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Nice little burner in London disrupting and endangering residents and emergency services personnel. Too early to identify cause but general consensus in comments is probably battery and most probably one in a vape.
AI comment on frequency of such events is:
UK – Over 1,200 battery-related fires occurred across UK waste and recycling facilities in the 12 months leading up to May 2024, representing a 71% increase from the previous year. Bedfordshire: The Elstow Waste Transfer Station suffered a major fire in July 2025, requiring six days to extinguish, while contractor Veolia reported 370 battery-related fires across its sites in 2025.
Australia – experiences a significantly higher volume of recycling and waste facility fires than the UK, with industry estimates placing the number between 10,000 and 12,000 fires annually in trucks and waste facilities.
Unlike the UK’s specific count of battery-induced incidents, Australian statistics often aggregate all waste fires, though authorities confirm that lithium-ion batteries are the primary driver of this surge.
Fire and Rescue NSW alone dealt with 384 lithium-ion specific incidents in 2024–2025, resulting in at least 33 injuries and multiple fatalities.
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Also, I wonder how much waste is economically recycled?
Things that are genuinely economic to recycle are probably steel and aluminium cans. The rest probably not although Australians are expected to provide vast amounts of slave labour judiciously separating their household waste into multiple streams.
Bottles have a 10c deposit but I suspect the cost of administering the scheme is huge and the sheer volume of bottles required to make a trip to a bottle deposit refund centre makes it not worthwhile. And for what? It was supposedly to stop littering but people in Western countries rarely litter anyway. It was just vacuous virtue signalling at huge cost with Other People’s Money. And the cost of drinks and other food items whose container bears a deposit went up much more than 10c when the scheme was introduced. Wokism always makes the poor suffer the most.
The best thing to do with waste after extracting the steel and aluminium is to burn it to produce power and/or process heat.
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That’s a question which local councils seem reluctant to answer. I note that my local council never discusses where the recycled rubbish actually ends up. I’m presuming that they pass the problem across to a company to resolve, but never check what really happens.
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Where my late mother lived on the North Shore of Sydney, she regularly saw the same garbage truck empty both the judiciously sorted “recyclables” and the regular rubbish into the same place.
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And there was the recycling company that went broke (Sydney?), so the local councils transferred all the stored materials to their local tip.
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“Also, I wonder how much waste is economically recycled?”
My workplace supplies bottled water to drink (600ml bottles in 2 dozen lot plastic wrapped cartons) even though we make our own potable water for the plant process and general use, and have a full time on site chemist and spend a lot of money on equipment to ensure it is within specifications/requirements. We fill a large 200+litre wheelie bin roughly every 2 weeks with empty bottles for recycling, not including those that get discarded in the general waste.
An employee drives the company diesel ute a 30 km round trip to the recycling centre to deposit the bottles once a month or so, the money goes back to the company coffers I think, or possibly a local charity.. either way , the waste is entirely unnecessary with our potable water of better quality than the nearby regional town, the plastic carton wrappers go into general waste.
Not to mention the energy expended in manufacture and logistics of Transport of pallets of bottled water from manufacturer, to warehouse, to site. The Water company is making a tidy profit though.
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no different to replacing single use plastics with all that bamboo and paper crap. the energy required to convert plants to wood and paper must be substantial. then dealing all of it as waste. the weight, the manufacturing processes,the resources etc compared to plastics manufacturing. and the bamboo mouth feel, blah, you need to use more straws for a drink etc. they put your drink in a plastic cup and give you a paper straw, how stupid is all of that?
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And the cost of drinks and other food items whose container bears a deposit went up much more than 10c when the scheme was introduced. Wokism always makes the poor suffer the most.
Recently there were comments about adding wine bottles to the recycling scheme in WA. And the added cost to the wineries.
I get it that the used glass bottles are a nuisance to deal with in an efficient manner. And I have been told that the general waste facility does eventually separate them out from the land fill waste “stream”.
What I do not get is, why it would not be a great deal simpler (and therefore cost effective) to simply allow the “recycling” centers to accept wine bottles but not pay ten cents. And just throw the bottles in with the currently collected glass bottles on which the ten cents is paid. Of course, this assumes that the glass is actually repurposed for some useful task. And the cost of shipment to the reusing center is less than the liability incurred by adding to the landfill.
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Once again, Australia has shamefully proven to the world that it leads the world in suppressing freedom of speech because Herr Starmer in Once Great Britain wants to follow Australia’s ban on allowing children access to alternative opinions outside the Official Narrative on social media. E.g. criticism of anthropogenic global warming or that it is possible to change gender etc..
Like Australia, age verification for social media for childrem ultimately leads to age and ID verification for everyone including and especially adults, which is the true purpose as all Leftist Governments ramp up censorship of what opinions are considered unacceptable. It therefore allows the persecution, prosecution and silencing of anyone with unapproved opinions outside the Official Narrative, whether it be about Climate Change(TM) or whether unlimited open borders immigration is desirable or not etc..
In both Australia and UK people are already afraid to express opinions outside the Official Narrative.
Of course, the excuse is “to protect the children” but clearly that is a lie. Starmer himself as Director of Public Prosecutions in the UK never did anything to protect the children who were victims of the UK “grooming gangs” and the Left who promote these censorship policies do nothing to protect the children from the sterilisation and mutilation of atempted gender changes etc..
Discussion at: https://youtu.be/7hQKkOcgWc8
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Incidentally it was Australia’s fake conservative Liberal Party which introduced the censorious E Safety Kommissar and colluded with Labor to bring in censorship of alternative opinions on social media for under 16s and who have introduced or supported much other censorship legislation.
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Yep.
All hail the UNI-Party.
DO NOT be fooled by a Tailor.
NOTHING has changed.
BOTH wings of the UNI-PARTY bird play VERY carelessly with the truth.
Hopefully the Australian people are beginning to see through the UNI-Party narrative.
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For better or for worse I am increasingly running things past grok to aid my thinking.
Here is the final paragraph of its (to me) surprisingly positive response to your comment…
Australia and the UK aren’t “leading in suppression” like China, but they are normalizing tools that erode the presumption of adult autonomy and open inquiry. The YouTube link likely discusses these tensions. Free societies thrive on disagreement and evidence, not curated “Official Narratives.” Child safety is compatible with robust speech protections; governments often trade the latter for control.
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Before year 2000, I worked for a company with many subsidiaries, including one of the top three timber, pulp and paper companies in Australia.
Recycling was being pushed by pressure groups so as an educational and defensive matter we did detailed studies of the economics of recycling paper and cardboard. At the time (and probably this is still the case) paper recycling was not an economic proposition. The most favourable scenario depended on recycle of only paper that had not already been recycled once or more. In brief, damage to the paper fibres happened with each recycle. The only feed that worked well was mainly offcuts from original paper production.
Recycling of most goods as well as paper today depends partly on an enthusiastic populace working for free or low cost for ideology reasons. Use of government subsidies is seldom based on good recycle economics. Subsidies are there to help political election chances, at a cost to all taxpayers.
Australians must reorder their Life priorities away from putting “care for environment” at the top (as school children are often taught) and “putting food, clothing and shelter” at the top, as was taught for most of my long life. Geoff S
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Nah, both can work because what people need is “clean and safe food, clothing and shelter
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“what people need is”… the chance to look after themselves and make their own way in life, in any way they can..
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With govts of any kind getting in the way?
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Used paper. Shred.
Seriously (high pressure) compress into 10cm rolls about 30-40cm long.
Sell as firewood replacement.
Minor contamination (ie food) would not be an issue.
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European wokesters are going ballistic at Pete Hegseth’s D-Day comments, but he was 100% right.
I hope the Europeans enjoy their replacements.
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In June, the European Union appeared to finally react regarding immigration by introducing tougher border entry rules for the 27-nation bloc. The proposed rules are to ensure that illegal/undocumented migrants who enter the bloc are processed and, where necessary, quickly sent to deportation centers in countries outside the EU. People seeking asylum will be screened for identity, security, etc. The U.K., as yet, does not have offshore migrant holding centers.”
I’ve just read this reported on FOX News.
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In a classic example of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. Nothing like pretending to fix a problem by making announcements as opposed to fixing the problem when it was first apparent.
Australia was told by labour that it was impossible to stop the boats, they were cornered by the liberal party when they won power and did stop the boats. While labour may want them to resume it would be political suicide.. One of the rare instances where the politicians listened to the will of the people .
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I think this is just to shut the hoi polloi up. Any illegal immigrant will just take it to the court of human rights and after years of paperwork will be told to stay anyway.
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… and grok has either had an epiphany or has learned how to jolly me along …
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Hegseth was provocative and politically timed, which invited backlash. Not all migrants are “dangerous,” and legal skilled immigration brings benefits. But pretending mass low-skilled, poorly screened inflows have no downsides on crime, fiscal burden, cultural cohesion, or security is willful blindness. Europe faces real trade-offs: humanitarian impulses vs. preserving the high-trust, secular, prosperous societies that attracted migrants in the first place.
The D-Day generation fought against conquest and for self-determination. Today’s leaders ignoring voter majorities on borders risks undermining that legacy through demographic and cultural transformation by default. The “replacements” quip is blunt, but the trends fueling it are measurable. Better policy: secure external borders, prioritize integration/assimilation, favor high-skill legal channels, and honest debate without ritual condemnation.
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Grok is feeling the vibe (!)……….
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And if Grok wants a multi-media vibe it might reference this video of a speech given by (then) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on April 10, 2006 in Timbuktu where he predicted that Islam would conquer Europe “without swords, without guns, without military conquests.”
At the time Europe had only a 50million Islam following population.
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Food, clothing, shelter and i would add energy and security in an increasingly problematic world
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In the UK instead of efficiently collecting waste and sorting the valuable stuff like metal and glass mechanically (like the films from the 1960s they showed us in school), we prefer 4 or more different rounds of diesel powered truck collections for general, garden, food, recycling, etc. And instead of incinerating the worthless waste cleanly for heat and power, we prefer to virtue signal, waste hours cleaning and sorting, before it is all collected, thrown into big heaps whilst wondering what to do, until it fortuitously catches fire and burns in the most polluting and wasteful way possible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rylvvdvvgo
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Mr Grim:
Why not have big pits and put all food, gardening etc. into them and allow NATURE to generate lots of natural gas which could be burnt to provide electricity when solar and wind don’t cooperate?
With luck, those Nutters who demonstrate against these will fall in and add to the smell.
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Yes, until the EU/UK decided landfill was evil and started trying to tax it out of existence…..
The UK did generated a small but not insignificant amount of electricity from the gas generated at landfill sites, as time has gone by it has dwindle to nothing.
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The smart countries incinerate their rubbish, including plastics and dry sewage. The small amount of non-toxic ash remaining then be safely consigned to landfill. And they generate extra electricity while doing this.
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Interesting article on nuclear power development possibly coming on in Africa:
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2026/06/08/africas_nuclear_future_is_small_modular_reactors_1186842.html
200 MW SMRs are a better grid fit than the typically big power plant. Mind you at this point SMRs are something of a hype bubble. Worth watching.
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I don’t think Africa is developed enough to manage nuclear power, they can barely manage coal power.
But an ultra-low-maintenance (maintained by Western contractors), fully sealed and externally monitored (in a Western country) SMR that is simply trucked into place, connected to the grid, then removed and replaced in 3-30 years when its fuel is exhausted is a good idea. E.g. the fuel in Toshiba 4S or General Atomics EM2 SMRs is designed to last 30+ years.
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They are modular so this looks feasible.
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Don’t forget Africa already has nuclear power. The French build the power station just out of Cape Town back in the 80s and the flash new non-apartheid Govt hasn’t managed to destroy it yet. The last rebuild gives it a life until 2045 now, so a pair of new generators every 25years.
They’re talking small modular reactors, but Koeberg is 2000MW and they need more than that again to stop having blackouts. They would want 15 SMRs if they’re only 200MW.
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But South Africa (Capetown) is only one small part of a much larger African continent comprising of many independant countries such as Rwanda, which was the focus of the article.
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As I understand it that reactor in SA is run by French contractors which is probably the only reason it’s still functional.
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Emphatically agree.
Forget community batteries. Install community SMRs.
Design once. Mass produce and transport to site. Build as many as needed.
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And Australia should also be looking at SMRs to power our larger country towns, removing the need for long expensive transmission lines.
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That is what makes solar so funny all the time! You’d think every town would have its own solar and batteries, so we don’t need the transmission lines we have already, never mind the money being thrown at even more of them.
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I think the argument can be made that the Albany WA wind farm was originally justified in part by the ability to defer/ignore upgrades to the 300-400 km 130kV electrical distribution line.
And to a lesser extent the Denmark WA wind farm though that line (Albany – Denmark) seems to be a standard medium voltage line.
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Many of the WA/NT towns and communities have had solar / battery facilities for decades. Early ones used relied on lead acid batteries with diesel back up generators.
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I regard the Albany turbines as useless eyesores, a disgrace to have them built in that scenic location.
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I accept that many people would consider the Albany wind turbines to be “inefficient”, but it would seem at the moment the wind farm generates more tourist visits than previously occurred with the “scenic location”.
Maybe I am influenced by my poor evaluation of “Hollywood and/or Bollywood” where appearance is more important than functionality.
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Newspoll now has One Nation on top:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ueBPMOOsBiI
Only 31% to 30% but first time they have ONP on top.
Sanity slowly prevailing. More people realising that voting the UN-party is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. ONP will take Australia away from the UN globalist bullshit. That makes them a clear winner to make Australia productive again.
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And given the way politicians change their mind when they realise that their B.S. will lead to them losing their jobs …..
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ANY pollie that is applying to JUMP should be thoroughly checked
on ALL past voting trends and also on anything they said that
could cook their goose.
We DO NOT need infiltraitors. (spelt on purpose).
We’ve already got enough insurgents.
And we need people with the counter- training.
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They are starting to feel that “cattle prod”.
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A slightly different perspective on the Newspoll result from 10News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYCv7l2qz8U
It includes comments from ONP Federal member.
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Albo on the telly last night spruiking how ON was only about causing division. Standing in front of three flags, talking about how “diversity is our strength” and no plans to require new arrivals to embrace the Australian way of life.
As has oft been said how do you know when a politician is lying?
Is there a smell of fear in the caucus rooms?
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Sambar,
Nicely put. Yes, the only division he’s against is a division between his backside and the PM’s chair.
I also thought it an impressive piece of hypocrisy from him recently talking about the “Ditch the Witch” private advert against Jacinta Allen:
He was happy enough doling out clever put-downs about “the convoy of no consequence”. I don’t think we can take lessons in civility from him.
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As we speak, public serpents and political advisors are turning up the spin machines to cope with the threat to their power.
As the supermarkets regularly announce, cleanup on aisle 5. Here’s hoping there are many more spills on the other political aisles to come.
And that the spin machines do more harm than good to the enemies of reason.
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ON. 31% + Coalition. 18% =49 %.
Vs Labor 30% + Greens 11%. = 41%.
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That could be enough to form a conservative government at the next election.
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The ON fans here hate liberals. What happens if the feeling was mutual?
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A lot of nose holding in public?
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There are stumbling blocks, One Nation is still too radical, but if they shared preferences it would be a good start.
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And you cannot vote for a party unless it has a local candidate !
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ON should be able to muster enough candidates in rural and regional areas, but they’ll be up against the Nats. They should preference each other?
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Realpolitik
‘The new Liberal president, Tony Abbott, has backed preference deals with One Nation as he declared the party wouldn’t win the next election by being “slaves to focus groups” and just a “little less woke than Labor”.
‘The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, all but confirmed he was open to such deals with Pauline Hanson, declaring the party was prepared to cooperate with “whoever we can to get rid of this rotten Labor government”. (Guardian)
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Share prefs with whom? The unaparty is united on hating ON.
Seriously, you can’t endlessly dump on a party and then expect their prefs.
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FWIW – for the covid files
“Finally! The Reckoning news many of us have been impatiently waiting for has arrived. The Bowtied Wonder confronts a career implosion. The part of the story nobody else is telling; a Special Edition.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/chinks-in-the-plot-armor-monday-june?
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And
“The Real Reason the FAA Authorized the COVID Shots Revealed in Court Documents”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/real-reason-faa-authorized-covid-shots-revealed-court/
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I liked the term “deep state plot armour”. It explains a lot.
The problem is that it might be enough to protect him this time.
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Why would One Nation want to or need to form a conservative party with that “uniparty” so described for party political purposes?
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And
“The Hidden Brain Condition Doctors Are Now Linking To COVID – And What You Can Do About It”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/hidden-brain-condition-3/
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So, in the stupidest article I have read in a long time ,, the Climate Council advises us that Australia’s aspiring Data Centre boom will need vastly more “renewable” energy to operate properly.
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13708-australias-data-centre-boom-could-be-dire-unless-we-bank-on-renewables
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I read some of that and decided that my bp had enough to cope with without reading any further!
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RE were touting the building of a data centre in SA, with a large battery bank to hopefully cope with renewables regularly going missing in action. Makes no sense.
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A few questions.
How big a battery is needed to run an AI data centre
How long will this battery last
How long does it take to recharge this type of large battery once it is depleted.
Nothing important enough to be talked about I suppose, lets just keep making “announcements”
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The RE article came from Rafe. Didn’t read, just quickly skimmed. Full article probably available on RE site.
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They should just set a limit on how much power you can buy off the grid, and all large power users have to make their own arrangements on top of that.
Of course if Ms Rinehart happened to have excess supply from her own nuclear station the Govt could buy it off her…
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The aluminium processing facilities might like a little notice if that policy were to be implemented. Please wait until the 200mW SMRs are “a real thing”.
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The free enterprise model works best, rational and efficient
At the next federal election SMRs vesus renewables in the outback.
Set up AI block sheds in the desert and let them choose the energy source.
One Nation would have to lead the charge, the Liberals were burnt at the last election and need encouragement.
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FWIW
“Lavrov – Patience of Job & A Very Tidy Mind
Posted on 8 June 2026 by E.M.Smith
Lavrov gives a Master Class in handling Western Spin Narrative Construction NBC “news”..
And “Trump’s Walkout” gets a mention
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/lavrov-patience-of-job-a-very-tidy-mind/
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“Anyway, it has become a minor pleasure for me to listen to Lavrov & Putin speaking with Media (both western, and in translation the Russian and other Eastern Block journalists). The differential treatment from Western media as compared with other media is remarkable. The ROW (Rest Of World) asks a respectful question and then shuts up and listens to the answer. The West could learn a lot about actual reporting from the ROW, but instead, asks a slanted loaded “gotcha” question, cuts off the answer if they don’t like it (goes against the Narrative they are building), talks over the “guest”, is generally rude, and usually either un-informed or mis-informed. Also impatient and want’s no answer longer than 2 seconds – often demanding “yes or no” answers to things that can only be answered with a paragraph. ”
Always very noticeable!
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No Carrington event II needed to shut down the modern world
We are used to thinking that the Strait of Hormuz is a narrow chokepoint for 20% of the world’s oil. But after 2024, that picture is outdated. Today, digital arteries run along the seabed of the strait, through which 99% of intercontinental data and financial transactions worth about $10 trillion are pumped every second.
Key cable systems run through the strait’s waters: AAE-1, FALCON, Gulf Bridge International. Physically, they are less protected than any oil tanker. The materials provided point to a shocking fact: there are about 200 cable-damage incidents worldwide every year, and most are caused not by saboteurs, but by accidentally dropped anchors. But that very “accidental” nature becomes the perfect cover for sabotage in wartime.
https://journal-neo.su/2026/06/08/digital-hormuz-iran-turns-underwater-cables-into-a-trump-card-against-the-us-and-israel/
Yup. Iran holds 3 aces – energy, trade and communications.
One anchor or bomb shuts down the internet, the cloud, business, email, banking…
You could conceivably repurpose satellites to compensate, albeit much slower operation.
Careful who you taunt, the response may be lights out.
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If Iran could blow up the world’s communications why haven’t they done it already? Surely there are other cables which do not traverse the Strait of Hormuz?
Energy?
Trade, what Trade?
Sounds like a hand of deuces to me.
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There’s a thing called an escalation ladder. Your enemy needs to be aware of what you can do and what you could do next. You need to be aware of how much that will provoke them.
Agree, re the alternate pathing. Just as with oil , Hormuz is a giant PITA but in time will be worked around. Loosing Gulf optical fibres would be similar. More problematic than Armageddo. The first couple weeks would be fun though , even with a plan ,which I am sure they have in place.
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Today, digital arteries run along the seabed of the strait, through which 99% of intercontinental data and financial transactions worth about $10 trillion are pumped every second.
Sorry, but this is bollix.
If Iran cut the cables, the primary disruption would be to the Gulf states. Depending where the cuts were made, it could slow data flow between Europe and India/SE Asia.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
It would cause congestion as alternative routing was used. It would also highlight that the IRGC degenerates are international terrorists in such a way as to embarrass Chinese and Russian sponsors.
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Think its “bollocks” Dr F.
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FWIW
“Poultry Farmer Debunks Sainsbury’s Brown Egg Ban”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/08/poultry-farmer-debunks-sainsburys-brown-egg-ban/
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FWIW
“Animal vs. Plant Protein: Scientists Found a Surprising Nutritional Difference”
“Research suggests that equal servings of animal protein may pack a much bigger muscle-building punch than their plant-based counterparts.”
https://scitechdaily.com/animal-vs-plant-protein-scientists-found-a-surprising-nutritional-difference/
Via https://instapundit.com/802146/#disqus_thread
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Can anybody advise the name of the One Nation deputy leader and the shadow ministers of alternative government opposite the government cabinet of ministers, with two years to go to the 2028 election we need opposition in the House of Representatives.
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Oh gosh, that means things can never change. All you silly ON people should just give up. You should know you wont be able to build support and provide alternatives from outside parliament like you have for the last few years, because Dennis has rules you know.
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What the punters think.
https://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/politics/australian-federal-politics./one-nation-specials-10172952
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FWIW
“Russia at the Crossroads as Elites “Sour” of Putin’s War? Not So Fast”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russia-at-the-crossroads-as-elites
Some “other hands” in there
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Vulgar propaganda, but this caught my eye.
‘Thanks to Russia, the world has become multipolar.’
That is totally wrong, in reality Donald Trump has singlehandedly created a multipolar world.
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FWIW – “News behind the News”
“Spencer Pratt Is Still in the Fight, and He’ll Do More Than Get by With a Lot of Help From His Friends”
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/08/spencer-pratt-is-still-in-the-fight-and-he-could-use-your-help-n2203161
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Have you noticed that Liberals like Angus Taylor and Sarah Henderson are blaming One Nation for attracting votes from Labour and the Coalition? Surely if the Coalition had been worth the vote in the last two elections then One Nation wouldn’t be romping in now. The fact is that One Nation is doing what the coalition should have done a long time ago. The Coalition, like lazy Rip van Winkle, has finally woken up to find that voter sentiment has moved on.
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FWIW
Multiple screw worm findings north of the US-Mexican border.
I’ve mentioned previously that the US introduced its first sterile male screw worm control above the border somewhere about the late 1950’s.
https://www.healthbeat.org/2026/01/05/screwworm-comeback-us-mexico-cattle/
The outline there omits several things of importance. As I heard it the 1950’s campaign was about 95% successful when government money was cut off. The campaign ramped up again in the 1970’s and moved down Central America with breeding centres in US and Mexico. IIRC the US breeding program was shut down and responsibility shifted to the one in Mexico – which ran out of money.
Resulting in Round 3 and the US centre being re-activated.
And a cartoon on the sidelines –
“The face they make upon learning that screw worm is readily treatable with ivermectin.”
https://x.com/katewerk/status/2064064510735098052
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/08/i-amuse-myself-22/
Oh the horror!
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FWIW
Beware high speed rail projects
This one in Canada
“The Libranos: Gravy Train”
“Blacklocks: Phantom hi-speed regional @AltoTrain has 13 VPs and spent $1.6M on ads last year though it won’t be operational til 2036 at the earliest: “We are so proud.” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/08/the-libranos-gravy-train/
Looks like they have adopted the Californian model?
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My daughter gave me a call to see something in the sky, but I missed it.
Must have been on facebook she found out, it was:
Zhuque-2 is a Chinese medium-class orbital launch vehicle developed by LandSpace. It is a liquid-fuelled rocket powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane and was the first methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit. Continued in Wikipedia
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Hunter Biden is making a name for himself as an influencer with a sense of humour. The MAGA mob continue to vilify him, but he takes it in his stride.
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Obviously an honourable man. Why would anyone question his integrity?
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>honourable man
Poe’s Law
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OT but interesting. Some of the embedded links lead to interesting stuff as well.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/08/score-two-more-big-wins-for-israel-vs-iran-maybe-n4953720
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