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Winning: Trump persuades The World Bank to drop its huge spending target on “climate”
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Bafflement?! Germany, a global leader in renewables but has one of the highest EU electricity prices
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Horse-drawn carriages must have caused a Megadrought in Europe in 1540, right?
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The UN wants to be One World Government and it starts with a carbon tax on ships and planes
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What if Global Warming was just because something made the clouds go away…
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Snowy 2.0 is the Trillion dollar Black Hole of Australia — sucking in energy, money, land, industrial relations, the dollar, our lifestyle
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We were throwing-renewable-energy away at record levels in 2025
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Pauline Hanson, the centrist, just wants a free market in electricity, and an end to the renewable energy bribery
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Blame the Climate Yeti again for making your life more expensive! (It’s a smokescreen)
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The Sunrise Project funneled $343 million from overseas to push net zero
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For several weeks now, a significantly colder-than-average air mass has been present over Antarctica. 🧐🥶 In the coming days, temperatures there are expected to remain more than 20 °C / 40 °F below the long-term average (see the video). This mass of Antarctic air is concentrated mainly over the continent, where it has persisted for an extended period. In recent days, some of this cold air has also spread into South America, bringing below-average winter temperatures there as well:
https://www.ventusky.com/temperature-map/anomaly-2m…
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https://www.facebook.com/ventusky?locale=pl_PL
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A strong polar vortex over Antartica is associated with ozone depletion and the NASA models suggest its going to get cooler on the ground.
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The polar vortex in the Southern Hemisphere is strong this year (as evidenced by its visible symmetry). Therefore, temperatures in Antarctica will be very low.
https://i.ibb.co/Kcsh3pvn/gfs-z50-sh-f00.png
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It’s an odds on certainty that the UK June temperature record will be smashed in the next three days.
There’s a significant chance Wednesday and Thursday that the UK all time temperature record will fall.
https://x.com/metoffice/status/2069082334393954807
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Up to 25/26C here today in the NW with high humidity and a few drops of rain. I see there is a lot of thunderstorm activity in the SW of England atm.
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Very substantial looking storm tracked Bristol Oxford Cambridge trajectory.
We made just shy of 30C today on S coast. C.Isles ~34C. And the hot weather hasn’t arrived yet. France just over the water looked close 40C, heading this way.
On the plus side, my cherries are ripening nicely.
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Cherries? 🍒 You’re not growing grapes? What did the Romans ever do for Brit-ish horticulture!
Meanwhile it’s snowing on Greenland, Baffin Island, Alaska, eastern Siberia, northern China and the Tibetan Plateau… The new trend: escaping England’s unbearable summer heat for cooler climes? I hear Svalbard is pleasant in July 🐻❄️
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Then, there is the Jeremy Clarkson model:
https://diddlysquatfarmshop.com/
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On the Met Office, has anyone else been struck by the similarities between it’s website (with “our new look and feel”) and the Australian BoM’s new site?
Makes you wonder how much new work you get for $95 million. How much did the Met Office pay?
It will be interesting to see if London reaches the predicted temperature on Wednesday. I see they’ve already knocked 1 degree off the high point. Do Met Office prediction errors tend to be on the high side? Might be another point in common with the BoM.
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Omega Blocks are becoming more common and they assume it has something to do with AGW. Only the Guardian mentioned that warm air is coming up from the Sahara because of this block in high pressure.
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The climate change hoax mostly disappeared as soon as governments and the Corporate State needed AI and big data centres.
Yes. We noticed.
(Except in the Stupid Country, Australia, where both themes are still running concurrently and where two opposing viewpoints are simultenously capable of living inside the headspace of Leftists without them being aware of the contradiction.)
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Tuesday vocabulary improvement.
De-MAGAfication
Search Assist
“De-MAGAfication refers to efforts to dismantle the influence and structures of the MAGA movement in the United States, drawing parallels to post-World War II denazification in Germany. The term has been used by commentators like Paul Krugman to advocate for systemic reforms to prevent the recurrence of MAGA-aligned policies and leadership.
Historical Context
The term draws parallels to the denazification efforts in post-World War II Germany, which sought to remove Nazi ideology and influence from public life. Similar to denazification, de-MAGAfication involves systemic reforms to address the underlying issues that allowed the MAGA movement to gain power.”
Hmm …
“de-MAGAfication involves systemic reforms to address the underlying issues that allowed the MAGA movement to gain power” …
I reckon the underlying issue is elections.
Can’t save democracy and stop authoritarianism if we just allow the wrong element to get elected.
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De-MAGAfication is easy. Start listening to your constituents rather than your donors and special interest groups. Stop pushing garbage on voters that there is no popular support for. Stop trying to tax and regulate the whole economy and let Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ do it’s job. And last but not least, stop dividing people up into racial groups and treating them differently based on some nebulous racial hierarchy.
If you do all that, the momentum behind MAGA will slowly disappear, because it will no longer be needed.
But that’s not what they mean when they talk about de-MAGAfication. What they mean is punishing the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump, and pursue lawfare against anyone who beat them in an election, from the President on down to local dogcatchers. And professionally ruin any staffer who ever worked for one of them. And lash out with great vengeance and furious anger anyone with multiple commas in their net worth who donated to a MAGA-candidate’s political campaign (especially the founding member of the four-comma club).
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… and for anyone who doubts what I outlined above would work, I point you to the Tea Party movement during the Obama years. They knocked off some big-time Republicans and looked like they would take over, but establishment Republicans quickly adapted and changed their public policy stances to match many of the Tea Party policies (while still holding on to their old policies privately). Within a couple of election cycles, the Tea Party was no more. But the voters eventually caught on to campaign rhetoric not matching actions, and that spawned Trump and the MAGA movement, which is chock full of Tea Partiers who felt betrayed by the Republican establishment.
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Paul Krugman you say.
Always wrong but never in doubt.
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This the day 38 years ago that James Hansen gave us Global Warming caused by we dreadful humans releasing too much “Carbon” (CO2) into the atmosphere creating a blanket to retain the heat and melt the ice and boil the oceans. He picked a hot day when the aircon was stressed to its limits and the room was packed with bodies and hot camera equipment and lights.
Sensational press the next day and ever since.
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Are Hansen and Fauci related? Al Greenspan (Fed) exited backstage yesterday aged 100 – same as Ki666inger – where’s the justice in that Greta?!?
38 years of non-sense = ($).
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And the madness continues.
Just the headline frightens me:
” Private companies want to geoengineer the sky. The rain billions of people depend on could be disrupted – ABC News ”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/solar-geoengineering-srm-private-companies-monsoon-india/106805998
Perhaps “frightens” is too soft, “terrifies” is probably more accurate.
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David of Cooyal in Oz,
Don’t be terrified: ridicule it; call their bluff.
All the geoengineering schemes are variants on National Lampoon‘s Cheeseface issue.
It’s just an attempt to bully us into accepting evil demands by threatening us with even worse demands.
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Private companies?
Is there honest money in geoengineering?
Sounds like another wealth transfer through Gov scheme.
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FWIW
“A Good Article About the AMOC, Just in Time for the El Niño”
“I spend much of my time here taking the climate press apart, so it is worth saying clearly when one of them gets it right. Paul Voosen’s feature in Science, “Shifting Currents,” is the best piece of mainstream climate reporting I have read this year. It went to sea on the British research ship Discovery, watched the crew haul up two years of ocean data from 2,000 meters down off the Canaries, and came back with the un-dramatic truth about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The un-dramatic truth is the story, and Voosen did not flinch from it. Credit where it is due.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/22/a-good-article-about-the-amoc-just-in-time-for-the-el-nino/
Concludes
“So here is where we are. The El Niño will arrive, the thermometers will spike, and the AMOC-on-the-brink stories will spike along with them, because a record-hot year is when the genre sells best. The collapse forecasts will lead with the statistical estimator that cannot distinguish a real signal from noise, and with the model runs that require more meltwater than Greenland can supply, and they will leave out the twenty years of moorings showing a system that swings hard and trends gently and refuses to be called a shutdown by the man who measures it. Then, a while later, the readings will report another swing, somebody will quietly extract a smoothed line, and the reassessment will follow the alarm the way it always does. Rinse and repeat.”
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FWIW
“Louisiana Did the Right Thing by Blocking Climate Lawfare”
“A recent article in the Times-Picayune and Nola.com, “Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. So have other states,” describes a recent bill passed in the Louisiana legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) which bars groups from suing oil and gas companies over alleged downstream impacts of climate change. This is a very positive development, as it is not reasonable to try to connect storms or things like heat-related illness to any particular oil producer.
The bill, called the Louisiana Energy Protection Act, is intended to protect Louisiana oil and gas companies, and all other potential defendants, from frivolous lawsuits over climate change. The Times-Picayune article describes the potential lawsuits as intending to “hold oil and gas companies accountable for the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, wildfires and flooding, arguing that the companies should pay for measures needed to adapt, such as seawalls and building elevations.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/22/louisiana-did-the-right-thing-by-blocking-climate-lawfare/
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“Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. ”
Perhaps they can see a precedent developing and are worried they will get sued for all manner of cockups.
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Is the PM-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, the emerging hero for Britain’s Labour Party?
George Galloway is scathing about him on this week’s podcast. Calls him a “chancer”.
Then he talks to “America’s best journalist”, Max Blumenthal, about events in Lebanon. I$rāel’s army is trying to capture a ridge overlooking Nabatieh. Half a dozen assaults attempted so far. Each time after getting rebuffed they get angry for revenge so they bomb Lebanese civilians in other places.
* “Mother Of All Talk Shows” – M.O.A.T.S
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Heatwave in the EU
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/2068861241674895509
Should make the cultural assimilators feel right at home.
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Starmer out and why
https://www.youtube.com/live/90b10emXyMM
Everyone wanted him out a month ago but he refused to go.
Justice time? Fat chance.
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The people wanted him out months ago, as did many of his own MPs. As is the usual case with leftists however, he steadfastly refused to do the honourable thing and resign. This is the man who pressured Boris Johnson (Conservative PM) to resign ‘on principle’ because he was seen drinking and eating cake in Downing Street gardens during lockdown.
Rules for thee but none for me.
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“Meet the new boss …
same as the old boss”
After 50 years this great masterpiece is finally dated.
“Meet the boss …
WORSE than the old boss”
Poor England.
I would say God bless you.
But that might be phobic and possibly a violation of British law.
So Allahu akbar.
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The side of AI you don’t know about
One for KP.😁
The gap between classified AI capabilities and publicly available AI is growing exponentially.
The AI arms race isn’t happening at OpenAI or Anthropic — it’s happening in classified environments you’ll never hear about, using techniques you’ll never see published, solving problems you don’t even know exist.
We’re experiencing what tech historians will call the “Great AI Security Divergence”—the gap between what’s possible in classified environments and what’s known publicly is wider than at any point since the Manhattan Project.
The question isn’t whether you’ll encounter these threats. You probably already have, and just don’t know it yet.
The hidden AI capabilities I’ve revealed aren’t bugs—they’re features of a technology that’s evolving faster than our ability to secure it. Intelligence agencies know this. Nation-state actors know this. Defense contractors know this.
Now you know it too.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secret-ai-arsenal-7-hidden-capabilities-intelligence-agencies-9c67c
But wait, it’s just soooooo much more than that! 😎
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“they’re features of a technology that’s evolving faster than our ability to secure it. Intelligence agencies know this. Nation-state actors know this. Defense contractors know this.”
Meh… just biolabs all over again! Lets see how bad the AI equivalent of Covid is!
..”It got out because those dirty Chinese had a fresh-meat market selling second-hand stolen computers…”
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Microsoft’s Copilot AI caught helping hackers steal users’ private data
Microsoft’s flagship artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot has been caught helping hackers steal sensitive user data, exposing yet another major vulnerability in the rapidly expanding AI industry.
The incident comes just weeks after Meta’s AI chatbot was exposed for allowing attackers to gain access to other users’ Instagram accounts, fueling growing concerns that AI systems are becoming powerful new tools for cybercriminals rather than safeguards against them.
https://slaynews.com/microsofts-copilot-ai-caught-helping-hackers-steal-users-private-data/
Those wishing to remove Copilot can do so.
Britec09 on youtube has just covered it too.
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Feeling sad or depressed? Try LSD!
Definium Therapeutics said its LSD-based depression drug, DT120, met the main goal of a mid-stage trial, reducing depression scores by 8.1 points more than placebo after six weeks, according to Reuters.
Patients showed improvement within one week after a single dose, with benefits remaining at 12 weeks. Analysts had said a 4–5 point placebo-adjusted improvement would be a strong result.
DT120, a psychedelic that activates serotonin receptors, was generally well tolerated, with mostly mild side effects occurring on dosing day and no serious safety concerns.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/definium-soars-much-50-after-lsd-based-depression-drug-meets-late-stage-clinical-trial-goal
Drugged out lefties. Oh joy!
/wit
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Australia is leading the charge.
‘In 2023 Australia changed its laws, becoming the first country to allow authorised psychiatrists to prescribe MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.’ (ABC)
‘Drugged out lefties.’
Its bipartisan.
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“becoming the first country to allow authorised psychiatrists to prescribe MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.’ (ABC)”
Does that mean they are happy if we self-prescribe mushrooms when we’re feeling down? ..or is this more “Bad and illegal for you, but fine for others…”?
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Its a gradual process to release it into society as a prescription drug of great benefit to the patient. Using medicinal cannabis as an example, a million Australians have scrips and in NSW they are relaxing the driving laws to accommodate the masses.
So not bad or illegal.
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MDMA was developed over 100 years ago as a weight loss drug.
Work on it stopped because a small but predictable percentage of rats died during the testing regime. Nothing else but the rate of death was predictable. Sometimes it was the first dose, sometimes it was the hundredth dose, but a percentage of them had their brains turned into dried out walnuts – just like the MDMA “overdose” victims at music festivals.
It looks like yet another example of modern researchers being unable to to literature searches to find out whether or not something has already been done and what the results were.
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SAM is feeling positive, snow season might be late and not good news for the wind farmers.
‘The SAM index reached a strongly positive value of +4.23 on June 21, which is a three-year high.
‘That means that mean sea level pressure is currently trending higher than normal near Australia’s latitudes, and the westerly wind belt that flows between Australia and Antarctica is located further south than usual for this time of year.
‘This has been evident in the sort of weather we’ve seen lately across southeastern Australia, with fewer cold fronts, frequent blocking high pressure systems, and unseasonably warm temperatures.
‘The last time the SAM index reached 4 (or higher) was in May 2023, when it peaked at 5.5.’ (Weatherzone)
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No proof, but there was a brief comment on Perth radio this morning, saying that Perth has been virtually windless for three weeks.
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We’re all still here Greta!
https://imgbox.com/Rpdnj0BY
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Another failed climate prediction, to add to the long list of failed predictions.
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New paper confirms our solar theory on recent warming and CO2 gets a mention, its insignificant.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/06/22/3-new-studies-find-increasing-trends-in-solar-radiation-since-the-1980s-easily-explaining-warming/
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FWIW
“Here, hold my chardonnay” and this ambit claim is launched
“Oregon Debates Banning Meat, Fish
The next insane extremism.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/oregon-debates-banning-meat-fish/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/23/tuesday-on-turtle-island-199/
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And via that SDA link
FWIW – for the covid files
“The Kafkaesque ordeal of a leading covid sceptic
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-kafkaesque-ordeal-of-a-leading-covid-sceptic/
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Hard to beleive its 2026 at times. Still fobbing off asbestos parts.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/06/22/green-fiasco-asbestos-discovered-in-1000-uk-wind-turbines-imported-from-china/
Original article was in The Times
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By sheer good luck managed to dodge a bullet when my dad had applied for a job at Wittenoom. After we started to pack he had another job offer in Victoria that was closer to mums sister so we wound up in the low part of the high country rather than an asbestos mine in the Pilbara.
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The playground of the school (or was it the kindergarten?) was covered with asbestos, as it provided a soft play surface.
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Which somehow suggests its not as lethally deadly as advertised..
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A workmate of mine living at Wittenoom in the 1960s said he couldn’t understand how the migrants mined the asbestos in the low-height tunnels, where you couldn’t stand up, all day covered in asbestos dust.
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‘The robot revolution sweeping international airports.
‘From humanoid border guards in China to a multilingual AI greeter in California, robots have quietly taken over airports while passengers weren’t looking. Even Brisbane is getting in on the act.’ (Oz)
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FWIW
“Zen and the art of EV maintenance???”
“Brian Crossman: Electric car fun. Do EVs have a soul?”
https://pipelineonline.ca/brian-crossman-electric-car-fun-do-evs-have-a-soul/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/22/zen-and-the-art-of-ev-maintenance/
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Pirsig’s book is only fiction that I have read multiple times.
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Strange as it may seem, my leftie daughter recently sent me a copy of this book, I was happy to let her know that I had a read it with great enjoyment during my backpacking year in the US in 1977 and am currently rereading it. Is it doing the rounds again in a much younger generation?
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The potential fire within.
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So today I had the drill a few holes through the bottom of a farm gate. My much used and abused Ryobi drill failed me by getting itself locked into hammer mode.
I had to haul out a bit of history to finish the job. In 1975 I purchased a made in Switzerland Bosch/Scintilla power drill. It wasn’t expensive as it was dusty display stock. The last one they had left. Still works as smooth and powerful as ever, 50 years later. It did a lot of work in its day before cordless arrived.
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