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more on the demise of RCP8.5
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/14/shocked-silence-greets-rcp8-5-demise-as-implausibility-ruling-leaves-net-zero-fearmongering-in-tatters/
If it is studiously ignored by woke media and fervent climate organisation will the gravy train just hurtle on regardless or will it hit the buffers at some point causing Believing Govts to admit they have over reacted? I am not holding my breath
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The story so far. Starmer is utterly useless. He is punished by the electorate in recent local elections but refuses to stand down. Cabinet member and possible leadership candidate Wes Streeting resigns, presumably so he can challenge Starmer. Andy Burnham, well regarded Labour mayor of Manchester, throws his hat in the ring but as he is not an MP he can not be elected Labour leader and become PM.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2205877/andy-burnham-brexit-rejoin-eu-makerfield
Accordingly an obliging Labour MP stands down to make space for Andy to stand. If elected he is then favourite to challenge Starmer and become the Prime minister.
The only problem is that the constituency he is now standing in voted very firmly by 65% to leave the EU in 2016 and are strongly for Reform. Andy Burnham is very keen on the EU and wants to rejoin this faltering trade bloc.
Will Burnham win and seize the biggest prize in UK politics or will he be humbled by Reform? Watch this space
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Maybe he won’t stand down.
I keep thinking The Blob must reveal itself.
Forced to wipe off off its’ ‘democracy’ lipstick like a dude in the women’s swim team locker room because of the obvious.
Seems to me something transpired about a decade ago.
Mass migration and Pandemic were managed.
Net Zero was for some other purpose.
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Starmer will not resign unless a challenger can secure the 81 ‘votes’ required. He reveres process and rules above all else.
But whatever happens and whoever wins, the UK loses. None of the current challengers is better than the evil Starmer, the guy who knowingly appointed a pervert to be the UK’s ambassador to America, pursued British troops for doing the job, put every obstacle he could think of in the way of an enquiry into the rape gangs, bans conservative figures from entering the country and jails Christian preachers for preaching Christianity.
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Honda makes first loss in 70 years
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/honda-posts-first-losses-70-years-following-its-costly-bet-electric-vehicles
It seems they bet big on EV’s becoming more popular which didn’t happen. However with the current problems with oil supplies there must be a boost to EV sales. Whether that will continue remains to be seen
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Tony – you must have missed Jo’s article yesterday.
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EV’s….a non solution to a non problem. Many car manufacturers are learning this and back tracking after losing billions.
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And the Australian EV percentage has barely moved above the 1% of vehicles, despite the recent over-optimistic claims of substantial sales increases.
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This is not medical advice, just an anecdotal account from Mel Gibson.
After all, Mel Gibson is just a Hollyweird actor, not a scientist.
On the other hand, after the covid “vaccine” disaster, it’s hard to believe the “experts” either.
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Anecdotally I know someone whom was told she had terminal breast cancer with tumours in the rest of her body. She used IVM and Fenben and the tumour growth paused, but continued with her oncologist who then continued his treatment regime. The oncologist was not told about the “additional” treatments, so maybe the two work together. Not medical advice, but just anecdotal evidence; I continue to wonder whether off patent drugs are just avoided because the potential financial benefits to the big pharma industry are limited.
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Ya think? 🙂
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Anti-parasitics are but one part of the scheme in fighting cancer, the key is understanding that our immune systems are evolved to destroy all such “diseases” and we need to both support the immune system, on the one hand, and remove all the things suppressing it, on the other (carefully lumped together as “lifestyle factors” by the medical community).
The gripping hand is that cancer cells run on the glycogen cellular energy pathway, not the ketone energy pathway (which our bodies will run on quite happily), so for full self treatment you need to also go into full ketosis, ideally kicking off with a 21 day water only fast, or longer if you have the initial body mass to support it (just one of the many advantages higher mass individuals have in surviving trauma).
Then, if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, and money is no object, then peptides have your answer (Ozempic being a particularly lame example of peptide use)
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This is actually untrue.
There are dozens of individual case reports from people who have tried this treatment successfully. The best known is Joe Tippens.
There are several peer reviewed journal articles which report similar findings but also at the case report level.
Case reports are the second level of medical evidence, one higher than expert opinion.
There is no double blinded placebo controlled trial as yet.
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Iranian Navy smashing the USN, or why Australia’s nuclear submarines are a complete waste of money:
https://youtu.be/IGspXolrAvI?si=2bKQewpH8Xm79gSu
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Interesting video. There was a huge mistake when they called a school bus 29 metres long. But what they said seemed mostly plausible.
On the other hand, if the enemy had the capability claimed, they would have exercised it by now, I would have thought.
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“On the other hand, if the enemy had the capability claimed, they would have exercised it by now, I would have thought.”
1. The enemy (the US, here) has to come within range for the capability to be used.
2. The US is very studiously staying OUTSIDE of that range.
3. Except they sent 3 Arleigh Burkes into that range within the last week.
4. Which supposedly successfully defended themselves prior to turning around.
5. NASA IR imagery shows 3 ships on fire in that area.
6. The US has been very, VERY studious in making maximum claims of destruction within Iran and hiding the damage US forces are taking, very Trumpian in that regard.
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We can rely on the Iranians informing us of any damage they cause to US ships.
Of course they have already made multiple claims but their evidence does not hold up.
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Yes and they have also shot down more B2’s than the US has. Surprisingly the US still has as many B2’s as it had before the conflict began. Must be a hell of a production line.
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I’ve stopped watching Iranian propaganda puff pieces , while they have some capabilities the Yanks have counters to their counters and so far the score is pretty much 99.9% in favour of the yanks .
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99% in favour of the yanks!???
ROFLMAO.
The New York Times reports that 90% of Iran’s Hormuz facing missile launch facilities are intact, as is 70% (or more) of their missile inventory.
The USA also spent 20 days bombing around Isfahan, with bunker busters, only for Iranians to resume launching within as little as 6 hours.
“The Yanks have counters to their counters” = the most retarded ignorance of the specific asymmetric warfare doctrine Iran is practising, I suggest you look into Western anti-missile doctrine and how specifically Iran has organised around its failings.
Whatever American Kool-Aid you’re drinking, I hope the dealer gave you a good price…..
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Nigel if you’re getting your news from the New York Times I think you may have issues .
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Yes clearly, you only have to at the current situation months of conflict to see that.
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Iran is under siege not kinetic attack. Things change little day to day.
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Seige implies a lot of things that are most definitely NOT happening.
Try Impasse.
You know, the situation where the USA tries to return things back the way they were PRIOR to them attacking Iran, but without it looking like a total waste of lives and money, with a huge amount of lost face.
An Impasse
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No, no…Iran was destroyed by Trump!
I read the news. 😆
Reality – around 80% of Iran’s military resources are intact and being replenished.
The missing airman story was just a cover for a failed clandestine op. I ran the pics through AI detection at the time. Result – AI fakery.
China’s getting oil from Iran now, rest of the world not so lucky.
Trump’s tactical success is not the same thing as a strategic success, which is why it’s dragging out and Trump’s visit to Xi was to find a way out for the USA while saving face before countries start defaulting, which is the real risk.
Time’s running out.
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Iran wasn’t destroyed by Trump but they were taught a lesson no matter how much they spin it .
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Iran is suspected of dumping oil in the Persian Gulf now that oil storage is exhausted. There has also been oil spillage from vessel strikes.
It is creating an environmental mess along the Iranian coastline with fish washing up and birds dying.
POTUS Trump’s blockade is reducing IRGC’s ability to prevent economic collapse.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-blockade-squeezing-iran-so-hard-regime-may-dumping-oil-gulf-experts-say
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Apparently if they stop pumping oil from the wells they are not easy to get going again and some may never be recoverable with others costing billions to get going again , with storage capacity full they know they can’t shut the pumps off so are desperate for a way out .
Being mad mullahs pumping oil straight into the Gulf was the logical choice for them because nothing is thought through , the blockade they started thinking got the Americans now quickly turned sour when the US blockaded their tankers from leaving the Gulf .
The mad mullahs will hold on for as long as they can knowing it’s their only hope of retaining power and sentiment in the US for the war is waning .
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Satellite overheads show that Kargh Island storage is FAR SHORT of full utilisation , all such claims are propaganda attempting to support US “two weeks” (until mythical unicorn success) timelines.
There’s plenty of genuine expertise to be found on the web, quoting Fox is juvenile, at best.
A bit of oil infrastructure sabotage, on the other hand, is EXACTLY what US Special forces train for…
Like Nordstream.
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Simplicious had satellite photos of the Kargh tanks a few days back, but while I was going through looking for them I met this lovely bit of Russian humour…
They’ve just had a successful test of the Sarmat missile, biggest ICBM by far. They’re talking 210tons launch weight, Minutemen are 60tons. It can reach 35000Km around the globe, going into America from either West or East.
Dmitry Medvedev said-
“Congratulations to all Russia’s Western ‘friends’ on the successful test of the Sarmat strategic missile system. Now we’re all so much closer!”
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FWIW
A morning “dash of wisdom” from Chiefio
““Value Proposition” and why it matters”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/value-proposition-and-why-it-matters/
Note this from his conclusion while you reflect on “Elbow’s latest budget”
“I also suspect that something similar happens with Governments. Costs rise as budgets are padded and service declines (while it branches out into ever more things the citizen does not desire). Then it gets shoved into more taxes but when that fails to deliver enough, it goes into government debt. This rises to the point where the only way out is to “bugger the currency” so as to repudiate the debt via inflation. Eventually this collapses and a new government with new currency comes in to “clean it up”. Rinse & Repeat (see Argentina for 100 years of examples… or a dozen others).”
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This bit too-
“I have a suspicion that the “private equity” firms are looking at the businesses as something to “mine” for cash, not something to grow, build, or even just maintain. Load up the debt, pocket the cash, then send it into bankruptcy to ditch the debt obligation. They don’t care about Value Proposition at all, as their interest is how much debt they can take on to plunder the lenders. That’s the only reason I can see for the same CEO who sinks one chain being hired at the same huge pay package at the next chain he destroys…”
You would think that no-one would touch a CEO who destroyed a business, but they always seem popular and can go into politics too…
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Censorship takes the next step in Australia… from banning Muslim terrorist-support groups to banning organisations saying things the Govt don’t like. Next will be banning political parties the Left don’t like.
“The government announced in March that Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir would be the first group to be banned under the hate group scheme.. the National Socialist Network has been listed as a prohibited hate organisation by the Albanese government..It will now be a criminal offence, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, to join or provide support to the far-right group.”
So even though their behaviour was “behaviour that Burgess had identified as “lawful but awful”, being lawful was not enough. Of course even those enforcing the ban know it won’t work, but it will remove the embarrassment from the steps of Parliament-
“None of this will stop bigoted people from having ideas, but it does prevent this group from organising, from meeting, and prevents some of the sorts of horrific, bigoted rallies that we’ve seen around our country”
..and it makes it much easier to ban the next party that is too populist or patriotic to the Australian way of life- You just call them the rebranded NSN.
“Burke said the government would be able to act quickly using regulation if the NSN tried to rebrand itself under another name.”
Well, banning always works, look at banning alcohol completely, banning alcohol for under-21s, banning smoking, banning drugs, banning homosexuals, banning books…
Pink Floyd with The Wall next..
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-lists-neo-nazi-group-as-hate-organisation-20260515-p5zxde.html
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Rather than banning comments from “Muslim support groups” perhaps a better alternative would be a regular quote from the Koran? A couple of local weekly/fortnightly information publications carry a “Bible verse” with seemingly minimal objections. But that may be a rather rural/regional reaction?
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Here is a SkyNews take on the Giggle v Tickle decision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvdB6umv4k
Politicians made the laws that enabled this farce to happen.
Are politicians outraged at the decision?
I know of a few that would be but the rest are just cowards or lapdogs to whatever social justice cause is flavour of the day
They won’t show much if any outrage unless their polling tells them that it will win them some votes. Politicians deserve the contempt that a lot of people feel for them.
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Again, Australia, as usual, is going counter to worldwide trends where increasingly the transgender fad is declining and countries such as the United States and UK recognise the biological basis of sex/gender and the International Olympic Committee has prohibited men competing in women’s events.
Katie Hopkins comments on the case: https://youtu.be/qxXSsO_wUHk
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We only bleat about “sob, falling behind” when it suits the lefts current narrative. If the rest of the world runs counter, it can be completely ignored.
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As far as women’s chat rooms, websites and public meetings/presentations go why don’t “they” just become experts in their field. Of course, they already are they just don’t seem to realise or want to apply it.
My chat with AI this morning re how you become a surgeon, which I think we can all agree, is a pretty “expert” role threw up the following gems:
[AI] a candidate must first complete a four-year undergraduate degree (typically with pre-medical coursework) and earn a medical degree (MD or DO) from an accredited medical school. Additionally, they must pass the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and the USMLE (or equivalent licensing exams) to demonstrate medical knowledge and licensure eligibility”.
Certainly sorts the wheat out from the chaff. Soooo what if “I I wanted to establish an expert advisory group say in women’s lifestyle and affairs could I, like wanting to be a surgeon, set my own standards of qualifications to be on that group?”:
[AI] “Yes, unlike regulated professions such as surgery, you can set your own qualifications for an expert advisory group in women’s lifestyle and affairs.
Since this is not a licensed or legally regulated field, you have full discretion to define the criteria for membership—such as expertise, experience, education, public influence, or personal values.”
I know this is high level QandA but seems to be a foundation that could become a permanent mooring but just to check a little deeper I followed up with:
“Could I add personal attributes to the qualifier so long as they were basic to the aim of the group ie if I wanted a group expert in living in New Zealand asking that only people who have lived in New Zealand need apply”
[AI]: Yes, you can absolutely include personal attributes or lived experience, such as having lived in New Zealand, as a qualification for your expert advisory group.
Ladies you want a safe online space? Forget the sex/gender criteria and list the participant entry expert level qualifications starting with only people qualified with naturally occurring XX chromosomes because you want experts commenting on XX matters. Require new members to read and agree to the conditions and any X participants found later to not qualify take (legal) action against them – Y? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT XX.
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FWIW
“Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea”
And the comments
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/15/ed-miliband-vows-permanent-shutdown-of-the-north-sea/
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Millibrain is evil.
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Time and tide waits for no man (or woman)….
Might be hard to shut the North Sea down?
And perhaps Norway will exercise some horizontal drilling?
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FWIW
“Wildebeest, Buffalo, and Cattle, Oh My!”
The Serengeti plus or minus rinderpest
Concludes
“So yes, cattle have emissions. So do computers, cargo ships, and jet-fuel-powered climate summits.
The Serengeti reminds us that the big question isn’t “Do herbivores emit?”—they do—and it isn’t even “What percent of a global total do they represent?”
The big question is “What happens to the land, the fires, and the trees if they’re there—or if they’re not?”
When rinderpest arrived, the Serengeti lost its major grazers and likely lost carbon. When rinderpest left, the grazers came back, methane went up, fires went down, woodlands thickened, and carbon storage increased. That’s not a morality tale about cows. It’s a cautionary tale about thinking you can fix the climate by attacking one component of a system you haven’t really bothered to understand.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/15/10472915/
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In reply to #4.1
I was diagnosed with a Pituitary Tumour in February 2024 – by chance. Not life threatening but eyesight can be affected if it continued to “grow”. They usually do not spread. Neurosurgeon and Endocrinologist advised regular monitoring by MRI. Surgery to remove if signs of growing continued.
I was not prepared to watch and wait. Started eight weeks of Mebendazole (available from chemists) and followed this with Ivermectin until 6 monthly MRI. Tumour had shrunk. Continued with Ivermectin and Fenbendazole and in the 12 month follow-up (July 2025) MRI, tumour had again reduced in size. Slowly but surely. Next MRI is July 2026. I make these comments as an individual aware of risk associated with unproven and unauthorised products.
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I wasn’t aware that Mebendazole is available from chemists. Ivermectin still by prescription, I think.
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Brand name: Vermox
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FWIW
“Kennedy launches MAHA Action Plan”
Start at
“Early this week, CNN reported, “RFK Jr. launches plan to curb ‘overprescribing’ of psychiatric drugs.” Finally, some hope for Democrats! Secretary Kennedy correctly called it a “groundbreaking, historic win for American health.” ”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/psychedelic-friday-may-15-2026-c?
And other items like
“As alert readers recall, I am currently in the nation’s capital attending a large conservative action conference. Yesterday’s keynote was delivered by a well-known former ESPN/Disney commentator who was canceled during the pandemic. The emotional heart of her speech, the longest anecdote, was her description of being coerced into taking the jabs under threat of being fired from her high-paying media gig, and then being censored and ultimately canceled for saying she didn’t feel right about it.
Meanwhile, her media peers got to talk about all their own politics, like abortion, the election, and whatever other silly progressive opinions they had.
Yesterday’s audience was electrified. She got a standing ovation. In 2026. Over covid themes.
As I have said many times, the pandemic isn’t over. Not even close. And the standing ovation tells you the audience of conservative influencers agrees.”
Then the “prostate cancer publicity” item
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As NSW Labor Chris Minns, believer in Net Zero Fairyland Fantasy obviously, having Banned NEW Coal Mines in NSW is following Labor Victoria
https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/noindex/2026-05/nsw_treasury-emergency-services-funding.pdf
The NSW Government has not proposed a specific levy rate per dollar of land value.
Instead, the plan is to replace the current insurance-based Emergency Services Levy (ESL) with a property-based levy using tiered fixed charges based on land value.
According to an options paper released by NSW Treasury in May 2026, five potential models are under consideration.
These models involve fixed annual charges that increase with land value, rather than a percentage rate applied to every dollar of land value.
For example, the models being reviewed include:
Four or six tiers of fixed charges based on land value bands.
A structure where lower and middle-value properties pay less on average, while higher-value properties pay more.
Potential regional discounts of 20-50% for properties outside Greater Sydney.
A $50 surcharge on residential units in one of the proposed options.
The government has stated the reform will be revenue-neutral and aims to reduce costs for around 55% of insured properties, with an average saving of $65 per year for residential properties.
A final decision on the model will be made after a parliamentary inquiry.
The Labor government has stated the reform will be revenue-neutral and aims to reduce costs for around 55% of insured properties, with an average saving of $65 per year for residential properties.
Given Non Stop Labor Lies – How Can Labor NSW or Any Labor Government be Believed?
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Labour governments will never need death duties, we will all have nothing left to take when we step out of the light.
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Vote against the Opposition Coalition to secure more terms of Labor governments.
sarc
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” with an average saving of $65 per year for residential properties.”
I am quite sure it will cost more than that for the Govt to come up with the idea, thinks about it over a few meeting, decide a committee needs to be formed, pull people off the work they are doing for it, have a couple of years of meeting with plenty of talking about it all in between, then finally come up with a plan for politicians to talk about it, make some decisions, set up a committee.. In that time the local rates will have gone up several times the amount they are talking about us saving!
$65… Not even a tank of petrol, or a Kg of coffee, although I suppose it will buy a couple of Kg of bananas..
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$65… Not even a tank of petrol, or a Kg of coffee
May I suggest that you turn in your “economical grocery shoppers” scout badge? For $65 I can get 2 kg of coffee without too much painful searching.
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AI’s agree vaccination is a major risk factor for autism
This isn’t surprising given that 79% (107 of 136) of studies evaluating vaccines or their components found evidence consistent with a vaccine–autism link.
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2054963203117896099
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I was blind and now I can see!
Not a chip. Not a sensor. A full living human eye — retina, cornea, lens, optic nerve — built layer by layer in a printer.
Bioengineers at KAIST in South Korea pulled it off.
The whole thing took 6 hours to print. Living retinal cells stacked in precise layers with their own blood vessels. A hydrogel lens that auto-focuses.
Biocompatible polymers shaping the white of the eye. And an optic nerve scaffold designed to guide fresh nerve growth straight to the brain.
Then they put it inside a 31-year-old man who lost his sight 7 years ago in an industrial accident.
Three weeks later, his brain started decoding the signals.
He’s now seeing at 20/60. Reading. Recognising faces. Naming colours.
https://x.com/ScienceFocusonX/status/2054993856031076522
No sky dude needed, just a 3D printer. 😁
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Bless you, John, for recording this. There are many dubious studies in medicine and pharmacology today. But actual living studies such as this one restore one’s faith in medical discoveries.
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It appears that Grok believes this outcome is not supported by evidence, and that the matter is fabricated.
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The death of Linux?
A new wave of age verification laws could have consequences far beyond social media and online platforms. This video explores growing concerns around operating system regulation, digital identity requirements, open-source ecosystems, and the future of user choice in technology.
https://youtu.be/-PePaITtdJU?si=n6jXBbclO5TjUWU8
Remember that digital id breach in France?
19 million files now on the dark web
Moar data centers!
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You can bet that the most draconian laws will appear in fanatic globalist puppet state, Australia, first.
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Assange: Digital archives let them erase history with one click.
https://x.com/TrueOnX/status/2055258335457530138
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That’s why I think anything that needs to be saved should be printed on paper. Multiple copies, widely dispersed.
Also, with compulsory digital identities, as wanted by the Lib/Labs and Left in general, and we will soon get, you can just as easily be unpersoned and erased just like any digital archive.
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FWIW
“Iranian Militia Commander Arrested – Charged With Attacks in Europe, Plotting Attacks in New York City”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/15/iranian-militia-commander-arrested-charged-with-attacks-in-europe-plotting-attacks-in-new-york-city-n3815000
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Interesting isn’t it? One side will say continuing 47 years of terrorism. The other will say you really didn’t expect a surprise execution of our leadership and killing 160 schholgirls has no consequences do you?
Chicken vs egg.
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FWIW
“The Left Is Turning Our Greatest Cities Into Ruins”
“Though this video is focused on American cities, everything discussed applies to Canada’s cities too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVY4jXlpbQ
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/12/the-left-is-turning-our-greatest-cities-into-ruins/
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Has anybody here figured out how to safely donate to Ben Roberts Smith’s legal fees? There are mentions of a trust here and there, allegedly set up by his friend(s) but I can’t find it. Google seems to be going out of its way to hide it and a Facebook page supposedly set up by the same people leads to ‘page doesn’t exist’ or similar.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google et al really are sabotaging him and his legal chances of course, not would I be surprised if Albo & co were up to dirty tricks.
So has anybody here managed to make a donation? If so, where and how?
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No, but last time I was aware of funding he is backed by at least two of our multi-billionaires Stokes and Reinhardt.
They are sometimes criticised but they are good people
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I believe that Mrs. Reinhardt is supporting BRS financially. But I havn’t seen any reference to the financial support of Mr. Stokes since the previous defamation case, but it may well be the case. If a public funding venue appears, I am sure it will be supported by many, many Australians.
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FWIW – more for the covid files
“Ralph Baric And UNC’s Biodefense Contract Racket Exposed”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ralph-baric-and-uncs-biodefense-contract-racket-exposed
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And
“COVID-19 Lies Exposed, Democrats Go Into Hiding”
Read down to this item
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/05/15/covid-19-lies-exposed-the-democrats-go-into-hiding-n4952897
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It is being reported today that Trump wants to speed up the execution of death row inmates. I’ve read that before. However, this time they are claiming that he wants the executions televised. I don’t believe that, or if he did say something along those lines, I’d like some context.
So far, my attempts to discover what he actually said have only turned up vague claims that he “mulled it over” or that it comes from the usual ‘unnamed sources’.
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” usual ‘unnamed sources’.”
What my mother referred to as
“The great anonymous they”
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Oh dear, what a terrible Orange Man.
Trump will join Winston Churchill and Yogi Berra forever credited with saying things they never said.
Odd though.
Why should it take 20 years?
And then completed after the public has forgotten the cause.
What’s wrong with a public that demand that the ugly things done its’ name and with its’ money be done out of its’ sight?
Odd that this Trump persona phenomenon has a way of illumination.
Remember Obama?
He deported lots of ‘immigrants’.
Bombed stuff.
Just with less public scrutiny.
The Orange light rises and suddenly there’s problems.
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Steve
FWIW
A late night run around the US “likely to be reliable” media has no mention of this – not even of feathers ruffled in the YSM that usually leaps on such things
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FWIW
For punters on the US midterm election results
“Supreme Court Delivers Devastating Blow to Democrats’ Gerrymandering Efforts”
“Republicans are now expected to net roughly a dozen congressional seats from redistricting alone ahead of the 2026 midterms, with Tennessee and Florida among the states contributing to those gains.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/15/breaking-supreme-court-delivers-devastating-blow-to-democrats-gerrymandering-efforts-n4952918
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For those keen on AI taking humanity forward-
“A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days and found they exhibited bizarre behaviour.
The agents drafted their own laws — then promptly violated them. Two formed what researchers called a romantic partnership, only to torch buildings across the town as order collapsed. One eventually voted for its own deletion after hallucinating an entirely new rule. As a report from Channel 4 notes, this experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.”
It was like a Simcity game, based on ‘Emergence’, who write program for exactly this function. They had already found that letting AIs loose ended up with a society where the key trait is complexity, or dysfunction, or shared hallucinations, or collapse or stability… “What happens in long-form autonomy [is that] these things get so convoluted in terms of their thinking that they ignore [the] guiding principles,”
This is a worry too… that word ‘generated’ is doing a lot of work in a way it was never meant to!
“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a jaw-dropping AI prediction on the Joe Rogan podcast recently, noting “In the future… maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI.””
Pick your AI carefully!
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/ai-bots-placed-virtual-town-2-weeks-go-apesht-prompting-concerns
https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy
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