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very good report on real cost of renewables in the UK
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/kathryn-porter-the-true-affordability-of-net-zero/
Presumably the results would be better in Oz for solar farms but that doesn’t get away from the overall costs and shortcomings of renewables-lack of wind or sun plus the huge cost on infrastructure and upgrades to connect everything up and provide back up or base power.
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Tommy Robinson released from prison
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tommy-robinson-to-be-released/
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Unfortunately another UK political prisoner was not released, Lucy Connolly.
She is in jail for 31 months because of an angry Tweet she made against illegal immigrants, she deleted after a few hours, that she made in a state of outrage after Axel Rudakubana (not an illegal) stabbed a bunch of young girls, murdering three, in Southport.
In the following video Jeff Taylor discusses the Tommy release and points out that the Herr Starmer regime can’t be trusted not to find an excuse not to put Tommy back in the Gulag.
https://www.youtube.com/live/XIpKV6Rsmfc
In my opinion Tommy should seek political asylum in the United States.
Not one word of the documentary he is in jail for making has ever been refuted. Elon Musk has vowed to keep it on X. There are numerous copies there. Not yet illegal to watch in Australia or in free countries. Here it is:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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junk temperature readings from the Met office.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/exclusive-almost-all-extreme-temperature-highs-in-uk-now-being-recorded-at-junk-sites-with-massive-possible-errors/
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The Met gaslighting continues.
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Well, they do need an excuse to blot out the sun, after all.
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In Once Great Britain some conservative YouTubers infiltrated and filmed a once-beautiful historic building which had been infested with Leftoids who were squatting there and had vandalised the place and turned it into a cult compound, as they do.
And note the lack of diversity among them, they all look to be Anglos. Not the “diverse” crowd they pretend to celebrate.
Interesting.
https://youtu.be/T4EoWUgqZms
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Out of curiosity I’ve been listening to Their ABC Radio National (Australia) on the car radio a bit. I do it so you don’t have to.
It’s a 24/7 lovefest by Leftists for Leftists. At a cost to you, the taxpayer, of about one billion dollars a year.
For them there is no solution they can conceive of for any problem, real or imagined that doesn’t involve ever more taxes, laws, regulations, expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer money, more restrictions of freedom etc.. And never, ever any questioning of the Official Narrative.
Also there is endless hatred of Trump and conservatives in general even though they have a legal obligation to be politically neutral.
And I find the “high rising terminal” speech pattern of typical Leftists that you hear on that station to be especially annoying. (That is, increasing the pitch of the last few words of a statement to make it sound like a question.)
According to Wikipedia a possible purpose of high riding terminal speech is:
We are going to get so much more of these things now that the Australian Sheeple have given the Left a mandate to do whatever they please with no limits on expenditure, regulation and control, removal of personal freedoms and support of every ratbag group you can imagine.
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If in Melbournistan you might want to listen to 3MP 1377AM or DAB+ digital radio or streaming, which has quality contemporary music from the 60’s and 70’s, so-called “easy listening”, no uninitelligable garbage music. Very nice radio station.
You can get your intelligent and informed political discussion and news from this blog, not Their ABC or other Lamestream Media.
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David, Victoria is the “State of Taxes”.
We live on a rural property, never had a rubbish collection EVAH. The government brings in new rules that require every house that a rubbish truck drives past must have a minimum of 3 rubbish bins and 4 if wanted. I protested this new ruling as we simply don’t generate much rubbish. ( we are oldies have an established household and have no need for endless new stuff). Wrote to the local shire, copied the local liberal MP, and finally got an answer from the shire. Essentially, Thanks for your letter, sorry the new bins are of no use to you don’t care if you don’t use them and we will charge you $480.00 per year in any case.
So, the alleged “saving of rubbish from going to land fill” really is just another money grabbing system. Increased fire services levee , increased insurances including GST increases,a rubbish collection fee that does absolutely nothing for the environment, power increase, yeah its easy living in Victoriastan, specially when you are on an ever decreasing income stream as self funded retirees.
P.S. The shire does have a few remaining public rubbish bins in the local small towns. These bin holders have a general rubbish bin side and a recycling side. Funny when the shire empties these they all go into the one truck.
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This story appears to lend credibility that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump
https://thepostmillennial.com/bernie-sanders-says-dems-rigged-the-2016-primary-against-him
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It might seem a good thing that the seemingly-conservative Nationals split from the Labor-Lite Liberals but consider the following.
George Christensen wrote this:
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Yes, and a little weary of the ‘nuclear as a backup for renewables’ crap.
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Video.
The history of Once Great Britain continues to be rewritten by the Left.
For example, children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and other obvious lies. There were no sub-Saharan Africans in Britain at that time.
Or that Nero married a “trans” “woman”.
While actual British history is not taught.
And the teaching union wants to bring the “Palestinian struggle” into the classroom.
https://youtu.be/hHZoSkmt60U
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FWIW
“The Five Biggest Questions of the Biden Health Cover-Up”
“So be patient, boys and girls. This is a developing story. We’re nowhere near the end of it. To paraphrase Churchill, “This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end — nor have we reached the end of the beginning.” This scandal is still in its infancy.”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/05/20/the-five-biggest-questions-of-the-biden-health-cover-up-n4939967
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