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All this rain in Victoria.
Just think how well off Australia would be instead of throwing away hundreds of billions of dollars on utterly useless economy-destroying wind and solar, a small fraction of that was spent building something useful like dams and irrigation systems. Australia could have been drought-proofed and flood-proofed plus have a little bonus hydro. Instead we have massive government debts and an economy that is essentially in ruins, although that’s partly hidden by massive government expenditure and the employment of vast numbers of extra public serpents and useless public works projects like SH2 and Melbourne train tunnels
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Rain? The Millenium drought, the drought which will never end. We threw away most of $100Bn on 5 desalination plants only 2 of which have been used. Most of that is interest on the long term loans from the French suppliers. How many floods have we had since?
Rain? “Even the rains which fall will not fill the dams”. This advice from our Chief Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery who was not a meteorologist and had zero qualifications in relevant science with a basic degree in English from Latrobe Uni because he could not get into science. And no meteorologist in the BOM, CSIRO or elsewhere was appointed. If it were not for the recently fitted emergency plugs to the Wivenhoe Earthworks dam wall, half of Brisbane would have drowned, a million people, because no one would open the flood gates and the dam would be quickly and totally washed away, dropping three Sydney harbours into the Brisbane river valley.
As it was houses and lives were lost when in 2011 “the flood caused 33 deaths, impacted more than 14,000 properties and left a damage bill of about $2.3 billion”. No one’s fault apparently. As predictable, the legal inquiry into the disaster blamed the engineers, not the politicians or the Climate Commissioner who allowed the dam to fill to 190% with a tropical storm incoming. Millions would have died that night.
This is what happens when the UN write its own science. The Chinese Army manufactured Wuhan flu was no different. 20 Million dead world wide, largely unnecessarily. As Chinese appointed WHO boss Tedros Adhonem said “the virus is not communicative, human to human”. He lied. The proof was on his desk. The job of the WHO was to prevent contagion, not enable it. And Nancy Pelosi said stopping the millions of Chinese visitors was Xenophobic.
Rapid man made CO2 driven rapid Global Warming which after 38 years is obviously a lie. Polar Bears? Drowned cities? Vanishing ice caps?
And for Australia alone, the cost is in the trillions in debt. The devastation to manufacturing, farming, cost of living much more. Flannery’s failed Hot Rocks promotion alone “the technology is quite straightforward” cost us $98 Millioon and more to the investors. The directors were on salaries of $400,000 each for failure. Snouts in the trough everywhere while Australia is now $2.2Trillion in debt in just a few years. For what?
All from fake science. And the UN/WMO/EU/Australian politicians making decisions without seeking real advice. Except from their own salaried scientists who say what they are told to say because their jobs depend on it.
CO2 is not human controllable. And it is not a problem. More CO2 is a very good thing. “The science” is non existent, just endless taxation, hidden from the public. And what was a Democrat hoax by innumerate Presidential Candidate Al Gore in 1988 is now a Chinese hoax and they are opening a new coal power station every single week while we buy their useless windmills and unnecessary power lines. The need the power to build windmills and electric cars, so the hoax continues.
Stop the insanity.
Science must be proven before laws are written. Factual. Not speculative. Not opinion. And government salaried scientists are so obviously utterly compromised, from the top down. Worse, the principals are chosen for their total complliance, like utterly unqualified Science Fiction writer Tim Flannery.
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It was 2 per week 2022-2023, 1.8 in 2024 and 2025 was 1.5 per week. 2026 is averaging 1.6 per week so far. (Gulag AI results and references sighted.)
Meanwhile, in the Stupid Country we blow ours up for public entertainment while de-industrialising and having some of the world’s most expensive electricity*.
*See table at https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
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The people who hate Austrlia did not have to win power by appealing to the people. They did not have to capture the Labor party. It has always been communist! As in the UK and the US, they only had to capture the conservative party. In a preferential voting system, only two parties can win, except in the senate.
So in the US RINOs, in the UK anti Brexit Tories and in Australia, LINOS. The ones who removed the most popular PM in Australian history, Tony Abbott and put a rich socialist in his spot. So we have the phenomenon of a Labor party with a total domination of Australian Federal Politics with only 32% of the Primary vote, lower than Bill Shorten when he lost the election. Because the Liberals are to the left of Mussolini while pretending to be conservatives. And they are all terrified of Pauline Hanson, who went to jail for daring to form her own political party. Organized by the Liberals.
As for the Greens, it has been a long time since they were the slightest bit concerned with ecology and the environment. As Adam Bandt said to me “we tell them what they want to hear and when we get power, we do what we like”. Midnight Oil frontman Garrett said much the same thing.
Our only hope to break up this coalition of Liberal and Labor and Greens is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. In the UK, Farage’s Reform. And in the US Donald Trump is primarying all the RINOS beautifully. All the rats who pretend they care about America.
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I have no hope for Australia’s Liberals. Unlike the Americans, MPs are a privilege granted by the party elites, not the party members. Which preserves a clique.
It is why really good candidates like Moira Deeming were setup and ejected from the party. With millions in private funding, she unexpectedly fought back and won her defamation case and so bankrupted the arrogant and abusive Leader of the Victorian Liberals, a professional lawyer who was then saved by the Liberal party. They then ejected her again with a convicted villain. It shows that good consevative people are not welcome in the Liberal Club. This has to change or there is no point supporting the Liberal party, a closed shop.
And already every day on the front of the Australian is a hit piece on Pauline Hanson as PM. This the Liberal establishment fighting back. Jail did not stop her. So a program of denigration has begun.
Similiarly in the US you will see a ramping up of attacks on JD Vance and Rubio. And the real rot is in California. Climate Change/Wuhan Flu/deindustrialization/uncontrolled incompatible migration, all part of undermining Western powers. And it is working beautifully in Europe, but the riots are starting. People have had enough of their lying politicians.
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It would be helpful if people did not generalise putting Colaition Liberal National LNP QLD with Labor and Greens.
The Turnbull period was three (3) years from late 2015 to late 2018 and from 2019 to 2022 (recognising pandemic impact and State primary responsibilities and Federal involvement support not directly) the Morrison Government changed direction from Turnbull period.
And take into account the big picture being what is Federation of States areas of responsibility and powers (Constitution) with Commonwealth/Federal supporting on internal affairs. For example, without States cooperating the transition to renewable energy would not have been possible, and noting States owned (QLD still owns) power stations and transmission lines before privatisation started by NSW Labor 1990s followed by VIC Labor and SA and underway when later Coalition State governments took over.
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Just even upgrading the present irrigation systems would have been OK. Just like the Wimmera Mallee system which was converted from open channels to pipes. Incredible savings of water previously lost to seepage and evaporation. It was calculated that for every 100 meg of water exiting Lake Bellfield in the Grampians ,1 meg made it the other end (Patchewollock). So, 99% loss. Imagine if that were to be applied to the Murray Goulburn system or Murrumbidgee?
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Dr Aseem Malhotra addresses the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations about defective covid mRNA “vaccines” and cancer.
Mostly ignored by the Lamestream Media of course.
Video: https://youtu.be/h-I5Q4aled0 5m23s
Text:
Malhotra-Testimony.pdf
Dr John Campbell discusses:
https://youtu.be/-8p-T-Y9S1I
Full hearing at:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/plausible-mechanisms-of-covid-19-injections-causing-cancer-and-attacks-on-scientific-publications/
“Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Plausible Mechanisms of Covid-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research”
News item:
https://www.gbnews.com/news/covid-dr-aseem-malhotra-professor-angus-dauglish-testify-us-vaccine-probe
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Here is a wonderful educational video on electrolysis.
https://youtu.be/eq7fR9ISuCw
(Note: Not accessible to Australian children under Australia’s censorship laws for under 16’s. If you’re a kid get an adult to play it for you. Or it might be possible to do signed-out viewing but you won’t be able to comment.)
It’s too bad most Aussie politicians skipped their science (and other) lessons at school, not that they teach much science or anything else that’s useful these days. But I’m sure they can name all the supposed 87 (or whatever) “genders”.
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I must be a dummy. I can only name 2 genders. 😊
Then again, I think at least 95% of the population knows there are only 2 genders.
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California is one of the the most progressive governments around.
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“California can take up to 30 days to count votes after an election due to the large number of mail-in ballots and the verification process required for each ballot. Final results must be reported to the Secretary of State by July 3, 2026, for the recent primary election.”
In 2004, Jimmy Carter headed a commission on voting integrity.
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“The Carter-Baker Commission’s main recommendations included creating a national system to connect state voter registration lists, requiring voter identification using universally available REAL ID cards, implementing auditable paper backups for voting technology, and strengthening safeguards against absentee ballot fraud.”
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“In California, you do not need to show identification to vote in most cases, but if you are voting for the first time after registering by mail and did not provide your ID number, you may be asked for ID. To register to vote, you also do not need to provide ID, but you must be a U.S. citizen and a resident of California.”
US Democrats are defenders of democracy.
Says so right in the name.
Stop questioning election results you insurrecting conspiracy theorists.
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I agree California’s voting process is a bad joke that completely destroys faith in the integrity of the voting process.
However, this …
… is not the solution.
America is not a federal democracy. It is a republic of independent democratic states. The constitution is VERY clear about this. The federal government has absolutely no role whatsoever in elections. Voting is 100% in the state’s jurisdiction. There can never, EVER be a federal solution to California’s voting issues because once you allow the feds to put a foot in the door in one state, they are going to use it to weasel their way all the way in to all 50 states and take total control. It’s what they do. No state should ever voluntarily cede power to the federal government that is not explicitly delegated to the feds in the constitution.
If that means California has to remain a cautionary tale … so be it.
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All true except when border state California openly allows uncontrolled migration of millions of people, which is a critical Federal issue. And then allows those illegal aliens to vote when they are not Americans. And performs zero checks on eligibility, double voting, ballot harvesting, citizenship. It’s not a question of the time taken to collect the votes, which itself a great concern for reasons of validity, but the very authentication of votes.
And at 54 Electoral College votes, the largest in the United States, this is a question which is critical to the proper functioning of the Union.
These are citizernship matters which are of direct Federal concern as well as the huge Federal direct cost on Social Security, all the basis of the America First Act. 2026.
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I agree that Immigration is 100% the Federal government’s bailiwick, and they should fully flex their muscles in order to secure the border (Border Patrol) and chase down illegals already in the country (ICE), regardless of state or local objections.
But that doesn’t change the fact that they have no jurisdiction on how states conduct the vote.
The constitution is clear on both issues.
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” as well as the huge Federal direct cost on Social Security,”
“once you allow the feds to put a foot in the door in one state, they are going to use it to weasel their way all the way in to all 50 states and take total control.”
Why are the Feds taking over a State responsibility, social security? It has nothing to do with America’s interactions with the rest of the world, which is what any Federal Govt is for.
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Fragmented like so many other things in the US. How do you have faith in a system that is subject to 50 different sets of rules and 50 different levels of chicanery and corruption?
When voting on Federal matters it seems reasonable that a consistent set of rules apply and are enforced. On State matters , States can pretend they are special and different and be as loopy as they like business as usual style
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Because that is how the system is designed. The states are supreme in everything not explicitly enumerated to the federal government in the Constitution. Them’s the rules, and they have been that way for 250 years.
Plus, that fragmentation has a purpose. It prevents tyranny of the majority. Without it, the coastal states would have completely dominated American politics for the past couple of centuries and forced a lot of changes on those of us in the middle of the country who have different values. Does that make things messier than they would be a powerful federal government? Sure. But most of us would rather things be messy than dictated to us from on high.
I know you Aussies understand that because I have seen many of you chafe at how Victoria/NSW dominates Australian policy and how it often ignores the wants/needs of folks who live in the northern or western states. Well, that is because your federal government is superior to your state governments, while in America, our state governments are superior to the federal government in all but a few specifically enumerated policy areas (like immigration, foreign policy, and interstate commerce).
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” It prevents tyranny of the majority. Without it, the coastal states would have completely dominated American politics for the past couple of centuries and forced a lot of changes on those of us in the middle of the country who have different values. ”
Tell us about it!! Aussie, dominated by the Green wanky city-dwellers on the coast, hellbent on destroying the rest of the country. People who believe food comes from the back room of a supermarket are making laws for those who actually produce it. One day they will realise cows only have two genders and want them banned…
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The Great China Plague of 2020 demonstrated just how loopy Australian states and territories can become. It was, surprisingly to many, glaringly obvious that we are still just a collection of penal colonies.
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Americans can vote with their feet.
Don’t like the way your state is run? … pack up and move to a better one.
Isn’t there an outflow of citizens from California and New York to states like Florida and Texas?
If I was in charge there’d be a restriction on local voting in your new state for ten years. That way you could stop a bunch of democrats from turning up and voting for the policies they’d left behind.
Wouldn’t apply to work related transfers.
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Yes, the Dumocrats and their slave army of useful idiots seem to forget thst things like voter ID/verification and non-open-borders have been proposed by their own at various times.
In this video clip Bill Clinton expresses his opposition to illegal immigration:
https://youtu.be/1IrDrBs13oA
Apparently these things are only unacceptable when Orange Man Bad says them.
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Of course, these days, the only reason the Dumocrats stay in power at all is because of their sometimes legal but usually illegal manipulation of the voting system.
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Way back in the day, when Democrats truly were the blue-collar party, they HATED illegal immigration. Cesar Chavez regularly referred to them as ‘wetbacks’ in the 1970s and nobody in the Democratic party so much as blinked. Bill Clinton and Obama were both very clear in their complete disdain for illegal immigration. Bernie Sanders scoffed at open borders policies in 2016 as a ‘Koch Brothers proposal’ (for non-Americans, the Koch brothers were wealthy libertarian Republican donors in the pre-MAGA era and favored open borders as a source of cheap labor). Then Bernie’s spine evaporated, he reversed himself because his progressive donors hated his old-school class-based argument against illegal immigration, and no one on the left-side of the political aisle has spoken against illegal immigration since.
Even Joe Biden, who was a hard-core anti-illegal-immigration guy during his 36 years in Congress, sat back and watched his staff completely dismantle border security and let in a tidal wave of illegal immigrants on his watch. Though I will cut old Scranton Joe some slack since I assume his brain was tapioca by the time he entered the Oval Office and wasn’t in control of policies implemented under his name.
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Maybe of interest.
Steve Hilton EXPOSES Who’s REALLY Running California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22y4PUppbY
Unions once represented the working class, or so I was told.
What happens if the working class is obliterated and all that’s left is the Union?
Even in school I had little questions that I muttered from the back.
Like when did the Mafia turn gambling over to the Indians (the six gun ones not the dagger ones) and the government?
In my city there are billboards advertising state lotto right beside the billboard for state help with gambling addiction.
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Similarly in Australia. In my state of Victoriastan the Government promotes gambling to the weak-minded (via lucrative licensed private sector gambling operations which manage it) and all the media ads for gambling are followed by a warning about the dangers of gambling and a helpline phone number for gambling addicts. …As if the Government actually cares, they just pretend, they want maximum gambling for maximum revenue and are quite happy to see people impoverished by their gambling addiction which transfers their money to the state treasury so the Government can buy votes with “free stuff”…
It helps that due to the dumbing-down of the “education” system, no one (of the masses) understands probability theory any more.
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We laughed last night when a pizza advert followed a weight loss advert. Good work!
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Sorry yarpos, accidental red thumb. Count it as green.
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” state of Victoriastan the Government promotes gambling to the weak-minded (via lucrative licensed private sector gambling operations which manage it) ”
Ah, but its important to the bottom line! The only reason Vic didn’t have yet another debt blowout was from selling the gambling rights on a 30year contract. So what are they going to sell for the next 29years? Petrol is the same, they love the price going up while they tell us to buy EVs, smoking the same again, tax income relies on many people smoking lots of ciggies. The morality of Govt…
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This is a massive story in the UK.
An innocent white lad who was fatally stabbed was disbelieved and handcuffed by police whilst dying because his Sikh attacker claimed he himself was the victim of a racist insult.
The same people (like Kahn and Starmer), that took the knee and justified riot and rage in the case of Floyd, are saying this case should not be politicised!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/starmer-urges-calm-after-protests-over-student-henry-nowak-death/106757326
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From the ABC article:
So opposing racism means you are “far right” huh, the standard slur of the Left when they don’t want to debate a point. Anyway, even Pol Pot would be considered “far right” by today’s non-standards of the Left.
A sensible discussion here:
https://youtu.be/Adj1TNEgfJo
Incidentally the murderer was given a “life” sentence but the woke judge set a minimum of only 21 years.
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The woke police whose racism led them to handcuff the dying man also need to be prosecuted for manslaughter.
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Not possible, sadly, as the fatal injury was not survivable.
The police constable has apologised. The same officer apologised for the shooting of a violent criminal.
It’s worth comparing the two. Covered at the start of this video.
https://youtu.be/ycxijLiJsK4
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If Kier Starmer suffered the same injury, would he be kept alive? That is the test.
Hard to imagine an injury that was not seen by the handcuffing officer and the victim was talking would be fatal with proper treatment.
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I’m not buying that the injury was ‘not survivable’. The knife knicked a vein, not an artery. Arterial bleeds will kill you in seconds, but veins ooze blood rather than spurt blood. If Nowak had received immediate medical attention rather than have to endure a ten minute chase scrambling over obstacles and then wait another three minutes before the cops even checked on his injuries, he might have lived. If one of the murderer’s friends or family had shown an ounce of concern for Nowak’s life and applied pressure to his wounds immediately after he was stabbed and told the emergency operator he had been stabbed, they might have sent an ambulance with the cops and the EMTs could have treated him immediately rather than dicking around for three minutes (at least). Instead, their depraved indifference to his life and the cops incompetence robbed him of his chance of survival.
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Well, stabbed 5 times and then the murderer takes photos of him dying.. Time to bring back the death penalty!
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I’ll agree that injuries might have been survivable but not by the time police arrived. But they didn’t know that. They didn’t even accept that he had been stabbed. Five times.
Responders under pressure act the way they have trained, practised, talked about amongst themselves. Their corporate code.
And that’s what’s wrong here.
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Are the police facing charges over the death?
Are Nowak’s parents seeking civil penalty against the police force?
Pauline Hanson is against this sort of apartheid. One Nation says it all. Racism is embedded by DEI programs.
I visited South Africa for a couple of weeks in early 1990s and the manager of the business I was visiting talked about “affirmative” shopping in one of the large suburban shopping complexes. These had grown popular because the city was unlivable after dark. Affirmative shopping was when the armed gangs raided the shops and took whatever they wanted.
South Africa had embedded apartheid but the affirmative action to reverse it has not gone well.
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Whatever on thinks of Trump’s chaotic prosecution of the war against the Iranian regime, the crushingly obvious fact remains that Iran is an openly terrorist state, appalling and intrinsically harmful in every way, an eschatological dictatorship operating openly and globally against the unbelieving West under the awkward protection of its strategic location in the guts of the ME petroleum industry.
Happily lying through its teeth on the way, Iran has spent the past 30 years developing out the technical components and capacities to manufacture a nuclear weapon. The current focus is on the 60% HEU – which has no purpose other than enabling a quick breakout once the final order is given.
However, lost in the current hoohah, is the fact that Iran has long since sorted out the necessary technical steps required to actually create a functional weapon: uranium metallurgy, design of conventional explosives, neutron initiation – and so on. And while centrifuge factories have been flattened, the designs and testing are complete and will be delivered from small, distributed (and probably unknown) facilities.
A simple high level guide explains the details:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/02/19/what-steps-must-iran-take-to-construct-nuclear-weapons/
Incredibly, US politics has bypassed the need to neuter the Shia Bomb, with the need to neuter Trump and the MAGA movement becoming more important.
The House vote to curtail US military action against Iran obviously assures the IRGC that it has no need to conclude anything that impacts its nuclear plans. The Cavalry is coming.
The risk for the US and the West is that, in a few months time, seismographs will pick up an underground nuclear test – followed by ‘We have been forced to do this by the brutality of Great Satan. Now, guess which Western cities might be hiding its brothers – but meanwhile, here is what we want you to do…’
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The House and Senate would need 67% majorities to override Trump. I believe that unlikely.
Trump has no political future in the USA beyond his current term. He has already killed the climate hoax in the USA. If he can eliminate the power of the clerics in Iran then that would be a great achievement as well.
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The House and Senate would need 67% majorities to override Trump. I believe that unlikely.
Yes, luckily very unlikely indeed.
However, the political theatre, combined with the November mid-terms, plays directly into the IRGC’s ground game and weakens the US position on the world stage. It’s hard to conceive why anyone would want to give this sort of comfort to these monsters.
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The FDD is a front group for disseminating propaganda.
The fact their spokesmen are on Fox News all the time is the giveaway.
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NVIDIA *was* the only game in town for AI
https://youtu.be/qaXQgz4ddQQ?si=HQ1GBDkY1UxH9KYV
900,000 cores cpu, 3 billion transistors & 44GB memory on board.
As I said many moons ago, by the time they build all these data centers, they’ll be obsolete. 🙄
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FWIW
“A Look Forward on The NATO / Ukraine War on Russia”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-look-forward-on-the-nato-ukraine-war-on-russia/
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“By attacking Moscow, Ukraine has demonstrated that ALL of Ukraine must be brought under Russian control to end the threat to Moscow.”
It seems that way, the drones won’t stop if any of Ukraine is left under NATO control. Then they will start from Poland, along with excuses that “It wasn’t us, we don’t know where that drone came from”.. and Romania, and the three Baltic Chihuahuas, even Finland, unless a couple of high-tech factories in Germany or France get blown up as a warning. Hopefully Europe will collapse before then, its still better to be living in the gutter than dead and the peasant’s riots have started already.
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The grid is the AI bottleneck now
US demand 31GW (2025) → 66GW (2027). More than doubling. (Goldman)
– 49GW US shortfall through 2028. (Morgan Stanley)
~50% of US data center projects in 2026 delayed or canceled. (Sightline / Bloomberg)
– $650B hyperscaler capex committed. Most can’t deploy on time.
– Transformer lead times: 2+ years.
Regional grids are currently running at 98% capacity during peak hours.
Sing along – “AI toys, AI toys, whacha gunna do when the grid goes down”.
Bad boys, bad boys…
Then there’s cooling. You need water. Doesn’t have to be clean water. China’s new data center is offshore and underwater using seawater for cooling.
How much nearby oceanic heating affects things is anyone’s guess.
Cow farts were never the problem. Data centers are the new destroyers of the environment.
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The sky gods were throwing their furniture around the place upstairs last night with lightning & thunder flashing and rumbling over most of our little Shaky Isles – a great way to refresh the atmosphere – yet this morning the usual blather on media/airwaves how ‘unusual’ this was and another sure sign of [cough!] ‘climate change’.
This belief – this illness, this sickness, this faith in voodoo original sin – is sadly spreading like a lab-designed pox amongst the fearful, the quivering, the *useless eaters* as some would say.
To northern hemisphere readers of Jo’s wonderful blog, the month of June is the beginning of our winter, when storms can shoot the gap between Aus & NZ – the Tasman Sea, hence they’re called Tassie Lows (they can occur any time of the year). With this present storm, NZ is on the right/eastern warm side of the circulating winds (coming down from Queensland) while NSW and Victoria are on the cold side, hence chilly temps and SNOW on all their skifields:
https://www.mountainwatch.com/snow-cams [Australia]
Yet experts [sic] preach, and the quivering faithfools believe, this is all OUR fault and we need to deindustrialise while paying indulgences [to the sky gods?] to return to some mythical Garden of Eden where the weather is perfect and nuffink ever changes.
Is it any wonder that the monkey’s confused…
Roger Waters: Amused To Death.
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FWIW
“Who’s behind the anti-ICE riots in New Jersey”
“The Twitter user known as DataRepublican, whom we’ve met in these pages before, has done another masterful job of analyzing the groups and individuals behind the out-of-control anti-ICE riots in New Jersey. She condensed her findings into a lengthy post on X. Here’s how they begin.”
More and link at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/whos-behind-anti-ice-riots-in-new-jersey.html
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Water supply and management responsibilities and powers, noting that campaigning at the recent Farrer Federal by election and water was a major electorate voter issue;
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/water/policy/australian-government-water-responsibilities
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Russia doing what we should do… investigating how politicians became far richer than their salaries allow. Those who mixed politics with business in the Great Privatisation Era are still being investigated for fraud and corruption.
“it all came crashing down last month when a Moscow court ordered the seizure of his family’s 49 per cent stake in the company. His crime, prosecutors say, was violating a ban on combining public service with business activities while he served in the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament between 2006 and 2014, and abusing his political position for illegal enrichment.”
It means the State can get some of the taxpayer’s money back, and I’d say a certain half a billion dollars for the Great Barrier Reef would be the place to start.
“Just last year, Russia seized US$21.1 billion of assets in anti-corruption cases…“Anti-corruption lawsuits are becoming not merely a tool for combating corruption, but a driving force behind the redistribution of assets in favour of the state,” ”
We could look at politicians who have done very well after retiring too-
“The fact that former, even loyal, officials can face repercussions years after leaving office serves as a reminder that membership of the elite is conditional in Russia, she said.”
Russia might end up as the last bastion of Western European values after all!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/russian-billionaires-see-their-empires-crumble-as-putin-seizes-assets-20260604-p603vv.html
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