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At last Someone is doing Something about Net Zero at the political level
A message from Advance Australia:
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If only the Libs at a National level would get on board. Then the Libs/Nats could really start to become a force once again.
Until then, they are rudderless.
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I think the Libs are beyond repair.
I think One Nation, Libertarian Party and some other conservative-oriented parties should be supported.
Why keep voting for the fake conservative Liberals when they have consistently proven they are dominated by the far Left “moderate” faction who are more Labor than Labor and are unelectable? Susssssan Ley supports Net Zero, at least won’t speak out against it, and Battin, Victoriastan “leader” supports Dan Andrews.
And the Liberal Party believes in absolutely nothing and is driven solely by opinion polls. No one wants a party that has no beliefs.
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But there are some very good people in the Party, Andrew Hastie, Jacinta Nampajinpa-Price and Alex Antic to namme a few. We just need them to rise up.
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No, we need them to get out and let it die. Any good people like that would be far more effective in the currently minor Conservative parties. Look upon the Liberals as a branch of Labor, like Labor is a branch of the Greens.
If the small Conservative parties start getting serious votes I’d expect to see Labor and the Liberals merge to defeat them. They’ll re-invent themselves as something like “Australian Progressives” or similar.
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Andrew Hastie has all the necessary qualifications to be the next PM.
Over the years he has consistently argued that the IPCC is flawed science. So we should support him and remove Ley.
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He has charismatic qualities and I totally support his sentiment.
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-forces-make-australia-a-chinese-target-hastie-20250626-p5mag6
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“, we need them to get out and let it die.”
I think that you are right ; it is not possible to reform the Uniparty beast in OZ and NZ.
There will be defections to NZFirst, but ACT is hopelessly compromised , having called for forcible gene “therapy” for dissenters.
NZ needs to dispense with both National and Labour.
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The Nats are on board.
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Too right!!!
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Thanks Peter for what has obviously been a solid move in the right direction.
Since joining this blog, maybe fourteen years ago, it has been a challenge to face the daily onslaught of the so called Environment Movement and it’s lack of honesty and integrity. Paradoxically they have shown complete disregard for the “environment” here in Novocastria, and cannot see that the so called “science” that they have been fed is absolute rubbish.
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An earlier illustration of how difficult it is to discuss “the science”.
https://joannenova.com.au/2020/03/wikipedia-deletes-the-list-of-scientists-who-are-skeptics-of-the-sacred-consensus/#comment-2286644
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I ignore Wikipedia’s frequent requests for a donation. There would have to be an honest apology for the deliberate nasty characterization of all aspects of the “non-consensus” global warming message and messengers. They would have to make a massive effort to expunge all the stuff like this:
Jo Nova ” (she) is prominent for promoting climate change denial.” . . . “… rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and promotes various falsehoods about climate change.”
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FWIW – biter bit
“Comer and Mace Investigate Efforts to Manipulate Information on Wikipedia”
“WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) are investigating organized efforts, undertaken in violation of Wikipedia platform rules, to influence U.S. public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles. In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana Iskander, Chairman Comer and Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace request documents and information related to actions by Wikipedia volunteer editors caught violating platform policies, as well as Iskander’s efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into sensitive topics. ”
More at
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-and-mace-investigate-efforts-to-manipulate-information-on-wikipedia/
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For old times sake
“Pointman’s: The scorning of William Connolley”
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/the-scorning-of-william-connolley/
Via https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/30/pointmans-the-scorning-of-william-connolley/
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Most people go to a Wikipedia page as it is one of the first results that appears when making an inquiry on a general topic via their search engine of choice. What they don’t realise is that Wikipedia omits topics, presumably because some entity has paid them or asked them to make the omission. For example, there is no page for the APOC programme (African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control). For those unfamiliar it, this link gives a brief summary:
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-details/GHO/ntd-onchocerciasis
Presumably Wikipedia has opted not to feature a page on APOC because it indicates that over 172 million people have been successfully treated with a certain “horse dewormer”- without any notable side effects. Wikipedia deems that most B-grade celebrities in Australia are deserving of a page, but a programme that has greatly benefited millions of people seemingly is not worth a mention.
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It is like a political and religious movement created by politicians, pushed by politicians and those dependent on politicians. Plus an enormous number of climatebaggers, opportunists and department heads.
We saw it with tens of millions promoting “The Voice”, an open attack on our very Constitution and parliamentary democracy by the PM, Labor party, Greens, Teals, media, unions, department heads, councils, activists, public servants, big business, teachers, talking heads. And it showed that 2/3 of Australians thought the whole thing was complete rubbish.
There is something very wrong with representative democracy when most Australians think the idea of man made weather is absurd and a referendum on Climate Change would see it cancelled. Meanwhile seven parliaments think it is serious science and are passing endless punitive laws and creating taxes.
And even if any of it was true, why should Australians should be punished for the actions of China and forced to buy Chinese windmills and solar panels and steel to fix the pretend problem.
The only thing that makes sense is to see retired senior Australian politicians in Beijing kowtowing to their boss. I can only assume current Australian communists leaders Albanese and Wong were too busy doing Xi’s work to attend. Currently they are trying to alienate the Americans and sink AUKUS submarines and ensure Australia is helpless and broke and swamped with people who immediately demand social services and Sharia law.
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What I find disconcerting is that with every massive tax, massive spending, alignment with China, we are told we will be far better off. Economic superpower, renewables superpower, exporting power by submarine cables and as Green Hydrogen, even exporting solar panels and Green Steel to China.
We just finished a $1Billion pipeline to Gladstone which is now never going to be used. No problem. And Snowy II is over $20Billion, enough to build a new Suez canal. But Snowy II won’t be used because it doesn’t make sense. 50% of the power is used pumping water back up the hill. Except we knew that in 1950.
But we are promised our qualify of life will improve, cost of living will drop, inflation will vanish, houses will be cheaper and plentiful with full employment and productivity will soar. Except it is all lies and everyone knows it. Unemployment is down only because 80% of new jobs are government jobs as manufacturing collapses under government carbon taxes. The Labor party is simply hiring voters and importing them by the millions. Not Christians from Central America or South Africa. As socially incompatible as they can find. Three thousand innocent people from Gaza.
I imagine this is all very similar to the pitch the Reverend Jim Jones gave to all his followers who sold everything, gave him the money and followed him to Guyana to live in paradise. It didn’t last long. We wonder why so many people believed it all? I am talking about Albanese and Bowen now.
And the Iranian embassy operating criminal gangs to attack Jews in Australia is still open for business while we wait for a new laughing violent criminal to replace the old one. Mr Wong says it’s in our interest to keep the embassy in place. Again, that doesn’t make sense.
As for Nett Zero, the inventors of that absurd idea are laughing all the way to the bank. Of course it’s a lie. They are all lies.
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Stop bagging Gladstone TdeF. The Fitzroy River to Gladstone pipeline is not expected to be completed until sometime next year. Its genesis well precedes Twiggy Forrest’s failed dreams of water fractionation to create a “Hydrogen Super-Power”. The fact is that Gladstone is today a broadly based industrial centre, yet still reliant on the one source of water from the Boyne River that harks back to its pre-industrial times. Then its regional population was closer to 10,000 people cf. the last census population of c.64,000. When a population approaches this level and beyond, sensible planners get nervous about relying on just “one” source of potable water*. Hence a long held plan to ensure that Gladstone had a resilient & sustainable water supply, to support its industrial and population base, was activated. Twiggy Forrest and his “Green Hydrogen” were just an opportunistic thought bubble to enable this subsidy harvester to ply his side hustle skills – fine tuned with his ongoing bird chopper and solar panel developments via Squadron Energy.[*The need for back-up water supplies in well urbanized regions was highlighted by the panic construction of desalination plants in the capital cities earlier this century].
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Of course I’m not ‘bagging’ Gladstone. That interpretation is verballing. I didn’t know the people of Gladstone urgently needed it or that was even a consideration in the spending of such a huge amount of money.
I take your point at reliance on a single water supply, like almost all most remote centres. But $1billion for an additional fresh water supply for 45,000 people (2021 census) works out at $20,000 per person. Is that justified? And couldn’t it be done at much less cost if that’s now the sole reason? Maybe even a spare $100Million? And wouldn’t desalination have been cheaper? And is this new water supply for the people of Gladstone going to be free and is it now connected to the water supply?
And if the people of Gladstone were offered a billion dollars, you are suggesting there was nothing else they could do better with the money than build a second water supply? Finally, I hope they feel like repaying the investment then in increased water rates. Or are you pulling my leg with your faux outrage?
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Perhaps the people of Gladstone would welcome a desalination plant worked by solar energy? They wouldn’t want off-shore wind farms, would they?
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In fact a Brisbane based mob called Orchid Energy has proposed developing 2 x 3GW offshore wind farms in the Curtis Channel adjacent to Gladstone’s coastline. This was to fuel Twiggy’s now moribund green hydrogen dreams, inter alia. However, the area is not a gazetted zone for such wind plants at present. And I’m reasonably certain it will not go ahead because the proposed site is in both the GBR Marine Park and GBR designated World Heritage Area. The Feds do a lot of stupid things, but surely, they are not that dumb?
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Go Gladstone! home of th inaugural Olympic Croc Races
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If you are alluding to rowing on the Fitzroy river at the 2032 Olympics I think you are confusing Gladstone with Rockhampton?
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I always thought the pipeline to Gladstone was to convey gas????
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Few people were aware of its existence let alone purpose, which shows how we are kept in the dark. It seems a billion dollars is nothing at all to the current government. Like cool billion to be a shareholder in a fantasy Californian Quantum computer company. Even when the inventor, IBM, walked away from the technology. Parliament and so the Australian people have no idea what is happening to our taxation money, like an endless river of cash. Snowy II has gone from 2 years and $2.5Billion to ten and $25Billion. How can it possibly have a payback? Is it even worth finishing?
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Politicians make empty promises (complete lies) with no shame or consequences as those supporting and not questioning those lies are either in on the scam somehow or ignorantly captured by a completely flawed ideology.
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Good morrow fellow medical hesitants and doubters of settled science … from the past (it’s still Saturday here).
Here’s some grist for the medical hesitancy mill.
Dr. John Campbell
‘Doctor hits conference hard’
Dr. Aseem Malhotra at the Reform party conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgAi1TK99o
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We have no mechanisms to adjudicate intellectual corruption.
Its like the Church in the Middle Ages, we can only ask them to police themselves.
There will be no justice for Pandemic crimes, committed by the great Church of Science.
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Reform/Malhotra video well worth a look.
Geoff S
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Just watched it. Brillo stuff. Thanks for posting.
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Here is a video about a human-like being, a hominin side-branch, that co-existed with human ancestors 2.5 million to 1.5 million years ago.
Paranthropus.
https://youtu.be/ycfpokre0fM
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Video:
Dr John Campbell discusses a study from Italy showing how recipients of the experimental mRNA covid 19 “vaccine” are far more likely to get cancer.
I think we all know people who unexpectedly got cancer at a young age. I know two, one who trusted the Government and medical “authorities”, another a victim of compulsory “vaccination” as we had in Australia.
https://youtu.be/3dnIGqUlluc
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Note that Australia’s taxpayer funded Government propaganda unit keeps pushing stories like the following promoting a combined flu and mRNA covid jab.
One way or another, they want to get the mRNA into you.
This article was from 27th June 2025 so they have utterly ignored years worth of disasters arising from the compulsory covid 19 jabs.
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As more people “hesitate” to take flu jabs, it will be interesting to see the seasonal statistics.
Will flu infections fall or rise with the reduced uptake of mRNA vaccines?
I’ve never had a flu vaccine, can’t remember when I last had the flu, if I ever really have. Colds, yes, but flu?
My late husband used to have the flu jab through his work. Three years running he got the flu, the third time he developed pneumonia as well. When he stoped taking the flu jabs, he stopped getting sick. Funny, that.
It’s concerning the lengths to which they’re going to get this mRNA stuff into everybody, and how quickly they’re moving.
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I’m much like you Bushkid, haven’t had a bad case of flu for a couple of decades, never had a vaccine. You want to see some seasonal statistics? Check this out:
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/5beb5b51-d4d5-476d-bc29-0b205bbce9f6/aihw-phe-236_influenza_2025.pdf
The “Quick Facts” about flu vaccines listed at the top of the report are contradicted by the statistics. Flu jabs were introduced to Australia in 2010- look at sharp increase thereafter in deaths and hospitalisations for those aged 64 and older. Conversely, note that there is basically no change in the stats for those aged under 64 since flu vaccines were introduced.
You’re much better off maintaining your levels of vitamin D and taking vitamin C and zinc during flu season rather than getting a jab in my opinion.
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I beg your pardon *aged 65 and older*
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If too many people hesitate the Government will just make it compulsory just like they did the experimental covid “vaccines”, at least if people continue to remain silent.
Medical experimentation on people is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, although that is a statement of ethical principles rather than law.
If there were a war the enforcers of compulsory covid 19 “vaccination” such as politicians, senior public serpents and medical practitioners could likely be prosecuted as war criminals, as were National Socialists
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Sorry to hear of your loss. Long before OCD* commenced (Operation Covert Death) my retired mother was talked/nudged into taking a winter flu vaxxxine by her (female) doctor.
Despite surviving the not so great Depression and WWII as a child, the rigours of being a mother & housewife whilst working 2 jobs, then divorce then retirement, she rarely, if ever, fell sick (homegrown veges all the way!) until her ‘health practitioner’ convinced her, in her early 70s, to take the free annual flu shot.
Three years in-a-row she got the flu bad, the 3rd & final one taking her out (pneumonia & heart attack). Hopefully she’s resting in peace as she worked like a saint every single day of her life.
*Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (?)
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“it will be interesting to see the seasonal statistics.”
If the flu cases are up they will be screaming “GET YOUR JABS OR YOU WILL DIE, WE NEED HERD IMMUNITY”
If the flu cases are down they will be crowing “See, we told you these jabs will stop the flu virus”
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David,
Sundance – The Conservative Treehouse review of Robert F Kennedy Jr Congressional Testimony
Thoughts on Robert F Kennedy Jr Congressional Testimony
September 6, 2025 – Sundanceents
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. appeared before the Senate Finance Committee after U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez was fired and four senior officials have resigned amid growing tensions over vaccine policies and public health directives. [Full Hearing Video]
I have not commented on what happened during the hearing, nor shared the numerous confrontational segments of wide distribution, because the background context of the hearing itself is challenging to discuss in stable mindset without blowing a blood pressure cuff.
However, here goes.
Is a Bottler – as one of the few who made it though Not Covid Vaxxed – Rings True!
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Looks as though I’ll also have to give up having the tried & proven standard flu jabs!,
There’s no way I’ll ever have the mRNA poison jab or anything associated with mRNA again. Typical ALP policy making on the run. Do it quickly while nobody’s watching or thinking & to hell with whatever happens 10 minute after implementation!! 😵💫😵💫😵💫😳
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Wouldn’t have anything to do with the massive new production facility for mRNA based vaccines in Victoria?
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Experts will be baffled whem immuization rates fall off a cliff when mRNA is rolled into flu shots.
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When I heard that these ‘vaccines’ were being developed at Warp Speed with a gene therapy delivery system (new?) and then given ‘Emergency Approval’ I ran a mile.
Being retired at the time, I could avoid the Mandate(s).
So glad I did. Never got the Jabs/Boosters. Never got the ‘Bug’ as far as I know. I don’t even get the Flu. And I don’t a flu jab either. I know my own body and immune system.
Informed Consent is a mantra for me.
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FWIW – More on those “parallel headlines”
“Climate Change Group Increasingly Partnering With Mainstream Media”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/09/05/30895829climate-change-group-increasingly-partnering-with-mainstream-media/
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Ha Ha Ha, Just heard a statement on Sky news about climate change making parts of Australia “uninhabitable”. Given that about 70% of Australia is desert and technically uninhabitable by all but a few hardy souls it sort of begs the question, which parts will be uninhabitable?
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If Australia hadn’t been so fanatically committed to the anthropogenic global warming scam, the billions of dollars thrown away on windmills, solar and Big Batteries could have been used for large scale flood mitigation and irrigation to make many currently uninhabitable areas habitable.
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Maybe we should have made Israel here in the 1940s… the whole inland strip North to South, Mildura to Townsville…
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A delegation came in the late 1930s and asked for a strip of land in the Kimberley, but Australia rejected the idea.
A hundred year lease at the time would have saved the lives of millions, during and after WW2, but that is history.
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And recently Hamas / Palestinians seem to have captured the entire Sydney area, perhaps soon to be know as little Palestine?
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KP, #6.1.1.1,
____Palestine could have looked at us with pitying sorrow.
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The Israelis can green the desert so get them out here asap.
And the bring the IDF as consultants to beef up/fix our Military.
Along with getting rid of ‘Nut Zero’, we can then start cooking with gas again and become the richest Country in the World.
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Long ago;
Bob Carter quotes material from one of my great grandmother’s posts.
https://joannenova.com.au/2011/08/blockbuster-planetary-temperature-controls-co2-levels-not-humans/#comment-416601
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And further to the above post, #7, I see in Friday’s Fin Review, John Roskam reveals the untouchable Daniel Andrews was the ALP’s point man in Beijing.
The 54 year old pensioner on a tax-free early pension of $378,000 per annum is free to earn unlimited Chinese Communist cash.
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7sep25 4mins 48s
https://youtu.be/AUBn9iUnHaY
🇦🇺
Albo GOES BALLISTIC after David Pocock DROPS the DIRTY SECRET of Parliament Lobbyists live on TV
David Pocock exposes Canberra’s hidden army of lobbyists LIVE on TV.
Former MPs, secret passes, and tens of millions spent behind closed doors — Australians are being kept in the dark while the political elite play their game. The full scandal is just beginning…
FULL SPEECH HERE
14mins 56s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPG9jb1Jdg
Senator David Pocock – Introduction of Lobbying (Improving Government Honesty and Trust) Bill 2025
🇦🇺
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There is an Australian YouTube channel called Primitive Technology.
He is gradually progressing through the last 10,000 years of civilisational development by making things from the land. He is now approaching the Iron Age. There appears to be no copper or tin deposits on his land so he skips the Copper and Bronze Ages but he has already passed or is passing the Stone Age.
John, the channel owner, has some jungle land in North Queensland and he uses no modern tools whatsoever, only ones he makes. Everything you see in his videos he has made from things from the land.
In the following video he is attempting to smelt iron and builds a furnaces. The iron comes from natural seeps.
He needs to refine the furnace, perhaps by different design of the furnace tuyeres but he is on the right track.
In previous videos he has managed to produce iron pills in another furnace.
He has already made fired bricks and pottery and many other items.
Once he masters the making of iron that will dramatically expand the types of tools he can make.
A highly recommended channel.
https://youtu.be/XD4jvdjAMA8
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That should be iron prills, not pills, an unauthorised spelling “correction”.
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Perhaps he was suffering from low iron?
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The aspect of invention which is missing from a solo operator/inventor/technology historian is the impact of growing population. Good ideas occur rarely. He knows what will work and not work and is just discovering the detail. Ideas though happen at many places at the same time and there is exponential growth in knowledge. Huygens invented the telescope in Holland or was close to the invention. Galileo read about it far away in Italy where words moved slowly but ideas moved quickly. He built his own telescope and observed sunspots and the fact that the sun rotated, which was enough to get him locked up for life. But others took the idea and ran with it. The Monk Copernicus would not publish his ideas in his lifetime, because they were heretical. Even Darwin was afraid to publish his conclusions.
At the moment the explosion of ideas is unstoppable. It is feeding on itself with vast educated populations. In a century we have gone a time when it was argued six computers would do for the planet to one where everything has a computer, GPS, clock, incredibly high speed communications, who needs books and paper? Alexander Graham Bell would have been amazed that telephones are rarely used for telephone calls compared to other endless applications. The connection of the telephone to the internet to the computer is causing an explosion. And Elon Musk has envisaged a world wide internet system with currently over 12,000 fast bidirectional satellites. He is looking for a trillion dollar pay day. What would anyone do with a Trillion $ in cash? I am sure he has plans.
We have left the iron age very far behind. And with incredible speed and increasing acceleration as ideas compound. It’s been a very exciting few years. Unfortunately there is a lot of the world still stuck in the 6th century, the Dark Ages.
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Presumably the iron is of bacterial origin whereby certain bacteria such as Thiobacillus ferroxidans derive energy from the oxidation of dissolved iron hence its application in biomining to extract low grade ores.
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DM,
We miners were fiddling with ferrooxidans in the 1970s. We saw theoretical but not practical applications. Geoff S
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I hope he’s teaching the local indiginees…
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Hmmm. There will be conclusions made, no doubt, in respect to the failure of the Aboriginal inhabitants to do likewise. Nevertheless, it can be argued that “John” has the advantage of knowledge, at least, of the technology in order to apply it.
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He knows what works and what doesn’t. Like which plants are poisonous. Mushrooms for example. It takes a long time for any people to work that one out by trial and error.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Thoughts on Robert F Kennedy Jr Congressional Testimony
September 6, 2025 | Sundance | 55 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/06/thoughts-on-robert-f-kennedy-jr-congressional-testimony/#more-275748
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It was more like an inquisition against RFK Jr wasn’t it?
And as bad as the covid response was in the US and elsewhere, it was Australia that suffered the most extreme, fanatical, WEF and WHO-following response with the world’s most extreme and extended covid lockups and associated penalties for breaches.
Disappointingly, that proved that the Government is willing, able and keen to impose a total police state at will with essentially no political or other opposition. It also demonstrated that freedom in Australia, what limited freedom we have left as it is being systematically renoved daily, is an illusion.
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Actually, if Australia is unfortunate enough to win the hosting of the next COPS we will be drowned in Green slime about global warming and our CO2. It will not only cost us millions of dollars to have these parasites parade around the place, disrupt whatever city is stupid enough to put it on, but it will also raise the tempo of the propaganda we are forced to live under now.
SMH running a major article on it, a load of emotive crap about a poor women who runs a station out past Longreach and is telling heart-rending tales about the drought caused by burning coal… Any sane person would realise drought is normal for there, and any years when grass grows are unusual..
“Speaking at a Farmers for Climate Action conference in Canberra last week, Brown said her sense was that brutally hot days, the ones that kill off the grasses she has restored with new regenerative practices, were coming more regularly than ever before.
Also addressing the conference was Professor Mark Howden, director of the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University, who also serves as a vice chair of the UN’s chief climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
Not much chance of any sanity there!
“Given the world’s so-called “carbon budget”, the amount of carbon dioxide we can emit into the atmosphere that is consistent with any given temperature, we have about three years left to halt our emissions before the 1.5 degree increase becomes locked in. “We have to go cold turkey,” he told the audience…The science and the policy are now linked. ”
The new misinformation is in the extremes now, no longer the average. So they can grab a 2minute spike in temperature and blame that for anything they like.
“So those extremes are changing incredibly quickly, and those extremes are in many times what actually matters to agriculture. That’s when it hits your crops hard, when it hits your grapevines hard, when it hits your animals hard.”
..and Bowen is not hitting us hard enough apparently-
“Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who later addressed the conference, and whose department has faced criticism for not releasing a far more comprehensive outline on the threat Australia faces.”
“Labor government, have been seeking to secure hosting rights for next year’s UN COP climate talks.”
Of course there are even more people hanging onto the gravy train, the Firies and SES mob who, like any organisation, turn into a self-generating bureaucracy when they grow too big.
“Former Fire and Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins, now an advocate for climate change action and a founding member of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, …”In terms of emergency services, there’s no way in the world they could cope. When I say cope, I mean, be able to actually beat bushfires and save people from floods.””
““To be honest, I want to see a target of at least 85 per cent…“It’s going to be uncomfortable, but if we don’t, we’re dooming our kids and our grandkids.””
Hopefully Turkey will win the bid to host the mess, otherwise, as the article says..
“It’s a horror show.”
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/jody-fought-drought-for-20-years-and-now-her-worst-fears-are-confirmed-20250902-p5mru9.html
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“Speaking at a Farmers for Climate Action conference in Canberra last week, Brown said her sense was that brutally hot days, the ones that kill off the grasses she has restored with new regenerative practices, were coming more regularly than ever before.”
And yet just a Quick Look at a couple of unknown poets, Banjo Patterson, I think from Mulga Bill, ” When kangaroos by the thousands starve, its hard on the travelling sheep”
And of course Lawsons “The Fire at Ross’s Farm. “One summer time when months of drought hard parched the western creeks, The bushfire started in the north and travelled south for weeks”
Not true of course just made up stuff by a couple of old white men to frighten the children
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Given that Australia is one of the most Leftist-indoctrinated and dumbed-down populations on the planet (present company excepted), with a genuine communist PM and an uncritical media and academia, and with massive subsidies being harvested by the Elites of Big Green, Australia is an ideal place to host the next COP 31 conference after Brazil.
Adelaide is the proposed location, land of Big Wind and blowing up working power stations for public entertainment.
What other country has so fully destroyed its energy supply as Australia has? It’s former low cost was a major competitive advantage for Australia. I can think of no other. And the Government has not yet finished dismantling our energy supply. Plus the “Opposition” Liberal Party doesn’t have a clue either.
For COP 30 in Belém they bulldozed an access road throughout virgin rainforest.
I wonder what environmental atrocity they’ll commit for COP 31?
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Well! Adelaide.. Supposing a few giant pylons “came down unexpectedly” in that week and SA was cut off from bludging power from Vic.. They could all live on just solar and wind and batteries for two weeks!
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It should be mandatory for these climate jokefests to set up in whichever country they are held, a temporary campsite in the most remote location possible. This camp to be completely cut off from all reliable power sources and run solely on sunbeams and breezes to prove their point that this is the only way to preserve the planet. This would totally expose the futility of their ambitions for all the world to see, as the telecast went dark five minutes in.
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I would argue that Germany, UK and Spain have all had a fair crack at self destruction. However they have the luxury of interconnects to other countries, most noticeably nuclear France which they are clustered around.
When we go stupid, its all on us.
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The main worry with Adelaide getting the right to host COP OUT 31 is that Big Wind Bowen will want to ramp up efforts to attain net zero in order to impress all the attendees, bringing us closer to the brink of energy insecurity. There can be little doubt that he is more concerned with how he is perceived by his counterparts than he is with the challenge of providing adequate energy supplies for his own country.
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In Azerbaijan for COP 29 65,000 blood-sucking parasites attended.
It was 80,000 for COP 28 in Dubai.
Unknown numbers for COP 30 Brazil.
But for COP 31 in Adelaide, assuming it gets it, just think of the upside.
The Australian taxpayer won’t have to pay for hundreds of public serpents to attend often paying for business class airfares and 4/5 star accommodation.
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Just tell them to avoid school holidays or it could get a bit expensive.
50-80,000 luxury oriented vistors in one week in Adelaide? Have trouble seeing it really.
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Indeed. Where are they going to find that many luxury hotel accommodations in Adelaide plus parking for all the private jets?
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Another SMH hit-piece against the Right by a woman keen on immigration alludes to the real problem in the West but doesn’t discuss it.
“that successive Australian governments of both stripes have relied on immigration to power economic growth, while neglecting Australia’s profound productivity slump.”
Instead of saying anyone against flooding the place with gimmgrants is a NAZ1 she should have examined the economic model we use that depends on an ever-increasing population for growth. This has been noticed for all my lifetime, yet no-one in politics will discuss it. What does our economy look like with a static population size? What happens when we only need 8million pairs of shoes, year in and year out. How would you cope with the knowledge your company never needs to be bigger than the three guys you employ now?
Anyway, the usual stuff gets trotted out-
” the belief that if white Christians don’t have enough progeny, they will eventually be “replaced” by the progeny of non-whites. This paranoia was central to Nazism, ”
I did think of this line she wrote, maybe she was told to write the article and was being facetious-
“Instead, they are importing people (and their delightful children) from other countries ”
When I was reading-
“Teenager stabbed to death at Sydney train station”
“Delivery rider hospitalised following alleged stabbing ”
“Two people have been taking to hospital after a stabbing in Mount Druitt.”
“A teenage boy has been charged following an alleged stabbing in Sydney”
All different dates in the last couple of months, delightful children indeed!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/what-our-politicians-won-t-admit-about-immigration-20250905-p5msq1.html
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Patrick Commins reckons we aren’t taking in more immigrants, its just that they came in a rush after Covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/07/those-angry-about-migration-figures-are-ignoring-what-happened-in-australia-during-covid-and-other-key-facts
Also the property market was hot during Covid, can’t blame house shortage on new immigrants.
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Pfft! The housing shortage is purely Govt policy but as usual they lie about it.
Just burn all the regulations pertaining to houses and let people live in shacks, you’d find the immigrants who came from living in shacks would soon teach the locals.
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Immigrants are different to asylum seekers, there is strict criteria on new immigrants and they won’t come from the slums.
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2 barely teenagers stabbed to death in Melb suburbs this morning
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One was only 12 years old, a truly heinous crime against innocent youth. Actually its barbaric, I propose that all young men from a South Sudanese background be sent back home or join the Australian Defence Force.
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You can get them out of Sudan, but you can’t get the Sudan out of them…
The Army has always been a tricky question- on one hand they say they don’t want to be a babysitter for Govt failures, and there’s also the problem of arming and training your most likely criminals and terrorists.
Just stopping all non-Western immigration until it gets sorted out would be a good idea. It seems Enoch Powell knew what he was talking about after all… I’m amused over the trouble attached to the Chinese and Indians in all this, they are the most trouble-free of all the recent lot coming in.
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Biding thier time?
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One of the many reasons Australia is in such a mess is that most politicians and senior public serpents have never had proper jobs. They have been parasites their entire lives.
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Their IQ is Net Zero.
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They are career politicians, a breed apart, and their servants keep everything rolling along.
America has a similar setup, except that we don’t sack them when a new administration takes power. Looks like a Democratic victory in the big apple.
‘Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral frontrunner and Democratic nominee, joined the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in a rousing town hall in Brooklyn on Saturday evening where the two addressed the growing threat of oligarchic control across the US and how to fight it.’ (Guardian)
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One problem is the notion of ‘proper jobs’
Lots of people used to be mostly autonomous farmers and craftsmen.
Methinks the Industrial Revolution and post world war recovery created the idea of ‘proper jobs’.
I think a lot of young people are beginning to wonder ‘where and what is a proper job and how do I find one?’
Government bureaucracy to some extent is becoming the the last bastion of ‘proper jobs’.
Law began to mandate what most had to self insure through self preparation and familial and local social networking.
Honestly, I think for example here in America, when government became the protector and champion of former slaves, it sent their communities into decline.
Harlem was once one of the most vibrant subcultures in history.
Then I think Pandemic may have broken the many decades long public confidence in government as ‘protector’.
Exposing that it has been undermined by elite corruption.
As per historical norm.
We’re looking at a long and tumultuous new Reformation on REDs (Reformation Enhancing Drugs).
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the notion of ‘proper jobs’
Creating (computer) systems to ensure that the firm’s business processes and financial reporting satisfies all the new government rules, regulations and laws.
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FWIW – from way back when –
Pointman “Forcing the annihilation of the Ukraine.”
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/forcing-the-annihilation-of-the-ukraine/
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America still hasn’t learnt this-
“You’ve become irrelevant and lost that vital option of being able to turn the war off – from now on, that can only be done by your enemy in their own time and most probably on their own terms.”
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MORNING GRIDWATCH SUNDAY 7 SEPT
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 39% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 13% IN THE WEST
BEWARE If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
6 PM WIND 7% SOLAR 14% HOT DINNER THIS EVENING?
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
12.40 AM WIND 89% SOLAR 0%
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But… but… it’s working! Perth, WA, home of our hardworking host, is the coldest state capital in all of Australistan today with a max of 17°C (colder than Hobart or Melb even) while Darwin up north is TWICE as warm on 34° … thanks to all those dust-covered solar panels saving the planet on the outskirts?
Beware Melburnians ⚠️ the coldwave is heading your way with a midweek max of 12°C – don’t put yer skis and thermals away just yet ❄️
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China produces at least 35% of all anthropogenic CO2 emissions as of 2023* (but I suspect the real figure is probably much higher, I have seen 50%). It is by far the largest emitter of any country, more than twice the United States.
Of course, that isn’t a problem.
But the Official Narrative says it is.
So if it truly were a problem, why does China, an advanced military, nuclear, space, industrial and AI power, get exempted from CO2 emissions bans but the woke West (especially fanatically woke WEF and UN following countries like Australia) have to destroy their economies by shutting down their energy supplies? (US under TRUMP excepted.)
Can the usual Leftist apologists please explain?
* https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2023/the-changing-landscape-of-global-emissions
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How is it morally correct that Albanese 1) appointed a personal friend of his as Governor General and 2) gave her a 43% pay rise?
And the Liberals were silent.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/concerns-raised-over-incoming-governorgeneral-sam-mostyns-close-personal-relationship-with-anthony-albanese/news-story/d6af7ed812829196c1e44fe01e4aa121
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Well you wouldn’t appoint someone who might collapse your Govt, they have at least learned that lesson!
…and of course the faintly non-Communist branch of the Govt wouldn’t complain about the salary, its not their money and they’re all wishing they might get it in the future!
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A day fishing out on a corrugated roof
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t2675m0BOd1z23obp.mp4
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Nice AI simulation.
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Who do you think you’re dealing with?
As if I wouldn’t know. 😉
It’s the Quintang River in Hangzhou China.
Also featured on a number of channels on X and youtube.
I have a longer panoramic video of it too.
Since you’re probably still a skeptic:
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2025/08/math-matrix-tides.html
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Ok. Point taken. I had seen videos before but none that seemed so AI-like.
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I still think it is, even if the phenomenon is real. The attitude of the occupants is fixed relative to the boat. People naturally rock backwards and forwards, keeping their vision horizontal. It’s a big physical effort to keep your c.of.g constant relative to the boat. Rigid arms for example. Heads always rock regardless while maintaining a fixed horizon.
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Brazilians call theirs ‘pororoca’, the river wave: there’s lots of videos of surfers riding the beast, as well as the Severn in the UK and another in France.
We have standing waves on certain rivers, stationary pressure waves above rocks/rapids, of which I’ve surfed the Kawarau and Buller … ice cold even in a wetsuit in summer but CLEAN CLEAR FRESH water – unlike Ch!na – and no piranha nor alligators yet you may luck out & find a nugget or two [Au] the old goldminers missed or left behind.
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Wow, he actually went full dont you know who I am. Well, in reality no, and likely as fallible as any of us
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The Big Roar / Pororoca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6N1436lnk
[9 min] surfing the Amazon River, aided by LOTS of modern hydrocarbon technology & attitude and only once in a blue moon.
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Starting December 2025, Australians will be required to upload multiple forms of ID, including your Passport or Driver’s License, just to use social media.
Who greased that slippery slope?
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I don’t disbelieve that but do you have a link?
And what social media platforms will require this?
And what about sites like this one?
Or a site you might only visit once for a few minutes to look up something? If that’s the case people won’t bother.
Also, you need Google to access a whole range of social media and Android phone services. How will that work?
And who will trust strangers with these important identity documents?
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Also, apparently YouTube is included in the social media ban. It’s the source of a lot of useful educational content.
Now the social media ban applies to under 16’s and apparently YouTube Kids is exempted but I would say there is plenty of suitable educational content for under 16’s which is on YouTube but not the kid’s version.
Why haven’t the Liberals opposed this? Because the idea of Internet censorship came from them in the first place. And Liberals also supported the social media ban for under 16’s, it was a Uniparty decision.
And as usual, no evidence of harm was supplied of harm to under 16’s from social media.
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I think age verification for every site you might want to visit will make using the Internet impossible. And no doubt the number of sites that these restrictions apply to will expand with time.
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Not so, or even close.
One can use a VPN routing through any country not using age verification, and that’s a lot, tens of thousands of servers in hundreds of countries.
Uploading ID and photo/video scans are harder to bypass, although bypass isn’t the word, but if one has sufficient tech skills, they can be effectively negated quite easily.
Obviously and as per usual the techno-wallies in government haven’t got a clue of the real world…
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I have seen VPNs discussed as a bypass method.
It’s said that ISP’s or Government can block their use or make such use illegal.
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We may be at the beginning of a long measure/counter measure struggle.
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I would expect them to work it at your local ISP level, so currently you go to your ISP server which passes your request along and then passes the website back to you to view. All they have to do is have the ISP check the website you requested and then ask you for age verification.
The only way not to use an Australian ISP would be to use satellite directly.
All they want is a photo of you attached to your internet address, your phone number and your house address. This is a clever way to do it, and I expect the facial recognition people are drooling over it. Walk down the street and they know who you are and where you are.
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If you have a passport, they already have a biometric photograph. You see the effect when passing through an airport automatic passport scanner. For your convenience, naturally. Your driver’s licence photo is also crossmatched with cctv imaging. Welcome to 1984. Don’t make waves.
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“And no doubt the number of sites that these restrictions apply to will expand with time.”
Absolutely no doubt about that!
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“Who greased that slippery slope?”
Albo, doing what he is told-
That American woman who worked for the CIA… Can you imagine a more obvious plant?
No wait.. She didn’t WORK for the CIA, they approached her to work for them, but she wasn’t on their employee list that the public see…
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An unforeseen problem for the Left is that they want to decrease the voting age to 16 to entrench themselves forever as young and naive children will likely vote Labor.
As social media advertising is a major form of political advertising they won’t have that platform to influence the young and naive.
So how will they get their message out?
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Don’t use so called Soshial Media. It’s gossip.
End of story.
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Trump’s climate policy condemns Green Tech to financial oblivion
“The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter.”
“For more than a decade, renewable developers needed to show only that they’d spent 5% of the total cost of the construction to qualify in a given tax year. Once the new rules kick in next month, almost all new projects will need to actually begin physical construction to be eligible.”
It’s an outrage! Physical construction? What’s wrong with the rhetorical kind… other than the admitted difficulty of powering anything except your bank account with it? Including that if subsidies are wound down, people rush to grab them before they’re gone, showing those with eyes to see that they were distorting investment decisions.
https://principia-scientific.com/trumps-climate-policy-condemns-green-tech-to-financial-oblivion/
Bye bye subsidies, bye bye renewables.
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Australians don’t seem to understand that “The Government” simply can’t solve all your problems, despite it bring expected to.
Sometimes you have to take responsibility for yourself and supervise and guide your children. And care for those in need of care or charity.
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Australia contemplates joining BRICS, presumably after Putin and Xi have departed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDsF-iSoTw
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Why would Australia wait?
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If its in our national interest we should move quickly now that the dictatorship in Beijing has been pushed aside.
Donnie won’t like this, it’ll shuttle AUKUS.
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This guy does a reasonable Trump :-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/alGAk-bL_3g
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This is getting serial . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i2WojFLOesc
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They were terrific, thanks.
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FWIW – for the covid record
“President Trump is right to demand proof of the safety and efficacy of covid vaccines”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/president-trump-is-right-to-demand-proof-of-the-safety-and-efficacy-of-covid-vaccines/
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MORNING GRIDWATCH SUNDAY 7 SEPT
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 39% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 13% IN THE WEST
BEWARE If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
6 PM WIND 7% SOLAR 14% HOT DINNER THIS EVENING?
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
12.40 AM WIND 89% SOLAR 0%
EVENING GRIDWATCH SUNDAY 7 SEPT
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 29% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 17% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
5.40 AM WIND 6% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
11.50 AM WIND 53% SOLAR 19%
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I remember that Trump was the guy in a hurry to rush them out to begin with.
Starting out with, “Looking like I was wrong,” would be an excellent first step … then after that by all means talk about demands.
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dang … failed attempt to answer #24 above.
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Well waddyano, Trump is imperfect. He believed what he was told. Time to stop tossing out the good in search of the perfect. “We” tossed out Abbott.
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Maybe there is hope for Australia?? People need to support farmers more though.
https://ipa.org.au/research/australias-prosperity/ipa-poll-attitude-towards-rural-and-regional-australia-august-2025
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