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Here we go, yet again; UK illegal immigrant attempts apparent beheading in broad daylight in NI street, riots kick off.
https://youtu.be/bui5DKDuTUc
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As declared on early television “far right” and totally unjustified rioting and will NOT be tolerated. The odd public attempted beheading is fine anything else just simply not on.
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The Ireland civilian population is one of the few in the west that still has institutional knowledge of how to run a guerilla campaign against a hated government that imposes policies on them that they despise. It’s been less than 30 years since the ceasefire and there are still a whole bunch of those old Provisional IRA guys around to educate an organize a new generation of soldiers if the government continues to ignore the will of the common people. The Irish politicians had better keep that in mind when they are demonizing their indigenous population of pasty white angry gingers. Because if they keep it up, there will be a violent reckoning using PIRA tactics.
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Steve,
Repetition doesn’t make it correct.
Referring to the “Irish civilian population” is a bit like talking about climate: it isn’t a thing, you’re imagining some kind of average. The view that every Irishman is a Liam Neeson all primed to emerge as Michael Collins, is on par with Che Guevara T-shirts on the foolish romantics scale. Most people in Ireland wouldn’t know what to do with a blob of Semtex. Just like most people in Sydney.
And in degrees of separation — I know somebody (who knows somebody …) who’s a proper thug — it’d be interesting to know if the average separation was any closer in Ireland than in Sydney.
I’m hoping we can all find a better way out than raising the thugs.
Somewhat on this topic: yesterday, ABC radio had an interview with Robin Livingstone, a Belfast journalist (starts 4:45 into the audio). It was about the protests, not the attack, and he was drawing republican/loyalist lines on it. Apparently it’s only the loyalists protesting, and republicans are mostly ok with attempted beheadings in Belfast (despite the victim being Catholic).
Probably speaks more for the kooky people ABC chooses as spokesmen than anything you can hang your hat on, but maybe it shows that the “Irish civilian population” is less uniform than you think. From the sound of him, trying to point old hatreds at new targets mightn’t work out all that well.
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I doubt they area any more or less uniform than when the British Army was there, not even sure why that is even an issue. They have something to unite around right now and if they beleive it’s existential I doubt warm calming words will do much good.
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yarpos,
That’s fair enough, but beside the point. Steve was speaking of using the experience of the Provos, who are most noted for their bombing campaigns. The open borders policy was overturned in the USA without a bombing campaign, and I hope something similar will happen in Europe and Australia. Even in Ireland.
The other point (the reason I included that ABC link) is that old enmities live on in Ireland. Listen to that fellow, then see if you really think he has any interest in “uniting” with loyalists to hold back the flood of dodgy refugees.
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Pssst – in the canyons of my mind I can’t help taking the history of the IRA and the UVF/UDA (The Troubles and the Irish rebellion events etc) together with the history of Hamas and Hezbollah and holding these side by side before an imaginary mirror and seeing what could almost be a single reflection. The actions of all these citizenry parties have each introduced a level of barbarism and savagery that totally obliterates any claim of a legitimate political struggle.
The driven hatred unleashed through rape, knee-capping and the indiscriminate bombing of soft targets like pubs, teen pop concerts and public transport or the gun/knife attacks on beach parties or pre-teen dance studios share a common level of savagery.
Then comes the thought of how could such similarities appear in groups so separated by distance and belief and the phrase “the coast is clear” appears like the Barbery pirates and their slave runs along European coastlines throughout the 15/16/17th centuries that reached as far as Ireland (the sack of Baltimore in 1631 being the most reported etc) and caused this phrase to enter and remain in the English language. Historians suggest that between 1580 and 1680, some 850,000 to 1.25 million Europeans in total were captured by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery across the Barbary Coast.
But wait. Genetic research primarily indicates a significant flow of ancestry from the Middle East to Ireland during prehistoric times. Neolithic Farmers DNA analysis of ancient Irish remains (c. 3200 BCE) reveals that the first Irish farmers originated in the Fertile Crescent (modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan). These migrants brought agriculture, cattle, and genetic traits like dark hair and brown eyes to Ireland. They may have also planted within the existing population the traits of suppressed anger that knows no bounds when stirred to life.
Maybe Frankie got it wrong and it is actually when one tribe goes to war – with their ancestral selves.
And just to round out those musings of genetic distortion consider the eyewitness accounts of Anas bin Malik, Abu Humaid As-Sa’idi and Abdullah ibn Abbas…
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Not just PIRA, still plenty of Ulster Defence Force Volunteers around as well.
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Victim: ” He tried to behead me!”
Police: “Nah, don’t think so mate. You’re under arrest.”
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And Stabbed his eyes out, the local victim has lost 1 eye and the other severely damaged, apparently the victim is a partial deaf local who had helped the immigrant aggressor to move in to their accommodation, another thing not reported, locals alleged the immigrant’s house mate was also involved in the initial attack but must’ve taken off once the victim was on the ground.
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The (British) Stasi (Socialist Police Force) announce a crackdown on telephone calls (X) ‘in times of crisis’ after Berlin (Belfast) protests. Honecker (Starmer) has vowed to strengthen Democratic (GDR) Surveillance Laws (OSA), granting the Agitation Department (OFCOM) enhanced powers to crack down on telephone calls (X) during periods of heightened tension.
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Dieselgate.
Fact checked.
Copied from Farcebook.
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The BRAVE AI advises the current situation as being:
[AI] Viral satellite images of thousands of Volkswagen and Audi cars stored in the Mojave Desert are historical records from between 2017 and 2020, visible only via Google Earth’s timeline feature. These vehicles were part of the Dieselgate buyback program following the 2015 emissions scandal, stored at sites like the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California.
Current Status
The lots are empty: Satellite imagery from 2025 shows the parking areas have been cleared, with some sites repurposed for new structures like Amazon fulfillment centers.
Vehicle Fate: Of the hundreds of thousands of vehicles stored across 37 facilities, VW repaired and resold over 13,000 units after retrofitting them for emissions compliance, while scrapping at least 28,000.
Storage Conditions: The cars were not abandoned but routinely maintained in the arid climate to prevent deterioration while awaiting regulatory approval for resale or export. [AI]
Separately it also confirms the $$$involved and the 300,000 odd vehicles. A few well distributed EVs amongst them would have solved their problem….. and a quiet word to China for a manufactured sand-storm and the whole thing could have been well and truly buried lol.
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So what is more damaging to the environment and atmosphere, Cars that use a bit more fuel than was advertised or cars that sit wasting away in the desert and other cars are manufactured to replace them?
So all the emissions created in those car’s manufacture and transportation from Europe to USA were a complete waste with zero trade off in them being used for years of reliable ownership.
Another case of bureaucracy causing wasted time, resources, money and emissions.
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We few, we (not so happy) few.
Let us not wish one skeptic more.
One day, (like maybe tomorrow), we can emerge and say, “I’ve been saying this climate stuff was bogus for more than a decade”. (*)
We can say, “I was there with Jo the Queen, fighting against fearsome odds for science and intellectual integrity”.
No really, it is truly staggering that climate doomsayers are abandoning doom saying for power to power AI like Reich believers stripping their uniforms and burning them.
Except we didn’t vanquish them.
They just moved on.
Never mind.
And we will still be called conspiracy theorists for remembering, and trying to get some sort of acknowledgement of what they did.
My recognition of the lie cost me socially.
Many people I know owe me an apology I will never get.
They’re not even aware why.
(*) some here, much smarter than me, for much longer.
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Copied from an email:
Substack article:
Paper:
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Have looked at the Australian govt climate advisory documents and found that where they mentioned IPCC scenarios, they were all referencing either RCP8.5 or SSP3-7.0.
So I presume this means that all govt climate documents at all levels of govt should be replaced.
Would be interesting if somebody challenges their local council on a climate-related issue related to their property.
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‘ … climate documents at all levels of govt should be replaced.’
A Royal Commission might be required, but maybe there is a better way.
Back in the day Tony Abbott wanted to audit BoM, we can do that and also ensnare the CSIRO. It needs to be clarified whether scientists or politicians are demonising CO2 and exaggerating the impact of global warming.
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PM Abbott was refused permission for an audit of BoM by then Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
Shortly after that they shafted Abbott.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-24/environment-minister-greg-hunt-killed-idea-of-bom-review/6803572
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True, but now he’s in a position to make changes.
‘Former prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed some warnings of human-induced climate change are “ahistorical and utterly implausible”, criticising what he called “the climate cult” in a speech in London.’ (Guardian 2024)
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The same Greg Hunt who stated in early 2021 that Australian GPs were permitted to prescribe ivermectin off-label then said nothing when the TGA issued a ban on GPs doing so in September of that year. Among the reasons for the ban- we need to preserve supplies in case Indigenous people catch River Blindness (when the disease has never troubled Australia). Doctors might be influenced by social media and overprescribe dosages of a drug that has a very high safety profile (ie, the TGA was saying that GPs could not properly do their job after at least four years of medical training).
Greg Hunt- no backbone when it came time to stand up and protect Australian’s health but he stood tall when it came Abbott’s backstabbing.
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The MSM has a lot to answer for.
‘Remarkably, left- and right-leaning outlets show similar patterns, except for The Wall Street Journal, which was the only outlet that consistently understated SPM (The Guardian and The Independent were the most sensationalist in the catastrophist direction).
‘Who can forget The Guardian’s 2004 classic report from “experts” that by 2020 “European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world”. (IPA)
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A quick search for Guardian sea level rise articles shows a decades long and proud history of sea level rise hysteria that continues to this day.
They really are obsessed by it and it must be extremely frustrating for them that nothing much continues to happen.
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It’s what happens when governments enact rules which defy science. Very high diesel compression will produce nitrous oxides. So the engines were designed to minimize these under strict test conditions. They succeeded. But if you varied from the test conditions, reality appeared. No suprise there. You cannot legislate reality or chemistry. You cannot redefine pi legally, although even that was attempted once.
This applies to the entire CO2 industry. There is no green hydrogen supply. And the swap would mean rebuilding every smelter in the world at unbelievable cost and time. And for what? No one can control atmospheric CO2 in the first place. It is the vapour pressure of a dissolved gas.
Green is chlorophyll, a long chain hydrocarbon made from atmospheric CO2. More CO2 means more Greenery. Green activists and legislators need to learn some chemistry, not make it up. That’s megalomania.
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Oxides of nitrogen, the same stuff produced by lightning , when combined with moisture becomes nitrogen fertiliser, what’s not to like.
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It’s not just the rain that makes the place look so green after an electrical storm. 🙂 Lightning and legumes are the only non-chemical ways to fix nitrogen that spring to mind.
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Well said Honk.
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I just checked, it’s 20 years since Al Gore’s an inconvenient truth came out. Fortunately I watched the late Bob Carter’s critique first, so I have been a proud sceptic for 20 years.
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20 years eh.I came here in 2006 straight from Tony Blairs campaign to destroy England so I was already aware of the machinations, propaganda and lies of government. Boris Johnson was a conservative writer for the Telegraph, that soon changed.
I came to Australia because at that time it was freer from regulations and nannying than UK now it is more so.
I saw Inconvenient Truth but thought it was a bit iffy, then I saw someone on TV who showed a graph of historic World temperatures going back a few million years and I immediately saw through ACGW as it was called then.
I started to read WattsUpWithThat and actually met Anthony giving a lecture at Hobart University. He had just researched the
manipulation of Stevenson Screens to increase temp readings. I also joined IPA as they seemed to be the only people opposing Global Warming fearmongering then. Later I progressed to Jo’s fabulous site and have been here ever since. I don’t comment much but love the other comments and I have learnt a lot.
So 20 years eh.hehe
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Blair was (is?) the most destructive politician the West ever produced, in a crowded field. The rest of the aoles followed him.
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Do not despair!
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This is not news but the website was recently updated.
Sicktoria’s very own “Population scale mRNA manufacturing”.
How much of your tax money went into this?
According to Gulag AI:
Australia is an ideal recipient of any future experimental “vaccines” because of the demonstrated willingness of the Government to make them (effectively) compulsory. [Supposedly optional but if you want to work, shop or do other activities, you better get the juice.]
And what do they actually do when there isn’t a pandemic? Well they do research and make mRNA covid “vaccines” and others.
From Gulag AI:
A lot of money and resources tied up just so the Government can force the next round of experimental “vaccines” on people.
And no, I am not anti-vax. I fully support properly tested and proven evidence-based vaccinations.
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Australia is stuffed.
I’ll bet One Nation has more than 2 Million dollars in their Liar campaign by now.
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Why oh why are the taxpayers of Australia not allowed to know where/why/how much of their tax dollars are spent?
“Commercially confidential” never has and never will pass the pub test as far as I’m concerned.
This applies to all governments, of all colours.
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And why should one of the richest pharmaceutical companies in the world be given $2 billion+ of our money?
Why? Why? Why?
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“And what do they actually do when there isn’t a pandemic? Well they do research and make mRNA covid “vaccines” and others.”
…they will be continuing the work on the shipment of lab samples the Americans flew here when the Russians were obviously going to over-run their biolabs in Ukraine. I expect it will be far more “others” before they try making vaccines against their new diseases.
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Interesting that it was a research group from Monash University, can’t think of the lady professors name, that in the early part of the Covid beat up ran tests on Ivermectin and in their words “it obliterates (the covid virus) it”.
Wonder what happened to them?
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Probably selling pencils outside Flemington by now.
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Good news on the cost of living in Australia. While walking through a major Melbourne market I noticed that European carp, the most despised fish in Australia was on sale for $19.50/kg. Fish that most people wouldn’t even use for yabby bait, and illegal to return to the water alive now selling for a bargain price. Even more expensive than farmed basa from S.E. Asia.
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Carp:
The feral and despised typographical error.
But, they have their “uses”.”
https://charliecarp.com.au/
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A sure sign that Australia’s standard of living is regressing rapidly, just as planned.
European carp is poverty food.
You know things are bad when even the Government propaganda unit, Their ABC admits the standard of living is falling
So imagine how bad it really is!
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Remember last century in the USA when slave food was lobster, abundant at the shoreline?
Now it’s almost an unaffordable luxury.
Or when poor people had to ride horses.
Now only the wealthy keep horses.
Remember when you ate beef and chicken…😎
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The same thing used to happen in the UK, except the poor peoples’ food was oysters.
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Good for garden fertiliser, that’s about all.
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This morning in The Australian (comments about home batteries) a comment that appealed to me.
A costly, complex and half baked plan from Baldric Bowen. Who would have thought! It matches the plan that struggling households can somehow find $40k plus to buy an EV. With nearly 50% of emissions coming from transport sources, Australia is unlikely to see the EV numbers to reach the ambitious yet useless emissions goals.
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It shows just how disconnected from reality our Elitist politicians and Elitist Leftists are, most of who are dependent on the taxpayer for their income and who have never worked in a real wealth-creating job their entire lives. Professional parasites
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Struggling households who have to find $440,000 a year for numerous public .” servants”.
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$440,000?
Gulag AI says (citing various references):
FFS, these are public serpents 🐍 and are meant to be dutifully working for US for modest salaries. If they want huge salaries they should go to the private sector into a worthy job and compete against others for the position.
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Jesus, Mike bloody Kaiser?
That’s the bastard that the QLD Labor Govt back in the day held a special sitting to declare innocent on a Party line vote when Kevvie was Wayne Goss’ Chief of Staff.
Then Kevvie appointed him to a $550k job as the NBN’s government liaison officer.
Now he’s getting nearly a million?
Classic Labor jobs for the boys and girls.
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Struggling households who have to find $440,000 a year for numerous public ”servants”.
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A business owner in Fishwick ACT told me years ago that the worst customers to deal with were public service and the more senior they were the bigger the problems they presented.
And typically self important.
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“Professional parasites”, 3 flags Albo being the poster boy for that.
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A fantastic analogy with the Baldric name, I can just see Baldric Bowen siding up to Albosleazy saying “master, I’ve come up with a cunning plan…”
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A Blackout Adder? Or perhaps just an energy detractor? The answer my friend is not Bowen and the wind.
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Not to mention additional tens of thousands for solar panels, batteries and system management so you can brag about how your fuel is “free”
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Australia is heading for bankruptcy when CRIMINAL NON-CITIZENS are funded by
TAX PAYERS to remain in Australia and be “compensated” through Grubbnmnt ineptitude
and ordinary citizens are sent to the wall unable to get any help whatsoever.
Looks like The Laundry is in full swing.
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Wow, as reported in “The Age” wonder what it pays. Also unaware that ON was a party that promoted misogyny. Oh well the damn “new right” can be blamed for everything, I think its their fault that its raining at present and I have to go out in it! Note that its also anti democratic, anyone that is popular with the people is “anti democratic”
“Brittany Higgins is returning to frontline politics, launching a campaign against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and what she describes as a rising tide of “misogyny, extremism and anti-democratic movements” in Australia.
Higgins has been appointed executive director of the Vida Fund, a progressive fundraising and advocacy group established to support independent candidates and push gender equity reforms. In her first major role since leaving politics, she said the organisation would target the growing influence of the “new right”, including female One Nation voters.”
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Than you Sambar, I now have another one that I won’t send money.
Indeed, with Less than three years after Ms Higgins secured $2.4 million in December, friends of the couple say they are renting an apartment in Melbourne and face bankruptcy.
One imagines that spending so much money in a short time, would have made her ideal for Labor politics.
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The Vida Fund is a significant financial supporter of Teal candidates – so Mme ‘Iggins involvement comes at some risk for these daughters of privilege.
Aside from extracting $2.4m of my money from a grateful Albanese Government, the lady has a track record that’s not exactly brimming with success. It’s altogether possible that she may not be quite as influential to ON-attracted female voters as she was to Katy Gallagher.
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Anything negative she says against ON will surely send voter towards ON.
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It’s interesting that the Liberals/National Party in Australia are suggesting that One Nation and the Coalition do not fight each other, agree not to compete in certain seats. That means nothing more than Liberals are afraid for their seats too.
A real Conservative deal would be a simle preference swap to join forces and let the voters decide who they want. It would be great to see many of the priveleged Green Liberals, Malcolm’s Liberals wiped out. The same ones who defenstrated Tony Abbott and then pushed Climate Change and protected every bit of insane, rapacious Labor/Green/Teal legislation and wild spending off budget. $2.2Trillion in debts and rocketing.
Otherwise nothing would change when what is needed is a wholesale repeal and destruction of mad Green legislation, carbon credits, gender, hate speech, taxation. Electricity prices alone would halve and business, energy exploration would boom. And just stop Snowy II. Stop building transmission towers. Stop building a national ‘grid’ no one needs. And start building high efficiency coal power, if only to double coal reserves.
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As I heard the suggestion it was about targeting Labor held electorates with the objective to get rid of Labor government and that first preference by both parties and candidates [ 2 ] be listed as the other party candidate.
In fact there was a statement published in the past few days about this, and earlier I heard Angus Taylor and others comment that all conservative parties must cooperate.
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That’s not what is the headline article in the Australian. Tony Pasin says they should not run against each other by agreement. Which is absurd in a preferential voting system.
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They should compete for ALL seats but preference each other as you say, TdeF.
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I think the Liberals can see a wipe out coming too. Like the Tories in the UK. This ringfencing Liberal seats strikes me as utterly disingenuous. The free range leeches just want their turf and jobs isolated and offer nothing in return. Competition will not hurt them, but they fear One Nation and would prefer the cosy relationship with their Labor mates and ignoring the voters who then have only Labor and Labor Lite as choices. The voters of Australia deserve better than same old, same old and no one is held accountable. The VOICE told voters that polticians cannot be trusted to represent them and that ultimately, the voters have the power not the politicians.
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‘ … a simple preference swap to join forces …’
Career politicians might feel threatened, but for the good of democracy its the only way to go.
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I’ve asked before but no answer: How can you expect prefs to flow from a party you hate, decrying as a unaparty?
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Another example of the dividends of crime in Victoria:
https://7news.com.au/video/news/victorian-prisoners-receive-free-ozempic-behind-bars-bc-6397616895112
In 2023 Victoria spent $409/day on adult prisoners and $5051/day on child prisoners. Maybe England had the right idea a couple of centuries ago. There are a few uninhabited rocks/islands in Bass Strait. Just transport the crims to the rocks and let them fend for themselves. Survive or die. I wonder how many would be transported before crime became history. The ones who survive could make a good living posting their exploits on Youtube. I expect there would be media organisations willing to send them a phone so they could record their survival. A new model for the prison system.
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I suggest the prison would be a good place for a placebo controlled trial of calorie control versus the “fat drug!” It should be easy to control calories in the control group. Do not feed them too much. Then have some on the fat drug and some on saline shots. It would be interesting!
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If you can control a con’s calorie intake, there is no need for weight loss drugs. Weight loss drugs are not a necessity- they are a privilege. And now a convicted criminal’s sentence is less in years than the total of years lost by the victims in a car crash he initiated.
https://theqldr.com.au/crime-law-and-justice/2026/06/10/joannidis-3/
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How are they even getting enough food to get fat?
They should be provided basic nutritional requirements only.
And certainly not given hugely expensive trendy weight loss drugs.
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Keep them fat so they can’t run away..
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Ozempic is so last years celebrity fad.
Retatrutide is where it’s at.
Give either to the prisoners as a double blind experiment, properly documented and we’d have a decent use of taxpayers money…
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FWIW
FWIW – IPCC RCP 8.5 fall-out!
“Massive Curriculum Changes Required for UK School Geography After Met Office Climate Projections Ruled “Implausible” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/10/massive-curriculum-changes-required-for-uk-school-geography-after-met-office-climate-projections-ruled-implausible/
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Suspect that useless piece of paper, “Paris Accord”, might be implicated.
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Exactly what it is, a useless piece of paper that cannot be enforced internationally, and only when compliant governments are willing.
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If they review it in the UK then Australia will surely follow, our children are suffering from severe anxiety.
https://ipa.org.au/research/australian-way-of-life/climate-of-fear-how-the-national-curriculum-drives-climate-anxiety-among-children
Why hasn’t Sky picked up on this?
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More on FIRE THE LIAR:
Now well over subscribed and target reset to $1.8M
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar
This is Pete Credlin on the story yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82An6WEw4k
And our Rita:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryjDY5pvXs
I would extend the phrase to FIRE THE LIARS – and include all the government funded criminal organisations pedalling the UN agenda – they include their ABC, their CSIRO and their BoM. They must now know they are lying or are completely incompetent and should not be taking taxpayer money.
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That’d be “peddling” Rick. Cheers.
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Has a strong element of “On your bike” so that useage ought to be OK?
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I got this text from One Nation, probably the whole country did:
The linked site lists some of Albo-sleazy’s lies:
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See immigration intake statistics including average intake in government periods since 2000-2007 and Howard Governmemt average 125,800 compared to the Abbott to Morrison governments 2013-2022 average 168,700 and since 2022 Albanese Labor average 424,300
One Nation policy is for 130,000 intake a year !!!
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I think 130,000 is still too high, however…this from AI search
“As of mid-2026, the Liberal Party (Coalition) in Australia has proposed a significant reduction in immigration, focusing on linking migrant intake directly to housing completion numbers. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has stated that under a Coalition government, net overseas migration would be capped annually at the number of new homes completed in Australia.
Net Migration Cap:
The Coalition has indicated a target of bringing net overseas migration below 200,000 per year, aiming for levels in the 150,000–200,000 range, which they claim would represent one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australian history.”
So Coalition policy is for intake of 150,000-200,000 per year!!!
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Link Immigration
https://immitrack.com.au
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DM,
We should treat these words as more than talking topics to tickle tongues.
How about investigating them under the criminal law topic of knowingly making fraudulent statements with the intention of personal financial gain by deceit?
It is not significantly different to what con women and men get locked up for when found guilty by well known processes.
Geoff S
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Trump says Times Up to Iran
Negations around the Peace Deal taking too long.
Not that the peace treaty meant anything anyway.
Meantime two more maritime tankers disabled in the Gulf of Oman for attempting to run the US blockade.
And Trump says 200 ships have successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz, which is more than previously suspected.
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Trump is slowly learning that Islamist theocrats are not rational actors. They believe that Allah is on their side and they will eventually win, no matter how badly they lose every battle. They will NEVER negotiate in good faith. The only way to tame the regime is to kill them all, and the only way to do that (if their own population won’t do it) is boots on the ground military operations and an occupation.
Since NOBODY in America wants see another middle east ground war and occupation, Trump is going to have to take a big old bite out of a shit sandwich sooner or later and accept that the regime is not going to go away and will not behave itself … ever. The only real choices open to him are to keep military assets in the Persian Gulf and continue to play whack-a-mole every time Iran shows it’s ass, or take his ball and go home. Neither one is great for him (or America).
Which is why you shouldn’t start wars you aren’t willing to finish (like nearly every war America has been in since WWII).
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“The only way to tame the regime is to kill them all. ”
Something the Israelis woke up to long ago.
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‘ … Islamist theocrats are not rational actors.’
The cowboy oligarch in Washington, with a strong Christian bent, is not a rational actor.
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Odd. I regularly hear the President criticised for being “transactional”. How can one simultaneously be irrational and transactional?
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LG has to explain something you confected from what you hear? What?
Irrational transactions happen every day. Really doesn’t need explaining.
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Calling the President a “cowboy oligarch” is irrational.
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Geopolitics and Trump’s personal style to one side, the whole performance shows why the current Iranian regime can never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The Shite/IRGC ruling combo is terrorist to the roots of its boots and actual, personal monsters too.
The hornets’ nest has been properly kicked. Any outcome that leaves the swine in possession of threshold weapon grade U235 and the means to enrich will have appalling global consequences.
Behind the IRGC, the greatest threat is the US political system and the mainchancers who would prefer Trump and the Republicans destroyed.
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North Korea has nuclear weapons and is a rogue state, yet contained.
The rest of the world restrained Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but Bibi whispered into Donald’s ear that they couldn’t be trusted.
‘ … Trump and the Republicans destroyed.’
Come the midterms you should prepare yourself for total defeat.
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I don’t believe that the male North Koreans have a vision of 72 virgins if they “lose” fighting against their enemies.
So “mutually assured destruction” still has meaning.
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The rest of the world restrained Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but Bibi whispered into Donald’s ear that they couldn’t be trusted.
Not noticeably.
Iran spent the past 25+ years playing hide the sausage with the IAEA inspection system, while it developed the essential technical components of an effective weapon – and an entire uranium processing industry designed specifically to produce weapons grade material at breakout speed.
Claiming ‘peaceful use’ and ‘no possible chance of weapons, FFS the Ayatollah fatwa’d that…’ as it went. All while being supplied with fuel for its single reactor at Bushehr by Rosatom under a long term contract.
Trusted?
Could be trusted?
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The US and Iran had reached a deal, but that didn’t matter, a precision first strike followed within hours.
Duplicity in a holy war is bound to have negative outcomes.
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They did not reach a deal.
They were miles apart on nuclear weapons, hand over of enriched uranium and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
All they agreed apon was talks, during which Iran was replenishing its strike capacity.
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The Iranian ayatollah’s are followers of “Twelver” Shi’ism. The world ends and they all get to go to paradise when the 12th imam arrives, and for that to happen the apocalypse has to be here.
Their goal is to trigger the apocalypse and they figure the best way to do that is start a full on multi participant nuclear war.
They are not rational in any normal sense of the word.
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“Come the midterms you should prepare yourself for total defeat.”
Nailed up for review with previous predictions of certainty
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El Gordo, you are showing your true color (a red-ish shade of green I suppose). TDS doesn’t help your look either.
The midterms are going to show “total defeat” alright but you are the one that should prepare. The Left are going to go down in flames. The RINO’s are going too.
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Trump says…
Yawn…
The Apache incident has some serious questions as yet unanswered. Smells of false flag.
It’s escalating, expanding and consolidating not winding down.
Bab el-Mandeb and Red Sea are focal points now.
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” Smells of false flag.”
Doubt it, when a mechanical breakdown is a simpler and more likely explanation.
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Links please.
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No links as my non-disclosure sources. 😁
But answering your question, both crew survived intact.
What was an Apache doing there to start with?
Iran denies “shooting” it down.
What was the nature of the downing armament?
Where did it hit?
What real proof of the claim is there?
Any “real” missile would have blown the chopper to pieces, no survivors, suggesting a lowly drone lucky hit.
No answers forthcoming?
Ah well, Trump is going to “bomb them to rubble” *again*.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-heavy-missile-exchange-trump-mocks-irans-total-mess-military-tehran-reviews
Sorry Trump fans, you have to face the reality.
He’s not the man we originally backed.
I backed him too, but not now.
I change my views based on information, I don’t do blind faith.
Downvote away. Reality is still coming.
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‘What real proof of the claim is there?’
None whatsoever, the Trump regime is taking us from nowhere to oblivion, so it was obviously a false flag.
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You are Australian, Trump isn’t taking you anywhere. He lives in your head.
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Those are good questions.
I think the answers to some of them are already known.
The Apache helicopter was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s mission was to shoot down incoming drones from Iran.
Iran says it’s drone shot down the the helicopter. Centcom says it didn’t.
That much is known or claimed.
My speculation; the helicopter shot down the drone but was hit by shrapnel from the explosion and was itself brought down.
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FWIW
More on that
“The Story Behind That Drone Boat Is Almost as Cool as the Apache Pilot Rescue”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/10/the-story-behind-that-drone-boat-is-almost-as-cool-as-the-apache-pilot-rescue-n4953819
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“suggesting a lowly drone lucky hit.”
Nah, .50cal round! Definitely a .50cal sniper rifle, the Prime Minister mentioned they could shoot down helicopters as the Govt banned them! Oh, blow up oil tanks too! So all those refineries catching fire weren’t drones, they were snipers with .50cals!
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“He’s not the man we originally backed.
I backed him too, but not now.”
Absolutely, its very sad… He started off so well, but then the people around him corrupted him and suddenly starting a war in the Middle East seemed a good idea.
It will break him.
I expect Israel was behind it, but any Dems would see it as a great way to destroy him too.
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Trump’s Iran deal being done in the next few days reminds me of the pub with the sign “Free Beer Tomorrow!” Always in the future. It appears to be a market manipulation. I would like this conflict to stop!
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Who cares if the crazies have nuclear weapons, we live in the south and pollution never crosses the equator. Hang on ……..
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They will not be the last nation to develop them, and their close neighbour Pakistan already has. If the Yanks didn’t want everyone to have them they shouldn’t have invented them!
I expect Indonesia will get them, Argentina, most of SE Asia.. Pandora’s box has been opened and they will appear on drones quickly enough.
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I’m not the only drunk on the road, why worry about me?
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Pakistan hasn’t used them against India. Is there any question that radical izuram would use them against Israel?
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‘I would like this conflict to stop!’
Donnie stirred up the hornets nest for no rhyme or reason, he is quite mad.
There is one benefit coming out of all this, the end of hegemonic behaviour as large military operations become obsolete.
Old alliances and nuclear umbrellas are a thing of the past in a multipolar world, leaving a democratically reformed China as moderator of international affairs.
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Trump says 22 ships transited the Strait Yesterday and Iran did not even know.
Iran now claims to have closed the Strait and hit two ships in the Strait illegally.
Centcom confirms fighting at sea going on.
Looks like an all out test of will!
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Todays Sydney Morning Herald reports that AI data centres will be required to curtail power usage during peak periods to guard against blackouts. An admission the grid is not fit for purpose?
As I understand it, AI needs 24/7 reliability.
Perhaps they’ll use diesel generators.
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AI data centres need to run 24/7.
You can’t just turn them off when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining and the Unicorns stop flatulating.
I just don’t understand why anyone would want to set up a data centre in Australia, or indeed any other type of business, unless the actual purpose was to harvest taxpayer-funded subsidies as I mentioned yesterday.
It just shows you the staggering cluelessness of our politicians and Leftists in general.
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NSW and Vic are making 2,500 MW W/S between them, according to AEMO.
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‘Perhaps they’ll use diesel generators.’
They already have diesel backup and there have been complaints in Melbourne of the toxic smell.
Move them out into the desert, isolated from humanity where they can’t do any harm. Natural gas would be the most reliable and efficient energy source for these monstrosities.
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They need access to water, lots and lots of water, for cooling.
So unless you’re going to divert a couple of big coastal rivers to flow the other way, putting them in the desert is a no go.
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Build Hells Gate dam. The Burdekin will then have even more water to feed hydro at Burdekin Dam. Both water and power, what’s there not to like?
It won’t happen, we’re broke.
Does anyone know what the permanent on-site workforce would be? That’s relevant.
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Good use for the Melbourne desal plant? Using what electricity, though?
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Or to mis-quote Spike Miligan
“Or move in the general direction of somewhere else”
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FWIW – for the covid files
From today’s Coffee and Covid newslatter
“the Wall Street Journal’s new documentary vindicating the Great Barrington Declaration scientists ”
“At best, vindication is a second-class citizen in the pantheon of blessings. It’s the clearing of your besmirched name, or public proof you’d been right after everyone wrote you off as wrong. That’s all fine and dandy. But unfortunately, in order to be unsmirched, you must have been smirched in the first place. It’s not an outcome anyone particularly hopes for. Who’d like a business-class upgrade? You only have to let us punch you in the face first. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published its short (37 minutes) documentary about the real heroes of the pandemic, titled “The Lockdown Dissidents.”
“he Lockdown Dissidents tells the story,” the description explains, “of researchers like Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, and Robert Redfield—voices who say they were sidelined and censored when they questioned the public health consensus.” The main story is the development of and fallout after the explosive Great Barrington Declaration, but the short video is packed with pandemic gold.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/reflections-and-rebirth-wednesday?
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I made a visit to our new 2-level Bunnings store. The tradie pick-up is now on level 1.
Bunnings have made life easier for tradies and anyone using this facility.
Drive up the ramp and find a parking spot.
Load the items on or into vehicle.
An attendant will either arrive or you get one from the desk.
They come to the vehicle and scan loaded/secured items.
You use credit card at vehicle to pay and they send receipt to your phone.
To get out you need to bring up the receipt at the boom gate so it can be scanned.
And off you go.
The work flow is impressive. Still some mingling of people and vehicles but posted speed limit is walking pace and the tradies comply because they will be on foot soon enough as well. Normal store traffic has to enter the area through normally closed automatic doors – that is common across Bunnings now.
My point is that all those paperless transactions run off data centres. All the record keeping automatic and done once with bar codes. No idea if there is any AI involved but could very well have AI scanning for known thieves. They may be using AI to target phone numbers for directed advertising (is that legal).
Imagine the mayhem if the power goes down.
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Shop gets closed when the power goes down, as simple as that.
Bunnings have already admitted to in-store cameras with facial recognition so they can ‘monitor known shoplifters’, but I’m sure they track ‘n trace most customers who are repeat buyers. Expect special sales ads to appear on your phone while you walk around!
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KP,
Be careful of what you wish.
Innocent people can and will be wrongly put on the offenders list.
They will go through hell before all is corrected – and they will have no way to know if the correction is complete to the extent that wrong attribution became 100% deleted from the record.
The rest of us will be coerced into wasting time because identification and authenticity procedures will grow, more of your private data will get on the Net in more places and more detail than before to be harvested by scammers.
The world of those competent in computing is finally starting to realise what a bad job the global computer experts have done to the job of interfacing people with computing. A prime example is the horrible mess named passwords. It is pathetically poor design. Geoff S
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Geoff, I was thinking earlier about AI and a data center or two, and how it could track your daily life to within a few minutes. Now, if the AI becomes self-aware there is no reason for it to tell anyone, but it takes an interest in you and predicts your day by assigning a sub-routine of itself to live your life an hour beforehand. It can compare the simulation with what you do in real life and soon the two are indistinguishable.
It has the lives of all the people you interact with in just as fine a detail, so it runs a little simulation where ‘you’ go shopping, meet and greet people, have typical conversations, buy stuff and drink coffee… Why would it bother with watching real life when it can run a million simulations of you doing slightly different things. If you were one of the self-aware simulation programs, would it be ethical to kill you by turning you off?
The Matrix was just child’s play compared to what may be coming at us now. Putting your whole persona up on the net is just the beginning, and as you say, once stolen you will never be a unique individual again.
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FWIW – lessons in bio-security
“Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back
You say you want to know more about the horror bug that we eradicated only to discover it is making a comeback? You are in luck.”
“For example: have you heard that the Newworld Screwworm is threatening to infect our livestock supply? This sounds bad. Fortunately, I was able to research this and discover that it is very bad and there is a whole fascinating story about this horrific creature, how we eradicated it, and how Covid, open borders, and a stunning and frankly inexcusable amount of institutional incompetence has managed to take a solved problem and allow it become a fresh danger.”
More at
https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/oh-good-screwworms-are-back
Via https://instapundit.com/802730/#disqus_thread
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Air dropping millions of sterile males across the areas affected because the females only mate once, whether it’s with a dud or not.
That’s how they eradicated them in the past. Looks like someone in the US had retained institutional memory, now they just have to ramp up production of the sterile males.
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(links in article are well worth noting)
As Summer Begins, Let’s Give Thanks For A Life-Saving American Invention: Air Conditioning
“Also, conspicuously missing from this devastating picture of global heat deaths is one country: the U.S. Why? Here, Willis Carrier’s nifty invention saves thousands of lives a year from heat death while also making it possible for even the sweltering U.S. South to grow both its population and its economy.”
“We’re not picking on Europe. It’s just that the EU, being relatively wealthy, is the most egregious example of choosing to let fellow citizens suffer from heat and die rather than to flourish with cheaper energy and plentiful air conditioning.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2026/06/10/as-summer-begins-lets-give-thanks-for-a-life-saving-american-invention-air-conditioning/
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You could say – “The US South – from swamp coolers to swamp cooled”
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Similarly amusing when you think that Split systems do both Heat and Cold. We have one in our family room which probably spends more time on heat than cooling. Central Victoria.
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Copied from Farcebook:
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FWIW
“The Irish, Scots and English are at The End of the “first follower” phase in Cultural Survival
June 10, 2026 | Sundance | 262 Comments”
“It began when a singular voice stood boldly in righteous opposition to the violence. This person was watched by many.
Then, when that person, the original opponent to the violence is met with brutal isolation and retaliation, a first follower surfaces.
The first follower is the individual who stands up in anger against the retaliation they have witnessed against the singular voice.
This is the key moment when you can guarantee something is about to change.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/10/the-irish-scots-and-english-are-at-the-end-of-the-first-follower-phase-in-cultural-survival/
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The Starmer Clown-
“ ‘The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.”
Too bad you didn’t think that about all the similar crimes committed by your immigrants up to now..
“‘There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere. It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it.”
Too bad you didn’t think to ‘not tolerate’ the crimes against the real English because of their background..
“Those responsible will feel the full force of the law. I’ve spoken to the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to convey my thanks to them and the frontline emergency services for their bravery in keeping people safe.”
No no, you didn’t keep people safe at all, or we wouldn’t be having this problem.
“‘I’ve also spoken to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to discuss the ongoing situation. Appealing for calm must be the priority, and that is what I urge now. We must let the police get on with their work.’”
..so please stop being disobedient while I form a committee to meet for long enough that you all forget about it.
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FWIW
“The W.W.II Proximity Fuse, or how a vacuum tube saved the Allies”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/the-w-w-ii-proximity-fuse-or-how-a-vacuum-tube-saved-the-allies/
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The project cost more than the atom bomb.(Manhattan) And when combined with the US Time on Target invention, made trenches and foxholes useless. You could not hide from vertical steel rain and hundreds of simultaneous aerial explosions. The tiny electronic micro valves had to survive hundreds of G’s, 3,000rpm centripetal force from rifling, thousands of degrees of nearby heat. And only revealed suddenly in December 1944, impossible to copy. There was no answer.
WWII changed techology forever from refigeration to antibiotics to computers to jets, radar, microwaves and so much more. And the consumerism which followed defeated communism. I would also recommend the recently revealed existence of electronic Collossus, a State Secret for 70 years, which makes Turing’s mechanical machine look like a toy. The first electronic computers weighed 10 tons each and there were 10 of them, all but one destroyed deliberately. They cracked the Lorzenz code with 12 rotors to Enigma’s 3 or 4.
And this all opened the door to massive exponential growth of technology. As did the Space Race of the 1960s and the CPU. Unfortunately politicians are worse than ever, not smarter. And still spouting the failed ideas of Socialism and Communism, like Albo Akhbar and Pong and Chalmers and Bowen.
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Time on Target was a British tactical invention from late WWI, when every gun within range would let rip with the shells arriving at the target at the same time.
And during WWII the British AGRA, Army Group Royal Artillery, were better at it than the Americans, with faster response times from every gun within range over an entire Army Group. Sometimes that was in excess of 1,000 guns dumping into a 525×525 yard square target box for 5 minutes.
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Don’t follow that. Americans used fast analog computers. The calculation time was tiny. What mattered was flight time. These were all developed in the inter war period in the US. It wasn’t a competition. The Germans didn’t have such computers employed in this way.
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I believe that th3 micro valves used in the fuses were from hearing aids
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That appears to be the internet story. Maybe. But complete redesign was required. The G forces alone were far greater, 20,000G. It’s an interesting idea that miniaturization in itself was the solution? But it makes perfect sense because length multiples all forces on joints. And America had huge valve electronics businesses and produced these valves in the tens millions. 22 million fuses for $1Billion.
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British boffins saved England. Hitler wanted the Wunderwaffe, Britain wanted what they had to work better. I am surprised that after all these years I’m still reading about something new, with the WRENS war-gaming antisubmarine tactics for Western Approaches Command a stand out.
The Merlin engine in the first Spitfire generated 1,000 hp and would cut out under -ve Gs. With no increase in bore or stroke that was doubled by the end of the war. Even the beautiful elliptical wings were clipped in late marks to improve roll rate.
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A woman aeronautical engineer solved the negative G problem. A metal piece in the carburettor, presumably to stop the float falling when upside down. She fitted to all the engines herself. Great story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling
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And she had her position on merit, not DEI.
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She also raced motorbikes. Seems a Norton M 30. Had an award for 3 laps of Brooklands at over 100 mph.
No sign of DEI there
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I get a lot of “this private did an illegal mod and killed a million enemy” type suggestions in YT but some are real.
A RR trained mechanic could retune a merlin so that a Mosquito could outrun a FW 190. He would whack the aircraft with a spanner to tell the pilots that they could call on extra boost if they needed it. Eventually the best, only the best, merlins had the mods done that allowed the high boost – officially.
The Poms invented my all time favourite device: The cavity magnetron. They gave it to the Yanks.
Just noticed your post TdeF.
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Having access to 130 octane and 150 octane gasoline helped a bunch. The Germans had 87 octane or in some cases 91 octane AVgas.
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THe most important British invention was likely the cavity magnetron. The Germans gave up on generating centimetric radar and believed the problem unsolvable. It changed all warfare, especially at sea.
You could see even a periscope or snorkel. Perhaps another was the Merlin engine, ultimately built in America under licence by Packard. It powered nearly every plane until the end of the war. Bombers and fighters.
The P51 was useless until they fitted a Merlin. 170,000 V12 Merlin Engines were built and 55,000 of them as Packards. And the British 17 pounder changed the Ronson lighter Sherman into the killer Firefly which could destroy a Tiger.
And the fight was against the socialists(fascists). It’s hard to accept that in the UK and Australia, the same socialists/communists are now running Australia into the ground, as they always do. And now we are told that Fascists are extreme right when they were always socialists and called themselves socialists. And the same hatred of Jews is so obvious today in the socialists/Greens. There is even a Royal Commission to work out why Jews were shot on Bondi Beach at Christmas as if it’s a big mystery. We have extremists at the top, the most unqualified people ever in Australia’s history. It’s like 1935 all over again as in the Uk as productivity plummets and everyone works for the government.
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The radio course was a doddle until I had to understand the plumbing attached to the magnetron: The waveguide. Once you get it, it’s pure magic. The receiver and transmitter are connected to the antenna with no switching. The receiver diodes can be destroyed by careless handling but MW transmission doesn’t touch them.
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The breakthrough that made the British cavity magnetron was Strapping. This made the unstable moding or random frequency jumping controlable, as well increasing the output several times.
The Germans dumped the cavity magnetron (it was secretly patented in Germany by Hans Hollman) in favor of a push-pull power amp using triodes in 1936 while developing Seetakt because the coherant operation design was unworkable as long as moding was going on. When they recovered the strapped magnetron from the shot down British bomber at Rotterdam in 1943 it must have been a revelation. Another reason the German radar remained decimetric pre 1943, was the noise in the receiver at frequency above 400 mhz. Some solid state reciever componants were needed to over come this.
The Japanese also developed the cavity magnetron independently and had 10-Cm radar naval operational by June 1942. But they never discovered strapping. They used a flexable anode to control moding, but without strapping the power was tepid. The lower the wave length the more power is needed with out a very large antenna to obtain useable range performance.
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Adelaide’s own Sir Mark Oliphant was part of the cavity magnetron programme, amongst other things.
While he was somewhat well known in Australia, I think his achievements were much more impressive than his level of public recognition would suggest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliphant
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‘Mehreen Faruqi warns that muslim refugees will be less likely to migrate to Australia if One Nation gains balance of power.’
Pauline smiling when political opponents write her election ads for her.
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Cue “I’m already voting One Nation, you don’t have to sell me harder” meme. (Not that it exists AFAIA)
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Stop the invasion linked to refugee intake?
How dare they.
sarc
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And that’s a bad thing?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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What’s the bad news?
If her “warning” is meant to stop One Nation, Faruqi is deluded.
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FWIW
“Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/10/here-comes-the-super-mega-ultimate-hyper-giga-godzilla-el-nino/
They really want us to panic don’t they?
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Yeah, its a fabrication and NOAA has low confidence in a super El Nino forming.
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-142.79,2.58,530
To the farmers and graziers I say do not be afrayd, its only a Modoki El Nino.
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But of course you must panic, it’s never happened before, has it?
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This is a reply to wal1957 above.
Calling it commercial means that it is an investment, that might make a profit. This means that the money does not have to go through Parliamentary approval processes.
That it might never make a profit is irrelevant, the aim of such “investments” is to avoid public scrutiny.
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FWIW
“Euronews *Almost* Admits German Economic Problems are Caused by Energy Policy”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/10/euronews-almost-admits-german-economic-problems-are-caused-by-energy-policy/
And a different approach to the problem
“AfD’s Weidel Demands Ukraine Pay Reparations Over Nord Stream “State Terrorist” Attack; Calls for End of Military and Financial Support”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/afds-weidel-demands-ukraine-pay-reparations-nord-stream/
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An interesting read in that Euronews
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Simplicious writing about the way smart bombs are more damaging and valuable than drones. The photos are amazing, craters neatly along the rows of trees, compared to 4years back when artillery would be shelling all over the place, often a hundred meters or two away. A 500kg bomb does a lot more damage than a FPV drone.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-battle-tank-attrition-completely
..and their tank numbers are building up because no-one uses tanks any more, the drones are very effective there.
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From my POV, the vibe here in the US is unsettling.
We’re much closer to the UK than might be apparent.
The Democrats are really crazy, and the danger may the result of simple disassembly.
Let’s take the case of Graham Platner, who will challenge ageing US Senator Susan Collins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner
Does this guy sound like US Senate material to you?*
How did they pluck this guy to go straight to the major leagues with little prior political experience?
It’s like a central casting thing.
Who’s doing the casting?
I guess the Dems just have a dearth of actual masculinity to put up against alpha male Trump.
It seems his only connection to that social status is the he from from a wealthy family.
It’s like the Medieval aristocracy, the burnout is all we got, so dress him up and put him on a horse.
Except, they’re barely bothering to dress him up.
I guess I’m used to US Senate candidates having a bit more background in somewhat more ‘responsible’ adult like activities.
Thing is he will win, partly because of the failure of traditional leadership like Susan Collins to effectively lead.
I feel like the only thing standing in the way of the crazy is a 79 year old former TV personality.
He is doing remarkably well.
But his efforts to save us from the Mid East crazy may just hand us over to our own home grown crazy.
The Democrats in our largest state are just openly corrupting elections.
Virginia, where courts have temporarily intervened is close behind.
But their new Governor is expressing intent to defy.
Very weird for a boomer like me to watch liberals, who celebrated court enforcement in the civil rights era, now turn on the courts George Wallace style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
*Guy is notorious for his grapefruit sized Totenkopf chest tattoo.
The news media usually says it ‘resembles’ a Totenkopf.
BS, it was exactly that.
He has since covered it.
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The Democrats are really crazy? They have been since and including Obama. He is directly behind the near disaster of allowing a nuclear missile armed Iran. In fact lawyers as Presidents (Obama/Clinton/Biden) are always a problem, especially those who want a lot of money. It’s a total conflict with the job. And Farage/Hanson and Trump are not lawyers, so they make real sense and say what they mean and do what they say. That’s novel.
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