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Their ABC is a utter disgrace to the nation but I wonder how influential they are.
Apart from the justifiable complaints I read, I would not even know what they say.
The same goes for the rest of the television and print media.
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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/abc-news-australia/
If true, it paints a sad picture of the masses…
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The one line which stands out is “Traffic/Popularity”. Just how much traffic is “High Traffic”?
I confess that I do occasionally look at the ABC News web site but only to see what line the enemies of reason are spinning now.
And I love the fact that their ABC fact checks themselves and has never failed a fact check. The reason should be obvious. They deal in opinions which of course are never wrong, just misguided. They’ve never met anybody who disagrees with them.
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JC2,
Could not help myself but to scream aloud (dear wife dropped her cup of tea) – А судьи кто ?!!
Which is a Griboyedov’s “Woe from Wit” line every Russian learnt in primary school :
“But who are the judges? — Their enmity to freedom
Comes from the ancient ways, from age-old years.”
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Their “fact” about some countries being powered by 100% renewables was definitely wrong, as only one country fitted that definition. But they still insisted that their information source was correct.
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Ahh yes the RMIT partnership
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/rmit-university-permanently-closes-factchecking-operation-and-pledges-to-focus-on-core-activities-of-education-and-research/news-story/38228bdd350830e99a30091561478cc0
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I’d say democracy is working perfectly well, within the definition of those administering it. A voting system with a choice between two identical parties, a false representation of a choice that always has the same outcomes, and a tolerance for a couple of minor parties. Further parties are not needed so are there to be mocked and destroyed.
It has the needed array of breathless media releases covering completely irrelevant issues to keep the chattering classes busy, while ignoring the important things that really affect every taxpayer. You will note the Uniparty has identical attitudes to individual freedom (there shouldn’t be any, just an illusion of such) and currently anything they want derided gets labelled as ‘Far Right’. 50years ago it was labelled as ‘Far Left’ and called Communist.
An abysmal system, but it supports the birth to death propaganda that makes sure the rats are happy in their cage.
Want a real answer to an important question?? That proves you’re Far Right, the acceptable euphemism for Naz1s, the only group the world is allowed to hate.
“Radical far-right agitators are co-ordinating stunts to confront politicians on the federal election campaign trail, …The group is cloaking their message in “reasonable questions” about policy…Researchers who track the far-right online suggest a small, sophisticated group with links to neo-Nazis are behind many of the disruptions that have plagued the campaign…Anti-fascist researcher Dr Kaz Ross said ““Just because these people seem ridiculous, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take them seriously.”
…and to make sure you don’t want any of that poison called ‘Freedom’-
“(Neo-Nazi) McLean said he wanted to influence the election to bring “a more Libertarian perspective to government”. He previously said he was asking “genuine questions” of candidates”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/private-intel-inside-the-far-right-group-disrupting-the-election-20250424-p5lty3.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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It would matter if their ABC had an audience but the vast majority of Australians do not watch or listen to their ABC. Maybe high for pre-schoolers as a lot of the content is aimed as pacifying toddlers.
The main concern is that average Australians are being robbed to pay for this anti-Australian lobby group focused completely on its own survival than delivering entertaining or newsworthy content.
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Elections are decided by small margins. Any ABC viewer or listener teetering on changing their vote are going to be less likely to do so as a result of the ABC’s “independent and impartial” (/sarc) coverage.
Their radio ratings have halved in Melbourne (left leaning city) over the last few years. So maybe it’s only rusted on ABC and Labor/Greens listeners remaining. Probably same for their political TV shows like Q&A.
But small numbers can have a big influence.
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9/11 WTC
25/4 WTC
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Feb 26 WTC
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Que? ToM
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World Trade Centre/Welcome To Country. Just acknowledging the irony of the same acronym and commonality of mission. Sad fella this country.
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Sorry, no cigars to those, like me just now when reviewing post, for noticing time of my response to ToM… 9/11.
[Assuming (local) post time of an original comment is maintained and not viewer time difference modified – spooky.]
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Thanks Earl, World Trade Centre I realised, but hadn’t got to Welcome to Country. And yes indeed sad fella this country and I fear about to get a whole lot sadder. Thanks ToM
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The title says it all
https://notrickszone.com/2025/04/25/the-medieval-warm-period-in-germany-inconvenient-and-very-real/
We have very good records of this period throughout Europe. In my own town we have an abbey,destroyed by Henry 8th that references this warm period but that from 1300 the cloisters had to be covered and windows bricked up as the cold and rain increased as the little ice age took hold.
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The transition into the LIA was universal.
https://rune.une.edu.au/entities/publication/92b40bbd-b2dc-431f-a6fc-2a4c4d87b8a5
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I have referenced reports similar to this one before, this one has a link to an organisation called FIRES
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-net-zero-means-zero-meat-and-dairy/
Our elite keep producing reports that describe the immense changes to our lifestyle needed to achieve net zero.
Yet still most people think the changes will amount to nothing more than using a bag for life, perhaps thinking of travelling by train every now and then and doing without that extra rasher of bacon.
They seem unwilling, or unable, to recognise that the Eco fanatics have a far more fundamental change in mind.
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Nut Zero or Net Zany. Take your pick.
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Pfizer whistleblower talks about the mRNA bioweapon used on five members of the Royal family: (1) Two weeks after his second jab, Prince Philip was admitted to Hospital after feeling unwell. Then a month after he underwent a procedure for a heart condition, he died. (2) After five jabs, the Queen died of Myeloma, a B-Cell Bone Marrow cancer. (3) After four jabs, Sarah, Duchess of York was diagnosed with breast cancer. Six months later she was diagnosed with melanoma, an aggressive malignant skin cancer. (4) After five jabs, Catherine, Princess of Wales, was diagnosed with cancer. (5) After five jabs, King Charles was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with a life expectancy of two years.
Justin Leslie on Infowars: https://www.infowars.com/posts/friday-live-rep-wilson-calls-on-supporters-to-threaten-republican-members-of-congress-says-we-need-an-uprising-because-criminal-illegals-are-being-deported-plus-democ
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The experimental mRNA jabs, effectively compulsory in Australia, were bad for everyone but perhaps the Royal Family were particularly genetically susceptible to their harmful effects (because of genetic similarity between them).
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Does anyone know if the mRNA pharmaceutical manufacturing facility that the PM of the current dystopian “ government “ proudly announced was to be established has actually eventuated OR has it gone the same way as his 100,000 new housing promises??
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Last report I saw, it opened on 24 Dec 2024
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Just remember to check for mRNA on any labels & avoid it. It’s poison, believe me,I’m still suffering as a result of that MAGIC medicine / vaccine!!
Refuse it, there are proven alternatives available
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Sorry, misprint 4 Dec 2024.
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“…particularly genetically susceptible”
Still makes it 60/40 Phillip+Queen=Charles so yes genetic influence potential given Phillip heritage.
Sarah and Kate were the new bloods with the potential bonus of reducing/cutting down on genetic influences?. STDs are one thing but catching a GTD, need more convincing lol.
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It’s a funny thing about random events, they tend to occur together. The alternative is to have regular disasters which smacks of conspiracy.
These health disasters are likely coincident with their ages and then as a remarkably large group of ageing people. None would be surprising on their own. Certainly not Prince Phillip and the Queen who nearly made 100. I did not know Charles had pancreatic but prostate cancer was more likely and very common at 75. They have been in the news and ageing together. Young Catherine was likely ovarian cancer. And sadly it strikes early, before 50. This does not mean mRNA is not responsible in some way in triggering but none are surprising individually or as a group.
However I also read of many ultra fit young people who died suddenly from heart attacks. That stuck me as very unlikely.
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The King’s other cancer was found during a routine check for prostate cancer.
It is generally believed to be pancreatic cancer.
I’m not sure how the other cancer was discovered as part of a routine prostrate check. Perhaps he had a full body MRI (which can detect both types of cancer)?
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” Perhaps he had a full body MRI (which can detect both types of cancer)” ..or give you it…
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Or an ultra sound or even a blood test. It only takes one anomaly to trigger off a more intensive investigation.
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“…random events, they tend to occur together.”
And when you add serendipity what happens? As Hal 9000 observed “Something wonderful”.
Long story short – worked with teammate A who left to work in London. Teammate B left months later to live in Australia first choice Brisbane then changed to Perth given supposedly more opportunities. I had operational testing access to our early days of internet and established pen pal friendship with woman in Washington DC. Stayed with my sister’s in-laws on one holiday to Queensland. Wet afternoon and m-i-l insisted on drive to local hill/mountain tourist spot to get out of house. She got talking to young girl from Switzerland and invited her back to stay for couple of days and I got another pen pal this time in Zurich.
1988 our department head couldn’t do planed trip to Washington (American carrier conference) then continue to a CCITT meeting in Geneva. My boss got offered it but he wasn’t keen so passed it down to me and used case that since I was working on the wind down of our national telegram service I could hop over to British Telecom and see how their service phase out had been planned and implemented. He proposed that he join me in London for the talks and we both fly back via Brisbane so he could catch up with some family.
While in Washington got advice that my manager too had had to pull out so I would be solo whole trip, and return had been changed with more direct stopover in Perth not Brisbane! So, every stop a catch up, Washington (pen pal) Geneva (pen pal came down from Zurich) London (ex-team member) Perth (ex-team member) all unknowingly orchestrated and aided/abetted by 2 more senior managers unable to attend at last minute.
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If you have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHJc8D-7Vg This includes a report from a British oncologist and highlights the increase in liver cancers and colorectal cancers. Coincidence has been pretty much ruled out because the data passes the Bradford-Hill test for causation. N1-methyl-pseudouridine is used in the Covid jab. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141813024022323 shows that it is highly likely to accelerate the growth and metastasis of melanoma and cannot be ruled out of having similar effects on other cancers. There are other factors at play such as the crappy purification methods used by Pfizer that left significant contamination in the final product. This included bacterial plasmids, small, circular DNA molecules that are separate from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. Current issues in molecular biology 44, 1115-1126 Alden et al, Intracellular reverse transcription of Pfizer BioNTech Covid 19 mRNA vaccine BNY162b2 in vitro in human liver cell line. We were told that the jab would be out of our systems within 72 hours, yet numerous studies have shown that it is still in the body for sometime. A study by Roltgen et al showed the mRNA still in the body after 60 days. Unfortunately, the research ended then, so they were no able to show just how much longer it lasts. One recent study from Yale shows signs of the spike protein still present after 700 days.
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Why Pfizzer wanted the data suppressed.
An A-Z.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1915671162228519324/
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The logic that there is a conspiracy to kill the Royal Family goes swimmingly until:
Why would they try to kill the future King Charles, surely the best weapon the One World governing elite had against the freedom loving middle class? This could only be true if there was someone waiting in the wings who was a more attractive useful idiot.
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All of those royals had the option to refuse … which is better than a lot of normal people. They also had access to the best researchers in the world if they wanted.
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Rachel Ziegler, Snow Woke, is trying to get the South Park parody video about her removed.
Now there is also a Simpson’s parody video.
Get woke.
Go broke.
It’s amazing how the Left are not only prepared to destroy entire countries and civilisations in pursuit of their ideology, but companies such as Disney as well.
Video: https://youtu.be/LVJosjUNeNc
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It’s not just America. The world runs on American movies. And Snow White was a famous Brothers Grim story. She had skin as white as snow. No longer. No prince. No love story. No fulfilment. No dwarves. No point. And Rachel Zegler is just insufferable. Is that intentional? I cannot believe her agent has not told her to say nothing bad. F Trump Voters alone alienated half the market. Why? Even Hitler pretended to be nice and worked hard on his image. Why did Disney choose Snow White as a hill to die on? Or is that the point, full circle?
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And seriously, she called Prince Charming a stalker. Is she really so insufferable? Or is that also an act?
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I don’t think so.
That’s really what the Left think about love and romance.
That’s why so many men are turned away from modern woke feminist women and they seek girlfriends or wives with traditional values, and vice versa, i.e. women seek men with traditional values and who are masculine and not soy boys.
And that’s also why so many Leftists are utterly miserable and lonely people, at least as they get older. And the Leftist women become “Karens” or start hoarding cats. And join The Greens or Teals.
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It’s amazing how the extreme Left Australian Lamestream Media interpret any statement by Dutton (fake conservative) that is vaguely reminiscent of a TRUMP policy to be a bad thing, without exception and mock him for it.
Firstly, Dutton has few if any policies which are genuinely like TRUMP’s, and neither does his fake conservative party.
Secondly, if Dutton even had ten percent of TRUMP’s policies (as applicable to Australia), it would be a good thing and might even be a winning move for him.
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Since 2007 (with the possible exception of Tony Abbott) all Opposition to the incumbent Australian Government has campaigned on a ‘small target strategy’, whilst all Australian Governments have also adopted this strategy.
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This election cycle is no different.
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Trump has never played a ‘small target strategy’ – in fact, he has played a LARGE target strategy – putting himself, his policy differences front and center of campaigning and has distinguished himself (in power) by genuinely trying to fulfill his campaign promises.
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The Lamestream Media have no interest in any policy or promise, as such … except to use it or propaganda as a political weapon to bludgeon their opponents.
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Hence they liken Dutton to Trump, as they liken Trump to Hitler … in the hope of smearing their opponent & it is working.
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Dutton is no Trump, just as Albo is no Hawke or Keating.
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Candace Owens has lost the plot in many, many ways.
But she also thinks the moon landings were fake and even going into space at all, is fake.
Here is a very short video clip of her saying this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IR818KxEZJw
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At the time I for one was unaware of the risk of passing through the Van Allen radiation belts. Seems like NASA knew a whole bunch of stuff about the difficulties involved in space flight that never got much publicity.
And but for the sceptics quite a few questions worth asking would never be asked. Like some of the photography and how flags wave without an atmosphere.
On another tack I enjoyed her series on the Macrons even if it did end up well short of making a watertight case.
The world is a better place because of Candace Owens.
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Why wouldn’t something wave in a vacuum if it’s subject to a force such as planting the pole?
https://youtube.com/shorts/rRhNgSinObU
I don’t think there’s a single claim of any conspiracy theorist claiming no moon landing that hasn’t been thoroughly debunked.
Including about the footprints. A recent claim is that pictures show the space suits with no tread pattern on the feet but footprints show a tread pattern. That’s because for lunar use an overboot was put on the space suit to protect from rock penetration. NASA documents clearly show the overboot is an accessory of the suit.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wtc0kB-CmqI
Astronauts passed quickly through the Van Allen radiation belts and were subject to quite low additional doses of radiation, apart from the extra radiation of being in space.
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Yes David. I agree.
But the fact that you know the answers to these questions is testament to the value of conspiracy theorists.
I do remain reasonably confident that a mock moon landing set was created to augment imagery from the moon. I have no idea how much it was used if at all.
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What gets me is there seems to be no value in just releasing the true (photo or data) proof to debunk so called conspiracy theorists. In the case of the moon why not just swing the Hubble round? Supposed answer (per AI) “The Hubble Space Telescope, despite its high resolution, cannot capture images of the Apollo landing sites because its resolution is not sufficient to resolve objects as small as the lunar modules or rovers.”
Equally same type of answer for earth telescopes “Telescope images of the Moon landing sites, including the landing craft, are not available due to the limitations in resolution of Earth-based and space telescopes.”
Not to worry we have the “…Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which orbits much closer to the Moon,” and this HAS provided pictures of “Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Seen in Unprecedented Detail”
And more of the unprecedented detail. Simples.
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I do however find plausible Owens’ and many other commenters’ hypothesis about Brigitte Macron (aka Jean-Michel Trogneux).
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This website seems very slow today.
Perhaps it is still under attack as Jo previously mentioned.
Obviously the evil forces out there don’t like alternative opinions to the Official Narrative.
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Do Australians have a self-destructive streak?
Why are they very likely about to re-elect the worst Government Australia has EVER had, even worse than Whitlam’s?
Admittedly most Australians are indoctrinated by the Left-infiltrated “education” system and the relentless bombardment by the Leftist Lamestream Media but so too are all of us here exposed to the same garbage.
But we don’t have to listen to or believe that garbage.
People have a natural human obligation to seek the truth and not believe everything they are told.
That’s why, ultimately, Australians have no one to blame but themselves for the extreme economic and social destruction that will ensue if they re-elect Green Labor.
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If labor are reelected they will claim that the people have clearly voted against a nuclear future for Oz and will therefore double down against anyone who promotes it and go gang busters to turn off more coal fired power plants.
Only after the public are exposed, cold and miserable, by a blackout will the masses realise that what they needed was a change of government and a change of direction back to prosperity.
Unfortunately, neither the government nor the opposition care for the future of Oz. If they did, they wouldn’t be talking about more handouts to ease the cost of living, they’d be making change to get rid of the causes. And that’s not going to happen.
How many more statements are the labor team going to make if reelected. For example, we’ve been reelected on a mandate to bring in more of the third world. Or, we need to legislate a voice to parliament because of our return, etc, etc.
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The worse the better.
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David,
Victorians re-elected Labor Dictator Dan Andrews after the Covid Lockdowns
Australia has passed the point where over 50% are on Government Largese – Federal/State/Local Government Bureaucrats, NDIS, BOM, CSIRO, etc, etc
The Young & Grandkids are brainwashed by Education on Climate Change/Global Warming and Social Media & favour Greens/TEALs
Australia is already down the Drain under Labor PM Albo, Blackout Bowen, Wong, Dreyfus etc, with Greens & TEALs help, and will be finished off totally in the next 3 years under Labor/Greens/TEALs Minority Government
Vale Australia
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“will be finished off totally in the next 3 years under Labor/Greens/TEALs Minority Government”
You accidently missed the Liberal/National coalition, who will continue Labor’s policy of driving Australia into the dirt! Don’t ever fool yourself that they will be different, your solar electricity may still not be enough to heat your mealworms for dinner.
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The masses cannot see outside the propaganda fog and they have little interest in politics, so the truth will eventually dawn on them that they voted badly. Its a democracy, no matter what the outcome, half of the electorate will be unhappy.
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I used to like to think that politicians would one day feel guilty and bad for their numerous lies and other misdeeds.
But I don’t think that will happen because a high proportion of them are psychopaths and physically mostly incapable of feeling guilt or remorse (unless they personally suffer the consequences).
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Apparently, the best we can do is stop them playing golf.
How long before that act is FOUND to be illegal with the outcome being jail time or asset(s) seizure for all involved.
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I will be voting early, during the week because I will be interstate on the weekend. I really need to get my Senate vote sorted out, because I like to vote below the line.
This source will be helpful!
https://thewinstonsmithinitiative.substack.com/p/support-the-freedom-bloc?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5629e20-c6fe-4771-9732-af30ab4f0747_2560x1810.png&open=false
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Sorry, test.
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Test worked. Post visible.
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Roger, over …
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And our vector Victor?
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Almost bigger than Davos, almost bigger than COP, Il Papa’s funeral later today will see eighty heads of state and their entourage(s) fly into Rome, Italy to honour a climate warrior who preached the evils of carbon dioxide and mann-made pollution and overt flaunting of wealth and power…
Meanwhile the children still suffer.
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Carbon dioxide is definitely the worst pollutant in human history, a work of the devil. Science is anti religion. So religion is now anti science.
Facts and logic are other works of the devil. Rational Science. The new approach is called THE Science. Or Climate Change. Or Net Zero.
And promises Dark Ages poverty for all. The good old times for religions.
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Apparently the Pope left a substantial fortune in his will. I have no idea what the definition of “substantial” is but I would have thought that a person in the position of Pope wouldn’t actually have a need for any earthly possessions. A job for life, the best of every thing, accommodation, medical services, food, travel, all provided by the faithful. With no wife or children as direct decendants , why would a person need to accumulate anything. The position is very different to a Royal house where the dynasty must be continually financed to ensure its continuance, the papacy just rolls on, no pope connected to any other pope by family ties. Its the “job” and the job just keeps rolling on.
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And there was I recalling the extreme asceticism with which he spurned grandeur when arriving in post; what happened?
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“And there was I recalling the extreme asceticism with which he spurned grandeur when arriving in post; what happened?”
He realised what the job actually meant, not what it was rumoured to be.. Just like every one of them before him, and the next one too! Its just a political post, all talk and promises while screwing the plebs and living up high.
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Letitia James, the prosecutor which led a psychotic witch-hunt against President TRUMP has been referred to the DoJ for felony mortgage fraud, almost the same thing she falsely accused TRUMP of.
She will likely go to jail if found guilty.
The hypocrisy and double standards of the Left are staggering.
https://youtu.be/Ly0rKadvo94
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And as per one of the comments, if she claims her principal place of residence in Virginia to get the favourable mortgage, then that renders her ineligible to be the Attorney General of New York.
Therefore she shouldn’t be in that position either, which also might be a crime. Apart from that, it might make anything she has done in that position, including TRUMP’s persecution and prosecution, null and void as well.
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Great point. Why are all these awful, hypocritical, self serving, opportunistic and totally compromised prosecutors black women? And I include Kamala Harris. Plus most of the Mayors.
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Kamala Harris is not black.
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Yes, she is a brown Caucasian. Indian ancestors. And Indians are brown-skinned Caucasians.
She did however “identify” as and pretend to be “black”, implying an African ancestry for the benefit of woke voters.
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It’s not as if we are Caucasian either. Almost no one is. It was a classification by a German phrenologist around 1800. And this extremely racist skull shape was adopted as an ideal, certainly by Hitler. The US also required citizens to be Caucasian until someone pointed out that all of India was Caucasian so it was changed to White Caucasian. This was US Law until 1965. And they talk of White Australia, when we had no such laws.
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I would have thought her actual residence would be consequential for holding the position not where she declared her principal residence to be. That declaration would have other legal consequences but not in the way commentators might hope.
It would be like a late admission by Obama that he was never eligible to be president. Or an admission by Brigitte Macron that he is a man. Just water under the bridge. The idea that people could later undo a range of actions is overly optimistic to the point of being fanciful.
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Presenting the next James Bond Villain, who also happens to be the new head of the WEF, so beloved by our traitorous Aussie politicians and senior public serpents.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe.
Every year they get a free all expenses paid (by taxpayer) luxury holiday at the Swiss ski resort of Davos to worship this guy and the sick WEF ideology.
https://x.com/ryangerritsen/status/1914826638816051511
In case you are wondering if his face has been digitally altered or not, I would say no, as you can see the facial image on Shutterstock.
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/nestle-chairman-board-peter-brabeck-letmathe-speaks-during-8129091b
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Needs a long haired white cat.
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Britain’s Nepali Warriors
The Life-Changing Journey Of Being Selected As A Gurkha 21 Mins 57 Secs
Every year 10,000 Nepalese men apply to take on Gurkha selection and join the British Army. It can be the start of a life-changing career or the end of a dream.
This year, 400 were selected – the largest amount to join the British Army in 30 years. We joined them to get a close look at their journeys.
Something Australian Army should be looking at implementing here in Australia – An Australian Gurkha Regiment based on Britain’s Model,
The Gurkha’s who have been fighting for Britain for over 200 Years
We have a large Nepalese Community in Sydney Northern Beaches and they are an excellent community fit.
This is Australia’s fastest-growing migrant community
Australia has become a magnet for people from one unexpected South Asian country – and the new community has brought some unique traditions with it.
Greater Sydney Nepalese Multicultural Centre
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Its a welcome change to see that they want to blend with Australian values rather than recreate the very countries that they left.
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Which is perverse considering it is usually why they left.
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In my observation migrants usually seek a better life and want to be dinkum Aussies. It is the second and particularly the third generation of decendents who are troublesome.
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I think Nepali people are trustworthy, gentle and hard-working and make good immigrants.
And Gurkhas make excellent warriors.
I have visited the Gurkha museum in Pokhara in Nepal. It’s worth a visit if you happen to go there.
Pokhara is 200km from Kathmandu but about a 6.5hr ride in a 50+ year old bus of questionable maintenance and no tyre tread on a “road” that is basically continuous potholes and with a high chance of going off the side of the road and down into a ravine or you can fly on a plane with questionable maintenance standards. I’ve done both and can’t recommend one over the other. Maybe hire a private driver. If you go by bus I recommend inside seats rather than sitting on the roof for the cheaper tickets…
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“I think Nepali people are trustworthy, gentle and hard-working and make good immigrants. And Gurkhas make excellent warriors.”
Lets pick our best immigrants and send them off to war to die for us.. Wasn’t it Germany that was talking of sending the unemployed illegals/refugees off to fight in Ukraine? You could never allow them back in Germany afterwards..
Russia has interesting problems too, not so much immigration as the far-flung regions inhabited by quite different peoples. The UK/USA is busy formenting dissent and paying for insurrection just to distract the Kremlin from Ukraine. Same as in the ‘Stans that are not directly part of Russia, but a Rent-A-Mob can be sprung up for street demonstrations and riots at the drop of a $US budget.
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The DOGE savings is on the cusp of $1000 per taxpayer or $160bn total.
https://www.doge.gov/savings
I found this amongst one of the savings:
Total grant was $2.6bn and saving is $1.7bn.
This is a good summary of what GAVI comprises:
https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/about
Now that the funding has dried up a little “safe and effective” may lose some of its advocacy.
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Government funded subversives undermining health and sovereignty. What could possibly go wrong?
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These days, I often wonder if the only real medical breakthrough that increased life expectancy was infection control.
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“the only real medical breakthrough that increased life expectancy was infection control.”
Infection prevention I’d say, meaning washing your hands rather than using antibiotics. I think Govt medics should be there for accident repair, and everything else like illnesses, medical conditions, cosmetic surgeries should all be completely separate in the private sector, along with all the alternative medicines currently banned..
Then there would be no need for WHO etc as vaccines would be in the private bit, and the health budget would be minute compared to what it is now… and people would be a lot more responsible about their lifestyles if they wanted to live longer.
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This is an example of how the climate scam has infiltrated Australia. From an email that lobbed in my inbox today:
Who on this blue/green planet opens an IPCC report while sitting in the garden while watching their toddler play!
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“Who on this blue/green planet opens an IPCC report while sitting in the garden while watching their toddler play!”
All the people who think like they do of course!
“Now, where is there a scam I can pull some dough out of in here.. Ah, I know, instead of joining everyone in trying to get money out of solar directly, I’ll rake it in by promising to make more solar happen..” “Will you chip in to fund our biggest campaign push yet?”
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Probably the SPM, which is a political summary that usually doesn’t relate at all to the detailed working papers. I believe that there is an intermediate summary of the working papers that is never disclosed publicly – it’s only the final political SPM that is released..
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Anyone here ever sat in jump seat on landing into Old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport?
I have been watching a number of youtube videos on Checkerboard Hill and approach to Kai Tak Airport with steep right hand turn at the end
None have mentioned Flashing Arrow on Hill/Mountain Behind Checkerboard Hill
In the 1990s, as a Platinum Frequent Flyer, I always used to ask the Flight Purser or Flight Services Director if they could ask the Captain, if I could sit in the JumpSeat for Landings.
I sat in the Jump Seat on 2 Qantas 767 Landings via Checker Board Hill and one Cathay Pacific 747-200 into Kai Tak.
What I remember, as well as Checkerboard Hill, was a Huge Flashing Electric Arrow on the Hill/Mountain behind, curved to indicate right turn and lights moving from left to right on the arrow
Also sat in on numerous landings into Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Cairns/Singapore/Bangkok/Bahrain/Heathrow UK/Narita Japan/Los Angele
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Flew into HK’s old airport 1986 from Bangkok, cheap seat down the back but with a window and a view: as good as the movies I’d seen and the rumours I’d heard. If you can survive that, life’s a breeze. Front-row seat would’ve been even better!
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I presume that you have flown into Queenstown NZ. Always interesting, with the final sharp left turn and landing on a cliff top. One flight I made there was aborted to an intense snowstorm just before the left turn.
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Graeme4,
Queenstown, no, Auckland & Wellington one each
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About the only flashing lights in HK of that era. It was a noticeable feature that city back then had no flashing/animated billboard displays. Always an interesting arrival and a short trip into town even if the airport was a bit of a zoo.
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The BBC is frivolous and tells fibs.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/mass-coral-bleaching-fake-news-again/
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Starting a fake religion
Religious people may find that hard to swallow, so it is interesting to see what happens when someone sets out to found a fake religion. Would this work, or would members see through the deception and promptly leave?
American Indian film director Vikram Gandhi studied yogis and their followers in India. He concluded that these holy men were confidence tricksters, scores of whom plied their trade throughout India in the manner of the Jesus story.
In the film, Kumare (2011) the director founds his cult in Arizona where he unloads his bogus mysticism upon the unsuspecting public and soon draws a group of devoted followers who seek his counsel on their life problems and become frighteningly dependent upon his new-age advice.
The underlying psychology may be fairly simple. Common confidence tricksters work their magic by telling victims what they want to hear.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201409/is-religion-fiction
So it is today. There’s a climate crisis and as they all want to believe they’re in control of their lives, they subscribe to the fantasy.
We created it, we can fix it! We’re in control, so peace of mind and a known future rather than an unknown one…
Just need a few really old geezers to promote it so people will believe it even more eh?
Age means lots of experience and credibility.
Lessee now…
Genesis Chapter 5 lists six men who lived for over 900 years.
The oldest was Methuselah, who lived for 969 years.
Adam 930 years
Seth 912 years
Enos 905 years
Cainan 910 years
Jarad 962 years
Climate alarmist Noah was a mere 500 when he fathered kids.
Who have we got?
How dare you? Too young.
Schwab? Not popular any more.
Soros? Bit of makeup and maybe. Needs a bald cat too.
Ah! Keith Richards! Predates the pyramids.
He’ll do. Now for the money…
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“Genesis Chapter 5 lists six men who lived for over 900 years.
The oldest was Methuselah, who lived for 969 years.
Adam 930 years
Seth 912 years
Enos 905 years
Cainan 910 years
Jarad 962 years
Climate alarmist Noah was a mere 500 when he fathered kids.”
That was when the Earth’s oceans were above the sky and blocking the dangerous radiation like UV. Once it all landed in Noah’s flood our lifetimes dropped precipitously.
You just have to read the right religion!
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Sanity versus Lunacy under Labor PM Albo, Labor Blackout Bowen, ably supported by Greens/TEALS
The Climate Change Agenda Has Come Crashing Down
For nearly three decades, the Democrat Party, in partnership with the global elite and their friends in the media, has desperately tried to control the lives of the American people under the guise of “protecting the environment” and fighting “climate change.”
They’ve used the cause of climate change to do everything from mandating which vehicles Americans can drive, limiting their ability to travel, encouraging couples to limit the number of children they have and censoring those who dared to engage in wrongthink against non-sensical, illogical and dangerous climate change ideology.
“Under President Donald J. Trump, America is back — leveraging environmental policies rooted in reality to promote economic growth while maintaining the standards that have afforded Americans the cleanest air and water in the world for generations,” the White House released this week just in time for Earth Day.
“Unlike the previous administration, which wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on virtue signaling and ineffective grifts, the Trump Administration’s policies are rooted in the belief that Americans are the best stewards of our vast natural resources — no ‘Green New Scam’ required.”
Trump is doing everything from stopping wildlife-killing solar farms, taking America out of the Paris Climate Accords, disengaging economically from China’s fake green energy economy, getting rid of ineffective bans and forced use of paper straws and prioritizing healthy forest management.
Most importantly, Trump’s central economic policy revolves around unleashing American energy.
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A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power – Published: Apr 24, 2025
Move over, uranium. Get out of here, water. Thorium and salt are the new MVPs of nuclear power.
Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor.
Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel.
The system also uses molten salt instead of water to cool the fission reactor, which is reportedly much safer in the event of a meltdown.
Uranium (U) is the poster child for nuclear fission reactors—the most common type of nuclear reactor we have. Most fission reactors are fueled by the isotope uranium-235 (it even made its way into The Simpsons as the glowing green sludge that spawns mutant fish), but despite its star status in pop culture and nuclear physics, uranium is not the only heavy metal that can release a tremendous amount of power when its nuclei are split.
In the remote expanse of the Gobi desert stands the first thorium (Th) reactor ever built.
Last year, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that this two-megawatt reactor could power up and operate without a glitch, and they have now achieved another first—successfully reloading it while it was still running.
Thorium-232 (the isotope of thorium that most commonly occurs on its own) is not capable of undergoing fission by itself.
By capturing an extra neutron, however, it can morph into protactinium, which decays into U-233. This can be achieved by exposing the thorium to extreme radiation, which bombards it with enough neutrons for the transmutation to happen. Protactinium is then extracted from the reactor’s active zone before too many neutrons can be lost.
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China Fires Up World’s First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor
“Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance.”
It’s a major milestone for nuclear power.
Thorium offers a more accessible but less weaponizable alternative to uranium, according to the World Nuclear Association, which notes that “thorium-based power reactor fuels would be a poor source for fissile material usable in the illicit manufacture of an explosive device.”
The Gobi Desert reactor is a two megawatt research unit engineered to use molten salt as fuel carrier and coolant. A molten salt reactor (MSR) theoretically carries far less risk in the event of a meltdown compared to water-based systems, as salts can carry greater loads of thermal energy at much lower pressure.
In fact, a “meltdown” is basically a non-factor for these systems — the fuel is already molten.
Curiously, MSRs are nothing new.
They had their day in the US back in the late 1940s and early 50s, when American cold warriors dumped nearly $1 billion into developing a nuclear-powered stealth bomber. Congress halted research on thorium-fueled airplanes back in 1961, and uranium more or less became the gold standard, due in no small part to its military potential.
Assumed obsolete, the US’ MSR research has since been made public, forming the foundation of the Gobi Desert team’s work.
“The US left its research publicly available, waiting for the right successor,” said the project’s chief scientist Xu Hongjie. “Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance.”
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A very interesting development. Also the 20MW Shidaowan small reactor (not sure why it’s not called a SMR) is interesting in that it uses gas cooling rather than water cooling, and is a pebble bed reactor. The Shidaowan reactor, after being connected to a commercial grid in December 2023, is ticking along nicely, showing that small reactors are indeed feasible.
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FYI – an (Australian) Institute of Public Affairs presentation on nuclear energy – well worth spending an hour listening to this candid presentation by Robert Parker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6EyJcMet_c
My key takeaway at ~ 20 mins in…
Split a Carbon atom, you get 8 electron volts
Split a U235 atom, you get 200 million electron volts
Get to it Australia – stop wasting time.
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In the 24th April page of Jo’s blog (the one about cocoa prices) I recommended that readers read their contracts with insurers and bankers, for example, in case there were surprises.
Following up on that, here is an extract from a banking agreement:
……
To protect your Access codes you must:
• not tell anyone your Access codes, including family members, friends and our staff;
• try to memorise them;
• destroy any documentation or communication we issue to you that contains an Access code;
• not write your Access codes including your Password or Mobile passcode on your computer, Mobile phone, Mobile device or Security device, even if disguised;
• not keep a record of your Access codes with or near your computer, Mobile phone, Mobile device or Security device;
• not tell anyone your Access codes, including family members, friends and our staff;
• not select as your Access code a number or word that can easily be associated with you, such as your date of birth, phone number, driver’s licence number, or part of your name; and
• make sure nobody watches you or hears you when you’re entering or using your Access codes at electronic equipment.
……
What the heck? you might say, this is just common sense. Well, the problem is that if a bank determines that you have told your spouse what your access code is, they can block access to the account. This has happened.
Do download and read your contracts.
Geoff S
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…and we insist your access code be lengthy, made up of various random letters and numbers, also contain other symbols, just like the other 10 or 20 passwords you use, ….and be impossible to remember!
But wait…. we can solve all these hassles for you if you sign up for our biometric ID system and also have this RFID chip in your hand..
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2025/04/25/7509135/
Words from Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s ambassador to Great Britain and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Something DARK Is Happening at the Russian-Finnish BORDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4lMmcNqyXE
Russian military activity along the Finnish border is intensifying at an alarming rate. On April 15, 2025, Finnish Lt. Gen. Vesa Virtanen revealed that Russia is rapidly expanding its border infrastructure and preparing to deploy more troops once forces can be withdrawn from Ukraine. These developments follow years of hybrid attacks, including cyber warfare, GPS jamming, and mass migration tactics aimed at destabilizing Finland.
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