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“Use of fake cases by U.K. lawyer qualifies as professional misconduct”
https://www.law360.ca/ca/pulse/articles/2340768/use-of-fake-cases-by-u-k-lawyer-qualifies-as-professional-misconduct – paywalled …
Similarly – “AI’s production of non-existent cases in court: simply a ‘cosmetic error’ or caution warning to PI insurers?”
https://kennedyslaw.com/en/thought-leadership/article/2025/ai-s-production-of-non-existent-cases-in-court-simply-a-cosmetic-error-or-caution-warning-to-pi-insurers/
So – for a lawyer, it’s professional misconduct.
For a meteorologist – well, I think if it’s sauce for the goose, it’s sauce for the gander. ‘Professional misconduct’.
Fr4ud – well, I gather [I’m not a lawyer] that Fr4aud needs more then ‘just’ misconduct. But if there was a professional body worth its salt for meteorologists, half the Met.Office may well be watching their backs.
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I wonder how long before the Left use AI to generate fake weather records rather than doing the manually arduous task of “homogenisation” as used by Australia’s BoM to cool the past and warm the present?
https://joannenova.com.au/tag/homogenization-temperature-data/
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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com
… I get the impression from commenters who have looked carefully into our [UK] Met Office’s use of ‘phantom’ and ‘discontinued’ observing sites, that that is already well in hand, thank-you.
As well as all the [disappointing, shall we say] use of sites that are barely fit for ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ as ‘serious’ Met. and climatological [never mind “record-breaking”] sites.
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Senior UPenn Administrator Calls for Citizens To Form Militia if Trump Defies Court Ruling
Michael Mann was named the Ivy League school’s inaugural vice provost for climate science last year
https://freebeacon.com/campus/senior-upenn-administrator-calls-for-citizens-to-form-militia-if-trump-defies-court-ruling/
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From the article:
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The web server is currently down or under attack but you might want to check this out later.
Thanks, Leftoids!
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Apart from Queensland and the Northern Territory, Labor is in power in all states and federally with no effective opposition. The fake conservative Liberal “opposition” are wiped put just about everywhere.
Australia is now essentially a one party state and Labor can and are operating without restraint.
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Did high immigration help Albanese to win the election?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14733715/Leith-van-Onselen-immigration-Labor.html
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If there was an effective opposition party in Australia, something would be done about this:
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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar c. 1904
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One of my favourite Aussie poems is hanrahan says, of which this is an extract on flooding
“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan, and cleared his throat to speak –
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “if rain don’t come this week.”
A heavy silence seemed to steal on all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel, & chewed a piece of bark.
“We want an inch of rain, we do,” O’Neil observed at last;
But Croke “maintained” we wanted two, to put the danger past.
“If we don’t get three inches, man, or four to break this drought,
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “before the year is out.”
In God’s good time down came the rain; and all the afternoon,
On iron roof & windowpane, it drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still, & lightsome, gladsome elves,
On dripping spout & windowsill, kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long, a-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song, way out to Back-o’-Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran, and dams filled overtop;
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “If this rain doesn’t stop.”
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In case you didn’t know Tim Wilson (Lib) eventually won the seat of Goldstein (VIC) with a margin of only 444 votes against Zoe Daniel of the Simon Holmes à Court funded Teal Party non-party via Climate 200. There was a swing towards Wilson of 3.9% based on first preferences. It took a while to decide because it was so close plus there were postal votes to count.
https://www.liberal.org.au/2024/09/28/teals-caught-out-lobbying-the-media-for-their-big-money-donors
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-31496-214.htm
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/unreal-harmeet-dhillon-tells-tucker-carlson-that-doj/
Try to set aside time to watch some of the video, especially from 6 mins onwards.
Dhillon is another very impressive Trump appointee.
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There was a mass stabbing in Germany.
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