The DDOS continues in some shapeshifting form. While someone appears to have turned off the bot farm in Vietnam the traffic continues from the US. Apologies to readers…
We will overcome. Thanks for your patience. — Jo
I’m just trying to post a note in the unthreaded tonight. It looks like I won’t be able to finish a post tonight. Very difficult to get any windows working normally…
Sorry for your troubles, Jo. On a lighter note this reminds me of a puzzling error message from a Microsoft product years ago — “Window will not fit”. But my favorite is from a 3D navigation program — “You cannot see this object because it is behind you.” AI should have some fun responses but I have yet to hear of any,
This sounds like a message I use to get on one of the very early versions of Windows (version 1 or 2?), when windows were tiled onto the screen and could not overlap.
The left’s shifting attitudes towards free speech have become blatant in the last five years. From the widespread call for censoring covid dissenters to the repression of the Hunter Biden laptop story to the assault on conservative social media to the intensifying campaign for a dragnet censorship against “misinformation,” liberals have greatly narrowed the protections they believe speech deserves.
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Now, except when it comes to the speech of favored interest groups, the left no longer advocates a consistent defense of free speech. Indeed, the only way to mount a principled defense of speech is to defend the speech of those with whom one disagrees. To the left, censorship is no longer a speech issue. It has become a tool within their arsenal of political weaponry.
Instances of leftist-inspired speech harassment span the spectrum of contemporary life. A pro-life position can subject you to FBI harassment. A skepticism on lockdowns or mandated vaccines can brand you as a social outcast. And an adherence to certain religious views can subject you to innumerable sanctions.
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Instead of a belief in truth, the progressive left promotes scientific and bureaucratic expertise. This advocacy of technocratic expertise flourished during the New Deal and continues to characterize the progressive left in the United States, as exemplified in the Covid lockdowns and the climate change debates. However, this reliance on expertise—rather than a belief in the broader concept of truth—renders the marketplace of ideas irrelevant, since the general population by definition does not possess a specialized scientific or technical expertise.
With its loss of faith in truth or in principles of unity that transcend the divergent interest groups in society, the left possesses no message that can unify a diverse society.
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Even if the left still believes in truth, they may think it holds a monopoly on such truth and that its ideas are the only correct and enlightened ideas. And there is no need for a marketplace of ideas if one side already has a monopoly on truth. This attitude may explain the growing liberal intolerance for dissent—an intolerance that can even condone violence, as exemplified by the university professor who called for all men who did not vote for Kamala Harris to be lined up and shot.
Jo, this is a good reminder of how hard you work to keep this site available to publish information that keeps us informed. Some thank you Chocolates are headed your way.
Thanks for the reminder, Ric.
For some of us residing in the USA, this is relevant.
“Social Security payments in July 2025 will be distributed on the following Wednesdays: July 2, July 9, July 16, and July 23, depending on the recipient’s birth date. Those with birthdays from the 1st to the 10th will receive their payment on July 9, those from the 11th to the 20th on July 16, and those born after the 20th on July 23.” First disbursement is supplemental $$$.
After July 9th I will hit the Tip Jar – – that can be found at the upper right of this page.
I think it is time for us all to send Jo some more chocolates. Getting help on this issue must be costing Jo, not just in financial terms, but also in energy. A small contribution from us all will help no end.
The lead up to the Tiananmen Square anniversary and following weeks no doubt caused any anti CCP content anywhere to be targetted by the CCP and puppets…
It was interesting watching the Lamestream Media report on Greta Thunberg’s provocative trip to Gaza into a declared prohibited war zone.
They kept on describing the vessel she was on as a “ship” but a ship is normally accepted as having a mass of 500 tonnes or more and “a ship can carry a boat but a boat can’t carry a ship”. And there are other differences. She was on a boat. The lack of general knowledge of “journalists” is appalling.
Anyway, now Thunberg has been arrested and fed, before the Israelis send her home they intend to show her the videos of the October 7th atrocities the terrorists she supports proudly took themselves and posted online and livestreamed.
And she and her comrades had zero concern for the Israeli hostages taken and still held by the terrorists or the Oct 7th atrocities which started the war in the first place.
Whether she’s shocked by those images or not will be a good test of her character, or lack thereof.
Hi DM. I doubt the Doom Goblin will have any clue. To quote Thomas Sowell “Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” And they don’t come much more useless.
The boat, called the Madleen (12 person) is named “after Gaza’s first female fisherwoman“: [How do they know that?] is discussed and the full “crew” with country origin shown: Greta Thunberg Sails on Madleen Aid Ship to Gaza Where 66,000 Children Face Severe Malnutrition – Karmactive
MSM referring to the small yacht as a ship is intentional, otherwise news recipients might wake up that the small yacht can only carry aid for very few people, mostly the crew. This exercise was only ever a publicity stunt!
The spokespoppet must have a few arrest warrants on her record by now.
The reason why the meeja called her boat a ship is mainly through ignorance but also to ‘big up’ the act of idiocy.
The MSM has to stop calling her a “Climate Change Activist”, shes just a “professional” activist. You know, when you become a professional, you get paid to do what you do, like professional sports players, and then the oldest profession in the world. First it was climate change, then it’s Palestine, what’s the next new cause is she going to attach her name to?
I suspect the point of the exercise was to demonstrate to the world the IDF has a naval sea blockade as well as a land blockade and will defy any attempts to feed the starving people in Gaza.
Regardless of your view on this the boat/ship was a propagander stunt designed to make Israel once again look poorly on the international stage.
Of course the aim of the mission was publicity. Which is basically what they had stated.
Unfortunately for the those on the boat they didn’t get any mistreatment from the Israeli’s. A real publicity stunt missed opportunity. They even felt comfortable enough to accept the welcoming hospitality of sandwiches and water.
The Israeli’s have kindly forwarded the limited supplies the boat brought.
No one’s opinion will have been changed by this stunt unless it is broadcast with a healthy amount of false information.
Given Israel is at war they are entitled to blockade non-neutral borders.
They have taken the aid being transported and are delivering it, so they have not contravened any regulations pertaining to blocking neutral aid.
They have acted in self defence.
They have intercepted a vessel that had broadcast its intention to breach non-neutral borders.
Israel is entitled do act the way it did under international law.
Like I said. This stunt does not change any opinions unless it is broadcast with a healthy amount of misinformation.
I understand what you are saying strop but the boat was/is not a legitimate military target and collective punishment is considered a war crime. I don’t think this will help Israel in the future re UN security council votes etc etc.
If she should be heavily fined I am sure I can rely on denizens of this blog to flock to GOfundme and pay it for her. Perhaps chip in a bit extra to help pay for future fines of this professional activist?
Pretty sure her “character” has been tested enough to tell normal folks all they need to know.
I actually feel a bit sorry for her. Her parents are behind this from the beginning and should be ashamed.
Apparently they all refused – refused! – to watch the video.
Maybe it should have been a condition of their repatriation that they do actually watch it.
And then the little climate doom-goblin was sent packing on an airplane – which she has so bravely refused to do in her own escapades as some sort of protest against “fossil fuels” and to “protect the planet” or something.
There just seems to be something inherently wrong with this young person. From her upbringing to her “activism”, to her very appearance, she just seems very odd. No doubt she’s being led along by those just using her, even exploiting her reported autism/aspergers (?) – but at the same time she is actually going along with it all, and seemingly enjoying it.
Naltrexone was designed to inhibit opioid receptors without activating them and hence used to block the stimulatory effects of morphine and heroin. It was noted that in certain patients being treated with naltrexone for an opioid addiction many reported significant secondary benefit when being weaned off naltrexone. This group of patients had chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions and reported improvements whilst using the lower dosages of naltrexone. There have also been recent anecdotal reports of cancer resolution following the use of low doses of naltrexone (LDN). However, the mechanism of action is unclear.
Areas covered
We review three mechanisms through which LDN can influence cancer progression; namely, (a) antagonism of receptors to which LDN binds, which include toll-like receptors 7–9 that lead to IL-6 suppression b) modulation of immune function in patients; and c) direct inhibition of signaling pathways involved in cancer cell control, including the priming of pro-apoptotic pathways.
Expert opinion
Considering the increase in the number of anecdotal reports of activity, there will likely be a bigger drive toward using LDN in the oncological setting. These reports support clinical trials of LDN in cancer, especially when given in combination with certain chemotherapy.
Just add it to the list of old, cheap, re-purposed pharmaceuticals that will never be used. Because there’s no money to be made from them and no-one will fund the necessary research. It’s sad, but true.
Apart from her activities against science, reason and basic human decency, another worrying thing about Thunberg is that she’s seen as a role model by many young and indoctrinated children.
Those children might think it’s acceptable to drop put of school and become an anti-intellectual, just like her.
The difference will be, most other children won’t have stage managers and financial backers like Thunberg.
The doom goblin is one cancellation away from obscurity.
It only takes one misstep and her whole world becomes instant trash. It could be as simple as her being on the Epstein list, (not likely of course), or declaring that she sponsored Trump in his run for president.
The outrage could end up driving kids back to school.
Okay, that last bit was too far, but you get the drift. She’s a shop with one product.
I see Greta’s treason as a good sign.
Such individuals are more sensitive to “atmospheric changes” than average person – pure survival mechanism, otherwise they would not exist.
So, maybe the AGW shamans themselves started to notice EV fir, and Iberian blackouts, and Trump the Unstoppable, and, and,..
What else can an illiterate, unskilled girl can do – to work in the fields or on an assembly line?
It is a constant battle between politicians (aided and indoctrinated by Bureaucracy) and the public.
One side wants to “be in control” and hates those who show up mistakes. The other wants less dictates about their life but only boil over if things get too hard.
So the EU bureaucrats keep being in new rules until one of their member States suddenly votes in a less compliant government.
The EU bureaucrats think the solution is to force the government to change. Lately they are getting more and more opposition which causes them to try more repression.
Thus “right wing” parties gain more votes e.g. France, Germany, Austria, Poland, The Netherlands etc.
It doesn’t help the EU when many of there policies are repressive and stupid.
We can look forward to the EU being disbanded, or at least losing any power.
The same applies to the UK where the “public service” wants desperately to rejoin the EU – indeed they almost got their way with Starmer.
Starmer will go very shortly and possibly a new election.
The same “we must have more control” runs rampent through Australia, esp. in Victoria. The incompetence and mistakes will last only as long as the money flows, and Australia is headed into a sharp depression. Externally our trade will suffer as China collapses and we have little thought anywhere about all but “we are the lucky country”. It took Argentina many decades to change their ideas.
“It took Argentina many decades to change their ideas.”
Yes, its a hard time for everyone until they finally reject the Left and regain some sense. It takes quite a few elections to even get a capitalist party and up and recognised before it can take over the mantle of of being Right. The words Liberal or Coalition are total poison this decade.
I don’t think defunct bureaucracies ever die, they keep in sucking money and being useless, so the EU parliament will have to cede control to NATO, who will have their day in the money-pit and then some new super-bureaucracy is formed for some new hobgoblin. No-one will get fired and the costs will continue.
I’m expecting a new Europe-wide climate-health organisation to be set up so failing politicians can retain some income, and that will involve thousands of bureaurats checking on each country’s energy system then telling them what to do in order to avoid another Spanish incident.
I think democracy in Europe is healthy, looking at the recent Polish election where a right winger won.
In Hungary we now see Orban supporting Ukraine against Russia, wonders will never cease. He knows that China will soon give up support for Russia and he is moving fast.
So I disagree that democracy around the world is on life support, its a volatile system but as Churchill remarked, its better than autocracy.
Words are cheap, there is a regime change taking place as we speak. Ji is under house arrest because of his autocratic style and he will soon disappear.
The new broom will give up Putin because of secondary sanctions and they reckon its an opportunity to get back Vladivostok.
Let us be reasonable – Chinese could’ve taken South Siberia few hundreds ( a thousand?) years before Russians ever reached Pacific shores.
Mid 17th Century ataman Khabarov brought few dozen cossacks there to rule over sparse and primitive locals, say – like first conquistadors took over Incas .
Now there are what ? – half billion people live in South America, most of the mixed heritage.
Compare to 4 million Russian population of the strip along whole Chinese border, under 40 million in the whole Russia East of Ural mountains.
I guess Chinese policy there equal to that of here – Emperor Xi allows the locals to chop the trees, to mine the ores and grow crops as long as they behave.
Just rumour and innuendo by China watchers, no statement by the CCP yet. Unlike the US they don’t telegraph regime instability, so we’ll have to read between the lines to discover the truth.
Late last month this statement came out and its not by Xi Jinping.
‘In a surprise move with political reverberations at home and abroad, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed the need to firmly maintain “scientific,” “democratic” and “law based” policymaking.’ (Nikkei Asia)
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
“The Left Wants Its Kent State
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But unlike the Vietnam War when there were lots of Americans who thought it was stupid at best for us to be there today there are basically zero Americans who want an illegal ******* from Mexico, El Salvador or Venezuela to******their wife or daughter.”
“California Dreamin’
“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway”
“Yes, I’m watching events in LA and am simply going to note that if you think the protests are grassroots, organic, etc. I’ve got some bridges for sale you would love. Nothing says organic like pallets of bricks being set up in areas in advance, just like the ‘summer of love’ a few years ago.”
“Big Promises, Broken Bolts: Lion, Boeing, and Nikola”
“However, the line between promise and results becomes blurred when reality sets in.
Three recent examples started with such promise of the future, only to crash and burn in front of everybody.”
“It doesn’t matter how good the marketing is; reality is stronger. Hope, fairy powder, and unicorn magic don’t create software, fabrication, logistics, or the whole business plan.
John Wooden famously said, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Each company skipped the necessary steps and felt the wrath of reality. That wrath doesn’t just affect CEOs or shareholders; it’s the communities that bought into the promises. Towns prepared for large job opportunities and increased tax bases that never materialized.”
“When he was asked this week in Saskatoon about whether his vision for “nation-building projects” included an oil pipeline, he said that any such project would need to be filled with “decarbonized” barrels of oil — a term that seemed to confuse environmentalists and oil advocates alike.” ”
I just heard, yet to be confirmed, that Hillel Fuld* who was banned at the last minute from coming to Australia to speak at a charity fund-raiser, due to what the Minister Tony Burke regards as unacceptable anti-terrorist political opinions, has also been banned from doing a video link at the same event he was to speak at. It’s not even clear if banning the video link is legally possible, even in One Party State Australia.
“When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was recently elected as the new pope, and took the name Leo XIV, there was much speculation about his political views. His latest homily reveals much. The word “borders” appears 12 times. Here’s but one example:”
“Here’s a thought: Please take the bold initiative to knock down all the walls around the Vatican and remove all security. After all, that’s analogous to what you’re insisting every country should do. You first.”
I am always left dumbfounded by the people calling for open borders.
These same people would never leave their front doors open for anyone to enter and occupy their own homes.
Their stupidity and hypocrisy on display for all to see.
“Another Chinese Researcher Caught Smuggling Agricultural Bioweapons into Michigan
June 9, 2025 | Sundance | 4 Comments”
“After reading the details of this arrest involving the smuggling of biological Roundworms, parasitic nematodes that can infect humans and animals, I am definitely adding Ivermectin and fenbendazole to the crisis kit.”
Just saw this at News.com.. There does seem to be a strange reluctance to actually call crimes and violence as what they are. Reminiscent of the riots in Chicago where protestors were “mostly peaceful” while the backdrop showed burning buildings and rioting people.
“‘He really said that’: Local news anchor’s gaffe
Samuel Clench
A local TV reporter’s assessment of the situation in Los Angeles, yesterday, has gone a teensy bit viral online, and not for the right reasons.
Speaking over footage of cars burning in the city, the worker for ABC7, a local affiliate of America’s ABC News, offered this take.
“It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way, and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun, watching cars burn, into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and police,” he said.
Gonna editorialise for just a sec here: maybe don’t burn cars. And maybe don’t commit acts of vandalism in general. If you commit blatant crimes, law enforcement is going to have to do something. That’s how the law tends to work.”
Yet when a bunch of angry people outside the Capitol Building, who were burning no cars nor looting any businesses, are practically INVITED inside before then being confronted, most of whom just strolled around the building taking selfies, THAT is apparently an “insurrection” requiring 10 year jail terms and ruined lives. In one case, the penalty for climbing through a window was a bullet in the head.
BTW It was reported this week that trust in meejia in USA is lower then congress, used car salesmen etc.
They’ve worked so hard to achieve that lack of trust. They truly deserve the award.
RFK Jr. Orders Clean Sweep of Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel to End Decades of Corruption
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has just announced the removal of all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—the panel tasked with recommending vaccines for the American public—citing longstanding corruption, persistent conflicts of interest, lack of transparency, and a documented history of rubber-stamping vaccines without adequate scrutiny.
Unfortunately the damage is done.
Doing my usual rounds of news today I saw article after post on cerebral micro bleeds (CMB’s).
Between 1/3rd and 2/3rds of Covid affected have/will suffer from them.
Yet another unknown side effect now rising to prominence.
This is a horror show of unimaginable scope.
Wouldn’t they just develop plasmid DNA vaccines, delivered by virus if need be??
“Soon, it’ll spiral out of control and the masses will be ooohhh…” dead, or so sick they won’t care…
We no longer have the riotous upper lower-class and lower middle-class we used to have, those that own just enough to stop the Govt stealing it, and still have little enough to lose if they rebel. These days its either whiny left-wingers who won’t really revolt, or the absolute lowest classes who only revolt to loot stores.
“U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel in Stunning “Clean Sweep” ”
“It can be recalled that the ‘unsafe and ineffective’ COVID-19 vaccine was formally added to the routine immunization schedule for both children and adolescents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
It is common knowledge that COVID-19 poses no threat to young children, that mRNA vaccinations against the virus are not effective or safe and that some people have even died after receiving a COVID vaccine. But the CDC and its advisory council continue to push for childhood vaccinations despite all these facts.”
Despite never-ending rants the Arctic is warming twice (even four times!) as fast as everywhere else, it is below-zero (practically bang-on the mean) and still yet to rise above the magic 0*C line for its brief & fleeting ‘summer’…
As for Greenland’s summit: -25 C
Amundsen-Scott South Pole: -52 C
Australia’s Snowy Mountains are covered in snow, NZ’s Southern Alps are buried in snow, there’s a howling wet onshore nor’easter blowing here – the very same weather which inspired me to leave for sunny Queensland 45 years ago – it’s hot as Hades in Saudi Arabia & North Africa… where is this mythical ‘change’ the ranters keep ranting on about?
Unless, my dear Watson, it’s a dastardly underhanded trick to pull the carpet out from under humanity’s feet, leaving the masses pleading for [insert today’s govt-sponsored artificial flavour saviour]. If only it was 6 degrees warmer…
You could try Dubai for warmth. It was 46C and 47C (and humid) under the carport while we were there for two days back in May. A bit of a contrast to Cyprus which was rather cool for mid May this year; I was glad to have warm sweaters! Even on the beach near Larnaca, awaiting our flight, there was a chilly wind. Very different from the 1960s and 1970s.
Our citrus trees here in Vic. are in very poor shape now after 3/4 years of lots of rain, little rain, many days of frost, etc. ‘Mother’ Nature ain’t nice a lot of the time.
Greenland summit used to get down to minus 35C. So it has warmed an enormous amount. As you point out it is now reaching a sizzling minus 25C. Must be tough for the locals ,if any, to endure such severe Global Warming™.
‘“Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order –
In response to concerns about eroded public confidence in scientists and the alleged misuse of scientific information by federal agencies to justify political ends, President Trump’s “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order, issued May 23, aims to rebuild public trust in science and ensure federal agency decisions are informed by credible, reliable and impartial scientific evidence
My view
The first stop is to debunk the politician created fake science called Climate Change.
Normally you would expect scientific organizations and the universities to destroy the fake structure which is Climate Science. As fake as Scientology. But they are all party to this farce. The same in Australia, Britain, Canada.
There is zero truth in the slow 0.3% pa growth of Carbon Dioxide being man made, or threatening the world or being classes as a toxic pollutant and so under the Clean Air Act. The amount of CO2 which is from fossil fuel has remained at a tiny 2.0% for a century.
Once the Climate Cash stops it will change. But the universities are run by extreme left ideologues who see Climate Change as their greatest tool for funding after Chinese and other overseas students. Especially in Australia. Universities are no longer about the truth or academic excellence but massive profits for capitalist socialists who run them.
Science should not be created, validated, promulagated, legislated and enforced entirely by politicians. Including Australian Liberals, British Tories and US Republicans. Even the name Liberal in the world has changed meaning to extreme left socialist, not conservatives who believe in freedom of thought and liberty. But real and legislated enslavement by Marxist doctrine, posing as Liberal socialism.
There is no fossil fuel CO2 in the air. A tiny and constant 2.0% by direct measurement over 60 years. So it’s all a fraud. And more CO2 is being greeted by greener pastures and more food for the planet and if anything, the world is rapidly cooling accoring to NASA, starting in the Southern Hemisphere.
Anybody passing through a tertiary institution in recent years cannot be credited with having been educated, so much as trained to memorise and regurgitate implausible information cunningly masquerading as knowledge.
Being taught to think critically is now a historical artifact.
Is it not true that ‘Global Warming’, was the mind virus that overtook academia?
Causing science to become something ‘settled’ that should be ‘followed’.
Direct line to ‘Pandemic’, which has crashed the ‘knowledge hierarchy’, as noted here in previous thread.
A mass shark jumping.
Odd but telling … academia and their elite fellow CAGW cultists are the only people unaware that the shark has been jumped.
It hasn’t taken over science. Most scientists work for the government. And they are too scared to say anything. Or don’t care. It doesn’t mean they agree. But they have interesting jobs and more importantly, families and mortgages.
Prof Peter Ridd in Cairns was thrown out for disagreeing about the state of the Great Barrier Reef. He went further to prove the relevant people faked their results and their research. So he was fired for being ‘uncollegiate’. Then taken to the Supreme Court for successfully fighting his sacking. The people of Australia donated $1M to his lawyers, but the University had millions of taxpayer dollars and won just one point. So he lost his life savings too. Which is why people shut up. He was crucified at public expense. It has happened before. Government behind the fraudsters. People behind the innocent. And a serious lesson to anyone who dares disagree with politician’s Climate Change.
My point is that no one dares say anything. Except those retired or independently wealthy. And they all call it a hoax.
Interesting how foods are not required to be labelled disclosing the herbicides, pesticides and poisons used in their production but anything labelled “organic” has to be certified.
Maybe we should just label organic as “food” and everything else as poisoned. 😎
Stop being logical it only confuses the kiddies.
Like milk, it doesn’t have an ingredients listing, then look at the other “white” liquids and marvel how it takes up to 20 ingredients to make something called “milk”. the only resemblance being the colour.
One thing that I have learnt from JFK Jr is “round-up ready” variety of crops. I had no idea about this until it came up in his session with Joe Rogan.
Why would you develop crops that make them more immune to round-up so you can hit the crop with round-up near the time of maturity. Surely such a crop would invite misuse of the herbicide. I can understand the improved productivity but is it worth it.
We live in what could be described as outer surbubia and have all manner of critters living in near harmony in our yard. My wife spotted a fox the other night. Probably after one of the many possums that call our block home. I use round-up for weed control but it does not go anywhere near fruiting trees or strawberries. I have used some effective coddling moth traps and sticky traps for smaller flying insects.
Some of the supermarket fruit looks superb but it is not rare to find the outside hides the rot inside. My wife rarely buys fruit from Coles and Woolies now. Her preferred spot these days is the Sunday market or our back yard when it produces and if we can keep the possums away. The little B’s have taken a liking to the skin on lemons. We end up with snow balls hanging from the lemon tree. Skin carefully nibbled off without damaging the inside.
It was not that long ago that lead was used dispersively in paint and a petroleum additive. I know it builds up in the bones over time. But I think it is the brain that gets damaged.
I suspect glyphosate is poisonous if drunk in large quantities and toxic even in small quantities. It is not something humans produce in their bodies like CO2.
The US EPA has set a “safe” level of 1.75mg/kg/day for humans. Could not find if EU have a “safe” level.” They mention a threshold level of 0.1mg/kg/day for animals.
The uptake of glyphosate has been spectacular. Its use is continuing to rise exponentially.
Monsanto ran experiments on rats and said it didn’t cause cancer. The French ran the same, but ran them past a month and said most of the rats got cancer. “Something” is causing a tsunami of ill health since the 1960s, or even the 1800s if you look carefully. Its not just glyphosate that gets liberally sprayed onto our food, I’d put the label ‘poison’ on most food in a supermarket.
Still, the money is in keeping ill people alive, not finding out what is making them ill…
Why would you develop crops that make them more immune to round-up so you can hit the crop with round-up near the time of maturity. Surely such a crop would invite misuse of the herbicide. I can understand the improved productivity but is it worth it.
To sell more “round-up”?
Hopefully Australia will continue to be a “control group” in the “experiment” where glyphosate is used just prior to harvest (to maximize yield – grains in particular). Control as in – we do not do that here.
If the product ingredient list goes beyond the actual food ingredient/s that it’s supposed to be made of, and includes numbers instead of words, then it’s probably best left on the shelf.
Labels that state what treatments fruit and vegetables have undergone would be good too, from pesticides to waxing/coating, irradiation etc.
Apparently Gates’ “apeel” plastic coating (that can’t be washed off) is labeled, but is it mandatory (!) to do so?
It’s a bad state of affairs when you have to peel your apples to avoid the worst of these things, when so much of the value of apples is in their skin.
The Australian has a paywalled piece on Green Hydrogen. You only need read the headline to get the story:
Wake-up call on green energy a hydrogen bombshell
The initial cost of producing green hydrogen from Australia’s two largest projects will be more than four times the price of rival energy sources, posing a fresh setback for Labor.
Physics sucks. And blowhards blow. But no amount of blowing beats physics.
If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
And in the news “Albanese orders Treasurer to convene roundtable on productivity.
Anthony Albanese has used his first major speech since the election to call a summit to address his top priority of reviving productivity; ”
Does he really need a conference?
What productivity? Our windmill manufacturer Kappel Prince in Portland just closed. Hundreds of jobs. Our biggest chemical manufacturer closed. 800 jobs. And our clever Prime Minister is ‘investing’ $8.9billion in a gift for Green Hydrogen which is now going to be 4x the cost of other fuel. We are subsidizing aluminium manufacture not least by paying all the wages, because the electricity costs too much. And now we rightly have tariffs as a consequence. Especially as the aluminium is owned by an American company. He is sending Australian manufacturers into bankruptcy while ‘investing’ our money, not his, overseas and in ridiculous Green schemes. Renewable superpower. Green Hydrogen. Green ammonia. Quantum Computers. And we will soon challenge China in solar panel manufacture?
Productivity is about using energy to make things, grow things, ship things.. As China knows, the cheaper the energy, the cheaper the delivered goods. And with massive Safeguard Mechanism 35% CO2 taxes climbing rapidly, Green certificates forcing up the cost of coal and gas and diesel power and our tax money going into Quantum computers overseas and pointlessly making Green solar panels in the Hunter Valley, our PM is worried about ‘productivity’? We could all hand dig Snowy II perhaps? At $12Bn It might be cheaper.
Pull the other leg.. He and Chalmers are wrecking the joint. Intentionally And having meeting on the deck chairs of the Titanic, public servants discussing what’s wrong in manufacturing. The cost of power is soaring with Albanese in total control when we have hundreds of years of free coal. No investment needed to change productivity. Just blow up some more coal power stations. More gas bans.
Which is rich, as he and his boss President Xi are the entire problem. They have demonstrated they can shut us down overnight, sail warships around the country unchallenged, demonstrate live firepower off our coast and kill us with bioweapons made in the Chinese Army. Now including fungi to destroy our wheat crop, as with Chinese people just arrested in the US. And punish us severely if we dare to question their power. Ask comrade Daniel Andrews, now in luxury retirement.
And Albanese is having a conference on Productivity. You could export the insincerity in industrial quantities.
Just heard that Tomago Aluminium smelter is in dire straits. Closure will cause about 6000 lost jobs. This smelter was “Transitioning” to green energy rather than the constant supply from Bayswater coal powered generator.
Didn’t take long for reality to bite yet again.
Federal Labor will offer billions of dollars in production credits to support a new “green aluminium” sector, in a new election pitch to be delivered on Monday.
The prime minister will visit the Tomago Aluminium smelter to announce the new policy, in the politically-critical Hunter region of New South Wales.
The production credits would see aluminium producers paid for every tonne of “green aluminium” they make, similar to Labor’s existing policies regarding solar panels, green hydrogen and critical minerals.
He is pretending to fix it. Quantum computing. Have a billion. Windmills, have $12Billion for Snowy II. Have $8.9Billion to help with making Green hydrogen. Going to the wall with Carbon Taxes and rocketing energy costs? That’s not my problem.
A unit at Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is expected to be offline for weeks following a major incident at the weekend.
Power station operator EnergyAustralia said in a statement an air duct in unit three collapsed during maintenance, detaching from the boiler end and falling to the floor.
No-one was injured and WorkSafe was notified.
EnergyAustralia said it expected the unit to be offline for at least two weeks and it was investigating the incident “to ensure the integrity of similar equipment”.
If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
Nothing new. There are more Ghanaians working in the NHS than are working in the health service in Ghana. And not that Ghana’s health service doesn’t need them…
Can someone in Canberra get Blackout’s attention and ask him to crank up the wind turbines. If not that then maybe crank up the Global Warming™¡. Yallourne has just lost a unit and it appears it will be off line for two weeks.
Apparently a duct collapsed. Would suggest there is not much preventive maintenance being done there. That’s what happens when industrial plant is given an end of life date. Often it fades faster because it no longer gets the attention needed to keep it reliable.
“REPORT: Biden’s EPA hid comments from Dept. of Energy that undermined key part of EPA power plant rule”
“The Clean Power Plan 2.0 was supported by a finding that carbon capture technology had been “adequately demonstrated.” The EPA sought and got comments from the DOE, which disputed that “demonstration.” Somehow those comments never made it into the administrative record.”
“Horner said that, if the parties agree the record is incomplete, the Trump administration’s EPA can avoid arguing for months whether CCS has been adequately demonstrated. By simply documenting that the record shows the agency knowingly and falsely claimed CCS was adequately demonstrated, that’s the end of it. Horner said he doesn’t think the D.C. Circuit court would ignore that fact and deny the agency the opportunity to clean its own house.”
I find two things extraordinary in man made CO2 driven Global Warming.
1. no one has proven the increase in CO2 is due to fossil fuels. In fact for 60 years we have known that fossil fuel CO2 is 2.0% and in rapid transit.
2. No one has proven the increase in CO2 is going to produce an increase in the CO2 green house gas effect. In fact Prof Will Happer has proven this is categorically not true.
And no one cares.
But there is another absurdity
3. No one has proven that CO2 is NOT in rapid exchange and the vapour pressure maintained by the balance of outgassing of the ocean and rapid capture by the ocean. Just as your breathing is doing not, swapping O2 and CO2 over salty water at high wind speed. All life on earth depends on this super rapid exchange across 72% of the planet and we are to believe it doesn’t happen?
So when NASA discovered that the world was rapidly Greening. with increased CO2 they conveniently forgot to mention that this proves carbon capture is a complete waste of time. Between 1988 and 2014, tree cover as seen by NASA went up 14%. And CO2 went up 14%. So sequestering trillions of tons of CO2 in trees made no different to CO2 or its straight line trajectory.
It is self evident then that burying CO2 is a waste of time and money. It is simply replaced from the 98% of CO2 in the ocean, maintaining a constant vapour pressure from pole to pole and year to year within 1%. Regardless of fossil fuel, cars, planes, ships, automobiles, factories, bushfires, world lockdown and volcanoes. It’s almost a dead straight line, unperturbed.
And just as the reports of the failure of carbon sequestration to work adequately or reliably have been buried by politicians. The reports of all failures of the planet to show any problems in 37 years is also buried. And they pump out stories of a drought somewhere in Africa or South America or Australia as proof. In fact droughts are a consequence of cooling which reduces evaporation and thus rainfall.
But more importantly, politicians as in Australia are hell bent on spending as much money as possible knowing quite well that it will not do any good. Because from the UN down, everyone knows it’s a fraud. And real scientists are shut up, prosecuted, fired or totally ignored. Green steel, Green hydrogen, carbon sequestration, pumped hydro, desalination plants, solar panels, windmills, transmission lines, ocean acidfication(no ocean is acid), carbon taxes, carbon credits, Green Energy. Everything is thrown at a problem which quite obviously doesn’t exist. Until Australia alone is in $2Tn in debt.
There’s no balancing that budget. Then what happens? Australia is bankrupt. And the new owners turn up.
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I am concerned about Trump’s assault on elite universities.
How will we meet the global governance demand for new Naked Emperors?
Not only that …
will there be enough sharks left in the oceans for new generations of NEs to jump?
As we speak, non-binary US Democrats are forming committees to figure out how to talk to ‘men’ …
as if there are such things.
This alone could exhaust the last remaining population of sharks for jumping.
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I’m just trying to post a note in the unthreaded tonight. It looks like I won’t be able to finish a post tonight. Very difficult to get any windows working normally…
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Sorry for your troubles, Jo. On a lighter note this reminds me of a puzzling error message from a Microsoft product years ago — “Window will not fit”. But my favorite is from a 3D navigation program — “You cannot see this object because it is behind you.” AI should have some fun responses but I have yet to hear of any,
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“Window will not fit”
This sounds like a message I use to get on one of the very early versions of Windows (version 1 or 2?), when windows were tiled onto the screen and could not overlap.
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My computer froze, it was because I left Windows open, it’s winter here.
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It would probably work better frozen.
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Sounds like a rear view error
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It seems to be responding OK here in Northeastern Ohio, USA at the moment, but it was a bit sluggish, though not real bad, earlier today.
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Sorry about all the troubles, Jo.
As they used to say in WW2, “If you’re catching flak, you know you’re over the target.”.
It’s the Left that are always attempting to censor or put off-line pro-truth and pro-free-speech sites like this.
The following is from a US essay on free speech. Note “liberal” in the US means Leftist, eeerrr, just as it now does in Australia come to think of it…
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Jo, this is a good reminder of how hard you work to keep this site available to publish information that keeps us informed. Some thank you Chocolates are headed your way.
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Thanks for the reminder, Ric.
For some of us residing in the USA, this is relevant.
“Social Security payments in July 2025 will be distributed on the following Wednesdays: July 2, July 9, July 16, and July 23, depending on the recipient’s birth date. Those with birthdays from the 1st to the 10th will receive their payment on July 9, those from the 11th to the 20th on July 16, and those born after the 20th on July 23.” First disbursement is supplemental $$$.
After July 9th I will hit the Tip Jar – – that can be found at the upper right of this page.
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I think it is time for us all to send Jo some more chocolates. Getting help on this issue must be costing Jo, not just in financial terms, but also in energy. A small contribution from us all will help no end.
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The lead up to the Tiananmen Square anniversary and following weeks no doubt caused any anti CCP content anywhere to be targetted by the CCP and puppets…
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What’s that saying…something about “You know you’re over the target when…”
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It was interesting watching the Lamestream Media report on Greta Thunberg’s provocative trip to Gaza into a declared prohibited war zone.
They kept on describing the vessel she was on as a “ship” but a ship is normally accepted as having a mass of 500 tonnes or more and “a ship can carry a boat but a boat can’t carry a ship”. And there are other differences. She was on a boat. The lack of general knowledge of “journalists” is appalling.
Anyway, now Thunberg has been arrested and fed, before the Israelis send her home they intend to show her the videos of the October 7th atrocities the terrorists she supports proudly took themselves and posted online and livestreamed.
And she and her comrades had zero concern for the Israeli hostages taken and still held by the terrorists or the Oct 7th atrocities which started the war in the first place.
Whether she’s shocked by those images or not will be a good test of her character, or lack thereof.
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Hi DM. I doubt the Doom Goblin will have any clue. To quote Thomas Sowell “Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” And they don’t come much more useless.
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The boat, called the Madleen (12 person) is named “after Gaza’s first female fisherwoman“: [How do they know that?] is discussed and the full “crew” with country origin shown: Greta Thunberg Sails on Madleen Aid Ship to Gaza Where 66,000 Children Face Severe Malnutrition – Karmactive
Seems like a promotional stunt to me.
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66,000 children, main hobby for gazans, are they going to attempt to repeat the loaves and fishes miracle.
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MSM referring to the small yacht as a ship is intentional, otherwise news recipients might wake up that the small yacht can only carry aid for very few people, mostly the crew. This exercise was only ever a publicity stunt!
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The spokespoppet must have a few arrest warrants on her record by now.
The reason why the meeja called her boat a ship is mainly through ignorance but also to ‘big up’ the act of idiocy.
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If she answered truthfully that would be enough to be refused entry in many places.
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The MSM has to stop calling her a “Climate Change Activist”, shes just a “professional” activist. You know, when you become a professional, you get paid to do what you do, like professional sports players, and then the oldest profession in the world. First it was climate change, then it’s Palestine, what’s the next new cause is she going to attach her name to?
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I suspect the point of the exercise was to demonstrate to the world the IDF has a naval sea blockade as well as a land blockade and will defy any attempts to feed the starving people in Gaza.
Regardless of your view on this the boat/ship was a propagander stunt designed to make Israel once again look poorly on the international stage.
Job done by the looks of things.
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Of course the aim of the mission was publicity. Which is basically what they had stated.
Unfortunately for the those on the boat they didn’t get any mistreatment from the Israeli’s. A real publicity stunt missed opportunity. They even felt comfortable enough to accept the welcoming hospitality of sandwiches and water.
The Israeli’s have kindly forwarded the limited supplies the boat brought.
No one’s opinion will have been changed by this stunt unless it is broadcast with a healthy amount of false information.
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Strop, whilst I agree thunberg is a twit the ship was forceable boarded by a military force in international waters.
If China/Russian/latest boogy man had done this people would be calling it an act of war.
Therefore as I stated the publicly stunt created had the precise effect as was
intended.
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Given Israel is at war they are entitled to blockade non-neutral borders.
They have taken the aid being transported and are delivering it, so they have not contravened any regulations pertaining to blocking neutral aid.
They have acted in self defence.
They have intercepted a vessel that had broadcast its intention to breach non-neutral borders.
Israel is entitled do act the way it did under international law.
Like I said. This stunt does not change any opinions unless it is broadcast with a healthy amount of misinformation.
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I understand what you are saying strop but the boat was/is not a legitimate military target and collective punishment is considered a war crime. I don’t think this will help Israel in the future re UN security council votes etc etc.
If you disagree with my position then so be it.
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Her minders are working on it as we speak.
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This is supposedly the person behind Greta’s latest escapade
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/09/london-based-hamas-operative-behind-greta-thunbergs-gaza-flotilla/
If she should be heavily fined I am sure I can rely on denizens of this blog to flock to GOfundme and pay it for her. Perhaps chip in a bit extra to help pay for future fines of this professional activist?
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Pretty sure her “character” has been tested enough to tell normal folks all they need to know.
I actually feel a bit sorry for her. Her parents are behind this from the beginning and should be ashamed.
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Apparently the Swedish government is unimpressed and falling over itself to free Greta.
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Apparently they all refused – refused! – to watch the video.
Maybe it should have been a condition of their repatriation that they do actually watch it.
And then the little climate doom-goblin was sent packing on an airplane – which she has so bravely refused to do in her own escapades as some sort of protest against “fossil fuels” and to “protect the planet” or something.
There just seems to be something inherently wrong with this young person. From her upbringing to her “activism”, to her very appearance, she just seems very odd. No doubt she’s being led along by those just using her, even exploiting her reported autism/aspergers (?) – but at the same time she is actually going along with it all, and seemingly enjoying it.
It’s all very odd.
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Video: Dr John Campbell discusses “neglected cancer treatments” with oncologist , Prof. Angus Dalgeish.
You’ll have to go to the video to see the full links.
(NOT MEDICAL ADVICE, MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.)
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Thanks David but only Dr John Campbell’s link works for me. The other four give this error.
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server.
Error code: 503 Service Unavailable
I think you’ve truncated the links.
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Hi Rex, you have to go to the description in the video to access the full links. They all work.
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Everyone please note the second last line:
“You’ll have to go to the video to see the full links.”
They are truncated by YouTube but they still work within the video description on YouTube.
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Thanks David.
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Just add it to the list of old, cheap, re-purposed pharmaceuticals that will never be used. Because there’s no money to be made from them and no-one will fund the necessary research. It’s sad, but true.
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Interesting inclusion:
” b) modulation of immune function in patients; ” since that is a major function of vitamin D…
Inadequate levels of D?
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Thank you, Jo.
You must be hitting some nerves and jangling a few cages.
Love your work.
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Apart from her activities against science, reason and basic human decency, another worrying thing about Thunberg is that she’s seen as a role model by many young and indoctrinated children.
Those children might think it’s acceptable to drop put of school and become an anti-intellectual, just like her.
The difference will be, most other children won’t have stage managers and financial backers like Thunberg.
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Thunberg as a role model?
The smarter kids quickly FAFO. The useful idiots FA but never FO.
Same as it ever was.
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The doom goblin is one cancellation away from obscurity.
It only takes one misstep and her whole world becomes instant trash. It could be as simple as her being on the Epstein list, (not likely of course), or declaring that she sponsored Trump in his run for president.
The outrage could end up driving kids back to school.
Okay, that last bit was too far, but you get the drift. She’s a shop with one product.
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I see Greta’s treason as a good sign.
Such individuals are more sensitive to “atmospheric changes” than average person – pure survival mechanism, otherwise they would not exist.
So, maybe the AGW shamans themselves started to notice EV fir, and Iberian blackouts, and Trump the Unstoppable, and, and,..
What else can an illiterate, unskilled girl can do – to work in the fields or on an assembly line?
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I think Democracy is on Life Support. It’ll be a while yet, but the Contest of Ideas needs to get very unpleasant before it can again be liberated.
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It is a constant battle between politicians (aided and indoctrinated by Bureaucracy) and the public.
One side wants to “be in control” and hates those who show up mistakes. The other wants less dictates about their life but only boil over if things get too hard.
So the EU bureaucrats keep being in new rules until one of their member States suddenly votes in a less compliant government.
The EU bureaucrats think the solution is to force the government to change. Lately they are getting more and more opposition which causes them to try more repression.
Thus “right wing” parties gain more votes e.g. France, Germany, Austria, Poland, The Netherlands etc.
It doesn’t help the EU when many of there policies are repressive and stupid.
We can look forward to the EU being disbanded, or at least losing any power.
The same applies to the UK where the “public service” wants desperately to rejoin the EU – indeed they almost got their way with Starmer.
Starmer will go very shortly and possibly a new election.
The same “we must have more control” runs rampent through Australia, esp. in Victoria. The incompetence and mistakes will last only as long as the money flows, and Australia is headed into a sharp depression. Externally our trade will suffer as China collapses and we have little thought anywhere about all but “we are the lucky country”. It took Argentina many decades to change their ideas.
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“It took Argentina many decades to change their ideas.”
Yes, its a hard time for everyone until they finally reject the Left and regain some sense. It takes quite a few elections to even get a capitalist party and up and recognised before it can take over the mantle of of being Right. The words Liberal or Coalition are total poison this decade.
I don’t think defunct bureaucracies ever die, they keep in sucking money and being useless, so the EU parliament will have to cede control to NATO, who will have their day in the money-pit and then some new super-bureaucracy is formed for some new hobgoblin. No-one will get fired and the costs will continue.
I’m expecting a new Europe-wide climate-health organisation to be set up so failing politicians can retain some income, and that will involve thousands of bureaurats checking on each country’s energy system then telling them what to do in order to avoid another Spanish incident.
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I think democracy in Europe is healthy, looking at the recent Polish election where a right winger won.
In Hungary we now see Orban supporting Ukraine against Russia, wonders will never cease. He knows that China will soon give up support for Russia and he is moving fast.
So I disagree that democracy around the world is on life support, its a volatile system but as Churchill remarked, its better than autocracy.
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Why do you think China will stop supporting Russia, they have signed a defence pact, maybe you didn’t know that?
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Words are cheap, there is a regime change taking place as we speak. Ji is under house arrest because of his autocratic style and he will soon disappear.
The new broom will give up Putin because of secondary sanctions and they reckon its an opportunity to get back Vladivostok.
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Germany and Russia had a pact too, as I recall.
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Let us be reasonable – Chinese could’ve taken South Siberia few hundreds ( a thousand?) years before Russians ever reached Pacific shores.
Mid 17th Century ataman Khabarov brought few dozen cossacks there to rule over sparse and primitive locals, say – like first conquistadors took over Incas .
Now there are what ? – half billion people live in South America, most of the mixed heritage.
Compare to 4 million Russian population of the strip along whole Chinese border, under 40 million in the whole Russia East of Ural mountains.
I guess Chinese policy there equal to that of here – Emperor Xi allows the locals to chop the trees, to mine the ores and grow crops as long as they behave.
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Do you have a source for the house arrest claim.
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The Soviets kicked the Chinese out of Vladivostok in 1937-38 and they fancy their chances when Putin falls to his knees.
Anyway, with Ji now out of the way its going to be a totally different ball game.
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Once again so you have a source regarding Ji
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Just rumour and innuendo by China watchers, no statement by the CCP yet. Unlike the US they don’t telegraph regime instability, so we’ll have to read between the lines to discover the truth.
Late last month this statement came out and its not by Xi Jinping.
‘In a surprise move with political reverberations at home and abroad, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed the need to firmly maintain “scientific,” “democratic” and “law based” policymaking.’ (Nikkei Asia)
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Democracy to Autocracy!
The full quote from Churchill:
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FWIW – “The internet never forgets”
“WAIT UNTL 2025-ERA GAVIN NEWSOM DISCOVERS WHAT GAVIN NEWSOM DID IN 2020!”
https://instapundit.com/724626/#disqus_thread
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And
“The Left Wants Its Kent State
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But unlike the Vietnam War when there were lots of Americans who thought it was stupid at best for us to be there today there are basically zero Americans who want an illegal ******* from Mexico, El Salvador or Venezuela to******their wife or daughter.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253419
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Another around that
“By Firelight”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/06/09/by-firelight/
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Latest Kunstler
“California Dreamin’
“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/california-dreamin
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Another take
“Yes, I’m watching events in LA and am simply going to note that if you think the protests are grassroots, organic, etc. I’ve got some bridges for sale you would love. Nothing says organic like pallets of bricks being set up in areas in advance, just like the ‘summer of love’ a few years ago.”
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2025/06/09/quick-overview-time/
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You don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to know that on the beach, in a sea breeze is THE safest place to be.
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FWIW
“Big Promises, Broken Bolts: Lion, Boeing, and Nikola”
“However, the line between promise and results becomes blurred when reality sets in.
Three recent examples started with such promise of the future, only to crash and burn in front of everybody.”
“It doesn’t matter how good the marketing is; reality is stronger. Hope, fairy powder, and unicorn magic don’t create software, fabrication, logistics, or the whole business plan.
John Wooden famously said, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Each company skipped the necessary steps and felt the wrath of reality. That wrath doesn’t just affect CEOs or shareholders; it’s the communities that bought into the promises. Towns prepared for large job opportunities and increased tax bases that never materialized.”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/06/09/big-promises-broken-bolts-lion-boeing-and-nikola-n4940618
More reading for “ElBowen”?
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And around that area
This from the Canadian Prime Minister
“When he was asked this week in Saskatoon about whether his vision for “nation-building projects” included an oil pipeline, he said that any such project would need to be filled with “decarbonized” barrels of oil — a term that seemed to confuse environmentalists and oil advocates alike.” ”
“Decarbonised barrels of oil” ???
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/09/new-governor-just-like-the-old-governor-2/
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Maybe he thinks that when you take the carbon out of oil, you end up with hydrogen.
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I admire the flexibility of language while talking complete nonsense with supreme confidence.
One question just scratching one layer deep would collapse the house of cards, but it will never come.
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I admire the flexibility of language while talking complete nonsense with supreme confidence.
One question just scratching one layer deep would collapse the house of cards, but it will never come.
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I just heard, yet to be confirmed, that Hillel Fuld* who was banned at the last minute from coming to Australia to speak at a charity fund-raiser, due to what the Minister Tony Burke regards as unacceptable anti-terrorist political opinions, has also been banned from doing a video link at the same event he was to speak at. It’s not even clear if banning the video link is legally possible, even in One Party State Australia.
Also, see editorial in The Australian today.
(Paywalled.)
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/allow-fair-debate-no-hate-speech/news-story/3623e81b5e0575110a9a249af1141f67
*See my comments from yesterday.
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FWIW
“The New Pope, Same as the Old Pope”
“When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was recently elected as the new pope, and took the name Leo XIV, there was much speculation about his political views. His latest homily reveals much. The word “borders” appears 12 times. Here’s but one example:”
“Here’s a thought: Please take the bold initiative to knock down all the walls around the Vatican and remove all security. After all, that’s analogous to what you’re insisting every country should do. You first.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/09/the-new-pope-is-the-same-as-the-old-pope/
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That’s sad. Most people thought he was a conservative, but he obviously doesn’t pass this basic test.
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I am always left dumbfounded by the people calling for open borders.
These same people would never leave their front doors open for anyone to enter and occupy their own homes.
Their stupidity and hypocrisy on display for all to see.
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If it were not for the double standards of the Left, they would have no standards whatsoever.
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This video came up in my YouTube feed.
It is a video about a man, a bit of a joker, who has only one eye and has a collection of fake eyeballs, some with strange patterns.
Don’t watch if you don’t want to see his empty eye socket, which admittedly might be off-putting.
https://youtube.com/shorts/q3np05-tnWw
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FWIW
“Another Chinese Researcher Caught Smuggling Agricultural Bioweapons into Michigan
June 9, 2025 | Sundance | 4 Comments”
“After reading the details of this arrest involving the smuggling of biological Roundworms, parasitic nematodes that can infect humans and animals, I am definitely adding Ivermectin and fenbendazole to the crisis kit.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/09/another-chinese-researcher-caught-smuggling-agricultural-bioweapons-into-michigan/
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Might be how fire ants got to Brisbane.
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Just saw this at News.com.. There does seem to be a strange reluctance to actually call crimes and violence as what they are. Reminiscent of the riots in Chicago where protestors were “mostly peaceful” while the backdrop showed burning buildings and rioting people.
“‘He really said that’: Local news anchor’s gaffe
Samuel Clench
A local TV reporter’s assessment of the situation in Los Angeles, yesterday, has gone a teensy bit viral online, and not for the right reasons.
Speaking over footage of cars burning in the city, the worker for ABC7, a local affiliate of America’s ABC News, offered this take.
“It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way, and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun, watching cars burn, into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and police,” he said.
Gonna editorialise for just a sec here: maybe don’t burn cars. And maybe don’t commit acts of vandalism in general. If you commit blatant crimes, law enforcement is going to have to do something. That’s how the law tends to work.”
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“Mostly peaceful riots” like in 2020.
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Yet when a bunch of angry people outside the Capitol Building, who were burning no cars nor looting any businesses, are practically INVITED inside before then being confronted, most of whom just strolled around the building taking selfies, THAT is apparently an “insurrection” requiring 10 year jail terms and ruined lives. In one case, the penalty for climbing through a window was a bullet in the head.
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Here is Paul Joseph Watson with his review on the meejias reporting on the LA riots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p810ZWTwS4c
BTW It was reported this week that trust in meejia in USA is lower then congress, used car salesmen etc.
They’ve worked so hard to achieve that lack of trust. They truly deserve the award.
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It must be lovely to know that George Soros and his friends are so keen to come to your site.
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Hilarity from the Covid games era
Ex premier Mark McGowan explains:
https://x.com/KobieThatcher/status/1809882734535594005
Don’t touch tennis balls:
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1931342604894929308
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That first one from McClown went viral around the world and was and is ultra cringeworthy.
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thanks for the chuckle John.
I will never forgive what these mongrels did.
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Here’s another, from Germany.
Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humour.
/apart from everyone.
https://youtu.be/sSig2omUs0s?si=JgZGk4pjkLHdflcS
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RFK Jr. Orders Clean Sweep of Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel to End Decades of Corruption
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has just announced the removal of all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—the panel tasked with recommending vaccines for the American public—citing longstanding corruption, persistent conflicts of interest, lack of transparency, and a documented history of rubber-stamping vaccines without adequate scrutiny.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-rfk-jr-orders-clean-sweep
Unfortunately the damage is done.
Doing my usual rounds of news today I saw article after post on cerebral micro bleeds (CMB’s).
Between 1/3rd and 2/3rds of Covid affected have/will suffer from them.
Yet another unknown side effect now rising to prominence.
This is a horror show of unimaginable scope.
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All good, but there needs to be prosecutions. Only then will justice be done.
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How about the Sansone mRNA bioweapons prohibitions act?
https://josephsansone.substack.com/api/v1/file/a07cef15-a26f-4d40-b023-d475f06721c9.pdf
Soon, it’ll spiral out of control and the masses will be ooohhh…very annoyed (mod safe wording) at those responsible, award recipients or not…
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Wouldn’t they just develop plasmid DNA vaccines, delivered by virus if need be??
“Soon, it’ll spiral out of control and the masses will be ooohhh…” dead, or so sick they won’t care…
We no longer have the riotous upper lower-class and lower middle-class we used to have, those that own just enough to stop the Govt stealing it, and still have little enough to lose if they rebel. These days its either whiny left-wingers who won’t really revolt, or the absolute lowest classes who only revolt to loot stores.
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I think banning things is the flipside of mandating things.
I don’t care what pharma others wish to partake in, just don’t require me to partake to go buy groceries…
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Bleeds being suffered by Covid affected or vaccine affected?
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I would suggest vaccine related bleeds as it’s an autoimmune response to the spike a bit like the rise in aortic dissections we are seeing
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FWIW – for the covid record
“U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel in Stunning “Clean Sweep” ”
“It can be recalled that the ‘unsafe and ineffective’ COVID-19 vaccine was formally added to the routine immunization schedule for both children and adolescents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
It is common knowledge that COVID-19 poses no threat to young children, that mRNA vaccinations against the virus are not effective or safe and that some people have even died after receiving a COVID vaccine. But the CDC and its advisory council continue to push for childhood vaccinations despite all these facts.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/u-s-health-secretary-rfk-jr-fires-entire/
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Australia’s TGA has quietly revised advice for recommending the Covid vaccines to babies, children and adolescents.
https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/contents/vaccine-preventable-diseases/covid-19?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Satellite launches from 1957 to 2025
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sxkzzeuwjp1z23obp.mp4
Before long PHA detection will be VERY problematic.
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Tech history Tuesday: The rise and fall of Grundig
https://youtu.be/TYkZqfV1p3g?si=tEvfAVkzYKPPx3hC
Like so many others, started small, spectacular growth, made bad decisions, couldn’t compete, sold off.
A special treat for DM. 😎
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Tuesday funny : Terminator meets Jesus
https://youtu.be/dIeuBPDUzB0?si=ziTVJwizyYaPFWMs
/I can count the redthumbs already. 😁
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No thumbs either way from me as I won’t be looking at it.
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Good satire,
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Peta Credlin and Chris Uhlman discuss the horrendous cost of our future energy , plus why our costs today are so high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjq3MMlrzrk
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Despite never-ending rants the Arctic is warming twice (even four times!) as fast as everywhere else, it is below-zero (practically bang-on the mean) and still yet to rise above the magic 0*C line for its brief & fleeting ‘summer’…
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
As for Greenland’s summit: -25 C
Amundsen-Scott South Pole: -52 C
Australia’s Snowy Mountains are covered in snow, NZ’s Southern Alps are buried in snow, there’s a howling wet onshore nor’easter blowing here – the very same weather which inspired me to leave for sunny Queensland 45 years ago – it’s hot as Hades in Saudi Arabia & North Africa… where is this mythical ‘change’ the ranters keep ranting on about?
Unless, my dear Watson, it’s a dastardly underhanded trick to pull the carpet out from under humanity’s feet, leaving the masses pleading for [insert today’s govt-sponsored artificial flavour saviour]. If only it was 6 degrees warmer…
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You could try Dubai for warmth. It was 46C and 47C (and humid) under the carport while we were there for two days back in May. A bit of a contrast to Cyprus which was rather cool for mid May this year; I was glad to have warm sweaters! Even on the beach near Larnaca, awaiting our flight, there was a chilly wind. Very different from the 1960s and 1970s.
Our citrus trees here in Vic. are in very poor shape now after 3/4 years of lots of rain, little rain, many days of frost, etc. ‘Mother’ Nature ain’t nice a lot of the time.
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Greenland summit used to get down to minus 35C. So it has warmed an enormous amount. As you point out it is now reaching a sizzling minus 25C. Must be tough for the locals ,if any, to endure such severe Global Warming™.
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My patent lawyers in the US sent me this..
‘“Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order –
In response to concerns about eroded public confidence in scientists and the alleged misuse of scientific information by federal agencies to justify political ends, President Trump’s “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order, issued May 23, aims to rebuild public trust in science and ensure federal agency decisions are informed by credible, reliable and impartial scientific evidence
My view
The first stop is to debunk the politician created fake science called Climate Change.
Normally you would expect scientific organizations and the universities to destroy the fake structure which is Climate Science. As fake as Scientology. But they are all party to this farce. The same in Australia, Britain, Canada.
There is zero truth in the slow 0.3% pa growth of Carbon Dioxide being man made, or threatening the world or being classes as a toxic pollutant and so under the Clean Air Act. The amount of CO2 which is from fossil fuel has remained at a tiny 2.0% for a century.
Once the Climate Cash stops it will change. But the universities are run by extreme left ideologues who see Climate Change as their greatest tool for funding after Chinese and other overseas students. Especially in Australia. Universities are no longer about the truth or academic excellence but massive profits for capitalist socialists who run them.
Science should not be created, validated, promulagated, legislated and enforced entirely by politicians. Including Australian Liberals, British Tories and US Republicans. Even the name Liberal in the world has changed meaning to extreme left socialist, not conservatives who believe in freedom of thought and liberty. But real and legislated enslavement by Marxist doctrine, posing as Liberal socialism.
There is no fossil fuel CO2 in the air. A tiny and constant 2.0% by direct measurement over 60 years. So it’s all a fraud. And more CO2 is being greeted by greener pastures and more food for the planet and if anything, the world is rapidly cooling accoring to NASA, starting in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Anybody passing through a tertiary institution in recent years cannot be credited with having been educated, so much as trained to memorise and regurgitate implausible information cunningly masquerading as knowledge.
Being taught to think critically is now a historical artifact.
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Dubito ergo Cogito ergo Sum – the Doubt had been dropped off some time ago
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Is it not true that ‘Global Warming’, was the mind virus that overtook academia?
Causing science to become something ‘settled’ that should be ‘followed’.
Direct line to ‘Pandemic’, which has crashed the ‘knowledge hierarchy’, as noted here in previous thread.
A mass shark jumping.
Odd but telling … academia and their elite fellow CAGW cultists are the only people unaware that the shark has been jumped.
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It hasn’t taken over science. Most scientists work for the government. And they are too scared to say anything. Or don’t care. It doesn’t mean they agree. But they have interesting jobs and more importantly, families and mortgages.
Prof Peter Ridd in Cairns was thrown out for disagreeing about the state of the Great Barrier Reef. He went further to prove the relevant people faked their results and their research. So he was fired for being ‘uncollegiate’. Then taken to the Supreme Court for successfully fighting his sacking. The people of Australia donated $1M to his lawyers, but the University had millions of taxpayer dollars and won just one point. So he lost his life savings too. Which is why people shut up. He was crucified at public expense. It has happened before. Government behind the fraudsters. People behind the innocent. And a serious lesson to anyone who dares disagree with politician’s Climate Change.
My point is that no one dares say anything. Except those retired or independently wealthy. And they all call it a hoax.
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FWIW
“Trump White House Just Dropped a Video That Puts a Mushroom Cloud Over Dems’ ‘Peaceful Protest’ BS”
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/06/09/trump-white-house-just-dropped-a-video-that-puts-a-mushroom-cloud-over-dems-peaceful-la-protest-bs-n2414029
The lack of concerns about effects of that smoke etc on the climatic concerns of last week or so gets a mention towards the end
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Interesting how foods are not required to be labelled disclosing the herbicides, pesticides and poisons used in their production but anything labelled “organic” has to be certified.
Maybe we should just label organic as “food” and everything else as poisoned. 😎
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Stop being logical it only confuses the kiddies.
Like milk, it doesn’t have an ingredients listing, then look at the other “white” liquids and marvel how it takes up to 20 ingredients to make something called “milk”. the only resemblance being the colour.
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One thing that I have learnt from JFK Jr is “round-up ready” variety of crops. I had no idea about this until it came up in his session with Joe Rogan.
Why would you develop crops that make them more immune to round-up so you can hit the crop with round-up near the time of maturity. Surely such a crop would invite misuse of the herbicide. I can understand the improved productivity but is it worth it.
We live in what could be described as outer surbubia and have all manner of critters living in near harmony in our yard. My wife spotted a fox the other night. Probably after one of the many possums that call our block home. I use round-up for weed control but it does not go anywhere near fruiting trees or strawberries. I have used some effective coddling moth traps and sticky traps for smaller flying insects.
Some of the supermarket fruit looks superb but it is not rare to find the outside hides the rot inside. My wife rarely buys fruit from Coles and Woolies now. Her preferred spot these days is the Sunday market or our back yard when it produces and if we can keep the possums away. The little B’s have taken a liking to the skin on lemons. We end up with snow balls hanging from the lemon tree. Skin carefully nibbled off without damaging the inside.
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Roundup ready crops have been on the market since 1996, apparently without obvious ill-effects.
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It is the unobvious ones that concern me.
It was not that long ago that lead was used dispersively in paint and a petroleum additive. I know it builds up in the bones over time. But I think it is the brain that gets damaged.
I suspect glyphosate is poisonous if drunk in large quantities and toxic even in small quantities. It is not something humans produce in their bodies like CO2.
The US EPA has set a “safe” level of 1.75mg/kg/day for humans. Could not find if EU have a “safe” level.” They mention a threshold level of 0.1mg/kg/day for animals.
The uptake of glyphosate has been spectacular. Its use is continuing to rise exponentially.
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“Could not find if EU have a “safe” level.””
Monsanto ran experiments on rats and said it didn’t cause cancer. The French ran the same, but ran them past a month and said most of the rats got cancer. “Something” is causing a tsunami of ill health since the 1960s, or even the 1800s if you look carefully. Its not just glyphosate that gets liberally sprayed onto our food, I’d put the label ‘poison’ on most food in a supermarket.
Still, the money is in keeping ill people alive, not finding out what is making them ill…
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Why would you develop crops that make them more immune to round-up so you can hit the crop with round-up near the time of maturity. Surely such a crop would invite misuse of the herbicide. I can understand the improved productivity but is it worth it.
To sell more “round-up”?
Hopefully Australia will continue to be a “control group” in the “experiment” where glyphosate is used just prior to harvest (to maximize yield – grains in particular). Control as in – we do not do that here.
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Who will decide WHICH 10% of the population gets fed if “poisoned” food is not allowed on the market?
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It would be good if bionic eyes and an electron microscope were not necessary to read the ingredients list on most products.
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If the product ingredient list goes beyond the actual food ingredient/s that it’s supposed to be made of, and includes numbers instead of words, then it’s probably best left on the shelf.
Labels that state what treatments fruit and vegetables have undergone would be good too, from pesticides to waxing/coating, irradiation etc.
Apparently Gates’ “apeel” plastic coating (that can’t be washed off) is labeled, but is it mandatory (!) to do so?
It’s a bad state of affairs when you have to peel your apples to avoid the worst of these things, when so much of the value of apples is in their skin.
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FWIW
“Defund The National Academy of Sciences!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/09/defund-the-national-academy-of-sciences/
Looks like three shaky legs on that tripod
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The Australian has a paywalled piece on Green Hydrogen. You only need read the headline to get the story:
Physics sucks. And blowhards blow. But no amount of blowing beats physics.
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If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
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The organisers of a global warming event decided to cancel fearing derision.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/06/07/irony-german-town-cancels-climate-heat-drought-event-due-to-cool-wet-weather/
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👩⚖️👮♂️ As they are now operating from the USA are the any U.S. Federal Govt communications laws that they are breaking?
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“They” could be anywhere, its just the gruit of their labour is visible as coming from (or appearing to come from) the US
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And in the news “Albanese orders Treasurer to convene roundtable on productivity.
Anthony Albanese has used his first major speech since the election to call a summit to address his top priority of reviving productivity; ”
Does he really need a conference?
What productivity? Our windmill manufacturer Kappel Prince in Portland just closed. Hundreds of jobs. Our biggest chemical manufacturer closed. 800 jobs. And our clever Prime Minister is ‘investing’ $8.9billion in a gift for Green Hydrogen which is now going to be 4x the cost of other fuel. We are subsidizing aluminium manufacture not least by paying all the wages, because the electricity costs too much. And now we rightly have tariffs as a consequence. Especially as the aluminium is owned by an American company. He is sending Australian manufacturers into bankruptcy while ‘investing’ our money, not his, overseas and in ridiculous Green schemes. Renewable superpower. Green Hydrogen. Green ammonia. Quantum Computers. And we will soon challenge China in solar panel manufacture?
Productivity is about using energy to make things, grow things, ship things.. As China knows, the cheaper the energy, the cheaper the delivered goods. And with massive Safeguard Mechanism 35% CO2 taxes climbing rapidly, Green certificates forcing up the cost of coal and gas and diesel power and our tax money going into Quantum computers overseas and pointlessly making Green solar panels in the Hunter Valley, our PM is worried about ‘productivity’? We could all hand dig Snowy II perhaps? At $12Bn It might be cheaper.
Pull the other leg.. He and Chalmers are wrecking the joint. Intentionally And having meeting on the deck chairs of the Titanic, public servants discussing what’s wrong in manufacturing. The cost of power is soaring with Albanese in total control when we have hundreds of years of free coal. No investment needed to change productivity. Just blow up some more coal power stations. More gas bans.
Which is rich, as he and his boss President Xi are the entire problem. They have demonstrated they can shut us down overnight, sail warships around the country unchallenged, demonstrate live firepower off our coast and kill us with bioweapons made in the Chinese Army. Now including fungi to destroy our wheat crop, as with Chinese people just arrested in the US. And punish us severely if we dare to question their power. Ask comrade Daniel Andrews, now in luxury retirement.
And Albanese is having a conference on Productivity. You could export the insincerity in industrial quantities.
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FWIW
“Visualizing AI Innovation Across The Globe”
Check the map
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/visualizing-ai-innovation-across-globe
News for “Elbow” –
Not “Where’s Wally” but “Where’s Oz”
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Just heard that Tomago Aluminium smelter is in dire straits. Closure will cause about 6000 lost jobs. This smelter was “Transitioning” to green energy rather than the constant supply from Bayswater coal powered generator.
Didn’t take long for reality to bite yet again.
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Despite our idiot PM offering $2 billion toward “green” aluminium.
In addition to the huge taxpayer subsidies they already receive plus other payments to allow them to be load shedding.
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Just another idiot pollie that thinks anything can be fixed by simply applying money.
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He is pretending to fix it. Quantum computing. Have a billion. Windmills, have $12Billion for Snowy II. Have $8.9Billion to help with making Green hydrogen. Going to the wall with Carbon Taxes and rocketing energy costs? That’s not my problem.
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A unit at Yallourn Power Station is off for two weeks.
This will get interesting.
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Energy Australia. Is that the same power company wholly owned by C.L.P? China Light & Power. Afraid so. We know who has all the power, yeah?
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If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
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Jo
If you want to see an updated reality check on green hydrogen, check out the YouTube channel “Energy Institute”
a UK web page. Discusses the hard scientific engineering facts.
1) EI LIVE / Evaluating the energy balance and efficiency of a whole hydrogen energy system
4 June 2024
2) EI LIVE | Hydrogen Compression Transitioning to 100% Hydrogen Duty
24 November 2024
Prof Ian Arbon is a well-known consulting engineer in gas compression technology.
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FWIW
Don’t go to UK and get sick!
“Telegraph- NHS ‘to rely on migrants’ as Government cuts British nurse training”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/09/great-success-92/
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Nothing new. There are more Ghanaians working in the NHS than are working in the health service in Ghana. And not that Ghana’s health service doesn’t need them…
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Sorry ME, misguided thumb, meant green.
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Do I correctly assume you were a Nurse in the years past?
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Can someone in Canberra get Blackout’s attention and ask him to crank up the wind turbines. If not that then maybe crank up the Global Warming™¡. Yallourne has just lost a unit and it appears it will be off line for two weeks.
Apparently a duct collapsed. Would suggest there is not much preventive maintenance being done there. That’s what happens when industrial plant is given an end of life date. Often it fades faster because it no longer gets the attention needed to keep it reliable.
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Just feeding the inevitable “unreliable coal” headlines
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I don’t remember these explainers when Vic Pol had their stock of rubber bullets out in COVID: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/what-are-rubber-bullets-la-proest-crowd-control/105397828
(Do they have someone who goes around afterwards and collects up the rubber bullets I wonder? – Reuse, Recycle, Repair…)
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FWIW
“REPORT: Biden’s EPA hid comments from Dept. of Energy that undermined key part of EPA power plant rule”
“The Clean Power Plan 2.0 was supported by a finding that carbon capture technology had been “adequately demonstrated.” The EPA sought and got comments from the DOE, which disputed that “demonstration.” Somehow those comments never made it into the administrative record.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/09/report-bidens-epa-hid-comments-from-dept-of-energy-that-undermined-key-part-of-epa-power-plant-rule/
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The important bit – the kill shot
“Horner said that, if the parties agree the record is incomplete, the Trump administration’s EPA can avoid arguing for months whether CCS has been adequately demonstrated. By simply documenting that the record shows the agency knowingly and falsely claimed CCS was adequately demonstrated, that’s the end of it. Horner said he doesn’t think the D.C. Circuit court would ignore that fact and deny the agency the opportunity to clean its own house.”
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I find two things extraordinary in man made CO2 driven Global Warming.
1. no one has proven the increase in CO2 is due to fossil fuels. In fact for 60 years we have known that fossil fuel CO2 is 2.0% and in rapid transit.
2. No one has proven the increase in CO2 is going to produce an increase in the CO2 green house gas effect. In fact Prof Will Happer has proven this is categorically not true.
And no one cares.
But there is another absurdity
3. No one has proven that CO2 is NOT in rapid exchange and the vapour pressure maintained by the balance of outgassing of the ocean and rapid capture by the ocean. Just as your breathing is doing not, swapping O2 and CO2 over salty water at high wind speed. All life on earth depends on this super rapid exchange across 72% of the planet and we are to believe it doesn’t happen?
So when NASA discovered that the world was rapidly Greening. with increased CO2 they conveniently forgot to mention that this proves carbon capture is a complete waste of time. Between 1988 and 2014, tree cover as seen by NASA went up 14%. And CO2 went up 14%. So sequestering trillions of tons of CO2 in trees made no different to CO2 or its straight line trajectory.
It is self evident then that burying CO2 is a waste of time and money. It is simply replaced from the 98% of CO2 in the ocean, maintaining a constant vapour pressure from pole to pole and year to year within 1%. Regardless of fossil fuel, cars, planes, ships, automobiles, factories, bushfires, world lockdown and volcanoes. It’s almost a dead straight line, unperturbed.
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And just as the reports of the failure of carbon sequestration to work adequately or reliably have been buried by politicians. The reports of all failures of the planet to show any problems in 37 years is also buried. And they pump out stories of a drought somewhere in Africa or South America or Australia as proof. In fact droughts are a consequence of cooling which reduces evaporation and thus rainfall.
But more importantly, politicians as in Australia are hell bent on spending as much money as possible knowing quite well that it will not do any good. Because from the UN down, everyone knows it’s a fraud. And real scientists are shut up, prosecuted, fired or totally ignored. Green steel, Green hydrogen, carbon sequestration, pumped hydro, desalination plants, solar panels, windmills, transmission lines, ocean acidfication(no ocean is acid), carbon taxes, carbon credits, Green Energy. Everything is thrown at a problem which quite obviously doesn’t exist. Until Australia alone is in $2Tn in debt.
There’s no balancing that budget. Then what happens? Australia is bankrupt. And the new owners turn up.
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Almost certainly a US corpse trying to destroy the last independent bits of the internet and drive everyone onto US controlled media.
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“Nex” is the Latin word for “violent death.”
It’s also notable that the English word “spike” derives from “spiculum”—the Latin word for a spear used by Roman infantry.
In other words, NEXSPIKE may be interpreted literally as Moderna’s new “Death Spear.”
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/modernas-death-spike-heavy-metal
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Can you speak Strine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NRK0p0Ln0
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I don’t speak it well I’m afraid! I was looking at one of my Strine primers recently and having a giggle. I still haven’t worked out some of it.
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