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Heat waves wildfires and snow in Europe
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14884809/Athens-closes-Acropolis-Cyprus-face-Titanic-battle-wildfires-search-Brit-missing-holiday-island-enters-12th-day-brutal-42C-heatwave-scorches-Greece.html
Here in south Devon the temperature is a pleasant 22c . The east of the country is expected to get to 30c by Thursday.
I don’t understand those people sunbathing in the blistering sun where temperatures are tens of degrees hotter
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Hot in Greece in summer? Shocking! A week of snow for Australia in winter? July!
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/alpine/
Take your pick of NSW, VIC or TAS: 7 days snow for Thredbo, Mt Buller, Mt Wellington ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Austria & Italy received 25cm (10”) creating this impossible headline for 2025:
https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/snow-falling-simultaneously-on-northern-southern-hemisphere-ski-slopes/
Both ice sheets, Greenland & Antarctica, are presently being topped-up despite warming a billion times faster than anywhere else – or was it a trillion? Welcome back to Snowball Earth! ⛄️
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Cyprus always had long hot summers (except 1976 and May this year!). The scrub around military quarters (in the mid-1970s) was always cleared each summer for a firebreak.
Nothing about fires in the Cyprus Mail today, so far.
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Whilst this is about climate activists getting more violent, I think we are seeing the same trend in other protest movements who believe passionately in their cause and won’t accept other view points
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/people-could-have-died-belgian-report-warns-for-radicalisation-of-climate-movement/
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It’s because they aren’t really ‘climate activists’, they’re leftists. Climate change is just one of the items in their Little Red Book, to be used for disruptive purposes. A case in point is the Goblin of Doom, St Greta, who has grown bored with the climate change stuff and has moved on to another of the left’s preoccupations: Palestine. Next week she’ll turn up at an open borders gathering.
The common denominator is force, be it violence, sabotage, blocking roads or cancellation of people they don’t like. It’s their MO.
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I think that we can no longer deny that these outbreaks of violence are being orchestrated by our enemies. These spontaneous eruptions of violence in western countries only, are not just locally driven.
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Event Management of anti-Israel events is absolutely unique success-wise, there must be a reason for it.
Many people blame Iran, others – Trump haters, maybe…
I suspect Putin’s team, they were the most in trouble at the time.
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Shortest day ever tomorrow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14885815/Shortest-day-history-TOMORROW-Earths-rotation.html
Naturally climate change is cited as one possible cause
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“Naturally climate change is cited as one possible cause”… and trees growing leaves in spring slowing the Earth down! Also no mention of the datum they use to decide when a day ends and a new one starts, yet they measure it down to 0.01milliseconds. That’s pretty precise for a sunrise!
The usual hubris, nature must be wrong, our clocks can’t be.
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There is no mystery at all.
They get confused because they think the earth and universe is static and unchanging. That’s what Aristotle thought.
It’s not!
There are numerous reasons why the earth’s rotational period might change:
E.g.
-Redistribution of mass from dams, or deciduous trees.
-precession of earth.
-tidal effects.
-redistribution of mass in interior of earth.
-differential rotation of earth core.
-exchange of angular momentum with atmosphere.
-ocean currents.
-ice expanding and receeding.
Many other reasons.
There is no mystery about what causes these natural variations.
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A geomagnetic excursion.
‘Earth’s magnetic field is rapidly getting weaker, and geophysicists don’t know why. The decrease in strength–a startling 10% in the last 160 years–could signal that the magnetic field is starting one of its sporadic flip-flops.’ (Science)
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As a shadow of the attacks on farming, farming land and food supply implied yesterday with the interconnectors and transmission lines, Trump has banned Chinese nationals from owning farming land so that food production is protected.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/08/brooke-rollins-announces-usda-national-farm-security-action-plan-to-promote-agricultural-prosperity-and-strengthen-u-s-food-supply/
America at least recognizes the amazing and predictable attacks on long term energy security and food security by China. In a time of global positioning power plays and undermining of potential enemies or takeover targets, protecting food and power is essential to security. The Australian government is fighting farmers using alleged man made CO2 driven Climate Change as their excuse for spending billions achieving nothing but wholesale destruction of farming land.
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Australia Has a lot of bush and desert plus growing cities and suburbs, how much of ithe country could be called farm land and how big a population could that support?
Do solar farms occurs any farmland or are they located primarily in none productive areas?
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That was my point yesterday, that there was no need to do what they were doing in the small part of Australia which is green and agriculturally productive. The connectors too which are to create a National grid are part of a great design and make Australia very vulnerable, putting all the eggs in a National Grid basket. This was never a requirement of anyone but the National government who want complete control of an all electric country. And to cover these great distances you need super high voltage transmission lines and step up/down transformers costing billions each. All under the cover of Climate Change. None of this is costed, justified or has a payback.
These are edicts from Canberra which in turn are creating massive international debts which cripple the country and simultaneously damage precious agricultural land. These wind and solar farms alone will cover significant proportions of the country.
The UK is the same as there are hundreds of ‘tree farms’ earning ‘carbon credits’ and here or cash for growing crops no one can eat. And this based in turn on the absurdly wrong idea that humans actually control and can change CO2 levels by growing trees. Of course that is advertised as Green restoration but it is all about milking carbon credits. Saving the planet channels valuable money into utterly useless areas while simultaneously reducing the ability of growing populations to feed themselves, as in Holland with the forced acquisition of critical farms under the cover of reducing ‘nitrogen’, ‘methane’ and “carbon dioxide’ pollution,
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And having travelled across Russia and its massive, endless boreal forests, there is absolutely zero need for the UK or anywhere else to replace valuable productive land with inedible trees.
The miracle of agriculture which allowed cities to be created was that humans could eat grass seeds. We cannot eat trees or grass. And cows, herbivores can eat grasses. And while the brochures show wood being harvested, that’s a lie because the trees are not to be chopped down as they are carbon sinks.
This is not a regreening of anywhere. It is a wholesale destruction of millennia of agricultural development for Carbon Credits, a concept based on demonstrably fake science.
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The concept of the “National” grid arose in the 1990s. I was involved in its creation. I negotiated power supply contracts for a large mining group. I could buy lignite fuelled power from Victoria for 60% of the price we were paying in NSW. But NSW added 40% to the cost as a wheeling charge across a transmission line our company paid for. We bought this to the attention of the productivity commission that operated under Keating’s treasury oversight.
The State monopolies that ran the State grids were bloated and inefficient. The National grid enabled a host of privately operated generators to connect to the grid on commercial terms with realistic wheeling charges across State borders rather than terms dictated by the State energy ministers.
Power prices reduced through the 1990s. The rot set in when Howard opened Pandora’s box with his RET. That encouraged non-dispatchable generators into the grid on highly favourable terms and marked the beginning of the end for the grid. The grid will not recover until all generators have the ability to be dispatched and batteries are not classified as generators. The concept of a demand driven grid being controlled by intermittent generators is insane.
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There is a large solar plant near Benalla. In Victoria which was definitely productive farmland. I think that is true of other plants.
The desert areas are too remote and hence the transmission lines would be too expensive.
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With no water to wash the dust off.
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The bulldust lies thick when it comes to the wind and solar scams.
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Well, the solar panels covering hectares of good grazing land to the east of Kingaroy in Queensland answer your question. I saw the ungodly mess for the first time recently on a trip out there. Utter madness.
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When working in KL, it was difficult to convince the locals that Australia could not support a large population, since most of the country could not be used for farming. I see the figure of 15% arable land was mentioned recently – always trout it was only 10%.
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He should prohibit both Chinese Nationals and Bill Gates.
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“Trump has banned Chinese nationals from owning farming land so that food production is protected.”
We should do likewise, they are a threat.
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The Glowbull warming hoaxers have been blaming Donald Trump and anyone who uses fossil fuels for the massive floods in Texas . These climate botherers have been experimenting with cloud seeding to cool the planet . This is known to have unpredictable and sometimes extreme effects , such as serious flooding in Tasmania many years ago .
Now it seems , rather than the use of fossil fuel , it is the climate botherers and their cloud seeding that may be responsible for the severity of the floods in Texas :
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/confirmed-ceo-weather-modification-company-reveals-cloud-seeding/
I wonder if the MSM will run with that ?
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The open threads are running a day behind the actual time. The flow of time has been disrupted by a temporal disturbance in spacetime. Must be “climate change”. Or TRaUMP, LoL.
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Actually, time is relative. I asked a relative what day it is, and she said Tuesday. 😉
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That was Einstein’s Principle of General Relativity. In general all your problems are relatives.
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No more choccy for Jo.
It’s going on Red Ned. 😎
https://www.howtogeek.com/756031/how-to-change-your-time-zone-on-windows-11/
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Australia keeps spending countless billions on unreliables and yet there is nothing positive whatsoever to show for any of it.
All it has produced is economic and environmental destruction. Also, social destruction which follows economic destruction.
And yet the fanaticism for weather dependent power, originally dropped in 1712 after Newcomen invented the first practical steam engine, continues. In fact it is getting worse.
Australia has regressed to before Newcomen’s time.
Indeed, we are regressing to pre-Enlightenment times and the time before the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions.
It’s no surprise that Australia’s standard of living is declining. Even Their ABC admits it which shows how bad it must be.
But few people, present company excepted, know, understand or care about any of this. Partly it’s a consequence of the Left’s war against the education system whereby they stopped teaching real history and pride in Western Civilisation and the great things that made it such as the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions and Enlightenment as well as Judeo-Christian moral beliefs. Or if it was mentioned at all, it was in the context that they were bad and feudalism with serfs or villeins living under Elites was superior. That’s increasingly what we have when Government utterly ignores the will of the people and the policies of Elites are imposed upon us and with unreasonable land use restrictions etc..
Feudalism was one of the conditions that led some people to leave Europe for America and eventually the American Revolution. (Feudalism was abolished in England in 1660 but survived in France until 1789 and other parts of Europe until as late as the 1850’s.)
Other reasons included religious persecution, land and job shortages, high taxes and famine. Some of these apply today.
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We saw Newcomens engine in Dartmouth just last week . We got there by steam train which seemed very appropriate
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The oldest steam engine in Australia is the 1785 Whitbread Engine at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitbread_Engine?wprov=sfla1
I wonder how long before Leftists demand its removal, destruction and erasure from history? They are already destroying historical statues and artworks, why not historical artefacts as well?
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I am fascinated by the ingenuity of people. Just one simple step before any engines were built, was the building of the “first parts”. So without mechanically powered lathes, shapers saws etc, some clever engineer had metal cast to approximate shapes, these were then all worked by hand by smithies to extremely fine tolerances with limited tools but probably lots of time.
Who honed the inside of the first cylinder? Probably some very skilled wood workers made patterns that metal workers used as templates, but the questions remain, high quality “polished surfaces” cylinders honed on the inside, pistons polished to very tight tolerances, then some clever person invents piston rings to take up any slack etc etc etc.. All originally done with a forge, hammers, chisels, files, scrapers and strong, very strong arms!
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Sambar, lathes existed long before steam engines but were human, animal or water powered.
The question of how to build the first machines from scratch has been examined in:
Lewis Dartnell: The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
In Australia we have a guy who runs a YouTube channel called Primitive Technology and he has created from scratch using no tools whatsoever kiln fired bricks and smelted iron. I’m not sure what he’s up to now.
https://youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550
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Technology advanced from cannon barrels to steam engines to IC engines.
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Along the way to cylinder accuracy – I once saw a quote that Boulton considered it a good job if a cylinder was “bored with the accuracy of a worn shilling”
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We came across it by accident, partner and I were visiting UK and were driving along the south coast and pulled up in the carpark and lo and behold, in one corner was a glass case with what I presumed was a model of Newcomens engine, it looked real.
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DoE Warns Of 100x Increase In Black-Out Risk By 2030 On Same Day As Trump Energy Security EO
The planned retirement of more than 100 gigawatts of power generation capacity by the end of the decade could increase the risk of blackouts in the United States by 100 times, the Department of Energy said in a July 7 statement.
“Allowing 104 GW of firm generation to retire by 2030—without timely replacement—could lead to significant outages when weather conditions do not accommodate wind and solar generation,” the DOE said.
“Modeling shows annual outage hours could increase from single digits today to more than 800 hours per year.
Such a surge would leave millions of households and businesses vulnerable.
We must renew a focus on firm generation and continue to reverse radical green ideology in order to address this risk.”
Firm power generation refers to power that can be generated at all times and includes coal, natural gas, and nuclear.
This is in contrast to intermittent power sources such as wind and solar, which are dependent on factors like weather.
The warning is part of the DOE’s Evaluating U.S. Grid Reliability and Security report, which criticized the “radical green agenda of past administrations” for existing generation retirements and delays in adding new firm power generation capacities, according to the statement.
This will lead to a “growing mismatch” between electricity demand and supply, driven especially by demand from AI-driven data center growth, the DOE said in the statement.
If the current schedule of planned retirements and incremental power additions remain unchanged, the country’s electric grid will be “unable to meet expected demand for AI, data centers, manufacturing and industrialization while keeping the cost of living low for all Americans,” the agency added in the statement.
Continuing on the present course will undermine America’s economic growth, leadership in new technologies, and national security, the DOE said.
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Today’s total Australian Government debt (federal, state and local) is $2.119 trillion and going up at about $6,500 per second.
There is absolutely nothing stopping present spending by Government and no effective opposition political party (who don’t seem to care about this in any case).
There is no logical end point to this except when the interest won’t be able to be paid and then the Government will come for your assets.
Enjoy!
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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Ted O’Brian on radio this morning stated that labor spending had increased by 17%, I think it was for the last 2 years.
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TRUMP’s latests Executive Order.
I wish Australia had a leader like him. Instead we are going in the opposite direction with ever more subsidies, economic and financial destruction. And no alternative opposition political party which has alternative beliefs and policies.
Note also the last sentence which appears to address concerns expressed yesterday by David W. about the artificial initiation of new projects to continue to claim existing subsidies.
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In case you were wondering why consumer petrol/gasoline pumps are called bowsers, at least in Australia and NZ, it’s because they were invented by the American, Sylvanus Bowser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvanus_Bowser?wprov=sfla1
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A woke paediatrician rightly got sacked/fired after she mocked the girls who drowned at the Texas camp because she said they were MAGA supporters.
https://youtu.be/xaB5XbKIC7
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Correction. The link is:
https://youtu.be/xaB5XbKIC7g
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How would the dill come to that conclusion.
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For those interested in ivermectin for covid antiviral treatment or for any of its other uses, I just paid in Melbournistan $90 for 20 24mg pills. (Doctor prescription at compounding pharmacy.)
It is not available in Australia in anything other than 3mg pills and its use for covid is off-label and not approved. Thus the compounding pharmacist has to grind up eight 3mg pills to make one 24mg pill, hence the high cost.
Overseas it’s often available over the counter at cents per pill.
For covid the Government would prefer you to take their approved Pfizer antivirals such as Paxlovid at a cost to taxpayers of $1115.64 per pack.
https://m.pbs.gov.au/medicine/item/12996B-13147Y.html
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FWIW
https://www.petstock.com.au/products/ausmectin-sheep-oral-drench
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What you just pour yourself a glass full and drink it?
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IIRC the same ml per kg body weight for humans as for sheep.
And remember that it underwent at least five years of testing (including for genetic effects) before it was approved for use as a veterinary medicine
– unlike some other products
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What does it taste like?
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It is not advertised as “apple flavoured”.
This might help –
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evaluation-of-taste-of-different-formulations-of-ivermectin-according-to-visual-analogue_fig1_381000777
Looks like not nasty enough to be considered a real medicine.
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“What does it taste like?”
Would you notice? How much would you have to eat to get 12mg? The tablets are very small and they are probably only 1% Ivermectin. You would rub it on your skin anyway.
I love how they say “Keep out of reach of young children”.. It should be “Add a little to your children’s bathwater”
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We have used an ivermectin based drench for our cows for years. It is marketed as a treatment for parasites. Our cows frequently develop a mange like loss of hair on their hindquarters at certain times of the year from grass parasites. The product works phenomenally well – it is an easy “pour-on” along the animal’s back – and almost always eradicates the problem within days – certainly within a week.
Because ivermectin is also believed to have anti-viral properties, I remarked to a young vet that one should use it to address the dreaded Bovine Ephemeral Fever. This is a flu-like illness that often strikes our cattle around March/April. We have lost one heifer to it in past years, while another cow seemed to have suffered ongoing type of muscular dystrophy. He said “give it a go”. But the problem with the use of Ivermectin for flu like illnesses is that it is most effective if treated at the very earliest time in the illness. This is hard enough in people, but difficult with herd animals unless you have a very small herd.
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It has 0.8 g/L.
How many ml of the solution comes up to 24mg ??
Asking for a friend.
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What has become of the instruction in mathematics in our school system??
800mg per 1000 ml………
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>What has become of the instruction in mathematics
I don’t know, but 60 years ago our maths teacher was called ‘The Human Anaesthetic’.
His delivery was so unbearable half the class were guaranteed to be knocked out, and halfway through the year half the class were kicked out for constantly failing.
He was gone the following year.
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30 mL
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I have been “told” that the official “drug store” price for 100 12mg IVM tablets in India is INR 3000. Small discounts might be available.
Likely cheaper via IndiaMart sellers but there is the added postal risk.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“It looks like the Covid jabs were – and still are – killing people”
“The mainstream media seem to be playing down – if not outright ignoring – a new article analyzing the impact of Covid vaccination on the general health of those receiving it. It’s titled “Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Neuropsychiatric Conditions”, and can be found at the link.
Jeff Childers sums up what it means for us. It’s a chilling scenario.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/surprises-monday-july-7-2025-c-and
Via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-looks-like-covid-jabs-were-and-still.html
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4Corners ran a story on young folk getting cancers, I didn’t watch it, wonder if they mentioned any likely causes.
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The Four Corners show is at:
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2503H023S00
Comments about it at:
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Today’s local paper has a letter (to the Editor) about “the large increase in younger people developing cancers”.
It seems to blame the preservatives, flavours, **colors** etc additives to foods. All possibly chemically reacting to form carcinogenic things.
Also trans fats etc. added to make foods creamier, and additives to boost commercial bakery lives.(he obviously doesn’t know about oat flour.
I was thinking idly about disputing him, and I think I might, suggesting he missed his vocation as a Climate Scientist.
**shows when the country he got his waffle from.
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FWIW
“The renewable energy cow is getting gored – and not before time”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-renewable-energy-cow-is-getting.html
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FWIW – cleaning up
“Four Independent Pollsters Are Set to Blow Up the Polling Industry”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/08/four-independent-pollsters-are-set-to-blow-up-the-polling-industry-n4941544
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Melbourne ain’t what it used to be
https://youtu.be/abZ6hyzXpyw?si=v9jghFJqokFDxEWH
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>Melbourne ain’t what it used to be
So true, and in so many ways.
So sad in so many ways, and in other ways not so sad at all.
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Neither is Philadelphia America – just 20 secs Video
The Declaration was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776
Here is Philadelphia on 4th of July weekend 249 years later
What happened?
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Interesting how the Epstein case got dumped so fast. Trump moans to a reporter about Texas being more important? Surely Trump can focus on more than one thing.
Releasing CP is irrelevant, it can and should be used in court and as evidence.
The pizzagate ring is powerful indeed, too influential to ever be arrested.
And nothing changes, the cycle continues approaching its end..
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FWIW
“Well Now That Settles That, Doesn’t It?
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So there’s no Epstein client list?
Nobody’s being blackmailed eh?
Let’s carry this further: He magically manifested all the money he had, and consumed, not only flying a very expensive commercial airliner as a private jet but buying private islands and outfitting them?
You don’t really expect me — or anyone else with better than a room-temperature IQ — to believe that, do you?”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253589
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It is interesting, in an ‘oh look, that T-Rex is about to eat us’ kind of way, how the Blob freaked when the Orange One arrived.
And then revealed itself with its’ relentless, in many cases embarrassingly laughable assaults on the guy, which only served to elect him and then re-elect him.
(Of course with ‘Pandemic’, they just dropped their Little Bo Peep panties and smiled “howdy sailor”.)
They literally turned an often obnoxious NYC real estate developer billionaire into an underdog folk hero.
A feat only a Blob could accomplish.
I always figured they would only allow him to return if there was a deal.
Looks like there was a deal.
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Interesting stuff Wednesday*
*Tuesday some places.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syexphxWYC1qhi5qb.mp4
The Earth’s rotation time lapse with stabilised camera.
That’ll annoy the Flat Earthers.
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Trump working hard to formalise the BRICS- Well, so he says, but you cannot believe a word he utters.
“The bill, whose lead sponsors are Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, would also punish countries that trade with Moscow, imposing 500 per cent tariffs on nations that buy Russian oil….Trump declared he was willing to back a bill that would impose sanctions or tariffs on Russia and countries that have helped it in the war..”
The non-aligned will have to decide whether to be on board with everything America does, or part of the BRICS and ignore the West except for back-door trading of goods we will illegally buy from them. This might solve the China-India conflict as they are forced to align against the USA, or become vassals.
However, Trump may change his mind rather than betting the farm on everyone abandoning Russia. If the play failed he might see the world pass America by with his tariffs killing the American market for the Non-West.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/they-have-to-be-able-to-defend-themselves-trump-reverses-course-on-ukraine-arms-supply-20250708-p5mdh5.html
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War Now Indefinitely Sustainable, as New Reports Prove Russian Armor Production Has Finally Reached Equilibrium
Last week we learned that the US’ 155mm artillery munitions production had suffered a major setback, falling from the peak 50,000 per month milestone, back down to a measly 40,000.
Now we turn to new revelations surrounding Russia’s own production of key systems, which have been tracked and updated by various Western agencies and OSINT experts.
The most significant of which has been an update on Russian tank production, specifically the T-90M
Since the war began, at least 540-630 T-90M tanks have been manufactured—this includes both newly built and modernized vehicles. Given that over 130 of them have been destroyed, an estimated 410-500 remain in service—approximately 15 percent of the tanks deployed on the front.
With armored vehicle use—and therefore losses—expected to decline in 2025, current production levels will likely suffice to maintain the RuAF’s tank numbers for at least several more years of combat operations.
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Forget nukes. This is Russia’s new deterrence weapon
Why Russia doesn’t need to go nuclear to make its point – and how Oreshnik makes that clear
Oreshnik – a new kind of Russian ballistic missile.
Capable of reaching speeds above Mach 10, surviving reentry temperatures of 4,000C, and delivering kinetic force that rivals tactical nuclear weapons, the Oreshnik isn’t just fast. It’s different.
In less than a year, it has moved from classified prototype to serial production, with confirmed plans for forward deployment in Belarus by the end of 2025.
Its emergence suggests that Russia is rewriting the rules of strategic deterrence – not with treaty-breaking escalation, but with something quieter, subtler, and potentially just as decisive.
So what exactly is the Oreshnik missile? Where did it come from, what are its capabilities – and how might it reshape the battlefield?
This signature pointed to something new. According to available data and expert observations, the Oreshnik carries a cluster-type penetrative warhead, likely composed of multiple high-density submunitions. The detonation occurs only after the payload burrows into its target – a design meant to maximize internal damage to hardened military infrastructure.
Putin has stated that Oreshnik’s warheads can withstand reentry temperatures up to 4,000C. To survive such heat and remain stable at terminal speed, the payload would need to be encased in advanced composite materials – likely drawing on recent developments in heat-resistant ceramics and carbon-carbon structures used in hypersonic glide vehicles.
One of the defining features of the system is its ability to maintain hypersonic velocity during the final phase of flight. Unlike traditional ballistic warheads that decelerate as they descend, Oreshnik reportedly retains speeds exceeding Mach 10, possibly Mach 11, even in dense atmospheric layers. This enables it to strike with massive kinetic energy, increasing penetration and lethality without requiring a large explosive charge.
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O O –
Re “Putin has stated that Oreshnik’s warheads can withstand reentry temperatures up to 4,000C. To survive such heat and remain stable at terminal speed, the payload would need to be encased in advanced composite materials – likely drawing on recent developments in heat-resistant ceramics and carbon-carbon structures used in hypersonic glide vehicles.”
FWIW – earlier reports suggested that the war heads might be made with a new form of metallic-based explosive where the explosive was part of the structure. And hence more bang per war head kg.
I haven’t seen anything on that lately
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China’s 1 mile wide 2GW orbiting array
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1942194026347675858
Icarus with microwaves.
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First patented by Peter Glaser, patent awarded 1973.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1e/be/9d/f12e68e86660ea/US3781647.pdf
It’s just woke virtue signaling by China to appease the clueless.
It will never be built.
Why would they when they have plenty of cheap coal and no CO2 emissions limits?
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Wouldn’t the Earth be a lot smaller than shown from geostationary orbit? When I see someone getting something like that wrong I doubt everything else they say.
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FWIW
“Elon’s Fantasy PolitiBall Game”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253586
Considerations for setting up a new political party in Oz too?
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UV emitting robots are farming Dyson strawberries
In the English county of Lincolnshire, a 26-acre glasshouse built by the Dyson company stretches across the land. Inside, giant wheels weighing about 500 kg (~1,100 lb) hold rows of strawberry plants that are slowly rotated to provide them optimal exposure to sunlight. UV-emitting robots rove the aisles exposing the plants to enough light to kill any mold that dares grow on the plant leaves, while a distributor bot releases beneficial bugs onto the plants in order to kill aphids and other destructive pests.
https://dysonfarming.com/strawberries/
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Day after Tuesday funny: bedtime – husband vs wife
https://youtu.be/pZJlwumShQk?si=ljf-rxZSdt9MXzCg
A great channel if you’re non left and non pc.
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One day before the day 2 days after today which was actually yesterday guide to starting a plane
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sz34g3XFlq1z23obp.mp4
Why is Wednesday so hard! 😆
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BREAKING: UK Parliament Announces the Largest-Ever Pandemic Exercise “Pegasus”
The UK Parliament is announcing the largest-ever Pegasus pandemic response exercise as part of a new “Resilience Action Plan” for national emergencies, including the creation of new biosafety centers and a “Resilience Academy” to be completed later this year.
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/08/1500035.html
Wrap it up this year ready for the 2026 event.
Lessee now…how about Nipah? Covid’s no fun any more.
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If cars were invented today Leftists would want them banned as giving people too much freedom.
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Or at least a very large “Red Flag Bearer’s Union”
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“Victory” theme music from the Homicide TV series 1964-1977.
https://youtu.be/-StWdxDgNOc
QUOTE
“Homicide” (1964-1977) is an Australian television police procedural drama series made by production firm Crawford Productions for the Seven Network. It was the television successor to Crawfords’ radio series D.24 which had been broadcast on Radio Station 3DB. The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based directly on real cases, although the characters (including the detectives) were fictional. 510 episodes were produced, and aired from October 1964 to January 1977. It remains as the longest-running Australian drama series. The theme music was a piece from the Boosey & Hawkes recorded Music library “Victory”. It was composed by James Reichart, played by the New Concert Orchestra and issued on OT-2458. It is an imposing piece of music for a “Cop Show”
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That’s a trip down memory lane. At the time Homicide, Division 4, and Matlock Police were pretty much compulsory viewing. All with their distinctive themes.
I wasn’t allowed to watch The Box or Number 96. But I could watch the cop shows.
Then when we got the imported Starsky and Hutch it was even better.
A few years ago I saw an old episode of Matlock Police (youtube) and it really hasn’t aged well. I think you can see better acting and scripts at a school concert these days.
Of course Matlock is really some place in the sticks and not a town as depicted in the show. Only been through there once. But it’s more like a place to re-create a scene from Deliverance than anything even hinting at urban.
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Victorias Matlock sits atop the great dividing range 6 or 7 kilometres south of Woods Point. Originally a gold mining town, then a timber town then I think generally “burnt out” during a big fire. There were one or two shanties there for many years but of late it has had a bit of a revival with a number of new dwellings built over the last few years.
For what ever reason Parks Victoria has taken an interest in this little town and currently maintains a good dunny and opened the track to the cemetery. Lots of history in the area but a long drive from anywhere to get there. It also sits on the road junction that connects Gippsland to north of the divide. Don’t think it ever had a permanent police presence but I may be wrong. The main police station that used to patrol over a huge area was at Woods Point. These days I think Woods Point is a one man police station.
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Just another quiet, romantic, moonlit night in Philly . . . or not! William Penn the Quaker founding father must be spinning.
Founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom, Philadelphia served as the capital of the colonial era Province of Pennsylvania and played a vital role during the American Revolution and Revolutionary War. It is known for its culture, cuisine, and history, maintaining contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports, and music.
A 20 second vid.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/07/4-july-2025-philadelphia-the-usa.html
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“Coward, Wannabe Thug Stuff”: 3 Killed And 13 Shot In Philly Gun Battle Caught On Video
A deadly mass shooting in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia early Monday morning left three people dead and 10 others injured, including several teenagers.
The gunfire erupted just before 1 a.m. on the 1500 block of South Etting Street, and Ring camera footage captured multiple individuals pulling out firearms and shooting, according to ABC Philadelphia.
ABC Philadelphia writes that the shooters opened fire indiscriminately—even with children nearby.
“This is coward stuff. You see the size of this block—individuals just shooting randomly into houses, into cars,” said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel.
“I mean, this is coward, wannabe thug stuff.” Officers, already responding to reports of large gatherings and loud music, were nearby when they heard the shots. Upon arrival, they found a dozen victims aged 15 to 24, including a person injured while trying to flee the scene. Authorities released surveillance images of suspects seen in the Ring footage, and at least one person has been taken into custody, though their exact role is still unclear.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Philly Shootout Caught on Ring Cam
You’re about to watch what Democrat policies breed:
– no fathers
– no discipline
– no fear of God
– no fear of law
– no future
Just gunfire – In broad daylight – In a city run by soft-on-crime liberals who’d rather talk about “equity” than accountability.
📍Philadelphia, 2025
Same streets. Same suspects. Same silence from Democrat leaders.
They vote blue…
And bleed red.
When will this toxic culture end?
When we stop funding it.
When we stop making excuses for it.
When we bring back fathers, faith, and fear of consequence.
📹 Watch this.
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⚠️ This is what Democrat rule looks like in real time.
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FWIW
““High Priests of Consensus Panic: The NYT’s Meltdown Over Scientific Skepticism” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/08/high-priests-of-consensus-panic-the-nyts-meltdown-over-scientific-skepticism/
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I’m watching a series on DocPlay, Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
I’ve waited a long time for it to come to one of the streaming services, as it first came out in 2009.
Now as much as I disagree with his politics, his documentaries are just amazing, and now I think I’ve seen eight of them.
Now whilst the US did in fact ‘invent’ National Parks, the very first of which was Yellowstone National Park, opened in 1872, the idea took a while before really catching on.
It’s an amazing series, and I highly recommend it.
Incidentally, the ….. second National Park in the World is the Royal National Park, just South of Sydney, opened in 1879.
Tony.
PostScript – Oh, and also, Kevin Costner’s doco The West is also quite good as well, on Stan, and done in a similar but different style to the Ken Burns docos. (and these days, don’t you just love how they roll through 14,000 credits in four microseconds!)
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‘The West’ (1996) was nothing short of enthralling – a real masterpiece. What really made an impression on me was the quality of the letters that were read. Considering those people had a supposedly limited education they were quite vivid and moving, really evoking the trials and emotions of the time.
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There is a gofundme to support criminal charges against Dan Andrews re the Meuleman families follow up of the car/bike incident.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/meuleman-justice-fund
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This gets mentioned here –
“Developments in the Bike Boy Scandal”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/07/developments-in-the-bike-boy-scandal.html
Likely worth watching for developments
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FWIW – for something different
“Bow down to King Boyd! 👑 | FEI Driving World Cup™ Final 2025”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLY7TGfiCLk
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Bigger than Ben Hur!
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There is a fantasyland advert for Corrections Officers in VIC prisons currently doing the round. Everthing looks lovely and clean and the Officers are chatting happily with the aslo clean and reasonable inmates.
One point that sort of stands out is that all the prisoners are white. From the Agency Gillette used?
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According to official Government statistics a certain demographic constitutes 36% of the prison population.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/prisoners-australia/latest-release
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But only about 13% in Victoria. (at 2 years ago)
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That suggests the courts in Victoria are more lenient – to some at least.
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