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Who is Anthony Albanese and what is hiding behind his Communist connections and ideology?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZvCbiKLEg&t=2208s&pp=2AGgEZACAQ%3D%3D
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The Federal Election has not been called yet but electioneering is well underway in my neck of the woods.
I am seeing posters for Labour, Greens, Teals and Liberals all over the place.
I don’t much like any of those parties but the Libs are the least worst.
I will vote for Freedom Friendly Minor Parties as far as possible.
So far I have seen a little bit of activity from Gerard Rennick (Freedom First) amd Clive Palmer (Trumpets of Patriots). Are there any others I should look out for?
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I’d give Clive’s party a wide berth. I don’t trust Clive as far as I could dropkick him.
Freedom First and One Nation would be my leanings.
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Please don’t dismiss Clive.
Look at the Trumpets of Patriots (formerly UAP) performance of the Senator for Victoria, Senator Babet.
Few if any members of the Thinking Community would disagree with anything he says inside or outside Parliament. He is fully on track with people here.
Check out his YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@senatorbabet or Farcebook.
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David Maddison,
That’s as may be, but it’s what he *does* that matters. What he has done in the past seems a pretty good reason to dismiss him.
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Robert, the comment you quoted was my reference to Senator Babet.
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David Maddison,
Fair enough; I messed up who “he” was referring to. Still, you worked out that my comment was about Palmer.
Seems a little odd that you urge us not to dismiss Palmer because of Babet’s fine words.
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Clive can stick his trumpet where the sun don’t shine.
Another power hungry pollie isn’t the path to salvation.
Bring on the polygraph test and a curated list of questions.
Yep, I thought so, failed every one.
Where’s the money coming from for any of the promised dreams?
Government cuts or more taxation?
NO WAY OUT – the cycle will (must) run its course. Retire early and enjoy your time. I did.
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https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/has-gates-moved-to-europe-like-the-neocons/
Redthumbers: Your 20-something blonde bit regurgitating the nightly news script won’t save you.
Wake up now or wave bye-bye.
This is not an episode of Fantasy Island, and it’s closing on mid-2025 now.
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Sky news dose of reality for Oz:
https://youtu.be/bd9jDltx4OQ?si=cl15l5FnaArDGd_T
Go ahead – show me the experience relative to the job, substance and plans of your hopeful party, I’ll wait.
The Trumpet party will be Titanic 3.
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There would still be hundreds of Townsvillagers who never got their severance pay from when he shut down Yabulu nickel refinery. His SIL manager went into exile living on cruise ships in the Mediterranean.
The man is a shyster with the worst attendance record for the term he was elected. He is only there to bleed away votes from the libs as will your other “freedom” parties.
Support the libs and they may grow a pair, if you go elsewhere don’t complain about labor because that’s what you’ll get. The choice is binary in the house.
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Palmer is duplicitous as they come. What stunt next?
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‘What stunt next?’
It hardly matters, they will never hold the balance of power.
I liked his clip from the Greenland ice core project, very convincing. So they’ll get my vote because climate change is a big issue and everyone else is looking the wrong way.
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“It hardly matters, they will never hold the balance of power”
If voting changed anything you wouldn’t be allowed to do it..
Look at how many Govts of all sorts have been elected in the West over the last 30years, have any of them said anything different about climate change?? The only one is America, and Clive Palmer is no Donald Trump!
It doesn’t matter who is in power in Aussie, either party will just do as they’re told by the American Ambassador.
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Palmer bought Coolum Hyatt Resort, a premier course which had hosted 11 PGA tournaments and destroyed it. There were villa owners locked out of their [I assume] leasehold properties. He bought in 2011 and it is still a mess with promises galore.
Don’t go within a bull’s roar of him.
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I will vote for Freedom Friendly Minor Parties as far as possible.
……….. Are there any others I should look out for?
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Have you considered a dog?
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Keep an eye on your children if they have or are to be vacinated.
https://slaynews.com/news/japan-issues-alert-as-vaccinated-child-deaths-surge/
Japan Issues Alert as Vaccinated Child Deaths Surge
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“なるほど” (Naruhodo)
As Kenji Yamamoto notes in PhilC linked study.
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“Net zero by 2050 ‘impossible’ for UK, says Badenoch”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3pnjyzp4o
Also in Tuesday’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ …
Whilst it is a break with the uniparty consensus, Badenoch – perhaps to avoid frightening the horses toooo much – still wants Nut Zero some day.
“In a speech, Badenoch said net zero cannot be achieved by 2050 “without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us”. The Conservative leader did not set out an alternative target date, but said she would consider doing so if her party found a better way of delivering net zero.”
Usual misdirection – or lies – from the BBC – “Electricity is increasingly generated from renewable energy in the UK, and the cost of renewable generation has significantly fallen in the past decade.”
Well, one step forward from a Tory, I suppose.
Many more steps needed.
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From Newsmax.
I’m glad his “deep internal conflict” over purchasing the private jet didn’t prevent him from attending the “bread and circuses” event of the Formula 1 Grand Prix when there are constant commercial flights between Sydney and Melbourne.
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I wonder if he looked at the economics of it….
Could he have just bought every ticket on a Jetstar flight and had a private jet for less money?
Why own the plane when you can have a bigger one for less?
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Excellent idea! ..but these are virtue-signalling conceited wankers we are talking about, otherwise the first move of the global warming scam would have been to ban private jets completely.
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Chinese car co nvent new electric car battery that can recharge in just five minutes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-14510637/BYD-new-battery-technology-fundamentally-solve-flaw-electric-cars.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
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Tonyb,
What that article doesn’t mention is where this “network of ultra-fast charging devices” is going to come from. A small garage with just 4 “nozzles” will need to deal with peak power of 4 MW. To put that in perspective, the whole Westmead Hospital precinct (pdf report) has a peak power consumption of about 40 MW.
IOW, ten small garages need as much capacity as an entire hospital district. These 5-minute fills won’t come cheap.
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They (watermelons) know it. The whole new continent-wide distribution network would be necessary, even if Windmills and Solar Farms are not replacing all coal stations.
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100kWHr battery charged in 5 minutes, (say from 20% to full).
That’s 80kWhr in 1/12th of an hour. That’s 960kW during the charge cycle. At 1000V, that would be just about 1000 Amps.
Has anyone done the magnetic calculations on this? Where can you stand if you have a pacemaker?
Also, a quick check of cable capacities will show that a 95mm2 copper cable, carrying around 270A will approach 70 degree C. Obviously you can cool the cable. But a 95mm2 cable, (with two conductors), is both very heavy and not too flexible. If you wanted to carry 1000A……. How big is that cable going to be?
https://www.jcalc.net/cable-sizing-calculator-as3008
Play around with some of the numbers, select DC, 1000V, 1000A, 3m long…. oops no cable exists.
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Your car auto-parks itself with the power source making the correct contact, no cables, & no other brand either unless they are licenced to use those batteries.
Yep, somewhere else said 1000V and 1000A, so a MW in 5minutes and don’t stick your fingers in the holes!
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Now go and calculate the capital investment required to bring such charging capacity to charge 12 vehicles simultaneously to 5-10 locations per suburb in an Australian metropolitan capital.
Even assuming you plan to run them 24 hours a day continuously, the amortization would make it too expensive / kWh.
And if, heaven forbid, some slower charging cars pulled up, the figures are even worse.
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This is unbelievable.
Australian “academics” in “universities” in receipt of US taxpayer money are complaining that they are being asked questions like whether they are also being funded by countries hostile to the United States, and whether they support the official US Government policy of “only” two genders and whether they support free speech etc..
They they turn around and have the chutzpah to complain of interference with Australian sovereignty. It’s the US taxpayers’ money FFS. They have every right to know how Australian “academic” lowlifes are mis-spending it and can withdraw it for any reason they feel like and I hope they do.
Here are some typical comments from an Australian “university”:
You can download the full document of US Government questions at the link.
Note to US taxpayers. You have absolutely nothing to gain by giving your hard earned taxes to these “universities” who ceased doing genuine scholarship decades ago and who are typically anti-American, anti-Australian, anti-Western, Communist and anti-Judeo-Christian religion in orientation. Contact your congressthing and demand the funding be withdrawn.
Also see excellent short video by Topher Field: https://youtu.be/cUFfGlmw4PA
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No David, this is great news, they are leaving no stone unturned in rooting out these switch-hitting lowlifes.
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The mental gymnastics required to claim that REMOVING foreign funding is foreign interference indicates that the recipients have not been chosen well from the point of view of advancing Australia’s interests.
The foreign interference is RECEIVING the foreign funding in the first place.
TANSTAAFL – There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!
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Might we now get some objective commentary from our university “experts” or will they be more aggressive in support of the Dems?
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“Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to halt airstrikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure but rejected a full and immediate 30-day ceasefire and called for an end to military aid for Kyiv in a lengthy, “frank” phone call with US President Donald Trump…“will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace”…He emphasised a key condition “should be the complete cessation of foreign military aid and the provision of intelligence information to Kyiv”.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/putin-agrees-to-limited-ukraine-ceasefire-after-call-with-trump-white-house-20250319-p5lkm6.html
So the Russians get America out of the missile launches, America gets Russia out of their arms shipments via the Black Sea, and the Russian Army gets to grind forward as usual.
Any bets on who breaks the agreement first?
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21st Century Colonialism is being played out by 3 high rollers:
One side plays chess
Another plays Mahjong
And lastly, cards.
Currently, the chess player has the card player on the defensive. The card player has laid down a card, and the chess player neatly sidestepped the challenge by moving a pawn to one side.
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Rowya, you have improved on my old joke about Black Jack.
Unfortunately it is not a joke.
Our leaders are guilty of criminal idiocy if they trusted China or Russia and signed any treaty on our behalf.
The charge should be of treason if, knowing full well how the others side respects treaties, our leaders still signed those treaties.
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Are you talking about those two Minsk agreements the West signed and promptly broke, and have admitted they never intending keeping them?
The ones never to be trusted are America and the UK.
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Was the Minsk Agreement signed? I thought it was a very positive v erbal agreement.
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An agreement is an agreement.
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Not sure that the Sydney Morning Herald is likely to provide much in the way of objective analysis and so it will pay to ask which horse they are backing in the race.
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” which horse they are backing in the race.”
They are seriously conflicted, it is fun to see… They hate Trump and have anti-Trump articles every day, but hate Putin as well and blame him for everything wrong in the world.
Its only the Covid debacle and then Ukraine war that have shown me just how fake the mainstream news is. They will literally publish complete lies with a straight face, and the rest is slanted and/or omitted. I wouldn’t trust anything I read in there.
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‘Any bets on who breaks the agreement first?’
The beast from the east has history, so my money is on baldy to spot a nuance and take advantage.
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The Putin-Trump call was a resounding success – whatever was said
Imagine the Russian and American leaders having a productive 2.5-hour-long conversation just two months ago
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
The presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, have had a long telephone call. Yet the sky has not fallen and the Earth is not shaking. In other words, at least as far as we know now, those expecting instant sensations must have been disappointed.
No, Odessa has not been handed over to Russia; no, Moscow has not suddenly agreed to abandon its main war aims, such as making and keeping Ukraine neutral again; and no, the call did not produce a finished map of territorial adjustments. But then, to be frank, those expecting such sensations only have themselves to blame.
For they have missed the bigger picture: As so often, the sensation is hidden in plain sight.
It is that these talks have taken place and have clearly not failed but succeeded. Clocking in at almost two-and-a-half hours – the longest telephone conversation between leaders in recent Russian-American history, as Russian commentators immediately stressed – the talk was wide-ranging.
And it will be remembered as another milestone in the developing new détente between Moscow and Washington.
For those whose baselines have shifted due to rapid recent developments, please recall:
Less than half a year ago, before Donald Trump’s re-election to the American presidency, what has just happened would have been considered impossible. Less than two months ago, before Trump’s second inauguration, many observers would still have qualified it as very unlikely.
And even between that inauguration and now – notwithstanding the first phone call between Trump and Putin in February – many skeptics were still, understandably, cautious or even pessimistic: The inertia of American deep-state interest and Russophobia, they felt, would never allow this kind of radical rapprochement.
Now, however, it is time to recognize that this, as the Americans say, is happening. The discussion has to move on from “could this possibly be real” to “it’s real and what are the consequences?”
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Video from six years ago by Paul Joseph Watson about the collapse of Western Civilisation.
https://youtu.be/v9ohrBhhN4k
At least TRUMP’s trying to stop it.
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GIVE TRUTH A CHANCE! LETS HAVE A PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/can-we-have-a-climate-science-debate
Years ago the alarmists realised that it was a losing game to engage in public debate. July 18 2011 was a choice example when Chris Monckton eviscerated Richard Dennis at the National Press Club. Jo met him in Perth when he landed for his tour and he came to a talk that I delivered at the Mannkal Centre. That launched my career as a climate and energy realist!
Critics of the narrative have been cancelled on the ABC, the university-funded Conversation and many other platforms.
With the ascent of President Trump the climate wars will resume because he has decided to follow the best scientific advice and not just the consensus story.
It remains to be seen how the next round of the climate wars will play out in Australia. “Give truth a chance” as the Beatles should have said.
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Hear! Hear! from here.
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Optus email users beware.
For weeks optus mail landing page has had an innocuous announcement claiming innovations are coming to the service. According to them “… we are in the process of upgrading the OptusNet email service to a new, modern email platform.”
Last night I lost everything sent/receive/drafts files etc. Got a “new modern” page that told me there were no messages to show. Early hours of this morning and it all came back so some fingers somewhere got a bit eager and pushed the wrong button then realised and pushed again.
Still to research more but looks like you can expect your old/existing service to have new limits on it including emails only remain for 3months. At this stage unclear whether this includes if you have put them in a file (to keep as record longer than 3months).
Oh but wait there will be a charged for service (appears to be going to be $5 per month) that you can subscribe to for more options…
Anyway “we” have (supposedly) until May to fall in line – personally I’ll be falling out of line to another provider.
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Earl,
TPG did that a while ago as they no longer support email at all.
They shuffled that off to a third party provider that charges monthly to keep an email account.
Screw that, I went with a free outlook account.
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I’m still with the messenger service. I believe that it’s run out of HK. Has settled down after a shaky start, and they seem good at reducing spam and phishing emails.
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Lake Eyre now banned for non-indigenous Australians.
Another part of Australia rendered inaccessible to all but a privileged minority.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/sa-kati-thanda-lake-eyre-plan/104961682
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“Another part of Australia rendered inaccessible to all but a privileged minority.”
This privileged group subsequently won’t go there either because,
a/ If you are local spectacular vistas soon become “everyday”
b/ Essentially there is nothing there but the “view”
c/The government supplied Toyotas have a habit of stopping near “watering holes”
d/ Traditional ceremonies where boys are initiated don’t happen
e/ Even on the occasions that the Lake floods its still easier to get your “grub” from the pub
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Anthropogenic Global Warming Crisis strikes again: NZ’s backcountry ski areas buried under ‘rare and exciting event’ on penultimate day of Summer 2025.
https://www.snow.nz/area/nz/canterbury/mt-olympus/
Less than an hour inland from Christchurch, on the north bank of the mighty Rakaia Gorge River, the small club ‘field’ of Mount Olympus (6,000’) turned wintry overnight as carbon caused heating to flee far far away and the heavens opened…
Somehow the Greeks borrowed the name of this ‘Home of the Gods’ nestled in the foothills of our Southern Alps – the ‘world leaders’ syndrome sure is strong – a series of alpine cirques and chutes accessed by gnarly 4×4 track, then a 30-minute hike to the lodge OR a wild-west ride up the rope-tow attached by a nut-cracker harness worn around the waist … old-school yet keeps the numpties away, hard-core only, and the powder? On a good day, heavenly.
Click on various webcams at above link to see up/down the mountain (before it all melts).
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Copied from Farcebook:
Elon Musk is motivated by bringing goodness to the world.
Now you can see why the Left hate him so much.
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Two crew rescued and two others from ISS splash down in Gulf of America.
https://youtu.be/wINX8h812F4
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Read a triumphant article about trials of EV solid state batteries that can charge in 7 minites and how this was the end of ICE vehicles.
No mention of the resources required. No mention of production at scale. No mention about energy intensity at chargers. No mention of a successful trial. But yeah, the end of ICE vehicles.
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FWIW – what you get when you look below the political correctness –
“Not a very comforting statistic
Wirepoints, an organization we’ve met in these pages several times before, has published a list of homicide rates in American cities for last year. One list is sorted by total homicides, the other by homicides per capita. Click the graphic below for a larger, more readable view.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/03/not-very-comforting-statistic.html
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The Democrats are responsible for massive black on black violence in decrepit Democrat cities where despite being only 13% of the population, it seems half of all murders are committed by black people and 90% of murders are black on black. And the Democrats also require abortion on demand at any time, which hits black populations harder where single parent families are the norm.
As the former Deep South Confederate party and of the Ku Klux Klan, somebody needs to point out this legalizes mass extermination of the black population by black people in the name of racial equality and BLM. And you would imagine is a result totally consistent with the aims of the party which sprang out of the loss of the Civil War by the Confederates. And the black people vote Democrat, effectively for self destruction. And it’s called freedom?
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Freedom does include the freedom to be self destructive, or at least take that risk.
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Jersey Hospitals Now Ask For Newborn’s “Preferred Pronouns” And “Sexual Orientation”
Just when you thought the insanity was starting to subside with Democrats out of office, we learn last week that New Jersey hospitals are now requesting parents to specify their baby’s preferred pronouns and sexual orientation , according to a report from the NY Post.
One 34 year old resident told the Post: “That form is completely crazy, and anyone who would dictate a baby’s sexual orientation probably has an agenda. If I was told to fill this out, I’d rip it up in front of them. It feels like we’ve entered ‘The Twilight Zone.’”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/genderqueer-newborns-hospitals-new-jersey-ask-parents-newborns-preferred-pronouns-and
Parent asks baby:”what gender are you?”
Baby:”goo goo gaa gaa!”
Parent:”It’s trans!! Book the surgery!!”
Just like a vegan cat, we all know who’s making the choices. Mentally ill parents.
This’d make a good Black Mirror episode.
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FWIW
“WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Delivers an Epic Response to Snobby French Politician Demanding America Return the Statue of Liberty to France (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/wh-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-delivers-epic-response/
I wonder if they asked the Statue of Liberty what it thought of returning to the conditions of France today?
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Again Albanese is blaming the Ukraine war and ‘global inflation’ for higher and rapidly growing Australian electricity prices. Why does he never make sense? The competition is to say something, anything. Who needs logic?
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I am slightly surprised that Albo hasn’t blamed Dutton for the war in Ukraine. Absolutely bereft of any idea or leadership, on any subject, all I have ever heard from Dear Leader is why Dutton is somehow worse than what the Labour Party has failed to achieve over the last three years. When (rarely) challenged on inflation he just spouts more salad than Kamala. Laughing at Duttons possible plan for a referendum on deporting dual citizen criminals suggests to me he would be very afraid a referendum on this matter might just get up. Maybe the good citizens of Australia might just like to live in a slightly safer society than what we currently have. How many illegal immigrants are currently committing crimes in Australia and at the same time using our court system to stay here?
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I have but little hope that anyone in Dutton’s office reads this blog.
Yet it is still worth to borrow watermelons phraseology and send them our message that there is a National Emergency because decision which Aus people will take in few weeks time will lead either to a Catastrophe or to slow and painful walking back from it.
I would like to remind Dutton & everyone the reason why French people were able to built 56 nuclear power stations in 15 years !
They started 50 years ago with no AI ! In fact, how many design offices possessed CAD machines? How many engineers knew of Lotus?
The formal reason was 1973 Oil Crisis; hey! it reminds me – No More Oil !
But, of course, it happened because they had real political leaders.
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Nvidia CEO: AI compute demand exploding, 100x more needed than expected.
Nvidia’s CEO admits they vastly underestimated how much compute AI would need—now it’s 100 times more than last year’s expectations. The AI revolution isn’t just accelerating; it’s consuming everything in its path.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/nvidia-ceo-ai-compute-demand-exploding-100x-more-needed-than-expected-blackwell-shipments-soar-3-6m-gpus-delivered-in-early-2025-alone/
Advances used to be every few years, then every few months, then every few weeks.
Now, and I check the latest every day, it’s virtually every day.
Robotic hands with 0.05mm accuracy and hands pressure sensing on par with humans. Instantaneous group learning of skills.
China demonstrates a robot that rides a pushbike better than people, one up on Atlas.
Straight knee walking is FINALLY here, ending that bent knee gait, which saves 40% in power and reflects significant stability and torque control advances.
Very soon, training models will be obsolete as zero sample generalisation is here. ie the robot learns on the fly.
7 years ago I predicted that in 5 years robots would walk down the street just like us. With straight knee walking, they’re here.
How far off is the AI singularity, when we humans take 2nd spot on the ladder?
My favourite year. You know what it is.
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According to the Lotus Eaters and others, Nigel Farage is getting/always has been very prickly about rising talent in his party, and is losing support of members in some constituencies.
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Really, bad times creates strong men.
These johnny come lately’s complain that Nigel is not this or that or does not want to implement their plans.
WHERE WERE THEY when Nigel stood alone to champion BREXIT.
WHERE WERE THEY when the U.K. was self immolating.
I did not see them face the press and put their case.
Now they want to dilute the message. Nigel’s party, conform or leave.
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Just a few hours ago, Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulled off the world’s first space rescue mission, bringing back two American astronauts who had been stranded on the space station for months. The landing, symbolically I think, was in the newly-renamed Gulf of America and, while the transfer was happening from capsule to boat, a pod of dolphins showed up to welcome them back. Quite literally amazing stuff.
Their ABC couldn’t bring themselves to make much of this unprecedented event, giving it just a mere mention on their website front page, with no pics. All it said was, “NASA praises ‘resilient’ astronauts after nine months in space.”
That front page did however have room for a story about a trans girl worried about a hormone ban (with photo), also “Which medieval cat are you?” (with photo), a story about kids playing darts in PNG (with photo), and a story explaining that there was nothing wrong with the use of ‘autopen’ signatures under Joe Biden (with photo).
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FWW – More “Pendora’s Box”
“Biden’s Autopen Scandal Just Got a Whole Lot Worse
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/18/bidens-autopen-scandal-just-got-a-whole-lot-worse-n4938022
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According to DOGE on X, there are now only 1.1M social security recipients aged over 120 years. It is down from 3.2M earlier in the month. So very high death rate amongst supercentenarians this month.
I wonder if these really old people voted democrat or republican?
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