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Failure to control immigration being used as a Trojan horse for UK ID ‘cards’. Calling it a BritCard to make it sound patriotic? The public aren’t that easily manipulated. And of course it won’t stop anything, the black economy already ignores all checks and regulation, and once an immigrant is here they’ll just be given an ID in due course anyway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15133629/Every-adult-Britain-need-new-Government-issued-digital-ID-card-new-Keir-Starmer-plan.html
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Migrants are supposed to have their id checked anyway. Those employers that ignore this requirement and employ them illegally will continue to do so in future.
Illegal immigration as an excuse for digital id is certainly a red herring hiding inside a Trojan horse. The numbers of legal migrants are 10 to 15 times the numbers of illegal. Stopping those vast number is already in the governments powers and they continually ignore public demand to crack down on numbers.
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I don’t think it is a failure.
It is considered by the EU planners to be a highly successful innovative tactic to achieve a post nation state Europe.
An overturn of Brexit.
It was controlled according to intent.
They’re not migrant ‘hotels’.
They are garrisons.
Such is history.
London was once Londinium.
Wonder what the new name will be?
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Londinistan
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“Londinium” was the original name of London during the Roman period, while “Londonistan” is a derogatory term coined by French intelligence in the 1990s, implying London was a hub for Islamist extremists. There is no debate about which to use; “Londinium” is a historical name, and “Londonistan” is a term with racist overtones, used to suggest the city was becoming overly similar to an Asian country due to its large Muslim population, which is not factually true.
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Yes. In this context Annie got it right. No debate.
Not factually true. The name was given because of a growth in radicalisation and harbouring imported radicals. Not simply growth in the muslim population.
Additionally, it did not pertain to a particular race, but rather an ideology. The “racist overtone” is your imagination. The fact that you had to use “overtone” instead of just claiming it was racist also shows why your claim is not factually true.
I suppose you’d claim calling Victoria (under Dan Andrews) “Victoriastan” is racist too?
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I always assumed the -stan suffix referred to Soviet rule. Most of the …stans were communist.
For me it was a totalitarian insult to nanny states which resembled the USSR. ie Victoristan / Danistan was a hideous totalitarian empire with stupid overbearing laws and regulations.
Most Islamic countries do not end in …stan.
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I believe you’re correct regarding the Soviet Rule in relation to the naming of Victoriastan and Danistan.
Regarding London, here’s an explainer I accept.
https://www.vifindia.org/article/2011/march/25/The-Londonistan-Phenomenon-and-UK-Intelligence
I assume the Stan for London comes from Pakistan harbouring characters like Bin Laden.
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Historically, they usually end with the expulsion of everything not Islamic.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/04/25/armenia-remembrance-genocide-azerbaijan-russia-nagorno-karabakh-ethnic/
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“The public aren’t that easily manipulated.”
If that was true, we wouldn’t have ruinous ‘Net Zero’ policies, uncontrolled immigration, mask mandates, compulsory vaccination, ever-increasing taxation, parallel parliaments for Islam and indigenous tribes, fines for breathing or blinking, people in jail for tweets …
Yeah, nah.
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Example:
So much hysterics about Jimmy Kimmel.
At the same time it turns put Google was silencing people at the explicit direction of the Biden administration.
Another already known fact … to us ‘conspiracy theorists’.
Only now formally admitted by Googly.
Serious historic implications of violation of Constitution rights and massive financial damage for political gain.
But poor Jimmy Kimmel.
Forced fed narratives the public gorges on like goose pate.
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Achieved by bypassing democracy and ignoring public counter opinion, not by convincing/manipulating public opinion.
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FWIW
“Pregnant Liberal Woman Suffers Fatal Tylenol Overdose After Trying to “Prove Trump Wrong” — Now Allegedly on Ventilator Fighting for Her Life: REPORT”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/pregnant-liberal-suffers-fatal-tylenol-overdose-after-trying/
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Overdose can cause liver failure. Safe dose is now considered only 1500 mg per 24 hour period.
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For us older people in Australia, the recommendation (panadol etc) still seems to be 4000mg (8×500 or 6×665). Though given the ages of the participants, periodic liver function blood tests seem to also be “normal”
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By the way, whatever happened to the use of aspirin as a pain killer. Enteric minimal doses were suggested as a blood thinner for awhile but are now “not in favor”
And yes taking a bottle of aspiring in one sitting was considered “life threatening”
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This is quite tragic.
Apparently in an effort to prove Trump wrong about the risk of Tylenol causing Autism she took a massive dose.
The result is liver failure but it takes days to die.
It is likely that she has killed herself and her baby.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is deadly. This was suicide and murder. Encouraged by overwhelming media hatred of the US President, a hatred so prevalent that UN employees saw fit to turn off his elevator, turn off his teleprompter and see to it that few of the delegates heard his speech, available only to those using translated audio, not English speakers in the audience. The contemptuous behaviour of the UN staff is amazing, considering they totally depend on Trump’s generosity. Typical of TDS.
There must be consequences. Like firing half the 40,000 people who are direct employees and the 40,000 contractors. Or just turn off the money. China pays half of what the US pays. And the US provides the entire support system, land, buildings, rent free.
As for ‘boiling oceans’ chief Antonio Gutteres, he has to go. Along with the utterly evil WHO director Tedros Adnomen, the first non medical doctor to head WHO and a Chinese Communist apparatchik. The one who told the world on 20th January 2020 the Wuhan Virus was ‘not communicable, person to person’ when he had the Taiwanese report on his desk since November. But Taiwan does not exist, apparently. And millions died because of WHO. The only function of WHO is pandemics and he actively enabled the worst pandemic in the modern world, costing millions of deaths and wrecked lives Without consequences to WHO.
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And zero funding for the appalling COP series of hoax meetings, no more than a business get together and auction for the $20Trillion this hoax costs the world. And our own opportunist PM is there offering to give at least hundreds of millions to African countries just to get on the Security Council and hold the next COP meeting in Adelaide. All to support this scam.
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Remember when that charming individual Robert Mugabe showed up at a COP meeting and a lot of other officials and world leaders were happy to have their photo taken with him…?
It’d take a good imagination, or a lot of brain damage to think Trump is worse than Mugabe, yet that time has arrived, it seems.
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TDS
A manufactured syndrome.
Similar to Pandemic … manufactured.
Similar to “you were born with the wrong reproductive organs”.
Oh, you’re not happy and fulfilled all the time? You are ‘have’ depression.
Are you ‘hesitant’ about medical care?
(Any not is uninformed.)
Glue your hand to a highway.
It was your idea.
And no one will recommend psychiatric intervention if you do.
World wide cultural civil war has reached the full kinetic stage … and the battle space is our minds.
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It’s Karma. Yes I do feel for the unborn baby, for the idiot less so. Are people going to start taking cyanide if Trump says its dangerous just to prove Trump wrong? I despair at the stupidity of some on the Left and the level of TDS that is in the world today. A cynic would claim Darwin’s law in action. Remember these are the same idiots that preach Climate Alarmism and the safety of covid vaccines.
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There is no medication to prevent “ stupid “ . In this case there is also the added deadly infection known generally as TDS, an incurable condition affecting well over 40% of the population who are typically left leaning & supposedly intelligent.
People must learn to live life without unnecessary medications. The human body is a really delicate piece of engineering which deserves respect & care. Do not fill it with chemicals detrimental to its existence!!
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On this worldwide outbreak of T.D.S. (possibly the first outward signs of Disease X) a highly contagious wave of it swept through NZ’s media lamescape yesterday & last night as radio hosts & journalists & repeaters alike broke-out with spasms of delusional rantings and incoherent psychobabble… as if a ‘switch’ had been flicked and their jab-addled systems commenced Breakdown Stage (BS).
Hilarious & highly entertaining yet very sad at the same time: the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Besides, is every one present this morning? Word™️ is the *rapture* was supposed to have happened a few days ago, yet my friends who believe are still here – oops, wait, was that the sound of a trumpet I heard?
[Post Script: nah, someone was just blasting out some Miles Davis cool jazz tunes…].
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I put about as much stock in this story as I did in the story of Oklahoma hospitals having to turn people away because they were overrun with horse dewormer overdoses during the Covid panic. Or the stories of deathbed confessions by vaccine skeptics that wish they had taken the clot shot.
Gateway Pundit often plays fast and loose with sourcing when a story is too good to pass up. In this instance, their source is a twitter post with no confirmations or secondary sources.
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An AI search starts: A pregnant woman has reportedly overdosed on Tylenol (acetaminophen), according to multiple news sources published on September 25, 2025
I would need to be sure it is a hoax before opening my mouth. Are you sure?
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FWIW
“@YMMV
Re : taking Tylenol, because TDS
What did Tylenol itself say back in 2017?
We actually don’t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.
Plus the John Hopkins study in 2019.
Taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with elevated risks for autism, ADHD
A Johns Hopkins study analyzing umbilical cord blood samples found that newborns with the highest exposure to acetaminophen were about three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder in childhood
Link: https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-adhd/”
And
“Ref Malone News.
Here we go again. Even former President Obama is jumping into the Tylenol/Acetaminophen controversy. Everyone is suddenly an expert, and every statement about public health must be politically weaponized. Suppose you had any doubt that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing. In that case, all you need to do is watch the Instagram reels of left-wing pregnant women downing large doses of Tylenol, which is a high-speed route to the emergency room promptly followed by a potential rather unpleasant death from liver failure. Quod erat demonstrandum (QED).
Link: https://www.malone.news/p/tylenol-leucovorin-and-child-neurodevelopment ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/w-o-o-d-5-september-2025-into-africa-theory-messinian-europe-losing-to-brics/#comment-179039
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FWIW
“Marty Makary Explains the Tylenol/Autism Concerns”
“Amid all the storm and strife–and lies–about Donald Trump’s and RFK, Jr.’s warnings about the dangers of using Tylenol during pregnancy, little things like the evidence behind the concerns were lost in the outrage.
As liberals howled in rage and pregnant women took enough Tylenol to overdose and harm their livers–there are mixed reports about the latter, but no question that millions of white pills were quaffed to spite Trump–few Pravda Media folks bothered to discuss the actual evidence both for and against the claim that acetaminophen can increase the risk out autism in children exposed in the womb. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/09/25/marty-makary-explains-the-tylenolautism-concerns-n3807182
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Dangers from 5G and smart meters? Do solar panels emit any similar waves from any of their component parts?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-5g-menace-that-government-pretends-doesnt-exist/
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If someone were to look at the electromagnetic spectrum, they would soon deduce that the high energy end is near to the gamma rays and the low energy end is near to the radio waves.
5G is radio. It has a lower frequency and energy level compared to something we are exposed to every day. 5G, at ground level could probably be measured in the microWatts/sqm. A particularly nasty, higher energy source often hits the people at 1000 W/sqm. Why do we put up with such abuse? Surely at this dose it’s fatal in seconds.
And that’s why the government banned sunlight.
With regard to solar panels. They are passive devices, (unless equipped with an AC inverter, which isn’t the norm). A passive device does not radiate any radio waves. Why would you think that they do?
I hope you don’t stare at the TV screen too closely, those LED backlights could fry your brain. /s (on that last line only).
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“the high energy end is near to the gamma rays and the low energy end is near to the radio waves.”
Yes, but… Until we research how EMF affects the molecular biology of cells, we won’t know if we should look at total energy absorbed or certain frequencies that affect cellular processes more than other, higher energy ones.
Their measurements of danger are like you said, they only worry if the radiation will cook you, not what else it can do. We were never evolved to live in a radio-frequency soup.
This bit from last night-
“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. “
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KP. If it helps you sleep at night, you can believe that everything will kill you until proven otherwise. The rest of us will use science, and make conclusions NOT on ANY individual item but instead it’s components. For example, I do not have to test if eating biscuits will hurt me because I know that they are composed of ingredients that have all individually been tested over long periods. On this logic, I don’t therefore have to test a cake, a cracker, etc.
For the same reason, I can feel safe with 5G because the world is already full of transmissions in and around this frequency range, long before 5G was an idea. Is it the label that panics people or the lack of understanding? FM radio, at much higher wattage levels have been around for years. As has radar, which is at a similar frequency, (although obviously not the same band), as 5G. I just don’t see people dropping dead from exposure. If they were harmful, signs would be already present.
With regard to not testing things and them having hidden impacts, (camp B default position), ask any amateur radio enthusiast about the ‘hash’ that a switchmode power supply emits, (even if approved for use in Oz). They are little radio transmitters that will overload the sensitive inputs on their radios. Best avoided near to the receiver and aerial. Yet nobody seems to have acquired a nasty cancer or disease from them, and yes, they are everywhere and are emitting many, many times higher wattage levels than 5G does in your home. Sometimes, even the hidden unknowns, are of little/no concern.
A little research, (use Google to find your own), shows that harm from the EM is related to the potential to ionise elements within critical molecules. As you note, camp one have studies that clearly show that IR causes damage. How about Camp Two…. crickets, no harmful reports until you get to levels where you are cooking living tissue due to the wattage involved.
Next you’ll be telling me that swimming in glyphosate can lead to drowning. A cause of death.
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Well said sir.
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Let me rewrite that for you.
Until I read and understand any of the 100s of papers and reviews that study the effects of EMF at the molecular level, I’ll keep asserting what I want, safe in my ignorance.
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I’m with Gee Aye on this one. The effects of EMF have been well documented and are encapsulated in the international Human Emission Standards that are readily available, unfortunately for high prices. Before folks go off on tangents, I would urge that some effort be put into properly understanding the effects as they are comprehensively documented.
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It was commented in a thread yesterday about technologies developed by the Allies during WWII, but not developed by the Axis, leading to Allied victory. What was alluded to is true in general sense, but could use further elaboration.
Late in 1939 a package was delivered to the British embassy in Oslo. It contained information about German technical secrets and German high-tech weapons programs underway. It was not know until many decades later that the source was German physicist Hans Freidrich Mayer. It came to be known as the Oslo Report. The report reported that the Germans already had radar in operation, and were developing guided missiles, guided torpedoes, cruise missiles and so forth. Among the technologies reported was the proximity fuse. Even a miniature vacuum tube and hand drawn schematic of one the proximity fuse concepts was included in the package.
So, ironically the proximity fuse eventually developed originated with the Germans, although New Zealand scientist W. A. S. Butement and radar designer for the British Army had discovered that the Doppler effect could be used as a possible trigger for a proximity fuse earlier.
Most of the British scientific establishment with the exception of R.V. Jones thought the Oslo Report was a plant. Jones took it seriously and used it as a guide throughout the war. At Jones’ urging the Allies realized they may be in a race against the Germans for the proximity fuse only as late as late 1940.
The reason the Germans ultimately failed to develop the proximity fuse until it was too late, was because AH ordered the suspension of the development of technologies that could not help win the war by 1942.
The Germans also developed a radar using a cavity magnetron as early as 1936. They dropped the use of the cavity magnetron from this radar in favor of triodes because of the frequency instability of cavity magnetrons.
The Japanese also discovered the cavity magnetron independently. The Japanese Navy deployed a centimetric radar powered by a cavity magnetron by early 1942. The power output was insufficient, though.
The big breakthrough for the Allies was the using of Strapping on cavity magnetrons. Strapping controlled the frequency instability of cavity magnetrons while at the same time greatly increasing the power output.
The Germans and the Japanese only discovered Strapping when they recovered Allied radars from shot down aircraft late war.
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The German proximity fuse was acoustic and would have succeeded. But Hitler banned many projects which took too long or cost too much. Most notably their Atom bomb.
It was a technology race. The US researchers used radar. The Germans also invented chaff, aluminium strips cut to precise lengths to overload radar, but Hermann Goering banned its use as he thought the allies would quickly copy it. Then the bazooka was invented one morning during testing of British petard mortars, using a simple scrap steel tube, twisted coathanger for sights and a self propelled rocket and simple trigger. It worked immediately and the bazooka was born. But bazookas were captured in North Africa in the slaughter at the Messina pass and the Germans quickly copied it, creating the panzer faust. And almost all the scientists working on the American atom bomb were expatriate Europeans. As for Enigma, the greatest secret of the war, Turing required 100,000 pound to build his computer. Instead he was fired, but he wrote to Churchill would immediately approved the project. Commandoes, Mulberry harbours, ideas of Churchill himself. And almost no one knows about PLUTO (pipeline under the sea) which reached from Liverpool to ultimately the border with Germany. Bladders in aircraft to prevent explosions in wings from petrol vapour. Wet storage for ammunition in Shermans which would previously explode on a single penetration, known to the Germans as ‘Tommy cookers’.
And this innovation continued to today. The race to the moon gave use microelectronics and ICBMs which accidentally gave us satellites.. And Musk’s idea of 32,000 high speed transmission bidirectional satellites and his own money gave us a whole new way to go to space far more cheaply with recoverable self landing stages. The race is accelerating with drones and AI and robots changing warfare completely. Plus of course engineered pandemic viruses like the Wuhan Flu, famous more for escaping and then being hidden by China and the UN/WHO.
If you go back far enough, you get the conquest of Egypt by the Hittites with iron swords, not bronze ones. But that also gave use iron and then steel and the industrial revolution. In my lifetime we have come up with CO2, the gas of life, as a threat to humanity when every living things breathes CO2 and is made entirely from CO2 and H2O.
Most worrying today are the journalists in the UK who want the UK/Europe to launch war on Russia, saying they would fall over like a house of cards. In an age of tens of thousands of nuclear tipped missiles. This is the rise of the idiot class and the politicized media.
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One of the reasons the National Socialists didn’t get the atomic bomb was because they rejected what they called Jüdische Physik (Jewish physics) which included theoretical physics such as the relatively of Einstein, essential to making the bomb.
Thousands of Jewish scientists were forced to leave Germany or elsewhere in Europe.
In the nuclear area was Lise Meitner, she explained the physics of nuclear fission, Leo Szilard who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction, James Franck who got the 1925 Nobel Prize for “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”, Otto Frisch who worked on nuclear fission.
Other Jewish scientists who were expelled or had to leave Europe because of the National Socialists and who ended up on the Manhattan Project included:
Joseph Rotblat, Emilio Segrè, Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Rudolf Peierls, Niels Bohr and Hans Bethe.
The Socialists are still doing the same sort of thing today. For example, on my recent visit to Israel I met archeology Professor David Ben-Shlomo, Institute of Archaeology, Ariel University, who was first invited then about a day before he was about to board his flight was banned from the World Archeological Conference in Darwin in June.
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May I recommend the book “Most Secret War” by R.V. Jones.
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Also the 1977 BBC Documentary series “The Secret War”, covering the same material and starring R.V. Jones is excellent. It can be found on youtube.
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Conspiracy theory:
French Ex-President Sarkozy Given 5-Years In Prison For Libya Campaign Financing Scandal
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison and a €100,000 fine after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a high-profile case involving alleged illicit funding from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was slain by NATO-backed rebels after US-UK-French military intervention in 2011.
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He was accused during his time as president of accepting millions of euros from Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election campaign.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-ex-president-sarkozy-given-5-years-prison-libya-campaign-financing-scandal
I can see similar cases could be brought in the USA.
I wish someone would do som digging in Australia too.
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Australians have traditionally believed that there is little or no government corruption in Australia.
I think that is no longer true and there is massive corruption among some politicians, public serpents, trade union officials and assorted subsidy harvesters.
There inevitably will be with the staggering amounts of money being thrown around on the climate change scam and other huge amounts of money thrown away on useless public infrastructure projects and involvement of corrupt trade unions. Not to mention huge scamming of NDIS.
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How about gas contracts?
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What gas contracts have the government been directly involved with?
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My amused take on Trump’s great UN speech.
Conjecture: They sabotaged his teleprompter hoping he would cut short with no speech to read. Instead he went personal for almost an hour saying a lot more than was in his prepared speech. Woohoo!
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And they sabotaged the escalator as well.
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The plot thickens:
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/trump-says-un-escalator-outage-was-absolutely-sabotage-calls-for-arrests/
Triple sabotage? Be funny if he shut down the building.
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What are they chances of three major systems failures just for TRUMP? Very close to zero. It was obviously sabotage.
I hadn’t heard about the audio sabotage, meaning that if the audience wasn’t wearing an earpiece, they couldn’t hear him. I suspect most weren’t wearing the earpiece.
They should all be forced to listen to and watch the recording again. Especially Albanese, Australia’s communist non-leader who hates Trump and the energy supply.
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Good idea.
With so many major systems failures it should be considered a potential safety hazard and shut down until everything is thoroughly inspected – which mightvtake some time….
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He said he should cut off the money. And use it to build a giant robot which would kick the UN building into the river. That’s great Trump humour, himself a New York developer.
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Please don’t say things like that. It’s sets my pulse raging & I tend to want to cry out hysterically that we are saved!!
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Bad news. Escalator and teleprompter both caused by Trump’s team.
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Article in The Australian stated that the escalator was accidentally stopped by an enthusiastic reporter trying to get ahead of the President for a photo.
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Was likely White house media team member (possibly not actually “trump’s team” as I asserted).
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Couldn’t find The Australian story, but it seems to be the same as what the BBC are saying – one of Trump’s team “videographer” travelled up first backwards and inadvertently triggered the escalator’s safety mechanism. Believe the UN are saying the same.
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” inadvertently triggered the escalator’s safety mechanism. ”
How?? I walk or run up escalators and have never triggered a shutdown. Do I need to do it backwards?? I’ve run up the down escalator and that didn’t do it either…
That is not an explanation of what happened, it is the Left trying to blame Trump for what they did to him.
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Thats Ok , you granted permission to assert what you want upthread. Why should you miss out.
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These are just face saving conjectures at this point.
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Video: A look at Australia’s disastrous anti-energy policies and contrasting them with TRUMP’s pro-energy policies and the likely impact on Australia-US relations as Australia is undertaking.
I think Australia’s position is far more dire than most people realise, present company accepted. Advanced nations need plentiful, inexpensive energy, not a shut down of its means of production.
10.5 mins
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Albanese reminds me of the left leaning pregnant lady trying to prove Trump’s Tylenol / Paracetamol warning to be without substance..
A “ little knowledge “ is very dangerous. That’s the problem here, politicians being led by science taught to them by even more stupid “ advisors “!
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David M:
We (the contributors here) cannot do anything to alter the Government (and Bureaucrats) resolve to bring in Net Zero regardless of whether it does anything for The Climate.
Two things that would stop it, is one a new Ice Age, but that isn’t likely for long after this lot of politicians have been forgotten.
The other is a major blackout. This is much more likely especially in South Australia and Victoria.
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None of the above, there is movement at the station.
‘Renewables target critic joins Ley’s office amid tussle with Hastie.
‘Sussan Ley has appointed a new chief economist in her office who has previously rubbished renewable energy targets and subsidies and warned wages should not rise above inflation without productivity.’ (Oz)
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No blackout in Victoria because we are connected to the Battery of the Nation (it’s got electrolytes)
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TRUMP Derangement Syndrome is so severe that the Lamestream Media forgot that just a few years ago they themselves were warning AGAINST pregnant women taking Tylenol (Paracetamol) and the 2017 warning from the manufacturer fir pregnant women not to take it. (I posted the link yesterday, as well as the present Harvard study warning for pregnant women not to take it.)
As usual the Left are out in force defending Big Pharma and numerous Leftists who are pregnant have videoed themselves taking Tylenol. They are risking their babies to prove their TDS. Not surprising really when you consider that these are the same Leftie parents who would happily sterilise and mutilate their child in the interests of transgenderism.
In the following video Matt Walsh takes a look at these issues.
https://youtu.be/5qnwc2v9GNE
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“They are risking their babies to prove their TDS. Not surprising really when you consider that these are the same Leftie parents who would happily sterilise and mutilate their child in the interests of transgenderism.”
Obviously their mothers took Tylenol..
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FWIW – more on TDS
“The FAFO Consequences of Trump Derangement Syndrome: Lawfare, Cancel Culture, and Murder”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/09/25/the-fafo-consequences-of-trump-derangement-syndrome-lawfare-cancel-culture-and-murder-n4944106
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‘As usual the Left are out in force defending Big Pharma …’
They had little choice, but we can be assured of bipartisan agreement on the pbs.
‘The Trump administration’s move to impose 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals is “shocking but unsurprising”, says the Coalition, opposing the decision.
‘In a statement, the opposition says it will help the government to protect Australia’s pharmaceutical sector and pharmaceutical benefits scheme.’ (Guardian)
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Despite being only as smart as a flea (no offence to fleas) Nancy Pelosi is one of America’s most successful stock traders and consistently outperforms the big investment funds.
You can follow her trades here:
https://valueinvesting.io/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-tracker
Note that she doesn’t have to report her trades for up to 45 days plus some might be made through family members.
Some people use as their trading strategy just to copy her trades and there are services that facilitate this.
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Copying Nancy, I would not recommend-
Years ago I copied the journal of a ‘successful investor’ columnist. My portfolio did a bit better than the index but nothing like as spectacular as what was being copied. After a few months my stockbroker explained- by the time he had the buy instruction, that price was not obtainable, and when he got the sell instruction the price had dropped.
There is more than one explanation, whatever it does not work for the imitator.
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Video.
Topher Field talks about the disgraceful comments followers of Their ABC (Australian taxpayer funded public broadcaster) left on the ABC website after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Excellent! Under 16 mins.
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I have long thought that splitting the ABC into parts, with the audience paying for each service.
Enough TV channels available for, say, Children’s, Current Affairs, News, ABC repeats etc.
Charge 8 cents a day for each (~$29 a year) and if half the population subscribed for all services the ABC would be rolling in money.
Personally I think they would go broke.
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Set them free from taxpayers and let them fend for themselves. They can decide how to sink or swim once untethered.
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Interesting video on acoustic propulsion based on Helmholtz resonators.
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When is transgendering of children going to be generally considered a barbaric and cruel practice?
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It took about 50 years for the eugenics movement to run it’s course (late 19th century to 1945) and about 30 years for lobotomies to do the same (1935-1965). I think child transgender surgery surgery will be viewed in the same light in the not to distant future. Since everything seems to move faster in the digital age, I think it’s collapse will come pretty quickly. It’s about ten years into the social contagion phase, and I suspect it has already peaked and tipped over into decline. IMO, it’s got about 5-10 years of decline left before it goes into the dustbin of history.
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Unfortunately in places like Victoria, Australia (and other states), it is actually illegal to suggest to someone that they might indeed be in their correct body and sterilising and mutilating transgendering is unnecessary.
Thus this barbaric practice is protected by law.
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I interact with lots of Progs.
They all claim underage gender altering has not, and is not actually occurring.
That it is a phobic alt-right fabrication.
Co-existing non-intersecting realities.
The box with the cat in it, can no longer be opened.
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Jazz Jennings is probably the youngest, most famous and most tragic example of woke parents telling a child they are in the wrong body and then having Franken-surgeons alter it.
His medical “transition” to a “female” started when he was 11 but his parents decided he was a girl when he was 2.
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Dr Az Hakeem is a foremost expert on treatment for those with gender Dysphoria…a powerhouse of a man if i am not mistaken. Been binge watching as much of his content as possible lately.
From one of his recent interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMIgvw5c2Ks
“Have we gone too far with gender politics? In this powerful episode, I talk to Dr. Az Hakeem, a top psychiatrist who spent years working with people dealing with gender dysphoria. He explains in plain terms what’s really going on behind the push for gender changes, especially in kids.
From rapid onset gender dysphoria to dangerous surgeries and people regretting transitions, Dr. Hakeem shares shocking facts most people have never heard. We also discuss how mental health is being ignored in favor of “woke” ideas, and how doctors are being pressured to go along with it.
This isn’t about hate but truth, facts, and protecting people from irreversible harm. If you care about kids, mental health, and freedom of speech, you need to watch this.
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Is anyone else getting strange requests from Telstra
“FINAL REMINDER: Reactivate Your Account ( it’s very necessary)”?
The sender email address is https://oiyt87r65e45.weebly.com/ it all looks and smells like a scam
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Get those things a lot. Don’t get sucked in.
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Penguinite,
After a half dozen or so, I actually phoned Telstra almost immediately one of them arrived, waited in the queue and actually got to speak with an ‘onshore’ person. (most polite way I can describe it, I suppose)
He asked all the correct questions, checked, and came back to me that it was a scam.
He also asked for the exact address, trying to chase it down I suppose.
He said to look at the address of the sender, and immediately after the My Telstra first part there is, in triangular brackets, the name of the person sending the email, and all the ones I have received are all different.
The body of the email looks genuine, but it’s a scam.
I delete them as soon as they arrive.
They are NOT from Telstra
Tony.
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My experience –
This started back about July last year. The first one I got had a slightly delayed follow-up.
I use Thunderbird. If you single click on the in box entry it opens up a panel on the rhs of the screen which shows the source and associated email addresses. Which looked remarkably unlike Telstra.
I haven’t responded to any of the threatened loss of access – and haven’t lost it yet!
The number of these from various addresses has increased since and become a spate in the last month or so. Lately the associated addresses have mostly been Bigpond ones. And some of the earlier ones must have learned to mask the extra sender data.
I took a list of the junk of about the last month to our local Telstra shop but was told that they couldn’t do anything about the spate.
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I just right-click on the intended link, which confirms that it’s going elsewhere. This action doesn’t trigger the link.
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This looks to me like more of the same with so called AI.. AI is cheap hardware. The PC has become a supercomputer. But the basis stays the same.
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Sincere thanks to all who responded. The question is why hasn’t Telstra put out a general warning?
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Probably because there are so many active at any time they would do little else but warn you about things you may never see.
At some stage people have to exercise a bit of self care as you have done. That email address is a joke , it seems a low effort attempt , but in some ways it helps filter only the truly gullible or distracted to them.
Its just a big numbers game. Spray them out in bulk, see what you reel in.
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I offer another explanation. They are losing the battle.
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Most of the scams are poorly done and not worth any effort but if you find one that looks like it could suck someone in then report it:
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam
Going by their advertisement, Telstra is culling a lot of scams.
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Reporting scam emails is relatively simple.
forward to report [at] submit.spam.acma [dot] gov.au
While I suspect this is simply a way to gauge the volume of spam, perhaps some originators are selected for “attention” when the volume becomes “excessive”.
My wife’s email account outgoing server (smtp) is now VERY picky about the emails it will accept for sending. Even the ones being sent to the above spam site. Pity they are not as picky on the incoming emails. My different email support is going through a resolution process to ensure the sender (or maybe the reply to) address is actually able to be resolved into a useful link. So I get a fair bit of filtration.
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For Chad in case you did not see my late reply yesterday.
There was an Australian Solar Radiation Handbook that I referenced in my submission to the Finkel enquiry that gives the ground level solar uptake of fixed solar arrays, single axis adjusted and full axis tracking. The main table is available at this link.
https://pdf4pro.com/fullscreen/australian-solar-radiation-figures-rpc-com-au-768c99.html#google_vignette
BoM climate data gives actual measured ground level solar power on horizontal. Working out the zenith angle power at ground level is possible from that data but it is quite complex geometry. This is Melbourne measured data for about 30 years:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=193&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=086232
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Seems that is still an estimate of ground levels based on a satellite scan.
Are there any ground stations capable of doing this?
If so, when will the BOM be including this information along with temperatures and rainfall values?
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The BoM have at least 15 ground based pyranometers for calibrating their radiation modelling for the various locations. One is located in Melbourne. The modelled data gets around 90% fit with the measured data for the temperate locations. like Melbourne. About 80% in moist tropics
There are other ground mounted pranometers run buy other groups. Apparently is is a good idea to have local solar radiation data if you want to to get a loan for a solar farm. But it does not tell you how much curtailment you will suffer because that is a moving target with the growth of rooftops. I cannot imagine another solar farm getting funded unless it is a taxpayer give away top keep face with the Chinese.
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FWIW
“‘Well, It’s a Man in Women’s Outfits and That Ain’t Gonna Fly’: It Didn’t – Rip Curl Crashes”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/09/25/well-its-a-man-in-womens-outfits-and-that-aint-gonna-fly-it-didnt-rip-curl-crashes-n3807179
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The deserve everything they get. Bethany Hamilton is a marketer’s wet dream as a spokesperson. Great backstory, great athlete, proud momma of 5, great citizen, great role model, absolutely BELOVED by the customer base, and loyal to the brand for a quarter-century. But they cast her aside for the secular heresy of insisting the trans women are men and don’t belong in women’s sports. Then added insult to injury by replacing her with a dude in a sports bra.
R.I.P. Curl
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Ew… get me a bucket 🤮
Bethany’s hot AND she rocks! That thing is [CENSORED] [sic].
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Interesting rant from Chris Cuomo.
https://x.com/i/status/1971330127759044861
The clip shows an article from everybody’s favourite propaganda outlet, The Conversation.
Just to remind everyone, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. In this case, a Muslim shooting a decadent western bar, not realising it’s a gay bar, is a rightwing terrorist attack.
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A surprisingly un-Left view of free speech in the SNH this morning, re-printed from the NYT. After Kimmel’s booting suddenly the Left are all for free speech again, after censoring it for a decade or two. It does point out-
““I’m not for censorship, but I do think that more has to be done online,” said the Democratic senator from Minnesota. Sentences that begin with “I’m not for censorship, but …” are usually calls for censorship.”
Then he has a fine list of Democrats censoring speech by people they don’t like, going back years. It ends with-
“that speech is genuinely free only when it is speech we like the least from those we dislike the most. ”
Obviously the commenters have not read the article, they are immediately full of the usual Left’s calls for censorship of things they don’t like!
‘American’s right to free speech is a very different right to the Australian’s right. Care should be taken in trying to apply the views of an American in the Australian context.’
‘Covid misinformation was like yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre. At its core “free speech” is not about being able to say anything at any time.’
‘Trump sprouts mostly lies and insults and thinks that’s free speech.’
‘Such an American take on free speech. Mind blowing in its absolutism. ‘
Still, good to see some mainstream media slowly turning the ship away from its extreme Left bias!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/after-years-of-celebrating-censorship-the-left-now-cares-about-free-speech-again-20250925-p5mxvp.html
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“CSIRO’s annual energy cost report card, known as GenCost. Its latest update in August found that a new coal plant, using the most modern technology to keep emissions down as much as possible, would produce electricity for between $111 to $178 a megawatt hour. But electricity produced from renewable energy, CSIRO found, would cost between $116 and $165 a megawatt hour – and that’s factoring in the estimated $40 billion in rollout costs to pay for the large batteries and fast-start gas turbines needed to back up wind and solar farms, and the extra transmission links to connect far-flung renewable energy zones to major cities.”
So they realised they were being slagged for the rubbish figures they printed first, and have now doubled down with seemingly more reasonable ones that still show ruinables cheaper than coal. Of course, if they both cost $150 a MWhr, why bother to go to the trouble to switch?
“GenCost uses a levelised cost of energy calculation to price energy from various technologies. This represents the price needed for an electricity generation plant to earn back the cost of its construction and running costs over its lifespan.”
Their prediction of 2050 electricity shows a lot of household batteries being used, 30GW, and rooftop solar 50% higher than either solar farms or wind. Of course when it all turns out to be rubbish in 25years, no-one will care. They also show “Household energy management a part of their ‘generation’, so we are expected to use less power in 2050 than now! Seeing they have nowhere near the nighttime generation as daytime, nights will be darker in the future!
“(AEMO) assumes more coal-fired power stations will accelerate their closures in years to come, with 90 per cent expected to retire by 2035.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/burning-questions-is-coal-power-really-cheaper-than-renewables-20250925-p5mxs9.html
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If renewables are supposed to supply 82% of the power, that only leaves 18% for coal, gas and distillate. Surely there would not be sufficient gas to provide the regularly-required backup. And is GenCost still claiming that two hour’s battery backup is sufficient?
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Man’s inhumanity to man is only exceeded by man’s inhumanity to
animalsrobotshttps://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialNtelligence/comments/1nnw1kw/this_guy_is_the_first_one_to_die_on_the_robot/
He’ll be first against the wall in the robot uprising.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“FDA Exploring Independent Evaluation For DNA Contamination In COVID-19 Vaccines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-exploring-independent-evaluation-dna-contamination-covid-19-vaccines
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
Better check the Pentagon pizza meter…
Grok:
“The senior Pentagon correspondent is likely referring to unprecedented press restrictions and information blackouts at the Pentagon, unseen in 30 years, which some interpret as a sign of potential U.S. war preparations amid global tensions.”
What could it be?
1. Pizza night
2. Purging the Max Klingers
3. Gov’t shutdown
4. Keep calm and have cash, US version
5. Defcon kicks up a notch.
Place your bets.
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Hegseth wants them to brain storm, strategically. How to get regime change without going to war?
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Best keep Ukraine onside ’till it’s over. They have a habit of lobbing missiles on gatherings of Generals who hiss them off.
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I will go with 6. Juicy target, pre announced even
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FWIW
“31 important victories of “deniers” over “settled science”.
https://sciencesensei.com/31-initially-rejected-scientific-discoveries-that-transformed-our-world/ ”
Via comments at SDA
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Interesting. Have tried to forward the link to my home email address from my iPad, and iCloud has now twice prevented the email being sent, claiming “content rejected due to spam”. Never happened before. Since when should Apple interfere with me sending emails to myself?
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Watched my Boss at work start up his laptop and then have to re-authenicate Windows… page after page of absolute crap before he could get it to work!
Never update something after you buy it and it works!
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iCloud admin responded, asked me to try again. Same problem. Have been sending thousands of links from here to my home email over the years without any problems. Blasted Apple…
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Dr. Bhakdi: mRNA vaccines as “The greatest danger humanity has ever threatened”
The Burden of Proof FLIPS: This is the most crucial point. Bhakdi states that in cases of life-threatening injury or death from vaccination, a “right of return” is triggered. This means the pharmaceutical industry would be forced into a position where THEY must prove the vaccine did not cause the harm.
His conclusion? “They won’t be able to do that.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-bhakdi-mrna-vaccines-as-the-greatest
They sure won’t and given the vast amount of evidence proving harm, big pharma will be bankrupted.
Take note TGA puppets.
But the biggest disaster from all this is yet to come…
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It’s a shame Starmer didn’t call the Brit Card the Pom Pass?
😆
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Well it’s been 48 hours since Rapture Day.
Anyone got stats on how many have ascended?
If you fail the first 9 times, the tenth try is free apparently.
https://youtu.be/vRFo72wuU6w?si=7MhtU-Q5LeEWO03X
/Rapture free since 34AD…
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I saw what you did there.
Tony.
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How come I can remember all the words but couldn’t tell you todays date?
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Footage of the Bangkok sinkhole
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t354u8OMbq1z23obp.mp4
What is it with all these sinkholes?
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Bangkok is pretty much built on a swamp
<a href="https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/bangkok-sinking-city-poverty/"
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The other 2 options are:
Struck by lightning ⚡️
Turned into a pillar of salt 🧂
🤔 thinking…
I’ll take a Bangkok sinkhole thanks.
/i for irreverent.
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From the orator that is Allegra:
‘Already we’ve seen neo-Nazi organised anti-immigration rallies. Now disturbing echoes of the racist division of the past have crept into the political mainstream,’
‘Every time I go to a citizenship ceremony and there is a list of 30 or so countries that our new citizens are from, I feel more proud to be Australian, not less. We are a country which shows the world how people from many countries can live together in peace and harmony.’
From the business minded political entity that is Allegra – according to AI:
Allegra Spender, the Independent Member for Wentworth, has declared a total of 99 private interests as of the latest update on 25 March 2025, which includes shareholdings, trusts and nominee companies, real estate, directorships, and other financial and personal interests. She was required to declare these interests as part of her election to the 47th Parliament, with the initial declaration dated 21 May 2022, and subsequent alterations recorded since then. Notably, Spender was found to have failed to declare her directorships in seven companies and shareholdings in four of those companies until March 2025, when she was contacted by the Daily Telegraph. Her declared interests include 15 shareholdings, 7 trusts and nominee companies, 3 real estate holdings, and 18 directorships, among other assets and financial arrangements. The Register of Members’ Interests, maintained by the Australian Parliament, is the official source for these declarations, with the most recent update for her electorate listed as 25 March 2025.
The updates post-Daily Telegraph nudge start from page 22 of the register.
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I have been looking at International Energy Agency forecasts in their World Energy Outlooks through this century.
Boy oh boy did they get coal WRONG.
In 2005 they were predicting that by 2030, consumption would be in decline and at 3.9Gt.
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/5516c403-58ef-4b4f-92e6-95161a1a5f34/WorldEnergyOutlook2005-MiddleEastandNorthAfricaInsights.pdf
In 2015 they had three scenarios for coal. The world has tracked their top prediction of 6500Gt (based on high rank coal equivalent not Chinese carp) producing 6.Gt in 2024.
The reports are quite awful and show the problem of historic units being used. They are almost useless for year-to-year comparison because they regularly change units. They should adopt international units. There are multiple energy units in the same year report. The unit of energy is joule.
Interestingly, the 2005 report predicted 272Mtoe from wind and solar by 2030. This has already been exceeded as well. Oil is tracking above prediction but gas is tracking below. Their overall prediction of 14402Mtoe by 2020 (603EJ) is above the actual 2020 of 549EJ but that was the year of the Covid dip.
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Dan Bongino comments on Hillary Clinton:
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I am getting at least weekly calls on solar/battery installation from subsidy harvesters cold calling. These have mostly been on VOIP phone but a couple on the mobile as well.
What level of calls are others getting?
Has anyone taken up a solar/battery offer from a cold caller or know someone who has since July?
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I reckon 3 to 5 times a week.
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After so many years with my old mobile phone, I finally bit the bu11et and got a new one, and, well, naturally, it came with a new phone number as well.
It wasn’t even 20 hours, and I got a cold call asking if I wanted solar panels on my roof.
Oh look, I’m so sorry, but I don’t think you can help me. I’m 75, so I’ll never get a loan. I live in an Apartment, so I have no roof, and I rent! Three strikes!
Have a nice day ….. click!
I never had one call on that old phone.
Tony.
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Why a new number? Couldn’t transfer your old number? I’ve used the same number for about 30 years.
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A gent I know is thinking of taking up an offer of a $6000 home battery, interest free, paid by $600 yearly instalments. Catch is supply authority wants to use some of the battery power for the grid. Lots of clauses defining how much, when authority takes power, how much power it will take, etc.
Willing to bet a lot of folks will take up that interest-free offer.
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“Willing to bet a lot of folks will take up that interest-free offer.”
…Until word gets around of people running out of electricity because the power company drained their battery too much. They’re not going to drain your battery in sunny periods, so the chance of you recharging in the next day might be quite slim.
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He pays. They use. Is he mentally defective?
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Actually he is a bright guy. But why he is planning to go ahead with this deal beats me.
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FWIW
“Forest Composition and Fire History In Light of New Evidence”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/25/forest-composition-and-fire-history-in-light-of-new-evidence/
Might put a hole in this dash for “traditional knowledge”
And in comments
“Story tip – this is also from Nature,
Neglecting land–atmosphere feedbacks overestimates climate-driven increases in evapotranspiration
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02428-5
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FWIW
“Study: “… high costs and risks …” Collapsed the Net Zero Banking Alliance”
“Apparently it wasn’t just the Trump effect, banks were worried about the commercial viability of Net Zero.
Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/25/claim-high-costs-and-risks-collapsed-the-net-zero-banking-alliance/
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FWIW
“About Those ‘Luxury EVs’ ”
“As this fellow points out, despite all the announcements, goals, and Gaia-saving platitudes, the luxury market remains ‘EV skeptical’ as EVs do not meet the luxury threshold of ‘removing all inconvenience and irritation,’ ”
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/09/25/about-those-luxury-evs-n3807188
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And
“The climate scaremongers: Electric Vehicles, cutting edge madness for a suicidal generation”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-electric-vehicles-cutting-edge-madness-for-a-suicidal-generation/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-26&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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“Britain’s biggest port operator, Associated British Ports, has unveiled plans for a new £500million car terminal near Southampton to cope with the anticipated flood of cars from China.”
…the ones that don’t go down with the burning ship..
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FWIW
“They Think they are the Good Guys”
“I would like to think that, at least for a generation, the death of Charlie Kirk put the last nail in the coffin of the illusion of “the most horrendous dehumanising behaviour” are the acts of the good guys. But I’m seeing strong indicators that the pendulum will swing too far in the other direction. I know people thinking they are “the good guys” and claim, “karmic justice” and/or “righteous violence” and even the necessity of evil acts. They too will demonstrate “they are capable of the most horrendous dehumanising behaviour” and “think they are the good guys.”
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/09/25/they-think-they-are-the-good-guys/
Links to Part 2.
Via https://instapundit.com/747013/#disqus_thread
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Climate experts unhappy with China.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-26/chinas-new-climate-target-is-both-historic-and-inadequate/105814784
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