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Charlie Kirk’s Killer Tyler Robinson Was a Radical Leftist, Wrote “Hey Fascist, Catch” on a Bullet
The young man who allegedly assassinated a beloved pro-life conservative activist was himself a radical leftist who self-identified as Antifa…
Tyler Robinson, of suburban Salt Lake City, was taken into custody early Friday morning after his father, a retired sheriff’s deputy with 27 years of service, detained him at the family home and alerted authorities.
…Robinson reportedly confessed killing Kirk to his father, who is a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.
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How can you tell this assassin was not operated by the CIA or FBI? He is still alive.
If true, it shows the incredible amount of casual indoctrination of American youth by the progressive press if he indeed saw himself as AntiFA and Charles Kirk as the Fascist. Another Mangioni soldier doing good work? As if the Hitler youth has been recreated by the endless rantings of the Left against Conservatives.
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>How can you tell (he) was not…
Proving he was NOT would be virtually impossible.
It would be easier to prove he was, but that will never happen without a whistleblower or a document leak.
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Weird thing is, the book about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Anastasia J. Casey, The Shooting of Charlie Kirk: A Comprehensive Account of the Utah Valley University Attack, the Aftermath, and America’s Response.
AI is a wonderful thing, it can write books instantly.
The publication date was the 9th of September.
Charlie Kirk was shot on the 10th of September.
Amazon have since withdrawn the page advertising the book for sale.
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Just spend a little time viewing YT videos of Kirk’s interactions with university students and you will see multiple examples of such people. Some participate in his campus debating merely to hurl expletives and hate at him, especially when (as he always did) he had dismantled their argument with calm, verifiable facts and figures. That was usually the trigger for their abuse.
I always found it very telling when these extreme leftist students would say, “You’re not welcome on MY campus.”, thereby revealing that they view the universities as leftist territory with conservatives not tolerated. The usual leftist extremism and intolerance on display.
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The worst thing about Kirk’s youtube videos is they silly titles they are posted under to maximize engagement (Charlie OWNS clueless lib, etc.).
Those titles totally misrepresent how Charlie handled himself at those events. He never tried to ‘own’ or ’embarrass’ anyone. He just calmly and politely explained his position, and would never return the invective that got hurled at him. In fact, his most common response to such insults was to hush the friendly members of the crowd and tell them to let the person finish what they were saying. Which usually resulted in one of two things … them walking away sheepishly after they failed to get a rise out of him, or sputtering, stuttering fury that left them incoherent and mumbling. He was the living embodiment of the childhood rhyme “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you”. He was unflappable and relentlessly polite.
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I’ve heard posters claim YT insists on click bait thumbnails.
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“I’ve heard posters claim YT insists on click bait thumbnails.”
I’d believe it Hanrahan, YT is just full of crap these days, heavily infused with advertising and somewhere I no longer go. The people with their mouths hanging open have destroyed the site for serious information and opinions.
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heavily infused with advertising
Can watch (other than youtube movies with ads) on DuckDuckGo Browser without Ads
For example 2 Movies following – I always use DuckDuckGo for normal youtube videos to avoid Ads
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or
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duck://player/leHYPgI-9t8
Both Movies really enjoyable – can download with 4k+ Video Downloader
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The infused with advertising sounds odd. I dont see that. There are many good info sources on YTube that arent affected or interupted with adverts.
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Scotty Kilmer has retired 157 times so far. LOL.
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Steve,
After a rapid study of “social media” after their big intro push, I determined that my life did not need them. I have not used TY or similar and I must say that I do not feel any loss.
But then, maybe I am strange. Fact – neither my wife nor I has ever taken any illegal drug, including not even a puff of cannabis. No grog since 1982, no smoking. Again, we do not feel a loss.
Geoff S
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TdeF,
President Trump said (emotionally) that indoctrination in violence by the left press had to end. Given his determination in this presidency to date – such as crime reduction in Washington DC – we should expect real, positive policy action to curb US press excesses.
Our problem is that Australia has insidious, creepy left media flavour as bad as the US, but no prominent reformer.
It is up to concerned citizen reformers here to increase pressure for reform. Geoff S
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Jacinta Price stands out. She will not be cowed. A handful of others too. But they can be sued into silence. The standard practice of the left with support from the government and sometimes the judiciary.
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Trump: We’re Looking At RICO Case Against Soros And “Professional Agitators”
DONALD TRUMP: You know they have professional agitators. They are professional.
I had one the other night. I went into a restaurant and this woman stood up. I looked at her—she had money. They get paid for it. They’re professionals from Soros and other people. We’re going to look into Soros. I think it is a RICO case against him and other people.
This is more than like protesters. This is agitation and riots on the street.
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“Looking Into Soros. Looks Like RICO”: Trump Puts Crosshairs On Radical Leftist NGOs
Recall that on Wednesday night, just hours after Kirk’s assassination, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office, calling it a “dark moment for America.” He vowed to crack down on radical left movements across the country that have fueled chaos and even death this year.
Then on Thursday night, Texan News reporter Cameron Abrams wrote on X that Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and two dozen others in Congress called for a select committee on “the money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on America and the rule of law.”
“Enough is enough. We must follow the money to identify the perpetrators of the coordinated anti-American assaults being carried out against us and take all steps under the law necessary to stop them,” the lawmakers stated.
Just weeks ago, Trump stated on Truth Social that George Soros and his radical leftist son, Alex Soros, “should be charged with RICO because of their support of violent protests.”
Around that time, the “dark money” leftist NGO network operated by Arabella Advisors reportedly lost one of its top funding sources: Bill Gates.
One America News@OANN
BILL GATES PULLS FUNDING FROM ARABELLA ADVISORS
@seamusbruner
– “I don’t know if it’s a coincidence that Donald Trump is calling for RICO investigations into the Soros’ at the same time that Bill Gates is distancing himself from the Arabella network. This is putting cracks and fissures in the left-wing dark money machine.”
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“How can you tell this assassin was not operated by the CIA or FBI?”
Honk only pawn in game of life, but …
We do know that the Blob has been constructing a “color revolution” apparatus for nearly 70 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
Then for GWOT, the original Blob allowed licensed franchise expansion.
The FBI of course, practiced provocateurism in the 60s.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cointelpro-fbi/2
Then Obama allowed the external Blob operations to also focus internally as well.
And it’s been topsy-turvy ever since.
Because populace political cohesion threatens Blob and their elite club members.
Plus, they just get off on manipulating us.
This machine for provoking cultural and political disfunction is likely quite large and multifaceted, think USAID/NGOs, and central oversight and control is difficult due to departmentalized secrecy.
Trump faced and is facing this.
And it likely tried to eliminate him.
So, at least this machine probably had an influence in producing the conditions that produced the assassin.
It like the electric grid, the baseload has to keep buzzing or the capability could be threatened.
It’s ok for them, but if we do it, it causes carbon.
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And …
they have no need to manage specific tactics to achieve general strategic goals.
This serves to obscure direct attribution.
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Leaked Probable Cause Affidavit Indicates Tyler Robinson Coordinating with Accomplice to Hide Weapon After Shooting Charlie Kirk
September 12, 2025 – Sundance
Someone leaked the booking record to Steven Crowder [SEE HERE] which includes the probable cause affidavit for the arrest warrant.
I will put the entire PC section below but pay attention to the last segment. It appears in the Discord communication, an accomplice was supposed to come and retrieve the rifle from the woods noting it would be wrapped in a towel.
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Just like Neo in The Matrix talking to Cypher, looking at screens of scrolling text.
“…there’s way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.”
Some can see and understand the code that creates reality, the masses just see the created illusions…
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Further to skepticynic post above
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2107548/charlie-kirk-shooting-live-hunt-continues
It will be interesting to see if he was ever a graduate of the school where the murder occurred and what his motives were, other than hating anyone who disagreed with him. That must have been very hard for the father to turn his son in, but he did his duty.
When most of us here were younger there was an old creed “I disagree with what you say but will defend to my death your right to say it.”
Seems that so many people live in their tight social media bubble these days and don’t want to listen to alternative views. That will have increasingly large ramifications as politics becomes ever more polarised.
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Part of it is media bubble, part of it is indoctrination, but a part of it that is not talked about very much is the degradation of history and civics education.
Very few kids coming up through the school system today have ever heard of Voltaire (to whom the ‘defend to the death’ quote is most often misattributed), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (who actually wrote it to describe Voltaire’s philosophy), John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, etc. Many of them don’t even understand the basic concepts of separation of powers or the basic functions of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government. Heck, most of them don’t even understand the concept of different forms of democracy or the concept of negative versus positive rights. Heck, we even have boomers in congress (Tim Kaine) who don’t understand the concept of natural rights and thinks that rights are ‘granted’ by the government (which is truly terrifying), so it’s not just the kids who don’t get it.
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Those are all white guys.
Who said that?
It wasn’t me.
Anyone who says such things shouldn’t be allowed to say them.
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Can’t blame the blank slate : it’s the teachers who are ignorant, and they can’t teach what they don’t know. The rot in education set in even when I was at secondary school in the sixties.
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In the UK, too. Sadly.
Early Brezhnevites … [or KHRUSCHEVITES…?]
Auto
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Steve,
You might as well write in a foreign language. Yes, we witness a decline in understanding history, but the question arises whether its replacement is better. Can we say that socials are the replacement? I don’t know, I never use them. So, what replacement for history studies do you think is present? Is it any good? Geoff S
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Every kid in the developed world is walking around with the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in his/her pocket. It’s all within a simple Google search, or an AI query …. if they wanted to learn about it. Even the social media sites have numerous content providers who do history videos and such, though some sites (TikTok) are less conducive to long-form videos/posts. Youtube has a bunch of great history channels (The Fat Electrician is a great choice for military history).
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Not a graduate according to this. But seemingly a clever student.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360822782/what-we-know-about-tyler-robinson-man-arrested-charlie-kirks-killing
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Photographed wearing a Salt Lake City DSA T-Shirt.
(Salt Lake chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America)
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One of the fun things the leftists say around the Charlie Kirk things is …
“you want people to have guns so you have no right to be upset if someone shoots you for saying it.”
It’s a certain logic.
Like “stop climate change”.
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Much like conflate illegal and legal immigration, they also conflate legal and illegal gun use. They see no difference between taking your gun to the shooting range to practice, or to the wilderness to hunt, or locked up in your house for home defense, and using it to murder someone. It’s the gun’s fault. The owner has no agency over whether it is used for legal or illegal conduct.
They also throw around terms like ‘sensible gun laws’ without giving any thought whatsoever about the details of the shooting. Why is anyone even talking about ‘gun laws’ in relation to the Kirk murder? It was a basic bitch bolt-action hunting rifle, not an ‘assault rifle’. It was acquired illegally. It was brought into a ‘gun free zone’. There is no ‘sensible gun law’ that would have had ANY impact on what happened. The guy already violated two gun laws (not to mention that pesky law against murder), what makes you think he wouldn’t have violated a third or fourth or fifth? The only ‘gun law’ that would have stopped the shooting is a wholly unconstitutional comprehensive nationwide gun confiscation. Which is what they really want, even though they won’t admit it. Which is why conservatives tend to reject ANY ‘sensible gun laws’, because they know it is only the first step on the long march to a disarmed population.
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Like most Australians (I believe) I did not like “J.Howard gun law” but I continue to vote for him because there was a) nothing better and b) nobody better at the time.
So many years later, when every morning they tell you about another killing in and around Melbourne, do I think either a) or b) were wrong?
Australia of the XX Century is gone, no one has the slightest idea of the shape of things to come.
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We sleep, they creep: masked night-time raiders bash and slash
From Melbourne to Mildura, through NSW into Queensland, increasingly violent home invasions have stoked a community movement calling for ‘Castle Law’ to defend their homes.
Darryl Munn and his teenage son were sleeping in a NSW country motel in the early hours of last Boxing Day when they were woken by banging at their door.
It wasn’t the polite knock of someone trying to get their attention; it sounded like their door was being kicked in.
As Mr Munn leapt out of bed and grabbed a chair for protection the door collapsed to reveal a frightening sight: three youths wearing skeleton masks and armed with knives were advancing into their room.
“And they were screaming, ‘keys and wallet, keys and wallet or we’ll kill you!’’’
Mr Munn, 52, had a new car that he didn’t want to lose, so he blocked their way by thrusting the legs of the chair at the intruders as one allegedly yelled “stab him, just stab him”.
“I kept ramming the chair at them and they were hitting the legs of the chair with the knives,” Mr Munn says. “Then they worked out they weren’t getting in and they bashed someone else’s door down.”
A few rooms along an elderly couple were in shock. The intruders had indeed smashed their way in, threatened the pair and drove off in their car.
Across town, Canberra couple Kosa Nikolic, 64 and her husband, Stanisa, 86, were in the hands of ambulance officers. The same gang had broken through the security door of their motel, stealing their car keys and knocking Mrs Nikolic unconscious, leaving her with a broken wrist requiring surgery.
The guests at these motels in Moree, northwest NSW, had just become the targets of a disturbingly brazen crime cropping up in pockets across the country: home and motel invasions by roving youth gangs armed with machetes, knives, iron bars, even tomahawks.
Police records are littered with homeowners and travellers being bashed and slashed by masked night-time raiders whose brazen “you sleep, we creep” crimes have shocked hardened cops.
The age of the intruders, some still in primary school, and their callous use of violence have set residents on edge, not just in Moree and other towns in regional NSW.
From Melbourne to Mildura, through NSW into Queensland, increasingly violent home invasions have stoked a community movement calling for “Castle Law” to give greater legal protections to victims to defend their homes.
In the Northern Territory, adults can now legally use pepper spray to protect themselves. Residents signing “Castle Law” petitions in NSW, Queensland and Victoria also want to take a stand.
Instead of being able to use reasonable force proportionate to the risk, as generally allowed, they want the legal protection to use whatever force they deem necessary to protect their homes.
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Largest Group Of Lawbreaking Gang Members Is Aged 13 To 16, FBI Report Reveals
The biggest cohort involved in gang activity in the United States is youths 13 to 16 years old, the FBI revealed as part of the agency’s Gang Activity, 2021–2024 special report published on Sept. 8.
There were 79,507 offenders engaged in gang activities during the four years, and of these, 19,163 were aged 13 to 16—the highest among all age groups.
This was followed by 17- to 19-year-olds with 13,563 offenders, and those 20 to 24 with 11,452 offenders.
“Over one-third (33.8 percent) of offenders were juveniles under the age of 18, and more than half (58.2 percent) were under the age of 25,” the report said.
Besides being top offenders, the 13- to 16-year age group also accounted for the largest number of victims of gang activity. More than half of the victims were under the age of 30.
“Of known victim-offender relationships for incidents involving gang activity, 67.1 percent of victims knew the offenders in some manner. Conversely, 30.1 percent of relationships described the offenders as strangers.”
According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the juvenile justice system in the United States aims to rehabilitate youth found guilty of crimes rather than punish them.
“In many cases, juveniles face much lower maximum possible sentences compared to adults convicted of the same offense,” the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) justice manual states.
“Juveniles under the age of 18 will not be detained past their 21st birthday, and individuals aged 18 to 21 who are being prosecuted as juveniles will face a maximum of five years.”
Charges against juveniles are not pursued as criminal prosecutions but as delinquency proceedings, it said. Juveniles also have robust privacy protections, including sealed records, non-jury trials, and closed rooms.
When a legal system implements softer punishments for children, it’s an incentive for gangs to recruit kids, Daniel Brunner, a retired FBI special agent, said
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The ABC has published their version:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-12/trump-says-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-in-custody/105769042
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Early this morning I watched the FBI’s press conference announcing his capture. Great work by all involved and also Robinson’s father for helping turn him in. It must have been traumatic for the father. The FBI also received 11,000 tips from members of the public.
I hope Robinson’s trial proceeds rapidly and if found guilty, his execution happens quickly and appeals etc. don’t drag on for 20+ years as they tend to do in the US. It will help bring closure to America and decent people everywhere. Justice must be brought rapidly and efficiently. Imagine allowing this deranged regressive Leftist psychopathic killer being allowed to live for 20+ years of appeals and the ongoing trauma that would bring to the decent people of the world. And it might be a warning for other violent regressive Leftists that their behaviour is no longer tolerated. They either learn to behave non-violently or suffer the consequences.
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I can’t help but wonder how long it will take for the msm to spin up a sob story in defence of the shooter.
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“I can’t help but wonder how long it will take for the msm to spin up a sob story in defence of the shooter.”
Probably done before the shot was fired…
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If anything “good” can be said to have come out of Charlie’s death it will be the heavy promotion of his messages such as that there are “only” two genders; employment should be based on merit, not quotas; unity not “diversity” is strength; peaceful free speach is a right and a foundational principle of the United States; children are not a burden but a blessing; there is nothing wrong with being a heterosexual or heterosexual marriage; you are born in the correct body; the basis of any civilised society is science and reason; traditional Judeo-Christian values etc. all normative values until they were attacked and replaced by the Left over the last 50 or so years.
Now the Left have poked the bear and decent people have finally woken up and will (hopegully) no longer tolerate the destruction of Western Civilisation by regressive Leftists.
Another beneficial thing is it demonstrated the fundamentally evil nature of many Leftists who rejoiced in Charlie’s assassination. Their message was that we can’t argue with him (or anyone) using facts or logic so we’ll just murder him. They’ll do the same to others too, if not stopped, as demonstrated by the murders of 100 million+ other people over the last 100 years or so by other Leftists such as the communists, National Socialists, fascists etc..
RIP Charlie.
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Just remember – if you’re fighting and arguing with each other, you’re not uniting and fighting the blob…
Now we wait.
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My first thought when I read this was the poor father. I am a father, and I am not sure how I would react if my son did this kind of thing. With the death penalty in Utah, this makes it even more stark. Do what is right or protect your son? Not a choice I ever hope to make. Seems odd that a law enforcement son would go so badly off the rails. No winners here, only losers, especially Charlie Kirk’s family. And as a champion of free speech do we allow shallow idiots to celebrate on TikTok without firing them from work? Some really sick people out there, but how de we maintain the moral higher ground? No answers here, just thoughts.
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The celebrators dont see that they effectively unleash violence on themselves by saying this is a reasonable response to a difference of opinion. More likely they will weep and wail about just losing their jobs and never face the violence the promote.
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I don’t know if this sad story got much play in oz?
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/11/the-murder-of-iryna-zarutska-and-the-pathological-race-ideology-of-the-american-progressive-establishment/
Stabbed to death on a train by a pathological killer that should have been in jail years ago, but inexplicably still free. The stats in the article about violence within certain racial groups makes sobering reading.
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I am guessing that many here will have grandchildren rather than rearing youngsters for the first time themselves. That knowledge may give a perspective as to how modern parenting techniques have altered.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-menace-of-postmodern-parenting/
Add in the current parenting attitudes to the dread hand of social media, mobile phones and computer chips with everything and society is set to change even faster than in the recent past.
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Bog Brother cares for us so much He’s invented a new form of “wrongspeak” for us:
Read on: https://gript.ie/irish-politicians-want-to-fight-true-but-harmful-info/
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It’s called ‘malinformation’. Biden tried to ban it back in 2021-22 but failed when it’s Ministry of Truth / Disinformation Board was met with massive pushback by the American people.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/malinformation-and-the-wrong-truth
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Tyler Robinson (22) assassinated Charlie Kirk, confessing to his father and the family’s priest, that he killed Kirk. His father escorted him back to Orem to turn him into the appropriate authorities.
Tyler Robinson lives with a family of five, in a six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah, with Father, Matthew Robinson, a 27-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, Mother, Amber Jones Robinson, who works for Intermountain Support Coordination Services, and two brothers Austin and Logan: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOgS0shCSGA/
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Search engine compilation from Brave Browser.
Imagine the fall out when this kind of reality hits the NDIS in Australia. A system I understand to have been supported as a solution to assist those parents who now over seventy are struggling to look after a disabled adult child. There will be a lot of anger in Australia if the funding for the NDIS junkets starts to require more eligibility hoops to jump through.
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Very soon the Federal Government will have to find more money to fund the borrowings for them to spend on wishful “thinking”.
Cutting expenditure will be “necessary” except in areas like Net Zero** and the Public Service in Canberra**.
**NO chance although these are the greatest waste of money.
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Broadie,
Conversely, I regard NDIS as a flawed, typically control-freak bureaucratic invention to challenge normal parentage as used for centuries. Parents, where needed, should be educated about their responsibilities for children that they chose to create. Not to place them in state control.
We seem to be having a huge increase in child “mental” problems, with enormous treatments with powerful medication. This adds to high levels of illegal drugs like ice, so many children are Arthur or Martha. Yet we have government policies drifting to legalisation of these deadly poisons. We have legal drug administration controlled by incompetents in the sway of industry money.
I squarely blame our governments for ignorance, inadequacy, mania of dogma and gross humanitarian failure. Geoff s
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“I squarely blame our governments for ignorance, inadequacy, mania of dogma and gross humanitarian failure. ”
They can’t help it, it is the nature of the beast. It is also the nature to push further and further into our lives, controlling more and more of it as we will just not do as we are meant to!
…and even if we ARE doing what we are meant to, we still need HELP from a Govt ever-keen to expand its footprint… on our necks!
The answer is less Govt, but you won’t get that from them!
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Curious isn’t it. I had a female friend who said bigger government is desirable and so, more laws and a larger bureaucracy. How would that impact on your personal liberty I enquired. Oh, not too much I think.
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Universities in these trying times allow and promote diversity in all it’s forms. Except diversity of opinion. Which is their raison d’etre.
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Universities in these trying times allow and promote diversity in all it’s forms. Except diversity of opinion. Which is their raison d’etre.
Labour peer defends Oxford Union president who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s shooting
Baroness Amos, master of University College, Oxford, says no disciplinary action will be taken against George Abaraonye
The Oxford college leader said on Friday: “Though Mr Abaraonye’s comments are abhorrent, they do not contravene the college’s policies on free speech, or any other relevant policy. Therefore, no disciplinary action will be taken.”
It comes despite mounting pressure for Mr Abaraonye to be removed from post after itwas revealed on Thursday that he sent texts praising violence against Kirk.
The philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) student at University College, Oxford, is due to take up the position of Oxford Union president in the Hilary Term in January next year.
He sent texts to a group chat on Wednesday evening in the wake of the attack on Kirk, including one saying: “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f—— go” – a common celebratory phrase among Gen Z.
Another message, believed to be sent from the incoming Oxford Union president’s Instagram account, stated: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool” – an exaggeration of the abbreviation “laughing out loud”.
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What Tyler Robinson became and what he did was completely contrary to the society and culture he grew up in. I doubt this happened over night. More than the universities, it is a result of the Kalifornication of the public schools K-12.
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I wonder if those 34% who accept violence would agree for it to be directed against themselves for holding their views. Violence seems fine until it stops being abstract and hypothetical.
The response to Charlie Kirks assassination has certainly enabled a lot of people to show what they really are.
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FWIW – around Charlie Kirk
“Follow-up on Those Casing Engravings”
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/09/12/follow-up-on-those-casing-inscriptions-n3806742
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FWIW – USA but
“Perceived Importance Of College Hits Record Low”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/perceived-importance-college-hits-record-low
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Exorcism Nigh
“The point I was trying to make is how peaceful the left was. . . right before he got shot.” —Hunter Kozak, Question-Asker at Charlie Kirk Utah Event, Sept 10”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/exorcism-nigh
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For those who live in Brisbane and have a technical or engineering background, attendance at the NEM Development conference might provide some interesting discussion:
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2025/09/07and08oct2025-nemdev-conference/
The guys at WattClarity have been highlighting inherent problems with the renewable transition for many years now. However, what no one has brought to the public’s attention is the fact that no one, anywhere in the world, has ever demonstrated a prototype renewables grid running entirely on energy generated by wind and solar.
Hence their intriguing question:
“Would it even be possible – to operate the NEM to achieve 82% renewable energy in 2030 (if the Semi-Scheduled category continues in its current form)?”
I wonder if anyone at this conference will ask that question, and whether any of the speakers dare to provide a realistic answer, noting that we only have 4 more years until we get there!
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Can anyone attend or is it trade only.
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My son, who works at a local NSW (black) coal mine heard about a week ago that there’d been a significant outage at a brown coal fired power station, and it might affect the grid. Has anyone here heard anything?
I’ve scanned the ABC and SMH and not seen any story.
I’ve also looked at the AEMO site daily:
https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem#nem-dispatch-overview
which opens for me at the “Despatch Overview”, and I also look at “Fuel Mix”, and think I’m seeing some supportive numbers.
My observation previously was that brown coal was often producing 4000+ MW, especially at peak times. Since last Friday it’s only managed about 3000 MW, reaching just 3036 MW last night, suggesting a possible loss of 2 x 600 MW units.
I can’t remember the number or size of the remaining operational units, so the above 2 x 600 figure above is a guess.
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Yallourn No.2 unit outage Aug 27.
On 2 Sept The Australian reported:
And this at Watt Clarity
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2025/08/27aug-ywps2-forcedoutage/
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Is that the Energy Australia wholly owned by C.L.P., China Light and Power? Great idea for our energy security.
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Thanks Strop. But 1 x 350 doesn’t explain the 1,000+ drop I’m seeing. Might there be another 2 x 350 simultaneously out of action?
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If the grid is going to lose dispatchable generation then September and October are the time to do it if you do not want the grid to collapse.
Both Queensland and NSW had negative prices yesterday and all mainland States have negative prices at 9am Saturday. Rooftops already supplying 32% of the demand; more than both black and brown coal combined and higher than the 26% from grid scale solar and 8% from wind.
The sun zenith is still north of the Equator. It is likely that rooftops will service more than 50% of the lunchtime demand in the coming months.
It is an operating and maintenance nightmare for large, high temperature plant to be getting turned up and down on a daily basis. No wonder they have reliability issues.
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There is an advertisement currently running on some television channels for a company called Remitly. They promote an easy way for migrants to send money to relatives at ‘home’ using their ‘phone app. product. You may be surprised at how much money is involved.
Australia’s top earning exports in 2024 were ; Iron ore – $119.9 billion, Coal – $91.7 billion, Oil and Gas – $87.8 billion, LNG – $72.6 billion, Cash (in the form of remittances) – $38.2 billion. Yes, our no.5 ranked export by value is our money.
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…the unintended (and unexpected!) consequences of 3rd-world immigration.
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Yes. Can you guess which two countries receive the bulk of that largesse?
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I asked the Friend and you would never guess which country is the number 5.
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WHAT!!!! Surely you haven’t missed out on celebrating 16 June which is world International Day of Family Remittances established to recognise “…the fundamental contribution of migrant workers to their families and communities back home.”
Some years ago I remember a report of a US state introducing limits on remittances and in the month before they were introduced an amount in the hundreds of millions went out. Here is a good 2023 backgrounder from the WEF on what is going on in that space.
The big question of course is how much of that money going out has had a tax already applied or are the family businesses and laundry enterprises beyond the reaches and the taxpayer gets to pay a second time when all the official government overseas aid flows out.
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Earl,
Cut it out. 16th June is my birthday. Nobody is sending me money remittances from oversea. Geoff S
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[Singing] Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday dear G.S.
Happy Birthday to Youuuuuuuu and many moreeeee”.
Paypal, Western Union but no cheques please.
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I think that one day, Charlie Kirk could have been President of the United States, another reason the Left wanted him permanently silenced.
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As hard as it is for younger people to believe, back in the day, 60’s and 70’s, Leftists actually believed in free speech. Then they took control and censorship is the norm today and not even considered to be a bad thing by many.
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SMH this morning, politicians panicking as usual about getting shot.
“Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pleaded for respectful debate after the shooting of Trump-supporting influencer Charlie Kirk, weeks after he raised the alarm about growing hostility among protesters in Australia.”
Funnily enough, they listed examples to support their accusations, but none of them involved Leftists. Seems non-verbal disagreement is only on the Right.
” Far-right social media influencers ambushed Albanese..”
“he was heckled and chased by tractors full of demonstrators ”
and it was a good spot to hit social media and lend support to some upcoming censorship-
“Albanese said polarisation, which he said was fuelled by social media, was worsening.”
and he got in a quick plug about how wonderfully he is leading “his” country-
“when you look at the world, that there’s no place you’d rather be than here in Australia.””
At least they showed the Liberal’s slimy lack of backbone-
“Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price both expressed admiration for Kirk without explicitly endorsing any of his positions. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s only remark about Kirk was to say “we stand in solidarity with those who mourn”.”
So basically, ‘its a shame he died, but not really, no-one liked his views, and please settle down and don’t think about shooting any of us. We are your betters..’
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-raises-alarm-about-polarisation-in-wake-of-kirk-shooting-20250912-p5muhi.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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There’s a big advertising piece about own very own Wuhan Lab at Geelong too.
“The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, a sprawling complex of ultra-high-security labs fenced off on the outskirts of Geelong, sits right at the border between humans and the teeming masses of animal viruses that would love to infect us. They have never been busier.”
Lots about the wonderful building and how hard it is to be a bioscientist, but the old themes are everywhere-
“But the broader picture is worrying. “The threats are increasing, because of climate change, ”
“Vials of the under-development COVID vaccine from AstraZeneca were shipped here from the UK. ACDP researchers showed the jabs offered good protection against the virus.”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/inside-australia-s-most-dangerous-lab-the-fortress-built-to-fight-the-world-s-deadliest-viruses-20250910-p5mu0j.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Back in the day in 1985 when that place was opened with much fanfare it was strictly for animal health and was called the “Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL)”.
Now they’ve rebranded and repurposed themselves be to do with “climate change” diseases. Easier to get more tax dollars that way.
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The facility reminds of the one in The Andromeda Strain (1971).
https://youtu.be/YMbSpnlOOtE
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“The threats are increasing, because of climate change, ”
These statements and similar are the reason more and more people are tuning out from all the BS scaremongering from the meejia.
At this rate I reckon I can blame my balding noggin on climate change.
Maybe I can claim compensation?
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KP,
Though I know little about it, I was concerned at the silence from this lab when Covid news was breaking.
Do you know if anyone has tried to get info including by FOI?
Geoff S
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I was listening to Their ABC Radio (Australia) in my car yesterday. For overseas readers that is the taxpayer funded far Left Government propaganda organisation, like the BBC.
Apparently there is a new way Leftists introduce their biographical details.
The Leftist woman bring introduced said “I’m xxxxxx. I’m a woman and have been all my life.” As if to say it was actually possible to change one’s sex/gender which the pro-science commununity knows is a biological impossibility.
Incidentally, did you know that in the woke Australian state of Victoristan you can change your sex on your birth certificate but only once every 12 months? What about “gender fluid” people that imagine they wake up each morning with a different gender?
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Victoriastan is falling so fast down the woke rabbit hole.
Maybe it will be the 1st government to allow “furries” to appear on birth certificates.
Governments are awash with nutters!
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Brezhnevite tools …
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David at#17. Reminds me of the joke about the old man being interviewed on the street by a reporter – Reporter; “Have you lived here all your life?”
Old man; “Not yet.”
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Gary S,
Reminds of that old reporting from a farmer in Tasmania “Sure was a lot of wind last night. Brought down some tress that had never been blown down before.”
Geoff S
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A late 19th century Swiss gilt bronze singing bird box
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t2haeaynsz1z23obp.mp4
Impressive engineering!
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Charlie Kirk’s death explained
https://youtu.be/azE7nqqQMmo?si=AbSse_Gb9t-buFcc
The best explanation you’ll see.
Final quarter in the big game and things are picking up speed fast.
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I agree. I was just about to post it!
There is another vid graphically illustrating the difference between Charlie Kirk’s death vigils, and George Floyd’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh44c9GxLa0&t=278s
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This is Pamella Gellar’s discussion of the response from Ilhan Omar, a US member of Congress, to the Charlie Kirk slaying.
It just goes to show you the extent of infiltration of the anti-American Regressive Left into American society, including into Congress.
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Haven’t we got one of them in our parliament.
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PrayerU memorial video for Charlie:
https://www.prageru.com/videos/in-memory-of-charlie-kirk-9-12-25
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Correction; PragerU.
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I asked Grok a question:
Good morning Grok. Can you think of an easy way to remember the basic distinguishing features of the hartley, colpitts, clapp, armstrong and pierce oscillators?
I was impressed with its answer. Part of which was:
Easy Way to Remember: Mnemonic and Conceptual Grouping
Mnemonic: Happy Cats Climb At Precise Speeds
H (Hartley) → Tapped Inductor (think of splitting an inductor).
C (Colpitts) → Tapped Capacitor (think of splitting capacitors).
C (Clapp) → Capacitor Added (extra capacitor for stability).
A (Armstrong) → Transformer (mutual inductance for feedback).
P (Pierce) → Crystal Precision (crystal controls the frequency).
S (Speeds) → Reminds you these are oscillators generating specific frequencies.
Conceptual Grouping:
LC Tank-Based (Hartley, Colpitts, Clapp):Hartley: Focus on the inductor split (L-L).
Colpitts: Focus on the capacitor split (C-C).
Clapp: Think “Colpitts + Capacitor” for extra stability.
Transformer-Based (Armstrong):Unique for its use of a transformer or coupled coils.
Crystal-Based (Pierce):Stands out for using a crystal for high precision.
Quick Memory Trick
Visualize a circuit board with:
A split inductor (Hartley).
A split capacitor (Colpitts).
An extra capacitor tagged onto Colpitts (Clapp).
A transformer with coupled coils (Armstrong).
A shiny crystal for precision (Pierce).
You can also create a mental image of a cat (mnemonic) climbing a circuit board with these components, each labeled with the oscillator’s name.
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Saturday funny: Obama arrested
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_szqbzfzctp1wi4o7g.mp4
AI obviously. Can’t wait for Obummer and Killary to be arrested for real.
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One wonders what Obama’s chef, a powerful swimmer who mysteriously “drowned”, knew.
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FWIW – another stunned reality?
“Germany Just Noticed Renewable Energy has a Cybersecurity Problem”
“Surely in the event of conflict China wouldn’t give their good friends Russia the keys to shutting down Europe’s electricity grid.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/12/germany-just-noticed-renewable-energy-has-a-cybersecurity-problem/
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Not only ruinables. Just about everything from China contains a cybersecurity threat including surveillance cameras, phones, IT equipment, everything.
And during TRUMP 1 even large grid scale transformers from China were banned because they also had a cybersecurity threat. The ban was rescinded during the OBiden Maladministration.
https://www.powertransformernews.com/2021/04/23/us-department-of-energy-reverses-trump-ban-on-chinese-electrical-equipment/
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And any Chicomm cyber attack won’t necessarily just turn off the electricity supply.
It could deliberately over-ride circuit breakers and other protections in order to destroy critical grid infrastructure which would take months or years to replace.
Or perhaps it could never be replaced because the West has shut down most of its capability of manufacturing such things due to expensive electricity from “renewables” . Replacement infrastructure would have to come from China….
Do the resident Leftists see the problem here? I’m sure you’d be pleased.
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The Australian Signals Directorate blames China.
‘People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks.’
The new regime in Beijing will stop this bad behaviour.
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FWIW – help along the way
“America’s Grid Is Nearing Its Breaking Point”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/americas-grid-nearing-its-breaking-point
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FWIW – the awakening
“LARRY CORREIA: “Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment:” ”
“UPDATE: Ace of Spades responds to Greenwald and writes:
No, Glenn, it’s not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs.
We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next “pew pew” against the President Donald Trump.
If Trump goes down — we are at war.
You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge.
Read the whole thing.”
https://instapundit.com/744268/#disqus_thread
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FWIW –
More about Charlie Kirk’s assassination ramifications in today’s Coffee and Covid Newsletter starting in the section beginning here –
” Yesterday, the far-left Nation ran a truly horrible article headlined, “Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was.” Their nauseating formula was the same exhausting pattern: we condemn the killing BUT … And the “but” was, as always, followed by various forms of: “…Charlie Kirk said stuff we disagree with.” And, as usual, it mischaracterized or misquoted him.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/risk-tolerance-friday-september-12?triedRedirect=true
More there, including some thoughts from Scott Adams
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How is AI going to work in Australia?
It needs enormous amounts of cheap coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2) electricity to work.
As Australia continues to shut down its energy supply, and electricity continues to dramatically increase in price as more wind and solar subsidy-harvesting devices are added, running AI will not be viable due to the high cost of electricity.
In that respect, consider AI to be a bit like aluminium smelters in its power requirements. They are no longer viable in Australia either due to high electricity costs but they only continue to exist due to the payment of large amounts of taxpayer subsidies.
Will AI server farms have taxpayer subsidies as well?
The borrowed money won’t be sustainable forever…the crunch (economic collapse) will come sooner rather than later…
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AI, Inevitability, & Human Sovereignty
The real danger isn’t that AI will become smarter than us. It’s that we’ll become dumber because of it – The wave is here.
I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper.
These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent.
After decades of working in the internet industry, I’d already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine – a system designed to shape how we think, what we believe, and how we see ourselves. AI felt like the culmination of that trajectory.
But resistance became futile when I realized we’re already participating whether we know it or not. We’re already interacting with AI when we call customer service, use Google Search, or rely on basic smartphone features. A few months ago I finally capitulated and started using these tools because I could see how quickly they were proliferating – becoming as unavoidable as the internet or smartphones.
Look, I’m not just an old man resistant to change. I understand that every generation faces technological shifts that reshapes how we live. The printing press disrupted how knowledge spread. The telegraph collapsed barriers of distance. The automobile transformed how communities formed.
But the AI revolution feels different in both pace and scope. To understand how dramatically the rate of technological change has accelerated, consider this: anyone under 35 likely doesn’t remember life before the internet transformed how we access information. Anyone under 20 has never known a world without smartphones. Now we’re witnessing a third epoch with AI tools proliferating faster than either previous shift.
More fundamentally, AI represents something qualitatively different from previous technological disruptions – a convergence that touches labor, cognition, and potentially consciousness itself. Understanding how these domains interconnect is essential for preserving personal agency in an age of algorithmic mediation.
My primary fear about AI isn’t just the dramatic scenario where it becomes hostile, but the subtler threat: that it will make us subordinate to systems in ways we don’t recognize until it’s too late, weakening the very capacities it promises to strengthen.
What we’re witnessing isn’t just technological advancement – it’s what Ivan Illich called iatrogenic dependency in his seminal work, Medical Nemesis. Illich coined this term for medicine – institutions that promise to heal while creating new forms of illness – but the pattern applies perfectly to AI as well.
That’s exactly what I’d been sensing about these new tools – it promises to enhance our cognitive abilities while systematically weakening them. It’s not the hostile takeover science fiction warned us about. It’s the quiet erosion of individual capacity disguised as help.
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Meanwhile The Future in Australia is “You call is important to us” whilst you go around in circles with AI, never achieving an answer and never getting to a Human
Chalmers called ANZ boss over his 4500 job cuts
ANZ chief Nuno Matos launched a job cuts storm this week, without revealing all of his cards. But it’s been enough for Treasurer Jim Chalmers to seek answers from the bank boss.
The Albanese government is increasingly sensitive to the panic rising from the finance sector where job losses are growing.
The black week for banking didn’t finish with ANZ either, as National Australia Bank, Bendigo Bank and Bank of Queensland axed staff too.
Mr Matos, who joined ANZ in May from an executive role at HSBC, aims to punt 3500 staff from the Melbourne-based bank along with 1000 contractors.
The rise of artificial intelligence and a general push for efficiency across the banking sector, either by outsourcing or slicing staff numbers, could see as many as ten thousand jobs gone by the end of this year.
Already almost 7000 jobs have been culled, and many banks enforce a hiring freeze.
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The banks are on a rapid race to the bottom. There is nothing much to distinguish one from another. They continue to close branches and retreat to being online entities with different coloured apps and websites.
They deserve zero customer loyalty or at least no more than you give you electricity retailer.
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Samsung reveals ‘invisible AI’ across phones and appliances, saying it will save Aussies money
Samsung is advancing a strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into daily life with minimal user intervention, a concept the company terms “invisible AI” to make not only phones but homes smarter — a market worth more than $US1.3 trillion ($2 trillion), and growing.
The concept of AI taking on a more background role seems at odds with how the technology has emerged as the main selling point to upgrade anything from phones to vacuum cleaners and TVs in the past three years.
But, more consumers are now demanding AI become more useful — to help their lives daily — rather than a mere novelty.
Samsung revealed its new strategy at the global IFA conference in Berlin this month, where the world’s biggest tech companies showcase their latest innovations.
Samsung Australia head of mobile experience Eric Chou said the shift was about moving from explicit AI settings to an embedded intelligence that functions without conscious user engagement.
Samsung’s Galaxy range of smart phones were among the first to launch AI features, from photo and video editing tools to incorporating Google’s Gemini, which could be summoned at a touch of a button to perform tasks just as suggesting a range of recipes based on a photo of the contents of a user’s fridge.
“AI will be working for the consumer rather than the other way around,” Mr Chou said.
Mr Chou said the aim was to develop “ambient AI,” a system that is contextually aware of user behaviours, from health metrics gleaned from smart watches and other wearables to appliance usage patterns.
Samsung’s objective is to integrate AI into everyday devices, fostering both ease of use and operational efficiency. Samsung’s new refrigerators, for instance, learn household habits, adjusting motor power based on door usage to optimise energy consumption. Similarly, airconditioning units analyse routines to determine optimal cooling periods.
For example, he said the Samsung Bespoke AI Heat Pump Combo washing machine uses up to 60 per cent less energy during wash cycles by recognising the fabric types in the load, identifying the level of soilage in clothes, and recommending the best washing cycle.
Mr Gaut said a Samsung study of more than 1000 Australians has revealed 32 per cent were already using AI to reduce their energy and water bills, and 30 per cent used technology to take care of their loved ones at home.
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“It’s that we’ll become dumber because of it –
” as suggesting a range of recipes based on a photo of the contents of a user’s fridge.”
Yep! Anyone who needs that is a waste of oxygen on the planet!
The best thing about AI is that it will help collapse the grid faster, and speed up the throwing out of ruinables completely.
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Wow Sansung! so it should be clear to ypu that 70% of people dont want or need your BS.
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B-grade pseudo-AI bots running the country.
Can only be an improvement!
REAL AI is the concern.
The advances are thick and fast. I see more in a week than Jo’s Green’s senate enquiry 17-page-scroll-behemoth. 😆
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Current AI chatbots work across the globe over the internet – I have used a number of them that way. AI chips built into devices have already been trained in some way so the power mostly comes from the device unless it is exchanging data over the internet. My DDG search engine has some AI capability and I expect it will be served out of USA. Full self-driving computers in cars are power hungry so reduce range although it is hard to find numbers on this.
An AI equipped phone will chew up battery power if you constantly use the AI driven features.
I doubt there will be large AI data training centres in Australia. It would be lower cost to use hardware in an offshore data centre. That will not stop governments from building AI data centres in Australia because they have plenty of OPM.
There are already desktop AI modules. The NVIDIA DGX Spark cost around $4,000 and is suitable for training to own data set. It consumes 170W (4kWh/day).
I expect academia to be conflicted on the issue in Australia. Trump made it clear to US big tech that he wants a flourishing AI industry in the USA and energy needs are not a constraint. It is a different story in Australia. You can have an AI data centre as long as it runs on wind and solar power. If you installed 4kW of solar panels and a 10kWh battery you would haver reliable power to run one DGX unit.
I think my 8yo grandsond should get a DGX box for his next birthday. I expect that understanding AI will be a big feature of future technical education.
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EDITORIAL – Green dreams meet gas reality
The North West Shelf life extension and hydrogen outlook underscore the reality that natural gas will be an important energy commodity for a long time to come.
Finally, the decision has been made to approve an extension of the life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project until 2070.
The decision is vital for domestic gas supplies in Western Australia and exports to our most important foreign customers and allies.
Woodside will have to comply with new conditions to safeguard the widespread rock art on the Burrup Peninsula, something government and the company have agreed is of international cultural significance.
The decision underscores the reality that gas will be an important energy commodity for a long time to come. This fact is highlighted by the latest report from the International Energy Agency into hydrogen that shows the much-hyped technology remains a long way from reality. According to the IEA, production forecasts for hydrogen by 2030 have plummeted because of high costs, regulatory uncertainty and slow infrastructure development.
As reported on Saturday, environment leaders finally have started to realise they have been caught napping. Former Australian Greens leader Christine Milne has called out the major national green groups – Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation, World Wide Fund for Nature and Greenpeace – for “never ever” showing up to fight against species-destroying wind farms.
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Environmentalists at war over wilderness in ruins
Fault lines have emerged in the environment movement over the renewables rollout, with peak groups accused of turning a blind eye to ‘biodiversity-destroying’ projects.
Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne saidn peak environmental non-government organisations were too “frightened” to oppose renewables projects.
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Memo to Libs: unite to expose Labor’s energy mirage
Here’s a thought for the party now starting to resemble a critically endangered species: make the government the target.
The cursor blinks on the empty page when contemplating the Liberal Party. Gfhbtv. Sorry, I nodded off and face-planted on the keyboard.
I’m pretty sure I stole that last bit from PJ O’Rourke but can’t find the reference. Call it a tribute to the ghosts of the old Republican Party reptiles and their Liberal fellow travellers. An era when conservatives were predictably prudent, occasionally absurd, but never confused about their purpose or reckless with their heritage.
There’s that cursor again. A pulse of procrastination. What was the topic?
The Liberals. What to say? Which part of the wreckage do you turn over first? Is there a black box somewhere in this smoking ruin that might provide some answers?
If there is, one of the few survivors has probably nicked it to post lurid details online.
As I write in a Sydney bar, news notifications keep pinging my iPad. “Victorian Liberal director ridiculed women.” “Jacinta Price dumped from shadow cabinet.”
What the hell? Does anyone else get the feeling that the next Liberal prime minister hasn’t been born yet? Or that there might never be another Liberal prime minister, because this organisation appears wilfully determined to eat itself.
The headline on the immigration story is simple: too many, too fast. Thirty-one per cent of Australia’s population was born overseas. That is an astonishing figure and it has risen remarkably from a long-run average of less than one in four.
The opposition’s job is to hold the government to account. So, when contemplating targets here’s a thought: make the government the target.
Highlight the fact that net zero is symbolism without substance. Targets are not solutions. What matters is what works. The two proof points are cost and the environment.
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What makes anyone think the Liberals actually WANT to get elected?
The existing members are quite happy with their present incomes, benefits, free travel, subsidised meals, retirement plan, cocktail parties etc.. They don’t even have to think and obviously don’t.
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O’Rourke – “Parliament of Whores” … discussing the 1988 Election IIRC.
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Unlike the last 30 year contract (still running) of gas sales to China where someone forgot to include a provision for changes in market price or inflation, did they remember to do that this time?
China has been getting the world’s cheapest gas while the country of origin for the gas, Australia has a gas shortage and extremely high prices.
Fake conservative Howard was responsible.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
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The arrival of the new gas pipeline to Russia should be timed nicely to position China to keep a lid on Oz LNG.
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SHOCK SLUMP
Hydrogen hype fades on lack of buyers, high costs and long delays
Global hydrogen dreams have crashed with production forecasts slashed by a quarter, amid project cancellations including to Australia’s $100bn project pipeline, the latest IEA report warns.
The global hydrogen market has been hit by a wave of project delays and cancellations with green hydrogen production forecasts for 2030 plummeting by a quarter amid high costs, a lack of buyers and slow infrastructure development, the International Energy Agency warned.
The number of announced projects with low-emissions hydrogen production by the end of the decade now has dropped 25 per cent to 37 million tonnes per year, down from a 49 million tonne forecast a year earlier.
“Not all projects that are announced end up coming to fruition; as a result, actual capacity is likely to be much lower,” the IEA said.
The energy body also said there had been a significant decrease in export-oriented projects in Australia while only six per cent of the announced global capacity has taken a final investment decision and nearly half is still at very early stages of development.
The IEA warned that with only five years available for the development of these projects until 2030, the achievement of 440 gigawatts – more than 200 times larger than historical deployments and almost 100 times larger than the maximum capacity that could be operative this year – was now firmly out of reach.
Australia’s green hydrogen industry has failed to fire, with 99 per cent of a $100bn supply pipeline failing to progress beyond the concept stage, punching a hole in Anthony Albanese’s aim to develop a major export industry by 2030 and meet net-zero goals.
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Bowen’s new climate aspiration hot air without supporting policy
Climate Minister Chris Bowen is days away from unveiling his 2035 emissions-reduction target, which will be a big test of the government’s climate credentials.
An even bigger test will be its policies to help the economy meet that target.
Climate Minister Chris Bowen is due next week to set Australia’s 2035 emissions reduction target, combined with the release of a level-six sector review of just how to get there.
It was reported on Friday the target would be in the lows 60s with a 65 per cent reduction target from 2005 levels tipped, which is up from 43 per cent by 2030.
The assumed range is between 65 and 75 per cent, the higher the better, but the target is simply that and the key is policy to get to those levels, and importantly oversight to provide some guarantee on its execution.
The target and pathway to hitting it will be used to establish Australia’s credentials to host next year’s Conference of the Parties, and market its commitment to the Pacific island nations.
The Australia Institute has lambasted the ACCU scheme, trading emission offsets, as being a sham endorsed by high-emission businesses which want to keep emitting, politicians who want to say they are doing something and carbon market advisers who collect on the proceeds.
It would rightly prefer direct action like putting a halt to Woodside’s North West Shelf project and shutting coal mines.
But the reality cited by the CSIRO estimates the bill for restoring biodiversity at almost $600bn every year for three decades – a quarter of our national economy.
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Immigration on steroids is doing a lot for Australia’s diversity.
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“Bowen’s new climate aspiration hot air without supporting policy”
could be rephrased as
“Bowen’s new climate aspiration hot air without the balloon”?
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I would much rather Bowen had energy credentials (something he can influence) than climate credentials (something over which he has no influence)
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Pigeons seem to have been so urbanised they have lost the ability to build proper nests.
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rats with wings.
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FWIW – re Jacinta
“Spot on.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d03040293db3d200d-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/09/spot-on-1.html
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Why Indian migrants are hitting it for six in Australia
Jacinta Price’s divisive comments on Indians have thrown a spotlight on one of the nation’s most successful migrant cohorts.
Why Indians are of of Australia’s most successful migrant cohorts
Gav Joshi calculates that in a decade we will have five Indian Australians wearing the baggy green: three batsmen, a wicketkeeper and a spin bowler. But no fast bowlers. “It’s the genetics,” says the cricket commentator, former player and junior coach based at Blacktown in western Sydney. “The Indian kids don’t generally have the height for that.”
Still, five out of 11 would be remarkable, given that in 10 years there will be about 1.1 million people of Indian descent in Australia, or about four in every 100 of the population.
The strength of this cohort in the auditoriums and playgrounds of private schools, where kids from the Indian families can make up to 20 per cent of students, testament to the fact their parents see prestige in going private.
In the 1980s India sent Australia doctors, teachers and engineers; in the 90s it was IT and tech workers; and in more recent decades many have come with degrees in business, accounting, dentistry and physiotherapy. Across the past 30 years our education markets welcomed countless thousands of university students to work long hours in restaurants and low-paid jobs while they studied for their degrees and then spent years working towards permanent residency.
Demographer Bernard Salt says by 2030 Australians born in India will likely outnumber those born in Britain.
Typically people come here on a student visa, gain a temporary visa after graduation and are recruited by a local employer. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for 2021 show about 80 per cent of permanent Indian migrants have come via a skills visa, with other pathways being family and on humanitarian grounds.
when it comes to permanent Indian migrants, a whopping 97 per cent speak English only or speak it well or very well. That 2021 ABS statistic compares with 67 per cent for permanent migrants from China.
The success of people from the subcontinent is also a numbers game: India has the biggest population in the world, one where even talent is no guarantee of success. Here, in a country of only 27 million, a hardworking Indian migrant can go a long way – in the workplace and in cricket.
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A requirement for immigrating physicians is that they spend time in rural hospitals. Without that, some rural hospitals would be paying huge salaries for locums in every role.
I am told some of the immigrating physicians are not what could be called world class. Some spend time at the rural hospitals avoiding responsibility and biding time till they can get a position in a city hospital. I think it is 2 years rural.
My local GP was initially trained in Sri Lanka. Not sure how she became a GP in Australia but she is good at her job.
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To help fix the housing crisis, we need smarter migration policy
Record migration numbers have sent rents skyrocketing by almost 25 per cent in three years, yet the government refuses to acknowledge the connection.
Albanese government is in denial as migration fuels housing crisis
An ill-fitting migration policy is the cause of many of Australia’s ills, from teacher shortages resulting in lower-quality education, to worker exploitation, despicable racism and anti-Australia hatred, through to overburdened healthcare, childcare and aged-care industries.
Immigration is also a significant, if not major, contributor to housing unaffordability.
In a candid speech delivered in February 2023, Labor MP and then home affairs minister Clare O’Neil didn’t mince words when she said: “Australia’s migration system is broken.”
She added: “It is unstrategic. It is complex, expensive, and slow. It is not delivering for business, for migrants, or for our population.”
Migration, she argued, should be part of the solution. But it’s not. Instead, O’Neil noted the system has drifted aimlessly for more than a decade, failing to match migrants’ skills with Australia’s needs.
Mass immigration, particularly at record levels under recent governments, has been criticised at both the federal and state levels for overwhelming infrastructure, suppressing wages, exacerbating housing shortages, and contributing to social fragmentation.
Since the Albanese government took office, net migration has surged to an average of 471,289 a year (that’s 1291 a day). And the majority – 974,543 since June 30, 2022 – are temporary visa holders.
Since Anthony Albanese was elected, the ABS Rent Price Index has risen from 100.6 to 122.3. In other words, average rents have risen by almost a quarter in a little more than three years. More importantly, according to ABS data, since the Labor Party was elected, larger annual rent increases have become more common.
And yet, despite the obvious link between migration and housing affordability, nobody in government wants to acknowledge it.
It’s true that we have a housing crisis because supply is a problem. It’s also true that we have a supply problem because there is a demand problem. And we have a demand problem due to excessive migration.
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FWIW
“The problem with AI’s usefulness.”
https://i0.wp.com/newcatallaxy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-08-17-at-3.04.02-pm-1757108408.6285.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1
In comments at https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/09/05/appliance-trouble/
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Blackout Bowen avoids mentioning the city/country divide on climate change. Oh wait, look over there.
“It’s a misconception that somehow climate change is an obsession of inner-city middle class elites. That’s just not the case. People know that climate change is real, particularly people who’ve got family in the Pacific, Indonesia, or Nepal or Bangladesh or India. A lot of people want to talk about energy prices. But they also get [climate] out here.” (Guardian)
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Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world
Dallas: Illegal immigrant beheads motel manager, kicks head “Like soccer ball”
https://x.com/Alexkennedy310/status/1966512138026897786
Nothing gruesome in the link, but there is a video which you’ll need to find yourself.
One of the last nails in what’s left of the USA’s coffin.
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‘Environmentalists at war over wilderness in ruins.
‘Fault lines have emerged in the environment movement over the renewables rollout, with peak groups accused of turning a blind eye to ‘biodiversity-destroying’ projects.’ (Oz)
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Researchers Found Unvaccinated Children Healthier Than Vaccinated, Didn’t Publish Findings
Researchers from a large health care system in Michigan found that vaccinated children were more likely to develop a chronic health condition, but never published the findings
Henry Ford Health System, whose employees carried out the study, said it was deficient.
Dr. Marcus Zervos, an infectious disease specialist at the Henry Ford Health, and colleagues studied 18,468 children born between 2000 and 2016 who were enrolled in the health system’s insurance plan, drawing data from medical, clinical, and payer records and supplementing with information from Michigan’s immunization registry.
After 10 years, 57 percent of the vaccinated children had a chronic health condition such as asthma, compared to just 17 percent of the unvaccinated children.
“This study found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, when compared to children unexposed to vaccination,” the authors wrote. “This association was primarily driven by asthma, atopic disease, eczema, autoimmune disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. This suggests that in certain children, exposure to vaccination may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, particularly for one of these conditions.”
The study was first reported by Aaron Siri, managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, this month in his book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.
‘The Only Real Problem’
Siri, who has worked with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., represents a group called the Informed Consent Action Network. He and Del Bigtree, the group’s CEO, say they met with Zervos in 2017 and proposed that he compare the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
They initially proposed obtaining data from a federal network called Vaccine Safety Datalink, but Zervos suggested utilizing the health data from Henry Ford Health, Siri wrote in his book.
Siri requested that the researchers publish the results of the study, regardless of what it showed.
“Dr. Zervos looked us right in the eyes and assured us that he was a man of integrity and would publish the results, whatever the finding,” Siri said.
Siri received a copy of the study in 2020. He and Bigtree say that Zervos and a coauthor told them that superiors at Henry Ford Health did not want it submitted for publication and that they were concerned they could lose their jobs if they submitted it.
“The only real problem with this study—and why it didn’t get submitted for publication—is that its findings did not fit the belief and the policy that ‘vaccines are safe,’”
Siri said during a Senate hearing in Washington on Sept. 9. “Had it found vaccinated children were healthier, it no doubt would have been published immediately. But because it found the opposite, it was shoved in a drawer.”
After 10 years, 57 percent of the vaccinated children had a chronic health condition such as asthma, compared to just 17 percent of the unvaccinated children.
“This study found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, when compared to children unexposed to vaccination,” the authors wrote. “This association was primarily driven by asthma, atopic disease, eczema, autoimmune disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. This suggests that in certain children, exposure to vaccination may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, particularly for one of these conditions.”
The study was first reported by Aaron Siri, managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, this month in his book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.
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Vaccination; the excuse physicians use to avoid devising a CURE for diseases.
Vaccination: the attempt to prevent the acquisition of a disease.
CURE: the destruction of a disease already acquired and the return to health from the effects of the disease.
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Sea level rise much slower than IPCC forecast.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/09/11/new-research-finds-no-statistically-significant-acceleration-in-global-sea-level-rise/
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New bee parasite “Tropilaelaps mercedesae” spreading across Europe could soon be deadlier than Varroa destructor
Beekeepers around the world could soon be facing a greater threat than the Varroa destructor, according to a report by Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck of The University of Melbourne.
The threat in question is Tropilaelaps mercedesae or “Tropi,” a deadly bee parasite that has been common across South and Southeast Asia and has now reached parts of Europe.
Scheerlinck is an Honorary Professor Fellow at the Melbourne Veterinary School, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. In his report, he claims that Tropi infestations in Europe could turn out to be deadlier than Varroa, which is widely considered the worst bee parasite in the world.
https://theconversation.com/deadlier-than-varroa-a-new-honey-bee-parasite-is-spreading-around-the-world-264891
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There’s the sane half, and the insane half
Fox news discuss what to do with the homeless:
https://x.com/ahouse4all/status/1966549930845368802
/It’s always been that way, the plandemic years just exposed them way more…
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FWIW
Try this
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FWIW –
“Eh! Gawd!”
Worth noticing
https://patriotpost.us/memes/120858-by-country-2025-09-12
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Are you waiting for this? How much electricity do you REALLY need-
““This legislation is a crucial step in our state’s comprehensive plan to ensure all (people) have access to reliable, affordable, and readily available energy…Demand response programs have proven to be a vital tool for our large commercial users, and it’s important that similar programs are made available to residential and small commercial users. These programs will ease the strain on our energy grid and save money for all (people).””
“made available to residential ” Made available huh! They are talking about rationing electricity because the grid is unstable, and its not going to be voluntary, as in ‘made available’ to you!
They’re passing a law in Ohio to allow it, so they can control your smart meter to cut your power off when needed by someone else… Oh, that’s sounds familiar, “Load Shedding” in South Africa!
Of course it ended up that when your 1-hour disconnection that they advertised became three hours, there was no-one you could complain to!
https://www.technocracy.news/republican-bill-to-allow-utility-companies-to-ration-energy/
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Seems to me modern culture is a construct of hysterias.
Some of it beginning with justified reaction to horrific events.
Say 911.
But then we see dubious reactions such the occupation of Iraq and 20 years in Afghanistan.
Are these places more stable?
Has ‘Global Warming’, even if we are generous and concede that it was a reasonable reaction to a plausible threat noble ‘scientists’ were warning us about, not morphed into a ludicrous hysteria?
The great noble scientists of ‘Public Health’ turned Pandemic into a fustercluck of yet fully unrealized proportion.
My point …
these modern hysterias seem to me to purposely manipulated, if not wholly constructed, by bad actors in the upper echelons of the social structure.
Challenges to that power structure that rise from the common people are met with lethal reaction.
Coming from other sad common souls pushed to hysteria by a very adept hysteria manufacturing apparatus.
A challenger named Trump, a defector from that very elite echelon, was able to survive the onslaught, so far at least.
Charlie Kirk was not.
The primary factory of hysteria manufacture for decades has been the educational system, particularly Ivy League
colleges.
The off ramp will have to be constructed through the impenetrable mental jungle that has been purposely cultivated entrapping the minds of affluent Western youth.
I’m adjusted to the fact that I won’t live to see it completed.
It’s only just started, and they just offed one of the intrepid pioneers.
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This is such an old graph, but is not being mentioned. It is devastatingly clear. More CO2 makes no difference. But no one brings up this graph! @ 1.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2KozyIusg
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FWIW – The Bee sinks the boot
“Democrats Say There’s No Place For Violence Against Evil Nazi Republicans That Are Literally Killing People And Destroying America”
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-say-theres-no-place-for-violence-against-evil-nazi-republicans-that-are-literally-killing-people-and-destroying-america
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FWIW
More on
“The Charlie Kirk Assassination— Beware the Experts
Chickens are coming home to roost.”
Read it all
https://johnalucas6.substack.com/p/the-charlie-kirk-assassination-beware
Via https://instapundit.com/744295/#disqus_thread
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Yes, it must be terrible to be his father… Who could turn their on into the Police knowing it was a death sentence? The clash between loyalty to the society around you and the loyalty of family would tear a person apart.
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Terrible but probably an easy decision. The father would know there’s enough information out there to identify his son.
He would know it would be a short period of freedom or, at best, a period of hiding. No real life.
He would know that Kirk’s family deserve to know who the alleged killer was.
He would know he couldn’t live with the knowledge.
He would know that the best chance of avoiding the death penalty would be handing himself in.
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