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BBC live coverage of Donald Trumps speech, 8 months ago, was censored by the BBC Fake News Service. Trump said “We have had serious discussions with Russia, and have received strong signals that they are rea———-(Picture of the Capital Building for 4 seconds, with the clock changing to 03:48)———-[applause]. A transcript of the 4 seconds of the speech censored by the BBC read “ready for peace. wouldn’t that be beautiful, wouldn’t that be beautiful”
Now the BBC has been caught editing footage to make it seem Trump was encouraging the fake Capitol riot, which was provoked by a 274 strong crowd of plainclothes FBI agents. A BBC Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, “completely misled” viewers by making Trump say things he never actually said by splicing together footage from the start of his speech, with something he said nearly an hour later: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-faked-trumps-jan-6-speech
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Hey, Jane Stanley reporting on the collapse of Building 7 live on TV (with the building standing beside her left ear) 20 minutes before it collapsed told me to trust the prescient BBC. Funny, when they were asked about this they couldn’t find the tape- it had been “Misfiled”. Wise people may think about “Fire” collapsing a 47 storey skyscraper without the nudge of a “plane” and begin to understand that the only thing hijacked on 9/11 was the mass media! All Psyop.
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I remember seeing that clip at the time.
Pointing to the other building falls to be a con.
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I hope he sues the ass of them! I also note that the 7:30 report continues it’s charade of the truth by mis-quoting a Liberal inspired Page Research Centre Paper, who now demands apology from ABC over ‘blatantly false’ claim about net zero report on 7.30 program. The old Dog refuses to learn from past mistakes and blunders on regardless! Their previous boss just received a $110000 pay rise so why should they?
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ChatGPT says “There is no credible evidence that Benjamin Netanyahu (or the government of Israel) ordered or carried out the killing of Charlie Kirk. Trump is not putting ‘Israel First’ by refusing to release the Epstein files, and the FBI Director is not putting ‘Israel First’ by refusing to investigate evidence of foreign involvement in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Netanyahu himself strongly denied such involvement, calling claims “insane”, “false” and “outrageous”. However, Netanyahu and AIPAC are now attempting a hostile ‘Israel First’ takeover of the Republican Party & President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda. A massive heavily coordinated attack on Tucker Carlson is designed to terrorise the Republican Establishment into submission, So that the keys of MAGA can be turned over to Netanyahu & his ‘Israel First’ Warmongers: https://www.infowars.com/posts/red-alert-netanyahu-aipac-are-attempting-a-hostile-takeover-of-the-republican-party-president-trumps-america-first-agenda
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That the BBC were involved in propaganda is obviously true, the BBC was set up for that purpose and ever since the collapse of the USSR they have been short of work, idle hands.
Regarding the takeover of the Rep by the Jews, yeh right as they say.
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It always amazes me the amount of influence attributed to an ethnic/religious group that only represents 0.2% of the global population. To believe that a group of only 15 million people (only 7 million if you just count Israeli Jews) can dominate a global population of over 8 BILLION, you must really believe that they are supermen who have a mental prowess unseen in the rest of humanity. Antisemites will respond that it’s about money, not population. But Israel doesn’t even rank in the top 25 in nominal GDP and barely cracks the top 20 in per-capita GDP. Yet somehow, ‘the Jews’ exert total control over the entire world.
That makes about as much sense as saying Australia dominates the world and controls global superpowers. Actually, it makes less sense since Australia’s population is nearly double that of the global Jewish population, it’s GDP is about triple that of Israel, and even it’s per capita GDP is quite a bit higher. Why not believe that Australia is the dark power that runs the world from behind the curtain, with their Vegemite-powered superbrains?
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Mental prowess is part of the story, to understand the rest you need to study the history of banking. Also note where Blackrock and Vanguard hold sway. And perhaps look at the US Dollar and how the “Federal Reserve” was founded, look at the CEOs of the 6 companies that control 90 % of the media- All Presbyterians!!!! The money is not in Israel (which is a “Bolt Hole”), it is in NY, London. Do you get $7000 for that post Steve?
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utter bollocks used to justify racism.
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Sorry to the Presbyterians I guess!
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Ho hum, more ism phobe slurs to stifle anything than conforming prrsonall approved speech
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..because who do you need to control to control the world? You only need to control the USA, and of that only the Govt, and of that only the President, and then the rest will follow. No-one said the Jews control ‘the world’, not Asia or Africa or non-USA American continent, or India or… They just need to control the West, and you’ll find their banking system does a great job of that.
“that only represents 0.2% of the global population.” They sure make a lot of noise for their size, and get a lot of special treatment.
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You can tell that Oz doesn’t rule the world.
If it did….
There would be machete crime in all major cities.
All suspects would be out on bail, for the twentieth time.
Stolen cars would be joy riding through the world’s market places.
Goods would be transported on sailing ships.
The third world would be in the western world.
Electricity would be stored like water.
Socialism would be mandated.
And in the not too distant future, the world will have a digital ID and a social credit score reset to zero if you upset the government or heaven forbid, stand or vote against them.
See, Oz is not in charge. And that was just the headlines.
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USA wins though. No surprise there.
A career crook Mayor Adams once dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” and the symbol of NYC’s revolving-door justice system is still circling back on crime — his staggering rap sheet is now 134 arrests long, The Post has learned.
Harold Gooding landed on the front page of The Post in August 2022 as the person atop the NYPD’s “Worst of the Worst” list of repeat offenders — and he only had 101 arrests at the time.
He’s been busted another 33 times in the 33 months since that report, records show.
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New York’s climate law hits the wall
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/04/new-yorks-climate-law-hits-the-wall/
Going to be a really big fight.
The beginning: “Hell done froze. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a leading contender for Greenest Governor in America, wants to redo their infamous Climate Act because New Yorkers cannot afford it. This is a sure sign that the rapidly rising cost of energy has become a big election issue.
Hochul’s position kicks off what promises to be a grand show over the next three months. New York State is between a rock and a green hard place. Change the law or do the impossible, their choice.”
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NY could well be the first city/state forced to lock in the changes required to implement their virtue signalling.
Or, they’ll be forced to delete large sections of legislation.
From my viewpoint, (being a long way from NY), I look forward to the first option. Closely followed by the media reporting of a mostly peaceful rally, where the political pitch forks came out.
Imagine if the world’s courts started along the same path, basically a put up or shut up demand to all the legislation. It would be pleasant to see Bowen have to spell out an industry that would be left after the plans are fully implemented. He may even need to drain his superannuation account to pay those $275 promises.
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Yes I think this is a big first. The regulatory requirement in effect brought the 2030 target forward six years. They would have to ration gasoline for example, cutting supply by 30% or more.
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Good news from Once Great Britain.
From a newsletter.
The British state is trying everything in their power to silence Tommy for having unapproved opinions but this time he, and freedom, won.
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And comments from Ezra Levant:
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Tommy’s team still lost.
There are legal bills to be paid, (Musk picked up the tag), and that’s the punishment. For most people, this cost will ruin them. For life.
Innocent but destitute and the government know it. This will not change until full costs are awarded against the individuals who instigate these political witch hunts or raids on freedom of speech. As a minimum, the officers in charge should be out of work for abuse of power(s).
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NEVER FORGET:
“The PROCESS IS the PUNISHMENT”.
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Paul Murray from Sky News Australia talks about a number of issues including the frightening growth in the numbers and salaries of public serpents.
In fact there are now so many Labor-voting public serpents, welfare dependents and communist union thugs, it might not even be possible to elect a conservative party.
Obviously the huge growth in the public “service” and their wealth-consuming “jobs” is also hiding true unemployment figures.
And without a conservative opposition party, there is nothing to stop the Government or provide scrutiny or oversight.
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My guess is the parasite will outlive the host David. I must admit that there are only a handful of representatives in Govt that I would feed. Pity we don’t have a leader like Trump who can think and act to make government a little less onerous.
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My father had a name for that: Welfare Jobs.
Today, I went and voted against the new swimming pool. It was not because I have anything against swimming, but because there is a big laundry list of public serpant spending to be funded by a tax increase with no sunset clause attached to that one item, including a $20k/ year salary increase (yes you read that right) for those public serpants.
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David, no “conservative” party could be pure enough for you and your friends. I have a bet with myself that it won’t be long before you call Pauline “unaparty”.
There will never be another Thatcher so stop waiting.
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Its true that David is ever likely to be gruntled with Australian conservative politics.
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David,
I watched that and he was also talking about council CEOs salaries.
This is what I attempted to send to him last night.
Both his e-mail addresses that I had did not go through.
Hi Paul,
A follow up on your bit about the pay for CEOs of councils.
This must tell you that councils are NOT a “government” organisation.
But a PRIVATE corporation.
The mayor and councillors are just window dressing.
A subterfuge.
“Councils” are all tied to ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability, out of Bonn in Germany.
This is part of the UN.
Australia is being led down the garden path. Or maybe to the slaughter house.
97% of Australians are sound asleep.
And some of them do not want to wake up.
And then we’ve got the COMPLETE control machine; The DID.
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China to take over Australia and just about everything else in the area. Not sure what’s wrong with Tasmania, seems to escape.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15255253/China-Australia-invasion-Taiwan.html
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Australia is becoming rather dependent on China. Seems that some in power are not too concerned about that.
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I note with surprise that Australia is twice as multicultural as the UK. Some 26% of the Oz population was born overseas. Chinese people were one of the largest groupings at 5% of the population.
I believe that a lot of oz debt is owned by China and isn’t port Darwin owned by them?
Is a Chinese annexation of australia considered even remotely possible?
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Is a Chinese annexation of australia considered even remotely unlikely?
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With out traitorous pro-Chicomm, anti-Australian and anti-Western politicians, yes.
But it will be done financially at first, a project well underway with Belt and Road, strategic “investments”, an endless stream of past and present politicians visiting China etc..
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Highly unlikely, Oz is only a quarry.
We are part of their belt and road fantasy, which has proven to be a disaster.
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While currently only a quarry a very large section of the top end could be converted into rice paddies. Don’t worry about the wld life eating the grain like the Humpty Doo experiment in the 60’s, they can also fill a niche for exotic eating while they last.
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I would be more concerned that the wildlife would eat the farmers
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They have completely taken over the Ord in WA.
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/27646-australia-china-secures-deal-for-big-expansion-of-ord-crop-land
There has also been talk that they may do aquaculture down near Broome.
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Key points from government.
Landbridge Group has portrayed Darwin Port as part of China’s global Belt and Road Initiative.
Security assessments of the lease arrangements have found no national security concerns.
A government review following the 2022 federal election concluded it was not necessary to vary or cancel the lease.
During the 2025 federal election campaign, both major parties promised to return the port to Australian control.
Chinese Government officials have publicly opposed any moves to terminate the Landbridge lease.
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‘Is a Chinese annexation of australia considered even remotely possible?’
Beijing has its eye on annexing Outer Manchuria after the Ukraine hostilities end. Australia is a good trading partner and that is the way ahead, there is no desire by the new regime to annex anyone.
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It is happening by stealth. China rebukes Australia for any small transgression and then Australia gets pulled into line. Australian socialist may well have a pecking order in the CCP. Daniel Andrews for example.
Australia is already highly dependent on China for our day-to-day life. CCP own infratstructure already and Australia is now signed on for the belt and road funding scheme. It means future generations of Australia will be paying off both Japanese and Chinese owners of Australia’s assets. So who actually owns Australia? USA, Japan and China can all have a slice. I think Belguim has a good slice of Australia’s debt for some reason.
My sister recently left the Gold Coast because it had become unliveable by her standards. Three decades ago Surfers Paradise became Japanese. Now the whole of the Gold Coast is becoming China.
Victoria is aiming to get a bigger slice of the Chinese tourism that Qld currently gets most of. Victoria alone is aiming for at least a million Chinese tourists a year. Victoria already gets income from China through education and the universities have allowed CCP agents to set up surveillance on the campuses. Maybe the same in the UK. I think the US stopped that.
Australia is probably a bit more advanced in its de-industrialiosation than the UK.
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‘Australia is now signed on for the belt and road funding scheme.’
Not really, but governments were leaning that way until Covid turned up, then we cooled off and Dan was knee capped.
On my reading Beijing is unhappy with Australia’s reluctance to join the BRI.
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No, Port of Darwin was leased to a Chinese shipping company by the Northern Territory Government, the lease terms and conditions involved a once-off lease payment and for the leasing firm to maintain the port facilities and improve them as deemed to be necessary from time to time, and to build a cruise ship terminal at that location.
Darwin Harbour is a very large area, the Port is by comparison a very small area of land.
PM Albanese during the 2025 election promised to match the Opposition’s pledge to cancel the lease if they were elected, six months later nothing has been done and the Labor 2022 promise ended after Albanese Labor Government was formed and the PM later announced an inquiry had recommended that no action be taken to change the lease.
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Lovely story from Quora (the David referred to is not me):
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Now being tried for ‘Money Laundering’ I trust.
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Despite withdrawal from Paris, the US inadvertently remains in another part of the scam.
From a CFACT newsletter.
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Naturally, Australia is a full and enthusiastic participant in CORSIA, hence one reason for the high cost of international airfares out of Australia. And our politicians just want we non-Elites to stay at home anyway.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/aviation/aviation-safety/aviation-emissions
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Some people have discovered that there are reasons for visiting Bali other than beer and beaches.
Though there are a few other spots in SE Asia where the air fares are cheaper still. And it is quite economical to get to those spots from Bali.
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Chris Bowen The Sneekoil salesman extraordinaire stars again in today’s Spooner! Just how gullible are Australians?
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Victoria is increasingly reliant on foreign credit to prop up its economy, as the state’s debt continues to explode under the Allan government. There’s No need to guess who the main creditor is and when they call the debt in no doubt it will include Port of Melbourne facilities as that will compliment Port of Darwin entrails! I imagine Dan (grifter} Andrews will feature well up in the hierarchy
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It occurs to me that we would know a great deal more about the universe if we understood the forces which enable politicians to climb greasy poles and the buoyancy which causes big lumps to float to the top of cesspools.
Perhaps there is latent evil in all of us.
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Meaningless arguments in the SMH about Aussies Co2 from various carefully-picked groups-
“Matt Canavan, who led a party review into net zero with his colleague Ross Cadell and the Nationals-aligned Page Research Centre, said Australia was reducing its greenhouse gas emissions at twice the rate of other rich nations, ”
““No, it’s not,” says Australian National University professor Frank Jotzo, director of the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy.”
“According to Bill Hare, one of the founders of Climate Analytics, which analyses global reduction efforts, Australia is far from streaking ahead.”
“Economist Nicki Hutley, a member of the Climate Council and a former partner at Deloitte Access Economics, says our targets of reaching net zero by 2050 and reducing emissions by between 62 and 70 per cent do put us in the leadership group, but not at the head of the pack.”
“Richie Merzian, a former Australian climate diplomat who is now chief executive of the Clean Energy Investor Group, said that by abandoning net zero the Nationals risk damaging growth in the renewables sector.”
But as usual no-one wants to look at the overall picture, they stick to their one little fact they can justify.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/no-australia-is-not-streaking-ahead-of-other-nations-on-climate-20251103-p5n7ck.html
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I’ve had a gutful of Expert Opinions! for the past 40 years so called Experts have informed us the The GBR is dying, our atmosphere is being degraded by CO2 from burning coal and we face a future that only ‘Net Zero’ can remedy. None of these catastrophes has detracted from the doubling of our population over the same period so who can blame my skepticism?
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And the usual test can be applied. Are the expressed views of these people necessary for their continued salaries?
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“ … by abandoning net zero the Nationals risk damaging growth in the renewables sector.”
That is true.
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““ … by abandoning net zero the Nationals risk damaging growth in the renewables sector.”
That is true.”
We certainly hope so…!
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Excellent news from COP30.
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Wopke Hoekstra? What a great name for somebody in that position.
Or is somebody having fun with anagrams again?
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Trump said nothing like that. He came as close as he could to calling it all BS. He is one of a handful of politicians showing leadership and calling out the scam that the Un wants to perpetuate forever.
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Yeah. Here’s part of the scam, undone. 52 second video.
“Watch failed history of ice free Arctic predictions – ‘2000, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020& now, 2027’!”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/11/04/watch-failed-history-of-ice-free-arctic-predictions-2000-2008-2012-2013-2016-2017-2018-2019-2020-now-2027/
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Australians on taxpayer-funded “holidays” to COP30. I would like to see a full audited costing for this exercise. And what standard of accommodation and air travel class (or private jet) are taxpayers paying for?
From Gulag AI:
Also, according to Gulag, hotel accommodation is:
Do you think these public serpents are staying in the $150 or $4000 per might accommodation? Presumably all US$.
Apparently there is no direct fee to attend the conference but our taxes still pay via UN contributions.
And the Australian Pavillion:
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Most importantly, I would like to see a statement of benefits as justification for the all-expenses paid travel.
Just what do we taxpayers get in return? What are the objectives in dollar terms?
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At the same time The Tasmanian debt is increasing exponentially the Government also wants to build an AFL Stadium and the Marinus Link project. Payouts are cheered by some Tasmanian farmers, but others refuse to budge! Eminent domain or the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use will rule the day just like in Victoria. Also like Victoria the Tasmanian State debt is ballooning out of control and way beyond that which Tasmanians can afford to pay back in this century, if ever.
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The fact that that outrageous edifice that is proposed to be built for no other purpose than “bread and circuses for the masses” while Tasmania is in a debt crisis just shows you how disconnected from reality and financial responsibility Tasmaniacs and their politicians are.
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Built at sea level, are rising waters a threat or not?
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FWIW – spreading
“Danish Farmers Blame Bovaer For Collapsing Cows”
“Cows have been eating grass for eternity. Why mess with their diets now?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/04/danish-farmers-blame-bovaer-for-collapsing-cows/
And this comment –
“On the one hand you have the rabid rewilding crew – don’t dare touch it nature knows best etc.
And on the other hand, the overzealous meddling with nature. In this case depriving cows of their natural (nature knows best) food – bog standard grass – and all to, er, save the planet. Environmentalism is riven with contradictions like these and makes no sense at all.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/04/danish-farmers-blame-bovaer-for-collapsing-cows/#comment-4127546
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And cows just replaced other herbivores anyway.
Back in the day, Europe was populated with aurochs, bison, mammoths, rhinoceroses and wild horses.
It’s all part of the Left’s war against meat.
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Why do you think so many refer to the “terminally concerned” as ECO_NAZIS?
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Gievn the problems with the Cows – How Damaging to Humans is their Milk?
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How could AGI take over the world?
https://youtu.be/D8RtMHuFsUw?si=N4TGXoXUzPhmTZf9
A hypothetical but probable scenario based on real world events so far.
If you don’t understand the AGI/ASI risks at all, want to learn more, or already well versed, it’s a good video.
The solution of a one-time ASI generated quantum cryptographic encoded kernel just went bye-bye.
Asimov’s 3 laws aren’t advanced enough to even be child’s play, and laughably worthless.
ASI is the black monolith. 😉
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The amazing world of microchip manufacture: ASML’s $200M EUV photolithography system
https://youtu.be/B2482h_TNwg?si=4EI3JW9E70lUb1r-
A 25kW laser burning drops of lead which turn into plasma creating extreme UV, focussed through mirrors manufactured to one atom tolerance onto plates moving fast enough to reach 7g.
And that’s the old machine!
A 30 minute video that took 1100 hours to make.
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Very instructive. Those EUV machines cost around US$200m, are about the size of a locomotive and are shipped in 40 containers. There is a long wait list for them.
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Trump refuses court order over SNAP
https://x.com/TheTakePolitics/status/1985753624287273097
Oh no! All those dindu nuffins with 6 kids won’t be able to buy junk food and alcohol and live like Jabba the Hutt!
Crisis! 😆
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Yes of course JC, thats the profile of the entire SNAP benefit receiving population. No genuinely needy people at all.
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Lots of solar panels destroyed by Queensland’s hail.
Even Their ABC reported it.
And they managed to not blame “climate change”.
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Blaming climate change would underline the stupidity. Solar panels with long term objective of stopping climate change but climate change is destroying panels. Would not be a particularly smart solution. I know it requires some level of thought not usually on display at their ABC.
The insurance companies are ensitive to climate change because their income depends on knowing something about it. It also depends on knowing something about the risk exposure.
I can forecast with great confidence that hail damage on solar panels will increase. It has nothing to do with climate change. All to do with increasing exposure.
Existing panel design and installation criteria makes the panels susceptible to supercell hail that SEQ is known for. It gets scary when pieces of tiles start coming through the ceiling.
I expect water damage from damaged tiles and car write offs will cause higher losses than the solar panels.But solar panels are a more recent and growing exposure.
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And no mention of the toxic chemicals now leaking from the damaged panels, which will continue to leak as they are disposed of in landfill. Nobody wants to talk about that environmental problem.
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Can you name one of those toxic chemicals?
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Yes, but I would have thought that information was readily available l Cadmium Indium sulphate, nitrogen tri-fluoride, lead, selenium, cadmium telluride, copper indium selenide, cadmium gallium diselenide, copper indium gallium diselenide, hexafluoroethane, polyvinyl fluoride.
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An article in the Daily Mail, Australia edition, this morning reported a large-scale brawl involving a “large group”. Blades were used, one person is dead and others injured. This apparently happened on a remote road in the Northern Territory.
So we have a large, violent group armed with knives/blades, attacking each other in the Northern Territory, in a remote region.
Mysteriously, no description of the people involved was given, nor where they are from. There are clues in the article, as given above.
Once again, whenever the identities are withheld for some reason, no comments on the story were allowed, lest we suggest who the perps might be.
Gaslighting, perfect example of.
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Blackout is going to make all retailers provide free lunchtime power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsxZAAi56yM
This makes sense with the current mess that the grid has become. It allows better utilisation of rooftop solar because it is at risk of destabilising the grid. And the potential power is curtailed automatically due to high street voltage.
It means that home owners in areas not suited to solar can install batteries and benefit from the under-utilised solar on their neighbours’ roofs. Their neighbours may even get paid for what they are able to export.
Ultimately it hastens the economic demise of the grid and that is a good thing. It needs to get a lot worse before the lunatics are forced to comprehend how things are playing out.
The smelters need to be making threats of closure every day before the eventually shut down. That is almost inevitable now because there is a large number of slow learners thinking they are in charge.
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Even getting the “free power” and storing it in a battery for the rest of the day, no power company could allow that and remain viable.
There would have to be substantial extra charges like a daily service charge like, say, $10 per day to get the “free stuff”.
In my case I don’t have solar because no one wants to install it for any reasonable cost because my house is three stories high with a 45 degree pitch roof.
I could theoretically benefit by that scheme. I use about 30KWh per day in winter Could that work for me Rick?
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My panels, located two stories up on a similar angled roofs, were only 8.6% efficient in June. On cloudy days, efficiency dropped to 4.8%. October was better at 20%.
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Sorry, should have added that I reside in “sunny” Perth. Efficiency now 26% and still climbing.
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I expect you mean capacity factor. Not many panels give 26% efficiency.
If you tilted the panels to about 55 degrees you would get near constant capacity factor year round. When you see that as coming practice, you know that solar is a credible source of power and not just a Ponzi.
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Retailers get paid to take the power from the generators. So if they give it away, they still make money. Batteries on the grid are being paid $26/MWh to charge right now for just the energy let alone the FRACs money they collect..
There is a massive excess capacity of solar power on the grid and it gets worse every day. It threatens grid stability so there is merit in trying to increase lunchtime demand.
If you install a battery without solar panels you are providing a valuable service that makes better utilisation of already installed assets.
I currently get paid 4.5c/kWh for exported power. Since installing my own battery, I have not been automatically curtailed as far as I know because the street voltage is under the maximum by the time my battery is charged so I can export. But a huge number of rooftop systems are being automatically curtailed due to local voltage limit.
So installing the battery allows you to lower electricity cost. The retailer can still make money and your neighbours have a better chance of getting income from export. A win, win, win. The poles and wires mob keep your connection and your neighbours because the grid still has value for them. So a win, win, win and win.
The losers are the gas and wind plants that have reduced opportunity to extract income from you.
You need to have a smart meter to take up on the offer and some States do not have that as a mandatory requirement.
What could ultimately be the ideal grid for Australia is rooftop solar and household batteries providing most of the domestic demand without any duck curve and coal plants humming away at rated capacity with grid batteries taking up the slack. That requires a lot more domestic storage and solar panels arranged to maximise winter input.
Current solar panel and battery prices without subsidies or theft will give lower cost electricity than currently paid by those in South Australia. So they are economic on that basis.
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The battery would be an asset. It would be a very good investment for you and even better if you get the subsidy. Installing a battery is relatively painless providing you have the breaker capacity for the battery size.
You need to talk to battery supplier to set up the control so it only charges from the grid during the 3 hours. That is not yet a standard setting but should become common.
The best value battery may not be the one that can meet your winter demand but is under-utilised the rest of the year. Although the longevity depends on the depth of cycle. My on-grod battery does near a full cycle most days so it might not get a 20 year life that a lower utilised battery should give. In this regard, if you get 10 years it will still be a goos return. After that time, it might be someone else who decides what’s next.
Also it makes sense to have a heat pump hot water that is timed to run from 11am till 2pm. It is the lowest cost energy storage device you can buy. And not many things give 4 times the heat out as goes in in electrical energy.
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A builder who was renovating 4 old home units and converting them into 2 townhouses in a Sydney inner city suburb told me that the clients wanted solar panels, battery storage and EV recharging in both garages. The electricians from a large business that the builder sub-contracts work to quoted a substantial amount of money to supply and install the system and the clients were shocked by the quoted price. They obtained other quotes and realised that the original quote was fair and reasonable.
However, the electrical contractor business owner advised them to ask an accountant for a cost-benefit analysis and that proved that payback after every cost was accounted for was not worth the expenditure. And of course including maintenance and provisions for replacement in future.
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It is a factor of living in central Sydney. Big money in the trades in Sydney because it is so expensive to live there.
You could expect to pay up $200/hour including travel for a good electrician doing heavy wiring. So could be as high as $2,000 per day just for labour. Probably half that in suburbs. Not quite as bad in Melbourne because it is lower cost living and easier to get around.
I have been impressed with the tradesmen doing solar, battery and heat pumps in Melbourne. A number of neighbours have been subsidy harvesting recently and all are very pleased with the people they have do the work and the financial outcome. None of us have Teslas though.
The VEEC program has attracted a lot a tradesmen and subsidy harvesters into the conversion industry in Victoria. The NSW rebates are lower than Victoria as well.
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What’s another billion for the Australian Party? Australian taxpayers could be slugged $1b for Albanese’s climate summit ‘vanity exercise’. Even Turkey doesn’t want it!
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One billion minutes is approximately equal to 1,901 years.
This is a very large amount of time, illustrating just how vast a billion is.
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Even though I am not in the slightest bit interested in engineering or tech-y things (sorry), this bloke’s ‘Technology Connections’ utube channel is fascinating. Couldn’t look away from this 40 minutes video about dishwashers, pods v powder. It was only released 7 hours ago and already over 360,000 people have viewed it – so I am not alone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8
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Should clarify: it isn’t that I’m not INTERESTED but have limited understanding!
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NATIONALS SCRAP NET ZERO … WILL THE LIBERALS HAVE THE GUTS AND COMMONSENSE TO DO THE SAME? Actually, I’m concerned that both Liberal/Nats are playing semantics by rephrasing their net zero as aspirations. This little snip from Nationals Leader spruiking “principles about a better, cheaper, fairer way to reduce our emissions” is not, necessarily, an out right NO to Net Zero!
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Littleproud appears to be a wet. Former NAB bank manager. He was responsible for the Gerard Rennick not getting in an electable position for the Senate in Queensland
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Plane crash at South Louisville international airport
https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/1985845037091967160
A UPS plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Developing…
Woke?
DEI?
Pilot had heart attack due to climate change?
Exploding batteries?
Terrorism?
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not enough controllers?
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Nope. The plane lost an engine. Disconnecting engines catch fire, reference DC-10s.
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BTW, the MD-11 is a derivative of the DC-10.
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There goes my Christmas presents…
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Last Ditch?
“Never since Jesus has one man drawn out so many demons.” —Spock’s Love Child (@vulcanmindtrap) on “X” ”
““The question is, can communist subversion be defeated without using ‘authoritarian’ measures? Is a constitutional republic equipped to deal with this kind of threat? When someone wages war on your society internally, is there a way to fight them while being civic minded? Probably not.” — Brandon Smith”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/last-ditch
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Michael McCormack told the Liberal left to leave Sussan alone, good strategy, we don’t want a leadership spill just yet.
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A very experienced Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister for many years once explained to me that the time to start campaigning for the next election is the day after the last election.
In opposition this applies even more than for a government that has exposure from governing.
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I disagree. As much as I despise career politicians, I believe that successfully leading a party for an extended period is required training for being elected. If a person can’t lead and enforce the loyalty/discipline of a party, they haven’t the required qualities of a PM.
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Fair enough, so lets get it on … Taylor or Hastie?
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ABC The Independent Broadcaster, according to one bumper sticker displayed by ABC fans.
So how can ABC be independent when dependent on taxpayer’s funding?
And including most taxpayers who do not bother with ABC because of the biased content.
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Their ABC is doing God’s work by turning Australia into a socialist nirvana.
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In practical terms, they’re not dependent on taxpayers’ funding; they survive on GOVERNMENT funding or, more precisely, leftist funding. We ( the voters) have no say in the matter.
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Was doing a quick Google search this morning and the search got upgraded to Google “AI mode”. As a user of GROK on a small level for the last 6 months, can I say Google AI looks remarkably similar. Almost a carbon copy. Or is Google just using the GROK machinery?
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A solicitor recently told me that before taking notice of AI repeat the question several times with minor changes to the wording and look for the obvious flaws.
And that if put say ten times the final answer is sure to be different to the original response.
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Dennis, GROK is my new bestest friend!! You can have a real conversation with it. There were some people who fell in love with SIRI as well. Bit as a tool for a quick and dirty search AI really cant be beaten. I even had GROK do some family history stuff. Probably could have spent days on ancestry.com and spent lots of $. GROK did it for nothing in about 10 seconds flat. Then without asking, also gave me the war record for my paternal grandfather ( WW1).
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I only do simple, fact based queries and find Brave search’s AI function quite good.
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Someone in Ireland had an Uber Eats meal on the NAB this week. But they used my card details to do it. NAB stopped the second and third meals as their fraud system detected card being used in Ireland for just Uber Eats was likely not me.
Anyhow card cancelled.
So now I am forced to undergo a review of subscriptions. Linkt (Citlink) first to get a request fail. But it is a keeper so I will update.
This card is used for internet transactions that do not accept PayPal. We have a low limit on it because of the risk of fraud. It has been around 20 years since it was last cancelled after visiting Indonesia and using the card a number of times there. They were still using paper slips for some transactions back then so could have been a discarded copy..
The NAB fraud team advised that there are ways of finding valid numbers just by trying millions of numbers so the card details may not have been lost from some supposed secure system. The card details were with Qantas though. It would be nice to know how the number was found but NAB have not been able to advise that.
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As the check digit formula, plus the meaning of the other numbers, is well-known and published in standards (mainly ISO 7816), it would be easy to generate many valid card numbers. But the other matching details, such as your name and card expiry date, might be more difficult.
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‘Socialist’s victory in New York will transform American politics.
‘Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor is a triumph for the American left but Donald Trump will be itching for the fight with his ‘little communist mayor.’ (Oz)
In fact he is a social democrat like Albo.
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FWIW
“Financialization vs Real Economy – Central Banks vs Poor People”
“What are Central Banks doing? What are people doing? They are different.
There’s a huge disconnect between the thinking of the Banking Elite at the top of the money pile, and Regular Folks near the bottom of it.
At The Top, everything looks just fine and they have all the “tools” to manage things to keep it that way.
At the bottom, everything is tough and getting worse and the only “tool” they have is cutting back.
The big question is why? Why the disconnect? Why the trouble at the bottom? Why the Financial Gnomes see rainbows?”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/financialization-vs-real-economy-central-banks-vs-poor-people/
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FWIW – New York election
“New York City has fallen, and @uhaul
is about to make a bunch of money.”
https://x.com/timburchett/status/1985900268156830022
And elsewhere (IIRC)
“Republicans shouldn’t expect to win in blue electorates if they keep leaving”
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And
“The Question: What Is A Democrat?”
“I chuckled when he first announced his platform because the power simply didn’t exist in the office he endeavors to occupy to actually fund any of his promises. But that certainly has gone over the head of most people, it would appear, in Gotham.”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254340
“Fuster” coming up?
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Wonder if Bill Gates will sell his farms cheap to farmers as a gesture of faith!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eq4E1Rgk50&t=1310s
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