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A fun interview with Craig Rucker on stopping offshore wind development.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/22/watch-craig-rucker-on-wind/#
My stuff gets some play along the way. Interesting interviewers too.
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Now Australia’s e Safety Kommisar wants to extend Australia’s social media ban for under 16’s to YouTube.
No doubt the Government will come up with a dedicated propaganda platform for children.
Children are dumbed-down enough as it is, they can potentially learn good things on YouTube and also learn to discern what’s rubbish.
Rita Panahi discusses. And a bonus discussion about Clover Moore’s ban on gas for Sydney.
https://youtu.be/Jlf0nr1ScEk
And now Australia is a virtual Leftist One Party State with no effective opposition, just think how much worse things will get.
Incidentally, the fake conservative Liberals supported the social media ban for children.
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Good luck with that. Kids have a way of gaining access. The more forbidden the fruit, the more they want to sample it.
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And look what happened when Adam and Eve ignored the rules
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Dave, will you please take her back?
She is in fact an American (now an Australian dual citizen).
I think she left you for more extensive censorship possibilities in Australia than she could have ever dreamed of in the US with First Amendment protections.
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Of course, astute observers have already noticed that this ban is a back-door way of getting digital identity verification for ALL social media users thus further facilitating censorship and control of anyone with unapproved opinions.
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“No doubt the Government will come up with a dedicated propaganda platform for children.”
ABC Kids is pre deployed. Just needs a few final tweaks.
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Do a YOUTUBE search for “Black tape project” call me old fashioned but I don’t think young children should be able to see this type of thing
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Parents need to supervise their children’s internet usage plus there is also a version of YouTube specifically for kids. It is not a child minding service.
You can’t expect the Government to do a parent’s job.
There is plenty of objectionable material apart from what’s on the specific social media that’s getting banned. And far more objectionable than any that might be found on the banned list.
I don’t see why children should be denied access to the many educational materials on YouTube.
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For the love of God David, your bombastic narrow minded view of the world wears a little thin after a while.
As far as i am aware no one claimed it was the governments job to raise your child however it is the governments job to create a society where our children can be raised safely.
Is it the governments job to create laws that stop minors from buying alcohol and cigarettes or the parents?
Is it the governments job to ban smoking dope or the parents?
Is it the governments job to ban drug trafficking or the parents?
Is it the governments job to ban petrol sniffing or the parents?
And the list goes on and on and on, I have banned my child from using WHATSAPP (chinese spy ware), instagram, twitter and control the use of facebook which are all far worse than YOUTUBE. I am not sure why you have decided to “die in a ditch” over YOUTUBE when others are far worse when even you yourself have stated there is a kids version, so why cant they use that?
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I think you’ve misinterpreted David’s point about Youtube and it seems to me you largely agree.
I interpreted it as David saying Youtube has lots of good content for those under 16, and they will be denied that.
You seem to be saying that there are worse things than Youtube and you’ve banned your kids from them.
That’s basically what David said. There are far worse things on the internet that the government is not restricting so parents need to supervise their kids. You’ve illustrated David’s point by your own actions in banning your kids from other tools.
As for youtube kids. I believe the content on youtube kids is divided into two age groups and all of it designed around under 12’s. So there is perhaps an educational and content gap for 12-16. But maybe youtube will improve that and add a 12-15 category.
David’s comment, “You can’t expect the government to do a parent’s job” didn’t mean he was saying that anyone claimed it was the governments job to raise your child. He’s saying regardless of what controls the government puts in place that parents shouldn’t abdicate their responsibilty and rely on government controls to keep their kids safe.
It’s like we don’t rely on government laws that make it illegal to abduct children. We still keep an eye on our kids in public places. Similarly an age restriction on social media doesn’t stop the kids from accessing bad stuff on the internet. It’s simply parents need to supervise their kids and not expect the government to do the job.
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I was expecting a video on the different uses of electrical tape, so imagine my shock! 😆
Of course our tech-illiterate clueless Kommi-tsar CANNOT stop anyone accessing anything.
The workarounds are many and unstoppable.
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Dont let your wife/girlfriend/partner catch you watching it 🙂
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Walking through the mall yesterday and walking past a book store, I decided to buy my youngest granddaughter some books. She’s three soon.
The books were arranged by age, which made the task simpler. However, as soon as I started to peruse the shelves, the first book was tilted, “Sea Change – Save the Ocean”. The cover was covered in sad fish swimming amongst refuse. Nope.
A little further on I came across, “As Bright As A Rainbow – a book about gender and being yourself”. Another nope.
Moving on, there was, “Mama and Mummy and Me in the Middle”. The cover showed a little girl (surprise!) being cuddled by two women, one white, the other brown.
Exit shop.
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A read for the kids:
https://kids.kiddle.co/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
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A read for the kids..
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl
The Enormous Crocodile by Road Dahl..
..anything by Roald Dahl! The kid love them!
I can still recite a few of his poems, and probably so can my children. I doubt the grandkids can.
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In response to David’s e Kommisar comments at #2
Whilst I agree with David in general terms in that previous generations would have been mature enough, resilient enough and cognitively acute enough to view YOUTUBE without restrictions I wonder if he understands just how fragile todays youth really are and therefore do not have the capacity of previous generations and therefore perhaps need big government to protect them.
For example I was listening to the ABC this morning and they were talking about workplace behaviour and they gave two examples.
The first was a young woman remembers her first job for all the wrong reasons, she was wearing her gym gear whilst at work and she bent over in front of her boss to pick something up, the boss responded by saying “if you bend over like that in front of people they will have a look”. Suffice to say this level of work place harassment will not be tolerated.
Obviously the guy should have kept his mouth shut but on the other hand if a young woman wishes to wear skin tight pants and is happy to bend over in front of other people so they can see everything she owns then she should expect some comments to be made but when those comments are made they cant handle it because at the age of 20 or whatever they are still immature little children.
The second example was a woman working for a supermarket chain, every month she would get a lesson in how to handle bananas….every month and she did not even work in the fruit section!!!!! but she only ever received one lesson on work place bullying apparently this shows just how little the super market chains care about work place behaviour (i hope i am not the only one a little confused here).
But once again this shows just how childish these adult women are (young men are just as immature but i dont have examples of that), they don’t have the maturity to see half of what is on display on YOUTUBE and other places. I have a 16 year old daughter and what she tells me that goes on at her school shocks me.
Teenagers and young adults of today are not prepared for what the future holds (getting a job, paying taxes etc). Personally i don’t think banning YOUTUBE is the answer but i can understand why they want to do it.
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Well you’re the one telling the story so I’d hope you’re not confused.
Nonetheless a few decades of internet exposure prompted around 10 mental images to cogitate…
I hope you are a little confused.😆
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So you understand the importance of being taught how to handle bananas even when they did not work in the fruit section? I was confused as to how this had any relevance to work place behaviour. At one point i thought they were suggesting it was a phallic symbol of sorts but then they inferred the supermarket cared more about bananas than work place behaviour because there was more training on the bananas, hence the confusion.
Perhaps its an ABC woke tarded lefty reporting style that only those with a university Arts degree could understand and i guess you had to be there to bear witness to the linguistic gymnastics they were going through in order to generate some kind of white male oppression scenario….who knows what they were trying to say.
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..but the downside to having the Govt responsible for your children is obvious! They will bring them up to be unthinking little clones ready for the 15minute city of bicycles and insect stew, with a total obedience to authority and no curiosity about anything outside the ABC!
No, Govt should have nothing to do with bringing up kids at all, their motives and incentives are completely wrong!
It is the ultimate parent’s responsibility and nearly all of us try to bring them up like ourselves and hope they do better. Mine had no bounds on their social media or TV or internet, they knew they could ask about any subject if they wanted to, and we still go around killing people in computer games as a team. They are successful, cynical, and don’t trust the Govt, what else could I ask for?
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I probably saw and heard more by the age of 8 than you’d see on uselesstube.
Ban school playgrounds!
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Here’s a video for those interested in antique/vintage electronics and restoration of such devices.
It made its way from Michigan to Australia via Ebay.
It’s a type of oscillator that uses a vacuum tube but with no obvious purpose.
The author of the video seeks input about what its purpose is.
Not for Australians under 16’s as the e Safety Kommissar doesn’t want you using YouTube or learning anything (see my post above).
https://youtu.be/r1S95g_NYkQ
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It looks similar to some vintage one valve TRF radio receiver insides, they look equally simple with one valve and a similar number of nobby twisty variable components, power and speaker connections.
As you can tell I’m highly qualified in this field, but even experts can be wrong.
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Mmmm you dont see those twisty valvey components so much any more
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Pretty easy to fix. Have an old aircraft valve radio from the 1960s at the local aviation museum that operates every day, chirping out airport comms. Also have a large transmitter where the large valves have their filaments fired up as folks walk by, and so far each valve is still running. Also operate a group of mercury vapour rectifiers on 50 volts to give a nice blue-purple mercury glow, exactly as they used to.
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Forgot to say that the large transmitter was built in the 1940s and taken out of service in the 1970s. It’s amazing its valves are still working after 50 years.
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Up to about 1980 one local weather station still had the radar set that came from a 1942-ish UK warship.
On the wall was an English Electric Valve Co ad featuring a magnetron (?) of the era with the caption “Where we started”.
With a hand written addition below that said
“Where we still are”.
All hand controls – was reckoned to school well on what was needed to make a radar set work.
Eventually got upgraded.
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Must have been a Type 273. 10cm with one of the first PPI indicators. There were only a few in service circa 1942. One the first sets, not with a PPI, went down with the HMS Prince of Wales near the coast of Malaya on Dec. 10, 1941. It was not in working order by the time Force Z arrived at Singapore. Great of effort was expended before POW sailed to get it back up and working. But no luck. That circumstance did not figure into the disaster which followed.
The set breaking down might of saved POW and Repulse from being sunk in night battle with Admiral Ozawa’s cruiser battle group and its deadly Long Lance torpedoes. The Japanese had no operational radar as of yet, but night battle at that time against the Japanese Navy usually turned out badly, radar or not. Instead Force Z was spared only to be the first modern battleships to be sunk by aircraft while at sea.
As the first centimetric sets began sea trials, it was noticed that centimetric radar often didn’t see through weather, it saw weather. This is more the case with 3cm wave length rather than 10 cm wave length, but 3cm radar wasn’t yet a thing in 1942.
Shore based Type 273 sets were Type 273S
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In Aust, could have been Type 272. These were fitted to the Australian corvettes, and were removed in either early 1960 or late 1950s and stored in Fremantle. They were then distributed to the Dept of Aviation training schools for radar training. The WA one ended up at the Melville Telecommunications Museum in the 1970s, and I believe was sent to Williamstown.
The Met dept also used a variation of the 270 series for tracking weather balloons.
Still have two of the original wartime magnetrons at the Aviation Museum in Bull Creek WA.
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As a further comment, on a good day we could get 50 miles range with careful tuning of the 272.
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” on a good day we could get 50 miles range with careful tuning of the 272.”
Ah, but could you see a B2?
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DYK – valve based equipment will work after an EMP, solid state will probablty be fried.
Just sayin’
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Was wondering whether it was for testing car radio vibrators, or perhaps some other DC to AC converter.
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The wind turbines for global warming – a big fan to cool the Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhBM89A6o8
It’s a fan bruv – stand in front of it, and I’ll bet you’ll be cold
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The following video discusses new fossil evidence suggesting that early modern humans in Europe were cannibals and hunted and ate Neanderthals.
Personally, I’m sceptical about the extent of this activity, especially since they mention Cro Magnons as the “giant” perpetrators of this activity.
The Cro Magnon were claimed in the video to be bigger and stronger than modern humans but Cro Magnon were in fact the modern indigenous Europeans we have today (perhaps a little more robust but still the same homo sapiens species). Neanderthals were much stronger than Cro Magnon so in a contest between the two apex predators I think Neanderthals would win.
Perhaps it was Neanderthals who were the cannibals of themselves?
https://youtu.be/Mj62TVE0O-E
Not for Australians under 16’s as the e Safety Kommissar doesn’t want you using YouTube or learning anything (see my post above).
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If there was food to be had in the wild then none of these characters would have resorted to that demonic practice, but facing starvation everything is game.
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A little-reported Executive Order of Donald TRUMP was the deregulation of civilian overland commercial supersonic flight.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/leading-the-world-in-supersonic-flight/
Already, a company, Boom Supersonic, (see video below) is hoping to build a supersonic airliner and have it in service by 2029. (Presumably development was already underway before the EO.) United Airlines has agreed to purchase 15 or so.
The company in the following video has developed technology to eliminate shock waves at ground level using some clever aerodynamics.
https://youtu.be/o1BRZMugwWQ
I’m surprised the Left haven’t protested about this because they hate any possibility of non-Elites travelling beyond their 15 Minute Cities. Maybe they didn’t notice the EO?
Boom Supersonic website:
https://boomsupersonic.com/
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Note, the above video is not to be watched by Australians under 16. The e Safety Kommissar and the Government don’t want you learning anything.
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When, if ever, will Australians say:
https://youtu.be/rGIY5Vyj4YM (1m40s)
(Not to be watched by Australians under 16. The e Safety Kommissar and the Government don’t want you learning anything.)
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FWIW
Progress in US forest management
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/secretary-rollins-rescinds-roadless-rule-eliminating-impediment-responsible-forest-management
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No fire tracks. Hard to comprehend.
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No maintained fire tracks in Victoriastan either. Government closes tracks for spurious reasons then hopes that regrowth makes them impassable.
The signs on seasonal closed tracks, some of which have been there for 100 years says it all.
“The track is closed for your safety and to prevent environmental damage anyone caught on these tracks faces a substantial fine”
Strangely people don’t die in vehicle accidents on these track, they die on formerly well maintained roads. These roads are never “closed for your safety”
The environmental damage of course is viewed through multiple lenses. When it rains the creeks and rivers still run muddy, so closing tracks doesn’t equate to no run off etc.
The view of the preservationists is that maintained tracks are an irrelevance these days, if a fire breaks out very large dozers can quickly clear access tracks or better still, let it burn after all that’s nature, When the fires get out of hand that’s climate change.
The closures of bush tracks has one aim, keep everyone out of the bush, no camping, fishing, hunting, prospecting, walking. Just leave it the way nature and indigenous “nations’ managed it.
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Must go have a look. Used to go along some of tracks on the nearby ranges with Mrs Y. Havent been for at least 3 years though.
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FWIW
“This Is What ‘Victory’ in the Battle of the Sexes Looks Like”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/06/24/this-is-what-victory-in-the-battle-of-the-sexes-looks-like-n3804131
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It echos what I’ve seen for a decade or more-
Young people don’t have the sex drive we had in the 60s and 70s, I figure its the food they eat.
Women when they’re young cannot see that they are going to get old, and mothers focus on their children and then grandchildren as they age. Without children old age will be a very empty place.
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Without children old age will be a very empty place.
With 9 Grandkids and at 80 – Totally agree!
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Know a lady that chose career and wealth accumulation over kids and like the ads on tele for a show where some people have “pets” instead of kids, the buyers remorse is obvious.
So just a couple of the issues are
1/ Who do you leave your accumulated wealth to? Sadly years spent “building” something will just disappear.
2/ Pets are great substitutes for kids, except they generally have comparatively short lives and their loss can be devastating when you have no real person to communicate with.
3/ The bitterness of having “no family” to look after her in her old age, is palpable
4/ The need to cling to anyone that shows compassion immediately smothers any true relationship
5/ The belief that money can, and did, buy happiness, until it doesn’t
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Not sex drive so much as lack of interest.
They spend their days in a smartphone fantasy world as the real world is too hard.
Plus, modern women have lost the plot.
Loony lefties, repulsive tattoos, botoxed, conceited, entitled.
A MAJOR turn off. Avoid.
I mentioned a long time ago about the pommy tv series Snog Marry Avoid, which proved how revolting and unnatural too many women are these days and how men would avoid them, even for a fling.
There are good worthwhile women out there though, just looking for the right guy (so they can change them into something else 😉).
Maybe AI will learn to reproduce…
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Tip: take your new g/f swimming so you can see what she really looks like. 😁
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An advert for a mini marathon appeared in my FB feed today. It was apparently is support of gender equality.
The men’s race was 10km while the women’s was 5km …
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‘The challenges of finding a romantic partner …’
That is the problem for women, men are more excited by the thought of procreation, romance is only an invention and best ignored.
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FWIW
“Toyota Math: 9 Million EVs Are Just as Polluting as 27 Million Hybrids”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/24/toyota-math-9-million-evs-are-just-as-polluting-as-27-million-hybrids-n3804117
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FWIW –
Some news for states of Oz
“Governor DeSantis Unleashes on Property Taxes, Calls for Complete Abolition (VIDEO)”
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has intensified his crusade to abolish property taxes, vowing to “end the rent” that homeowners pay to local governments.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/governor-desantis-unleashes-property-taxes-calls-complete-abolition/
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And in Australia property taxes jut keep going up and up.
Also, in SA they even want to confiscate your property without compensation if you are not deemed to be putting it to “good use”.
Topher Field discusses:
https://youtu.be/xvxOQrhRpho
Note, the above video is not to be watched by Australians under 16. The e Safety Kommissar and the Government don’t want you learning anything.
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All, worldwide, is because gubbmints – and the associated bureaucracies – WILL keep spending more.
Not because there is a need for the ‘product’, but because Empires must be built.
So, whether taxes or charges, on income, expenditure, on property or wealth, the costs to those outside the Magic Pentangle keep going up …
Auto
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At least Governor DeSantis gets it, IE taxes on unrealized capitol gains is wrong plain and simple.
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..and here we go lining up the next one!
“Scientists have called for intensified surveillance and biosecurity measures after the discovery of 20 new viruses within bats in China…relatives of Hendra and Nipah viruses, which cause severe brain inflammation and respiratory disease in humans and have mortality rates between 40 and 80 per cent…it’s not like we’re on red alert..we should be aware of it being there and do more surveillance. ”
So, more money for the ‘science is settled’ industry please, and pass these 20 new viruses over to the ‘gain-of-function’ boys to see what they can make out of them!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/urgent-concerns-after-20-new-bat-viruses-discovered-in-china-20250624-p5m9sy.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
Then again, we may get healthier as vaccine-hesitancy takes hold!
“The Kennedy curse is hitting Australia’s vaccine giant…In the five months since Donald Trump ..appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as America’s health secretary, CSL shares have slumped almost 16 per cent.
The more sinister danger comes from the spectre of US vaccination fatigue or scepticism in the community – something which is being turbocharged by Kennedy. This is more onerous because a fear of vaccination entering the US zeitgeist is difficult to combat…Kennedy doesn’t refer to himself as an anti-vaxxer, but he has form.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-kennedy-curse-is-hitting-australia-s-vaccine-giant-20250624-p5m9tw.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
But I’m sure CSL can save Australia’s pension funds by working on those 20 new bat viruses.. if just ONE of them tuns out to infect Asians and not Europeans it will be worth untold billions of dollars, none of which will be publicly acknowledged!
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FWIW – Willis E. has another look at CO2 and ocean acidification
“pHony Alarmism”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/24/phony-alarmism/
With links to other looks
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Yesterday I was filling our car at Footscray service station with tears in my eyes, forced to remember my younger years – at 1.53 $/L
Does anyone still trust those international/financial experts ?
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You got it cheaply.
Recently (Monday) I filled up at the local service station in the Adelaide Hills at $1.69 (although I got a discount 4c per Litre from a local supermarket (not Coles or Woolies).
Curiously all local service station here in Mt.Barker but also in 4 other towns I go through all are very close in price but just above, and the price fluctuates frequently.
It is only $1.20-1.40 less for every time I fill up but I figure I need that rather than the petrol companies.
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Why are you worrying about the price of fuel still – just get an EV.
(I also remember where pump price increases were newsworthy)
Here in UK, it used to be about 5p/l more expensive at motorway services versus off the motorways – they are now 30-40p/l more expensive. We have found it really pays to shop around when filling the tank. And the supermarket servos are no longer the cheapest even with a discount docket from shopping
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FWIW – for the covid record
“The Cutter Incident – did we learn anything from the Covid vaccine rollout?
In 1955, a vaccine catastrophe changed regulation forever—or so we thought. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed how quickly those hard-won lessons were cast aside.”
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/the-cutter-incident-did-we-learn
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Darwin awards latest: gas cylinder category
https://vidmax.com/video/233867-an-lpg-cylinder-goes-full-final-destination-on-a-couple-who-took-to-long-to-care
Not uselesstube so safe for kids 1-18.😆
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Trump just lifted sanctions against Iran, free to sell its oil.
The oil taps are open again. On June 24, President Trump announced that China is now free to purchase crude from Iran. The statement came mid-flight aboard Air Force One, en route to a NATO summit in The Hague. The message was posted to Truth Social. “China can now continue to purchase Oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the U.S., also. It was my Great Honor to make this happen.”
https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-just-lifted-sanctions-against-iran-free-to-sell-its-oil-china-can-now-continue-to-purchase-oil-from-iran-it-was-my-great-honor-to-make-this-happen/
But…but…but…but…
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I like his style, a man in a hurry to bring peace and prosperity.
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Israel seems to have asked Trump to get a ceasefire (DEAL) with Iran, which he has done for now . . . .
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/humiliation-israel-tucks-tail-after
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Has there ever been anyone so deluded and narcissistic than Trump? How gracious of him to now allow a foreign government to buy oil from Iran.
What a clown.
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Donnie writes his own material, truly unique for a politician.
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Maybe in his next move he will offer to fix the Nordstream pipeline? Because even though he said Germany was dependent on Russian gas, I think he was saying they were “too” dependent. It took Joe Biden to blow it up (or at least assist) because he wasn’t that bright. If Germany has cheap gas and Russian is selliing it, the world is probably a much more peaceful place. Note – I am not a geopolitical expert, so dont take my advice.
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FWIW
A challenger for “ElBowen”!
“South Africa Embraces Green Hydrogen Exports as the Solution to their Economic Woes”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/24/south-africa-embraces-green-hydrogen-as-the-solution-to-their-economic-woes/
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And
“Biden’s Offshore Wind Dreams Drowning As Trump Guts Industry”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/23/bidens-offshore-wind-dreams-drowning-as-trump-guts-industry/
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South Africa has no right to steal our green hydrogen super power ideas. If they keep up with this type of oneupmanship we won’t let our cricketers or rugby players compete with them any more. Oh wait
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Wednesday singalong: Bomb Iran
https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1937676423386288473
The neocons have got to Trump alright..
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I see Bezos’s wedding is attracting the usual ‘do as I say, not what I do’ climate alarmists with their superyachts and private jets. It is reported that around 90 private jets are anticipated to land at Venice’s airport.
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Andy May rebukes a AGW zealot.
‘The CMIP6 and earlier sets of climate models assume that CO2 is responsible for warming and the ice decline, yet they cannot reproduce the critical NAO, AO, AMO, SAM, and PDO oscillations. They do better with ENSO but still have major problems with it (IPCC, 2021, pp. 489-514).
‘It is unclear that the models adequately reproduce any of the observed long-term climate oscillations. I should add they are not weather models, but climate models, and as such they should reproduce these oscillations if they are accurate. They have a CO2 bias, yet they do not reproduce them. Process of elimination is not enough to make your case.’ (wuwt)
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Vitamin D Boosts Breast Cancer Treatment Success by 79%
A study conducted at the Botucatu School of Medicine at São Paulo State University (FMB-UNESP) in Brazil found that low-dose vitamin D supplementation can improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy in women with breast cancer. The findings suggest that vitamin D may serve as an alternative to other drugs designed to boost chemotherapy response, especially those that are difficult to access.
The research, supported by FAPESP, included 80 women over the age of 45 who were preparing to begin treatment at the oncology outpatient clinic of the general and teaching hospital (“Hospital das Clínicas”) at FMB-UNESP. The women were divided into two groups: one group of 40 received 2,000 IU (international units) of vitamin D daily, while the other 40 received placebo tablets.
After six months of cancer treatment and supplementation, 43% of the women taking vitamin D saw their tumors disappear following chemotherapy, compared to 24% in the placebo group.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01635581.2025.2480854
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Alan Kohler has no idea of China’s economic plight or the political upheaval taking place.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/trump-us-iran-war-economy-china/105446938
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Covid vaccine figures updated after a year – and the death toll is nearly 3,000”
UK
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-vaccine-figures-updated-after-a-year-and-the-death-toll-is-nearly-3000/
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FWIW
“Indigenous Only” Charter Flights & Other Race-Based Funding”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIOosF2tuc
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FWIW
Well said (IMO)
“Is there anyone left in authority I can trust?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-there-anyone-left-in-authority-i-can-trust/
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Whether this outcome is a temporary blip or something more serious and protracted is unclear. After all the federal government and the states theoretically have plenty of scope to expand their debt loads at least for a time, even Victoria. While this would arguably be an unwise decision to pursue for this reason, having an economy become reliant on taxpayer funded employment growth in the first place suggests that this would not be a surprising outcome.
If the pullback seen in non-market jobs growth seen over the last 6 months is sustained, the market based sectors of the economy have a chance to once again become the primary engine of employment growth.
Whether it will be successful remains to be seen, but one can’t help but think that if it fails, the taxpayer funded jobs printer will see a resurgence in usage to at least some degree.
https://www.burnouteconomics.com/p/can-the-aussie-economy-stand-on-its
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The jaundiced view about each of the actors in the policy world looks like this.
If you’re an expert, you’re out of touch;
If you’re a punter, then you’re ignorant and don’t understand;
If you’re a politician, you’re power-hungry, self-interested and grasping;
If you’re a bureaucrat, you’re a cardigan-wearing lazy featherbedder.
These are the caricatures each group have of the other in the system. And they’re well established. But the truth is, all of the players have a crucial role in the system, and each needs to respect the others’ role.
It is hard to say how much better or worse those in public life are behaving, but public understanding of how they’re behaving has changed profoundly. We no longer expect public figures to act nobly, or even competently. Instead, we look on with suspicion and brace for betrayals. And accompanying that suspicion comes a new form of managerialism: Rather than trusting expertise, it seeks to constrain damage through performance metrics and externalised standards of accountability.
Public life is framed less and less in terms of building the skills and appetite to advance the public good and more and more in terms of containing opportunism and self-interest. The spirit of such a system is not to expand human possibilities and to elevate, but to protect against further decline. And this atmosphere is self-reinforcing. The less we expect of public actors, the less they can expect of themselves. Virtue becomes a kind of eccentricity. This is the incipient nihilism of low expectations.
https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/the-empty-content-of-our-characters
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FWIW – Hmmmm!
“A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-radical-company-is-paying-supreme-court-justices-millions/
Via SDA
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