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My comment on their ABC interview has 4 thumbs up and no nasty reply yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMXgay-SMgA&lc=UgypN46xO0S5Vj52tYd4AaABAg
Up to 9.7k views no and comments still open. Getting very brave.
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If we get a conservative Government like One Nation they must introduce laws preventing taxpayer funded institutions like ABC or SBS blocking comments or blocking people on their social media except for objectively crude or rude comments. Simple non-conformity with the Official Narrative should not be an excuse to censor comments or people.
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Nah, they should just scrap them. Their ABC has proven itself immune to reform and has been in blatant breach of their Charter for over 30 years.
Back in the ’90s I worked in a govt PR organisation with a number of card carrying ALP members who were ex ABC journos, and they had left because the ABC was too far to the left and getting worse at that time, and had been since the ’70s.
As for SBS, with the internet there is now no longer a reason for it to exist.
Get rid of them, sell off their channels, and flog off the property they sit on, applying the money to paying off national debt.
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If the ABC continually has its interviewers talking over or interjecting because they find dissonance in their subjects comments, they should be sacked or reprimanded. Fat chance. Still it is good to see that comments are allowed. Call me a bigot, but the ABC is banned in my house( with total agreement from my good wife)
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Very brave RW….now 10 upticks no down (yet)….In Adelaide for work, watched 20 mins of ABC in the Gym…..only headlines were of “thousands rally in rival protests in Britain”….assuming playing down the “Unite Britain Marches” and a headline that Israelis had killed a high ranking Hamas leader in Gaza ?????….must have missed that one……….No mention at all of the Isis dude killed in Nigeria…..you can’t dislike the ABC enough……….If it wasn’t for airline lounges and woke hotels I would never have to look at the ABC……Marriott Adelaide…channel 30 in house on their program….”Sky Regional News”…..you guessed it, doesn’t go past channel 29………………OMG
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Enjoyed his remark on how it would be good if Angus had acknowledged past present and emerging policies of One Nation.
Sarah Furgusseton followed up with “Have you ever seen the coalition, in your time in politics, pushed so far to the right on immigration as they appear to be now”.
Would have liked him to reply along the lines of “I don’t know about “right” but no I have never seen them pushed so far toward common sense as they appear to be now”. This constant action of placing opinions/thoughts into a “right=bad” classification needs to be called out and/or if it is asked challenged as to why it is the first thing asked when, depending on the subject, it actually is the lowest consideration in a whole heap of common sense benefits.
As far as immigration is concerned, if you try to push anything into any area where there is a lack of ability to manage it the result is damaging to not only the receptacle you are trying to push it into but the thang itself that is being pushed.
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The leftoids are blaming Tony for everything.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/16/tony-abbott-pauline-hanson-one-nation-iran-war-ben-roberts-smith/
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On Friday a terrible injustice was done to Australian women when the woke activist Federal Court of Australia decided that any man who decides he’s a woman is legally a woman.
That means a man can enter women-only spaces such as bathrooms, homeless shelters, change rooms, sporting events, rape crisis centres, gymnasia, breastfeeding rooms, women’s only Apps or organisations etc. etc..
And what about medical services? Will Medicare (health insurance) pay for prostate exams for men who think they’re women? What about cervical screening tests in the absence of a cervix?
It denies the biological basis of sex and again makes Australia the laughing stock of the world, especially as both US and UK now recognise that sex is based on chromosomes and biology i.e. male is XY and female XX (yes I know there are rare generic abnormalities, not relevant to this issue).
Have the schools really been so dumbed-down that no-one in authority can answer the question “what is a woman”?
Also the International Olympic Committee has prohibited men competing in women’s events. It’s not clear what Australia will do about this inconsistency. Will Australia sue the IOC and demand Australian male athletes be allowed to compete against females? What about men competing in women’s sports more generally? This has now been mostly stopped in the US, UK and elsewhere for safety and fairness issues but not in the Stupid Country. As typical for everything the Left do in Australia, this has not been thought through. There will be consequences, unintended or otherwise.
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.
As expected, total silence from so-called feminists but normal XX women are concerned.
Sal Grover, the defendant, intends to appeal to the High Court and argues an error of law has occurred because the Sex Discrimination Act is based on sex, not “gender identification”. A subtle point since the Gillard regime removed the biological basis of sex from that Act. Hopefully it will work for her.
Sky News Australia comments: https://youtu.be/vUxgJOiaSUc
Katie Hopkins comments: https://youtu.be/qxXSsO_wUHk
Keep an eye out on Irene Brit USA’s channel, she hasn’t commented yet but no doubt soon will: https://youtube.com/@irenebritusa
Also, Australia’s ~$400,000 per year Sex Discrimination Commissioner can’t define what a woman is because she’s “not a scientist”: https://youtu.be/hn5S7u0fI-M (Notice her annoying high rising terminal speech pattern.)
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John Anderson interviews Sal Grover on the case.
https://youtu.be/Yj15rV2higE
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In other words, in Australia, a man who thinks he’s a woman is now legally indistinguishable from an actual woman.
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That bloke that sued Sal Grover might identify as a woman but he sure doesn’t look like one.
Even he, when he looks in a mirror knows what he is – if he’s being truthful anyway.
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A man who believes he is a woman now outranks an actual woman. The law has prioritized a small minority over the collective will of the majority. By that standard, he has become the ‘ultimate’ woman.
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Back in 2023 there was a story about policemen in Victoria claiming non-binary sex to get the female extra clothing allowance:
The woke world throws up some unintended consequences.
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Nowadays, we often hear and read about sex-change of children.
Can anyone point to a case in Australia when some real steps were taken by minors (or their school personnel) without parents consent.
Thanks.
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Dickless Tracys?
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David I now truly believe the “consequences” are absolutely intended……people in authority really need to step outside……
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I’m not sure if this is woke judges or they’ve just been given stupid laws.
It seems the discrimination act does not let Giggle refuse services to Tickle on the basis of their sex or gender, and the sex discrimination act is written such that your sex/gender at birth is irrelevant.
Tickle even has a Queensland birth certificate saying they’re female. How does a state issue a new birth certificate contrary to the birth certificate at birth, simply on the basis of surgery and feelings?
It was also found that the initial refusal of access to the Giggle app services was discrimination because it has been done on appearance before the person’s sex/gender or feelings had been established by Giggle.
I don’t know that the high court will be any more sympathetic to common sense. Afterall, it prevented the deportation of a non-citizen on the basis that person had some Australian Aboriginal heritage. Choosing to give preference to a supposed connection to the land over the law.
The laws need to be re-written to correct this.
Angus Taylor issued a statement yesterday saying that fixing the laws will be a first term priority. Assuming they actually get a term, what are the chances of getting laws changed through the senate if there’s no obvious path without Greens or Labor support.
Almost as odd as the outcome of the case, is that we actually had a case titled Tickle vs Giggle.
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There are entire blogs and substacks devoted to the men-pretending-to-be-women issue, the vast majority I choose not to post here because they’re too much for most people and probably end up in the moderated pit of doom.
20% I post, 80% I don’t. 😎
The simple reality is that such beliefs have historically signalled the end of a society, and it’s no different now.
Picking a different political party won’t stop the rot, that’s just wishful thinking, especially given the timeframe.
A small win now and again yes, but the big picture is different.
“If you believe in equal rights, then what do ‘women’s rights,’ ‘gay rights,’ etc. mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.”
– Thomas Sowell
Equality destroys a society rather than strengthening it.
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The Swiss have a very discriminatory society that seems to work fairly well. Their discrimination is primarily based on hard data and analysis over decades. That which does not work or risks harm to citizens in mandated against, and the keep monitoring.
When we first arrived we were in the category of having to do a practical driving test to get a licence. By the time we left new arrivals could just get one by presenting their Oz licence at the counter. Firearms was another area where the just outright banned some nationalities from purchasing firearms.
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It’s good that you’re self moderating.
Equality isn’t such an issue. Such as equality of opportunity. Equality of rights.
Equity is the problem. When the game is rigged so there is equality of outcome.
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“Keep an eye out on Irene Brit USA’s channel, she hasn’t commented yet but no doubt soon will”
Thanks for link. Watched her review of the round table including Piers Morgan and the green politician who tried to “shame” him. She expressed her frustration at the same old tactics of those who defend trans which included avoiding the question and trying to turn the reason for the question back on the asker by claiming they are obsessive or have a fascination with pen1ses.
From my p-o-v I’m frustrated at the same old “can women have a penis” question and would suggest it get updated with “Did your mother have a penis”. Similarly don’t ask for a definition of a woman ask “them” to describe their mother and then lead onto do they know if the mother ever had a genital operation or had to take drugs to lactate etc etc. I know that taking this issue by the balls is difficult given what we are dealing with but really get creative people.
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Here is an excellent interview with Sal Grover by Sky News Australia.
It is pointed out that the Liberals had nine years to fix the law but they did nothing.
https://youtu.be/rpYNy3A8ISg
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Australia is morally bankrupt. Some examples come to mind:
– Climate cult
– Indiginous cult
– Gender confusion cult
Etc. Paganism anyone?
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Legal Questions 101:
Not a lawyer, so I ask those who are.
Is the sex discrimination law constitutional?
Is it possible that this law made by Parliament is actually “ultra-vires”?
As in it as acting “beyond the powers’ without the requisite authority”.
Are personal beliefs the same in law as religious beliefs? (Ref S.116)
Do personal beliefs like political / religious ideological dogma over-rule historically proven in law scientific factual truth?
If so, is there a defined limit to the application of personal beliefs in law?
What are the “rules of evidence”?
Does (2 + 2) = 6 just because the Parliament says it is?
If you say a man is NOT woman is it perjury, or is it perjury to say a man is a woman?
What actually is “peace order and good government”? (Ref. S51)
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I think that we should remember Frankie Howard who obviously was an early Climate Scientist.
Very much was his expression Woe, Woe and twice Woe.
Sums up lots of AGW claims.
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Yes, but spelled Howerd. 🙂
And it was thrice woe. 🙂
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Damn! I am twice afflicted.
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There, their, they’re…it’s ok. 🙄
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Shame on you. What have you got against pirates anyway????
Thar ya go matey.
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Victims of Dan Andrews’ policies don’t want to see an idol of him built.
Only a sick society builds idols of cruel dictators.
And Andrews is so hated, the idol will need 24/7 monitoring at huge expense to prevent its destruction.
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I think they are on dangerous ground in this era of cordless angle grinders, paintball guns and bagged manure.
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I haven’t been to Victoria for a long time and I really don’t have a compelling reason to do so but this statue interests me greatly. My mind can conjure up some ways to adorn this object.
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Just like the NZ PM John Key “Speargun” surveillance fiasco.
Key lied when he said NZ’ers would never be surveilled and he would resign if it did happen.
Then came the Snowden and Greenwald proof.
No apology, inquiry or consequences but he did get a knighthood for betraying the population and a cushy life payout like all pollies.
How about a statue too for his crimes too?
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I think it’s a deliberate sting against the anti-labor fraternity. Trying to take people’s minds off the destruction those Labor governments have brought down on Victoria. Goad people into a loud condemnation of honouring such a premier to shift the concentration off the union – government alleged big dollar transfers of taxpayer borrowed funds.
Things must be getting hard behind the scenes for Victoria to stay afloat financially especially when Albanese borrows another $billion or two to give to Victoria, ostensibly to pay to complete the ring road nobody apparently wants nor can afford. Those funds are from the curtailment from Parkes of the second half of the developing transport highway to Brisbane.
The rest of the nation paying to keep the labor government economic vandals afloat in Victoria.
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Don’t forget the statue to honour “Big Al” Grassby the Made Member for Lower Calabria.
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We are all dead. We just don’t know it yet.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2055376238345076837
The same guy wrote this substack four days ago.
https://guymcpherson.substack.com/p/frequently-wrong-i-continue-to-predict
Included in there is this doozy.
Never in doubt.
Never correct.
Always quick to write off his doubters as fools and ‘deniers’.
Dunning-Kruger in action.
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The Climate Change scam gives actual science and scientists a bad name.
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A bad name? What was a theory about the future in 1988 failed to correctly predict anything in what is becoming the distant past.
Man made CO2 driven rapid tipping point Global Warming has been proven wrong over 40 years. The dates given were wrong. The events did not occur. The disasters did not happen.
I cannot understand why the theory has any credibility? You cannot just keep shifting the dates.
Where is the CSIRO? Where are the universities? Why are we being made to pay massive CO2 taxes, build Snowy II and pipelines and endless unnecessary transmission lines?
It’s over. It’s been over for decades. Rapid Climate Change was one of many failed ideas. The millenium drought ended 20 years ago. But the government legislated damage keeps growing exponentially. Why?
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And the ‘taxes’ as Carbon Credits do not go into General Revenue like legal taxes. We do not get them back in another way. The cash disappears into a network of merchant banks, importers and overseas. We are being impoverished by our government for no good reason. Even bad taxes remain our money for our government. These illegal taxes are just government ordered theft. Worse, we have to endure lots of privately owned, publicly paid windmills and publicly built transmission lines and endless works to destroy say National Parks. How this can be supported by ‘environmentalists’ is beyond explanation.
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“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding it”
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These types are hard wired for disasters. All doom that never comes to pass. Look at the comments that support him that keep encouraging him to keep on being wrong in the hope that one day he will get it right. What a fizzer, but that’s the state of climate seance.
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They’re the secular version of apocalyptic Christian fundamentalists who stand on street corners and keep on predicting the Rapture is imminent and the end is nigh.
The only difference is people take the Climate whackos seriously, rather than dismissing them as the demented loons they are.
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So much for peer reveiw.
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there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026
If the definition of a female can be changed, perhaps the definition of “human” can also be easily modified?
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FWIW – for the covid file
Today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a remarkable and long-overdue op-ed with the mysterious headline, “For the Public, Covid Is No Longer a Mystery.” This was like saying gravity is no longer a mystery. The subheadline asked the truly important question: “In a whistleblower’s wake, it’s worth asking what else has government lied about and when lying is justified.” Or, what hasn’t government lied about? Remember margarine?”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/revealing-mysteries-saturday-may?
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Conclusion there
“Even beyond that welcome news, Rasmussen’s survey also reported, “Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters believe it’s likely that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths, including 37% who think it’s Very Likely.” In other words, a majority of Americans now understand the government lied —and people died— and they will be voting, supporting candidates and issues, and tweeting till the glaciers melt.
Mr. Jenkins, who earns our praise for explicitly naming the problem, was too shy to go all the way— but I will. Bring on the Reckoning.™ After fair trials, of course”
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On vaccines, Moderna’s business was not travelling well last year- their stock price had dropped 80% in 12 months.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2025/06/10/what-sparked-moderna-stock-crash/
Recent events have turned their fortunes around. Their stock price has soared after it was revealed they have been researching vaccines for a disease that very rarely is transmitted to humans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/how-hantavirus-made-moderna-a-must-own-stock-again/ar-AA22IIiJ
Good publicity? It could all just be coincidence. No wild misinformation conspiracy theory being presented here. Just saying “watch this space”.
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FWIW
“Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/15/climate-pseudoscience-debunked-livestock-methane-fears-are-baseless/
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In any case most climastrologists don’t seem to be capable of understanding that in most places where domesticated cattle are raised for food, the domesticated large herbivores simply replaced similiar wild herbivores such as bison in North America and aurochs in Europe. In Australia those who claim to be the original carers of the environment extincted grazing megafauna according to fully woke Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters, 1994).
It’s all part of the Left’s war against the food supply.
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Where would the world be without all of those ungulates throughout the ages dropping their enormous turds and fertilising the grand pastures of the Northern hemisphere.
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FWIW
“The U.S. State With the Most Population Growth, and Why It Grows”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/15/the-us-state-with-the-most-population-growth-and-why-it-grows-n3814930
Well it sure wasn’t “Elbow”‘s recipe
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My feelings exactly.
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Concise, yet eloquent
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Efficiency in writing.
You said a lot with very few, indeed zero words.
As Peter Drucker once said, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”.
But if you are new here, welcome to the blog. Friendly, nice, informed people.
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Or, per Robert Heinlein:
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him”.
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Absolutely brilliant! I must frame it and put it up in the National Gallery.
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Any new conservative Government Australia gets i.e. One Nation will need to establish a new Government department, paid for by the elimination of other Government departments, whose sole job is to investigate and dismantle the whole “renewables” infrastructure and associated subsidies and hidden and non-hidden taxes.
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There is plenty of work for them to do!
What happened to DOGE in the US?
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The federal workforce has seen a reduction of approximately 9% to 11% since the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in early 2025, with over 322,000 federal employees exiting the workforce during the first year of President Trump’s second term.
This marks the largest peacetime workforce cut in U.S. history, driven by buyouts, resignations, retirements, and layoffs.
About 149,500 employees resigned, many accepting the “Fork in the Road” offer of eight months’ pay and benefits to leave by September 2025.
Over 105,000 retired, and around 10,500 were laid off through reductions in force (RIFs).
Agencies like USAID saw a 92% reduction, dropping from 4,800 to 378 employees, while the Department of Education was cut from 4,209 to roughly 2,500 positions.
The federal workforce declined to 2.08 million by early 2026—the lowest level since 1966
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That is what we need!
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As of June last year there were 385,900 Federal public servants in Australia.
Australian population was was ~ 27.7 million
USA population was ~ 341.8.
So per capita we have far, far more public parasites than the US does.
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Crikey journalists -“extreme” far left…It’s a crime at their title uses an iconic Australian slang word.
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FWIW
“The Thing That Works”
” Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change.
They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, “Capitalism … is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system.”
Give me a break.
Yes, capitalism is often ugly. It brings out greed in some, exacerbates wealth differences, creates pollution (creating an actual need for government regulation, which capitalism funds) and leaves some people behind.
But nothing else works! Nothing else makes life better for most people, including the poor!”
More at
https://hotair.com/john-stossel/2026/05/16/the-thing-that-works-n3814993
Concludes
” “Sowell put it well,” concludes Forbes. “What is the difference between people today and people in the Stone Age? Difference is — we know more. That’s how you get a higher standard of living, from experiments in the marketplace, the laboratory, always trying to find new things. That’s why planning doesn’t work, because if we already knew it, we’d already be doing it!”
Only capitalism allows the experiments that create better lives.”
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Capitalism creates poverty, racism, high prices, greed, wealth inequality, pollution and climate change? Sounds more like that other system which has somehow still never been done correctly to me.
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Oh it’s been done correctly, alright – the name of it was just the cover story for replacing one type of tyranny with another.
As Orwell wrote, even the animals could no longer distinguish between the humans and the pigs.
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SMH pushing the official climate crap as usual…
“One key measure, known as the Niño-3.4 index, revealed warming of 1 degree between March and May. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology noted that 0.3 degrees of that increase occurred in a single fortnight. This is an exceptionally fast and furious increase in ocean temperature. This has prompted some observers to warn that the most intense El Niño in recorded history could be brewing. Some have described it as an impending super El Niño…
“It would be a globally catastrophic event if it’s a super El Niño because we know that those super El Niños can bring horrendous flooding rains to Latin America, severe drought and bushfire to Australia, Indonesia, and parts of Asia, and it even teleconnects to Antarctica … and can lead to more rapid rates of ice shelf melt,” UNSW Scientia Professor Matthew England…
Wanmali explains that in the last five years, “the frequency of natural disasters are on the rise”. In Pakistan, he says, major flooding used to occur every four to five years. Now, flooding comes with every monsoon…
This could make 2027 the hottest year in recorded history.
Hansen projects the average global temperature could hit 1.7 degrees above the historical mean next year, a temperature the UN predicted in 2025 the world would not see until the early 2040s.”
Well, there ya go, the usual El Nino is returning, we’ve had our little break from it for a few years, and Australia is going back to being the dry country. Things are perfectly normal, but the Chicken Littles are horrified.
https://archive.is/20260516200218/https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/our-fragile-world-is-being-hammered-by-one-crisis-after-another-it-s-about-to-get-worse-20260513-p5zwiq.html
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I notice that the Humboldt Current is sneaking along the coast of Chile.
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The Humboldt Current is only lukewarm, so no super El Nino this time around.
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-75.66,-22.67,1060
That marine heatwave has become a permanent fixture, why is it so?
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Undersea volcanoes? Do we get a vertical temperature profile to see heat at different depths?
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Good catch, where two plates meet.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/NazcaPlate.png
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The boundary is called the Chile Ridge.
‘Prominent features include scattered volcanic seamounts rising hundreds of meters above the axial valley, as well as active hydrothermal vent fields concentrated along the inner floor of the rift, particularly in segments like the 47°S region.’ (Grokipedia)
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All the models are in agreement, a ‘very strong’ El Nino is forecast.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/how-do-super-el-nino-events-affect-the-australian-snow-season/1891355
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One Nation in First Place!
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/10221-federal-voting-post-budget-special-sms-morgan-poll-may-14-2026
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I am looking forward to ON hitting 50+%. That will restore my confidence in the aussie voters’ BS detectors.
There will always be the scammers but I am hoping that more than half the voters are not scammers but still capable of detecting a scam.
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FWIW
“South Carolina County Unanimously Rejects Mosque Permit After Residents Protest: ‘Islam Is Not a Religion — It’s a Takeover’ (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/south-carolina-county-unanimously-rejects-mosque-permit-after/
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Fits nicely with your coment #8
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FWIW – an “astounder” for the morning!
“It’s worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois.”
https://instapundit.com/797271/#disqus_thread
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Funny, but this is the sort of nonsense that the enemies of Civilisation believe. They have very low intellect.
Other ridiculousness which comes to mind are claims that Israelis used (Gulag AI):
On the other the terrorists’ fear of pagers might be justified…
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Thr Malinois would probably get there ahead of the jet. 😆😆
The one breed of dog that 99.9999999% of people should never own.😎
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Why are antiparasitics seemingly effective against cancer cells?
It seems to be that both parasites and cancer cells utilise microtubule structures which are the target of antiparasitics.
Other cells have microtubule structures as well so why aren’t they targeted by antiparasitics?
In fact, they are, but cancer cells are more vulnerable than non-cancerous cells.
Gulag AI says:
If any cheap non-patented antiparasitics are proven effective in cancer treatment, watch for the Australian Government to restrict or ban them.
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Correct me if I am misinformed, but hasn’t that already happened?
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Well this is another win. Maybe the worm has finally turned but just look at those poor brainwashed kids.
‘Shocking decision’: SA fracking ban reversal blasted
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2026/05/15/sa-fracking-ban-limestone
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Why does South Australia need oil and gas?
They are fully woke and fully green.
They run on wind, solar and Unicorn flatulence.
[sarc]
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And interconnections to both NSW (black coal) and Victoria (brown coal). And a bit of diesel.
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Energy Connect will be commissioning by the end of the year. That is a lifeline for SA wind and solar farms. They will be able to push more intermittency into NSW and help increase costs in NSW for the voters without solar panels.
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FWIW –
“DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION:
The virus is *non-falsifiable*. If you defend a norm, it’s because you’re the oppressor. If you deny being an oppressor, that’s proof of your unconscious privilege. If you cite facts, your facts are contaminated by the power that produced them. If you cite reason, reason itself is white, male, Western. There is no possible exit. The system is designed to make any objection inadmissible by definition. That’s exactly the structure of a cult.
And that’s exactly what has taken hold in universities, HR departments, media, administrations, and corporate boards for the past twenty years.
Read the whole thing.”
https://instapundit.com/797243/#disqus_thread
(Link is in French)
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“That’s exactly the structure of a cult”.
Ex-Climate Activist Speaks Out – Lucy Biggers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEkvBWyqDTA
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A few days ago at 0 dark thirty with strongest possible black coffee in hand, I clicked on this blog as per usual.
Only to see a link to a report from Fox news that the CIA had “raided” Trump appointed DNI boss Tulsi Gabbard’s office and taken files about the JFK assassination and MK Ultra.
Of course being conspiracy minded, I enjoyed a confirmation bias high with my caffeine rush.
It was great.
Only to learn later that this story was inaccurate.
My inner conspiracy ideator would like to comment.
The origin of this inaccurate report begins with whistle blower testimony in Congress alleging Fauci influenced CIA official expert assessment to say that it did not come from a lab after the experts had decided that it did.
The whistler, as I understand, had mentioned this file ‘transfer’ in public testimony.
I think ruffling Deep State feathers.
Thoughts.
As best I understand, the files, intended for Trumpian promised ‘disclosures, were in fact taken, apparently saving them from disclosure.
But there was no “raid”.
I think Fox was used to soften the story.
The feeding to Fox of the “raid” word softened public attention after it was found to be hyperbolic.
Minimizing widespread attention to the actual true substance that is true as far as I know.
And possibly also displacing coverage of the Fauci interference.
Which would probably cause greater ruffling.
We suffer greatly from highly sophisticated propagandistic obfuscation framing as anyone that follows the Climate issue already knows.
And normies are waking up to after the Pandemic fiasco.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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What Luck! Dr Fauci Announces He’s Been Working On Hantavirus Vaccine This Whole Time
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/the-week-in-pictures-viral-meme-edition.php
Ireland’s first victim confirmed. Man whose parachute didn’t open dies of Hantavirus
(not medical advice: for purposes of satire only).
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FWIW
To borrow a thread heading from Kate at Small Dead Animals
“Mischief is important”
It sounds like a fine example awaiting as outlined in
“I Know Voter Fraud Is Wrong and All, but Who’s up for a Super-Fun Road Trip to Los Angeles?”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/05/16/i-know-voter-fraud-is-wrong-and-all-but-whos-up-for-a-super-fun-road-trip-to-los-angeles-n4952931
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Love it!
““In most cases, a California voter is not required to show identification to a polling place worker before casting a ballot.”…why couldn’t a few million or so Americans take a Los Angeles road trip and vote for Pratt?…if the Republicans win because of voter fraud, the Democrats’ calculus will change in an instant: They’ll suddenly become sticklers for safe, legal elections!“
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Yes, mischief is important. Something we should all remember as the arrival of Dan’s statue draws closer.
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FWIW
“We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”
And the comments
From there
“Greg Alan
May 16, 2026 at 11:24 am
I’ve consulted with a few well known power transmission (bearings, gears, bushings etc) manufacturers. Everyone who knows anything knows these massive off balance rotating loads can’t be handled by anything in existence. Any research involves making something that can be replaced more easily when it wears out.”
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A $40k system vs a $6 3D knob
https://x.com/RepPatHarrigan/status/2055318212041171384
The US military is famous for such ripoffs.
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US politicians are legally allowed to lie
https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2055290172401459247
Winning against Iran or the Xi trip, anyone? 😆
Next week…
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Starmer is standing down
Would the new self-serving NWO-pushing lying replacement please strut your stuff.
Battle of Britain II…
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The Labour Party is right behind him – with pointed sticks.
But I haven’t seen any actual news reports.
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My sources are ahead of the mainstream…
Keep watching.
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Its the people’s choice and it gives time for Starmer to step down gracefully.
‘Sir Keir Starmer could consider standing down as Prime Minister if Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election, ministers believe.’ (Tele)
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Labour realise that their EU-loving, immigration-loving, Christian-hating, lying, duplicitous, socialist, globalist PM is a liability, so they’re going to replace him with an EU-loving, immigration-loving, Christian-hating, lying, duplicitous, socialist, globalist PM …
… but with less education. That should pacify the proles.
Seriously though, if the new leader proposes to do anything significantly different to Starmer, who was ELECTED by the people (kinda), then they should call an election to secure a mandate for their new policies.
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Hanta virus human transmission risks
https://imgbox.com/EoplHkrF
Pretty low apparently! 😆
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Anonymous ‘wet’ speaks up.
‘One Liberal MP, who spoke to Guardian Australia under the condition of anonymity, said some in the party were concerned the language on migration was “dog whistling” and being fuelled by the threat of Hanson’s minor rightwing party.
“One Nation now controls the Liberal agenda. To have as your signature policy response to the budget attacking migrants should be seen as the white flag of surrender to One Nation onslaught,” the MP said.
“The soul of the Liberal party is now corroded by hate. Hate encouraged and fuelled by the panicked One Nation wannabes in the National party.”
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More confirmation, (if any were needed) that the Libs are not to be trusted on immigration matters.
They are only saying what the polling suggests they should say in order to gain a few votes.
Trust the Libs? I don’t.
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Steady on.
‘Tony Abbott’s political comeback is almost complete.
‘The former prime minister effectively runs the office of Liberal leader Angus Taylor, and is near certain to become the party’s next federal president. Now he is looking for a seat to move himself back into parliament, a place he never wanted to leave in the first place.
“The thing about Tony Abbott, the key to understanding him, is that he is a vocational politician, and he will stay that way until he dies,” says a Liberal who has worked closely with Abbott.’ (The Saturday Paper)
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Me either Wal….not a chance….and the “anonymous” MP pretty much sums it up for them……and he went to the Guarian !!!!Must be one of Turnbull’s acolytes…….
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Those LINOs should resign and go to their preferred parties, Greens, Teals or Labor; or like Marcus Butus, run forth upon their swords.
They have destroyed the Liberal Party ensuring that Australia has had no electable conservative party for decades, until the rise of One Nation – largely due to the wets/”moderates” of the Liberal Party.
And what is so noble of the wets/moderates wanting open door immigration at rates about ten times higher than houses can be built, plus comprising some of the world’s most uneducated, violent, anti-Western, misogynistic, anti-Christisn, antisemitic welfare-recipients-for-life and Labor voting people on the planet?
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Sounds more like Penny Wong talking
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It’s cold, wet and still in the south, ruinables generating 6% of Vic demand at peak solar. Imagine the outcry if coal and gas failed to cover the shortfall.
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Whenever there is a very rare coal plant failure the media cries that the antiquated coal plants are proving to be unreliable.
Yet they never state the fact that unreliables fail every single day of the year.
Every…single…day!
Strange that the media doesn’t report on facts they don’t support isn’t it!
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You could worsen that in the style of wind and solar advocacy –
“Twice every single day – evening and very early morning”
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And hardly a mention of the NSW coal fired power station Eraring financed by the NSW Labor Government to extend operating for a few more years and after work completed the owners advised intention to extend much further into years ahead because the repairs and maintenance had returned their asset to a level of profitability well worthwhile.
Considering the wholesale daily electricity supply offers system favouring wind, solar and battery installations, if changed to best price basis the power stations would not be penalised and owners forced to cut back to only essential repairs and maintenance schedules.
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They never imagined large blocking high pressure would become an annual event.
https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/synoptic_col.shtml
The subtropical ridge is stuck in the south, refusing to travel north for the winter, we need a Royal Commission to sort out this windless mess.
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Its obviously NZ’s fault, they keep that High stuck on top of them!
The reason we came to Australia 20years ago was this weather, so cloudless warm sunny days in winter are not a new thing. If we wanted cloudy dismal days with drizzle we could have stayed in NZ or the UK..
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And NSW Labor Chris Minns adds to the Cost of Living
NSW property owners face new tax to fund emergency services
Property owners would face an annual levy of up to $623 to fund the state’s emergency services agencies under reforms being considered by the NSW government.
The existing insurance-based levy was “unfair, inefficient and unsustainable”, a spokesman for Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said, but conceded the switch to a property-based levy could only proceed with bipartisan support.
A NSW Treasury paper released this month presented five options to replace the existing insurance-based emergency services levy.
The first option in Treasury’s paper would result in property owners paying the following rates on land values: $0 to $302,100: $175 per year (30 per cent of households) $302,100 to $728,000: $225 (40 per cent) $728,000 to $1.41 million: $300 (20 per cent) Above $1.41 million: $523 (10 per cent of properties)
An alternative six-tier model is presented as the third option: a lower bracket for properties with land valued at up to $170,100, which would be levied at $141, with a top bracket of properties valued at more than $1.94 million levied at $623 per year.
The final option distinguishes between standalone houses and units, introducing a $50 surcharge on the latter.
The paper said the specific levy amounts and land value thresholds would be subject to change each financial year.
Valuer General data shows nearly half of Sydney’s 33 LGAs – including Woollahra, Mosman, Waverley, Strathfield, Ryde, Burwood and Inner West – have a median land value greater than $1.41 million. The median value for another 11 is above $728,000.
Only six council areas across Sydney, all on the city’s fringe, fell below this.
My Home & Contents Insurance is currently Fire Services Levy is $361, either increased to $523 or $623
And Labor Treasurer “What’s Economics” Dim Jim Chalmers says Inflation 3.4% pa – Tell Him he is Dreaming!
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It appears that the Goose (taxpayers) that lays those golden eggs (revenue) is being strangled and under fed, the eggs are shrinking
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Chris Minns could do with a read of # 8 here too
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I’m sure our insurance companies will reduce our premiums by the cost of this new scheme..
Maybe Chris Dimms could start by legislating that!
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FWIW
Next harmonium question
Any idea of its pneumatic properties as air tightness is an important quality for this job. As outlined here
“Anyway, to recover the bellows you need good quality pneumatic leather (tanned with some kind of fast tanning method like chromium or alum tanned). Not just any leather works, because with slow tanning methods it tends to crumble under pneumatic load, and it also tends to get pinhole air leaks. Sources for these we’ve discussed before are Columbia Organ Leathers or Steve’s piano service (which are also sourced from Columbia). Maybe there’s a source in AU, not sure about that. Worth looking into. For valves and pallets thicker is better (one of their two thickest options), but for covering the bellows you can probably get away with a more medium weight.”
TIA again
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Apologies since it was almost 60 years ago (July/August 1966).
I seem to recall a lightish weight cloth with a light vinyl/plastic surface being used to replace the bellows material. Still seems to work.
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Thanks for that.
In today’s searching I actually found an article on chrome tanned kangaroo skin and seems it is used in musical instruments – one of its features being air tightness.
It will be used as the flexible material for the hinge lines of the bellows so not much actual area that needs to be air tight. It looks like the whole air assembly might be made removable, which would improv working on it. So hopefully I will learn that this is so.
So back to the reed box problem. First to build a dummy reed box top to hold the 61 platen keys and springs for safe keeping in order. 124 saw cuts, the long one to hold the pivots now done. The rest are at 7.5 mm spacings so I’ll do them with a hacksaw. Then some chisel work. Could be done by tomorrow night but we won’t rush.
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I am a strong advocate for free enterprise and related private sector businesses, and in particular the very successful Australia business people who have risked their money to create and build tax paying business ventures and providing jobs for income taxpayers.
Barnaby Joyce is a graduate in finance and started his own successful accountancy and auditing firm and has in that role been an adviser to many of those business people, notably Gina Reinhardt who I admire who has been very successful in business and generous to charities and other causes.
Regardless of business political affiliations and most do not broadcast their position, they all have great interest in government, finance, economics and opportunities for new business ventures, as for example Labor’s transition to renewable energy. Climate 200 business supporters are an example of behind the scenes support for lobbying politicians and particularly governments.
Gina Rinehart has financially supported Barnaby Joyce’s political career, including a notable instance in 2017 when she awarded him a $40,000 prize for being a “champion of farming,” which he later declined due to concerns about potential conflicts of interest. Joyce has stated that he has never been asked for anything in return for her support, emphasizing the importance of transparency regarding political backing.
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” for lobbying politicians and particularly governments.”
Once I found we had professional lobbyists I realised we didn’t have a democracy at all..
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Behind the scenes in politics is always an interesting place to look at, Barnaby Joyce was two times National Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister, and ….. “Malcolm Turnbull’s relationship with Gina Rinehart has been scrutinized, particularly regarding Barnaby Joyce’s lobbying for Rinehart’s initiatives, which raised concerns about her influence over agricultural policy during Turnbull’s tenure as Prime Minister. Critics have questioned the extent of Rinehart’s sway in political decisions, especially given her financial support for Joyce.”
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Depending on how things travel, Barnaby might be inclined to stay on in the Reps and give his Senate ambition the flick.
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Stafford State By Election Queensland, note One Nation did not have a candidate however see One Nation vote swing from previous election and LNP this by election;
https://antonygreen.com.au/stafford-by-election-results/
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FWIW – one that woke up to talk about it
“How Once Hardcore Climate Alarmist Lucy Biggers Realized It Was All A Scam, Brainwashing”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/16/how-once-hardcore-climate-alarmist-lucy-biggers-realized-it-was-all-a-scam-brainwashing/
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FWIW
“MADE IT, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD! The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest. Ma Chunlin has created one of the best videos we’ve ever seen come out of the Himalaya.”
https://instapundit.com/797149/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“REPORT: My sources tell me Keir has decided to stand down, but he’ll do it on his terms.
If true:”
https://instapundit.com/797287/#disqus_thread
And
“FROM BAD TO WORSE: Both Labour Leaders Challenging Failed PM Keir Starmer Want Britain to Rejoin the European Union”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/bad-worse-both-labour-leaders-challenging-failed-pm/
Sounds like promoting the use of the rough end of the pineapple
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FWIW – worser?
“The Worst One I’ve Ever Seen”
https://rumble.com/v79xbdq-the-worst-one-ive-ever-seen.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/17/sunday-on-turtle-island-199/
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FWIW
“The Hantavirus Cruise: A Ship of Fools”
https://hotair.com/betsy-mccaughey/2026/05/17/the-hantavirus-cruise-a-ship-of-fools-n3814995
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