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The world of AI is expanding rapidly. Now we have the world’s first AI actor, named Tilly Norwood.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/01/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-stirs-outrage-in-hollywood/
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Color me skeptical on ‘AI actors’ being able to emote or exude charm or have great comic timing.
They might be able to replace wooden actors like Hayden Christensen, Gal Gadot, Steven Seagal or Kristen Stewart, but I can’t see them replacing truly gifted actors like Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep, Steve Carell, or Cate Blanchett.
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Nothing wrong with being skeptical Steve. It is the core characteristic of science after all.
But it is funny how people rate movie stars. Out of your list, I can’t say I’m familiar with the work of those you rate as wooden, but I would rate Meryl Streep and Carbon Cate Blanchett as among the most wooden of all actresses. In my eyes Streep has only ever played one role and this is being Streep. I reckon she has such a limited range that she would be among the easiest to replace with a computerised actress.
On the technology front the change started with digital retouching of real actors. Hide a skin blemish here. Brighten the eyes there. Tuck the chin. Chisel the jaw. Lose a bulge here or there. The gradual extension to fully digital actors seems inevitable.
Viva la difference!
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I liked Glenda Jackson in Hopscotch with Walter Matthau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHYPgI-9t8&t=5570s
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What does Steve think of Tom Cruise I wonder? Cardboard or not…😉
Anthony Hopkins a definite talent.
I’m a big fan of Liam Neeson although Ice Road 2 wasn’t good enough for him.
Uma Thurman – oh yeah!😁
All the AI films so far are mediocre but then so is all the woke b-grade stuff out of Hollywood. Turn out slop and someone will step up to do it better.
At least you’ll never see a DEI Tarzan remake. A black Tarzan swinging through the trees eating bananas.
Maybe they should do it.😆
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Cruise is legit. Since the turn of the century he’s concentrated on the action genre, but in the 80s and 90s he ran the full spectrum of roles and carried some damn good dramatic films.
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The production line Collateral will be remember only because of Tom Cruise,
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Remember Streep and the godawful ‘ Dingo got moi baby’.
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Hey, I even got a red thumb. My day is complete.
Thanks. I needed a lift!
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Our heritage, our culture.
“You do have to fight to keep freedom…
Governments are there to serve the liberties of the people, not to restrict them”
– Margaret Thatcher
Video 0:28
https://x.com/WatchdogTh96012/status/1972798956498563419?t=z1zLSNY7kaJhA7-f9krOvQ&s=09
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Kakistocracy:
Many sites are now choosing to block the entire UK rather than comply with the draconian Online Safety Act censorship
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/popular-image-sharing-site-imgur-com-blocks-access-to-uk-visitors.html
Meanwhile Afghanistan cuts off the internet and phone calls completely
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/30/afghanistan-imposes-internet-blackout-what-has-the-effect-been-so-far
Afghanistan is completely cutoff from internet and phone services.
Their government says that it is “to prevent immoral activities
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I fully expect the same thing to happen in Australia when the ban for under 16’s is implemented.
Any company that even inadvertently breaches the law will be subject to up to a $50 million fine.
It’s already unattractive to do business in Australia due to high energy prices, high taxes, excessive regulations, feral unions, high land/rent prices etc..
The possibility of a $50 million fine on top of that is simply not worth the business risk.
The only way to make this ban for under 16’s work is to have ALL users verify their identity via a digital ID with full tracking and tracking of all activities.
It will be a disaster in so many ways not the least being access to and exercise of freedom of speech, something which sadly is no longer valued or wanted by the Left or their Uniparty.
The potential impact on both adults and under 16’s will be huge.
I also fully expect questioning of topics like anthropogenic climate change or efficacy and safety of mRNA covid “vaccines” to be banned under new “misinformation” laws that are again the subject of a Senate inquiry as I mentioned yesterday because the Greens claim climate “misinformation” “confuses” people. The only climate misinformation comes from them.
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This is why you save stuff…
One day soon, you’ll all wake up, fire up your browsers, and all your favourite sites are blocked courtesy of the broke, failing government.
Jo – gone. All that info gone. Only the ever-honest ABC left, your bastion of integrity and truth.
It’s sooooo easy to back it up for posterity. A few hours to rip it all to PDF’s.
I’d do it for free if she asks nicely.😎
Bigger things are happening and about to in the EU though.
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If Jo’s blog was cut off would she be able to send it to us by e-mail?
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The problem is that then it would be more of a newsletter than a blog with contributor’s comments.
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Great if you live your life in the rear view mirror
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Restored!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/internet-and-mobile-coverage-restored-in-afghanistan/105842126
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” Afghanistan is completely cutoff from internet and phone services. ”
Restored:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/internet-and-mobile-coverage-restored-in-afghanistan/105842126
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Yes, it makes you wonder what they did in the 48hours that they didn’t want seen or recorded.
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Or they use Optus
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September was the coldest month in the Central England Temperature mean temperature series, relative to average, since January.
It was only 0.5C above the 1961-1990 average, ranked jointly around 100th, pretty average compared to more recent periods. It was also quite wet, about 150% of average rainfall in England.
(As they obviously haven’t changed the thermometers, it rather exposes the people who refused to believe just how warm the summer was.)
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What was the warmest year in Adelaide?
1914 was the warmest year in the history of Adelaide. The average daily high temperature was 23.6 °C, and the average low was 12.6 °C.
What was the coldest year in Adelaide
1958 was the coolest year in the history of Adelaide. The average daily high temperature was 20.4 °C, and the average low was 10.3 °C.
It seems that CO2 must have been more active in previous times.
I suggest there is the answer for any cooling, loss of warming. Warming can be explained by people getting hot under their collar due rising electricity bills, rising prices etc. Or possibly like introduced animals (such as wallabies) running wild trying to make England as warm as their former homeland.
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The daily solar intensity at 50N was down by 2.5/m^2 this year compared with last so it should not be surprising that CET was lower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGeNPJlIK4
The lower sunlight through December will increase advection and I am forecasting above trend rainfall/snowfall that will lead to above trend winter snow coverage.
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September 2025 Australian temperatures according to The BoM. They don’t state whether these are real temperatures or have been subject to their irreproducible “homogenisation” process*.
Note to overseas readers, even though Australia has excellent quality temperature records before 1910, BoM doesn’t use them in official statistics because they consider them invalid.
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Is there a definition of “area-averaged”. The BOM has three records of weather data, Latest weather observations, State Observations and Long Term Climate Data.
Latest weather observations is updated every ten minutes, and shows maximum and minimum temperatures along with the time.
State observations are updated every 30 minutes, sometimes more often.
In latest weather observations, observation places are grouped into areas, such as Mallee, Wimmera and Central. I notice that some observation places are included in more than one area, particularly along the Murray River. If the area-averaged mean maximum temperature uses these areas to calculate the area-averaged mean temperature, then there could be a problem.
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Maptram,
I was wondering the same thing. “area-averaged mean maximum temperature” sounds like nonsense: the mean across an area of the mean through time of an upper extreme. And then temperature itself is a measure of mean kinetic energy. Ironic that combining all those “mean”s make something meaningless.
Anyhow, I searched for “area-averaged mean maximum temperature” definition. Google search didn’t turn up a definition, and its AI generated something that doesn’t fit the name. FWIW, here’s what it had to say on how it’s worked out:
So in a month you have (say) 31 daily maximum temperatures for the whole region; average those and that’s your number.
To me that’s a monthly mean regional maximum; there is no *area* averaging.
But then it’s based on an AI answer. The BoM are probably doing something even sillier.
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Averaging means the outliers have an undue influence, they should work with the mode.
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KP,
I suspect you meant *median*. Mode is for countable things, and doesn’t really mean anything with continuous values like temperature. If they wanted to avoid outliers, they shouldn’t have been looking at maximum temperatures at all.
AFAIAC this is just another propaganda number with zero practical meaning. They have a bunch of numbers to use as a smorgasbord, so they can always tell us that this winter was warmer than previous ones. If they can’t do it with a high daily max, they can try high overnight min, or 24 hour mean, or who knows what. Gives them something to do with their supercomputer.
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This is entirely expected, and something I forecast, because the daily solar intensity in the SH is up by almost 3W/m^2 this year on last year.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sWC0kakLE14H1MdVoduOtR-GsLSvlTfh/view?usp=sharing
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FWIW
“California: “Carbon-Free” by 2045”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/01/california-carbon-free-by-2045/
A “How to do it”
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And
“Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days”
“A new study suggests blackouts will only happen sometimes, if we build enough batteries and overcapacity, and a hydrogen export industry.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/01/claim-renewable-australia-will-have-no-problem-with-zero-generation-days/
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“A new study suggests blackouts will only happen sometimes.”
No doubt that’s a ‘best case scenario’.
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And of course, blackouts will only occur when demand is at it’s peak.
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Then what happens to AEMO’s stated reliability figure of 99.98%? Are they going to drop this requirement?
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Huh! Beats me how they’re going to stop people breathing, eh!
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First thing we do is to kill all the termites. We can work from there.
/sarc
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Maybe they plan on nuking the place. That would reduce anything carbon based that lives. Not sure about the carbon sequestered in any limestone, that may still hang around.
They just bat Sh#t crazy. What the hell does “carbon Free ” even mean? Twats
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I hear that $22 mill that he is entitled to pocket will go towards the WH ball room.
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SUMMARY
On 1 September 2020 the ACT Emergency Services Agency signed a contract with Rosenbauer
Australia Pty Ltd (and S.K. Rosenbauer Pte. Ltd of Singapore) for the supply of urban pumpers (i.e.
fire trucks).
Four fire trucks have been ordered through the contract:
• three diesel fire trucks, at a cost of $813,155 (GST ex) each (including import duty,
training and delivery); and
• one hybrid electric fire truck, at a cost of $1,524,387 (GST ex) (excluding import duty,
training and delivery).
The procurement of the hybrid electric fire truck was initially pursued throughout 2019 through a
limited market approach (previously referred to as a single select process). When this did not
proceed, because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Territory’s Budget processes, the
procurement of the hybrid electric fire truck was incorporated into another 2020 public
procurement process for the supply of urban pumpers.
The audit considered the effectiveness of the ESA’s processes for the procurement of the hybrid
electric fire truck.
Overall Conclusion
The procurement of the hybrid electric fire truck was poorly conducted. The ESA did not adequately
assess the value for money of the vehicle, prior to ordering it in January 2021.
Result
After 800 days with this plug-in electric hybrid fire truck, and in that time, that vehicle has managed to be operable for 137 days.
Costing about $700,000 more than a diesel truck and touted as an Australian-first when the agreement with manufacturer Rosenbauer was signed in 2021, the plug-in hybrid electric fire truck did not go into operation until late last year.
Even then, for several months it had to be accompanied by another fire truck when it attended emergencies, in case it did not work as intended.
The truck was taken off the road in January due to a problem with its main water hose pump.
Meanwhile a fully electric truck, a New Zealand designed and built Volvo electric breathing apparatus (BA) truck, spruiked as “the nation’s first zero emissions logistics vehicle” on the ESA’s website, which arrived in late 2023, is yet to enter service.
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I would never aspire to live in Canberra but what a dreadful impost woke is. Maybe 90% of Canberrans deserve this sort of woke impost but I pity the 10% who died not vote for woke.
What lunatic did the sums on a hybrid fire truck. What distance will a fire truck cover in its operating life? How much fuel will it actually use in its life? How much fuel will a hybrid truck save?
Woke lunatics in charge. I would like to see the business case for a hybrid fire truck.
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I wish people would use the correct terminology: A plug-in hybrid is NOT a common hybrid.
I’m a fan of hybrid technology but it is not appropriate in this case: Unnecessary complexity and cost for no benefit.
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It would not matter what sort of hybrid. A fire truck simply needs the simplest and most reliable engine. Spending more to save a teaspoon of diesel is stupid.
There has been many debates on the protection systems on both electric and diesel powered firewater pumps. Ultimately, there is no protection because the argument that you want the pump to fight till its death prevails. In an emergency, you do not want to be resetting protective devices to get the last gasp from the pump. Simple systems prevail when it comes to emergency response. The notion of saving fuel in a fire truck shows a fire service that has lost its way.
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It would not matter what sort of hybrid. A fire truck simply needs the simplest and most reliable engine. Spending more to save a teaspoon of diesel is stupid.
That’s what I said, just different.
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Thing is with a fire truck, they tend not to do a lot of braking when in service.
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M5 delays after lorry transporting electric cars catches fire
<a href="M5 delays after lorry transporting electric cars catches fire“>Image shows burnt out electric cars after fire rips through HGV on motorway
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/huge-mushroom-cloud-engulfs-motorway-after-lorry-catches-fire-as-drivers-hit-by-long-delays/ar-AA1NFCNj
MSN – A huge mushroom cloud towered over the UK M5 this morning after a lorry carrying nine electric cars burst into flames, causing hours of chaos for drivers.
‘On arrival, a car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles was fully involved in fire.’
It is believed the EVs were from the Chinese manufacturer BYD.
National Highways warned of delays of up to 40 minutes, while police shared images of the blackened wreckage left behind.
Devon and Cornwall Police’s Road Policing Team posted a picture of the aftermath of the fire, which has now been extinguished.
The picture shows the charred cars still attached to the lorry as firefighters kept watch nearby.
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‘Professor Avi Loeb, a director at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has promoted a theory that casts 3I/ATLAS as a camouflaged spacecraft; a predatory alien scout set to slink cunningly behind the sun before it pounces on Earth.’ (SMH)
This is probably why all the US generals were gathered together in one place.
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“This is probably why all the US generals were gathered together in one place.”
Not to have the Wokenes beaten out of them??
I don’t feel America is in any condition to handle aliens, if it was a real war meeting it would be to discus what to do about Russia winning in Ukraine.
…and if it does pounce on Earth, maybe it can clean the wokeness and Left-wing lies out of Govt for us!
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Dream on KP, Russia ain’t winning.
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The Chinese are hoping that the Western world keeps concentrating on the “Russian danger”
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That’s why they constantly moving Westward. Retreating towards Kiev. LOL
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Show me on a map.
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Search Assist
During the summer offensive of 2025, Ukraine made limited territorial gains, with Russian forces advancing only about 0.3% of Ukrainian territory. Despite some initial successes, the overall results were modest, and key strategic locations remained under Ukrainian control.
Atlantic Council Wikipedia
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Russia will sue for peace when the Tomahawks come into play or more likely when Beijing walks away from the axis of evil.
The fitness of American troops is a smoke screen to avoid startling the masses. 3I/Atlas is made of nickel with a plasma drive system and has just dropped off nine smaller craft now trailing the mothership.
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‘… what to do about Russia winning in Ukraine.’
It would be a filthy mess.
‘Zaporizhzhia’s six reactors are currently running in a state of cold shutdown, operating at below boiling point, but Ukrainian sources say there would be a risk that the nuclear fuel in the six reactors would heat uncontrollably over a period of weeks, eventually leading to a meltdown.’ (Guardian)
One of the diesel engines to pump cooling water has already malfunctioned, so we might have less than a week to avoid catastrophe.
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Climate change: I bless you, block of ice
https://twitter.com/CatholicSOTC/status/1973416617670271039
🙄
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Elon Musk worth $500 billion
https://x.com/Forbes/status/1973477473796104417
Took the crown back from Ellison.😆
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Once he’s running multiple daily flights to earth orbit, the moon or Mars, I expect he’ll become the first US$ trillionaire.
Leftists are already complaining about the “carbon” footprint of SpaceX.
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/08/30/billionauts-space-tourism-and-mars-fantasies-need-to-be-pulled-back-to-earth/
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Lol!! Whadda loada crap! Heavy on the-
“While the carbon footprint of an economy-class passenger taking a long-haul flight is in the vicinity of 3-5 tonnes, the emissions for a space tourist are astronomically higher, as much as 100 times higher per tourist,”
..but crickets about the private jets in the world being used by the Left! It just pure spite and jealousy that he’s not a billionaire and no-one should be allowed to be one..
“This highlights the perils of privatising space exploration: it allows fantasist billionaires to set the priorities for humanity in an undemocratic process based on their personal convictions and whims.”
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The linked video goes into detail on the PHON rise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlgGXXY7k8k
The PHON are now poling ahead of the Greens. Strongest gains are in women over 55. That is a surprise. Maybe there are more women changing to the views of my sisters who had similar upbringing to Pauline Hanson. Maybe there are now more seeing the erosion of values as immigration and ethnic communities swamp cohesion and Australian values. The nightly news reports showing groups of various ethnicities wielding machetes in shopping centres probably makes more think about Australian values.
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[PHON = Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Formerly One Nation. – Raquel]
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I’d like to see One Nation win outright. If they form a coalition with the non-conservative Libs then the Libs will not allow any conservative One Nation policies, or very few. In recent decades the fake conservative Liberals have done nothing but support destructive Labor Lite policies. Liberals have to be relegated to the dustbin of history
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Never heard of it. Is it even worse than lead?
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A methyl group on a benzene ring via an ammonia molecule for N-Methylaniline, or MMA. With the nitrogen in there it won’t burn as easily as benzene, hence used as an octane increaser. It should burn to CO2, H2O and some nitrate compound, hence it would be banned in the West. Not toxic though.
Called DROP in Russia, it must have been well-known before being banned.
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NYC – 2 regular pizzas cost $71 or $107 AUD
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1973107292024480027
Ridiculous…blame the democrats.
Maybe a worm or cricket pizza instead?
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Biden (remember him?) needed cards to remember Hillary Clinton and others
Unearthed note cards from the Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos of high-profile Democrats, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as lesser-known individuals for then-President Joe Biden to ostensibly reference during live events, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show.
Five different “palm cards,” which are hand-sized note cards frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events, especially while on the campaign trail, were uncovered amid an investigation of National Archive documents related to the Biden administration’s use of an autopen, and obtained by Fox News Digital.
https://www.domigood.com/2025/10/joe-biden-note-card-scandal-resurfaces.html
How far gone would you have to be to need a card with Hillary’s name and face on it?
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Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test amid mounting WW3 fears after Trump’s nuke warning
test amid growing fears of World War III, and a day after Trump warned Putin that the US has more nuclear weapons than any other country.
Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements across Russia’s 11 time zones, part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.
TV and radio broadcasts were interrupted for the tests. Russians were told what to do if the sirens were sounded in real instances. It will also be used in cases of a freak weather incident.
The broadcasts urged citizens to ‘remain calm and don’t panic’, ‘turn on the TV, or any public access channel, or radio and listen for an information announcement’ if the siren was triggered.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15152531/Russia-stages-nationwide-nuclear-war-alarm-test-amid-mounting-WW3-fears-day-Trump-warned-Putin-nukes-else.html
And those in the know know that Russia has extensive nuclear bunker facilities and has for a long time.
I guess Zelensky isn’t in the know.
Major military rampups in Germany and France.
US tomahawks to Ukraine (red line).
US orders doubling if not quadrupling of missile production. Dept of war indeed…
Thank your elected and unelected puppets for bringing the world to this.
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Donnie should not say stuff like that, its highly provocative.
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Why the plural? There is only one puppet threatening nuclear contagion.
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Starmer the chicken choker
https://youtu.be/Ot7j_9qLUlc?si=Nyyp8tinZkK6H9Lc
How dare you poms say that!😆
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Not sure I would want to drive around in the USA in a van with a banner claiming either Biden or Trump is a wanker. That is the difference between an armed nation and a largely unarmed nation.
The mindless thugs in Australia are armed with machetes. That is no where near as dangerous as gender disoriented getting around with high powered rifles.
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The Truth always hurts.
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The days of remembering Victoria’s gas shortage could be ended next winter as new shortages loom:
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/east-coast-gas-supply-outlook-eases-for-first-quarter-2026
I cannot contribute directly to the shortage because I am off gas now and produce most of our electricity. If only Victoria had built replacement coal fired power stations or allowed energy companies to explore for gas.
On the plus side for the government, the transition to NetZero will be accelerated as more businesses are crippled,
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FWIW
“The Amazon’s “CO₂ Problem”? Turns Out the Trees Love It – So Does the Media”
“For decades, we’ve been warned that the Amazon rainforest—the so-called “lungs of the planet”—was on the verge of collapse. Headlines screamed about tipping points, mass die-offs of giant trees, and irreversible climate catastrophe. Yet, buried in the data, something rather inconvenient has been happening: the Amazon is getting bigger, fatter, and taller.”
more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/01/the-amazons-co%e2%82%82-problem-turns-out-the-trees-love-it-so-does-the-media/
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I see things at Penn University have got interesting. Being careful what I write here.
https://goodoil.news/couldnt-happen-to-a-more-deserving-mann/
I hope this post does not fall foul of the blog’s publishing policy.
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UK conservatives announce policy to cancel Climate Change Act.
Irrelevant and too late, perhaps. But still a major political shift.
https://order-order.com/2025/10/02/tories-pledge-to-repeal-climate-change-act/
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FWIW – something else!
“The irrefutable link between cannabis and cancer in young Americans”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-irrefutable-link-between-cannabis-and-cancer-in-young-americans/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-02&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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I couldn’t get past the locked box, but picked up on the story elsewhere.
It appears there is a rise in breast and testicular cancer in those states that have legalised cannabis.
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Incidence rates for these age groups are incredibly low.
This is like the studies claiming success in fighting cervical cancer from the recently introduced HPV vaccine – no age group with any statistically significant incidence of cervical cancer (such that a change could be shown statistically to be of value) was covered in the study.
Take these population level medical databases away from the medical researchers – they are ready to infer anything from nothing. And then build more meta analysis on top of all these rubbish studies.
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UK: The children’s wellbeing and schools bill
1984 material..
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1973460316940877973
The UK won’t be around long enough to make use of it! 😆
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Jane Goodall, WEF insider who called for extreme global depopulation, dies at 91
A frequent participant at the WEF in Davos, Goodall spoke openly about her belief that the Earth could only sustain a fraction of its current population. In a 2020 panel, she remarked: “We cannot hide the damage we’ve done to Mother Earth by our sheer numbers. We are overpopulating this planet.”
Goodall “passed away due to natural causes” while on a speaking tour in California, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1935261336331526166
“Natural causes”?
So…NOT taken out by all those manmade planet-destroying evils then? 🙄
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FWIW
“An Open Letter to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board”
“From the “Gavin is sure to ignore this” department and the CO2 Coalition.”
“You claim that “greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare,” that “climate-warming gases are killing people,” and that there is a “climate crisis” in California and the United States.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/01/an-open-letter-to-governor-newsom-and-the-california-air-resources-board/
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FWIW
“Time to Celebrate the End of the Electric Car Tax Breaks”
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2025/10/01/time-to-celebrate-the-end-of-the-electric-car-tax-breaks-n4944358
A list in there
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/the-many-holes-in-doughnut-economics/
They rejected the 1970s-style math models that the profession insisted on using — either because they didn’t think it made sense to model an economy using that sort of math, or because they couldn’t personally handle the math — and instead sought insight in alternative disciplines like ecology, sociology, history, etc.
These folks — who often called themselves “heterodox” — tended to lean even more strongly to the left, and often unabashedly mixed their methodological critiques with socialist or other leftist politics.
….
Like many heterodox types, she argues that economics should be not a positive but a normative discipline — a branch of political philosophy focused on telling us what goals we ought to have for our society, rather than an analytical tool for predicting how economies work.
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Four year prison sentences pass quickly these days… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISw142NKBU
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https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/key-data-was-withheld-from-the-publication
People who did not have COVID antibodies when tested reported the same set of symptoms as those who did. In Winter.
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