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The Swiss fire has thrown up some disturbing photos. This one shows how easily the foam sound insulation on the ceiling turned into a fireball. I don’t know if this stuff is still commonly used to deaden sound
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15428987/New-footage-shows-exact-moment-fire-begins-spread-Swiss-nightclub-ceiling-cheering-youngsters-dancing.html
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As part of various safety related training courses over the last 20+ years, I’ve seen a few iterations of videos demonstrating just how fast a tiny fire can spread in a home or an office. A discarded burning cigarette to a raging inferno in almost no time at all.
The arrival of the decision point – where you should give up trying, and just start running away, is much sooner than all of us realise. Combine that with panic, darkness, drunk people, unfamiliar surroundings… the situation is terrifying just to think about, let alone experience.
As part of the same training, it’s clear just how difficult even small fires are to extinguish. We started with normal fire extinguishers of various types, and worked our way up to 3 person teams in breathing apparatus using a “proper” fire hose on large fires with, and without foam. Not one aspect was ever “simple”, and we were in controlled conditions with experts advising us.
As training courses go though – I always really enjoy these!!
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When I was a silly kid I once held a lighted match to a mate’s flannelette pyjamas. The flame flashed across the surface of the fabric..
It didn’t Catch fire, thank heaven, but it was a quick way to learn the danger.
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https://rmx.news/article/basement-bar-fire-in-swiss-ski-resort-created-unsurvivable-conditions/
How terrifying.
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The article includes a link to a video clip that appears to show the fire just starting, with patrons attempting to put it out.
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Oz has its own fire-resistant ceiling and wall panels – Durra Panel – that makes a lot of sense. Imagine modular housing built with this stuff..
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I love the opening photo on their webpage. Three people on the elevated floor and at least one of them not secured against a fall.
In some parts of Oz, the directors of the company that allowed that could be in for a stint with Bubba. Workplace health and safety would require harnesses or hard barricades to prevent a fall from that height.
Strange image to lead with….. Maybe they treat fire rating the same way?
And don’t let the core get wet, it’ll swell like a pig carcass in the sun.
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I wonder if those foam panels were meant to be fire-resistant but weren’t because they were Chinese fakes etc.?
Recall the Grenfell building cladding fires from Once Great Britain and the Lacrosse apartment fire in Australia due to non-compliant cladding.
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It’s amazing what a private building surveyor will sign off.
I recall when I built my house, I had to guide the building surveyor through the BCA, he didn’t understand anything except the common stuff and did things by repetition, eg if you looked at that on the last house then you look for it on the next. He had no idea why or when you’d need to use lift off hinges for a toilet, he just assumed all houses must have it, never even read the clause of WHY.
I’m hoping he retired before the solar batteries came along with all their new siting requirements. Actually anything new. I’d be surprised if he could identify an exit path or work out the need for emergency lighting in a venue like the night club.
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The issue with using fire proof panels is often the failure to address several key points, for example.
Correct panel. Incorrect fixing method.
Or
Correct panel, pity you didn’t take them to the edge of the ceiling and down the walls as required by the code and SEAL all openings with the appropriate material to maintain the integrity of the ceiling lining. If you cut a hole in a fire proof ceiling for a light fitting or an A/C duct, then that fitting becomes part of the ceiling and if it is not fire rated, then you have just let the fire, smoke and heat through. The fancy lining material is useless if untreated holes/gaps are present.
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I wouldn’t mind betting that when it was done the focus was sound deadening and fire rating didn’t get a look in. Depends how old the venue is. The Swissies love their piece and quiet.
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DM, I’ll try to answer.
No, they were not. I am fairly certain of that.
Ok why?
I believe the ceiling panels were acoustic grade, open-cell polyurethane foam.
In my experience, those type of panels when subject to enough heat from a localised fire will easily “off gas”.
If enough oxygen is present, then when that “gas” reaches its “Lower Explosive Limit (LEL)” it will cause a flashover.
That happened at Le Constellation bar.
The density of the (typical) acoustic foam is roughly 25.0 to 33.0 kg/m3.
The product is highly flammable. It should never be exposed to an ignition source or naked flame.
Hope this helps.
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Another in the series of amusing satirical stories about the thinly disguided doings of our so called elite
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rayners-lane-review-of-our-failed-vetting-system-is-due-in-2028/
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Very long article reviewing a book highly sceptical about the effectiveness of covid vaccines
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/01/02/if-those-who-pushed-the-covid-vaccines-go-to-trial-this-book-should-be-exhibit-a-for-the-prosecution/
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It is not long , but does contain a lot of “misinformation”.
LOL
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With Australian censorship laws this could be a questionable topic to discuss EXCEPT I am not discussing it. I am merely quoting what ex Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrote.
This is only an excerpt. In the link there is another link to Tony’s Substack article (which uses his own domain name).
Note to Australians, under Australian censorship laws you generally won’t be able to comment on Substack without an age-verified account.
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I wonder if you can use the same technique to apply to any comment I like.
For example. Someone has said the following partial phrases, I’ve just joined the dots.
“censorship is the….” “….end of the world as we know it”.
The freedom of speech is one freedom that everyone should have. And we shouldn’t need an excuse or a special technique to use it.
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“With Australian censorship laws this could be a questionable topic to discuss..”
Nope, discussing and arguing political decisions will always be fine, it is their way of pretending we have freedom in a democracy. However actually resisting those political decisions will bring the jackboots down on you instantly!
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Indians play cricket and Chinese don’t, but their children might.
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I wonder if they could flatten a little piece of land on their common/disputed border and have a game.
At the moment it seems they have only enough land for a boxing ring or cage fight.
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From my reading it seems conditions have been improving, but ‘it was only in 2025 that the thaw fully unfolded and produced a true normalization between Beijing and Delhi.’ (The Diplomat)
Now that the reformers in Beijing have total control, the border dispute is history.
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I saw your deflection and awarded it a green thumb. 😁
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The history of slavery in NZ is restricted to the period before the signing of the Treaty.
Currently some faux Māori seek to revert to that period , under the guise of rangatiratanga, in which custom the lower- born are assigned kaitonotono status.
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2025 was declared UKs warmest, but a tie really.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15428927/2025-Britain-hottest-year-RECORD-climate-change.html
The mean Central England Temperature produced similar rankings. 2025 beat 2022 by an almost rounding error margin of 0.05C.
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‘While Britain has a reputation for its miserable weather, the Met Office has also confirmed that 2025 was the sunniest year on record.’
Global warming is good.
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Are you feeling the warmth today?
Let me look into the future of CET. The coming few years is a bit cooler. Sun is past the peak of SC25. Sun is still north of Earth’s elliptic but is moving southward till 2031. Sun is in the November – December portion of its arc through 2026 so will not have the summer strength but helping out a bit right now.
If climate models were based on seasonal solar power they might be useful. But who in their right mind could possibly think that the Sun output and position could alter Earth’s temperature when we all know that trace amounts of CO2 is the only factor capable of altering Earth’s climate.
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‘However, even at solar maximum, the energy that the Earth receives from the Sun is only around 0.1 per cent higher than average. This has only a tiny impact on our global temperatures …’ (BBC)
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Closer to 0.2% and considerably more than the claimed heat retention of doubling CO2!
And the new record was 0.05C higher than the previous record os up by 0.017%. Suggesting it is not due to solar activity is just stupid.
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‘The Met Office has confirmed that the average temperature in the UK last year was a balmy 10.09°C, which is 0.96°C above the long–term average. ‘
From a southern hemisphere perspective.
‘Australia’s mean temperature was more than 1.2°C above average in 2025, making it the country’s 4th warmest year in more than a century of records.’ (Weatherzone)
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Please do not quote the “official” figure for temperature change, which is wrong because it uses temperature numbers adjusted by people who have no data to guide them on the sizes of their adjustments, that is, it is guesswork.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/halfwarm.docx
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Have a look at https://www.drroyspencer.com. Roy Spencer looks at these figures and points out that the temperature record is in the nighttime minimum temperatures and not in the daytime highs.” In both my and the UKMO analysis, 1976 (not 2025) was the hottest summer in daily high temperatures (Tmax), with 2025 taking 3rd or 4th place; the “record” hot year of 2025 was due to nightly low temperatures (Tmin) being anomalously warm.” “The average of the three hottest daytime temperatures in each summer month put the summer of 2025 in 4th place since 1960, behind 1976, 1995, and 2022 (which were essentially identical).”
And us “deniers” get accused of cherry picking.
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https://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-lib-dem-greens-election-plot-reform-nigel-farage-out-of-power
PHON better be aware and alerted to such collusion occurring at our next election which maybe sooner than that required by Law! Labor/TEALS/Greens are more than capable of the duplicity
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Meanwhile in the Untidy Kingdom of Pommystan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdTRRY5OmU
Coming soon to a festering penal colony very near you?
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FWIW – Just observing
“”We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” says Mamdani”
“Even top Putin ally Kirill Dmitriev, who is CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, is dunking on Zohran Mamdani”
https://x.com/RyanSaavedra/status/2006972535691423939
Via https://instapundit.com/766354/#disqus_thread
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I can not believe my eyes – Dmitriev appears to be a reasonable man !
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Anything to keep President Trump onside – Kremlin propaganda is in overdrive.
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He is against laissez-faire economics.
‘In modern practice, social democracy has taken the form of a predominantly capitalist, yet robust welfare state, with policies promoting social justice, market regulation, and a more equitable distribution of income.’ (wiki)
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It seems to me that the very largest of banks has always enjoyed laissez-faire, predatory behaviour , and then next lower rank of banks enjoys the same between bail- outs. Or bail- ins , as seems to be the next chapter.
There has not been laissez-faire in Godzone since the introduction of social welfare , as in “Don’t you worry Jack ; we’ll look after you – just give us your vote”.
This is during the last Great Depression of legend.
I don’t know what social justice is, or who decrees the meaning. Similarly with equitable distribution, once it is decreed that some are more equal than others.
I’m not clear how these decrees fit into the concept of democracy.
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Mamdani is like a typical European social democrat, but some Americans call him a communist.
He will need to work out a financial strategy and how to pay for this largesse.
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FWIW – one view –
“The real fun will be watching what happens to Mamdani’s net worth over the next 4 to 8 years.”
https://x.com/VodkaPundit/status/2007128304877498514
Via Instapundit
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It won’t change much, he is a political animal with ambition to become POTUS.
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FWIW
“Elon Musk’s Dire Warning for the U.S. in 2026 — and What He Plans to Do About It”
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/01/02/elon-musks-dire-warning-for-the-us-2026-and-what-he-plans-to-do-about-it-n4947814
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It must be tough for the radical left to particip[ate on X when they know they will be funding Republican politicians.
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Even tougher now that they’re leaving Ad Blue and going back to X
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FWIW
“The Babylon Bee’s Predictions for 2026
February 25 — Gavin Newsom secures trade deal with China for more hair gel.”
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/123891-the-babylon-bees-predictions-for-2026-01-01
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There is a rapid shift underway in financial settlements
A structural shift in global payments is becoming visible in the data. In 2025, the SWIFT network recorded a 15% month-over-month decline in total transaction volume, one of the sharpest drops in its recent history. Analysts link the fall to the growing appeal of faster, cheaper settlement layers such as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and other blockchain-based payment systems.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/swift-transaction-volume-decline-xrp-surge-xrp-tundra-capitalizes-on-momentum/
It appears XRP Ledger has become a viable competitor with their blockchain settlements but SWIFT are now moving into block-chain technology as well. Their chosen medium is Etherium.
BRICS Pay is also growing rapidly within the six BRIICS and an additional ten member countries with massive cross border trade. They are working to establish blockchain Units based on 40% gold and basket of their currencies.
The BRICS+ bloc is piloting a gold-anchored settlement instrument, referred to for now as the “Unit”, that uses a 40% physical gold and 60% BRICS-currency basket to value cross-border settlement without replacing national currencies.
https://thedeepdive.ca/brics-gold-anchored-unit-pilot/
It appears the democratisation of money is under way. US control and visibility of cross-border trading is in decline.
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Record UK year for renewable electricity (whatever the true cost!).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz947djd3d3o
Worst year for North Sea, no new drilling.
https://aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/north-sea-oil-suffers-worst-year-since-production-began-as-drillers-freeze-investment/
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If UK had more sunlight it could democratise electricity like Australia is doing. South Australia is showing the way with 30% of all its electricity coming from rooftops. They have only been getting installed in serious numbers in the past decade and they already account for near a third of the power. For the past 30 days, 34.3% of the regional electricity came from rooftops.
The curtailment of grid wind and solar doubled in 2025 from 2024 and their prices experienced significant declines as rooftops removed their demand. Grid solar cannot extract more money from the peasants and grid wind is near its maximum extraction as the peasants fight back wth their rooftop solar and now batteries.
The wonders of living in the lucky country where sunlight is free and available to anyone who owns a roof.
The other fact that increased the proportion of rooftops is the concurrent de-industrialisation. Heavy industry and private manufacturing are all but gone from SA.
The one glimmer of hope for heavy industry is that the grid is getting closer to collapse due to LACK of wholesale demand. AEMO latests notification category is minimum system demand and it has been getting hammered in the past couple of days:
https://www.aemo.com.au/market-notices?marketNoticeQuery=&fromdate=&todate=&marketNoticeFacets=MINIMUM+SYSTEM+LOAD#mnsr
I can imagine a future where large industrial users get free electricity to ensure there is some wholesale demand. What are the odds of the grid needing demand to stay functional?
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There is no limit to the spin on the loss of income to solar farms in Australia:
Almost every large solar farm in Australia’s southeastern states will be forced to curtail at least one-third of their power generation by 2027 due to critical delays in energy transition infrastructure projects, according to new analysis from the Australian Energy Market Operator.
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australian-solar-farms-to-waste-up-to-65-of-power-due-to-grid-bottlenecks/
The inability to supply has nothing to do with the transmission network. It is because their demand has evaporated.
Next time you hear someone talking about the number of homes that wind farms or solar farms will power it is a lie. The houses are all proving capable of supplying themselves plus the entire de-industrialised economy that Australia is transitioning to.
Both the solar farms and wind farms reached peak money extraction from the then consumers in 2022 of %4588M. Their total income will never reach those heights again. They managed a total income of $2861M this year so it is already halved. Moy forecast for 2025 is $2414M based on current trends. It could be even lower because the impact of household batteries is just beginning. The wind and solar farms are stranded assets in need of demand that is rapidly disappearing.
It appears likely that Snowy 2 will mostly serve output from rooftops rather than wind and solar farms. If smelters close then the remaining coal plants will need Snowy 2 to sink their stable minimum output.
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Yet, still they come
https://constructionreviewonline.com/the-20-solar-wind-and-battery-projects-approved-by-australia-in-2025-factsheets-and-timelines/
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Six of the ten projects come with batteries so they could claim to be dispatchable generation. They will have the opportunity to peak lop in evening peaks to replace gas.
However the emerging dilemma is the availability of market for them. The existing coal plants have a turn down around 60% and accept high negative energy prices to stay generating at that level. Last week, the price for energy from batteries was only $71/MWh because they were competing with coal rather than gas.
There is very high grid security risk in taking any existing coal fired plant out of service because they take days to bring back into service. Batteries can compete for the demand they serve but the coal will be paid whatever they need for stability reasons. Batteries are OK for stability in the 5 second to 2 hour range but not useful for the millisecond and tens of hours. Only coal can meet that requirement.
So the new battery firmed wind and solar farms will run into the same problem as the ones without firming but further down the track. The batteries delay the inevitable financial failure.
These new projects are criminal waste of taxpayer funds that AEMO senior executives should answer for.
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My interest was mainly triggered by a 600-700 acre solar plant that is going to be installed in the next valley along from me. Remains to be seen if it makes it to construction.
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Saturday entertainment for the mechanically minded – a US based team of heavy machinery repairers having a bit of fun with a message..
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Another reason for putting this link up is to highlight the method that the Chinese manufacturers use to move their product. It may be a means of avoiding tariffs?
Some text from the above clip..
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E-mail succumbs to Australian eSafety laws. Users of the e-mail system provided by The Messaging Company (to which several Australian Internet providers shifted their e-mail platforms, such as TPG. Exetel, iiNet) have reported receiving an e-mail saying that anyone under 18 years old has to cancel their account:
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3qr16rkm?p=48#r949
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Herr Kommissar will celebrate this!
You vill vatch only vot ve vant you to vatch, you vill talk to only people ve allow you to, you vill learn vot ve vant you to learn and you vill be happy…or ELSE there vill be twouble!
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Isn’t that Elmer Fudd?
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Touche’
I got a little carried away. 🙂
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Shhhh…he’s hunting vabbits
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Yes I received that email but couldn’t work out why, so simply deleted it. I can’t for the life of me work out why you have to be 18 to have an email account. Why TPG chose The Messaging Co when they stopped handling emails themselves I have no idea.
Can anyone give me the name of a webmail server I could use instead as I would like to change but only if I can keep my current TPG address as I have had it for at least 25 years and everybody knows it.
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https://www.churna.com.au/blog/how-to-change-internet-providers-without-losing-your-email-address-in-australia
The solution should be as simple as you sending an email to everyone in your address book notifying them of your new email address though…
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Thanks John but my address book is huge as I’ve had the same address for over 25 years. I don’t want a new address, I want to keep my current TPG email address which I was able to do when TPG moved me over to The Messaging Co.
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/Time to move on.
/That’s life.
/No point flogging a dead horse.
Get a new address and configure it to pull your TMC emails.
https://www.redstampmail.com/resources/configuring-gmail-to-pull-mail/tpg.com.au/
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Is it the same mob who wanted to lower voting age to 16 ?
Clever, is it not !
The paper media is gone, kids talks to their parents mostly in old movies, the only political info channel are school teachers – the battle for their minds is won!
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Zhang Qi Sentenced to Death for Massive Corruption Involving 13.5 Tons of Gold.
If China goes to war this corruption [which also shows in tofu-dreg construction] will doom them to the same quagmire in which Russia finds itself.
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‘If China goes to war …’
Beijing has no desire to start hostilities with anyone, even if they put on a show now and then.
China is confronted by economic depression because of the property collapse and the country is $10 trillion in debt.
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“the country is $10 trillion in debt.”
Only $10T?? Chump change compared to the USA, and seeing our 25million Aussies are coming up for $1T, the debt per head in China is nothing to worry about, its 1/4 ours.
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“Beijing has no desire to start hostilities with anyone, even if they put on a show now and then.”
OK. Now explain how you know that.
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Did a check and that story has been going the rounds for a decade.
This is more newsworthy, Xi’s New Year speech.
‘China’s accelerated development of new quality productive forces, as outlined in its latest five-year plan, represents a shared opportunity for the Global South, he said.
“By offering technology, investment and knowhow without political conditions, China is injecting new momentum into global growth and industrialization efforts in developing nations.” (China Daily)
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Show me.
Your friends are not necessarily my friends.
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He has been incarcerated since 2019 and in 2026 sentenced to death.
https://www.scottishfinancialnews.com/articles/and-finally-chinese-mayor-pays-top-price-for-gold
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So two things can be right at once. Why the blow-back? Hit a nerve?
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No I was just lazy and you were correct, he was finally sentenced to death.
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New year’s celebrations in France
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/more-than-1000-cars-burned-france-as-new/
/Welcome to the party, pal.
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Nothing says Bonne Année quite like flambéd cars
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See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCzmdx91SM
“… Keir Starmer is the best Prime minister ISIS have ever had”!
Indeed.
And, here in the penal colonies?
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Jo, if you feel you have to censor a post due to Govt thuggery, will you just blank out the writing and and leave a message such as “Censored due to Govt Regulation”?
Can we have a private sub-site where we have to join a club to discuss those posts that were censored? Are their new regulations only censoring ‘open’ or ‘public’ websites like this?
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Sorta like a private forum, beyond search engines, where you can post with less censorship, embed pics and vids, see content not publicly known, message other members etc? 😁
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Oh dear…another shooting in Oz in Melbourne today. Directly opposite a police station no less.
Wonder what Albo will do…
Persecute the law abiding gun owners still more perhaps?
That’ll fix it!
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The balloon may have gone up in Venezuela. Still checking.
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and more https://search.brave.com/search?q=HJas+shooting+started+in+Venszhela%3F&source=web&summary=1&conversation=7718ee6428e2d9f5e4a2ba
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The ABC has a vid.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-03/explosions-captured-in-the-venezuelan-capital-caracas/106196680
This is highly illegal, makes a mockery of the UN Security Council.
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He’ll just do a quick Special Military Operation and be out of there in 4 or 5 years..
They’re all the same, no matter which country/empire it is. For the 20th century, if you have oil then you are an American vassal or the enemy of freedom and democracy.. If you don’t have oil no-one gives a (thing that needs toilet paper) about you.
Hmm… once you’re flagged for moderation you can’t get out of it by editing the words..
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He wanted the heavy crude and made his move.
Kidnapping is illegal, but no worries.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-reported-venezuela-caracas
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OTOH drug running is perfectly legal.
BTW The US is the world’s biggest oil producer, why would they go to war to get more?
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Because its finite
Because they are thinking long term
Because there a types of oil
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US exceptionalism (Monroe Doctrine) imposed again. The usual toadies like Murdoch and his lackeys will applaud. By the way I’m not a supporter of Maduro but one wonders next and how the US can enforce this assault.
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Nah, the oil companies are ready to move in
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTDwM-GCVt-/?igsh=dXRzY2UweTVoaDR6
And will be there “for a hundred years”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRutf-wEgHU/?igsh=MTU3YzcxdjMxejM4dQ==
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I must have missed the UN Security Council approving Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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So the US are vicious Outlaw war mongers just like Russians?
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Can you link to the post where I said that?
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FWIW
“BREAKING: Huge Explosions Heard Across Caracas, Venezuela – UPDATE: US Attack Is Underway, With Reports of Special Forces on the Ground (VIDEOS)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/breaking-huge-explosions-heard-across-caracas-venezuela-videos/
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And
“US Reissues Urgent ‘Do Not Travel’ Warning For Russia, As NYT Confirms CIA’s Escalating Involvement”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-reissues-urgent-do-not-travel-warning-russia-nyt-confirms-cias-escalating
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In my travels over many years I have found that the US has few friends. They just love to stick their bib in and stuff everything up.
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Maduro has been captured and on a US aircraft. My guess is that there are no US servicemen in country by now.
Stop whingin’.
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“Trump will need to present clear justifications to the American people for grabbing a foreign leader.”
Just imagine if Russia kidnapped Macron and his husband… Mind you, the French would probably cheer, but you can’t play ‘holier than thou’ when you kidnap democratically-elected leaders in their own country.
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Another 80/20 issue he is on the right side of.
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If one has spent ones life believing what the media says and forming absolute opinions then I guess it must be true. Duplicity comes to mind when the US is involved. Truth, justice and the American way
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The story is, Maduro was not really democratically elected. That story is very likely true, and certainly he has exiled his opposition (who were in Washington late last year, making promises on the oil access for US companies).
The Venezuelans may be very disappointed in the final outcome, with their oil being pumped for someone elses profit.
(A bit like Australian gas)
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FWIW
“On Today’s Episode of ‘That’s Not How Money Works’, The Left Discovers Finance, and It’s HILARIOUSLY BAD”
“Somewhere on the left, between a meme and a moral screeching to ‘TaX tHe RiCh,’ an entire fantasy version of finance has taken root. In this world, billionaires apparently keep their wealth in something resembling your checking account, just with a few extra zeros, and they selfishly refuse to hand it over to us peasants out of pure spite. It’s a worldview powered by economic illiteracy, sustained by social media applause, and completely detached from the reality of how wealth, assets, or taxes actually function. But that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the foundation for some very loud, very confident demands.”
More at
https://twitchy.com/laura-w/2026/01/02/x-user-makes-hilarious-yet-accurate-observation-about-how-billionaires-are-perceived-by-leftists-n2423479
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Goes with that
“WATCH: Scott Jennings Turns Socialist into a Sputtering Mess with One Question After She Pushes for an Economically Devastating Wealth Tax”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/watch-scott-jennings-turns-socialist-sputtering-mess-one/
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FWIW –
“Sense of humour? What’s that?”
“EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Babylon Bee Editor Thanks Snopes for Debunking This Believable Story About Tim Walz’s $8 Billion Grant.”
“Snopes feels the need to “debunk” precisely because the satire is so believable.”
https://x.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/2007177356994326553
Via https://instapundit.com/766502/#disqus_thread
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Charles Rotter does a critique on marine heatwaves.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/02/when-everything-is-a-heat-wave-and-every-change-is-climate/
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FWIW
“Models & Lab Studies”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/02/models-lab-studies/
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If anyone is still wondering why Russia attacked Ukraine-
“Torchlit Procession Honouring Bandera – Lvov
Hundreds marched in Lvov on New Year’s Day to honour the Nazi Stepan Bandera.”
Makes a mockery of the Leftists calling Russia Fascist…
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs
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