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Huge japanese study shows the more covid jabs you have the sooner you will die
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax
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It’s amazing that a report like this is not front page news across the world.
Now why won’t the media be running this story? CYA? Cash envelopes? Threats of jail time for telling the truth, (close but we’re not the UK yet).
If the people get the facts there would be very few golf courses around the world where the likes of Dictator Dan couldn’t be swinging. How many others looked at us from the TV each day, promising that the only way we could be free is if we took their magic shot(s), even though they didn’t work?
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>Dictator Dan
Absolutely, and I absolutely cannot understand how and why Ralph Baric has escaped the same fate, being the godfather and mastermind behind the dreaded coronavirus and the so-called remedies.
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FWIW
Way back in BC, before “The New Scientist” became “The Nude Socialist”, they had Daedalus’s column and the periodic DREADCO Reports.
One of which explained that DREADCO was a purely commercial organisation. So if offered a sum to do research on birth control and a bigger one by the Roman catholic church to not do research on birth control they would go with the larger sum.
So I guess the YSM can claim that they are being “purely commercial”?
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Simple reason Eng_Ian is that the Main Stream Media around the World is controlled by the World Economic Forum. The WEF was set up in 1971 to promote the CO2 Global Warming Hoax on the basis that demonizing fossil fuel, the reason for the success of capitalism due to it providing reliable, cheap energy, would cause a World-wide economic collapse and they would take over in the ensuing chaos.
When the Year 2000 arrived and they had not gained their goal, they decided on an alternate approach. The Director of Strategy at the time had a grandmother and two brothers who were academics in pharmacology. They were familiar with the effects of pandemics and vaccinations so the COVID pandemic was devised based on research in biological weapons using gain of function techniques. US President Obama banned the research in the USA so the Wuhan Virology Laboratory was set up in China and the US expert, the “Bat Woman” was sent to Wuhan to continue the research. This culminated in the Covid pandemic and the introduction of a fake vaccine, actually a gene modification therapy technique, aimed at population control. As a result millions around the globe were maimed or died. The incidence of birth miscarriages sky rocketed as did myocarditis amongst young men.
In spite of the deaths and adverse health effects, the Australian Federal and State Governments are still recommending regular boosters of the fake Covid vaccination. Perhaps it has something to do with a senior bureaucrat at the TGA being a brother to the former Director of Strategy of the WEF ?
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In yesterday’s article about the high fatality rates since pilots were jabbed, someone asked if they were going to pair vaxxed and unvaxxed pilots in a cockpit..
Then I thought ‘Where would they find an unvaxxed pilot?’ as the very few who gave up their jobs for not taking the jab are older, the vast majority who stayed on are jabbed, and all the young ones training are jabbed…
The effects will be with us for a generation.
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But they don’t want non-Elites to fly anyway.
And Elites won’t mind flying with jabbed pilots.
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The elites won’t be flying commercial. The pilots of their private jets (bought, rented or leased) probably aren’t required to be jabbed.
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Isn’t it interesting that the Chinese didn’t use an Rna vaccine but used a tried and true attenuated virus type for their population, must have known something. Wink, wink nudge, nudge.
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When they purchased an initial order of 50 tons of ascorbic acid (Vit.C) , I was sure that they knew something.
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I suppose you mean that there was someone who was born in the geographical region of china somewhere, with a name, and who by chance or something was actually born in china, and even had DNA that some say could be traced back to the ming dynasty and who was not cloned in any way, thuis retaining a unique identity, personality, etc, different to any of his or her country men from the same region.
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That’s a really strange comment. Maybe I’m just not understanding it or it’s purpose.
But clearly Rusty was referring to a nation group/government of people and not an individual or race.
Granted the word Chinese can apply to all three. But, in the context, who his use of the word Chinese refers to is pretty obvious.
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” pretty obvious.”
But possibly not obvious for one for whom English is a second language ?
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Of course. But given the ability of environment sceptic to write in English, across many posts, their understanding is more than sufficient. Even if it isn’t their first language.
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We need a study done on “Turbo” cancers. Also, anecdotally, one of my workmates told me of his medical issues. He was lucky he had perfect health before taking the shots. Then, coincidentally, developed a heart condition and diabetes after a course of two covid jabs which threatened his work ability. This guy runs marathons and age 55 and has a heart condition? He never even believed it could be related till I showed him some stats. For me, I felt violated by all this. Threatened with my job by illegal means. The company I worked for eventually got legal advice that the state government could not enforce the company to keep a database that invaded privacy laws…TOO BLOODY LATE!
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This is most obviously Misinformation. Australian Censorship Czar, shut it down. Next……….
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Not funny. I have to live in Australia.
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“Not funny. I have to live in Australia.”
It makes no difference if your options are in The West- England, Europe, America, Canada, NZ.. all the same.
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Safe and effective.
Which really meant that ‘Big Pharma’ was “Safe and Effective” from any legal action/prosecution.
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Safe and effectively immune from prosecution for distributing unsafe and ineffective products, get their customers (governments) to assume responsibility for any harms that may be caused by them. Which forces the customers to spruik the products as “safe and effective” indefinitely.
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The Ethical Sceptic has all the numbers (see his website/X feed) regards the negative effects of the vexxines.
Not just the turbo cancers, but the ever increasing death rate of infants born to mRNA “vaccinated” women.
This is a multi-generational hit to the population.
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The frightening thing about the deaths in these children is that many of the mothers received the vaccine before their pregnancy.
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Has Nigel Farage got what it takes to be PM?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/has-farage-got-what-it-takes-to-be-a-hero/
He is riding high in the polls but Starmer doesn’t need to call an election until July 2029
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The next general election in the UK is still a long way off. But an opportunity to seize power may arise unexpectedly.
Recent riots in Britain may provide a trigger for an election, particularly if brutally suppressed.
If an opportunity does arise I would expect Farage to take it.
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How about one of these………………………………………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw&list=RDBGLGzRXY5Bw&start_radio=1
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I’m reminded of the scene in the Python Prophecies where the officer loses his leg to a tiger in Africa.
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life- A Tiger? In Africa?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLdk2C25Z14
The British officer aristocrats are not the least phased, and the legless man calmly reads a book.
The UK now has lots of tigers that exchanged continents years ago, began takings legs soon after, and British leadership reacted with ever so British nonchalance.
It probably wasn’t a virus.
I think the other leg is already gone, and the misplaced tigers are about to drag off the body.
Good luck making it to 2029.
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2029 – 1 = ?
😉
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This is encouraging, University students applying for a place are nowhere near as woke as they pretend, in order to secure a place.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/study-finds-nearly-90-percent-students-fake-progressive-views-appease-liberal-professors/28481
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Encouraging? Yes and no.
Yes because it’s great to think that after twelve-odd years of incessant Socialist propaganda, such a high percentage of kids are still not brainwashed.
No, because a significant proportion of these kids will put up with the nonsense to get by, and it will become a habit. Some will eventually turn to the Woke Side; but the others, by not fully exercising their mental faculties by arguing their corner, will not provide an effective resistance.
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West of Esperance is a lake once called Spencer. Then a name change in 1966 was favored and it became Pink Lake. It hasn’t been pink since about 2007. I don’t think reverting to Spencer makes sense, so I favor “John’s Lake”.
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Wondered why it’s not been touted as a tourist attraction.
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https://soperth.com.au/travel-wa/pink-lakes-of-wa-everything-you-need-to-know-55346
But there are several current pink lakes in WA !
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Yes indeed, and I’ve stopped to take a photo of Hutt Lagoon.
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Interestingly: I didn’t know that it was named in my honour (as a resident in Esperance for quite a few years – and before that midway between Esperance & Ravensthorpe for about four years) even though I first was in Esperance in about 1961 – and very educational too (especially coming from [Gulp!] the Eastern States!
It’s an interesting phenomenon having the adjoining lake not ‘pink’.
Esperance Bay, and the Archipelago of the Researche, is some of our most spectacular Australian coastline – but then I don’t think that I’m telling you anything new …..
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Always knew Pink Lake as Pink lake. Been there every year for 80years. It seemed to lose its pink after a salt company started doing evaporation pools to mine the salt. It’s never recovered its colouring which is due to some microrganism or other. It was touted as a tourist attraction and still appears in the brochures, so maybe recovery is presumed. There are other pink lakes around the region now and can be seen as one flies over the area. The pinkest now is probably on Middle Island. I notice just outside Newdegate there is a smaller lake that looks pink on occasions. Actually the flight from one side of the country to the other shows just how salt is a natural part of much of the continent’s surface. It’s not all due to agriculture. Seeing as it was once covered by seas it shouldn’t be as unexpected as it seems to be officially.
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I do hope some of you find this interesting. It seems that at present the Net Zeroers hold the reins. But for how long?
“Australians have expressed support for a significant increase to the country’s emissions-reduction target as the Climate Change Authority prepares to recommend a much more ambitious 2035 goal.
The latest Resolve Political Monitor survey showed 44 per cent of voters supported the goal of reducing the nation’s carbon emissions by between 65 and 75 per cent by 2035 – a significant increase on the current target of a 43 per cent reduction – by 2030. Targets are based on 2005 emissions levels.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australians-have-their-say-on-new-climate-targets-as-coalition-prepared-for-another-brawl-on-net-zero-20250822-p5mp3e.html
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Hi Ian,
This result is most because they have no idea of the facts of what they are supporting nor the implications of what they are wishing for.
if they did, the number supporting would not register a blip.
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Yes. That is interesting. And so is this;
It would also be interesting to know the question and any other options around it.
Because polls in the past that add a cost component to the question get a much lower support response. Support for reductions or increased reductions can typically have a “that’s a nice idea” support factor. But not a “this is how it will affect you” factor.
Only 62% of Greens voters supported the idea. A high percentage. But not as high as one would expect from supporters of a party that wants even more aggressive reductions.
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So presumably 56% did not support the change ?
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Sort of. 38% unsure or undecided. Only 18% declared they didn’t support it.
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Strop,
No. 18% declared they opposed it.
The categories were Oppose, Support and Unsure/no opinion. Which of those categories fall into “did not support”?
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You might note that I said only 18% “declared” that they didn’t support it. While it could be said 56% did not support it, hence my “sort of”, offering no opinion either way (unsure/undecided) is declaring you don’t know. It’s not declaring that they did not support it. So for context and clarity on the 56% number, I offered the breakdown given the article was paywalled and many would be left to assume the strength of “did not support”.
I believe it was correct to state only 18% declared they didn’t support it, even if the choice was “oppose”.
BTW, I didn’t make the distinction to try and justify the government policy. Just pointing out the context of the 56%. Best that we’re not under any illusion about the lack of support to a more aggressive target. There’s a large chunk of the community that need information.
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‘ … the Net Zeroers hold the reins …’
The propaganda has been intense, but there is a glimmer of hope.
https://poll.lowyinstitute.org/charts/climate-change/
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NetZero equates to de-industrialisation and lower living standards Before it is achieved, the grid will collapse as an economic entity. That dramatically increases Australia’s reliance on manufactured imports. Australia manufactures none of the hardware used in the transition. The vast majority comes from China.
So questions on NetZeor should mention de-industrialisation, reductions in productivity and eventual grid collapse. That is what NetZero equators to.. If you accept those things are necessary than you would support NetZero. If you do not then you should not support NetZero.
The grid will achieve NetZero through its demise. The trends are already apparent. People who have electricity demand and own a roof can be self-sufficient. At present it is still economic to use the grid as an insurance policy. But the technology enables households and businesses to supply their own needs.
The wholesale demand is declining and the grid costs are spiralling upward so the decline is accelerating. This year, there will be 3.3GW of solar capacity added to rooftops. The grid scale wind and solar are fighting for declining demand. Adding more grid wind and solar just lowers the capacity factor of the existing wind and solar because there is no demand for it.
The NEM demise in a single chart:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/NEM_Demand-1756002090.7505.png?fit=615%2C557&ssl=1
If you own a roof, you can hasten the grid demise and take your demand away from the big scammers by taking advantage of the government sanctioned theft.
With the mental midgets dreaming up energ policy, I see the only way they realise they are on a slippery slope is to have the grid collapse.
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“a significant increase on the current target of a 43 per cent reduction – by 2030. Targets are based on 2005 emissions levels.”
Its not really, as they have jumbled up %s and target dates and created a false comparison. In reality you could meet both timelines along a path of so called “progress”
It was good however to see those that think this insanity is a good idea are still in the minority, and I suspect the polling wasnt very random and the questioned posed to get the preferred resonse.
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‘But for how long?’
Not too long.
‘The Coalition’s internal struggle over the climate crisis will be on full display on Monday as the House of Representatives prepares to debate Barnaby Joyce’s private bill to dump Australia’s net zero target.
‘Over the weekend, the Queensland Liberal National party convention voted to abandon Australia’s net zero targets, adding to a growing list of Liberal state divisions opposed to the emissions reduction policy, including South Australia and Western Australia.’ (The Guardian)
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What’s so interesting about the ‘net zero’ PROPAGANDA is that none of the quasi-religious cultists promoting this notion seem to know the one basic FACT that shows up their claim that ‘carbon pollution’ (by which they mean the CO2 that we all breathe out!) is ‘floating up there in the atmosphere’ and is ‘trapping heat’ thereby causing ‘anthropogenic global warming/climate change’.
And what is that “one basic FACT”? It’s such a simple one: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is HEAVIER-THAN-AIR, so that only way that it goes is DOWN – not up!
Check it out. Get a balloon (you choose the colour!), blow it up, tie it closed, and let it go. If your balloon goes up then you should immediately apply to be recorded in ‘The Guinness Book of Records’ because – uniquely – you must be breathing out hydrogen! (But don’t light a match – ‘Hindenberg’ airship disaster anyone?)
So: the REALITY (and not the FRAUD) is that the more CO2 that goes DOWN to feed the plants and thus make the garden grow, the better! Earth benefits thereby – as do we.
So, it would seem that the fantasists (and propaganda victims) have no idea of this one basic FACT that completely demolishes the FRAUD ….
P.S. Whatever you do: Don’t tell the cultists who believe in ‘anthropogenic global warming/climate change’ this basic, nasty FACT! Someone might be offended …..
P.P.S. Back in the late 1920s/1930s, Herr Adolf Schicklgruber’s Minister of Propaganda, Herr Josef Goebbels, promoted ‘The Big Lie’ technique to recruit/convert/promote Nazism – and look where that got everyone! So: What’s changed since then with the promotion of ‘CO2 traps heat thereby causing global warming/climate change’? (“Blah! Blah!” To quote Sancta Greta Thunberg!) The logical answer is NOTHING! The ‘Big Lie’ technique still works!
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Were they also polled on the $ amount they were willing to contribute personally to the cause?
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A lively debate on climate change.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/nationals-mp-barnaby-joyce-says-coalition-rank-and-file-members-reject-net-zero-as-private-members-bill-debated/news-story/6e2da19e652e6cd57744fdc89eaf9228
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Those results aren’t surprising. Electricity is a relatively nebulous thing behind a switch. Most people would know little about what goes on behind the switch and physics isn’t a popular subject. Most people live in cities with solar panel farms and Turbines out of sight. Put them around the cities and they’d go bonkers. Steam emissions are ‘pollution’. Nobody likes pollution do they? Climate Change they believe in. The BOM, government and education system emphasise it and makes sure they hear nothing else. The human caused bit is the bit accepted as gospel truth; it doesn’t require proof.
imo, you will never change these minds until the current ceases to flow for long durations. It’s the experiencing of the life Mr Bowen is forcing them which will have people thinking things should be better and they start demanding the politicians ‘do something’! That’s what it will take to get people to concentrate on the then lived reality of the uselessness of renewable energy in running a nation. By then it will be 7years before new fossil fuel generation can come on line.
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An attractive and realistic energy policy can save the Liberal Party because the election was lost with a stupid policy based on an illegal form of power which offered more expensive power now and cheaper power in a decade or three.
The Page Institute charted four futures for power and the best calls for new coal power from state-of-the-art generators. This means less capital expenditure than the other options and it is the only one that delivers cheaper power, possibly as much as a 25 per cent reduction in the retail price.
And it terminates the pillage of forests and farmlands that will continue under all the other plans.
That looks like a winning trifecta when the Coalition lives up to its name and forms a united front to boldly and consistently explain the options to the punters.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/burn-coal-in-australia-or-die-in
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Hmm ?…..25% reduction in retail price,…not likely since the vast majority of retail pricing (75% ?) is made up of Transmission, distribution, service and profit margins…..which already exist.
But maybe what they mean is any FUTURE INCREASES might be reduced by 25% ?
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GRIDWATCH MONDAY 25
AT 7.10 AM EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 17% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 25% IN THE WEST
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.35 PM WIND 6% SOLAR 27%
THE WIND WENT DOWN TO 1.7% IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING
BRITAIN?
https://grid.ia10.mkate.com/
10.45 PM WIND 11% SOLAR 0
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FWIW
More on UK flags
“Britain’s Flag Wars Fly in the Face of National Self-Loathing”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/britains-flag-wars-fly-in-the-face-of-national-self-loathing/
Via Instapundit
And FWIW – from Kipling’s “Stalky & Co”
“Stalky & Co.
The Flag of their Country
Rudyard Kipling”
https://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/StalkyandCo/flagcountry.html
The change on “flag waving” from “jelly bellied flag flapper” then to now
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FWIW
“USDA Ends Solar Subsidies On American Farmland”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/usda-ends-solar-subsidies-american-farmland
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FWIW
But then
“Qld aims to become ‘global renewables powerhouse’ under new strategy”
“A NEW strategy designed to accelerate renewable energy projects in Queensland by attracting investors, creating new jobs, boosting local regional economies and securing the state as a global energy leader will be launched at Parliament House tonight.
The new strategy developed by the Queensland Renewable Energy Council shows more than 140 gigawatts of energy projects proposed in Queensland’s broader renewables pipeline[1], including almost 8GW of renewable generation and storage projects financially committed-to or already under construction, valued at more than $10.7 billion.
Much of it is located in, or targeted at regional or rural areas of the state.”
More at
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/qld-to-become-a-global-renewables-powerhouse-under-new-strategy-launched-today/
The “hopium” runneth over
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So what happened to that decision last week…?
And …140. GW ?? …really ?
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“The new strategy developed by the Queensland Renewable Energy Council ”
As Mandy Rice-Davies said
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Is there a practical/economic reason to prefer renewables jobs over those in extraction and export of coal/LNG?
It is arguable that the industries can be complimentary, but not if one is heavily taxed to subsidise the other. Why not learn to love Santos instead of demonising them.
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The jobs are more likely to be there with coal/LNG etc
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Peter V
“Heroes are instinctively opportunistic”.
Not sure on this one. I think that the word “hero” can only be used to those who realize their actions of assistance may lead to serious injury or death to themselves, but still decide to accept this risk.
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‘Hero’ is a much over-used word these days. It is often employed to raise the status or profile of political figures, or to further an agenda. One of the most egregious uses, for me, concerned the two miners who were stranded down a Tasmanian mine. The relevant union milked this incident for all its worth and decided that the two unfortunates stuck underground would be called ‘heroes’, and this was enthusiastically taken up by the Australian media.
I remember thinking at the time that, desperate though their situation was, they did nothing except wait to be rescued – as would we all in that situation. What was heroic about waiting in a mine that you couldn’t escape from anyway?
Like I said, the union exploited them in order to make the mine management look awful – penny-pinching bosses on one side, ‘heroes’ on the other.
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I have read the biographies of Keith Payne VC and Mark Donaldson VC and neither of these gentlemen were “accidental” heroes. Both were resourceful, tough individuals.
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Sorry, accidental red thumb 🙁
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FWIW
“The UK Goes Full Orwell
And America is next.”
“The Online Safety Act was sold to the British public as a way to protect children from adult content, but fighting porn proved to be a trojan horse over fighting what the regime cared about.
Any Britons trying to read the Act probably never made it to Chapter 7 at which point the wooden horse legislation listed a ‘Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ and began handing out matching orders on how internet services are supposed to deal with the bogeys of unfettered speech. What does disinformation have to do with keeping kids from accessing porn?”
More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-uk-goes-full-orwell/
Via SDA
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“Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.”
and
“No one wants to watch the BBC and the rest of the government propaganda machine, and so the regime has resorted to mandating that Smart TVs and later social media promote them.”
Ah, so typical of our leaders…
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We are always told to read the fine print or the terms and conditions.
But we knew this legislation was a sheep in wolfs clothing.
I remember when Australian Human rights Commission President Gillian Triggs said she would like to control what we say around our kitchen table.
I haven’t read the novel “1984”.
Perhaps I should. If only to find out what the mongrels in power are going to do next.
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When you’re unable to tell the difference between pig and human, you’ll know you’ve arrived at the last chapter – if not the last sentence.
Oink! Oink!
(that moment has come & gone, methinks: now we’re in Huxley’s Brave New World of docile compliance & medicated subservience).
Pneumatic!
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“unable to tell the difference between pig and human”
That was Orwell’s Animal Farm, though, not 1984. Both important reading and should be mandatory for all senior high school students.
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“Perhaps I should. If only to find out what the mongrels in power are going to do next.”
A two way information flow on your TV, so they gather video and sound of the room a TV is in (doesn’t need to be switched on), as they have with cars that are ‘Google-connected” these days, or have Amazon delivery security. We already have everything that goes through a mobile phone recorded for them, and the re-writing of history and denial of what was history.. Plus the permanent wars around the world, its division into three giant ‘blocs’, always a permanent enemy of one of the three, destruction of traditional culture, destruction of the family unit, severe punishment for thinking ill of the Govt…
Pretty much everything you have seen happen in the last 40years!
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I have been reading up on Guy Callendar and his 1938 paper in which he estimated the world temperature had increased about 0.3C after 50 p.p.m. increase in CO2.
Using Beer’s Law this meant that the world might get to 1.5 degrees by the time it got to 600 p.p.m. (the slope falls as the concentration rises so about 1 degree by about 480 p.p.m.).
But that was back in the 1920-30’s when Global Warming was the scientific fad with the Arctic Ice about to melt REAL SOON and the North Pole be navigable. Then we had the Coming Ice Age in 1960-1979 followed by the Great Global Warming scare since 1981.
Lately, with their predictions being laughed at now, and ice still there in Antarctica and Greenland/North Pole, I detect another switch.
Has anyone else seen a sign of this?
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Albanese government brings forward five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, despite concerns over impact on house prices
Just more Labor propaganda and a scam whereby people who are able to accumulate sufficient deposit may be unlikely to sustain it for the life of a typical 30 year mortgage. They will however, become Bank fodder for repossession and assist the Government fictitious house building target
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Making it easier to commit to twice the debt with twice the repayments for twice the time.!!!!!!!
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‘…. may be unlikely to sustain it for the life of a typical 30 year mortgage.’
The banks will vet them throughly, don’t want a subprime fiasco.
They are also aware that it will add fuel to an overheated property market, but reckon it should be alright now that immigration has been slowed.
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Don’t be a silly billy the banks are in on the scam. The Government borrows or prints an IOU to the Banks to the value of 15% of the purchase price. FHB of course are elated at the prospect of buying a house and entering into the biggest debt of their lives, one that will keep them shackled to the system for life or for as long as both husband and wife have jobs, at least one each. Their parents likely did it so it can’t that hard. Reality bites hard after about five years or sooner if a baby appears. But they still haven’t got fences or lawns or a smart tv/washing machine/furniture etc etc. Don’t worry Harvey Norman comes to the rescue with more interest free debt for 5 years and a lien on the house. Sorry kids there is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow!
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‘ … Government fictitious house building target …’
The target is a fantasy and there is some angst, but governments press on regardless.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/10000-new-homes-planned-for-woollahra-station-where-will-they-be-built/
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Looks like we’re heading back to 2008.
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Can you say “sub-prime” mortgage?
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I think I heard that the government would go guarantor for the “other” 5%. so once again the heavy lifters, the tax payers, are holding up the house of cards. Of course if these home purchasers fail to meet their repayment schedule the government has the opportunity to either bail them out or take over the debt. Suddenly thousands of houses could become public housing, the government owns the mortgage then eventually the property with all the capital gains accrued against these properties over 20 or 30 years.
Just another scheme to destroy private home ownership in my opinion.
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Copied from Farcebook:
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I don’t think much of Albo, but I’m glad to see him standing against the long-standing, long-planned and brutally murderous Israeli imperialism.
Hamas are brutal and murderous, but their acts of terrorism play into Israeli plans; that’s why they were propped up by Israel for decades.
Israeli Ex General. 2013:
“Most of these people were born to die, we just have to help them”
“Gaza, Lebanon, other places we will occupy in the future, punishment as a strategy should be the main element, kill the enemy…”
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19KgiNEVxf/
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“I don’t think much of Albo, but I’m glad to see him standing against the long-standing, long-planned and brutally murderous Israeli imperialism”
So you’re okay with Albo rewarding terrorists? Maybe you need to actually read history, real history, and revisit the barbaric acts Hamas planned and executed, that started this war.
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Thanks for the suggestion Michael.
One for you: Read a little more.
The war did not start on Oct 7th 2023.
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Some people I know consider that it started in the middle of the 7th century.
Hamas is (apparently) simply restating the end goals in their basic declarations. It would seem others react to that.
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It’s deliberate genocide and displacement:
A former IDF soldier and historian of genocide deeply disturbed by a recent visit to Israel
13 Aug 2024
By Omer Bartov
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Hamas openly says it wants genocide of Jews. Isn’t that a priori, the casus belli? It all flows from there.
If Israel is not happy about having murderous intent and savagery living next door (or within) is that so irrational? Should we expect any country to say “OK”?
If Israel wanted to kill everyone in Gaza, surely they easily could?
The UN has failed the people of Gaza for decades. If the world said “Grow up. Give up the hostages and the death wish and get an economy” wouldn’t that be kinder for the children of Gaza? Instead the UN, and now Albo etc are using the endless suffering of the people of Gaza for their own political power games. They keep the them trapped in this horror cycle by de facto supporting, and making excuses for evil acts.
If the people of Gaza are displaced, would that be so bad? Surely anywhere is better than Gaza?
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Hostages:
Israeli held prior to 7th Oct: In October 2023 Israel held 5220 Palestinian political prisoners.
Since October 7, Israel has detained about 30,000 Palestinians. During the prisoner-captive exchanges with Hamas, Israel has released just more than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
That means, for every person released, 15 others were apprehended.
Of those in detention:
3,498 are held without charge or trial
400 are children
27 are women
299 are serving life sentences
Administrative detainees, including women and children, can be held by the military for renewable six-month periods based on “secret evidence” that neither the detainee nor their lawyer is allowed to see.
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I’m stuck on this ideology of genocide. Why is it OK for Palestinians to wish for the death of every Jew?
If that is true, and you don’t seem to disagree, then I assume “good” aspiring Palestinians are trying to kill jews, (fulfilling their religious duty)_ and thus we’d expect them to end up in Israeli prisons.
I’m not saying Israel is perfect, I just can’t get past a situation where State A says “We want to kill State B” and also has no economy, no industry, no means of supporting themselves, and the world is not saying to Gaza “genocide is not OK”. How is that ever going to be a workable situation? When Gazans start saying “Jews can exist and it’s not our moral imperative to kill them”, then things might look different…
Palestine has launched like 20,000 missiles at Israel too? How is that OK?
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A very short history of the background of the Palestinian conflict.
https://youtu.be/zE8GCX1w3ys?si=zEeB2x8GdihHj8Qy
Yes, Hamas do make declarations of wanting to wipe out all Israelis. And many Israelis have made similar statements about the Palestinians and Arabs.
These declarations and Hamas’ warlike approach have undoubtedly lost them sympathies worldwide and that has cost them dearly. You’d wonder who their advisers were that encouraged such things.
And who their major financiers were … oh, that’s right, it was Netanyahu via Qatar ( more than US$1.4 billion in the last 5 year. Buying peace he says?! This from a man who won’t allow flour and rice in now in case Hamas seizes it!) … an empowered Hamas, last facing a rigged and threatened vote in 2015, ensured there was no common ground between Gaza and the West Bank )
So, should the Palestinians have taken a Gandhi approach of passive resistance? Well no, this wasn’t the British Empire which had enough morality to end slavery, ( though somehow this morality went missing in the Middle East ) … and, the Palestinians of the West Bank have tried that: now only 18% of the West Bsnk is under a very powerless Palestinian administration, and village by village, they are being forced out.
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There was an early history of brutal terrorism and murder. From Israelis.
It’s worth listening to the recollections of some Israeli veterans. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKApymnNCHl/?igsh=MXN6eXEwYjZhc2FodA==
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Markx it’s the core philosophy that gets me. State A is based on a philosophy, that calls for extermination of others as a God given right and duty. So neither A or B can do the Tibetan route can they? Think Ghandi versus Hamas? If A = genocide, therefore B must defend itself.
The people of Gaza feel aggreived, but Murder/rape/hostages is not the solution. Does anything justify flying in paratroppers to murder teenagers and babies and brag about it with glee (as if they are brave), including the rapes, on youtube. It is barbaric savagery. Using child shields to get media sympathy is not winning me over. They are cowards risking their own children while they hide in tunnels.
If A says they should own all the land, let them show us they are a civilization that deserves respect, that cares about their own children and women.
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“If A = genocide, therefore B must defend itself.“
But it’s not the entire state Jo,
There are those in Hamas who make such statements, and similar statements have been made on both sides since the beginning.
Listen to the 1948 veterans above, see how the Palestinians have been harassed, oppressed, displaced, contained since 1948. ( there are plenty of videos online now).
Gaza is 360 square km in area. 40 km long, and stretches around 9 km inland. 2.3 plus million people are living in that area. Compared to the total population of Israel, the Gazan population is around 24% of the total–while the area of Gaza is a mere 1.6% of the country’s land area. And they are basically locked in.
And Israelis party, holding parties, barbecues, and raves along the prison wall, while the inmates want for everything.
Yeah, you’ll get some reaction eventually.
The history video above is also worth a watch. There are not many peoples worldwide who’d have not taken up arms under those circumstances.
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“You’ll get some reaction eventually”. A bit like a woman wearing a short shirt in a rough neighborhood? It’s the victims fault? And follow her home, rape her daughter too, kill the toddler. I’m sorry. The depravity of it all…
I hear there were 250,000 people in Gaza in 1950. Israelis did not force them to grow to 2.3m.
I agree with you that they are living in hell and I would not wish it on anyone. I cannot see any solution while one group has vowed to kill the other. That core philosophy point…
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Jo, as many ( or likely more!) Israelis openly State that they want to wipe out the Palestinians. And there were plenty saying and doing that from the start (see the veteran interview above, And I can find you many publications of similar tales if that us unconvincing).
Israeli citizens survey
83% want to get rid of all Palestinians in Gaza
50% want to remove all non-Jewish citizens from the country
“Netanyahu is just a product of this society”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKj1w0pvBSN/?igsh=Y2UxMTZ6YWt6MTdq
Data
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/
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Markx, I’ve no doubt there are some Israelis who want that (and presumably more since Oct 7).
But I hear the desire for Group A to wipe out Group B goes back 1,400 years. The core philosophy…
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If it’s in the Guardian then it’s the word of a leftwing activist.
It has no credibility.
Don’t waste your time on this rubbish.
The real “genocide” is that which is planned by the Islamists and their running-dogs. Does “from the river to the sea” ring any bells?
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“River to the sea”?
Ring a bell?
Why yes. Yes it does:
Did Israel ever want a two state solution?
When Netanyahu speaks at the UN, he does so in front of a map that is without the West Bank or Gaza. That is, his map has Israel from the Jordan River to the sea.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-brandishes-map-of-israel-that-includes-west-bank-and-gaza-at-un-speech/
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It is not genocide: A response to Omer Bartov
By Michael Berenbaum & Menachem Z. Rosensaft
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https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/not-genocide-a-response-to-omer-bartov/
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While I usually abhor the common expedient of condemning the source rather than examining the content, in this case it’s worth noting that an article written by Berenbaum and Menachem Z. Rosensaft in the eJewish Philanthropy publication IS going to see it from the Israeli viewpoint.
Using the October 7th attack to justify wholesale slaughter while ignoring all previous terrorism and murder is ironic. And pedantic definitions of genocide don’t succeed in hiding the intent to wipe out or displace a population.
It may be just me, but I give more weight to a dissenting voice from within the ranks: more so when they’ve nothing to gain from their stance.
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….. it doesn’t support my argument to be consistent with that principle, so I won’t.
There. Fixed it for you.
Interesting that the two Americans (born in the US and Germany respectively) who don’t agree with you apparently can’t see it from a neutral or factual perspective, but the Israeli who agrees with you can. That’s almost humorous.
There’s nothing pedantic about a definition. You don’t get to change the meaning of words to suit your opinion. You are entitled to call it genocide if the facts support it. But the facts don’t support it. So find another word.
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War … you’d think with all the generals and diplomats, and all the career practice they get, we would learn how to conduct it in a more socially acceptable manner.
This is possibly an evolutionary effect, all those that were hesitant to make a mess, are now extinct.
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It is not the ‘Albosleazy Labour Guv’ment’.
It is the Australian Feral Guv’ment with Albo Sleazy as the PM. The Prime Maniac.
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Property taxes. Hmm, we play checkers, those guys were playing 3 dimensional chess.
Allowing massive levels of immigration is the face of a housing crisis was not, as popularly thought, a product of stupidity after all:
1. Inflate the hell out the property market: restrict land supply, increase finance deposits, pile a heap of environmental requirements on top of it all, then bring in record numbers of immigrants*, further inflating the prices.
2. Commission economic studies showing those who have owned property the longest are now wealthier than the average citizen, and proclaim it generationally unfair.
3. Cultivate resentment against that wealthier cohort, facilitate media reports with all the suitable inflammatory phrasing, and thus get support to tax the hell out of them.
4. Tax them, and then allocate all the extra revenue raked in to the next grand scheme to force people out of their houses and farms in the name of saving the planet and putting it in the hands of the huge financial corporations. Of couse, very soon the tax will cover ALL housing.
5. Don’t tax the miners at all, and encourage the huge financial corporations to build small housing units with no land to rent to the surviving peasants.
And, *6. also benefit from the extra votes from the huge number of immigrants you brought in (at least for a few election cycles, until they look for sensible alternatives, which are in short supply).
Obviously the simple and obvious choice of managing the economy and preventing the sky-rocketing property prices was very much not on the agenda.
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So what would you do, in terms of the simple and obvious choice in the last two lines?
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Simple and obvious choices:
1. Limit immigration at least to a sustainable level (at least to the level of earlier years) , and yes, we do need immigrants.
2. Speed up rezoning procedures (free up more land, reduce the cost of a block), (and yes, that is local government, and no, we arenot going to run out of space, 70% of Australians live on 1% of the land mass).
3. Simplify permit applications
4. Simplify environmental permits (Yeah, don’t worry, trees can regrow pretty damn quickly)
5. Fund the required infrastructure (just print those $ = jobs = taxes etc, AND collect decent royalties on mineral exports. Hey! What about a Norway style sovereign wealth fund to invest in Australian infrastructure?!)
6. Stop all the ridiculous net-zero posturing and allow people to spend money on homes instead of paying it to foreign owned power companies (this they can then spend on housing instead)
7. Somehow (and I don’t know how you do this, more competition? Legal caps on charges and interest?) reduce the great profits the banks make out of our home loans and make financing a home easier.
8. And restrict large financial corporations from buying up domestic housing. (soon we will all be temporary tenants of Larry Fink & co)
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Nice list but nothing simple about most of it , maybe apart from immigration. Sounds like a worthy program for a decade of conservative leadership , if we ever get any.
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“and yes, we do need immigrants.”
I see no reason for that at all! If you can’t run a country with 25million people, how do you think you will run a country with 60million?
There is no reason at all for Australia to have a population larger than it is, especially as ‘work’ becomes more automated and robots take over. What are we all going to do? Sell coffee to each other?? Work for the Govt? We have little enough manufacturing now and will never compete with SE Asia over the next 30years.
No, we don’t need immigrants and there is absolutely no reason to bring any in. What we do need a Govt greatly reduced in size and scope, and a lot more individual freedom!
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The existing 25 million Australians are already somewhat wise to the kind of scams their government is likely to pull on them.
The hope is that the new imports will fall for it more easily … at least for a while. That’s the fundamental reason they are so enthusiastic about immigration.
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I already have my secret cave away from all of those problems with plenty of off grid candles. Firewood galore nearby and great fishing from the sea/ocean.
I have to nip into town every now and then to top up my internet and recharge my devices.
Oh dear, I still need electricity but the rent on the cave is very cheap. Like nothing. LOL.
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FWIW
“Surprising Study Finds Meat May Protect Against Cancer Risk”
“A large study found that animal protein is not linked to higher mortality and may even help lower cancer-related deaths.”
More at
https://scitechdaily.com/surprising-study-finds-meat-may-protect-against-cancer-risk/
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It doesn’t surprise me.
So it turns out meat is not bad for you afterall…
Humans evolved to eat meat, e.g. the ability of endurance running to chase animals to exhaustion, still practiced by Kalahari Bushmen today.
The Left have been waging a war against meat for decades. They don’t want non-Elites eating this delicious food.
Anyway, if we weren’t meant to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
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Assisted by our ability to sweat and losing most of our body hair but surviving the cold by wearing hides.
If our ancestors could survive such heat, why are we imperilled by a small ambient temp rise?
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But … but … but …
It’s a Tipping Point [TM] or something.
And Greeta said …
And it’s different this time [reasons for this will be vouchsafed later] …
And it helps the last Brezhnevites gain power …
Choose one.
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The same molecule in your morning vitamin D supplement is the active ingredient in rat poison.
Not a similar compound. Not a chemical cousin. The exact same molecule: cholecalciferol. At 0.075% concentration, it kills rats. In your supplement bottle, it’s supposed to make you healthier.
This should be a simple story of dosage – but the more I investigated, the stranger it became. The vitamin D in supplements isn’t extracted from fish or produced by sunlight. It’s manufactured from sheep’s wool using benzene and chloroform in Chinese chemical factories. The same factories that produce industrial solvents.
Meanwhile, studies show vitamin D supplements reduce multiple sclerosis progression by 34%. They lower cancer mortality. They help ICU patients recover faster. How does rat poison mixed with industrial chemicals improve health outcomes?
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-vitamin-d-paradox-what-they-dont
Totally true!
Great article.
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I use sunshine as my Vitamin D dose.
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I have brown spots on my feet from gardening in crocks.
I haven’t really researched the topic but there is more to natural light than just UV and Vit D.
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You’ve got “Croc Pox”!
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The toxic dose of cholecalciferol for a 16kg animal is 11 mg, less for smaller animals like rats.
11mg is equivalent to 440,000 IU (since 1 mg = 40,000 IU or 1 µg = 40 IU).
This is a hugely higher amount than a typical 1000 IU or 5000 IU dose of Vitamin D3 in a 70kg human.
I wonder if these scary stories that Vitamin D3 is used in rat poison are put out by Government or Big Pharma to discourage people from supplementing with this important and inexpensive hormone of which a large proportion of the population are deficient?
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If you know basic toxicology ( eg dose determines the poison), we are continually eating poisons all day long as part of our normal diet. It’s safe because of the reduced dose intake and our body’s filtering systems. That also includes all the “natural” poisons and toxins that we consume emanating from many common food crops. Nature – poisons?-here, hold my beer.
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The Cholesterol conspiracy: How Big Pharma’s $200 billion lie is killing you
For over five decades, we’ve been sold the greatest medical lie in human history. The cholesterol hypothesis—the idea that dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol are the primary cause of heart disease—has generated over $200 billion in statin sales while systematically poisoning an entire generation.
The evidence is overwhelming, and it’s been hiding in plain sight. Multiple large-scale studies spanning decades reveal a shocking truth: people with the lowest cholesterol levels die at dramatically higher rates than those with moderate levels.
What’s often labeled “bad cholesterol” is, in reality, a vital transport system that sustains cellular function and survival. Importantly, non-oxidized LDL is qualitatively and functionally very different from oxidized cholesterol.
https://principia-scientific.com/the-cholesterol-conspiracy-how-big-pharmas-200-billion-lie-is-killing-you/
A 5 decade lie.
The dieting lie goes back almost a century now, based on a 4 week study.
We know what the body does after 4 weeks don’t we!
LOL…
Ask your doctor if believing a lie is right for you.
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5 decade lie? Goes back further than that. Goes back to the start of the war against saturated fat. That started in the 1950’s when lard and fat were demonised so companies could start selling vegetable oils.
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“Ask your doctor..”
If you want to remain well you won’t have one! I thought it was well sorted out a decade ago that too much sugar was the cause of cholesterol plating out in blood vessels, the cholesterol was just doing its job
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Spain has recorded its worst heatwave “evah” This heat wave 16 days long has caused 1100 deaths.
My question is
“Did these people die with the heat or because of it” you know, just like the covid comparisons!
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I await the next Spanish Winter and how many people die from the cold when the next nation wide electricity blackout happens (When Ruin-A-Balls-Up fall over).
Will it ever get reported here on the ABC or SBS?
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A daily dose of lithium orotate kills covid from the jab and stops you getting it in the first place. Been taking it for years.
https://michaelnehls.substack.com/p/lithium-the-essential-trace-element
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>A daily dose
What is the recommended dosage? And is it readily available?
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5mg
https://www.betterlife.com/product/lithium-orotate-120-mg/advanced-research-nci-dr-hans-nieper/62531
Hans Nieper formulated the compound in 1968.
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Thanks Maurice
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FWIW
“Redneck Rising: Why Competence Beats Credentials”
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/08/24/redneck-rising-why-competence-beats-credentials-n4942984
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FWIW
“Gord Magill talks about the recent illegal U-turn in Florida that killed 3 people.”
“I don’t think the general public realizes just how stringently the trucking industry can be governed”.
Truckers get tickets for not having their Schedule 1 – a document listing items to check during vehicle inspections – with in arms reach of the driver while seated in the driver’s seat. It’s also illegal to read it while driving. This law also applies to Transportation of Dangerous Goods handbooks. Having the documents in you truck and being in compliance is not enough, you must also have it beside you at all times. Tickets start at $300. Forgetting to sign a bill of lading is another big ticket and the in the US they tear up your oversize permit, put you out of service and issue enormous fines if you make the mistake of signing your oversize permit in black ink instead of blue, as all legal documents must be signed in a contrasting colour of ink from the document. Yes, it is that ridiculous. However…
If you are not fluent in english, have multiple violations and show little or no competence behind the wheel all is forgive. The trucking industry in North America has become the biggest victim of the 2 things all governments love: Revenue and virtue signalling.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/24/dispatches-from-the-maple-gulag-truck-stop-17/
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FWIW
“When Questioned About Ukraine-Russia Intransigence, President Trump Says, “Maybe I do Nothing, and Say It’s Your Fight”
August 23, 2025 | Sundance | 370 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/23/when-questioned-about-ukraine-russia-intransigence-president-trump-says-maybe-i-do-nothing-and-say-its-your-fight/
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This is the important bit, nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine, its Trump realising that the other 4Eyes are untrustworthy.
“The memo, dated July 20 and signed by Gabbard, directed agencies to not share information with the so-called Five Eyes “
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If this continues AUKUS is dead, along with the Alliance.
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I think the outcome in Ukraine is sadly very clear now … Ukraine will lose and it will take generations to pick the country back up again.
However, the Blame Game is only just beginning … Trump as usual is planning several moves ahead. He is at his best when doing PR.
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Russia is going to sue for peace, probably before Xmas.
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Germany is in trouble because they were duped by a simplistic fantasy, while China is unhindered by that nonsense. AI seems to be uppermost in everyone’s mind.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/08/24/germanys-green-economy-collapse-q2-economy-shrinks-0-3-ai-stalls/
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Patriotism that warrants arrest: guess the country
https://x.com/ColinBrazierTV/status/1958983997482029539
Deliberately provoking the great unwashed to enable Blair’s Civil Contingencies Act 2004?
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Massive anti-cybercrime operation leads to over 1,200 arrests in Africa
Law enforcement authorities in Africa have arrested over 1,200 suspects as part of ‘Operation Serengeti 2.0,’ an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal gangs.
Between June and August 2025, law enforcement agents seized $97.4 million and dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures linked to attacks that targeted 87,858 victims worldwide.
“In a sweeping INTERPOL-coordinated operation, authorities across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals targeting nearly 88,000 victims,” Interpol said on Friday.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-anti-cybercrime-operation-leads-to-over-1-200-arrests-in-africa/
As for the numerous crimes perpetrated by your own government, meh…another time..
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Its not illegal when the government does it
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Interpol huh? So…who keeps the $97million??
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Cracker Barrel meme for the day
https://imgbox.com/f2tBGYHX
Lol…
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Love it.
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It is what it is.
‘It’s also worth keeping an eye on the apparent (or “feels like” temperatures):
‘At 10am (AWST), Perth’s temperature was a very chilly 8.5°C while the apparent temperature was just 5.1°C.
Further south, Albany’s apparent temperature hovered below zero for a full hour between 6am and 7am.’ (Weatherzone)
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MORE THAN HALF of the information in medical textbooks today is DEAD WRONG about health — “and we know it.”
Andrew Huberman, an American neuroscientist and podcaster. He is an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1959087009412391292
90% of the “food” in your supermarket wasn’t there a century ago, nor were 90% of diseases. Frankenfood.
If you don’t regurgitate what the textbooks say, you won’t pass the medical exams…
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If the simple things like fixing the food pyramid, the salt and cholesterol h0@xes are too hard how can we hope for real improvement?
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‘It’s also worth keeping an eye on the apparent (or “feels like” temperatures):
This is an interesting comment by the BoM. How do they measure this “feels like”. I certainly can’t pick the difference of a couple of degrees anywhere along the scale. From about 5 degrees difference I can feel the change, i.e. its cold versus its very cold and like wise its either hot or very hot but other than this it seems like a statement of irrelevance, it sounds like an authoritative statement but its really just speculation.
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Perhaps the BOM official temperature is the one from the standard box where the thermometer is shielded from the wind and sun and the “feels like” is the temperature is that measured out in the open air.
It’s a new, dumb, wokeish sort of label that makes me feel like I want to defund the B O M.
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>”feels like”…makes me feel like
The actual percentage of primary votes for the Albanese ALP in our ‘democracy’ was in the vicinity of 34%.
But “feels like” dictatorship was imposed upon us.
That’s what it makes me feel like despite our votes to the contrary.
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WEF declares war on rice
At a recent WEF session, World Bank president Ajay Banga made the case clear. “What we have is an existential climate crisis,” he warned, emphasizing the threat of methane—a greenhouse gas he called eighty times more dangerous than carbon dioxide.
Banga didn’t mince words about the solution: a crackdown on rice cultivation. “We’re talking about taking out ten million tonnes of methane by focusing on [rice paddy cultivation], on animal and dairy, and on waste management”
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1959564671851082184
How to put yourself offside with all of Asia in one go! 😆
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“a greenhouse gas he called eighty times more dangerous than carbon dioxide.”
Maybe someone should inform him that 80 times zero is still zero.
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Climate lies: the sky is falling, 1992 edition
In 1992, American radio broadcaster Paul Harvey gave a prescient speech warning about the catastrophic consequences of the climate agenda:
“We could spend a trillion dollars over the next decade destroying what’s left of the American economy, in an utterly unnecessary attempt to repeal the Industrial Revolution.”
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1gzj2YcVM1zlxqpx.mp4
Always an endless supply of sheeple to believe…
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Every Climate Alarmist prediction has been consistent.
Consistently WRONG.
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Famine in Gaza UN claims, so explain the not unhealthy people shown on television news waiting for food handouts, some complaining about food parachute drops hitting tents, parents and siblings of very sick children who are not in the same condition, etc?
I do appreciate that urban warfare is hell for the people there and that civilian deaths and injuries are daily events.
On the other hand I recall many Hamas propaganda spin like the hospital they claimed was bombed by Israel but later the truth was revealed that a Hamas rocket targeted at Israel misfired and crashed into the hospital.
Of IMF warning civilians in advance of military action planned to enable them to evacuate the area and Hamas snipers shooting them as their human shield tried to leave, and IMF there to try and protect the people from Hamas.
The UN organisations involved have been reported for being too close to Hamas.
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I thought this was an interesting read about an upcoming Starship test flight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-starship-megarocket-prepares-10th-test-flight
Especially the last bits where they test sub optimal and edge of the envelope stuff during re entry
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Also in there- The usual story that would raise no eyebrows, Arab ‘refugees’ harassing women on a tram in Germany.. But the most corrosive part is that a young American guy who intervened was stabbed. Even worse, the cops arrested the guy who stabbed the good samaritan, and the prosecutors let him out immediately, even with his jail record.
It won’t take many of these stories before no-one goes to help another person being beaten up by Muslims.
“A 21-year-old American man paid a steep price for doing the right thing on a tram in Germany overnight. When he observed two Syrian men hassling a pair of female passengers, the as-yet unnamed American intervened, only to be beaten and slashed in the face with a knife. One of the assailants was arrested, but then immediately let go. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/american-knifed-face-syrian-after-intervening-protect-women-german-train
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Pity he apparently did not have combat hand to hand training.
Breaking knees/legs/arms is easier than the general public thinks.
And the perpetrator would likely not have been in a state to have been “released”
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The US is gearing up to gain AI ascendancy to counter China. Gas is good, renewables bad.
https://saltbushclub.com/2025/07/27/ai-revolution-drives-gas/
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I’ll believe in AI when it can tell me the winning Lottery and Powerball numbers the day before the lottery is drawn.
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I think you’re not in that small club – I reckon the AI crew will have first dibs
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FWIW
“Britain’s Quixotic Carbon Capture Crusade”
“There is a certain tragicomic quality to Britain’s current climate policy. Having long proclaimed itself a “climate leader” on the world stage, the United Kingdom is now preparing to stake tens of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on technologies that have failed everywhere else. At the centre of this quixotic crusade is carbon capture and storage (CCS), with a special emphasis on its most extravagant and least viable variant – direct air capture (DAC). The problem is simple: CCS has an abysmal track record, DAC is even worse and no commercial project anywhere in the world has succeeded in delivering on the promises made with such fanfare.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/24/britains-quixotic-carbon-capture-crusade/
Concludes
“Britain’s CCS crusade championed by the climate zealot Ed Miliband, far from being a mark of leadership, may ultimately stand as a cautionary tale of how “climate leadership” ambitions and economically-illiteracy can override both science and economics.”
I guess – like socialism it wasn’t applied correctly?
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“The economy-wrecking, impossible pipe dream of Net Zero, Part One”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-economy-wrecking-impossible-pipedream-of-net-zero-part-one/
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Obviously the Mollycoddled Mr. Miliband hasn’t yet run out of ‘other peoples’ money’ – that is money taken from taxpayers for this stupidity.
Sir Starmer is still in need of human shields – Rachel from Accounts is one, and the terrible Miliband another.
How soon will he need them?
Unless he gets a handle on the migration disaster – and on the economy – pretty soon, it may be in November or December.
But the damage being done every day – to social fabric, to the economy, industry, hospitality – makes that a Very L-o-o-o-n-n-g wait, sadly.
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GRIDWATCH MONDAY 25 PM
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 16% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 10% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
3.45 AM WIND 19% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN?
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10 AM WIND 20% SOLAR 25%
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FWIW – hypocrisy some?
“This Is How You Know Dems Might Be Panicking Over That Sign Attacking Winsome Sears”
“Democrats are going back to their Klan roots. It caused an issue, though the woman claimed it was done as satire. And like Democrats on messaging, it missed the mark by 137 miles. Arlington Democrats condemned the sign and tried to create some distance, but their remarks got a bit funny when they said this woman is not affiliated with them. Guys, we know she’s likely not part of the organization proper, but she supports you. ”
“Also, this woman stuck around. It’s not like she was asked to leave. All the tactics liberals have used to cancel people are now eating their own. ”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/24/local-va-dems-condemn-racist-sign-targeting-winsome-sears-but-theres-a-problem-n2662252
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FWIW
“Big Brother riding shotgun”
“Hidden in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 is a vicious little gator courtesy of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.
The HALT act mandates that the NHTSA develop technology to prevent impaired driving, and compels the obligatory installation of said technology in all vehicles starting the 2027 model year.
Now, on the face of it that doesn’t sound bad, does it? And given that I, in the past, have not only been the deputy with the most DWI arrests for a year, but that none of my DWI arrests that year were dismissed — I should be all in for this, right?
Hell, no.”
More at
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/big-brother-riding-shotgun?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3470993&post_id=171816148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2ju85&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Ah Govts..
“the RapiScan airport body scanners. Remember? “Oh, we pinky swear that the nekkid pictures we get out of the scanners won’t be saved! Not even possible to save the nekkid pictures of your wife, daughters, or other comely females! You silly rednecks, you!”
Tens of thousands of saved nekkid pictures later: “Oops.” I will further note — for the record — I can’t find any record of TSA idiots being prosecuted for unlawfully saving and distributing nude scans.”
All the time…
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FWIW
“There is a Better Way and Everyone Wins”
Concludes
Here is my approach to faster social, political, and technological evolution. Stop, think, and when appropriate adopt the ideas of others. Give credit where credit is due and advance the ball down the field with your adaptation of a good idea. Everyone wins.”
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/08/24/there-is-a-better-way-and-everyone-wins/
Via https://instapundit.com/740289/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The pressure group motherlode”
“One of the the big questions – one that I have been fascinated by ever since I started the research for my book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist twenty years ago – is why do paternalistic pressure groups exist at all. As I say in Bootlegging Baptists: The Logic of Paternalistic Collective Action:”
More at
https://snowdon.substack.com/p/the-pressure-group-motherlode?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/740278/#disqus_thread
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Climate Change Debate
‘Asked why something with no chance of getting up was given time to be discussed, Bowen said it was a “very legitimate debate” for parliament if there was a side of politics against climate action.
When pointed to the fact there were 70 private members’ bills that didn’t see the light of day, Bowen replied: “We don’t mind having a debate.” (Guardian)
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FWIW – if you really want to tear a tyre up
“These Are The World’s Most Powerful Cars”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/these-are-worlds-most-powerful-cars
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FWIW
“EU’s Deforestation Crusade: Brussels Expands Green Deal Control”
“The European Union’s regulatory frenzy is taking on manic dimensions. Starting in 2026, a new regulation aimed at “protecting global forests” will further expand Brussels’ bureaucratic jungle. Another job creation scheme for the swelling EU apparatus.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/eus-deforestation-crusade-brussels-expands-green-deal-control
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Alfred Hitchcock understood the value of weather predictions. Enjoy the first minute of this episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOquJfqZ0U
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IPCC set to name weather events as indicative of global warming.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/ipcc-succumb-to-weather-alchemy/
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The coldest day in 50 years has hit WA along with Rain and windy Storms – We are in Dongara and the Rain and wind has been higher than previous years – the marginal farmers are going to have a fantastic season, assuming they have planted.
It strikes me that even though the majority of this rain has come from the north west, it has resumed the normal setup and rain is coming from the south as have many previous cold fronts. A while ago it was reported that the antarctic had gained a huge amount of ice and that recently this ice had dissipated, it seems obvious to me that the water went somewhere – the eastern states had continuous rainfall for the past 6 months – so much that CBH and ELD are reporting a turn around in profit and this month WA is experiencing a very large rainfall. It must be related. We also have the sun pole switching. I wish our scientists looked at the big picture and stopped following the established BS that does not work!
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