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At the start of the following video there are some video segments showing evil psychopathic Leftists, US college students, who express joy over the assassination of Charlie Kirk followed by an analysis by the Jolly Heretic.
This is why over 100 million people have been murdered by Leftism in all its forms, communism, National Socialism, fascism, etc..
It’s very disturbing and shows what the decent people of the world are up against.
As I’ve said before, the Left are becoming increasingly violent and dangerous and the move by the Left from vandalism, rioting and harassment to murder of prominent critics of their ideology is a disturbing new development.
https://youtu.be/KyqXXVyvox4
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Charlie Kirk was assassinated after he said that Starmer was “a far‑left winger,” “in the Marxist camp.” “undermining the democratic will of the people,” and that Starmer’s handling of immigration is “a total fraud.” Kirk was shot after he said that “Britain is a husk of its former self … a conquered country,” “You guys birthed free speech in the world, but you’re now becoming a totalitarian country,” “Invented free speech … now policing speech … Orwell’s 1984.”
Kirk was murdered by a single shot from a man in dark clothing from a rooftop 200 yards away. His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States of America, the dark Lord Mandelson, was worried about people talking about his love for his “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein, and that he sent photos of himself topless and wearing a fluffy white dressing gown.
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everything he ever said. This included recently urging and agitation for the release of the Epstein files.
See how this works?
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Charlie Kirk said “Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump”
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Its easy to talk about others hypothetically. A better question would be “would it be justified to kill you because of your political views or something you said that upset someone”?
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Someone asked Kirk “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”. Kirk responded, “Too many”. The person then questioned Kirk about mass shootings in the United States before Kirk replied, “Counting or not counting gang violence?”, then Kirk was shot dead before someone could answer.
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The ammunition reportedly had Trans messages. AG Pam Bondi earlier this week said they were thinking about disqualifying Trans people from obtaining gun licences. It seems prophetic.
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And I expect the type of high power gun and gun registration coupled with the likelihood of a young trans shooter in UTAH likely of university student age will dramatically narrow the search. UTAH is a small state.
This recent diagnosis and crippling surgeries on so called ‘Trans’ people has created a class of angry people who in previous centuries would have just been confused or gay. Now despite being young, their lives are totally ruined and there is no way out. This is a rapidly growing problem.
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It’s interesting that one of the Left’s approaches to being gay is precisely the same as what they do in Iran where they either hang gays or do as the Left promote abd give them the choice of sterilising and mutilating surgeries to pretend to reassign their gender. It’s all part of the so called red-green alliance (the Left’s alliance with radical Islamism).
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The LGBTIQPH group have indeed been “set up” to suffer and be tormented by their fate.
The reality of the situation has been supplanted by a meme that was designed to create anger, bitterness and ugly confrontation around the world.
Gender dysphoria exists today and has always been a part of the human reproductive system since time began.
There are a few societies around the world where gender dysphoria was accepted as part of life and those affected just got on with life as best they could. They were not abused.
The modern hypervigilance over this problem has been totally misdirected and benefits nobody but the agitators.
The damage done by “gender reassignment” procedures is no doubt much greater than if those damaged were simply left alone.
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Psychologist Jordan Petersen is wild about the surgeons who mutilate young people. As a psychologist he believes they are sadists and chase the income in transgender surgery which leaves most victims in lifelong pain and disfunction. Gender was a term invented by psychologists for people who believe such things, but affects one in 10,000 people. There are only two sexes, but there can be endless genders.
Now like ADHD it is a convenient diagnosis and very popular and politically acceptable diagnosis for confused children who are likely to be gay. But the use of extreme and crippling surgery and drugs to do the impossible is abhorrent and should be illegal. And the extreme and justifiable bitterness which is inevitable is clearly turning deadly with plenty of encouragement from the Left who conveniently blame conservatives. Then to complete the fraud, Leftists blame conservatives for the disaster of so many young lives ruined.
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It is why Elon Musk changed sides when he lost his son Xavier to the Trans religion. And JFK Junior who lost his father and uncle to bullets. Both found Donald Trump was the voice of reason and compassion and not the people on the left of politics. These were natural Democrats who discovered only Trump had solutions and was prepared to act. Many on Trump’s team found the same thing, that as in Australia the Conservatives too had moved far left. Trump and in the UK Farage are simply the voice of reason and compassion and negotiation, not absolutists. NAZIs are and were of the extreme left. The insanity of Gays for Gaza says it all.
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Yes TdeF. And with claimed trans children, it’s usually a woke parent that decides the child is trans. For the Left it’s a sign of social status, much like having an exotic pet and paraded in the same way. In a vast majority of cases the child will grow out of any feelings of being in the “wrong” body but endless Leftist propaganda and pro-trans children’s books say it is a legitimate thing. And they say “would you rather have a trans child or a dead child” claiming the child will kill themselves without offering any evidence. Plus there is no evidence that trans procedures make someone happier. Then there is also the suppression of stories about the huge amount of transgender regret. And in the final analysis, you end up with a sad, indoctrinated person, who is sterilised, mutilated and with little or no sexual function. And in Australia, in Victoriastan and other states it’s illegal fir a medical professional or anyone to suggest to someone that they might, in fact, be in the correct natural body after all.
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The extent and nature of the damage done to the developing phoetus during pregnancy is very random and makes “repair” so uncertain.
As said previously: there are two extremes possible in gender dysphoria damage: a female brain in an essentially male body, or, a male brain in an apparent female body.
Those are the extremes, and are rare: more often it’s just a messy jumble.
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Never understood the “high powered” thing, it seems to be applied to everything anyway.
Utah doesnt require gun registration so probably not much help there.
I was looking at the pics latest person of interest leaving the campus and there appears to be a big fat mobile phone in his pocket.
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If the FBI aren’t investigating the guy who asked that question about trans then they’re not doing their job. It could just be a coincidence of course, but the timing of that shot stinks to me. I have no experience in solving crime, but I want to know if the guy asking the question was working with the shooter to make it even more of a symbolic moment and political statement.
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1. I’m certain they have. Seconds after the shooting, there was an older bald guy who was cuffed and stuffed by security and held as an initial ‘person of interest’. I assume it was that guy. He was released within a couple of hours once it became clear that the shot was taken from 200 yards away and not at point-blank range.
2. I don’t think the timing of the question and the shot is all that odd. Trans and abortion questions are BY FAR the most common kinds of questions Kirk got at his ‘prove me wrong’ events. So the fact he was being asked a trans question when he was shot isn’t all that strange.
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The guy who was asking the question is named Hunter Kozak, and unless he’s an exceptional actor, he sounds pretty horrified about what happened. He may have disagreed with Charlie’s politics, but he still saw him as a human being and was shaken up by his assassination.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/09/11/man-who-was-questioning-charlie-kirk-as-fatal-shot-came-in-speaks-out-n2193867
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He is a video from the YouTube channel Black Conservative Perspective.
At 1:50 the displayed headline says the ammunition used was “engraved with transgender, antifascist ideology”.
https://youtu.be/hY2fcoX-0Ic
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The rifle found near the campus was an older-model Mauser .30-06 bolt action.
It was discovered wrapped in a towel in a wooded area, with a spent cartridge chambered and three unspent rounds still in the magazine.
Disturbingly, those rounds were engraved with messaging tied to transgender and “anti-fascist” ideology.
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[It appears a number of more mainstream media outlets are reporting the same information regarding gun model and shell casing engravings. It may be made up. But it’s not limited to this publication linked by Old Ozzie. I assume your Trump support crew worker is made up and written facetiously to illustrate a point. – Raquel]
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It’s fun to make stuff up and even more fun to make add money from publishing it.
A guy in the crowd signalling towards the sniper moments before the shot was part of Trump’s support crew in Butler.
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I had never heard of Charlie Kirk before yesterday so find it difficult to understand why he attracted that level of vitriol..
Two things, firstly lets hope that bunch of morons who were interviewed are not representative of young people in America-shame the interviewer didn’t ask each interviewee if they believed that anyone who disagreed with their own views should be shot.
Second point. This amply illustrates why I don’t touch Face book, you tube, tik tok or any other of these unpleasant corrupting mass market mediums.
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I have been following Kirk for quite some time. To be fair, he wasn’t the first to engage with students on campus in this way, but he was a master at it and served a vital role in providing young students with the confidence to ‘come out’ as conservatives on strongly leftist campuses, by showing they weren’t alone.
In the course of following him, I saw many completely unhinged young people – and more than a few so-called ‘professors – engage with Charlie in a very aggressive manner, not willing to debate, only wanted to hurl hate at him. I am therefore not surprised that the shooting occurred, nor the despicable celebrations on the left following his murder.
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Bumped from yesterday
FWIW
“A Sober Take on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/11/a-sober-take-on-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/#comments
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Kirk attracted vitriol because he was unafraid to speak plainly about subjects that are outside the Overton window of acceptable discourse as determined by progressives. He cited well-established racial crime statistics that showed the MASSIVE disparity in black violent crime versus other races (a giant no-no among progressives), strenuously objected to abortion and unapologetically referred to it as baby murder and a form of eugenics (since black babies are 6X more likely to be aborted than white babies), spoke clearly about the misogyny, religious oppression, and violent nature of Islam, and correctly referred to transgender people as mentally ill and correctly asserted that there is no such thing as trans children, only mentally ill parents.
For violating those progressive shibboleths, he had to die.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/11/the-incredible-articulation-of-charles-james-kirk/
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The FBI seem to be closing in on the Charlie Kirk killer.
Images of a suspect have been released and His ID should come out by tomorrow.
He appears to be about 20 yrs old and likely a student.
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I would hazard a guess from the skeletal appearance and the trans messages at a victim of devastating and irreversible gender change surgery on very young people. They desperately need to believe Trans is a real thing as it has become their entire existence and they have suffered greatly, suffering which never ends. The media would blame Kirk and Trump, not the doctors involved in the Trans industry.
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David,
Charlie Kirk was amazing – Watch 5 Mins 51 Secs
The Incredible Articulation of Charles James Kirk
September 11, 2025 – Sundance
Sadly, I had not seen this video until after he was assassinated and it was shared on social media.
That said, the intellectual capacity, the gift of articulation carried within the vessel Charlie Kirk represented, is evident in this video segment.
This is a remarkable exhibition of a skillset that will be exceptionally difficult to replace. WATCH:
Plus
Charlie Kirk debating 8 topics
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Thanks for those videos OldOzzie.
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I watched the video and it disgusted me. The worst type of human beings were on display.
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GlenM, I take it you are referring to the video at #1?
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Annie (and most likely to GlenM’s red-thumbers too):
Yes he was. The giveaway is that his response is #1.8 — eighth response to #1.
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Read this on a New Zealand Blog
Ken Blackwell from Facebook writes;
To the man who murdered Charlie Kirk:
You may think you struck a blow against a man you disagreed with.
You may think your cowardly act somehow silenced him.
But let me make this very clear: you failed.
You failed because truth does not die with a bullet. Principles do not bleed out in the street.
And a movement built on conviction is not so fragile that one violent act can scatter it.
You proved something you never intended to prove: that Charlie’s words were powerful enough to terrify you.
You feared him not because he carried a weapon, but because he carried ideas that cut deeper than any weapon you could ever wield.
You feared the light he carried because it exposed the darkness you live in.
You thought you could erase his influence. Instead, you underlined it.
You thought you could end his mission. Instead, you multiplied it.
You thought you could make us afraid. Instead, you made us stronger.
History is filled with cowards who hid behind violence when they could not win with reason.
Every tyrant who jailed a dissenter, every fanatic who silenced a prophet, every assassin who tried to erase a leader… they all shared the same delusion: that killing a messenger kills the message.
Time has proven them all wrong.
And time will prove you wrong too.
Because Charlie’s fight is not just his—it is ours.
And now it burns brighter than ever.
His family, his friends, his countless supporters across this country—we carry his torch.
You cannot put it out.
You cannot stop what has already taken root in the hearts of millions.
You wanted to silence a man. Instead, you gave voice to a generation.
You wanted to stop a movement.
Instead, you set it on fire.
You wanted to strike fear.
Instead, you revealed your own.
We are not afraid of you.
We are not backing down. We are not surrendering our beliefs, our principles, or our courage.
So remember this: when you hid in the shadows and pulled the trigger, you did not prove strength—you proved weakness.
You did not end a mission… you gave it a new beginning.
And you did not stop Charlie Kirk… you made sure his message will echo far louder than it ever has before.
Charlie’s fight is our fight.
His cause is our cause.
And we will carry it forward with even more determination, more resolve, and more unshakable faith than ever before.
You failed. And we will never fail him.
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FWIW
“An Assassination That Unleashed an Army of Charlie Kirks”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/09/10/the-assassination-unleashed-an-army-of-charlie-kirks-n4943541
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Students protesting Mann speech with fun signs:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/10/cfact-collegians-say-no-to-michael-mann/
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Very good.
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It has just been discovered that US$600 million of USAID money went to the (now former) corrupt commununit Government of Nepal, just overthrown. I certainly saw no evidence of such spending on my two recent trips there.
That sort of money would go a long way in a place like that if it were spent wisely instead of (presumably) going into the pockets of corrupt politicians and NGOs and to fuel social unrest.
Video: https://youtu.be/ik471pQxTWA
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aa lot of it probably never left America, having stuck in the hands of various corruptocrats. More still would have circled overhead Nepal before returning to America in some form. Yet more would have been paid to US citizens ‘administering’ the funds’ disbursement in Nepal. Then there are the bribes and ‘grease’ as you mention.
So I would bet that very little actually got to the ‘front line’.
This is the whole point of overseas aid, along with certain domestic programs supposedly benefiting ‘good causes’ here in Australia, the US, the UK, etc. It’s a great big money-washing machine.
Ever wondered how politicians and heads of NGOs etc, on relatively modest salaries, get to be so wealthy?
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I’m sick of people claiming that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), or A11pl3Z is an alien spacecraft.
It’s a rock, OK?
Incidentally, it was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station at Río Hurtado, Chile on 1 July 2025. Thus the system to warn Eartlings of possible asteroid impacts is working. There is no threat of impact with Earth.
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I’d be more worried if Avi Loeb didn’t say that a flying space rock might be an alien spaceship.
He’s not inherently wrong in his speculations though…. his ideas are extremely unlikely, but not impossible.
It is acting like a comet anyway, so more ice than rock, about 20km across. It has some interesting gas ratios.
The CO2 : H2O ratio is about 8:1, which is far higher than any other comet observed anywhere. A ratio of 2 or 3 is more normal in our solar system.
The CO : H2O ratio is around 1.4, about the same as comets hosted in our solar system.
High levels of UV from a very young, and large star could be responsible for the much higher amounts of CO2, as could a “birthplace” a very very very long way from its star.
I think it’s aliens delivering more CO2 to us because they misinterpreted our radio and TV transmissions and thought everyone was wanting more of it. That, or they also know it isn’t a problem, and it’s just some interstellar teasing.
The closest encounter with the sun is on October 29th, but will still be a lot more than 1 astronomical unit away from Earth.
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“It’s a rock, OK?”
What else would you build a spaceship from?? All you need is a propulsion system and life support, and any handy asteroid would do. If your rock has structural integrity there is no need to smelt the metals out of it, you use the rock as a radiation shield.
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Hmm! Perhaps a Planetary sized Archimedes Engine!
Tony.
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It could be hollow inside though full of greys.
And in breaking news NASA may have found ancient life traces on Mars, and UAP survives missile attack unscathed.
Swamp gas and weather balloons ok?
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Its a bit bigger than a rock and travelling at 245,000km per hour, thus avoiding solar gravity.
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‘The object, which is broadly believed to be a comet that came to us from outside the solar system, has already been observed changing shape. Its tail has grown longer, and its coma — a large atmosphere of gas and dust that surrounds its nucleus — has become more pronounced. Those are expected characteristics from a comet ripping by the Sun at ludicrous speeds. (Futurism)
NASA’s Mars satellite should take some worthwhile images and I don’t expect to see a small group of aliens setting up camp on Phobos.
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TRUMP declares war on the terrorist / criminal / violent Left.
Video by Dr Steve Turley: https://youtu.be/tFPBA1W_ptU
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Thanks David.
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On this video Dr Steve Turley discusses the phenomenon of Leftists celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the mental health of Leftists and the phenomenon of “political ponerology” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponerology .
Don’t underestimate how evil and dangerous the Left have become.
https://youtu.be/vocU1xv8MvQ
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Sorry, the link should have been to political ponerology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ponerology
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I was just musing on my Pandemic experience.
The first moment I heard about it I was suspicious and suspected psyop.
(I do have a history of heresy, or as the modern Inquisitors say ‘conspiracy ideation’.)
I even told a young friend, fresh out of the US military, “you are witnessing the greatest psyop of all time”.
In my mid 60s, I never feared for my health, or exposure to other people, and only wore a mask when forced.
As I recall, mask wearing only came up well into it, seeming to me long after most of the spread through the population had likely occurred.
When “two weeks to flatten the curve” rolled out, I told friends it was going to go much longer than that.
It was like I could see into the future.
And I get zero credit for my prescience.
I did get the flu during, and was down for a couple of days, but it was not even close to the worst I have had.
No vax.
No flu since, and now I know multiple vaxxed people that have had more than one bad flu, claiming COVID, based on what I think is dubious testing.
I do exercise regularly, consistent life long, but not I’m particularly healthy for my age.
I’m also a midwit with limited education, and am astounded by what I consider the absolute hysteria that surrounded me during this historic cultural event.
(And I am confident it was a political culture phenomenon far beyond any epidemic.)
Unless Wiki/AI alters history, future people will look back at photos of children playing band concerts in surgical masks with holes cut for the mouth and nose and wonder …
what happened?
As they are told that the Arctic Ocean will be ice free in 5 years.
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Skepticism is the essential tool of every scientist. Nothing is true until it is proven. Man made CO2. Rocketing temperatures. Rapidly rising sea levels. Manhattan drowned.
After 37 years of Armageddon, who believes any of it? But a lot of people have heard nothing else for the last 37 years. Worse, there is zero proof behind all the penalty legislation and taxation. And declaring CO2 a toxic gas for the Clean Air Act was beyond all science. Politician made science. As when Galileo was locked up. And we were locked up by our own governments because of a deadly Chinese made bioweapon. Where are the reparations?
As for the Artic ocean being ice free, the first devious bit always missing was ‘summer only’. Of course in pitch black winter and freezing temperatures, it all returns. The second deceit is that floating ice when it melts does not cause a sea level rise, so it is all very deceitful and not science. Archimedes could explain that because water expands when frozen but the weight obviously does not change, the bouyancy(uplift) does not change and the excess volume of ice floats above the surface and no extra space under the water.
In fact, it would be wonderful if the Arctic ice would melt for at least a few months in summer. That alone would dramatically speed world trade, bypassing both the Suez and the Panama. Japan and China to Europe and the East coast of the US would be a very short trip over the North Pole. Perfect for summer tourism in the midnight sun and the ocean which never freezes is full of life.
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Sir Joseph Banks, as President of the Royal Society, sent a formal letter to the Admiralty in 1817 mentioning recent losses of ice from the Greenland shores and suggested they took for the Northern Passage. Such Passage would enable quicker movements to China and India.
People are still looking.
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Drought in Panama and the Houthis make this much more attractive. For what Australia is spending on pumping water uphill, we could have built another Panama canal. And the costs are still rocketing all so they can store excess windmill power. Except no one wants to be paid half for their power to match the losses in the pumping. The coal power people are buying their own big batteries so they can get full payment.
The ridiculously and expensively stupid Snowy II is only matched by interest payments to the French for our giant idle desalination plants for the drought which would never end. “Even the rains which fall will not fill the dams” almost drowned the city of Brisbane. And the spare $444Milion in cash to PM Malcolm and wife Lucy Turnbull is quickly forgotten. That was to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef which apparently does not need saving any more. Sure beats working! And the interest bill is only $14million a year. No one asks questions. Albanese is too busy spending billions of his own.
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Sometime in the 1970’s
Enjoy
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTVY8LoM47xI&ved=2ahUKEwjmn4P26tGPAxWecmwGHbqRNtEQwqsBegQIDBAG&usg=AOvVaw1GhxxaJK0k8g5C1-faH7e4
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Great song and voice.
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FWIW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
Looks like it might have a reliability factor similar to wind powered electricity
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Ice Free: Peter Wadhams changed the meaning of “ice free” to the area of sea ice would be reduced to less than one million square kilometers (<1M sq km). This has become known as One Wadhams.
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Excellent. Wadhams of ice, Flannerys of rainfall. We need a. Mann unit. Perhaps a scale for rating the veracity of a climate alarm claim?
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When I write the oceans do not freeze, I do not mean the thin skin of floating ice on top. The North Pole ice at most averages of 4 metres thick over 4,000 metres of unfrozen water. If this was a drink in a glass, the ice would be 4 thousandths of an inch thick or 0.1mm. I don’t think anyone would even notice it. The Russians use nuclear powered icebreakers.
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But a third of scientists believe in a god.
No evidence needed.
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Research: Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children.
Christians: “where’s the evidence?”
The irony burns fiercely. 😁
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Actually all theories need to be held true until falsified once. You can prove nothing, but you can falsify. With Religion, neither is possible.
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That first approach which permeates modern Leftist education is Popper’s approach. It stinks. The Rational Science approach from Rene Descartes is to prove everything from first principles, based on absolute truth and the most absolute is mathematics. But in the modern leftist world one and one can make four if enough people agree. Falsification also can be misleading, as with the particle model of light and the wave model. Each has their uses. neither is light, but a useful approach. And Newton was never disproven, simply refined by Einstein who was also refined by Heisenberg. None of these people being wrong, simply edging towards models and principles which worked beautifully in a certain environment at a certain scale.
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You don’t half write some tosh sometimes TdeF.
Descartes convinced himself he’d proven there was a perfect God, that God had given us each a mind, and that what God had put in our minds about how the world worked had to be true. Talk about circular reasoning! Perhaps his catch cry should have been I know because I know.
Let me offer a simpler explanation of what the ideal of science really is: trial and error. That’s it. No highfalutin philosophers required.
I think that’s what you’re groping for too — the things that work — but you put it so badly! Newton’s laws *have* been proved wrong, but they’re still useful much of the time. Important not to use them in some circumstances though (e.g. GPS).
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Most early scientists were devoted Christians. Copernicus was a monk. Charles Darwin was very conflicted, son of a vicar. Even Decartes kept trying to reconcile his absolutism with his religion, cogito ergo factum est. Existence being debated and even consciousness. And mathematician Blaise Pascal invented many things, probability theory and even the first public transport system and died very young but argued that it was a better bet to believe in a God and lose nothing if you were wrong.
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It was also easier to think if you had the privilege of not having to work to subsist.
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As per my musings about Pandemic …
please note that I did not mention the destruction, by BS government ‘public health’ lockdown action, of my small business I spent 30 years building.
I think I deserve praise for my emotional growth.
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Video.
Australia’s Rita Panahi talks about the “souless ghouls” of the Left, as she calls them, in relation to them celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
This video must be going viral as it has nearly 1.5 million views after 9 hrs.
https://youtu.be/dy3f4FFwgPU
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FWIW
“The murder of Charlie Kirk and the World Trade Center attack”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-murder-of-charlie-kirk-and-world.html
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The mostly peaceful and tolerant left unveil themselves.
There are many videos on youtube about Charlie Kirks assassination posted by deranged idiots.
The posted video commentary and the replies are vile.
I only read a few replies on a couple of videos. I had to stop because I was only making myself angry.
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The Vera Rubin Telescope is coming online and it has a 3.2 gigapixel camera.
This video discusses it and shows some of the first images.
https://youtu.be/tu4cpaDZ68g
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Nice 4k pics of orbiting satellites then.
/sarc
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A survey has found that the main worry for farmers is “Climate Change”. Farmers in the survey claimed they had experienced weather extremes in the last three years such as droughts and floods or unusual rainfall events. It should be noted that the survey was conducted for a group called “Farmers for Climate Action”. I have conducted a survey in my area with completely different results, all of the Cockies I have spoken to are concerned about the “Weather”. Similarities are uncanny, these Cockies have also experienced droughts and floods and unusual rainfall events. My survey covered some families who have farmed this area for many generations and maybe that’s the difference. A look at the Farmers for climate action web page depicts well dressed sweet young things all concerned and please donate money. My survey covered grizzled old Cockies and their families.
On face value alone, if you are young you simply do NOT have the experience of years, the oldies have seen it all before.
One group wants to change the climate so it’s always benign, the other wants a bit of clever planning by governments to better store and distribute water etc. I am sure some of the first group will morph into the second group over time, others, not so much.
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Sambar
Re “Farmers for Climate Action”
Is the main qualification for membership a valid credit card?
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Main qualification is a low IQ and a valid credit card. And a serious desire to fail miserably at farming.
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I would think that a worry for the farmers is the erratic forecasts issued by the BOM.
If a once reliable establishment tells you that normal rains will occur, then you may go out and buy seed, plow and sow the paddocks and hope for a good crop. When reality delivers a drought, all that cost and effort comes to nothing.
It is incorrect forecasts from once reliable entities that are causing the problems. A problem the Bureau refuses to acknowledge. How much damage have they caused by their religious zeal for climate change?
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How odd. In my working life which included several prominent farming areas, when you talked about councils, state, federal gummints the vast majority of people would precede the topic with “effing” councils… etc, all they do is stop you farming.”
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China has transformed their farming areas through irrigation and better water management.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332210820/figure/fig1/AS:11431281412110176@1745952134564/Trend-in-annual-average-leaf-area-from-satellite-Image-reproduced-and-modified-after.tif
Water begets water when the available water goes into increasing biomass. Parts of Australia are benefitting from the natural increase in atmospheric water but there remains a significant opportunity to harness more of the water that causes coastal and inland flooding.
This Australian summer should be similar to 2021. The daily solar intensity today is up almost 2W/m^2 from last year. That increase is across the whole SH so bodes well for increased atmospheric water as summer approaches.
Expect to see tropical lows develop over northern land mass again this year in preference to offshore cyclones spinning up over water and dumping on land. More like Amazon than Sahara.
I produced the linked image of changes in reflectivity across land for November from 2007 to 2024. Northern Australia is significantly more reflective in November last year than it was earlier this century. This year will support that trend.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image005-720×426.png
November was the only month that showed a significant increase in reflectivity over land. The general trend in reflectivity is downward.
The only concern I have for the climate overall is the increasing elevation of Greenland. That does not bode well for the northern hemisphere north of 40N but I will be long dead before that trend causes mass migration south.
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“Farmers for Climate Action” looks like a well funded Astroturf group.
In New Zealand we have a couple of Farmer groups pushing back against the Climate Change Religion.
These are the Methane Science Accord (https://methane-accord.co.nz/) and Groundswell (https://www.facebook.com/GroundswellNZ) Both are genuine grassroots movements. New Zealand Farmers do not support taking “action”.
They appear to be having some effect. Politicians in 2 of the 3 Government Coalition partners, Act and New Zealand First, are talking about pulling out of Paris.
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Hmmm. No particularly “unusual” weather beliefs amongst farmers I know and live amongst. Just a belief that weather events will come and go. That is why you store hay for future droughts, have fire hoses ready for bushfires etc etc.
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REPORTER: Mr. President, how do you want your supporters to respond to the killing of Charlie Kirk?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: He was an advocate of nonviolence. That’s the way I’d like to see people respond.
Video 0:15
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1966249456195743890?t=xwz1OSlSojO7Ttb92Wc_4g&s=19
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FWIW
“Sussan Ley’s statement on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/09/sussan-leys-statement-on-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-3.html
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It’s very obvious now that the Liberals don’t actually want to be elected, and are not likely to be ever elected again.
Australia is effectively a One Party State now.
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You could move to Nepal and live like a king for under $2k a year…
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I have actually thought of that, at least during trekking season(s).
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If to roles were reversed it would all make sense. As it is, yes they seem intent on failure, just warming seats and collection their allowances and pensions.
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Alex Epstein now has his own AI data bank that you can search and it is very easy to use.
I asked “what is a Woman” and the answer is reasonable.
https://alexepstein.ai/chat
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I asked “How big are the chances of natural Hydrocarbon deposits’ replenishment ?” “Alex” replied – close to 0.
But then he explained why it was wrong question…
Not bad website, thanks.
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Ok Anyone? – What is the 3rd Flag on the Right of Flag Photo? – Celebrating Australian Citizenship Day on the Northern Beaches
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Not a country’s flag, some island in the Torres Straight it seems. Write if off as another Northern Beaches Council posturing, too much money, not enough brains..
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I think it represents an early Scots and Maori insult to their enemies. You turn your back on them and flash your bare bum. Seems to fit our local situation where the populace appear to be the enemies of government.
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They hate us and we hate them back.
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It’s the Torres Strait Islander flag…
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Apparently it’s a Torres Strait Islander flag.
Only the Australian flag should be on display.
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That one always reminds me of a cat leaving the room
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I get down to brass tacks and call it The Cat’s Bum.
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Virtually all Government establishments in Australia fly the Australian flag, Aboriginal flag (which until recently purchased by the Government for $20 million of taxpayer money was a privately owned copyrighted symbol) and the Torres Strait Islander flag.
We are clearly not a united country and liable to break up like Yugoslavia.
In fact, it’s only a matter of time before the Australian flag is banned in certain places. Our communist PM and communist Greens seem to have an aversion to it.
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” liable to break up like Yugoslavia.”
Where do you see the new boundaries drawn DM? Aboriginal Govts where they are in the majority, same with Torres Straights? Vic reduced to Melbourne only and a new state for the rest? A line up the Great Dividing Range so one country is ‘coast’ and another is ‘inland’, a bit like Portugal and Spain??
Much harder to divide on political affiliation grounds, or on religious ones…
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FWIW
“Natural Gas Is Not A Bridge To Tomorrow. It’s The Superhighway Of The Future”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/natural-gas-not-bridge-tomorrow-its-superhighway-future
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Research into human origins and migration paths is normally verboten in fully woke Australia as “scientific” “research” must conform to the Official Narrative (OR ELSE!) so it will be interesting to see how this is received…
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“Aboriginal Australian culture is regarded as humanity’s oldest continuous living culture”
Its all about words and how they are used, ( I think it was Socrates who was a great contrarian philosopher, dunno )
So, I am also a member of the oldest living culture on earth. My culture started, just like every other person living today, when someone started to do things other than eat and procreate. The fact that as people spread further and further from the source group things changed, different technologies developed different food sources etc, doesn’t make anyone better, worse or “special” over any other group. The apparent worship of a group of people who were literally stuck at a point in time defies logic.
The claims by the Victorian government that the aborigines of Victoria have been here for 60,000 years just doesn’t stand scrutiny.
A few questions, 1/ Why are Tasmanian aborigines different to mainland aborigines in both physical appearance cultures and technology ( or lack there of)
Is it possible that they were displaced by groups moving south?
2/If the first aborigines arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago how long did it take to move to the southern edge of the continent, probably more than a century or 10.
3/ Who drew the Bradshaw cave arts, in the 1950’s and 60’s anthropologists could not determine their originators, local aboriginal tribes claimed they new nothing about them or who did them.
There are lots and lots of questions that are not allowed to be answered because it may prove the current claims of originality incorrect.
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Aboriginal culture would be a whole lot less rich and fascinating if there wasnt $45billion a year pouring into it to be harvested. Its like “closing the gap” Nobody really wants the gap closed, if that happens we are all equal and funding would go back to normal, or even worse, public servants would have to think and devise other schemes to keep the funds flowing. Expect a lot of steady as you go and microscopic improvements.
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I challenge the use of the word ‘culture’ in this context.
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I am concerned about the falling standards of engineering at ANCAP as they become increasingly politically correct instead of sticking to crash engineering.
No longer just crash testing vehicles to find some sort of survivability index, its now heading into the nebulous territory of accident avoidance annoyances.
The Suzuki Swift has been re-tested locally after they gave it a score of 1, but to raise your score you can add more electronics-
“2025 Suzuki Swift: Three-star ANCAP rating confirmed with safety upgrade, up from one.
Suzuki has added a driver monitoring system to the Swift in Australia, however, it only added 0.25 extra points to its safety assistance score”
“Its safety assistance score remains below the 62 per cent achieved in Europe, as local versions lack intelligent speed limit assistance”
If you need ‘intelligent speed limit assistance’ for accident survival, you shouldn’t be driving!
The whole organisation only reinforces the idea that everyone is going to have a crash, so buy the vehicle you will survive in. I suppose that explains the size and weight of the popular giant utes and SUVs these days.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/2025-suzuki-swift-three-star-ancap-rating-confirmed-with-safety-upgrade-up-from-one/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_3&utm_medium=partner
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Get out on any highway on any day and you’ll see just how bad most drivers are.
Electronics won’t fix stupidity and arrogance. Unfortunately.
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We live in an area that day trippers out of Melbourne can reach. The complete lack of competence and road sense is breathtaking at times. They seem like fish out of water once they leave the urban grid.
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Highway? Car parks are just as insane! Fancy expensive e-tronic 21st-century ‘space vehicles’ yet if Jim or Julie don’t know what those rear-vision mirrors are for, BANG!
Mayhem at the malls, chaos in the carparks, hell on the highway – yet these zombies are allowed to vote?
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Mmmmmm all reaching peak at Christmas when its packed and everybody is rushing and not looking
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Those safety assistance things are an absolute menace. They beep annoyingly at the complete wrong time and are unhelpful in every way possible.
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BBQ season approaches
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t2evuxKxNf1z23obp.mp4
Be sure to clean your bbq regularly and have a fire extinguisher handy.
Do not use flour or similar to extinguish a fire, unless you are making a youtube video. 😉
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Two choices, take a video or help out. Oh well.
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Steaks be done now 😃
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Seems like Sydney & surrounds had a few Flannery’s worth of precipitation as of late: wettest September EVAAAH!
And still in NSW, the big three – Perisher, Thredbo, Charlotte Pass – now have the world’s deepest snow base of any operating ski areas for 2025: 220cm or 87” top-to-bottom. In comparison, NZ’s Mt Hutt has 163cm and Turoa, on the North Island’s volcano Mt Ruapehu, has 152cm.
https://www.snow-forecast.com/
So many prophecies of doom… failed.
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Interesting factoid
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Sydney deluge not unprecedented.
‘Sydney 122mm — heaviest September rain since 1879.’ (ABC)
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Thought 1910 was their benchmark.
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I don’t think anyone has linked this.
Elon Musk Explains Why John Bolton’s Secret Files Will Destroy Middle Class…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiefJUh_hHE
28:29
Calmly explains how the Global elite, from which he has apparently defected, I think sincerely …has sREw,eD us.
And not in the fun way.
Nothing we don’t know, but good synopsis to share with fellow screwees.
He seems to think they’re losing, but I doubt it, I expect The Blob to regroup and reemerge even more authoritarian.
Perhaps more v!oLen-T, as recent events hint.
They’ve educated a large Orc army.
Elon temporarily interrupted their AID supply line.
George Clooney is busy interviewing new candidates.
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Excellent Honk.
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Grin…errr…that’s not Elon Musk…
“This is a fan-made channel, and its content is not affiliated with Elon Musk or his companies. The videos are inspired by Elon Musk’s public statements and ideas for informational, educational and motivational purposes only, using a synthesized voice that does not belong to Elon Musk. We use visual lip-syncing and dubbed narration to match the spoken words with on-screen footage, purely to enhance clarity, create a cinematic experience, and make the content more engaging for viewers. “
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Apologies, I think.
I guess I’m not yet fully adapted.
Did not fake filter it.
Guess that’s where we are.
Even if fake, the content rang true to me.
Amazed by people capable and motivated to produce such things.
Is it art?
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I get ticked off by these kinds of articles which champion new renewables technologies but which are still just system garnish and which don’t address the core weaknesses of said renewables, namely intermittent sun and wind.
My often-made point still stands: if we finally get to the designated endpoint of a renewables system, it will be so expensive, so complex, so unreliable and unstable, so not-actually finished as we put patches on patches on patches the we’ll slap our collective forehead and say “why didn’t we just go nuclear.”
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk, by Anastasia J Casey
https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9798264842788
Published 11th Sep 2025
Amazing how fast one can write a book these days..
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This is getting quite pointed :-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SBZsdcrG8rw
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[For anyone wanting to know what the link is to.
It’s a puppet parody depicting Trump and Netanyahu discussing the recent events in Qatar, after the event. – Raquel]
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Maybe this question is “out of order” :-
https://x.com/KAGdrogo/status/1965945010421203238
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FWIW – read it all!
“The Banksy Robbers”
Achievement beyond their wildest dreams!
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/09/11/the-banksy-robbers-n3806711
(rethreaded)
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Ben Shapiro seem to be the most popular vote for shooting next, with JK Rowling following and then Joe Rogan, so we know who the Left hate most now..
https://voxday.net/2025/09/11/who-the-left-wants-next/
Oh- If you’d like a T-shirt with Banksy’s painting of justice being deployed on it, they’re $33 here-
https://viralstyle.com/c/9AM2aY
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FWIW
“An honest investigation of links between vaccines and autism is the least we owe to our children”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/an-honest-investigation-of-links-between-vaccines-and-autism-is-the-least-we-owe-to-our-children/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-12&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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Black tactics-
“The Ukrainian side is actively striking the western part of the Crimean peninsula. The targets are air defense positions, but not only. ..In the northwest of Crimea, an enemy drone scattered tubes with the words “FSB OF RUSSIA INFORMATION CENTER” that explode when lifted.
Therefore, we ask our fellow citizens and military personnel to be more careful and not touch the wreckage of the drones. It does not matter what they look like.”
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/rusich_army?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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FWIW
“The changing of the tides”
“They’re doing this now, when they’re out of power, and they’re trying like hell to take complete and permanent control of our government. Does anyone think the killing would stop then? Would they all suddenly become reasonable at that point?
I’m optimistic. I’m not stupid.
So we live in unreasonable times, and I’m done being the reasonable man.
Or maybe I’m simply becoming reasonable for the first time. Maybe what I woke up to today was a recognition that the only reasonable solution isn’t to view the left as the opposition, but the enemy.
Either way, the tide has changed for me.
It’s a new day, and I’m done playing nice.”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/the-changing-of-the-tides
Via https://instapundit.com/744135/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“A Rogue’s Gallery of Misfits, Users, and Bums
Businessman and Media personality Patrick Bet-David recently appeared on Jubilee to defend Capitalism against 20 socialists. What followed was masterclass on the topic of why socialism fails.”
https://everymancommentary.substack.com/p/a-rogues-gallery-of-misfits-users?r=1jzuql&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Via https://instapundit.com/744121/#disqus_thread
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FWIW – Hmmmm
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/36179
Via SDA
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Also in there- Mr Bean on the side of the road waiting…and waiting ..and waiting..as only Mr Bean can-
“Waiting for Democrats with Ukraine flags in their bio to condemn the murder of a Ukrainian girl by a Black man.”
https://patriotpost.us/memes/120812-waiting-2025-09-11
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I’m over the LNP rudderless leadership. I advise Jacinta to defect defect defect to One Nation Party. Reckon Pauline & Jacinta will kick some butt!
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I’m over the LNP rudderless leadership. I advise Jacinta to defect defect defect to One Nation Party. Reckon Pauline & Jacinta will kick some butt!
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MORNING GRIDWATCH FRIDAY 12 SEPT
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 19% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST CAPACITY FACTOR 27% (AVERAGE)
AND 35% IN THE WEST
BEWARE If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
8 PM WIND 35% SOLAR 0%
EVENING GRIDWATCH FRIDAY 12 SEPT
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 13% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 10% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.41 AM WIND 31% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
11 AM WIND 58% SOLAR 24%
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Another Perth home lost due to a lithium battery fire. That’s 112 homes lost so far this year to lithium battery fires.
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FWIW
“Making Lists
Of People Who Won’t Be Missed”
https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/making-lists
Via https://instapundit.com/744119/#disqus_thread
One way or another you’re probably on a list somewhere so you might as well flaunt it
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FWIW
“It’s Now or Never for England”
https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/09/11/its-now-or-never-for-england-n4943604
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FWIW
“Aussie Students Spend The Most Time In School, Polish Kids The Least”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aussie-students-spend-most-time-school-polish-kids-least
But do the results say that it is useful?
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