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Apart from Leftist idiots in Australia, consider that the only other people in the world who like PM Albanese are Hamas terrorists and Emperor Xi.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/albanese-marks-a-first-for-a-pm-by-getting-praise-from-terrorists-hamas-and-a-panning-from-rubio/news-story/270a13722a2275f62738e0ba99dfb581
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The leader of Syria was also a terrorist, with a price on his head, until the USA decided the he was the man to replace Bashar al-Assad. Buy the way, in what was considered a fair election Hamas gained most of the posts in Gaza, with the blessing at the time of Israel
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I’d hardly call Israel’s earlier recognition of Hamas in Gaza a blessing. They simply recognised Hamas as the elected “authority” in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority, created by the Oslo Accords, in Judea and Samaria. The Left would have complained if they recognised the less violent PA in Gaza who was not elected in 2006 wouldn’t they?
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19 years ago. I notice you forgot that bit PF.
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Mmmm Hamas had all that time to make something out of Gaza. Observe what they chose to do.
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Peter Fitzroy, #1.1,
… and w/o Hamas, Israel would have been w/o “reason” to enact the “self defence” we see them applying against Gaza.
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You have been paying attention.
Watch your thoughts Comrade Siebert.
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Peter, you are still around. Thought something must have happened because you didn’t reply the other day.
Tuesday comment #10, you claimed that 90% of the north west corals had been killed.
I asked a question at #10.8
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/08/tuesday-121/#comment-2863770
Can you please provide the clarification I sought?
Thanks.
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From The Australian 2 days ago Hamas has celebrated Australian Labor PM Anthony Albanese’s move to recognise a Palestinian state, saying the decision is vindication of its October 7 terror attack on Israel.
UN to blacklist Hamas for conflict-related sexual violence committed on Oct. 7, towards hostages
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set to name Hamas on the UN’s blacklist in his annual report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), an advanced draft copy of the report, as it was distributed to members of the Security Council
The list is specifically of parties “credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence in situations of armed conflict.”
The key term here is “patterns,” as it indicates that acts of sexual violence committed by Palestinians in the Hamas-led massacre cross-border attack on October 7 were not incidental or random, but intentional and deliberate acts of war.
The report references evidence gathered from UN Special Representative Pramila Patten during her mission visit to Israel, which included meetings with captivity survivors.
The mission included some of Patten’s staff, specialists trained in appropriate interviewing of survivors, a forensic pathologist, and an information analyst, was published in March 2024.
Though the report could not ascertain whether sexual violence was used as a war tactic, it established that such violence was systematic.
Guterres wrote that Patten found “reasonable grounds to believe” that such attacks occurred on October 7.
This took place at several locations, and included acts of rape and gang-rape: “Several fully naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down were recovered – mostly women – with hands tied, who had been shot multiple times, often in the head.”
The report reads, “Although circumstantial, such a pattern of undressing and restraining of victims may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence.”
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Toronto Film Fest outrageously cuts Oct. 7 doc because Hamas didn’t give footage permission: ‘Absurd and bizarre’
A new documentary about the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas has been booted from the Toronto International Film Festival — because organizers insist the filmmakers need the rights from the terrorist group to use their horrific footage of the massacre.
The festival claims the movie, called “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue,” did not meet certain requirements to screen at the prestigious September event, widely attended by Hollywood stars and bigwigs, including not securing so-called “legal clearance” to use Hamas’ livestreamed video of the rape, murder and kidnapping of Jews.
The stunned filmmakers, including Canadian director Barry Avrich, slammed the decision, telling Deadline that TIFF has “defied its mission and censored its own programming by refusing this film.”
Indeed, TIFF’s mission states on its website, “we will defend artistic excellence and artistic freedom.”
While TIFF alleges they required permission from Hamas to use the footage, the documentary’s line producer, Talia Harris Ram, told the Times of Israel that their rationale was ridiculous.
“The topic of creators’ rights is something I work with regularly,” she said. “There’s no legal problem with showing these clips, which were already streamed live on October 7. From an intellectual property standpoint, they are clearly in the public domain.”
The Post has also learned the film had insurance that protected both its creators and the festival from potential lawsuits.
Some sources told Deadline the festival pulled the doc out of concern that potential anti-Israel protests would form in crowded downtown Toronto.
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So When Hamas say “Hamas has celebrated Australian Labor PM Anthony Albanese’s move to recognise a Palestinian state, saying the decision is vindication of its October 7 terror attack on Israel.
Labor PM Albo now says
Hamas praise just ‘propaganda’, says Albanese
“It is Hamas which will engage in propaganda because they are being isolated because the world is horrified by the events of October 7, [that] the world condemns and says, including the Arab League … that Hamas must be isolated and must be disarmed, the hostages should be released,”
But according to Albanese & Penny Wong, Hamas are to be believed on Starving Children & Gazan Deaths?
Que!
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The Government knows that the Sheeple have been stupid enough to vote for Green-Labor twice federally and numerous times in state and local government elections.
They therefore know that the dumbed-down masses have now been fully prepared to believe just about anything, no matter how bizarre.
Remember that thinking people, including most present company, are an extreme minority in today’s Australia.
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Penny Wong is giving $500 million of Aussie taxpayer money to Vanuatu.
It includes $120 million for two large data centres. Most of Vanuatu’s electricity comes from diesel generators, not cheap coal, gas, nuclear or hydro power that’s needed for such centres. So how’s that going to work?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-12/australia-and-vanuatu-close-to-signing-nakamal-agreement/105640026
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Undersea power cable from Darwin.
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Well that makes sense. An undersea cable to supply an undersea data centre. After all, isn’t Vanuatu a victim of sea level rise and is sinking beneath that Pacific. Cooling won’t be an issue. Oh, wait a minute. The seas are boiling. Mmmm. Somebody hasn’t thought this through.
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Yes, it gets confusing doesn’t it.
They are supposedly sinking into the ocean but our taxes are being given to them to build expensive and yet useless infrastructure like diesel-powered data centres, which themselves will add to the Left’s claimed CO2 problem.
Doesn’t anyone who writes the cheques giving away our taxes ever bother to check some basic facts?
So,
1) We are giving them taxpayer money to build useless infrastructure.
2) We are claiming the nation is sinking beneath the waves.
3) Vanuatuans are eligible to come to Australia under the Pacific Engagement Treaty, one of the reasons for the treaty being to establish an alternative abode for “climate change refugees”.
https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/pacific/people-connections/people-connections-in-the-pacific/pacific-engagement-visa
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When modern technology meets carefree Pacific Island thinking. In the days of Himatangi and Makara Radio the NZ send and receive HF radio stations used to centralize the international radio stations and the gateways to/from the Pacific Islands. One-night Himatangi messaged one of the islands to change frequency due to atmospherics and nothing happened. Messaged a couple more times before link was lost for the night. Next morning when things settled and the link came back up Himatangi asked if the other end had received their message and if so why they hadn’t changed frequency . The answer came back that the bike, used to ride the walkable distance to the aerials/dish, had a flat tyre so the operator spent their shift finding and fixing the puncture. Just as well no NZ navy survey ship was operating in the area at the time.
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Point of order Esra, the ACIDIC seas are boiling
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Gotta keep The Laundry going.
How else can they afford their houses?
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EVERY politician giving tax payers money to overseas countries
SHOULD match it with the same amount of money from their own pocket.
That would be fair, wouldn’t it?
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You’d think it would be a winner for Liberal voters (assuming there are any conservatives left among them) to promise defunding or a reduction of funding for Their ABC but governments just keep increasing their funding. Fake conservative Liberal ScoMo also increased ABC funding.
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Labor is also legislatively entrenching long term funding for Their ABC so, assuming a conservative government is ever elected, they won’t be able to easily defund it.
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Despite Bugs Bunny, rabbits should not generally be given carrots except as a treat for pets as they are too high in sugar for the rabbit’s digestive system.
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Is that the leafy green bits or the hidden root bits?
Or both?
Does this also apply to guinea pigs? (Asking for a friend with a small cohort)
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It’s extremely disconcerting that so many people, especially the young and the woke, think that because of AI they no longer have to learn, think or reason.
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David, I recently had a play with ChatGPT out of interest and asked it multiple questions about internal ballistics…it got things wrong in most answers, but had you not known this, well…you believe the garbage it tells you !
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That will only work until the entire system crashes due to lack of electricity for the AI-dependent to charge their “devices” to access their next instructions on how to live.
What happens then would not be pretty.
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the entire system crashes due to lack of electricity
Along with the very much related “communications” system?
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The US House Judiciary Committee is now looking into the British Governments use of secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and the use of thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) used to silence witnesses and victims of rape, as well as being used by the British Government to hide ‘crimes against the people’ and its fight against the British voters who protest against the housing in hotels of thousands of ‘non-Russian undocumented fighting age males’. An invasion of Britain supported by traitors within the RNLI and Border Force. The British Government shows that its enemies are ‘patriotic’ white British people, Russians, the vaccine injured and those being raped by immigrants. This comes on top of US investigations into British Government censorship operations carried out by the British National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team (NIIIT), OFCOM, GCHQ, MI5, DSMA, the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT). Footage of the current protests have been blocked on X for British users after the country’s controversial new orwellian sounding “Online Safety Act” came into effect. In response to the left-wing governments censorship, Elon Musk said the purpose of the Act is “suppression of the people.” The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is also backing US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) who have sued the BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI) for assisting British State Online Censorship. The latest effort by the British State is to censor the fact that in September 2020 the Home Office’s Border Force logistics awarded a contract to XPO Logistics to send dinghies back to France for reuse by Channel Migrants. Then in December 2020, to hide the contract, XPO, Inc. announced that it would spin off its global contract logistics segment into a separate company. In March 2021, XPO announced the new name of the firm as GXO Logistics Inc. The spin-off was completed on August 2, 2021, with American businessman Brad Jacobs named as Non-Executive Chairman, Malcolm Wilson as CEO; formerly the CEO of XPO, Inc. European division, and Baris Oran as CFO.
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The US Department of State has issued a report about Britain’s “Worsening Human Rights”. Reporting on “Significant human rights issues included credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression” including the fact that “The Crown Prosecution Service shared a video online stating that citizens should “Think before you post!” and threatening legal consequences for violations” stating that “numerous individuals were arrested for online speech” some still in Prison 36 months later. Some “criticised the government’s approach to censoring speech, both in principle and in the perceived weaponization of law enforcement against political views disfavored by authorities”. The US reports “the Southport attacks an especially grievous example of government censorship, censorship of ordinary Britons was increasingly routine, often targeted at political speech”. “In July, a man was jailed and handed an eight-week sentence for posting a meme suggesting a link between migrants and knife crime. In October, an individual was convicted in England for engaging in silent prayer in violation of a “safe zone” for killing babies. The report concludes that there is a “Significant human rights issue” in Britain, with “serious restrictions on freedom of expression, including enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression: https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/united-kingdom
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Such extreme restrictions on free speech are coming to Australia as well.
The next move will be to attach a digital identity to all social media posts for all Australians. Once that’s done, they’ll be able to start prosecuting Aussies for thought crimes.
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Whilst I understand that most Australian voters are ignorant and misinformed, I am still struggling to understand how they could be so incredibly ignorant and misinformed as to vote for Albanese, who is destroying the country, when there was a less bad alternative.
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Most Australians voted for someone else, 2/3 of them. But it’s hard when most politicians push the ideas that men can be women, Australia can defend itself and that we can blow up power stations with no alternative but random power and that the only democracy in the Middle East is the villain and that destroying Israel is social justice. Few voters believe any of those things.
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Politicians don’t need to blow up Australian coal-fired power stations. Plants like Callide explode by themselves at regular intervals.
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Simon…can you please list the regular intervals. I’ve tried to use AI, but it keeps telling me not to make stupid statements.
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An extremely rare occurrence, especially compared to windmill and Big Battery fires, and the environmental destruction of wind and solar in general, including interconnectors.
What was your point?
The reasons for the Callide failure were as follows;
https://createdigital.org.au/callide-power-station-explosion/
You must be getting desperate to cite something like that as part of your anti-energy agenda.
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Unit C4 certainly lived up to its name.
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An accident caused by a multitude of errors, as are most accidents. What is your point?
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The same fool of course looksvthe other way every time a battery or battery recycling operation goes up in flames. Apologies for feeding the troll.
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Machinery tends not to fail when it is properly maintained.
When government legislation makes it clear that your usually productive generator will be rendered financially worthless long before its expected operational life ends (regardless of its value to the community and society through the reliable and affordable essential commodity it provides), don’t be surprised if maintenance is not attended to as carefully as it might have been had the plant remained viable without that government interference.
What do you think is presently supplying the electricity for you to post here this morning?
Here in Qld at 8:35am Thursday morning, good old black coal is providing 63% of demand, gas 3%. As the sun comes up solar is providing 30%, and wind …. 4% or a miserable 236mw.
If you’re in NSW, coal is providing 72%.
In Vic, brown coal is providing 63%, wind and solar 9% each. Only drawing 5% from hydro.
Tas – 80% hydro – and 17% gas.
SA – that bastion of “renewables” – plenty of wind while it blows at 57% – but a whopping 34% from gas!
This time yesterday it was overcast here with little wind. Guess what was keeping the lights on and cooking breakfast? Yep, that nasty black stuff yet again!
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David,
97% of Australians only watch, AND BELIEVE, the MSM news (including Their ALPBC).
Australia, as we knew it, it STUFFED.
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Agreed, Just. Without a Trump-like figure, I don’t think it’s fixable.
Externally Albanese is disengaging from the US Alliance in favour of China and disengaging from the long traditional alliance with Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, in favour of Hamas terrorism. Australia has had a long and close association with Israel or its predecessor ever since Australia won the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 which led to the eventual re-establishment of Israel. All gone now.
Internally, Albanese is generating massive Government debt and spending without restraint and destroying the energy supply and freedom of speech and traditional social and moral values plus importing some of the world’s most uneducated, violent, misogynistic and anti-Western people, all future Labor party votes who will help entrench Labor forever.
Furthermore, we have no effective opposition party, which is no longer conservative in any case. Australia is operating as a One Party State and Labor is doing whatever it wants, federal, state and local.
(Posted from Kathmandu.)
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Are you in Nepal to escape the psycho k!ller wascally wabbits 🐰 (see post below).
Electricity is obviously working OK in the mountain kingdom today… Give my regards to old Fish-Tail / Machupuchare: namaste 🙏
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‘Albanese is disengaging from the US Alliance in favour of China …’
Clever move because the CCP is about to collapse,
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2026, 2028, 2032 are the key years.😎
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I always used to think people doing 3 year budgets were full of it. This is just that on steroids.
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Could it be that our “educated” class refuses to vote for the una-party? Their purity is such that they cannot vote for the lesser of the two evils, an approach a pragmatist must always take because there is no pure party.
They then vote for a noble loser, wasting their vote.
I told them they have no right to whinge about labor if they don’t vote against them.
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Disturbing “Frankenstein rabbits” in USA. They have spikey growths on their heads caused by a virus.
According to Wikipedia:
The virus is not new. The condition caused by the virus was reported as early as 1655.
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FWIW
Connecting dots – maybe
“The articles started popping up yesterday, right after lunch time. The Guardian ran its submission below the headline, “National guard arrives in DC as mayors warn of Trump power grab.” That sure was fast.”
“By early yesterday morning —barely 12 hours after Trump’s announcement— National Guard units were already rolling into DC. That doesn’t happen because someone made a couple of phone calls over coffee. It means this was in the can, locked and loaded, long before the press conference.
And yet the media was completely blindsided. Which tells you something else: the operational security on this move was airtight. No leaks, not even a whisper— not even a suspicious calendar entry.”
“It vexes them that they don’t know. Nobody in the deep state is telling them what to think this time, either. So all they can do is fling around a million silly complaints, like caged monkeys throwing banana peels at tourists.
Whatever it is, they know they’re going to hate it, but I bet we’re going to like it a lot.”
Much more at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025?
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https://www.snow.nz/area/nz/canterbury/mt-hutt/
Today’s Outlook: “super-cold temperatures making for epic conditions … dry, squeaky snow … top to bottom … crystal-clear skies and a view that stretches out to the South Pacific Ocean”.
*Climate Change* strikes again! Oh the horror – we must be warming twice as fast as everywhere else and our seas boiling/rising 97% faster than Vanuatu and/or Venice – why, oh why, didn’t we take action against [insert cr!s!s du jour].
Meanwhile in news that comes as no surprise to we the substantial minority who refused to roll-up our sleeves for Cindy Pfizzzer, the Southwest Pacific’s Gang of Four have all refused to attend a public hearing re Operation Covert 20:20, instead supplying answers behind closed doors or via the internet.
The peasants are not happy…
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The most “transparent, open, honest government” they said. The “one source of truth”, they said. “And remember, be kind”, she said.
Chipocrite (Chris Hipkins / hypocrite) sliming and weaseling this morning in an attempt to Left-splain why his fellow Gang of Four emperors/czars will NOT be held to account by ‘the public’ they supposedly were ‘working hard’ for:
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/chris-hipkins-labour-leader-on-why-theyre-not-fronting-for-the-covid-19-inquiry/
The serpentine servants are revoltingly disgusting.
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Also in there, a strange incident involving NZ’s unarmed Police force-
“Multiple investigations are taking place after an officer shot two people after a domestic dispute.
An officer shot a man carrying a hunting knife, with fears he’d seriously injure a woman. The officer then shot the woman dead, when she threatened officers. “
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I guess you just had to be there
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FWIW
“Despite International Courts, Climate Science Is Not the Law in the U.S.”
“While not everyone is on board with President Trump’s “America First” philosophy, its importance when it comes to energy is brought into sharp focus when considering where the U.S. would be if it capitulated to the whims of global organizations like the United Nations or obeyed the verdicts of world courts.
The frightening attitudes of believers in global rule were recently on display courtesy of a New York Times opinion piece headlined “Climate Science is Now the Law,” penned by three writers who are all part of something called the Center for International Environmental Law. In their article, the authors claim, “The science on climate change has long been settled. Now the law is, too.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/13/despite-international-courts-climate-science-is-not-the-law-in-the-u-s/
And
“The Consensus Strikes Back: Climate Empire Launches Legal Assault on EPA”
“Breaking: Climate Consensus Crusaders Sue to Save the Endangerment Finding From… Skeptics With Opinions
Yesterday, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) stormed into federal court, clutching their pearls and a 40-page complaint, to demand that the EPA and Department of Energy be stopped from—brace yourself—listening to people who don’t think “climate change” is the meteorological equivalent of Armageddon.”
“The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, reads like a mashup of Chicken Little’s autobiography and a high-school debate club’s “Appeal to Consensus” handbook. According to the plaintiffs, the great crime here is that Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright dared to assemble five well-known climate skeptics—John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer—to review the evidence and produce a report questioning the EPA’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”. That’s the sacred ruling declaring greenhouse gases an official public health menace, without which the climate policy priesthood fears their altar might crumble.”
“In sum, the lawsuit boils down to this: the wrong people were asked the wrong questions and gave the wrong answers. In the plaintiffs’ worldview, “science” is not a method of inquiry but a franchise with exclusive licensing rights. Any unauthorized competition must be shut down, preferably by federal injunction.
One thing’s for sure—this case will test not just the legal durability of the Endangerment Finding, but whether “consensus” has officially replaced “evidence” as the highest standard in American science. And if the complaint’s tone is any clue, the consensus crowd isn’t feeling particularly confident.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/13/the-consensus-strikes-back-climate-empire-launches-legal-assault-on-epa/
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… John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer—to review the evidence and produce a report questioning the EPA’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”.
Australia also needs five PhD scientists to question the cause of global warming, CO2 it ain’t.
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And Callendar in 1938 estimated that the world would warm by 1.5℃ when it reached 600 p.p.m.
He estimated/calculated that the world had warmed 0.5℃ from 250 p.p.m. to 300 p.p.m. based on 5 countries, 2 of which showed no warming. (Hard to get figures with no internet.)
Roughly he thought that going from 300 to 420 p.p.m. should mean about 0.6℃ warming.
He was a well known (and respected) thermodynamic guru.
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FWIW
“From “Medical Care” to “Medical Couldn’t Care Less”
The steady, inexorable bureaucratization of health care in the USA has been visible for many years. As a partly disabled person who relies on permanent medications to function, and has more routine contact with the medical profession than I’d like, I’ve watched it happen. However, over the past two to three years (post-COVID, to be precise) the process appears to have accelerated alarmingly, to the point where I feel more like an unwanted annoyance to many medical practitioners rather than their bread and butter, paying their salaries. They’ve become fully invested in the medical system, rather than their patients. In just the past six months I’ve experienced:”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/from-medical-care-to-medical-couldnt.html
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And comments there
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UK households told to delete emails due to ‘nationally significant incident’
Households up and down the UK are being told to delete their emails due to a ‘nationally significant incident’ which is threatening water supplies.
The government convened its National Drought Group on Monday to discuss the ‘nationally significant incident’ which has led to five areas of the UK being placed into official drought status, following the driest six months on record since 1976.
According to tech and science site The Verge, the reason deleting old emails helps with water supplies is thought to be due to data centres using water for cooling.
It said: “A small data centre has been estimated to use upwards of 25 million liters of water per year if it relies on old-school cooling methods that allow water to evaporate.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2094793/households-told-delete-emails-due
I believe we have reached peak stupidity now.
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DYK in passing.
If you put all the data mankind has accumulated so far onto 1TB 3.5″ hard drives, it’d form a stack almost 5 billion km high, or just under 30 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
So delete your old emails to save the spy centres.
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You might be able to see Peak Stupidity, but there’s further peaks behind hidden in clouds that are even higher. I know this because I live in Victoria, Australia and have to endure our state government.
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Can someone have a look at these quarterly EV numbers for me? I don’t know where to verify them.
The graph I’m looking at shows Hybrids dominating the 27% on electric vehicles.
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Well, i believe this is the source of that data,..the aaa site.
Lots of detail to be mulled over in different ways…!
https://www.aaa.asn.au/research-data/electric-vehicle/
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FWIW – viewed from outside
“Australia’s Palestinian Recognition Is the Latest in a Long Line of Retreats”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/08/13/australias-palestinian-recognition-is-the-latest-in-a-long-line-of-retreats-n4942677
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I can only repeat after Charlton Heston :
You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
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FWIW – things explained!
https://img.patriotpost.us/01K2E55SC92Y24E2EQ09KH4AFG.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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Albo’s long-lost identical twin brother?
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Leo Tolstoy said once :
A person’s value is a fraction: numerator, his self-importance; denominator, his knowledge.
Do I need to elaborate?
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But did he say it that way?
Self worth rating likely to be > 1, knowledge rating < 1
That way looks to give an inflated value.
Other way up a more believable fraction
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Baked spuds vs french fries
That weekly french fry habit could be setting you up for diabetes decades down the road. Research found that eating french fries just three times a week may significantly raise Type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk—but, surprisingly, other potato preparations showed no increased risk at all.
The study found that every three extra servings of potatoes per week was associated with a 5 percent increase in T2D risk. For french fries, that jump was even higher—20 percent per three servings.
In contrast, eating baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes was not associated with an increased risk, suggesting that french fries are the main driver behind the link between potatoes and diabetes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/french-fries-versus-baked-potatoes-one-raises-diabetes-risk-20-percent-other-doesnt
I do love crispy jacket potatoes with toppings.
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I guess I’ll stick to chips, then. As they say in NZ: “fush n chips”!
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When we discover uranium they’ll be
‘fusion chops’ ☢️
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Rose Bay money launderer exposed and its politically sensitive.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14995623/lanlan-yang-rolls-royce-cullinan-sydney-crash.html
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When are politicians going to work out that they’re our servants, not the other way around?
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Here’s your answer.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/b7/82/81b782721b1a403b30a5f944fd2143d0.jpg
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David Maddison,
Even at Jo Nova’s a disappointing number of people apparently want them to be our leaders.
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“Even at Jo Nova’s a disappointing number of people apparently want them to be our leaders”
Yes, just the fact they think they need leaders is a worry…
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FWIW
“Drunken Sailors”
“The fact of the matter is that most voters only want spending cuts for items that they consider non-essential. Of course, the definition of non-essential varies so widely that the preferences of each voting bloc pretty much creates a log jam effect whereby no significant spending cuts can ever be implemented.”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/13/drunken-sailors/
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They won’t because nobody has told them. WE need to do that, very politely but firmly.👊
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Meanwhile at the Bungee jumping facility: “do you accomodate wheelchair users?”
Yes sir!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t0vd0rlWrr1z23obp.mp4
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One for the Motor Sport followers here..
A rare insight behind the walls of McLaren’s race car build shop….whith a scoop of the design for a 4 wheel drive F1 version !🤫🤫
Further, for those interested, the price to buy a factory new Race car..just £8000 . !!
https://www.facebook.com/cultrevolutionertraveler/videos/1140434524798739/?fs=e&fs=e
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Wonderful thankyou Chad, the Elon Musk of the 1960s..
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Journalists are climate change doomsayers and scientific illiterates.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/08/13/die-welt-journalist-axel-bojanowski-apocalypticism-is-a-code-of-belonging-among-journalists/
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I didn’t coin this term to describe Albanese’s position but I like it, he is the Slime Minister.
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FWIW
“A Saint, a Crusade, and the Invention of Cappuccino”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/13/a-saint-a-crusade-and-the-invention-of-cappuccino-n4942671
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