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Always fun to get the first word!
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Well done Bozo. As is traditional the drinks are on you. Where should we congregate?
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Thanks Tony I’d be happy to buy the drinks in pesos. Let me know whwn I should show up.
🙂
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It is a crime to use a pseudonym. Please post your name and location of the circus.
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The Circus is in CanBrrrrrr. AlBozo is the PM {Prime Muddler}.
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What???
My name is not CO2 lover.
The circus is everywhere.
Cheers Bozo.
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One has to wake early to get the first post here. Ive never seen a bunch of people who wake so early, and I come from a dairy farming family and community.
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That’s because half of them either don’t go to bed until 2:00am or live on the other side of the world.
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Exactly right Peter. Gday to you
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Actually if I stay up late enough in WA, I can see an empty daily thread…
Early bird? Nah.
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Labour councillor charged and two Asian men jailed after threats during riots.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/09/labour-councillor-filmed-calling-for-far-right-rioters-throats-to-be-cut-is-charged/
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Is it still two-tier justice?
The article details the 3 years and 2 months jail sentence given to the 26 year old who used social media to encourage burning a hostel, but the councillor who, in addressing a crowd of his constituents, encouraged the crowd to violence saying protesters should all have their throats cut, has merely been charged.
Also it doesn’t tell us what the charges were against the two young men who bashed the UK citizens wearing the union flag.
(I didn’t take the offer of reading further with a free membership because I didn’t want all the constant emails it warned me about.)
P.S.
Two tier justice examples:
Shaun Tuck posted a racist comment on facebook – 15 weeks imprisonment.
Sam Melia sold anti-immigration stickers – 24 months imprisonment.
Al Soaimi repeatedly raped a 12 year old girl – 180 hours community service, NO prison time.
If you disagree with the government’s immigration policy – swift and outrageously severe punishment.
If you’re an immigrant or if you’re attacking non-immigrants – extreme lenience or no punishment at all!
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Also:
Tyler Kay, 26, sentenced to 38 months imprisonment for stirring up racial hatred on social media.
Jordan Parlour, 28, sentenced to 20 months in prison for stirring up racial hatred on social media.
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Tyler Kay’s ‘crime’:
https://x.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1822025286780666305?t=xfPWj44QRIPJZN8XErSGCA&s=19
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I suppose it depends on what happens next. If the Ukrainians hang around for a few more days and cause damage then withdraw in an orderly fashion then they would make the world think.
If they withdraw in a hail of missiles then that will do harm to their image.
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They may decide to set up camp on Russian soil in case Donald becomes potus.
Its strategic and significant.
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Just wait, they monitor tweets now, and next it will be what you say on your own living room.
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Given that “Climate Change” is a Religion. Is it a crime to stir up religious hatred on social media by expousing the views of climate denialism?
Will the feelings of Christopher Bowen be hurt?
ASIO may be watching. Or the e-Safety Commissar.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – 1984
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Murder, rape by gangs has angered Britons for decades, Starmer now jails those who speak up
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Import moslems, import their culture.
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My eyes were opened many years ago when working for a large national company. We had an end of year Christmas get-together and we invited along some overseas students on work experience that were Moslem. They wouldn’t eat our BBQ food (unclean apparently)and I later overheard them making derogatory remarks about the two sweet young office girls who were enjoying a glass of wine with us. I don’t think that bringing large numbers of people into this country that you can’t even socialize with is a good idea, in fact I think it is just plain stupid. I can’t think of any other single ethnic group that I haven’t been able to connect with.
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Just wait ’til we get the Gaza misfits, courtesy of Penny Wong and her Marxist comrades.
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More than 25yrs ago, back when I lived in the UK, the company I worked for was looking for an architect to design and build our new premises. The CEO and I arranged a lunch meeting with a candidate. When we got there, one of the architect’s subordinates met us at our table and proceeded to tell us the ‘rules’ for the meeting. It turned out the boss was a Muslim. One of the rules was we must not eat bacon or ham in front of him and nor were we to offer handshakes.
In England. In an English restaurant.
My CEO told him to eff off and we left.
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Well done. !
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You don’t often hear a good story where the CEO turns out to be a hero, thanks for that!
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Tony B, obviously a little bit of resistance, protesting etc works!
Had there not been the unrest & protests, that Labour councillor would not have been charged. Let’s find out if there’s a real penalty or if if it’ll only be a slap with a wet lettuce leaf.
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I posted a story a couple of days ago from an OZ academic claiming that coral was in trouble again but this report contradicts it
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/09/huge-increase-in-coral-produces-third-year-of-record-highs-on-the-great-barrier-reef/
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Of interest:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/07/cyclone-causes-increase-in-coral-cover-if-you-believe-their-nonsense-number/
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Sigh. I announced the AIMS research record in June and I wouldn’t change a word: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/after-a-trillion-tons-of-co2-the-great-barrier-reef-hits-record-coral-cover-third-year-in-a-row/.
Just to add some perspective. The Great Barrier Reef is 348,000 km2, it has 2,900 individual reefs, and 900 islands. Most people have no idea how vast it is.
The AIMS survey is the longest running and most detailed survey of the largest reef system in the world. Jennifer is talking about a few reefs she knows well. I’ve no doubt she knows John Brewer reef in detail. But one cyclone track does not negate thousands of kilometers of other data.
Given AIMS past statements, they would presumably love to find that the reef was a disaster. If the unmeasured crests of the reefs were in a terrible state, surely AIMS would find a way get there at high tide and measure that so they could issue the bad news and double their grant requests. I’m just not buying that the AIMS data (the best data we have) isn’t telling us something useful.
I’m in regular communication with Peter Ridd and we have discussed all the points Jen raised.
I will continue to quote him and the AIMS data, with glee, every opportunity I can get, and I suggest all readers do too.
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💚😳
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It simply depends on who is issuing the message, if you are reading the Grauniad, the reef is dying, same if you read Nature magazine, but it seems that is not the case at all.
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They write for their audience.
That audience is never happy with hearing the truth.
That audience want their delusions reinforced or else they’ll read want they want to hear somewhere else.
Grauniad and Nature magazine’s financial survival depends on it.
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I believe that the coral “checks” are done by overflying the GBR at around 100mph some distance up in the air. Contrast this to Jennifer Marohasy’s team who go out and dive on a reef to check it close up. Naturally Jennifer’s team are finding quite different results compared to the university air method.
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Not so Graeme, Jen was correct on the aerial surveys (they are poor). But these new records are 100% underwater surveys.
As I said two years ago: The [AIMS survey] monitor 87 reefs, do 3,888 mantra ray tows (as the technique is called) which covers 881 kilometers of reef. (See this video). They tow people along behind a boat over the same reefs each year and record the amount of hard coral cover. As long as the technique appears so comprehensive and honest, it appears to be public money well spent.”
With any study, there are always ways it can be done better, but it seems to be losing perspective to throw out the best data we have in the world, done by a team that didn’t want to find good news, but found it anyway. Why would we ignore that, and pray and hope to set up a better survey and wait 40 years for any results?
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Heuristically speaking I don’t see a problem with all of this reef nonsense; what will be will be. Most discussions are emotive and lack discernment or even basic knowledge – you are told and you believe, after all the planet is dying and we are unatural you see. I see nature in its beauty and its malevolence and all things in flux.
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This invasion of Russia is certainly Audacious
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13730893/Putin-orders-76-000-evacuate-Ukraine-launches-surprise-cross-border-offensive-Russia.html
Many experts are confused by its purpose. Morale building? The intention to show Russia are not invincible? To divert troops away from areas where Ukraine is in retreat?
Whatever, it is certainly unexpected and has caused Putin some embarrassment. I wouldn’t want to be one of the commanders whose troops were over run.
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It’s to show that they are not actually losing, or that the war is stalemated, thereby shoring up support from abroad, and quell calls for negotiations.
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What was the purpose for the Tet Offensive in 1968? It was a military disaster for the NVA and the VC, but, with the help of the MSM, it convinced the American people that the war could not be concluded in a victory.
Maybe, they are also thinking along those lines here. Problems with that here, are that Putin does not need to worry about elections, and the media in Russia are not going to be critical.
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Spot on Dave.
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Ah, but the American elections are coming up! This will give Kackala something to talk about, if not directly then the press releases will be saying ‘we should send more money and arms to Ukraine, they can capture Kursk and then Moscow..”
Its just like last time, America identifies areas that Russia doesn’t have serious soldiers in, NATO plans the attack and has their commanders organise it, Ukraine rushes in and overwhelms the Territorials defending the wide open areas. This time the radio networks has a lot of French and Polish being spoken.
Russia still hasn’t won back all the area they lost in the same way in 2023, and this time they were pulling up the minefields there for their own expedition. The biggest question is why didn’t the Russians see or if they did, why didn’t they do something about the buildup of troops and vehicles the Ukies had. Once Ukraine moved they saturated the area with EM jamming to hamper Russian drones while using lots of their own on different wavelengths.
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Putin won the last election with over 87percent approval – contrary to the US political caste and MSM. When is Ukraine up for its next election?
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Putin’s democracy is laughable, nobody else in the world gets 87%.
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If you’ve ever been to Russia, you would know that Putin is genuinely popular.
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Big Brother is their political culture.
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Nonsense. Look at the West.
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>Big Brother is their political culture
Big Brother in the 1949 dystopian novel 1984, is the leader of a party called IngSoc, which stands for English Socialism.
Big Brother is more like the political culture of Keir Starmer & the British Labour Party, or of Zelensky’s Ukraine, than it is of Putin’s Russia today.
You’re probably thinking of the dystopian novel Animal Farm which was a critique of Stalinist USSR.
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EG, sorry to say but Putin is popular.
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Russia also has regional elections based on accepted democratic principles. I have friends in Russia who declare that while there is corruption, in general the process works well.
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No elections in Ukraine, its a dictatorship. Elections were meant to be last year, but Zelensky has decided to stay in power until the war ends. The Yanks certainly don’t want anyone else who has not got Z’s acting ability.
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They are at war, no other candidate wants the poison chalice.
Ukraine has ambition to join the EU and NATO, which will come to fruition only when democracy is restored. They have to win otherwise they’ll be under the commie yolk forever.
Donald should withdraw all support and leave the Europeans to defend themselves, or go down the gurgler.
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I think you meant, ‘under the commie yoke‘
I respectfully recommend some more reading about the history of Ukraine & Russia, the history of US clandestine involvement in Ukraine since 2008 and US presence in & control of much of postwar Europe and of NATO since it’s inception. Also the former members of Hitler’s Nazi High Command who after WW2 went on to rotate through the positions of Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, and Commander in Chief of NATO Forces in Central Europe, from the 1950s until 1983.
What “yolk” is Europe & UK currently suffering under?
Russia doesn’t currently have those problems.
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It’s to bring the war home to the Russian people and through them to put pressure on Putin.
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Not sure how much pressure is created by advancing a short car ride into Russia , and then getting demolished. A distraction from a crumbling front over 1000klms long I guess.
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A venture that will be soaked up and lives and materiel destroyed. Much support and enthusiasm from the US press though. Peace – when it comes will be on Russia’s terms.
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There is talk of a land swap to bring an end to hostilities.
In won’t be in Putin’s favour if the Ukrainians create an iron dome against aerial bombardment, trench warfare on Russian soil is preferable.
A mass exodus from Crimea should see Putin sue for peace.
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No iron dome seen at all in this war. The Yanks much-vaunted ground to air patriots and other missiles have not stopped incoming missile and have been destroyed by Russian anti-radar missiles. Iran showed that Israel’s Iron Dome didn’t work. The Russians have not been able to stop the incoming either, so its all about the numbers of missiles you can put up and what anti-missile measures your missiles can carry.
The Russians are winning so far.
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So just explain, KP, how come the Israelis and their allies managed to destroy the 300 plus Iranian missiles fired at them a couple of months ago. 99% shot down. A couple managed to hit something but to no effect.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/14/middleeast/israel-air-missile-defense-iran-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
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The Iranian action resulted in the USA and Israel spending $4B in missiles to defend Israel and massively reducing the stocks. Next time round they wont be so lucky. That’s Iran’s intention.
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‘The Russians are winning so far.’
Not really, Putin told his people it will be over in a couple of months, two years of trench warfare should tell you he has failed miserably.
Imagine the iron dome over the new battle front, hundreds of drones picking off Russian tanks and soldiers. Meanwhile the opposing team have dug trenches and are preparing to stay.
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Any reference to where Putin said tha ElG?
Iron Dome is air defence. It doesnt target anything on the ground.
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A complex sentence by El Gordo, Yarpos.
Read it again.
Iron Dome stops incoming.
Drones (outgoing). KaBoom!
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Kim, I’m sure the people in Stalingrad are quaking in their boots from this audacious Ukrainian blitzkrieg.
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Maybe not.
But you can be assured that they blame Putin for the humiliation, not Ukraine.
That’s the point.
Ukraine needs to lob a few more rockets into Russian cities, well back from the border. Random selection of cities. Random selection of time of day. Random size of blasts.
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Nonsense. Look at the West.
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Do tell.
What?
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The Russians have not “invaded” the Ukraine. They are supporting the democratic right of Russian speaking people to be rejoined with Russia – their Motherland.
On 30 September 2022, Russia announced the annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts – which are Russian speaking regions ceded by Lenin to Germany and Austria-Hungary as part of a peace deal in WW1
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia’s participation in World War I.
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Mungrel truth said…
I agree, dissent can only grow now as the worlds peoples awaken to the reality of whats really been going on behind veil of governments legitimacy.
Ukraine is a good example of how your taxpayer money is laundered in order for the continuation of never ending wars that benefits the MIC in not only profit but keeping the average Joe a debt slave.
I followed the yank orchestrated Ukrainian coup —– or colour revolution from its beginnings in 2013-14 ——- remember that gizzards Gillard and meatwagon killery are bestest of ‘beach friends’, both left their commie minions embedded in the bureaucratic government systems.
This link is one of the best that follows the actual war situation in the Ukraine, for 10 yrs now I have found very very little that I would consider propaganda.
https://southfront.press/ukrainian-offensive-stopped-in-kursk/
And by the way just for the idiots here I back Christian Russia all the way in its fight against the now decadent commie overrun Western established globalist evil pigs.
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The Enforcer is biased in the other direction, but more believable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFNWk-q1K0
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Apologies, this is the latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPNclRh68tc
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Russia supports Christian ideals of morality. That is against tHe globalist agenda.
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‘The Russians have not “invaded” the Ukraine.’
Forget the past, we are in the 21st century and everyone knows Russia invaded Ukraine so that Putin could play old world games.
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“Forget the past, we are in the 21st century and everyone knows..” that we are at war with Eurasia and have always been at war with Eurasia.. .and the history books were deleted and re-written to show this.
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Gents, could you please hold your horses for few days ?
By the way – “Christian Russia all the way in its fight against the now decadent commie overrun Western established globalist evil pigs” – is areal pearl!
Old Ozzie – I agree with you: V.V. Putin is a cannibal, killing people without any purpose, just for pleasure.
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‘ … we are at war with Eurasia and have always been at war with Eurasia …’
The Mongol hoards are no longer active.
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Climate Fear-Mongering Fail: Great Barrier Reef Sees Third Record Year Of Coral Growth (article)
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**Apologies in advance to all Bob Dylan fans. But when you have a Minister for Climate Change and Energy (yes, that
position by virtue of its name is a paradox) sometimes you
just need to vent and try and have a laugh.
Bowen and the Wind
How many trees must a man cut down
Before you lay down a wind farm
And how many days must be lacking a gale
Before you address base load demand
Yes n how many eagles must the windmills fell
Before they are forever banned
The answer my friend is not Bowen and the wind
The answer is not Bowen and the wind
Yes n how many years can Florence persist
Before she’s told that she won’t succeed
Yes n how many cloudy days can exist
Before we downplay solar feed
Yes n how many times must a man turn his head
Before seeing coal meets energy needs
The answer my friend is not Bowen and the wind
The answer is not Bowen and the wind
Yes n how many times must a MP prop up
A great big renewables lie
Yes n how many times can he can push his luck
Saying nuclear should be denied
Yes n how many handouts before we see
That this greenwash scheme is fried
The answer my friend is not Bowen and the wind
The answer is not Bowen and the wind
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Can you have a go at rewording Barry Maquire’s lyrics to reflect what is happening in Australia, Europe and the UK?
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Bob Ballard. Remember him? Bob recently got terminated from his commentating role and sent home for a ‘sexist’ remark about Australia’s 4x100m freestyle female relay swimming team at the Paris Olympics.
Apparently, the team were late coming out to get their medals and Bob commented ‘Well, the women just finishing up. You know what women are like … hanging around, doing their make-up.’
Interesting to see today’s DM story on Olympic (beauty) routines! How Team GB’s stars got performance ready in Paris, using makeup securing primers, styling gels and ‘citrusy smells’.
No less than 6 Olympic athletes have shared their hair, nail, skin and makeup pre-competition routines with cosmetics suddenly being put forward as a ‘secret weapon’ underscoring performance.
Lina Nielsen (400m hurdler) commented:
‘When you’re wearing your country’s kit you can end up looking the same as everyone else, so experimenting with hair, make-up and nails is a way to set ourselves apart.’
Even at the non-Olympic level the personal performance power boost that make-up brings has been recognised and harnessed by some:
“Before a meet I like to go for the red nail polish, since it alludes to power and strength”.
The psychological power of being totally focused on your goal, of being in the zone and being able to channel that power into your performance is well known and is a big part of training/conditioning.
While standing out by delivering a first, second or third level performance in your sporting event is still the ultimate objective this is becoming under scored by a need to also stand out in your personal appearance.
Given the lucrative endorsement deals that fall into the gold, silver or bronze laps of competitors common sense dictates that a product must be seen to deliver both before, during and after any scenario it is being associated with. A certain under arm deodorant spray already promotes dryness after exertion as a key feature.
So, Bob looks like what you described as “a throwaway line” potentially had a ring of truth to it and truth, unfortunately, has not been part of the Olympics for some considerable time, even more so at these “games”.
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War paint comes to mind.
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A fairly tame remark I would have thought.
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Following the 7.1 earthquake 3 days ago the Japanese authorities have issued a warning about a mega-earthquake they think may occur, (a 70% chance sometime in the next 30 years).
The advisory concerns the Nankai Trough “subduction zone” between two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean, where massive earthquakes have hit in the past.
The 800 kilometre undersea trough runs from Shizuoka— west of Tokyo—to the southern tip of Kyushu island. It has been the site of destructive quakes of magnitude eight or nine every century or two.
These so-called “megathrust quakes”, which often occur in pairs, have been known to unleash dangerous tsunamis along Japan’s southern coast.
In 1707, all segments of the Nankai Trough ruptured at once, unleashing an earthquake that remains the nation’s second-most powerful on record. That quake — which also triggered the last eruption of Mount Fuji — was followed by two powerful Nankai megathrusts in 1854, and then a pair in 1944 and 1946.
Obviously it made me wonder whether such a movement in the plate boundary would affect the other side of that plate – to wit the San Andreas fault in California where people have wondered when the next big one will occur.
What if such occurred during the current election in th USA? And how would it affect it?
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Kamalafornia, tumbles in to the sea
Methinks we’d all carry on regardless. Mind you, Whakaari, non-Black Island, has been erupting for the past 3 days here: whoops, there goes all our ‘carbon mitigation’ savings up in smoke… boom!
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>there goes all our (efforts)
So sad. Schadenfreude is mean I know, but… you can’t help laughing!
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We know the earth is continuously shaking with current tracking registering 194 quakes in the last 7 days so using msm reporting as a filter still throws up the following news “worthy” ones in the Pacific rim/ring area:
Japan 7.1 (x 2) on Aug 8
South west Lamont (remote area of California) 5.2 on Aug 7th – 31 aftershocks
Woods Point (3 hours drive east of Melbourne) 4.1 on Aug 7 – suggested could be “after shock” from 2021 earthquake
Wellington (NZ) 4.8 Aug 5th
Curious how the Woods Point one came with the be aware not alarmed filtering claim along the lines of it somehow being the manifestation of a past event. Not to worry 4 out of 194 still rare events so enjoy your Sunday.
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Plus a few you missed, Earl:
5.9 Kermadec Islands
5.6 Fiji (deep/harmless)
5.1 Vanuatu, Nicaragua, and Bolivia
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on…
Beware the Megathrust ⚠️
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Thanks for those. I was using msm reporting rather than any search and given the AI response when I followed up on your Kermadec advice I got ” Based on the provided search results, there were no significant earthquakes reported in the Kermadec Islands region in August.” A deeper dig brought up this August 9 report on the 5.9 shaker.
The Fiji one was also high at 5.7 so indeed whole lotta shakin.
If your close enough can you look out the kitchen window and tell me if White Island is still smokin and if not may I suggest you move further west, lol. Cheers
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Ross Clark pushing back against Ed Minibrained’s green power delusions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13731497/ROSS-CLARK-carpeting-Britain-beloved-solar-panels-Ed-spare-thought-slave-labour-building-China.html
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Civil War in The UK
Over the last century civil war has been a feature of life in the UK.
Firstly there was the Irish War of Independence
It began in January 1919, following the Irish Republic’s declaration of independence, and ended with a truce in July 1921. The subsequent negotiations led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended British rule in most of Ireland and established the Irish Free State.
Then in the 1970s there was “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland.
The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an “irregular war” or “low-level war”. The conflict began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
More than 3,500 people were killed in the conflict, of whom 52% were civilians, 32% were members of the British security forces, and 16% were members of paramilitary groups.
Stalin Starmer and his Stazi are fanning the flames of the next civil war with their “Victim Blaming” tactics.
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What is it going to take for the UK govt to cut back on immigration and refugee intakes, the people have had enough, same here in OZ, we groaning under the weight of immigration.
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>What is it going to take
The goal is destruction of the nation state, national identity, social cohesion, and the sovereignty of the natural citizen.
Remember Starmer has already publicly declared his allegiance is to Davos, not the UK.
>the people have had enough
In case you hadn’t noticed, “the people” no longer matter.
Remember, “It’s not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes”
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Never.
We live in a self-loathing narrative, which is extremely effective. And we have done for a long time now, the fruits are coming to bare. Both sides of politics are infected with it, the media, your children, even yourself I would dare say. I certainly am, brainwashed with it at school way back in the 70s and 80s. I am terrified to speak about the topic, to even write this is bad.
While we despise ourselves, our history, and worship foreign cultures; while we adhere to the idea population must grow to pay the pensions, there is no stopping mass immigration. Best you can hope for is a slowdown from a Liberal government – who believe in it more than the left – before it is sped up again.
Protest all you like. You should’ve listened to Robert Menzies. That was the time to act. Too late now.
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FWIW
“Ukraine Is Dying, It Hasn’t Enough People Left To Thrive”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/08/10/ukraine-is-dying-it-hasnt-enough-people-left-to-thrive/
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Between culling of the male population and mass emigration the demographics will be impacted for decades to come, assuming of course their is a Ukraine.
They have started lowering the call up age, so the impact will be ever increasing. Its interesting that Ukraine enlisted older people first and younger people later, the opposite of what usually happens.
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When Viktor Yanukovych was deposed in a coup in 2014 by US (and others) it set in train a series of events that has led to this present state. After arming Ukraine for many years and turning it into a formidable fighting force in order to confront Russia, who were perceived to be weak, it has come to this. A demographically compromised country. When looked at objectively i know who are to blame.
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The spin is spinning! Some woman in the SMH is trying to say Walz’s law that schools must provide tampons for boys is showing respect for woman..
“Positive political role models like Tim Walz are important. He shows young men that they have nothing to fear by giving things to women – be they tampons or just some basic respect.”
You would have to be completely unthinking to believe ‘positive role models like Tim Walz’!
Then a long wank about how important menstrual products are and how some girls can’t afford them and blah blah blah.. Completely irrelevant compared to being taught good oral hygiene and having access to dentists when you’re young, something that costs a lot more through life if not done. As for smearing the Republicans to distract from ‘ol hair sniffer…
“Despite the misogynistic rhetoric of MAGA Republicans, and their creepy obsession with female fertility, they realise they need to do something to mitigate the impression that they have declared war on women….This week, as I read about Governor Walz and watched his speeches and the folksy video clips of him on social media, it struck me that he is an incredible model of positive masculinity. One that stands in terrific contrast to the sneering, domineering and misogynistic style of Donald Trump. Not to mention Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance, whose preoccupation with female breeding is Taliban-esque.”
It should have ended with “This political advertisement was authorised by the Labor Party under Mr…”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/they-called-him-tampon-tim-as-an-insult-it-backfired-20240809-p5k121.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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The correspondent seems to have it quite bad doesent she? It’s odd that she talks about the other sides ” creepy obsession with female fertility” when its her own camps obsession to intervene in every way imaginable, and some not imaginable (at least me) until recently.
I think the point about name calling and labelling is a good one though. I guess its a cultural thing in the US but with the encumbent candidates so weak and with their catastrophic record over for years, to would think the Repubs would just stick to the facts, point all that out and act more presidential and less schoolyard.
Sadly both sides do it. They name call and smear and it just lowers their own credibility.
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NEW REPORT!!!
Tampon injuries from male Democrats have increased 7925% since tampon Tim installed them in men’s bathrooms.
-Minnesota Times
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Meanwhile in that loverly place UK – NHS staff told to ask men if they are pregnant before X-rays
New guidance requires radiographers to check whether all patients aged 12 to 55 could be expecting
NHS X-ray operators have been told to ask men if they are pregnant before conducting scans, The Telegraph can reveal.
Radiographers at multiple hospitals have been told they must check whether all patients aged 12 to 55 are pregnant, regardless of their sex, as part of inclusivity guidance.
The guidance was written after an incident in which a trans man who was unknowingly pregnant had a CT scan, and tells staff to be inclusive of transgender, non-binary and intersex patients by not making assumptions about people.
The radiation from X-ray, CT and MRI scans, as well as cancer treatments, can be dangerous to unborn babies, but forms designed to be inclusive have caused confusion and anger among patients and pose a risk to their safety, according to NHS staff.
Radiographers told this publication the measures had left men storming out of appointments and women in tears because of “invasive” fertility questions. They say patients are being asked to fill out pregnancy forms stating their sex at birth, preferred name and pronouns, and read “ridiculous” statements about people who are born with variations in sex characteristics.
‘Unnecessary risk for patients’
Campaigners said the practice was “humiliating” for patients and called on NHS trusts to “return to common sense”.
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Do the medical “professionals” (experts?) waking up each morning with these thought bubbles keep up to date with research findings in their own medical fields? (Rhetorical question). The 12-year age minimum is already too high!!
I can remember years back in a 1990s high school biology class comment was made that each new generation of girls seemed to be getting their period on average 10 months earlier than their mother.
Seems in the intervening years the earlier menstrual cycle has become a trending event with this 2019 item providing a good summary.
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>ask men if they are pregnant
I thought misgendering was regarded as outrageous or offensive by these snowflake New Age wokologist types.
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Just ‘zap’ ’em without the invasive questions, after all if a woman presents looking like a man, just go ahead.
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“The spin is spinning! Some woman in the SMH is trying to say Walz’s law that schools must provide tampons for boys is showing respect for woman.”
Of course the Sydney Morning Pravda would say that, tampons for boys, just look at that in isolation and understand how bent those lefties are.
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And, in “cultural Norm” news:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/progress-iraq-moves-to-legalize-pedophilia/
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From Brave AI https://search.brave.com/search?q=Progress%3A+Iraq+Moves+to+Legalize+Pedophilia+Willful+blindness+to+the+root+cause+-+goats+and+camels+need+to+be+wary&source=desktop&summary=1&summary_og=77842c794c2f4bd44a4650-
Implications
The proposed law amendment, if passed, would have far-reaching consequences. Goats and camels, as innocent bystanders, are not directly affected by this legislation. However, the broader implications for women’s rights, child protection, and the country’s social fabric are significant.
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Heh when you click on the Brave AI link above
Implications for Animals
While goats and camels are not directly affected by this proposed law, it is essential to recognize that the erosion of moral standards and the normalization of harmful practices can have far-reaching consequences.
The well-being of all living beings, including animals, relies on a society that values compassion, empathy, and responsible decision-making.
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The Bacha baz, those behind the Bacha bazi/dancing boys culture, may be looking to establish a new home now the Taliban are back.
Looks like man-love Thursdays may be coming back on the calendar. Language warning for the link.
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I hope Tim Walz isn’t a fan of social media. His memes
are
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-week-in-pictures-who-is-tim-walz.php
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Old news but on of the “Mansell” Mansells
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Temperature games and the selective lens of the MSM
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/msm-absent-reporting-dozens-night-time-low-temp-records-across-us
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Sorry but I have to repeat myself:
Do instantaneous temperature records serve well to overall science and/or daily practical purposes ?
Those RTDs already cause so much angst about record peak temperatures as compared to old style thermometers. The next improvement in sensor construction, quality of electronic bits and faster computers… will again help to record shorter and shorter temperature peaks.
If we had totally balanced and incorrigible BOM process those peaks will be just of academic interest. Unfortunately, the instantaneous record temperatures are weaponised by politicians and huge, practically multi-billion dollars implications.
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Probably not , but the gist of the article is that whatever you chose to measure report on it consistently and evenly. Hysteria re heat and looking away re cold confirms the MSM’s role as a propaganda machine.
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Climate Science- the Eunice Newton Foote Experiment
John Tyndal’s famed experiment on transmission of radiant heat through various gases was anticipated by several years by a woman amateur scientist in the USA!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/17/eunice-newton-foote-john-tyndall/
Her experiment seems to be a lot like the infamous Greenhouse 101 experiment by Bill NYE (the science guy).and again by the Mythbusters.
That experiment is difficult to reproduce under properly controlled conditions. Bill NYE was accused of performing a demonstration to illustrate his predetermined result.
So I will be interested to see if I can find further details of her experiment.
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Mythbusters @ 72,000 ppm. Hmm of Co2…busted
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Peter C:
An attempt by the AEI mob (I hope I got that right) to make the work a female (I hope I got that right) possession.
Firstly, John Tyndall was a mountaineer and knew that the air got ‘thinner’ as you climbed. He would also have actual figures showing that humidity was less as well.
Secondly, he analysed the IR absorption of other 20 gases.
Thirdly, he dried all those gases before testing.
Fourthly, he was a very careful experimenter – a residual error of 0.25% after his measurements worried him, and he traced this to a (iron containing) dye on his galvanometer, which he dismantled and rewound the insulation.
And lastly, he didn’t rush into noting his results trying to confuse people about who first discovered it.
The whole idea using glass was demolished by R.W. Wood in 1909 with a glass & a rock salt (small) greenhouses. (glass allows IR in but hinders it outward passage).
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>glass allows IR in but hinders it outward passage>
Magic!
In, out, how does it know which is which?
I thought glass was transparent to short-wave light, but less transparent to longer wave IR, radiant heat, and convective heat.
Someone who actually knows something, please correct me.
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Not so sure about that. I think you are correct Skepticynic. Glass is transparent to visible light but relatively opaque to IR. The use of glass tubes invalidates her result.
Also I conducted an experiment myself on the conduction of Heat comparing air and CO2 and found no difference.
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I put it badly. Here if you are interested
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/08/revisiting-woods-1909-greenhouse-box-experiment-part-i/
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/08/revisiting-woods-1909-greenhouse-box-experiment-part-ii-first-results/
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Thank you Graeme.
It seems to me, a rank layman, that the IR blocking effect of the plexiglass is supposed to be analogous to 420ppm CO2 in the atmosphere.
That may well turn out to be so, but my practical commonsense imagination is struggling to conceive of the possibility that a rarified trace molecule so sparse as that, can cause an effect so large as to be simulated by a sheet of solid plexiglass, or even a double layer of electrostatic plastic wrap.
There’s gotta be a better design of experiment if you want to convince me that atmospheric CO2 acts like the glass in a greenhouse in it’s effects on the Earth’s atmosphere and global temperature.
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Skepti,
I have a big problem with using doublings of CO2 and temperature change, reflecting commonly-accepted logarithmic response.
The first doubling should in theory be from one molecule of CO2 to 2 molecules. By the time we get to present levels of 400 ppm, we are into many hundreds of doublings. Is it valid to look at doubling 400 ppm?
I share your concern about low levels of CO2 at 400 ppm. To be significantly involved, 400 ppm requires that each molecule be able to handle a large amount of energy from photons. How much energy can a molecule absorb? Quantum mechanics did not know when I last studied this decades ago.
Then there is the synthetic emphasis on radiative properties of CO2 when water vapour is far more abundant in most of the atmosphere. Do you have any good links about why water vapour is so little discussed?
Geoff S
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We must stop compromising on our values as a nation
A huge segment of the West is tying itself in knots, compromising values and freedoms that entire generations were sacrificed for, and for what? To be seen as caring, or something like that.
Good on you Gemma Tognini
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We can’t. Everyone is brainwashed that the English were evil. Even ask Gemma, of Italian heritage. I’m sure at Christmas time she would mock English food and praise the superior Italian version of spotted dick. If she doesn’t, most do.
No irony is lost, that the riots in the UK, are by the same people who marched into the canon fire of the Western Front. As the platitudes go, the very ones who “scarificed everything for our freedoms”. They even made the British Empire, manning ships that sailed the unknown world, under the guidance of the extremely skilled Officers. And now, vilified, ignored and told their morals are reprehensible, that they are evil.
Once that is in place, you can’t stop compromising your values as a nation. We have made a terrible mistake.
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A great read in the Australian. Thanks for the print OO.
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FWIW
“Another Day, Another Secret Service Lie About the Trump Assassination Attempt Busted”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/10/another-day-another-secret-service-lie-about-the-trump-assassination-attempt-busted-n4931516
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Trump versus the opaque Obama empire
Trump is not running against Kamala Harris. She is the front person for a vast, inscrutable cabal that hides its true goals from the American people
Donald Trump has a body of work for his friends and enemies to examine as he campaigns for a second term. He is running on his record a real estate developer and his record as the 45th POTUS. His motto is Make America Great Again.
Opposing former President Trump this year is Vice President Kamala Harris. She holds a more traditional political resume. She served as Attorney General of California, a US Senator from California, and most recently as VPOTUS. She has a record, but she is shying away from her record in the early days of her campaign.
Conservatives suspect that Trump is really running against his arch-nemesis, Godfather Barack Hussein Obama. Obama served two terms as POTUS from 2009 to 2017 and cannot serve again due to the 22nd Amendment. Obama’s motto to Transform America led his two terms and has been continued into the administration of Joe Biden, Obama’s puppet.
Legally, Obama served eight years, but many of us suspect he is finishing his 12th year with a propped-up Biden out front. Suspicions run high that he is running for four more years with Kamala Harris as his latest stand-in.
Two noteworthy bits of evidence suggest that Obama is still running the Oval Office. Unlike most former presidents who leave Washington after the end of their administration, Obama maintains a home in Washington, very close to the White House. Secondly, many of the people advising Joe Biden also served during Obama’s administration.
Obama’s motto, Transform America, begs a question. What do Obama and his empire want America to become? While Trump speaks constantly about the vision and policies driving his plan to Make America Great Again, voters still have difficulty understanding what Obama means when he says he wants to Transform America.
Obama speaks in generalities, and he loves to hear himself talk. He talked about spreading wealth around but didn’t say how he’d do this. He wanted the “right people” to hold important jobs in his administration.
Valerie Jarrett, for example, was (and is?) one of his top foreign affairs advisors. She was born in Iran to American parents. Many speculate that her Iranian experience explained Obama’s—and, by extension, Biden’s and Harris’s—support for the current Iranian leadership. His one-time CIA Director, John Brennan, voted for Gus Hall for President in an earlier presidential election. In that earlier election, Hall ran as the Communist Candidate.
Many other people from Obama’s era continue to hold important jobs in Washington. Susan Rice, Lloyd Austin, and Jake Sullivan hold key positions in Biden’s version of Obamaworld.
Thus, heading into the election, it is really Obamaworld, aka “the Swamp,” that Trump faces. Trump is fighting a leftist status quo that is very tight-lipped about where it’s taking us.
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The Minnesota Tax-and-Spend Model
Opinion by The WSJ Editorial Board
We had to chuckle at the liberal commentariat’s portrayal of Tim Walz as a political balance to Kamala Harris.
Have they examined his record as Minnesota Governor?
On taxes and spending, he has sought to outdo California progressives and is making Illinois look like a model of fiscal discipline.
Ms. Harris is slipstreaming behind the Biden Administration policies and refusing to lay out her own policy agenda. This makes Mr. Walz’s record as Governor over the last six years all the more revealing as a window on the duo’s plans for the country.
Minnesota has long boasted the highest taxes in the Midwest, including a top income tax rate (9.85%) that kicks in at $193,240. Only New York and Oregon tax their upper middle class more. Minnesota’s corporate rate (9.8%) is also the nation’s second highest after New Jersey, and the state is among the few to impose a death tax (16%) and statewide business property tax.
Such high taxes fueled population flight during Mr. Walz’s prolonged Covid lockdowns, but the economic damage was mitigated by $21 billion in federal pandemic cash. While Republican Governors such as Iowa’s Kim Reynolds used their budget surpluses to cut taxes, Mr. Walz went on a spending binge and raised taxes even more.
Republican control of the state Senate between 2019 and 2022 restrained Mr. Walz’s ambitions.
But after Democrats took full control of the Legislature in 2023, he unleashed his inner Sacramento. Despite a $17.5 billion surplus last spring, he midwifed a large tax increase, which he used to boost transfer payments and create new entitlements.
This includes a 1% surtax on investment income above $1 million and revised corporate tax to capture more global business income. Democrats also established a new family and medical leave entitlement financed by a 0.88 percentage-point payroll tax. These taxes effectively raise Minnesota’s top marginal tax rate on investment income to 10.85% and on wages to 10.73%.
Democrats also effectively increased taxes on folks earning more than $220,650 by phasing out their deductions such as for mortgage interest.
Is this Mr. Walz’s threshold for “rich”? Removing distortions in the tax code can reduce economic inefficiencies, but Mr. Walz did the opposite by expanding carve-outs to redistribute income via the code.
When government raises taxes on job creators, many leave or reduce hiring. As we’ve seen in Illinois, New York and California, the tax-and-spend ratchet reduces the economic growth needed to support bigger welfare states and public-worker benefits. Mr. Walz has increased transfer payments even more than in those states.
This record is the reason Democratic pundits and the progressive left are so pleased with Mr. Walz’s elevation. They know what Ms. Harris’s choice means for the next four years.
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After Tim Walz Became Governor, Minnesotans Fled the State—and Took Almost $5 Billion With Them
Residents fled the high-tax state for Florida and Texas
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One of the car oriented youtube channels I watch featured a move out of Minnesota to Tennesee. They certainly seemed to flourish after the move
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Sounds like you watch Derek Bieri and his family business Vice Grip Garage (VGG). If so, I am a frequent watcher as well, informative/folksy delivery by Mr. Bieri which I thoroughly enjoy. If not VGG, what is the channel of which you speak?
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Kamala / Tim Walz Phone Call PARODY – 3 Mins 31 Secs
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With news two NASA astronauts may be stuck on the space station until February, a reminder who chairs the National Space Council: Vice President Harris
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>(Obama’s) one-time CIA Director, John Brennan
Not only supported the Communist Party, but for a long time known to be a Muslim too.
former FBI agent, John Guandolo, who wrote the first Muslim Brotherhood training manual for the FBI, outs John Brennan… as having converted to Islam while working in Saudi Arabia.
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Strange? They speak about a meeting with secret service on The Tuesday warning that the AGR Building and surrounds to the North needed to be covered. The building itself appears to have been infested with all sorts of personnel. They eventually let their fellow officers in.
Here is the evolving timeline prepared by Cullen and crowdsourcethetruth.
You can see why the latest Butler Body Cam was served up without sound until the officer decides to get his rifle. There would be confirmation of possible suppressed subsonic rounds from inside the building that appear to have caused the initial commotion and sent the officer back for his rifle.
And alas poor Yearick, or whoever the guy was on the roof, he appears to be long dead before Trump and the snipers came under fire . That bullet appears to be from behind and to the west.
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Tulsi Gabbard has been put on the terror watch list in USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09eVb2eomKo
Leaders of western nations are heading down a path that they will regret.
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No matter how many articles I read I can’t find her ever making a single arrest
The pic doing the rounds
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The Future of Religious Freedom in a Secular World
11th August 2024 – Anthony Fisher
Prologue: 2035: The year is 2035, hopefully my last as archbishop. I’ve just emailed my draft homily for Sunday to the Religious Safety Commissioner for her approval.
She’s the independent regulator charged with ensuring that faith groups spread no discriminatory or otherwise harmful messages. With the help of AI, she vets all planned sermons and spiritual talks to be given in Australia each week, catching any inappropriate words or themes before they are spoken.
Our school system also meets each month with Departmental officials to monitor what’s taught in our schools and ensure this accords with contemporary expectations. The Department itself now appoints Catholic school principals, SERECs (Secular Ethics and Religious Education Coordinators), and other staff in accord with DEI policy, and approves all curriculum.
Hospitals like St Vincent’s are no more. Because these institutions so stubbornly refused to provide “the full range of services”, such as abortion, euthanasia and sex-change surgery, the Greens-Teals Coalition nationalised the faith-based public hospitals in 2033, following the precedent of Calvary Hospital Canberra a decade before. Charitable status is no longer granted to faith-based education, health, aged care or welfare, and state subsidies have been declining, while secular bureaucratic interference and taxes on former charities have been increasing, making some of these institutions unsustainable. The Census people and the Productivity Commission, egged on by sections of the media, have decided religion no longer warrants recognition.
Dystopian fiction or plausible future?
The future I’ve sketched is exaggerated as a provocation. But is it entirely implausible?
Archbishop Anthony Fisher is the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. This address was given to the Sydney Catholic Business Network at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park Sydney on May 31
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An Excellent Read for a Sunday in Winter – Clancy of the Overflow: How Squatters Made Australia Rich
Robert Clancy – The author is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of Newcastle Medical School.
My great grandfather, John Clancy, migrated to Australia from Cork with his parents in 1841, to find a better life.
Their story is typical of the period: following little success on the Bendigo gold fields in Victoria in the 1850s, the family moved to Deniliquin in south-west New South Wales around 1870, where John and his young family squatted, establishing a sheep run. His passion was horses, a love shared with A.B. “Banjo” Paterson, a Sydney lawyer from a wealthy sheep property in New South Wales, who became immortalised in Australian literature through his poetry promoting the pleasures of outback life.
The two men developed a friendship through this common interest.
As a Commenter said
What a great read! Full of forgotten information and history of our great land; succinctly and clearly told. Thank you.
PS Commentator vs. commenter
A commenter is someone who makes isolated comments. These days, the word most often refers to people who post comments on blogs and news websites. A commentator is someone who provides commentary. The term usually applies to professionals in sports broadcasting or television news. Commentators don’t just make one comment; commenting is what they do.
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How on earth does Bob get time to write a book on Clancy of the Overflow????? He is such a gem of a man, having fronted the scholarly opposition to the dreaded “genetic” vaccinations when few, except the very brave (& mostly retired) clinicians would do it.
He is a scholar, a gentleman, and a hero.
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Whatever Will Climateers Cook Up Next? – Tony Thomas – 9th August 2024
This essay is about how celebs warn that global warming will turn us into cannibals, maybe you’re not up with that prospect yet?
Jane Fonda’s ex-husband Ted is a leading public intellectual on this cannibalism forecast. He’s influential too – in 2017 he donated $US1 billion to the United Nations.
By 2038, he believes, the last survivors of the world’s heat-stricken masses will turn on each other for food. His prediction in 2008 was taken up by the conservative Washington Free Beacon online newspaper:
In order to help people prepare for what is coming, the Free Beacon created the Countdown to Cannibalism Clock, which will let you know exactly how much time is left until you must engage in the practice for basic sustenance.
On my calculations, the Cannibalism Clock now stands at 28 minutes to midnight, but I can’t find the clock online.
It must be somewhere. The Washington Free Beacon, by the way, is no lightweight . Not part of regime media, this year it disclosed the plagiarisms by Harvard’s diversity President Claudine Gay, forcing her resignation.
Some say Turner’s cannibalism prediction is already coming true, others claim the cases are just random:
In any event, Soderlund’s premise was that global food supply was on the brink of disaster, which like most or all previous climate predictions is baloney. Food output and yields continue to feed population growth. Output can keep rising (even without greater land use) through better harvest logistics, “smart” targeted use of water and fertilisers, innovation spread among peasants via mobile phones and AI, and so on.
I’d like to say this is the last word on cannibalism and climate, but it ain’t.
There’s a veritable industry of academics out there specialising in alarm about how global warming will accelerate cannibalism among a vast variety of non-homo sapien species.
This industry’s motto should be “All warming is bad, even in Melbourne” (top temp today: 12degC).
Well , enough on cannibalism. I call out to my wife, “Plenty of potatoes with the roast tonight!” Wife replies, “No need, I’ve got Swedes”.
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FWIW on that
“Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner’s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: ‘Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals’ ”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/08/09/earth-14-years-away-from-ted-turners-2038-countdown-to-cannibalism-2008-flashback-most-of-the-people-will-have-died-and-the-rest-of-us-will-be-cannibals/
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Olympic Committee Chairman Complains There is ‘No Scientifically Solid System’ to Identify Men From Women
“We have said from the very beginning, if somebody is presenting us a scientifically solid system how to identify men and women, we are the first ones to do it,” Bach said. “We do not like this uncertainty. We do not like it for the overall situation for nobody.
“So, we would be more than pleased to look into it,” he continued. “But what is not possible is that somebody is saying, you know, ‘this is not a woman’ just by looking at somebody or by falling prey to a defamation campaign by not a credible organization.”
https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/08/olympic-committee-chairman-complains.html
The answers easy!
https://youtu.be/-vVGdwgakOE?si=_3DMaj1URfI6RSvN
😆😆
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How to identify a woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0pCeaxOZpY
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They’re all nuts in there anyway.
Apologies to ETA®️ Kraft™️ Insanitarium®️.
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These are Females – USA Perform to Michael Jackson – Artistic Swimming – Paris2024 Highlights
As one whose Daughter did Synchronised swimming, this Commenter is Correct
Synchronised swimming has become so awesome over the last 20+ years!!! Can we all just appreciate how damned difficult this routine is?
Their choreography is awesome, let alone it being underwater, their synchronicity is astounding! It is just mind blowing to think of the breath control, body control and absolutely phenomenal artistry this performance or any of the Olympic synchro swimming teams put into their acts/performances/competitive contributions!!!
Has to be one of the hardest Olympic competitions of all time… this is not just your standard athletic competition…this a way above that, for this you need the athletic ability, artistic ability and just all round awesomeness..rated up there with gymnastics and ice skating (for Winter Olympics)!!
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There’s always the squirrel grip.
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The Religion of Climate Change is spreading
Do not engage in Climate Change hatred – the e-Safety Commissar is watching.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/10/wef-climate-change-causes-pakistani-men-to-beat-up-their-wives/
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You will be refused bail even if you only watched riots from the sidelines, judge warns
A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”.
District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications.
The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city.
Refusing bail, the judge said: “Anybody involving themselves in this type of behaviour, this type of disorder, as an active participant or a curious observer can expect to be, save for the most exceptional circumstances, remanded into custody, and this defendant is remanded into custody.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/09/judge-refuses-bail-riot-bystanders-belfast/
Yes, the mere act of looking is now a crime.
What’s next?
Being in the proximity of a crime is not evidence of complicity.
Can we tow the whole UK over to Germany and attach it? 😆
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Russia Sends Troops To Liberate Oppressed British People From Communist Rule
LONDON — In response to desperate pleas from downtrodden citizens throughout the United Kingdom, Russia announced it was preparing to send troops to liberate oppressed British people from communist rule.
British citizens who had been crushed under a communist reign of terror reportedly rejoiced when hearing the news that the brave, freedom-loving Russian military would soon arrive to set them free from the despotic British government.
“We have heard the cries for help from the persecuted British people,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said when announcing the operation. “Our forces are now on their way to the United Kingdom to liberate these poor, helpless people from the iron grip of their oppressive communist rulers. We are happy to export the freedom we have here in Russia to the countries of the West.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/russia-sends-troops-to-liberate-oppressed-british-people-from-communist-rule
Next month will be fun…
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What if you are watching the riots through a pair of powerful binoculars? How far away would you have to be before that was regarded as OK?
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There’s no limit… just like the Highway Patrol never stop gang cars because they are too hard to deal with, a protest arrest depends on how hard you look.
So 6’2″ of shaven-headed tattooed muscle with lots of ironmongery stuck through your body makes you pretty safe.
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Sunday sarcasm
Who should play Britney Spears in her upcoming biographic?
If it’s on Netflix, then Samuel L Jackson.
😆
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Who will the actors be playing the Labor mean girls?
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Here it is, highlights of a kamalla rally in it’s full glory. “The power is with the people”, said by someone unchosen by the people. ‘Projection’ should be the word of the next couple of months?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIsLxmva92Y Teeth-gritting for all 16mins, but it’s what it is!
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Dead at 56- Good Riddance
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/former-youtube-ceo-dead-56
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Right up to date with her boosters I hope.. Ivermectin might have saved her, but thankfully she didn’t believe in it.
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New book on environment is titled Blowen In The Wind
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Interesting and inspiring article from 2023 showing a country that has future thinking leaders who are working very hard to provide a great health service for their people. The following encouraging message delivered by Brazil’s Health Ministry Minister Nisia Trindade is from a 2023 interview:
“Our plan is to ensure over 70 percent of health goods are produced in the country in ten years, including vaccines, medicines, and supplies. We saw how essential that was during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we had to import active pharmaceutical ingredients for vaccines and so many other essential supplies like masks and gloves. Brazil’s greater autonomy in the sector following the development of local industry makes the SUS [the country’s Unified Health Care System] stronger and ensures universal access to health, in addition to generating employment and income,” she said.
The important contribution that this type of future thinking brings not just to Brazil, but the world was echoed by a local UN UNICEF representative who commented that having a robust institution capable of responding to health problems is among the privileges Brazilians have and is an added value not just for the country but for the whole world.
In other more tragic Brazilian news of course, it is so sad to hear of eight cancer doctors being killed on that plane that crashed. The single ray of good associated with that tragedy is that originally up to15 leading Brazilian oncologists were originally scheduled to take the flight to a cancer conference in Sao Paulo but 7 had taken an earlier plane. Just imagine how devastating the loss of 15 experts in a single accident might have been and we are left to hope that the still very tragic loss of 7 does not diminish Brazil’s progress to attain self-reliance when it comes to injectable liquids.
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‘Bucketmouth’ Walz although claiming 24 years boyscout service, has spent less time under fire than Trump.
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FWIW – power prices etc
“Y2Kyoto: Californicated”
“Since January 2014, residential average rates for the PG&E service area have jumped by 110%, those of SCE have surged by 90%, and SDG&E rates have soared by 82%.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/10/y2kyoto-californicated/
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FWIW
“Anemia Would Rise in Climate Obsessed’s Meatless Dystopia”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/10/anemia-would-rise-in-climate-obsesseds-meatless-dystopia/
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FWIW –
“The Dark Surrealism of the UK’s Totalitarian Turn”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-dark-surrealism-of-the-uks-totalitarian
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Rowan Atkinson – Communist Britain?! Freedom of Speech?! (video)
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