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For those unaware of it, in recent years Sweden has become a violent place with a large number of shootings, often gang related. These are said to be often linked to migrant gangs and the violence often includes bombs
Swedens neighbours are getting worried about it fearing the violence may spill over
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/norwegian-police-alarmed-about-swedish-gangs-recruiting-children/
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Anders Behring Breivik admitted to the crimes carried out the in the Norway attacks on 22 July 2011 and said the purpose of the attack was to save Norway and Western Europe from a Muslim takeover, and that the Labour Party had to “pay the price” for “letting down Norway and the Norwegian people.
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‘Who will they come for next?’: Greens Senator Nick McKim evokes H@locaust poem to defend rogue trade unions
Greens Senator Nick McKim has defended his party’s decision to vote against legislation designed to clean up the rogue construction division of the CFMEU by evoking a famous H@locaust poem.
Reilly Sullivan Digital Reporter
Nick McKim has defended the Greens’ decision to vote against legislation designed to clean up the rogue construction division of the CFMEU by evoking a poem about the H@locaust.
The Greens were slammed for voting against the legislation on Monday, with the Albanese government accusing the minor party of siding with “organised crime”.
The legislation to clean up the embattled CFMEU ultimately passed the Senate on Monday evening after Labor agreed to Coalition demands for extra requirements.
Support from the major parties put passage of the legislation beyond doubt, but the Greens slammed the new laws, with leader Adam Bandt describing them as “deeply flawed” and a “threat to freedom of association and the rights of all unions”.
From the Comments
– The Greens are like an ash tray on a motorbike!
– The clearest indication that the legislation regarding the CMFEU is necessary and in the interest of the nation is that the greens voted against it, this mob never support anything which is in the interest of the nation and necessary, little wonder they are regarded as oxygen thieves.
– True colour is shown here … and it ain’t green.
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Remember that during the last Great Unpleasantness, Sweden was “neutral”, but did a LOT of “business” with Nazi Germany.
Norway has the dubious pleasure of introducing the word “Quisling” as a synonym for TRAITOR / collaborationist. .
Finland had endured the soviet invasion, “the Winter War”, followed by Stalin’s revenge, the “Continuation War”.
Dinky little Denmark,with a land border with Germany was a different case.The story of the exploits of their “underground” is a real “Ripping Yarn”..
A series of literally underground mini-factories turning out high-quality STEN guns, an amazingly efficient communications and smuggling operation and the technological marvel of the UHF radio link, courtesy of an electronics company named “Bang and Olafson” of later Hi-Fi fame, that linked to a “boat shed” in Sweden and then to the outside world.
The Germans never found it, because it operated in the upper UHF band and German radio technology was not up to the task of detecting such equipment at the time.
The Danes have interesting museums in which are proudly displayed a lot of this WW2 equipment made and used by their underground.
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Quite good TV drama shows have been created on this sort of topic re the friction between Sweden and Denmark , and the eye rolling contempt the Danes have for the Swedes kumbaya attitude to social issues. Seems the chickens are coming home to roost, and hopefully damage can be contained somewhat.
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I don’t know if anyone here lives in Sydney and whether they will be affected by this proposed treaty?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13756397/Cumberland-City-Council-accused-introducing-Aboriginal-treaty-stealth.html
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People who self-identify as “Aboriginal” are on tract to own 80% of Australia thanks to the racist Native Title Act enacted by the Labor Government and associated fake history.
Aboriginals are Australian’s Third Nation People with the first inhabitants being the “Negritoes” and the Second being the “Murrayians” as confirmed in Manning Clark’s History of Australia.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/
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I was once banned on Farcebook for about a week for posting that link about the pygmy aborigines.
It really “triggers” the Leftist “fact checkers”. They go absolutely crazy.
That, despite the fact that there are people alive today that met them.
Examples of so-called “fact checks” and “debunking”.
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-in-one-voice-over-first-australians-claim/
https://indigenousx.com.au/debunking-aborigines-took-this-place-from-the-pygmies/
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/debunking-australian-pygmy-people-myth/
There were multiple human migrations just about everywhere, why should Australia be any different?
And much of such archeology is buried on the continental shelf, having been flooded after the glaciers melted about 10,000 years ago (due to real global warming, LoL).
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Aborigines never had a nation, they were about 500 different tribes and languages, and usually at war with each other. They were Stone Age hunter-gatherers with no nation state or writing system. There is no one with whom to make a treaty and there never was.
And contrary to the Official Narrative, there were multiple human migrations to Australia as demonstrated by the extinct pygmy Aborigines of northern Queensland, Mungo man and Kow Swamp man, all re-identified as modern Aborigines rather than by their true ancestory.
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A local shire has proposed “changes” to the current acknowledgment of country which has apparently polarised the residents into 2 camps, the pro and anti.
The new proposed “acknowledgment of Country”
“Mansfield Shire Council will acknowledge the Taungurung people as the traditional owners of the land upon which all Council events take place.
The acknowledgement recommended for Council events is:
‘Our [meeting/event/gathering] is being held on the traditional lands of the Taungurung people. We wish to acknowledge them as the traditional custodians and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We extend that respect to all members of our community.’
This acknowledgement is presented by the Mayor, Councillor, Chief Executive Officer or other Council officer presiding at the meeting or event.
Acknowledgement of Country should be meaningful, respectful, authentic and inclusive. At times, the representative of Council may determine it is not appropriate to acknowledge Country, such as at a meeting where another party has already acknowledged Country or at an internal meeting.
Acknowledgements of Country may also be made more specific. For example, for an event that is specific to storytelling, Reconciliation Australia encourages the speaker to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as storytellers. Changes to the acknowledgement can only be made with the approval of the CEO.”
Interesting changes and of course”semantics”
1/Traditional owners for a people that “traditionally” did not own anything, rather occupiers of territoty or land at a point in time
2/The dropping of “and emerging” elders with the inclusion of “everybody” in the community.
3/Acknowlegement of country should be meaningful, respectful, “AUTHENTIC” (my bold) and inclusive. Well isn’t it generally accepted that this acknowledgement is NOT authentic but made up by Ernie Dingo a few decades ago? If so, then this is certainly not meaningful, respectfull or inclusive!
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The concepts of ownership and custodianship simply do not apply to Aboriginal history any more than they apply to the regular drinkers at a rural hotel. Even the term occupier is problematic. These are terms which are borrowed from legal language and have been distorted in the process.
The term sacred is another used frequently but it doesn’t mean what the people using it seem to think it means.
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I’ve always found the whole ‘pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and emerging’ perhaps the most egregious aspect of welcome to country.
For me, the only people I considered a need to pay my respects to were my parents.
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Country school, Monday morning assembly, 75 years ago.
Australian flag raised, pledge of allegiance “I love God and MY country, I promise to obey my PARENTS, TEACHERS AND THE LAW.
Pretty simple really, oh and always backed up with the threat of a bit of corpral punishment.
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“Elders” are notorious peadophiles!
One important way in which marriages were arranged was infant betrothal. Usually this was between a young girl and an older man. A man’s first marriage would not necessarily fall into this category: his first wife might well be an older widow. A girl could be betrothed either as a potential mother-in-law or as a wife
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“Pay respect.” I don’t give respect willy nilly especially to some nebulous “elders”, it has to be earned. One of the few aboriginals I respect and who, in my opinion has earned it is Jacinta Price.
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“…..and pay our respects to their Elders past and present”
I realize this is all recently made up BS, but this is a healthier version than “past , present and emerging” version.
Emerging?! seriously? what I am supposed to tug the forelock with someone who hasn’t actually done anything yet? In our house you get respected, because you are respectable. Come back when you have grown up. End of story.
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What will government do if 80% of Australians claimed to be Aboriginal?? 😂😂😂
Besides government running in square circles trying to prove or refute the claims the Aboriginal Industry would be close to suicide as all their dreams of the “takeover “ or whatever their end game is, evaporate!
Do you think we ( all Australian citizens ) should give it a go. Be a good laugh if nothing else.
I believe it’ll put their activities back at least a century!
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That its a working proposition, Graham.
I do not care if red mob, illeterate ex-students with PhD in art, whoever.., considers me a second-rate Australian. My homeland treats most of its population seriously worse than that.
But I do not accept that for my Australian grandchildren.
So let us convince parents of Aussie-born children to tick every official paper “indigenous”. Will not work at once, may take a generation or more.
Here, on this website must be some people with good experience in managing big crowds…
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Graham Richards, #2.2.2,
_______My replies (and comments) have gone glitchy of late.
Case in point: my reply here, to Tonyb at #2, splashing down randomly with #3.7 notation.
Graham,
______If an anatomically correct human without chestfeeding apparatus can extort medals from swimming champions of the one other gender, among many, so we are s’posed to believe – you can present to the world however you choose. You may yell, stamp your feet and cry torrential tears to enforce your choice(s) with the closed minds around you, as required.
______Me? I was born here, so …
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The indigenous bureaucratic swamp will seize control of the gateways to identifying as indigenous long before that can happen. The gravy train shall not be diluted. $40+ billion a year only goes so far you know.
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>if 80% of Australians claimed to be Aboriginal
Who’s to say otherwise? If you identify as Aboriginal then you’re Aboriginal, simple as that!
Or are you trying to imply there could be a DNA test to help us discriminate?
To even suggest that is a microaggression!
Everybody knows race is just a social construct!
/s
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What would such proof do to the aborigines “custodian” and first race claims, but destroy them. Can’t have that now can we.
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There has been constant contact on our northen with f ishermen from northen nations for a very long time.
It’s a bit of a mystery as to why they didn’t penetrate further into the land.
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mmmm cause northern Australia is so hospitable and easy to settle.
the pleasant climate, the fertile plains and easy access to fresh water
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Ah yes, NZ two or three decades ago, you are all going down the same path. Expect the natives to seize the health system and the beaches next.. oh wait..
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A few weeks ago following the attempted assassination, it looked like Trump would coast to victory in the coming election
However the Democrats obviously realised the way the wind was blowing and jettisoned lame duck Biden for Harris, who had not won a primary in 2020 but is now being promoted as the best thing ever
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/harris-has-problems-with-her-fringes-at-chicago-coronation/
She ticks a lot of boxes for many voters, including relative youth, gender, ethnicity and the major fact that she isn’t called Trump
I suspect the election is getting away from Trump and it doesn’t help that by constantly attacking her he is playing into her Hands as the anti Trump.
So he needs to calm down, come up with some policies and hope Harris is still as bad as she was in 2020.
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If I was running the dems my guess is that I might try to create a similar illusion. For example, the lunatic cackle is now portrayed as joyous. Whether that kind of spin turns out to be a masterstroke or a fraud too far remains to be seen.
The reality is that to win the dems need to get polling within the margin of fraud and then manufacture enough ballots to complete the steal. I say ballots as distinct from actual votes.
The polls are always unreliable and easily manipulated. Rasmussen people for example say they are not seeing the shift other pollsters are seeing.
And make no mistake, the dems are dirty, cunning cheats. They planned all of this when they carried out the coup against Biden, having of course installed him as White House Resident in the first place.
My advice to Trump, not that it matters, is not to be spooked but rather to trust his instincts.
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Following up on my comment about polling, realclearpolitics.com has an interesting “on this day” section which currently shows Trump in a much better position in the swing states compared to either 2020 or 2016.
And remember that the dems had to steal several swing states to get Biden installed. In my assessment the dems are currently outside the margin of fraud in the swing states. They will need a much more extensive and better disguised ballot manufacture process than the one they used in 2016 when they sent the counters home and inserted just the right number of manufactured ballots overnight.
And Georgia has just passed some anti-fraud measures which will require the dems to change their cheating strategy.
Early days!
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I would like to know what measures, if any, the Republicans have in place to monitor fraud in this election.
I realise that will be difficult because US election fraud is facilitated by the election laws the Demon-rats themselves installed such as lack of voter ID, ballot harvesting etc..
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Herein lies the problem
https://cha.house.gov/the-elections-clause
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Biden is now politically a “Dead Man Walking”
Expect Biden to be replaced by Harris well before the November election as the POTUS so that Harris has incumbency which is one of the main indicators of who wins elections in the USA.
The Democrats still have plenty left in their bag of dirty tricks and their Deep State supporters have $ billions to lose if Trump is allowed to win in November (and then take over in January 2025).
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It is worth noting that Kennedy reportedly met with Trump in mid-July to discuss a possible endorsement in exchange for a position advising the Republican nominee on health policy. The meeting did not result in an endorsement, though Trump campaign advisers told The Washington Post they are still in touch with Kennedy and his campaign.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-mulling-joining-forces-trump-because-we-run-risk-enabling-harriswalz-presidency
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Trump said he’d “certainly” be open to partnering up with RFK. Said he’d be “honoured by that endorsement”.
He said it in an interview with CNN after his Michigan stop.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/20/politics/trump-consider-appointing-rfk-jr-administration-role/index.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzimbplDUq4&t=192s
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Biden’s Presidential Pardon list will make interesting reading.
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Yes, Pres Harris versus Pres Trump is good PR for the Dems. Biden just has to say he is not up to it and quit.
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Trump became POTUS by being Trump.
Authenticity is his superpower.
In terms of calmness, please see video of his behavior under literal gunfire.
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Just look at the sources of the noise about “those latest poll results”
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>youth, gender, ethnicity
What? Really? If they are seriously deemed to be reasons to vote for someone to lead the country then we’re well and truly stuffed. It’s not a goddamn fashion contest!
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Yes, Harris is the classic DEI appointment, and just as incompetent.
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Oh yes it is for many people in 2024
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Tony,
____Our state guvvermint, with the house to itself, is pulling a similar move – isolating improper skin tones from Lake Eyre.
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Access to enormous parts of Australia, including classic tourist attractions like Mt Warning, Ayers Rock, Mt Arapiles, Camooweal Billabong Camping Site, Bear Gully Campground and many other areas is race-based in accordance with the Australian Apartheid system.
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I wonder if this means the land speed racers at Lake Gairdner will eventually bite the dust , or bite the salt maybe
https://www.dlra.org.au/
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Not if they pay enough…
I hear the new gold mine they were about to open at Blaney has been blocked by some suddenly discovered Abo sacred waters running through it. Just another extortion to pay to get it going, no different to the Govt extortion to get anything built…
If you want to see what’s bound to come up, look up the silk underwear debacle in NZ from when the first fake Maoris got into power and suddenly had some money to splash. Tuku Morgan encapsulated everything people find so typical of third-worlders thinking they’ve made it in the white man’s world. Now that the Maori corporations are worth billions of dollars, it would be interesting to see how much wealth that is per Maori, and watch the Abos climb the same ladder.
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TonyB,
Every rally, interview, announcement Trump participates in, he has a go at Kackles Kamala!
Even I couldn’t resist having a go considering the cackling, drivel & Trump hatred/fear she exudes. Pity she won’t take questions or least make some sort of exciting, if not earth shattering, revelation in a policy agenda.
Trump on the other hand always has policy focused discussion, & vision statements to make.
He leaves you in no doubt about his envisioned program. Even if he just re-ran his previous 4 year term he’d be way ahead of what old Kackles could even dream about!
She’d just be another puppet in the Dem’s real controllers!
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Kamunism
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Tim Walz tells the DNC youth caucus that if their parents make less than $80k annually in Minnesota, they can go to college for free and “burn a blunt” on the weekend.
From the Comments
– Here’s a pop quiz for everyone;
If Kamala and Walz both start the day “burning a blunt”, would anyone be able to tell the difference if they hadn’t?
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Feel the Joy!
Have you heard? Kamala Harris’s entire campaign is based on . . . joy! You can just feel the joy, can’t you? Almost as much as Joe Biden:
Summed up by this Image
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Sorry Summed up by this Image
Scroll down to bottom of post to see image.
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Joy? Smells like Hopium to me.
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anything to distract from the lack of content
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Some on this blog believe there is more to Trumps shooting than meets the eye. Various organisations in the US have their suspicions also
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13759927/Ron-Johnson-FBI-botched-investigation-Donald-Trump-assassination-attempt.html
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At best this was a colossal stuff up. And incompetents investigating their own incompetency are unlikely to investigate competently, especially when they have a vested interest in not investigating competently. CYA is rule #1
At worst this is a repeat of 22 Nov 1963 and we will likely not ever know objectively what happened.
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I’m not so sure it was a stuff up, I think it was going along nicely until that nitpicking local cop stuck his head above the roof and disturbed the FBI’s main man, thus bringing forward the patsy’s end of useful use-by period.
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The Butler County cop seems to have been left out of the briefing. He turns up in his car and likley sees Crooks crossing the connecting passageway to his shooting position so he gets a leg up from his mate and actually sees Crooks crawling up the roof.
Crooks is under increased pressure to shoot. So yes I agree.
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We won’t know if there’ll be a real thorough investigation until after Jan 20th 2025.
They will get to the bottom of it even though the shooter had his brains scattered far & wide.
God help the Dems & FBI .
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The starting point is that the assassination attempt was an inside job by the FBI and Secret Service. Now come up with evidence that this was not the case.
There has been little such evidence to date.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13759927/Ron-Johnson-FBI-botched-investigation-Donald-Trump-assassination-attempt.html
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The Deep State agencies are now so powerful that they can act with impunity. They think they are above the law because they are ‘above the law’.
Theoretically they are answerable to Congress and the Senate, but lets see if Senator Johnson’s committee will actually enforce that and demand answers and jail FBI directors for non compliance like they did to Dr Peter Navarro.
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OR… Or Trump was not shot. There is a whole group of conspiracy theories about Trump organising the whole thing with fake blood and a magically healing ear. The deaths were needed to make it look authentic.
You know it’s true.
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There Ya Go GA!
Here is the fake blood and actors conspiracy you were looking for?
Lucky you can confirm the footage with your fellow travelers as the ABC paid one of the photographers, JaydenX
Talk about stepping right in it GA!
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What did I step in? Do you know who I am parodying?
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>there is more to Trumps shooting than meets the eye
What I would like to know is how they achieve the phenomenal level of medical care that Trumpy is obviously receiving.
I grazed my elbow on the same day as the assassination attempt.
My elbow is only just healed now and the new skin is clearly visible, but Trumps ear was fully healed two weeks after the wounding.
Somebody needs to start marketing that magic healing potion.
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somebody sort of hinted at that immediately above.
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really? I have zero doubt that Trumps level medical care is higher than anybody on this forum, and probably a high probability of make up being applied as needed to make him look presentable.
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CLAIM: A photo taken on Monday shows former President Donald Trump with no damage to his right ear, contrary to reports that it was injured in an attempted assassination on Saturday.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo was taken on Sept. 17, 2022, at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, for then-U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-shooting-ear-damage-photo-470220313611
Or he’s a fast healer…or he had minor plastic surgery…nothing to see…
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Some people heal more quickly than others. I usually heal very rapidly unless it’s somewhere that is vulnerable to repeated knocks.
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January 6th shooting. Same!
Unidentified body quickly disposed of.
How could the woman shot be an unidentified female when delivered to the Coroner?
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She had a bag, phone and was in the company of fellow protesters including Police SWAT etc
At least they did not charge the gunman. There is no way he was responsible. Must have been a sniper in a tree out the front of the Capitol building. You can see the flash at the muzzle of the gun. This shot did not hit whoever it was in the left anterior shoulder when the person was climbing through the top panel of a petition. Nor did it hit her in the neck as one of the ‘Actors’ claimed.
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Video:
Excellent commentary by Jeff Taylor about what’s happening in Once Great Britain:
https://www.youtube.com/live/-NIHxJTx2F0?
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Unfortunately Enoch-Powell has been proven to be correct.
In 1968, while serving as Shadow Defence Secretary, Powell attracted attention nationwide for his “Rivers of Blood” speech, in which he criticised immigration to the UK, especially rapid immigration from the New Commonwealth, and opposed the anti-discrimination Race Relations Bill (which ultimately became law). The speech was criticised by some of Powell’s own Tory party members and The Times. Heath, who was then the leader of the Conservative Party and the leader of the Opposition, dismissed Powell from the Shadow Cabinet the day after the speech.
Well worth reading with the hindsight of history
https://anth1001.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/enoch-powell_speech.pdf
“For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is
the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant
communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their
fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant
and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman,
I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” “
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Or this:
Violent criminal saved from deportation pushes man onto train track.
https://youtu.be/0c2G61sbhTw?si=ZjgBKQJF0ri9YPBv
If it was the pollies being attacked, there’d be instant action…
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>If it was the pollies being attacked, there’d be instant action…
Sure would! There’d be street parties and nationwide celebrations!
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IIRC – as Len Dighton observed in “Fighter” on the passing of
“The bomber will always get through”
“Politicians came to realise that bombing would kill voters. Accurate bombing might actually kill politicians”
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sure , if a politician (especially of the ruling party) or a judge , or a major business figure is affected by some violent miscreant then things change. Until then , its just the little people who are affected , so who really cares? unless it affects the voting status quo (in places that matters) The swath of violent murders and mayhem around people let out on revolving door bail in VIC is an example. It all cost multiple young women their lives and their families years of anguish. Yesterday’s news now, and those that perpetrated it will waddle off and collect their State Pensions , no worries.
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You don’t need to look too deeply into developments in Australia to see the exact patterns emerging. We are deeply in need of either a Nigel or a Donald.
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It is hard to image a worse act for any Australian to perform.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13761965/Inside-Australian-cycling-furore-following-Matthew-Richardsons-betrayal-Stars-feel-ripped-teammate-walked-Great-Britain-says-legend.html
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Well he isn’t really is he? we happily accept those who go the other way, so we probably need to get over it. Swings and roundabouts. If I was him I would follow the money and the career prospects. The window for sports people is brief.
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Here is an interesting US article about the history of ham (amateur) radio culture.
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The Patron saint of Amateur radio operators
During the German occupation of Poland, the priest Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, SP3RN was arrested by the Germans. The Germans believed his amateur radio activities were somehow involved in espionage and he was transferred to Auschwitz on May 28, 1941. After some prisoners escaped in 1941, the Germans ordered that 10 prisoners be killed in retribution. Fr. Kolbe was martyred when he volunteered to take the place of one of the condemned men. On October 10, 1982 he was canonized by Pope John Paul II as Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Apostle of Consecration to Mary and declared a Martyr of charity.
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Very interesting read, thanks.
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I hope this is kept alive. I fear there may be coming a time when it is desperately needed. I hope I am really really wrong.
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R. V. Jones in “Most secret war” pays tribute to the value of British radio amateurs in WW2 as people that they could put into the early radar efforts and later as a skill base for training.
Whereas Hitler had banned them.
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Mr Bowen please note: Trump will not be relying on wind and solar power.
-Trump plans to achieve this by canceling electric car mandates and reversing green energy policies.
-Trump’s energy plan focuses on boosting U.S. oil and gas production, while criticizing wind and solar power.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-vows-slash-energy-costs-half-if-elected
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Explore electric vehicles in St. Ives
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Hit the highway back from the snow towards Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. About 8.00pm, dark, fog patches and a long long line of cars doing 65 -70 K’s on a 100k limit road. When finally reaching the “head of the cue” the cause for the hold up, a brand new electric vehicle just limping along. Consensus was the occupants had been up the snow all weekend, battery depleted and next charge station was still 80 k’s away. Don’t worry about being a hazard on the road, don’t worry about all the tired drivers wiling to take risks to get passed and home, just chug along with all the superiority mustered to drive the “vehicle of the future”
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Where is your compassion Sambar?
Think of the poor souls in the EV, wearing full snow gear because they can’t use the cabin heater and desperately anxious that they won’t make it to the charge station. If they actually got there, then they likely had to wait 2 hours in the queue to start charging and another 45 minutes to actually charge and then maybe another stop on the way home.
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Think of the poor souls in the EV, who had made their choice …
Auto
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StIves hey?
Certainly not working class.
They are either conservative middle class, or wealthy Leftist virtue Signalers.
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I don’t think it’ll be necessary to book. Do let us know about the numbers you expect and definitely let us know the actual verifiable number of attendees after the fact!
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As an added bonus, you will also get to experience the charging stations and time spent there.
Crying booths will be available too.
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“Our EV Drive Days are free …”
No, they’re not. As usual, SOMEBODY (i.e. taxpayers, most of whom do not own an EV) are paying for them.
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For those who don’t know St Ives is one of the wealthier areas of Sydney. Where better to promote EV’s?
When I left Sydney decades ago it was often called S’niiiiives. A bit like Jag’s are called Jaaaaaaaaaaag’s , Jeremy Clarkson style
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So, is monkeypox the plandemic the Demon-rats have been wanting to facilitate US election fraud due to lockdowns and mail-in votes?
Or will it be a yet-to-be-released US election variant of covid?
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From the little I know about monkeypox the mode of transmission is direct physical contact. My money would be on a new election variant of covid.
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As I’ve said, it’s a non-event.
The skin ailments are similar to those produced by immune dysfunction so they’ll blame Mpox instead of Covid and Fakevax ™.
They need something new and much scarier now.
Covid, vaxxes, Mpox and bird flu are fizzers.
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I saw a photo of a supposed monkeypox rash juxtaposed against the identical photo on a Qld health site, supposedly of shingles?! Interesting, eh? I took a screenshot, so I’d better find it wherever it’s sunk to in my snippets of info.
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FWIW
“Interesting behind-the-scenes look at the death of a terrorist”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/08/interesting-behind-scenes-look-at-death.html
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A great way to make war- You target those at the top of the command structure, the politicians, the military leaders, the military industrialists, and soon no-one wants to step up. Its a shame we always end up with the cannon-fodder being sent to their deaths while our leaders are living it up at home!
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FWIW
“Great new ad for the US nuclear energy industry”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1825835815139946598
Via
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/great-new-ad-for-the-us-nuclear-energy-industry.html
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And “Nuclear for Australia” banned on Farcebook
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Commonsense frightens them (FB), poor dears.
I get the emails with info. from NfA.
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Makes sense because censorship and prohibition have always worked so well. I mean, you only have to look at drugs, alcohol and porn. So much winning. Still it’s their platform, so they can do what they like and we can participate or not as we like. A Facebook ban has zero or less impact on me. After decades in IT I can’t stomach much of what people call social media.
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Trump proposed offering Elon Musk a cabinet position if he wins the election (i.e. Demon-rat election fraud fails).
Musk, an African-American, said he is willing to serve.
Musk has previously proposed a Government Efficiency Commission which is an excellent idea.
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Create ANOTHER government agency to look into government inefficiencies?
I think not. Just go full-Milei instead.
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A British Prime Minister once proposed something similar, called the ‘Citizens Charter’. He wanted the charter to compel public agencies and services to provide value for money but also levels of customer services similar to that expected from the private sector, i.e. ‘the customer is always right’, etc.
Needless to say, the pushback from public servants was such that, as far as I can recall, it went nowhere and he didn’t last long.
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>the private sector, i.e. ‘the customer is always right’
The banks need to be informed about this!
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If he takes the Twitter approach and shows 80% the door its probably a step in and good direction. I suspect that the public service is even less productive than Twitter so 80% is probably a good minimum baseline. Something similar in Australia’s three layers of government and academia would also be healthy. As HR used to tell me. some level of turnover is good.
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FWIW
“BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Running Mate Says They Are Considering Dropping Out and Endorsing Donald Trump — DNC PLANTED INSIDERS IN THEIR CAMPAIGN! And There’s More… (VIDEO)”
“Nicole Shanahan also told Impact Theory, “We were sabotaged!” during her conversation that was posted on Tuesday morning.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-robert-f-kennedy-running-mate-says-they/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzimbplDUq4&t=192s
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A polite “ thanks, but no thanks” will suffice. Never trust a Democrat!
God knows what the Dems may have offered him to get in on the Trump campaign details.
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Though I admire the work he did on Covid, Fauci and the vaccines, Kennedy is otherwise your common-or-garden, self-serving politician, with deep-rooted leftist beliefs. As such, I don’t trust him, and his attempts to bargain with BOTH Harris and Trump in return for a government role (he didn’t seem to care which) looks highly unprincipled.
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Typhoon v. Tycoon? Or –
There’s only room for 1 Bill Gates in this asylum.
Two days before a ‘freak waterspout’ sunk a mega-yacht off Sicily, drowning a Morgan Stanley banker, a Clifford Chance lawyer, the yacht owner’s husband (acquitted millionaire algorithm entrepreneur Mike Lynch) as well as other guests and crew, Stephen Chamberlain (ex-VP of Autonomy and co-defendant of Lynch’s) was struck & killed by a car driver while he was out jogging in the UK. Chamberlain was also ex-CEO of Darktrace, a British cyber security company.
It’s not that I’m a Coincidence Theorist, but what are the odds? I’m sure ‘carbon’ played a part in ALL these mysterious deaths, but as for ‘climate change’, hmm, that’d be a leg pulled too far.
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Reminds me of the “Man over board” death of Robert Maxwell
One scenario has MOSSAD dealing with Maxwell once he had become a liablity for Israel
ROBERT MAXWELL, ISRAEL’S SUPERSPY: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
Martin Dillon, Gordon Thomas, . . Carroll & Graf
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In the mid-70s we had a tornado cross near us in Cyprus. It followed a narrow pathway across the beach where our sailing club was situated and did quite a lot of damage. The boats were tied down but the tornado was nasty.
What I’m saying is that such things happen in the Med. from time to time and are nothing to do with ‘Carbon’, as ‘they’ call it. They happen in Britain occasionally too.
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They happen here too, both waterspouts and tornadoes, although on a miniature scale. But as for two multi-millionaire buddies who got off their alleged charges – in the USA – suddenly getting disappeared within 3 days of each other?
The ‘carbon’ jibe was just a red herring.
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FWIW – check “Elbow’s” recipe book
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/34075
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FWIW
“It was Ofcom, not Mark Steyn, that misled and harmed the public”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ofcoms-flawed-ruling-against-mark-steyn/
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Cloud and AI data centres use an enormous amount of power.
They need it to be reliable and inexpensive so obviously wind, solar and Big Battery plantations are out of the question.
A lot of data centres are using hydro, geothermal or nuclear power sources, or when using coal and gas they buy fake “greenhouse credits” to appease the wokesters.
The best way to supply power to the data centres is nuclear.
Even that most woke of corporations, Amazon, just purchased a nuclear powered data centre that uses a staggering 960MW of power. Yes, nine hundred and sixty megawatts, not a typo.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
Nuclear is the way to go for data centres, at least a semi politically acceptable solution for those opposed to gas and coal.
Australia will be out of the data centre market without nuclear.
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And then there is bitcoin mining.
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I ran out of my free allocation on ChatGPT yesterday. I subsequently learnt I could invest USD20/mth to keep using it.
I will pass for now.
Clearly free energy from the wind and sun is not free.
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In the early 2000’s my last employer looked at green-ifying it’s two data centres in Europe. One of the biggest gains came from directly taking in cold air over the winter window and winding up the computer room target temp by 5 degrees . I wasn’t party to any silly accounting games ACT style, but if they were available they would have been pounced on , such was the fervor of the period.
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“Australia will be out of the data centre market without nuclear.”
That’s why we’re going to be a world leader in AI by doing it from California!
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UK: Former Police Officer Exposes Two-Tier Policing (video)
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Bumped from yesterday
FWIW
“Explaining The Russia-Ukraine Thing”
https://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/cms/index.php/648-explaining-the-russia-ukraine-thing
With additional reading and more to come –
“Time Line Of The Ukraine & Russia”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/time-line-of-the-ukraine-russia/
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Second part now added to the “Time line”
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“After the USSR collapsed (Ukraine) became independent, and the poorest country in Europe, looted and raped by its occupiers.”
Bit harsh on America and the Biden family.. Accurate though.
“The USSR, though, and now Russia has the greatest propaganda organ the world has ever seen.” haha… Pot, kettle, black!
“Now stop being their propaganda bitch.” This ad was bought to you by your friendly CIA..
Sadly for Mr Williams those 3-world thugs swinging sh1t-tier garbage shovels are winning, moving forward against everything NATO put in the field.
The history of Ukraine and Russia (and Poland) in the second part is much more interesting.
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The Gateway Pundit
from Wikipaedia
Jim Hoft – Publisher of the Gateway Pundit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit
Being an avid reader of The Gateway Pundit,I prefer the Jim Hoft version.
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I’m in.
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Their “conspiracies” seem to be on a much shorter “conspiracy to YSM headline” cycle these days.
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Redacted: Time’s Up! Putin is Prepping something big with Ukraine – Scott Ritter first up – disturbing news from the eastern front.
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Patrick Lancaster: Top Russian General Warns Of Nuclear World War & It Needs To Be Stopped (video)
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Peter
FWIW
On the “pedigree” of a former Wikipedia “climate control editor” –
“Pointman’s: The scorning of William Connolley”
“https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/30/pointmans-the-scorning-of-william-connolley/”
For more it links to
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/the-scorning-of-william-connolley/
Where, to somewhat misquote Kipling, “he tells how the work was done”
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Thanks Ian,
Yes I miss Pointman.
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Met Office Records Hottest Day of the Year at a Weather Station Next to a Massive Heat-Generating Electricity Sub-Station
Earlier this month the Met Office declared the hottest day of the year so far in the U.K. with the temperature reaching 34.8ºC in Cambridge. The Met Office claimed it was only the eleventh time since 1961 that the temperature had reached that level, with six of these occasions having been recorded in the last 10 years. Needless to say, missing from the account was a note that the station in Cambridge’s National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB) is located just metres from a massive heat-generating electricity sub-station complex.
Electricity sub-stations give off so much heat into the surrounding atmosphere there are even plans to trap it for commercial use. The Cambridge station at Histon has recently benefitted from a £5 million upgrade including the installation of a third heat-pumping transformer. It is difficult to think of a worse place to locate an instrument to accurately measure nearby uncorrupted air temperatures, other than favoured Met sites at international airports and solar farms.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/20/met-office-records-hottest-day-of-the-year-at-a-weather-station-next-to-a-massive-heat-generating-electricity-sub-station/
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At least it wasn’t a “highest ever” reading taken when an ice cream van was parked next to a measurement site in a Scotland. They had to quickly remove those press releases.
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The car that runs on anything, even perfume
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_siiv54oA1D1z23obp.mp4
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Cars will run on lots of things, the real question is for how long?
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Wednesday ejukayshun: how big are black holes?
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sigy258EI21z23obp.mp4
That’s the biggest hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar & Lyman-alpha blob I’ve seen!
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In Australia in 2019, a Big Mac cost $5.65 – now it costs $7.90. That is an inflation rate of 7% per annum
In 2019 a humble cheese burger cost $3.15 – now it costs $4.95. That is an inflation rate of a whopper 9.4% per annum
Albo and his public serpents are lying about the real inflation rate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13759827/McDonalds-price-increase-inflation-cost-living.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/
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I know I am a Lousy Singer – it took the Primary school Choir Master 2 years to find me as I always mimed when he came near (you got out of a class to go to Choir Practice)
But Boy – Every four years, Democrats pretend to be patriotic. But they don’t really have the hang of it.
Check out their rendition of the National Anthem. That they can’t sing is the least of it:
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“Bird flu has nothing to do with health. It’s a tool of the central bankers…when you’re printing monetary inflation you need a way to create deflation on demand.”
..this is a circle jerk of federal government that issues directives to itself that are only “law” to itself. In this case the federal government decided that it needs to hunt and imprison anyone with signs of seasonal cold or flu, or anyone they think MIGHT one day have signs of seasonal cold or flu. That’s called “qualifying stages of Disease X”. Whatever disease they want to claim. By these EOs the executive branch has authorized anyone to be put in military detention on their say-so. There is no need for actual illness to be demonstrated at all. Nice that they carved out influenza separately. No test has ever been clinically validated to differentiate influenza from covid.
Note that Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the renaming of the biological weapons program into “infectious disease research”, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program. Meaning, the biological weapons programs continued at Ft. Detrick and in many academic and private labs around the U.S. and world-wide, but now at much greater scale, scope and funding. Despite all this investment, they still can’t make viruses that spread by themselves, so they need to fake pandemics by declaring them, producing fraudulent computer models, m%rdering some people, etc. Critically, they need to claim they have a PCR “sample” of a totally scary pandemic potential “novel virus”.
The quarantine orders are basically an arrest without due process based on an imaginary cause. In several countries, including Canada, EU, Australia and New Zealand, military and police enforced quarantine was already used in 2020. The Blob is planning the next phase of global terrorism. Under a fake/PHEIC public health emergency declaration – they can round up people into indefinite detention, like they did with the cruise passengers, or shut down any city/town/community this way.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/grand-princess-quarantine-orders-6d4
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A suggestion for the upgrading of Oz education –
After another round on an appliance warranty where the concept that we are about 5 hours from the store of purchase seems beyond comprehension –
How about reintroducing geography and emphasising the bloody size of the place?
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The curse of living at Dingo P1ss Creek eh..
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I was filling out an online claim form for for car insurance recently. I asked me to put the address of the car’s location to locate a repairer. I did that and it responded “no repairer found, please enter another address” no clue about which direction to go or the nearest repairer found. A genius use of computing power.
I thought it was funny at the time , but so commenced months of claim hell.
APIA is anyone is interested. I would not recommend and would advise to run if you have them now.
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Chinese washing their cars at the beach in seawater
https://youtu.be/XiL1c3-UA9M?si=D_aalVCXxbAfHAT1
Can a country take a Darwin award?
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Auroras should not be orange but they are.
What’s so mysterious? There’s no element in Earth’s atmosphere capable of making bright orange. It’s simple chemistry. Every aurora color has a matching atom or molecule. For instance, oxygen atoms produce red and green. Nitrogen molecules give us purple and, sometimes, pink. Theoretically, N2, N2+, and O2+ can produce emissions at orange wavelengths. However, these emissions are very weak compared to other colors produced by the same molecules. Auroras should not be orange.
https://spaceweather.com/
Interesting!!
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US election aggregate polls. There is now clear air between the confidence limits for Harris vs Trump with swing states giving her the win.
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He told the Geraldton District Court he would reoffend if he was released.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-20/geraldton-wa-homeless-man-asks-for-two-years-jail/104242950
Perhaps not only in Australia?
Or are the detention facilities in other countries more basic?
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John Steinbeck in one of the “Cannery Row” stories mentioned o bloke whose wife worked out that he liked the facilities at the new jail – bed, three square and “the sheriff was a bush over at euchre”
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Oops – “push over”.
Time this keyboard got serviced or replaced. Another one of the distractions of living “beyond Dingo P. Creek that fencing wire won’t fix.
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Kamala caught faking campaign event! (video)
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Feels like Spring has sprung here in Brizzie today. I have the door to my office open so I can listen to the joyous Currawong Chorus. Lovely!
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FYI
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicO1vxkBhyphenhyphend-8NDH92mkQ2WA89OYo9IDswrHaum5a1MrEmXIFnMOe797CUCF5iCNgmEw0kK2khpVbFYaPz9pZkEcdCvjsL2trDSpfoGTHuToGxWl5-HMHK2ZsD6wIULqQQJP8JCDrjNgBdQ4JXbIyio8xnV0Aq_meWS2N_s_2m_chmJ4sSIvexWJuSPOs/w400-h299/Opinions.png
Hmmm!
Who’s on the other end of “Elbow’s” voice pipe?
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Borrowed –
For something different – The response to
“Have a nice day”
“No thanks. I have other plans”
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Gibb River Road – Kimberley Region – Western Australia (video)
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