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I think if we keep playing the evolutionary extinction game with viruses, the viruses will win.
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Humans are also the product of this very race. The race will survive, not individuals. The viruses need us.
This was a view explained by Richard Dawkins in “The Selfish Gene”.
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“The viruses need us.”
So far.
But we may be unwittingly forcing their (the viruses) hand.
I know they don’t have hands.
Just tiny little grabby things.
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Not just viruses but bacteria and fungi too.
While you were all asleep a disease swept across the world effortlessly, unstopped by borders and reported by no-one. Did you see it?
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‘ … the viruses will win.’
They adapt to survive, just like humans, life on this planet is a risky venture.
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Viruses need hosts. They die without us.
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Viruses need people to believe in them.
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The UK is making polygamy great again. Sure, polygamy may be illegal in the UK, but not if you are a migrant in a polygamous marriage who emigrates to the UK. Those rules only apply to the domestic proles who pay the taxes, not the polygamous migrants who live on the public dole and get paid extra for each additional spouse.
Two-tier Kier strikes again.
Import the third world … become the third world.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2203443/dwp-increases-benefits-husbands-2
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Australia has been recognising the polygamy of a certain demographic and paying welfare to multiple wives since at least 2016 when this practice was first uncovered.
Back in the day, polygamy was illegal in Australia, and it was a legally monogamous country as it was in all other Western countries back then.
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A little known fact is that the United States Civil War was not the first time the American government went to war with breakaway states/territories. About four years before the big Civil War kicked off, there was a smaller one in the Utah territories against Brigham Young and the Mormons. One of the many sources of that conflict was the Mormon’s right to practice aspects of their faith that ran counter to federal law …. namely polygamy.
There are still some fundamentalist type Mormons out in Utah who would really like to bring the practice back (and rumors that some never gave it up). It will be interesting to see if/when American politicos and bureaucrats allow polygamous Muslims to gain citizenship (or government benefits) whether enterprising Mormon zealots will use that as a wedge to bring back the practice in their own community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
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Well when every other sexual practice is legal and normal these day, I don’t see why not. Of course a woman having two husbands would be just as acceptable & it might solve a few economic problems.
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What did Trump call Britain? Was it “My favourite Muslim country”?
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Starmer is under increasing pressure.
Another dire ‘reset’ speech today, psychiatrists will be writing papers on that one.
https://order-order.com/2026/05/11/growing-labour-calls-for-starmer-to-resign-reach-the-frontbench/
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So far only 70 out of 650 UK MPs have said they want Starmer gone.
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70 out of 650.
650? Can we spell bloated government?
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15808949/Starmer-Cabinet-ministers-quit-resignations-PM.html
Here’s the key phrase and it’s why I’ve always said a new lot voted in won’t save you:
“Kemi Badenoch said it was ‘sad to watch’ the PM ‘floundering’ – and warned that replacing him with another Labour politician would make no difference.
‘It is not just Starmer,’ she said. ‘ll the pretenders jostling for his job do not have the answers either, because they all believe the same things: more welfare, more state control, more borrowing, more regulation.
‘They are busy arguing over who should drive the car, but the truth is they are all heading in the wrong direction.'”
We are at the point where blobs everywhere can be replaced by agentic AI.
No exhorbitant salaries indexed for life, no travel junkets, no fraud, no corruption, no eff-up on biblical scale like Snowy 2 and renewables.
Vote 1 Agentic Salvation party! 😁
It’s the only chance you have left.
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Not all MP’s are needed to oust Starmer, only 20% of the Labour members need to nominate a challenger – 81 apparently.
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In the following video Jeff Taylor talks about Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe’s plans starting with demanding an investigation into vape shops, hairdressers, Turkish barbers etc. typically run by a certain demographic, in Restore’s local government area which are widely understood to be associated with money laundering.
https://youtu.be/HCMUoHMyi1k
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New York’s communist Mayor and others don’t regard stealing and looting as morally and legally wrong.
When all the shops close, I wonder where New Yorkers will buy things? I guess everything will need to be ordered online.
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We’ll see how they feel about shoplifting once Mamdami’s city-owned grocery store opens.
If it is OK to steal from billionaire-owned Whole Foods, then it should be OK to steal from a store owned by a city with a $120 billion annual budget.
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People who live in Manhattan used to brag that you could live your whole life there because you could get anything you want on “the island”
Not so much these days I guess.
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Here is an interesting video about tourism in Zimbabwe as well as looking at the ruins of the British Empire and Rhodesia.
At least Mugabe kept his promise of making everyone a millionaire. In fact he made everyone a trillionaire. When he inflated the currency, he had a 100 trillion dollar note which was worth about US$30 at the time, so if you were worth at least that much you were at least a 100 trillionaire.
https://youtu.be/bHOvQ5P5Mr8
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1.00 USD = 1,310,372.84 IRR
Mid-market rate at 21:09 UTC
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I have a million Turkish lira tucked away for a rainy day.
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That can nearly buy you 10k of Ag.
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Would be nice but it’s old Lira from before the revaluation in 2005. When I was there this was in the wind and people wanted Euros and USD but gave change in Lira. Quite chaotic and rich ground for scamming visitors.
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You got a million lira as CHANGE? I’ll give you a bill Zim dollars for it. I’ve got one somewhere.
https://storage.googleapis.com/dnvgnygoffgbse/zimbabwe-currency-exchange-rate-to-usd.html
https://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20100114/funny_toilet_signs_16.jpg
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Campbell’s restored Bluebird back on Coniston Water.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5r0yydl2o
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Is there a call in the UK for Keir to be the first pilot?
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FWIW
There have been vibes of this on here lately –
“Tested and Found Wanting”
“I expect that I am one of the few people in Australia who has read the Brereton Report in its entirety. I read it on the day it came out. Nobody who has read the whole thing could take it seriously after getting to page 120.
In the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, I read the entirety of the judgement. This was yet more tedious, because there was a lot of ‘Person 1 said’ and ‘Person 6’ and so on. The feeling I got from what the judge wrote was that it could have been that Ben Roberts-Smith shot the bloke with the prosthetic leg. In a moment of rage or something.”
Much more at
https://wentworthreport.com/tested-and-found-wanting/
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Ian, re
So the judge had been in error, at best. Not impartial. He had wanted Ben Roberts-Smith to go down. Some $300 million has been spent on the persecution of Ben Roberts-Smith to date.
The persecution had four blokes who had committed war crimes and traded those four for a shot at Ben Roberts-Smith.
We have not been told what the four did. They have been told that if they perjure themselves, they won’t go to prison. None of the four have a public profile as a hero. Getting a conviction on any of them won’t suit the persecutors’ interest, which is kulturkampf against authentic Australian culture and the notion that Australia is worth fighting for. Which is the same reason that Cardinal Pell was persecuted.
From time to time we have moments that test us. For Australia’s political parties, it was the Farrer by-election. where each party had the opportunity to weigh in on Ben Roberts-Smith.
Only One Nation passed that test.
Remaining silent wasn’t an option. If you couldn’t see that a perfectly fine, almost flawless Australian was being persecuted by evil people with an unlimited budget, then you know nothing about how Australia is being run now. The political parties that did not come out in support of Ben Roberts-Smith have disqualified themselves from government by their silence.
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From CHRIS MERRITT – The Australian – May 07, 2026.
Soldiers granted immunity to testify against Roberts-Smith now risk ICC prosecution
When Ben Roberts-Smith eventually faces his war crimes trial in Sydney, four other former soldiers could be in for a nasty surprise.
They have been given immunity from prosecution in return for giving evidence they were complicit, with Roberts-Smith, in unlawful killings during the Afghanistan war.
But while the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is content to see these four killers go free, that is not the end of the story.
Their immunity deals cannot prevent the International Criminal Court from launching its own investigation. And because they have provided statements outlining their involvement, it is difficult to see how the ICC can turn a blind eye to Australia’s refusal to bring them to justice.
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One Nation has made another important decision in the run up to the Farrer by-election. At their meetings they asked the crowd to sing the NATIONAL ANTHEM, and , guess what, the audience did exactly that , with gusto.
I applaud both stances.
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Good to see them pumping out the nation changing policies
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Yep, like one country, one national flag and unity. The same law for all, pride in what we are.
Glad we agree.
Someone said years ago “united we stand, divided we fall” a truism for sure . Division can never be our “strength”.
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That will keep inflation down
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What’s your solution?
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voting for policies and not culture warriors.
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Don’t bother asking. A proper answer is going to take more than 10 words. Ms Gibberellin has no interest in doing that. Plus it would mean dissing what their beloved government has been doing.
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An endless stream of snarky one liners, but you know what govt jobs are like, anything to pass the time.
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I actually wrote that reply “Don’t bother asking” before Gee’s reply appeared. Another accurate assessment / prediction.
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Just throwing another rock I see. My comment the other day was accurate.
A little national pride at their meetings is better than the self-loathing going on at the Greens gatherings.
I know you have no real interest, but they do have some thoughts on matters affecting the nation.
https://www.onenation.org.au/issues
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but welcome to country IS nation building. I get it.
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what about…
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Your sarcasm is noted.
I agree with Sambar.
However I also think that the singing of the national anthem should replace all “welcome to country” scams.
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A recent poll suggests ‘welcome to country’ is on the slide.
https://ipa.org.au/latest-news/new-survey-australians-increasingly-reject-welcome-to-country-ceremonies
Canberrans live in a bubble.
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FWIW
“When the marketing team does have a point”
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FWIW
“First World War weatherman who saw the future of forecasting”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-dreamer-who-foresaw-the-weather-forecast-computer/
Via https://instapundit.com/796049/#disqus_thread
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“Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Make a Breakthrough in Rotor Technology”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/11/engineers-at-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-make-a-breakthrough-in-rotor-technology-n3814801
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“NASA plans to send three more helicopters to Mars on the SkyFall mission, which could launch as soon as late 2028. SkyFall is set to ride to the red planet aboard a nuclear-powered spacecraft named Space Reactor-1, or SR-1, one of the tech demo initiatives announced earlier this year by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
Looking at the NASA record for the last 30years, they will get their helicopters there sometime in the late-2030s and film Musk’s colony riding in flying cars…
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Mars can wait, mining the moon is priority.
‘Musk said SpaceX plans to launch a mission to Mars in 2026, with possible human landings as early as 2029, though 2031 is considered more realistic. He added that while Mars remains the long-term goal, activities on the Moon will take priority.’
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Priority status for all countries involved in the space race, the Moon and Helium-3 objective top priority
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I was reminded just now, while reading the news, that Ireland is boycotting this year’s Eurovision contest because Israel is taking part. Now that sort of thing happens regularly these days, I know, but for me this example bears examination.
Ireland and the Irish have long been admired for their easy-going, hospitable nature, mixed with an independent streak. The many Irish people I have known (including my wife’s family) have been universally lovely people. We last visited in 2023 and, as usual, had a wonderful time among the gregarious and musical people.
So I find Ireland’s current trajectory puzzling. When cultural divisions grow within such a ‘get-along gang’, we should take notice. For me, it is the strongest signal most recently seen that shows just how disconnected governments are from their citizens nowadays. Of course this is happening all over the west, but also in Ireland? Really?
We did come across the occasional concerned citizen back in ’23 though, especially in Dublin, which seems to be ‘ground zero’ for the government’s enthusiasm for importing people from impoverished and crime-ridden African nations. For sure, Dublin’s previously happy and attractive centre had changed for the worse, with a tent city now running alongside the once-scenic river. A relative who recently retired from his job as a police detective earnestly advised us to give Dublin a miss.
But drive just 30mins or more from war zone Dublin and into the villages and it’s like you passed through an invisible checkpoint separating the zombie apocalypse from an idyllic rural paradise unchanged for a hundred years. Parts of the UK are like this too.
So how are these governments getting away with not just ignoring the welfare and happiness of their citizens, but deliberately wrecking it and turning us against each other? Is it as simple as the Long March has accomplished its objectives?
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It makes perfect sense to me. The Irish are perfectly lovely IF they don’t see you as an enemy. But that ‘independent streak’ can get mighty violent and ugly if they see you as an enemy. Just ask the English.
They’re basically western Europe’s version of Afghans. They fought hopeless odds for hundreds of years and passed their hate of the English down from generation to generation until they finally exhausted the most powerful empire in the world and made them cry ‘Uncle’. And it’s not just the English who caught their wrath. Any Irishman who was deemed insufficiently down with the cause could catch a kneecapping. Ditto for any Irishman who converted to a Protestant faith (even non-Anglicans caught strays).
Never doubt an Irishman’s capacity for violence when they find something morally repugnant.
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Ireland protesting Israel’s involvement reminds me of the story about the Irish ladies who protested South African aparthied by refusing to sell grapefruit imported from South Africa.
Story as told by comedian David Nihill. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1nvkxuk/comedian_david_nihill_tells_the_tale_of_how_10/ (video 2mins 55 sec)
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A brilliant young woman with an economics degree sorts out why the Boomers have the money and her generation are starving.
“Asset prices, capital returns and inherited wealth have grown significantly faster than wages for more than a decade. …So for young people to have a chance again, the solution is simple: wages need to buy more….It can do this by directly funding and delivering high-cost items such as housing, childcare and electricity, and curtailing excessive corporate power through price regulation and stronger taxation…For the past three decades, tax “reform” has served to build the wealth and power of the wealthiest 10 per cent – mostly older…The party is over, and the humble demands of young workers for good jobs, a secure home and quality public services cannot be waylaid by dreams of becoming property barons.”
No, I’m afraid its not like that at all. Just before she was born the country moved from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, and the loss of those hundreds of thousands of jobs made people very cheap.
This landed on top of her mother wanting to go to work and have a career instead of having babies, so the number of workers doubled but the jobs didn’t.
..and sadly her push toward Communism to relieve her envy will not solve the problem, we need the opposite. Instead of Govt controlling the prices of everything and owning the housing stock, we need far less Govt and far fewer regulations on building houses. As usual, a free market is the best answer. …and if she wants stable prices and wages, get rid of the Reserve Bank and make gold and silver our money. Make it so banks can only loan their deposits, not invent money from thin air.
“Alison Pennington is chief economist at the McKell Institute.”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/tax-reform-is-not-enough-to-help-the-young-wages-need-to-buy-more-20260507-p5zuje.html
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I am fascinated that in modern economics the “cost of child care” is always factored in. In my opinion (old white baby boomer ) if you have kids, you look after them. This approach, which has been around for time immemorial, has only changed in the last couple of decades where government has to help you pay for someone else to look after your kids.
What happened to get married, be happy with very little, save like hell and get a deposit to buy a home. The first home with very little in it. i.e. a second hand fridge, a second hand telly, cast off furniture and so on. Our kids could read and write their names before they went to kinder because the wife did what was considered the right thing all those years ago. We were not unique. Before I retired I worked with ladies who worked up to the point of labour, take a couple of weeks off, then put the kid into care and back to work. They did not breast feed, they did not see their childs first steps, the did not hear their first words, but hey the government is helping.
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It is essential Comrade that all children be placed into child care before entering the public school indoctrination centres.
sarc
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My son has been on FIFO equivalent wages for ten years now, owes me money he can’t repay but if he were to suffer an “emergency” he would have to come back to the well.
It is not a cost of living problem, it’s a cost of spending problem. His mother was “low maintenance”, his women [multiple] not so much.
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“it’s a cost of spending problem.”
Summed up beautifully, we also have a former FIFO worker still very highly paid and still lives at home. Lots of crap that will never be used, latest electronic stuff that he has to have, at any expense, but make a life that would have been considered main stream back in the day, not likely
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I make this point at every opportunity, and usually get slaughtered for it.
I contrast how I lived back in the 70s, when Mrs Wife and I bought our first house (tiny 2.5br, next to a railway line and overlooking an industrial estate), with a mortgage of course. Undoubtedly, house prices have soared since then, but the cost of literally everything else, expressed as a percentage of income, have dropped enormously. The end result of this is best demonstrated in what we spent our money on back then, versus what young couples spend their money on today, especially the discretionary spending.
You see, back in the 70s we didn’t really indulge in ‘discretionary spending’ because, despite the allegedly low cost of houses, we rarely had money left over once the essentials were all paid for. We didn’t buy fancy coffee on the way to work. We didn’t own high-end smartphones. We didn’t have gym memberships. We didn’t go to town for a massage. We didn’t buy takeaways unless it was fish and chips (shared) and we most certainly didn’t get the food delivered to our doorstep. Our annual holiday was under canvas. Clothes were expected to last forever, repaired if necessary. We had a single TV set in the house, not one in every room. Even in the depths of a UK winter, only the living room was heated. We had one, secondhand car plus a knackered old motorbike for me to get to work – more than once through freezing fog. Our entertainment was ‘a big night out, in’. Fish and chips, two cans of lager for me, Babycham for her. Mrs Wife recorded every penny spent and we had to budget for everything, just to be sure we could pay the bills. We went without a TV for a few months when it died, because we had to save up for a new one.
At least in my own working-class circles, the thought that a single person should be able to afford their own home never entered our heads. We would have thought it absurd. For a while, I worked full-time AND had an evening job working in a pub.
But here’s a clue to why things were so much better back then, or so it seems. When we DID have extra money, say by getting some overtime, that extra money was paid off the mortgage. We didn’t fly to Bali for a fortnight.
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Must have been a different 70s to the one I had. Cant claim any hardship or to have not done anything I wanted to do as well as buying a basic place. Just more anectdotes I guess.
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There was little middle class welfare back then. Consumer loan interest was 20% and a home loan close to 10%, you needed 20% deposit from established savings, not “Dad gave it to me” or a gov. grant.
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Just listened to a podcast where some woman was raving on about the younger generation feeling helpless because they don’t have a say, no-one listens, etc. Her solution was to lower the voting age to 16. Then she raved on about the ‘boomers’ and how they have too much wealth, yabbaa, yabbaa. Well, when I was young we couldn’t vote until we were 21 yet that didn’t stop us from getting on with our lives, working hard and saving to buy some cheap house so we could have a roof over our heads. Too much of the victim mentality seems to be the problem today.
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“Her solution was to lower the voting age to 16. ”
One of the naive who think voting makes a difference..
Maybe its all because children have been bought up unpunished and allowed to do as they wish. There’s no reason to leave home to get out of Dad’s tyrannical ways and find somewhere to get a girlfriend into bed when these days it far more comfortable to do that at home, AND Mum does your laundry!
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This often gets forgotten in contemporary arguments about ‘the good old days’. It is best illustrated by the fact that TV and other appliance repair shops are an endangered species. Back in the day, if your TV broke, or your refrigerator or washer broke, you didn’t get a new one. You sent it to the ‘repairman’ or if you were handy, you repaired it yourself. It was too expensive to just throw away and buy a new one every few years.
Another example is sewing machines. They used to be ubiquitous in every household, because it was cheaper to buy bolts of cloth and patterns and have mom make clothes than buy them from the store. She also did things you rarely see today like darning sock and sewing patches on rips and worn spots on clothes. Every bachelor upon leaving his parents home was expected to have some minimal level of sewing skills too, to repair his own clothes without running home to mommy. How many young adults today can sew?
So yes, there have certainly been some benefits to globalization, but IMO they do not offset factory ghost towns and the loss of financial and industrial independence in exchange for interdependence.
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Why Socialism Fails
Economics is not a zero-sum game in which one person’s gain comes at another’s expense; nor is it just about numbers or purposeless statistical aggregates, but conscious human action. individuals act to replace a less satisfactory state of affairs with a more satisfactory one.
This process is inherently subjective and teleological, meaning that the values guiding economic activity are rooted in individual choices, and not in physical objects themselves.
Economic calculation serves as the bridge between the subjectivity of human desires and the objective reality of scarce resources.
Economic calculation, expressed through prices, allows for the comparison of alternatives, whilst directing resources toward their most-valued uses.
Similarly, consider an entrepreneur evaluating whether they should open a bakery.
They must decide how much to invest in equipment, rent, labor, and so on. By comparing the costs of these factors with the expected revenue from sales, our entrepreneur can estimate whether the business will create value.
If revenues are expected to exceed total costs and taxes, there will be profit.
Profit, therefore, is not merely a financial gain, but evidence that scarce resources have been allocated in ways that better satisfy societal needs.
Under socialism, the abolition of private property in the means of production destroys the very concept of capital as a calculable value.
When the state owns all higher-order goods (machines, land, and raw materials), there are no exchanges between private owners for these items.
Consequently, there are no market prices for capital goods.
Without these prices, the central planner, no matter how well-intentioned, lacks the necessary information to determine whether they are creating wealth or merely consuming the nation’s capital.
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“Without these prices, the central planner, no matter how well-intentioned, lacks the necessary information to determine whether they are creating wealth or merely consuming the nation’s capital.”
Absolutely! We see it all the time with Govts throwing money away on the most ridiculous projects. If the private sector is not willing to invest in a new idea, the Govt should be banned from touching it, it will be a dog!
Sadly its now normal in the whole West for Govts to waste taxes and borrowed money subsidising useless schemes! They should lend the money to the company wanting it, and if they can’t make the repayments the company directors involved AND the Govt Minister with his bureaurats involved all go to prison.
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FWIW – On one hand
“Delusional Dukes Up: Starmer Wants 10 Years at No. 10 and He’s Gonna Fight”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/11/delusional-dukes-up-starmer-wants-10-years-at-no-0-and-hes-gonna-fight-n3814790
And on another
“GOING UNDER: Starmer’s ‘Reset’ Speech Falls Flat, 60 MPs From His Own Labour Party Are Demanding His Resignation After Scandals, Crises, and the Local Elections Historic Losses”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/going-under-starmers-reset-speech-falls-flat-60/
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And some other hands –
“Starmer’s End: Will Labour Exit With Him?”
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/05/10/starmers-end-will-labour-exit-with-him-n4952696
Plus
“Starmer Judgment Day: Blairite Plot To Take Power”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3y9sUDv5kI
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Currenly 71 MPs have publically called for Starmer to step down.
The number seems to rise every hour.
Labors problem is that the likely replacements are possibly worse.
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Out of 650 MPs, not a big number.
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They need 83 defectors to carry the day.
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Up to 80 now.
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Currently 72, as at 3:00am London time, including Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and now up to six ministerial aides.
Teams from potential challengers – Streeting, Rayner, and Milliband – will be phoning bleary MP’s all night, cajoling, promising, and threatening. A betting person would think that, in a few hours, hopeless Starmer will be taken out the back of the shed, shown the tools, and come back resigned ‘for the good of the Party I love’.
And then there’s Andy Burnham…
Car crash politics. Unfortunately there’s a whole country riding in the boot.
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As of 10 minutes ago, 78 Labour MPs have called for Starmer to resign – including 6 ministers. One junior minister has resigned.
Starmer says he can tough it out and save Britain.
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I had figured that the Leftys were more calculating and that the zealotry was often mostly an act.
Looking like at this point they are disassembling.
I thought they were capable of strategic drawback and re-groupng.
But it’s looking like they’re off the their meds.
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Aaand it’s Tuesday now…
Fauci is now beyond the statute of limitations for prosecuting him for lying under oath over GOF research.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5864309-rand-paul-calls-for-fauci-indictment/
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Then ask Fuaci to repeat under oath what he said and confirm that it was true, and you have a new start date. 😱👩⚖️
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I seem to recall that a number of people (here and elsewhere) have offered the opinion that small modular (ie nuclear) reactors are wishful thinking and would never happen.
Well they may not appear as part of Australia’s electricity grid in my lifetime but there does appear to a lot of “research” taking place on how to build and where to install them.
The latest thoughts include on ships. Can you say “copycat” to Russian ice breakers?
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-develop-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-commercial-shipping
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The NS Savannah waa the first nuclear powered civilian ship and was in operation from 1962 to 1972.
She was part of the US “Atoms for Peace” program.
You can visit it at Pier 13 (4601 Newgate Ave) Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
She never visited the “oh it’s too hard” country, Australia, because Australia was (and remains) terrified of nuclear stuff and made the conditions of visiting too restrictive.
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Well, isn’t this straight out of OldAussie’s post above! Govts throwing money at projects that the private sector are too wise to touch!
““We are seeking critical insights on how the government can help reduce systemic uncertainty, align regulatory structures, and enable the market conditions necessary for private capital and operators to scale these groundbreaking technologies.”…. A December 2025 study published in the Energy Research and Social Science journal highlighted that the high upfront costs of deploying SMRs could require injecting public subsidies into such programs.”
No, just ‘align your regulatory structures’ and let Amazon and Google pay for the research.
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Although it’s not strictly modular, a Chinese small 20MWe pebble-bed reactor that doesn’t require external water cooling has been delivering commercial power since December 2023.
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Message from US State Department.
Meanwhile Australia is importing future Labor voters at probably the highest rate ever, nearly 100,000 in February 2026 alone.
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It looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” is true – that the UN is facilitating replacement migration into Western countries.
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They’re not racist, as long as the races don’t move into Mathas Vineyard! They just want to rule over the people and any people will do!
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UNHCR, Australia has for decades had a refugee resettlement programme taking refugees from UNHCR camps and is third behind USA and Canada per capita basis with Norway fourth place when I last checked.
After 2007 and Howard Government agreed yearly intake of 13,000 Rudd Gillard Labor raised intake to over 20,000 a year, and from 2014 Abbott cut back to 13,000 a year.
EU Government with various member countries resisting have required member countries to accept illegal immigrants for resettlement and to treat them in accordance with the Convention on Refugees by proving welfare assistance including accommodation at a standard equivalent to citizens standard of living.
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Only in Victoriastan.
The government is going to make a $10million dollar grant to hospitality outlets to upgrade security so you know, clearer pictures of arsonists, drive by shooters and ram raiders.
Of course the problem, the people that commit these crimes just wander round looking for targets, remains unaddressed. More laws will be passed that apparently have no deterrent what so ever.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/melbournes-terrified-bar-owners-handed-10m-to-fortify-venues-amid-bar-wars/news-story/8da0e4d35450d666fa5ac986236968e1
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When I worked for a national retailer had two of those Thangs that make you go Mmmmmm as far as the law goes.
First was the practice of head office of circulating the latest black and white over head camera photos of people who had shop lifted from a number of stores so other stores were meant to be forewarned. Every notice came with the bolded caption that the notice was not to be put on display and was to be destroyed within x days as in shredded not thrown out. These were displayed in the lunchroom under the main notice board and can’t recall anyone discussing them or even looking at them so the perpetrators rights to general anonymity didn’t need protecting/managing.
The second one was a bit more serious when I challenged a shoplifter and he immediately became abusive and threatening. Next shift I went to the store manager and told him of the incident and how I was concerned if one of our females “ran into” this bloke on another stealing raid. I suggested that the previous shift video be scanned and a copy or photo print be taken and kept to help with identifying the thug if my fears were realised. The store manager advised that he would not be taking any action to retrieve the video as the store cameras were of low quality and neither the video nor a print record of them would be acceptable to police from a legal court proceedings p-o-v i.e. supposedly not good enough to positively identify the thug. He implied that this information had come from local police in the past…
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“the force’s top brass asking the state government for extra support to combat the wave of attacks, which are perplexing senior police.”
Well, they obviously don’t have their ears to the ground, it can’t be hard to find out which gang is new to town and pushing in on some other gang’s territory.
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2026
Opposition to Net Zero Emissions
Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan, leaders of the Coalition parties in Australia, have publicly opposed the pursuit of net zero emissions. They characterize this goal as a form of socialism and advocate for policies that favor increased fossil fuel production.
Key Points of Their Stance
Fossil Fuel Production: Taylor and Canavan emphasize the importance of traditional energy sources, arguing against a rapid transition to renewable energy.
Energy Policy Focus: Their policies are centered on enhancing fossil fuel production to ensure energy security and economic stability.
Implications of Their Policies
Economic Strategy: They believe that maintaining and increasing fossil fuel production is essential for protecting jobs and supporting the economy.
Critique of Renewable Energy: The leaders argue that a shift towards renewable energy could jeopardize energy security and lead to economic challenges.
This approach reflects a broader strategy to prioritize fossil fuels in Australia’s energy landscape, contrasting sharply with global trends towards sustainability and renewable energy sources.
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Australia’s Emissions Context
Australia’s emissions are a topic of ongoing debate, with the country contributing approximately 1.2% of global emissions. Canavan’s perspective emphasizes the need for a more comprehensive approach to energy policy that considers economic impacts rather than solely focusing on climate targets.
This stance highlights a broader discussion about balancing environmental goals with economic realities in Australia.
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Forget environmental and economic balancing acts, we want the facts on climate change and a debate before the next election.
https://www.onenation.org.au/climate
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Yes! But you won’t get it from those spineless whining fence-sitters in opposition! We would need some clear promises of exactly how they are going to dump all climate goals, open new coal mines and encourage new coal-fired power stations before they are even worth considering as a Govt! Even a solid list of exactly how to remake the AEMO so it gives us reliable, cheap electricity. Its all been discussed on here, WE know what’s needed, and if they don’t they’re not worth considering.
All else is Labor-lite BS !! …which is what you’ll get, a week before the election, some great circus-master’s announcement of their game-changing policy.. to take a look at Govt subsidies for ruinables and maybe tinker with them a little bit…
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‘All else is Labor-lite BS !! …’
The Labor governments in WA and NSW have decided to keep old coal fired power stations operating until 2029. The average punter is not interested in ideology and will vote according to the hip pocket nerve.
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I haven’t as yet worked out why Bluewaters at Collie WA is kept going. Although it’s Australia’s newest coal power station, it’s not an efficient USC system, and I believe that its coal is sourced from either Newcastle or Indonesia. It provides up to 50% of WA’s SWIS grid power, but normally only provides between 10% and 30%.
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‘A decade after Brexit, British politics is coming apart.
‘The rise of populism and increasingly radical leftism could be a foretaste of the future for Western democracies.’ (Oz)
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File this under ‘You couldn’t make this stuff up’.
It is apparently perfectly legal, in the UK, to claim welfare benefits for more than one wife. Wait a minute, I hear you say. Polygamy is illegal, isn’t it?
Well yes. Also no. You see, so long as you brought those multiple wives with you from a jurisdiction where polygamy is allowed, say Afghanistan, Pakistan or Senegal, you’re fine.
Oh and because the UK’s leftist government recently removed the cap on child benefits, all six wives can claim for every one of their seven children apiece. They’re also individually eligible for a government, rent-assisted house.
So one Afghan former goatherd, receiving unemployment and/or disability benefits (which could include a free car), can claim benefits for 48 dependents, occupy six houses and drive around in a brand new car – all paid for by British taxpayers. You may see him in Manchester airport, flying back to the country where he apparently feared for his life, taking with him thousands of (undeclared) pounds to buy property near Kabul.
It remains a complete mystery why so many men are flooding out of Africa and the Middle East, all headed to the UK.
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Polygamy is, and is rightfully, a breach of contract law if done surreptitiously. Today it’s harder to make the Christian case of immorality. If the first wife accepts a second without compulsion then this is no concern of mine UNTIL the electorate as a whole [I am no longer a tax payer, I’ve done my shift] isn’t financing a lifestyle choice.
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Reading a Herald Sun article about tonight’s Australian Federal Budget, this line stood out to me.
If they said it would balance or be in surplus in a couple of years then I’d think that maybe it could be a couple of years after the predicted timeframe. But if they’re predicting an 8 year delay, they’re effectively saying we’ll never have a balanced or surplus budget ever again.
At least not without coming for our bank accounts or taxing the living suitcase out of us.
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