries on that post. Can you find the exact advice? I would like to send it to someone who was very critical of the declaration from the US government on the safety of paracetamol during pregnancy.
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That is, the advice from Tylenol – I have got the advice from Harvard.
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This link has the old package warning for 8 hour Tylenol:
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2019/019872Orig1s048lbl.pdf
It states that if pregnant or breast feeding seek advice from health specialist. This is a common warning for all types of OTC medication. The question is, who actually takes notice of the fine print like this and would seek advice for an over-the-counter drug? I expect more will now seek that advice and they could not easily dismiss what the US FDA have come up with regarding autism.
It appears skin conditions were added to the label in 2024 and now it will probably get an autism warning as well.
The only thing different here is that Trump mentioned it.
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My first link from the manufacturer works. I’m not sure why you can’t view it Vicki.
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I really, really hope all those TikTok videos of liberal ladies trying to ‘own Trump’ by chugging bottles of Tylenol are fake. My assumption is that most of them replaced the pills with something harmless before the started filming. But then I remember that this is the same generation who ate Tide Pods, and worry for the safety of their kids.
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I believe they are real. After all, these are the same types of people who are happy to mutilate their children with transgender procedures.
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Ah, but there are times one has to be truly grateful for the TDS women:
https://imgbox.com/SgrIlwfZ
She has spared us all! 😆
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I wonder how rich the lady screamoing at the sky in a flouro jacket, beanie and glasses would be if she got residuals. She has launched a 1000 memes.
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Sydney Moaning Herald says ‘Trump is Wrong’… of course!
“Pregnant women, you can ignore Trump. It’s safe to take paracetamol- a causal link between autism and paracetamol use in pregnancy and promoting leucovorin as a potential treatment. But let’s be clear: there is no scientific consensus behind either of these claims.”
Ah, the world needs to run on scientific consensus!
“While we don’t know the exact cause of autism, one thing is certain: science should drive public health decisions, not politics or panic.”
Too bad weren’t thinking that when global warming started!! Anyway, the TGA has spoken and all ye shall listen.
“As Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration stated recently, no regulatory body has found evidence sufficient to change current medical advice around paracetamol use in pregnancy. ”
After all, they were absolutely right with everything they said and did over Covid!
Adam Guastella
Psychologist
https://www.smh.com.au/national/pregnant-women-you-can-ignore-trump-it-s-safe-to-take-paracetamol-20250923-p5mxd2.html
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Thalidomide was the medicine of choice for nausea in pregnant women. Declared safe to use, until it wasn’t.
Whatever happened to erring on the cautious side. As I have mentioned before, in Flemings biography on the development of penicillin “if there had been one adverse reaction, the age of antibiotics would have been pushed back decades”.
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LOL
Why should we take a psychologist’s word on the safety and efficacy of drugs on fetuses?
What’s next, chiropractors giving advice on vaccines?
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I love women, I married one, so trust me I am asking in the kindest way, but why do women need so many pain killers during pregnancy? Mrs H never needed any during hers. Is this another reason to have your family young, while in peak health?
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” Is this another reason to have your family young, while in peak health?”
Well, yes but no. Having your first child in your early 20s is much better than when in your 30s, but really its just that 70years ago pain was part of life. Nowadays people expect to live their life without any pain at all.
I get my dentistry done at the university dental school, and students are horrified that I don’t want injections for filling replacements. I do tell them I want to feel exactly how good they are… I figure they will have shorter lives from the drugs they take in the next 30years.
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Climate change propagandists THE ABC are at it again promulgating false climate change refugees to Tasmania.
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All of my life (58 years) I have met and known Queenslanders that have moved to Tassie for the weather. They are not climate change refugees and climate change is not any part of their considerations.
Most never become proper Tasmanians and eventually return to their State of origin.
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Tells that you are an actual Tasmanian.
1. Everyone, from any other state, is a (bloody) mainlander.
2. You grow Tomatoes for summer but never plant them before ‘Show day’.
3. You have no use for a car’s indicator – except to indicate what you just did, whilst driving.
4. You can navigate Hobart’s one way (city centre) roads, from muscle memory.
5. When you go swimming in summer – you actually go swimming
6. You go surfing in Winter
7. You may have air conditioning, but do not use it.
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When you tell folks you are going caravanning, you hitch up and go 7 miles up the road and make camp there for a week.
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Ronin,
Reminds me of when we lived at Turramurra, the northern Sydney suburb. Colleen took a taxi, whose happy driver told her it was his last day driving because tomorrow, he was taking his first holiday in 23 years. He had put a tow bar on the cab, bought a lovely new caravan and was about to head North for 3 months for the holiday of his lifetime. Colleen asked “Have you mapped out all your travels? Are you going to lots of far-away favourite places?”
“Yes” he said, “I have reserved 3 months at Woy Woy caravan park”. Geoff S
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Ha Ha, had a Taswegian guy working for me years ago, came from St.Helens. His big gripe in life was a quite unnatural hate of crayfish. Turns out his dad was a cray fisherman and every day his mum made him crayfish sandwiches for school lunch.
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Tasmania once had a vibrant mining industry. This attracted most of the mining professionals from interstate and overseas, together with their families. None of them would have been there just for the climate: 9 feet of rain per annum on the West Coast!
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My cousin continually bitches about summer humidity in Brisbane and how she wants to move. But she never does.
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I’m a Q’lander and maybe you don’t understand the stark contrasts between the two states. I can see why northerners find it alluring. You decide to do something and within a couple of hours drive you have a good choice.
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Topher Field wrote in Farcebook in relation to Albanese’s New York visit:
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Australia “falling behind” again. The world has moved on but the news hasnt trickled down to Canberra or most State capitals yet.
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So Aus has resorted to begging. Are these the same people rubbishing Zelensky for constantly begging for arms?
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FWIW
“National Academies Go Preposterous on CO2”
“You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their President just approved a report the conclusion of which is scientifically impossible!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/24/national-academies-go-preposterous-on-co2/
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Chickens are weirder than you thought
https://youtu.be/ZKz0_kSFSP0?si=nPfL1jrXbyrgPC-c
All about the remote centre of rotation.
That 3D printed stabiliser is impressive!
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It was an IQ test and 90% failed
https://x.com/FightWithMemes/status/1970536547251335497
I take it off when everyone else does.
😆😆😆😆
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Frightening.
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How a whistleblower passed me devastating proof Starmer’s dream of a digital ID card could allow hackers to extort billions from the British taxpayer.
If the Labour Government goes ahead with its planned digital identity scheme, collecting everybody’s vital statistics under a single, computerised umbrella, Britain will be vulnerable to a hacker attack of unparalleled proportions. It will be feasible for an enemy – whether a foreign state, such as Russia or China, or an organised crime group – to hold the entire country to ransom.
In January, a senior civil servant responsible for assessing cyber security threats – whose team was sidelined after raising concerns about the project’s vulnerability – provided me with a mountain of evidence that it cannot be trusted.
Their fears were borne out in dramatic fashion shortly afterwards when a so-called ‘Red Team’ exercise, which involved friendly specialists mimicking what attackers would do, showed hackers could gain control of the system without being detected. It proved that, once in control of the scheme, hackers could not only produce fake IDs, but create so much mayhem that the country would be brought to its knees.
https://archive.is/bUXXA
The pollies are clueless, as is their way.
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The Australian Government wants full compulsory digital ID and person tracking, more so than they already have. Just like China. No doubt the politicians and senior public serpents are receiving training on their numerous visits there.
Many think that age verification for social media (and other?) Internet use, will require some sort of digital ID verification.
Perhaps it will be like covid “vaccinations”? Not “compulsory” but if you don’t have them you can’t leave home. In this case you won’t be able to use the internet.
And Australia already has “voluntary” digital ID.
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/what-is-digital-id/digital-id-act-2024
Obviously pretending it was voluntary at first then making it compulsory is the easy way to bring it in.
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FWIW
“The fascinating history of string and rope”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-fascinating-history-of-string-and.html
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Trump’s West Wing colonnade presidential walk of fame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsEq9LfnzI
I understand this is not fake.
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The purpose of propaganda, at least in its late stage form, is not to inform you, or deceive you or even manipulate you. It’s to humiliate you. Its purpose is to be so outlandish, so ridiculous and so blatantly untrue and yet totally undeniable in order to reinforce the power of the state. The Soviets referred to this as ‘hyperrealism’. That is – the state of everyone saying things that are completely false and that they know to be false – but which they cannot deny. The supermarket shelves are empty and bread lines stretch around the corner, but the newspapers report that the year’s agricultural quotas have been exceeded once again. And then everyone is forced to repeat this lie and thus they become complicit in it. It is a system of total social humiliation and control.
Renewables, inflation, boiling, Covid, vaxxes, genders…
Take your pick.
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“Take your pick.”
‘Russia bad.. America good’
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FWIW
“In One of World’s Greatest ALL TIME Trolls, Gaza Flotilla Coms Being Jammed…With ABBA Tunes”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/09/24/in-one-of-worlds-greatest-all-time-trolls-gaza-flotilla-coms-being-jammedwith-abba-tunes-n3807140
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DJT causes meltdown at the U.N. but it was merely more cases of spontaneous human combustion. Another Trump zinger:
“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator, that on the way up, stopped right in the middle”.
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FWIW
“$2.2 billion solar plant in California scheduled to be turned off after years of wasted money: ‘Never lived up to its promises’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/2-2-billion-ivanpah-solar-facility-in-california-turned-off-after-years-of-wasted-money/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
““Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes,”Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News via statement this past February. It “never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected, while relying on natural gas to stay operational.”
To revise and extend the remarks by the late P.J. O’Rourke, you can’t get good Chinese takeout in China, Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba, and the TV and you can’t get solar power in the California desert. That’s all you need to know about communism.”
Via https://instapundit.com/746697/#disqus_thread
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Cajun bird now off the menu.
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Javier Milei takes aim at UN socialist agenda as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY8TKCf2kxs
He has such an acute appreciation of how large government bureaucracies destroy wealth creation. I guess he has been in a position to witness that and is now one of the very few leaders reversing that awful decline into national poverty that Australia is heading into.
Milei gives strong support to the direction Trump is taking the USA and talks about the socialist capture of institutions.
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FWIW
“MSM ‘Forgets’ They’ve Been Warning About Tylenol And Pregnancy For Over A Decade”
“Not only did pregnant morons start chugging Tylenol to prove Trump wrong, CNN and MSNBC wrote ‘gotcha’ articles (‘without evidence’ blah blah blah) – only to forget they’ve been reporting on the dangers of Tylenol and pregnant women for years. ”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/msm-forgets-theyve-been-warning-about-tylenol-and-pregnancy-over-decade
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Another ‘Babylon Bee moment’ 🐝
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The whole Tylenol (paracetamol): pregnancy situation is very reminiscent of of the Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ): COVID statements by Trump. The biased lefty media allege or try to create the impression Trump has dreamed up both recommendations himself. With HCQ in early 2020 he had been approached by medical people knowledgeable of its history and independent use at the time. Same for paracetamol – there would appear to be some sound science behind it. Plus now, there’s the further theory on glutathione depletion by paracetamol, especially if taken after a vaccination.
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‘Experts’ fear virus with 70% mortality rate could spark ‘Disease X’ pandemic
World Health Organisation ‘Experts’ are now warning that another pathogen, capable of inflicting far greater devastation than covid-19, could be lurking in the shadows.
These so called experts believe that the covid pandemic served merely as a “warning shot” for what lies ahead.
..experts are already monitoring outbreaks of several unknown diseases that as yet have no known cure, and no known limits.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2112341/Virus-mortality-rate-disease-x
I’ll tell you what it is, and I’ve only just found out.
There’s been nothing on my radar at all, and now I know why.
An old friend that underwent a major change.
An undetectable change to most.
No treatment. No cure.
Got that remote self sufficiency farm yet?
Better hurry. 😉
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If the dont create it, then dont release what they didnt create, then maybe went and did something useful in medical research then we might be OK.
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With the ink on the new WHO IHR barely dry, you’d think they could have given us a couple of years to forget about that aspect before hitting us with another “plandemic”.
It kind of feels like they’re rushing things a bit.
Maybe the idea of Trump/Vance/Vance/?/? has them thinking their time to act is limited.
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“..experts are already monitoring outbreaks of several unknown diseases ”
Pfft! Time to get better “experts”. Just plot the new disease outbreaks against the UK Govt Biolabs..
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The Canadian PM Carney is nearly as bad as Albanese.
At the UN he said:
Just more meaningless woke WEF platitudes.
Desiree Fixler responded:
Her description reads: My mission is to end ESG & DEI in the corporate world | Free Enterprise & Free Speech Activist 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 London, England
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FWIW
“New Blood Pressure Guidelines Mean You May Now Have Hypertension”
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-mean-you-may-now-have-hypertension
Instapundit lead-in
“I’M SUSPICIOUS OF GUIDELINES THAT LOOK LIKE A SALES TOOL FOR DRUG COMPANIES: New Blood Pressure Guidelines Mean You May Now Have Hypertension. My doctor says pretty much the same thing.”
https://instapundit.com/746636/#disqus_thread
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Indeed.
Is blood pressure at these amounts a problem or a sales tool?
The pressure of what constitutes hypertension has been dropping over the years.
After the covid “vaccine” disaster, we know that Big Pharma and Big Government and their agents, the Left, cannot be trusted.
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Great! Another lot of forced medicines to be able to drive a car! Don’t forget all the extra medication to hide the side effects of the first. No wonder the whole society is so sick!
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Mon, me don’ts mean to carry-go-bring-come nor bring-back-carry-come but –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574079/rark-up-and-morena-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary
‘Morena’ [moor-RAY-nah] is Spanish for brown or brunette as in Sierra Morena [mountains brown] as well as the abbreviation of the present Mexican cartel government [The Morena Party] yet Maori cunning linguistics have culturally appropriated the word as a stand-in for the English greeting, ‘morning’, as in:
“Yellow Guv, right smashing morena today innit, me ol’ Ch!na, eh, eh?”
Having become Official-Speak in bureaucratic, media & woke corporate circles, I wonder how many diversified enlightened ignoramuses [ignorami?] realise when they greet Maori they’re really saying: Brown! Brown!
Anyways cuz, just a liddle rark up, sweet as, chur.
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Forty shilling freeholders. This was the idea that in order to have a right to vote you had to have a certain value of property. The actual value was not huge. What do you think of some variation of this idea in modern Western democracies? The problem now is that political parties are in competition with each other to see who can give away the most welfare in order to secure votes. This applies to corporate welfare as well (i.e. protection from market forces ensuring that industry has no incentive to become efficient). Ultimately there will be so many people voting themselves funds from the public coffers there will be no incentive to produce. (We are almost at that point now.) If voters had some interest in owning some amount of property this would not be such an issue.
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Spread the load DM! A vote for everyone, another vote for owning property, another vote again for owning a business, and another vote on top for owning a business that employs more than 10people.. ..and so on.
The power of the numbers of takers versus the power of the numbers of producers needs to be changed.
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Heinlein’s idea – only (surviving) military veterans get a vote
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FWIW – “Elbow” to the barricades!
On line Courier Mail headline just now
“PM’s dire global warning in major UN speech debut
Anthony Albanese used his inaugural UN speech to warn the world and champion the cause of clean energy, as he highlighted plans that directly clash with Donald Trump.”
(Behind the Murdoch Wall)
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Rooftops are now the only way forward for WDGs in Australia. Rooftops literally own the market as heavy industry disappears and that is what matters because they are also the lowest cost intermittent source of electricity.
So Albanese spruiking “renewables” means he is backing an Australia powered from rooftops. Meanwhile the rest of the world is going hard on hydrocarbon exploration and building nuclear plants.
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On the main stream media last night how owners of EV’s can sell their power back to the grid and make money.
As always lots of light trite comments as to how good this will be for humanity. The plan apparently is to charge your car at midday when prices are cheapest then discharge your car to the grid at peak demand times i.e. around 5.00pm and onwards thereby delivering the owner “a profit”.
Just a couple of points not mentioned
1/ How long will it take to fully discharge the EV as opposed to fully charge the car.
2/ What happens when a need arises to use a vehicle just after its been discharged
One question asked was how does the charge / discharge cycle affect the cars warranty, and the other point made was it will really only deliver a profit if you charge your car from your own rooftop solar, not buy power from the grid. Oh well.
Just a point of personal experience, most vehicle owners use their cars during the day, so not near their home charging station.
Hmmmm whole suggested system seems to smell.
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Surely you must agitate for payment by the power companies for freighting a battery full of electricity?
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The recognition that rooftops are now taking over has hit the legacy media:
https://theconversation.com/is-there-an-alternative-to-10-000-kilometres-of-new-transmission-lines-yes-but-you-may-not-like-it-223964
The article response to the question is dead wrong though:
If you want reliable electricity, you do not want to start with inherently unrteliable generation. Interconnecting a large number of unreliable generators does not improve the system reliability.
The grid scale wind and solar generators are redundant. Rooftops can do the same job at lower cost. Dispatchable generation is still needed but needs to be maintained.
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That is not the conclusion from the EIA or Lazards analysis of LCOE.
They rate domestic RoofTop solar as being one of the most expensive (us$81/MWh minimum), compared to Utility solar or Wind at about half that cost.
Even CCGT gas and Coal are cheaper .?
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If the Govt sent me a tax return that demanded $10,000 from my pension, I would get upset. However, spending $10,000 to get my own electricity would be quite different, so whether rooftop is cheaper than solar farms is not the only factor.
I will end up paying for electricity anyway..
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Rick, talking solar power,…are you aware of any data that quantifies the % output from a PV panel over a full daylight, full sun, period …assuming the panel is perfectly oriented 90 deg to the sun all the time ?
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Further..
That would need to be identified as to latitude , month, etc i guess ?
Odd that i cannot seem to find this basic data anywhere ?
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I provided that data for various locations in Australia in my submission to the Finkel enquiry.
https://pdf4pro.com/view/australian-solar-radiation-figures-rpc-com-au-768c99.html#google_vignette
The table covers fixed and tracking
There are also a large number of BoM sites collecting actual solar data. It is horizontal plane so needs to be adjusted for angle. Working out the sun angle is not trivial. It depends on the time of year and the latitude. I can give you the ratio of daily to peak for every latitude and every hour of the day.
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Pity that BOM does not supply daily (measured NOT calculated) solar insolation values for all of their sites. Actually getting 100% of the value would matter less than have the methodolgy applied consistently.
Might provide source for more arguments with the AGW people though.
Am I correct that it would take into account cloud cover variations, since it would be an “on the ground” measurement?
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On Sunday week, for some of us, daylight saving starts. That means an extra hour of light at the end of the day. It also means that maximum temperatures also occur an hour later, so if the max temp happens at around 4pm without daylight saving, it happens at 5pm during daylight saving. Therefore if a person gets home from work at 5pm without
daylight saving, cooling has started an hour earlier, whereas, during daylight saving, the same person experiences max temp at 5pm. Therefore cooling is required for an extra hour and running the airconditioner, or multiple air conditioners, for the extra hour would use way more electricity than a few less lights.
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Albanese address to UNGA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPU559no_k
Note the audience interest compared with Trump. And watch the Australia contingent nodding heads.
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Collosal Biosciences Inc. posted on Farcebook:
This is toward the recreation of the Dodo, or at least something that resembles it.
Dodos are part of the pigeon family.
PGCs are primordial germ cells.
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THIS is why the profit motive is not the be all and end all.
What a useless exercise in flummery.
Go and CURE a disease you great wastes of space.
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Gene-editing has already been introduced into cardiac medicine. I know at least one patient who was unaware of the the development of the drug she has been prescribed. I imagine that it is not discussed with patients.
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The Trump Effect.
‘As Trump was deeming climate change a “hoax” and renewables a “joke”, the European Commission announced it would seek another 12-month postponement to the planned EU Deforestation Regulation. This despite many companies having, as under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, spent considerable amounts of time and money on getting ready to comply with the EUDR.’ (Sustainable Views)
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FWIW
“Claim: Aussie Climate Refugees are Moving to Tasmania”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/24/claim-aussie-climate-refugees-moving-to-tasmania/
Another reason –
A brother and his wife lived and worked at various places in Europe, including owning a farm house in Normandy. They returned to Oz and eventually settled in Tasmania.
During a phone call one day I asked him – “Tasmania wouldn’t happen to look like Normandy would it?”
He chuckled and said “It does, you know”.
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In the other Thread about ejecting battery packs in EVs, at this link, TdeF mentions this:
It made me think about just that, and how it almost got me into trouble when I first mentioned it back in 2008. While it was not related to that wonderful invention of ejecting the battery pack, I did think I could reply, and Raquel mentioned it might be better placed here in this Unthreaded Post.
I started what I think I might be doing back in March of 2008, when I was asked to contribute at a U.S. blog site. I had no idea on how to go about that, but the site’s owner said it was just a blog site, and that anybody could write anything. So I thought ….. something about power generation.
Kevin07 had just signed us up to the Kyoto Protocol at Bali, to reduce CO2 emissions, (and the big emphasis was on coal fired power) so I wanted to explain how difficult that would be when it came to closing down coal fired power plants, and trying to, umm, replace them with renewables of choice, wind and solar, and I wanted to make the point that would be patently all but impossible, and would take decades to implement, if at all.
I had to submit my Posts via email, every third day or so, and he would Post them at the site. After a Month or so of this, and now thinking I was going to ‘keep at it’ (and I suppose to save him the work) he gave me the ability to Log into the site and write the Posts straight to the site. I was certain the whole thing would ‘tap out’ after a dozen or so Posts, but that original series that started me out (my Kyoto Series) went to more than fifty separate Posts and four Months, and then, thinking that was it for me, what I found was that I was only scratching the surface.
For my third Post, I had started to get ‘into it’, but you can still see that when it comes to writing, I’m still a bog standard amateur.
I emailed that third Post to Ed. He read it, and immediately emailed me back asking about the last paragraph where I mentioned China opening up between one and two new coal fired plants every week, and would be doing so for many years to come. He was dumbfounded and asked me if it was actually true, or perhaps I was embellishing it a bit. I emailed him back with the link to the article where I read it. He emailed back saying ….. let’s just leave it at one a week.
When I saw the Post up at the site the next morning, I saw that he had actually put that paragraph in bold.
He emailed me me and told me all his friends who read the blog were astounded and that no one actually believed it.
I also mentioned that perhaps China might be doing this for ten to fifteen years.
That Post was written 17 years ago, and China is still bringing them on line at that rate. Those plants are two and three levels of technology higher than existing plants here in Australia, and they have even perfected how to refit those older large plants with the newer USC technology.
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 3) (dated 26 March 2008)
Tony.
And Raquel, thanks for your diplomacy with this. I apologise.
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FYI ..
Apparently, at the UN chatfest, China have anounced they will try to reduce their carbon emissions 7-10% by 2035 !
From what peak level ?
How will it be measured ?
And Who will be able to check ?
…. And which leader will be running china by 2035 ?
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“, China have anounced they will try to reduce their carbon emissions 7-10% by 2035 !”
..and who cares anyway?
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The Clown Minister Albanese wants Australia to get a seat on the UN Security Clowncil.
I wonder which clown he has in mind as representative? KRudd, Wrong or himself?
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May the Lord help us – I hope he doesn’t have Wong in mind!!!
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Jobs for the boys!
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A Clown Minister alright! 25million people and no industry, WTF does he think Australia means to the world?? A giant quarry with lots of beaches does not make you a big name in international relations.
There is no way in hell Australia deserves a seat on the Security Council! They can’t even guarantee their own security, let alone anyone else’s. Get in the queue behind Mexico!
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Logo Update: Democrat Donkey Now Holding Sniper Rifle
https://buff.ly/DvGtYdf
“It’s the perfect illustration of what our party stands for,” said Ken Martin, head of the Democratic National Committee. “Everyone has known the donkey as the Democratic mascot for decades, but we felt that it no longer conveyed the message of who we are as a party. Giving the donkey a sniper rifle gives us a harder edge while letting everyone know what our party stands for in 2025.”
Prominent Democrats believe the updated logo would make the party’s agenda clearer to voters. “When you’re running political campaigns, it’s important to make your message as clear as possible,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “We’re the party of threats, violence, and murder, so it’s only right for our logo to accurately reflect that. There’s also a ‘Vote for us, or else’ vibe to it, which is perfect.”
At publishing time, Democrats had made the logo even more modern and inclusive for its current supporters by revealing that the sniper rifle-carrying donkey depicted was actually a male donkey that underwent gender reassignment surgery so it could pretend to be a female donkey.
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21 Sept report of Adelaide bank branch refusing to honour customer withdrawal request.
25 Sept report of Sydney police arrests involving international syndicate and local corrupt solicitors, agents, mortgage brokers and bank personnel. Initial suggestion is that one of our big 4 banks has been taken for around $150m involving $60m of cars and luxury goods as well as tens of millions $worth of property and mortgages
In the past the Australian Real Estate industry has been ranked very poorly on international corruption rankings due to lack of anti-money laundering regulation and the ability to conduct transactions without 3rd party oversite. This 2021 Macrobusiness article gives a great insight of where the industry was just 4 years ago.
Since then, the Tranche 2 reforms that extend anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing obligations to high-risk professions, including real estate agents, lawyers, accountants and dealers in precious metals have been passed (November 2024) and so maybe we will get more reports like this Sydney one.
Meantime, all us little honest cash withdrawers should just say it is to secure a house that a mate has given you first refusal on, and you will be back to organise the mortgage directly.
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‘In an interview on 2GB on Thursday, Hastie said:
‘I support Sussan. Anyone who’s speculating otherwise is being mischievous. I’m a team player. I’m just being a little bolder in some of the policy positions that I think we should adopt.’ (Guardian)
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Of course he does. “Et tu, Brute?”
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FWIW – another can of worms?
“The 5G menace that government pretends doesn’t exist”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-5g-menace-that-government-pretends-doesnt-exist/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-25&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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That is spooky. I saw that link myself 2 minutes ago then came to check out this site and you have posted the link. Not got cctv in my study have you?
You are right, it is a very interesting study. 5g towers are proliferating. Cancers, mental health problems, general ill health, insomnia and other things seem to be growing as quickly as smartphones and smart meters. Is 5G any sort of factor or is it a red herring?
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That would be several grades above my pay scale!
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How about if we drastically increase your pay scale? You can head a commission study of the subject at 1 million dollars a year.
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Remember that radiation from a source is effectively spread out over the surface of a sphere, so decreases substantially as you reach any distance from the source. If anybody is concerned, then field strength meters are not expensive, so folks can actually measure the levels themselves. I would be more concerned about folks putting phones to their heads for any length of time, or wireless charging overnight on bedside tables.
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I wonder what the radiation levels are under a 130kV (or higher) electric transmission line? Or 50m away….
I chose Colorbond roofing AND siding since the line is about 70m from the house. Hopefully the amateur attempt at a Faraday cage was/is successful.
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Camp one- The Ukraine war started when that modern-day Adolf invaded harmless, innocent Ukraine.
Camp two- The Ukraine war is the culmination of two decades of trouble-making by America to subvert Russia.
Camp one- have strong links to and funding from the telecoms industry and their main expertise is electronic engineering. They play down the risks of health harm mainly on the grounds that harm occurs only if body tissue is heated by radio-frequency radiation (RFR) and that non-ionising radiation (NIR) cannot cause DNA damage.
Camp two-includes independent scientists and doctors whose main expertise is in human health, toxicology, epidemiology and biophysics, and includes electronic engineering. They say that harm occurs before the body heats up and that present safety limits need to be revised. They believe that DNA can be damaged by non-ionising radiation and that this can lead to cancer and other diseases.
You pick the propaganda you want to believe.
A good article Ian, it demonstrates the sides taken over the problem and who is behind each side.
I reckon engineers who work with electron running down metal wires don’t have any idea of how delicate the mechanism for passing electrons around in the human body really is.
You poke an electron into one end of a wire and another immediately pops out the other. You poke an electron into a human cell and it doesn’t come out at all, but one particular protein molecule changes shape.
You run an EMF field alongside a wire and electrons pop out, but if you run an EMF field through a cell you disrupt a thousand chemical processes that were taking place by stretching proteins electrically..
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Drones flew over multiple airports across Denmark and caused one of them to close for hours, police said Thursday after a similar incident this week prompted Copenhagen airport to shut.
Drones were spotted at Denmark’s airports in Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and at the Skrydstrup air base before leaving on their own, police said.
Aalborg airport, located in northern Denmark and one of the country’s biggest after Copenhagen, was shut down before reopening several hours later.
Russia is being blamed although why would they do this?
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“Russia is being blamed although why would they do this?”
Exactly- its more likely the retards in NATO who are dying to get a war going with Russia did it as a false flag event. “Drones”.. what? That words covers everything from some kid playing with his $100 birthday present to the Yanks spending millions on Reapers, they are all ‘drones’.
Flew for hours?? Yet all we see are lots of words, some photos of Police at airports, and NO photos of the drones! So neither airports staff, security nor passengers have phones in Copenhagen? We should see social media full of pictures of them, everything else in the world is filmed a thousand times.
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FWIW
“Think Big” wasn’t only a horse!
“Elon Musk’s DOGE Uncovered the Biggest Health Care Heist in American History”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/09/24/the-biggest-health-care-heist-that-you-probably-never-heard-of-n4944085
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It makes me think that Australia has similar big targets in Medicare and NDIS.
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FWIW – a hard look at AI
“Evil
When you see evil operating in real time”
“But AI is not an ultimate truth teller. AI is swayed by the information it finds online. And if it finds something often enough, it declares it to be factual. This is how the rumor that the Charlie Kirk shooter had MAGA affiliation spread like a wildfire. The more people claimed it was true, the more Grok or other AI picked up that story line as true, the more people believed it. A vicious cycle.
When on Sunday Charlie’s memorial was held, the German side of my X feed went crazy. Not surprisingly crazy. But more than what I naturally would have expected. Yes, I have a German side to my X feed. It mirrors what I see on the US side, but is way, way more left leaning. It is basically thousands of idiots claiming that being anti-fascist is the only right way of being and that anyone who is not calling themselves Antifa is a bad and evil person. I do not follow any of them. They just show up. Day after day.
Since Sunday, these people claimed the Charlie Kirk memorial was a Nazi rally. Not just like one. A real one.”
“Then…
I was drinking a glass of wine late at night and suddenly it hit me.
“They are feeding the AI!”
I nearly screamed at my husband. He did not understand. No wonder. I was completely speaking out of context. So I had to explain.
“Evil people are feeding the AI with fake quotes and fake analogies, so the AIs are picking this up and are declaring everything the right is doing fascist. They are forcing it to be “true”.”
If you just state something often enough, AI believes it to be factual.
We have reached it.
The point of no return.”
More there
https://germanoddities.substack.com/p/evil?triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/746837/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The Memes From the Trump Administration’s Announcement on Tylenol Were Undefeated”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/24/the-reactions-to-the-trump-tylenol-announcement-have-been-gold-n2663868
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FWIW
“Pregnant TikTok Goblins Gobble Tylenol, Demand #AutismAcceptance”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-09-24/pregnant-tiktok-goblins-gobble-tylenol-demand-autismacceptance
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Do they know that Panadol is a poison. Seriously if too many are taken it kills your liver. At one stage the Oz Govt was thinking of having it prescribed or at least placed behind the chemist counter. A surgeon friend said it had been used to “hasten” the departure of lingering older rels!!
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Just saw this.
Katie Hopkins: Deported from Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFM0KT9wnDk
Is this true?
If so, no offense, but y’all are a mess.
Looney times.
I wonder if she still got paid?
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FWIW
When “Too late” meets “Not enough”
“California’s Desperate Bid To Charm Oil Companies Is Doomed To Failure”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/californias-desperate-bid-charm-oil-companies-doomed-failure
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I wondered why the wind farm I see in the distance towards Blayney was stationary even with the wind blowing, then today one of the guys showed me a photo of a turbine blade broken near the hub.
Seems it was only commissioned in April this year, so their life might not be that long… There’s no reason to worry though, a Professor said it will be OK.
“Professor Heidarpour said while people “shouldn’t be concerned” about the safety of wind farms, there has been an increase in blade failure in recent years. “We should start to do a proper study to better understand what is the main cause behind the failure of these blades,”” …and employ more research Professors no doubt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/storm-damaged-turbine-at-nsw-central-west-wind-farm-concerns/105782400
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LOl! I fill in a SMH email questionaire each week, and tonight I looked up the past results to questions. All I can say that if what I saw was a selection of typical middle-class Australia…
WE ARE DOOMED!
The most common theme was that more Govt regulation and interference was desired, over any subject that involved any level of State control!
3/4 of them think we should grant Palestine statehood.
Over 50% think-
Govt should interfere more in real estate.
Govt should put a ‘vacant site’ tax on landowners.
NSW police has problems with gender parity in its leadership.
Govt should do more to revitalise Paramatta Rd.
Govt should make stricter licencing for dog owners.
Govt should promote more community gardening in Sydney.
Govt should put in 8000 new homes inParamatta Rd
A 4-day working week would be better for productivity.
..and on it goes! No idea of doing anything without having the dead hand of the State fk it up! We will NEVER get anywhere with this attitude!
https://nineresearch.au1.qualtrics.com/ControlPanel/File.php?F=F_73ZhhwqhPJYUeVj
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Fire (DFES) staff in Perth said on TV news tonight that they are attending to two lithium battery fires every day. Time to switch back to NiCads?
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