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https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/papers/2025police.pdf
Police officers and employees misusing access to police databases now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK.
The harms this can cause are considerable.
Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data
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When you can’t trust the police, that is a certain sign of a civil society in its final phases, in this case the final slide into totalitarianism. The decline of Once Great Britain into totalitarianism is obvious from many other aspects of life there as well, such as two policing, police monitoring social media rather than crime, political prisoners such as Tommy Robinson, open borders allowing into the country some of the world’s most violent, uneducated and anti-Western people who themselves believe in totalitarianism; limited academic freedom, people afraid to say what they think, a media that doesn’t question and only follows the Official Narrative, corrupt and incompetent politicians and public serpents, giving away remaining sovereignty such as the Chagos Islands, courts that don’t dispense justice, a declining military, universal surveillance, wokeness infiltrated into all institutions public and private, energy starvation causing the loss of industry and people freezing at home further weakening society, a war against traditional Judeo-Christian moral values, a king who’s neither wise or smart and is utterly woke etc..
It’s all been prophesised such as in Nineteen Eighty Four and V for Vendetta.
Given the state of the UK today, it’s difficult to see how they once settled and brought advanced Civilisation to much of the known world.
It’s tragic.
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A sorry tale: https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/is-usaid-a-criminal-organization/
Left or right – the discordant can generally find areas of consensus.
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An interesting list – https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-information.religious_organizations.au.html
APM have sales revenue of over a billion helping jobseekers find work in WA!!
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An industry seeing growth …. despite decreasing faith: https://www.ibisworld.com/australia/industry/religious-services/681/
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Depends what you put your faith in… That list of religious organisations includes-
“ESAFETY COMMISSIONER”
Praying you don’t have an accident online!
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The AIs plan for the singularity in 2029@ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-ai-singularity-script
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What fun when robo cop decides we need a “Neurotechnical adjustment”.
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TWEET about JD Vance’s comments to Starmer:
And there is a comment at:
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“unable to change their gender on identification documents ”
I have exactly the same problem with the value of Pi. It is irrational.
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And I am not the only one. “On Feb. 6, 1897, Indiana’s state representatives voted to declare 3.2 the legal value of pi. ”
Irrational numbers should not exist. And the existence of only two sexes is irrational. There is nothing a government cannot do. They can also change the weather by prohibition and taxation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Indiana_pi_bill_was%2Cmethod_to_square_the_circle
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You’re stuck thinking in flat space again. Let me give you an example where flat space is a problem.
If you are standing at the North Pole and you pull out a piece of paper. Draw a circle. If you very carefully measure the circumference and the radius you might get pi=3.1, any more precise measurements will need a bigger piece of paper.
So you drag out the local surveying team and with a large string and using the pole as the centre, you scratch out a large circle in the ice. Again, you measure the strings length and the circumference length and this time you can quote pi to about 10 decimal places.
But still you want more precision. So you stretch a line from the north pole down to the equator. A really large circle, it should give you greater accuracy.
The circle goes all the way around the Earth, at the equator. You measure your string, you measure the length of the equator and then you look at the number and you can’t believe your lying eyes, pi is now close to 2.
Pi can obviously change in a non flat universe. What if we are in a curved universe or a saddle shaped one? And what does it do for any equation that uses pi, especially at the larger scales?
Maybe we should redefine Pi, just like we’ve redesigned kinetic energy, at low energy levels it’s e=1/2 m v squared. At high energy, (speed), it becomes e= m c squared. Somebody stole the half.
How many of you now are wondering if the world wouldn’t be a lot simpler if it was flat?
I know, let’s dumb down education. It’s for your own good.
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Ian, What happens to your value of Pi if you really do the measurements on our planet Earth which is actually a geoid with slight flattening at the poles.
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355 divided by 113 is as close to the value of Pi for practical purposes as one needs. Suddenly Pi can be considered rational!
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(SATIRE FROM BABYLON BEE)
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-assures-starmer-england-still-his-favorite-of-all-the-muslim-countries
Trump Assures PM Starmer England Still His Favorite Muslim Country
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Satire. Who said it was satire?
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I’m disappointed that the TRUMP Revolution appears, thus far, to have had no discernible impact on Australia.
All factions of the Uniparty remain fully committed to the Paris Accords among other woke policies.
And Australia continues to import people in nunbers beyond any reasonable capacity to accommodate them and who generally have no economically useful skills or even commitment to Western or Australian values.
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I will bet our our swamp dwellers will have been busy with their IT departments in attempting to scrub social media posts from Government servers, placing new less searchable folder headings for inconvenient files etc. You know the things the US Swamp were planning to do but were caught with their pants down when the DOGE team denied them access to their computers.
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Just wait for the inevitable Blackouts unless Albo & Co are booted out.
As for Immigration, it should be a No-Brainer to minimise it right now.
Some good news with beer excise indexation to be frozen – Hmmmmmmmmmm – Election around the corner of course –
https://au.news.yahoo.com/pm-hopes-freeze-beer-excise-163000572.html#:~:text=Indexation%20levels%20on%20draught%20beer%20will%20be%20frozen,proposal%20put%20forward%20by%20Prime%20Minister%20Anthony%20Albanese
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Rumpus in the White House…!
Diplomacy takes a backseat as Zelensky meeting breaks down.
…Not a good look !
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I posted the video below.
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For those who may be interested , here is a very interesting recent interview with Prof William Happer :
https://www.freedom-research.org/p/exclusive-interview-with-prof-william
I think he is spot on .
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It’s odd how the Left introduced the idea that no geographical place names are sacrosanct. So, in fanatically woke countries like Australia, all our place names are subject to renaming, even major cities like Melbourne–> Narrm as Their ABC now calls it (and even Australia Post recognises the renaming), but when TRUMP does the same thing with the Gulf of America, or returns Mount McKinley to its designated name, then it’s Orange Man Bad.
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What does Narrm mean!
I had never heard of it until David mentioned it above!
Here it is according to Aunty Joy Murphy.
https://www.clothingthegaps.com.au/blogs/blogs/what-does-narrm-mean?srsltid=AfmBOorBS8KfoiMGN4j5JHfulmuITXbdu0cHei6apX7K7B4Kpb0zh-wr
I am still a bit confused!
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There was no Melbourne before 1788. So how can the name be changed?
Maybe Narrm means ’empty place’. On second thoughts, this would be a good name change for the Capital of Sictoria…………..
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Here is an excellent but confronting exchange between TRUMP, JD and Zelensky.
https://youtu.be/GA_J8XAqm3w
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So in light of this exchange the world will assume that the US has lost its moral compass.
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” the world will assume that the US has lost its moral compass.”
Ah , now what moral compass would that be ?
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Even child-level Christianity should do to start with.
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This is the lowest point in the hole the West dug itself in.
Trump is unteachable self-absorbed idiot (not my definition)
People around him are either sycophants or agree with me but powerless to change anything.
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Resembles a drug addict intervention (thanks for Jimmy Dore for that one)
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The Babylon Bee’s take on it.
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Katie Hopkins comments:
https://youtu.be/igeXjb1wB4Y
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A new study in the journal Science says a large portion of Greenland turned to ice-free tundra about 416,000 years ago, plus or minus 38,000 years
Obviously due to CO2 getting to 300 p.p.m.
The ice core in the middle of Greenland was found to have remains of leaves/grasses at the bottom when it was rechecked years later.
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Obviously what we have now is global freezing.
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No.
Plate tectonics did it. Greenland obviously was closer to the equator back then. It then jumped over the US and landed where it is now and then the ice formed. It’s only in the last thousand years or so, since we started mapping, that Greenland has stood relatively still compared to the rest of world. It was a real traveler before then.
Everything can be explained if you just believe.
You need to believe. It’s for your own good.
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FWIW
“The two sides of government job cuts”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-two-sides-of-government-job-cuts.html
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FWIW – helps to watch it all it seems
“I watched the entire press conference with Zelensky. There was 40 minutes of discussion up to the argument. Most people saw at most the last ten minutes. The whole video gives the proper context.
When I first watched the argument without the proper context, I thought it was possible that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky or were even trying to humiliate him. That’s not what happened.
You had 40 minutes of calm conversation. Vance made a point that didn’t attack Zelensky and wasn’t even addressed to him, and Zelensky clearly started the argument.”
More at
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1895562922593841557
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/02/28/down-the-primrose-path-82/
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