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Despite everything GB news now Britains top news channel. But advertisers still reluctant to participate
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/02/gb-news-is-now-britains-no1-news-channel/
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Families who have been touring Europe with their caravan risk a 10 million pound fine for not securing their van if any stowaways are found. WTF.
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People might get fined in exceptional circumstances but where did you get this figure of 10 million? No one has ever been fined anything like this
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Sorry, it may have been accumulated fines, but I did see some ranging from 1500 pounds to 6000 pounds, just for not being aware that some random miscreant has crawled into your unsecured van or trailer.
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There have been a few instances of such fines, but the problem is that some have done it deliberately or turned a blind eye in exchange for some cash. How do you differentiate?
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The viewer numbers are incredibly low. Australia’s top rated nightly News report gets 1.44 million views each day.
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IT is comparing to other dedicated news channels, not free to air news broadcasts.
The dedicated BBC new channel was beaten by GB news, as was Sky News.
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Ever escalating complaints about the numbers of migrants entering Britain illegally.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/02/migrant-hotel-residents-film-and-laugh-as-protesters-clash-in-islington/
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898 arrivals on 30th July alone… all in the UK to positively contribute to British society, of course.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
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It’s completely crazy, asylum seekers rock up and get more than hard up people that have paid in all their life get.
‘Asylum seekers have been handed almost one million NHS ‘free passes’ in the last five years, official new data reveals.’
Not only does this show the enormous number of people claiming asylum in the UK, surely it effectively means that if any ill person in the whole world can get to the UK, they can spuriously claim asylum and get treated free.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14963623/Asylum-seekers-handed-one-million-NHS-free-passes.html
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I was just pondering the irony of seeking asylum in a place led by people that should be put in one.
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Ok, we have to accept the the behavior of the British government defies logic.
We are forced out the box for explanations.
I offer this entertaining vid by a fellow that usually debunks crazy theories.
Except he doesn’t rise to the debunk with this one.
Eisenhower made a bad deal with the aliens, the MIC, of which he warned, kind of ran away with it.
And now the former Western nuke powers are stuck with providing protein.
Hence the bizarre need for population increase.
The Why Files
https://rumble.com/v6wy4ni-the-greada-treaty-americas-alien-alliance-stripped.html?e9s=src_v1_epp
Crazy often can only be explained with crazy.
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Grating voice, the fish is even more annoying. I can’t make out what the fish is trying to say.
A story about an ethical dilemma.
Requires too much credulity and suspension of disbelief.
As if they would need or seek permission from the POTUS.
As if he would risk entering the thing or even be allowed to.
I find entertainment a bit shallow and disappointing.
You’d sort of like it to be real but… never mind, back to reality, time for a coffee.
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Something is very weird about mass migration, particularly England.
Seems like straw grasping time.
I figure aliens is as good a straw as any.
Not buying for a minute that it is all ‘no human is illegal’ humanitarianism.
Or the Brussels people just want new Islamic peasants.
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>Not buying for a minute…
There are other explanations with some substantiation.
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Perhaps as simple as governments thinking they are padding their voter numbers and securing future votes.
(and this would be the only example of western political parties actually planning more than one election cycle ahead!)
I’d say its a pretty vague hope, naturalized refugees will start small businesses and switch their voter alleigence accordingly, or simply get into politics asap and take the place over.
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…and there is the fact that the problem is hard to solve, to stop them coming in with brutal methods will excite the pro-Palestine mob and give Govt Ministers BAD PUBLICITY, the worst thing that can ever happen to a politician!
Piled on top of that is the ego-driven UN ideas adoption, where politicians all around the world are vying to see who can implement UN ideas faster than any other politician and gain preening rights amongst their peers at their next expensive bun-fight. It also guarantees their safe and prosperous retirement after the voters throw them out. The EU Parliament would be the fallback for the losers…
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I see no evidence that political leadership is capable of carrying out ANY long term plan.
All the effort seems aimed at managing short term narratives, which they do usually with laughable levels of competence.
Really, do the proponents of Renewable energy, seem capable of long term management?
Trump’s out of the blue unexplained turnaround on Epstein gives pause.
The Blob appears quite the competent puppet master.
Which gives me pause about it’s humanness.
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I expect the government to stage a false flag incident sometime soon, or infiltrate the protests in order to encourage or falsify unlawful behaviour. They will want to make examples of a few people and discredit the movement, in the style of Jan. 6th.
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In praise of Trump
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/trump-is-larger-than-life-starmer-smaller/
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Trump is in the unique position as a world leader who has been able to surround himself with people generally aligned with his values that are well aligned with the US constitution. I doubt USA has ever before had such a clean sweep of its Federal agencies.
Starmer is on thin ice pushing a socialist agenda that undermines the capitalist system that sustained UK wealth after feudalism, slaving and colonialism.
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But Sir Starmer [Free Gear Kier, or Two Tier Kier, too!] is being encouraged – if not led by the nose – by the Blob.
It seems plain that – if he is not an abject traitor, with most of his Cabinet – then he is stunningly incompetent.
Economically, socially, patriotically.
Even, possibly, legally …
It will be interesting to see how this weekend works out – we are threatened/promised a strong pro-Palestine demonstration [plus?], where support for the ‘Palestine Action’ movement is now illegal. [Not at all a panic move by Sir Starmer’s best Home Secretary …]
Can the police arrest many hundreds?
Will they?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-palestine-action-protest-b1241347.html
Or
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/04/arrest-for-terrorism-as-a-badge-of-honour-palestine-action-plans-to-overwhelm-uk-police/
And if they do, in fact, arrest hundreds, will the courts be set to process them expeditiously?
As they were last year, when the demonstrators were rather antipathetic to the wave of immigration/’asylum’ …
Or, this year, this might – or might not – be so.
Remember, last year, the prisons were overflowing – so crims were let free, so ‘they’ could bang-up bloggers [31 months!] as well as rioters – expeditiously.
This year the prisons are overflowing, likewise …
Might it just be too difficult, this year, to repeat the exercise, given [ahem] the public being rather against freeing crims?
Absolutely not Two-tier Justice, were that to happen, of course.
Exigencies of the prison system; judges unavailable [on yachts in the Meddy? Oh, surely not! But, nowadays, most unlikely to be shooting the grouse! That would show entirely the wrong attitude to be a modern judge in modern Britain]; or bottlenecks in the custody system.
I am sure there would be excuses offered.
Not sure how they would be believed.
If it looks like a Two-Tier justice system; and acts like a Two-Tier justice system; and sentences [or not!] like a Two-Tier justice system …
Sir Starmer had a big majority – but on a [remarkably] low share of the vote [about 21% maximum of those who could vote, and a smaller proportion than that of those who could have got onto the Electoral register]: – a ‘Loveless Landslide’ indeed.
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Perhaps too pessimistic …
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‘RICHARD TICE: Why ditching Miliband’s Net Zero madness could save every family £1,000 a year.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14965633/RICHARD-TICE-Milibands-Net-Zero-save-family.html
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Twice is going a fine job as Opposition Energy Secretary. Reform will not have a Climate Secretary.
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That’s Tice of course. I done bin “corrected”!
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In the long term that saving would more likely be at least 6 times that. The costs are nowhere near the high point yet!
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Indeed! Right now the UK uses Europe as the battery that makes renewables reliable. That cannot grow much and could even diminish. Real batteries would be impossibly expensive at the required scale.
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Net Zero equates to economic annihilation for the UK. The only upside for it in the UK is reducing the number of illegal immigrants as it loses the ability to support them in any career other than crime.
UK is Australia’s third largest source of immigrants. These are mostly economic escapes. The NetZero charge in Australia has already done the damage but it has not destroyed China’s appetite for Australia’s mineral wealth. And that supports the Australian lifestyle.
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There’s a big difference between the average European immigrant coming to Oz, and those sneaking into the UK from Africa and the Middle East. ‘Professional’ migrants such as myself typically bring skills and experience hard to find or in short supply here. We also bring our wealth, having sold our homes, cars, etc. Some bring substantial sums to invest and/or to create businesses.
The UK is therefore LOSING citizens who contribute to the economy while GAINING immigrants who bring nothing, in many cases jumping straight onto welfare. This is why I dislike the politicians’ favourite way to minimise the effects of immigration by quoting the numbers as ‘net immigration’. It’s not just the simple arrivals less departures; what matters more is the QUALITY of those leaving and arriving.
Also, European migrants to Oz come from more or less the same culture and hold similar beliefs. They assimilate easily. Not so much those from third world countries and from militant Muslim backgrounds. Thus the UK is fast becoming a Muslim nation.
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MORE COAL POWER DESPERATELY NEEDED IN THE USA
TO AVOID THE WIND DROUGHT TRAP
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/01/grid-on-the-brink-pjms-record-auction-proves-we-must-keep-and-build-more-coal-plants/
All the grids in the net zero world are approaching a tipping point when RE drives out coal to the point where there is not enough conventional power to meet the base load. Wind and sun make up the difference during the day but on windless nights they don’t contribute. Overbuilding does not help.
Call it the “wind drought trap.”
There is a ‘frog in the saucepan’ effect because coal power retires one plant at a time and this does not cause alarm while there is spare capacity.
The US was only one Democrat Administration away from disastrous power failures because the country is in the jaws of the wind drought trap. It is up to the Trump Administration to get them out, and to show the way for all the other western nations where suicidal net zero policies are in place.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/defusing-the-wind-drought-trap
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TO AVOID THE WIND DROUGHT TRAP.
Following yesterdays sad news that “The wind had died” I am pleased to announce that in my area a small miracle has occurred and like Walt Disneys head hopes to be one day, the wind has been revived. Its still critically ill with only very gentle puffs on its own, you could not even suggest that its a Zephyr, but its doing its best. We can only hope that as the day progresses “the wind” can actually make a come back.
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GRIDWATCH
Popular support for net zero will go down like a lead balloon when people can see with their own eyes why it can’t work.
Look at the dashboard for your local grid and see how often you will have to eat breakfast and dinner cold if you depend on RE.
Australia https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
Texas https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
Great Britain. https://grid.iamkate.com/ See the imported power and the nuclear contribution. We have neither of those options.
This morning the wind in Australia is brisk with the Capacity Factor 51% at 7am. The average is 30%. See what happens during a severe wind drought with the CF under 10%!
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Your first link, provided by a company determined to be ‘seen to be neutral’ where the underlying sponsor of the particular info-widget is firmly in the opposing camp. Fairly obvious to Aussies.
The highlight of any Australian NEM data display for me is the ‘Liquid Fuel’ category which can be seen to make appearances regularly in both Winter and Summer around high-pressure weather systems and at times of peak-demand within South Australia’s output. I find this to be an ‘easter egg’ of sorts.
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I must admit to the small perverse pleasure of going to AEMOs Nemwatch when the grid is under stress and opening up the “fuel mix” option.
As my son said about work from home when it first started, it really shows who is contributing something and who isnt.
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Yes, for Australia this is a much better data source giving an hour by hour, state by state, source by source, visual details of power generation and demand.
http://nemlog.com.au/gen/region/nsw/
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Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of blind people around ..!
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UK currently importing 8.34 Gw from outside their borders.
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Well, that means Brexit is meaningless!! When someone else controls your electricity, they are your master.
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Do you suppose that is of any discernible concern to Sir Starmer, or the Modest Mr. Miliband?
Let alone our Blob??
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As my favourite fictional detective said: “You see, but you do not observe.” And that applies to the majority of Australians brainwashed by the education system, the MSM and the majority of politicians.
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FWIW
“For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit”
“A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/03/for-the-first-time-in-40-years-the-federal-government-can-judge-applicants-by-merit-n3805431
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Wow!
Any business or government department will, and does suffer if employees are not chosen on merit. Common sense.
Any large business has “deadwood”. The larger the company, the more deadwood. It is par for the course.
I worked for a large national company where some of us wondered why this person or that person was not fired. The other workers picked up the slack of course.
Imagine the disfunction of a business that ignores merit based hires!
Look no further than our own governments.
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Today Australian front page. Albo gets a free hand to spend billions!
“Net billions: green light for PM to turbocharge energy revolution
The Productivity Commission declares Anthony Albanese’s clean-energy transition will cost more than expected and require greater government intervention to hit climate targets without crippling the power grid.”
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For “greater government intervention” read:
“increased taxes squeezed out fo the stone that is the remaining net taxpayers”;
or, “more tax squeezed out of the stone that is the same remaining net taxpayers to repay the debt and interest incurred to finance this disaster”.
Yes, it’s going so very well, isn’t it.
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“greater government intervention to hit climate targets without crippling the power grid”. What sort of logic is this: Greater government intervention is needed to solve the problems caused by government intervention.
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FWIW
UK makes a list –
“PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
Countries that ban protests against government policies.
▪️North Korea.
▪️Iran.
▪️Belarus.
▪️Afghanistan.
▪️Britain.
Not a great list to be on.”
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1952077372867723541
Via https://instapundit.com/736064/#disqus_thread
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And
Istapundit lead in “TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE?”
“David Shipley
@ShipleyWrites
The middle classes are defecting. We often see this in history before revolutions.”
https://x.com/ShipleyWrites/status/1952011282850140405
Via https://instapundit.com/736044/#disqus_thread
Via
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Is that banning generally, or specifically like Australia, where the Police may object and ban a protest on some trumped-up reason?
Australia even bans speech by overseas people coming in to tell us where the Govt is going wrong!
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Roy Spencer’s UAH July anomalies:
0.36*C Global
0.49 N Hemi
0.23 S Hemi
0.53 Australasia
Down, down, down…
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ENSO is neutral so temps should fall a little further.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_July_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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I keep an eye on the online data from our local BOM weather station, and regularly notice anomalies in what it displays, and discrepancies between what it displays, and what ends up in Climate data online for that station. CDO (Climate data online) often has blanks with no rainfall recording for a given day. That’s the days when the tipping bucket isn’t working. There are also days when the weather station has recorded rainfall but CDO shows 0. How that happens only the BOM could explain.
Yesterday I checked the temperature at 3pm and the weather station data said that the current temperature and lowest for the day for the day was 5C. When I checked at 6pm it showed the current temperature as 6c and the lowest for the day as 5.4C. This lowest for the day was 0.4C higher that the lowest displayed at 3pm.
Does anyone else who frequents Jo’s site and checks their local weather station data notice these anomalies. I must add that his isn’t just a stand alone example either.
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I look at the temperatures in three sources of actual data from the BOM for where I live in Regional Victoria:
a. latest observations
b. all Observations and
c. Climate data online
Data in a. is updated every ten minutes and shows the time at which the max and min temps occur. It can be seen that the temp goes up and down all day. Time must be important because, if the max happens twice in one day, the later time becomes the recorded max.
Frequently in a. and b. records, different temps are shown at the same time.
In a. daily max temps can be achieved anywhere between about 2pm and 6pm
Data in b. is updated mostly half hourly but often more frequently.
Data in c. shows the max for the day but no time so people who believe in climate change probably think the max temp is achieved early and stays there all day.
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Yeah, I keep a close eye on our BOM’s AWS data on the station that is about 3 ks away from the town that is the official weather data. I’m always finding that the half hour reported data temp maximums never matches the officially reported maximum for the day.
I review the data, find the maximum for the day and then cross check against the official reported max. I’ve NEVER seen the officially reported maximum temp as being lower than any of the half hour observations. The officially reported maximums are always anywhere from 0.1 to 1.5 degrees higher than the half hour reported observations. The past few days the official max reported temp has been anywhere from 0.1 to 0.7 higher than the half hour maximum figures, why?
We had an incidence a few years ago when the local BOM AWS rain gauge was not working and we had something like 20mm of rain for a day, but the station had 0mm recorded. They would not use any of the locals data to show we had this much rain but took the data from a station that is 30ks away that only had 5mm of rain and used that as the official rainfall for our town, How is that legit? Won’t use the citizens town data, which correlated, but uses a non related stations data as the official data.
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That’s because it fits the anthropogenic caused climate change narrative.
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Do you aspirate your screen by any chance? Don’t ask me to explain, it’s ahh still somewhat beyond me.
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The only way we can accurately predict next week’s weather is with tree ring and ice core samples 900 years from now.
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FWIW
“It’s Not Like Accuracy Is A Prerequisite”
“Western Standard- Feds look to artificial intelligence to improve weather forecasting”
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/feds-look-to-artificial-intelligence-to-improve-weather-forecasting/66558
Via
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/03/its-not-like-accuracy-is-a-prerequisite/
BOM might take notice?
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In comments
“Well, the intelligence used to predict climate change has been artificial since day one. So they may as well have a go at tomorrow’s weather.”
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Perhaps AI could help provide more accurate/realistic project cost estimates for things like Snowy2, rail loops, Commonwealth Games and grid interconnects to nowhere.
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So, with the great success of the first world-wide RNA vaccines being so safe and effective, the Govt is getting all wet and excited about being a ‘world-leader’ in the technology. In a ‘me-too’ moment NSW Govt is also throwing taxpayer money at this solution looking for a problem to solve. SMH has a bland propaganda piece about how we can make an RNA vax for cows to protect Aussie cows from foot and mouth disease, and perhaps this time it will actually be ‘safe and effective’, or we will be eating lamb and pork! No wait, the pork has flown away!
Naturally there is zero discussion of the risks of the mRNA ending up in humans, or any discussions at all about the damage done by the Covid vax being loaded onto cows. Gambling with our food supply to make some politicians feel good!
“Australia helps develop world-first vaccine against devastating virus…the $2.5 million vaccine comes after beef biosecurity was thrust into the spotlight last month when the government scrapped a ban on cow meat imports from the US….Developing local capacity to produce vaccines against emergency animal diseases is a critical priority for the NSW Government, Australia’s livestock industries and our economy,” Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty said.”
Now while Covid obviously came from those people who eat bats and pangolins, this little sentence popped up about foot and mouth virus-
“A lab leak from a vaccine manufacturing facility or research centre was the probable cause of a 2007 breakout of the disease in the UK.”
Seems all those Super-containment, Level 88 biolabs that test fatal diseases might be the problem, instead of keeping us safe and effective.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/australia-helps-develop-world-first-vaccine-against-devastating-virus-20250801-p5mjnn.html
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Some more on that
“$20 million research partnerships see Australia pioneer world-first FMD vaccine”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/20-million-research-partnerships-see-australia-pioneer-world-first-fmd-vaccine/
Being for animal use does it get at least five years testing including for genetic effects?
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Some DIVA with your Steak Diane?
According to one study, DIVA vaccines can provide “highly sensitive immunoassays employing fluorescence, radioisotope or enzyme-label”. Curious as to whether these markers could be passed on to someone who eats meat from a DIVA vaccinated animal…
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In the olden days we thought the stomach ground all your food to a paste and acid-hydrolysed the molecules down to their components, to be absorbed further on… Like all knowledge, we now know that was wrong and things get absorbed through the stomach, even some quite big molecules.
What we haven’t learned is that we are probably still wrong with this new knowledge, and things will not go to plan! So yes, expect whatever synthetic nucleic acids they stick in a cow to end up in a human, otherwise we would happily eat beef from cows with Mad Cow Disease!
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CSIRO, lobbyists in lab coats.
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Just heard the SE Water recommendation to boil their water before use.
Having lived through Cholera epidemic in early 70ies I would like to warn my fellow citizens it is exactly how it happened in Odessa. The authorities tried to minimise the water leaks by dropping the network pressure at night (assumed low consumption hours).
Epidemic cost some (secret data) lives and heaps and heaps….
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Only applies to an area down Frankston way. The people there can access fresh drinking water when they break into houses in other suburbs.
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It could be an employee of SE Water, living in an affluent inner east suburb, taking the initiative to fight violent crime.
It is evident that the State government has run out of places to hold the violent criminals so operates a catch and release policy. That ensures an unhealthy level of violent crimes.
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Thanks Mr. S, maybe I was too fast to jump…
There was a serious side to it but I wonder if you would laugh at the next one.
In praise of communist efficiency:
The Army encircled our town, some Health Spa and Resorts were commandeered as Isolators. Rail station and Ports were closed but town industry largely continued so we went to work as normal. That is where mass tests were conducted.
I was a part “toilet brother/sisterhood”, ie – groups of 10 people were taken to the toilet, dropped their pants, a nurse inserted a swab into a certain hole which she then immersed into a jar of nutrient broth. In 5 minutes you returned to your workplace. In few days (very seldom) militia would came to collect the 10, one of whom was guilty of not washing hands or whatever…
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I can make a joke out of a water authority warnings here because they’re usually the result of an abundance of caution. Rather than anything sinister. And having worked alongside South East Water auditing water main construction and testing, I know how cautious they can be.
Like your experience, that did involve a swab and sample. Never had to drop our dacks though. Only the water pipe was tested.
Sorry your experience was as you described.
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It’s not an ‘epidemic’ or plague exactly. It is not an infectious disease. You cannot catch it from someone else easily. It is all about faeces in the clean water supply.
In very crowded London at its worst, thousands people a week died before sewage. The human effluent reached many water sources, the Thames has many now covered tributaries and London had many pumps. Cities in Europe suffered in the summer heat and people fled the city.
The invention of sewage fixed it in their attempt to remove the stench, a stench so bad, the ‘miasma’, they hung sheets dipped in lime in the Houses of Parliament on the Thames. A doctor had mapped the deaths and they occurred around certain pumps, so the association with drinking water was realised. So before people even understood the many roles of bacteria, they solved the problem. Even antibiotics, the discovery of penicillin was an accidental discovery.
The same plagues occurred in Melbourne, Victoria, our biggest city at the time. There were 3,000 cases of Cholera in Caulfield alone. Sewage was dumped on the council borders so it was no one’s legal problem. And in what became the Blessington gardens in Elwood. In our inner city, sewage was retrofitted, as in London.
The brilliance of Rome was that they had sewage to the Tiber and fresh water coming in with aqueducts. Without sewage and a secure and independent water supply, you cannot have a city. Even then Rome was only a million people, barely a city by today’s standards.
We do get problems in the Yarra and elsewhere when there is a sewage overflow which can contaminate swimming water like the Yarra and its tributaries, often drains these days. Clearly there has been some contamination.
Odessa is a beautiful city. We can only hope the war ends soon.
Cholera is a failure to provide fresh water.
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” You cannot catch it from someone else easily. It is all about faeces in the clean water supply.”
…not if you’ve seen porn page advertisements!
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FWIW
Another one
“Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance”
“Barclays has become the second UK bank to withdraw from a UN-backed net zero target-setting group, claiming that a wave of defections by international lenders meant it was no longer fit for purpose.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/03/barclays-follows-hsbc-in-exit-from-banking-industrys-net-zero-alliance/
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China’s holding of US debt reached its maximum $1.66tr in the Obama era. It reduced to $1.3tr a year into Trump’s first term. It was down to $749bn at the end of 2024.
Total federal debt held in foreign hands reached a peak in 2014 of $8tr but dropped through the Trump years. It again increased through the Biden era to reach $8.4tr. It declined to $7.9tr before Trump’s second term
It will be interesting to watch how Trump’s deal making pans out during his second term.
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-us-debt/
Debt is not a bad thing if it is spent on productive enterprise. Australia’s new debt is funding the energy transition. Not a wise investment for the country.
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It’s not an investment because the windmills and solar panels are disposable. And the government now admits gas turbines are needed to back up the grid with one of equal capacity based on gas. So we are blowing up a working distributed supply to create an unnecessary National grid which has to be backed up by a gas grid for when the second one unpredictably fails, possibly for weeks at a time. At what point is this investing? More throwing good money after bad on a massive scale. Imagine building the Sydney Harbour bridge or the Opera House which you know will fall down in 20 years? And worse, it takes 20 years to build. You never stop paying to build nothing.
The National Grid serves only to take control of electricity from a state level to a Federal level. Coal based power was controlled by the State Governments as under the constitution, states control minerals. So a lot of the ‘investment’ is to allow Canberra to have legally centralized control. The benefits to the people of Australia are few to zero, transmission lines, interconnectors and the rest are a waste of money. And you have to wonder about the lifespan of the multi billion dollar semi conductor step up and step down facilities. Will they last even twenty years?
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And the only explanation is the reduction in CO2 from coal. Why? Since when did humanity control how much H2O/water is in the ocean or how much CO2 gas is in the atmosphere?
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Sorry, since 1988. Al Gore said so.
And along with the WMO and the UN formed the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). And together they discovered terrible (man made) Climate Change, their raison d’etre, reason for existence. No surprises there.
So let’s wreck the joint. For all the right reasons. Except no one has explained how blowing up Australian coal power stations helps anyone.
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Well the explosives manufacturer gets a boost at least
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That’s Orica/ICI. Now paying massive CO2 taxes for daring to manufacture in Australia.
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The NEM evolved to remove the State’s monopoly on electricity supply. The monopoly was no longer consistent with the technical capabilities and realities of power generation across Australia. It has enabled me and many other entities to export electricity and make money from it. Prior to the NEM, the only entities that had the right to run electricity lines across property boundaries were the State governments.
The price of electricity in Australia fell through the 1990s during the early life of the NEM. The change came wth Howard’s “renewable” legislation ib 2000. The price increases can be clearly connected to that legislation that enshrined theft from electricity consumers to be paid to proponents of “renewable” energy using the retailers as the bagmen..
https://www.energymatters.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/electricity-price-rises.png
Australia has a national road network with consistent standards across the States. The rail network is still a mess with widely varying standards across the States. But Australia runs on the hard yakka of the truckers making trains next to useless for internal cross border trade. The Federal funding of $5.64bn for the Pacific highway upgrade has been well spent. On my recent road trip to Brisbane, there were large stretches of elevated roadway well above flood plains that would not be usable given the high rainfall in coastal NSW this year. The North Connex under Sydney was pure magic compared with the torturous route it replaced. The Federal Government contributed $480m to that project.
The Federal Government has put $9bn on the table for the Bruce Highway upgrade. Contractors will be engaged to do the work; not large government departments.
Point is that there are things that Federal governments should fund or help fund with the objective of creating consistent standards across the nation. It is when the politician listen to the lunatics in their CSIRO, their ABC and their BoM that that get the nation into a mess.
We could have each State make their own road rules and road standards – Vctoria would no doubt choose to drive on the right side because it is the woke side to drive on. NT still has 300km of roadway without speed limit. It is Australia’s best means of verifying Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Road toll per vehicle in NT is about 5 times higher than the Australian average.
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“NT still has 300km of roadway without speed limit. It is Australia’s best means of verifying Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Road toll per vehicle in NT is about 5 times higher than the Australian average.”
A dodgy association there, NT has a lot of other factors apart from the speed limit!!
“So a lot of the ‘investment’ is simply to allow Canberra to have total centralized control. ”
That’s the best explanation of the incentives behind crippling the country that I have seen!
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So how are those interconnectors going? And the huge expense in transmission lines as thick as your arm. For whom? 83% of Victorians live in Melbourne. The population centres are very few. This is not Europe.
Snowy II is now over $20billion. For a maximum 12 hours power and then nothing? Who is going to pay to fill the dams at double the normal power rate because of pumping losses.
Interconnectors will get there and how long will they last? 20 years? How fragile are they?
The six State’s ‘monopoly’ is being replaced with a Federal Monopoly, so where’s the benefit except to those want to be paid for excess lunchtime solar bought with cash subsidies from everyone else? And a mugs game as the price of electricity goes up to everyone to cover the subsidies. Half of the cost of installing solar is paid by everyone else. Where’s everyone else’s return on investment? And do we need lots of publicly funded privately owned batteries now? Like the thousands of privately owned publicly funded windmills? The country was far better off with State owned reliable, commandable, adequate, scalable publicly accountable generation.
And the whole thing will not go down at once.
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You are delusional on this. You clearly had no involvement withy State power monopolies pre 1990. I still recall an afternoon meeting with a certain State energy minister who was slurring his words after a long lunch. The State monopolies were bloated bureaucracies that dispensed government pork. Queensland was the only State that made any serious effort to limit the union rorts.
The present state of the Australian NEM can be sheeted back to Howard’s RET that came into law in 2000.
Victoria has a new SEC that is powering government assets with clean, reliable, renewable electricity. Lets see how that turns out with Lily D/Ambrosio in charge of the new body with a $502M budget to reduce power bills for government agencies, schools, traffic lights, trains and the few other things the State runs on electricity. The $502m will come from current taxes and/or debt. It is just another layer of useless bureaucracy sucking the lifeblood out of the Victorian economy.
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We had reliable, cheap, adequate power. We made our own gas. And briquettes.
The problem I remember was with the Unions, but that was everywhere like air travel, trams, docks, buildings and with the SEC. Apart from that we had a wonderful system which was working well. Sure, there were some politicians with long lunches. So what? That still happens. In business too.
Except now it happens in Canberra where nobody cares. The SEC was also a major employer, but then so was every business like Ford and Holden and more. Fundamentally no matter how bad the politicians and unions were then, we have a very fragile energy system now only borderline adequate and which can collapse at any time, as in South Australia. Even with lunchtime solar for some and a few batteries. It’s a mirage, a pretence.
We are living on a prayer every day and manufacturing has fled the country.
We are NOT better off, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, often off budget borrowed money. Every man, woman and child now owes $40,000 at a State level in Victoria and as much again at a Federal level. That buys a lot of useless solar panels so we can pretend we have a better system. And what you save in electricity it is only measured against inflated prices. You will pay over and over and over while Australia turns into Argentina.
And for what? To save the world. We would be better off tomorrow with zero solar panels and zero windmills and our coal stations back. And no debt.
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And coal and gas are not dirty. That was a lie. CO2 is only the cover story for politicians out of control with our money and driving us into poverty while they retire on special superannuation for which we have to pay again. The Future Fund is just holding the raiders off.
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But we were better in the 1990s than in the 1980s without thwe bloated government monopolies.
Pining for State run enterprises is not going to fix the problem as the SEC will prove.
The problem with the NEM can be traced directly to the introduction of the RET.
The National Electricity Act was legislated in South Australia and accepted by the other States. States gave up their monopolies because it was inconsistent with cross border commerce.
You are really barking up the wrong tree if you think the cause of the current inefficiencies in the electricity market are due to the national market. The problem starts with the UN and Australia’s willingness to give up sovereignty to a globnist, unelected bureaucracy.
If you are going to bark, pick your target based on data not your ill-informed opinion.
If you like State governments controlling electricity supply you should be applauding the Victorian State Government for bringing back the SEC. I can tell you I am not. It is just more high paid jobs for zero output.
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At least WA through sheer distance is spared Federal control. And I have no idea why Federal public servants are any better than State, except we don’t need Federal electricity and Federal Government policy destroying our adequate inherited system for purely political reasons. Whatever the problems at a State level, the real reason we cannot use our own coal and gas is that it permits, even mandates Nationalizing the electricity supply. As Admiral Akbar said, it’s a trap. And the trap has been sprung.
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Sorry TdeF, mis-steered again.
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To summarise, Australia moved from an energy supply “system” as late as the 1990’s to an energy”market” after that. It became a market, but not in the true sense of that word. Which means it has been manipulated by the smart operators to make money. But, some of the electricity suppliers are still government owned – yes, Singapore and Chinese governments. (with apologies to John Clarke (late) and Brian Dawes)
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It’s not a market when participation is compulsory as in the Green certificates market. If you don’t buy your Green indulgences, you get fined heavily. It’s not a market if you are compelled to buy. There is no haggle. It’s legalized extortion and a corruption of the English language to talk of markets in energy. However when the energy runs very short, the compulsory single market backfires horribly so people are forced to pay extortionate prices, payback. It nearly bankrupted Ross Garnaut’s windmill business. I don’t know how he can advise the government at the same time he is exploiting his own advice? I notice today that Labor is doing what he suggests with a ‘price’ on ‘carbon’.
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I’m a bit surprised that Canberra is so clearly being affected by Canberran stupidity aimed at everyone else.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/record-power-outages-canberra-winter-demand-skyrockets/105608798
Cheers,
Dave B
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“Tony Wood, an energy and climate change senior fellow at the Grattan Institute, agreed unpredictable weather, particularly caused by climate change, was a problem.”
There you have it, its not solar and wind and Govt policies, its all climate change’s fault!
Couldn’t happen to a better city!
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That was my point all the way – nearly all of money stolen from our grandkids are spent on propagating
a) cancerous bureaucracy,
b) anti-West movements inside and out,
c) number and size of monetary potholes for future proper government.
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That article is a year old, since then Japan and China have been clearing out of the US bond market.
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They were the major victims of the GFC. But then they did not understand that higher paying Fannie May and Freddie Mac were not government guaranteed organizations with trillions in fake mortgages printed specially to handle the flood of governments hiding trillions in America in $US.
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Huh! I was just wondering if any of you heard about this.
It’s actually a rhetorical question, because no, it’s not actually the thing you would hear about.
On Monday of last week, wind generation was the highest it was for the week, and on that day, the total generated power was 137GWH. Then one of those large High Pressure weather systems moved into that area, and the bottom fell out of wind generation. On the following day, the Tuesday, wind generation was only 47GWH, just one third of what it was the day before.
To further show you the scale of power loss here, at around 1PM on the Monday, wind generation was showing a total of 6,686MW. Over the next time frame, wind generation fell to only 598MW, that total at 4.15PM on the Tuesday.
So across just those 15 hours and 20 minutes, wind generation lost 6088MW. That is the largest loss of power across one time frame in the history of wind generation here in Australia.
So, did you hear about this anywhere?
Not on your life.
For some perspective here, the total Nameplate for coal fired power in Victoria is just 4690MW, from ten Units.
So, this loss of wind power was even greater than losing EVERY coal fired Unit in the State of Victoria.
The same as losing three quarters of all Queensland’s coal fired power, and the same as losing 60% of all of the coal fired power in New South Wales.
It’s actually more than one quarter of ALL coal fired power in Australia.
Now, if something like that actually ever did happen (and it never has) then it would make National headlines across the Country, and renewable power supporters would be screaming at the tops of their voices how totally unreliable those coal fired plants are. You would never hear the end of it at all.
However, no one ever notices it when wind generation fails on a scale like this, and renewables supporters (even if they were actually aware of a failure on this scale) would be totally silent when it happens like this, and after recording it now over the years, it’s not a rare thing at all.
Ironically, that huge loss was covered by coal fired power, natural gas fired power, and hydro power, so no one really did notice it, but just one thing here ….. Victoria. If all that coal fired power in that State did shut down, the whole State would be blacked out completely.
And mark my words, If that ever happened, you would hear about that without fraction of doubt.
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ….. wind power!
Tony.
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Tony, if you want to see an upcoming dunkelflaute ( wind drought ) just watch Victoria from next Saturday right through to about Thursday. Calm conditions for at least 5 days which means the state will be running on “unreliable” coal.
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In the Australian this morning. The new hidden massive CO2 tax, 10% now and to 35% over the next six years.
“The commission said the Safeguard Mechanism, broadened by the Albanese government after the 2022 election, should be significantly expanded to capture more companies operating facilities deemed to be heavy emitters.”
Be prepared to pay a CO2 tax on everything you do. At present one of the biggest CO2 ‘polluters’ is the MMBW in Melbourne, so going to the toilet is taxed. And like all costs, the suppliers like Virgin and Qantas and the Trans Tasman Ferry and all freight companies like Toll Holdings will just double it and pass it on to you.
No surprises there. CO2 taxes. Because they can. Saving the planet? No. Not even pretending.
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When I was a boy I was told public servants sat around all day thinking of new things to tax. And one day they would tax the air you breathe. That day has come.
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Couldn’t we tax the Chinese for breathing? There are 42x as many people. Or the Indonesians? Or Indians? There must be away. That’s 3.2 billion people who don’t pay Carbon dioxide taxes. Appallingly inconsiderate.
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And also in the Australian
“Collapse in private-sector job creation as public sector surges.
Analysis of labour-market data shows that 82 per cent of all jobs created over the past two years were government-funded, with the private sector adding only 53,000 jobs in 2024.”
So taxing the air you breathe is the only way to fund all these new public servants, 4x as many hired as in the rest of the economy. A boom industry, collecting money.
More Labor voters as in Victoria with Daniel Andrews. So Labor governments forever! Communism. Soon no one will have to work. Won’t that be great!
Paid by more taxes on those who have jobs involving actual ‘productivity’. We can all sit around and watch the windmills.
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But you are the one pining for more State control of the electricity supply. Get back to the good old days of the 1970s when unions were supreme and bred union heroes like Bob Hawke.
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Why do you insist on making the comments emotional and perjorative? I am not pining for anything. Who mentioned good old days? I am being verballed.
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I’ve lost track for a bit, so I don’t know if this woman has been bought up before? But she comes up with some interesting history, that just gets repeated. Stalin imported tens of thousands of US and German engineers, during the Western depression in the 30’s, to build his industrial base, because he and Lenin, had already wiped out his own educated classes. Then starting in 1937 he started shipping them to Siberia. China has followed a similar track with Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’, then having to bring Western companies and their technology (and funds) to kick start their industry, and then give them the flick. Great minds think alike! 24mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnkPNh5jD8&t=1166s
and…?
What becomes of Siberia. A brief history and outlook. 24 mins she has plenty of other stuff too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXqY0jG1lc&t=50s
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You’ve gotta laugh at the Sydney Sweeney scenario. First she’s a healthy lean white woman not covered in trashy tattoos and trowelled on makeup, marketing jeans as opposed to Moo moos and XXXXXOS size clothing.
Then she hits the shooting range and goes full John Wick.
Oh thank you invisible sky dude – the Overton Window is moving back to the right again.
Liberals heads explode en masse?
Meh, who cares.
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Trump on that
“Trump on Sydney Sweeny: “She’s a registered Republican? Now I love her ad!” ”
https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1952165580569817490
Via https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/08/03/trump-finally-reveals-his-thoughts-on-the-sydney-sweeney-controversy-as-only-he-can-n2192406
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And from UK
“Three cheers for the hot girl in jeans”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/three-cheers-for-the-hot-girl-in-jeans/
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Maffs is hard!
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1952159932964540782
Worse than the habit of saying “10 times less” or “10 times cheaper” or similar, as opposed to “one tenth of”…
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All good things come to an end – your movie ice cream, Australia etc – and Qantas adds to that truth from tomorrow with increases in the number of frequent flyer points for some journeys. The “good” news is on the domestic flight side some point requirements are declining (at least on Jetstar flights) which may hide the bad news that domestic demand is waning.
Can’t help but wonder when the grocery reward schemes will get reviewed given the undeclared war that has waged for some time between the big two with bonus points offerings that (given potential customer volume of take up) are just not sustainable.
According to AI Woolworths has some 10.3million active members in its reward scheme so what “damage” are they carrying if your normal $40 shop with 40 rewards points jumps to 6-700 rewards points because you buy the products that have bonus points attached i.e. leg of pork @ $30 has 500point bonus.
The other Achilles’ heel in reward schemes is a twin edged sword in that in June bonus points offers go through the roof. Great for a surge of cash in the final month of the year however that money is gone and accounted for performance wise from the 1st of July. For the whole 12months of the new financial year when customers come to “buy” their products with points it is a cash drain. But then again some businesses are just too big to fail so we may have some insulation for a while yet.
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All of these “freebies” are costed into the sale price of products, nothing is given away we simply pay more for everything. Trouble is of course it’s like a ponsi scheme, the accountants syphon off some of these funds for other purposes, when that happens it does become unsustainable.
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Here’s an example of how simple observations lead to simple but highly successful technologies.
I am in Israel and last night went to a talk by an Australian who works in the venture capital business here (investment in early-stage startups), which is huge business here due to the massive output of inventions and new technologies. (Incidentally he mentioned the lack of similar success in Australia waa partly due to Nanny Statism and over regulation stifling innovation and also risk-averseness meaning investors only want to invest in “sure things”.)
Israel invented drip irrigation, now widely used all over the world including Australia.
Simcha Blass was the inventor and the process of his discovery is best described by Wikipedia:
It shows how simple observations can lead to simple but highly effective but not necessarily obvious technologies.
Incidentally, Israel which was severely water short, being two thirds arid or semi-arid (much the same as Australia), has been highly successful at conserving, harvesting and recycling water, including from unconventional sources such as street run-off. Not a drop is wasted, in contrast to Australia where places lack irrigation water but at the same time we dump vast amounts of usable or recyclable water into the sea.
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I’d imagine all their major water delivery is piped, rather than open channel?? Australia is still largely open channel where a lot of water is wasted via seepage and evaporation. We’ve made some upgrades in some systems, (eg Wimmera Mallee in Victoria) but a long way to go. Much better to spend billions on fans and mirrors (sic) for unreliable thin electricity. By the way, does Israel embrace any ruinables?
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Theoretically yes, but I haven’t yet seen a single windmill or solar farm polluting the landscape, just isolated panels here and there on a house or to power remote signals. There are however a total of 35 wind turbines in the country and some solar plantations.
All water supply is piped. Just about all houses have solar hot water but they have been doing that for decades, even before it became woke. It’s sensible given the climate.
There is the Ashalim power station which is a concentrating solar power tower but it is not economic, as expected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashalim_Power_Station?wprov=sfla1
There is also limited hydro as there is very little suitable landscape and water supply for that.
Now Israel has found significant gas supplies it would be insane to pursue expensive wind and solar.
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Another point made by the speaker was that in Israel, if you are in charge of a high tech startup that fails, that is not considered shameful but part of the entrenepreurial process. If someone fails, that is considered good credentials for another startup because it means that the person is prepared to take the risk and “has what it takes”. A competent person who tries and fails will be preferably employed over someone who has never tried.
He pointed out that this is quite distinct from what happens in Australia.
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Yes but do they use dual flush toilets, another Aussie invention.
Bruce Thompson of Caroma in 1980.
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Early in my career I had it pointed out that, “to be a good researcher, you have to be a good observer”
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British veterans are fed up
https://youtu.be/HVXtqUto_4c?si=fF77B4XsuYrdvK08
About time!
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Someone mentioned ‘over-regulation’ recently, whereby so-called public servants [sic] exude the arrogance of kings & queens of yore: are we not allowed to have fun anymore?
You vill comply unt zen vee vill be happy! From a local rag last week:
“Auckland Council compliance wardens could be deployed to address … aggressive begging, busking, skateboarding, street trading, illegal signage, breaches of liquor bans, rough sleepers and freedom camping”.
There goes New Zealand, or as (anti)social engineers have renamed the place, Aotearoa, without asking any of us New Zealanders. Besides, all the new ‘wardens’ in training I’ve met are recent immigrants, on minimum wage, with a barely understandable comprehension of the English language.
“This story was generated using a bespoke Democracy AI tool overseen and checked by senior journalists”. The WHAT!?
31 July 2025, Rodney Times.
Ah well, it’s been a good life…
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Famous food dishes from around the world
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t0evrxIbzA1z23obp.mp4
Meat pies, Pavlova and Vegemite!
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In the post election wash-up.
‘The Young Liberals want the Coalition to distance itself from Sky News and appeal to voters through a wider variety of media outlets, blaming Donald Trump-style culture wars for Peter Dutton’s historic election rout.
‘In a submission to the party’s election postmortem, obtained by Guardian Australia, the New South Wales Young Liberals division said the “fringe right” of the Liberal membership had too much influence over policy and campaign media, causing “a mirage of the Maga movement” which had turned off women and multicultural voters.’ (Guardian)
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I am so sick of these projections. ” turned off women and multicultural voters” Who are these multicultural voters? Who determined this?
Prior to the last election in the US, the world was told that Kamala Harris was a shoo in. She lost big time. As did Clinton.
Who is running these polls? We had a great example in The Voice where all universities, big companies, State Governments and of course Labor and the Greens and until the very last moment, the Liberal party thought The Voice was another shoo in. Despite this massive support and promotion at every level including the public service, 2/3 of Australia voted it down.
Politicians without ideas of their own depend on polls for policy. Except the polls say what the pollsters want them to say. It was all explained by Sir Humphry Applebee thirty years ago.
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As for the Biden election, they are still looking for those extra 5 million voters who appeared just for the 2020 election. And you have to wonder what would have happened in the last election if it had not been called early.
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‘ … turned off women …’
That is probably true, I did a straw poll and all the women of my acquaintance have TDS. There is little doubt that going into the election the voters saw the Libs as Trumpian.
Out in the bush the Nats held their ground against the onslaught.
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I don’t have TDS.
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There is unreachable difference between last two Federal Elections.
But first let me tell you our (Russian) favourite expression: добровольно и с песнями (by your own will and singing at that)
It comes from Odessa of course –
A German, an American, and a Russian are given the same challenge:
“Make a cat eat mustard.”
The German uses discipline: he grabs the cat, pries open its mouth, and shoves the mustard in.
“Order and efficiency!”
The American is clever: he hides the mustard inside a piece of sausage, and the cat eats it unknowingly.
“Marketing and manipulation!”
The Russian calmly spreads mustard under the cat’s tail.
The cat jumps up in pain, then frantically starts licking itself to clean off the mustard.
The Russian smiles and says:
“See? Voluntarily and with singing!”
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Vladimir’s Putin’s plan for the new economy. The goal? Make people rich and happy. List of people attached.
Hungary 1956 On a train there are four people in a compartment–An old woman, a young woman, a young man and a Russian officer. The train enters a tunnel where first a kiss then a smack are heard. In the light again the old woman thinks, the young woman is brave to slap that Russian after he kissed her. The young woman wonders why the Russian kissed the old lady and not her. The Russian rubbing his face grumbles to himself – the boy kisses the girl and I get slapped. The young man congratulates himself at how clever he is to kiss his hand slap a Russian and get away with it.
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Downticks measure the Young Uns idiocy only!
If that is the future of the Liberal party aparatnichks, I’ll never vote for them.
Trump MAGA is the only salvation, anything else is wishy washy political profiteering.
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Only in the UK. Climate Change hits trains.
“A train company has blamed dry weather for its decision to cancel services.
South Western Railway (SWR) has said the “driest conditions for around 200 years” have forced it to halve the amount of trains that run from London Waterloo to Exeter St Davids ”
And now trains cannot run if it is too hot, too cold, any snow and now, too dry.
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Also, if there are wet leaves on the line.
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I thought one of the selling points for diesels was that they didn’t need water tanks for topping up?
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I blame the Fat controller.
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And the wrong sort of sunlight, glinting off the tracks …
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Hillary Clinton lets mask slip: If we don’t censor speech, “We lose total control”
The statement is one of Clinton’s clearest admissions yet that unfiltered online discourse poses a threat—not to public safety, but to institutional power.
https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1951633993016791479
Washed-up Marxist has-been. Why isn’t she is jail yet?
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She looks older but less stressed. And more lucid than Kamala.
The word “total” is stated with an upward inflection and obviously poorly chosen in the context. The word “any” is maybe what she meant. But either way it is censorship of free speech and probably unconstitutional in the USA.
I expect Hillary will face prosecution for her role in the Russian interference hoax if she lasts long enough.
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The Internet is dying. AI, bots and the end of human content
https://youtu.be/J5ZmLvy_Jfg?si=BI0ZuLV5KrYQUY7y
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I was, sort of, misleading in the #29.2
I do not know where “Unreachable” came from.
I had in mind Australian elections – Abbot was kicked out on the basis of totally false claims, everyone here knows the list. Many Australians were deceived.
Dutton failed due to Liberal inability to tell their story and Australians voted enthusiastically for Green Labour.
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Jaguar car company has been a disaster since it went woke.
Thankfully the CEO has now resigned.
Get woke, go broke.
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Jaguar would have to be front runner in “The Woke Fuster Stakes” at the moment (IMO)
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Bud Light.
BP – beyond petroleum … and we know how that is ending …
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China Daily is the mouthpiece of the CCP, so this story comes as a shock.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202508/04/WS689018a7a310c0209d01ad4c.html
They are asking netizens their opinion on the Five Year Plan, democracy is slowly emerging.
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Being cynical of course this could also be a way to flush out anybody that disagrees with the party narrative. Commit to alternative ideas might mean you get committed to a little retraining somewhere off the grid.
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Of course that crossed my mind, but I’m confident that the CCP will listen to the people on this occasion because the dictator is already history.
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It’s been one week since the British government’s odious ‘Online Safety Act’ came into force and basically everything on the Internet is now blocked.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/government-censorship-internet-worse-ever-uk
The more things fall apart, the more they censor everything.
So we must be real close to the cliff edge by now.
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Get a mountain bike, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t0cz4wZcMy1z23obp.mp4
LOL…
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“Mulga Bill’s Bicycle”?
(https://www.poetryverse.com/banjo-paterson-poems/mulga-bills-bicycle )
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FWIW
An “ElBowen Anticipation”?
“Ed Miliband refuses to publish details of green energy deal with China”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/03/ed-miliband-refuses-to-publish-details-of-green-energy-deal-with-china/
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In comments
“China saw a useful idiot coming, took full advantage, and are now laughing all the way to the bank.
But at least now we know what the zero in net zero stands for. Brains.”
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FWIW
A fine example of “The further away you are the more expert you are”
“WOW! That was Dumb: Glenn Greenwald Tried to Tell Pennsylvanians What to Think About Fetterman”
https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2025/08/03/greenwald-fetterman-pennsylvania-n2416665
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FWIW
FAFO
“BREAKING: Gov Abbott Says He Will REMOVE FROM OFFICE Democrat Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Block GOP Congressional Redistricting”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/breaking-gov-abbott-says-he-will-remove-office/
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There will be “a gnaling and a waishing” coming up on that!
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Geofencing whereby your smartphone can be turned into a cellular dog collar that can be programmed to restrict physical movement of the owner to a prescribed/preplanned area. Of course it’ll be sold as a security device but control of people is the ultimate goal
https://richardsonpost.com/dr-jessica-rose/40287/ever-heard-of-geofencing/
Time to ditch the smart go dumb phone
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