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https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/24/maternity-hospital-evacuated-after-solar-panel-fire/
Keep them off your roof.
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Denmark 🇩🇰
World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $145 per cow.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/worlds-first-carbon-tax-on-livestock-will-cost-farmers-100-dollars-per-cow/48a94ca0-c946-4d8a-afe3-430fc2f089a6
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Let them eat insects!
No doubt we’ll follow in Australia.
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At least 1000 Australian “schools” (as of 2022) are already feeding children insects.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
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This is a new attack on life on earth, a punitive tax on tiny methane, not CO2. The real problem is with arrogant, ignorant politicians who pass laws without any proof of fact. No one has ever proven methane causes Global Warming or even that Global Warming is a problem anywhere, let alone in Denmark.
Methane is what is produced when in digesting cellulose. Humans cannot. So we leave it to cows, sheep, goats to turn inedible stalks into milk and then in to cheese. And Denmark, the world’s second greatest cheese country is taxing the production of cheese. Talk about an own goal!
But then it’s really the EU/UN monoliths driving this, not the Danes. And besides, cheese is not popular in China. So why not wipe it out? Like the steel industry. And Christianity.
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CO2 represents the Leftist war against the energy supply.
CH4 represents the Leftist war against the food supply.
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I wonder how they will eventually tax the largest heat retaining gas – water vapor
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And at a highly variable 1%-4% the third largest gas in the atmosphere plus a much wider spectral impact. That’s why when CO2 effects are found to be too small, they argue that CO2 causes heating which causes more H2O. But this would require a humid ‘hot spot’ over the equator and it’s not there.
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And that’s a second wondrous puzzle. Atmospheric H2O can and does change dramatically from place to place and over a day. Liquid CO2 too, as in clouds which can turn the day black. Huge immediate effects. But tiny CO2 does NOT change more than 1% year to year, place to place across the planet. 50% in 250 years is only 0.2% a year, almost perfectly constant. And for the last 55 years a dead straight line.
But it is blamed for every sudden weather event. How is that possible or even rational? Surely you should blame what is changing? Not what is fixed.
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Flare off the cow farts:
https://youtu.be/7MVFHF37GqE?si=lnc5MZzFelDQlpVS
😁
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Venting gas from a bloated cow.
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From the link:
“Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($145) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate. The country’s coalition government agreed this week to introduce the world’s first carbon emissions tax on agriculture. It will mean new levies on livestock starting in 2030.”
I think it is a reasonable bet that in the UK, the Mad-about-a Trace-Gas Mr. Miliband will seek to get our Government to follow suit. After all, they’re trying to tax farmers on a hypothetical value of their land when they die; and looking at unrealised pension growth as a source of tax revenue from every one . . .
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I wonder who is worse and more clueless?
UK’s Ed Milliband? (Net worth US$17.2 million.*)
Australia’s Chrissy “blackout” Bowen? (Net worth ??? **)
* https://trendara.uk/ed-milibands-net-worth/
** https://openpolitics.au/47/chris-bowen
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They’re as bad as each other.
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Well, they can forget their milk, butter, cheese, beef etc can’t they? But maybe that is want. Let them eat insects.
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Incredible. Can’t see that it won’t destroy the production of milk, butter, cheese, beef in Denmark. Total insanity has gripped the West.
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I just put a post up on New Cat about the parlous condition in South Africa and its failing food production from the White run farms.
The EU is deliberately bringing in policies that will restrict food production in Europe.
It certainly is looking like they want to bring in population reduction by control of the food supply.
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“population reduction by control of the food supply.”
I can’t see that, people will rather riot than starve. ‘Let them eat cake’ didn’t work so well the last time Europeans tried it.
A minimal diet of Govt-issued cheap-as-possible food is likely, rather Soviet in nature and delivery, it eliminates the waste of advertising and packaging and will definitely save the planet. Of course this only affects the West, the non-white parts of the world will be forging ahead with development way beyond what we have.
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Bit like our mainstream grocery stores where ‘Home Brands’ are replacing all the competitive brands where possible.
We’ve seen this play out when the price of milk is reduced to very little profit margin if any. Small dairies close and milk is tipped into drains.
$80,000 a year fire control fees with a methane tax per cow and one can see all beef and sheep products disappearing. Politicians sound Oh! so reasonable to the politically disinterested. Those that see nothing but the aim for low cost food without realising its aim is for no cost food because food as it is known will no longer be produced. Again, start the propaganda in the kindergarten. It’s amazing the coalition is so dumb it refuses to take on this huge leftwing extremist propaganda that resides in our education system.
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You talking soylent green, KP?
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It is not insanity, they know what they are doing … the West is at war with itself and pretending to be nuts is merely camoflauge.
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This was announced almost one year ago now, June 2024. Has it been implemented, and if so what effect has it had?
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Target 2030 which presumably will be one heck of a year, given the whole Agenda 2030 blueprint and judging from what 2020 was like.
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Lurpak butter was already expensive. Now it will be a luxury item.
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Lurpak was one of the Bovaer-inflicted.
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You can only hope Danish farmers can coordinate like the Dutch farmers did a few years ago to form their own political party to combat ridiculous government policies.
However, cows are not only being blamed for global warming. Now “scientists” are trying to guilt trip pet owners by stating that the meat based diet of their cats and dogs are hurting the planet. Man’s best friend is becoming the planet’s worst enemy.
https://prwire.com.au/pr/121872/pet-diets-are-quietly-contributing-to-climate-change-but-theres-a-simple-fix
Any chance this research was sponsored by companies producing vegan pet food?
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NPR really hit publish on this headline
https://notthebee.com/article/npr-really-hit-publish-on-this-headline
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Ignoring the obvious threats.
NERC’s latest reliability assessment is unreliable
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/22/nercs-latest-reliability-assessment-is-unreliable/
The beginning:
“The North American Energy Reliability Corporation (NERC, rhymes with jerk) has just released its 2025 Summer Reliability Assessment (SRA). NERC is a quasi-federal agency under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, also rhymes with jerk).
NERC’s mission is to keep America’s grid reliable, which it has clearly failed to do. The nonsensical language in the SRA helps explain this failure. There is a deep fallacy that lets NERC systematically avoid saying how bad things really are.
This fallacy is the dangerously misleading use of the word “normal.” Here is a good example (out of many). Their basic finding is that “all areas are assessed as having adequate anticipated resources for normal summer peak load conditions.”
This sounds very reassuring, as does the whole report. The fallacy is that there is no such thing as “normal” summer conditions for a given day, week, month, or season. They really mean average conditions, and these are rare, not normal.
Here is an analogy to make the point. Suppose I work downtown and eat lunch at a lot of different places. Maybe twice a month I eat at Arby’s. It would be wildly false to say I normally eat at Arby’s since I eat there less than 10% of the time. “Normally” implies most of the time.
In the same way, average weather occurs less than 10% of the time, so it is wildly false to refer to it as normal. Moreover, the weather will often be worse than average as far as stressing the grid goes, sometimes far worse.
So NERC should truthfully say something like this: “All areas are projected to have adequate resources for normal summer conditions, but it is highly likely that conditions will be worse, including far worse.”
This is not reassuring at all, as it clearly calls for caution, which is how bad things really are.”
Lots more in the article, including NERC’s ridiculous depending on wind and solar to meet peak need.
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Why isn’t DOGE shutting them down?
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They are not Federally funded: “NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, is funded through assessments charged to “load-serving entities” within the bulk power system. These entities, which are owners, operators, and users of the bulk power system responsible for delivering electricity to retail customers, are assessed based on their net energy requirements. This funding mechanism is overseen by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which approves NERC’s annual business plan and budget.”
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FERC’n NERC. Sounds about right.
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Shut down FERC and probably the NERC funding will go away automatically.
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It’s the same as the misuse of the term ‘average’. Average means nothing when it is the extremes helping make up the ‘average’ which are the
problems to be met. Those ‘extremes’ don’t have to be rare events. Submaximal problems are of higher frequency and yet can almost as devastating. They make a nonsense of ‘average’. Take floods as an example.
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To add, its the Weather Bureau reports every night that drive me mad. They use ‘average’ as though average conditions are the expectation which bears no
variation ie as though ‘average’ is a fixed measure of every day’s expectations. In doing this they get to promote anything above ‘average’ as extreme. This is mathematical fraud being used as propaganda to drive the global warming hysteria. It covers up the number of occasions more extreme events have occured in the past. It also limits most of the comments to what has happened since 1910 – unless pre 1910 events are mentioned that reinforce the rarity of the event in the listeners’ minds. This magnifies warming propaganda, saying ‘look how rare this event is!’
Most logical people would say why worry; it has all happened before and sometimes much worse.
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Even if conditions were “normal” 90% of the time, power is “normally” expected to be available 100% of the time.
No engineer builds a bridge to be safe under “normal” conditions. It must survive the 5:30 rush.
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Shanahan. No red thumb. My finger was too wide. Meant to be green but red pinched the nod.🥵
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The endless promotion of a far Left agenda by Their ABC (Australian state-funded broadcaster like BBC, CBC etc.) is both a breach of their charter and enormously damaging to Australia. It’s a $1 billion per year taxpayer-funded propaganda operation.
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‘In 2012, Joseph Nye of Harvard University explained that with soft power, “the best propaganda is not propaganda”, further explaining that during the Information Age, “credibility is the scarcest resource”.
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Once Australia shuts down the last of its coal and gas power stations (we have no nuclear as John Howard, fake conservative, banned them by law) Snowy Hydro 2 is being promoted as the solution to Australia’s intermittent solar and wind energy problems because it will be a big hydro battery.
However, SH2 is only a battery and will thus itself be a net energy consumer. In addition it is enormously expensive and may not ever be finished. It is even questioned if there will be enough water to fill it (see link below, it is not a closed system). Plus it is tremendously environmentally damaging, it being built in a formerly protected fragile alpine wilderness area which is being sacrificed for “the cause”.
How is it possible that this will make intrinsically expensive (and useless) intermittent solar and wind energy cheaper because it’s taking an already expensive supply and stores it an an expensive and energy-consuming storage facility, which also has a limited capacity so it will not be nearly enough storage to supply all that Australia needs to fulfil the green fantasy?
Again this proves why politicians, in this case Malcom Turnbull, shouldn’t be allowed to make engineering decisions.
Also see:
https://npansw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Snowy-2.0-claims-dont-stack-up.pdf
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With 2 hours reserve (assuming the top reservoir is full) to power who ever is connected, the question is who gets priority?
Sydney? Or Melbourne? Or Canberra?
And what has the 1000% increase in cost done to the supposed charges?
And that means it cannot be used in the case of emergency, like a Black Start.
A typical bureaucratic stuff-up. Any benefits have long since gone missing in the “we must keep going regardless”
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Yes.
The “sunk cost fallacy”.
Goolag AI definition:
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Some say Snowy 2 will power Californias high speed train via lossless inter connect soon to be invented. The contract is being drawn up by the same people that organised the export of Australias gas at a fixed price for decades while we have a shortage at home (WA excluded)
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Pilots call it “get thereitis” highly recommended against and very often fatal.
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Good analogy
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Downloaded – NPA and the bleeding obvious
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At best, SH2 could only supply 10% of the grid requirements.
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Thanks for posting this pdf David .
This blows my mind , everyone should read this .
I didn’t realize that the lower dam had a much lower capacity than the upper dam !!!!!!
This proves that this scheme can never work , if they try it would entail massive releases of water from the lower dam which may cause serious flooding downstream .
Obviously that water could not be recovered so it is NOT a ” closed system ” and the water can’t be reused .
Any sane person who was aware of the capacities of the 2 reservoirs would advise against this project . Ten minutes after it was proposed !!!!!!
There must have been almost NO thought or planning prior to commencement .
Any thoughts as to the effect on availability of irrigation water for farmers ?
Even the cost estimate was a mile out . Heading towards 20 Billion , probably arriving at 25 Billion , you could build 3 nuclear power stations @ $8B each .
This is the work of madmen !
Pretty hard to estimate the damage that turnbull has done to this country !!
His Frankenstein submarines that never could have worked is another example .
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Australia is so fanatically obsessed with expensive and intermittent energy and Net Zero, even while the biggest CO2 emitter China doesn’t have a Net Zero policy and the second biggest emitter, the United States dropped it and others are dropping it, that with another 6 to 9 years of Labor, Australia will be the sole remaining country with such policies.
And a destroyed economy to go with it, we will just supply raw materials to the world, much like Third World countries do.
What is the exit strategy, if any? The fanaticism of belief in wind and solar and Net Zero is extreme and deeply embedded in all government agencies (public “service”, CSIRO etc.) and government-funded institutions (schools, luniversities etc. usually as a prerequisite of their funding) and the sadly indoctrinated students they produce.
Anyone in the above institutions who questions the Official Narrative is censured or more like sacked (fired) as the Left who dominate it all are intolerant of alternative opinions.
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Apparently the Kiwis have watered down St Jaci’s nett zero plans to the extent that off shore gas exploration will recommence. While ove here on the western islands of NZ have not yet woken up.
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I’m not suggesting china is about to find religion but the rumour mill [without rumour and lies there is nothing comes out of China] is saying the Xi Jinping was given 60 days to step down or be taken out [with prejudice?] with Jul 18th as crunch day. We’ll see.
Putin is nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs and Trump will crash through or crash.
We live in interesting times.
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It looks like the Germans want to remilitarise.
Presumably Ukraine will the excuse to start another world war.
Mmmm…
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The last time Germany won a war was in 1870.
The last 2 turned out very badly.
Is this the case that Germany WILL WIN this time?
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I refer you to Norm McDonald. They may have lost the world wars, but it was actually close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM
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As Spike Milligan used to point out – they came second
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England lost the war. They suffered terribly but the US insisted they repay their Lend Lease debt, Japan and Germany got an ‘ell of a lot of assistance.
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“Japan and Germany got an ‘ell of a lot of assistance.”
They both did very well for 50-years post-WW2, they traded wealth for political freedom as America stationed tens of thousands of troops in both countries and made sure their Govts did as they were told. Compared to the UK, who was meant to have won the war, they developed at a far faster rate and enjoyed a far better standard of living.
In NZ it was said we should declare war on the USA then immediately lose if we really wanted to get ahead.
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They did win the war in 1918 against Russia and redrew the map of Eastern Europe, recreating major states like Poland. Before suddenly being beaten by the UK, France and America and their secret weapon, the Spanish Flu. Known today as H1N1. It attacked only fit young men and emptied the trenches. But no one would admit it existed, which is why the deaths in Spain gave rise to the name. And the sudden inexplicable collapse of the front gave rise to WWII, a revenge war. That was eighty years ago, three generations. This is likely an attempt to create a EU world power, based on two countries only, France and Germany.
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“This is likely an attempt to create a EU world power, based on two countries only, France and Germany. ”
I must disagree, their power is waning, and I see no reason for it to change from that. Is that clown going to call up all the Turkish immigrants, followed by the North African gimmigrants and expect them to fight for Germany??
Europe will go to war with Russia unless America can break Russia first some other way. The Yanks will think nothing of fighting to the last European after they have fought to the last Ukrainian.
The important thing is to collapse Russia somehow and break it up, leaving America’s last gasp as an Empire being to lose a war against the Chinese.
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I would not underestimate extreme German or French nationalism and sacrifice. Their world dominance under Napoleon and Hitler was not accidental. And the Japanese were similar. Plus the politicians in the UK, France and Germany still see Russia as their principal opponent, not China. Fascism is not dead but lurking on the Left.
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Why did you not include Japan in your hate post?
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What hate? Where?
And Japan was in the two lines. Not a lot of reading really.
Name a major war in the last 250 years which did not involve France. There are not many. And you would have to include the American War of Independence, which was a direct cause of the French Revolution. The French, British and Germans have scores to settle with Russia over wars not started by Russia. The Crimean war is quite inexplicable except as a punitive war.
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Another NATO failure
https://newcoldwar.org/history-nato-keep-russians-americans-germans/
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Why Ukraine War’s Deadly Drones Are Now Flying By 12-Mile-Long ‘Wires’ | Frontline | Daily Mail
Again on Drones – 29 Mins 18 Secs
Simplicius has good coverage of how the War has changed Tactics
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/analysis-russian-triple-chokehold
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52125-trump-distances-us-from
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Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S. Tech – 54 mins 35 secs
5 days ago
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Interesting video, first reference, OO.
I recently wrote an article mentioning the use of fibre optic drones in that war, to be published in September. I think the Russians* used them before the Ukes.
Also, whilst it seems novel, the idea of using wire guidance (not optical fibre) was first experimented with by the National Socialists.
After WW2, TOW (tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided) missiles became common. And then optical fibre guidance but TOW missiles are still in use today. Optical fibre guided drones are the next development beyond that.
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…as demanded by President Trump….
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See, there was a good reasons to import all those military aged young mean
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See, there was a good reasons to import all those military aged young mean
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I thought this was a joke at first but a book has already been written about Rachel Levine.
Note the emphasis (my bold) on promoting the transgender message to children.
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… follow in [the thing’s] footsteps? Have you seen the way ‘the thing’ stands – especially when dressed in high-heels and lippy?
Talking of going over the edge and falling into the abyss:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562020/sunken-manawanui-listed-as-77m-write-off-in-budget
Some here may remember last year’s mishap when a reef-surveying naval ship hit a reef, burst into flames, then sunk just off the coast of Samoa’s Upolu Island. ‘Inclusiveness’ has now cost New Zealanders $77,000,000 (that’s 77 million dollars, for climate activists unable to read, write nor add numbers).
In some shituations, moving forward is not a good move, and reversing is sometimes needed to stay afloat and keep on the [cough] straight and narrow.
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Did the DEI “commander” get a promotion for their efforts?
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Author Chelsea Clinton. Her hero is a cross dressing four star Admiral.
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I’ve got a dollar which says Chelsea Hubbell had no input into this work of fiction.
And while we are at it, I would welcome chromosomal analysis of “Michelle” Obama and “Brigitte” Macron.
That’ll do for starters.
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I was hoping that when TRUMP first moved into the White House after Obama, he would have a forensic team find samples of “Big Mike’s” DNA and do just that.
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Well overdue to hunt for Barr bodies in Big Mike- Also “Bridgitte” is Macron’s Father. Yep imagine the most fevered perversion and this lot will trump your worst nightmare! The way things are going, gynecologists will throw in their Obstetrics and study how to treat prostate cancer.
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While this pursuit of Michelle and Brigitte as men in drag is a lot of fun, it is also ridiculous.
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She persisted? He is a man in a dress!
Inspiring women? He is a man. Inadvertently it says that the world is running low on inspiring women!
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That’s the core problem really. I dont care about these people, how they dress or what they pretend to be. For me the problem comes when they displace real women from potential careers, their sports, their privacy and just being able to hang out with other women without interference if they choose.
The amount of attention and societal contortions for trans people is way out of kilter with their presence and importance in society.
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“The amount of attention and societal contortions for trans people is way out of kilter with their presence and importance in society.”
..as I figured when the whole ‘homosexual is normal’ thing took off decades ago. I don’t give a sh1t what you are and I don’t want to know, but we’re wasting a lot of media attention on something irrelevant.
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They must be running seriously low on inspiring women when they have to rely on an ugly man in a dress and lippy.
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Here is a documentary about Cecot, the super maximum security prison in El Salvador for the most dangerous, most violent, most psychopathic people in the world, MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members.
When watching and considering the shocking conditions, just consider their victims first and what they did to them.
This prison is also responsible for turning El Salvador from one of the most dangerous places in the world to a much safer one.
It has a capacity of 40,000 criminals. Most will never be released.
https://youtu.be/UU18sxIKZ40
Goolag AI says:
That’s less than Canada which has a rate of 2.2 per 100,000.
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A simpler jail is available, it has 1000 beds. Everyone of them comfortable but not elaborate.
Rule 1. Every prisoner is ranked when they enter. The worst offences incur the highest scores. Multiple offences result in a summation of individual scores. Offences that occur in the jail also incur points.
Once ranked, the prisoners get to lead a normal life, serving out their time.
However. If the jail gets to capacity, then the one with the highest score is removed from the jail and euthanised. This continues until the balance of 1000 inmates is achieved.
Now which political party is going to put that on the table and then let the public vote on it?
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It just occurred to me that the inmates would not want a soccer hooligan event, where 100+ people could be sentenced for minor affray, all with very low points and only inside for a week or two.
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Mass capital punishment requires a whole lot of faith in government and the legal system.
Even in the best run countries, governments and the legal system have plenty of incompetent/crooked boobs in positions of power who will corrupt the system, and corrupt systems make mistakes. And the more corrupt the system, the more mistakes get made.
Think back to 2020 and the massive incompetence and power grabs by government officials, both elected and unelected during the Covid pandemic. Do you really want to hand those same governments the power of life and death over their constituents? What would happen when they start putting political prisoners in your 1000 inmate jail?
Count me out.
I’m firmly in the corner of Sir William Blackstone, particularly as it pertains to capital punishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio
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“However. If the jail gets to capacity, then the one with the highest score is removed from the jail and euthanised.”
That sounds like the perfect model prison.
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Thanks for that series of comments David.
All important to note but the ABCCC is in need of urgent attention.
Shut.
It.
Down.
As for “kids of all genders” the whole LGBTIQPH totally misrepresents the reality.
There are only two genders, male and female ,but the fact is that nature is not perfect and interruptions to development during pregnancy can lead to aberrations that are either so small as to be unnoticeable or tragically evident.
Dressing up supporters in rainbows just adds to the distress: if only the truth could be told, everybody would be better off.
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Probably full of poms who committed meme crimes now.😁
While CECOT is for gangs, Russia’s Black Dolphin is for the worst of society of all kinds.
https://youtu.be/gHiZufwGVQ8?si=gPE18hmhkXXLby8P
That’s the tamest video on Black Dolphin I can post here.😎
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Very good video.
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Knowing what I pay for normal supermarket groceries and other items and watching prices increase almost in real time, it’s impossible to believe the official inflation rate of 2.4%.
We are being lied to.
I don’t know anyone else who believes the official inflation rate either.
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Absolutely. My belief is that prices for many grocery items have more or less doubled over the past three years.
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If something doubles in price in three years that corresponds to an inflation rate of 26%.
That corresponds with my empirical estimate of the true rate of inflation being about 25% to 30%.
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Or Shrunk
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Shrinkflation.
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Well my $10/kg (on sale) Italian blend coffee beans have had their second general price increase (ie multiple grocery chains) to $37/kg
Time to restock with what similar is available at under $30
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“Well my $10/kg (on sale) Italian blend coffee beans have had their second general price increase (ie multiple grocery chains) to $37/kg”
Yes, for years Vittoria Italian was $20/Kg, then suddenly $50 last month. So, its off to Aldi, where their $17 coffee is definitely inferior, but a blend of the two is quite drinkable and it halves the pain!
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Of course they are lying, it’s the same with unemployment stats.
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” it’s the same with unemployment stats.”
Exactly! You decide what inflation or unemployment rate you want, then decide which factors to measure that will give you that rate. You call lane-assist in a car as an extra feature for the same money, and assign it a negative inflation rate. You find people in the gig economy and count the possible shifts they may be offered as being employed!
The hard thing is finding some excuse as to why you didn’t count the important one, but these days no reporter will ask you awkward questions like that.
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Prior to the US election, employment stats were definitely “fixed”.
Our stats are calculated on so many variables that the “professional” economists use other measures. And even then you can see how the Labor Government attempted to manipulate CPI via electricity subsidies. A joke.
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The government lies to you about everything else. Why wouldn’t it lie to you about the inflation rate?
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My local Coles did away with the fast service lane much to the disgust of custoners so it’s self checkout (which I refuse to use) or stand on line in the “200 items or less” regular checkout with my 6 items.
My local IGA has superb service every time and items you can’t get at W or C.
If they had everything I wanted I’d give W and C the finger.
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We have an IGA and that’s it. After a year or so of living here, I got used to what they had and adjusted. I do grow tomatoes, lettuce and assorted greens and herbs – much better than coles, I bet!
I still buy luxury items (like imported cheese or really good coffee beans) when I visit a large town for any reason, but now my old man can cook fancy dishes, I don’t need much more. Lucky, I know.
However, prices are higher every month, like everywhere else.
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No one can replace the original Humphrey, Jim and Bernard, but this was a noteworthy effort. ‘Humphrey’ tries to sell ‘Jim’ on a solution to global warming:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1925126435577999791
https://x.com/RickArmstrong11/status/1925230552342204742
(both videos are <3 mins in length)
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IIRC, that skit about globull warming was a parody of Yes Prime Minister created for Red Nose Day or somesuch, hence the different actors.
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Stage play in 2010, leading to a 6 episode TV series in 2013-ish, by the same writers as the original.
I tried to be objective and not compare it to the genius of the original writing and cast. It was still clever, funny, but not amazing.
I think both Utopia, and The Hollowmen were better.
The Thick of it, and Veep were also good in their own ways, yet I maintain that Yes Minister, and Yes Prime Minister stand alone.
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FWIW
“Operation: Pretend It Didn’t Happen
*A special Senate hearing edition”
“The title of Senator Johnson’s latest hearing was The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with Covid-19 Vaccines, which sounds compellingly, scandalously newsworthy to me. Unfortunately, the proceedings occurred only in a parallel dimension where journalism hasn’t been replaced by pharmaceutical press releases.”
More at
https://jennasside.rocks/p/operation-pretend-it-didnt-happen
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FWIW
“How to achieve a one-world tyranny (aka the New World Order)”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-to-achieve-a-one-world-tyranny-aka-the-new-world-order/
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Wow.
That’s quite a list.
Most items almost fully achieved in most Western countries, except subject to reversal in TRUMP’s America.
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FWIW
“Biden Admin Anti-Christian Fine $37.7 Million, removed- Grand Canyon University”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/biden-admin-anti-christian-fine-37-7-million-removed-grand-canyon-university/
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Is Russia preparing for WW3?
Who is responsible for the recent 5th column attacks in western Europe?
Should Finland and the Baltic States be concerned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdJBW6p_do
It appears these days that a nation adopting a defensive posture in response to provocation is now viewed as an aggressor.
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Yes the logic of who moved first and why does get rather contorted. Doing what you want on your own home soil seems fair enough. Its the nature of what you deploy and who else is involved that can make it more “interesting”
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Russia tried to conquer one of their weak neighbors and failed miserably. Their dreams of a quick blitzkrieg victory were shattered when their opening push towards Kyiv got stopped cold by a hastily cobbled together Ukrainian force. They wound up settling for grabbing a sliver of land along the Sea of Azov, a small moral ‘victory’ indeed.
I doubt they have any stomach for trying their luck against NATO after seeing how pitifully their troops performed in Ukraine and how grievously their ranks have been thinned in that conflict.
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“I doubt they have any stomach for trying their luck against NATO after seeing how pitifully their troops performed in Ukraine and how grievously their ranks have been thinned in that conflict.”
When I read things like this I do wish we had the chance to see NATO collapse in its first real war, but eventually the collapse of Europe would affect my life too, so maybe not.
I suggest you read more of Simplicious Steve, as linked by Old Ozzie above, as a change from the CIA propaganda sheets you and Rowjay pass between you. The stories of Russia’s feint towards Kiev to hold Ukie troops there have been distorted by your propaganda masters. The only part that Russia missed was the size of the response from the West, but now they have a clear idea of what we can manage and have taken steps needed to defeat it.
Western weapons will do nothing on the battlefield, they shot their bolt with their best and have failed, so putting troops on the ground will only remove the young white men from their countries, something that the young non-white immigrants are probably waiting for! Ukraine wouldn’t exist if Russia wanted the sort of war you are thinking of, but a war of attrition has given them the provinces they wanted with small losses, depleted the West of weapons and opened up new markets for its economy. That new market has seen real-time that the West’s wonder-waffen are not what they were touted to be as small countries around the world were bombed into submission by them. That publicity alone is priceless, F16s getting shot down even as they try to keep them away from the front lines, Iron Dome anti-missile systems getting blown up..
Russia will end up stronger, Europe weaker.
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KP,
rt.com is always worth a read to get an alternate perspective
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You seem disconnected from observable reality Steve, and assign your motives to the Russians and then critique them for missing your targets. Quite odd. Keep watching, you will need a lot more mental gymnastics to cope with the inevitable future.
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Gentlemen, you are not funny.
RT, indeed.
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The last war Moscow had with real Enemy was in mid 90ies was finished by a draw.
Wait for it to start again.
https://youtu.be/jDPoUuJJflQ
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In the initial assault on Ukraine, Russia pushed their forces beyond supply line reach. Mechanised units can only successfully advance about 300-ish km a day assuming little resistance.
Their military was also not designed to work as one cohesive force, even within the same branch. Too many cooks in the kitchen, as it were.
I’m still unconvinced that Russia (under Putin) would make the first move to attack a NATO member. The anti-Russian rhetoric is understandable in former Soviet states, but bordering on unhinged elsewhere.
Oh, and I’m neither pro- nor anti- anyone in that war. I would very much just like the fighting to stop.
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FWIW – worth reading IMO
“When the Ice Cracks: Michael Mann’s Legal Defeat and the Climate of Accountability”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/when-the-ice-cracks-michael-manns-legal-defeat-and-the-climate-of-accountability-n4940123
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I wonder if he will ever pay (or his backers pay)? I guess there is a path to contempt if he doesnt.
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Are you all rushing to install the new “Pride Harmony” wall paper on your iPhones this morning? (sarc)
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I would, I really would, but sadly I dont have an Iphone
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FWIW
“Escobar: From The Caspian To The Persian Gulf, Tracking Iran’s North-South Corridor”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-caspian-persian-gulf-tracking-irans-north-south-corridor
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FWIW
“Jeremy Clarkson interview: ‘In the past 20 years Britain has fallen off a cliff”
https://archive.md/LPjHA#selection-2211.4-2211.83
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/05/24/like-wile-e-coyote/
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Like they say, slowly then all at once
Same here, its just a matter of timing and style
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For once, our geographical isolation has been a good thing. That we’re not struggling with the outrageous levels of illegals has more to do with the difficulty of getting here from Africa and the Middle East than it does with our governments. Albanese is trying to get around that by weakening our legal immigration checks though.
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Yes, what we don’t get as illegals, Albanese is legally importing some of the world’s most violent, uneducated and anti-Western people who are unlikely to ever contribute to society or work or pay taxes.
All future Labor Party voters.
TRUMP put a stop to this in his country, but Australia is now an effective one party state and we have no one prepared to stop it
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Why pay people smugglers when you can get a visa legally for a fraction of the price?
It’s not the illegal immigrants flooding Australia, it’s the legal ones.
You can sponsor family, get citizenship, and use public benefits… all you have to do is pretend to be a student, or get someone to say you’re a skilled worker.
No, not all of them are useless, or unnecessary by any means. There is also nothing inherently bad about wanting to have a better life either.
When I worked with a lot of “skilled worker” visa holders in Australia, they all knew more about the social security system than the locals, and would do just about anything to keep the visa until they got permanent residence status. My employer preferred these people because they were on average cheaper and didn’t complain, wouldn’t join the Union, plus they all looked great on paper.
No one ever stopped to think why it was that other branches of the same company would be so willing to part with such excellent workers… if they were as good as their CVs said.
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FWIW
“CNN’s AMOC Alarm Debunked: Ocean Current Collapse Claims Crumble Under Scrutiny”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/24/cnns-amoc-alarm-debunked-ocean-current-collapse-claims-crumble-under-scrutiny/
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New COVID variant NB.1.8.1 spreads from China, detected in multiple U.S. states, doctors issue warnings over rising cases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that cases of NB.1.8.1 have been found in travelers arriving at airports in California, Washington, Virginia, and New York. Additional infections have been reported in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, suggesting the variant is beginning to spread beyond isolated travel cases.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/new-covid-variant-nb-1-8-1-spreads-from-china-detected-in-multiple-u-s-states-doctors-issue-warnings-over-rising-cases/
First in China?
I’ve been watching it develop in India for a week now, but that news is heavily controlled.
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Former politician and candidate in the last Federal Election Bernie Finn posted this on Farcebook:
I’m not sure where he got those figures, although they wouldn’t surprise me.
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Over 40 percent of kids in a US study thought bacon was a plant
Cheese was commonly misidentified as plant-based, with 44 percent incorrectly identifying its origin. Around 41 percent believed bacon came from a plant (we wish) and 40 percent said the same of hot dogs. Even chicken nuggets, which famously have chicken in their name, were misidentified as coming from plants 38 percent of the time.
https://www.iflscience.com/over-40-percent-of-kids-in-a-us-study-thought-bacon-was-a-plant-79344#
At least they understand genders and irreversible surgeries at that age.
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Cheese is plant based. The milked animal uses plants to make the milk. 😉
The kids will really flip out when they realise CO2 is a vital input in that chain of making cheese.
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And a vital output in making cheese and bread. From the yeast cells. Or Edam cheese would have no holes. And bread would be pancakes.
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And bread would be pancakes.
Baking soda/powder both release CO2 during the cooking process. If they didn’t you would be eating crackers.
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Yes, discovered in 1801 it became popular in the 1830s. Apparently. I was not there and deny any responsibility in the matter. Stories of my involvement are inflated, puff stories.
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And sodium bicarbonate should be banned under Net Zero. Let them eat roti bread.
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Any country that produces cheese in a spray can has no standing in a food discussion. If bacon identifies as a plant then so be it , and who knows what is really in hot dogs and chicken nuggets? something things are best left unknown.
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NEW STUDY: Nearly HALF of patients with serious COVID-19 vaccine injuries die within 6 weeks
A new Korean government-backed study titled, Mortality in severe serious adverse events following heterologous and homologous prime-boost vaccination strategies for SARS-CoV-2: A retrospective cohort study, was just published in the journal PLoS One.
Heterologous “Mix n’ Match” (viral vector + mRNA): 36 deaths / 63 cases = 57.1% mortality
Homologous viral vector: 34 deaths / 75 cases = 45.3%
Homologous mRNA (Pfizer/Moderna): 90 deaths / 220 cases = 40.9%
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-nearly-half-of-patients
New strain coming. Be sure to get the shot!
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At the moment gray swan events cannot be predicted, so they are educating AI on atmospheric dynamics to help forecast weather a month in advance.
https://www.miragenews.com/ai-tackles-weather-can-it-predict-extreme-events-1465131/
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“neural networks cannot forecast weather events beyond the scope of existing training data—which might leave out events like 200-year floods, unprecedented heat waves or massive hurricanes.”
Sounds like they are feeding it their fake temperatures that they feed us, and completely ignoring past weather events from over 100years ago.. and I’ll bet there is no data on that big yellow thing in the sky!
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AI will undoubtedly join the dots, with the aid of paleo climate history, to show that temperatures rise before an increase in CO2. Proving beyond reasonable doubt that its just a harmless trace gas.
The floods in NSW could be categorised as a gray swan event.
The sun obviously plays a role over longer time spans, but in the short term its effect cannot be discerned. My thinking is that AI should be informed on the importance of fluid dynamics and oceanic oscillations.
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That statement is nonsense. The change in solar output varies over a 10 to 11 year cycle and has a clear signature in the Nino34 temperatrure, which has been linked to significant weather events.
The annual variation from year to in solar EMR due to orbital changes is also not trivial.
I predicted anomalously high SH autumn advection some months back. Similarly predicted higher NH spring and summer temperature leading to new snowfall records come October and near record NH snow extent. 2025 is vastly different to 2024 from the perspective of orbit and solar EMR.
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Victorian state government debt is now $167.7 billion, assuming the government isn’t lying (although it probably is, there is probably other debt not counted).
Interest payments are currently $7.6B annually or $20.7 million per day. But these will increase to $10.6 billion annually or $28.9 million per day in three years’ time.
But can’t they just print more money, LoL?
I can sense more draconian taxes and other property confiscations happening, even worse than now.
And yet, Australians keep voting for ever more “free stuff”.
And because Australia is now essentially a one party state, there is no opposition party to say anything.
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FWIW
“In the Name of Health: First Reactions to the MAHA Report”
“The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. The relatively short report includes astonishing data on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, life expectancy, substance abuse, mental illness, and many other terribles. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/05/25/in-the-name-of-health-first-reactions-to-the-maha-report-n3803106
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Long but worth the read (IMO)
A sample –
“Can it be said that the Covid period had a silver lining? It’s probably too soon to say that, but we can observe the following. The years 2020 to 2024 represented the apotheosis of at least a century of scientific conceit, elite arrogance, and government and corporate overreach into every area of our lives. That entire path is either on the verge of disrepute or perhaps even fully discredited. “
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Excellent comment.
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Greater Sydney Dam levels now at 100%,
Come on down Tim Flatulence Flannery –
https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/nsw-storage-levels/greater-sydney-dam-levels
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Flim Flammery’s incorrect statements saying that there wouldn’t be enough rain to fill the dams caused the needless expenditure of tens if not hundreds of billions of Australian taxpayers’ money on desalination plants – and no dams.
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Funny how black and white that discussion became. There are places where desal makes sense, there are place where dams make sense. Australian government just seem to rush from one bandwagon to the next without any critical thinking.
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Words of wisdom corner
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
– Aldous Huxley
“Your best men die in alleys under a sheet of paper while your worst men get statues in parks for pigeons to sh#t upon for centuries.”
– Charles Bukowski
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
– Johannes Kepler
“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.”
– Aldous Huxley
“Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Intolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles”
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Creators of world’s 1st Covid jab call for CAT FLU PANDEMIC VACCINES to be made immediately as GOF-Bird Flu jumps to cats then to humans
If you own a cat, be sure to mask them up, have them social distance at 6 feet, keep them locked in their bedroom, and wipe down their litter box with antibacterial cleanser…
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/creators-of-worlds-1st-covid-jab
Just like the dumb humans do. 😆
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“Cats typically contract H5N1 by consuming infected birds, raw poultry products, or unpasteurized milk from infected livestock. The study also highlighted unknown transmission routes, including indoor cats with no clear exposure.”
The latter part suggest the former are just guesses, and they don’t know how it transmits. Maybe their whole idea of viruses is incorrect, they couldn’t explain how Covid was spreading either.
“The fatality rate is 50–70%, and if transmitted by air, smallpox will seem like child’s play compared to what could happen after one or two mutations.”
They’re working on it, beavering away in the biolabs trying to get a racial profile to stick to it before they accidentally release it..
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For those living at 55N, the sunlight today is 2.8W/m^2 more intense than it as back a few generations on May 25th 1700.
My prediction is that today will be warmer in London than it was back on the same date in 1700. I will be interested if anyone can provide data that confirms that.
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Rick
You’ve probably got a better chance of dredging up someone who says they have the data to negate that
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Good Luck!!!
Fahrenheit was proposed in 1724 (32 to 212)
Réaumur was first used in 1730. (0 to 80)
Centigrade came later (about 1742?)
I don’t think you will get any actual temperature readings from 1700 AD in London.
And yesterday morning I noted that the sky started as pink which could mean rain. The BOM predicted rain later that day (Saturday) and heavy showers today (Sunday). Not a drop.
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My petty little subject is temperature records kept for last couple of centuries by eg. – wine cellar owners. There must’ve been other cases too.
I guess it would be not very accurate by today’s standard but the issue is consistency, not accuracy.
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E-bike fire on Melbourne train.
Imagine if it was at peak hour with lots of people on board and between stations?
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZKVCQZ5r8Gw
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They don’t date and time those videos?? “Uploaded on the blah blah at something pm”
How would we know it wasn’t two years ago?
So, the first of many..
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When I see an E-Bike on a Sydney train carriage which seems to be becoming more frequent, I move as far away as possible.
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FWIW
“Mark Steyn’s Vindication: A Triumph for Free Speech and Personal Fortitude”
“In a previous column, I detailed Michael Mann’s unraveling legal crusade, focusing on his courtroom defeat and the staggering financial penalty levied against him.
Readers’ responses were passionate, particularly about the absence of commentary on Mark Steyn.
(Related: When the Ice Cracks: Michael Mann’s Legal Defeat and the Climate of Accountability
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/when-the-ice-cracks-michael-manns-legal-defeat-and-the-climate-of-accountability-n4940123 )
Let me be direct: the omission was intentional. The Mann saga deserved focus, and Steyn’s fight deserves its own chapter.
This is that chapter.”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/mark-steyns-vindication-a-triumph-for-free-speech-and-personal-fortitude-n4940136
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FWIW
“Camper Disguised As Pallets”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpO63kVjFb0
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‘Remember the 1930s’: Kamala’s warning about the world of Trump
The Democrats’ failed 2024 presidential candidate drew laughter from the Gold Coast audience when she was described as one of the most successful women in world history. ‘I am unemployed right now,’ she replied.
I would add UNEMPLOYABLE!
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I chaallenge the History Lovers here to justify Peter the Great’s selection of Northern (Baltic) window to Europe rather than Southern (Black Sea) one.
Looking out from land-locked Moskovia of 17th century was a great choice or a silly one?
Just keep in mind that Murmansk (1000 km further North) never freezes and St. Petersburg does…
Maybe Ukraine (of sorts…) already existed then?
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I am a history lover.
But lately I feel jilted and going through a bitter break-up.
I’m feeling history is a post-facto (is that a real word?) rationalization of irrational human behavior.
Ants interact and build a complex hive.
No single ant has the slightest capability to explain why or how.
They don’t even know they’re ants.
We have advanced a little … we know we’re not ants … but that’s the near extent of the advancement.
We also now have hive masters that are constantly, and with great sophistication, messaging to the hive.
I know little of Peter the Great.
(For me human society began nose diving about 1300.)
AD?
CE?
PI (Post Internet)?
See the problem?
Probably the last person that could comprehend the true motives of Peter the Great is Peter the Great.
Us Americans tell each other that we fought a great Civil War over slavery.
Few of the actual fighters ever said such.
Most of have them would not not been able to articulate any coherent reason beyond “I hate Yankees” or “I hate Rebels”.
I’ve recently been doing a little re-visit to the great historical mystery of my time … who killed JFK.
New information is supposedly coming out.
It will not help.
The future human hive will officially believe the Warren Commission … and that Americans fought a Great Civil War over slavery.
Future NPC nerd human hive dwellers, like myself, will continue to complain about the Warren Commission.
If true history is possible, the truth is the Warren Commission was a scam.
And truth will continue to spit into the wind of history.
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Thanks, Honk.
I remember vividly the morning (European) when JFK was shot, I even remember what one of my co-workers said about the event (a nasty thing…) and what the other replied.
Funny thing is – last week I first time in 60 years thought – it is possible the conspiracy theory looks more plausible than an official one,.
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I think you are channelling the young Rene Descartes. His solution to the problem was ego cogito sum. I think therefore I am. He established his own existence. For someone questioning everything, it set him on a path of evaluating everything based on hard evidence only, Rational Science. The same with history. Facts. The very thing Post Modernists have decided do not exist, so history does not exist. They had to do it as Communism had proven to be a complete practical disaster since it was invented. Therefore it was wrong, not just badly implemented.
As for Climate Change, it is a lie. And it is never questioned in any political forum. It relies on the most feeble logic like Net Zero which postulates that emissions contribute to CO2, which is not true and that 2005 was a perfect time for the planet. For reasons which escape logic because there is none.
When Donald Trump was shot, a lot of people publicly said it was shame the shooter missed. Only after 8 bullets were fired and the gunman was disarmed by a Butler police rifleman, the FBI sniper did not miss. With villains like James Comey heading the FBI, you have to wonder what side they are on. History was being written that day.
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FWIW – more covid scene
“Follow the Silenced is the Untold Story of the Covid Vaccine Trial Victims”
“It’s an award winning documentary (it won Best of Festival and Best Director at the 2025 Santa Monica International Film Festival) detailing the experiences of the vaccine injured. It opens with a public gathering of the vaccine injured, and a young woman speaking of her experiences, of going from being healthy to disabled. As she tells her story, she shakes uncontrollably due to her vaccine injury.”
More at
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/24/follow-the-silenced-is-the-untold-story-of-the-covid-vaccine-trial-victims/
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A little step further in the drone wars-
“Enemy channels write about our new drones with AI. So yesterday a swarm of 7 drones attacked Bolshoy Burluk – north-west of Kupyansk. The drones, flying past the warehouses of Novaya Pochta, noticed a cluster of cars, then formed a circle and began to dive below and attack. Nothing is known about the results of the attack. The drones have markings on their tips to keep in a flock and fly above each other, guided by the markings. ”
https://voenhronika-ru.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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