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Australia really is run like a Third World country.
Here goes another $15 billion of our taxes into the pockets of criminals.
You have to wonder the about the lack of oversight by politicians and public serpents that they don’t notice $15 billion dollars disappearing from Government projects
There must be more criminality and incompetence to be discovered. This corruption just happened to be found. There must be much more of it given the staggeribg amounts of our taxes the Government is spending. Find it.
Note to overseas readers: The trade unions and the ruling Labor Party are intimately linked. In fact the Labor Party is just thr political arm of the trade union movement so this goes even deeper than one might think.
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These revelations, even greater than most could have imagined, should rock this entire nation. The state of Victoria has been rocked by street violence and crime for a long time and is a signature of a troubled state. The report cannot be buried or ignored. All of Australia is watching.
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And yet it doesn’t seem to be attracting the huge amount of attention it deserves.
Most Australians seem to be accepting gross corruption and incompetent oversight of their hard-earned taxes.
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We accept corruption or attempts at corruption exist. We expect it but I don’t think we accept it. Our ability to do anything is limited and we have to rely on those who have the ability to do something to do something. Police, watchdogs, whistleblowers.
But we have become conditioned to the incompetent oversight. As Jordan Peterson has suggested, we hope for a normal level of incompetence in politics and that we get out of it without too much damage being done when the normal incompetence is exceeded.
To quote Kerry Packer from the 1991 Media Inquiry.
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Not mentioned in the Sydney Moaning Herald at all!
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We didn’t need an expensive enquiry. They could have just asked anyone on any government site or even, god forbid, spent five minutes with open eyes and ears, with the boys on the job.
We have known about this corruption for years via two sons in the construction industry – it is common knowledge in the game. The bikies were running the Victorian desal site – dubbed ‘Treasure Island’ because of the rorts involved – years ago. It was completed in 2012. Over 13 years ago!
I could tell you some hair raising stories, but hopefully, these will come to light. The CFMEU morphed out of the old BLF, which was operated by another bunch of crims who engaged in standover tactics and corruption – they even invented ‘green bans’.
Unfortunately, none of the boys on these sites will want to lose their high paying jobs (nor should they, for they are not guilty), so will probably not speak up. If Jacinta Allan claims she did not know what is going on she is totally incompetent and should resign now. If she did know and chose to ignore it to get the so called ‘Big Build’ done, then she should be prosecuted. If even I knew, they all knew.
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It’s a very old story. In the 1970’s, when I was in my wilder youth and the BLF (Builders Labourers Federation) was in the ascendancy, I worked for a demolition company in Melbourne. We were supposedly obliged to be members of that union, although I could’t work out why those on the lowest rung of the industry ladder controlled all of the sites. It became clear when I was told that if a carload of BLF enforcers turned up at our site to ‘encourage’ us to sign up, that I was to jump the back fence, take off and not return to that site.
Jacinta is scheduled to speak this morning. Watch them lie.
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NDIS and all projects or programs involving handouts of taxpayer money including all “green” energy projects need to be investigated and criminal charges laid. Also, as Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has repeatedly called for investigations in various areas, including gross mis-spending of money intended to support of Aboriginal communities.
E.g.: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/nt-price-williams-clc-domestic-violence-criminal-record/104927096
Senator calls for federal government action after Central Land Council chair’s criminal history revealed
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/16/jacinta-price-calls-for-federal-takeover-of-child-protection-claims-indigenous-kids-being-sent-back-to-abusers
Jacinta Price calls for federal takeover of child protection, claims Indigenous kids being sent back to abusers
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It is bad news when you know your State is run by a crime syndicate.
A Victorian Labor member was interviewed on Channel 9 last night and kept repeating I cannot talk on that issue. She had a wry, or maybe fearful, grin. I got the impression the reason she could not speak on the issue had more to do with her wellbeing than any party politics.
In my time in the insurance industry, I inspected a few large construction projects in Melbourne and the Union rules were more invasive than Broken Hill in the 1970s.
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So was Queensland until Anastacia got the boot.
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I’m feeling all nostalgic today remembering the good old days when works on Norm Gallagher’s beach house were news.
And RickWill remembers Broken Hill in the 70s which would be about the time my mother and I arrived on a Sunday on a bus tour to central Australia and found the whole place closed. Not even the supermarkets or petrol stations were open and a feed was out of the question.
And then as if it couldn’t get any badder or weirder all the bad weird guys turned pro. Now they wear suits.
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Very odd. $15Billion for nothing? That’s a million dollars to 15,000 people? Or is it $100,000 extra to each of 15,000 people? How much else went missing building things which were not needed while the EW link to join the Eastern Freeway to the Tullamarine Freeway would have been finished years ago and taken 40,000 cars out of the inner city? Why was it cancelled? Why did Daniel Andrews classify the end of the Easter Freeway an historic site to stop anyone building this fully funded short freeway?
There was so much rotten under Daniel Andrews including the monster himself. He did not break his back slipping on a single step on grass. But the coverup continues.
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“The EW link to join the Eastern Freeway to the Tullamarine Freeway would have been finished years ago and taken 40,000 cars out of the inner city? Why was it cancelled?’
Was that the one that cost $3 Billion to not build it, cancelled to buy green votes.
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During the years that the new Parliament House Canberra was under construction I met the owner-manager of a medium size plumbing business that had other business interests, example removal of asbestos from the ceilings of houses in the ACT as required by the government. During dinner that night he told me he belonged to a union, and smiled when I looked puzzled given the he was the business owner and major shareholder. He said he had no choice but to belong or face union retribution and related business operational problems.
And then the bombshell, he said he was employed at the Parliament House Project, but his job was to turn up every morning and clock on and return in the afternoon and clock off, and get paid for the time he was not on site. Apparently it was about union control of the workplace and member numbers working on that site.
Many years later another informant told me that as a multinational building and construction industry employee supervising many casual skilled and unskilled labourers, and often on multiple project sites, that the site allowances were not being paid to the people who were not permanently on that site, moving from job to job as directed by the employer. The union representative was asked to intervene, after all to work on building sites by agreement between unions and employers people must be paid up union members. The rep advised that he could not help because there was a workplace agreement in place and the complaint issue could not be dealt with until the next bargaining time arrived.
I am not surprised that in VIC so much money has been surrendered to unions.
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For those who have visited Launceston in Van Diemen’s Land you may have visited a much-loved Japanese macaque monkey (snow monkey) troop in City Park.
These were a gift from Japan in 1980.
These monkeys are becoming very inbred and need the infusion of new genetics.
So the sensible answer, which of course would not be applicable in Australia, would be to import more.
But under federal government policy they have decided that these are “exotic animals” and the Launceston City Council who maintains the animals cannot import the required new breeding stock.
Thus, they are going to sterilise the males and let the troop die out over about the next 25 years.
Since Japan gifted them in the first place, I think that if they were asked they would be quite happy to provide some fresh stock.
It’s an Australian Government decision, not a Japanese one.
It really is pathetic.
(Decision from December 2024.)
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Surely we could look to Canberra for some in-bred monkeys who would save the troop?
Although given the “speed” of action from the Canberra lot, the macaques will be gone in 25 years before any decision.
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Breeding those inbred monkeys with Canberrans would lower the IQ of the troop.
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Like the monkey and the politician who were prepared for a quick flight into space, the monkey was trained to operate the rocket capsule controls, the politician opened his instructions and they were times to feed the monkey.
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They could try mixing with local politicians, but maybe that’d be animal cruelty.
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And would make them even more inbred. And lower their i.q.(the monkeys).
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Could it not be a simple 1-for-1 swap ?
Decided on the level of two city councils, with an imprimatur of relevant border guard officer…
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“Japanese macaques are no longer deemed suitable for live importation under the Federal Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, it’s not possible for the Council to introduce new macaques to City Park.”
If the animals are no longer deemed suitable for live importation, then perhaps the other AI (artificial insemination) could be considered
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Or, failing that option, Australia could send them back to Japan to live in their natural habitat with access to a deeper genetic pool.
But nah, that makes too much sense. Let’s kill them off slowly instead. Because it would reflect poorly on the politicians to return the gift due to their inability to properly care for them.
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What will they do with the last, lonely one??
Surely this is animal cruelty..
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As others have intimated they could be cross bred with public serpents.
I hear the public serpents are into that kind of thing but there are some things even a monkey won’t do.
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Would their pronouns be ‘hoo hee ha’?
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Sounds a bit like Canberra.
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If only there was a way to ship new genetics and not the animal.
Hang on:
Artificial insemination in cattle was first successfully performed in the early 20th century. Ilya Ivanov, a Russian biologist, achieved the first confirmed successful artificial insemination of cattle in 1909, after initial attempts in 1901. He conducted experiments at the Moscow College of Agriculture, producing two calves from artificially inseminated cows. His work laid the foundation for large-scale AI programs in the Soviet Union, where over six million cattle and sheep were inseminated by 1936.
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They could deport them as illegal aliens connected to the Yakuza.
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I just pulled out some old electrolytic capacitors from storage which probably haven’t been charged for at least 40 years and measured if they had any voltage on them.
Some had zero, as expected, others had 0.1V to 0.3V.
This voltage is due to the phenomenon of dielectric absorption where the dipoles of the dielectric material never fully return to their random state after an electric field has been removed. It is of course, not free energy because the energy came from an external source in the first place.
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I believe that it’s not a good idea of powering up an old radio that has been sitting there for decades – the old electros are very likely to go bang.
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I generally power up vintage equipment by connecting to a variac and increasing the voltage over many hours. The caps need to be reformed, assuming they are still good which should be established first.
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FWIW – for the mRNA file
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“The New York Times reports all the news fit to print, plus vaccine commercials. Yesterday, the Grey Lady reported, “F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna’s MRNA Flu Vaccine.” The sub-headline promoted the new flu shots, bragging that “The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology.” Well. The tech was successful, depending on how you measure success. It successfully transferred a trillion dollars from citizens to big pharma, for one thing.”
“take this shot and shove it. Yesterday, the FDA summarily rejected Moderna’s application for approval of its mRNA-based flu vaccine. No reason was given except that the submitted trial “does not reflect the available standard of care.” In other words: nope. The Times growled that “only 4%” of applications receive summary denials. Apparently, the paper thinks no Moderna product could possibly fall into the deplorable 4% bin, whereas I think the rejection rate could be much higher. So there.
It was a fascinating statistic. Things that only happen 4% of the time include: getting struck by lightning, winning a decent prize in a scratch-off, and the FDA telling a pharma company “no.” ”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/robot-snappers-wednesday-february?
Trouble at “Melbourne Mill”?
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And, in the “more”
“he reasons for the summary rejection were obvious even from the biased article, and even though the Times and Moderna officials acted like it was a great mystery for the ages. First, Moderna submitted its own phase three trial, which it did not run against a placebo, but against another random flu shot that nobody has ever heard of. Second, it didn’t test for efficacy at preventing flu infection; the trial just measured antibody levels. Third, even against that low bar, the mRNA shot was only better than the cherry-picked shot at raising antibodies against flu A, but not flu B.”
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All Australian politicians and public serpents who supported compulsory vaccination of Australians with covid-19 “vaccines” should be forced to receive regular 3-monthly “boosters” of this substance.
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Forced David? Forced you say?
Surely they would be looking forward to these boosters. And to the boosters which negate the effect of the boosters. And on to the boosters which negate the effect of the boosters which negate the effect of the boosters.
It’s all a bit recursive from here but I’m behind them. Way, way behind them. In another queue altogether.
Must be the after affects of the anaesthetic from yesterday. No wonder they told me not to drive. But they never warned me about making silly comments on the internet. So here I am and here I go.
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Remember how all members of the US congress and their immediate minions were exempted?
If there was a REAL threat, they’d all be first in line for the shot.
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It wasn’t Nitrous Oxide , was it?
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FWIW
“Why Climate Science Is Not Settled”
“The repeated claim that climate science is “settled” overlooks myriad uncertainties, competing mechanisms and computer models that miss the mark when tested against reality. Declaring finality in such a field reflects political confidence – even arrogance – not scientific maturity.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/10/why-climate-science-is-not-settled/
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And
“Aerosols: The Heads I Win, Tails You Lose of Climate Science”
““Heads I win, tails you lose” is usually recognized as a rhetorical trick. In climate science, it has matured into a methodological principle. Observations are no longer allowed to contradict theory; they merely reveal which auxiliary explanation must be activated. Aerosols cool when cooling is needed, disappear when warming needs help, and reappear when projections drift off course. A recent paper on Chinese sulfur emissions offers a remarkably clear example of how this works in practice.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/11/aerosols-the-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-of-climate-science/
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As with all things evolutionary – or is that progressive – is it time for the Settled Science [sic] to roll over – or move forward – to the next letter of the alphabet: ‘T’ for Topsy-Turvey, similar to a sand-filled hour glass which needs inverting once the sand has all run out… easier than banning gravity as some here have suggested.
Snow fell on Tasmania’s Mt Wellington overnight, a light dusting still remaining at 0700 with an existential 1 degree above freezing 🥶
My neck of the woods is rumoured to hit 27*C again today (same as yesterday, typical mid-February weather) same as Sydney, NSW (27) and much warmer than Adelaide (23), Melbourne (18) and Hobart (17), brrrrrrr!
Oh my galoshes sumpfink hath change’d – the equilibrium of equity has been upset and we’re all gonna fall off the tipping point of no return… or, most likely, not. But just in case, I hereby acknowledge the universal NEW Consensus Overlord Numpties (CON):
Tyrantasaurus Topsy Turvey™️
Rightio, time for a swim to cool off 💦
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Germany in trouble.
Here we go again
Germany shut 7 coal power stations after winter ends. The government took five plants out of mothballs to cope with a shortfall in gas supplies through the winter (2025/26) as Europe’s largest economy sought to reduce its dependency on Russian gas.
Seven coal-fired power stations in Germany were shut down (over Easter 2025). The massive Moorburg power station in Hamburg, touted as among Europe’s most advanced coal-burning plants, was demolished in a controlled explosion. The collapse came just six years after the plant first went into operation. The power plants were either restarted or had their shutdowns delayed to cope with a shortfall of gas supplies during winter (25/26). Germany and other European countries cut their dependence on Russian gas in the months following the war, which helped spike the price of energy.
The move means that some 2,100 megawatts (MW) of lignite capacity will be decommissioned, operator RWE said.
The last three nuclear plants were shut down in April 2023.
No nuclear, no coal and surprisingly a shortage of gas. And I am told that wood lots are now kept under lock & key.
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Further to that.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/02/11/german-gas-crisis-chancellor-merz-allegedly-bans-gas-debate-ahead-of-elections/
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I’ve heard that on retreat during WWII burning bridges and blowing up infrastructure was popular. That was until of course they ran out of places to retreat to and things to blow up or burn.
But in the end an industrial giant arose from the ashes. Maybe it worked so well last time that those with long memories (or no memories at all) are giving the strategy another run.
The only question not being asked is what could possibly go wrong.
Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
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The farce of ‘dirty coal’ continues. Are diamonds dirty?
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“The massive Moorburg power station in Hamburg, touted as among Europe’s most advanced coal-burning plants, was demolished in a controlled explosion. The collapse came just six years after the plant first went into operation.”
Hooray, it shows there’s a more stoopid country than this one.
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‘Electricity in Britain is on track to cost more in 2030 than it did during the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the boss of British Gas has warned.
‘Chris O’Shea said “system costs” were expected to push up power prices for the rest of the decade as the Government oversees a huge upgrade of the electricity grid to prepare for net zero.’ (Notalot of people know that)
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FWIW
“New York’s Winter Shows That Mamdani Is Not a Socialist, but a Devout Muslim”
“Socialism, by definition, means to take care of everyone. Although the elite in a socialist society live extremely well, and everyone else lives poorly, the concept created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels seeks to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies, irrationalities, unpredictability, and crises that socialists traditionally associate with capital accumulation and the profit system. In essence, socialism is supposedly, according to its supporters, the safety net and pathway to ensure that everyone is taken care of, has a standard of living, and is safe.
Mamdani ran on a campaign that he is a socialist who just happens to be Muslim. But he took his oath of office on a Quran, which is at its roots antithetical to the socialist value system. With the harsh winter that New York has been experiencing, we have seen his devotion to Islamic values over those of Marx and Engels.
While socialism is theoretically committed to the well-being of all people in society, the Quran teaches something entirely different. The primary text of Islamic theology is extremely clear: all infidels are to be converted, enslaved, or killed. The only people who matter to the observant Muslim are other observant Muslims who are dedicated to the goal of the Quran: a worldwide caliphate run by Sharia law. That includes Christians, Jews, and even other Muslims who are not observant and seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/02/11/new-yorks-winter-shows-mamdani-is-not-a-socialist-but-a-devout-muslim-n4949379
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The only surprise is that some people are surprised he is and will govern like a muslim.
The western world are inviting this infiltration through weak, progressive governments.
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News today that a British businessman has complained that his country has been colonised
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Yep. It’s not surprising.
Successive governments in the UK have basically opened the door and invited them in and even paid for all “the colonisers” needs and wants.
I’m surprised that the “tipping point” has not been reached yet.
Vive la révolution won’t be pretty when it happens.
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‘ … will govern like a muslim.’
No he won’t, NY is not ready for that.
Islamised socialism is only a theory, give the man some breathing space.
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Sharia banking is offered by most major and some other banks, via their private banking facilities
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Where there is money to be made the banks will be there.
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Where there’s a war, the bankers will be financing both sides.
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Meanwhile in Scotland, the Sun has gone missing
https://imgbox.com/WbozpsuX
Solar+batteries to the rescue! 😆
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They just need more solar panels…
And how’s Starmer’s experiment to blot out the sun with high altitude aerosol injections going?
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I think he’s more interested in saving himself than anyone else.
Typical polly.
https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/2021116926970233272
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Sounds like the psychopath he is.
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Warning about downloading software
One needs to be careful and do your diligence checks to ensure that you’re downloading the legitimate software not malware.
A case in point is currently 7-Zip, a Winzip/Winrar alternative. I mainly use Winrar but 7-Zip has native WIM support.
A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user’s computer into a residential proxy node.
Residential proxy networks use home user devices to route traffic with the goal of evading blocks and performing various malicious activities such as credential stuffing, phishing, and malware distribution.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-7-zip-site-distributes-installer-laced-with-proxy-tool/
The malware site is 7zip.com (still active, do not use) while the legitimate one is 7-zip.org.
Easy to get it wrong.
It’s further complicated by the fact that a lot of legitimate companies use multiple domain types (.com, .net, .org etc for marketing purposes), all of which are quite ok.
So do your homework and make sure!
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Canada: new bill to protect pollies and cronies from most laws
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/2021592563208106116
Another nail in their coffin.
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As Mel Brooks once said, it’s good to be the King.
Although in retrospect Charles I of England, Mary Queen of Scots and Louis XVI of France may have had second thoughts.
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Canadian shooting: “A woman in a dress”…
No prizes for guessing the reality eh.
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Or as Pravda NZ reported:
“afemale” in “a dress with brown hair” which was afflicted by *menta! i!!ness*.
Dresses with brown hair should be avoided at all costs.
R I P
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Is a dress with brown hair just a very large mirkin?
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“Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson https://buff.ly/I4G5tVp”
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/2021703099707003245
Via https://instapundit.com/775770/#disqus_thread
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She’s a beauty:-
https://www.rt.com/news/632330-canada-school-shooter-identified/
Or rather, was.
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So close but no cigar. Of course it was a man in a dress. But at least they got the mental health problems part right.
Honestly, if these people didn’t take to doing such horrendous things they’d deserve sympathy and all the help they could get.
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According to News.com. An eighteen year old that had been transitioning for six years. So a 12 year old, the very hight of puberty changes, gets the “you are a girl” treatment as opposed to lets support you for a while and see how things pan out.
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Transitioning from male to male pretending to be female?
You can’t fix stupid.
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The story being pushed is that not supporting trans people is a death sentence. But the reality is the opposite. Young trans mass murders are becoming common.
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Move over wind turbines, blimps are here
Introducing the S2000 stratospheric airborne wind energy system (SAWES), the world’s first megawatt-level airborne wind power system, according to its developer, Beijing-based Linyi Yunchuan Energy Technology. The system has recently completed a test flight, successfully generating electricity from high-altitude winds without the need for towers or substantial ground infrastructure.
While the S2000 has successfully scaled the experimental and concept stages, it is still a relatively new technology. According to company data, the device is rated at 3MW, roughly the output of a medium wind turbine. However, its test flight generated about 385 kWh, which was fed directly into the local grid.
https://www.eea.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1038/3497.htm
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Hopefully they are hydrogen filled.
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JC2 diagnostics corner: fuse voltage drop chart
https://powerprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/fuse-voltage-drop-chart.pdf
If you’re into auto diagnostics or similar, probably tracing a parasitic drain, you’ll find this gem very useful.
Measuring the voltage across a fuse shows the current through it.
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Interesting. Off the top of my head I would have expected a properly working fuse to have no more resistance than a wire.
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Yes and no. The resistance may vary from around 0.01 ohms to a few ohms depending on the fuse type and application.
Sometimes a higher resistance fuse is chosen to assist in rapid fuse blowing.
But for every resistance there is a voltage, however small, even down to Johnson–Nyquist noise levels.
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Thanks JC. I knew about V=IR of course. It’s just that I always assumed that R was zero.
It’s been a good day. I learned something.
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An iron nail has [approaching] zero resistance, but it isn’t a fuse anywhere other than a substation. A copper wire has [approaching] zero resistance but CAN be a fuse. The difference is cross-sectional area.
In low current applications [milli-Amps] a low Wattage 1 Ohm resistor is cheaper and mechanically superior to a fuse in a holder. If it blows removal to a workshop is SOP anyway.
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The fuses are expected to be NOT from a $2 shop.
Considering how cheap the modern electronic is I always wondered why “big names” has not yet incorporated colour LED indicators into their CB design:
Like: black – current under 10%, green – 10% to 50%, yellow – 50% to 75%.
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Sorry – clumsy fingers…
… red colour – above 75% of CB rated current.
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What is so remarkable about this?
It’s just Ohm’s Law.
The problem is that the fuse will have a small resistance of milliohms which you need to know. It is difficult to measure without Kelvin leads and an appropriate milliohm meter meter.
For a fuse with current flowing the voltage drop will be mV or less. You can use miilivoltmeter, including one that uses Kelvin leads (but don’t use with milliohm meter with current flowing).
You can’t rely on tables for fuse resistance because resistance will vary as the fuse ages.
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Nothing really, its just a diagnostic tool made practical by cheap digital multi meters in workshops.
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Just the sort of woman you wouldn’t want to meet is pushing ‘beta men’ as the most desirable in the SMH.
“Many of my women friends are trading in their alpha husbands to shack up with domesticated, empathetic, types…for my second act, I’ve found myself drawn to a gentle, funny home-maker who shuns the limelight and is happy to play second fiddle to my big, loud, orchestral carry-on.”
So she’s not the type an alpha males wanted after all.. Still, the cardigan-wearers get a good plug.
“A beta bloke will adore you, not bore you, and do all your chores for you. He’ll shop, mop, cook and clean. He’ll even dust the pedestal before placing you upon it. In short, the sort of bloke who wears a cardigan is usually the type to wrap it around your shoulders if it’s cold, without you asking.”
For every women there is the perfect man out there… that you will never find!
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/my-friends-are-trading-in-their-alpha-husbands-for-a-different-kind-of-man-20260128-p5nxo3.html
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Kathy Lette blames Putin and Trump for turning women off Alpha males.
Not a bad yarn.
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Another funny one in the SMH panics about land clearing-
“Private land clearing in NSW is directly contributing to the state’s extinction crisis, with new figures showing an area of high-biodiversity land equivalent to four Sydney Harbours was cleared between 2016 and 2023….The 2023 data, which showed a 40 per cent jump in land clearing, mainly for agriculture, is the most recent available. Environmentalists said the data suggested NSW was a “deforestation hotspot on par with Indonesia”. ”
Lots about the poor native life, photos of farmers with giant bulldozes where the small print says ‘no suggestion of illegality’ and of course..
Absolutely NO mention of ruinables and the massive land clearing they cause!! They just don’t exist. Pure propaganda for the NSW Govt as they plan new laws to bribe Green voters.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/on-extinction-path-land-clearing-laws-failing-native-species-20260211-p5o1a9.html
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And recent news from the Koala protection forest declared by the Labor NSW Government in Northern NSW, the Koala population has been increasing and long before the area was protected
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After 32 years, it is thought Kurt Cobains death was homicide, not suicide.
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That was the word 32 years ago…
That’s what happens when you Court ney Love (not her real name).
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Sounds like someone has a book to promote
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I wonder if Elon’s moon city will be called Moonbase Alpha?
Just get the demolitions for the colony right. 😁
https://youtu.be/AhTadcV0myo?si=gBeMXpCuTOlAehVj
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More interesting will be the AI that runs it and Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’…
The physics he outlined for orbital bombardment of the Earth is possible. Do not declare war on the Moon colonies!
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When you say AI, do you mean HAL?
“No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.”
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The Chinese have found nano tubes on the far side, which is truly unique, so in the future the concept could be upscaled to build a colony.
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They must receive instructions from Australia’s BoM.
But they did revert some of the altered records to the honest ones.
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The data for De Bilt on the GISS NASA website has been changed so much from the original v2 data set, which showed little increase in temp from 1900, to a v4 version which has been adjusted beyond recognition. The original v4 graph showed the original raw data in light yellow, but when GISS NASA got rid of their v2 original data site, this original data was changed. https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=NLM00006260&ds=14&dt=1
Maybe, just maybe, after what you mention has happened, they may restore the original temp data for De Bilt like they finally did with Reykjavik after much criticism.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=IC000004030&ds=14&dt=1
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Are you aware that some Muslims in Sydney during the outside City Town Hall demonstration who are alleging rough treatment by police interfering in their right to pray were ignoring police instructions to move on in a public place where the crows were being blocked by the men on prayer mats?
It has since been revealed that prayer is now a common tactic overseas by demonstrators trying to use religion as an excuse to disrupt.
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Melbourne, St Patrick Cathedral, 7 July /2025
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It’s a sign of dominance, power, defiance and refusal to accept Western cultural norms. It is practiced throughout occupied Europe and elsewhere, including Australia.
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I saw that Our Sister of Perpetual Misery , Ms Tame popped up at a ruckus in Sydney. I had thought she had found something to do and had dropped out of the outrage business, but it seems not.
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And now for the good news. We don’t need to worry about net zero here in Australia. It’s too late. The world is too close to tipping points to do anything about it because the large emitters won’t stop in time.
More alarmism from The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
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Hyperbole and outright lies, they are spreading alarm based on flawed assumptions.
“It’s likely that global temperatures are [already] as warm as, or warmer than, at any point in the last 125,000 years and that climate change is advancing faster than many scientists predicted.”
‘It is also likely that carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been in at least 2m years.’
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Rough propaganda, more commonly known as disinformation.
‘False and misleading information created or shared to deliberately mislead people.’
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The NYT also lacks balance.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/11/right-new-york-times-scientists-do-disagree-on-the-polar-vortex/
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FWIW
“BREAKING! HUGE!! HUGE!!
The FTC is going after WPATH for deceptive trade practices!!
Finally!!!!
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a consumer protection investigation into two major nonprofit medical organizations:
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and
World Professional Association for Tr*nsgender Health (WPATH)”
https://x.com/babybeginner/status/2021376435181715680
Via https://instapundit.com/775809/#disqus_thread
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Some hope for sanity!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtmelbfJ6Y&t=317s
Topher Field video. 14min
“When historians look back and ask when the Co2 doom-mongers gravy train came to an end… they will pick the 12th of February 2026 as the day.
Why? Because this is the day the Endangerment Finding was overturned.”
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I like to think Joanne knows! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6ySRhdJPE&t=906s
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