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Latest video by Dr John Campbell. He speaks with Jimmy Dore.
“Covid, control agenda and AI.”
https://youtu.be/kwFdzs9i7aU (6.5 mins excerpts)
https://youtu.be/o9BvqmID724 (full version of video.)
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Can you believe the UK covid inquiry is still ongoing, approaching £200Million, the most expensive inquiry in our history.
Nothing useful can come out of such a delayed bloated process, no doubt the whole point.
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read the terms of reference. They are designed to control the outcome. Remember the Yes Minister’s question time episode!
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Jimmy Dore is very good sometimes.
Other times he seems to pick the target and then later figures out how to rabble rouse against them. The fairly recent use of Kurt Metzger in his broadcasts detracts from his show. Metzger seems to add nothing but cheap shots and smart arse remarks. Maybe its just me reacting to Dore’s provocative style.
More generally all of the internet commentators seem to be hit or miss propositions. Life’s like that!
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Privacy issues with Windows 11.
You are being watched!
Rob Braxman discusses.
https://youtu.be/t1eX_vvAlUc
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More than privacy- it is Kontrol!!! Who trusts Microsoft? Windoze 11 is capable of turbo-spying via AI, and social credit implementation (bank account frozen!).
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Have you turned off the TPM chip?
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Do you know what the TPM chip does? 🙄
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If you have MS Word, have you turned off the autosave to their cloud yet?
If not….. they are reading all your work before you finish it.
Not many happy customers on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgyrPfMVDI
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I have a secondary gmail account that l usually access via the private browser on my iPad. Recently l went on YouTube via the standard browser and I was logged in under a new Google ID. They had ascribed a new name followed by 4 digits. I had to sign out then log in to the account I’ve had for over 20 years, ie the default account on this device for several years. Bit of a worry as they usher in the under 16 ban on social media legislation.
I had a look at a few sites featuring Gary Brecka’s diet principles. Within days, a couple of emails arrived in my primary account offering magic weight loss pills. These types of emails don’t usually get by the spam filter.
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All a bit too technical for my old brain. Sounds like a bit of a mine field for likes of me so I just wonder if I need to worry or take advice from a so called professional?
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Yes, that’s scary. I had reason to contact my bank’s IT services recently (something I was very careful about). Within the small discussion time, the IT person insisted we all should use Edge as the preferred browser.
I politely disagreed on the basis of lack of privacy with Edge. It constantly pokes into every corner of your PC, everywhere. The IT person replied that Edge was best for the bank’s attestation procedures. I understood at that point that “debanking” was a real possibility in her controlling view.
So: use “Local Account”; no Bitlocker, no CoPilot (prefer Grok so far); no Secure Boot; stop Windows updating.
Maybe this’ll work …at least for a time.
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I was advised years ago that Windows is like a wall of bricks and every now and then one falls out leaving a hole, often more than one falls out and before that cracks appear in the mortar.
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Chiefio considers Windows as the original computer virus
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ABC Gold Coast this morning host was talking about One Nation cartoon series Pauline Hansons’ Please Explain which has been running for 4 years, admitted she had never seen one episode and didn’t know much about it! – That doesn’t need explaining!!
Does anyone know what happened to Michael Smith News web site?? The last post was Aug/Sept
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How many people employed by their ABC vote One Nation? The failure of DEI at their ABC is clear.
Their ABC is a low integrity organisation because it has gradually weeded out those with integrity and replaced them with greedy individuals who vote for the party that is prepared to pay them more – Labor.
Look at the scoundrel Trump admonished for asking personal questions about his businesses when he was trying to get a peace deal settled for Gaza.
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Michael Smith News went down when the host Typepad suddenly closed. For a while there was an “under construction” page there but lately nothing.
I use another Typepad afflicted blog and they managed a transition across to WordPress pretty well with the help of some of the users.
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I tried to investigate through ChatGPT, interesting, but in the end I didn’t have time or background knowledge to follow, but it said;
Which sounded very much like external interference ??
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Most likely scenario , I think, is he is a one man band suddenly faced with migrating to another hosting service. He is a non technical person having to wade through myriad issues.
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FWIW
“Pfizzer” on a roll!
“Last week, a significant new peer-reviewed vaccine study published in the well-regarded journal BMC Infectious Diseases, titled, “Real world effectiveness of antipneumococcal vaccination against pneumonia in adults: a population-based cohort study, Catalonia, 2019.” Teaser: they found negative efficacy of minus eighty percent, meaning older adults given pneumonia jabs were 80% more likely to get pneumonia. Thanks a lot, doc.”
And
“So this study is much more than just a hit on the pneumonia jab. The Catalonian study (and others) are cementing concerns that antibody response might not after all translate into meaningful protection against common and deadly outcomes. Sometimes they might not translate at all, or as here, show antibodies but still produce negative effectiveness. (Immunogenicity was how they tested the covid jabs, too.)
If regulators were ever finally convinced to reject antibody evidence without broad clinical effectiveness, it would change the whole game.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/oh-snap-wednesday-october-29-2025?
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And more for the covid record
“Study: 91% of Patients in Study Show Cardiovascular Side Effects From Moderna Vaccine”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/29/study-91-of-patients-in-study-show-cardiovascular-side-effects-from-moderna-vaccine-n3808308
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When the next plandemic virus is released and Australia has introduced compulsory digital ID (supposedly voluntary now), just imagine how much worse things will be with compulsory “vaccination” with experimental substances and those who refuse to take them. It will be much worse than last time.
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They won’t get me. I can hide from the digital world. Analog all the way down.
Just kidding, we be ‘rooned if they plant another virus and another miracle cure.
No money, no purchases, no travel only bartering off the books until they make that beyond illegal.
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Have faith – they have never yet controlled the black market!
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Came across an agitprop piece (just got autocorrected to “shit”) from The Conversation. Apart from climate doom, they also have an erase-the-history-of-European-contribution-to the-world agenda. It starts off with interesting facts about anatomical names but then goes on a rant about how bad that is. Europeans never erased the Arabic derived names even if, like alcohol, knowledge of it in Europe predated Islam. Not even the most racist of rightwingers have an agenda like the one to destroy the legacy of Europeans. It’s cultish.
But it’s the sign off that cracks me up
https://theconversation.com/how-anatomical-names-can-carry-hidden-histories-of-power-and-exclusion-267880
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Thank you R.B. but I stopped believing anything in “theconversation” years ago. Haven’t even looked at it in 5 years.
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I reckoned the Conversation had blackballed me long before they announced that it was their practice.
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I had no choice. ‘The Conversation’ permanently closed my account with them a few weeks after their opening. I was the first scientist banned. At the time I resisted the ban, asking what was wrong with my comments. They were unable to find what I had commented. They had just employed a young guy just out of Uni with IIRC Arts type degree with Z in his name. Actual name forgotten, but job was to make commenters perform the stated aims of The Conversation. Some of his first words asked readers for details of a strange term for a peculiar male homosexual act. Weird stuff. Currently, the Boss Man there is enforcing ‘No further correspondence will be entered into’. What a circus! People actually believe in it. Geoff S
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These days, ever since the Left infested the education system and dumbed it down, starting in the late 60’s to early 70’s, “academic expert” has become an oxymoron.
In fact, as soon as I hear the phrases “experts say” or “scientists say” I brace myself for the BS that is about to follow.
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Scott Morrison doesn’t want to have the LNP re elected. Check Sky News. Morrison says LNP must retain net zero. If the LNP agree that’s a sure sign that it’s the end game for that party!!😵💫😵💫
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Yes. Game over for the Liberal Party.
Too many people place false hope in the Liberal Party just because they are slightly less bad than Green Labor.
Australia needs a fresh start and to elect actual conservative parties like One Nation.
A Liberal win will mean more of the same, although they have little to no chance of winning.
In Victoriastan for example, despite being the worst governed state in Australia, by far, Vic Libs are so bad they would still lose against the commies.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/victorian-liberals-heading-for-election-defeat-despite-premier-jacinta-allans-deep-unpopularity-over-spiralling-crime-crisis-poll-finds/news-story/f0d0165de10bce1201ed03db53946bd0
Similarly for South Australiastan.
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2025/10/21/top-pollies-seat-in-doubt-in-exclusive-pre-election-polling
I’m not even sure the Liberals want to win. They are quite comfortable being in opposition. They would only want to win if they had different beliefs to Labor but their beliefs are similar enough that it’s not worth the effort for them.
The only real difference between Liberal and Labor is in foreign policy whereby Labor rewards terrorism such as the October 7th atrocities against Israel and Liberals don’t.
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Errr David
The only real difference between Liberal and Labor is in foreign policy whereby Labor rewards terrorism such as the October 7th atrocities against Israel and Liberals don’t.
Not publicly anyway!!
Just like Net Zero. They sort of , maybe, well, yes, no, um lets review it!!
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‘They are quite comfortable being in opposition.’
They are just trying to hang onto their seats.
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David Maddison, #6.2.1.1,
____Think I’ve said it before, can’t remember, I’m in patches of long hours with rain delay allowing sleep ins: we common rabble no longer need the political game of charades. Much easier for our management these days. Like many drivers, we pay attention to not a lot beyond the bonnet horizon and we’re good with a tummy tickle from any obliging source. Convicts on Prison Island – that’s us.
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Contrary to lazy journalists who comment that PM Morrison signed up, signed an agreement for net zero emissions, he did not.
At the Glasgow COP he was urged to sign up by UK PM Johnson and POTUS Biden, and others. He refused to do that and said Australia will have “an aspirational goal” to achieve net zero emissions subject to development of new technology (example would be zero emissions nuclear power plants and power stations) and without damaging the economy.
PM Morrison and Coalition Government tried to convince various state governments to build new power plants/stations including a HELE coal technology power station in Queensland plus one gas turbine generator plant, two gas turbine generator plants in New South Wales and one in Victoria.
The Morrison Goverment was investigating nuclear power station options and later the Dutton Opposition announced a plan to build seven, five power stations and two SMR plants, and provided the existing locations for them to be built on.
And of course PM Morrison while attending weekend meetings in private with President Trump early in 2019, after the Washington White House State Dinner the President held in honour of PM Morrison, with UK PM Johnson involved agreed to establish the AUKUS partnership between Australia, United Kingdom and United States – AUKUS.
Pillar 1.0 nuclear submarines for the RAN to be built and followed by design and building new generation SSN AUKUS nuclear submarines for RAN and RN UK.
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Yet another major Internet outage, this time with those users signed up to the Microsoft cloud including Heathrow airport, nat west Starbucks and Costco.
Last week it was the amazon cloud that failed.
What a complicated digital world we are creating where digital problems will take down great swathes of our economy.
It can’t be long before an actual enemy removes the ability of the west to function
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Which is why smart countries and organisations are wary of or ban Chicomm produced hardware for critical infrastructure. Including mobile phone infrastructure. Even Australia was smart enough to do that.
It’s why TRUMP in his first term banned Chicomm utility scale transformers but the ban was undone by the Biden Maladministration.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/04/us-energy-department-reverses-trump-ban-on-chinese-electrical-equipment/
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Herr Schwab warned everyone…
https://youtu.be/0DKRvS-C04o?si=hWOVgswbjMneLxLm
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I can remember when Europe wanted to ban proprietary word processors and similar. MS had a hissy fit but had to go along or risk being kicked out of all government work.
It’s a pity that Europe didn’t bite harder and force the creation of a true competitor to MS operating systems or at least demand it be open source so that we could all find the backdoor passes that they built in.
I’ve got zero trust in windows being secure. If it was, why do we have to buy anti-virus software? For the US, this is a domestic threat that they are not taking seriously. What are we sharing without our knowledge?
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The US Department of Defense uses Linux on many critical systems including supercomputers and nuclear submarines. The US Army uses Linux on critical systems.
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Don’t forget their floppy drives!
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Eng_Ian,
That’s a bit like wishing evolution had taken a different turn somewhere. You can’t know what the different turn might have led to.
My primary advice is to change to Linux. If you need Windows for some commercial application, install it on a virtual machine (e.g. VBox) within Linux. That wraps Linux security around all those suspected Windows wormholes.
But if you must stick to Windows, you almost certainly have a firewall router (probably running a flavour of Linux, FWIW) between your PC and the Net. You might be able to reconfigure that firewall (e.g blocking nearly all outbound ports) to rein in chatter from your Windows box. Your router might also have a logging facility to let you see where the chatter is going.
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The important part there is to have a third party device do the logging, (eg the router), you can’t trust the PC that you are typing on to keep a fair log.
Sad reality. It should be illegal for someone to place software on your computer that you cannot control or opt out of.
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Solar flare might get us all.
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Never mind, I still have my back up 128 page exercise book and a pencil.
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In recent interactions with an Australian Government department they wanted me to set up an account to access their website. To do that they said I had to visit Australia Post with Government ID to set up a digital ID.
I emailed them saying I did not wish to establish a digital ID and I shouldn’t have to as it is not (yet) compulsory. Like good public serpents, they didn’t bother answering my email.
So I Googled and eventually found a pdf of a paper form that would allow me to do what I wanted to do. I filled that in and snail mailed it.
They then sent me an email and I paid them the appropriate fee I had to pay via Bpay and all was settled.
Most people wouldn’t bother doing what I did and they would establish the “voluntary” digital ID. This is how Government departments are getting people to sign up for digital IDs even though they are not (yet) compulsory.
Most people are not even aware that Australia already has the legislation for digital ID, all the Uniparty has to do is declare it compulsory:
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/
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Try being a company director without a digital ID. Nothing optional there.
You are not only not permitted but you will be fined if you failed to get a digital ID. It’s for your own good. Of course.
And being a company director spills down to family businesses too, like farms, small manufacturing, a shop, etc. If you have a company, they want your ID.
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I suspect you can authorize and pay your accountant to communicate with the government (err ATO)
I decided it would be simpler to file my own BAS statements
Maybe I should ask the accountant if the cost of a smart phone and computer are fully deductible since they are now mandatory?
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Of course they are deductible, just claim the portion that you use for work. If the purchase was solely for work, then 100% applies.
But get independent financial advice, this isn’t it…. in case E-karen or ASIC are watching.
With regard to company director, it’s you or it’s not you. You can’t delegate a third party to register if you are doing the directing.
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Also applies to tiny voluntary committees like our town museum. Resigned rather than comply. So well done, my government – ruining community-minded activities.
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Really? I havent yet heard of that one. I feel some resignations coming on also.
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2 years to 2028, 6 to 2032…
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JCII: Be more specific please. I’m tiring of the ‘hints’.
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If you do that, you cant pick any major events and I told you so
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Best I can do in a public blog like this.
Some sources need to remain undisclosed, I have non-disclosure constraints on others, and others still would require you to move in circles you wouldn’t want to or understand.
If I told you everything we now accept as fact 5 years ago you’d have laughed and call me a tinfoil hatter.
Ditto with 2028 – be as independent of “the system” as possible.
Plan for the worst but hope for the best is generic advice but all you’ll get.
Let’s just say it’ll be a combination of disease and technology, spectacularly so.
There’s always ABC news…
I won’t mention that year again.
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You seem to be saying that you cannot suggest a scenario , because that would necessarily reveal sources.
That seems a little precious , if not implausible.
Why are you not free to indulge in speculation, just like the rest of us?
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Impressive maths skills. I heard a rumour that next year will be 2026.
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My thoughts go out to all the poor, downtrodden folk in the Caribbean whose lives have become even more destitute this week due to stormy weather – it is hurricane season in the Atlantic after all – yet it seems more po’ folk died in Brazil, Mozambique, Sudan, the Palestine and on American roads than in Jamaica.
No one said life was meant to be easy, apart from a few entitled royals and a scabful of billionaires milling around a town called Davos, yet greed and religious faiths pose more danger to the living than a bout of wild, short-lived weather, aka CCC™️. If everywhere is more unprecedented than everywhere else, then ‘unprecedented’ has lost its meaning and has become a redundant term [preaching to the choir, I know].
As one official was quoted as saying: There is frustration that Jamaica continues to face the worst consequences of a climate crisis we did not cause, yet you have to go back 37 years to Hurricane Gilbert for any comparable scale of destruction: and we all know what political stunt was foisted upon the world’s population in 1988.
And as for the moniker, Storm of the Century, do these officials know something we can only surmise as we’re only a quarter-way through the 21st … warming temperatures should lessen the chance of cyclonic activity, as opposed to the claim of bigger, badder, faster, stronger [add your own imaginary superlatives].
BTW Mr Gates’ M$ has crashed worldwide yet again: it’s all about the timing eh. Good luck!
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Recollections of notable past Jamaican storms:-
https://oletimesumting.com/2016/06/05/killer-hurricanes/
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Great collection there Mr G.
Remember Port Royal – in 1692, 1712, 1880, 1903, 1988…
Shirley academic experts will claim this never happened until that infamous colonialist European pirate was washed ashore in a (oops!) huracan.
Even history denies ™️climate change™️.
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I like the collective term, a scabful.
Must put that away for a rainy day. I think it would work well for public serpents too.
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Please, help yourself to it: the art of ‘creative writing’ in the surrealistic zone often conjures a more-fitting turn of phrase than pond-scum [my usual term for those who have crawled to the top of the heap] ie. serpents of the people.
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The Federal Government is making plans to invest superannuation money into “clean” energy.
https://www.hancockenergy.com.au/jim-chalmers-labor-focused-plan-to-tap-big-super/
Some funds already have wasted money on bird toasters and mincers but forcing the funds to do it is a whole new level of wealth destruction. Spending big on assets that are clearly stranded is a terrible waste.
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If a director fails to follow best practice and fails to maximise the return for the investors they can face jail. Surely this would also apply to superannuation fund managers too.
If not…. why not?
It’s your money Ralph. Or doesn’t that apply anymore.
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Yes, bu who are the directors?
Dr Jim?
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Not working out very well in California.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/californias-retirement-fund-lost-71-468m-investment-clean-energy-and-wont-say-how
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Port headland council vs the TGA..
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1371192527951287/?fs=e&fs=e
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Another massacre in Sudan, an attack on a hospital targeting everyone and taking doctors hostage. This has been happening for months Crickets from the mainstream media, I mean the Corrupt Mainstream Media.
Greta is on the way to provide food. NOT.
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Some coverage in the UK, truly horrific. Satellites can see the blood stains.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15237611/The-massacre-visible-space-Satellite-images-pools-blood-scattered-bodies-Sudanese-city-2-000-executed-48-hours.html
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No Joos, no news
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Beat me to it Brenda.
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FWIW
“Kelly McParland: 30 years of bad climate policy comes home to roost
It’s time elected leaders recognize that photo ops, giant summits and borrowed money aren’t the answer”
“I asked my new best friend ChatGPT to drum up some examples of government “investments” in climate change projects that went disastrously wrong.
Article content
I think I almost crashed the thing. The giant AI Brain found so many bad government projects it demanded I particularize the question: as in where and what kind of boondoggles would I like… solar, wind, fossil, battery…? Polish, German, American, Swiss…?”
More at
https://archive.li/lTqT6#selection-2289.0-2497.254
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/29/white-elephant-or-boondoggle/
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Now their Jim is wanting to use superannuation funds to invest in “clean” energy to reduce the impost on the Federal Budget. What could possibly go wrong with a Labor government using super funds for their pet projects? See link at #10.
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“What could possibly go wrong with a Labor government using super funds for their pet projects? ”
How else will they get Snowy2 finished? Pour in the Super funds and when payout time comes they borrow money against this amazing ‘asset’ they have..
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As Australia becomes increasingly bankrupt due to Government overspending on useless but woke projects, the Government will increasingly look at more and more unorthodox forms of “borrowings” like “temporarily” stealing from your superannuation (retirement) fund.
The last time the Labor commies did this was in 1975 with the Khemlani loans affair. It didn’t end well.
But Australia actually had a political opposition party in 1975 who put a stop to it. Now Australia is a One Party State, the commies do as they please
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Looting the Super has been predicted for decades … the only mystery has been how and when.
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The electorate is dead set against the idea, so it will never take off.
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That should be how it turns out.
But I wouldn’t bet on it.
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Pardon me for using your initials AI, …
I haven’t mastered or even attempted the use of AI programs, but have you tried the converse query?
I wonder what the output would be if you asked for some examples of government “ïnvestments” in climate projects that went RIGHT.
My guess is that it might be a very short list indeed.
Or perhaps an interesting AI definition of what going RIGHT might actually mean for a climate project. My guess again would be pages of unintelligible word salad.
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Dr Who has failed in the US with a joint venture with Disney because it waa just too woke.
Imagine how bad something would have to be to be too woke for Disney…
And it is failing in the UK as well.
Get woke. Go broke. Every. Single. Time.
History Debunked discusses: https://youtu.be/oSsgX6nJ9gE
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John Pertwee was my favourite. He always got out of a tight squeeze just in time. Nice side kicks too, Sarah Jane Smith even appeared in later series.
Showing my age?
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I’ll always be a Tom Baker guy, and really liked the David Tennant and Matt Smith iterations in the rebooted series, but Pertwee also holds a special place in my heart because his run was just so out of place compared to the rest of the series. He was the only Doctor who embraced physical violence (judo chop!), the only Doctor who spent whole seasons on earth, the only Doctor who had a cool ass classic Doctormobile, and a bunch of other stuff that made him truly unique compared to all the other Doctors.
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Tom Baker and K9 here.
Tony.
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I can remember in one very early episode of Dr Who the Tardis was on its way to Venus. At that time a real Russian satellite was also on its way to Venus and that made the story seem quite topical. It is difficult to explain to young people today just how exciting the early days of space exploration were to many of us when science fiction and science fact seemed to be reflecting each other.
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Ncuti Gatwa, a dress wearing time lord, marked the end.
I have every episode since day 1 in my collection, although the missing episodes are still out there.
The BBC needs to offer an amnesty or they’ll never be handed back.
I liked David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker most, but crusty old William Hartnell played it well for a pilot show.
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I thought Whittaker was fine in the role and had zero problem with a female Doctor, but the writing for the series had already fallen off a cliff by the time she showed up. I also had no problem with Gatwa being a black Doctor, but not only was the writing bad, they spent his entire run beating the audience over the head with THE MESSAGE which is highly annoying. If I wanted to be preached to, I would go to church. I don’t mind a little bit of political messaging in entertainment, but at least be subtle with it. Subtlety is a lost art in film/TV these days.
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Musk doesn’t talk just to hear his own voice! This is a bit of a worry!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/29/elon-musk-civil-war-in-britain-is-inevitable/
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No worries…I never watch it!
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FWIW
“New Wonder Weapon?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/29/new-wonder-weapon/
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A new October snowfall record in Reykjavík:
Iceland’s capital has been experiencing record levels of snowfall in the last 15 hours, with some areas set to hit 50 centimetres within a 24 hour period.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/37154049/northern-ireland-play-off-postponed-snowfall-iceland/
Record summer heat followed by record autumn snowfall. I wonder where this is heading!
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The climate is so annoyed by efforts to stop it from changing the it has decided to go in both directions.
Can’t say that I blame it.
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A white Christmas is a strong possibility for the future. Unless a volcano goes off and coats everything with ash. Speaking of volcanoes, the ground is still rising under their latest rift. Forecasts have it ready to pop any day now.
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The U.K. doesn’t get hurricanes – however it’s been on the receiving end of ex-hurricanes since Atlantis went under and The Moat filled up.
If models be true – keep a pinch of salt handy – that stationery Icelandic low is going to fend a series of lows, including ex-hurricane Melissa, into Ireland and the once Great Britain this weekend or early next week.
Methinks the children will know exactly what snow is. Time to wax those toboggans and cross-country skis and enjoy the great outdoors… woohoo!
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October 1987? I remember it well, when Sevenoaks became Oneoak.
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AI has provided a competitor to Wikipedia.its called Grokepedia which is running as a beta version at present. John Hindreker has an article on it in American Thinker. He’s pretty happy with the info they provided on the American Thinker blog. There is a repot on Tom’sGuide a week or so ago commenting on a report on X by Musk that it was closed for a week The comment stated it would be down indefinitely. That was wrong and the cynic in me believes it was wrong purposely.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/grokipedia.php
Here’s a video testing responses on 5 “hot button” items.
https://www.businessinsider.com/grokipedia-vs-wikipedia-differences-compared-elon-musk-2025-10
I’ve been there. It requires a login. I did a quick test on an item I know a bit about and it seems pretty accurate and provides references to its sources. You can reach it here:
https://grokipedia.com/
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For more complete accuracy ….read “Powerline” where I wrote “American Thinker”. Sorry about that.
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AI has provided a competitor to Wikipedia.its called Grokepedia which is running as a beta version at present. John Hindreker has an article on it in Powerline. He’s pretty happy with the info they provided on the Powerline blog. There is a repot on Tom’sGuide a week or so ago commenting on a report on X by Musk that it was closed for a week The comment stated it would be down indefinitely. That was wrong and the cynic in me believes it was wrong purposely.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/grokipedia.php
Here’s a video testing responses on 5 “hot button” items.
https://www.businessinsider.com/grokipedia-vs-wikipedia-differences-compared-elon-musk-2025-10
I’ve been there. It requires a login. I did a quick test on an item I know a bit about and it seems pretty accurate and provides references to its sources. You can reach it here:
https://grokipedia.com/
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Not only has the Sydney City Council banned gas stoves in new builds, including for restaurants, they have also banned gas barbecues.
And being Lefties they all probably hate meat anyway so won’t personally be affected.
https://www.2gb.com/fun-police-strike-again-gas-ban-spreads-to-backyard-bbq/
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Surely the ban only applies to gas connected B-B-Qs.
There is no way they could ban portable LPG BBQs. A sound argument for them being for life preservation. We cooked on a BBQ for almost a month in 1998.
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The shrivelled up old tart is a Nancy Pelosi 2.0.
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Big street battles in Rio brings COP30 into the news.
I wonder if Blackout is having second thoughts about attending. My last employer would not allow employees to visit deep into Brazil without security escort.
Maybe Blackout can travel on Twiggy’s private jet.
If Blackout was taken hostage by rebels while in Brazil, would Australian taxpayers be obliged to bail him out. Australian policy is not to pay ransoms.
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An alternative question comes to mind…
If Blackout was taken hostage by rebels while in Brazil, would anybody notice it more than the absence of a toothache?
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Naomi Seibt seeks asylum in Trump’s USA from German tyranny
Trump was considering offering refugee status for Europeans who oppose migration, prioritising those who have been ‘targeted for peaceful expression of views online’.
In Germany it is now illegal to insult or slander a politician.
Insult – up to 3 years imprisonment.
Slander or defamation – up to 5 years.
Video 3:39
https://x.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1983554347158868037
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It looks the Germans are rediscovering their inner National Socialist.
First wind power, electric power from wind waa a National Socialist idea.
http://en.friends-against-wind.org/realities/how-renewables-and-the-global-warming-industry-are-literally-hitler
Then the Nero Decree. (Hitler’s last order to destroy all infrastructure, the modern Socialists are destroying nuclear reactors and other power stations.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree?wprov=sfla1
Now, mocking politicians sounds like the Treachery Act of 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery_Act_of_1934?wprov=sfla1
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How can anybody possibly insult or slander a politician?
I suppose like beauty it is in the eye of the beholder.
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“We Just Won”: Trump Gloats After Bill Gates Admits Climate Change Won’t End World
“If you questioned any of it, you were called an uneducated, science-denying caveman.”
In 2019 Bill Gates was saying that we had to stop cows from farting, eat fake meat, and get to net zero emissions globally to prevent climate catastrophe.
If you questioned any of it, you were called an uneducated, science-denying caveman.
Today Gates said that we will never stop the climate from changing and that other things (such as feeding people) are just as important as emissions reduction.
Imagine that.
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Didn’t Gates also backtrack on SARS/COVID?
‘Turned out to be not as bad as we thought’.
He’s just trying to be helpful.
We had to burn this village to save it.
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He is still equivocating, though. Emissions reduction is not important at all.
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Bill Gates changes his mind?
Count the silverware!
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The Australian Intelligence Corps Officers Mess had the last Lance Sergeant in the Australian Army. He was Scottish and Jock would count all the silver cutlery every night. Can’t be too careful 🙂
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Censorship Industrial Complex is thriving.
House Judiciary Committee is onto it.
https://shorturl.at/2FCRf
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The e Safety Kommissar was a product of the Liberal Party.
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I can only imagine the interim solution will be an internet wall which prevents users from seeing things the bureaucracy does not want them to see. Apparently China has used such an internet wall for many years.
The next stage might be a crackdown on those who intentionally or otherwise seek out things which are verboten.
And where to after that? Well the enlightenment was good while it lasted.
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FG,
There was an attempt decades ago to stop the news when prominent people said or did things they might later regret.
Have a read of Australia’s D-Notice history. Geoff S
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“Tasmania’s economy is going south, and it will hit the hip pockets of every Australian. General government net debt is on track to rise from $4.2 billion to $13 billion… Annual interest costs, for instance, are expected to climb by 202 per cent between the past financial year and 2027-28….Warning that the growth in state debt is “not sustainable” and will only get worse, it said immediate and sustained action was required. That included spending cuts, possible privatisations and tax increases… if Tasmania fails to get its debt and interest levels under control, the federal government would be left carrying the can for Apple Isle taxpayers…it’s difficult to imagine a federal government allowing the state to default.”
The beginning of the 2026 crash?? Nothing like a Leftist Govt to splurge money everywhere and leave someone else to pick up the tab, like the London Councils when Margaret Thatcher was in power..
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tasmania-s-economy-is-going-south-and-it-will-hit-the-hip-pockets-of-every-australian-20251028-p5n5wj.html
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Just add Labor Victoria & Labor Australia to the above
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Federal and state governments in Australia are constantly proving that they don’t know how to balance their budgets. It’s situation normal unfortunately.
In the UK there has been some speculation of a possible IMF bailout in the near future.
Starmer and his crew of misfits keep inventing new ways to make things worse.
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Billion with a B?
As somebody much wiser than me regularly said when I got over annoyed, don’t sweat the small things!
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Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.
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KP, IIRC, Tasmania (my Mum was a native) has been, or at least was, a mendicant State for decades being bailed out by Canberra every year. But……they still have 12 Senators representing 1/2 million folks same as NSW with 5 million……..probably eliminate a lot of their State debt by getting ring of half of the grifters who are their Senators……..they can’t all be doing good work ????? or any for that matter !!
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Damn, I thought a billion dollar stadium, built at sea level, to house a football team was going to save the situation.
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When Uniparty politicians are allowed to do a “conscience vote” what does that mean, because most of them are psychopaths and don’t actually have a conscience?
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There are times when pretending is the best any of us can do.
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It means you vote against it but still recognise that the party rules.
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/5032440/calare-mp-andrew-gee-i-voted-no-in-same-sex-marriage-survey/
He fell into a blackhole on the ‘Yes’ vote and quit the party, becoming an independent. I imagine he’s keeping his options open.
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Like nearly all bad ideas and assaults against freedom, free speech and the energy supply in Australia, the Digital ID Act has its origins with the Liberal Party and Labor have enthusiastically run with it.
Don’t vote for the Liberals, vote for a conservative party.
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From the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/canada-st-pierre-miquelon-relocation-climate-crisis-rising-tides-france-hurricanes
So I looked it up. The village is 2 m above sea level so a surge from a hurricane will flood the village, like 3 times in 20 years in the late 19th C. It’s been hit directly by a hurricane 3 times, 1886, 1893 and 2009. But I’m not an expert.
https://hurricanecity.com/city/stpierre.htm
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Back in the day, even before the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming scam became trendy, thinking people thought it was stupid to build your house in a flood, fire or earthquake zone, or too near to the sea or cliffs, or too close to sea level, or on unstable waterlogged ground, over caves prone to sinkhole formation, near to volcanoes or glaciers, or in avalanche zones etc.
There’s nothing mysterious about it.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
My taxes shouldn’t have to bail out people who do stupid things nor should their be an imposte on the insurance policies of people who do the right thing to cover stupid people.
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Invest in stupid people & you’ll be rich beyond belief. There are so many of them. They also believe in fantasy & fairy tales to make it even easier & more lucrative.
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The houses appear to be 5 to 8 m above sea level but the connector to Grande Miquelon (larger island to the south) is a bridge just above the water. These rock and sand connections are called tombolos and get built and destroyed episodically, that is at irregular intervals. These weather events are not new and not caused by global warming.
The inhabitants probably love the place.
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Why DJT hasn’t offered to buy these French territories that lie in the Gulf of St Lawrence River is interesting.
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The town of Onslow WA was shifted in 1925 because it was constantly being damaged by cyclones.
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Which way will The libs jump? Their timidity will be their downfall! Hello One Nation!
“Moderate tinkering won’t change the fact net zero is a dud
The Liberals must resist the siren song of a halfway house position on net zero, which will only exacerbate policy uncertainty and play into Labor’s hands.”
Excerpt from todays Australian
Stagflation beckons!
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It’s so sad watching the deliberate destruction and subsequent decline of Australia.
For the minority population of thinking people, it must be what it felt like during the dying days of the Western Roman Empire.
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Which raises the question of what you or I could have done during the dying days of any of the great empires.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Dutch hard-right leader Wilders set to exit power! Dutch voters have delivered a devastating verdict on Geert Wilder’s radical experiment in far-right governance as he goes from triumph to exile.
radical experiment in far-right always relative to ‘far left fanatics’
There goes Holland! Once again the city centric Greens take another scalp! If The Australian Liberal Party fail to heed this subliminal message and continue fence sitting their Hemorrhoids will only get worse to the point of annihilation at which point Australia will be lost to the Marxist/Communist brigade.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwvy4w875vo
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Okay, so Apartheid wasn’t nice for non whites, but they had changed direction under Mandela and positively transitioning to a more respectable way of life. However, the bloodletting and retribution that has occurred since he died facilitated Black Politics and left wing politicians that have generated nothing but fear
“Welcome to Johannesburg, a city that has given up
What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them”.
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The end of Slow Horses? A new mystery is here to take over. However “Down Cemetery Road” albeit featuring well known and respected actors coupled with a strange story line is no consolation!
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A review of Roger Pielke Jr latest paper:
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/roger-pielke-jr-s-appallingly-bad-analysis-of-billion-dollar-disasters/
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Lots of graphs with lots of different slopes. But remember that Lomborg has ALSO clearly shown that disasters have decreased. If Pielke is to be challenged, why wasn’t Lomborg’s results, which have been around for many years, also previously challenged?
Also remember that IPCC itself has said that there is “low confidence “ in any attempted linkage between a slight global warming and the incidence of natural disasters.
What doesn’t appear to be covered in that article is the many other factors that determine natural disasters. For example, the refusal to clear forest undergrowth must surely result in an increase in major forest fires. And more folks building more residences on flood plains must surely mean more properties lost every time a river floods.
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Australia’s e Safety Kommisar is to step down.
But no doubt the extensive censorship regime she has put in place will stay along with social media bans for younger people.
1) I’m sure the WEF will congratulate her on “mission accomplished”.
2) What will her payout be?
3) Will her replacement be even more censorious?
4) What will she do next? UN censorship position?
Topher Field, whom she kept extensive records on, along with anyone else critical of her and her department and the Official Narrative, discusses.
Topher Field video:
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Between the toxic yank sheilas Audrey Zibelman and Julie Inman Grant Australians been comprehensively assaulted first with the travesty of renewable energy zones and now with this latest frolic purporting to establish internet regulation; let’s have no more of them.
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Foreign investment interest in so called transition to renewables in Australia has been declining for the past several years, Treasurer Chalmers has the answer …
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There goes our superannuation (retirement) funds.
It’s not “unlocking it”. It’s being stolen and out into unproductive assets.
I bet the super funds of politicians and public serpents will be protected though.
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The Union Movement and Industry Super Funds money trails might be fascinating to follow.
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And don’t forget the Future Fund of investments that Treasurer Chalmers moved onto Federal Budget a couple of years ago when creating a budget surplus position, and plan to direct the Future Fund investments into areas such as housing and clean energy projects.
Future Fund has increased from the Howard-Costello $60 billion of funds invested to over $250 billion after paying all public sector pensions since 2008 (Rudd Labor were the first to have the advantage of not needing to make pension payments provisions in budgets), and now Labor plan to raid the Future Fund for party political purposes.
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Could we be looking forward to the greatest match up since Ali def. Foreman in the Rumble In The Jungle, a Trump V Obama match up in 2028?
The (D)s are desperate and Obama is still young and ambitious so is it possible that BOTH parties will agree to reinterpret the 22nd? What do they have to lose?
Up until now I have looked at Trump 2028 as a tr0ll.
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Just 5 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRZdR9kCu4
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Thursday challenge: what is this?
https://imgbox.com/ykOjilKC
Detects when XY pretends to be XX (refrigerate first)?😆
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Yacouba double spoon, or Dan Wakemia spoon, used by Dan people of the Ivory Coast. Symbolises hospitality and represents the two distinct realms of village and forest.
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Who could disagree with this?
Australian democracy peaked with Tony Abbott. We are now in the territory of inevitable decline and a worsening of our rights and freedoms. For which the evidence is stark and plentiful.
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Have to disagree Dennis, democracy is going to peak in Victoriastan tonight when the Labour government signs into law a treaty with a very small multi racial group called “First Nations” people. This of course specifically after a referendum voted 60% against such a treaty. That’s how democracy works, the government asks for your opinion, doesn’t like the answer so just does what it wants.
That’s how a REAL democracy works.
surely I don’t need a sarc !
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Word power
Emotions People May Feel But Can’t Explain
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster- to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Haven’t heard of any of them!
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https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shattered-Green-Dreams-2025.pdf
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Signs Chris Bowen may need asylum in the net-zero nuthouse
As power bills surge, Chris Bowen clings to his vision of Australia as a renewable energy utopia. Reality doesn’t factor into his deluded climate plan. Secrecy does.
Ditto for Bowen’s plan for renewables to generate 82 per cent of Australia’s electricity by 2030. As the Fin Review noted this week, “the number of grid-scale wind and solar projects reaching a final investment decision is at its lowest level in nearly a decade”.
No-one of sound mind believes these targets can be achieved without realising a government-induced economic catastrophe. But Bowen, made chronically hallucinatory by the green mist, cannot see this.
What to do with him?
The town is the site of the former Beechworth Asylum, which was founded in 1867 and closed in 1995. I suggest it be reopened to house a special patient.
Getting Bowen to the giggle house could be a challenge, but given his outbursts lately, it will not be long before even he realises he needs an extended rest.
Ideally, when Bowen awakes, he will do so at his new digs. As he gazes around in wonder, he will be congratulated for not only achieving his targets but also for surpassing them. You did it, minister. Australia leads the world as a renewable energy superpower.
What is with the nice people in the white coats, you ask? Well, by dressing so, they are acknowledging the success of your decarbonisation program, which has restored purity to the air.
Relax, minister. No longer need you worry about hosting the UN’s COP31 climate summit. These forums are redundant now, for you have solved the world’s climate problems.
This will be Bowen’s happy place. Humouring him will not be difficult. He can wander the grounds in a high-viz vest and a hard hat, photographer in tow.
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Trump congratulates Gates on coming out on the climate change hoax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHi5IGlVyQ
Gates now just a luke warmer. Like most, not prepared to sit down and really understand why climate changes. Manabe should be in jail. He had a chance to stand tall and refuse the Nobel in Science but accepted it.
Greta is going to need a real job.
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FWIW
Book release
“Paradise Preserved : A History of Forestry on Fraser Island by Robert Onfray”
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Paradise-Preserved-A-History-of-Forestry-on-Fraser-Island-by-Robert-Onfray_p_662.html
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FWIW
“Democrat Senator Gets Roasted on Live TV With Perfect Term for Schumer Shutdown Tactics”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/10/29/dem-wrecked-live-on-shutdown-n2195638
“Once you pay up the Danegeld you ever get rid of the Dane”
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FWIW
“Joe Biden Was the Real ‘King,’ Not Trump”
Check the boxes ticked!
https://www.newenglishreview.org/joe-biden-was-the-real-king-not-trump/
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FWIW
Canada and native title
“Richmond residents tell town hall they were left in the dark on Cowichan ruling”
https://truenorthwire.com/2025/10/richmond-residents-tell-town-hall-they-were-left-in-the-dark-on-cowichan-ruling/
And
““It will never happen in Canada.” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/30/we-are-all-treaty-people-29/
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In 2022 I priced all the stuff for a new kitchen in a rental from Bunnings Kaboodle range. Having not got around to doing it, I thought I’d make a move early next year.
Just priced all the cabinets and bench-tops etc again, and they have gone up 55% in three years! So much for Albosleazy’s 5% inflation!!
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We went to the Melb burbs for assorted shopping missions today. Drove passed the BYD EV storage yard on Canterbury Road. Thousands of them, an eerily dystopian look, a lot like driving past the solar factory beside the Hume Highway at Glenrowan.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/30/guardian-ramps-up-efforts-to-ban-all-climate-dissent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guardian-ramps-up-efforts-to-ban-all-climate-dissent
Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent
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