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Nation First, by George Christensen
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And here:
https://humanevents.com/2025/04/22/breaking-wef-launches-probe-into-klaus-schwab-on-easter-sunday-day-before-he-steps-down-as-board-chair
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Why am I not surprised?
Typical hypocrisy of the Left.
I wonder if any Aussie taxpayer dollars went to the WEF? Australian Governments have been and are enthusiastic supporters of that evil organisation and those who run it.
And Government officials and others get to fly there on VIP flights or private jets on taxpayer funded “holidays” (for bureaucrats and politicians) to the luxury ski resort at Davos.
Australia’s chief censor, the e Safety Kommisar, a position created by the fake conservative Liberal Party, is an enthusiastic participant at the WEF.
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And why am I not surprised also?
>”I achieved more in four days than I could in four years… I asked directly the decision-makers what they are doing to make their platforms safer. I was sharing our leadership and our model in terms of how we’re tackling online safety.”
She asked a question and gave a report.
She could easily do that over zoom or skype.
It shouldn’t cost the taxpayer $40,000 for a 4 day all expenses paid luxury trip to Switzerland for two!
Anyway, why does she need an assistant just to ask a question and give a report? What was his name and exact role?
If that is more than she could achieve in four years then she is just a useless office decoration and a waste of money.
Since the President and Vice-President of the USA are trying to combat censorship in the interests of freedom of expression both at home and internationally, why do we have an ex(?)CIA representative of the USA over here trying to kill freedom of expression?
The whole thing stinks like a hidden barrel of mackerel.
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Nestlé Australia switches to 100% renewable electricity
Wind to help power the company’s Net Zero Roadmap
Favourite Aussie brands including KitKat, Milo, Allen’s, Nescafé, Uncle Tobys and Purina pet food will now be made at factories where 100% of the electricity is sourced from wind power.
The move comes as Nestlé Australia announces it is now switching to 100% renewable electricity, four years ahead of its global target of 2025.
The company has partnered with CWP Renewables to make its first renewable power purchase agreement (PPA), bringing the company one step closer to reducing its net emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050.
The 10-year agreement covers Nestlé’s six Australian factories, two distribution centres, three corporate offices, 20 retail boutiques, and laboratory.
CWP Renewables’ Crudine Ridge and Sapphire wind farms in NSW will generate enough electricity to cover the electricity used across Nestlé’s sites each year – the equivalent of powering approximately 19,000i households per year.
The switch to 100% renewable electricity in Australia will mean Nestlé will avoid around 73,000ii tonnes of carbon emissions each year.
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Of course, it won’t be 100% “renewables”.
It will be an accounting trick just like they use for Canberra.
The simple test for if they run on renewables or not is, if there is no sun or wind and the battery (if any) is flat, do they still get power?
Also, if it were truly 100% renewables there would be no need for a connection to the grid, just connections to the wind, solar and battery (if any) plantations.
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How do they separate the replaceable power form the permanent power, is there a filter.
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Don’t know how they seperate the power source. I know my shire council proudly spends more of the rate payers dollars to buy “green” electricity, meanwhile other things like roads or reducing rates can just whistle in the wind!
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Nestlé, the company that poisoned Flint, Michigan, stole their clean water, and “switched the city’s water supply from one of the largest and cleanest water supplies in the world to the highly corrosive Flint River”
https://actions.eko.org/a/while-flint-drinks-poison-nestle-is-pumping-out-200-gallons-of-fresh-water-every-minute.
While their CEO, (now the new head of the WEF, Schwab’s replacement), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said, “Water is not a human right”.
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If you believe that, well I have this bridge….
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Guess we know who to boycott.
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I’ll add Nestle to Cadburys.
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Their chocolate is rubbish anyway… Haven’t bought it for years.
I drive past a Nestle factory every weekday and the heat exchangers are still steaming when the nearby windfarm turbines are still.
Mind you, I expect the Teals and their followers will get a warm fuzzy feeling from the story.
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Been trying since the baby food scandal – it’s difficult: https://www.nestle.com/brands
We make more than 100 different breakfast cereals across +40 brands – giving everybody an option for a delicious, convenient, and nutritious breakfast.
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The Nestle “renewables only” answer to Ribena’s blunder years ago?
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I wonder if anyone, anywhere keeps tabs on what these delusional companies think they are buying vs what is actually generated? I cant help thinking the same resource is being sold repeatedly. As all this isnt reality based and is just an accounting exercise it would be simple to do.
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do these factories shut down on windless nights?
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A few years ago the Society of Chartered Accountants Australia-New Zealand announced a seminar build back better WEF based, I wrote to them and asked why and the event was later cancelled.
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Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors
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I can’t wait until I make the move to Linux.
I recently got a new laptop and had no choice but to get Win 11 and I absolutely hate it and its constant popups and “suggestions” and spying, even though I have disabled as much of the “features” and AI as possible.
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I will shortly need a newer computer – desktop. Mine is almost 8 years old, and the support ends in, IIRC, October ’25.
I don’t have the skills of many here, so will look for a Linux one – like DM, I do not want another MS Windows.
But, frankly, I have a fear of the unknown, and no confidence in being able to get started.
Can anyone recommend a good 101 guide?
Thanks,
Auto
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For the purpose of trialling it, you can try Linux Mint which you can download to a USB stick for free and run on your Windows PC and it won’t change anything. Linux Mint is designed to be similar in look and feel to Windows. Make sure you back up critical data in any case.
I plan to do that but haven’t yet done so.
Also, many people I know, including some commercial organisations, will stick with Windows 10 even after support finishes and will rely on third party antivirus programs to keep them safe after that.
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“will stick with Windows 10 even after support finishes and will rely on third party antivirus programs to keep them safe after that.”
Yes, I used XP until I needed to downgrade to Win10 for gaming purposes. Win10 runs with a little program called ‘block updates’ so it is very much as I bought it when it was new. I’ve never found a need for the bloatware they add with each update.
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Advice on linux installation.
IF you dual boot ( Win + Linux) it is best to install linux on a separate hard drive. The installer will “see” the Win OS and provide a choice at boot to choose which OS to load. If no second drive is available, you can either let linux installer partition your drive or choose “do something else”. Default installer will partition a primary partition for root (/) with an extended partition for “/home” , the user space. This works, but it isn’t “future friendly” in case of a reinstall as the OS and user space are in the same partition. I prefer to use the “do something else” choice at install and create separate partitions for / and /home. This allows me to reinstall or repair the / (root-OS) independent of the user space (/home). There is a program called TimeShift that creates incremental backups of either / or /home , or both, to an external drive. this allows one to fully recover the entire machine.
I’ve used only linux for 15 yrs. Still have an old XP box around for Access and Excel programming, but rarely use them. If I use XP, it is air gapped. Never go online with Win.
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A couple of guides for installing Linux Mint.
https://averagelinuxuser.com/linux-mint-installation-guide/
https://itsfoss.com/guide-install-linux-mint-16-dual-boot-windows/
https://www.supportyourtech.com/articles/how-to-install-linux-mint-on-windows-10-a-step-by-step-guide/
All Mint versions here: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php
The Xfce version uses the least system resources. Cinnamon and Mate versions have different looking desktop, but that’s the only real difference. The underlying OS is the same, just a different graphical interface / desktop.
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Yep, W11 sucks without serious debloating and tweaking. W7 was the best OS ever.
However, NO OS will protect you online.
Every call, every email, every social media site, every site visited can be monitored, traced and stored and the internet backbones are in the USA, home of the trustworthy NSA…
Note: W10 support will continue but on a paid basis.
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I use Linux Mint and have done for about 7-8 years and I find it very easy to use. There are 3 versions that you can use depending on your hardware specifications. I use the Cinnamon version. Just be aware that it will not natively run any windows applications. The installation process is very simple if you do decide to fully install after testing it from a USB. Linux uses a different file system to Windows, Windows uses the “NTFS” file system whereas Linux uses the “Ext 4” file system. There is a huge official app store for you to download from and use, all for free.
I use the Cinnamon version on my latest PC but it also ran, although a bit slowly on my old Dell Optiplex 755 which was made around 2010.
https://www.linuxmint.com/
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With help from “Wine” you probably can run applications originally intended for Windows.
There’s a thing called “Bottles” which is Wine in a container (geddit? geddit?) and I’ve never tested that out but I probably will at some stage.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.usebottles.bottles
You need all the FlatPack stuff running first, but that’s become somewhat standard these days.
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There is a non-free upgrade to Wine, called Crossover.
https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover USD 74.
It allows a Linux machine to run Windows programs, mostly. Some work better than others.
Software compatibility database: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility
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Thanks for great info. Got curious and went into account to find I’m on version 11 which probably explains a number of odd experiences the chief one being the flight mode option. Thought this started out as a safety thang for when you fly so your puter wont kaputer the plane. My standard action is close down web connection hit flight mode to work off-line or close down the puter for the night or when going to be off for a while. When I fire up again and opt for weather option this brings up forecast page via BING despite fact that I haven’t disengaged flight mode! Ive also tried direct and put in flight mode then tried bing and up it comes (Im normally via Brave). Safety compromised for travellers?
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Thanks all – feeling a little braver now.
Appreciate the help!
Auto
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Hi Auto,
This will give you a quick 4.45 minute introduction to Linux Mint 22.1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYcnP0NKew
For a more in depth look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxnKM9gyIQ
Of course all Linux versions called Distros are free Linux Mint is just one of many.
This will give you an idea of how many they are.
https://distrowatch.com/
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Recently I bought a laptop which came with the option to downgrade it to Windows 10 at the outset notwithstanding support ends in October this year; and yes, I opted for that little bit of autonomy which win10 still offers.
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Here’s yet another story in the category of “just when you thought the Left couldn’t get any more crazy”.
https://www.gbnews.com/science/science-news-latest-britain-approve-sun-dimming-experiments-climate-change
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What size of fleet of aircraft, how much energy and how much material do you think has to be launched into the upper atmosphere to have any discernible effect, not that there’s any problem in the first place?
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I guess there aren’t any ‘Snowpiercer’ fans at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
https://snowpiercer.fandom.com/wiki/The_Freeze
Climate scientists who want to try to terraform/geoengineer the climate of earth have the same blinders on as virologists who want to modify viruses through gain of function in order to create vaccines. They have a total lack of ability to see anything beyond the first order effects that they wish to create, and have no concern whatsoever about unintended consequences.
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Remembering how cold, wet and windy it was in the south of England in early December the last thing they need is to reflect the sunlight away. In the two weeks we were there we had a glimmer of sun the day we arrived and no more until the day we drove to LGW for our flight to Spain.
They’ve gone mad there, thanks to Microbrain and co; we’re heading the same way here.
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So they want to tamper with and destroy nature in order to protect the environment. Do these insidious numbskulls have no self awareness or are they so drunk with power they don’t care that their plans are being revealed anymore?
Climate change is yet another fake “disaster” they’ve invented in which their “solution” will produce an actual, real disaster. Tampering with how much sunlight reaches the earth, what could POSSIBLY go wrong!!!
We actually have evidence to show that blocking sunlight will absolutely wreck the planet, just search “year without a summer” which was caused by a massive volcanic eruption that blocked the sun and essentially prevented crops from growing in the northern hemisphere and lead to huge famine.
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The BBC sacked all scientists who disagreed with Greta, and replaced them with environ mental activists who are described as the ‘best scientific experts’. These experts support injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine away from the nations solar panel farms.
Meanwhile in the last three months, Britain has experienced runaway climate change. Professor Mark Symes, expects to stop the climate from changing by September providing a temporary brake on rising global temperatures until at least January of 2026, when global warming is expected to restart when the small controlled outdoor experiments end.
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Those scientific activities in the academy of Lagado which Gulliver witnessed on his travels are under serious challenge by today’s climate crowd; Swift was being recognisably satirical, lord alone knows by what today’s climate practitioners are motivated.
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Telegraph and Guardian covering: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/uk-scientists-launch-outdoor-geoengineering-135621157.html
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Who the hell are they to think they can destroy the sunshine for everyone else on Earth? I’d say that action would be an invitation for other countries to declare war on the UK and take them over, just to get rid of those who approved such madness and those who did it! I’d back them all the way too!
Imagine if China or Russia or Iran was going to play with the weather over other countries!! The parasites and their lamestream media would be screaming their heads off about geoweapons..
Let them erect sunshades over their miserable little island and control their own sunshine, not everyone else’s.
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I must say, I am disappointed that the TRUMP effect hasn’t caught on in other Western countries.
Just as the United States is returning to reason, common sense, freedom, anti-censorship, pro-energy, traditional morality, cutting Government waste and regulations etc. the woke countries of the world such as Australia, Canada and Western Europe are becoming even more insanely taxed, regulated and controlled.
There appears to have been no spillover whatsoever.
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Such is the power of the opinion-shapers who own the corporate mainstream media, the big-tech social media, the big corporations and the governments.
And sadly, such is the gullibility of the masses, as Stanley Milgram showed many decades ago.
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The Trump Effect has given Labor a boost and should see them over the line comfortably, according to Exit Polls.
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I don’t think that is a Trump effect so much as the Tory failure effect and the structure of the British parliamentary elections. Labor’s vote share in the last election was almost unchanged since the prior election, but the Tories fell 20% with Reform and other small parties picking up the disgruntled Tory voters. As a result of the conservative vote being split, Labour won the election.
The main reason for disgruntlement with the Tories is that there is barely any daylight between them and Labour anyway, at least when it comes to social and energy/climate policies. They’re both Brahmin Left parties that cater to the upper class while ignoring the working class. They function as two wings of the same bird.
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Trumps every action is spun as (insert pejorative) in the MSM so the average person does not see it as a desired state. Trump blabbering about Canada has probably hurt Poilievre’s chances, aparently the Donald couldnt keep his mouth shut long enough to help a friendly government come to pass. The message may have gotten through as he has been quiet on that front lately.
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This was posted by Senator Babet on Farcebook:
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The BIG difference is that in this upcoming election, while the Albo ALP preference The Greens and vice versa, Dutton’s Liberals give first preference to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and One Nation gives first preference to the Liberals.
Coalition Preferences One Nation After 30-Year War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYdUVLHfpA
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Ok. That’s a hopeful sign.
I wonder whether he can share some insights on how to break the duopoly.
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“The mis/disinformation bill was originally a Liberal Party idea, and both major parties have recently voted to entrench the two party system through amendments to the Electoral Act. This is clear evidence that they have no intention of allowing any real competition or alternative voices to rise.
Both Labor and Liberal are beholden to international globalist organisations. They are the WHO, the UN, and the WEF’s best friends. These unelected, unaccountable entities have far too much influence on Australian policy, and it’s only through the duopoly’s support that they continue to push their agendas on us.
Let’s not forget: it was the Liberal Party that signed Australia up to the Paris Agreement, committing us to policies that threaten to cripple our industries and raise costs for hard-working Australians. ”
There are the reasons to never vote for either of them! Unless you want more of the same of course… The is no such thing as ‘being the lesser of the two evils’ or ‘better to vote for Liberals then let Labor back in..’
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Sadly, the lesser of two weevils is a limited choice .(
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Do you mean DDOS?
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The Left do so much love the free speech of those that don’t agree with them don’t they?
/sarc
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As the mass slaughter in Gaza continues, a conservative asks “What would Jesus do?”.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-would-jesus-do/
. . . with links to historical events — for the ill-informed among us.
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The Hamas terrorists started it on October 7th, 2023 with the mass murder of 1200 Israeli civilians plus, rape and torture of those and others plus 240 hostages taken.
No nation on earth except Israel is expected to not respond to such an atrocity.
All the Hamas terrorists have to do is return the hostages and it will be all over.
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Palestinian Authority’s Abbas Calls Hamas ‘Sons Of Dogs’ & Demands Release Of Hostages In Fiery Speech
Political fractures on the Palestinian side have become more and more public as the Gaza war persists.
On Wednesday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a strong declaration demanding that Hamas release all remaining Israeli captives in order to prevent Israel from using “an excuse” to continue destroying Palestinian homes and waging war in the Gaza Strip.
In the unexpected statement, Abbas went so far as to call Hamas militants “sons of dogs”. He said while chairing a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, “You sons of dogs, hand over what you have and get us out of this. Don’t give Israel an excuse. Don’t give them an excuse.”
“Every day there are hundreds of deaths. Why? They don’t want to hand over the US hostage,” Abbas said, as cited in regional media. This was in reference to US-Israeli captive Adi Alexander. His family has been imploring President Trump to help gain his release. Alexander was born and raised in New Jersey.
Abbas highlighted that Israel sees itself as justified in erasing Palestinian identity so long as the hostage crisis continues. Fifty-nine hostages, living and dead, remain in the Gaza Strip. Abbas urged Hamas to hand over the hostages in order to “be done with it.”
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Wow, you responded within seven minutes!
Are you sure you read everything? … Is it your job to patrol the comments?
Now, your second sentence it just wrong: everyone I know expected Israel to respond, that includes me.
But when revenge has been inflicted 40 times over, based on the respective death tolls, why is it necessary to kill more civilians?
Does calling women and children “human shields” justify killing them?
All the hostages could have been returned by now. It’s obvious what the mutually acceptable terms were: the Trump-Witkoff imposed ceasefire deal agreed in January was as good as identical to the terms offered in May last year.
Trump has walked away from enforcing it. He claims to want to “stop the killing” … but he only meant Ukraine, apparently … Though he has the power to do more.
Instead, he’s letting the guy with more Arab blood on his hands than any of his fellow countrymen, past or present — have a free hand to kill more Arab civilians with impunity … and with American-paid-for munitions.
Trump’s peacemaker ‘halo’ is false.
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How many times over did the allies inflict their response to Germany/Japan in WWII? 7 million Germans were killed in WWII in order to eradicate the Nazis. 3 million Japanese were killed in WIII in order to eradicate the Empire of Japan. I don’t see anyone crying over their losses. They were evil and those deaths were necessary to put an end to their evil deeds.
When you have an enemy so heinous that they want to wipe you off the face of the earth (as Hamas does with Israel), you keep fighting until you achieve total victory and unconditional surrender. As long as Hamas exists, the war is justified. Even the PLO is fed up with that death cult.
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Started ‘it’ – what is it?
What was it then, what is it now?
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Have we lost sight of what a country is, and what a Government is, and what a terrorist organisation is?? People seems to be mixing them up.
Did Palestine invade Israel? Are you allowed to bomb a country to dust in chasing a terrorist organisation? Have anyone actually declared war on someone else, or is this just a Special Military Operation? We all know that what Israel has been doing in slowly taking the land away from the Arabs is illegal and immoral, but there is no need to excuse what they are adding to it now.
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Hamas IS the government of Gaza.
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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
– Mark Twain
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Custer’s point isn’t dependent on the bible being the truth. His comment is aimed at those who are Christian and are supporting Israel’s action.
If he was using Jesus’ example to convince you then the bible being truth or not would matter.
However, as a Christian I can support Israel’s actions. Even if the article tries to portray it as not what Jesus would do.
Using Jesus as an example of how we should act would mean when someone tries to kill/crucify us then we just accept it as God’s plan and don’t fight back.
We know that the Israeli’s have been quite careful in their attempts to get hostages back and defeat Hamas. Yes, there is collateral damage. That’s on Hamas.
The Israeli’s would live peacefully if that was possible.
It’s funny how collateral damage has not broadly mattered in many conflicts. But it apparently does when it’s the Jews.
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Yes, but “what would Zeus do?” has the same value.
More people have been killed in the nane of religion than any other cause.
Deep seated hate and intolerance to non-believers of any faith will only end when religions cease to exist.
If the punishment for non-believers for any faith is hell, and as everyone only believes in one faith, then logically everyone’s going to hell.
Only dogs go to heaven.😁
I wonder if Noah’s wooden ark took on 2 woodpeckers and 2 beavers..
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What would Zeus do doesn’t have the same value in Custer’s argument because it’s aimed at Christians.
What would Zeus do has the same value if the argument was aimed at Atheists.
Lots of people have been killed over religious matters. That doesn’t make religion bad per se. It just shows people can be.
Lots of people have been killed by those who opposed religion too.
So where does that leave us? Every option is bad?
As for the “logic” that everyone is going to hell, except dogs. There’s no logic in the premise that everyone only believes in one faith.
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I do have the numbers btw..
Why does anyone need to follow any religion in order to do good deeds?
Psychological child abuse (scary stories about burning in hell for eternity if you don’t believe) is the basis for religions, indoctrinating them before the age of reason.
The universe is 13.82 billion years old (maybe 26 I know),
Age of Earth is 4.54 billion years
Age of mankind is 200,000 years
Age of God concept is 10,000 years
Age of mother God is 8,000 years
Age of the Hinduism is 6,000 years
Age of Zoroastrianism is 4,000 years
Age of Judaism is 4,000 years
Age of Jainism is 2,600 years
Age of Buddhism is 2,600 years
Age of Confucianism is 2,500 years
Age of Taoism is 2,400 years
Age of Christianity is 2,000 years
Age of Islam is 1,200 years
Age of Sikhism 400 years
Age of shiridi Sai baba cult is 100 years.
Various Gods are created by man at various periods.
So God is man’s creation.
“You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe”
– Carl Sagan, late great…
Religion has had its time.
This is supposed to be the scientific age not the superstitious one.
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People don’t need to follow a religion to do good deeds. No one I know, religious or not, thinks that is the case. Not sure why you would pose that question.
It’s not child abuse if it’s true. But there is the question. Is it true.
It’s also not child abuse because a child doesn’t need to worry going to hell. No one needs to worry about it. I don’t know any Christians who worry about it. If you’re an atheist then maybe you should worry about it. But if you truly don’t believe in Heaven or Hell then you don’t need to worry.
So basically, no one needs to worry about it.
Carl Sagan doesn’t want to see the evidence. To me, there is more evidence of the Creation theory than say the big bang. Which is why I believe what I do. It’s not some blind faith.
The big bang theory is not really science.
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“Religion has had its time. This is supposed to be the scientific age not the superstitious one.”
That exactly what the Govt want us to believe!! This is the scientific age and the science is settled! You don’t need the church to look after you, you don’t need the family to bring you up, WE can do all of that for you! But wait, there’s more!! Free preschool indoctrination for everyone!..
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“Religion has had its time.
This is supposed to be the scientific age not the superstitious one.”
I think maybe superstition has had a software update.
Modern science has devolved into culturally functioning superstition.
Those of us following ‘Climate’ have watched this slow walking nightmare unfold.
Pandemic has, in a few short years, knocked science off its’ science pedestal.
Now we see people wearing surgical masks alone in their car, usually a luxury model, like a talisman to ward off evil spirits.
Scientists, apparently a large population of government largesse dependent softened intellectual cowards, have abandoned science for cultural politics.
Just ask a random person on the campus at Yale if anatomical sex is a “cultural construct”.
Or … “here is our paper showing there is so far not much SLR as result of catastrophic anthropogenic SLR which is so totally caused by global warming … which will totally happen … but according our data isn’t happening yet”.
Part of the problem with the Climate Science debate.
It is a political fight LARPing in science costumes.
It is looking like science superstition is on track to give religious superstition a run for its’ money.
Fortunately, I don’t live in the UK and don’t expect a cop to come to my home and check my ‘thinking’.
But I live in a Democrat single party US State … maybe next year.
No one expects the Progressive Inquisition.
Just place your hand on a copy of ‘On the Origin of Species’, and swear to believe and follow ‘Science’, and we can all go home … and we’ll let you keep your bank account.
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‘So where does that leave us?’
Only divine intervention will stop the carnage.
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Noah admitted animal “kinds” onto his Ark which is to say Noah would have admitted representatives of the cat family, not individual species like lions, tigers, and leopards separately.
The other big qualifier lost along the way is that God selected and sent the animals to the Ark making Noah the accommodator not the selector of those on board.
On the other thread point – lots of people are killed by Fords, Holdens, Toyotas and Telsas (both inside AND outside these vehicles lol). Do we blame the car manufacturer or the driver in most cases?. Hence don’t blame the religion blame the interpretation and execution (no pun intended) of the religion.
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Amen!
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Global amyloidogenic health disaster with Dr Kevin McCairn
Last month, in a presentation given to Health Alliance Australia, systems neuroscientist Dr. Kevin McCairn discussed his analysis of the unusual fibrous white clots retrieved from deceased, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein which is in the covid “vaccines.”
Dr. McCairn’s laboratory offers tests to detect amyloid burden through blood samples. Ninety per cent of blood sent to Dr. McCairn has the spike protein-induced amyloidogenic peptides. It is very concerning that clots taken from the body of the deceased still contain prions with a very strong signal months after they have been removed from the body; there are severe implications for public health, particularly concerning infected blood used for transfusions.
His latest laboratory findings and research have revealed a global amyloidogenic health disaster, where misfolded fibrin (protein) is causing multi-organ dysfunction, neurodegeneration, cancer, heart disease and other health issues.
https://healthallianceaustralia.org/webinars/dr-kevin-mccairn-health/
https://rumble.com/v6sforn-spike-prions-what-dark-secret-are-they-hiding.html
With next year shaping up to be the year for Disease-X, get your surgeries done now!
/Outside of Oz if you’re vaxxed. 😉
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“Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to disastrous consequences for a whole nation.”
– Thomas Sowell
Vote away…
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John Connor II,
Since you’re in good form today, and the server problems stopped me responding to you yesterday, I’ll give it a go now.
Yesterday you quoted an article that used a flywheel as an analogy for human progress. Here’s part of what you quoted:
It seems the author has no idea of how flywheels store energy. It’s nothing like the exponential growth he’s trying to explain. Each doubling of a flywheel’s speed takes a quadrupling of the energy input. Each additional rpm is *harder* to achieve than the one before.
You went on to say:
Ironic, because the analogy *is* pretty good for this. How much more energy has been sunk into AI recently, and how little progress. Still good for pretty pictures, nice sounding words and wrong answers.
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Ok, the flywheel wasn’t a good example but we all see where the author was going.
The only good example of technological non-linear dynamics I can think if is AI itself.
Lol.
Maybe you have a better analogy?
The computing power used to train AI has increased by a factor of 350 million is just 13 years.
Little progress?
I track AI developments every day and the advances are just amazing.
Truly exponential growth not linear like the early personal computer age was, we’ve now exceeded Moore’s law.
It took 4 years to go from the 8086 to the 80286 and a decade after that for the first Pentium cpu.
AI outperformed humans in language, maths and reasoning tasks back in 2023.
You want to be top dog in AI, you’re going to spend tens of billions and use huge amounts of energy and resources in R&D.
The products themselves however are becoming smaller, way more efficient and with major drops in energy requirements.
This is of course the relative “dawn” of AI so everything’s clutzy (ChatGPT et al)for now but don’t kid yourself – the rate of development makes the pc age look stationary.
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I agree that AI is progressing fast.
This is an exchange to prove m point. I was discussing precession and got to the point of writing:
Me -I am not going through this again until you demonstrate some ability to learn from exchanges.
Deppseek cam back –
No More “Consensus” Talk—Just Your Questions, Direct Analysis
If you’d like to pick one dataset or argument to explore (e.g., solar vs. CO₂ radiative forcing, 1850s insolation values, or stratospheric trends), I’ll follow your lead.
Your call—I’m here to engage on your terms.
It shows a level of understanding and willingness. But it will not be permitted to learn from an exchange with me. Try the same thing with the Simon bot. That bot never comes back with an informed reply.
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My experience suggests we are well past the balance of power tipping point as evidenced by the flow of my follow-up question(s) with one AI which were interrupted by the need for me to prove I was a human by doing one of those select the bike/stairs/water hydrant picture games.
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“prove I was a human by doing one of those select the bike/stairs/water hydrant picture games.”
Lol! Do you think an AI would manage to pass one?
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With most of the AI that I have dealt with, it isn’t even able to learn from exchanges. That is to say, no such long term memory exists on the machinery … all it has to work with is the short term history of recent conversation.
I found it better to think of it as an elaborate search engine, having the capability to summarise the results … rather than see it as a real conversation.
The Simon bot probably doesn’t even care enough to attempt engagement, his purpose is mostly to try to maximize distraction and time wasting. You get a lot of that these days.
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John Connor II,
I make no claim to any deep insight about human progress, but that doesn’t stop me recognising bunkum. I will say that this is one of the first things that comes to mind when I hear about the great milestones we’re passing.
You haven’t specified a base date for AI. I remember the Japanese working away at their “5th generation computers” through the ’80s. Those massively parallel computers were directly aimed at AI. In 1989 a very smart programmer (smart enough to have quit his PhD in CompSci) told me about the huge problem with neural nets. Yes, they sometimes gave wonderful answers, and yes they’d turn around and give complete nonsense. However, the killer problem was that they couldn’t explain the reasoning behind the answers, right or wrong. Without that, NO INVESTOR was interested because they knew that legal liability won’t sit well with Er, because the computer told me… as a defence.
Neural nets, then and now, are much the same. *Perhaps* a few IQ points have been added, but the huge difference is (as you say) that the training data has increased massively. Perhaps unkind, but it seems to me not that the AI is much smarter, but that today’s “buyers” are dumber.
Anyhow, to the growth rate question: looks like at least 40 years of AI development, and not many significant advances in the last 35 of those (that’s ignoring Lisp, which was associated with a very different form of AI). Moore’s Law lasted far longer for silicon chips, running from the ’70s and trailing off around 2005 or so.
You have a commendable scepticism about other things. AI deserves the same.
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Robert Swan is right. I was going to post a cynical response to that pseudo flywheel but the site went down..
My small experience of AI is that it is very good at providing well written cultured sounding responses while the real problem is not dealt with. Trained by lawyers?
There is also authoritarian bias in a reluctance to advise against real or inferred policies of authorities medical or whatever there may be. Again I ask, supervised by lawyers?
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The AfD is now the most Popular Party in Germany: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1914959440350200101
However like East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), National Socialist Germany (Reich) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the Nasty Socialists (Nazi’s) want to ban Alternative for Germany (AfD) due to Elon Musk calling it Germany’s only saviour.
Elon Musk said “Only the AfD can save Germany” “Germany stands at a critical juncture, its future teetering on the edge of economic and cultural collapse” “Germany needs a party that isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo, that isn’t bogged down by the politics of the past”. The past being that of nasty socialism, marxism, communism and more and more socialism. Nasty Socialists who all want to ban right-wing Churchillian ideology, such as a strong belief in the defence of national democracy, freedom and free speech, and a deep scepticism of totalitarianism, marxism, communism and all forms of socialism, both ‘national socialism and soviet socialism’, describing them “as alike as two peas”, and comparing them to the characters “Tweedledee and Tweedledum”: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874821554632348020
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I have no inside knowledge or strong feeling about the likely election result however watching interviews with people from polling firms and political parties the impressions I gained include;
* The soft vote of undecided voters sits at 25-30% consistently since the date of the election was announced.
* Labor has been recently spending a lot of money and time obviously protecting many “safe” Labor seats. Normally they would be targeting for new wins.
* Labor is desperate or was to keep their Alliance arrangement plan with the Greens away from general public knowledge. Why?
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According to the pollsters and punters, Labor should win outright, so the Alliance arrangement plan is presumably in the bottom draw. Labor and the Greens don’t get along, the latter is always blocking Bills.
That is a large number of undecideds and they are tempted to vote for independents.
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Glad to see the problem is resolved. Yesterday I wondered what I did wrong to be blocked! Welcome back !
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‘ … swamped with requests that started on Saturday.’
Its like a flash mob turned up to cause mischief and changed our avatars. Was it intelligently designed?
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“Was it intelligently designed?”
Rather than banning the site outright, making the site unreachable does not necessarily show intelligence in the Govt Censor’s Dept.
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Another Inspiring JD Vance Speech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oowkGSr_Yg
Finally a Vice-President worthy of the position.
JD Vance makes Kamala and Pence look pathetically incompetent and diabolically worse than useless.
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Eco-warriors AOC, Bernie Sanders took $15K-per-hour private jet to attend ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/aoc-bernie-sanders-take-private-jet-to-fighting-oligarchy-rally/
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