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“Indigenous Australians win record A$150m after billionaire mined without permission”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkp3z1p7zdo
Auto, aware that the BBC is utterly unbiased, . . . except for hating Trump, liking Hamas, and is certain a trace gas will end civilisation in months. Oh and it hates Britain. So make what you will of the link …
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That represents only a small amount of tribute that has to be paid at other locations.
Plus, under Australian apartheid laws, increasing numbers of areas only have race-based access.
E.g. (This is not an exhaustive list, Australian apartheid is being expanded constantly.)
Lake Eyre.
Ayers Rock. (Various restrictions.)
Arapiles. (Areas.)
Mt Warning. (Supposedly to be reopened.)
Mt Gillen
Areas of Glass House Mountains National Park
The Blue Hole (Daintree)
St Mary Peak
Finniss Coastal and Peron Islands, NT
Koonalda Cave (SA)
Sacred Canyon (SA)
Ngaut Ngaut Conservation Area (SA)
Butterfly Cave (NSW)
White Rock (QLD)
Orphan Rock (NSW)
As a keen bushwalker (hiker) I increasingly don’t bother wanting to travel, walk and camp within Australia. I will be spending my travel money overseas where you get better value anyway than an Australian holiday. Not being allowed to visit Lake Eyre when it was on my bucket list was the last straw for me. At least I got to climb Ayers Rock before its access was shut down
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You certainly get more bang for your buck overseas. A top hotel in Hanoi costs $212 per night including breakfast. We met Australians there who were on a motor bike tour. Go anywhere and so safe.
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‘Go anywhere and so safe.’
Safer than in America.
The Vietnamese government operates under one-party rule and encourages the practices of “criticism, self-criticism and strict discipline.”
The CVP describes this as “collective leadership and individual responsibility.”
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Actually, outside of the large Democrat-run “blue” cities, the United States is an extremely safe place and rising crime is associated with Leftist “soft on crime policies”.
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Leftist “soft on crime policies”.
Maybe, US political culture is weird.
The hybrid communist regime in Hanoi is dependent on spiritual beliefs to keep the peace.
‘Vietnam has a deeply rooted Buddhist tradition, making it the country’s most popular religion, though estimates of adherents vary between 13% and over 50% of the population due to its blending with local folk beliefs. It is primarily Mahayana Buddhism, often combined with Confucianism, Taoism, and ancestor worship, known as Tam Giáo.’ (AI)
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The US is safe but it depends on where you go. I certainly feel safer in parts of the US than most of the UK or Western Europe.
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Hanoi is a wonderful city to go to for holidays. Good prices, good food, good coffee, friendly people, Lake Kiem, French Quarter, Old Quarter….
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David,
Correct.
I can’t wait for reconciliation to come in.
So we’re ALL treated the same.
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Reconciliation is not the word you’re looking for.
Suggest you use the word “ surrender “. More appropriate for the real end game!!
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Yep. Were locked out of our own country and paying money for the insult. Surely it’s about time that we got some moral fortitude, locked the door on the Trotskyite Albanese government, shut them out of our lives and reclaimed our freedom.
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You’ll only have to convince 50% (or thereabouts) of voters to agree.
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Pauline (leader of One Nation) is doing her best.
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If people are given the opportunity to extort, some of them will.
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UK’s Starmer Vows Not to Resign, Pledges Closer EU Ties Following Election Losses
Starmer refuses to restrict immigration or return the small boats back to Europe, because he wants to rebuild his relations with Europe by putting himself at the heart of Europe. Starmer said “At the next EU summit, I will set a new direction for Britain” away from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the non-European World, and towards a more united Europe based on bureaucratic control from Brussels. Starmer and the EU’s top priority is the defence of Europe from Christianity (Russia) not Immigration (Isl*m). Starmer said that Europe stands “shoulder to shoulder” with his interests, values, and enemies.
Starmer and the EU’s friends include rich Communists, Freemasons and Ukrainian money lauderers. Their left-wing political interests include introducing ID cards and windmills, after banning coal mines and oil wells. Their common values include a massive increase in spending on bureaucratic control, climate control and banning free speech. Starmer and the EU’s enemies are the white working class people of Europe, white people who create the wealth of Europe, American free speech fanatics, Russian Christians and Israeli J*ws.
Starmer is currently attracting some of the historically lowest approval ratings of any British Prime Minister, with a February poll by Ipsos showing that just 20 percent of respondents approved of him: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rather-than-a-robot-is-starmer-a-stand-up-comedian/
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He will be forced out.
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He may have to be.
Like all communists he wants to stay in power for life and thinks he was born to rule.
It’s interesting how the major Anglo Commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia and the UK have their worst leaders of all time, simultaneously.
On the other hand, the US, who declared independence from Britain 250 years ago has one if its best-ever leaders.
Once-Great Britain is living under a nightmare Orwellian scenario, as are Australia and Canada to a slightly lesser extent.
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“…. interesting how the major Anglo Commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia and the UK have their worst leaders of all time, simultaneously.”
Interesting; in that apocryphal “Chinese Curse” way.
Coincidence?
One of MY old guidelines is:
“Once is Happenstance.
Twice is Coincidence,
Thrice (or more) is ENEMY ACTION”.
YMMV.
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You’ll find these Commonwealth countries all follow UN agreements signed & sealed without the knowledge or consent of the electorates of those countries. The governments have the cheek, the audacity to hide behind the supposedly democratic system they always shout about.Lets have a close look at an authentic list of UN agreements signed by these Commonwealth countries. Let the electorates see the treachery. This applies to the “left & the right “ governments. In future any agreements with the UN must be approved by the electorates of those countries. Make it law that proposed agreements be made public & open to debate 6 months before any signatures can be considered binding. You’ll find there may be 1 or 2 agreements signed over a 10 year period. LETS HAVE THE DETAILS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES & NUMBERS OF IMMIGRANTS AGREED TO WITH THE UN!!!
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Dragged out:
https://x.com/weRessential/status/2054096623156740430
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As of an hour ago, 88 Labour MP’s were calling for his resignation and four Ministers resigned from Cabinet. On the other side of the ledger, 100 MP’s have signed a statement calling for Starmer to stay and continue to work his magic.
By my rough maths, this means 50% of Labor Parliamentarians are sitting on their hands, waiting for a ‘best offer’, or sadly watching their careers slide down the pipes.
An interesting situation, where sufficient numbers want him gone to call a spill – but the alternatives appear worse than the creature they want rid of.
Amusing; until you remember that these people are supposed to be running a nuclear-armed country.
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Still missing a few – there are 650 MPs in UK.
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Correction – 403 Labor MPs. So still a lot more to indicate which way they will go.
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Dear doctor, those 100 MPs wanting him to stay were probably all Conservative Party and LibDems.
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It seems interesting that so many of the leading members of the UK Labour party, who care so much for the workers and the poor, are very comfortably off. MPs salaries are £80,000 per year plus expenses.
Figures of net worth have been in the press recently:
Keith Starmer £7.7m
Angela Rayner £4.4m
Rachel Reeves £2m
David Lammey £5m
Yvette Cooper £4.5m
Ed Milliband £15m (his father was an extreme Marxist!)
Tony Benn left £5m, and avoided death duties of £210,000 by tax planning.
Maybe they will just have to put up with income tax, wealth tax, mansion tax, council tax surcharge, capital gains tax and eventually inheritance tax.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group.
As an aside it is interesting that James Dyson is not leaving his business billions to his family but to his workers and organisations that train engineers.
Apparently his family didn’t speak to him for three weeks but have now accepted that they will inherit his country mansion, Doddington, and the proceeds of some good investments that he has made.
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Nothing worse than a rich communist hypocrite.
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Oh yes there is!!
DOZENS OF THEM!
All around the world.
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…Apart from MANY rich communist hypocrites.
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Figures of net worth have been in the press recently:
Keith Starmer £7.7m
Angela Rayner £4.4m
Rachel Reeves £2m
David Lammey £5m
Yvette Cooper £4.5m
Ed Milliband £15m (his father was an extreme Marxist!)
Obviously they have not been taking lessons from the USA politicians……
Or the numbers would be larger
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The UK already has an inheritance tax and we will also have one soon if dim Jim and Albo have anything to do with it.
https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax
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Dodington.
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As of an hour ago, 88 Labour MPs calling for his resignation. Four Ministers resigned.
Interesting situation where enough of your team to call a spill want you gone, and publicly call you out, but there’s nobody they want to replace you with.
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Any possible replacements such as Angela Rayner are, unbelievably, even worse than he is.
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Sounds like their bench is about as impressive as ours in Australia. Imagine PM Chambers, Plibersek, Burke or Bowen. Ergh, I just threw up a little bit.
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Andy Burnham is the best option, so Starmer could stay on as the lame duck until a byelection can be held.
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Burnham is arguably the most capable high profile Labour figure – and, unlike unnatural beasts like Starmer and Millipede, is a reasonable facsimile of a normal human being. So, potentially an election magic sprinkle.
He is, however, a dyed in the wool, Fabian-adjacent socialist.
So probably not what the UK needs.
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In this day and age being a Fabian and social democrat is par for the course.
Does the Manchester mayor have charismatic qualities?
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He doesn’t float my personal boat, I always thought of him as a typical Westminster ‘man on the make’ with socialist characteristics.
However, after getting the boot, he has reinvented himself as a Coronation Street ‘man of the people’ and a bit of an anti-politician, which appears to have made him popular in the north – and less hated elsewhere than the other strange fruits. The Brit progressive commentariat seems convinced that he could restore the Red Wall and save Labour.
Luckily, Team Starmer will likely (continue to) bust a gut keeping him out of Parliament. So, if he does arrive, it will be amidst classic Labour chaos, division, fear, and loathing.
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Thanks for the insightful summary, the government is in a hopeless mess without a leader.
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GBNEWS with their take on Herr Starmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rJdiF8QK7Y
The panellists include 2 Labour apologists, both of whom have finally thrown in the towel.
It’s a rather long clip. 20 minutes.
It seems to me that if Starmer had been on the Titanic he would still be sitting in a lifeboat at the bottom of the ocean, certain (in his own mind) that he will surely be rescued.
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“the government is in a hopeless mess with a leader.”
There, fixed it. 😆😆
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AUSTRALIA’S One Nation party has won its first lower-house seat in a moment that’s been described as a political earthquake. How Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party roared to victory in Farrer: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-pauline-hansons-one-nation-party-roared-to-victory-in-farrer/
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The deadly Hantavirus will kill everyone in the World. All the Amish will die. Only the vaccinated will survive.
Hantavirus was patented by Christina Spiropoulou, not Ralph Baric. And the bioweapon was released on the cruise ship Hondius, not the Diamond Princess: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-hantavirus-a-hoax-or-another-big-pharma-bioweapon/
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The maskholes are already coming out of the woodwork.
Expect the Australian Government to be first to adopt draconian lockups, compulsory “vaccination” with untested experimental substances, compulsory masking and other restrictions and in Melbournistan the police will patrol the streets in Lenco Bearcat armoured personnel carriers like they did last time.
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Tedros (WHO) denies ‘quarantine’ & history:
says it was cruel to suggest isolating passengers onboard for ‘forty days’.
The Ethiopian is neither doctor nor historian nor a student of Latin. Who pays this charlatan?
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The CCP?
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Gosh, I was really surprised to see Moderna have been researching hantavirus vaccines…
https://au.news.yahoo.com/moderna-shares-jump-reveals-researching-154440350.html
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Over 100,000 articles about it so far.
The msm bunnies love a good fear story.
Calls for mandatory masking, distancing (maybe 7′ not 6′ apart this time? 😆)
Covid BS all over again, all for a chartered “cruise” ship.
Didn’t learn from last time?
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Over 100,00 articles and most of them say bugger all. PC’s link shows a doctor declaring he has encountered one case of a human contracting hantavirus (presumably by inhaling fine particles of rodent droppings) in 30 years. Let’s say, conservatively, it has been of minimal risk to humans for many, many decades. Despite that low risk of zoonotic transmission, Moderna has conveniently positioned itself to help- it just happened to be researching a vaccine for a virus that rarely affects humans.
Total BS.
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Fascinating article on the difficulty in teaching literature in the 2020s that I hadn’t considered. Students are unable to comprehend many great works because they are grounded in Christian concepts that used to be part of the common fabric that all western students learned as children, but are no longer a shared cultural tradition due to secularization and multiculturalism (rather than assimilation).
https://archive.ph/D30C5
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But no doubt they will have increased familiarity with the Mohammedan faith, especially in Europe.
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Mr. M: More likely they won’t pay any attention to that, too busy diving into star wars.
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Speaking of which:
Compare the political ideology of islam to the core of Fascism, per Mussolini”
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”.
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This is interesting. My sister and I were discussing knowledge of biblical things Sunday evening. We attended a small Catholic school with nuns as teachers — 1960s. We did not concentrate on bible studies but rather had the Baltimore Catechism Number 2. My wife, raised as a Baptist in Atlanta GA, knew much more of the Bible. We did learn the Ten Commandments and about Christianity but suspect we were/are deficient in the religious literacy mentioned in this report.
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This is meant to be a reply to Steve @ #5.
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I’m pretty similar to you in terms of liturgical education. I was raised Catholic, attended mass weekly, and went to ‘Sunday School’ as a little one to learn the basics (genesis, exodus, ten commandments, birth/life/death/resurrection of Jesus, etc.), but never really found ‘faith’ myself and have spent my adult life as a secular agnostic. But I still appreciate my religious upbringing as a great grounding in ancient wisdom acquired over thousands of years over how moral people should conduct themselves. Even though I’m not a ‘believer’, I still think it is a worthwhile moral construct to raise kids in.
As a Gen Xer, pretty much everyone I know was raised in a Christian household and knows the basics just like I do, regardless of whether they are believers or lapsed sinners like me. I feel bad for the kids of the current generation who were never exposed to it and have to rely on whatever secular morality their parents and teachers might have imparted on them. Especially since secular morality tends to be rather vanilla and simplistic and doesn’t stick with you the way some of the gorier and more colorful moral lessons found in religions stick with you.
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Today’s mathematical theorem is the Banach-Tarski paradox. AI can explain it better than I can:
Video: https://youtu.be/HE-sdkjTaXQ
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The Labor thesis is a theorem based on geometry stating that a solid country can be reconstructed into a infinite number of pieces and reassembled, using only lots of taxation with claims of fairness, to form two copies of the original country. Never proven but this result depends on chaos and demonstrates that some people can have a well-defined increase at the expense of others.
Key Aspects of the Labor Theorem:
It challenges notions of fairness, taxation, suggesting one can create “something from nothing”.
Not Physical: It applies to a sets of theoretic points, not actually made of reality.
The pieces used in the this reconstruction of the economy are extremely verbose lies and profitable to the few insiders.
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Excellent Graeme!
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There’s a real company called Soylent.
They sell woke soy-based foods for vegans.
Apparently they haven’t heard of Soylent Green which makes this link (and especially comments) on one of their products hilarious.
https://soylent.com/products/powder-scoop
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Video.
TRUMP proposes a cure for TRUMP Derangement Syndrome. Plus exposing the staggering hypocrisy of the Left (see Bill Clinton speech in video).
https://youtu.be/Ndmxzy07mn8
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Conversation with a mate… something I didn’t realise, I thought our gas disaster was with China
“We sell LNG to Singapore, at a discount, but they buy 15 times what they use to power Singapore. Most of the ships that take on board LNG for Singapore, never go anywhere near Singapore. Singapore on-sells it, & the LNG goes straight from Australia, to those other countries. Singapore makes more profit on the LNG than we do. “
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Plus Japan also buys our cheap LPG and onsells it.
Australia is run by morons.
Meanwhile Australia is building gas import terminals, presumably so we can buy previously exported Australian gas from Singapore or Japan.
And they are banning gas connections for new buildings in Sicktoria.
Yes. We really are the Stupid Country.
Also see: https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
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You and KP speak of “selling cheap”. Give us the numbers: How cheap?
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Obviously cheap enough for Japan and Singapore to onsell at a substantial profit.
And from the SMH article I linked:
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I believe that due to WA’s gas reservation scheme, the negotiation of local gas sales is different to negotiations for export sales.
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Which might indicate we don’t have the ships to export the gas.
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So you are relying on what someone says is happening. I asked for figures.
No one is stupid enough to sign forever contracts at a set price.
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Sorry I can’t give you a copy of the signed contract. But here’s the AFR reporting on the mistake back in 2006. Up to you whether the source is credible.
https://www.afr.com/markets/commodities/china-gas-deal-burns-20bn-20060331-jfnpf
So you were right. No one is stupid enough to sign a forever contact at a set price. But a 25 year one? Apparently yes.
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Twenty years ago no one in Australia wanted gas, they had zero interest. Korea and Japan did, they bought equity in the producers and signed “take or pay” contracts* that the banksters insisted on before lending over $20 B for the project to proceed.
What is your beef? If you aren’t a c0mmunist you don’t “own” the gas, you have no more right to profit on the gas than you would on the Sydney property you didn’t buy 20 yrs ago.
* A take-or-pay contract is a legal agreement where the buyer commits to either purchase a minimum quantity of goods or services from the supplier or pay a penalty for not taking the agreed amount.
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I’m not sure what your beef is.
KP and David were lamenting the poor deals. Why? Probably because of the missed opportunity to bring more dollars into the country. Either directly through the company selling the product, the taxes, or the royalties.
Plus its a sign other countries are willing to use a great resource while we (Vic) are trying to phase it out.
You were disbelieving and wanted some numbers. Info provided.
Now you’re still seemingly not happy that the deal makers have been called stupid. Although you sort of went down that path yourself.
Maybe the deal wouldn’t have been done by the Chinese if the price was contracted to increase. Maybe it’s still a good deal for both. But it does seem that money has been left on the table from “our side”.
I can say our side without implying some sort of communist ownership. We benefit from the deal. Our governments praised the deal at the time, saying how much “we” would benefit financially.
But, billions of royalties were seemingly left on the table and we now have the Jim reaper changing CGT and negative gearing to try and get a few billion off us. (the latter would still happen because the gas royalties and taxes would have already been wizzed up against a wall)
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Do you, or do you not have a copy of the contract? If you don’t your statement has zero credibility.
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Gosh. You really are upset over this One Nation vs LNP thing. No one would otherwise care what David said about it this much, or my reply.
No. Of course I don’t have a copy of the contract. That’s why I said, “Sorry I can’t give you a copy of the signed contract.”
However, the AFR gave a direct quote from someone (said to be one of the buyers) seemingly familiar with the the contract which stated, “The price will stay unchanged for 25 years”.
I also said, “Up to you whether the source is credible.” If the source is credible then my statement is 100% credible. If the source is not, then my statement still has some credibility given the WA government confirmed the contract is 25 years, the Federal government confirmed its 25 years, the AFR is reporting it per above, the SMH reported similarly in 2022, and the ABC reported on the matter some months ago in which they took the opportunity to bag Howard by pointing out the contract was locked in at a low price and wasn’t the great deal Howard claimed it to be. (although the ABC is not credible 😉 )
From the SMH 24 July 2022.
From the AFR 29 Jan 2015
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Strop, you have proven nothing. You are making a “consensus” argument as if you were an AGW believer.
People say increasing CO2 increases global temperature. Do you agree?
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You find it hard to believe because it seems like such a bad deal. Which is really simply David’s and KP’s point. It was a bad deal.
At least with the CO2 consensus argument there are people with opposing evidence to the consensus. You don’t have anyone saying it’s not true that the contract had a locked price. Come back when you do.
I’ve given you the info that’s readily available. I’ve answered why I find it annoying, even though I’m not a communist and it’s not my gas.
Believe it or don’t believe it.
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And yes. I agree that people say increasing CO2 increases global temperature. 😉
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You have given opinion, zero facts.
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Is it opinion that former CNOOC chief executive Fu Chengyu said, “The price will stay unchanged for 25 years”. Or is it fact? It is at least a fact that the AFR has quoted him as saying it.
You can accuse the AFR of inventing the quotes. But that’s just your opinion. Not a known fact.
Why would they invent such a quote and attribute it directly to someone capable of denying it if it wasn’t a quote? They’d just say “a source” if they wanted to invent it and be cagey.
Is it opinion that Woodside CEO Peter Coleman said, “If there’s an opportunity to engage with our buyers on that [a price increase], then I can assure you we’ll do that” and “Clearly it’s a good contract for our buyers in today’s market”, as quoted in the AFR? Or is it fact? It is at least a fact that the AFR has quoted him as saying it.
Why would he say those things if the contract and price was a good deal?
You can accuse the AFR of inventing the quotes. But that’s just your opinion. Not a known fact.
Is it opinion that Woodside CEO Peter Coleman said, “Unfortunately, we have a very large contract in the NWS called Guangdong,” and it is “the gift that keeps on taking”. Or is it fact? It is at least a fact that the West Australian newspaper has quoted him as saying that.
Why would he say “Unfortunately” and “the gift that keeps on taking” if it was a good deal?
You can accuse the West Australian of inventing the quotes. But that’s just your opinion. Not a known fact.
Coleman is not permitted to directly divulge the details of the contract. But they can certainly deny the false claims. They have denied making a loss on the deal. But no denials around there being a low capped price for 25 years.
Don’t tell me my comment has “zero credibility” and I only have “opinion, zero facts”, when I provide information that is presented as fact by the journalists (direct attributed quotes to named people) while you have only your opinion that it doesn’t sound true.
Far more credibility than your opinion, and assertion as fact, that those disappointed with the LNP and promoting One Nation as an alternative are preferencing Labor over the LNP.
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Years ago I saw a report that said it was exported for 6c a litre, an odd measurement but one the plebs could relate to.
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I remember that same figure.
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When? Has that contract expired?
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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is not typically quoted in USD per liter in global commercial markets. Instead, it is priced based on its energy content, usually in USD per Million British Thermal Units (MMBtu) or USD per Metric Ton (MT).
However, based on current market data, we can calculate the approximate price per liter:
Current Price per MMBtu: As of May 12, 2026, the benchmark Natural Gas (Henry Hub) price is approximately $2.92 USD/MMBtu.
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I asked Gulag AI what has AI ever invented or discovered.
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It can be quite entertaining playing around with AI. I heard a comment the other day, the person was wondering how much electricity could be saved if everyone stopped saying “please” and “thank you” to their favourite AI program. Maybe I should ask GROK……. 🙂
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I invited AI to describe the lasagne i had made in the style of a wine connoisseur. That was a lot of fun. I’ll never look at a iasagne the same way again.
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But hard slog analysis is what AI is good at.
Have you seen Xiaomi’s SU7 Ultra aluminium alloy?
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“Have you seen Xiaomi’s SU7 Ultra aluminium alloy?”
Yes,but the problem is that it will allow larger panels/chassis to be made in one piece,so no repair to components as traditionally done.
Bend it and throw it away.. Nice idea though, lots of other uses.
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Very interesting. I’ve always maintained that AI is incapable of original thought. I guess that may depend of how original thought is defined.
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Assuming AI can inure itself from GIGO, I am hopeful of improvements in medical practice.
Wouldn’t be wonderful if a search gave fenben as an answer to cancer treatment?
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The Bad Cat on Suicidal Empathy
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/suicidal-empathy
The article contains a couple of absolutely bonkers stats, one that I have seen before, and one that I haven’t.
1. 80% of all crimes are committed by someone with 3+ prior arrests.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/3-strikes-and-you-need-to-be-out?utm_source=publication-search
2. Electing a Republican prosecutor results in a 6.6% decline in all-cause mortality for young men 20-29. (because Republicans throw 3-strike offenders in jail and keep them there)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEfIlS943SwbDytdghTdFeWc49dws7yw/view?usp=sharing
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“She said the attack left her and her friend “in shock,” but they ultimately chose not to cooperate with prosecutors… Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail.”
Should I assume that she thinks that men in dresses should be allowed in womens sports and bathrooms?
It’s amazing how some people survive.
The judges and this “victim” allowed a walking timebomb loose. They don’t think about the possible consequences of their actions or lack thereof.
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Every Democrat I have ever met is incapable of thinking beyond first-order outcomes of their decisions. Second-order outcomes and potential unintended consequences simply don’t exist for them, and they completely fail to grasp the meaning behind the old axiom ‘the road to Hell is paved with good intentions’.
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That 80% of crime committed by someone with 3+ prior arrests is why the “Three Strikes” laws came into being. When you lock them away permanently after the third conviction and do it consistently as a mandated outcome crime rates go down.
Hence, during the ’90s in the USA when the Three Strikes laws were in place and the judiciary were applying them crime rates went down.
Then Democrat state administrations and Soros funded State AGs started overturning the Three Strikes laws, crime rates went back up, and up, and up.
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FWIW
“Humans have a just discovered third circulatory system”
Start at
“In another fascinating medical story, the NYT published a bizarre article, if you can call it that, headlined “Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways.” I’ll file this story under the category of medical innovation of the kind we haven’t seen in the last 25 years. In short, suddenly and unexpectedly, scientists discovered a third circulatory system in the human body that they had never noticed before.”
More in
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/revolution-and-renewal-tuesday-may?
And other things to marvel at
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I see TV ads for a Federal Government money managing website, Moneysmart.gov.au.
To quote from the website “Budgeting helps you to be in control of your money. Our budgeting pages show you how to set up a budget, track your spending and find ways to save.”
Obviously last night’s budget shows that those in Government don’t use the website
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A pessimists view of that –
“Or that they did”
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Come, come, Maptram:
Jim Chamberpot did his best lest night. There will soon be Government ads about what a good thing he is doing.
You are only relying on intelligence rather than believing him.
These will keep coming until he either gets the top job or he retires with his <censored) gotten gains.
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It’s Federal budget day, so I’ll try to be topical.
Was listening to a Chinese person on a podcast who lived through the cultural revolution under Mao.
One of the main tactics used by the regime was to turn the young people against the older generation, because they were the holders of wealth. Reminded me of “intergenerational inequality “ and I thought how Communistic of the ALP. Next we’ll be given little red books to read.
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Odd ?
After one of the most contentious Budgets, there are so few comments about it ?
The “Intergenerational Wealth” ploy is obviously just a distraction away from Labors long held desire to remove certain tax benefits.
With their large House majority, they have assumed time was ripe to flip election promisses and take the backlash well before the next election .
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It was a shrewd move, it doesn’t impact Labor’s base and they can blame the war as mitigating circumstances.
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To go with “The Little Green Book” that we are supposed to have read?
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Just saw Allegra Spender on Sky news and the question was asked “was she talking to Malcolm Turnbull about forming a new political party” so much waffle around the point but certainly sounds like political shenanigans is in the wind. Apparently being talked about openly but certainly the first time I have heard this.
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France ain’t what it used to be
https://youtu.be/j97CBTb4oOI?si=nXywD_ckK_TpVN6o
Just like the homes they left.
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Governments opened borders, this is the result.
You will rarely, if ever see this on MSM.
This is why social media and blogs are vital.
Sure there’s a lot of rubbish on both but the same can be said of the MSM.
I’d be surprised if more than 50% of Australias population are aware and even more surprised if more than 25% care about what is happening.
It should concern us all because that could be our future in 10,20 years or so.
I will be pushing up daisies by then but my relatives will have to deal with the mistakes being made today.
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Even though Australia has no land borders, we still effectively have open borders thanks to Government policy of importing the Third World as fast as possible, bringing in people who are uneducated and anti-Western in Outlook and who will likely be lifelong welfare recipients and Labor voters.
Tony Burkha imported nearly 100,000 in February 2026 alone, and I’d be willing to bet Burkha fast tracks them to “citizenship” in time for the next Federal or even Victorian state election.
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Then there’s the question of where such people are housed, at taxpayer expense, so that their votes can make a difference.
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Burke is confident that immigration is the solution to the housing crisis.
“Half of our doctors now are born overseas, half of our registered nurses are born overseas, about a quarter of the tradespeople we need to build homes are born overseas. So effectively we can’t run our health system or build the houses we need without immigration.
“We have really geared up the targeting, and there’s still more that I want us to keep doing, to make sure that we can get the best and the brightest, to make sure we can fill those skills gaps. Because a whole lot of the economic strength of Australia relies on us having a really well targeted immigration program.” (News)
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The government has to import our future crime statistics because Australia is too far from Africa and India for a rubber dinghy.
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As the speaker said, not a word about in on Lamestream Media.
I won’t visit such countries any more.
I used to go to Europe to see art and culture, not Third World poverty, crime and lack of civilisation.
As they say “import the Third World, become the Third World”.
They shouldn’t be moving in unless they intend to adopt European ways. If they want Third World conditions let them stay where they came from, it’s no different.
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let them stay where they came from, it’s no different
Their original homeland does not supply the same level of government support (largess?)
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Finally, a robotic face that doesn’t look like a mannequin
The reason nobody else has tried this is the “uncanny valley.”
It’s the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can’t say why.
Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it.
So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic.
https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/2053821498125848790
Not Ex Machina but getting there.
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Study of entire country show VAIDS in every age group
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2054199544972251508
*politicians excluded from all “safe and effective” shots and magically safe from Covid itself.
The unwashed must ALL be “tagged”.😉
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Project Matador exposed: Texas’ insane AI Mega-data center will devour 18 million Sq Ft, 17 Gigawatts of power, 1 BILLION gallons of water a year & blast 120dB noise
https://x.com/PoisonDeathShot/status/2054048476795650110
Fresh water too, not recycled…
Is there even enough data in existence to warrant all these centers?
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17, Giga watts ?..?
Either something has been lost in the data translation, or this is just another fake news story.
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17GW.
Know what a search engine is?
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Wednesday story time.
https://madgewaggy.blogspot.com/2026/05/experts-warn-of-global-food-chain.html
If the number of bandicoots on my lawns last night was an indication, there’s a wealth of yummy worms down there for an emergency.😁
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This is the latest from Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain.
It covers the trans rights issue.
Absolutely hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQI0TwIsspg
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It’s hilarious but the premise is absolutely correct. In Australia a person’s gender is determined not by biology but what they “identify” as. This is due to changes in the Sex Discrimination Act made by Gillard and its the basis of the Tickle vs Giggle case.
Aa usual, Australia is the laughing stock of the world because of this. Both the US and UK have decided that a person’s sex is determined by biology, not identification.
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/giggle-for-girls-v-roxanne-tickle
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Yes.
The UK Supreme Court had to rule on the issue before Starmer would agree that sex is determined by biology.
Common sense and politicians don’t mix.
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FWIW
“Britain’s Two-Tier System Laid Bare”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/11/britains-two-tier-system-laid-bare-n3814825
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FWIW
“SORBITOL DANGERS: Popular Sugar-Free Sweetener Linked to Liver Disease, Study Warns.
It’s going to turn out that cyclamates were the only safe artificial sweetener, isn’t it?”
Via https://instapundit.com/796244/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
Sarah Hoyt contemplates –
“Knowledge of the Ancients”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/05/11/knowledge-of-the-ancients/
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Ok Missed this one from Last Nights Labor 2026 Budget
The May 12, 2026 Federal Budget has indeed dropped a massive bombshell on the Australian tax landscape, and assessment of the “pre-CGT” status is spot on.
While the government isn’t calling it an “inheritance tax” by name, the structural changes essentially create a de facto death duty for family legacies held in property and shares.
Here is the breakdown of what actually happened last night and why it’s being called the “end of the holy grail” of tax exemptions.
1. The Death of the “Pre-CGT” (Sep 1985) Status
Since 1985, assets bought before that date were the “gold standard” for wealth—they were completely invisible to the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) system.
The Change: From July 1, 2027, the full exemption for pre-1985 assets is scrapped.
The “Reset”: You won’t be taxed on the gains made from 1985 to 2027, but the asset’s value will be “reset” on July 1, 2027. Any growth from that day forward will be subject to the new CGT rules.
The Impact: For families holding long-term family homes (that aren’t primary residences) or investment blocks, the “free ride” is over.
When these assets are eventually sold or passed down, the taxman finally gets a cut of the future growth.
2. Why it feels like an Inheritance Tax
By bringing these assets into the net, the government is effectively taxing the intergenerational transfer of wealth.
If you inherit a property that has been in the family since 1970, it used to be “clean.”
Under the 2026 rules, the moment that asset continues to grow post-2027, the “inheritance” starts accumulating a tax liability that didn’t exist for the last 40 years.
3. The 30% Minimum Tax & Indexation
Labor has also fundamentally changed how the tax is calculated for everyone, not just pre-85 holders:
Goodbye 50% Discount: The blanket 50% CGT discount is being axed from July 1, 2027.
Return of Indexation: They are bringing back “indexation,” where you only pay tax on gains above inflation.
The “Floor”:
Crucially, they’ve introduced a 30% minimum tax on net capital gains. This prevents people from using low-income years (like retirement) to sell assets and pay little to no tax.
4. The “Stolen Wealth” Argument for the Young
The younger generation is the core of the 2026 Budget debate. The “triple threat” for young Australians looking to build wealth now looks like this:
Established Negative Gearing Gone: As of last night, you can no longer negatively gear established houses (purchased after 7:30 PM May 12). Only “new builds” get the tax break.
Higher CGT on Exit: When a young person finally saves enough to buy an investment, they face a 30% minimum tax instead of the old discounted rate.
Trusts Under Attack: The Budget also introduced a 30% minimum tax on discretionary trust distributions, effectively ending “income splitting” which was a major way small business families built wealth.
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But don’t forget the income tax cut of $250 a year starting July 2027/28 financial year period.
sarc
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Don’t forget the $250 a year income tax cut effective 2027/28 financial year
sarc
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Impact on Average Earners
An average earner in Australia—earning around $79,000 per year—is significantly affected by bracket creep. According to analysis from the 2025 Budget, without tax adjustments, bracket creep would have cost this worker $536 per year by 2027–28 compared to 2024–25 settings.
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OldOzzie,
Yes. Now investors can join pensioners in suffering from the totally dishonest way the CPI is calculated.
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3. The One “Escape Hatch”: Age Pensioners
There is one major exception that was buried in the fine print last night: Recipients of means-tested income support (like the Age Pension or JobSeeker) are exempt from the 30% minimum floor.
If you are a self-funded retiree with a pre 1985 property, you pay the 30%.
If you are on the Age Pension, you pay your marginal rate (which is likely much lower).
4. Why the “Young” are truly stuck
The young have their wealth stolen, and this “30% floor” is the final nail.
No more “stepping stones”: A young person starting out can no longer use their low-income years to flip a property or a share portfolio to build a “nest egg” tax-effectively.
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FWIW
“Troubles at NuScale Power, Fermi America”
“Conclusion
Energy hyperbole and the madness of crowds are evident with both NuScale Power and Fermi America. Bubbles burst.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/12/troubles-at-nuscale-power-fermi-america/
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Think Fermi America is the supplier for the Project Matador Data Centre mentioned in #20.
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And
““Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper.”
“The press release opens by announcing that “major new research on climate change, global warming and environmental collapse, how they connect with what men do, and what to do about it, has just been published.” A reader could be forgiven for assuming that some new study had measured something, found something, and produced a finding.
That is not what happened.”
“The “research” in question is an editorial introduction to a double special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, written by Kadri Aavik (Tallinn University), Jeff Hearn (Huddersfield), Martin Hultman (Gothenburg), and Tamara Shefer (University of the Western Cape). It introduces twenty-two papers across two issues with titles ranging from analyses of “pro-meat online influencers in Finland” to discussions of pipeline politics in Canada. The editorial’s organizing concept is “(M)Anthropocene”, the Anthropocene with a male prefix bolted on the front to signal who, in the authors’ view, is responsible.
I read it so you don’t have to. Here is what is actually going on.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/12/masculine-behavior-bad-for-the-planet-says-phys-org-we-read-the-paper/
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Ah yes, the reason the human race exists, strong males capable of hunting big animals that provide food, clothing and shelter. Also capable of defending territory in times of enemy threat. These are the reasons that we will all cease to exist. Not the boys that think they are girls, not the girls that believe they are as strong as men (until they aren’t). Yeah I can see we need more soy and less meat.
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What a sham, women also drive cars.
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FWIW
“The early days of drone warfare”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-early-days-of-drone-warfare.html
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FWIW
“There’s a Laboured Stench of Desperation Hanging in the Air Around No. 10 This Morning”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/12/theres-a-laboured-stench-of-desperation-in-the-air-around-no-10-this-morning-n3814859
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Labour Unions (the representative body of the British Labour-affiliated trade unions) has come out in robust support of Keir Starmer:
Our focus is on the fundamental change of direction on economic policy and political strategy that unions have been clear is needed, and not on the personalities and unfolding political drama in Westminster.
It’s clear that the prime minister will not lead Labour into the next election, and at some stage a plan will have to be put in place for the election of a new leader.
[Translation: Cock, you had one job…]
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FWIW
“The Democrats have been screaming that Jim Crow is back! Just to test it out, I went outside to see if I now have less rights as a black man. I started humming a negro spiritual and set out on my way.”
More at https://x.com/ZeekArkham/status/2054301932613751133
Via https://instapundit.com/796529/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
More “UK – words fail me!” – or unprintable here
“IF ONLY THE UK HAD THOUGHTS! I learned today that the UK’s Internet censor, Ofcom, will, tomorrow, fine U.S. website Sanctioned Su*c*de £1,000,000. SaSu has comprehensively voluntarily geoblocked the UK. Ofcom is fining the site anyway. I have thoughts.”
https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/2054248021781520507
Leads to
https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/05/12/thoughts-on-the-1000000-sasu-fine/
Via https://instapundit.com/796537/#disqus_thread
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To use a “word of the moment” –
Do you think the “E-Commissioner” might be “learing”?
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It now appears that, after his 20 minute meeting with Starmer this morning, Wes Streeting is about to resign as Health Minister and challenge for the PM position.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-streeting-resign-kings-speech-live-updates-b2975504.html
Interestingly, bland as blancmange and with no significant life-experience, Streeting appears to have no particular support amongst his Westminster colleagues.
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Isn’t he the “Blairite spear head”?
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Paleo climate history illustrates that CO2 has had no impact on precipitation.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/05/11/new-paleo-research-modern-climate-change-has-had-no-apparent-impact-on-precipitation-patterns/
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FWIW
Thanks to the person who mentioned this book –
Bruce Bunker (PhD) “The Mythology of Global Warming” – a concentrated look at what is supposed to happen and why it is unlikely to.
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Well, with all the Covid scare stories and the regulations and the laws with the Bearcats driving around to enforce them, surely you’d worry about your children.. In fact you should be congratulated for following the official line so well, like this couple..
‘Parents.. refused to let their three children go outside their house for FOUR YEARS due to Covid fears’
But no, reality has hit home and doing what we were told to back then now leads to jail..
‘The couple was convicted of habitual psychological violence within the family environment and family abandonment. Each received a sentence of two years and four months in prison, plus an additional six months for family abandonment.”
Understandable to normal people as..
‘the parents locked the minors up inside their home and isolated them completely from the rest of the world, denying them contact with other people both physically and through other forms of communication. They added that “The children didn’t even know their relatives or any other people that weren’t their parents. They never went outside, not even to the garden of their home, for almost four years because of the unfounded fear the accused had, and they had instilled in their children, that they might be infected with something.”
but…but.. they were just enthusiastically following the law!! Ruined the kids of course, just as following most laws do!
‘left the youngsters with significant mental and physical conditions, including difficulties walking, bowel and bladder control issues, and delayed development.’
Wait until the next one hits!
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/parents-sent-prison-after-isolating-kids-four-years-over-covid-fears
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