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Gosh! 1st again! Maybe.
Last full day here in Cyprus, though possibly no room on the flight tomorrow. Beautiful weather today with a coolish breeze. We went up to Troodos and walked, enjoying the scent of the Troodos pines.
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The web tells me the “Troodos pines” are primarily the Anatolian black pine (Pinus nigra ssp. Pallasiana). Here in central Washington State there are numerous black pines. I do not know the subspecies. My elevation is 680m such that clear sky will see a rapid drop in temperature, to rebound a few hours later. Black Pines do not do well. Consistency in the environment is crucial for the tree’s well-being. I planted 5 and when 15 years old they were clearly unhappy. They made good fuel for my wood-burning stove. {The native tree is the Ponderosa Pine.}
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The Troodos pine is a variety of black pine unique to Cyprus. There are some very old trees here and they thrive. Young ones are roughly conical in shape but older trees grow tall (slowly) and flatten out on top of the crown. They grow above about 5,000 ft. in igneus rock which is quite colourful but often green or reddish and sparkling with iron pyrites. There are other plants unique to Cyprus, one being a saxifrage that has yellow flowers. My books about the flora and fauna of Cyprus are back at home and I would need to check back on what they say.
Cyprus also has its own moufflon, as depicted on Cyprus Airways aircraft years ago.
It’s been good to view Orion the right way up!
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It’s interesting how different folks view, or care about, the same news.
Y’day there were two big news items:
1. Au/Ag going parabolic. OK, I’m a stacker but anyone who thinks that the price of gold skyrocketing in a macro sense doesn’t effect them should get their head out of their power bill.
2. The return of some hostages. That mattered in the short term but what does it entail within context of the broad “Peace in the middle east”? I don’t know but I thought it would at least spark interest.
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“going parabolic”
Are you implying it is about to drop like a rock?
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Regarding the hostages, I was under the impression that ALL of the living hostages have been returned. All that is left of the bodies of the ones who died in captivity,some of which will apparently be hard to find since they were discarded like worthless detritus when they ceased being useful and no one bothered to keep track of where.
As far as what that means for the broader peace process? It means it can move forward. And it means that if the peace fails and the fighting starts again, Israel will be completely off the chain to do what they please now that the Hamas threat of executing/torturing hostages is gone. Which Hamas surely knows, so I am tentatively optimistic that means they really do mean to follow through and end this thing (until a decade or two from now when it starts up all over again).
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The pro war journalists are now asking if the peace will last. Of course not! It’s the Middle East and has been at war for 5,000 years. Cities have been totally destroyed. Like Berlin or Dresden or 30% of London. And then it is all forgotten. Which is why cities keep growing and the old archaeology is 15 metres down. Troy was destroyed many times for example as there are 15 Troys on the one spot.
But after the Israeli air strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Qatar has abandoned Hamas!
As has Indonesia, the largest muslim country and President Probowo has made a sudden visit to Israel and Gaza. Indonesia built the hospital and Hamas built underneath
but now everyone is talking peace, especially Qatar now that Trump has sworn to protect them from Israel.
Qatar it seems and that means the Royal Family are behind Zohran Mamdami, the prospective extremist Communist who is likely to be unopposed as the new Mayor of New York city. So it’s all very complex, but Trump has unravelled the connections and everyone is now as scared of a nuclear armed Israel as they were of a nuclear armed Shiite Iran. (Shiite are the majority in Iran, Iraq, Azerbijian, Sunnis in Indonesia and everywhere else)
So the Abraham Accords of Jared Kushner can go ahead. Once Saudi sign, there is a clear military division in the Middle East and Arab nations make their peace with Israel. Iran though is not Arab, simply Arab dominated since conquered and previously a Zoroastrian country oppressed by foreigners. As was Spain until 1492 and the final Reqconquista.
All it would take now is another revolution in Iran and there could be a lasting peace. Iran is now the oppressed country fearing its own people.
Why does this all matter? Oil.
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“Why does this all matter? Oil.”
No, no can’t be! We are Beyond Petroleum now an the world is run on sunshine, wind and unicorn flatulence. Oil is not needed with our biofuels and electric cars, so the Arab world is worthless… Some TV/newspaper told me.
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The US is the world’s largest oil producer and there are pipes from another large producer. The argument that the US would go to war for oil is unconvincing and soo 20th century.
They do get involved in maintaining an orderly market though.
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20 hostages out of 250. No female survivors.
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For me the big news was Never To Get The Nobel Peace Prize POTUS H!tLer speaking to the Knesset on the occasion of making peace.
I heard he may the first GoY to get Israel’s highest award.
Such a thing.
It’s like as if men can’t birth children.
Or as if Free Speech were still an important Western democratic value.
Or beachfront real estate prices might drop.
I’m glad cooler heads are prevailing amongst the educated elite as they maintain their heroic warning to us ignorant peasants about the danger that POTUS H!tLer represents.
It’s like a Populist Pandemic.
Lockdowns and Digital ID are the only answer.
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The Israel prize is for Israeli citizens only but rarely exceptional non-citizens. The only other non-Israeli it’s been awarded to is the Indian Zubin Mehta in 1991 for services to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).
And now TRUMP.
The Nobel Committee made a huge mistake not giving the Peace Prize to TRUMP. They let their TDS get the better of them. They give it ti someone most have never heard of, the Venezuelan Opposition leader who is in hiding. It’s sad that she has to hide but she hasn’t actually stopped any wars or got any hostages back like TRUMP.
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Oh and apologies,
I forgot to mention how POTUS H!tLer has now made it safe for young LGBTQ+ westerners to travel to Gaza and safely help celebrate the ending of hostilities started by Israel that they so bravely helped stop.
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Best comment I have read so far.
Trump triumph is bad news for his adversaries
By Byron York
Trump’s successes make for bad days for his most zealous opponents.
And Monday in the Middle East was one of Trump’s greatest successes, perhaps his greatest so far — and therefore one of the worst days ever for his adversaries.
On the Middle East deal specifically, here is how one perceptive observer, Temple University professor Jacob Shell, put it: “Seems like the Trump/Kushner vulgar dealmaking style is just more effective for Middle East geopolitics than the outwardly highminded ‘Peace Studies’ approach preferred by Democrats and their nonprofit proxies.
Harris win would surely have meant no ceasefire now.”
At this moment, that seems indisputably true.
The bottom line is that Trump simply knew better than the elite consensus how to approach the seemingly intractable problem of this latest Middle East conflict.
Yes, that is likely galling to some in the Resistance, just as the pro-Trump celebrations across Israel are galling, or at least mystifying, to the Trump-is-H@tler crowd.
But perhaps all can be thankful that Trump was free to make peace — and not in the New York prison his adversaries hoped to put him in for years to come.
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This is Trump’s pitch to the Jewish voters in the USA a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TezaShAib24
He has kept his promise for the entire Jewish community across the globe.
Snivelling Sleezy can bask in his misery of supporting terrorists. What an absolute clown in the mould of Macron, Carney and Starmer. None of them are leaders – they lack values and conviction. Their credibility crashes as Trump praises the good people and good will he attracts: Lokk at him in Israel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ddcIw2JtdM
So well informed. So at ease on the world stage like no one before him.
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Trump’s deal-closers have done what traditional diplomats never could
Kushner and Witkoff have made progress by remembering national interests, not virtue-signalling to international counterparts
The events in the Middle East this week have been truly extraordinary.
But the way in which the Trump administration has gone about handling foreign affairs has upended conventional wisdom.
The Trump approach is reaping enormous results, and is worthy of deep reflection.
The essay question is a simple but stark one.
How is it that a brash New York property tycoon, aided by two more New York real estate businessmen, has been able to succeed on the world stage where the most lettered of men, the most experienced career diplomats, have failed repeatedly?
For too long, generations of foreign policy makers have become more focused on virtue signalling to counterparts in international organisations, or a domestic base, than on solving problems and working in their national interest.
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I was once too.
You can’t move bullion easily and without interrogation by authorities, and risks confiscation.
It’s not readily exchangeable or barterable with the great unwashed or business.
Bullion jumps when confidence in government falls which tells you all you need to know.
Gold will be $5k by 2032, but by then other life-affecting things will be far more important.
Looming events: WW3, global socio-economic meltdown, real AI, disease-X, increase in major quake and volcanic activity in 2026, and bullion won’t help in any of them.
Keep on stackin’…
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I could make a similar list for every other asset.
As for precious metals, they are the ONLY ‘money’ that would survive a catastrophic global financial meltdown, one where barter became the only way to feed your family. That’s why I bought into them back in 2014 I think it was. The increase in ‘spot value’ is nice to see, from the perspective that many, many, many other people see PM’s as a safe haven too, but it won’t get anywhere near what a small piece of gold or silver would be worth if all other forms of ‘money’ become worthless or, as in the case of crypto, simply vanish into the ether.
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JC II, you’re a learned man, maybe you can tell me what this WW III you fear will look like.
The unthinkable is possible but I doubt that is what you meant. “Conventional” war cannot go global, being fought on multiple oceans and lands, so it will be limited in scope, something like Ukraine.
China could invade Taiwan but that is a second war, not an expansion of the existing one, as I see it.
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Maybe the red-thumber can enlighten me. I have asked this Q many times but garnered no response.
Surely I am not the only one curious about this.
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It’s not some fantasy or conspiracy theory as should be apparent to the informed by now, in the same way that WW1 and WW2 would have been preposterous notions before they happened, had they been suggested.
No-one, except the neocon nutjobs, knows for sure what the trigger event will be.
A NATO false flag event is the most likely for Russia or Trump giving Tommy’s to Ukraine, Iran/Israel 2nd, North Korea/South Korea – no, China/Taiwan – no, Syria – no, India/Pakistan – no.
Primary targets – EU and UK.
As for the global aftermath ramifications, detailed projections have been around for years. Least affected locale – northern edge of Antarctica.
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‘A NATO false flag event …’
Nah, its more likely that petrol in the Russian Federation will disappear by Xmas, bringing about total collapse.
WW3 averted.
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In Australia, you can buy up to $5000 worth of bullion without the need to provide i.d. We have bought as a couple, which means $10,000 at a time.
The government can’t confiscate it if they don’t know you have it. Also, if the shtf, a black market will emerge overnight, enabling free exchange of metals for goods. Just make sure you have some easily tradeable small denominations (silver coins).
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Yes, it’s GOLD FEVER time in Oz!
Panic buying abounds.
Colesworth and general stores accept bullion as payment too! (Not).
Food, cash and other essentials first.
Luxury investments 2nd.
Black markets mean black market prices.
10oz silver for a roll of TP sounds fair! 😆
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Yes there is a bit of panic buying about. The media was bemiused by people queing outside Sydney bullion dealers last week.
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“Food, cash and other essentials first.”
Sadly unobtainable as the banks confiscated the savings after the economy crashed and the Chinese demanded their loans be repaid… Without jobs and their savings gone, people who had their houses as wealth, or money in banks, or super in investment houses.. all found they had nothing.
This problem was compounded when the Govt printed money non-stop and the supermarkets ran their own black market of silver and gold only buying stuff, not paper promises. $10,000 for a roll of TP, or a gram of silver..
Read about French inflation in the 1700s JC… The Govt sent their thugs around to steal food from the people, yet in the end it was the Govt that fell.
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By “panic” I assume you mean FOMO?
I hear that there is indeed some panic among various gold-light central banks, so perhaps that’s what you mean? Those who had shorts in place would be in trouble, too.
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>buy up to $5000 worth of bullion without the need to provide i.d
True, but when you want to sell it back to the bullion company you have to provide ID whatever the amount.
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Not panic buying, been invested for quite a long time. Way in front – for now – but anything can happen. The trick is not having all eggs in the one basket. Also invested in art and other things. Growing food and shooting meat, fishing. Can you ever be prepared enough?
You also can’t live your life in depression mode worrying unnecessarily when you have limited time.
Oh, and I won’t be selling bullion back to the dealer.
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>buy up to $5000 worth of bullion without the need to provide i.d
True, but when you want to sell it back to the bullion company you have to provide ID whatever the amount.
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FWIW
Some more on the Middle East
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/soaring-hope-monday-october-13-2025?
And more destocking at CDC
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And some more
“The Living Are Home”
“Time will tell. For now, for all my money is on hudna and taqiyya, I will hope and pray for something more, something better, and something that eliminates a huge threat to Israel and the U.S. (which originates in Iran). For all that this has been crippled, or at least knocked back for a time, I would love to see the threat eliminated, for as long as it exists true and just peace is not likely.”
More at
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2025/10/13/the-living-are-home/
Via https://instapundit.com/750619/#disqus_thread
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And
“It’s a great Indigenous People’s Day for the Jewish people, who had a kingdom in Israel more than 2,300 years before Columbus, & were ejected from that land by a Western colonial empire.”
https://x.com/baseballcrank/status/1977790364351181166
More at https://instapundit.com/750488/#disqus_thread
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Has anyone noticed the star system above has an optimistic rounding system 9.3 is 10 stars, I like it.
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I just made it 9.5!
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Bombshell Vax vs. Unvax Study Finally Sees the Light of Day — And the Results Are Staggering
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/bombshell-vax-vs-unvax-study-finally-sees-light/
I have always been pro children’s vaccinations, however of late I have seriously had thoughts against it as the amount children get in one hit, more than when I was a kid, the amount given over a short period of time seems to me do not give the immune system to adjust before given another shot.
2 what are now grown adults in my neighborhood where both seriously damaged mentally when vaccinated as children and are both in care homes as there parents are now too old to look after them.
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Using mercury in vaccinations has to be a serious issue. It is something that RFK Jr raised in his Joe Rogan interview that I was unaware of.
The real concerning aspect with mercury is that it accumulated in the brain so the level decreases in the blood over time but there is no matching decline in the brain. You can imagine that lots of mercury dosed vaccinations for toddlers is not going to be good for their overall health. So saved from some serious disease but at the cost of some level of brain damage.
There does not seem to be many studies on this. The only one RFK referred to was with monkeys.
The aspirin- autism linkage was an interesting development.
My GP aims to find the cause of an issue before prescribing. She avoids drugs if at all possible.
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There may be another link to Autism.
AT the Dr Rich Swier website there is an article Tylenol and Autism:More to the Story. Listed today under Economy.
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Alaska has been hit by a typhoon. A quick search shows that this is now a yearly event, where previously it was only the odd hurricane, and mostly decadal. Global warming?
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Of course, what else could it be.
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Zelda (1991), John (1994), Phanfone (2014), Dolphin (2015), Trami (2018), Hagabis (2019) although most are the remnants of storms elsewhere and windup will nowhere else to go except in the pages of The Guardian.
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I enjoy the scenery best whenever the seagulls are around.
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Not solely the norther hemisphere warming.
I predicted increased NH advection this year due to the higher than recent average heating season solar intensity and lower than average cooling season sunlight. That means increased advection as detailed on this chart I posted a few weeks back:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Weather_Seasonal_Prediction_Sep25-1759668500.4747.png?fit=720%2C960&quality=75&ssl=1
The fourth point discusses the higher NH advection; predicting more rainfall in fall eventually leading to above trend snowfall.
There are large year-to-year swings in top of the atmosphere solar intensity that climate models ignore because they are based on solar energy rather than solar power. Temperature is a response to power, which is energy in a given period. When the Sun is north of Earth’s elliptic as now, the NH gets more sunlight than when the Sun is south of Earth’s elliptic.
If you only consider energy, you are blind tio the fact that the NH solar power was up during the heating season but down during the cooling season. So the temperature difference that drives the convective storms was higher this year than last.
The NH trend observed this year is similar to the long term trends in solar intensity that has been driving the increase in spring and summer temperature as well as increase in snowfall. Ultimately the warming NH oceans lead to reglaciation of the NH. So far only Greenland;plateau is increasing in altitude. Within 200 years, the permafrost will be increasing right across the NH. Firstly on the peaks and northern slopes near the Arctic Ocean then the glaciers advance down and south over the next 9,000 years.
This cycle has occurred for millions of years now. Each time the NH is largely ice free and the solar intensity starts increasing in the NH the ice starts accumulating and the ocean level drops. History repeating:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-57.png?quality=75&ssl=1
Earth’s orbital precession dominates Earth’s climate cycles and now is no different to 430ka apart from Greenland having less ice then and oceans around 10m higher than present. This time around, Greenland has retained most of its ice as it did 120ka, 200ka and 330ka. The loss of most of Greenland was in a period of low orbital eccentricity and deglaciation occurred over two precession cycles rather than only oner.
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‘Global warming?’
The cause of global warming is not CO2, the Holocene climate max endured for 2,500 years.
‘ … during the Australian Holocene Hypsithermal, CO2 levels were at their lowest in Antarctic ice cores.’ (Patrick De Deckker 2022)
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Qatar has been granted a slice of the USA to set up an airforce base on an existing US base.
https://apnews.com/article/idaho-qatar-us-air-force-base-fc1506584e7833dbde3e16fe8613b6b4
It highlights the growing alliance between USA and Qatar. I figure that is why Qatar were instrumental in bringing the Arab nations together to help resolve Gaza.
It pays to foster friendships.
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I don’t know the original source of this or whether a psychiatrist actually said it, but nevertheless, the statement stands on its own merits and in my observations is true.
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My thoughts on the Hamas “peace” deal.
Qatar fund terrorism including Hamas.
Israel attacked the billionaire Hamas leaders Qatar was protecting and supporting for many years who were living in luxury in Qatar.
The US has a major military base in Qatar which Qatar thought would protect them from any attack, after all, who would attack them if they had a major US military base?
But they were wrong.
America let Israel attack the Hamas billionaire terrorists who were protected by Qatar. (Just as the US attacked bin Laden in Pakistan who were protecting him and no one complained except Pakistan.)
This scared the sh-t out of the Qataris.
Therefore TRUMP told them that if they want protection they had better tell their Hamas friends to return the hostages or there would be more action.
TRUMP and Bibi are masters at 4D chess and played Qatar who was the key to the deal.
Qatar, like all their brothers don’t want peace, perpetual war against the infidel is part of the their core identity and has been for 1400 years. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people and then everyone else.
They didn’t support peace because they believed in it, they did it for their own survival, as did Hamas.
In the religion of these people it’s called a “hudna”, a strategic temporary ceasefire at a point of weakness to give them time to regroup.
This “peace” is only temporary. Fortunately for the terrorists they have many useful idiots in the West supporting them.
And how’s that conquering of Europe and other Western countries except the US going which the Left are encouraging and facilitating?
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/07/13/reckoning-needed-between-terror-sponsoring-qatar-and-united-states/
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Qatar is spending big on US aircraft and air defence systems. Israel proved they need it.
That makes Qatar heavily reliant on USA and gives some of the gas and oil income to USA to strengthen its weapons manufacturing. So much so the USA has granted Qatar access to US air base to set up their own training facilities.
Those sort of military ties on the ground build lasting relationships. English is now a common language in Qatar. Religion is declining in Qatar as it does in all well educated populations.
Median age in Qatar is now 35yo and rising rapidly. Average salary in Qatar is USD65k – about 10% higher than Australia and USA. So ageing population and growing income drives a conservative tendency. They are not going to be particularly tolerant of terrorism. I doubt their population fear going into shopping malls as is now the case in Victoria and other parts of Australia.
Qatar is using its fossil fuel income to establish its place in the world. I figure they already value that pace and want to strengthen it. I have not gone beyond the Doha terminal but that was a pleasant experience.
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The Australian quietly passed legislation enabling them to take your entire life savings and all your super
https://youtu.be/Kqhg9VItvUc?si=mrq1Ki8ua8-K5Z-N
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“• How APRA and the government can take control of your super “in the national interest”
• Why your super is not legally “yours” (you’re only a beneficiary, not the owner)
• How your super is used to prop up banks, corporations and media companies”
Of course, you will own nothing and be happy… How else will China recover its investments in Australia.
The only money to have in a bank is debt, let them worry about getting it back. Otherwise we are all subject to the ‘pump and dump’ by the banks and their cronies, and the politicians who no doubt make millions each every time the cycle happens. Shame about the gold standard…
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Not at all!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/precious-metals/gold/a-return-to-gold-is-not-the-solution/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/precious-metals/gold/the-new-world-alternative-order/
Sorry, a gold (or silver, or Cowrie shells) standard and peg just won’t work or fix anything.
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The gold standard line is oretty specifically about Nixons move away from gold, the rest is just waffle from someone with something else to sell
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“Sorry, a gold (or silver, or Cowrie shells) standard and peg just won’t work or fix anything.”
I think you’re confusing a gold standard as a cash reference to a gold, and gold as coinage where the only money is gold.
A gold standard of $30 per ounce is always subject to alteration by politicians, as we have seen in the past, so it has a limited effect on Govt’s ever-present inflation.
A gold coinage is beyound the politician’s grasp as there is only so much gold to circulate and they can’t inflate that. The only thing to stop is Govt trying to issue promissory notes, as we have seen in the past too.
When we ran on gold and silver, long before central banks and politician’s promises, there was no inflation for decades at a time.
By the way, what do countries steal the moment they over-run a city owned by the enemy?? Did you see the photos of the Marines loading gold into aircraft containers in Baghdad? Politicians do know what to steal and what has REAL value.
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The fake conservative Libs were in power the. Either Turnbull or Morrison was PM when they passed the legislation.
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…and what was the ethical quality of pollie that the voting masses got?
Yup.
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The Left at its best, Govt handing over $12million to get an art festival off the ground, when it is obvious any art is worth exactly what people are willing to pay for it. All Govt-sponsored art is no more than statues of Lenin. Its time for art to be capitalist-based again!
“Destination NSW’s reported $12 million deal securing the rights to South by Southwest (SXSW) was lauded as an “unparalleled coup” …the event, which receives $100,000 in cash from the City of Sydney annually plus value-in-kind through venue hire fee waivers….But it’ll cost you at least $695 (the price of the new Conference One Day pass, ”
So, there’s a lot of money sloshing around at a feel-good festival where “It’s such a vibrant, creative space filled with the people we most want to reach… gamers, creators, and digital innovators,” but on other people’s money!
“Destination NSW refuses to confirm its level of investment in SXSW Sydney, with a spokesperson citing specific figures as “commercial-in-confidence”, and referring to previous claims from SXSW Sydney that the event, from 2023, has contributed $200 million to NSW’s economy. ”
Lol! Flying pigs too!
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/taxpayers-forked-out-millions-to-host-this-world-class-festival-of-festivals-in-sydney-was-it-worth-it-20251009-p5n19b.html
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Chinese Tofu dregs Tuesday
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t42r2aUzXF1z23obp.mp4
Yep.
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Looks like that high wall was only concrete blocks, without any form of steel I-beams driven well into the subsoil. My son had to reinforce his 2.5m side wall with large I-beams driven a metre into the ground at an angle and reinforced with concrete, then filled with large concrete panels. Couldn’t see any sign of this type of construction.
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Corrupt practice in the building industry has produced widespread tofu dregs. Ultimately they’ll have to pull them all down and start again.
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We all have a chuckle at Chinese engineering, but their ginger beers are as good as any, just more corrupt than most, or their bosses, their subcontractors, everyone.
Do not be fooled about the quality of their arms either, there is a lot of hopium built into their stuff.
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Testing a parachute from Amazon
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t42l509ztX1z23obp.mp4
DO try this at home,, not at 10,000 feet.
Terminal velocity reached.😆
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Normally you dont get the risers (the black bit below the red lines ) with the canopy. It looks like its his own amateur rigging thats failed rather than Temu Para Inc.
Iffy choice deploying while dragging stuff, but I guess you had to be there.
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The amazing effect on Ivermectin on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
A stunning revelation from the front lines of medicine. Dr. William Makis is reporting unprecedented success using ivermectin for two of our most devastating neurological conditions: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
His accidental discovery is yielding results that defy conventional expectations. For Parkinson’s, high-dose ivermectin (60-72mg) is facilitating remarkable recoveries. Patients on maximum standard treatments, once barely mobile, are now experiencing dramatic improvements in movement and symptoms. One such patient, after a few weeks of treatment, returned to playing golf—an activity lost for years.
The outcomes in Alzheimer’s are even more profound. Dr. Makis details how family members, following his protocol of low-dose ivermectin (12-24mg for a few days), are witnessing what can only be described as medical miracles.
Loved ones who had not recognized family members for years are suddenly reconnecting. Memories are flooding back; cognitive abilities are being restored. In one extraordinary case, a patient was taken off hospice after their condition improved so drastically.
The stories are heart-rending: “My grandma’s back.” Families are reclaiming precious time with loved ones they felt they had lost forever. All from a few pills of a medication with a well-established safety profile.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1976770305239535824
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Hope Hanrahan sees this.
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Ross, Mrs H is beyond any hope so I read such articles with a pragmatic, not hopeful, attitude.
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I’m sorry but when people start regrowing arms or legs I will believe they can regrow brain cells. I am open to the suggestion that there may be cells which have been “bogged” in amyloid plaque that are still alive and can be reconnected to the system so a definite improvement is registered. You would need to believe that amyloid plaque “causes” the disease to accept that though.
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FWIW
“Bombshell Vax vs. Unvax Study Finally Sees the Light of Day — And the Results Are Staggering”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/bombshell-vax-vs-unvax-study-finally-sees-light/
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Earth’s Crust Is Breaking Apart off the Pacific Northwest
A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries.
With unprecedented clarity, researchers have captured a rare geological event: a subduction zone—the point where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another, actively fracturing.
The finding, published in Science Advances, offers new insight into the dynamic processes shaping Earth’s crust and raises important questions about long-term earthquake risks in the Pacific Northwest.
Subduction zones are among Earth’s most powerful and influential geological systems. They propel continents across the globe, generate catastrophic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and recycle the planet’s crust back into the mantle.
However, these colossal systems don’t last forever. If subduction zones never ended, continents would continually collide and merge, eliminating oceans and erasing the planet’s geologic history. For decades, scientists have asked one key question: what exactly causes these immense systems to come to an end?
“Getting a subduction zone started is like trying to push a train uphill—it takes a huge effort,” said Brandon Shuck, a geologist at Louisiana State University and lead author of the study. “But once it’s moving, it’s like the train is racing downhill, impossible to stop. Ending it requires something dramatic—basically, a train wreck.”
A natural laboratory off Vancouver Island
Just off Vancouver Island, in the Cascadia region where the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates slowly descend beneath the North American plate, scientists believe they have found the answer.
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Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
The Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, in an extraordinary move to ensure a sufficient supply of its chips remains available in Europe amid rising global trade tensions.
Nexperia, a subsidiary of China’s Wingtech Technology, specializes in the high-volume production of chips used in automotive, consumer electronics and other industries, making it vital for maintaining Europe’s technological supply chains.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
The government takes control…
Well, it’s game over for Nexperia then. 😁
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Democracies ay?? Best form of Govt, the opposite to tyranny, where Govts can just march in and steal anything you own… Oh wait..
Good thing I’m not Xi, once it was obvious Nexperia had lost everything to Govt theft a quick call to my friend Putin and the factory would not exist. Then the Dutch definitely don’t get their chips.
The next bunch of parasites wouldn’t be so keen to steal something that didn’t belong to them either.
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FWIW
“Break out the baloney!”
https://pipeline-online-v1757468080.websitepro-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/unrecognizable-mature-man-standing-at-dining-table-cutting-roasted-turkey-for-thanksgi-SBI-350088306-980×551.jpg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/13/break-out-the-baloney/
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FWIW latest Kunstler
“The Matrix Abides
“[S]omebody once observed that so much of leftism is pretending not to understand things that everyone understands.” — Kurt Schlichter on “X” ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-matrix-abides
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Did you know that every single living Israel hostage returned, twenty, by Hamas was male?
They presumably murdered any remaining females because they didn’t want them to tell the world of the horrific sexual violence inflicted upon them.
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Yes, I did notice that, it’s blindingly obvious.
We already know that they killed a mother and her two children outright.
The hostages are not returned until ALL the bodies are returned.
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I found a list from back in June of known live and dead hostages. There was only one woman outstanding.
Deceased hostages being held by Hamas:
28 deceased hostages are being held by Hamas in Gaza. These include:
Hadar Goldin
27 hostages who were abducted on October 7.
Hostages abducted on October 7 held by Hamas:
49 people abducted by Hamas on October 7 are still in captivity:
48 men and one woman, of whom:
45 are Israeli citizens and four are foreign citizens (2 Thai nationals, 1 Nepali national, 1 Tanzanian national).
Of these, 29 deceased hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza (including 1 Tanzanian national and 1 Thai national).
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Tuesday medical craziness, starring the UK
A strange vaxx ad for pregnant women:
https://www.glastonburyhealthcentre.nhs.uk/campaign/maternal-vaccinations-stay-strong-get-vaccinated/
The dawn of the foam packing bean baby?
Doctor walks out mid-surgery to satisfy his needs with a nurse.
https://x.com/NickBuckleyMBE/status/1968256525350379829
Even Monty Python didn’t do that!
NHS – first cousin marriage has benefits.
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1972370778789196135
Low IQ, inbreeding, cult-worshipping has benefits?
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The data center financial crisis
Harris Kupperman initially thought data centers were financially questionable, but after talking to industry insiders, he realized the situation is catastrophically worse.
Kupperman originally assumed data center components would depreciate over 10 years, but learned from two dozen senior professionals that the actual lifespan is just 3-10 years due to rapid technology advances. His revised calculations show the industry needs $320-480 billion in revenue just to break even on 2025 data center spending alone. Current AI revenue sits around $20 billion annually.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/10/13/run-its-gonna-blow/
Yup. The rate of progress almost makes them unviable by the time they’re built.
Why don’t people listen and understand.
MOAR taxes!
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Makes you wonder what becomes unviable about a box with power, cooling and comms.
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In South Korea, covid “vaccination” caused hair loss.
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A friend of ours developed Alopecia after a few shots, still happy to front up for more if instructed though.
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This site near a Sydney metro station could be home to hundreds. Instead, 50 people will work there
The proposed $1.5 billion data centre 15 kilometres north of the CBD on Julius Avenue is 750 metres, or a 10-minute walk, from North Ryde metro station.
A 51-metre-high, seven-storey data centre, with 50 operational staff, and a maximum power consumption of 170 megawatts (enough to power more than 240,000 homes for a year), will be built.
There are multiple data centres within the Macquarie Park corridor, as 45 per cent of land in the tech-intensive district is zoned for productivity support. While this promotes jobs and industrial activity close to transport hubs, it also prevents sites such as the one at North Ryde from being used for housing.
The 28,630-square-metre site, which shares a southern border with Lane Cove National Park, will have offices, 54 car spaces, 73 back-up generators, and capacity for 1.3 million litres of diesel to be stored onsite.
The developers are proposing 509 trees be cut down to make space,
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A stupid statement on two levels.
If it is 179MW it has no time limit.
Homes are now quite capable of powering themselves and the data centre. It is the smelters that the rooftop solar struggles with and they run on coal.
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73 back up generators sounds interesting as does 1.3 Mlitres of diesel. Thats some serious tankage for the suburbs.
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What was the idea behind that ridiculous number of gensets? Just asking….
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FWIW
“The European Union Is About to Crack”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/european-union-is-about-crack/
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This paragraph gives the essence:
Europe is now irrelevant. It may help[ fix the immigration problem because the wealthy Arab States will be a more attractive destination for immigrants as EU decays. Not that different to the blue to red States in USA.
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FWIW
“Art Of The Deal”
“Fox News: Israeli lawmakers declared Trump ‘the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House’ ”
And much more in links and comments
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/13/art-of-the-deal-82/
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FWIW –
In comments there – could be interesting to hear what Buddy really thought!
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Tuesday WTF: Wind turbine blade detaches and lands 75km away!
https://x.com/AmericaReal3/status/1977803799595974977
😆
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Never seen a two-bladed wind turbine. The blade passing the tower creates nasty vibrations when there are only two.
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In her own words. Talks about her admiration for POTUS Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-KpDC6eyI
And decisive action in tearing down the criminal structures:
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I hope everyone watched Starship 11 this morning, a faultless flight from the re-used booster and the latest type of Starship V.1. Next will be V.2 for the ship, new engines and more improvements on the booster.
It launched another dozen Starlink dummy version-3 satellites, ready for deploying 60 at a time as the Starlink setup gets higher capacity in each new V.3 satellite.
…and they have their first customer for transport to Mars.
America is so lucky to have that guy!
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FWIW
“Leftists Take To Streets To Protest End Of Genocide”
https://babylonbee.com/news/leftists-take-to-streets-to-protest-end-of-genocide
Via SDA
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FWIW
“The History of Beer – A Map-Based Summary”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ISZfqoF8Q
Via SDA
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FWIW
“Ranked: The World’s Fastest Shrinking Countries”
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-fastest-shrinking-countries-by-population/
Via SDA
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FWIW
“One Daily Beef Chipolata and a Small Nibble of Cheese: Eco Nutters Reveal New Planetary Health Diet”
“Ignorance of basic human biology and the woke propagandising of food ‘science’ to control global human behaviour lies behind the recently-published second version of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet (PHD). Produced by dozens of credentialled cretins around the world, it restricts meat and dairy consumption to levels not seen since the Second World War. Pasty-faced and possibly protein-starved researchers suggest around 15 grams of red meat a day and promote a mainly plant-based diet. A suggestion to cut agricultural emissions by 50% within 25 years means using much less hydrocarbon-produced fertiliser, and that would lead to mass global starvation. But then this potty planetary piss-take could only have been suggested by people who believe that, whatever societal devastation they cause, the soy latte will magically appear as they make their way to Whole Foods to pick up their organic humous.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/14/one-daily-beef-chipolata-and-a-small-nibble-of-cheese-eco-nutters-reveal-new-planetary-health-diet/
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