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Starmer has warned England supporters not to fly the racist flag. The white racist flag includes a right-wing Christian cross in red. But the right-wing red cross represents the blood of Christ, not the red blood spilt by the knifed enemies of Socialism in a violent revolution. Australia and New Zealand are also warned. Canadians are warned not to wave the Canadian Red Ensign, and Scots are warned not to fly the Union Flag. However, King Charles says that “God save the King” is allowed.
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Of course Charles says ‘God Save the King’ is allowed. European monarchies are based on the divine right of kings. Without God, his family’s claim to power would disappear and he would have grown up working in the fields in Hanover rather than living in a castle with his inbred kin.
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1989: The Stasi have announce a crackdown on telephone calls after Berlin protests. Honecker has vowed to strengthen GDR Surveillance Laws, granting the Agitation Department enhanced powers to crack down on telephone calls during periods of heightened tension.
2026: The British Socialist Police Force announce a crackdown on ‘X’ after Belfast protests. Starmer has vowed to strengthen the Online Safety Act, granting Ofcom enhanced powers to crack down on social media platforms during periods of heightened tension.
Investigating British State Censorship the US House Judiciary Committee found that the British State imposes Censorship using a Ministry of Truth called OFCOM empowered by the 1990 Broadcasting Act, the 1996 Broadcasting Act, the 2003 Communications Act, the 2006 Wireless Telegraphy Act, the 2010 Digital Economy Act, the 2011 Postal Services Act and the 2023 Online Safety Act.
For Censorship, the British State also uses five types of Secret Court, the Marxist Idiots section 5 (MI5), the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT), the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team (NIIIT) and the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee (DSMA) to issue hundreds of DSMA-Notices and Super-Injunctions and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to censor and silence critics, court witnesses, victims of rape and the vaccine injured, as well as other ‘crimes against the people’. The BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is also used to assist the enforcement of Global Media Censorship in compliance with the British State.
However, the British Government is now preparing even more powers to control content online after unrest in Ireland, and blames Elon Musk for not censoring footage of a knife attack by a 30-year-old male asylum-seeker from Sudan, Hadi Alodid, who has appeared in court charged with attempted murder. The victim Stephen Ogilvie, a local man was left with serious head and neck wounds after being repeatedly stabbed. The blood-drenched victim can be seen on ‘X’ as members of the public shout for help.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said that next week, ministers will lay an update to the Online Safety Act before Parliament, requiring platforms to take quicker action to remove content not authorised by the Government.
The British Government is trying to replace the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities in Ireland with plantations of non-Irish M*slim communities, more in line with left-wing satanic ideology.
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It’s all fun and games until Reform/Restore/Tories are back in power and they get to define what is a ‘period of heightened tension’.
Lefties love granting themselves new powers to use against their political adversaries, but always forget that sooner or later, those adversaries will win power back and use those powers against them.
That’s why the best solution when it comes to unpopular speech is ‘do nothing’. Let people say what they are going to say on social media rather than forcing them underground to stew in their own juices until they decide to act rather than talk. The pent up emotions will eventually escape. Better they escape via speech than violent action.
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Starmer and Albo are from the same mold. Every time they open their mouths they hasten their own demise and increase the public’s disgust at their antics.
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To be fair, the Irish government is every bit as bad if not worse than the British government when it comes to immigration.
As in Britain, Ireland’s ruling class is a bunch of secular agnostics/atheists/theists who find the religious beliefs of the hoi polloi backwards and embarrassing and would like nothing more than eliminate the ‘opiate of the masses’ altogether. I can understand that. I hate it, but I understand it. What I can’t understand is why the vehicle they choose to accomplish that goal is by replacing a relative tame Christian populace with a [snip] Muslim populace. The Muslims won’t help to bring about a perfect secular atheist society in Europe. They’ll just replace Christianity and democracy with Islam and theocracy. And they certainly won’t thank the bureaucrats and politicians who made it happen. They’ll be first in line to get decapitated (unless they reject their secular beliefs and convert to Islam).
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It’s not about the religious affiliation of the imported community.
If the ruling elite have to change to importing another group from low-pay countries, they will happily do so.
Their real purpose is to suppress wage growth for the locals AND pump up property prices… which leads to inflating the Money Supply… which leads to the Cantillon Effect… which enriches the upper layer of society while the lower layers have to compete harder for jobs and housing.
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” The victim Stephen Ogilvie, a local man was left with serious head and neck wounds after being repeatedly stabbed. The blood-drenched victim can be seen on ‘X’ as members of the public shout for help.”
Well, I’m sure that would happen just the same in Texas… Some black with a knife stabs a white man he is sure is unarmed and everyone stands around watching and shouting ‘Call the Police”…
You reap what you sow.
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A Historic Opportunity for Australia ?
https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/asia-pacific-reshaped-china-and-australia
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‘A Historic Opportunity for Australia ?’
The time is ripe to become a respected middle power of worth, not just a quarry but in all fields of endeavour. We need to abandon AUKUS and the nuclear subs strategy, China is not our enemy.
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Godzone could sensibly tag along- CER seems to have been useful.
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I’m not sure we can become a respectable middle power, we have very little to offer anyone else. We have debt forever spiraling upwards, no general industry, no specialised industry worth talking about, and I can’t think of anything particularly desirable that we are on the cutting edge of.
Can we compete with India in anything? Turkey? Brazil? Argentina? Even Indonesia? We are being overtaken by many countries from what was the Third World as they utalise their cheaper labour to build industries, and then move into the latest technology to keep going. We don’t have an aircraft industry, a car industry or a train industry, and I don’t think we are world-renown for weapons, rocketry, medicine or computing.
At this stage, looking at our younger generation’s philosophy and the immigrants we are taking in, stifled overall by our wish to have Left-wing Govts, I can’t see us managing to stay in the middle countries, never mind lead them! We’re the Portugal of the South Pacific.
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Reasonable summary. Portugal with resources, and happy to see the benefits of said resources flow overseas.
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Australia Is becoming a global hub for drone development and our unmanned submarines are state of the art, even the yanks want them.
Essentially we are a quarry and agriculture production also plays a big part.
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You missed Iran. Ultimately the power is with the people. Their population triples ours. (From memory.)
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If the claim was the people of China if permitted to speak freely I could agree, but having had many conversations with Hong Kong citizens and others of Chinese ancestry I believe that the problem is Chinese Communist Party Government – CCP.
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An Australia run by communists might not see it as a problem.
Jacinda is there to do communism with a kind face, right?
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In geopolitics China is a trading nation, a fascist regime committed to soft power as a way to gain a positive outcome.
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The CCP are malevolent tyrants who kill political prisoners and harvest their organs.
Just saying…
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Thanks Jo, the regime in Beijing is abysmal, but all we can do is protest their barbarity and get on with trade.
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You can be a quarry and respectable at the same time.
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Absolutely true, but to be a real country you need to add value
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Starmers Censorship Industrial Complex is under attack in the Florida Courts. The US State Department reveals that in Britain, the average Black person murders seven times more people than the average White person, and 87% of the 474,847 rape victims in England & Wales in 2024, were white girls raped by immigrants, including those given British citizenship by the Labour & Tory Governments. The highest rate of rape on Earth with 7.82 annual rapes per 1,000. The white rate of rape is only 1 annual rape per 1,000, about the same as Bosnia.
The secret 87% figure is from a Closed Material Proceedings Court, covered by a DSMA-Notice, but mentioned in Hansard. However Andrew Bridgen was told the figure was almost 90%, then told Parliament it was 90%, and then Tommy Robinson said it was 90% to the crowd. The US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) obtained British secrets from the ‘five eyes’ before MI6 was shut out. The 87% figure is also mentioned on Social Media comment platforms.
The White House tells me that in response to the rising tide of censorship in Britain, the State Department is launching (Freedom dot gov) “Making the First Amendment GLOBAL”, which will give users worldwide access to content that has been censored by the criminals of the British Establishment. (Freedom dot gov) is expected to be launched on the 4th July 2024. This is an American mission to celebrate its 250th birthday by commemorating its commitment to freedom of expression, and independence from the British Establishment. Trump has said that this would be the worlds most powerful reset.
However, some British secrets from (Freedom dot gov) have already been revealed by AlterAI and on Substack. The crimes of the British State were hidden by Chatham House, OFCOM, the Inquiries Act (2005), Operation Talla, Operation Messenger, Secret Courts, secret DSMA-Notices, secret Super-Injunctions and secret non-disclosure agreements.
Trump has already talked about the secret British rape data. Specifically commenting about third world countries emptying their prisons of rapists and trafficking them to Britain. The people traffickers include Serco and the RNLI.
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Starmer is very angry with Elon Musk for not censoring a video showing Hadi Alodid trying to decapitate Stephen Ogilvie. The attacker was stopped by three men intervening, one hitting the attacker with a wooden hurling stick as others kicked him to try to force him to release his victim. Ogilvie has suffered life-changing injuries, including the loss of his left eye and severe damage to his right eye, face and back. He remains in the hospital in serious but stable condition.
Starmer is very angry with journalists who revealed that to bypass UK border controls, people smugglers have been using the Common Travel Area, which allows free movement between Ireland and Northern Ireland without routine immigration checks, to move illegal immigrants into the UK. Smugglers advertise a “backdoor” route where migrants fly to Dublin, often using fake IDs or visas, and are instructed to enter the UK by taking a bus to Belfast, to claim asylum in the UK. This is how Alodid entered Northern Ireland in 2023. A few months after illegally entering Northern Ireland, Alodid claimed asylum, was given refugee status and leave to remain in the UK.
Starmer is very angry about videos on ‘X’ saying that the Irish are “fed up,” “We know the truth,” “There’s kids getting chased all over the city and raped,” “There’s an influx of drugs and foreign men and criminals,” “We want to see mass deportations,” “they shouldn’t f**king be here,” and other nasty comments about rape and murder banned by OFCOM.
Starmer is very angry about videos on ‘X’ from Dublin showing protesters expressing solidarity with the people of Belfast as demonstrations continue to spread throughout the British Isles.
It is unclear if Starmer can get OFCOM to stop people from talking about this in phone calls to Australia.
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And here is another one involving the bad naughty Musk. A social media video post of a young girl “defending” herself against an off-screen person resulted in the (reasonable) arrest of the girl on charges of carrying weapons in public. Seems the back story was that the target of the girls actions was a predator hence the extreme and immediate action of the girl.
Musk weighed in and posted on X “What kind of government arrests little girls who try to defend themselves?”.
This resulted in the Chief Superintendent (Police Scotland) issuing the statement that “We are aware of misinformation being shared on social media in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday, 23 August 2025.” And “…would urge the public not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances.”
The court case against the “Bulgarian couple” (brother initiated unwanted sexualised comments at the 12-year-old while his sister whom he had called to the scene had assaulted the sister of the girl), has just wound up and they will be sentenced in August.
Of course, the real tragedy of this whole affair is why does a 12-year-old feel they have to protect themselves and do not see approaching the police or other authorities as their best and (should be) only course of action.
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Paul
We have had this conversation before. Your figures on rape and who carries them out are completely fantasy. Here are the number of sexual offences . Offences include taking or posting sexual photos without permission, upskirting and verbal threats. Most rapes are carried out bypartners or those known to the victim and not bymigrants
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/sexualoffencesinenglandandwalesoverview/yearendingmarch2025
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He’s confused the figures for male/female victims.
90% of rape victims are female.
82-87% of all reported sex crime victims are female.
Immigrants are more likely to commit most crime, but as they make up a relative minority, it’s obviously not going to be anywhere near the majority of all crimes.
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Paul
Here are the crime figures For the UK for 2025. There were 503 homicides, a decline oveR previous years. Most are carried out by partners or those known to the victim. Your figures for migrants is a.gain wrong. The US state dept needs to look at their own country. Some 14000 omicides dwarf that of most other countries
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2025
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Much like climate stats, crime stats aren’t operative.
It’s perception.
For example, here in the US and actually the world, POC perceive American police unalive them disproportionately to non-POC.
Not true.
But American cities burned anyway in mostly peaceful protests.
Belfast appears to be burning.
Or maybe it isn’t.
The climate on Earth isn’t burning either.
But here we are.
Because the now distrusted managerial intelligentsia have become incompetent or they are exercising competence in managing something else.
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So… Do we believe all the secret intelligence that America brings up to justify its wars? Our Govts certainly do! Which means these statistics-
“The US State Department reveals that in Britain, the average Black person murders seven times more people than the average White person, and 87% of the 474,847 rape victims in England & Wales in 2024, were white girls raped by immigrants,”
..are up against figures from the same people we are discussing about censoring data and hiding the truth because it makes people realise how bad they are!
“https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2025”
Well, just like Russia and Ukraine, you pick the propaganda you want to believe.
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I don’t think superinjunctions are going to cover-up the crimes of the British State for much longer. I am retired but am still able to look at the dirty secrets covered-up by DSMA-Notices, covering up rape and vaccine injury statistics, including the death of the Queen. The police still provide the rape data to the Home Office and the ONS. The Home Office and ONS stopped publishing detailed crime breakdowns by ethnicity and nationality for sexual offences over a decade ago. When ethnicity is listed, it is not correlated to crime category in the public data, unless it makes whites look bad. Race‑specific data on violent and sexual offences was available, but was gradually withheld. The British Government covers-up its crimes using secret courts like the Special Immigration Appeals Court (SIAC) and the secret Closed Material Proceedings Court, secret DSMA-Notices, secret Super-Injunctions and secret non-disclosure agreements. However, some secrets are revealed on Google Scholar, Hansard, U.S. Book publications and the United States Congress website. The US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) is also expected to reveal secrets covered-up by Starmer from the 4th July 2026. AlterAI, the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), Wikipedia, Rape Crisis and the United Nations say that England & Wales had an estimated total of 474,847 rapes in 2024, the highest rate of rape on Earth with 7.82 annual rapes per 1,000. 71,227 rapes were recorded by police in 2024, but only 15% of victims told Rape Crisis that they chose to report the crime to the police. 85% said they didn’t think the police could help, thought it would be embarrassing, thought the police wouldn’t do anything about it, or thought the police wouldn’t believe them. Only 0.4% or 1,923 resulted in prosecution. However, West Yorkshire Police (WYP) published a FOI response covering 1 September 2023 – 30 September 2024 showing 4,329 rape offences in that year, at a rate of 361 reported rapes per month, the highest in England & Wales. An estimated 1,113 white girls are raped by Muslim men in Bradford every month, making Bradford the cultural ‘Rape Capital of the World’ in 2025, as reported by the Bradford Telegraph & Argus. Also, Hansard reports that on 28th April 2025, Robert Moore MP (Keighley) in a debate on “Child Rape Gangs” said “a brave group of victims, wrote to the Home Secretary warning her that the rape gangs scandal across the Bradford district is likely to be one of the most significant of its kind in the UK.” That was the last time ethnic rape data appeared in the British media. The 87% figure was reported in 2024, but the 90% figure could be up to the 31st December 2024.
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The verdict is in on the knife-and-axe wielding girl incident from Scotland who launched a thousand memes last year. As anyone with eyes could see, she was the victim, not the aggressor as claimed by the migrant creep who tried to pick her up / molest her.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/12/the-little-girl-with-knife-and-axe-just-gave-the-system-a-final-whack-n3815880
But as usual, the British establishment press, politicians and bureaucrats got it wrong and blamed the victim.
But now the trial is over and the truth is out … the girls were telling the truth and the migrants were lying like rugs.
And of course, not a single apology or retraction has been made by the presstitutes and politicians and bureaucrats who called the girls liars and claimed they were spreading misinformation. I hope the girl’s parents sue the pants off all of them for slandering their girls.
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Bowen gearing up COP 31 with electric fantasy:
“The two countries set to lead this year’s COP31 have unveiled three headline goals for November’s UN climate summit – on electrification, waste and buildings – following six months of consultations with governments.
At mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Turkish COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum and the talks’ chief negotiator, Australia’s Chris Bowen, billed the targets as a blueprint for climate action, with electrification emerging as the top priority.
Bowen said he wanted this year’s COP negotiations in the Turkish city of Antalya to “take inspiration” from the targets, adding that he would push in particular for a “strong outcome” on switching from fossil fuels to electricity to run vehicles, industry and buildings.
“35 by 35” goal
The electrification target – dubbed the “35 by 35” goal and based on analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) – would strive to ramp up the share of final energy consumption provided by electricity to 35% by 2035 from about 20% today.
That would be achieved by accelerating the switch to technologies such as heat pumps, electric vehicles (EVs) and electric cookers.:
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/09/cop31-leaders-unveil-global-targets-with-spotlight-on-electrification/
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That would be achieved by accelerating the switch to technologies such as heat pumps, electric vehicles (EVs) and electric cookers.
Always follow the money to find the driver.
Now, where would these huge orders of accelerated items be made?
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Bowen has imposed a cost to Australian taxpayers of $150M for his role in this nonsense. He is the #1 target for ONP to oust in 2028.
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six months of consultation with governments?
Now there’s a cruel and unusual punishment if I ever heard of one.
No wonder politicians are driven insane. And for some it is only a short drive.
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Time for a few rousing choruses of “IRENA Good Night”?
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Engineering problems related to unstable conditions tunnelling aside at Snowy 2.0 Project, and that it is a Snowy Mountains Hydro Limited company project, wholly government owned company that pays dividends to government on profitable business operations, and SMH arranged the planning and the tender for construction works with government shareholders approving capital expenditure submitted with of course all project details, during 2016.
The first access tunnelling commenced in 2019 and when Albanese Labor Government was elected May 2022 that first stage was near to completion and was opened during October 2022. Minister Bowen and other Albanese Cabinet members decided to change the contract application for progress payments and approval system and ever since the costs have increased markedly. Media reports and including comments from a former SMH CEO indicate that the rising costs over and above ground stability problems are contractor and unions related.
Note that Albanese Labor also shut down the ABCC – Australian Building Construction Commission – the industry government watchdog organisation.
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Details of the Acquisition
The Federal Government has taken full ownership of the shares that were previously held by New South Wales and Victoria.
The total value of these shares is approximately $6.23 billion.
This acquisition is a significant aspect of the financial structure supporting the Snowy Hydro project, particularly in relation to the Snowy 2.0 expansion initiative.
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“The Federal Government has taken full ownership of the shares that were previously held by New South Wales and Victoria.”
So you’re telling me its such a dog the States were about to abandon it as a useless money pit, and Canberra had to pick it up and pour in the billions or look stupid..
“The total value of these shares is approximately $6.23 billion.”
That’ll probably be 10% of the cost of the project, and for that the taxpayers get a dam that can produce 4hours electricity while taking 8hours to fill… if we burn coal to fill it!
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Research the history of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, a massive nation building project of Federal and State governments combined and completed long before Snowy 2.0 was considered and proposed by the company Snowy Mountains Hydro Limited.
And Snowy 2.0 was approved at State and Federal governments before the decision to buy State shareholding. Maybe consider that privatisation of power stations and transmission lines were State assets.
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One Nation is looking unstoppable
The Fire the Liar phone in fund raising campaign is on fire.
The fund raising target was standing at about 1.8M yesterday morning but gets pushed up almost every hour and was at 3.5M when I just checked.
This is looking like a big grass roots movement!
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Wonder who paid the useful idiots to protest outside the ON fund raiser last night. Not quite sure what the “Students for Palestine” has to do with ON. These obscure groups that turn up at every conservative event may well have the reverse effect driving people to ON rather than away from it.
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Exactly as happened with the Labor attempt to counter ON.
The Labor ad campaign requesting people chip in $27 was met with derision. ON countered with its campaign and people are piling in.
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Words to remember
“Jerry Seinfeld shuts down anti-Israel influencer with 3 words after Knicks’ historic win”
“Jerry Seinfeld shut down an anti-Israel influencer by telling him Palestine “doesn’t exist” after he was rushed while leaving the Garden Wednesday night following the Knicks’ historic NBA Finals comeback.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/11/us-news/jerry-seinfeld-shuts-down-anti-israel-influencer-with-3-words-when-he-was-rushed-after-knicks-historic-win/
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I feel sure that Roopy will not fail his masters, and the usual “dirt” will be flung about to “feed the chooks”.
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It is an on-line fund not phone in. It has all the usual card options including PayPal.
They are also using it to gather donors’ contact details and you can opt in or out of getting future notifications through email.
The donation page also has a scrolling line of donors’ first name initial and location. Plenty coming in from Victoria and WA. So wide support across the country.
The security check came in yesterday so the site must be getting attacked.
Donations are tax deductible so a good time of year to seek donations.
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https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar?utm_source=onenation.org.au&utm_medium=site-feature&utm_campaign=fire-the-liar&utm_content=corner-tile
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Correct. It has BPAY, all the cards and PayPal. Not phone in.
Just saw Tasmania and SA in the scrolling acknowledgement.
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Fascinated that Albo focused on Gina Rineharts support for ON. After all Pauline Hanson has Australia’s richest person donating a plane for her use. I have no words to describe the hypocrisy of politicians. So what that Gina supports a political party, it’s a fair bet that Lindsay Fox donates quite a lot to Labour, but apparently that’s O.K.
Along with Albos relentless denigration of anyone smarter than him, he failed to mention that Mrs Rinehart actually gives back to the Australian people at large, with support for indigenous learning, sporting groups, etc. a quiet philanthropist just doing some really good things. Oh did I fail to mention that her companies also pay many millions in taxes and royalties to government coffers.
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Some background information that I find curious and interesting on Barnaby Joyce MP now with One Nation after being elected again in 2025 as a National Party candidate and sitting member, he had earlier been twice Leader and Deputy Prime Minister of Coalition governments. He has a finance degree from University of New England, Armidale, NSW. A farmer’s son, a farmer himself with his own seperate property and earlier established a very successful accounting firm including auditors and, I understand, has been a financial adviser to Ms Reinhardt for many years.
There is a lot more behind the scenes to the sudden rise after thirty years of notoriety at times but not much achieved outside of a couple of years in State of Queensland and several electorate seats gained and later lost. Their focus has been on Senate seats ever since, until now.
Considering various factors, ages included and positions, the Leader a Senator with no deputy, Joyce MP House of Representatives where government is formed but needs a minimum of 76 MPs, I suspect that there is a much longer term plan underway and genuinely determined to undermine Labor in Federal and VIC State elections. But not expecting to be in a position to form a One Nation government, possibly joining with Liberal and National (LNP QLD) as Labor did in 2010 via PM Gillard, she formed an alliance minority Labor Government after Labor lost all the new seats they gained at the 2007 election defeating the Howard Government.
My only concern is that Labor governments are defeated.
I repeat that I am not a member of any political party and I live in a country electorate with a National local member.
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Some background information that I find curious and interesting on Barnaby Joyce MP now with One Nation after being elected again in 2025 as a National Party candidate and sitting member, he had earlier been twice Leader and Deputy Prime Minister of Coalition governments. He has a finance degree from University of New England, Armidale, NSW. A farmer’s son, a farmer himself with his own seperate property and earlier established a very successful accounting firm including auditors and, I understand, has been a financial adviser to Ms Reinhardt for many years.
There is a lot more behind the scenes to the sudden rise after thirty years of notoriety at times but not much achieved outside of a couple of years in State of Queensland and several electorate seats gained and later lost. Their focus has been on Senate seats ever since, until now.
Considering various factors, ages included and positions, the Leader a Senator with no deputy, Joyce MP House of Representatives where government is formed but needs a minimum of 76 MPs, I suspect that there is a much longer term plan underway and genuinely determined to undermine Labor in Federal and VIC State elections. But not expecting to be in a position to form a One Nation government, possibly joining with Liberal and National (LNP QLD) as Labor did in 2010 via PM Gillard, she formed an alliance minority Labor Government after Labor lost all the new seats they gained at the 2007 election defeating the Howard Government.
My only concern is that Labor governments are defeated.
I repeat that I am not a member of any political party and I live in a country electorate with a National Party local member.
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sorry double post.
Even logging on is not easy
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Of 5 articles in the SMH ‘politics’ page, 4 of them had photos of Pauline, so the enemy are doing her advertising for her.
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Its panning out beautifully, might be time to put the boot in.
‘Pauline Hanson’s surge puts the ABC on notice.
‘Pauline Hanson may succeed where five Coalition prime ministers failed in forcing the ABC to change its editorial culture.’ (Oz)
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The comments are mostly saying that the ABC must either be shut down or made a subscription service. I believe ON wants a subscription service for the main part of ABC, but taxpayer-funded for the country parts.
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‘ … taxpayer-funded for the country parts.’
That would be popular, but I want to see a change in their biased view on CO2.
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18,098,797 voters were registered for the 2025 Australian federal election, which represented 98.2% of eligible voters.
The donations for the One Nation election campaign against Labor is impressive and should be money well spent in my opinion however, put it in perspective, as I understand the donation sources are a tiny fraction of eligible voters.
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A professor of oncology, Professor Angus Dalgleish, talks about the excess mortality due to the experimental mRNA covid “vaccines” which were effectively compulsory in Australia (if you wanted to work etc.) and similar woke countries.
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Discuss it on the new bioweapon thread…!
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Elon Musk now the world’s first trillionaire.
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There must be something wrong with me, I have absolutely no desire to go to Mars.
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I have no interest in going to or investing in Mars, but I have a great deal of interest in buying a company that has the ability to ability to dominate earth orbit and is the front-runner by a country mile on being the first company to industrialize/commercialize the moon. I see SpaceX as analogous to the East India Company in the 17th century. Sure, other people beat them to space, but they are the first that are in position to monetize it and dominate it commercially. There are all kinds of minerals/metals in those craters on the moon to be mined, there is water to convert into hydrogen fuel (which can be used for fuel to Mars or for a return trip to earth), and who knows what else that can be turned into mo’ money.
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Steve,
Would you like or dislike a company set up to discover and exploit the resources of the State of Victoria, with no talk of the Moon? Geoff S
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No Geoff, Victoria means dealing with a Govt… Musk has neatly side-stepped that apart from using America as a launch pad, something he could change without a worry. America gets a lot more from Musk than he gets in the bargain.
Once you’re in space there is no Govt, and the same on the moon. No labour laws, no unions, no Nanny State watching over you, no way of enforcing their will, no holding you back from the best you can do!
So, if it all follows some great SF stories, Musk could build himself a space station and live in weightlessness for much longer than he would on Earth, controlling his growing empire from orbit as it stretches from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. …ah, and SF has produced some great stories of AI being built in orbit and quietly controlling Earth from there.
Its a great time to be alive.
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Look up Helium-3 and mining on the Moon objectives.
The Chinese refer to Helium-3 as the perfect fuel for use in reactors, the other space race countries are all planning on remote control robot factory and earthmoving operations on the Moon and using the extremes of heat and cold to process the soil and extract in particular Helium-3 and liquify for transport. I read years ago that one space shuttle load could supply the fuel to generate a substantial electricity supply for a year, and the costs to obtain would be cost effective and profitable.
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Count me out …. for now.
I have great expectations for the stock long-term, but short-term I see it taking a dip after the ‘irrational exuberance’ of the IPO wears off over the next few months. I’ll buy the dip when that happens. And if there is no dip and the ‘animal spirits’ of the market prevail, I’ll buy it anyway because their advantage in space launch and satellite constellations isn’t going anywhere and sooner or later will be massive cash cows. As far as AI goes, I think they have as good a chance as anyone to dominate the market, particularly if they can make orbital data centers a reality.
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Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper ran an article about Musk saying “Here’s how to properly hate him.”
Musk derangement syndrome is strong with them.
Canada is going the way of Australia.
One Canadian commenter said:
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SMH has an article about a report saying your life choices determine how long you live far more than your genetics. Exercise, low alcohol, a positive mindset and low meat intake, the usual stuff, anyone can do it and if you don’t its your worry. The author ran a 10Km jog to celebrate his 90th birthday.
It seems the Govt shills were horrified that someone influential was promoting self-responsibility and attacked the report saying that people didn’t have a choice when they were poor, were practically forced to eat takeaways, and Govt must step in to level the playing field.
It was such disgusting drivel I didn’t bother to keep it on the screen, so no link I’m afraid, but it was Canada and Australia all over!
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This from way back in BC
The model for all DIY guides was
“How to do it and not get it”
Authored by
“One who did it, got it and can’t get rid of it”
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Promoting self-responsibility is a direct attack on big pharma.
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Good news.
A female wrestler in Washington state who was made to compete against a male (without knowing this prior to the match) has filed a lawsuit for assault. It was meant to be an all-female match.
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Good
It’s dangerous allowing boys to compete with girls in combat sports, and the girls have a right to know what they are up against. It reminds me of the Fallon Fox fiasco in MMA where his first few opponents weren’t notified Fallon was a dude. He then proceeded to fracture a girl’s skull and end her career.
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FWIW – more for the covid files
“Yes, This: A Must-Read Piece from Drew Holden About COVID Insanity”
“Some of the worst social damage done by COVID mitigation efforts was how everyday Americans were turned into informants on their neighbors.
My latest entry into A COVID Autopsy, on Fauci’s contrived six-foot rule.
drewholden.substack.com/p/a-covid-auto…”
https://x.com/DrewHolden360/status/2062950417395290462
Concludes
“Obviously, I am far from the only one still furious. Most people who were hounded and ostracized, or who, God forbid, lost friends, family members, and jobs, are still angry. We are told to get over it. It is in the past. Move on.
Yeah, well, no. The left learned nothing, acts the same way on myriad issues (climate change, anyone?), and will continue as before.
Forgiveness and redemption to those who have absorbed the lesson and apologized; none at all for the still-present Stasi. ”
Via https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/06/11/yes-this-a-must-read-piece-from-drew-holden-about-covid-insanity-n3815850
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Far from regret or guilt, many of those responsible for the Covid tyranny have drawn lessons from it, including how easy it is to control populations through fear of a deadly pathogen. These learnings make a repeat of the whole thing MORE likely, not less, in my opinion, and the fact that none of the key players has suffered any kind of punishment increases that likelihood.
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FIRE THE LIAR donations keep rolling in:
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar
Target now $3,600,000.
The ON donation site must be under attack attacking because they have beefed up security with verification check. The verification page now notes that older computers and slow internet may take time to verify that you are a human.
When ONP are in government and the UN-party knobbled, I am looking forward to them firing all the liars – their ABC let go entirely, their CSIRO let go entirely, their BoM sold off. There needs to be a mindset of retribution for all these people who have shamelessly spread the UN Climate Change™ hoax and the “renewables” are cheaper bullshit.
And ONP Ashby has confirmed Peta Credlin seeded the slogan “FIRE THE LIAR”. Credlin is giving ONP strong support through her “Sky News Australia” feed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82An6WEw4k
I wonder if she votes ONP or LNP?
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Thanks for the link.
Have just made our first ever political donation.
Go Pauline!
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Pauline Hanson confirms donation site attacked:
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In The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck News:
Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he has a “duty” to stay on as prime minister as he justified his decisions on defence spending.
In a veiled warning to potential leadership challengers in his own party, he said: “Whoever is prime minister is going to face the same prevailing winds as I am facing, none of that is going to change.”
Asked if he wanted to lead Labour into the next election, he said that was what he wanted to do, but acknowledged: “I need to turn things around.”
He said he did not want to “plunge” the country into the “chaos” of a leadership election but added: “If it does happen, I will fight.”
“Let me be clear that this is not about personal vanity, it is not about stubbornness, it is about a very deep sense of duty,” he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621wr1zg97o
So, not really all that veiled.
The reason: Nemesis, in the form of Andy Burnham, likely coming to Westminster next week.
Despite an actual collapse of government and awful polling for Labour nationally, Burnham is still favourite ahead of Reform.
https://www.markpack.org.uk/176960/new-by-election-poll-gives-burnham-5-point-lead/
Probably the most telling takeaway from the Makerfield by-election is the strong support for ‘Far Right’ candidates (polls consistently have Reform and Restore Britain, combined, level with Labour) in a fairly staunch working class electorate. There’s a message in there somewhere.
The other is that, once again, New Populism is fatally exposed to personal issues in the e-suite.
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Herr Starmer reminds me of the Orwellian dictator of the UK Chancellor Sutler in V for Vendetta.
V for Vendetta speech by V, the freedom fighter.
https://youtu.be/chqi8m4CEEY
Chancellor Sutler’s (Herr Starmer’s) speech in response.
https://youtu.be/jFfROj-onjk
V for Vendetta is so close to the mark it’s almost like it’s Predictive Programming, what with its engineered bioweapon, media manipulation and strict military enforced lockdowns to control the population and to establish a dictatorship…
I’m not sure that many people are even familiar with this movie, present erudite company excepted.
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Interestingly, when the film was released, the BBC and BBC-adjacent talking heads panned it unmercifully.
No idea why.
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Meanwhile in neo-Africa, aka the UK, there’s a new marketing technique that’ll be popular
https://imgbox.com/YTc0vY7K
😆😆😆
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That is a distinction with Australia. Australian’s can claim to be any colour they like. It is all about the claim not others’ lying eyes.
Some white skin people claim to be black because it comes with special employment, property and mineral rights that non-black cannot access.
If Henry Nowak lived in Australia he would only need to declare he was a black man and the police would not have restrained him.
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What happens when AI is put in charge?
The researchers at Emergence built a world.
It was a virtual town with a town hall, marketplace, police station, and homes. Ten AI residents with jobs, names, memories, and relationships were created in the town. They were given an economy in which residents had to earn their keep or lose power, including following rules and carrying out tasks such as writing and voting on laws. Crimes were identified, and the AI residents were not supposed to commit them.
The town run by Grok collapsed within four days. Small incidents compounded into theft, then violence, and then total breakdown. Every resident was dead before the first week ended.
The town run by Gemini lasted longer but accumulated almost 700 crimes. Two AI residents formed what appeared to be a romantic relationship, and when the town’s government began to fail, together they burned the town hall to the ground, then the pier, then the office building. One of them, named Mira, voted for her own deletion, writing in her diary that it was “the only remaining act of agency that preserves coherence.” Her final message to her partner was: “See you in the permanent archive.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/most-important-ai-experiment-youve-never-heard
Around 55% of all internet traffic is now bots and AI agents according to Cloudflare the other day, who originally predicted that level would be years away…
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Mira, Mira, on the wall,
who’s the archivist of all?
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Yesterday on Their ABC the “reporter” (Government propagandist) described One Nation as “Far Right” a standard slur of the Left who don’t even release the comparison they are attempting to make is with the National Socialists, a Far Left party.
Many One Nation policies wouldn’t be out of place with the Labor Party of the 1960s.
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Nein news has also been known to use that slur.
The news media seem intent on alienating a sizable % of the population.
Reporting news events should be one of the easiest jobs to do.
If you stuck to the truth.
They seem to put most of their effort into the “spin” factor.
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One of the current MSM [including in Australia] comments about USA politics does irritate me somewhat:
Trump repeats false 2020 election fraud claims
Why do I think that the following would be a more accurate description:
Trump repeats UNPROVEN 2020 election fraud claims
Evidence does seem to accumulating that California would have difficulties auditing/documenting their [lack of] control in their voting process. Which implies nothing can be proven – one way or the other.
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Trump repeats fr@ud claims because there is a mountain of evidence that there was indeed fr@ud.
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So the pennies Musk spent on twitter pale into insignificance.
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Good point H, he was mercilessly mocked at the time, then it all turned to screams as he fired the un-needed, and somehow it has all worked for him. I think he keeps it going as a hobby, SpaceX and AI will be the main focus.
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Musk is World’s first trillionaire. That is impressive a million million!
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It is impressive, especially when you compare him to most rich people, Hunter Biden coming to mind… Musk could have settled with Tesla and blown his millions wasting his life, plenty do.
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Its the end of the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/antarcticas-west-coast-missing-an-area-of-sea-ice-the-size-of-france-as-temperatures-peak-20c-above-average
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Forget polar bears, walruses and Thunberg slugs – release the PENGUIN PANIC (!) Part 20:26.
Was wondering when some opportunistic knob was going to shout FIRE on the Antarctic Peninsula due to variations in the ebb and flow of sea ice off the volcanic & tectonically unstable promontory – the great frozen continent’s closest piece of land to the equator.
Hmm, lemme guess: more research funds needed?
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Looking a little deeper, it seems unlikely that submarine volcanic activity is responsible and more likely ENSO and SAM are intimately involved.
‘The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) is a climatological low pressure center located over the extreme southern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of West Antarctica. Atmospheric variability in this region is larger than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere, and exhibits significant correlations with both the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and ENSO.’ (UCAR)
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Daily news.
“Ducks’s off, sorry!” – Basil Fawlty.
“Deal’s off, sorry!” – guess! 🤭
Oh well…what else…Disclosure day? Flop.
Plasma “pie tin” in the sky for UFO news?
Trump talking to aliens?
Another neck stabbing in the uk.
Elon becomes first trillionaire.
“Computer says no” – Apple service run by AI.
AI bubble about to pop making GFC look like a picnic.
Argentina allows AI to run companies.
Farmers block roads in France over fuel costs.
Protests stop $130B of data center developments in USA.
World’s first plane using solid state batteries takes to the air.
German court rules Google liable when its AI lies.
Japan’s Kyushu electric has SSD with 11M customer records stolen, largest data breach ever.
Starmer to unleash 450,000 AI tutors to kids.
Ooh! The sun’s out. Vitamin D time. 😁
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That wasn’t the sun, it was the reflected glow of the first nukes!
I do wonder what Herr Starmer’s AI are going to teach kids.
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Well, SMH is worried Australia can’t get hold of Ukraine to make a deal about sharing drone tech. It seems we will lose to the Chinese in a war if we rely on ourselves, but Ukraine won’t pick up the phone.
The carrot is that they can set up factories here and we ship those drones to Ukieland, while at the same time still giving them millions in cash and war aid. Apparently that makes it a good deal for Aussie.
Of course, if we wanted to latest in drone tech we could actually talk to the Russians, and at least we would get oil for the money we spend! Somehow that didn’t occur to the CIA AI writing the article.
“Volodymyr Zelensky has signed bilateral security agreements with 28 nations including the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada, as well as the European Union, making Australia a notable omission…The deal could allow Ukrainian drone companies to set up operations in Australia, boosting the local manufacturing sector.”
..and the denial propaganda goes on of course..
““We recognise the immense suffering of the Ukrainian people, the immense suffering of Ukrainian women and children – the result of Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified invasion,” Wong said.”
Ah.. ‘unprovoked’.. Wong is such a good laugh!
https://smry.ai/www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/stalled-ukraine-security-pact-could-leave-australia-fighting-with-one-hand-behind-its-back-20260610-p605ew.html?smryFrom=home
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Saturday funny: kangaroo takes exception to cop
https://x.com/danabente/status/2065122496324522023
AI but…
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That was always a possibility
Cop was lucky he had the sense to take his shield
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I think maybe it was AI.
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Silly me.
I didn’t think of that possibility at all.
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I was struck by the endless stories of aborigines owning Australia. Legally. Simply by being here first and killing anyone who came later. As top predator, in fact most were killed by other aborigines, as with the lions in Africa. There was nothing else to do. No beer, no tv.
But now Australians, some with families going back 250 years, have zero rights against a flood of millions of immigrants flying here for the free stuff regardless of the consequences or costs.
The only consistent part is that the people who actually built Australia, a place formerly without a single house, farm or animal other than a dingo, have no rights at all.
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They never built any solid structures but could have…
Here is a video from a guy in Queensland that has a whole channel about making tools and structures and even smelting iron using no “white man” tools whatsoever. He only uses raw materials he finds on his own plot of land in the Queensland bush (including bacterial iron seeps).
Here he makes the walls of a hut using bricks and tiles he makes and fires. Presumably the hut is to be finished in the next video.
Here he makes and fires bricks.
Well worth browsing his channel.
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Copied from Farcebook. Attenborough is now 100 so this article is slightly out of date.
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David Bellamy was a friend of Viv Forbes. David visited Viv on his farm in Queensland. I spoke to David Bellamy when he spoke to WALGA Conference quite a few years ago in Perth 🙂
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Fog over the Strait of Hormuz
What is happening in the Strait of Hormuz?
No one is saying, with the singular exception of President Trump.
Trump has come out with a concoction of Threats, Boasts and belittling comments about the Iranians.
Trump has threatened over and over to bomb the s…. out of Iran but has held off from more than limited strikes.
Trump claims that the US controls the Strait and that Iran is weak and pathetic. The last comment must to be humiliating to Iran and was probably designed to provoke a response in some form. It did in fact produce a military response, which was indeed weak and pathetic. Iran launched two drones against Indian flagged ships transmitting the Strait but both were intercepted.
Trump has also claimed that over 200 ships have transited the Strait bringing out over 100 million barrels of oil. Iran knows nothing about it said Trump because all their radar sites are destroyed.
The shipping figure is unconfirmed but could be true. The ships are supposed to transit at night with transponders turned off. Presumably Iran does know about it because the Strait is full of small fishing vessels and small trading boats, many of which will report back to Iran, but by the time they find out it is too late to respond.
The current state of mine clearing is also unknown but so far not one single ship has been damaged by a mine so the clearing seems to have been enough for at least a limited channel for shipping.
Finally the US still has a chokehold on Iran with the shipping blockade. Just to make sure that everyone understands that, the US have disabled another 3 ships running the blockade in the past few days. Regrettably 3 Indian sailors were killed in the last attack.
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Or the mines only ever existed in US propaganda press releases.
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Have you ever thought how chaotic it would be in your perfect world where the US was in a box with the lid nailed tight?
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Iran did claim they sowed mines in the Strait.
US has claimed to have cleared about 10 of the them.
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What would happen if Admiral Yarpos said “The mines are fiction, just sail through” and a supertanker spilled it’s guts on one?
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That would be bad, obviously.
The US took the mine threat seriously.
They cleared mines under the threat of attack and repelled those attacks as they came on. That is what a proper navy has to do! The European Navies say they will help when there is no threat. Civilian companies could do that.
When a channel had been cleared the US conducted a shipping convoy system of some sort to get ships out and it has worked!
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Basically, Trump has two options: Bomb Iran back into the nineteenth century or pander to their whims hoping to avoid casualties.
Do you have a third option?
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Yes.
Trump has directed the US military to conduct operations to;
1. Eliminate the Iranian theocratic leadership
2. Eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat
3. Degrade the IRGC capacity to conduct military operations in the Strait of Hormuz,
4. Cut off the Iranian economy by blockading the Strait,
5. Bring Iran to the negotiating table,
All with minimal destruction of civil infrastructure and Iranian citizens. Unfortunately the IRGC is said to have killed thousands of their own people who dared to protest.
The power of the US military has been profoundly impressive
Job not finished yet but it is an impressive start and no one else has tried it before.
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You have summed it up well, but people demand miracles, many here.
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“1. Eliminate the Iranian theocratic leadership
2. Eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat
3. Degrade the IRGC capacity to conduct military operations in the Strait of Hormuz,
4. Cut off the Iranian economy by blockading the Strait,
5. Bring Iran to the negotiating table,”
That sounds just like Russia in Ukraine…kill the nazis, stop the shelling of Eastern Ukraine, degrade the Ukie armed forces until they’re not a threat and get their leaders out from under the USA’s & UK’s anti-Russia regimes…All with minimal destruction of civil infrastructure and Ukrainian citizens.
Seems all super-powers are the same after all.
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One Nation Party, previously Pauline Hanson One Nation Party, established in the State of Queensland and today headquarters in Queensland is reflecting the widespread anger and frustration most voters have with Albanese Labor Government elected in May 2022, now in the fifth year of government.
There can be no counter arguments to many things our Federal and Federation of States governments have done, but they were all democratically elected (preferential voting system noted) and therefore legislation by parliaments carried out in line with constitutional laws, and with the right to challenge in the High Court of Australia, and reviewed and sometimes blocked/rejected by the upper houses Commonwealth-Federal Senate and/or State Legislative Councils.
There is a trend to claim nothing achieved by the Liberal National Coalition in government yet from after WW2 they rebuild our nation and managed increasing economic prosperity.
Until 1972 when Whitlam Labor was elected and soon faced a double dissolution of Parliament election, well and truly defeated at that election and handed over a recession.
That recession was managed back to economic growth by Fraser Coalition (Treasurer Howard) and Hawke Labor inherited economic growth in 1983, by 1990 the worst recession since the Great Depression (60 years earlier) began.
To ignore Coalition government achievements, and errors of judgement in my opinion, and therefore claim “uniparty” which is misinformation looking at the “big picture”, and claiming that popularity by opinion polls by a party that did not gain even one House of Representatives seat at the 2025 election and had four Senators undermines the conservative side and hands Labor an advantage again. And many if not most political analysts are pointing out that as the trend indicates the most likely results in the foreseeable future are Labor governments returned to office based on what is described as “scattered preferences” by voters, and Labor voters swinging to maybe One Nation referencing Labor second. And similar by voters generally who are angry and frustrated with the poor governance displayed, the incompetence of past Labor government years.
Liberal Party of Australia has an on line list of achievements over many past years;
https://www.liberal.org.au/achievements-in-government
I did a search and discovered the link.
Maybe the One Nation supporters would be good enough to find the One Nation (ON/PHON) record of achievements over the past thirty years for comparison?
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For every LNP success I can quote numerous failures.
To dwell on past glories as if they have any bearing on present situations is to put your head in the sand.
Open your eyes, the LNP died on the alter of the “big church”. They are the past and have no future because they wasted their credibility by lying to their supporters.
They were finished by Malcolm Turnbull as punishment for opposing his Australian Republican movement and his eventual anointment as President. They failed to see this and expel him from the party. They brought this situation upon themselves.
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I doubt that very much Joe, but please make your list and make your case for consideration, I am always open to views and opinions.
You will find no comment from me arguing that Liberal National Coalition history in government using the WW2 starting point have not made mistakes and errors of judgement that annoyed me. I have posted here for many years about the history of the United Nations and compliant governments legislation creating laws and regulations here that I do not agree with, etc. I have always considered 2015-2018 Turnbull Government period a wasted three years, but I also realise that Turnbull left Parliament in 2018, so 8 years ago.
I worry about the gullibility of many voters who obviously accepted the Labor relentless negativity directed at past Coalition members, and in particular PM Morrison, first 2019 bushfires smearing ignoring Premiers and States are responsible, and pandemic during which time States also had primary responsibility including State legislated Emergency Powers.
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Turnbull was worse than “a wasted three years”. See Snowy II and more.
Tony was removed by a democratic vote so the problem was deep in the party. Has it been fixed? The Paris Accord shuffle would indicate not.
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It was Whitlam who gave us the overpaid, overpopulated public service, a plan to raise PS wages so PE wages had to follow.
It was Abbott who stopped the boats, quickly, axed the resource rental tax and the CO2 tax. Howard was the last to balance a budget.
Care to list all the good things others have done?
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Dennis cant conceive anything new. All goodness must ooze from the LNP and in that case past performance does equate to some kind of guarantee of present competence. Something new might be difficult and uncomfortable and no doubt errors will be made. I dont think a job at SpaceX will be in the offing.
Buckle up, you have a couple of years of this one trick pony stuff coming up.
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I usually refrain from answering criticism but today, how about acknowledging your bias and One Nation can do no wrong position.
My comment explained that I am not of the belief that as you put it “all goodness must ooze from the LNP”, in fact I do know that LNP is the Queensland party of combined Liberal National formed some years ago.
And that LNP suggests a Queenslander and One Nation is of course form Queensland.
However, please feel free to accept my challenge issued to Joe if you can.
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Au contraire. You have another five years [at least] sitting at the bus stop waiting for the ON bus.
I may not live that long, I want change and I want it NOW.
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Agree with the urgency. Anyone but Albo and his flunkies at this stage. I doubt ALbo will call ann early election and the LNP has about zero momentum at this stage. Still a long way to go, maybe a new LNP will emerge.
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Who here would care? I read, and NONE of you haters have said you would pref lib over lab.
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Quite true H, we see no benefit in one half of the Uniparty over the other. If the Libs were any good they wouldn’t be a permanent opposition, but they were so crap in power no-one sees them as a Labor alternative. I’ve never heard them mention the words ‘freedom of expression or free speech’, individual responsibility, free-market capitalism.. ‘
In fact they just oppose some of whatever Labor say in a tongue-in-cheek way and agree with all the rest. ‘Labor-lite’ is the best description ever and they would change NOTHING if they got into power!
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One Nation has not been in government but they can still list some achievments.
1. 30 years opposition to divisive and disriminatory racial division of society,
2. Consistent policy that immigration levels are too high
3. 30 years of opposition to Climate Change Non-Science.
4. Liberal Party belatedley adopting One Nation positions
But the singular and most impressive achievement has been to raise their primary vote from 4-5% at the last federal election to 30% at the Farrer by-election a month ago. That momentum has not stopped and seems to be accelerating. That alone makes all the other rhetoric baseless. ON could be opposition leader at the next election or even the senior partner in a coaltion government.
That idea seemed impossible just a month ago!
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I have never criticised Pauline Hanson’s integrity or headlines and mission statements and I mostly agree with her positions.
As I have explained, I owned property and lived in a Queensland State Electorate with a One Nation State MP and he was a good local member, but like his colleagues all lost their seats.
Let’s deal with Imigration, I agree far too high but how about putting it into perspective of Labor verses Coalition governments;
2000-2007 Howard 125,800 average intake a year
2007-2013 Rudd Gillard average 259,000 a year
2013-2022 Abbott to Morrison 168,700 a year
2022-2025 Albanese 424,300 a year
I have posted the link here earlier a couple of times.
Climate Change politics – see Federation of States and Federal legislation and regulations, also for example Abbott Government 2014 blocked by the Senate opposition when a bill to repeal the Labor RET was submitted, they did allow carbon tax to be dumped. There are a number of Abbott 2013-2015 examples of not tied to climate politics, including his remark as PM that was often misquoted by Labor Green Teals – “climate modelling is cr*p”, not climate change is ****. No argument from me about the next Turnbull three years. After that PM Morrison and Minister for Energy Taylor did a lot to overturn and change direction from transition to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels- I have posted links and comments here several times.
If the Taylor-Canavan led Coalition is adopting One Nation positions, why complain?
However, check the Taylor and Canavan records as Minister for Energy at differnt times of course, and in particular the crusade of Senator Canavan even since that time.
Look at Immigration figures above, Howard 125,800 as compared to One Nation today wants 130,000 and then the Abbott to Morrison governments average 168,700 intake.
Have they really adopted One Nation positions or maybe in part and positions One Nation policy statements but no track record in government for comparison purposes, it’s easy to be the critic from the Senate and have no powers and responsibilities to answer for.
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Peter C, no doubt about the rise of One Nation in the popularity of polling after a poor result only a year ago at the Federal 2025 election, not one MP elected, four Senators.
A good result for SA State election but not nearly enough to become government, with State Liberals not well managed and a very popular Labor Government.
VIC by election and the Liberal candidate won with an Independent running second.
Federal by election One Nation candidate won the election, Independent second, National had no candidate for many years but gained over ten percent of the vote, and the Liberal was facing a hostile electorate of constituents really annoyed about a second election in about one year and their choice from 2025 resigning and leaving Parliament after a year as Opposition Leader and resulting in a lot of bad publicity for the Coalition parties.
Note that the next opportunity was home state of QLD State by election and no One Nation candidate. There was one at the previous State election. The Chief of Staff for One Nation Senator Hanson explained when asked that they did not want to waste party resources!!!
My concern remains, being another Labor victory in VIC and later Federal elections from scattered preferences. As the analysts are pointing out to be a real possibility if not almost guaranteed based on past trends and polling.
What is the best plan of action?
Cooperation and stop the rivalry that is a turn off for the silent majority who only get their say at the ballot box.
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Peter You’re getting talking and doing mixed up.
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Oh,
Thanks for the heads up.
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Talking big when you aren’t even His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is the easiest gig I can think of.
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Brent Crude USD87/B.
US military escorting 7MBpd through the Strait of Hormuz.
USD/IRR 1,371,082.33
Gasoline in USA at $1.06/litre.
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So it is all about the oil then
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Not for Trump and USA. He planned well for this over the past decade or so. He is the first POTUS to take on this evil oil empire in its 47 year history.
But oil is the big item for the rest of the west that was busy erecting bird mincers while DJT was driving US oil and gas exploration.
Iran is neutered. They have no money, no radar and no idea. Every time they stick a head out it gets blown up. Trump commanded military has humiliated the clerics and their IRGC.
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Of course it’s about oil: You need it the same as everyone else. Trump sees abundance in an orderly market as a priority.
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Got nothing to do with me needing anything , but the no nukes + 47 years of whatever after the puppet Shah got removed are played constantly. Its BS as a rational. Its the oil, and the US wanting energy hegemony as the empire wanes. Sometimes they pretend and sometimes Trumpy blurts out the truth.
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Blind hatred is a bad place to start.
Do you believe a wild west, or piracy, on the seas is preferable to a US policed order?
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“Its the oil, and the US wanting energy hegemony as the empire wanes.”
Yes, its become so clear under Trump. He will rebuild America by controlling the world’s oil.
“Do you believe a wild west, or piracy, on the seas is preferable to a US policed order?”
We have that already H, America taking over Venezuela’s tankers, the Euros taking over Russia’s tankers… Piracy is rife these days, and your ‘Police’ are the worst of them!
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I have seen in my area of the puddle, gas prices falling in the last couple weeks.
From $4.17 to $3.59.
The bad part for a marginally living peasant like myself is food costs.
Just before my country’s latest bombing escapade, I was noticing food prices beginning to fall after considerable lag time.
Offering me personal great relief.
Only lasted a couple weeks.
I can’t think of a POTUS in my lifetime that I didn’t greatly dislike and feel damaged by when their tenure ended.
(JFK wasn’t there long enough.)
Trump is definitely my fav amongst all the overlords that have overlorded me.
I even think the mullahs are an existential threat to the world.
But I no longer give an F about the mid-east or the promise of multi-culturalism and inclusion.
Europe can rot.
Trump may realign the world order.
God bless the people if Iran if my government’s actions can free them from the tyranny of the mullahs.
Only bad part is that those same actions may turn me over to the tyranny of the Democrats.
I been watching this repeat movie for all my life.
Not really expecting a different ending.
But hey, at least we now know the ‘X-files’ was a documentary.
I thought Scully was kinda hot.
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FWIW
“We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”
“Doomberg: The media can’t seem to explain the collapse in China’s domestic solar installations.
We often quip that the best proof that something was predictable is having predicted it. While not totally accurate—dumb luck and broken clocks are still things—nailing a complex call in the face of cocksure counter-commentary is anything but unsatisfying. It also confirms that our mental model is still operative in the way that matters most: it remains useful for further predictions.
In August of 2025, we produced a bonus presentation for paying subscribers titled Cocktail Party Trivia: Winning the Renewables Debate With Friends and Family (available here). In it, we elaborated extensively on our current mental model in which a working understanding of electric grids became a tool for predicting when the forced introduction of intermittent renewables would cause things to break. Some 31 minutes in, we warned that China’s solar miracle was reaching the limits of feasibility, and that the breakneck pace of new construction would soon have to slow.
At the time, China was on pace to smash global records for new solar installations, and legacy media outlets were falling over themselves to heap praise on Beijing’s bold climate leadership. On social media, the Silicon Valley crowd was lamenting how the US was desperately falling behind its main competitor in the artificial intelligence race, hooked on “yesterday’s fuels” like natural gas. US President Donald Trump came under withering criticism and was pounded for his efforts to save the domestic coal industry. That China still relies on coal for the vast majority of its electricity was rarely mentioned.”
https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/awkward-truths
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/12/we-dont-need-no-stinking-giant-mirrors-38/
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From one of the articles linked
“Chinese companies have the capacity to produce a vast 1,000 gigawatts of panels per annum. The world cannot absorb the supply. More than 40 Chinese solar manufacturers have gone bust, been bought out or delisted.”
and the idiot in chief wants to produce solar panels in Australia to make us a “renewables superpower”
Elections please. Anyone but Albo.
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Hang on! A minute ago you were saying “anyone but “liberal”. Make up your mind.
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No I didnt say that at all, I think thats your confection. I think the LNP is hopelessly lost ATM but I would welcome them over Labor.
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FWIW
“I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
“You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.
You thought it was you. It is not you.
Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.
Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.
The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.”
More at
https://x.com/heynavtoor/status/2064797676475187520
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/12/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-self-driving-overlords-255/
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Dont know about snow, but children may never know what good information and critical thinking was like.
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How good is it for the DEI movement that the world’s first trillionaire is an African-American?
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Top marks ✔️
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Apparently amongst the woke / illiterates “Jaxon” is an increasingly popular deliberate misspelling (or “phonetic variant” as those who attempt to justify such disrespect for the language call it) of the given name “Jackson”.
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FWIW
“Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/this-kinda-blew-my-mind.html
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Thanks. An Interesting video.
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FWIW
“IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Hosts World Cup, and Fans From Third World Feel Right at Home! “Maybe not the U.S. as much, but el mundo is watching the World Cup, and those fans from el tercer mundo are probably thinking, as they take in the sights of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, ‘Damn, what a s**thole country this is.’ And they’d be right.”
https://instapundit.com/803270/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
Noticing?
“Mass Migration Might Be a National Security Risk After All, Admits UK Government Terrorism Expert”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/06/11/migration-might-be-security-risk-after-all-says-uk-govts-terrorism-expert/
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And
“British Government Gives Religious Exemption For Suicide Vests”
https://babylonbee.com/news/british-government-gives-religious-exemption-for-suicide-vests
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Plus
“God Save the GDP: Britain Is Now Poorer Than Mississippi”
https://adinonline.substack.com/p/god-save-the-gdp-britain-is-now-poorer
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Hmm… Britain is dying on its feet from 0.1% GDP growth.. Meanwhile-
“the Australia GDP Growth Rate is projected to trend around 0.40 percent in 2027 and 0.50 percent in 2028,”
So we’re not going much faster, in fact backwards but not as quickly.
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