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BREAKING: World’s First International Governing Body and Judicial Authority Declares mRNA Injections Biological and Technological Weapons of Mass Destruction: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-worlds-first-international
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When the instigators of the covid crimes start to be put in jail, I’ll believe this is an effective declaration.
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And what will the UN and the WHO in particular do now? Ignore it would be my guess.
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Maybe a petition?
/lol
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“And what will the UN and the WHO in particular do now? The UN probably will ake a leaf out of Monty Python’s Holy Grail and state “we already got one”
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Actually “The world’s first international governing body and judicial authority was the United Nations (UN), established in 1945,” It seems the body which you state is World’s First International Governing Body and Judicial Authority is some 80 years younger
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Whilst investigation a possible phishing scam I came across this interesting site
https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/global-data-breaches-and-cyber-attacks-in-august-2025-over-17-3-million-records-exposed
Its headline is that worldwide some 17.3 million cases of data hacking-companies and individuals- were notified. Bearing in mind that many will never be known it is clear there is an epidemic of hacking and data theft. The site can examine each moth to discover the number of data breaches.
The internet is a wildly unsafe place. Add in phone theft and hacking and the digital world perhaps needs reining in. Quite apart from the fact that most things worked much better before the digital revolution. Digital i.d, banking and medical records anyone?
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So, get out of internet banking/credit cards and use cash.. They hacked my telecom account! -So what..They hacked my health records! -So what.. They hacked my name and address records! -so what..
Its a convenience problem, people don’t want to live without the convenience of the digital age, while they should keep finance right away from it. Of course that would crash the world’s debt levels and our masters would not be pleased! They are happy to spend more of our money failing to solve the problem while using it as an excuse for tighter controls on our freedoms.
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…and today’s freebie is..
Cybersecurity for dummies, 3rd ed. 2025
Available for free on bleepincomputer, but with a signup, which of course no-one wants to do.
https://ufile.io/m9kuyswx
PDF, 580 pages.
Yes, it’s a download link, but it’s safe, ok!!
Some people definitely need to read the book. 😆
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I am reminded that Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize within 9 days of becoming President for doing precisely nothing.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/10/10/donald-trump-snubbed-for-nobel-peace-prize-despite-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east/
Lets hope the cease fire holds for everyone’s sake and then Trump is sure to get it in 2026. (provided he changes his name)
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for work done in the year preceding the award. For example, the 2025 prize recognizes contributions made in 2024.
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Yeah, the whining about Trump not winning it is premature and born of ignorance.
That said, if he doesn’t win it in 2026 it will be a travesty. Even before he negotiated the cease fire between Israel and Hamas, he had already had a hand in SEVEN other peace deals. He’s averaging about one per month, and truly has established himself as a ‘peace President’.
It’s also no coincidence that both major conflicts he is still working on (Israel-Hamas, Russia-Ukraine) kicked off during the four years he was out of office. The Biden administration was a Potemkin presidency where a ‘politburo’ of close advisors were running the country and controlling the autopen while Biden took naps on the beach. But when it came to foreign policy, they were completely feckless because foreign leaders expect to meet and negotiate with their elected counterparts, not with some bureaucrat, and Biden wasn’t up to the job. So American diplomacy went on hiatus for those four years, during which time Putin jumped at the chance to invade Ukraine and Hamas started a war with Israel. We’re just lucky that China missed it’s chance to invade Taiwan. Peace through strength is a proven strategy to avoid wars, dating back to the Pax Romana. Unfortunately, America was as weak as a kitten during the Biden presidency, and that weakness was like a permission slip for bad actors to do bad things.
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I haven’t heard a lot of whining on Trump’s behalf. What there is is being drowned out by leftists cheering a minor win, or what they perceive as a win.
I am happy for the lady who won. I have yet to read up on her achievements but assume they are substantial and it looks as if she could put the prize money to good use.
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DJT didn’t stand a chance against this formidable competition opposition
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Committee Members: The five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who selected the winner are:
Jørgen Watne Frydnes (Chair), a human rights advocate and former secretary-general of PEN Norway
Asle Toje (Vice Chair), a foreign policy analyst and former research director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute
Anne Enger, a former leader of Norway’s Center Party and county governor of Ostfold
Kristin Clemet, a former education minister and member of Norway’s Conservative Party
Gry Larsen, a former Labour Party state secretary and head of CARE Norway
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What did Obama do in 2007 to merit receiving the prize early in 2008?
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Obama ran for Presidential Office, whilst being black…
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It was granted for his pledge to disarm the world of nuclear weapons.A pledge he never entered into.
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The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize had this to say:
She also rang Trump to advise him she would dedicate the award to him. I think that is actually better than him getting the prize in his name.
Trump probably already deserves his own unique award. He is a leader of unparalleled influence globally. But the award should wait until he is in wind down mode and can reflect on his accomplishments. The greatest would be burying the climate hoax if he manages that. Putin and Ukraine are still at it despite Trump’s efforts. But Putin did admit that Russia shot down a civilian airliner. That is a big step for him. Maybe Trump could be awarded all the Nobel prizes. He is making staggering contributions in medicine, physics and mathematics as well as his peace initiatives.
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Who cares if Trump gets a now worthless and fully degraded award? I’m more inclined to think he would have the sense to refuse such a tainted and politicised trinket.
Rather like Australian of the Year has become these days.
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Biden era ‘spying’ to take down Trump a worse scandal than Watergate?
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/icymi-grassley-oversight-of-arctic-frost-yields-ongoing-results-and-draws-national-attention
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The Obama spying attempt to take down Trump was far worse than Watergate.
At worst Nixon helped the deep state coverup a bungled intel op …
Obama, VP Biden and Comey knowingly entered into a criminal conspiracy to spy on an opponent’s political campaign and through their proxies lied to the courts to do so.
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Fully woke Canada, under Mark Carnage wants to be an “AI superpower” but you can’t do that on wind, solar or unicorn flatulence. Just like Australia (or any country) can’t maintain any form of industry on the same. It’s simply not possible with expensive and unreliable “renewables”. Fact.
AI is like aluminium smelting, which Australia can’t maintain either without massive subsidies. It needs huge amounts of inexpensive and reliable coal, gas, nuclear or hydro power.
So it’s no surprise that of all places in the United States both Gulag and Elon Musk have decided to set up AI data centres in Arkansas (West Memphis) and Tennessee (Memphis), US. The distinguishing feature is that both Arkansas and Tennessee are mostly devoid of woke electricity like wind and solar and have cheap power from the mix I have shown. They are neighbours separated by the Mississippi River.
Doesn’t Albanese tell us Australia is going to be a “renewable energy superpower”? Only a stupid power to showcase our stupidity to the world. The deliberate economic destruction of an entire country with the full approval of all major parties. Wind and solar mean economic destruction, as is the plan.
My friend in Arkansas, who is a refugee from Canada, emailed me this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Arkansas?wprov=sfla1
Natural gas: 22,832 (38.3%)
Coal: 15,660 (26.3%)
Nuclear: 14,763 (24.8%)
Hydroelectric:[a] 3,329 (5.58%)
Solar: 2,200 (3.69%)
Biomass: 814 (1.37%)
Petroleum: 35 (0.06%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Tennessee?wprov=sfla1
Nuclear (47.8%)
Coal (19.9%)
Natural gas (19.3%)
Hydroelectric (11.0%)
Solar (1.20%)
Biomass (0.60%)
Petroleum (0.10%)
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Canadian leaders may talk a good game about ‘green energy’, but it’s all talk. At the end of the day, Canada has some of the cheapest electricity rates in the world (way cheaper than it’s big neighbor to the south), and it’s not because of green energy. It’s because Canada is blessed with fantastic water resources and invested heavily in hydroelectric in the 19th and 20th century and are still reaping the rewards today.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country
Canada: $0.13/KWh
United States: $0.18/KWh
New Zealand: $0.22/KWh
Australia: $0.27/KWh
United Kingdom: $0.37/KWh
Canada is going to do quite well in the AI sweepstakes. Not only do they have dirt cheap energy, but they also have a frigid environment which greatly reduces the amount of energy needed to reduce heat in data centers. If the AC breaks down, they can just open a window.
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Canada is also good at developing nuclear. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the South Korean nuclear plants that they sell to locations such as Barakah originated in Canada.
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Yes. The CANDU reactors.
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And Mr Gates has re commissioned an extinct nuclear site at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania
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There are over 4700 data centres in the U.S., and they seem to be very busy building more.
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Graeme,
Who, in a position to call the shots, has done a study of the benefits of big money spent on data centres for social media gossip versus spending it on medical research and improved health?
Perhaps we will shortly be in an historical era when military spending suddenly gets lots smaller, thank you Donald Trump et al, and that creates more for medical.
Geoff S
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I keep claiming that AI cannot generate original thought, and still believe that this is correct. If it is, then what will happen to original thinkers, the folks we need to keep improve our world? The Einsteins, Barry Marshalls, etc.
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It’s my view that original, creative thinkers will continue to produce amazing research and technological advances.
And, this will happen far more efficiently and quickly than in the past, as access to pure research becomes available faster, more cheaply and more comprehensively. Trawling through hard-copy journals is a dead-weight on speed.
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I dunno
I think AI ‘hallucinations’ may qualify as original thought, when they just invent crap out of thin air.
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After a bit of research from a link posted on one of Jo’s pages, I found a bit of interesting things.
Just wait ’til you see what REAL AI is going to do for medical treatments?
It all depends on learning how to ask the leading questions.
Applies to search engines as well.
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An AI system didn’t just design a new drug for pulmonary fibrosis; it first figured out which protein was causing the damage (TNIK), then designed a molecule to shut it down.
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idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) discovered using generative AI. IPF is an age-related progressive lung condition with no current therapies available that reverse the degenerative course of disease.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03743-2
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Despite TRUMP, there is still pockets of Leftist infestation in the United States where the Left do what the Left do, including the purging and/or rewriting of history.
The most recent example is in Jacksonville Florida where a statue commemorating Confederate women waa removed, a statue of a woman reading to her children.
Matt Walsh discusses: https://youtu.be/b_GaDI0lrig
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Deadly grid battery fallacy exposed in Massachusetts
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/10/10/deadly-grid-battery-fallacy-exposed-in-massachusetts/
The beginning: “An alert Massachusetts watchdog group has blown the whistle on the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for issuing potentially catastrophic guidance for building grid scale battery facilities. They are specifying a standard which is only meant for small batteries making some rules deadly wrong at grid scale. Turns out this fallacy is widespread nationally making their warning that much more important.”
A national problem. Possibly global. Anybody know of a standard that specifies the proper spacing for giant batteries?
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Household batteries are already dominating in Australia. More than 1GWh installed since July 1. They are required to be mounted on an external wal or an outdoor plinth to reduce the risk of their catastrophic demise leading to a house fire.
Household batteries offer huge benefit over grid batteries. The main one is that they increase the loss of demand for grid scale wind and solar thereby making them stranded assets. Also, they do not require a block of land; individual environmental approval or individual First Nations blessing.
For Australia, the household battery uptake is occurring as the market for BEVs is declining ad most other nations do not get much value from household batteries. So China is dumping solar panels and batteries in Australia. Aldi offer a 6.6kw/20kWh solar/battery deal for AUD9,000 or just USD6,000. That size array and battery will run most Australian households most days of the year. So for USD6k Australian households can avoid ongoing costs for electrical energy.
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Standards AS 5139:2019 and AS/NZS 4509.1:2019 apply to battery installations in Australia that are greater than 24 volts and have capacities greater than 10aH. But I would be concerned that the clearances around the batteries specified in these standards are being met by all home battery installations, and that locations such as home garages are adequately ventilated as required by these standards.
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Only because of the ludicrous levels of government subsidies, just like rooftop solar.
Without those subsidies nobody in their right mind would be stumping up their own cash for them.
Meanwhile people who rent, or live in apartment buildings where they own, are subsidising the grifters while paying every higher costs themselves.
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As the Moss Landing battery fire has shown, there are additional risks with large battery facilities. These include the generation of toxic gases that impact any residents nearby and also end up in the surrounding land and waterways, causing long-term pollution.
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Here are two animated videos about El Chapo, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord responsible for directly killing thousands of people (he told authorities he had personally killed 2000) and indirectly many more.
He is warehoused in a Supermax in the US, hopefully forever, under conditions in which he can contemplate his horrific crimes and very little else, forever. His punishment is probably better than a swift demise by execution.
It was important that the US got him because Mexico was too corrupt and too incompetent to be able to keep him in jail.
https://youtu.be/ER8Lcf_vLwk
https://youtu.be/FVvQaC0dUbo
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In Once Great Britain a digital ID is being introduced which Starmer has hinted might be used to restrict access to your money. No surprise there.
The Black Belt Barrister discusses:
https://youtu.be/KwWT-St2L4M
This should be a warning for Australia because that’s what the Government wants to introduce here and Australia traditionally adopts the very worst failed ideas of others.
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And it gets even worse with China’s associated Social Credit system with 100% universal tracing and tracking of everyone.
What do you think Australian politicians are discussing on their endless visits to China?
https://youtube.com/shorts/il0bMaHh4ms
They no doubt want it for us as well. They love China’s totalitarian ways more than they love the (almost extinct, except in the US) freedom ideals of the West.
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FWIW – more Vitamin I and cancer news –
“Another ivermectin study is out, and like the long list of similar studies lately, it shows more cancer treatment potential. This one was published in July in ACS Biomaterials Science, titled, “Intranasal Delivery of Ivermectin Nanosystems as an Antitumor Agent: Focusing on Glioma Suppression.” ”
Concludes
“Here’s a question to ponder: would ivermectin have broken out of the pharma wilderness absent its high-profile role during the pandemic as a cultural and political flashpoint? Without this extraordinary exposure, efforts to study ivermectin as a cancer agent would almost certainly have remained niche— buried in the literature amid hundreds of other “drug repurposing” efforts, lacking funding, conference time, or media coverage.
Ivermectin may wind up being the greatest covid miracle of all.”
Via
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dizzying-dichotomies-saturday-october?
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Re-packaging Ivermectin into some sort of ‘new’ delivery system is probably one way to get the drug accepted by the medical establishment, because it will no doubt be patented by a pharma business, therefore profitable once again.
I fully expect that, in order for this to happen, treatment via the oral route will coincidentally be found ineffective by new ‘research’ …
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And they might make a minor adjustment to the molecular structure or crystal form to be able to claim it’s a new drug.
The did it with omeprazole, for example.
https://www.iomcworld.org/open-access/redeveloping-drugs-based-on-existing-patents-46691.html
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I arguably wouldn’t have found this blog unless it was for ivermectin. I’d never heard of the drug until early 2020. I recognised there was a strong smear campaign against it which prompted me to research it further. This line of inquiry ultimately resulted in a total change of my world view as l discovered new conduits for information outside MSM. It’s likely others had a similar experience.
As somebody who is now on the mailing list of the IMA, I think one of the few positives to come out of the pandemic is a resurgence of research into the potential benefits of repurposed drugs.
Also, I listened to Dr Aseem Malhotra talk about how Big Pharma now “tweak” drugs just before a drug’s 20 year licence expires. They give the slightly altered drug a new name and get another 20 years out of it. They won’t be repeating the mistake Merck made with letting ivermectin become available to generic manufacturers.
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It might have been Tony Abbot who proposed a copayment for GP visits with the money going to research. I was lukewarm, I thought chasing the magic bullet for cancer is better left to private enterprise but if someone proposed it again with the money to repurposing “old” drugs I’d be all for it.
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Wind Farm shut Down
Rick Will has talked about Wind Farms becoming stranded assets due to the priority accesss of roof top solar.
I probably saw an example of that yesterday. The Lal lal windfarm SE of Ballarat was not operating despite it being a windy day. I suppose the power was not needed.
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Yesterday was exceptionally gusty day – at least in my backyard. Maybe that the answer….
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Or maybe it was too windy for the white bladed sepulchers to cope with
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Midday on Saturday 12 Oct, grid wind in Vic was pumping out 1393MW. However there was 2690MW of potential wind output being curtailed. Some wind farms have deals with lunatic asylums like the ACT that have committed to buy the wind farm output irrespective of the price so they wear the cost of making up the difference when the prices are negative. That is why some wind farms keep generating when prices are negative. Prices were negative in Vic from sunup to sundown yesterday. Rooftops with batteries will gradually erode their opportunity to generate at all.
Vic Rooftops were hitting 3090MW serving 53% of the total demand at that time.
Coal was serving 1556MW of the demand so also severely curtailed from its 3500MW potential. This is the real cost of subsidies because the high standing charges of coal have to spread across reduced demand making coal unit cost much higher than it would be without all the subsidised yo-yo electricity.
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/vic1/?range=1d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
There is essential generation that needs to be available all the time and the yo-yo generators that cause the very high cost of electricity in Australia.
It is only a matter of time before the wide realisation that rooftops have won the WDG battle in Australia. Rooftops are still being installed at a great rate and batteries spread their influence throughout the day. For example, I drew 0.41kWh from the grid yesterday while exporting 2.8kWh but did not start exporting till 12:30pm. So every battery increases the generating potential of existing rooftop solar because rooftops are curtailed less often. Household battery uptake have really started to accelerate with 425MWh registered in August taking the total in the first two months of Sleezy’s OPM handout to 825MWh.
Remember the big deal over Elon’s 80MWh battery for SA about a decade back. Now 5X that is going into households every month.
The Australian grid is being democratised one rooftop and battery at a time. The punters have voted with their wallets. Turnbull’s wind fantasy is a stranded asset thanks to all the punters like me who have taken their demand away from the grid. Who could have predicted this!
Australia is transitioning to a rooftop powered, heavy industry free economy with service industry catering for Chinese industrialists holidaying in the coastal resorts and gradually taking ownership of the income producing assets.
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Rick,
While appreciating your progress reports on rooftop solar, it remains a fundamental problem that big continuous users, aluminium smelters for example, will not commit to insecure rooftop solar. Therefore, another electricity source is needed. Nuclear would be tops apart from the Jane Fonda effect on gullible minds, so next choice seems to be gas, but coal should get a leg in when the mines exist next door as in a decade or more ago.
Can we infer that you agree with this other source need
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There is no avoiding the need for essential generation in a developed economy. I am all for lignite. It costs next to nothing and really has no export market yet so its real cost is a few dollars per tonne. Why would Australia use any other source for essential electricity generation.
I am also for getting higher atmospheric levels of CO2. Apart from the rapid growth of weeds in my garden, the productivity of crops and trees are great for the human condition.
Imagine how abundant life on Earth was during the carboniferous period when CO2 level was 2000ppm. Lets try to get back closer to the level of CO2 and the abundance it brings. Think of the starving plants.
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Funny how the climate hand wringers have stopped using the “stranded asset” script for coal and gas. Its becoming increasingly clear what the energy white elephants look like.
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And we still depend on coal and gas and its still not “stranded” despite the Left’s economic war against it.
No coal. No gas. The lights go out.
(I did not include nuclear because Australians are apparently terrified of nuclear and Howard even banned it by law in 1998 with no Parliamentary debate. He made a Faustian bargain with the Greens.)
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The V8 Supercars race on in Australia today is partly used to promote woke ethanol fuels.
You can have food or fuel but not both
In Australia it is subsidised and its purchase compulsory in NSW and QLD. Fake conservative Howard introduced it along with his other mad Green policies.
Anyway, I notice they’ve reduced the ethanol content of the racing fuel from 85% to 75%.
From Gulag AI:
And the story of Howard’s ethanol:
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“E75 Racing Fuel, a lower carbon, bio-based race fuel” Sure, carbon replaced with oxygen, o it is already burned and provides less power. So lower carbons than petrol, but more than E85. Just keep adding more petrol and less alcohol and the cars will get faster!
“The fuel is designed to keep engines cleaner and extend the range of the cars,” Wow! E0 would be amazing then!
A few more billion dollars to Manildra and our pump gas can go from E10 to E30, destroying performance in millions of Australian cars. Long-tern research shows I get 5% less fuel consumption on 98octane, but it costs 10% more compared to E10.
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FWIW
“‘Go to Hell’: Hamas Spox Gets Touchy As Accountability Looms in Arab World”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/10/11/go-to-hell-hamas-spox-gets-touchy-as-accountability-looms-in-arab-world-n3807738
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“no sane person would claim that on October 7, with just a thousand or so fighters, it was possible to liberate Palestine.”
No chit Sherlock. I have never heard anyone claim that hamas are sane.
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Hamas shoots at Palestinian rioters after abducting prominent Gaza clan members – analysis
Hamas will target clans and groups that have shown opposition to the terror group – it will also target those that have worked with Israel, or who it accuses of working with Israel.
Hamas appears to be preparing to exact vengeance on those opposed to its rule in Gaza.
This will come in the form of mafia-like murders of those Hamas claims are “collaborators.” It will target clans and groups that have shown opposition to Hamas. It will also target those that have worked with Israel, or who it accuses of working with Israel.
A Telegram channel linked to Hamas said the group would target “collaborators.”
The BBC reported that Hamas has called up some 7,000 fighters to assert its control. Hamas recruited during the war even as it took losses. It may have lost many of its commanders, but it has appointed new commanders to various cells, platoons, companies, battalions and brigades.
The BBC reported that “Hamas recalls 7,000 fighters to reassert control over Gaza as fears of renewed internal violence emerge following the withdrawal of Israeli forces. The mobilisation has been widely anticipated as uncertainty grows about who will govern Gaza once the war ends – this is a key sticking point for later phases of Trump’s plan.”
Hamas has long used mafia-like gangland tactics to keep people in check in Gaza. This goes back to how the group emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hamas leaders such as Yahya Sinwar were known for brutally murdering “collaborators” back then. Sinwar is dead but his tactics live on. Hamas has lost a lot of its larger weapons but it retains AK-47s and can use them to murder people. Videos have already emerged of Hamas allegedly murdering people.
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Hamas remnants will be deported to Iran by the pan-Arab force.
‘ … when Hamas has to step aside for the proposed pan-Arab force that will take control of Gaza at the end of the ceasefire proposal.’
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https://www.abc.net.au/religion/hidden-history-british-war-crimes-palestine-campaign-for-apology/105878764
Trust The Australian Broadcasting Corporation to dig this up from their archives. Anything to throw a negative into the mix at this crucial moment in time! If it’s anti Trump all the better!
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No surprise – nothing will change their ABC. This week Insiders were dedicated to “the World and Trump’s pressure on Bibi to stop the war”.
With bated breath I expected anyone to inquire what pressure pushed Labor through the Senate meat grinder last week ? Why their time and our money were so openly wasted on that theatre?
Nonetheless, that ABC doctorate on The Main Conflict of XXI Century prompts a question – why the Jews did not join the British Commonwealth, like 56 other new-born and not that new nations did in post-colonial era?
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Israel did not become a member of the Commonwealth because when it was re-established in 1948 it was as a republic and at the time republics could not be members of the Commonwealth. Israel would have had to re-establish the monarchy which hasn’t existed since 586BCE when Israel under Zedikiah was invaded by Nebuchadnezzar and the current royal lineage is not known.
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FWIW
“Just How “Green” are Solar Farms?”
Video links at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/11/just-how-green-are-solar-farms/
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Solar factories have the same desolate ground monoculture you see in pine and bluegum plantaions. They will probably be worse due to lack of any natural material and heat.
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Not very if they are using diesel generators to bump up the output from the solar panels. Lol.
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Do solar systems in Australia add diesel generators?
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Do diesel generators add solar panels to help with the output? Lol.
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FWIW
“The scariest Halloween decorations as an adult”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1822311439522717696.jpg?w=1024
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Here’s a handy guide to help date undated maps and globes according to their use of obsolete or new country names, at least back to 1939, Siam/Thailand.
https://replogleglobes.com/app/uploads/2018/11/How-old-is-your-globe.pdf
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Maps are the original flat Earth form.
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Did you know that the Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe?
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Even in the far corners?
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God promised men that good obedient wives would be found in all four corners of the earth. And then He made the world round and laughed and laughed and laughed.
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Especially in Canberra and Melbourne.
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A very funny misnomer, David!
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Heh, I literally saw that flat earther contradiction on a t-shirt at a market this morning. They print this one too, very relevant to this age.
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/meh-good-enough-mediocrates-meh-good-enough-mediocrates.jpg
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Tweet from Ezra Levant.
It looks like we’re back to (figuratively) burning books just like when Caliph Omar (Umar ibn al-Khattab) ordered the destruction of the Library of Alexandra and said:
Some Leftist apologists (red/green alliance) for a certain demographic doubt the authenticity of that quote but see:
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=5023 .
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The great Alzheimer’s scam and the proven cures they’ve buried for billions
Alzheimer’s disease is commonly thought to result from abnormal plaque buildup in the brain that gradually destroys brain tissue. As a result, almost all Alzheimer’s research has been directed toward eliminating amyloid, even after the basis for much of this work was shown to stem from fraudulent research.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-alzheimers-scam-and-the
As per usual, a very lengthy read, and also as per usual worth it.
The group-think amyloid fan medicos scam is up!
DMSO is the proven wonder chemical now.
As every man and his dog sells it, you’ll have no trouble getting it.
And maybe stockpile some..
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Is there an executive summary explaining why amyloid plaque is harmless?
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Usually MWD summarizes the article in the leading paragraphs. Read that for a condensed version of his article.
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Dot point 1: For the umpteenth time the amyloid plaque research has been called a hoax. The plaque exists, it’s real. Please explain why researching that was a waste of time.
Dot point 3: Why no footnotes to these “numerous affordable treatments”? I have not heard of them. And don’t say Vit D.
Forget it. Substitute CC for Az and that article could be on reneweconomy, no footnotes.
You have no idea how to stop Az, let alone reverse it [dead brain cells can’t be resurrected] and you can’t explain why researching amyloid plaque was a waste of money, a fr@ud.
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There are a lot of studies associating aluminium with the onset of Alzheimers. Silica aids the body with dispelling aluminium. Water from Fiji is high in silica…alternatively one can source silica sheets and dissolve them into water to consume. I’m a casual drinker of water from Fiji.
https://acewater.my/daily-mineral-water-consumption-and-alzheimers-prevention/
Turmeric/Curcumin also demonstrates a capacity to remove aluminium from the body. Plus these compounds are anti-inflammatory. I regularly take turmeric capsules, particularly when I’ve eaten fat and pepper. The science ties in with Ayurvedic medicine. Tried and true traditionalist methods don’t need to wait for the science to catch up.
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You speak of “association”, that’s how CC worriers talk.
I eat out of the same pots as Mrs H and you infer that aluminium pots that have never been in our kitchen “might” have caused her illness. Might not have either.
STOP this crap and prove something.
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Global warming has encouraged BoM to change ENSO analysis.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/climate-change-prompts-bom-el-nino-la-nina-analysis-overhaul/105753896
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My view on AI is that man has made this thing in his own image.
Therefore, just like humans, it is not infallible and makes mistakes.
As long as you are fundamentally knowledgeable about whatever subject matter you discuss with it, and can detect mistakes, you’ll get along fine.
It is ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMENDED for young wokesters who are the product of the dumbed-down “education” system and don’t have a clue and definitely should not be used for critical scientific, medical or engineering decisions etc.. Leave critical decisions to properly educated people who understand the issues.
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So why do the masses keep voting for clowns?
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“So why do the masses keep voting for clowns?”
Giving everyone an equal vote was the first big mistake and guaranteed to destroy any democracy. A democracy would be a good idea if it was linked to an iron-clad ban on Govt giving welfare away. Let welfare be the balliwick of Churches and charities, so self-interest could not sully the voting system.
Buuut… now we have a digital society and a digital ID, let us ALL vote on every bill before Parliament, not just the parasites… I feel that should be bought up every time a parasite mention digital ID, that we can then vote on all decisions!
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‘Let welfare be the balliwick of Churches and charities, so self-interest could not sully the voting system.’
That won’t work in the modern era, government involvement is essential.
‘ … let us ALL vote on every bill before Parliament …’
Good idea, but only if its not compulsory.
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Because they have been duped by the Elites with misinformation.
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Malcolm Roberts just posted on X “The net zero acolytes are ignoring the methane cycle in order to introduce a reduction in dairy and red meat production.
I’m pleased to see Nestle no longer buy into what may be the worst junk science in the entire global warming scam – cow flatulence”. That’s more indication the tide is turning.
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Apparently, there is a Dairy Methane Action Alliance group that Nestle was once part of. Now, no more. Maybe the company had some constructive feedback on the use of Bovaer.
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FWIW
“Russia, economic stability in time of conflict w/ Rhod Mackenzie”
https://rumble.com/v705sb4-russia-economic-stability-in-time-of-conflict-w-rhod-mackenzie.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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Nice little profit!
A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.
30 minutes BEFORE Trump’s announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.
The market dumped.
The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.
There are ALWAYS people in the know, those with inside information and ahead of the game.😎
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“There are ALWAYS people in the know, those with inside information and ahead of the game.”
Of course, that’s the reason to become a politician in the first place!
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The sell off of bitcoin started at 10 AM UTC By 12 noon [2 hrs later] it had fallen $3 so if these guys made $200M they committed to buying $6B of coin. The broker would have demanded 20% or $1.5B cash or “excess liquidity” for margin.
Braver men than I am, Gunga Din.
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South Australia no longer has a duck curve. It is a yawning chasm:
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=1d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
Even exporting rooftop solar to Victoria.
Anyone who doubts that The Australian electricity grid is dead economically is delusional.
It needs major revamp of bidding to get back to being an essential service rather than the craps shoot it is now.
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I was kinda figuring ‘economic death’ was the whole point of the decarbonization thing in the first place.
Similar to ‘world health’.
Or a Nobel prize.
I just reflexively wonder who actually deserved it.
And that’s fairly easy by just observing who the media labels ‘anti-science’ or Hitler.
Or who rock stars get mad about if they were interviewed by Joe Rogan.
I never contracted any serious COVID, or got a vaccine.
In my case, Pandemic infected me with terminal cynicism.
(Not counting the Lockdown destruction of my 30 year small business and various personal relationships.)
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FWIW
“My TCW week in review: Reclaiming the moral high ground”
“WELL, it’s been a pretty bleak one. Within days we learned that the Manchester synagogue murderer was indeed a dopehead. My article published by chance on the day of the outrage proved timely. Yes, Peter Hitchens, Ross Grainger and Alex Berenson have all been proved right again on the link between cannabis psychosis and violence, a crisis the authorities continue to ignore, pretending that terrorism is ideological alone. ”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-tcw-week-in-review-reclaiming-the-moral-high-ground/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-12&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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And the “My article” above
“Marijuana as well as fanaticism is a factor in most mass shootings”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/potheads-not-terrorists-are-to-blame-for-most-mass-shootings/
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Yea. Nah. Booze has been around forever and grass since the Great Depression. Shootings only since hateful politicians deliberately told druggies that they have the opportunity to kill baby H!tler.
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But who’s to say that many crimes and murders going back many decades weren’t the result of marijuana? It’s clear that, just like alcohol, it doesn’t turn every user into a crazy, but there is lots of anecdotal evidence that pot use is associated with violent forms of mental illness.
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IIRC
In a Rudyard Kipling somewhere there is a mention of something that was “to be used sparingly like bhang”
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Anecdotal evidence is a good starting point, but then we have to sort the wheat from the chaff.
‘Which drug increases the risk of schizophrenia?
‘Studies have shown using drugs, particularly cannabis, cocaine, LSD or amphetamines, can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia, psychosis or a similar illness. It is not clear if using drugs directly causes symptoms in people who are susceptible to schizophrenia, or if they are more likely to use drugs.’ ( NHS)
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“It is not clear if using drugs directly causes symptoms in people who are susceptible to schizophrenia, or if they are more likely to use drugs.’ ( NHS)”… or if its the lifestyle that druggies live, or the food they eat, or the way they were bought up, or just in their genetics.
What happened to those sorts of people 300years ago? Did they become the village idiot? The village ‘person-to-be-avoided’? The village person-to-be-hunted-down-when-seen?’ Did they join an army, or a band of thieves to let their personalities run wild? .. or is it a modern phenomenon?
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Hitchens has done the leg work on this topic and I have followed his writings on the matter for a few years. He is quite compelling, simply from a numbers point of view.
I have witnessed the tragic effects of marijuana use by young people myself. The son of my wife’s manager, back in the mid 90s, began using it aged thirteen and within two years, it transformed him from a likeable young lad into a violent schizophrenic. He was eventually expelled from his (private) school after overturning the headmaster’s desk in a fit of rage. When she sought medical help, one of the practitioners warned her that the damage and personality changes might be permanent. So even back then, thirty years ago, this problem was known to doctors.
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When I visited a friend in the brain injury unit of a local hospital, I noted all the young folks there who seemed to be terminal cases. When I asked if this was due to car accidents, I was told the majority were caused by drugs.
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Marijuana based products have been around for centuries. It’s still an ingredient in Nepalese cuisine, the ancient greeks knew about it, as did the Turks and Mongols.
The word “assassin” is supposedly derived from the somewhat derogatory name given to a sect of Muslim warriors who consumed it before going to knock off Christians about 1000 years ago.
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“… Muslim warriors who consumed it before going to knock off Christians about 1000 years ago.”
So even then they knew weed was conducive to murderous violence.
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FWIW
The “YSM” and things of importance in USA –
“A WaPo Reporter Did Not Just Email This to Members of Congress…”
I wish this were satire, but it’s not. We’re in the middle of a government shutdown battle, and The Washington Post decided to blast this email, apparently, to every member of Congress. You’d think it would be about the shutdown, right? Something about the issue of health care subsidies expiring, or health care for illegal aliens—but, alas, no. It was about which member of Congress was vaccinated against COVID. I’m not kidding:”
More at
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/11/a-wapo-reporter-did-not-just-email-this-to-members-of-congress-n2664813
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Meanwhile, in the real world
“GOP Leaders Unite in Fury: Democrats’ ‘Schumer Shutdown’ Leaves Military Families Hungry and Desperate”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chloe-trapanotto/2025/10/11/gop-leaders-unite-in-fury-democrats-schumer-shutdown-leaves-military-families-hungry-and-desperate-n2664822
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Just how hollow is the American economy?
” last month’s mega bankruptcy was that of First Brands, an auto parts supplier with $5.8 billion in outstanding leveraged loan debt, yet it increasingly appears the company had far more liabilities than previously known as a result of what now learn learn, was extensive rehypothecation of said debt, a practice traditionally associated with such unregulated banana republics as China .. the debt isn’t merely good old-fashioned debt, but is also off-balance sheet debt, such as receivables and inventory financing… which listed liabilities between $10 billion and $50 billion, and assets between $1 billion and $10 billion.. debt collateralized by the same assets multiple times…
The outcome is surreal nightmare where nobody knows who owns what, or where the money – what little is left of it – actually is…$2.3 billion has “simply vanished” from the bankrupt auto-parts supplier.”
So, a few finance banks will be taking a big hit, although in the days when we don’t blink at trillions of dollars, liabilities of $50thousand million may not seem that much. It was all a desperate merry-go-round of fraud and promises that was bound to collapse, just more third-world finance…
https://dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com/p/creditors-of-bankrupt-first-brands
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I was just having one of my insightful insights.*
We could call it ‘Honk’s Laws of Postmodernism’.
1) Who(m)ever is labeled anti-science possesses the greater knowledge of science.
2) Who(m)ever is calling someone a racist is the actual racist.
3) Who(m)ever is calling someone a fascist is the actual fascist.
4) Who(m)ever is harping about ‘democracy’ will only accept vote outcomes that go their way. (Ah, um .. throat clearing cough … Brexit.)
Also 4**) Who(m)ever is credited with something is not the person who did the actual work. (Either confirming or disproving Honk’s Laws of Postmodernism. Which is like so totally Postmodern.)
*These happen with greater frequency as my appointment with eternity, if there is such a thing, fast approaches.
Especially since an appointment with eternity is way less stressful than trying to get an appointment with a doctor. And since there are way more arduous levels to surmount in the medical system than the seven levels to Heaven.
** 5 laws are too may for Postmodern attention spans.
Also please note: I try to save my most insightful insights for the end of the thread when no one is paying attention.
You’re welcome.
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and Antifa are imaginary… https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/watch-msm-puppets-receive-new-talking
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Sorry to hear about the business, but sometimes it is the rational thing to do, e.g. in the present case where TPTB are intent on erasing small business . . . . “all the better to see you with my dear. . . .”.
The destruction of social capital is quite spectacular to behold, but the enduring effects are yet to be felt.
Grimmer Fairy Tales (2035 ed.)
“Once upon a time , there was a nation of small shopkeepers . . . . . . .”
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This is how we do it in NZ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10TNPU5CojU
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In other (fewer) words, leftists use derogatory labels to delegitimise their opponents.
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Not long back from the “Untidy Kingdom”
The place has a weird vibe about it. The coalition of the sand-pirates, eco-nazis and the outright bolshevists is everywhere and anti-Semitic to the core.
On a “fossil fuel” note, I was chatting to a bunch of blokes who run a small, private bit of steam-powered railway.
When the issue of “coal supply” arose, I was horrified, but unsurprised at the answer.
ALL of the coal used by these sorts of historical groups, is IMPORTED from COLUMBIA and other far-flung sources. And the imported stuff is “inferior” to the quality Anthracite for which the locomotives were built..
The Pommystan “government” has effectively out-done Margaret Thatcher and destroyed the coal mining biz.The scenery is litteredwith (Chinese-made??) wind-powered towers.
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