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And…yet another “far right conspiracy theory” demonstrated to be true*.
Unusual post-covid-pandemic patterns of cancer and “turbo cancers”.
* Detection of “safety signal” requiring further investigation.
Video:
Paper:
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If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think that this Covid plandemic was cooked up by the CCP to debilitate the western enemy from the inside out over a many years time line. What I can’t understand is why so many useful western idiots whole heartedly implement their own destruction.
Don’t forget, China used an old style attenuated virus type vaccine for their people, not the Mrna one “developed” at warp speed for for the west.
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Del Bigtree traveled to Milan to screen “An Inconvenient Study” and returned with something he didn’t expect: firsthand testimony from Italian scientists, doctors, and media insiders confirming that the fear campaign that made Italy the terrifying face of COVID in early 2020 was manufactured, not organic.
The incentive structure that made the death count explode was identical to what happened in the United States: hospitals received five times the government reimbursement for a COVID diagnosis over any other, and every doctor who administered a vaccine injection received 80 euros per shot, enough to take a physician from 3,000 euros a month to 20,000.
https://x.com/HighWireTalk/status/2063246528718737549
Nothing to see, move along…
/GELFs
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Guess what Covid does to your P53 anti-cancer gene.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/2063547062130794910/
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You won’t get the data from official figures but there is a heap of evidence that China suffered more than the west. There is a coincident die-off of tens of millions of people. Instead of the quoted 1.4 B pop. it is now likely in the 500-700 M range and I have not heard above 800 from anyone doing the work. The lower figure sounds impossible but some think that.
Leis real talk has covered it.
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So China wants a55% tariff on Australian beef!! How about Australia applies a 75% tariff to Chinese EVs, solar panels, wind turbines & electronics!!
Wishful thinking of course. We don’t have any politicians with the balls to retaliate!!
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The Tariff only applies to excess beef above their designated ‘quota’.
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As I understand it … the problem is that China arbitrarily reduced their ‘quota’ by, something like, a third this last year.
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The pre-Trump Yanks arbitrarily changed beef quotas too. Australia is easy to kick around. “But we signed that trade agreement LAST year”.
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Nah. Australia will pay whatever it has to to get those beloved panels and bird choppers.
We’re a captive market – of idiots.
And they absolutely don’t care about borrowing unlimited amounts of money to buy more, what they cost.
As for the other things, the Left politicians would love to see us consume less of those as they WANT a reduced standard of living for non-Elites.
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We have to do our bit to encourage and support slavery
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Another example of international agreements that are unenforceable, terms and conditions apply but only when the signatory nations cooperate and stick to the agreement.
COVID-19 pandemic period and several leaders of nations together asked China for an inquiry into the source of that virus and the CCP Government reacted with bans on goods imported, Australia included.
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The Amish are making YouTube videos now.
Obviously they are catching up with the 20th century at least.
Interesting.
This is about stabilising rust using cheap chemicals.
The process involves tannic acid which converts the iron oxide rust into ferric tannate which is a stable durable, insoluble, blue-black polymeric substance coating the steel. The polymer is structurally based on chelated metal-ligand coordination bonds. (That was my interpretation, not from the Amish guy.)
https://youtu.be/x0fRqQctSsg
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There is a difference between the Amish and Mennonites … Mennonites embrace modern convenience whilst the Amish reject them.
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Had a wonderful meal at a Mennonite home in Pennsylvania some 35 years ago. They had electrickery, town water and central heating – but the produce they served was all home grown and tasted amazing.
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Not exactly true. The Amish are an odd lot, some are traditionalists, other groups or factions not.
Some shun “technology”, others bend the rules.
Can’t sit in the driver’s seat to drive a car?
No problem, we’ll drive from the back seat via linkages!
There’s lots of “Amish secrets” videos on uselesstube with interesting time-honoured tricks, like stopping mould growth with an earthed copper wire along your skirting board.
Hours of fun.
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9am NZ-time and no one’s commented yet? Hello… is there anybody out there…
Another day of perfect climate here: what are all these crisis numpties on about?
PS. Page has just loaded, slowly: a glitch in the system? Glad everything’s working fine – carry on.
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Triple-C (CCC™️) seems to be affecting Australia in the oddest of ways: even though the nation’s capital runs on 100% non-refundable horse manure, it’s presently 2 degrees BELOW zero (Celsius) while across the desert in the Great Far Western State, overnight snow showers are forecast for Bluff Knoll this evening as well as a touch more this Friday the 12th.
https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Bluff-Knoll/6day/mid
[adjust height to 1,099m for summit]
Sadly there’s no ‘resort’ atop the Knoll – you huck it up, take your photos, you huck it back down – but could a kind sandgroper from WA let us all know, in tomorrow’s post, if the above prognostication / model bore fruit? Mucho Graciás!
* Are x-spurts still looking for the missing heat?
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This is a short video about the Yamnaya people, the ancient forebearers of Indo-European language and culture and who were among the first to use the wheel and “were the first (or almost) to domesticate and ride horses and who invented 4-wheeled, ox-drawn axeled wagons that enabled them to drive herds of cattle across the steppes and carry enough water and shelter with them to do so”. They also likely brought certain technologies to China such as the wheel, copper and bronze and the use of horses.
https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74
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In the magazine “World Nuclear News’ there is excitement over the fact that Uzbekistan has poured first concrete in the construction of a 2000 MW nuclear power station. It consists of 6 333 MW SMRs derived from the nuclear power plants in Russian ice breakers. They propose the first unit will be operating by 2029.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ceremony-to-mark-first-concrete-for-uzbekistan-smr
Where is Canavan and Taylor telling Australians what could be done far more cheaply than building bird mincers and panels?
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Three years to operating a new nuclear power plant. What were we told the lead time in Aus would be? One could get extremely depressed.😔
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They haven’t got the CFMEU or assorted levels of government and land councils “helping” They also wont find they are building, wouldn’t ya know it? on a sacred site.
In Australia we can only dream of being as developed as a Stan country.
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The 2024/25 CSIRO GenCost report suggests “at least” 15-years lead time, with 8 years in construction – but is careful to point out that construction of Vogtle 4 in the US ran out to 15 years and [eerie music] ‘First of a Kind’ projects in Australia take far longer than if anyone else does them.
The same timeframe apparently applies to SMR’s, which GenCost is careful to point out are not commercially available, are definitely FoaKed, and could not possibly be operational in Australia until at least 2040 because all the legislative, planning, location, and lawfare issues are exactly the same. So shut up about it and concentrate on emerging extended battery technology and solar-powered hydrogen electrolysers instead.
And utility scale nuclear is a mature technology so costs are bound to increase, significantly – as compared to everything renewable which will become much cheaper.
Almost free.
Apparently.
This mantra is repeated in the 2025/26 GenCost draft:
https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost-2025-26-Draft/GenCost2025-26ConsultDraft_20251216-FINAL.pdf
Our finest scientific minds informing our smartest government Top Men.
Now, back to the ‘technology curve’ making green hydrogen an emerging major Australian energy resource…
https://research.csiro.au/hyresource/
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SMR-NT is concerned that the Australian Governments, Federal and State, are not
receiving the complete up-to-date information to make an informed choice about the
engineering and economic factors for the best mix of technologies for electricity
supply.
For the GenCost 2023-24 report, CSIRO has again chosen not to receive expert advice
on nuclear costs. Aurecon has again provided expert analysis of all technologies except
nuclear. The last time that CSIRO obtained expert advice was from GHD in 2018 and,
as raised in every nuclear inquiry since then, the accuracy of that analysis was very
much in question, even to the extent that CSIRO admitted that the source of their high
overnight cost was unclear.
CSIRO has attempted to prove that nuclear is too expensive to consider by quoting the
cancelled UAMPS CFFP, but their analysis is misleading. We suggest that CSIRO should
engage a consultancy with nuclear experience to review their analysis before the final
version of GenCost 2023-24 is released. For example Hatch Consulting has extensive
nuclear experience in Canada, USA and UK
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https://www.smrnuclear.com.au/_files/ugd/c733f6_a46f1d38ea9c40648daac867049fa7b3.pdf
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The Dopes who did the Gen Cost Report have never built a Nuclear Power Plant so what the Fark would they know.
The South Moreans. An build one up and running in 8 years.
Obviously they haven’t Dean the CSIRO clap trap………..
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Whoops those typos.
South Koreans and
Read the reports…………
Abbhhhhhhhhh
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From the young generation point of view those V.I.Lenin’s reactors were designed on the abacus at times of James Watt.
Not without problems they run for 30 years – until the ship’s hull rusted through and through.
The next Aus government will bring SMRs here, not due to good technology or costs, but because they will be that desperate.
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Australia is desperate for energy now but for when it becomes extremely desperate, Russians have a floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov which has two small reactors to produce 70MW electrical although this is in use.
However, they are developing updated designs to produce 100MW electrical.
These could presumably be towed to energy-poor Australia and hooked into the grid. Preferably moored in Sydney Harbour near Balmain where lots of wealthy Elite Green/Teal/Labor types live.
These compare with the GE TM2500 portable power plant which produces 35-37MW which can run on just about any liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon. It is built into two trailers plus needs other accessories on additional flatbed trucks.
The problem with that is Australia has almost no domestic oil, is mostly not allowed to drill for it and most of our gas is given away to other countries at some of the world’s cheapest prices* so we have a gas shortage as well. Plus even firewood collection is banned in many places.
Australia is regressing to the Dark Ages, both figuratively and literally.
* https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
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How easy would it be to just NOT destroy our coal fired stations and remove the cross subsidies so solar/wind have no incentive to push prices -ve.
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From Coalition Plan realised during the Dutton Opposition period before the 2025 election;
Australia is facing a huge gap in its ability to provide reliable and affordable electricity.
In 2023, fossil fuels contributed 63% of Australia’s electricity, and renewables contributed 37%. Solar and wind have been growing and will continue to play an increasingly important role in our energy mix.
However, there are limitations, because these energy sources only produce electricity when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. And though we can store some of this energy in batteries or dams, storing very large amounts of electricity is very expensive.
Australia needs an energy system that supplies the right amount of energy all the time. Failure to do so results in blackouts and higher energy bills.
Our economy and the essential services we rely on, such as hospitals, telecommunications, water and sewerage and public transport cannot function without electricity that is 100% reliable.
While the percentage of coal in our energy mix has steadily declined, it continues to provide essential baseload power.
This means consistent electricity, around the clock – including when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
Under Labor, 90% of this 24/7 baseload power will be forced out of our energy grid by 2035, without any guarantee of a like-for-like replacement.
The Australian Energy Market Operator is warning of the increased risk of reliability gaps, meaning blackouts or brownouts. Power bills have increased by up to $1,000 more than the Albanese Government promised.
Labor’s all-eggs-in-one-basket ‘renewables only’ approach wrongly assumes that one technology class alone can do the job.
Yet Labor’s renewable energy target – 82% renewables by 2030 – is considerably behind schedule. Labor’s climate target of 43% emissions reduction by 2030 has become unachievable.
A plan is needed to reduce power prices and secure clean, cheap and consistent energy for Australians.
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Liberal Plan
https://www.liberal.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Oppositions-Plan-for-Energy_Nov2025-web.pdf
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Dennis,
You like this plan do you? I’m guessing you’d hate it if it had “Labor Party” as the author, even though it was a change to branding and nothing else.
The thrust of it would be more appropriate as a Labor Party document. It’s socialism applied to power generation, where Canberra will try to dictate the mix of energy sources for the whole country. Where were they going to get the competence to do that?
It’s a fair example of why Lib/Lab is known as the Uniparty.
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Please provide a link to the One Nation Plan For Energy
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https://www.onenation.org.au/lowering-prices-households-business-industry-australia
Surprisingly, it focuses quite tightly on those things that a Commonwealth government actually can control.
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So another mission statement, where is the Plan For Energy?
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To be fair, the Liberal Energy policy seems to be to go ‘hands off’ the generation and distribution side and hope for the win. Probably the best aspect from that is to repeal the prohibition of nuclear generation.
The worry is that a Liberal-led Coalition plans to spend bulk OPM picking technology winners. Presumably to prop up whatever emerges from whatever market response there is to a squidgy, quavery policy environment that still includes the zombie AEMO driving the existing renewables-focused ‘market rules’.
Our approach is technology-led. We will
prioritise scalable solutions such as carbon
capture and storage, commercial and
industrial solar, low emissions metals, soil
carbon, biofuels and advanced nuclear.
We will modernise the mandates of the
multi-billion dollar Clean Energy Finance
Corporation and Australian Renewable Energy
Agency so they can invest across the full range
of low emissions technologies that deliver
results.
Hey Grok: list the names of scalable low emissions technologies that do not appear in current Labor policy documents…
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Trump’s ‘angry’ phonecall with Nɛtn¥āhū last week.
Anyone else sceptical of that reporting?
Was it just play-acting to fool the masses? Make Trump look strong, in command … instead of under the direction of a foreign leader.
Which one is the real Alpha Male?
With President Reagan, you didn’t have to ask. There was no doubt Reagan was the alpha male!
When he ordered Menachem Begin to get his forces out of Lebanon, Begin obeyed.
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I’m skeptical bordering on totally cynical of ALL reporting.
I also try to listen to what people say and then watch what they do. I believe a good reporter does the same but they are a precious few.
I rate Trump to be WAY, WAY more a man of his word than almost anybody else involved in the grubby game of government.
And one of the reasons I rate Trump so highly is that he is quite open that EVERYTHING is a deal.
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‘Anyone else sceptical of that reporting?’
Not me, it all happened as reported by individuals in the vicinity.
Now that full blown war has broken out again, Donnie needs to put his foot down on bibi. The CIA reports that Israel is spying on the US Administration and I believe that too.
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Trust your sources at your peril.
And I’m pretty sure the CIA are on their own side. Frequently they seem to accuse others of things they are doing themselves, for example spying on the US Administration.
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I was reminded of a similar story that happened last year that’s why I asked the question.
Remember the 12 Day War? Kicked off in June last year. For a month beforehand there were stories in the media about a ‘rift’ between Trump and Nətan¥ahū.
Then the war started and Trump bragged right away about being in “a team” with Nəta¥ahū.
The ‘rift’ fake news was quickly forgotten.
Is Axios the conduit for seeding these stories into the media? I know it’s been suggested.
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It could be true, Trump speaks that way. No big deal.
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FWIW
“New Study: Solar Photovoltaic, Wind Power Fail To Meet Annual Energy Demands 62% Of The Time”
““Unlike dispatchable fossil-fuel or nuclear generation, solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand.” — Sargentis et al., 2026
New research utilizes stochastic analysis to assess the effectiveness of renewable energy sources (RES) in satisfying energy demands in Greece.
Results indicate solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power only meet annual energy demands 32% and 44% of the time, respectively. When electricity is needed to heat or cool a home, wind and solar power cannot deliver most of the time.”
“Furthermore, a greater penetration of RES is known to “increase reliance on fossil-fuel generation or increases the risk of blackouts.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/07/new-study-solar-photovoltaic-wind-power-fail-to-meet-annual-energy-demands-62-of-the-time/
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Another contributor to this site (can’t remember who) pointed out that the most important figure when assessing renewables is their minimum generation figure. That is the only amount of power that can be relied on. I think he found that in Australia the minimum generated by renewables was less than 5% of nominal capacity.
I wonder which 5% of the population has first rights to the power?
Apologies if my memory is incorrect. I’ve tried searching for the post but without any luck.
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The quoted statement that “solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand” is self-evident to me.
And that means that solar and wind need to be carefully engineered to take advantage of what they offer.
Windmills, for example, are ideal for pumping ground water into dams. They are very good even for remote applications where the power is transmitted from source to application in the form of electricity. They key reason is that the pumping is not particularly timing critical. All is well as long as the dam gets sufficient water by the required date.
Solar of course only works when sunlight is available. You either need to time the load (run your pool pump during the day) or store the power for when it is needed (via a suitably sized battery). And the vagaries of the weather mean that you must over engineer the solution and waste power when the sunlight is strongest.
Talking about blackouts suggests use of wind and solar on a grid scale. That is foolishness in the extreme.
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FWIW
“Canadian Wins “Lemon Law” Right to Return an EV Wrecked by Winter Temperatures”
“According to the report, EV company lawyers unsuccessfully argued the vehicle was never meant to be parked outside in winter.
Lucid Air Owner Won Lemon Law Case — Automaker Claimed The Car Wasn’t Built For Cold Weather And Cities”
BUT
“A word of caution – I haven’t found official records corroborating this story. Usually in cases like this I like to present a link to the court case or whatever. I don’t know what public records are available in arbitration cases, so there might not be any records to find, or the story could be a fabrication.
If the story is true, and if surviving outdoor winter temperatures is a legal expectation, I suspect Canadian EV companies could be in for a world of hurt. WUWT has reported multiple cases of EVs being bricked by a little frost.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/07/canadian-wins-lemon-law-right-to-return-an-ev-wrecked-by-winter-temperatures/
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I would think at the very least EV manufacturers would have to make some kind of prominent disclosure about their vehicles not being suitable to cold weather if they want to escape ‘lemon law’ liability for the cars bricking in winter. Similar to how cigarette manufacturers have to disclose ‘our product will eventually kill you’.
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If you know Climate Change™ (UN Trade Mark) is UN contrived utter nonsense then you should never vote for the UN-party. And Hollie Hughes explains exactly why starting 21 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhLnZirN6g
Even with Abbott now the de-facto LNP leader, the LNP demonstrates its lack of conviction on anything and is not working for all Australians.
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They explicitly remain fully committed to the Paris Agreement so have ZERO credibility on energy policy.
They just don’t have a clue. They believe in nothing and fight for nothing and are perpetual fence sitters.
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“My job as the incoming Liberal Party president will be to try to ensure that the organisation is in place — the members, the candidates, the funding — to make Angus Taylor the prime minister,” he said.
“The party president is the organisational leader, not the political leader, but I don’t think there’s ever been a party president who’s taken a vow of silence, and I’m certainly not going to start.
Tony Abbott
National President Liberal Party of Australia
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The Liberal Party does not have a specific 2030 emissions reduction target and plans to remove Labor’s 43% target, while the Australian Labor Party has committed to a 43% cut by 2030 and net zero by 2050. In contrast, the Australian Greens aim for a 75% cut by 2030 and net zero by 2035, indicating that the Liberal Party’s approach is less ambitious compared to Labor and the Greens.
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“My job as the incoming Liberal Party president will be to try to ensure that the organisation is in place — the members, the candidates, the funding — to make Angus Taylor the prime minister,” he said.
“The party president is the organisational leader, not the political leader, but I don’t think there’s ever been a party president who’s taken a vow of silence, and I’m certainly not going to start.
Tony Abbott
National President Liberal Party of Australia
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Please remove double post
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“They believe in nothing and fight for nothing and are perpetual fence sitters”
Yes, typical politicians in a typical political party. They invent differences between them and Labor to pretend voters have a choice.
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Are you aware that Liberal National Coalition parties are the Opposition and alternative government with a leader, deputy leader and a full shadow cabinet opposite every government position in Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and that One Nation has one leader, no deputy leader and no shadow cabinet?
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They are career politicians in the Westminster System, its the best we can muster.
Of the three tier system of government, federal, state and council, which one can we eliminate without too much disruption?
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‘They just don’t have a clue.’
In fact they are acutely aware that saying CO2 doesn’t cause global warming is political suicide.
The Coalition cannot pull out of Paris until One Nation puts it on their platform, but they lack the scientific support necessary to liberate a harmless trace gas from MSM abuse.
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FWIW
“FORMER UK PM: UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS ARE MAKING ALL THE DECISIONS
Elected governments do not truly run the country, says former Prime Minister.”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/former-uk-pm-unelected-bureaucrats
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Nooo… tell me Yes Minister wasn’t a documentary! Surely not! Oh wait..
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Which is why Trump is so reviled by establishment bureaucratic/administrative types. He’s the only 21st century politician from a developed western nation who threatens their stranglehold on power. They’re terrified he’s going to go full Javier Milei (Afuera!) or heaven forbid full Nayib Bukele, and more importantly, he might inspire other elected politicians to do the same.
The administrative state is the greatest threat to democracy.
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More Iran winning!!!
USD/IRR = 1,375,186.14
Average price of gasoline in USA USD1.08 per litre.
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..and, just as Big Z goes to visit the 3Es, Germany, France and Britain for another round of begging, for some reason Russia apparently bombed Chernobyl.
“Russian forces have struck a fuel storage facility at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on the eve of talks in London about the need for stronger air defence to shield targets from missile strikes.”
Yup, that makes perfect sense, no reason for a false flag here…
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the move as an “extremely vile” Russian attack using a Shahed drone in what he termed a deliberate move. “Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility,” he said before arriving in London for the talks with leaders from Britain, France and Germany. “As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts.””
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/extremely-vile-russia-strikes-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-as-zelensky-meets-european-leaders-20260608-p604oc.html
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Whatever happened to those 100+millions of Europeans who were going to die because of the original Chernobyl explosion (as said in 1988/89)?
Big Z wants lots more money, which most EU countries cannot afford.
Was Putin pointing out that any “accident” to Chernobyl might make voters in the EU very unhappy, and unlikely to want to pay more?.
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Parties to any battle would do well to study the law of natural consequences.
Advanced thinkers might consider the wisdom set out in The Art of War. Really advanced thinkers might consider that The Art of War will NOT give a single unambiguous path to victory and that when defeat is inevitable it is best to come to terms without delay.
Or more plainly stated Z and his rhetoric are not advancing the cause of his nation.
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‘ … not advancing the cause of his nation.’
That is pathetic, clearly you haven’t read the Art of War.
Ukraine has finally got the upper hand in this war and it should be over once Crimea falls, but Putin intends to blow up Chernobyl and spread radioactive material across Europe.
The effect would be catastrophic, but that is what rats do when cornered, Orwell’s dystopian madness in technicolour.
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Whether you believe I have read The Art of War is of no consequence to me. But of course you are welcome to put forward arguments based on its contents if you think it is worthwhile.
More importantly, inflamed passions can lead to poor advocacy. Perhaps we can revisit this topic in a year’s time.
For the record I repeat my opinion that the sooner the Ukraine sues for peace the better for all concerned.
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Crimea is never coming back. Ukraine is virulently anti-Russian these days, and more than three-quarters of Crimea’s population is Russian speakers (and that’s before the war, it’s probably higher now). The only way Ukraine gets Crimea back is if they occupy it and ethnically cleanse all the Russians out of existence. Same goes for Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, where 85%+ of the population are Russian-speakers.
Ukraine has spent the past four years poisoning the vox populi against all things Russian. You can’t speak Russian, teach Russian, broadcast in Russian, you can’t even refer to Russian cultural events or worship at Russian orthodox churches. And let’s not forget this whole mess started 12 years ago when western Ukrainian agitators deposed the guy (Viktor Yanukovych) who Crimeans and eastern Ukrainians voted into office.
Why would any of those Russian-speakers in Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk want to return to Ukraine and be systematically repressed and disenfranchised?
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You know those times on various media and blogs like this you have the climate alarmists who use the appeals to authority. They will say the IPCC, NASA, NOAA or god forbid Al Gore or David Attenborough say we’re in a climate emergency or equivalent. In Australia they might quote the BOM or even CSIRO. Counter with the statements from 4 very eminent Nobel prize winners.
Svente Arrhenius , Chemistry 1903. He said more CO2 will provide “more equable and better climates” and “more abundant crops”
Ivan Geiver, Physics 1973, “ I would say that, basically, global warming is a non problem”.
Kary B Mullis Chemistry, 1993. He said our global model circulation predictions are “wrong by a large factor“
John F Clauser, Physics 2022. “Climate change is not a crisis”.
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So you counter their authority with your sources of authority rather than pointing out basic facts like:
Climate has always changed and always will because earths precession of the orbit ensures it.
Oceans cannot sustain above 30C over an annual cycle, which means all climate models are wrong.
Ocean heat uptake in the SH is levelling off and trending toward decline within the next decade.
Greenland is gaining altitude above 2300m.
All these facts are confirmed by observation.
I also like to ask – how is global warming impact you today. The scare has been going 50 years now and humans have rear view of numerous predicted extinction events in those 50 years. Because the predictions were all based on nonsense.
Today in Melbourne (Moorabbin), the forecast high is 17C and the minimum 10C. The June daily max is 23.8C and daily minimum -2.2C. So well within the range today after 50 years of Globull Warming. The maximum was recorded in 2007. It was a glorious day as I recall.
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FWIW
“The Common Medication To Stop Taking So Casually, Hepatologists Say”
Panadol
https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/liver/articles/hepatologists-warn-against-casual-acetaminophen-145000375.html
Via https://instapundit.com/801936/#disqus_thread
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FWIW –
“The One Nation Effect” explained?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKK6422WYAAMNRj?format=jpg&name=900×900
Via https://instapundit.com/802052/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Ongoing Fallout from Nowak Murder Case
June 7, 2026 | Sundance | 307 Comments
The context and details of the Nowak murder case continue highlighting what cultural Marxism does in policing when combined with aggressive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) demands.”
Concludes
“I still think the worst part of this legal dynamic was the judge in the case ruling the video taken by the killer as he murdered his victim was, “too disturbing to be shown” as evidence. The killer recorded himself doing the killing, and that evidence could not be shown to the jury because it was “too disturbing,” yet the jury was tasked with making a decision on whether the accused was guilty or not. Think about it. Beyond insane judicial logic.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/07/ongoing-fallout-from-nowak-murder-case/
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