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I’ve notice several things. First is that the 14th is Valentine’s Day.
That’s a time when we should all be thinking of our significant others. If you have more than one, you might be in trouble and it could get expensive.
I’ve also noticed the JoNova site continues to provide truthful and interesting information about a variety of topics, especially the climate-cult hysteria.
Further, the author comes up with world class phunny phrasing.
My mind has melded these things and arrived with
Truth Information Phunny (TIP).
I notice there is a TIP click-button at the top right that allows for the purchase of chocolates. This is a win-win situation.
I feel it is appropriate to click on that Truth Information Phunny link and follow through. 🙂
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Happy Friday the 13th for the Liberal Party. They will need it.
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I think Angus Taylor is also the wrong person for the Liberal Party although I might be wrong. I would have preferred Andrew Hastie but if he currently doesn’t have the numbers which is probably the reason he pulled out, so be it.
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Can’t say I recognize either of those names.
Life’s too short to pay attention to trivia.
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LNP are toast.
Any party that supports the Climate Change™ scam deserves to fade into history.
Their radical left institutions have taken them for a ride so far to the left that they now think sanity is a far right ideal.
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Yep Hastie for me too, but why take on a lost cause? Better off waiting for a better time to actually get in power.
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Andrew Hastie has to wait until Taylor fails, then he can make his move.
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It depends what “failure” means. Should Taylor increase the LNP representation but fail to win the house, then Hastie will have to wait longer. If Taylor fails by losing seats then what will Hastie do? In this scenario Hastie may well have lost his seat or , if he wins, Hastie can hold his party room meetings in a mobile dunny.
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Taylor is more than likely going to offer Hastie a seat on the front bench.
It could be Immigration, he has the runs on the board, but I would like to see him in Climate and Energy.
The other thing worth considering, Taylor might surprise us, he voted consistently against the Paris Climate Agreement.
Plenty of time before the next federal election.
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It depends largely on the reduced influence of the LINO left (Liberals In Name Only) who are managed by Liberal Party state executives of unelected officials and I understand established by one Miserable Ghost.
And how the shadow ministry is appointed and based on talent and expertise in each portfolio.
Of course leadership is very important and despite critics from outside, notably Labor now in panic mode, Angus “Gus” Taylor is one of the best educated and experienced business man of all, and according to other Liberal MPs he is excellent on policy and being across the subjects.
Time will of course reveal the improvement, or not.
In between time Albanese and Labor are unpopular and increasingly so, they hide incompetence behind parliamentary dominance in numbers of MPs and related hubris.
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Please consider that 2022 was Labor’s worst primary vote result since 1938 according to the ALP Election Report, and 2025 was only a slight improvement and a low just over 34% with only 8 MPs elected on primary votes alone.
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Babies in Victoria to get digital id. Personally I think it sounds a bit late, best to give them one in the womb. Or before conception?
https://reclaimthenet.org/victoria-digital-birth-certificate-trial-national-digital-id
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But tonyb: What about those who want to change sex? Or those who merely want to change names?
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Pay the (indexed) scheduled fee, and Bob’s your Auntie.
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Baby’s first tattoo could be a bar code.
You know it makes sense.
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First vaccination a micro chip?
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Leftists won’t want to give babies in the womb an I.D. because that would require they acknowledge it’s a human being. This would complicate their reasoning for unfettered abortion on demand.
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Babies in the womb?
How’d they get there? 😆
I was once a male trapped in a female body. Then I was born. 😎
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I have come out and admit that I am a same sex bachelor.
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That’s genuinely funny JCll! I laughed out loud, being the mother of three sons.
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JC
Were you the model for the “Egbert the embryonic wonder” cartoon with the caption
“I’ll come out when I’m damn good and ready”?
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The title says it all. The book it references sounds interesting.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-big-pharma-gets-away-with-murder/
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CO2 not a dangerous pollutant. I would imagine the green forces will kick very hard against this. Whether Trump can get it implemented before the mid term elections likely rob him of the power to do things like this, remains to be seen.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/02/12/us-environmental-protection-agency-to-declare-co2-is-not-a-dangerous-gas/
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I’ve just revisited Ian Plimer’s “heaven+earth”, 2009, and found I’d read his description of CO2 as “plant food” there on page 12 back then, but had forgotten doing so. Sorry Ian, but thanks for that insight which did stick.
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The next few weeks will be interesting. I would not be surprised if it just goes to the keeper. Democrats have a lot to lose if the rekindle the Climate Change™ scam in USA.
There is not much career prospect for Climate Scientists in the USA. The current US administration is not strong on funding nonsense.
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Jo, did a piece on this on Wednesday.
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Thanks Ross.
As I said, the next step will be the legal battles as the Blob does everything it can to delay or deny this legislation.
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Pollutant, explain that to US submarine crew when submerged in a submarine that CO2 has been measured as high as over 5,000 ppm
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Tonyb,
President Trump reversed the 2006 Endangerment Finding on 13 February 2026. Today.
It is all over and done for the US green mob.
Taking bets on when Australia, GB and Germany will notice and copy.
Geoff S
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I find it extraordinary, as we discussed yesterday, at least $15 billion+ of Victorian taxpayer money from the “Big Build” projects has been siphoned to organised crime via Labor Party subsidiary the CFMEU (construction union).
How can there be so little oversight that this went unnoticed by public serpents and politicians? Or were they part of it as well?
And why do so few people see or understand the significance of this, or care?
As a friend pointed out, part of the reason might be that people (present company excepted) are now so dumbed-down down and innumerate, that they don’t understand the size of that number:
$15 billion
$15,000,000,000
$15×10^9 (engineering notation)
$1.5×10^10 (scientific notation).
There has to be a lot more of this type of corruption.
E.g. NDIS, green energy SCAMS, just about any Government project, welfare etc..
But Australia is essentially a lawless state now with multiple repeat criminals being let out on bail and getting short if any prison sentences.
There is very little likelihood in this corrupt state and country that anything will be done about this, especially as Australia has no conservative Opposition political party of any significant size. Australia is an effective One Party State with the communist Labor Party led by the communist Albanese being all-powerful and operating without restraint.
One Nation and allies are our only hope, but the real fear is that Australia is so broken, it may not be fixable by anyone.
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When Australia’s synchrotron project was announced, I was managing an Australian mass spectrometer company. There is a lot of tech crossover between the two so, when I heard that the government(s) had demanded that the build incorporate some percentage of ‘local content’, I saw an opportunity. We were pretty uniquely qualified, in the Australian sense at least.
So I got started on a bid. We were too small to head a bid of our own and so partnered with a large business that was putting its own bid together. It was a very strong fit and a great way to build high-tech Aussie expertise into the project.
To say it was agonising would be a huge understatement, sucking up a lot of my already limited time. Eventually, we failed to win any part of the project, not even the supply of very specialised knowledge highly relevant to a good outcome. Pretty much the whole of the ‘local content’ component was achieved through the mere construction of bricks and mortar facilities. No high tech local content at all.
So Australia has little to boast about when it comes to the synchrotron build, aside from our apparently world-class brickies and painters. I guess whatever construction union was involved would have found it highly satisfying though.
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I have similar experience. Bidding to put spectrometers into government departments was painfully long and contained specific criteria to be addressed. Often one criteria, not centrally critical either, would rule out a certain brand despite its other performance spec. superiorities. Clearly the tender spec doc was purposesly bias by design.
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The simple answer DM, is that all the ALP and public service are dead scared of the CFMEU. They have created so many problems over the years, but still keep getting away with it. It’s why when the East West link was proposed by the last LNP government (Baillieu/Napthine) they stipulated no CFMEU. Then “we” voted them out based on a scare campaign. I think maybe also that the Libs are also scared of the CFMEU. Scared because they might have to clean up the mess. Which they might do but it will be painful. Then “we” will probably vote them out again. So, if you’re Jess Wilson ( present leader of the Victorian opposition, for non Victorian readers), why would you bother?
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Fifteen billion is a big number – if you were counting from zero at the rate of one number every second, it would take over 475 years to reach.
You would need to have started counting in the year 1550 A.D. Edward VI, son of Henry VIII was on the throne.
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The present Premier was the Minister responsible and you know who the Premier was.
The union movement has a big say in ALP business including appointments to cabinet and other factions related matters, and donations to the ALP are substantial plus unionists recruited to work for Labor at elections.
Are you aware that the KC’s report that revealed the at least $15 billion of alleged fraudulent activities was hidden using a very weak argument about validity of some content and would have remained hidden if not for the LNP QLD Royal Commission that obtained the report?
I wonder what happened to the Trade Union Royal Commission into governance and corruption the Abbott Government established in 2015, there were many media reports about referrals to courts of law, Federal and States, but then when the Commission was closed down very little mentioned thereafter.
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Here is an interesting video about building the world’s most efficient quadcopter drone, in terms of flight time.
The author goes through some of the optimisation processes.
I think this is also the same person who made the world’s fastest drone.
He appears to be in South Africa judging from the accent and scenery.
https://youtu.be/1lfVKcKQ5BI
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Dog ownership at risk in the UK because dogs offend the replacement population.
https://youtu.be/_VzYWGmLZIU
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UK residents should replace their ‘offensive’ pet Dogs with say, pet Pigs!
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Why move to a country whose laws are inconsistent with your own, where women are NOT treated as beatable objects, where they eat food you reject, drink alcohol you won’t, a country that LOVES dogs which are unclean in your eyes (which is apparently, but historically debatable, also why they don’t eat pork), live it up at taxpayer expense, then whine endlessly about it not being like your own country, then go on holidays to your country, the one you “escaped” from?
It’s a mystery…
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The economic refugees and religion based colonisers.
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Succinctly put
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Victoriastan has an election in November but I think there is little hope of the “Opposition” Liberals, fake conservatives, winning.
On top of that, the Opposition “leader” Jess Wilson, speaks with an annoying high rising terminal speech intonation, just like all the other Lefties.
Vote One Nation or it’s no nation.
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An election? How quaint.
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Yes… Democracy, the greatest form of Govt ever invented, yet here we are…
“Australia is essentially a lawless state now with multiple repeat criminals being let out on bail and getting short if any prison sentences….Australia is an effective One Party State with the communist Labor Party led by the communist Albanese being all-powerful and operating without restraint.”
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“multiple repeat criminals being let out on bail and getting short if any prison sentences”
… and that’s just the politicians. Wait until the public serpents start getting what they deserve.
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I wonder how long that’ll be, measured in ice ages?
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I have faith in democracy, even with the huge mandate Labor enjoys at the state and federal level.
‘After the 1943 wipeout of the United Australia Party under the veteran Billy Hughes, its former leader, Robert Menzies, was able to reassemble the shattered pieces – including various breakaway groups – into a new “broad church” Liberal Party. Just six years after the great defeat, the conservatives returned to government and stayed there for 23 years.’ (Martyn Goddard)
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In November 2007 Rudd led Labor defeated the eleven years in government Howard Libera-National Coalition, by 2010 and Gillard replacing Rudd all the new seats were lost to the Coalition led by Abbott, and in 2013 after Rudd was returned to be PM, and with his mate Albanese assisting with the exit of Gillard lobbying within Labor.
At the 2013 election Rudd back Labor was defeated in a landslide by Abbott Coalition.
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Yep it still works, but there are external influences which shape the debate.
The Coalition should have romped home at the last election, but then Trumpism came to the fore and there was a rout.
Next time around there won’t be any of that, giving candidates a level playing field to argue over local issues.
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Yes you honour, an election. A pastime enjoyed by the masses, where they pretend for a day that they influence anything.
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On the other hand former Prime Minister and conservative centre right member of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, has today endorsed Angus Taylor as new Opposition Leader.
In my opinion attacking Taylor before he starts work is pointless, and most importantly seeing his selection of Cabinet Ministers because it is a team not an individual that achieves goals.
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Is this the unintended consequence of the manner of US pressure for increased NATO spending on defense?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwewvAmA_C8
If the US plan was for increased F35 sales, then it might be backfiring.
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F-35 Lightning was designed and built for the Joint Fighter Programme contributed to by allied nations and created to include many features of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter that the US will not sell to any other country no matter how closely allied to the US. The Howard Coalition Government signed Australia onto the JSF Project and by the way, the later Coalition-Boeing Australia MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone jet fighter was a next stage project for a force multiplier drone jet fighter to fly with F-35 or other airforce aircraft.
The expensive F-35 is much less expensive than F-22 but features a lot of F-22 capabilities and some new ones.
Be suspicious of critics, potential enemies would like to demoralise the people by making out F-35 is flawed in whatever the latest claim might be.
Do people really believe that President Trump doesn’t have very good reasons for his demands, after all F-35 is world’s best Generation 5.
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‘ … whatever the latest claim might be.’
The kill switch is a serious flaw.
In a world where air, land and sea drones are changing the face of war, large battle fleets and squadrons of F35 are obsolete before they are built.
The $17 billion would be better spent on Australian, Canadian and Japanese smart weapons.
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Or another myth
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It does have a number of significant flaws, but nothing to do with its ability in the air.
The main one is that it is damn expensive to fly and maintain.
Secondly, it appears that you need US approval to use it in combat – maybe even to fly it – very expensive ornaments.
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I understand that permission to use for combat purposes applies to all US high tech equipment, only UK has the right to US nuclear technology for example, Rolls Royce for 60 years to US nuclear 75 years.
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Australia is in for $17 billion and the situation is volatile.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/trump-kill-switch-fears-grow-over-australias-17-billion-f35-fleet/news-story/befdd2f49d5ec3f51c5292681ebca5f4
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FWIW – from today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
AI challenges “The Billable Hour”
“The Financial Times reported that KPMG— one of the world’s Big Four accounting firms— bullied its own auditor into a 14% fee cut. Their argument was elegant in its simplicity: if your AI is doing the work, your people shouldn’t be billing for it. KPMG’s hapless auditor, Grant Thornton, tried to kick but quickly folded like a WalMart lawn chair, dropping its auditing fee from $416,000 to $357,000.
And now every CFO on Earth is reaching for a calculator.
Here’s the dark comedy. Grant Thornton’s UK audit leader bragged in a December blog post that AI was making their work “faster and smarter.” KPMG took note, and immediately asked why it was still paying the slower-and-dumber price. This is why lawyers tell their clients to stop posting on social media. The marketing department just became the billing department’s worst enemy.
As a lawyer who bills by the hour —and I suspect many of you work in professions that do the same— I can assure everyone that this story sent a terrifying chill racing through the spines of every white-collar professional who’s been out there cheerfully babbling about AI adoption at industry conferences.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/bro-bots-thursday-february-12-2026?
And more on that El Paso airport shut down yesterday
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The trouble with the so called AI is that it can’t reason (beyond consensus) or explain itself.
The result will be an increasing number of questions along the lines of how in the heck did it come up with that?
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The principal problem with “AI” is unbounded natural STUPIDITY.
I am just another person “Kovided” out of employment in his mid 60s; never to see a “real job” again. Who wants employees with 50 years of multi-strand technical skills AND 50years of seeing the constant damage inflicted by “managers / administrators”.
See here:
https://www.usbio.net/biochemicals/A0900/Administratium/data-sheet
Back then, I understood that “AI” stood for “Artificial Insemination”.
There is probably a dark joke or two in there.
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I think your observation flows from mine, or is it the other way around? I ask that considering that natural stupidity has taken a clever pattern matching idea and promoted it as some form of intelligence capable of replacing human workers.
At any rate, all the best for your employment. In the end I had a stroke and decided that work was a bad joke. I realize now that I was very fortunate indeed.
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Thanks Bruce, hilarious read: saved for posterity and redistribution.
Your de-commissioning due to Operation Covert©️ is a similar tale to mine, although in different fields. Thankfully my first pension deposit will appear in my bank account later this month: now that’s Artificial Insemination I can believe in!
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“Thankfully my first pension deposit will appear in my bank account later this month:”
Well done! This side of the ditch, well, its my 14th month since I put an application in and they are still ‘processing it’… We are just a tiny bit too ‘rich’, so I don’t expect to get any money out of it but the free car rego would be good.
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Free car rego? Where does that happen for pensioners in Aus?
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In Vic you can get a 50% discount if you have a centrelink pensioner card or health care card. But that’s 50% off just the registration component. Most of the fee when registering a car is the compulsory 3rd party liability insurance. So it’s only a small discount off the bill total. But better than nothing I suppose.
Some states may have 100% discount. But again, just the state registration component of the bill.
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KP, my sister (15 years’ working resident) in NSW has been waiting over a year since her magic 67th application… waiting… she may have worked too hard like you yet is now paying for it (waiting…).
Three-score-and-five years is the Golden Lottery winning number over here – I’m pleasantly surprised I made it this far, hoot! 🥳 🎵
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https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/microsoft-ai-ceo-warns-most-white-collar-jobs-will-be-fully-automated-within-next-12-18-months
Borrowed time. 2028.
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As I stated in my comment number 2.1, I would have preferred Andrew Hastie. I think Angus Taylor is the wrong person for the same reasons as you David. In reply to comment 10.
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Don’t suppose there’s a policy issue in there anywhere among the gaggle of greasy pole climbers?
No? Didn’t think so.
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Certainly no inkling of reducing Govt spending, reducing Govt debt, reducing Govt regulations and letting the economy expand!
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I like Andrew Hastie but he has not a lot of experience outside of military and to a lesser extent political.
Give him time to develop.
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FWIW
“Guardian Claims We’re Still Only Approaching the Climate Point of No Return”
“Please, please, lets cross one of these imaginary tipping points.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/12/guardian-claims-were-still-only-approaching-the-climate-point-of-no-return/
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And
“Hell Has Frozen Over: The Washington Post Discovers the Limits of the EPA”
“When The Washington Post editorial board publishes a piece titled “EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach,” one checks the calendar for April 1. When the subheading reads, “If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law,” one begins to wonder whether a portal has opened over K Street. Yet there it is, in black and white. In an editorial dated February 10, 2026, the Post states plainly that the Environmental Protection Agency’s…”
Paywalled but you get the gist
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/12/hell-has-frozen-over-the-washington-post-discovers-the-limits-of-the-epa/
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Goes with this
“BREAKING: Trump Just Ended the EPA’s Climate Power Grab, and the Left Is Losing It”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/02/12/breaking-trump-just-ended-the-epas-climate-power-graband-the-left-is-losing-it-n4949431
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And
“(VIDEO) Trump Announces Termination of Obama-Era “Endangerment Finding” on Greenhouse Gasses, Repealing Auto Stop-Start Feature and Green Emissions Standards in Cars – Obama Responds!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/video-trump-announces-termination-obama-era-endangerment-finding/
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Global heating? Is that why it is so cold.
Just wait 5 billion years or so until the sun goes all red giant on the inner planets. Now THAT’s global heating.
Last one out remember to turn out the lights.
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The last time the planet was a “hothouse” was around 60 million years ago – the continents and landmasses were in very different positions then, as well as the ocean currents and structures as shown in the link below.
Continental drift reconstructions show the real reason that we are now in an ice age regime – the key is the circum-Antarctic current.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkDzSZfWFAQ
The only way that this planet will become a hothouse again is for the circum-Antarctic current to be blocked. Ain’t gonna happen. Australia is drifting north – the current will not stop – no hothouse earth, regardless of the atmospheric CO2 content.
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Tony, being the huge cricket fan that he is, noticed this curiosity.
In this current Cricket World Cup of the short form 20 over hit and giggle, the current crop of the World’s majors (oh, except for Bangladesh that is, who, in a huff, took their bat and went home) are joined by the Associate Countries as well, and in the preliminary stage contest, there are five teams in each of the four groups, and in each group, the two Majors in each group are expected to qualify for the next stage, but it’s nice to see the Associates ‘getting a hit’ in the Big League.
So, those, umm, ‘minnows’ are made up from players perhaps from the (major Cricket playing) Countries, however, having dual citizenship.
So then, here’s the link to the, umm, Canadian squad for the upcoming ‘thriller’ against the UAE.
7.30 this evening. Can’t wait!
(Umm, there may have been a hint of sarcasm somewhere in that previous line!)
Tony.
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You can tell the Canadians by their white complexions.
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Except that Canadian cricket teams are mostly manned by South Asians.
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Two players with non-Asian names. Oh, Canada.
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FWIW
“As Labour Slow Walks Its Inquiry, Rupert Lowe Is Blowing Open the R@pe Gang Scandal”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/12/as-labour-slow-walks-its-inquiry-rupert-lowe-is-blowing-open-the-rpe-gang-scandal-n3811839
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And, an update from the Untidy Notions:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/iran-secures-powerful-vice-chair-role-globalist-u/
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There’s so much ‘Epstein’ stuff flying across my screen each day it’s impossible to ignore. But one article yesterday got me thinking. Can’t recall the details but it touched on the alleged influence Epstein and other powerful figures, all moving in the same circles, have over our lives.
Which brought me to thinking about another predatory monster: Harvey Weinstein. He too is responsible for destroying careers; in his case of course he was a gatekeeper to Hollywood fame for young women. The story goes, if you don’t go along with Weinstein’s depraved demands, you wouldn’t get roles. If the claims made by a few ‘failed’ actresses are anything to go by, that certainly seems to be the case. Some women in Hollywood rose briefly then mysteriously disappeared from our screens. The claim is that these were the women who refused to sleep with the fat blob Weinstein. Good for them. Of course there are alleged cases of young men and boys undergoing similar treatment, leaving them scarred mentally.
But a question arose in my mind. Weinstein wasn’t the sole arbiter of careers in Hollywood. He didn’t control who the various other studios, producers, directors and agencies employed. So why is it that, having been ‘marked’ by Weinstein, they couldn’t get work elsewhere in America? Why did the rest of them go along with it? Ricky Gervais, in one of his infamous awards hosting gigs, mentioned this in various ways, essentially saying (I’m paraphrasing): “You lot claim to be virtuous yet you knew what was going on with Weinstein and said nothing.”
So Weinstein’s case perhaps proves that these ‘networks’ of disgusting people, operating above us so to speak, exist everywhere, and they exist because sex is often transactional (for both parties) in those perverted circles. Those others in Hollywood, upon receiving the call from Weinstein, could have told him to take a hike, but clearly they didn’t. They colluded instead, destroying promising careers and maintaining the ‘membership rules’ of Hollywood’s upper echelons.
A new Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Ah the bad old days. Thank goodness computers can do most of the acting work now.
And as an added bonus the world doesn’t have to put up with the sanctimonious whining and speechifying. The computers can generate that drivel as well.
Win-win as I see it.
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The Epstein stuff is very strange.
And much of it twenty years ago.
I was recalling the moral panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic ‘satanic’ school child daycare abuse phenomenon in the 1980s.
Much of it false memory accusations induced by suggestive child psychologists.
This on the heels of Pandemic which in my opinion was primarily an exercise in mass hysteria.
Both events that it appears we are either unable or unwillingly as society to rationally evaluate, understand, and adjudicate.
Or worse, we’ve evolved a leadership structure that has developed the ability to manufacture moral panic and wield it as a primary fundamental political tool.
Uh … like CAGW maybe?
And something we thought the enlightened children of the great Western modern educational system would never do?
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FWIW
Advancing the case for photo ID in US elections –
“HAVING A PHOTO ID TO VOTE — IT’S SO SIMPLE, EVEN A CONGRESSMAN CAN DO IT:”
“For reference, this is how we vote in the US House:
1) Insert photo ID
2) Press button”
https://x.com/RepMichaelCloud/status/2021981251276886373
And
“Notable that 213 Democrats just used their congressional photo ID to vote NO on a voter ID bill.”
https://x.com/RepMichaelCloud/status/2021735677633958377
Via https://instapundit.com/775930/#disqus_thread
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US: The House narrowly passed the SAVE America Act in a 216–215 vote.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/house-passes-save-america-act-by-216-215/
216 to 215.
Says it all.
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Centuries-old traditional medicine could be a game-changer for hair loss
Polygonum multiflorum, often known in China as Ho-shou-wu or He shou wu, and with common English names such as tuber fleeceflower or Chinese knotweed, is a vining herbaceous perennial that has long been used as a traditional medicine. For centuries, it has been believed to be useful in combating early graying and common hair loss, among other uses.
However, new studies are now offering support for the centuries-old beliefs about this medicinal root, revealing that Polygonum multiflorum’s use as a hair treatment for more than a thousand years is backed by modern scientific evidence.
https://thedebrief.org/this-isnt-folklore-its-pharmacology-centuries-old-traditional-medicine-could-be-a-game-changer-for-hair-loss/
No doubt of interest to the 20 or so old codgers making up this blog. 😁
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Perfectly plausible as it is well known that certain chemotherapy agents reverse grey hair in some individuals for the duration of therapy.
Thus there must be a biological “switch” to do this.
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I think my hair turned white when I saw a miserable ghost hovering over conservatives
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The map of indigenous Australia
https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia
Hey! There’s a small pocket of indigenous white fella! 😆
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Opening the door to rewriting history was a sad day for what I know as Australia – my country of birth.
When the religious fanatics get control, they will not be so kind to the previous inhabitants.
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EU officials just voted to declare that biological men are WOMEN
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2021989127634530600
Bye bye EU…
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It’s remarkable how so many politicians think they can legislate against reality.
Problem is, of course, that the laws they make will penalise those who do follow and recognise reality.
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Rare event: when a thunderstorm meets a rainbow
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t6rd2nEJGc1v0gabk.mp4
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it appears that some persons in Iran were on the “mailing list”.
Were those folks all Iranians?
Any correlations with those alleged to have been “neutralised”?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/confirmed-us-covertly-sent-thousands-starlink-terminals-iran-amid-unrest
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FWIW
“The moving finger writes”
“Germany’s Energie Wende Looking More and More Like Das Ende”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/12/germanys-energie-wende-looking-more-and-more-like-das-ende-n3811845
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And not how you try “to cancel half a line” or so –
“German Gas Crisis…Chancellor Merz Allegedly Bans Gas Debate Ahead of Elections!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/12/german-gas-crisischancellor-merz-allegedly-bans-gas-debate-ahead-of-elections/
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Conclusion at the Hot Air item –
“All this is predicated on this winter finishing out as ‘average.’ That there’s been nothing average about it so far is the joker in the pack.
All of this self-inflicted misery could and should serve as an ongoing cautionary lesson to those with green stars in their eyes who are forcing precisely the same calamitous decisions on their citizens in the UK, New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and California.
But it won’t be.
It’s much like communism, with the inevitable gruesome end to those experiments and the next eager group already in line to try again – it’s always that the other guys just never did it right.”
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FWIW
“Federal Judge in Florida Denies BBC’s Motion for Stay, Schedules Trial of Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Broadcaster for February 2027”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/federal-judge-florida-denies-bbcs-motion-stay-schedules/
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BBC will spend a lot of money on legal fees over the next year.
And Trump will have legal people trawling through BBC files.
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The “discovery” process will be very interesting.
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Can the BBC be bankrupted?
Trump should file a motion for the Beeb to post a bond against costs.
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Another green energy fantasy in Australian hits reality:
In short:
US company Albemarle is immediately shutting down its South West lithium refinery and about 275 jobs are expected to be affected.
The company says recent lithium price gains are not enough to support local processing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/albemarle-kemerton-lithium-refinery-shut-down/106334822
Mineral processing is energy intensive. The price of base load power has doubled in WA in the last 6 years. So from project planning to now, doubling the base load power cost would be devastating. And no doubt all the other costs with CO2 bothering would be adding costs.
But Lithium has already lost its lustre. Big drops since it peak about a decade ago.
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A single 20g dose of Creatine increases cognitive processing speed by 24.5% within 3.5 hours
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial published in Scientific Reports, researchers gave healthy young adults a single high oral dose of creatine monohydrate (0.35 g/kg — roughly 20 grams for most adults) during 21 hours of sleep deprivation. They then tracked both cognitive performance and real-time brain energy metabolism using advanced MR spectroscopy.
The results were not subtle. At the first post-dose assessment — approximately 3.5 hours after ingestion — participants demonstrated a 24.5% improvement in numeric processing speed (p = 0.0003). When data were pooled across all three overnight assessments (0 a.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m.), language processing speed improved by 29.1% — the largest cognitive gain observed in the trial. And the effect didn’t fade quickly. Improvements in processing speed and task performance persisted across the next two measurement points — extending roughly nine hours after ingestion.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/a-single-20g-dose-of-creatine-increases
Old faithful. 😁
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It’s interesting how churches always want money from you, but I have never once been hit up by Satan for a contribution for another lava-filled naughty room way on south. 😁
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The collapse of the US education system
Forty percent of US fourth graders (ie 9-10 year olds) cannot read. Even fewer can read at their grade level. One teacher responsible for 110 eighth graders reports that only two can read at grade level.
Teachers report that kids are not capable of comprehending the content of written material, and that thinking and working out the answer to a problem is beyond their ability.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M8fPk94kCupI
Who needs to read and think when AI can do it for you?
Brawndo on standby. It’s got electrolytes!
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Meanwhile in China….
https://youtube.com/shorts/J4-EtBmfGuc
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Plus their school days are much longer although I think quite often they are under to much pressure.
https://www.historytools.org/school/how-long-are-school-days-in-china-an-experts-in-depth-explanation
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“Who needs to read and think “.. when you have youtube videos…
The education these days means everyone gets dumbed down and watching a movie is lazier that the hard reading needed.
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Not being able to see/hear and think makes discussion quite difficult.
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And yet I come across people quite regularly that apparently have all the equipment i.e. eyes, ears and a brain, that still cannot have a meaningful discussion about much at all.
I do not call a talk about “Married at first sight” a meaningful discussion.
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It’s not only happening in the US but in all so called western countries. It is obvious to me when I meet young people, IE those who had parents invested in their children’s future and those who didn’t.
When pocket calculators came in I said they would make children’s maths skills worse and they did but now with computers, social media and finally AI we have the perfect storm for dumbing down children’s reasoning and comprehension.
Also from a child’s perspective, constantly being brainwashed that the world is about to end because of “climate change” what is the point of learning anything.
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Just saw Malcolm Turnbull absolutely rubbish Angus Taylor. called him the best educated idiot in parliament. Maybe Taylor is worth a go. If it upsets Malcolm it can’t be all bad!
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If you can find it, mine disappears from bookmarks a year ago, the website Stop Turnbull containing from high school to I think it was 2015 timeline of history, and beginning with Fabian Society of Marxists and a favourite saying “inevitability of gradualness”. And family far left members background. The many stories and links provided include how branch stacking enabled his to become candidate for election beating the sitting Liberal member for preselection.
And the story unfolds as the Liberals In Name Only faction increased influence parliamentary and state executive offices.
Not included is the later emerging Teal not political party of independents masquerading as the “sensible right” and campaigning against Liberal MPs, and backed by vested interests in so called renewables.
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‘The huge cultural sex shift we all missed.’
‘Steamy gay male romances like Heated Rivalry and Pillion are not anomalies: women in their millions now prefer to watch men loving men on screen. But what does this new ‘heterofatalism’ reveal about female desire – and where will it lead?’ (Oz)
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Obviously, either no news today, or something important they want to hide!
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It looks like the Salvation Army in N.Z.hired a “consultant” to contribute to their Annual Report.If so , that may have been unwise , with respect to donations from the public.
But it may yield taxpayer “fruits “ from woke politicians.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/lindsay-mitchell-a-litany-of-excuses
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“Today, despite the Māori economy contributing billions to the New Zealand economy … “ (my emphasis)
WTH? Evidence please.
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Welfare all contributes to the economy, or McD’s might go broke! They may not be productive, but Keynes reckoned it was how fast the money went around, not how much of it was made.
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COPIED FROM FARCEBOOK
Finally. Common sense.
President Trump Just Lit the Fuse
With one stroke of his pen, President Trump sent the climate cartel into total meltdown.
An executive order to surge coal power through the Department of War.
While green grifters rage on cable news panels, American coal miners are smiling ear to ear.
This is not symbolism.
This is sovereignty.
For years, the public was told to accept higher bills, weaker grids, and industrial decline in the name of “transition.”
Factories shuttered.
Energy prices soared.
Reliability eroded.
Now the message is clear:
Energy independence.
Real jobs.
Real baseload power.
No more kneeling to radical environmental ideologues who would rather see the lights go out than admit they were wrong.
The climate cartel is screaming.
The miners are back.
And Washington just shifted the balance of power.
4:52 AM · Feb 12, 2026
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FWIW
“New Western Reports Reveal Vast Russian Expansion in Barrel and Shell Production”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/new-western-reports-reveal-vast-russian
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