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Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and explosive drones. Thwarted by mum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx10xlje1lo
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My skepticism has now morphed into full blown cynicism.
I do not believe the official story.
There are some very bad people out there pretending to be good people.
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If only Trump were a fascist King, he could throw people who baselessly claim he is covering up for ‘the Epstein class’ in the dungeon and put an end to such dangerous rhetoric (like German politicians do). Or he could crush freedom of speech on the internet and demand digital ID for all users, preventing loons from halfway across the country from cooking up plans together (like Australia does and soon the UK will do). Or he could ban opposition politicians from participating in elections (like Romania, France, Ukraine do) or from participating in the legislative process after being duly elected (Germany again).
Fortunately, Trump is neither a fascist nor a King, and will do none of those things. American voters and media and opposition politicians will remain free to talk all the crap they want about him and inspire homicidal loons like the guys who planned this failed mass murder plot, with no fear of repercussions.
I find it positively hilarious that the place that nearly every western technocratic politician/bureaucrat/academic claims is run by a fascist dictator, is one of the only places left in the world where they can state their idiotic opinions as much as they like and as loudly as they like without any concern of facing consequences.
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Er … the woman who was taken into custody for co-writing in a student magazine an opinion piece that displeased the authorities.
(surname=Ozturk).
How did she get on?
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Rümeysa Öztürk was in the United States on a student visa. Student visas are not a right, they are a priviledge. The Trump administration felt she violated the terms of her student visa and revoked it. As a result, they took her into custody in order to deport her back to Turkey. She chose to fight her deportation and therefore was detained. A year later, she self-deported.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-17/rumeysa-ozturk-says-she-has-settled-with-us-government-and-will-return-to-turkey
She wasn’t imprisoned for speech. Prisoners can’t up and leave the country in order to escape detention. Her visa was revoked and she chose detention and fighting the revocation through the legal process rather than leaving immediately. In the end, she got her degree (win for her) and left (win for America). Everyone should be happy with the outcome, if not the process.
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I should also add that Öztürk was in the USA for 13 years getting a PHD that typically takes 4-6 years. She spent most of her time agitating and leading protests and writing OpEds about how America sucks and Israel is evil. Student Visas aren’t eternal. If you show up to someone’s house and talk crap about them non-stop, don’t be surprised when they show you the door.
The Trump administration made a point of cracking down on ‘professional students’ from other countries who never seemed to graduate but just hung around college campuses stirring poop. Öztürk was one of those, so they tried to give her the heave-ho, but as is often a case, a bunch of activist lower-court judges blocked and stymied their efforts. Almost every one of the judges who has done that has eventually been reversed by higher courts, but cases take years to work their way up to a higher court. I am confident that if appeals are pursued, all the lower court judges who ruled in her favor will be reversed. But with her back in Turkey, the cases will probably get dropped (unless she pursues them).
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There was a woman by that name who was an illegal alien. Same one?
How did she get on? She self-deported.
Has it been determined that “rights” guaranteed US citizens applies to everyone regardless of nationality?
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LOL.
I’ll take ” things that never happened ” for $100, thanks Alex.
Sniping is a thing only in the minds of the ignorant.
An OWA drone on a 20km fibre optic line is a thing of security nightmare though…
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Feels-like temperature in Western Australia.
https://i.ibb.co/8DTMvPNM/ventusky-feel-20260616t1900-28s128e.jpg
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Yep. Quite chilly now in Perth. Have to run the air con for an hour in the morning to heat the place up.
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Strong high pressure is causing a whiplash effect.
https://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
This phenomenon is relatively new and I wonder if its a global cooling signal?
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What is New?
I have seen those lows around Antartica before, many many times.
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‘What is New?’
Its the blocking causing heatwaves and cold waves, is it a global warming signal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_(meteorology)
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Russian battleship fires near OAP couple in yacht. Probably a bit annoyed that the UK seized one of their tankers the other day. Some Russian mouth pieces have suggested tankers will now be rigged with explosives to be detonated in event of seizure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20yzm84r7lo
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>Probably a bit annoyed that the UK seized one of their tankers the other day.
Undoubtedly, although:
“British officials do not view the incident as being linked to Sunday’s operation”
– (from the BBC article)
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Is the south-eastern corner of the Royal Moat still called the English Channel, or does Their Starmer refer to it as the Freedom Highway?
I’m surprised Mini Macron hasn’t renamed it the Emmanuel Sea, and for goodness sake don’t mention the Vikings!
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I mentioned them once but I think I got away with it.
Sorry, but I think the world has gone mad. Present company excepted of course.
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don’t mention the Vikings!
Three Viking boats plundering their way up the English coast. After each successful raid they moved on to their next target with the captains of 2 of the boats noting that they were having to wait longer and longer for the 3rd boat to arrive. Arriving at their 5th target, and after having waited for 5 hours for the last boat to arrive, the chief of the raiders stood up to confirm the attack strategy and allocate the role of each crew. Just as he was about to speak a collective shout went up from the third boat “Please, not raping again”.
[An unmentionable Viking joke]
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Possible provocation by the Russian Frigate (Admiral Grigorivich) , but what were the Kelsey’s doing? Defending Britain?
A 2 degree change of course is not discernible. 20 degrees or more would be required just to be noticed. And it seems they were closing on the Russian warship when they had been warned to keep well away.
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>Possible provocation by the Russian Frigate
Possible provocation by the UK, (referring to the seizure of the Russian shadow fleet tanker Smyrtos in the Channel on Sunday).
“The MoD said the operation happened in international waters as it was more than 12 nautical miles from the UK coast.” Source
Hijacking an international cargo ship in international waters is illegal and is usually called piracy.
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‘… is usually called piracy.’
Sir Francis Drake was a pirate and the Queen honoured him.
This time around its a Western-led operation to bring the Ukraine war to a close.
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>to bring the Ukraine war to a close.
And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
I was taught to never believe lies.
Provocation only prolongs hostilities.
Escalation likewise.
The UK needs to mind it’s own business and concentrate it’s efforts on its own enormous problems instead of trying to distract from domestic crisis by prosecuting foreign wars.
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Bit late for that, the war is coming to an end.
Crimea is under siege, fuel and food is becoming scarce, so we could be looking at capitulation within months.
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More likely it will go quiet and all the fantasists will move onto the next story
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More likely it will go quiet and all the fantasists will move onto the next story
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The utter humiliation will force the dictator from power.
‘Russia is preparing to evacuate the Black Sea Fleet from Crimea, and the officers’ families are already leaving. The Russian military command is preparing to relocate the remaining command structures of the Black Sea Fleet from occupied Sevastopol to Russian territory—specifically to Novorossiysk.’ (visitukraine.today)
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A 2 deg change would absolutely be discerned on military radar.
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If you say so Hanrahan.
However my reading of the press report is that the Kelsey’s yacht was warned off by small arms fire from the Admiral Grigorivich (ie hand held weapons).
If so the range was 300m or less and the Kelsey’s were standing on toward the Russian warship.
A 2 degree course change at that range means nothing.
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I you say so.
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No, pure coincidence, naturally.
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The usual climate warnings are appearing as warmer conditions prevail during June, no snow disaster apparently, so what does the BoM website indicate –
“Australia’s snow season is notoriously fickle. Some years bring deep cover lasting for nearly six months (such as in 1964). Others barely cover the grass for a few weeks (such as in 2006).
The difference between a good season and a bad one may be a single weather event, such as the so-called Snowmageddon in 2014, which dropped around a metre of snow in less than a week.
The high variability of the snow season means the Bureau of Meteorology doesn’t currently produce a seasonal outlook for snow (as we do for temperature and rainfall). However, we know that the same climate drivers that affect Australia’s weather also influence our snowfall.”
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Climate drivers link ENSO.
‘The Bureau of Meteorology has declared that El Niño has arrived and it is likely to last until at least the end of the year. Forecast models also suggest this could be one of the strongest El Niño events on record.’ (Weatherzone)
The models know zip, El Nino is going to be weak.
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What is the UN agenda this time regarding Great Barrier Reef Queensland?
More blackmail threat to tourism to influence governments?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/cigarettes-to-children-report-finds-400000-dump-trucks-of-mud-dumped-in-great-barrier-reef/news-story/2137225274470828b86006b57a179d05
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““The Reef is being buried in mud and the cause is well understood,” he said.”
I saw no evidence of that at all in the photographs. Surely if there was a ounce of truth in their allegation it wouldn’t be hard to photograph the buried part of the reef.
I’m sure some senior politician has a relative who can solve this problem for a quick half a million dollars…
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Among the “well understood” (/s) causes of this we have been reliably assured is the problem of silt produced by grazing along the Warrego River system.
Now if you follow that river it flows through the Murray Darling system to the sea. Then any water that gets to the GBR has to flow around Victoria and up the east coast.
Where any pollution that it adds to the reef was more likely picked up from the Bondi sewer outfall
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There must be a way to extract the muddy water before it reaches the sea.
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El gordo,
Nature found the way to avoid excess mud on the Reef thousands of years ago. That is why we HAVE a Reef.
Today, tiny amounts of mud that reach the Reef have been measured and documented by several bodies including James Cook Uni and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Dr Peter Ridd spent decades looking for harm by measurement. He found little excess mud. You can read his scientific papers
Now, we are expected to believe that farming and agriculture on the Queensland coastal strip, 1000 km or so long, has jumped from not a problem for decades to an International UN problem attributed to a monstrous few farmers producing beef and truckloads of mud.
This is a great example of sad, emotional writers using belief when they should be people happy to work in this beautiful Reef country making measurements, gratefully enjoying that they are not finding harm.
If there is harm, measure it and suggest a remedy. Grow up. Geoff S
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Found this.
‘Muddy or cloudy waters occur as a result of negatively charged colloidal clay particles repelling each other so that they do not settle out and remain suspended in the water column. Introduction of positively charged electrolytes partially neutralizes the electrical field around the colloids and particles coagulate to form a “floc”, which settles on the lake floor. This process is termed “flocculation”.
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Also makes it extremely hard to clean a car with water jets in a car wash.. Brushes might be hard on the paint edges, but they do get the clay dust off.
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Several hundred years ago a meteor crashed into the Tasman Sea near Tasmania and observations were recorded in various other countries and recorded, there was a tsunami event and all along the East Coast of Australia. Port Jackson Sydney Harbour was swamped and the evidence of the event is revealed in large rocks lifted and deposited on the North and South Heads and elsewhere estimated to have gone as far West as the Great Dividing Range. The water sloshed back and forth in the area for some time and the height of the wave was the height of the since constructed Sydney Harbour Bridge roadway and railway level.
Cairns North Queensland is another example, the area closest to land is now mud where before there was sand, soil removed from the range behind Cairns by the tsunami event.
I doubt that there is any significant impact from farming and mining areas on the Great Barrier Reef, and considering the area that it covers.
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Edward Bryant is the authority on this comet plunging into the Tasman Sea, they also have an impact crater, but there is debate on that.
It happened in the 15th century and the local inhabitants were profoundly impacted, the stories were passed down through oral history.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/articles/chapter/Cosmogenic_mega-tsunami_in_the_Australia_region_are_they_supported_by_Aboriginal_and_Maori_legends_/27697188
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Have the authors actually gone to the reef in a displacement boat? The trip takes hours one way, hours travelling over clear water. The ribbon reefs are north of Cooktown, a loong way from agriculture, so must be pristine, right? They ain’t, they were terrible when I swam them years ago.
The main reef is often 70 km out, plenty of distance for ocean currents to disperse any mud. This is a be@t-up. The Burdekin R. would carry the most silt of Qld rivers but most of that would be from bad grazing practices upstream, not coastal farmers. Look it up on G Earth and while it has a large delta, the shallow water only extends a few km out to sea.
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For example of ocean and currents Fraser Island off Queensland coast created by shifting sands carried and deposited.
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‘ … bad grazing practices upstream, not coastal farmers.’
I’ll pay that.
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FWIW
Re “Analysing the Iranian Deal”
“But first, two themes ran like vines through yesterday’s comments. First, some readers, apparently unaware where my “lucky presidents” reference came from, pushed back (gently). Less gently, other readers said they already feel gypped by the “bad” Iran deal— even before the terms are public. Let’s tackle both, especially the second one, because gypped is exactly how corporate media wants you to feel. I tried to squash that narrative yesterday, but it’s taken root like mutant crabgrass. Let’s pluck it out.
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/doge-this-tuesday-june-16-2026-c?
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Unsurprisingly, Their ABC is having a go at pulling Trump’s pants down with an ‘analysis’ based on Tehran’s version of the as yet unseen MOU.
What is in Donald Trump’s Iran deal and what does Tehran hope to gain?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/donald-trump-iran-deal-points-circulated-by-tehran/106799598
Central amongst the ABC’s hot take is that Israel is the thorn in the side of Iran and peace in the Middle East generally:
And even after this most recent deal was announced, Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said: “The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely … despite all the existing and future pressures.”
Analysts believe Israel’s action in Lebanon is one of the main stumbling blocks to any regional peace deal.
As opposed to the actions of Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, in continuing its terrorist attacks on Israel.
Unfortunately the Monsters of Tehran have weaponised Trump’s unwise claim that “If I tell him [Netanyahu] to do something, he does it.“ to create international pressure and optionality on the MOU process. Our National Broadcaster neatly reflects the success of the IRGC strategy in galvanising haters of the US and Israel to support its position.
Subscription model sounds like a plan.
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FWIW – “word for word” coming
“WATCH: Trump Says He’ll Hold a Press Conference to Read Entire Text of Memorandum of Understanding With Iran “Word-by-Word” ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/watch-trump-says-hell-hold-press-conference-read/
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Half of voters believe ONP ready for government. Another 33% believe will be ready in 2 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rhify_AGHA
So 83% see the possibility of a ONP government.
ONP still on top overall and bigger margin of 4% over Labor while LNP gain somewhat. With conservative preferences, ONP could be in government.
FIRE THE LIAR target now up to $4.6M.
https://donate.onenation.org.au/fire-the-liar
The ONP advertisements already getting a lot of free exposure.
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it’s interesting that ON is picking up so many people who are interested in voting for them , yet the greens and teals are not gaining anything to boost their percentage. you wonder why? only the inner city elites have any interest in those parties, and the real Aussies are rejecting them hands down.
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ONP cannot form a government until they have won another 70+ seats in the lower house.
Even the most devout believer must think the chances of that happening are unrealistic !
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To form government requires a minimum of 76 House of Representatives Members of Parliament, and preferably a few more for insurance that government legislation can be passed if any MP is absent. The government needs a Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister and up to thirty Cabinet Ministers are permitted.
One Nation did not gain even one House of Representatives MP at either the 2022 or the 2025 Federal elections.
Today they have 4 Senators and 2 House of Representatives.
I read today that Barnaby Joyce has been appointed One Nation shadow treasurer, it makes sense as he is a finance graduate and started his own accountancy business years ago, and is also a farmer, before entering Parliament as a National Party MP, later Leader and Deputy Prime Minister twice.
So only 29 shadow cabinet positions One Nation opposition to be appointed now.
Popularity polls aside I have no doubt that the Barnaby Joyce understands why One Nation needs the National and Liberal parties Coalition to gain influence in a future, hopefully the next Federal (and VIC State) governments.
And the much younger Joyce MP with qualifications and parliamentary experience as a leader is planning to replace Pauline Hanson.
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Thanks for reminding us that horrible number – 29.
Who says that 29 is a better number than 14 and a half ?
The biggest surprise from watching P. Hanson today in the Press Club, a brave woman deep into enemy’s territory, is how many people applauded her .
Now I think all, to a single person, sitting there were clever and very experienced professionals. Burt most of all – they posses superhuman sense of self-preservation. They know which way the wind blows and getting ready.
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Over the next couple of years I will be happy if the threat of ON stops the Labor Party being as utterly stupid and destructive as it might have been otherwise. That will be a win.
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Say – like “scholars”, the creme de la creme of Australian science and education leaving their Chairs, in order to get a gainful employment before their colleagues.
Especial concern about vice-chancellors,..
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Not any more.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which if taken at the flood leads on to greater things
Right now we are looking at really extraordinary events
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But it is 2 years to the next gen election…
…by then the “flood” may not be so strong as it is currently.
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Talking of ON. Pauline is doing the National Press Club at 12:30 today. Might have to break my rule and watch the damn ABC. 🙁
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Pauline Hanson delivered!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bTeVMLJ-8
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Beth,
It is hard to believe that Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club will have few consequences. It is credible that her performance, which showed that she knew her topics and numbers, will cause an increase of ON members in future parliaments. We cannot estimate if this will reach a majority.
Also, plausibly, given the identification of many of the audience, the recipes that PH delivered will be remembered by most and acted on by some of the audience.
That, itself, is a move to a better Australia. Geoff S
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ON on Fire
The latest ON advertisement coming from the Fire the Liar campaign is a real call to arms. It hits all the main targets head on.
Featuring the red haired lady herself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yxG3FSM-1Y
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ALP Still Favoured To Win Next (2028) Election – Roy Morgan
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/10253-federal-voting-intention-june-15-2026
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FWIW
“The Real Competition Behind the U.S Coal Revival”
“Those conversations have stayed with me because China and India were already asking a different question.
While much of the West debated which fuels should be phased out, they concentrated on securing the affordable, reliable energy needed to grow their economies and strengthen their competitive position.
They understood something simple. Energy security is national security, and affordable energy underpins competitiveness.
Looking back, it should not surprise anyone that the U.S. is now investing heavily in coal. The real question is what took so long?”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/16/the-real-competition-behind-the-u-s-coal-revival/
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The article and comments included some interesting information about the efficiencies of current U.S. coal power plants, as compared to Coal power plants in China and India. Also Rud Istvan’s comments about the cost of building new coal power plants, as compared to building new CCGT gas plants, was enlightening. Worth a read.
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Yea but, both are heavily dependent on imported energy. Focuses the mind I guess.
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Beth,
It is hard to believe that Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club will have few consequences. It is credible that her performance, which showed that she knew her topics and numbers, will cause an increase of ON members in future parliaments. We cannot estimate if this will reach a majority.
Also, plausibly, given the identification of many of the audience, the recipes that PH delivered will be remembered by most and acted on by some of the audience.
That, itself, is a move to a better Australia. Geoff S
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FWIW
“FALSE ADVERTISING IS A CRIME-UNLESS YOU’RE A POLITIAN
Your local fish and chip shop is held to a higher standard than Parliament.”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/false-advertising-is-a-crime-unless
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And
“A misuse of AI that I hadn’t foreseen”
“We know artificial intelligence (AI) can be a very useful tool for good. Sadly, it can be used for evil as well.
Police have launched a criminal investigation into an officer accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to “create evidential material in a number of cases”.
The Derbyshire Police officer has been removed from front-line duties, pending the outcome of the investigation, the force said.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-misuse-of-ai-that-i-hadnt-foreseen.html
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A Ian,
Please consider doing something about criminal false advertising, more than writing about it.
It gets more serious than you describe if you consider my non-legal words like “knowingly making false utterance with intent of illegal monetary gain”. Examples are all around us now, especially with climate change stuff. I used to create and manage relevant Court cases, but now I am too old and penniless. Geoff S
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GB News Presenter Patrick Christys reacts to the Independent R@*e Gang Inquiry Report spearheaded by Rupert Lowe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_-JylAVOw
How anyone who had knowledge that these atrocities were occuring and did not stand up and fight for these young girls defies imagination. It’s absolutely sickening.
All those in authority who did absolutely sweet FA should be prosecuted.
Whether they be social workers, teachers, police, council reps, politicians, etc.
Will they be prosecuted though?
Rarely if ever does justice catch up with those that were in a position of power to prevent such atrocities but failed to do so because they “didn’t want to rock the boat” or more nefarious reasons.
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“How anyone who had knowledge that these atrocities were occuring and did not stand up and fight for these young girls defies imagination. It’s absolutely sickening.”
This has been covered in the Robin Hood movies.
Including the false hope in a missing King that returns and restores justice.
As he is attending the wedding of Robin and Marian.
But it turns out the hero King also hates justice just like his evil brother and got sepsis from an arrow in the neck.
Best we can do is keep up on our foraging and hunting skills.
Which might not help either since they’re planning to ban hunting and fishing.
Search Assist
“Oregon is attempting to ban hunting and fishing through Initiative Petition 28, which has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November 2026 ballot. If passed, this measure would classify these activities as forms of animal cruelty, exposing hunters and anglers to criminal charges.”
Why are you stealing the King’s meat and fish peasant?
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For your viewing pleasure:
Konstantine Kissin Kuts Loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StY2AeN4EPo
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Would people please stop using AI to poke fun at Keir Starmer
https://youtu.be/0VOqqX0lpRw?si=JycVFvUCjEimRMsy
Meanwhile in neo-Africa, Rupert Lowe releases 200 page report on grooming gangs.
https://youtu.be/mtDbQ-zWkcU?si=JpbsljnDfjmrD-RQ
Now mention child abuse in the corridors of power that’s been going on for decades, well before the Epstein files…
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The 200 page report, for those interested:
static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The%20Rape%20Gang%20Inquiry%20Report.pdf
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Another AI construct today superimposing Albanese and Chalmers ( Australian PM and Federal Treasurer for our OS contributors ) over the heads of George Costanza and Jerry Seinfeld. Doing the restaurant scene where George says “it’s not a lie if you believe it to to true”.
So, ridiculing Albanese who has lied about recent tax changes. What he calls ” changing his position”. Or, more recently they were statements, not facts. But, to be non-partisan, John Howard (PM 1996 to 2007) had his core and non- core promises but they were not as blatant as AnAl’s. (Dennis, no need to reply please)
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FWIW
“Elbow et al” will likely trot this out in support of more immigration –
“What the Yale Budget Lab Got Wrong About Immigration and Productivity”
“The Yale Budget Lab, in particular, has been a hotbed of negative assessments of Trump’s policies. It sees the One Big Beautiful Bill as worsening the federal deficit, raising interest rates, and slowing growth. It predicted large increases in consumer prices from the tariffs. Not everything the Yale Budget Lab produces is explicitly anti-Trump, but nothing it produces could be reasonably interpreted as an endorsement of a Trump policy.
So you will not be surprised to hear that the Yale Budget Lab’s new report on the Trump administration’s immigration reforms finds that they “will make America less dynamic and productive for decades to come.” The headline on the lab’s site is even blunter: “Lower Immigration Means Lower Productivity Growth.” ”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/17/what-the-yale-budget-lab-got-wrong-about-immigration-and-productivity-n3815985
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““Lower Immigration Means Lower Productivity Growth.” ””
Lol!! This is either a complete endorsement of the idea that cheap immigrants work for less than the locals and drop the overall standard of living, while producing more goods for less…
..or its total fantasy-land where importing lower-IQ, unskilled, non-intergrating, non-English-speakers somehow producers engineers, entrepreneurs and businessmen who can make a production line more efficient.
Time those yale guys got real jobs!
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Unsurprisingly, a quick inspection of the Yale Budget Lab’s website reveals a claim to be fair and apolitical, while what they actually DO reads like a wish list of Democrat programs. They also claim to be “transparent” but are anything but, disingenuously stating that they have rec’d funding from five or six other orgainisations but notably, they don’t say that’s where ALL their funding comes from.
Following the links to the funders listed, we find that they in turn are funded by yet other orginisations and foundation … all very spider’s web-like.
This looks very much like the sort of thing that was revealed by Musk when he ‘audited’ DOGE.
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FWIW
My landline “Who Called” memory bank set records yesterday –
Two 11-digit numbers, one 12-digit number and one 13-digit number.
No, I didn’t try calling back.
Any idea of where those might be coming from?
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https://www.reverseaustralia.com/
https://www.aucaller.com/
https://www.numberlookup.com.au/
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68fb30424aec8191ad4ae2ff390c15d5-reverse-phone-lookup-australia
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Meanwhile in Melbourne, the food bank lines look different these days
https://www.noticer.news/food-bank-line-foreigners-southbank-melbourne/
In China, there are what are known as “grab hags”, elderly locals who stuff their bags full with free stuff at every opportunity, and have no care for others.
Not the Australian way.
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Wildlife finalist 2026: polar bear mother and cubs sleeping on mud
https://imgbox.com/ug9QihL5
Photographer Christopher Paetkau captured a polar bear mother and her three cubs sleeping on muddy ground instead of Arctic ice, a heartbreaking image that was shortlisted for the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award.
Shot at Canada’s Hudson Bay when the seasonal ice wasn’t present…
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Sleeping on herbage not mud, mother appears to be in good condition despite having 3 dependant cubs. Cubs also appear to be in good knick. Is it possible that there really isn’t an issue and mum and the kids are just doing what polar bears do?
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Yup, but it’s a sensationalist photo and description to influence the masses..
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The paparazzi have no shame, here is honest photography.
https://resources.arctickingdom.com/where-do-polar-bears-go-in-the-summer
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Sambar,
“Nick”?
Geoff S
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FWIW
“OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Rupert Lowe Releases His Rape Gang Report.
The UK government has refused to investigate the crimes so I believe Lowe crowd-funded an investigatory body and conducted interviews and wrote up a report.
The full document is here.”
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf
“Matt Van Swol @mattvanswolI have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.
It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I’ve ever read in my life.
There is no close second… and it’s worse than you could ever imagine.
Here’s everything you need to know 🧵
1. The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.”
A QUARTER MILLION.
They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades.
The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR… there are likely even more than this.
2. The same crime was documented in at least 149 local authority districts… nearly 40% of the country.”
Read the whole thing.
https://instapundit.com/804263/#disqus_thread
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More here
https://instapundit.com/804261/#disqus_thread
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And for the visitor’s information list –
“Britain now arrests more people for social media posts than China, Russia, and Turkey combined nearly matching the rest of the top 10 countries combined
Britain really leads the world on these thought crimes
Insane how the UK, which used to be a free country, turned out to be so totalitarian”
https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2066778611227709885
Via https://instapundit.com/804148/#disqus_thread
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from clash report.
An examination of the underlying research reveals that the statistical framework used to generate the 250,000 estimate is deeply compromised.
Lord Pearson’s calculations drew upon data from three specific local authorities: Rotherham, Telford, and Oxford.
The method applied the rate of child sexual exploitation (CSE) found in these known hotspots across the entirety of the United Kingdom.
Statistically, generalizing national figures from small, non-randomized, and unrepresentative samples yields inherently biased and inaccurate projections.
Furthermore, the data points were fundamentally misapplied, according to The Journal which fact-checked and debunked Pearson’s calculations back in 2025.
The independent inquiries utilized by Pearson, such as the 2014 report by Professor Alexis Jay into Rotherham, measured all forms of child sexual exploitation.
The source material explicitly stated that the figures did not break down victims by the race of the perpetrators, nor did they isolate “grooming gangs” or specific racial and religious demographics.
The estimate conflates total local child sexual exploitation with a very specific, narrow subset of organized crime.
Mathematical errors further undermine the calculation. In the case of Oxfordshire, where a safeguarding report identified around 370 exploited children across a county population of more than 750,000, the underlying research mistakenly used the city population of Oxford, which is 152,000, to perform its national scale-up.
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FWIW
“And the Thick Plottens”
“What is the relationship between the Grooming Gangs and the Greater Manchester Labour Party?
Despite knowing the facts, Andy Burnham failed in his responsibility to the victims”
https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/what-is-the-relationship-between?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer&triedRedirect=true
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FWIW – add this to that and times might get really interesting
“Burying Brexit : ‘Staggering Level of Level of Out of Touch’ AKA Britain’s Labour Party”
“Keir Starmer is hanging on by what few gnawed-off stubs of fingernails he has left.
“Brutally and definitively rejected by British voters after only two years of lies, horrific deaths, a continued devastating economic slide, a storied military sunk so deep into a moribund morass it may never arise again, the abrupt erosion of cherished rights and the traditional way of living for a once proud people being trampled by the rise of an authoritarian state, all amidst an unceasing influx of foreign personages so completely alien to the British way of life who are glaringly favored by the British government over their own native sons.
Starmer, in his deluded progressive existence, somehow feels he has a mandate to finish what he started, even after the drubbing he received, which, by all rights, should have had him frogmarched from No. 10 in shame after resigning, with Larry the Cat hissing and spraying as he left.
The great thing about being a progressive ideologue, though, is that there is no such animal as ‘shame.’ They can’t feel it. They can’t experience it.”
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/16/burying-brexit-staggering-level-of-level-of-out-of-touch-aka-britains-labour-party-n3816016
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More on the “illegal” biolabs
This article was originally published in August 2023. Since Tulsi Garbage propaganda, i.e. recycling the info freely available on the internet for 20+ years as “new declassified” material about “illegal” (lol, fully legal) “Ukrainian biolabs” (lol, owned by the DOD since 2005) has hit the social media circuits super hard, I am republishing my 3 year old article on this topic without any edits.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/republish-assassinated-chief-of-cbrn
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“Collect samples of the toxic proteins the poisoned bodies are trying to get rid of as they are breaking apart.”
So, a believer in the cell wrapping up toxic compounds inside membranes and they get released when the cell dies and fragments. Most scientists say those particles are the virus that has just killed that cell, I was taught that too.
However the worrying thing is the failure of microbiologists to have Kochs Postulates applied to a virus. Why can’t we take a sick person, isolate the virus, grow it in a lab and then infect another person with it? All those wonderful electron micrographs of so-called virus particles that we can grow in the lab, but they don’t work when you try them? I tried it myself when I was running a microbiology teaching laboratory 50years ago, and I can tell you that tomatoe seedlings are very resistant to TMV!
The idea of a virus makes sense, but there is something important missing along the way.
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Do legal biolabs exist? It doesn’t appear so.
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FWIW
“Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Repeats a Warning Message – 5 Eyes Countries Focused on Totalitarian Control
June 16, 2026 | Sundance | 221 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/16/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-repeats-a-warning-message-5-eyes-countries-focused-on-totalitarian-control/
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One Nation has hired professionals including foreigners for public relations, sales and marketing;
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hansons-one-nation-outsourcing-work-to-philippines/news-story/6d7b936e39a0eacc8b0769ae3bce908a
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Yeah, this ‘stuff’ is so boring now, eh!.
Look at this (Aneroid) graph for all AEMO wind generation for last Wednesday, 10th July 2026, and when the graph opens, just click on the MW tab at the top right of the graph.
See how it just, well, collapsed, is all you can say.
That high point prior to the drop is 8443MW at 7.30AM. The low point is at 4.45PM, and that’s 1398MW.
So, in a time frame of just nine hours, wind generation collapsed by 7045MW ….. as a large High Pressure Weather System rolled over Central Australia. Zero Isobars, so wind generation, well, fails.
Large scale coal fired power turbine/generators have around a 500MW Nameplate.
So this huge loss of power was the equivalent of losing FOURTEEN Units ….. at the rate of one every half hour.
If fourteen coal fired Units failed in that time, there would be ….. well, who cares really just what that outrage might be about, how totally unreliable coal fired power would be. I say here ‘who cares’, because you’d be just looking around asking ….. what the hell just happened, as the AEMO grid would most probably just crash.
For some perspective the State of Victoria has 3 coal fired plants with just 10 Units and a Nameplate of 4690MW. So that loss of wind generation was one and a half Victoria’s total.
Oh, and where was that loss covered?
Hydro ramped up 3300MW, Gas ramped up 1900MW, and coal was around 2000MW higher than usual.
The irony, how it burns.
And no one, not a single green friend of the dirt even knew it actually happened. (everyone would have known had it been coal fired power failure, eh!)
Oh, and some of you might think ….. hey, fossil fuel covers for a failure of wind, please don’t think wind can cover for the failure of coal fired power. That goes down in that sort of numbers, then the grid just fails.
Tony.
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The main point here is that something like this is not just an isolated ‘one off’ occurrence.
This happens every three to four days.
How can you run a grid like this.
People are blissfully unaware that this happens all the time.
The grid controllers ring up the coal fired, the gas plant, the hydro plant operators and say ….. hey, mate, the ar$e has just fallen out of wind power. Can you run up a Unit or two please.
And then, as smooth as silk, with NO ONE at all knowing it’s even happening, the grid just keeps on delivering.
That same grid controller can’t phone up a wind plant operator and say ….. hey mate, we’ve just lost a coal fired unit. Can you bring a hundred of your of your wind turbines on line in the next coupla minutes please!!!!
Tony.
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FWIW
“Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/16/fueling-the-coming-nuclear-renaissance/
Oz?
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In They Call Me Mr Pitiful News:
Keir Starmer hints he’ll offer ‘asset’ Andy Burnham Cabinet job if he wins by-election in last-gasp bid to save his skin
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39440256/keir-starmer-offers-andy-burnham-cabinet-job/
The PM made the job offer on the eve of the Makerfield by-election which is expected to bring the Manchester Mayor back into Parliament.
Mr Burnham is poised to launch a leadership bid within days of returning as an MP in Parliament.
Muppet.
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FWIW –
See # 18.4 and # 18.4.1 for some added spice
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Mid Holocene sea level rise off the Chile coast.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/06/17/new-study-chiles-relative-sea-level-was-3-2-meters-higher-than-today-during-the-mid-holocene/
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