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https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/us_three_mile_island_loan/
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I don’t believe in Government involvement in business like providing the loan to a private company, but it’s nevertheless great news that the TRUMP Administration supports the development of the energy supply.
In contrast, Australia’s governments at all levels are systematically destroying our energy supply.
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I don’t think you’d get a meeting with the government if they thought you wanted to rebuild or restart the once reliable power grid.
However, if you’ve got a bottle of fairy dust or unicorn emissions, they’ll welcome you with open arms, offer millions for a sniff of the contents and then sway in unison at the turning of the first sod.
Gladly I say I didn’t vote for this, sadly I have to live with it till the lights go out.
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Very interesting article concerning the Professor who had an article on climate extremes removed by Nature magazine due to the influence of Michael Mann. Here is the article.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/19/retracted-by-nature-traduced-by-michael-mann-gianluca-alimonti-is-back-and-hes-taking-no-prisoners/
the Nov 2025 paper the article refers to can’t be reached on my browser . is it available anywhere else? It is the one below-can anyone else access it?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477891.2025.2571708#d1e591
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No issue with access.
Why suppress this ?
Rhetorical question.
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What browser do you use or search engine?
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Safari.
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I have no problem with access via Android phone.
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Yes, I have now accessed it from another device
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I copied a letter here yesterday published in TCW from a writer who extolled the virtues of digital i.d. Here is a follow up traducing the previous letter writer. As ever with TCW the comments are well worth reading.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letter-of-the-day-161/
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UK EV driver who has been sponging off the rest of us by driving his EV for free on our roads has a moan that he has been betrayed. The reason? He is now going to have to pay a very small tax per mile. I bet he will moan when he has to pay as much as a ICE driver in terms of Road tax and fuel duty, which averages out to some £1500 p.a
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/19/labours-callous-betrayal-of-the-environmentally-responsible-and-their-gravy-train/
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He has gone from favoured virtuous planet saver to just another taxation unit in the matrix. It must be difficult.
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Yes. Poor diddums.
Now where did I leave my very tiny violin?
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On top of the Sydney Opera House?
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Rick Will Cyclone Forecast.
A few days ago Rick Will forecast thatTC Fiona would do a U turn and head SW down the coast of the NT.
He was on the money!
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It’s also been in the forecast of the US sites for a while too.
https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html
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Ventusky also.
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I believe Fina is being hyped by their BoM. Nullschool has central pressure at 990hPa and highest wind 85kph. That makes it a rain depression. Wind at Darwin Airport at 6:30am just 3kts.
Their ABC reported this morning as a Category 2 with winds at 151kph. Maybe it is the BoM prediction rather than present and their ABC not getting it right.
There is a massive amount of atmospheric water already over NT. The WA coast is now building moisture as well. South of Wyndham is drier but temperature only 30C now. The ocean off Wyndham is already cooling.
It is somewhat like an early season version of Alfred that took a long time to decide if it would head for Queensland or for New Zealand. I expect Fina will be known for its flooding more than its wind. It could travel a long way south over land dragging more moisture from the Gulf and in from the Indian Ocean ahead of it to avoid the hot dry air conditions to intensify.
Alice Springs has cracked 40C only one day this month. It is still cool by their standards. The maximum last Saturday was only 27C.
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Waaaaah.
EU “diplomat” says Russia makes no concessions.
You don’t say?
https://www.rt.com/russia/628080-ukraine-received-us-peace-plan/
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If and when the race settlement comes in the Ukraine war, Ukraine will loose the Donbas and Crimea. Which is what Russia wanted in the beginning.
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That is what the Russian-speaking residents voted for.
After 14000 dead ?
Seems okay.
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“EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, for instance, argued that any peace arrangement must reflect the positions of both the bloc and Ukraine itself, claiming the US plan contained no concessions from the Russian side.”
Hang on, Russia is conceding total victory in a war that it is winning and can continue to do so until it takes all it wants.
SMH hates the peace plan with a vengeance- designed by their nemesis Trump, excluded the whiny Lefties running Europe and gives Putin what he wanted before he invaded Ukraine. Of course they’re also pushing their article series ‘Blood oil’, which will be worthless if the war stops now. The puppet regime in Kiev doesn’t get a say, just as they haven’t for the last 20years.
“But a plan that requires Ukraine to give up vast swaths of land and expose itself to near-certain future aggression by Russia is no peace deal. It is capitulation, and President Volodymyr Zelensky would be right to reject it.”
The full agreement has been leaked to RT-
https://www.rt.com/russia/628087-ukraine-peace-plan-published/
America will do very well out of it, Russia will get its security, and no-one cares about Ukraine anyway..
“US Guarantees: The United States will receive compensation for the guarantee.
b. The United States will cooperate with Ukraine on the joint reconstruction, development, modernization, and operation of Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities.
14. Frozen assets will be used in the following way: $100 billion of frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led reconstruction and investment efforts in Ukraine. The United States will receive 50% of the profits from this undertaking. Europe will add another $100 billion to increase the total investment available for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Frozen European assets will be unfrozen. The remaining frozen Russian assets will be invested in a separate American-Russian investment vehicle that will implement joint American-Russian projects in areas to be determined. This fund will be aimed at strengthening bilateral relations and increasing shared interests in order to create strong motivation not to return to conflict.
13. Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy:
b. The United States will conclude a long-term economic cooperation agreement aimed at mutual development in the fields of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data-processing centres, rare-earth mining projects in the Arctic, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities. ”
This is probably Trump trying to drag Putin away from Xi…
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Widely respected commentator on history and societies, Victor Hanson, in his normal very dry delivery believes the Climate Change story is over without saying a thing about a hoax. He does say Climate Change started as warming and then cooling and everything in between but doesn’t mention carbon dioxide. He says nothing about ‘The Science’, it’s clearly not his area.
Rather he puts the rapid demise of Climate Change down to a world wide recognition of the need for the incredibly large amounts of electricity for AI. And suggests a major factor this is behind Bill Gates’ change of mind.
And China may see the collapse of their massive and subsidized windmills business clearly intended to subvert the energy security of rivals. Overall as an commentator on world history, he believes the bubble has burst for quite different reasons than the weather.
Objectively I think he is right. Climate Change will die quickly. Not because it is a ridiculous Henny Penny science hoax, but because nations recognize the urgent need for massive amounts of additional electrical energy for the modern world. And that after 37 years of self evidently failed Climate Rapture, it’s time to move on.
So Chris Bowen may be President of the last COP Conference, conducting a wake.
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A wake is a very bad idea when the corpse is so obviously rotten.
Last rites can be conducted at a suitable distance.
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Zombies DO exist, so I too would urge caution. There’s simply too much money at stake – for some.
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Yes, a Govt Dept is never disbanded! Change the name, reprint the letterheads, keep all those people busy doing nothing useful..
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But TdeF the good result is that Bowen will spend lots of time away from Australia.
The bad news is that there will be less and less money forthcoming for the next COP, so Bowen will demand Australia spends more and more. At some stage SpendaLot Jim will have to rain him in.
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Turkey may be able to turn a profit from the event while avoiding the humiliation of hosting the last COP using Blackout as their COP spokesman.
Blackout gets the humiliation. And Australia dodges the financial hit because I expect Adelaide could not make a profit from hosting it.
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It looks like in the battle between Turkey and Australia for COP31, the deal breaker was to promote Bowen. Which appears to be much more important than spending $2Bn of our money. This says a lot about motivation.
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And I wonder how many will turn up now that it is clear Russia, America, China, India are non starters. Half the world’s population and more than half the world’s economies. That leaves the UK, France, German, Japan as the remaining heavy hitters. I do not count Australia. And the current massive political turmoil in the first three may put an end to COP itself while even Japan is plotting a new course.
You have to wonder why Climate Change is exclusively a Socialist agenda. What part of science is socialist? Could I suggest Climate Change is just faux science, political science?
The world might see centre/right governments in all, which would put Climate Change in the too hard basket while uncontrolled Islamic and African migration takes centre stage. No one wants to go back to the Middle Ages, except perhaps the migrants.
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BUT.. he is wrong !
The climate is still changing, as it always has, we are still coming out of an Ice Age !
Its just not changing as fast , or for the reasons commonly promoted!
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We have not come out of an ice age. The SH is still in it. Almost all land south of 60S has massive ice mountains.
And the NH is on the verge of going back into glaciation. Greenland did not go completely ice free during the current interglacial and has been gaining altitude this century. And those who study glaciers know they grow from the top and flow down and out.
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TdeF mentions this: (my bolding here)
Hmm! Perhaps look for a very sudden increase in interest in UltraSuperCritical Coal fired power generation.
And here’s me wondering just who are the World leaders in this form of power generation.
Tony.
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“world leaders”
Double -dipping I suppose.
When the solar panels are all dead, they will build you some brand new coal plants, and they will probably be cheap.
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Sadly not in Victoria. Victoria has radical left and far left options. One Nation has a massive amount of work to build its brand in Victoria and take a small step to the right where burning carbon is not going to cause the end of the Earth.
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A while back someone here (I believe Hanrahan) asked for Americans to opine on whether the US was heading toward civil war.
I answered that I thought the chances low.
I’ve changed my mind.
Here are US Senators, citing their personal DS creds, asking US troops to not follow ‘unlawful’ (meaning Trump’s) or as they phrase it “this President’s” orders.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JGhXnOo3yuw?si=9fJol
US Democrat Progs and global Progs in general have gone mad.
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Yep
Notice how they left everything intentionally vague so that no one could pin down what ephemeral ‘illegal’ orders they were talking about. They covered their own asses, but how many dozens of poor schlep privates and lieutenants and maybe even a general or two are going to get their keisters thrown in the brig and collect dishonorable discharge because they listened to these politicians with no skin in the game and refused a legal order that he thought was illegal?
NOTHING Trump is doing is CLEARLY illegal. Is he testing the limits of his Article II powers in some cases? Absolutely. But nothing he is doing is unprecedented or clearly over the line.
The national guard has been deployed in American cities numerous times, both with and without the approval of the state governor. To quell the Watts and Detroit riots in the 1960s, to ensure civil rights legislation was enforced in the 1960s, to quell the Rodney King riots in the 1990s, etc.
Blowing up terrorists has been the military’s favorite past-time over the last 24 years. Doing it in the western hemisphere is new, but there is no law against the military operating in the Americas. Just ask the residents of Panama and Grenada who were around in the 1980s.
Enforcing existing immigration law is not illegal. The only thing that is changed is how comprehensively and vigorously the Trump administration is enforcing it. Have a deportation order that has been ignored for the past 30 years? Tough crap, it’s getting enforced now. Committed a crime while being here illegally? Guess what, you’re going home. Caught up in a raid to grab one of the former but have an otherwise clean record? Too bad. You chose your friends poorly. You’re getting shipped out. Work for an an employer that employs most illegal workers? Your place of work is a target for non-compliance with the law and you might get grabbed up as a result.
The lack of clear illegality is why those politicians refuse to be specific. They KNOW that almost everything Trump is doing is certainly legal, and the few questionable things he is doing arguably legal and should be settled in the courts, not by random members of the military.
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Well, I’m old enough to remember the ‘illegal’ bombing of Laos*, and the invasion of Cambodia.
A good legal argument about ‘legality’ could be made about very many of the military actions taken by every US President for minimum of the last 80 years.
*Publicly denied as happening by every POTUS under which it happened.
If I’m not mistaken, Laos is this single most bombed country per square yard in all history.
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ya mean: “GONE MAD”?
The Party of Slavery was ALWAYS MAD,
The last time there was a “boogaloo” (in current parlance) in those parts, it was bayonets and black-powder, muzzle-loading, rifles, horse-drawn artillery etc. The death toll was very impressive, but like most serious wars up until WW2, the body count was ultimately down to INFECTION (and medieval surgical practices did not help, either.
And “civil wars” seem to be decidedly “UNcivil” in their conduct REALLY UGLY “family quarrels”.
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It’s great news that Australia will now not be hosting COP31. It will save Aussie taxpayers a billion dollars or two. However it wasn’t abandoned because of the cost, after all, how many politicians could tell you how many zeros in the numeral one billion? They didn’t care about the cost. They never do.
However, not having COP31 came at a terrible price for Australia and the rest of the woke world as it has made our anti-Energy Minister Chrissie Bowen, simpleton, “President of Negotiations” which seems to be a newly-invented ill-defined role to decide on the agenda for COP31.
Bowen had to walk away with something so they gave him a participation prize.
And I suspect the billion(s) COP31 would have cost Aussie taxpayers will be wasted on something else locally or given away to the “sinking” Pacific islands.
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It was between Turkey and Oz and neither would budge which would have put it in Germany. They compromised so it is in Turkey but Oz is in charge so they get the Presidency of the COP.
I am puzzled about the billions. A COP brings in several hundred million in visitor dollars. If you have the buildings I do not see it costing much.
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I agree the cost is outrageous, probably ten times the expected cost of such a conference, but billions is the quoted figure:
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/cost-of-hosting-cop-summit-could-reach-2b-20251110-p5n8yq
I recently calculated the cost of what the conference should be, based on typical costs and it is about ten times greater. I posted it here but can’t find it.
Any expenditure by the Australian Government is far higher than any fair or reasonable cost mostly due to scamming by corrupt unions and subsidy harvesters.
Plus politicians and public serpents have no idea of the true costs of anything, nor do they care when spending taxpayer money, and will sign any contract put in front of them.
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I found my original post about costs.
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/11/prepare-the-escape-pods-kier-starmer-says-the-consensus-is-gone-oecd-admits-its-losing-momentum/#comment-2879106
Excerpt:
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That looks like the total cost to all attending, not the cost of putting on the conference.
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Australia’s bid was based on it being in conjunction with South Pacific nations. All those nations send hundreds of delegates because they are the ones chasing money. They would be all put up at Australia’s expense. As would the hordes of Australian government officials needed to host the event.
I expect Belem made a profit. And I think Turkey can make a profit from the event. I doubt Adelaide would make a profit because it is a relatively small city that would ned some upgrading. It would be good for the local economy but both State and Federal Government would be putting it on taxpayers to pony up.
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Recreational drug taking by children is obviously a very bad thing but I heard on the radio how sources of “good” (i.e. pure) and bad (i.e. impure with bad side affects) “party drugs” are identified by children via social media. The forthcoming social media ban for under 16’s will remove this ability to communicate. Expect more deaths as a result.
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It might also slow them down from finding any source.
However, like most realists, I’m a firm believer that the kids will find a way around any wall that is built before them. One of the benefits of being young is the ability to climb. We’ll watch the futility of this ban, striking at everyone but the kids.
Then again, I don’t think the ban is intended to limit the kids access, it’s just the path taken to obtain everyone’s details and make the internet ‘safe’ for the government. We’ll not only have to agree to their terms, we’ll also have to be their boot, stomping on the faces of the population, forever.
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Exactly.
People have been congregating and communicating over the internet since the 1980s, long before ‘social media’ existed. Kids will either go old school and communicate on forums, bulletin boards, or other prehistoric methods, or they will come up with something novel and new to get around restrictions. I know one already in use is through live stream messaging on multi-player video games.
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If you believe the news the UK has been -12C and a foot deep in snow for 3 days.
98% of the population is scratching their chins and going “What?”
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Thanks to your Government, the BBC and the MetOffice you are certainly a foot deep but it isn’t snow.
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Been a gloriously sunny last couple of days here on the devon coast but distinctly chilly. Some snow on nearby dartmoor
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Can’t believe the anti science ‘weather equals climate’ fallacy is alive and well here.
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Don’t believe it Ponzi, we are all old enough to see the climate behind the weather. When I was young the summers were hotter and the days were longer… That turned out to be true!
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That’s great KP, put your anecdotal evidence up for scientific analysis, that’s how science works.
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I can’t believe it either.
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Belief is what you fall back on when you don’t have the evidence.
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Snowing on Xmas day in London 10/1.
A change in the weather might be indicative of things to come.
Winter has been lingering in south east Australia and northern China went straight from summer into winter. A year without an Autumn.
My thinking is that stratospheric warming in both hemispheres is the culprit. Its only weather until we see a trend, then it becomes climate.
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Careful there, you’re bucking the local consensus.
If only there were a process to follow to determine what’s happening ?.
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No worries, I’m the local contrarian.
The idea is still sound, I believe Sudden Stratospheric Warming is causing the climate to change through meandering jet streams.
I feel in my water that its a global cooling signal, but lack the evidence.
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I tend not to use the word “rort” here because it is Australian slang and probably not understood by our overseas readers, even though Australia is a land full of rorts, especially of the climate variety and any public works projects.
To what extent are overseas readers familiar with this word?
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FWIW
Happenings!
” SLAVA POLYCRISIS ☙ Thursday, November 20, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS ”
“Trump did it again: he recaptured the news cycle from endless Epstein analysis, with a global power play nobody saw coming. A C&C special edition.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/slava-polycrisis-thursday-november?
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That is going to make Europe and UK leadership look like war criminals. Maybe they are.
Trump has been the only one giving Putin respect and little patience with Zelenskyy.
I expect Putin is largely seen through their BBC lens. And everyone is now beginning to see how opaque and distorted that lens really is.
Very interesting move.
Trump is a colossus. I know of no one in history who has been so influential globally. He has surrounded himself with an amazingly competent team that are doing good work.
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THis has all 28 points detailed:
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/trump-ukraine-peace-plan-28-points-russia
I get the feeling that Trump wants Russia as an ally again or at least neutral in the face of China’s growing dominance. China makes more than 50% of the world hard assets like steel. It controls modern materials like rare earth metal and strong fibre production. used in modern warfare drones.
Indeed it is interesting times. A great time to be alive. The art of the deal.
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Donnie is an oligarch and he’s doing deals before he becomes a lame duck.
‘Trump has been the only one giving Putin respect …’
Putin is a warmonger who kills women and children on a daily basis, only Trump warms up to him.
‘China’s growing dominance …’
Its a fabrication, there is no imminent threat from China, economically they are on their knees and militarily they are no match against the Alliance.
At the end of European hostilities Beijing might buy back some Russian Federation territory.
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Those are powerful meds lg
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FWIW – re that Cloudflare problem
How the internet works
https://media-eu.invisioncic.com/y320084/monthly_2025_11/image.png.9027833e16fe23ba7f59a485201ed222.png
Via
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w-o-o-d-27-october-2025-hurricane-melissa-whacks-jamaica-russia-accelerating-in-donbass-eu-uk-imploding-donald-dithers/#comment-179900
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FWIW
“Wirtschaftlicher Selbstmord”
“Germany 2025 is the engine room of European industry and the warning siren for anyone who thinks intellectual arrogance and green wishful thinking can outlast the laws of economics. In just six weeks, Germany lost another 125,000 industrial jobs; the grand total since 2019 is pushing a quarter-million—out the door, out the country, or just vanished.
Let’s call it what it is.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/20/wirtschaftlicher-selbstmord/
Concludes
“People ask: Who killed German manufacturing?
Answer: Look to the bureaucracy, the climate alarmists, the energy planners, and the eco-consultants. And remember:
Europe’s lesson today is your problem, tomorrow.”
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Mostly, I blame the globalists, who engineered the transference of western manufacturing jobs to Taiwan, Thailand, Mexico, India and (most egregiously) to China.
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FWIW
“Labour’s Callous Betrayal of The ‘Environmentally Responsible’ and Their Gravy Train”
“The Telegraph has a piece by a deeply aggrieved Nissan Leaf owner called Andrew Moore. He’s moaning because after having shelled out “to save the planet”, nasty Labour “plans to punish” him and as a result he feels “so let down”:
I switched to electric because I wanted to be environmentally responsible. This latest move feels like a betrayal of the families trying to reduce their carbon footprint.
As far as Mr Moore is concerned, being “environmentally sound” should go hand in hand with a lifetime of being exempt from road tax and fuel excise duty. Anything else is sheer betrayal:”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/20/labours-callous-betrayal-of-the-environmentally-responsible-and-their-gravy-train/
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Mr Moore seems to like the idea of socialism too much.
Maybe he should emigrate elsewhere and try out the real thing.
Australia and most of the western democracies appear to be breeding a population that is happy or even demanding to be able to live off the government.
Reality always has the last say.
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Frederik Bastiat (1848):
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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Also by Frédéric Bastiat in 1850, an early critic of socialism/communism, remembering that Marx/Engels published The Communist Manifesto in 1848:
What were the ancient ideas Bastiat referenced?
Plato, Republic: A perfectly planned society that took no account of human behaviour.
Sparta: All aspects of life strictly regulated.
Ancient Egypt: All work assigned and regulated.
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Digital detox and surgery
Took a week off to escape the digital sludge and tetchy females, and get one eye cataract surgery done.
Wanted it done before 2026.
/Heh… Japan on ZH…got advanced intel days ago…keep watching.
I said no IV or any other anaesthetic except for numbing eye drops.
The hospitals sure love their eye drops!
Stings like a b#tch, all 10 of ’em.
Surgery was <15 minutes, totally pain free (drops hurt way more), 15 minutes post-op observation and off home.
$4k all up which is what I expected.
Vision was razor sharp 1 hour after surgery, no pain, grittiness or blur.
First part of surgery was "stick figures in the dark" and then the colour kaleidoscope.
Great fun. Must do it again!
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I’ve never heard of cataract surgery without general anaesthesia but apparently it’s an option.
How do they stop your eye moving and thus undesired cuts by the surgeon’s knife?
https://kindsight.com.au/news/cataracts/anaesthetic-cataract-surgery/
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Both of my eyes were done with local anaesthetic only; the left one first and, six weeks later, the right one. This was back in 2010, courtesy of the NHS in Gloucestershire. I am forever grateful for having had it done. It cured my cataracts and lifelong myopia.
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DM
I’ve had both eyes done a couple of years ago.
Preparatory material – clothing and footwear without any metal content.
We were done in batches of about 10 and started sitting in a waiting room for the 7 drops to be administered.
Then you were put on a trolly where you got an injection below the eyeball that anchored it for the operation – the description much worse than the injection.
Then on to the theatre table where your face got covered – which might worry anyone with claustrophobia.
I heard the surgeon say
“You’ll be out of here in about a quarter of an hour – in fact in 7.5 minutes”.
On to a recovery bed for a cuppa and hospital sandwich and then free to go.
Return the next morning for a check then released on the world with minimal instructions – mainly sun glasses till the eye cleared.
Second one about a month later as above.
Took me from a sudden onset of a shaky hold on a driver’s licence to 20/20 both eyes, no glasses.
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Mrs Y had hers done recently with a local. I had one done 10 years ago , again with a local. Never heard of a general being needed.
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“$4k all up which is what I expected.”
What!! It was $10 with Fred Hollows!
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FWIW
“The CDC has updated its “Autism and vaccines” page.”
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html
Via
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/20/the-sound-of-settled-science-203/
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“The rise in autism prevalence since the 1980s correlates with the rise in the number of vaccines given to infants. ”
Thank you Saint Trump!
“Pursuant to the Data Quality Act (DQA), which requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public, this webpage has been updated because the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” is not an evidence-based claim. “
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NSW Liberals have elected Kellie Sloane as leader.
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So they’ve replaced the Victoriastan “leader”, now NSW, I guess the Federal “leader” will be next.
One problem with the Liberals is that they are not a philosophy-led party because they don’t actually believe in anything, they are fence-sitters.
Another problem is that there are so few of them in parliament that there are very few to choose from as future “leaders”.
I don’t think they are making themselves any more electable and in the case of Victoriastan, Battin was actually leading Labor in the polls.
I agree with Topher Field that they don’t want to actually be elected. There are those in tye party who are happy for Australia to remain governed by Green, Labor and Teal:
https://youtu.be/p8nFMuUL1W4
Liberals should realise that they have lost just about all support from conservatives who are mostly now supporting One Nation as are most of my friends.
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It will take a step to the right to make a difference. The world has had this long arc to the left that we are all essentially radical left now. And history has taught us that socialism under any guise does not work.
It is a long way back and Australia needs to back consistent leadership from the right. Only one Nation offers that. Basically the same stand for the last 25 years since the party was formed. One Nation holds the high ground.
It will be disruptive and tough for a whole lot of people because there are so many leeches. They will mostly fight to hang on.
I expect that putting their ABC up for sale would be a very positive move for One Nation as their first move. Based on what is happening in the UK, I do not think there is a lot of love for their ABC.
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I expect it will accelerate the moment One Nation does well Rick. Politicians being the sort of people they are they will all rush to the Right the moment it seems like that is place to get elected. Socialism will said to be holding back our economy, just so 2024!
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Today’s poll in The Australian shows that Jess Wilson already leads Jacinta Allan. Interesting.
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Freshwater Strategies did a poll at the weekend for the Herald Sun, before Battin was replaced by Wilson.
Result was the same as Newspoll in The Australian. Libs 51-49 two party preferred. So no change resulting from a change in leader.
However, the weekend poll had Lib primary vote at 37% and Labor 30%.
The Aus poll with Wilson as leader has the primary votes for both parties lower. Lib 36% and Lab 28%
The respective polls had Battin and Wilson as clear preferred premier over Allen.
It seems Allen/Labor are finally on the nose and it doesn’t matter who leads the Libs. Even a drover’s dog ……
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How much will Tasmanians actually be paying for the stadium proposed for Hobart’s Macquarie Point? As the years have gone by, it has increased from $715 million in 2022, to $775 million in 2024, then to $945 million, before landing at $1.13 billion in September this year. Premier Jeremy Rockliff promised in 2024 that the Tasmanian government would cap its capital spend at $375 million, “not a red cent more”.
These, of course, are just the base line figures for a stadium building. By the time the cost of required infrastructure is added Tasmanians will be lucky to escape for less than 3 Billion$$$.
In five years time Rockcliff won’t care what colour “the cents” are he’ll be safely retired on his solar farm.
Treasurer Eric Abetz is obfuscating because he won’t be around to answer questions either
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By the time you factor in the Bass Strait ferry debacle, A major wind farm project on Robbins Island in north-west Tasmania that requires an undersea umbilical cord to connect with Victoria and Liberty Bell Bay manganese alloy smelter on very shaky ground I would describe the Tasmanian situation as financially dire
Red cents is all Tasmania might be worth!
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Heard on Chris Smith today of the number of jobs lost in the last few months. Chris blamed energy costs. But that is being trite. There are a lot of “non jobs” in Banks and Universities. I recall a Banker friend of mine opining that Banks were overmanned by at least 25%. Many “growth” companies are similarly structured to cope with growth. But if it doesnt happen then a cull is necessary. Similarly if margins are pressured. We are expensive labour. And I use the word “labour” advisedly. A lot of People dont seem to want to “work” these days.
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Another first hand account of how nice POTUS Trump is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33WljQ9lfE
Obviously from a year ago before he was in his second term.
This is a more recent interview with Kamala and Joe Rogan about her book tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6R8P3Imweg
I did not know this woman existed till today – Estee Palti that is. I have now watched more of her as Kamala than the other Kamala..
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Is corruption the best investment? I saw a few minutes of my first TV news in months, and a story was about a fairly sketchy looking guy from the NAB, who had signed off on $200M+ in loans to a crime syndicate, and he was paid $17 000! Maybe they started small, and once he was ensnared, and they could hold something over him, but jees that is a good return. Political donations are up there too. Trump took big donations from someone. and they are in his ear every couple of weeks, ‘we want this, we want that’. “Just say no!”
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You must be the corruptor, not the corruptee.
Even the Biden Crime Syndicate did it for peanuts. If we believe what we are told they are now broke and Hunter’s art no longer sells.
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In an effort to save face.
‘Xi urged the Party on Thursday to learn from the lofty demeanor and venerable conduct of Hu Yaobang (1915-89), a former prominent leader of the Party, and advance all undertakings with an indomitable fighting spirit.’ (China Daily)
Hu Yaobang was a reformer who tried to make the CCP more democratic, so this is a clear illustration that the tide has turned in Beijing.
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More outrageous taxes in Victoriastan.
This one on car parks, a continuation of the Left’s war against the motorist.
Topher Field discusses.
https://youtu.be/HCIMojn3wgM
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An elderly friend of my wife, here in QLD, lives in a house belonging to his daughter, who lives in Vicdanistan. He pays a nominal rent, getting by on the aged pension. Recently however, he said that his daughter must increase his rent because the Victoria government has imposed some sort of levy or tax on Victorian property owners, even where the property is in another state. This seems odd to me – that a state government can tax or impose charges on assets OUTSIDE the state.
What if the QLD gov’t decided to tax the same property in a similar way? Owners could end up paying essentially the same ‘property tax’ twice.
Maybe the federal gov’t will then think, “Hang on a minute … “
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Victoriastan is far worse than most people think. This article was from May. It will be far worse by now.
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Didn’t they say it wasn’t important as Canberra will bail them out when they need it…?
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More trouble for Zelensky, the desertions from the training camps are 50%, so half his upcoming army is just melting away because they don’t believe his State is worth fighting for.
The solution shows desperation, microchip everyone so the deserters can be tracked and found…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/polish-sabotage-false-flag-churns
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‘This outrageously bottom-of-the-barrel-level propaganda …’
Yep, got that right.
I suppose you are in favour of the 18 point peace plan, total surrender to the school bully?
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Heard a whisper that Trump’s new special envoy to Ukraine will be Jarad Kushner.
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President TRUMP and JD Vance were not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral.
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I’ve never been invited to anyone’s funeral, not even my parents. I’ve attended many however, including my parents.
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Accidental red thumb from me
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Methinks my attendance to a funeral might depend on how many funerals the subject had been responsible for before they got to their own.
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I hear you.
I recently failed to attend the funeral of my neighbour who had spent the last 25 years trying to arrange a funeral for me, by any and all means.
Last week he shot himself.
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FWIW
“Another perspective on the job market”
“Mike Rowe, who’s spent much of his life trying to revive interest in the skilled trades and related jobs, spoke with Ford’s CEO the other day. In the light of our discussion about jobs yesterday, I’ve taken the liberty of reproducing most of his interview here.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/11/another-perspective-on-job-market.html
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Once climate change has been tamed, the threat of another setback lurks in the Southern Ocean: It could release stored heat and cause further long-term warming, a Geomar study shows.https://table.media/en/climate/news-en/heat-burps-the-consequences-of-ocean-temperatures-in-the-southern-ocean-after-an-era-of-global-warming
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FWIW – UK re-defining again!
“Grappling With Which Came First: The Hooker or the Entrepreneur”
“As police in the United Kingdom have nothing more pressing to do at the moment, they’ve decided the next big crusade to wokeify their constabulary – having trained them in the art of publicly browbeating and arresting social media miscreants – will now be to correct the terminology used when dealing with those in the sex trade.”
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/11/20/grappling-with-which-came-first-the-hooker-or-the-entrepreneur-n3809105
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FWIW
“SHOCK VIDEOS: Fire Breaks Out in United Nations ‘Climate Change’ Conference COP30 in Brazil’s Amazon That’s Turned Into a Major Flop”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/shock-videos-fire-breaks-united-nations-climate-change/
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FWIW
“Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/11/norway-pauses-use-of-fart-reducing-cattle-feed-in-wake-of-danish-cow-tastrophe/
Via https://instapundit.com/757864/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
Not via “Their ABC”!
“WE CAUGHT THEM! UN climate elites dumped their conference garbage on a poor Brazilian neighbourhood
The United Nations has been dumping its construction waste from conference facilities in a vulnerable community.”
https://www.rebelnews.com/we_caught_them_un_climate_elites_dumped_their_conference_garbage_on_a_poor_brazilian_neighborhood
Via https://instapundit.com/757850/#disqus_thread
Adelaide saved?
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Asbestos has been found in the brake pads of wind turbines at the Cattle Hill wind factory in central Tasmania. The use of asbestos has banned in Australia since 2003.
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