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I was told that the Australian Empire extends from Bramble Cay (north) to the South Pole (south) and from the Shinnan Glacier (west) to Steels Point (east).
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Also related as a result of that territory is that Australia’s maritime patrol area of responsibility for search and rescue is massive:
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Remember Tony Bullimore and his rescue, an all Australian effort.
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Further east surely? What about Norfolk Island?
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Our French neighbour to stop us going further East.
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Steels Point (east) is the most easterly point of Norfolk Island.
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Long thoughtful article on the Internet of things.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/16/the-problem-with-the-internet-of-things/
I get increasingly concerned at the complexity we are continually adding to every aspect of our lives and the increasing likelihood that parts of the system will break, be hacked, be overloaded. AI is adding exponentially to the need for vast amounts of reliable energy-quite where that is supposed to come from I don’t know.
Yesterday I referenced an Anglo Saxon Poem “The Ruin” depicting Bath 500 years after the Romans left. They are awestruck by the achievements of this lost world that they can not match . It is highly evocative and as we ditch our industry, jobs and prosperity in order to meet foolish net zero targets most of the world is not attempting to meet, it seems likely the legacy the West will bequeath our children is one of a diminished civilisation beset by expensive fuel, power cuts and few jobs.
here are a few lines;
“This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,
the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, fallen,
undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses
the mighty builders, perished and fallen,
the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations
of people have departed. Often this wall,
lichen-grey and stained with red, experienced one reign after another,
remained standing under storms; the high wide gate has collapsed.
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Civilisations decay extremely rapidly once they stop being maintained.
A typical life of empires is about 250 years.
The following is from: https://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
Empire, Years, Duration
Assyria 859-612 B.C. 247
Persia 538-330 B.C. 208
(Cyrus and his descendants)
Greece 331-100 B.C. 231
(Alexander and his successors)
Roman Republic 260-27 B.C. 233
Roman Empire 27 B.C.-A.D. 180 207
Arab Empire A.D. 634-880 246
Mameluke Empire 1250-1517 267
Ottoman Empire 1320-1570 250
Spain 1500-1750 250
Romanov Russia 1682-1916 234
Britain 1700-1950 250
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USA, 1776 – 2025 250.
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Once we were an Empire, led by an Emporer…
Then we were a Kingdom, led by a King,..
Now we are a Country, led by a …****
(politician !)
Quote,..(Jethro)
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Count Albo….
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And his proud Coastie
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My first ever trip to the US was in 1976 during their bicentennial. Soon it will be 250 years but less to celebrate it seems these days, and much more divided.
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It not the buildings, it’s the brains.
Don’t know about you, but my experience with the educated managerial intelligentsia is that the they believe in absurd things.
It’s mostly Woke Utopia World.
The only thing that stands in the way of The Dream is the lack of government provided therapists.
We don’t need roads, electricity, or police and military …
if everyone’s emotional needs, which are a social construct, are met.
And we all know society is constructed by government.
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Germany seems increasingly determined to ban the “far right” AFD which regularly polls 25%.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/16/banning-alternative-fur-deutschland-is-a-disaster-the-right-must-unite-to-stop/
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Socialist Germany has form. National Socialist Germany and East Germany (officially the German Democratic Republic) banned all pro-Democracy right-wing parties. Hitler also banned all other left-wing socialist parties and the pro-Democracy right-wing German National People’s Party (DNVP). On July 14, 1933, the “Law Against the Formation of New Parties” was passed. Any attempt to form a new pro-Democracy right-wing party was considered a criminal offence against socialism.
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” Any attempt to form a new pro-Democracy right-wing party was considered a criminal offence against socialism.”
But ..but…. How can a Right-wing party be Socialist? They used to be Left-wing, and Hitler was Right-wing, a Fascist, the worst thing a person could ever be! Look at Russia, Communist for 75years, the very epitome of Socialist.. yet today all I hear is that they are fascists! Now any hard Left-wing party is Central, and any party to the Right of them are screaming fascists
I do wish people could just stick to the original meanings of words.
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Nice in France is one of our favourite towns. It has a wonderful February Carnival together with a Lemon festival in nearby Menton. This is shocking but very much reflects what is happening in Marseille, down the Coast.
https://rmx.news/article/the-situation-has-become-intolerable-nice-is-restricting-access-to-city-center-streets-due-to-spiraling-drug-crisis/
Sometimes this does seem like the twilight of the Roman Empire as debauchery, violence and lack of money overwhelmed them, as they lost control of their borders.
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A pity. Also love Nice – the city was more friendly to tourists than many French cities, Paris included. Used to visit often for work reasons when working in Germany and Brussels.
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Far too little too late! Now its so bad the only answer is to put drugs on the street that are lethal in concentration and disinfect the gene pool. Your life ends with the greatest hit of all, and you get to see Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and a whole stack of great rock stars.
It certainly is the end of the white European empire, democracy killed it stone dead!
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This is madness, but it’s what commies do. No doubt fully woke Australia will be next.
Sixteen year olds aren’t allowed to drink, smoke, go to war, get a tattoo or take a bank loan (in Australia and probably most Western countries) but they can vote?
Letting young, naive and indoctrinated children to vote will help further embed the Left forever.
That’s on top of the existing mass importation of some of the world’s most violent, uneducated, misogynistic and-Western people, all Labour UK or Labor Australia voters.
Also, in Australia the voting age used to be 21 but Whitlam lowered it to 18.
Note that when the voting age was 21 there was an exception for under 21’s in active wartime military service to vote as it wasn’t considered correct that 18-20 year olds were expected to die for their country but couldn’t vote for or against the politicians sending then to die.
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In Australia the commies already want to lower the voting age to 16. The Labor Party have been talking about it for years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/push-to-lower-compulsory-voting-age-in-australia-to-16/103662980
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Correction: “and-Western people” was meant to read “and anti-Western people”.
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If this stupidity comes about, 16 year olds will be adults when it comes to criminal offences, they will be required to join up in times of military need, they are eligible for the ball and chain of marriage, etc.
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Can join the ADF Cadets from 12-1/2 years old.
Can do work experience with the ADF from 15
16 year olds can apply to the Australian defence force academy.
16-1/2 year olds can apply to enlist.
they have to be 17 to actually enlist and they need written permission from parents/guardians, and it has to be deemed voluntary.
they can be deployed at 18
deployed to combat zones at 19.
the ages are a result of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
Also, I think these rules would go out the window if something suitably catastrophic were to kick off.
One could argue that both the Cadets and work experience makes them valid military targets, even if only temporarily, but then this can be said about any civilians doing anything with or for any military anywhere.
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Ukraine shows something quite different. They have resisted lowering the enlistment age further than their 27 down to 25, yet send older and older men to the front. Photos of prisoners show mostly men over 40 and plenty with grey hair.
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Do you think the “Youf” of the UK would even bother making and taking the time to vote? They don’t have to vote so I’d be guessing the majority won’t even bother if it means time away from the internets.
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I’ve always thought 16 year olds should be able to vote – no taxation without representation. Perhaps only those in the workforce should be voting though – those following a study path to university should be excluded until they have a job.
Can’t see them doing any worse in voting than the over 18s already do.
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Most technically-oriented people have heard of the Internet of Things (IoT).
But how many have heard of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)?
The beginnings of Skynet?
QUOTES
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The Novikov Self-Consistency Principle.
AI explanation.
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“Essentially, events that occur in the past, even due to time travel, are already part of the consistent timeline and cannot be changed. ”
..or would it create a parallel universe where people continued into different futures? Could you go back and find you cannot get back to your original future?
..or would the universe react and neutralise what you did in some other way so while a localised event was changed the overall picture remained the same.
..or would everything change including people’s memories, so they all believed they lived the ‘new’ life and forgot the ‘old’ completely?
So many great SF stories!
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https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/17/climate-jihadi-allegedly-skyjacks-plane-after-declaring-global-warming-will-turn-earth-into-venus/
Via
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/17/climate-jihadi-allegedly-skyjacks-plane-after-declaring-global-warming-will-turn-earth-into-venus/
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This is very disturbing if accurate.
Scientists Sound Alarm Over ‘Magnetic Nanoparticles’ in Covid ‘Vaccines’
https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-sound-alarm-magnetic-nanoparticles-covid-vaccines/
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It sounds bizarre, yet I read more and more stories about people loosing their minds on aeroplanes!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/going-viral-american-airlines-passenger-loses-it-profanity/
Maybe the magnetic nonoparticles explain their behaviour.
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There was lots of talk about this in the early Convid vax days and then it seemed to go away. Naturally the MSM rubbished it. We shall see.
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Least of the problems with mRNA vaccine technology.
If you have the mRNA vaccine in your brain or heart you will be injured for life.
If you want to be boosted – ‘get yourself boostered’
Leave the children alone.
Professor Bhakdi ‘if you are doing this to your children you will be killing them!’
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Just reading it elsewhere now.
This is quite plausible, unlike the self-assembling nanotech nonsense that the technologically illiterate rabbited on about in recent years.
If we take this as a given then the purpose remains to be revealed.
Targetting the Claustrum in the brain could potentially switch people on and off.
Nice!
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An interview here with an Aussie doc who spent a long time chasing down the graphene in vaccines issue (to no avail) but who now has much more serious concerns about misfolded proteins and prion diseases: https://discernable.io/confirmed-evidence-of-biological-engineering-and-novel-clotting-with-dr-kevin-mccairn/
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” misfolded proteins and prion diseases:”
Ah, I was reading about proteins absorbing EMF of various frequencies and the drama it caused. Don’t ever believe the ‘experts’ who tell you mobile phones are safe, car radars are safe, or any EMF we generate actually, they are all labelled as ‘safe’ if they don’t cook you. We were not evolved to live in a sea of EMF so we don’t have hardened circuitry.
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The calls urging people “not to speculate” seem to be getting louder and more common – but also somehow related to certain races, religions, and nationalities.
We should just blindly trust the people that the government and media define as experts, even if they clearly are not anything of the sort…
sadly, many who should know better, do just that.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-18/air-india-crash-update/105545060
I don’t recall this being a thing when, for example, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared in 2014… the world really has changed.
People were run over and injured in Liverpool (UK) a few weeks ago, and one of the first things the Mayor said when interviewed, was that people should not speculate about, well, anything, really… apparently it was more important to say that, than to offer any sort of sympathy to the victims, which came much later.
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Yes. When we are told “not to speculate” that’s a good indication of the particular demographic that was responsible.
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FWIW
“One Nation, One Language: Why Declaring English Isn’t Bigotry—It’s Common Sense”
“It wasn’t a ban or censorship. And it certainly wasn’t white supremacy.
On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14224, making English the official language of the federal government. To most Americans, that move seemed natural, if not overdue. But within minutes, predictable corners of the country erupted in protest, suggesting the apocalypse had arrived.
Again.
Let’s take a clear-headed look at what happened and, more importantly, why it matters.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/07/15/one-nation-one-language-why-declaring-english-isnt-bigotryits-common-sense-n4941791
And
“Is it Okay to Love the America of No Cliterodectomies?
And no Fatwas?”
Much more at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/is-it-okay-to-love-the-america-of-no-cliterodectomies/
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” it was more important to say that, than to offer any sort of sympathy to the victims, which came much later.”
…and the official report from the official investigation, which came SO much later that people had forgotten about the incident under the deluge of new ones…
I think they really really hate people having mobile phones with cameras these days!
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I have a new article on WUWT that looks at the development of cloud over ocean warm pools:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/17/toward-a-deterministic-model-of-cloud-development-over-ocean-warm-pools/
I have concluded that convective overshooting is an important part of the temperature regulating process.
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Thanks Rick,
Q1. Does the moored buoy measure the water temperature or does it measure the air temp just above the surface? I was surprised by how much cooling a shower of rain causes.
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The temperature probe is nominally 1m below the surface.
And the rain that comes from great altitude is cold. I expect the rain water would not be much more than 0C. If you have lived in the southern tropics through October you are looking forward to the afternoon monsoon by November. Those storms clean and chill the air for a couple of hours. By March, you are looking forward to less humidity.
Although I show the saturated conditions for 30C, the atmosphere likely equilibrates to around 29C after convective instability has done its thing.
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Johannes Leak Cartoon Today – Xi “Pretty Sweet Not Having an Opposition”
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I thought Xi was gone! Youboob was full of it last week, all the CIA plants going crazy..
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FWIW
“Ed Miliband to unleash new gas plants to back up patchy wind and solar”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/17/ed-miliband-to-unleash-new-gas-plants-to-back-up-patchy-wind-and-solar/
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And
“Sunnova’s Enronish Ending”
“Previous posts at MasterResource (below) have chronicled the government-enabled rooftop solar industry, which is now in distress. Bankrupt Sunnova Energy heads the list, with others either bankrupt or struggling.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/17/sunnovas-enronish-ending/
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Albo in China has made such a big deal anout meeting another evolutionary dead end apart from him, the panda.
One of pandas he met was one they took back from the Adelaide Zoo.
That was meant to be a gift to Australia for Howard giving away much of our gas supply to the Chicomms at world’s cheapest prices with no provision for inflation or market prices on a 30 year contract.
But it turned out the panda was not a gift, it was on a $1 million per year 15 year lease plus the Adelaide Zoo had to spend millions on a new enclosure for it.
It’s called panda diplomacy and our politicians are stupid enough to fall for it.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
https://www.scmp.com/article/607012/hu-howard-bond-panda-diplomacy
https://adelaideaz.com/articles/giant-pandas-an-expensive–but–popular-surprise-chinese-gift-loan
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-09-06/aust-china-sign-35b-gas-deal/661802
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
https://www.scmp.com/article/607012/hu-howard-bond-panda-diplomacy
https://adelaideaz.com/articles/giant-pandas-an-expensive–but–popular-surprise-chinese-gift-loan
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-09-06/aust-china-sign-35b-gas-deal/661802
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Oops. References were repeated.
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Mentioning the ABC twice in one post should be a punishable act! 😆
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Sounds like the Maharajah gifting the white elephant ….
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Has anyone else come across the “Gen Z stare”?
It can be a little disconcerting for those of us used to reading our face-to-face interactions with Z’ers only to be met with the stare. Maybe it’s the natural progression from a one word answer like yes/no/dunno to needing a keyboard/keypad to communicate effectively.
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>the “Gen Z stare”
I’ve seen it in millennials too.
When pressed or drawn out they’re saying, “Yeah well it’s only your opinion but it’s not my opinion”.
Then when the subject of evidence or the basis for an opinion arises the response is, “everything is just someone’s opinion.”
They’ve never heard of The Enlightenment.
I blame the cumulative “slow-motion disassembly” of our education system.
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Then there’s the ‘thousand yard stare’ to be utilised when traveling at 180mph (or more) on a motorcycle.
Or so I’m told, Occifer.
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I thought they were Zombies
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The same blank stare that the newly religious-indoctrinated have?
That “the lights are on but no-one’s home” stare?
Not to be confused with the “zoning out” meditative stare from gym junkies, which is dead easy as I’m an old hand.
I did master the “comatose patient” stare once (exceptionally hard to do at will as I found out) where they look at you and through you, and it sends a shiver down your spine. Don’t ask.
Been there, and I’m sure a few here know what it’s like.
Beats the Rambo stare every time.
Add the zombiephone stare to the list.
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John Anderson conversation with Matt Ridley was pretty good, covering climate and energy madness, and the crazy times of COVID. Well worth a listen.
Less enjoyable: last weeks ABC Health Report gave some coverage to the Human Exposome Project.
At first it seemed like a crackpot plan based on heroic abuse of statistical methods, but it’s probably more sinister: another line of attack on civilisation. Having seen how obedient most people were to stupid directions during COVID, the activists have realised that the threat of personal death is far more powerful than all the climate alarm pictures of drowning world, scorched earth, etc.
This “exposome” is a nice sciency term which takes in *everything* outside of the person. It means that anything they don’t like, they can use “AI” and “Big Data Analytics” to prove that that thing is harmful to health. For example, I bet it’ll be another source of lectures about nuclear and coal: bad; wind and solar: good. I bet you.
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FWIW
“U.K. government: ban 15 year olds from social media because they’re not responsible…
U.K. government: give 16 year olds the vote because they’re responsible…
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE”
https://x.com/13orangesbc/status/1945782666202104048
Via https://instapundit.com/732622/#disqus_thread
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YouTube Uturn? Your next TikTok
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I’m all for research. We should throw lots of the money that we’re wasting on wind and solar farms into research. And while this is nice little experiment, I can’t see it being used at scale to make green hydrogen; especially while that pipe dream is still a flogged, lifeless, equine quadruped.
On the other hand, I can think of better things to do with captured platinum.
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I can’t believe it’s not
buttersuicide!https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1945967524564369877
…and Trump’s promise to release the Epstein files.
…and Ghislaine in jail for a hoax.
…and all the nonexistant files on Bondi’s desk that she’s seen.
…and FBI staff holding up reams of blank paper.
…and now stitched together Epstein cell footage pretending to be real but with missing sections AND they didn’t clean the metadata! Mega- oopsy there! 😆
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Only one minute was missing, just a technical glitch or maybe something more sinister.
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One minute is now 3 minutes!
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/
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I suppose that is inflation …
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Trump’s “hoax” comment is being deliberately misinterpreted. The hoax he refers to is the existence of files that supposedly contains names of rich/powerful people who availed themselves of Epstein’s ‘services’. The proven crimes committed by Epstein and Maxwell are OBVIOUSLY not hoaxes.
Personally, I expect that Epstein documented his dealings and kept a list of guests who travelled on the ‘Lolita Express’ and spent time on his private island. I do NOT believe Trump is on either list for the simple fact that aforementioned ‘Epstein files’ were in the hands of Biden and the Democrats before the Trump administration got them, and there is less than zero chance that Biden et al would not have used that fact against him. Zero. Zilch. Square root of bugger all.
So why is Trump going along with the concealment? I believe others are probably right when they say publishing the files would compromise active security and intelligence assets, or reveal some other critically confidential information.
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“publishing the files would compromise active security and intelligence assets, ”
nah, rubbish! If secret agents were taking the Lolita express I don’t think they would tell Epstein their real identities. That’s just the usual excuse to censor anything the Govt don’t want us to know. The only ‘critical confidential’ information would be the names of who was off banging underage girls and boys.
I expect Trump is under extreme pressure from those names to make sure they stay secret. Epstein would be the example to both him and Maxwell about keeping their mouths shut, and those that killed Epstein made sure that it looks like a dodgy murder, not a clean suicide.
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Yep – Have Seen this with all my Grandkids!
‘Significant distress’: Peak psychology bodies urged to support ban of climate alarmism aimed at school-aged children
Australia’s peak psychiatry and psychology bodies are being urged to back a ban on alarmist climate messaging targeting primary school-aged kids.
The peak bodies for Australian psychologists and psychiatrists are being urged to back a ban on alarmist climate messaging targeting primary school aged kids amid a surge in climate anxiety among young children.
Research released in June found Australia’s National Curriculum was causing an “epidemic of climate anxiety” among young kids, with primary school-aged children being fed alarmist content that is “developmentally inappropriate”.
Leading educational and developmental psychologist Clare Rowe, who authored the research, has now written to the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc., and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, urging them to back a series of measures to combat the growing threat to children’s mental health.
The peak bodies for Australian psychologists and psychiatrists are being urged to back a ban on alarmist climate messaging targeting primary school aged kids amid a surge in climate anxiety among young children.
Research released in June found Australia’s National Curriculum was causing an “epidemic of climate anxiety” among young kids, with primary school-aged children being fed alarmist content that is “developmentally inappropriate”.
Leading educational and developmental psychologist Clare Rowe, who authored the research, has now written to the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc., and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, urging them to back a series of measures to combat the growing threat to children’s mental health.
In a statement released on Friday, Ms Rowe said the psychological profession must confront the potential harm that can unintentionally be caused by “well-intentioned, but cognitively unsuitable, climate education”.
“Clinicians are seeing a surge of Childhood Climate Anxiety in young children who do not have the neurological capacity to process existential threats as presented in the National Curriculum.
Adults have a duty to protect, not burden, the developing minds of children,” Ms Rowe said.
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Finally, a glimmer of hope to save a generation. The MSM should also stop being alarmist and spreading disinformation for the sake of sensationalism.
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Primary school kids are too young to absorb and process this guff, they see it as the end of the world, unlike us oldies who’ve been around and seen stuff, and can remember swimming spots from 60 years ago that haven’t changed, they don’t have the luxury of that kind of recall.
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Australia The Stupid Country!
The new Tasmanian ferries, Spirit of Tasmania IV and V, were built in Finland because the Tasmanian shipbuilder Incat was not capable of constructing such large vessels, and the ships were designed to be too large for existing docks in Tasmania, leading to significant delays and cost overruns.
The 212m-long (695ft) Spirit of Tasmania IV will be stored at Port of Leith because it is too large to fit the existing berths in the Australian city of Devonport and due to concerns they would be damaged by pack ice over the winter months.
A new berth to accommodate the ship in Tasmania will not be ready until late 2026 or 2027.
The cost of building the two LNG dual-fuel ships has risen by A$94m from A$850m when the contract was signed in 2021.
Both the ferry company TT-Line and ports firm TasPorts are state-owned, and in August the infrastructure minister, Michael Ferguson, and TT-line chairman, Mike Grainger, both resigned.
Australia’s ferries ‘stuff up’ – Meanwhile – World’s largest ‘100 per cent electric’ ship launched by Tasmanian builder Incat
At 130 metres long, Hull 096 is the largest electric vehicle of its kind ever built, The vessel, which was launched on Friday in Tasmania by shipbuilder Incat, has been constructed for South American ferry operator Buquebus.
It will have a capacity of up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles at US$130 Million Cost
Stupidity Continues
Spirit of Tasmania IV is one of two vessels set to replace two 30-year-old ferries on the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland state of Victoria.
But the LNG ships are years late and the cost of building them has soared by A$94m (£47.5m) from A$850m (£430m) when the contract was signed in 2021.
It also emerged that the ships are too big to fit the harbour facilities in Devonport and the required upgrades will not be ready until 2026 or 2027.
The cost of the harbour redevelopment, meanwhile, has more than quadrupled from an original estimate of A$90m (£45.5m).
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How does the EV ferry get to Uruguay? Thats a bit of a trip. BYO gensets? Mothership?
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Dockwise – amongst others, like Boskalis and the Chinese – has a range of semi-submersible ships which can carry other ships: –
https://gcaptain.com/megamachines-dockwise-vanguard-worlds-largest-heavy-lift-ship/
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But are we at ‘peak battery’ yet?
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LNG storage and fuelling facilities are also yet to be built.
These ferries will not be in operation until at least 2028.
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FWIW – just now
“HUGE: Trump Orders Release of Sealed Epstein Grand Jury Testimony”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/17/huge-trump-orders-release-of-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-n4941864
Hold your hat!
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Maybe Trump has just been playing for time until suitably “sterilised” documents could be prepared for release.
Careful not to incriminate anyone of influence !
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FWIW – a counter theory
“Here’s Why The Left Is Desperate to Turn Jeffrey Epstein Into a Trump Scandal”
“The question we need to be asking is why Democrats are so obsessed with trying to make Epstein a Trump scandal. It’s not just to protect Bill Clinton. Epstein was a major Democratic donor. In fact, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer received more than $7,000 in donations from Epstein, and only donated those contributions to charity after public pressure.
At this point, it’s painfully obvious what’s going on. The media’s desperate attempts to link Trump to Epstein aren’t based on facts—they’re based on fear. Fear of what might happen if the real truth about Epstein’s client list ever comes to light. Fear of who might be exposed. Fear that the public will finally see just how deep the rot goes—and that it overwhelmingly runs through their side of the aisle. So instead, they keep recycling half-baked stories, grasping at birthday cards and blurry associations, hoping something—anything—will stick to Trump.
But it won’t. Because the facts are clear: Trump cut ties with Epstein long before it was politically convenient. Meanwhile, powerful Democrats wined and dined with him for years. That’s the story the media refuses to tell—and that’s exactly why they’re working overtime to distract you.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/17/heres-why-the-left-is-desperate-to-turn-jeffrey-epstein-into-a-trump-scandal-n4941860
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The Clintons are the reason.
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FWIW
“Energy Expert: NUCLEAR Is the Answer, NET ZERO Is the Problem | Kathryn Porter x Peter McCormack”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgHbCqzQGkc
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Friday funny: a liberal goes back in time to kill Hitler
https://youtu.be/Ly1cPYSqgR4?si=M0gwbZlOpbDLoo1h
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For any of Jo’s Followers who are Opera Fans
Bizet: Carmen (Metropolitan Opera)
by Georges Bizet
Publication date 2010
Topics opera, carmen, bizet, metropolitan opera, english subtitles
Carmen woos the corporal Don José. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of smugglers. His jealousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads him to murder.
Music by Georges Bizet ; libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella by Prosper choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon.
Cast: Elīna Garanča (Carmen) ; Roberto Alagna (Don José) ; Barbara Frittoli (Michaëla) ; Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo) ; Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita) ; Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercédès) ; Keith Miller (Zuniga)
Sung in French with English subtitles.
On the Link – https://archive.org/details/bizet-carmen-part-1-metropolitan-opera-2010/Bizet-Carmen_Part_1-Metropolitan_Opera-2010.mp4
the Download Options are
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
download 2 files H.264 IA
download 1 file ITEM TILE download
download 2 files MPEG4
download 1 file
I went with the H.264 2 files download on DuckDuckGo Browser – 1st 1.01 Gb, 2nd 673.8 Mbps and when finished downloading, on iMac just did file save which put in in my Downloads File
Excellent Quality on iMac 27in 5K Retina and I will upscale with Movavi Applicatio for playback on 83in LG OLED
Upscaled Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Dream Cast [1080p Upscaled]from 2.4Gb on Movavi to 10.39Gb detail superb on Big Screen
Another youtube worth watching
Still The Greatest Racing Film Ever Made?
Revisiting the 1966 film Grand Prix. This is an excellent time to discuss the film due to the recent release of the F1 Movie. Grand Prix 1966, where they mounted Cameras on F1 Cars and had a Modified Ford GT 40 Modified for High Speed Shots driven by Phil Hill
I have purchased the 2hr 55 mins 55 ses 1966 Grand Prix on YouTube – again excellent on 83in LG OLED with Surround Sound
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McQueen’s ‘Le Mans’ does it best, for me. Partly because McQueen was himself a racer (as indeed was Garner), but mostly because the star of the show was the epic and unforgettable Porsche 917.
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FWIW – shaking the dust of a state off your boots
“D-I-V-O-R-C-E”
https://wlehman.substack.com/p/d-i-v-o-r-c-e?r=kihcf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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It’s okay – fusion is coming … per the BBC (or Sir Starmer’s Merrie People): –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cew0rkxqvk8o
“Watch: Power station buildings demolished”
“Footage shows the moment buildings at a former coal-fired power station were demolished using explosives.
Specialists used strategically placed explosives to collapse the turbine hall and DA bay at the West Burton A site in Nottinghamshire on Thursday morning. The power station closed in March 2023, and some buildings have already been demolished, with the site due to be cleared by 2028.
“In January, a shortlist of five bids to build a fusion power plant at West Burton was announced by the government.”
My bolding.
Sensible to build again there, as the links are already in place.
But ‘fusion’; I have not seen any suggestion that fusion power is practical, yet – let alone economic.
Perhaps they will disguise the stables of all the [farting] unicorns as a fusion plant …
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FWIW
“The World Woke Up
By Victor Davis Hanson
In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.
The unthinkable has become the banal.”
More at
https://www.newenglishreview.org/the-world-woke-up/
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The E-Bike epidemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYWkzTOkWvc
‘The first reason you buy an e-bike in the first place – crime’
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Easy there mate. I changed my bike to an e-bike as I’m older and couldn’t handle the strong headwinds and hills, but still wanted to enjoy riding along the river foreshores and stopping for coffee. I’m not a mad racer and, as a walker, I respect the rights of pedestrians, and never speed in congested areas. Never speed anyway. Not all e-bike owners are renegades.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Doctor Reveals What COVID Vaccines Do to the Lungs in Just One Week”
“But he also shared a disturbing finding from a peer-reviewed study that paints a grim picture of what these COVID vaccines can do to the lungs.
During his testimony, he revealed COVID boosters AGE lung capacity in athletes by “five to ten YEARS in just ONE WEEK.”
For Dr. Sullivan, the damage was much worse. He says his lung capacity was slashed by HALF after taking the COVID shots the government recommended.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/doctor-reveals-what-covid-vaccines-do-lungs-just/
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