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Strange things happening in the USA!
Marxist Islamist Zorhan Mandami elected as mayor of New York. How did that happen?
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“Mamdani campaigned on an affordability-focused platform in support of fare-free city buses, public child care, city-owned grocery stores, LGBTQ rights, a rent freeze on rent-stabilized units, additional affordable housing units, comprehensive public safety reform, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
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A promised minimum wage of $60,000 a year buys a lot of votes. Also NYC is not America.
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$60k per annum by 2030 should just about pay for the power bills.
But who is going to be the employer? Surely any company that can leave will have left by then. Anyone stuck in NY will either by using AI for staff or will go broke.
Just like Oz, the minimum wage hikes are a sure fire path to ending unskilled labour and the roles that they would otherwise take. Call centres are off shore located for no other reason than the cost of the wages. Industry is fleeing to chinese manufacturing for the same reason. And anything that can’t be made elsewhere costs a fortune.
Based on these cost pressures, the labor government are sure to add another 10% to the minimum wage during the next 12 months. Just so they can catch up. Inflation be damned.
I guess the upside is that a whole lot of people will start doing DIY tasks around the home, at least until the government tighten the noose and make them illegal. How long before you can’t change your own engine oil? (See vicdanistan, specific council(s) as a precursor).
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So no more tips then for service staff?
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It’s the mass illegal migration approach to undermining US politics. The same in California and Australia and the UK, France, Germany. The Soros family, father and son are thrilled. Their hatred of democracy is funding this. The other plank of destroying Democracy is Climate Change. To be fair, they hate Russia and Israel as much. Never China.
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We should know by now that a large proportion of younger people like the idea of socialism having got used to freebies during lockdown and getting all sorts of benefits at work, from time off for ill pets to not having to turn up to work in the first place.
It will take years before they realise someone has to pay for all this and that someone will be themselves as they get older and earn more.
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As Coleman Hughes says in this Free Press article, ‘The antidote to Marxism has always been experiencing Marxism’. Good luck New Yorkers.
https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-new-york-citys-socialist-experiment-begins
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I wonder how many illegal immigrants voted in that election?
And New York City is a “sanctuary city” that attracts illegals.
ICE can only catch and deport them at a limited rate, which is not nearly fast enough.
It’s extraordinary that less than a quarter century after one of the worst Islamist terrorist atrocities of modern times, 9/11, by America-hating Islamists, they elected one.
There is some deep, dark psychology going on there. Similarly, but to a lesser extent, how Australians keep re-electing commie governments even though they are our worst ever leaders and governments.
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“I wonder how many illegal immigrants voted in that election?”
I very much doubt any illegal immigrant would draw attention to themselves by voting.
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There are definitely a few who do. There have been isolated cases discovered around the country. But I’ve never seen anything that indicates there is a massive block of them that is large enough to change election results. If I had to guess, I’d say they number in the dozens or hundreds, not the hundreds-of-thousands that represent Mamdami’s margin of victory.
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Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs), that’s how.
https://x.com/racheljanfaza/status/1985900765664219380
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1986069619501891883
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The manipulation of female empathy by the western left is straight out of Mao’s little red book. Some of the most brutal and prolific abusers/killers during the Cultural Revolution were young women looking to turn the world into a communist utopia. And Mao spent years working them into a frenzy before unleashing them on his various enemies/malcontents. He was the originator of the ‘girl boss’ movement and women’s empowerment, and by the time he was done, young women were prepared to inform on/murder anyone who opposed his utopian vision, including their own family members.
https://muse.union.edu/aah194-sp22/2022/05/15/women-hold-up-half-the-sky-a-womans-role-during-the-cultural-revolution/
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And Chairman Mao, even though no doubt revered by “feminists”, was a philanderer and had relationships with over 3,000 women as wives, friends, concubines or whatever else. He also had relationships with men. You won’t read any of this in Leftist accounts of his life. (See link below.)
All this, apart from being a mass murderer.
He is therefore the Left’s “ideal man”.
He is no different to any other Chinese Emperor who all maintained harems although Mao didn’t have a harem, he had women delivered to him.
https://latest.sundayguardianlive.com/news/mao-zedong-unbridled-philanderer
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Sounds like Mao and JFK or Bill Clinton would have got along famously.
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The word “hysteria” says it all …..
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“The word “hysteria” says it all …..”.. caused by lack of sex and motherhood with all those soyboys around.
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More exit polling is out.
https://x.com/MrHarryCole/status/1986127480692863355/photo/1
That last line surprised the heck out of me. It’s not native New Yorkers voting for him, it’s transplants from elsewhere in the country and/or first generation legal immigrants.
https://x.com/MrHarryCole/status/1986127480692863355/photo/2
No surprise there. Democrats are the party of the laptop class with college degrees.
https://x.com/MrHarryCole/status/1986127480692863355/photo/3
No surprise that Mamdani voters skew young (and ignorant).
A little surprised at the lack of support for him among old ladies, given the demographics of the recent ‘No Kings’ protests. Seems those old bats out protesting are in no way representative of their age/gender. They’re just squeaky wheels making a lot of noise.
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So there is no surprise that Democrats are the laptop class have college degrees and are also young and ignorant. So young women are both the “college class” and “igno=rant” Really?? It is very unlikely.
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Only unlikely if you don’t consider who is educating them, on what and how their success is measured.
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It’s not at all surprising young women are educated. Women account for nearly two-thirds of college enrollment and degrees (and still have thousands of sex-based scholarship programs while male sex-based scholarships are nonexistent).
As far as ignorance goes, I chose that word carefully. Ignorant doesn’t mean dumb, or lacking education. It means lacking knowledge in a specific area. Despite their degrees, they are ignorant of history, civics, and economics. Part of that is because the American education system let them down, part of it is personal choice/preference when selecting collegiate courses.
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Bumped from late yesterday
“The Question: What Is A Democrat?”
“I chuckled when he first announced his platform because the power simply didn’t exist in the office he endeavors to occupy to actually fund any of his promises. But that certainly has gone over the head of most people, it would appear, in Gotham.”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254340
“Fuster” coming up?
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Just saw Trump commenting/laughing about that. To paraphrase: “We might help him (to pay for it all.) I mean we want NYC to succeed. So we might send them a little money.”
He could barely hold straight face. So, they are not getting one red cent. There really isn’t much of other people’s money to be had. Those who had it, have already fled NY to Florida, taking their money with them. It’s a snake eating its tail.
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Also from yesterday
FWIW – New York election
“New York City has fallen, and @uhaul
is about to make a bunch of money.”
https://x.com/timburchett/status/1985900268156830022
And elsewhere (IIRC)
“Republicans shouldn’t expect to win in blue electorates if they keep leaving”
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The ones that leave clearly dont care and are prortecting themselves. The great self sorting continues. Hopefully the receiving States can handle the inflow.
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He may struggle to fund some of his election promises, but he can use that to leverage unrest.
A US City Mayor has a lot of power and authority !
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Yes and no.
He has no constitutional power. Only states and the federal government have constitutional powers. All local power is statutory power delegated by the state it resides in, and can be revoked by the state legislature or temporarily suspended by the state executive. Most city budgets are also heavily reliant on state and federal funding, so they must be careful not to do anything that jeopardizes major sources of revenue. And lastly, their own constituents can and will vote with their feet, particularly the wealthy who can easily afford to pick-up-and-move. That’s the problem with taxing billionaires. It’s only a minor inconvenience for them to move a few miles across the border to New Jersey or Connecticut and take a bite out of the city’s tax base.
So while mayors have access to quite a deal of power, their grasp on that power is only as strong as their influence in the statehouse (and to a lesser degree, Washington DC) and the consent of their constituents (particularly the wealthy ones).
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This underlines why it is vital that the US Senate not give ground on free stuff.
New York will get more rats and fewer cleaners. The cleaners will take their money to Florida.
New York State has declined in population since 2020. Floride’s population has increased 8.2% since 2020; gaining 200,000 a year, long past New York in population size.
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On your Marx, get set, Zo!
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Very amusing, but I have seen no evidence to support the proposition that he’s a Marxist or Islamist. Mamdani is only a radical, what harm could it possibly have on the political fabric?
‘Mr Mamdani’s far-left recipe for success could have broader ramifications for his Democratic Party, where some senior figures view his policies as too radical.’ (ABC)
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If you are honest, and read these, then you have your evidence that you claim not to know.
Zohran Calls Trump a “Despot” & Promises to Be as Awful as We Thought
https://www.independentsentinel.com/zohran-calls-trump-a-despot-promises-to-be-as-awful-as-we-thought/
Zohran Told Us Who He Is & His Plans In Last Night’s Bitter Speech
https://www.independentsentinel.com/zohran-told-us-who-he-is-his-plans-in-last-nights-bitter-speech/
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Free bus travel sounds good, he should be able to manage that for awhile.
Social Democrats, like some ALP members, have flirted with Communist thought, its no big deal.
From a tactical perspective there is a demographic shift taking place.
‘In 2011, according to the UJA-Federation of New York, the five boroughs of New York City proper was home to 1,086,000 Jews, representing 13% of the city’s population. In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn.’ (wiki)
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Free bus travel is good? In NY? the buses will look like something from The Walking Dead pretty quickly in a police hating environment. I expect this will create a public transport crisis for many normal people.
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Yeah, its a different political culture and dangerous.
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Trump is not a despot, he lacks total control. He can’t stop red states turning blue.
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Another report from alternative reality land.
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Hmmm …
‘All across the country, Democrats won big, from the marquee races to the down-ballot contests. Counties that had shifted right a year ago veered back to the left, and the suburbs that powered Democrats’ massive wins in the first Trump administration came roaring back. Exit polls even showed Democrats improved their margins with non-college educated voters.’ (Politico)
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You didn’t look to hard then.
He’s publicly stated he’s Muslim-shiite.
He’s a member of the Democratic Socialist of America club and openly talked about “seizing the means of production” back in 2021.
I guess you missed all that.
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FWIW – around that subject
“Deep Breaths”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/11/05/deep-breaths/
And
“Ross Douthat: Mamdani Is at the Top of the Cyclone But It’s All Downhill From Here”
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/11/05/ross-douthat-mamdani-is-at-the-top-of-the-cyclone-but-its-all-downhill-from-here-n3808595
Shaping up as a testing ground for
“Those that the Gods wish to destroy they first make confident”
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His progress will indeed be most interesting to watch.
I expect an early ” the finances are much worse than we thought, some of our plans will be delayed, its their fault”
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Sorry to say.
I had hoped Trump was a harbinger.
But I fear he is a last gasp.
First …
The Blob is a barely identifiable unprecedentedly powerful force that contains dark forces that are anti-human, anti-freedom, and profoundly anti-America.
And that’s just the American government contingent.
And it appears to have been able to place brain eating zombies in the highest positions in government.
Second …
the kids are all Commies.
It is disappointing to have reached adulthood during the Cold War …
only to realize we were deceived into believing it an ideological struggle.
(Just like we been have deceived into thinking Climate Change is about science.)
Turns out the Commies and the Capitalists have made a deal.
Global corporate capitalism and Chicom Mao style social control.
I think I’ll revisit the Viet Nam memorial in DC and apologize to the spirits.
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This is a turning point of sorts. No one is pretending to be Democratic. Communists/Fascists, working with big business to take control of the biggest Democratic cities. London and New York in particular.
But they are in the open now, whether in London or Los Angeles or Chicago or New York. Even the black communities and factory workers, teamsters are starting to realise they don’t matter. Communism/Fascism is out in the open, even their blackshirts in the street being ‘mostly peaceful’ when rioting without restraint. Between George Soros and Klaus Schwab, leftovers of WWII, the long march through the US big cities and London is at peak strength. Time will show if they have been forced into the open too early as the bankers flee New York and London. Meanwhile the political and economic insanity of Climate Change, Transgenderism and uncontrolled incompatible Islamic migration is become obvious to everyone.
In my opinion, Trump has forced them all into the open for a show of strength and battle. It is fascinating that once again UK Prime Minister Starmer, Communist and anti Jewish Jeremy Corbyn and UK Labor have brazenly interfered in a major US election, deliberately attacking the strong US/UK alliance which defeated Hitler and stopped communist expansion.
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And total fascist control of the media is collapsing under Trump. Who would have thought that Walt Disney’s company based on the entertainment of children would be part of the mass media attack on the fundamental values of US Society? But they are all in serious retreat today with incomes collapsing as the US public rejects their extremist public policies, child grooming and racism. Perhaps a black Snow White was a soft turning point as well? It made no business sense, rather racism presented as anti racism. Even the dwarves were written out.
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I think you’re right.
As usual.
They will fail.
Mindless despots usually do.
Maybe up until the actual despots are able to convince people the other guy is the despot.
Children born today may see it.
Along with lots of snow.
Those of us who know of the great fake ideological struggles will be long gone.
The pigeons will pay their usual homage to the statues.
Here in America there are lots of overpasses named for the young brave fallen of the GWOT.
We can travel over and through them on the way to the airport to catch a flight to London.
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In what way has Starmer, Corbyn and Labour interfered in the US election? If we here in the UK take no notice of them I am sure America is even more indifferent to them.
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God bless you, that you have the luxury of taking no notice.
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Yes.
That was the 1967 plan of the German communist Rudi Dutschke and his “long march through the institutions”, der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen for Commies to slowly infiltrate all institutions, public and private as he thought life was too good in the West and violent revolution was impossible (so if life was so good, why change it?).
This included the education system which the Left have infested from the late 1960’s to early 1970’s in Western countries.
Thus there are two generations of communist-indoctrinated people, and even the first generation’s children are now old enough to vote. And Leftists everywhere plan to lower the voting age to even less than 18, to 16.
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Meh
Last night was not indicative of much. The elections were in two bright blue states and one purplish state. The Republicans had hoped to maybe eke out a win or two, but they underdogs in every race, massively so in most of them. They got their butts kicked in hostile territory. That’s pretty much the norm these days.
Also, turnout is way down in mid-term elections and even further down in off-year elections like the ones last night. An energized group of hardcore supporters turning out in force can punch well-above their weight in those elections, and the party out of power is always more energized than the party that is sitting fat and happy on Capitol Hill or in the state capitol. That’s why unified governments never last long in American politics.
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“That’s why unified governments never last long in American politics.”
No, had one from 1963 to 2016. Nam for nearly 15, GWOT for 20.
Blob POTUSs since Eisenhower and Nixon. Watergate was Trump Collusion before collusion was a thing.
Deep Throat was FBI.
Bob Woodward went straight from Naval Intelligence to hero journalist.
Played by Robert Redford in the movie.
Trump came down the escalator and ended the shadow alliance (probably unwittingly).
Dick Cheney RI … oh never mind, I won’t be fake, and his daughter got big mad.
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35 years, half my life, of BS wars run by my country.
I get a chance to vote for someone that at least talked about reigning it in a little and using American force for America only when necessary.
And they shred the Constitution to destroy him.
And call me racist.
POTUS Biden literally went on national television in a scripted staged speech and implied I was a ‘white supremacist’ for voting for Trump.
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You weren’t racist Honk……….
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It’s a fourth turning.
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times. <— we are here
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Without question we are in the fourth turning but the unspoken part of that belief is that it is survivable for the majority who set about rebuilding a “new” civilisation out of the destruction of the old.
I am pessimistic. Four leaders seem intent on bringing down the West at ANY cost, one of whom is making direct nuclear threats on an almost daily basis. Survival is more tenuous now than ever.
Is responding to Trump’s authorisation to resume nuclear testing by doing his own nuclear test in Ukraine a sane response?
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It’s not good, but I don’t think it’s up to the level of rhetoric that Kennedy/Khrushchev engaged in during the Cuban missile crisis. It more akin to some of the stuff Ronald Reagan said during his 1st term while jousting with the Soviets (which freaked a lot of people out at the time), or that Trump said in his 1st term while sparring with North Korea (same). Thankfully, all of those examples were just brinksmanship that didn’t result in any shots being fired. Hopefully Putin’s threats are more of the same.
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‘ … Chicom Mao style social control.’
Xi is finished and the reformers have regained control. On this occasion democracy is going to flourish alongside capitalism.
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Video.
How toilet paper is made.
https://youtu.be/9nc7sHglqAE
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Amazing engineering. I have worked with companies around Appleton, Wisconsin. Mile long machines, raw trees in one end and reflex paper out the other end. Incredible engineering tolerances in gigantic engineering lines. I have been in factories where it is nearly impossible to see the other end of the factory. The same economics of scale with many products. And volume with precision. A slight variation in the thickness of toilet paper and forests vanish. Henry Ford started it and WWII took mass automated production into every industry. China has similar volumes today, cities dedicated to one product.
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Henry Ford was inspired by the meatpacking industry, particularly the “disassembly line” used in Chicago slaughterhouses, …
I’ve toured many factories but never one making t.p.
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I posted the wrong link. That was for a different language which somehow came up in the feed.
Here is the English version.
https://youtu.be/9nc7sHglqAE
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Actually, I’m not sure what’s going on. It comes up in either English language or something else for the same link.
https://youtu.be/9nc7sHglqAE
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Worked as a Uni Student on the Night Shift of Kimberley Clark Toilet Paper Production Line, West Lanr Cove end 1963 – very efficient process.
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Video.
Making washing machines in Pakistan.
Interestingly some things of note, holes are hand drilled at random, not with jigs, corrugated cardboard and wood is used in the construction, there appears to be no electronic controller and hoses seem to go in and out via the bottom of the unit, not top.
Standard Pakistani non-safety equipment including safety sandals or bare feet, no eye protection, usually no gloves or safety interlocks on presses etc..
But at least they have a manufacturing industry, unlike de-industrialised Australia.
https://youtu.be/dKWb51Ny3yE
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Saw this one recently too.
How matches are made.
https://youtu.be/pbw6xgb7fkA?si=slHMNnPLCmoEgCqa
You wouldn’t think it would be so involved.
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There is another good one on copper recycling. The opening scenes where they are breaking down old compressors in the dirt of an open yard is close to what I imagine hell to be like. Just add flames.
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Video.
Irene BritUSA discusses the recent “man in the women’s locker room” case in California and the outrage that has rightly caused.
https://youtu.be/g1OzHV5IjE8
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You’d think if these men that magically turned into women were really women, they’d be trying to get into men’s locker rooms. 😉
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Follow the money trail.
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Elon Musk on X.
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It’s almost as though the “election” of America-hating communist extremist Mamdani is New York’s second 9-11 because he and his supporters support the ideology that did that.
Also, in regard to the so-called “red green alliance” who usually hate each other but are mutual useful idiots, Mamdani is a mixture of both, a hybrid.
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A friend suggested to me that Mamdani might moderate himself so as not scare people away from the Demonrats in the midterms and then go full-on communist.
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As he is a communist with some power, he is more likely to try interfering with the Democratic Party, hoping to get them to go further stupid. And by the Midterm (about a year?) the collapse of New York will be obvious – it has been happening for some years as many companies have relocated to States with lower costs – and all Trump has to do is point out that the Democrats will bring the same policies everywhere. (and I am quite sure that thought has crossed his mind).
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Just saw Alan Kohler on Alexa news edition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/kohler-report
Can you believe Kohler stated Trump was right and as he predicted. All stock indices up because oil is down as Trump predicted.. China and Australia up but both laggards.
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Some good election news. Here locally they had a resolution funding a new swimming pool. Tied to that were a whole bunch of local Gov wish list items. A big increase in taxes basically. Making cushy public sector jobs more secure and more cushy. It was roundly rejected by a ratio of 3 to 1.
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Speech by Oliver Cromwell to dissolve Parliament.
And for the same reasons that apply to Australian Parliaments today.
Video: https://youtu.be/efmiutIr97c
The following text is the original speech and different from the movie portrayal above:
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I think that you have just committed a crime in vicdanistan.
You need to be careful about writing/repeating such words using an electronic media and public notice board.
Even reading those words could see us jailed for an indeterminate period, awaiting sentencing by a judge not of our peers.
Sadly, there should be an /s here but I just don’t think that applies anymore. You’ve been found guilty of being educated and of a non protected cohort. Bail will be set at 20x your current asset values and those assets will be seized to compensate the crown for your pending trial.
It’s not long now before what I write becomes the law. At least until what you wrote becomes fact, for the second time.
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IIRC last part repeated in the House of Commons 1940
“Leo Amery – 1940 Speech in the House of Commons”
https://www.ukpol.co.uk/leo-amery-1940-speech-in-the-house-of-commons/
Could be a model for a list to preface its use again
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How would their ABC defend a case against being charged a far left propaganda arm?
I have recently made numerous comments on Sky News Youtube on the climate scam and the grid being stuffed and why. Essentially in those words I have garnered many likes, a few supportive comments and fewer sideways slings that were easily countered.
None of their ABC content on YouTube is open for comment.
Their ABC opinion policy includes taking notice of radio talk back and academics. Only the far left listen to their ABC and academic institutions are breeding grounds for communists.
So my challenge to anyone is how can we get their ABC to realise they are a far left propaganda vehicle because in their eyes they are straight down the middle. That is why Alan Kohlers business report today was quite a shock – first time ever I have seen an acknowledgement that Trump was right on anything.
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Conservatives were initially pleased when Morrison (who was not a conservative) appointed Ita Buttrose (who they thought was a conservative) as Chair of Their ABC.
One of her first comments as Chair was that she could see no bias in the organisation. It was unbelievable. Later she did seem to acknowledge some “unconscious bias” by ABC “journalists” but failed to address it effectively.
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I would have thought that any Australian Party leader getting an invitation to Mar a Lago all saints eve dinner with POTUS Trump would be big news for Australians but am yet to see the story on their ABC.
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Perhaps they thought that if they mentioned Pauline they’d have to also mention that another Australian, Ian Plimer, was also there and may have found some common ground.
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Pre broadband I was unaware of ABC bias and, like everyone laughed at Clarke and Dawe. I now realise that liberals were ALWAYS the butt of their jokes, never labor.
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Pull ICE out of New York ! Make New York an ultra Sanctuary City & State. All illegal ( sorry “undocumented ) will flood the place! Reduce normal Federal funding & stop, immediately all funding contributing to the undocumented masses. An increase of probably 8/10 million non productive illegals, a shrinking productive population, will produce a financial problem that not even 10 Soros foundations can fund. Have fun New Yorkers!
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Trump is not a believer in scorched earth politics. I genuinely believe that his (unwarranted) patience with Putin and Xi is because he does not want to have failed states making his life even harder or leaders, like cornered rats, desperate enough to do the unthinkable.
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He has to be patient as he isnt in a position to do anything else. Punching down isnt an option.
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Someone mentioned to me recently (thanks Rafe) that I have a resource at my home site, you know, all the Posts I’ve made there over the years, and there’s now around 3600 of them, on virtually every subject, but mainly on electrical power generation in its every form.
There’s so much there that I can locate anything about everything really ….. BUT, it’s now got a little like that ubiquitous search engine, in that you pretty much have to type in a correct ‘word structure’ to find what it might be that you’re looking for, if you can see that.
That gave me pause to think about it, when later on, (perhaps even after I’m not around any more) others might want to find some information, and not certain what to look for exactly, might just give up looking.
So, I’m going back to day one in March of 2008, and looking at all my Posts, and adding a code word at the bottom indicating what the Post might be related to.
Now, there’s 180 pages of Posts, with 20 Post titles to a page. I’m doing around 6 pages a day, so it’ll take me a Month or so.
And at the end it’ll be a lot easier to locate information, huh, if anyone ever feels inclined to go looking that is! I’ll have a list of those Codes as a Sticky Post at the top of what is now MY home site.
It’s an odd thing, looking back over some of the ‘stuff’ I’ve written about over these last seventeen years.
I found an old one I did about Kevin Rudd, during his first year as Prime Minister, and he’s back in the news again lately. (now where is that camera) This was actually an attempt by me at Satire, and it even made me smile all over again.
I know it’s a bit vain of me to think some might find it amusing, but here’s the link to that Post from way back in September of 2008.
Kevvie’s Big US Adventure
Tony.
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The wisdom of Sowell
“When slavery is mentioned, too many people automatically think of whites enslaving blacks. That is not even one-tenth of the story of slavery, which existed on every inhabited continent. The very word ‘slave’ derives from the word for some white people who were enslaved on a mass scale -the Slavs- for more centuries than blacks were enslaved in the Western Hemisphere.”
“White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare state policies of the 1960s were put into practice, compare black families to white families and conclude that the higher rates of broken homes and unwed motherhood among blacks are due to “a legacy of slavery.” But why the large scale disintegration of the black family should have begun a hundred years after slavery is left unexplained.”
“Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted. Such ideas were common among intellectuals who considered themselves “progressive” at the beginning of the twentieth century.”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
“No-one is equal to anything.
Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.”
The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/
There are other archives out there, I’m a member of one, that have resources way bigger than archive.org, with well-heeled supporters protecting the sites.
I won’t name them but as always there’s a lot happening underneath the public radar and you have to have the right connections for access.
Vast amounts of information are well protected. 😁
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Anna’s the word JCII👀
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Yesterday, the Associated Press ran a very encouraging story headlined, “Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sales tumble after government guidance on the shots narrows.” Who could have seen this coming?”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/monkey-business-wednesday-november?
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Good News in Australia for those 6 months and over. You too can join the queue for a new heart valve, a bypass, etc and you haven’t even started eating your Farex. Notice of the latest version of the wonder ‘vaccine’ make sure you rush in as you do want to be stranded running the old model through your system.
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FWIW
“Why “cheaper” wind and solar raises costs.
Part I: The fat tail problem
Link: https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/13/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-i-the-fat-tail-problem/
Part II: The hidden costs of residential solar
Link: https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/22/why-cheaper-solar-raises-costs-part-ii-the-hidden-costs-of-residential-solar/
Part III: The problem with power markets
Link: https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/”
Via https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w-o-o-d-27-october-2025-hurricane-melissa-whacks-jamaica-russia-accelerating-in-donbass-eu-uk-imploding-donald-dithers/#comment-179692
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Have they trained robots on mirrors?
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t59bsc3Q4V1z23obp.mp4
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It was hotter than a Stihl chainsaw at a Docklands pawn shop the other day, now it’s cold and wet again.
Bl@@dy weather!
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New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have developed a bioinspired material that has the potential to regenerate demineralized or eroded enamel, strengthen healthy enamel, and prevent future decay.
The gel can be rapidly applied to teeth in the same way dentists currently apply standard fluoride treatments. However, this new protein-based gel is fluoride free and works by mimicking key features of the natural proteins that guide the growth of dental enamel in infancy. When applied, the gel creates a thin and robust layer that impregnates teeth, filling holes and cracks in them. It then functions as a scaffold that takes calcium and phosphate ions from saliva and promotes the controlled growth of new mineral in a process called epitaxial mineralization. This enables the new mineral to be organized and integrated to the underlying natural tissue while recovering both the structure and properties of natural healthy enamel.
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 3.7 billion people worldwide have some form of oral disease, and the erosion of enamel – the tough, mineralized protective outer layer of our teeth – is a massive contributor to one of the largest issues, tooth decay.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair
Sweet!
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The New Reality of War – Russian Think Tank Analysis – Simplicius Nov 05, 2025
First, we need to explain what the line of contact looks like in this direction, and in general, in general, now-on the entire front.
First, military personnel assembled and ready to perform their combat tasks are brought to the assembly point 20-25 km from the front line.
Then they wait for the command. They are loaded at the beginning of the next segment and dropped off at a point approximately 10-13 km from the LBS (line of contact), where they can stay for some time – from several hours to several days. T
his is a nearby evacuation point from which you can almost guarantee to escape and survive.
Then there is the next drop-off at a point 5-7 km from the LBS – it is not possible to drive any further. All drops-offs and movements across the terrain among minefields and open areas are carried out by guides.
Then, on foot, they reach the point from which the assault may begin. From there, they approach the positions.
As a rule, only half of them reach the positions, while the rest are injured or killed by drone strikes.
As per the description above, the 25km-from-LoC zone has already become extremely dicey, where dispersion is necessary for survival. Then from 5-7km onward, it essentially becomes the ‘death zone’, to borrow mountaineering terminology.
Easier to read Print Version of Article below
October 29, 2025
“Digital War” – a new reality
Russia urgently needs to adapt to it.
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Its similar to WW1 except for drone warfare which has made tanks obsolete.
When the lights go out in Moscow and petrol is nowhere to be had, it’ll be game set and match for the Kremlin gangsters.
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“When the lights go out in Moscow and petrol is nowhere to be had, it’ll be game set and match for the Kremlin gangsters.”
Well Putin is quite safe then and will continue to grind forward until Ukraine surrenders… Of course Europe might be in quite a shambles by then.
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‘Of course Europe might be in quite a shambles by then.’
And here is me thinking its going to be over by Xmas. Muscovites freezing in their apartments and no fuel to pick up the groceries, the writing is on the wall comrade.
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Drones have widened “no man’s land” and the “line of engagement” is rather vague now but grunts would still rather be in armour than on foot.
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You’ve seen the vids, once the personal carrier is hit the troops bail out and are destroyed one at a time, horrifying.
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Why then didn’t they start out on foot?
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Because any combatant in the grey zone is easy pickings for a drone. They have been coming in on motor bikes, but are no match against a drone swarm.
About a week ago the Ukrainians flew two helicopters into battle, with elite commandoes onboard, they performed their allotted duty and the helicopters collected them and returned to base.
It was brazen and dangerous, but they planned this for weeks in advance and avoid losses by looking at every contingency.
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No, that was a disaster for them, they were trying to rescue some very important NATO members from there.
“However, either the amount left is still significant, or there are some very important people remaining because the Ukrainian GUR decided to launch a daring “behind enemy lines” special forces helicopter operation to the tip of the encirclement, for reasons we can only speculate on for now. The operation landed here, where the SOF operators entrenched themselves into buildings or vegetation, before—apparently—being destroyed by waiting Russian drones. Given this attempt and Putin’s own unprecedented proposal for media to view the encirclement, we can only assume Pokrovsk’s ‘kettle’ is one of the most complete that Russian forces have ever managed thus far.”
The Russian MOD said-
“A helicopter landing of a GUR special operations forces group was prevented in an area approx 1km northwest of the outskirts of the village of Kranoarmeysk.. All 11 personnel who landed from the helicopter were killed.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/desperate-special-forces-bid-to-save
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‘Ley digs in as Climate 200 founder circles Lib seats, Plibersek dubs Nats ‘extremists’
‘Sussan Ley has tried to brush aside mounting pressure on her leadership, declaring she will always say there can’t be net zero at any cost, as Simon Holmes a Court signals he will use Liberal backtracking on climate policy in vulnerable seats.’ (Oz)
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LeyDigs- as in the cells in the testis that produce Testosterone to nurture sperm😂
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It’s war on the food pyramid!
Medical doctor’s video defends Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s (RFK Jr.) advice to consume more saturated fats from whole, unprocessed foods like meat, eggs, dairy, and seafood.
This advice contrasts this with the average American diet where most saturated fats come from junk food (e.g., desserts, pizzas, processed sandwiches—over 60% of intake, vs. minimal from beef).
Epidemiological studies linking saturated fats to heart disease are weak and confounded by overall poor diets; they don’t prove causation for long-term outcomes like cancer or early death.
High-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) show no benefit from reducing saturated fats in preventing cardiovascular disease.
A 2020 Journal of the American College of Cardiology paper supports that saturated fats in whole foods are not linked to heart disease.
Low-fat dietary guidelines since the 1980s haven’t curbed chronic diseases; improvements in heart health stem more from reduced smoking (from 45% in 1954 to ~12% today) and medical advances.
Saturated fats have only a minor effect on LDL cholesterol, and even if LDL rises, improved metabolic health (e.g., via low-carb/keto/carnivore diets) reduces risks like diabetes, inflammation, and obesity—diabetes being a major heart disease driver.
https://youtu.be/Da4Qf_axgLg?si=_K4CfeZewYw9mXyb
Let’s destroy another decades old lie.
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JC II. What are your thoughts on salt? I have always been sceptical of the story but being well past my allotted three score and ten I’m sure my arteries have hardened so can’t ignore the possibility that there is some truth to the story. No way could my salt intake be considered “excessive”, prolly less than most.
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An overhyped myth like a lot of things.
Dieting was based on an almost century old 4 week research study and driven the diet crazes ever since.
Of course the #1 MASSIVE mistake was only running the study for 4 weeks.
After 4 weeks the body downregulates its metabolism as an evolutionary survival response and the calorie burn rate plummets.
Oopsy!
Low fat, low carb, low salt.
All marketing tools based on industry bias, money and shonky studies, just like the low-fat myth pushed by the sugar cane industry.
The low salt myth likewise started back in the 60’s also as a shonky study where they administered 150 times the typical human intake of sodium.
The fear mongering has caused a lot to be sodium deficient.
People on low salt diets have a higher risk of heart attacks. Ditto for blood pressure issues.
A diet high in antioxidants and phytochemicals, as unprocessed as possible, can repair the endothelium.
Leafy greens boost Nitric Oxide and improve vascular flexibility. Healthy fats, fatty fish, cruciferous vegetables all help.
Check your Magnesium, Potassium and Calcium intakes too.
All the usual in other words.
The body loves salt. It needs it to function well. All natural foods and a good sprinkling of salt will be fine.
Salt-laden processed foods and large helpings of extra salt won’t be fine at all.😎
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I had all sorts of heart issues with fainting, dizzy spells spurts of high blood pressure blah blah.
A loop recorder was inserted with the cardiac specialist confidently predicting a pacemaker……
After a few years with nothing really showing up he told me to increase my salt substantially. Result: almost fixed. He used the phrase ‘the demonization of salt’.
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Yesterday I posted that an engine on the UPS MD-11 separated from the wing causing the accident. I had a cautionary “maybe, maybe not” written to append but there had been no replies so I let it go.
Today it seems the facts are confirmed, an NTSB spokesman said as much and Max Afterburner included a pic of the engine by the runway. Start at 6:00 for the impatient/time poor. Behind Max you will see a drawing of the tail of The Thunderbirds with whom he flew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT3puCyPV4
More from Juan Browne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHW6HaS5mnc
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I follow aviation as much as I can. It seems these guys had no chance from the time the throttles went forward.
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I agree, especially in such an old airplane. With absolute respect for the dead crew I have a suspicion that if they had the processing power of modern military jets at their disposal it could have flashed a Big Red Abort Warning BEFORE they reached V1. Drastic action, if early enough, may have kept the aircraft within the airport perimeter thus saving 8 lives. The left engine separated very early and flames easily seen from outside cannot be seen from the cockpit.
Even the digital check lists on the A-380 which served de Crespigny so well on QF32 [He’s still dining out on that] may have given the civilian equivalent of Eject! Eject! a couple of seconds before V1.
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A subtle change, the GBR has been given temporary reprieve.
‘The finding contradicts a widely held view that the decline of the oceanic gem would become irreversible as global temperatures rise above 1.5C, with one report last month suggesting the world’s tropical corals had already reached a tipping point of long-term decline.
‘But the scientists warned the latest research showed the reef’s natural abilities to mitigate some rises in temperature would be swamped as global temperatures reach 2C.’ (Guardian)
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USA – shoplifter detention cages!
https://youtu.be/n9UbsafQ_rk?si=6SaxVlsdPSspBR0N
About 200 per store sounds about right 😆
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FWIW – a missing big bang
“Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About”
https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-glass-in-australia-reveals-a-massive-impact-we-never-knew-about
Via Instapundit
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EU waters down climate goals ahead of COP30. useful knowledge for the Liberal right faction.
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One link for passing on –
“Europe’s Last-Minute Climate Scramble: Brussels Waters Down Its 2040 Target Just in Time for COP30”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/05/europes-last-minute-climate-scramble-brussels-waters-down-its-2040-target-just-in-time-for-cop30/
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In comments there
“Looks like science, lies like propaganda. Inside a new wave of climate misinformation”
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/looks-like-science-lies-like-propaganda-inside-a-new-wave-of-climate-misinformation/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/05/europes-last-minute-climate-scramble-brussels-waters-down-its-2040-target-just-in-time-for-cop30/#comment-4128047
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FWIW – seems to me “read that item very carefully!”
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NATO also announced a massive $60 billion package to Ukraine, or half of Ukraine’s defense spending budget for the year ahead. Most of this funding is supposed to hit Ukraine in 2026—precisely when the computer is predicting a global event unlike anything I have seen.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/norway-to-send-7-billion-to-ukraine-everyone-is-sending-funds-ahead-of-2026/
A global event next year even Armstrong hasn’t seen the likes of?
Wonder what that could be…
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Oh, we are back to this again
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Yes, more people are talking about banks going broke and bank runs as it all comes home to roost. Borrowing can only get you so far…
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FWIW
“Why 19th century farm animals look so weird. | VICTORIAN LIVESTOCK ART”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNkJNXBhUg
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“Jeep owners told to park cars outside over fire risk that automaker cannot work out how to fix.”
A recall has been issued covering 375,000 hybrid vehicles due to concerns over batteries combusting. Nineteen fires have been reported so far, with one injury.
Owners have been advised to park their SUVs away from any buildings to avoid a larger fire.
Jeep don’t currently have a solution (!) yet they have told owners not to charge their cars until they’re fixed, because the risk is reduced when the battery is depleted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15261529/jeep-recall-fire-risk-battery.html
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FWIW
“5 Leadership Lessons From Winston Churchill For Today’s World”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/5-leadership-lessons-winston-churchill-todays-world
How does “Elbow” rank?
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It is 0300 on my global spot.
Pondering the many gifts of government in this great ‘free’ and ‘democratic’ society I’m told I am gifted by my superiors.
Except my Circadian rhythms disagree and I am wide awake according to nature as opposed to my government mandated time.
So a couple of weeks of adjustment awaits.
Fun on top of the cultural political turmoil.
I must say that I observe the disassembly and wantonness of the managerial intelligentsia in everyday interaction with folk.
Quick tempers .. because most know somethings off, but not what.
Personal space issues, partly created by COVID propaganda.
People pass on the street without acknowledgement.
This has been increasing since ‘Me Too’.
It can be dangerous for a heterosexual male to smile at the wrong woman.
It is dangerous in general for white heterosexual males because ‘patriarchy’.
(At least I don’t have to deal with the British police.)
I fear the the Western left have become Jacobins.
Most have no idea wheat a Jacobin is.
And that it is different from a Jacobite.
Funny, if one knows the difference between a Jacobite and a Jacobin, AND and what a greenhouse gas is and why,
one is a social outcast, especially at Harvard, Yale, and the NYT.
The Trump phenomenon is amazing.
If Killary had won we would all still be fighting Climate Change and fully vaccinated.
And the non-compliant deplorables would have no bank accounts because such is not needed in internment.
(Actually, there probably would have been no Pandemic to get rid of Trump.)
Trump is heroic in his stalwart defiance against all The Blob has thrown at him.
Makes me think of Audie Murphy.
Audie Murphy was without question a hero, but in reality he was mostly a lottery winner.
A survivor of many a dire situation, that most other heroic fighters did not.
Only to die in a low odds plane crash.
But Trump is facing the new Jacobins, the direct descendants of the old (and actual fascists), that are willing and able to reign terror for the revolution.
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