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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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Yes but they’ll lose their jobs if they don’t comply with the orders from the supreme Dalek.
Only those who don’t NEED their jobs can afford to show integrity and resist.
Ultimately though the rank and file will pay the same price as the general population, and waking up then is far far too late.
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I don’t think it’s the migrants that are the problem… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sNqcTzdWMU
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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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That’s funny – she behaves like a God of all things internet
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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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Vance dressed it up a little with some preamble about being old friends. And Starmer initially took a stand that UK was the birth place of free speech. Starmer has not yet realised that free speech does not only mean for him and his chosen.
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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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Equatorial length 40.075km.
Pole to pole is 40,007km
So R, in this case would be 20,004km.
Circumfernce divided by 2 x ‘R’ = 4.0067.
Pi really does change based on the shape of the surface. And apparently, the Earth isn’t that far out of ’round’.
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The earth approximates the shape of an oblate spheroid.
From Wikipedia:
The above measurements are based on the WGS84 datum, the shape of the earth as used by GPS etc..
https://web.archive.org/web/20110424104419/http://home.online.no/~sigurdhu/WGS84_Eng.html
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As a bonus, if you were to collect all the public serpents and place head to toe along the equator, about two thirds of them would drown.
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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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Fair comment.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_Pringle_Aerial_Shot_of_Pi_Crop_Circle_-_panoramio.jpg
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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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Trumps win is already having an effect. It’s taken the wind out of the Labor Party. Imagine the difference if Kamala had won?
It’s put Albanese in the ridiculous position of defending Kevin Rudd and begging Trump not to put tarrifs on us.
It’s almost certainly swung some voters here who can see how silly the whole renewables fetish is. Drill baby Drill.
It’s also sucked the dark energy out of the Digital ID experiment. Though we need that bill to die baby die.
We want more of course. We live in hope the Liberals will grow a spine…
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They are mostly invertebrates.
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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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Vladimir- Mr Zelensky used the phrase “Suka Blyat” whilst JD Vance was dressing him down.
No wonder he did not get lunch and to play the Whitehouse grand piano!
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‘ … Zelensky used the phrase “Suka Blyat” …’
FSB disinformation, unless you have a credible link?
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It was caught on open mike. At the point Mr Bowman was speaking, he called him a “Bitch Whore” under his breath. If Mr Trump expires tonight, Mr Bowman becomes the POTUS. Imagine calling the VPOTUS names like that! Cocaine is a helluva drug!
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The VP was singing from the Kremlin songbook in the White House, very disrespectful way to treat a future business partner.
Donnie kept Ze waiting at the front door for the photo op (poor form) so its possible that the falling out was contrived.
Hopefully the US will quit NATO.
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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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I think Zelensky forgot that Donald Trumps Son is not up to his neck in Burisma corruption, and Trump is not on the take for 10%.
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How do you know, Simon?
I never was Zelensky fan and heard enough about his and all Ukrainian problems/faults. By the way – from Ukrainian own sources.
The Ukrainians are not the issue, Putin is.
They need defending but Ukraine is no more my country, for the last 1/2 century it is Australia.
They are big and now have a good Army.
We are the whole continent, with very little population and even smaller Army.
So if a huge and merciless Northern warlord decides that Mount Weld rare earth deposits are his, walks there (of course kills everyone on the way) what would Trump do?
I know – a deal.
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I would prefer Putin to be Prime mincer than the current bustard.
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Much amusement, but on a more serious note I think we can say for sure that NATO is heading for the rocks. Europe should be able to pick up the slack as the US withdraws into isolationism.
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I am desperate for normal human reaction from the World, not amused.
Forget about Europe, what is Emperor Xi planning this very moment?
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Well that is at least a comment I can get behind.
Probably good that neither me or you are juggling the fate of the globe.
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I heard that Premier Xi fancies ‘Handsome Boy’ to win in the upcoming elections and Beijing is going out of its way to support the Labor ticket.
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Katie Hopkins comments:
https://youtu.be/igeXjb1wB4Y
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Vance is prepared to ruffle feathers. He is willing to take a position and defend it.
He did something similar with Starmer on freedom of speech in the UK.
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Realpolitik, in an early poll Donnie has slipped a couple of points, while Ze is bound to get a boost.
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There is nothing quite like getting up and walking away to see whether the other side is interested in making a deal.
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Note how Zelensky always dresses like he’s going to the local takeaway.
No suit, no tie, no effort to be professional, presentable and respectful.
Defiant body language, crossed arms, dismissive facial gestures, disparaging discourteous comments.
No, he’s an arrogant little tinpot God.
Trump, if he has any brains, will NEVER give a damn thing to Zelensky again.
Let the EU make the next move and themselves the target.
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NATO is history and the EU will mine Ukraine for rare earths at the end of hostilities.
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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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It occurred during an interglacial when the orbital eccentricity was very low and the recovery from glaciation occurred over two precession cycles. It shows up as sea level being about 10m higher than present in the linked chart:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-57.png?ssl=1
Note the slight faltering in the recovery about 410ka and -15m during the period the solar intensity was increasing. But then to much glacier calving to get the oceans warm enough to have snowfall overtake snowmelt and the NH deglaciation was completed during the next downswing in solar intensity.
This time around, Greenland only partially melted and is already gaining ice extent and elevation. The modern interglacial is coming to an end.
If you look at the solar intensity at 15N on that chart 400ka, it just starts to rise as the sea level starts to fall. Now look at the present time ‘0’ on the time axis. You will see that solar intensity at 15N is just starting to rise. Greenland is doing what it did 400ka but probably a bit slower now because there is still glacier calving in the southeast that is keeping the ocean cooler than it would have been 400ka.
If you only consider Greenland then the interglacial is already terminating but the main land masses are still losing summer ice extent; albeit winter snow cover extent across the NH is increasing.
If climate modellers knew the difference between energy and power they would understand what drives climate change and it has nothing to do with CO2.
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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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FWIW
“Ukrainian Ambassador’s Reaction to Zelensky’s Meltdown Meeting With Trump Says It All”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/02/28/ukrainian-ambassador-during-trump-zelenskyy-meeting-n2653029
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And
“Sorry, Y’All – I Need a Cigarette and a Cocktail After Watching That Oval Office Manfest”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/28/sorry-yall-i-need-a-cigarette-and-a-cocktail-after-watching-that-oval-office-manfest-n3800297
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Reaction –
“JUST IN: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Terminates US Support of Ukraine’s Power Grid”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/just-secretary-state-marco-rubio-terminates-us-support/
What price dirty bomb threats?
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I spent a little time figuring out what the flashpoint was. It was a question about the polish thinking that Trump was too aligned with Putin.
Trump answered it well in that he needs to align himself with both of them (Putin and Zelenski) in order to get to a deal. He then identifies the mutual hatred between Zelinski and Putin which makes it harder to get to a deal.
Vance then has his say criticizing the hairy chest approach of Biden and praising Trump’s diplomacy.
So far so good.
Then Zelenski has his say criticizing Putin and the US for not stopping Putin going right back to 2014, and that he has tried diplomacy but Putin always reneged on agreements. He rhetorically asks what kind of diplomacy Vance is talking about.
Vance responds that the kind of democracy is one which will end the destruction of your country.
Ok. Still nothing for anybody to get upset about.
Vance then went on to criticize Zelenski and it all escalates from there with much talking over each other and bickering.
In a way Zelensky reminds me of what somebody once said about the Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And Vance threw ample amounts of kerosene on the fire. He also reminds me of the saying that an animal is most dangerous when it is cornered. And lastly there’s the adage of acting in haste and repenting at leisure.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
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1994 – Budapest Memorandum
Ukraine gave up its nukes expecting protection of their “territorial integrity”.
2014 – Crimea annexed – this was the point Zelensky was trying to make today when he said no-one helped. He got shouted down.
Understandably frustrated and Ukraine trodden on again.
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FWIW
“PR Fallout of the Trump-Zelenskyy Fiasco: A Perfect Microcosm of the War Itself”
“Because really, that’s the kicker: The long-term PR fallout will be less about what just happened — and more about whatever happens next.”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/02/28/pr-fallout-of-the-trump-zelenskyy-fiasco-a-perfect-microcosm-of-the-war-itself-n4937440
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Scientists discover all humans can read minds
Researchers in Canada uncovered that parts of the brain actually act as a ‘psi inhibitor’ – meaning it suppresses the natural psychic, telepathic, and clairvoyant abilities people have but don’t know about.
When scientists turned off this ‘filter’ – by inducing reversible brain lesions in the frontal lobes of volunteers – it enhanced the patients’ psi abilities, allowing them to influence objects with their minds.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14447739/Scientists-discover-unlock-telepathic-abilities-human.html
The phone’s about to ring.
/how many times now…
You too can be one of the X-Men, no not THAT kind. Lol.
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You can induce lesions to the frontal lobes by repeatably head butting a brick wall.
The more you do it, the more you will inhibit rational thought, allowing all the PSI to drain out. Just like a flat tyre.
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FWIW
“Restoring Sanity In Vehicle Emission Rules”
“Yes, the various Administrations and EPA have gone too far.
Trump’s Administration is expected to rescind the EPA’s finding, consistent with the Chevron Deference decision at the USSC, that “carbon” (specifically, carbon dioxide) is a “pollutant.” Clearly, without CO2 we’re all dead because plant life (including algae in the waters) requires it — and without plants there are no animals.
This “finding”, incidentally, was purely political. It had zero scientific evidence as to “imminent, real and permanent” harm and Congress never gave the EPA that authority by statute in the first place. Indeed the CO2 level inside an average house is double that in the atmosphere today — because you exhale it, there are few plants, and air exchange with the outside is limited. Yet you neither are materially impaired nor do you die as a result.
There is a basic principle that holds in nearly all endeavors: The first 80% of a problem — the vast majority — is reasonably simple and inexpensive to resolve at a given level of technological capacity. The last 20% requires exponentially more money and complexity, rising exponentially in cost toward infinity as you approach the last few percent.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252890
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FWIW
Some years back on another blog there was a look at the effect of regulation on diesel truck pollution
Tier 0 to Tier 1 90% reduction, so 10% remaining
Tier 1 to Tier 2 90% reduction of that 10% so 1% remaining
Tier 2 onwards cost of implementation rose drastically for SFA reduction of that remainder. And with greatly increased complication and reduced reliability.
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Startling New Evidence Suggests Hidden Agenda Behind Underground Arctic Seed Storage
This off-the-record initiative, hidden in the Arctic, already holds more than 1.3 million seed varieties—spare copies of the crops that sustain the planet. With the capacity to store 2.5 billion seeds, the project appears to be preparing for something more dire than occasional agricultural failures.
This week, over 14,000 new samples were discreetly deposited, ranging from Swedish Nordic tree seeds to Sudanese sorghum, suggesting an accelerated urgency behind this operation.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/startling-new-evidence-suggests-hidden-agenda-behind-underground-arctic-seed-storage
And you thought Trump meant WW3 wouldn’t happen…
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See: Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The vault is a backup for the world’s 1,750 seed banks.
These places are out-of-the-way, but not off-the-record.
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It’s been operational since 2008 – the question is why there’s a HUGE increase in activity now.
Maybe this:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/private-blog-is-europe-planing-for-war-by-may/
Subscription only.
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Kew Gardens in London has a world famous seed bank. It started over 200 years ago when material from Cooks journeys were placed in it. Darwin also added to it. It is so secret you can arrange a tour.
https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-at-wakehurst/millennium-seed-bank
There is no hidden agenda. To answer your Armstrong link, why on earth would Europe be planning for war. Armstrong economics is not the most reliable of sources.
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Riveting!!!!!!!! …
https://rumble.com/v6mj93u-podcast-with-dr-david-martin-and-dr-phillip-altman.html
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Hmmm!
“an Australian pharmacologist with a deep knowledge of Big Pharma. With 40 years of experience, Dr. Altman has seen it all.”
The “knowledge is settled” then?
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At 1:43:20 Dr Altman talks about having compiled a list of lies that we, the public were told to believe that is currently a tally of around sixty four ‘lies’…
….he seems to indicate, at least to me, that the task of compiling the growing list of lies is still ongoing and a work in progress.
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FWIW
http://www.scubamom.com/sherman/tropbear.gif
Via
“Climate Council: If The World Follows Trump’s Climate Lead, Australia will Have More Beach Weather”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/27/climate-council-if-the-world-follows-trumps-climate-lead-australia-will-have-more-beach-weather/
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From the parallel bubble –
“Federal Worker Whines That She Now Has a Boss”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/28/federal-worker-whines-that-she-now-has-a-boss-n3800261
The view from Canberra?
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FWIW
“Cutting Zelensky Down To Size”
“Putting Zelensky in a more objective light was a necessary first step. The next step is to bring some objectivity to the subjects of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the origins of the Russia-Ukraine War.”
“The Ukrainians aren’t the plucky good guys. The Russians aren’t cartoonishly evil. Vladimir Putin isn’t a movie villain. As long as people believe this propaganda, they will resist attempts to end the war. The next step is for the Trump administration, ideally the Vice President, to give Americans a more accurate explanation of how we got here. Glenn Greenwald did that recently in the X thread below. ”
Much more at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-02-28/cutting-zelensky-down-size
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Albo is the fourth highest-paid leader in the world, even Trump earns less..
Singapore
Hong Kong
Switzerland
Australia
America
EU
etc
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/375847-2025-02-28-these-are-the-highest-paid-world-leaders.htm
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We have Whitlam to thank for that. He decided to boost PS wages, to force private wages to follow.
Never vote in labor, the damage they do can last forever.
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“Server Error”
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In my 83rd year I have just felt my first earthquake: Mag. 4.7 and just on the other side of the hill from me.
https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/
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Now this is interesting …
You don’t need a sub to see the Crikey comments
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/25/pete-evans-facebook-instagram-ban-covid-misinformation/
All of the commenters have been members only since February 2025 (you can see their profile date if you click on the name)
Crikey – join the fake conversation perhaps?
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