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“I found out today that somebody that I work with is a conservative… and it’s surprising.”
“But what’s most surprising to me is the level of sudden hatred that I have for… this man who I used to respect.”
“I f**king hate him now.”
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Ousted former UK PM Lizz Truss: “Unless we get a grip… the West will be finished in ten years.”
“Whether it’s excessive government spending… Net Zero ideology… things like DEI and ESG… all of these things have conspired to hollow out our countries.”
Video 1 minute 7 seconds
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Clip #1 is proof that AWFL’s are mindless drones who cannot parse the world through any lens other than their political religious cult. If you agree with them, you are a good person. If you disagree, you are the Devil.
Clip #2 is straight facts, but I can’t take it seriously because of the source. Any time I see Liz Truss or just read her name, my mind immediately goes to Lettucegate. She will forever be the woman who couldn’t hold on to her leadership position longer than the shelf life of a head of lettuce. Then whinged about it when some merry pranksters unfurled a banner during one of her media events with a head of lettuce saying ‘I crashed the economy’. I don’t care who you voted for … making fun of politicians to their faces is always funny.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/europe/liz-truss-lettuce-stream.html
https://images.hindustantimes.com/img/2024/08/14/1600×900/GU47dlqXsAATFNA_1723622155768_1723622174045.jpg
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She also alluded to immigration, which I consider the core issue; lack of control on immigration undermines the existing culture. It is a globalists push that is shifting cultural values way beyond those that enabled the west to prosper.
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‘And, due to this video, the conservative bloke I work with has just found out that I am an undereducated, indoctrinated, fragile, non-thinking, nasty leftist drone. Basically, I am a f*****g idiot.’
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Orsted Cancels Hornsea 4 Wind Farm – and Kills Miliband’s ‘Clean Power 2030’ Agenda Dead
“It is time for Miliband to declare that his Clean Power 2030 plan is dead.”
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It surely should be obvious by now that without continual govt subsidies, wind systems are not commercially viable.
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A massive 12 foot tall statue, a monument to woke, has just been erected in Times Square. It purportedly, “confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation”
From comments:
“There was such a need for a monument to ‘woke’, wasn’t there?
One can now go back to ignoring that city’s abject poverty, untreated mental health crisis and homelessness,
all coexisting with the shocking wealth of Wall Street parasites that produce very exactly nothing.
DEI virtue signalling is obviously the best response to such sociopathy:
>’I’m a good person because I’m in favour of a monument to some obese black woman, who’s apparently accomplished nothing!’
Support for it is how you determine who the ethical people are.”
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I wonder how much the monument cost?
I’m sure that the money could have been spent on better things like sanitation and keeping the rat population down.
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Hey, they are going to have rubbish bins soon, instead of just heaping bags on the footpath. Ahhh the aroma of NYC.
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Probably should have saved it for Thanksgiving. Would make a nice balloon floating above the Macy’s parade.
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Some people in Ireland seem to have no sense of humour, they want to stop a statue’s breasts being rubbed for luck.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14494089/Calls-elevate-statue-Irish-figure-Molly-Malone-stop-groping-breasts.html
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Meanwhile, in Victoriastan, the Government is proceeding with a bronze idol of Dan Andrews.
The Lefties sure love their idols.
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I expect that the real winners will be the local scrap yards and metal recyclers.
Very good money for bronze right now … based on my extremely legitimate cleanup efforts.
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The security around that statue alone will be and ongoing burden on the taxpayers. I mean people may attack it with battery angle grinders ($129 @ Bunnings)
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Jimmy Dore Show : Covid was made in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnq37QxHSDY&t=1659s
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Covid was made in CHY-NA, by American, Brit, and Chinese sociopaths, errr …. virologists (but I repeat myself).
Make Mad Scientists Fiction Again.
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Didn’t France assist in setting up the Wuhan lab?
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France built it
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But, IIRC, got kicked out of the consortium. Maybe they started to ask embarrassing questions?
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Dr John Campbell discusses low dose naltrexone as a possible cancer therapy.
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Exceptional discussion – thanks for the link DM.
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Food for thought
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-destroyer-wednesday-may-6-2025
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Tat is enough to curdle your breakfast cornflakes
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Looks like Iranian terror cells were planning an Israeli embassy atrocity in the UK.
https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-853077
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https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/07/bitchute-abandons-uk-as-2023-online-safety-act-bites/
UK now – Australia next
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Hopefully people will be able to bypass censorship by having a Starlink account set up in a foreign country so the local censors (e.g. UK, Australia) can’t shut your account down. And attempting to block satellite comms would likely be a violation of international law. And Elon Musk believes in free speech.
For example, you can see the documentary Tommy Robinson became a political prisoner for on X, and no one has ever refuted a word of what he said:
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1903893901729018057
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That won’t work I’m afraid, and it’s pricey anyway.
Everything can be traced – VPN’s, proxies, TOR, Bitcoin.
And then you have packet sniffing where data is read before being sent.
Starlink could easily detect the above and block such traffic if so ordered to. Being a satellite above Earth is irrelevant.
Plus the terrestrial websites of all forms can be blocked at DNS level so it’d be a case of dressed up, no place to go.
All that aside it doesn’t matter anyway as we’re in the home straight and govt censorship won’t change their inevitable and looming big bada boom.
They can’t stop it, they know it, but try anyway. History repeats.
And as it seems that very few have grasped the realities, they will be on the wrong side of future history.
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Very disappointing then.
But with Musk’s support of free speech, he may set up a dedicated team to produce a workaround for people living in censored countries. And TRUMP is against censorship as well and may favour censored nations like Australia less than free ones.
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Australian Government policy is to make Australia a “renewable energy superpower”, whatever that means.
At the same time the Government wants Australia to become an “AI superpower” (probably so there can be more monitoring, tracing, tracking, censoring and deplatforming of dissident opinions).
They can’t have both because AI and data centres require vast amounts of inexpensive, reliable electricity coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2).
Even fully woke companies like Amazon are building nuclear powered data centres, not ones powered by the wind or the sun. But Australia has rejected nuclear power. And coal. TRUMP also wants coal to power data centres, apart from nuclear.
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/developing-national-ai-capability-plan
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-2022/media-releases/budget-boosts-australias-transformation-renewables
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-order-looks-tap-coal-quest-power-data-centers-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-04-08/
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“Australian Government policy is to make Australia a “renewable energy superpower”, whatever that means.”
At the rate renewable energy seems to be in retreat elsewhere we’ve probably all ready achieved that or soon will
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Australia will be a renewable power as soon as we can get rid of the CC morons currently bankrupting our economy!
The greens are compost & that’s a good start on the path to renewing our sinking country!
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The real danger is the latest move from the wokesters & snowflakes in the LNP party room to break up the lib/National coalition. If this happens the ALP will be in power for the next 25 years or more!!
You have been warned!
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Calls for Liberal Party (fake conservative) to move even further to the Left.
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‘It tried to be politically correct, rather than correct politically, and paid the price.’
That just about nails it, the wets need to be marginalised.
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A large factor in the shift in Australia is that Labor no longer represent the workers. The reason being that they all now work in China. There are only a handful working in mines in Australia to supply China.
The vast majority of tradesmen working in Australia are doing stuff that is completely reliant on government largesse. Free enterprise no longer exists.
People on the Government payroll: including direct employees, academia, health workers, the press, most construction workers etc are voting Labor. They know where their money comes from. LNP now has farmers and miners. Labor has the rest.
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I am no expert but I thought that the first rule of advertising your product was to differentiate it from its main competitor.
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Just set fire to it, it is beyond redemption. Anyone with any integrity and a set of morals should leave the party and join someone who is a real supporter of freedom and private enterprise, aiming for small Govt and low taxes.
Anything else is already covered by Labor, there is no reason for the Liberals to exist.
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Some plucky Taswegians scored their First Turns Of The Season this morning on Mount Mawson as the snow absolutely snotted down in big fat fluffy flakes: -1*C at 7am.
https://www.mountainwatch.com/australia/mount-mawson/snow-cams
Has your climate caught a cold or has Albo & Co. felled runaway heating with one fatal blow – or is it simply the weather? Must be nippy in Melbournistan and along the south coast this moaning…
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The Southern Hemisphere will receive 1.1W/m^2 less solar EMR from April to June inclusive than it did last year. Advection is up by 0.73W/m^2. These changes will mean winter a little cooler than last year and more winter precipitation.
October through December inclusive SU gets 1.14W/m^2 than 2024 so it will warm up a bit faster once the sun moves back over the SH from September.
The changes in weather generally follow the orbital changes, which are more significant year-to-year than climate modellers would want you to know. It would put them out of job because they would have to admit CO2 does nothing and all the funding would dry up. Whoever is advising Trump on climate knows this.
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https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/616964-185-years-of-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky/
185 years of Tchaikovsky: Honoring the composer who gave the world its most iconic ballets
From Swan Lake to The Nutcracker, his music continues to captivate audiences across generations and continents
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Meh
Just another male, pale, and stale mediocrity who only succeeded because of white privilege.
😉
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I love Swan Lake but, like we all can not unlearn what have learnt already.
P. Tchaikovsky was one of the greatest musicians but like other very talented men regarded himself above the moral of ordinary folk.
Pity…
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A good dose of the 1812 cures most malaise
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I’m still ploughing through SBS’s Tchaikovsky’s Wife https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/tchaikovskys-wife/2420904003821 which I downloaded this week; she inherited a forest, those were different times eh.
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Its not generally known that temperatures at both poles have been cooling for the past two decades.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/05/07/antarctic-wilkes-land-queen-mary-region-sees-100-billion-tonne-ice-mass-increase/
On another note, NASA says that two-thirds of sea level rise over the past year can be attributed to thermal expansion.
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Ice mass study “authored by Wei Wang”.
Apparently that’s not a nickname from spending time in an antarctic environment.
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But, IIRC, they didn’t ask NOAA
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/05/sea-level-nasa-versus-noaa/
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Do you know about Australian Government “Green Treasury Bonds”?
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DM, thanks – the uK has these things, too.
https://www.nsandi.com/products/green-savings-bonds
Started by a ‘Tory’ – a CINO – Conservative in Name Only.
2.95% Gross, fixed. And taxable, too, ffs.
Auto
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Truth be told Topher is boring, even sped up.
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FWIW – USA but keep in mind
“Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe
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Maybe they should apply it to their voting system!
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Thursday entertainment: 98yo man (with TDS) drives Sherman tank over Tesla
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1920185775389356293
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TEDS (Trump and Elon Derangement Syndrome) afflicts all age groups.
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I never saw the Liberals refute any of Labor’s lies about nuclear.
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FWIW – a potential comparison standard
https://youtu.be/m3fJuWMCOe0
Via Chiefio
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Why do 7 out of 15 Greens in Federal Parliament have hyphenated surnames?
https://greens.org.au/mps
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FWIW – put bluntly
https://img.patriotpost.us/01JTM7SM4NGK24CJ65TXSXD5P6.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
“QUEERS FOR PALESTINE
(Gaza Chapter)
Pronouns: Was / Were”
Via SDA
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One of the links off there-
“The European Commission announced on Wednesday that it is referring five member states to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failing to properly implement the Digital Services Act (DSA), Brussels’ flagship legislation aimed at regulating online platforms.
The Commission first launched infringement proceedings against the five countries in 2024. Letters of formal notice were sent to Czechia, Cyprus, Poland, and Portugal in April, and to Spain in July. After the member states failed to comply, the Commission escalated the matter to the EU’s highest court.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Maximilian Krah has argued that the DSA is designed to suppress dissenting viewpoints, claiming the legislation “is intended to prevent unorthodox and creative ideas from being shared on the internet,” while Sweden Democrats MEP Jessica Stegrud claimed an overfocus on combating disinformation and “harmful content” could undermine freedom of speech.”
https://modernity.news/2025/05/08/brussels-sues-five-eu-countries-for-failing-to-enforce-digital-censorship/
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Thought a musical uplift in order – the best song the Temptations ever made, my opinion.
Turn it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9poCAuYT-s
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FWIW – getting lucky
Bicycle shop finds internet prince?
“BREAKING: I’m going to the bike shop in Bermuda where Mark Carney hid billions of dollars
https://rumble.com/v6t30nb-breaking-im-going-to-the-bike-shop-in-bermuda-where-mark-carney-hid-billion.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/05/08/thursday-on-turtle-island-146/
And check the memes too
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FWIW
“The Rise of the First SMR in the US: A New Chapter in Pragmatic Energy Innovation”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/07/the-rise-of-the-first-smr-in-the-us-a-new-chapter-in-pragmatic-energy-innovation/
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-isnt-trump-its-alex-karp/
The philosopher-warrior routine may impress investors and national security hawks, but the rest of us should be alarmed. Karp is selling a future where wars don’t need public support—just a backend.
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