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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/esafety-commission-saddened-by-violent-video-stabbing-link/104857056 – from 1 yesterday – more rhetoric
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That is absurd. The TV and cinema show endless amounts of gratuitous violence. Hollywood in particular is gruesomely and unnecessary violent. So why is the CIA lady picking on one incident which is pathetic by comparison?
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How ridiculous.
FFS, how much more of a Nanny State can Australia become? This is absurd.
Lots of people searched for this video, especially after the e Safety Kommissar gave it free worldwide publicity by trying to ban it and her censorship efforts made Australia the laughing stock of the world – again.
And presumably the Kommisar herself watched it.
The video didn’t turn anyone it a murderer. It was a warning about a particular ideology being imported into Western countries.
Incidentally, the video was in fact banned in Australia. Elon did comply with the Kommisar’s dictatorial order. The Kommissar was trying to have it banned worldwide in jurisdictions beyond her control.
And folks, at election time, remember that it was the fake conservative Liberal Party that created the Kommissar’s position, not that Green Labor would be any different.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/thailand-rainmaking-cloud-seeding-air-pollution/104856708 Countries have long tried “cloud seeding” — injecting chemicals such as silver iodide into clouds to trigger rain or snowfall — in attempts to alleviate drought and, increasingly, air pollution. – that includes Australia, yeah?
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Before Australia’s CSIRO became a climate and covid government propaganda agency they actually did legitimate scientific research. (Some younger members of the Thinking Community might find that hard to believe.)
They researched cloud seeding from the end of WW2 until 1971 and concluded that it either didn’t work, or wasn’t effective if it did.
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Spanish politician demands end to anonymity and that all social media accounts should reside in a digital identity wallet.
The name of the wallet owner would be known to the authorities
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/losing-control-sanchez-aims-to-end-online-anonymity-to-save-democracy-from-tech-ceos/
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That’s the plan for Australia as well.
But they’re disguising it under age authentication for people under 16 who are banned from social media in the Stupid Country.
How do you prove you’re under 16 without universal submission by all people of their digital person number to authorities and attaching it to your social media profile?
This will no doubt be used by Australia’s Chicomm-loving bureaucrats and politicians to create a Chicomm-style social credit score based on your social media posts and other criteria. From that your eligibility for the size of your insect ration will be assessed, housing size, and how far (if at all) you can travel beyond your “15 minute city”.
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Yes, how will that work then, without everyone submitting their age in order to demonstrate they are over 16?
Someone, somewhere must have come up with a plan.
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Identity wallets, ID cards, all that stuff has become comparatively less important now we have our constant AI companion who knows everything we read, write, hear, say, see, or do.
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It’s strange and also disturbing that as the United States becomes more free economically (e.g. cancelling Paris Accords, deregulation) and personally (e.g. removal of censorship and racist and sexist DEI policies) the woke countries of the world are responding not by following TRUMP’s example, but by increasing their anti-free market policies and censorship and remain committed to DEI.
And you’d think things like getting out of Paris would be an election winner and liberator of the economy but in fanatically woke countries like Australia, both factions of the Uniparty remain resolutely committed to it.
Fake conservative Dutton of the Fake conservative Liberal Party is particularly disappointing in this regard. I know people say he’ll get out of Paris if he gets elected but I don’t believe him. If he hasn’t got the cajones to say it up front then to me, it’s not going to happen. The Liberal Party is one endless series of disappointments, and they haven’t been conservative since the time of Robert Menzies (was PM 1939-41 and 1949-66).
Vote for conservative-orientated parties only.
1) United Australia Party
2) Libertarian Party
3) One Nation
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Fauci news.
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