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Basic Physics All at Sea in Sky News Climate Scare Nonsense Story
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
by Chris Morrison
Possibly one of the dumbest and most scientifically illiterate climate scare stories ever written has been published by the fast-fading UK Sky News. Climate reporter Victoria Seabrook notes that the sea ice on the Arctic “continent” is melting at 12% every decade but she backs it up by publishing a graph clearly showing it has been stable since 2007. She goes on to claim that the Arctic melt will push up sea levels around Britain and fuel worse coastal flooding, seemingly unaware that melting ice in liquid does not raise its level (suggested educational tip, check out ice in a gin and tonic glass). Just for good measure, her silly story throws in the wobbling jet stream and a “shocking” prediction that global temperature could rise by nearly 1°C in just five years.
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The actual data clearly show a different story to that relayed to the general public by a mainstream media struggling to retain credibility in an information world they no longer control. As Jensen observes, the summer ice plateaued from 1979-97 and then fell for 10 years. Either side of the drop there have been minimal losses, while the last near decade has seen some possible gains.
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The chance of this rise is said to be “exceptionally unlikely” says Professor Adam Scaife of the Met Office Hadley Centre who worked on the report. But that’s the way you do it – invent a ridiculous clickbait figure to attract attention but then go on to note the “forecast” would have been “effectively impossible” just a few years ago.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/31/basic-physics-all-at-sea-in-sky-news-climate-scare-nonsense-story/
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[EDIT: The correct original link: https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/31/basic-physics-all-at-sea-in-sky-news-climate-scare-nonsense-story/]
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I have long pondered how to simply explain why melting ice does not change displaced volume, volume under the water.
Archimedes discovered the upward force or buoyancy always equals the weight or volume of water displaced.
The ice or water does not sink because two forces, weight down and bouyancy up exactly match. (Newton’s first law of motion)
Water does not change weight when it freezes so the volume of water displaced is unchanged. That is the entire point. No flooding.
Yes, the ice expands in volume by about 10%. So the ice rises slightly by 10% until the weight and bouyancy/water displaced are matched again.
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Ric, it’s as if they know their days are numbered so they’re throwing mud (or something far worse) at everything hoping some will stick.
Searching for a little edifying Sunday culture / entertainment on the radio yesterday driving into town for supplies, I was instead met head-on by a (coordinated?) barrage of nonsense from station after station – the standard extremist flood/drought boil/melt oil/bad wind/good diatribe – culminating with a BBC woman’s voice claiming
heat kills more than floods, tornadoes & earthquakes combined!
It’s what they don’t mention which gives their silly game away: COLD. The next station was Radio NZ where 3 ‘climate journalists’ were bemoaning the lack of coverage of all things boiling & melting & carbon pollution and OFF! I’d rather listen to the voices in my head than succumb to such mindless brainwashing… and the day improved considerably!
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When road noise is hi fi compared to radio
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Road noise is definitely HiFi, it covers the full range of your hearing.
Radio, AM in particular, has a poor frequency range, in an older car it would be lucky to be 5kHz in width, centered around the voices. FM is better but not as good as decent set of ears, mark I.
Then again…. Road noise has more to add to the conversation than the ABC, so why switch on the radio.
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It’s a strange paradox in life, that when we can afford a decent Hi-Fi system, our hearing has deteriorated, often to the extent that we cannot fully appreciate the great Hi-Fi.
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Speak up, I can’t hear you.
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Thats about all my useful bandwidth anyway. Even at 18 as a young tech playing with oscillators it was clear my hearing rolled off rapidly above 9kHz compared with my peers. A succession of noisy pastimes and interests didnt help either. Sadly the hearing protection industry started a little late for me. I think the school cadets may have been the original damage, firing 303 rifles and Bren guns with no hearing protection.
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Play anything, just play it loud.
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You’re dong fine compared to today’s young DIYers with nail guns, rattle guns, grinders.. everything battery powered, fast to grab and use, and noisy!
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I don’t recall ever seeing ear muffs in the tarmac office in the ’70s.
When Canberra bombers visited the base and parked, before shutting down the engines a groundie would approach from outside the engine, duck under it, ears inches from the turbines, and chock the wheels.
I’ve still got a bit of carborundum in one eye and a split ear drum from mucking around off a 3 m diving board.
I’m all right Jack, just don’t rush me.
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A contemporary neighbour, a big strong farmer, was reputed to have a bit of steel floating in his bloodsream. A few years later he died of a heart attack, aged 44. About 40 years ago.
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Ron Clutz on arctic sea ice close to average levels…
https://rclutz.com/2025/06/01/near-normal-arctic-ice-end-of-may-2025/
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Cretinism is the new “genius”, apparently.It is just SOP for shurnalists.
These self-declared, opinion-shaping “organisms” get their greatest psycho-sexual “jollies” from hearing their own toxoc sludge uttered back to them by the “peasants” and the poli-muppets.
And that is their “finest” feature.
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I don’t think it is “their own toxoc sludge “. I only read the news headlines on line and occasionally News.com. The numbers of spelling errors, grammatically incorrect sentences, disconnected paragraphs etc. makes me think that these articles, often expressed as opinion pieces by the churnalist, are simply AI generated waffle.
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I don’t know, Sambar. I think AI probably has a better command of both English spelling and grammar than the majority of journalists under 30 yo. You are quite correct, their command of grammar, both written and verbal , is often woeful.
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To reinforce your comment here is another link on that subject.
https://rmx.news/article/ominous-winds-are-blowing-in-the-west-incredible-data-shows-massive-demographic-transformation-in-austria/
I have previously written that 60% of those below high school level in Vienna are muslim and I guess that is where the non speaking of German comes in as Arabic is often taught or the language of the country they originally come from.
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Will the Poles be able to rescue “europe” AGAIN? They have already done it once; (1529); WILL anyone else pick up the slack?
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The Russians will…
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Not quite Bruce. 1526 (not 1529) was the Battle of Mohacs, now in Hungary, where the combined European armies were beaten by the Ottoman Turks leading to 150 years of Moslem oppression in the region. The salvation was at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 when King John III Sobieski led combined forces, including his famous Winged Hussars, in destroying the besieging Turks, leading to them being eventually driven from Europe.
Perhaps we can find his modern day equivalent?
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Paul Joseph Watson on recent rioting in Paris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt–scaMsos
Multiculturalism is great they say?
No.
It depends on where the immigrants, both legal and illegal come from and what values (or not) that they hold.
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Ukraine hit 41 strategic bombers that were lined up on their home bases at four airfields inside Russia including in the Arctic and Siberia, over 4,000km east of the frontline, to destroy Russia’s ability to defend in the event of a NATO invasion.
These planes were not being used as a threat to Ukraine. This is a proxy war to destroy Russia and to weaken the country for the eventual conquest by NATO.
This attack to destroy Russia’s entire fleet of strategic bombers is a major act of international war.
The attack came the same day as Zelenskyy said Ukraine will send a delegation to Istanbul for a new round of direct peace talks with Russia on Monday.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/06/01/dozens-of-war-planes-destroyed-deep-in-russian-territory-by-ukrainian-drones/
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Nato has no desire whatsoever to invade Russia. Where on earth do you get this sort of idea? Russia invaded Ukraine. They have killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians and abducted many thousands of children. They bomb Ukraine cities regularly and switch their planes around from their various bases so any planes in Russia will at some point likely bomb Ukrainian civilians.
250,000 refugees have fled to Britain with millions more in other European countries. They don’t want to be here. Russia is the aggressor not the innocent party and are trying to do what Putin has said was his intention for years, which is to recreate the Russian empire.
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All Valid points … but, if Ukraine is to achieve a ceasefire – then repeatedly ‘poking the bear’ is not the way to do it.
If Ukraine does not want a ceasefire – then they are demonstrating behavior that will not achieve it – resulting in even more civilian deaths.
Meanwhile … people (like Australians) are happy to funnel money into the great and long lived Ukrainian corruptocracy – ensuring this ‘forever grift’ will continue unabated.
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I’d say it’s not so much poking the bear, but rather an attempt to weaken its will.
If Ukraine twiddle their thumbs hoping Russia agrees to a ceasefire then a ceasefire will not happen. Certainly not a ceasefire with a negotiation that results in less territory gained by Russia. Showing they’re not going to lose easily is the best tool for gaining a ceasefire and/or some concessions by Russia in the wash-up.
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Why would Russia agree to a ceasefire ? They dont need to, Ukraine has nothing to offer, and NATO has shown its bad faith and has said in such an event they woukd deploy troops to Ukraine.
As far as weakening Russia’s will goes, well yep if the last few hundred years shows anything it shows how weak willed the Russians are and how they crumble under adversity
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Why would Russia agree to a ceasefire? Two possible reasons.
1. Ukraine says we give up.
2. Ukraine hits back hard enough that it gives Russia reason to re-think their chances and goals.
Of course the 2nd option might not work. But I’m just saying that anything in between is unlikely to achieve a ceasefire. Given the bear is already attacking, might as well poke it and poke it hard. Because it’s alresdy attacking and if you poke hard enough you just might achieve reason 2.
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Debunker
What we are seeing is the modern version of guerrilla warfare, the Russian Federation is too large and vulnerable and open to audacious attacks.
The Istanbul meeting today should give us a clearer picture on who is dragging the chain, Ukraine is sending its Foreign Minister.
‘Ukrainian corruptocracy’ is straight out of the Kremlin playbook, look to the future, a truly democratic and prosperous Russian Federation free of its FSB shackles.
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You should know I disagree with all of this universal British rationalization of the evil Russians. This war has been raging for 20 years. The Ukranians I know from Odessa and other cities untouched by war have fled compulsory conscription of all the men. Not fear of the Russians or death. They abandoned their homes, cars, jobs, lives, language. And the young men are arrested in bars for military service. Many pay all the money they have to flee over the border knowing if they are caught, they are put straight in the front line. The Government of Ukraine has been a military dictatorship for many years.
The takeover of Sebastopol and Crimea was bloodless. They are all Russians. In 1956 it was Russia, the heart of Russia. And Russian Orthodox, not Catholic. There is great repression inside Ukraine against everything Russian. Churches closed. Priests arrested. Britain and France and Germany all have historic scores to settle. Not least the Crimean war started without any known rationale except to protect their colony in India by stopping Russian expansion into Afghanistan. As for the last thirty years.
So another profitable punitive war . And NATO was setup specifically and solely to fight Russia as the eternal enemy. The money has been very good considering few Europeans have died so far and a million young Russian men. But who cares about them? Hundreds of billions of dollars to kill Russians. Who knows where the money has gone? Certainly not the Americans. As President Eisenhower warned, beware the military industrial complex.
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Untouched by war? Odessa has been bombed numerous times.
Putin has explicitly said that he intends to recover the old Russian empire. He could not have been clearer. They are an expansionist nation with little regards for human life.
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How do you know that? I look carefully at every photo. Odessa is a beautiful city and largely untouched. But they have brought down Russian missiles in the city. The targets are almost universally military. There was a photograph last week in Mariupol, but I found those apartment blocks on Google Earth and they were the headquarters of the military, not residential. This is propaganda, not news.
The average age of the Ukranian solder has been reported at 43 years. Half are older. These are breadwinners, fathers, even grandfathers. There are few young people and Ukranians have been fleeing this regime for many years, since the 1990s in fact.
As for ascribing everything to mad Putin, this is a civil war. As in the American civil war. So who was more evil, General Lee or Abraham Lincoln? The Roundheads or the Royalists?
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You might do well to pull your head in, and save whatever credibility you have left.
Just saying.
And perhaps read a little history.
TdeF is pointing you in the right direction.
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TdeF have used Google Earth to conclude that bombed apartment blocks were not residential but military headquarters.
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How did TdeF know they were military headquarters?
Ah, yes. Ipso facto. Because the Russians bombed them.
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Quite simple really. They were shown as army administrative headquarters on Google Earth. I matched the photos with the buildings on the NE corner approach to the city. There was a tank battle there. No aerial bombing.
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” Britain and France and Germany all have historic scores to settle. Not least the Crimean war started without any known rationale except to protect their colony in India by stopping Russian expansion into Afghanistan.”
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Those historic scores being what? Hardly anyone here in the UK would know anything about a war in Crimea nearly 200 years ago apart from a vague notion about Florence Nightingale and certainly are not burning with the desire to settle any imagined scores
There are many fine modern and old books on Ukraine including those that detail its emergence at various times, despite being crushed by empires as broad as the Ottomans, Swedish, Polish, Byzantine and of course Russia, who at various times has starved to death millions of its inhabitants. Many of the “Russians” inside Crimea were imported for a variety of political reasons. Despite that, they voted to form part of modern Ukraine during the referendum in 1991 by 54% and every region of the country voted for Independence.
This is a brutal war that is being carried out against many civilian populations. Bombing of civilian targets including apartment blocks is very real and the abduction of up to 20000 children authenticated.
The idea that Nato wants to invade Russia is absurd. We are more concerned that Putin will try to carry out his declared intentions to recreate the Russian empire which is why Poland is building up its forces. They are high on the list as are Lithuania.
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Russia-Ukraine peace ‘up to them’ – State Department
The US won’t broker the talks indefinitely, spokeswoman Tammy Bruce has said
Washington has done what it can to bring Moscow and Kiev to the negotiating table but won’t wait indefinitely for results, US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told Fox News in an interview on Saturday.
Russia and Ukraine held their first direct peace talks in three years on May 16 in Istanbul, where they agreed to submit detailed ceasefire proposals. Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed holding a second round of negotiations in Istanbul on June 2, though Kiev has yet to confirm its participation.
“This is not a long-term thing. This is not simply standard operating procedure. It’s not going to go on for months or years,” Bruce said, when asked whether the US had set a concrete timetable for the peace process.
“We have gotten people to the table, and they know what we are requiring. But it’s really up to them,” she adde
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Zelensky’s Gauntlet – Did Ukraine Just Draw the USA and NATO Closer to War with Russia by Targeting Russian Strategic Long-Range Bombers Covered by SALT and START Treaties?
First the cliff notes version: There’s an important detail to remember.
People are laughing at the long-range Russian bombers being left out in the open, vulnerable to attack. However, the bomber visibility is required as part of several nuclear agreements between the USA and Russia (SALT and START). Our U.S. long range nuclear capable bombers, covered under the same agreements, are also visible.
Ukraine President Zelenskyy is playing with fire by targeting them, which also explains why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance.
The U.S and NATO have provided the means.
However, #1) did Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just exploit a vulnerability by targeting Russian long-range nuclear capable bombers? and #2) was the CIA and NATO intelligence community a willfully blind participant knowing they would benefit?
Both the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), call for U.S. and Russian long range nuclear capable bombers to remain “visible and observable by national technical means of verification.”
That open visibility creates a mutual vulnerability as well as a method of surveillance and verification for both the USA and Russian Federation.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and by extension his NATO enablers, just exploited that SALT/START vulnerability and used drones to attack Russian bombers covered by USA-Russia treaties. There are reports (and videos) now surfacing from inside Russia showing the Russian Federation moving strategic long-range mobile missile launchers into position for a counterattack against Ukraine.
This situation is obviously very fluid and let us all hope that President Trump and President Putin are in communication about this escalation as created by Zelenskyy and his enablers, even if -and probably especially if- our own intelligence agencies are part of the enabling.
Think about the ramifications of NATO enabled Ukraine targeting major Russian military assets which are vulnerable only because they are part of a previously agreed U.S-Russia negotiation to remain vulnerable.
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START TREATY
TREATY ARTICLES: 1 United States Department of State TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ON THE REDUCTION AND LIMITATION OF STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE ARMS The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, hereinafter referred to as the Parties, Conscious that nuclear war would have devastating consequences for all humanity, that it cannot be won and must never be fought, Convinced that the measures for the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms and the other obligations set forth in this Treaty will help to reduce the risk of outbreak of nuclear war and strengthen international peace and security, Recognizing that the interests of the Parties and the interests of international security require the strengthening of strategic stability, Mindful of their undertakings with regard to strategic offensive arms in Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of July 1, 1968; Article XI of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972; and the Washington Summit Joint Statement of June 1, 1990,
Have agreed as follows:
Article XII 1. To enhance the effectiveness of national technical means of verification, each Party shall, if the other Party makes a request in accordance with paragraph 1 of Section V of the Notification Protocol, carry out the following cooperative measures:
(c) a display in the open of all heavy bombers and former heavy bombers located within one air base specified by the requesting Party, except those heavy bombers and former heavy bombers that are not readily movable due to maintenance or operations
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No, NATO is the aggressor.
Attempting to turn an independent nation against its neighbour was a hostile act. The U.S. ‘Deep State’ was planning this years before the coup of 2014 (that they had a hand in).
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Unfortunately the Maidan Coup is never mentioned by the media – thus some of the general uninformed slop that poses as truth gets an airing. Saturation one-sided pro Ukraine propaganda makes sure that the masses believe that Russia is the sole villain. As evidenced by some here.
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The Maidan uprising is history, in this particular war Putin is the villain because he plans to take back everything Gorbachev gave away.
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Mind reading is a tricky thing.
What people say is tricky enough. What they do can be tricky too. But pretending to know what people are thinking is fraught with difficulty.
Tricky. Tricky. Tricky.
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Really? Everyone can read Trumps mind, or they say they can.
I do recall Rocket Man Kim couldn’t though.
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Good God! 35 people here are communists. Is that what uni does to you?
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>…communists. Is that what uni does to you?
You don’t have to go to uni to discover what is a communist and what is not.
Studying history from different points of view to arrive at a balanced view does not make you a communist.
It’s called intellectual honesty.
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I disagree with your views.
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None of the innocent citizens Russia has hunted down like a sport and terrorised with drones were a threat to Russia.
Russia has repeatedly targeted civilians from the outset.
And you claim warplanes aren’t a legitimate target? Some twisted Putin fanboy logic on display there.
“UN Commission concludes that Russian armed forces’ drone attacks against civilians in Kherson Province amount to crimes against humanity of murder.”
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Long range strategic bombers in Murmansk have absolutely nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. They have everything to do with a potential war on Russia by NATO. If Russia was to use these bombers to attack Kiev, there would be no Kiev in a day, no government. But a single nuclear missile would achieve that even a tiny 60ktons like Hiroshima. The Russians have lots of them. That’s the problem in attacking the largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world by far. It’s insanity.
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Do you really think that Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO’s strategy to bring down Putin’s Russia?
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Russia is the reason NATO exists. Ever heard of self defence?
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Half a tank of fuel and they are in the war zone. The last of the A-50s was destroyed, no more AWACs. Three have already been shot down, they must have been active at the time.
Why is some of Russia off limits when Ru doesn’t mind putting a rocket through the sarcophagus over Chernobyl?
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Anything from Armstrong Economics citing Ukrainian sources is suspect. 41 strategic bombers hit?, you’ve got to be kidding.
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Shooting the messenger. Always works.
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It is a bit of a stretch to describe “Ukrainian sources” as a messenger,though , don’t you think?
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Don’t any of you people do searches for the videos? This was all over the web early this morning, plenty of time to verify or otherwise. I would never call anyone a liar without doing a good search first.
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“You people!”
LOL
You’re getting desperate.
I saw what you saw.
I didn’t see hits on 41 strategic bombers.
Show us your evidence. How many did you see?
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A lot got destroyed. How many we may never know but there were many plumes of black smoke from four bases. Why are you in denial?
Are you saying Armstrong Economics lied because they cannot confirm the precise number? Does it matter EXACTLY how many?
🧡 socialist tears.
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Ukrainian strike on Russian airfields: What we know so far
Military airfields in five Russian regions have come under drone attacks in the first such instance in the Ukraine conflict
Military airfields in five Russian regions, including in Siberia and the Far East, have been targeted in coordinated drone attacks orchestrated by Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Ukrainian media has called it a major operation targeting Russian strategic aviation. According to Moscow, most of the strikes were repelled, with some resulting in material damage but no casualties.
Targets
The airfields are located in Murmansk Region in the north, Ivanovo and Ryazan regions in central Russia, Irkutsk Region in Siberia, and Amur Region in the Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
According to Ukrainian media, the airfields housed Russian Tu-95 and Tu-22M strategic bombers, as well as an A-50 early warning and control plane, among other aircraft. The Russian Defense Ministry has not confirmed this, and has not revealed the aircraft types stationed at the airfields.
Kiev attacked military airfields in five Russian regions – MOD
It was the first time in over three years since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict that Kiev has targeted Russian facilities located in Siberia and the Far East.
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Does anyone else remember when a lot of Western support for Ukraine was conditional on Ukraine not attacking targets in Russia with Western supplied arms…?
It’s fascinating watching the goalposts move, and the ardent supporters of death and destruction excuse the heinous actions of “their” side in this pointless war between extremely corrupt governments. Neither side is innocent, neither side is “better” than the other. Both have undoubtedly committed war crimes, both have killed civilians. Both have wasted countless lives on nothing of consequence.
Is human life really worth less than cheap political point scoring on an internet forum?
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All of you gentlemen are right but some more than others.
Yes, it is a Civil War and, deeper – it is war of West against Russia.
But the battlefields are not along the Dnieper River.
100%, that is all without exception, kids of Putin’s Junta and those of leading few hundreds, have degrees of best Western Universities. They are more anti-communists than you or me. Some already got ministerial chairs, some other are at a low start…
Putin personally is the least Russian Nationalist possible – “tell me who are your friends, etc.. ” Ukrainians, Jews, Chechens, “mongols” – all of them never miss a chance to declare their love to Mother Russia. while their ethnic brethren conducting open or covert warfare against it.
My expectation – some of them, probably the second generation ones, think this morning – enough is enough.
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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dossiers of war crimes of the US and UK published on their site in 2022.
They know that the ‘international rules based order’ is set only by its breaches – hence the warrant for child abduction (this is not in either list), that felt so like a ‘gotcha’ moment.
It is frightening to see how the whole non-alignment / proxies game is now being played out there, no need any more for subterfuge.
On the side of the West I think too many in strategic positions pine for the days of defections and the whole game they lived their lives in.
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There were no NATO supplied arms used. Wot are you on about?
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Operation Spider Web
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/01/ukraine-carries-out-widespread-suicide-mission-attacks-in-russia-white-house-not-informed-in-advance/#more-272558
Drones launched from trucks which were somehow driven far into Russia.
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Most Americans think of Russia as some form of locked-down totalitarian state where every square inch is under strict surveillance. My recent travels throughout Russia highlight exactly the opposite. Russia is far more open and unmonitored; yes, even around military bases, than our own country. There is not a big matrix of surveillance around the Russian Federation at all.
The attacks come as Russian officials are in Turkey for further ceasefire negotiations with their Ukrainian counterparts scheduled to begin tomorrow. Obviously, President Zelenskyy would know this operation would create an environment in Turkey the opposite of peace talks. Highlighting once again that Zelenskyy is not interested in peace discussions as long as he has USA and NATO cover (and support) for his continued attacks upon Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine President Zelenskyy as a terrorist. This method of attack by Zelenskyy certainly underlines and affirms that perspective by Putin. The counterstrike by Vladimir Putin will likely be very serious and devastating, and we can anticipate Zelenskyy running behind the NATO apron for cover now that he has punched Putin deep inside the Russian Federation.
According to the New York Post, Axios and CBS News, President Trump was unaware the attack was going to take place.
It will be interesting to see what position President Trump takes with a rather significant predictable response now pending from Vladimir Putin.
The carpet-bombing of Ukraine is more likely today than it was yesterday.
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But they have less bombers with which to do it. 😀
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There is some good stuff here on the trucks. Apparently the Ukrainians all got out before the attacks began. Well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSq7-fwrvvY
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Russia has now moved from Defcon 4 (“Double Take”) to Defcon 3 (“Round House”) which is a yellow alert level.
At Defcon 2 (“Fast Pace”) you’d all better be well set up…
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Is that from Russia or Monty Python?
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Seems unlikely that the Ukrainians all got out before the attacks began.Putin will go ballistic. Trump also.
Watch this space!
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Why do you say something you cannot support with ANY reports? No Ukrainians were anywhere near the attacks, it was all AI controlled with local truck drivers paid for hire to drive the containers to the launch points. The rest was programmed.
Ya gotta be kiddin. Where’s the naughty word?
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I posted this late yesterday so many may not have seen it.
I think it’s important and we’ll hear more about, especially carbon tariffs.
FROM YESTERDAY:
I just heard Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen on the radio and he was talking about “carbon tariffs” which will be taxes on goods imported from countries that don’t subscribe to the climate scam which I guess would include the United States but not China which has no limitation on CO2 and is the world’s largest emitter.
He also complained that TRUMP is imposing a 50% tariff on Australian steel and aluminium. But that’s because Australia heavily subsidises these with taxpayer money due to expensive “green” energy. Thus these products are sold well below manufacturing cost. So TRUMP did the right thing.
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CARBON TARIFFS
Wikipedia has an entry on “carbon tariffs”.
I thought it must have been an original idea of those who tell Chrissy what to think and say. Perhaps not.
It will just mean more harm to Australians which seems to be the main objective of the Labor Government in general.
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Carbon tariffs to level the environmental costs of using coal for electricity.
When will South Oz start paying? Surely it is easier to implement within a country where ALL the information is readily available.
Tax the free loaders and tax them hard.
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A few references on Chrissy’s latest brain flatulence.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/energy-minister-chris-bowen-doesnt-rule-out-carbon-tariff-on-high-emissions-producing-imports/news-story/82cf96f9f89ad3a91aa6f205c684a2f6
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-01/bowen-open-to-carbon-tariff/105362978
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/chris-bowen-says-government-could-slap-green-tariffs-on-carbon-intensive-imports-whilst-stating-australia-remains-on-track-to-achieve-2030-renewables-target/news-story/928b1be00f8942146fb1098a5f2339d9
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Little of what we export goes to America anyway. And given that Bluescope (Smelter in Port Kembla) and many Electric Arc Furnaces is making a fortune in North Star Steel and a direct beneficiary of the tariffs with steel prices, these are not against Australian interests. The old Smorgon was always struggling, mired in debt. It is now profitable and has been very profitable. Liberty Onesteel/GFG Gupta at Whyalla has been seized by the SA Government to stop $450Million profit being sent overseas to prop up Sanjeev Gupta’s empire of debt. Infrabuild is very profitable but they have been forced to buy three years of steel in advance, steel which may never be delivered.
So these are crocodile tears by Bowen. More anti Trump rhetoric. China makes half the world’s steel. And in Victoria massive useless projects have been using 70% Chinese steel when by law the limit is 30%. That’s what happens when your boss is the CCP.
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If they’re making steel with electric arc furnaces that means they’re probably processing scrap.
And there’s plenty of scrap as unused industrial facilities are dismantled.
We’ll be like South Africa which exports more copper than it mines due to the electrical infrastructure bring dismantled and scrapped.
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People in broad daylight are cutting down the traffic lights to strip the copper. Which is cash.
Victoria also has a history of this where insiders ripped up the copper bars for the electric trains.
And last year thieves stole all the brass plaques from a children’s graveyard. In Western Melbourne.
Copper is cash.
I expect the copper is only for export from South Africa as, like Australia, manufacturing is being shut down.
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A Carbon Tariff is a good thing but Trump Tariffs are a very bad thing.
Once you have that cleared up you can proceed with conviction down the right (or should then be left) path to redemption.
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FANTASTIC NEWS FOR AMERICANS (from a UK publication).
This wouldn’t have happened without TRUMP.
LONG LIVE THE PETROL/GASOLINE V8!
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And the V10 and V12, my cars. Amazingly economical too. The Audi is almost entirely aluminium, far lighter than a steel car. And the later ones are mild hybrid at 16%, a perfect balance for balancing economy and power as developed with F1 racing. Melbourne Sydney on one tank. And less CO2 than a coal powered electric car, as if that makes any difference. All the CO2 goes straight into the ocean. Unfortunately.
We could do with more CO2 for more food, more trees, a greener planet. Unfortunately humans have no control at all of CO2 levels. NASA proved that conclusively a decade ago. But the Greens are wrecking the environment everywhere. Digging up National Parks and 30,000km of transmission lines to save the planet? At what point did they all go barking mad?
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NSW’s EV repair rule could backfire badly – Here’s why
If you’re an EV owner in New South Wales or you’re considering making the switch to something like a D-MAX BEV or the F-150 Lightning in the future, you might want to brace yourself, because getting your electric vehicle serviced might soon become a whole lot harder and more expensive with NSW’s proposed new EV repair regulations.
A new proposal from NSW Fair Trading aims to make the AURSS00064 Battery Electric Vehicle Inspection and Servicing Skill Set mandatory for anyone who wants to work on a battery electric vehicle (BEV). That includes not just complex high-voltage repairs, but even routine tasks like diagnostics or wheel alignments.
On paper, this might sound like a safety win. But here’s the reality: there are fewer than 50 technicians in NSW who currently hold this qualification, and over 80,000 BEVs are already on the road. That’s a massive supply and demand mismatch, and it’s got the industry ringing alarm bells.
Worse still, access to this training is limited, especially in regional NSW. Courses run for 4–6 days and can cost up to $3000 per technician. Many small workshops simply can’t afford to lose staff for that long, or fork out that kind of cash, especially when they’re already qualified and experienced.
What about hybrids?
It’s unclear whether the NSW Fair Trading proposal has lumped the PHEVs in with the BEVs in these EV repair regulations as they’re not explicitly mentioned. The Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA) has highlighted this inconsistency, noting that while both hybrids and BEVs contain high-voltage components, the proposal mandates the AURSS00064 skill set only for BEVs. This implies that technicians may continue servicing hybrids under existing qualifications without the need for additional training.
Who loses the most? Consumers.
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GM was a lot smarter than Ford this time. GM basically paid lip service, saying they would do this and that but never actually got around to it.
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Toyota was much the same, they mucked around with hydrogen earning green cred at little cost. I suspect they even had research partners to share the cost.
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I think the likes of GM and other car brands recognise that they simply can’t compete with both Tesla and Chinese BPV’s/EV’s. With the Gigapresses at Tesla Giga factories getting ever giggerer (I made up that word) , I have heard claims of manufacturing a Tesla every 15 seconds. Plus, further talk of Teslas for only $11k (USD). Yes, maybe a bit of YouTube/ Social media hype but if you track the technology, it’s all doable.
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That may work and like a battery power drill you just chuck the car in the recycle bin when its battery loses capacity.
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Yep, exactly. Tesla already opening battery recycle plants, including 1 ear marked for South Australia. The frame of a Tesla is that special aluminium alloy, which can all be recycled.
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And the rest of the battery? Hardly. When you try to find the details of exactly what is recycled, there is very little information. So far I’ve been unable to find a single “recycler” that recovers the lithium.
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Ok, I did a wanky Grok question- here’s the response. “….. lithium is recycled at Tesla’s battery recycling facilities. Tesla’s closed-loop recycling process, particularly at Gigafactory Nevada, recovers lithium along with other key materials like nickel, cobalt, and copper from spent lithium-ion batteries. The process involves shredding batteries into a “black mass” and using hydrometallurgical methods to extract and purify lithium for reuse in new battery production. Tesla has stated it can recover up to 92% of battery cell materials, including lithium, to minimize waste and reliance on new mining. However, the exact efficiency of lithium recovery can vary depending on the battery chemistry and recycling technology used” I asked Grok x2 about lithium and it seemed confident.
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Umm, yep, the famed Tesla “recycling” plant. Comment in WUWT 13 Feb 2022 says NO lithium is recycled. Umicore, established in 2006, was contracted by Tesla to “recycle” their lithium cells. But again, no mention of recycling lithium. As commented in WUWT 13 July 2031, the of cost of recycling is five times more expensive than mining lithium.
Redwood Recycling, setup by an ex-Tesla CTO, claims to recycle lithium, but also states that they cannot pay customers for their batteries. Haven’t heard anything about Redwood since 2017.
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Now that Labor has a supposed “mandate” to “rule”, there is no limit to the harm that Albanese and his band of commies will do to Australia and Australians and especially working or independently supported retired people, particularly those who have worked hard, and been frugal and saved and invested their whole lives (net tax payers).
I don’t think most people are aware that Albanese is a full-on communist. It’s shameful that people voted for him over the slightly less-bad Liberals.
Amazon overview of Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism.
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I wish politicians from all parties would stop using this term.
Winning an election does not a mandate make.
A mandate better reflects a referendum.
Remember the referendum on “the voice”?
Yeah, the referendum that was overwhelmingly rejected by Australian voters.
The same referendum result that is being ignored by politicians around Australia and is being introduced anyway.
Politicians are great aren’t they! /sarc
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Yes, take carbon dioxide taxes. When was this ever a public issue at election time? When was there a mandate for our massive carbon dioxide ripoffs?
In fact Julia Gillard said famously that ‘there will be no carbon taxes in a government I lead’.
And all parties over the last 25 years have passed punitive carbon legislation, except they remove the words carbon and tax.
The original 2001 Renewable Energy(Electricity) act actually managed to bring in a massive carbon tax by using illegal ‘certificates’ and by talking about ‘approved’ and ‘not approved’ energy sources. The money never goes to General Revenue, so it is technically not a tax. Technically it is just theft.
Carbon Credits were only legislated in 2011. But again, when did any government explain their purpose? And the 2023 Safeguard Mechanism talks about mechanism for extracting 35% carbon dioxide tax from your suppliers as Australian ‘carbon credits’, so no one sees the river of money.
I wonder if even the politicians have any idea what is going on? Or whether the Canberra department of dirty tricks is doing all this so that no one knows? Not even their bosses. And Ross Garnaut still demands a ‘price on carbon’ when there has been one for 25 years.
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To quote Adam Bandt, “we tell them what they want to hear. And when we get power, we do what we like”. That’s the modern Green/Labor/liberal form of a Mandate.
A bit like West Germany where people voted for Afd and the Conservatives but after the election the Conservatives decided to do a deal with the left, completely betraying their voters.
The other neat trick in Brazil, Romania, Ukraine, France, USA is for leftist lawyers to use lawfare to convict, bankrupt, jail your ‘populist’ opponent. The last thing anyone wants is a politician who actually represents the people. What would the voters know about politics?
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Re the German election, the conservatives have effectively thrown away any chance of winning power at the next election. The voters who opted for the AFD will stay with AFD. And a percentage of the conservative voters will be really peeved off that the conservative party have thrown in with the left that they will turn to the AFD.
Assuming of course that Germany doesn’t ban the AFD from existence, which of course they are trying to do.
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Video: Dr John Campbell talks about the increased rate of many cancers in the young and the possible link with mRNA “vaccines”.
https://youtu.be/_9eFPW7S-DE
The peer reviewed studies which are discussed are linked in the video description at the above link which is too long to post here.
Here’s an excerpt:
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Just on the local news. “Get your next covid booster at the same time as you get your flu shot as this will lessen your chances of being hospitalised or possible death. Last year there were 4000 covid related deaths.”
As always the devil is in the detail and obfuscation via semantics. So, covid related as opposed to directly attributed too. Does a a person with covid but sadly gets killed in a car accident, be placed in this “related” category?
The narrative certainly suggests that to get the figures to a frightening level use any means at the disposal of the statistical compiler. Equally the report did NOT mention how many of these related deaths were people thad had been vaccinated. That would have been a far more telling statistic.
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Just as these dangerous and poorly tested substances are being restricted in the US by RFK Jr and the TRUMP Administration, Australia, as usual, goes in the opposite direction.
I won’t be the least bit surprised if Australia again sees compulsory mRNA “vaccinations” and the world’s most draconian plandemic lockups, especially as the WHO Plandemic Treaty comes into force.
Fortunately for Americans, TRUMP withdrew from WHO.
TRUMP with Argentina, is establishing an alternative to WHO.
I understand Australia was also invited to join but declined, Australia preferring the globalist alternative and our senior leadership having severe TDS.
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Regarding the WHO pandemic treaty: all is not lost . . . yet.
According to an email I received from Sebastian Lukomski of citizengo.org, fresh back from the Geneva vote, the WHO treaty voted into existence on Tuesday 27th May is very much a watered down and partial version of what the WHO dictatorship wanted.
Some extracts from the email:
. . . the final text is a hollowed-out shadow of its original self.
• The harshest censorship language—gone
• Broad emergency-control mechanisms—gone
• Mandatory product-sharing quotas—scrapped
• Binding tech-transfer demands—removed
• Global funding mandates—stripped out
• And, most important, no clause letting the WHO override national health laws
Earlier drafts talked about managing misinformation and silencing dissent; now the treaty talks about trust and transparency in communication:
“Recognizing the importance of transparency and trust in public communications…(Preamble, paragraph 8)”
The sovereignty clause now reads: no article of this treaty can override a nation’s own laws
This treaty isn’t even finished.
On Monday, Slovakia asked for a real vote. Not a rubber stamp. Not a backroom nod. A vote.
And the WHO panicked.
Imagine — they were hoping to sneak the treaty through without any formal vote at all!
No accountability. No debate. Just shady, backroom “consensus” again.
One of its most critical components — the PABS Annex — was never agreed upon.
This is the piece that decides:
• Who gets vaccines
• Who shares virus samples
• Who controls intellectual property – basically, who profits from the next pandemic
They couldn’t agree on it. So they kicked it to 2026.
And instead of following proper procedure, the WHO broke its own rules:
They split the treaty into two. Pushed the incomplete part through. Declared a fake “victory.”
Here’s where things stand now:
• The treaty is partially adopted — but not signed.
• No country is legally bound — yet.
• Every nation must now ratify it domestically.
• The most dangerous part — the PABS Annex — still has to be negotiated.
To survive its financial crisis, after the departure of the US, WHO is preparing to raise annual dues of member countries by 20%.
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DM
But peer review is BS !
You can’t have it both ways my boy
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I didn’t say it wasn’t in many cases. I was just saying that for the benefit of the wokesters.
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And peer review mostly supports the Official Narrative, and doesn’t allow for questioning, so it must be extremely solid to pass that.
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On my daughter’s motorcycle she has a sticker which says don’t be a dick.
Just saying.
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Here is a video about the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, launched in 1957. It talks about technical details which aren’t commonly discussed.
https://youtu.be/QjPnCLsaFWw
Also see Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1?wprov=sfla1
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Question: who wants more expensive and less reliable solar and wind power with massive impacts on farms and forests?
Answer: all the people who are making money out of it, including the Chinese Communist Party. With help from the Greens and the pink and green rats in the ranks of the Liberal Party
Consider the moral equivalence of the slave trade and the wind power industry.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/is-the-wind-industry-morally-equivalent
Well, what is the morality of destroying household budgets, national economies, forests and farmlands for personal gain?
Of course it’s legal and so was the slave trade at the time.
There is a difference between the slave trade and the wind power industry.
The slaves produced some useful things like sugar and cotton. The wind industry produces expensive and unreliable power, with catastrophic environmental impacts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/is-the-wind-industry-morally-equivalent
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In Victoria, we have this utter irony. Both sides of government ( LNP and Labor) instituted a ban of on-shore exploration and development of gas. What the idiot LNP called ” shut the gate”. What the even more idiotic Labor did to obtain the votes of Green politicians in the Vic gov upper house. Yet, at the same time “opening the gate” and letting in all the wind turbines we now have scattered across Western Victoria. When this all started over 20 years ago each farmer received $5k per annum per tower on their property. That figure now up to $40k in some situations. Hence, a very tidy earner if you’ve got land that’s windy and not over productive. So, Rafe, when you say who’s profiting, there’s also many farmers making money from this as well. But I can tell you , its sets up heaps of frictions in the local communities. The haves vs the have nots.
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Ross, is that profiteering or being compensated?
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I read that Prince Harry wants to change his surname name to Spencer. He may as well go the whole hog and change his Christian name too to Frank! Meaghan would make a great “Betty”. Sure beats Suits
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Nice one Penguinite. It took me a while before I remembered that some mothers do have ’em.
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Betty was lovely. The exact opposite of Meaghan.
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In the US Congressthing Jerry Nadler’s office gets raided.
The Hodgetwins posted on Farcebook:
Here is an article from The Gothamist:
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Ex-presidents are fair game. Just sayin’.
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Considering the wars in which Australians have fought, starting with the Boer War, for how many of them were we prepared prior to the declarations of war, or the outbreak of hostilities?
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How prepared can anyone be for war?
Certainly Australia isn’t prepared now and with most industry shut down war would be unsustainable for more than a week to ten days, especially with limited fuel reserves and domestic production limited and oil exploration mostly illegal.
You can’t run a war on windmills and solar panels.
Australia followed Britain in a declaration of war against Germany in WW1 and WW2. And also followed Britain in the declaration of war against the Empire of Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack. Australia was still a colony when the Second Boer War started but Britain did declare war and Australia sent colonial troops.
Here is a list of wars involving Australia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Australia?wprov=sfla1
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Dare I say that a war run on windmills and solar panels might be “mostly peaceful”. Especially without motorized transport.
Going back to throwing rocks and hitting each other with sticks would be a major advance in world peace.
Except of course if the other side uses anything more technologically advanced than sticks and stones.
And even then the war would be short and everybody could welcome their side’s slide into slavery.
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Very, actually.
Move in the right circles, listen to the right people, those with REAL understanding and a track record of accuracy, for starters.
Even as WW2 was looming, smart europeans saw the writing on the wall and acted. They got out fast and survived. It’s the same now for the EU.
How many readers have any real independence of “the system” right now? Significant food and consumable reserves?
Or will you all wait until d-day, like everyone did with the Covid lockdowns and join giant queues panic buying at the last minute?
You’ll need more than a few weeks worth of stuff this time.
All those predictions are lining up like ducks aren’t they…
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/australias-trade-would-be-fatally-exposed-in-a-us-china-war/
Decisions about whether to continue sailing to Australia during a conflict would be made in overseas boardrooms and capitals. The Australian government has no leverage to force the owners of these ships to continue to service our continent. Australia’s national interests may well not be the paramount concern.
Nor does the Australian government have the option to turn to Australian-flagged vessels. Australia’s shipping list contains only a handful of domestically owned and flagged cargo ships available in case of war.
In fact, the biggest vessel (by length) that the government could take into service is the Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry.
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and https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/chinas-strategy-for-conquering-taiwan-without-firing-a-shot/
While Taiwan has built air raid shelters, Chung notes it still lacks hardened logistics hubs to safeguard water, food and energy in wartime.
Just to say – I make you right!
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Follow powerful friends to the end. Poor Oz clutching at mothers skirt for approbation (and security) and go and fight in other lands and invade them in the name of freedom. Yep, we glorify that.
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Yep. WWI.
Gavrilo Princip pulled the trigger.
20 million human beings died.
Lemmings are sane by comparison.
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FWIW
“Breaking: ‘Targeted Terror Attack’ in Boulder UPDATE”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/01/breaking-targeted-terror-attack-in-boulder-n3803357
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Using “human shields” in Gaźa and the Węst Bank:
Here’s an interview transcript with “Breaking the Silence”, a whistleblower group of former ⅠDF soldiers.
The “neighbor procedure” was banned by their Supreme Court years ago … but now it’s back as the “mosquito protocol” … (sounds like the same thing to me, just a name change).
One example:
An 80-year-old man was used as a human shield. Soldiers “tied an explosive cord around his neck, then forced him to search abandoned buildings. After he finished the mission, he was ordered to flee, but then [another unit] fatally shot him and his wife.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/29/israeli_soldiers_using_palestinians_human_shields
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The Israeli military strictly prohibits the use of human shields, unlike your Gazan comrades who routinely build their terrorist headquarters within hospitals, schools, civilian apartments, UN offices etc.. Any violations by individual IDF soldiers are routinely investigated and severely punished if alleged violators are found guilty.
Also, there is no evidence that the story you quote is true or even half true. If it was, the BBC and ABC would be endlessly reporting it. And they certainly aren’t averse to reporting complete fabrications either.
In any case, the terrorists just have to give hostages back and the war is pretty well over.
Why is that so hard to understand?
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A false allegation in there: in fact I don’t have any comrades.
If I’m loyal to anything it’s my knowledge of History and Human Nature.
What do you think of the “Breaking The Silence” organization?
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If you are not a duck, don’t quack.
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Surely Israel will annihilate the remnants of Gaza, destroy its wells and salt its earth once the last hostage has been recovered; that Gilad Shalit was held for over five years exemplifies the appetite your Palestinian freedom fighter has for the captivity of peoples inferior to him.
Still though they’re not all bad as nearly three thousand of his pals have been issued visas by the Labor government https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/defence-and-foreign-affairs/thousands-of-gazan-visas-approved-by-albanese-government-without-manual-security-checks-leaving-intelligence-agencies-scrambling/news-story/119b083f03f5256a3c96fa818e6d15c7.
How long before a fourth flag, that bogus Palestinian thing, adorns the stage for official government statements? Dutton will be spinning in his grave eh.
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First line of the article you linked.
When the first line starts out as a blatant lie you’ve got to be skeptical about the narrative and presentation of the rest of it.
The lie is the “without evidence” part.
Firstly, what are hostages if they are not a human shield? Surely the author is not claiming that there aren’t any actual hostages.
Hostages alone is enough evidence to prove that first line is a lie.
Then you have the fact that Hamas has built tunnels under civilian areas.
Plus they position military assets and facilities within civilian areas in the hope Israel won’t risk an attack for fear of collateral damage.
Of course for these latter items the evidence relies on vision and information provided by Israel, the UN, and the media. So feel free to say it’s just propaganda.
I’m not actually going to dispute that Israeli soldiers use Palestinian locals as a human shield. Because to me whether it is actually true or not is irrelevant. If it’s not true then it’s simply nothing to see here. If it is true then it is actually completely justified even if it is directly against official Israeli policy / law and other war conventions. If it’s true, to me it’s simply a consequence of Hamas utilising civilian areas as a shield and a consequence of Hamas’ attacks on Israel for many years. Plus the PLO’s before then. Plus the many other groups that attack Israel.
If these groups don’t want Israel to exist then take it up with the UN. They created Israel.
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Do you think people should know about a group like “Breaking The Silence”, or not?
I think they’re entitled to have a voice. You can reject it, that’s your choice.
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Custer Van Cleef,
This whistleblower group of former IDF soldiers absolutely *should* be allowed to speak out.
An equivalent group of disaffected Hamas soldiers should also be given a voice.
I suspect there are a number, but it might be harder for them to speak out than the Israelis.
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Sure. Good for everyone to know about a group like Breaking The Silence.
Everyone should know that they claim to be a group of veteran Israeli soldiers who are against Israel’s occupation of territories. Which really hasn’t been a thing since 2005, and the cessation of such has caused more problems for Israel.
And that they make claims about things such as Israel undertaking “ethnic cleansing” which is rubbish. If Israel does that then they’re really bad at it given Gaza is still full of Palestinians and 20% of Israel’s population is Arab.
That’s not to pretend that Israeli soldiers haven’t done some bad things.
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There used to be Heralds.
Each King’s Heralds would record for posterity the glorious actions of the good King and the atrocities of the bad King.
Fortunately, we in the modern age have journalism.
As modern people that believe in and follow Science … we now benefit from an unbiased accounting of atrocities.
Curiously, atrocities are mostly carried out by 19 or 20 year old (gender privileged) men that have been carefully trained to follow orders that have only been properly ‘followed’ if there are no atrocities.
Of course, there is the problem of being 19 or 20 and put in a mortally dangerous situation that you do not understand.
And you do understand what will make it possible for you get home and take advantage of that gender privilege that nature has made pretty much the total focus of your attention.
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FWIW
Maybe time to change your major?
“CHANGE: “Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment.”
https://instapundit.com/723149/#disqus_thread
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Can code cutters learn to mine or are their hands too soft?
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CHRIS MITCHELL – Western media’s useful idiots embolden Hamas
Too much reporting about Gaza is presented by people who have no clue about Israel, its history and purpose.
The J@wish state is motivated by a central creed: “Never again”.
Yet on October 7, 2023, a fascist Isl@mic death cult, not much different from ISIS, crossed the border into Israel from Gaza to take the lives of 1200 innocents on a S@bbath morning and capture 260 hostages, many from a young people’s dance party for peace.
Western reporting seems to indicate most journalists don’t know that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and left the strip to govern itself. Hamas won an election in 2007, set about murdering its rivals from the Palestinian Authority and then refused to have another election.
For this behaviour, Hamas won the support of Iran and Qatar. Yet Israel was subjected to historically inverted arguments that it was an apartheid state committing genocide.
Hamas is winning the global media war by deliberately sacrificing Palestinian civilians.
Israelis also feel the loss of support from former allies – such as Australia. But they understand the political purpose of Hamas’s strategy to hide in tunnels under hospitals and schools.
What Israelis don’t understand is why so many Western journalists can’t tell the truth about this strategy. They see the willingness of Western journalists to believe the most ridiculous anti-Israeli propaganda as pure anti-S@mitism.
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There
evernever was a Palestine.1. Where was it and where were the Borders?
2. Name just one of the Rulers.
3. What currency did this so called Nation use?
Many other questions to be asked.
The UN General Assmbly Assembly in 1946 approved the beginning of Israel and Palestine. Then the Arabs started every War ever since and got beaten by Israel every time.
Wake-up you Pollies
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Never mind was I should have typed
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Never was. lol. So hard to type from an Eye Phone.
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I’m guessing the most famous ruler was Emporer Hadrian who gave it the name Syria Palaestina.
The repeatedly rebellious people of Judaea were in the Empire’s bad books … and their land was officially allocated to the Philistines instead. There’s a lesson here: pay yer tax and don’t piss off the Emporer.
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FWIW
“CBS Margaret Brennan Very Concerned New CDC Guidelines Could Impact Big Pharma Bottom Line
June 1, 2025 | Sundance | 178 Comments”
“This interview is really easy to boil down. 86% of American parents do not want to give their child a COVID-19 vaccination. 88% of pregnant American Women do not want to get a COVID-19 vaccination. However, the majority of CBS News advertising funding comes from Big Pharma.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/01/cbs-margaret-brennan-very-concerned-new-cdc-guidelines-could-impact-big-pharma-bottom-line/
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As obnoxious twerps go, Margaret Brennan is right up there.
Although of course she just reads out what others write and what others say into her earpiece.
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FWIW
A sign of the times
SDA “Blog notes”
“After many years of warnings, requests and reminders, the persistence of a few readers to troll one another ad nauseam has forced my hand.
Comments have been reconfigured, and anonymous comments will no longer be published.
You can sign up for a WordPress account here.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/01/blog-notes-57/#comments
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Just listening to Their ABC explaining about Aurora Australis visible in southern Australia last night.
Do people not know about such things?
They are explaining it as though it’s a totally unfamiliar phenomenon to them.
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FWIW
“WATCH Canadian Senator SILENCES Entire Crowd of Jew-Hating Canadians at House of Commons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTPHEhZM2ZE
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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth wants Australia to increase its defence expenditure to 3.5%, partly so we can help counter Chicomm aggression.
And why not? Why should we not pay our fair share, especially as the US helps protect Australia?
This is why TRUMP is making the US more isolationist. He’s sick of seeing other countries rely on US defence but not contribute. Or fundamentally believe in values such as freedom and free speech.
And our PM is a communist with strong Chicomm sympathies.
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Albo Sleazywould rather waste money on things like the Voice than protect Australia.
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Now the Baltic States are full of Na$is and must be cleansed by mother Russia to save their minority brothers living there. What next – Finland, Poland??.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkIzMcTiIM
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mmmm one ranting youtube video, very persuasive and yes totally indicative of the Russian position for sure.
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The ranting is coming from Russian officials…
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Farage warns UK ‘is in peril’ as more than 1200 cross the english channel in a day – defense minister admits country lost control of illegal migration
The shocking figure means 14,600 people have been smuggled across the water so far in 2025, a 30% rise on the same point last year.”
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has shifted the blame for the spike in arrivals to ‘favourable weather conditions’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/kingdom-without-borders-farage-warns-uk-is-peril/
The poor old UK and EU are becoming south Africa style cesspits, and it’s out of control.
Then the war starts, they get drafted and the free stuff ends.
Guess what happens.
/not that you need to guess
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A breath of fresh air.
‘If Sussan Ley is to redefine the party, she must begin by rejecting a failed orthodoxy. Net zero is no longer just flawed policy, it is her clearest chance to lead.’ (Nick Cater / Oz)
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FWIW
On the doxxig etc of “Datarepublican”
“Vampires and Mirrors”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/02/28/vampires-and-mirrors/
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FWIW
Phil Duncan looks at June
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6J_1lbR727yUrcm9m140Ug
Mightn’t be good for wind farms?
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Smartphones in North Korea
https://x.com/yashar/status/1928817432858107983
We’re not far behind.
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Absolutely. In fact, please explain how Australia is different to North Korea.
Referring to the three main points of that video:
1) We have the Australia’s e Safety Kommissar who can and does block information just like in North Korea.
2) Words are changed to suit the Official Narrative, just like in North Korea, e.g. long-accepted place names changed to native ones, the meaning of the word “vaccine” changed, conservatives are called “far right extremists”, and judges state obvious absurdities such as “A person’s sex can be changed.” etc..
https://catholicweekly.com.au/tickle-v-giggle-if-its-unimpeachable-that-biological-sex-can-change-then-impeach-me/
3) Screen shots automatically taken of phone every 5 seconds in North Korea, in Australia ISPs are legally obliged to log Australian’s Internet activities and keep records for two years, just like in North Korea.
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/national-security/lawful-access-telecommunications/data-retention-obligations
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There’s a number of differences … the North Koreans have not paid vast sums of money to France for submarines which were never even worked on … nor are they likely to pay even bigger sums of money to the USA for Virginia class submarines which probably also will never actually be delivered.
Also … Australia has not implemented the method of punishment by killing three generations of your family … and Australia still lags behind on the implementation of slave labour camps.
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Interesting how my post gets 1 upvote but replies get 6…
I don’t post to garner followers but to raise awareness, before YOUR time runs out.
My time is limited on this speck of dust but yours is equally so.
I have ZERO interest in followers. I’m not on an ego trip.
I’ve been doing this since 1980 and what YOU see now is what I saw back then.
I have sources you have no idea of, beyond Martin Armstrong, but will reveal in due course as my time is running out.
“The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long”. How true…
You will all go “Whooaahh”
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Not many votes up or down as you gave a Utube ref. with little description. Those who bothered to open the link posted up on what they found.
Your longer posts get more ticks.
Time running out?
‘Ye know not the hour’.
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Too right JC, where is Arnie when you need him! In the last few years I sense many “delays” in inputs and lots of scripts running my old machine that I have no authority over. No doubt NSA is hoovering up this (and of course the obligatory “cloud” contents). They are pretty sneaky processes too- as soon as you try and find them they suddenly disappear. In the good old days these would just have been “Virus” or “Trojan” – now is a feature of the OS!
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For a horrific account of vaccine injury suffered by, ironically, an Australian toxicologist who was pressured into being vaccinated to retain his employment.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/covid/an-injured-toxicologist-on-covid-mrna-vaccines-part-iii/
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Thanks for that Vicki, poor Dr Burchall has my deepest respect. The gaslighting of clearly injured is not good medical practice, however the ethical docs are a 0.1% minority. Here I sit, pure blooded, with my Brother dead from 2 turbocancers in 4 months from diagnosis, my Prof Med neighbour with lung cancer (non smoker), and my favorite surgeon dead of cancer at 72. My Pharmacist cousin with a damaged hear from myocarditis. Hmmm . Nothin to see.
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At 55 Days still Covid Positive after finally 1st Covid, no Symptons
Used Curasept ADS 220 Chlorhexidine Mouth Rinse 200 ml & Compound Chemist from Victoria Provodine Iodine Nasal Spay for last 3 Days before
70 Day Covid Test
Finally Negative
Still not vaccinated, did not use Pfizer Paxlovid which was prescribed (bit concerned that GPdid not know was Pfizer)
As Retired and 80, unvaccinated & continuing with Quercetin with Bromelain, NAC, Vit D, Zinc, Vit C, etc
Still worth reading to keep an eye on what is happening – https://c19early.org/
COVID-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 5,802 studies
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Found another use for Quercetin, that I was unaware of. These days if bitten by an insect I can get quite a big reaction. Not anaphylactic, but dont feel good. In the past took an anti-histamine like Zyrtec to settle things down. Quercetin also has the same effect and having some COVID quercetin still, tried it after being bit by a spider last month. Worked beautifully. Ahem… not medical advice, of course.
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The oldest wind turbine installations in Australia are reaching end of operating life, the oldest will not be replaced because the repowering cost would be too high and there are some others due for evaluation in the not too distant future;
https://frontline.asn.au/news/wind-farm-to-close-as-cost-of-repowering-is-too-high/
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I saw wind turbines in Scotland in 1991. They would be scap metal by now. Lol
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Scrap or crap metal. lol
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Australia’s oldest wind system has already shut down. After only 15 years. And yes, it’s not going to be replaced.
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Was going to silently file it under interesting but today’s story of an ethnic gentleman claiming racism against a MacDonalds employee has given it light as a cultural comment leveller.
Yesterday driving away from local strip shopping center carpark (ie shop then broad sidewalk before road) and elderly gentleman just coming through the automatic doors and obviously approaching the ped crossing so I stopped.
Gentleman got to middle of crossing and waved acknowledgement. Got to end of strip, where there is another ped crossing and this time encountered 4 of the MacDonald complainers kin with the lead one a couple of steps onto the right half (to me) of the crossing, reading her phone and yelling back to the 2 walking together a couple of paces behind then the fourth a further 4-5 steps even further back. I stopped in unison with the phone reader who must have got to the juicy bit of the message as she excitedly spoke to the pair as they walked past her and proceeded past me. Then #4 arrived and both viewed the phone as they finally walked past me off the crossing.
Then today got a delivery and another kin who walked up the drive all the while talking on his hands-free phone before breaking into English to check the addressee lived here and then asked my name then a quick “sign here” before continuing his phone conversation while performing his version of what I call the “beehive hokey pokey” dance. This is where you simulate someone putting their hand into a hive to steal some honey, but a bee flies past, and you pull your hand back. Please note Mr Delivery guy not all white people sign a quick X so keep your hands still and wait for the device to be handed back to you.
As for the hen party on the pedestrian crossing phone worship may cross all cultural bounds however common-sense safety should also as far as car v pedestrian weight ratios is concerned. LOL.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmU7iil_bY
Beware of smartphone zombie signs…
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LoL, I was just looking at a website for humanoid industrial robots and I had to tick a Captcha to certify that I wasn’t a robot.
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I watched watched a Scandi short sci fi film last night. It started with a young woman struggling to complete an are you a robot Captcha. Turned out she was a robot, much angst followed ending with a flight off a car park roof.
Was quite well done and had some interesting discussion during the angst section on the nature of being real, or not.
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the film if anyone is interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU
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Thanks. Will watch.
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FWIW
“The Story of Information Theory: from Morse to Shannon to ENTROPY”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBFaNgg4wk
Via SDA
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There is now The Enhanced Games whereby athletes can take whatever performance-enhancing substances they like, as long as they are FDA approved, although can be used “off label”.
I expect shortened life expectancy. I once read that athletes were asked if they could take a drug that would let them win a gold medal but it meant they would only live another ten years, would they take it. Most said they would. Well, this is their chance.
On the subject of alternative sporting codes, they should also have one for transgenders. Get them out of women’s events.
https://www.enhanced.com/
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FWIW
“Ukraine Carries Out Widespread Suicide Mission Attacks in Russia – White House Not Informed in Advance
June 1, 2025 | Sundance | 106 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/01/ukraine-carries-out-widespread-suicide-mission-attacks-in-russia-white-house-not-informed-in-advance/
A devastating blow or the grandstanding that will cost them Odessa and southern Ukraine?
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In comments there
“Sundance (@admin)
June 1, 2025 11:27 pm
Reply to Gulag escapee
There’s also an important detail to remember. People are laughing at the long-range Russian bombers being left out in the open, vulnerable to attack. However, their visibility is required as part of several nuclear agreements between the USA and Russia. Our long range nuclear capable bombers, covered under the agreements, are also visible.
Zelenskyy is playing with fire by targeting them, which also explains why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance.
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“why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance.”
I’m sure the Yanks and the Brits were behind it, this sort of operation takes a lot of planning and intelligence resources the Ukies are incapable of. Its just that the Deep State military wouldn’t tell Trump officially so he can have ‘plausible deniability’.
They’re lucky I’m not Putin or I’d think- ‘NATO are obviously planning a nuclear attack by destroying our strategic air force that has nothing to do with the Ukraine war, and Russia is finished if they attack now. Its better if I attack first and take them with us..” Then press the button for the world’s greatest number of atomic weapons to be used.
The only annoying thing is that when Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne are radioactive ruins this site won’t be working so we can’t argue over who was right about all this… ..and will China get targeted by the USA when Europe and America are smoking ruins? The world can truck along quite happily without the West, but maybe ‘On the Beach’ is correct.
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This is about as devastating to Russia as an attack on the Davis Monthan Air Force Base would be to the USA. Davis Monthan is a desert storage facility for thousands of stored aircraft. Would it spectacular? Yes. Would it change anything in daily operations? No.
Just more theatre in the lead up to the next round of peace talks.
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I’d wait for a day or two for quality journalists (no sarcasm!) to have satellite pix verified and cross-verified.
This is 2025, the truth will out.
As to Putin’s reaction – there will be none.
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FWIW
“Another day, another mRNA”
“Latest news from the (no good, very bad, harmful) vaccine battle”
“Finding new ways that the Covid and other so-called vaccines are actually hurting those they are claiming to help gets easier with each passing day. Even the legacy (coverup) media are being forced to report on all the adverse effects caused by nearly every vaccine on the market.”
“Just this week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that the COVID vaccine would no longer be recommended for healthy children, pregnant women, and young adults, which is a huge development. With its being removed from the childhood “schedule”, the shots should no longer be required for school attendance. Thousands of young lives will be saved.”
More at
https://rushbabe49.com/2025/06/01/latest-news-from-the-no-good-very-bad-harmful-vaccine-battle/
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From another blog
“Heard an amusing little quip at the scrap yard some time ago, while the proprietor was scraping some aluminum coated wire I had brought in… “Wire is a lot like people. You have to scrape the coating off to see what’s really inside. ” “
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https://fackel.substack.com/p/the-greatest-grift-of-all-7-climatologists
Mountains become unstable and eventually collapse because the material configuration and geometry change. This means that the effect of gravity is the actual driving force
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permafrost expert Christophe Lambiel from the University of Lausanne also expressed his conviction [that’s the key word here: note that there is no empirical evidence for that conviction] that the rockfall and the subsequent events are linked to climate change…
According to the expert, he knows of no other landslide in the Alps similar to the one in Blatten [I’ve never been to China, by the way, hence I cannot say anything about it until I’ve done some attribution studies]. The Birch Glacier, which was already flowing downwards rapidly [note that the expert™ just confirmed that the glacier was flowing downwards—now ask yourself: why, just why, would glaciers do so? Because they are not receding, i.e., the Birch glacier was growing], accelerated even more due to the rock load and finally collapsed, said the Lausanne professor. This was an unprecedented sequence [I thought that glaciers, when expanding, naturally flow downwards due to—gravity?].
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https://fackel.substack.com/p/the-greatest-grift-of-all-6-swiss
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https://fackel.substack.com/p/windmills-crash-govt-refuses-to-enforce
Raine Olaf Ørsnes lives close to the Sørmarkfjellet wind farm in Flatanger in northern Trøndelag…Ørsnes is most surprised by all the small glass fibres they have found on the mountain, after blades from two wind turbines have fallen down.
‘The big pieces are quite frightening. It looks ugly to say the least, but the problem is the small pieces.’
Motvind Norge [an anti-windmill association] fears that the small glass fibres will disappear into the vegetation. They believe there is a risk to both nature and animals [check out the top-linked pieces: there is considerable risk].
‘Everything from entire airfoils to thousands of bits and pieces are now part of the landscape. This is pollution on an industrial level—right in the middle of Norwegian nature’, says John Fiskvik from Motvind Norge.
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