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    Tonyb

    Cartoon of the Emperor has got no climate clothes.

    https://postimg.cc/XZNKfNqx

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      John in NZ

      You should call them “illegal migrants” rather than “asylum seekers”.

      The Marxists are very good at controlling what we think by controlling the words and phrases we use.

      An “asylum seeker” is someone who needs our help and deserves our sympathy.

      An “illegal migrant” is someone who has broken the law and deserves the consequences.

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        Dennis

        Another asylum seeker based on illegal immigrant example was Gillard Labor Government changing the Royal Australian Navy description of people smuggler vessels from Illegal Entry Vessel to Irregular Entry Vessel

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        John Connor II

        You should call them “illegal migrants” rather than “asylum seekers”.

        Military age men who left their families behind, as one does when fleeing tyranny and/or poverty /sarc, who send taxpayer benefits back to their families, and then even go back home on holidays.

        Totally legitimate, nothing to see.

        Then the public has no problem endlessly photographing and videoing these gimmigrants by the boatload, but the government can’t stop them, despite a navy, radar, patrols, public information, satellites…
        Then the government houses them all by the million, in hotels (breach of planning laws anyone?), in country towns, and cities, all without due process or id.
        Then the government says they need digital ID to identify them and stop the crisis.
        They really do think the public is as dumb as dog poo.

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          John in NZ

          You are so right, John Con II.

          However, “Then the government says they need digital ID to identify them and stop the crisis.”

          They don’t need digital ID to stop the crisis.
          Actually, all they need is to do is stop giving the illegals money.

          If the government stopped giving them money, they would stop coming.

          So when they say they are trying to stop the illegal migrants, they are lying.

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    Tonyb

    I am sure Oz could have their own satirical version of Starmers Sanctuary towns

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sign-up-for-a-starmer-free-sanctuary-town/

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    Paul Cottingham

    British Justice is now ‘Policing Words, Not Actions’: Convictions for posting ‘opinions’ online while letting rapists, paedophiles and violent offenders walk free.

    Police in the UK are now making 30 arrests every day – nearly 12,000 per year – for allegedly offensive messages on social media, while burglary investigations have collapsed due to a lack of officers. Meanwhile mass rape and violent crime remains a persistent concern of the public, but if the public show anger about the rapes and murders of little white girls by immigrants in a post on ‘X’ then four police officers are sent to arrest the ‘thought criminal’. A massive relocation of police resources into new organisations like the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team (NIIIT) and thousands of police hours are being poured into tracking angry tweets online, which has become a more urgent issue than protecting people in real life.

    Starmer’s government presides over the harshest wave of speech prosecutions the UK has ever recorded. Britain finds itself in a position in which it punishes emotional online outbursts more severely than real-world acts of violence.

    https://expose-news.com/2025/08/24/free-speech-crisis-hypocrisy-convictions

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      Tonyb

      Arrests are a very different thing to conviction, as the offensive messages are very largely physically threatening or grossly offensive-often sexual in nature and not merely offence at online comments.

      This from the Free Speech Union web site where they are defending 6 people who were arrested for offensive messages.

      “Analysis of government data shows that the number of convictions and sentencings for communications offences has dramatically decreased over the past decade.

      According to Ministry of Justice figures, there were 1,119 sentencings for Section 127 and Section 1 offences in 2023, down by almost half since 2015 when 1,995 people were found guilty of the crimes.

      There are several reasons for arrests not resulting in sentencing, such as out-of-court resolutions. But the most common is “evidential difficulties”, specifically that the victim does not support taking further action.”

      Undoubtedly much of the western world is not as free as it used to be, but generally the 12000 arrests cover very much wider and more serious infringements than merely online disagreements.

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        KP

        “but generally the 12000 arrests cover very much wider and more serious infringements than merely online disagreements.”

        Do they tell us what actually was said? Without the actual example of what they say we have no way of evaluating the seriousness of what people are being prosecuted for. Its not like ‘He stole a car’ when you hear ‘He said something I didn’t like’.

        Is there an official difference between “I’m going to find out where you live, come around and set fire to you’ and ‘Those people who raped the little girls should be burned at the stake’?

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        Robert Swan

        Tonyb,

        Arrests are a very different thing to conviction…

        Different technically, but it’s still a punishment. Some people have spent longer in custody under arrest than others have after conviction.

        And the stain of arrest lingers. Why, for example, do the US immigration forms ask Have you ever been arrested? Do you think you can convince them that that’s unfair and the question should be Have you ever been convicted?

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    Paul Cottingham

    Starmer to punish people who deface the nation with English flags and flags that include the Union Jack. Operation Raise the Colours is to be banned by the ‘British Police State’. The ‘thought crime’ ban includes waving English and Union Jack flags, including the flags of Australia, the British Antarctic Territory, British Columbia, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, New South Wales, New Zealand, Niue, the Pitcairn Islands, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Tuvalu, Victoria and Western Australia.

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    Rafe Champion

    GRIDWATCH WED 27 AM

    AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 34% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
    AND 1.5% IN THE WEST YES THAT IS NOT A MISPRINT!
    https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/

    WHAT ABOUT TEXAS
    https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
    3.49 PM WIND 6% SOLAR 26%

    BRITAIN
    https://grid.ia10.mkate.com/
    10 PM WIND 28% SOLAR 0

    Wind and solar enthusiasts are excited when the generation figures are high but the fitness for purpose of the system is judged by the lowest level of production which is effectively zero on a night with little or no wind. Think about the effectiveness of a fence, or the wall of a dam or a flood levee. As the old saying goes chain is only as strong as the weakest link.

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      Graeme No.3

      But Rafe, wind is handicapped by siting. What is needed is for more politicians to get out of London (where there aren’t any wind turbines) and spread out below the turbines.
      The result will be an increase in output if there is 2 (or more) politicians per turbine. The UK may well have to draft more helpers so I suggest that lots of BBC, those in the METOffice, lots of Public Servants etc. should be given a chance to “see the countryside”.

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      Dennis

      It annoys me that most often quoted is Installed Capacity ignoring the Capacity Factor operating average.

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      Graeme4

      Yes, Perth had a windless night, so again gas and coal had to work hard on a cold night to keep the power on. The “big battery” is running the hardest I’ve seen so far at 10% – that won’t last long.

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    KP

    Albanese trying to win back the Pro-Israel vote-

    “Iran’s ambassador to Australia has been expelled and the Australian embassy in Tehran shuttered after the stunning revelation that Iran directed at least two high-profile attacks on the Australian Jewish community.

    The most dangerous example of foreign interference in modern Australian history also prompted the Albanese government to designate Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, a move applauded by local Jewish groups. The nation’s top spy agency believes that Iran was responsible for plotting arson attacks against Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney and the Adass Israel Synagogue ”

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/iran-suspected-of-involvement-in-synagogue-arson-attack-20250826-p5mpx8.html

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    Greg in NZ

    How will cold Sicktorian Greenies wave away this wild wintry weather (oops, I mean climate) as a 7-day snowblast arrives… possibly with a false flag? See prior comments above.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/mounthotham.shtml

    Seven little snowflakes, all in a row,
    Freezing on the hilltops, cold down below.

    How’s the unfolding climate of fear operation proceeding in the foothills northeast of Melburnistan this morning: heard the govt special force lads were dressed in camouflage – is that Desert Storm brown, Malayan jungle green, or Mount Hotham whiteout (similar to Finnish snow ghosts)? Drive, and dress, to the conditions.

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      Simon Thompson

      What I am pondering is that someone sick of Daniel Andrews tyranny and sues him in the local court gets labelled a “Historic child sexual abuse” and his home raided by 10 police. The initial excuse of “He took hostages” was a blatant lie. I guess by this standard anyone who ridicules the government and wants to protest overregulation needs to take caution. I hope Mr Freeman gets to give his side of the story.

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        You are defending an alleged/suspected sex abuser who murdered police to avoid arrest. Cool.

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          Broadie

          Man what is it with your inabuility to wrestle with your inner Totalitarian?

          Simon Thompson writes:

          I hope Mr Freeman gets to give his side of the story.

          and you advocate summary justice, why? ST didn’t ask for anything more than the simple expectation we all believe we should be allowed.

          The habeas corpus first originated back in 1215, through the 39th clause of the Magna Carta signed by King John, which provided “No man shall be arrested or imprisoned…except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land,”

          English courts began actively considering petitions for habeas corpus in 1600. While habeas corpus had initially originated as an instrument in opposition to the king’s “divine right to incarcerate people,” there were many other constables and other authorities during those times, who imprisoned people for various reasons. Accordingly, habeas corpus also developed as the king’s role to demand account for his subject who is restrained of his liberty by other authorities.

          Deeply rooted in the Anglo-American jurisprudence, the law of habeas corpus was adopted in the U.S. as well. James Madison, in 1789, argued for the adoption of the Bill of Rights, including habeas corpus. The fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Marshall, emphasized the importance of habeas corpus, writing in his decision in 1830, that the “great object” of the writ of habeas corpus “is the liberation of those who may be imprisoned without sufficient cause.” The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the “writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action” and must be “administered with the initiative and flexibility essential to ensure that miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected.

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            and you advocate summary justice, why?

            that is a total fabrication. Please consider retracting.

            I hope he tells his side of the story too. I support that justice system but that doesn’t mean that in the meantime I impugn it and link being sick of a former Premier as being somehow an understandable motive for extreme violence.

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            Simon Thompson

            Thanks Broadie. In a cash strapped state, we have 100-200 police, helicopters, all the heavy hitting team deployed for over a day with no result. Remember the police entered his “sovereign” territory with foreknowledge of the antipathy held towards them. Ten of them. The “Historic sexual child abuse” angle is a perfect frame- everything is kept anonymous- and the truth is NOT reported- look at the 10+ hour delay for the police to even make a statement on what went down. How many citizens have prosecuted Dan Andrews and then get labelled a conspiracy theorist even though everything they were concerned about turns out to be fact? Something is VERY fishy. At Jo Nova, this is the place for serious discussion, not repeating Normie talking points. Now if Mr Freeman invited the police onto his property and ambushed them- well that is is an entirely different scenario isn’t it!

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              How many citizens have prosecuted Dan Andrews

              none

              How many citizens have prosecuted Dan Andrews and then get labelled a conspiracy theorist

              It’s not a label.

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              Strop

              Remember the police entered his “sovereign” territory with foreknowledge of the antipathy held towards them. Ten of them.

              It’s difficult not to interpret that as you saying it was the police officer’s fault they got shot. If there was any doubt, it was pretty well removed with,

              Now if Mr Freeman invited the police onto his property and ambushed them- well that is is an entirely different scenario isn’t it!

              Ever heard the expression, “Don’t shoot the messenger”?

              If he had gone along with the execution of the warrant he would be getting to tell his side of the story. Now his side of the story, if he gets brought in alive, will be portrayed as the story of a nutter and murderer. But very likely he won’t get to tell it now.

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                Simon Thompson

                He is without doubt a nutter and a murderer, however I don’t think we are being told everything. For example, the hostage yarn. I am astounded that he has not been apprehended. I hope this never happens again- but operations against an armed deranged man need to be planned differently.

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                Strop

                Yes. I don’t know why we get told certain things. Most of the time I think it’s just media or a media person too keen to run speculation for the sake of a story or drama. There’s never any penalty for getting it wrong and the police were pretty quick to correct that.

                Like today, there was the school bus crash near Geelong. Well after news outlets were reporting the tragic death of one of the students, as one of the first reports, the ABC ran a report of no deaths.

                Errors occur.

                Of course, there are times when the media as group run a false narrative to achieve a certain purpose.

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    RickWill

    Yesterday I stated in an answer to a question from GrahamP I would show how the gravitational force on the Sun drives the solar activity. The linked chart shows the connection:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DSvVRMZlFspfvYnc3bgvak-vz4ZTdIh/view?usp=sharing

    The effective turning radius is related to the cornering of the Sun in orbit. The ER is small when the turn is sharp while it is long when the turn is gentle. The chart displays the absolute of the difference between the ER and the average of all ER. The average is very close to 0.005AU. So both smaller and larger excursions from the average drive the solar activity. This forecasts solar cycle 26 to be moderately high and peak in 2035.

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      KP

      Well done Rick! Far more worth a Nobel Prize than anything Trump has achieved! This should give us climate prediction with greater accuracy.

      You might have to share the prize with Musk, Starship 10 today was almost flaw-free. Dropping a spaceship through the atmosphere in free-fall, no pilots on board, decelerating it to hover above the sea within a 100m of a camera on a buoy moored in the middle of Indian Ocean nowhere.. just astounding! He is changing the human race like no-one before.

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    RickWill

    Alan Moran has an article on the falling wholesale demand at the Spectator:
    https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/08/the-energy-grid-needs-markets-not-mandates/

    Most of the article is pay walled. I extracted these paragraphs on rooftops as it is similar to my view:

    Most Australians with their own roof can for, an outlay of under $50,000 in panels and batteries (with over $10,000 of this being a subsidy), be self-sufficient in electricity except for relatively rare occasions when there is little sun. To the household, a $40,000 outlay represents about $2,200 a year. This, at least in the unlikely event that current prices do not rise, is not much more than their present bills, though a market driven system would see much lower grid supplied electricity prices.

    However, unless a very high fixed grid connection price is in place those households, as well as being directly subsidised by others, will be free-loading on the grid as a back-up. And there are limits to which a high connection cost can be set, limits that for many households are the cost of a diesel generator.

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      Gob

      Spectator story archived at https://archive.md/bHsAx

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      Graeme4

      “On the relatively rare occasions when there is no sun”. Kidding, surely. There are LOTS of times when there isn’t any sun! And $50,00 will NOT cover the full cost of solar+battery system to ensure you have reliable power at all times.
      Also his calculation indicates that a solar+battery system will last 18 years without any major failure. This is rubbish.
      Not sure why you are quoting him – it’s simply not true.

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        RickWill

        Also his calculation indicates that a solar+battery system will last 18 years without any major failure. This is rubbish.

        Can you provide any supporting evidence that the average life of solar panels and batteries is less than 18 years?

        My solar panels are now 14 years old and still produce rated power.

        My lithium battery is still doing the same job after 12 years.

        It is too early to determine an average figure. There is a solid waste stream of panels but some of that is due to obsolescence as newer panels offer higher efficiency and produce more in diffuse sunlight. So they make better use of available roof space.

        I cannot see Blackout suddenly seeing the light and changing direction to burning lignite. And I cannot see the LNP selling the country on lignite either.

        Every home that installs panels takes volume away from the grid generators and that makes it harder to recover their costs. It means ever increasing costs falling on those without rooftop solar.

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          Graeme4

          Don’t disagree with what you say, but I believe that we both acknowledge that it’s early days to predict the lifetime of lithium batteries. I acknowledge that good solar panels will last more than 18 years, but not much more. Also there is the inverter lifetime to consider. However, I will always err on the side of caution, and to expect lithium batteries to average 18 year’s lifetimes is what I class as unsupported optimism. That’s why I’ve amortised my solar system cost over only ten years, and still don’t plan to add a battery.

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    David Maddison

    It’s odd that Australia has broken diplomatic relations with Iran but has rewarded Iran-backed terrorist organisation Hamas with recognition of “statehood”.

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    David Maddison

    Excellent video about our Hamas-loving communist PM. I have NZ author Trevor Loudon’s book mentioned in the video.

    Book: Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism

    https://www.youtube.com/live/yLRdR_pFlbU

    It’s clear Albanese is moving us (Australia) away from the US Aliiance and toward China and also within the influence of global radical Islamism as part of the so-called Red-Green alliance.

    Red and Green are currently useful idiots of each other but their core ideologies are currently incompatible so it will be interesting to see how that works out…

    Note on red-green alliance, https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/emerging-red-green-alliance-where-political-islam-meets-radical-left , not to be confused with the other type of “greens”.

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    RickWill

    I am not an origin customer but they have an arrangement with my battery installer to follow up after installation and offer a virtual power network deal.

    They are offering $1/kWh for any draw down from your battery. I have matched my battery well to the demand but this is a very attractive deal. I figure they only use it when the wholesale price approaches the $1000/MWh mark so it would not be that often at present.

    My evening peak charge is 45c/kWh so the origin offer would be very attractive to many battery owners. The battery installer gave me the numbers of people taking the offer and it is in the tens of thousands but I cannot recall the exact figure.

    It appears that Origin can see the future and it is not in grid sourced generation.

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      Graeme4

      If the future is not grid-sourced generation, then perhaps you can explain why the sales of new home solar systems has been essentially flat for the last five years. Was looking at the sales graph again today.

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        RickWill

        Flat at 3.3GW a year is still the most significant source of increasing generating capacity by a big margin:
        https://naturalsolar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Picture-1.png

        Household batteries will reduce the curtailment as well so there will be a gradual improvement in capacity factor for rooftops as the batteries go in.

        Grid scale wind capacity is going up less than 1Gw per year..

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          If we aim for fair electricity pricing, the Opposition would allow retailers to offer a pure coal-gas fired electricity option for people without solar panels and charge everyone with solar and batteries the more expensive connection and back up charges to recover the cost of all their subsidies.

          The free market would soon solve the problem of paying for lignite coal plants, and half of Australia could go back to cheap electricity.

          Of course, to be truly fair, the fossil fuel subscribers should get discounted electricity for several years (recovered from solar home owners) to recoup the excess charges they have been forced to pay, which they received no benefit for.

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          Graeme4

          Ok, but it’s not 3.3GW a year, that’s nameplate. It’s only around 0.5GW a year, based on average annual CF.

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    David Maddison

    It’s appalling how misinformed, uneducated and dumbed-down the Australian public has become, now majority Green, Labor, Teal or other similar party voters

    I’m glad I finished my school and university education before Australia’s education system was completely trashed.

    Incidentally, I’m still in touch with my 5th grade school teacher, Mr Bryant, who was a superb teacher. At the time he was probably only about 10 or 12 years older than his students hence him still being with us.

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    John Connor II

    The UK has fallen, part whatever

    https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1959713644519780597

    You can’t enter a pub waving an English flag, but any other flag is fine.
    The beer’s warm anyway…

    Farage has caved to Islam:
    https://x.com/RusGarbageHuman/status/1960391828919754988

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      Steve of Cornubia

      Farbage is 100% politician, so will support anything that gets him elected while avoiding anything that might cost him votes.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Attention Parents: RFK Jr. Links Autism to “Certain Interventions,” Says Big Announcement Next Month ”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/attention-parents-rfk-jr-links-autism-certain-interventions-says-big-announcement-next

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    John Connor II

    The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf doesn’t perform in the circus.

    😉

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      KP

      If you want to save the Kiwi or the Bald Eagle or whatever…. you should eat them!

      There’s no shortage of ducks and chickens in the world!

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “So It Appears Diplomacy (Again) Failed”

    “People conveniently forget said facts when it suits them and they argue pieces of it when that suits them. Then they argue they have a clear understanding of who’s good and who’s bad rather than observing that there appear to be plenty of good arguments for debate on all sides, while at the same recognizing that if you shoot at someone they’re rather likely to shoot back so if you do, and in response they do maybe you doth protest a wee bit too much.”

    More at

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253876

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    John Connor II

    “Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left” – Aldous Huxley

    The NHS is now pushing their latest health campaign. Screening every adult over 50 for Bowel Cancer, sending out millions of test kits to detect what they describe as a common cancer in men. This test joins the growing number of others in a programme of mass-screening that tests for everything from Prostate Cancer, to High Cholesterol, with the claim being that ’early detection saves lives’.

    But does it? Because all-cause mortality: the number of people who die every year as a percentage of the population has remained virtually unchanged for 3 decades now. When statins were introduced, marketed as a wonder drug and life saver, you would have reasonably expected to see a significant fall in deaths from heart disease, right? Wrong. The most widely prescribed drug in the world hasn’t made any difference to mortality rates whatsoever.

    https://www.visionnews.online/post/how-mass-screening-condemns-millions-of-healthy-people-to-treatments-they-don-t-need-1

    And if diagnosed positive, it’ll be due to climate change.
    More $$$ for big pharma because of moved goalposts.

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    David Maddison

    The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.

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    John Connor II

    Because we live inside the spherical concave Earth and light bends to the center of heaven into the central ocahedron causing our line of sight to split the celestial sphere in two inverting the rise and set of the luminaries and terrestrial objects behind the optical edit of the horizontal crease including the land mass rising in the distance encapsulating the entire finite tiny clockwise universe and a hollow shell of Earth. The tides and four tidal equilibrium points are caused by the four corners of the central ocahedron holding back the four ether winds of heaven briding the circuit of the sun and revolving cycle of inner space. Pangia puzzle piece continents divided by these four points implied an expanding womb. Matrix matrix means womb. It’s a thought though bubble
    of God’s hollow skull.

    Yes, it’s loony-left Tuesday!
    And you thought the resident trolls talked Bollox.

    Scimandan – https://youtu.be/PrMeWOzZd2o?si=ppAtT8sZEFddTiN-

    Bookmark Scimandan! 😎

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      Honk R Smith

      Science in the modern world is a functional replacement for religion.
      For several hundred years a successful replacement.
      The Internet has forced a Reformation.
      The UK has the ball rolling on stopping it.
      Oddly Pandemic, Science’s great chance to shine, greatly damaged public faith in the new religion.

      My point …
      the first Reformation birthed hundreds of tangential interpretations of the Bible, causing many newly minted Protestant ‘heretics’ to flee or be forced to America.
      Such heretics are my own ancestors.

      So the access of ordinary folk via the Internet to science will create many odd and fantastic wrong headed absurd interpretations.
      (Methinks that climate science is no less.)
      I think it’s fun and good.
      And may force science to row its’ ducks.
      Except the Globalists may succeed in herding us all back into a censored environment forcing all heretics into silence policed by the New Inquisition.
      Currently led by anointed Pope of the New Religion Starmer.
      The modern elite, so far, are not proving to have been very enlightened by the Enlightenment.

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    Earl

    The weekend march is looming and numerous Indian ex-pats have voiced their concern and of course jumped on the racist bandwagon totally ignoring the more correct observation that people are voicing their concern at the negative effect that the current seemingly uncontrolled quota immigration system is doing not just to established residents but will do to the immigrants themselves as tax funded services like education, roads and infrastructure and hospitals can’t grow fast enough to meet demand.

    This is the latest item I have seen and while the personal safety concern is mentioned at least the commentator identifies that yes, he himself an Indian immigrant, can see there are problems with the immigration process that need addressing.

    Quite a few in our circle of friends and acquaintances have commented on the sudden increase in our local Indian community hence the Indian ex-pats speaking up as they seem to think it is all directed at them. This victim/target mentality can’t think past the “racist” mantra, so the circle is complete.

    Might be of interest for those of this mindset (including non-Indians) to step back and look at the situation in India since Modi came to power with AI providing the following:

    Hindu nationalism, once considered a fringe ideology in India, has become mainstream over the past decade, largely due to the political career and leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    Under Modi’s leadership, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promoted a vision of India as an ethnic democracy, where the Hindu majority is equated with the nation, while religious minorities such as Muslims and Christians are increasingly relegated to second-class status.

    Get that India….

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “UK Censorship: 4chan “up yours” and Wiki folds”

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/uk-censorship-4chan-up-yours-and-wiki-folds/

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    el+gordo

    ‘Say no to AUKUS Beijing tells Canberra.

    ‘Beijing has seized on the rift between the Albanese government and Washington over defence spending to argue Australia should follow Paul Keating’s counsel and reject the pact.’ (Oz)

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Europe Is Toast – Ukraine is Burnt Toast – US is Out”

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/europe-is-toast-ukraine-is-burnt-toast-us-is-out/#respond

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    Hanrahan

    There are some here who enjoy rubbishing the F-35, saying it is hopeless.

    This vid is pretty short but explains the advantage of stealthy aircraft and the F-35 is the only stealth aircraft in wide squadron service around the world. BTW, it is better than the F-117.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcd2xmsG5wc

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