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Happy Friday.
Australia only has 28 days of petrol on hand. Batteries anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKDFc8NmIo
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You can always go back to the steam engine.
It might be a little inconvenient for people with compact cars to install a coal boiler in their trunk, but folks with trucks/vans should be able to adapt nicely.
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DM would be chuffed about that!
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In WW2 they used coal or wood gasifiers to run cars in some places if gasoline was in short supply or unavailable.
Now, in Australia coal is verboten. Even the collection of wood is banned in many places. Perhaps you could burn your books instead?
Not sure how well gasifier fuel would work on a modern car engine though.
In extreme Nanny State Australia they would probably ban gasifiers if too many people started using them…
Of course the Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Prosperity policies of Australia are quite deliberate and Australia’s standard of living is in decline because of that.
Even Their ABC admits to Australia’s standard of living decline:
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Unless you can find a 1940 car with a compression ratio of about 6.5 to 1, forget it plus they produce CO which can be deadly.
Surprisingly an EV would be tailor made for this circumstance, as long as you can generate your own power or steal someone elses.
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Ssshhh…no-one mention water-powered cars.
I did once but I got away with it.
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They are called canoes.
You just need a paddle to make it work.
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Coal gas has been used to power vehicles in WW1 and WW2.
this article shows how.
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/11/gas-bag-vehicles/
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How will Australians handle the new global police state?
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/10/14/how-will-australians-handle-the-new-global-police-state/
Already UK police, according to The Times (4 April 2025) make more than 30 arrests a day for ‘offensive online communications” under vague laws criminalising messages that cause ‘annoyance’, ‘inconvenience’ or ‘anxiety’.
More than 12,000 such arrests occurred in 2023 alone.
According to lawyer John Carpay, Canada will be a police state by December if Starmer’s globalist co-conspirator Carney passes 3 particular pieces of legislation, one of which will,
“allow pre-emptive punishment for people suspected of being able to commit a hate speech crime in future.”
In Australia, ” Mainstream media has shown little interest in this unlawful and disturbing sweep of “pre-crime” prosecution.”
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The vast majority of these arrests are for grossly offensive and threatening communications not just for vague ones against people that are annoying, although the latter do happen.
In most cases the cases receive a great deal of publicity and are dropped and police admonished. However there is no doubt that there are still a concerning number of cases for what a few years ago would have been considered trivial matters. This seems to be a western problem exacerbated by social media , silly laws and people easily offended..
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So being ‘grossly offensive’ is a crime now? Who gets to define ‘grossly offensive’? Muslims find Koran burning or pictures of Mohammad to be grossly offensive. Conservatives find flag burning to be grossly offensive. Pro-choicers find it offensive for protestors to hold up signs showing what a fetus looks like at various states of development. Pro-lifers find unborn baby killing offensive. Fat acceptance advocates find ‘yo mamma so fat’ jokes offensive. Vegans (and Muslims and apparently the British government) find bacon offensive. Different people find different things offensive. Militant feminists find men offensive. Letting Big Brother decide what is offensive and what is not seems like a rather slippery slope.
As far as threatening goes, making imminent threats has ALWAYS been illegal, even in America with it’s 1st amendment protections. You don’t need new laws to go after people for making threats.
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Wow, I don’t think even the Nastys did that. How can they know? It’s just a blank check to go after people they don’t like. People who think wrong, according to them. Most importantly people who vote wrong, according them. And to shut down any dissent.
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In this under 2 min video clip, UK conservative and comedienne Katie Hopkins sarcaatically hypothesises (or not) how in Once Great Britain your daily “carbon” allowance will be linked to your digital ID.
Recall that this wonderful lady was once expelled from Australia for telling a joke the Government didn’t like*. Totalitarian Governments never have a sense of humour.
Note how she is called “far right” by thr Lectust Guardian. It just means conservative aa most people here realise. The Left call anyone to the right of Pol Pot “far right”. Of course, they are trying to imply “Far Right” means National Socialist but that is just another Leftist ideology as we have discussed many times before. https://fee.org/articles/theres-no-denying-the-socialist-roots-of-fascism/
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Candace Owens (an American conservative) has been sinbinned from entering Australia for a series of private speaking engagements, based off Tony Burke’s belief that her past rhetoric (under the USA’s constitutionally guaranteed free speech amendment) will incite civil unrest and his decision is supported by Australia’s High Court.
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Earlier this year Burke also sinbinned Israeli elected politicians from entering Australia for their comments over the horrific Oct 7th attack.
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Yet … allows high profile Imans and Muslim preachers who publicly endorsed the Oct 7th attacks to enter Australia willy nilly.
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Burke has the power to prevent entry based on ‘character’ grounds … what he repeatedly reveals is just what character he has.
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” what he repeatedly reveals is just what character he has.”
Yes, just as any country can be judged by the laws it passes. Twenty years ago we would talk of the laws in a dictatorship, or laughing at laws in Russia and China, or Burma, closer to home. Now we have those laws in Australia and NZ yet people can’t see us as another China.
The propaganda is very effective on the masses…
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Burke is just a nasty little ‘berk’.
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Australia is rather keen on banning Israelis from visiting. Even some tourists are given a gruelling 15 page questionnaire before entry, assuming they are granted at all. *
– Israeli/American influencer Hillel Fuld was banned.
– Ariel University Professor David Ben Shlomo, an archeologist was banned at the very last minute, virtually as he was about to board the plane, from The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) – in Darwin June 22–28, 2025. I met him when I visited Ariel University.
– Politicians past or present Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Simcha Rothman.
Apart from Prof. ben Shlomo, they are banned for supposedly being “far right” but in Leftist speak that just means they are conservatives and to the right of Pol Pot. Being banned at the last minute is also part of the punishment because airfares and accommodation are booked, conference venues paid for, guests and catering paid etc..
ben Shlomo was banned by the conference simply because he was Israeli and Jewish.
Note that even Donald Trump Jr was banned from coming to Australia. The Government claims he wasn’t but his visa was only granted the day before the event, even though it had been applied for months in advance, and it had already been cancelled.
And why do you think Australia and it’s e Safety Kommissar is introducing ever more censorship? So the ideas of these conservative people can’t even be heard online.
No one should be under the delusion that Australia is any longer a free country. The fake conservative Liberals aren’t the answer either. The e Safety Kommissar was their creation.
* https://thenightly.com.au/australia/jewish-familys-celebration-blocked-while-home-affairs-questions-two-members-over-israeli-army-service-c-17052280
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‘Yet…allows high profile Imans and Muslim preachers who publicly endorsed the Oct 7th attacks to enter Australia willy nilly.’
Not to mention Isis brides – then lied about giving them government assistance – just try getting a group together and sneaking into Australia from the Middle East undetected.
As I have said previously, politicians are trained liars just like lawyers, who rely on semantics to obfuscate and cover up.
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I find your suggestion of people here having a limited attention span offensive and will be reporting you to the authorities.😁
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Reminder that the UN wants a global “carbon” tax and the US is the only hold out.
From Marco Rubio, 16th Oct 2025:
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Fortunately, when that one holdout is the 500 pound gorilla in the room, it only takes one holdout to scotch those plans. Even a Democrat American administration is unlikely to get on board with that plan. Democrats may love taxation, but only when they get a piece of the action. Even for them, globalist taxation without representation still rubs raw against the last vestiges of their American spirit.
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Just saw a news report about heating costs in the Southern US this coming winter. If you have natural gas heat it will cost about $625. But if you have electric only heat, it will be about twice that.
But here’s the rub, and it illustrates the dishonesty of the MSM. She went on to blame Trump pulling out the rug from under the ruinables subsidies for it. No mention that syrocketing costs for utilities has been caused by ruinables everywhere in the world. Not to mention curtailing availablity of cheap coal. She did admit, nonetheless, that EVs and AI will only increase demand, driving up costs further.
So, people still need heat during the winter in the Deep South (NH),…40 years on….
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That deep freeze event in Texas a while ago was amazing.
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I believe that fracked natural gas is very cheap in the States.
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Linda Reynolds wants a parliamentary inquiry into whether two of Labor’s most senior figures, Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher, misled the parliament over the Brittany Higgins scandal.
Keep smiling Linda and take comfort from the look of anguish and fear on the Wong/Gallaher visages
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Titmus joins the Barty party and retires on top of the world. Ariarne Titmus has retired at 25. First thought? She’s done an Ash Barty.
Wonder if its for the same reason? Small swimmers make big ones!
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Do you mean her new partner Mack?
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FWIW
“‘’I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE TERM ‘BIOLOGICAL MEN’”
“CALLS FOR SEX DISCRIMINATION COMMISSIONER TO RESIGN
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody (pictured above) faces pressure to resign after saying she does not understand the term ‘biological men’ at a Senate Estimates hearing.
“I think we have different languages that perhaps you’re using than I would use … so I don’t understand the term ‘biological men,’” she said.
Cody was being questioned at a Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee over comments she made at the National Press Club in September where she claimed “we are not one version of woman”. ”
More at
https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/40796/i-dont-understand-the-term-biological-men/
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And for that she is paid a salary of $408,020 plus perks from taxpayer money.
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Would her father qualify as one?
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–Upton Sinclair
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Well Ian, this is what to expect when you don’t have a “whY?” chromosome.
Answer- Communist subversion of our society as per usual!
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Simon
Brings to mind Buddy’s second comment at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/13/art-of-the-deal-82/#comments
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There’s a slight of hand going on there. Rather than playing an away game about men and women, a more penetrating question may have been about MALE and FEMALE.
An answer of I don’t understand male and female quickly leads to a follow up question about chromosomes and immutability.
An opportunity missed because the questioner was imprecise.
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FWIW
Things at the US Supreme Court
“Justice KBJ Compares Blacks to Disabled Persons Incapable of Voting
October 15, 2025 | Sundance | 383 Comments
It’s one thing to understand that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was DEI nomination to the Supreme Court, and another thing entirely to listen to her own words as she proves it.”
“During oral arguments in ‘Louisiana v. Callais’, a case before the high court considering whether Louisiana’s congressional map (which includes two majority-black districts), where plaintiffs in the case argue the congressional map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered based on race; Justice KBJ compares black people to disabled people. The comparison for the argument she is trying to make is ridiculous. Listen:”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/10/15/justice-kbj-compares-blacks-to-disabled-persons-incapable-of-voting/
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Dumbest Supreme Court justice ever, and we’re probably stuck with her for 30-40 years.
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I wonder whether there are any mechanisms for removing a supreme court justice. Probably not as the bad guys would have used them by now against justices who got in their crooked way.
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Exactly
That’s a can of worms no one should want to open. Both sides would abuse it with abandon once that seal is broken. Better to ignore and work around one incompetent justice for a few decades than blow up a centuries old system of checks-and-balances.
Same goes for abolishing the filibuster, which the Dems are hoping the Republicans will do for them to end the shutdown (they tried and failed to do it during Trump’s 1st term). But once it is gone, both parties will run roughshod and pass partisan bills with no minority-party consensus.
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FWIW –
Yes but you’d better have the ducks well lined up
https://legalclarity.org/can-supreme-court-justices-be-fired/
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Thanks for that.
A 2/3 majority impeachment trial in the senate, voluntarily stepping down (wink, wink) or death.
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Canberra voted to give anyone claiming aboriginal heritage their own government. That sort of thinking comes from the same place as this befuddled judge. Non-aboriginal Australians are advantaged by being non-aboriginal so the playing field has to be tilted to favour aboriginal.
This sort of thinking is inherently racist and engenders apartheid. Apartied is already well established in Australia – different rules for different skin colour (or those claiming different skin colour).
My son has a client who told him he spent $10,000 to get FirstPeople approval to rebuild on what was once a residential site. The block was in Dandenong in Melbourne and the inspection found soil from Cranbourne. It was deemed it must have been a significant site with soil transported by FirstPeople so the site was deemed sacred. Investigation and $10,000 later found the “original”owner had bought plants from a nursery in Cranbourne decades before.
On a similar note, Trump has threatened to prevent transgender individuals owning guns because the cohort has a high propensity to shoot others. Obviously Democrats hate this because it is a Trump idea and now fighting for gun rights for transgender – or so the story goes.
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Due to running a landscape business around Melbourne and surrounds, I can assure you that sandy loam topsoil from the Cranbourne area can be found under almost every turf installation in town.
One of the first operations by developers of housing estates is site prep. which involves levelling of acres of land and selling the topsoil to garden supply firms, only to leave the buyers of the newly constructed houses with no option but to buy it back for their gardens.
Environmental regulations are tightened somewhat these days, but good hort. practise has always been to stockpile site soil for re-use.
How did these boneheads think the natives transported soil? Traditional plastic buckets? Wheelbarrows….oh yeah, they never got that far.
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Of course, the ice age advance of glaciers scoured parts of the world down to bedrock and moved countless tons of soil around the countryside.
Neolithic stone tools have been discovered under gravel deposits deep in the ground after the gravel was deposited on top by glacial action.
Archaeologists cannot always assume that human remains from the period are in situ or have been transported many miles.
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FWIW for the covid record
From today’s Coffee and Covid Newsletter
“Covid is literally making us crazy. This week, Science Alert ran an anxious story with the understated headline, “COVID’s Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations.” They never mentioned the v-word, but a close reader could find it squirted in between the lines.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/partly-disabled-thursday-october?
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My wife bought a greenhouse.
It is an invention of the devil. It has about 80 parts and 100s of fasteners. Very few through holes and a “clever” slding bolt head in channel system so you can adjust to points that are never really defined.
Two otherwise handy and mechanically minded men have so far expended 9hrs on it , to achieve and as yet roofless structure.
Wife has had purchasing privileges revoked for anything requiring assembly.
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1. Don’t buy Ikea/Ikea-like products.
2. Consult pictures of final product before starting.
3. Lay parts out and understand the assembly.
4. No man has ever survived revoking the purchasing power of the missus.
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Maybe Mitt Romney’s brother?
https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/us-news/mitt-romneys-brother-tried-to-make-sure-estranged-wife-got-nothing-in-divorce-docs/
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🙂 offers advice never having seen the product, sure
My whole house was furnished by IKEA when we lived in Switzerland and new it wasnt permanent. That stuff is trivial.
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..why ?
Ikea have possibly the least problematic selfassembly methodology with practically idiot proof instructions and proven assembly systems.
It should be part of the IQ ( and Parliament entry ) tests, to be able to correctly assemble an Ikea Wardrobe system
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Weimar Vibes As Aussies Line Up To Buy Physical Gold
Buyers have been flooding into London’s street-level bullion outlets too, with voracious demand for small bars and coins prompting the Royal Mint to run its presses harder.
“You’ve got this perfect storm at the moment,” said Emma Siebenborn, who runs Hatton Garden Metals.
And now, there are scenes sending Weiomar vibes (though absent the wheelbarrows full of notes) down-under.
https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/if-you-dont-buy-youll-miss-out-weimar-vibes-aussies-line-buy-physical-gold
Looking closely at the photo, I see mask wearers and asians mostly…
Clueless and totally wrong.
Lemmings buying tulips. 😆
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The United States holds the world’s largest stockpile of gold reserves by a considerable margin, so everyone will quit the US dollar, leaving BRICS members to trade in their own currencies.
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Has the amount of gold held at Fort Knox ever been officially confirmed?
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‘Although the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold, Fort Knox’s reserves remain a powerful anchor of economic assurance. With over 147 million troy ounces of gold stored securely, the vault provides both symbolic and strategic support to the U.S. financial system.’ (Bullion Exchanges)
Germany is bringing their gold home.
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Montreal’s mystery sign
https://imgbox.com/GqFkOkUM
From 2010 I believe.
Some say it’s about fire hydrants.
Others, some form of social event.
I say trans toilet ahead!😆
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It’s a Canadian sign for a fire hydrant that shows a twin or “Siamese” connection. Not only in Montreal.
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Bill Gates’ Fake Meat company ‘Almost Worthless’ after stock plunges
Bill Gates’s vision of controlling the global food supply through synthetic “meat” is crumbling before his eyes.
Beyond Meat, once the darling of the plant-based protein industry and valued at nearly $8 billion, is now virtually worthless.
The fake meat industry has been exposed as a Wall Street bubble with no consumer appetite.
“Beyond Meat suffers from taste and texture issues, high prices, and perhaps an ‘ultra-processed food’ image,” said Jerry Thomas, CEO of Decision Analyst.
“The chances of the company surviving are meager.”
https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-fake-meat-company-almost-worthless-stock-plunges/
Woo hoo!😆
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CATL’s new Naxtra sodium battery technology has passed the 2026 Chinese standard for battery initiated explosions and fires.
Sodium is abundant compared with lithium so the new batteries will be lower cost than lithium. CATL have got sodium power density slightly better than current LFP and considerably higher cycle life.
https://www.carz.com.my/2025/09/catls-sodium-ion-battery-clears-chinas-toughest-safety-test
I do not know if any existing LFP cells/battery can meet this new standard.
Mazda are partnering with CATL to bring the battery into road use later this year.
Forecasts are for sodium batteries to be half the cost of existing LFP and good for 10,000 cycles. The Naxtra batteries are forecast to cost USD40/kWh when produced at similar volume to LFP batteries.
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The baby boomers and gen x
We’re old now, still don’t trust authority, never will ask for help, & still know every word to a song we haven’t heard since 1980. We have bad backs, good instincts & zero tolerance for BS…
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A coming fun fight to watch:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/16/orsted-vs-trump-an-offshore-battle-looms/
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Tesla EV toxicity at a distance
Five Sacramento firefighters were hospitalized after responding to a Tesla crash — and they weren’t even close to the car fire.
The vehicle’s battery pack had been compromised, scattering hundreds of cells across the roadway. When the tow truck tried to move the Tesla, the main pack reignited, releasing a massive vapor cloud that traveled hundreds of feet downwind.
These weren’t just flames — this was a toxic mix of hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide, and vaporized solvents like ethyl and dimethyl carbonate. The result: four firefighters still off duty months later with lasting respiratory, cardiac, and renal complications.
https://youtu.be/I-XFHdnN1tE?si=jfxIylJP__Wd_zA9
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This one is a little more up close and personal
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/electric-cars-locked-doors-trap-driver-in-fiery-death/news-story/bc7c6b361c7663f158c259966ae444df
Nobody smashes windows, maybe there’s a rule
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Hume won’t be joining the Nationals.
‘Liberal senator Jane Hume joked she would “have to speak a lot slower” if she joined the Nationals, saying she was “too fond of good coffee and free markets” to join the regional party.
‘The tongue-in-cheek comments have been criticised by Labor’s regional development minister Kristy McBain, who accused the Melbourne-based politician of insulting regional Australia – calling her opponent “smarmy” and “arrogant”. (Guardian)
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“Labor’s regional development minister Kristy McBain, who accused the Melbourne-based politician of insulting regional Australia – calling her opponent “smarmy” and “arrogant”.”
Well !! Its such a good thing Labor aren’t ‘smarmy and arrogant’, and insulting regional Australia, isn’t it…
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It requires seven brave souls to turn the world upside down.
‘Senator Matt Canavan has declared he is not “actively pursuing” Liberal defectors, but has left the door open for the possibility of a Nationals majority within the Coalition.
‘The tense partyroom meeting sparked a dubious Liberal MP to realise if just seven of his colleagues jumped ship to the Nationals, the balance of power in the Coalition would flip.’’ (Sky)
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Tonight’s news is saying that Hanson is talking to Barnaby, and there was talk about whether Hastie and Price would contact Hanson. One Nation support has increased to 13%, with the Greens at 11%.
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O’Bama, Let’s negotiate. Terrorist, I’ll blow stuff up.
O’Biden, Let’s negotiate. Terrorist, I’ll blow stuff up.
Trump, I’ll blow stuff up. Terrorist, let’s negotiate.
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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Hacking groups—at least one of which works on behalf of the North Korean government—have found a new and inexpensive way to distribute malware from “bulletproof” hosts: stashing them on public cryptocurrency blockchains.
“This technique underscores the continuous evolution of cyber threats as attackers adapt and leverage new technologies to their advantage.”
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/
Your digital future awaits.
The plan is of course for a global blockchain, so once hacked it’s gamevover.
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FWIW – called out
“Karoline Leavitt Notices the Dark Side of the Democrat Base and Now They’re Going Ballistic”
“Leavitt: “The Democrat Party’s main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” ”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1978870890935832920
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/10/16/karoline-leavitt-unmasked-the-democrat-base-and-now-theyre-going-ballistic-n4944955
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Friday WTF: Molasses is amazingly good at treating insulin resistance
https://youtu.be/spdv3WQSc8A?si=pD0hhZ3dCII_34-S
Totally counterintuitive.
Dark Molasses is best, and treacle is a quite different byproduct of sugar refining so they’re not the same.
Sugars ain’t sugars.
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The sugar mill has extracted all the sugar from the juice that is economically possible so it isn’t really counterintuitive.
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Oh NO, we’re doomed I tell ya. The ABC today states that two Australian capital cities are on their way to having their warmest October on record (Adelaide and Melbourne). And I ask so what?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-17/forecast-for-australian-weather-weekend-high-records-october/105901378
What temperature records are we talking about, records from 150 years ago when urban heat was negligible, to nowadays where is can may degrees to the daily maximum temps? Records from the airport, all that concrete, asphalt and jet engine exhaust certainly add to these records! They seem to be happy to use older records for comparison when it suits them, 166 years for Sydney and 138 years for Brisbane, yet they like to ignore earlier records when it was hotter for some strange reason.
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Aunty fails to mention the possible cause, Sudden Stratospheric Warming.
‘We would usually expect southeastern Australia to be drier and warmer after sudden stratospheric warming above Antarctica. In 2019, sudden warming over Antarctica led to drier conditions in Australia. Research has shown this influenced the megafires over the Black Summer of 2019–2020.’ (UNSW Sydney)
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“In 2019, sudden warming over Antarctica led to drier conditions in Australia. Research has shown this influenced the megafires over the Black Summer of 2019–2020.’ (UNSW Sydney)”
I call BS! New England had been drying out for years before 2019, that was just the final climax before the drought broke. I was driving 550km to there and back every few weeks for years, and flying over hundreds of Km of forest in a helicopter, you could see the weak species dying in certain areas as they dried out, and the mistletoe being jettisoned before 2019.
There was nothing ‘sudden’ about it, just the usual gradual deepening of the drought year after year.
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From memory the SSW came on the back of a long drought, El Nino times, and the subtropical ridge was too far north for that time of year.
According to Philip Duncan, on this occasion the high pressure is at the correct latitude but looks more like a rugby football on its head.
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There are about 200,000 glaciers on the planet.
Some are retreating, some are advancing.
Icebergs are formed only when advancing glaciers calve, and the consistently huge number of icebergs indicate that advancing types are plentiful.
Why is it then that we are bombarded with frequent activist stories of receding glaciers as if they are all like that and that is somehow proof of global warming?
And just how many are receding anyway?
What about the advancing ones, or don’t they fit the narrative?
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It doesn’t fit the alarmist narrative, but observation proves it has a lot to do with mass balance and locality.
‘In New Zealand, at least 58 glaciers advanced between 1983 and 2008, and Franz Josef and Fox glaciers advanced nearly continuously during this time. Here we show that the glacier advance phase resulted predominantly from discrete periods of reduced air temperature, rather than increased precipitation. The lower temperatures were associated with anomalous southerly winds and low sea surface temperature in the Tasman Sea region.’ (Macintosh et al 2017)
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Once we stop climate change they will stand still.
The best you can do is hope that once we stop climate change, it’s not raining at your house.*
And that it happens in Spring.
Hopefully there won’t be an active hurricane or typhoon at the moment of this great achievement.
*I’m not sure about the day or night thing.
Climate is usually different in day or night.
So I imagine some time zones will be unhappy.
(I’m also figuring we will have stopped racism, hate, and word violence at the same time since racism prevents us from taking climate action. So everyone will be tolerant of their circumstance.)
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FWIW – more magic from Vitamin I?
“CONTROL ARTHRITIS PAIN BY CONTROLLING INFLAMMATION”
“Inflammation Is at the Core of COVID and Arthritis Symptoms
Inflammation is the body’s protective response to injury or infection, but sometimes it gets out of control, causing problems in diseases like COVID-19, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and osteoarthritis (OA). Scientists have discovered that these three diseases trigger similar patterns inside the body, leading to swelling, pain, and tissue damage.
Given Ivermectin’s effectiveness against COVID-19, it shouldn’t be surprising then that Ivermectin is showing remarkably promising results in treating arthritis.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/control-arthritis-pain-controlling-inflammation
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Some more on that
“Does ivermectin help arthritis? Research and Real Results”
https://ivermectin.blog/conditions/does-ivermectin-help-arthritis-research-and-real-results/
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The AMOC won’t collapse.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/10/16/new-study-contradicts-the-alarmist-narrative-that-says-the-amoc-is-catastrophically-collapsing/
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Wasn’t the AMOC collapsing the subject of many cooling climate concerns back in the 1970s?
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1970 – “…get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather – the worst may be yet to come…there’s no relief in sight” – Washington Post
1974 – Global cooling for the past forty years – Time Magazine
1974 – “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” –Washington Post
1974 – “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed” – Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger
1975 – Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable – New York Times, May 21st, 1975
1975 – “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind” Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
1976 – “Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend” – U.S. News and World Report
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Then came the Great Climate Shift of 1976 and a change of meme. At that point in history somebody could have said I think the warming is caused by a change in oceanic oscillations?
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I think I saw somewhere that China was refusing to accept Aussi iron ore shipments. I dont know if they were reneging on contracts, but if they were, wouldn’t it be the logical response be to say, we might mention to our gas companies to maybe reroute their gas shipments somewhere else, seeing as we are basically paying China to take it away anyway, and we would get a much higher price on the open market? It’s just a thought?
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It’s just part of contract negotiations. Xi continuing his wolf warrior diplomacy.
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Australia doesn’t stand a chance in any trade war (or shooting war) with China. Successive governments have allowed (or perhaps engineered) our economic dependence on China, despite warnings going back ten years or more. In so many ways now, China could pretty much shut Australia down within a week.
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Au contraire, China has no way of conquering Australia, militarily at least.
Take off your “Poor fella me” hat and THINK.
China’s much vaunted navy is still a “green water” navy, unable to exert force far beyond the first island chain. It has no expertise in at sea replenishment nor do their long range bombers have accompanying refuelling tankers.
To attack us from the NW any armada would have to navigate Indonesia. Could they beat Indo in a fight? Probably, but not not easily. The landing force would need to take Darwin for the port facilities quickly, then drive thousands kilometres or so across the desert. The RAAF is not unaware how hard that would be:
Note that the Japanese didn’t choose that route in 1943.
Any ships rounding the tip of PNG have will be vulnerable to air attack for over a week, outside the 003 carrier’s range. Remember the Battle Of The Coral Sea.
How about you guys working WITH the conservatives while trusting the Yanks, not against them.
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How many know about this horrific new tax in Victoriastan?
Topher Field discusses:
https://youtu.be/6ZUPegHccus
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FWIW – on cleavage
https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/1o484vd/maybe_maybe_maybe/?share_id=Z4DR224G9YVs41g0UoVGw&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=10
Via SDA and https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2025/10/friday-ephemera-789.html
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FWIW
“EXACTLY HOW I FEEL: Stolen This, Taken That, Expropriated Another.
[https://www.kimdutoit.com/2025/10/16/stolen-this-taken-that-expropriated-another/]
https://instapundit.com/751345/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Shut The CCC Now!”
“The Climate Change Committee are getting desperate, as they face oblivion after the next election:”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/17/shut-the-ccc-now/
Sounds like more “Shaking the Could/Might/Maybe Tree”
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