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    Paul Cottingham

    Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan said “places that do not have ‘Free Speech’ like England” “12,000 people per annum, arrested for social media posts” “Higher than Russia and China, England is number one in the world”. ChatGPT says yes, England & Wales has the highest number of arrests for social media posts in the World, with the latest data revealing 12,183 arrests per year. I previously asked ChatGPT if it was true that Rape Crisis and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report, that England & Wales has the highest rate of rape on Earth. ChatGPT says: Yes, The UN and Rape Crisis report that the UK had an estimated total of 474,847 rapes in 2024, the highest rate in the World. Only 15% or 71,227 rapes were recorded by the police in 2024, and only 2.7% of those, or 1,923 rape charges had been brought to Court. The UN and Rape Crisis report that England and Wales has the highest rate of rape on Earth with 7.82 annual rapes per 1,000. Rape Crisis reports that only 15% of rape victims chose to report the crime to the police and 87% of the victims are white girls raped by immigrants, including those given British citizenship by the Labour & Tory Governments.

    So Elon Musk said “When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away (in Bradford). They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor”.

    So the hobbits live in ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’. Reality is a BBC drama were everyone is a nice upper-class communist except the white working-class criminal. Murderers only live in the countryside, and the blacks are more intelligent and upstanding than the neurotic whites. The hard men of Gondor protect the Hobbits from reality using OFCOM and hundreds of DSMA-Notices and get Secret Courts to issue hundreds of Super-Injunctions and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to censor and silence foreign and domestic critics, court witnesses, victims of rape and the vaccine injured.

    White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, calls the BBC a ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’. She said British taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine”, “Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day listening to their blatant propaganda and lies”. Liz Truss, the former prime minister, said that the BBC “has been captured by the woke, globalist Left, which despises Britain and everything that made us great”, “The BBC shares a large part of the blame for why this country is a mess. I have come to the conclusion that the organisation is unreformable and needs to be put out of its misery.”

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    David Maddison

    In the following tecent video US conservative Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report comes to Melbourne and interviews Senator Alex Antic (Liberal), senator for South Australia.

    https://youtu.be/hjICCpzcZBA

    Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Australian Senator Alex Antic about Australia’s political landscape; how COVID lockdowns reshaped the nation and exposed the authoritarian instincts just below the surface; immigration policy concerns and strain on housing; the failed Aboriginal Voice referendum and debates over multiculturalism; comparisons between Australian and U.S. politics; preserving Australian culture and national identity amid rising global pressures; Australia’s natural beauty and laid-back lifestyle; why Australians must defend free speech and Western values; and much more.

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    David Maddison

    Interesting video about the generally little known marine superorganisms known as siphonophorae. Little known except for the “Bluebottle” as it is known in Australia, otherwise known as the Portuguese man o’ war.

    https://youtu.be/5kkxp1n9ZJA

    Siphonophores are the largest superorganism in the ocean. At first sight they look like elaborate jelly worms that can be longer than a blue whale. But if you get closer you’ll realize it’s actually a living colony. Thousands of individuals working together as a single entity. How did they evolve to be like this? And what does it tell us about what it means to be an individual?

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    Kalm Keith

    Thanks Paul, we need to be reminded of the fact that freedom has to be fought for.
    About a quarter of a century ago my wife and I went to Once Great Britain and Europe to visit friends and relatives.
    Apart from the refugees from the former Belgian “colony” in Africa hawking their produce on the streets it felt safe enough.
    I would not go near Europe, the USA, the former Eyres rock or VicDanistan at the moment.
    In hindsight the turning point for this Great South Land was evident from the early seventies and later the internal rorting of our national government brought a well earned reckoning.
    Currently, according to their ABCCC, our nation is well managed with balanced budgets.

    We are only one Trillion in Debt.

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      David Maddison

      We are only one Trillion in Debt.

      Taking into account state and local government debt in addition to federal it’s now

      $2.184 trillion.

      http://australiandebtclock.com.au/

      Or about $84,000 per Australian but most of those will be too old or too young to work, or net wealth consumers like public serpents or politicians, leaving a massive burden on the few net wealth producers left.

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        Geoff Sherrington

        DM,
        Yesterday my wife and I – she is wheelchair handicapped – visited the beautiful asset in the Dandenongs, the National Rhododendron Garden.
        Through a friend, Dr Bob Withers, we became interested in the Garden when we moved to Melbourne in 1990. It had financial problems that resulted in my efforts to have my employer company be a large sponsor, but my CEO passed on this. Like several other people, we personally and privately donated plants to the Garden. On a 1992 trip to Scotland, I took rare seed from New Guinea of vireya species to the famous and beautiful Edinburgh Rhododendron Garden’s Director.
        Yesterday, approaching our Rhodo Garden, there was no road sign to announce the small turnoff. Arriving there, the front gate was locked. Visitors were channeled through a reception centre selling cheap souvenirs and a few plants. It was Sunday, so no bus tours.
        It was not feasible for my wife to visit. I would have had to wheelchair her 150 over rough ground from parking, up then down the stairs through the visitor centre, then down some steepish road to start to view the magnificence. No cars were allowed.
        The place reeked of a need for proper funding, learned botanical staff to talk to the public and diverse forms of public access besides walking. The garden is about a kilometre long, ok if you are young and fit.
        The desperate state of Victorian debt shows in diverse ways. The longer it endures, the less sensitive the people become. These days, it seems like those of gardening age rarely do gardening or even know what a rhododendron is.
        We are culturally as well as financially broke.
        I will soon die of old age, sad for the incompetent political mismanagement but unable to reverse it. Geoff S

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          Jon Rattin

          GS, I used to live a 10 minute walk from the gardens. It stinks that someone who has contributed to its upkeep cannot enjoy the place anymore. They used to open the gates on the weekend. They really should provide golf buggies or something similar to transport physically challenged people around the grounds.

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            Gary S

            They did have a little motorised train at one time. Incidentally, I was on the committee of the Vic. branch of the A.R.S. in the 80’s and remember Dr. Bob well also Jack Wilson, Jack O’Shannasy, the Eatons, etc. Mostly all gone now. Once the old brigade passes, they sadly take most of their years of knowledge with them as young enthusiasts are hard to find.

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          RickWill

          Geoof
          I am surprised by your experience there. I understand a lot of money has been spent on it and thought there were driven tours at set times.

          The gardens are supposed to be wheelchair friendly:
          https://fbacare.com.au/wheelchair-friendly-bushwalks-in-dandenongs/

          This from the link:
          Top Wheelchair-Friendly Bushwalks in the Dandenongs

          Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden

          The Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, formerly known as the National Rhododendron Garden, is a haven for those seeking a serene and accessible experience. The garden spans over 100 acres, offering a variety of themed areas that showcase a range of native and exotic plants. Wheelchair users can enjoy the paved paths that wind through the garden, allowing for easy navigation and close interaction with the floral displays.

          This link has a picture of one of the little buses that operates in the p[ark and details on booking:
          https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/dandenong-ranges-botanic-garden/things-to-do/garden-tours

          We visited with a Visitor from Queensland last year and were impressed with what we saw. They have new attractions including the first Australian garden display to win the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK.

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            Jon Rattin

            Yeh, most of the gardens would be friendly to a mechanical wheelchair, there are roads for gardeners to drive vehicles all around the gardens, quite a few steep hills as you know. If you open the gates, you can literally drive a bus in there. Going on what Geoff said, I think the management is trying to corral visitors through the souvenir store. Which is ok as long as they put up signs offering wheelchair access. I’ll look into it.

            Phillip Johnson reworked the Chelsea Flower Show display a couple of years ago, very impressive.
            His home isn’t far from there, l think there’s an air bnb on site. It is part of the Open Gardens Victoria from time to time, worth a look.

            https://www.phillipjohnson.com.au/#gg_cg_998/Billabong%20Falls%20%20%E2%80%93%20Olinda

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            Geoff Sherrington

            Rick,
            I just described what did happen, no reference to what could happen.
            Even getting a manual powered wheelchair through the unsurfaced car park to the entry gate was too daunting.
            My point is that the massive debt of Victoria degrades the cultural as well as the economic aspects of Victoria.
            The Rhodo Gardens are a beautiful, world class asset that needs more funds, but from where? The pot is empty.
            Geoff S

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    Sambar

    Apparently Iran is in the grip of drought. While the headline carries the highly emotive “10 million people may have to evacuate” there is no mention of climate change. Wow, what else could possibly have caused this situation. They actually mention that Iran is essentially a desert country with very low rain fall in the best of times.

    https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/iran-in-crisis-as-major-drought-forces-regime-to-cut-off-water-to-tehran-consider-evacuation/news-story/4904ad95136c385457858aea8c04fed0

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      Graham Richards

      Ironic isn’t it. The people their leaders love to hate have similar desert conditions & turned it into a” garden of Eden “. Few water problems & the best water managers on the planet. That’s not only the best thing about Israel. I hear rumours they’re pretty good whe it comes to protecting what they have & dishing up so nasty surprises.😂😂
      Don’t mess with the Jews!!

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        David Maddison

        I have visited a number of water supply and water recycling projects in Israel. It’s quite remarkable what they’ve done.

        From an arid or desert country where the Ottomans chopped down most of the trees for rail roads, production of charcoal or the bizarre tree tax, Israel has re-afforested it (and continues to do so, often with Aussie eucalyptus which thrives due to similar climate and fast growing nature, unlike native trees) and irrigated much of the land with potential to irrigate many further areas such as the Negev desert with development underway.

        Having recently visited Israel I noticed huge amounts of building everywhere with cranes all over the place building multi-storey apartment blocks. There is a huge influx of Jews from Europe due to antisemitism as Europe transitions to a fundamentally different demographic composition hostile to both Jews and Christians plus the Leftist domination of Europe. Also to a lesser extent, countries like Australia, also due to antisemitism. E.g. 100 Australian Jewish doctors are leaving, which the Lamestream Media didn’t bother reporting. https://www.jwire.com.au/100-australian-doctors-prepare-to-immigrate-to-israel/

        And most of the water projects are funded by private investors or donors so no burden on the taxpayer.

        Israel is a major exporter of water technology, including to Australia.

        https://www.afr.com/technology/the-israeli-tech-start-up-saving-australian-water-20150224-13ngq2

        Israeli water technology start-up has picked up a slew of Australian contracts, after it saved Yarra Valley Water thousands of megalitres of water and millions of dollars by installing software that identifies and tracks leaks in real time.

        TaKaDu, founded in 2009 by tech entrepreneur Amir Peleg, uses algorithms to analyse data from smart sensors in the water systems to identify bugs in the water meters, leaks and faults in other equipment. Yarra Valley Water was the first to adopt the technology in Australia, but now Sydney Water, Unitywater on the Sunshine Coast and Queensland Urban Utilities in Brisbane have also started using it.

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        Geoff Sherrington

        Iran pioneered engineered water supplies way back in history with the qanat. This is a channel down the side of a mountain, a tunnel just below the surface, to take water from mountain rain and snow down to the parched desert that was farmed.
        Today, there are hundreds or even thousands of these visible as you fly over Iran at suitable altitude.
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          Graham Richards

          Of course on cannot live in the past. Maybe the Ayatollahs haven’t noticed, the times, have changed forever! Except their ideologies of course!

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          Ted1

          When we were kids no one knew where Babylon was. But we were taught that one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was the hanging gardens of Babylon.

          How could something so magnificent just disappear?

          With four inches of annual rainfall, the most used construction material is mud bricks. They never get wet anyway. I think the Zigggurat at Ur is of mud bricks with a skin of fired bricks.

          Magnificent gardens require extensive water works. They also have extensive roots. So, did the Hanging Gardens devour the mud brick city?

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        Vicki

        In the gardens around our farmhouse we installed, years ago, a drip irrigation system which I understand the Israelis pioneered. It is spectacularly successful, even using deep bore water.

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      TdeF

      Can we sell them three unused French desalination plants? Or haven’t we finished paying for them ourselves?

      Or send them guru Prof Tim Flannery, former Australian Chief Climate Commissioner and world expert on droughts and their causes. The man who saved Australia from the Millenium drought.
      He could tell them to stop selling oil and go nuclear. “The technology is straightforward”. He is at least as qualified a scientist as Al Gore, neither having done any actual science at University.

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        Sambar

        Can’t sell the Victorian one as it’s currently producing water that , well, doesn’t need to be produced. Melbourne water supply levels are currently at 74%. But hey, save the planet but run a desalination plant on fossil fuels.
        No windmills or solar panels are being harmed producing this water.

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          Graeme No.3

          There way well be a clause in the maintenance documents (as in SA one) requiring some hours of operating regularly.
          And SA hasn’t needed water since Flannery claimed it would run out of water and become a ghost city (as also Perth) in 2008.
          Still, running the diesel plants is NOT Unknown when renewables need backup.

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            Eng_Ian

            The worst possible thing you can do for a desal plant is to have it run intermittently. The filter membranes are often ruined just by being left unused, sitting in their pressure pipes for weeks at a time, if not months.

            It would be better to mothball 95% of the plant, including removing and throwing away all the installed filter membranes of that 95% and just having 5% running 100% of the time. This is much better than running the plant at 50% production for a week, then off for 6 months. At least the installed media would be used as it was intended and not just left to rot after running in.

            And has anyone asked if the recent SA ocean problems had anything to do with the desal plants spilling concentrated brine back into them?

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              David Maddison

              There was also a problem of excessive levels of boron in the desalinated water.

              I believe much of the time they run the plant to keep the membranes hydrated, they just dump the water back into the ocean.

              That plant must have an enormous “carbon” footprint from all the coal power it consumes.

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            Macha

            Nothing to do with Flannery, but Perth desal plants supply nearly 50% these days.

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              Graham Richards

              Hopefully Perth will have half potable water if it’s 50% desalinated.

              Normally you have to descale your kettle once a month from the deposits their potable water supply leaves. It doesn’t even taste like water!

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              Graeme4

              The Water Corp claim 30-40% depending on the season, but it certainly has improved our water quality. At one stage some kettle manufacturers refused to allow their products to be sold in WA because of scale problems.

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          David Maddison

          The uneeded Victoriastan desal plant costs taxpayers around $700 million per year in repayments and maintenance costs.

          I have seen the desal plant. They pretend it runs on “renewables” and there are windmills in the area for virtue signaling, but like aluminium smelters, desal plants can’t tolerate power failures so they have to run on coal instead.

          https://vic.liberal.org.au/news/2024-01-14-costly-idle-desal-plant-adds-to-cost-of-livin

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            The Great Wonthaggi White Elephant is half owned by the ACTU super annuation funds, therefore the Liebor misgovernment in Victoria is obligated to run it in order to funnel money to those funds, and the the high level unionists and other Liebor parasites who sit on their boards with no knowledge or experience but half million a year remuneration packages.

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              yarpos

              And we havent even started to pay yet for all the disturbed rainbow serpents

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                Gob

                Surely the newly appointed sorcery annex to the Victorian parliament, name of Gellung Warl, will give respite to all alarmed reptiles irrespective of their hue.

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          TdeF

          But that’s misleading. The Thomson dam is 74.6% full but it was built to drought proof Victoria and is massive, a river valley. Built in the 1970, we would not be allowed build it today. And actually filled, for perhaps the first time after the drought which would never end. It’s so big that the Thomson level is indistinguishable from the State level! As for running the desalination plant, that’s just a joke. And once again you need steady power for any industrial process. Unpredictable power is just useless for most applications. Think elevators or traffic lights or trains or heart/lung machines.

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            TdeF

            Is Australia building new dams for the next drought? Of course not. It’s a wonder dams are not made illegal.

            As former Victorian Labor Premier Bracks informed us, ‘dams do not make water’. You could see why his job was a primary school swimming teacher. But at least he had a job unlike the appalling Dictator Dan who locked everyone up and enjoyed it. He even banned Anzac day but allowed a massive BLM march through the city. Anything in a good cause.

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              David Maddison

              And what about the $750 million North-South pipeline which was used once and then shut down by the Baillieu fake conservative Liberal regime?

              It’s purpose was to connect Melbourne’s water grid to the Murray-Goulburn water grid.

              The Liberals, Nationals and Greens all opposed it.

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                TdeF

                Australia just paid $1Billion for a pipeline from the Fitzroy river to Gladstone for Andrew Forrest’s hydrogen plant, which Forrest has just said will not be done. So another utter waste of money. Although Gladstone people like having a second water supply they do not need today.

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                David Maddison

                Forrest should repay the Australian taxpayer.

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                liberator

                Yeah to steal water from the food bowl, so you know, water costs balloon and the farmers can no longer afford the water and have to sell of their cows and the fruit trees all die just so the city folks can flush their %^^$#.

                They really need to look into recycling storm water and effluent water, but people freak out when they say recycle sewage, which is not what they are doing. They already recycle the effluent at Werribee, but it’s all flushed out to sea, perfectly good water, and with just a little more processing, is perfect for drinking.

                Technically those that live along the Murray and Goulburn rivers are already drinking recycled water. Effluent from all the towns along the rivers is treated and then discharged into the Murray and Goulburn rivers.

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                Eng_Ian

                Liberator,
                Not all towns flush their wastewater back into the river, that practice has been abandoned in a lot of the towns along the Murray, (at least in Vic), for a quite some time.

                As an example, the town of Bonnie Doon, (next to Eildon), has it’s wastewater treatment plant on the Melb side of the town. It has large storage dams for storing the winter flows, (low due to low tourism at that time of year), and in summer it takes all the wastewater and spray irrigates the land so that the grasses and trees consume the water. Any infiltration to the lake is via long/deep soil filled paths and is mostly well treated by the bugs in the soil. Any overland flow is captured and pumped back to the storage.

                With an evaporation rate well in excess of the natural rainfall inflow, the wastewater can be considered to be fully recycled and not dumped into the lake. Salt build up will be a problem in years to come if the grasses and trees are not harvested by cattle, etc.

                Similar sites exist for almost all towns on the Goulburn river, eg Seymour, Shepparton, etc.

                It’s been a long time since the Victorians gave the SA crowd something to drink in their beer.

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                That pipeline was supposed to be able to send water both ways, so that if Melbourne’s dams were getting up near where they needed to release water it could go north to Lake Eildon.

                But it is a one way pipeline, that goes into a dam that is not connected to any of the other dams in the Melbourne water supply system.

                So it is an absolutely useless waste of money.

                That’s why it was shut down.

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                yarpos

                A very dumb idea. If Melbourne is dry, so is the dam only a 150klm away.

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            Sambar

            The Thompson dam was only stage one. Thompson above Aberfeldy, then stage two Thompson below Aberfeldy. Never happened of course. The old MMBW that controlled all of the catchments for Melbourne water, had expansion plans for all the major reservoirs. The only one that went ahead that I can recall was the Upper Yarra,
            Maroondah, which traditionally spilled every year, even the drought ones is a “stage one” with any further developments not going to happen.

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      David Maddison

      Apart from being a desert country, I believe the main problem causing Iran’s water supply problem is gross mismanagement of their water supply.

      Maybe, rather than being obsessed with destroying their near neighbour, Israel, they should focus solving their own domestic problems and giving their own people human rights, including not executing rape victims. Even Amnesty is concerned.

      Strangely, the Left and “feminists” is silent about the abuse of women and lack of human rights and execution of homosexuals in Iran.

      https://www.amnesty.org.au/zeinab-executed-iran/

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        Eng_Ian

        Let them drink oil.

        How do you say that in old French?

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        Steve of Cornubia

        “Strangely, the Left and “feminists” is silent about the abuse of women and lack of human rights and execution of homosexuals in Iran.”

        Feminists: The enemy of my enemy is my friend (even if they are terrorists). They don’t say the second bit out loud.

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      tonyb

      Apparently a great deal of the problem comers from tens of thousands of illegal wells plus that the infrastructure has not been updated nor kept pace with rising population. Not helped by an undoubted lack of rain.

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        farmerbraun

        Nothing that could not be fixed by an “import” of “democracy”.
        Exporters of democracy may welcome an opportunity.

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          KP

          “Nothing that could not be fixed by an “import” of “democracy”.”

          Yep- Look at Iraq and Libya right now, its done them a power of good!

          “Exporters of democracy may welcome an opportunity.”

          They certainly would, anywhere there is oil and a smaller military than a ‘coalition of the willing’.. They’ll be there as soon a they have control of Venezuela.

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        el+gordo

        ‘Not helped by an undoubted lack of rain.’

        A friend in Cyprus said its been dry there for many months, its a regional thing generally caused by La Nina like conditions.

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          Annie

          Definitely dry there atm. There is a very large burnt out area too.
          It was cool too in both May and October when we were there.

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      Johnny Rotten

      Do what all the other smart Middle Eastern Countries do and use the Oil/Nuclear Power/Solar to power Desalination Plants. Then use the water to drink and irrigate.

      Maybe even diviert the Military/International Terrorism Budget to help their own people.

      Now, there is a novel idea you, Religious Fanatics.

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    Ian Rogers

    And now for something completely different . . . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5BQTzKF-4

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      David Maddison

      Good news.

      But will he be replaced with someone even worse, who in addition will no doubt be DEI as well?

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        MrGrimNasty

        I’m sure nothing will actually change, the bias is in everyone they employ, all the BBC jobs used to be advertised in the Guardian. They’re already saying it’s more to do with an organised campaign to discredit the BBC than any problems with actual bias!

        Trump said:

        “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught “doctoring” my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th. Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt “Journalists.” These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!”

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      TdeF

      Why did he resign? He would have the full support of both Tories and Labor. As in Australia. I have to assume he was involved in the anti Trump campaign. As was Keir Starmer who sent 100 people to interfere in the last US election on government wages. Clearly the Russians made them do it.

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        another ian

        The ALP got fined for “illegal foreign contributions” in the (IIRC) 2016 election

        Maybe the mills are grinding slowly?

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        TdeF

        It seems there was a big dossier dumped on the BBC. The Trump video was just one of many bits of utterly faked news. The promotion of unfiltered Hamas propaganda as real news items another.

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      RickWill

      Another Trump win. I expect TDS in the UK is worse than Australia.

      Trump makes the nightly news every night in Australia. I mostly watch commercial news on Channel 7 and it is tainted by Climate Change™ and TDS but it is fresh air compared with how their ABC can turn every Trump story into bad news. When the rest of the world was reporting on Trump negotiating a cease fire in Gaza, their ABC ran a report on Trump using his presidency to improve the position of his businesses.

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        TdeF

        And they all ran the line that his only motivation for peace was the Nobel Peace Prize. Greedy crass Trump. So unlike Saints Obama and Clinton.

        Barack Obama won the Peace Prize. Why? Perhaps for giving Iran the right to enrich uranium on the very solemn promise that they did not proceed to make nuclear bombs and destroy Israel. I hope he had that in writing? I can only think that Barack Hussein Obama’s Kenyan muslim family was Shia. But no one criticizes Obama. That would be racist. And Islamaphobia.

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      Bruce

      And please note that THEIR ABCESS rebroadcasts HOURS od toxic statist propaganda (posing as “news” or “informed discussion”)from From THEIR BBC every week

      This always includes a large dollop of eco-nazi climate pron and like-minded stuff.

      YOUR taxes as “work”.

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        MrGrimNasty

        With the BBC’s garden and farming/countryside programs especially, if you rang a bell every time they mentioned climate change, it would sound like a pinball machine.

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          farmerbraun

          Go on ; treat yourself.
          You know you want to.

          Google BBC environment programmes and see what you get

          Enjoy.

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          Annie

          I stopped watching them, apart for turning on near the end of Countryfile to watch Adam Henson’s segment.
          We took our two oldest grandsons to Adam’s farm during their stay with us to escape the heat of the Dubai summer.

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      Graham Richards

      Just make sure that BBC dingbat doesn’t think he’s coming to further destroy “ aunty “. (ABC) if that’s possible!

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    Greg in NZ

    On the day the 30th Crock Of Propaganda officially kicks off in Brasil (sic) even though the Americas (plural) are a day behind us, your BoM reiterates 4 days of snow for Tasmanian slopes as well as issuing warnings for cold temperatures for parts of VIC and NSW – see, decarbonisation is already working!

    Nine young grifters from New Zealand calling themselves Te Kahu Pokere have (somehow) financed a trip to Belem in Amazonia to ‘tell stories’ with fellow ‘indigenous’ folk about the need for ‘climate justice’ during this ‘crisis’ – sumpfink about being born from the land, the sea and the air – by flying halfway round the world in an aluminium tube spewing out carbon emissions™️ … tut, tut, tut.

    Meanwhile, Tongariro National Park in the centre of our North Island is ablaze – discarded cigarette or gas cooker gone rogue? – closing hiking tracks and tourist adventures just as the season begins: fuel for the COP30 kids demanding justice? At the same time, the South Island’s Great Walks are on-hold due to ‘bad weather’, or in real-speak, too much snow blocking alpine passes with associated avalanches making it too dangerous to venture into the backcountry. It sure is hard finding the perfect climate.

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      Johnny Rotten

      There is no perfect Climate, however, the peoples of the Middle East and Equitorial Regions seem to be able to adapt and handle the climate that they are given.

      I wonder why so few Humans have ever migrated to the frozen wastes, Antarctica in particular.

      There are more Humans living in warmer/hotter climates than colder/frozen climates.

      The Cold kills more Humans and Animals than the Heat.

      People on the whole are not stupid.

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    Penguinite

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/09/bbc-to-launch-investigation-into-bias-in-climate-change-coverage-report/

    Albo/Bowen I sincerely trust you are watching these global developments as the scales fall from their eyes. Your road to Damascus beckons along with the removal of barriers to understanding, such as ignorance, pride, or false doctrine. You may even save Australia from financial crucifixion

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      RickWill

      I doubt I will be called to give expert facts on either topic. But I would even fund my own trip to the UK if they were prepared to listen to me.

      But I have registered for the webinar on AEMO’s Q3 Energy Dynamics Report this Wednesday. Not sure if they will field opinions on the mess that is the NEM but I can at least show up and look for an opportunity.

      Matt Canavan is a member on the senate enquiry into misinformation on climate and energy. His words on bringing Adam Gilchrist out of the sheds first up was in line with my recommendation to only bid dispatchable generators:
      https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=69239ab6-4aec-4a79-9969-1549f2a778d6&subId=778187

      If you want the lowest cost power it makes sense to only schedule the lowest cost generator that can produce all the time. Those that can only produce occasionally should not be scheduled at all.

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      el+gordo

      ‘Reform UK deputy leader Tice said: “The BBC must investigate its appalling climate change bias. However, given recent BBC bias scandals, I have no confidence that it will present the true findings. The only solution is to have a totally independent review of the BBC’s climate scaremongering.”

      So true and the ABC too, but we’ll wait until the BBC investigation concludes before jumping to conclusions. This is good political ammunition going into the next election, assuming the beeb is found guilty of bias then so is aunty.

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    another ian

    FWIW – “Another Believer!”

    ““A Chaotic Start!” | Keir Starmer Vows To ‘Double Down’ On Net Zero at Cop30”

    “Speaking with Reporter Jessica Woodlock and Environment Editor Chris Morrison, Talk’s Ian Collins says: “You can’t make this up!” ”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/09/a-chaotic-start-keir-starmer-vows-to-double-down-on-net-zero-at-cop30/

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    David Maddison

    Do you think the billion dollar plus COP31, likely in Adelaide, will be the last ever?

    Afterall, “consensus” is being lost as reported by Jo.

    Thirty plus years is a long time for a scam to run.

    There must be new scams and new subsidies to be harvested?

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    David Maddison

    I think it’s going to be a cold summer in Melbournistan, currently 12.9C according to my weather station, 832am.

    Give us some “global warming”.

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      Ross

      Tomorrow even worse. We have an expected top of 11˚C here in Central Victoria. Rest of week very cool as well. But that’s Ok, apparently the coming summer is going to be big for bushfires. Which is what the fire authorities say every year around this time. Bit like a stopped watch- eventually it will get the right time.

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        yarpos

        Mmmmm the seasonal Christmas news cycle

        BoM predicts hot and dry (in summer, fancy that)
        Fire services warn of bad bushfire season
        Outrage as fuel prices increase at start of holidays
        Life savers say swim between the flags
        Sadly kiddies will die in hot cars and in pools and dams
        Retailers say sales are looking disma
        In January retailers celebrate record sales
        Consumer organisations warn of excessice credit card debt
        Financial stress of back to school costs after Christmas

        Looking foward we may start seeing “grid on the brink” stories

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    KP

    The Left are having a panic about the Right making ground in the polls. SMH is full articles about it-

    “The Liberals seem stuck in an ideological straitjacket on net zero…cannot understand why the Liberals are tying themselves in knots over net zero. It’s not as though the science is ambiguous on the issue. Nor the politics, with a clear majority of voters wanting action to mitigate climate change. ”

    “Liberals squander energy on net zero: Voters aren’t listening”

    “This man wants to lead the Liberal Party. He won’t if he keeps savaging the ‘liberal’ bit

    “Bragg will quit frontbench if Coalition walks away from net zero, Paris”

    “‘We have a serious problem’: Fears for Liberal future as gender quotas rejected”

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      Ross

      KP, mate, you need a medal for reading that rag. Even if it’s only the headlines. It’s like the Melbourne Age- wouldn’t even use it for kitty litter. Or as Jeff Kennett once called it, the “Labor Star”.

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      wal1957

      Bragg and all the wets that infest the liberal party should join either the labor or green parties. They are better suited there.
      They wouldn’t be missed.

      As for the voters not listening to the libs?
      When they say something in plain english without sitting on the fence I’ll listen – maybe.

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      Len

      There is no public record of Australian Senator Andrew Bragg being a member of the
      World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (YGL) program. However, he has a history of policy work and engagement on issues relevant to younger generations and the global economy, which is similar to the fields in which YGL honorees are selected. For instance, he has supported initiatives like a Senate report on regulating Crypto

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      el+gordo

      I see your SMH and raise.

      ‘About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change, a new survey suggests.

      ‘The survey, on attitudes about the impacts of global heating, also found that half of Australians were very or extremely concerned about climate change and two in five believed the climate would be “much hotter” in 2050.

      ‘Commissioned by Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University, and carried out by Roy Morgan Research, the survey also found that more than a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all.’ (Guardian)

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        KP

        “About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children…” because they can’t find a man who can do it for them, and they refuse to take responsibility in their lives.

        I’d say something more EG, but Jo wouldn’t like it!

        “carried out by Roy Morgan Research, the survey”

        Weren’t we due a new survey and index this week, some new metric was about to be launched..?

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    David Maddison

    For those that have a genuine interest in the environment there is the science and reason based Australian Environment Foundation.

    https://www.australianenvironment.org/about-us

    About the AEF

    The Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) is a non-profit, membership-based organisation. It seeks to protect the environment, while preserving the rule of law, property rights, and the freedom of the individual that underpin the material progress that is required to do so.

    We take an evidence-based, solution-focused approach to environmental issues.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    another ian

    FWIW – not going away

    ““Export Markets””

    “Dr. Byram W. Bridle- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s Bloodlust for Ostriches: Part 2

    The most hypocritical aspect of this is that the people responsible for the deaths of hundreds of valuable, healthy ostriches that were almost certainly virus-free (prove me wrong with data), likely let their own kids play on beaches and parks that are routinely populated by ducks, geese, and seagulls, and stipple-painted with the feces of these birds that serve as natural reservoirs for the virus.”

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/09/export-markets/

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    David Maddison

    Apparently, in Australia, there has been a spike in childhood drownings because under the world’s most draconian covid lockups, swimming lessons were banned. And after covid many children didn’t resume lessons. Was just being discussed on Their ABC Radio, but they didn’t confess to the covid lockups being the world’s most draconian, that was my comment.

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    RickWill

    Fung-Wong has been declared a Super Typhoon. It passed to the north of Manila but Manila still being drenched.

    So far 2 dead and 1 million evacuated.

    Central pressure now 969hPa. But it might gain intensity over water as it heads for China.

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    John Connor II

    Fresh honey anyone?

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t5gurihQuj1z23obp_720.mp4

    Vietnamese forest honey I believe.

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    OldOzzie

    Tip for the Day

    https://archive.is/sx2Ts

    Insert say https://www.afr.com/ in top search field

    then read

    https://archive.is/Whbrr

    Hmmm – will keep trying new find further

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      KP

      Here’s why Aussie is doomed! Luckily NZ broke the unions in the 1980s.

      “Almost 2000 workers at Woodside’s $12.5 billion expansion of its Pluto LNG facility voted informally over the weekend on the (8%) offer, which is less than the 30 per cent wage increase two of the main unions have been pushing for.”

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Japan’s Auto Giants Are Ditching China — and Betting Big Somewhere Unexpected
    One Asian nation is quietly becoming the world’s next automotive powerhouse.”

    https://www.autoblog.com/news/japans-auto-giants-are-ditching-china-and-betting-big-somewhere-unexpected

    Via Instapundit

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      KP

      Alo in there- Porsche going the way of Jaguar! I hope it burns them severely!

      “Porsche Just Built a One-Off 911 GT3 Inspired by the Amazon Rainforest”

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    David Maddison

    And, so it begins, or rather, continues.

    Your property is now even less safe than it used to be under Australia’s Apartheid laws.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-10/victoria-wurundjeri-file-native-title-claim-in-federal-court/105988982

    Victoria’s Wurundjeri people file native title claim for Melbourne

    The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Victoria have filed a native title claim with the Federal Court, seeking recognition over country that spans much of Melbourne.

    Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder Perry Wandin said the claim was part of an intergenerational pursuit for his people’s connection to their land to be recognised.

    “Wurundjeri people have fought for decades for recognition and respect and have been at the forefront of protecting culture and country in Melbourne and surrounds,” Elder Perry Wandin said.

    “We want the waterways, the land to be looked after.”

    The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung claim area covers most of metropolitan Melbourne, beyond the Great Dividing Range, west to the Werribee River, east to Mount Baw Baw, and south to Mordialloc Creek.

    The Wurundjeri people are already recognised as traditional owners of a similar area of Melbourne under Victorian laws.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      David Maddison

      During the original native title claims decades ago, It was Hawke that said that private property wouldn’t be affected. But people have short memories and many of the woke and stupid were not then born. And Hawke would be regarded as a conservative by today’s standards. Now, anything goes. And the communist Government doesn’t want us to own anything anyway. “You will own nothing and be happy.” according to their beloved WEF.

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        Skepticynic

        In his speech to the Fabian Society in Melbourne on the 8th May 1984 Hawke said, “The Fabian Society acknowledges the principal tenet of Marxism, the abolition of private property, in this case to own land… (and)… of patient gradualism to total government.”

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          Skepticynic

          @Admin:
          Can something be done about the shrinking edit window?
          By the time it finally arrives late, it leaves scarcely 2 minutes to complete an edit. That’s often too tight when having to manually tap out HTML tags on a cellphone.

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      another ian

      Advisors from Canada?

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        KP

        “Advisors from Canada?”

        Straight from NZ.. This is from the Maori manual of ‘how to take over a country’-

        “We want the waterways… “

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      Sambar

      Slater and Gordon are the lawyers of choice, no win, no fee except the Victorian tax payer currently funds all the advisory councils, like turkeys voting for Christmas.
      1/ The case will drag on for years so lawyers get rich,
      2/ Whatever the outcome it will be appealed ( go back to 1/)
      So very white aborigines can be connected to country, what, like every other person who also has feeling and connections to the great out doors.
      So forests and rivers can be “cared for” what does this actually mean, Let it burn? let the rivers flood or dry up?
      The privileged few will certainly be made quite wealthy by only allowing non privileged people access after paying a fee.
      None of these people are “connected to country” in any way. They wear clothes, live in houses, have mobile phones, go to the doctors etc etc etc. Sure they can have it and live a traditional lifestyle, oh no that’s not what they want.
      Poor bugger my country

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        KP

        Yep- the Maoris took over all the fisheries of NZ, the whole lot. Of course no-one said they had to fish from their traditional canoes, and then seeing they couldn’t find any Maoris to work they had to employ Asians to do the actual fishing!

        First comes Govt land and National Parks..

        After Govt land comes the private land.

        After private land comes the waterways and lakes.

        After the waterways comes the seashore and beaches.

        After the beaches comes their appointed local Council members

        After the local councils are dominated comes their apartheid Govt

        Once they can block any law at any level, they own your ass!

        Canada is starting too, and any country in that hell called Africa shows you where it goes.

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    John Connor II

    The unplugged mind: what Japan’s 2-hour rule teaches us about digital addiction

    A landmark review study published in BMC Psychiatry found that problematic smartphone use is significantly associated with higher levels of anxiety, depression, and poor sleep quality.

    The movement to ban phones in schools is becoming a global laboratory, and the results are staggering.

    In a French trial across 200 schools, researchers observed a significant reduction in cyber-bullying and, just as importantly, a visible increase in face-to-face social interaction among students (Kessel et al., 2020).

    A study of middle schools in the United Kingdom implementing bans reported a 35% increase in student participation, with teachers noting that students were “talking to each other again” (Beland & Murphy, 2016).

    Most strikingly, a county-wide ban in Brazil yielded dramatic academic improvements: a 35% boost in math scores and a 13% increase in Portuguese grades (Beland & Murphy, 2016). These findings are supported by a study in Sweden, which found that phone bans led to improved test scores, with the effects being more pronounced for lower-achieving students.

    https://millivitalacademy.substack.com/p/the-unplugged-mind-what-japans-2

    It’s not social media, it’s neuro chemistry that’s the problem!
    Pavlov’s phonezombies – you have a message, new tweet or like! Dopamine hit.

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    Maptram

    On Saturday morning I drove along the Princes Highway past Nar Nar Goon where potholes caused damage to quite a few cars and returned Saturday afternoon. Of course heavy rain (caused by climate change) was to blame. Nothing to with drivers who believe, if the speed limit is 110 kph, they can drive at 110 kph (or higher) regardless of weather and road conditions.

    I drive at speeds suitable for the conditions. That way, if there are potholes, I am able to see them in time to avoid them or, if I can’t avoid a pothole for some reason, there is less chance of damage.

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    RickWill

    One of the great deceptions of Climate Change™ is the use of anomaly to a temperature. When the data is examined you will inevitably find most of the “warming” is occurring in the periods of lower temperature. Speaking the truth would be to say it is not as cold as it used to be. And that is how it should be, given that there is more water in the atmosphere so the thermal inertia is greater and heat advection more effective.

    If you take a look at the maximum temperature using the GHCN database, you will find an interesting picture emerges:
    https://climexp.knmi.nl/data/ighcn_cams_05_0-360E_-90-90N_firstyear-lastyear_n_max_1970:2025.png

    Clearly there are not many places that get above 60C so despite being a global data set the monthly maximum temperature will usually be in the dry tropics.

    I do not know if we should credit Trump with fixing the climate but the maximum temperature has been declining since maybe 2010 but there was a downward step in 2026 and a steady downward trend since.

    Looking at Australia, there is often a downward trend in maximum temperature as well – Brewarrina Hospital for example:
    https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=048015&p_nccObsCode=40&p_month=13

    But there are records with little or no trend and even some with upward trend. Here is Perth Airport:
    https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=009021&p_nccObsCode=40&p_month=13

    And 8 degrees range over the years but probably flat from 1980.

    Then to think how well the climate clowns at BoM and CSIRO have spun this warming story that has put Australiai nto an economic tailspin. It is bad enough that I consider it professional negligence and certainly fraud.
    A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.

    Professional negligence occurs when a professional fails to perform their duties with the required level of care and skill, resulting in harm or loss to a client.

    Their ABC could also be accused of professional negligence. They are far left of Marx. An organisation never missing an opportunity to destroy its host.

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      Ted1

      It’s got to be bad before one “professional” will criticise another.

      And there is no other comeback.

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        KP

        “It’s got to be bad before one “professional” will criticise another.’

        They do get lectures on professional ethics (not client/patient ethics!) and I can’t remember the last time a doctor or a lawyer criticised another of their respective unions.

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      RickWill

      I now have the GHCN maximum monthly temperature for just Australia:
      https://climexp.knmi.nl/data/ighcn_cams_10_113-154E_-44–11N_firstyear-lastyear_n_max_1980:2025.png

      Appears somewhat suspicious but everyone knows it is all BS now so this is just more proof.

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      Honk R Smith

      “A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.”

      I will restate my previously stated observation.
      Climate Change and Pandemic amount to the greatest thefts of all time.
      Time bandits.
      Progressive governments put the fiat money printer on high with the fear manufactured approval of a naive public.
      Which is simply indebting of the future productivity of the unwitting tax base.
      Transfer that potential wealth into materialized wealth and into the pockets of Bill Gates and his WEF/UN/WorldBank ilk.
      Wrapped in a Rainbow flag.

      The future productivity of these nations may have finally been tapped out by the highest class thieves.
      Trump is likely to fail over the economy.
      (As the very most powerful factions in Western society expend every effort to eliminate him either literally or figuratively.)
      Because even he can’t fix what is too far gone.
      The great Rock of Blackness highly educated, well born, respectable process thieves probably know this, and push for CBDC for the purpose of the final emptying of the the public’s pocket.
      And the final undoing of the fragile civil rights we have managed to carve out in the fading Enlightened era.
      So they are safe in their palaces no matter how mad the peasants get.
      Especially since torches and pitch forks are now illegal.

      Their likely intent is to cull us like ostriches in Cancommuda.
      Because it becomes to time consuming to get the peasants and the animals to sign their MAID contracts.

      Are we the uninformed?
      The willfully ignorant of scientific fact?
      I guess maybe me, but I think not RickWill.
      I see no path for this greatest of all corruptions and fraud to ever be adjudicated.
      We can only hope the masters allow some faint accurate future representation of currently unfolding history.
      If that’s ever happened.

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    Gary S

    I think that in a modern (de)industrial(ised) society like Oz, there should be a reasonable expectation that you can drive on a major road without having to be on constant pothole watch, particularly on a road designated HIGHWAY ONE. Unfortunately, we are now on the downslope.
    (meant as a reply to #24.)

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      RickWill

      Your vehicle suspension will beg to differ on that topic.

      The new BYD super car is designed for Australian roads. It has the ability to detect potholes and jump over them. As well as road spikes and LGBTQ road markings:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIKAn8yDkpA

      Sio ideal vehicle for the kiddies with machetes after a heist. The BYD could be the kiddies new choice; meaning three prong owners can rest easier.

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    David Maddison

    Some people I know have sadly developed cancer. I am reluctant to suggest any harmless supplemental treatments such as fenbendazole or ivermectin protocols, which are yet to be proven but for which there is some good anecdotal evidence for efficacy but in any case are harmless. They were covid “vaccine” true believers and had multiple jabs and boosters. So I would not upset them further with an unorthodox suggestion they are unlikely to accept.

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      Ted1

      My wife has health problems, maybe :lupus”, Ooe of the symptons a rash on arms and shoulders and bsck, starting as spts and over a month or so spread to cover the areas that gett tannedd when you eork outdoors.

      I was fearing it might go all over or/and become painful’. Then the specialist gave her hydroxychloroqune, and the rash started to recede.

      Had it been myself I would have tried a dab of Ivermectin pour on formula.

      It is incredibly versatile stuff

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      KP

      Is anyone, including my immediate family, interested in the story of our new CDC an the powers it has??

      Absolutely not, and neither are they interested in the now-published 90% false positive complete failure of PCR tests as Covid confirmation.

      They don’t want to believe the conspiracy theories when they are new, and they certainly don’t want confirmation that the conspiracy theories were right! All you can do is let them live their life the way they like DM.

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    Weeny

    Does anyone know what is going on with Michael Smith’s website? Thanks

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    John Connor II

    The sad side of the government shutdown – starving people

    https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1987373729647677502

    Oh no! More chins than a chinese phonebook, no doubt a shiny new car and a $2k phone, like the others we’ve seen.
    Please send your donations to:
    [email protected]

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      RickWill

      Picked the wrong one there.

      Many years ago I watched a woman being interviewed in Brisbane claiming that there were no ambulances available to take her to hospital for tests. She would have to go in the family car; a Ford Falcon station wagon. Problem was she could not fit through the door of the car and lower herself onto the seat. The descriptor of grossly overweight understates he condition.

      During the interview, she stated that she could only have four apples for lunch but was still putting on weight. My thought was, who could actually eat 4 apples for lunch other than a woman this size and think it was a starvation diet.

      Too much of anything is poison and the woman being interviewed is proof of that.

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      David Maddison

      The Left are so insane now that its frequently impossible to tell if something like that is parody or real.

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    John Connor II

    The UK govt will not release the data…

    https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1986936327854825575

    😆

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      David Maddison

      The UK has just ruled it will not release the mortality statistics it has on deaths by COVID vaccination status because of the distress the data would cause.

      Well, fancy that.

      It looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” is correct.

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        KP

        “It looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” is correct.”

        But wait!! There’s more!!

        Remember those PCR tests that were designed to multiply nucleic acids for laboratory work, not for diagnostic confirmations?? Well-

        “Researchers analyzed data from the Akkreditierte Labore in der Medizin (ALM) — a nationwide consortium of authority-accredited medical laboratories that performed roughly 90% of all SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests in Germany between 2020 and 2023. When researchers compared the ALM’s week-by-week PCR positivity rates with the same labs’ IgG antibody testing data — essentially measuring who truly developed infection-induced immunity — they discovered something staggering:

        Only about 14% of those who tested PCR-positive during the early pandemic period (2020–mid-2021) actually developed antibodies — meaning most early “cases” were never real infections….. the true infection fraction fell to roughly 10%, implying that nearly 90% of PCR positives were false or non-infectious detections, often just residual RNA fragments amplified at CT thresholds of 35–45.”

        https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-86-of-pcr-positive-covid

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        yarpos

        Fancy passing up the opportunity to show, absolutely, how safe and effective those injections were.

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    David Maddison

    It’s a race to the bottom between Australia and Canada.

    The most stupid one wins.

    https://x.com/timhodgsonmt/status/1987643172000764381

    There’s a global race to net-zero by 2050. It’s time for Canada to compete — and win.

    The Climate Competitiveness Strategy will ensure we meet the world’s growing demand for low-carbon energy while keeping our environment clean and economy sustainable.

    Budget 2025 is our plan to build the strongest economy in the G7.

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      Graeme No.3

      But David, Canada may split when the States e.g. Ontario that want more and more money exceed the patience of those paying up (e.g. Alberta).
      In Australia, the money hungry mobs are basically in the Capital cities.

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        yarpos

        Dont see a whole lot of diff in this regard between Alberta/Sask and WA, apart from WA having no “daddy” to attach to.

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    John Connor II

    Meanwhile in the ruin formerly known as the UK.

    https://youtu.be/wAbALNjri8Q?si=n3ggsuEfRk1in_LR

    The peasants are revolting!

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “BBC Special – The BBC is a stinking Augean Stables of bias and fabrication whose licence fee is no longer tenable”

    https://newsletter.conservativewoman.co.uk/emails/webview/1350779/170676292254958666

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    another ian

    FWIW

    Houdini who dun it!

    Lavrov surfaces!

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