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UQ vaccine trials – participants still throw a positive for HIV: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/participant-in-uq-covid-vaccine-trial
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I read that as IQ vaccine trials…
if such a thing existed, one would assume that our politicians have been safely and effectively inoculated.
Journalists were in phase 2.
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Presumably the false HIV+ result would exclude such people from employment in the military (or perhaps other professions) or as blood or organ donors.
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Includes a link to power couples Canberra Times 2014
The WHO was in bed with the ABS so to speak:
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If it is a false positive for HIV, what happens if they actually get the disease?
Is there another test or will they just go on with their life unaware, potentially infecting others, ten maybe? One false positive has implications for more than just the one person from the test.
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Depends if you still believe HIV is real I guess.
Or just the remnants of some other failed vaccines….
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https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/its-a-100-flip-reuters-suddenly-is-skeptical-on-climate-policy/
Reuters has the message of truth.
Thank you, Jo.
Pity it hasn’t been read at Kew: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn89v3de683o
Kew to open garden focusing on climate crisis
[BBC, of course]. “Kew Gardens will open a new “ground-breaking” garden in July that explores the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis.”
There is an urgent need to tackle the crisis in the UK caused by our Government’s [dictated??] Climate Policies [like ‘Nett Zero’, per Mr. Miliband, a colossal waste of hard-earned taxpayers’ money].
More –
“The garden, approved by Richmond Council last year, will have a striking display of plants reflecting the dramatic rise in average global temperatures over time.”
“There will also be a dry garden with drought-resistant plants to show how nature can be used to adapt to climate change and a rain garden which will highlight ways to manage water flow, prevent soil erosion, reduce flooding and put moisture back into soil.”
But – Nature DOES adapt to climate change – and ‘ways to manage water flow, prevent soil erosion, reduce flooding and put moisture back into soil’ are good things in themselves, generally – and not restricted to ‘Climate Armageddon’!
Yet more –
“In the garden, at least 26 new trees will be planted, chosen for their resilience to predicted future climate conditions.”
‘Predicted’ – I wonder how close these predictions will be.
Our Bed-wetting Catastrophists aren’t usually even in the right parish.
I do hope the trees won’t suffer because of being unsuitably planted in London.
But it’s the BBC … so ‘Science’ – ‘show me’ – takes a second place, at best, to dogma.
Auto.
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Of the 1.35 visitors per year to Kew Gardens, 97% won’t care.
There is no urgent need to tackle a crisis that doesn’t exist.
I like plants and have some that don’t grow well. Ponderosa Pine do fine, Western Larch (commonly called Tamarack here) grow but are not happy. Tomatoes say “Not here, buddy.”
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John F. H.
What you need (for tomatoes) is a Greenhouse – an actual one not a fallacy.
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A Greenhouse with pumped in CO2 as well.
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Not a gardener but Mrs Y dragged me there one year. Interesting place and a nice walk in a very pommy way.
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Mother Nature is a lot more resilient than the ‘Climate Alarmists’.
Look at how many trees and the vegetation that somehow survived the Ice Ages and managed to grow back in places where the ice sheets were once a mile thick.
A little bit more warmth is a good thing IMHO. And more CO2 BTW.
The cold kills more people than the heat and crops don’t do very well in freezing temperatures.
The people at the BBC and other Woke Organisations need to go back to school on Monday and learn some basic General Science.
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How many climate alarmists have any practical skills whatsoever?
They wouldn’t even be capable of growing a weed.
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I bet some smoke weed.
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Safe bet there….
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An Antipodean Conundrum:
The mythical predicted cr!s!s equals zero or even less, with South Pacific cyclone numbers and energy well-below what has been before, despite Alfred’s lingering presence off SE QLD.
https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=southpacific
NZ’s blocking high has so far rebuffed 2 troppos’ attention (ex-Rae & ex-Seru) sending them on their diminished way, and so far has kept Alfred stalled at a safe distance, although Brisbane to Byron may get a thorough drenching in the coming days.
I’m of the belief Kew & BBC doth protest too loudly – as Nature always has the last word.
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FWIW
Today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter on yesterday’s meeting at the White House
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/a-great-fall-saturday-march-1-2025?
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FWIW
On December 5, 1994, leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation met in Budapest, Hungary, to pledge security assurances to Ukraine in connection with its accession to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapons state. The signature of the so-called Budapest Memorandum concluded arduous negotiations that resulted in Ukraine’s agreement to relinquish the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, which the country inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union, and transfer all nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantlement. The signatories of the memorandum pledged to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders, and to refrain from the use or threat of military force. Russia breached these commitments with its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and aggression in eastern Ukraine, bringing the meaning and value of security assurance pledged in the Memorandum under renewed scrutiny.
I can understand why Ukrainian leaders might have been a little reticent in signing away national mineral wealth.
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…the mice get trampled when the elephants fight..
There is no way for a small country to win when they are just a battleground for bigger ones.
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I think it used to be called Realpolitik
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Think of all the proxy wars started by those elephants over the past 70 years, some of the mice survived and prospered.
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Very interesting Rowjay.
From 1994 to 2014 the USA, UK and Russia did apparently respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
In modern history that’s a fairly long time. Did the signatories really expect the agreement to hold forever and ever, no matter what, cross my heart and hope to die?
And what did each of the signatories do which led the agreement being set aside? Did something happen inside the Ukraine at the behest of the USA and the UK? Or did Putin just wake up one morning and decide it would be a great idea to get the band back together?
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I sense that the Ukranians wanted to align themselves with the west, otherwise they would not have given away their nukes, dismembered their air force and essentially demilitarised. They then became a pawn.
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Quite likely. What did the Ukraine get at the time in exchange for what they gave?
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Crickets…..
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Rawjay:
So Russia didn’t attack Ukraine for 20 years by your reckoning? Until after the democratic elected President was deposed in a coup? After the massacre of Russian and other minorities? After Ukraine expressed a desire to join NATO? And wanted to have control of the Black Sea Fleet?
As for Crimea, that was where opinions might differ – not formerly connected to Ukraine and a Russian icon where they had fought bloody battles (and 98% Russians there).
This was was set up to destroy Russia and that plan has gone wrong. Zelenskyy trying to get back Ukrainian territory & more by annoying the strongest backer and thinking bankrupt England and Germany will back him in a continuing war (with what?). Who wants the war to continue?
I can understand why Russian leaders might be a little reticent in signing any agreement.
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On the question of Crimea, the soft underbelly, Erdogan will make sure its returned to Ukraine. He is buoyed up by getting the PKK in Turkey to lay down their arms, so now he can devote full time to this other festering sore.
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Until after the democratic elected President was deposed in a coup?
There is a difference between “eastern” democracies and “western” ones – western ones have a functioning opposition.
As for Crimea, that was where opinions might differ
OK – the west appeared to cede Crimea to Russia, or didn’t particularly care. The point is the Russians didn’t stop there.
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I do not have an X account but was able to open and run the video underlined Got it from https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/trump-on-warmongering.html I think
A seven minute video in which Jeffrey Sachs explains how we got to where we are in Ukraine. A lot of people need to hear this but unfortunately, the ones who need to hear at the most are the automatons who won’t listen to anything but legacy media
https://x.com/_I_Am_One_/status/1893859279221698905
It seems Prof Sachs has an advisor to US presidents and the executive. It seems he knows what he is talking about.
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yes cementafriend,
https://x.com/_I_Am_One_/status/1893859279221698905
Jeffrey Sachs cites the USA neocon broken agreements to Russia, Clinton the first agent
breaking the assurances that NATO would not be extended eastward. No one would doubt that Putin
would be opportunistic if he got the chance but his concern his been defensive, like the
USA re missiles placed in Cuba. Sachs tells it how it happened. Worth listening to him.
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The US and Nato under George Bush Jr Pledged to Russia that there would be no more movement eastwards towards Russia. Soon after Nato added another 7 countries bordering Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. They also cancelled the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. There is a great Tucker Carlson Interview with Jeffery Sachs (Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation) that details 30 years of Nato provocation.
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Really interesting situation.
NATO heavyweights Macron and Starmer come ahead to soften the Trump administration on defending allies that choose to defend Ukraine and Zelensky thinks he no longer needs to deal with Trump. He thought he could get guarantees from USA without giving anything in return.
Ukraine now has two powerful enemies, That usually does not end well particularly when its friends have condemned their economies to oblivion.
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And the people of the Ukraine still have at least 4 powerful enemies if you include Zelensky, and the forces inside Europe who want the fighting to continue.
Those who favour the fighting to continue clearly are not familiar with the writings of Sun Tzu. And in the meantime the Chinese government appears highly conversant with the Art of War.
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Those who favour the fighting to continue
Zelensky clearly does not want the fighting to continue. The problem is that he does not fully understand the Trump proposal. You have to remember that when elected in 2019, he only had a few english words in his vocabulary. Fast forward to 2025, and he is conversing well with the English and the Europeans, but he has had limited exposure to American English. During the White House meeting, he clearly had no idea why playing with cards entered the conversation as he only had a literal understanding of the term. Unlike FDR during WW2, the Trump administration did not embed an envoy in the beleaguered country to properly explain the subtleties of the proposal.
The gentleman below would have been perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wFx3WSVdm8“
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You can cut Zelenskyy some slack for his potential misunderstanding but showing up to the Whitehouse for an important meeting with the POTUS is not going to win friends and influence the host favourably.
I thought Zelenskyy may have a penchant for some sort of Cossack attire but he is quite accustomed to wearing a suit. This is how Zelenskyy was attired for addressing the UN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KDFHFstf0M
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If you have a few minutes, Jeffrey Sachs is outstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9V-UtD3flY
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Basically he is suggesting Europe to do what USA has done. Get Russia to a table and talk about mutual concerns. They do not need Ukraine at the table until the question of Ukraine becomes the central topic.
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” Get Russia to a table and talk about mutual concerns. ”
That would come down to trade with Russia, and cheap energy from them. With American companies pulled out of Russia the Europeans have a chance to export to the 140million customers there, and certainly cheaper gas than they pay the Yanks.
All they have to do is ditch Ukraine, and I’m sure their own internal problems with racism, immigration, ruinables failure and collapsing economies will make that decision easier.
If Trump saves America by moving to the Right, Europe will get left behind as a second-world region.
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Yes El Gordo. Great video
Everyone should watch it. There is no one that has a better understanding.
It was a talk to the European Parliament and gives the truth about US (democrat led CIA)
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Well, Well – This is Interesting!
Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal
A common criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous Friday performance in the Oval Office is that he failed to read the room.
Actually, the Ukrainian president did read a room — but it was the wrong room.
Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington.
He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine,” Murphy’s office posted on X at 11:15 a.m. Friday.
He attached a picture of Zelensky at a conference table, with Murphy seated on the opposite side.
Forty minutes later, Zelensky arrived at the White House, where Trump met his car, smiled, shook his hand and walked him into the Oval Office.
The meeting, as the world now knows, quickly went off the rails and ended with Trump angrily ejecting the arrogant ingrate from the White House.
The earlier meeting with Dems undercuts wild claims that Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance staged an ambush.
In fact, it was Zelensky who came with an ulterior motive. The purpose of the meeting was to sign the mineral agreement he and Trump representatives had negotiated.
He had twice refused to sign it after promising to, and thanks to Murphy, we now know he had no intention of signing it Friday. By listening to the nakedly partisan advice of Dems instead of dealing forthrightly with the current president, Zelensky betrayed his countrymen and, for now at least, leaves them without the military and diplomatic protection that only America can provide.
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Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House.
It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up.
Even though he didn’t, and even though Zelensky’s actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened.
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Proven anti-TRUMP fake news by Reuters and Goolag etc..
Before the US Presidential election the DemonRATs made anti-TRUMP fake news stories and Lamestream “news” outlets like Reuters ran them and Goolag ran them as “news” headlines. Goolag claims it was a “glitch” that their search engine interpreted these lies as news. An obvious lie.
One example was a complete fabrication that TRUMP wanted a nation-wide abortion (for any reason) ban, to scare “low information” voters. It’s a state issue in any case. That explains why the Left constantly raised that issue during the election. Clearly TRUMP is pro-family and pro-children but he never said what was claimed.
Totally Orwellian.
The Left really are every bit as evil as you might think they are. And they and the fake news media are probably even worse than TRUMP thought they were.
YouTube channel Liberal Hivemind discusses:
https://youtu.be/fUQNdh2u6U8
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David,
The MSM can print any lie (misinformation..) that they want and get away with it as long as someone has already said/printed it – the liability rests with the source . The source doesn’t matter . Its how lies become “fact”. Beware of labels – the “left” are “liberals” but you are using “liberal” hive mind for your point . As language is the medium that we use to convey message/meaning we have to be careful to be clear as our words can be misinterpreted . The truth is still however, the best defense…
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Old Goat, the YouTube channel Liberal Hivemind is a conservative one.
Liberal is used in the US sense meaning of the Left, as it is a US channel, not in the sense of classical liberalism after contemporary writers like, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Sowell etc..
The name is a reference to the criticism of Liberal/Left “collective consciousness”/groupthink (Hivemind).
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The guy in the following YouTube video is an extremely talented amateur scientist.
In this video he makes purple gold, an alloy with aluminium:
https://youtu.be/d6Pcp944sRI
Here is his channel:
https://youtube.com/@nilered?si=jyL3apIIgijEO5jd
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TRUMP is about to sign another executive order equally shocking for the Left as when he declared there are “only” two genders or when he banned men from women’s sports.
He is about to make an EO that English is the official language of the United States for the purpose of official Government communications and for organisations in receipt of federal funding.
It reverses an EO by Clinton that such organisations had to offer multiple foreign languages in their communications.
The Left are in Meltdown.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-declare-english-official-language-5b24f6ac1172803f615cea69e13f8724
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I remember about 30 years ago the hispanic migrants complaining about their children were receiving a spanish language education in California when they had come to the USA to work hard and to give their children what they thought would be a English language education.
In recent times, sacked IT workers living in mobile homes and cars say they are unable to return to a fall back of their old university student jobs in fast food etc: as they do not speak spanish and are unable to communicate with customers and fellow staff.
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What has happened to Gee Aye?
I first thought that he was still on extended University holidays, but first term is now underway and not a single snarky contribution
Maybe he is under permanent moderation for repeated violations of comment policy?
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I can’t talk for her but most Leftists in general are in full permanent Meltdown due to the outbreak of reason, common sense, basic human decency, and a return to Enlightenment values in the US brought about by the TRUMP Revolution. The Left tried so hard to destroy these things. Hopefully these same values will come to Australia soon.
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USAID funding? or finally shamed into actually having one of the JABS.
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Bot broken?
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The mods do a terrific job in maintaining the right tone, which is counter productive if you want lively traffic.
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Grown up maybe? or just sick of casting pearls before swine
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Why did Zelensky have to wear his Ninja outfit to the Oval Office, not a proper suit?
What was he trying to prove?
What a great disrespect to the United States people, who have given so much of their taxes to the Ukes, as well as TRUMP and JD.
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He wouldn’t be recognised in a suit! Its all just part of the theatrics, like African dictators always in uniforms covered in medals and gold braid.
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KP,
He is an actor dressed in what he thought would be appropriate for the role . Misread the room totally . No golden globe for him (or future either) . Trumps public statements are often contradictory and it’s hard for his opposition read what he’s up to . He has his chosen appointees in place so we will probably see where he is going from here on in .
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Others have suggested Zelenskyy had no intention of signing the minerals deal. Zelenskyy had been misled by Macron and Starmer that they could force USA to support NATO allies in their defence of Ukraine. Trump knows that Putin is smart enough to see EU peace keeping forces as NATO forces under another name. Would guarantee escalation and clearly Trump views WW3 then looms and he is not having anything to do with that.
Russia and USA both fought the Germans in WW2. When NATO was established, Ukraine was under Russian control. Ukraine has a complex history and its pre 2014 state only came into existence in 1991 when USSR was broken up.
At least Trump has relieved USA taxpayers from funding death and destruction in Ukraine. France, UK and Germany can continue to supply arms but they may find themselves facing Russia without support from USA if they provoke Putin by sending troops into Ukraine.
To my mind, I believe Zelenskyy caused Putin’s angst when he went after NATO treaty. And Trump has been clear in taking that off the table.
Zelenskyy is now in the tough position on deciding how much of his empire he concedes to Putin. He is not giving any mineral rights to USA in returns for any more weapons.
Putin has what he wants. He brought the NATO question to a head and will get some land in return for the lost lives.
You could see the embarrassment on the face of the Ukraine ambassador when Zelenskyy was being so disrespectful. She was like a school teacher being amabarssed by the behaviour of a pupil. However Zelenskyy will garner some support at home and in Europe for standing up to Trump. That will prolong the war but it will further hurt Europe economically. The inevitable new patriot administrations will be less inclined to support Ukraine.
Trump is ahead of the game. He has talked to Putin and can see Putin;’s side. With USA and Russia re-establishing ties, they may come to some settlement over Ukraine. They may make a formal agreement that USA will never allow Ukraine to join NATO.
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” France, UK and Germany can continue to supply arms but they may find themselves facing Russia without support from USA if they provoke Putin by sending troops into Ukraine.”
They’ve been the cheering fanboys for more and bigger weapons for ages, and seemed to have missed the memo when Putin drew the lines and said that countries supplying certain arms would be declaring war on Russia & he reserved the right to hit those countries supplying those arms.
Maybe Trump will just let them go ahead and walk away when the Oreshniks hit arms factories in the UK, Germany and France. I can’t see Macron or Starmer calling up all the Muslim immigrants to put boots on the ground against the Russians, it will be interesting to see how far they will push it.
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All those countries have depleted arsenals, depleted militaries, woked up populations that dont want to fight to keep them in power and wealthy. They have very little power to act on their bluster. They may cause Russia point pain with missile supply, but I seriously doubt any of them can change the course of the war.
I think its best summed up by a cartoon I saw recently with Macron depicted as a yapping poodle in a Napoleon hat trying to intimidate a very large Russian bear 10 times his size.
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With the financial problems in the UK, Germany and France all they can do is whistle past the graveyard of their previous strength.
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The exchange in the Oval Office between the two presidents has been the subject of much hand wringing an angst by many commenters.
After everyone settles down they might realize that this just a part of Trump’s long term strategy to get the rest of Europe to do the heavy lifting to support Ukraine instead of the USA.
It’s already working since most of EU countries have already pledged support to Ukraine since the meeting.
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What was he trying to prove?
When the press asked Zelensky why he didn’t wear a suit, he replied that he would once the war was over.
He has always worn casual fatigues in his videos
My thoughts are that he did not want to appear as “another suit” and out of touch with his people. It also helps when you have to spend long hours on the job in a war zone without a valet to take care of your kit.
He actually did dress up for the White House – his top had buttons.
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Like any flying visit by senior management, Zelensky on the frontlines probably causes more problems than it solves, though I do appreciate the sentiment of such an action. I don’t think much of Zelensky generally, but this is more than I would expect from most politicians anywhere. The risks to life and limb are real.
The East is a mess, as expected of a battlefront, but go West and things look pretty normal, though not many men around. There are videos by Ukrainians showing Ukrainians having a good time in bars and restaurants and living a normal life on city streets – ostensibly to show how resilient the people are.
These attract a lot of ire from various directions because we are supposed to think they whole country has been flattened, apparently.
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Meanwhile, here in Oz, our beloved prime minister has graciously announced that should he be voted back into the top job, he will help reduce the cost of living crisis by “freezing” the automatic tax increases on draught beer for two years. Not all alcoholic beverages, just draught beer. Sadly this move won’t be enough to change my voting preference.
For any international readers, in Oz we do not use one cent coins any more, but this proposed “move” will save about one cent per pint of beer. The way the system works is if the cost of something is X and 1 or 2 cents the price is rounded down to X. If the cost of X is plus 3 cents then the price is rounded up to 5 cents.
So what will this price freeze save me, well, nothing. The trick in all this of course is if you pay for your beer with a card, everything is transacted to the cent plus a transaction fee.
Oh well, back to wondering how I will pay for my next electricity bill which the prime minister promised at the last election to reduce by $275 per year. My last bill, without any increases in consumption has increased by 40% over the last 3 years. Back to crying in my beer!
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Apart from that, Australia being an extreme Nanny State, already has among the highest alcohol taxes in the world, if not the highest.
I don’t drink but I believe that in a pub (bar) the equivalent of a pint of beer, the classic working man’s drink, costs about $15 (US$9) due to the obscene “sin” taxes. A bottle of spirits like vodka or whisky costs about $50 (US$31). Not only that, manufacturers/importers in order to make the price of the overtaxed item more acceptable have reduced the standard bottle size from 750mls to 700mls and often the alcohol content from 40% to 37% as the tax is dependent on alcohol content.
It’s best to make your own, although if too many people do that, they’ll ban that as well. And for spirits it’s only legal to own a still with a capacity of up to one litre of “wash”. DIY kits for beer and spirits are available from specialist stores. Naturally, it would be illegal to sell any untaxed product you make, personal use only.
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63% excise on 1 litre of Bundy rum.
it’s enough to give you a headache…
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most of what you pay at the petrol pump is tax/excise also
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We find it easier to pay a flat amount into our electricity account each month. I summer we go into credit due to panels, and that gets chewed up over winter. Sometimes I need to pay a little extra at the end of winter. Avoids the bill shock that affects some people.
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I like Johnny Cash music and this popped up on my YouTube. I reckon this will put a smile on your face. Happy Sunday everyone, I’m off to explore central Victoria then Flinders ranges and maybe loop across to Dubbo.
Quidan Productions https://youtu.be/PbfiRekc4RA?si=s4BWDfh5N_xDyzQI
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Excellent Drain the Swamp song!
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The heads of the Hard Left are exploding after Trump told Zelensky how it will be. SMH is having a field day..
“The macho men who bootlick Trump show us what weakness looks like-Some of the richest men in the world are genuflecting to the re-elected US president. It’s a pathetic parade of toadyism.”
“Zelensky gets a hero’s welcome in London ahead of emergency summit.-The Ukrainian president and British PM Keir Starmer embraced outside Downing Street as Europe rallied around the wartime leader after his Oval Office bust-up with Donald Trump.”
“As tempers and egos started to clash, Vance lit the match.-The air in the Oval Office was thick with resentment when Vice President J.D. Vance lit the match”
“Albanese, Europeans back Zelensky after explosive White House meeting”
“Zelensky asked Vance a question – it proved a mistake”
“Five minutes to midnight’: New-look America sets clock ticking for Europe”
..and one from George Brandis, apparently a former high commissioner, so a practised liar.
“Trump’s behaviour reveals what he thinks about the US’s role in the world.- …Trump’s petulance, and his evident personal disdain for Zelensky, make it difficult to watch the exchange without cringing….From that point, first Vance, then Trump, berates Zelensky with increasingly excitable belligerence, as Zelensky – patiently and without discourtesy – stands his ground…It was Trump and Vance, not Zelensky, who were disrespectful, …Trump behaved less like an American president than a Roman emperor dressing down a visiting barbarian chieftain…A security guarantee from Trump would not be worth the paper it is written on, particularly since…Trump’s sympathies lie with Putin anyway.”
Any talk of American ‘security guarantees’ is just someone trying to get America into WW3 with Russia, because that is where it would end up. ‘Ukraine’ is 404, as the Russians call it, a country that no longer exists, Zelensky too.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-s-behaviour-reveals-what-he-thinks-about-the-role-of-the-us-in-the-world-20250301-p5lg57.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Did they watch the same 49 minutes that I did?
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yes but through the same distorted leftist prism they view the rest of world through
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Indeed. There are a whole host of miscreants who mistakenly believe it is in their interests for Russia and the USA to be at each other’s throats.
Trump’s recent discussions with Russia suggest he is once again ahead of the game.
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Do you think he will declare peace on Russia while he tackles China, a more difficult opponent. He is keen to get Europe to own the Ukraine conflict, freeing up American resources for the Pacific.
A broke USA can only spread its military so thin and then it loses effectiveness.
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My crystal ball isn’t up to predicting what will happen next, but to partially address your question Trump does appear to have a plan of action.
So far it appears shenanigan free and remarkably well adapted to disappointing those who play shenanigans against him.
Time will tell.
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FWIW – copied
“”For those that missed it, Recap;
1966: Oil Gone in Ten years
1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
1970: World Will use Up All its Natural Resources by 2000
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing by 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age BY 2070
1972: Oil Depleted 20 Years
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines Imminent
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2004: Britam will Be Siberia by 2024
2005: Manhattan underwater 2015
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles we Have 96 Months to Save
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to Save The Planet From Catastrophe
2009: Climate Genius AI Gore Moves 2013 prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014; Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos
2019: Hey Greta, we need you to convince them it’s really going to happen
this time” ”
“Don’t you see? We fixed all these by raising taxes. Just narrowly escaped disaster each time. “
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Oh my gosh, it’s as if my whole life flashed before my eyes – except for the memorable good fun naughty bits. Thanks another ian, just goes to show how resilient robust sustainable & adaptable we are on this journey moving forward blah…
Methinks the planet will be around for a little while longer than the purple-haired doom monsters.
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the purple-haired doom monsters.
There is a cartoon with R. F. Kennedy, now head of HHS, where he says his people will be investigating blue hair dye (purple works too) because the chemicals appear to cause mental illness.
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Excellent.
Myself, and I think many others, stopped taking notice of predictions by eggspurts many years ago. Your list explains why.
I recently watched a short clip with an audience member from a tv chat show.
I think the show was British.
The female audience member stated something along the lines of…
“I have always been pro vaccine, had flu shots every year and gratefully cued up for the Covid vaccine. However after all the lies have been revealed about Covid I will never willingly agree to have a vaccine under those circumstances again. Our government and health professionals told us lies.”
Just like the meejia, our governments and health professionals have destroyed any faith/trust that the public had in them. And it was all self inflicted.
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WUWT also has a list –
“Failed Prediction Timeline”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/failed-prediction-timeline/
12 pages!
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12 pages!
That’s longer than the Holocene… hilarious!
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I like this guy’s take.
Net Zero for energy generation is already done – any carbon generating electricity production is well offset by all the solar panels and wind turbines that are there, if you include those off grid.
Tell them this crises is averted already.
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Comment on Zelensky meating by Rudy Giuliani, via email.
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As a realist, I say: normal people lost that round.
Now stop gloating and think about your own country – not Ukraine, Greenland or Palestine.
Speaking of which, some people here are ardent supporters of Israel. Consider for a second that Trump does a 180 degree turn there because Bibi looked inappropriately at you know who…
I am serious – POTUS and his VP broke all imaginable formal protocols and hosts decency but amidst discussion of $500B deals and “millions killed” they found a spot to berate Ze for bad costume !
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“millions killed”
There will be if Putin gets control of Ukraine. His troops had bad form during the initial Kiev invasion – imagine what the retribution would be like after three years of all-out war.
All of a sudden, death and suffering doesn’t matter to Trump any more – not his problem. Isolationism rules.
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“There will be if Putin gets control of Ukraine”
Why would he want it? It would only be trouble for him the moment he goes West of Kiev. He wants the Russian-speakers back as part of Russia and knows full well Bandera’s Western Ukies were on the wrong side in WW2. He’s better to take Eastern Ukraine and leave the Western side on permanent life support from Europe.
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FWIW
IIRC the west of Ukraine was calved off Poland, Romania and Hungary post WW2 so could fit back in those
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Good grief do you really believe that? have you looked and the rapid rejuvenation and civil works being carried out in eastern Ukraine. This is just more of Russia as the great Baba Yaga which is then used to justify anything.
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rapid rejuvenation and civil works being carried out in eastern Ukraine
No, I haven’t read about it. Can you provide a link?
Good grief do you really believe that
Not sure which point you are referring to. If it is Russian retribution, experience is from family history.
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Hello Y – found an interesting ytube clip on the rapid rejuvenation of Mariupol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77VRZAHGlU
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Further to my comment at #2.3 earlier,
(via RNZ/ABC/CCC/UN) Australian Senior Meteorologist Felim Hanniffy explained ‘warm sea temperatures’ caused TC Alfred (Cat 2) to ‘linger’ longer than usual… and there I was claiming NZ’s blocking high was the cause célèbre… experts huh.
Townsville got to enjoy a little 4.4 wobble last night at 9.30pm, a very minor shake, yet waiting on the ‘senior experts’ to explain how man caused not only Alfred but now also earthquakes at the same time – shocking!
NZ’s capital, Wellington, suffered a heat spike last night when three (3) separate electric scooters simultaneously ignited requiring the Fire Service to attend. Green Fiery Toxic Destruction – to save the planet no less.
Fun Sunday rant over 😃
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re heat spike
Seems a single incident of armed offenders fleeing on e-scooters after they robbed an Auckland north shore bar last night trumps 3 separate self-emulations in Wellington as far as NZ Herald goes. Got any links on your bbq’s??
One thing of interest regarding fires that AI shared was the recent spate of church arson attacks. According to BBC article as many as 7 churches down Masterton way (lower North Island) have gone up. I thought it was only the Sistine Chapel that blew the white smoke when a new pope was decided upon… he ain’t even dead yet?
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Or maybe he is already dead. Gateway pundit suggested it. According to Archbishop Vigano some Lefty cardinals supporting Jorge Borgoglio need to clear some criminal evidence.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/archbishop-viganos-warning-usurper-throne-st-peter/
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A record of Australian earthquakes and their data. The ability to submit a “felt report” is nice.
https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au
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It bothers me that so may supporters of Dutton of the fake conservative Liberal Party say that you have to wait until AFTER the election (assuming he is elected) to hear his true policies, which will ideally be anti-woke and pro-energy.
He has already restated his commitment to the Paris Accords, even after TRUMP withdrew.
I think it’s an extremely dangerous gamble to wonder if he’ll withdraw after the election.
If he was the prospective PM that Australia wants and needs, he would have the cajones to say what he thinks NOW.
He won’t even commit on gender issues:
He’s weak and lacks moral clarity.
It’s pathetic.
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I agree 100% with your assessment.
It’s an own goal by Dutton and the “conservative” Liberal party.
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Agreed, unless Dutton comes out with concrete primises it will be a NO from me,
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Well it won’t be an outright NO from me. Libs are still the least worse option before Labor,Teals and Greens, but that doesn’t mean they get my first preference, or even 2 or 3.
Didn’t waste your vote. Get maximum strategic value by voting for minor parties that actually reflect your views as 1 and 2. Worst case your vote will flow to the Libs if the minors don’t get up.
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No. He is restricted by the traitors in his party.
There are two elections going on,
1. The election to determine which party governs Australia.
2. The election to determine which faction governs the party.
We, the people, should vote down every left leaning party representative put forth by the party in elections.
Only then will the party reflect conservative values.
But we are not given that information at the voting booth.
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Exactly right. We are not given that information at the voting booth. Some research is required.
Hopefully discussion right here on this blog will flesh out some of the best voting options.
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Here is an excellent short video from PragerU about whether the United States was founded on “stolen land”.
The points raised are equally applicable to Australia as well.
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-we-living-on-stolen-land
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Excellent video from Paul Joseph Watson demonstrating that Starmer was lying about the state of free speech in Once Great Britain.
https://youtu.be/DD7wmjp4ZKs
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Now, I don’t want to spread fear and panic, but…
Everyone needs to do some SERIOUS self sufficiency and resilience work.
NOW, if you haven’t already, before the masses panic buy, and they will.
Cash, serious stocks of everything you need, power independence/backup systems.
Martin A has posted the latest analyses and 2025 is the year history repeats with another world war. Everyone needs to read them all.
“This is right on schedule. In 1853, the French defeated Russia in the Crimea War. Add 86 years to that, and you come to 1939 with the start of World War II. Add another 86 years, and you come to 2025.”
I wish his models were wrong.
Everythings dropping into place with my own 2028 timeline based on different data. Ukraine gone by then.
How will Ukraine cease to be by then?
Have a guess!
Not convinced?
BREAKING: German Foreign Minister Baerbock gave an impassioned speech to prepare Germans for war with Russia.
Germany urges European nations to start mobilizing now and not wait for the formation of the incoming government in Germany under Chancellor Merz, expected in April.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1895963707995476333
Norway refuses to refuel US submarines.
Military conscription in the UK.
Deagle’s prediction for 2025 is back.
The US/EU rift is forcing the EU’s hand and accelerating plans.
Don’t be one of those with their fingers in their ears going “la la la la la”.
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Victor Davis Hanson comments on Ukraine:
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‘Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob.’
That is not true, his popularity has soared around the democratic world and at home he got a 65% approval rating after the spat.
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Really?
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FWIW
“Team Zelenskyy Has a “Security Guarantee” Plan to Recapture all Lost Ukraine Territory
March 1, 2025 | Sundance | 293 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/01/team-zelenskyy-has-a-security-guarantee-plan-to-recapture-all-lost-ukraine-territory/
Well maybe not a dirty bomb yet then?
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And
“**** Zelenskyy
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Oh this is rich.
So after making a fool out of himself in the Oval Office — remember, Z allegedly told Rubio he was ready to sign the minerals deal with no conditions — he tried to renegotiate it on live television and add “security guarantees.”
This was ****ing stupid. Europe is only standing behind Z at the moment because all their aid was a loan. If Z blows up and his government falls they get nothing and that’s a ****-ton of money. We, on the other hand, have a crap-ton of sunk cost with no return at this point and getting directly involved via any means is the sort of mistake that was made in WWI and WWII and if we do it this time we’re likely to get a nuclear war out of it. No thanks.
Never mind that the US taxpayer has been funding his government. Its one thing to provide some guns and ammunition to a “friend” when they need it, but this evil ********** thinks we have an obligation to pay his government worker salaries and pensions on top of that. Where the hell did that “obligation” come from?”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252901
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‘Europe is only standing behind Z at the moment …’
The forward strategy is to push Russia out of Ukraine and that is achievable using conventional weapons.
The US should pull out of NATO and all future arms deliveries paid for in advance at market prices.
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Russia has not been pushed out of Ukraine yet. It has all been the other way.
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No one will pay good money for obsolescent hand me downs. AFAIK the US has not given any F-16s and they are OLD.
If Ukraine doesn’t use this stuff for what it was made – shooting at Russians – then the US will pay millions to decommission them.
There is some stuff that is new and good – HIMARS rockets and Patriot missiles but that is overstated.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. As a result, the Ukrainians are redefining how modern ground wars are fought and it’s not pretty. They had to do it when congress held back traditional military support from Oct 23 to March 24, when they had to get creative to survive.
These are people that you want on your side when the **** hits the fan.
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They havent “redefined” anything. This just the nature of a near peer conflict in the drone, advanced ISR and precision missile and glide bomb era. Agree they are a courageous people , but sadly there are many less of them to stand by anyones side these days. Continuation of the conflict will be the end of Ukraine demographically , if not in a number of other ways.
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OK – “refined”.
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FWIW
“Bipartisan Group of RINOs and Democrat Senators Met with Zelensky and Blew Smoke Up His A$$ Before He Met with Trump – Zelensky Releases Video where You Can See Clearly Who Participated”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/bipartisan-group-rinos-democrat-senators-met-zelensky-blew/
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And
“Zelenskyy’s Oval Office Debacle was a Set Up…By the Dems: Mollie Hemingway Brings the Receipts”
https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2025/03/01/zelenskys-oval-office-humiliation-was-a-set-upby-the-dems-mollie-hemingway-brings-the-receipts-n2409167
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FWIW
“It Looks As If the Media Missed the Real Story Behind Trump and Zelenskyy’s Tense Meeting”
“The mainstream media went into full meltdown mode after President Trump’s tense Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, but as usual, they completely missed the real story. Why? Because it makes Zelenskyy look even worse.
What we’re now learning about Zelenskyy’s repeated broken promises explains a lot—from Zelenskyy’s insolence to Trump’s frustration.
According to a report from Axios, this led President Trump to adopt a “three strikes and you’re out” strategy in his dealings with the Ukrainian leader.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/01/the-media-missed-the-real-story-behind-trump-and-zelenskyys-tense-meeting-n4937469
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https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-news-autumn-heatwave-soaring-temperatures-march-australia/ce280b99-5e61-4686-a72e-7fc862916dde?ref=BP_RSS_ninenews_0_millions-of-aussies-to-swelter-through-early-autumn-heatwave_020325
Report on March 2nd, 2025 about March 1st, the calendar first DAY of Autumn, despite millennia of documented acceptance that 22 March is the seasonal start of Autumn.
Hottest SATURDAY in March in the hottest part of Australia, indicative of a heatwave they are FORECASTING?
What happens when we come back in a month to view this week? Massive headlines of never eventuated? Or did the sparsely populated (for a reason) region ‘avoid the potential catastrophic effects’ of climate change this time?
Come on Dutton, make this stop! This mainstream trash media are dancing bears, they’ll double down for a few months, weed out and ridicule the useful idiots with facts and they’ll save face by claiming they now have new information (readily and reliably available for decades) and they’ll change course.
We’ve just seen it with CNN jake Tapper flogging a book claiming the cover up of Biden cognitive decline, despite him being vocal on air shouting down anyone pointing it out in 2020 and social media calling him Ole Dementia Joe from day one of his puppet show!
Australia’s media hacks are no different, but break the hypnotic effect of Marxist propaganda and a few useful idiots still with the keys to the castle allow a wedge for the facts to be put in front of the faithful and erode that swing vote support for economic vandalism and societal chaos being wrought by global Marxist elites in Western countries.
We can not suffer under this energy stupidity with the CCP electronically and literally circumnavigating Australia for weak spots, especially with the undeniable reality of our 7th straight quarter in recession, from Labor’s ‘world’s 2nd best treasurer’ claiming surpluses while they fund open border ‘guests’.
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Are we being blasé re covid here? Can it be as deadly as claimed? Is the West more healthy than we give ourselves credit for? China has suffered, and still is, suffering terribly. Is our privilege™ showing?
You don’t need to do an exhaustive search to find a mountain of evidence that they are depopulating at a rapid rate. Lei, a thoughtful lady, has been making the case that China’s population is nowhere near 1.4 bill as claimed, more like 800 mill and that 200-500 mill have died, including 5% of 35 to 44 year olds. If true, this is the greatest human tragedy and most catastrophic collapse economically of all time. Rome died slowly.
https://youtu.be/gsIg-_5Yl_8?t=1138
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As you say , a catastrophe if true
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Deaths of despair, rather than disease?
People just escaping wherever else they can – there is a lot of remote Central Asia there….
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FWIW
“Reuters: The Renewable Energy Transition has Failed”
Report on Jo’s post at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/01/reuters-the-renewable-energy-transition-has-failed/
With lots of comments
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Enough of the borax, Poindexter, how hot is it?
2 March 2025 (random sites):
Arctic North Pole -17C
Greenland Summit -31C
Amundsen South Pole -46C & snowing
Zugspitze Germany -12C
Usual parts of Australia mid-40s
Coastal parts 20-30s Celsius
Parts of NZ 27C
others mid-20s
What, me worry? 😃
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FWIW – how it is done
“Elon Musk Explains the ‘Non-Profit’ Grift That George Soros Has Been Running on the U.S. Government and Taxpayers (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/elon-musk-explains-non-profit-grift-that-george/
Applicable in Oz?
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Coal still king in China.
‘Even as China’s clean energy surged in 2024 and became a key economic driver, solar and wind utilisation dropped sharply in Q4 2024, which was not expected or explained by weather conditions, and coal remains strong, which ultimately goes against President Xi’s 2021 pledge to phase down coal over the following five years.
‘China approved 66.7 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity in 2024, with approvals picking up in the second half after a slower start to the year.’ (Not alot of people know that)
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FWIW
“And the wheel goes round, goes round”
“Another Climate Hypocrite Gets a Big Climate Cult Gig”
“UN Climate envoy and ex-Bank of England boss Mark Carney’s firm sold farms in Brazil linked to deforestation claims.
The move comes despite his call on owners to fix rather than sell climate-damaging assets.”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/01/another-climate-hypocrite-gets-a-big-climate-cult-gig-n3800328
Moved his hat for a go at Prime Minister of Canada
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FWIW
“Smack-Talking Europe Steps in It With Baltic States”
“What a bunch of empty rhetoric elitists these Brussels-types and that socialist Starmer are.
If you don’t fit their little Euro-mold perfectly, they’ll have meetings to tell you what they decided to do with you, sovereign country or no.”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/01/smack-talking-europe-steps-in-it-with-baltic-states-n3800319
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