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At least all those Lefties who hate success and wealth must be pleased that Elon Musk is no longer a billionaire.
[But he’s now a trillionaire, LoL.]
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I’m sure they’ll all be glued to their stock tickers hoping/waiting for the day when SpaceX drops down below $140, taking away the fourth comma in his net worth.
Kind of like Tim Walz did during the height of the DOGE-inspired mania that led to lefties burning down Tesla dealerships. He reveled in the schadenfreude of watching Tesla stock decline. Tesla has gained it all back since, plus another 20%, but Walz sure enjoyed the company’s temporary setback. Nevermind that Musk probably didn’t even notice the slight dent in his net worth, but his thousands of employees probably noticed their ESOP account declined, and the millions who put their meager retirement accounts into the stock probably noticed, and that made Walz a happy man.
https://x.com/FactsMa02805793/status/2065664037044539748
The still haven’t figured out that Musk isn’t motivated by the money. Sure, the money is a very useful tool to help him accomplish the stuff he really cares about (a manned Mars mission), but it’s not what drives him. That’s why despite his massive fortune, Musk is one of the few members of the three-comma-club (now four) who doesn’t have a yacht, or a palatial estate where he hosts gala balls, or many of the other trappings of high society. He still lives a 20-something recent college graduate trying to establish himself, sleeping in the office, working 60-80 hour weeks, pounding energy drinks to stay awake, etc. That’s a big part of the reason 20-something genius engineers respond to him so well and willing to work like dogs for him. Because the trillionaire boss is down in the trenches with him and is the first guy in the office and the last to leave.
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Critics have said that with all that wealth he could abolish world hunger.
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But we all know he couldn’t… The people starving would instantly breed up to consume all his wealth, and once it had gone we would have even more starving..
However, adopting his Libertarian philosophy would get all those people out of starvation within a generation, too bad they’re tribal.
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UK gov. psyops unit at large (as if it isn’t obvious after the COVID shenanigans with the collective pot banging in the streets for the NHS at regimented times each day, and the rest….).
Nothing is real, from victim impact statements, roadside memorials, graffiti, iconic media photos, to the obvious like painting demonstrators with ‘wrong’ opinions as unsympathetic thugs in the news.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15897997/unit-government-police-MI6-agent-racial-tensions.html
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Apparently all the approx. US$625,000+ raised via GiveSendGo for the defence of the convicted US murderer Karmelo Anthony is all gone now, seemingly much of it spent by his family for private purposes, and there is no money left for an appeal.
Comments: https://youtu.be/dz_a9riCUOI
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They bought property with it and even indulged in cosmetic surgery. They must have thought the usual “dindunuffin” defence would work.
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It is more like a simple strategy to get a free government defence lawyer. We get that in Australia where you have the crown prosecutor fighting a publicly funded barrister. Zero cost.
The strategy is to get the politicians directly embroiled in the case and compromised by an unpopular outcome. And you still have the cash.
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As the UK continues to deindustrialise and de-energise the wokesters want more children to walk to school plus other non-Elites to walk to their destinations.
The woke name for regressing to this pre-industrial transport method is “active travel”.
It is a few years old now, this press release is from 2021. But there is a new push as of a few days ago. See second article.
There’s nothing wrong with walking for exercise but UK is no longer a safe country and full of grooming gangs and are other violent guest residents and is no longer safe for children or anyone.
In any case, this is a thinly veiled means to stop people driving “to save the planet” and reduce the standard of living to a more primitive one.
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David, sorry but your penultimate comment is nonsense. Much of the UK is very safe with some obvious exceptions. It has internationally very low homicide rates.
It ranks virtually the same as Australia for crime as can be seen by the link.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/
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I live in a regional city where driving only slows for short periods. The regular one is at three PM but hardly a kid on a bike to be seen. The town is flat enough and safe enough for kids to be out and about on bikes.
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Well, under two-tier policing, many criminals of a certain demographic aren’t even arrested so those crimes don’t show up in official statistics plus there is plenty of video evidence of crimes, especially those committed against the traditional population of British people by said demographic, not to mention huge numbers of antisemitic attacks. The police and woke politicians are terrified of the said demographic. E.g. The “grooming gangs” never showed up in official statistics because the horrific crimes were almost never prosecuted. Obviously there are certain areas which remain safe, for the moment.
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Yeah. They are all hidden but you know about them. fmd
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I don’t know why you have almost as many down votes as up votes, Tony. In the UK we do have many problems but in many areas it is perfectly safe as you said. I wonder which country the down voters live in? Unfortunately some people on the right are just as ready to jump to conclusions that reinforce their world view as those on the left are.
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hello Tony
A messy subject Just begging for straw men.
Would paedophiles like to see more children walking to school alone ?
Will child health improve From an increase in exercise or will child sickness increase from sitting in wet clothes in school in winter.
Every change has unintended consequences. Some are trivial Some are sometimes deadly. Frequently they are not noticed. Rare But still possibly deadly .
my advice to governments is to stop fiddling . Stick to the main games. First do no harm.
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TonyB I agree. as kids we all walked to school or cycled as young as 5 or 6. Kids are not stupid and we knew where the “pervs” lived and most attacks were by family or friends any way.
Now though the scaremongering by the media has done its job. Somebody on the other side of the world has to get looked at funny and its all over our news as though it was down the street.
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Should be nice for the kiddies in the benign UK weather. Sounds like the 1950s, off to school in your raincoat and galoshes.
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Huh! Reminds me of a Python sketch!
Tony.
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Hell’s Grannies 😁
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Idyllic 1950s in Britain. Nowadays, it might be The Magic Farce-away Tree…by Enid Blighton (the planet).
Enid’s children’s novel will have more relevance to future generations than the present day false climate prophecies. Enid’s imagination will inspire the imaginations of children of the future as opposed to the contemporary Leftist imaginations which are merely being fuelled by the spurious claims made by MSM and energy incompetent governments.
Imagination and science are like water and oil- unless you are a climate change expert or a science fiction writer.
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20 miles trudging through snow, uphill both ways…
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The transport secretary appears to be demonstrably anti-transport. George Orwell would be proud of the job title having an opposite meaning to the portfolio.
You would think encouraging kids to get some exercise by walking to school would come under the watch of the Minister of State for Health. On the other hand, who is the government to question a parent’s wish to guarantee their child arrives at school safely by driving them there?
The woke absurdists believe you can fix the weather one walk to school at a time.
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Watt with guvuhmint policies shutting down energy, wasting dwindling funds on climate change and
immigrant housing, of course children must be encouraged to walk to school. Soon everyone will, by necessity,
engage in active travel pied-a-terre, walking back to the Age of Dick Whittington… … …
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It’s going to be very hard to get the Iranian enriched uranium.
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Commercially more valuable than gold and even heavier, it will be extracted and separated very easily from dirt and rock. “Commercially viable gold yields generally range from 0.01 to 0.50 oz/ton”. And it’s likely not particularly dangerous with alpha radiation which could be stopped with a sheet of paper. Plus it would be really easy to locate. Consider half a ton of radioactive gold at $50,000 per kg for enriched uranium. But the real value will be much higher and in the billions at weapons grade. The Pakistanis and Indians and Chinese would be more than willing to help. And most of Iran.
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The burial site would be subject to massive grave robbing more than the Great Pyramids of Giza. Value around a billion dollars. There will be a recovery team for sure, subject to agreements. For now it is safe if buried deep and watched from above. Still it will be gone in a year even inside a granite mountain.
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In fact, in the true spirit of the Middle East, the US could offer say $5Billion cash for the enriched uranium less any costs in extraction. As in most countries, cash today wins. Plus the people who dug the tunnels in the first place can do it again. Given the current economic state of Iran, it would work.
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Some density data in t/m3:
Osmium 22.59
Gold 19.32
Tungsten 19.25-19.3
Enriched Uranium 19.05
Uranium 18.95
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The “downing and rescue of an F-15 pilot” near Isfahan (where the nuclear materials are) was a failed special forces attempt at that seizure.
Plenty of discussion about it if you know where to look, but TLDR, the airframes destroyed on the ground were SF delivery types, not rescue birds.
There is NO such thing as independent ( of the political process) MSM stories in the USA, this is merely moving the Overton Window post hoc, to prevent calls for another, even more spectacular, military failure.
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Its a CNN story. Long time since they did journalism or facts.
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Shame on DM citing CNN…honestly…
Reality, once again, is that Iran has fully expected US attacks for around 30 years and had planned its underground facilities well, so damage is very minimal.
“Digging it out” is laughable.
With the MOU apparently a go, one might expect a “deal” is forthcoming, but we’ll see what news this week brings, and my sources update shortly.
Even if a deal happens, the fallout of the war is still manifesting, repairs will run to years, around $34B spent on the war so far, with hundreds of billions in compensation, ignoring all global damage.
The newly renamed Department of war has it’s first score card…
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Quite cold here in Naarmistan (the woke renamed Melbournistan, the name constantly used by Government propaganda unit, Their ABC), 5C. Good to see all that global warming at work.
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The great thing about Naam is that no aborigine will have a clue where it is. THe downside is that no one else in the world will have a clue either. This is what happens when you change names, you lose all your history and as Melbourne has only existed since 1835, we lose the Olympics, the Commonwealth games, Formula 1 and all the history. No one will have been born in Naam. Nothing ever happened in Naam. Perhaps we can achieve international fame with our bread, Naam bread? It’s all part of the Marxist destruction. Destory our history. Destroy our culture. Destroy even the difference between men and women and pit everyone against each other. Even young against old. And write fantasy science not only into laws but into the very Constitution. And call it multiculturalism and progress.
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I suspect there would be many ageing Americans , and Aussie Vet’s, who might relive a few nightmares at the mention of that word ,..”Naam”😱😱
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Maybe that’s the explanation? These nutty names must be made up. Like kangaroo. No one has found that tribe. Even the idea that aborigines would name a city has no precedent.
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When they tried this on in New Zealand even the Maori were getting lost and demanded a return to normalcy, don’t know how that turned out.
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The main advantage of “Naarm” is that Americans can pronounce it.
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Leftist violence in the United States.
Video.
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The upper-level low continues to cool the North Atlantic.
https://i.ibb.co/b5SNr3fr/Zrzut-ekranu-2026-06-14-222240.png
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It’s a horror-cane!
It’s a ty-foon!
It’s a topical psyche-clone?
There’s a ‘low pressure’ forming between Vanuatu and Fiji (north of New Zealand) which, if it deepens, will inspire headlines of doom from the usual suspects, ie. ‘climate scientists’. East coast Australian surfers are stoked as swell generated by the disturbance should be arriving later this week.
As Bing Crosby warbled:
Ya gotta, accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative…
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Bula vinaka Fiji!
https://www.met.gov.fj/maps-observation/weather-map/
Click on 6am (or 9am) for latest update: Fiji time is the same as NZ time, only warmer.
A late, out-of-season tropical low in June, yet no snow on the hills – some may claim this has never happened before! Yeah nah.
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https://www.ventusky.com/temperature-map/500hpa-5500m#p=-30;-167;2&t=20260615/06&src=link
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/70hPa/orthographic=-188.14,-57.66,329
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SAM’s positive phase means it will continue wet in Oz, while a muted El Nino fails to bring on the fearful drought.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/australia-week-2-4-outlook-persistent-positive-phase-southern-annular-mode-causes-australia-wet-weather-delays-drier-el-nino-effect-2/
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When you say that it will be wet, I believe that this statement should only apply to the east coast. The west coast seems to experience the opposite from El Ninos and La Niñas.
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My money is still on a Modoki.
‘Most interestingly, the Modoki and non-Modoki El Niño events exhibit a marked difference in rainfall impact over Australia: while classical El Niños are associated with a significant reduction in rainfall over northeastern and southeastern Australia, Modoki events appear to drive a large-scale decrease in rainfall over northwestern and northern Australia.’ (Taschetto et al 2009)
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North Atlantic SST is chilling.
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-23.70,32.47,1060/loc=-27.570,29.922
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https://i.ibb.co/6cy7zdjG/natlssta-1.png
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SST Anomaly Time Series
https://i.ibb.co/6cy7zdjG/natlssta-1.png
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
The Mullahs and the Lefty-Left
“Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple.” —Aimee Terese on X”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-mullahs-and-the-lefty-left
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7.40am and it appears the USA / Iran deal is done. No doubt it would never have happened without Our magnificent Foreign minister, Penny Wong’s direct involvement.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
PEACE THRU STRENGTH. Trump wins agai!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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FWIW
“BREAKING: Official US-Iran Peace Agreement Complete: Deal to be Signed on June 19 in Switzerland”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/breaking-official-us-iran-peace-agreement-reached-deal/
For now
“Worth considering
TAQIYYA: Trump Says Iranians Aren’t Dealing ‘in Good Faith,’ Even After He Left Out Our Ally Israel.
More and more, I’m convinced Trump has turned the Mullahs’ rug-merchant negotiating ploy against them.
https://instapundit.com/803261/#disqus_thread “
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The comments are lively.
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Trump says someone else is not negotiating in good faith. Breathtaking, after the initial suprise assault was launched during “good faith” negotiations.
I seriously doubt either side beleives the other is agreement capable, and they may be right. However they both need an end to this round of the conflict.
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Sources are updating now.
Forget the bs being spouted by the msm.
REAL experts are telling a very different story.
Gonna be an interesting week.
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There is no official peace agreement.
We have a memorandum of understanding and temporary extension to the ceasefire which is merely an agreement to start talking about a future peace treaty. It’s better than nothing but nowhere near peace.
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FWIW
“WHEN your EV burns – the protocol”
“When, not if, your EV starts to smoke – Run Away! Then what the fire department does
Gee… it looks like the approved method of dealing with a runaway battery fire in an EV is “let it burn”, then treat everything like a toxic site. Oh, and evacuate the shopping center down wind, have anyone working the fire on bottle air gear, and avoid spraying water on the fire until the battery has fully burned up.”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/when-your-ev-burns-the-protocol/
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The net-zero fanatics in Britain, Germany and Australia are running their economies onto the rocks because they have bet the farm on wind and solar power, and they are going to lose.
Due to the phenomenon of windless nights and also the lack of grid-scale storage, there is no way that the transition to wind and solar can happen.
The power system has to deliver 100% of demand under the most adverse circumstances, which, in the case of wind and solar, are windless nights or even a succession of nights with very little wind.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/why-wind-and-solar-are-unqualified
The challenge is to persuade voters to visit the dashboard of their local grid and learn how to identify wind droughts, especially at breakfast and dinner time, when there is little or no solar power happening.
Will they get their breakfast and dinner hot if we have to depend on the wind and sun to power the grid?
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/will-windpower-heat-your-breakfast
Voters need to see the fragility of the wind and solar supply with their own eyes to realise the absurdity of betting on wind and solar to displace coal and gas.
Next step is to call out to meteorologists for failing to issue wind drought warnings. We know they are political players in the climate game and people also need to know that they betrayed the nation by hiding the existence of wind droughts and exposing us to a suicidal attempt to do without coal and gas.
Wind droughts are like a loose thread in a knitted garment. If we pull on the loose end persistently, the whole thing may may come apart.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/adrianes-thread-from-wind-droughts
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Nick Cater at Sky News comment …
“When Bowen was first sworn in as Energy Minister four years ago, net-zero was all the rage. Four months after assuming office, the Albanese government persuaded Parliament to lock its net zero commitment into law.
It established the Net Zero Agency, generously allocating $53 million a year.
As recently last September, the government proudly announced a $5 billion net-zero package promising it would transform the national economy.”
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Ask why it was considered necessary to “lock in its net zero commitment four months after assuming office, establishing the Net Zero Agency and since signing a Trade Agreement with the EU Government including in terms and conditions that Australia will impose net zero emissions if net zero had already been “signed up to”?
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How can you transition to a technology which has a maximum lifespan of 20 years? A coal power generator has an infinite lifespan, like an axe. So the investment is like buying an electric car. With the same lifespan and zero resale value. Every 20 years you start again building. And they never cost in the transmission lines without which nothing works and which are also worthless when the windmill stops.
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As recently indicated when the NSW Government financed reconditioning of the remaining largest capacity coal fired power station, Eraring, to extend operating life by a few years longer after scheduled by owners shut down date. And after reconditioned and extension of time the owners decided to extend for much more time after profitability was maximised and no doubt based on the deteriorating electricity supply warnings from the AEMO.
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Western Australian Labor state government are hell bent on the Wind /solar /batteries narrative. They just announced “community” batteries to be installed in numerous suburbs in Perth and another 5 in the largest regional city of Bunbury. Along with fast tracking of 4 wind projects.
Hopefully someone like Ms Rinehart can save the state’s best condition coal fired plant of Collie A from becoming extinct and demolished at a 28 years young??!!
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The net-zero fanatics in Britain, Germany and Australia are running their economies onto the rocks because they have bet the farm on wind and solar power, and they are going to lose.
Due to the phenomenon of windless nights and also the lack of grid-scale storage, there is no way that the transition to wind and solar can happen.
The power system has to deliver 100% of demand under the most adverse circumstances, which, in the case of wind and solar, are windless nights or even a succession of nights with very little wind.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/why-wind-and-solar-are-unqualified
The challenge is to persuade voters to visit the dashboard of their local grid and learn how to identify wind droughts, especially at breakfast and dinner time, when there is little or no solar power happening.
Will they get their breakfast and dinner hot if we have to depend on the wind and sun to power the grid?
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/will-windpower-heat-your-breakfast
Voters need to see the fragility of the wind and solar supply with their own eyes to realise the absurdity of betting on wind and solar to displace coal and gas.
Next step is to call out to meteorologists for failing to issue wind drought warnings. We know they are political players in the climate game and people also need to know that they betrayed the nation by hiding the existence of wind droughts and exposing us to a suicidal attempt to do without coal and gas.
Wind droughts are like a loose thread in a knitted garment. If we pull on the loose end persistently, the whole thing may may come apart.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/adrianes-thread-from-wind-droughts
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No, the British have become pirates once again in their desperation to get their hands on oil!
“British troops have boarded a Russian tanker in the English Channel in their first operation to seize a ship in the English Channel, rappelling onto the vessel’s deck and storming its cabins in a pre-dawn raid…The move follows similar operations by the French navy, which has seized four Russian tankers over the past year..The Smyrtos, which flies under a Cameroon flag but has been sanctioned as an exporter of Russian oil, was said to be loaded with 704,962 barrels of crude from the Ust-Luga terminal near St Petersburg. Marine news service Lloyd’s List said it was bound for the Indian port of Sikka…Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the French interception bordered on “international piracy” and was illegal.”
So the oil wars are starting in earnest. It will be like the pirates around Somalia, the ships will need to travel armed and ready to repel boarders.
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So, the Brits stop a tanker of Russian oil which was going to be refined in India. Some of those refined products comes to Australia and I think we have been receiving them for years. Apparently, Russians are bad.
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This is legal piracy, upheld by international law. The next step is for the pirates to turn the booty into a refined product to make the venture viable.
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US sanctions are international law now? Who knew?
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My bad, Western-led maritime order,
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“This is legal piracy, upheld by international law. ”
There is no such thing as ‘legal theft’… no, wait, that’s what taxes are! The real question is, do you count sanctions as a declaration of war? I’m pretty sure you can’t steal another country’s goods just because you don’t like them, that is definitely declaring war. Anyway, Russia can now ‘legally’ board and take over any French or British ship and seize the cargo, they have made the precedent.
It would be funny to see the Russkies seize a British warship, and it probably wouldn’t be that hard. Hold the ship and crew hostage for a few billion pounds..
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Raiding ships is a bodacious move by Starmer, but the ship in question “Smyrtos” had a Cameroon flag, not Russian … and it seems one person arrested for “sanctions violation” was a citizen of India. I guess we will see how India and Cameron respond to that.
Interesting side note is that with the UK exerting maritime control over the English Channel they have also given approval for Iran to control the passage of ships in and out of the Arabian Sea. If you do it, you accept others doing it too.
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It is not surprising in a poll that looks at the preferred PM consisting of Sleezy, SH2 Angus and Pauline Hanson, the latter polls at the top:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tyXgJMb40
PH 33%
Sleezy 29%
SH2 Angus 16%
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A more entertaining version of the same news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToONgGdEufU
Tanya tries to explain that they are not lying. Barnaby points out how government spending will be cut, why costs will come down and that Labor are liars.
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And here’s an outstanding “feel good” “future history” video to start off Monday morning.
Australia’s next PM.
https://youtu.be/Zo11HM2_j0Y
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I still think that Albo will “retire” this year. Although it looks like Labor is very short of suitable replacements? Jim Me too?
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Cut about four feet off the end of a copper log, then drill in a couple of eye holes, with a stubby pencil for a nose, and stand it up in the corner … that would be a workable replacement for Albo, and smarter too.
Figuring out how to replace Chalmers’ goofy grin will be more of a challenge … scope for an arts grant perhaps. A parrot trained to say, “Spend money!” would be functionally equivalent as Treasurer but people would quickly figure out something has changed when the parrot starts showing too much common sense.
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That is fabulous. High production value there. I love the bit with Malcolm Roberts blowing up the Climate Change Department. I wonder what that cost to make. Clearly ONP has access to a solid talent pool.
I heard a government minister stating that One Nation claiming the Climate Change department had not stopped Climate Change™ was a strawman.
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First class production with a touch of hubris.
A couple of things caught my eye, when Pauline knocked down the flags she left one standing. Shows political maturity.
Winning a lower house seat is not in the bag if Canavan decides to run against her.
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Was that Sam Neil’s artificially imitated (a.i.) avatar image celebrating the new ‘populist’ People’s Minister (PM) of Australia?
Knowing his far-left green-nimby Jacinda-worshipping credentials (despite his financial worth) his lawyers will be in contact with One Nation – if not already – for misrepresentation and/or unauthorised use of his ‘look’.
Methinks Pauline Hanson would be the last person on his invite list for sharing a glass of pinot noir at one of his many vineyards in the Otago hinterland… pinot and fish’n’chips simply clash! /s
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I like Barnaby Joyce, he was a very good National Party local member and twice the Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister, his first time with Prime Minister Turnbull.
With his accountancy firm and farming businesses background, his qualifications from University of New England, Armidale, in finance, before entering politics and later cabinet experiences he would be a far more qualified One Nation Leader, but is not even Deputy Leader as there is no deputy.
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‘I like Barnaby Joyce …’
Me too, but the party needs a young fresh face to make an impact on the electorate, someone like Andrew Gee.
He has to be wooed from independent status, but in a broad coalition he is certain to get a seat on the front bench.
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The complicated nature of the next Federal Election means there will be contests between the ALP and One Nation, the ALP and L-NP Coalition, One Nation and the L-NP Coalition, and any three of these parties against the Greens, Teal Independents, and other minor parties such as Katter’s Australian Party (KAP).
Roy Morgan will be providing an extensive analysis of the Australia’s 150 Federal Electorates in the next few weeks using the Helix Personas psychographic consumer segmentation and data integration tool which provides unique and incisive insights into the minds of Australian electors.
If a Federal Election were held now the ALP would be returned to Government with a clear majority in any of the above scenarios.
Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating plunged 7 points on a week ago to just 61.5 – almost 40 points below the neutral level of 100:
The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating plunged 8pts to 61.5 this week. An increasingly large majority of Australians say the country is ‘going in the wrong direction’, 62.5% (up 4% points). Only 24% (down 4% points) say the country is ‘going in the right direction’.
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Dennis,
My take is similar to yours. Many people voted Labor last election and many will do so again.
All Labor competitors at this stage lack enough rusted on supporters to topple Labor. That can best be fixed by two or three non-Labor groups ganging up into one alternative. Discontent with Labor is so high that such a coalition should romp it home. But first, the separate groups have to toss out their hopes of winning alone, and then combine. There is a low chance of this because many politicians are there precisely because of egos so high that ganging up and lessening their personal aspirations is hardly thinkable.
Geoff S
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Dennis,
Ah good: modelling. Will they go all newfangled like the climate scientests? I hope not; they’ll get better results quicker if they stick with the traditional tea-leaves.
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Ideally, all conservative politicians should be able to independently allocate preferences in their own seat. Even at the risk of losing it.
Its an opportunity to reinvigorate politics.
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Well the election is not being held now! The Victorian election is 5 months away and then Federal election is 18 months away. The mood of the electorate is changing. Lets look forward, not back.
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FWIW
“Unverified and Unvalidated”
“Dear friends, pull up a chair and pour a good strong coffee.
Because today’s topic is a real treat: yet another “Indicators of Global Climate Change” paper, this time the 2025 update, in which a team of the usual suspects announce—for the thirty’leventh time—that the planet is warming, that evil humans did it, and they can now put single decimal numbers on “human induced warming” and the remaining carbon budget as though the climate system were a well debugged spreadsheet rather than a barely observed, non linear, chaotic, multiscale nightmare.
People misunderestimate the complexity of the climate. It has no less than six major subsystems: atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and electrosphere. Each of these systems has its own internal cycles, forcings, responses, and resonances. And all of them are constantly interacting at spatial scales from the molecular to the planetary, and temporal scales from nanoseconds to millennia. Willis’s First Rule of Climate states, “In the climate, everything is connected to everything else, which in turn is connected to everything else … except when it’s not”. It’s the most complex system we’ve ever tried to model, and we’ve barely scratched the surface.”
Much more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/13/unverified-and-unvalidated/
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FWIW
After you have digested the paper above have a read and a think about this one –
“Plankton Production Same As 20 Years Before–Climate Scientists Panic!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/13/plankton-production-same-as-20-years-before-climate-scientists-panic/
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Apart from the huge costs of Australia extricating itself from the renewables scam and the cost of lifelong welfare payments for imported Labor voters, what about the costs for the huge increase in the size of the public “service” state and federal, nearly all of whom will also be Labor voters? (Should we get a conservative Government elected.)
It will cost a fortune to downsize them due to the cost of termination payments etc..
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3 pronged attack
Attrition
Making the public service less comfortable
Termination or privatisation of the most egregious (climate parasites orgs that produce nothing and the ABC for a start)
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Yep – quite easy to make non or negative jobs tough. Just stopping their ABC producing anti-Australian propaganda would be beneficial.
Different matter for real producers. A strike by BHP workers at Port Hedland will cost $126M/day. That soon adds up.
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What is wrong with declaring National Emergency ?
Socialism works very well in extreme situation, like tsunami or war.
At the moment parasites scream Extinction of Life and allowed to do most outrageous things to ordinary Working People.
Working People are those who produce Things – as opposite to chewable toilet paper. Thing is anything which one person could sell to another.
A good ballet dancer is a Working Person, same a s plumber or GP.
A Vice-Chancellor on $1M salary is not, neither is any politician.
Simple hint for the new PM: during National Emergency any income paid by the state, including her own, is to be less than the country average.
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I see what you mean, but!
Capitalism works as well (or better) in extreme situations.
Democracies won WW2.
There is a hunamitarian side to capitalism. Western governemnts give the most to humanitarian relief.
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The high cost of termination subject to Public Service Act has deterred many past governments from retrenching public service employees, the advice usually given is to not replace the ones that leave/retire. The problem then becomes a future government (notably Labor) replacing and even increasing numbers of employees. It was explained to me that first and foremost government departments are the union’s highest membership areas and the grading system provides for increased remuneration package the more people “managed”.
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The enormous expansion of the public service in terms of head count is one problem, but another is its woeful inefficiency. It seems that, as the head count goes up, the quality of services goes down. it’s even hard just getting to speak to somebody if you have an issue, let along get it fixed.
Also, salaries and benefits have soared in the past couple of decades. Where, in the past, it was accepted that public sector pay was lower than the equivalent private sector roles, the trade-off was job security, more flexible hours and less responsibility/accountability. Today however, pay in the public sector matches or even exceeds that of equivalent private sector roles, but they have retained all the benefits – it’s almost impossible to get fired for instance and many are STILL ‘working’ from home.
The public service is no longer fit for purpose, if it ever was. It’s just an employment scheme for Labor voters.
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Public service employment in Australia and notably Federal level but also States is used to employ refugees resettled here via UNHCR refugee camps and others, what used to be called by media “ethnic branch stacking” was/is a Labor recruitment of members system of providing ethnic group leaders with good positions and for other “friends”.
One from the past was a Vietnamese refugee had been illegal immigrant via illegal entry vessel transport who was granted asylum, later became a citizen and at the time of the murder that he was convicted of organising was a Council Councillor. He was ambitious and wanted to become the State Member of Parliament (Legislative Assembly), the position held by a Labor MLA/MP who refused to resign. He was shot dead in his home driveway. Some years later the convicted person was a prisoner in Sydney Long Bay Gaol and media discovered that he had managed to hold Chinese New Year parties inside the gaol with many outsiders as guests from the Labor branches, and catered for by a well known Chinese Restaurant. The State Labor Minister for Corrective Services when asked denied having any knowledge of the parties being held.
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I forgot to mention that at the time when the Councillor was arrested for arranging the murder of John Newman MLA/MP while he was on remand in Silverwater Gaol other Labor Councillors arranged for him to continue to be paid, one is now Minister for Energy.
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FWIW
“The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism”
“The $345 million judgment against Greenpeace is not just a legal footnote; it is a long-overdue reckoning for an organization that lost its moral compass decades ago. For those of us who have watched the steady decline of the environmental movement from a pursuit of genuine conservation to a cynical machine of manufactured outrage, this verdict feels like a necessary correction.
When I consider how far Greenpeace has drifted, I often think of the perspective of its own co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore. Moore, who helped launch the organization in 1971, eventually walked away precisely because he saw the rot setting in. He famously noted that while he was moving toward a path of “sensible environmentalism,” the organization he helped build was moving in the opposite direction: toward an agenda that he described as “anti-science, anti-business, and downright anti-human.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/13/the-history-of-greenpeace-the-evolution-of-green-extremism/
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FWIW
This could have been headlined
“Oh to be in England now that Allah’s there”
Bumped from Sunday #28
“FWIW – more UK
“I’ll Rip Your Teeth Out’: Muslim ‘Civil Enforcement Officers’ Fired After Threatening Brit”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/06/13/muslim-civil-enforcement-officers-fired-after-threatening-brit-on-camera-n2429203 “
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And
“THE TRAGEDY OF JOHN CLEESE:
I’d like to draw your attention to an anonymous post on the forum website 4chan, which forms the basis for what I have titled the Tragedy of John Cleese. It goes:”
https://www.bournbrookmag.com/home/the-tragedy-of-john-cleese
Via https://instapundit.com/803679/#disqus_thread
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another ian,
Looking at that article, it argues that Cleese’s irreverent humour played a part in the ending of British civility. Can’t agree. Cleese’s comedy often called for you to laugh at yourself. The problem in Britain today is *far* too many people taking themselves *far* too seriously.
I *would* have described the article as “a load of cobblers”, but I see it was penned nearly four years ago, so it’s a load of old cobblers.
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FWIW – AI and other things
“Artificial intelligence and music: noteworthy?
I was struck by an article in RealClear Books & Culture, titled “A.I. Panic Hits Music City”. Here’s an excerpt.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/artificial-intelligence-and-music.html
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Willis Eschenbach’s latest study supports a very low climate sensitivity for a doubling of co2 in our atmosphere.
His latest study seems to support Dr Curry and Lewis, Dr Lindzen, Dr Happer etc.
So how much longer before the OECD countries abandon the stupid Paris agreement? Even their own Dr Hansen called Paris just B S and fra-d.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/14/the-model-that-works/
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A word for the day from there –
“PPS:
hubrimistic
adjective
hu·bri·mis·ticˌˈhyü-brə-ˈmi-stik
: of, relating to, or characterized by feeling or showing unwarranted hope for the future, with just a soupçon of hubris thrown in for good measure”
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Hansen should be listened to, for once, when he calls something BS and fraud, because that’s what he’s been turning out his entire career, so he knows it when he sees it.
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Might be the first time he recognised it though?
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Here is a very interesting video about the origins of symbols. #, @, & and § .
https://youtu.be/cSsyG2pE-GY
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We have been watching a TV series called The Boroughs. It’s a scifi/fantasy show about an artificial retirement community in the desert that ends up being something else altogether. This business of artificial facade worlds hiding nefarious activities seems to be a recurring theme from the US. Shows like The Truman Show, Stepford Wives, Wayward Pines, episodes of Black Mirror, Stranger Things, Severance, Westworld, The Matrix etc come to mind
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It appears that a peace deal may have been struck between the US and Iran. While many would see this as positive, according to an article at News.com suggests that this deal leaves America in a worse position than when Obama was dealing with Iran.
I have great difficulty believing this, still, if Trump has done it, it must be no good!
“‘All have failed before me’: Trump gets to work spinning peace deal
Samuel Clench
President Trump is a talented salesman. No disputing that. Time to put that skill to work.
Because he now has to sell a peace agreement which leaves the Iranian regime in place, with more influence over the Strait of Hormuz than it held before the war; which loosens sanctions on that regime and releases frozen assets; and whose provisions limiting Iran’s nuclear program sound, if anything, weaker than the Obama-era deal Mr Trump previously tore up.
All this months after Mr Trump claimed the war would only end with Iran’s “unconditional surrender”.
Here is the President’s first attempt at spinning it.”
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And Obama has emerged from the shadows pushing his way of concessions, not conflict. Even the British press push the idea that Trump is only after the Nobel Peace prize, something he was denied in Venezuela, conveniently forgotten.
Hero Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. For what is not known. The Nobel prize has become another socialist organization pushing politics not reality.
Like Australia’s award to Grace Tame as Australian of the year. Why is also a mystery.
When are we going to see the bronze statue of Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews who locked up an entire State for the longest period on the planet?
Heroes who do nothing good and take credit for everything. Penny Wong is already demanding a lasting peace, as she would. It was her idea.
Trump’s war settling achievements in India/Pakistan, Laos/Thailand, Venezuela and many more are not reported, discussed and made to vanish. The world press is the problem. Disaster is news. It was parodied in the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies. I cannot wait to see how the anti Trump press like Cameron Stewart spins a Middle East peace agreement including Israel into another Trump failure.
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State Emergency Powers legislated during the start of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Parliament of Victoria and noting that public health, hospitals, quarantine detention, interstate border closures, enforcement of rules by State Health and State of Victoria Police Force, and so on.
Victoria Labor Government followed by Queensland Labor Government were the worst of all states and territories at that time, and despite Federal National Leaders Cabinet formed from Council Of Australian Governments to seek cooperation and coordination between the Premiers.
Unfortunately too many Australians blamed the Morrison Coalition Federal Government for the State based impositions and heavy handed policing.
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And the attack on invermectin as ‘horse tranquilizer’. History will show the full results of the games played and money made with this deadly military virus. At least the world is now aware that bioweapons are real and under rapid world wide development. Plus China is very aware that they are near impossible to control, which in a way is a good thing.
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Australians are highly dependent on income from mining. Most mines do not just appear, they are discovered by costly mineral exploration, typically by small groups of talented earth scientists. (Disclosure – I used to be in exploration and my group found several big Australian mines.)
Such is the contribution from people in mining that citizens should be able to rattle off the names of achievers plus the civil honours given to them for success. In a parallel way, like many people know about Grace Tame and her achievements and civil honours…..
Oh heck. I shall have to give up my occasional post-prandial nap in which I have strange dreams.
Geoff S
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When the Green Labor leftists complain about mining and make ridiculous comments about subsidies, referring to legal tax deductions for expenses incurred in establishing the mining operation infrastructure and other expenses, even fuel excise rebate applicable for all fuel used off pubic roads by all business taxpayers, they are obviously ignorant of the exploration costs, the applications for a processing of compliance with laws and regulations expenses, and that revenue is not profit.
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… and how the Hell would they know?
None of the details are out yet, and I doubt news.com has on the ground sources in the diplomatic corps of either side.
I don’t have particularly high hopes for this peace deal given how quickly all the supposed ‘cease fires’ over the past couple of months have fallen apart, but any news source claiming to have definitive knowledge of whether this is an awful (or wonderful) deal is full of crap and should be immediately treated with great skepticism.
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Regardless of who wins, the American armada can clear out.
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You would prefer America went home and left the “world’s” oil supply to be controlled by Iran then. You’re TDS is boringly predictable.
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Nothing to do with me, its Donnie’s deal.
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I was about to object, then read
… and how the Hell would they know?
But then Obama says the same…. but they would say that wouldn’t they?
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Yep. Reflexive and ritual opposition from the Orange Man Bad crowd.
Gossip columnists are like that. They’ll tell you everything they know and make up the rest.
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I notice a lot of scepticism, criticism, negativism, & probably there’s many more “ isms” to come. Any advice from any of the experts on how to formulate the better, or best deal ??? Thought not!! Maybe you should seek some advice from Joe Biden or from his administration…..!
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What a war. It achieved a position about the same as existed in 2014.
btw it is a MOU, is of a limited time and Israel has not agreed to it.
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So you have read the agreement when no one else has? Perhaps you can enlighten us? And explain how you would have solved the problem.
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There was no problem a few months ago
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I can’t work it out. WTI crude is down $4 and there are some ships transiting the Strait. That’s the goos news. The bad is that it is not a stampede of ships and Israel reacted to a Houthi missile attack. ‘Tis odd that Iran insists that Israel is a US puppet but Houthis are an independent state they have no control over.
The bubbly is cooling but unopened.
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The bubbly is cooling but unopened.
Probably best; because nothing seems really all that settled.
The Monsters of Tehran are currently broadcasting a purported version of the MOU which would spell the political end of the Trump Administration.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/245332/Final-decision-on-MoU-btw-Iran-US-under-discussion-in-Iran
On the other hand, Trump, via an interview with the NYT, is warning that hostilities will resume at Day 61 if no resolution of the nuclear issue – or alternatively the US will become “the Guardian of the Middle East” (for a 20% clip on all shipments).
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That is the most significant fact of this whole thing!
I always thought that there was more oil in the world economy than the experts were saying, based purely on the gradual downward drift of fuel prices in Melbourne. Tankers kept arriving and the oil was coming from somewhere, either the gulf or other sources.
As it turned out some of it was coming from the gulf, which in turn showed that the demining operation in Strait of Hormuz was working, even though Centcom had a media blackout.
Now the gulf states are desperate to move oil and none more than Iran. And China is also desperate to get the Iranian oil.
So the oil markets think that the deal will stick and that is the only thing I think is worth taking notice of.
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And the journalists are already crowing that it will not work, that there is no solution to the nuclear problem. These are people who didn’t think there was a problem in the first place. Even when Iran announced it was four weeks from a nuclear warhead. And fired two long range missiles at Diego Garcia, missiles that Khomeini said he had banned and publicly on television. Four weeks from a nuclear missile on London or Paris or Delhi or Riyadh. Not a problem that needed solving, apparently.
As for oil, it never went very high for long. But it exposed the ‘transition’ to ‘renewables’ as the farce it is. And Bowen played jet shuttle looking for sources of aviation fuel from our neighbours while we closed our refineries and oil and gas exploration and banned the use of coal. To save Australia from Climate Change.
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I notice the evolution of language.
Not with any particular insight but perhaps with the advantage of age.
Usually drives me a little daft.
Like ‘equity’ has now replaced equality.
And oh Gawd, ‘anthropogenic’ weather.
A war conducted to achieve a ‘deal’ is interesting.
Especially when the the adversary is a centuries old apocalyptic religious movement, with a history of proselytizing by conquest, and probably don’t give a rat’s patootie about ‘deals’.
Unless of course the new true religion is money.
Or is digital currency?
Can I lust for filthy digital currency?
I’ll ask AI.
When an Islamic Jihad raged through the Maghreb, making it the Maghreb, was it White Supremacist colonialism or would it be that only if the Jews did it?
Given that Jews are now ‘white’.
I watched a vid by a young African American guy that had moved to Africa.
He said his new neighbors consider him a ‘white’ person.
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FWIW
“THE SAD PART IS THIS REPRESENTS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER THEIR USUAL STANDARD: The biased BBC’s Brexit documentary tells only half the story.”
“The biased BBC’s Brexit documentary tells only half the story”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-biased-bbcs-brexit-documentary-tells-only-half-the-story/
Via https://instapundit.com/803544/#disqus_thread
A message for “Their ABC”?
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Man vs nature, Dubai’s story
https://youtu.be/HdiiPDvq0rE?si=uQZHSFEOjlneWdo9
62C in the city?
Nope, never going there!
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Know something what it’s like to work in those temperatures. Take a hot desert air at over 40C, pump it into a very small building that’s internally generating over 5000 Watts of extra heat energy, and you have an environment where you cannot touch any metal surface with bare hands, and even plastic materials feel very hot to the touch. But you don’t work in there very long – one hour max.
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That’s what I said too prior to a stopover there en route to London. Mind you that was in November when temperatures are milder.
And now having been there and done that I can honestly say that I’ve been there and done that.
Not sure I’d rush back to Las Vegas, Los Angeles or Phoenix either.
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Been There Done That
Me too. It was very hot but not intolerable.
People live and work there so it must bwe survivable.
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FWIW – to help your understanding –
“A New Study Just Confirmed the Left’s Worst-Kept Secret”
“If you’ve spent any time arguing with liberals online, you already know this. Now there’s a study to prove it.
Decades of research have shown that political conservatives report better mental health and greater happiness than their counterparts on the left. A new study published in the journal Political Behavior takes that finding a step further, finding that “mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes,” and that it clusters heavily among younger, far-left Americans.
Shocking, I know.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/a-new-study-just-confirmed-the-lefts-worst-kept-secret-n4953961
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FWIW
“First Nations Accounting Principles”
https://x.com/FrancesWiddows1/status/2066284156183826835
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/?__cf_chl_tk=Ki7Epqmcg1PFu0bxWH0ULxjJeC9lQ1l0k9TPJOcUzU8-1781431516-1.0.1.1-9D4KrnJk43NhkU84cGkAbnvT5Bjq8w3bB8Q38DsXUgk
Oh Canada, Oh
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When no aboriginal language allows you to count to ten there is no possibility of mathematics. Or accounting. Or taxation. Maybe ignorance was bliss?
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When you don’t have individual rights and land ownership, there’s no need to measure anything.
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Even if they could count, what units would they use? What would you reference?
The Torres Strait islanders were farmers with fixed farms. Eddi Mabo argued that he was not an aborigine but Melanasian and won his case. Eddie Mabo’s island only had 250 people. Paul Keating then declared and legislated all black people had the same rights as the tiny population of Melanasians on mainly uninhabited islands, which was not the decision of the High Court. And no one noticed. Just like Albo. Another lie. We even had to pay for the flags.
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FWIW
“Indigenous Nonsense”
“When the dust settles hundreds of years from now and people begin to assess the hows and whys of Western decline, the issue of colonialism will figure prominently.”
And much more
Concludes
“History is not sentimental. It does not care who arrived first, whose ancestors crossed a particular river, or whose holy book claims title to a patch of ground. History does not award virtue based upon genealogy, ethnicity, race, religion, or indigeneity. It asks a far more practical question: What did you do with the place once you got it?
Did you create liberty or oppression? Prosperity or poverty? Justice or corruption? Did ordinary people have the opportunity to build families, businesses, communities, and meaningful lives? Were rulers constrained by law, or did they become laws unto themselves? Did your institutions survive your leaders, or did everything collapse into tribalism, violence, and decay?
That is how civilizations are judged. Rome is not remembered because Romans got there first. Britain is not remembered because Britons got there first. America will not be remembered because Americans got here first. They will be remembered for what they built, what they preserved, what they destroyed, and whether they expanded or diminished the possibilities of human flourishing.
In the end, legitimacy is not inherited. It is earned. It does not arise from ancestry, mythology, chronology, or blood. It arises from competence, justice, liberty, opportunity, and the rule of law. The question is not who was here first. The question has always been, and will always be, who governs well.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/indigenous-nonsense
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During the late 1800s and early 1900s an anthropologist named Thompson of Arnhem Land (Northern Territory Australia) who had lived with indigenous people in tribal groups for many years made recommendations to the authorities, he wanted areas fenced off and all people who were not Aborigine, and that meant even with part ancestry, removed and never permitted to enter again. His plan was to leave the people alone to develop as they had been doing for thousands of years.
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The modern “do-goodery” would have loved that!
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They have not changed in 40k years (or was it 80k?) . Why do you think they would change in 40 or 80?
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El Nino blamed for global warming.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/06/14/climate-alarmists-now-using-natural-phenomena-to-support-their-claims/
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FIRE THE LIAR fund now past $4.1M. Target upped to $4.3M.
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar?amount=29
PH for PM.
Honesty and conviction to conservative values are winning the voters. Stop supporting the UN-party and its UN agenda.
Climate and “renewables” bullshit shown for exactly what they are as sanity prevails.
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It is truely phenomenal.
Not only have ON almost tripled their original target but the fund raiser keeps rolling on with more and more small donors joining in. That to me is the best news of the campaign.
67000 donors now with and average donation of $60, well above the $29 suggested.
And every one of those donors will likely talk about it to their friends.
The Overton window is moving noticeably.
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PeaHONmenal.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus, c. 56–120AD, Annals (Book III, Section 27).
He observed that an explosion of legislation often signals moral decay and systemic dysfunction, rather than a just and orderly society.
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David Maddison,
George Orwell gave us an exception to Tacitus’s rule. Probably my favourite quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Maybe not such a strong exception. A bit like a circle appearing to have no corners, but really having an infinite number of them, 1984-World appears to have no laws, but you can be nailed for an infinite number of sins.
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“He observed that an explosion of legislation often signals moral decay and systemic dysfunction, rather than a just and orderly society.”
When you all believe in the same things and share the same morals and values, you don’t need laws. Its only diversity that causes problems. (and lawyers…)
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No comment needed.
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Gina Rinehart has bought a US$1 billion stake in SpaceX.
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Excellent! Another rich person who has increased their wealth through hard work and understands how wealth is created, and is willing to bet on Mr Musk succeeding again.
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Is Ukraine doing with cheap [OK they aren’t all cheap] unmanned drones what the RAF and USAF did with thousands of four engined bombers and 80,000 aircrew dead, did in WWII, but better? The allies at the time could only dream of the accuracy and lack of collateral damage and casualties.
Russia is collapsing, but I’m not not giving a time. Defeated armies persevere long after the cause is lost.
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FWIW
“How Russia is Responding to New Ukrainian ‘Drone Threat’ to Cut Crimean Corridor”
“Major commotion is currently centered around Ukraine’s campaign to purportedly “isolate Crimea” via long range drone strikes. This campaign is merely the latest in a recycled toolbag of Ukrainian info-warfare and psyop initiatives which spring up annually, usually in conjunction with Russian summer-time offensive campaigns for the purpose of controlling the narrative favorably for Ukraine.
The purpose is always to create a diversionary groundswell of “crisis dooming” which deflects from Ukraine’s own ongoing battlefield losses, which now mainly center on the collapsing Konstantinovka front, where Russian forces are set to capture their next large ‘Donbass fortress-town’.”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/how-russia-is-responding-to-new-ukrainian
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Got the links to videos of Ukrainian oil refineries burning so intensely there is oil rain?
Got links to the Uk drone pilots [who are killing 95% of Ru fighters] being blown up in their bunkers?
Oh! Uk censorship covers it up. Ya kiddin me.
When did you last hear about Ru superiority in artillery shells fired? Drones fly further and more accurately than shells.
The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot (Battle of the Philippine Sea) was the exclamation mark ending Japanese expeditionary power. Defeat was inevitable, but it took over two years, the bluddy Okinawa campaign and two atomic bombs before surrender.
You Sir are as pig headed as the Japanese.
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H
You might have to send that to “simplicius76” so he can appreciate it
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FWIW
“THEY’VE BEEN LIED TO. I TOLD YOU SO: Europeans in the US for the World Cup Are Celebrating American Culture—Specifically, Red America’s Culture. I couldn’t help but notice that all these Europeans driving around being charmed by the U.S. are celebrating the very things that Leftists have the most contempt for.”
https://www.batya-us.com/p/europeans-in-the-us-for-the-world?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/803761/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“THE ARROW OF HISTORY IS GREATLY OVERESTIMATED: I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.”
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1657102487235579908
Via https://instapundit.com/803740/#disqus_thread
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I had friends in low places including some in a pub The First and Last because it was so close to the wharfs. Occasionally I would be drinking beside a seaman, a dead-set communist. I’d call him a commo, he’d call me a capitalist and we’d talk about other things.
I COULD NOT be so friendly with most of the (D)s in the US. I can talk with people I disagree with but not the crazies.
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