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This is what happens to “green” wind turbines at the end of their day:
https://media3.locals.com/images/posts/2025-04-17/892868/892868_2x5fsb14oydcies_full.jpeg
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Should crush them and burn them in a power station. The resulting CO2 could then be recycled into vegetation.
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They will burn but the problem is the glass fibres.
In Australia, burning rubbish to produce electricity is generally not allowed, even though it is permitted in the fully woke countries of Europe. That again tells you that the Left in Australia just don’t want us to have electricity.
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Hey, Guys and Gals. It’s Easter. Time to send Jo some chocolates, if you have not already done so.
She deserves them!
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OH and I were already discussing the need for Easter Chocs for Jo.
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https://cairnsnews.org/2025/04/17/freedom-parties-in-combined-ticket-for-senate-election-in-nsw/
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One small problem, isn’t Gerard a Queensland candidate and Queenslanders will be voting for him in what used to bea State’s House of review? Rennick should be first pick for any Senate seat. He has shredded the Autocracy that is managing Australia’s decline.
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His corflutes abound in my area. Another, maybe on the same page is a Alexander Beaumont. Same name as the cocktail chap around the Cross some years back. Rennick seems a good choice on the QLD senate ticket
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Gerard Rennick has created a new party called People First and they are fielding candidates in most states for the Senate and some lower house electorates.
Worth searching for their policy platform (I won’t put the link lest I get moderated out, which would happen in the mainstream).
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He’ll be #1 on my vote, there’s one of his candidates in my area.
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This is good news.
Perhaps all these small conservative-oriented parties can bring themselves under some sort of unified umbrella to oppose the non-conservative Liberals, socialist Labor and communist Greens.
This combined ticket is a good start.
Australia desperately needs a mainstream conservative party.
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Will they be subjected to a total LSM “Blackout or a ruthless vilification in the run-up to the actual circus day?
Most churnalists seem pathologically incapable of actual resorting, as apposed to “opinion-shaping”.
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Turning a meme into words as we can’t lost pictures here:
I saw a meme of Emperor Xi sitting and reading President TRUMP’s book “The Art of the Deal” which no doubt influences TRUMP’s decisions.
There was a similiar picture of TRUMP sitting opposed to Xi and reading the ancient Chinese classic, Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” which no doubt influences Xi’s decisions.
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we can’t post pictures here:
Just as well or I would post the septic tanker with its warning sign; this is filled with political promises.
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Maybe Jo can enable the embedding of pictures?
A picture is worth a thousand words…
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Well let us see John.
Judicial Watch is suing in relation to the J6 Babbit shooting:
The pictures I have seen have Babbit as an actor and the shooter does not have the gun pointing anywhere near her when the shot is fired.
So the question is when this goes to trial will the defendant use the picture to say Babbit was not shot.
The question being is a picture worth Thirty Million US Dollars?
I think Judicial Watch has made a sound play for a pre-trial settlement as the Swamp will not want this little ‘Act’ of the so called insurrection to appear on the main stage.
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David Maddison in #3 would be referring to this.
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Excuse bad linking, try:
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Here’s a disturbing short critical video about the BBC and one of their statues which reflects attitudes of the Left more generally.
https://youtu.be/siOp7fdziHg
Outside of BBC headquarters in Londonistan there is a statue by Eric Gill called Ariel and Prospero which is derived from Shakespeare’s Tempest and is proudly displayed by thr BBC.
After Gill’s death in 1940 it was revealed in his own diaries that he was a paedophile among other things.
See Wikipedia:
The statue features Ariel as a naked boy. As far as I am aware, Shakespeare never said Ariel had to be a naked boy, and he gave very specific instructions for this actor. Other artists have however portrayed Ariel as naked. It would never have been allowed on stage then and I doubt even now (but the Left will probably change that sooner or later).
A few years ago someone vandalised the statue and the BBC had it repaired at a cost of over £529,715 (US$702,672, A$1,099,932) and it has just been reinstated with a protective screen.
Given how the Left love the cancellation and destruction of the great heroes of Western Civilisation such as great explorers and generals and patriots such as the US founding fathers and others, isn’t it curious how they go to extreme lengths to restore and protect a statue of one of their heroes, the paedophile Arthur Eric Rowton Gill 1882–1940.
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Gill Sans was BBC font
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Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans?wprov=sfla1
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Gill was upright and sans serif and humanist on the face of it. But an evil type still admired by the BBC.
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Very clever TdeF, pithy, compact, tight and jam-packed.
No space left to cram in another pun.
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Gill was never liked by restaurants though, and was often told “We don’t serve your type in here!”
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A leading font of knowledge, definitely has its points.
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Their ABCess has had its moments, too.
A couple of decades ago, a prominent and popular radio “announcer” went away on conviction for such behaviour. Probably thoroughly scrubbed from the “record”, by now.
There’s no business like show business”; and that is a good thing
See also:
“Politics is show-business for “Ugly” people….
Show-business is politics for the “Beautiful” people; apparently”.
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Good Friday and here in Victoriastan the government has found yet another way to interfere in peoples lives.
For any overseas readers, on Good Friday the Royal Children’s Hospital, an internationaly renown facility has held the Good Friday Appeal to raise money for research etc.This appeal is quite loved by most Victorians and hugely supported by television stations community groups and individuals of all persuasions. A primary source of collecting money is for groups like the local volunteer fire brigades to man intersections around the state and “tin rattle”.
Never heard a single complaint in 60 years, never heard of any accidents being caused but the Victorian government has decided to ban this method of collecting at uncontrolled intersections. Apparently it can go ahead at intersections with traffic lights. What’s the reasons, I don’t know. I’m sure a spokesperson will sight health and safety concerns but its just simply over reach to prove that someone is in control. Of course the real issues like car jackings, arson, drive by shootings, home invasions with violence etc. etc, continue unabated, but if you collect funds for the kids hospital, look out.
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The Left hate volunteer groups.
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Yes. Being good natured and looking after your neighbour smacks too much like following in the path of Christ, which is, as we know, very much frowned upon.
The role of the state is to be all things to all people.
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“The role of the state is to be all things to all people.”
That could take up a day’s posts just by itself! It takes over the Church’s roles, it pushes out parenting and it uses propaganda to replace opinions of friends. As you say, all things to all people.
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Happy Easter, everyone. Remember the sacrifice.
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FWIW – Kennedy stirs the autism scene
“It might have been the single most important HHS press conference ever, and it was one of the best chances to learn media’s reprehensible narrative tricks in years. Yesterday, CNN ran the story headlined, “In first news conference as HHS secretary, Kennedy says autism is an epidemic in the US.” Specifically, Kennedy persuasively argued that autism must be caused by an “environmental toxin,” and he announced an urgent series of new studies to get to the bottom of it. Media instantly deployed its secret soldiers to discredit him.”
Much more at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/hypersonic-thursday-april-17-2025?
And other things
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I used to be sceptical about autism as due to some sort of a toxin, but after covid, I have zero faith in Big Pharma, politicians, senior public “servants”, the “establishment”, the Left and the medical “profession” (there may be some overlap there). Anything’s possible.
I want to see a return to science, reason and basic morality.
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The UK Supreme Court ruling that legally there are only two sexes. This is a much more emphatic ruling than science which always said there are only two sexes and that you can determine which by a blood test if not visually.
Post modernism in which facts don’t matter is starting to falter. Autism is now so broad a concept that it is a view of people and their behaviour. I would not be surprising if you listened to the new medicine in which feelings matter more than fact that 100% of people were mentally ill. Life, after all, it not a logical construct. It is a fact. Happiness is possibly irrational and an illness the same way carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
And this Easter weekend many people around the world celebrate a belief that life has meaning, that there is life after death and that all people are created equal. But not the same.
Still, you can identify as a chipmunk if you like. But it’s not a fact and people will think you’re nuts.
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Perhaps we need a day to celebrate the one molecule which is the basis of all life on earth. Carbon Dioxide.
In 2007, the US Supreme Court determined by tortured logic based on conjecture that increased CO2 is man made and causes disastrous warming that CO2 is a pollutant.
Which means all life on earth is pollution. Science cannot be left to judges. The left has taken over the administration of science. In Monash University, Melbourne, you have to acknowledge aborginal ownership of the place to graduate as an engineer. And in Macquarie University, you had to make a credibly sincere heart felt apology to Aborigines just to graduate as a lawyer. These are all political facts enforced by the university administration, not scientific or historical facts.
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Largely unreported
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will undertake 31 historic actions in the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history
“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen. We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin.
Wow! What language. A dagger! A great present from the US to their own citizens and to the world. Stuff the windmills.
Where is Peter Dutton?
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If John Monash could see the damage being done in his name, he would be reaching for his sabre.
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And not only knighted as our most recognized Australian General for his leadership in France but as a Jew but lawyer and successful engineer and administrator after whom Monash University is named.
He would be absolutely appalled at the anti Jewish vitriol of the violent “Greens” who are also trying to blow up his SEC power stations which made power plentiful and very cheap for two generations. Would he even imagine people burning a synagogue in Melbourne as in Germany? What is Green about hating Jews and power stations? These are the enemy within driving both the Watermelon party and their partner in Labor. Pro Chinese and anti Australian, anti Semitic and anti American.
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“the true role of infantry was not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes; to advance with as little impediment as possible; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward.”
He saved many Australian lives with his insightful tactics. His ideas predated the German Blitzkreig and obsoleted suicidal trench warfare.
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Sir John Monash oversaw the establishment of the State Electricity Commission and the construction of the remote and automatic hydro electric scheme at Rubicon in Victoria. One of the first installations of its type in the world, still supplying power to Victorias power grid for nearly 100 years.
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I wrote an article on the Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme.
It’s still going strong.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2013/February/The+Historic+Rubicon+Hydroelectric+Scheme
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Patton was never “loved” but I’m sure he cared. According to Patton, the object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other side die for theirs.
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In response to that court decision I fully expect the UK Government to introduce legislation stating that a man can become a biological woman simply by declaration.
As you say, post modernism.
There is no objective reality.
Facts don’t matter.
The truth is whatever you want it to be.
That’s why you always hear Leftists talk about “my truth” not “the truth”.
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“Autism is now so broad a concept that it is a view of people and their behaviour.”
The use of the word “spectrum” to describe a persons mental state is quite interesting. The old meaning meant something fitted into a range, all good, except both ends of the spectrum are open, just spreading wider and wider. If you go to see the G.P. he can examine you and say that nothing is wrong. If you see a psychiatrist the one diagnosis that you won’t get is “there is nothing wrong” every one every where fits into a box that suggests that you are note “quite” well.
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FWIW
“Homeless camp next door to Therapeutic Albanese’s $4.3M clifftop mansion”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/04/homeless-camp-next-door-to-therapeutic-albaneses-43m-clifftop-mansion.html
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WHO agrees legally binding pandemic treaty: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vn1r3ge2jo.amp
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I thought that was abandoned.
Apparently not.
Naturally Australia will sign up to any such sovereignty-violating globalist nonsense.
They use the “international obligations” BS to change domestic law.
Withdraw from WHO now!
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International treaties are one of the great trojan horses in the Australian constitution.
In plain English the constitution makes treaties the road to hell paved with good intentions.
Worst of all most of the treaties have next to impossible withdrawal mechanisms.
And just to hone the point even more, the parliament is constitutionally OBLIGATED to adjust and create domestic law to suit the treaty.
Just one of the many things which caused me to recoil in horror when I took up the law late in life.
Don’t get me started on the second law of thermodynamics. You can’t win. You can’t break even. You can’t quit the game.
Hmmm. I think I’ve just decided on my epitath.
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“Worst of all most of the treaties have next to impossible withdrawal mechanisms.”
I’d ask Mr Trump about that.. No Govt considers itself bound by laws and treaties signed by a previous Govt. (unless they’re looking for a way out of a tricky spot of course.. always blame the previous lot.)
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A good point KP, but a complicated issue in the Australian context.
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And who is “chairing” WHO(m) this week?
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FWIW – more gremlins coming to your TV
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/04/16/2240228/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions
Via a comment at Chiefio
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We always mute the ads and try to read the comments on favourite blogs while they are on. It does mean that we miss stuff at times when we become too engrossed in our reading!
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FWIW
“Tail of Boomers, Start of Gen X”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/tail-of-boomers-start-of-gen-x/
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For those interested in electronics repair videos, I would like to recommend the YouTube channel Mend it Mark (from the UK). His skills and unbelievably cheerful disposition are amazing.
https://youtube.com/@menditmark
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Also in a couple of his recent videos he has described the problem of fake Chinese semiconductor devices which either don’t perform well or don’t work at all. There are huge numbers out there. More reason to boycott the Chicomms. TRUMP was right! Again.
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Sorry, not impressed. Lots of talking, and his three basic points are only part of a defined troubleshooting process. Lots of “machines that go ping” in the background, but no decent DSO in sight. When conducting my courses, I always discuss fault-finding methods with the students who are experienced tradies, and we generally agree on the process.
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I’m surprised you think that. I have seen plenty of his videos and his repair and restoration skills are excellent. He is not teaching a repair process (but there is still plenty to learn from him) but documenting his repair. He also does have a DSO and plenty of other equipment (including metal working to create new panels and parts) but prefers his trust analogue scope for general use, and why not?
I thought this was an excellent video whereby he had to create an alternative circuit because the original IC was unavailable at reasonable cost.
https://youtu.be/_Ek_ydJmE6w
This one was also excellent: https://youtu.be/touWKDKD_Fw
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And also EEVblog, Northridgefix and Bigclivedotcom…
Alex’s techniques grate with me though. Retouching solder joints repeatedly and imprecise track substition…
Clive covers a lot of Chinesium shonk too.
The automotive repair channels are better.
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Our TV died a couple of months ago and No. 1 son took it dump but he pulled it apart first. The plastic inside was crumbling, couldn’t hold the weight of the board. It must have been 20 yrs old so we discovered the design life of a Sanyo TV in the tropics.
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FWIW
“Globalists Panic as Italy’s Prime Minister Makes Stunning Alliance With President Trump
With one familiar line, Giorgia Meloni dropped a bold new populist slogan—and the elites won’t like it one bit.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161566368
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Wonderful.
I wish we had leaders like her and TRUMP.
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Step 1: Don’t abuse them ALL.
We had Tony and he wasn’t good enough.
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More around that
“I Shan’t Sleep a Wink Tonight Knowing How We Have Disappointed Europe”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/17/i-shant-sleep-a-wink-tonight-knowing-how-we-have-disappointed-europe-n3801908
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So lawfare to lock up the next President of France, Marine Le Pen? What’s democratic about that? The EU is a cabal plotting the extinction of whole countries, other than France and Germany. The Fourth Reich perhaps? Or the Holy Un Christian Empire?
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Marine Le Pen?
She calls herself a martyr.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-marine-le-pen-down-not-out-election/
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FWIW
“China and tariffs: a Chinese and an informed American perspective”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/china-and-tariffs-chinese-and-informed.html
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On this holy day for Christians, the day set aside to remember Jesus dying on the cross, it’s worth remembering the impact his short life and death had on the hearts of billions of people over the centuries. An extraordinary legacy that good-hearted people can still look to for inspiration.
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FWIW
“Russians Asking for a New Bomber Base (For a Friend)”
“Jane’s, a respected source of strategic intelligence, said, “Jakarta has received an official request from Moscow, seeking permission for Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) aircraft to be based at a facility in Indonesia’s easternmost province… In the request, Russia seeks to base several long-range aircraft at the Manuhua Air Force Base, which shares a runway with the Frans Kaisiepo Airport, documents that have been presented to Jane’s reveal.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/russians-asking-new-bomber-base-friend/
What did “Elbow” know and when did he know it?
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“What did “Elbow” know and when did he know it?”
He’s still trying to answer that question about the terrorist caravan full of explosives..
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Reminiscing with My Wife.
She reminded me today was the day we put down a deposit on purchasing our house 50 years ago – we moved in later that year – Wow 50 Years goes fast, with 3rd generation growing up in House, using Pool & Spa & Big Block – Cricket on the Lawns in the Rear – 7 of us under one roof – Life’s Great to be Alive!
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FWIW
“WAYNE ROOT: No American Has Ever Said, “I Regret Refusing the Covid Vaccine.” So, Here are Three Simple, Easy, Reasonable, Moderate Steps President Trump Can Take to Keep Us Safe.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/wayne-root-no-american-has-ever-said-i/
Or Australian either that I’ve heard mentioned
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I still get asked by my doctor if I want a coved booster. And is unsurprised when I emphatically say NO. Seems to be a common answer.
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Mine knows the conversation which will follow.
Is it safe and effective?
No? I’m not having it then.
Yes? I’ll run a mile.
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FWIW
“Who’d guess this bloke is heavily invested in renewables!!!!!!”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/04/whod-guess-this-bloke-is-heavily-invested-in-renewables.html#comment-6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860feea3e200d
This seems to go with that
“Maugham has an unblemished professional record in the same way that I have an unblemished karaoke record: misplaced confidence followed by making a complete tit of yourself.”
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1912619893381627953
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Why Did Trump Suddenly Stop Attacking Canada?.
Has he blown it for the conservatives in Australia also?
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I don’t know any Australian conservatives who are anti-TRUMP. And Canadian ones on a mail list I receive are not against him either.
But for those with TDS, it’s a terrible and incurable condition.
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That may be true, but they are not the voters who count in Australian elections – it’s the moderates, or undecided ones who need to be convinced. Many of these lean to the conservative side, but do not follow the style being championed by President Trump.
Many voters are descendants of the displaced following WW2 and do not appreciate the turmoil in Europe caused by changing US allegiances.
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He broke my heart.
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The electorate is trying to work out which candidate can deal with Donald. Pretty boy Albo should be able to handle Xi better than Dutton.
https://theconversation.com/poll-shows-australians-hate-trump-policies-and-have-lost-trust-in-us-but-still-strongly-believe-in-alliance-254587
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Mimicry is the only thing Albanese is good at.
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Oh my dear Rowjay. The author has plainly not heard of putting things on the back burner.
The seed of truth has been planted. Whatever you might think that truth to be.
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E-bikes cause fires in London ‘every other day’
Fire Brigade urges people to store the electric cycles outside and avoid leaving them unattended when charging
E-bikes cause fires in London “every other day”, a fire chief has warned after a blaze in block of flats in Bethnal Green left 11 people needing hospital treatment.
Richard Field, deputy assistant commissioner for prevention and protection at London Fire Brigade (LFB), said e-bikes and e-scooters were one of the capital’s “fastest-growing fire risks”.
Mr Field said: “Since 2023, we have seen a fire, on average, every other day and these fires are ferocious, producing extremely toxic smoke.”
Many recent fires have involved second-hand e-bikes or e-scooters which have been modified using parts bought online, not meeting the correct safety standard, he added.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) chiefs believe the fire at a block of flats in Bethnal Green, east London,was caused by the failure of a lithium-ion battery.
The Bethnal Green blaze on April 9 saw 50 people evacuated after it spread through the block in Cornwall Avenue.
One man jumped from a second-floor window to escape the flames but was unhurt.
In February, a coroner ruled that the deaths of a couple and their two dogs in a house fire had been caused when a charging e-bike battery ignited and “rapidly escalated into an intense blaze”.
E-bikes have long been a cause for concern in London.
In March, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London banned e-bikes from Tube and rail services in London after unions threatened to strike unless the devices were not allowed on TfL services.
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How independent are the independents? An example from the electorate of Cowper, Caz Heise, claims she is free from the big business hold on the two major parties yet she has a slick, well heeled campaign that’s bankrolled by Teal banker, Simon Holmes a’Court’s Climate 200 organisation. How does that kind of financing make for true independance. I’m also wondering about the posibility of cash for comment chartacters, including the granny and the fuzzy faced, earringed veteran who regularly appear to spruik how their Joan of Arc like heroine Caz is going to do a better job of vanquishing the consequences of three years of Albanese Socialism than other candidates. On the ‘bright side’ though, for the gullible voter, another ‘come in spinner’ comforting delusion to keep them happy until reality pops their bubble.
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The FDA has just fast-tracked a SELF-AMPLIFYING RNA vaccine.
If you thought the COVID shots were bad, this new technology takes things even further.
The difference with this new technology is that it AMPLIFIES in dose over time. What’s even more terrifying is that it could also mean the vaccine doesn’t stay confined to the person who received it.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1911950288078209261
The masses aren’t dying fast enough for the globalists to see their dreams come true in their lifetimes.
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When you go, make sure you take one of the persons responsible with you..
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The Forgotten Cancer Cure Hiding in Plain Sight
As such, throughout this series, I’ve presented over a thousand studies that DMSO effectively treats:
Strokes, paralysis, a wide range of neurological disorders (e.g., Down Syndrome and dementia), and many circulatory disorders (e.g., Raynaud’s, varicose veins, hemorrhoids), which I discussed here.
A wide range of tissue injuries, such as sprains, concussions, burns, surgical incisions, and spinal cord injuries (discussed here).
Chronic pain (e.g., from a bad disc, bursitis, arthritis, or complex regional pain syndrome), which I discussed here.
A wide range of autoimmune, protein, and contractile disorders such as scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (discussed here).
A variety of head conditions, such as tinnitus, vision loss, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).
A wide range of internal organ diseases such as pancreatitis, infertility, liver cirrhosis, and endometriosis (discussed here).
A wide range of skin conditions such as burns, varicose veins, acne, hair loss, ulcers, skin cancer, and many autoimmune dermatologic diseases (discussed here).
Many challenging infectious conditions, including chronic bacterial infections, herpes, and shingles (discussed here).
While unbelievable, consider for a moment this 1980 report by 60 Minutes that corroborates much of that.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-forgotten-cancer-cure-hiding
Definitely more worthwhile than praying to the invisible man in the sky.
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What is DSMO? Asking for a friend.
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I know DHMO …
Auto
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Chemically
Dimethyl sulfoxide
CH3-S-CH3
With O also attached to the S
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DiMethylSulfOxide. DMSO.
It is a solvent and can transport soluble chemicals through the skin, directly into the bloodstream.
Therefore, take care with it. Mixing other things with it can have planned or dangerous consequences.
Used in transdermal patches to enhance delivery of intended pharmaceuticals.
also see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22030943/
I would not advise mixing it with capsacin.
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Noah didn’t need to build the ark to escape climate doom. He could have just paid more taxes.
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I wrote this 7 years ago:
Total Australian Government Debt (federal, state and local) is now over $2 trillion.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
This constant unrestricted spending by the Uniparty will not end well.
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Which is why……….
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What do you think you are putting on your garden?
So with minimal processing at the sewage treatment plant, which did not remove the vast majority of toxic products or necessarily break them down, sludge was renamed “BIOSOLIDS” and it magically became fertilizer. No kidding. They dried it, bagged it, and now you are buying a mix of human wastes and chemicals, microplastics, PFAS (forever chemicals that are endocrine inhibitors and carcinogens), flame retardants, etc. at the garden store to fertilize your garden. Many of the bags use terms like “organic.” When the Sierra Club tested 9 bags of commercial fertilizers, it found all had PFAS and 8 had toxic levels.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-do-you-think-you-are-putting
Of course in China human waste is the #1 choice for fertiliser too.
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Got a load of “solid fertilizer” from the local cattle sales yards.
Amazingly paddy melons appeared the next year away from areas on the adjoining property that had a minor infestation.
Now to get rid of the “love grass”
At least the kangaroos are good for eating that when it is too dry for ordinary grass
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Well, Melbourne had gardeners up in arms as everything died from using Council compost, too many people putting Roundup treated plant rubbish in their green bins, and it seems Roundup doesn’t break down like Monsanto said it did!
We used local council compost once, and the next rain exposed all the plastic and rubbish in it, so never again.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/17/washington-state-instructor-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-pro-trump-student/
The violent Democrat and Trump- haterinstructor is photographed wearing the Communist symbol, the hammer and dickle, on his laple.
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Whistleblowers Expose Massive Security Failures in UK’s Digital ID System
A security expert from the Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, first raised these concerns in 2022.
“Basic” governance and risk management were not in place, according to the source, while the £330 ($436.70) million in funding arrived thanks to the business case that featured “misleading claims” regarding the quality of the scheme’s security.
And when the decision was made to outsource development to Romania, it came without GDS CEO’s approval, and without consultation with the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC).
It gets worse from here: the chief information security officer for GDS later carried out an investigation that reportedly confirmed the problems – only for the agency to decide not to mention this, when responding to a letter an MP sent to the Cabinet Office, asking about One Login’s security problems.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/digital-id-dangers-whistleblower-alleges-massive-security-failures-in-uks-gov-uk-one-login-digital-id-system
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Given Once Great Britain’s open door immigration policy, surely this is by design, not incompetence?
They don’t want the invaders to be able to be counted or identified.
That would generate some uncomfortable questions.
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“Whistleblowers Expose Massive Security Failures in Australia’s Digital ID System”
…You know its coming!
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NO!!!! Times 1,000!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sur669DCJ01y9do6x.mp4
Sweaty palms strike again.
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As a new radio mech I was doing the weekender at the NDB radio beacon. Being alone and bored I climbed to the top of the tower [they are tall for HF] and took a shot of my feet looking down the tower.
Maybe it’s no mystery women live longer than men.
https://memeguy.com/photos/images/pic-7-this-is-why-women-live-longer-than-men-84348.jpg
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In James Bond Live and Let Die, the scene of Bond running across the backs of the crocodiles was done with real crocs.
The stunt man, who was the actual real life owner of the croc farm took five takes and in one, I’m guessing the last one, had to have 193 stitches when he didn’t fully make it.
Some crocs had weights tied to them to restrict their movement.
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/james-bond-crocodile-stunt-725877
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I met a bloke who did photography for Harry Butler. Seems that the reptiles he handled were cooled down in an esky first. When asked why no crocodiles the answer was “Find me a big enough esky”.
I guess for something like that you could chill the pool?
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When crabbing have two eskys, one for the beer and sangas, the other for the crabs, for the same reason.
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Hmm. When a lot younger, was at a YMCA camp on Rottnest Island, and we went for a bush stroll with Harry Butler leading. He suddenly darted sideways and grabbed a very live dugite, not the sort of snake that you go anywhere near. Certainly that one wasn’t pre-chilled – he seemed to know what he was doing.
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FWIW
“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.
Given the events since October 7th, 2023, I tend to feel that Schindler’s List would not be made today, such has been the moral decline we have witnessed across Western societies, and in particular the film industry, since that fateful day.”
More at
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/04/15/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-100/
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Trump has revoked a thousand or so foreign student visas due to the students being hamas supporters.
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Considering the doctrinal policies (and actions) of Hamas I would prefer they were located anywhere else to avoid the obvious USA first amendment conflicts.
Can you support any group that aims to “terminate” anyone who wishes to leave the organization? Or who wishes to broadcast the actual group activities to the gneeral public?
While I could name other groups, Mafia would be one of the less controversial ones.
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I think we are reliving 1938.
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RickWill
Thanks.
Have they all arrived in Londonistan yet?
Asking for my bestest pal, Kier.
He wants their votes.
Auto
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An alien landed in outback Australia 5-10 years ago and was very happy with own mimicry, down to small nuances of local thinking process.
But recently he (they) found it illogical to the extreme that an issue which split the country asunder, causing burning of a temple and an attempt to kill a bishop, violent protests non-stoping for two years, the open hatred not seen in the country since its inception,…
(have you got enough background for the coming puzzle?)
that issue was not mentioned once by any Party vying to rule the country from this coming May.
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Very true Vlad, that’s how you hide the elephant in the room.. There will be a thousand distractions to keep the chattering class busy, while the really important problems that politicians hate having to handle will get hidden.
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Thank God for CO2 – CO2 will save us all!
12 minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7dr6oKHqqM
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How long does it last at supercritical temperatures?
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The UK and Gulf Atomic (and likely others) used CO2 for reactor cooling. One instructor was impressed with how UK had used that with graphite moderation.
But I don’t think those temperatures would have been that high.
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Received this from George Christenson. ToM
We’re thrilled (and slightly nauseated) to announce the five finalists for CitizenGO Australia’s Golden Grub Award — our prestigious dishonour for the politician who’s done the most to undermine life, family, and freedom, all while comfortably living off the taxpayer.
Click here to choose Australia’s worst politician from among our shortlist of the five most-nominated candidates.
Each of our shortlisted grubs was nominated again and again by CitizenGO members — and now it’s time to choose which one deserves the trophy.
Here are your 2025 Golden Grub finalists:
Anthony Albanese – Led a government of censorship, globalism, and radical social engineering. Families are hurting, and freedom’s under siege.
Chris Bowen – Destroyed the energy grid, punished working Aussies, and pushed Net Zero ideology no matter the cost.
Penny Wong – Attacked parental rights, undermined Christian values, and handed power to foreign elites.
Adam Bandt – The radical left’s poster child. Pro-abortion, pro-censorship, anti-family, and proudly so.
Lidia Thorpe – Turned Parliament into a platform for rage and division. Insults our country while cashing the cheque.
Now it’s your turn to vote.
The deadline for voting is Monday, 21 April. Once the votes are tallied, we’ll be announcing the “winner” — but only you can decide who gets the title of Worst Politician in Australia.
This is how we fight back — by calling them out, together. Every vote sends a message. Let’s make sure they hear it loud and clear. Click below to vote for the Golden Grub!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqWoTiDWt-uMrVyK0OPuWaKn_I5YT2IIdQPpCxTBD6CQh8aQ/viewform
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You are urinating into the wind. The groupthink here is that nobody who could win a seat is worth voting for. Odd that such a group who know fairy pharts can’t power a nation think that voting that way will change government policy.
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UK Supreme Court has decided what a woman is. Trans women upset they will no longer be able to go into ladies’ toilets.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-supreme-cout-gender-woman-explainer-d2f2204a498ad3ca1292f2f6f3b8e950
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Unusual weather during World War II was related to the very strong and persistent El Niño that occurred at the time.
‘While the world as a whole was unusually warm during the war years on average, Europe, northern Siberia, and the central North Pacific suffered through three bitterly cold winters from late 1939 to 1942.
‘The Southern Hemisphere was not spared, sea surface temperatures in the southern mid-latitudes were unusually cool and Australia suffered from a very prolonged drought from 1937 to 1945.’ (wuwt)
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Yet, I saw someone who looked at the summer in 1940 where many people in England remembered as lots of sunny days.
He dismissed this from actual records which showed that sunny days were no more frequent than in previous summers, and decided that the idea came because sunny days meant German air raids hence anxieties.
And Adelaide had its hottest day in 1939 for many years until the BOM decided that a new record would boost their AGW ideas. The record high only lasted less than 6 minutes (between recordings 10 minutes apart) and wasn’t experienced at Adelaide Airport (4 km.away) nor Noarlunga south nor at Parafield airport north of the city where warmer weather usually came from.
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Prebunking! Natalie Winters, co host of the Bannon ‘War Room’, with a scoop that the Australian govt has been working with a US company, ‘Behavioral Insights Technology’, and have prepared a report, so they can ‘prebunk’ impure thinking, by monitoring ideas, and attack them before they become too widely socially conscious! Happy Easter to you too!
from 20.50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptr2tCh3EY&t=32s
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“Eh Gawd’!
Imagine “Elbow’s” election campaign if that was in place?
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I hope Jean de la Fontaine will not spit on my grave:
A crow is sitting in a tree with a piece of cheese. A fox comes up and, instead of flattering her, simply asks:
— “Crow, are you going to vote?”
— “No!” the crow replies.
Naturally, the cheese falls.
The crow thinks:
— “Interesting… if I had said ‘Yes,’ would anything have changed?”
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A discussion about the EU sending $9 billion in CC mitigation funds, to NGOS, who write reports, that the EU then use to make new CC laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT5LHEXpJaU&t=520s
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THe New York offshore Empire Wind project has been told to stop work.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/17/a-political-noreaster-empire-wind-project-hits-a-wall/
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How To Vote – just released
Grayndler
[ 1 ] Albanese, Anthony
Labor
[ 2 ] Thomas, Hannah
The Greens
McMahon
[ 1 ] Bowen, Chris
Labor
[ 2 ] Hammond, Ben
The Greens
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com
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I’ve never understood that kind of ironic humour where it’s considered funny stating the extreme opposite of the truth.
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FWIW
“Let me check my stock of Giveadamn …”
“Apparently the phrase “Palestinians being, well, Palestinians” did nothing to endear me to some folks on one of the less … balanced … social media platforms.
Well, drat. How ever shall I sleep?”
More at
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/let-me-check-my-stock-of-giveadamn?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3470993&post_id=161481019&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2ju85&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Labor’s new media strategy.
‘The party head office used the overseas lessons to help design a “new media” strategy for the Australian election, which included hiring the firm behind satirical newspaper the Betoota Advocate to provide advice on which podcasts the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, should appear.’ (Guardian)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-18/hesta-super-stops-withdrawals-claims-until-june/105188942
“There’s been information on their website and the media release, but I think where consumers are likely to be let down here is that we know superannuation funds often fail to keep up-to-date contact information on their members,” Mr O’Halloran said.
“And so have a really hard time in contacting them directly with relevant messages like this one.”
Um, no regulator – this should not be a ‘relevant message’. There is no need to bring down a live system for months for a transition – there are many industries where this is done ‘live’ – banks, telecoms don’t just go down for months.
When you read something and go – huh? You are all behaving like this is completely normal – what!
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Also on that ABC page, Indonesia and Russia.. Indonesia’s Minister of Culture says-
“If you want us to rise and be victorious, Indonesia needs a leader like Vladimir Putin: brave, visionary, intelligent, wise,”.
How does Elbow stack up against those four measures? Maybe we need a leader who is brave, visionary, intelligent & wise!
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A perfect score!
All “-11” so far
All though , if you listen to
“EU/UK Paris Summit Plans Kiev Victory, Odessa Deployment, Defies US; Russian Advance On All Fronts”
https://rumble.com/v6s7x07-euuk-paris-summit-plans-kiev-victory-odessa-deployment-defies-us-russian-ad.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
he might have strong competition
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Maybe missing one thing … ?
“Brave, visionary, intelligent, wise, and kills anyone who disagrees with him”?
Auto – a grest admirer of Poisoner Putin … err, not!
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New series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBHSvzE3Gcs
Arctic meets outback
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Fp1oiQFy8&t=1s
[It’s best if there is at least a one line description — This is Tophers new “Preferential voting” with marbles video. – Jo]
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