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Tommy Robinson & Karl Stefanovic PODCAST: The Podcast They Don’t Want You To See!
Tommy has a lesson for Australians. If you don’t learn from the UK’s mistakes on immigration and radical Islam, we are going to face the same destruction. This is exactly what Karl Stefanovic, Tommy’s interviewer, was trying to bring to Australia’s attention. Instead, Karl was sacked from his job. This is the podcast they are trying to cancel at all costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R3uCWzdOI8
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Yes, have seen it. I couldn’t see what the fuss was about.In relation to the podcast. It reported all the facts of the scourge that the British have suffered and have been reported elsewhere. Clearly, there are those in this country who don’t like some facets of “ multiculturalism” being reported.
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Blame our educational institutions for indoctrinating teacher students. Der lange marsch durch die institutionen.
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The Nuremberg Code Society announces the publication of Holocaust survivor, Vera Sharav’s new book “Never Again Is Now Global: The Dangers of a One-World Final Solution”. In the book, Sharav draws parallels between events leading up to the Holocaust and the BBC’s responses to COVID-19, arguing that both were characterised by censorship, fear-based propaganda and the elevation of authority figures beyond public scrutiny.
In a 2022 speech to commemorate the Nuremberg Code, Sharav wrote that the Holocaust was preceded by years of propaganda, discrimination and the gradual erosion of civil liberties. She argued that similar warning signs emerged during COVID-19, including “government-dictated protocols” and “a single, government-dictated narrative.” Sharav enlisted scientists, physicians, historians and journalists, banned by nasty socialists, to contribute to her book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Never-Again-Now-Global-One-World/dp/1648210902
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Yep – almost irrefutable to draw these parallels. I just wonder who will come to our aid when we are eventually living under jackboot socialism in this country…. Sadly the Brits will be in the same boat if not worse and the US may well have written us off by then.
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It was apparent to me during the first 6 months of the pandemic that if an individual was making statements contrary to the prevailing narrative, MSM and Big Tech would take one of two approaches. The first was to smear the name of the individual- labelling their views or data as misinformation and accusing them of having a conflict of interest. Thomas Borody’s Wikipedia page provides a good example. One paragraph on his groundbreaking treatment protocol for peptic ulcers, one paragraph for pioneering fecal microbiota transplantation and then 3 paragraphs on covid misinformation. Borody applied for well over 100 patents during his career but there is only one of interest according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Borody
The second approach is censorship or omission. In this case the individual will barely be mentioned if at all in MSM. On the internet, information on them is available if you ask for it. Using Wikipedia as an example again, Ed Dowd doesn’t have a page. This is most likely because it is undesirable for people to learn of his views on increased excess mortality in the period after covid vaccines were administered. Dowd visited Australia and spoke alongside Dr Aseem Malhotra and others and there was not one mention of it in MSM. Similarly, doctors Kory, McCullough and Campbell have visited Australia to engage in public speaking and there was zero mention in MSM.
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Absolutely Paul.
I am in Israel and despite there being a hot or cold war on at least five fronts, not to mention vilification and demonisation from the Leftist-dominated woke West such as Australia, Europe and Canada, Israel’s high-tech economy is booming plus just about everywhere you look there are cranes used for building huge numbers of office or residential tower blocks.
(Somebody jokingly said the national bird of Israel should be the “crane”, as in a construction crane.)
This is partly because of an overall influx of Jews from the woke West in most years (including Australia, I have met many here) who don’t want to be stuck in a similar situation to Jews under the National Socialists plus natural population increase which unlike other Western countries is increasing greater than replacement rate. This is at a loss to those countries and the gain of Israel. (You may be interested in seeing Prof. Ridd’s video on the scientific achievements of the Jews. https://youtu.be/z8ceRZ-YiwY )
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I am gobsmacked – more than 7000 comments and nothing about … – you know what I mean !
Is that a real video or an AI imitation of another AI presentation?
Or were the comments so “professionally cleaned” (Samuel Jackson 2007 movie) that it appears everyone agrees with Dr. Ridd ?
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Would you prefer that it be full of vile antisemitic comments Vladimir?
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You can add to that the genocide in Palestine, which was also preceded “censorship, fear-based propaganda and the elevation of authority figures beyond public scrutiny.”
We are still being told anyone who dares to question the official narrative is “anti-semitic” merely for pointing out that the genocide is continuing an and in the UK they are now threatening to imprison people for up to 14 year for telling the truth about the number of people killed.
Climate was not the first issue on which the public were lied about, and it will not be the last. And it will not be long before they start threatening sites like this with long term imprisonment for publishing data they don’t want seen.
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People should be free to speak without the fear of prison.
And in that spirit, those who wish for genocide tell us they want genocide openly but their message is sometimes suppressed.
Let their actions speak for them:
Hezbollah fires 7,000 rockets at Israel using Lebanese Christians as human shields
The Religion of Peace has carried out more than 49,643 deadly terror attacks since 9/11.
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AlterAI says that the Freedom dot gov launch appears imminent and is expected to be launched on or after the 4th July 2026.
However, legal actions against the BBC and MI6 could mean that some British plots against President Trump will remain secret until after the Florida trials. British false flag operations Russiagate, Toxic Dagger, Iris and British involvement in the January 6 false flag operation could remain secret until after the Florida trials. But many superinjunctions covering up the crimes of the British Establishment could appear earlier on (Freedom dot gov) which is expected to be launched on or after the 4th July 2026.
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Wow, once again the Great Barrier Reef is endangered, but it’s not. All in one article
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/great-barrier-reef-avoids-un-in-danger-list-but-receives-stark-warning/news-story/9fb8103c5418965628786ae5bb2567fd
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But I thought the Sydney Morning Herald (then a major newspaper) claimed the Reef would be dead by December 1971.
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The GBR did almost die and is far from fully recovered yet.
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Has my red thumber ever visited the Reef and, more importantly, pre the COT outbreak? I did, so know what I’m talking about.
I have never said that Global Warming™ is a threat.
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O. It other Scientists have. The GBR is NOT dying. It has survived Ice Ages FFS
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Don’t put words in my mouth. I have not said it is dying, I say, earnestly, that it had a near death experience and anyone who says it is as good as ever NEVER saw it in all it’s glory, or they wouldn’t repeat such rubbish. Those of us who have are one in a million, almost literally.
The GBR is at the edge of the Continental Shelf which, I assume, was shallow water coming out of the Ice Age with most of the water locked up in ice. As ice melted and the oceans rose new coral grew on top of the old and “bommies” formed with sheer falls to the sandy bed 100 ft below. There is no light reaching the depths so NEW bommies cannot form.
Think of them like the Twelve Apostles off Victoria: As they fall they are gone forver and for the same reason.
I am a friend of the reef and take it’s survival more seriously than you do, it seems. I do not swallow group-think. The COT nearly killed it once and none here seem to think it could happen again. Why not?
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So no one under 75 can remember seeing the GBR in it’s splendour so cannot say it is “as good as ever”, including Prof. Ridd.
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It just means that earlier CoT outbreaks weren’t documented.
They are a naturally occurring population phenomena and will pop up every time conditions are right and then die off when they hit critical population, just the way they’ve always done.
CoT are an irruptive species that massively increase their population under optimal conditions then over populate and starve to death.
Koalas do the same thing.
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You are ASSUMING things.
So, because the COT is “natural” you don’t care. I do.
Have you any reference to koalas killing the reef?
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How much have you visited? The GBR is huge.
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more than you.
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I wonder how much ‘tribute’ we had to pay to have the reef listed as ‘not in danger’.
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On it goes, unfortunately this will be ongoing as intervention from this compromised organisation needs bad news to thrive and to continue its agenda.
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“ …. its capacity to tolerate and recover from such events is increasingly compromised,” the committee wrote.
Objection, over the past 8000 years the GBR has survived perfectly well and is in no danger of disappearing because of AGW.
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You are being turned into collateralized debt obligations. Otherwise known as a slave.
Simon Dixon explains how he believes governments, companies, and individuals become systemically subordinated to transnational capital.
https://youtu.be/W5XPfd3i5Ws?si=NldhiDD-0TDVhGOE
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Subjugation has always been the lot of the common people the only change has been the evolution of the title applied – slave, serf, free (the biggest lie), CDO. Even the most basic aspiration, that of having your own place to live, can be used as a cudgel as currently being wielded by Labor with their inter-generational help.
The term “mortgage” originates from Old French (mort gaige), combining mort (dead) and gage (pledge). It is called a “death pledge” because the agreement dies (becomes void) once the loan is fully repaid, or because the pledge “dies” (is forfeited) if the borrower defaults and the lender foreclose on the property.
The only title that has/will never be applied to the masses by the forces of darkness is MEEK because it is too powerful a weapon against their corruption:
Matthew 5:5: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Psalm 37:11: “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
1 Peter 3:4: “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
Here endeth the lesson…
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Paul where do you get this stuff from?
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Us ordinary folk look for explanations for what some feel is the unexplainable behavior of government and cultural elite we are expected to respect.
Why would government allow and even promote mass migration and simply hand the ordinary origin citizens the bill?
The BBC, the Canadian C, the Australian C, and the various American Cs, will tell them they are bigots for being upset.
Grasping is to be expected.
And recently a great deal of the grasps have turned out much closer to the truth than the polite, respectable, and official explanations.
The official explanations are often laughable.
It didn’t come from a lab.
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“Why would government allow and even promote mass migration and simply hand the ordinary origin citizens the bill?”
I have pondered this for years.
Question 1/ How did so many leaders of western countries all manage to have the same world view?
Question 2/ Even if the process makes world leaders incredibly wealthy and powerful, their legacy dies with them so why get rid of “their” cultural roots?
Question 3/ How is the voice of reason totally ignored by supposed brilliant people? (Enoch Powel anyone?)
Question 4/ Why are ancient cultures, with all of their limited knowledge in things like medicine, mathematics, agriculture equally lorded as being the epitome of achievement when quite clearly it is not?
Question 5/ Why are all of the horrendous practices of these old cultures never talked about. i.e women as trade goods and slaves, torture for its own sake, cannabalism etc etc.
All above my pay grade trying to sort it out.
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Part of it may be we are not the individual rationalists we fancy ourselves to be.
And it’s just herd behavior of the most successful of the herd.
Which prompts mimicry for aspiring herdlets.
The alpha Trump shows up and the comfortable herdlets go mad.
Remember when Clinton and Obama had the same positions on immigration as Trump?
We’ve sorta been dealing with simple hysteria from the elite since the new unexpected alpha came down his escalator.
WATCH: ‘Doctor’ Trump Shares AI Video Claiming To Cure ‘TDS’, Satirical Clip Goes Viral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZOqJMl9RKE
BTW, the Aztec sacrifices were volunteers.
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I think they don’t like Russians because they rejected Communism for Christianity. But they like Isl*m because Isl*m also rejects Christianity. They reject Christianity because they say they are Socialists, but act like Satanists. Putin is waiting for the Satanists to destroy Europe, or Isl*m to destroy the Satanists.
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As a retired County Council Investigator. I accumulate email links to useful people on Substack, etc. (1) Tommy Robinson sent me an email. (2) The Nuremberg Code Society sent me an email. (3) The White House sent me an email, explaining what Tulsi Gabbard called a “treasonous conspiracy”. (4) The U.S. Department of Justice sent me document EFTA01721768 showing that the British Embassy in Washington ran a Jeffrey Epstein File. (5) They say that the head of MI6, is a useful idiot called Blaise Metreweli, who is fluent in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Her Ukrainian father, Constantine Metreweli, was born Constantine Dobrowolski, the son of the anti-Russian Nazi collaborator, Constantine Dobrowolski. She was able to speak with Roman Lavrynovych in Russian or Ukrainian, and recently saved the life of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Very impressive individual and not a useful idiot as you suggest, saving the life of Zelenskyy deserves accolades.
‘In her first public speech as head of SIS, she stated the UK faces a new “age of uncertainty” where the rules of conflict are being rewritten in light of wider Russian aggression. She stated this includes, assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and information manipulation mean that “the frontline is everywhere”. (wiki)
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FWIW – Canada
“I Want A New Country”
“Pipeline to Nowhere: Construction of new oil pipeline to B.C. coast won’t include lifting oil tanker ban”
“Describing it as “a big day for Canada” and “a big day for British Columbia,” B.C. Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday announced the signing of a multibillion dollar memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two governments that could help pave the way for construction of a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
“This agreement doesn’t require us to support any pipeline proposal from Alberta,” said Eby, who, along with First Nations, has been adamantly opposed to lifting the federal ban on oil tanker traffic along B.C.’s north coast.[…]”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/07/02/i-want-a-new-country-177/
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Happy USA Independence Day and 250 years of the greatest republic I know.
(It is Saturday here 7/4/2026)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Freebird, as interpreted by patriots in revolutionary regalia firing guns as percussion instruments (lots and lots and lots of guns).
It doesn’t get more American than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbecxr0AL4
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And one of my all-time favorite 4th of July moments.
Five years ago Los Angeles tried to ban 4th of July fireworks. Residents responded thusly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DIad2tuVtg
Government bureaucrats should know by now you don’t mess with American’s recreational choices on Independence Day. It’s the one day a year we all have the revolutionary spirit and give zero F’s about local ordinances and other rules. Our founding fathers dumped tea in Boston Harbor and Los Angeleno’s put on a banned fireworks display for the ages. The ‘splosions are going to happen, no matter what the city government or the neighborhood Karens have to say about it.
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And a bit later North V South themed:
“Some Nights” – Joy
Why don’t we break the rules already?
I was never one to believe the hype
Save that for the black and white
Try twice as hard, and I’m half as liked
But here they come again to jack my style
And that’s all right (That’s all right)
I found a martyr in my bed tonight
She stops my bones from wondering
Just who I, who I, who I
So this is it?
I sold my soul for this?
Washed my hands of that for this?
I miss my mom and dad for this?
(Oh, come on) No, when I see stars, when I see
When I see stars, that’s all they are
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But when we lost America, we had to send the prisoners to Australia.
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America got the debtors and the religious nuts (as determined by the Anglican church).
Australia got the convicts.
Both turned out pretty awesome.
Britain did pretty well too, conquering half the world with drunks shanghaied out bars by the Royal Navy and criminals who took the Queen’s shilling rather than a prison term.
The ‘scum’ of 17th/18th century Britain’s lower class has a pretty damn impressive track record.
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The “criminal class” is alive and well still. I LUV rhyming slang which originated in Cockney bars so the narks couldn’t understand what they heard. See ya, china plates.
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Which reminds me of Elanor Roosevelt’s famous quote about the United States Marines (that could just as easily apply to the ANZACs or Royal Navy at their peaks).
Elite fighting forces are composed of rough men who are willing to take unimaginable risks and do unspeakable things in service of their country. The British and their diaspora produced a shedload of such men.
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I thought American Independence Day was 4th of July not 7th of April (“7/4/26”).
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Good one! 🙂
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FWIW
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“Open Source Rusting; WD-40 Purity”
“This is as much a Tech-Political posting and a bit of humor as it is an actual tech posting. For anyone not aware of it, there is a computer language named Rust that has a lot of enforced memory usage discipline marketed as “memory safe”. This is as opposed to C and C++ that pretty much let you do any stupid thing you would like to do (but also let you do a lot of very nice fast efficient things, and do them well and simply, where YOU must know what you are doing with memory).
The advocates for the use of Rust call themselves “Rustaceans”, but I tend to think of them as “Rustians” (for no good reason other than it being shorter and easier). In any case, they have a certain religious zeal in how they advocate for Rust (really too weak a description… more like “proselytize” or “enforce”).”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/open-source-rusting-and-wd-40-purity/
Concludes
“Sidebar on Me: I’m not against Rust. You do you. I’m against forcing others to change when they do not want to. (I’ve learned from my block structured war…) I’m against Missionaries Proselytizing to an audience who does not wish to hear their “message”. (Be it Christianity, Islam, Object Oriented OO, or Rust…) I’m for just leaving people be and doing your thing as a living example… Unfortunately, when dealing with an existing project code base “doing your thing” by injecting Yet Another Language & Tool Chain is proselytizing.”
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FWIW
“Miliband’s Favourite Net Zero Think Tank Funded by Foreign Cash”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/04/milibands-favourite-net-zero-think-tank-funded-by-foreign-cash/
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FWIW
“The Times May Be A-Changin’ ”
“Will rising anger over energy, economic and immigration chaos prevent UK and EU suicide?”
“Or at least may be changing – not only in Europe but across the globe.
Europe’s ruling elites opened their countries’ borders to millions of unvetted, largely Third World, often Islamist migrants with little interest in assimilating – and gave them free lodging, food and medical care (paid with other people’s money), and an official blind eye to rising crime and molestation of women.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/03/the-times-may-be-a-changin/
And not before time if this has a finger on curent European thinking (long)
“Russian Warship Warns Off German Ship Russia Defends Belarus Baltic Tensions Soar; Medvedev In Iran”
https://rumble.com/v7c8bai-russian-warship-warns-off-german-ship-russia-defends-belarus-baltic-tension.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
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I hope the changing times get here in time for us to tip out the Labor government in the Victorian state election in November.
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‘It is impossible to defend Belarus using conventional means because Russia has removed all weapons and ammunition from the country during the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian diplomat and ambassador Roman Bezsmertnyi said in an interview with Radio NV on June 30.
“From the point of view of its coordinates in this war, Belarus is like the territory of Crimea,” Bezsmertnyi said. “If Ukraine strikes legitimate military targets, even the Russian forces now in Belarus will flee from there very quickly.” (NV)
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Remember when…..
Shoe laces used to wear out before your shoes.
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I usually avoid shoe laces.
My current daily shoes cost $15 from KMart. I expect they will give a year or so of almost daily use around the house and yard.
I continue to be staggered at the value for money of shoes that appear on Aldi Special Buy shelves – most are lace up though. They are not going to last a lifetime but they will be comfortable for a year or three depending on use.
The only time I wore shoes growing up in Brisbane was at school, shoes were optional, and Sunday school- required. I only owned one pair of fitting shoes until about 12yo when I got a pair of footy boots with studs in addition to normal school shoes.
Hard to get by inside or out without shoes in winter in Melbourne.
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I checked the work boot prices locally and online.
I went in locally and asked what was available at 150% of online prices.
maybe I should have checked the other local store, but where I asked their wholesale cost was higher than the online price for a recognized Oz brand ($80).
While I could/should have bought a size smaller, the boots will definitely last more than a year. I wear thicker socks now most of the time.
Is this the fault of the Oz retail system (manufacturer/wholesale/retail) or the lack of creativity in the regional retail system?
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When you go into one of the discount footwear retail chains the minimum mark up on a pair of shoes is 80%. That’s on their discontinued stock that they have on their sale tables.
Other than that the minimum in in excess of 100%.
But here is where it gets fun. Almost all their shoes are made in the same factories as the high end brand stuff that sells in other places for 3 or 4 times the price. The only difference is in the brand markings.
It is the same with clothing and the like sold using house names at Myers and Target. It’s exactly the same thing aside from colours (this seasons colours go to Myers), made by the same factories, by the same people, using the same machinery and materials, they just put different labels on them.
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I have questions about shoes.
More than 40 years ago I serendipitously got into martial arts, just because there was a dojo near my work with a noon class.
The big revelation for me was exercising barefoot.
Foot problems disappeared.
Don’t know if I have this right, but ever notice that Greek hoplites are sometimes depicted in complex to manufacture armor and bare or nearly bare feet?
And there are depictions of fully encased in steel knights on horses wearing what appear to be worn out old socks.
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Simple little thing for everyone that experiences life in shoes.
Particularly over engineered modern ones.*
Stand barefoot on a firm surface like hardwood.
Feet parallel like your wearing skis pointed straight down hill.
(This is accomplished by internal rotation of your thigh bones.)
Lift just your toes and hold.
You will likely notice your arches lift.
And you may also feel the proper contact points in your feet to the Earth from whence you materialized.
Repeat like slow push ups.
It’s likely that shoes with arch support atrophy the muscle structure of your feet.
Like wearing wearing mittens all day would degrade the fine motor skill of your hands.
I am not a scientist or a doctor.
A feeling of shame and sense of failure miraculously healed by climate science and Pandemic.
*The over engineering is the result of attempts to fix problems caused the previous engineering.
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FWIW
“Oh to be in England”
“UK POLICE: DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO
“Police arrested the victim of an assault and allowed his attackers to flee,” the Community Note attached to their post reads.”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/uk-police-do-not-share-this-video
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To be fair, the victim did hit a cop.
Not that I blame him. He was getting stomped by a gang of thugs and then the moment he got a little breathing room he got blindsided by an unknown assailant and took a swing at that assailant. What he didn’t know was that last person to hit him was a female cop. After throwing that first punch, he noticed she was a cop and quit fighting, but still, he hit a cop. Of course they arrested him.
The outrageous part is that the cops ignored the thugs beating on him. The first responder hit the guy who just a moment before was getting whaled on, then when he reflexively hit her, the other cops forgot all about the thugs and went after him for assaulting their partner. Meanwhile, the thugs just walked away.
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Steve – I’m with you (my post yesterday which includes link to full video) he did not actually hit a cop rather his upper inner arm connected with her head ie no punch impact and as soon as he realised it was a cop and a female one to boot (no not that “to boot” lol) his “physical aggression” disappeared.
Importantly Cody was in the process of trying to stand up after being slammed to the ground (possibly hit his head) and then punched in the back of his head and suddenly when only making it to a crouching position on his way up to stand he gets body slammed into a wall. Of course he or anyone else would strike out in defence.
The equally important aspect of this is getting the plods to release the body cam of the officers concerned because if you watch the background you will see that it appears two female plods initually came over to the incident with the more butch one doing the crash tackle. Butch’s backup stands back and then seems to decide to go after the assailants. After the close up of the butch and Cody struggle in the background you can see the hi vis jacket of the plod down the road with the assailants and she turns and comes (slowly) walking back.
First big question would be why did snow white leave butch to “grapple” with Cody on her own and instead take the soft option of going down the road….. not a wing man I would want. And then when she got to the group what did they say… probably the usual chant to invoke the two tier policing approach “we was having a quiet walk and he racially abused us, and see we have no turbins so he must have knocked them off….” To which snow white replied “Thank you for your evidence sir on behalf of the city I wish to apologise to you all and if you don’t mind I’ll go back and help arrest the racist while you go about your business”.
All eyes on Cody’s appearance on his assaulting a police plod charge on 21 June. Cheers
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A distinction without a difference from a legal standpoint. He hit her with a forearm/wrist. That’s more than enough from a legal perspective.
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Greetings. I got my hits and strikes round the wrong way thinking hit was the more intent and forceful. Further checking and I think his defense team will be happy with the charge of “hit” given AIs info:
[AI] Strike implies a specific purpose, precision, and high intent. It suggests a calculated action aimed at a particular target or outcome, such as a “surgical strike” in military contexts or a boxer delivering a precise blow to an opponent’s jaw. It is rarely accidental.
Hit is broader and can be accidental, casual, or general. While you can intentionally hit something, the word does not inherently convey the same level of focus or directed force. You can “hit” your knee on a table by mistake, but you would not “strike” it unless you did so on purpose with force. [AI]
I rest my case. lol. Cheers
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A friend, many years ago, was walking up a main street in Melbourne, Victoria (Swanston St if I recall) and some youngish idiots were waiting for people to walk past. As they walked past one idiot would soft push his mate into the pedestrian and deliver a punch to the gut and would immediately apologise. It was a game to see who could get away with punching an innocent pedestrian. My mate saw what was happening as he approached. Now being about 1.8 metres tall and solid and training in Taekwondo he simply tensed his abs. The fake apologetic look on the idiots face was dispelled as he received a very solid punch in return. Then it was on, as we say. This group of idiots piled on my mate and while they were getting a hiding a police officer walked up behind and grabbed my mate on the shoulder Mate rightly believeing he was being attacked from behind spun and punched the copper. An assault charge was filed and a court appearance ensued. The magistrate asked the cop if he identified himself before grabbing the victim. When he answered in the negative the magistrate called the cop stupid and dismissed the charge.
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There was a story on their ABC news last night that Russians are resorting to motor bikes to improve range in face of fuel shortages. It showed long queues waiting for fuel. No wonder Kiev is getting hit hard.
In case you wonder why their ABC was on, my wife wanted to watch the new UK cop show Cooper and Fry and switched after 7News. I class it as watchable after the first episode.
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The primary reason for motor bikes is that their armour has gone bye bye.
Explains why 80% of their attacking forces are lost before they reach the line of despute.
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RickWill:
I cannot see how Russia would be short of fuel. I suspect any, if any, switch to motor bikes might be a dodge against drones.
Alternatively the idea is something that the ABC picked up from Ukrainian sources. Both sides are unlikely to give out reliable information.
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I asked if there is satellite imagery of fuel lines in Russia.
So you don’t need to take anyone’s word for it.
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russias-gas-lines-are-so-long-they-can-be-seen-from-space-20411
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” Dnipro OSINT and BBC Verify …”
Lol! Really H? Here, some more lamestream propaganda from the CIA/Mi6. Russia is broke, has run out of soldiers, will soon undergo another Russian Revolution and has no friends… Oh, and will attack NATO countries tomorrow!
https://smry.ai/www.smh.com.au/world/europe/putin-is-losing-the-ukraine-war-but-if-he-goes-down-he-could-take-us-all-with-him-20260702-p60bx0.html?smryFrom=home
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Look at the pictures, surely that isn’t beyond you.
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For gods sake KP look at the evidence. This clearly means there is a catastrophic fuel crisis and Russia is on the brink of total collapse. If you are wondering where Chita is, its about 6000klms from Moscow above Mongolia. However the pics from here are clearly indicative of systemic collapse, rather than regional issues. Pictures from the left half of Russia are certain to come out very soon.
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Capital G for God. Proper noun 🙂
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Wouldn’t that be blasphemous?
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Stagflation is a problem and will only get progressively worse. Putin might seek general mobilisation for the meat grinder, but that looks unlikely. Without fuel the whole system will grind to a halt.
His friends are keeping their distance, not wanting to be associated with a loser.
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FWIW
“US warning; Russia plans to provoke Poland. Konstantinovka captured. Trump will vanquish communism”
An interesting take apart of the Telegraph article in there
https://rumble.com/v7c91as-us-warning-russia-plans-to-provoke-poland.-konstantinovka-captured.-trump-w.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
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And more from there
“Eh Gawd”
“UK Parliament takes on “Masha and the Bear”
And the Oz under 16 media ban gets a mention
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You have to read beyond the headline to get the full “WTH” flavour of those Russian plans!
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FWIW
“Trump’s DOJ Tells the ICC: Americans Answer to America, So Pound Sand!”
“Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn’t dress up the message in diplomatic lace. In a June 29 letter to Judge Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, Blanche told The Hague what President Donald Trump’s administration had already made clear: Americans answer to American courts.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/07/04/trumps-doj-tells-the-icc-americans-answer-to-america-so-pound-sand-n4954663
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A serious Sunday excerpt:
From: Excerpt from Bernard Lewis essay “Communism and Islam”, in International Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan., 1954):
“I turn now from the accidental to the essential factors, to those deriving from the very nature of Islamic society, tradition, and thought. The first of these is the authoritarianism, perhaps we may even say the totalitarianism, of the Islamic political tradition…Many attempts have been made to show that Islam and democracy are identical — attempts usually based on a misunderstanding of Islam or democracy or both…
In point of fact, except for the early caliphate, when the anarchic individualism of tribal Arabia was still effective, the political history of Islam is one of almost unrelieved autocracy…[I]t was authoritarian, often arbitrary, sometimes tyrannical. There are no parliaments or representative assemblies of any kind, no councils or communes, no chambers of nobility or estates, no municipalities in the history of Islam; nothing but the sovereign power, to which the subject owed complete and unwavering obedience as a religious duty imposed by the Holy Law.
In the great days of classical Islam this duty was only owed to the lawfully appointed caliph, as God’s vicegerent on earth and head of the theocratic community, and then only for as long as he upheld the law; but with the decline of the caliphate and the growth of military dictatorship, Muslim jurists and theologians accommodated their teachings to the changed situation and extended the religious duty of obedience to any effective authority, however impious, however barbarous.
For the last thousand years, the political thinking of Islam has been dominated by such maxims as “tyranny is better than anarchy” and “whose power is established, obedience to him is incumbent.”
Quite obviously, the Ulema of Islam are very different from the Communist Party. Nevertheless, on closer examination, we find certain uncomfortable resemblances. Both groups profess a totalitarian doctrine, with complete and final answers to all questions on heaven and earth; the answers are different in every respect, alike only in their finality and completeness, and in the contrast they offer with the eternal questioning of Western man. Both groups offer to their members and followers the agreeable sensation of belonging to a community of believers, who are always right, as against an outer world of unbelievers, who are always wrong. Both offer an exhilarating feeling of mission, of purpose, of being engaged in a collective adventure to accelerate the historically inevitable victory of the true faith over the infidel evil-doers. The traditional Islamic division of the world into the House of Islam and the House of War, two necessarily opposed groups, of which- the first has the collective obligation of perpetual struggle against the second, also has obvious parallels in the Communist view of world affairs.
There again, the content of belief is utterly different, but the aggressive fanaticism of the believer is the same.
The humorist who summed up the Communist creed as “There is no God and Karl Marx is his Prophet!” was laying his finger on a real affinity. The call to a Communist Jihad, a Holy War for the faith — a new faith, but against the self-same Western Christian enemy — might well strike a responsive note.
(Bold emphasis added.)
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This sounds like the regime in Washington.
‘ … a community of believers, who are always right, as against an outer world of unbelievers, who are always wrong. Both offer an exhilarating feeling of mission, of purpose, of being engaged in a collective adventure to accelerate the historically inevitable victory of the true faith over the infidel evil-doers.’
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Written like a good little observant leftard apparatchik.
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If we think of the Putin regime as an outcome of the USSR, then clearly its part of Kremlin mindset that humans are worthless and the greater good is all that matters.
With 1.4 million Russian soldiers squandered in Ukraine for no good reason, its time for this madness to stop once and for all. Nice to see Donnie rejoin the winning side.
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” the contrast they offer with the eternal questioning of Western man.”
Maybe in 1954, before ‘the science was settled’, ‘97% of scientists agree’ and vaccines were ‘safe and effective’, and people weren’t jailed for Facebook posts. I think the internet has shown how Western man has been subjugated under propaganda for eons, and what we thought was the State looking after us was the biggest lie of all.
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In King Charles’s 250th July 4th message to the US he noted that the UK had “shared values” with the US.
That’s simply not true at a fundamental level and the comparison is at best superficial, but not even that these days where people in the UK get arrested for incorrect thoughts.
Thet are not really shared values at all, that’s why the US was founded in the first place.
The UK is based on the “utilitarianism” moral philosophy of Jeremy Bentham who was strictly opposed to the American Revolution. He called the American Declaration of Independence “nonsense upon stilts” and “criminal”. Bentham rejected the idea of “natural human rights”. He believed rights can only come from real laws created by a government, not from nature.
Hence the UK and Commonwealth countries being all extreme Nanny States where “Government knows best”.
With the rise of the Administrative State and Bureaucracy the US became corrupted with those Benthamite ideas too but the MAGA movement is trying to fix that.
The US was founded on the ideas of John Locke (and others such as Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine) who unlike Bentham did believe in God-given natural rights (life, liberty, the ability to buy property) as the very core of US political philosophy.
He saw Government as merely a tool. If a ruler becomes a tyrant and abuses citizens’ natural rights, they break the social contract. At that point, the people have a moral duty to overthrow that government and start a new one. Hence the Second Amendment.
The colonies used Locke’s “social contract” to legally and morally justify breaking away from King George III. Because Britain taxed the colonies without representation, they had broken the contract, making American rebellion entirely justified.
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“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher … as a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln
“shared values”
There are wits who say there are parralls between mad King George and POTUS.
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FWIW
“LoRa, WiFi, Cellular & Mesh – ultimate survival net?”
“Want to talk through cement buildings?
I found this video about mesh nets, encryption, and local WiFi coms of interest.
I don’t need any of the tech he describes, but I want it 😉
It is also interesting just from the POV of what is happening in the DIY sector. ISP & Cell Company cutting off connectivity if (when?) things get politically questionable? No Problem… Just fire up this gear, connect your group’s cell phones to it, run Reticulum for encryption if desired, and uplink the whole group to Starlink. Global coms restored…”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/lora-wifi-cellular-mesh-ultimate-survival-net/
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FWIW – worse than we knew!
“What Would We Do Without Peer Review?”
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“The editors of the world’s most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.
“We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don’t believe what is being published in those journals is trustworthy anymore.”
“The BMJ, The Lancet, all of those editors have come out and said, we have a huge problem. We can’t replicate this research and we actually don’t even know who did the research.”
“Everywhere we’ve looked for corruption, we’ve found it.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/07/02/what-would-we-do-without-peer-review-26/
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Killer Marmot deserves warrior status.
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What about “The Phantom”?
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He makes a strong emotional argument, there is little doubt that peer review is not fit for purpose.
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Latest “high quality research” is showing that feeding kids all sort of things when they are very young and exposing them to possible allergens in tiny doses through their food at that age prevents food allergies in later life.
Now who would have thunk that? My 91 year old mother has been making that exact statement for decades as the rate of food allergies in Australian children has sky rocketed because they have been fed over processed and sterilized pap.
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Two employees of mine became pregnant within months about seven years ago, and BOTH were separately advised during pregnancy to begin taking small doses of peanut butter and eat other nuts during pregnancy, plus any other food items they reacted to or family reacted to. Didn’t bother them to do so, no allergies developed. It’s a bit like the theory about dirt – kids need to be exposed to plenty of the earthy outdoors. I myself am somewhat allergic to australian botanical plant organics (tested), but they don’t bother me very much. Lavender however makes me quite ill.
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I’m allergic to the late Mrs H’s dog. This may have defined my medical history for ages. Life wasn’t meant to be easy.
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“You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die!”
So I was told as a kid – parents born c. 1920; grandparents c. 1875-1890.
And a peck – 2 gallons – or “equivalent to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09218 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.80976754172 liters. Four pecks make a bushel. ”
Over 70 years, about three and a half decigrams a day.
Not a lot …
Auto
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“An estimated half of India’s 800 million internet users rely on VPNs, potentially making it the largest user base globally due to the huge size of its internet population.”
So, of course the Govt can’t allow that-
“New Delhi has aggressively deployed its content blocking ecosystem, with over 24,000 orders issued last year, double the number in 2024. VPNs stymie that effort, authorities argue. The objective of the new regulations is to enable agencies to trace those involved in cybercrime and other unlawful activities, officials say.”
Ah, its for the children of course!..and stopping criminals.. So..
“the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) asked VPN service providers to store customer data, including their names, email IDs, contact numbers, and IP addresses…(and)..new measures would require VPN providers to set up a local office and appoint compliance officers to address issues raised by the government. Prison terms for local officials of VPN service providers failing to comply with the directives are also on the cards.”
Coming to all countries near you soon! No Govt is gong to allow people to evade their spying.
https://www.rt.com/india/642533-india-vpn-crackdown/
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Safe-Hand, “dead-drops” and One-Time Letter-Pads are likely already seeing revivals.
Analogue, “meat-space” technology.
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And when mobile phones can directly access the low orbit satellite system?
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FWIW
“World’s Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/worlds-largest-data-center-campus-verge-collapse-after-blackstone-unexpectedly-pulls-out
Paywalled but you’ll get the gist
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More FWIW to go with #21
“China-Linked Socialist NGO Derailed $23.6 Billion In Data Center Buildouts: Report
“https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-linked-socialist-ngo-derailed-236-billion-data-center-buildouts-report
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FWIW
Latest One Nation release
“Pauline’s Thunder!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675L_eF2zQY
Described by a friend as
” This is the best political promotion I have seen in my lifetime and the music is sensational…just fantastic!!!!”
I haven’t watched it yet.
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In response to some yard flooding caused by overflowing tanks during our “warmer drier winter”, I drained the top 10% of the tanks into the street culvert. I’ll leave the hose in place for a bit in case we get more heavy rain.
Local area YTD still running at 200-250% over last year and have already had more than the long term average annual rainfall.
As they say, it’s a prediction not a promise.
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” “warmer drier winter””
Rainfall: year to date 479mm, last year 468mm, average to this day 481mm… looks pretty average to me. Certainly the rivers and the dams have not dried up!
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