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There Is No Epstein Client List,’ Say Epstein’s Clients
As if we were so gullible as to believe that all that juicy salacious and even horrific kompromat on the richest and most powerful people in the world would ever be released to the public.
The FBI is withholding all the scandal and treason on:
The Hunter Biden laptop.
The Anthony Weiner laptop.
The Epstein files and videos.
The Diddy files and videos.
And the rest.
Possession of all that kompromat confers immense power.
It’s too valuable to release.
The CIA/MI6/Mossad global intelligence network would lose control over all the powerful people they spent decades setting up.
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Isn’t that exactly what J Edgar Hoover set the FBI up to do?
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THIS J. Edgar Hoover?
https://www.pointsincase.com/articles/underground-history-j-edgar-hoover
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These are the affairs of men (and possibly some underage girls).
Do not allow this to diminish your belief in Science.
Science will sometimes test our faith.
It is not ours to understand Science’s plan.
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Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz just now: ” I know for a fact [Epstein] documents are being suppressed and they’re being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them, but I’m bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can’t disclose what I know. But, hand to God, I know the names of people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that’s wrong.”
Short video:
https://substack.com/@shellenberger/note/c-133973034?r=3d25e
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>Dershowitz
Also:
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/10/alan-dershowitz-sean-spicer-jeffery-epstein-client-list-virginia-giuffre/
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My guess is Dershowitz is making this up. If the list exists it is not sealed by any court. The identity of the officials concealing the list is not sealed by any court. There is no confidentiality he has to abide by unless he is the lawyer for all the individuals on the list.
The identity of the accusers is protected. But that’s a different matter. I’d say he’s throwing this up and claiming confidentiality just so he doesn’t have to back up what he’s saying.
At one point Virginia Giuffre had accused Dershowitz. But she has changed her accusation.
I don’t know his motive for saying it if it’s not true. A possibility is he wants to cause speculation that Patel and Bondi are now protecting Trump. But if there is a list and Trump was on it, there is no way the Democrats would not have used that info previously. They had been so desperate to end Trumps run at the Presidency they would have used it even if it meant throwing some other Democrats under a bus.
I’m more inclined to believe Patel that the information the FBI has does not implicate other people.
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Take it from an expert because I read a lot of Agatha and Gilbert K.
Jeffrey E never compiled any Lists because he was not a suicidal idiot.
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…and Trump the saviour has failed the voters.
Those on the list are just too powerful.
Same old circus, new public-facing puppets.
The mid-terms will spell it out.
Sometimes you just have to totally demolish a building and rebuild from scratch as it’s too rotten and can’t be saved.
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….and the rest.
Serial groper Trump is keen to move on, nothing to see here.
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>Serial groper… Trump?
Huh? I only ever saw the photos and videos of Biden groping and sniffing.
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Oh good, as with alternative science, no need to have evidence then.
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Biden has been known as Creepy Joe for years. Before the left media thought he’d be a presidential candidate even they spoke about it. Jon Stewart used to comment on it. But then when he nominated for President they all went quiet.
Here’s footage from CSPAN of the senate swearing-in ceremonies he presided over. Watch him always arrange it so he has hands on the young daughters of the families and how he interacts with them. No. He’s not just being friendly and trying to make them feel important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PLSPvJ9BY
There’s more clips here mentioning some of the accusations. Including a Jon Stewart sketch joking about a reporter being touched by Biden. Yes, it’s just a joke. But what made them think of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5QV8B6lRE
Plenty of hair sniffing vids if you care to google.
It’s ok. You can admit Biden is like that. It doesn’t suddenly make your accusation toward Trump ivalid if you do. But it will give you some credibility if you can admit Biden is inclined to do it. Rather than pretend otherwise.
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Just imagine the outrage if he were to be found guilty of sexual assault ?.
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If you’re implying Trump has been you’d be wrong. As usual.
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Check the news, Stroppy
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Miasma. Why should I check for something that I know doesn’t exist.
Maybe you can offer the proof of your claim. You haven’t because you can’t.
I suspect you’re simply repeating the often told lie that Trump was found guilty of sexual assault in the civil case against him. But you fail to understand the difference between a civil case between two parties and a criminal trial. Trump’s accuser won a civil case where the burden of proof is lower and there is no finding of guilt. .
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@Miasma:
>no need to have evidence then
Photos and videos ARE evidence.
They’ve been all over the internet for years.
Only low-information types can have missed them.
‘No evidence’ is exactly what you presented.
Got any?
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So why hasn’t it gone to court ?, I think even Donald would have pushed it if it had any veracity.
Maybe AI has something to do with it ?.
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Veracity?
You can see it plainly for yourself!
What’s the matter?
You don’t believe your lying eyes?
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Australia has never been more badly governed than at present at federal, state or local government levels.
And Albanese without question, is the worst PM ever, including Whitlam which is quite an achievement.
Even worse, with the the fake conservative so-called opposition having so few members in parliament, and in addition presently being barely distinguishable from Labor in terms of beliefs and policies, there is little hope of replacing the present government. Even if it was replaced, it would be a government that is only slightly less bad than Labor.
Even in Victoria, undoubtedly the worst governed and most debr-ridden of all Australian states, and getting worse by the day, a recent survey showed that if an election were held now, Labor would still win.
The situation might not be fixable, at least for a decade or more.
To pay for the unrestrained spending which apparently has no limit (until it becomes impossible to pay even the interest bill) government is going to go after unconventional sources of tax.
Everyone I know, who have worked hard their whole lives saving and investing and doing the right thing to be independent of the state are in despair because they no longer feel secure with their assets. Going after superannuation (retirement) savings, is only the beginning. Obviously the new taxes were only introduced to first affect high balances, but no doubt the threshold will be incrementally reduced as time goes on until it affects everyone.
Total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local $2.120 trillion and going up by about $6500 per second. http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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Chalmers should look to Argentina, not economic ‘gurus’
The economists warned against President Javier Milei’s plans, but he proved them wrong
Adam Creighton CONTRIBUTOR
Thank goodness Argentina’s charismatic, libertarian President, Javier Milei, didn’t listen to mainstream economists.
He appears single-handedly to have revived his nation’s economic fortunes, after decades of misery, by doing precisely the opposite of what some of the world’s most eminent economists advised.
If only his reforms would be a template for our own political and economic elite, collectively addicted to ever more intrusive regulation and public spending.
Ahead of his election in November 2023, 170 economists from around the world, including such luminaries as France’s Thomas Piketty and India’s Jayati Ghosh, warned Milei’s supposedly “extreme right” proposals centred on slashing regulation and public spending would cause “devastation” and “social chaos”.
“A major reduction in government spending would increase already high levels of poverty and inequality and could result in significantly increased social tensions and conflict,” they wrote. His agenda was “fraught with risks that makes (it) potentially very harmful for the Argentine economy and the Argentine people”.
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Milei’s administration slashed the number of ministries from 19 to nine, including departments of climate change, diversity and “social development”, insidious fonts of ridiculous regulations the world over.
The turnaround in Argentina’s misfortunes has been stunning, even surprising his supporters.
In the second quarter of this year the economy grew 7.6 per cent, practically all of it an increase in GDP per capita given the nation’s relatively slow population growth. Milei has managed all this without resorting to the tried and failed method of endless deficit spending, actually overseeing a budget surplus in 2024 of 0.3 per cent of GDP.
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How Labor’s bloated public sector ‘Blob’ that sealed Peter Dutton’s fate is spreading its tentacles even deeper into taxpayers’ wallets
The alarming growth of government bureaucracy in Australia has been laid bare by new budget forecasts as Labor and the unions connive to portray every public sector worker as frontline staff
writes Nick Cater
Peter Dutton’s plan to axe 36,000 public servants and force the rest of them back into the office was never going to be a vote-winner in Canberra.
The Liberals’ primary vote fell to a historic low of 21 per cent across the three lower house seats in the ACT.
Labor voters outnumbered Coalition voters by more than two to one for the first time.
The size of the public service workforce has never been larger, nor its preference for Labor governments stronger.
The Coalition’s limit on headcount was relaxed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and Labor’s election in 2022 ensured that the ranks of bureaucrats would continue to swell.
The expansion of government bureaucracy is a global phenomenon that appears to be unstoppable.
Michael Gove, the former British Conservative cabinet minister, famously described it as the Blob, after a cult 1958 science fiction movie in which a meteor crashes to Earth near a small Pennsylvania town, releasing a malevolent red jelly that quickly expands, consuming everything in its path.
“It’s indescribable, indestructible, and nothing can stop it,” read the cinema posters.
Under Anthony Albanese, the federal government blob has grown by 30 per cent, from 136,330 at the end of 2021 to 178,230 in December 2024.
Budget forecasts predict the number will continue to rise to more than 213,000 by the end of next year. It means 87,000 public servants will have been added to the payroll since the pre-pandemic low in 2019.
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There is a distorted picture of the federal public service, which is predominantly administrative in nature.
Most government employees who could reasonably be portrayed as front-line workers, such as nurses, firefighters, teachers, and police are on the payroll of state governments.
No sane person would turn up at the Department of Health’s headquarters in the Sirius Building in Woden seeking treatment for a sore back, for example.
The 7,000-plus workforce staff are primarily comprised of policy, regulatory, administrative and program management personnel, rather than clinical practitioners.
The 20,000-plus Defence Department employees are not taught to load a rifle.
Service delivery jobs have increased by a modest 28 per cent since 2019.
Administration jobs are up by 74 per cent, portfolio, program, and project management positions have increased by 153 per cent, strategic policy jobs by 154 per cent and communications and marketing jobs by 89 per cent.
Human resources positions have risen by 48 per cent, confirming our worst fears that more public servants are employed to manage themselves essentially.
HR professionals are skilled at creating work for themselves, devising an endless number of programmes, education courses, and compliance and reporting obligations that reduce the productivity of everyone else in the building.
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Human Resources; neither humane nor resourceful
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‘Smells of jobs for mates’: Labor’s Mike Kaiser gets top climate change gig
Anthony Albanese has appointed a veteran Queensland Labor figure to a $930,000-a-year position as the head of his government’s climate change department, the latest in a string of taxpayer-funded jobs for ALP heavyweights.
Mike Kaiser served as Queensland premier Steven Miles’s top public servant in the previous QLD government.
Appointed to the job of secretary of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water on a five-year contract worth $930k per year.
Kaiser is a former Queensland ALP state secretary and state Labor MP for the seat of Woodridge. He was forced to quit in 2001 after he admitted to an inquiry into electoral fraud that he had falsely signed an electoral enrolment form in 1986.
The appointment has been made despite Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher claiming Labor would be “putting an end to the jobs-for-mates”.
From the Reader Comments
– There will be no expectation or KPI’s for this appointee to have any effect on any of the world’s climates.
– What would you expect for those who have been long term contributors to the ALP. Just expect more of this reward system to continue whilst ALP is in power. Don’t forget it’s your taxes being diverted to pay the true believers
– If there was anyone in the Labor Party that didn’t deserve this, it was Mike Kaiser. Just look at his history.
– When Labor says “nobody left behind”, this is not a social statement. It’s referring to none of Labor’s old guard missing out on a cushy job.
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I remember when Mike Kaiser left Queensland Labor Government and was appointed to a Queensland Office in the UK, and when he returned to Australia he was appointed to a senior executive position at NBN Co.
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A million bucks a year to do and achieve nothing of significance. Says it all really.
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Mmmm. https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-more-jobs-for-mates-as-labor-promises-public-sector-board-review-20230205-p5chyo.html
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During 2006 journalist Max Walsh wrote in The Bulletin Magazine about then recently appointed Labor Opposition Leader Rudd and Deputy Gillard and part of the story alleged that earlier there had been what he described as “a corporate-style takeover of the Australian Labor Party by the Union Movement”, and that the primary objective was to control all of the governments of Australia.
Union trained executives were given safe Labor electorate seats and various sitting Labor MPs were replaced. The unions always influenced the ALP, as the reference to “the faceless men” indicated, the union bosses. One example of union politics was the creation of GetUp activist organisation modelled on a US activist group. The Australian Workers Union were the organisers but other unions donate to GetUp.
The left leaning Liberal Party of Australia factions (also called LINO left meaning Liberals In Name Only) leader is on record for working to try and create an alliance of left side, and he originally asked to join the Labor Party but was rejected.
Take note, Australia now has government and opposition (not all Coalition MPs or Labor right MPs) that are so close together that they too often appear to be the same.
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This is odd.
They’re commissioning new gas power stations despite being told that ever more wind, solar, batteries and the net energy consumer Snowy Hydro 2 will save us.
Also, does anyone know what this means in the last paragraph? Every megawatt of capacity provided by Kurri Kurri enables three megawatts of renewable wind and solar to come online…
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Odd indeed. Voodoo engineering.
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”Every megawatt of capacity provided by Kurri Kurri enables three megawatts of renewable wind and solar to come online and replace increasingly unreliable coal generation,” Mr Barnes said.
Oh dear.
I doubt if Mr. Barnes is an engineer, or, if he is, I doubt VERY much if he’s been in the Power Industry for more than 2 months; and that is being generous.
It is a well known FACT that for every MegaWatt of “ruinable” power capacity you MUST have
the same power production available from coal, gas and real hydro.
For when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine.
This is the ONLY reason they have inter-connectors between states. And to rip off households.
Yep, they live in la la land.
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And obviously stop building wind and solar hybrid system and return to reliable power stations only, why have an intermittent supply system and back up power generators essential?
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Just a guess.
Maybe they’re talking about name plate capacity but as we all know for wind you only get around a third of that on average, so a third of of 3 megawatts (nameplate wind) is 1 megawatt although they do mention solar in the same sentence as well. So who knows.
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And on average wind turbines to be removed and replaced every 20-25 years.
And if shareholders are willing to re-invest their dividends and start again.
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The sales and marketing and other promotional material always ignores Capacity Factor in favour on Installed Capacity and how many homes that could supply, also ignoring that domestic is not a major area of grid supply customers.
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A further thought:
As Rex mentioned 3MW of ruinables is 1MW of power. That’s at best, but it’s still expensive and unreliable. And it needs to be backed up by generators.
So we can correct the sentence:
to
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Maybe add that without sufficient controllable generator capacity wind and solar would be useless?
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Unrealised Power – Faster Than a Speeding Tariff – Net Zero!
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The last paragraph feels like an oxymoron.
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Agree, but really its just PR BS to explain away building reliable generation
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So Albanese is making his fifth visit to Emperor Xi and hasn’t yet met Trump.
It shows that support for our greatest ally is not a priority for this Government but support for the Chicomms is.
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>Albanese is making his fifth visit to Emperor Xi
Not just a visit, but six days of top level meetings.
Prime Minister Albanese is set to meet for six days with top-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party including President Xi starting on Saturday and it seems he is shifting Australia’s 80 year US alliance to the CCP.
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President Trump continues to ignore Albanese and now with this planned Chinese meeting, he has further antagonised the administration while it is closely examining the AUKUS agreement.
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Trump is under no illusion with whom he is dealing, especially the Australian Ambassador and former PM Kevin Rudd who speaks fluent Mandarin.
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/07/10/china-on-war-footing-as-albo-carries-the-white-flag-into-beijing/
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Presumably if Trump imposes heavy tariffs on Oz, that will likely drive the country further towards China.
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KRudd story is about the evening, before he became “really famous”, where he addressed a gathering of “Chinese” australians” in Brisbane.
I was driving the sound system.
The audience sat quietly during the speech and clapped politely at the end.
Interesting twist:
Almost all of the audience were “escapees” / successful migrants (and their offspring) from Hong Kong.
The daily language there is, (or was, pre-“handover”), CANTONESE. KRudd only speaks “Mandarin” with a peculiar “lilt”.
Someone should check if has an interesting portrait in his attic or has ever had a “life-changing” encounter at a crossroads.
He studied “Mandarin” etc at ANU, deep Canberra country.
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“making his fifth visit” = summoned by his boss.
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Yep, gotta get his instructions, in PRIVATE.
I wonder if he’ll be wearing his red shoes?
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Getting riding instructions.
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Wong issues warning on Chinese threat as PM packs his bags
Penny Wong has expressed alarm over Beijing’s strategic ambitions and surging military capabilities on the eve of Anthony Albanese’s departure for a six-day visit to China.
BEN PACKHAM
Speaking in Malaysia, Senator Wong said Australia didn’t agree with all of Donald Trump’s policies, but strongly supported an ongoing US presence in the Indo-Pacific as a vital counterweight to China’s efforts to shift the regional balance of power in its favour.
“China continues to assert its strategic influence and project its military power further into our region,” Senator Wong told the Institute for Strategic and International Studies.
“And we have seen the worrying pace of China’s nuclear and conventional military build-up, without the transparency that the region expects.”
The sharp assessment comes as Taiwan’s envoy to Australia, Douglas Hsu, warns China is intensifying military and “grey zone” threats against the self-governed territory, prompting Taipei to step up its preparations for a potential invasion.
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I read that this morning, and found it an interesting development. Despite their bravado following their electoral success, the clear disgust and concern being expressed in the media re the Albanese brand of “appeasement” towards China is, it seems, causing a volte face in respect to the Middle Kingdom.
We shall see how long this lasts, and what the Chinese overlords think of it.
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Six days…?? Long enough for a coup! They always happen when the leader is overseas…
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FWIW – Shock! Horror!
He’s got reinforcements!
“We Have New Rules, Ladies And Gentlemen”
“Secretary Marco Rubio @
@SecRubio
Today I am imposing sanctions on IJN Human Rights Council Special
Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts
to prompt@lntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials,
companies, and executives.
Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the
United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. We will always stand
by our partners in their right to self-defense.
The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem
necessary to respond to lawfare and protect our sovereignty and that of
our allies.
8:27 PM • Jul 9, 2025 •
76.2K Views”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gvbvq6RXsAAFRS4-600×393.jpeg
Via
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/10/we-have-new-rules-ladies-and-gentlemen/
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Someone should tell Jeff that Elysium was only supposed to be a movie
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FWIW
“Will history repeat itself?”
“Kim du Toit offers some trenchant thoughts about the impact of drastic events upon earlier human societies and culture, and applies that to today’s “Information Revolution”. I’m not going to steal his thunder by quoting large chunks of his essay, which I find very apposite: I’m simply going to recommend that you click over there and read it for yourself.”
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2025/07/10/bare-ruind-choirs/
Via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/will-history-repeat-itself.html
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Spikevax Receives Full FDA Approval for Children Aged 6 Months to 11 Years at “Increased Risk” Despite Mounting Safety Concerns and Public Distrust”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-spikevax-receives-full-fda/
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FWIW
“17 Out-Of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands (Or Millions) Of Years Ago”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/17-out-place-artifacts-suggest-high-tech-civilizations-existed-thousands-or-millions
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Seen ’em all before…
All these supposedly advanced civilisations disappeared without a trace and their advanced science couldn’t save them, or even record their demise?
Nope, sorry, not convinced at all.
I know – Aliens!!😉
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Of course you have John , that’s expected. Why do you surmise in the face of copious evidence that any civilization , including ours, has an infinite life?
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It would take very little for our current civilisation to vanish, it is so technical now that the demise of a small number of experts in certain fields could crash the whole thing.
What happens when electrical engineering becomes persona non grata with the youth at university? Almost any branch of engineering actually.
Maybe we invent some astounding new tech that people want and Govts keen to get adopted, and as the last engineer involved dies of a new disease caused by it we realise we have to regress a few hundred years.. 7G anyone?
Can we stop regression once it starts? The grid collapses, takes all the electric cars and delivery trucks with it, 80% of the population starves.. We wouldn’t be lucky enough to have 100% of politicians in that 80% dead, but be may miss all the doctors who died from treating the plague involved.. no, wait, they all died from some lab-escaped bioweapon the decade before.
Of course the most likely thing is that each generation gets stupider, reading and riting skills is lost an we can’t keep eny tech goin atall…
Given a century or two and the skin-clad tribes would be hunting sheep in the overgrown ruins of collapsing concrete buildings.
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FWIW
“You Can Fool Enough Of The People Enough Of The Time”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/10/you-can-fool-enough-of-the-people-enough-of-the-time/
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Some silly girl, apparently the SMH’s ‘Economics writer’ wrote an article on how no Govt in Aussie will increase GST… Hasn’t she heard of NZ?? GST at 10% in 1986, up to 12.5% three years later, now 15% from 2010, and raised by both sides of the Uniparty!
In most things Aussie is about a decade, maybe two, behind NZ, so it is overdue here now!
“While Chalmers and Albanese claim they won’t shoot down any ideas before their productivity roundtable, when it comes to touching the GST, the politicians will always say no…(however,)..Increasing the GST makes some sense given what it could pay for. This financial year, the GST raised about $90 billion. If there were no exemptions, Treasury estimates that figure would have been $30 billion higher. If, instead, the rate of GST were bumped up to 15 per cent, we might expect to raise roughly $45 billion more… the federal government could (if it were prepared to deal with state governments tantrums) pocket the additional money from increasing the GST.”
So, as usual, the fact that they are saying it won’t happen means it is being prepared and will soon be upon us!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-worry-politics-will-always-stop-politicians-from-lifting-the-gst-20250710-p5mdy2.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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No it won’t happen, its very unpopular in NZ and that hasn’t gone unnoticed here in Oz.
A lot of Kiwi refugees are fleeing to the big island just to survive.
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Power bills set to surge as Red Energy, the retail body of the government owned Snowy Hydro company, reveals fresh price hike for thousands of Victorian families
Red Energy, the country’s fourth largest energy retailer will slap its customers with fresh electricity price hikes in a major blow to thousands of Victorian families.
In late May the Australian Energy Market Operator announced that 500,000 customers nationwide could experience an eye watering 9.7 per cent rise in their power bills.
The increase in electricity prices, which officially kicked in on July 1 are affecting millions of households nationwide, with average bills rising between $110 and $300 per year depending on the provider and state.
The AER’s latest quarterly data revealed that more than 215,000 Australians are currently in energy debt – a number that rose by 7 per cent from the previous quarter.
Mr Bowen skirted around the around the price hike and said the government would “deliver a better regulated pricing mechanism which will put downward pressure on electricity bills and also ensure the energy market better utilises the huge uptake of rooftop solar and increasingly batteries.”
Mr Bowen, who has come under increasing fire for pursuing a hasty renewable energy rollout is currently visiting the Pacific to “reinforce the government’s commitment to practical climate action and progress discussions on our bid to host COP31 in 2026.”
Red Energy has experienced a substantial bump in revenue in recent years, with energy sales rising by 21 per cent in 2023-24 in addition to its yearly income doubling to $900 million.
Head of retail at Snowy Hydro Iain Graham was paid a salary of $1.96 million in 2023-24, up $350,000 from the previous year.
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Yesterday, Faced with usual annual Electricity Rates Rise – No Thanks to Labor Blackout Bowen, Labor Snake Chamlers & Useless Lets Fly Away Labor PM Albo and there Cost Increasing Renewables for the Fairyland of Net Zero
Current Electricity Supplier Daily Supply 7% increase
Off Peak 56% increase in cents per Kwhr
Peak 31% Increase in cents per Kwhr
Onto usual Annual Check with Government https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/
Plan I had noted on Monday gone – selected 2nd best plan for NSW Time of Day
Daily Supply 3 cents dearer per Day rather than 7% Increaseso 7.5% increase
Off Peak 30% Increase
Peak 1% Decrease on current price
So where does Current Annual CPI 2.4% come from – Tell them they are Dreaming
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“So where does Current Annual CPI 2.4% come from – Tell them they are Dreaming.”
It belongs in the same file as the unemployment numbers.
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Just yesterday the our Labour federal member was on the local radio boasting about how Labour had done such a good job helping people with their power bills, the usual waffle, bit of comment about “renewables being cheaper, how rebates had helped, how subsidies would allow people to install batteries etc but absolutely no mention that power bills continue to increase. The radio announcer, ever polite, did not ask why the promised reduction of $275 p.a. against 2021 prices failed to materialise.
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We can’t even afford to mash peanuts into peanut butter any more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/bega-to-close-peanut-processing-plants-kingaroy-tolga/105512476
In deep Central Africa, you will find someone selling home made peanut butter, often mashed by hand but more often with a basic hydro-powered hammer mill. In terms of industrialisation, peanut butter is often where it starts…
I think the end of peanut processing in Kingaroy is significant for Australia’s end of industrialisation. Shame really, we never even got that good at it.
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Yes, Red Energy sent me that, then AGL sent the new gas prices with similar rises, and then Red Energy sent me the letter saying I will have a smart meter fitted.
So far 3 caustic emails have shown that AEMC have mandated that all Australian customers must have smart meters installed by 2030, which will be just in time for when JC2’s sh1t hits the fan.
It used to be such a great country…
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Has BYD collapsed? It is expected but this does not ring true.
I’m listening to a long YT post that says it has shut but an AI search says that a large dealer network has failed. That’s not what I’m hearing in my headphones.
The video has this note:
How this content was made
Altered or synthetic content
Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated. Learn more
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Like all things in China, getting hold of the truth is practically impossible. That said, BYD’s own published accounts show that they are mired in debt, though they have tried to hide it. Their declared ‘conventional’ debt isn’t worrisome by industry standards, but they have quite extraordinary levels of short-term debt in the form of overdue payments to suppliers, well beyond the norm. This exposes them to creditors making payment demands that could set off an avalanche which, if they were in the west, could render them insolvent. I don’t know how that sort of thing works in China though.
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Has BYD Collapsed
No, BYD has not collapsed.
However, a major dealer network in eastern China, Qiancheng Holdings, which was one of BYD’s largest dealership partners, has gone out of business, leaving over 1,000 customers without service.
The dealer network operated more than 20 BYD showrooms across major cities such as Jinan and Weifang, and it abruptly shut its doors, leaving dealerships deserted and employees out of work.
Qiancheng Holdings blamed policy changes by BYD, while BYD stated that the collapse was due to the dealer’s aggressive expansion and poor financial management.
Despite this, BYD is continuing its transition toward direct sales and has expanded its own branded experience centers in several provinces.
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HR professionals are skilled at creating work for themselves, devising an endless number of programmes, education courses, and compliance and reporting obligations that reduce the productivity of everyone else in the building.
The latest thing they have called upon themselves to manage is neurodivergency, a term used to describe individuals whose brain functions differ from what is considered “neurotypical”.
It embraces conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Tourette syndrome, and encourages inclusion and acceptance of different ways of thinking.
Neurodivergent is not a diagnostic term, and critics argue it conflates a wide range of conditions without distinguishing differences in cause, severity, or support needs.
Last year, an Australian Public Service survey found that “8.8 per cent of respondents considered themselves to be neurodivergent, another 9.3 per cent of respondents considered that they may be neurodivergent, and 9.5 per cent of respondents said they were unsure what neurodivergent means”.
Home Affairs and Services Australia have established neurodiversity units to manage this perceived problem.
All of which suggests that there is no limit to the work that Canberra public servants will appoint themselves to do, given the licence to do so by a willing government.
Intersting my Wife said Our Youngest Daughter had been rabbitng on recently about Neurodivergent – The Young Today like to follow their Social Peers with the latest trend!
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Here’s a great example.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sz4rvqcDqx1z23obp.mp4
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That Guy is Amazing – Definitely a Bit Anal-Retentive or is it Neurodivergent?
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Now now, that’s unkind. Not AR at all. Outstanding spacial visualisation skills though.
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In view of the original and independent thought on this blog – I reckon we are all a bit “neurodivergent”! But in a good way.
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If there’s a handout in it, I’m in!!
Doesn’t matter what it is, the main thing is to be part of a minority that can rape the taxpayers via the usual thugs!
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I now call renewables Miyagi Energy Systems ‘Stralya or MESS for short.
Lights on…lights off…lights on…lights off…😆
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Mattel releases Type 1 Diabetes Barbie
Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie® is debuting the first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This addition to the line enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie and encourages doll play that extends beyond a child’s own lived experience, thereby fostering a greater sense of inclusion and empathy – all pillars of the Barbie brand’s mission.
https://corporate.mattel.com/news/barbie-introduces-first-ever-barbie-doll-with-type-1-diabetes-to-expand-representation-and-inspire-more-children
Next up, Jabba the Hutt Barbie, TimTams and chocolate cheesecake sold separately.
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When is a “Vlad the Impaler” Ken coming?
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Ken has gone trans and comes with a dress, handbag and womens locker room pass.
Do keep up! 😆
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UK: Schools ban children from playing outside during heatwaves
Teachers are keeping pupils inside for “hot play” breaks when their playgrounds are deemed to be “too hot to use safely”.
The move is designed to keep children away from outdoor surfaces that can become very hot to touch in the sun.
But the concept has been branded “absolute nonsense” by critics, who warned that it risked raising a generation of “wimps” taught to “hide from warm weather”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/10/school-bans-children-playing-outside-in-heatwave/
I hereby dub you “weatherwimps”.😎
Your skin will melt at “heatwave” 25C if you touch playground equipment!
Better ban those hot car seats next.
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Weird weather event caught on video
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syzfyssJZt1y9d09t.mp4
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We had a catastrophe here in South Australia. This is our Deputy Premier (PhD in Political Science, worked for political groups before becoming a politician).
The recent flood was smaller than 1974 and much smaller than 1956. Hardly unprecedented but trees show one just before Cook landed that was 4x the water flow of 1956. That one is definitely not due to climate change. Despite it looking like CC reduced the severity of flooding, there is nowhere good enough understanding to make such a claim, let alone it made it worse.
The mini heatwave resulted from a weather pattern, not related to climate change “supercharging the atmosphere” or such gibberish (tried it with my small Hyundai and the blanket just overheated the car without making it go faster). Neither does climate change lead to the Great Australian Bight hogging the doona. Doubtful that this moron could cope with the sort of math needed to be confident that CC had any influence. Maybe a fraction of a degree warmer than it would have been under the same weather pattern in 1974, but the algae is still growing in the winter temperatures. There still would have been a bloom if 2 degrees cooler water.
The third is a factor but, again, Ms Close has no hope of making any sense of the hieroglyphs behind any modelling, if it did exist, that proves such a connection, yet she is so confident that others can’t see it only because their heads are in the sand. The truth, just unlucky timing that the flood and such a weather pattern happened before the nutrient levels dropped to normal. If anything human to it, the 1974 flood released carp into the Murray River whose numbers exploded. This flood could have poured an unprecedented amount of nutrients into the sea as slow release rotting fish, making it the worst in 10 000 years – or not.
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UK Emergency alert system poised to enforce pollution lockdowns
Public could be issued stay at home orders by emergency text when pollution levels get too high.
According to sources inside Whitehall, the system won’t be run exclusively from the centre. Local government bodies — the same ones rolling out controversial low-traffic neighbourhoods and 15-minute city zones — will hold the levers in their own backyards. For councils that have spent years chipping away at freedom of movement in the name of air quality, the Emergency Alert System is the ultimate enforcement tool.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/uk-emergency-alert-system-poised-to-enforce-pollution-lockdowns-and-instant-neighbourhood-controls
The rich have mostly left now…
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FWIW
“Great Success”
“David Clinton- Cannabis Legalization Is Starting to Look Like a Really Dumb Idea”
“The new concerns follow the recent release of a couple of groundbreaking Canadian studies: Cannabis Use Disorder Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations and 5-Year Mortality which found evidence relating cannabis use to early death, and Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System which describes a possible biological mechanism linking cannabis use to psychosis.”
https://www.theaudit.ca/p/cannabis-legalization-is-looking
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/10/great-success-101/
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FWIW
In case you may have wondered at some modern architectural styles –
“This slumping row-house in London’s Charterhouse Square is not a “building” per se, but rather an objet-d’art from the Stunt-and-Clutter school of contemporary art called “A Week at the Knees” by one Alex Chinneck. I confess, I don’t even get the verbal gag. Seems like a non-sequitur to me. But so is most of the production from Stunt-and-Clutter Ltd.”
More at https://www.kunstler.com/p/july-2025
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This might go with that –
“Further to a piece by Dr Dalrymple”
“I had the misfortune this week to visit our very own Vancouver Courthouse complex. Probably even worse than Boston’s City hall, its interior is like Hitler’s bunker, no natural light to speak of and brutalist décor inside.”
More at
https://www.newenglishreview.org/further-to-a-piece-by-dr-dalrymple/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/11/friday-on-turtle-island-142/
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FWIW
“A Significant Geopolitical Problem for President Trump and Us
July 10, 2025 | Sundance | 537 Comments”
“In the mind of President Putin, and in the growing awareness of the American electorate, the President of the United States does not control the Intelligence Community. It is entirely possible for the USIC to take America deeper toward war despite the President and people of America not wanting that to happen. Putin is simply prepared for that outcome.
This reality explains a dynamic where President Trump engages with President Putin in an effort to stop the war in Ukraine, yet President Putin continues the war in Ukraine; because ultimately he knows President Trump does not control the elements that facilitate the Ukraine military.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/10/a-significant-geopolitical-problem-for-president-trump-and-us/
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‘I would remind everyone that right now YOU are paying for the entire government of Ukraine to exist. Including the Ukraine govt payrolls, retirement benefits, healthcare and operational budget of Ukraine overall.’
Its a drop in the bucket and for a good cause, the US wants to get its hands on those rare earths. They have a deal, but this wealth is sitting under the front line.
Here are some of the costings.
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine
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FWIW
“USAID Quietly Shipped 11,000 Virus Samples to Wuhan Lab Without Formal Agreement or Oversight”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/usaid-quietly-shipped-11000-virus-samples-wuhan-lab/
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Well, that raises a lot of questions!
“The documents show PREDICT contractors discussing viral samples taken from wildlife and stored in India, Liberia, Malaysia, the Republic of Congo and China.’
So… who took the samples? Who gave permission for the samples to be taken? Who actually owned the samples? Why did America store dangerous viral samples in other countries…and…
why was USAID involved with biological samples at all?? Weren’t they meant to be handing US dollars to poor people around the world? How does sampling bat viruses help 3rd-world countries?
..and where are the USA’s samples from their Ukraine biolabs that were sent to Melbourne? Are we using CSL for doing America’s dirty work in Australia now?
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The difference between medicine and poison is the dose
A 57-year-old woman spent six days in the hospital for severe liver damage after taking daily megadoses of the popular herbal supplement, turmeric, which she had seen touted on social media, according to NBC News.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/woman-takes-10x-dose-of-turmeric-gets-hospitalized-for-liver-damage/
Everything in moderation.
Even drinking too much water can kill you.
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maybe she just turned yellow – tumeric stains work surfaces when cooking. (not serious)
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From Dr John Campbell.
Important information about WHO amendments which Australia will almost certainly agree to as it’s globalist and WHO supporting.
https://youtu.be/VO8HVTSGLTI
NOTE URL’s INCOMPLETE, SEE IN VIDEO DESCRIPTION
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China Revives Soviet Wingship
China has successfully revived the “wingship,” a technology originally developed by the Soviet Union but later abandoned, with recent photographs from Chinese social media showing a military Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) aircraft in the Bohai Sea.
The craft, nicknamed the “Bohai Sea Monster,” appears to be a modern iteration of the Soviet-era ekranoplan, designed to operate just above the water’s surface using the ground effect to achieve efficient and stealthy low-altitude flight.
Bohai Sea Monster: A military Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) aircraft spotted in the Bohai Sea, resembling the Soviet-era ekranoplan. It features a flying-boat hull, twin tail fins, and four jet engines mounted on its wings, suggesting advanced capabilities for rapid transport and stealth operations.
Soviet-era ekranoplan: A type of aircraft that operated just above the water’s surface, utilizing the ground effect to achieve efficient and low-altitude flight. The Soviet Union developed several large ekranoplans, including the “Caspian Sea Monster,” but the technology was largely abandoned after the Cold War.
Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) technology: A design that allows aircraft to fly close to the water’s surface, reducing drag and improving fuel efficiency. This technology is being revived by China, with the Bohai Sea Monster potentially serving roles in military logistics, amphibious assaults, and stealth operations.
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Iirc it was rough water that the Russian one couldn’t handle. I never knew the Bohai Sea existed but it ain’t no inland lake.
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FWIW
This might be a “handy borrow and save” to get more than one “thumb of approval” for Jo’s postings –
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1b42b2428fcad62e88a180dde248994ba4120bd8301c6f0271ee0883e0162f18.jpg
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That comes from a comment by “Sweet Old Bob” at
“Sea Ice Data Cut-off: Climate Alarmists Panic, But Is It Really a Crisis?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/10/sea-ice-data-cut-off-climate-alarmists-panic-but-is-it-really-a-crisis/
(Done “bas ackwards” I realise)
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strong>A Significant Geopolitical Problem for President Trump and Us
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur today.
Against the backdrop of multiple questions to him about the outcome of their discussion, let us first discuss the problem being avoided.
In the mind of President Putin, and in the growing awareness of the American electorate, the President of the United States does not control the Intelligence Community. It is entirely possible for the USIC to take America deeper toward war despite the President and people of America not wanting that to happen. Putin is simply prepared for that outcome.
This reality explains a dynamic where President Trump engages with President Putin in an effort to stop the war in Ukraine, yet President Putin continues the war in Ukraine; because ultimately he knows President Trump does not control the elements that facilitate the Ukraine military.
People struggle to accept this dynamic. However, I would remind everyone that right now YOU are paying for the entire government of Ukraine to exist. Including the Ukraine govt payrolls, retirement benefits, healthcare and operational budget of Ukraine overall.
Americans do not want to pay for that. President Trump does not want to pay for that. Yet, here we are, paying for that.
The same inertia process applies to the literal Ukraine war and conflict with Russia.
You might not want it. President Trump might not want it. Yet, here again we are providing weapons, intelligence, satellite communication, personnel and systems for the war.
This is the reality of the situation regardless of your/my willingness to accept it. This reality is what President Vladimir Putin discusses and accepts.
The problem for President Trump is not that this reality exists; the bigger political problem for President Trump is that people are increasingly becoming aware of this reality.
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Something needs to change. That something is generally that President Trump has to either: 1. admit publicly he does not control the U.S. Intelligence Community (very ugly); or 2. take control of that intelligence community (even uglier).
In this element of consideration you would be well served to insert the recent experience of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; who, intentionally or not, opened the pandora’s box containing this issue, and look what happened to her.
There was a reason DNI Tulsi Gabbard sat silently recently in the very public Cabinet meeting. I will return to this in a moment.
[SIDE NOTE: Those who deny this reality are likely of a disposition that reconciled advice by those who said COVID-19 virus could attack you standing standing at a bar, but would not approach you sitting down. The COVID virus would attack you in the paint section at WalMart, but not in the grocery aisles, etc.
Every COVID-19 mitigation pronouncement was ridiculously silly, yet people not only believed it, they followed it. The non-pretending tribe did not. For whatever reason you might attribute, the reality of that COVID-19 experience highlighted that the non-pretending tribe within American is in the minority. The pretenders included politicians, healthcare workers, most doctors, police, law enforcement and most Americans (70% vaccinated). END NOTE]
♦ President Trump does not have control over the USIC activity in Ukraine. If he did, he would have been fully aware of the drone strikes against the Russian strategic bomber fleet before it was carried out. By his own admission he did not know.
Prior to the increased attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin correctly noted that Ukraine does not have the military capability, the satellite communication and guidance systems to continue carrying out strikes deep into Russia. Therefore, from the perspective of Putin, as these strikes continued they were facilitated by NATO. Ergo, NATO was factually attacking Russia, albeit using Ukraine as the proxy for it. Again, Putin with clear eyes on reality.
Into this pretending/non-pretending world, in a remarkable statement of candor we also saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio accurately -and honestly- say five months ago the Ukraine conflict was a proxy war for the USA against Russia.
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Comedy-Turned-Farce: Trump Pledges a Whole Ten Missiles to Ukraine
After failing to coerce Russia into an unfavorable cessation of hostilities (read: surrender), the US is now again playing ‘sanctions’ roulette, which deep state neocon vampire Lindsey Graham has been wedging onto Trump.
The sanctions on Russian energy exports and banking services are meant to ‘degrade’ Russia’s ability to wage the war in perpetuity, given that Western elite are finally coming around to the fact that Russia will not submit, and plans to carry on indefinitely.
But—mind-blowing as it may sound—the 10 missiles appears to refer to just that: 10 actual missile interceptors; as in, the ammunition.
In the article, Trump asks Germany to send a fully battery while he sends 10 missiles. This is a strange request, as 10 missile launchers would represent a battery themselves, thus the distinction would not be necessary to make. In fact, that is almost two batteries, with each battery costing upwards of $2.5B dollars in export terms; $5B is an extremely unlikely amount from Trump, given that his new package aims to gift a mere $300M, as stated earlier.
Also, the previously-‘frozen’ aid verifiably contained “30 Patriot missiles”—as in, the actual ammunition itself
Keep in mind, Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles cost upwards of $10M each. That means another mere 10 missiles would be as much as $100M, which certainly makes sense within the context.
If that’s the case, then we should be gobsmacked at this theater of the absurd: all this noise for a mere 10 missiles that will be fired off in three or four seconds during Russia’s next attack?
Just last night, Russia again broke the record, this time walloping Ukraine with over 700+ drones and missiles in a single night.
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FWIW – another “pandemic” brewing”?
“Potential Saboteurs, Spies, and Hackers from China Getting Busted Around the World”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/potential-saboteurs-spies-and-hackers-from-china-getting-busted-around-the-world/
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FWIW -more on Texas floods
“The Rain It Raineth on the Just*”
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/74584.html
Via https://instapundit.com/731409/#disqus_thread
I recall a Quilpie local describing the arrival of a sudden big flood in the Bulloo River as “coming down with a flood face of about 45 degrees”
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FWIW
“For National Security, We Need Uranium Mined in America”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/11/for-national-security-we-need-uranium-mined-in-america/
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