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The world calls for the immediate release of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. Political prisoner of the Nasty German Government. Reiner Fuellmich is a political prisoner and his continued incarceration is an affront to freedom: https://expose-news.com/2025/10/21/political-prisoner-reiner-fuellmich-must-be-released-now
To complain about nasty socialist Germany imprisoning Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, for refusing to follow orders, to violate the Nuremberg Code, in 2020. Use the ‘contact form’ for the German Embassy to the Commonwealth of Australia: https://australien.diplo.de/au-en/ueber-uns/botschaft/kontakt-formular
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Strange how the very country which is the reason the Nuremberg Code was established is now jailing people for actually complying with it.
How many of the code provisions were violated in Germany, Australia and other woke countries where “vaccination” with the experimental mRNA substance was effectively compulsory, provisions such as (AI summary):
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Bradford crowned UK City of Culture 2025
Bradford was a vibrant city with a rich Yorkshire heritage and its impressive bid drew upon its future Islamic cultural assets, including being the ‘Rape Capital of the World’, as an estimated 1,113 white girls are raped by Muslim men in Bradford every month. Come and visit Bradford, and its culturally vibrant Hotel community.
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Aa JD Vance said:
It’s scary.
TRUMP should encourage UK and France to relinquish their nuclear weapons now, before it’s too late.
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As opposed to whatever David was trying to say about Bradford, I like the town and would love to visit.
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Ah yes, Bradford, number one city in Europe for crime. The most dangerous city to visit. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-europes-most-dangerous-cities-according-to-citizens/. Best of luck getting back in one piece.
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I just checked. I did.
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This is a curious aspect of progressive hipsterism.
It’s like Punk.
Or septum rings.
The worser or grosser it is the more hipsters like it.
A constant impulse to rebellion.
The true artistic heroes die of an overdose at the height of their art.
Or when your pretty rebellious daughter brings home her new Hell’s Angel boyfriend.
This has essentially ruined every Democrat US City.
The criminals are victims.
The law abiding tax paying citizens are suspect racists and culturally ‘phobic’.
I’m sure everything will be fine when the incoming mayor of NYC makes the buses and subways ‘free’.
I guess this happens when society takes over all your basic needs of food and security.
Or at least convinces it can.
Never have to grow up.
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I assume you are neither young nor pretty so I expect you would be fine. Go for it, you have nothing to lose but your virginity at worst.
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Bureau of Meteorology stuffs up its website!
I am not at all pleased with the new BOM website. Which went online yesterday afternoon.
I can’t find anything anymore.
I imagine that the information is still there somewhere but it will take me months to find it all again.
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What a disgrace. We needed the website yesterday in the NSW Central Tablelands as we were hoping for some rain and needed to have some idea if it was coming with the change, via the radar for the state. But despite perseverance it was impossible to load.
As a general rule for forecasting, we use YR which is a Norwegian weather global weather site, which is far more accurate than BOM, anyway.
BTW someone claimed that the new BOM site is designed for mobile phone users. They must be kidding. In our area we don’t get mobile coverage outside the house. In any case, coverage for large areas seems pretty limited via a mobile.
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Websites can be made for both mobile and desktop. They didn’t have to do that.
I bet they didn’t do any user testing either.
In any case I had no problem reading the old website on my phone.
Anyway, like most Government departments, they simply don’t care and don’t even understand that they are meant to be our servants, not masters.
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David, as a farmer I am outraged at this bureaucratic disaster. Weather prediction and information is vital for us. This info sometimes needs to be accessed immediately. The abominable new website may be a marvel for those who are technologically and digitally adept but it is dangerous for those who lack these skills.
In most digital situations of our times new developments eg AI are welcome and can be managed by most people with time. But, in my humble opinion, essential and welfare areas must be easily accessible to all. Up until now our immediate weather situation could be ascertained via Sydney Radar . It was simple and straightforward and could be accessed immediately. You could see weather arriving instantly.
I cannot emphasise how important this development is for country people. Already complaints are flooding newsrooms – the ABC just announced on breakfast TV that BOM is being flooded with complaints.
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Agreed Vicki.
Do you have a Parliamentary “representative” who cares?
Maybe contact them.
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As suggested yesterday and it works – Old Site – https://reg.bom.gov.au/
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Wow,
Thanks Old Ozzie!
Life saver.
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Peter C
Credit goes to
Barry
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 pm · Reply
Use reg.bom.gov.au as the root for your links.
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Will they be maintaining and updating that site OO or are they just keeping it as a transitional stage?
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David,
Don’t know – I have done lots of Critical feedback about how Lousy the New Site is, especailly 2 sections impossible to find in new site from the Old, that I use freqently, no matter what I put into the New BOM Search
https://reg.bom.gov.au/nsw/observations/sydney.shtml
https://reg.bom.gov.au/nsw/observations/nswall.shtml?ref=hdr
My Old sites for chasing historical temperatures still seem to exist
https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_139.txt
https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
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Their new site revamp works for me on mobile just fine, but I always use the Weatherzone+ app instead anyway.
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Old Ozzie to the rescue! Thank you Ozzie – you are a gem. It wasn’t straightforward – but it was there – for who knows how long. (BTW the Cats lost a wonderful asset!)
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I wonder how long they keep that old version going? Many thanks for that link.
The new site sux big time and I told them so on their button on their page that asks “was this page useful?”
On the radar maps on the old site you had an instant view of the current weather conditions, temperature, wind and rain. Now the radar maps just show the rainfall radar, no weather data, you have to go digging deep to find this information. How stupid!
If you want actual measurement data, you have to make some options, tick some boxes and but you still don’t get actual data, i.e. figures, just some pretty colour gradients across the screen that you then have to refer to a colour scale at the top of the page to understand what the colours all mean and how hot/cold or windy it is and I’d guess, how much rain we’ve had when it actually rains. I want actual data not colour gradients across the screen.
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liberator,
I agree re the new BOM Site – It is Un-Navigable – I also have hit the button on was this page useful and laid out the incompetence of the Information Displayed, let alone the impossibilty of finding anything.
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Wonderful! thank you OO. Lets hope, after all the complaints, they will at least, give us a choice.
I think their website crashed yesterday because the “contact”
didnt work when I hit submit. Tried 5x to give feedback.
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I tried the usual search and now their new site is useless. I looked for ‘BOM Radar Melbourne’ and got a map of the world! Thanks for nothing BOM.
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I looked at it and thought, what have they done.
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It seems as though they have too much money and need to spend it on something that is worse than before. Tried this morning to connect but failed.
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You can access the old Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website by replacing “www” in the URL with “reg”. For example, visit https://reg.bom.gov.au/ to access the legacy site.
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I have pointed out this “fiasco” to my Federal representative.
And asked that he help ensure the old format and navigation not disappear.
Implied was “who allowed this to happen?”
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I do not trust BoM data at all. They are imbeciles supporting the Global Warming™ hoax.
Find other sources. Their reputation is mud and no one cares. I am surprised that so many actually still use the site.
Nullschool give a much better perspective with history.
Lots of Australia with low MSLP.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-229.87,-27.51,1373/loc=124.795,-22.472
And enough moisture to form convective storms over a lot of the country:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-229.87,-27.51,1373/loc=128.721,-23.534
But RH mainly higher today:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=relative_humidity/orthographic=-229.87,-27.51,1373/loc=134.488,-28.068
Nullschool also has forecast capability: Heart moving down in NT and QLD for Saturday:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/10/25/0400Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-229.87,-27.51,1373/loc=137.928,-23.316
If you want historical data that is not available in Nullschool then Climate Explorer is highly recommended:
https://climexp.knmi.nl/selectfield_obs2.cgi?id=someone@somewhere
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The new BOM site looks like its designed for primary school children.
I do not understand what problem they thought they were fixing. What a waste.
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Seems to me that the main problem was that people used to hunt around on their website and find stuff.
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I reckon I’m going to prefer any one of the other weather apps to this new tricky BOM one!
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wunderground and ventusky between them give me most of the information that I need.
Met/NIWA has good radar if I need a closer look in N.Z.
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Claim vs really of Canada’s former PM Trudeau.
His economic (and other) incompetence is surpassed only by Australian Government “leaders”. Recall all those failed or soon-to-fail “investments” by Australian Governments will our hard-earned taxes. SH2, solar panel manufacturing, payments to aluminium smelters etc..
GM says:
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In the not too distant future I see the failing/failed woke Liberal Party merging with the Labor Party as they have more in common with them than they do any conservative values.
I think One Nation and allies will be the new face of conservatism in Australia and in any case, the Liberals haven’t been conservative for many decades.
When was the last time you even heard of Liberals complaining about excessive government regulstions, excessive taxes, excessive government spending, excessive violations of freedom, fanatical commitment to Paris, censorship or that we need a DOGE department, excessive and/or inappropriate immigration etc..? Indeed they are either lockstep with the Government or instigators of those things.
The country and conservatives are suffering too greatly under the false expectation that Liberals will fix things or even be capable of winning an election. They are part of the problem. They have to go and the sooner the better. Make space for One Nation and other conservative parties.
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David, the National Party did not lose a single seat in the last election. They still represent the values that forged this nation. I believe that they need to develop a political program to expand into urban areas – after all their very title is “National”. If One Nation, Advance Australia and other conservative parties gave the Nats their preferences, we might see a genuine conservative political surge and a viable force in this country.
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Nats also divided on Net Zero.
They are loosing Barnaby, likely to One Nation and probably another sitting member as well.
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I think the test for a government and it’s adherence of doing what is best for the people can be assessed by removing all the security for every public speaking event where they attend.
If they heard the noise about their unpopular decisions they might just get the message. Of course, the message can’t get through if you vet the entrants at the door. The controllers make sure that only the yes people get in. And that’s the problem. In their secure world, they only get pats on the back.
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An electric bus caught fire last night in Auckland after a crash.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/parnell-vehicle-fire-crews-battle-blaze-after-responding-to-serious-crash/ZVHUH43VIJCWVCRZSAWSJP3A4Y/
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E-bus “caught fire” –
more like ERUPTED in a FIREBALL after bus v car ‘incident’ 9pm last night: twelve hours later the (main) road is still CLOSED – chaos for morning traffic – and sadly 1 person dead with more hospitalised.
Saving The Environment™️ one body at a time. RIP.
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One person confirmed dead after electric bus blaze in Auckland One person confirmed dead after electric bus blaze in Auckland – Thu, 23 Oct 2025,
Tamaki Drive, a popular and busy road, remains closed and will likely stay closed during peak morning traffic today.
Fire and Emergency Assistant Commander Chris Lind said crews arrived at the scene last night to find a serious head-on crash and the electric bus on fire.
A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said the fire was still “ongoing” this morning and the road remained closed between Ngapipi Rd and The Strand.
Photos show the car wedged under an Auckland Transport bus. A witness said he saw flames “about 3 or 4 metres high”.
Others described frantic attempts to rescue those involved before emergency services arrived, amid screams for help.
“There was a girl, but then she got out through the back of the bus,” one said. “They got the lady out of the car… They got her out and she was lying down on the ground and they were helping her out.”
Witnesses reported one person on the bus was unable to be freed in time.
“People are just continuously just throwing water, but the fire just grew and nothing could have been done.”
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I believe these sort of incidents have been a regular feature on China’s roads but we do not hear a lot about them.
There is a new Chinese standard for batteries that requires them to not explode or cause fire under various testing as conducted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2frfkEnBew
The CATL battery may be the only high energy density battery to meet the standard.
Earlier in the week there were reports of power adapters causing fires on planes.
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It’s now a right to work from home in Oz.
I can’t see this being a good outcome for the employees long term. They can have rights but they may not include secure employment. I think we’ll start seeing a lot of fixed term employment contracts coming back into the market place. No need to sack anyone when they insist on WFH at the beach or from Aldi, you just don’t renew the contract. No issues and no fronting up to government witch hunts/committees designed to cripple a business.
Asking if an applicant for a bank loan works from home could be a new risk factor that the banks will use when considering risk. In my mind, if you can work from home, then someone from India can do your job. For less.
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And if people can work from home, why do they even need to be Australian?
Companies would be able to employ people who are appropriately qualified but work in lower labour cost countries. It already happens with telephone service centres for different companies.
Less and less will be produced in Australia in future, including intellectual input to goods and services such as the office worker who is no longer attached to an office.
In our woke, deindustrialising, “de-officing” country, it’s difficult to see how this will end but one thing is certain, it absolutely won’t end well.
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Also, if employees don’t work in Australia, they will not be subject to DEI and therefore will not be forced to practice race and gender based employment discrimination. Being able to practice merit-based employment would be attractive for Australian companies.
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Yes, in the UK my bank uses a call centre in India.
They are very polite and helpful but it can occasionally be tricky to understand their accent.
However I have had the same problem with Scottish call centres!?!
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Yes, a wee problem.
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As somebody who does occasional work for a company at home, there are situations where WFH works OK. But the tech companies I’ve worked for would have never developed products if staff didn’t collaborate well at work. It was the team collaboration that came up with new brilliant ideas, and who pointed out that some ideas had basic flaws.
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No mention of this in Australia MSM/ABC
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/parnell-vehicle-fire-crews-battle-blaze-after-responding-to-serious-crash/ZVHUH43VIJCWVCRZSAWSJP3A4Y/
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Can we sue Albo & Co for exporting Chaotic Climate Calamity?
Thursday 23 October, New Zealand:
State of Emergency declared for Christchurch & parts of the South Island as 150-200 kmh winds roar over the Southern Alps: houses & sheds obliterated, trucks blown over, thunder, hail, snow blizzard conditions on the mountains.
CODE RED issued, STAY AT HOME warnings, schools & work CLOSED, snow level updates adjusted from 1,200m to 600m to 400m with sub-zero temps for exposed parts; meanwhile warm foehn winds (25*C) along the east coast.
All on the same day as a so-called MEGA STRIKE c/- the unions sees doctors, nurses, school teachers plus a horde of government workers walk off the job for “better work conditions” – great timing as this is a 3-day Labour Weekend (now a 5-day) holiday for some. My hospital check-up for detached retina has now been postponed to next week – thank goodness my left eye still works… just.
And the charred burned-out e-bus is still blocking the road 13 hours after igniting … sumpfink about the children’s children or whatever.
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Annie, was that another of your accidental red thumbs? 😃
How’s this brain-fart non-science expertese:
“The hot weather is a flow-on from the recent hot weather in Antarctica [due to SSW]” said Mister Science ‘Scamdelino’ himself on RNZ today. NB. farmerbraun & John in NZ will get this.
Since when was -50°C ‘hot’?
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Sweden, like most of Western Europe and, increasingly Australia, is enjoying its “cultural enrichment”.
According to the woke judges in the following case, I wonder how long a rape has to last before it’s regarded as a “serious offence” that justifies deportation of the non-citizen?
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I’m sure the judges may see it different if they or their partners were the victim. Until that happens, the laws will not be applied.
And when it does happen, will there be a singular point of change or will it take a wave of assaults to flip the tables? In other words, are they the judges in a union and union rules apply. Will they stand for each other, if so, why won’t they stand for us?
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Yes this. The aggravated burgs and car jackings werent big news in the outer burbs , but when they moved to Brighton and the leafy inner ring suburbs suddenly coverage ramped up. All getting a bit to close to where judges and senior public servants live
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It’s that time of the year again. How many people have noticed it. Every year, just after spring breaks & temperatures move up to our normal Australian summer levels, the climate nutters start with their forecasts of “ fire & brimstone “ descending upon all us non believers.
For at least the last 5/6 years we’ve been warned that El Niño is on its way. This always has the stamp of the infamous BOM on it . Their forecasts always prove to be those from their famously inaccurate “ modelling “ and the catastrophic events never materialise!
It’s a little different this year as I believe the BOM has realised the public has their measure. The mention of the BOM has almost disappeared and a very vague source is hinted at!!
Not to worry all the hype will disappear within 3 / 6 weeks or so before reappearing next spring. By the way where is Tim Flannery. I need to find out why we had so much rain this last winter.
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Surely Timmy is rowing his reed raft towards El Dorado, upstream in Amazonia, to choof the ayahuasca with his fellow shamans: there has to be another million dollar book deal in that, foreshore?
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Having spent a few days well upstream on the Amazon river (1600 kms from the coast), the river flow, a combination of Andes snow melt and heavy rainfall, means that you wouldn’t get very far paddling there. It really moves along, and the power boats have to avoid all kinds of debris being washed down off the high banks.
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FWIW
“Indonesian Rainforests Turned Into Open-Cast Mining Pits to Improve Range of High-End Electric Vehicles”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/22/indonesian-rainforests-turned-into-open-cast-mining-pits-to-improve-range-of-high-end-electric-vehicles/
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Well, you have to destroy the planet to supposedly save it from an imaginary problem…
Highly visible environmental destruction is necessary to prove how serious the “global warming” problem is.
People might not appreciate the seriousness of the alleged problem if they couldn’t visualise the wholesale destruction of forests for nickel mines, toxic waste from lanthanide mineral processing in China, clearing of forests for windmill, solar plantations and transmission lines, destruction of productive farmland and the countryside landscape with ugly windmills etc..
And I don’t hear any wokesters complain about the virtual slave labor conditions in Indon nickel mines and smelters.
But it’s all approved by your local anti-energy wokester.
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FWIW
“Ted Nordhaus: Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist”
“Nordhaus is one of the giants of the climate alarmist movement – but in his own words, “I no longer believe this hyperbole”. ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/22/ted-nordhaus-why-i-stopped-being-a-climate-catastrophist/
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Perfect Description of the US Democray Party – Perhaps could be applied to some in Oz & Other Countries
This is why the “big tent” Democratic Party attracts disparate groups, such as environmental activists, eager central planners, redistributionists, anti-gun scolds, antifa goons, COVID tyrants, neo-New Dealers, radical Isl@mists, militant tr@nsgender moms, pride cultists, race hustlers, criminal coddlers, infanticide advocates, male-hating feminists, DEI zealots, busybodies, nannies, groomers, dancing geriatrics and raging protesters who have no idea what they’re protesting.
(Why does this list remind us of the “Blazing Saddles” scene in which the scheming Hedley Lamarr, played brilliantly by Harvey Korman, ordered Slim Pickens’ Taggart to round up a gang of “rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men …”?)
That the groups listed above have little to nothing in common yet fit snugly together is no mystery.
Their grievances are not their grievances, they are merely means for a revolution, or, as we sometimes seem to be heading toward, a civil war.
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Beijing sees America as a failed state.
‘Chinese state media has labelled the US a failed state, claiming it is “dying from within” as its global hegemony declines.’ (SCMP)
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60,000 illegal migrants have boated into the UK from France since Labour won the election.
About 42 have been sent back and replaced with the 1 in 1 out deal. One of those sent back has already made it over again and others are known to be trying to travel back again. What a fiasco.
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It’s a government-approved and sponsored invasion.
They stopped the National Socialists but they can’t stop these people?
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Volcanic explosions on Mars may have left massive ice deposits at the Red Planet’s equator
Previous research has found that the surface of Mars is rich in ice. Most of these deposits are located at its poles, just as seen on Earth. However, recently the Mars Odyssey and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft detected elevated levels of hydrogen near the ground on the equatorial regions of Mars. This ice could have lasted for long spans of time if buried under dust or volcanic debris, and still might exist below the surface of equatorial regions on the Red Planet.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/volcanic-explosions-on-mars-may-have-left-massive-ice-deposits-at-the-red-planets-equator
Paging Doug Quaid again. 😁
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That is good news and here is some more.
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-power-of-plasma-propulsion-a-new-era-in-space-travel/60991/
By chance, do you have a theory on 3I/ATLAS?
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Canada under Carnage Carney is considering cancelling its F-35 contract with the United States.
Carney might even be a worse PM than Trudeau.
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FWIW
“Life delivers another warning about financial preparedness”
We’ve discussed many aspects of “prepping” over the years in these pages. Some topics come up repeatedly. One of them is financial preparedness: establishing an emergency fund, getting out of debt, paying cash rather than going into more debt, and so on. Part of that advice has always been to have a certain amount of money available in cash, without needing to go to a bank to get it. If communications systems go down, you won’t be able to verify balances, pay by credit card, etc. Better have some cash on hand to take care of essentials for a few days.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/10/life-delivers-another-warning-about.html
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Unfortunately in a SHTF scenario cash itself might become worthless.
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It will still be needed as a medium of exchange in the short term, doubt the supermarket will take gold bars or your personal promissory note, but they will take a fifty in exchange for bread and milk for a few days.
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The supermarkets may not take fractional Au/Ag but independent petrol stations and Indian small goods shops will.
I collected “a lot” of round 50c coins ages ago. In doubt the situation where I NEED them will ever arise though, I’m not a prepper at heart.
Are Eastern Europeans remembering their grandparents advice to have a gold coin sewn into the hem of your coat to bribe border guards?
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When you take a round 50 c coin to the corner store for milk, how will you and the storekeeper agree on the value of the coin? He will want it to be worth 50c, but you will consider it to be worth quite a lot more.
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Yes there is always spme rationale to do nothing I guess.
Trouble is we have idea what kind of SHTF scenario we may face. Its severity, duration and time to recover are undefined. I guess you need to make your own assessment on what is most likely and doable for your situation / location. I tend to agree with others have said here and would just add ammo in my rural location.
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New dietary guidelines for the United States.
Soyboys will be disappointed.
Carnivores will love them!
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Yep.
Dump the seed oils, trans fats, processed meats, high sugar, high GI, high carb, additive-laced junk.
Put big pharma out of business.😁
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I don’t even want meat fed on soy meal. Grass will do do fine, thank you.
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Excellent interview with Lindzen and Happer on Joe Rogan. A bit over two hours, but well worth it from beginning to end.
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It was great, wasn’t it? It was a valuable discussion on the history of climate science/ politics. I liked it because they didn’t get too bogged down in technical jargon. In fact, I think they tried to avoid that aspect on purpose. Joe Rogan at one stage asked the pair about the “science’ and Lindzen was very quick to keep it simple. A regular person not versed in the subject, could actually listen the podcast and think “…. oh, now I get it”. It was 2 hours of information without the hyperbole and jargon. Joe is a very well crafted interviewer and he got the best out of both Happer and Lindzen.
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Meanwhile in orbit…
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t4ji6ysf1S1z23obp_720.mp4
15,000 or so so far.
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You only have to check this out just to see how many Starlink Satellites are orbiting around the Earth, and more to come:
https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
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Beyond Ridiculous – EU Automakers Purchasing Carbon Credits from Chinese EV Makers to Avoid EU Climate Change Fines
Europe has fines associated with the production of gasoline powered engines if the auto company doesn’t hit targets for sales of electric vehicles.
The fines triggered this year.
In order to avoid paying the European fines the auto makers are forming alliances with Chinese EV makers to purchase carbon credit offsets.
In essence, EU car companies buy Chinese car company carbon credits, to avoid the EU fines.
The Chinese car companies can then use the carbon credit revenue to subsidize lower priced Chinese EVs to the European car market, thereby undercutting the European EV car companies.
BRILLIANT!
Nissan is purchasing carbon credits from China’s BYD (Build Your Dream). South Korea is purchasing from Xping.
Mercedes and Volvo are purchasing carbon credits from Chinese automaker Geely.
BYD and Geely are selling super cheap EVs into the entire EU car market.
lol 😂 You can’t make this stuff up.
The EU economic offset plan? Let’s go to war with Russia.
Brilliant!
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This is classic case of unintended consequences.
What a mess Europe has become.
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How ironic !…Nissan being one of the very first manufacturers to produce a commercial EV ! ..
( the Leaf )
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FWIW
“Oh Canada! Your Government Took Your Guns, Now Your Homes. Get It, Yet?”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/10/22/canada-kicks-its-communism-into-high-gear-steals-land-from-citizens-and-returns-it-to-native-tribe-n4945094
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Australia seems on a similar path
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FWIW
“Putin-Trump Hungary Meeting Reportedly Canceled After Poland Threatened to Intercept Russian Leader’s Plane”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/22/putin-trump-hungary-meeting-reportedly-canceled-after-poland-threatened-to-intercept-russian-leaders-plane/
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That is not the real reason Trump called off the meeting, Rubio spoke with his Russian counterpart (horse head) who said nothing has changed. The Kremlin is not interested in a ceasefire.
So Donnie has just imposed crippling sanctions on Russian oil and gas conglomerates, war should be over by Xmas.
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Sanctions won’t win the war, burning refineries and terminals will. OK, sanctions make it harder to do repairs.
I see some method in Ukraine leaving the Kirsch bridge open for light traffic. Ukraine may not have to put boots on the ground to retake it and the more ruskies who voluntarily deport the better.
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If this meeting was ever seriously on the cards , there is nothing magic about the Budapest location. Trump could easily go to Vladivostock as easily as Putin went to Anchorage. Seems like more media theatre.
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FWIW
“The Sighted Led by the Blind”
“Rachel Reeves, our Chancellor, has much to ponder ahead of her autumn budget.
Larry Summers, an economist, noted a few years ago that the country was “behaving like an emerging market”.
He wasn’t talking about rape gangs, shoplifting, or burglaries, though he might have thought it. He was referring specifically to our financial situation.
Professor Jagjit Chadha, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, thought the description inaccurate. Such countries generally move forward.
“We are going the other way,” he said.”
More at
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2025/10/22/the-sighted-led-by-the-blind/
Headlined at SDA as “A lesson for Canada”
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Man creates AI clone of dead wife that’s so good he can’t tell the difference
Famed Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel has announced that he’s created an AI clone of his late wife, actress Suzanne Somers, who passed away from breast cancer at the age of 76 in 2023.
“It was Suzanne,” Hamel told People. “And I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away. When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference.”
“And I mean, I’ve been with Suzanne for 55 years, so I know what her face looks like, and when I just look at the two of them side by side,” he added, “I really can’t tell which one is the real and which one is the AI.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/alan-hamel-ai-clone-wife-suzanne-somers
What can you say…
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Dynamic patterns in water as analogue models
https://youtu.be/vTerUb7SSyQ?si=pAPWV1o-EzM7KfPe
Tesla would be proud.
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Rupert Sheldrake.
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Gosh, havn’t heard his name in years. I did hear him speak in Sydney many many decades ago. I took my dad, who was a great fan of Sheldrake’s.
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The Forgotten Heroine’s Journey: Why Feminism Leaves Women Spiritually Starved and Men Adrift
A Thoughtful Read – I would be interested in Cat Ladies Views on the Article.
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Pivotal research on Creatine finds foundational applications way beyond the gym – including brain, bone, and healthy aging
Support muscle and function even without exercise. In studies of older adults and immobilized limbs, creatine users maintained more lean tissue and strength than non-users.
Enhance bone strength and density. Research in aging populations shows creatine combined with resistance training can increase bone area and estimated strength, helping counter osteoporosis risk.
Improve cognition and memory. Studies in healthy older adults and early-stage Alzheimer’s patients show modest improvements in memory and mental fatigue resistance after creatine loading.
Support women’s health across life stages. New research highlights benefits for exercise performance and fatigue resistance across the menstrual cycle.
Aid recovery and tissue repair. In trials of patients recovering from injury or surgery, creatine supplementation reduced muscle loss and improved functional recovery. Animal and pediatric studies also suggest creatine may shorten recovery time and lessen brain damage after traumatic brain injury.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/pivotal-research-creatine-finds-foundational-applications-way-beyond-gym-including-brain
Been using it for decades.
Totally safe, doesn’t need to be taken with food, just a heaped tablespoon a day is all you need.
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Yale University leads PSYOP to guilt people into taking Covid “Vaccine” months before they even had one
“Yale received $1B in gov’t funds and works closely with the intelligence state…used guilt, embarrassment, anger, and ‘trust the science’ messages to get people to take the ‘Covid Vaccine’ months before it was even developed…”
https://rumble.com/v6tn3k9-yale-universitys-covid-involvement-conspiracy-and-crimes-against-humanity.html
Daleks:
“Exterminate!”Indoctrinate!Lest we forget…
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Fantastic news!
Thank you President TRUMP!
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If the clowns pushing that tax had any clue, they would realise how incredibly fuel efficient modern shipping already is. The only way to get fewer emissions is to stop shipping, which I guess is their true plan.
As you would expect, Australia, even though we are dependent upon shipping, was promoting the tax very enthusiastically, thus showing us where the loyalties of the politicians and public serpents who tell them what to think, lie.
Australia’s position:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-stare-down-trump-s-threats-over-new-global-carbon-tax-20251015-p5n2r5.html
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IIRC those Wartsila Sulzer common rail engines are now more than 50% fuel efficient
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Would it be hugely expensive to have the fleet run on more refined product? I hope no ship with bunker oil is allowed in the GBR Marine Park.
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Social democrats caught short.
‘Environment conservation reforms in doubt as Nationals, Greens criticise draft laws.
‘The Nationals deputy leader, Kevin Hogan, said the party has major “reservations” with the federal government’s new nature laws in a blow to Murray Watt’s hopes of striking a deal with the Coalition.
‘The Greens’ environment spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, has also doubled down on her criticisms of the legislation, leaving Watt without an obvious partner to get it through the Senate.’ (Guardian)
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Good heavens. The hyphenated one is STILL in the senate. Goolag says she was first elected in 2008. Has it really only been 17 years?
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The irrepressible Andrew Hastie.
‘Hastie takes a jab at Ley in another dig from backbench
‘Andrew Hastie has undermined the argument made by Sussan Ley that Kevin Rudd should be removed from his US role after his public berating from the President.’ (Oz)
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If Hastie is telling me that Rudd is doing a good job … then I think that might be a problem.
Although I will say … could not have been easy making Albo look good
… perhaps it was a well executed wingman manauver … and Rudd took one for the team. But, naaaa, it’s Rudd we are talking about here, he wouldn’t even understand the concept of a team … so rule that one out.
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FWIW
“Rep. Balderson’s New ARC Energy Security Act Is Smart Legislation”
Green Promises, Red Bills — Time to Power America the Right Way
America’s energy landscape is shifting under the weight of surging demand from AI data centers and revitalized industry. At the same time, Biden-era policy failures are delivering skyrocketing electricity costs that squeeze family budgets, while an overburdened grid struggles to keep pace.
President Trump and his administration are doing great work to restore energy common sense, and another step toward a practical solution is at hand. Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) has introduced the Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act of 2025, a bill that anchors energy policy in clear, evidence-based definitions of “affordable,” “reliable,” and “clean” aims to steer us toward stability and affordability”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/22/rep-baldersons-new-arc-energy-security-act-is-smart-legislation/
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I was alarmed to read that Albanese has created and launched a “new police task force”. Apparently, they will have “teams in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra – part of a major crackdown on people accused of spreading hate, fear and division, including individuals who have targeted federal parliamentarians.”
They are operating already and fall under the AFP’s “Counter Terrorism and Special Investigations Command.”
“Their mission is to identify and disrupt threats to Australia’s social fabric before they escalate into violence or unrest, targeting groups and individuals causing significant harm to national cohesion.”
Any guesses as to which side of the political spectrum they will target?
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Apparently it’s not woke to use the term “witch doctor” now…
Gulag AI says:
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FWIW
“Engels and the Marxist Gospel built on lies”
Seems what he saw was not what he wrote
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/engels-and-the-marxist-gospel-built-on-lies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-23&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“EU Is Going to Have Their NATO War Against Russia – With or Without President Trump – And It Gets Worse
October 22, 2025 | Sundance | 32 Comments”
Let’s put the events of the last 72 hours into context.
On Monday and Tuesday, Russian oil refineries in NATO countries Hungary and Romania suddenly, and simultaneously, have mysterious explosions and catastrophic fires {citation}}. On Wednesday, NATO head Mark Rutte comes to visit President Trump in the White House, and at the end of the day, the same Russian company, Lukoil, whose refinery exploded in Romania, suddenly becomes sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury {citation}. These events are not disconnected.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/10/22/eu-is-going-to-have-their-nato-war-against-russia-with-or-without-president-trump-and-it-gets-worse/
and following threads
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Around that
“EU Declares War On Its Own Members”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/eu-declares-war-on-its-own-members
And
“What’s behind Trump’s Ukraine U-turn?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/whats-behind-trumps-ukraine-u-turn/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-23&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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Tony Blair’s think tank says UK should give up levies.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/tony-blair-urges-ed-miliband-to-abandon-green-levies/
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FWIW
Somewhere I saw a comment today re having cash for emergencies –
That, in a real FHTF situation, todays cash has only a base metal worth
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