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The maskholes are back due to their terror of hantavirus.
In the linked video YouTuber Salty Cracker looks at the phenomenon and the plea from a green haired rainbow t-shirt wearing wokester who has been masking up continuously ever since covid.
Early times yet, but looking ahead, I hope Australian Government “authorities” don’t start mandating draconian lockups, masking and compulsory vaccinations with untested experimental substances like they did during covid. I doubt that the Australian economy or people could tolerate further economic destruction or social disruption.
(Trigger warning for wokesters.)
https://youtu.be/I7PYGdv9mcQ
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I just hope they don’t ‘repatriate’ the Australians on the boat until after the incubation period, so we know they are clean. The total disaster last time was bad enough!
“Rescue efforts launched for Australians aboard virus cruise ship. Australian officials are preparing to repatriate four citizens and one permanent resident trapped on the hantavirus-afflicted luxury ship.”
Ah, no, too late! How stupid can politicians be!
“News of repatriation efforts comes days after a passenger who was aboard the cruise ship returned to Australia, according to another passenger still on the stricken vessel.”
This is how we all lose our freedom, by politicians giving it to one person.
“The Australian was among 23 people who left the ship at St Helena on April 21, one of whom has since tested positive for the virus and is now in hospital in Switzerland, the passenger said.”
The word ‘quarantine’ used to mean something…
https://www.smh.com.au/national/rescue-efforts-launched-for-australians-aboard-virus-cruise-ship-20260509-p5zvcc.html
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Well, Australia had no problem “bringing back” ISIS terrorists / breeders / comfort women / camp followers / lifelong welfare recipients / Labor voters…
Bringing back people who are allegedly infected with a communicable pathogen should be no problem.
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Breaking news:
MSM reports a man has died from Hantavirus when his parachute didn’t open, confirmed by PCR test.
Yep, Covid style hysteria, fraudulent testing and lies time again…
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I really must get to the supermarket today before all the toilet paper disappears!!
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I asked Gulag AI why movies from the 1940s and 1950s tended to be much shorter than today’s movies
It said:
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In Once Great Britain the Elites are running scared of Restore Britain, just as they are running scared of One Nation in Australia, and the MAGA movement in the United States.
Jeff Taylor talks about Restore Britain and Rupert Lowe:
https://youtu.be/7TwqHj8A65M
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I’m still very skeptical about Restore. Seems to me like they’re just drafting off Reform’s momentum and are trying to carve off a piece of the coalition for themselves. That said, Lowe’s ouster from Reform definitely seemed like a calculated hit job to rid Reform of a meddlesome priest who was getting a little too chummy with the world’s richest man and criticizing Nigel a little too loudly. So I can’t say I blame the guy for starting his own thing and trying to extract his pound of flesh. I also think there is some merit to his criticisms of Farage, who has historically been amazing at building up popular movements, but downright irresponsible in letting them fall apart after he achieved his initial goal. I don’t think he’s the guy you want to lead a party that many hope will permanently replace the Tories. He loses interest quickly and flits off to do something else, rather than putting his nose to the grindstone to continue the hard work of turning a one-time movement into an ongoing concern.
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Nigel Farage hates Tommy Robinson. He still has no real problem with 3rd world immigration and has Muslims all over his party from top to bottom and has nothing but good things to say about Islam. Only recently has said anything about removing alien criminals, but he can’t as he has no national power.
Rupert Lowe is the antithesis of all that. For now Reform has a lot of local politicians. Let’s see what they actually do. If they just act like the wet Tories then Rupert Lowe will do just fine and Reform will lose a lot of positions.
Lowe won all 10 elections for which he had candidates and the party is brand new unlike Reform. Lowe will keep Farage honest.
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And in Australia One Nation has just won the seat of Farrer in the Commonwealth by-election for that seat:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-09/farrer-sat-night-results/106656856
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Once those booths in Albury didn’t come in overwhelmingly for Millthorpe it was all over. Great result for ON and Barwon could go in a general election- and others. Pauline has got a good organisation now with lots of people activated at ground level. We have great hopes that this thing snowballs.
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Interesting Topic. The discussion should include the Fijians of Indian descent. Australia has happily absorbed those industrious people who fled Fiji and welcomed the Fijians to boot. Particularly the Rugby players.
I wonder where other populations identified by race are being forced through violence or removal of tenure (land claims etc) to leave their farms and businesses?
Feel free to list other examples below.
The point is that forced evictions do not have to be mandated in law.
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Australia’s only significant conservative party, One Nation, won the Farrer by-election.
Well done.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-09/farrer-sat-night-results/106656856
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It had been a Liberal/National Party stronghold since 1949 when the seat was created.
The Australian people want a genuine conservative party.
We need a pro-freedom, pro-free-enterprise, pro-rational-immigration, pro-energy, small government, rational regulation, pro industrialisation, pro-Western-values party like One Nation to win. (Like the Liberal Party once was, back in the day before they became woke and Labor Lite.)
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The Liberals (on early counting) lost 31% of the vote (from 43% in 2025).
Labor didn’t bother standing so lost 15%
The Greens lost 2.7 so got to 2.2% (just ahead of the Shooters, Fishers & Farmers Party.)
The National gained 9.8% (not standing in 2025)
and One Nation gained 33%
It looks like the Independent Millie Milthorpe will be second (from 20% last year to 28.4% this) And the Liberals wouldn’t have her as a second choice.
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Such is Labors interest in regional Australia. They had no story to tell, or as my son would would say, they ust couldn’t be arsed.
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Graeme No3, Milthorpe is a Teal dressed up as a One Nation In an Orange TShirt, funded by GetUp and the Renewables Billionaire, so she was a go to for the Labor voters, the Woke and the University crowd, who would not deny her Net Zero thinking.
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Also Albury is full of public servants as it being a large administrative centre. I will take much interest in the final count for that city when all is counted though it seems at a glance that the independent increased her primary vote.
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Well, Murray Shaw, all those GetUp, the Woke, the University Crowd and the public servants and Teals added up to approximately 30%.
And The Nationals gained 10%. I’m quite sure that none of the Woke/ GetUp etc. didn’t vote for them.
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The Lamestream Media / Left call One Nation a “populist party” as a perjorative term but isn’t it the nature of politics and democracy to elect the most popular party that most closely reflects the views of the voters?
And they also call it “far right” as opposed to being “far wrong” I assume. They are probably no more “right wing” than old time Labor like Hawke or Keating who would be regarded as conservatives by today’s standards.
And they hook into the mythology that things of the “right” are bad based on the lie that National Socialism is of the right when it’s merely another brand of socialism which belongs on the Left, and we see it reflected in Leftist black-shirted Antifa thugs, Leftist violence, Leftist antisemitism, Leftist race-based policies and views etc. copying the National Socialists.
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Populist is a derogatory idea, that the party irresponsibly adopts any trendy idea just to win an election. One Nation is the complete opposite with the unchanged objection to uncontrolled migration, the selective importation of historically and socially incompatible and often extremist muslims while pushing destructive Green ideology to cripple Australia. Their ABC/Turnbull’s Liberals/Labor/Greens are the irresponsible populists. The Conservative Liberals are gone. The self labelled Greens actually care much more about wiping out Jews than saving the environment. So much that in the UK the muslim blocks now vote Green.
At present the Greens protest horse racing and simultaneously approve of slaughtering free wild horses from helicopters to ‘save’ the environment. They say nothing about the short lived, useless giant windmills across the ridges and peaks and plains, or tens of thousands of kilometers of massive unnecessary transmission lines or the utter destruction of National Parkland for Snowy II. Unless it is in the their backyard, as with Dr Brown and windmills near his favorite places in Tasmania. Labor and Green policies have given us the utter waste of $40Billion a year on aboriginals, $40Billion a year on the NDIS, vast sums on the obsolete NBN, $40Billion on the Snowy II and everything from pink batts and school halls to useless train lines and shutting down all manufacturing and $2.2 million million in National debt to achieve nothing. And fail to admit that their science free Green energy has wrecked the joint and made us helpless on the world stage. We cannot defend our own coastline, as the Chinese Navy proved so easily with live fire drills off our coast which Albo Akhbar dismissed as just nothing much.
But single mother Pauline went to jail, obviously for her strong beliefs and real courage to fight the uncaring Liberals and Labor establishment and Greens. She remains one of our few standout political heroes. Now after thirty years of public ridicule and nearing retirement her opponents have the utter cheek to call her populist?
Populist is a really offensive slander but utterly typical of the underqualified, greedy, selfish, shallow born to rule political types most of whom have never had a real job and look forward to very comfortable, indexed and totally unearned retirement on the taxpayer. Pauline is the first conviction politician this country has seen in the same thirty years, the only politican to have gone to jail for her strong beliefs. Many politicians including Daniel Andrews should be there now, but it never happens.
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Tdef #5.1. I don’t post very often but must compliment comments such as yours that stir personal emotion sentiment re-conservative values. I punched the air with optimism this morning as a result of ON’s barn storm in Farrer, re-stormy political headwinds for labor-labor lites. Thank you for this precise re-reality of the current political enviroment & potential options.
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Mike,
The political party concept rewards those who can talk the most voters into supporting them. Whether the Greens or the Libs or Labor attract the most votes at an election, their support is still drawn from mostly the same population, give and take a little. In this scenario, the people stay much the same and the elected politicians change.
This helps the big present politics problem to grow. That problem is the politicians failing to offer or to adopt what the bulk of voters want. The political candidates tend to present policies that they create so that voters can tell one from the other, then they feel that they have to convert these policies to rules and regulations and laws. They do not have to do this. They do have to listen to the majority views of the people.
When I am required to vote, my choice goes to the candidate whom I feel will be best at listening to the people. Also, a few political parties will never get my vote because their past actions were hateful or harmful to most of us, the fringe nutters like Greens, driven by personal credos that offend me and the least likely to do what the bulk of people want. Geoff S
Geoff S
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The whole objective of democracy is to be “populist”.
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In an Australian context its perfectly natural to have an agrarian revolt against the status quo.
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Next move – A slam dunk on Jacinta Andrews and her branch of Tren de Aragua wreckers of this previously safe and stable state of Vic. Go Pauline!
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Where did the $15 billion of taxpayer money go?
The silence from the Lamestream Media is deafening.
It might be one of the biggest thefts of taxpayer money in Australian history, apart from legalised thefts via the renewables scam, NDIS, a “gift” to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation etc..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/victoria-opposition-cfmeu-royal-commission/106346448
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David, you left out “Foreign Aid”. aka “the laundry”.
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SMH uses its editorial to blast the CGT ‘discount’ complaining about how it has distorted the housing market and made rentals the domain of the over-60s. All very convincing in Leftist language, until you remember NZ has no CGT at all, and their housing market is no different!
If you want more housing you just burn all Govt regulations that have something to do with it. Let people live in slums or build shacks, they will soon find the incentives to move up. Of course the SMH view is that the Govt should ‘do something’ about their subject’s ‘rights’ and throw money at the young.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/capital-gains-tax-and-negative-gearing-reforms-are-overdue-20260508-p5zv1b.html
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Another contributing factor in Australia is importing future Labor voters (with fast tracking to citizenship courtesy of Tony Burkha) at about ten times the rate that housing can be built, 96,110 in February 2026 alone, 3432 per day.
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Except as in the UK, they will end up voting Green. Professional agitators with zero relevance, Grace Tame and Greta Thunburg, follow the government money trail and also want to wipe out the Jews.
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More than 50% of the voters in the Farrer electorate still want the UN-party with their Climate Change™ hoax, no borders, First Nations apartheid and gag on free speech.
A long way to go before sanity prevails.
On the bright side, there is about 20% of the voters who could be persuaded to put One Nation first rather than second.
I heard that Abbott wants to get back into politics seeking position of Federal President of Liberals. He is trying to refloat the party Turncoat destroyed. He would do better to join One Nation and thoroughly condemn the UN-party and its impoverishment agenda.
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Abbott would be wasted trying to resurrect the Liberal Party.
He should get with the program and join One Nation, after he gets on his hands and knees to apologise for what he did to Pauline.
https://australianpolitics.com/2003/08/27/abbott-i-was-acting-entirely-on-my-own.html/
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Abbott is welded to the Liberals. Not really my type – if you know what I mean and has missed the bus politically. Didn’t grab the job when he had it because he has more kinks than a chain and couldn’t placate his own party – ceding decision making to his chief of staff.
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I would love to know why he gave up? His mentor John Howard never gave up after public ridicule by Liberal heavyweights Jeff Kennett and Andrew Peacock and others. Something told Tony Abbott there was no point, given the level of betrayal inside his own party. Now he wants to be head of the Liberal party. The question is why?
And it was John Howard who openly detested Pauline Hanson and still does. But he also recently noted that Hanson preferences would be the key to Liberal electoral success or even survival. That’s like pointing out to the Tories that Nigel Farage is their only hope, but like the Liberals, they are no longer Conservatives.
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Not so sure. Many are still voting or barracking for the Liberals and Nationals as they were, a quarter century ago. But their former Liiberal member Susan Ley resigned because she was a woke Climate activist from a conservative farming community just when it was finally on the nose in Australia, the UK and US. People have just woken up to the fact that British Labor, Australian Labor and Liberals and the US Democrats are now radical extremists intentionally wrecking the joint.
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And a lot of people who would have voted Reform or One Nation did not do so because they did not believe either could win.
This week may be a watershed where it is shown a single party can defeat the giants in what has been a two party system for longer than a lifetime. In America, Trump’s MAGA reform movement has done it from within, fought every step by the Republican party of Bush and McConnell and Ryan and McCain and Romney, all pretend conservatives. In Australia the Liberal party has been a closed shop from which real conservatives have been banned, most notably Moira Deeming in Victoria. Nothing else explains the incredible devices the party used to throw her out twice. I am even suprised Jacinta Price has survived.
The point is that once One Nation and Reform are shown to be viable as a first preference, a lot of conservatives will stop being rusted on and change their vote. And the Liberals and Tories and Democrats will spin into terminal decline, exposing the radical left for what they are. As is so obvious in America where millions are deserting the Democrats and registering as Maga Republicans. Trump’s support with MAGA Republicans is 100%. Conservatives, not extremists.
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It will take 20 years for a Conservative government to restore Australia from the profligate spending of the last. Snowy II has now cost more than the English channel tunnel and will take three times as long, if it is ever completed and may never be used. Like most of the giant desalination plants which with interest from the French will have cost another $100Billion for two working systems. The sheer cost of all the rapidly ageing windmills and solar panels means they will just fall into disuse. And no one will restore the land taken for transmission lines to nowhere.
Still, Farrer is the first real sign there is hope Australia can finally have a direction other than as an open cut mine for China, a slave state.
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For example doubling the excise on Cigarettes actually halved tax income. Now $12Billion a year goes illegally to China and the government does nothing when 3/4 of all sales are clearly illegal, funding a huge criminal enterprise. Gangs are blamed when it is the government funding the gangs and doing nothing about them. Removing the excise would end the activity overnight.
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Massive policy failure.
https://www.amladvisers.com.au/aml-insights/laffer-curve-tobacco-tax-money-laundering-australia-aml
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A real business which doubled tax and received half would instantly backstep. Unless 3/4 of people stopped smoking instantly, 3/4 of all sales went underground. The people who set this tax know that and know where the money is going.
And the public has to endure regular firebombings, ram raids, extreme violence in shopping strips around the illegal trade in Australia. And the government’s facetious response is that they cannot stop criminals while it is government which is sending all the cash to criminal gangs and onto China.
Like the drug trade in Mexico where cartels control the government and China provides the fentanyl and precursor ingredients. A war on Mexico is not out of the question with 100,000 young Americans dying each year from overdoses, a death rate which is the same as WWII. We may yet see the US army pitted against the Sinaloa cartel and others. Sinaloa is supported by the same groups which backs the current Mexican President. It’s not just the illegal aliens, its the mules and border crossings and tunnels. I expect we will soon see US Military drones patrolling the border as is the Navy in the Gulf of America and even close to Venezuela.
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‘And no one will restore the land taken for transmission lines to nowhere.’
Walcha pushes back.
‘A regional community has had a win.
‘A petition fighting against huge transmission towers has more than 20,000 signatures.
‘Local farmer Anna Young “we’re absolutely stoked.” (Ben Fordham)
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Well mate, I think it will be well beyond our life spans before any good will come out of it. There is a hell of a lot of subversive left/socialists in the pipeline. Hope I’m wrong.
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FWIW – Sunday musical appreciation
“The Hurdy Gurdy….
Posted on 9 May 2026 by E.M.Smith
Always had a fascination, never knew this much”
Video link in there
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/the-hurdy-gurdy/
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Interesting instrument.
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The Hurdy Gurdy Man – Summer of 1968.
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Fascinating. An ancient instrument. Love these little Sunday morning videos…
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I have a recording of the works of Hildegard von Bingen who was a 10th century abbess and composer. The Hurdy Gurdy is the sole musical accompaniment.
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FWIW
“A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why.”
“For nearly two decades, a single climate model scenario haunted virtually every apocalyptic headline you read about our planet’s future. Vanishing coastlines, catastrophic droughts, mass extinctions, cities underwater — almost all of it was built on a scenario called RCP 8.5. And now, in a development that climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr. is calling the “most significant development in climate research in decades,” the international committee responsible for producing the official scenarios that feed into IPCC climate assessments has formally eliminated RCP 8.5 — and its successor SSP5-8.5 — from the new framework, classifying them as implausible.
Let that sink in for a moment. Implausible. That’s a weasel word for Impossible. That’s the word the scientists themselves are now using to describe the scenario that dominated two full IPCC assessment cycles, generated tens of thousands of research papers, and provided the raw material for an estimated hundreds of thousands of media stories that told the public — and their children — that the world as we know it was coming to an end.
It’s a good day for science. It’s a terrible indictment of what was done in science’s name.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/09/a-generation-of-kids-thinks-they-have-no-future-science-just-admitted-why/
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The people responsible for propagating these climate change lies must not be allowed to go unpunished. Apologies not accepted. They knew what they were doing.
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Al Gore invented it. Science fiction nearly made him President, apart from a few chards from punched cards in Florida. The innumerate Scion of a Tobacco family, he is now a billionaire with everything. And still insists we are all going to die soonish. He is 78. But punish him? He is already punished by his conscience
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In there
“But self-correction this slow, this reluctant, and this consequential demands more than a quiet update to a scenario framework. It demands a reckoning.
The institutions that elevated RCP 8.5 to the center of two IPCC assessment cycles need to seriously examine how it got there and why it stayed so long after its flaws were documented. The journals that published thousands of studies using it without requiring disclosure that they were modeling an implausible extreme need to examine their standards. The media outlets that turned those studies into scare headlines without explaining the scenario’s basis need to reckon with their role. And the educators who incorporated RCP 8.5-derived projections into school curricula as though they were forecasts rather than worst-case modeling exercises owe the children in those classrooms something — at minimum, a correction.”
And
“What is over, or should be, is the practice of generating research and headlines based on the most extreme, least plausible scenario available and presenting it to the public, and to schoolchildren, as the expected future. That practice was misleading when it started. It was known to be misleading by at least 2017. It continued for years afterward. And now the very committee responsible for producing these scenarios has officially confirmed what critics, including me, had been saying all along.
RCP 8.5 has been given its official death certificate. The generation of children who grew up in its shadow, who were told the world was ending before they’d turn thirty, who carry that weight every day — they deserve to know the truth. The scenario that haunted them was always a worst-case fiction. The future they have been handed is not as dark as they were led to believe.
That message is long overdue. Let’s make sure it reaches them.”
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Unfortunately I don’t think those poor indoctrinated and dumbed-down children are easily fixable, if at all. They have now become part of the slave army of useful idiots of the Left, as was always the plan.
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The key point that is missed is that CO2 is rising not far behind the RCP8.5 scenario. Dropping the scenario means that CO2 is not doing as much as expected. It will be long time before the modellers admit CO2 does next to nothing to the radiation balance.
The measurable observable change with CO2 is enhancement of the biosphere. Despite all the effort to sterilise large areas of land and coastal regions with wind and solar farms, the biosphere is prevailing.
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The exact calculations can be made. Doubling CO2 will produce an increase in temperatures of 0.7C. Below an amount detectable by humans, plants or the environment without instruments.
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Are you saying that an official RCP8.5 could be wrong?
At least maybe we aren’t FUBARed by CAGW now that the IPCC has released RCP8.5
‘Course I missed 8.4.
Then again I’m busy watching newly disclosed UAP vids.
Because I’m interested in knowing what RCP8.5 is and why my government which only recently closed my small business, locked in my home, and tried to force me to get multiple ineffective untested injections … now tells me the X-Files was a documentary.
But it’s cool because it sounds like we are all NOT on the verge of immolating in a Venus-like hot ice caused by me and cows in five years.
I’m not likely to be here in five years.
As a kid I thought it was gonna die by nuke or Communists.
(Still a little worried about the Communists.)
I’ve never smoked and I ate nothing but carbs through the 70s as I was told.
Switched back to fats after the NYT told me to.
Hoping to live long enough for the Straits of Hormuz to be not dire.
One thing remains eternal, though I was right about the flying saucers, and that Climate Change was a scam, I will remain a ‘conspiracy theorist’.
BTW, Big Foot is real.
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I know art isn’t usually discussed on this blog but l thought it’s worth pointing out that the winner of this year’s Archibald Prize is a win for wokeism. You don’t have to be a William Dobell or Brett Whitely anymore to win Australia’s most prestigious art prize. Just spend some time “on Country” and “in Community”, slap some cheap paint on a large canvas and the judges will do the rest. Scroll down and see the works of other artists that display superior technique and skill.
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2026/
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Why is woke “art” so repulsive?
Here’s why: https://youtu.be/lNI07egoefc (Under 6 mins.)
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The analogy in the video with the poor ice skater/poor artists reminds me of Ray Gun who embarrassed Australia in the wanton sport of hip hop dancing at the last Olympics. All interpretations of art are subjective of course but general standards relating to quality should abide, otherwise anyone can present anything as art according to their conceptual paradigm. I guess my point is that legitimate artists, who have devoted countless hours to their craft to reach a certain technical level, will be undermined by other artists who have inferior skills who defer to ideological criteria. The subject of the white fella’s painting and his story ticks all the boxes for the Archibald win. The artistry is below average, I could buy a bunch of acrylic paints and a canvas from the local $2 shop and produce a similar piece.
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This was my immediate reaction also, along with depressing, dark, sad, weird.
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FWIW
“COUNCIL ELECTIONS AND A PRIME MINISTER IN DENIAL”
https://richardsonpost.com.au/daniel-jupp/42222/council-elections-and-a-prime-minister-in-denial/
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Government – 94 members Australian Labor Party Opposition – 42 members Liberal Party of Australia (18) Liberal National Party of Queensland (16) The Nationals (8) Minor parties – 4 members Australian Greens (1) Centre Alliance (1) Katter’s Australian Party (1) One Nation (1) Independents – 10 members As at 30 January 2026
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Australian voters are awakening to the UN-party and their impoverishment agenda. There is a growing recognition that energy abundance and prosperity are closely linked. It will become even more apparent as AI and humanoids evolve.
Who has a robotic vacuum cleaner or three doing the floors regularly?
The next two years will be a test for the awakening.
POTUS Trump defunding the UN is a grand step toward a brighter future.
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“Who has a robotic vacuum cleaner or three doing the floors regularly?”
I’ve got one gathering dust somewhere in the house, and its not turned on doing that! It turned out to be just a pain in the arse, too slow, too inefficient, too much trouble.. We have a real house, not a developer’s empty show home.
I expect home-help robots will be just as good, and looking at what people serve up as AI’s finest writings, AI as well!
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One of our neighbours has a robot lawn mower that wanders about their front nature strip (about 1/3 acre). Its about the size of a small suitcase. Seems to do a good job.
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One Nation might only get traction in the bush and not the cities, so they need to form alliances similar to the European model, otherwise ON will remain a splinter group.
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Before this win, no one believed One Nation was capable of winning. If has been a safe Labor/Liberal seat since creation in 1949, so 77 years. And it is now a One Nation seat. Voters have dumped both Liberals and Nationals.
Reform in Wales deposed the head of the Labor party in Wales, a feat never before achieved in British politics. As RFK said, he didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left him. And there are a lot of seats where the only two possibilities for a lifetime have been Labor/Green or Liberal even when both stink. That may change quickly. There will be decades of utter frustration with the Woke/Green Left in both parties. One Nation is what the Liberals and Nationals used to be. Not Radical. Conservative.
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It was a thumping good win and the Libs are aware of the predicament.
‘Wilson refuses to rule out One Nation coalition after historic byelection win.’ (The Age)
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As the old sign said:
Diapers and Politicians should be changed often.
Both for the same reason.
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That may not be in the best interest of democracy.
Political strategists at ON might plan to use the party’s preferencing powers as leverage to become a full member of the Coalition.
Lib/Nat/ON
Beating the socialist, green, teals alliance won’t be easy, but if they get their act together we can win in a landslide.
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The South Australia state election results could’ve and should’ve been a much bigger upset with just a bit better planning /strategizing from the SA One Nation team or a little more voter enthusiasm.
If you hover of each electorate in the link it shows how close O.N came in many seats. In hindsight they would have perhaps been better to focus on a few key electorates than covering all electorates.
https://www.pollbludger.net/sa2026/Results/Map.htm
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Be careful what you wish for: an acquaintance came home to find his robot vacuum had smeared dog poop all around the room!
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FWIW – another for the covid files
“The Hidden Brain Condition Doctors Are Now Linking To COVID – And What You Can Do About It”
“A growing body of medical research is now drawing a direct connection between SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exposure and a serious neurological condition called Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy – or CAA.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/hidden-brain-condition-doctors-are-now-linking-covid-3/
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I occasionally track weather balloons.
BoM is meant to launch at least two per day from their current main launch site at Laverton near Melbourne, Sicktoria.
However the last launch was on Friday morning and there have been none since.
It’s an automated launch site so I wonder if they even know or care if they’re missing these launches?
I guess they can follow their standard practice and fabricate the missing data through their homogenisation process.
You can track weather and other ballons from all over the world at https://sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=3&qm=12h&mc=-30.52553,147.56287
I run one of the automatic receiving stations that uploads data to that site.
Launches are meant to happen at 23:15 UTC and 11:15 UTC.
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FWIW
“Turing was Wrong”
“Today over at FB, LawDog laid down a challenge: Go to ChatGPT and ask it to generate an unhinged bio of you.
I went to Grok instead. The prompt: “I am the author of smallestminority.blogspot.com. Generate an unhinged bio of me.”
Eight (8) seconds later came this:”
More at
https://www.smallestminority.org/2026/05/turing-was-wrong/
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Sunday movies. (AI generated synopses.)
When it was released cinematically, it was usually a double feature with:
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A 7 May article “The spot mirage: Low wholesale prices show the future, but are a poor signal for new wind and solar” in Renew Economy has an interesting table of YTD NEM power source changes. Also it seems that coal power is still providng 50% of the NEM grid power, with wind 15%, rooftop solar 15%, grid solar 10% and hydro 6%.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-spot-mirage-low-wholesale-prices-show-the-future-but-are-a-poor-signal-for-new-wind-and-solar/
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YouTube is always trying to frustrate Brave’s ad-blocking algorithm. The latest iteration half works and is frustrating – the video hangs before loading and you need to hit “Refresh” to force it to load. Occasionally though some load normally, I worked out that it was demonetised videos, where there was no ad preceding, which worked properly.
Obviously it is all conservative blogs that I see demonetised the Epoch Times being one. Before you say it Leaf, I don’t go to leftist sites, there MAY be one or two in the naughty corner.
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2 companies control 70% of power tools in Australia
https://youtu.be/oDT9_olgf-g?si=SoMSCnhvKA9CH9uW
You think the big names are different competitors?
An eye opener.
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I have found Ozito the best value. It is essentially Bunnings own brand now so enjoys are marketing advantage. Ozito is Bunnings #1 DIY power tool.
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Mate’s gardening business I garden with occasionally uses Ozito, all day every day, & they just get worn out. He reckons its still better than buying expensive ones. Leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, extending trimmers..
The workshop for building race cars is all Milwaukee, they still wear out but yes, take longer. Grinders and drills get replaced annually but the Milwaukee guarantee on their batteries is better & it does get used. Electric spanners and rattle guns, small grinders, electric burr cutters, even a small belt sander seem to be pretty good. The total range of their 18V stuff is amazing.
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I am owner building my own home using all Ryobi for the hand tools and Vevor for the larger tools like the chop saw and mag drills. Ryobi is what the family started buying for me along with the batteries, hence the brand. My son A sparky has all Milwaukee tools so for the odd tool Ryobi doesn’t have, I borrow his.
The tradies that come on site in the majority, hang it on Ryobi until they run out of battery or some other issue has them using my Ryobi tools.
I always threaten to take a photo of them using Ryobi and post it on social media.
Ryobi have come a long way with their brushless and higher power tools like their 320 NM impact driver, better than many of the named brands.
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Beyond age verification – November 2026 for Australians
https://youtu.be/98Y5KqEw68g?si=AEdOmdpwj813Au4m
And still the masses didn’t see…
The ONLY solution is a NEW political party that will end all the WEF/Agenda 2030 etc control grid nonsense AND have the proven skills, knowledge and ability to run the country (just not into the ground) AND for the masses to wake up and vote for said party.
ie no chance, which is why the inevtable is coming.
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“And still the masses didn’t see…”
That’s because they have busy lives and don’t waste time watching Youtube videos…
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But it’s not going to stop them being forcibly digitally ID’d.
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Sometimes you ignore the video in its own separate tab and listen to the music?
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And the masses believed it was “just” about censoring and IDing children.
The Lib/Labs knew exactly what they were doing when they voted for this legislation.
Just as Leftists proudly proclaimed their covid “vaccine” status, I wonder if they will proudly proclaim that they have been digitally ID’d and love how Big Brother traces and tracks them everywhere.
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One wonders where this new censorship and control will leave pro-science websites like this one which don’t follow the Official Narrative.
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If it is allowed to exist it will either be made extremely hard to find on the net and be full of Asio operatives, or it would more likely be used a honeypot, as I expect it is now, so ASIO knows where we all are.
Like the kiddie porn sites all being run by Govt Depts.
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Has POTUS Trump got a major diversion going with his Golden Fleet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W_HIEgofM4
You have to wonder what the actual reason is for building two battleships???
There is no indication that they will be nuclear powered.
Their syory does not seem rational. Nothing new for the greatest leader ever but I do winder WHY!
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He says many ships are obsolete and these new ships will be 100x more powerful than any battleship ever built. There is no shortage of spectacular new military technology for such ships. And the more you innovate, the better things become. Military R&D often leads to civilian development. Like antibiotics, refrigeration,.. The power of the US fleet was demonstrated in the near instant destruction of the entire Iranian navy of up to 60 ships, which would have given pause to many countries.
Australia by comparison, like Europe, has stopped building or slowed building combat ships to the point of doing nothing much and that slowly. And with the collapse of South Africa into racist anarchy, we are likely the most significant country South of the Equator. Helpless but with great position.
In fact we might have the best tiny fleet of utterly obsolete diesel submarines in the world, especially as we try to build new ones because the Greens do not want us to have nuclear. Nuclear being unsafe apparently. We are even converting French nuclear ships back to diesel, to make them less scary and more detectable and useless. In fact, why have weapons at all? Or diesel reserves. Let’s make Australia utterly unable to defend itself and we will not be drawn into any war. Great thinking. It keeps China happy.
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“He says many ships are obsolete and these new ships will be 100x more powerful than any battleship ever built. There is no shortage of spectacular new military technology for such ships.”
Lol! Great for second-rate opponents like Iraq and Iran, but they are just floating targets for the Russians. You can see who Trump is thinking of going to war with, and it won’t be a peer country!
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No country is perfect but Russia was a part of civilised word.
No longer:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bQs29TCxcmM
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Iran 7 frigates, 3 corvettes, and 3 diesel submarines. And a lot of fast attack boats and 22 midget submarines.
Australia 3 destroyers, 8 frigates, 6 diesel submarines.
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AdBlue: Another climate extortion racket from the UN (Euro 6/7) for us owners of newer (post-2018) diesel operated vehicles where we are threatened with “Limp Mode” or “Start Lockdown” punishment if our AdBlue tank runs out.
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FWIW
“The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/09/the-case-against-industrial-scale-solar-in-the-uk/
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“In there –
“Britain is rapidly installing more solar panels. Across the country, fields that once grew wheat, barley and vegetables are now covered with glass and silicon panels stretching to the hedgerows. The Government calls this a key part of its energy plan.
Developers claim solar is affordable and bound to happen. Planning authorities, under growing pressure to approve renewable projects, often struggle to refuse them. But the main question — whether large-scale solar truly suits the UK’s geography, climate and energy needs — is rarely explored in detail. When it is, the findings are worrying.
This argument is not opposed to solar energy itself. Instead, it asks for a clear look at what solar can and cannot do in a northern, Atlantic-facing country. Policies built on incomplete information can have lasting effects, even after the panels are removed.
The wrong tool for the job”
I guess that is what “Starmerising” is all about?
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FWIW
“WRITING IS A WICKED ENVIRONMENT: A Hungarian psychologist raised three daughters to prove that any child could become a chess grandmaster through early specialization. He succeeded. Two of them became grandmasters. One became the greatest female chess player who ever lived. Then a sports scientist looked at the data and found something nobody wanted to hear.”
“Chess works that way. Most things do not.
Here is the distinction that took him four years of research to articulate, and that almost nobody who quotes the 10,000 hour rule has ever read.
There are two kinds of environments in which humans develop expertise. Psychologists call them kind and wicked. A kind environment has clear rules, immediate feedback, and patterns that repeat reliably. Chess is the cleanest example. Every game ends with a winner and a loser. Every move is recorded. The board never changes shape. The pieces never invent new ways to move. A child who plays ten thousand games will see most of the patterns that exist in the game, and pattern recognition is exactly what chess mastery is built on.
A wicked environment is the opposite. Feedback is delayed or misleading. Rules shift. The patterns that worked yesterday may be exactly the wrong patterns to apply tomorrow. Most of the real world looks like this. Medicine is wicked. Investing is wicked. Building a company is wicked. Scientific research is wicked. Almost every job that involves a complex changing system with humans in it is wicked.
More at
https://x.com/ihtesham2005/status/2053103815482859767?s=20
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‘You know how some cities and States force restaurants to put a letter grade in the window based on their health inspection results?
Imagine a bill that forces all schools to put an 8’ high red letter “F” next to the front entrance if the Dept Education rates their students as less than 50% proficient in either Maths, Science, or English.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/05/09/memes-ahoy/
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