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From a few weeks ago.
Certain Chinese electronics banned in USA as they might spy on Americans or disrupt infrastructure.
A hacker looks at one of the banned cameras to see what it does:
https://youtu.be/mhIdb10HZ4o
Australia also removed some of these cameras from Government buildings in 2023:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/09/chinese-made-security-cameras-to-be-removed-from-australia-government-buildings
BUT after that I saw one of these prohibited cameras being installed as a traffic camera in Victoriastan. I wrote to my local Liberal state “representative” but he couldn’t care less and didn’t do anything.
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Meanwhile. https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/chinese-listening-devices-parked-beside-australias-biggest-air-base/news-story/233db38e30fc4ec9ab5b3f61e4f566ff
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THANKS JO !! Got the old one now.
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How did the BoM manage to spend $4.1 million of Aussie taxpayer money on changing thir website to make it totally useless?
Back in the day, there would have been extensive usability testing by actual users before the release of a new site, or any software.
The new site is so bad that even the utterly incompetent Federal Government asked them to fix it.
In fact even Chrissie “Blackout” Bowen was disappointed. Imagine how bad something would have to be to disappoint a simpleton like him. Although I assume one of his public serpent advisors told him what to say and “think” about it.
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“The Govt clearly has work to do in that it has lost community confidence..” Mr Bowen said.” would be more like it!
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there would have been extensive usability testing by actual users before the release of a new site
But current internet users only ever access it on their phones?
/s
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I imagine there were many earnest meeting with everyone nodding in agreement about how cutting edge and fabulous the new site is. Do we know yet who did the actual work?
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“Residents of Sydney, Australia, will be banned from cooking on certain outdoor gas barbecues in a move by the city’s woke mayor to save the planet by reaching net zero emission targets.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/30/crikey-woke-aussie-mayor-bans-bad-for-the-planet-outdoor-gas-barbecues/
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It’s also part of the Left’s war against meat because meat is best barbecued for maximum taste.
Plus barbecuing is a traditional Australian outdoor social ritual.
Note that the ban refers to barbecues connected to the grid gas supply. They won’t be able to ban barbecues that use portable LPG cylinders (US = propane cylinders). At least, not yet. No doubt it will come as Australia continues to fall into dictatorship.
Also, the ban is not only against grid connected gas barbecues but all gas appliances in new builds, including in commercial establishments like restaurants. Professional chefs need gas cooking appliances. So there goes all new restaurants as well.
The Left simply don’t care about the societal disruption and destruction of the standard of living they cause. In fact, that’s the purpose of these regulations.
No doubt other woke Governments will follow. Gas connection is already prohibited in new builds in Victoriastan.
Also in Victoriastan, you soon won’t be able to replace a gas hot water heater. When it needs replacing, it will have to be replaced with electric. But where will the electricity come from?
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“Plus barbecuing is a traditional Australian outdoor social ritual.”
Probably a special section reserved for “first Australians” in the new, but apparently hardly news worthy Victorian treaty with its alleged First Nations people.
They traditionally had barbecues every day of the week, so dispensation?
Dunno,
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A first Aussie showing his disdain for Halloween.
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Wonderful! My opinion too!
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Seems they missed the memo that most of the global left has given up on the bug diet. Even Bill Gates seems to have bailed on that particular project, probably because he lost his shirt on his Beyond Meat investment. Rich guys don’t stay rich by backing losers indefinitely. They take their losses and pull out to put their money somewhere more profitable.
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Australia is a heavy consumer of meat – 100 to 148kg per capita annually, so interfere with that and there will be trouble.
https://www.statista.com/chart/16889/total-per-capita-meat-consumption-worldwide/
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Just ordered & delivered – T-Bone, 2 x Fillet steaks, Leg of Lamb, Lamb Loin Chops, Lean Beef Mince, Smoked Texan sausages, Cheese & Beef sausages, Thin Beef sausage, Lamb Steaks for Stew,
That will do for this week!
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Nice haul!
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No more ‘shrimp on the barbie’?
I thought that was a constitutional right in Australia.
What’s next? Are the going to ban Paul Hogan movies, Great Northern lager, and Vegemite?
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A real barbeque should be over charcoal anyway … or glowing embers from a hot wood campfire !
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One does what one can with the modest resources at ones disposal
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I can recall the shrimp on the barbie campaign and being Melbourne born and bred thinking it should have been snag on the barbie. Maybe it was a Sydney v Melbourne thing.
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Interesting video about tripod fish.
Do they dream?
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Sounds like the perfect sentry to detect submarines with some adaptions.
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When I was a kid I used to spend hours at the public library paging through this enormous volume that was just thousands of black and white large format photographs of deep sea fish. The angler fishes were probably the most varied and monstrous. Nature is amazing.
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Beware Jim Chalmers new tax grab on Superannuation! After spending and wasting too much on Bowen’s wet dreams he want to replenish it from your Super! See the following link about California’s windmill waste
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/30/windmills-spin-returns-vanish-taxpayers-foot-the-bill/
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Yep. Not even our super (retirement savings) is safe.
Although I bet the super of politicians and public serpents is 100% safe.
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Haven’t they already raided “The Future Fund”?
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The climate bigot Greg Combet has been put in charge of it.
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I thought the whole purpose of the future fund was to provide for the superannuation benefits of public serpents.
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I won’t say, “Told you so” but, well …
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Apparently in the US the whole transgender movement is in decline, especially since TRUMP recognised that there were “only” two genders and moved to ban men from women’s sports.
And yet like all crazy Leftist ideas, Australia continues (or even increases) their efforts in such areas. Poor kids.
I’ll remind you of the following update of gender cases in Australia, not being significantly reported by our Lamestream Media but reported by Irene BritUSA in the US. Seeing her video is the best way for Australians to inform themselves of what’s going on here.
See her video: https://youtu.be/r7U_VTs_D6M
One good piece of news from Australia is that the Queensland health minister reinstated the ban on children being given puberty blockers by frankendoctors. He did this after the Queensland Supreme Court overturned the previous ban.
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It’s not just Australia.
UK Glamour magazine just featured 9 men as their ‘women of the year’.
https://x.com/Gaynotqueer1/status/1983605463930519775
To the surprise of no one, JK Rowling had something to say about it.
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1983848989213553091
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Some delusions are so cruel.
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I have noticed it now seems less necessary to bring drag queens into every single frigging human endeavour.
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Everyone was fine with drag queens until they started to drag kids into it.
If a mentally ill adult wants to let their freak flag fly among other adults, more power to them. But if they want to perv on kids, that’s a whole different ball of wax and normies no longer found it a harmless bit of quirky fun.
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Net Zero is a phrase that could easily be used in reference to the lack common sense of Australian Politicians past and present. The first thing they think about is WIIFM! None of them retire or die poor. I look at Scomo with disgust because he is just the latest iteration of the stereotype! He and his family are now safely established in The USA while we that remain will remain in servitude for life following his woeful term as a Turnbull Clone/Clown.
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Morrison works for
1) The Center for a New American Security with close ties to the Democrats and partly funded by Soros, Open Society Foundations.
2) He also works for American Global Strategies LLC which is seemingly politically neutral.
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Nothing would surprise me David except the Sorus/Dem connections but they do link back to Turnbull. Life is obviously treating him well, he can’t get that inane grin off his face
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I am sure that they, being your clowns and Jacinda and Helen Clark, are all just the very best of “besties”.
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In Victoriastan there is now a new unelected Parliament.
This is exactly what Australians voted AGAINST federally when they rejected The Voice, but state governments are going ahead with it anyway.
At huge expense. And for one percent of the population of Victoriastan, which itself is probably an exaggerated figure as it’s trendy to identify as such regardless of actual ancestry.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/victorian-first-nations-treaty-legislation-passes/105954864
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Still not news worthy on the MSM ( not the ABC) as at 9.30am. Small mention way down the page of the Herald Sun on line. No mention at all at News.Com.
I am not great at searching government websites so have NO IDEA what 99% of the population has been signed up to.
The one sure bet is the “treaty obligations” and the majority of the costs will be born by rural Victorians. Allegedly control of ALL waterways will be given to 1% of the population along with vast tracts of what was know as public lands. Not enough votes in all of rural Vic to vote out this city centric government still the luvvies in Melbourne will be delighted.
Wonder what a certain outspoken senator will think of this, first bet is she will still not be satisfied.
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Yep, the white race digging their own grave.. NZ, Aussie, Canada will be giving back to the stone age mobs, Europe & UK will be overwhelmed by stone-age immigrants.
But they do insist to me that democracy is the greatest form of Govt… Surely all these people can’t be wrong?
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The NASA SORCE mission (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment) went into orbit in 2003. So it provides a useful comparison of the solar radiation constant as determined from direct measurement in Earth’s orbit with the Monthly Sunspot count.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U95w9EgKLerlMVIRFLge-7NKOv6ED0Mt/view?usp=sharing
Prior to 2004, the solar constant was based on the Sunspot count. After 2004 it is based on actual satellite measurement in Earth orbit. Note the 2 year or so time discrepancy between the rise in solar constant and the counting of the Sunspots for the most recent cycle. Further proof that counting Sunspots from Earth is time shifted from the solar activity.
The STEREO mission followed the SORCE mission but it has been terminated because one of the two satellites orbiting the Sun lost control and solar panels lost alignment so power drained down. But it provides true full Sun view while they were under control. I have not found if there was any attempt to determine solar constant from those observations but they did identify that there needs to be full Sun view to understand the mass ejections:
https://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/10year/
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FWIW – UK
“Labour, Immigration And The Urine Extraction Process
There’s incompetence. There’s farce. And then there’s our current government.”
“I’m honestly starting to think Keir Starmer’s government really is just trolling us. It’s hard to believe they could be this cataclysmically inept without actually trying to be, particularly when it comes to the topic of immigration. I mean, it’s not a trivial matter, is it? It’s not like Britain is relaxed and at ease with the way we’re being swamped with the dubious denizens of the third world. Oh no. Immigration is one of the key political issues now, and widespread opposition to it is driving the biggest upheaval in British politics this century. Illegal immigration is particularly annoying, and has become a flashpoint issue capable of sparking angry protests. Now we’ve been treated to the farcical sight of the immigrant criminal behind the most high profile of those protests being accidentally released.”
More at
https://fergusmason.substack.com/p/labour-immigration-and-the-urine
Via Instapundit
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What does the panel think?
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/10/thursday-131/#comment-2877562
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“combination of disease and technology” or CODAT for the acronymically minded:
Taking a stab in the dark, possibly something to do with New Zealand’s latest PANIC ATTACK over a measles outbreak which is closing schools and allowing the rebirth of 2020’s Operation Covert-19 mind-washing fear tactics?
Just Take Your MMR Shot!
I’d be more worried about Palmie’s asbestos fire fumigating your neighbourhood and unsettling the moo cows. How’s your air quality in the Manawatu this morning?
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Funnily enough , the asbestos story was already dead this morning, and “apparently” the lockdown was to prevent potentially dangerous smoke from causing a pandemic of . . . something. Asbestos was not in use when the Fitz was built in the late 60s.
So if your BS detector went off , it should have.
So yeah , this morning we are chopping the 100 or so acres of silage that was mown yesterday in stiff breezes which have intensified today , along with the sun in a reasonably clear sky providing the evaporation needed to increase the Dry Matter %.
At the same time we are feeding some of the milking cows with the very high quality silage made in October last year, to counter the lush pasture conditions prevailing as a result of insufficient solar power and increased soil carbon emissions(increased respiration rate).
All good.
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The other tidbit was that The Fitz was in the process of being demolished by its owners.
I guess the demolition cost just went way down.
Just thinking , not a bad site for a new stupormarket, possibly catering to ethnic tastes.
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Fire – how convenient.
Stupor-market ✔️
Nihau… Salaam… Tank you, come again.
A stranger in my own land.
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Not a word about it at all in the NZ Herald.
Its a good thing we didn’t have breath-testing back in the days of the 1960s Fitz..
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The prat formerly known as prince
shall now revert to his common name of
Andrew Battenberg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
aka Mountbatten Windsor (don’t mention the war)
as well as losing the castle Mummy paid for.
O how the mighty fall – Happy R Halloween 🎃
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I hope his ex-wife ‘Fergie’ is at last outed as another entitled, corrupt grifter. I can’t stand that woman. Her involvement in sleaze and her renowned greed have been known for decades, yet still she mysteriously remains a (peripheral) member of the UK royals, treated as some sort of celebrity princess.
I have suspicions about their daughters, too. I cannot believe they weren’t involved/aware of all the corrupt deals being made.
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If we ever wanted a more accurate descriptor of Government stupidity look no further than Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia. Against all the best advice a Labor Government facilitated it’s sale to a failed Indo/British financier Sanjiv Gupta only to see it collapse for a second time. There was never any possibility that steel could be smelted using battery power but Labor pushed on regardless. Craig Emmerson, to his detriment and shame even wrote a song about it “No Whyalla Wipeout”
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FWIW – a model for “ElBowen and Dr Jim”
“Windmills Spin, Returns Vanish, Taxpayers Foot The Bill”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/30/windmills-spin-returns-vanish-taxpayers-foot-the-bill/
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FWIW
“Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent”
“No green activist operation makes clearer why they need to ban free speech and cancel scientific debate to achieve Net Zero hegemony than the Guardian newspaper. Last Saturday, we learnt from its Environment Editor Damian Carrington that campaigners had said the UK’s TV and radio regulator Ofcom was allowing GB News and others to ‘flout” accuracy rules and broadcast “climate change denial”, whatever that last phrase means. Carrington noted in response to frequent suggestions of inaccuracy in UN climate models going back to 1979, that, “in fact, UN climate models have been remarkably accurate”. How Carrington, one of three journalists of the year in 2023 at the Green Blob-funded Covering Climate Now, can write this with a straight face is anyone’s guess.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/30/guardian-ramps-up-efforts-to-ban-all-climate-dissent/
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Big storm heading for Ireland:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/weather/topstories/ireland-weather-warnings-halloween-storm-bram-fears-spark-unusual-met-eireann-alert/ar-AA1PlCMA
I will add that I predicted above trend snowfall this in the NH this fall-winter because the solar forcing advection is unusually high.
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China now has massive surveillance reach. And it goes far beyond the boundaries of the country. A Chinese student in Melbourne can be reprimanded for disrespecting the CCP while walking down a Melbourne street or in the halls or classroom of their Australian University.
Both Australia and UK are being rapidly taken over by the CCP.
It all has a 1930 Germany feel to it. There is a new master race with near complete surveillance of the developed world and an obedience demanded by the CCP. Australia is now fully aligned. We saw how Dan was treated in China then Sleezy and Jacinta – Australia is being groomed by the CCP. Step out of line and there will be retribution. So you soon learn not to step out of line.
Interestingly, Australia is more likely to fall in line than Taiwan. Taiwan probably has a better appreciation of the CCP.
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‘ … obedience demanded by the CCP.’
That is history, everything has changed now that Xi has been stripped of power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThaY8HbC6rQ
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Yeah riight..
“Katherine Hu, you are a good fairy tale story teller!”
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Bram the Stoker of Doom 👻
Nothing wrong with a little wind nor sleet nor snow – hardcore Irish surfers will be scanning weather maps (like you and I Rick) to ascertain the best spots to paddle into some of the biggest surf of the year smashing into the Emerald Isle’s west coast.
As the saying goes: Every cloud has a silver lining – or a perfect, if freezing, 30ft wave – yowzah!
As Gordon Lightfoot ruminated:
When the winds of November come early…
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“Bureaucracies of virtue: The Victoria Treaty Bill risks repeating NZ’s mistakes that shoehorned in effective Maori co-governance? NZ is or should be a powerful warning to Victoria and its push to legislate an ever-higher tower of Indigenous representation”.
I thought States were explicitly excluded from signing Treaties with other nations! Albo will, of course condone their action and use it as leverage to indoctrinate the whole country. As he said Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017 and reiterated recently at the 2025 shindig. Step by step they take a little bit
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Tu meke bro, tu meke.
Too much, fella, too much.
Turn around before it’s too late –
you have been warned ⚠️
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With respect, there’s a big difference – Maori were already a nation or very close to the definition of.., and English had to act correctly with respect of their own institutions.
New Zealand still can find a way to harmonious coexistence of both cultures, that being neither full Assimilation nor Apartheid.
BTW, I begin to think Victorians (and then – Australians) also getting practical. More often I hear they say – I am indigenous, I was born here and no one can prove otherwise. Another year or two of unexplainable growth of First Nations and it will topple over.
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This has to be all lies, paid for by the Labor Party.
All the thinking, working or retired people I know wish they were living somewhere else.
Melbourne and Victoriastan and indeed Australia today are more like Nineteen Eighty Four.
From Gulag AI:
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Not that I’d trust goolag as far as I can throw it, David, but what question did you ask to elicit that response?
I haven’t used any of the AI programs (well not to my knowledge) but I think there may be merit in asking any AI program what its competitors would say. Sort of the test used when dealing with two people one of which always lies and the other always tells the truth.
Maybe I will read it again when I travel to Airstrip One next week.
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I did a search on “happiness in 1984” without quote marks. I wasn’t specifically looking for an AI response and I only use AI if I essentially know the answer anyway, I don’t rely on it.
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I have recently recieved several “cold calls” ( sales pitches , compare the market , etc) but these have opened with the statement…
..” this is a call from a vitual assistant for xyz etc…”
I am now responding asking “what is a virtual assisant” ?
My question is always met with silence or ignored !
So i ask again, ..and again,. Still no answer !!
The voice’s are invariably American accents and obviously AI generated.
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“More than 18,000 local welfare recipients were asked how joyful their city makes them feel – and it showed some Melburnians sure are a happy bunch”
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FWIW – Presidential intrigue
Re ““Forget Trump’s Ballroom: One President Once Stunk Up the White House for Months” ”
Seems it was Andrew Jackson but the U-tube “isn’t available any more”
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The bathtub issue is mentioned here.
https://archivesfoundation.org/newsletter/myth-busted/
It was written in honour of the US National Bathtub Safety Month. Yes, there really is such a thing.
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Vaxx time for the kiddies in China!
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/1983853103821566253
Love the cute QR’s! 😎
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Even at that age they are highly compliant and indoctrinated little automatons, all dutifully standing on their little squares maintaining social separation.
Just like Uniparty voters did during covid in Australia, actually.
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Reminds me of the injection queues in my high school years. They used each syringe multiple times only sterilizing over a flame. Word around the wise was to get there early before the needles got too blunt.
And it makes me wonder what life will be like for my newborn grand daughter. I am convinced that there is a divine spark within each child. I look forward to meeting her next week.
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U.S. Senate votes to UNLEASH fossil fuel development at the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to the tune of millions of acres – UNDOING a Biden-era decision.
It has passed 52-45. 13.3 million acres will be opened up.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1983941230074425708
Paging Greta, paging Greta…
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And at the same time the US senate passed a bill limiting Trump from using tariffs.
Strange days indeed!
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House won’t vote on Senate Bill & Trump can Veto if required.
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Does it need 60 senate votes to make a bill veto-proof?
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60 senate votes are the line to overcome a filibuster.
67 votes are needed for the senate part of overcoming a veto.
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Don’t forget Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally this weekend.
Two hrs drive from Melbournistan.
Get out of lawless, communist Melbourne for a bit.
https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/
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I guess these will be South Africans who were denied entry to Australia due to their skin colour and ability to immediately go to work and not be lifelong welfare recipients and Labor voters.
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Can TRUMP please start taking Aussie refugees as well?
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If you don’t 🩷 it, leave.
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If you don’t love it, change it… or the place will collapse if the productive leave AND TAKES THEIR MONEY WITH THEM!
NZ lost over a million dollars when we came here decades ago, nowadays middle-class Aussies leaving would take a lot more with them, and the welfare bludgers wont leave. Be careful what you wish for..
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Possibly because they are smart enough to not be labor voters.
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I would ask how much worse can Australian Governments get, but then they’d see it as a challenge.
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There is always hope.
‘Speaking outside the embattled Tomago smelter, Sussan Ley says high energy costs due to Labor’s failed renewables push are crippling vital industries. As Liberal backbenchers meet on net zero, Andrew Hastie issues five reasons the 2050 target must go.’ (Oz)
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Susssan Ley-land P76 has had inflation figures and high power costs handed to her on a silver platter so what does she do, attack sleasy because of his crook T-shirt, gawd luv a duck.
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The lady is hopeless and should be replaced.
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‘Liberals to ditch unqualified support for net zero.
‘Opposition climate and energy spokesman Dan Tehan said a meeting of backbenchers on Friday morning had provided “a pathway to bringing us all together”. (AFR)
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Liberals returning to Morrison’s aspirational model.
‘The party’s final position on net zero and climate remains unclear – especially with more hardline conservative Liberals and Nationals still calling for net zero to be revoked entirely.
‘But a common theme is emerging among Coalition members on all sides: that they will likely water down their commitment – perhaps even give it a new name – and hope to draw a line under a damaging debate so they can finally get on with landing punches on the Labor government.’ (Guardian)
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The new leaders in Beijing are not wolf warriors and don’t want a trade war with their biggest customer.
‘Trump claimed that the issue of rare earths will be renegotiated yearly and stated, “There’s no roadblock at all on rare earths – that will hopefully disappear from our vocabulary for a little while.” He also claimed that China agreed to purchase “tremendous amounts” of soybeans from the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to halt technology-related export controls and lower fentanyl-related tariffs from 20% to 10%.’ (Impakter)
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You don’t know that, you don’t even know who the current leaders are.
It makes sense for China to reverse it’s wolf warrior stance so beloved by Xi but the Xi/Trump summit was merely a temporary ceasefire, not a comprehensive peace deal. The nuclear sub deal with Sth Korea was the biggest blow to China and there was nothing they could do about it.
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‘ … you don’t even know who the current leaders are.’
Zhang Youxia has the military totally under his control, while Wang Yang is in charge of the political wing. They are reformers.
The stock markets think its a comprehensive peace deal.
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This is not likely to be seen on their ABC:
Snowfall for October breaks a 104 year record:
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-28-capital-snow-record-broken-stay-home-advice-and-weather-warnings-live-blog-457337
UK is preparing for heavy snow across the country next week. But first Ireland has to survive a belting storm.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-snow-forecast-several-areas-36149049
Looks like UK has had its dose of Globull Warming™ for 2025. Now just hope that the power stays on and there is always gas in the pipes.
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Most ‘Science’ has been reality proofed.
Which is the goal of science.
It is the quality and morality of the hypothesis regardless of the outcome of the experiment, which seldom gets done anyway.
For example, recently people were told to swab their nose to determine if they were sick.
“But, I feel fine?”
“Nope, you have been declared sick and can’t leave your home under threat of arrest.”
“Your 6’5″ and weigh 260 and have a penis”.
“I am a woman”.
Of course, yes you are, the women’s bathroom is on the left.”
So record snow is because of warming.
As decreed by the NYT.
Because those that challenge authority are authoritarian.
And authority is determined by consensus.
Hitler II is a hero to Zionist.
Words are violence.
Unless uttered by people given the power to define words.
Science decides what science is therefore those that refuse science are denying science.
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The AEMO Q3 2025 report is out.
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2025/qed-q3-2025.pdf?rev=7436be91333e4603bc59158b0bf095a1&sc_lang=en
You will hear that the wholesale price was down on last year. Means nothing for consumers because a lot of the costs simply do not appear in the wholesale price.
The gap between underlying demand and operational demand was a new Q3 record at 2.831MW average. See figure 3 p8. Average rooftop up by 292MW. Q4 should be even more dramatic as the household batteries start to impact.
New high operational demand was set for Victoria but 2008 remains the highest operational demand for the NEM. And a new low in operational demand of just 10,175MW was set on Sep 14 at 1300hrs. This is what destroys the economics of coal fired plant.
The weather discussed on p7 – SOOOO important for a weather dependent grid. All capital cities were colder than average through August. But BoM had to make some claim about the quarter being warmer than the average in some convoluted average of deciles – go figure. So high peak demand because it was colder but the world is still boiling.
It is a familiar story that can be summed up in a few words – the grid is stuffed.
Rio have given up on NSW bailing out Tomago and now looking for Federal welfare. Draw down your super if you can. Chalmers is coming for it in full USSR mode – everyone on welfare and no one producing any thing.
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AGL is preparing to sack hundreds of people as its transition goes off the rails.
ANZ preparing to sack thousands and other banks take the total losses to 8,000.
Tomasgo in welfare talks with commonwealth after NSW refused to help.
None of them get it. Australia is still paying for its essential generation while trying to make WDGs useful. Essential generators running on coal will produce electricity profitably at $40/MWh when going full bore. Half the output and costs go up to $100/MWh. Go down to 30% and costs go to $150/MWh. Crazy land is Australia.
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The news said the sackings will be at Loy Yang, such a run down old power station it can only run at 115% nameplate, for the past week while I’ve been watching. How cheap would that be: Open the taps and let ‘er rip using lignite!
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Vale Victoria!
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/bring-the-state-to-a-standstill-victorians-warned-of-sweeping-powers-given-to-states-newly-passed-indigenous-treaty-body/news-story/c1d5eafe02fb4227b7963f3aaa598628
Victorians warned of sweeping powers given to state’s newly passed Indigenous treaty body. The impacts of which are not to be under estimated will gradually strangle the life out of what remains
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Out and about this afternoon there was little cloud but instead of being a bright azure the sky had a darkish tinge which reminded me of the storm season as a boy. I’m not saying we never had storm seasons in the years since, just that I haven’t seen them as lifestyle changed.
When I got home I looked up windy.com [another lifestyle change] and the humidity was over 90%. We desperately need the rain but we are just getting the humidity tonight, not the wet stuff.
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This might explain what is going on, Sydney and Brisbane temps are unprecedented for October.
‘A rare sequence of stratospheric warming episodes occurred high above Antarctica in September and October. These abrupt changes in temperature disrupted the Southern Hemisphere’s polar vortex, which affected weather patterns over Australia during October.
‘One of the big effects from this stratospheric phenomenon was a relentless flow of warm and dry westerly winds over eastern Australia throughout most of October. These westerly winds carried hot air from central Australia across Qld and NSW, causing weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather.’ (Weatherzone)
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FWIW
“Aussie Climate Council Tries to Explain Why Abandoning Net Zero is a Problem”
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And tacitly admits people would not choose green energy solutions of their own free will.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/30/aussie-climate-council-tries-to-explain-why-abandoning-net-zero-is-a-problem/
Concludes
“If this is the worst set of consequences the climate council can think of, to abandoning the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars on Net Zero, our descendants are going to wonder how we could ever be so foolish as to fall for the climate scam.”
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“our descendants are going to wonder how we could ever be so foolish as to fall for the climate scam.””
Our predecessors bought tulips…
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FWIW
“We Need A Famine”
“Introduce a feed additive that interferes with a complex and unique digestive process that evolved over millions of years.
What could possibly go wrong?
Quote
Kent Nielsen Denmark
@Kentfrihedniels
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30 Oct
The first farmer from Denmark comes forward and talks about sick and dead cows, after giving his cows the Bovaer poison. 10/28 25. Remember that waste products from Bovaer, are passed on in milk and meat.”
https://x.com/katewerk/status/1983915949498524015
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/10/31/we-need-a-famine-21/
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Polar Amplification is a myth, Antarctica continues an alarming cooling trend.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/10/31/the-antarctic-peninsula-has-cooled-by-over-2c-since-2003/
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