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Statistics
The number of deaths, whether covid, climate, wars may be greatly exaggerated but the point is to put over the idea of an overwhelming catastrophe rather than getting numbers anywhere near correct
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/26/lies-damned-lies-and-casualty-numbers-in-ancient-history/
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Liverpool’s triumphant parade through the city to celebrate them winning the league turned into tragedy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14753823/Man-arrested-car-ploughed-Liverpool-parade-crowd-quizzed-suspicion-attempted-murder-drug-driving-65-people-injured-four-seriously-hurt-including-child.html
It seems likely the driver was under the influence of drugs and drink, decided to get into the parade by following an ambulance. He was confronted by fans and it seems likely he panicked as pedestrians banged on his vehicle and eventually smashed a windscreen as they tried to stop him. He drove off at speed and people were in his way and got run over. We shall have to wait for the full official version of events
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Combined covid and flu vaccinations being pushed
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/double-trouble-the-fluvid-vaccine/
Knowing how keen those on this blog are to get covid shots I am sure many will be queuing up to get the combined shot. Don’t push, plenty to go round.
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Pushing flu shots on the general public is a scam. First, because for most healthy people the flu is nothing more than annoyance that may or may not happen in a given year. Second, because flu shots themselves range from mildly efficacious to completely useless, depending on how well the people formulating them guessed on which strains would be prevalent in a given year. Some years they might be 50% effective, but other years they don’t work at all. They might make sense for the old, the infirm, the obese, or the immunocompromised who might benefit from the roll of the dice on extra protection in a given year, but for the rest of us they are useless junk.
As a person with a strong immune system, I get a mild 24 hour cold/flu maybe every 2-3 years, and a strong one that knocks me on my butt maybe once a decade. I don’t see the point in giving myself a mild flu EVERY year via a jab in order to possibly have a 50-50 chance (at best) to avoid that one nasty flu I get once a decade.
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Even though Australia now has a regime that is quite happy to provide forced medical interventions and useless and dangerous ones at that, fortunately the combined covid and flu vaccine shot does not (yet) currently appear to be given in Australia.
And I’m not sure about this year’s fluvax as administered in Australia but the 2024-2025 one (in the USA) appears to have had negative efficacy. The several people I know who have had fluvax this year have all become quite sick with some respiratory infection.
One I know, a medical doctor, has had about seven covid “vaccines” and got particularly sick with covid plus some other respiratory infection.
I strongly recommend Leftoids and other True Believers get both “vaccinations”.
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Safe and Effective? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Net zero industrialization is not environmentalism.
A billion dollars worth of green groups join State suit to kill Trump’s no wind EO
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/27/a-billion-dollars-worth-of-green-groups-join-state-suit-to-kill-trumps-no-wind-eo/
The beginning:
“Ten so-called environmental groups, including the biggest, have joined the lawsuit filed by a bunch of green States asking the Court to nullify the President’s day-one executive order putting a hold on federal approvals of wind power projects. These big green groups love wind power.
For those not familiar with the State lawsuit I wrote about it here.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/13/seventeen-states-misguidedly-sue-to-block-trump-from-stopping-wind-power/
It has long been known that some of the biggest green groups have abandoned environmentalism in favor of net zero industrialization. This time they were nice enough to list themselves, as follows:
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Conservation Law Foundation
Environmental Advocates NY (represented by Earthjustice)
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Environmental Protection Information Center
National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
New York League of Conservation Voters
Sierra Club
Southern Environmental Law Center
Collectively these groups likely make over a billion dollars a year. Here are the rounded annual revenues of the big four: EDF – $320 million, NRDC – $250 million, NWF – $120 million, Sierra Club – $120 million.
Ironically, this action is supported by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF); see their press release here (which includes email addresses for each group). NWF is the only group that is specifically about wildlife. The one certain harm from wind power is the annual killing of millions of birds and bats. Bird death estimates range as high as 1.7 million a year, with bat deaths up to 2.8 million. That is 4.5 million critters a year killed by wind power.”
Lots more in the article; please share it. The moral bankruptcy of big money environmentalism gets no clearer than this advocacy of big wind.
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How hypocritical to have the word ‘Environment’ or ‘Conservation’ in their Group names.
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Kamala Harris is in Australia.
She addressed a conference of real estate agents (US=realtors) for reasons unknown. Bizarrely, some paid $1500 to see her.
In the first few minutes of her regular series “Lefties Losing It” Sky News Australia’s Rita Panahi comments on Harris’ “performance”:
Sky News host Rita Panahi has reacted to former US vice president Kamala Harris’ bizarre speech at a real estate conference in Australia.
https://youtu.be/ToMdiF49QYA
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Correction: they paid at least $1500.
(Edit function not always working.)
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That’s very expensive word salad.
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When conservative speakers visit Australia, the Left has been known to riot and the conservative speaker is sent an invoice for the police having to respond and do the duty we already pay them to do.
In Kamala’s case, taxpayers are being slugged for her inordinately lavish security extravaganza.
Traffic diverted. Roads blocked. Police-escorted nine-vehicle motorcade. Police patrolling the general area, etc.
Albo must have wanted people to remember who she was. I’ve forgotten already, (to prevent nausea, to preserve my sanity and for my own peace of mind).
It’s a clown show.
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It certainly is time to develop a vaccine combination which will ideally be the Covid + ++combined with an anti dumbass additive of a strength never before seen. Boosters must be taken on a regular daily basis until the desired effect is achieved.
This is strongly recommended for those that pay to attend & listen to this creature.
There unfortunately is no medication for the condition of the creature itself.
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Mods:
No edit function – please delete repeated post.
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The edit function seems to come and go.
It appears to be related to the failure of the site to fully load, presumably because it’s still undet DDoS attack.
On my phone on Samsung browser there is a blue bar at the top to indicate how much of the site is loaded. Even when it appears to be loaded according to appearances, the blue bar is often only half way across indicating parts of the site haven’t in fact been loaded, presumably parts that don’t effect appearance but do effect the presence of the edit function.
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A new naval ship waa launched in North Korea and during the launch it fell on its side and sunk. The launch method attempted was side launch.
Kim Jong-Un is furious as this was a major publicity event.
No doubt the psychopath will kill those he thinks are responsible with his usual cruel and unusual methods.
Video: https://youtu.be/uaeN76O5gl8
Salvage will certainly be very intersing given the position of the 5,000 tonne ship.
This is how a side launch is meant to be done:
https://youtu.be/T_cnrnivVpg
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Here is an interesting video about the Lockheed Constellation.
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I think free enterprise needs to be retaught.
In the 1970’s people had also forgotten about it and then in 1980 Prof. Milton Friedman released his epic book and TV series “Free to Choose”.
Even politicians took notice and this followed with a minor “reset” with deregulation and privatisation.
Now all that has been forgotten and we are regulated, taxed and controlled more than ever in most Western countries except in the US where TRUMP is reversing that.
I would love to see our politicians view or read and understand Friedman’s Free to Choose. And even have it shown in schools.
The video series can be seen free at:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt27lKoC5LS4wbD28Jkv95UUm9H7wbVO4
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It’s not enough for the loony-Left to allow, abet, or even encourage children without parental consent to make life-changing decisions to use drugs +/or surgery to alter their biological gender.
Now, in tyrannically-woke Canada, even though they’re not legally old enough to buy a cigarette, children can obtain government permission and assistance to kill themselves without parental consent.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/maid-for-children-and-teens-canada-expands-eugenics-program/
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Australians are complacent and apathetic and don’t seem to understand that our economy and nation can’t continue to withstand the serious assault against it by the present government.
Spending without restraint simply can’t go on forever. Current federal, state and local government debt is over $2 trillion. That’s about $77,000 per person counting everyone. But relatively few people actually work or pay net taxes so the burden on productive people is much, much higher.
Also, the economy’s energy supply simply cannot be run on wind, solar and Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen’s flatulence. It will certainly collapse after the next one or two power stations are destroyed.
People need to urgently wake up!
Unfortunately Australia is an effective one party state now and the “opposition” policies are very little different to the Government’s.
We urgently need a major conservative party in this country, created from a unification of the existing conservative parties like Trumpets, One Nation, Libertarian, Family First etc..
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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