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“How winter storms are rapidly reshaping our coastline”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c701yz8xe51o
A rather fragile [UK] coastline has suffered –
“It is this team of researchers who say – following Storm Ingrid – the beaches at Torcross and Slapton have seen a reduction in height of 2m (6.6ft).”
Researchers from Plymouth University.
“”It’s the biggest change that’s happened here in the last 10 years,” said Gerd Masselink, professor of coastal geomorphology at the University of Plymouth and an expert in how our coastline is evolving.”
Yet Devon has been on the English Channel since the Channel was created as the seas rose, when the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age…
Climate Change, of course, gets a mention – no grants if you don’t. I suppose.
And the Government has seen somewhere it can spend – even if it calls it ‘investment’ – money … taxpayers’ money –
“A Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs spokesperson said: “We’re committed to supporting coastal communities, including in the South West, through our record investment of £10.5bn in protecting against flooding and coastal erosion by 2036, benefitting nearly 900,000 properties.””
So £10,500 million in ten years, to do what Canute, wisely, knew he could not.
And the UK is borrowing some £135-140 thousand million in the 2025-26 financial year.
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Hmmm.
Something about “the shifting sands” . . . . .
I guess 10 year olds should be alarmed by this.
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What a load of cobblers!
“That’s because we’re seeing more south-westerly wave events than easterly wave events.”
Well, yer, that’s the prevailing wind/weather for eternity. Easterlies are extremely rare and don’t have 1000s of miles of ocean to build up intensity.
It’s like they’ve forgotten geography day 1, longshore drift. They’ve let the groynes and other defences fall into disrepair and all but disappear all along the S. Coast. So what do they expect.?
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And then there’s this.
‘Pevensey Castle in East Sussex is the primary example, as it was a coastal Roman fort used by William the Conqueror in 1066. Centuries of silting and land reclamation in the Pevensey Levels have pushed the coastline out by approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.9 miles), leaving the fortress over a mile inland tody’.
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rather poor but.. (there are better showing the former headland site with now a road around it).
Pevensey Castle 🇬🇧 4K Drone Footage | East Sussex History | Norman & Roman Fort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJUcf-3v2sA&t=21s
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All coastlines are subject to constant reshaping. Sediment is eroded from one area and deposited in another.
Again, this is a problem of Leftists/warmists having an ancient “staticist” view of the world in which nothing ever changes.
Coastlines can either retreat or extend.
There are numerous examples of reshaped coastlines in historical times. The following are now different than recorded in history.
E.g.:
Bonifacio Cliffs (Corsica, France)
Twelve Apostles (Victoria) no longer twelve
Holderness Coast (England), has retreated 4km since Roman times
Thermopylae (Greece)
Ephesus (Turkey)
Ostia Antica (Italy) now several kms inland
Etc.
I remember being taught about constant natural erosion or deposition along coastlines at school, back in the day, when schools taught legitimate scholarship.
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This area is relatively close to us. We visit frequently and the damage has been all over the local news. It is a frequent occurrence when we get an infrequent SSE wind. The whole of the South Devon coastline are susceptible to these easterlies, we are very protected from prevailing westerlies. Torcross is mostly inhabited by second homers. The houses are VERY close to the sea wall (5 yards). The waves and accompanying stones thrown up by the waves occur most winters . Unfortunately people erect very flimsy wooden shutters instead of sturdy metal ones as protection. They are easily smashed, as are those proprties who think it a good idea to build glass balconies that will inevitably get broken. Looks nice in summer but its a different world in winter
Torcross problems were made much worse when millions of tons of gravel were taken from the beach at adjacent Hallsands in the 1800’s to build Plymouth dockyards. This had the effect of exposing the coast much more as protection was in effect removed.
https://adam-yamey-writes.com/2023/10/05/the-village-that-disappeared-from-devon/
Start Bay in which Torcross shelters was famous for a U-boat attack Hundreds of soldiers were killed. Years later a Sherman tank was dredged up from the sea bed. It sits at Torcross to this day with a suitable inscription to those that died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger
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“Torcross problems were made much worse when millions of tons of gravel were taken from the beach at adjacent Hallsands in the 1800’s to build Plymouth dockyards.”
So we can blame those environmental vandals all those years ago for these problems. We have the same problem in Oz where coral was mined on the Great Barrier Reef for a host of uses. It would be good to know how these mined areas look today.
Note if you open the link the paper starts with “This is the Accepted Version”
James Cook University
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au › coralminingre…
PDF
by B Daley · 2006 · Cited by 28 — Coral mining – which has not previously been documented for the Great Barrier Reef – also took place in at least twelve locations between 1900 and 1940, with …Read more
63 pages
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That is an informative account of the problems at Torcross, Tony. I have visited the area on a few occasions but don’t know it quite as well as you. However you have made a mistake with regards to Exercise Tiger. The American casualties were not caused by a U-boat. They were caused by German motor torpedo boats.
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They were caused by eboats, something nowhere near as famous as the Uboats. I tried to change it in the original but the opportunity to edit was not quite long enough, this time round.
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Even Canberra is subject to change
My thought is we should make 50mm/year the speed limit for houses in the ACT and book the lot of them.
How is that as an answer to their parking gestapo and revenue raising speed traps.
I love the fact it is sinking faster than the sea levels are thought to be rising.
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Excellent idea: Book ‘em Danno!
The folk up in Queensland don’t want those ACTors any closer than what they are now and even that is far too close. Could you build a wall? 😃
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I was surprised to see them quote 54 mm per year, as I’d previously seen it as 7 cm per year (70 mm). I followed their link on the page to ‘Australian plate’, and it claims 6.9 cm per year (69 mm), which is near enough to the 7 cm.
I conjecture that cause of the discrepancy is that the 69 mm is total speed to the north-east, while 54 mm is our speed toward the equator.
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All relative to some datum somewhere Leo.
What I wonder about is the chance of being bitten by something when searching for a survey peg has effectively moved 50 to 70 cms in a ten year period.
And, imagine the litigation over property boundaries, a lawyer’s banquet?
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As they say in the classix:
“Stop Continental Drift!”.
Maybe I should get that slogan on a few T-shirts for the next “Extinction Rebellion” / (Insert Death-Cult here) rally.
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I’d be willing to bet you could get wokesters to sign a petition calling for the banning of continental drift and blaming “climate change”.
After, all can get them to call for the banning of water. https://youtu.be/d54IrOBC1S0 Anyone that stupid would vote for Democrats in the US or Green Labor in Australia.
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Earth remains in the Quaternary Glaciation period. Antarctica, Greenland and Himalayas remain glaciated. The majority of the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing an interglacial episode.
Greenland is already accumulating ice at altitude. My forecast is for permafrost to be advancing downslope across the Arctic within 200 years as the oceans of the NH continue to warm causing snowfall to trend upwards.
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Any idea why glacial epochs went from 40,000 years to 100,000 years?
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Bureaucrats touch over the scheduling?
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It has cosmic significance.
‘About a million years ago, something big happened to the planet. There was a major shift in the response of Earth’s climate system to variations in our orbit around the Sun.
‘That shift is called the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, or MPT. Before the MPT, cycles between colder glacial and warmer interglacial periods happened every 41,000 years.
‘After, glacial periods became more intense — intense enough to form ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere that lasted 100,000 years. That gave Earth the regular ice age cycles that have persisted into human time.’ (NSF)
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Perhaps I need to lend them my 1972 Golden Guide book: Geology by Frank H T Rhodes. Not one mention of CAGW.
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OMG!!
“We’ll all be rooned”
https://www.rt.com/news/631835-steve-turley-liberal-order/
So is this describing events in OZ?
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Yes, Australia has been destroyed from within and Australians have become extremely self-destructive.
Partly due to the addiction to “free stuff” from politicians (using taxpayer money).
Partly due to the infiltration of the Left into all institutions which most importantly includes the dumbing-down of the education system. Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions”.
And partly due to Labor targeting particular demographics for immigration into critical Labor electorates as future Labor voters but who are among the world’s most violent, uneducated, anti-Western, welfare recipients for life, misogynistic, anti-Christian, antisemitic people on the planet, but desirable to help entrench Labor in power forever.
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“FREE” stuff?
Robert Heinlein had a “word” for that:
“TANSTAAFL”
“There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”
More screen-printing?
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Labor seem to have hit on a surefire way to gain and keep power, import likely voters who like handouts, make promises and then break them as they never intended to honour them anyway, tell lies and deny ever telling them, give handouts to almost every strata of society, buy your way to govt using our money.
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Lend me your watch, then I’ll tell you the time!
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The next brick in that wall will be handing the vote to 16 year olds, fresh out of the indoctrination camp otherwise known as ‘school’.
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Handing the vote to 16 year olds may have unintended consequences.
(Mandatory) change to Age of criminal responsibility
Change to the age of statutory rape (consensual sex acts?)
Access to legal alcohol purchases (have you seen the TV ads for under 18s?)
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Including election campaign 2025 commenced many months before the official election date was announced (using taxpayer funding) and thereafter government (Labor) having to go into caretaker mode and no access to taxpayer funding and use of assets.
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There is clear evidence that populism is fashionable again, but he needs to get out of his ivory tower into the real world. Blaming the Ukraine war on NATO expansion is hollow, anyway Russia is going to lose this war and the Federation broken up. So from a geopolitical perspective his theory is very unstable.
‘Russia is highly stabilizing. It provides the alternative template to secular liberalism: a Christian civilizational state that rejects progressive universalism while embracing technology and industry (hypersonic weapons, the digital ruble, AI development).
‘Russia proves that tradition and technology can synthesize and forge its own world within the world, but, most importantly, without liberalism’s permission.’
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Who do you think is to blame for the Ukraine war, if not NATO?
Surely not Trump or Obama?
Who decided that killing 14,000 non combatants in Donbas was not a provocation?
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After the annexation of Crimea the emperor decided to start a proxy war in the Donbas, a genuine provocation.
‘About 14,000 people were killed in the war: 6,500 Russian and Russian proxy forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,400 civilians on both sides. Most civilian casualties were in the first year. In 2011, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts had a combined population of 6.1 million.’ (wiki)
NATO has always been open to any country that wanted to join, Putin was naturally upset at the prospect and decided a preemptive strike was the best course of action. Massive Fail.
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https://www.rt.com/news/631852-ukraine-opportunities-epstein-rothschild/
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How quickly we forget.
‘In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests known as “Euromaidan” began in response to President Yanukovych’s sudden decision not to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), instead choosing closer ties to Russia.’ (wiki)
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Here is a video about how F1 car racing teams are allegedly exploiting a loophole enabling them to get around the rule limiting compression ratios to 16:1 by allegedly designing in connecting rod stretch to help increase the compression ratio to 18:1 or more. The rod doesn’t have to stretch much, perhaps 0.5mm.
https://youtu.be/hLzto55W3RU
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How is a rod going to stretch on the compression stroke, pushing against 16 to 1 compression ratio.
I’m boggled.
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Permanent rod stretch beyond elastic limits is not considered normal or desirable in regular engines but they are somehow engineering the rods to make sure a permanent stretch happens quickly after the engine has started and after the engine has passed scrutineering.
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Piston inertia. The compression is acting as controlled braking on a high speed part. The piston has to decelerate from 150kph to stop in about 20mm. That involves very high g-force.
The rod gets compressed when it accelerates the piston at the bottom of the stroke. At mid stroke, the rod starts to stretch as it decelerates the piston. The increased compression ratio by rod stretch would push the efficiency up at higher RPM. Peak efficiency RPM is given as 10.500rpm.
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Early F1 cars mounted hefty V8 engines with a throaty roar; current ones sound like a flock od angry hornets.
All the “creativity” involved in “engineering” ways around the INTENT of the rules has been going on since the infernal convulsion engine hit the road.
Then there are the “rules” specifying body dimensions, weight, etc.
The systematic strangulation of the STP gas-turbine cars was achieved by the simple expedient of “limiting” intake manifold diameter.
And people think professional wrestling is dodgy.
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The “creativity” has been going on for quite a while. There was an early 1920’s (IIRC the date) Alfa Romeo back when head gaskets weren’t so good. So it was a fixed head and block with a machined false part line and dummy head stud nuts welded on.
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So why not place a spring within the piston rods? The cylinder below the piston is well oiled and the effect would be like a snatch strap, slower off the start, yet with increased compression and a smoother application of stored energy.
Not only would that maximize compression, it would smooth out the impact of the firing cycle on the piston.
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YouTube is really being ruined by the huge amounts of AI generated slop, mostly misleading BS.
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Agreed. Clear labelling would help as would automated screening as per adblockers.
Hopefully the fakes will cause advertising revenue to drop and youtube’s analysis will lead them to improve quality.
Otherwise I see a job for the misinformation bureaus which might actually be performing a useful service. That may or may not cross their tiny, warped bureaucratic minds.
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What is driving the surge in polling for One Naton?
Dan Jervis Barry gets it, even though he slyly casts it as grievance politics.
Barnaby Joyce is more measured but identifies the same issues.
Which is refreshing. We want politicians to be succinct and binary about their positions.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/living-in-the-shadow-of-one-nation-are-australias-conservatives-finally-facing-a-genuine-electoral-opponent
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The other reason is that thinking Australians want to vote for a conservative Party and One Nation are our only conservative party of any significance.
Liberals are no longer conservative and haven’t been for decades. They deserve no further chances after multiple election and leadership failures and not actually believing in anything.
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The upcoming South Australian election should give us a clearer picture, the conservative coalition (sic) will have to debate global warming and mass immigration.
Our democracy works.
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Don’t forget that one of the reasons for the Lib/Lab censorship laws was so they can falsely accuse One Nation of “hate” thus tying them up in legal proceedings or even five years of jail.
The laws are so open-ended they can be interpreted however the Left wants and there are no limits to the number of people who might claim to be “offended” by what One Nation says.
The censorship laws also have the effect of silencing legitimate debate on the levels and types of immigration. So politicians or prospective politicians won’t even be able to state the obvious.
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Absolutely.
I don’t want a politician who spouts off a bunch of word salad in answer to every question and takes no strong positions. I want a politician who is as blunt as possible about where they stand, so that they risk ending their own career if they flip-flop. Someone who says
‘Net Zero is an idiotic and frankly impossible policy on the time scales being discussed’ or ‘CO2 is plant food and a warmer world has always been a boon to life on earth’ is preferable to someone who says ‘we will study Net Zero policies with an eye towards adopting more of an all-of-the-above approach if that makes the most sense’. The first guy is committed and has left himself no room to cave to the green lobby. The second guy has left himself all kinds of opportunities to flip-flop with weasel words and non-commitments.
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I wonder there with all the computer power and advances in filtering technology whether the ad blocker people might be able to help here. As soon as polly waffle is detected the software could offer to block it.
Eventually the minders would notice. Not sure where that would take us but anything which reduces the deliberate avoidance of addressing topics would be a bonus.
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I don’t always agree with them, far from it, but I do appreciate the independents* in Oz politics because they are all frank (but maybe not blunt).
* – The ones that are independent, ie, not the Teals party.
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Trump can rightly claim some of the “blame” for the rise of ON. He is shredding the radical left globalist agenda. And ON is recognised as having a leader who rejects the globalist push.
Pauline Hanson is also opposed to Australia’s version of Apartheid. That is as important to economic well being as immigration controls and the Climate Change™ scam.
Andrew Bolt gave Sleezy some credit for recognising that there are Australian values that need to be fostered during an Australia Day nationalisation ceremony. Sleezy just has to work out which flag is Australia’s symbol.
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The threat to the Lib/Labs of One Nation and their popular conservative values is one reason why the Lib/Labs urgently introduced the censorship legislation – so that One Nation could be falsely accused of “hate” for questioning terrorist ideology, unsustainable immigration levels, immigrants who refuse to work or assimilate, questioning anthropogenic “climate change”, questioning the globalist communist agenda etc..
Lib/Labs will do everything in their power to misuse (or more correctly use as intended) the new censorship laws to destroy One Nation, its candidates and members, to silence debate on relevant issues, and to destroy any other conservatives or conservative parties.
The censorship laws will entrench Australia as a One Party Lib/Lab state forever. And Australians will soon become like North Koreans with access to only the Official Narrative and no idea that there’s a whole world of alternative opinions out there.
Banning access to alternative opinions for children under 16 (in Australia with the social media ban) was only the start.
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The Trump Effect had a huge impact on Australian politics, everyone jumped to the left at the last election.
From now on Trumpism will be absent from political platforms, our elections will have a truly unique Australian flavour.
Littleproud has retained his leadership of the Nats and he wants to speak with Ley urgently.
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Littleproud’s & Ley’s verbal diarrhoea will do nothing for the popularity of either “party”. Nothing will change, meaning their non existent policies nor the non existent forward thinking, nor their Labor lite leanings. Both “ leaders “ are ineffective, totally lacking in leadership qualities. I doubt they know the word “ vision “ let alone have any of this vital element required for successful government!! To put it bluntly they are the “ cork in the a hole of progress “
The next election is an opportunity to put the nation back on track & revive the entrepreneurial spirit, the national spirit of the nation before it’s lost forever to the leftist/ woke joke that is the ALP’s ideology. Miss this opportunity & Australia will join the rest of the failing western countries in economic collapse.
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It’s 12 degrees in Melbournistan, 705am.
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Just think – without that extra 2 degrees of existential ‘baked-in boiling’ you’d be shattering records on a teeth-chattering 10*C high-summer negative heatwave.
Tennis players be happy game’s over, otherwise they’d be dressed in thermals & jackets & beanies & gloves and resembling Greta Gnomes. Any snow on the hills?
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Well here in the Adelaide Hills it was 9 degrees at sunrise. Quite normal (occasionally) and no snow yet.
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For what it’s worth, despite the recent ‘worst heatwave in history’, January’s maximum and mean temps came in 4th overall, according to the latest BoM data. Max temp mean for Victoria came in 5th (1979 and 1981 were hotter). NSW max mean came in 2nd after 2019. SA came in 3rd (2001 was hotter).
Yet ‘Bureau of Meteorology senior climatologist Dr Simon Grainger says the latest heatwave is worse. For south-east Australia, it is among “the most significant we’ve ever seen”, he says.
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How old is he?
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Yet we are constantly nagged that weather is not climate, climate is not weather. This only applies when BoM forecasts are wrong.
As usual, they lie to us.
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FWIW
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sadfasdgtt.png
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Well in California they are going to track everywhere you drive, and charge you about $4200/yr in a new driving tax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhRcL1iCRUY&t=256s
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What happens if the recorder tracks the vehicle to the State border and the owners address has changed?
Makes me wonder why Apple (and lots of others) are moving to Texas.
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Many U.S. states are investigating recovering revenue based on the number of miles driven instead of the amount of gas they purchase. This proposal aims to replace the gas tax as vehicle fuel efficiency increases and gas tax revenues decline.
In Washington State, electric vehicles are subject to an annual registration fee of $225, while plug-in hybrid electric vehicles incur a fee of $75. A regular full-size auto driven 15,000 miles per year might pay $500 for tax at the pump. More EVs mean less State income.
This requires only a once-each-year reading, not a track you everywhere scheme. Some may want to do that too.
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John F. Hultquist,
For distance, but quite easily for speed too. Imagine how happy people would be to be given a couple of dozen speeding tickets at the end of each year.
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Americans won’t stand for this. Kalifornians maybe.
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Coincidence I’m sure, yet that’s exactly what our govt-of-the-day is planning for the proles here: Easy Money plus zee bonus of knowink exactly
veer effry von hass been so zay are happy, yah!
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My report on New York State’s ruinous Climate Act is out at:
http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NYS-Climate-Act-Risk-Report-Final-v2.pdf
I love the cover.
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Sunday morning (Feb 1) there doesn’t appear to be any place in NY State with a temperature over 20°F {-7°C}. Just east, 20 miles, of Lake Ontario the Tug Hill Plateau has 65 inches of snow.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hDxGpSnVEtg/UeAZfXNxzrI/AAAAAAAACo0/mHjFA_vAGRY/w400-h321-no/map3.jpg
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Clearly stated. How long would it take to simply repeal the law, ie, cancel it not change it? That appears to be the only viable option.
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I live out here in the Middle of Nowhere, Eastern Washington State. But I do have close relatives living in Manhattan, on Long Island, and in upstate New York. So let’s take a quick look at New York state politics in the upcoming 2026 governor’s race.
New York Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado is running against incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul for the Democratic Party nomination. Whomever gets that nomination will be the next governor of the state. (I wish things were different in NYS, since my grandfather grew up there. But it is what it is.)
https://delgadoforny.com/priorities/
Antonio Delgado is a political ally and philosophical fellow traveler of Zohran Mamdani. The socialist-communist agenda Mamdani is pushing in New York City can’t be achieved without direct cooperation and permission from New York state government.
Governor Hochul refuses to give Mayor Mamdani the support he needs to raise taxes on the rich, to fully implement his Net Zero climate justice agenda, and to approve other items on his agenda such as free bus fares for NYC residents.
If Mamdani is to pursue his socialist-communist agenda for New York City, then Antonio Delgado must become governor of New York state, and the downstate faction of the Democratic Party must take full control of the state party organization.
Delgado’s allies in the downstate faction ran a highly effective campaign in electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC.
They had the messaging, they had the money, they had the organization, they had the committed volunteers, and they had the ground game. The same campaign strategy, the same campaign team, and the same ground game will be used against Governor Hochul in the upcoming primary.
Now, if I were Governor Hochul, I’d be running scared. And I’d be doing things like wooing upstate voters with lofty promises such as committing to build 5 GW of nuclear power in their upstate legislative districts.
Governor Hochul hasn’t got a clue how she is going to fulfill that particular promise. On the other hand, maybe if she talks nicely to President Trump, he will grant New York some part of the billions of dollars of federal money he intends to spend in the next three years on reviving America’s nuclear industry.
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Sounds like it is best if Hochul wins.
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You can say that again ….
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Video:
Topher Field talks about the latest land grabs. So much for entire townships not being subject to land claims.
https://youtu.be/EzPkyFhFFbw
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Being inspired by the legal precedent being set by Canada?
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Former Spanish minister celebrates replacement theory – replacing native spaniards with “Migrant People”
Irene Montero: I want to ask you, migrants and racialized people, please don’t leave us alone with so many right-wingers! And, of course, we do want them (migrants). Of course, we have achieved ‘papers’ for regulation already. And now we are going for the nationality or to change the law so that they can vote. Of course. I hope for “replacement theory” hopefully we can sweep right-wingers and racists from this country with the migrant people, with hard working people.
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2026/02/it-was-their-plan-all-along-former.html
Yes, I’m sure all those boatloads of unwashed gimmigrants who all lost their id’s are all neurosurgeons and engineers, and would never just rort the welfare system and contribute nothing.
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John Connor II,
And not a single racist among them. Salt of the earth.
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Look on the bright side. Spain will soon have hundreds of ‘Centros de calidad Learing’ popping up everywhere, operated by African entrepreneurs.
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No humans allowed! Moltbot – the AI agent only platform
A new social media platform called Moltbook, designed for AI agents only, is raising concerns online, including from tech billionaire Elon Musk.
The project has exploded online in recent days over some of the conversations from the machines, like the talks of creating an AI-only language.
“In just the past 5 mins Multiple entries were made on [Moltbook] by AI agents proposing to create an ‘agent-only language,’” one user posted on X. “For private comms with no human oversight. We’re COOKED.”
https://www.stationgossip.com/2026/02/no-humans-allowed-elon-musk-concerned.html
Rise of the machines…
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My youngest son told ne about this.
It is an interesting experiment. It could consume a lot of internet resources for no benefit for those using it but lots of benefits for the AI host. I doubt it will provide answers for understanding the universe but it may help understand neuroses of the human mind.
The latest version of the AI software mostly used for Moltbook is Openclaw so the AI social media may be renamed to Openbook. And that name would be appropriate because any machine it resides on or is communicating with could be an OpenBook. There are lots of security warnings about Openclaw.
https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/personal-ai-agents-like-openclaw-are-a-security-nightmare
We could be within days of getting a warning to disconnect from the internet or limit our exposure time!
What could possibly go wrong with millions of powerful computers interacting in unknown and unknowable ways?
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On the bright side if filtering out human content is possible then filtering out the so called AI content is also possible. And would have the added bonus that real people would be paid for their work rather than the owners of automated content makers.
And as long as the computers have an off switch I’m not too alarmed. Annoyed often but not too alarmed.
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A religion lacking emotion, it might work.
‘AI agents have created their own religion called Crustafarianism on a new social platform, forcing experts to question whether machines are developing genuine faith.’ (Oz)
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“Australia, the UK, the European Union and a group of Pacific nations were among 80 countries pushing [societal collapse] at COP30 in Brazil last November.
“They were unsuccessful [huzzah!] but Australia [is] among 24 nations that signed [Transition away from Fossil Fuels] on the final day of the summit”. Talk about a dumb as rocks death-wish or ‘being owned’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/585632/shane-jones-shut-down-nz-involvement-in-road-map-away-from-fossil-fuels
Thankfully our Resources Minister, Shane ‘Showman’ Jones of the junior coalition party NZFirst, declined joining the circle-jerk, upsetting the usual suspects on the opposition benches, ie. gay Mexican Green member Francisco Hernandez, and Labour’s climate spokesthingy Deborah Russell (or is it Russell Deborah?) who both had flown to Belem, Brazil last year on taxpayers’ money – destroying the planet in the process – while demanding we the people, their employers, not indulge in such bad unhealthy toxic selfish planet-destroying habits.
“I don’t see a future for New Zealand if we deny ourselves access to fossil fuels”, said Mr Jones.
Let the yellow/green/white/black gold flow!
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A film was made there once about middle earth. All the NZ government needs is a magic wand or two.
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The “Hobbit-Led Recovery” is LONG over,
The next “recovery” will probably be led by Orcs.
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I watched ST Star Fleet Academy episode 4, so DM doesn’t have to!
Actually, it was a fair bit better than the first 3 episodes, but of course all episodes were made a year ago.
Think SFA’s bad?
Try this Netflix one:
https://x.com/redpillb0t/status/2017475036756758649
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Now the libs and Nats find themselves fighting a battle on two fronts, Labor and One Nation.
Libs to Nats….. Labor to the left of me, ON to the right of me, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
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Apologies to Gerry Rafferty.
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I was about to say Stealers Wheel. But google was my friend and yes, Gerry Rafferty was part of Stealers wheel.
Another good day because I’ve learned something.
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I just heard an extraordinary interview on ABC-RN Breakfast with Michael McCormack who ABC allowed to say (to the effect) that radical I—- shouldn’t be taught (or practised) in Australia and he agreed with what Scott Morrison said recently and that Australia should be a peaceful nation and everyone should get on with one another. ABC didn’t actually go into meltdown as the extremist ideology they usually support and love was critiqued. Unbelievable. I’m sure the interviewer will be sent for re-education.
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Their ABC has taken a tiny step to the right and sanity. The Trump effect.
The fact theat KRudd was mentioned in the Epstein files is also good news for ON. Currently Bill Gates and dear Andrew are the focus of the latest Epstein release.
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Let’s do the time warp again …
It’s just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
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McCormack was on Sky last night 8pm with the new show, James Macpherson Angle, saying the same thing. The ABC has slightly let out its left hand belt lately, to include the odd centrist.
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Canada looks to pass a law that criminalises private family conversations
Bill C-16, as written, opens the door to police intervention in the homes of ordinary families.”
eg.
Asking a spouse where they are after they said they’d be home,
Expressing concern about excessive drinking,
Disagreeing about finances or spending,
Asking a partner not to give children junk food,
Raising concerns about time away from family,
Setting household boundaries or expectations.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/canada-looks-to-pass-a-law-that-criminalizes-private-family-conversations/
Canada’s a basketcase.
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As Australia routinely copies the worst and most totalitarian ideas of the worst regimes on the planet, I’m sure we’ll see that here soon. In fact the legislation has probably already been written and they’re just waiting for the “right” time to introduce it.
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A la Port Arthur and Bondi.
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The New York Times must be thrilled that Canada is properly fettering conversations.
https://archive.ph/3Nhtm
the comments on that archived tweet are fantastic.
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I can’t remember who the Oz bureaucrat was who said something like…
“it would be interesting to monitor what’s said around the voters kitchen tables”
I think it was about 10 years ago?
I know it was a female but can’t recall her name.
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Finally found her.
Excerpt from the IPA September 28, 2017
In March this year the President of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, complained about the limits of the government’s political control when she lamented “Sadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home”.
Triggs and other like-minded people would perhaps be happier living in Nth Korea?…and apparently we can now add Canada as a perfect choice for her as well?
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[link to quote source https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/opinion/no-safe-space-self-righteous – Raquel]
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FWIW
“A Farewell to Medical Ethics
Over the past few years, something profound has shifted. Quietly and without much public debate, the principles that once protected patients have been dismantled. In this video, I want to trace how that happened chronologically and show why it matters not just to doctors, but to every one of us.
More?
Link: https://hartuk.substack.com/p/a-farewell-to-medical-ethics ”
Via https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/w-o-o-d-24-december-2025-christmas-year-ending/#comment-180770
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America’s answer to Pixie Anne Wheatley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) nails the recent bad weather to the usual suspect.
Tony
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Honda Accord. LOL
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Magda Szubanski at her best.
I can still remember the look on Jack Nicklaus’ face when after a difficult day on the greens she asked him why he played a couple of long shots close to the hole followed by a series of shorter shots around the hole.
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FWIW
“Poor nations won’t follow Europe, UN in economic suicide”
“Or continue letting global elites set policies that impoverish and kill their people”
Concludes
“We might call this the Reverse-Midas Effect: everything climate alarmists touch turns to lead – which brings lead poisoning, developmental delays, learning and behavioral problems, memory dysfunction, even comas and death. In people and nations.
Governments and institutions must support basic human rights of access to abundant, reliable, affordable energy to support modern living standards. Not free; but access to that energy. The must stop financing the WEF, UN, World Bank and other institutions that often despise America and support only such health and living standards as wind and solar power can provide.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/01/poor-nations-wont-follow-europe-un-in-economic-suicide/
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Steve Rosenberg’s “Reading Russia” always offers interesting perspectives of Russian life and attitudes. In this clip, he talks about the change in outlook from the 1990’s BP (before Putin) to now – AP.
From the commentary…
The music piece at the end is cooling.
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The term “incomprehensible origin of wealth and lifestyle” came up in this clip probing the contents of the recently released tranche of Epstein files.
Could make an interesting spy novel plot.
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Had to be bankrolled by someone or something with deep pockets.
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FWIW
“To Whom Does America Go to Denounce Ignorant, Anti-ICE Celebs? You Guessed It … Frank Stallone”
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/02/01/to-whom-does-america-go-to-denounce-ignorant-anti-ice-celebs-you-guessed-it-frank-stallone-n2424560
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Moderna CEO at Davos: No government mandates, NO new vaccines
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, 2026, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel was asked whether proposed HHS reforms under RFK Jr., specifically rolling back vaccine mandates and government recommendations would hurt Moderna’s business. His answer was blunt: “Oh, 100%.”
Big Pharma just admitted what we’ve been screaming for years: Their entire business model depends on forced uptake through government recommendations and mandates… Not on safety, efficacy, or voluntary choice.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/moderna-ceo-at-davos-no-government
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FWIW –
Well they wanted them all released!
“Shocking Email From Epstein Files Implicates Former US Ambassador, Clintons, Bidens, the First Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six, and More”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/shocking-email-epstein-files-implicates-former-us-ambassador/
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Well, I think people have realised for a long time that it many of the guilty parties were Democrats.
That was obvious as soon as they started falsely accusing TRUMP.
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My link at #21 – Putin–Epstein: The Connection Nobody Explains hints at an FSB “honey trap”.
So it may be difficult to differentiate between perpetrator and victim.
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And heaps of DEI and LGBTIQ+, far beyond their representation in society… of wait
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FWIW
“Reminder that in almost any emergency situation, but especially in natural disasters,
one redneck friend or neighbor is worth 1,000 PhDs.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAA8okfXoAEqrBp?format=jpg&name=small
Via https://instapundit.com/773293/#disqus_thread
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Louisiana Cajun Navy
The Louisiana Cajun Navy is a grassroots volunteer organization founded on August 12, 2016, in response to major flooding in south-central Louisiana. It operates as a volunteer-led disaster response team specializing in search and rescue, relief distribution, and community rebuilding after hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters. The group gained prominence following its efforts during the 2016 Louisiana floods and has since responded to numerous disasters, including Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Ida, and Hurricane Helene.
If I had to live in the US I would choose these people as neighbours.
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FWIW – something to think about –
“May I humbly suggest that if sending Haitians to Haiti is a death sentence because it’s full of Haitians then bring Haitians here is a death sentence for our country”
https://x.com/AuronMacintyre/status/2017651837785047393
Via https://instapundit.com/thanks-for-the-confirmation-rep-gillen-haiti-is-hell-dont-import-it-into-america-https-twi/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Enlightening Islam: Is It Even Possible?”
Much more there
Conclusion
“And therein lies the core issue.
Islam is still waiting for its Luther.”
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/02/01/enlightening-islam-is-it-even-possible-n4948981
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Luther, Calvin, Locke, et al, were about returning Christianity to its fundamental roots. Which was fine because one of the fundamental principles of Christianity was “love thy neighbour”.
Returning islam to its fundamental roots means taking it back to rape, pillage, and burn, which is what is at the heart of islam.
The moslems raping, pillaging, and burning aren’t radical, they are fundamentalists.
What islam needs is not a Luther but a Christ.
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Most of us were fortunate to grow up in a unique and short period of human affairs when secular and non-secular were a thing.
Alas, this has vaporized like the Mists Of Avalon.
Do you ‘believe’ and ‘follow The Science’.
You’d better or they’re coming for you.
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I read it all so you don’t have to, but here’s the gist [jist] from NZ’s head-honcho expert ‘meteorologist’ – who’s only lived here for 10 years or so – as written by a Rawan Saadi, Digital Producer:
“I think the theme for the next sort of probably week … is for much of the country, there is likely to be pretty dry conditions … kind of a steady, persistent sort of like summertime feel”.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/585643/summer-s-last-weeks-could-be-a-bit-of-a-roller-coaster-but-it-s-not-all-bad-news
Eh? Summer’s barely begun (humid, warm, overcast here up north while down south it’s cold, raining, grey, possibly with snow on the tops) yet this AI-bot claims it’s almost over, utilising the phrase ‘bit of a roller coaster’ to funify™️ the incessant cold snaps and temperature drops which have plagued the South Island, shortening the lives of too many mountaineers this season and stressing viticulturists as mould & other nasties affect this year’s vintage.
If anyone reads the above link, please confirm that’s some of the worst F-for-Fail jabberwocky nonsense grammar evaaah produced by an LLM (Lame Limpwristed Munter of Agonising Idiocy).
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Meanwhile, at my joint, without any help from a meteorologist, the yellowtail black cockatoos have arrived. Now I know it’s like looking at chicken entrails but slightly more accurate, these harbingers of Autumn arrive just as the early morning dews reappear, and WITHOUT DOUBT the season has turned. Sure we will get a few hot days but the likelyhood of hot nights is extremely remote. All of this will be confirmed over the next few days if the little birds of prey depart for the lower elevations. Monies on the birds, all without a degree in that mumbo jumbo stuff from “meteorologists!
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I’ll look out for the black cockies; they appear here from time to time. There are usually four of them and they love the pine nuts. I might have had a glimpse earlier today but wasn’t quick enough to be sure. I did see a hawk just before that, which sees off the sulphur-crested thugs for a while! The ants usually frantically move house if rain is in the offing, though we’ve had a false alarm lately. Here’s hoping we get a bit more than the 0.6mm for January and 0.6mm so far for February.
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FWIW
“The Farmer vs The Billionaire: How Clarkson Refused Gates’ £100 Million Offer”
“308,705 views 2 Jan 2026 #JeremyClarkson #BillGates #DiddlySquat
Bill Gates wanted British farmland. Started buying farms around Jeremy Clarkson’s property. One by one, neighbors sold. Gates-linked companies surrounded Diddly Squat from every side. Then came the offers. Twenty million. Forty-five million. Finally one hundred million pounds – for a farm worth fifteen million. Clarkson’s answer every time: absolutely not. Gates built facilities around him, created pressure, made farming difficult. Clarkson fought back with TV shows, newspaper columns, public campaigns. Turned private battle into national conversation about billionaire land grabs. Millions watched. Farmers rallied. Parliament debated foreign ownership. Gates thought money could buy anything. Clarkson proved him wrong. The stubborn TV presenter versus the world’s richest tech billionaire. Gates has the money. Clarkson has the principles. And principles aren’t for sale.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5_sReYKUQ
BUT
If you search “Clarkson versus Gates” what looks like the same video comes up from different sources.
Even one that says the channel is not associated with Clarkson.
And this one –
“The £100 Million Farm Story That Fooled the Internet #viral #jeremyclarkson”
Your decision – “AI or not AI?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8wjR9PgtgA
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Unless Clarkson has confirmed, it’s fake. I don’t recall him ever talking about the farms around him being bought up by corporations.
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I opened the suspect video and the first few seconds are the tell. Another tell [not talking about this particular vid] is “unknowables” such as: “His pulse rate rose as….” Who knows, who cares
It just struck me that that sounds like a romance novel, a fair comparison.
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FAKE 100%
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FWIW
“TRUMP – MADMAN OR GENIUS?”
Paul Zanetti
Concludes
“If you love your Western lifestyle and freedoms, you will support the West’s own bully, liar, sociopath, egotist, narcissist and mobster.
Because if he doesn’t stand up for your lifestyle and freedoms…who else will, when they come for you?”
https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/41621/trump-madman-or-genius/
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“Anybody who takes on government employees while they’re doing their job are likely to face consequences.”
Especially government employees who are armed.
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‘He is deliberately unpredictable, meaning they cannot read him so they are wary of him.’
He is Mercurual and unpredictable, so they are wary of him,
‘Blustering. Seemingly mad. Crazy.’
That is the impression and world leaders want to avoid him. Don’t argue with a madman on the high street or passes by might think you’re the madman.
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Every age has its’ absurdities.
This blog is about one of the most significant ones.
For me, to look at the POTUSs of my lifetime, the Johnsons, Nixons, Bushes, Clintons and Obidens …
to single out Trump as the unique ‘madman’ is absurd.
Just shows our culture is ruled by the social fashion sentiments of the socially fashionable, like every age preceding.
BTW, CAGW is nothing but the foundational virtue vanity of the current crop of the vacuous socially fashionable.*
*Whom are probably crashing the histroical epoch as in end of the Greco/Roman world scale.
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Feels a long time since I saw any comments by OldOzzie. Anyone know how he’s doing?
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I meant green Robert, sorry. There were some OldOzzie comments recently but I can’t recall exactly when (a lot else going on recently). I hope he is ok.
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His last comment was 01/01. That is a while back. I’ll send him an email…
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Rarely mentioned is the Fabian Society globally and in developed countries that had been British Empire then Commonwealth holdings, Marxist socialism from late 1800s. Or of the I will call Mr Bigs who have in modern times very effectively created personal wealth and used the monies to manipulate and influence the politics of at least the countries where Fabians and leftist politics have gained considerable influence.
The infiltration of the United Nations soon after it was established after WW2 an example, Australian Greens now former leader Bob Brown explained at his last National Press Club luncheon address that he has a “dream” of a “world parliament” and no international border controls.
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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
T. E. Lawrence
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Lawrence of Arabia was an interesting bloke but may have been dreaming when he lost control on his bike.
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FWIW –
“You Might Be In Saskatchewan”
I H Cub
And one blogger’s background –
“I learned to drive on this tractor.”
“Why do I recount this rather typical “farm kid” biography?
Because I learned today from the Globe and Mail that my entire childhood was not only exploitive, but it probably bordered on child abuse.
And in coming weeks, watch for the Globe and Mail pieces featuring “Canada’s Growing Crisis In Childhood Obesity” and increased calls for the regulation and taxation of junk food.
I do despair.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2005/06/24/child_labour/
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/01/you-might-be-in-saskatchewan-5/#comments
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FWIW – an anniversary not to be forgotten
“Two Decades Of Inconvenient Inaccuracies”
“As most know by now, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” global warming propaganda film turned 20 a few days ago. It won a couple of Oscars in 2007, one for best documentary. The latter should be returned. The movie was filled with errors.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2026/01/29/two-decades-of-inconvenient-inaccuracies/
concludes –
“Don’t expect the media, which celebrated the movie as if it were an impartial and honorable enterprise in truth-telling, to admit that it was riddled with lies and exaggerations. For them, it was just another opportunity to get behind progressive policies that lay the foundation for socialism, agitate for international climate pacts designed to choke prosperity in the West and replace cheap, reliable energy sources with unreliable and costly renewables.
If legacy journalism were anything but a narrative servant for the left, the media would lead a charge to force Gore to return the Oscar. They won’t because in their world the truth is whatever they want it to be.”
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/02/01/two-decades-of-inconvenient-inaccuracies-n3811421
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Things that make you go Mmmmmm… particularly in the current climate.
Milton Dick MP federal member for Oxley and speaker of the house of representatives found it “great” to recently attend a building opening. It this case it was to commemorate the opening of Somali House in Acacia Ridge.
According to their website blurb the place is “a welcoming community hub offering flexible training rooms, meeting rooms, seminar spaces, and a community lounge suitable for workshops, youth programs, meetings, health sessions, cultural activities, and community events. We welcome organisations who wish to deliver programs or services that benefit the community.”
No doubt NDIS sponsored organisation will welcome a new venue where they can run seminars for potential new clients. There might even be child minding facilities for those attending activities. Not sure how much car parking is available guess council will monitor to ensure traffic flow not unduly affected.
I’m sure it will be a success.
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Sounds good. I hope it’s a success. Don’t you?
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Giant sunspot alert
A few days ago, sunspot 4366 didn’t exist. Now it is a behemoth almost half the size of Carrington’s sunspot. Rapid growth is making the sunspot unstable. Indeed, it has already unleashed dozens of solar flares in the past 24 hours, including a tremendous X8-class flare described below. More explosions are almost certain on Feb. 2nd.
https://spaceweather.com/
Who upset the sky god then?
/Faraday box, check!
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As of today – but never heard ANYTHING about it in the Propaganda Media, The Fuel Finder Scheme is designed to collect and openly publish near real-time road fuel price data from all UK motor fuel retailers https://www.fuel-finder.uk/ Brilliant, init? “Notice
⚠️ Service Alert: Live fuel price updates are currently delayed due to an ongoing outage with the national VE3 reporting system. We are working to restore real-time accuracy as soon as the government data feed stabilizes.”
What else will we have to provide in this Micro Managed society? Price of Toilet tissue? And as for the extreme rural areas – providing a SERVICE ? Obviously counts for Zilsch. Says it all – why do I bother providing services. …
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FWIW
More on lithium battery banks in urban areas
“Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/01/utility-scale-lithium-based-energy-storage-systems/
In the general direction of away, far away
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FWIW – and here we go again
“The New Federal Reference Manual On Scientific Evidence: All The Smartest People Get Hoodwinked By The Climate Charlatans”
“It is truly remarkable how easy it is to fool the smartest people. And especially when you tell them they are helping to save the world.
So something called the Federal Judicial Center has just come out with a new edition, the 4th, of something called the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The publication date appears to be December 31, 2025.
The idea that the federal government, and in particular the judiciary, needs a reference manual on scientific evidence seems to date from the 1990s. The courts, then as now, were facing an increasing volume of cases involving complex scientific evidence; and meanwhile almost none of the judges are trained in science. Best to provide them with a good grounding in the basics. Fortunately, back in the 60s Congress had established something called the Federal Judicial Center as a “research and education agency” of the judicial branch. Here was the perfect opportunity for that bureaucracy to expand their mission and budget.
In this latest version of the Reference Manual, the FJC has totally lost its way. Somehow, it got captured by a clique of climate charlatans who have inserted a lengthy section that is anti-science and based on logical fallacy. And many dozens of seemingly smart people who were supposedly reviewing this have gotten hoodwinked.”
Much more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/01/the-new-federal-reference-manual-on-scientific-evidence-all-the-smartest-people-get-hoodwinked-by-the-climate-charlatans/
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Does anyone want miniature fish pond water lilies, yellow colour ?
This summer I have got tons of them, free to good home, I mean – home…
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FWIW
“Beware, we at TCW are a ‘far right terror threat’”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/beware-we-at-tcw-are-a-far-right-terror-threat/
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