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NOAA is still ducking the adverse impacts of offshore wind:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/12/09/monitoring-offshore-wind-impacts-needs-to-be-done-right/
Their proposed monitoring does not address the big impact issues like whale deaths and fisheries destroyed.
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Jo, cut this from a Daily Sceptic article this a.m.
The old academic putdown ‘it’s not even wrong’ comes to mind in considering the disgraced and now retracted science paper Kotz et al. The science writer Jo Nova has speculated on how the paper was even published in Nature, “given how awful it was”. With its unfalsifiable claims of $38 trillion of global damage each year by 2050 due to human-caused climate change, Kotz was patent nonsense. It was not even within touching distance of other extravagant claims of climate damage. Yet Kotz was avidly picked up by government agencies around the world seemingly desperate to use any old gobbledegook to push the Net Zero fantasy.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/12/government-bodies-humiliated-by-promoting-junk-climate-scares-from-retracted-nature-paper/
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Thanks Bill. I would have missed that. Chris Morrison does a good job.
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Substack expands censorship to Australian users: https://expose-news.com/2025/12/12/substack-expands-censorship-to-australian-users/
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The (Not A Trusted Organisation) NATO Act, for withdrawing the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, to be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. Congressman Thomas Massie said “NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries. Today, I introduced HR 6508 to end our NATO membership.”: https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/nato_act.pdf
However, in response to Trump wanting peace, the Non-Democratic Socialist Elite-People’s European Union and NATO wants World War III to prevent peace in the Ukraine and ‘preserve’ socialism by cancelling elections within the EU. Time to prepare for World War-Size Conflict with Russia, Warns NATO: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/12/12/time-to-prepare-for-world-war-size-conflict-with-russia-warns-nato
Lord Starmerston said “We must defend England in Asia” and socialism in Britain by invading Russia and “go into the Black Sea” to avenge the devastating losses of the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. However, British military personnel are suffering from cancer and blood clots to the brain from the mandated mRNA jabs. The Chief of the Defence Staff wants to replace British Christian heterosexual white male working-class solders with Foreign Islamic gay black female upper-class soldiers, or artificially intelligent cyborgs provided by the RAND National Security Research Division. All the delicate complex new stuff does not work because they sacked all the heterosexual white men who invented it, for saying “the technology will never work”. Rape Crisis report that the UK had an estimated total of 474,847 rapes in 2024, the highest in the World. 87% of the victims were British girls raped by non-Russian invaders. However the Chief of the Defence Staff is worried that the Border Force will assist the Russians to cross the channel. The British Army fears that the Russians will rape their foreign Islamic gay black female upper-class soldiers, the RAF fears for its staff with protected characteristics, and the Royal Navy says “Hello sailor” to Russian Baltic and Black Sea sailors.
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While singing their new marching song
“We’re going to hang out our washing on the Dnieper Line
If the Dnieper Line’s still there”
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While singing their new marching song
“We’re going to hang out our washing on the Dnieper Line
If the Dnieper Line’s still there”
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The charge of the Light Brigade represents a highlight in British Military incompetence, along with quite a few other cases e.g. the retreat from Kabul (when the story is that the lone survivor reached the nearest British outpost – with the Regimental Colours wrapped about his body). Quite many others, especially just about anything East of Dover.
And for those who think that LOTS of MONEY will work, bear in mind that the UK spent more money (1932-1938) than Germany in preparing for WW2**. Germany used their engineers etc while the UK built up its public service.
** noticed around 1970 (possibly sooner)
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Britain spent the equivalent of 12£ trillion in world war one and the same again in world war two.
We got none of it back from those we defended other than an annual gift of a Christmas tree from Norway.
The rest of the continent got aid to rebuild bombed infrastructure whilst the UK had to repay the Americans for the loans we obtained to fight the war.this was only repaid in full a few years ago.
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Lend Lease is the American way.
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FWIW
Maybe some things to think about before you park your family fortune in any financial institution in the EU –
“EU crosses RUBICON, permanent asset FREEZE. Falls into Russia’s trap”
https://rumble.com/v72x718-eu-crosses-rubicon-permanent-asset-freeze.-falls-into-russias-trap.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
“UK Banks Warn Starmer Asset Seizure Plan Illegal; Kiev Energy Close To Collapse; Siversk Huiliapole”
https://rumble.com/v72w8ue-uk-banks-warn-starmer-asset-seizure-plan-illegal-kiev-energy-close-to-colla.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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FWIW – the gist of that in shorter form
“EU Elites in Panic Mode: Threaten Belgium with Bankruptcy Over Refusal to Rob Russian Assets – De Wever Stands Firm Against Brussels’ Madcap Scheme!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/eu-elites-panic-mode-threaten-belgium-bankruptcy-refusal/
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FWIW
“Russia Sues Europe Over Frozen Assets, Gold Responds”
“The Russian lawsuit comes as the EU is advancing a plan to potentially use income from these frozen assets to help finance Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction, including backing large loans. Russia has condemned such plans as illegal and a violation of sovereign immunity of assets.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-12-12/gold-55-russia-sues-europe-over-frozen-assets
And
“Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear As EU Tries To Ram Through Assets Seizure”
“In what could prove a well-timed preemptive attack and shot across the bow, Russia’s Central Bank (CBR) announced Friday it has initiated legal action against Euroclear, one of Europe’s largest securities depositories, which is holding 185 billion euros ($217 billion) of Russia’s frozen sovereign assets.
The CBR has filed a lawsuit against the Belgium-based bank in the Moscow Arbitration Court over “illegal actions” – just as European Union leadership is making a move to approve a plan to fund the Ukrainian government for the next years by using income from the Russian assets immobilized under EU sanctions.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russian-central-bank-sues-euroclear-eu-tries-ram-through-assets-seizure-ukraine
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Will the US therefore withdraw its troops and close its European bases, Kabul style, or maintain its presence so that it can help its new friend defeat socialism in western Europe?
“(15) Consistent with United States national security interests,
Europe is not a priority theater for United States engagement. The
principal interest of the United States in Europe is preventing the
emergence of a regional hegemon.”
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Oops – trouble for President Trump at home.
Trump’s Congress revolts, backing Ukraine against the president
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All about the “spillage”?
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‘NATO wants World War III to prevent peace in the Ukraine and ‘preserve’ socialism by cancelling elections within the EU.’
Highly unlikely, a week ago Macron went to Beijing for a state visit, it was observed that he was carrying a carrot and stick.
Now that the US is targeting China with huge tariffs, Europe is their main lifeline to maintain some kind of economic stability. The next big shock for Putin is coming soon, China is going to stop supporting the Russian dictator.
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Yes sir BRICS are gonna show those damned Russians who is da Boss.
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Russia is a founding member of BRICS, its more a commercial enterprise and China cannot afford to be penalised.
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“Russia is a founding member of BRICS, ”
Yes, which makes this-
“China is going to stop supporting the Russian dictator.”
very unlikely!
So, you’re saying Xi will cozy up to Trump and Von Der Leyen rather than their comrades for the last 70years? The same people threatening China all the time and provoking them militarily in the South China Sea….? Yeah, riight…
Europe looks like it will implode quite soon, and they won’t be able to afford toys.
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Xi is not running the show, the elders are.
There is a new political culture in Beijing and they have no interest in attacking Taiwan, but are quite prepared to buy back Russian land.
Europe won’t implode, but the Russian Federation is doomed. Life in St Petersburg and Moscow is precarious, intermittently lights are going out, central heating failing and there is no internet.
War should be over by Xmas.
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“intermittently lights are going out, central heating failing and there is no internet. ”
That’s every day in Ukraine, so they won’t be winning the war.
Its also Europe too…
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Good news, a “new” covid vaccine is available to protect people from the latest variant. Approved by the TGA for infants over 6 months.
Get in quick before Christmas eh.
Apparently this new jab is “the best way to maintain protection”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/new-covid-vaccine-available-in-australia-for-new-variant/11rd6kikx&ved=2ahUKEwjDt8DH3LiRAxXEcvUHHR-eDZ0QvOMEKAB6BAgXEAE&usg=AOvVaw2S77GF6pGiyYl8DFfAqe9x
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I’ll pass on that one.
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Prior to becoming The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern auditioned for Lord of the Rings but fell short.
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Which role?
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Gollum.
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More like “Lord of the Flies”.
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Bruce:
Isn’t there a typo? An extra F in there?
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FWIW
“Putting the dollar into perspective”
For $US but it gives you an idea of the shrink –
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/12/putting-dollar-into-perspective.html
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What currency should I transfer my $US holdings into?
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“What currency should I transfer my $US holdings into?”
From the comments…
“If you track it to the price of gold, a dollar today is worth around 3 cents when the Federal Reserve Bank was formed. Gold and silver both have set new highs this week. Which means the dollar has shrunk even more this week. ”
Buy some silver or gold H, anything except a fiat currency.
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Please read what I wrote, I stressed “currency”. I already have half a mill in Au/Ag metal, shares and royalty companies.
What currency is deposing the Yankee dollar?
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I thought it was National Velvet, but I’m not certain as to the foal, I mean role.
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FWIW – all the news that is fit to print (or some of it)
On the one hand – just now Courier Mail headline (behind the Murdoch Wall)
“Trump, Clinton, Gates, Andrew in shock new Epstein pics
A slew of very well known faces have appeared in the latest round of never-before-seen images unearthed from the estate of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. SEE THE PHOTOS.”
On the other
“House Democrats Beclown Themselves Again After Releasing ‘Bombshell’ Epstein Photos”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/12/house-democrats-beclown-themselves-again-after-releasing-bombshell-epstein-photos-n2667810
“FOILED AGAIN! Dems Drop What They Call a ‘Disturbing Pic’ of Trump From Epstein Estate… Just 1 Problem”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/12/foiled-again-dems-drop-what-they-call-a-disturbing-pict-of-trump-from-epstein-estate-just-1-problem-n2422789
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Or more bluntly
https://x.com/chasrmartin/status/1999582641549373655
Via https://instapundit.com/762108/#disqus_thread
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Scientist discovers way to measure something they couldn’t detect before and decides that means Antarctic ice sheet doom!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15377973/earthquakes-detected-Antarcticas-Doomsday-glacier.html
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Turns Out the COVID Vaccine Critics Were Right All Along”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/12/covid-vaccines-heart-damage-n2667792
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And
“RFK Jr. announces that the total elimination of mercury in all US vaccines is official and calls on all global health authorities to follow suit”
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/12/rfk-jr-elimination-mercury-vaccines/
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Govt shows ruinables cannot run industry, borrows money to prop up rich mates in Rio Tinto Tomago smelter.
““I say to all the workers here, have a great Christmas in the knowledge that over the coming months, as a result of the decision that we have taken, you’ll all be on permanent Govt welfare so that your future is secure,” Albosleazy said.”
“If the taxpayer-funded support deal proceeds, it will mark the fourth time the Albanese government has intervened to prop up a struggling metals processor this year after it contributed to bailouts of Glencore’s Queensland copper smelter and refinery in October, Nyrstar’s smelters in Port Pirie and Hobart in August, and the collapsed Whyalla steelworks in February. When asked if it was fair on taxpayers to spend public funds on private businesses, Albanese said his government was committed to supporting manufacturing as a strategically important sector.”
The ignorance &/or blatant lies in the comments are amazing!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/pm-reveals-rescue-deal-for-power-hungry-tomago-smelter-20251212-p5nn62.html
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“Albanese said his government was committed to supporting manufacturing as a strategically important sector.”
Except that with Albo’s pronunciation, “important” is said as “impordant”
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FWIW
A reply to that could be crafted rhyming that with
“mordant” –
“adjective Bitingly sarcastic.
adjective Incisive and trenchant.
adjective Bitingly painful.”
https://www.wordnik.com/words/mordant
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Agreed KP. Some comments were beyond belief, especially the one by DA about most smelters worldwide were run on renewable……no examples of course.SMH say no more
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Pea and thimble trick: many smelters run on hydroelectricity. Hardly any run on W & S.
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In internet abbreviations “smh” =
“Shaking my head”
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Wonder who we will sell this aluminium too. Apparently this would fail the “Subsidy” test so no sales to the US unless heavily tariffed
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I’m in favour of keeping Tomago running, the renewable madness should end soon and Rio Tinto won’t need subsidising.
Australia has the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and its best to maintain the manufacturing ability.
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I’d believe it if Tomago paid all the subsidies back, in 2026 dollars.
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It might be better to subsidise them until a designated gas fired power station is built next door. Rio Tinto can pay for that.
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On further investigation, the proposed Newcastle Power Station in Tomago didn’t go ahead because politicians are pathetic.
https://www.power-technology.com/projects/newcastle-power-station-new-south-wales-nsw/
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FWIW
“Climate Alarmists’ Massive Tree Planting Damages the Ecosystem”
“The climate crisis crowd has been pushing countries and companies to plant trees as a means of fighting global warming and reclaiming arid land. However, planting too many trees in places where trees don’t naturally grow has tremendous negative environmental impact. And like most climate policies, such as the use of electric cars that are far worse for the environment than vehicles running on fossil fuel, the tree-planting agenda is shortsighted, using the metric of how many trees were planted as a measure of success rather than calculating any net cost or benefit.
China’s massive regreening campaigns over the past several decades have altered the country’s water cycle in significant and unexpected ways. A new study published in Earth’s Future finds that between 2001 and 2020, large-scale tree planting and grassland restoration increased evapotranspiration across most of China, reducing water availability in both the eastern monsoon zone and the northwestern arid region.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/climate-alarmists-massive-tree-planting-damages-ecosystem/
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Prof. Gad Saad comments on Ilhan Omar.
We have many like her in Australia as well.
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And never mind the INCEST!
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Congratulations UK, your open borders are working.
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Gee, I wonder what has caused this rise? /s
People from certain countries/cultures are overrepresented on a per capita basis. Some are many multiples more likely to commit sexual offences than those of European heritage.
The politicians and progressives can’t/won’t admit the obvious truth.
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Import a rape culture, become a rape culture.
Bye bye west
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998636160328020071
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FWIW
Denmark and immigration
“You see, the Danes are if nothing else, highly pragmatic in their pursuit of what they consider the ideal society. And yes, while a strong welfare state is the sine qua non of Danish society, they also understand that without social cohesion, a welfare state is not a tenable system. Those two pillars — the welfare system and social cohesion — form the foundation of their society, and what the Danes realized, long before any of their European neighbors did, that untrammeled immigration of Third Worlders of the Arab Muslim and African persuasion was rending their social cohesion asunder, and undermining their cherished welfare state.
You have to hand it to them for swinging their immigration system by 180 degrees: in fact, it’s harder to immigrate into Denmark than it is into the United States because the Danish requirements for residency are unbelievably restrictive, including such concepts as civic indoctrination and the linking of conformity to any kind of welfare. If you don’t fit in, the Danes will force you to fuck off back to your shithole country of origin, with neither remorse nor pity on their part.”
More at
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2025/12/11/lessons-learned-3/
Via https://instapundit.com/761975/#disqus_thread
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Outstanding and disturbing for Australian freedom, interview of Maria Zee (Australia) and RedactedNews (US).
Australians who supported the media ban for under 16’s should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
https://youtu.be/ezAx09lB-a4
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It’s good to see Australia still has a few people left who support freedom such as Maria Zee and present company, of course.
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Saving the children or the pollies?
A whopping 41 percent of both G-rated and TV-Y7-rated television series on Netflix contain content positively portraying homosexual relationships or transgenderism, Concerned Women for America (CWA) found in a recent analysis. This content was most often “explicit,” that is, featuring characters “clearly identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or nonbinary.”
A lesser but significant portion of the shows portrayed LGBTQ-identified non-primary or “queer-coded” characters.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/primetime-propaganda-over-40-percent-of-all-netflix-s-children-s-shows-are-gay
So “saving the children” is just publicly palatable internet censorship while grooming into degeneracy goes unchecked?
Not just Netflix, but Disney too. Walt would be spinning in his grave.
Given how easily facial age verification algorithms are tricked, one wonders if the govt knew it’d be a flop all along, leaving the door open for more drastic verifcation measures for all, with public support from the parents who can’t be bothered to supervise their kids. That’s the government’s job isn’t it!
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Just read this.
The moral wedge: How fear for children is being used to expand state control
Australia as the pilot project – again
Australia has played this role before.
We were early adopters of:
No Jab, No Pay
No Jab, No Job
Exclusion from childcare, work, education, and public life tied to medical compliance
Each time, Australia functioned as a proving ground. Policies were tested, normalised, and then exported.
Once again, international leaders are openly watching and signalling that they intend to follow Australia’s lead.
What children are really being taught
Look beyond the stated goal and ask a deeper question: what are children learning from this moment?
They are learning that:
participation requires permission
access is conditional
identity must be proven
anonymity is suspicious
systems decide first and explain later
They are being conditioned to accept surveillance as care, and restriction as responsibility.
This is not accidental.
It is behavioural grooming in the psychological sense – preparing a generation to live comfortably inside managed systems.
https://elizabethhart.substack.com/p/the-moral-wedge-how-fear-for-children
Deliberate or not, it’ll be the inevitable consequence.
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If that is just the childrens programms, i am pretty sure the proportion of adult shows is much higher ……and not just netflix !
I have always believed that most actors bring much of their own character into the roles they play, and many of the “arts” brigade appear to have a more “liberated sexual appetite “ than the general population,
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Same goes for non-whites in advertising these days. You’d swear they were the majority in the Western countries the way companies advertise them as a target audience.
Maybe they are looking to the future..
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Australia must also follow the bans of another country that bloggers here respect – a game (The Sims) that promotes violence, cruelty and LGBTQ+.
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Joke for the day – a woman takes her daughter to the doctor
https://youtube.com/shorts/DkK1tl2ik6U?si=oyrh10qRWhcoDo7Y
😆
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Xmas dinner anyone?
The nine-layer meal includes everything you need for a traditional Christmas dinner, including dessert. It starts with scrambled egg and bacon (maybe it’s intended for breakfast?). Then it moves down to two mince pies, turkey and potatoes, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, Brussel sprouts with stuffing or broccoli with stuffing, roast carrots and parsnips, and, to complete the meal, Christmas pudding.
https://www.bestproducts.com/lifestyle/a24433957/game-christmas-tinner-dinner-in-a-can/
It’s been around for donkeys years, a fave with pc gamers.😆
I was invited out to an all expenses paid xmas lunch with an international accounts manager from a certain Korean electronics company a few years back. That came to just under $1k! That was way different to a tinner!😎
This year, more like $400…times are tough!
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UK: council bans tenants from putting Christmas wreaths on their front doors over health and safety – and threatens them with fines if they do not comply
A council has been accused of playing Grinch after warning residents they could face fines for putting Christmas wreaths on their front doors.
Liberal Democrat-run Portsmouth City Council sparked fury after housing officers wrote to tenants telling them festive decorations were not permitted on the outside of their flats.
Hundreds of letters were sent to residents, warning that wreaths and other decorations must be removed or they could face enforcement action, including potential charges for non-compliance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15370557/lib-dem-council-bans-Christmas-wreaths-doors-fines.html
We all know the real reason and who not to offend.
Hang up xmas bacon instead!
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A potential best seller in “liquid bacon pressure packs”?
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Cowtone 10-1982 wins!
https://imgbox.com/TFDjqJKp
Blank looks all round? It’s sarc for Pantone’s colour of the year craziness.
https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/color-of-the-year/2026
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Isn’t that Antique White from 30years ago?
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Over the past few weeks there have been many stories about the massive fraud being perpetrated by the Somalian contingent in Minnesota. Today, I read that a similar large-scale fraud has been going on in Ohio, again by Somalians. Today’s article suggested that a peculiarity in Somalian society, where the needs and desires of each person’s family are considered so important that pretty much anything goes in pursuit of that aim, including theft and other crimes.
Which made me think back to when my wife worked for a company dealing with the long-term unemployed, and those seeking workplace injury compensation, here in Australia. Even back then, fifteen or more years ago, she became aware of a disproportionate number of Somalians making claims, including three brothers from one family.
So perhaps we have the same problem here.
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FWIW
“Waah: Nobody Will Help Al Green Impeach the Orange Man”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/12/12/waah-nobody-will-help-al-green-impeach-the-orange-man-n3809832
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Scary new “unprecedented” “super” influenza outbreak in Once Great Britain..
Mass jabbing urged.
Much dishonesty from “authorities”.
Dr Suneel Dhand discusses:
https://youtu.be/FXA8RYMVE-k
I wonder if there’ll be mass panic and lockups in Australia as well? Isn’t it time for another covid-style panic and lockup?
I’m sure Australian “authorities” will be pleased to force mass compulsory mRNA “vaccinations” on us. They’re on the way…
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On the weather front, the US is going to experience unseasonably warm weather over the next few weeks, while Canada is forecast to be seriously cold.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/u-s-week-2-4-outlook-warm-u-s-pattern-ahead-while-frigid-weather-is-locked-in-canada-2-2/
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Seriously cold in Canada at Christmas? Who’d a thunk it.
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FWIW
I can’t buy a copy but have been told that Uhlmann tears strips off Holmes-a-Court in today’s Australian.
Anyone able to relay?
TIA
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AI, I have been really impressed with C.U.since he saw the light / right and moved to Sky. Some really good insights on Credlin and his Nuclear show was pretty good too.
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Turns out it was last weekend for that
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Article was last weekend in The Australian, “Australia’s energy sins: the truth behind our soaring power bills”. He called a Court a “millionaire weather moralist and political dilettante, then went on to say “…The Holmes a Court article says more about the author that the subject…” Also: “Holmes a Court embodies the evolution of the bunyip aristocracy: immense inherited wealth wrapped in a Messianic sense of self.”
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Has it really happened?
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Trying to atone for the “Avro Arrow”?
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“choosing sovereignty, clarity, and purpose over habit and expectation.”
Canada? Really?? The place with truckers and Ukrainians.. Known world-wide for “I am right and you peasants will do what you’re told!” Still, I suppose that counts as purpose.
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You are referring to President Putin, aren’t you? Or maybe President Trump (who still hasn’t forgotten the Hunter Biden laptop episode during his previous term) when President Zelensky didn’t do President Trump “a favour”.
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You sure haven’t been following Canada closely of late have you!!
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Canada has nuclear power industry, an aerospace industry (Bombardier), agriculture, oil, mining, lumberjacks and Neil Young. Makes Australia look like a backwater.
They could take on the Gripen manufacture, swap the existing engine for a Rolls Royce, and accept the Antonov engineers with open arms if things go really pear-shaped in Ukraine.
What’s not to like?
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Hasn’t made it to Small Dead Animals yet
Or the headlines at National Post
Didn’t try “The Mop and Pail”
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“The Mop and Pail” has
“Bombardier awarded CAF contract for six aircraft
Bombardier spokesman Mark Masluch exits a Bombardier Global 6500 jet at an exhibition in 2019. The Canadian Armed Forces are buying six of the 6500 jets as part of Ottawa’s defence spending push.
DAVID BECKER/Reuters”
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Are you making a virtue out of bloody-mindedness?
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More un-costed idiotic ideas from BOB
Top End wind, solar solution to drought fears
New research suggests massive Northern Territory solar and wind farms could solve southern Australia’s winter energy droughts through long-distance transmission cables.
Bowen commits $5bn more for home battery subsidies
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced an expanded budget and sustainability reforms for Labor’s battery subsidy scheme, confirming reports the initial $2.3bn budget would have been exhausted within a year.
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P, where does the magic money come from…..?????
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They can save themselves by giving the Beetaloo Basin gas project the nod and build a pipeline instead of a powerline.
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Cheaper to tap the Gippsland Basin gas first.
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Gippsland gas and brown coal would be first choice – but for the Vic Govt. Germany has some excellent engineers and efficient brown coal power station technology.
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There are enough gas reserves there to supply the entire Nation for at least 200 years.
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Would you be happy to receive $10M? Could you live happily on that? Seems like a lot, doesn’t it?
That’s because it is. To most of us that is.
But that kind of money is easily lost or missed when a government is throwing $5b around. Who cares where those pesky millions go?
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Prof Andrew Blakers again. His past efforts in 2017 were labelled “highly optimistic”, and following proposals over years were also slammed as being very wrong.
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“On December 12, a ceremony was held in Pyongyang to welcome servicemen of the 528th Engineer-Sapper Regiment back from their mission in the “overseas military operation” zone.
It was announced that the regiment had been awarded the Order of Freedom and Independence, First Class, and that nine soldiers who died during combat missions were awarded the title of Hero of the DPRK… In addition to the service members themselves, family members of the service members also participated in the event. Moreover, Kim Jong-un also met with the relatives of those killed in action during the event. ”
Only nine soldiers killed… But..but.. I read in the Western press that they marched forward in their hundreds and were slaughtered by the valiant Ukies..
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milinfolive?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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That’s only the “528th Engineer-Sapper Regiment”.
No mention of the foot soldiers yet.
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FWIW
“Brussels “Crosses Rubicon” in Final Act of Self-Destruction to Seize Russian Assets”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/brussels-crosses-rubicon-in-final
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Interesting and what I have known for 20 years or more, I just do not know why Governments in Australia did not heed the lessons!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZGjjuml8&t=4s
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Catallaxy site is down shortly after the Bondi attack. Anyone know why?
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