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carry over from yesterday – from one still there…
Their ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/climate-risk-assessment-sea-level-rise-2035-target/105765456
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Thanx MeAgain for sharing,
I do find this quote below, from the National tax payer funded broadcaster so condescending.
It treats us as fools.
“The assessment, which is the single most-significant body of climate work by the Australian government, also warns that 597,000 people are living in areas that will become exposed to sea level rise by 2030.”
“It found under 1.5C of warming, sea levels would rise by 0.14m, but they would rise by 0.54m under a 3C scenario”
Ok… Do they think we in the un woke scientific/engineering field are all idiots?
Ok.. Understand, by 2030 you will not get a 0.54m rise under a 3C scenario.. It wont happen.
Understand all, you are being lied to you by your gov and media.
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You won’t even get a 0.14m rise in the next 5 years
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What a load of alarmist rubbish. Trying to scare the populace as per usual.
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Albo trying to sell more windmills, solar panels and transmission towers and cables for the Chicomms.
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MeAgain,
All troops to the battle front, now?
The sea level rise alone destroys the argument.
Globally, the rise has been 1.5 mm per year with no evidence of acceleration. This gives a rise of under 40 mm by 2050, but this scaremongering says 140 mm under 1.5 deg C of temperature change and 540 mm under 3 deg C., 13 TIMES the present rate…
The Australian temperature is said to have risen 1.4 deg C in the last century. Why should it take only. the next 25 years for the next 1.5 or 3 deg C, as modelled? It is full of errors, known from BOM homogenisation alone.
Utter garbage science is replacing hard numbers for policy making. All will suffer. Geoff S (hard Scientist).
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Later today I will compare this new junk with a year old fiction from the Australian Academy of Science named “The Risks to Australia of a 3 degree Warming World.”
If it is the source of this alarm, I have already written a rebuttal and asked the AAS to retract it for reasons given. Geoff S
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What a joke, the report is written by all the usual suspects, this has been going on for 37 years and still nothing has come true.
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More from somebody else’s ABC, and the ANU, a headline I just couldn’t believe:
Has meritocracy gotten the better of our universities?
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/anu-has-meritocracy-gotten-the-better-of-our-universities/105773082
Not a chance I would say.
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“The Australian “Bowen to defy global retreat with emissions target to ‘make Australians proud’
Chris Bowen has vowed to pursue ambitious emissions cuts despite a global slowdown, as new report warns of catastrophic costs of climate inaction.”
Plucky Australians will save Australia and the world, even if no one else cares?
How is Australia with 1/400th of the world’s population going to save the planet? And make Australians proud?
Why is it that the headlines news in Australia makes no sense at all? What is the urgent problem which is so crippling Australia and Australian politics and our future?
There is no science at all in these public histrionics. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
But why?
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And while the world’s biggest economy and superpower says man made CO2 driven Global Warming aka Climate Change is utter nonsense, the plucky Australian Labor party and their partners the Greens are prepared to wreck our country to show we still hold the faith.
37 years of total failure of this Chicken Little story and still they want more money and literally all power centralized in Canberra. While Australia’s elected leaders all fly back and forth from China.
I cannot comment on the science of this. There is none.
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At this point, I am going to be rooting for the emus in the next great emu war. Especially if they can ally with some cute and cuddly mammals like koalas or kangaroos.
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“The Australian “Bowen to defy global retreat with emissions target to ‘make Australians proud’
Where are the political soap box speakers when you need them?
Pride goeth before a fall
But I doubt that the current Labor politicians have read any of the book of Proverbs recently (if ever)
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China is stockpiling crude oil at a rate of 1 million barrels per day. Are they preparing for war?
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Continues-to-Amass-Crude-Oil-in-Storage.html
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I think it’s more likely they’re just building a strategic reserve. The USA has a 700+ million barrel reserve capacity, and doesn’t burn nearly as much liquid dinosaur as the Chinese do. With prices down near $60/barrel, now is a good time to stock up (as opposed to Biden, who drained nearly half of the USA reserves prices were at $60/barrel then refilled a portion of what he took out at $75-$80/barrel. Sell low, buy high …. that was the Biden way).
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I would imagine they’re concerned by the recent pushback in the west against renewables, and the consequent resurgence in fossil fuel use.
It’s no doubt time to step up their sabotage efforts, and so Good Boy Bowen has, bang on cue, reaffirmed Australia’s suicidal rush toward ruin.
We really will be defenceless against China’s Pacific expansion.
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My latest:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/15/attack-on-doe-climate-report-is-a-comedy-of-criticism/
The Dessler criticism is loaded with fallacies.
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The Dessler report has 85 co-authors.
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Maybe you should read the report before commenting. Did you find any factual errors?
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I read the Chapter 4 analyzed in both reports. No factual errors in the DOE. Lots of logic errors in the Dessler et al. My Ph.D. is in logic and analytic philosophy of science and the Dessler is full of logic fallacies and conceptual confusions, far more than I report in my brief article.
Complex reasoning is my field. Just because someone has a Ph.D. in physics does not make them skilled in complex reasoning.
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Thanks David. Just reading the DOE Report now.
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15th September is or was (depending upon your time zone) Battle of Britain Day.
Unfortunately it seems to have mostly escaped the attention and commemoration of most people.
Two thirds of people under 40 in the UK and likely less elsewhere have never even heard of it.
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Few events within wars are broadly remembered , at least in the West, so its not suprising really. Give it 50 years or so and few will have knowledge of the world wars, let alone major events during those conflicts.
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..don’t worry, there will be plenty of wars to remember between now and 50years time.. Politicians sending young men off to die, they never tire of it.
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That’s my saying. I’m not anonymous. Infamous, yes. Anonymous, no.
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Hi David, Its easy to tell if the glass is half full or half empty. The answer is discovered by asking the question “what was the starting point”? If it started full it is half empty, if it started empty it is half full, simples.
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“While you were all debating it, I drank it”
– the opportunist
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Correction: Oscar Wilde is a common misattribution of that quote. It’s actually from McLandburgh Wilson’s 1915 poem “Optimist and Pessimist”.
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Work, the curse of the drinking classes.
Not, Oscar Wilde
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“A pessimist is an optimist with inside information”
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The nutritionist sees sugar, calories and t2 diabetes.
The bean counter sees more profits.
The transport people see less weight.
The nudist colony sees a lot of laughs.
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At least David we pessimists are never disappointed!
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I’m a pessimist and I am still disappointed every time Bowen opens his mouth.
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The Australian Government is no longer in charge, the terrorist supporters are.
They even forced the communist PM (whom you’d think they’d support because he supports them) to shut down his electorate office.
The failure of the Government to do anything just increases the bravado of the terrorist supporters and we already know that the Left is becoming increasingly violent, dangerous and antisemitic due to Government’s failure to enforce the law.
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Has the Albanese Government in three and a half years, pulled the right rein on any issue?
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No. He is our Joe Biden
I have a great meme photo on my phone. Its Albo trying look earnest with a caption ” please be patient, I’m F’ing things up as fast as I can”
Cant even wear the right short when asked
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/forgot-albo-wears-wrong-shirt-at-crucial-summit/news-story/02c89c389c08aa5c0350141d0ff8feba
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No, always the left rein and going around in futile circles.
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Was it about optimism v pessimism?
Is Albo really going? Like going in the sense of going?
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Was it about optimism v pessimism?
Is Albo really going? Like going in the sense of going?
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I am impressed with Elon Musk’s AI, Grok.
Yesterday I submitted to it an image of an electronic circuit diagram and asked it to calculate the required value of a certain resistor.
It interpreted the submitted image and gave a fully worked analysis and correct answer.
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4.7k 😉
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Gab.AI is also quite good.
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Have you tried the Photomath app? Takes a photo of an equation on paper and calculates the result, showing all working.
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Corruption within the Trump administration knows no bounds:
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html
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It seems that thr New York Times has a reputation to keep intact?
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Ahh yes, that august journal the NYT. Another Simon source.
I am reminded of a saying that has served me well for many decades. Your are, who you hang out with.
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The usual lame attempt at refutation
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Your attempt at refutation is lame.
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err
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“To ‘err’ is human”
Damn there goes my theory allowing me to excuse GA’s posts on the basis it was a BOT.
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Charlie Kirk assassin and his boyfriend had a “furry” obsession.
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If you wonder why Copilot is not being installed in the European Economic Area… Maybe privacy laws?
HINT HINT
Read further:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/
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Even further reason to move to Linux, which I am hoping to do. I have disabled Copilot as much as possible on my Win 11 laptop but it is not possible to fully disable or remove it.
I want AI to be purely voluntary as when I decide to use it, like Grok, as I posted above. I don’t want it to be forcibly imposed on me or integrated into the operating system like Copilot.
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David,
I dislike promotions from Windows. Used to be a computer nerd, first home PC and learning machine language in 1971. These days concentrate on using the PC, not on optimising it. I would like a home PC that is stripped of all but the basics needed to do the job, is free of mods by program sellers and does not log my work.
Is it feasible to ask you if you have evolved a formula for yourself that you can share?
Thanks Geoff S
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Geoff, I hate all the Windows promotions as well. I too used to try an optimise the PC and its OS, all I want now is something that works with a minimum of fuss. Unfortunately for the moment I am stuck with Win 11 but I hope to transition to Linux and have set it up on an older laptop so I can learn it.
The only Apps I really need are LibreOffice and a privacy-respecting browser like Brave.
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Hi David, I use Linux and have done for almost 10 years now. If you try Linux Mint there is nothing much to learn anymore as everything is graphics orientated these days. It comes with LibreOffice installed and you can download almost any browser through their “software manager app” including Brave. I have tried many different versions but always come back to this one. Give it a try you won’t regret it.
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Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people. It is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS.
1 It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
2 It’s both free of cost and open source.
3 It’s community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that
their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
4 Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best
software managers.
5 It’s safe and reliable—thanks to conservative software updates, and unique Update
Manager.
6 Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-
spyware…etc).
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Thank you, Rex
Geoff S
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Hi Geoff. The Mint version I use is Cinnamon. There are 3 other versions. 2 versions for older computers Mate and XFCE plus a Debian version. Debian is the grand daddy of this whole leg of Linux distributions/versions. Linux Mint is based in Ireland whereas Ubuntu is based on the Isle Of Man.
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I havent used MS Office products for about 15 years and find LibreOffice quite good for my low end word and spreadsheet work. I have had at least one machine on Linux for the last few years and W11 will be the turning point for me. That will push entirely out of the MS world.
I look at MS and just see a giant mess. It could just be my failure to engage and learn their weirding ways as they evolved. Or they could just be a giant mess. It doesnt matter anymore.
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As I’m still working on a casual basis, MS products are essential to interact with the company’s work environment. And I rather like them, as have been using them since the early 1980s.
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For the work I do I am quite satisfied with LibreOffice.
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Copilot isn’t really a concern, unlike Recall.
The problem is that Linux couldn’t begin to meet my needs as I need the functionality for Win specific custom apps.
The real problem with W11 is bugs and stability, despite M$’s claim it’s the best ever.
Oh for Win 7..
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Here is Sky News Australia’s latest edition of “Lefties Losing It” with the latest compilation of depraved Leftists (US and Australian) celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk, plus discussion.
Be warned, the Left are becoming increasingly violent and dangerous.
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Kirk was on the cusp of rejecting support for Israel according to various reports. I think he saw through the conservative right and the Judeo Christian nexus that pervades the American neo conservative groups and their unwavering support for Netanyahu and the bribery of the Israel lobby. So much so that he was going to the mother church with his wife who was raised a Catholic. This opens up so many possibilities.
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GlenM, #15.1
____Didn’t pay much attention to Charlie Kirk. Was just another happy clapper for Zion.
____Apparently though, he began asking inconvenient questions. Got a ballistic pellet delivered, point blank almost, from behind(ish) for his troubles.
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Check your facts Paul. There’s none in your comment.
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Crowdfunding record shattered for fund-raising for Charlie Kirk’s family.
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I liked Charlie Kirk, I mourn for his family, but I’m not a fan of crowdfunding for multimillionaires. Charlie Kirk died a wealthy man, left behind a powerhouse political organization worth hundreds of millions if not billions, and has powerful friends (literally the richest man in the world and the POTUS/VPOTUS of America) who will make sure his family lacks for nothing. I don’t see the point of crowdfunding for him. Why should some working stiff living paycheck-to-paycheck feel the need to kick in $10 to support Charlie’s estate?
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Understand what you are saying Steve, but it is voluntary. I think some of this may be more about people wanting to express themselves in some visible way. It remains to be seen what happens with the money.
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“Understand what you are saying Steve, but it is voluntary. ”
Yes, voluntary, that’s the important part. I think internet private funding is so much better than queuing up at some Govt office to talk to a bureaurat about other people’s money! Then it becomes compulsory funding, as Govts love!
I doubt his family will piss it up against a wall Steve, it will continue his work into the future.
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This article is from 2024 so very prescient.
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I genuinely believe that the inexplicable rise in extreme, illogical and politically suicidal policies on the left, including the extraordinary focus and promotion of a teeny, microscopic cohort of trans people – throughout the west – has been largely driven by China, Russia and Iran, through a combination of money (bribes and funding for disruptive political activities) and covert social disruption (i.e. driving and encouraging division) via social media.
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And I believe it is our own fault.
Have a family member to prove that.
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I too can look around and see individuals, some of them in large numbers, supporting what I believe to be divisive, damaging politics. But I nevertheless accept that what we see and hear from family, friends, on TV, in the movies, on the internet and on social media can direct us in a certain direction – and we may not even realise it.
I know myself that I have done things thinking it was all my own idea, only to realise some time later that I was in fact led in that direction by something I saw. It might even be nothing more than advertising. About twenty years ago, we renovated our house and decided to do something different with our decor. A couple of years later, I saw lots of other people doing the same. Turns out I had been subliminally persuaded to go for that decor – I was just among the first. So much for me being a rational individual …
I have said for some time that most children aren’t raised by their parents anymore. I say this because the influence of the education system and the internet have WAY more influence on kids today than they ever did. This is why it seems so many kids turn out so different from their parents, often diametrically opposed on every issue. Of course it has ever been that way. Each generation wants to be ‘different’ and avoid the mistakes of the preceding generation, but I don’t think we saw the level of animosity that exists now.
So while I agree that we all possess free choice and agency (or think we do), very, very few of us are blazing new trails. The big movements we see developing are all being influenced and coordinated by somebody. It is here that I think major subversive influences are being directed by China, Russia and Iran. China in particular is playing a long game for world domination and the Chinese are famously patient people.
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When did the turn to painting interiors with white paint happen? We had to completely clean and sort out our house in England (after some bad tenants) before selling it when we emigrated to australia. This was in 1988. I had felt the need to make it clean and bright after the pig sty conditions we took over. I was also very cheesed off with the standard Army quarters paint; the dirty-looking endless blighted ‘magnolia’!
Even here, in church housing, I was asked about colour in the vicarage/rectory. White please! No, overruled by wardens (why did they ask?); blighted magnolia in one case, pale lemon in another…huh!
I painted the last rectory rooms myself (in England). When the diocese rep. came round on the handover the comment was ‘that looks nice’! They started to repaint vacant housing with white I gather. Our present home is painted white everywhere inside…my very longstanding preference.
Did I predate the recent fashion for it?
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Steve of Cornubia, #17.1.1.1
____”I say this because the influence of the education system and the internet have WAY more influence on kids today than they ever did. This is why it seems so many kids turn out so different from their parents, often diametrically opposed on every issue.”
____😂 Oh,I don’t know – Chuck Darwin comes to mind.
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‘ … largely driven by China, Russia and Iran …’
Outside actors had no part to play with millenarian madness, its an invention of the West.
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Not the WEF, in conjunction with the rest of the Blob?
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DC Comics fires a woke Leftist for celebrating Charlie’s assassination.
(Copied from Farcebook.)
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Does this mean you support “cancel culture”?
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No. There is a distinction between Leftists saying vile disgusting things like celebrating a murder or nurses saying they would kill certain people under their care, and conservatives being “cancelled” for saying things that are objectively true such as “there are only two genders” or “men can’t have babies”.
In fact, Matt Walsh discussed this very point:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1967725854303326688
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So what you’re saying is it’s ok to cancel Leftists (or anyone for that matter) for “saying vile disgusting things” but not ok to cancel people (left or right) who say things that are objectively true? That’s the distinction you’re making, right? Just trying to get your position straight.
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Walsh is arguing for a selective use of cancel culture. That is, he argues that it’s ok to cancel people for saying “objectively abhorent, perverse and sick things”.
This is a spurious argument for two reasons.
Firstly, who decides what are “objectively abhorent, perverse and sick things”? Walsh himself? The Government? A religious group? Secondly, if you support the concept of free speech, then any sort of cancel culture is anathema to that because you are essentially saying that it’s ok to cancel speech that “I don’t approve of or don’t agree with”. Remember that Goebbels and Stalin both supported “free speech” provided you only said things they agreed with!
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It’s not only Harvard that’s been destroyed by DEI:
‘Charlie got shot, LOL’: Oxford Union president elect exposed for ‘celebrating’ Kirk’s death.
Sky news video 02:19
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YotZVl74S6w&si=lo44Hv3tER2OBqVp
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It’s interesting how that guy got a place at Oxford despite not having the (usually) required grades. I wonder why?
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>I wonder why?
I was under the impression that racism = discrimination on the basis of race.
It seems that’s a feature, not a fault according to the new woke left.
What’s even more incredible in my arrogant opinion, is the fact he got voted president elect!
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So here’s the link to part 2 of my Posts about Beef Cattle, and this one is about how the beef is carved up and presented to us as food, and it’s interesting the differences between how that’s done here in Australia compared to how it’s done in the U.S.
And I even include a recipe, and that’s for Silverside.
Different levels of research when compared to where I know, electrical power generation, and actually a fun task really.
Beef Cattle And Beef As Food (Part Two)
Tony.
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Argentina is legendary for the tenderness of their steaks and their somewhat different methods of raising “food beef”. A place to expand your research efforts? Certainly a more interesting topic than world politics.
And “New England boiled dinner” was on my childhood in the “states”. Simply add cabbage to your recipe.
Historical cooking is also an interesting subject. My thirty something son has shown no interest in his ancestral history but has already expressed a desire to receive my mother’s 1950’s Betty Crocker cookbook (when the time comes)
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There’s the thing about cookbooks. My wonderful Barbara was already an accomplished family cook when we married (her second) and I thought I’d hit the jackpot, she was just so good.
All our life she cooked everything in any manner with ease, and from rote as far as I could see. One week after our marriage in 1981, she asked if we could get a microwave, having never used one before. So, we got the top of the range Sharp Carousel, just newly released and one of the first with a revolving carousel. She used it from day one (a full roast beef dinner for four) and until she passed in 2023, we probably went through around six of them. She was old school, meaning the cooking was her province. In her last year, I took over the cooking and surprised her, and she told me if she had an earlier idea of that, then I would have got more than the barbecue and Spaghetti Bolognese.
Since she passed, I have ‘perused’ her collection of a dozen cookbooks, and surprise surprise found some of our favourites had, umm, dog ears on the pages. Each cookbook also has between 20 and 50 or more cuttings from magazines etc.
She has an original (and very well used) Women’s Weekly Cookbook from 1970, and another one that her Mother used, and then passed on to Barbara, Australian Cookery Of Today Illustrated dated 1943, and brought out by Melbourne’s Sun News Pictorial. That one is 500 pages, hard cover, around the size of an old Bible, and also well used. It’s like reading ancient text as some of the recipes use meats, and meat cuts, and processes now long gone into antiquity, and cooking methods also now not used. It’s such a wonderful old book.
Incidentally, those of you who do have a microwave, check out the booklet which came with it. It is a small sized, paper paged booklet listing Instructions and has around a dozen or so pages at the back with perhaps 25 or so recipes. That original Sharp Carousel Microwave we bought in 1981 had a full magazine sized full colour bound cookbook, just recipes, and hundreds of them at that, and it’s 225 pages long, Barbara’s most often used microwave recipe book, and all she had to get used to over the years, and the newer microwaves, were the changes to temperature and time settings over all these years. I’d say every evening meal, some part of that meal, and often all of it was done in the microwave. That original Sharp cookbook also has the single best recipe for spareribs (or pork rashers) in plum sauce I have ever come across, no contest.
I’ve added to that collection of cookbooks with a couple of slow cooker cookbooks, a Keto cookbook, a carnivore cookbook, and both of Nagi Maehashi’s books, and she’s the Recipe Tin Eats lady based out of Sydney.
There’s also nothing I cannot source on the Internet, and my Folio of cooking links contains around 200+ links.
I’m single now, and I eat like a king, whatever I want, cooked in every method known to man, and whenever I visit with my daughter and her family in Rockhampton, I’m the designated cook for the two/three weeks of my visit.
There’s been times when I’m cooking something, and I wonder why I did a certain thing, because even I’m doing some things without reference now. The only thing I can put it down to is that Barbara is still here with me, watching over me, and giving me ‘tips’ at the precise time they are needed.
Each Christmas, her children would say ….. Yum, time for Mum’s special recipe ‘family’ Christmas cake she does every year. Her little secret she showed me was that she had a list of around 8 to 10 of them, and she’d do a different one each Christmas. The only difference I have added now I’ve found the best one, is that I make it earlier, and I add more Rum (umm, the big 40 ounce bottle) to the fruit mix at the start and then a little each day over the five days before baking it. Here’s the link to an image of that Boiled Fruit Cake, and that’s 20cM across and 8cM tall. I even tried the Flo Bjelke Peterson Christmas cake, wondering why it came out so huge, before reading an addendum that she made it as a wedding cake.
Tony.
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And one of life’s pleasures, making your own bread. Oh yum!
Tony.
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The only way to get decent rye bread here
🙂
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The UK are being told that if the temperature there increases by 1.5 degrees they will all die. Australia is more than 1.5 degrees warmer than the UK and we seem to be getting along OK. Not to mention places like Dubai which is twice as hot as the UK. They seem to be getting along OK as well. This couldn’t by any chance just be a Government money grab could it? Hmmm.
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Ask Great Barrier Reef.
The corrals are so vulnerable, so vulnerable to 1.5 deg C rise – it is a miracle why they did not move to Victoria?
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The Victoria Government banned offshore NATURAL CHANGES.
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The Reef is not threatened by temperature rise.
There is a large difference already at the Reef, from North to South. If temperature rises, species are free to migrate or evolve and stay in the same T range as before.
The Reef is tough. It has survived large changes in nearby sea level over the millions of years, meaning it has had to re-engineer itself to cope. And cope it has.
“Some fossil reef structures and the shelf upon which the modern reefs have been built are several hundred thousand years old. However, the living reef that we see today is less than 10,000 years old. It is just the latest of at least five reefs that have grown here over the past 30,000 years, according to research reported in 2018.”
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149724/the-great-barrier-reef-through-time
Geoff S
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‘Rapid sea level drops also caused some die-offs by exposing the reef above the water surface.’
Probably only take a few days to get mass bleaching.
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We even survived in the tropics BEFORE aircon and hard men actually built it by hand.
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“We even survived in the tropics BEFORE aircon ”
YES!! And hundreds of people in Sydney didn’t die because the world was 1.5deg hotter in summer than winter! …and also before aircon we didn’t need a gym to be shapely, muscled and work-hardened, it came naturally.
Mind you, if global warming managed to kill off all the whining wimps that inhabit today’s world it wouldn’t be a bad thing!
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FWIW
Ivermectin’s use in cancer treatment seeps through a New York Times headline!
“Rounding out our New York Times review this morning, behold this astonishing headline: “What Ivermectin Can (and Can’t) Do.” I bet you never expected to see an ivermectin headline appear in the Times without a dire warning. Let the retconning begin.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/accelerating-monday-september-15?
And other thigs there
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Thanks ai.
Fascinating.
I wonder if they’ll also find its anti-viral properties?? And even how vitamin D and IVM work so well together??
Dare I hope?
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Dressed to Kill
“You currently have one side willing to talk and extend a microphone to anyone, and one side that shoots to kill when they do.” —Aimee Terese on X”
The descent of the Democrat Party
https://www.kunstler.com/p/dressed-to-kill
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Thanks again a i.
I was a bit surprised by this aside within your link:
I’d have thought the answer is obvious – they weren’t hijacked, they were part of it.
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Obviously I live in the deep north, I had never heard the term ‘furries’ and now wish I still hadn’t.
Trump and Kash can’t police morals but USA is rotting.
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For the boondocks dwellers who want to learn more about the furry fandom.
https://fancons.com/events/schedule.php?type=furry&loc=oc
Simon will be there in his furry wombat suit.
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Hanrahan,
But what caused the rot? Did it start coincident with some plausible, related event? Was it started when social media started? When sugar became a big part of human diets? When illegal drug use skyrocketed? After the Covid “vaccine” tragedy?
Are there nations without the rot to help diagnose?
Ideas?
Geoff S
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I think it started with tulips – as first speculative bubble
Or possibly flag pole sitting – as first dumb idea that caught on.
I do not know enough about furries to classify the appeal bacuse my grandchildren are not there yet. It could be either dumb idea or speculative because there is a lot of money in costumes:
https://dogpatch.press/2014/12/29/expensive-fursuit/.
My granddaughter is a collector of soft toys that have resale price of the order of $1,000 depending on its rarity.
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I dunno. Maybe it started when McCarthy was sidelined as an alarmist. Communism has had a free ride ever since.
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Things have always been dicey.
Radical ideas pop up and come and go all the time.
I think a shift occurred about a decade ago.
With internet based propaganda tool set development likely downwind from the Homeland Security Act.
Coming into its’ own with painful visibility as ‘Pandemic’.
For me I notice a slight diminishment since the reduction of USAID.
I think this NGOactivist/ProgClimaBlob structure will reconstruct itself in different costume.
They have a wealthy elite constituency able to fly private jets to luxury private enclaves to plan their religious crusade.
And confab with famous handsome and rich actors and rocks stars (the true brains) on Lake Cuomo.
It’s akin to what swept into the world form the Mideast in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Recent events has them demanding all adopt their religion or die.
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Firstly apologies to Raquel for breaking the rules. I won’t do that again
I wanted to highlight that M.Mann has been in the news again for the wrong reasons.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/professor-slammed-despicable-behavior-controverisal-reposts-charlie-kirk
Cheers
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MORNING GRIDWATCH TUESDAY SEPT 16
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 27% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST CAPACITY FACTOR 53%
AND 6% 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.
Like 1 Sept at 7 PM EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 3% IN THE EAST.
And 2 Sept at 7PM EASTERN TIME WHEN THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 5% IN THE WEST.
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 no solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
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Overnight usage in households is typically not much. My little 5kWh battery gets me through the night. Industry does not matter any more. None of it is economically viable in Australia. My meter data for yesterday – all export apart from tidbits when there was high internal demand.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4f5hcRkmrKb41nCtSHKECu7CqO21d-X/view?usp=sharing
The grid is dead economically. There is no point adding grid scale wind and solar generation because they cannot compete with rooftops – rooftops own their demand. The rooftops are taking their market. The dispatchable generators have to charge like wounded bulls when they can to break even because their volume is in freecall. Volume from coal peaked in Jul 2008 at 15.2TWh. July 2025 was down to 11.1TWh.
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
September 2024 only has 8.5TWh generated from coal – just over half of the peak.
If I was the only one taking my load off the grid, it would make no difference but it is now close to the majority of roof owners doing that.
The capacity factor for both grid scale wind and solar is now being heavily impacted by rooftops. The grid scale solar in South Australia is obviously a massive waste of money. There is no load for it to serve because it competes directly with rooftops, which own the demand.
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If I was the only one taking my load off the grid, it would make no difference but it is now close to the majority of roof owners doing that.
Perhaps even the current educational system allows sufficient verbal/reading/mathematical skills that the average punter can see that grid prices have and will continue to go up at levels which exceed general inflation?
Subsidies for solar roof panels should have been removed a lot earlier than currently scheduled.
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will continue to go up at levels which exceed general inflation?
The average punter with rooftop panels does not care what happens with grid prices. They are more concerned about food prices and make no connection between the grid price and food price.
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My neighbour is nailing another nail into the coffin of the electricity grid as a viable economic system by installing solar and battery today.
South Australian rooftop owners are leading the way. Rooftops now capable of supplying the entire grid demand at lunchtime and gradually extending 100% supply time through use of household batteries
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19vLCJXO4SS764nMTe20w6VdYhOyb8uiT/view?usp=sharing
Grid prices are skyrocketing because the wholesale demand is in freefall – but who cares when you can make your own electricity with a few solar panels and battery. That is only a problem for energy intensive industries and who needs those when China can make all the stuff you need. The steelworks is long past being economic and has become a make work project for both State and Federal governments.
Despite all the wind and solar generating capacity in the State, there has been no reduction in the peak demand for dispatachable generation.
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A ton of coal on a hard stand at a power station is far cheaper reserve than one bluddy big battery or a million little ones.
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True but not much use on my roof and I do not have the boiler and steam turbine to burn coal.
All those millions of solar panels and batteries have destroyed the economics of the coal fired plant as well. You cannot run a 600MW lignite boiler for a few hours a day and achieve any economy or reliability slitty.
The grid has gone past the point of no return as an economic entity. Any energy intensive business setting up in Australia needs their own electricity generation.
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Yes, but: If no one had rooftop solar and wind/solar were only used in niche markets, grid power would both cheaper and more reliable. There would be no need for you to be your own system engineer.
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The horse has bolted. Almost half the roofs in Australia now have solar panels. You can buy solar/battery systems at the supermarket now. It has become big business as high grid prices are forcing roof owners to choose a lower cost electricity option.
The more roof owners who make their own, the more expensive grid power becomes.
We have BHP winging today about high electricity prices. They have applauded the transition because it has supercharged the market for mined resources but they did not think that through. The only way they will get cheap electricity is to generate their own by buying coal from the coal mines that they sold off.
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Stand up straight and place your arms out horizontally making an angle of 90 degrees. Picture a mirror image of you doing the same thing in front of you, and touching fingertips.
Now, fill that (square) space between you with coal, to the same height as the top of your head.
THAT is one tonne of coal.
One Unit at Bayswater, running at ‘full whack’ burns that much coal (injected into the furnace at the same consistency as talcum powder) every 17 to 20 seconds!
So, with all four Units running, then one tonne of coal every 5 seconds.
Tony.
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How big the battery to replace the four gen sets at Bayswater for 5 secs?
Just looked it up: It would need to be 130MW/h.
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Or now two weeks of home battery installations for 5 seconds. Six months for 1 hour and 12 years for a day. By then there will be no industry left to supply. And houses in Australia do not use much energy over night.
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Cognitive function is being altered on a mass scale
Immunologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi issues a stark and sobering alert: a global neurological crisis is underway, and the cause may be the very vaccines meant to protect us.
His thesis? mRNA COVID vaccines have triggered a unprecedented phenomenon—systemic vasculitis. This is not a localized issue but a full-body attack on the vascular system, inflaming blood vessels from the brain to the heart to the liver.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1967342083707973720
So what is the big experiment, REALLY? 😎
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Matt Walsh discusses the distinction between conservatives firing Leftists for saying vile, disgusting things such as celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder or nurses saying they will kill certain segments of the population under their care; and Leftists cancelling people for saying objectively true things like “there are only two genders” or “men can’t have babies”.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1967725854303326688
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A radical idea – just build cars without the stupid gimmicks
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t2mv7gjc7L1z23obp.mp4
Finally something worse than those electric tailgates.
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Did they buy the car?
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Nah, the battery went flat from too many electronic gee-gaws…
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Inequality of sea ice: $€I£N€£©️
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573189/new-zealand-s-first-female-to-co-skipper-a-yacht-through-northwest-passage
Veronica & hubby Nigel are on a “mission to help coastal communities adapt to climate change” … please no, stay away, go back the way you came!
Co-skipper Veronica (layered up in Arctic-wear & beanie) said “the ice had all but disappeared from the Eastern Arctic … it’s quite strange because climate change is meaning that more ice is melting [but] the Western Arctic was quite blocked”.
Methinks Veronica is new at this game (lived in London too long?) and possibly Nigel too, as even a numpty like me appreciates minus 1 and plus 1 evens out on zero as windblown sea ice will do whatever the weather commands it to.
Despite her hysterical nightmarish unscientific vision for planet Earth, will she be clamouring for a place in the Guinness Book Of World Records… as the First Female Kiwi to Misdiagnose Weather Patterns Above The Arctic Circle? Save us… from climate zealots!
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And what is it with lefty women who very often have a different surname to their husband? Another signal?
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If you like ice tosspottery , you may like this
https://glacierlab.uoregon.edu/glacier-justice/
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I do believe, Mr Yarpos, I have discovered my new swear word for this year thanks to your link:
sociocryospheric!
Best regards to Mrs Yarpos.
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Andrew Hastie is making his move, prepared to sacrifice his front bench seat on a matter of principle.
“My primary mission in politics is to build a stronger, more secure, more competitive Australia. Energy security is a vital input to that.” (Guardian)
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Where would he go?
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The only reasonable place at the moment is the Liberal back bench. Without a serious/almost catastrophic failure (power grid/computer security/massive border breech etc) the other political (or new) parties will gain little traction in the urban areas.
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FWIW – 1950 diesel engine efficiencies
This is from a 1950 Southern Cross Machinery catalogue that I tripped over on Trove –
YB engine 4 hp, fuel at full load 0.5 pits/bhp/hour, 0.0053 pints/bhp/hour lube oil consumption
B Series engine 10 hp, fuel at full load 0.45 pits/bhp/hour, 0.0045 pints/bhp/hour lube oil consumption
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Cybercriminals steal 160 million records from Vietnamese financial system, exposing entire population
“This data contains very sensitive information, including general PII, credit payment, risk analysis, credit cards (require your own deciphering of the FDE algorithm), military IDs, government IDs, tax IDs, income statements, debts owed, and more,” the cybercriminals claim on an illicit forum.
According to local media reports, the breach has sent shockwaves through the country’s financial system. Authorities did not disclose how many accounts might have been affected by the breach.
https://cybernews.com/security/vietnam-data-breach-exposes-entire-population/
What? No e-censorship and cyberthreat KommiSSar over there?
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FWIW – good enough for government work
“Aussie Government Publishes Climate Apocalypse Report And Approves a Gas Lease Extension in the Same Week”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/15/aussie-government-publishes-climate-apocalypse-report-and-approves-a-gas-lease-extension-in-the-same-week/
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FWIW
“Keto, Ivermectin, & Fenbendazole: New Cancer Treatment Protocol Gains Momentum”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/keto-ivermectin-fenbendazole-new-cancer-treatment-protocol-gains-momentum
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Wow,
Their step 6 includes most of what we’ve discussed here, but without mentioning the word “cofactors”, which may explain their omission of iron. But vitamin C is mentioned specifically at #3.
I guess they’re not permitted to include dosages. Pity.
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The problem with keto is that you need to actually spend time COOKING! and your grocery bill balloons. It is still cheaper to eat quality food at home than junk out.
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FWIW – re the covid scene
The news is spreading
“Proof that covid jabs can kill your children”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/proof-that-covid-jabs-can-kill-your-kids/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-16&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“Wrong, The Guardian, Oil Company Operations Aren’t Making Heatwaves Worse”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/15/wrong-the-guardian-oil-company-operations-arent-making-heatwaves-worse/
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Concludes
“By highlighting the assertions made in this false attribution study, The Guardian abandoned journalism in favor of activism. Instead of soberly reporting the limits of attribution science, it stages a morality play where oil companies become convenient villains and every heatwave a courtroom exhibit. This isn’t science—it’s propaganda masquerading as news. Readers who should be able to expect their media outlets to inform them by discussing evidence and revealing hidden truths, got theatrics instead from The Guardian, which, with some regularity, produces baseless alarmism in furtherance of a scary narrative for political ends when the facts don’t cooperate.”
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FWIW – UK things
“The day the British lion roared”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-day-the-british-lion-roared/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-16&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
And
“Danny Kruger’s defection is a defining moment for the new right”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/danny-krugers-defection-is-a-defining-moment-for-the-new-right/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-16&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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I hope that the LNP is taking note?
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FWIW
“In the Trump v Wind Wars, Ørsted Now ‘Battling’ for Survival”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/09/15/in-the-trump-v-wind-wars-rsted-now-battling-for-survival-n3806832
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5 Things to Know – Thing 2) · Revolution Wind project stopped. Green energy advocates are upset. Keystone Pipeline workers watch with amusement.
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Mere weeks ago the loony left had meltdowns over a half-decent white girl in denim jeans.
Now they’re cheering and celebrating CK’s murder.
Tell me you’re mentally ill without telling me you’re mentally ill…
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It’s fair to say that by 2050 – yes, earlier, but let’s use Bowen’s magic year, every Single Solar Panel and Wind Turbine in operation today, will have had to have been replaced.
I have never seen this fact or question asked of Bowen in any News Conference.
In fact, I don’t see anyone in Media asking the question, even Sky News.
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FWIW – Cop that!
“JUST IN: President Trump Files $15 Billion Defamation and Libel Lawsuit Against The New York Times”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/just-president-trump-files-15-billion-defamation-libel/
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‘A senior Liberal has warned of a mass exodus from the frontbench if the party pursues a policy of net zero by 2050 at “any costs”.
‘A day after net zero-opponent Andrew Hastie said he would quit the shadow ministry if the party re-adopted the climate target, colleague Jonno Duniam suggested others could follow suit if caveats weren’t attached to the commitment.
“If we just said net zero at any cost by 2050 I think you’d find there would be a mass exodus,” the shadow education minister told Sky News.’ (Guardian)
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