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Jaguar’s massive 97% sales collapse is actually very misleading!
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/07/jaguars-massive-97-sales-collapse-is-actually-very-misleading/
Jaguar actually has very few cars to sell as they shut down production to concentrate on the new all EV range.
However I think that the end is nigh. The new cars do not look good to me.
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That’s a clever spin to it
Anyway, get woke, go broke. Even in fully woke Europe.
A reminder of Jaguar’s fully woke advert:
https://youtu.be/rLtFIrqhfng
It’s totally devoid of cars but full of woke-looking weirdos.
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Jaguar had an interesting hybrid concept car 10 years ago, the C-X75.
It certainly looked the part and it was supposed to have twin gas turbine generators (by Bladon Jets) as range extenders.
In the end the gas turbines weren’t ready for production so a few were made with a petrol engine instead.
Imagine the noise as the big cat leapt away with both jets running at take off power!
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Peter
The summary could well be “Looks like a fuster”?
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Now the TGA (equivalent to FDA) wants to restrict Vitamin B6 supplements.
The claim arises from observations from excessive levels observed in a pathology clinic blood samples, not actual observations of symptoms of toxicity in patients.
Obviously you should only take any kind of supplement or any medication at all in appropriate amounts.
I see this as likely part of a general forthcoming effort against vitamin supplementation, for example correction of Vitamin D deficiency, a very common one even in sunny Australia. The TGA and ABC already ran scary stories about Vitamin D toxicity during covid, even though you needed absurdly high doses. And they also made false claims that Vitamin D supplentation would not help for covid, which was a lie because a Vitamin D deficiency is known to make one more susceptible to covid and that was known even during the covid years.
The deficiency of Vitamin D is known to cause multiple other problems apart from increased susceptibility to covid and many other conditions as discussed on this site many times.
Correction of Vitamin D deficiency and thus the avoidance of many diseases caused by that deficiency is not good for Big Pharma who make many expensive drugs to cure the diseases caused by the deficiency.
I notice the TGA have no concerns about excessive administration of mRNA covid “vaccines”.
Expect to see more of the same meddling in your lives as Australians continue to have more and more intrusive Government by the day since we are now a virtual One Party State and the Government is operating almost without restraint.
Video from Their ABC (Australia):
https://youtu.be/_6qYSwZjdjs
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Recent case reports since 2023 link VitB6 to peripheral neuropathy!
Strangely a trial of 70 patients from the 1990’’s had no cases of peripheral neuropathy despite very high daily doses.
I wonder what has changed?
What else causes peripheral neuropathy?
https://theconversation.com/too-much-vitamin-b6-can-be-toxic-3-symptoms-to-watch-out-for-260400
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Indeed.
Seems like a cover up to blame Vitamin B supplements and not compulsory mRNA “vaccination”.
They are deliberately muddying the waters.
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FWIW – around the covid scene
If the dots mentioned here do line up the TGA might need a lot of mud
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter –
“Sudden and unexpected”
Start here and read down –
“I will now depart from normal C&C practice, and make a calculated leap of speculation with potentially vast implications. But recent evidence demands it. Yesterday, ZeroHedge ran a story headlined, “Centene Crashes Most On Record, Sparks Selloff In Managed Care Stocks.” This is not good news. It could be awful.”
for much more
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sudden-and-unexpected-thursday-july?
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Diabetes
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More home brew so you get the yeast direct?
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For those interested in radio and TV transmitter history, here is an interesting video about the BBC transmitting station at Holme Moss in West Yorkshire, UK.
https://youtu.be/0iMCyDxiN0g
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Video about Anthony Albanese’s dangerous move, not getting rid of the TRUMP-hating Australian Ambassador to the United States, KRudd. Krudd is Albanese’s personal friend, but KRudd’s continual presence as Ambassador is hugely damaging to Australia-US relations which are at their worst ever and declining by the day. Albo also being a TRUMP-hating communist doesn’t help either. Similarly for Foreign Minister Wong.
https://youtu.be/Q7o_WuZTPjk
Don’t forget Albo and Wong’s CCP connections wither:
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I think another reason for poor Australia-US relations is Australia’s censorship of social media, both locally and globally via the e Safety Kommissar.
Also the Kommissar was even mentioned in the US Congressional Judicial Committee enquiry at:
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-06/Exporting%20Censorship%20Final.pdf
EXPORTING CENSORSHIP: HOW GARM’S ADVERTISING CARTEL HELPED CORPORATIONS COLLUDE WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO SILENCE AMERICAN SPEECH
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How AI makes people dumb.
Video by Sabine Hossenfelder.
https://youtu.be/H3_6sRXr16M
It’s a real worry that it’s not only dumbing-down school and university students, as if they weren’t already dumbed-down enough, but many professionals are using it as well, including doctors, lawyers and business people. They expect AI to do their thinking for them. As the results show, however, when AI does the thinking, the human has no comprehension of the results thus produced.
And as they used to teach, back in the pre-woke days, Garbage In, Garbage Out.
That still applies, especially to AI which has been programmed with particular biases, usually of a Leftist orientation*.
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Very short video:.
A 100 year old US WW2 veteran does a pull up on the barrel of an old German tank.
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1940611068155645960
A lot of 20 something year olds couldn’t do that these days.
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Friday morning music.
James Levine on the piano and Luciano Pavrotti perform Rossini, La Danza, in 1988 at the Lincoln Center, New York.
https://youtu.be/2DbwrU3QZsA
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Happy USA Independence day to all of our USA friends.
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God bless America and the people who live there! You have every right to stand tall and proud. Happy Birthday America.
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Just remember that the USA as a reminder to its citizens of their “home ground” will require the filing of income tax returns no matter where you actually reside.
About ten years ago, they managed to check that filing with passport renewals…..
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Landmark Library of Evidence Exposes Covid ‘Vaccine’ Harms
https://slaynews.com/news/landmark-library-evidence-exposes-covid-vaccine-harms/
How long can the Lame stream media and the socialist gruberment keep denying all the studies and information coming out on the harms these jabby jabs have and are doing.
When will the Politicians, pharmaceutical and Public serpents be held to account for their decisions.
Giving Pfizer and the other pharmaceutical coverage for being sued for these poisons was criminal and those that made the decisions should be held to account.
Hangem all.
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I’m not for violence, that falls in their trap.
But I know where there are some islands need some people stuck on them. https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/government-vows-crackdown-on-owners-of-oncestunning-abandoned-island-resorts-left-in-apocalyptic-ruins/news-story/d3dac4f621a74e520379801c6cdf4e82
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Spiked on line headline.
‘Two-Tear Reeves….’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/03/two-tear-reeves-needs-to-man-up/
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In honor of the USA’s birthday (July 4th, 1776**), I just sent Jo a small sum ostensibly for a fancy box of chocolates.
**The real date should be June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to approve the Constitution. This ratification made the Constitution the law of the land for “the United State” — all nine of them. July 4th is more like conception than birth.
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John Adams wrote to his wife on July 3rd, 1776, after the resolution of independence was passed on July 2nd. The final text of the declaration wasn’t agreed and passed until July 4th.
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The Victoriastan Government has already ignored the will of the Australian people by going ahead with its own version of “The Voice” (exclusive race-based input into legislation and other matters when it should be racially neutral).
Well, it gets worse. Much worse.
See:
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Reparations were always the final chapter in this appalling campaign. It was also inevitable that a Victorian state government would completely ignore not only the national Voice result – but the determination of the people of Victoria in the referendum. The Victorian Labor zealots are beyond condemnation. But, unbelievably – they were re-elected.
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Miliband visits my local wind farm.
‘Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.’
Starts at 5min 20sec approx.
https://youtu.be/D26mL19AtEw
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I cannot see any turbines powering anything let alone millions of homes – the nutter cannot even appreciate the silliness of his comments. They would need electricity supply to keep their systems awake. What a MASSIVE waste of OPM.
The UN desire for funding without accountability and responsibility has infected western governments, which no longer serve their constituents. There is a massive transfer of wealth from producers to government bureaucracy and their chosen. Deeply embedded corruption now rules. It is sickening. The residents of Canberra have the highest disposable income in the country:
https://www.finder.com.au/savings-accounts/disposable-income-in-australia
The ethic of public service in Australia is long departed. It is now privilege from the public purse. Governments do not solve anything. The only good government is less government.
Australia is aiming to follow the UK into the offshore wind turbine fantasy world but even the proponents now see the stupidity of these things and withdrawing from projects.
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This is humanity’s biggest problem – Positive Feedback.
Would be half bad if bureaucrats stole the money to enjoy them.
It is what they use those money for – to multiply.
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Better the robber barons than the omnipotent moral busybodies….
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FWIW
“A billion-dollar exercise in looking virtuous, while watching the bush go to ruin”
https://www.robertonfray.com/2025/07/04/a-billion-dollar-exercise-in-looking-virtuous-while-watching-the-bush-go-to-ruin/
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Actor dies suddenly at 67 from heart attack.
Had sore shoulder, and had been cleared and found in good health days before
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London had record temperature this week.
There are two main drivers. The solar intensity through the NH warming phase from late March to late June has been trending up since 1700 due to Earth orbital changes. Then there is the increasing expansion of hard surfaces to absorb the solar energy while replacing the vegetation that retains water and contributes to transpiration. Add to that the ever growing number of wind stillers on ocean and land reducing ocean air advection.
The linked map shows how the UK land surface has been transformed from transpiring vegetation to an enormous but useless power station. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=17FaYeZBcIizFSJst9CMBfpzFYUGXNpMG&femb=1&ll=55.04086956686435%2C-3.7377609982422833&z=6
The UK is not a particularly large group of islands. It would take serious endeavour to transform such a series of islands into a desert island. But the 21st century UK governments are having a serious crack.
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A temperature of 34.7C (94.4F) was recorded at St James’s Park in central London on Tuesday afternoon.
Did they say central London?
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“A society that puts equality in the sense of equality of outcome ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
– Thomas Sowell
Mass immigration has nothing to do with freedom. It is social engineering.
It’s a policy imposed by globalist elites to forcibly change our culture and society, as opposed to how it would organically and gradually adapt and evolve with sustainable immigration.
It destroys social cohesion and lowers trust, which justifies more government intervention and makes it easier for globalist elites to control us.
– Maxime Bernier
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Friday idiocracy
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syth13NaYb1z23obp.mp4
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Amish vs council worker
Amish:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syu6bg6lQ01z23obp.mp4
Council:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syryjok56j1z23obp.mp4
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FDA Announces New Safety Warning on All mRNA COVID Vaccines — Cites “Extremely High” Risk of Myocarditis and Long-Term Heart Damage in Young Men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration has formally updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to reflect what many Americans have been warning about for years: a disturbingly high risk of myocarditis—particularly in young men—and the possibility of long-term, irreversible heart damage.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/fda-announces-new-safety-warning-all-mrna-covid/
Shut that stable door!
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Who would vote for representatives of a political party if Peta Credlin was the leader?
Pasuline Hansen said she would like to see Trump as Australia’s PM. I think Peta Credlin would be easier to vote for and a better PM than Trump. A PM is different role to a President.
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Leftists hate her. That’s prolly a plus.
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Apart from down to Earth country girl upbringing well qualified including Bachelor of Laws and in politics Chief of Staff/Cabinet Secretary the top position in the Office of Prime Minister & Cabinet management.
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She is smart and gutsy. While I would prefer Canavan as a leader of any conservative Party, Credlin would be excellent – particularly as she has had “inside” experience in the lurks of government and the public service.
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Credlin once said that she knew exactly what was going on inside the Liberal Party, but then as Abbot’s Chief of Staff didn’t see a leadership challenge coming. Disliked by left and right alike, so very little chance of success.
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Australia’s Climate Change and Energy minister, Chris Bowen, has just committed A$432m to revive Orica’s green hydrogen project in the Hunter Valley, despite the axing of over A$100bn of other green hydrogen projects in Australia.
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Not not not, not responsible for taxpayer’s monies.
Obviously.
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One of Helen’s mob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dHSsXQbhg
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NASA spots “transient luminous event”
https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1940882151257346330
Love sprites!
Explain that with CO2! 😆
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There are things happening, Voyager 1 and 2 appear to have made alien contact and NASA have AI working on it.
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I hope I live to see how USA benefits or otherwise from RFK Jr’s vision for American health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIoul2rMMo
It would be sad if they have to limit the “foods” that SNAP benefits can be applied to because I have some expectation that parents would want to make good choices for their children.
On the other hand, if Australia had a SNAP style food program, there may be fewer machetes in kids’ hands.
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FWIW
“Eh Gawd!”
“And CUE the Big BEAUTIFUL Meltdowns: Here Are the Best Tantrums After Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill PASSES”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/07/03/and-cue-the-big-beautiful-meltdowns-here-are-the-best-n2415176
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FWIW
“The Second American Civil War Will Be Fought Mostly by U-Hauls”
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/07/03/the-second-american-civil-war-will-be-fought-mostly-by-u-hauls-n4941387
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the hackers simply called up a Qantas call centre in the Philippines and impersonated someone of authority to obtain the login details for a third-party platform storing the personal details of 6 million Qantas customers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-04/asx-markets-business-live-news-date-year/105493358#live-blog-post-199245
Digital ID = a fabulous idea. (There are three definitions of “fabulous”, I am using the Barely credible; astonishing. Shame many think only “Extremely pleasing or successful.” when describing something that has not happened yet).
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‘I can’t see things deteriorating to the point where we see nationwide violence in the streets.’
I agree, US democracy might be unsettled, but a civil war is unlikely.
‘Pollster Jason Corley said the results reflected an “unsettled” national mood: More Americans believe the country is in decline (37 percent) than believe its best days are ahead (34 percent), while more than one in five think the nation’s golden era is already behind us. Corley added that pessimism is “particularly strong” among older voters and rural Americans, key parts of Trump’s base.’ (Newsweek)
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Breaking: Czech republic suffering complete power outage and blackout.
Cause unknown.
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New ‘super-contagious Frankenstein’ variant has rocketed four-fold in just a month…experts warn it could be most infectious yet
A new Covid variant dubbed ‘Stratus’ has soared to dominance in the UK, with experts warning it could drive a wave of new infections.
Stratus—scientifically known as XFG—is thought to be more infectious than previous Covid strains due to mutations that help it evade the immune system.
Now, data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), shows Stratus has now become the dominant Covid strain in England.
The variant has gone from accounting for about 10 per cent of all Covid cases in May to almost 40 per cent three weeks later in mid-June.
Stratus—a descendent of the already super virulent Omicron—is what is known as a Frankenstein or ‘recombinant’ strain.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14872477/Covid-alert-ultra-catchy-Frankenstein-variant-explodes-data.html
Cue Geert! 😎
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Comments section is brilliant. Remember when Mail readers wanted to execute the unvaccinated…
eg. I think I will put on a mask while walking down the street, but take it off while sitting in a restaurant, although I WILL insist that the wait staff be forced to wear it. I will also make sure that no-one is allowed to play doubles at the tennis courts and that golfers are not allowed out. I, however, will have 5 of my friends in the house where we will get on the drink (unmasked), especially as we are all in an approved “bubble” and we will dob the neighbours in.
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Nimbus and then Status – just to wind up the chemtrail mob
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Editorial standards keep slipping at ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-04/anthony-albanese-champions-australian-independence-/105497350
On Saturday night the Prime Minister will deliver a speech at the John Curtin Research centre marking the 80th anniversary of the former Prime Minister,
Anniversary of what? (save a google for those like me who don’t hold dates well – it’s his death, not his first election won or first appointment)
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