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The Digital empire. Developed to rule. Unlike other Empires it seems impossible to resist its power to monitor and control you.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/29/the-digital-leviathan-how-the-information-state-rose-to-manage-reality-itself/
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Until someone kicks the plug(s) out of the wall outlet(s).
Like the fictional Daleks: Even when they learned to levitate, they had a core weakness.
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I am sure this will be familiar to anyone seeking out the Temperatures of Oz or New Zealand weather stations.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/29/statistical-proof-the-met-office-is-inflating-uk-maximum-temperature-records/
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Yet on the other side of the ledger, the USA’s Maunakea, Hawaii site is going downhill, recording -40F/-40C today (yesterday their time).
After last week’s super cold glitch their instruments returned to ‘normal’ – someone here suggested a history of ongoing faults – but now it’s back down to the frigid zone more suited to the South Pole or Greenland’s summit, unless their govt funds have run dry and thermometers are jammed on 40-below.
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/road-conditions
(scroll down to live min/max/windchill temps).
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/meteograms
(close-up graph of temp, humidity, wind, etc).
Meanwhile Perth will be the coldest state capital in Oz today with a chilly 21C max, same as over here: surely a little homogenisation©️ could crank it up to 30 or 35C? C’mon BoM, do your thing!
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The would be the Mauna Kea research center that the eco-nazis tried VERY hard to shut down for YEARS?
Meanwhile, across the other side of the lava desert of the Pohakaloa Training area / Kilauea Volcano National Park, there ere a number of “CO2” monitoring stations atop an ACTIVE volcano (Mauna Loa), oozing CO2, Radon, Xenon, etc.
More “political science”.
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Digital Health Wallets? Come on, you know you are desperate to get one and you might as well add in Digital id and soon everything will be in one easily hackable space. Alternatively if you want to keep this all on your smartphone a random thief could steal your whole identity and the true meaning behind the phrase “kafkaesque” will be revealed as you try to retrieve it
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/big-pharma-big-money-and-the-inexorable-drive-for-health-passports/
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President Trump says “A HUGE THANK YOU to all the “No Kings” protesters yesterday!”
Trump supports the ‘No Kings’ protests in Canada and Greenland. The “Donroe Doctrine” plans to remove European Kings, Charles III and Frederik X, from ruling over Canada and Greenland, and replace them with President Trump.
So then do the American Democrat idiots know that ‘No Kings’ protestors in Canada, Greenland, Britain and Australia are called ‘Republicans’? And do the American Democrat idiots know that Elvis is King of America, not Donald?
The ‘No Kings’ protests also put into doubt King Charles III’s expected visit to the United States to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial) of the Declaration of Independence from Britain.
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The United States already has a “no kings” day.
It’s called 4th July.
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Of course Commonwealth of Australia, Federation of States and the United States of America Republic (see meaning of Commonwealth-Republic) are similar in multicultural population and roots back to Great Britain, British Empire, and Australia has the Westminster System of Government with some US System included.
Australia being a Constitutional Monarchy, Governor General the permanent Head of State selected and appointed by the Prime Minister and Cabinet, automatically endorsed by the Monarch with no powers and position based on the Australian Constitution. During the 1930s from memory Great Britain removed the last powers of a monarch and in the 1980s Australia followed be legislating similar law however the Constitution applied from 1900.
No King in Australia, the King is ceremonial duties only King when visiting Australia and at other times the Constitutional Law based Monarch
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An interesting article on the Wyoming eagle death sink. I had not heard of this death sink mechanism before. Make sense. See third paragraph:
https://wyofile.com/wyoming-must-meet-the-eagle-preservation-standard/
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And as noted in the article, the “death sink” extends way beyond the Wyoming borders.
The wind plantations are like black holes sucking in and killing all eagle and presumably other bird and bat life from a vast area.
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Down at #8, I posted a link to my submission on the Draft AEMO ISP 2026. A often mention “bird mincers”. And claim they should have never been given serious consideration because of their negative impact on the environment.
I wonder how many of the Wyoming bird mincers will actually be replaced once the subsidies have been harvested.
Australia had to copy the UK subsidy model to get the “private” investment for the current wind farms being built. The private investors have taxpayer backed guarantees on return on investment so they get paid even if there is no generated output. That will not happen in the USA in the next 3 years. If fact, the Trump administration is cancelling contracts and paying up for costs already incurred.
One Nation should let it be known that they will cancel all “renewables” contracts without compensation. That would scare the potential investors away because it is already happening in the USA.
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Environmental Protection Agencies, environmental laws Australia, destruction of forests and hill sides, agricultural land even prime land adversely impacted by wind turbines and commercial solar panel installations, transmission feeder lines to main transmission lines and some extensions to main transmission lines only needed for the Renewable Energy Target and legislation laws and regulations Federal and States involved and responsibilities including that electricity supply is primarily state responsibility and until the privatisation commenced from early 1990 (Carr Labor Government NSW and first tranche sold Keneally Labor NSW) in New South Wales followed by Victoria and South Australia (Queensland did not sell the publicly owned assets) and Tasmania.
And not a peep from the Greens Australia Party???
Labor, Greens, Teals are advocates for transition away from fossil fuels and so called renewable energy ignoring the land intensive installations and transmission lines, firming back up, and inefficient intermittent electricity supply disadvantages and driving wholesale then retail prices ever higher.
And meanwhile State Governments continuing with Federal to expand UN Agenda 21 National Parks land, and Koala sanctuaries!!!
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A reminder from the Labor Federal Government terms 2007-2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard removed by Kevin Rudd with his assistant Anthony Albanese at his side (Liberals have a women problem don’t they Albo claims?) when she was told about the costs involved in connecting scattered wind and solar installation locations to the main transmission line described them as “gold plated poles and wires”, she was genuinely surprised by that until then hidden cost factor.
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I can’t wait for these killing eyesores to be gone.
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In the 250 years of independence Trump will represent only a tiny part of that history.
It seems unreasonable to curtail a visit because of one man, when it is the 400 million or so Americans that Charles is symbolically visiting.
There has been no high level political discussions over here regarding the cancellation of the visit just some talk on social media by those who hate Trump. That noise may grow, though as the fall out from Trumps escapades in Iran start to economically affect them or their lives.
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Sorry, that reply was to item 4, it seems to have wandered down the page.
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Prince Phillip Cause of Death
Pancreatic cancer. 8 year survival seems exceptional. I wonder what treatment he was on?
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9210681/prince-philip-battled-pancreatic-cancer-in-secret/
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Other secrets not revealed by the Health Security Propaganda and Censorship Industrial Complex.
Pancreatic cancer. Since the commencement of COVID-19 vaccines, there has been an 80% increase in pancreatic cancer deaths among women and a 60% increase among men.
Monday 29th January 2024, King Charles was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on the day he left the London Clinic Hospital.
Prince Phillip survives Pancreatic cancer for 8 years, then gets an mRNA jab, and dies within three months.
*Saturday 9th January 2021, The Queen and Prince Philip were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jab by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, the Queen said “Well once you’ve had the vaccine, you have a feeling of, you know, you’re protected”.
*Monday 1st February 2021, The Queen and Prince Philip were vaccinated for a second time with the Pfizer jab.
*Wednesday 10th February 2021, Prince Charles and Camilla were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jab at Highgrove.
*Sunday 14th February 2021, Camilla was hospitalised at King Edward VII’s Hospital for a brief period.
*Tuesday 16th February 2021, Philip was admitted to King Edward VII’s Hospital after feeling unwell. On the same day, Prince Charles was admitted to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for a precautionary health check but was not hospitalised.
*Monday 1st March 2021, Philip was transferred by ambulance to St Bartholomew’s Hospital to undergo testing and observation for a heart condition.
*Wednesday 3rd March 2021, Philip underwent a procedure for his heart condition at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
*Friday 5th March 2021, Philip was transferred back to King Edward VII’s Hospital.
*Tuesday 9th March 2021, Prince Charles was admitted to King Edward VII’s Hospital for a precautionary health check.
*Tuesday 16th March 2021, Philip was discharged and returned to Windsor Castle.
*Monday 22nd March 2021, Sarah, Duchess of York, received an AstraZeneca jab.
*Wednesday 31st March 2021, Prince Charles and Camilla were vaccinated for a second time with the Pfizer jab.
*Friday 9th April 2021, Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle. Sir Hugh Thomas certified the cause of death as “old age” to prevent an autopsy to find the precise underlying cause of death, which was probably a combination of a heart condition caused by rubbery clots, compromised by pancreatic cancer.
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If they are secrets, how come you know them?
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Something can be a secret while not being secret.
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IIRC – There is that expression “Hiding in plain sight”?
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I think Paul qualified that in his first sentence.
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The official Royal Family website on the wayback machine. Leaks by the Communist Idiots Agency (CIA) and the Marxist Idiots section 6 (MI6). The Twitter archives of the British 77th Brigade psyop spy, Gordon MacMillan, sacked by Elon Musk. Secrets covered up by DSMA-Notices, but revealed by sources including Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Gyles Brandreth, Lady Colin Campbell and Professor Angus Dalgleish. Official secrets only available in Hansard. Then Gptchatly confirmed all the dates and vaccines that the Royal family took up to October 2023. Also all the hospital appointments due to illness by the Royal family from 2021 till October 2023. All the secrets ‘not’ revealed by the Health Security Propaganda and Censorship Industrial Complex.
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Most Australians, present company excepted, have no idea how stupid Australian anti-energy policies are. People from non-woke places overseas do.
Here is an interesting video by an American discussing Australian anti-energy policies.
The comments on the video are mostly from Australians and are particularly illuminating.
https://youtu.be/aQFIsY7zbVA
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I know a very well educated older person who refuses to listen to any criticism about so called renewable energy and related electric vehicles because we must save the planet from the tipping point climate emergency.
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AEMO has posted the submissions to their ISP 2026 draft. This is the one I submitted:
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/draft-2026/consultation-submissions/willoughby-richard.pdf?rev=c5f5c2bf59ff4b28b2d1b8e84c27e615&sc_lang=en
This is a link to all of all 68 submissions that were received:
https://www.aemo.com.au/consultations/current-and-closed-consultations/draft-2026-isp-consultation
Mine was not as hostile as some – for example:
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/draft-2026/consultation-submissions/save-our-surroundings-riverina.pdf?rev=564d5279e46c4759a827290992a4d104&sc_lang=en
All realists will like this one:
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/draft-2026/consultation-submissions/coal-australia.pdf?rev=2846e9ac005640a299cf9e3c2525389b&sc_lang=en
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“All realists will like this one:”
Summed up nicely in one word “realists”. When we are dealing with an energy minister that has no engineering understanding, no ability to look at all arguments, both for and against, no ability to comprehend that all renewables world wide run at, give or take, an average of less than 40% efficiency, we are simply not dealing with a realist.
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I was discussing batteries with my neighbour yesterday as he has 6.6kW of panels but no batteries and is averaging about $4 per day cost of energy when at home despite doing controllable things like washing during sunny periods. So I suggested he do the sums on a battery.
Our conversation got onto cancellation of his next caravaning trip. He has just returned from a short trip to northern Victoria. He fueled up on the weekend after getting back. It took just over $200 to fill his turbo diesel from 1/4 full to full. So there would need to be big fuel price reduction before northwest WA was back on the agenda.
Our discussion then moved on to Blackout and I pointed out that the voters in McMahon have voted Blackout in FIVE times. I wonder if there will be a sixth.
Will COP 31 be enough to restore his street cred by 2028?
Radical left politicians who lose their credibility end up at the UN. Blackout is so stupid he could end up as Secretary General. I expect he will be doing a lot of path oiling toward that end over the next two years. It gives Albo a chance to “fix” Blackouts mess by replacing him before May 2028.
You may have guessed my neighbour is always up for a chat. After his trip up country Victoria he thinks One Nation will romp to power in Victoria after what he saw in eastern South Australia on his way home. He anticipated the swing to ON in SA.
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FWIW
“The Biased Oxford University Report That Claims Renewables Are Cheaper Than Gas”
“The lay reader – with a common-sense grasp of high school economics and without the privilege of an advanced Oxbridge degree in PPE – may be forgiven if he asks some elementary questions: won’t an increase in oil and gas production in the North Sea add to the nation’s GDP, improve Great Britain’s balance of payments as a net oil and gas importer, increase government tax revenues and provide oil and gas jobs and ancillary benefits in cities like Aberdeen which serve the offshore oil and gas industry? How do these compare in their impacts to the general standard of living, quite apart from the specific impact on household power bills which the Oxford analysis is focused on? And, curiously, how does the fact that oil and gas prices are set in global or regional markets mean that British citizens will derive “no discernible benefit” by an increase in the country’s energy exports?
The model world versus the real world”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/30/the-biased-oxford-university-report-that-claims-renewables-are-cheaper-than-gas/
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Conclusion –
“It is clear that the Labour Government is not capable of implementing even a faintly rational energy policy – a posture it shares with its counterparts in the EU which are largely composed of legacy Left-socialist governments. It is also apparent that without the sacking of Ed Miliband – the virtue signalling energy-illiterate – nothing will change. Until green ideology is exorcised from the Westminster bubble and woke universities, the climate idiocracy will continue to shape policy — and ordinary British families will continue to pay the price.”
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In a very cynical manner I am amused by the transition away from fossil fuels since just after 2007 legislated by Rudd Labor is now according to Energy Minister natural gas the transition fuel.
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And
“$2 Trillion Later, The Green Revolution Collapsed: How Chasing Weather Power Bankrupted the Grid and Cost the World $40 Trillion in Growth”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/30/2-trillion-later-the-green-revolution-collapsed-how-chasing-weather-power-bankrupted-the-grid-and-cost-the-world-40-trillion-in-growth/
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Many people seem to not want to hear about the timeline history of a new world order Marxism based beginning late 1800s Fabian Society UK, and the ups and downs of their “inevitability of gradualness” saying to present day, the takeover of the United Nations established with very good intents and purposes after WW2 but infiltrated and gradually like arms of an octopus other associated organisations added until there was what has been described as a world parliament, as compared to elected government. The original European Economic Union now EU is a very calculated gamble to control sovereign nations.
Consider present day and the Albanese Labor EU-Australia Trade Agreement. The Coalition started negotiations about eight years ago but would not accept EU Government demands that Albanese Labor have accepted, EU interference in the affairs of sovereign nation Australia for use of land, required imposition of net zero emissions UN IPCC based agreements and agenda for example. And no details provided to date, only media probing and reporting.
The UN Lima Protocol was non-binding when signed by Whitlam Labor 1975, Agenda 21 is binding I understand signed Keating Labor 1990 and the Hawke Labor Government 1983-1993 (then PM Keating 1993-1996) imposed Lima objectives including removal of trade barriers (tariffs) with the notable exemptions of union workforce businesses like textile industry and motor vehicle industry.
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Dutch treasury banking portal goes dark for 1,600 public institutions after cyberattack
..around 1,600 public institutions that hold their funds with the Ministry of Finance” being “currently unable to view the balance of their treasury accounts digitally.”
He continued, “Participants in treasury banking include, among others, ministries, agencies, legal entities with a statutory task, educational institutions, social funds, and decentralized governments.”
“It is also temporarily not possible for participants to apply for loans, deposits, or credit facilities through the portal, change the intraday limit, or generate reports,” Heinen warned.
Heinen admitted, “At this time, it is not yet known how long this situation will last.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/dutch-treasury-banking-portal-goes-dark-1600-public-institutions-after-cyberattack
If ze blob is this vulnerable, what of the masses?
More importantly though is all those oil tankers hanging off the coast waiting for the price of oil to jump before they offload. Profiteering…
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The Liberals Path Back?
Pru Goward ( remember her) thinks the Liberals have a path back to regaining their
supporters lost to One Nation.
She makes a few points about messaging and electioneering but fails to recognise that in order to make any progress the Libs engage on some contentious topics. Ie
Immigration Numbers
Multi culturalism
Energy cost and security
Net Zero
Climate Change
https://www.afr.com/politics/the-liberals-path-back-what-wilson-and-sloane-must-do-now-20260327-p5zjeg
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I heard from a reliable NSW source some comments that turned my mind to the LINO left factions and ghost squad, why would a voter support a “Liberal” in State and a Teal in Federal?
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recognise that in order to make any progress the Libs engage on some
The LNP is dominantly a party of fence sitters; able to shift their stance on any topic at any time to suit the most vocal. The are the ‘no values’ party.
Look at Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts. Pauline Hanson has been banging on about excess immigration of unsuitable immigrants and apartheid for 30 years. Malcolm Roberts has been banging on about the climate hoax for a decade. Over that time, the fence sitting LNP have managed to be in power about 50% of the time.
Once One Nation gain power, they will be there for a generation because there is a lot of low hanging fruit. Some will give an immediate return but some will take time. It will be a decade before Australia is able to grow productivity significantly.
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Step 1: Purge the government, education (universities) and judiciary of environmentalists.
Step 2: Reduce funds to universities by 20% for each activist activity they support. Increase funding to universities that support Christianity.
Step 3: Audit and reduce funding by 20% to local councils for each activity that they support beyond their basic function (roads, rubbish collection and building approval).
Step 4: Reduce funding to each state by 20% for each renewable project that they approve. Increase funding for each coal, oil, gas and nuclear project that they approve.
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Pauline Hanson formed One Nation in 1997 after winning a seat as a Liberal endorsed candidate in 1996 and being disendorsed for “contentious remarks” regarding indigenous Australians, and over 29 years to 2096 has remained a minor party in Federal Parliament and Senate seats only. The two terms similar to SA recently state successes ended long ago.
I am not opposed to One Nation or Pauline Hanson, obviously a small business owner success story and no doubt sincerely believes what she/they say.
As for Liberal-National-LNP Coalition and the allegation of being fence sitters I have posted here links indicating that is a nonsense claim.
Are the LINO left infiltrators and influencers a problem, yes they are, and emphasis on period since November 2007 when the Howard Government lost to Rudd Labor 2007-2013.
On the opposite side there is far left factions now dominant and centre left who have been in control more often than the far left have been, and in the 1950s both sides split and the Democratic Labor Party was established by the centre left, and since, obviously, the two sides have joined together. ALP controlled by the Union Movement and they also donate to fund the Greens, so there is a de facto marriage.
I won’t go over timeline history again but start at UN influence and Lima Protocol 1975, and consider Menzies and successors Coalition of Liberal and Country/National for over 20 years to 1970, and the nation building that took place until Whitlam Labor was elected, “It’s Time” campaign and disaster that followed.
The point is that the Coalition has spent most time in government repairing Labor budgets and financial positions before other progress foreward and consider the Federation of States that formed together the Federal or Commonwealth of Australia Government 1900. The Constitution, the powers and the responsibilities of State Governments that Federal cannot easily overturn, without causing a major constitutional law argument.
I have shown in my own words and with links that Howard Government treated Kyoto COP emissions target cautiously, after 2007 Rudd Labor ratified it and added new legislation the beginning of the transition to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels.
That the Abbott Government attempted unsuccessfully to repeal the transition legislation but was blocked in the Senate. That Turnbull Government was on side with Rudd Labor and renewable energy etc policies, and consider the “Born Lucky” link posted in the past a few times.
Then consider the Morrison Government positions also via the links I posted here.
In conclusion consider how UN agreements and agenda is legislated and regulated at all three levels of government here.
And the maze of political traps and diversions that effectively make changes very difficult. Most often the Federal Government can pass legislation in the House of Representatives and it will be blocked by the Senate. State Governments also legislate roadblocks that Federal Government cannot pass.
Are we well served by our politicians generally, I don’t think so.
However, as long as people go along with the left side political games, and use terms like “Uniparty” and others suggesting they are both the same then the left will keep winning and achieving their inevitability of gradualness.
One Nation and the Coalition must come together to get rid of Labor Green Teals, emphasis Labor last, Green second last on the ballot paper.
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I believe Hanson was disendorsed before the 1996 election. But voting ballots and other info had been printed. So she still appeared on the ballot as a Lib candidate despite the public disendorsement, but never entered parliament as a Liberal Party MP.
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The average punter is looking for stability and mateship.
‘Hastie-Taylor relationship ‘stronger than ever’
‘Andrew Hastie said the formal counselling he was expected to receive from Angus Taylor over his freelancing on tax was more like a casual conversation between mates’ (Oz).
We need to educate Hastie on climate change, like the Holocene Climate Optimum and Little Ice Age. Not sure if its in his portfolio.
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FWIW
“BOMBSHELL DATA: In a Warming World, Rising Cold Deaths Outnumber Heat Deaths 12 to 1”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/30/inconvenient-data-in-a-warming-world-rising-cold-deaths-outnumber-heat-deaths-12-to-1/
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FWIW
“Millions Gather To Express Total Ignorance About Political System”
https://babylonbee.com/news/millions-gather-to-express-total-ignorance-about-political-system
Via SDA
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“Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy assets, Kharg Island if deal not made ‘shortly’”
Childish tantrums… If I can’t have it you can’t either! He has become such a disappointment as a President. The ‘President of Peace’ who was going to clean out the Govt waste and the political correctness, get rid of the global warming myth and set America back on its feet.. Now buried in another Vietnam as he tries to seize control of the world’s oil supply, just another robber baron.
He lost an irreplaceable AWACs plane yesterday, on the ground alongside the KC135 aerial tankers that were destroyed, so now he’s finding out how expensive it is after crowing when Russia lost the same. If the photo of the AWACs hit is real, it shows amazing precision in Iran’s missiles and Russian satellite geolocation.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/essential-us-awacs-plane-destroyed
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‘ … just another robber baron.’
No doubt about it, this Iran war fiasco is illegal and strategically ludicrous. The UN Security Council needs to purge its permanent members, its a colossal failure.
Something good may eventually come out of all this, US democracy looks dodgy and needs an overhaul.
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It might take a little while.
‘The Constitution is deliberately difficult to amend, requiring the approval of three-fourths of the state legislatures and approval by two-thirds of both houses of Congress.
‘Only one amendment has ever been repealed—the 18th (Prohibition), passed in 1920 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933.’ (Hoover Inst)
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“Irreplaceable”?
Where do you think they got it in the first place?
They built it.
Just like they built the tankers.
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not in a convenient time frame. Also the value has gone from something worth a huge amount to something valued at scrap. Irreplaceable value.
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The plane was built on a Boeing 707 airframe, is obsolete and desperately needs replacement so on a strategic time frame it has little value. That large rotating radome is old as the hills.
Tactically, that is different. It still works and was on station so it had genuine value. I’m pretty sure the Boeing/Australian Wedgetail is in theatre and may fill the gap. The USAF is yet to commit to it.
I have no doubt the USAF takes the loss seriously and heads might roll.
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” I’m pretty sure the Boeing/Australian Wedgetail is in theatre and may fill the gap” as the next target…
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The ultimate pessimist speaks. Pacifists never prevented a war nor have they won one.
Why should anyone take any notice?
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The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, also marketed as the Boeing 737 AEW&C, is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft originally designed for the Royal Australian Air Force. Based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation design, it has a fixed active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one as with the 707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry.
The E-7 was designed for the RAAF under “Project Wedgetail” and designated E-7A Wedgetail. The 737 AEW&C has also been selected by the Turkish Air Force, the Republic of Korea Air Force, and the United Kingdom Continued in Wikipedia
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A bit over a year trying to undo decades of entrenching waste, political correctness, and a global warming myth.
Maybe Musk overstated how much he could cut from US expenditure via DOGE, but the cut to waste has been significant. Even just getting rid of USAID was noteworthy from a waste and scam perspective, and international interference and removing funding of non-US interests.
Rolling back a number of DEI, transgender, and other discriminatory practices has been significant. Helped by the Supreme Courts ruling.
Pushing on with energy security via “Fossil Fuels”, changing the EPA’s stance on CO2 being a pollutant, has been significant in the US and emboldened others too.
If you’re disappointed in him then you either had unrealistic expectations or there’s just no pleasing you.
As for this Iran conflict being another Vietnam. One month in is a bit quick to decide it’s a futile effort equivalent to an 8 year war.
If he pulls off a change in regime and direction of leadership in Iran, it could be the biggest step toward a reasonable period of peace in the middle east. Given Iran’s sponsorship of many hostile activities and Trump’s previous efforts in the region. Too early to judge.
Trump may be the most transformational President ever. Has he done everything perfectly or achieved it all yet? Of course not. But jeepers. You’re a really hard marker.
Give him a score in 3 years time.
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Have you never read the history of wars? By definition stuff gets broken.
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FWIW
“Suicidal Empathy or National Survival? Meloni vs Starmer”
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/suicidal-empathy-or-national-survival-meloni-vs-starmer/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/30/monday-on-turtle-island-181/
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There is a lot of concern about the religion King Charles III now actually follows. He doesn’t seem to be doing much to support the religion of which he is legally “Defender of the Faith”.
https://youtu.be/iWKzE6yPtmI
https://youtu.be/8rumnBAdYEc
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Narelle has spawned a couple of low pressures.
https://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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The United States didn’t have Federal income tax until 1913. States didn’t have income tax either until about that time.
So how was the Federal Government funded?
Of course, back in the day it didn’t spend much either but it still needed some money to run…
https://youtu.be/6N2_A97T8zM
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You are touching on the OTHER cause for the civil war. The productive south paid export levies such as the 2 shillings per hogshead of tobacco in Virginia. [search result]
Not long before, they had fought another bitter war over taxation without representation.
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FWIW
“Usha Vance Takes on a New Endeavor”
“Usha Vance has a lot on her plate, but something tells me she’s pretty good at multitasking. She’s raising three young children and expecting a fourth this summer, and she’s serving as our country’s second lady, making appearances alongside her husband, JD Vance, at various events and representing the United States all over the world. And on top of all that, she’s been looking for ways to impart her love of reading and education on our country’s children and young families. Last summer, she issued the “Second Lady’s Summer Reading Challenge” for children across the nation.
And now, she’s starting a new podcast: Storytime with the Second Lady. ”
More at
“https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/03/30/usha-vance-takes-on-a-new-endeavor-n4951253
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FWIW – how to boost a country’s defence spending –
“Sleight Of Hand”
“Just think how much Canada could boost defense spending by shifting the budgets for all manner of random departments to National Defense.
Bartlett said one of the reasons Canadian GDP won’t get a boost is that shifting spending from other departments likely helped Canada hit its target. For example, the Coast Guard budget was moved from Fisheries and Oceans to Defence.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/30/sleight-of-hand/
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A long time favourite here, example Rudd Labor NBN Co, is for government wholly owned private companies accounted for off government budgets and accounts not made public.
Carry debt in hidden “hollow logs”.
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Still interested…
Does any only know what was that black pipe between the armoured police(?) car and sea container were allegedly Desi Freeman was found?
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According to the TV news, it was an extended drill bit. After penetration of the container they pumped some gas or capsicum spray through it to force him out.
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They could have just welded the container shut; just for giggles.
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And then start a bonfire next to it.
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Well as they determined in studies, we do not have to look far for Gas Oven workers.
The man’s name was Freeman and he like the two Policemen are dead and why?
Police are looking into who during the period he was on the run, looked after this Police killer. They are not investigating how many this crazy murderer killed while he was on the run. Could this have been the threat Albo experienced while ‘in residence’?
The only good news is this should free up the experienced investigative team to work out who ran into the boy on the bike? I would question if this would be the fastest way to get an entire soon to decorated investigative team to forego any possible salary advantages of continued service and flee to a container in the hills for an early retirement.
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Two of us, Broadie, two of us.
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FWIW
On “The Joys of Blogging”
“Men, Women, Propaganda”
“You guys have no idea how hard it was not to title this post “It’s all so tiresome.”
Some days it’s not safe to post on X even the most innocuous stuff. You immediately attract a vast army of propaganda bots. At least I hope they were bots. Or foreign. Or perhaps foreign bots. Except for the woman who was certainly a feminist bot, but that appeared to be a self-administered lobotomy with a wooden spoon composed of half indoctrination and half native stupidity. Because if those weren’t mostly foreign and mostly bots…. allow me to quote Heinlein. “I weep for the whole human race.” ”
Much more at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/03/30/men-women-propaganda/
Just imagine what Jo must collect!
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In honour of those “No Kings” marches
“President Trump has gotten more fat women out walking than Jenny Craig ever did”
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Waiting for those guilt signs on highway digital billboards: Is your trip really necessary? Then there’s the possibility of fuel rationing stickers reminiscent of WW2 Australia where most civilian cars received “A” stickers, allowing only 2–4 gallons (9-18 litres) of petrol per week, while “C” stickers were for critical workers. Yes folks, IMHO, this current fuel ‘crisis’ is a turgid dream come true for Albanese’s Marxist government to exert more bureaucratic control of our lives.
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transition away from fossil fuels
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Along the lines of the post “Port Arthur” billboards:
“WE MUST COMPLY”
Subtle a a train smash.
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Even more interested…
What was the TOTAL expenditure of the current ME War?
Number of dollars might be captivating for some people – I am cool, never having more few bills in my wallet.
More critical – quantity of planes, ships, bombs, rockets,TNT or whatever utilised by all sides.
Does it mean that after Victory Parade, there will be 10 or 15 (?) years of peace, just because all participants will be busy filling up their stores?
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Transition away from fossil fuels and Minister Bowen and comrade’s EV promotions, reported yesterday that a Tesla EV single trailer semi-trailer truck arrived in Canberra for PR purposes.
The load was volume based and light load toilet paper !!!
The distance or range quoted 250 kms fully charged, Tesla claim 320-350 kms subject to road conditions another energy consuming factors.
No doubt the cost of the prime mover would be more than for a much more load capable and distance capable diesel engined prime mover, and imagine how 250 kms approximately range would limit interstate trucks, stop and recharge or swap prime movers and delays, running out of legal driver on the road hours, the cost of spare prime movers – described to me as a return to Cobb & Co Coaches, the last was driven into Longreach QLD 1925.
Staging posts to change Horses, to rest driver and passengers, a very long distance travelling adventure.
However, even if EV trucks were commercially viable, maybe local delivery vans acceptable subject to price, why about all the other applications for diesel engine power and remote area operations and diesel generator reliance?
No way Minister
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Dennis! Dennis!
Re ” a return to Cobb & Co Coaches, the last was driven into Longreach QLD 1925.”
Actually Surat to Yuleba 1924
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/12/hail-the-coach-100-years-since-cobb-cos-last-run/
And Cobb & Co’s coach factory was in Charleville. Wheels made there got tighter when the humidity increased.
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What can’t be escaped with the comparison between electric trucks and Cobb and Co coaches is the short range of both types of transport and the long “recharge ” times
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But at least Cobb & Co had a “quick change battery”
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Also later when the coaches of Cobb & Co no longer provided transport between and beyond Brisbane-Toowoomba QLD a local businessman established a motor vehicle transport service between Toowoomba and Brisbane, the vehicle was a Whippet car and chassis extended to create a bus-like vehicle, it had grey paintwork and black mudguards and the locals named it The Greyhound.
And today the red Greyhound Coach Company in modern coaches.
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One of those Roma area coach drivers transitioned to the next era OK. He had the Ford dealership in Mitchell for years.
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Maybe some applications can stand on their own legs, eg – EV minibuses on the City-Airport route.
HoweverI suspect: those very clever young graduates view everything through Control lens. Like – create EV truck fleet to be compulsory charged between 11 am and 3 pm.
In a way – it is faith rather than engineering, they believe they can organise everything, control everything – from shape of watermelons to, of course – energy generation and consumption.
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One Nation appears to have secured 4 seats in the SA election House of Assembly and 3 in the Legislative Council.
https://result.ecsa.sa.gov.au/
The haters were out in force on election night, and early the following morning, crowing that ON’s rise in vote didn’t achieve a win in any seat.
Still a way to go for the party. But a good stepping stone for them. Or making the Libs reconsider what their base expects. Support is not unconditional.
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Preferential voting played a key role.
https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/election-analyst-antony-green-stunned-as-historic-moment-unfolds-in-south-australia/news-story/5878e2bea8c68136f1f7fbe526ddac7c
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Always does.
Federally, in the last 50 years neither Labor or Coalition has achieved 50% of the vote in their own right. (Overall. Some seats they do.) The minor parties/independents have gathered at least 25% of the vote in the last three elections. More than one third of the vote at the last election.
I think Anthony Green is generally the reason the word analyst is spelt that way, given where he typically speaks from when calling/predicting results as votes come in.
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I’m not a hater, I have always voted for Pauline and congratulate them on their showing. My case was always the futility of voting for 5%ers.
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I wasn’t thinking of you when I mentioned “haters”. 🙂
I was just being a smart Alec when I said put your pom poms away, that night. (Borrowing a line from yourself)
There were quite a few haters on Facebook etc.
They went the early crow. Probably because they watch the ABC or read the Guardian et al.
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New paper confirms that a warmer world would save 10,000 American lives annually.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/03/30/new-study-finds-warming-saves-lives-cold-temperatures-12-times-more-deadly-than-excess-heat/
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Plz:
Such a poll wouldn’t be gamed, would it?
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The last lot of their modelling was proven to be rubbish.
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Trump really is showing that the promises he made were lies-
“The United States government will soon give billions of dollars in unpaid member dues to the UN, which is — nay, was — on the brink of “financial collapse,” according to comments UN Secretary-General António Guterres made in late January. According to Reuters, the United States “will make an initial payment towards the billions of dollars it owes to the United Nations in a matter of weeks.” ”
“The government funding bill Trump just signed includes $3.1 billion for U.S. dues to the U.N. and other international organizations. ”
https://needtoknow.news/2026/02/trump-admin-rescues-the-un-and-increases-the-education-departments-budget/
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A fascinating look at how ‘rebel’ countries are pulled into the morass of Western finances and debt, and these days it is all the latest tech.
Witkoff and Kushner are the main players, setting up who will get the billions in the reconstruction phase, and how the system imposed will last far longer than a change of Govt or banking system- like the Bank of England being set up to loan Govts money that will never be repaid, just pay the interest forever..
A long article, but it does show why politicians get rich and why rich people want to go to war!
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/kushner-and-witkoff
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I am surprised that so many highly experienced, at least – positioned, people talk and act surprised how ME war progresses – “the world economy at the edge of collapse !!!!”
Hormuz Strait can not be compared with North Atlantic and Trump is technically more able to meet this challenge Churchill ever was.
This war should be called East v West, I call it World v Trump.
At the moment Trump wins, maybe he will win another major battle or two, maybe he will be rolled back a bit.
There is a minor chance that Trump will loose the whole war, like is 80 years old, is not he?
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