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Greetings from soggy England, or soggy NW England anyway!
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Lucky you. 31C in places further south today. Likely the June record from 1976 will fall in the next few days. Another horrible heatwave coming in the south. Looking quite long lived too.
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The June 1976 record might be broken.
‘Although astronomical summer does not begin until Sunday, France is already experiencing its second extreme temperature event of 2026, after an unusually hot spell in May shattered local and national monthly temperature records.’ (Guardian)
The article doesn’t mention climate change because its a given
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That’s great! Maybe you can start growing grapes again like the Romans did.
Make mine a Chardonnay.
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MrGrim,
“Lifed”?
Geoff S
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Warm and damp in the shire Annie, no snow on the local mountain nor the main one further north. Looking a bit bleak for school holidays! Allegedly changing over the next couple of days.In the mean time the rain has been welcome.
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It was a foul journey to the airport Sambar. Fog most of the way and 2C… It took me time to warm up once we got there.
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Sambar,
“or” or “nor”?
Geoff S
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I’d argue that one as “nor”. According to my concise Oxford, nor. ” and not, not either, neither”.
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Be sure to carry some bacon for self defence.
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Indeed. Wear a bacon bandolier and wield salami nunchakus.
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In the Antipodes there are some worrying signs.
‘Winter has failed to show up in Sydney so far this month, with the city registering its longest run of June days over 20°C in close to 170 years of records.
‘A string of high pressure systems and a lack of strong cold fronts have kept daytime temperatures unusually high in Sydney and other areas of NSW so far this month.’ (Weatherzone)
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Really? Perth, at pretty much the same latitude, has been freezing lately.
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The string of high pressures create a whiplash effect, which they say is caused by global warming.
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They would say that…
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El,
A string “creates” not “create”?
Geoff S
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to do with the fact that Terror Oz is completely surrounded by that “big, blue, wet thing”?
And, just for giggles, the “Top-End” is VERY close to the equator whilst those at the southern extremities can dangle their toes in Antarctic waters.
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While all of that was happening, the lawns are tellinthe drought broke at Mudgee us that the fairly sever)e drought has broken at Mudgee.
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And recently had three years where the temperature did not once go above 32C! So much for warming.
You would have better luck with reading pigs intestines than IPCC climate predictions.
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Much the same at home Annie. The wet weather continues.
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Canada bans quoting parts of the Bible that violate Satanic Socialist ideology. The demonic Bill C-9 has officially passed Canada’s Parliament and will soon become law in Canada. However, ‘religious freedom’ is allowed for all non-Christian religions, with only Christians being banned from quoting the Koran.
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The Progressive Spiral.
They can’t stop themselves.
The only destination is the drain.
For example, the US state of Oregon has a ballot measure in November to ban hunting and fishing.
It is a weird re-emerging primitive form of zealotry that can only end with some sort of cultural crash.
It demands purity that that can never be achieved until all of their imagined hate and phobias are expunged.
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They banned traditional fox hunting in the UK, now they’re banning trail hunting. It’s never enough.
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Possibly a futile ban to save Keir?
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I think Keir (or Sir Keir to the peasants) is more likely to feel haunted than hunted at present. The thought of him being chased by hounds did make me smile though.
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Of course never consider the law of unintended consequences with these sweeping changes. Here in Victoria, Oz, huge areas are closed up as national parks where not much is allowed at all. These locked up areas are breeding reservoirs for all sorts of things like wild dogs, foxes, cats, wild horses (Brumbies) and deer. Of late there has been much publicity about deer invading towns and even the outer burbs of Melbourne. Government solution, what could be done for free by licensed hunters, is done in many instances by helicopter gun ship. No one really knows the true cost of these operations, all shot animals are left to rot ( and ipso facto provide more food for the aforementioned scavengers) but NEVER let people do what people have done since the dawn of time. It has often been said that the oldest profession involved ladies of the night whereas the reality is hunting truely is the oldest profession, the other one, the second oldest, came about because its surprising what people will do if a good feed depends it.
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For free?
Hunters would gladly pay for the privilege. Nearly two-thirds of the budget for American wildlife agencies is paid for by hunters and fisherman buying licenses. That’s how wildlife agencies keep the doors open and monitor the health and welfare of the animal populations.
Hippies think hunting is cruel.
Hunters think letting animals starve or letting diseases run wild due to overpopulation is cruel.
Predators serve a purpose. In regions where humans have killed off the large predators to protect ourselves from predation, we have responsibility to fill that niche in the local food chain.
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“For free?”
Yeah I meant that it would not be a drain on the “public purse’ . Hunters pay license fees and contribute huge amounts into local country businesses buying fuel, food, and camping supplies. Government mounts arguments that appeal to inner city “conservationist” reality on the other hand is often completely different.
In Victoria government employed cullers and licensed pest controllers are allowed to use suppressors, falsely labeled silencers by the do gooders, recreational shooters can just go deaf. Night hunting on public land is banned for the recreational hunter, government hunters use military grade night vision. Most recreational hunters recover usable meat. Government cullers recover nothing. The contradictions are numerous, likewise the restrictions on law abiding citizenry.
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Being made to go deaf by the ridiculous ban on suppressors is all part of the punishment for engaging in a non-woke recreation.
Even other extreme Nanny States like Once Great Britain and NZ allow them with no issues.
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Greenies don;t know that the hunting is good for the game. Sick animals are slow and get shot. This allows healthy animals to thrive.
This is very visible with ducks and foxes. Mangy foxes used to be common, but I haven’t seen one for forty or more years, since a boom in the price of fox skins saw people buy appropriate gear and make their living from the fox hunt.
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Sambar,
“truly” not “truely?
Geoff S
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Those legislators in Canada hate God’s word because it condemns them and exposes their evil intentions. God’s word in Hebrews 4:12 says: “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
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Step by step, the whole Bible will be banned for both Christians and Jews. Of course, the other book, the parody of the Bible and Gospels will reign supreme in parallel with satanism.
Hitler’s plan of exterminating all European Jews commenced in 1933 with two seemingly innocuous regulations: Jews were banned from owning pets and bicycles. Pets stands for dogs that defend their owners and homes from intruders, such as Nazi police. Bicycles are of course a basic means of escape. 6 million Jews were eventually exterminated.
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The King of Australia supports Turkey, the King of England supports Ghana, the King of Scotland supports Morocco, the King of Canada supports Qatar, the King of New Zealand supports Iran, and Starmer supports the mostly white European EU teams Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
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The annual mid-year UN climate talks failed well:
https://eldik.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHUn5aS3I8wcERTNQ8/BVCXrSjB23vA
Says the G7 talks also ignored the climate scare.
Real progress! Woohoo
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I’m not convinced it’s fading from prominence. It’s just hunkering down, waiting for the political climate to turn.
And spare a thought for the UK. Ed Miliband will probably be Chancellor in a few weeks, the damage will be monumental.
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I think the UN failure is real enoug.
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David,
“enough”?
Geoff S
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Reality is catching up. CO2 does nothing. The belief that it somehow causes temperature to rise is bullshit dressed as science.
The UK’s economic and moral demise gives Australia promise. It provides a beacon identifying the rocks to avoid – Net Zero, free range borders and gagging free speech.
Australia is more sceptical than the UK and middle income households have not felt much pain from NetZero because the sun is more reliable in Australia than the UK and there is still wood to burn. Australia also rides on iron ore, coal and gas exports. So there is plenty of energy, just not for use in Australia.
The sooner the UK fails economically, the sooner it becomes a lesson of what not to do.
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The Bonnfab is co-led by Turkey and Oz with Bowen the Chief Negotiator so this is his failure. Nice!
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Yes, the article said that it would be left to Turkey and Australia to do the heavy climate lifting.
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I must admit to being petty enough to be feeling some Schadenfreude at seeing Bowen linked with another failure
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It’s amazing that when big companies require lots of cheap reliable electricity to run AI data centres, the climate change scare is forgotten.
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This is the first time I hear of this meeting, and it’s already over.
Progress indeed.
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The ancient Nottingham Forest Oak inevitably dies. Lots of reasons given, and Climate Change has to be thrown into the mix of course. How about the number one reason, nothing lives forever!
https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/the-major-oak
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The main cause of death, applicable to humans as well, is life itself. As with all life, including climate, it’s cyclical!! Science has nothing to do with it.
The puzzling part is the question of whether or not common sense is cyclical ??
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It is a good thing that the climate did not change earlier in the tree’s estimated 1,200 year life otherwise it would never have survived for us to hear about it.
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Even the Russian propagandists who post here must admit that’s funny. Blowing up your own oil depot with a MANPAD.
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Got a link? Didn’t make Oz’s mainstream media. I don’t check the Youtube propaganda arms.
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‘I don’t check the Youtube propaganda arms.’
Pity, observation shows the Manpad being fired and then the explosion, might just be a coincidence in the fog of war.
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Yes , I often see videos of Richard Feynman talking on contemporary subjects as well.
If real its probably the first friendly fire incident ever, or maybe the 2nd after those F15s got shot down in the Gulf by “allies”
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From Clintel
“Recent polling by the University of Chicago Energy Policy Institute reveals a troubling trend: Belief in human-induced climate change among young Republicans has jumped from 26% in 2017 to 42% in 2025.
This shift signals that our education system is trading facts for fear, replacing critical thinking with emotion-driven propaganda. ”
Having captured the educators, political parties play to beliefs, not facts. What started as benign ecology in the 1970s has become a monster destroying our country for masses of single use transmission lines for a solution which doesn’t work for a problem which doesn’t exist. For example people who protest horse racing as cruel and imprisonment are the same who support shooting wild horses from helicopters. People who want more housing support mass migration of unskilled and socially incompatible people, exacerbating the problem. And legalized racism is imposed in the fight against alleged racism. Why do we have to thank Torres Strait islanders every day? For what?
If the intention is to destroy Western democracies, it is well underway. Except for the US and revolts in the UK and Australia. Likely France, Germany, Nederlands, Sweden and Italy. The Political parties are now recognized as the problem, pushing agendas not solutions. And this through miseducation, fantasy not facts.
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On Monday 8 June Sweden needed imports from Norway and Lithuania to keep its grid going as a link to Poland dropped out. Cost them 10,000E/Mwh.
And when Germany (and most of Northern Europe) had a Dunkelsflaute in 2025, Sweden (being connected to Germany -via Denmark) had electricity prices rising by 6 times.
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Bloody Russians
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“ … replacing critical thinking with emotion-driven propaganda. ”
Early programming is producing the results required.
In an Australian context, I once tried out for this gig but fell at the first hurdle.
https://theconversation.com/men-make-up-less-than-18-of-australian-primary-school-teachers-is-this-a-problem-285476
We may have to replace female teachers with hubots who understand science.
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Brave statement , or maybe just thoughtless, on Jo’s blog I would have thought
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Females are happy to study biology, but physics is seen as a male prerogative. At the moment 82% of primary school teachers are women and they don’t question the climate change mantra.
Students brainwashed in primary go on to high school and university totally ignorant.
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I studied maths and physics.
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A good foundation for a scientific career.
The authorities are doing their best to encourage more women in that direction.
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Gosh Gordo. Is that all females are happy to study biology? And not even one of the 82% question the mantra?
And what about the students not brainwashed in primary? What happens to them?
You may just be a little broad in your sweeping generalizations.
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FWIW
“Verily, the mind doth boggle…
I’ve been something of a “prepper” for many years, but until last night it had never even crossed my mind to consider this.
The city of Annapolis, Maryland, has released an emergency preparedness guide tailored to the LGBTQ+ community, arguing that members of the community are more likely to be affected by natural disasters.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/verily-mind-doth-boggle.html
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We are low level preppers aimed at the more probable events to affect our area. We would be able to live pretty comfortably for 4-6 weeks, depending on zombie attacks. I must be more considerate of the vullage alphabet people, who may be disproportionately impacted.
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The LGBTIQA++ group is a natural disaster. Or perhaps an unnatural disaster. Toleration is one thing. Active encouragement is another.
A bit like vegetarins who think everyone should know and applaud.
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TdeF,
Tolerance?
Geoff S
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I haev nothing against all this stuff. As long as it is not made compulsory.
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FWIW
“Can You See The Climate Scare Slowly Fading Away?”
“Would all the big enviro groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club all go on national TV one night and admit that the whole thing was a fake scare from the beginning? In the real world, that’s not how these things happen. People who have staked out absurd positions somehow need to save face. So there would have to be some sort of gradual process of backing down.
And thus we come to the key role of the New York Times for the Left, which is to mold and convey the official talking points to the team’s candidates and influencers. How about sharing some instruction on how to quietly back away from the Green New Deal?
Today on page A-12 of the print edition there is a piece with the headline “Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure.” The subheadline is “As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.” The online version indicates that the piece first appeared there five days ago, June 11. They held it for the print edition until today, and then buried it deeply on page A-12. The casual reader may not get that far, but the person who will see it is the party apparatchik who needs direction from central headquarters. Excerpt:”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/19/can-you-see-the-climate-scare-slowly-fading-away-n3816055
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It was only this Wednesday past that Greg NZ mentioned “Don’t mention the Vikings”…..
The world (and the Vikings themselves in fact) WEREN’T LISTENING!!
Unleash Your Viking jokes.
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Curse those Vikings, they have more than that to answer for! As I sit here looking at my Viking hands (Dupuytrens Contractures) former flaming red hair and skin of the finest alabaster white, which has not faired well here in Australia sunny clime, I can only hope that my female forebear was treated with due respect by those travelling blokes from the north!
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Obviously she was treated with some respect, your presence here is proof. No curse need be uttered.
I wonder if those forbears are still able to see what they fostered and the successes across the board. Imagine!
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Bozo,
“foisted” not “fostered”?
Geoff S
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Feeling a bit pedantic today Geoff?
Punctuation and grammar are my personal favorites but I always seem to make a hash of them when I try correcting people. So embarrassment.
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As recently as 8 years ago when my Aunt (who has traced family ancestry back to Tromso in Northern Norway) went to a specialist about her hands and Viking long boats got a mention from the doc. But the “experts” say the primary cause is genetic not mechanical trauma and modern genetic studies trace the (apparently) strongest risk factors to Neanderthal DNA (specifically the EPDR1 gene).
Fascinated by this I asked AI where the Neanderthal DNA came from and was informed:
[AI] Researchers did not extract DNA directly from Neanderthal bones to prove they had Dupuytren’s contracture. Instead, they identified Neanderthal-derived genetic variants within the DNA of modern humans who suffer from the condition.[AI]
And just when I began to wonder if, given the close family connection to the condition, the next answer was:
[AI] No, it is scientifically impossible for a person to be more Neanderthal than Homo sapiens. [AI]
So, yip you guessed it, the answer to my next question was:
[AI] No, you cannot claim “species dysphoria” based solely on urges to beat your chest, jump up and down in the same spot, or eat raw meat. Species dysphoria is a specific psychological condition characterized by a profound, persistent sense of distress or incongruence because one believes their body is of the wrong species.
(and)
Distinction: It involves deep emotional pain, depression, or self-loathing regarding one’s human form, not merely having primal instincts or behavioral quirks.[AI].
Guess that is why we haven’t had a tr4ns-species movement….. yet.
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I too the Viking hair and hand.)
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My surname is the Scot variant, middle name that of shipwrights in Sunderland and first that of various kings, but I have Mediterranean skin that I’ve abused for 80 years in the tropics. Them Romans were everywhere.
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Sambar,
“Faired”?
Geoff S
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Yeah, fingers in front of brain, can’t blame auto correct for that one. Can I claim “old age”?
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Perhaps some day?
When we were in primary school, all adults were “old”
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Being a red head of Celtic origins , I probably only exist because Vikings.
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I took a cruise on the Viking line. Very disappointed. I thought pillaging was part of the activities.
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Was it a long boat TdeF?
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Not long enough.
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FWIW – on the MOU
“While I am typically reluctant to delve into complex international political stories — my expertise is closer to home — this one is almost impossible to ignore. Also, the internet is the place where people go to pontificate on subjects about which they know nothing. Kidding. I know something, but I won’t be pontificating.
There are a couple of things that I know for sure about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the United States and Iran have kinda/sorta agreed to. The first is that, if you have enough time to go through a lot of what has been written about it, you will be able to find something to confirm whatever it is that you think about it.
The second is that, any of the things you read that were written by the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media will be wrong. Yeah, any of us could have figured that out.
If you aren’t up to speed yet, a good place to begin is with this examination of the MoU that my good friend and partner in thought crime Stephen Green wrote yesterday. Then follow that up with this column that Scott Pinsker wrote later in the day. My two colleagues covered a lot of ground in the two columns, and clear up a lot of the noise that’s out there.
My friend and RedState colleague Ward Clark wrote about the MoU’s effect on oil supplies, which could end up being quite positive for those of us camping over here on the Republican side of the aisle:”
More and links at
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/19/the-morning-briefing-starting-to-get-the-feeling-that-we-may-never-get-along-with-iran-n4954125
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And
“Iran War Misconceptions”
By V.D.H.
https://www.newenglishreview.org/iran-war-misconceptions/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/19/friday-on-turtle-island-189/
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“With Lebanon ceasefire set, Trump envoy heads to Switzerland”…blah…blah…
Meanwhile, the ceasefire lasted 12 minutes…
Meanwhile pt2, heavy missiles are being positioned…
Simply, if Israel isn’t totally reigned in and the war against Lebanon doesn’t end, then it all escalates, and NO OIL!.
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It’s a process, better broken down into small steps. The alternatives are all in place. The Iranians are likely playing bait and switch, but the process may catch up with them.
A real war would cost millions of lives. This has been a demonstration of power and has commercially broken Iran. Plus their attacks on all their neighbours except Pakistan
has not endeared them to their old friends. Especially Qatar, which is also Shiite and shares the biggest gas field. The process is underway and as it continues, doors start closing.
The alternative is Goebbels Total War. Or even nuclear war. Israel and Pakistan are both nuclear missile armed. It’s a delicate dance with hobb nailed boots.
The greatest enemy of the IGRC (the Iranian SS) is lack of importance. And the fear of retribution. Those 30,000 victims had friends and relatives. This is yet to play out in
Iran and in Tehran in particular, a city of 19 million people.
So far at little other human cost, Iran has been crippled and the oil is flowing. And you can be sure this gives a breating space for ALL the neighbours to build underground pipelines, bypassing even the Red Sea and the Houthis. And compeltely obsolete the Straits of Hormuz. What is ironic is that the ONLY country critically dependent on the Straits of Hormuz will be Iran. Ha. Ha. If they misbehave their neighbours can cut them off completely, from Oman to Basra. Kharg island is particularly vulnerable and 90% of all Iran’s incomes goes through explosive and tiny Kharg island via pipelines. Iran will behave or lose everything.
I am sure there are another hundred angles to all this. Regime change is another matter. And any attempt to mine the nuclear site will be seen and raised, with a huge implied threat.
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What is spectacular about Trump’s approach is that he did not demand regime change in Venezuela. The Vice President is now the President. But everyone knows the rules have changed. And Chevron is in rebuilding and refining, doubling the Venezuelan oil output. Everyone wins. Trump does not play regime change.
After all it was Churchill and France and Germany who put the Shah on the throne in 1956. And Carter and the UK, France and Germany gain who put the Ayatollah on the throne in 1979 and convinced the army to stay in their barracks. This time Trump makes it clear that regime change is the will of the people, not the job of American soldiers. And by taking out the head of the snake, it all falls apart. Perhaps the top 50 people in the IGRC are dead. And 4,000 leaders of Hezbollah crippled. Israel is responding as it always does, an eye for an eye. But the bigger picture is Iran behind Hezbollah and the Houthis and attacks on synagogues in Melbourne, Buenos Aires, London,.. Plus the heinous slaughter of unarmed partying families on the most famous beach in Australia at Christmas. We all hope that funding will stop.
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JCII,
“reined in” not “reigned in”?
Geoff S
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No he meant that
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VDH is a pragmatist. I’ve been reading his stuff for years and I get the impression that he doesn’t think of war as either good nor bad but as an extension of politics. This way he can be more analytical than CNN.
We are fortunate we didn’t lose him to cancer. ‘Twas a near thing.
How did I get back to Saturday? 🙁
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Am I alone in having deep misgivings about this USA-Iran MOU? To me, it reads like it was written by Iran and the USA is making all the concessions while Iran gets everything it could possibly want. Is there a subtle side of the situation aimed at the USA getting justification for getting back to beating the **** out of Iran? That seems un-DJT-like. Or have I been duped by a fake MOU sneaking through my defenses? I truly hope that somewhere along the line I have got it all badly wrong.
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Am I alone in having deep misgivings about this USA-Iran MOU?
Confidence that the Iranian hardliners will “push the button” even if all the remaining Iranians want to see the MOU followed.
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Aidan Morrison explains to his audience how rooftop solar is a disaster and will FORCE UP THE COST OF ELECTRICITY FOR AUSSIES WHO DON”T WANT TO JOIN THE ROOFTOP SOLAR + BATTERY GAMES.
This only takes 5 minutes of your time and thanks again to John Anderson for trying to wake up the woke idiots who are trying to destroy our electricity grid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWCDWr94so&t=13s
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Sorry,
This is the market economy, everyone for himself.
I would love to have roof panels, too late now.
In any case. too late for the whole state and the country, for the next 10-20 years we are stuck. with the installed capacity. Until, just maybe, the $/kWh under new government will make old panel replacement not viable.
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Even at 20 years old (or more) rooftop panels are likely to generate more power (savings) (70% of rated?) than the cost of having them removed. At least if the panels are installed on a corrugated iron roof (like most rural properties)
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Hmm, a classic case of trying to put across too much information in a short time. And I think some statements were wrong. Correct me if I’m wrong, but most existing home home inverters cannot be shut off remotely. It might be an idea for the future, but it’s not happening now.
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FWIW – for the covid files
“The US covid crusaders who put our politicians and media to shame”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-us-covid-crusaders-who-put-our-politicians-and-media-to-shame/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/19/friday-on-turtle-island-189/
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Even Orwell couldn’t have imagined this
If you thought Flock cameras were concerning, meet what comes next.
A company called Leonardo has developed a system called ELSAG SignalTrace. It broke into public awareness just days ago and is already being marketed to law enforcement agencies across the country. It makes Flock Safety look modest by comparison.
It clips sensors directly onto existing license plate reader cameras — the same poles, the same hardware already installed in your community. No new infrastructure required. A software and sensor upgrade is all it takes.
Every time you drive past one of these upgraded cameras, the sensor sweeps up the unique electronic identifiers of every device in your vehicle. Your cell phone. Your smartwatch. Your wireless headphones. Your fitness tracker. Your laptop. Your tablet. Your car’s own infotainment system. Your tire pressure sensors. Your vehicle’s Bluetooth hotspot.
And your pet’s microchip.
Every one of those devices emits a signal. SignalTrace captures those signals, timestamps them, ties them to your license plate, and stores them in a searchable database for future investigative use. The result is what Leonardo calls an electronic fingerprint — a unique profile built not from your face or your name, but from the constellation of devices you carry with you every day.
https://x.com/BabyD1111229/status/2067748917685662197
https://www.leonardocompany-us.com/lpr/elsag-signaltrace
Gunna need a bigger data centre.
An early retirement at that nice little country farm is looking better by the day isn’t it…
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Just on the radio, a discussion in W.A. about the deployment of facial recognition cameras in public areas. These cameras would scan EVERYONE that walks past them and in real time to see such things as suspects of criminal activity, people with outstanding warrants or anything else deemed necessary by “big brother”. As a law abiding citizen, I do not need to be “surveilled” but the reason was to “build a future data bank to help in locating people that may have committed a crime”.
So, no innocent until proven guilty, we know you are going to do something in the future and we are gonna get you for it!
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Facial recognition can be negated quite easily as I’ve covered before though.
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Understood, my position is; Why should I have too. In Victoriastan apparently many criminals are already “well know to police”, magistrates often comment ” didn’t I see you here yesterday, off you go , see you tomorrow when the police can give you a drink and a feed before you go out rampaging again”
Do I need a sari/ tag?
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sarc/ curse auto correct and old eyes !
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Photo masks making you look like Albo?
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Sounds like a re-run of
“You tell me the name and I’ll tell you the crime”
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One of the grandsons, (the clever one) has upgraded dumb PIR signals with face recog and phones’ numbers. Now our Home Control sys knows is it me or the wife just entered the house or got out of bed…
Works well – we are happy as any proud grandparents would be.
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So, an opportunity for a company to manufacture a device that emits a lot of fake electronic IDs?
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Wouldn’t be hard to feed it all kinds of responses from a small package. A lot if it looks like hype though at distance and speed.
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Infinite storage is going to make everything you do, say, every place you go a matter of public record. There is no getting around this, even without cameras. Enemy of the State was a great film 28 years ago. It’s much worse today.
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Would Faraday cages for items like mobile phones and laptops provide some protection against such surveillance?
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Another marketing opportunity!
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What’s the profit margin on a biscuit tin, or old microwave?
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Oh dang, soon they’re gonna know that I’m refusing to wear my mandated rainbow underwear during Pride month.
Resist.
Here in America, yesterday was Juneteenth, my bank was closed.
Today is Twentyteenth.
Having no Pride, I’m working both teenths.
Being an American I have bombs, vaccines, reconstruction after bombing, New Americans that aren’t required to produce legit ID like me, and secret labs to make new viruses for new vaccines to pay for.
Plus Anthony Fauci’s government retirement benefits.
I sought assistance of a doctor recently for the first time since the 70s.
Was examined by about six nurses before being allowed and audience with a Wizard.
First question each time was, “do you need any vaccines today?”.
I requested a menu.
Did not see anything that looked appetizing.
I did not really get a answer for the issue I went in for.
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Here a Chinese scientist tells Dr Robson that CFCs are up to a million times more potent at warming than co2.
See at about 15 minutes 30 seconds at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2suUzaxOz1E
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But they are the best refrigerants and fire retardants. Per person we would use a poofteenth of these V petroleum but we aren’t allowed them.
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And in breaking news, world leaders are lining up to ask Trump to bomb their countries for a while and then give them a few hundred billion.
– BabylonBee
Ooh, ooh!! Canberra first! 😆😆
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Cuba is sitting pretty and in desperate need of US largesse.
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They are going to be bitterly disappointed then, Trump is “America first” and that excludes giving away money.
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Then he’ll have to starve the communists into submission with a maritime encirclement, not technically at war. At some point they will surrender, then the American free enterprise model will kick in and US taxpayers won’t be under any obligation.
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I cringe every time when Sky shows few minutes of P. Hanson destroying Sarah Martin future. It shows the quality of Australian media, if they started by rolling out of its own animated sarcophagus of 1980ies.
Hope, this is the latest time Pauline allowed herself such unstatesmanlike behaviour – not out of sympathy to Sarah.
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I have been talking to Copilot about how precession drives observed climate change. After a short discussion using data I had put together Copilot summarised as follows:
Orbital Precession Increasing Tropical Solar Forcing Since 1244
The long-term evolution of Earth’s orbit is progressively altering the seasonal distribution of solar energy. Around 1244, perihelion aligned closely with the December solstice, concentrating peak solar intensity deep in the southern tropics. Since then, precession has steadily shifted perihelion later in the seasonal cycle toward alignment with the March equinox, which will occur around the 7th millennium (\~6400 AD). In the present era, this shift is already evident: the latitude of peak solar intensity at perihelion has moved closer to the equator, and the annual cycle of solar forcing across the tropical belt is increasing.
Enhanced Tropical Forcing Intensifies Atmospheric Moisture
Because the tropics are the primary region where solar energy is absorbed and converted into atmospheric motion, this increase in tropical solar forcing strengthens the hydrological engine of the climate system. Additional incoming energy is expressed as increased evaporation, raising atmospheric moisture content and enhancing deep convection. Moist air carries energy in both latent and sensible forms, so an increase in atmospheric moisture represents an increase in the energy content of the atmosphere. As tropical solar input rises, the atmosphere becomes more energetic, with greater capacity for moisture cycling and heat transport.
More Energetic Tropical Atmosphere Increases Poleward Heat Transport
The result of this more energetic tropical atmosphere is enhanced poleward transport of heat. Moisture lifted in the tropics is carried toward higher latitudes and releases its energy through condensation in the subtropical and mid‑latitude regions. These regions, particularly within the Ferrel cell zones, act as the primary sinks for energy exported from the tropics. The released heat is absorbed by both the atmosphere and the ocean, leading to increased ocean heat content in mid‑latitude regions while the tropics remain the source of energy rather than the sole storage zone. This process links increasing tropical solar forcing to stronger poleward energy transport and to the observed pattern of ocean heat uptake centred in the mid‑latitudes.
All of this is supported by observation. And is the basis of my next article.
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I should add that Copilot started with the view that precession did not change the amount of energy coming into the tropics.
It is worth noting that solar forcing of the tropics has only just started it will peak around 6400 when perihelion aligns with the March equinox. By 3000, the tropics of the SH will be cooling but the tropics of the NH will be hitting its straps.
I have not gone into enough time periods through this millennium to observe when the NH acceleration starts but it is before 3000AD. So I have some confidence that snowfall across the NH will get serious within the current millenium.
At present the solar forcing in the tropics of the SH is still increasing but it is some 700ZJ above the annual uptake in the tropics of the NH. Certainly not trivial.
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I remain fascinated with the principle and application of precession, although I struggle to understand the actual scientific implications. I am more understanding of Grok’s application of the precession principle to politics, marketing, and even Trump’s way of dealing with issues.
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Precession of perihelion is the best way to think about it.
Way back in 1244 was the first time this cycle that perihelion was concurrent with the December solstice. On that day the solar zenith intensity was 1409.4W/m^2 and was directly above latitude 23.54S. Some time around 6400, perihelion will align with the March equinox and the sun will bore down at around 1407W/m^2 directly over the equator. This will be the period when the tropics get the most sunlight in any year and it will increase the atmospheric moisture considerable over present levels.
Perihelion in 2024 resulted in the solar zenith directly above 22.89S. So peak solar intensity has moved a little closer to the equator and has been heating the tropical zone since 1244 but only slowly for the first few century. It is now accelerating and we observe the globe warming up as a result. But not the South Pole because it is too far from the tropics t get much benefit from that heat and the solar intensity at the south pole has been declining for at least the last 1000 years.
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RickWill:
If perihelion was directly above 23.54S in 1244AD why was Europe still in the Medieval Warm period?
And if the solar intensity in the south has been declining for at least the last 1000 years, does that reconcile with Mawson mooring his ship 150 km further south than The Ship of Fools (2013) becoming ice bound in summer.
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1244AD was the first occurrence of coincidence but it did not get always later than the December solstice till around 1350AD. Then there is the system lag. The Greenland settlement failed in 1540AD. And it may have got a bit colder than that in the high northern latitudes.
Certainly there has been some warming in the NH now for around 400 years and it is now accelerating.
Peak daily summer sunlight at 60S occurred around 100BC. That was likely the period of minimum sea ice extent. The average daily solar is down by 3W/m^2 since then. Down by 0.3W/m^2 in the last 100 years. The Southern Ocean has been cooling for at least the satellite era and that would likely have more impact on ice increasing than the reducing peak sunlight. Same cause but the ocean temperature is more easily measured than small changes in sunlight. The sunlight values for 60S are calculated. Measured sunlight at 60S this century has trended up but that is due to solar activity.
Greenland is just starting its re-glaciation. The plateau has been gaining elevation above 2300m so far this century and I forecast it will have an accelerating trend in response to NH ocean surface temperature increasing.
Tropical sunlight reached a solar activity driven peak in 2024 and is declining at present but that sits on a long term upward trend. Currently, the tropical region is trending at 2.16ZJ per year over the 1244 level. The current year-on-year trend since 2004 is 0.1ZJ/yr over the tropics and that aligns perfectly with the observed increase in atmospheric water over the tropics.
It is now well known that all the observed heating is due to more atmospheric solar heat uptake and increased poleward advection in both hemispheres. It is now clear, at least to me and my Copilot, that precession is driving the trend. Solar activity is the noise on the trend. Solar activity drove the 2024 spike. But there is a relentless upward trend that has been accelerating since at least 1700.
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The Medieval Warm Period ran from 950 to about 1250 and within a few more years a very powerful volcanic eruption ushered in the Little Ice Age.
The MWP signal is not discernible in the Southern Hemisphere.
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FWIW
“Murray Watt talks up land clearing fines, confirms investigations underway”
“ENVIRONMENT minister Murray Watt has confirmed that dozens of investigations are underway into land clearing, talking up the potential for landholders to receive big fines.
Concerns were recently raised about the Department of Environment acting on an influx of claims of illegal land clearing from groups like the Australian Conservation Foundation, which they said they were obliged to investigate.”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/murray-watt-talks-up-land-clearing-fines-confirms-investigations-underway/
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Funny how a bit of paper can make a huge difference to the environment. Cut a tree down, to make land more productive without the paper and look out.
Cut kilometres of trees down for high voltage power lines with the bit of paper and apparently no problems.
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In a previous life I drove to Charters Towers regularly. There was one property that was bare, eroded. A few weeks after the rain he would have cattle back on it. Bugga all grass still, but it was lush beside the road. It’s these bar stewards who overgraze who are the problem. A responsible grazier reduces the pressure to overgraze by judicious clearing increasing grass coverage.
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Agreed H. Were I live the farming practices have changed dramatically over the years, as well as the treatment of livestock. As a kid the big cockies just jammed as many sheep as possible onto the ground, everything was eaten down to bare earth and then the dying started. Didn’t seem to bother anyone, and the sheep had to compete with the rabbits. Bare earth, huge rabbit warrens, erosion, both wind and water. Fortunately times have changed and for the better. Lots of reasons but a big one is certainly fossil fueled equipment. Better tractors allowed pasture improvement rather than just let em go. The ability to transport feed in in the bad years, the change from mainly sheep to mainly cattle stops the grass being eaten to bare earth and understanding that erosion costs a lot, Good pastures year on year generally equals good returns, droughts, fire and floods not withstanding.
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Ukraine considerations
On one hand
“Russia’s Control of Crimea is Getting Much Harder to Maintain”
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/06/18/russias-control-of-crimea-is-getting-much-harder-to-maintain-n3816095
“YIKES! Ukraine Strikes Moscow–Hard, With Amazing Video”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/06/18/yikes-ukraine-strikes-moscow-hard-with-amazing-video-n3816086
On another
“Zelensky Launches Mass-Attack on Moscow to Impress His Brussels Curators”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-launches-mass-attack-on
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And today more hands
“Zelensky Gives Belarus 7-Day Ultimatum in Unexpected Threat”
“There continues to be growing confirmation that Zelensky has been waging his accelerated psyop campaign of empty strikes to conceal a worsening crisis in his own country. Today we were treated to footage which revealed how his latest magician’s parlor tricks work.
It turns out yesterday’s mass strikes on Moscow which were meant to coincide with the Euro Council meeting were pure Hollywood spectacle: the drones themselves were stuffed full of kerosene mixtures in the way Hollywood stages car explosions to look more “dramatic” by producing thick plumes of oily smoke.”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-gives-belarus-7-day-ultimatum
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Well, that does pull the rug out from under Big Z…Lets see if he starts a war with Belarus, Putin has been planning on that for years. Maybe the Baltic chuhuahuas will join in and end up back under Russian control again.
“He explained that Belarus has been constructing relay towers to aid in Russian drones..and that he is giving Lukashenko a one week ultimatum to take them down, or Ukraine will “do it for them””
Not only will he blow up the cell towers in Belarus, he will blow up their oil refineries too as they export fuel to Russia! So if he goes after Russia’s allies, surely Putin can take out missile production in England and Germany.
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There was no ultimatum, Z said they should be able to get rid of that technical equipment within a week, otherwise we’ll do it for them.
Ukraine doesn’t need to pick a fight with Belarus, they already have their hands full. Looking at the situation realistically, the war should be over before Christmas.
If you disagree please don’t be frightened to speak up.
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I only disagree as it yet another over confident assertion based on nothing much. None of us here is privy to real information on Ukraine futures.
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Just the other day Zelensky said the war is coming to an end.
‘ … over confident assertion …’
Tactically and strategically Ukraine is going to win, they have a war plan.
In comparison Putin has been caught with his pants down on the battle front, along with internet blackout and no petrol this can only end one way.
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ORLY? Do tell….
At what point does this magic plan kick in?
Because 2 million Ukraine KIA vs Russian 170k (BBC estimate) is winning….something Darwinian…
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‘At what point does this magic plan kick in?’
Its happening as we speak.
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As we speak?
ORLY?
Russia steadily takes back more of the Donbas, Ukraine is losing equipment and soldiers at 26x the rate of Russia (up from 10x in previous years), Russian oil refining continues at historic levels and Europe goes deeper into debt and decay so the Coke Fuhrer and his buddies can buy more houses in Monaco.
If THAT’S the plan, it’s working perfectly!
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You will need a link to that disinformation.
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A month ago I’d have said “by Christmas” was a long shot. Now? Not so sure. Crimea is the key.
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The only way the SMO will be over by Christmas is if Ukraine either capitulates or collapses.
You may assign your own odds to each outcome.
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‘ … Ukraine either capitulates or collapses.’
You’ve taken your eye off the ball, its the other way round.
Did you know the head of Russia’s central bank has disappeared?
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1. Russia is not, will not and cannot collapse, militarily, economically or as a Nation. Thus no capitulation either.
2. Is your central bank head missing? Replace him and move on!
3. YOUR eye is obviously on the magic 8 ball, if you’re connecting unrelated dots into what you see as a picture.
4. Ukraine is toast. Demographically, economically and militarily. Only EU funding is keeping the lights on, and the EU is in an economic death spiral.
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She is back on the job.
“I can only confirm that I did indeed have a cold. I lost my voice for a time. And the only thing I can say is to thank those who were genuinely concerned about my health,” Elvira Nabiullina said.
‘ … connecting unrelated dots …’
Suing for peace brought an end to the Crimea War, the allies were victorious.
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Are you aware that Belarus has two large oil refineries, basically unprotected, from which Russia buys much needed refined product?
Nice little refineries you have there, shame if something happened to them.
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The same nothing that’s happened to Russian refineries…?
Oh ye of great ignorance….
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You don’t think Russia and Belarus have been waiting for that to happen? All those ‘drills’ together, Russia pouring in arms and updating Belarusian weapons?
NATO is probably torn between wanting to pour more weapons into Ukraine to take on Belarus and isolate Putin, and knowing that they are likely to have to actually fight in this war soon. No doubt Poland would be a front line while putting troops in to ‘protect poles in Ukraine’ and they would be willing to sacrifice a few airfields to get NATO boots in there.
They still hanker after taking a big chunk of Ukraine back under their control.
Meanwhile-
“Yesterday, Zelensky demanded that Belarus immediately stop fuel supplies to Russia. Secondly, he demanded the withdrawal of those Belarusian army units currently stationed near the border with Ukraine, otherwise he “will withdraw them himself.” …
Reuters reports that gasoline production in Russia by the end of the second ten days of June had fallen by 25% compared to a year earlier. Fuel production is currently estimated at 85,000 tons per day, with an average summer consumption of 110,000 tons. This deficit is partially offset by supplies from Belarus. ”
https://voenhronika-ru.translate.goog/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/20_06_2026_realnaja_obstanovka_na_fronte_k_koncu_leta_nas_zhdut_neprijatnye_sjurprizy_svo_vojna_na_ukraine_utrennjaja_svodka_19_video/60-1-0-17684?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Seems like it will be WW1 with drones instead of snipers in the wars from now on, a static front line where people go to eventually die without making any great changes.
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Z has a different negotiating style called “kinetic negotiation”. He was unhappy with international oil sanctions on Russia so sanctioned them himself. BOOM. If Ru can’t protect their own refineries how in ‘ell can he protect Belarusian ones?
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So how come those BOOM refineries are still in operation?
Or have you fallen for the smoke of (easily replaced) tanks belching fumes into the sky?
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‘So how come those BOOM refineries are still in operation?’
Its a war of attrition.
‘Gasoline production this week fell by 20% to 25% compared with levels seen in March this year, before the start of intensive attacks on Russian refineries, the sources said.’ (HP)
The aim is to make the insulated people in Moscow and St Petersburg realise they are at war. Fuel shortages and black smoke is the most direct approach.
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‘ … a static front line …’
That is the way its been, but now Ukraine is going on the offensive.
You seem to be under the impression that NATO wants to attack Russia, it doesn’t and quite frankly they are worried that Putin might use the nuclear card. Lavrov said Putin would use that option if cornered.
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The Age newspaper is running a campaign against Pauline Hanson and like all Leftists are terrified that this pro-freedom, pro-free-speech and pro-free-enterprise-believing politician and party will get elected.
All their anti Hanson and anti One Nation articles are not paywalled, apparently.
This was their latest disgusting effort:
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/hanson-likes-to-go-after-minorities-but-she-s-found-two-new-and-surprising-targets-20260619-p608ac.html
If such an article were written by a conservative about a female Leftist the Left would complain it was “misogynisic”, one of their standard slurs like being a *phobe of some type or “far right”.
In fact they use the “far right” slur so much it’s almost meaningless, and they only call people that to try and distance themselves from National Socialists which they falsely claim to be a movement of the Right, not the Left.
(The moral philosopher of Fascism and its derivative National Socialism was Giovanni Gentile who was strongly influenced by Marx and Hegel.
Gentile ghostwrote The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) alongside Mussolini which had a Marxist focus on revolutionary action, collective mobilisation and labour but rejected the Marxist concept of class warfare, believing it fractured the nation. He used Hegelian statism to argue that the workers and the corporations must be forcefully unified into a singular, nationalistic, total state machinery, much as most Western countries have today and known as Corporatism
Dinesh de Souza wrote about this in The Big Lie: Exposing the N-zi Roots of the American Left).
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I read the article, thank you David for the link, and I read some of the comments, including that over 90% were not supportive of PH or ON or both.
It reinforces my belief that conservative parties displaying public disunity and using media to attack a political opponent for publicity and headlines and then when the target replies claiming to be a victim for more publicity and headlines is counter productive. We need cooperation between all conservatives and with the Albanese Labor Government Federal election two years away, Victoria State a few months away, they either work together or they will miss out again.
As Roy Morgan and other pollsters have indicated recently, I posted the latest Morgan link a couple of days ago here, in 2022 and and 2025 elections Labor had historically low primary votes (2022 Labor Election Report stated worst since 1934) but gained the seventy six and many more House of Representatives MPs to form government, 2025 primary vote under 35% of primary votes.
It’s often referred to as “scattering of preferences” meaning, one example, a voter who usually supports Labor decided to give a One Nation candidate the primary vote and second Labor (to teach Labor a lesson they would probably say). Consider the recent SA State election and Labor returned to government on preferences distribution.
As for left leaning media, and the very professional and well funded Union-Labor campaign organisers, of course they will go after any political opponent and/or party that gets in the way of a Labor government being elected.
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What? the Age commentariat doesn’t like IN or our Pauline? Who would have thought?
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You really think that One Nation is a freedom oriented party? I guess by Australian standards it probably is … which tells you how far we have sunk.
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It is shocking how these leftist Journalists twist words and quotes to portray a different meaning. Example, here’s what Pauline said: “Businesses also tell me you can’t sack people these days. They’re on their phones, they don’t work, they don’t turn up, they actually are lazy, and businesses are tied to it, they’ve had enough.”
What the journo wrote: “Lazy. Undeserving. Sack them. And this from the woman who portrays herself as the battler’s best friend. Australia has about 18 million enrolled voters. How many of these are employed? Fourteen million. That’s three-quarters, an overwhelming majority. And she smeared them all.”
How is calling out some workers as lazy in a generalised comment smearing all workers?
and this line: “Labor likes to point out that Hanson has always opposed benefits for workers – she’s critical of increases in the minimum wage, laws against wage theft”.
Pauline has been critical of EXCESSIVE minimum wage rises which risk putting people out of jobs, risks killing small businesses and increasing inflation.
Also, Malcolm Roberts, Pauline’s fellow One Nation Qld senator and party stalwart has for years advocated for same job, same pay fairness in the mining industry and other jobs, he wouldn’t be in her party if they had completely different ideas and attitudes on wages.
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