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How good is it for the DEI movement that the world’s first trillionaire is an African-American?
Although I guess that with Robert Mugabe’s superb economic management of Zimbabwe, back in the day, there must have been a few trillionaires there given the largest banknote was $100 trillion. At least Mr Musk is a US dollar trillionaire.
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Thankfully, Elon is a fully assimilated American and doesn’t consider himself a hyphenated American. He certainly found more opportunity here than he would have in South Africa, and fits in better here than he did in Canada.
As far as him being a trillionaire, I’m less impressed with that than I am with the 4,400 people at SpaceX who became millionaires at the same time (out of a company of 10,000). Including quite a few low-wage blue collar types who maxed out their ESOP contributions over the past 15 years and dumped all their bonuses into stock rather than taking cash payouts. Now SpaceX has cafeteria workers and janitors and welders with 7-figure net worths. That’s a great story that the press has little interest in because it violates their ‘trillionaires are evil’ narrative.
I’d also add that Elon’s trillion further illustrates the lunacy of a wealth tax. Almost all of his wealth is on paper. It fluctuates WILDLY from day to day, week to week, and month to month. During the DOGE madness when progressives were burning down Tesla dealerships, Tesla lost nearly half of it’s paper value. Tesla stock has always moved that way, up 75% one day then down 50% the next. Over the long haul, that 25% gain is pretty sweet, but it’s not for the faint of heart and depending when the tax man decides to calculate your ‘wealth’ it could be devastating. If SpaceX moves the same way, Musk could be a ‘mere’ half-trillionaire by the end of next week before rebounding six months from now to be a trillion-and-a-half-naire. If they were to tax him at a peak in his net worth rather than a valley, he might have to liquidate a large chunk of his holdings to pay his taxes, which would result in a market run on the stock and hurt everyone who holds it.
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“If they were to tax him at a peak in his net worth rather than a valley, he might have to liquidate a large chunk of his holdings to pay his taxes, which would result in a market run on the stock and hurt everyone who holds it.”
He might have reached the level where if your mortgage is big enough its the bank manager who lies awake at night worrying, not you. The IRS would be fairly careful in what they pushed, as not only does he have a high public profile, he can take his toys to another sandpit and that would really hurt the Govt.
I figure they’re best to leave him with as much money as possible and see where he goes, he will drag America up with him.
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I would like to believe that, but government bureaucrats operate under different rules than bank managers. Bank managers get fired if they lose a whale account. Bureaucrats aren’t held accountable for losing a whale taxpayer. They aren’t accountable for anything.
After all, just look at what happened with Musk in California. They did their best to chase him out of the state for decades, and eventually succeeded, taking his monstrous tax base with him. Not just his own personal taxes, but those of all the employees he took with him and of all the employees he would have hired in future endeavors. Those 4400 newly minted SpaceX millionaires won’t be paying a penny of California income tax, or sales taxes, or gas taxes … but they might have if California politicians had worked with him rather than demonizing him.
If California bureaucrats were dumb enough to chase him away, then I see no reason to believe Washington DC bureaucrats wouldn’t do the same.
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Musk’s greatest achievement may be to have extracted a concession from you that at least one Yank is doing something right.
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Yes he,also realises they are not above criticism either
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There is a big difference between “criticism” and “constant nagging”. I stand by my claim.
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Steve,
It is unwise for people to have personal wealth greater than they need or can manage. Look at the economic failure rate of people who win lotteries.
Just like many people want to become top golfers when only a few were born with the necessaries, so it is with money management.
People with excessive personal wealth often think it gives them a social licence to boss other people about. As I write this, Malcolm Turnbull is being discussed on radio. Geoff S
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On the 10th and 11th of June, there was a Science Misinformation Symposium held in Sydney.
While I cannot fairly comment on the content, as I don’t know what was said, the programme presenters do not look like they hold a very diverse range of perspectives.
https://smc.org.au/sms-program
The who’s-who of the Australian Science Media Centre doesn’t necessarily inspire confidence either. I guess it’s possible there are some reasonable people there…?
https://www.smc.org.au/about-us
Sure, there is a lot of junk “science” around, but it does seem to me that very often, the loudest voices advocating for “trust” in this arena are not really on the side of the scientific method.
Don’t worry though, if you disagree with me, you can donate to the “Friends of Evidence” group, because nothing says honesty in STEM like a not-for-profit money magnet that has to spell this out:
“…A new, non-partisan initiative that brings together individuals and organisations committed to supporting the visibility, credibility and reach of trustworthy science…”
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As more and more people wake up to the junk anti-science of the Left, more and more of the Left are pushing for laws against questioning (i.e. in favour of censoring) the Official Narrative on anthropogenic global warming etc…
Some Leftist on ABC Radio (Australia) was discussing their concerns about supposed misinformation (i.e. truth, questioning the Official Narrative) the other day.
The Left are terrified of losing control of the Official Narrative. Censorship is the only weapon they have left which is why leftists always support censorship.
Make no mistake.
Censorship laws of scientific or other opinions not in accordance with the Official Narrative is definitely on the Agenda.
Australia is already off to a (not so) great start with banning of access to under 16’s of social media, people in their formative years, who are not allowed to have social media accounts and therefore are not exposed to alternative opinions outside what their communist “teachers” indoctrinate them into at “school”. The Official Narrative is the only one they can now easily access.
Also, political conservatives are regularly banned from coming to Australia on speaking tours.
The Australian Senate also had an inquiry into “misinformation” and “disinformation”.
Thankfully, I don’t think its recommendations were formally adopted. Although they’ll probably creep in anyway.
ABC News article:
Official Report: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrity/Report
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They want us to believe only what they believe.
No thanks.
Some of those idiots believe that a man can get pregnant!
And they’re saying we should trust the science? Make sense of that if you can.
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How can Australia tackle the scourge of online bots and trolls, and orchestrated disinformation campaigns …
Oh, that’s too easy. For a start shut down the ABC. Second test every “scientist” and academic on the public payroll for knowledge, understanding and application of the scientific method. Third use the emerging “AI” to review all publicly funded publications and statements for misinformation and disinformation, and automatically name and shame those responsible.
The authors of the senate select committee and the public serpents who wrote their report will do for starters.
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Yes, with people like this in a prominent position-
“Dr Alan Finkel AC founded biotech company Axon Instruments and edtech company Stile Education… co-founded Cosmos Magazine and has written two books, Getting to Zero, and Powering Up.”
I wasn’t surprised to hear silence from Sydney and not screaming raging arguments between scientists on opposite sides of the global warming argument. I figure everyone there was on the same page and no-one was going to question CO2’s role in the narrative.
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Disinformation on climate change is rampant.
‘And there is plenty of misinformation in other areas of science as well, such as climate change, weather and energy, further enabled and enhanced by artificial intelligence.’
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James,
You write well of a malaise in Science.
All types specialists being paid to solve misinformation while peddling it. Does it take this score of top people to solve a problem, or are they in a gravy train?
I asked Brett Sutton to withdraw one of his papers before the Covid mismanagement he co-managed. I asked the Australian Academy of Science to retract their horrible effort on the dangers to Australia of a 3 deg C rise in temperature. IIRC, I asked Alan Finkel to issue some corrections to some of his assertions.
Such was the arrogance of these ‘top’ people that they did not condescend to reply. They were so sure they knew the answers.
Give me a break!
Geoff S (a ‘hard’ scientist respecting the Scientific Method).
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My current computer printer is a Brother MFC-J4540DW.
It has the longest lasting cartridges of any printer I have ever owned and its operation is trouble-free.
So…I recommended my friend buy one, only to discover it’s been discontinued, as all good things tend to be.
The replacement product had been engineered with half the cartridge life.
However, she managed to find old stock of the discontinued model online and wasn’t forced to buy its replacement.
Incidentally, I generally never do firmware updates of printers because they are often designed to stop you using non-OEM cartridges.
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I do very little printing, and the vast majority doesn’t need colour, so I bought a cheap laser printer. I’ve had it for many years, and am still on the original toner. Much better (for my purposes anyway) than the inkjets I had before.
I think I suffer from PTSD with inkjets anyway – one of my previous roles involved ensuring that paper logs (with curves in colour) were continuous (i.e. running 24/7). It ran ok sometimes, but invariably, just as you fixed one colour, another would stop.
Maintaining that thing in a dusty, low humidity environment was enough to make Sisyphus weep.
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I assume you are referring to continuous paper feeds on continuous strip chart recorders from back in the day.
One of the most famous discoveries from continuous feed chart recorders that comes to mind is the 1967 discovery by astrophysicist Jocelyn Burnell of pulsars. Each day she had to examine 30 metres of paper looking for interesting data.
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Yes, continuous paper rolls, 1 for colour lines charts, and 1 dot-matrix for other text and numeric data.
They were off the shelf large format inkjets, and normal fan-fold dot-matrix printers, not dedicated chart recorders.
Thankfully these systems were on the way out in the early 2000s, it was a great day when we moved to win2k based systems with the digital data stored properly.
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Sick of replacing $40 cartridges (or not having a replacement Cyan at 7:30pm Sunday with a Monday morning deadline), I took a risk and bought an HP Smart Tank 7300. Unlike the Inkjet variants, where the printer is basically given away free to hook you into the cartridge ecosystem, you pay $500 for a machine that sips bulk ink that costs $50 for a set that lasts thousands of pages. Cheaper to run than my Brother B&W laser.
Quality is fine, provided you aren’t trying to print photos. Cheaper to run than my el cheapo Brother B&W laser – which now sits forlornly flashing a green ‘I’m Free’ come on.
I never thought I would ever find myself recommending an HP product.
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There speaks a man who’s never owned an HP calculator, with their 4-level RPN stack.
I owned the original HP-35 basic scientific one!
Until recently I had the HP-35s.
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Not so. Like all old timers, most of my early engineering was done on HP programable calculators, up until Lotus 123 (and after).
I still have a HP41c that has survived 40 years of attempted rationalisation – “Why on Earth are you still keeping that thing…”.
I couldn’t afford a HP35, so my first portable scientific calculator was a Sinclair solder-it-yourself kit.
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When I heard about the HP35 I was determined to get one, even though they were around $700. I was so determined that I gave up cigarettes to save the money. Cigarettes were 50 cents a packet at the time and I was smoking 60 a day, so I figured I might get my HP35 for my next birthday. When that came around the price had dropped to $350. I’ve never looked back since. Both my HP35 and HP 41 kick around in my desk drawer now while I use an RPN version on my phone.
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John,
Better explain that RPN is Reverse Polish Notation, then explain that. I also went through several HP calculators. One of my current Personal Computers is Hewlett Packard. Not very good for heavy scientific work, has clipboard overflow problems causing cut and paste errors, it has too few USB ports that have inadequate power supply – most problems seem related to its basic design of a small form factor. Size can matter. Geoff S
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Brother printer looks good.
I have tried Ink tank printers a few times. These were modified from standard printers using after market print heads connected to ink tanks next to the printers.
The problem i had both times was that after a while the printing would stop. I did not understand why and no amount of deep cleaning, soaking the print heads etc would fix it.
6 or 7 years ago I bought a Canon G4500 printer with built in print heads. Once again, before the ink tanks emptied the printing stopped, one colour at a time and finally the black.
I realised that the bubble jet print heads have a limited life. When you buy new cartridges they come with a new print head each time and that is where a lot of the cost is.
I have been able to buy new print heads for the Canon G4500 but they cost about $100 a set. I am on my 4th set now, which sadly reduces the cost advantage of the cheaper ink.
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The Karmelo Anthony Problem
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https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/06/13/the-karmelo-anthony-problem-n4953923
A whole lot of truth in there.
97% of black men and just normal law-abiding blokes who just want to take care of their families, but that other 3% are hyper-violent repeat offenders who buy into the ‘touch me and see what happens‘ ethos and are incompatible with a high-trust society. And when you let that 3% run buck wild without locking them up, their actions make it appear that a whole lot more black men are violent lawless thugs. In reality three-time losers, a vanishingly small percent of the total population, commit nearly HALF of the crimes. These are the people who mid-1990s style crime reformers referred to as ‘super predators’ and created three-strikes laws and broken windows policing to get off the streets. And it worked.
Did the 1990s go too far with it’s policing and incarceration policies? Perhaps. But the 2020s have clearly swung too far in the opposite direction, and the results have been catastrophic for the black community. For as tragic as the Austin Metcalf murder is, it’s not usually suburban white kids who pay the price for the ‘touch me and see what happens‘ ethos and lack of impulse control among a small subset of young black men. It’s other black people who pay the price, since almost all crime (regardless of race) is intra-racial rather than inter-racial.
Lax law enforcement policies have deadly results for the innocents within black community. But the affluent white progressives who push those policies don’t care because the results of those policies never impact their upscale neighborhoods. They are more concerned with being ‘white saviors’ for the relatively small criminal element in the black community than protecting the overwhelming majority of innocent black folks.
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Lack of law enforcement and lack of consequences for wrong doing is no doubt a major contributing factor.
Unfortunately also, a lack of impulse control and propensity to violence is often associated with lower IQ.
Jordan Peterson said, and US military statistics show, that people with IQs below 83 are unemployable and generally can’t be trained to do any useful task. People with IQ’s below 83 constitute 13%-15% of the population and are presumably also associated with much of the violence.
There seems also to be a suggestion of a genetic determinism and thus demographic association with IQ but that is absolutely not allowed to be discussed. At great cost to the authors, this was previously discussed in:
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, 1994.
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They can try government, ABC, BOM, NDIS etc
/sarc
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JCII,
I thought that they already managed their ABC, BOM,NDIS, Immigration, numerous Universities, etc. (sarc).
Geoff S
In the golden olden days, many people in local communities like small/medium towns knew about Young Johnny or Poor Mary who were part of the low IQ tail and were comforted to know they would be looked after by adequate jobs in places like the Local Council. You would see them, for example, proudly working go/stop traffic signs and you could respect their effort. These days, we hear of wages like $150,000 a year for that, after ‘experts’ entered the system. Geoff S
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An industry I worked in used to use what were called sheltered work shops. People that could not make their own way in society yet still needed a purpose.
These people performed the most mundane repetitive jobs imaginable. On visiting these facilities the most notable thing was these people loved their little jobs, most were immensely proud of the “good” job they did and many never missed a day for years. Then the do gooders arrived. Apparently giving these people a job, a little pride, earning some money etc was considered taking advantage. Suddenly these people who had low productivity but acceptable quality had to be paid award wages, a rate that they could not possibly earn. End result, no more sheltered work shops, just people receiving a full pension without any inputs, pride or a sense of being needed. Progress I suppose.
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Meanwhile, here is a story that is getting no traction whatsoever from the national press.
https://abc7ny.com/post/bronx-mta-bus-shooting-man-fatally-shot-telling-gunman-stop-yelling-phone-nypd-says/19263208/
Can you guess why this story receives next to no national coverage, while the Anthony story is dominating the national press? It’s because the black kid turned murderer in this instance killed someone with the same melanin level. Jonathan Pettigrew’s murder gets buried by the press by he was a black man who was murdered by a younger black man who felt Pettigrew ‘disrespected’ him by telling him to pipe down. Pettigrew failed to identify the vibes the young man was giving off, and paid for it with his life
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Two things…
First the “irrational and aggressively proud of it” is well publicized and in plague proportions except that most are not that articulate. To me it is one of those things which grows in cycles like one of those never ending rinse and repeat circular flow charts. There simply isn’t a single point in the life cycle where it can be fixed.
Second the statistic of “97% of black men and just normal law-abiding blokes who just want to take care of their families” doesn’t seem to fit well with the proportion of absent fathers.
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My local council in Naarmistan is fully woke and charges very high rates (taxes), most of which is wasted on various useless pet projects of the local wokesters.
My most recent discovery was that there is a local public toilet block which was recently shut down for a month while they renovated it.
Now I’ve discovered that they have decided to demolish it, having just renovated it. And they plan to rebuild it.
I can only conclude that they have too much money (our taxes) and have to do more useless projects to get rid of it. (And they are getting close to the end of the Australian financial year so have to “use it or lose it”.)
Probably also, given the wokeness of the council, I an guessing the new toilet block will cater for more than the traditional two genders, since the Left believe in 87 supposed genders or whatever they are up to now.
It’s amazing that our taxes continue to be thrown away like this despite the fact that Australia is in economic crisis and the standard of living is rapidly falling.
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The use of the word “Naarm” as a traditional name for modern Melbourne is an interesting choice as it apparently simply means “place”. I don’t live anywhere near the city but could I also live in “naarm”.
According to Australia post letters can be addressed to residents of “naarm”, wonder what happens if they don’t get delivered, would they be returned to “naarm”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://auspost.com.au/community-hub/traditional-place-names/naarm-introducing-traditional-place-name-of-melbourne&ved=2ahUKEwj20sSRoIWVAxXg4DgGHdUkAFAQFnoECB8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2uILs3VsezfK_WkSE4VNcV
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Yep. More invented memories.
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I get entertained by Fraser Island’s supposed Aboriginal name, K’garri.
Given that an apostrophe used that way represents a glottal stop, and no Aboriginal languages used glottal stops, where the hell does “K’garri” come from?
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Grok’s got it bad on this one.
After a longish conversation…
Q: now, start with your admission that it’s a writing convention chosen by the Traditional Owners (via Elders like Olga Miller’s generation and later consultations), nothing more. And tell me again where the name k’gari came from. This time avoid the multiple pages of invented memories.
A: It’s a writing convention chosen by the Traditional Owners (via Elders like Olga Miller’s generation and later consultations), nothing more.
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And after an even longer conversation about a complete lack of evidence for even that short sentence …
Grok: There is no evidence that the specific “K’gari” spelling (with silent K and apostrophe) was chosen by Traditional Owners collectively. It first appears in the 1982 book by Fred Williams, based directly on the version provided by Olga Miller. No other individuals or group decision-making process is documented for the original spelling choice.
The problem? Grok cannot distinguish between fact and fiction.
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You’ve answered your own Q. That is precisely why the old one was knocked down.
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The renovation time (no trespassing barriers danger work in progress and the tarp screens to minimize dust) was when they got the (dust to dust) bodies out and now with it all clear they can demolish it ready for new graves oops sorry a new toilet block.
Obvously no basis in fact for that just clear unadulterated jest that….. oops sorry someone is at the door
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I stumbled upon an interesting paper “Temperature-dependent feedbacks drive the pattern of Antarctic temperature change” published in PNAS.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513383123
“…Changes in Earth’s climate are caused by changes in incoming and outgoing energy. However, understanding the patterns of temperature response that result from changes in energy balance is not straightforward. Here we investigate the patterns of temperature change within Antarctica. We find a persistent and fundamental pattern of Antarctic temperature change, in which warmer places warm and cool more than colder places. This pattern, caused by a nonlinearity in the greenhouse effect, is observed in essentially all large-scale changes in Antarctic temperature for the last several thousand centuries….”
Admittedly, a lot of it is at level that deserves far more attention that I can spare, but the discussion of non-linearity refers to behaviour when the air temperature is less than -20degC.and water vapour concentration decreases. i.e. the colder it gets, the more the region acts like a black-body.
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Quote: This pattern, caused by a nonlinearity in the greenhouse effect, is observed in essentially all large-scale changes in Antarctic temperature for the last several thousand centuries….
Oh I’d like to see the seance behind that. More unscientific assertions than you can poke a stick at.
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Yesterday, Amundsen-Scott Base at Antarctica’s southern pole recorded -66degC, today it’s -65degC and the ‘ice fog’ has cleared… for the time being.
Greenland’s icy summit recorded -12C yesterday and -7C today: no cause for alarm, it is summer after all, though some academic incompetent may try to pin this 5 degree warming on ‘you-know-what’.
https://ocean.dmi.dk//arctic/meant80n.uk.php
The Arctic’s northern pole is still recording -4C after a brief spike a few days back where it looked like it might reach the doomsday scenario of zero degrees / freezing (0C) yet a ‘tipping point’ occurred and it fell back down to almost FIVE BELOW. Note temps are still well-below ‘average’ for this time of year [maximum sunlight hours] even the recent, brief, warm spike didn’t break any records… silence.
Announcement: Penguins In Peril, Send Donations To
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EEEEK!
Global Freezing is nigh! /s
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Its always cold up country, but down on the coast its positively balmy.
‘One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing” and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsula last week that saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C which is more than 20C above average.’ (Guardian)
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Back-to-front séance from the Grauniad [as expected]. Tropical northerlies have been blowing down towards the Peninsula for weeks, driven by grunty southerlies east of NZ: what goes up must come down, and the Bellingshausen is the recipient. So what?
Eastern Siberia still has snow falling, and parts of Alaska and Greenland; even the European Alps had a touch of winter despite their 3 warm days – ‘heatwave’ – last week. So what?
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‘So what?’
The accepted thinking is that CO2 causes heat waves and melts Antarctic sea ice, we need to prove that natural variables rule. The sea ice has disappeared for a reason.
‘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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Canada is much like Australia. Gad Saad wrote on X:
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I’m sure she’ll be a credible advocate.
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DM,
Her name links to a big problem in the legal system.
I heard one senior Judge say before the trial, words to the effect “Only two people know if rape happened”. There was a trial, with the serious decision, “On the balance of probabilities, we find that (the male) is guilty of rape.” The accused guy continued firmly to protest his innocence.
In other words, the second Judge made stuff up.
Making stuff up in science has created a well-publicised replication crisis. Law is not alone. Geoff S
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Elon Musk Tweeted a comment about Apple Intelligence AI.
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Sadly Apple is going the way of MS.
I am locked out of a new iMac. There is nothing on it I want to keep yet. Is it practical for a non-geek to simply install Linux over it?
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So am I!
Out of a Macbook Air. A 15 invh one hoping to counter failing.eyesight.
No Mac shops in Mudgee, so bought. It sight unseen from Apple Store.
It was onthe table by our front door midday next day, but i couldn’t open it for want of a password.
Daughter looked at it and said Try This, typed in a bit of Code and it worked.
So she set me up and went to Queensland.
Next Chapter. I went to pay the bills.
Inrecent times there has been a lot of fuss about hacking. Everybody ywants to upgrade their Apps. The upgrade must go thriugh Apple. I can’t remember which of the new ppasswords wwas Apple.,I regret buying the Air. Should have gone with iPad + keyboard. Their. Air must be Solid Allloy.
Apple locked me out.
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Is there a reason you can’t phone apple tech support for your new computer ? That is a big reason I buy them. Because if I can’t make it go I phone them. I have MacBook Pro and won’t use apps so do banking direct online and never save user or pad.
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Robert Fisk’s monumental book was published in 2005,
“The Great War for Civilisation” (The Conquest of the Middle East)
And when he died in 2020, I thought that was it from him. But in 2024 a posthumous book appeared,
“Night of Power” (The Betrayal of the Middle East)
His earlier book includes his reporting on the ground from the Iraq-Iran War (I didn’t know the Germans supplied chemicals to Saddam for his poison gas weapons)
The latter book carries on from the first.
Good background for the events happening today.
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There is a very good reason for the appearance of “Fisk” as a verb.
See also: To “Pilger”.
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FWIW
Worth considering
“TAQIYYA: Trump Says Iranians Aren’t Dealing ‘in Good Faith,’ Even After He Left Out Our Ally Israel.
More and more, I’m convinced Trump has turned the Mullahs’ rug-merchant negotiating ploy against them.”
https://instapundit.com/803261/#disqus_thread
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Good faith?
After a salutary bombing?
When the result of acting in good faith is likely to collapse the regime?
Like everyone else I’ve no idea what’s going on. But it’s pretty clear that the IRGC Regime is never going to give up its path to a nuclear weapon.
Keeping the appearance of negotiations going for another couple of months, until the Trump Administration runs firmly into the mid-terms and the tide of US politics demands his ritual humiliation and a ‘win’ for Iran, must seem like a hot take for Team Mullah.
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This is the state of the American media in 2026.
Aaron Rupar has been employed by multiple left-leaning news outlets over the last decade. Not sure who he is with now, but he is best known for posting misleading video clips of conservatives. Here is his latest masterpiece of Pete Hegseth working out with the troops (something he regularly does).
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2065477276179857430
which is a slight improvement over his original caption
Nevermind that Rupar himself looks like 200 pounds of chewed bubblegum and has probably never bench pressed more than the bar. But here is the full video that shows what he left out.
https://x.com/PubServantClown/status/2065482301866233909
Yes, that ugly rep in Rupar’s post was Hegseth’s FORTY-FIFTH rep and 135 pounds.
How can anyone consider that guy a serious journalist? Yet because he holds (or once held) a press pass at a major corporate outlet, that is exactly how the corporate press views him. Meanwhile, a guy like Nick Shirley, who has broken multiple major fraud stories with nothing more than his phone and an X account, is treated as a fraud by the mainstream press.
And they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
Meanwhile, the pile-on against Rupar for that post reached new levels of hilarity with these two posts.
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/2065774578366910826
https://x.com/BrianBrenberg/status/2065800982756204946
Those last two sentences are going to leave a mark.
Went to high school with him … never heard of him.
Rupar is probably going to shovel a half-gallon of Rocky Road down his gullet after reading that.
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The war in Ukraine has gone on longer than WW1 and is finally reaching its end.
History shows that cutting off logistics to the front line will quickly bring about a collapse. For the military buffs, the loitering Hornet drone is degrading truck transport in areas that were previously thought safe.
I fully expect Putin to fall on his sword before winter.
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Re “I fully expect Putin to fall on his sword before winter.”
That is a bit “Nostradamus-ish”
Which one?
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Tactically and strategically there is nothing in the way of a stunning victory.
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Not really. He likely has two traditions he can follow: Fall on his sword, Japanese style (figuratively speaking) or the Roman tradition “et tu Brute?” possibly literally.
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He’ll fall from grace one way or another and what comes after that is unknown.
There are 83 regions in the Russian Federation that may seek autonomy after the Kremlin surrenders to the victorious allies.
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Tomorrow’s story will be from Frontierland kiddies. We hope you enjoyed Fantasyland.
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We can do one at a time, Siberia contributes about two-thirds of the Russia Federation’s crude oil and natural gas output. They are keen to breakaway and Beijing plans to build the gas pipeline after Putin (AP).
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Any news on this week’s upcoming lottery numbers?
My confident prediction is that the people running the lottery have a much better chance of winning than I do. The basis for my belief is that I don’t buy tickets.
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This has nothing to do with wishful thinking, Crimea is being cut off from the mainland and petrol is running out. Its a disaster for the tourist industry..
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..make sure you come back before winter and tell us how your prediction went.. I’ll stand it if you’re right.
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Presumably you think the Kremlin fascists will eventually win this war of attrition, but the soviet style meat grinder hasn’t worked and the summer offensive is a disaster.
The forecast is a rational outcome of the war and it would be best for everyone if the Russian Federation sues for peace.
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Well, I hope you can see the parallels-
“Presumably you think the Yankee fascists will eventually win this war of attrition, but the ‘high-tech, rule the air’ style meat grinder hasn’t worked and the summer offensive is a disaster. The forecast is a rational outcome of the war and it would be best for everyone if the American Empire sues for peace with Iran.”
America is waiting for Iran to run out of money and capitulate, Iran is waiting for the Yanks to go broke as the oil dollar breaks, Russia is waiting for Europe to go broke and Ukraine collapse, and NATO is waiting for Russia to go broke from the sanctions. The only guaranteed thing in all this is that if the American Empire takes a dislike to you, they will steal any funds you have stored with them and try to sanction your trade. Otherwise, no-one is winning anything.
Apparently, both America and Russia are fighting for their very survival, according to them. Russia thinks NATO cannot be allowed nuclear missiles on their border, and America thinks Iran cannot be allowed nuclear missiles at all. Funny how the most powerful countries are the most anxious…
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‘America is waiting for Iran to run out of money and capitulate …’
The yanks can’t afford the luxury, with the midterms coming up they have accepted Iran’s demands.
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Trump hates Zelensky. How an you say the “Yankee fascists” are fighting by his side?
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The Trump regime is not fascist, nevertheless the US should leave NATO.
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The American Empire has been sustained by the Bond market, with China and Japan withdrawing their funds the US military industrial infrastructure becomes down graded and wars of adventurism a thing of the past.
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There are always two sides to a trade: The only way China and Japan can sell US bonds and cancel them is by printing the equivalent in their own currency. This is inflationary. Can these countries afford this? About $1.2 trillion of US assets have just been monetised. Was there just a swop of bonds for SpaceX shares through third parties?
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Inflation in China is at 1.2 and Japan 1.4, which suggests they might not be using QE to stabilise the market. Japan’s long term bond market seems to be travelling well, but the short term not as popular.
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Great word “fascist”.
It’s a bit onomatopoeic like sizzle. Most of the “ist” words are like that. And the “fasc” gives it that extra zing. It’s not only got ist at the end but fasc at the start too.
In fact you could combine two fascs and an ist and come up with fascifascistic.
Now that’s got lots of sizzle and more than a touch of tongue twister.
Or just say double plus bad. Have fun!
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That’s fantastic, keep up the good work.
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Hey. You started it!
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fascifascistic
Nah. It’s a double -ve.
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“The war will be over before Christmas” is hopium, wars don’t follow the calendar.
Could you tell us how Russia can recover from the death spiral they are clearly in?
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Death spiral H?
I don’t think I’m in Kansas any more!
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The Russian economy is spiralling out of control and Putin has disappeared the head of the Reserve Bank. This is serious.
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Love it. Do you have a photo of an economy spiralling out of control?
Sort of like Bruce Petty’s machine with all the levers flailing away?
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You may not be in La-Laland but I’d bet that you could stand on a milk crate and see it.
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Cheers H.
And what’s wrong with La La Land?
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Los Angeles has a copyright/trademark on its usage?
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FWIW
“The Little Girl With Knife and Axe Just Gave the System a Final Whack”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/12/the-little-girl-with-knife-and-axe-just-gave-the-system-a-final-whack-n3815880
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FWIW – in the shadows of history
“Why Guadalcanal Was WWII’s Turning Point in the Pacific”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/13/why-guadalcanal-was-wwiis-turning-point-in-the-pacific-n3815862
But in the shadows
“DDG Search Assist
The Battle of Milne Bay, fought from August 25 to September 7, 1942, was a significant World War II conflict in the Pacific Theater. It marked the first major Allied victory over Japanese land forces, boosting morale and demonstrating the limits of Japan’s expansionist capabilities.
Wikipedia”
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Milne_Bay
There were some 6th Division troops there so they added to having all ready been in at the first stopping of a German blitzkrieg attack at Tobruk
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While 6th division troops captured Tobruk from the Italians, they were relieved by 9th division troops. It was 9th division troops that successfully defended Tobruk against the Germans.
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“DDG Search Assist
The 6th Australian Division utilized Bren gun carriers during the operations at Tobruk, which played a crucial role in their assaults and patrols against Italian and German forces. These vehicles were instrumental in providing mobility and firepower, helping the Australians to maintain their defensive perimeter and conduct aggressive patrols.
Wikipedia National Library of Australia”
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It’s wrong. Tobruk was defended by the 9th Aust and one Brigade of the 7th, along with various British and some Polish units, no 6th Div troops were involved in the defence.
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There was at least a 6th Division bren carrier group in on the defence
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Two things can be true at the same time. Guadalcanal caused the Japanese to divert men and materials there [it was costly for both sides], allowing the Aussies to prevail at Milne Bay and Kokoda Track. Neither of these victories were cheap, with plenty of heroism to go round.
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No troops intended for Milne Bay were diverted to Guadalcanal. Troops withdrawn after the defeat did end up going to Guadalcanal.
Australian operations on Timor in the same time frame tied down 250,000 Japanese troops trying to chase down a 200 man strong Independent Coy. A lot of those troops ended up in the Solomons later in the year and in 1943.
Timor was the great diversion, and very rarely gets mentioned.
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Didn’t realise one of my neighbours was one of the original Timor independents, until he sought help with a document.
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It seems some viruses are more newsworthy than others. Last month I had the impression that the hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship MV Hondius was receiving a lot more media attention than Ebola outbreak in Africa.
I went to The Age website and used the search option. I typed “hantavirus” and applied the “Latest” filter, which puts articles and videos in chronological order. Most of the articles are listed under the topic of “Illness”. I ignored 9 News video bulletins and articles about the repatriation and quarantine of Australian passages on the cruise ship.
From May 4th to May 13th there were 13 articles on hantavirus. There are 3 confirmed deaths from the cruise ship outbreak.
I then did a search on Ebola applying the same filter. As of the 19th of May, The Age had published 3 articles, despite the outbreak in Uganda and DRC beginning a few weeks prior. At that point in time 131 people had died from that Ebola outbreak.
Ebola was first identified in 1976. After tallying the deaths attributed to the virus since that year (Wikipedia Ebola deaths table), they have been approximately 15,702 deaths. Over 11,000 died between 2014-2016.
By contrast, hantavirus was first isolated around 1976-78. Since the first known major outbreak in 1993, there have been approximately 356 deaths. It is thought that direct exposure to an infected rodent’s urine or faeces is the main reason a human contracts hantavirus. The low amount of deaths indicates that the numbers for human to human infection has been reasonably low.
Despite the low lethality and transmissiblity, new kid on the block Moderna had been working on a hantavirus vaccine for a couple of years.
After looking at the MSM emphasising hantavirus and underreporting Ebola, l noticed a story filed by Rebel News. Interestingly (in the video) Dr Tedros laments the withdrawal of US funding for the WHO, stating “the best immunity is solidarity”. Part of his reasoning is this recent viral threat could affect Americans.
https://www.rebelnews.com/hantavirus_outbreak_and_moderna_s_crystal_ball_vaccine
After newspapers such as The Age have spent a lot of time emphasising the supposed dangers of hantavirus, Moderna’s stock price has remarkably improved. It had dropped by 80% at one point last year. This recent sequence of events has been a welcome shot in the arm for a pharma company that hadn’t been thriving since the last pandemic.
https://www.tipranks.com/news/moderna-mrna-stock-surges-14-on-hantavirus-vaccine-heres-what-investors-should-know
I’m not offering up a conspiracy theory- just pointing out a coincidence, thought it is relevant after Jo’s thread on US bio labs yesterday.
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ONP FIRE THE LIAR donations are now past $3.7M with target upped to $3.9M.
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar?amount=29
The rate of climb appears past its peak. The money will no doubt help spread the message that the UN-party has been lying to voters for decades.
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Great news, but unfortunately whatever funding conservatives can raise it is nothing like what the Labor commies can raise as the political arm of the union movement. E.g. if even a small amount of the $15 billion alleged to have been taken from the Victorian taxpayer by the CFMEU goes into Labor coffers, imagine what that could do.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/victoria-opposition-cfmeu-royal-commission/106346448
Also, in Victoriastan, Labor has just passed laws preventing large donations to political parties, except from unions where no limits apply.
https://ipa.org.au/latest-news/new-laws-enshrine-labor-bias
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As the saying goes, politicians should be required to wear jackets like NASCAR drivers, so we know who owns them.
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The problem solved is the war chest for all the little stuff and destroys the real hope of the Labor/Libera/Nationals/Greens that Hanson did not have the basic needs covered. Enough to field a candidate in every seat with the flyers, the handouts, the travel costs, the posters. And she is getting the TV covereage for free with the insulting put downs which backfire.
And Fire the Liar, a Peta Credlin phrase, sums up the moment for most Australians. Except it should be fire the liars too.
Since the VOICE referendum, which shows that 2/3 of Australia would vote NONE OF THE ABOVE if given a choice, they have wanted someone who meant what they said. And Pauline is a proven quantity over 30 years, unlike all the career politicians.
Consider that Cliver Palmer has shown what millions spent on advertising can do, very little. Double pages of rubbish in the Australian. For what?
Plus she has solved a real problem for Labor voters who hate their own rich opportunist politicians who spend money like water, an alternative who is no elitist, a worker and someone who has been jailed for even attempting to create a party. A single mother too. And someone who speaks the truth, whether people like it or not.
And the Teals may be having second thoughts about eliminating fossil fuels when Iran has proven that trillions of dollars of spending have achieved nothing in Australia. We are even more hostage to the Mullahs without our own wood and coal and oil and gas and factories.
So all strength to One Nation and their piggy bank. They do not need billions but they do need millilons. And as Kamala Harris proved, cash alone will not buy power and will not turn a skunk into a tiger.
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The author of this piece thinks Hanson should please explain her platform and then the voters would desert her.
‘Guardian Australia reported on Friday that pollster and former Labor strategist Kos Samaras is dividing Hanson’s support among red and blue One Nation voters.
‘Blue supporters moving away from the Liberals and Nationals might stick with Hanson longer term, while red voters, the working-class people moving over from Labor, could be won back once Hanson’s positions on workers’ pay and conditions are properly explained.’ (Guardian)
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By noon Sunday, the target increased to $4M as the tally passed $3.8M.
I was chatting with a middle aged man last night who had been watching the FIRE THE LIAR tally. He has installed solar panels and batteries so he does not see the high cost of electricity but he did appreciate that base load power was now much more expensive and could see it driving de-industrialisation.
He also pointed out that he had listened to the dire Climate Change warnings over the past 20 years or so and observed none of them has materialised in actual events. He has never voted One Nation but thinks that is about to change for him.
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DEI Sunday
According to a lawsuit filed in Oregon by the parents of a 13-year-old girl, an Indian doctor at Oregon Health & Science University allegedly implanted her heart valve upside down. Of course, her heart wouldn’t work. This poor child spent 18 days hooked up to machines while doctors discussed end-of-life care and even organ donation.
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2026/06/ohsu-told-13-year-olds-parents-she-was-dying-before-seattle-doctors-discovered-massive-mistake-17m-suit-says.html
Meanwhile in Brazil, a woman dies in bungee diving accident when the crew forgot to attach the bungee cord…
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I am stunned ! You can not have more Russian name than Belov (fem – Belova)
I only asked an innocent question about Bulgarian spelling of name Nadezhda (Hope) because the court references are misspelt more than once.
As you all know Faith, Hope and Love are extremely popular slavic names, a long story to go into here,.. spelt about the same in many nations, so I asked ChatGPT at least 3 times.
And it started to answer, but 3 times, half through the page, before I managed to read anything it wipes the screen off and comes back with :
“Stopped searching
This content may violate our usage policies.
Did we get it wrong? Please tell us by giving this response a thumbs down.”
So I gave up – must be something Epstein-related…
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I do not understand why my note appeared here.
It was prompt by Comment #14 https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/12/the-little-girl-with-knife-and-axe-just-gave-the-system-a-final-whack-n3815880
Apologies !
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Thank the gods for Pauline resurrecting the climate wars.
‘One Nation’s surge in the polls suggests, for now at least, it is vying to be the most popular political party in the country. It does not accept the overwhelming evidence that the planet is warming and that extreme weather is getting worse. Instead, it argues the climate change department should be abolished because – in the strawiest of strawman arguments – it hasn’t changed the climate.’ (Guardian)
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Not sure I’d place any weight at all on something from the Grauniad.
But as you said above in a different context … Tactically and strategically there is nothing in the way of a stunning victory.
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What is wrong with what it said? Forget this shooting the messenger bs.
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Sorry H. Grauniad just jumped off the page at me.
But grok to the rescue …
In short, the statement mixes some factual polling with loaded framing, exaggeration on extremes, and dismissal of reasonable skepticism about policy effectiveness. Climate is changing and humans contribute, but the “overwhelming evidence” for urgent, costly transformation via government departments is far more debatable than presented — especially for a country like Australia.
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From one logical fallacy to another.
Don’t you have an opinion of your own without appealing to authority?
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No H. It isn’t worth the effort to formulate a response to some of the madness displayed on these pages.
Present company excepted of course.
By the way I can run your comment about logical fallacies past grok if it will help.
Have fun.
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‘Climate is changing and humans contribute …’
Grok tells fibs, but you already know that.
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Yep. As Hanrahan might say, we’ll all be rooned.
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Malcolm Roberts has never stopped condemning the UN Climate Change™ hoax. He has been at it for over a decade. He is finally getting the support he deserves. He has been relentless pursuing and identifying the waste that the UN agenda has inflicted on Australia’s prosperity.
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Malcolm presents poorly and needs coaching.
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Possibly a mirror would help him.
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All three of them need a lot of that.
But, as most Australians, I prefer Pauline, Malcolm and Barnaby not to learn The Art, just do The Job.
There is enough Laws, Law-makers and Law-practitioners to be ridden off to last their lifetimes, without making new ones.
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Parliament typically consists of two main houses:
House of Representatives Elected representatives who debate and vote on legislation.
The Senate Appointed members who review legislation and provide expertise.
In summary, Parliament plays a crucial role in law-making, representation, government oversight, and financial accountability, ensuring that the government operates within the framework of the law and serves the interests of the public.
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Parliament typically consists of two main houses:
House of Representatives Elected representatives who debate and vote on legislation.
The Senate Appointed members who review legislation and provide expertise.
In summary, Parliament plays a crucial role in law-making, representation, government oversight, and financial accountability, ensuring that the government operates within the framework of the law and serves the interests of the public.
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Why do you say that?
I have watched some of his senate enquiries.
He seems very rational to me.
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Here is the new Australian ambassador to the USA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q115UrPqgBA
It is disgusting that there are three flags set up for this interview. Who is driving this divisive garbage. He is Australia’s ambassador. It shows how stuffed this country has become when we cannot even decide on a flag. Australians gave a resounding NO to the “VOICE” and yet we have the Labor Government still pushing it.
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‘Who is driving this divisive garbage.’
Channel 9.
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The models are having a debate.
‘In summary, El Nino has developed. Oceanic El Nino is forecast at possible record strength later this year. However, atmospheric El Nino may be considerably less intense. ENSO phase is forecast to shift back to La Nina in 2027.’ (Climate Impact Company)
Less intense may mean Modoki, requires further research.
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Apparently no critics of Coalition were able to provide a list of One Nation achievements to compare the the link and list I posted yesterday from the Liberal Party of Australia website?
Maybe explain thirty years of career politician and no ministerial roles, earlier a shopkeeper and own business owner, and I would never criticise a person for that, but thirty years since operating a small business is a very long time is it not? Explain the high turnover of people who joined and left One Nation and, as I understand it, because it was and despite the name change always will be Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, there is no deputy leader.
At the 2025 election not one One Nation candidate was elected to the House of Representatives. The party consisted of only four Senators including Senator Hanson.
I have employed many people for private sector business positions, and experience as well as relevant qualifications are very important along with other attributes.
Looking at the management of my country Commonwealth of Australia I am appalled by the poor quality of Prime Minister and Cabinet, noting one example that the PM had ministerial experience and deputy leader opposition leader experience, and very little private sector experience apart from a bank clear trainee position.
The Liberal National Coalition have leaders who have impressive educational qualifications and past ministerial experience, and now leading the opposition alternative governmemt being the two parties with the number of elected representatives to be leader, deputy leader and a team of shadow cabinet ministers, plus spares.
How does the One Nation Leader compare?
Once again, I am not opposed to One Nation or Senator Hanson but I am very keen to get rid of Labor governments.
Accordingly, and with due regard for the expert advice, based on their assessments the most likely next Federal election result will be Labor back in government with a reduced majority of seats, and again helped by scattering of preference votes, see 2022 and 2025 election results for guidance.
Cooperation between conservatives is very important and that includes misguided supporters and their misinformation that so often avoids the so called “big picture” and the history of governments since WW2 … see the link of achievements I posted from Liberal Party
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Apparently no critics of Coalition were able to provide a list of One Nation achievements to compare the the link and list I posted yesterday from the Liberal Party of Australia website?
Without wanting to be rude, this appears to be a deliberately obtuse argument in favour of the Coalition.
Firstly, ON hasn’t been in power anywhere and obviously has no comparable credentials.
Secondly (and more significantly), historical ‘political achievements’ are products of the people and circumstances of the time, and to the extent they are useful measures of future performance rely on the continuity of personnel and policy.
ON is obviously not a party of government – that’s a simple reality not an argument. However, the fact that the Coalition also shows no sign of being one either – in responsiveness, policy or people – is a real issue in terms of getting rid of the appalling incumbents.
Arguably it’s also a reason for the astonishing growth in popular support for ON.
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Australia’s next PM.
This is an outstanding feel good video, about 4 mins.
https://youtu.be/Zo11HM2_j0Y
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Current Political Landscape
One Nation’s Rising Support
One Nation has recently seen a surge in support, leading in primary votes according to recent polls. This increase in popularity suggests a growing acceptance of their platform among voters. However, the situation remains fluid, and their ability to translate this support into government remains uncertain.
Labor Party’s Position
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), currently in power, is still favored to win a majority in the upcoming federal election. The ALP’s established presence and recent electoral success provide them with a strong foundation as they prepare for the next election.
Upcoming Election Details
Election Date Seats Contested Majority Needed
On or before May 20, 2028 All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and half of the Senate 76 seats
Conclusion
While One Nation’s recent polling success is noteworthy, it is still uncertain if they will become the next government. The ALP remains the favorite, and the political dynamics leading up to the 2028 election will be crucial in determining the outcome.
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Minor parties in Australia rarely outperform major parties in federal elections, but they can influence outcomes by winning seats or holding the balance of power in a hung parliament, as occurred in 2010.
Their success often depends on preferential voting and local candidate appeal rather than nationwide vote share.
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So you guys have confidence in elections and opinion poles?
Confidence that your political system is a reflection of the electoral expression of the will of your populace?
As an American I have little of that.
*(Just deleted my long Trump rise/fall/rise and don’t know which direction it’s going at the moment rant. You’re welcome)
But God bless you guys if you have confidence your elections.
But I guess that leaves no one to blame but yourselves.
And Trump.
And us Americans.
It probably is our fault.
Just wish I personally benefited more from my high loft of American dominance … and you know, my ‘W____ Privilege’.
I have to grocery shop this morning.
What is becoming a frightening experience.
Was just wondering if hunting and gathering might be more tolerable.
I think that’s were they intend to push us.
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We have good control over electoral rolls with a single federal agency ensuring you can only be registered in one electorate.
We do not have the deep devisions – north/south, east coast/west coast/fly over, so a thousand respondents can be a reasonable cross section, so our polls show less variation.
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We do not have the deep devisions – north/south, east coast/west coast/fly over,
Urban / Suburban / Regional / Rural
with the divisions enhanced by the current one person / one vote without compensating for vast differences in geography
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Try Melbourne and harbourside Sydney as being elite. The rest of the country is pretty homogenous with a lot of cross fertilisation.
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Latest insanity from Once Great Britain.
They want to make children walk or cycle to school rather than be driven.
To save the planet of course.
You might want to look into this Jo.
As Australia always looks around the world for the absolute worst ideas, no doubt it will come here.
https://youtu.be/5YA6cUiqrQk
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And if they lived in a safe country they are so much better off getting some sun and exercise that I would support encouraging them to do this, but what does “make them” mean?
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Hardly a surprise.
Children have been prime targets for their doom propaganda the whole time.
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They want to make children walk or cycle to school rather than be driven.
In how many heavily populated [western] cities would the parents be charged with child abuse for not providing proper adult supervision during the walk/cycle?
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Anthony Watts says tide gauges are the best technology to determine whether sea level rise is accelerating. Its not.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/12/wrong-sciencealert-sea-level-acceleration-isnt-what-the-measured-data-show/
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We have a program
THE AUSTRALIAN BASELINE SEA LEVEL MONITORING PROJECT https://www.bom.gov.au/ntc/IDO60202/IDO60202.2011.pdf
It has been in operation for decades but we never hear of it. Why not? No bad news to report?
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‘In 2010/11 sea levels around Australia were predominantly higher than normal as a result of ocean and climate conditions associated with La Niña.’
Sea level rise caused by natural variability, unheard of.
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Australia has two of the world’s longest-duration tide gauges at Sydney and Fremantle, sitting on what is generally considered tectonically-stable platforms. And both do NOT show any sign of SLR acceleration.
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‘China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era.
‘The sweeping overhaul has affected over 30 per cent of China’s degree programmes, with arts and languages ditched in favour of tech-focused fields’ (SCMP)
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Yesterday Jo posted
“The US government has been secretly funding 120 dangerous biolabs around the world”
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/06/the-us-government-has-been-secretly-funding-120-dangerous-biolabs-around-the-world/
For “reasons” I only just got to read today’s Coffee and Covid which also goes into that subject at length
“Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! i’e been waiting a long time for this story, a Tom Clancy-like tale involving dark assassinations, dramatic emergency Security Council meetings, special forces black ops, deadly viruses, burn bags, document shredding, allegations of treason, top-secret document links, grand conspiracies, “swift and devastating takedowns” of random QAnon twitter posters, Hunter Biden hijinks, and the withered hand of Obama. Literally, all in one story.”
Start at the start of
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/going-viral-saturday-june-13-2026?
Meet some “updated terminology translations” too
And Item 2 might also get your attention
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FWIW – more UK
“I’ll Rip Your Teeth Out’: Muslim ‘Civil Enforcement Officers’ Fired After Threatening Brit”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/06/13/muslim-civil-enforcement-officers-fired-after-threatening-brit-on-camera-n2429203
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And
“Britain Goes Full ‘Airstrip One’ ”
Read the details
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/britain-goes-full-airstrip-one
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On June 17, an Antarctic cyclone will be over southern Australia.
https://i.ibb.co/Z1h0Hqnf/ventusky-temperature-500hpa-20260617t1200.jpg
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Lucky that’s the temperature at 5km up, not on the ground….!
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However, the wind will be chilly. Best regards.
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The weather in North America is very dynamic.
https://i.ibb.co/whF7cPDH/Zrzut-ekranu-2026-06-14-215301.png
Tomorrow, another cold front will move southward from Canada.
https://i.ibb.co/WWZmTQ86/ventusky-wind-700hpa-20260615t0900.jpg
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John,
Better explain that RPN is Reverse Polish Notation, then explain that. I also went through several HP calculators. One of my current Personal Computers is Hewlett Packard. Not very good for heavy scientific work, has clipboard overflow problems causing cut and paste errors, it has too few USB ports that have inadequate power supply – most problems seem related to its basic design of a small form factor. Size can matter. Geoff S
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