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Attribution nuts running the IPCC AR7 asylum!
Almost half of the AR7 authors on extreme weather events are attribution people (some are even vendors). No trend becomes irrelevant as models replace observation.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/opinion/un-abandons-science-and-hires-climate-change-zealots-who-damn-the-facts/
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The article implies that the IPCC pay for the work. The contributions are invited and authors paid for by the organisations that employ them. In the case of WWA:
Europe is going broke so funding from there will eventually dry up. The Grantham foundation probably needs to be cur down by removing its charity status. The Bezos foundation can probably be harmed if everyone stops using Amazon. Is there a Temu Climate foundation?
Climate funders are running a scam. The whole funding edifice needs to be torn down. Trump has only scratched the surface. Trump needs to call Bezos up and ask why his foundation is supporting efforts to destroy the US economy.
I was somewhat appalled to see that GISS are still working on CMIP7 modelling.
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Video:
“How a Fake Engineer Destroyed South Africa’s Railway System”.
https://youtu.be/qpMD5f8NK6g
Apart from that, as South Africa casts off “colonial” technology and reverts to a pre-European technological status, the railway infrastructure is being stripped of materials with scrap value like copper and steel.
See: https://youtu.be/eZtUsUYIPNA
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“How a Fake Engineer Destroyed South Africa’s Railway System”.
What about the fake Prime Minister destroying Australia.
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I don’t know who this double is….
But wat TOO “intelligent” for the Albo from past years.
His mannerisms are ALL different.
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Both stories are actually excuses for a government that doesn’t have a clue about governing! Let’s blame a “ fake engineer “ & a convenient epidemic for their failures of government!!They’re really no different to any of the rest of the continent. One can only imagine the actual wealth of Africa, the richest piece of real estate on the planet & all they can do is try to steal everything. They’ve even screwed that up.
Give these people a cast iron cannonball & they’ll even break that inside of a week!!
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“They’re really no different to any of the rest of the continent. ”
Quite true, they are the same peoples! It was obvious from all the other African countries that were given their independence and went straight downhill into crime and corruption, I think Botswana is the only exception.
South Africa only survives because the whites that are left there can’t get out, so they have to keep the place running in spite of the politicians and their cronies.
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Article about the disastrous woke rebrand of US restaurant chain, Cracker Barrel.
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I covered their financial losses yesterday.
With the anti-woke anti-DEI backlash growing rapidly (and long overdue), ANY CEO repeating this nonsense needs to be dumped immediately, no payout.
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Think that’s bad? The NFL now is pushing male cheer leaders.
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No need for pom poms and batons then?
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And Monty Python saw it call coming.
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Built in batons? With two pom poms?
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None. They were surgically removed.
😆
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How many females go to NFL matches then.
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I imagine this was at least a year in the design and planning phase. They perhaps have not realised (or have been too arrogant to realise) that the pendulum has swung/ the Overton Window has slid right and people are sensitive to messing with their symbols.
On the surface of it this is nowhere near as extreme as BudLite and Jaguar, but the reaction is still strong. I think the people have seen what comes of being quietly tolerant of BS and where that leads (even more BS)
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FWIW –
Trump considering imposing tariffs on wind turbine imports!
“Not hamper wind turbines! Please say it isn’t so.
Sweeping aside the giant piles of diced bird parts, the Times reported that on Thursday, the Trump Administration filed notice of an investigation into wind turbines under a law called Section 232, “which allows the president to apply tariffs to foreign products if their imports threaten national security.”
Trump has never liked wind. He calls turbines “ugly,” “bird killers,” and recently “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY.”
The Times warned that the investigation shows Trump plans to smite the wind industry —which apparently heavily relies on foreign parts, another subsidy for Europe and Mexico— and “stymie” new construction projects. Making wind power more expensive will, the Times fears, translate into fewer turbines scarring the landscape and beaching whales.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/friends-with-benefits-saturday-august?
And on the “pharma front” 600 CDC employees fired
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US President Trump – A Leader Working for the Good of His Country!
An Update About CBO’s Projections of the Budgetary Effects of Tariffs – August 22, 2025
The Congressional Budget Office routinely provides information to the Congress about the budgetary effects of tariffs. Analysis of tariffs is our responsibility rather than the responsibility of the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation because the laws that set tariffs are not part of the Internal Revenue Code.
We have updated our estimates of tariff revenues as part of developing the short-term economic forecast (covering 2025 to 2028) that we will be publishing on September 12.
As of August 19, we estimate that the effective tariff rate for goods imported into the United States has increased by about 18 percentage points when measured against 2024 trade flows.
We project that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period.
By reducing the need for federal borrowing, those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 trillion.
As a result, the changes in tariffs will reduce total deficits by $4.0 trillion altogether.
Because of recent changes in tariffs, those estimates are larger than the $2.5 trillion decrease in primary deficits and $0.5 trillion reduction in interest outlays that we projected in early June in a report that examined the effects of the tariffs implemented between January 6 and May 13, 2025.
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A very well worth watching 7 mins. of Rowan Dean on Albo. Nothing more needs to be said. ToM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIev6F8HxQ
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Thanks Tides,
And thanks Rowan. It’s a rare thing to watch such a powerful expression of political thoughts that I wish I’d done myself.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Worth looking at.
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FWIW
“A Takeover of the IPCC
The IPCC’s longstanding framework for detection and attribution looks DOA in AR7”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-takeover-of-the-ipcc?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Via Instapundit
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FWIW – more “genius at work”
“GB News- Norway uncovers massive oil field in North Sea just months after Ed Miliband scrapped search in exact area”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/north-sea-oil-field-ed-miliband-norway
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/23/drill-baby-drill-6/
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Peak oil? Or peak stupidity from Milibrand who gives Bowen a real race to the bottom. Is this a new world where the dumbest person possible gets the Climate Change job?
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I will never forgive my fellow Australians for voting for Albanese/ALP or for parties that gave their preferences to him/ALP. The damage being done to Australia may not be fixable.
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David,
Unfortunately We and Australia are screwed – More Leaners than Lifters plus
Yet Another Warning for the Australian Young of Today on the Intergenerational Taxation Warfare
As the Article mentioned below states – New Immigrants will not be Affected by, or Worry about Taxing Oldies
The Article found that of the top 20 state electorates for foreign born percentage in New South Wales, 16 voted Labor.
And was pointed out recently, some state Labor governments have already begun building high density housing in key Liberal seats.
The idea is this: more affordable apartments means more migrants, more migrants means more Labor votes, more Labor votes means more Labor seats, and so on.
Naturally the Liberal Party thinks it can win the migrant vote, given that so many of them come from socially conservative countries.
Yet study after study, report after report shows this isn’t the case: the Brookings Institute found that migrants often live right, but vote left.
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Albanese borrowed this immigration trick from the Democrats: Now Labor’s on track to stay in power for decades
Kos Samaras, a director at Labor-friendly polling firm RedBridge, lobbed a startling statistic into the immigration debate.
And in this statistic lies Labor’s path to power. Not just for years, for decades.
“85 per cent of the Indian diaspora voted for the Labor party in the last election,” he said.
“Largely, I believe, for sectarian reasons.”
Australia has 916,330 Indian-born migrants as of June last year.
According to ABS data, Australia brought in a record 111,000 Indian migrants in 2023 alone.
They’re our biggest source of artificial population growth, and they’re also set to replace Brits as our largest migrant group.
A Carnegie Endowment report backs Kos’ take – revealing that Indian migrants are more favourable to Labor, and less favourable to the Liberal Party.
But don’t take my word for it – even The Indian Sun this week has admitted as much.
“The [Indian] diaspora is reshaping not just the demographics of local schools and businesses, but the political balance of whole electorates,” they wrote.
But here’s where it becomes even more concerning.
It’s not just Indian migrants who are disproportionately voting Labor.
It’s all new migrants.
Another poll found that foreign-born Australian voters prefer Labor over the Liberal Party by a whopping 14 percentage points on first preference votes.
Anthony Albanese brought in a record-breaking 1.2 million migrants in his first term.
If current trends continue – about 1,544 migrants arriving every day – we’ll have close to three million migrants by the end of open-borders Albo’s reign.
Many of whom will become citizens, and many of whom will vote for Labor.
In some federal seats, where it’s only a matter of a few thousand votes — this can be the difference between blue and red, and that can decide governments.
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Labor’s looking at your family home and that spare bedroom – Flat White
The lesson from Chalmers and Albanese is crystal clear: if you worked hard, saved responsibly, made sacrifices for your children, took risks to start a business, then you obviously stole that wealth and now it’s time for you – not politicians or billionaires – but you personally to ‘solve inequality’ by handing over your stuff.
Labor doesn’t have the balls to pitch this tax raid on their own. They have been leaning heavily on ‘experts’, economists, university academics, and journalists to nudge them around into ‘consensus’ positions.
It’s not our idea, Labor can say, it’s a recommendation of the industry! We’re just following orders…
There are many travesties on the table but one of the most insulting would have to be the random shade thrown at people who live with the sin of an empty bedroom.
And something I had not realised, but should have as a Landlord
I am one of those young people trying to find a house in a major city, and I’m not standing in line for a Sydney rental behind a hundred Boomers … I’m queued up behind a hundred people who can barely speak English bidding four-to-an-apartment at rates single working Australians can’t compete and we are dealing with real estate agents who often put their signage up in a foreign language and push Australians to the bottom of their callback list.
I can tell you right now that if you look like the descendant of a settler, you’re an outsider.
Why not tackle discrimination in the housing market?
Why not tear apart the migration scam being run by our universities to the detriment of not only the housing market, but our Australian kids?
Why not deport the hundreds of thousands of people crowded in our cities on expired visas?
Why not start deporting migrants who violate the terms of their stay by committing crimes or living off welfare?
Why not crack down on businesses and real estate companies who shelter the mass migration dream over the needs of Australians?
Coming after pensioners and their homes as a first priority might appeal to Labor, who know these people represent a shrinking conservative voting group, but at some point you have to ask where our humanity has gone.
And if you are a young Australian family that saved to buy a house for your family which you might start in a few years, you’ll be taxed out of that home long before you reproduce and it will be filled with a large family that arrived yesterday.
Ten years later, you’ll be childless, living in a single bedroom apartment to avoid the Bedroom Tax, wondering what happened to your country and your future.
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How do they even define a “spare” bedroom. If a bedroom is not used for sleeping it is not empty, it is used for something else like a study, a guest room, hobbies or storage. And some rooms are not obviously bedrooms but could be used as such.
It’s absurd. And a further attack on Australians’ standard of living and individual rights. And Big Brother quite literally in your bedroom.
What happens if you go on vacation? Will they tax you for the period of your absence?
And where are the fake conservative Liberals? They have been silent as far as I’m aware.
Frankly, I think Australia is so far gone it might not be fixable. With no effective opposition party, it’s basically running as a One Party State and the Left are doing whatever they please without scrutiny, oversight or accountability.
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“Will they tax you for the period of your absence?”
They will tax the pennies on your eyes!!
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Much of what you wrote is also applicable to Britain. Perhaps it all is, but as I am neither a landlord nor a renter I do not know whether our letting agencies also discriminate in favour of recent immigrants.
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Ozzie, when the unthinkable happened – & Labor won the majority of seats I thought it was probably only partly due to the lamentable decision to ask Libs to put the Greens last on the ticket. I instinctively felt that the changing nature of the city electorates, due to a generation of immigration into the major cities from disparate cultures, was likely to blame. The fact that the National Party did not lose a seat in rural Australia supports this belief.
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2/3 of Australia did NOT vote for Albanese. Don’t forgive Turnbull or Morrison or now Ley, all pretend conservatives who chase the fringe vote and ignore their base. In Victoria John Persutto still has his job and the support of three former Liberal premiers, which is a total disgrace. Much like the Democrats in the US and Labor in the UK who have abandoned their supporters for the Marxists.
Amazingly in the US, the workforce and the South, blacks and Hispanics have switched to Trump. And even the Jewish vote is starting to move! The Referendum shows that 2/3 of Australia do not want Albanese and his $42Billion for Aborigines, $50Billion for NDIS and who knows how much for mythical Climate Change and absolutely nothing for defence?
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Value adding to close the gap, seems to work.
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/indigenous-businesses-generate-42-6b-in-social-value-a-year-20250814-p5mn0u
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This must be facetious. For example the population of the Torres Strait is about 3200 people. We have given them a National identity, their own flag and part ownership of all of Australia. Why? Now we are considering the economic effect of Torres Strait Islander owned businesses? Is someone joking?
As for aboriginal businesses, I want to know where the $42Billion a year is going. The entire population of the Northern Territory is only 262,000. I would guess the aboriginal population would be lucky to be 40,000 people. That’s a million dollars tax free a year per person. Who needs to work? And where does the money really go. Not the aborigines of Alice Springs for sure. And yet the Fin Rev decides to evaluate aboriginal owned businesses. Anyone could fix the problem with $42Billion a year. No aborigine would ever have to go to work let alone run a business.
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You make a good argument, we need an audit, but they say these businesses are ‘generating $42.6 billion in social value annually …’
Social value cannot be easily measured.
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Quite so, TdeF. Morrison and Frydenberg expected that their enormous boost in immigration would boost the economy. They did not reckon on the flow-on effects of government largesse to support their initial entry, and the clever use the Labor Party would make of their own policy.
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Not so sure. Technically all immigration ‘boosts the economy’ the way it is calculated, but it’s all more government spending and the government has no money. So it’s a fake technical fix and Frydenburg knew that, an economics trick and very short term. I saw it as pure opportunism and it has done nothing for the Coalition. The true costs of supporting the new people, especially unskilled people and socially different people are not factored in.
Which is why we now have the insanity of mass protests against the only democratic government in the Middle East as if they are the villains, having survived some seven devastating wars of extermination.
Unlike so many amazingly skilled migrants after WWII, we have people coming for the endless handouts and no intention of blending in to our socio economic system as productivity craters to the lowest level in sixty years? How long before there are demands for Sharia law as in the UK? What proportion of the criminal activity is now Middle Eastern? And what proportion of youth violence is now African?
If politicians do not value our democratic society and its core values, what hope do the rest of us have? The current crop of politicians on both sides are the worst in a lifetime.
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But I think it’s Hamas which is on course to take over Australia, demonstrating their power again today.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-24/pro-palestian-rallies-protest-brisbane-melbourne-sydney/105690512
Cheers,
Dave B
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Did anyone else hear of a report on Sweden talking of the high crime rates, the unemployment and total lack of integration of the asylum seekers??
Not that any of it is surprising, but the study covered decades and found those characteristics were fed down through subsequent generations and the grandchildren remained criminals outside normal society.
I was told in a phone call so I haven’t seen it myself.
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FWIW
“If It Wasn’t For Government…”
“Vancouver Sun- Vancouver parents blocked from teaching their kids to swim in public pools
The board explained that anyone offering formal swim instruction at a public pool must meet liability standards, including holding a municipal business licence and insurance that meets park board requirements. “These standards help ensure that all instruction is delivered safely, consistently, and in alignment with facility guidelines.” ”
And comments
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/23/if-it-wasnt-for-government-18/
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At least they’re not claiming swimming is racist.
Yes, past laws of Democrat Jim Crow segregated swimming which haven’t been in force in the United States since 1964 are blamed for the extremely low rate of teaching black children to swim. How about parents do their job?
In any case, these laws never applied in Canuckistan.
The Canuckistan laws are just another way to remove parental involvement in raising children and a traditional parental responsibility (although parents usually paid professionals to teach their children to swim). Too much interference from the state.
https://www.seattleymca.org/blog/found-my-y-confronting-systemic-racism-swimming
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The Particular Group, you I assumed referred to, have more important things on their minds.
Disturbing video captures moment wild Carnival Cruise ship brawl breaks out ‘over chicken tenders’
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Control masquerading concern! All that will achieve is more private swimming lessons in backyard pools
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Even though there are occasional slight hints of rationalism from other countries who see the folly of ruinables, I think Australia is so fanatically committed to them, both factions of the Uniparty will remain committed to the scam up until and beyond the inevitable economic collapse they will cause.
As Sun Tzu is claimed to have said:
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Sun Tzu did not, but still a Good Quotation!
Sun Tzu Quote Rule Over Ashes
The quote “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes” is not authentic to Sun Tzu.
Extensive research confirms this statement does not appear in any of Sun Tzu’s known works, particularly “The Art of War”.
The phrase began circulating on social media in late 2020 and early 2021, long after Sun Tzu’s lifetime, and has been consistently identified as misattributed by researchers and fact-checkers.
It was notably shared on platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and X (formerly Twitter) in various forms, often in the context of political commentary, but its origin is not historical.
The quote is widely recognized as a modern invention, not a genuine saying of the ancient Chinese military strategist.
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“Zelensky has repeatedly called for Putin to meet him, saying it is the only way to negotiate an end to the war…“The meeting is one of the components of how to end the war,” Zelensky said on Friday…“And since they don’t want to end it, they will look for space to [avoid it].””
versus…
” Lavrov said Putin was ready to meet Zelensky, but only after key issues were first worked out by senior officials. That could involve a protracted negotiating process because the two sides remain far apart…“Putin is ready to meet when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,” Lavrov said”
Well, you pick the propaganda you want. The real clowns are saying..
““[Putin] hasn’t moderated his position in any significant way,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and former British ambassador to Belarus.”
Of course not! Russia invaded Ukraine with clear objectives and have no reason to change that. They will fight until those objectives are met. It can’t be hard to see…
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/trump-renews-sanctions-threat-as-russia-says-no-putin-zelensky-meeting-planned-20250823-p5mp76.html
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‘It can’t be hard to see…’
A ceasefire is a prerequisite towards any peace negotiations.
My suggestion of Chinese troops on the ground, in disputed territory, ticks all the boxes for a lasting peace.
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El Gordo, I think that you forgot the sarc tag.
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Many a true word said in jest, cast your mind back to 1991.
‘In early December, Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus met in Brest to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), effectively declaring the demise of the Soviet Union.’ (Office of the Historian (.gov)
Odd bedfellows.
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Always worth reading rt.com to get alternate views
Zelensky ready to discuss territory with Putin – Kiev
Moscow has not ruled out direct talks but said it must be preceded by serious diplomatic groundwork
Ukraine is ready to discuss its territorial dispute with Russia at direct talks between Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Ukrainian foreign ministry official has said, adding that the current frontline should be the starting point for the negotiations.
In an interview with NBC News on Friday, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislitsa reiterated that the country’s population “is categorically against trading our land for peace.”
“I think President Zelensky made it very clear he’s ready to sit down with President Putin and discuss it, and the beginning of the conversations on the territorial issue is the contact line that is currently there,” he said.
While publicly the Ukrainian leader has rejected the idea of any territorial concessions to Russia, several media reports claimed that he could agree to freeze the current front lines as part of a possible settlement.
Kislitsa also weighed in on the issue of Western security guarantees to Ukraine, noting that US officials are “working very hard” to draft an agreement. “Ideally, we may have the first draft sometime early next week, and then… the political leadership has to decide how we do work with these drafts,” he added.
His comments followed reports that European nations are likely to provide “the lion’s share” of any forces involved in security guarantees, while the US could potentially take over the overall command.
Moscow has not ruled out security guarantees for Kiev but also maintains that any deployment of Western troops to Ukraine is out of the question.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Moscow could agree to direct talks with Zelensky, but before any meeting could take place, “all issues that require top-level deliberations should be worked through.”
Russia has also voiced concern about Zelensky’s authority to sign any binding agreements, given that his presidential term expired more than a year ago.
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Putin wants Chinese troops on the ground as peacekeepers, but Zelensky has rejected this.
Of course, with regime change happening in Beijing it looks like Putin is snookered. The reformers have all the cards, China is the biggest importers of Russian oil and coal.
Beijing will play the role of honest broker.
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Donnie walks back, washing his hands, no way to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
‘The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using US-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv’s ability to employ these weapons in its defence against Moscow’s invasion, The Wall
Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing US officials.’ (SCMP)
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
The Ukrainians have already developed the Flamingo missile to replace the ATACMS.
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They should have nipped this theft of land in the bud when Putin usurped Crimea and should never have pushed Putin’s buttons using NATO as a trojan Horse and vague promises to not invade Russia by stealth
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Yep – and that is the return of the Russian speaking areas of the Donbas.
I may be hopelessly naive, but I still dont know why a referendum and/or elections could not have been held in the disputed areas of Ukraine years ago. I recall that Australian troops were sent by the UN to safeguard the restoration of government in Cambodia after Pol Pot. And the UN successfully restricted further bloodshed while Tito’s Yugoslavia was de-unified and split up into agreed culturally unified states.
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There was a referendum. And it hugely supported the Russians, but it was dismissed as a trick. It was no trick. This is a region which is solidly Russian, like the Crimea which was gifted to Ukraine in 1956 by Nikita Kruschev for unknown reasons. And they have been fighting a war of succession for 20 years. But Britain, France and Germany are solidly anti Russian, all having invaded Russia before. Germany in living memory. Anti Russian sentiment runs deep in the halls of power in Europe. So when Kosovo wanted to secede from Serbia, everyone supported Kosovo, simply because Serbia was a Russian ally.
So yes perhaps another referendum, even as a precondition or a device to achieve settlement. Run by the UN? It’s their entire job. But they are nowhere to be seen. Too busy with Climate Change. Wars are not their concern. Just global temperature.
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‘ … perhaps another referendum, even as a precondition or a device to achieve settlement.’
Too late for that, its only a matter of time before the Kremlin sues for peace.
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Your tea leaves and mine are sending opposite messages.
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So, which outcome will most likely lead to WW3?
Russia wins as much of Ukraine as it wants and makes sure NATO is no closer than Poland. Things settle down as NATO go off to forment trouble in Armenia or somewhere else next to Russia…
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Russia are forced to stop the war before they are finished and as expected, NATO pours troops into Ukraine and puts missile on the border, and then tries to get Putin to react so they can start the next war, the one they hope will break up Russia for them as this one has definitely failed in that..
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” … break Russia up …”
Which bits does Peking fancy?
Auto
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Vladivostok.
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‘Russia are forced to stop the war before they are finished …’
That is correct, he will be forced to sue for peace when China stops buying their oil and coal. While at the same time in Russia the price of fuel at the pump becomes expensive and scarce. Then stagflation sets in.
Chinese peacekeepers on the ground, in relatively small numbers and drone surveillance by both combatants. This is meant to avoid WW3.
You might have noticed that NATO members are forbidden to send missiles into Russia, so for security guarantees the Ukrainians have invented the Flamingo. State of the art.
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As usual, the Left reverse reality. Just a reminder that the Democrat Party was the original party of slavery and racism in the United States. They still are of course, just in a different form. They deliberately keep black people impoverished through their policies and as voter slaves for the Democrats.
All mostly written out of history by the Left these days.
Black people have done far better under TRUMP than any Democrat and also look at the horrific way the Left treat any black conservatives.
E.g. they said of Larry Elder:.
The Democrats, and Leftists in general elsewhere, are the ones who have weaponised race and are obsessed with it, not conservatives.
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Agree, wholeheartedly.
That why I call them zookeepers.
Read the Herald today. The Victorian Government has already spent $382 millions on negotiations of the Treaty.
Will the recipients of those $382 millions want to stop the negotiations? And go hungry?
As much as Hamas wants to stop suffering of civil populations under their yoke.
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I would like to share a bit of my lived experience growing up lower middle class, small town, in a former US Confederate state in the 1960s.
1) I never saw anyone or heard about anyone in a Klan outfit
Only on TV like everyone else.
I fact, in the 1980s, I saw a TV interview with one of my state’s former US Senators, member of the Church Committee …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
he stated that in the 1960s that there were 18 known members of the Klan in my home county … and 9 of them were paid FBI informants.
It was a drunken lunatic fringe at best.
Much like the Left’s constant current harping on ‘white supremacy’, these threats have been partly manufactured and greatly exaggerated for political provocateur purposes for decades.
2) As for post-Civil War race relations in the South, Feudal class structures are more illuminating than modern ‘race’ politics. For most of Western history, a person could not escape the class position of their birth.
Until WW1.
This is the entire plot of ‘Downton Abbey’.
Having grown in up the former Confederacy, and lived adulthood in the Union, the attributes of modern ‘racism’ vis a vie pre-industrial Feudal class strictures, today are far worse in the former Union states.
The Confederate flag*, and statues of the long dead, were sleeping dogs covering the still visible scars of the destruction of the South.
Until the Left woke up the sleeping dog for despicable divisive purpose.
Now Florida and South Carolina rise as New York falls.
Irony?
*The ever so triggering Confederate flag theme is a modern construct. Most people would not recognize the actual flag of the Confederate States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
Of course we do now know the Confederacy invented slavery.
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August (living up to its name) to go out with a BANG!
Chilean/Andes skifields born-again after storms deliver waist-deep snowfalls with over 2 metres on higher more-southern peaks:
https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/upto-1m/
Later this week NSW/VIC/TAS and NZ mountains plunge back into wintry bliss as a series of vigorous westerly fronts reignite the ski industry, with a metre (40”) of cl!mate-deny!ng snowfalls possible on higher trails.
Ex-tropical hurricane Erin now spinning in the central North Atlantic, pulsing out swell in all directions, and if models can be believed [?] will bounce off Iceland then stall over northern UK. Please take note: the UK does not get hurricanes in summer… often.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/
(odd word, anal-ysis, when you say it slowly)
Relax, the oceans aren’t boiling: apart from the Persian Gulf, the warmest waters are the South China Sea (typhoon off Vietnam) and the Gulf of Tequila (still no hurricanes off Mexico nor Texas) hovering just above the standard 30-31° Celsius summer max – a long, long, long way below the required 100° for boiling porpoises [sic].
La Niña 3.4 SST anomaly down almost 1 degree (-0.8°C) whilst ‘globally’ it’s barely noticeable (+0.25°). Remember, Warmunists, always carry a pinch of salt.
So there we have it, this month’s grand, majestic, awe-inspiring Augustus weather – the planet’s fine, doing what it’s always done – tell the kids to run outside and play.
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Tell the kids to run outside and play.
After a Winter Load of Flanneries, all the Sports Fields are Soaked & Muddy
Kids Sport has been called off
Waterlogged ovals, weekend sport cancelled: Inside Sydney’s turf wars
The wettest August in 27 years has not only cancelled countless sporting matches, it has kicked a saga back onto the city’s playing fields.
Hundreds of Sydney sports fields have been waterlogged by the recent deluge, leading to match cancellations and reigniting a controversial push for more synthetic turf facilities.
Councils have shut fields to winter sports competitions this month due to safety concerns, and to protect the turf, as Sydney recorded its wettest August in 27 years.
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Game over, Sydney. The sun may be back, but the rain has finally defeated us all
As a general rule, I am not one to support any kind of aggressive public outburst, conscious that it shatters the unspoken social agreement that we must all Be Nice People.
This is especially true on public transport, where the stakes are higher because we’re all in such close proximity with no way to escape, and the last thing anybody wants to deal with is anti-social behaviour.
And yet, on Wednesday this week, I could only watch in admiration as a man sprinted through the torrential rain, desperate to make it into the train carriage before the doors closed.
He slipped upon entry, falling onto a hapless commuter next to me while also knocking his glasses off his face and dropping his umbrella, which promptly exploded open, covering everyone around him in water. To his credit, he gave the only appropriate response in a situation like this, which was: “I am so over this f—ing weather.”
In seven simple words, he captured the entire mood of the train carriage, a collection of sodden and downtrodden idiots who have been traipsing in and out of the office, wondering what we’ve done to deserve this unique form of water torture.
But really, he tapped into something greater than the crisis on carriage three – a city-wide frustration that stems from the relentless downpour that has besieged Sydney for the past however many weeks.
For what it’s worth, I appreciate that writing about the weather is a bit like talking about the weather, a topic Oscar Wilde famously described as “the last refuge of the unimaginative”.
That’s all well and good for Oscar, but if he’d been alive to witness Warragamba Dam at 98 per cent of its more than 2000 gigalitre capacity, then perhaps he wouldn’t be so quick to judge.
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I prefer the quote that “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.“
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That’s the problem. Too many think there IS something they can do about it.
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Ahhh … ‘think’ – or ‘believe’ there is something they can do about the weather?
Auto
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You may laugh but for me directives issued by Netflix tells more tells even more than watching ABC, Sky News, Fox News “reputable sources”.
Just watch the latest action movie Beekeeper.
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“Latest” ?
It was released in Jan 2024.
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By Netflix?
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Sharing law now legal for contracts in Austria.
No doubt the applicability will widen with time.
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An unauthorised spelling correction there it should read “sharia” not “sharing”.
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Autocorrect is Islamophobic?
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FWIW – signs of life in UK
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1750857899732248.png?w=1024
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/screenshot-2025-08-22-at-21-44-27-home-_-x.png?w=748
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FWIW
Definitive proof!
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1804821915475382272.jpg?w=1024
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FWIW
“Welcome To Florida, Katie Hopkins”
And the comments there
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/welcome-to-florida-katie-hopkins/
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Sunday freebie – Clinton Cash: the untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich
https://ufile.io/m1s5uzgg
PDF, 125 pages.
Be quick!
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Petrol bombed for raising your own flag: guess the country
https://youtu.be/zmggexA3wIw?si=XP7fcUjEUJ178NWA
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Sunday kickback
Climbing for fun:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1gajrhSV21z23obp.mp4
/nope every time!
Google unknowingly captures the life of an elderly couple in Indonesia:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1g9133Yr41z23obp.mp4
/and then there was nothing…
Watermelon carving:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1gg74nQkj1z23obp.mp4
Instant fit out for a campervan:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1g7k8Xsab1z23obp.mp4
/sweet!
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100% inheritance tax? Guess the country
Loony lefties have squandered all the tax revenue, so need more, MOAR! so want take everything from everyone else (as usual).
https://x.com/LBC/status/1958487603243593886
/the UK has fallen.
Just wait until 2026.😉
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Don’t give the communist Albanese any ideas.
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They’ve already had them.
Albo said no (but being a polly means yes) and also death taxes.
The $3M super tax threat has already caused mass sell-offs…
There’s not one single person from any party fit to hold office and actually run a state or the country.
Not one.
Which is why what’s looming is unavoidable.
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‘You will own nothing and be happy!’
People thought this a joke. Obviously our current PM, Treasurer, Energy Minister and Foreign Minister don’t see it that way at all. Albanese said he intends to change Australia. Ha! Ha! everyone thought. He has dumped Israel, supported one minority group over another, moved to appeasing China on all matters, He refused assistance to our (formerly) main ally the USA in Red Sea action against the houthis. He has gone against the US in the UN. He derided Trump before the last USA election. He refuses to up our defence expenditures despite seeing how Trump solved that problem with NATO. He is so despised by Trump he can’t get a meeting with him even to save face. What else could Albanese do to destroy AUKUS and get a refusal on those submarines from the USA (which some say is his real ambition. Can’t upset China!) ?
Like others, I despair of where Australia will be in two more years plus of this. We are destroyed by our electoral system.
Who ever thought we could be ruled by a 33% government? The government with its increasing censorship, attacks on savings, destruction of our export industries at a time it needs more revenue, accelerating COL for people, destruction of our home availability by huge immigration, its buying of votes by massive social services increases, its destruction of the Judeo-Christian basis of the nation is IMO showing its awareness of its electoral luck. It is accelerating its entirely destructive campaign imo to force us into the China orbit away from the USA. This is what Keating, Carr and others have been after for 30years or more. We are becoming more communist by the day, more intolerant and less democratic. Look at the use and abuse of the police force in Victoria during COVID; labor governments have learned they have total power when they require it. Climate Change provides the logic behind debasing the energy system to make us destitute, powerless and subservient. We become government dependents and that gives dictatorship!
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Well said doc.
And as Australia re-aligns itself away from the USA and towards China in accordance with Labor’s core communist beliefs along with dumping allies like Israel, I think the plan is to p-ss off TRUMP so badly, TRUMP will be forced to cancel the AUKUS submarine deal because Australia will no longer be a trusted ally. This is what the Labor Party and the Chicomms want.
And Albanese still hasn’t met TRUMP but has met Emperor Xi twice and for five days on the last visit.
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” TRUMP will be forced to cancel the AUKUS submarine deal because Australia will no longer be a trusted ally. ”
That would be a good thing! We have no chance of using them to their best, we are far too small and poor, and the money saved can be put to better use.
Look at it this way, BRICS are going to be the main economic force in the world in a decade or so, the West will become Muslim and America will become impotent. At least we’ll be on the winning side!
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Have you surrendered already KP? Sounds like it…
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I think a case could (should) be made whereby governments are, to a significant extent, limited by their pre-election promises, and the mandate thus provided – or NOT provided.
Obviously, circumstances change and any manifesto would be ‘broad brush’, but contract law has existed for a long, long time and that’s essentially what we’re dealing with: a contract between the nation and its government. In business, ‘force majeure’ serves the purpose of allowing the parties to deviate from the contract should unforeseen circumstances require it. I’m sure lawyers could come up with some way of doing this without unnecessarily shackling governments. If any such major event occurred, at least one that didn’t meet an extraordinarily high bar such as war, requiring that a government breaks a promise, they should be required to seek a new mandate via an election or a referendum.
This is how governments should operate, adhering to the ‘contract’ they made with the voters.
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He’s just madly jealous, probably had poor parents…
England wouldn’t have had an empire without parents looking ahead 3 or 4 generations and preserving their capital.
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A new study using AI finds that the rise of CO2 follows temperature by 800 years.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/08/22/another-study-affirms-anthropogenic-co2-does-not-drive-climate-change/
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Sounds like it found the UK court finding of a few years back.
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FWIW – the latest Kunstler
“By the Batch
“The problem with the future is that it is both unpredictable and inescapable.” — Tarik Cyril Amar”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/by-the-batch
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The data can’t be ignored. OK so what to do about it? Will they need to roster vaxed and unvaxed to fly together and/or rush training of new pilots to baby-sit in the right seat with minimal stick time?
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You totally underestimate their power to ignore data.
Allow me to demonstrate the ignorance you are up against. In the USA, every commercial pilot above a certain age, needs to get ECG tests done to prove their heart is in good condition. The FAA keeps a “Pilot Records Database” which includes historical ECG tests as a reference.
Since this provides a continuous longitudinal measurement for a large number of healthy individuals … it could have been used as a before/after comparison when the jabs were rolled out in 2021. It would have provided the nearest thing to perfect safety data … and yet when various researchers suggested this study, no one has been able to obtain access to the longitudinal statistics.
This should be a simple case of, “Nothing to hide, nothing to worry about” … but they can simply shrug and pretend nothing to see here.
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FWIW
“Has Farage got what it takes to be a hero?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/has-farage-got-what-it-takes-to-be-a-hero/
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Elon Musk launches ‘Macrohard’—built to wipe out Microsoft’s software empire
Elon Musk just declared war on Microsoft. With his new AI venture Macrohard, Musk isn’t simply poking fun at Bill Gates’ software empire—he’s openly building a machine to dismantle it.
The project’s mission is as audacious as it is simple: replicate Microsoft’s entire business model with swarms of autonomous AI agents, then make Microsoft obsolete.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1958852874236305793
M$ has had its glory days. W11 is a joke stability wise.
Bring it on!
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HaHaHa and all that, but …
If Muckrosoft did go bust, where would that leave us? A good proportion of world digital infrastructure is built or reliant on it. Any significant attack on it could have significant repercussions for the rest of us, like it or not.
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I prefer non-AI open source software. I use Libre Office and am transitioning to Linux.
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It won’t be hard to out-perform them, just go back to a small, fast simple operating system like Windows used to be!
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FWIW – A sermon on the Cracker Barrel
“Pride Cometh Before the Fall”
https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/08/23/pride-cometh-before-the-fall-n4942985
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And
https://patriotpost.us/memes/120246-too-far-2025-08-23
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FWIW
“Gene-Edited Cocoa: Mars’ Modern Answer to a Sweet Disaster”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/08/23/gene-edited-cocoa-mars-modern-answer-to-a-sweet-disaster-n4942988
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Surprisingly, the laws of a free market always solve those problems… Cocoa production drops, cocoa price goes up, new farmers enter the market as it has now become viable for them to stop growing something else and move into cocoa. In parallel to that the increase in the price of chocolate means people buy less of it, taking the demand off the reduced supply so it retains its equilibrium.
Look at the wine being grown in cold climates where no-one would ever do it in the past, same with coffee beans.
“Mars insists that any cocoa trees edited with CRISPR undergo safety checks that are identical to those of any other crop. ” ..but nothing to test their unique features that natural tees don’t have…
Gene editing the Corona virus didn’t end well… just sayin’.
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FWIW – Canada but – – –
“Federal green fund misses emission, job targets by miles”
https://truenorthwire.com/2025/08/federal-green-fund-misses-emission-job-targets-by-miles-2/
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The captain goes down with the ship” is the maritime tradition that a sea captain holds the ultimate responsibility for both the ship and everyone embarked on it, and in an emergency they will devote their time to save those on board or die trying. Can’t imagine monomaniac Capt. Albo devoting anything, let alone dying, to save Australians from Labour’s foreordained shipwreck of Australia’s economic collapse.
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…as much chance of seeing any “leader” go to the front lines of a war they got their country involved in!!
Gone are the greatest days of humankind, when the King led his army into battle!
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“He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting”
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That would be the noble Duke of Plazatoro, the well-known Spanish Hidalgo, I presume.
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