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Cancer rates are increasing in the USA, and I assume elsewhere in the world. Unconventional treatments are getting a lot of attention on social media, either supplementing traditional treatments or as stand-alones. Some information:
Cancer Care, 2nd edition:
https://imahealth.org/cancer-care-second-edition-now-available/
Substack article about some of those treatments:
https://rescue.substack.com/p/safe-cheap-drugs-like-ivermectin?triedRedirect=true
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More information from A Midwestern Doctor:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/turbo-cancers-and-alternative-cancer
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Very strange about the cancer pandemic now happening around the world. Equally strange that it happened exactly after the release of Covid vaccines. Some cancers are even called turbo cancers, obviously they are “souped up” by something deadly. The rubbish in articles all over the net tries any explanation except the real one.
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It’s been 4-5 years since the epidemic. What is also true is that life expectancy is soaring world wide, poverty is dying and food is plentiful. Strokes,heart attacks,infections and even major trauma are increasingly survivable. War has been local and infrequent for the latest 80 years, except in the Middle East where it is a way of life. So 2/3 of the people are living longer and the world population is much older than ever before with life expectancy tripling. So we expect cancer rates to go up as people age as it is fundamentally a case of when, not if. And as prevention and treatment of heart attack common cancers, skin cancer and major injuries are far better. It is a different world to a century ago. Now perhaps 2/3 of the population is over 25 as opposed to all being under 25. That is a great result for quality and length of life.
And despite the 1970s Erlich scares about over the population bomb in the 1970s, a restatement of Malthus, all that was being observed was increased life expectancy. In fact outside Africa, many countries have lower than replacement level childbirth. Expect rapid falls in population, especially in China with their one child families. And a new reality where 1/3 of now educated and independent women do not have children. World population should peak at about 9 billion at most and increasingly the greatest killer of old people may be cancer. Anecdotally we are hearing more and more about Parkinsons, Alzheimer and general age related problem simply because they are more common. But it is a sign of longer life expectancy, not some evil state or other machinations.
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Perhaps the greatest threat to human life, as always, are the self serving political classes who either want a war to distract from problems at home or think there is a better way to life, for example without nuclear or coal or gas or even wood. The state will legislate power with compulsory windmills and solar panels and giant batteries, an utterly inadequate approach which makes Don Quixote seem prophetic. And they will throw more and more of our money at windmills until they retire on a life generous pension for a job done appallingly.
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That is less than I thought, but it could turn out to be correct. Birthday rates have plummeted since the 1970’s.
The UN has tended to overestimate world population projections in the past.
https://populationmatters.org/news/2024/04/the-world-of-population-projections/
We have just passed 8 billion and the low estimate of max human population is 9 billion by 2050 and a median estimate of 10.2 billion by 2100.
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Declining population is Elon Musk’s greatest fear. I thought Japan had a low fertility rate but Korea is even lower. There will be close to no South Koreans within a few generations. Median age in 20270 is projected to be 62 years. Who will look after the old people?
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Apparently birth rates have plummeted further since the Covid Vax plandemic.
9 billion is now aspirational, no longer a low estimate.
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Lifespan soaring?
Ah no, it’s almost level, average male lifespan has gone from 64 years to 72 from 2000 to 2025. Average life expectancy in Oz is 82.
The Covid plandemic undid the preceding 25 years worth of poverty minimisation and compensating for that is estimated to be circa 2055 now. Thank your governments exclusively for that.
As for food security, it’s been declining since 2015, and acute hunger has increased YoY since 2019.
Food inflation exceeds general inflation in 66% of countries.
Let’s wipe out more farms to deploy renewables and elect bumbling clowns to manage it.
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The rates of CA in over 50’s has not changed much. The concern is the increase in the under 50’s.
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Dave I read just the other day that Joe Biden’s cancer seamed to get worse just after he took office ie 2021 ie just after he had is COVID shots and boosters and Drs have trouble explaining why they didn’t know so the writers comment was TURBO CANCER and I must admit it fits.
Does not explain why Jill and company did not tell the people what was going on because they had to have known! Lying a*holes
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A lifetime of telling lies fits better. With Biden no more than a useless career senator on $140,000 a year, Obama ignored the graft and corruption to promote a man who was utterly malleable and no threat at all. But after two terms Obama’s he became one of the most rotten, incompetent and greedy and oldest scoundrels ever to become US President by default.
At times even Joe did not believe it. Addict, bag man and opportunist Hunter and enabler and elder abuser Dr Jill were promoted to co-regents. Jill even wanted her own entrance music as Mrs President. They brought the US presidency to a scandalous low. Apparently millions were even sent to Jo’s granddaughter from China and elsewhere, all ignored by the press. Joe Biden alone managed to withdraw the entire US army from Afghanistan overnight without telling anyone or explanation. Leaving tens of billions in weapons and allies behind. The disbelieving Taliban in total control. Last week the Islamic totalitarians and de facto rulers banned chess.
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TdeF, #1.2.2.1,
____They might have banned chess, but one of their first moves after we tripped over our bootlaces getting out, was to ban opium poppy cropping.
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“At times even Joe did not believe it. Addict, bag man and opportunist Hunter and enabler and elder abuser Dr Jill were promoted to co-regents. Jill even wanted her own entrance music as Mrs President. They brought the US presidency to a scandalous low. ”
Today’s Trump hit-piece in the SMH has the Left screaming that he is ‘monetising the Presidency’. The have ‘experts’ decrying Qatar’s gift of that old 747 jet as Air Force One, Jeff Bezos financing a film about Melania Trump, and Trump setting up new business ventures that earn him money.
“the still-young Trump administration is a candidate for the most brazen use of government office in American history…“I’ve been watching and writing about corruption for 50 years, and my head is still spinning,” said Michael Johnston, a professor emeritus at Colgate University and author of multiple books on corruption in the United States.””
No mention of Biden’s graft and the “10% for the Big Man”, or Hunter getting paid as a energy systems executive in Ukraine… In fact nothing about the Democrats leaving office richer than when they entered. However the amusing part is reality smacking them in the face-
““Either the general public never cared about this,” he said, or “the public did care about it but no longer does.” He concluded that the answer is that “80 per cent, the public never cared” and “20 per cent, we are overwhelmed and exhausted”.”
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Are “crimes” committed online on social media pursued more vigorously by the police than real physical crimes?
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/25/are-social-media-posts-investigated-more-than-physical-crimes/
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In the UK, it would seem so, although online has the advantage that many writers use identifiable information, so PC Plod doesn’t really have to investigate.
Anecdotally, also, it seems that some views are more at risk from Plod poling up to the front door than other views.
That is anecdotally.
However, I can’t recall any fervent Starmerite [if there is such a human] being pursued for suggesting those who disagree with Our Luminescent Leader should [perhaps] be made to drink castor oil!
Those whose views do not accord with the lefty ‘public consensus’ [which is no such thing] have, on occasion, had a passel of Plods turn up at their door [6 off, in one case I read – at the home of a 71-years old former Special Constable (volunteer policeman) IIRC].
Strange times indeed.
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“Are “crimes” committed online on social media pursued more vigorously by the police than real physical crimes?”
Of course!! As illustrated by Mr Pratchett writing of the Guards, you never want to run too fast to a crime, you might arrive in time to confront the criminal..
In my lifetime I’ve seen plenty of parties in opposition promise to get tough on crime, but once in power they accept that the Police reach a comfortable agreement with the gangs and unless its budget time and the cops need some publicity, or the gangs accidentally do something that particularly outrages the public, the Police will go for easy criminals, not hard ones.
There is no criminal easier to catch than some completely non-violent person sitting at home on a computer.
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Interesting article
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-the-elite-lie-to-you-part-1-sadiq-khan/
Whilst this specifically refers to the UK-or in this case London, judging from comments here, OZ has the same problems.
Unfortunately its not available as a link online but Andrew Neil-respected political writer for many decades-says the Starmer Govt is the first one he can categorically say are outright liars-rather than just bending the truth or obfuscating.
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Tony. We know some of our politicians lie, not accidently, but on purpose. In our recent elections our illustrious Prime Minister, Albanese, lied every day claiming that a Coalition government would destroy Medicare. His biggest lie was that a nuclear power plan would cost $600 billion to build the seven power stations. The more accurate cost was one fifth of that. He, of course, failed to tell us the cost of his 80% renewables by 2030 plan. Probably because he could not count that high although we already have a trillion dollar debt, so he should have been familiar with the number. He did prove that if you lie convincingly the gullible Australian public will believe you. The only positive to come of his lies is that he is now stuck with fixing a mess of his own making.
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“The only positive to come of his lies is that he is now stuck with fixing a mess of his own making.”
Why does he have to fix it? He’s just been handed another term, which should be enough time to line his nest with solid gold AND line up his post-politics position at the UN or similar. He doesn’t care about the mess he’s making so long as his own future is assured – at our expense.
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This sort of incident with Machetes seems to have got worse in many Western countries since covid and the advent of smart phones making it easier to organise clashes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14747185/Northland-Shopping-Centre-lockdown-stab.html
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Regarding Victoria’s new machete law: The ban covers machetes, which are broadly defined as “knives with a cutting blade longer than 20cm“. It does not include knives primarily used in kitchens.
My most-used kitchen knife is 14.5 cm [5.7 inches]. One for cutting pizza is 25.5, and my (cheap) machete is 44 cm. Just a guess, but every kitchen likely has a knife over 20 cm. The family work bench likely has wood rasps from 8″ to 12”, USA measure.
To expect this law to stop young males from injuring each other is fantasy.
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Yes, as usual a typical Australian Government knee-jerk reaction without attempting to understand or define the problem.
And in any case, it was already illegal to carry even a pocket knife or multitool or machete. That is particularly frustrating for a law-abiding person like me because people are always asking me to fix or adjust things for them and I always used to carry a Leatherman multitool (when it was legal) which I am not allowed to do now. Australia is a true Nanny State.
A machete is just a tool with legitimate purposes, not a “dangerous weapon” as described unless in the hands of a dangerous person, just like a brick or a lump of wood is also dangerous in the hands of a dangerous person. Maybe dangerous people should be banned instead? Jailing them for their crimes would be a good start. And what are law abiding campers and bush crafters etc. meant to do now?
What camping, gardening or bushcraft tool will they ban after the machete? Axes and hatchets? Where will the BS end?
The actual problem is that certain gang members of a certain demographic are in the habit of using these tools to chop up each other (no problem with that) plus innocent people. And Victoriastan and its socialist Government has a revolving door justice system with little or no punishment for criminals. That’s the actual problem Government should be addressing.
Machetes as a tool have always been available in Australia and have never been a problem until the demographic change plus failure to punish crime. And said demographic will simply now start misusing some sort of other common tool.
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Any old piece of scrap metal can be sharpened and fashioned into a fair facsimile of a machete. Prison inmates use sharpened toothbrushes, etc. The crims are very resourceful.
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Any 5″ screwdriver is a mortal weapon, in my time and place it was called “zatochka” – a sharpie. No need for special tools or skill to sharpen a screwdriver over a concrete step you were sitting on.
Likewise there is no need to ban machete, just allow application of the existing laws.
But, no – the offending children (6+ foot tall..) are socially close to the current Victorian rulers, future stormtroopers.
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They will resort to using clubs, cricket and baseball bats for example, or using lengths of wood or bits of distorted bar from a construction site. There is no shortage of suitable weapons if you are into beating someone else for fun. No government can ban them all.
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And of course the object is blamed as it’s WAY too hard for bumbling pollies to treat the kids themselves (translation: it’d be unpopular and affect my political career).
The bush camp “harden-the-f#ck-up and be turned into a worthwhile person” camps have worked VERY well globally for decades, so make them mandatory. Look at the home environment – dropkick parents? Off to camp too!
Who knows how to defeat a knife attacker?
No-one except those trained to do so.
An incident a few years ago required a dozen cops pointing guns at an old guy with a short blade knife. Utterly ridiculous response. Police need vastly superior training.
Those stupid gang kids think it’s all a game until they get cut themselves and I’ve seen this sort of wound many times and they’re horrific.
If a Toyota RAV4 plows through a crowd deliberately, you don’t blame the car and ban it (that event is common in China now of course…). No you arrest the person. People commit crimes, objects don’t.
There are things worse than knives and machetes available everywhere but look innocent, and totally legal as I said ages ago. I’m obviously not saying what they are but if I did, you’d understand.
Next up – banning grinders, drills, lathes, metal sales to U18’s, ban shop class in schools.
Hundreds of people running and screaming in fear out of a shopping centre. We have become very weak and helpless compared go our ancestors.
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Whatever happened to the experiment with the “thrown heavy netting” (think Roman gladiator style) to subdue people acting in a violent manner? Perhaps fired by a carbide cannon style device?
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I am not a massive fan of AI.
Yet I believe it can be useful. In part.
I also strongly believe that relying on it makes us less able to use critical thought.
For me, personally, I use my brain in my occupation. I do that to save life and property.
I use that brain in dynamic situations that rapidly change. Using no AI.
I use that brain to investigate an incident. No AI.
I use that brain to write reports to the Coroner. No AI.
And.. If I stuff up, I have consequences. Career ending. With possible prosecution.
That said. I humbly ask all..
How do you prosecute AI in a court, If it stuffs up?
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Not yet, not yet…
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Who was running America and who had the the Autopen?
Still speculative but likely getting closer to the truth. A small group called the Politiburo is blamed;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/politburo-here-are-five-people-who-allegedly-ran/
The reason I think Dr Jill and Hunter Biden are involved is because they were very closely involved in managing Joe Biden every day. They were also involved in the family discussion about his resignation when pressure was applied by senior democrats like Nancy Pelosi.
It also explains some of the pardons.
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Former Biden Aide Admits Staff Felt Justified Doing ‘Undemocratic Things’ to Stop ‘Existential Threat’ Donald Trump
by Paul Bois
25 May 202
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/25/former-biden-aide-admits-staff-felt-justified-undemocratic-things-stop-trump/
So who was in charge of the Biden White House? Evidently, his aides believed that they had been voted in as President.
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One of the big reasons for TDS.
That’s how it works in a Uni-Party
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Dave, could I suggest that your last para should read “one of the big reasons WAS TDS”.
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Obama already explained his third term.
https://youtu.be/JI2Xtqd4Mts
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The real question is whether the executive orders signed with the autopen are legally binding if not personally signed by the President. It’s a question of proof and witnesses. Usually documents are witnessed and countersigned and dated.
I have been forced to use this device for contracts across the pond in the US. A great saving, but it is very worrying. And the signature often bears no resemblance to my signature. No live witnesses. This surely is not appropriate technology or even valid for affairs of State?
When a child was born to Royalty, so much was at stake in the succession even as to birth gender, that there were often twenty witnesses at the birth. Now equally significant orders are being issued without the signatory party in the room. And it is particularly significant if Jill and Hunter signed their own pardon and those of Clinton et al.
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” And it is particularly significant if Jill and Hunter signed their own pardon and those of Clinton et al.”
Of course! Theirs would be the first, and explains why they were absolved of everything and anything they may or may not have done.
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It also explains the failures of last administration., from its first actions to the last – not allowing due process of candidate nominations.
Any junta looks solid and decisive from outside, but the 70-years story of Soviet Politburo shows true picture – inside they abhorred and despised each other like in any criminal family.
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“but the 70-years story of Soviet Politburo shows true picture – inside they abhorred and despised each other like in any criminal family.”
If you think the parties in our democracy are any different you will be disappointed..
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Left wing Politico loves Albanese on climate crap:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/22/australia-climate-change-policies-elections-column-00344370
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Australia’s politicians are possibly the most fanatically committed in the world to the idea of anthropogenic global warming and are prepared to destroy the economy to prove it. Even if Australia turned off the lights tomorrow it would still make no difference in the overall scheme of things even if the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming were true.
Many of our politicians are genuine simpletons and truly stupid. The Prime Minister Albanese talks like a child. The Climate Change and Energy Minister Chrissy “blackout” Bowen isn’t much better. They just don’t have a clue and yet are making essentially irreversible decisions that commit Australia to permanent economic decline, at least for a very long time.
The politician-made engineering decisions of committing Australia to wind, solar, big batteries and Snowy Hydro 2 and no nuclear have been and will continue to be disastrous. And have caused Australia to have some of the most expensive electricity in the world when it used to be among the cheapest. And subsidies are usually harvested directly from consumer electricity bills and the costs of electricity are built into everything.
And to make it worse, Australia is now effectively a one party state with no meaningful opposition and what “opposition” does exist, are themselves ideologically committed to Net Zero and are not prepared to dump it, even though it would likely have been an election winner for them.
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It’s too bad your Liberals didn’t make that clear to voters. How many people understand what is really going on? All they had to do was run against Nutz Zero loud and proud.
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Liberals think that they can win over Labor by becoming even more Leftist.
They lack the moral clarity to believe in what’s correct and indeed they don’t believe in anything in particular.
They haven’t been a genuine conservative party for many decades, probably since the 1960’s.
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Its not a morality play, they have lost intellectual clarity and the Nats are going to change that.
I’m confident that the Coalition will throw out Net Zero and follow the Kiwis.
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Here is Albanese (link below) explaining how solar panels will charge your electric car for free at night.
This is the fool making major engineering decisions about Australia’s electricity grid along with Blackout Bowen.
It’s remarkable and disturbing.
https://youtu.be/vyS9uqRLbB8
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Renewable Push Sends Aussie Electricity Prices Skyrocketing
Essay by Eric Worrall
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Why do I claim renewables are to blame for this disaster? Because part of the eyewatering NSW price hike of 8.3 – 9.5% is likely because the NSW government has been forced to pay a billion dollars per year to one of their few remaining NSW coal plants, whose operators want to close the plant.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/26/renewable-push-sends-aussie-electricity-prices-skyrocketing/
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Funny how this massive price increase was announced after the election.
And strange how they keep telling us wind and solar is the cheapest form of electricity as the prices rapidly rise before our eyes as more and more is installed.
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Curious that the foreign consortium building a renewables installation is not obliged to pay for its connection to the grid, those ten thousand kilometre of transmission lines.
What an awful society we have today; it’s so steeped in corruption there can be no benefit to any of its citizens and in particular the Victorian government is oblivious to the imminence of its bankruptcy –whew.
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Here is a video about how small operators get oil from century-old oil wells in Indonesia.
https://youtu.be/NwKWXDyRvMY
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In this video Topher Field (Australia) explains how capital gains tax is much worse than anyone realises and why Australian governments are addicted to it.
And the new tax on unrealised capital gains on superannuation (retirement) funds is essentially a wealth tax and will no doubt expand in scope especially as we will likely have a Labor Government for another 6 to 9 years (But I bet the fake conservative Liberals won’t remove it either if they are ever re-elected.)
https://youtu.be/HNh0FAjM09s
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Biko Konstantinos (despite the pun)
New Zealand House Prices Smashed – Could This Happen in Australia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZkMiFhr90
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Of course! Just like the capital gains taxed on selling a house, it is a direct result of Govts causing inflation!
So they are printing money, letting you earn it, then stealing it back off you. If we had zero inflation, like England did for hundreds of years, there would be no capital gains unless something became more desirable. These days everything goes up in price and the peasants think that is normal, so it will become another generalised tax on everything.
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There’s already too much resistance for Labor to push this through; Keating is said to be incandescent with outrage over what is to be done to his pride and joy.
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‘ … new tax on unrealised capital gains …’
Its political suicide, so its unlikely to get up.
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Ants vs humans intelligence and co-operation test.
(Not a joke.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/T6dtCn-BBEU
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The last Australian election demonstrated the following.
-Lots of people voted for “free stuff” they perceive the Labor government will give them at the expense of fellow taxpayers.
-A large and ever-expanding federal, state and local government public “service” mostly voted Labor.
-Unions voted Labor.
-Immigrants specially imported and fast-tracked to citizenship voted Labor.
-A large and increasing group of people dependent on welfare voted Labor.
-Most of the voting masses lack critical thinking skills. And vote Labor.
-The pool of people who would vote for the fake conservative Liberals is small and shrinking, most of whom happen to also be net taxpayers, a group also shrinking in number. As bad as the Liberals are, they are still less bad than Labor.
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And many of the right reject the right because they aren’t perfect.
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Australian Labor Party 5,354,174 34.56 +1.98
Liberal 3,205,565 20.69 -3.20
Liberal National Queensland 1,099,629 7.10 -0.90
The Nationals 588,751 3.80 +0.20
The Greens 1,890,115 12.20 -0.05
Independent 1,126,288 7.27 +1.98
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 991,959 6.40 +1.44
The big Green and Independent vote is the difference. The last 4 parties match the majors. Labor had a landslide despite having a close to record low Primary vote. Steady Green votes elected the Labor party, even if the Greens achieved only one seat. Nearly four million voters don’t like either Labor or Liberal.
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The Labor and Green parties are essentially the same, it’s just that Greens are even more extreme than Labor and they direct preferences to each other in most cases.
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I still want to know how many blank boxes each party received above the line in the Senate races.
That would be a greater indication of “party dislike”.
Anyone got a reference?
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Most of the voting masses lack critical thinking skills. And vote Labor……
Just a query on this….supposedly the labor primary vote was only 2% more than the 2022 election result. It appears a large portion of voting public may have voted for minor parties or independents, therefore becomes ‘preference’ votes. I interpret these preferences morphed into labour preferences which resulted in the majority position of labour in the lower house & senate. Man what confusing electoral systems we have in supposed Western World Democracies. Similar outcome for Labor in UK with an historical low primary vote in a ‘first past the post’ electoral system resulting in a Labor majority??
Something stinks with our fair and equitable democratic voting systems.
Me thinks after a lifetime of turning up & voting like an obedient sheeple, it’s not worth the fossil fuel to drive down to the polling booth!
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Not only a Labour majority but this exceptionally low primary vote simply morphs into a “mandate”. The reality however being they do not have a mandate to actually do anything, we are screwed.
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But still only 34% of the Primary vote! Something is not working with preferential voting when 66% voted for someone else and 34% turns into a landslide,
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Consider that more than 10% (1.7 Million) elected to pay the fine instead of participate in that election.
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“-Unions voted Labor.”
Likewise unions in America traditionally vote Democrat. They are cutting their own throats. Just about all Democrat policy stances hurt workers.
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Labor haven’t become more popular over recent years. Their primary vote was 35% in 2016, 33% in 2019, 33% in 2022 and 34% in 2025.
They’re just better at working the system and often, as with 2025, face a weak and wavering opposition.
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“Something stinks with our fair and equitable democratic voting systems.
They’re just better at working the system ”
Yes, carefully crafted this way by the two major parties in any democracy. You get power by corrupting the system somehow, not by getting more people to vote for you, you gerrymander the electoral boundaries, you spread false rumours about the third party candidates, you make registering an electoral party as difficult and expensive as possible, you cheat in the vote counting or the voting…
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A unique Australian taste sensation is so-called Musk sticks and similar confections
I believe things that taste like this are unique to Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_stick?wprov=sfla1
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A favorite. The scent is more a Persian/Ottoman floral one. The Turks love rose flavors. I am very surprised that it is considered disgusting by the Swedes. Some of their dried fish are surely in their own category. And then you get Vegemite.
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I prefer the coloured variant called “fruit sticks” but haven’t seen them for years.
EDIT: I see you can buy them online but only as short sticks, not long ones like Musk sticks.
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Coles and Woolies have their own brand musk sticks.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-musk-sticks-320g-6739565
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/239402/woolworths-musk-sticks
I’m sure I’ve seen the long fruit sticks too. Maybe it was Foodworks.
I think maybe Life Savers brand does a version of the fruit sticks. They’ve branched out to doing banana lollies and other things too. But I found the imitation musk and fruit sticks, and life saver brand bananas etc are nothing like the originals. Far sweeter, and texture and flavour not as good. Not the trip down memory lane I’d hoped for. (or my memory hit a dead end lane)
Fags cigarette lollies are now Fads and have the red tip removed. Can’t have kids pretending they smoke. I ate heaps of them but never smoked.
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I still remember buying pink musk sticks from the School tuckshop over 55 years ago ! I liked them in moderation.
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Hard to do because they are so addictive…
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I remember those from childhood.
Along with Arrowroot. Bleh.
I can taste it every time I think of it.😆
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FWIW
The on-line Courier Mail headlines have 110 more Qld renewable projects under scrutiny
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FWIW
“Escobar: European Kakistocracy Locked In a Forever War Against Russia”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-european-kakistocracy-locked-forever-war-against-russia
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FWIW
“Eh Gawd” – another “Here! Hold my beer”!
“Germany’s New Leftist Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Gives Ukraine Permission to Launch Long-range Taurus Cruise Missiles Deep into Russia
May 26, 2025 | Sundance | 190 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/26/germanys-new-leftist-chancellor-friedrich-merz-gives-ukraine-permission-to-launch-long-range-taurus-cruise-missiles-deep-into-russia/
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So he is keen to test the Russians saying that if Ukraine launches foreign missiles deep into Russia then the Russians will count the manufacturing country as a combatant.
Time to dig out the Geiger counter…
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Germany has called Putin’s bluff and eventually the Kremlin will agree to a ceasefire on Western terms. At this late stage of the war he has exhausted his ability to continue and his summer offensive looks unlikely to proceed.
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Haha! Not a change EG, but we shall see how it goes… Every day the Russians are taking more territory, the Ukies just losing it.
“Germany has called Putin’s bluff and eventually the Kremlin will agree to a ceasefire on Western terms. At this late stage of the war he has exhausted his ability to continue and his summer offensive looks unlikely to proceed.”
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Will Russia warn Berlin or London before an Oreshnik arrives.
Those who think the missile defences are adequate can stay to watch the demonstration. Those who think UK and German air defences are not up to it will have time to get away.
It will pose a challenge for Trump because he will have to decide if US is willing to go to war with Russia and China to aid the political ambitions of the nutters operating across Europe and Ukraine.
If Russia does not give a warning, it could be considered hostile. Just like Ukraine using European supplied weapons to attack Russia.
It would be good to have truthful reporting. I see Europe constantly poking the bear and then wondering why the bear gets peeved.
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Keep in mind that Ukraine is an independent state fighting for survival against a bully. The US will most likely keep at arms length and NATO has no plans to put troops on the ground or use tactical nuclear weapons.
China is backing away from Russia because of secondary sanctions and when the Russian Federation collapses its possible that Beijing might take back stolen territory and cities like Vladivostok.
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“China is backing away from Russia because of secondary sanctions and when the Russian Federation collapses its possible that Beijing might take back stolen territory and cities like Vladivostok.”
You’re quoting the CIA Book of Dreams and Wishes again.. No-one is hated more by America’s enemies than America, it binds those who have been on the receiving end of American sabotage and undercover warfare for over 50years, and they won’t split until after America falls. The BRICS will be trading more and more amongst themselves and just avoiding the USA, it comes with too much baggage.
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Saw this posted by someone elsewhere (quite unexpectantly).
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Apparently it comes from the winner of a student competition at Texas A&M University for an essay to define contemporary political terms.
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It has been quite a few years since I went to an AFL football match so I have not been progressively indoctrinated into the woke world it has become. Watching it one telly, I just do other things while the pregame carp is on but not so easy when at the match.
Admittedly, last weekend was the “indigenous” round. It is the round where racisms gets paraded with a garnish of niceness. I do not think the organisers have recognised that they have embedded racial division and tensions.
Why not have a Scottish round, an English round, a Greek round, an Italian round, a Chinese round, a Somali round (lots of them now playing), a Kenyan round, a Vietnam round, a Korean round, an Indian round and so on. The AFL would not have a problem devoting every round to a different race or ethnic group. Why are the “indigenous” players getting special treatment?
My wife showed me a cartoon where a boy had just got his DNA results back and was identified as having 0.08% “indigenous” DNA. The punchline was the word JACKPOT.
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FWIW
“Long-term remission of advanced liver cancer in 46% of patients achieved with combination therapy”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-term-remission-advanced-liver-cancer.html
Via Instapundit
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FWIW
“Mark Carney’s Plan for Canada”
https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/05/26/mark-carneys-plan-for-canada-n4940163
And incidentally
“Private hospital operator Healthscope collapses into receivership”
“The company is Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator and is owned by North American private equity group Brookfield, which bought it in 2019.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/private-hospital-operator-healthscope-collapses/105336258
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Interesting isn’t it? Are they short of customers? Have poor accountants who can’t work out a profit? Ripped apart by their overseas owners?
The taxpayer gives them $8billion a year on top of the health insurance companies, is modern medicine too expensive for society now? Still, its better to go broke and let a more efficient private company take over than become a run-down grubby backwater operated by Govt.
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Sorry KP,
Excellent Medical Care from Royal North Shore Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital – I do avoid Northern Beaches Hospital (Joint Private/Public with Healthscope) which is just up the road, and which Healthscope wants to return to NSW State Govt.
I have told my Kids if I have a Heart Attack, either drive me to RNSH or St Vincent’s Emergency, or get me across the Spit Bridge to the Mosman side before calling an ambulance
Brother in law Pensioner, has had excellent care from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital – As Fresher John’s man (2nd year Uni), seranaded the Nurses outside RPA Nurses Home on St Patricks Day 1963 – Nurses Home no longer there, as is probably the College telescope, as John’s now co-ed.
Prince of Wales Hospital Excellent, Sydney Eye Hospital as well, and I alternate between Private & Public with Mater, Norths Shore Private & CastleCrag Private have all been excellent as well
None of the Public Hospitals a run-down grubby backwater operated by Govt.
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My son has worked in a number of these. He considers Queensland to have the greatest staffing issues. Lots of new Australians from poor countries in the rural hospitals working their time in the bush to win a job in a city hospital. Surprisingly, he considers UK doctors leaving the NHS for Australia to be competent.
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After I retired I moved to Queensland but retained my home in New South Wales as my domicile.
During a minor procedure at a local public hospital a nurse from New Zealand when she learnt I was from New South Wales advised me not to rely on any public hospital in Queensland, if possible she cautioned go to New South Wales, preferably to Sydney.
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In 1974 I had an extremely bad work accident at the Amoco Oil Refinery in Brisbane and almost lost my left arm. I was taken to the Princess Alexandria hospital and although they struggled to find me a bed the care was absolutely superb. And so 3 operations later I still had my arm and after a lot of work from me it worked fine but then that was in 1974.
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FWIW
“The So-Called Trump-Ramaphosa ‘Ambush’
Trump’s meeting with Ramaphosa was a long-overdue reality check on South Africa’s hostility, hypocrisy, and dependence on U.S. aid and trade.”
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/26/the-so-called-trump-ramaphosa-ambush/
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FWIW
“Confused, Starving Reporters Now Desperate for Food After Killing American Journalism”
“Last week on the Chicago Way podcast, co-host Jeff Carlin and I interviewed our friend Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of Real Clear Politics.
We talked about Biden, the media, Deep State operative James Comey and more. You might want to listen here.
I asked him about whether the media can survive this.
No, he said.
“The media’s broken,” Bevan said. “There is no putting it back together. It is Humpty Dumpty for sure.”
And all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men…”
https://johnkassnews.com/confused-starving-reporters-desperate-for-food-after-killing-and-devouring-journalism/
Maybe a lesson there?
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FWIW
“Stop Shouting! Army Sergeant Majors Told Not to Yell at ‘Sensitive Recruits’ ”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/26/stop-shouting-army-sergeant-majors-told-not-to-yell-at-sensitive-recruits/
Recently there was this Sergeant Major story –
During a kit inspection the SM discovered a dead fly. The recruit was hit with, not one, but two punishment details –
For “having a pet” and “for not feeding it”
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FWIW – more “green energy” mirage
Today’s Courier Mail
“Green WA projects stumble”
“Fortescue is selling the ranches”
“Fortescue is preparing to sell three WA cattle stations acquired at the height of founded Andrew Forrest’s green energy ambitions”.
CM 27th May 2025 Page 22 Business Daily
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Will the unrealised capital gains tax take down the government and destroy the economy?
https://youtu.be/HNh0FAjM09s?si=wEiPaly_h11HdBEe
Well, I’ve said often enough not to join the lemmings in jumping into the real-estate bubble here in Oz.
The government wants a bubble as taxation revenue is proportional.
Once they tax your home though…
Who could afford $250k or more as a tax bill?
Very few, without liquidating assets, and that’d typically be your #1 asset, your home. What then? Where would you live?
Investment properties? Not any more.
Liability properties now.
Rental properties – toast.
We’d see a truly spectacular collapse in the real estate market, fire sales everywhere.
An opportunity to buy at a bargain price?
Nope. Not when you realise you too would have to pay hunders of thousands in tax within a year too.
The nation homeless, except for pollies no doubt.
Dragged out of their offices into the streets and ooohhh…talked to sternly.😉😉
Or the plans to raise aged care fees by $20k to $50k a year! These “care” homes have been in the spotlight for years and that’d wipe them out too. Where would the oldies go? Back with family?
It’s all an ugly picture, building right now thanks to your re-elected bozo.
Then we have the already building sickness wave that’ll trump Covid, hitting next year.
/prewarning
Like I said – retire early and enjoy it while you can, before the walking disaster area government destroys it all. Now you see why…
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Health expert warns Aussies to prepare for a triple virus surge this winter
Experts are warning of a triple virus surge this winter, with COVID-19, influenza, and RSV already spreading rapidly – and say the best protection is to get vaccinated before the end of May.
‘We’re dealing with an early wave of a significantly infectious virus diseases,’ Professor Paul Griffin said on Wednesday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14737399/flu-cases-surge-australia.html
Oohh, a 3 for 1 bonus! 😁
But…
The Cleveland Clinic found that the influenza vaccine was not effective last winter.
“It had a negative efficacy of 26.9%. In other words, if you took this flu vaccine, you were 26.9% more likely to get influenza”
Big Pharma makes $6.3 billion annually on this vaccine.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1926843640439022048
Yeah, get vaxxed. Suckers…
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Not only viruses, but also fungi. Story on Sunday morning via News.com.au that a killer Aspergillus fungus was also circulating. Recently, allegedly responsible for deaths in Europe and US. So, Aussies beware!! Not satisfied with spreading fear about a virus with a 0.4% infection fatality rate, now we have invisible killer fungi. Waiting for a vaccine in ………….
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Scientists Discover West Nile Virus in The UK For The First Time
Although the exact route isn’t known, experts believe the virus may have arrived in the UK via migratory birds infected elsewhere. The mosquitoes probably picked up the virus after feeding on these birds during their northward journey.
The detection was made as part of a routine mosquito surveillance programme run by the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-detection-of-west-nile-virus-in-uk-mosquitoes
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– George MacDonald
And still the masses do not see..
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Bacteria living on your skin may help protect you from the sun
In response to solar ultraviolet radiation, our skin cells produce a molecule that, it turns out, is gobbled up by some species of bacteria that live on our skin. In doing so, they eliminate this substance, which is associated with some of the harmful effects that come with repeated sun exposure.
The researchers specifically tested in vitro bacteria, as well as those found on the skin of mice, for their responses to UVB, the kind of radiation that leads to sunburn.
They found certain species of bacteria, commonly found on the surface of humans and rodents alike, can break down a molecule that appears to be involved in skin cancer.
That molecule, cis-urocanic acid, is produced when another molecule in the outermost layer of skin – trans-urocanic acid – is hit with ultraviolet rays.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/new-study-reveals-our-skins-own-bacteria-can-help-protect-us-from-the-bad
The “sanitise themselves” squad have no idea…
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FWIW
Another way around
“Iran, China Launch New Commercial Railway Bypassing US Sanctions”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-china-launch-new-commercial-railway-bypassing-us-sanctions
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FWIW
“Stop The Bull**** On ‘Great Advances’ ”
“I’m speaking specifically of cancer.
Cancer is a chief driver of medical expense and new, on-patent and very expensive therapies whether drugs or otherwise. It is where an enormous percentage of all medical research is focused and the fear factor is used to drive both screenings and treatments for an obvious reason — cancer kills any organism that gets it on a clinical basis quite-reliably. The paradox is that effectively all living animal organisms have cancerous cells in their body every single minute of every single day — it is, in fact your immune system’s primary job to hunt down and destroy those cells, thus preventing them from organizing and cause clinical disease.
The problem is that despite parabolic increases in spending all the money spent has not statistically moved outcomes one iota.
In fact outcomes have either been flat or even mildly backward.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253327
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My experience with cancer was a close friend who was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in 2018, she had never smoked.
I became her carer and she moved from her own home unit to my house because managing her was easier there.
I attended all medical appointments and when she was given chemotherapy I provided transport, and after a short break followed by immunotherapy. The deterioration in physical condition and appetite was steadily in decline during chemotherapy but not many weeks into immunotherapy she became incapacitated and could not even get out of bed without assistance. At that stage her oncologist decided it was time for professional palliative care that lasted less than three months before she passed away.
The cost of the treatment quoted to me was substantial and the quality of life achieved was really not much more than slowing decline and extending life maybe six months longer than without the treatment. But was that really quality of life?
Another friend earlier told me that he had chosen not to accept chemotherapy for a second time after a couple of years respite from cancer, he said he preferred to live whatever time he had left with the ability to enjoy his hobbies and family life etc.
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The greater a proportion of your life you spend in hospital, the wealthier the doctoring classes get.
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Are you aware that the Albanese Labor Government is planning to sign an agreement with World Health Organisation to hand over responsibility for any future pandemic management to them?
An agreement that in the usual underhand manner will be legislated here at Federal and then State levels of govermemt into law.
But no Royal Commission into the COVID-19 Pandemic and across all levels of government, after all State Labor used that to undermine the Federal Morrison Coalition Government ignoring that health and including pandemic measures are State areas of responsibility.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“The War on Us
“Is the Blue Party really only the customer service desk for the administrative state?” —Jeff Childers”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-war-on-us
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FWIW
“Biden Has Fewer Fans Than Ever, Even at Home”
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/05/27/biden-has-fewer-fans-than-ever-even-at-home-n2657651
Any T-shirt shops that could be surveyed in the likes of Bowen’s electorate?
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FWIW
“No MAHA Without The Heartland: Trump Must Forge Strong Ties With Farmers”
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/no-maha-without-heartland-trump-must-forge-strong-ties-farmers
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FWIW
“A New Era for American Science: The Gold Standard is Back”
“On May 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a landmark executive order: Restoring Gold Standard Science. This order marks a major turning point in how scientific information is produced, evaluated, and applied across the federal government. It sets a clear and uncompromising standard—scientific integrity is no longer optional. It is foundational.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/27/a-new-era-for-american-science-the-gold-standard-is-back/
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