Steve’s Blog

24-06-2024: Indeed: “What exactly are people angry about? If the pandemic taught us anything, it was that:

· If you can’t question The Science, it isn’t science.

· Our leaders are corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical and incompetent.

· Our institutions have been captured by ideologues who are Marxist, misanthropic Malthusians.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/radical-left-cant-understand-why-normal-people-are-angry

23-06-2024: Don’t ditch your sat phone or sat messenger just yet: https://www.androidauthority.com/smartphone-satellite-connectivity-3295162/

23-06-2024: Charles Hoy Fort and Eric Von Daniken are not dead yet: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/are-they-here-scientific-study-suggests-ufos-may/

23-06-2024: About that Greenland ‘warming’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/20/reminder-historical-natural-warming-rates-dwarf-modern-climate-change/

23-06-2024: 75%! Might just be a good idea, don’t you think? https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Electricity-Prices-Plunge-By-75-As-Finland-Opens-New-Nuclear-Power-Plant.html

22-06-2024: And you thought banning the cane (and other such nonsense) was a good idea? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/south-east/youth-crim-facing-new-charges-after-breaking-into-garage/news-story/cc556d0cff37e7293aad8d2135c94121

22-06-2024: Just not going to tell you how I scored: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-woman-12-signs-to-look-for

22-06-2024: Two important facts: “Experience and testing have shown that the optimum carbon dioxide level for plants is between 800ppm and 1000ppm” and “The minimum carbon dioxide level, below which plants are unable to use it and will therefore die, followed by all other life forms which depend upon plants, including humans, is in the region of 250ppm” We are too close to the last and too far away from the first. Therefore “Burn baby, burn”: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/energy-for-the-future/ .

22-06-2024: Sure have, but unlike Sam I’m happy with booing this racist nonsense: https://www.rebelnews.com/_overused_indigenous_ceremonies_have_worn_out_their_welcome

21-06-2024: This nova will be interesting to see. Must watch for it - I doubt I will still be around in 80 years to see it next time: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/once-in-a-lifetime-cosmic-explosion-nova-nasa-what-to-know/

21-06-2024: Allan Savory, the champion of grazing on how to save the world from desertification, a far more pressing problem than ‘global warming’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/17/planet-earth-is-dying-and-not-because-of-fossil-fuels-with-allan-savory-part-1/

21-06-2024: Further proof that Bob Hawke was to the right of where the major parties are today: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/bowen-labor-say-all-these-people-are-wrong-and-so-are-labor-themselves-with-the-aukus-nuclear-submar.html

21-06-2024: Correlation vs Causation: https://www.frontpagemag.com/chicago-teachers-demands-145k-salaries-after-80-of-students-cant-do-math/

18-06-2024: Hiding in plain sight? “Ocean sea surface temperatures are on average, about 6C warmer than surface air temperatures. If the surface of the ocean is on average so much warmer than the atmosphere immediately above it, the direction of heat transfer must be ocean to atmosphere.” https://jennifermarohasy.com/

18-06-2024: What a good idea: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/army-special-forces-veteran-creates-american-flags-dont-burn

18-06-2024: We really must keep looking for MH370: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/why-sound-may-be-the-key-to-finding-mh370/news-story/cde9f62241bc601b275059e5d1447306

18-06-2024: Ain’t it the truth: Jon Gabriel: ‘When natural gas production was a too-expensive alternative to oil, the environmental lobby promoted it as a surefire way to reduce carbon emissions. Close the coal- and oil-fired plants; convert cars to run on CNG. Yes, it will devastate industries, cost jobs and burn billions of dollars, but think of the children! Since even malevolent industrialists love their kids, energy barons took the greens’ advice and found cheaper, more efficient ways to extract and transport natural gas. What a victory for the movement! But instead of celebrating, envirolobbyists rent their garments over their once-miraculous fuel. The instant green energy translated into Big Oil profits, progressives placed the CNG and fracking on their naughty list …Every time a real-world solution is provided to a promised calamity, leftist leaders move the goalposts …That’s because the Left doesn’t really believe in climate change. Their true religion is raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Climate change is just a temporary excuse to achieve those ends.’

17-06-2024: Fair point? “Inclusive” means exclusive of everyone who fails to embrace sin and degeneracy. The rainbow symbolizes God’s covenant never again to drown the world for succumbing to sin. It has been co-opted for the purpose of blasphemy.” https://moonbattery.com/how-fake-are-canadas-moonbat-overlords/

17-06-2024: Wanting to have babies makes you a fascist? How mad the Left is. https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/06/pro-family-rhetoric-fascist-resonances-republican-party-trump

17-06-2024: What is wrong with London police? Meanwhile they have zero response to (aggravated) burglaries: https://x.com/UB1UB2/status/1801939257054859521

17-06-2024: How belief gets in the way of science. These two researchers have proved that the BOM forecasts could be very much better (using AI) but it would need them to clean up their false records which they will never (now) do. A case in point is the new rainfall gauges which fail when there is too much rain: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/06/opportunities-for-better-rainfall-forecasts-ai/

16-06-2024: Once we would have been just ‘middle of the road’. “’Hard right’. This now seems to be the preferred term used by journalists who are getting cold feet about describing every-body to the right of Extinction Rebellion as ‘far right’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/the-trouble-with-calling-everyone-far-right/

16-06-2024: Sign the petition to remove Australia’s E-Safety commissioner. I have. What an evil piece of: https://www.rebelnews.com/petition_sack_ekaren_now

16-06-2024: Buddhists on Islam: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/wisdom.html

16-06-2024: “If the bell tolls for Israel it tolls for all mankind” Bob Hawke. Bob would be ‘far right’ today.

15-06-2024: Lewis & Clark’s dog Seaman: https://lewis-clark.org/people/seaman/seamans-fate/

15-06-2024: Why we must become more energetic in defending and affirming Western civilisation – the barbarians are no longer just at the gate, they are now well inside the gates and must be thrust forth if we and civilization itself is to survive: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/good_and_evil.html

15-06-2024: The new ‘Route 66’: https://www.tradetrucks.com.au/outback-way-to-become-australias-route-66/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1PNtzK9-V3LEd1kbEVPT4CrGQED0DHhYDCiMFYc86Eh0KFoK33Y0so0dg_aem_AUtUBCx9iz-kFI6-D2RBwgFz7kYBjqMdxNWlJSBqxu5UWCXIiM0NpEeLe20yGP6uvAVqfesChq6lhnh-5sL9z3v4

15-06-2024: The sign says it all. Help save us from National Parks:

14-06-2024: Why not (just) close all of our (profitable) industry down? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/gutless-federal-labor-has-a-fight-on-its-hands-with-the-western-australian-farmers-whose-livelihoods-the-party-ideologically-opposes/news-story/1a681a9d9d899cf30765fb3ca94cd8d4

14-06-2024: ‘Castle Law’. Coming ‘soon’ to Qld. Needed even more in Vic: https://nickdametto.com/legislation-moved-to-adopt-castle-law-in-queensland

14-06-2024: (Real) women will just love this. My wife (dare I use the word) particularly has always (not) referred to herself as a ‘front-holed person’ – correction ‘perdaughter’ – but surely ‘two-holed person’ – or three - would have better delineated the distinction between the sexes? Omigod these people are awful! : https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/health/people-with-a-cervix-labor-pours-millions-into-radical-body-accused-of-erasing-women-in-confusing-and-offensive-cancer-campaign/news-story/930b0f6b93f804b82d93e04a82e79ca3

14-06-2024: After wasting six weeks in court Vicpol produced zero evidence that Lynn was lying or that he committed murder (despite his story being basically preposterous). The way things stand he will have to be acquitted. Della and I will once again start to worry about visiting the Wonnangatta Valley. May go there next week then before he is released. If they had even attempted to answer the question, ‘Where are the other bullets?’ they might have nailed him: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/no-evidence-defence-says-no-factual-basis-for-case-against-greg-lynn/news-story/e024237ac40f48ba5c706c9e9e7685b5

13-06-2024: The stuff folks believe. This ‘new’ Jesus miracle has to be set beside Mohamed’s flying donkey surely? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/unbelievable-experts-discover-oldest-written-record-jesus-christs/

13-06-2024: Imagine landing in Normandy ‘armed’ with just boiled lollies: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/a-spectator-editors-account-of-the-d-day-landings/

13-06-2024: A little worse than ‘playing with fire’ yet we already know our own Oz scientists were involved in Wuhan too despite all such stuff having been banned by the Hawke Government thirty + years ago: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/faucis-agency-approved-monkeypox-experiments-that-could-create-a-virus-with-a-15-fatality-rate-then-hid-that-from-congress/

13-06-2024: I’ve signed: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/inappropriate-and-unjustified-victorian-nationals-launch-petition-to-revoke-daniel-andrews-order-of-australia-award/news-story/1ac7b9a7d25d9096cd49ebd51f1a8227

https://vic.nationals.org.au/no-award-for-dan/

12-06-2024: No bull: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/pretty-impressive-performance-from-the-bull-maybe-his-first-and-last-rodeo.html

12-06-2024: Remembering the war against Mosul – all right when there are six of you involved and none of you are Israel I guess: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/how_long_a_battle_with_terrorists_should_last.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1THjtxUk8jT-8xramy1yex4SSByYHzxQp8IHXgdJl3CXw5w2-QZMaVe1I_aem_AVXYrKH-0X-SatGLNg14xtD5sdi_yeVHhzWpZFfEWinDfgxA8gJuYX0PuTzEwJuW58AIGRMME610B0t2ywSTD_dm

12-06-2024: What kind of country gives its highest honour to a corrupt incompetent thug who locked it up for years and unnecessarily killed hundreds or thousands of its citizens? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/people-will-die-if-you-go-to-the-beach.html

12-06-2024: The E-safety commissioner should be locked in a men’s prison for a while to see how s/h/it likes it: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/censorship-silences-necessary-debate/

https://www.rebelnews.com/petition_to_remove_australia_s_esafety_commissioner_hits_10_000_signatures

11-06-2024: Innocent civilians do not hide kidnapped hostages in their homes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/israeli-military-confirms-al-jazeera-reporter-holds-three/ & https://www.axios.com/2024/06/08/israel-hostage-rescue-gaza-music-festival

11-06-2024: Really? Penis size and gun ownership, the study (Always said , ‘You can’t have too many guns’ myself): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15579883241255830

11-06-2024: The EU elections are the beginning of the end for the Greens and the Left generally, “For most young people, however, it is clear that they will not retire at 70, they will not buy a house, and they may not be able to support a family” Elon Musk: The “right-wing” agenda today is just the centrist agenda of 20 years ago. The left has become an extinctionist movement”: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/despite-the-hottest-year-in-a-hundred-thousand-years-europeans-voted-for-maligned-climate-denying-far-right-parties/

11-06-2024: This is what should have happened in the Lindt Café. Long past time to put the adults back in control: https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-florida-swat-sniper-drops-suspect-between-hostages/

10-06-2024: Talk about 'Keystone Cops'. Greeks would have trouble finding lamb in a souvlaki. Poor Mosley was lying in plain sight from a bar where people were partying and a beach (where people swam) and a path (where people walked) and the sea (where people swam & boated) in an area which had been searched multiple times (20 even) by helicopter! And we are talking a distance of not much more than 20 metres away - a cricket pitch, but this is definitely not cricket. This morning I thought it was 'impossible' that he could not be found (by such a search) in an area which was clearly so barren and empty of vegetation (and that therefore he must have 'taken himself' somewhere else). No Greek Island holidays for me! This fence. (Note the person on the right standing near the fence wearing a blue shirt, like Mosley's - you can see them from this vantage, hundreds of metres away) https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-65dbfcb1-7925-40fc-bfbb-3ad3fdcecf04.png?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2P8P7bT6ew2LqHnzU-QUuaLh2QoEP9oU1cS-wL39Lc0vvSoH68zX6bAKk_aem_AQNi-l0PVQpbKzoLbZHCsifEntFymRYvFAQ-C7W0z7qECcXqA5jjR-XWd5wtZEpW2cuqO7Qc8F3rXnw30V-sjlBz

He really was found right where the person in the blue shirt is standing in the above photo - and was seen there on their CCTV. For all I know the above photo is actually of him. Incredible: https://www.news.com.au/.../683c4108f9283e7f972cd0ade67a5b12

010-06-2024: The Greens are just rabid scum. Their Nazi blackshirt political tactics are beyond reprehensible. We must rid ourselves of them and their like forever - else what was D- Day for? NB The Nazis were the extreme Left. Only Stalin ever described them as 'right wing'. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/campbell-greens-tactics-against-labor-a-textbook-attack-on-our-democracy/news-story/8edb2e086e9f71b8df506a8676a59df4

010-06-2024: Farewell Bill. After flying around the moon still doing well to be flying a plane at 90: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/legendary-apollo-8-astronaut-william-anders-dies-plane/

010-06-2024: The BOM is just a terrible mess. Heads should roll: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2024/06/08/inside-the-boms-failings-they-will-straight-tell-you-black-white#mtr

09-06-2024: Getting them back at the point of a gun – what fools thought there was any other way: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/breaking-jewish-girl-noa-argamani-is-rescued-idf/

09-06-2024: Strange. Notice that the Radiosonde (aka weather balloon) trends is only about 1/10^th of a degree per decade, say 1C per century – about what you would expect as we emerge from the Little Ice Age: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/06/uah-upper-tropospheric-temperatures-corroborate-lt-temperature-trends/

09-06-2024: Just how accurate were those pcr tests - used to lock us up for years: https://www.portugalresident.com/judges-in-portugal-highlight-more-than-debatable-reliability-of-covid-tests/

09-06-2024: Charles Hoy Fort used to claim that we were ‘fished for’ by aliens, but I suspect there is a more mundane explanation for ‘mysterious disappearances, eg felony or people wanting to disappear. PS: They are getting desperate when they start searching for him in the minotaur’s cave: https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/dr-michael-mosley-s-disappearance-cut-and-paste-case-to-man-missing-for-five-years/ar-BB1nRdVT

08-06-2024: Try telling this to today’s woke kids: “You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it is the most deeply honourable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.” Ronald Reagan to D-Day vets: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/there-will-be-consequences/

08-06-2024: Boondoggles I have known, “Any reasonable and sane person would conclude that this man, who is not a citizen, and certainly not Indigenous, should be booted from the country.” https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/why-a-foolish-tribunal-allowed-sudanese-serial-criminal-who-faked-being-indigenous-to-keep-his-visa/news-story/483c00de1a3c9b036d812b708cdc717f

08-06-2024: Fetch Me the Ochre (Frank Pledge): “At the next census, please tick the box that says you are an Aboriginal indigenous first nations native of this once great country. This request is prompted by my recent experience filling out a medical form when I was referred to see a specialist. One section asked:

“Are you an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander?”

I thought about, then ticked ‘Yes’. The receptionist knew I have no Aboriginal DNA, but did not bat an eye as she said: “There will be no charge for your consultation.” I shook my head and she smiled.

If Bruce Pascoe can grow rich and famous by daubing on the ochre and making up a tommyrot lineage, why not me? If Australia can accept a Sudanese man with 25 criminal convictions (including rape, assault and armed robbery) because he ‘feels Aboriginal’, then I ‘feel’ I am every bit as worthy as him. I recommend that every Australian claim to be indigenous too.

I acknowledge and welcome to modern Australia my mythical ancestors. They managed to survive without inventing the wheel, medicine, pottery, writing, weaving, agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce (money) or stone buildings while devoting 60,000 years to perfecting ‘the world’s oldest continuous culture’. You invaders just never gave us enough time.

I recognise the benefits provided to all Australians by science, philosophy, engineering, British law, fossil fuels, agriculture and the inspiration of Renaissance thinking. Now I demand my share! (Bank account details to follow, plus an accounting of how much you owe me.)

I respect those of our political leaders, past and present and irrespective of their race or origin, for providing all modern Australians with tremendous lifestyle advantages through innovations in science, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, technology, medicine, literature and education.

Now, in the noble cause of diversity, equity and inclusion, I demand those Australians reluctant to assert their notional indigeneity begin immediately transferring ever more of Australia’s wealth and real estate to claimants like me.

I hate to be picky, but I ask that you please pay me in gold. The way the country is going, your WMDs — white man’s dollars — don’t strike me as stable long-term propositions.” Shamelessly copied from Quadrant Magazine.

08-06-2024: Can’t wait for this to happen here, “The threat posed by discarded plastic straws or the failure to observe pronoun etiquette seems frivolous in comparison.” https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/the-eus-draintheswamp-moment-europes-elitist-class-is-just-days-away-from-a-rude-awakening-after-the-left-tried-and-failed-to-tar-the-centreright-with-the-fascist-brush/news-story/974586592cc4fef14b89881e4f11f5d9

07-06-2024: NASA scientists that suggest most of the recent global temperature increases are due to the introduction of draconian fuel shipping regulations designed to help prevent global warming. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/04/almost-all-recent-global-warming-caused-by-green-air-policies-shock-revelation-from-nasa/

07-06-2024: Let’s never forget what we owe to D-Day – a memorial: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13497447/How-D-Day-unfolded-hour-hour-80th-anniversary-Operation-Overlord-MailOnlines-scintillating-visualisations-recount-daring-mission-liberate-Nazi-occupied-Europe-forensic-detail.html

07-06-2024: Remember Sirhan Sirhan? They have not changed a jot since 1968: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-1968-assassination-of-president-jf-kennedys-brother-robert-by-palest.html

07-06-2024: Where is Michael Mosley? Another Donald Crowhurst? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13503585/search-Mail-Dr-Michael-Mosley-missing-Greek-island-holiday-walk.html

06-06-2024: Just look at how Greens are destroying nature. This is truly shocking. Fast forward to about 7 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BFe3al3bs&t=440s

06-06-2024: Did you know? Twice as many Jews fought against Hitler as the general population: https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-lucky-i-am-uk-jewish-vet-aged-99-prepares-to-mark-80th-anniversary-of-d-day/

06-06-2024: How science has been co-opted – if only we had followed Karl Popper. A great thinker. I met him a couple of times years ago: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/science/2024/06/big-science-the-enemy-of-great-science/

06-06-2024: They want him dead but the American people just want him President – at the moment leading by 20 points in polls: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/nyc-police-department-set-revoke-former-president-trumps/

05-06-2024: Things You Find: We visited the Hunter Valley where I grew up last week to catch up with relatives which was really great, however I did not expect this amazing treat.

My cousin Brian had pulled this strange object out of the ground where we/they used to live in Tenambit (Maitland) when he was circa 8 years old. At the time it had a calf tied to it with a rope.

At first he thought it was a rusty piece of pipe (as you would expect - you can still see the hammer marks on it where it was driven into the ground) then he noticed the sight attached to it and realised it was a gun barrel. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/06/04/things-you-find/

05-06-2024: How much of our ‘welfare’ goes to foreigners? https://moonbattery.com/90-95-welfare-loot-to-foreign-invaders/

05-06-2024: Why pumped hydro (like EVs) is dead in the water: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/nick-cater-malcolm-turnbulls-dream-for-pumped-hydro-has-hit-a-snag-and-he-wants-your-money-to-still-make-it-happen/news-story/beffdc6d097c5d02178fe097ba15b83c

05-06-2024: Is the bubble about to pop? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/bidenomics-517-billion-unrealized-losses-cripple-us-banking/

04-06-2024: Ultralight Head Gear: A 1970s US army survival guide used to claim that you lost up to 50% of your body’s heat from your head. As the surface area of your head is only 10% of your body (though your brain uses a lot of your blood supply) this is almost certainly not true.

However, not very much weight of insulation is needed to keep your head warm. Anyway a cold head will cause all sorts of problems – and misery.

I certainly find that if my head is cold the rest of me is cold as well – so I often/always wear a hat of some sort. When I am out in the wilds (in cold weather) I always have some sort of insulated head-wear – something from a light wool cap through a light wool balaclava, a buff or beanie to some serious head insulation for night time sub-zero conditions etc. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/06/03/ultralight-head-gear/

04-06-2024: Alas that this is true, “On America's watch, the entirety of western civilisation is sliding off the cliff, and very fast - which is all anyone will remember about it… America's death will be bloodier and more convulsive than anything seen in post-imperial Europe. Check back with me in ten years, and see who's right.” https://www.steynonline.com/14343/a-republic-you-can-keep-it

04-06-2024: Why Antarctica ‘forgot’ about ‘global warming’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/02/antarctic-ice-expanding-new-study-in-journal-nature-reveals-85-years-of-glacier-growth-stability-in-east-antarctica-ice-sheet-wide-mass-balance-estimates-st/

04-06-2024: Superman returns to mark the end of gay pride month. These people have nothing to be ‘proud’ of if I am not proud to be heterosexual: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1794605402388418945

03-06-2024: Listen up and act. Wise words from John Adams – founder of the US constitution: “Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”

03-06-2024: 21 Facts About Australia You Didn’t Know: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/for-our-overseas-mates-and-trivia-fans-everywhere.html

03-06-2024: Has this ‘Old Australia’ finally passed? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2024/06/hermits-and-home-truths-in-old-borroloola/

03-06-2024: Geert will bring the EU and the great green blob crashing down. Let’s get with the Dutch agenda folks: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/17/new-dutch-government-fixin-to-gasp-do-what-they-were-elected-to-do-n3788565

28-05-2024: Ultralight Furniture: Should I buy a Helinox Zero or just sit on a log? We have used the Big Agnes Cyclone Chair (at approx 170 grams) for years. It uses a sleeping mat to make a comfy chair with a supporting back-rest that you can sit in your tent with (in front of a warm fire in our case) without poking holes in your tent floor. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/05/27/ultralight-furniture/

28-05-2024: “It is grossly irresponsible and even malpractice for a psychiatrist to trigger the wish for assisted suicide by declaring that a case is hopeless…We are talking about an otherwise healthy young woman who has been persuaded by her doctors that she might just as well die. One might respond that she would have done as well to be angry at her inept psychiatrist and learn to express her rage.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/angry-young-women

28-05-2024: When thought alone is a crime in the UK: https://moonbattery.com/fined-for-silent-thoughtcrime-in-uk/

28-05-2024: The other day I posted that Dyson Spheres may have been discovered. If this pans out does that mean that Faster-then-light travel is actually an impossibility, as surely a civilization which has the technology to ‘redesign’ its planetary system would surely have discovered it and ‘escaped’ from its solar system if it were not. As a further speculation, I wonder whether aliens have written sci-fi which imagines us? Unlikely, surely?

27-05-2024: Ultralight Firewood Saw: I realise this is something of a 'holy grail' but sometimes you really do need to be able to saw some pieces of firewood down to size and you may need to have carried a saw to do so - or you are not going to be very warm tonight.

This was (nearly) our situation on a recent walk out to Mt Feathertop, and is a situation we have encountered in NZ backcountry huts.

As I only ever have a fire when I really need one I am loath to carry heavy cutting implements just in case, so I have been working at and thinking about this problem. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/05/26/ultralight-firewood-saw/

27-05-2024: “It appears that the Europeans (& Australians?) wish to finish the task that Hitler started -- the secret reason they are assisting the Palestinians in achieving this goal.” https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20661/ireland-norway-spain-palestinians

27-05-2024: Whatever has happened to Boeing? They used to be great – remember the 747? https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/05/15/is-starliner-ever-going-to-fly-n4929051#google_vignette

27-05-2024: Avoiding ‘faint praise’. Too much ‘self-esteem’ “By their theorizing, a child does not need to learn multiplication tables. He needs to feel good about himself. In principle, this is supposed to make him a math whiz. In practice, it makes him a self-important idiot.” Maybe if they concentrated on actually being good at something? https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/too-much-self-esteem

26-05-2024: “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Lenin

26-05-2024: Milei is proving that the dead hand of socialism can be lifted from our backs: https://www.profstonge.com/p/argentinas-miracle-turnaround

26-05-2024: And adult in the room: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/ex-asio-boss-says-laws-certainly-need-to-be-reviewed-amid-ongoing-antisemitism-in-australia-as-he-dismisses-colonial-apartheid-and-genocidal-state-claims/news-story/94c860a094bb72f100c631cdea3a7423

26-05-2024: Our public lands should be for all Australians – we have paid enough to ‘indigenous’ causes/affairs to own them a dozen times over: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/heartbreaking-tourist-industry-furious-as-mount-warning-remains-closed-due-to-indigenous-heritage-concerns-costing-industry-50-million/news-story/7ca38b885260546c4dde85e816c36220

25-05-2024: Surely we voted against this divisive, racist b------t: https://www.rebelnews.com/victorian_government_says_compulsory_land_acquisition_and_reparations_are_still_on_the_agenda

25-05-2024: We have the solution? Well, Duh! https://moonbattery.com/sex-change-surgery-raises-suicide-risk-12-fold/

25-05-2024: ‘Trust the Science’. Move over Pedro Carolino (https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-as-she-is-spoke-1884/). Peer review (AI) has outdone you a thousand-fold My personal best (translation) mistake to date was ‘water sheep’ for ‘hydraulic ram’: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

25-05-2024: Useful idiots #2: Hamas leader thanks student protesters for help annihilating the Jews, “we are grateful to the people behind it. We want total integration in the battle on the ground. Today, we want a Flood of Jihad and resistance…It is good for Mankind, because annihilating the Zionists is good for humanity as a whole.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/hamas-leader-thanks-student-protesters-being-part-oct/

24-05-2024: Remarkable. “I was the first man on Omaha Beach” – soon there will be no-one to tell their story. Truly the Great Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQaNFrfA-l4

24-05-2024: ‘Hanoi Jane’ now channeling Lysistrata: A ‘pussy strike’ for climate, no less. Maybe time instead you apologized for the 8 million folks murdered by the communists (you supported) in SE Asia: https://moonbattery.com/jane-fondas-strategy-to-perfect-the-weather/

24-05-2024: Student centred learning? “Do as I say, not do as I do.” “Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose 1762 book Emile, or On Education laid the groundwork for the Romantic idealist approach. The philosopher offloaded all five of his own children to the Paris Foundling Hospital, even though few of its charges survived to adulthood. (None of Rousseau’s children did.)” Why not more of the same then? https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/snake-oil-student-centred-learning/

24-05-2024: The energy to keep the modern world running has to come from somewhere, not thin or hot air: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/renewables-head-collision-reality/

Looks like the future will be subsidising ancient coal-fired power stations because no-one has the grit to decide we need to build new ones: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/23/net-zero-nsw-state-government-to-pay-225-million-per-annum-to-a-single-coal-plant/

23-05-2024: ‘I’m leaving on a jet plane’ - The freedom to live in California: https://moonbattery.com/californians-forbidden-from-exercising-outdoors/

23-05-2024: The most remarkable people on earth, “Jews are 110 times more likely than others to win the top prizes for helping to create Western civilisation and its blessings, including thriving economies, thanks in huge part to a culture that reveres learning.” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-how-many-of-our-australian-jewhaters-are-driven-by-envy/news-story/3e9c3dc47fe9d57d9b76e1a6c58a5a79

23-05-2024: There is theory and then there is practice. This is the best that can now be said, ““The real duty of man,” says Highet, “is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.” In a world where almost no-one understand the phrase, ‘The Golden Rule’. I used to often say to my students that Socrates (arguably the best of teachers) had no other ‘aid’ than the other end of a log to sit upon. “All our vanities about how to improve teaching forget that, at day’s end, if the teacher hath not love, s/he hath nothing.” I think also students need to (learn to) love each other. Often there is only animus which can only lead to ignorance and despair: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/04/the-noble-art-of-teaching/

23-05-2024: CSIRO. When I was a kid the second letter stood for ‘science’. “CSIRO artificially pumped up the cost of building a nuclear plant in Australia because it would be a new industry here. Did they do that for technologies that are barely invented like hydrogen and batteries too? They claim it would take 15 years to build one plant, yet the French built 56 plants in 15 years, and that was 40 years ago. The average build time then, without faxes, flip phones and “the internet” was just 7 years, yet somehow they got it done.” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/nuclear-versus-renewables-the-only-cost-that-matters-is-the-one-the-customers-pay/

22-05-2024: Fascinating - Mallory’s 1924 Everest Expedition: https://www.popsci.com/science/george-mallory-1924-everest-climb/

22-05-2024: Have we already found aliens and Dyson Spheres? https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a60780331/dyson-sphere-evidence-alien-civilizations/

22-05-2024: Weather, the elephant on the climate room. Do read this: “In closing, let me note that since 1950, CO2 has theoretically increased downwelling radiation by something on the order of 1.4 W/m2 … and that would be totally undone by a mere 1.4% increase in cloud cooling. In that context, bear in mind that global cloud cooling changes by up to 9% from one month to the next, and we never even notice” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/21/rainergy/

22-05-2024: A memorable obit for Raisi: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/well-said-and-good-luck.html

21-05-2024: Get out there and do it: https://www.sciencealert.com/exercising-in-midlife-may-reverse-years-of-inactivity-large-study-finds

21-05-2024: Looks like the internal combustion engine has won over the EV for the second time in a century: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/19/mercedes-and-volkswagen-ditch-their-ev-ambitions-mguy-australia/

Toyota too: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/why-toyota-is-still-not-sure-about-electric-vehicles/news-story/f1756c71dfaf441e2718de3e60ab6edc

21-05-2024: You have to have a very strong stomach to side with Palestinians: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/hard-to-believe-anyone-could-side-with-the-palestinians.html

21-05-2024: The Second Opium War: I admit I have always argued that China’s CCP is awesomely evil (100 million dead for just a start) but I did not understand quite how much its machinations have been supported by ‘elites’ in the West: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/chinas-dream-americas-nightmare/

20-05-2024: DIY Ultimate Ultralight Saw: A reader (Paul – thank you) has gazumped me in the ultralight saw stakes after viewing my post Ultralight Saw Experiments with a ‘saw’ that probably weighs under 5 grams but could still be used to make Ultralight Tent Poles – or similar items of camp furniture. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/05/20/diy-ultimate-ultralight-saw/

20-05-2024: Sign this petition if you want free access to public lands to continue: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved/petitions/stop-the-creation-of-any-new-national-parks/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0gYB91H1VXU9ujocImOSonLj8JIP8KqCZS0nUMGFjo9CpWgBOJbNpxNn8_aem_AV9jtxVkidZJ4RcdKlWaBQpMbWG7m55guSzqmRb3JN4Z1Lg3u5LMmtMepOg_AOKfoqkMJhxpJkEZlroe5TYxzURx

20-05-2024: A hangover cure perhaps - but wouldn’t you have to be sober to take it? https://www.sciencealert.com/new-gel-could-neutralize-alcohols-effects-before-a-hangover-hits?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR10Hr9z_8Ja09CyxgdjG7xH8D52Ftta9_FmxzJW9Q_E7S3Ml9i-zAWmIpQ_aem_AXaRWZ1kA9A9QOKExl0pyZXjUV7w0mEzPy_DRwJzU52QKs_FVsI9-k8cF9wtdHzlUT9fHMdFxmhhf0vJkGmSO0oo

20-05-2024: NZ (and Oz) agriculture is already at (or beyond) ‘Net Zero’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/07/nz-agriculture-has-already-reached-net-zero-leading-climate-scientist-contends-in-climate-bombshell/

19-05-2024: When you don’t see people for a long time: Last night we attended a fortieth reunion for students from Mirboo North High School where we both taught many years ago. I can’t express quite how delightful it was to catch up with so many lovely people from so long ago. I am only sorry that I have (for one reason or another, eg ill-health) missed some other similar events (eg from Kyabram High). Now I am really looking forward to the 60^th reunion of my own graduating class (Morisset High School 1965) in August this year (smack in the middle of lambing). For my own class I gues this will be the last (and only) such event but I am hoping to see some ‘familiar’ faces there. Alas so many have already passed on. (With Tony Castello and Lou Pugh)

19-05-2024: Putting your finger on the pulse – Sir David Frost, “The first is economic and is most starkly illustrated by the decline in per capita GDP over the last fifteen years to, in the last two years, negative levels. It has many causes: the extreme dysfunction of our planning system and the NHS; the regional and sectoral distortions created by the integration of the UK into the EU single market; the pernicious post-2008 consequences of zero interest rates with the resultant collapse in productivity and growth; the growth of a collectivist mindset resulting from the 2008 crash and its consequences, growth- and innovation-destroying net zero policies and the legacy of the lockdowns; the gradual establishment of a benefits culture; and the need for mass immigration as an unsatisfactory palliative for all these strains. The result has been to extinguish growth, to push up the tax and spending burden, and to turn Britain into an inefficient permanent collectivist social democracy. This is the economic problem.” PS: He has a solution, “Every time we have offered a clear right-wing Conservative philosophy at elections, which has happened all too rarely, we have won handsomely—in 1983, in 1987 and in 2019. When we’ve not done that, we have failed to win. This reflects the fact that there are large numbers of British people who still want to see traditional Conservative policies, who still believe in the traditional virtues of conservatism, economic and social cohesion, and want a party that delivers them.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/has-british-conservatism-lost-its-way/

19-05-2024: ‘A balanced budget is not necessarily good. Most of the dreary comrade societies aimed at a balanced budget – ‘We take 100% of your income and spend it all’. There is only one tax on the people and that is government spending. The treasurer needs to slash that big tax. All else is flummery.’ Viv Forbes.

19-05-2024: “We have the best government that money can buy.” Mark Twain.

18-05-2024: Maybe you will be able to come back from the dead after all: https://newatlas.com/science/brains-frozen-thawed-chemicals-cryopreservation/

18-05-2024: Seems the end of the world already happened and we missed it: “NOAA’s Latest Climate Data Shows the Global Land Region Temperature Anomaly Peaked in February 2016 Over 8 Years Ago ..NOAA’s April 2024 climate report missed very significant climate outcomes and analysis as provided and discussed above with these results clearly reflecting that the world is not facing a climate emergency” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/17/noaas-latest-climate-data-shows-the-global-land-region-temperature-anomaly-peaked-in-february-2016-over-8-years-ago/

18-05-2024: Well said: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/chilling-but-sadly-true.html

18-05-2024: Our money. The enormous waste that is the ‘welfare state’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/get-your-house-in-order-labor-ndis-and-child-care-fraudsters-must-be-stopped/news-story/9f91e5c3b2a77c144e065d39b2a12dbb

17-05-2024: I didn’t even know women were miserable: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/why-are-women-so-miserable

17-05-2024: ‘On the balance of probablilities’ Lehrmann has been dealt a very crook hand by ‘justice’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/05/the-balance-of-probabilities/

17-05-2024: Nanny State gone mad. “How about we do not ban something as essential as fire in the name of safety...If you are suffering from asthma then you have my sympathy but you’re not getting my fireplace” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/how-about-we-do-not-ban-something-as-essential-as-fire-in-the-name-of-safety/news-story/261f0492177b0ba1b83b922386a178a5

17-05-2024: Why not kill off all the people to ‘save the planet’? All along the climate religion has been a ‘death cult’ exposed by its ultimate heresy that the human soul is not sacrosanct: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/professor-says-we-could-stop-emissions-with-a-pandemic-that-killed-billions/

16-05-2024: “Procrastination is totally a good thing. You always have something to do tomorrow, plus you have nothing to do today” Heinlein Society.

16-05-2024: Disgusting Government over-reach - a A$750K fine for free speech: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/australian-governments-overreach-slammed-conservative-social-media-gab/

16-05-2024: Adults in the room – well done Peru: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/perus-government-officially-classifies-trans-nonbinary-intersex-as/

16-05-2024: Seeing is believing: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/creepy-people-horrified-as-mirrored-image-king-charles/

15-05-2024: Good on you Winston: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/10/nz-first-tries-to-introduce-controversial-bathroom-bill/

15-05-2024: Antarctica the new frontier: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/russia-discovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-in-antarctica-ten-times-bigger-than-north-sea/

15-05-2024: The Wonnangatta murder trial looks like it will be one of the most interesting in our history. Already I think the result will hinge on the whereabouts of all the pellets from three (!) admitted 12 gauge shotgun rounds. Police will have been trying to locate and count all of them – what metal detectors are for after all. Four weeks of compelling news: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/greg-lynn-stands-trial-for-murders-of-missing-campers-russell-hill-and-carol-clay/live-coverage/7bab787fa4794171c7a02e70a0bf5808

15-05-2024: Whilst this morning’s news is full of it’s having been the hottest (summer) for 2,000 years (a summer when there was practically not a day fit for canoeing or beach going and we were lucky to get enough tomatoes for green tomato pickles let alone any ripe ones), 1600 actual scientists say there is no climate crisis: https://californiaglobe.com/articles/no-climate-crisis-says-coalition-of-1600-actual-scientists/

14-05-2024: Federation and Feathertop: Last week my friend, Brett proposed we walk out to Federation Hut and Mt Feathertop for an overnight trip. Though I had a bad cold and was not feeling very fit I jumped at the chance. There is just so much work to get done around the farm - I may be avoiding some of it really.

We were at least promised two days of fine weather with daytime temperatures (at Mt Hotham) of 7 to 10C and overnight around 0C (probably a tad cooler at Federation Hut - at the base of Mt Feathertop) because it is a little higher and maybe more exposed.

The walk out to Federation/Feathertop is 10-12km largely just on or off the side of a ridge which undulates quite a bit but rises very steeply (approx 250 metres) in the last <1km if you decide to ascend the mountain (I didn't). Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/05/13/federation-and-feathertop/

14-05-2024: We need a quick pathway to energy independence, not the shambolic mess we see at present: https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/35934/australia-has-to-put-net-zero-aside/

14-05-2024: Don’t forget before the Stone Age was the Wood Age: https://johnhawks.net/weblog/four-stone-age-sites-with-ancient-wooden-artifacts/

14-05-2024: “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes” – Things Sun Tzu should have said. Example 2: “The true objective of war is peace”. Mind you I suspect Xi has been studying this ancient oriental thinker (and his misquotes) extensively.

13-05-2024: Waratah Quilt: I recently had a chance to try out this very nice Waratah Quilt from Neve Gear. They are priced from A$419 (May 2024). I have had it for some time actually, but the weather has been too warm so I had to wait until I could go somewhere it was going to drop below freezing to try it out. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/05/12/waratah-quilt/

13-05-2024: I think I must be a psychopath then – all that ‘gannet head-bobbing’ really annoys me. I do like it if people look you directly in the eyes: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13399637/How-spot-psychopath-woman.html

13-05-2024: Boing, Bang, Boeing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13399941/THREE-Boeing-crash-landings-two-days-Terrified-passengers-scramble-escape-burning-jet-Senegal-tyre-explodes-737-landing-Turkey-24-hours-nose-gear-failure-caused-767-slam-runway.html

13-05-2024: Seemed like a good idea at the time: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/12/eco-friendly-brake-cables-eaten-by-foxes-after-switch-to-soy-insulation/

12-05-2024: Whoa! Things you don’t see: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/35943/google-buries-bashing-of-teenage-girl-in-melbourne-school/

12-05-2024: Top spots not to travel to: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13396651/Inside-worlds-cannibal-tribes-Feasting-unburied-corpses-using-victims-skulls-cook-eating-human-flesh-dark-magic-rituals.html

12-05-2024: Albo is definitely not my big brother – indeed he is no sort of relative at all, scarcely human in fact. Away with him and all his awful cronies: https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1789018244600242570

12-05-2024: "Israel has a legitimate government, and Hamas is a crime gang full of the most brutal of homicidal maniacs. This isn’t so much a war as it is a police action" https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/hamas_declares_that_it_will_make_no_further_concessions.html

11-05-2024: “But arming Israel to defeat a terrorist organization that holds American hostages, that has killed Americans, and that seeks to annihilate all of Israel - that’s a bloody red line? How can any self respecting American patriot & lover of democracy not be ashamed by this man?” - and now Albanese supports Palestinian UN membership! https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/joe-biden-betrays-israel

11-05-2024: Ominous: “if nations increasingly rely on and cede power to autonomous AI systems that compete against each other, military capabilities could be used to kill and destroy on an unprecedented scale. This could potentially lead to the destruction of our entire civilization, including the AI systems themselves. In this scenario, I estimate the typical longevity of a technological civilization might be less than 100 years. That's roughly the time between being able to receive and broadcast signals between the stars (1960), and the estimated emergence of ASI (2040) on Earth.” https://www.sciencealert.com/creepy-study-suggests-ai-is-the-reason-weve-never-found-aliens?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3bTC86NGq894oNCsAZBai-fPedhmejP7ihXFIQZhA5MQJV0W1SAQ75rc8_aem_AZWqjpEQEeKNuOcpuyfewaYrrgqkTwQ1c5moq_5ow_Y11TovxMbcUpeoUNmFmxtjRnGNqPTJ_WuOfh5bCpg0geWm

11-05-2024: God bless Javier Milei – at last a leader who can explain and expound the virtues of capitalism and conservatism, or libertarianism - as it might better be described. Here is his (articulate and compelling) explanation (or manifesto, perhaps). Do share it widely: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/05/the-gospel-according-to-javier-milei/

11-05-2024: Downhill all the way for China? “President Xi must also worry about the rise and rise of his democratic adversary, India. Boasting the largest population on the planet, with an average age of 28.5 years, and growing economically at 8 per cent a year, India will soon become the world’s third-largest economy… Xi Jinping is a committed Marxist-Leninist ideologue who believes the survival of the communist state depends on staying the course and the world embracing communism. Through dominating the United Nations, shameless intellectual property theft, propaganda, outright bribery and the skillful application of soft power, he is well on the way to achieving his goal.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/china-marxism-fails-again/

10-05-2024: A good question: “Here's the question: if you were raped, do you think you would write to your rapist afterwards and say, 'I'd love you to meet my mother'? Do you think you would write to your rapist hundreds of emails saying, 'You mean more to me than my father. Can we meet?' Would you write—I'll just do one more and then I'm stopping - would you write to your rapist the day after you were raped and say, 'I'd love to go to London. Yeah, can you pay for me to go to London?' And go to London, and, when you're in London, get in touch with your rapist and say, 'Oh my God, I just heard that you're coming to London. I want to change my flight. So I'm here when you're in London.' That put him in prison for twenty-three years” Maybe Harvey Weinstein (execrable human being that he might be) was actually innocent: https://www.steynonline.com/14236/pervert-in-the-course-of-justice .

10-05-2024: Firecoat. Pure genius. Let’s add this to a dwelling’s fire rating: https://fsafirecoat.com.au/news/new-fire-retardant-paint-to-help-prevent-spread-of-bushfires/

10-05-2024: One place to avoid: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/all-local-roads-in-fitzroy-and-collingwood-yarra-city-council-drops-speed-limit-to-30kmh-as-part-of-trial/news-story/0bc174ce1a98d7db76106cfcc92664d3

10-05-2024: Of course we need a Royal Commission, Tony. Indeed some of the leaders (Dan) need to be locked up (or hanged): https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/former-pm-tony-abbott-launches-a-blistering-rebuke-of-covid19-pandemic-leaders-after-bombshell-pandemic-report/news-story/c56acd09f962233e0fb158fa4198a479

In some good news Britain is refusing to sign the WHO ‘treaty’. We should too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/peter-sweden-its-happening-britain-refuses-sign-who/

09-05-2024: Susie Linfield: “The Israelis pulled out of Gaza in 2005—which was accomplished by a super-hawk, Ariel Sharon. There’s criticism on the Israeli Left for how this was done, and criticism on the Israeli Right that it was done at all. Nevertheless, Palestinians were now in control of a territory. A small bit of territory, true. But you have to start somewhere. (Look at what the Kurds have accomplished in the areas they control in Iraq and Syria.) There was a lot of hope, among Israelis and Palestinians alike, that Gaza would turn it into a thriving entity, which is to say that energy would be put into the development—economic, civil, etc.—of one’s own people and society, not into destruction of the Other. A Middle Eastern Singapore! Under Hamas, the opposite happened. David Grossman told the New Yorker that, had Palestinians chosen peaceful development, withdrawal from West Bank settlements would have commenced. Instead, Hamas began lobbing rockets into Israel and, eventually, turned the whole Strip into a terror base while enriching itself. You can begin to understand what effect this had on Israelis, including those who desperately want two states” https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/501-from-the-river-to-the-sea

09-05-2024: The greatest freedom of all – “what Robert Menzies called the greatest freedom of all: the freedom to do our best and make our best better”. I miss having leaders like him and Tony Abbott...” In short, it is time to stand up to the tyranny of the experts, the wellness gurus and therapists responsible for the most unwell generation in recent history” : https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/children-of-the-algorithm/

09-05-2024: The furries have gone too ‘fur’: https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/04/18/utah-middle-school-furries/

09-05-2024: Maybe this young woman will save our civilization? https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/eva_vlaardingerbroek_youtube_hate_speech_cpac_hungary_2024/

08-05-2024: Getting closer…move over ‘renewables’: https://www.sciencealert.com/fusion-breakthrough-6-minutes-of-plasma-sets-new-reactor-record?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2maSQUB_YILzRvRoth_M3-P3N7sEF_OBI3haIJayyIwoiM61d2QmwY_EI_aem_AQUKzPN5zeXqRCQrHPN68IrPbgLN1INynjNXPmn9WkXXfLejrPZbmmjVnjbNg5xJvFtA0lu1YvuhulFzHsOB0lo8

08-05-2024: There is hope after all – Stan Grant’s wife (Really!) calls out Albanese – and the whole ‘woke’ mob (I’m only surprised that anyone actually watches the ABC in order to have taped this interview) : https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUm8w-i-eGM&si=hJpwfAELUhthYAOm

08-05-2024: Good grief – a Swiss Army k____e without the blade: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-ridiculous-blade-less-swiss-army-knife-debuts-weapon-laws-tighten

08-05-2024: Look, hardly anyone actually supports the murder of women (even though we have all known some pretty awful ones, likewise men) but this is giving disaffected spouses chilling power: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victoria-police-could-ban-offenders-from-victims-under-family-violence-reforms/news-story/e0a4cccf7ed5b8fe7dcb9111eee0fd65

05-05-2024: Plato rediscovered – amazing tech: https://gizmodo.com/plato-burial-place-last-night-details-ai-scroll-1851438021

05-05-2024: A new battery at last? No wonder the price of lithium has been dropping: https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/

05-05-2024: Well said Tony, “I still think there’s a majority of Australians who could be persuaded to vote for a party that’s passionate for freedom, passionate for small business and the family, and passionate above all for our country—as long as they can find one” Please step up to the breach Tony: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/populism-and-the-failure-of-conservatives/

05-05-2024: Who actually believes Pauline Hanson ought not to have been able to say of/to Mehreen Faruqi, ‘Go back to Pakistan’? Not me anyway: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/australias-hate-speech-legislation-is-no-longer-fit-for-purpose-in-a-functioning-liberal-democracy-anathema-to-good-law/news-story/84e68c87a775b4d156084abc8ac78960

04-05-2024: Who needs a key? https://www.amazon.com/FirePik-Pro-Firefighter-Multipurpose-Stainless/dp/B0CKWPTSHH

04-05-2024: Can children ever remember their past lives? Over 2,000 children can’t be wrong, surely? Do you remember the famous Bridey Murphy case back in the 50s? https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/02/children-past-lives/

04-05-2024: When the revolution finally comes, it will be big – and it will be from the right, “Reversing the big-state, centrally-planned de-growth policies of the Left is not for the faint-hearted. What is required is Churchillian courage to tell people the truth; that what is needed is far less state involvement in the economy, and a huge improvement in state effectiveness in controlling borders, funding defence, policing streets, defeating extremists, standing up for the nation and its history, and pushing back against postmodern woke ideas infesting public institutions” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/05/fertile-grounds-for-revolt/

04-05-2024: “Everyone vaccinated with mRNA Covid-19 injections will likely die within 3 to 5 years”, a lead professor of medicine warned. Just have to hope she’s wrong, but if she’s not who planned this - or WHO planned this? In the first week 50 people died, 60,000 altogether by now (in the US and EU alone), yet such a ‘clinical trial’ would normally be ended if anyone died: https://seed171.bitchute.com/vO6YB6hkB65/orfi0wfFDmhK.mp4

03-05-2024: This will bring tears to your eyes. It did mine. What was It All For? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2024/05/otherwise-what-was-it-all-for/

03-05-2024: Pro-Hamas Protesters – All they are saying is ‘Give Jihad a Chance’…but “They are not championing women’s rights or minority rights; they are not protesting for peace, the US is not at war in Gaza; Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. And these kids are not in danger of being drafted” At best stooges and useful idiots. I fear the concluding paragraph will prove to e true: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/pro-hamas-protestors-all-that-theyre-saying-is/

03-05-2024: Remember when we used to run a ‘pilot scheme’ to see whether something would work? Actually there is nowhere in the world (not even a small sunny, windy) island) which is able to run on 100% renewables. Clearly the engineers are not in charge: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/wild-experiments-alice-springs-fossil-fuel-grid-becomes-too-unstable-with-more-than-13-solar-power/

03-05-2024: You can take it with you – and it’s surprisingly cheap. A wonder more don’t take this option. After all (even if you can only afford to have your head frozen (A$150K) the Russians did a head transplant in dogs many years ago): https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a60594370/cryonic-brains/

02-05-2024: Chilling. Read it and weep – or join the Fifth Crusade, before it is too late: https://www.steynonline.com/14248/the-three-rs

02-05-2024: EVs just get worse and worse. Please just let me have a simple (to fix) mechanical car without the gadgets and with wind-up windows and manually locking doors. A car that you can roll start or that doesn’t stop when the battery goes flat is actually better – and I do not need electrically heated seats. This is all too silly. I am over all the gadgets. I can do things myself: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/ev-hell-continues-crash-victims-might-have-to-be-left-to-die-hertz-dumps-another-10000-cars-tesla-sacks-whole-charging-team/

02-05-2024: I live in hope that Javier will end the era of the State as God: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/is-javier-mileis-medicine-working/

02-05-2024: So, Earth really does have a thermostat – a fact which has been known for nearly 150 years. Le Chatelier’s Principle: “A change in one of the variables that describe a system at equilibrium produces a shift in the position of the equilibrium that counteracts the effect of this change” https://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch16/lechat.php & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/01/keeping-it-in-balance

01-05-2024: Overland Track Video: My friends Brett Irving (and his wife, Kim) walked Tasmania’s Overland Track back in February (2024) They were kind enough to share some of their (80+) photos and some memories of their experiences. It is one of the reasons why Della and I ventured down there for a ‘look-see’ last week. Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/04/30/overland-track-video/

01-05-2024: “The West's pathetic appeasement of Islamist extremists: For 33 years, my friend Salman Rushdie has shown incredible bravery. But the denial and delusion of Western apologists has only allowed fundamentalism to flourish”Ayaan Hirsi Ali: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13354615/The-Wests-pathetic-appeasement-Islamist-extremists-33-years-friend-Salman-Rushdie-shown-incredible-bravery-denial-delusion-Western-apologists-allowed-extremism-flourish-writes-AYAAN-HIRSI-ALI.html

01-05-2024: I’m glad NSW police didn’t respond like this to a mad sword wielding murderer: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1785381649640825318

01-05-2024: They live amongst us: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/murder-suspect-accused-eating-victims-face-bus-stop/

01-05-2024: Oh dear, yet Albo thinks he can create a solar renaissance here: “Solar panels are now in the “top five” worst slave industries in the world, yet still barely any of the morality-police care. They’re apparently too busy atoning for slavery they didn’t cause that doesn’t exist anymore to worry about slaves that are alive today.” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/german-solar-industry-collapsing-unable-to-make-solar-panels-from-solar-power/

30-04-2024: The Lightest Hiking Chair: No, it's not the Helinox at around 800 grams ever so comfy as it might be - though I am still using my (approx 160 gram) Big Agnes Cyclone Chair and have been doing so for many years.

I have just seen this interesting idea from the indefatigable Steve at Suluk Gear ie the Puttuck Chair which weighs 64 grams (US$39.99 April 2024). It is based on a Tibetan (Gomthag) Meditation Belt. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/04/29/the-lightest-hiking-chair/

30-04-2024: How did we get to be at war with Russia. Isn’t this war (like most) the baddies vs the baddies? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/richard-marles-announces-australia-is-sending-another-100-million-to-fight-russia.html

30-04-2024: Statists can always ‘justify’ censorship, but the public ought to ‘own’ all the information: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/yes-it-is-tanya.html

30-04-2024: This is what Albo ‘protecting’ women actually looks like: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/down-to-albanese.html

29-04-2024: “The press must grow day in and day out. It is our party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon” Joseph Stalin.

29-04-2024: Albo just hotted up ‘the war on men’ but in fact domestic violence is mainly committed by women. Also thousands of (innocent) men are on remand awaiting a (fair?) trial. Certainly trials should progress much more quickly – ideally they should occur on the same day that a person is arrested and charged; or at least as soon as is practicable for preparing a defence. Further, remember bail used to be awarded on the presumption of innocence. Police ought after all have a case before they arrest someone. Now the innocent are in gaol awaiting trial - 42% of prisoners are on remand; 16,000 in NSW alone. This is actually more shocking than the evil of a handful of women killed by their ex-partners – as if this could be prevented by making society ever more draconian, whose effect would likely increase the incidence of such events. This is just Albo trying to distract attention from the fact that he has f----d the country. Of course it is terrible when women are murdered. It is also terrible when men are murdered (or wrongfully incarcerated): https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/locked-up-without-a-trial

29-04-2024: Wise words about ‘grievance culture’: “Just because you have been wronged does not make you right…One of the best ways to pile failure on failure is to blame someone else for your failures…introspection is self-defeating, therapeutically, because it removes people from social commerce, and makes them self-importantly self-involved…our search for offense teaches us to practice endless stewing…the more we will find ourselves competing with other members of other oppressed groups…The end result is a society defined in terms of competing grievances, where no one is held to account for dereliction and where no one believes that he can, of his own volition, overcome his problems:.. So, we should be wanting to see a return to meritocracy. We should rid the world of DEI initiatives. And we should stop complaining about everything. That means, we should overcome the bad habit we have learned from therapy culture.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/a-culture-of-grievance

29-04-2024: Consultation my eye! 'Engage Victoria', the ‘eminent panel’ set up by the State Government is conducting a public meetings at various venues – but it is a fraud and their decisions a foregone conclusion.

The committee comprises nothing but lefties, greens and ‘tame’ faux aborigines. There is no represenatation from traditional bush users.

After the same panel reviewed the Mirboo North & Strathbogie State Forests the panel recommended:-

NO HUNTING

NO 4WDS ON UNMADE ROADS

NO CAMPING IN UNDESIGNATED AREAS

NO DOG WALKING

NO PROSPECTING

NO FIREWOOD COLLECTION

NO TIMBER HARVESTING NO GRAZING

Of course the same or more recommendations will be made for our Central Highlands State Forests.

THIS INCLUDES ALL STATE FORESTS FROM WARRAGUL TO WHITTLESEA, FROM ERICA TO EMERALD.

All this must be resisted with every fibre of our beings. We all know what a disaster National Parks have been.

28-04-2024: “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary” Karl Marx: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/marx-engels-quote-falsely-attributed-to-reagan/

28-04-2024: Hands off our public lands. Good on you guys: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/outdoor-recreation-advocacy-group-pushes-to-overturn-victorian-rock-climbing-gold-prospecting-bans/news-story/e432d59f03d00f3bb0a84c2d210a7187

28-04-2024: Perhaps you should keep on driving the car yourself? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/26/tesla-autopilot-linked-to-hundreds-of-collisions-has-critical-safety-gap-nhtsa.html

28-04-2024: Where is Australia’s Eva? Eva Vlaardingerbroek at CPAC: ...”If we don't start to seriously fight, for our continent, for our religion, for our people, our countries, then this time that we live in, will go down in history as the time that western nations no longer had to get invaded by hostile armies in order to be conquered, this time will then go down in history as the period in which the invader was actively invited in by the corrupt elite, and not only did this corrupt elite invite the enemy in, they made the native population pay for it too...” https://televisor.tlgrm.dev/00b/E9sAALs9KlgAAAAAwEYmUu2REpk/file.mp4?hash=t1cCSupzd8bB3HobnRdRQQ&ts=1714256572

Let’s not forget: they even desecrated Anzac Day with their treasonous behaviour: https://www.rebelnews.com/watch_aussie_veteran_condemns_disgusting_anti_israel_protesters

27-04-2024: Great song. Very funny: “I am a a white man and I’m sorry”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5GHkljX-So&t=37s

27-04-2024: Indeed. Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless and depressed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1nEqxM

27-04-2024: Why not Australia, Penny? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-17-nations-release-joint-statement-demanding-hamas-release-all-hostages#google_vignette

27-04-2024: From a real climate scientist, (Prof Roy Spencer) “Atmospheric CO2 levels will start to fall even with modest reductions in anthropogenic CO2 emissions.” https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/04/net-zero-co2-emissions-a-damaging-and-totally-unnecessary-goal/ & https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/04/unnecessary-net-zero-part-ii-a-demonstration-with-global-carbon-project-data/

26-04-2024: More gun control bull in WA. Whatever happened to the right to self-defence or the right to defend yourself from tyrannical governments? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/04/triggering-thoughts-of-tyranny-in-wa/

26-04-2024: No. Islamic immigration is not compatible with democracy: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/immigration-challenges-in-the-era-of-islam/

26-04-2024: How Many People Could Die Under Net Zero? Answer: Roughly half the world’s population or four billion people. And you are in favour of this? As I have said many times before Greens are worse mass-murderers than even Mao, Hitler and Stalin - and by a long shot: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/22/how-many-billions-of-people-would-die-under-net-zero/

26-04-2024: Who’d have thought? Get ready for that next Ice Age: https://climatechangedispatch.com/antarctica-is-colder-icier-today-than-at-any-time-in-5000-years/

23-04-2024: Tasmania's Overland Track - Last Day: After sampling the first day of the Overland track we headed around through Queenstown to have a look at the last day. We had intended to catch the ferry to Narcissus then take in Lake Marion and maybe Pine Valley (where there is a hut) too - but we were wildly over-optimistic.

We allowed too few days and had not reckoned on so much driving. Tassie is only a small state but the roads are twisty and it still takes time to get from one place to another. So we settled for an early morning ride up the lake to Echo Point and the shorter walk back from there.

Even so it took us over four hours to walk back including stopping for lots of photos and lunch. The Lake St Clair Ferry service runs three times a day and costs $45 each (April 2024) to Echo Point. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/04/22/tasmanias-overland-track-last-day/

23-04-2024: What a surprise: https://thehighwire.com/news/98-grow-out-of-gender-confusion-navigating-childhood-transitions-to-adult-identities/

23-04-2024: A real ‘education’ success story: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/victoria-education/greater-shepparton-secondary-college-records-drop-of-more-than-450-student-enrolments/news-story/f28fa5f7f0121385045f7cce893b598b

23-04-2024: “Effectively, the price of electricity fell 20% in China at the same time as it rose 240% in Australia and the UK.” ‘Renewables’ produce much more expensive electricity despite their subsidies not being counted as part of their cost. Remember ‘just yesterday’ (before they blew up Hazelwood) when we had cheap, reliable coal-fired electricity: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/the-most-expensive-electricity-on-earth-is-in-countries-with-cheapest-sources-of-electricity/

23-04-2024: (Merrin) Whenever Autumn comes around the yearly tree planting marathon starts again. Today Dad and I planted 18 new trees around the farm including a pair of English oaks which Dad grew from acorns and are now taller than him.

It's been about 6 months since our last tree planting day so I wasn't the fittest scrambling up and down the hills but there's still lots more to plant. In a handful of years these hills will be ablaze with autumn colour.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese proverb.

21-04-2024: A Taste of Tasmania's Overland Track: A week of fine autumn weather in April (we thought) would be ideal to take a peek at a couple of Tasmania's beauty spots - so off we went, flying into Launceston (for $57 from Melbourne with a rental car at $25 a day!)

We had time for a quick look at Dove Lake in the afternoon which put on a spectacular rainbow just for us.

Next day we decided to walk the Crater Lake Circuit which took us a leisurely 3 1/2 hours including stops for photographs, lunch etc. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/04/21/a-taste-of-tasmanias-overland-track/

19-04-2024: Tonight’s Dinner View (Della - Beauty Point Tasmania)

19-04-2024: (Della) A quick but very busy week in Tasmania: We did a couple of brilliant walks in the Cradle Mountain area (will sort photos to share later today), but here is a little taster of our first day: After leaving home for Launceston at 3.30 am last Sunday, we drove to Cradle Mountain and decided to fit in a short walk to Dove Lake before dinner (after sitting in cars, plane and buses for over 12 hours). As we approached the lake, a welcoming rainbow set the scene for a wonderful week. See Also: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/04/21/a-taste-of-tasmanias-overland-track/

18-04-2024: Who'd have thought? Elephant seals and penguins have been wiped out in their millions by the (still current) 'Little Ice Age': https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/global-cooling-wipes-out-elephant-seals-and-penguin-colonies-from-warmer-antarctica-1000-years-ago

18-04-2024: Actually less 'greenhouse effect' according to the satellite data - why are we worried about CO2 then? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/18/when-satellites-refute-the-climate-crisis-narratives-trust-the-science

18-04-2024: Read this and weep: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/04/examining-educational-failure

13-04-2024: Well done Nasa. Now if you could just work out why our pollies are always talking gibberish too: https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-has-finally-identified-the-reason-behind-voyager-1s-gibberish?fbclid=IwAR16QYjCnAGWY3KFSP6c1zI3vSP4zsO003S_ZVLNWY6Wc15lwbwaN1KHqc0

13-04-2024: Who knew? Effect of human caused carbon emissions is non-discernible: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/09/new-paper-challenges-unproven-claims-effect-of-human-caused-carbon-emissions-on-climate-is-non-discernible/

13-04-2024: What a surprise: https://thehighwire.com/news/98-grow-out-of-gender-confusion-navigating-childhood-transitions-to-adult-identities/

13-04-2024: A real ‘education’ success story: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/victoria-education/greater-shepparton-secondary-college-records-drop-of-more-than-450-student-enrolments/news-story/f28fa5f7f0121385045f7cce893b598b

12-04-2024: Happiness. Duh! And it’s not just women: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/article-13288861/dinks-marriage-babies-happiness-life-women.html

12-04-2024: The trouble with shifting to another country is why would anyone there fight for you either? There's an old Jewish saying, "If the rich could pay someone else to die for them the poor would have a good living" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/10/rich-americans-get-second-passports-citing-risk-of-instability.html

12-04-2024: Bring back the plastic bag: Replacing Plastics with Alternatives Is Worse for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Most Cases: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/bring-back-the-plastic-new-study-shows-paper-bags-make-five-times-more-carbon-emissions/

12-04-2024: ‘Enough’, I cry. Clearly you’d be a millionaire if it weren’t for taxes. People complain about the rising cost of homes, but government is by far your most costly ‘investment’. You work at least the first half the week just to pay for it: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/residents-state-pay-987-117-114535314.html

11-04-2024: No wonder AI designers have a hard time – I have been trying all my life to get people to reason: https://archive.is/Oz69t

11-04-2024: CO2 and the great greening of the planet: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/10/the-greening-earth-vs-enemies-of-climate-truth/

11-04-2024: Immigration anyone? Yet ‘our’ government thinks ‘climate change’ is the No 1 issue: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/great-ad-from-dick-smith.html

11-04-2024: Absolutely – our pollies today have not just taken a few leaves from the scammers’ book; they have stolen the whole corpus: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/the_ministry_of_bs_will_see_you_now.html

10-04-2024: An Introduction to Sambar Deer Sign is available free on YouTube. https://youtu.be/QxQoh_ZCuIw

10-04-2024: A bit chilly in NZ too: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/march-was-nzs-coldest-in-12-years-what-can-we-expect-from-winter/G5DJ4LP55BAUHE5HAMPXXFA7JM/?fbclid=IwAR3cbE25S0rU0KoPad6gySQ1jGKOnlRvgun2tK6MWfRpukrPTzmf8nR5RP8_aem_AXBpquKqRubC2Y_pNgEfVbHYgzi0hLYWtcXYh8SWpgIf9oo0kMN39-Sa27ohFCn1dGD3FFNT4TQ6tvA7QnL5FdoY

10-04-2024: I think the only question really is how much we should pay them to leave. Extraordinary really that even at $100K each it would be cheaper than keeping them! It would be easy to find the money after all by scrapping the whole ‘climate’ boondoggle: https://richardsonpost.com/mark-moncrieff/35561/remigration-a-policy-idea/

10-04-2024: Who knew? “The increased use of biofuels has forced global food prices up by 75%...The global demand for biofuels has led to deforestation with the inevitable release of significant amounts of smoke and carbon dioxide. Millions of acres of monoculture plantations are spreading across the globe on land once teeming with bush and wildlife. And not a peep of protest from green zealots” https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/35585/the-is-biofuel-lunacy/

08-04-2024: One clever bird – whistles better than me: https://twitter.com/i/status/1777048358378451317

08-04-2024: Sadly, this is meaningless (good) advice for Australian women who have no right to defend themselves: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/revolvers_for_women_aren_t_such_a_great_idea.html

08-04-2024: Maybe Switzerland has the right idea? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/switzerland-hold-referendum-devastating-consequences-mass-immigration-could/

08-04-2024: Too woke by far. Next they will ban ‘Tales of a Rat Hunting Man’ : https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/06/smiling-man-poses-with-wyoming-wolf-muzzle-taped-shortly-before-it-was-killed/

07-04-2024: 60 years on we still don’t know who shot JFK: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/exclusive-shot-front-that-hit-jfks-right-temporal/

07-04-2024: ‘You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out’. Are we doomed yet? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/40000-lives-lost-for-what/

07-04-2024: But please sir, without coal or nuclear where is the electricity to come from? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/just-as-power-grids-struggle-the-ai-and-ev-electricity-monsters-turn-up-for-breakfast/

07-04-2024: Good on you JK: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/author-j-k-rowling-continues-advocate-women-i/

06-04-2024: Stoveless hiking meals: https://ontrackmeals.com/?fbclid=IwAR3KKiY41nkyRn72B-3sNXYgArj7GbRQH40nzdNiEh7mw_Ml1bUmWYf6Zuo_aem_AV71Z2vilds9rp-CCD6S-fzv5ewkEtz_vzSwPReAIS905W8IZzVJSVyZ6_L2jlHOOcaqvNerLMGhW6RCB6HdMlBd

06-04-2024: “Going green now means taking away shopping bags, gas stoves, and cars. And also killing gorillas.” https://www.frontpagemag.com/save-the-planet-kill-the-gorillas/

06-04-2024: Absolutely: https://danaloesch.substack.com/p/where-were-these-ceasefire-bleeding

06-04-2024: Just Wow! https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-in-the-lab-with-vibrating-molecules?fbclid=IwAR06NAqOepzYsiCqgTj93r0VJY5RJoPPFDWk0TrqUbCj_0TOhId_OKmdNlA

05-04-2024: Interesting new evidence of ancient journeys: https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/the-mystery-of-the-cocaine-mummies

05-04-2024: So, what’s right with digital ID? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/digital-id-dystopia-you-do-not-solve-incompetence-with-tyranny/

05-04-2024: Wanting the best of both worlds: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/canadian-man-legal-battle-get-free-vaginoplasty-while/

05-04-2024: Have you heard about “Toyota’s 1:6:90 rule which states that for the same amount of raw materials to manufacture one EV, Toyota can make six plug-in hybrids or 90 hybrids, and in doing so would achieve 37 times the emissions reduction of a single EV”? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/03/444000-semi-loads-of-food-just-another-day-on-planet-earth/

04-04-2024: So you want to live to be 100: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/what-we-eat-on-ikaria-greek-island-of-longevity.html

04-04-2024: Hard to disagree with a single word of Richard Dawkins’: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/04/02/dawkins-i-like-the-world-christianity-created-even-though-i-dont-believe-it-n3785823

04-04-2024: (Why) the ‘war of the sexes’ is hotting up, “Notably, though, young men were more anti-feminist than older men…a Polish man can expect to work three times longer than he will live post-retirement, while for a Polish woman, the ratio is 1.4…a Polish man can expect to work three times longer than he will live post-retirement, while for a Polish woman, the ratio is 1.4”: https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/why-young-men-and-women-are-drifting-apart-101710433409016.html

04-04-2024: Since when did we need a do-nothing commie feminist as GG? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/not-in-australias-best-interest-pauline-hanson-takes-aim-at-appointment-of-samantha-mostyn-as-governorgeneral/news-story/068ff4f323c67b6c5d65db5086a44419

03-04-2024: Why do we do things that are bad for us? https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/mar/21/why-we-do-things-bad-for-us-impulse-habits-akrasia?fbclid=IwAR1TYqfePepOPJawct-FixiqXqBeGaBz5VvMrO_bAFG49mLx6StXzYgluO0

03-04-2024: Kowtowing to China: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/shh-nobody-mention-why-china-launched-that-trade-war-on-australia/

03-04-2024: This is very sad: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/human-sacrifice-today

03-04-2024: Energy Clowns - our energy efficient masters: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/plane-hypocrisy-mystery-of-albo-and-bowens-separate-jet-trips-to-attend-the-same-event/news-story/c0b18a3d5d9ab90ff90d80f11288ac9e

01-04-2024: A beautiful Easter treat: https://twitter.com/i/status/1515656764225728518

01-04-2024: How reliable are renewables? Imagine something like this happening to a coal-fired plant: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/2500-football-fields-of-new-solar-panels-destroyed-by-hail-in-texas-this-week/

01-04-2024: The climate zealots (and other busybodies) are determined to destroy ‘private property’. Under the covid madness after all even your own body ceased to be your own ‘property’ and could be (illegally) mandated to receive experimental vaccines or other medical products willy-nilly. Many folks are still suffering from that one (if they survived it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/30/organized-theft-in-the-name-of-government-bidens-executive-order-14008-locks-away-30-of-u-s-land-by-2030-under-the-pretext-of-protecting-the-planet/

01-04-2024: We need more rules: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/unnecessary-overkill-fears-nsw-government-move-to-restrict-caravan-use-in-backyards-will-worsen-the-housing-crisis/news-story/0a21d4181f38951b4e5b2c1d6c6409f0

31-03-2024: As if results ought not to be adjusted according to how quickly candidates were able to arrive at the correct answer: https://moonbattery.com/students-cheat-on-sat-by-faking-disability/

31-03-2024: For once I agree with a Labor Premier: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68681256

31-03-2024: Well said Irfaan Ali : https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/the-president-of-guyana-gives-bbc-host-a-lecture-on-climate-change/

31-03-2024: Biden replaces Easter Sunday with Transgender Visibility Day - or sicko day as some would call it: https://moonbattery.com/easter-replaced-by-transgender-visibility-day/

30-03-2024: What an obvious lot of bull – as if we didn’t already have too much government. And what a triumph of democracy: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/more-than-90-per-cent-of-eligible-indigenous-voters-choose-not-to-vote-in-south-australia-voice-to-parliament/news-story/a926d4d1f085b58191e8bedcb5daf8cc

30-03-2024: Well said, Pauline: https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1773033166896554443

I like her five point plan: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13233925/The-astonishing-graph-highlights-immigration-soared-Pauline-Hansons-five-step-solution.html

30-03-2024: Argentina to sack 70,000 publuic servants – we need several Pres Mileis in Oz as we can barely move because of the veritable plague of them: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/theres-lot-more-chainsaw-argentine-president-milei-fire-70000-government-workers

30-03-2024: Where are the adults in the room? “It isn’t hard to picture an Israel that is sermonized, impeded and prevented from dealing with Hamas the way the U.S. dealt with Al-Qaeda and ISIS a few years back—an Israel forced into defeat. If that came to pass, what would happen? Hamas would declare victory—on the verge of defeat, then the next minute revived. These criminals against humanity would emerge from their tunnels triumphant after playing with the lives not only of the 250 Israelis captured on Oct. 7, but also of their own citizens, whom they transformed into human shields” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-rafah-crossing

29-03-2024: Was this a ‘black swan’ event everyone has been warning will happen soon? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/was-it-accident-lara-logan-intel-sources-claim/

29-03-2024: What ‘The Voice’ would have prevented? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/if-only-the-yes-voice-vote-got-up.html

29-03-2024: “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history” but let’s be pro-Hamas anyway: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286

29-03-2024: Dick Smith was quite simply absolutely correct: You can’t run a country on wind and solar. Impossible. Full Stop: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/officialdom-responds-to-doubts-that-a-renewables-based-electricity-system-will-work/

28-03-2024: A professional level ‘pocket’ camera: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/micro-mirrorless-yashica-im-back

28-03-2024: The latest penis enlargement scam: https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/23/penis-botox-san-francisco-upsize/

28-03-2024: “I Was Wrong About Renewables,” Says Former Green Energy Executive.: https://public.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-renewables-says

28-03-2024: New AI forecasting – worth a try. Rain on the way, they say: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts

27-03-2024: If gender is a social construction, why would we not believe that transgender identities are socially constructed: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/judith-butlers-phantasms

27-03-2024: Enough of this ‘National Curriculum’ b------t and let’s really ‘get back to basics’ in education: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/dreamtime-maths/

27-03-2024: Who thought? ‘Misinformation’ like ‘climate change’ & etc, etc is just another commie plot: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/misinformation-experts-are-almost-all-left-wing-and-they-want-to-censor-you/

27-03-2024: You can just drive your country off a cliff without being able to swerve or hit the brakes: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/fatal-flaws-exposed-in-the-net-zero-transition-what-is-to-be-done/

26-03-2024: 80 years since the Great Escape: https://www.voanews.com/a/poland-marks-80th-anniversary-of-great-escape-from-nazi-pow-camp-/7540775.html

26-03-2024: Life on the world’s most crowded island: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-13165615/most-crowded-island-santa-cruz-del-islote-life-expectancy.html

26-03-2024: Well said Topher, “According to Topher, the church in Australia had replaced God with the government, allowing state institutions to assume roles traditionally attributed to divine providence. Drawing parallels to the Old Testament, Topher argued that the government had encroached upon domains reserved for God, such as providing wisdom and healing” https://www.rebelnews.com/topher_field_s_call_for_christians_to_reject_idolatry

26-03-2024: We are certainly worried about the imminent shut-down of the 3G network, as here 4G has never worked and we are not convinced that transferring the 3G frequencies to 5G will make the situation better. Every change made to the mobile phone network since they shut down the original analogue network and replaced it with CDMA back last century has led to poorer coverage for us: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/malcolm-roberts-call-for-an-enquiry-into-the-3g-mobile-phone-network-shutdown.html

25-03-2024: Bless you Tony Abbott. Please be our PM again: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/tony-abbott-warns-against-complacency-in-the-face-of-creeping-wokeness/

25-03-2024: Enemy of the Public. And unfortunately they are right: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/60-of-the-us-say-the-media-are-the-enemy/

25-03-2024: Who are Isis-K and why do they hate Russia and Iran? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/23/moscow-concert-hall-attack-why-is-isil-targeting

25-03-2024: Snow in Saudi Arabia which is working to improve its mountain tourism with its own ski resort to be built by 2026: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/24/unusual-cold-plagues-both-northern-southern-hemispheres-arctic-sea-ice-strengthens/

24-03-2024: Way to go: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-exercise-pill-could-induce-fitness-benefits-without-exercise?fbclid=IwAR0kFSa1JdhQAmf0VTxAMv49Up9pOuVTlsFIUtJ5gcp-1Gu_dEO_OqpphL8

24-03-2024: New Aussie Cottage Gear: I have recently discovered this excellent new Aussie cottage outfit, Neve Gear. They currently make and sell backpacks and quilts/sleeping bags – but I doubt it will end there.

They are young, having a go and deserve your support. They are making fine products which are competitively priced and as they are local (NSW) their service is excellent.

I have had a look at one of their packs as well as one of their quilts. I will come to the Waratah Quilt in a later post.

First, the Wallaroo Framed 45 Litre Pack at 775 grams and A$299 (Jan 2024): 41 (internal = small) is about ten litres smaller than I usually like, as most of my trips are multi-dayers usually with dogs, nd I usually carry a bit more than my 50% share when walking with my wife, Della who is only 5′ and 40kg.

However, it is an excellent size for her. It would also be a fine size for an ultralight weekend pack. The size large is 7 litres bigger than this, ie 48. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/03/23/new-aussie-cottage-gear/

Nevegear Wallaroo Pack

24-03-2024: Vale Jack Fitzgibbon – once the Labor Party used to represent the best of working class Australians but I suspect Joel was the very last of them: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/joel-fitzgibbon-opens-up-about-son-jacks-tragic-death-and-thanks-supporters/news-story/4e8efb34a925b5095f64f8c06bb0dfa4

24-03-2024: Isis, Taliban, Hamas, Boko Haram – does it matter? The problem is clearly Islam. The West (I include Russia) must end the replacement of its population and culture with these barbarians. Civilisation itself is at stake. The main mystery though is why Russia ignored US warnings about this attack: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/developing-shock-videos-show-attack-moscow-region-concert/

23-03-2024: You really need one of these stackable boats – do watch the videos. You will probably buy two! Ah, Facebook ads – hours of fun and entertainment. https://suaoud.com/products/IIIlllI?fbclid=IwAR0BbhxUiwsR6Ys8k-vNB2tBCE9vip7T2JGNN-Ewktzbs8udXYJMuURCM8s_aem_ARu6UND6_y4YhQ8gukwqHlt5kqAhjimOL1Yt7knO8oDjBPPdeMZNkhZR2x9AFU9ydkYNVHEZpaOIeELolF1s1VW0

23-03-2024: This wonderful Martin Durkin movie (at last) reveals the truth about ‘climate’. Everyone should see this. You might be surprised to learn that pretty much at no time in the last 500 million years has the earth been as cool as it is now - and CO2 levels today are close to as low as it has ever been (in say 600 million years). Eat you heart out Al Gore: https://seed122.bitchute.com/LrafRVYaZYlT/ONMGnSiOLhjG.mp4

23-03-2024: Women really should not have to share their bathrooms with people like this: https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/business/planet-fitness-assigns-staffer-to-assist-transgender-client-in-womens-locker-room/

23-03-2024: This is more than unfortunate: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/true.html

22-03-2024: Wow! In Japan they are introducing a ban on blood donation from covid vaccinated individuals! https://thehighwire.com/editorial/japanese-researchers-warn-about-using-blood-transfusions-from-covid-19-mrna-jab-recipients/

22-03-2024: In Australia we do not have the right to ‘free speech’ but in the US the citizen’s right to it is protected (from the government) by the First Amendment to the constitution – a very good idea – but one leftist Supreme Court judge thinks that the first amendment ‘hamstrings’ government’s right to censor and control information. Well, Duh! https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ketanji-brown-jackson-defenestrates-first-amendment

22-03-2024: If you have squatters you need squatter hunters. Well done guys: https://notthebee.com/article/a-team-of-squatter-hunters-in-california-is-using-the-squatting-laws-to-reacquire-property-for-homeowners

22-03-2024: Do EVs make you sick too? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/evs-make-some-people-carsick/

21-03-2024: What a great story: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240319-89-year-old-woman-travelling-world-solo

21-03-2024: Once these tech giants became a threat to freedom and democracy their activities and reach needed to be reeled in by legislation: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/study-google-has-interfered-u-s-elections-41/

21-03-2024: Why buy a dog and bark yourself? https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/govts-removal-of-intelligence-bosses-from-national-security-committee-is-reckless-hastie/ar-BB1k5xya Replaced with a ‘climate’ expert’!

21-03-2024: Why buy a house when you can get one for free? https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/vigilantes-try-to-evict-squatters-at-1m-queens-house-after-homeowner-adele-andaloro-is-arrested/

20-03-2024: Subsidies for ‘renewables’ are now at $16 billion a year but have hugely increased the cost of energy and reduced its reliability. Most of our coal-fired stations could be kept going for over a decade. During that time they could all be replaced by spending that $16 billion building new ones (or nuclear) to provide cheap reliable energy into the future – and remember that new HELE stations produce <40% of the CO2 that existing ones do. Surely a win-win situation: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/energy/2024/03/energy-policy-and-how-to-fix-it/

20-03-2024: ‘The truth will out’ – but not soon enough! We need something like this: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/we-need-an-aussie-samizdat-prize/

20-03-2024: We ignore the needs of the ‘profession of arms’ at our extreme peril: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/03/why-the-adf-risks-failure-in-the-next-war/

20-03-2024: “Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does not benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill” Our own population has increased by 8 million this century – largely from immigration: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/princeton_economist_with_a_nobel_under_his_belt_eats_crow_and_does_a_uturn_on_mass_migration.html

19-03-2024: Stuff you need to know: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/17/international-living-budget-friendly-places-live-abroad.html

19-03-2024: More proof leftism is a form of mental illness; after all the very definition of mental illness is delusion or seeing, hearing, thinking things that aren’t there so thinking men are women for example is an obvious case in point, but then wanting to continue life as an infant being provided for by a (beneficent) mummy state is a similar symptom. By the same token belief in a God must also rank: https://www.psypost.org/study-woke-attitudes-linked-to-anxiety-depression-and-a-lack-of-happiness/

19-03-2024: Here are some more proofs of insanity: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/five-signs-weve-reached-peak-stupid-in-australia/news-story/540ca24e517112765a86cc3a3cff207b

19-03-2024: “The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults and will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history”. This guy used to be a climate warrior but he has seen the light: https://public.substack.com/p/the-wpath-files

18-03-2024: It’s a dog’s life: https://uk.style.yahoo.com/identify-dog-bathroom-outside-sleep-142324135.html?

18-03-2024: A fascinating essay. We have so much to learn from the past: “Wokeness, like Catharism, is essentially about the radical subversion of normal human life in the name of a paranoid metaphysical delusion. Like Catharism, its fashionableness has nevertheless found it support among a large segment of the wealthy and powerful” https://www.postliberalorder.com/p/wokism-is-the-new-face-of-an-old

18-03-2024: How to grow tomatoes #101! Just as adding another layer of glass to your greenhouse won’t warm it even a tiny bit: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/17/negligible-future-warming-from-co2-ch4-n2o/

18-03-2024: The good that ‘indigenous health care’ can do if implemented widely enough: https://moonbattery.com/indigenous-knowledge-based-healthcare-kills-50-in-angola/

17-03-2024: Why not have ‘Property of the ---Government stamped on your forehead at birth? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/hohmann-another-country-announces-it-will-require-its/

17-03-2024: If India can exclude Moslems why can’t we? To do otherwise will simply lead to the end of our civilization: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/35236/india-excludes-muslims/

17-03-2024: Obviously if you expect students to learn they must have discipline. Why did we ever go wrong on this. In England they are beginning to turn this around: https://archive.is/pt9Q7

17-03-2024: The great cooling – where are we heading? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/15/the-holocene-climatic-optimum-and-the-pre-industrial/

16-03-2024: The new immortality – worth giving it a go? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a46330487/immortality-breakthrough/

16-03-2024: In praise of Haitian cannibals, “Not only are these fellows reducing the overcrowdedness of the world’s human population, but they’ve also developed a sustainable food source that will lessen their dependence on livestock” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/15/friday-funny-john-kerry-praises-haitian-cannibals-efforts-to-reduce-humanitys-carbon-footprint/

16-03-2024: Police have lost the plot in Canada (and elsewhere) I suggest a large sign saying, ‘Thieves will be shot’ would be more effective: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/trudeaus-canada-canadian-police-advise-leaving-car-keys/

16-03-2024: Why sort your garbage? https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse

15-03-2024: Who knew sheep could grow so big? As if it isn’t hard enough to get shearers already: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/13/montana-man-80-nailed-by-feds-for-creating-mutant-hybrid-bighorns/

15-03-2024: Urban agriculture – or the increasing madness of the Left: https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/03/maoist-new-york-goes-to-pol-pot-with.html

15-03-2024: ‘Aboriginal’ houses to be built for $1.5 million each where no-one ought to live and when aboriginal housing has a ‘normal’ life expectancy of less than a decade as against over a century for the rest of us (and we pay for our own). What nonsense: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/this-plan-is-just-another-consequence-of-the-failed-leftist-fantasy-that-traditional-aboriginal-ways-are-best/news-story/5e8ec90a73678f5b1917cd19d9b2e26c

15-03-2024: Maybe you want them but I don’t. “For the first time in 40 years, per capita GDP has gone down for four consecutive quarters, Australians at an individual level are in recession” : https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/migration-surge-a-disaster-for-families-as-january-records-highest-arrival-intake-yet/news-story/61317f9f53bbb56c9b52e91935689445

14-03-2024: How to Create Water for Your Camp Site: We may prefer to think we will always be able to camp by some peaceful verdant stream but sometimes our path leads us elsewhere - sometimes indeed there are splendid adventures to be had and beautiful vistas to see where there is no water at all - some treasured remote and solitary spot which we wish to revisit again and again maybe… It would be so nice if we could just make water from thin air so that it is always available and never runs out...There is such a method. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/03/13/how-to-create-water-for-your-camp-site/

14-03-2024: Remarkable: 72 years in an ‘iron lung’: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68555051

14-03-2024: Like so many outback towns Alice Springs has become a hell-hole. Once Bourke was the Paris of the West (C19th) but now it has more crime than South Africa. This is all the Left’s fault (think Whitlam to begin with) for putting all these folks on ‘sit-down money’ and engendering a ‘victimhood’ culture instead of one of self-reliance and earned worth: https://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/carnage-alice-springs-anticrime-campaigner-robbed-in-sleep-during-alleged-home-invasion/news-story/c65d3e9c6039c328ee67039246507b23

14-03-2024: As the great Milton Friedman observed, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.” Try it and you will have an ever-expanding population of parasites who refuse to work while ever more foreigners must be imported to get menial work done. https://moonbattery.com/how-to-find-workers-under-the-welfare-state/

14-03-2024: Is this Government even worse than Gough Whitlam’s? Good question Andrew. Unfortunately the answer is, ‘Yes’. At least Gough had a few redeeming features (eloquence, some stature and a sense of humour). Albo is simply a pathetic Marxist moron: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/how-many-mistakes-can-a-minister-make-before-anthony-albanese-finally-sacks-them/news-story/794b72e423da7f3823d09a884756acdd

13-03-2024: Well done Katherine: https://www.popsci.com/story/space/katherine-johnson-legacy-nasa/

13-03-2024: Who exactly are ‘the elders’ we should ‘acknowledge’ – and is Bruce Pascoe (for example) one of them? All this is racist undemocratic rubbish which should be discarded immediately: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/03/hoax-springs-eternal/

13-03-2024: Finally everyone believes the end of the world is nigh: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/prepping-for-disaster-diversifies-as-more-americans-lose-trust

12-03-2024: Welcome back Ozymandias: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ramses-ii-statue-top-half-2448010

12-03-2024: “This is not just bad luck…At Federation, Australians were, per capita, the world’s second-richest people…We are now the 20th, our ranking in constant decline. Contrast Singapore…Singaporeans are today more than twice as wealthy. With low taxes and widely available housing, their disposable income is double ours… Australia’s population has ‘ballooned’ by 8.1 million people (43 per cent) this century alone”: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/biggest-drop-in-living-standards-in-two-decades/

12-03-2024: Why not send them more aid Joe: https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/world-news/5-crushed-to-death-after-airdropped-gaza-aid-packages-parachute-fails-to-deploy/

12-03-2024: Beware the Two Party system: George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election in the UK outpolling both Labour and Conservatives. He is living proof that there are many other ways to think about politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

Similarly. Past time this happened here too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/portugal-populist-chega-party-surges-quadruples-number-seats/

11-03-2024: Any further reduction of CO2 levels risks the end of life on earth as we know it. This has happened before: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/10/how-co2-starvation-caused-the-greatest-extinction-event/

11-03-2024: 34C today! They have cancelled Moomba because we are having a perfectly normal warm day (for the time of year).

11-03-2024: At least today’s modern murderer understands which bin to dispose of a body in – clearly did not want a fine for placing it in the ‘general rubbish’. A body is recyclable after all: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/buckley-mother-chaithanya-swetha-madhaganis-body-found-in-wheelie-bin-as-husband-may-have-fled-overseas/news-story/d52cefd68be4352b75418b41e58596cb

11-03-2024: Living off the fat of the land: “Big government comes at a price. ..In June 2019 there were 242,000 Commonwealth public servants on the books. In June last year, there were 350,000, an increase of 44 per cent…Yet Australia, too, would be in recession were it not for sustained government spending and the government's lax immigration policy. Indeed, Australia is already in a per-capita recession, with a decline in Gross Domestic Product per person for the third consecutive quarter…” We need a ‘new broom’ such as Milei of Argentina who is taking a chainsaw to excess government and has (for example) already more than halved government departments: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/relentless-expansion-of-australias-public-service-since-the-covid-pandemic-a-slap-in-the-face-to-families-fighting-the-costofliving-crisis/news-story/e5aac20d5503dc16f7763d70b0dff2f8

10-03-2024: The worst government in Australia’s history (one that makes Rudd/Gillard seem positively roseate) just got much, much worse: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/beware-the-nature-positive-plan/

10-03-2024: ‘The great replacement’ – a trend I would like to see reversed: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/35187/malcolm-roberts-flags-net-zero-migration/

10-03-2024: Over two thirds of Irish people have rejected the two referenda which sought to redefine what ‘family’ and ‘motherhood’ mean: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/family-care-referendums-2024-live-32311958

10-03-2024: Quit already. Let it pass: “Rumination—a persistent introspection and compulsive focus on one’s internal sensations, thoughts, or identity—is a hallmark of anxiety disorders of various kinds, including depersonalization-derealization. People who engage in compulsive introspection can become increasingly uncertain, anxious, and confused” https://quillette.com/2024/03/08/identity-satiation/

09-03-2024: If we really had ‘truth telling’ we would learn that there was no ‘stolen generation, no genocide and that colonisation was largely a beneficial process: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2024/03/truth-and-consequences/

09-03-2024: The green left is increasingly at war with its own ideology – all the more reason to dismiss all their demands outright: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/tesla-gigafactory-attacked-in-germany-not-by-fans-of-petrol-but-left-wing-eco-extremists/

09-03-2024: ‘Nuts in May’. Back in 1976 this movie was a hilarious spoof on what was then extreme woke eccentricity, but now that the ‘nuts’ have won it is not so funny. However Keith and Candice Marie Pratt are wonderful characters and the film is beautifully thought out. Still worth a watch just to shown ‘Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-dx09puVk

09-03-2024: MH370’s barnacles (as scientists said when they were first found) may suggest revisiting the theory that the plane flew along an entirely different route and that the supposed ‘debris’ was planted by someone at a much later date. Nonetheless this is a mystery which must e solved: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mh370-search-debris-barnacles.html

08-03-2024: Remember when “there was a huge push, obviously, across the industrialized nations to push women into the workforce and that had to be dressed up as equality, as feminism”? Now in Ireland there is a push to erase motherhood from their constitution, viz: “The state recognizes that by her life within the home, the woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved. The state shall therefore endeavor to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged, by economic necessity, to engage in labor to the neglect of their duties in the home.” Is this really progress? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/tucker-carlson-how-do-you-convince-women-give/

08-03-2024: Mohamed robot comedy break: https://twitter.com/texan_maga/status/1765388747057639873

08-03-2024: My thoughts exactly, “60 per cent unattractive” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-13159931/what-nude-cruise-like-photos-luggage.html

08-03-2024: Get ready for the horror – and remember how back in spring they predicted the driest three months ever? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/clowns.html

07-03-2024: Farmers in Poland march against eco-terrorism. We need more of this: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/55134

07-03-2024: Someone else’s problem. The fatal attractiveness of ‘other people’s money’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/poll_45_of_young_voters_unwilling_to_spend_10month_to_fight_climate_change_despite_it_apparently_being_a_top_priority.html

07-03-2024: “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” Give the bullies a king hit – gaol, public whipping, execution…you get it: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-courts-police-wont-protect-us-from-new-breed-of-bullies/news-story/18a35ee226477da50adb598170b01103

07-03-2024: “After all, why would black customers need to take a course about ‘white privilege’ to get a 20% discount?” Woke ‘capitalism’ gone mad – I predict the demise of North Face: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/north-face-blasted-after-offering-20-per-cent-discount-to-customers-who-take-racial-inclusion-course-completely-bonkers/news-story/e042b526c005c152c08bc20b780b8b54

06-03-2024: If you are the ‘correct’ kind of immigrant you can say whatever you like but not if you are a middle class white man: https://www.gbnews.com/news/sam-melia-free-speech-activists-outraged-jailed-far-right-stickers

06-03-2024: What takes us so long? Even making up our so-called minds takes decades. Once we were a nation of doers too. “50 years ago the French built 56 reactors in just 15 years and most of the reactors were built in 6-8 years.”: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/french-built-a-reactor-in-7-years-in-1976-but-modern-australia-needs-decades/

06-03-2024: Now we learn EVs are a 1000 times more polluting: https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-losing-tread

06-03-2024: Duh! Thanks Mr Plod: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/victoria-police-union-boss-warns-raising-age-of-criminal-responsibility-could-lead-police-unable-to-keep-the-community-safe/news-story/0b159d4e0a28b684a0f08cf7a66ecde8

04-03-2024: The Rolls Royce of Ultralight Saws: https://suluk46.com/product/yuka-240-pull-saw/

04-03-2024: If the future is green hydrogen why does it need a 90% subsidy? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/29/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-unsalable/

04-03-2024: It was inevitable really. ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’ (Newton): https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/opinion/boys-are-turning-conservative-to-rebel-against-woke-parents/

04-03-2024: Spot on: https://babylonbee.com/news/little-girl-dreams-of-one-day-being-ugly-enough-to-be-target-model

03-03-2024: Another way to look at dogs: A Lean Dog Irene Rutherford McLeod

I’m a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;  
I’m a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;  
I’m a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;  
I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.  

I’ll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet,  
A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat,  
Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate,  
But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff and kick, and hate.   

Not for me the other dogs, running by my side,  
Some have run a short while, but none of them would bide.  
O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best,  
Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest!”

03-03-2024: Portable wind turbine for hikers: An interesting idea but probably just a thought bubble: http://nilsferber.de/#/micro-wind-turbine/

03-03-2024: Latest Israeli ‘massacre’ is another Hamas lie: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/386044

03-03-2024: Understanding how the warmists cook the weather up to being ‘hottest ever’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/01/exclusive-a-third-of-u-k-met-office-temperature-stations-may-be-wrong-by-up-to-5c-foi-reveals/

02-03-2024: The Big Four on a Budget: Too many people are spending too much money on their hiking/hunting gear instead of just getting out there and doing it. Instead of spending maybe $600 on just your sleeping bag, this should be enough to buy a sturdy comfy pack, a reliable shelter, a lightweight sub-zero down bag, a similar sleeping mat, a kitchen set-up and a raincoat, ie practically all you are going to need. I know that is six!

Also all these (cheap) items taken together ought weigh no more than about 3kg. You might be able to save as much as 500 grams (say two muesli bars) on that figure by spending a couple of thousand dollars more yet have no more satisfactory set-up, if as satisfactory or durable. Why bother? Get out and enjoy. You only pass this way once. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/03/01/the-big-four-on-a-budget/

02-03-2024: The future is bots talking to bots: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-floods-the-internet/103498070?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf271932849&utm_campaign=abc_science&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf271932849=1&fbclid=IwAR2VLeYZ9JG7af5cB0zAACO2WrbeFGDmb3n9qXycCBEeFEF_cpvXlEK1xuc

02-03-2024: “Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes. Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate” https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/29/american-paralysis-and-decline/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=121591

02-03-2024: In defence of private property: https://moonbattery.com/welcome-to-a-world-without-property-rights/

01-03-2024: What surprises me is that more lawyers aren’t murdered: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/man-79-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-solicitor-77-after-daylight-shooting-at-van-cooney-lawyers-in-sydney-cbd/news-story/8c15eccee5b3c11c96fd578b91383b26

01-03-2024: AI is just another example of the communists marching through the institutions: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/googles-biased-ai-gemini-refuses-to-write-poem-about-conservative-commentator-andrew-bolt-due-to-potential-harm-while-describing-clementine-ford-and-lisa-wilkinson-as-champions/news-story/1cb8a30612be297d5bf3da275a9e8627

01-03-2024: The problem with Burney’s ‘truth telling’ is how much better off everyone was after 26th Jan 1788 by becoming legally equal British citizens: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/linda-burneys-truthtelling-process-will-censor-the-teaching-of-australian-history-for-generations-to-come/news-story/cd5e64f6636635e31c1dfda033eb45fb

01-03-2024: Too many people have forgotten how illegitimate the current Ukrainian government actually is: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/35067/russian-aggression-was-provoked/

29-02-2024: Past time we had a law like this – so over all these divisive flags: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13132449/Tennessee-bans-pride-flags-school-classrooms.html

29-02-2024: Of course our blackouts were ‘a man-made disaster’ – and there will be many more of them before (if) we come to our senses: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/victoria-blackouts-looking-more-like-a-manmade-disaster-andrew-bolt/video/7296b8d3210b70270b26ee9adef7e374

29-02-2024: Maybe you voted for this but I certainly didn’t: https://moonbattery.com/hiv-creep-feeds-chemically-induced-secretions-to-baby/

29-02-2024: Get ready to say ‘Goodbye’ to your loo: https://moonbattery.com/moonbats-come-after-toilets/

28-02-2024: Can this be a good thing? “Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these--rice, wheat, and corn--now provide fifty percent of all our calories” https://bookshop.org/p/books/eating-to-extinction-the-world-s-rarest-foods-and-why-we-need-to-save-them-dan-saladino/16945167

28-02-2024: ‘Green’ hydrogen makes no economic sense: https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/opinion/why-green-hydrogen-is-all-hot-air/

28-02-2024: These are welcome developments but there are thousands of people in Australia dreadfully inhjured (or dead) from these compulsory vaccines not to mention our once free society completely lost to us due to the process: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/some-wins-vaccine-mandates-for-police-and-ambulance-drivers-ruled-a-breach-of-human-rights/

28-02-2024: The way it is: The Left demands millions of human sacrifices to appease the gods of climate change: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/the_left_demands_millions_of_human_sacrifices_to_appease_the_gods_of_climate_change.html

26-02-2024: Too right: “If we are to have a peaceful, united society, multiculturalism must be thrown on the scrapheap of failed utopian theories” : https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2024/02/prophet-and-loss-2/

26-02-2024: AI and race: https://moonbattery.com/google-ai-erases-caucasians/

The (extreme) left is pulling all the AI strings: https://moonbattery.com/google-ai-defends-pedophilia/

26-02-2024: A most dreadful misuse of lawfare: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/the_persecution_of_donald_trump_means_turning_ordinary_activities_into_crimes.html

26-02-2024: There goes the last taboo: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/why-is-the-new-scientist-defending-cannibalism/

25-02-2024: The former head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, said in a recent interview that "Europeans will succumb to Islam". If Europeans wish to avoid such a future and keep their culture, they need to start making that outcome unmistakably clear to everyone, not just by words but by actions. If not, what we are seeing could well mean the end of the European civilization as we know it. https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/gatestone-institutes-shocking-report-on-the-loss-of-french-civilisation.html

25-02-2024: Absolutely: “Mr Dutton…Come out with a bold set of policies on immigration, the school curriculum, free speech, sanity on energy policies and the like. Oh, and copy Canada’s Tory opposition leader Pierre Poilievre who has also said he’ll cut the CBC’s budget (equivalent to our ABC) in half. His boldness in policy terms and in taking on the left-leaning media has him up 12 to 15 points in the polls” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/faint-heart-never-won-fair-lady/

25-02-2024: Teaching used to be about encouraging students to explore and assess the worth of a range of views, but no longer. I prided myself on the fact that my students never knew what my personal views were, some thinking I was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan, others that I was to the left of Karl Marx: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2024/02/comrade-teacher-young-minds-are-yours/

25-02-2024: How much do you want your Apps spying on you? I will be going through mine with a fine toothed comb. ‘Brave’ is a certainty. I did not know about Proton Mail or Signal. More investigation needed. Maybe even consider an alternative operating system to Android? https://reason.com/2024/02/21/government-is-snooping-on-your-phone/

24-02-2024: The US has returned to the moon: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/intuitive-machines-lunr-im-1-moon-landing-for-nasa.html

24-02-2024: Where (and how) our freedom went. Just continue to fight back folks: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/what-im-describing-is-military-rule/

24-02-2024: “On the northeast wall of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, is carved a short extract that Thomas Jefferson had drafted for a bill on establishing religious freedom. Its preamble provides the philosophical justification for why the First Amendment is ranked first: “Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them’”. https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/02/19/the_hockey_stick_trial_science_dies_in_a_dc_courtroom_1012630.html

24-02-2024: Did you know CO2 levels are too dangerously close to the point where life on earth all dies: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/23/a-curious-paleo-puzzle/

23-02-2024: Now that is a near miss: https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1760316085784772631

23-02-2024: An excellent summing up, “You have a far greater chance of dying before your time from socialist stupidity than climate change.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/real-climate-science/

23-02-2024: The Taliban has got one thing right. Relatives are allowed to publicly execute the criminals who murdered their loved ones: https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-carry-double-public-execution-085859517.html

23-02-2024: The other side of the Navalny story. I particularly ‘like’ the conclusion, : “These evil characters just told us last week they want to ‘peacefully’ kill 7 billion of us, and they’ve been telling us how they intend to do it since 1968 (Limits to Growth, published by The Club of Rome). Sir Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei were clear. They would use war, disease, and a knowingly false narrative of fear they called Global Warming to scare us into being willing to die without a fight” : https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/34978/globalists-to-start-ww-iii-over-russian-spy-navalny/

22-02-2024: Nominate people for these: https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Flab-grown-testicles%2F

22-02-2024: The way forward perhaps: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15154331

22-02-2024: EVs are in big trouble. Elsewhere governments are starting to pull back from this green madness but here in Australia this morning I was listening to the National Party leader still extolling Net Zero and renewables. Where will the public have to turn for salvation from this? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/ev-bubble-popping-us-backs-away-from-forced-ev-sales-targets/

22-02-2024: A quick retrospective of Hayek’s ‘Road to Serfdom’, one of the C20th most important (overlooked) books: https://fee.org/articles/the-essence-of-the-road-to-serfdom-in-cartoons/

21-02-2024: Milei: One of the great speeches of all time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/milei-slays-davos/

21-02-2024: About those Russian sanctions: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/tucker-carlson-visits-russian-grocery-store-discovers-americans/

21-02-2024: Yes, I agree – opponents of the covid tryranny richly deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. We have never before seen such an indecent decent into such awful tyranny, unless you have forgotten, “People were told when they could shop, the hours during which they could shop, what they could purchase, how close they could get to others, and which direction they could move in by following arrows on the floor. We experienced the wholesale house arrest of healthy populations; violations of bodily integrity, ‘my body my choice’, and informed consent principles; the spread of the surveillance, administrative, and biosecurity state; the treatment of people as germ-ridden disease carriers and biohazards; the sheer dehumanisation of people who just asked to be left alone; the cruelty of denying final goodbyes to dying parents and grandparents and the emotional closure of full-service funerals; joyful celebrations of weddings and birthdays; state diktats of whom we could meet (and sleep) with, how many, where and for how long; what we could buy, during which hours and from where; and the theft of children’s education and economic security by loading them with debt decades into the future.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/the-covid-resistance-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize/

21-02-2024: At last someone else realises that money is too cheap and that this is destroying the economy rather than saving it. Having been trying to live on our lifetime savings for I have been railing about this for years: “Today’s policymakers seek to avoid recessions at all costs. Hence politicians run endless fiscal deficits, no matter the debt created. Central bankers concoct countless contortions of monetary policy, dismissing the unintended consequences. Their most bizarre invention is negative interest rates, a tax on capital that makes impossible the pricing of time” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/killing-productivity/

19-02-2024: When life gives you lemons: https://au.news.yahoo.com/newport-zesty-bidding-war-sees-130515475.html

19-02-2024: The beginning of the end for the Green Blob - ESG bites the dust: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/green-tyrants-get-horrible-news-finance-giants-pull/

19-02-2024: Egypt should know - there is no sense in negotiating with Hamas: https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/02/18/theres-no-point-negotiating-with-hamas-says-egypt-n3783163

18-02-2024: Paddling into History: Last weekend we again completed one of our favourite sections on the Wonnangatta River in the new Double Packraft: Bullock Flat to Black Snake Creek. We never tire of this marvelous river.

Taking into account the long car-shuttle (from home for us) over 3 1/2 hours each way) we choose to do this over three days (two nights).

The best height is over 1.8 metres on the Waterford gauge (this time it was 1.82) and would be better still at 1.9 as the river is silting up (due to 'green environmental vandalism practices: willow removal/bushfires). The temperature was around 30C - just right to be on the river.

We used to camp there a lot around Christmastime when our three children were little thirty years ago, so it has many wonderful memories for us (and them). Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/02/18/paddling-into-history/

16-02-2024: Need a cheap house? Alibaba wins hands down. US$6500: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2-Bedroom-Portable-Living-Modular-House_1600698404410.html?spm=a2700.pcdrm.0.0.1baeZCIXZCIXdR&s=p

16-02-2024: Has Dick Smith got it about right: https://www.rebelnews.com/veteran_aussie_entrepreneur_calls_for_drastic_cut_to_immigration

Never forget: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/this-is-what-many-many-australian-muslims-celebrate.html

In further news: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/qld-african-youth-charged-over-grandmother-knife-murder-was-on-bail-for-robbery-at-the-time.html

16-02-2024: So ‘Net Zero’ will require 70% of our agricultural land in Victoria (and will not even work). Enough of this crazed idea. In the short term we need to build new coal fired power stations and in the long-term replace them with nuclear: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/victorian-govt-accidentally-admits-wind-and-solar-could-use-70-of-all-agricultural-land-in-the-state/

16-02-2024: So true: “The Dutch started 700 years ago to build dykes and levees against floods. It is now 60 years since the country’s last catastrophic flood – caused by a failure in some critical dykes”. (Bolt) And, the Zeider Zee, the only human creation so vast it can be seen from space was entirely built by hand. We need some workers like that in today’s Oz! They are the world’s Number 2 food exporter with less than .5% of the land much of it ‘rescued’ from the sea which should have long ago overwhelmed them! https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/34836/the-dutch-are-rising-again/

15-02-2024: News from Jeeralang: No power and (mostly) no internet here for days (weeks maybe) as well as many trees down over fences/roads (mostly removed by selves/locals yesterday) and the TV antenna broken (don't watch it anyway). We are glad we installed an 8 Kilowatt back up generator which we can just switch on to supply the whole house/farm needs a few years ago as we have needed it again and again. I guess we have used it for well over a month (perhaps two) now since we installed it. Strangely in my first fifty years of life I never experienced any blackouts at all. That was back when the 'great generation' was in charge! You can (perhaps) also see why we are planning to invest in a large (over 25+ kilowatt) NiFe (Nickel-Iron - they last 60+ years) battery bank and a huge 15-30 kilowatt solar array as well as a 5-10 kilowatt wind turbine over the next year or so - and maybe a mini hydro as well. Have been negotiating with suppliers in China about this for some time. Of course all of this used to be done by government but they have long since abnegated their responsibility for real duty (including alas, Defence) and endangered us all with various green and commie follies. Hope you are all safe. PS: We still have a landline which works well when the mobile service goes out as it has over the last few days (and often). We would have retained our ADSL internet but no-one supplies that any more. We will also investigate Starlink as a backup as no internet is a pain. PPS: 'Naturally' no-one from government has come to help though we did notice (while we were removing trees from the fences on the hill) a Council Officer spending half an hour placing a plastic "Trees Over Road" sign on a white post after the large downed blackwood at our front gate had been removed. 'Our taxes at work'.

13-02-2024: Interesting truth, “In the past true love has normally been the province of adultery.” But is marrying for love still a great idea? “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”- Shakespeare https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/marry-for-love?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=141572644&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

13-02-2024: Around the globe 1936 is still by far the hottest year in the iinstrumental record: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/friendly-reminder-1936-saw-hottest-temperatures-united-states/

13-02-2024: Has Kazakhstan got it about right: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13050789/Kazakhstan-surgically-remove-paedophiles-genitals-new-draft-law-complaints-chemical-castration-not-harsh-enough.html

13-02-2024: Mandela’s Legacy perhaps: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/scary-place-scary-people.html

12-02-2024: Della: Our last 3 days were delightfully spent on another nostalgic canoe trip on the Wonnangatta River, a higher section this time, from Bullock Flat down to Blacksnake Creek. Blacksnake Creek was a favourite January camp spot of ours 30 years ago when the children were young, and we spent many pleasant summers over the years paddling about with them and chilling under the walnut trees that were more abundant back then. The collage on the left below features pics of 1995, while the video and other shots on the right focus on the same places captured today: Lovely memories that left us feeling more than a little misty! (The drum still being in place after thirty years is a bit spooky).

12-02-2024: Our masters at work locking us off public lands. This is what they think a 'camping area should be. This one is right next (50 metres) to the Meyer's Flat (no camping allowed) roadside stop and toilet block - where everyone actually camps. There are others along the Wonnangatta similarly placed. If you can read the signage you will see that you have to carry your portable toilet (and all other gear) up over the stile. Sure. No cars allowed. We have two similar (with no trees) on Middle Creek in Yinnar. People are not allowed to approach the river though. Clearly these monstrosities, (created at a cost of $10-20K each no doubt) are a prelude to making camping in non-designated areas punishable. Over the years I have seen thousands of camping spots destroyed by the government. Along the Wonnangatta for example room for several hundred campers has been removed over the last thirty years - similarly on Middle Creek near Yinnar where on the upper creek there used to be acres of carefully maintained camping areas now closed and overgrown with blackberries. Our green masters are 'saving' the bush for 'future generations (as they say) by locking every generation out of its ability to enjoy this public resource.

08-02-2024: Wonnangatta ‘Murders’: Seems to me Greg Lynn was arrested for this back around November 2021 yet the case has still not gone to trial (and he remains in gaol). Now it may turn out he richly deserves such punishment but shouldn’t his guilt be established first? In ancient Athens the charge, trial and punishment all had to occur really quickly – essentially within a single day. While maybe this is too much to hope for but at very least our ‘justice’ system needs to be drastically speeded up.

08-02-2024: “And just at this moment Australia is about to bring in rules to force Australians to buy EVs so we can save the World, or make some international bankers rich, whichever comes first.” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/just-pause-for-a-moment-to-appreciate-how-fast-the-ev-transition-is-coming-undone/

08-02-2024: Can sheep drench cure your cancer? There was already evidence for the us of Fenbendazole and Levamisole - Google them. Now Ivermectin hits the centre stage. One thing’s for sure, we are all going to have fewer worms: https://makismd.substack.com/p/ivermectin-and-cancer-it-has-at-least

08-02-2024: Truth vs fiction: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/matron-hyde-made-sacrifices-for-aboriginal-children-like-none-of-these-critics-would-dream-of-making-themselves/news-story/b5db38183f0284d093a479953a8f6b18

07-02-2024: Amazon sells these houses for US$19,000: https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1754430186366624086

07-02-2024: The truth about January 6^th: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/republicans-congress-introduce-legislation-will-reaffirm-president-trump/

07-02-2024: About time: Tucker attempts to get to the bottom of the war in Ukraine: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-tucker-carlson-reveals-why-he-is-interviewing/

07-02-2024: Some good news for once – the EU backs down to farmers: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/farmers-win-major-eu-backdown-on-farming-emissions-and-regulations/

Our farmers push back too: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/where-is-our-prime-minister-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-backs-farmers-and-slams-the-federal-governments-renewables-push-at-parliament-house-rally/news-story/c5e845449cb99f912300d620f03d9a66

06-02-2024: “Teach your children about tax – eat 30% of their ice-cream.” Maybe a flat tax is the best idea. Certainly the tax-free threshold only teaches people that it is other people’s duty to pay for their excesses: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/tax/2024/02/oh-to-hammer-tax-until-its-flat/

06-02-2024: A ‘Daiper Spa’ – another great idea: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/new-hampshire-town-alarmed-due-opening-new-diaper/

06-02-2024: Hippos have run wild in Columbia. I wonder how many pygmy hippos there are in the NT since one was mistakenly shot as a wild pig on the Daley River a few years ago: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/cocaine-hippos-brought-colombia-drug-lord-pablo-escobar/

06-02-2024: The temperature models which drive so much ‘environmental’ hype and legislation are seriously flawed. Real-world temperature data is quite different with eg no warming at all in the US or Japan: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/02/u-s-a-temperature-trends-1979-2023-models-vs-observations/

05-02-2024: Wonnangatta Double Packraft: Recently I posted that we had bought and trialed this fine Naturehike packraft. Last weekend there was 1.8 metres of water on the Waterford gauge (perfect) and the weather was in the low thirties - so off we went!

For us this raft is just about the perfect size. We can lash a waterproof pack on the bow and stern (as shown in the photos) and we are good for several days on the river…

Of course this is our favourite river and we have canoed this section Back Snake Creek to Waterford (Meyers Flat) many times. At least two-thirds of the trip is through delightful bushland. The last third traverses Guy's magnificent property which has many scenic delights and abundant birdlife too. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/02/05/wonnangatta-double-packraft/

05-02-2024: How dangerous is China’s military? Interesting: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/why-has-xi-jinping-purged-his-senior-commanders/

05-02-2024: So many people have ‘lost’ a child ‘stolen’ by the state in just this way: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/the-real-stolen-generation/

05-02-2024: We can learn from centenarians: https://archive.is/8em4S

05-02-2024: Worse than Keystone Cops: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/leak-brilliant-on-nsws-keystone-cops.html

02-02-2024: A transgender defence force will save the nation: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/transgenderism-reverse-discrimination-negatively-impacts-u-s-military/

02-02-2024: For the sake of life on earth we should burn more fossil fuel – mind you, some time we will have to make a substantial switch to nuclear power: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/burn-oil-save-forests-global-greening-is-accelerating-in-55-of-the-world-thanks-to-fossil-fuels/

02-02-2024: Quite a different EV meltdown: https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/volvo-car-evaluating-potential-reduction-of-shareholding-in-polestar-85e29826?mod=djemalertNEWS

02-02-2024: Fascinating: Nothing has a probability: https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/probability-doesnt-exist-nothing?

01-02-2024: Mini Rocket Stove: I saw this little guy on Aliexpress for under A$30 and just had to try one out. It came as a most intriguing 3D jigsaw without instructions - a modest intelligence test - which took a little while to figure out.

I found it very easy to light with just a few gum leaves and some twigs - but I am quite expert at doing so, something which you should also practice. See eg The Secret of Fire and Mastery of Fire. I found dropping some burning leaves in worked well. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/01/31/mini-rocket-stove/

01-02-2024: Questions which deserve answers: Why does cold air or water make you want to pee? https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/why-do-cold-temperatures-make-me-pee/

01-02-2024: Life before smart phones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSC7SXQpInM

01-02-2024: A brave new world of energy rationing. We are planning to sidestep this with an importation of solar panels, a wind turbine and nickel-iron batteries and a planned mini-hydro which will see us grid independent in a year’s time. I figure say $20,000 spent on such a scheme if it saves us $3000 in electrcity bills (at current prices) will be a good return in our investment – and will only get better over time. Fortunately we have the land to do this: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/grid-on-the-edge-queensland-govt-switched-off-thousands-of-home-air-conditioners-six-times-in-the-last-8-weeks/

31-01-2024: Understanding the debt time bomb: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/our-foreign-debt-time-bomb/

31-01-2024: Socrates described sophism as ‘making the worst (appear) the better reason’ – it has not gone away; indeed today it appears to be on steroids: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/morality-flips/

31-01-2024: Uncontrolled immigration is making us poorer, unhappier and less safe. It must stop: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/reclaiming-the-national-interest-rethinking-australias-immigration-policy/

31-01-2024: This will not end well: https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/01/27/shock-survey-almost-one-third-of-gen-z-now-gender-queer-n4925897

30-01-2024: The Rolls Royce of Stanley Blade Pocket Knives: https://newatlas.com/outdoors/the-phantom-2-0-a-beloved-titanium-utility-knife-gets-an-upgrade/

30-01-2024: This would not be home-grown home-made soup either but canned soup from a supermarket which had a much greater carbon footprint than the Mona Lisa: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/mona-lisa-defaced-by-protesters/news-story/e8ad8a994622f5792d60654ef50d8a5c

30-01-2024: And now for the good news: https://www.amazon.com/Not-End-World-Generation-Sustainable/dp/031653675X?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706240328&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=quillette-20&linkId=fc2eda2817c6bd0d5b212d037a2d722e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

30-01-2024: Popular as a s---t sandwich: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/pm-anthony-albanese-booed-by-crowd-at-australian-open-mens-final-at-rod-laver-arena-in-melbourne/news-story/316d4df1d28df2e5afbf8840a1a91bfe

29-01-2024: This is how China can undercut delivery charges around the world – another UN boondoggle: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/how-cheap-postage-from-china is-another-un-bureaucratic-scam/

29-01-2024: No doubt though there are naïve lefties who would believe this – a photo is worth a thousand words: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/palestinians-need-better-liars.html

29-01-2024: We need more dams: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/34657/stop-wasting-water/

29-01-2024: Yes Andrew, we really do need to fight for Australia (Day): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/those-who-love-australia-must-fight-for-it/news-story/a7a5b84f61eae6da797527568d1ec906

27-01-2024: The ‘great replacement’ is no myth. Beware Australia: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/europeans_will_succumb_to_islam_says_former_intelligence_chief.html

27-01-2024: This makes me really angry: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/captain-james-cook-statue-near-st-kilda-beach-in-melbourne-sawn-off-and-vandalised-one-day-before-australia-day/news-story/59ea7ee48d3cee2a18af87e45bea3f60

27-01-2024: The vast debt spiral will inevitably lead to economic collapse , the fate of all such Ponzi schemes once they run out of new ‘suckers; which the declining birth rate likewise makes inevitable: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-has-biggest-govt-history-world-very-wide-margin

27-01-2024: The new Alamo – 21 states have now sent their National Guards to defend Texas: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/governor-greg-abbott-tucker-we-are-prepared-conflict/

26-01-2024: Truth vs reality: “If our whole electricity grid was 100% brown coal, electricity would be half the price” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/electricity-prices-fall-from-stupidly-high-obscene-level-in-australia/

26-01-2024: Where are the fathers? https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/01/24/fifty-year-old-male-who-identifies-as-a-15-year-old-girl-is-welcomed-on-the-girls-swim-team-n2392139

26-01-2024: When the big end of town breaks with the Democrats and sides with Trump: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/pivot-point-ceo-of-jp-morgan-says-trump-was-kinda-right-and-his-supporters-deserve-respect/

25-01-2024: This is the kind of Prime Minister we had in 2014. Spot the difference. At Davos Tony Abbott delivered one of the greatest speeches of modern times. Some snippets:

“It’s worth noting – if only to remind ourselves of the good that can be done – that in the past few decades, more has been achieved to reduce poverty than in any other period in history… Mostly, though, it’s been driven by the intellectual and philosophical conviction that freer trade and smaller government will strengthen prosperity; the instinct that empowered citizens can do more for themselves than government will ever do for them…You can’t spend what you haven’t got. No country has ever taxed or subsidised its way to prosperity. You don’t address debt and deficit with yet more debt and deficit. And profit is not a dirty word because success in business is something to be proud of…A certain level of government spending is necessary and good. In Lincoln’s words, government should do for people what they can’t do for themselves – and no more…As always, stronger economic growth is the key to addressing almost every global problem. Stronger growth requires lower, simpler and fairer taxes that don’t stifle business creativity. And stronger growth requires getting government spending under control so that taxes can come down; and reducing regulation so that productivity can rise…We’re determined that fit working age people will work, preferably for a wage but, if not, as a condition of receiving unemployment benefits…After all, government doesn’t create wealth; people do, when they run profitable businesses. Government’s role is always to nurture its citizens rather than to promote itself…Better governance, though, is not the same as more government.”

25-01-2024: The last of the mountain men? https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/01/20/spaghetti-westerner-gap-pucci-88-is-the-last-wyoming-mountain-man-of-his-time/

25-01-2024: What did Roman wine taste like: https://www.newsweek.com/how-roman-wine-tasted-archaeologists-1862792

25-01-2024: A much-needed free course in maths and logic: https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/mathematics-and-logic-from-euclid-to-modern-geometry?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=geometry_yt&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqI_7tqvxgwMVbuAoBR38SAtNEAEYAiAAEgKzyPD_BwE

24-01-2024: Post-war British comedies always amaze me – how could a people who had just been through the most horrific six years of war come up laughing? Today’s ‘snowflakes’ have a lesson to learn from their granddads: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/01/18/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-91/

24-01-2024: They will suddenly be angry at being lied to all their lives and rise up like the youth of Hungary did in 1956 against their tyrants: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/new-deniers-eh-one-third-of-uk-teenagers-think-climate-change-is-deliberately-exaggerated/

24-01-2024: Incredible survivors: https://news.yahoo.com/almost-80-years-holocaust-245-052426165.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM1vZY3K3rI-M-xDoPILBtmoIzVYJSVELW7JZpDaQv4Okk9egh_N2hZhgNNgVW80VE6aeNQ0vpBpI6KEG4PDy52_iJtHkK84n-NYnjvQCmNt-95EAXXS-LWsE3KOx7cgdiskuIAwy8Ayq5BAV-whBUB6WaWugAenK8qQ9bAxysqi

24-01-2024: There is no ‘sixth wave’ of extinctions – another piece of woke panic: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/23/surfing-the-sixth-wave/

23-01-2024: She built a snow maze for her dogs: https://twitter.com/VisionaryVoid/status/1749151695144415455

23-01-2024: An excellent article about Mileil in the Telegraph. Understanding the difference between capitalism and socialism ought to be Education 101. Some examples: “A great many of the prevalent ideologies in Western countries are variants of collectivism, whether they are called communist, fascist, socialist, social democratic, Christian Democratic, progressive or populist… libertarianism leaves us free to muddle through, to make mistakes, to choose our own paths, in the hope that, from the market-place of differing ideas, best practice will emerge… Libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the lives of others based on the non-aggression principle and the defence of life, liberty and property”. Or, in the global slogan of the libertarian movement: “Don’t hurt people, don’t take their stuff”… over the long term, countries with lower state spending and lighter regulations outgrow those with more intrusive governments… Socialism always and everywhere makes people poorer. It has failed in every country where it has been tried. Failed economically, socially and culturally. And it has murdered more than a hundred million people” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/20/smug-world-elites-should-fear-chainsaw-wielding-libertarian/

23-01-2024: How come we don’t speak French on Australia Day? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2024/01/when-young-napoleon-missed-the-boat/

23-01-2024: Leftist re-education aims at Jordan Peterson – but will it eventually shoot itself in the foot? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/jordan-peterson-you-have-won-the-battle-minions-of-the-deep-state-but-not-the-war/

22-01-2024: The cicadas are coming. Like so many phenomena (think climate) they are episodic on a grand scale: https://news.yahoo.com/world-hasn-t-seen-cicadas-174831342.html

22-01-2024: Star Wars takes on the drones: https://news.yahoo.com/britain-says-developed-test-fired-134913702.html

22-01-2024: Nothing new under the sun. Check out the original ‘Diggers’ and ‘Levellers’. Crazy socialists have been with is for a long while. Fortunately after Cromwell there was the ‘Glorious Revolution.’ May there soon be another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

22-01-2024: How secure America’s election system actually is: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/breaking-professor-election-expert-j-halderman-hacks-dominion/

21-01-2024: New Alcohol Stoves: You should switch to an alcohol stove for ultralight cooking. The switch will save you heaps of grams. Certainly at least the weight of the empty canister (approx 150 grams) plus unused fuel – a weight saving of at least 200 grams – almost more than your entire current cookset weighs.

Just can’t imagine why anyone uses a canister stove apart from just that the weight of fuel + cartridge + burner is exorbitant – and that they use ‘fossil fuel’ rather than ‘renewable’! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/01/20/new-alcohol-stoves/

21-01-2024: The ‘magic bullet’ inches slowly closer: https://news.yahoo.com/cancer-vaccine-minimal-side-effects-101124156.html

21-01-2024: “Average temperature rise is being driven by less extreme cold weather, rather than more extreme heat” no doubt driven by using so much energy to control the ‘climate’ in the cities where these things are measured – particularly with air conditioners:. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/20/what-is-climate-richard-lindzen/

21-01-2024: Taking on the ‘elites’: https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/01/19/heritage-foundation-prez-dishes-truth-to-davos-elites-n4925651

A Trump Presidency could be just what the world needs: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12983807/BORIS-JOHNSON-negronis-Trump-presidency-just-world-needs.html

20-01-2024: This is what hamburgers used to be like before they started in with buns in 1895. Della and I always make our own like this: https://louislunch.com/menu/

20-01-2024: The WEF is Public Enemy Number 1: “Elections will soon be a quaint relic of the past… nations will soon no longer need to bother holding “elections” because voters could easily be replaced by artificial intelligence ” More from the man who gave us “you will own nothing and be happy” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/leo-hohmann-elections-will-soon-be-quaint-relic/

20-01-2024: Here’s a great idea: “New Law passed in the state of California, that if someone steals anything below $900, the Police cannot stop or arrest the thief as it is criminalising poverty.” https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/whod-go-to-california.html

Soon folks will not be able to buy food - well they don’t now anyway: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/food-deserts-rise-democrat-run-cities-grocers-leave-droves

20-01-2024: This is the future: “Basically, the average European suffers from high taxes, high prices, tiny homes and cars, and, increasingly, less freedom. But tourists sipping tea in London or shopping in Paris rarely, if ever, see this, or understand it if they do” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/2024_promises_the_expansion_of_the_green_energy_scam.html

19-01-2024: Today my mother, Marie would have been 105 if her life had not been ‘cut short’ twenty years ago by miliary mesothelioma. Especially on her birthday I am aware of many conversations I failed to have with her, and never will. You can be unlucky. If she had chronic contact with asbestos her chance of contracting the disease which killed her was 1 in 4 million. Her only contact with asbestos (as far as anyone could tell) was washing my asbestos covered work clothes after I came home from work at Sulphide Corporation at Cockle Creek Newcastle (Rio) in the 1960’s where I was daily (literally) up to my armpits in the stuff and (most days) breathing it in in huge lungfuls. I understood then and understand today that such unsafe working conditions which saw weekly deaths in refineries and mines in the Hunter Valley where I grew up and worked for a number of years were a consequence of rebuilding the country after the huge cost of WW2, so that we were in a situation not unlike that of those who had fought to save the country during that conflict, ie necessity. Thankfully we have been able to afford safer working conditions for workers & management since then, but everything we ‘enjoy’ has to be afforded. The sad news for me a couple of days ago is that one of my favourite cousins Ken who is 14 years older than me (and who worked at much the same plants around Newcastle 60 years ago) has now also contracted mesothelioma. I know it may seem churlish to those who pass much younger to talk about one’s life being ‘shortened’ by asbestos-related cancers which have taken 60 years and more to kill but then Ken (and my) great-great grandfather David Jones lived a much healthier pre-industrial life for the entire C19th. Now that I am in my 75^th year I would like (quite) a few more years yet.

19-01-2024: There is no doubt that those in charge or those who want to be (eg the WEF, UN, statists in general) want to control all information and everything you think and do. This must be resisted with every fibre of your being. Pres Melei of Argentina is at least leading the charge against them: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/wef-say-worlds-greatest-threat-is-misinformation-the-biggest-threat-to-experts-and-billionaires-is-free-speech/

19-01-2024: Trump has to be a saint to put up with people like this. No wonder Assange replied to a question asking why there was no dirt on Trump on Wikileaks “ because there is none”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/e-jean-carrolls-is-nutcase-trump-proves-it/

19-01-2024: Don’t we want to find MH370? Incredible that there has been no investigation into an SA fisherman catching a jet aircraft wing – there can’t be that many of them out there: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/dont-want-a-search-lead-mh370-investigator-makes-huge-claim/news-story/4cf0b5adf9e58ca9a312f24770b6848d

19-01-2024: The unbelievably evil Penny Wong: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/leak-genius.html

18-01-2024: When the college educated begin to give up their indoctrination and think, like the rest of us: https://archive.is/TjQw0

18-01-2024: Just one example of the myth of aboriginal ‘massacres’ (There are many more in Keith Shuttleworth’s ‘Fabrication of Aboriginal History’) : https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/more-dubious-history-on-forrest-river/

18-01-2024: Milei calls out the socialists at the WEF: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/long-live-freedom-argentinian-president-javier-milei-trashes/

18-01-2024: I second that: “Dr. Gennadi Glinsky, a retired professor of medicine at Stanford, wrote: “This madness must be stopped before too late.” https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/covid-19-strain-kills-100-of-infected-mice-in-chinese-lab-study/

17-01-2024: This is the meaning of ‘A life for a life’: https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1746988429957857614

17-01-2024: The U.S. House of Representatives investigation into covid is revealing some astonishing (and alarming) facts, especially about the consequences of mRNA vaccines. These should never have been permitted let alone mandated. Bizarrely the data appears to reveal that they even increased the risk of contracting the disease rather than the opposite: https://www.uncoverdc.com/2024/01/15/covid-mrna-vaccine-injury-hearing-we-played-god-and-it-isnt-going-well

17-01-2024: Meanwhile in America, religion without God: https://news.yahoo.com/church-without-god-secular-congregations-132712068.html

17-01-2024: Trannies just want to have fun: https://moonbattery.com/transsexual-wife-killer-wants-back-in-jail/

16-01-2024: You know you are in some weird communist dystopia when the word ‘straight’ demeans ‘crookedness’ https://moonbattery.com/kids-taught-word-straight-is-offensive/

16-01-2024: Time you voted Libertarian: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/every-hero-needs-a-villian-labors-draconian-bid-to-censor-the-internet-may-have-handed-a-lifeline-to-australias-libertarian-movement/news-story/9b23b8ab3fa1fad57cb8da4af8d40c07

16-01-2024: Die you b------s! https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/54251

16-01-2024: Warning: Plants are probably as smart as you. I may never eat one again! https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-film-plant-talking-to-its-neighbor-and-the-footage-is-incredible?fbclid=IwAR0zm3LXqGM5QOnkyxnJIVRdNCtby9ZatdfkF11zHITVav7oJdx32sPS30w

15-01-2024: Turning women into drab black post boxes is not progress either: https://twitter.com/endislam/status/1746087079292150082

15-01-2024: Another problem with AI: https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-study-from-anthropic-exposes-deceptive-sleeper-agents-lurking-in-ais-core/

15-01-2024: How much weaker can our ‘Defence’ get? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/australias-weakness-exposed-as-the-new-axis-of-evil-spreads-war-from-ukraine-to-the-red-sea/news-story/a57d41951e034c913a1ebaf8a9fe103a

15-01-2024: What? No CCTV footage of this murder? I just don’t believe it – but then it might provoke ‘racism’: https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/young-doctor-killed-after-melbourne-home-invasion/news-story/0e8b3b3c4d8840528afba71e8111697c

14-01-2024: How we are losing Yeats’ “That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost.” A profound strategic perspective: “The gravest error of Western politicians and their corporate oligarchs is failing to recognise that we are already at war… the only currency that matters in a multi-polar world – power. Until the power of deterrence is restored…the evidence is all around us; from cyber-attacks to trade embargoes on high-value commodities, the climate hysteria to make us dependent on China for renewable energy resources, the mainstreaming of terrorists like Hamas, and the use of refugees.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/the-west-is-already-at-war/

14-01-2024: What is the ‘win-win’ strategy to take towards hostage takers? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/01/06/winning-a-war-versus-paying-a-ransom/

14-01-2024: Not getting away from it all – Starlink Mini will fit in your backpack: https://au.pcmag.com/networking/103434/starlink-mini-dish-coming-later-this-year-elon-musk-says

14-01-2024: However, Tesla has lost $100 billion already this year. Elon may need to find something else to fund his space ventures: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-gets-94-billion-reality-133000964.html

13-01-2024: You would have to think it would be impossible: https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1745308632953086370

13-01-2024: Time obliterates all – I wonder how little we really know about the ancient past: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671

13-01-2024: Leak says it all. Sure we voted to replace Australia Day with ‘truth telling’ and other b------t. Do you remember what the result of the Voice referendum actually was Australia? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/a-brilliant-leak.html

13-01-2024: What if ‘fossil fuels’ aren’t? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/if-fossil-fuels-come-from-fossils-why-have-scientists-found-them-on-one-of-saturns-moons/

12-01-2024: There’s an Island in the River: I didn’t expect my youngest, Merrin to remember this song from her childhood so many years ago (I used to sing it on the river apparently) but when she called for it yesterday on ‘our’ old stretch of the Macalister, of course I instantly obliged – in my usual toneless manner.

Della and I were trying out our new Naturehike Pack Raft on the short downstream section below Cheynes Bridge (to 20 Acre Creek) which we used to canoe on Sundays a generation ago when the kids were just tiddlers.

This 1 1/2 hour section usually stretched out to a whole day with frequent swims, snacks, cold drinks etc (followed by dinner at the Won Loy restaurant in Traralgon) on the way home as Della would be too tired by then to cook (especially with the next day being a work day)

So, you put in at Cheyne’s Bridge and disembark at 20 Acre Creek which is just before the road begins to climb up the hill towards Glenmaggie. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/01/12/theres-an-island-in-the-river/

12-01-2024: It was only a matter of time before the ‘new’ Australians got sick of supporting the ‘old’ ones: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/great-work-steve-listening-to-the-people.html

12-01-2024: France chooses the nuclear option. (We should too): https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/france-dumps-renewables-target-goes-back-to-nuclear-instead-risking-global-pariah-status/

12-01-2024: Does it get any worse than this? Well, probably PS: 1500cc is a bit more than the average adult’s brain volume: https://moonbattery.com/scientists-make-brains-out-of-aborted-babies/

12-01-2024: So over woke corporations. There will be a boycott eventually which will bring them down. Glad to see Coles distancing itself: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/woke-woolworths-confirms-decision-to-scrap-australia-day-merch-claiming-decline-in-demand-despite-support-for-failed-voice/news-story/69ecb04894faa4a3f1cb1d6b05f94b1f

10-01-2024: More and more our lives and sovereignty are being handed over to unelected bureaucrats…you have probably already noticed this at the local council level but it just gets worse: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/is-2024-the-turnkey-year-the-un-wants-to-decide-what-to-inject-you-with/

10-01-2024: Truly dreadful. In comparison when a handful of people died (mostly through medical neglect) from covid we had the most drastic changes to our laws and freedoms – so too with the road toll. But this mass murder goes largely unremarked: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/abortion-leading-cause-death-worldwide-fifth-consecutive-year/

10-01-2024: Will farming or wokism triumph? You decide: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/08/german-farmers-kick-off-massive-protests-against-policy-that-could-threaten-their-livelihoods/

10-01-2024: A fascinating article: “We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t… The idea that life has an aim, or that happiness is what we want, may be simply a way of narrowing one’s mind, of oversimplifying oneself. People can be found wanting, but they don’t tend to be found not wanting.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/02/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-giving-up-adam-phillips

09-01-2024: What a little sweetie: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966

09-01-2024: CO2 and temperature do not correlate: https://imgur.com/paFEgTK

09-01-2024: Humbling. A triumph for humanity: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/one-life-film-review-by-a-child-of-a-holocaust/

09-01-2024: How absurd –78 years after defeating them, but the present enemy can point their fingers to the sky without demur: https://news.yahoo.com/australia-bans-nazi-salute-public-012255773.html

07-01-2024: The Merino Polo: These people have the solution for a lightweight merino wool shirt for hiking, farm work, everyday wear etc. They are also (roughly) only half the price of competitor's products. I took a couple on a recent trip to Nepal. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/01/06/the-merino-polo/

06-01-2024: How does self-control actually work? One thing is certain: too many people lack it: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trust-games/202401/psychologists-were-wrong-about-the-science-of-self-control

06-01-2024: Euthenasia (call it what you like) and even moreso the climate cult are obscene heresies in that they deny the primacy of the individual human soul, a core premise of most of the ‘great religions’ for millennia. How much we have lost concerning the importance of the individual, his/her freedom, privacy, dignity etc. I like the conclusion, “So, we turn to Aristotle- who was not a physician. He said that rather than try to control or suppress bad habits, we should replace them with good habits.”: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/letting-anorexics-die-or-not?

06-01-2024: Fat lives matter: https://moonbattery.com/fat-con-waddles-into-seattle/

06-01-2024: Absolutely: “The future belongs to nations that have internal coherence and a sense of shared national purpose. The potent threat is internal dislocation arising from weak economic results, excessive inequality, cultural division and a loss of shared values.” Paul Kelly https://richardsonpost.com/davidtruman/34292/the-clash-within-our-civilisation/

05-01-2024: An enduring kiss: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67877244

05-01-2024: New archaeological tools continue to throw light on the distant past: https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-780745

05-01-2024: Quote of the day: "It was a theory that was built on the belief that the progress of society depended on the efforts of individuals to better their lot, rather than on radical exercises in political engineering" on David Hume, page 69 of Nicholas Phillipson’s 2010 biography of Adam Smith - Sigh: what a fine theory!

05-01-2024: Will Labor and the Greens force us back to a new ‘Brisbane Line’ or will Australia fall completely next time? These green policies are a disaster in every way imaginable: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/australia-is-becoming-green-powerless-and-defenceless/

03-01-2024: Ultracheap Packraft: What's not to like about this? A Naturehike Packraft for less than A$600 - or a double for A$830 (Sept 2023). Aliexpress is great. This is a big saving over other brands which come in now at twice or more than three times that!

We received ours as a New Year's 'present' - it came in less than two weeks. Honey is already licking her chops in anticipation of some summer canoe trips. She loves swimming and diving from the boat/s. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/12/30/ultracheap-packraft/

03-01-2024: I fell ill in Nepal this year too, but I survived: https://weather.com/travel/news/2023-11-07-climbers-death-mount-everest

03-01-2024: In the C18th & C19th Royal Navy sailors were issued one gallon (ie 4 litres) of ‘grog’ each per day. Grog comprised one quarter rum added to water plus some lime juice and sugar. Still this represents nearly a litre of rum a day! This was considered an normal intake of these substances for everyone at that time. The tobacco ration was similar at around one ounce (30 grams) per day. We worry about trifles today.

03-01-2024: Can you still remember when privacy used to be a big deal? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/when-you-sit-in-a-digital-car-you-consent-to-being-recorded-and-personal-data-sold/

03-01-2024: The Clash of Civilisations: “The people who ran down their own students with tanks are not likely to sit back and take it… Children go off to school, and eventually to college, in order to have their patriotism wrung out of them. They lose their confidence and their competitive spirit. Don’t get overly confident about our ability to meet the current challenge and to prevail in the current chapter of the clash of civilization.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-clash-of-civilizations?

02-01-2024: An exquisite story about a cat: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2017/12/mrs-black/

02-01-2024: Forget the doctor, get out and do it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12866053/Exercise-chronic-illness-condition-physical-activity.html

02-01-2024: The ‘Famous Five’ were mixed race – right? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/01/famous-five-reimagined-for-a-progessive-new-audience.html

02-01-2024: SEPP has been around for a long while. Begun by the late Prof Fred Singer a true ‘climate scientist’ it gives a dispassionate view of the world’s climate history and the causes of climate change. Of course some of the articles are ‘dry’ reading but you don’t get this sort of stuff at all in mainstream media. For example, you would never have known that the average temperature of the earth was nearly 10C hotter than today for many millions of years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/01/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-581/

01-01-2024: Saying it out loud – this is the problem with ‘multiculturalism’: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/34191/australia-cant-do-war-on-terror-2-0-because-multiculturalism/

01-01-2024: The upside (?) of the sexual revolution: https://moonbattery.com/gay-sex-spreads-shigella-in-portland/

01-01-2024: This is ‘leading an insurrection’? Q Shaman videod on the steps of the Capitol quoting Donald Trump’s injunction to be peaceful and indeed ‘Go Home’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/new-video-hidden-public-q-shaman-stands-outside/

01-01-2024: When will EVs be safe enough to own? https://moonbattery.com/lithium-ion-batteries-burst-into-flames-on-cargo-ship/

31-12-2023: Avenza has morphed into a really great mapping tool. I used to use the previous free version in conjunction with bought versions of Vicmap topographical maps but abandoned it in favour of Paper Maps a few years ago. Today I took a fresh look at it. Now it has a vast swathe of free maps of most places but for me the best bit is lots of maps of Victoria. I was quickly able to download excellent georeferenced topographical maps of my favourite places in the Victorian mountains –including where I live (Yinnar area) so I know that the maps are indeed georeferenced as my location showed the instant I opened the map. You should definitely be able to use this App for hunting, hiking and offline navigation in general. No-one needs to get lost any more. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/12/31/avenza/

31-12-2023: You must read this essay, “Or is the “woke” agenda simply the result of the moral cowardice of the elites, who seek to conceal it behind the mantra of “decolonisation”? Have they lost confidence in the ability of the West to defend itself and, above all, its civilisational truths? What is needed, above all, is a strong intellectual and political counter movement to the prevailing “woke” orthodoxy. It is unlikely that this will be based in the university sector, which has been captured by the “pod people”. If any academic in a mainstream college tries to point out the fallacies of the “decolonisation” project, which is leading to the closing of the British mind, they are condemned, sanctioned and even fired or “cancelled”. It is the equivalent of the accusatory finger and the eerie scream of the clones in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/12/decolonisation-and-the-closing-of-the-western-mind/

31-12-2023: Milei in Argentina is certainly having a go: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/huge-argentinas-milei-presents-omnibus-bill-promoting-privatizations/

31-12-2023: The Camel's Hump – Rudyard Kipling

The Camel's hump is an ugly lump

Which well you may see at the Zoo;

But uglier yet is the hump we get

From having too little to do.

Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,

If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,

We get the hump—

Cameelious hump—

The hump that is black and blue!

We climb out of bed with a frouzly head,

And a snarly-yarly voice.

We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl

At our bath and our boots and our toys;

And there ought to be a corner for me

(And I know' there is one for you)

When we get the hump—

Cameelious hump—

The hump that is black and blue!

The cure for this ill is not to sit still,

Or frowst with a book by the fire;

But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,

And dig till you gently perspire;

And then you will find that the sun and the wind,

And the Djinn of the Garden too,

Have lifted the hump—

The horrible hump—

The hump that is black and blue!

I get it as well as you-oo-oo

If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!

We all get hump—

Cameelious hump—

Kiddies and grown-ups too!

30-12-2023: China is glad of all its coal-fired power stations as its temperatures fall to the lowest recorded in my lifetime: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/beijing-has-coldest-december-since-records-began-70-years-ago/

30-12-2023: Trees are nice: https://moonbattery.com/ecosexual-has-erotic-relationship-with-tree/

30-12-2023: I suspect this is right, “All Peter Dutton, the opposition leader in Australia needs to do to win the next election is to stand up for drivers in Australia.” The new ‘Euro6’ standard is anathema. I am particularly concerned what they mean by it applying to all cars after 2029: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/australian-government-is-coming-for-your-utes-suvs-and-cheap-fuel/

Do we really want this? Watch the price of older cars shoot up: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/new-law-puts-popular-tradie-utes-american-trucks-under-threat/news-story/482c367877533279f9b4f8a6171be0b2

Mind you, folks are not buying: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/12/28/ford-slashing-ev-production-in-half-next-year-n601555

30-12-2023: Saying it like it is, Geert Wilders: “Islam is truly evil. The so-called Prophet Muhammad raped a young girl and gave slave girls to his henchmen. Islam is violence, hatred and barbarism by nature. It is incompatible with freedom!” https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/gotta-love-geert.html

29-12-2023: Cancer be gone – this approach looks very promising: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-in-the-lab-using-vibrating-molecules

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29-12-2023: This is how the world ends - beware the virtue signalers: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/27/righteous-risks-introduction/

29-12-2023: How did these Hezbollah terrorists ever get to be Australian citizens? DFAT warnesd us about this back about1972: https://www.rebelnews.com/mainstream_media_covers_up_australian_terrorist_ties_following_lebanon_airstrike : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/27/righteous-risks-introduction/

28-12-2023: “Christianity is the result of a woman’s story about how she got preggers, getting out of hand.” Paul Zanetti.

28-12-2023: Is Zuckerberg a Morlock – an interesting perspective: https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2023/12/26/the-underground-people-n4925025

28-12-2023: The Red Sea might have parted for Moses – it did for Napoloeon: https://news.yahoo.com/moses-parting-red-sea-may-060000050.html

28-12-2023: The toughest journey in the world – a fine essay: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-winner-of-our-senior-essay-contest?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

27-12-2023: At last a pill to prevent your dying from snakebite: https://news.yahoo.com/venomous-snake-bites-kill-thousands-110019394.html

27-12-2023: Now that sounds more like it: “Gnosticism – the belief that the creation of the material world was a mistake, and the creator deity a bungling lesser entity distinct from the supreme God” What a fascinating ancient sect: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/the-mystery-of-the-mandaeans-the-gnostic-sect-that-worships-john-the-baptist/

27-12-2023: The hottest year in 125,000 years? Hogwash. The world has been cooling for nearly 10,000 years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/25/hottest-in-125000-years/

27-12-2023: You may say Bibi is an optimist but “Successful deradicalisation took place in Germany and Japan after the Allied victory in World War II”: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/benjamin-netanyahus-3-goals-for-his-military-campaign-in-gaza.html

26-12-2023: Coming to you soon, an aerogel sweater that is warmer than down: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-sweater-aerogel-fiber-warmer.html?fbclid=IwAR3ohEdbDsOQ5IF0Apui_32ldj1ZIEJBnC51S1LjM1dAYeYbcvZGGtWJ6gI

26-12-2023: Possibly, but it might also be sign language: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed

26-12-2023: A possible treatment path at last – bring it on: https://scitechdaily.com/defying-genetics-how-one-patients-unique-mutation-offers-new-hopes-in-alzheimers-prevention/

26-12-2023: Such a charming man – and we helped him! As we gather together to celebrate the birth of (Jewish) Christ in Israel over two millennia ago Holocaust deniers and other Islamophiles continue to deny the existence of that country : https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/12/22/bashar-al-assad-rant-no-evidence-holocaust-u-s-aided-nazis/

25-12-2023: A better world back then: ‘A Christmas Carol’ 1951: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xPS1iiHUA

25-12-2023: Alas, the Queen is gone but here is Neil Oliver’s Christmas message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjYyJddRb8&t=15s

25-12-2023: Very impressive shanghai: https://smhotstuff.com/pages/high-precision-sm-slingsh0t-with-l-a-s-e-r?utm_medium=M+-+LDP+-+mobile+Bpost+TG+1&utm_campaign=Na+thun+new+2023+-+Copy&utm_content=New+Sales+Ad&fbclid=IwAR0ZtIZUDPjWRtt8BBv3Ci7J4si_UFiw9g-YUiMlXS-SKPbGwiBldXPQqsA

25-12-2023: “Humans create civilisation to protect themselves from unhappiness, yet civilisation becomes their largest source of unhappiness.” A fascinating essay: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/review/2023/12/cultures-are-good-civilisation-is-bad/

24-12-2023: Parents Take Gen Z Kid Who Doesn’t Have Anxiety Or Depression To Therapist To Find Out What’s Wrong: https://babylonbee.com/news/parents-take-gen-z-son-who-doesnt-have-anxiety-or-depression-to-therapist-to-find-out-whats-wrong

24-12-2023: The joys of sit-down money (if only it wasn’t our money) : https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/07-08/keith-windschuttle-14/

24-12-2023: When you know you are definitely on the wrong side: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/hamas-leader-ghazi-hamad-thanks-australia/ PS: What is it about us being unwilling to send a ship to assist with keeping the Suez canal open? Doesn’t any of our trade go through there any more?

24-12-2023: Further bad news about mRNA vaccine technology. It is truly bizarre the way this news comes from fringe sources rather than the mainstream media. The level of information corruption in the world is truly staggering. Now Albanese (and his ilk) wants to shut down all such ‘alternative’ sources with his ‘misinformation’ bill: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/1-in-10-chance-pfizer-mrna-vaccine-makes-aberrant-proteins-experts-concerned-about-autoimmunity-events-5545692?utm_source=epochHG&utm_campaign=CFP&src_src=epochHG&src_cmp=CFP

23-12-2023: Why not try ‘Snus’? https://www.smh.com.au/national/what-is-snus-and-is-it-legal-in-australia-20231026-p5ef7o.html & https://www.snusexpress.com/au/en/

23-12-2023: Many more people need to try this experiment. For myself a phone is just a phone: you can ring me on it. People sometimes do. Otherwise I maybe spend a couple of hours reading a book on it in bed of a night. That is all: https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/detox-your-phone

23-12-2023: A dire warning about the state of our military preparedness: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/12/our-military-future-can-we-put-up-a-fight/

23-12-2023: Greenpeace co-founder on the genocidal consequences of Nett Zero. "Only the billionaires will be able to afford to buy food, and all the other people will die." https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/greenpeace-co-founder-on-the-genocidal-consequences-of-nett-zero.html

22-12-2023: Telling it like it is. Thank you Georgia. (In like news Wilders has succeeded in getting an immigration ban through the Dutch parliament): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/spot-on-same-in-australia.html

22-12-2023: Did we even know Egypt has a 10 metre high concrete wall with Gaza? Why don’t they want these lovely people Albanese is inviting to live with us? https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/12/17/why-no-shrieking-about-egypts-border-wall-with-gaza-which-is-getting-a-big-upgrade-by-the-way-n599651

22-12-2023: Forget about a 1.5C rise in temperature, ‘tipping points’ etc. It is all bunkum: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/20/reason-is-right-there-is-no-climate-cliff/#

22-12-2023: Lenin understood why we should have a ‘cashless society’ “What socialism implies above all,” said Lenin, “is keeping account of everything.” To such people your (profoundly important) lives are just a meaningless number: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/the-looming-lenin-comeback/

21-12-2023: More evidence against ‘smart’ phones. It seems the smarter they get the dumber we get. I guess I was one of the last people in the world to buy one when I realised I could use it for geolocation while bushwalking. I also (now) use the camera and especially the ebook reader – but mine is never connected to the internet and ‘notifications’ are permanently turned off. It’s a phone; you can ring me, but I am busy so don’t expect I will always answer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-sure-looks-like-phones-are-making-students-dumber/ar-AA1lIX7i

21-12-2023: Japan would not think for a minute about what to do with Benbrika and the like: “Japanese authorities preparing to deport an illegal migrant. Japan rejects 99.999% of all asylum seekers and migrants each year. They also don't fall for emotional blackmail. They put their country and people first, how it should be.” https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/53778

21-12-2023: Exactly: “How can anybody actually think that anyone else, let alone government officials who can’t do anything competently, could control the climate with all its natural variables?” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/step_away_from_the_nonsensical_climate_change_fear_porn.html

21-12-2023: Where did American democracy go? NB: The Last Time Democrats Took a GOP Candidate Off the Ballot Was in 1860 – They Would Not Allow Abraham Lincoln’s Name on the Ballot in Their Slave States. It is a third-world dictatorial tactic to remove your opponent from the ballot, yet first Colorado and now maybe as many as 18 democrat states want to do so (though they will likely all fail at the Supreme Court, as there was no ‘insurrection’ nor has he even been charged with advocating one). All this political corruption is more likely to lead to more people voting for him whether you/they like him or not. The Democrats will need to rig the election even more than last time – however too little has been done to prevent this…Of course the 32 Republican states could retaliate by removing Biden from their ballot lists! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-californias-democrat-lt-governor-reportedly-urges-secretary/

19-12-2023: “Making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/53777

19-12-2023: Lies, damned lies and statistics: “The NOAA climate data shown below provides the November 2023 absolute maximum temperature measurements for the period 1895 to 2023 in the Contiguous U.S. that establishes the November 2023 outcome is only the 109th highest out of 129 maximum November temperature measurements recorded during the 1895 to 2023 period.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/17/nasa-giss-data-shows-2023-el-nino-driving-global-temperature-anomaly-increases-noaa-data-shows-u-s-nov-2023-temperature-anomaly-declining/

19-12-2023: Don’t hold your breath! Now human breath affects the climate (is destroying the world!) and ought to be controlled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/16/the-absurdity-of-measuring-breath-for-climate-change/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/now-scientists-say-your-breathing-might-affect-the-climate/

19-12-2023: Do you really believe he was ‘the perfect man’? https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/53736

18-12-2023: There are vast savings which can be made. Debt can be paid down and people can become more self-sufficient. Government ‘Welfare’ was never a good idea anyway. The Australian Government’s Welfare budget for 2022/3 is $247 out of a total $595 billion or 36% of expenditure. 10 years ago (under Julia Gillard (& before the NDIS) this figure was a ‘mere’ $132 billion – a rise of over 50% during a time of very low inflation. For comparison Defence is just $36 billion or 6% of the budget – less than the NDIS cost! (Defence was then $21 billion, the lowest level in our history if you remember): https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReview202122/RevenueAndExpenditureSummary

18-12-2023: “This is what happens when you spend four years being indoctrinated by radical leftists on college campuses and get your political advice from TikTok… Just 17% said other Arab states should be asked to absorb Palestinian populations… 60% of the 18-24 group say Hamas’ Oct 7 terrorist attack could be “justified by the grievance of Palestinians.” https://nypost.com/2023/12/16/news/majority-of-americans-18-24-think-israel-should-be-ended-and-given-to-hamas/

18-12-2023: Mass migration. I certainly did not ask for it. Life was far better in the past: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/53751 & https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/53761

18-12-2023: No wonder people are so fat: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-adults-meal-worth-calories-snacks.html

17-12-2023: When the Ice Returns: “So let us…plan what we need to do to ensure reliable energy and food supplies as the next ice age approaches.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/when-the-ice-returns/

17-12-2023: Filming anal sex in the Capitol building might get you sacked but waving an American flag there will get you gaoled for life: https://moonbattery.com/dem-senate-staffer-produces-gay-porn-at-capitol/

17-12-2023: I do so deplore this woke b------t. I used to enjoy Dr Who when I was younger (and it was just SciFi) but what it has become makes it unwatchable to me: https://moonbattery.com/isaac-newton-was-now-indian/

17-12-2023: In so many ways Albanese makes me ashamed to be Australian. How can voting to side with the Hamas butchers and rapists represent Australian (or anyone’s) civilized values? https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/12/the-meaning-of-october-7/

16-12-2023: It would be handy too for re-opening all those pesky ‘closed roads’ in our bush which is currently being ‘saved for future generations’ and removed from the enjoyment of the current ones: https://babylonbee.com/news/cybertruck-to-come-with-deployable-scoop-for-removing-climate-change-protesters-from-roadway

16-12-2023: Clearly the IDF can defeat Hamas militarily but what will they be able to do with Gaza thereafter: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-soaring-support-for-hamas-in-west-bank-as-90-say-abbas-should-resign/

16-12-2023: Nordstream still a mystery: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/12/nord-stream-pipeline-attack-theories-suspects-investigation/676320/

16-12-2023: Remember how back in 1978 ‘scientists predicted a coming Ice Age (such as they are having in Europe at the moment): https://rumble.com/v1hg7x1--leonard-nimoy-1978-show-in-search-of-the-coming-ice-age.html

15-12-2023: More Tent Stove Progress: I am delighted that Tim Tinker has been squirreling away at improving the design and functionality of (his) tiny tent stoves of which he has designed so many. His latest foray involves miniaturising an oil (or smudge) burner for heating a tent utilising a a tiny Cavendish & Harvey fruit drop tin which must be only about 1 1/2″ high by 4″ wide – 40 x 100mm (if that). The whole thing weighs a mere 134 grams. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/12/10/more-tent-stove-progress/

15-12-2023: Far too many. The country is bursting at the seams.“During the year 737,200 migrants arrived from overseas…The natural population increase was 106,100” Who will “Call Australia home” in the future – and in what language? We need to turn this around: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/bureau-of-statistics-reveals-growth-of-australian-population/video/04bfb6da0a3919ad39f890179a4aac25

The French have clearly had enough. I suspect we have too: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/80-french-support-ban-more-immigration-two-thirds-back-referendum

15-12-2023: Going down the gurgler – and worse is yet to come (as we vote to end ‘fossil’ fuels and decide to support Palestinians instead of Israelis): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/australian-living-standards-drop-to-worse-since-march-2011-when-gillard-was-prime-minister.html

15-12-2023: There was widespread cheating in the US election and this has not been addressed three years on. I am also deeply concerned about the extent of early and postal voting here neither of which has the same level of scrutiny as election day voting. I think voter ID is also an important safeguard: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/one-in-five-us-mail-in-voters-admit-to-election-fraud-13-million-dodgy-votes/

14-12-2023: Is Voyager 1 saying goodbye at last? https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/voyager-1-in-trouble-as-engineers-scramble-to-debug-issue-with-flight-data-system/

14-12-2023: One country which understands the importance of gun ownership for national security: https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/12/05/israel-approving-n78046

14-12-2023: It is just amazing how all the graphs show just how fast we are (not) transitioning away from so-called fossil fuels (which are likely not by the way): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/cop28-one-big-global-psy-op-to-screw-more-money-out-of-a-few-patsies/

14-12-2023: This very long Quilette essay is nonetheless most enlightening especially if (like me) you have been wondering about the seeming triumph of outright evil in the world: https://quillette.com/2023/12/12/the-genocidal-imagination/

12-12-2023: Beware the Von Neumann machines – is this how the world ends?: https://newatlas.com/robotics/dna-nanorobots-self-replication/

12-12-2023: So many things about the future I just don’t want – kind of glad I won’t be here to see it: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/big-car-data-insurance-insider-warns-they-want-to-force-you-into-an-ev-ban-insurance-for-petrol-cars-and-track-you/

12-12-2023: Meanwhile (Hurrah!) the IDF is winning decisively against the terrorist butchers of Gaza: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/colonel-richard-kemp-on-israels-decisive-victory-over-humanitys-enemy-hamas-their-islamist-supporter.html

12-12-2023: More of this please: “On his first day in office, he cut the number of government ministries from 21 to 9 and he is probably not even finished yet. The departments he cut are largely the ones based on progressive ideas like social justice.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/slash-burn-javier-milei-cuts-almost-dozen-government/

11-12-2023: Does this Hawaiian volcano just keep on emitting more and more CO2 in defiance of the green gatekeepers?

11-12-2023: In case you don’t understand, Gaza is a terrorist dictatorship: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/gazan-woman-reveals-all-aid-is-confiscated-by-hamas-taken-to-the-tunnels-for-terrorists.html

11-12-2023: Well said, “Actors make a living doing something the rest of us stopped doing before we reached puberty: pretending to be somebody else. They use words which other people have written to express ideas and opinions which they don’t even need to understand, let alone share. That is why, for most of human history, actors were paid less than soldiers, and why most people who became actors were considered low life.

That anybody should pay attention to anything an actor says or does which he or she wasn’t paid to say or do is one of the greatest mysteries of the modern era.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/aussie-life-142/

11-12-2023: Belief in God has never been a universal human condition. Many peoples have no such concept/delusion. The mindset of the Piraha people is particularly interesting: https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/atheism-in-the-ancient-world

10-12-2023: Chris Marlowe exhumed? Just maybe: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/12/the-swan-er-cuckoo-of-avon/

10-12-2023: The eternal pogrom: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/we-are-in-the-fight-for-our-life/

10-12-2023: The US has a fair electoral system? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/investigation-finds-131-percent-eligible-voters-registered-washington/

10-12-2023: How much of the ‘green transition’ is powered by Chinese coal? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/09/net-zeros-dirty-secret-britains-green-transition-is-powered-by-chinese-coal/

09-12-2023: Dolphins possess a sixth sense: https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fbottlenose-dolphins-electroreception%2F

09-12-2023: ‘Nothing new under the sun,’ they say – but if there is you can bet pornographers will take advantage of it: https://time.com/6344068/nudify-apps-undress-photos-women-artificial-intelligence/

09-12-2023: Oh Michael, and not so long ago you used to be the darling of the environmentalists: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/michael-shellenberger-tells-tucker-opposition-natural-gas-proves/

09-12-2023: Albo’s 860 Gaza Jihadis – we will come to regret this decision even more than most of this lunatic government’s weird policies: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-jihad/

Perhaps you don’t understand why the IDF needs to pursue Hamas so relentlessly? (Where are all the feminists?) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12831647/The-horrifying-accounts-Hamas-rape-genocide-left-survivors-traumatised.html

08-12-2023: Watched the 1993 movie ‘Sommersby’ (it was very good) a retelling of the amazing C16th narrative of Martin Guerre, an astonishing example of impersonation – anything which can happen will happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Guerre

08-12-2023: Feeding the Birds in England is 'Anti-Social Behavior' https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/12/02/feeding-the-birds-in-england-is-anti-social-behavior-n596177#google_vignette

08-12-2023: More thinking outside the box, please: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/04/argentinian-reform-subsoil-privatization-javier-milei-meet-guillermo-yeatts/

08-12-2023: Copout 28: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of the summit, known as COP28, made the remarks in question during a teleconference on Nov. 21, saying that there is “no science” to justify a global fossil fuel phase-out, and that there is no way to eliminate fossil fuels globally while advancing economic development “unless you want to take the world back into caves.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/05/john-kerry-spins-un-climate-summit-presidents-comments-that-no-science-backs-fossil-fuel-elimination-push/

07-12-2023: “The society which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” Thucydides (460-400BC)_’History of the Peloponnesian War’

07-12-2023: Tucker Carlson destroyed John Kerry and the climate change zealots with facts on Monday night’s episode. “Another half-demented 80-year-old yelling about things he doesn’t understand. These are our leaders. They don’t care about our future because they don’t have one of their own” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/tucker-carlson-destroys-john-kerry-climate-change-zealots/

07-12-2023: Hamas like Isis will be defeated – and eradicated from the West along with all its supporters. We just will not allow such barbarism to prevail: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-hamas-and-its-muslim-supporters-catastrophic-mistake/news-story/7881283c03638fb5698becd25a5f4dd8

07-12-2023: Was she the highest paid liar in Oz history? Money which should never have been paid out but ought to be paid back – as should the lawyers’ cut of it: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/live-brittany-higgins-to-be-grilled-in-third-week-of-bruce-lehrmanns-defamation-trial-against-network-ten-and-lisa-wilkinson/news-story/1439233b718b5f2808d97d0d835a4e09

06-12-2023: When will people have a nostalgia for 2023? https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/what-are-we-nostalgic-for

06-12-2023: Plastic recycling is just another mad green dream. Why do we let ourselves be pushed around by these awful people? https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/national-plastic-recycling-directory-investigated-abc-news-offline/story?id=105282660 & https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/greenpeace-report-finds-plastics-recycling-dead-end-street/story?id=92123958

06-12-2023: Why have over 80% of climate stations shown no warming since 1949 – all my life? https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/12/02/epas-own-data-shows-only-19-of-all-climate-stations-reported-warming-since-1948-n596149

06-12-2023: News you might not have heard - 18 (22) countries promising to triple nuclear energy at COP28: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/johannes-leak-does-a-perfect-chris-bowen.html

05-12-2023: Odd things out there in the bush. I have seen some others but nothing like this one:https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/mystery-animal-wrestles-snake-into-the-river-on-the-nsw-midnorth-coast/video/6920286cf7a5d424a5047ede5322a9cd

05-12-2023: Telling the truth about covid will still attract a draconian response: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/hero-health-worker-turned-whistleblower-faces-court-after/

05-12-2023: When ‘education’ (degrees) become worthless you eliminate it (them). This is good news and will save the public billions on woke indoctrination programmes. It will also transform society onto a more common sense course once more: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/the-fall-of-academia-half-of-us-companies-are-dropping-requirements-for-bachelors-degrees/

05-12-2023: It’s worse than we thought: “The storage capacity needed to align power generation from solar or wind is around 25% of the annual energy consumption.” This can never be achieved. Ergo, we must abandon the whole costly exercise and start again. If you want to reduce ‘carbon’ (but why?) nuclear is the only feasible option currently available: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/04/another-critical-thinker-reaches-the-obvious-conclusion-intermittent-renewables-cant-work-on-their-own/

04-12-2023: Now even T.Rex was transsexual: https://moonbattery.com/moonbats-transsexualize-dinosaur/

04-12-2023: Let it begin: https://www.rebelnews.com/sa_council_becomes_first_since_the_voice_referendum_failure_to_ditch_acknowledgement_to_country

04-12-2023: I fear Maurice is right that our Aussie democracy is heading down the rat-hole of socialism: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/australia-a-democracy-in-name-only/

04-12-2023: Frozen on the way to Cop 28 ‘global warming’ conference. Perhaps they should just vote to ban private jets and such junkets? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/private-jets-en-route-to-the-dubai-climate-extravaganza-get-frozen-to-runway-but-its-boiling-right.html

03-12-2023: Ultrafire Knife: Here’s a great little ‘Stanley’ blade (neck) knife which weighs less than 20 grams available from Litesmith for US$19.95. It also includes a built in ferro rod (in the sheath) and so doubles as a fire starter. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/12/02/ultrafire-knife/

03-12-2023: Back when we had 100% literacy and numeracy (for pennies) it was because everyone had parents, everyone went to school, you had to master the 3Rs; if you misbehaved you were punished (with a stick). We have doubled and redoubled the money we waste on so-called ‘education’ now even insisting that ‘teachers’ have a ‘Masters’ (or ‘Mistresses’) degree even if their literacy and numeracy remains below what my mother’s was in Grade 6 back in 1930 or mine in 1960 (incidentally a proveable fact. There were external examinations back then whose records still exist): https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/11/30/chronic-absenteeism-in-dc-schools-was-at-43-this-year-where-are-the-parents-n595906

03-12-2023: I agree with Viv – We need a ‘climate exit’ referendum’. We never voted for this b-------t: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/message-for-dubai-from-viv-forbes-its-time-for-a-climate-exit.html

03-12-2023: How ‘ethnic cleansing’ actually works in Israel: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/wanna-talk-about-ethnic-cleansing.html

02-12-2023: Looking forward to the next 50+ years of adventures and fun at Della's 70th birthday celebrations last night. What joy this wonderful girl has brought to me and all who know her. All I desire is "To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die." with her (Tennyson, 'Ulysses')

02-12-2023: Arrest and deport. Repeat: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/peter-dutton-law-enforcement-authorities-should-have-arrested-these-protesters.html

02-12-2023: Cancel Anzac Day or Australia Day? I don’t think so: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/nicolle-flint-unaustralian-scrubbing-of-phrase-anzac-day-from-south-australias-public-holiday-laws-is-an-insult-to-our-veterans/news-story/013c7341406a15c56820557528b4d54f

02-12-2023: Will anyone ever want to be vaccinated again? I have always been a supporter of vaccination as a preventative health measure and have been vaccinated against all sorts of minor health risks (rabies, shingles, cholera etc) but Idid reject the mRNA vaccines (as too experimental/risky). Rightly so it turns out. Mind you I suspect I became very ill for several motnths after one Astra Zenica shot. In this case (covid – with its many cheap effective treatments available – but sometimes banned) the ‘cure’ was definitely worse than the complaint. Compulosory vaccination in this case was a ‘crime against humanity’ which (unnecessarily) killed/injured millions of people. Ergo, those responsible should be brought to trial and given serious punishment. Here in Victorias that means Brett Sutton and Dan Andrews to name a couple of the leading perpetrators: https://www.aussie17.com/p/new-zealand-government-data-administrator )

01-12-2023: Aquaculture Now Accounts for Half of the World's Fish Supply:

https://www.statista.com/chart/2280/the-global-fish-farming-industry-is-booming/

01-12-2023: Although it is no doubt ‘natural’ and ‘ecologically satisfying’ I find it somewhat disquieting: https://newatlas.com/science/decomposed-bodies-increasing-england-wales/

01-12-2023: We are bursting at the seams with migrants. We need to drastically slow the flow or lose our national identity: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/business-robbery-etc-118/

01-12-2023: EV’s are doomed. Anyway you will probably be banned from using them because of electricity shortages (https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/germany-you-will-own-a-car-and-a-heater-but-you-cant-use-them/): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/evs-report-80-more-problems-than-petrol-diesel-cars/

29-11-2023: How not to transform an energy system. This tinkering will end up breaking it which will be a huge disaster: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/new-york-narrowly-missed-a-disaster-last-christmas-eve-gas-pipes-froze-and-90gw-of-electricity-vanished/

29-11-2023: NZ looks likely to begin rejecting undemocratic UN dictatorship. Come one Albo: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/rare-signs-of-democracy-in-new-zealand-govt-asking-if-un-treaty-is-in-the-national-interest/

29-11-2023: We now know the vaccine was deadlier than the disease yet our government is set to accept total control by the WHO this week: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/u-s-navy-medical-officer-exposes-defense-department/

29-11-2023: Moslems threaten to kill Jews - Albanese's response? Ban Hitler salute. Meanwhile thousands of illegals and other undesirables are permitted to weekly disrupt our streets with marches and ISIS salutes .Deport all of them!

28-11-2023: The ‘Tower Jews’ have been safe in London since (at least) William 1 decreed it so, but the weekly Hamas ‘hate marches’ and their support by a Moslem Lord Mayor (not to mention the British ‘establishment’) now makes their position precarious – as is indeed the whole foundation of Western civilisation in these barbarous times. We need to gird up our loins and win this (Fifth) Crusade. These invaders need to be driven into the sea as they were the last time they threatened us nearly 500 years ago : https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/a-post-jewish-london/

28-11-2023: Releasing hundreds of dangerous criminals into the community (and at a cost of hundreds of millions) will not work out well: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/not-one.html

28-11-2023: B------t indeed, “We are told to believe that 18.4% of the plague burials were blacks. In 14th century England.” (The ‘study’ ignored DNA) https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/was-the-black-death-racist/ & https://moonbattery.com/bbc-denounces-medieval-plague-as-racist/

28-11-2023: The importance of gratitude: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/giving-thanks?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=139099674&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

27-11-2023: 12 Phrases Shakespeare Coined That We Still Use Today: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/12-phrases-shakespeare-coined-that-we-still-use-today/YDFlwLQR2wAGlAm0?liu=dedebf69916b31f8bd8f6619ee21d5e7&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1971875116

27-11-2023: The rush of the net zero lemmings: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/33849/net-zero-emissions-propaganda/

27-11-2023: London has fallen. The Nazis failed to crush it but Hamas has succeeded. Tommy was just reporting on an anti-Semitic crowd calling for a Moslem Army: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/this-is-london-tommy-robinson-gassed-arrested-protest/

27-11-2023: More leaders like this bloke please: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/gee-this-bloke-is-good.html

26-11-2023: When ‘climate sceptics’ get the upper hand: “So 56% of Argentian voters are climate skeptics…Milei has also called climate change is a ‘socialist hoax’” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/shocked-far-right-climate-deniers-get-more-votes-than-any-other-party/

26-11-2023: Another view of human origins: https://amazingtoday43.com/the-700000-year-old-skull-in-greek-cave-completely-shatters-the-out-of-africa-theory-2/?fbclid=IwAR3LmOvm_DEBZS25GSz0j_S0kGc2GMdjWEPxWPUog04KLq3_4oFsPX5R5kU

26-11-2023: Progress? “QUT will hire second-rate staff to teach crap to second-rate students for Aboriginal people who do not wash.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/black-arts-faculty/

26-11-2023: Learn from the wisdom of the classics – or despair: Aristotle on Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy, “Aristotle clearly articulates how homogeneity, a common identity, and a sense of peoplehood are social goods necessary to citizenship, solidarity, and freedom from tyrannical government. He argues for good government oriented towards the common interest as opposed to towards individual “rights,” caprice, and equality as ends in themselves”: https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/02/24/aristotle-on-immigration-diversity-and-democracy/

25-11-2023: The origin of the word ‘idiot’ is interesting and surprising. So, a ‘patriot’ is someone who wants to be involved in government and an ‘idiot’ is someone who doesn’t. Have we got this wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

25-11-2023: Is Pope Francis actually Satan? Certainly looks like it: https://notthebee.com/article/meet-the-group-of-44-trans-women-that-the-pope-invited-to-a-vatican-lunch-this-week

25-11-2023: The current strategy towards wild deer will see them move from game animal status to extinct in a generation. Then forget about having a reason to own guns: https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/wild-deer-not-as-abundant-in-victoria-as-previously-thought/?fbclid=IwAR3nxBAIeBPhL5IbYSwe3MmfRkCpiPEf3nU8rRy-7uCaShM1ce5mmBBWwfs

25-11-2023: “What you’re seeing is evil done for its own sake” I agree with Tucker. It is really strange that an atheist like me is now seeing Satan everywhere, What is going on with the world, - and why? Eg “Today’s lies are an exact inversion of the truth”. I used to call this ‘deconstruction’ – but it is more than this: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1727090631850492257

24-11-2023: What a Wonderful World — Thanks to CO2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4nzRFhwuuU&t=142s

24-11-2023: Is this telepathy? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03619-w

24-11-2023: Things you did not know about ‘our’ government. Did ‘we’ vote for this - or the 1.2 million they have let in since they were elected? https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/22/australia-opens-the-door-to-palestinian-refugees-as-arab-countries-still-say-no/

If only 60 Palestinians per year were admitted to the US how many of the rabid anti semitic crowds we have seen on our streets are here legally? Dutton (Macron etc) are right. Deport them en masse: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/republicans-want-ban-palestinian-refugees-already-hard-get-in-us-rcna120892

24-11-2023: Will Panasonic be able to make this work? https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/11/20/panasonic-envisions-a-world-where-homes-and-offices-can-be-powered-by-their-windows

23-11-2023: Should you take Boron for your arthritis? https://alternative-doctor.com/borax-arthritis/ It’s certainly cheap enough 1kg = A$8.18: https://www.bunnings.com.au/glitz-green-1kg-borax_p4460527 Recommended dose is 6mg per day (men). A teaspoon contains approx 450 mg boron. Dilute with one litre of water then use 13 mls per day (1000/13 +77; 450/77 = 6 ) That $8 worth should last five lifetimes!. No wonder Big Pharma don’t want to get behind this cure. https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/borax.html)

23-11-2023: No-one will ever want to buy a Toyota again. You wish: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/22/toyota-suv-adverts-banned-in-uk-on-environmental-grounds

23-11-2023: The Albanese Govt is Whitlam on steroids – and just as destructive. It will take a generation to recover from this one term disaster story – but will conservatives ever have a majority again in both houses after Turnbull’s deal with the Greens? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/australian-government-throws-giant-pile-of-money-at-renewables-so-big-its-a-secret/

23-11-2023: Argentina throws off the shackles of socialism (after decades). Meanwhile Wilders looks set to win the Dutch election too. The times they are a’changing: https://nypost.com/2023/11/20/opinion/cry-no-more-for-argentina-its-about-to-be-a-new-model-for-economic-reform/

22-11-2023: Learning about the value of friendship from Aristotle: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/11/20/how-aristotles-advice-on-friendship-is-relevant-in-the-modern-workplace/?fbclid=IwAR3AISmhYS-4PaFQZcDBzh7jheDZKfOXevoFQbhTCIibO8jvA67jhBxVvSo&sh=112021ac3b76

22-11-2023: An essentially religious view of ‘climate change’ ignores historical facts about how climate changes. I think the painting of the Dutch fleet being captured by French cavalry whilst frozen in the North Sea in 1795 is an important case in point: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/19/political-and-natural-hazards-arc-part-3/

22-11-2023: I agree Andrew: time Hamas surrendered: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-dont-the-left-care-about-freedom-democracy-and-peace/news-story/d90d40777d7dd28628df150831929772

22-11-2023: Well said Gina: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/gina-rinehart-govt-strangling-of-australias-worldleading-mining-agriculture-industries-is-creating-a-nightmare-scenario-for-our-children/news-story/f727f96238de3c7fbe041b43cc887b96

21-11-2023: Ultralight Saw Experiments: I have not been completely happy with a DIY saw which weighs around an ounce for making my Ultralight Tent Poles when I am up the bush. Seems like I ought to be able to save around 20 grams on that – so here is my first effort which weighs exactly half that at 14 grams.

If I use 1cm x 1mm aluminium (this is 2mm) it will save 3.325 grams. If I cut off the ends of the bolts (1.5 grams) it will come in at under 10 grams (4.08 = 3.325 + 1.8 = 9.205). “It’s all downhill from there”. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/11/20/ultralight-saw-experiments/

21-11-2023: How we went dreadfully wrong in our response to covid: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/where-has-all-the-science-gone/

21-11-2023: We have reached a point where the far-left hates J.K Rowling but loves Osama bin Laden.

21-11-2023: It’s not just us you see. We are just echoing the decline of the West: https://moonbattery.com/result-of-basing-immigration-policy-on-moonbattery/

20-11-2023: Eratosthenes' experiment to measure the Earth's circumference is a classic example of early scientific measurement that can be replicated by anyone today.

Here's a simplified overview of how it worked:

Eratosthenes knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Syene (now Aswan, Egypt), the Sun was directly overhead, as evidenced by the fact that it illuminated the bottom of a deep well, something that only happens when the Sun is at the zenith. There were no shadows cast by vertical objects.

At the same time in Alexandria, which is north of Syene, vertical objects did cast shadows. Eratosthenes measured the angle of the shadow cast by a stick and found it to be approximately 7.2 degrees, or 1/50 of a full circle.

The distance between Syene and Alexandria was known to be approximately 5,000 stadia (the exact length of a stadion is not known but is often taken to be about 185 meters based on the typical length used in the Hellenistic Mediterranean world).

Eratosthenes reasoned that if a stick in Alexandria cast a shadow with an angle of 7.2 degrees, then, in a full 360-degree circle, the distance from Alexandria to Syene must be 1/50 of the Earth's total circumference. So, he multiplied the distance between the two cities by 50 to get the Earth's circumference.

Using modern units for the stadion, the calculation would be:

5,000 stadia x 185 meters/stadion = 925,000 meters

925,000 meters x 50 = 46,250,000 meters

Thus, Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference to be about 46,250 kilometers. The actual circumference of the Earth at the equator is about 40,075 kilometers, so although his method was sound, the accuracy of his result was off due to the inexact value of the stadion and possibly the accuracy of his measurements. Nevertheless, Eratosthenes' experiment was remarkably precise for his time and remains a powerful demonstration of the scientific method applied to the natural world.

20-11-2023: Young, brilliant and principled: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/good-on-you-darling-were-on-your-side.html

20-11-2023: 15 minute cities will be a giant concentration camp. The covid lockdowns were only a trial run: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/18/eu-parliamentarian-15-minute-cities-will-be-complete-impoverishment-enslavement-of-all-the-people/

20-11-2023: Quote of the week: “Every single person who confuses correlation with causation ends up dying.”

19-11-2023: Surviving the Everest Base Camp Trek: This may be harder than you think in the ‘post covid’ era. However, Della and I (plus Leanne) have just ventured there and back (again)… I will largely let them tell the story this time (our third) – with well over 100 photos and maybe some useful advice.

PS: Della and I are/were 144 collectively (a ‘gross’) of years old this trip…(Some more gross than others!) I know there are those (of you?) who may prefer watching reruns of old sitcoms on TV (at whatever age) or admiring the ‘interesting’ patterns baristas can make in the froth of their coffees – but ‘not these little black ducks!’ (Daffy) Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/11/19/surviving-the-everest-base-camp-trek/

19-11-2023: Byrd’s Snow Cruiser – great ideas that did not work (not unlike the Albanese Government actually). Perhaps they ought both be abandoned on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser

19-11-2023: Horrifying. Just when did ‘we’ begin seeing terrorists as the victims: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2023/10/the-management-of-savagery-part-ii/

19-11-2023: Yet we believed the world had banned biological and chemical warfare decades ago: https://rumble.com/v3w6kcm-kris-newby-lyme-disease-and-americas-secret-bioweapons-programs.html?start=151 & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/how-many-more-secret-labs-are-there-in-all-our-countries/

19-11-2023: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill: https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/33751/socialism-amounts-to-human-suffering/

18-11-2023: Best headline of the year, ‘Will artificial intelligence lead to artificial stupidity?’

Ditto: Who took the ‘smart’ out of ‘smart phones’? The most terrifying thing is that for many they are ‘smarter’ than their owners – but who/which exactly is the owner here?

18-11-2023: And not before time either: https://babylonbee.com/news/target-releases-trans-muslim-chinese-quadruple-amputee-santa

18-11-2023: I’d certainly vote for her: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/suella-braverman-for-pm/

18-11-2023: Read these books. They’re free – and will change your whole perspective f the jistory of our wonderful country, eg “The wind was now fair, the sky serene, though a little hazy, and the temperature of the air delightfully pleasant: joy sparkled in every countenance, and congratulations issued from every mouth. Ithaca itself was scarcely more longed for by Ulysses, than Botany Bay by the adventurers who had traversed so many thousand miles to take possession of it.”:

Watkin TENCH (1758-1833)

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1789)--Text--HTML--EPUB--MOBI
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793)-- Text--HTML--EPUB--MOBI

17-11-2023: The ‘Virgin’ Mary’s Tears. Yet again a (final) proof of the existence of God? Where is James Randi when you need him? (probably dead actually). On the other hand is there any sane person who really beiieves Mary and Joseph were not bonking? PS: I still think the 'Derry Girls' take on this was the best. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24731585/virgin-mary-statue-crying-as-pilgrims-witness-miracle/

17-11-2023: If you are my age you will remember questioning who was funding the anti-Vietnam demos…since then you might have questioned who funds the Greens (the same communists – this time China mostly). Who funds antisemitism (the Saudis, of course) – but also…Things don’t just happen ‘by chance’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/youll-never-guess-whos-helping-fund-coordinate-radical/

17-11-2023: A worm turns slowly but once turned there is no turning back. The Left should beware before they are torn to pieces. The revenge of Shai-Hulud: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/is-life-over-at-75/

17-11-2023: Do you seriously want the Marxist Tedros to rule the world (or Xi?) He had one job already and he muffed it: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/what-looks-smells-and-acts-like-one-health-world-government/

16-11-2023: Society today would be horrified by our perfectly normal 1970s behaviour (when I was a young man). ‘Everyone’ smoked (tobacco); practically everyone drank and drove; gun ownership, fishing and hunting were commonplace pursuits; we thought nothing about felling a tree; sex without condoms was absolutely normal (and fun!); we all owned houses/homes or aspired to do so; we had never heard of nor gave a single thought to the ‘environment; most of the things which are considered normal today (think homosexuality, communism, Islam…) were recognized evils (and vice-versa)… Where have we gone wrong to become a bunch of nervous nannies? https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/lynching-of-men-is-our-national-sport

16-11-2023: Converting from Islam. A hopeful sign. Only a billion or so to go: https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-why-i-am-now-christian-atheism?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

16-11-2023: Satanism is rife. ‘First’ we had the bogus ‘love is love’ referendum overturning what we all knew was utterly evil and abhorrent into ‘good’ spearheaded by the openly gay and Moslem ‘President’ Obama (the details of whose birth and upbringing in am Islamic Madrassa) were even altered so he could qualify , he who has done so much to destroy the USA, then the sexualisation of children, ‘normalisation’ of incest, advocacy for bestiality from academics. All along we have had mass infanticide https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/sex-with-dogs-and-other-critters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=682601&post_id=138856969&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

15-11-2023: Back to gold – get yours eg at the Perth Mint. A sovereign (or the like) weighs about a quarter of an ounce (7-8 grams) and is a bit under an inch in diameter (20-22mm) and costs from A$1-1500. It is pretty easy to have $10K in ‘loose change’ in your pocket. May be better than a credit card. Start now : https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/cash_beats_electronic_money_but_real_money_beats_cash.html

13-11-2023: Have you any doubt now that the Greens are evil murderous b------s? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/white-cloths-used-to-demonstrate-children-killed-in-gaza-at-propalestinian-protest-held-on-front-lawn-of-parliament-house/news-story/a74b68f2a7395ba9008c2cb2ccb0d7cb?fbclid=IwAR1777FbWm-pcQimeovIvQWICDV0pBSOM7GAzaUrB7q9fOQOe0GjtqrL70Y

More than that: Remember the Greens murdered 100+ million people with malaria when they cooked up a crooked ban on DDT. This is more than the communists and Nazis (both extreme lefties too) murdered during the C20th. Now they are killing many more people with various 'renewables' programmes like legislating to produce fuel from food and palm oil - not to mention the billions of wild things they kill with their massive land clearances, wind farms etc. These people are the most destructive force against the environment in the world by a long shot. They are working at producing mass extinctions of practically everything - including human beings.

13-11-2023: Another punnet of strawberries please: https://nypost.com/2023/11/12/lifestyle/consumption-of-strawberries-may-reduce-dementia-risk-study/?fbclid=IwAR3_6HojAoZTZcIQsb0WuPh8r5SdOaCJbMAHJzANbP0vDcCYDWZaeYGmpvs

13-11-2023: Bring it on: https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews/a45752401/toyotas-10000-future-pickup-truck-is-basic-transportation-perfection/?fbclid=IwAR070Eb0RCpZFaM8g0lZweWzq8gp1k-cVtVPUFsSMB_j-4iUe2TUmrBPPt0

13-11-2023: Where are the laments (in Western Sydney etc) for the (at least) 1 and a half billion people murdered over the last millennium by the tyranny (call it 'submission' if you will) of Islam, starting with all those butchered along the 'Barbary Coast' during Mohamed's own time and by his own 'warriors', millions of Christians, Jews and of course other Moslems. We must sop Moslem immigration now and indeed reverse it by large-scale mass deportations. The Nordic countries have already begun this process: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/douglas-murray-and-john-anderson-islamic-immigration/?fbclid=IwAR2Lzjh5zJ-xkv_HVh6UgASXq0HzJRXWsNxY2oPH3wCFG-ncE4_hNMn3SlI

13-11-2023: Truly a 'must read' - if you would understand how the Great March through the institutions' has been playing out Christopher Joliffe has wonderfully entertaining answers, eg 'A point of consternation for many conservatives is accounting for the strange menagerie gathered beneath the progressive banner. What exactly do the radical feminist types have in common with, say, immigrant enclaves in Western Sydney, whose family structures involve all kinds of problematic elements? What binds the fat activist to the fierce proponent of the environment, when one spends much of her time eating the obsessions of the other?" https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/11/the-left-and-those-they-love-to-exploit/?fbclid=IwAR1777FbWm-pcQimeovIvQWICDV0pBSOM7GAzaUrB7q9fOQOe0GjtqrL70Y

13-11-2023: Those climate crises which just keep not happening...A little more knowledge of history, prehistory and geology is needed. Such as this: https://wattsupwiththat.com/.../sahara-expert-says.../ and this: https://wattsupwiththat.com/.../west-antarctica.../ PS: Back from the dead (due to high altitude infection) this morning. Cheers, Steve.

13-11-2023: Stephen Cavura is just so utterly right: we have not 'stolen' the next generations' childhood; we have 'stolen their 'adulthood'. This ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) is such an important organisation - but will people listen to 'the adult in the room' or have folk become just too infantile? I feel that I am starting to see the first few swallows of a summer, but the young (those raised on the pernicious 'smart' phone and instant gratification) will be so hard to save...it does not mean that the task is impossible however. It was just this very (lost and indoctrinated) group which rebelled and took on tanks with their bare hands during he Hungarian uprising of 1956, for example. I have never lost faith in the basic goodness and promise of the human soul: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/arc-to-boldly-say-what-the-elites-dare-not/?fbclid=IwAR0o2KMtviFeTxtncM5wPqEssI0qtHgkwNEaCO8sPvHi--hex3TgwFdzUwE

22-10-2023: Burning money. Go Net Zero: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/20/matt-ridley-the-official-true-cost-of-net-zero-is-the-same-as-spending-1-a-second-for-the-next-31000-years/

22-10-2023: You are probably over George Floyd (and pro-Palestinian demonstrators) . I know I am. But just a reminder that an innocent cop is still in gaol for this criminal’s drug overdose death: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/tucker-carlson-challenges-prevailing-narratives-george-floyds-cause/

22-10-2023: A ‘death cult’ indeed: ‘the more abominable the level of savagery is’, it is still less abominable than enduring stability under ‘the order of unbelief, nizam al kufir by several degrees’. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2023/10/the-management-of-savagery/

22-10-2023: So exactly in what percentages of cases is it the woman who falsely accuses the man of rape? Are we talking one in five here? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/false-rape-allegations-arent-so-rare/

21-10-2023: Sounds promising: https://newatlas.com/medical/brain-stimulation-dementia-treatment/

21-10-2023: Why won't other Arab countries take in Palestinian refugees? A clue: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/64-of-palestinian-refugees-taken-in-by-denmark-in-1992-now-have-criminal-records.html

21-10-2023: Once you subtract the urban heat island effect, instrument ‘error’ and downright fraud you might not have much global warming to be alarmed about: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/10/new-paper-submission-urban-heat-island-effects-in-u-s-summer-temperatures-1880-2015/

21-10-2023: Is this b------t or what? There needs to be a lot fewer of them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/rort-wank-weaklings.html

20-10-2023: Telling it like it is – but nuclear and HELE are. What is the matter with our energy policy makers?: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/electricity-from-wind-isnt-cheap-and-it-never-will-be/

20-10-2023: Yes (or 'No'): "If the voice is to fail, there should be a significant reset on the grounds that the separatism that has informed Indigenous policy for decades has finally been subjected to public scrutiny and rejected, including by a substantial percentage of Aboriginal people." Tony Abbott.

20-10-2023: The vast car ship carrier fires lately (4,000+ cars at a time up in smoke) did not completely kill the EV market but the Luton car park fire (1200 cars destroyed) just might. You don’t want that happening at your house? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/evs-luton-fire-just-killed-the-ev-market/

20-10-2023: Good Lord. Palestinian terror supporters storm the Capitol yet nothing is done while those American (patriot) protesters (of a stolen election) are still locked up without a trial. This is (in) the ‘home of the free’: https://notthebee.com/article/hold-on-a-minute-did-these-pro-palestinian-protesters-just-storm-the-capitol-i-thought-that-was-called-an-insurrection

19-10-2023: “They are people playing with fire who don’t even know that fire is hot.” I am just astonished after years of so-called ‘education’ how dumb such folks are – and getting worse. Just this week I had two examples of this as I worked on repairing one of my Land Rovers which was seriously damaged by me allowing someone else to ‘repair’ it ((because I am ‘getting old’. Never again – I have fixed it now). During this process (because I was chasing parts) I learned of a Landie 300 TDI engine which had been thrown in a scrap bin which needed $10 worth of parts and an hour’s work for it to do another million kilometers. Unfortunately I (just) failed to retrieve it. However, at the same time I did manage to buy (for a song) a perfectly good Discovery 2 which was being ‘thrown away’ because it would not shift into a forward gear. $59 worth of parts and it is as good as new again and it will drive for another million kilometers! It did not matter that I explained these things to the previous owners. They just wanted to ‘trust the experts’. https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/the-return-of-rational-fear/

19-10-2023: You probably all know that I abhor the ‘welfare state’ but this essay with its many very early references reinforces brilliantly why such a state is undesirable and ultimately destructive of all that is most valuable in society. The perspicacity of Von Humboldt who died in 1837 is well-nigh unbelievable. How have we gone so wrong for so long? Truly a ‘must read’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/enslaved-by-the-welfare-state-the-tragedy-of-australian-kindness/

19-10-2023: A small history of the ‘two state solution’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/reflection-on-the-quests-for-a-two-state-solution/

Don’t believe Hamas lies https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/islamist-terrorist-neutralised-with-extreme-prejudice.html

19-10-2023: Warren and Jacinta – telling it like it is. Sometimes the solution to a problem is ‘tough love’ which will be rejected by the object of that ‘love’ if they are offered a choice – but to their eternal detriment: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/warren-mundine-tells-the-media-elite-to-wake-up/

18-10-2023: Who’d have thought – The whole ‘greenhouse theory’ is wrong – and after we have spent billions of dollars chasing it too, money which might have alleviated so many real world problems! https://www.wnd.com/2017/07/study-blows-greenhouse-theory-out-of-the-water/?fbclid=IwAR2bJLKBlB4ELqoVAowDJ1g7BD-p-Lr_uvmIn-kPOZWTid8zn_BtxM29P6w

18-10-2023: Deport the b------s. Do it Albo – instead of allowing Wong to continue to throw money at them: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feurope%2F2023%2F10%2F16%2Fmacron-calls-for-ruthless-deportation-of-all-migrants-with-ties-to-islamic-extremism-from-france%2F

18-10-2023: ‘Follow the science’ guys – right down the gurgler: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/sciences_inviolability_just_took_another_hit.html

18-10-2023: Well done NZ. Our turn next. Let’s rid ourselves of these dreadful leftist clowns: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/how-the-national-party-toppled-labour-in-new-zealand/

18-10-2023: Angry? So Jacinta A. did not understand we said, No!’ Other Labor states are in lockstep, even Qld where the proposal was most unpopular: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/victoria-to-forge-ahead-with-treaty-process-after-voice-defeat-as-jacinta-allan-commits-to-better-outcomes-for-indigenous-peoples/news-story/54ed9b1979b51e01b1d66f6fe367595a

17-10-2023: Towards an understanding of the barbarity of Hamas (and its associates): https://quillette.com/2023/10/10/the-ideology-of-mass-murder/

17-10-2023: Half of our electricity needed to decarbonise aviation. Back to walking again? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/to-go-green-lufthansa-says-it-needs-half-of-germanys-electricity/

17-10-2023: Exactly Warren Mundine, It is one thing to give people a ‘leg up’ but ultimately people have to ‘lift’ themselves.“I know by law that it is compulsory for kids to attend school. We need to go and work with the parents and the community leaders within the Aboriginal community to get those kids to school, every school day.

“And if we don't do that, then we're stuffed. We're never going to improve, nothing's going to change.

“And we've got to get people in jobs… if we get Aboriginal adults in jobs (and) kids going to school, there'll be no gap to change - no gap to close”. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/leading-no-campaigner-warren-mundine-details-what-needs-to-happen-to-address-indigenous-disadvantage-after-voice-defeat/news-story/55800505907101fd365b319f9ab4c631

17-10-2023: Some simple maths. Did indigenous Australians support or oppose the ‘Voice’? National vote was approx 60:40. Lingiari for example voted 57% No yet is 40% indigenous. If the 60% not indigenous voted as the national average suggests then their 60% of the vote was split 36:24 leaving 21% (57-36) to come from the 40% indigenous ie a clear majority of the indigenous voters in Lingiari (Uluru remember?) voted against the proposal – and good on them! Other electorates with large indigenous populations were clearly even more against the proposal, some being 79% No.

16-10-2023: Yay! A drug which improves osteoarthritis symptoms: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-common-drug-osteoarthritis-symptoms.html

16-10-2023: Spot on Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/news/islam-downgraded-to-religion-of-mostly-peace

16-10-2023: They are coming for your guns again. Just about time we all said we lost them all in a boating accident: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/firearm-overhaul-set-for-wa-with-fresh-changes/video/96ecc719ab806cc838d7748c4c3c4345

16-10-2023: Just about time they all shut up and got a real job: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-indigenous-leaders-call-week-silence-after-referendum-defeat-2023-10-15/

15-10-2023: The Parting of the Ways: Perhaps it is true and there are just a limited number of themes which inform life. The Journey is certainly one such. Re-reading ‘The Odyssey’ or “Robinson Crusoe’ ever regenerates that thrill of the eternal journey, echoed so brilliantly in Tennyson's wonderful poem, ‘Ulysses’: ‘To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.… To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’ Another recurring theme is ‘the parting of the ways.’ How often have we traveled with comrades on some distant adventure, or held a dying friend’s hand for comfort till we come to that penultimate end when we must part, perhaps be sundered forever. I’m sure everyone’s heart rings to Robert Frost’s lines from ‘A Road Not Taken’ ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both… I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference’. How many themes inform one’s life? I’m sure it is far from infinite – it may be less than a dozen even. It may be the same with madness: that there is a small number of types of delusion which inform all mental illness.

15-10-2023: A Big ‘No’ to enshrining race in the constitution, something which we thought we had rid ourselves of in 1967 – or indeed 1788! The good sense of the Australian people as a whole is revealed nowhere more than in the Northern Territory, which has by far the highest proportion of actual aboriginal people (30%) yet it voted just as strongly against the Voice as all the other states did (62% voted No). NB: Notably ‘Uluru’ ie Lingiari voted against the proposal 58 to 42%! This vote was their ‘voice. Going forward we a should remove all ‘special’ treatment of people according to ‘race’ and so abolish all the ‘aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’ quangos etc as well as repealing the highly discriminatory ‘Native Title Act’ and like legislation. Australians have voted to be one people under law. Of course every effort should be made to address real inequalities and disadvantages (according to need) insofar as there is anything government can do (as opposed to individual effort) to redress these things – but such efforts should never be based on ‘race’. This is a vile and antiquated concept which should now forever be relegated to the dustbin of history: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/seats-with-high-indigenous-populations-abandon-voice-to-parliament-as-australians-reject-referendum-proposal-in-landslide/news-story/563527439abbdb9cb935da8dd4ab0735

Second best headline of the day: “Man dies after climbing rock face painted with 'Yes' mural just a day before referendum”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12625529/Man-dies-climbing-rock-face-painted-Yes-mural-just-day-referendum.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR1GR6Fg7TsIYIcFsmV0WvBptmPvYysrRfuvjOnZTei21odHIhPutQw6-os

15-10-2023: Best headline of the day: “Hamas Disappointed Liberals (ie Leftists) Don't Believe They Massacred Jews After They Went To All The Trouble To Livestream It”: https://babylonbee.com/news/hamas-disappointed-leftists-dont-believe-they-massacred-jews-after-they-went-to-all-the-trouble-to-livestream-it

15-10-2023: Hamas deniers are no different to Holocaust deniers. Thankfully Bibi has moved quickly to scotch their vile lies but I’m afraid I just cannot watch the awful photos of beheaded babies and the like he has provided as evidence any more than I readily viewed the dreadful images of Belsen etc. My weak stomach doesn’t make me any less angry that there is a vile creed amongst us which actively promotes such dreadful acts and which is not opposed by our governments – indeed our government funds it through supporting religious schools etc. They have passed laws against ‘hate crimes’ yet if I condemn Islam it is viewed as one, but when Islam preaches and exhorts (as it does) that such obscene violence and murder are not only right but desirable nothing is done to suppress or punish it. The mosques should be closed, the Koran banned (it is a hate document) and Islam’s adherents deported unless they will recant this noxious faith with solemn and binding promises eg made on the lives of their own families.

Millions of Australian dollars are being used to fund an ‘education system’ in Palestine which teaches kids to hate and kill Jews: https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1712506046135091634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1712506046135091634%7Ctwgr%5E1d340effc4ea13ede110f035076b37c793e4d3e3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F

13-10-2023: Is this Bigfoot at last? If only Moses, Jesus or Mohammed had owned a smart phone we would have clearer picture of God too! https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/10/11/cheyenne-couple-reportedly-spots-bigfoot-from-train-media-goes-bonkers/

13-10-2023: Looking like the great ‘renewables dream is coming to an end as economic reality bites: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/investors-are-starting-to-run-from-clean-green-energy/

13-10-2023: An Aboriginal Elder speaks out. ‘White fellas saved us – a ‘must read’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/aboriginal-elder-white-fellas-saved-us/

13-10-2023: Let’s not stop with ‘non-citizens’ Peter. No-one deserves to be a citizen who has such execrable views about the acceptability of mass murder. For example, I see the Imams want every mosque to be lit up in support of Palestine for the next month! (PS: I see France is already doing it): https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/dont-have-any-place-in-our-society-peter-dutton-demands-all-noncitizen-participants-of-sydney-propalestine-rally-be-deported/news-story/74cb8c0104671a1a9d1c9af3d6114595

12-10-2023: A lesson in world history – which came first beer or the wheel?: http://real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com/index.php?topic=2797.0

12-10-2023: Well done that girl: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/what-a-legend-well-done-that-young-woman-israel-25-hamas-nil.html

12-10-2023: Naomi Seibt: The anti Greta. There is hope: https://twitter.com/SeibtNaomi

12-10-2023: Well said Bari Weiss –we are no longer Waiting for the Barbarians (Cavafy): https://www.thefp.com/p/this-is-what-decolonization-looks-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=137824745&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

11-10-2023: The heritage these two children will grow up with. Never forget the ‘Birkenhead’: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/09/young-israeli-parents-hid-twin-babies-before-being-murdered-by-hamas-twins-survived/

11-10-2023: Unspeakable evil, “Around 40 babies were butchered in the village of Kfar Aza, in southern Israel.” Yet we have brought thousands of such folk to live among us and are still sending millions of our dollars to support their wicked government. We need to close down the mosques which preach such infamy and begin deporting such people. Even Sweden has begun to do so. Ban the Koran which advocates such conduct (ie cutting the throats of ‘infidels’): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12615031/Hamas-terrorists-beheaded-babies-kibbutz-slaughter-IDF-soldiers-reveal-horrific-scenes-carnage-discovered-site-scores-people-massacred.html

Yes. Let’s deport these people – we know who they are: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/the-policing-intel-upside-from-islamic-throwbacks-holding-their-illegal-protest.html

11-10-2023: Geoengineering – Dangerous Maniacs: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/08/geoengineering-a-futile-attempt-to-fix-a-non-issue-and-dangerous-as-well/

11-10-2023: If even Ayer’s Rock (Uluru) doesn’t want it, neither should we: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/anthony-albanese-caught-in-awkward-moment-at-uluru-when-shown-polling-which-indicates-australians-around-alice-springs-will-vote-no-for-voice/news-story/af08499d7a0fcc3499dba6f4a444c771

10-10-2023: A profound study in contrasts – do you wonder why people of my generation say again and again, “We have seen the best times and are ‘glad’ we will not be here to experience the future”: https://moonbattery.com/norman-rockwell-paints-the-age-of-moonbattery/

10-10-2023: ‘Gaol Napalm’ – It couldn’t happen to two ‘nicer’ men: https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/ashley-paul-griffith-and-brett-peter-cowen-have-allegedly-been-attacked-in-a-queensland-prison/news-story/125e83b5142e87e3762e8ccdf3382ebe

10-10-2023: Sharri Markson Is great. Get your head around the facts behind this disgusting anti-Semitic evil: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/must-see-aussie-reporter-sharri-markson-breaks-down/

10-10-2023: It is unimaginable that there were large crowds celebrating this awful evil in our cities. Is this not a hate crime? We have imported (and supported) a vast Fifth Column which needs to be ‘walked back’ before we descend into the same internecine violence and terror which plagues so many countries – or until we are utterly subjugated. Should (such) people not (at least) be deported for (such) ‘hate crimes’?: https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/wild-scenes-erupt-in-sydney-amid-protest-against-israel/news-story/e03a33f5cefe7c2bd081212cdea5978b

Your ‘fellow Australians’ chanting ‘Gas the Jews’ & ‘F—k the Jews’ on Oct 9^th (after the terror attack on Israel). Do you seriously think this is right, or that Albanese should be giving (another) $32 million of your money (They are) to these people (ie Hamas)? The cops arrested one (Jewish) guy waving an Israeli flag and did nothing to these fascists: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/1930s-germans-thought-life-would-be-easier-to-just-give-the-sa-brownshirts-what-they-wanted.html

This dreadful crime occurred pretty much on the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto which at least showed that Islam could (should) be defeated: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fcolumns%2Fraymond-ibrahim%2F2023%2F10%2F07%2Ftoday-in-history-the-battle-of-lepanto-muslims-flay-christians-alive-for-refusing-islam-n1733070

09-10-2023: The Ibex, a Land Rover Defender alternative you may not have heard of: https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/4x4s/british-built-ibex-4x4-offers-land-rover-defender-alternative & https://www.ibexvehicles.com/

09-10-2023: Just as true today…“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ” Winston Churchill.

09-10-2023: In a nutshell: “Islam is a religion in which god requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.” What Hamas believes. (Such vile creeds deservedly need to be eradicated from the earth - not endorsed as the Left and the Greens are keen to do) : https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/33296/the-real-reason-hamas-attacked-israel/

To think Sydney University used to be a great educational establishment (“being the last ‘man’ to feed the crocodile…”): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/probably-not-your-wisest-choice-in-causes-kids.html

09-10-2023: You would imagine it is all over and that as a result governments all over Australia will withdraw from their handing over of money, power and land to ‘black’ activists: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/its-over-new-polling-suggest-no-route-to-victory-for-yes-vote/news-story/7d297d59b9dfc8320d4ae0ad619d03a6

Imagine if maybe even the majority of ‘indigenous’ citizens intend to vote ’No’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/first-nations-voters-divided-on-voice-too/news-story/173c67059760d59275687dab24176b4d

08-10-2023: Peace with terrorists who murder such young innocent strangers and clearly celebrate their evil deeds is just not possible yet our government (Wong) has been dancing with this very devil (Hamas and the PLO). I notice there are crowds of people celebrating this evil in London – and no doubt in Lakemba too. God is great, indeed!: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_socialist_celebrate_the_butchering_of_israeli_citizens & https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12606047/israeli-student-kidnapped-desert-rave-hamas-family-footage-gaza-missing-boyfriend-invasion-war.html & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/woman-whose-body-was-seen-back-truck-hamas/

08-10-2023: Have no doubt, Hamas is a terrorist organization. Its actions are pure evil. Biden’s support of the Taliban, Iran and Hamas have a lot to answer for too: https://twitter.com/ReginierF/status/1710654496093692349

08-10-2023: Meanwhile, Albo apparently ‘persuaded’ the imams to support the ‘Yes’ case. No doubt they would do anything at all to destroy Western civilization anyway. This move should bolster the ‘No’ case significantly.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/vanity-voice-albo-tongue-head-to-the-lakemba-mosque-for-yes-votes.html

08-10-2023: The greens are such charming people: At the ‘Return to Nature’ Funeral Home: https://moonbattery.com/corpses-rot-at-green-funeral-home/

08-10-2023: Milton Friedman, ‘'President Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”… Neither half of that statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. “What your country can do for you” implies that the government is the patron, the citizen the ward. “What you can do for your country” assumes that the government is the master, the citizen the servant.'’

07-10-2023: Do you think I was wrong in 2012 when I wrote this: “So, the Reserve Bank is still playing fast and loose with our money: as if Capital was so easy to come by - instead of taking a lifetime of hard work and saving. At current levels the reserve bank's rates barely (if at all) keep pace with inflation leaving savers with no income from their hard-earned money. On the other side of the ledger the punters who want to further leverage their outlandish Macmansions are encouraged to do so to the detriment of those who in the current real estate climate can't afford housing at all and have to continue to live with their parents and grandparents: I know several 'middle class' families of Sydneysiders (all hard workers) who are sharing three generation housing. Higher interest rates would advantage savers (including those saving for a home) and force the outrageous price of housing downwards. It would take probably twenty years of interest rates above 10% to force house prices down to the more modest American level. Question: Why does it cost several times more today to create a block of land and a house than it did thirty or fifty years ago? Where are the benefits to housing of productivity growth and labour saving machinery? In the 1950's, 60's and early 70's a father could afford to be the only wage earner and support a wife and two children whilst paying off a house and car. What happened to that Australian dream? Even though we have had reasonable income all our lives with both of us working and contributing, we have only managed to pay off a modest house (about half the value of a house in Sydney) and we built every bit of it with our own hands - even the bricks it is made from. The people running this economy are fools, swindlers or both!

07-10-2023: If all the warming we have observed in the weather records was down to CO2 that would equate to a 1.9c increase for every doubling of CO2. Much less than previous estimates but that would mean we were only in for less than another 1C if CO2 should go to 560 ppm (centuries away) making the world still much colder than it was in the Middle Ages! And don’t forget the two premises which are likely false as well. Let’s just stop worrying about it please: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/29/spencer-and-christys-new-climate-sensitivity-paper-has-been-published-and-its-lower/

07-10-2023: A revolutionary idea indeed: “What if parents were to be given a voucher they could take to any institution to which their children gained admittance?” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/10/reforming-an-education-system-beholden-to-mediocrity/

07-10-2023: All over the West we have this same invasion of fighting age young (mainly Moslem) men. In the US, UK and most of Europe they are illegal immigrants whom no-one has the nerve to turn back. (They need a Tony Abbott desperately –as do we). Here Albanese is just throwing open the door. Did you know we ‘welcomed’ 100,000+ refugees last year? This will not end well; indeed it will be the end of (our) civilisation: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.israelnationalnews.com%2Fnews%2F377148

06-10-2023: A pain-free back! Long since time to give this book a try: https://www.amazon.com/0979303605-Esther-Gokhale/dp/0979303605?keywords=8+steps+to+a+pain+free+back&qid=1695934935&sr=8-1/wwwviolentkicom&linkCode=sl1&tag=drhelenblog-20&linkId=ac2c136be4f9280988adce86ee23c919&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

06-10-2023: "For...ten years, false doctrines...nurtured the illusions of the working classes. They are...convinced that the state is obliged to provide bread, work, and education to all. The...government has...promise(d) to do so; it will...be obliged to increase taxes...to keep this promise, and in spite of this it will not keep it...How much disillusionment is in store...It would have been so simple and so just to ease their burden by decreasing taxes...they cannot see that (it) consists in taking away ten to give back eight, not to mention the true freedom that will be destroyed". Bastiat 1848

06-10-2023: UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is revealing astonishing common sense in such woke times as this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/uk-home-secretary-suella-braverman-proposes-legislation-stop/

06-10-2023: Further government over-reach - more ‘unintended’ consequences of a ‘Yes’ vote: https://www.rebelnews.com/experts_warn_a_yes23_referendum_success_could_reshape_federal_power

05-10-2023: September was warmer than usual, so El Nino has arrived (if even briefly). Slightly warmer than 1998 even, though no doubt no match for 1939 or those awful years we know about (from deleted BOM records) in the C19th and C18th: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/uah-global-temperature-update-for-september-2023-0-90-deg-c/

Looked at through a longer lens: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/03/applying-scale-and-context-to-2023s-record-high-temperatures/

05-10-2023: Ashley Paul Griffith – How could such a monster’s crimes continue for so long without ignorance, irresponsibility or complicity? But do you seriously think that there should not be worse punishments than what the law currently allows for such rapacious evil? This creature’s behaviour really sickens and angers me: https://www.rebelnews.com/australia_s_worst_child_sex_offender_exposed_after_law_change

05-10-2023: Fun with MGs. Another great EV positive: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/ev-kidnaps-the-driver-at-30-mph-runs-amok/

05-10-2023: On the other hand, do you think you need to buy a new car? https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-corolla-cracks-two-million-kilometres-in-new-zealand/ Just doing some running repairs/maintenance on my 1995 Land Rover Discovery which I also expect will run ‘forever’.

04-10-2023: Woke astronomers are coming for the clouds: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/astronomers-renaming-magellanic-clouds

04-10-2023: Probably the most cogent arguments for voting ‘No’ (I have read) - from Viv Forbes: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/33201/why-i-will-vote-no/

04-10-2023: Such a s--t idea. Learn a bit of ‘tough love’…well, learn how to be parents: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/kindergartners_in_diapers_a_growing_trend.html

04-10-2023: Extraordinary news: 17 million ‘excess deaths (and that’s just the start!) yet they hand you a Nobel Prize. I guess the guy invented dynamite after all, which has killed a lot of people too: https://www.firstpost.com/world/nobel-prize-in-medicine-2023-awarded-to-katalin-kariko-drew-weissman-for-pioneering-mrna-vaccine-to-fight-covid-19-13194442.html

03-10-2023: ADH TV - Independent news and current affairs. Looks good: https://watch.adh.tv/browse

03-10-2023: Some real aboriginal history from renowned historian Prof Geoffrey Blainey, eg “in the late 1850s, in the three populous Australian colonies, most Aboriginal men were allowed to vote…In this same 1896 election in South Australia, even more revolutionary was the sight of Aboriginal women attending the polling booth…when 99 per cent of the women in the world did not have a vote…in the first federal election various Aboriginal women must have voted – an election in which no white woman in the four eastern states was entitled to vote”: https://saltbushclub.com/2023/07/28/geoffrey-blainey-on-the-voice/

03-10-2023: As if EVs weren’t unaffordable enough having to fork out $10,000 per year just to insure them might put a few people off buying them: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/evs-suddenly-become-uninsurable-unless-you-are-rich/

03-10-2023: Just in case you didn’t think governments threw too much money at covid – that’s a lot of ‘loose change’ for one man to pick up: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/socal-doctor-charged-stealing-150-million-federal-covid/

02-10-2023: They really didn’t know what they were doing with mRNA technology and it may take years before all the effects become clear. In the meantime continue to avoid this technology: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/dna-contamination-of-the-mrna-vaccines-would-you-like-a-part-of-an-sv40-monkey-virus-with-that/

17 million excess deaths - Here’s a worst case scenario people claim has already played out. "This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed (0.213 ± 0.006) % of the world population (1 death per 470 living persons, in less than 3 years), and did not measurably prevent any deaths," the authors said. The overall risk of death induced by COVID-19 vaccines is 1,000 times greater than previously reported in data from clinical trials”: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-vaccines-causally-linked-to-increased-mortality-resulting-in-17-million-deaths-scientific-report-5499001?utm_source=epochHG&utm_campaign=CFP&src_src=epochHG&src_cmp=CFP

02-10-2023: Exactly: “Aboriginality has declined, is declining, and will continue to decline until, eventually, over generations to come, it will become barely detectible. Accordingly, apropos the Voice, compartmentalising Australia into indigenous and non-indigenous populations is farcical. You can say the same, as it applies to land rights. Giving native title to people of distinctly mixed heritage is self-evidently absurd.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/10/intimate-interminglings-blood-thinning-prescription/

02-10-2023: Eeerily awful ‘education’ fail: “These kids can’t read. They can’t write a sentence. They don’t know what state they live in. No math skills. They can’t even attend to a three-minute video clip…Folks, you better have a plan. And your plan needs to account for the ability of the society you live in to maintain the ability to have such luxuries as running cold potable water, flush toilets, electrification, commodity production and transport, antibiotic production and delivery, and anesthetized surgery by a skilled surgeon… just to name a few items” Maybe the saddest part of this video s that the (middle aged) teacher is still living in a bed-sit herself: https://www.barnhardt.biz/2023/09/27/toldya-these-kids-cant-read-they-cant-write-a-sentence-they-dont-what-state-they-live-in-no-math-skills-they-cant-even-attend-to-a-three-minute-video-clip-dont-say-you-werent-war/

02-10-2023: Yeah: Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science: https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/something-has-gone-seriously-wrong?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=682601&post_id=137506776&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

01-10-2023: Cancer be gone in 60 days – this sounds promising: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12571981/Scientists-developing-implant-cure-cancer.html

01-10-2023: Too many people today are failing to oppose the revolution which is sweeping our traditional civilization away: https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1707809499539513723

01-10-2023: The myth of ‘aboriginal ownership’ of land. An issue long ago decided in law. Why are we giving away vast tracts of our public lands to these layabout rent-seekers who have never contributed a single cent or a jot of work to our great country? This is just insanity, and may lead to real anger in the future to win these stolen lands back: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/193203/ & https://richardsonpost.com/ltcol-kevin-loughrey/32987/aboriginal-ownership-fact-or-fiction/

01-10-2023: Imagine building a city underground in order to hide from invaders (Moslems in this case) and imagine having to, Sweden and France are learning this lesson right now. Our turn next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

30-09-2023: The enormous advantage of having a two-parent family. How have we lost this? https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-two-parent-advantage

30-09-2023: Finally some of the truth about the dire consequences of the mRNA vaccines is emerging – but it will get worse: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/scientists-shocked-and-alarmed-at-whats-in-the-mrna-shots/

30-09-2023: So much of the ‘global warming’ scare has been poor or fake measurement of temperature (and CO2 levels): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/27/summer-warming-1895-2023-in-u-s-cities-exaggerated-by-100-from-the-urban-heat-island-effect/

30-09-2023: It would never have occurred to me that any government could be so stupid as to send us to a multi-million dollar and hugely divisive referendum which is likely not even legally valid and will probably be thrown out by the High Court even if we were silly enough to vote for it, which we are not: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/09/the-voice-referendum-cheating-the-people/

29-09-2023: The ‘ultimate’ panopticon – you’ll never know when you’re being watched: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2vLM0OYdnJlj-m6-WsNroDRx9LgjWitf-AQlBvuKUNBzyi7Tbx-TrAfhQ#Echobox=1695736389

29-09-2023: Willis is such a smart fellow: So where exactly is that greenhouse effect? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/28/an-unsettling-insight/

29-09-2023: If we did not have Thomas Sowell we would have to invent him. Take that you ‘social justice’ (and keyboard) warriors: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/inequities?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=137378886&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

29-09-2023: Home ownership is deemed ‘unaffordable’ to 99% of Americans, but look how cheap houses are there compared to Oz: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housing-prices/

28-09-2023: Do we need more homes or more alligators? https://nypost.com/2023/09/24/florida-woman-sabrina-peckham-found-in-gators-jaws-was-arrested-for-trespassing-two-months-ago/amp/?amp

28-09-2023: Can you suggest an appropriate sentence? https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/prominent-zoologist-guilty-of-60-bestiality-animal-abuse-and-possessing-child-exploitation-material-charges/news-story/bde8efd81c5263ac84707844bd51beec

28-09-2023: Tony Abbott asks the most important question about the ‘Voice’ referendum, Do you want Australia to remain a country with “no hierarchy of descent” and “no privilege of origin” https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/message-from-tony-abbott.html

28-09-2023: A UK Minister (herself a daughter of immigrants) calls out the dangers of such high levels of immigration. In Oz the foreign born are likely to outnumber the native born within a generation: https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/it-takes-a-british-politician-to-clearly-call-out-migrant-madness/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost_opinion&utm_source=twitter

27-09-2023: Reflections on Dan: “By gnawing through a dike even a rat may drown a nation.” Edmund Burke

27-09-2023: The success of ‘Snus’. Sweden often gets it right on health issues – as the covid ‘experiment’ also shows: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/snus/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK+CID_245f434cef69e1d83266d6c73595e473&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=explains%20the%20success https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/snus/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK+CID_245f434cef69e1d83266d6c73595e473&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=explains%20the%20success

27-09-2023: Apparently this is what the world will be like in 250 million years. What are we worrying about today? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03005-6?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2cSue-d9zeOyBxteg_Bra9cljhBgTeEVCoebFI8crp7YXRiA9pl_J41yE#Echobox=1695657298-1

27-09-2023: Can’t wait to see our conservative leaders in Oz wake up to the reality that ‘climate’ policies are unpopular and promise to wind back ‘decarbonisation’ – maybe build us a few new HELE (High Energy Low Emissions) coal-fired power stations so we can have cheap electricity again: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/the-european-rebellion-against-the-sacred-quest-for-netzero-spreads-green-investors-are-reeling/

27-09-2023: AI girlfriends are ruining an entire generation of men. (The numbers are frightening) “While the concept of an AI girlfriend may seem like a joke, it really isn’t that funny. It is enabling a generation of lonely men to stay lonely and childless, which will have devastating effects on the U.S. economy in less than a decade’ https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4218666-ai-girlfriends-are-ruining-an-entire-generation-of-men/

26-09-2023: Lightest 5000mAh Power Bank: Lightsmith have recently utilised the 21700 Lithium battery to make perhaps the most compact and lightest (at 73.5 grams) 5ooo mAh power bank. These batteries are available to 5800 mAh so expect some improvements still.They are selling for US$22 (Sep 2023). Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/25/lightest-5000mah-power-bank/

26-09-2023: They are using your money (banks, superannuation, insurance companies etc) to ruin your future. You can at least switch your super to self-managed (as we did years ago). There are no fees. I do my own tax and the audit costs us around $440 per year. As well, we get to decide what we invest our money in – win or lose: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/giant-australian-retirement-funds-are-being-corporate-climate-bullies-with-your-money/

26-09-2023: Just a reminder of how badly rigged the 2020 US election was – but the truth will out, and the perpetrators eventually be brought to justice: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/pollster-rasmussen-says-election-fraud-renders-scientific-election/ & https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/33084/michigan-not-certified-in-2020-election/

26-09-2023: How did people ever fall for the ‘noble savage’ nonsense? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/book-excerpt/2023/09/romancing-the-primitive-an-important-new-book/

25-09-2023: Warm Feet Warm Heart. Duck down camp shoes $28: Isn't there a saying something like that? In any case for many years we have used some Goosefeet Down Sox (which I highly recommend) which cost US$69 (Sep 2023) and roughly one ounce (28 grams each -twice that per pair) in Size Medium US 9s. They are very fine quality and toasty warm being filled with 850 fill power down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/24/warm-feet-warm-heart/

25-09-2023: So many reasons not to buy an Electric Car. They are so bad they have to have been invented by an ‘environmentalist’ : https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4184473/posts

25-09-2023: Archaeological (Mis)appropriation. This may not turn out to be evidence of human occupation at 120,000 years ago but even if it did there is nothing (and will never be anything) linking those humans to anyone living today – any more than any modern human can ‘lay claim’ to the rock art of Europe, Israel etc which is also very ancient. People come and go. That has always been the case. : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-05/moyjil-coastal-site-at-warrnambool-of-global-indigenous-heritage/12629934

25-09-2023: Confessions of a Red Guard. This is what our ‘education’ system today is turning young people into – leftist eco terrorists: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/15/asia/china-cultural-revolution-red-guard-confession/index.html

24-09-2023: The war on smoking has been lost: “Extreme retail prices at legitimate outlets are not really reducing smoking in the community, just masking it by pushing tens of thousands of smokers into the black market. …the incidence of nicotine in Melbourne wastewater has remained strangely stable in the last decade.”:https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/punitive-tobacco-tax-drives-smokers-to-black-market/news-story/e83f1419a678b11b07b59516670082d2

24-09-2023: You said it Pete – let’s make more Aussies ourselves instead of importing second-rate ones – it’s good clean fun too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/peter-costello-says-more-babies-not-immigration-is-what-australia-needs/news-story/ecc3037c375ebeab4e42a43bb9d19e65

24-09-2023: Can the environment survive ‘the transition’ to ‘green power’? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12545855/Devastating-transition-green-energy-metal-mining-23-million-people-toxic-waste-rivers-polluted-farmland.html

24-09-2023: The awful ‘culture’ that ‘The Voice’ seeks to preserve and reinforce. Such a ‘culture’ needs to be swept from the earth: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/jacinta-price-explores-the-chilling-cold-case-of-her-relative-who-went-missing-as-a-fifteenyearold-41-years-ago-in-new-documentary/news-story/9bf1464712331c69afc6c77747e68693

23-09-2023: 5G via space - Some competition soon for satellite phones and Starlink: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2023/09/19/first-ever-5g-to-space-14-mbps-between-smartphone-and-satellite-equals-competition-for-starlink/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0Q3o5ty5N02cm5M3zxMuy4ucO_yJoY4lFv7Ts1JGptJK1HGbgSlmHSaVc

23-09-2023: And ‘they’ said we could not learn anything from history, This is quite a structure to have been fashioned by ‘primitive’ men: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9?fbclid=IwAR0RK4RSUSfvdTlQ5hUO_3xMegADNWO2AjDu08fiUnjqG3XLV7HQfwGdS3U

23-09-2023: We will soon run out of water, gas and electricity in Victoria. We have added 2 million people without adding a single litre of water storage or a single watt of dispatchable power: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-we-can-sit-out-a-couple-of-dry-years-but-a-longer-drought-could-spell-massive-problems-especially-for-melbourne/news-story/bcaede6b874e63538e3c90d7bc677241

23-09-2023: I totally agree with Sam Newman. We should “Start booing or slow hand clapping” whenever they force one of these rude and demeaning ‘welcome to country’ ceremonies on us: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-12538667/Sam-Newman-welcome-country-boo-AFL-grand-final.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR1bZdGNpEkI9jplC6XCoO0NjjDgyHh5lLF4OJklWKCN0h_0O6HVxphiw9M This woke b------t just doesn’t resonate with any ordinary Aussie. He has a better idea. Let’s sing The Seekers’ 1987 hit song 'I am Australian' instead: : https://www.rebelnews.com/sam_newman_shares_his_new_unifying_plan_to_drown_out_divisive_welcome_to_country

22-09-2023: Thank goodness we still have people like Gerald Rennick in our Parliament. We can do something after all about the tide of communism which threatens to overwhelm us. We need to install more such people and end the hegemony of the Liberal-Labor-Green alliance which denies us choice, control over our own lives and freedom which ought to be the hallmarks of democracy: .https://gerardrennick.com.au/the-native-title-act-needs-review/

22-09-2023: Happiness begins at 70 – I have found this to be (largely) true, though I have had an indecent amount of happiness for a very long time actually: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fwhat-age-peak-happiness%2F

22-09-2023: It had to happen; Woman diagnosed with ‘climate change’: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwdDS73thU1/

22-09-2023: Bring it on for osteoarthritis too please – I am so over it: https://newatlas.com/medical/inverse-vaccine-reverses-autoimmune-diseases/

21-09-2023: Ian Callinan’s thoughts on the ‘Voice’ are an absolute bombshell. He is a retired Judge of the High Court so he is an expert in how the constitution is interpreted. We have been lied to comprehensively about what it means. It is by no means innocuous or symbolic. It is clear that voting for the Voice will give aborigines total control of our seas from the low tide mark outwards and require that they be paid ½ of its freehold value for every piece of land in Australia – and that’s just the start. If you don’t want to be turned into a beggar or a slave in your own land, Vote No : https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/former-high-court-justice-ian-callinan-opposes-voice-to-parliament/news-story/054b8dcf2e42e8108e120535b798027d

21-09-2023: The ’modern’ version of gladiatorial combat for young women: https://www.thefp.com/p/watching-girls-die-online?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

21-09-2023: So, is anything killing koalas? I suspect they are much like that other poster child of the Green movement, polar bears whose numbers have simply exploded: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2023/09/koalas-too-cute-for-their-own-good/

21-09-2023: The UK is stepping back (a bit) from Net Zero just when our Govt is stepping it up. Frankly they all need to scrap the wretched idea completely: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/its-big-the-uk-does-a-netzero-u-turn-on-cars-heaters-and-promises-no-taxes-on-meat-or-flights/ Meanwhile Tony Abbott describes the whole boondoggle as a ’slow motion train wreck’. Please bring back Tony: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/slowmotion-trainwreck-tony-abbott-slams-labor-for-current-energy-policy-and-expensive-tactics-to-reduce-emissions/news-story/bc6b858dd4500f02ca96cfda7ac8b6b3

20-09-2023:

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20-09-2023: Denigrating women who just want to be women: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/australian-sex-discrimination-commissioners-disgraceful-gender-agenda-is-bad-news-for-women-who-dont-want-to-identify-as-anything-else/news-story/b5634f034ffde9db84025366b5961105

20-09-2023: As if a black Ann Boleyn wasn’t enough: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/51308

20-09-2023: I usually take the BOM’s seasonal forecast to indicate exactly the opposite conditions – and I am usually right! “Hidden in the small print on the ABC site, but not mentioned on the nightly news, is that El Nino’s don’t always create widespread drought, and that the models are sometimes wrong, and the slow development of this years event “might limit its strength”.” Anyway, ‘One swallow doesn’t make a summer’ https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/let-the-mind-games-begin-scorching-summer-of-brutal-bushfire-hell-is-in-the-news-before-it-even-happens/

19-09-2023: Wind farms will completely exterminate our wedge tailed eagles (soon) plus lots of other rare birds – and are killing whales too. Let’s please build some conventional power stations instead like High Energy Low Emission (HELE) coal fired power stations like the 350 China is currently building: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/climate-change-wont-get-the-chance-to-kill-off-the-tasmanian-wedgetail-eagle-the-wind-industry-will-do-it-first/

19-09-2023: “A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit”: https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/history-matters/

19-09-2023: Why would you have ever thought that drugs were good for you? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/brutal-marijuana-studies-now-emerging-never-fully-legalized/

19-09-2023: Scouts long ago lost the plot. Baden-Powell , the hero of Mafeking would be a little more than astonished: https://pjmedia.com/columns/miltharris/2023/09/14/girl-scouts-diversity-and-sodomite-patches-n1727121

18-08-2023: Too bad if you love your lawn mower: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/democratic-governor-signs-executive-order-requiring-mass-replacement/

18-08-2023: The UN has zero effect on ‘solving’ real world problems but it keeps on pumping away at ’climate change’ and the ‘new world order’ and stealing every last freedom we still have. Abolish it now: https://news.yahoo.com/world-disappointed-un-now-looks-130000339.html

18-08-2023: I know cyclists are annoying, but who should be in charge of the death penalty – runaway teens or the law? Not so long ago we would have hung people like this from the nearest tree. Bring back the lash and the rope, please – and soon: https://moonbattery.com/the-story-of-the-century-if-only/

18-08-2023: You wanted to ban cigarette smoking and legalise marijuana? https://moonbattery.com/marijuana-will-hurt-you-and-they-want-you-to-smoke-it/

17-08-2023: John Howard Payne (1823)

This is a song for an opera, Clari.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there

Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere

Home! Home!

Sweet, sweet home!

There's no place like home

There's no place like home!

An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain

Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again

The birds singing gaily that came at my call

And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

17-08-2023: The invasion of Europe – the Fifth Crusade has started: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/thank-god-for-tony-abbott-fixing-the-problem-here.html

17-08-2023: Thought provoking – Are we repaganising? https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing

17-08-2023: Of course; ‘one man one vote’ has long been an Australian principle even if nowadays we might say, ‘One person’. For this reason alone there should not be a separate (racially based) election or House. For just the same reason there ought not be ‘dual citizenship’ which allows people to vote in two separate jurisdictions. Make up your mind where your loyalties lie. They ought, properly be to ‘One Australia’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/09/16/a-surprising-number-of-votes-or-not/

17-08-2023: The ultimate wilderness cabin – well done guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGxsoHSKigg

16-08-2023: How a lack of available men is leading to a decline in the birth rate: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fbooks%2Farchive%2F2023%2F09%2Fegg-freezing-motherhood-on-ice-marcia-inhorn-book-review%2F675316%2F

16-08-2023: Stating the obvious. Of course it did Jacinta, but brave of you to say so: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/betrayalindigenous-senator-jacinta-prices-claim-splits-the-nation/news-story/dbde34ce0f7de0e0bfdd80d19dbead4c

16-08-2023: Patriot Switch – a way to buy goods without the leftist propaganda. https://patriotswitch.com/index.php We need something like this in Oz to counter the influence of the woke corporations like Apple whose latest ad is ‘cringeworthy’ https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/apple-advertising-goes-full-climate-cult/

15-08-2023: ET. Are they fakes – or what? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/scientists-present-two-alleged-mummified-alien-corpses-three/

15-08-2023: “Seven million people from all over the world have climbed Ayers Rock”, but no more. The truth about climbing this Aussie icon: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/193203/

15-08-2023: Is there still an organization interested in teaching boys to become men? https://pjmedia.com/culture/athena-thorne/2023/09/10/trail-life-usa-celebrates-10-years-of-picking-up-where-bsa-left-off-n1725825#google_vignette

15-08-2023: You will have nothing and you will be happy: https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_government_urged_to_introduce_controversial_inheritance_tax

14-08-2023: 2500 years of ‘climate change’ reveal the past was much more variable than the present: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/2500-years-of-wild-climate-change-in-southern-europe-it-was-warmer-in-roman-times-than-now/

14-08-2023: Do we really want to give all our public lands away forever to racists who will exclude almost everyone from them? https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/193203/ & https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/race-based-land-grabs-must-end/

14-08-2023: And why wouldn’t they? I have been very happy with my lovely wife for over fifty years: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/passport-bros-feminists-are-outraged-men-going-overseas-find-traditional-wives

14-08-2023: Kennedy assassination. Decades later there are still ‘mysteries’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/resurfaced-interviews-jfk-assassination-nurse-back-up-former/

13-08-2023: Ultracheap Packraft: What's not to like about this? A Naturehike Packraft for less than A$600 - or a double for A$830 (Sept 2023). Aliexpress is great. This is a big saving over other brands which come in now at twice or more than three times that! See More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/12/ultracheap-packraft/

13-08-2023: P.J. O’Rourke :‘If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/too-much-free-stuff/

13-08-2023: Good on you Winston Peters – and if the Maori are not indigenous to Australia neither are any of the so-called ‘aboriginal’ peoples indigenous to Australia. But we can hardly all go back to where we came from, so let’s just cool it shall we? https://www.rebelnews.com/maori_are_not_indigenous_to_new_zealand_says_former_deputy_pm

13-08-2023: The science says there is no ‘climate emergency’: https://www.scribd.com/document/670411341/1600-Scientists-Signatures-on-this-paper-There-Is-No-Climate-Emergency#from_embed

12-08-2023: Hooray! Sir Henry Parkes, the father of Federation, said: “At some time we must unite as one great Australian people” https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/32981/australia-pushback-at-activist-lies/

12-08-2023: Read every word Bess Price, a true aboriginal woman, says here: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/brilliant-article-about-the-voice-by-bess-nungarrayi-price-i-urge-you-to-read-and-share-it.html

12-08-2023: The earth has no average temperature. This is (the) climate reality: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/the_earth_has_no_average_temperature.html

12-08-2023: Our ‘secure’ modern world is far more fragile than you would hope: https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/

11-08-2023: How good is wind power? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/09/02/windwatching-sept-2023/

11-08-2023: Who would want to give up their car in order to add 13 minutes to their life expectancy? How far can you drive in 13 miutes in London traffic anyway? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/ulez-will-add-just-13-minutes-to-life-expectancy-in-london-but-the-mayor-is-forcing-it-anyway/

11-08-2023: Ominous – China gets ready for war: https://generalmcnews.substack.com/p/chinas-military-mobilizing

11-08-2023: Trump is not the only hope for the world: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/its-a-1775-moment-says-vivak-ramaswamy-but-the-deep-state-is-a-machine-we-are-up-against/

09-08-2023: The rent seekers are out in force after every bit of cash they can get. Damn them (to put it mildly): https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/its-just-bs-former-pm-tony-abbott-rubbishes-aboriginal-land-claim-over-land-adjacent-to-balmoral-beach/news-story/b3a0bd5b62b94651434282386592df5c

09-08-2023: He certainly was the best PM since Menzies at very least: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/tony-abbotts-record-of-achievement/

09-08-2023: Who’d have thought? https://www.rebelnews.com/nt_indigenous_leader_says_majority_of_aboriginal_people_don_t_support_voice_to_parliament

09-08-2023: What is ‘emotional labour’ and should you eschew it? https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/what-is-emotional-labor?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=136848005&isFreemail=true&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email

08-08-2023: Maybe Russia is winning.You decide: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.semafor.com%2Farticle%2F09%2F01%2F2023%2Fwhy-its-so-hard-for-europe-to-stop-buying-russian-lng

08-08-2023: Good on you John, but will ‘the truth set us free’ “We need to realise that indigenous people don’t suffer from the lack of a Voice, or voices, but a lack of solutions to the cycle of fatherlessness, domestic violence, substance abuse and poor education that grips certain communities. “https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/09/what-possible-gain-in-dividing-the-nation/

08-08-2023: Justice delayed: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/lady-of-the-dunes-cold-case-finally-solved-after-50-years/news-story/a8233fc622a3935efb1ff98b56d87be5

08-08-2023: Global boiling – taking a longer view: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/05/uks-global-boiling-summer-was-as-hot-as-1857/

07-08-2023: I wonder whether this is happening here too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/robert-kennedy-jr-blackrock-is-robbing-americans-ability/

07-08-2023: Green dystopia, green panopticon; Now your love for your old fridge might land you in gaol: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/now-the-uk-government-wants-to-control-your-kitchen-fridge-or-send-you-to-jail/

07-08-2023: In case you wondered why we now have gay marriage (and a multitude of other evils which have followed from it): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/sex-drugs-barack-obama-tucker-carlson-interviews-larry/

07-08-2023: You don’t say! Cause or effect: https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/older-adults-who-regularly-use-the-internet-have-half-the-risk-of-dementia-compared-to-non-regular-users-183597?utm_source=PsyPost+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7dd5400519-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44dd6ef29-7dd5400519-127440501

05-08-2023: An (unsung) Australian Hero: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/09/australian-hero-of-the-resistance/

05-08-2023: Just when you thought you had gotten away with it: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/germany-98-year-old-nazi-guard-intl/index.html

05-08-2023: An epidemic of ‘buyer’s remorse’ with EVs: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.motorbiscuit.com%2Fprices-of-used-electric-cars-are-frefalling%2F The price of used EVs is in free-fall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/buyer-s-remorse-why-are-20-of-early-ev-adopters-now-defecting-to-internal-combustion/ar-AA1gdLUa

05-08-2023: Do you really want CPR – disturbing reading: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-harms-of-cpr

04-08-2023: “People will grow to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” Aldous Huxley.

04-08-2023: Come off it Dutton! Is this ‘being half pregnant’ or ‘creating the truth’? Whilst there is no doubting that human beings have been present in Australia for many thousands of years, identifying these humans with any one group today is a step too far. We do no identify the extraordinary cave paintings in Europe (Chauvet etc) with any existing group, which is quite right. There is no known connection. In a similar way we already know that the earliest fossil human remains so far examined have no relation to any living humans, yet these remains (Mungo Man etc) are clearly tens of thousand (possibly hundreds of thousands) of years later than other evidence eg the Bradshaw paintings and the lake sediment data suggest that human occupation began. Any existing human group whether they identify as ‘indigenous’ or not came much later – and maybe exterminated the previous inhabitants – quite unlike what Europeans have done in the last couple of centuries. Those who identify as indigenous/aboriginal today outnumber the estimated pre-colonial population by at least three times. We also know that there wer pygmies in Cape York up until the C20th at least. What if forensic work on their remains (or the re-emergence of a handful of them from the bush) should prove they pre-date all other ‘indigenous’ groups, as is only too likely? What would their position be if we had written the presently accepted ‘indigenous’ into the constitution? In any case, it is just dreadful racist policy to create a special sub-set of human beings on the basis of race or autochthonicism. The past is interesting to say the least, but we should look to a future where every Australian is simply treated equally before the law and the constitution. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/peter-dutton-pledges-new-referendum-solely-on-recognition-if-voice-fails-and-liberal-party-wins-next-election/news-story/ebd519d8c787f9e641a4ac71970eea0f

04-08-2023: And the very worst thing really is that these poor kids are being deprived of a sex life altogether – and that’s not harm? “Also, so-called transgenderism is being used to erase gays and lesbians. Effeminate boys are being told that, rather than being homosexuals, they’re girls. To achieve that, they’re being chemically castrated and surgically mutilated. Meanwhile, masculine girls are being told that, rather than being lesbians, they’re boys, after which they’re chemically sterilized and surgically mutilated. No anti-gay movement could have done a better job of erasing homosexuality than the transgender cult.“ https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/a_distraught_transgender_persons_video_brings_important_truths_to_light.html

04-08-2023: Preparing yourself for long covid – sinister warning: https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/32887/covid-start-antivirals-sooner-rather-than-later/

03-08-2023: “The purpose of compulsory education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense” G..K. Chesterton.

03-08-2023: We have encountered some in the Vic mountains but…Where feral cows roam free: https://www.popsci.com/environment/feral-cow-island/

03-08-2023: Heat your home during the day when there is plenty of solar electricity around. Also trending, “Let them eat cake’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fnew-net-zero-advice-turn-heating-up-only-during-the-day%2F

03-08-2023: I fear Peter Smith is right: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/08/19/democracy-in-its-death-throes/

02-08-2023: Do not forsake all hope Montag, there are young people who are the hope of the world. Here’s one: https://www.thefp.com/p/free-press-high-school-essay-contest-winner?utm_source=substack&publication_id=260347&post_id=136521670&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false

02-08-2023: Some good news: Reversing cancer – it can be done: https://www.sciencealert.com/aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough

02-08-2023: Ramesh is right – we must never repeat the awful pandemic response we have just had. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine would have saved millions of lives yet here they were banned. The people responsible for this ban should be brought to justice and receive life sentences for murder. Likewise those who caused so much harm and death by forcing an untried and dangerous vaccine upon the public: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/ivermectin-makes-a-comeback/

02-08-2023: The AEMO is just nuts.There will be major blackouts and unaffordable power. Nothing sensible is being done about it – indeed the reverse. Bowen is committed to ‘extracting sunbeams from cucumbers’ – as Gulliver put it. It is ridiculous that Della and I are actively planning to spend tens of thousands of our own dollars to prevent these consequences for us, but this is an inefficient and unreliable way to proceed as compared with (the State or others) building large reliable base load power stations, like coal or nuclear – nothing else currently exists.: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/panic-now-the-australian-national-grid-manager-admits-blackouts-are-coming/

01-08-2023: And you thought you were dumb: https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/they-tried-to-conceive-for-years-turns-out-they-were-having-sex-all-wrong/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

01-08-2023: Well said, Mrs America 2023, “I have felt this feeling seven times now as I bring these sacred souls to the earth. After I hold that newborn baby in my arms, the feeling of motherhood and bringing them to the earth is the most empowering feeling I have ever felt.”: https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-who-hannah-neeleman-all-south-dakota-mrs-american-2023-pro-life-response-wins-hearts

01-08-2023: Justice is slow but it does sometimes happen - though I can think of a more appropriate punishment for monsters like this: https://rmx.news/crime/german-isis-bride-who-left-5-year-old-yazidi-slave-girl-to-die-of-thirst-in-midday-sun-jailed-for-14-years/

01-08-2023: Just awful. Heresy trials are back world-wide: https://thecritic.co.uk/on-trial-for-a-question/

31-08-2023: Remember when we used to warn our children not to talk to strangers? Maybe this was why: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/kidnappers-caught-act-heroic-truck-driver-rescues-15/

31-08-2023: Gary Johns (Labor ex Minister) is right: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/terrific-common-sense-on-albaneses-vanity-voice-from-labors-gary-johns.html

31-08-2023: Just imagine A$25 a day tax on driving your old car – the only type you can afford or have ever afforded (if you are like us, ie most people). Yet this is London 2023. You would vote for this? You did vote for this? Economic rights in a capitalist country have always been our most important rights (way ahead of ‘representative democracy’) but now they are being snatched away as we ‘subsidise the richest people’s dreams of renewables, indigenous rights, trans rights etc, etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/london-wakes-up-to-the-nightmare-on-ulez-this-net-zero-bill-cant-be-hidden-and-the-people-are-furious/

31-08-2023: Beware Oz. The UK is already going the way of South Africa: https://moonbattery.com/london-denounces-white-families/

30-08-2023: Just maybe it would be nice if we all had a ‘Voice’. ‘Representative’ democracy is seriously flawed. Our ‘representatives’ clearly don’t. Almost universally they advocate minority opinion. We should go back to Direct Democracy’ as in ancient Athens. The internet now makes this possible (and desirable – despite the lesson of the Melians?) If we were in charge ourselves we would not be able to blame our ‘representatives’ for failing us; we could but fail ourselves.

30-08-2023: Monkeys shouldn’t be drinking in the first place: https://bigthink.com/health/gene-therapy-monkeys-alcoholism/

30-08-2023: Unintended consequences: https://moonbattery.com/democrats-hand-trump-black-votes/

30-08-2023: Disgusting! No-one should be ashamed of wearing their country’s uniform, but they certainly should be ashamed of being forced to identify with homosexuals: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/young-soldiers-ordered-to-wear-purple-to-celebrate-gays.html

29-08-2023: Is there life after death? You decide: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/a-j-ayer-and-the-meaning-of-life/ & https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ive-studied-more-5-000-133633458.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADsqm-abmksIVcGZoHT8_ISNtsH8mwnDo9NXepYxrSXjUNkQ2aaR5j4akA4HjYRG0BqQZ6jTyJ0VuxShZtOqC6kkM60vVFLSVkzUHp5Roout65OzQ9V0_3LcfpfOBcmo891F7N7KhZnjwmbRwlra2KwQgQZ71lSnVVRsi3Rh6BAo

29-08-2023: Such nonsense we are told about ‘the aging of the population’ yet ‘In 1700, if you made it to age 25, you had a good chance to make your 80s barring farm accidents.’ http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37792-Life-expectancy.html

29-08-2023: Eight truths that the mugshot reveals: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_mugshot_heard_round_the_world_eight_truths_that_the_mugshot_reveals.html

29-08-2023: Yay! “Prime Minister Meloni is the most successful world leader – male or female – of our time, and the left despises her for it because they know that she is not only inspiring others by example, but opening millions of eyes to the maleficence and corruption of the left which has devastated the disenfranchised and working-class for years.” https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/no-wonder-theyre-losing-their-minds-lefts-reign-of-totalitarian-incompetence-coming-to-an-end-thanks-to-giorgia-melonis-success-story/news-story/2f540fe8e2f1f5ac50fa1889a116e509

28-08-2023: ‘The Thief His Wife And The Canoe’ is the story of fraudster John Darwin and his wife Anne who unsuccessfully faked his own death (for years) in order to defraud insurance companies. As we watched this (forgettable) documentary (couldn’t face the ‘dramatisation’ which followed) we became more and more certain that the allegation in Murders in the Outback’ that Falconio and Lees faked his own death (credible independent witnesses saw him ‘after his death and he had previously expressed an intention to just so defraud insurance) and that an innocent if somewhat revolting human being (Brad Murdoch) has been in gaol for a very long while for his supposed murder.

28-08-2023: De-industrialising Germany. The Greens achieve what the Allies could not: https://instapundit.com/601755/

28-08-2023: You said it brother: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/23/german-scientists-global-warming-a-corrupt-fear-mongering-scheme-headed-by-super-rich/

28-08-2023: So, how good are those paper straws (for the environment) apart from their foul taste and that you go through 2-3 of them every drink. Well, terrible actually & unsurprisingly: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/paper-straws-have-forever-chemicals-that-may-be-worse-for-us-and-the-environment-than-plastic/

27-08-2023: We should know where MH370 is by now: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/clue-could-finally-reveal-location-of-doomed-flight-mh370/news-story/ccd2153a1af1e062d8b5ba562f30b796

27-08-2023: When the lunatics are running the asylum: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-iceberg-looms-as-chris-bowens-green-plans-sink/news-story/5f3ebe03e3548e0e3b382744903f720c

27-08-2023: The ‘joys’ of unrestricted immigration: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/

27-08-2023: Even if it was under his arm the fine is clearly stupid, intrusive and onerous. The seat belt legislation is anyway just an Auntie State over-reach: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/queensland-driver-fights-1000-fine-and-insists-he-did-nothing-wrong/news-story/efafc7f47e902158bdd73dec59c45e7c

26-08-2023: How capitalism liberates: The Rwanda genocide is now a thing of the past: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/08/23/economic-miracle-in-rwanda/

26-08-2023: Unbelievable: https://notthebee.com/article/german-daycares-introduces-sexual-exploration-rooms-freedom-childish-sexuality

26-08-2023: Free Speech Now: The EU has already enacted this internet censorship and our government in Oz has an identical bill before it at the moment. This is the largest scale totalitarian move against freedom of speech and information in world history: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-eus-orwellian-internet-censorship-regime/

26-08-2023: Imagine how quickly the ‘climate crisis’ would evaporate if the so-called ‘scientists’ were paid to find there was no problem (ie climate reality) instead of the opposite.

25-08-2023: Economics 101: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/08/23/the-concept-of-crowding-out-and-the-dangers-of-untrammeled-government-spending-of-opm/

25-08-2023: Kiss My Feet – Or Else’. Islam’s growing demands. We import these people at our extreme peril: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2023/08/23/kiss-my-feet-or-else-islams-growing-demands-n1721416

25-08-2023: This piece by Labor ex-Minister Gary Johns is a must-read. Today’s faux aborigines are the most dreadful rent-seekers who also strive to keep real (outback) aborigines from advancing and integrating into our society as their own ancestors (and probably yours and mine too) clearly did: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/intergenerational-trauma-and-all-that/

25-08-2023: If the Deep State think they can destroy Trump and Tucker they should think again: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/boom-trump-breaks-internet-more-people-watched-trump/ You should watch the whole thing. Trump is great!

24-08-2023: Maybe I’ll buy a guitar too: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/getting-grumpy-should-i-buy-a-guitar/

24-08-2023: The 40 cities who will ban meat, dairy, cars, air travel etc by 2030. You want this?: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/08/22/14-american-cities-agree-to-go-full-marxist-end-dairy-meat-and-cars-by-2030-n1721063

24-08-2023: Don’t mess with Putin: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/putin_plays_for_keeps.html

24-08-2023: At last the man in the moon sounds like Spike Milligan: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/breaking-india-lands-chandraayan-3-lunar-south-pole/

23-08-2023: Worth a try: Foxlights: https://www.foxlightsaustralia.com.au/buy-foxlights/

23-08-2023: “Why do we have a tiny segment of our population totally reliant, generation by generation, on taxpayers for all of their needs even as they deliver lectures about how uncaring — indeed, callous in the most racist way — are their fellow citizens?” : https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2023/08/its-equality-not-dna-that-makes-an-australian/

23-08-2023: Nurse Letby is not the only medico afflicted with the ‘God Delusion’ though. For example, during the so-called ‘covid pandemic’ like medicos and their running dogs actually murdered millions with their banning of effective treatments, lock-downs which produced a suicide epidemic, compulsory ‘vaccination’ which was more dangerous than the disease itself & etc. They also did this knowingly but (being Gods) they expect to escape the same punishment as this nurse, ie life without parole. I think Andrews and Sutton (for two) ought to receive a like sentence: https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-66573845

23-08-2023: These clowns (who annually burn down millions of acres) can’t see the wood for the trees. In about a month they have managed to collect about enough to have a very basic barbecue yet they envisage it as an ‘ecological disaster, lamenting what the poor echidnas will do when they want play ‘Pick up Sticks’. Bloody eco loons: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/hiking-sticks-carnarvon-national-park-rangers-environment-qld/102755076?fbclid=IwAR1_RwC_HPOS_M_AMJovcabTT0WVJT0X6As9HntzFsktHbOBDEO1va_DAQ8

22-08-2023: What an interesting idea. This might work for us. We have 100 metres of head on our small farm. I have been toying with the idea of a small pumped hydro storage system as a way of utilizing excess solar or wind energy anyway: https://newatlas.com/energy/waterless-high-density-hydro/

22-08-2023: The DIY Lego house: https://www.gablok.com/en

22-08-2023: The Left have no sense of humour – and cannot bear the truth: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/violent-black-men-comedian-slammed-for-cpac-speech-mocking-traditional-owners/news-story/aa8163fa0431f4bff71add1aa420aeb1

22-08-2023: Criticizing people on welfare isn’t un-Christian. See Thessalonians: “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.” https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Thessalonians%203:10

21-08-2023: Is this Bigfoot? https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/incredible-bigfoot-video-leaves-sceptics-stunned/news-story/eb69eb5fb62436cd18d583f787ed16ed

21-08-2023: The cashless society just gives Government (Big Brother) too much power over us: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/getting-grumpy-should-i-buy-a-guitar/

21-08-2023: But ‘scientists’ say that the sun can’t be responsible for our weather: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-clouds-neptune.html

21-08-2023: When furries attack: https://moonbattery.com/furry-attack-on-public-beach/

20-08-2023: Converting Hiking Poles to Tent Poles: I have fiddled with this before but without a really satisfactory result which meets every need. It is easy enough if you have adjustable poles or the type which one section from another pole can be added to the first one but the method below works whatever type of poles you have.

I have played around with interesting uses for rubber bands and inner tubes before so I have plenty of spare material lying around.

Here I have cut two approx 12" x 3/4" strips from a heavy duty car inner tube which was much more suitable for making the lightweight shoes really. The strips work out about 15 grams each. If I locate a motorcycle inner tube or even a pushbike one I can probably get closer to half this - which I will. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/08/19/converting-hiking-poles-to-tent-poles/

20-08-2023: Ancient Mariners – to Crete 130,000 years ago and to various islands in Indonesia even longer ago before we were what is now considered fully human: https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-navigation-00963?fbclid=IwAR2WvHrcfJtNCYcACrLAwLhxYp6mCkwCSY-3SBa9vgZmt370H0nFXmY_YhE

20-08-2023: We have a few spots nearly as good as this in Melbourne too: https://babylonbee.com/news/9-best-camping-spots-in-california

20-08-2023: Fascinating. Biology is all around us yet after centuries of study we are no closer to understanding it: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/biological-vitalism-or-what-is-life

19-08-2023: Who would have even thought this was a thing? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/top-u-s-doctor-group-wants-taxpayers-fund/

19-08-2023: Surely what murderers are supposed to look like: https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/heavily-tatted-man-50-accused-charged-with-girlfriends-murder/

19-08-2023: Soon no-one will be able to afford a home – what do we have a government for? https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/32769/a-homeless-and-housing-crisis-of-our-governments-own-making/

19-08-2023: The real Fargo. Well done Officer: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/god-bless-this-copper-and-all-those-who-trained-him.html

18-08-2023: Arctic exploration the easy way: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1692236750033162569

18-08-2023: You may come to wish that ‘your’ ancestors’ (allegedly) genocidal policies had not failed so miserably. Enough of this nonsense: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/the-death-of-democracy-victorias-hush-hush-indigenous-agreements/

18-08-2023: Maybe you still think the US did not have a coup d’etat back in Nov 2020 but the fate of the Jan 6 protesters ought to convince even the most skeptical – how can this be happening in the ’home of democracy’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/national-disgrace-photos-leaked-horrific-january-6-prisoner/

18-08-2023: The rise of a vile kind of warfare we thought we banned a couple of generations ago: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/rfk-jnr-were-developing-bioweapons-with-36000-scientists/

I suspect this may be good advice – anyway I will be taking it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/dont-rely-government-stockpile-critical-medications-now/

17-08-2023: We should not have a Ministry of Truth. We should be able to decide what we take as true –as we always have, not Big Brother: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-will-fine-australians-6m-for-publishing-the-truth/

17-08-2023: What is wrong with the Libs (& the Nats)? Aren’t they supposed to represent the views of conservative voters? My own local MP is banging on about the ‘virtues’ of a proposed offshore windfarm here instead of advocating for a new coal fired power station: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/state-libs-go-cuckoo/

17-08-2023: In fact tens of thousands of climate scientists cast doubt on the theory of ‘global warming’ yet we throw away billions on this dubious hypothesis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/16/there-is-no-climate-crisis1600-scientists-worldwide-nobel-prize-laureate-sign-declaration/

17-08-2023: Trump is being charged with casting doubt on the 2020 election results (a view shared by more than 50% of Americans actually) but in fact there was election fraud. For example, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1691228480556429312

16-08-2023: Seriously good news: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/revolutionary-implants-can-restore-20-20-vision-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired

16-08-2023: Ford says the hard part out loud: https://prospect.org/economy/2023-07-31-ford-electric-cars-arent-affordable/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Ford+Says+Electric+Cars+Just+Aren+t+Affordable+%7C+Prospect+Weekend+Reads&utm_campaign=Weekend+Prospect+Reads+08042023

16-08-2023: Things haven’t changed much with the weather in 120 years after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/no-changes-in-global-droughts-since-1902-when-horses-and-carts-were-common/

16-08-2023: I like girls but this is just nuts: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/is-bhp-discrimining-against-men

15-08-2023: The ‘Walking Tree’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratea_exorrhiza

15-08-2023: ‘Progress’ in aboriginal land ownership: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/the-horrors-of-native-title-you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-happy/

15-08-2023: And we worry about plastic bags: https://www.space.com/worlds-largest-asteroid-impact-structure-in-australia

15-08-2023: So many problems could be solved with more euthanasia: https://moonbattery.com/final-solution-to-socialized-medicine-wait-times/

14-08-2023: Is America quite sane? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lizzo-accused-weight-shaming-forcing-dancers-eat-bananas/

14-08-2023: Unfortunately I fear Peter Smith is right – we have become a communist state. Hopefully we can behave as bravely and resolutely as the Hungarians in 1956: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/08/the-voice-black-and-red-all-over/

14-08-2023: The vast majority of South Africans must long for the peace and prosperity of the previous ‘apartheid’ regime: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/hate-speech/

14-08-2023: Giving new meaning to the phrase ‘Squatter’s Rights’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/handyman-devises-simple-system-legally-get-rid-squatters/

13-08-2023: Vargo Pocket Cleats: Tractional security just got even lighter. The new version of Vargo's ultralight crampons weigh a little over one ounce each (32.6 grams) as compared with their previous version which was around twice that. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/08/12/vargo-pocket-cleats/

13-08-2023: A cogent argument (as usual) against EVs from the incomparable Matt Ridley: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/why-ill-be-buying-a-brand-new-petrol-car-just-before-the-2030-ban/

13-08-2023: Not letting truth get in the way of a ‘good story’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/08/australian-films-fade-to-blak/

13-08-2023: Why would you even bother to employ police? – Oh, we need them to harass honest citizens: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12164829/Police-failed-solve-single-burglary-HALF-English-Welsh-neighbourhoods.html

12-08-2023: Testing the US army’s new electric combat vehicles: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/testing_the_armys_new_electric_combat_vehicle_a_parable.html

12-08-2023: Is this the most chilling headline you have ever read? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/minnesota-will-no-longer-report-number-babies-who/

12-08-2023: At least 300,000 of our 800,000 ‘Aborigines’ are fakes (according to ‘other aborigines’) – but they would be the ones who got ‘The Voice’ you can bet. Enough of this bizarre racist nonsense. We are all just Australians of the human race who should be treated equally by the law and society: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-how-fake-aborigines-are-hurting-their-cause/news-story/26691d7ce1b67e0b18c06aa4a79f5704

12-08-2023: Of course it could just be an unfortunate coincidence; on the other hand it could also be true. Strange times we live i: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/ron-johnson-claims-covid-was-pre-planned-elite/

11-08-2023: Good on you Gina: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/queensland/gina-rinehart-backs-gold-coast-bid-for-2026-commonwealth-games/news-story/3a6d0b2b4acb5ff522dde7ea4bd3e6b7

11-08-2023: Cancelling Traveller is a step too far – after too many such: Lee was likely also America's greatest ever general. Remember he nearly won the civil war even though his side was enormously outnumbered and under-resourced: https://www.thecollegefix.com/canceled-washington-lee-university-removes-plaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse/?fbclid=IwAR1BtJRz-zgYU0FFBEfISSF33mpnIbjDFUf65oYi9yq4kMV-iAkNl8QOY0E

11-08-2023: Ain’t it the truth? Grow a pair guys. The people await: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-voice-debate-reveals-liberals-can-win-by-standing-up-for-their-values/news-story/2997280bf0d9c0f9b6ee7acc34fd6f27

11-08-2023: What’s not to like? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/09/virginia-life-is-good-and-getting-better/

10-08-2023: At last a mailbox which is (nearly) big enough: https://www.milkcan.com.au/letterboxes/picket-fence-letterbox/?fbclid=IwAR3bWJikrQMFP9Ao8kUpDpVcepdPJGlzZQEXBkzj6f2Q5mvEKuqU3qJBYqE & https://www.milkcan.com.au/product/parcel-pal-2-parcel-mail-charcoal-merbau-pillar/?fbclid=IwAR2tBvOHgShOa3hgFCWfggd65s7BoCWSVvrU5pPKT-GFLf2nY25065rHAY8

10-08-2023: Such a great idea: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/new_data_shows_temperatures_above_86_f_begins_a_precipitous_decline_of_ev_performance.html

10-08-2023: The Decline of the West? https://moonbattery.com/muslim-woman-wants-his-testicles-back-from-his-boyfriend/

10-08-2023: “If your boyfriend is dating a chatbot, perhaps it was already time to start looking for a new boyfriend anyway” https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/08/07/ai-girlfriends-called-a-threat-to-womens-rights-n569638

09-08-2023: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all you know on earth and all you meed to know” John Keats (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_war_on_truth.html

09-08-2023: Duh:” Unfortunately, our thesis that the heart of man is intrinsically good, well it proved to be...really, really false. Like, it's the most wrong anyone's ever been about anything. It seems that unlike in movies, following your own heart directly leads to pain and brokenness” https://babylonbee.com/news/report-record-number-of-people-following-their-hearts

09-08-2023: It is now patently clear that Albo and the Left are lying to us about the Referendum. It is now a dead duck. Thanks Peta Credlin & Jacinta Price. Now to rid ourselves of its ‘ducklings’ in all the states who are hastily and against our wishes implementing ‘treaty’ - and worse: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/shadow-indigenous-australians-minister-jacinta-price-calls-on-prime-minister-albanese-to-come-clean-about-the-uluru-statement-from-the-heart/news-story/eb60c39ef5d111b7e84edb7bc4ec3808

09-08-2023: “The Hunga Tonga sub-surface ocean volcano eruption and its “unprecedented” production of extra stratospheric water vapor could be to blame.” Remember water vapour is responsible for 99%+ of the ‘greenhouse effect’. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/08/uah-global-temperature-update-for-july-2023-0-64-deg-c/

On the other hand: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/07/hunga-tonga-mysteries/

08-08-2023: What if it’s right: https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/08/ai-built-to-discover-extraterrestrial.html

08-08-2023: Professional crybaby Brittany Higgins may soon lose all her ill-gotten gains. Good riddance: https://www.rebelnews.com/senator_follows_through_on_threat_to_sue_brittany_higgins

08-08-2023: People are beginning to wake up to ‘the internet of things’ controlled by the CCP – as if we hadn’t already ‘decided’ to impose communism on ourselves here in Oz already in multiple ways: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/how-to-paralyze-a-city-with-one-easy-ev-update/

08-08-2023: Whatever the real figures the truth is that tens of thousands of people are being killed in yet another senseless war. I suspect (the real) President Trump would have been able to prevent it. The Democrats always seem to start wars rather than end them: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/highway-hell-ukraine-loses-2040-men-since-friday/

07-08-2023: Some good news. Go girls: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/08/03/yoga-women-aging-brains/9721691074086/

07-08-2023: Fifth Columns – what could go wrong? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/intelligence-breach-two-u-s-navy-sailors-chinese/

07-08-2023: From Milton’s Paradise Lost:

“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,

With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun

When first on this delightful land he spreads

His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,

Glist’ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth

After soft showers; and sweet the coming on

Of grateful ev’ning mild; then silent night

With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,

And these the gems of heaven, her starry train:

But neither breath of morn when she ascends

With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun

On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,

Glist’ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,

Nor grateful ev’ning mild, nor silent night

With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon

Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.”

07-08-2023: The seemingly innocuous word ‘recognition’ is the key Trojan Horse in the foreshadowed Referendum - which must be rejected. One of the major flaws in the notion of constitutionality is that such foundational documents are a way of ossifying ‘truth’ for all time (why they are made so hard to change). The ‘truths’ they establish are supposed to work like the ‘axioms’ in Euclidean geometry (if you remember your junior high school maths). Everything which comes after is supposed to ‘follow’ logically (with certainty ie needing no further proof or justification) from them. Unfortunately if you make the axioms out of falsehood (as this one is) then what ‘follows’ will be all sorts of evil stuff.
This particular falsehood is that prior to the establishment of Australia as a British colony the ‘country’ was inhabited (solely) by ‘aboriginal’ folk who somehow constituted a ’race’ or ‘nation’ (which or what is it?) a statement which is clearly false. This is not to deny that human beings (and probably earlier types of humans have lived on this continent (and just about every other save perhaps Antarctica) for a very long while indeed (tens of thousands of years anyway) judging from the pollen record here.
But when British rule began (in 1770 when Cook claimed it or in 1788 when Phillip established the first British colony?) there were already a very diverse collection of people living here including a number of ‘white’ colonies, some descended from shipwreck survivors and others represented by sealers and whalers – and who knows what else? There were clearly earlier European inhabitants as evidenced for example by the strange ‘Bird People of Grute Etland who carry a defective gene which arose amongst Jewish Portuguese people in the C16th.
Linguistic and no doubt DNA studies have shown or would show other foreigners arriving at various times, some maybe predating many ‘aboriginal groups linguistic studies of whom show some arriving even in the Christian era possibly as late as the C17th! And most not more than a couple of thousand years ago in fact. Malays, Polynesians, Arabs, Chinese, etc.
Even amongst the so-called ‘aboriginal people anthropologists (and linguists) long ago established clear ‘waves’ of arrival. Whoever the first of these might have been (perhaps the pygmy people of Cape York?) few if any living Australians could establish a direct lineage let alone a lawful inheritance from them (since it is unlikely they had a system of property ownership - as this has been the subject of many important legal cases over time).
However the ‘Bradshaw Paintings’ blow all that away too by depicting people completely unlike any present-day aborigines living along the Kimberley Coast as long ago as 45,000 years. Asiatic type people wearing ‘Batik’ type clothing of a kind obviously unknown to our present indigenes.
Of course even those folk were unlikely to have been the ‘First Australians’ whose fossil records are yet to be found. Homo Erectus has been found c800,000 years ago in Indonesia only 100 kms or so away so it is unlikely if they could walk that far they were not present here also.
The reality is all living Australians are all descended from migrants one way or another. What changed in 1788 was that we all came under one system of law as equal citizens. Yes this is true. From day One (26Jan 1788) no-one (eg) could be murdered without exactly the same penalty required by law – and indeed this was not infrequently applied.
Certainly too some of the local Sydney Cove) ‘aborigines’ at least very quickly entered into European civilization, traveling back and forth the the UK and the USA in the C18th. We have records of this. Under Macquarie around 1815 one young ‘aboriginal girl was the very most outstanding scholar in the colony (winning prizes for such as reported in the local papers). Probably she married into colonial society as women were in very short supply (especially educated women). No doubt some of those wanderers afar had descendants elsewhere too.
It was also commonplace for colonists to adopt orphaned aboriginal children (eg from the measles epidemic around 1790 who then raised them as their own. Their ancestry is lost to time in the absence of accurate BMD records in the early days of the colony. Della (whose parents migrated to Australia from the UK after WW2) may even have one, as she has an ancestor born in Sydney c1810 whose ‘name’ mother was very old indeed to be having such a child. He returned with his parents to England after his name father finished his thirty years’ service here. Della’s mother recalled that even his grandson (her father) around 1930 still had the nickname ’Darky’ probably for obvious reasons, just as one of my own great grandfathers was known around the Hunter Valley as ‘The Negro Frenchman’.
The point is it does not matter a jot who or what our ancestors were. All that counts is our own strength of character and what we make of our lives. For a very long time (since the time of Phillip and Macquarie even there has been (at least) equality of opportunity if not even a bit of an extra ‘leg up’ for those who most needed it in our great society. It is no use at all crying that you are ‘disadvantaged’ eg by the colour of your skin. I see delightful young African and Asian Australians practically every day who are working hard (and cheerfully) to make something of themselves completely undaunted by any such silly ‘disadvantage’ as their skin colour might confer – other than not needing to spend quite so much of their hard-earned cash on sunscreen!
However, once you ‘recognise’ a ‘special group’ in law or in a constitution what awful evil consequences might follow? And how hard will it be to eradicate that distinction at a later time from our supposed egalitarian society?
Fortunately the referendum is dead in the water, but it should not be watered down to a ‘simple recognition’ statement either. It should just be abandoned as unworthy of us: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/redbridge-poll-finds-majority-intend-to-vote-no-to-indigenous-voice-to-parliament/news-story/b7effa13dfe827da111e8816fe39fea7

06-08-2023: I think I will buy this book. May be the best $25 I have ever spent: https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-Essential-Guide/dp/0988872501?crid=2C48VY7APFZRR&keywords=survival+books&qid=1691100687&s=books&sprefix=survival+books,stripbooks,113&sr=1-6&linkCode=sl1&tag=drhelenblog-20&linkId=f7ecf717c9afc395e3bfaf2600cc1197&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

06-08-2023: The trouble with heat pumps is they don’t work when it gets really cold so more folks will just die in the coming Ice Age: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/green-madness-uk-style/ & https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/02/debate-over-heat-pumps-replacing-gas-in-the-u-k-gets-hot-n568833

06-08-2023: Progress at last: First nuclear power station in thirty years in the US: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/31/finally-first-new-nuclear-reactor-in-more-than-30-years-comes-online-n568237

06-08-2023: How ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’: https://richardsonpost.com/raymond-ibrahim/32501/the-long-promised-houris/

05-08-2023: And here we go: https://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/west-australia-government-to-scrap-controversial-botched-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-laws-within-days/news-story/6c5d547616bdc677a4e81b6df8b78329

05-08-2023: Biggest ever? Move over blue whale: https://www.popsci.com/science/perucetus-colossus-heaviest-animal-whale/

05-08-2023: These legal actions against Trump may actually result in the overturning of the 2020 election: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lawyer-newest-indictment-gives-trump-legal-power-never/

05-08-2023: Well said, “Reparations are never a topic based in historical equality. Colonial Australians can trace their histories back through thousands of years of persecution, enslavement, victimhood, oppression, and terror. The difference is, civilisations that look backwards never build a future.” Our state governments shoving this rubbish down our throats against our will can only fuel a huge anger against ‘black Australia’. It will likely lead to ‘blood upon the wattle’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/canadas-indigenous-land-tax-on-dockets-is-a-taste-of-things-to-come/

We did not vote for this and would not vote for this; ergo it should not happen – or it should be undone if it does: https://www.rebelnews.com/dan_andrews_grants_sweeping_powers_to_aboriginal_land_councils

05-08-2023: Truly awesome (one should save words for using with their real meaning). Snatched from the jaws of death. Lest we forget (For the backstory read: https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/us-soldiers-seen-liberating-thousands-of-jews-from-nazi-train-found-video/ ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8YBXnvNrRo

04-08-2023: What a hero Farage is. I hope he is the next UK Prime Minister: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12353605/Nigel-Farage-says-wants-build-powerful-lobby-group-tackle-major-national-scandal-banking-revealed-banks-shutting-1-000-accounts-day.html

04-08-2023: Do you still say you are against the death penalty? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/if-guilty-hang-him.html & https://www.rebelnews.com/calls_for_death_penalty_after_shocking_child_sex_abuse_case

04-08-2023: When Richard Dawkins finally fell out with the Left: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/richard-dawkins-frank-sex-talk-infuriates-internet/

04-08-2023: Great Barrier Reef Fraud – why would anyone think that the reef (which clearly did not exist c10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age when it was solid land there) was in danger from ‘global warming’ when eg coral reefs in the Red Sea exist at over 20C hotter ocean temperatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C0XGVDPUg

And read (and weep about) what the Labor Govt intends to ‘do’ about it: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/labor-party-sells-out-australia-panders-to-the-un-to-avoid-a-naughty-reef-sticker/

03-08-2023: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore

03-08-2023: It is a disgraceful economic and environmental disaster – if it would help ‘save’ the forests there might be some justification, but it will actually destoy them after ‘mixed use’ has preserved them for the last 200 years. And you should realize that not only is forestry ‘renewable’ but that it also is carbon sequestration in that the furniture and homes built from its products last hundreds of years. : https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/labors-destruction-of-the-victorian-timber-industry-threatens-forests/

03-08-2023: Bruce Lehrmann may have a win in court yet (and Higgins get her come-uppence): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/bruce-lehrmanns-revenge-former-liberal-staffer-plots-million-dollar-compo-claim/news-story/6046aa9585cd46e2d4ac9a9b3d42d6c5 & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/sofronoff-report-alleges-shane-drumgold-lied-during-lehrmann-rape-trial/news-story/8c0e1d85c61b81f9e1da454a1f86b475

03-08-2023: The ABC needs to go. They are beyond belief bad: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/climate-extremists-go-to-woodside-ceos-home-to-vandalise-intimidate-and-the-abc-is-there-to-help/

02-08-2023: The most powerful essay I have read this year. We have destroyed our young and now we can no longer count on them to save us: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/cutting-off-your-thumbs-to-spite-your-country/

02-08-2023: The great retreat from the Green Blob. Something is breaking here: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/british-pm-is-pro-car-and-on-the-motorists-side.html & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-net-zero/

02-08-2023: The ‘Voice’ will not save Chalumbin forest, the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, that has been ranked as ‘the second most irreplaceable natural land area on the planet’. Albanese & his leftie mates are about to destroy it in an awful croney capitalist deal no doubt replete with corrupt bribery and profiteering for themselves: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/aboriginal-voices-on-the-voice/

02-08-2023: Ah for a good healthy steak: https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/vegan-influencer-starved-to-death-friends/

01-08-2023: The ‘culture wars’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/kill-boer-farmer-radical-south-african-political-leader/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dancing-shirtless-man-pumping-gas-new-york-stabbed/

01-08-2023: Schadenfreud: “We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.” https://twitter.com/Gr8fulSusan/status/1685815134802063361

01-08-2023: In the U.S., the EPA’s own “Heat Wave Index” for the continental states shows that the 1930s was by far the hottest decade of the last century: https://the-pipeline.org/hot-and-bothered-about-heat-waves/

01-08-2023: If we have to pay for them, why can’t we demand they provide a DNA result to prove they are? In the same way, why can’t we demand people work for a living? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-the-voice-will-merely-serve-to-worsen-giant-fakery/news-story/4c47e4dabf5664584cf62476f82ceb8b

31-07-2023: I liked this meme: “It is not a Voice. It is an Invoice to be paid endlessly by us and our children”.

31-07-2023: Why not become a dog? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-spends-22000-to-become-a-border-collie-dog/news-story/ced5e61487e73f28c2cbcc257e4ff746?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers

31-07-2023: She’s a top girl this one. Oh the good old (brown) gravy train: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-this-aboriginal-identity-craze-is-too-much/news-story/420ce909cd89314f0fadab8be22b0c49

31-07-2023: A long time at sea: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/sandy-point-skeleton-mystery-solved-after-95-years/news-story/73c351ad972d87d61dd0f93ff69d94d9

30-07-2023: Rejuvenation at last! Just Wow! Bring it on I say. Where can I buy this stuff? https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=Sinclair%27s%20New%20Study%21%20Age%20Reversal%20with%20Chemical%20Cocktails&_kx=B_yKIF84vdC2pCqcV7aJGBH2521TDLZN-HiRd6gtUa5LzgwS6_YvcgomZEyi7h9R.RmdNXZ

30-07-2023: Global warming conspiracy theorists insist the world is boiling – as if 1936 never happened, “The percentage of the US to reach 100F this year is currently at a record low 18%, down from 79% in 1936”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/more-lies-global-warming-conspiracists-insist-world-is/

30-07-2023: Sad really – what an awful world they will be creating. Still like choosing homosexuality, such a derangement will disappear in a single generation and the world will resume without them: https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/28/data-50-of-millennials-gen-zers-want-to-focus-on-themselves-instead-of-having-kids/

30-07-2023: NZ is a basket case because of the simply awful Ardern Government. Our little rat mates Albo, Bowen, Chalmers et al are rushing us down the very same slippery slope. Read this and weep: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/in-it-for-who/

29-07-2023: Wifi Booster And Security Cam Set-up: We have had a spate of burglaries on rural properties around here. Even our next door neighbour had a break-in and a car stolen recently , so we decided it was past time to upgrade our front gate security (at least). The first challenge was to get a wifi (computer/internet connection) to the front gate which is nearly 100 yards away. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/07/28/wifi-booster-and-security-cam-set-up/

29-07-2023: Absolutely: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/49924 I know a few people with Phds who wouldn’t have passed the matriculation exam back when I was 15!

29-07-2023: The worst experiment in medical history: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/silent-heart-damage-found-in-1-in-35-people-who-were-vaccinated/

29-07-2023: Might be a problem though if it doesn’t work just when you need it most: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-smart-gun-is-finally-coming-to-market-will-anyone-buy-it-67314e0?mod=djemalertNEWS

28-07-2023: A fair few houses in this one: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tallest-tree-in-asia?fbclid=IwAR0Z2u_PTfQbM2ijwSwxJO17SDcsnr2Oyeo_StBWbR-FhIR3Y5snZKp1PtQ

28-07-2023: Three cheers for Alex Antic, “Those of us who do believe in Liberal principles will continue to strive for a better future for our nation, while Labor and the Greens enrich themselves and disempower hard-working Australians with their senseless Net Zero and identity-politics agendas.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/far-right-or-traditional-liberal/

28-07-2023: Easy come, easy go': all agree is tautologously identified with welfare recipients, heir/esses and lotto winners; ie no-one values what they have not earned. Governments display this propensity in absolute excess: they should be denied all funding!

28-07-2023: Indeed, “Warren Mundine put it best recently when he explained that the only credible solutions to indigenous disadvantage are education, employment, hard work and home ownership…this is why, after centuries of struggle and injustices, we have settled on a democratically elected parliament where every citizen gets one vote regardless of race, religion or class as the most efficient and just form of government” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/self-harming-the-nation/

27-07-2023: ‘The Password Is Courage’ is a remarkable film and book by a truly remarkable WW2 hero, Sgt Charles Coward. Beg, borrow or steal it (from Pirate Bay): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Password_Is_Courage

27-07-2023: Coming soon to Victoria too with a treaty no-one got a chance to vote on (but I’d guess they will want repealed in the future): https://www.news.com.au/national/we-havent-messaged-this-well-startling-admission-as-wa-farmers-rage-at-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-act/news-story/c35abddcbd55bf372dadb8698a8f8752

27-07-2023: Good luck with no more rate rises in Oz Albo. Methinks yesterday’s inflation figures were very rubbery too: https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/fed-poised-hike-rates-markets-anticipate-inflation-endgame-2023-07-26/

27-07-2023: If true it would be the biggest news ever. It seems so improbable though that someone with the technology to travel between the stars would crash on earth in an unreliable craft: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/ufo-whistleblower-us-recovered-non-human-biological-pilots/

26-07-2023: How does a civilized society deal with severely mentally ill people who refuse assistance? Filling the streets and gaols up with them wasn’t such a great idea either. https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/bring-back-the-asylums?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=135399437&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

26-07-2023: Why would anyone want/allow this for minors? “Every single child, or adolescent, who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2 [by age 11] has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero.” https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/04/25/tragedy-when-a-colon-just-wont-work-as-a-vagina-n546290

26-07-2023: About those (much worse) Medieval heat waves: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/european-heatwaves-soldiers-died-in-the-heat-in-1160-rivers-ran-dry-in-1303-animals-fell-dead-in-1393/

25-07-2023: Take that T Rex: https://gizmodo.com/preserved-fossil-mammal-preying-beaked-dinosaur-1850664541

25-07-2023: The Bidens and the ‘Deep State’ are just so corrupt: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/the-joe-biden-bribe-allegations-need-a-special-counsel-now/

25-07-2023: The Hungarians are a remarkable people: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/review-the-courage-to-care/ You may not remember the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 as I do but if not you should read Mitcheners ‘The Bridge at Andau’. Now they are taking the lead in the poush-back against the globalists in Europe, They would long ago have disappeared as a people if they had not stood up for themselves.

25-07-2023: If conservatives drop this ‘Net Zero’ b------t they might well rocket back: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/uk-surprise-byelection-shows-why-conservatives-must-stand-against-netzero/

24-07-2023: Extraordinary: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cracked-piece-of-metal-healed-itself-in-an-experiment-that-stunned-scientists?fbclid=IwAR01aJnwJt7IAOxsiiJqUoMciE5FkmvSdnGyMOZ6IgXxyCQjWc888cOGRWU

24-07-2023: Some good news: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chief-diversity-officer-cdo-business-corporations-e110a82f

24-07-2023: A very succinct and accurate rebuttal of the whole global warming myth: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/eight-important-facts-not-opinions-that-totally-debunk/

24-07-2023: Looking more and more as if we have only scratched the surface: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/21/china/china-second-superdeep-borehole-intl-hnk/index.html

23-07-2023: Winter Joy: (Della): Sharing some winter joy in my garden. When I first created my rose garden 30 years ago, I was sad to see it so bare and drab during the colder months. After retirement, I worked on finding things that would add winter interest, and this afternoon’s warm, setting sun helped to reward me for my efforts. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/07/22/winter-joy/

23-07-2023: A new type of ‘one stroke’ engine: https://newatlas.com/automotive/innengine-one-stroke-engine-design/

23-07-2023: Is it quite mad for society not to have lunatic asylums? https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-bring-back-the-asylum-ec01fb2?st=ipzldf9sj6i6oe2&reflink=article_email_share

23-07-2023: More dirt on the Higgins-Lehrmann ‘affair’: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/feminist-capture-of-justice-system

23-07-2023: I really hope that Malcolm Roberts is right and that the tide has turned against the Green Blob. At least it is most entertainingly written: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/the-great-green-backlash-is-labor-next/

22-07-2023: The continual erosion of civil society: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/15/civil-society/

22-07-2023: And they’re right! Why bring them in the first place? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/07/18/nearly-three-quarters-of-french-public-wants-to-strip-migrant-rioters-of-citizenship-n1711646

22-07-2023: The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear: https://quillette.com/2023/07/07/humanity-should-split-more-atoms/

22-07-2023: The new Green My Lai – destroying the world in order to ‘save’ it: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/chalumbin-the-new-franklin/

21-07-2023: Just what you want: some ‘culture warrior’ rendering your land valueless: https://www.rebelnews.com/wa_property_owners_fear_worthless_land_as_indigenous_heritage_laws_take_effect

21-07-2023: Bad news for bank robbers at least (and the public) – cashless banks: https://www.rebelnews.com/bank_s_cashless_branches_leave_customers_empty_handed

21-07-2023: Motorists are fighting back (and wining) against 15 minute cities: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/the-cars-are-winning-against-the-15-minute-cities-in-the-uk/

21-07-2023: Anything to create panic: “What we experienced over the past days was most intense climate lie since temperature recording began…The problem with that report is that none of it is true.” In Sicily the temperature reached only 32°C over the weekend – a far cry from 48°C, which illustrates the great difference between ground surface temperature and readings taken 2 meters above the ground: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/19/europes-48c-horror-that-never-wasesa-media-sharply-criticized-for-manipulative-reporting/

20-07-2023: Neil Oliver on the ‘fear mongering hoax and scam’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vkpcBMmvP0

20-07-2023: Do you have a right to a bank account in Australia? Sounds like not, “AFCA generally accepts that a financial firm can stop providing a financial product or service, so it is unlikely we will require the financial firm to reopen the account”. https://www.afca.org.au/about-afca/publications/factsheet-accountclosure This is a real worry in the light of all the ‘debanking’ which is going on for political reasons: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/banks-do-a-nero/ This is something you might want to change the constitution so as to guarantee it.

20-07-2023: If so, millennials are just crazy. What kind of society do they want? https://jonathanturley.org/2023/07/16/pronoun-lockdown-almost-half-of-millennials-want-jail-time-for-misgendering/

20-07-2023: Ayn Rand, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality…There is no difference between socialism and communism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/ayn_rand_has_some_prescient_thoughts_about_democrats_avoidance_of_reality.html

19-07-2023: A Democratic Society. That is what we have prided ourselves on for nearly two centuries in Australia. One where pretty much all public organisations were open to all equally and were run democratically by their members. This has been true of the various tiers of government (but not the anachronistic Senate), public companies, public groups (sporting clubs, voluntary associations, trade uions) & etc. Often the elections are supervised by the Australian Electoral Commission to guarantee that the fundamentals of democratic behaviour are preserved. So what is it with the proposal to create a third tier of ‘government’ (and that is what it is) at the Federal level in our constitution which will not be democratic. Its membership will not be open to all, not even all ‘aborigines’ though it remains illegal to ‘define’ what exactly an ‘aborigine’ is (probably even to speculate on it), and I’m sure I don’t know - when there are at least tens of thousand of people today who are ‘accepted’ as ‘aborigines’ who have absolutely no (genetic) descent from aboriginal ancestors. There are clearly others who though they do have aboriginal ancestors (or may even for all I know be ‘full-bloods’ whatever that may mean) who will be denied any ‘Voice’ as this third house will not be elected from ‘the membership’ so that some people will clearly have no say in who gets to ‘represent’ them. All we know for sure is that they will not be elected, but we have no idea how they will be chosen or who will do the chosing. This is not just a simple step backwards democratically speaking but is the very essence of tyranny. Since this third house (or Voice) will clearly have some veto role over our elected government (though details of how this will work have yet to be decided) then it seems likely that our government will never be able to hold a referendum to remove this undemocratic third house from our constitution. I would have thought that if changes to how we are governed (federally) are to be made that a proposal to (at least reform) or abolish the utterly anachronistic and undemocratic Senate should be on the table. How can it be just that in the Senate voters in one state or territory can have the equivalent of ten votes as compared with one for those from NSW for example? It (the Senate) also clearly normally just interferes with the delivery of the promised platform of elected government, that being the group or party which has the majority in the ‘People’s House’ ie the House of Representatives. Just say, ‘No’.

19-07-2023: Maybe we should all go back to smoking menthol cigarettes (Alpine). Remember when doctors used to give them away free? Those were the days. Of course if you don’t remember, here’s why: https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-inhaling-menthol-improves-cognitive-ability/

19-07-2023: Maybe retirement isn’t such a great idea? Just ask Jayne who started her current job of 26 years at age 75: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/12/100-year-old-woman-still-works-4-days-a-week-her-best-career-advice.html

19-07-2023: Won’t this be something – if it works? https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-begins-construction

18-07-2023: I must admit to being shocked this morning to realise that I actually know someone who says s/he will vote, ‘Yes’. All my life (and I include also my parents’ and grandparents’ lives…) I have held to the belief that it is more than wicked (just downright evil) to treat someone differently on account of their race or birth nationality, as the Nazis so infamously did. Six million Jews and two million Gypsies can’t be wrong! Such racism is just about the worst vile trait that one can have, yet evidently many of my fellow countrymen still have it, though we voted in a referendum back in 1967 to never ever again allow ‘race’ into our constsitution. One country for all equally under the Southern Cross. Yet here we go again only fifty years later with a new apartheid proposal, and one which will end our democracy as well. I stand with what I have always believed, that we should always be treated equally under the law as we are not responsible for how or where we were born. I don’t think the same of religion which I consider a choice, though as I view all religions as equal manifestations of insanity (or at least delusion) perhaps it is no more a choice than other forms of insanity are. However, I long ago learned from that great book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ (and elsewhere) that one can choose one’s mental state too and make oneself and indeed the whole world, better by doing so. You can get a free copy here: http://new-free-pdf.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/man-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-frankl.html

18-07-2023: When you are old and lonely at least you will have GR-1: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/12/worlds-first-mass-produced-humanoid-robot-to-tackle-labour-shortages-amid-ageing-populatio

18-07-2023: What does ‘Universe 25’ mean for the human race? No doubt many of us can ‘see’ the aberrant behaviours developing amongst us which presaged collapse in the mouse ‘universe’: https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941

18-07-2023: On ‘the hottest day ever’ the satellite record showed it as -.1C less than the fifty year average, so global cooling? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/16/hottest-days-manipulation/

17-07-2023: Why not end our democracy forever? Because that is just what ‘The Voice’ is: the replacement of centuries’ long progress in making ‘The People’s House’ supreme with (what went before) an unelected hereditary (racially based) ‘nobility’ (of whom and chosen by whom; we are not told) – no better than being dictated to by the ‘Norman’ House of Lords and the monarch, probably worse. We will have no ability to have another referendum to remove it when we realize what a dictatorial disaster it is because it will have the Veto over our will. It will only be able to be removed by a violent revolution – something we have avoided in British society for a long while.

17-07-2023: You would hope the Fadden by-election result is the beginning of the end of the disastrous Albo Government: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-anthony-albaneses-honeymoon-as-pm-is-finally-over/news-story/9d020ec6bc332a44f7d7b9db8a53f913

17-07-2023: Billions of people are alive (healthy and prosperous) today because the world is warmer: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/15/untold-story-of-climates-holocene-gift-to-humanity/

17-07-2023: Just a reminder; Winter is coming: https://www.coricks.com/2023/07/04/it-is-winter/

16-07-2023: It ain’t half hot mum. Della was reminding me of just how hot Leo experienced the summer of 1900 in ‘The Go Between’ when the thermometer was often over 100F (37C) in Norfolk. Air temperature that is, not the spurious ‘surface temperature’ the alarmists are spouting at the moment (48C in Sardinia & etc) – as if you couldn’t always fry an egg on the tarmac or a car bonnet on a hot Aussie summer’s day! Remember people doing that when you were a kid? I do. And if ‘today’ is the hottest day ever (in Europe) how come for a couple of thousand years at least (from Roman Britain until the end of the Middle Ages with the ‘Little Ice Age’ c 1450AD) you could and did grow wine grapes right up to the Scottish border - when grapes will not grow outdoors anywhere in Britain today?. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/14/newly-found-weather-records-show-1930s-as-being-far-worse-than-the-present-for-extreme-weather/?fbclid=IwAR3yYeZ2NjxWszbm8ZTeYbh_2O6LV9RypggHhpUFCh2CD1Dkb3E17i1HUYw

16-07-2023: ‘Time’s Winged Chariot’. This morning I have been thinking about mortality a bit and mused, ‘How many folks have known people who were born 200 years apart?’ (Just a bit more than the age of our country). A really lot is the answer. You figure it. My own great grandfather lived the entire C19th, just as an example. The last person to have known Queen Victoria (who died in 1901) only died in the last decade or so. When I was young I met an old lady who had met Ned Kelly. There were many veterans of the Sudan War (1880s) back then, Winston Churchill for one. This does not mean that we should believe people’s often concocted family narratives though. False memories are easily come by. I come from a long-lived family who usually had their children in their thirties so that generations are quite a distance apart. My grandmother was 45 when my mother was born for example. My paternal grandfather remembered quite clearly his own grandfather who was a convict. Della’s mother remembered her own grandfather who well remembered his wife's grandmother (a soldier's wife) who gave birth on the First Fleet! Nonetheless very few reliable anecdotes have come down to us through the generations – only a handful from the C19th and none from the C18th.

16-07-2023: I agree with James Allan, it deserves to fail: “I still think it will fail now because it proposes to undermine the core notion of equal citizenship on which liberal democracy is founded. I also think it will fail because it makes very likely the possibility of judicial activists rewriting the constitution at the point of application and because it will further clog up our already sclerotic law-making processes (only two other democracies have anything like our powerful upper house Senate), and because, at core, I have huge confidence in the good sense of the average Australian.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/setting-the-record-straight/

16-07-2023: Please save us John Connor!: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/whats-your-pdoom-ai-researchers-worry-catastrophe/102591340?fbclid=IwAR3j-1zVs-CqUyorfrp35HwMoLCq4vodExbH93txzTJywz-sZVkxoQkf5Bg

15-07-2023: In France it is still Bastille day. Vive La France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwO6ryPwsGQ&t=69s

15-07-2023: Thank Monash: Electricity from brown coal is still only 3 cents a kilowatt hour: “Imagine a world where Australian electricity prices were cheap again and industries moved here from all over the world. With the extra funds Australian families could afford laptops, music lessons, books and adventure camps for every child, or trips to the Whitsundays, Ningaloo, whatever turned them on. Parents might not have to work two jobs. What a life of riches we gave up so easily, with so little thought, because we were badgered and bullied into a futile quest to change the weather?” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/inflation-be-damned-brown-coal-is-still-making-electricity-for-3c-a-kilowatt-hour/

15-07-2023: Hope for a Rise of Conservatism – the Alternative For Germany Party is showing huge swings there: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/germany-young-educated-and-wealthy-increasingly-support-afd/

15-07-2023: Just in case you have forgotten what a disaster Atsic was and don’t realise why you should vote, “No’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/07/50-reasons-why-normies-should-vote-no/

Here’s another five: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-five-reasons-you-should-vote-no-to-voice/news-story/dd4c1375cc4de38f08e430483094144c

14-07-2023: Things I did not know: The name ‘bungalow’ means "house in the Bengal style." https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/six-bedroom-bungalow-dubbed-fair-outlook-sale-nearly-2-million

14-07-2023: There are vast numbers of Nobel Prize winning scientists who repudidate the climate crisis. You don’t get this from the mainstream press though: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/another-skeptical-nobel-laureate-of-physics-climate-science-has-metastasized/

14-07-2023: When the Left decides to reject the climate mantra: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/11/uaw-to-biden-where-are-the-good-paying-green-jobs/ & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/12/i-hate-tree-huggers-britains-opposition-leader-on-net-zero-proposals/

14-07-2023: Good Idea: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/keeping-it-simple-for-the-idiots.html

13-07-2023: Further twists in the Russian ‘mutiny’: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-held-3-hour-meeting-wagner-chief-days-after-revolt

13-07-2023: This (disastrous wildfires which kill everything) is the main reason I oppose the very existence of ‘National Parks’ and the failed ideology of ‘conservation’ which motivates them. We had better protection for a diversity of native plants and animals under nearly 200 years of mixed use of our state forests including sustainable logging , seasonal grazing, some mining…including a wide range of personal freedoms (4WDriving, camping, fishing, fossilizing, hunting etc): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2023/07/canadas-grim-lesson-in-bushfire-management/

13-07-2023: Sad, but not so instantaneous then: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/titan-sub-victims-likely-realised-their-fate-between-48-and-71-seconds-before-deaths-horror-movie/news-story/a5c5b748ebdb8b05331f9ba22be591c9

13-07-2023: Kill the bush! All right for some: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/greens-senator-to-cut-down-trees-making-way-for-her-own-luxury-townhouses/video/0db5061bc893de9e4594a5b5dff363e5

12-07-2023: No evidence required; just debank: “The guideline recognises that banks don’t need legal evidence of domestic violence, such as an Apprehended Violence Order, to be able to offer assistance to customers… Hmm, can you imagine the banks cutting off the accounts of women who refuse to work or contribute to household bills? That’s clearly not going to happen.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/weaponising-banks-against-men

12-07-2023: It is not just France. It is a problem with mass migration, particularly from folks who will not assimilate eg from Islamic countries: “If we do nothing or if we do little, we are going to head either towards a progressive implosion of social trust in France, that is to say towards a society where the quality of life will collapse and where it will be less and less pleasant to live, or, by successive explosions, towards confrontations that will make France a country where one will not be able to live at all.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-riots-show-decades-mass-colonizing-immigration-could-lead-collapse-says-former

12-07-2023: It’s going to be ‘fun and games’: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/aboriginal-elder-says-tree-planting-event-was-shut-down-because-it-honoured-queen-elizabeth/news-story/e33739e1116d4a55cc7c30bc4afe0ff1

12-07-2023: These Big Tech monsters are sinister. Soon there will not even be a memory of freedom in our country: https://www.rebelnews.com/meta_to_fact_check_indigenous_voice_referendum_with_new_funding_amid_free_speech_concerns

11-07-2023: Good God: https://www.dailywire.com/news/anglican-leader-says-opening-of-lords-prayer-is-problematic-for-some

PS: I would have thought the pronoun 'which' is the biggest worry.

11-07-2023: That breastfeeding bloke is the last straw: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/05/that-breastfeeding-bloke-is-the-last-straw/

Unless it is Target selling tampons to ‘menstruaters’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tgp-reacts-gender-inclusive-tampons-woke-brand-calls/

11-07-2023: Are you the same person you used to be? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/are-you-the-same-person-you-used-to-be-life-is-hard-the-origins-of-you?utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_facebook&fbclid=IwAR1r3s3gfFpeai8neuXGoda7Zf5JjJbCpxufWM1_xnCLlBxUJwhKl6IlsEU

11-07-2023: Good points: How I learned to stop worrying and love CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/08/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-carbon-dioxide/

10-07-2023: The state of California has officially outlawed speaking Spanish over the language's bigoted use of exclusively masculine or feminine nouns."The entire Spanish language is literally transphobic hate speech," https://babylonbee.com/news/california-bans-spanish-over-nouns-having-only-two-gender-options

10-07-2023: Ronald Reagan, "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” “A 3% increase. Wonder what those babies think of that? They are too young to answer the question today, but let's ask them in 15 years. My guess is that most will say thanks for getting a chance to live rather than to have someone decide to put them among the 60 million who never got the chance.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/reagan_was_right_about_abortion.html

10-07-2023: Sad really. When you want your imaginary friends to think you have a really exciting life instead of spending it staring at four walls somewhere inside a vast megalopolis: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dad-dies-front-children-wife-films-attempt-viral/

10-07-2023: Our actual life: Each afternoon we take the dogs for a walk in one of the forests nearby. Here are a couple of shots from yesterday. A very fine rainbow and six charming fallow deer. You can maybe see why I have ordered a phone with a better camera (https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/what-a-star/) . Fortunately my memory has many more megapixels than my phone. Of course there were also the usual half a dozen black wallabies and a dozen or so kangaroos - & etc.

9-07-2023: Holidays on Mars maybe sooner than you thought: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a44475938/nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-hotter-than-sun/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR1vWQg2eYKJcCbwtRQYf_Qcwowvdux_TaVa60pb_i_gMi5ML44qM3QVUj8

9-07-2023: A Castration Robot – what a great idea: https://www.city-journal.org/article/oregon-health-science-universitys-castration-machine

And, How easy it is to have yourself castrated (22 minutes) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/a_22minute_intake_will_get_you_a_genderaffirming_testicle_removal.html

9-07-2023: Take a look at the energy use of the most populous countries, then tell me why we are ruining our economy with this ‘renewables’ religion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/07/fossil-and-non-fossil-fuels/

9-07-2023: Moonbattery as a disability: https://moonbattery.com/moonbattery-as-a-disability/

8-07-2023: Probably a fair point. Chris Hedges: “They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine”: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chris-hedges-they-lied-about-afghanistan-they-lied-about-iraq-and-they-are-lying-about

8-07-2023: A great essay: Conservatives “need to reassert what was once obvious—that the biological, married family is the best environment for raising children and that to be heterosexual is not merely an inferior option in life for those who just can’t for some reason join up with the alphabet brigade. They have to reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms and insist that children deserve to have their innocence regarding sex preserved for as long as possible”: https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-battle-for-cultural-survival

8-07-2023: This is good news. I’m sure I’m not the only person just wanting to do business without a dose of ‘save the world’ religion thrown in: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/global-climate-police-thwarted-us-republican-states-win-against-net-zero-insurance-cartel/

8-07-2023: You don’t say! Portugal regrets decision to legalise drugs: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/once-hailed-for-decriminalizing-drugs-portugal-is-now-having-doubts/ar-AA1dxFl3

7-07-2023: Things we really need a referendum on and a guarantee in the constitution for: I can think of a heap myself. For example, free speech, political freedom, the right to lawful assembly and association and free movement, protection from arbitrary arrest, the right to a fair trial, the right to own private property and guarantees about what that means, the right to be treated equally before the law, one person one vote, our right to decide before our government enters into international agreements & especially UN conventions, abolishing the utterly undemocratic and anachronistic Senate, fixed date annual elections (as in ancient Rome),,.I’m sure you can think of a few more important things than setting up an unelected racist assembly above our elected leaders: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/big-win-against-big-tech-censors-in-usa-shows-australians-need-a-referendum-for-free-speech/

7-07-2023: The UAH’s global temperature for July. I'm sure that you know that this is the most reliable international measure of world temperature (though the satellites don’t cover the polar regions). The most telling thing in this 50 year history is that global temperature seems to be constrained to a narrow limit of +/- .5C. I think this is an extraordinary thermostatic effect. You would think much more ‘climate’ effort would be spent on understanding why this is the case than preaching alarmist memes about ‘the hottest day in world history’, imminent doom and other such nonsense: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2023-0-38-deg-c/

7-07-2023: Remembering the incomparable Michael Crichton twenty years on: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/26/anniversary-issue-the-crichton-caltech-michelin-lecture/

7-07-2023: Go Ladies: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/meet-the-australian-women-making-a-stand-for-free-speech/

6-07-2023: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.“ Mark Twain

6-07-2023: $60K a year to go to Uni for life. Why not spend even more money on ‘aborigines’? Reparations anyone? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/my-husbands-been-at-uni-for-20-years-is-that-a-red-flag/news-story/53238bdf9c78b47a88dff2da6943cf54

6-07-2023: At least he died happy: https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/uk-nurse-failed-to-get-help-when-her-patient-died-during-sex/

6-07-2023: ‘Scientists’ claim that it was the ‘hottest year ever’ last year, a year when no-one was able to raise a single tomato in Southern Victoria. For comparison I remember during the 1980s (when it was supposedly much colder) we had tomatoes every single year and some years watermelons/rockmelons too. If people believe this stuff it is simply the Goebbels Effect. Meanwhile there has not been a year in living memory anything like 1939 no matter how much they try to fake it.

5-07-2023: I have always been pro-vaccine but, “Not one childhood vaccine was pre-tested in a placebo controlled trial”. Good Lord: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/r-f-kennedy-jnr-not-one-childhood-vaccine-was-pretested-in-a-long-term-placebo-controlled-trial/

Tragic: I wonder what the cost/benefit of the covid vaccine is/was. Will we ever know? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tragic-news-actress-succumbs-assisted-suicide-following-covid/

5-07-2023: France’s George Floyd – time we stopped making heroes out of evil scum. Why shouldn’t they be shot down in the street like the mad dogs they are? BTW: 75% of French people want an end to immigration. Repatriation would be a good idea too. : https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/france-has-fallen-17-year-old-victim-was/

5-07-2023: 3 times as much food (grain) as there was in 1961 – 50% more than there was in 2000. It surely is the ‘end times’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/its-biblical-climate-fire-and-brimstone-except-the-un-wants-to-be-god/

5-07-2023: Debanking: the next big step in social control. You can see why they want to get rid of cheques and paper money now perhaps: https://richardsonpost.com/stephen-wells/32222/nigel-farage-gets-debanked-and-youre-all-next/

More here: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/theyre-only-making-plans-for-nigel/

4-07-2023: Volkswagen “are experiencing strong customer reluctance in the electric vehicle sector”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/02/volkswagen-strong-customer-reluctance-in-the-electric-vehicle-sector/

And: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/ev-fantasia-hits-multiple-speed-bumps/

4-07-2023: The Pareto Principle: https://resumelab.com/career-advice/pareto-principle?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=6540517835&utm_term=%2Bpareto%20%2Bprinciple&network=g&device=c&adposition=&adgroupid=104311758447&placement=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpIDYnOfv_wIV7sbjBx26LAZJEAAYASAAEgImAPD_BwE

4-07-2023: “All the solar and wind in the world combined doesn’t provide even a third of the energy we get from wood and dung.” Good old carbon still represents 93% of world energy use: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/03/the-myth-of-replacing-fossil-fuels/ .

4-07-2023: What a ‘delightful’ character Yunupingu evidently really was: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/galarrwuy-yunupingu-lord-of-the-manor/

3-07-2023: Fancy a cashew: https://www.coricks.com/2023/04/07/560/

3-07-2023: There shall be only one truth (and like ‘work’ at Auschwitz) it will set you free: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/labors-censorship-bill-a-threat-to-democracy/

3-07-2023: Apparently we never had it tough with interest rates at 21% back in 1990. It is today’s spoiled darlings with interest rates of 6% who have it tough. You can prove anything with figures if you try/lie hard enough. Of course they have more debt because of the ‘cheap money’ which has caused house prices to explode: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/interest-rates/double-whammy-facing-aussie-homeowners-as-interest-rates-soar-while-wages-stagnate/news-story/013d5cacec26162df72dd688fff03cea

3-07-2023: When the world was much warmer (just a few thousands of years ago) there was so much more life on earth – the Sahara was green and dotted with rivers and lakes: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/only-6000-years-ago-the-world-was-warmer-and-the-sahara-was-lush-green-and-wet/

2-07-2023: What you get when you allow a vast Fifth Column to invade your country. We need an immigration re-set now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/france-grip-anarchy-cities-transformed-war-zones-amidst/

Good question: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/32179/france-deploys-armored-military-vehicles-to-combat-nationwide-riots/

2-07-2023: Certainly big news if it proves to be true. Hit by a comet perhaps? Problem for the gay community? https://allisrael.com/did-sodom-and-gomorrah-really-exist-biblical-archaeologist-reveals-new-evidence-on-the-rosenberg-report

2-07-2023: Yeah! Being alive is bad for your health. None of us will survive this: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fhealth%2Farchive%2F2023%2F06%2Fartificial-sweetener-aspartame-diet-coke-cancer-link-who%2F674586%2F

2-07-2023: I do enjoy a morning dose of Stuart Schneiderman: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/saturday-miscellany-ad4?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=132334649&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

1-07-2023: Sure looks cold: Spring near the Martian North Pole: https://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/ESP/ORB_078300_078399/ESP_078343_2500/ESP_078343_2500_MRGB.abrowse.jpg

1-07-2023: Hachiko: If this does not bring a tear to your eye, you are not human: https://www.coricks.com/2023/06/30/hachiko-the-most-loyal-dog-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR2iZ7zl2y1dkmDPZhYKm-uYeIYPoAf8kOf4jXnheBHieHs-S40AmLF3x00

1-07-2023: Pell deserves sainthood: “The case against Pell was nothing more than an appalling police sting operation protracted by grossly erroneous judicial reasoning by Victoria’s two most senior judges. Thankfully, his prison journals revealed a Christian who was able to find grace in the midst of adversity and profound injustice.” An incredibly well-written article Frank Brennan: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/cardinal-pell-at-the-hands-of-the-victorian-justice-system/

1-07-2023: In the US the Supreme Court has found that ‘affirmative action’ based on’race’ is wrong – yet here in Australia we are rushing to enshrine this obscenity in our own constitution…”All men are created equal…” https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/the-time-has-come-today-3.php

30-06-2023: A new idea for an expandable camper: https://newatlas.com/outdoors/flip90-vw-truck-camper-rotates-roomy-backcountry-cabin/

30-06-2023: Exactly: https://babylonbee.com/news/pedophile-jailed-for-flashing-kids-at-playground-kicking-himself-for-not-doing-it-at-pride-parade-instead

30-06-2023: We must fight back against the Left. The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship sounds like a step in the right direction: https://www.rebelnews.com/former_australian_prime_ministers_join_global_group_backed_by_jordan_peterson

30-06-2023: Why should this small but vocal group have more than one person and one vote? This vocal minority will not be happy until they have ‘cradle to grave’ support from other hard-working Australians. https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/hear-my-voice/

29-06-2023: The Ultralight Sauna: Fancy a sauna in the back country? I thought I had pretty much sorted out Bathtime on the Trail with that post as well as The APC and the Sponge Bath and Keeping Clean on the Trail & etc, but the ingenious Tim Tinker has now come along with a modification of my Hiking Desalinater which enables a half-hour sauna even in the snow! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/28/the-ultralight-sauna/

The steam generator for a backpacking sauna. It has a large bore steam tube that was custom made from silnylon.

29-06-2023: A splendid essay, “The empire was not in essence racist, exploitative or senselessly violent. It learnt to correct its sins of commission or omission.” : https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/06/measuring-the-elephant-the-morality-of-the-british-empire/

29-06-2023: “Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.” Henry Ford: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/think_you_can.html

29-06-2023: It doesn’t get any stranger than this: Big Tech Cage Fighting: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/musk-zuckerberg-cage-fight-elon-will-train-legendary/

28-06-2023: Bombshell: Over 500 excess deaths a week involving heart diseases have been documented since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the British Heart Foundation: https://www.bhf.org.uk/-/media/files/what-we-do/influencing-change/strengthening-health-and-care-systems/excess-deaths-involving-cvd/excess-deaths-involving-cvd-in-england_an-anlysis-and-explainer.pdf

28-06-2023: A heart-warming story: Vanilla the chimp, caged for entire life, sees sky for first time: https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/vanilla-the-chimp-caged-entire-life-sees-sky-for-first-time-in-heartwarming-video/

28-06-2023: It is sad that these five billionaires are dead at the bottom of the sea, but it is great that they used their wealth to ‘push the envelope’ for the rest of us. Someday because of such folks your grandkids will holiday on the moons of Saturn or cruise to Alpha Centauri. “Most cutting edge technology starts out as a rich man’s toy. Automobiles, passenger airplanes, VCRs, etc. all started out that way. Letting rich people buy the tech drives the technology and pushes prices down over time so that ordinary people can afford it. I don’t think ordinary people will ever be interested in doing miles-deep dives, but improved subsea technology is a very big deal. We often hear about how unexplored the deep ocean depths are, and there’s a reason for that – we aren’t very good at it yet. We get better at it by doing it. We can do it more if people are willing and able to pay for it.” Glenn Reynolds. Should the sub have been tested on poorer people first?: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/in-praise-of-megarich-adventurers/

Mind you, they didn’t suffer: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/26/what-happened-to-the-bodies-of-those-killed-in-the-titanic-submersible-implosion-n2625013

28-06-2023: What is going on with these UFOs? It seems vanishingly unlikely they are crashed spaceships from a distant and superior civilisation, so what exactly is the fuss about? Maybe someone (the US/China?) has superior technology we don’t know about: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/ufos-or-not-something-is-up/

27-06-2023: Wonnangatta Pack (Raft) Track: Many people may not know that the famous C19th Wonnangatta Station was ‘serviced’ by a pack track up the true right bank of that river (ie the right bank facing downstream) along which all its supplies came (including even a large piano).

No doubt other sections still exist below the Moroka Junction, but this post concerns its remnant from the Moroka Junction to the Hernes and Wombat Spurs. Clearly it also went on after that but as with the lower section there is now a road or track which can more easily be followed, eg by those wishing to pack raft the river or explore it for other purposes – deer hunting (excellent), fishing (which is good), bush walking & etc. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/26/wonnangatta-pack-raft-track/

27-06-2023: Too many unmeritorious rape case are destroying social life: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/scope-creep-and-the-sexual-assault

27-06-2023: Remember (just yesterday) when the famous (song) phrase, “I am woman” was something to be proud of? What is the matter with the world? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/the-sex-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/

27-06-2023: The ‘Twitter Files’ reveal just how sinister the Big Tech players have become: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/to-condition-people-to-censor-themselves/

26-06-2023: Today is the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth, which used state of the art computer models that were not validated to predict that humanity faced a devastating collapse from the lack of food, oil, other commodities, etc.

26-06-2023: What a Star: Available now on Kickstarter the new Unihertz Jelly (Star) phone for US$169ea (or US$310 for two).

I have been using the Jelly 2 for a couple of years now and found it just great. I will be ordering this new model because of the (much) improved camera. From 16 Megapixels to 48! Wow! Huge!

I have taken most of the photos on my blog The Ultralight Hiker the last two years with it. I don’t think you could complain about their quality, but the new camera looks set to blow them away. I will be able to zoom in and crop much smaller detail for example. Roughly (the equivalent of) ten times zoom I guess. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/what-a-star/

26-06-2023: Wind energy just crashed: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/siemans-energy-stocks-fall-36-turbines-are-degrading-faster-than-expected/

26-06-2023: Contrariwise, I think the kids got it right, “You identify with the sexual organ you were born with. That’s basically what you’re saying, which is really despicable.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/teacher_calls_student_despicable_for_questioning_classmates_claim_shes_a_cat.html

26-06-2023: “Ron Klain, until recently Joe Biden’s chief of staff, is quotable here. In reply to a Vox post on July 14, 2014 showing ‘68 per cent of Americans think elections are rigged,’ Klain tweeted: ‘That’s because they are.’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/yes-us-elections-can-be-hacked/

25-06-2023: Ephemera: When I am filling the kettle to make the morning coffee I usually happen to glance out the kitchen window just to see what wonders the day has in store for me. There are always some, a number of which you have been a party to over the years, such as this secretive rabbit which I made a feature of in an item about Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/ephemera/

25-06-2023: Nice people: Moslem-American scholar defends marriage to 9-year-old girls: https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-muslim-american-scholar-defends-marriage-to-9-year-old-girls/

25-06-2023: Stranger and stranger: Why should lesbians sleep with men? As long as they do, you might say: https://unherd.com/2023/05/why-should-lesbians-sleep-with-men/

25-06-2023: What is Milk? I admit I had trouble milking an almond: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/milk-mammalian-evolution-nutrition/674487/?utm_source=apple_news

25-06-2023: Cowboys and Indians: Biden Dons Feathered Headdress To Welcome Indian Prime Minister: https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-dons-feathered-headdress-to-welcome-indian-president?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email

24-06-2023: Steve Jobs, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there…And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it…death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” https://unherd.com/2023/06/the-billion-dollar-search-for-immortality/

24-06-2023: Dare we go where Sweden has gone before? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/sweden-axes-renewable-energy-targets-shifts-back-to-nuclear-power/

24-06-2023: This will not end well: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/german-politicians-move-ban-eliminate-afd-populist-party/

24-06-2023: Is a civil war looming in Russia? https://www.gbnews.com/news/russia-civil-war-wagner-group-vladimir-putin-ukraine

And: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-army-retreating-yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner-boss-feud-anti-war-tirade/

23-06-2023: Adam Smith at 300: The Gospel of Mutual Service: “He described the increase of capital as another great cause of prosperity and said very truly that it was not the result of government foresight, for governments were generally prodigal and profuse, but of the frugality and good conduct of individuals desirous of bettering their own condition” https://reason.com/2023/06/20/adam-smith-at-300-the-gospel-of-mutual-service/

23-06-2023: Is the Jihad over? Only if you are a racist twat: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/06/18/americans-assume-the-jihad-is-over-in-africa-its-bloodier-and-more-aggressive-than-ever-n1704322

23-06-2023: Reflections on the ‘Titan Sub’: Not even enough time to think, “Maybe we should have done more testing”..But who/what was doing the knocking? The same person/thing responsible for the MH370 pings perhaps? Am I paying for the search? Where do I demand my money back?

23-06-2023: Who Knew: The world’s forests already ensure that we are at ‘Net Zero’. Absolutely no need to do any more economy destroying non-science: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/earth-is-already-at-net-zero/

22-06-2023: (Past) time for another Menzies. Who can it be? Andrew Hastie perhaps? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/why-menzies-still-matters/

22-06-2023: I’m afraid we will miss them sorely: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/06/why-good-teachers-are-fleeing-the-classroom/

22-06-2023: If you wonder why your vote doesn’t count think how much does it cost to buy an MP: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/these-guys-run-the-world-blackrock-recruiter-caught-boasting-about-buying-senators-cheap/

22-06-2023: “Good news, folks. We can stop raising taxes, banning cars and sending EPA SWAT teams to people’s homes for trying to fill in swamps on their own land.” https://www.frontpagemag.com/climate-change-turns-out-to-be-a-71-year-old-guy-named-ed/

21-06-2023: Time for a ‘good news’ story: https://archive.is/uBmlA

21-06-2023: ‘100 Places to See After Your Die’ – interesting title for a book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/13/ken-jennings-afterlife-100-places-see-after-you-die/

21-06-2023: “One could argue that not only should the teacher be immediately terminated, one of the students should take over. The kids in this case have more brains and common sense than the so-called adult in the room.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/woke-british-teacher-throws-fit-after-girl-mocks/

21-06-2023: Mayo with that? Yeah. Why don’t you just vote for ‘The Voice’ and throw your country away? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/in-their-own-words-the-simple-truth-behind-albaneses-vanity-voice.html

20-06-2023: Beatlejuice. It sure will be something to see: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/betegeuse-may-go-supernova-in-our-lifetime-brighter-than-the-moon/

20-06-2023: Your wife certainly had a valid excuse with, ‘I just need to get dressed’ back in 1896: https://twitter.com/UmarBzv/status/1668564492119048194

20-06-2023: One tenth of one degree in 50 years – well within the range of error anyway. Nothing to get excited about. No doubt much the same situation applies most places - except those getting cooler! https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/06/epic-fail-in-americas-heartland-climate-models-greatly-overestimate-corn-belt-warming/

20-06-2023: Exactly. Long since time ‘aborigines’ said, ‘Sorry’, “Aboriginal people must accept that they are no more indigenous than anyone else born in Australia.”: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/06/not-sorry-for-not-saying-sorry/

19-06-2023: If the cost of home ownership keeps going up you might also decide to go live in a tree: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/in-need-of-a-tree/

19-06-2023: Some good news from the UK at least. Oz needs its own Nigel Farage – is it Tony Abbott? https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/britain-poised-to-unite-the-right/

19-06-2023: Take careful note: How life on earth was once before destroyed by a shortage of CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/12/how-co2-starvation-plate-tectonics-caused-the-greatest-mass-extinction-the-permian-great-dying/

19-06-2023: A couple more ‘green dreams’ wither on the vine: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/thousands-of-evs-rotting-in-fields-in-china/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/bad-news-for-electric-planes-batteries-only-last-a-few-weeks/

15-06-2023: The huge fires in Canada were caused by bad forest management. The same thing will happen here as a result of the change from native forest logging etc to (even more disastrous) ‘National Parks’. This is bad conservation: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12171711/What-sparked-Canadian-wildfires-wreaking-havoc-US.html

15-06-2023: When Andrews brings us even more gibberish: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/bread-circuses-and-moon-worshipping/

15-06-2023: Tucker Carlson Episode 3. Will they succeed in silencing this guy in the same way they are determined to destroy Trump? : https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664

15-06-2023: ‘What a tangled web you weave.’ 'Saint' Britanny and the ‘pub test’: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/saint-brittany-or-scheming-charlatan

14-06-2023: Horrifying! Our leftie political leaders are handing over our country (including our freehold land) to dubious faux ‘aborigines’ who never had to do a day’s work or pay for it (as you did) to the extent even for eg that in WA (after 1 July) you will have to ask ‘aborigines’ before you can do anything on your own land (plant a tree, plough a paddock, graze a sheep etc). Such changes will ultimately lead to a real ‘war’ against such ‘aborigines’ in the future, mark my words. There really will be ‘blood on the wattle’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-the-slide-in-support-for-the-socalled-voice-to-parliament-has-been-rather-dramatic/news-story/46c942caba6d9743eb410335eff88471

14-06-2023: No more cars – and soon. What the rich want for you: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/and-the-workers-shall-not-own-cars-wef-plan-to-get-rid-of-75/

14-06-2023: The German economy may have to shut down next year. This is the future the Greens have in store for us all: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/vc-habeck-says-german-industry-may-shut-down-hopes-russia-and-ukraine-will-play-nice-on-gas/

14-06-2023: Now the truth is finally out: covid was a bioweapon developed by the Chinese military (to destroy the West). Worked well too, didn’t it? https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/12/bombshell-covid-19-developed-by-military-at-wuhan-lab-n557307

13-06-2023: A truly great survival story: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2Fjun%2F11%2Famazon-plane-crash-colombian-children-survived-on-cassava-and-fruits-family-say

13-06-2023: Absolutely Ron. Our government needs to go back to nation building instead of nation destroying: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/we-have-done-it-before-lets-do-it-again/

13-06-2023: Nearly one in three GenZers want the government to install surveillance cameras in everyone’s houses. These kids have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the ‘march through the institutions’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/nearly_one_in_three_gen_zers_want_the_government_to_install_surveillance_cameras_in_everyones_homes.html

13-06-2023: “Sixty-six percent of college students think shouting down a speaker to stop them from speaking is a legitimate form of free speech” https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/10/survey-roughly-three-fourths-of-princeton-students-believe-shouting-down-speakers-is-acceptable/

12-06-2023: Why Trump simply cannot be guilty. He took the documents while he was President and ‘classified’ them as was consistent with his constitutional power. Neither have they fallen into any other ‘hands’. Th whole shemozzle is just part of the ‘coup’ against him. God help us and him that he wins through in the end: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/trump_did_not_violate_the_law_because_he_could_not_violate_the_law.html

Kari Lake: "If you want to get to President Trump, you're going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me. And most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA. That's not a threat, that's a public service announcement"

12-06-2023: Why there is absolutely no danger to the climate from CO2: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/co2_is_a_climate_red_herring.html

12-06-2023: How Meta (Facebook, Instagram etc) is the most massive pedophile network: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/31915/instagram-is-home-to-an-organized-and-massive-network-of-pedophiles/

12-06-2023: Good Lord! How crooked can you get? It’s no wonder they ban safe and effective drugs and foist dangerous experimental treatments on the population: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/when-the-government-agencies-that-approve-drugs-are-actually-96-funded-by-big-pharma/

11-06-2023: Tell me what we gain by importing hordes of such people? https://rmx.news/crime/it-is-always-the-maghrebi-types-who-follow-whistle-at-and-insult-me-french-women-recount-their-experience-with-sexual-harassment-from-foreigners/

11-06-2023: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” Watch what happens here when folks realise they really don't like 'aborigines' for example: https://rmx.news/germany/afd-party-should-be-banned-argues-german-human-rights-group-funded-by-german-government/

11-06-2023: One of the biggest ‘problems’ with the (12) alien spaceships mystery is why after flying zillions of miles to get here they should be so poorly constructed as to crash? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/10/good-reasons-to-be-skeptical-of-alien-spaceship-claims/

11-06-2023: How to deal with ‘junk science’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/09/dig-deeper-learn-more/

10-06-2023: Toyota just canned the ‘need’ for EVs. https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/06/06/you_may_not_need_an_electric_vehicle_after_all_904060.html

The new ‘Liquid Piston’ engine will completely destroy them: https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/

10-06-2023: Tucker, Episode 2. This guy is great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-tucker-carlson-releases-episode-2-his-twitter/

10-06-2023: Well said as usual, Bettina – but I fear you have gone too far this time: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/sometimes-men-still-do-it-better

10-06-2023: The latest attack on Trump is just a continuation of the ‘Deep State’ coup which brought Biden to office: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/another-bogus-attack-dc-court-already-ruled-2012/

09-06-2023: This looks to be a handy gadget. Now if I can just set it off with a motion detector. https://www.amazon.com.au/Perimeter-Reusable-Warning-Security-Property/dp/B0C1ZMJ2XL?th=1 & https://tripalarms.com/

09-06-2023: 104+ million people watched the first new Tucker programme., Sure did a great job shutting him down. Still trying though: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12169523/Tucker-Carlson-broke-media-matrix-Twitter-broadcast.html

09-06-2023: One thing is certain: changes to the solar flux and the PDO are much bigger ‘drivers’ of climate than tiny differences in the amount of CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/06/the-sun-in-june-2023/

09-06-2023: What really happened to the Kakhovka Dam? https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/07/what-really-happened-to-the-kakhovka-dam

08-06-2023: Bizarre footage from security cams. My neighbour has one of these and he swears I ‘would not believe ‘what he has caught on camera. I am now inclined to believe him: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/topless-witches-caught-munching-on-deer-carcass-in-bizarre-cctv-footage/news-story/93c30c8c4a2ba58687a6a83656b46924

08-06-2023: Strange this should be happening if we are having ‘global warming’. Could this be why our Southern Vic tomatoes continue to fail to ripen? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/02/antarctic-ice-shelves-growing/

08-06-2023: The story of the century – might even be true: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/new_whistleblower_insists_ufos_have_landed_here_and_the_us_government_has_them.html

08-06-2023: How many people do you think want giant windmills and huge power transmission towers on their land? Not me at least. And all for nothing anyway: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/who-needs-farmers-the-greens-create-10000-km-of-high-voltage-transmission-line-pain/

07-06-2023: Tucker is back – and he’s great: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419

07-06-2023: ‘It is a matter of opinion,’ or ‘That is just your opinion’ & etc. I am always astonished that people feel that this is a valid riposte: Listen up, folks, there are no matters of opinion; only matters of fact…Everything is either accessible to rigorous testing as to whether it is true or not. If it is not, then it is simply gibberish, and not worth saying, let alone repeating! All the world’s beliefs are like this, ie provable/falsifiable or nonsense. Think: God, after life, socialism, Tim-Tams, etc, etc. Actually that last doesn’t fit the pattern; as Horace remarked ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’ ie ‘In matters of taste, there can be no disputes’.

07-06-2023: Should we celebrate ‘pride’: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/pride_is_nothing_to_celebrate.html

07-06-2023: Rowan Atkinson’s experience of electric cars is interesting: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/rowan-atkinson-our-honeymoon-with-electric-cars-is-coming-to-an-end/

It is also extremely unlikely that EVs will actually reduce rather than increase CO2 output – as if that mattered anyway: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/no-one-even-knows-if-evs-will-reduce-carbon-dioxide/

07-06-2023: Australia’s energy nightmare. Once government’s used to be responsible for this eg by building new power stations (usually coal) but now they are destroying them. If you are very fortunate (and cashed up) you may be able to spend $20-50K of your own money building a ‘system’ which will improve your personal position for the next ten years or so but with no certainty still you won’t suffer blackouts. Our household is going down this route. We figure if we can spend eg $20K to avoid an annual electricity bill of $3K that this is a good return on capital – though the maintenance will be a chore. We are in the process of ordering NiFe batteries and will add a vast amount of solar as well as a vertical wind turbine and mini hydro as well (probably) as a personal) pumped hydro system (as an additional ‘battery’). We also have quite a lot of our own firewood on hand and will plant more. If you don’t have the space or money to do similar you are going to suffer because of the evil green dreams of the Left, increasingly abetted by the conservatives too! https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/green-australia-where-industry-is-on-edge-the-grid-precarious-and-electricity-prices-up-25/

05-06-2023:

05-06-2023: Will you be able to get by on just one sausage a month? Thank goodness we have our own lambs: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/31/the-threat-to-german-sausages-is-real-n554708

05-06-2023: Cows and sheep are not so bad after all: “Dutch and Irish politicians have failed to recognise that regenerative farming techniques allow livestock farmers to help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. The technology needed to measure soil carbon accurately has recently been developed by a British company, Ecometric. The results are startling. Some British livestock farmers are now being paid for the net carbon sequestered into the soils after the methane from their burping cows has been accounted for. It would mean changing the way we farm to embrace holistic methods; mainly replacing cereal-based cattle diets with grass, but it can be done.: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F06%2F02%2Firelands-mooted-cow-massacre-warning-to-net-zero-britain%2F

05-06-2023: The true costs of energy. (The world is currently building over 1,000 new coal-fired power stations. Why can’t we have just a few, please?) : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/02/the-actual-levelized-cost-of-energy/

04-06-2023: Clint turns 93: https://twitter.com/HeyJudyH/status/1664006951502508033

04-06-2023: How China will win WW3 unless we act now: https://richardsonpost.com/david-hilton/31846/leftists-persucute-ben-roberts-smith/

04-06-2023: Aren’t we all? https://www.rebelnews.com/australians_sick_of_being_welcomed_to_their_own_country

04-06-2023:

03-06-2023: The plight of English teaching in our schools. Imagine having to have an MA to teach comics and TikTok – and no Macbeth: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/what-is-the-point-of-teaching-english/

03-06-2023: We really should have a Royal Commission into Covid: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/garlic-19/

For example, how many died because of the ban on the very effective (early) treatment Hydroxychloroquine? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/covid/2023/05/the-curious-tale-of-hydroxychloroquine/

03-06-2023: Not yet, but maybe soon? https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/repeated-signals-from-the-center-of-the-milky-way-could-be-aliens-saying-hello-new-study-claims

03-06-2023: The ‘sea of faith’ is waning. Now we are hearing only ‘its long melancholy roar’ as it retreats. Hopefully civilization can still be saved from the climate vandals: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/peak-esg-is-behind-us-investors-throw-out-climate-fantasies-at-exxon-and-chevron/

2-06-2023: The continuing ‘Boer War’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/three-murders-every-hour-south-african-farmers-set/

2-06-2023: Just the beginning of banning flying to ‘save the planet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/climate-lockdowns-begin-for-the-workers-france-bans-short-flights-for-passengers-but-not-private-jets/

2-06-2023: Though ‘primary industries’ are clearly the most ‘renewable’ and sustainable’ they are being targeted by the ‘climate cabal’ for closure. Dan’s shutting the native forest industry (and fisheries) was only the beginning. The real purpose of these moves such as the attack on fertilizer use is to reduce the world population (by starvation): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/hohmann-globalists-rev-up-plans-engineer-global-famine/

2-06-2023: We have two million plus public servants in Australia. If we had any more we would begin to look like a gigantic episode of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’! Surely we don’t need to have so many ‘servants’? This is getting on very close to every second household having its own butler (now, that would be nice – or at maybe a downstairs maid at least!) It really begs the question though, doesn’t it, ‘What can all these ‘servants’ be doing?’(And how much of our money are they being paid?) It clearly isn’t what any sane person would describe as ‘Work’, so what is it exactly? And why couldn’t we do without just a little bit of it/them? I think I would be able to balance the budget and pay off the national debt quite quickly if allowed some elbow room to do so. Over to you: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/employment-and-earnings-public-sector-australia/latest-release

01-06-2023: Apparently greenies are offering to paint my 25 year old Land Rover – though unfortunately not the colour I wanted. Somehow they have figured that it is more wasteful (even though it does better than 10 km per litre) than ‘modern’ cars and particularly electrics - not figuring in the added cost of producing those new cars as compared with keeping my old one running. Damned fools: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/vandalism-for-the-planet-climate-activists-deflate-tyres-to-try-to-make-it-impossible-to-own-an-suv/

01-06-2023: Who is an aborigine? Why we should reject ‘The Voice’. Well said: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/who-is-an-aborigine/

01-06-2023: Good on you Pauline: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/pauline-hanson-putting-weak-lnp-to-shame-over-palasczcuks-aboriginal-treaty.html

01-06-2023: The ‘internet of things’ just got mighty serious/ Folks will want to delete these things – but will they be able? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/the-next-chinese-tech-threat-is-already-here/

01-06-2023: Albo?

31-05-2023: No trigger warnings. No snowflakes back then: https://petapixel.com/2013/10/29/honored-photograph/

31-05-2023: Nuts to that you might say but your heart does not agree: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/eating-nuts-and-seeds-may-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease/

31-05-2023: Beware when the bogus aborigines take charge: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/05/bogus-identity-and-constitutional-change/

31-05-2023: Is the UN climate cabal coming undone: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/un-netzero-cartel-wants-to-make-insurance-firms-into-climate-police-but-giants-are-fleeing/

30-05-2023: I must (not) go down to the sea again: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/researchers-think-other-orcas-are-imitating-a-single-killer-whale-that-first-started-targeting-boats-leading-some-to-sink/ar-AA1bLqmC

30-05-2023: What is wrong with Keynesian economics: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/05/money-out-the-door-australia-in-the-shadow-of-keynes/

30-05-2023: Well said Maggie: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/margaret-thatcher-on-raising-living-standards-for-everyone.html

30-05-2023: Our tomatoes have certainly known it has been getting colder but not the BOM: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/thats-a-big-climate-surprise-frost-season-growing-longer-across-australia-and-for-years/

And it’s been getting colder all over: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/28/cold-grips-globally-alaskas-4th-cold-winter-record-cold-down-underuks-delayed-spring/

29-05-2023: Neil Oliver on how bad the Greens really are. You really need to know about Clintel – and the facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9KG-j7C0M

29-05-2023: Unfortunately true: “Polls show as many as two out of three Democrats voters still trust the media, while barely 1 in 6 Republicans do. If the media were not so nakedly biased, those statistics wouldn’t be so skewed.” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/this-is-what-mind-control-looks-like/

29-05-2023: Important lessons from a long life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/22/david-von-drehle-book-excerpt-dr-charlie-white/

29-05-2023: Certainly spooky stuff – what once used to prompt vampire legends. No doubt there is a rational explanation: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/miracle-missouri-catholics-flock-missouri-convent-see-exhumed/

28-05-2023: A really big scientific dilemma. CO2 and temperature are not coupled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/26/the-holocene-co2-dilemma/

28-05-2023: This man, Norman Borlaug is responsible for saving the lives of over a billion people. If the climate becomes colder as was predicted in the 1970's (& some current predictions, see eg: http://wattsupwiththat.com/.../the-cia-documents-the.../...) we will need several of his kind to prevent catastrophe. Remember this, the Little Ice Age killed something like 1/3rd of Europe's population. Much more agricultural research is needed, particularly in the field of adaptation to a shortened growing season (and genetic engineering of plants to flourish in colder conditions): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

28-05-2023: DNA doesn’t lie. I admit I have been sceptical, though I have trusted friends (fellow hunters) who report having seen one, but if these things can exist in Scotland they can certainly exist in Victoria: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/definitive-proof-huge-black-panthers-29951838.amp?fbclid=IwAR0siCyLy5aWTMmGE9o4yFXXdBuSXawUpWtsotgcs2aJ4P2W2o3s4D1ZGu8

28-05-2023: Our state government is hopeless. Under Dan the number of public servants has more than doubled (as has their remuneration – particularly the vast horde of ‘upper echelons’). Meanwhile in the latest budget, spending for road repairs has fallen from approx $700 million to around $400 million. You may need new shock absorbers! You may have also noticed signs springing up which say things like ‘Rough Road Next 4km’. Expect this to rapidly become 40 km! There is a rough road ahead for Vic there’s no doubt. I did not vote for them (or the present so-called opposition).

27-05-2023: Easy Hammock Tarp Centre Line: A centre line is the best idea when using any tarp rather than just trying to tension the tarp back towards the tree against its own weight which is all too likely to damage it or tear out the grommet or tie-out.

You will also want to secure one to the tree/s quickly and easily, so here is a method using just a few readily available plastic bits and pieces. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/26/easy-hammock-tarp-centre-line/

27-05-2023: Gina explains Australia’s dangerous (dare I say ‘suicidal’) state so well. If we don’t listen to her and change direction very, very soon, we are doomed: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/plucking-the-hissing-goose/

27-05-2023: If only we could trust how the world temperatures have been measured and recorded – but we cannot. One thing we can trust however is whether we were able to grow pumpkins and tomatoes in our gardens over summer (in the higher latitudes like Southern Victoria). ‘Strangely’ while the BOM, CSIRO, IPCC, WEF and etc tell us we have been experiencing the ‘hottest ever years’ our tomato and pumpkin crops have been poor indeed. Even children in their thirties can remember how hot it was going off to cut a Xmas tree in summer when they were young or the many, many long days spent cooling off in the rivers or ocean then on endless blistering hot days (which have been absent in recent years). Those of us who are older remember those months of above 100F/38C days we used to ‘enjoy’ in the summers of our youth. In a similar way, did you know that during the Middle Ages (and for millennia) they used to grow wine in the UK as far North as Scotland whilst today not a singe grape vine survives in the whole country? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/26/bureau-capitulates-but-overseas-model-unlikely-to-solve-all-temperature-measurement-issues/

27-05-2023: The future is rushing towards us – here come the cyborgs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/elon-musks-brain-computer-company-neuralink-receives-fda/

26-05-2023: ‘Take up thy bed and walk’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdnyuz.com%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Fa-paralyzed-man-can-walk-naturally-again-with-brain-and-spine-implants%2F

26-05-2023: Some hope here at last: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/trial-drug-slow-early-alzheimers-decline/

26-05-2023: You sometimes hear that ‘climate deniers’ are financed by ‘Big Oil’ though I for one am still waiting for my cash, but the money trail motivating ‘renewables propaganda is easier to find: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/media-giant-ap-news-sells-out-journalism-for-just-8m-from-billionaires/

26-05-2023: Horror stories from our Oz budgets. Horror stories from our Oz budgets. ’Dictator Dan’ having put every Vic household in hock for $70.000 is terrible news enough when we often personally ‘have neither a borrower nor a lender been’, but wiping out an entire primary industry (Forestry) at the sroke of a pen has to be som kind of ultimate display of power. It sends shivers down my spine – and tough luck if you want toi build a sturdy lasting residence. I realize that such folks can next be expected to do absolutely anything (‘disarmament’ abolition of private property, the pananopticon state through mobile phone, controlled movement, compulsory euthanasia…I guess they are all on their agenda). And we have several years left of such governments both state and federal before we get to ‘choose’ again. Meanwhile the ‘opposition’ seems to have just joined with them instead as serving as a focus for an alternative approach.

25-05-2023: Happy Birthday Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sldgunY3Fw

25-05-2023: It had to happen: https://babylonbee.com/news/google-doodle-celebrates-first-indigenous-transgender-waterskiier-with-no-legs

25-05-2023: Albanese: 'Liberals May Have Standards, But We Have Double Standards'

25-05-2023: This is how the Greens (and the renewables industry generally) are creating slavery. These people are seriously evil. You may remember how their concocted ban on DDT led to the deaths of 100 million people from malaria. Of course they do actually want the population of the world to be reduced – by whatever means: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/solar-panels-now-in-top-five-worst-slave-industries/

24-05-2023: Interesting to know how a green conspiracy works. Clearly the same strategies exist in the green and black conspiracies in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/how-the-foreign-funded-climate-cabal-bought-germany-to-its-knees/

24-05-2023: Will ‘The Voice’ be like the UN? You betcha. At least it will not be democratic. It must be opposed with the last fibre of our beings: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/05/so-much-talk-so-very-few-answers/

23-05-2023: The adult in the room – Exxon warns of civilisational collapse with ‘Net Zero’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/91411/

23-05-2023: Back from the dead. Might be a good idea to try this out before your loved one departs though, then you could chose which one to keep: https://futurism.com/ai-seance

23-05-2023: Ladies, from now on you are hens: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/an-egg-producing-female-is-a-hen-not-a-woman/

23-05-2023: So much for good deeds: https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/california-man-fatally-hit-by-car-while-helping-ducks-cross-busy-road/

22-05-2023: Wonder why (for decades) snow cover in Greenland has been increasing: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/20/the-snows-of-greenland/

22-05-2023: I’d say so: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/how-america-has-fallen.html

22-05-2023: Now it is absolutely certain that the 2020 election was rigged, the urgent problem is to stop this happening in 2024 – then punish the evildoers: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-deputy-national-security-advisor-claims-fbi-cia/

22-05-2023: Another unexpected problem with EVs – and they’ll wear out our roads faster: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/evs-increase-pollution-heavier-cars-wear-out-tyres-50-faster-increasing-waste-and-poisonous-particles/

21-05-2023: Should you blow up your mat by mouth? This has to be one of those great hiking myths like whether you need to filter/purify your drinking water. (in most cases, No, but if you want to consider this post: Trouble With Water Filters).

Folks are convinced that the moisture (nasties?) in their breath will ruin the inside of their hiking mat so they carry an assortment of inflation bags or other devices for blowing them up.

By and large this is just unnecessary weight, like so many other things. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/20/should-you-blow-up-your-mat-by-mouth/

21-05-2023: There must be other interesting historical footage around. Maybe none from the Revolutionary War or the French Revolution but many recordings must exist of people who witnessed major C19th events. There is an (audio) recording of Truganini (the last Tasmanian) for example: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/man-born-in-1846-talks-about-fighting-in-the-civil-war/

21-05-2023: The End of Remote Work? http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-end-of-remote-work.html

21-05-2023: More BOM fakery: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/what-if-the-airport-radar-was-generating-false-record-high-temperatures-through-random-electrical-noise/

20-05-2023: Chimney dampers. Our green overlords long ago banned the sale of these in Oz but they are still available on Ebay, Aliexpress & etc (for less than $20). They allow you to use about a third less wood yet produce more heat from you wood stove. Very easy to install, just drill two holes in the pipe and assemble the damper inside it. We have recently replaced our 40+ year old Masport Logger with the newest model (<$900) and put one in the chimney pipe. The old stove came with one. You can see in the pics how well they work. For a month we were using the stove without it. Our wood usage has now dropped by nearly half a wheelbarrow full each day and the house is (more consistently) warmer. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/20/in-praise-of-chimney-dampers/

20-05-2023: These Ni Fe (Nickel-Iron - 100 year batteries) which you can use to back up your solar or wind system are available on Alibaba from approx US$165 (delivered) for 400 Ah and US$208 for 500 Ah (per 1.2 volt cell). You would need 10 to provide a 12 volt system, 20 for 24 volt, 40 for 48 volt etc. This works out actually cheaper than lead or lithium and much more reliable. Choice tested several available (mainly lithium) battery systems for six years. Only one actually lasted the six years! They did not test NiFe. The croney capitalists behind the ‘renewables’ boondoggle will not tell you about them. Not enough profit in something which never needs replacing: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1-2v-400ah-nickel-iron-batteries_1600426449731.html

20-05-2023: Just suppose we were being asked to squander billions of dollars and change all our lives because ‘scientists ‘ had installed faulty equipment: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/what-if-the-airport-radar-was-generating-false-record-high-temperatures-through-random-electrical-noise/

19-05-2023: Remembering just how wrong Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ was and the evil it did (100 million people died – at least because of it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/17/carsons-silent-spring-fails-test-of-time-new-york-times-verdict-in-2007/

19-05-2023: Something to look forward to: Wonderful load-sharing blackouts help South Africa meet its climate goals: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/south-africa-half-the-country-without-electricity-plans-power-cuts-32-hours-long/

18-05-2023: Unbelievable: https://hasanjasim.online/in-a-french-cave-15000-year-old-bison-sculptures-have-been-perfectly-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR0KNzGd8jOtdXN_YCn4tcU_jzMVXLhnU9LgGNO19gMLmABJvO_Cn21vnU0

18-05-2023: Let’s all reject the ‘welcome to country’ and ‘smoking ceremony’ b------t: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-woke-athletes-slamming-our-national-holiday-just-not-cricket/news-story/ddeca02554475e07cb4c6a22a7546feb

18-05-2023: Well who knew? I have the perfect body: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/ai-defines-ideal-body-type-according-to-social-media-heres-what-it-looks-like/news-story/407d1d557c36280c0a6eb407967f4d2f

18-05-2023: Some 'feminists' make me cross: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/perverting-justice?fbclid=IwAR32FbKow0WSSPPVmxkiAyLG8reK_fPdki5ca20t5iZroyPnme5k_dgcurI

17-05-2023: Something else for worry-worts – I wonder what it registers in beer or wine? https://ashbtop.com/products/tm?fbclid=IwAR0S-I9z-f7THPhnbgBMUKsimy43T9vwg-7JpLaiM8j6Cu-fVcXYNGsL1tQ

17-05-2023: Supercapacitors (and NIFe batteries) are apparently a ‘now’ technology for battery backup of your home or replacement battery for your car. We will chose NiFe (Edison) batteries for our home storage system as it is a proven technology which has been shown to last for around a century.This guy has an interesting site: https://micropowergrids.com.au/_Energy_Storage/Super_Capacitors/index.html

17-05-2023: You stole my dreams: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/mit-scientists-create-device-that-can-hack-dreams/

17-05-2023: Ten years ago and no improvement; nor will ‘The Voice’ bring one. As in South Africa it will only worsen conditions for everyone until the whole country resembles this. We need to all be part of just one Australia: Tony Thomas: ‘Sexually mutilated infants, toddlers raped, children sodomised, women so badly beaten they come to envy dogs. Stripped of cant and buck-passing, beyond a patronising and indulgent judiciary, remote Indigenous communities are being eaten alive by the cancers of grog, misogny and endemic violence.’ The incidents in this article are so shocking I had trouble even reading about them. What life must be like for the indigenous women and children who have to suffer such horrors is unimaginable. We MUST put an end to this. I think forced assimilation is the ONLY solution which has ANY chance of working. I mean, ‘NT politician Bess Price told the Parliament that gaol was safer for young people because there was no alcohol, three meals a day, the company of family members and language groups, and a healthier environment’: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/bennelong-papers/2013/05/when-the-horrific-is-mundane-

16-05-2023: The unreliability of renewables is just terrifying. It is incredible that otherwise sane people should promote such a disastrous ‘system’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/six-gigawatts-of-total-wind-generation-collapsed-in-16-hours-last-week-and-nobody-cared/

16-05-2023: I have always found them distasteful (at best) if not completely disgusting but they have been spreading like a plague lately. The return of the Picts perhaps. I am somewhat consoled that those people did quite suddenly disappear from history – as I hope this phenomenon will too: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/05/a-shoulder-to-crayon/

16-05-2023: Strange that it is still a world of ‘miracles’. Something defective about human intelligece that it falls for such hocus-pocus: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/vatican-investigating-possible-miracle-us-church/

16-05-2023: The big problem with going organic. Lomborg: ‘Organic agriculture’ could optimistically support 4.7 billion people – ‘Industrial agriculture’ could optimistically support 12 billion – Current global population is 8 billion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/14/lomborg-organic-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-4-7-billion-people-industrial-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-12-billion-curr/

15-05-2023: We need more Moira Deemings, not fewer: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/moira-deeming-says-shes-not-going-anywhere-in-explosive-interview-with-peta-credlin/news-story/85719918c27246ae5f45a56c15b6f2b8

15-05-2023: Who would have thought: https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/winchester-model-1894-vs-ak47/77834?fbclid=IwAR3V4fW2BpyorPTANBfUdxRBHWWEQOByLIDxzwR7v4lC6dGoYPGt_zmy0sw

15-05-2023: What Ancient Roman Sex Was Actually Like: https://getmegiddy.com/ancient-roman-sex

15-05-2023: There is no doubt that if we did not sell them India and China would have to come and simply take our resources: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/china-wants-what-we-have/

14-05-2023: The original Gidget girl – a nostalgic feast and fascinating reading: https://quillette.com/2023/05/12/the-girl-of-the-endless-summer/

14-05-2023: Hardly a frontier war: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/04/not-a-battle-not-a-war-but-definitely-defiance/

14-05-2023: The angry vegans who probably don’t mind killing people to stop them eating animals: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/world-gone-mad-now-vegan-family-respond-with-second-letter-after-their-complaints-over-a-barbecue-go-viral/news-story/53bb6b941b78e578345347c2d55e42f7?fbclid=IwAR3bLTk5TGTMmCDhzw_u4wtMRB0L8U_dW8hx8qD2DWnmzHuCWPNMj5kc3vs

14-05-2023: This is South Africa today – read it and weep all you folk who worked so hard to destroy it with your anti-apartheid & etc. It is also the future for Australia if we implement the Voice. Where will all our own‘white’ émigrés go one wonders (whilst millions of like South Africans are also desperately trying to flee from a once wonderful land): https://layoftheland.online/2023/03/29/south-africa-at-war-with-itself/

13-05-2023: “The number of whites who were enslaved by the Barbary pirates in North Africa exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that—put together. But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations, because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them.” Thomas Sowell: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/thomas-sowell-on-the-slavery-reparations-industry.html

13-05-2023: 5 bird deaths per MW per year. If we installed 50,000MW that would be 250,000 birds per year (and not counting bats as well). How many for Net Zero? “The vast majority of these dead birds will be songbirds. It is ironic that the environmental movement first took off with Carson’s “Silent Spring”, which warned about the potential extermination of songbirds.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/11/how-much-wind-killing-do-we-want/

13-05-2023: I will keep eating my lamb chops to ‘save the planet’. Thanks Jo: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/fake-meat-could-make-25-times-more-co2-than-real-beef/

13-05-2023: I suspect this lady has been dating the wrong men. Most men’s lives are much more like the bower birds’ ie spent largely caring for women and children: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/classic-first-date-stuff-what-men-could-learn-from-bowerbirds-and-their-courting-efforts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

12-05-2023: Since they have begun killing whales, birds and bats en masse & etc, I suspect it won’t be long: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/05/05/were-taking-bets-how-long-before-environmentalists-start-attacking-evs/

12-05-2023: Things are getting serious(ly evil) in Canada: https://www.frontpagemag.com/1-in-4-canadians-agree-with-euthanizing-the-poor/

12-05-2023: This sort of horror/nonsense/evil should never have been allowed to arise and should not continue. Making our society more racist (as with the Voice etc) can only make such situations worse. One Australia for all ought to be our guiding principle: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/05/glimpses-of-daily-life-in-a-remote-aboriginal-community/

12-05-2023: We have huge and powerful enemies waging a war on our right to ‘free speech’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/the-fake-hybrid-warfare-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex/

11-05-2023: At the Pillars of Hercules 5 million years ago that would have been some waterfall: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/worlds-largest-flood-refilled-mediterranean/

11-05-2023: Like to put your ‘hand’ up for this? https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/05/nih-is-looking-for-volunteers-to-study-effects-of-castration-n548550

11-05-2023: The (sinister) power of unelected bureaucrats: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/04/eu-ensures-dutch-farmers-booted-forever-from-farming-n548345

11-05-2023: Who shot JFK? This is really interesting: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/mantik-and-corsi-new-book-provides-indisputable-scientific-evidence-jfk-was-assassinated-in-a-crossfire/

However, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/rfk-jr-is-crazy.php

10-05-2023: This is both mad and bad: A Liberal Party which cannot answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’ is determined to expel one (or more) and go down further in the process: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/the-victorian-liberal-party-beyond-farce/

10-05-2023: Meanwhile Antarctica is the coldest it has ever been and hasn’t warmed in my entire lifetime (70 years) but Facebook doesn’t want you to know this (as you will see as soon as I post it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/08/facebook-censoring-the-inconvenient-truth-about-antarctic-temperatures/

10-05-2023: EVs will destroy our roads. The EV ‘revolution’ has not been well thought out. As they weigh over half a tonne more than conventional cars many structure (roads, bridges, car parks) were not designed to handle them (in such numbers): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/does-500kg-matter-heavy-ev-cars-may-break-bridges-and-car-parks/

09-05-2023: NSW was short of electricity within hours of closing Liddell – when will we come to our senses on this mad Green crusade against coal? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/30/a-couple-of-hours-after-liddell-power-station-closed-aemo-issued-a-market-notice/

09-05-2023: Back to the Stone Age? Hard to believe: https://newatlas.com/electronics/worlds-first-working-wooden-transistor-ewaste-biodegradable-tech/?fbclid=IwAR0fNAHi99MiF_c4mv9BTX9ldacX2RYxFFGYW-1RWgW4RI9c84Ek7VxKjjo

09-05-2023: Ways we should improve our democracy: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/05/02/the-peoples-vote/

09-05-2023: I still had one of these in the 1990s. The world has rapidly gone down the gurgler since: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/theres-no-gun-problem/

08-05-2023: Why do the left try to demean the astonishing achievements of Captain James Cook – surely one of the Enlightenment’s greatest heroes: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-achievements-of-captain-james-cook-are-a-story-for-the-ages/

08-05-2023: Can you believe this? The TGA has now lifted its Ivermectin ban – but not before thousands of people have died because of its decision to ban it. These people should be tried for crimes against humanity: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/australian-government-tga-lifts-ivermectin-ban/

08-05-2023: A great quote from Roger Scruton, “Vulgar relativism has no hope of surviving outside the minds of ignorant rascals…The writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” and one can hardly disagree with the author’s reasons for ‘preferring’ home schooling. Such a tragedy: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/homeschool-if-you-can/

08-05-2023: Extraordinary: ” Sea ice extent off the west coast of Svalbard in the Western European Arctic has been highly variable in spring and summer for centuries: some decades had much less ice, some decades had much more. Currently, there is more ice than was present in early May in many years of the 1600s. Amazing how useful a bit of historical perspective can be in cooling down the hot air.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/06/17th-century-documents-1970s-ice-maps-show-sea-ice-habitat-in-svalbard-has-always-varied-greatly/

07-05-2023: Meanwhile, A.I. Calculates It Will Be More Efficient To Just Let Humanity Destroy Itself: https://babylonbee.com/news/ai-calculates-it-wil-be-more-efficient-to-just-let-humanity-destroy-itself

07-05-2023: Conservatives fight back. I will try these: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/good-news-tusk-is-a-conservative-ai-a-browser-and-a-search-engine/

07-05-2023: Will UATX rescue higher education? Certainly hope so: https://www.city-journal.org/article/college-of-the-future

07-05-2023: If wishes were fishes: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dished-up-by-3d-printers-new-kind-fish-fry-2023-05-03/

04-05-2023: Meanwhile the war in the Ukraine is not going so well: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/a-view-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss-by-thomas-lipsccomb/ The Ukraine’s legitimate leader deplores Zelensky’s attempt to assassinate Putin: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-president-dimitry-medvedev-russia-has-no-choice-but-to-annihilate-zelensky-following-drone-attack-and-attempted-assassination-of-vladimir-putin/

04-05-2023: Sundown for Gordon Lightfoot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/sundown-you-better-take-care-singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-passes-away-at-age-84/

04-05-2023: Other nations have a work for welfare rule. Why don’t we? https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/why-the-whining-over-work-rules-for-welfare/

04-05-2023: Great news! https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/05/01/mind-reading-brain-scans-language/4171682958271/

04-05-2023: May Day, or ‘Victims of Communism Day’. We let it pass without even a mention. Just how many people did the Left murder in the C20th? We should include the Nazis (National Socialists) in that. Well over 100 million, likely over 150 million. Yet this dangerous ideology is till being pushed by the nation’s school teachers (and others).: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=1191

03-05-2023: A (Christian?) cult which causes is members to starve themselves to death is (rightly) viewed by most people as evil/nuts: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65423645 but a global warming/vegan cult which has the same motif is supported by the UN and the Green Left. Science is fighting back however, https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F04%2F29%2Fvegan-diet-meat-scientists-british-beef-livestock-farming%2F

03-05-2023: Is it any wonder gold is going up. Banks in the US are failing. Get ready for a bad recession. Debt will ruin you: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/us-banking-titan-jp-morgan-to-snap-up-most-of-first-republic

03-05-2023: Our BOM is trying to hide how they are cooking the temperature books. We are unique in relying on faulty (uncalibrated) temperature probes to determine how our climate is changing: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/01/bureau-cant-dodge-differences-in-temperature-data/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/why-is-temperature-data-a-national-secret-bom-still-hiding-data/

03-05-2023: World News still exists but not in the Australian media. Try these: https://www.bbc.com/news/world & https://www.reuters.com/world/

02-05-2023: Cancel Mozart: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/cancel-mozart/

02-05-2023: “No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/29/no-bricks-no-glass-no-cement-what-net-zero-2050-demands-according-to-government-funded-report/

02-05-2023: The Higgins/Lehrmann case is so fraught with injustice and political interference: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/canberras-rough-justice

02-05-2023: You don’t think the NDIS has caused this sort of thing? Think about the tiny percentage of folks who were TPI (Totally and Permanently Incapacitated – what it used to be called) after WW2 when there was an almighty reason there would be lots, as compared to today. We have had an explosion of ‘disabled’ folks (several times percentage wise) as a result of ‘investing’ in them. Do you wonder why? If you build a trough you will get pigs, as the old saw has it. In Australia today we have several million people on the government payroll (one scam or another – including the public service/s) supported by a dwindling workforce – what could go wrong? Well per capita GDP for one thing has not risen for over half a century, after increasing smartly for a century before that. The country is going down the gurgler, being consumed and ruined by the swine of various lineages: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/from-transgender-to-transable-new-trend-shows-people-are-choosing-to-identify-as-handicapped-video/

01-05-2023: Looks very like mass murder on a grand scale to me. (Fortunately we had plenty of sheep drench and malaria treatment on hand - plus zinc and Vitamin D): https://richardsonpost.com/harryo/31356/what-happened-in-hospitals-during-covid/

01-05-2023: Powering the future. Some solid data, “A telling indicator is that some 70% of people who bought an electric vehicle buy a petrol or diesel one as their next purchase… Diesel is the first pillar of civilisation; the other three are plastics, cement and steel… Thanks to Bergius’ 1931 paper we know that brown coal will yield 5.1 barrels of diesel per tonne of coal dry weight. So the 65 billion tonnes of brown coal in the Yallourn Valley of Victoria would yield 166 billion barrels of diesel on conversion.This is equivalent to 450 years at Australia’s present consumption level. Any fuel shortage that Australia experiences from here will be self-inflicted.” https://richardsonpost.com/harryo/31370/current-ideologically-push-to-renewable-energy/

01-05-2023: Is it time to ban the LQGBT flag in public places? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/time_to_ban_the_lgbt_flag_in_public_places.html

01-05-2023: All right for the Plebs! German Bundestag Admits Conversion To Heat Pump Systems For Its Own Buildings Not Possible! Yet, expects its own citizens to convert their homes beginning next year! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/29/irony-german-bundestag-admits-conversion-to-heat-pump-systems-for-its-own-buildings-not-possible/

30-04-2023: So Liddell is gone too - like Hazelwood.. AGL’s green overlords will blow it up soon. Hope you have s good store of firewood in the shed for the coming winter (as we have - and a new stove) as there are bound to be blackouts when demand soars whilst wind and solar fail: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/vale-liddell-coal-given-away-for-nothing-and-destroyed-by-predatory-capitalism-and-a-screwed-market/

30-04-2023: When you can no longer make bricks I guess you make your house out of sticks except they have also banned logging. Straw then? They are coming for farming too: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/28/brickworks-closes-west-australia-branch-cites-energy-costs-and-planning-delays/

30-04-2023: Flooding the country with new immigrants. Who wants this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/immigration-out-of-control-time-to-wake-up.html

30-04-2023: It is a sound parallel - as the original ‘Children’s Crusade’ sold the unfortunate youth into slavery and death: https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-transgender-childrens-crusade

27-04-2023: Beware the chatbots: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/01/did-an-ai-convince-someone-to-sacrifice-himself-for-climate-change/

27-04-2023: No doubt this is the Voice we should listen to: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/how-the-world-sees-albaneses-australia-and-its-voice.html

27-04-2023: How much do you really want to give up to ‘save the planet’ or satisfy your new Green overlords? Forget about cars, air travel, steak, lamb, home heating…Me, I am not willing to give up a single thing: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/absolute-zero-plan-means-no-new-normal-cars-most-airports-gone-and-half-the-beef-by-2030/

27-04-2023: Yes: “I believe more and more people are starting to feel the way I do”: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/404125.php

26-04-2023: Universal stove jack-Fit all tent stove pipes: Another brilliant and thoroughly useful post from the indefatigable Tim Tinker. I was going to have to make a stove jack myself once I perfected my tent stove and chimney, projects which I have not given up on - just that other projects are ahead of them in the queue...such as perfecting the tent! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/24/diy-universal-stove-jack/

26-04-2023: We all know they are doing this – and it is sick! Who do they think will care for them in old age? Who will love or remember them even: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12008035/The-rise-DINKs-dual-income-no-kids-Couples-shun-babies-favor-luxury-vacations.html

26-04-2023: Unlike practically all the others, Tucker actually stands for something. I think this will be very important down the track as America fights back against the tyranny which is overtaking the West: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/tucker-carsons-weekend-speech-going-viral-story-lone-brave-person-crowd/

26-04-2023: After John D Rockefeller (of Standard Oil) saved the whales (back in the 1880s by making kerosene cheap and plentiful), the Greens are once again killing them big time with their off-shore wind farms - just as they are decimating birds and bats too. Great conservationists the Greens, also destroying millions of hectares annually with their ‘National Parks’ wildfires & etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/skeptics-are-saving-whales-while-greens-lobby-for-industrial-plants-in-the-wilderness/

25-04-2023: Sacking Tucker only confirms that the Fox payout (to Dominion) was simply a signal that the Deep State had taken over Fox – and that (likely) Fox owns Dominion. With his millions of viewers per day Tucker will not be silenced. He will just take that audience to AOL or elsewhere. Seems like he, Elon and the Don are pretty much the last major stand-outs against the tyranny which is destroying the West: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/04/24/we-could-see-tucker-carlsons-split-with-fox-coming-n1689824

Something particularly dirty involved I would say. Fox probably owns Dominion through some shell company anyway. There is just too much quite hard evidence that the 2020 election (and several previous ones) were rigged against conservatives in multiple ways. The US really needs to clean up its democracy. It is a tyrannous laughing stock : https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/its-a-settlement-that-never-should-have-happened-something-else-had-to-have-been-involved-harvard-professor-and-attorney-dershowitz-on-fox-settlement-with-dominion/

25-04-2023: Big Brother will create truth. You will get this: https://summit.news/2023/04/20/tiktok-to-censor-content-that-challenges-global-warming-dogma/ Instead of this: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/40-years-of-expert-failure-new-noaa-star-satellite-temperatures-only-show-half-the-warming-that-climate-models-do/

25-04-2023: Can’t make electricity out of it; can’t make a profit out of it…Scrap it: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Wind-Power-Has-A-Profitability-Problem.html

25-04-2023: I will not ‘acknowledge country’ either. What a lot of bull: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/03/why-i-will-not-acknowledge-country/ PS: How awful that the Dawn Service in Melbourne was preceded by a woke ‘welcome to country’ segment!

24-04-2023: At last, something you can do to prevent Alzheimers: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/04/20/sleeping-aids-Alzheimers-disease/2961682008414/

24-04-2023: Snowfalls are now a thing of the past: https://reason.com/2022/04/22/after-53-earth-days-society-still-hasnt-collapsed/

24-04-2023: A flat-pack EV for US$11000. If electricity could be ‘found’ to run it this might be a ‘game changer’ for city folks: https://www.freethink.com/transportation/microcar?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2I3zXXl2uXshpEF6zjP7K_IElDbhFuJnrrLgl9yWLZywjMcndFs5tBoUs#Echobox=1682197393

24-04-2023: We are living through a complete break down of law and order. Police do no respond to thefts and break-ins any more (what good are they?) and we are largely disarmed, thus unable to protect ourselves. It is long since time that the lash and the rope were brought back. If we shortened people who sought to steal from us there would be no shortage of human spare parts, and public safety would increase very quickly: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussies_scammed_out_of_a_record_high_3_1b_in_2022

23-04-2023: A new fetish – castration. It is astonishing that young people who could not have a tattoo without parental consent can yet have large sections of their anatomy removed: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/04/13/its-time-to-recognize-and-medically-affirm-eunuchs-n543718

23-04-2023: The many lies of the covid era: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/the_lies_about_hydroxychloroquine_were_the_worst_of_the_covid_era.html

23-04-2023: Absolutely - long since time for ‘aboriginal’ Australians to say ‘Thank You’ for being rescued from an awful existence and culture, and also long since time you all stood on your own two feet and shifted for yourselves, instead of biting the hands that feed you: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/04/blunt-truths-from-an-old-bushie/

23-04-2023: 19,000 new volcanoes, yet the models correctly predict the climate? One was discovered in just 2010 that was the size of Victoria. These things churn out a lot of heat, CO2 and other stuff: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/the-science-is-settled-but-we-just-found-19000-new-volcanoes/

22-04-2023: Back to the 50s: https://donsurber.substack.com/p/desantis-wants-to-bring-back-the

22-04-2023: We were told 80% of aborigines supported ‘The Voice’. Mind you all you need to do to ‘be’ an aboriginal is identify as one. Then you get all these extra rights and perks. Maybe sign up today if you have to self-pride: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/albaneses-vanity-voice-yes-campaigns-bullshit-survey-of-aborigines-they-asked-300-.html

22-04-2023: Contrary to a century old protocol (Stevenson Screens) in the 1990s two changes were made. They changed the paint on the screens and they replaced minimax thermometers with electronic ones. They did no calibration of these two changes, calibration which had been occurring (in Australia) since the First Fleet. Independent calibration indicates that all the ‘warming’ since then is down to these two changes: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/is-climate-change-really-caused-by-electronic-thermometers-the-bom-dont-want-australians-to-see-the-data/

22-04-2023: Our Green BOM masters have just thrown away science (and history) in pursuit of their global warming religion. You pay for this (big time): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/20/parallel-temperature-data-except-for-cape-otway-lighthouse/

22-04-2023: Happy Birthday Liz: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/today-would-have-been-her-majesty-queen-elizabeths-97th-birthday-long-live-the-king.html

21-04-2023: This is just b------t. We loved this campsite. Locking us out of our own country after paying welfare for 250 years. Both have to stop: https://www.sgst.com.au/news/bear-gully-campsite-closed?fbclid=IwAR0E66ZyFNqC75gVz-JRWxM2DKTYRpngGoJ-2OF1WjxOvOTUJ72hX22PFz4

21-04-2023: Let children work – or even require that they do: https://reason.com/video/2023/04/17/let-teens-work/?utm_medium=email

21-04-2023: Should the BOM be renamed the ‘Ministry of Truth’? Honestly heads should roll over this – quite literally. Once judges (public servants) were highly paid to prevent (such) corruption, but now the corruption is endemic and is being used to control us and indeed to transform society. Back then corruption (eg of judges) was punishable by death – a sound principle. If we subtracted the warming ‘caused’ by the changes to the Stevenson Screens (size, paint, measuring device) we would end up with a world-wide cooling over the same (approx 30 year) time period: https://electroverse.info/australias-bureau-of-meteorology-caught-red-handed-cooking-the-temperature-books/?fbclid=IwAR0PDJu4ynXgMsvRrB9m1Kl5VfDU-rBrxuakJ6a3-8an21ZcRNe9AlElMq0

21-04-2023: Lidia Thorpe's father on his 'very racist' daughter. How many of the new faux aborigines are like her rather than like Jacinta Price whose mother is a full-blood and whose living grandmother was one of the very last people to make contact with European society when emerging from the Western Desert in the 1970s? Whose ‘Voice’ do we really want to hear? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/lidia-thorpes-father-on-his-very-racist-daughter.html

20-04-2023: A robotic laser weeder – what a great idea: https://carbonrobotics.com/autonomous-weeder

20-04-2023: Curing prostate caner in only one hour – bring it on: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/landmark-surgery-cures-prostate-cancer-in-under-one-hour

20-04-2023: Say ‘Goodbye’ to cheap flights: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/19/the-end-of-cheap-flights/

20-04-2023: The UN wants to decriminalise pedophilia. Do you need any further reason why we should stop funding and supporting this awful body. Australia needs to take back its sovereignty by repudiating all the concessions it has made to the UN: https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-backed-report-suggests-normalizing-pedophilia-decriminalizing-all-sexual-activity

19-04-2023: Preen: the new glyphosate for busy gardeners (Trifluralin is the active ingredient of Preen. Google it for prices cheaper than the brand name): https://www.preen.com/learn/how-preen-gardens-works/

19-04-2023: The ‘cashless society’ is sinister – just another way to control us. We should avoid it. Take paper money out and use it for all your transactions: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fbusiness%2F2023%2F04%2F17%2Fcash-becomes-less-useable-high-street-goes-contactless-boe%2F

19-04-2023: Of course EVs are ‘unfit for purpose’. They are the same as all the other Hegelian nightmares which accost us. ‘Falsifying’ everything which has traditionally been accepted as real is not a viable way forward. Many things are simply true, always have been and always will be, eg that there are two sexes, men and women. The attempt to destroy such reality is just an attack on our sanity and the soundness of our society: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/17/unfit-for-use-more-ev-woes/

19-04-2023: Looks like the climate ‘religion’ is losing its effectiveness especially amongst the young who have been most indoctrinated with it. This was also a symptom found eg in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. (Read Mitchener’s Road to Andau) Those who rebelled and took on tanks with just their bare hands were most often those who had been propagandised most with ‘the communist faith’. It should serve as a warning to those who continually seek to subvert us (‘to make the worst appear the better reason’ – as Socrates put it) that ‘the people’ can become very angry when they decide to reject their new masters en masse, and will take the law into their own hands: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/democrats-independents-and-young-americans-losing-faith-that-climate-change-is-man-made/

18-04-2023: Budweiser Replaces Clydesdales With Cows Dressed As Horses: https://babylonbee.com/news/budweiser-replaces-clydesdales-with-cows-dressed-as-horses

18-04-2023: Strangely enough if you take your dog to have a sex change they just throw you out. How can this even be legal? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gender-comedy-gold-at-the-pet-clinic/

18-04-2023: “Clearly the international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are having no obvious impact. This is unsurprising since global energy demand continues to grow faster than new sources of renewable energy can make up the difference.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/14/co2-budget-model-update-through-2022-humans-keep-emitting-nature-keeps-removing/

18-04-2023: When the workers of the world unite against wokeness: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-french-left-is-becoming-anti-woke/

17-04-2023: The Golliwog War: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/british-police-raid-pub-seize-racist-dolls-in-hate-crime-investigation-defiant-owner-replaces-dolls-and-puts-them-back-up/

17-04-2023: ‘I’ll drink to that’ doesn’t seem to apply to the trannie phenomenon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/anheuser-busch-suffers-astounding-3-billion-loss-while-bud-lights-new-brand-ambassador-dylan-mulvaney-whines-they-dont-understand-me-video/

17-04-2023: Where people live. Most of the world is wilderness: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/a-map-to-change-the-way-you-think-about-the-world/

17-04-2023: Do you want this here, “Half of Germans will no longer be able to afford a car” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/15/cars-soon-unaffordable-for-50-of-germans-expert-warns/

16-04-2023: At least Rishi knows one thing: https://www.aol.com/rishi-sunak-says-100-women-073310025.html

16-04-2023: Tens of thousands of ‘excess death’ per year in Oz and practically no-one wants to report it: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/australia-hasnt-seen-death-numbers-like-this-since-wwii/

16-04-2023: Do we really want to hand over our sovereignty to an unelected UN body clearly run by radical Marxists – after the last ‘pandemic I don’t think so: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/leo-hohmann-biden-regime-leading-all-nations-into-global-beast-system-that-would-require-compliance-with-digital-health-tyranny-enforced-by-u-n-world-health-organization/

16-04-2023: There has in fact been only half the warming predicted by the IPCC’s climate models (in forty years). This is much more consistent with the natural warming of the world just continuing to emerge from the Little Ice Age than anything else: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/14/ross-mckitrick-the-important-climate-study-you-wont-hear-about/

15-04-2023: I think we all know about this one: https://babylonbee.com/news/child-grows-out-of-carseat-before-dad-can-finish-installing-it

15-04-2023: The disappearing redheads: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/why-are-redheads-being-erased-in-media

15-04-2023: Reparations (and apartheid) are the elephants in the referendum room. Of course every self-identifying ‘aborigine’ wants to be a millionaire – without working for it. Who wouldn’t? Where do I join? Oh, wait a minute; someone has to pay. Are you really going to vote to make every (faux) aborigine a multi-millionaire? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/04/an-ambassador-for-reparations/

15-04-2023: Maybe you think witchcraft trials ended (in New Salem) in the C18th? They are alive and well in Africa – and of course here in Oz it is other beliefs which have been forbidden and demonized: people who like fossil fuel etc: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/ghanas-concentration-camps-for-witches

14-04-2023: Astonishing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/michelle-lee-first-woman-rower-pacific-ocean-solo-237-days/102193290

14-04-2023: Exercise is better than drugs – hard to believe: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/exercise-therapy-is-better-than-drugs-for-common-type-of-heart-failure/

14-04-2023: Dallying Lama - Weird old guy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/dalai-lama-issues-apology-for-asking-young-boy-to-suck-his-tongue/

14-04-2023: “Badly behaved students have no right to take away the education of others.” Well said Tom Lewis. How is it that today’s young teachers (quitting the profession in droves) do not know this: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/04/how-to-help-teachers-make-the-grade/

13-04-2023: Silnylon Deerhunter’s Tent Progress: I know I have promised the pattern and instructions (or even production and sale) of this for years following my original post about it in The Deerhunter’s Tent way back on May 12, 2016. I also realise heaps of people have made (its progenitor) their own Tyvek Solo Fire Shelter using the pattern and instructions I posted there and so are keen for an updated version…But I have intermittently ‘worked’ on it, and following my post about and invention of the DIY Ultralight Sprung Tent Pole Extension last week I thought I was pretty close. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/12/silnylon-deerhunters-tent-progress/

13-04-2023: Best Reagan joke: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ronald-reagan-joke/

13-04-2023: The (Centrelink) benefits of polygamy (call it what you will): https://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/centrelink/centrelinks-changed-polyamory-rule-offers-extra-benefits

13-04-2023: At last Germans have given up on green energy – Did anyone else really believe in it anyway? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/germans-have-given-up-on-green-energy.php

12-04-2023: Retro Ultra Light: https://firemaplegear.com/products/orange-camping-gas-lantern?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=wx-test&fbclid=IwAR3VtiR8HbnOzTc8w-jGAJl759cvIFjyhq3aPKbnWsFssjTzE-cAokkyMWo

12-04-2023: Absolutely, “The solution to the gap lies in doing what the overwhelming majority of Aboriginal people have done, abandoning segregation and becoming fully assimilated.”: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/menzies-warned-us/

12-04-2023: I will say it out loud (and risk the brickbats): the trannie phenomenon is just pure evil, Satanism for our times. There are over 6,000 genetic differences between men and women. Everyone who was ever born was one or the other. There has never been a single person born who was both. Sexual ‘dysphoria’ is a mental health condition; that is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/04/09/men-aint-women-and-vice-versa/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2023/04/how-fashionable-to-prescribe-the-cruellest-cuts/

12-04-2023: Glimmers of Light? Sure hope so: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/10/climate-hysteria-in-the-dark-age-are-we-seeing-glimmers-of-light/

11-04-2023: Better than a pack rifle? Unless you live in somewhere like Australia there is a greater choice of ultralight and miniature firearms for hunting/hiking/self-defence & etc. The magnum round packs a lot more punch though, so would be good for defence against wild dogs and to secure slightly larger game (than rabbits, possums etc. A follow-up shot would also be reassuring.The Mini Master from North American Arms at 10.8 ounces (308 grams) might be a suitable alternative.Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/10/better-than-a-pack-rifle/

Here is an example of a ring gun. It would certainly give someone a nasty shock, though they are intended more as an interesting (working) souvenir !

11-04-2023: Australia has more than reached net zero emissions, and we are in surplus, argues the nation’s leading climate scientist: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/australia-has-already-achieved-net-zero/

Has Australia warmed or cooled since European settlement? See for yourself. Go to the BOM records for Cape Otway and Wilson's Prom Lighthouse for example and then click 'Highest'. You will see that nearly all the warmest temperatures were in the C19th (and that it was by and large 2C HOTTER then than for the last 30 years). Cape Otway here: http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_stn_num=090015 and Wilson's Prom here: http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_stn_num=085096

11-04-2023: Breathes There The Man... from The Lay Of The Last Minstrel

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

'This is my own, my native land!'

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,

As home his footsteps he hath turned,

From wandering on a foreign strand!

If such there breathe, go, mark him well;

For him no Minstrel raptures swell;

High though his titles, proud his name,

Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,

The wretch, concentred all in self,

Living, shall forfeit fair renown,

And, doubly dying, shall go down

To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,

Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

11-04-2023: Will smart phones make you happy? Perhaps jusr as well for me that I have stuck to a tiny fob pocket phone which pretty much never texts or goes on the internet – thugh I confess to taking photos with it sometimes: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/the-plague-of-mental-illness-in-teenage-girls/

10-04-2023: A credo from the Funeral Speech of Pericles:

“We do not copy our neighbours but try to be an example. Our administration favours the many instead of the few: this is why it is called a democracy. The law affords equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, but we do not ignore the claims of excellence

The freedom we enjoy extends also to ordinary life; we are not suspicious of one another, and do not nag our neighbour if he chooses to go his own way. But this freedom does not make us lawless. We are taught to respect the magistrates and the laws, and never to forget that we must protect the injured. And we are also taught to observe those unwritten laws whose sanction lies only in the universal feeling of what is right.

Our city is thrown open to the world; we never expel a foreigner. We are free to live exactly as we please, and yet we are always ready to face any danger.

We love beauty without indulging in fancies, and although we try to improve our intellect, this does not weaken our will.

To admit one’s poverty is no disgrace with us; but we consider it disgraceful not to make an effort to avoid it.

We consider a man who takes no interest in the state not as harmless, but as useless; and although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

We believe that happiness is the fruit of freedom and freedom that of valour, and we do not shrink from the dangers of war.

To sum up, I think that Athens is the School of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian grows up to develop a happy versatility, a readiness for emergencies, and self-reliance.”

10-04-2023: So now it is official: around the same number of people died from the vaccine as from covid – how much suffering and death could have been prevented cheaply and easily with Vitamin D, Zinc and Ivermectin? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/vaccine-damage-300000-deaths-in-the-us-148-billion-lost-and-10-say-a-member-of-their-house-died/

10-04-2023: The futility of wind (and solar) power: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-4-1-important-new-report-explores-the-futility-of-wind-power

10-04-2023: The Decline of the West: Oxford Uni replaces St George’s Day with Eid: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/915713/

9-04-2023: Back to the future – reviving the Stirling cycle engine: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-china-stirling-orbit.html

9-04-2023: 'Envy is the emotional core of deconstruction. Its opposite is a work ethic...Aquinas notes that it befalls someone who believes that someone else’s gain is his loss. It derives from seeing the world as a zero-sum game.' Stuart Schneiderman . A very interesting article. We can become ‘our better selves’, or as Buddha notes ‘eliminate desire’ and so find happiness: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/the-politics-of-envy.html

9-04-2023: At last a real ‘climate related’ death. I’m sure many of us have wished nosey self-righteous people ‘were dead’ though most would not act on such a wish: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/07/did-a-queensland-woman-die-because-of-a-recycling-bin-dispute/

9-04-2023: The National Disability Insurance Scam – how closely it resembles the ‘National Indigenous Scam’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/pauline-hansons-please-explain-the-ndis.html

8-04-2023: The ‘Liquid Piston’ engine certainly looks like a great advance: https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/

8-04-2023: Fascinating Reflections on (a) Paleolithic Venus – as many cults inform them today as when they were created: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-sense-of-the-venus

8-04-2023: You were told FDR was not a communist: https://fee.org/articles/fdr-s-other-day-of-infamy-when-the-us-government-seized-all-citizens-gold/

8-04-2023: Why Some cancers shouldn’t be treated: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2023/04/05/why_some_cancers_shouldnt_be_treated_891881.html

7-04-2023: DIY Ultralight Sprung Tent Pole Extension: Never have your tent sag again! I mentioned this idea in my previous 1600th Post. I have been into the hardware this morning, bought a few cheap nick-knacks which will make several, and quickly constructed a couple using 19mm (3/4″) poly irrigation pipe. Took only a couple of minutes. Cost (way) less than $10 each. They weigh 20 and 22 grams for the shorter and longer versions. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/06/diy-ultralight-sprung-tent-pole-extension/

7-04-2023: Only in Qld: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230406-australian-police-seek-pair-seen-with-platypus-on-train

7-04-2023: Kel Richards is right. We need to amend Section 51 of the constitution to abolish racism forever not insert a new apartheid into it: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/to-abolish-racism-fix-the-constitution/

7-04-2023: What an excellent beginning to understanding how to ‘fix’ the education ‘system’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-devolution-of-western-teaching/

06-04-2023: 1600 Posts: Today marks my 1600th post here at The Ultralight Hiker. Quite a milestone. And time maybe to recall the last hundred or so – or roughly the last year. A year ago in February (2022) I finally ‘bit the bullet’ and had that pesky worn old left knee replaced with a shiny new titanium one. See A New Knee. Three months later ( a little early) I was trying it out on a short hiking trip into the Vic Alps something like the one in the post A River Somewhere. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/05/1600-posts/

06-04-2023: Mothers of Sons. I think it’s great that someone loves men – it’s just that it’s not the law. Coercive control laws are sinister: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/call-in-the-troops

06-04-2023: When the tyranny of the minority dominates the majority: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/88-of-germans-dont-believe-in-the-solar-and-wind-green-energy-transition/

06-04-2023: Seems like Daniels lied about having an affair with Trump anyway, but who cares who had (consensual) sex with whom twenty years ago? https://360newslasvegas.com/breaking-evidence-stormy-daniels-lied-about-trump-affair/

05-04-2023: Now you can eat mammoth – even vegans ought to approve of this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/scientists-create-lab-grown-meatball-from-dna-extinct-woolly-mammoth-to-spark-debate-about-climate-change-crisis/

05-04-2023: 152 shots fired – 6 dead. The Nashville ‘trans’ killer’s ‘score’. This is ‘normal’ for ‘amateur’ mass murderers. What remains utterly strange about Port Arthur is that the gunman there managed to shoot (dead) 19 people (in the head) in twelve seconds with just 19 rounds. Whoever did this seems much more capable than the (alleged) retarded man they have in gaol for the crime could have been. Let’s cancel the 75 year secrecy block on this event and complete the coronial inquest so we all know what really happened. It just may also be that we have held an innocent man in gaol for 25 years: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11934493/Nashville-school-shooter-Audrey-Hale-fired-152-rounds-assault-rifle-handgun.html

05-04-2023: This most inbred Family underlines the undesirability of this (culturally) popular choice in some community groups: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11931011/Inside-inbred-family-Members-Whittakers-family-BARK-people-grunt.html

05-04-2023: “It doesn’t matter how loved or respected you are – or how much you have contributed during your life. These activist ideologies are ruthless and populated by a generation that cares nothing for respect or achievement. Like the ‘Great Leap Forward’, we are watching the mass purging of reality.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/richard-dawkins-committed-the-cardinal-sin/

04-04-2023: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/massive-ocean-discovered-beneath-the-earth-s-crust-containing-more-water-than-on-the-surface/ar-AA19lg7R

04-04-2023: Recollections of My Slavery Days. “I have lived through the greatest epoch in history, having been born August 10, 1835, at Newbern, North Carolina. That was not so many years, you see, after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the winning of the Revolutionary War. But in the country of the Declaration of Independence I was born a slave, for I was a black man. And because I was black it was believed I I had no soul. I had no rights that anybody was bound to respect. For in the eyes of the law I was but a thing. I was bought and sold. I was whipped. Once I was whipped simply because it was thought I had opened a book.

But I lived to see the institution of slavery into which I was born and of which I was for many years a victim pass away. I wore the uniform of those men in Blue, who through four years of suffering wiped away with their blood the stain of slavery and purged the Republic of its sin. I met, too, that great man who led those men as their great Commander-in-Chief; he shook hands with me, yes, talked to me. I can still see his sad, tired worn face as he spoke to me that day. And in those days since I was whipped simply because it was thought I had opened a book. I have seen the books of the world opened to my race. And with the help and sympathy of God's good people I have seen them make a beginning in education. And in my old age when a nation across the seas sought to enslave the world as once my race was enslaved, I saw the boys of my race take their place in the armies of the Republic and help save freedom for the world.” https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/singleton/singleton.html

04-04-2023: It had to happen: Very first short film made entirely by AI. Pretty impressive. Even humour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dtSqhYhcrs

04-04-2023: If the police won’t act, why not DIY: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/san-antonio-man-uses-apple-airtag-to-track-down-thief-who-stole-his-truck-then-fatally-shoots-him/

03-04-2023: (Della): Nice little crop of orange pumpkins - well done Steve! We opted for a quick-maturing variety this year due to the late summer season; I suspect that my preferred Queensland Blue variety would not have ripened in time! Cherry tomatoes are producing nicely now, although the larger varieties are only going to get to the green tomato pickle stage. Fortunately we love green tomato pickles.

This harks back to my post about growing them from seed back in Spring: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/.../short-season-crops/ These guys were from Diggers and were called 'Potimarron' The 'Blue Ballet' pumkin did well too over a cold summer - and the Romanesco Zucchini were spectacular.

03-04-2023: Does AI need to be banned to protect humans from extinction? I doubt we have long to consider this: https://www.theepochtimes.com/if-we-go-ahead-on-this-everyone-will-die-warns-ai-expert-calling-for-absolute-shutdown_5163074.html

03-04-2023: Well said Alexandra. She has a fine way with words, “Imagine a generation being so stupid that they were born eating the best, cheapest food in human history and yet long for a diet of lab-grown garbage and soy-fried cockroaches so they can attain a higher social status on TikTok. Only a cult could damage people’s minds so badly.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-politics-of-hunger/

03-04-2023: No wonder we have a teacher shortage – better to get a job in a bar, “Studies in the United Kingdom have concluded that an E grade in a maths paper in the 1960s is equivalent to a B grade in 2010!” Do read on: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/let-teachers-teach/

03-04-2023: Aston & onwards: Libs, grow a pair. Forget about Labor-Lite. And blast the Greens to hell and gone: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin/peta-credlin-liberals-need-to-get-back-to-being-true-conservatives/news-story/b109d5067f96725d938c1c9aa3fd407b

02-04-2023: Best Ultralight Hiking April Fools’:

02-04-2023: Spreading Out: People need to be more widely dispersed in the back country, the very opposite of the (Nuts to) Leave No Trace folk, who have got it all wrong. I know you may not want to hear this, but please read on: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/01/spreading-out/

02-04-2023: 'Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys'. P J O'Rourke.

02-04-2023: Thanks Bettina, “We live in a society that is so busy highlighting women’s drudgery that men simply aren’t allowed to complain about being forced to work full-time all their lives to pay the mortgage, often in jobs they hate, whilst many women still have choices.” Then there’s living seven years’ less: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/women-work-harder-than-men-phooey

02-04-2023: When the junk education on offer is just not worth the cost – and kids would be much better off just working anyway: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/poll-majority-of-americans-now-think-a-college-degree-isnt-worth-the-cost/

01-04-2023: Now we know plants feel pain – it’s not just mandrakes which scream – does this mean the end for vegans? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen%2Farticle%2F3aknn3%2Fplants-make-sounds-when-hurt-scientists-confirm-and-now-you-can-hear-it

01-04-2023: T.Rex’s smile was quite different to Jurassic Park’s depiction of him: https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-rex-dinosaur-lizard-lips-teeth-e04dc630?mod=djemalertNEWS

01-04-2023: ‘Age segregation’ is not a ‘lay down misere’. For example, young people (and many others) would benefit from learning about the virtues of hard work: https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-age-barrier-and-its-costs?sd=pf

01-04-2023: Get Trump’ or ‘Get Democracy’? The coup in America is alive and ‘well’. (This should help Trump win all fifty states in 2024): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/the-one-man-the-democrats-fear/

31/03/2023: Happy 90th birthday Michael Caine: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/30/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-64/

31/03/2023: Should you be concerned that IQ is falling – I think so: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Famericans-iq-test-scores-drop%2F

31/03/2023: Has Ukraine run out of ammunition? After throwing $100 billion at them will the West now throw them under a bus? https://richardsonpost.com/andrew-korybko/30962/ukraine-is-out-of-ammo-maybe-they-should-fire-zelensky-instead/

31/03/2023: Mark Latham has never been reknowned for his tact but ‘unpersoning’him because of what is/was a perfectly normal (if somewhat graphic) view about sodomy (not so long ago a serious crime – boiling in oil in Henry 8’s time, but still gaol until a decage ago) is over the top. We should not all have to kow-tow to the homosexual lobby’s views. If we still find their behaviour and beliefs aberrant, abhorrent or plain disgusting (or even that they should be re-criminalised as happened recenty in Uganda) we should be able to say so and exhort others to avoid them as well. Freedom of speech should have precedence over whether it offends people. Everything ‘offends’ someone. People either need to toughen up or find new friends: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/30/graphic-to-be-sure-but-not-a-capital-offence/

Of course many of us would have wanted to respond (as Latham did) to being described (by the gay MP) as being a ‘disgusting human being’. People who live in glass houses: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/one-nation-mark-lathams-stunning-response-to-backlash-over-homophobic-tweet-about-sydney-mp-alex-greenwich/news-story/0f4b6eafb5ffd29ca0050654e44da767

30/03/2023: At last- something for nothing: https://blog.sciencenatures.com/2022/10/the-impossible-quantum-space-engine.html?fbclid=IwAR3UXl1b1yb95IYBjCLFWA9XQ35U4SP5L8zuVwCLUgsAZCAhTavZoCA2bDk

30/03/2023: The Perfect Ultralight Firearm: How lovely is this? A miniature single-shot .22 calibre pistol which weighs a mere 7 ounces (200 grams).Our restrictive gun laws in Australia mean that I can't have one, but one can wish. Introducing the Trailblazer Lifecard Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/30/the-perfect-ultralight-firearm/

30/03/2023: Did the BBC commission someone who hates Dickens to adapt Dickens? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/the-bbc-has-ruined-great-expectations/

30/03/2023: This might (just) work for me, “Humans to achieve immortality in 8 years, says former Google engineer” https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/humans-to-achieve-immortality-in-8-years-says-former-google-engineer/ar-AA19bs7a?li=BB122DJx

29/03/2023: Looks like Oumuamua was not Alien after all: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mysterious-space-object-oumuamua-not-alien-scientists-say-d6f2ccd0?mod=djemalertNEWS

29/03/2023: Please save us Tony. As Menzies did, create a new ‘Liberal’ Party out of the multitude of conservative groups jockeying for our vote. Enough of Labor and Labor-lite. Call it the Conservative Party. They would romp home - for decades: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/tony-abbott-weighs-in-on-nsw-election-result-saying-the-liberal-party-must-stand-for-something-and-take-its-members-seriously/news-story/643f0381a5639fe10db185e225505f01

29/03/2023: How do you think a referendum on this ‘net zero’ nonsense would go here? Would anyone except a few evil lunatic greens vote for it? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/this-is-why-we-are-not-offered-a-climate-referendum-82-didnt-endorse-it/

29/03/2023: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984.

28/03/2023: So now we know: https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/What-Makes-Popcorn-Pop

28/03/2023: Progress at last! Breaking the glass ceiling – at last (trans) women are mass murdering folks in the US: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/28-year-old-deceased-nashville-shooter-identified-audrey-hale-an-illustrator-identifies-as-transgender-included-manifesto-photos/

28/03/2023: The most mysterious thing about these petroglyphs is that if they are 8,000 years old (as claimed) how they are at sea level still: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-mystery-of-this-petroglyph-covered-alaskan-beach-180981858/

28/03/2023: “As citizens, it is our responsibility to make sure we are never again so easily manipulated into committing abuses of human rights on our peers. If the state asks us to violate every pillar of civilisation – tell them ‘no’”. Another great article by Alexandra Marshall: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/were-vaccines-a-political-treatment-for-public-fear/

27/03/2023:

27/03/2023: The terrifying danger of Putin’s hypersonic missiles: https://richardsonpost.com/alex-krainer/30930/russias-hypersonic-weapons/

27/03/2023: Aboriginal Australians oppose ‘The Voice’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/_we_are_one_australia_fair_australia_indigenous_delegation_demands_to_be_heard_in_canberra

Here’s Warren Mundine’s take on it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/warren-mundine-albaneses-so-called-voice-a-dangerous-con-job.html

27/03/2023: Wrong Again: A 'time traveler' predicts our future: Aliens will conquer earth on March 23: https://amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/03/18/6415fbfe22601da5518b4587.html

26/03/2023: Don’t buy a new computer. Solid State Drives (SSDs) are great. I transformed our two computers with these (Western Digital purchased from Amazon – approx $100 for 1Tb, $200 for 3Tb - delivered in two days) and used EaseUS to clone them, then replaced them. The old ones can still be used for back-ups. The difference in speed is just unbelievable. Better than a new computer really. You can do this yourself.

The other essential (also inexpensive) is upgrading/adding RAM. Look up the max RAM your chipset/motherboard will take and install it. It just plugs right in to the motherboard. This is also likely to costs only $50-100. System 'cleaning' software is also good. We use Norton Utilities but there are lots of others (CClean etc).

26/03/2023: ‘Organic’ mumbo-jumbo. You would have to be infantile to believe this stuff is actually good for you or for the planet: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/03/21/viewpoint-challenging-myths-organic-farming-fleeces-consumers-and-does-not-significantly-promote-sustainability/?mc_cid=78d2e2950c&mc_eid=214af8a3b7

26/03/2023: People with real Doctorates in Theology (whatever that might mean) could surely object to Ms Thunberg and Kermit the Frog being awarded one: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/24/greta-thunberg-doctor-of-theology/

26/03/2023: Sleep may be more important than food yet we have ignored the dramatic change in our sleeping ‘habits’ (and its consequences) –what could have caused this: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/a-tired-civilization-sleep-deprived-people-are-more-corrupt-lazy-deviant-apathetic-and-free-loading/

25/03/2023: Thanks Bettina: Coercive control – how the new weapon against men may backfire as women are past masters (mistresses?) at it: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/coercive-control-con-job

25/03/2023: Secrets of the Ice emerge as the Little Ice Age continues to retreat. Note that all these artifacts got there during the Middle Ages when the earth was clearly a lot warmer than it is now: https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/04/16/mountain-pass/?fbclid=IwAR2PfiIUVbYF7W6GE9jRofDU3VjXiKJrjCXgTYzLHbjLVkIA5rAAxSdAUrQ

25/03/2023: What is it with ‘Dictator Dan’ seeking (only now – after 80 years) to ban the’Nazi Party’ and all its symbols? When we had a referendum about whether Australia should ban political parties (in the 1950s) , in that case the Communist Party – not much different really – the referendum was lost because Australians believed in freedom of speech and belief, even though we had only recently fought a war against that particular ideology. At least then we got a say in it, but not now. The real way to expose the flaws in someone else’s ideology though is if there exists a free flow of ideas and discourse. Banning things only makes them more attractive without exposing them to the rigor of public debate. This is foolish. The Nazi symbol (the swastika) is to be banned as well but not the just as hateful ‘rising sun’ (Nippon) image which has been clearly incorporated in the so-called ‘Aboriginal’ flag which now flies over many of our public buildings - along wth the hateful ‘rainbow’ flag. We got to vote and have our say about those too, didn’t we?

25/03/2023: How woke are chatbots? https://notthebee.com/article/just-got-invited-to-try-googles-new-ai-chatbot-and-i-asked-it-the-same-question-about-biden-and-trump

24/03/2023: Ultralight beer for hiking: https://newatlas.com/lifestyle/powdered-beer/

24/03/2023: “Rights and liberties must systematically constrain governments, not the other way around… Women and girls are suffering in Victoria because this government cannot or will not define what a female is, and as a result every woman and every girl in Victoria has lost the right to enjoy female-only sports, female-only change rooms and countless other female-only activities. As a result, what most women would consider to be sexual harassment and indecent exposure is now legal in Victoria. As a result, there is right now at this very moment a twice-convicted male rapist housed with the female prisoners in my area in the Dame Phyllis Frost correctional facility.” Read to the end. We need more Moira Deemings, not fewer: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sicktoria/2023/03/nazis-trans-and-a-half-cocked-liberal-leader/

24/03/2023: You might think the huge swing to the ‘Farmer’s Party’ in Holland would save their food supply, but the greens are more insidious than that. Get ready to have compulsory dieting (or starvation) folks – after all we all know that the obesity ‘epidemic’ is the real problem, don’t we? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/dutch_farmers_will_probably_be_the_majority_party_in_the_netherlands_parliament.html

24/03/2023: “What sort of pollutant is it that when you remove it, everything dies.” Richard Lindzen (probably the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist) about CO2 being a pollutant: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/23/climate-change-isnt-particularly-dangerous-richard-lindzen/

23/03/2023: Just Wow! 15,000 year old bison sculptures: https://hasanjasim.online/in-a-french-cave-15000-year-old-bison-sculptures-have-been-perfectly-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR0KNzGd8jOtdXN_YCn4tcU_jzMVXLhnU9LgGNO19gMLmABJvO_Cn21vnU0

23/03/2023: Industry (union) super funds – I hope you are not expecting to retire on them. They clearly have shonky accounting practices and are being milked by the same thugs who run the unions. Can I suggest you move your funds ASAP to a self-managed fund? We have been doing so for many years. We do our own accounting and the audit plus lodgement costs us $450 per year. That is all. Every other red cent is ours. Please compare with your own fund which will be charging you several percent of the (supposed) total amount, eg 3% of $200,000 or $6000 – which would be much better in your own pocket (in the long run). This is (probably) the biggest leftie scam currently running: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/business-robbery-etc-111/

23/03/2023: Write offs. Another great feature of EVs they forgot to tell you about: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/the-not-so-sustainable-evs-that-have-to-be-written-off-after-a-scratch/

23/03/2023: Students behaving like this deserve the stick and teachers should be able to use corporal punishment to discipline them. This woke nonsense went too far long ago. Pavlov was right. Pain is a great teacher: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/nsw-teachers-association-all-talk-nowhere-when-needed.html

22/03/2023: Doubtless people who make false rape allegations have some sort of serious issue but that does not mean that their crime should go unpunished: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/stanford-worker-false-rape-claims-perjury-suspect-jennifer-gries/

22/03/2023: Yay: “A referendum proposal that would enshrine unambiguously the limiting of the power of the state over the people, would ensure that one constitutional change will get up this year. That is a referendum we can all vote yes to!” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/17/a-constitutional-change-that-we-all-can-agree-on/

22/03/2023: The Lord’s Prayer, a central tenet of Christianity for 2,000 years. Even if you are an atheist, there is so much wisdom here:

22/03/2023: Remember when as C S Lewis put it, pride was the greatest of sins, but being proud of sodomy is for me a step too far: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/20/pride-cometh-before-the-fall-into-dissolution/

21/03/2023: Flashman 200! Probably my favourite literary character: https://quillette.com/2023/03/17/a-jolly-good-scoundrel/

21/03/2023: I have to say that I fell for the line that anti-fluoridationists were nut-jobs but it now seems they were right after all (and that it dd not even reduce tooth decay): https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/03/17/blocked-govt-report-finds-fluoride-lowers-kids-iq-case-heads-to-court/

21/03/2023: While the IPCC’s AR6 continues its speil (like a fundamentalist cult) that we are all going to burn, in the real world hundreds of thousands of animals are freezing and starving to death: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/20/half-of-antelope-in-rawlins-red-desert-could-die-as-brutal-winter-hammers-wyoming-wildlife/

21/03/2023: About that ‘Nazi’ salute. Listen to what Moira Deeming says – particularly read the last paragraph: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/statement-from-victorian-liberal-mp-moira-deeming.html

20/03/2023: Do we live in (Swift’s) Laputa Land? "A fourth appeared with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, tagged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt and skin were all of the same colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of Cucumbers, which were to be put into vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He said he did not doubt but that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate." Another was engaged in “reformulating human excrement back into food.”

Sound familiar? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/18/a-simple-reason-why-net-zero-is-impossible/

20/03/2023: An ‘idyllic’ pre-European existence: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/contemporaneous-account-of-aboriginal-savage-tribal-war-and-cannibalism-in-gundagai-.html

20/03/2023: What you can do with GPT-4: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/how-to-use-gpt4-image-shows-the-world-has-changed-forever/news-story/0b7970ad1415744f7e7eb94ed6116ec6 You can try it for free: https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/users-can-now-try-gpt-4-without-going-through-a-waitlist-here-s-how-11678956604155.html

20/03/2023: Are you a ‘starseed’ or are you just bleeding nuts? https://www.sciencealert.com/people-among-us-identify-as-aliens-inside-the-starseed-phenomenon?fbclid=IwAR2e_jvdXaoTn-pPVjZUppxV_QPn_LklnF2zmu6aC8dhdW9vJevWFIofskM

19/03/2023: Way before the pyramids there was Dolmen de Soto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen_de_Soto

19/03/2023: Yes, you will be able to have gin and tonics on Mars: https://hasanjasim.online/stunning-photos-show-huge-crater-on-mars-full-of-ice/?fbclid=IwAR3hg1g6CLnnfzpiQ92ydthkeB6Tm1tBBIpDZt73wFtn8UaUL6US5JLynAo

19/03/2023: Revenge is sweet: https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-acts-of-revenge/will-morgan-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&pgid=144361577286&utm_campaign=historic-acts-of-revenge&fbclid=IwAR27klfg6hVzAOdzc0T0JsiBmUeVPvuRfS-_VoTe-KErtmGC4DdfSDjHvJk

19/03/2023: A brief guide to ‘Newspeak’. BTW: have you noticed recently the odd meme “diversity is our strength” replacing ‘Unity is strength” as if a chain was no longer “as strong as its weakest link” or that “pulling together” was worse than having a “fifth column”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/equity-language-guides-sierra-club-banned-words/673085/?utm_source=apple_news Do you remember when migrants had to pass an “assimilation” test? ie they were expected to fit into Australian society, and support themselves. I wonder if the current spate of ‘First (Worst) Nations” types had this test applied to them would any be allowed to settle/remain in Australia.

18/03/2023: Getting things ready for the beginning of ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Frolls-royce-plan-to-put-nuclear-reactor-on-moon-p3r3q5k3w

18/03/2023: Well, I can imagine some worthwhile purposes to which it might be put (defence of ‘home and hearth’ etc – of course you would have to build a chimney first) : https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/16/feds-say-wyoming-man-has-no-right-to-make-his-own-machine-gun/

18/03/2023: Understanding the difference between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ – a lesson from South Africa we’d better learn – and soon: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/the-fallacy-of-equity-south-africas-warning-to-the-west/

18/03/2023: Clive Palmer really did try to save Australians from dying of covid (and would have saved many lives if governments hadn’t banned his procedures). Now they should be charged and gaoled for ‘crimes against humanity’. So far over 20,000 Australians have died from this and how many have died or had their lives blighted by (compulsory) experimental MRNA vaccines? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/clive-palmer-donated-37m-doses-of-hcq-and-1m-for-research-and-the-australian-government-destroyed-both/ PS: I suspect if he wasn’t so fat he would have been PM.

17/03/2023: Mitchell River Overnight: We have canoed this section of river before but not as a two-day (weekend) overnight trip and not at such a low water level.

I completed this section by myself in 9 1/2 hours paddling (in a packraft) and could have shortened it by another hour if I had exited at Bull Point on Czydel’s Rd instead of Angusvale (Mitchell River National Park), meaning that a (longish) day trip is possible for this excellent section of river.

If you can exited at Scotts (don’t know whether the gate is locked), you would save another hour and avoid three closely spaced Grade 3 rapids just below Scotts (beginning with the Surprise rapid – it is). It is possible to portage all three (recommended) along the right bank. Younger people (or more water) would speed this time up even further. I am 73.

I started the trip at the Castleburn Creek confluence (about a kilometre along the Castleburn Creek Rd – just off to the right before you cross that creek on the way to Waterford). This saves several hours’ paddling as compared to beginning at Meyers Flat camp ground just before the Waterford Bridge on the Dargo Rd..

The gauge height was 1.62 on the Waterford gauge and .72 on the Glenaldale gauge, but rose slightly as I went along due to some rain the day before and overnight during he trip (to 1.64 and .77 respectively). At this height I had only to get out about 6 times (the first day for a few yards), but I scraped the bottom many more times. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/17/mitchell-river-overnight/

17/03/2023: More anti-aging. Bring it on: https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2023/03/an-arthritis-drug-mimicks-anti-aging.html

17/03/2023: Jacinta Price – some common sense in the racist mess that is ‘aboriginality’: “I am half Warlpiri and a mixture of Irish, Scottish and Welsh. My sons are of Warlpiri, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Malay, Indian, French, African, Chinese, Scandinavian and German ancestry. My stepson is half Scottish and a quarter Mauritian. They are all 100 per cent Australian…Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn’t come.”

17/03/2023: With apologies to R.M.Renfield the Dracula (Brad Stoker) character who had the same dietary obsession:

17/03/2023: The UN is just dreadful. Guterres (its head) is a mouthpiece for the most evil propaganda, this time that (conquering) Islam is the religion of ‘peace’: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/03/15/un-secretary-general-for-well-over-a-millennium-islams-message-of-peace-has-inspired-people-n1678525

16/03/2023: The Tale of a Rail: A Lewin Water Rail. Della now tells me that there have only been 146 confirmed sightings of this bird in the last 150 years! So I/we have been astonishingly fortunate. Imagine our consternation to find it tangled in the bird netting around the strawberry bed this morning! They clearly like strawberries as blue-tongued lizards do! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/16/the-tale-of-a-rail/

16/03/2023: (Maybe) a room temperature superconductor at last: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-creation-of-a-superconductor-at-near-ambient-conditions?fbclid=IwAR0gH4ea-IiiqY5Ki2Zt7kDMz7ZuNTmXCLVh6kLT1lDQsSzFLrycgriBt8c

16/03/2023: No wonder Biden wants to ban Tik Tok – are the Chinese communists behind this too? https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/critics-say-viral-trad-wife-movement-romanticizes-sexism/amp/

16/03/2023: Of course it is a religion and as such should receive no government funding or support: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/rasmussen-poll-shows-60-of-americans-believe-climate-change-is-a-religion-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-climate/

Just a few ‘for examples’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/15/climate-crisis-what-climate-crisis-part-one-the-evidence/

16/03/2023: The real problem is that most ‘education’ is just worthless – that’s why so many of the best and brightest eschew it: https://www.thecollegefix.com/associated-press-frets-about-young-adults-choosing-work-over-college/

13/03/2023: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed The Roman Republic. Fascinating reading – though maybe not as compelling as Shakespeare’s version: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fculture%2Fthat-time-a-republic-really-ended%2F

13/03/2023: Just how mad/bad are the Greens? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/greens-off-on-another-planet/

Does anyone really think they will ever build anything a fraction as great as Monash did? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/monash-betrayed/

Other countries are beginning to wake up to this green nightmare and reverse direction – will we before it is too late, or is it already? https://stopthesethings.com/2023/03/10/reality-bites-europes-wind-solar-disaster-forces-serious-reversal-on-green-transition/

13/03/2023: Can you ‘detoxify’ yourself from unwanted effects of the covid vaccines? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/dr-peter-mccullough-on-the-holy-grail-of-covid-19-vaccine-detoxification-2/

13/03/2023: Righting the wrongs of the past is impossible. Why people who never owned slaves should write checks to people who never were slaves is inexplicable.Will ‘blacks’ one day be forced to pay compensation for eating the ancestors of ‘white’ folks. We have similar idiotic (and unhistoric) nonsense here in Oz where every person became an equal citizen under the law from 26 Jan 1788 on: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/minnesotans-to-pay-reparations-for-slavery.php

12/03/2023: The search for America’s greatest hidden treasure is over – or is it? What a fascinating puzzle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/a43061508/forrest-fenn-treasure-hunt/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR39FN_lsX3dSxMMT79dAQ69lYtWSduIZnt4FWCk81jw6HNgMzy3d0144yY

12/03/2023: Some of the forces of evil at work in Ukraine: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fight-for-bakhmut-becomes-moment-of-truth-for-wagner-founder-6146583f?mod=djemalertNEWS

12/03/2023: An examination of the whole US temperature dataset shows only a .07C warming per century (clearly within the levels of instrumental error anyway). This is a wonderfully uniform temperature (clear evidence surely that the earth has a thermostat) and that we need not worry eg that ‘climate change’ is an ‘existential threat’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/11/the-us-blows-hot-and-cold/

12/03/2023: Yet we have attacks on the very ‘staff of life’ like this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/dutch-government-sends-military-trucks-and-military-gears-as-farmers-plan-the-biggest-demonstration-yet/

12/03/2023: Tough times ahead? If you remember last year several Chinese banks collapsed. Now it is US ones. I may have been right to put much of our savings into gold stocks after all: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11847965/Financial-markets-brace-following-Silicon-Valley-Bank-death-spiral-bank-stocks-50.html

11/03/2023: Charles Kingsley was right. Imagine finding one of these in your garden. A Lewin Water Rail. We admit the garden has become a bit overgrown, but we also suspect the fox-proof fence is helping make a haven for various unusual critters. I was slashing some umbrella sedge which had becomes a little too enthusiastic when this little guy scuttled out and went to hide in the asparagus patch. It is only the second one I have ever seen. “No-one can say water-babies don’t exist because no-one has ever seen one not existing.”

11/03/2023: Rare Cat Found Living On The Tallest Mountain In The World: https://www.beautyofplanet.com/rare-cat-found-living-on-the-tallest-mountain-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR3Ot1H1goTfd7gdZAJcXp0W3p9bZL9bj1qxlnPLv099_43XxjNUyOGQmhI

11/03/2023: If you have trouble walking this may help: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershell/one-horsepower-ai-exoskeleton-powers-your-everyday-adventure-0?ref=8ett9x&utm_source=jellop&ja=jcf&utm_term=013.jcf&utm_content=Hypershell-VD01&utm_medium=facebook&utm_id=fb&utm_campaign=WjI1aFBTUWtKR2R1ZGowa0pDUnZZVDBrSkNSMmVUMGtKQ1IyY0dsdGVYUjFQU1FrSkdSNVBTUWtKSGh2WVQwa0pDUnphSEp0ZVQxTmIzcHBiR3hoTHpVdU1DQW9WMmx1Wkc5M2N5Qk9WQ0EyTGpFN0lGZHBialkwT3lCNE5qUTdJSEoyT2pFd09TNHdLU0JIWldOcmJ5OHlNREV3TURFd01TQkdhWEpsWm05NEx6RXhNQzR3SkNRa0pDUWtaSGx6ZVQweU1EQWtKQ1FrSkNSeVl6MHhOamM0TkRnMU1qYzBPVEkxTG5WamVISWtKQ1E9

11/03/2023: How far can you go with libertarianism: https://thepostmillennial.com/sex-positive-fat-activist-says-men-with-rape-kink-should-be-able-to-pay-to-drug-consenting-women

11/03/2023: Just when you thought men might become redundant it is women’s turn: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/scientists-in-japan-create-mice-by-using-two-fathers/

10/03/2023: The legend of a ‘lost white tribe’ in Central Australia gets some further credence from Les Hiddins, the ‘Bush Tucker Man’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2023/03/were-there-dutch-castaways-in-central-australia/

10/03/2023: The EPA is also unfit for purpose. All it really does today is crusade for green causes and enhanced authoritarianism. Here’s a case in point. Another is the nonsense crusade against gas stoves: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/09/pm2-5-mass-killer-or-mass-fraud/

10/03/2023: I think I will just go and eat worms: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/05/cinderella-citizens-ard-public-broadcasting-expects-regular-germans-to-eat-worms-live-in-squalor/

10/03/2023: During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine’: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President

09/03/2023: Who’d have thought – a 3D printed space rocket blasts off: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/worlds-first-3d-printed-space-rocket-is-ready-for-launch/

09/03/2023: Islands are dynamic things. They have been robust for a very long time (like corals): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/1000-pacific-and-indian-islands-are-not-shrinking-due-to-climate-change/

09/03/2023: As Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut appear to falter Biden seems to be ramping us up for WW3: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/is-nato-bluffing-or-is-it-beefing-up-forces-to-back-a-ukrainian-offensive/

09/03/2023: Nick Cater in The Australian: “In a normal world, a rise in the export price of coal from $US80 a tonne in January 2021 to today’s price of about $US300 a tonne would have been a signal for the finance markets to invest in new mines, railways and wharves. Yet almost no such investment has been made….

Potential investors, including the big banks, are sinking money instead into the utopian dream of greening the grid and electrifying everything, a project that will cost between $US3 trillion and $US4.5 trillion incidentally, according to a 2022 study by McKinsey.

An ESG rule for super would potentially free up a lazy $3.3 trillion more to be thrown at that project. The 15.6 million Australians who own that capital might or might not think that to be a good thing. Under a government intent in removing their agency, they may find it difficult to object. As Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said, the government’s concern is the health of the hive, not the bees who made the honey.” Sheer bloody lunacy.

08/03/2023: Wings Over Fiordland: I have written about this wonderful airline, Wings And Water before. For our 50th anniversary we just had to have a flight into Supper Cove (since we did not quite make it on our walk) and a tour of Dusky Sound and some other beautiful fiords: Breaksea, Dagg, Doubtful, etc.

The flight took approx 2 1/2 hours and cost around $500 each (for five people), though I suspect Kylie gave us a discount as being long-term return customers. Well worth it though whatever the cost, believe me. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/08/wings-over-fiordland/

08/03/2023: I now have two new eyes. I chose these lenses: AcrySof IQ Vivity® IOL because they give both distance and excellent intermediate vision with the ability to read things on the computer or held at arms length. I have some excellent folding reading glasses which clip onto your pocket for reading. The eyes are still settling down – I am less than a week out from having the second one done, but I can certainly say that it was a good decision. I have better all-round vision than I have had for years and can now see where I am putting my feet down on difficult ground very clearly. I can also see in rain and humid conditions without that nightmare of having one’s glasses fog up. I am now also back to having better than 20:20 vision, which is great: https://www.myalcon.com/international/professional/cataract-surgery/iols/vivity/

08/03/2023: Is the mammoth on the way back? https://www.beautyofplanet.com/28000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-cells-brought-back-to-life-by-scientists/?fbclid=IwAR3mGOdMxnCwIJS1s8ULGlTV_pYDASv7TPlAzFtf_iPJbFmCDcHVFaM4ON8

08/03/2023: Are EVs evil? I think the answer is, ‘Yes’: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/03/02/its-time-to-admit-it-evs-are-evil/

08/03/2023: Just in case you don’t think the ‘deep state’ is running America. Police instigated and assisted the Capitol ‘insurrection’. Just up the street Trump held a rally of 500,000 people without any violence. And Tucker airing the footage that proves this is described by the Left as an ‘attack on democracy’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/89869/

07/03/2023: Remembering Auden: https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-w-h-audens?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=106264168&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

07/03/2023: Welcome to degrowth communism. “I used to think Communism, with its famines, purges and abuses, was probably the worst system of government which could be inflicted on people. Now I know better.” Perhaps you can see how this pernicious ‘theory’ has already infected the woke classes. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/05/degrowth-communism-green-communism-whose-explicit-goal-is-destroying-the-economy/

07/03/2023: More negatives re the ‘absent father’ syndrome – and same sex marriage: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/06/some-thoughts-on-mothers-drag-queens-trans-groomers-grooming/ PS: If we had a true referendum about this today I doubt it would be passed.

07/03/2023: Our BOM is simply not fit for purpose. Anyone 40 or older can remember how much colder it was in the 80s, then how much hotter in the 90s and now how we haven’t had a summer for three years – yet the BOM manufactures ‘the hottest year ever’ every year. The satellite records show practically no change over the average temperature during all that time (+.08C of one degree). Indeed the last ten years it has been cooling: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/just-another-warm-summer-day-made-to-look-like-hell-on-earth/

06/03/2023: It is not just Britain which is committing national suicide: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/immigration/2023/03/the-suicide-and-conquest-of-britain-revisited/

06/03/2023: Lies, damned lies and politicians: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/05/lying-occasionally-or-for-all-seasons/

06/03/2023: Where will the materials for the ‘green revolution’ come from – mining the sea perhaps? https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/hidden-costs-ecological-realism-and

06/03/2023: Good luck with our being able to defend the country: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fmore-75-americans-aged-17-24-arent-fit-military-service-dod

05/03/2023: Can China survive demographic change? https://financialpost.com/news/economy/china-lost-40million-workers-3-years

05/03/2023: The Federation Cross – Spot On Viv: https://australianclimatesceptics.com/?p=805

05/03/2023: The woke war on the world’s food supplies: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kenya-gmo-approval & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/farmers-blockade-eu-capital-to-fight-fertiliser-restrictions/

05/03/2023: Democracy has declined so much that even the dead and the brain dead are ‘representing us’. This may not be far from the truth. I suspect the public has declined similarly. The problem is not exclusive to the US. Our leaders in Oz, Albo and his rat-faced understudy Bowen are not much better: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-fetterman-is-not-well/

04/03/2023: Seems very unlikely that Russia (or the foks on the ground there) will ever give up Crimea. Instead of escalating the war with more and more munitions (and deaths) a workable solution which does not inexorably drive Russia into the Chinese camp needs to be worked out. Russia needs to ne on ‘our’ side. There are two great enemies of civilisation (presently): socialism/communism (and its guise of environmentalism) and Islam. Let’s focus on that before we have another World War which just leaves these more powerful (as WW2 did): https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/msnbc-reporter-goes-crimea-shocks-viewers-telling-truth

04/03/2023: Who knew? A ‘cure’ for homelessness – likewise many similar socially undesirable traits I am willing to bet: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/a-must-read-for-democrat-mayors-how-one-ca-republican-mayor-eliminated-homeless-population-in-his-liberal-state-video/

04/03/2023: The electric car ‘market’ collapses: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/free-market-squeals-subsidies-end-and-electric-vehicle-sales-collapse/

04/03/2023: There goes that pain in the back! Bring it on soon, Please: https://newatlas.com/medical/single-injection-chronic-lower-back-pain-relief/

03/03/2023: Alan Moran does a good job of calling out the hucksters and shamans of the environmental movement - as well as putting it in an interesting historical context. As I have said a hundred times, there is not a scintilla of evidence for this bizarre cult: https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/02/climate-change-short-on-proof-drowning-in-nonsense/

03/03/2023: “Media, Education System Are “Racist Against Whites And Asians” Scott Adams didn’t get away with saying this obvious truth. Let’s see how Elon Musk fares: https://www.weaselzippers.us/489039-elon-musk-media-education-system-are-racist-against-whites-and-asians/

03/03/2023: What is Andrews on - raising the age of criminality. Thugs of 10-14 know they are doing wrong. Five year olds know they are doing wrong. All this will do is increase the size of and worsen the criminal classes. We should bring back corporal punishment. Here’s a similar example: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/update-florida-student-who-viciously-beat-unconscious-teacher-over-nintendo-switch-will-be-charged-as-adult-was-arrested-three-times-for-battery-in-2019/

03/03/2023: The Mandela Legacy – this is the future the Left wanted. Do you want it for Oz too? It is coming if we don’t wake up: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1629707620792582146.html

02/03/2023: So long ago already: the Soviet Union ended on Australia Day 1991, 32 years ago – yet (listening to the Labor Party, Greens etc banging away in Parliament) I realise so many on the Left still hanker for just the same old class warfare and the same old commie notions that held over half the world in slavery for 70 years – and still enslave China!

02/03/2023: ‘Just trust the science’, they said: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkgap/scientists-now-want-to-create-ai-using-real-human-brain-cells

02/03/2023: This story of John Franklin is much like the lives of so many ‘aborigines’ I grew up with in the Hunter Valley and Northern NSW, ie of hard work, acceptance and assimilation. Re-inventing the past and inventing its many ‘injustices’ is never the way forward for a peaceful, prosperous nation. My best friend at primary school was an ‘aboriginal’ boy named Roy whose memory I cherish to this day. After an afternoon playing in the mud on the riverbank no-one could have told which one of us was the ‘aboriginal’ – and no-one cared. His father and mine both worked (as fettlers) on the railway or timber-getting in the nearby forests. We all attended the local school and whatever social events were available: dances, open-air cinema, hunting and fishing, the local show etc. There was no discrimination – we were all just Aussie kids growing up in our ‘sunburnt country’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/identity/2023/03/a-family-heritage-overpainted-with-ochre/

02/03/2023: A huge increase in death and disability amongst the young. Seriously disturbing stuff. We have so far lost over 20,000 people to covid most of them unnecessarily if only sensible health measure as in India had been applied. Now, how many are we losing to the MRNA vaccines? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/its-the-greatest-crime-scene-in-history-for-the-first-time-the-healthy-employed-are-worse-off-than-the-unemployed/

Those excess deaths are up 43%: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-by-ed-dowd-society-of-actuaries-excess-death-numbers-released-for-december-in-age-group-under-44-number-is-43-higher-than-expected/

01/03/2023: There is an interesting critter called ‘rubisco’. It’s not a biscuit. It’s not even a critter either really, just the most common protein on the planet. It’s made by ‘chloroplasts’ which are not some evil chemical fluoridationists add to the water supply but just the most common photosynthesis factories on the planet. If these two interestingly named things (rubisco, chloroplasts) did not exist, there would be no life on the planet and we would not be here arguing about whether they can or can not transform a little more CO2 into useful things to avert the great heat death which awaits us all - if you believe some panicky chicken-little folks!

01/03/2023: Fair point – the ‘global warming that wasn’t (global): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/27/non-global-warming/

01/03/2023: I am so over the gender wars. I have never been a ‘bad man’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/the-sin-of-masculinity/

01/03/2023: We suspected this all along: https://babylonbee.com/news/confirmed-resurrection-was-complex-april-fools-day-joke-that-got-disciples-tortured-killed

28/02/2023: Before you go stir crazy at this, let me tell you that a year ago I ‘cured’ a sheep of a cancer which had always killed them before every time with fenbendazole, a cheap sheep worm drench which has been around most of my life. I am about to start on another one today. If/when I get it I will be drenching myself in the same way. Costs about 20 cents a day and certainly won’t do any harm anyway: https://veryvirology.substack.com/p/curing-the-incurable-cancer

28/02/2023: For a year now we have been led towards WW3 over the Ukraine but it still seems like the baddies vs the baddies to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7I5mrWipls

28/02/2023: Meanwhile, for the first time in 100 years it is snowing in Saudi Arabia - gotta worry about that coming Ice Age folks: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/it-is-snowing-in-saudi/

28/02/2023: Bettina on Higgins: ‘evasive, unco-operative and manipulative’. This woman should not have been handed millions of our dollars without evidence and a verdict. Similarly Lehrmann deserves a chance to be exonerated: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/evasive-uncooperative-and-manipulative?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=448263&post_id=103978759&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

27/02/2023: Mushrooms will save the world: https://www.theverge.com/23610087/mushroom-plastic-waste-research

27/02/2023: We are running out of oppressed classes in need of saviors, so apparently, we must expend every more effort to find people to save: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/02/23/a-major-civil-rights-victory-that-will-change-america-forever-n532630

27/02/2023: Should there be government funding of public education? It is a good question. Ask yourself how much food would cost if its production, distribution etc was a owned by the government. There would be mass starvation. I think everyone realises this. What then are the advantages of having education, health, welfare, defence etc in public hands? Surely the outcomes would be better if they were all managed privately and government shrank enormously? https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/02/is-it-time-to-defund-public-education/

27/02/2023: The CO2 Scam. I just hope you realize that there has not been a single shred of real evidence for this (false) hypothesis – but vast amounts of evidence that it is false. Just the fact that during multiple ice ages the CO2 level was higher than it is now should be enough to wake you up: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/jo-nova-wins-the-dauntless-purveyor-of-climate-truth-award-2023/ & https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/former-reuters-science-writer-slams-climate-hysteria-promoted-by-todays-media/

26/02/2023: Beware super-massive runaway black holes: https://www.livescience.com/runaway-black-hole-the-size-of-20-million-suns-found-speeding-through-space-with-a-trail-of-newborn-stars-behind-it?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=livescience&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2N0_q2Cpqh8Q8TBHYOzCA5NG2L3v5AKqTByK0LRZaNnwQNTxgrSJUQ0oo

26/02/2023: Just when we are absolutely certain CO2 is not responsible for ‘global warming’, instead is an enormously beneficial gas (to life) and that natural gas is largely abiotic and ubiquitous so that all our energy problems are ‘solved’ for pretty much all time, we decide to destroy our economies and societies by banning both. I guess this is what happened to the Ja’ins a few thousand years ago when they decided that it would be ‘wrong’ to eat anything living…

26/02/2023: Words women use – I think maybe this guy understands women better than I do: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/38419-Words-women-use.html

26/02/2023: P.J O’Rourke was just great. He went missing a year ago today, eg “The poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can’t be eliminated by punishing people who’ve escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn’t work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it’s warm there in the winter.”: https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/24/remembering-p-j-orourke/

25/02/2023: The triumph of the autochthons: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/02/today-nearly-half-billion-people.html

25/02/2023: What do you suppose ‘commendable’ means then: https://wirepoints.org/not-a-single-student-can-do-math-at-grade-level-in-53-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-30-schools-wirepoints/

The same trend here: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/strict-school-discipline-will-give-aussie-students-the-best-chance/news-story/3136f894d7d6a0ca51d04bb0701fbba2

25/02/2023: It probably will kill you but who would eat it anyway when there is lamb? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/are-they-trying-to-kill-us-lab-grown-meat-backed-by-bill-gates-has-cancer-cells-and-could-cause-other-scary-health-issues/

25/02/2023: But why not give it a shot? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-skin-rotting-drug-is-literally-turning-drug-users-into-zombies/

24/02/2023:

24/02/2023: Whether they are ‘gravity batteries’ or some other kind, intermittent energy storage will never keep up with continuous energy demand. If you don’t want carbon emitting energy you simply have to use nuclear. It is the only current feasible option. Wind-up toys no matter how big will not cut it: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Could-Gravity-Batteries-Win-The-Energy-Storage-War.html

24/02/2023: “Healthy soil, the underpinning of civilization throughout history, is created in interaction between grazing animals and soil microbiology. Peer-reviewed research from Rodale has shown how regenerative agriculture can sequester more carbon than humans are now emitting”: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/the-ecologist-who-says-we-need-huge-herds-of-cows-and-sheep-to-stop-desertification/ Has to be better than shooting 14,000 elephants anyway – besides I like lamb.

24/02/2023: We must reject this utterly undemocratic (and racist) ‘Voice’. Who does it represent, how will representatives be chosen anyway, and why should they have control over the vast majority ‘s democratically elected representatives? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/the-voice-will-almost-certainly-have-the-power-to-block-the-government/news-story/4881474896302fb00a5cbd4b3f8e1ff3

23/02/2023: Paperless. For how long has this been a weird green dream? Soon we are to find out as Victoria’s largest paper mill is set to close due to not having any native timber to make paper from. All the native timber is now needed to fuel massive (one million acre plus) wildfires. Over 150 years of careful forest management has ended. ‘Apres moi le deluge’ as the saying goes – as if Andrews was a Frenchman. Many other (good) things are also ending (such as reliable energy, financial responsibility…we are drowning in woke bullshit. We are in for very tough times which will probably (as the history of the Weimar Republic shows) result in something far worse before things get better again. All this because of a tiny minority of greenie (communist) saboteurs. I have said for forty+ years that there needs to be an open season on these types. Such a day will come.

23/02/2023: Jeanne Calmert took up smoking at 112. It only took ten years to kill her: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/longevity-expert-3-reasons-the-worlds-oldest-person-lived-to-122.html

23/02/2023: More neat tricks from the Clinton team. (You would have to say this compares favorably with the Victorian woman who was supposed to have suicided by shooting herself twice in the head). Someone may have stolen the gun: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/arkansas-police-rule-suicide-in-death-of-clinton-aide-found-hanging-from-tree-with-shotgun-blast-to-chest-despite-no-sign-of-gun/

23/02/2023: It didn’t work. I wonder how data would compare Novavax ad Ivermectin treatment to what was forced on everyone? “If the entire medical system were a mafia cabal designed to create Pfizer profits by banning cheap drugs and useful tests, while guaranteeing indemnity in secret contracts and forcing drugs on people who didn’t want them, what exactly would our Minister of Health have done differently?” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/18-months-too-late-natural-immunity-is-almost-as-good-as-vaccination-except-when-its-better/

22/02/2023: I long since had enough of perversion and have called it what it is for many years no matter whether my views are stigmatised or criminalised. No amount of force will turn good into evil – or the reverse.: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/02/21/perversity-under-liberalism/

22/02/2023: A Doubtful Deluge: Milford vs Doubtful Sound? Which is your favourite? The road to Milford is one of the most wonderful in the world I’m sure, and there is no doubt that Sound is the more famous, but for my money the Doubtful beats it hands down, and if you can manage a trip there the Dusky beats it too!

We were ‘lucky’ enough to be ‘cruising’ the Doubtful on a beautiful rainy day. This drove most of our fellow travelers indoors, but Della and I relished the rain out on the deck. This deluge transformed the whole Sound into a million waterfalls. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/21/a-doubtful-deluge/

22/02/2023: Solar-powered lighter. Forget the BIC. These guys have lighting a fire (or even a cigarette) covered: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solis-x-world-s-first-solar-rechargeable-lighter#/

21/02/2023: Canoeing the Hollyford 21/02/2023: Canoeing the Hollyford: There are many wonderful sights along the Milford Rd. This trip we witnessed some intrepid whitewater canoeists. I thought I had done a lot of whitewater work - but not like this.

The guy reckoned this was Grad 3+. I beg to disagree. I have canoed a lot of Grade 3 water in Oz but it was nothing like this, which has to be Grade 4/5 I think.

They were doing an approx 12 minute trip down from the viewing/parking point by the river above the Hollyford Rd (Gunns Camp) down to Marian Creek on that Rd. Read More (and watch the video): https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/21/canoeing-the-hollyford/

21/02/2023: The Irish are wimps: https://headlinereporter.com/2023/02/irish-man-died-after-being-attacked-by-chicken/?utm_source=rm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=em

21/02/2023: Stem cell transplantation cures HIV: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11772327/Man-CURED-HIV-D-sseldorf-patient-virus-free.html

21/02/2023: Indisputable evidence covid was around in 2019 – so where exactly did it come from, who made it – and why? https://billricejr.substack.com/p/early-spread-evidence-in-one-document

21/02/2023: Is Snowy 2.0 the greatest Green disaster ever: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/snowy-2-0-could-win-prize-for-most-globally-stupid-green-engineering-project/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/02/20/the-debacle-of-snowy2-0/ Remember it is costing (much) more than several coal or nuclear plants which would deliver several times the electricity constantly for 50+ years and at a fraction of the cost per kilowatt hour. NB: We have Turnbull (& Rudd) to thank for the hopeless NBN too.

20/02/2023: Alas that O’Rourke is no more: "The Free Market Is a Bathroom Scale

The free market is the greatest repository of our freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom we exercise most often and to the greatest extent. Freedom of speech is important—if you have anything to say. I've checked the Internet; nobody does. Freedom of belief is important—if you believe in anything. I've watched reality TV and I can't believe it. Freedom of assembly is important—if you're going to an assembly. Most people are going to the mall. And, at the mall, they exercise economic freedom.

The free market is not a creed or an ideology that political conservatives, libertarians, and Ayn Rand acolytes want Americans to take on faith. The free market is simply a measurement. The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. Liberals and leftists think we can.

The free market gives us only one piece of information, but it's important information. We ignore it at our peril, the way the leaders of the old Soviet bloc did. They lost the cold war not just because of troops or tanks or Star Wars missile shields. Even Reagan and Thatcher couldn't win the cold war by themselves. They needed allies. And the allies were Bulgarian blue jeans. The Soviets lost the cold war because of Bulgarian blue jeans. The free market was attempting to inform the Kremlin that Bulgarian blue jeans didn't fit, were ugly and ill-made, and nobody wanted them at any price. People wouldn't wear Bulgarian blue jeans—literally not to save their lives. But the Kremlin didn't listen. And the Berlin Wall came down".

P. J. O'Rourke. Excerpt(s) from ‘Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards’

20/02/2023: A good news story about gun ownership: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/el-paso-mall-shooter-stopped-cold-bystander-pulls-weapon-fires-police/

20/02/2023: How woke can you get? https://www.outono.net/elentir/2023/02/13/the-spanish-government-legalizes-bestiality-and-imposes-prison-for-injuring-a-rat/

20/02/2023: Imagine if you fled one totalitarianism only to discover another. “At Columbia University they were literally saying that all the problems that we have is because of capitalism, because of white men, and the solution for all these problems is a communist revolution in the name of equity.” North Korean defector, Yeonmi Park: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/north-korea-defector-compares-woke-education-in-america-to-regime-she-escaped/

19/02/2023: People are failing the AI ‘mirror test’. This is not quite what you might think it is, but on the other hand I wonder how many real people could not prove they were sentient: https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test PS: Only this morning Della received a ‘compilation’ from Google Photos of ‘water fountaining’. Google’s AI had put together a host of photos of us with waterfalls etc – which it clearly recognized, all by itself.

19/02/2023: As Tucker points out our constitution prevents our government from having (or establishing) a religion – but that’s just what the ‘climate cult’ is. We need to urgently push back against this nonsense: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/18/tucker-carslon-the-climate-cult-has-grown-stronger/

19/02/2023: Back in the 1930s there was a board game about how to turn your country into a communist ‘utopia’. None of this stuff ever dates. I have just re-read Michener’s ‘The Road to Andau’ about the Hungarian ‘Revolution’. I think you should too. (I found a ‘free’ copy on a torrent site). I had (almost) forgotten how awful the Soviet ‘system’ was – and how enthusiastically 99% of Hungarians rejected it (to their great loss! I don’t know whether you remember the Melbourne Olympics water polo match, but I do.) Yet today we are rushing to just the same state control (of everything) in Australia and many other countries as the soviet system exemplified. For example it is already illegal to express a divergent opinion about many cherished communist ideals - racism, sexism, the environment, etc. Don’t believe me? Try posting about how you disagree with homosexuality on social media! https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/toward-soviet-america-board-game/

19/02/2023: What an extraordinary poll! ‘We the people’ need to take back our countries. We need to be the government and have much less government. The sooner the better: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/half-of-americans-believe-the-media-is-trying-to-mislead-them-and-the-people-running-the-usa-are-unknown-to-voters/

18/02/2023: A Taste of the Kepler Track: Undaunted by our (unsuccessful) fiftieth anniversary foray on the Dusky a couple of days later we decided to give the Kepler Heli-Hike a try. It involves a (claimed) 3 1/2 hour walk down from the Luxmore Hut to Brod Bay on the Western shore of Lake Te Anau (pretty accurate - for us anyway) as well as a helicopter ride from Te Anau to a peak a little further up the range (from Mt Luxmore) before landing at the hut to begin the walk. The walk culminates in a water taxi ride back to Te Anau instead of another 3+ hour walk. The cost was NZ$325 per person. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/18/a-taste-of-the-kepler-track/

18/02/2023: We need more old men: https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-power-of-old-men

18/02/2023: Ah, the rubber! Hat’s off to ‘The Bed Sitting Room’: https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/im-sexually-attracted-to-objects-and-i-make-out-with-balloons/

18/02/2023: Maybe Biden did shoot down a ‘party balloon’ but how long before a passenger jet hits one of these? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/did-the-us-air-force-just-use-an-f-22-fighter-jet-and-a-sidewinder-missile-to-destroy-a-13-hobby-balloon/

17/02/2023: Dusky Track 50th Wedding Anniversary Walk: Della has covered much of this ground already (on Facebook) but I have a few snippets to add (and a link to my hiking blog): https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/17/dusky-track-50th-wedding-anniversary-walk/

17/02/2023: If I have seemed somewhat quiet (since our return from Fiordland) I have been getting new eyes (well, one so far). Two days in I can now see things (with my new left eye) which have been invisible for years. How I look forward to being able to walk in humid rainy conditions without my glasses fogging up so that I am (was) walking blind.

17/02/2023: I have to agree with Michael de Percy, they need to open a ‘philosophy factory down the road’ or as Heraclitus put it, ‘It is weariness upon the same things to labor and by them to be controlled.’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/on-labors-heraclitus-the-fragments-of-socialism/

17/02/2023: The BOM has been faking the temperature data for decades to hype their ‘global warming’ fantasy: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/15/hyping-maximum-temperatures-part-6/

15/02/2023: You heard how around half the current ‘aborigines’ who demand a ‘voice’ (aka control of our country) are recent fakes? The other half are mostly simply older fakes, the likes of Michael Mansell etc whose 1/32nd ‘heritage’ is almost certainly less than yours or mine. ‘One continent, one nation’ was what our founders in 1901 had in mind, a good enough notion for the next couple of hundred years too: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/30509/300000-fake-aboriginies-rorting-exorbitant-black-privillage/

15/02/2023: You heard too that it was the ‘Deep State’ which blew up Nordstream? Let’s hope that this is not like the ‘Phoney War’ which was the precursor to WW2: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/the-us-cia-blew-up-nord-stream-an-act-of-war-bombshell-broken-from-a-blog/

15/02/2023: Long since time everyone gave up on this ‘climate’ nonsense and went back to enjoying life: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/02/14/the-climate-scare-narrative-continues-to-collapse/

15/02/2023: It had to happen, but you go first: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/yale-professor-mandatory-mass-suicide-of-elderly-a-solution-to-japans-rapidly-aging-society/

30/01/2023: What kind of pill should you take – I choose the white pill: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/29/take-the-white-pill/

30/01/2023: NASA has reignited its nuclear propulsion rocket system it cancelled with Omega decades ago: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-nasa-nuclear-rocket-plan-aims-to-get-to-mars-in-just-45-days?fbclid=IwAR3slVtRk0ONpaShEauzboR__ZxtL-dMyuwTYDnSkPpWuIxm4BUuTW9r0sg

30/01/2023: Will the public ever see a ‘No’ case? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/voice-referendum-doomed/

30/01/2023: Eagles are probably incapable of learning to avoid wind turbines: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/28/guardian-google-are-not-trying-hard-enough-to-censor-climate-deniers/

29/01/2023: Interesting New Windscreen: A reader drew my attention to this interesting piece of parallel evolution. The X-Boil is a roll-up windscreen very similar to my roll-up titanium stove which I posted about here a year earlier than the X-Boil. I made later modifications to it in pots here and here, though until last week when Craig alerted me to it I had never heard of X-Boil. I have copied the photo of it from their site - I hope they don't mind - I don't speak (or write) German.

It has an interesting button-loop closure which is another solution to the hook and eye type ‘chimney’ closure I finally settled on. I think the latter has perhaps slightly less ‘give’ in it which may be preferable in the field.

X-Boil has come up with some added ventilation options (which Craig seems to think mine needs), though I have not as yet found this myself. I have to congratulate X-Boil on the modification to the upper edge which allows for the use of a frypan. This is an outstanding idea. As a keen Ultralight Fisherman I wholly endorse this change and will incorporate it in my next model. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/28/interesting-new-windscreen/

29/01/2023: Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM

29/01/2023: How well do these Nato tanks measure up – and will they need to send nukes next? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11674247/M1-Abrams-tank-vs-Leopard-2-Challenger-2-differences.html

29/01/2023: It had to happen: Denmark calls for mandatory military service for women: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.straitstimes.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fdenmark-calls-for-mandatory-military-service-for-women

28/01/2023: Garden Doings: (Della) We often see satin bowerbirds in the garden at fruit-ripening time, but yesterday gave us a special treat: I discovered a hesitant fledgling bowerbird that had been separated from his frantic mother by a flock of noisy cockatoos wheeling overhead. Mum was flying about and calling from a nearby tree, and you can see her join her baby in the video before being frightened off again by a lone cocky. Eventually (after I had retreated with my camera) they were able to find enough peace to reunite and fly to safety together. Welcome to our newest eater of the windfall apples and other fruity delicacies from our garden. The other random pic is one of my giant birds of paradise trees that I caught flowering spectacularly whilst I still had camera in hand.

28/01/2023: So much can still be learned from ancient thinkers such as Epicurus and Buddha: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/26/living-for-pleasure-by-emily-a-austin-an-epicurean-guide-to-happiness

28/01/2023: The Left and their ‘trigger warnings’ meet Shakespeare and Beowulf – It could get ugly: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/26/tragedy-might-be-triggering-british-universities-add-warnings-for-greek-and-shakespearean-plays/

28/01/2023: Who knows whether this Project Veritas story is true or not; we may never know. I certainly believe that the power of evil is immense and that the forces of good have always fought a rearguard action against it. In this instance I long ago observed that Pfizer had undoubtedly suborned a myriad of ‘important’ folk (politicians, health bureaucrats etc) with cash payments in order to further their profits – indeed long before they discovered the awesome cash potential of the coronavirus: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/blockbuster-claims-in-video-of-pfizer-executive-making-mutant-viruses-capturing-official-agencies/

28/01/2023: It isn’t the Virgin Mary or Jesus but it certainly looks like a bear: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-discovered-a-bear-on-mars

27/01/2023: The Dark Harbour Hermits:

“There’s many a coat that is tattered and torn,

That beneath lies a true honest heart.

But because he’s not dressed like his neighbors in style,

Society keeps them apart.

For on one fortune smiles, while the other one fails,

Yes, no matter what venture he tries.

Time calls them both to the grave in the end,

And six feet of earth makes us all one size.”

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-dark-harbour-hermits?fbclid=IwAR16hKW1QJiux45K9LtA0vC3P01bwtUFW0EwhuL9up5MdNG1IhdnzAXcz9k

27/01/2023: If someone else was massacring whales, birds and bats as the Greens are, you would expect someone to get upset – at least the Greens would get upset, surely? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-strange-coincidence-of-the-offshore-wind-industry-and-178-dead-whales/

27/01/2023: Heart attacks up 17%, but who cares? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fatal-heart-attacks-up-17-percent-in-australia/ This will bankrupt Pfizer: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/breaking-the-silence-do-mrna-vaccine-harms-outweigh-benefits/

27/01/2023: All along our coastline you can see this same evidence that sea level has actually fallen – just open your eyes. Then maybe you will begin to doubt the global warming doomsters. Sea level has (naturally) been falling since the Holocene (maximum 6-8000 years ago) the warmest period between the great ice ages when the earth was at its warmest. Since then we have been slowly moving back into another ice age. Don’t expect to be able to walk to Tasmania very soon though: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/22/sea-level-update-from-noosa-national-park-queensland-australia/

26/01/2023: On this day in 1778 Della's great great great grandfather Private Lawrence Richards Plymouth Marines on board Prince of Wales arrived Sydney Cove with his wife Mary and son Samuel (born on the voyage thus maybe the first Australian). They were the first settlers on Norfolk Island and later had land at Bankstown (near where Della was born). Lawrence (and his son William) served in the 102nd regiment till 1810 and thence in the 73rd Regiment (the Black Watch) until his retirement in 1816. Not many of us can claim a 'First Fleeter' in our ancestry.

26/01/2023: I have always loved butter, cream etc. Now I know for sure it was good for me too: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/cheese-butter-not-necessarily-linked-to-death/565253/

26/01/2023: Forget about the lithium and cobalt shortage; there is just not enough plain old copper in the ground for the ‘net zero revolution’. It is madness to mandate the impossible as Canute demonstrated: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/24/the-copper-conundrum/

26/01/2023: Maybe you can remember when Jacinta Price warned that dropping the welfare cash card controls would lead to a spike in alcohol fueled violence (especially against women) in remote communities. Then Albanese and his mates decided to end alcohol bans as well – because they were ‘racist’, even though the victimized women wanted them. Now without recourse to a ‘Voice’ at all, he has re-introduced them. What’s next? Another Howard style military intervention at hell-holes like Wadeye which is doubtless just as bad (if not worse) than it was back then? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/albos-alice-alcohol-back-flip/

26/01/2023: There is a point where I cease to be a libertarian and echo those who would see the death penalty for child molesters. I think I now want to include fantasy child molesters in this too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/predatory/instagram-slammed-for-letting-child-sex-dolls-to-be-sold-online-as-border-force-seizes-illegal-trade/news-story/cbedb136cae4afbd23cdc284a8d8ed77

25/01/2023: How good are ‘scientific trials’? This (satirical) paper shows that there is no evidence that parachutes help: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/

25/01/2023: Could ultrasound be the fountain of youth – it had better hurry up for me if it is: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fsound-waves-reversing-aging%2F

Another one here – will we live forever: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://studyfinds.org/anti-aging-gene-fountain-of-youth/

25/01/2023: The Land Rover Defender replacement is just about to hit the market: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/spy-pics-ineos-grenadier-ute-breaks-cover-139231/?fbclid=IwAR3WPg7Qsb8DZVICQPUANvp7iPUXtnTXm9hZSyntvc8FYwzMJ65-k07iz1M

25/01/2023: You have to honour the spirit of sacrifice:

24/01/2023: A solar powered lighter – an expensive way to make your BIC renewable: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solis-x-world-s-first-solar-rechargeable-lighter#/

24/01/2023: Let them eat bugs: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/let-them-eat-bugs.php But there already is a food production ‘crisis’: https://richardsonpost.com/michael-snyder/30286/the-worst-food-crisis-in-modern-history/

24/01/2023: Of course our climate thermometers are always perfectly sited (as they are supposed to be) with only (mown grass) within 50 metres or so of them - and there is no urban heat island effect by the growth of a huge city all around them: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/urbanization-effects-on-ghcn-temperature-trends-part-i-the-urbanization-characteristics-of-the-ghcn-stations/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/jolly-odd-what-sydney-observatory-record-cold-spell-broken-with-help-from-awol-solar-panel/

24/01/2023: You and I who have lived in the bush all our lives (and love it) would call it ‘alienation’: https://scitechdaily.com/natures-decline-the-distance-between-humans-and-nature-is-growing/

23/01/2023: So, birds were around before the dinosaurs vanished: https://scitechdaily.com/evolving-backward-discovery-overturns-more-than-a-century-of-knowledge-about-the-origin-of-modern-birds/

23/01/2023: China may be going down the gurgler: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-1-19-in-china-things-are-heading-south-quickly

23/01/2023: Yeah, sure. The boys will love their new quiet choppers – and buy them like crazy: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/harley-davidson-will-soon-be-all-electric-ceo-says/ar-AA16zEgK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=edb475dccdbf485bb961be3fe042063c

23/01/2023: 15 Reasons Completely Unrelated To The Vaccine People Are Dying Suddenly: https://babylonbee.com/news/15-reasons-completely-unrelated-to-the-vaccine-people-are-dying-suddenly

22/01/2023: Buzz still has the right stuff: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/special-punch-in-honor-of-buzz-aldrins-93rd-birthday/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/famous-astronaut-marries-93-excited-eloping-teenagers/

22/01/2023: Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftpn.net%2Fnorwegian-government-funds-research-to-find-out-if-white-paint-isracist%2F

22/01/2023: Rats had a bad press: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-might-have-been-wrong-about-the-role-rats-played-in-the-black-death

22/01/2023: Duh: “When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet…It’s so… almost extra-terrestrial to think about, saving the planet. If you say that to most people most people, they think you’re just a crazy tree hugging and lefty liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.” John Kerry at Davos

21/01/2023: ‘Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.’ Alex Levine

21/01/2023: Graphene Fabrics on the way: https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/graphene-embedded-polymers/

21/01/2023: This will work out well: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/it-takes-5-days-to-charge-a-hummer-ev/

21/01/2023: Let them not eat cake: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/british-food-tsar-hints-cake-ban-office-compares-health-harms-passive-smoking

20/01/2023: Leeks were eaten in ancient Rome and regarded as superior to garlic and onions: https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/geeked-about-leeks-recipes-gallery

20/01/2023: Anti-aging is on the way, but hurry up guys: https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice

20/01/2023: These ‘elites’ are just barking mad: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-a-cult-the-wef-are-the-select-few-touched-as-saviors-of-the-world-to-master-the-future/

20/01/2023: Viagra anyone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11649627/Viagra-users-25-likely-suffer-early-death.html

19/01/2023: “Your husband is a polar bear, skinny.”: https://apnews.com/article/fema-alaskan-native-wrong-translations-707ab611f0d171ae2e34fc3f284454a7

19/01/2023: Wonnangatta Again: After three days of (once again poorly reported) ‘evidence’ I think we can begin to piece together the solution to this ‘mystery’: Russell had visited the area a week before (if you remember). Almost certainly this was to choose a campsite and quite probably to get in a good supply of firewood. At ‘normal’ times when there are few folks about this might have worked out, but not a week before a holiday long weekend. On this occasion when he arrived there were (presumably) already two cars camped at ‘his’ site, one of them Lynn, the other the man in the white ute whom we have not heard from yet – presumably he did not have a phone! A lesson there for future ‘murderers’! It will be interesting to learn when/why he left. Witnesses have described Hill as a ‘grumpy old man’ and we have heard before about his becoming involved in an altercation with the ‘Button Man’ when he also decided to camp at (or too close to) the latter’s campsite. I’m sure we have all encountered people like that, unfortunately. The witnesses also expressed surprise that Russell ‘decided’ to camp right next to the other two campers (when there are around forty kilometers of river to camp along for less than 200 people even on a holiday weekend). It seems likely that the situation was inflamed further by Hill flying his drone over Lynn’s camp, presumably after dark when they were both likely liquored up too! My guess is that Lynn shot the drone down with his shotgun which I’m sure many of us might feel like doing in a similar situation. Police forensics experts suggest that Hill came to Lynn’s camp and seized Lynn’s shotgun. During a struggle over the shotgun it went off, shooting Clay in the head. She was doubtless hovering around trying to stop them fighting. No doubt this further enraged Hill who perhaps had the shotgun in his hands by then and when Lynn feared for his life (properly so probably) he stabbed Hill perhaps in ‘self-defence’. All this was very tragic but if it had happened say at Tidal River in front of lots of witnesses he may even not have served any gaol time at all. Unfortuntaely he decided to cover the whole situation up and flee. These were his substantive crimes (that and having a shotgun where only a deer rifle is permitted), probably ones which don’t carry a much longer gaol time than he has already served! In any case those of us who enjoy camping in the High Country can again do so without fear of being stalked by homicidal madmen – though I think we need to learn the lesson that we should spread out more and not fly drones over each others’ camps!

19/01/2023: Maybe you voted to make this possible? I did not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/update-gruesome-details-released-gay-activist-couples-crimes-adopted-sons-warning-content/

19/01/2023: ‘Racial’ classification is just nuts, whether it is the US, Oz, Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa. A ‘drop’ of blood from ‘another race’ does not make you any different from the rest of humanity, I’m sorry. All you are, all you should want to be, is human. I could claim to be French (one-eight) or Irish (three eighths) for example. I suspect there is even some negro/gypsy in there way back. A cousin’s DNA analysis (I have not done one) indicates this likelihood. Della could claim to be Scottish (half) or even Jewish (one eighth – ‘Jewish’ is a religion, surely?) but all we really are is Australian people. The very idea that people should have some sort of ‘special government’ or ‘special treatment’ on account of their supposed ‘race’ (whether it is a benefit or a ‘disadvantage’) is just truly abhorrent. The ‘Voice’ is a disgusting idea, best quickly buried. One Australia for all – a land of free people, please: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/our-insane-racial-classifications.php

18/01/2023: SpaceX is just great: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/spacex-launch-is-awesome-and-thats-how-we-will-land-on-mars/

18/01/2023: Wonnangatta Murders: Goodness knows how this will work out, but by the third day police seem to have one clear piece of evidence which will damn Lynn – Russell’s phone at Mt Hotham at (roughly) the same time as Lynn’s car was captured on a camera there. Very hard to explain this away otherwise than that he was implicated in their deaths – unless the times don’t quite match. Others no doubt used the same route out as the road to Jamieson was (unexpectedly) closed

One would think that the phone would have been switched off, yet nonetheless ‘modern’ ‘fixed battery’ phones now have a supplementary battery which keeps time/geolocation alive even so. Edward Snowden alerted us to the ‘spooks’s ability to track this (after the event) even if no search warrant had been issued (before the event) – and it appears he is right. Future crims will be alerted to this if they had not been by 1990s Bruce Willis movies! Astonishing that an airline pilot (who should have known better) carried these phones so far. My own ‘guess’ was that the murderer would have disposed of the bodies and such evidence as soon as possible (before reaching ‘populated’ areas) – but not this guy apparently.

The first day of ‘evidence’ was weird – and made no sense. ‘Witnesses’ gave ‘evidence’ of events completely contrary to the ‘known’ movements of the couple from nearly two years ago now, ie that they called their friend around 3:00 pm on the Friday afternoon 20th March from the Howitt Road outside the valley (for directions) then drove into the Wonnangatta (Dry Creek) and called him again at 6:00pm 20th March saying he had just arrived at camp in the Valley. The previous night (Thursday 19th March) they had (‘always’) spent on the Howitt Plains outside the valley – the haunt of the so-called ‘Button Man’ – if you recall all previous reports of their movements. One wonders why police had interviewed that individual if phone records (pings from the Howitt Rd) showed the couple driving into the Wonnangatta (down the Zeka Track) on the 19th – a day earlier than previously supposed, and so had been nowhere near his camp. Their burnt out car was found around lunchtime on the Saturday 21st March. These two witnesses are claiming they saw the missing couple camp at Dry Creek in the Wonnangatta on Thursday 19th then that they heard shots on the Friday morning 20th (so what?) and saw the couple afterwards at a graveyard (Wonnangatta Station Homestead) and again driving into the Dry Creek Camp also on the 20th where there were apparently two cars, a blue Nissan and a white ute. I wonder what route these guys took out of the valley?

Still, further police evidence yesterday (presumably geolocation from Lynn’s phone) claims that he revisited the spot where the bodies were buried again in May and November of the same year as the ‘disappearance’. He would need pretty compelling excuses for these three marks against him, but it is all circumstantial after all and not forensic evidence

18/01/2023: Our masters need their mistresses who can be flown in by jet plane (all at the public expense – what a trough!) whilst we peddle bicycles and eat bugs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/report-high-priced-prostitutes-descend-davos-high-powered-leaders-world-economic-forum/

18/01/2023: The Albanese communist government’s ‘reforms’ of the gas industry are not working out well –if you try to control prices you curtail supply: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-government-waved-a-magic-wand-and-turned-the-gas-industry-into-a-stone/

17/01/2023: Nuclear power in your pocket? ‘Soon’ to come for future ultralight hikers: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/01/nuclear-power-cell-for-space-satellites-that-are-cup-size-instead-of-dishwasher-size.html

17/01/2023: The Shed: If only all of us could triumph over the ‘planners’ as this old man did: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/the-old-mans-tale/

17/01/2023: Remember when electricity cost <$30/meg and we had a reliable supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/12/south-australia-does-it-again/

17/01/2023: Excess deaths likely caused by MRNA vaccines: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/temporary-morgues-built-across-uk-due-unprecedented-increase-excess-deaths/

16/01/2023: DIY Shoulder Pouches: My new Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra came without shoulder pockets (or pouches) as I could so easily make my own, as I have done this morning (forgetting to photograph the process too sorry!) If you have ‘recently) purchased a sewing machine as I have (often) suggested, you can make a pair too. I hope this post helps you do so.

I measured the space on the pack where they would have to fit and came up with dimensions of my four pieces of material as follows. Two pieces for the pack strap sleeves that started at 7″ x 6″ and two pieces for the pouches that stated at 6″ x 15″. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/15/diy-shoulder-pouches/

16/01/2023: Ibn Battutah, The Islamic Marco Polo. “Whereas Marco Polo was rather tight-lipped about sex, Ibn Battutah seems to have copulated his way across the then-known world with hundreds of slave girls, concubines, and temporary “wives.” He also left more than a few offspring in his wake. His trip lasted 29 years and was three times the length of Marco Polo’s. He writes about not only what he actually experienced, but also includes gossip, rumors, and legends about the things and the people he encountered. Some of it is rather horrifying.”: https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Battutah-Macmillan-Collectors-Library/dp/1909621471/ref=asc_df_1909621471/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021455910&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3526682798586221892&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003435&hvtargid=pla-489921632055&psc=1

16/01/2023: In case you don’t think the transgender cult has gone too far: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/frankenstein-.html

16/01/2023: Frankly I think gas stoves were just about the best kitchen ‘invention’. We would not be without ours: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/14/calls-to-ban-gas-stoves-are-anti-science-anti-freedom-and-anti-energy/

16/01/2023: Electric cars are not working out well for the UK. People can’t afford to either buy them or charge them. They won’t work out any better here either: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/uk-electric-cars-sales-fall-people-cant-afford-to-run-them-on-wind-and-solar-grid/

15/01/2023: Finnsheep - Unexpected second lambing. This fourteen year old ewe has lambed unexpectedly for the second time this year. I hardly expected her to live (She had been quite ill after her first lambing back in August), let alone do this. She has been a spectacular ewe with four working teats who has often raised quads (when she was younger).

She and another brilliant old ewe have been in a small ‘retirement’ paddock just in case they happened to raise a bonus lamb (in 2023) after a long and productive life (around forty lambs raised each - in paddock conditions).

I have had a very special young triplet ram in with them just so he doesn’t get hurt by the other rams as he has outstanding genetics and we really want progeny from him (later this year).

I was very surprised to see her with this (second, unplanned) out-of-season lamb at foot this morning. It is only one but it is a four-teated ewe lamb - so somewhat like winning the lottery for us.

The proud dad:

Here she is with a set of quads last year.

Finnsheep can relatively easily be managed to lamb twice per year. We have clients with thousands of our Finnsheep in air-conditioned sheds eg in the Middle East) raising 6+ lambs per year over two lambings: http://www.finnsheep.com

We do not usually lamb ours the second time because there is not enough stock feed here in summer to raise a second lambing well so it is too hard on the ewe and the lambs.

15/01/2023: “I do not own a coal mine. I am a professor of literature at an American college. We professors, like the mine owners, do not do hard manual labour for a living. Unlike those mine owners, if I may speak generally, we spend none of our time around such men. We do not break bread with them, we do not live near them, we do not worship at the same church, our children do not see one another on the streets. We are almost entirely insulated from the exigencies of bodily life. We do not grow our own fruit and vegetables, we do not build our own homes, we do not raise our own livestock, we do not dig our own wells, we do not repair our own vehicles, we do not clear our own fields, we do not pave our own driveways and roads, we do not lay the bricks for our own schools, we do not fight our own fights.” Anthony Esolen, reflecting on John Ford’s great movie, ‘How Green was My Valley’ (& who also does not know what a semi-colon is). Far too many like him – and yet unlike, for most show no remorse and are ever assured of their own superiority! God save us from the ‘elites’: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2014/01/theres-equality-theres-equality/

15/01/2023: The nation state is increasingly a prison and moreso a ‘panopticon’ one where we should certainly believe ‘we are being watched’, as we have no control over ubiquitous cameras and microphones which (are intended to) surveil us and control us. The prospects for ‘liberty’ are dismal. It is still (though barely) within living memory that the passport was invented (an ‘emergency World War 1 measure – like the income tax – Yes!) it is not just our movement across (so-called) international borders which is circumscribed but increasingly our movement within our own areas and nations. The so-called covid ‘pandemic’ was either invented for the purpose or eagerly morphed into a vehicle for such social control. Who could have believed before then that (‘free’) Australians could be limited to their own homes or a very restricted neighbourhood – and all their other (social) activities likewise entombed in red-tape, even our ‘rights’ to work and worship, for example. There was very little ‘push-back’ against this – though you may have noticed (for example) Della and I continuing to ‘sneak out’ now and then for a camping trip in the Vic mountains (& etc) in defiance of ‘Dictator Dan’s’ edicts, though we were (from the outset) more careful than most to avoid infection – just common sense really. (And may I add, better prepared to treat it than any Oz government). We have (at least) three tiers of ‘Government’ in Australia and that is not counting all the bureaucrats and various official and unofficial ‘police’. This trammeling up is best exemplified by the explosive growth of rules and regulations (and cops). During the first year (alone) of John Cain’s government in Victoria he was proud to have passed more pages of statutes than had existed in the whole 150 years of Victoria’s history up to then. I am not making this up. Since then every successive Australian government (including local) has sought to excel his record – often successfully. Tony Abbott’s government alone actually tried to (successfully) reduce this burden. I have never even been convinced that the ‘nation state’ is/was a ‘good idea’. It would be interesting to watch a debate about this issue – wouldn’t it? Or that the idea of ‘government’ itself is! Without doubt there are other (likely better) ways of doing things which most people over most of time have employed. Or should. Really.

14/01/2023: The last free people…I was wondering around 3:00am what has become of them. Do any exist in the brave new world order which has been building its walls and stringent controls all around us. You know, people like the Lapps and Samoyeds – the reindeer people, and the various gypsy tribes for example. What an astonishing achievement by the former. Imagine domesticating reindeer which can live where there is only (inedible) moss to eat, and yet move about with them and thrive in the most inhospitable of wildernesses- and sustain a lively culture. The closing of the Soviet borders must have had a profound effect on them. When we were in Nepal we were talking with a Sherpa in Namche who observed that when he was a child with his family moving back and forth through the high passes from Tibet one of the greatest dangers was wolves (one of ) which could take a full-grown yak!. That way of life ceased when the Chinese imprisoned the Tibetan people (in 1956). I guess ‘everyone knows’ that the Nazis murdered over 90% of Europe’s gypsies (a much larger percentage even than Jewish people). The ossification of the nation state since the Second World War must have further trammeled what is left. (Interesting to note that before the First World War no passports existed or were required anywhere). Of course surveyors and land-owners have further restricted the movement and ‘rights’ of nomadic peoples who must have enjoyed (intermittently) the same tracts of land perhaps for thousands of years until someone else decided ‘they’ owned them. Older owners no doubt continued to recognize the traditional camping practices of Romanies (etc) on their estates but as those properties have changed hands (and the ‘common lands’ disappeared) the ‘traveling folk’ must have been increasingly circumscribed. I know many people still dream of ‘taking to the road’ eg becoming ‘grey nomads’ etc, but such choices are being limited more and more by bureaucrats and other nasties. Is there any prospect for freedom at all in our future? I’m sometimes glad I will not be around to see it.

14/01/2023: Surviving the Holocaust but not our Brave New World (Order): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/holocaust-survivor-hiding-ordered-psychiatric-institution-german-court-faces-forced-covid-vaccine/

14/01/2023: Let’s see the Greens get behind this one: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Holtec-claims-SMR-160-can-repurpose-any-coal-fired?fbclid=IwAR0b0sVTcF6VChSoXpsPcrlhKQqfaIScHKq1THqyMiQovafVtEPpJGQm02A

14/01/2023: Antarctic icebergs have not changed in 300 years; so much for catastrophic global warming: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/2000-gigatons-of-plant-wrecking-co2-and-icebergs-around-antarctica-are-the-same-as-the-1700s/

13/01/2023: Why ‘Adam’s Ale’ is the best drink: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/02/health/hydration-disease-aging-death-risk-study-wellness/index.html

13/01/2023: Much as they tout ‘diversity’ the elites in fact favor only conformity, so innovation is stifled: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-official-everywhere-in-science-theres-a-mysterious-lack-of-ground-breaking-papers/

13/01/2023: Big Brother is watching you: A friend points out that WA are trying to introduce legislation that will consider anyone that is working from home will have their home deemed a workplace, which will then fall under the same state workplace OH & S and right of access by government department and union officials.

13/01/2023: War of the Worlds #1 – Are we Martians then? https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-mars-may-have-had-the-conditions-for-life-before-earth/

12/01/2023: Don’t miss the rare green comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DTkxXoQqw

12/01/2023: When Labour’s William Beveridge ‘invented’ ‘The Welfare State’ in 1942 ‘his goal was ‘the abolition of want’. Labor has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: Want has all but been abolished: fewer and fewer want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity’ (Steyn) ‘The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly,’ Thomas Sowell.

12/01/2023: Where are the greens when you pave over 5,000 square kilometers with solar panels or clear the forest and halt the wind with so many wind turbines – not to mention the god-alone-knows what effects of all the monstrous transmission cables: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/big-solar-goes-big-bust-largest-solar-plant-in-the-world-dies-before-it-can-be-built/

12/01/2023: I notice that the radical left have been eager to celebrate the death of George Pell – a death no doubt hastened by their vitriolc witch hunt of a demonstrably innocent man. Instead, we should be celebrating the life of one of Australia’s outstanding intellectuals and faith leaders: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/tony-abbotts-statement-on-the-death-of-cardinal-pell-ac.html

11/01/2023: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly." G.K. Chesterton

11/01/2023: Really, what’s wrong with being a man, manly even? I’m sure the women and children of the Birkenhead (and millions like them) agree with me: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/11/its-time-to-celebrate-men-and-masculinity/

11/01/2023: Beware of pollies trying to sell pigs in pokes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/therapeutic-albanese-couldnt-be-clearer-about-the-voice-vote-first-find-out-what-for-later.html BTW: A ‘poke’ (bag) is a cognate of ‘pocket’.

11/01/2023: The poor old elephant – who could have known: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/huge-elephant-dies-suddenly-we-dont-know-why-but-we-know-it-wasnt-that-one-thing/

10/01/2023: When even the Labor right (does it still have one?) become worried about Defence you should too: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/bombers-defence/

10/01/2023: How mandated car seats actually ‘kill’ children. These things and other such social programmes are really depopulation strategies. We have entered an era when only junk people can ‘afford’ to have children. This will not end well: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

09/01/2023: The world’s first analogue computer from the genius which was ancient Greece: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/ancient-greek-analogue-computer

09/01/2023: Common sense on tax and money from the great Ronald Reagan: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/homespun-genius-from-the-late-great-ronald-reagan.html

09/01/2023: Della and I have been ‘green’ all along without even knowing it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/08/new-york-times-there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-short-mate-with-shorter-people-for-a-greener-planet-to-save-the/

09/01/2023: What an interesting idea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/481990/londoner-solves-20-000-year-ice-age-drawings-mystery?fbclid=IwAR1E84dEqLFCa3nz1NlFzuTxcYkZcYeIhFyV5rnPfnZUMQzNS49-bbdo0FU

08/01/2023: How materials technology will change the world: https://bigthink.com/the-future/cellulose-nanocrystals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2oBmFknKXHLzGkEJmbCW1mkhuM443bljYUhdo9gCCsXAxkSg5qKeJVu4I#Echobox=1673049074

08/01/2023: The art of ancient Roman concrete: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable?fbclid=IwAR3bjxGoeiGbiZ50ukBD3K4-1VizdPsxuM-b5jIjaDS24Alpyh1QsKDrPVw

08/01/2023: In 1800 there were 3 cities in the world with populations over 1 million. Now there are 442! This represents the major transformation of human life. We cannot hope to understand what makes the average human tick unless we understand their circumstances. Having lived in a city (reluctantly) for less than 8% of my life I admit to a deep ignorance. I pretty much hardly even know any 'city people'.

08/01/2023: When they are not killing birds and bats and producing no net electricity, they burn: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/smoking-ceremony-at-the-local-wind-farm.html

07/01/2023: Get ready: 6G is coming (for you): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230104231812.htm

07/01/2023: Once again zinc (50 mg a day in this case) is shown to be a ‘magic bullet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/if-only-our-universities-had-studied-this-earlier-zinc-may-have-stopped-40-of-covid-deaths/

07/01/2023: The Chinese Government seem to be rushing a range of science fiction scenarios: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/sellin-chinas-reseach-mosquitos-may-lead-using-mosquitos-bioweapon-delivery-platform/

07/01/2023: According to the satellite records the world is .05 of a degree warmer than the average for the last 44 years. It has varied by around half a degree up/down all that time. This is a dazzling unifomity. Who can really doubt that there is a natural thermostat which keep the temperature so stable? You would have to be a lunatic to believe that profound ‘climate change’ is imminent. The whole movement is just a wicked scam: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/uah-global-temperature-update-2022-was-the-7th-warmest-of-44-year-satellite-record/

06/01/2023: More details of the fate of the Franklin expedition slowly emerge. The extraordinary thing is that the ship was lost because it was unusually warm that year 150 years ago and has been colder ever since: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66022

06/01/2023: Parsnips (and turnips) are very nutritious and delicious – what people ate before potatoes took over: https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/parsnip-recipes/

06/01/2023: Repatriating those ISIS war-brides is working out well: https://www.theepochtimes.com/isis-bride-who-allegedly-followed-husband-to-syria-arrested-in-australia_4963726.html

06/01/2023: If Sydney continues like this an Ice Age can’t be far off. Where is the alarmists’ response to this astonishing data: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-year-without-a-summer-in-2022-sydney-didnt-even-reach-32-degrees/

Where is that warming: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/04/the-new-pause-lengthens-100-months-with-no-warming-at-all/

05/01/2023: ‘It is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil’: I’m sure you would not expect that quote from me an old avowed atheist, but one should always garner truth and wisdom from the past, not just throw it all away as so much old junk. Our Judaeo-Christian tradition has many such important lessons which it would be folly to forget. The pleasure to be found in physical work ought not be missed by anyone. It pains me how many folk are bored and indolent, whereas we never find a minute where we share that feeling. All our moments are busy ones.

This is probably my favourite Bible quote. If you are my age you may remember it better as being the words of a ‘Peter, Paul & Mary’ song! Read it in full, maybe even paste it on your wall. It is full of wonderful truths: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13:

3:1 ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

3:7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

3:9 What gain have the workers from their toil?

3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

3:11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

3:13 moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.’

05/01/2023: With maybe 20 million covid infections in a single city China has only recorded 22 Covid deaths since December. If true they are doing so much better than Oz where we had 240 deaths in a single day recently: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230103-up-to-70-of-shanghai-population-infected-with-covid-top-doctor

05/01/2023: “If, a militarised, heavily armed Police force decides that it can take the law into its own hands, a great leap forward has been achieved in the progressive totalitarianism to which we are being subjected”. He argues the Qld police unit SERT had the capability to and was set up to arrest and detain just such armed ‘offenders’ as the Trains. Why then are they dead instead of facing trial so that we know the nature of their ‘crimes’? Trial by media is not the semantic equivalent of justice. https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/04/what-happens-in-wieambilla-stays-in-wieambilla/ PS: Comments are interesting.

05/01/2023: Batteryland – another fantasy green dream like green hydrogen and renewables generally. Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers as Gulliver observed the crazed inhabitants of one of Swift’s fantasy lands attempting to do is just not a sensible energy or economic policy. You just can’t ‘plan’ to spend eight times the entire GDP on a battery which could never (materially) be built anyway, and likely would not work if you did. : https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/even-in-battery-fantasy-dreams-the-costs-dont-make-sense/

04/01/2023: 1912 – what was the world like exactly 100 years ago? http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/12/december-31-1912.html

04/01/2023: Add this to the ‘smart switch on your electricity meter. Too many nasty things can be done to your freedom with the flick of a switch: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/big-brother-will-watch-drive-disgusting-infrastructure-bill-installs-kill-switches-new-vehicles-turns-america-police-state/

04/01/2023: Some more good news (maybe) – extinction rebellion quits: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/extinction-rebellion-quits-realizes-being-attention-seeking-vandals-isnt-winning/

04/01/2023: Home energy savings largely a sham. I would have thought so too as people build ever larger MacMansions and architects go for two-storey high rooms, oceans of glass and the like. The average weatherboard, timber floored home of the 1950s (which had proper ventilation for human health amongst other advantages - no strange ‘peanut’ allergies and the like back then) was half the size, and had ‘living’ rooms of approx 10-15 square metres (easy to heat) and no cooling of any sort, clearly used less than half the electricity of the ‘modern’ monstrosities. Goodness knows how we even survived the houses we built in the past! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/01/home-insulation-makes-little-difference-to-energy-consumption-new-study/

03/01/2023: Love conquers all – a good news story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64125531

03/01/2023: A plant which gave up photosynthesis: https://www.sciencealert.com/ethereal-new-plant-species-doesnt-use-photosynthesis-its-found-something-sneakier

03/01/2023: The mother of ‘conspiracy theories’ debunked: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/lee-harvey-oswald-killed-jfk/

03/01/2023: No doubt all those folk who waited an hour or two to recharge their EVs over the holiday period will be rushing out to buy another one and advising their friends to do the same. Likewise the folks in Norway & etc who have discovered the cost of recharging is more than double the cost of filling up the old car with gasoline: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/12/painting-the-near-future-in-blackouts-and-green/

02/01/2023: Suppose you wanted to ditch Google Play Store: https://www.popsci.com/diy/f-droid-download/

02/01/2023: Just in case you need an ice age, here’s a great idea – and they’re implementing it without any discussion at all: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/go-wrong-startup-releases-particles-atmosphere-stop-climate-change/

02/01/2023: We can apparently look forward to blackouts which last several days (if we continue to follow Europe down the drain). In most of Australia people would not actually freeze solid as in Europe, but it won’t be fun either: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/blackouts-will-last-for-days-says-austrian-defence-minister-stock-up-now/

02/01/2023: A great essay Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/the-crimes-of-eco-fascism/

01/01/2023: Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra: I have been a fan of Joe Valesko’s Zpacks for nearly twenty years – back when he was just a lad sewing all the packs himself. We have kept in touch. I have tried many of his products as they became available and generally promoted them.

I doubt there has been any single person who has ‘pushed the envelope’ of the ultralight revolution quite as much as Joe. His firm has grown like topsy, which is a credit to him and I hope doesn’t give him too much stress with the responsibility of having to care for so many people and do so much work. I trust there is still plenty of time for family and for hiking.

I have a friend whose business grew so big he eventually had to sell it as it was making his life impossible. All he really wanted was to be like Maugham’s ‘The Verger’ – to have a very modest living. If you haven’t read the story, now is the time to do so. If you don’t read, you can watch it here. I’m afraid such modest ambitions are what I have stuck with since I first read the story in the sixth grade. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/31/zpacks-arc-haul-ultra/

01/01/2023: Instead of queueing from 10:00am to watch ‘pretty lights’ in the sky at midnight before going home to bed I’m afraid we went to bed at 10:00 pm and missed New Year altogether, our 52nd together actually. I really can’t believe that half a billion people ‘tuned in’ to watch the Sydney fireworks. Are we lemmings or what? If this is how it begins I have very little hope for 2023.

01/01/2023: A very powerful and insightful essay - Use These Five Easy Tricks to Identify the Marxist in the Room: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/12/30/use-these-five-easy-tricks-to-identify-the-marxist-in-the-room-n1657219

01/01/2023: It is horrifying that children could be legally mutilated (castrated) by one parent against the wishes of the other and really without the child’s consent (being a minor). Women’s ‘rights’ have gone too far. It is hard to imagine the effect on this boy’s life when he grows to be an adult and realizes what was done to him – and what he lost: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-texas-supreme-court-rules-against-father-seeking-to-prevent-chemical-castration-of-his-son

31/12/2022: Bird-window collisions. I would have expected some more positive recommendations. On old-style windows with fly-screens (in my experience) they almost never happen. The suggestion that feeders should be placed near windows is interesting: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221220113013.htm

31/12/2022: Time to ditch those ‘green’ investments: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/ouch-environmental-investors-lost-22-in-a-year-when-energy-investors-made-54-gains/

31/12/2022: It is fairly clear that the MRNA shots are not working but I would like more information about the efficacy of the conventional vaccines. I am seriously considering a booster of Novavax which seems particularly efficacious. I still have no particular desire to die from covid (if it can be prevented) though I never wanted the public to waste vast amounts of money preventing my death either (as they did). Cheap vaccination campaigns have been the backbone of cost-effective public health for a century now. It still seems (to me) that Ivermectin is more effective as an antiviral treatment than the expensive ones the drug companies have cooked up. Still plenty of sheep drench in our cupboard: https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-possibly-the-most-important-study-on-covid-shots-might-explain-why-covid-never-seems-to-end-2659039644.html

31/12/2022: The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future. Some advice from one of the world’s pre-eminent climate scientists: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/the-faux-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis-is-giving-us-no-time-or-space-to-build-a-secure-energy-future/

30/12/2022: The long (geological) view of climate change: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/blame-jacinta/

30/12/2022: Worrying. Any excuse to increase the tyranny we now live under: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tyranny-aussie-cops-demand-public-rat-neighbors-anti-government-believe-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/

Qld Police have also clearly been peddling a pack of lies about the Trains (who I admit might not have been exactly angels – who is?) For example the ‘new’ excuse for the police break in was that they were serving a warrant for ‘illegal guns’ but the only such (unsecured firearm) ‘offence’ seems to have been 25 years ago. As I said at the time, we may never know what this was all about, just that it is clearly not as it seems: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/29946/dob-in-a-covid-denier/

30/12/2022: The ‘Deep State’ ie unelected bureaucrats it seems are the ones leading an insurrection against the democratic will of the people and against our cherished historic freedoms in the US as in Oz and elsewhere. Why is it happening? https://richardsonpost.com/brian-c-joondeph/29913/deep-state-insurrection/

30/12/2022: German health minister says climate change travel restrictions and prohibited behaviour will be required: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1605820678585958401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605820678585958401%7Ctwgr%5E00bb104ca66591f801b94ba6d508d53ae91796d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Feco-dictatorship-coming-your-way%2F

Why not bathe once a week instead? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/germanys-zdf-public-television-suggests-bathing-once-a-week-would-be-beneficial/

29/12/2022: Life will find a way: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/bin-chickens-chow-down-on-cane-toads/

29/12/2022: The Nord Stream mystery: https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/26/in-nord-stream-mystery-baltic-seabed-provides-a-nearly-ideal-crime-scene/

29/12/2022: When the police are useless (What else?) Well done girls: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/mothers-intuition-how-2-indiana-moms-capture-suspect-rescue-missing-ohio-baby-kason-thomas

29/12/2022: Interesting: Men are no longer going to Uni – I suspect they are getting real jobs with real pay. Remember how they (similarly) quit being teachers a decade or two ago - and schools declined horribly? I bet they are all ‘hiding out’ in the private sector on better wages: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/victor-davis-hanson-asks-are-universities-doomed/

27/12/2022: Will ChatGPT replace you? It will certainly write your Uni/school essays anyway and may (I hope) mean that written exams become once again compulsory. I am tired of visiting a doctor (for example) who clearly isn’t, but whose exams were obviously all done by someone else. I at least can still tell the difference, but some of these AIs are becoming devilishly clever: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/chatgpt-has-artificial-intelligence-arrived-will-it-crush-google-or-just-become-google-2-0/

27/12/2022: So many Christian mysteries - not least Jesus’s brothers and sisters: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/brother-where-art-thou/

27/12/2022: Strange how minds work. I too have always been dubious about the ubiquity of evil, but it led me to question the existence of God rather than move towards him: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/rush-limbaughs-brother-reveals-key-reality-led-skepticism-christian-faith/

27/12/2022: Before they began their wonderful ‘experiment with democracy’ under the communist terrorist Mandela South Africa was a prosperous country with a golden future, but no more. Is Oz also headed for a similar disastrous future under our adumbrated energy and racial remakes? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/south-africa-unraveling-army-called-in-to-protect-coal-plants-after-sabotage-theft-and-200-days-of-rolling-blackouts/

What an awful place it has become: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/holiday-hope-message-south-african-farm-attack-survivor-mariandra/

26/12/2022: Just worrying whether this is true: https://scitechdaily.com/common-sweetener-linked-with-anxiety-in-startling-new-research/

26/12/2022: The good news is that the world is not ending: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/22/the-world-is-not-ending-bjorn-lomborg-and-jordan-peterson/

26/12/2022: Is Santa Claus a communist? https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/12/10630768/

26/12/2022: Anyway, Peace on Earth: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bing-crosby-and-david-bowie-sing-peace-on-earth/

25/12/2022: Ants for Xmas: Della: “So while everyone else is enjoying Christmas Eve, I have been enjoying a novel experiment. In preparation for our family Christmas celebration on Boxing Day I figured that people might not notice the rampant weed growth in my garden if I strategically pulled out the very biggest of the weeds. After only the first barrow-load I discovered this humongous bull-ant nest where I am sure none existed last autumn (For reference, the ant in the picture is on a flag-iris leaf).

I immediately Googled bull-ant nest eradication, and was fascinated to read that ants will not cross a chalk line drawn on a pavement as it interferes with their pheromones.

Ever the scientist, Steve immediately went out to the verandah, grabbed the kids’ playground chalk and drew a firm line in the middle of a sugar-ant trail. Amazingly, the ants immediately baulked at the line, turning around and running back the other way. Sadly the effect only lasted about 3 minutes: When Steve drew a further line that prevented entry to their nest, they baulked initially and then pushed on through.

Now I know that drinking a glass of prosecco is more fun than watching ants on Christmas Eve, but believe me, you can do both! Meanwhile, if you have any worthwhile tips on how to kill my unwelcome monster ants, let me know!

Merry Christmas everyone.”

Just a BTW: A single application of Brunnings Wasp & Ant Dust containing 10g/kg Permethrin made them disappear overnight! (likewise Jumping Jacks).

25/12/2022: Oh No: https://babylonbee.com/news/santas-sleigh-mistakenly-shot-down-by-ukrainian-missile

25/12/2022: Before you commit to the idea that Christmas is not well, Christian, maybe you should read these: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/24/guest-post-mother-lode-a-pagan-christmas/ & https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nazis-fought-original-war-christmas-180961513/

25/12/2022: “Experts” Say Not To Joke About Cold Weather And Global Warming: Meanwhile: https://americandigest.org/the-gift-of-the-walmagi/

25/12/2022: The future of human hibernation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-successful-hypothermia-nonhuman-primate-paves.html

24/12/2022: Is death the end? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42216404/is-death-revesible/

24/12/2022: You would have to be a fool to think that the government isn’t always telling lies. Some examples: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-21-you-must-assume-that-all-information-put-out-by-our-government-is-corrupt

24/12/2022: McDonalds opens its first automated restaurant. This (and unemployment) is what you get when you try to control wages (and prices): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/video-from-first-robot-mcdonalds/

24/12/2022: With 240 people dying per day just now in Oz, maybe a booster dose of Novavax would be a good idea: https://newatlas.com/science/novavax-covid19-vaccine-omicron-booster/

23/12/2022: This can’t be true - surely there is only one movie plot: https://babylonbee.com/news/hallmark-researchers-say-they-are-close-to-developing-a-second-movie-plot

23/12/2022: The last Nazi war criminal to be convicted? https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/nazi-secretary-of-evil-97-convicted-by-german-court/

23/12/2022: If we did not have an Elon Musk we would have to invent him – maybe there is hope for free speech yet: https://richardsonpost.com/bruce-thornton/29810/elon-musk-instigating-journalism/

23/12/2022: Meanwhile there are more polar bears than at any time in 60 years: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-perpetually-endangered-polar-bears-are-doing-great/

21/12/2022: An astonishing underwater megalith teaches us how little really we know about the past: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/stone-megalith-at-the-bottom-of-the

21/12/2022: Osteoarthritis news - I definitely need this (and apparently you can get a script even if you don’t have Diabetes – this stuff also adds years to one’s life expectancy): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/researchers-call-for-trial-of-metformin-as-potential-treatment-for-osteoarthritis/news-story/f5f22a8625d69d1ac3e5e15cf67fc754

21/12/2022: “It’s just a giant land and power grab by the UN, which has just finished another meeting for “Biodiversity.” Do you remember voting for this ‘world government’? Long since time we stopped handing them money and power, which is all they want after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/supercomputer-prophesy-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction-coming-like-an-asteroid-is-a-un-land-grab/

21/12/2022: Destroying capitalism from within: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/13-us-states-warn-that-monster-funds-are-buying-up-public-utilities/

19/12/2022: A Timely Reminder from Neil Oliver about the Importance of Christmas –and its enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-axg5CJqQ&t=722s

19/12/2022: Just how secure is our government: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/ato-tax-hacked-via-mygov-services-australia-exploit/101781656?fbclid=IwAR30ypKyqQ9E_g70kegnpkQMxYDMkBi8Rx36ATikkohofAUnnnClhDZv_fg

19/12/2022: Remember this (before it is too late): “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Ben Franklin: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/buckle_up_bill_gates_and_the_globalists_quietly_conducted_a_new_exercise__catastrophic_contagion.html

19/12/2022: Big Brother is alive and well in NZ. If you don’t agree with the government you’re a terrorist: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/new-zealand-guide-turn-potential-terrorists-opposing-government-policies-including-covid-measures/

18/12/2022: The Sheep That Lambs in Litters: This year’s cohort of our amazing Finnsheep are about ready to go to their ‘forever homes’. We were just shearing their dams and sires yesterday and crutching all the lambs, some of whom are waiting their turn here:

They have grown approx 1” of wool per month as you can see. They are (rougly( 4 1/2 months’ old now. They have grown a lot since they first popped out a few months ago:

Pure Finnsheep are the world’s most fertile sheep normally having 3-4 lambs. This fertility is carried on around six genes so that half Finns inherit (roughly) half of it, meaning that you can expect half and even quarter Finns to basically always have twins. They are also (unsually) a medium-fine longwool breed which means that they can also be used to improve the length and quality of your wool.

They were keen to get back into the paddock:

They look so much cleaner after they are shorn:

You can contact us here: http://www.finnsheep.com/ if you are interested in having some for Xmas.

18/12/2022: It really is almost certain that the vaccines caused the cases of myocarditis we have been seeing. I have long since lost hope that our masters will ever apologise for or even acknowledge the wrongs they have done us in the past: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/a-small-smoking-gun-study-shows-covid-vaccination-likely-led-to-fatal-myocarditis/

18/12/2022: Just another move towards a (panopticon) dictatorship: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/pandoras-box-of-genes-orwells-dna-databases/

18/12/2022: The “Deep State’ is very worrying. How have these government agencies (CIA/FBI) etc become so powerful (and so sinister)? Tucker had an agent on the other day who admitted CIA involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Robert F Kennedy (his nephew) believes it was a coup d’etat. It is unlikely that similar dark doings are not redolent in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/deep-state-cover-up-twitter-was-a-subsidiary-of-the-fbi-and-cia-is-still-hiding-those-files-60-years-later/

16/12/2022: A ‘Train’ wreck that looks more and more like Waco and Ruby Ridge, ie state over-reach from the outset. Many (quite respectable) people still believe in a different vision of the role of government than the usual statist narrative. From their perspective government is the servant of the people and the sovereignty and liberty of the individual and private property take precedence to the extent even that they think the state has no lawful or constitutional ‘right of entry’ to their property (providing it is appropriately designated and they have committed no criminal act). They may well be right. I would certainly treat a locked gate and a ‘Keep Out’ sign as meaning ‘no right of entry’ myself.

I know I was astonished (and alarmed) during the first covid lockdown to have a young man tap on the window not 2’ away from me where I was sitting at my desk after 11:00pm one night. Our house is 100 metres off the road. He had climbed over our locked gate and tiptoed up our drive looking (he said) for a lost puppy! As this was the night after there had been a stolen car doing burn-outs on the road outside (we live on a quiet rural property) and was subsequent to the recent (still unsolved) brutalisation and murder of an elderly farmer locally under similar circumstances, I had every reason to be alarmed. I told him (through the window) that he was lucky I was deaf and had not heard him coming – else he might have well expected to be greeted by a shotgun blast! He was young and stupid and had just not thought (there actually was a puppy, but not at our house) – somewhat like the four (young) policemen in this case, I suspect.

‘Civil liberties’ people also often hold to the centuries-old right to freely own arms for their protection and defence (including against onerous or unjust governments – a significant part of the US constitution after all, and therefore mainstream) which only really began to be circumscribed in Australia in the early C20th – and then in a rush following the Port Arthur ‘incident’ which many people also have doubts about because of serious deficiencies in the official narrative and the fact that a secrecy screen has been placed over it which will not be lifted during any of our lifetimes - which is seriously suspicious surely?

Many of these views were hard-won in the English-speaking world by such things as the Peasants’ Revolt, Magna Carta, the American War of Independence, Eureka Stockade etc – so it is not a new or weird conspiracy theory, whacko notion. It has a long and honourable tradition indeed richly fertilised by the blood of patriots. Not so long ago (circa 1980) in accordance with these traditions Victorian citizens still enjoyed pretty much an untramelled right to own firearms yet police were not permitted to have them, nor would they then have entered private property without permission unless investigating a crime – so presumably with a search warrant – likewise in NZ and many other jurisdictions. We had a different perspective of the role of the police back then, maybe a better one.

Increasingly our society has moved more and more to a ‘police state’ where the citizens are incredibly trammeled (in contrast to just such a recent past), only permitted to have certain circumscribed ‘rights’ , these ‘rights’ being conferred or withheld by the state and enforced (or removed) by an armed and belligerent police force – as during the covid lockdowns. Previously these rights were considered inalienable, ie conferred by birth/existence (not the state) and it was deemed reasonable to resist efforts by an unjust state to remove or restrict them. Indeed it was the state’s duty to protect such citizens’ rights. It is a big change which has not been properly justified or publicly endorsed. It is unsurprising if (many) people still want to push back against it - as maybe the Trains did.

It also seems that all sorts of other ‘rights’ which they previously enjoyed had been removed (quite possible illegally after all – this has yet to be tested in court) for example using the so-called ‘covid pandemic’ as a pretext. Their right to earn a living, socialize, move around, ‘own’ their own body, & etc. Nathaniel may even have thought his heart attack was caused by his (mandated) covid vaccine. There is some evidence for this view after all. It is (unfortunately) only a simple (perhaps paranoid) step to thinking that there is a ‘plan’ to depopulate the world. The death toll has been rising post-vaccine. The bans which are being implemented here and there on nitrogen feriliser do seem aimed at decreasing the world’s food supply which can clearly only have one consequence, fewer people fed. These notions may be alarmist or eccentric, but they are not mad or evil.

Such events may well have helped to fuel a paranoid view of society’s intentions towards them such that when they then ‘perceived’ a contingent of armed police ‘storming’ over their front fence as they maybe had no right to do, they felt they had to act in the way they did perhaps because they feared for their lives against such a seeming frightening armed trespass. Who knows? In many jurisdictions you do have a right to shoot a trespasser if you fear for your life. This is well-known, surely to police?

Police could (and should) certainly have pursued a non-urgent missing person’s inquiry a little more circumspectly. It must have been known to them before they arrived that the missing man was likely to be simply visiting his brother, after all and in no danger, as well as being no danger to anyone.

All we will have from here on out is a demonisation of this family of seeming law-abiding, religious, peaceable, middle-class school principals ie the Trains as ‘murderers’, overlooking the fact that they too were murdered, but by state-sanctioned murder, so I guess that’s all right – until it happens to you or yours? The case is very worrying and I doubt we will ever learn the ‘truth’ about it any more than we will about Port Arthur (unless we live a very long time – in that case 2071?)

One further point about people being shot dead (both the police and the Trains). I do not believe that they should have shot the police even if they had the legal right to do so – which for all I know they might have had. Entering past a locked gate with signage certainly sounds like ‘break and enter’ to me, whoever you are. I have read legal opinion that public officials do not have legal/constitutional ‘right of entry’ in such cases, no crime having been committed. I do not have the legal expertise to know.

But neither do I think police should shoot people dead unless there is absolutely no other alternative. Given that the Trains could presumably be contained in the area, there should (reasonably) be no limit to the time you should spend ‘talking’ them down/out. The cost in money is quite different to the cost in lives. Neither do we have a death penalty anywhere in Australia ( a matter I actually disagree with) so that they could never have received that penalty from a court. Therefore they should not receive it from the police either. I had a friend who served many years in a European police service. They were armed. He told me that shooting someone dead meant automatic dismissal from the force. They were trained and mandated to wound and disable, to arrest, detain and turn the matter over to the courts. This seems like a sound principle to me.

The final moments of the Train siege reveal that police (Presumably using thermal imaging , night vision, telescopic sights, body armor etc) deliberately shot to kill and kept shooting until they were sure all three were dead. In most jurisdictions this would be counted as extra-judicial murder. I understand that (some at least of) the Trains are alleged to have acted similarly (which may well be true), but they needed to be arrested and tried for those offences, then if found guilty and if we had capital punishment, executed: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/breaking-news/shots-fired-wieambilla-shooters-final-moments-captured-by-police/news-story/a2c7fc3d9417441198fc0d5f498697b9

16/12/2022: Musk’s Twitter revelations now undeniably prove that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. This can no longer be painted as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is bold hard fact. It (and the rigged 2022 election) need to be undone/redone. The ‘greatest democracy in the world,’, ‘the home of the Free’ cannot be allowed to continue as a petty dictatorship: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/rigged/

16/12/2022: It may sound sexist (notice this was also written by a woman) but this is how election demographics are currently working. And please note, things are being decided by such ‘educated’ folks (who likely could not even change a tap washer) which are completely beyond their ‘expertise’ and which will impact all of us more or less forever – such as the destruction of our energy system: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/09/wokey-women/#more-6520

16/12/2022: For example, About that energy storage pipe dream, “Here’s what tells you all you need to know: not only is there no working demonstration project anywhere in the world of the wind/solar/storage energy system, but there is none under construction and none even proposed. Instead, the proponents’ idea is that your entire state or country is to be the guinea pig for their dreams.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived/

15/12/2022: MH370: I thought this possibility was pretty obvious at the time. I am astonished that it has not been explored up to now: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/im-an-mh370-expert-i-know-plane-was-deliberately-downed-by-pilot/news-story/340ecc83e8afd61ccb9845a0cf2d9f3d

15/12/2022: A new Jan 6th deadline. Interesting. Maybe Trump will be back, and sooner than we might expect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tim-canova-supreme-court-considers-case-seeking-overturn-2020-presidential-election/

15/12/2022: A triumph of common sense over climate catastrophism – imagine if people had access to real science how few would be convinced ‘the end is nigh’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/despite-ostracism-namecalling-and-billions-of-dollars-nearly-4-in-10-globally-are-climate-skeptics/

15/12/2022: Australia’s green dreams are slowly turning into nightmares: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/06/green-energy-construction-company-collapse-triggers-aussie-crisis-talks/

14/12/2022: “Climate activists and politicians constantly tell us electric cars are cleaner, cheaper and better. Many countries, including Germany, Britain and Japan, even will prohibit the sale of new petrol and diesel cars within a decade or two. But if electric cars are really so good, why do we need to ban the alternatives?" Bjorn Lomborg.

14/12/2022: I’m afraid Victor David Hanson is right, that our society more and more resembles a decaying Roman Empire about ready to collapse into a new dark age: https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/11/our-parasitic-generation/

14/12/2022: Handing Higgins millions of our money (behind closed doors) is probably the most unjust act I have seen from an Australian Government recently – where is all the dough for women who have been proven to have actually been raped? She may have deserved compensation if a case had been proved, but where is the justice for Lehrmann who is simply assumed to be a rapist without proof? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/brittany-higgins-secures-multimillion-dollar-taxpayerfunded-compensation-deal/news-story/071b83448718a158e6ff9178d3d010eb & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-the-questionable-price-of-political-payouts/news-story/6f4cbc66037f7c0da89c3107cf3cc2c6

14/12/2022: The Queensland Massacre: What was actually going on with this incident? Why would four armed police turn up to make ‘inquiries’ about a missing man who so far as I can tell was not wanted for any crime? If there were safety concerns why would they not have attempted to make phone contact or allay fears first? Then having completely sealed the area so that the offenders would have to have surrendered eventually, why was it necessary to ‘execute’ all the alleged offenders so that the only narrative we now have is the official police version? I notice that the ‘perpetrators’ who may have had somewhat eccentric but by no means unusual views are now being labeled as utterly whacko and evil. I suspect we will never know the truth. The incident recalls the similar story of Stan Graham in NZ back in 1941, a tragedy which (at least from my reading of the book) clearly could have been prevented if the situation had been handled rather differently (as local police had been doing), as I suspect so could this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(1981_film)

13/12/2022: Lawrence Livermore has just passed the break-even point with nuclear fusion: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnuclear-fusion-lawrence-livermore-laboratory-b2243247.html

13/12/2022: Plan Melbourne & Dan intend to lock you up in your neighbourhood and forbid you to go more than a 20 minute walk away from home: https://youtu.be/iw-P37Fll3Q

13/12/2022: The West did not colonise, they civilized: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnuclear-fusion-lawrence-livermore-laboratory-b2243247.html

13/12/2022: Once, when someone suggested a pie in the sky proposal people used to say, ‘Do the maths’. Increasingly few people can do maths at all. Here in Victoria (for many years) maths and science are not requisite subjects for high school graduation. How such folks can ever be described as ‘educated’ is beyond me. Yet increasingly such uneducated people are being put in charge of (mandating) everything. People who can’t fix a lawnmower, weld, operate a lathe, do carpentry, cook, sew, change an electrical fuse, let alone build or repair an electrical circuit (things which in my day were normal skills of kids at junior high school) are put in charge of our entire energy system. Of course it will lead to disaster: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/11/the-impossibility-of-bridging-the-last-10-on-the-way-to-100-clean-electricity/

12/12/2022: Sir Roger Penrose has always produced astounding ideas but his latest thoughts about evidence of past universes (and the possibility oif communicating with them) and thoughts about the ‘quantum’ nature of consciousness are wonderfully liberating: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2020/10/14/sir-roger-penrose-comments-on-the-universes-before-our-own/

12/12/2022: All about humans and fire – how fascinating: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-road-to-metallurgy-fire-and-rocks

12/12/2022: The future of childbirth – coming to you soon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/german-molecular-biologist-unveils-concept-worlds-first-artificial-womb-facility-can-incubate-30000-lab-grown-babies-year-video/

12/12/2022: The coldest summer in Australia ever in Oz and in the Northern Hemisphere pretty much the coldest all of my (long) life yet no warnings of an imminent Ice Age from the climate freaks which is after all the most likely climate outcome after 6-8000 years now oif falling temperatures: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-coldest-summer-day-in-australia-and-nobody-notices/

11/12/2022: Should we revive epic poetry? https://tocharus.substack.com/p/why-epic-poetry-will-never-die

11/12/2022: When the money tree starts to wither and die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/vanguard-abandons-net-zero-climate-finance-monster-group/

11/12/2022: The FBI is an unconstitutional unelected body maybe meant to be a police force, but not a government – what went wrong? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-united-states-of-the-fbi/

11/12/2022: Just throw the baby under the bus – there is no sane plan for achieving ‘net zero’ at all let alone in the time frame that its advocates envisage. Meanwhile everything else just falls apart. This is a recipe for nothing other than economic disaster: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/10/looking-for-the-official-party-line-on-energy-storage/

10/12/2022: The last dambuster passes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/12/the-last-dambuster-sqn-ldr-george-johnny-johnson-mbe-dfm-has-died-per-adua-ad-astra-lest-we-forget.html

10/12/2022: When ‘enough’ is too much: https://moonbattery.com/teachers-continue-to-groom-small-children/

10/12/2022: Inventing the dead – how the aboriginal ‘grievance industry’ simply cooked up 100,000 murdered blacks from a record of absolutely none: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2022/12/the-lying-art-of-truth-telling/

Another way to assess this is to ask, ‘Where are the medals’? Those C19th folks were particularly fond of issuing medals for every tiny military engagement, yet there are absolutely none devoted to these ‘frontier wars’ in Australia, for the very good reason that they never occurred – they exist for the contiguous ‘Maori Wars’ though, surprisingly? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2022/11/oh-henry-where-are-the-medals/

This is an indication of how bad this ‘race politics’ is likely to get: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/parks-australia-when-bureaucracy-turns-racist/

10/12/2022: Who’d have thought: Elephants flourishing in Northern Greenland two million years ago when it was 10-17 C degrees warmer: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/record-breaking-dna-shows-mastodons-roaming-a-hot-north-greenland-2-million-years-ago/

09/12/2022: The invisibility cloak that wasn’t: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q3gk/chinese-students-invent-invisibility-cloak

09/12/2022: Be very sure: What they are doing in Oxfordshire is the future the left have planned for you: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oxfordshire-council-to-trial-a-climate-lockdown-starting-2024/

09/12/2022: The long-term implications of MRNA technology read like science fiction, “The vaccine is incredibly risky, and basically, it’s achieving its goal. If the goal was to reduce the world’s population, it’s working.”: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-mccullough-mrna-from-covid-vax-transfers-from-jabbed-to-unjabbed-changing-human-genome/

09/12/2022: If we want to replace coal-fired power stations (Why?) the only further question is what type of nuclear power plant to build. The conventional uranium plant does have the joint problems of nuclear proliferation and waste disposal which some other technologies don’t: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/07/submission-to-the-senate-inquiry-into-australias-transition-to-a-green-energy-superpower/

The WEF thinks we should leap right in to hydrogen-boron fusion (which does not yet exist) just like they think we should jump into ‘green hydrogen’ and other pie in the sky schemes: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/07/world-economic-forum-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-anticipated-by-2030/

08/12/2022: Soon we won’t be able to see the sky because we talk to the neighbour on the mobile phone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8m4/a-huge-satellite-is-officially-one-of-the-brightest-objects-in-the-sky-astronomers-warn

08/12/2022: ‘Green’ hydrogen is likely to be the most expensive fuel you have ever heard about (if it is even possible). Around ten times the current cost of fuel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/05/energy-storage-report-hydrogen-as-an-alternative-to-batteries/

08/12/2022: Scruton on Foucault – do people even know anymore where the great undermining of thought that exemplifies everything the left advocates actually came from? Foucault and Derrida were the demons behind it, but with a long history stretching back though Marx and Hegel. Once university was about examining and critiquing all such ideas. Now it is about accepting them wholesale: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php

08/12/2022: Monty Python had a better take on all this: The Philosophers’ Football Match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQx8IUcIzc

07/12/2022: New Pack Suspension System: For years I have been quite dissatisfied with backpack straps. They place a quite unnecessary and undue strain on a small area of the shoulders. It seems to me that for horses this problem was solved back in circa the C14th with the invention of the horse collar and associated hardware to allow a horse to pull a heavy load without destroying the horse.

Most pack manufacturers have decided that 'transferring the load' (somehow) to the hips via a hip belt is the solution. It is not. That 'solution' only acts (rather like other forms of torture such as foot binding to transfer the problem elsewhere without solving it at all. A hip belt restricts movement and comfort in just a different sort of way, that is all. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/06/new-pack-suspension-system/

07/12/2022: “So to date, we’re spending twenty-three dollars for each gallon of gasoline saved … economic suicide…It’s nothing but a money-transfer scam to benefit the wealthy”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/06/the-mirage-of-electric-vehicles/

Hard to believe that this post is viewed by Facebook and Norton as about 'Violence'. What a weird world. And yet we are told AI contains the word, 'Intelligence"!

07/12/2022: Albanese (& Andrews) won despite the lowest Labor vote since 1934. This is true. Just let that sink in for a moment.Then ask yourself what sort of government we would have if there had not been all sorts of jiggery-pokery with the electoral system (over time) to ensure such a corruption of democracy and the people’s will. Some of them set (in stone) in the constitution even, such as the awfully undemocratic Senate ‘system’ where a vote in Tasmania (for example) is equal to more than ten votes in NSW. Then we have the dreadful ‘preferential’ system which leads to such excesses as we now see. Should we not go back to the ‘First Past the Post’ system still used in many countries where you have to make up your mind and the prize goes to the candidate who get the most support – what one would have expected of the notion of ‘representative government’ surely? There is much other quite real corruption including the ‘modern’ notions of early’ and ‘postal’ voting and the dominance of the counting/administration by untrustworthy left-wing hacks. We have sold the democracy which our diggers gave their lives for at Gallipoli etc for a mere bagatelle.

07/12/2022: Bruce Lehrmann’s quandary is another ‘Winslow Boy’ case. There is now to mechanism whereby he can clear his (good) name. Such a parlous state of affairs should never be allowed to happen. Such a trial by ‘media’ or ‘public opinion’, ‘Star Chamber’, ’Kangaroo Court – call it what you will ought never be allowed, never mind gain ascendancy over proper process. He should be able to prove his innocence (or that there was ‘no case to answer’, as the senior police who investigated concluded) in open court, so that he can ‘get on with his life’ which is all-but ruined: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/05/a-new-winslow-boy-case/

06/12/2022: “We are this season’s people. We are all the people there are, this season. If we blow it, it’s blown.” Schlomo Carlebach

06/12/2022: BTW: Have you noticed how everyone supports the Chinese anti covid lockdowns now? Yet not so long ago it was all, ‘Let’s stand with (Chinese) Dan’.

06/12/2022: Dark patterns – another subliminal trick: https://engage.uchicago.edu/rs/250-CQH-936/images/FY23-Fall-HL-virtual-1-LIP-Bonus-Content.pdf?s_src=N14808&mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGIcow7LM7CBRWkqiDmuNH0xxXKkD648GDLM9mRhpfEhkSwg3XSQbOFm2YMBPOd_DtEel-na3-PBMo3j22te4twYixXKDBT75xQFFLo8F1Yvr4W

06/12/2022: The science is settled folks – Richard Lindzen is arguably the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, and he calls b------t. The correlation with CO2 is just not there: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/mit-climate-scientist-dr-richard-lindzen-rejects-climate-change-as-a-quasi-religious-movement-predicated-on-an-absurd-scientific-narrative/

Should you want to know more about ‘real science’ perhaps you should just check out one week’s review from the Science and Environmental Policy Project founded by Prof Fred Singer who was definitely the pre-eminent world climate scientist: http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2022/TWTW%2012-03-22.pdf

05/12/2022: Good dog Casper: https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-sheepdog-fights-off-kills-coyotes-pack-attacks-sheep

05/12/2022: Did Monet invent impressionism with a single painting? You have to admit it was a pretty good one anyway: https://mymodernmet.com/claude-monet-impression-sunrise/

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” — Keats

05/12/2022: Looks like in Brazil the military will act to overturn the corrupt election there. When will this happen in the US? And when will our election system be reformed to eliminate such (possible) corruption? Just a few points about our voting system here: Election officials are all solidly of the left. With early polling they have unfettered access to change (or add) as many pencil written votes as they could wish. Rubbers/erasers are cheap and readily available.With reasonable scrutiny via same day polling this influence is enormously lessened. Why don’t we have to use indelible ink on our ballots? The same is clearly true of all the (possible) corruption involved in mail-in ballots. This practice should be ceased except for the very few individuals who are too ill to attend on the day. A much closer surveillance of their votes (by all parties) needs to be implemented. Then we have the issue of cleaning up the voter rolls which no doubt contain many dead and fake individuals. Voter ID on the day is also essential. It is not hard for people to learn who does not vote and to vote in their stead, for example. You can bet your bottom dollar that the left are all over these opportunities for fraud and that their use confers a benefit to them of 5% or greater: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/go-time-military-deploying-brazil/

05/12/2022: Why do the left want to shut down the food supply? Is this another ‘Holodomor’? https://issuesinsights.com/2022/12/02/the-elites-war-on-food/

04/12/2022: Some progress on Alzheimers at least: https://scitechdaily.com/positive-clinical-results-for-alzheimers-amyloid-clearing-drug-lecanemab-poised-for-fda-approval/ & https://newatlas.com/medical/alzheimers-disease-root-cause-axon-swelling/

04/12/2022: The evil that Higgins and her woke feminist cronies have done to an innocent man (who will never be allowed now to prove his innocence) is incalculable. In such cases the (false) complainant should be punished to at least the extent of the law that would have been applied in a successful prosecution of the accused, ie she should do serious gaol time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/brittany-higgins-case-finally-over/

04/12/2022: You should certainly be able to chose voluntary assisted dying to end your suffering, but no-one should be able to force your decision: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/voluntary-assisted-dying-is-back-on-the-agenda/

04/12/2022: The WEF, UN, (ie the Greens and Left) want you locked in a very small area indeed in your suburb. Everything that is being implemented is aimed at that. Think about the move to electric cars, locking up more and more land in ‘National Parks’ (which you will be unable to visit), etc, etc. Let’s start to fight back people: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/oxford-2024-climate-lockdowns-start-you-will-be-tracked-and-trapped-in-your-suburb-and-happy-about-it/

03/12/2022: I don’t suppose this is sexism: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/42520 In the meantime, did you realize that whites are now officially a minority in the three largest UK cities?

03/12/2022: Vic Libs are just crazy – they are set to chose someone as leader who is even more left-wing than Guy: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/john-pesutto-tipped-to-be-next-liberal-party-leader/news-story/7cd4bb0f9e0ffbb941da8cd85e192925

03/12/2022: Long since time we stopped funding these communists at the UN – who needs an unelected government anyway. When was the last time you voted in a UN election?: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/un-shakedown-threats-to-list-healthy-reef-as-in-danger-just-a-way-to-extort-climate-money/

03/12/2022: Net Zero is destroying the European economy. Dutton must repudiate this nonsense soon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/europes-renewable-wonderland-now-cant-make-solar-wind-batteries-or-evs/

Matt Ridley’s explanation of the UK wind- farm disaster are an important read: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/02/the-tories-wind-power-delusion-matt-ridley/

Meanwhile Swiss look to ban use of electric cars over the winter to save energy: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/12/01/swiss-look-to-ban-use-of-electric-cars-over-the-winter-to-save-energy-n514785

02/12/2022: Vale the ‘last’ Rat of Tobruk. Both my father’s brother, Basil and Della’s father Bill also served in the North African campaign. How time flies. Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating their 70th or 80th birthdays. But soon even we children of the ‘Rats’ and other heroes who ‘saved the world for democracy’ will be gone too. Unfortunately and increasingly we are finding that their efforts were not permanently successful. For a time after WW2 freedom increased, then after about 1975 it moved into decline once more. Since then the world has been falling further into a kind of dictatorship maybe more successful and omnipresent than anything Hitler and Tojo (even Stalin) envisaged and this process is accelerating. The current generation will have to rise to the challenge of fighting this evil. My time is just about done, yet I have struggled to oppose the rise of state control all my life too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11480009/Ernie-Walker-106-passes-away-surviving-NSW-soldier-infamous-Rats-Tobruk-battle.html

02/12/2022: Yes! https://babylonbee.com/news/trans-furry-named-best-in-show-at-national-dog-show

02/12/2022: I agree witht this guy that the climate cult is ‘ultimately doomed’ because its proposals cannot possibly work but it can do a lot of harm before it ultimately fails just as Islam has been doing for the last 1500 years even though clearly it too is a false religion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/30/dont-be-so-sure-that-the-climate-extremists-have-won/

02/12/2022: Makes no sense to me anyway but I am not a voyeur. I prefer to do things than watch them: https://neveryetmelted.com/2022/11/28/the-most-boring-game/

01/12/2022: The largest squid weigh half a tonne and live in the deep ocean. Much smaller cephalopods have been shown to be intelligent. Is SETI looking in the wrong place? Should we be making efforts to establish communication with these guys? https://www.livescience.com/what-is-largest-squid

01/12/2022: An important lesson from Willis Eschenbach today, (couldn’t agree more), “I learned early about the importance of sharp tools. My second real job, at 13 years of age for $0.30 per hour ($3.00 per hour in 2022 dollars), was digging out a foundation for a new house with a pick and a shovel. And looking back, I was probably worth about that much per hour.

In those halcyon pre-PC days, working with a shovel was called “Playing the Swedish banjo”. Here’s a recent picture of me doing that very thing:

And I’ve played the Swedish banjo for more reasonable wages a number of times since I was 13.

Perhaps as a result of my work history, I divide folks into three groups:

Those who have used a shovel.

Those who have made money with a shovel.

Those who have sharpened a shovel.”

01/12/2022: You thought this could never happen: https://unherd.com/2022/11/a-biostate-wont-cure-the-west/

01/12/2022: Apple is conspiring with the communist dictatorship to lock down the Chinese people. Ditch your iphone now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/apple-helps-communist-china-suppressing-protests-disabling-airdrop-feature-just-weeks-protests/

30/11/2022: Next time you get the sniffles just slip a banana up your nose: https://scitechdaily.com/new-banana-derived-therapy-is-effective-against-all-known-coronaviruses-and-flu-strains/

30/11/2022: The Tech giants just hate free speech: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/its-war-apple-moves-against-twitter-helps-ccp-so-musk-vows-to-air-skeletons-and-maybe-move-into-smartphones/

30/11/2022: Dutch Government to Shut Down 3,000 Farms to Comply with Global Warming Goals: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/dutch-government-shut-3000-farms-comply-global-warming-goals/

30/11/2022: Remember when there was not going to be any more snow – is this year a ‘tipping point’ towards the next ice age? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/28/the-end-of-snow-again/

29/11/2022: Thanks for that Spot: https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/a-new-study-says-time-spent-with-dogs-increases-brain-activity-in-the-prefrontal-cortex-64385?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

29/11/2022: The Libs need to grow a couple. You have to stand for something (except ‘woke’). Dutton, hurry up and reject the ‘Voice’, Net Zero, Climate Change, Renewables, etc, etc. You will never beat the Left by following them down their own rat-holes – as has been the case federally and in WA, SA, Vic and now NSW.

29/11/2022: This is a truly horrifying development: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/irish-government-criminalize-hate-speech-effectively-silencing-hold-different-opinions-penalty-5-years-imprisonment/

29/11/2022: Climate change makes floods less severe: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/climate-change-apparently-makes-floods-less-severe/

28/11/2022: A Tall Tail: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/baby-girl-born-perfectly-normal-except-for-extremely-rare-tail/news-story/24807183d7e8e42a9ab1ebc47b077cd0

28/11/2022: I do support people’s ‘right to die’ but encouraging it and making it a spectator sport is another thing altogether: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/sick-canadian-clothing-line-la-maison-simons-exploits-young-womans-euthanasia-market-products-video/

28/11/2022: Will you be a ‘super-ager’? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Fhealth%2Fsuperager-secrets-good-memory-wellness%2Findex.html

28/11/2022: Exactly, changes in CO2 mirror nothing which actually occurs in earth’s climate. Take sea ice for example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/27/sea-ice-mysteries/

27/11/2022: Don’t try to find love online: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/online-love-gone-bad-peruvian-medical-student-lured-mexican-woman-visit-killed-harvested-organs-posting-video-tiktok/

27/11/2022: Duh! Why we should all have galvanized iron rooves. Another point is that if it is hotter insode the house this is because the roof absorbed more heat. That is we have changed the albedo (reflectivity) of our cities so that they absorb much more heat from the sun. It is little wonder then that they ‘appear’’ hotter in BOM/CSIRO data especially when the thermometers measuring this have moved to the city airports: https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-the-colour-of-your-roof-matters_4882907.html

27/11/2022: So now we know: Astra Zenica and Novavax were enormously safer. Glad that’s what we insisted on them for ourselves: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11464097/Covid-Australia-2022-Teen-misses-HSC-pericarditis-jab-reaction-cardiologist-issues-warning.html

27/11/2022: More power to computer models. By the time we get to COP100 there will be over 400,000 attendees! That’s a lot of jet planes, steak and lobsters to produce a huge amount of hot air – why building a trough works: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/23/the-future-of-cops/

26/11/2022: Titanaboa: Thank goodness we do not still have these guys in the back garden: https://www.thoughtco.com/titanoboa-worlds-biggest-prehistoric-snake-1093334

26/11/2022: How extreme the WEF is - Extraordinary that anyone would think the communist Chinese dictatorship was a ‘role model’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_mask_is_off_wefs_klaus_schwab_declares_china_a_role_model.html

26/11/2022: Brown coal-fired electricity still only costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour. If you had the choice, don’t you think you would choose that over this ‘renewables’ mess which sees prices of $200 per kilowatt hour? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/shh-despite-a-bloodbath-quarter-for-electricity-prices-hated-brown-coal-still-sells-at-just-4c-per-kwh/

26/11/2022: You just can’t imagine that this wasn’t already the law everywhere: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/italians-who-refuse-job-offers-will-have-social-benefits-revoked-meloni-warns

25/11/2022: End the green b------t. Hand Dan the Can on Saturday.

25/11/2022: I’m sure the ‘little green men’ are worried about this too: Astrobiologists concerned about imperialistic consequences of galactic exploration: https://www.thecollegefix.com/astrobiologists-concerned-about-imperialistic-consequences-of-galactic-exploration/

25/11/2022: Back when the pandemic started I said I did not want a dollar wasted trying to ‘save’ me (being in the ‘elderly’ group who were most likely to die). I’m sure many/most of my peers felt the same. I/we certainly did not want others to die for me, but that is what seems to be happening with the vaccine deaths amongt the young who would not have died from the disease. Many more deaths overall could have been prevented and more cheaply – as I said at the time) by utilisng cheap ‘medicines such as Vitamin D, Zinc and Ivermectin: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/in-south-australia-last-year-suddenly-lots-of-young-adults-went-to-hospital-with-cardiac-issues/ & https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/covid-2022-here-comes-the-big-kill

25/11/2022: CSIRO and BOM unfit for purpose. Contrary to their hysterical ‘findings’ there has been no warming in Australia for the last ten years. In fact the remote historical weather stations such as Cape Otway, Wilsons Prom etc show no warming since records began – though there clearly has been a cooling since WW1: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/the-australian-climate-is-fine-but-the-state-of-the-csiro-and-the-bom-is-a-crisis/

24/11/2022: DIY Crampons Equals 4WD Boots: I have had a number of falls and am still suffering from a sore (almost dislocated) shoulder and similarly sprained wrist but there is still much work to do. So recently I bought (from a local Bolt shop) some 15mm hex-headed self-tapping screws. These only came in stainless steel so were fairly dear at $20 per 100, but for this purpose you only need perhaps 20, so it will not break the bank. You can screw them directly into the soles of your boots (i used an electric drill) in suitable spots to create quasi 'hob-nailed boots'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/11/23/diy-crampons-equals-4wd-boots/

24/11/2022: Next we have the ‘trans-human’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gender-is-complicated-i-am-not-human/

24/11/2022: Is this why we banned tanning beds: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/naked-uk-woman-gets-trapped-in-tanning-bed/

24/11/2022: Looks like Shakespeare to me: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/22/is-this-really-the-only-portrait-of-william-shakespeare-made-in-his-lifetime?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=553f580c66-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_11_22_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-553f580c66-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

23/11/2022: Sword of Damocles: A wild and windy night! We were checking on the creek and dams this morning after all the bad weather and discovered this new "Sword of Damocles"which had obviously launched itself from the huge blue gum above, embedding itself firmly and deeply in the ground on the track below. So glad no-one was underneath at the time! All the branches below are another blue-gum giant that came down last winter. It is still waiting for the farm to dry out enough so that we can get machinery in to undertake the task of removing it

23/11/2022: Well done: Army Vet Beat Shooter to a Pulp with His Own Gun: https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/21/an-army-veteran-says-he-went-into-combat-mode-to-disarm-the-gunman/

23/11/2022: About that Ivermectin again. Note its proven efficacy (third link) as against the ‘approved’ anti-virals and the number of studies (and patients) which support this – hundreds of times as much evidence for it as compared to them. Vaccination failed (as predicted) indeed has probably killed more people than the disease would have (if properly managed): https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/29447/covid-in-november/ & https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftruth-about-ivermectin & https://c19ivm.org/meta.html#tcite_whoapproval

23/11/2022: Good: Brazil looks set to declare their Presidential election invalid. The military will likely overturn the fake result. You would hope that the same would happen with the fake results we have been getting in the US – and Australia: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/brazilian-military-just-waiting-bolsonaro-give-order-arrest-corrupt-communist-judge/

23/11/2022: 45,000 junketeers fly into Egypt to eat steak and lobsters and vote for everyone else to eat insects as well as decide more communism will fix everything – for them, the commissars at least. Well past time to cut them off and force them to get a life for themselves. All this based on fake data and eg the Urban Heat Island Effect on temperatures: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/cop27-climate-damages-is-just-a-fantasy-plan-to-tax-the-west-for-bad-weather-and-grow-the-un/

22/11/2022: Back to the moon: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-moon-mission-exceeding-expectaions.html

22/11/2022: Reality is not what we think it is. This may not affect how many elephants there are in the room but might affect how many angels there are on a pin-head: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/reality-objective-exist/

22/11/2022: Why it is hard to say ‘extinction is forever’: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-spotted-this-large-colorful-pigeon-that-no-one-has-seen-in-140-years?fbclid=IwAR2l_hjt-6ECqR3vY4rlxRhNeirDrFkWKwLkGNCLJluOAyeZ75crWgCeqZ8

22/11/2022: Cold kills. Here’s a little insight into why 60,000 folks died of cold in the UK last year. Our energy policies are clearly intended to thin the population: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63602501?fbclid=IwAR2mQLwPd5k9dDXwdp9x4ux1sfyZwpYIpPEi3OkA-xfuZ3IIkOTltdmf4oc

21/11/2022: A hot dog and a beer at the world cup in Qatar:

21/11/2022: Forget Methane; its heating effect is even more pathetic than CO2. Water vapour is the only real greenhouse gas worth thinking about: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/19/methane-much-ado-about-nothing/

21/11/2022: Bastiat is great. Check out his ‘broken window’ analogy if you want to learn something about how economics actually works: https://archive.org/details/thingsseennotsee00bast or http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#SECTION_G002

21/11/2022: Phantom Voters – I wonder how many we have here in Oz too? This is a key metric of the integrity of our democratic system. How can the rolls go unchecked for years and years? If we have mail-in ballots (we should not except in the most extreme cases of illness/infirmity and with vast safeguards) we will have scams. The same applies if we do not have voter ID on election day and serious penalties for fraud. It is also really important that everyone is voting with full knowledge – early voting means that this cannot be so. We should all vote on the same day and all votes should be counted openly and rigorously with lots of security checks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/can-see-phantoms-get-off-voter-rolls/ & https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Farticles%2F2022%2F11%2Felection_fraud_20_ok_so_what_are_you_gonna_do_about_it.html

20/11/2022: The Joy of Closed Roads: As a follow-up to my post Find Your Own Places to Explore can I suggest that for years (in Victoria - and elsewhere) our masters have been closing off previously useful access roads and tracks? Though these may not be open to vehicles (often despite sterling efforts to negotiate around piles of logs, rocks or deep cuts intended to prevent their use) they can often still be traveled by cycle or on foot - and frequently give relatively easy access to many quite delightful areas, though sometimes you may have to follow a game trail down a ridge to access a quiet camp by a stream at the end or adjacent to them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/11/19/the-joy-of-closed-roads/

20/11/2022: Ukraine bombs Poland then Zelensky asks that Nato declare WW3. Who is the worst of the evil rulers involved in this bloody war? However this seems to be a very long reach for Zelensky – there are clearly other players as we saw with the Nord explosions: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11447127/Explosion-hits-Russian-gas-pipeline-amid-suspicions-sabotage-linked-Putins-war-Ukraine.html

20/11/2022: Enough of the trannie, “Be Kind’ b------t: https://urbanscoop.news/good-men-stay-out-so-bad-men-stand-out/

20/11/2022: A few decades ago they tried to scare everybody with global cooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0 & https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/41978

19/11/2022: Forgotten animals of New Guinea: https://scitechdaily.com/new-discovery-reveals-that-giant-four-legged-kangaroo-existed-as-early-as-20000-years-ago/

19/11/2022: The ‘red wave’ was real but so was the Democrat voter fraud. We should not be so complacent here in Australia where such fraud is also well-established (again in the Left’s favour). Here (as in the US) I suspect it equates to at least a 5% advantage at the polls. Here there is an urgent need for voter ID, to clean up the electoral rolls (which have thousands of fake people on them) postal voting and early voting and to ensure that electoral officials are more representative of the population as a whole. We really should (where humanly possible) all be voting in our local booth where we can also be visually identified by people who know us, also all voting on the same day so that we are all making our decisions with the same information to hand. I think it would be good if the ballot paper was accompanied with say a 250 word ‘platform’ for every candidate: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/red-wave-was-no-trickle-it-was-real/

19/11/2022: “To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” Solzhenitsyn. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell. A somber reflection on the class war being fought in our schools by left-wing ideologues. You know this is happening here in Oz too: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/08/your-children-belong-to-the-state/

19/11/2022: No sooner did Trump declare himself in the race for the Presidency than the Dems launched several attempts to incriminate him. They are deeply afraid of this man – and so they should be. He might actually succeed in ‘making America great again’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/what-does-america-want/

18/11/2022: And now we have $250 hearing aids. All along it was a scam: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-airpods-cheaper-alternative-hearing-aids

18/11/2022: A great way to teach science: https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/15/coolest-high-school-science-class-ever-takes-students-hunting-n64411

18/11/2022: The best of both worlds? Why not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/new-report-details-growing-trend-transgender-people-seeking-surgeries-male-female-genitalia/

18/11/2022: Good luck with that ‘energy transition’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/global-demand-for-gigawatts-is-insatiable-to-make-one-smartphone-takes-almost-as-much-energy-as-a-fridge/

16/11/2022: Massive electoral fraud again in the US: If you can’t see that Biden could not have performed so well in the election just last week and still be getting these poll results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/fraud-9-believe-america-right-track-latest-poll-bidens-approval-dismal-39-days-scores-greatest-midterm-election-decades/

16/11/2022: That will teach them a lesson. What a ‘great religion’ – of course women don’t have ‘souls’ so it probably won’t even hurt them. Just like Descartes’ attitude to live vivisection of dogs really: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/11/14/iranian-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-executing-15000-womens-rights-protestors-n510889

15/11/2022: It is strange isn’t it that we can’t have more hydro dams because they ‘spoil’ the environment (though a much smaller area than wind or solar farms) and are their own batteries and do not require costly and dangerous lithium. I have long noticed that the Greens seem hell-bent on destroying the environment in order to ‘save’ it. Their huge wildfire destroyed ‘national parks’ are a case in point: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/not-green-at-all/

15/11/2022: Artificial photosynthesis might ‘save’ us but it has a long way to go yet: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-chemists-artificial-photosynthesis-ten-efficient.html

15/11/2022: Not quite the only sane scientist in the room: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/11/the-biggest-public-policy-disaster-in-a-lifetime/

15/11/2022: Living within your means and paying your way: Personally I was brought up with this duo pretty much as creeds. To many they seem quaint now, if people have even heard of them. Debt always involves printing funny money ahead of its being earned/created, hence it is the chief cause of inflation. It robs the future to pay for present excess, and always robs savers and rewards spendthrifts – so is unwise (as policy) at best. It can only be justified in times of national crises (such as imminent invasion). Unfortunately people come to believe in it, that it is normal/desirable even – and keep voting for it. The popularity of a proposition has no connection with its truth (or otherwise) – else there would not be so many billions of folk wedded yet to various religions, each believing their own to be the font of all truth, yet failing to grasp the obvious fact that whilst they cannot all be true, they can all be false - and almost certainly are. Imagine believing the ridiculous proposition that there is something after death. As if road kill was going to bound back to life. And such after-lives are still so woeful geographically, being associated still with well explored ups and downs. What? Will Voyager eventually encounter God? We cannot keep on racking up debt (either personally or nationally) as if there will be no tomorrow. The piper will eventually have to be paid. Unfortunately (as the fate of Hamelin reminds us) it will be our children who have to pay that price!

14/11/2022: Who should/can we vote for at the next election? The choice seems to have narrowed dreadfully. Once there was some sort of dichotomy. Perhaps it was artificial but now we are just offered different shades of the same thing – at least by the ‘major parties. Perhaps why they have actually disappeared in some countries, such as France where neither has won an election for at least a decade. Hopefully we have at last come to that impasse in our own social life, as the majors are at present just simply dreadful, but the media (and their own inexperience) also appears to disallow the minors. I used to think of this as fascism, ie a conspiracy. Perhaps as far as media input is concerned it is. Now I am not so sure. Sometimes as the saying goes, ‘S—t just happens’. For example, I was trying to discover whether there were any Australian political parties which oppose the ‘climate’ paradigm. Who were for example in favour of new coal-fired and/or nuclear power stations, such as they are building by the thousands in India and China, for example rather than going without - as we seem to be headed for. (Aside: we would have to build the former first ie Helios as it will take at least a decade for us to develop the manpower and expertise to build the latter no matter how desirable. The demand for affordable electricity will not wait twenty years – the lead time I foresee for a switch to widespread delivery of nuclear powered electricity to your home). There may be still some Liberals and Nationals which favour this course but the leadership of their parties has made the party platforms well-nigh indistinguishable from Labor and the Greens. The Liberal Democrats and Citizens Party both favour nuclear in their platforms. One Nation and UAP both seem to still oppose the ‘climate paradigm’ I suspect the DLP and Family First would go along with them. I suspect the only thing we can do is to preference the minor conservative parties ahead of the Nationals and Liberals following them with Labor and the Greens in the hope that some conservative candidates will get up and be able to exert enough force over time to turn the ship of state around – otherwise the ship will sink.

14/11/2022: What should we talk about? Interesting. I remember being surprised reading in P.G.Wodehouse years ago about the introduction of ‘small talk’ into society. I had not realized until then that it was ‘a thing’ – but there you go. I have always found it unbearably tedious, but no doubt (to others) my conversation is replete with all sorts of social gaffes resulting in my failing to dizzyingly ascend the social ladder: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/11/people-oversharing-tmi-friendship-boundaries/671970/?utm_source=pocket_saves

14/11/2022: Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Looks like a good idea. A million years’ of electric power available – will that be enough? https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/hydrogen-boron-fusion-could-be-a-dream-come-true/

13/11/2022: Writing has always served really important purposes: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/oldest-known-written-sentence-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb

13/11/2022: This is as at last an important step forward: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/aussie-company-gives-new-life-to-old-hybrid-and-ev-batteries-138333/?fbclid=IwAR0pDMQPdV9MMJuZ8zTkThcUuolNUFL-upkrFt7xBAG1Eq-870DT4q66gE8

13/11/2022: Once it was good news that the last Ice Age was going away: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/11/glacier-saga/

13/11/2022: They know how to do things in Wales: https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/sex-offender-dies-from-shock-and-haemorrhaging-after-genitals-cut-off/news-story/ff5d48825f701f9eae05434e424b3a40

11/11/2022: Starting to look as if the Democrat electoral fraud huge as it no doubt was, involving maybe nearly 20% fake votes may not have been quite enough!

11/11/2022: Duh! https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/11/08/national-park-service-warning-no-licking-sonoran-desert-toad/1341667947342/

11/11/2022: 200 million! Just a reminder of how many people leftist governments murdered in the C20th – yet you wonder why I am a conservative. The current conflict in Central Africa, a war which has cost more lives than probably all but three is not mentioned: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/09/data-on-mass-murder-by-government-in-the-20th-century/

11/11/2022: Lithium mining does not look like a big win for the environment: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/lithium-mining-for-electric-vehicles-is-incredibly-destructive-to-the-environment-and-about-as-far-from-green-as-you-can-imagine/

10/11/2022: De Santis’ (Florida = 20%) red wave ought to have swept the Democrats away nation-wide, but his was one of the few states which had fixed the corruption in their electoral systems. (What’s taking so long?) The crooked Democrats took full advantage of that with every form of skullduggery imaginable to steal back the election even where they were polling well under the Independents. Exit polls in Arizona for example had them at 14% and Independents at 27% yet Kari Lake (Republican) is struggling to win. Voting machines broke down, thousands of people were turned away from voting – every kind of dirty trick and fraud imaginable. Similarly there is no way the brain-dead Fetterman could have won in Pennsylvania where (in another contest) they managed to elect a dead man to represent them. When the ‘home of the free’ is no more, alas for the future of the world.

10/11/2022: It is unbelievable that people are behaving like this in the birthplace of democracy. Such vile, extreme antisemitism: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/london-horrible.html

10/11/2022: Have we made society too equal, so destroying it in the process? We certainly have far too many people who will not do meaningful work: https://www.city-journal.org/impoverished-by-equality

10/11/2022: So true: Why the quest for happiness is a fraud: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/07/the-big-idea-why-we-shouldnt-try-to-be-happy?fbclid=IwAR0W8SlKYwYPN2YZRX0YumH5HCE3QbCS17Co4hVclm2jtUjl4OUoE5M9wk4

09/11/2022: “Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

George Eliot in Middlemarch’

09/11/2022: Making VR more real, now a VR headset which actually kills you. Great idea: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/oculus-headset-killer-palmer-luckey-nervegear-b2219992.html

09/11/2022: Soon we won’t even be allowed to be grandparents (after being banned from being mums and ads some time back). This ‘Newspeak’ nonsense is all quite insane: https://www.theepochtimes.com/australians-outraged-at-schools-renaming-grandparents-as-grandfriends_4849116.html

09/11/2022: Climate change has become a convenient excuse for doing nothing about real conservation problems. The dreadful ‘experiment’ of our constantly razed yet weed and vermin infested ‘National Parks’ which we may not even walk in here in Oz is a case in point: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/08/matt-ridley-green-zealots-are-threatening-real-conservation/

08/11/2022: A poignant and valid lament: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/economics/2022/11/the-stradivarius-and-the-market/

08/11/2022: Unless another massive electoral fraud succeeds the US election is predicted to be a red tsunami, ie a massive Republican (America First) victory in both Congress and Senate. Let’s hope this happens today and that it is the beginning of the wind-back of all the evil Leftist forces everywhere, everywhen.

08/11/2022: You have to figure they will want to make euthenasia compulsory so as to get rid of us troubling old (right-wing) folks and no doubt the ongoing attack on the availability of painkillers is a quiver in their bow: https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/11/04/doctors-advised-suggest-suicide-patients-canada-runs-out-basic-painkillers/

08/11/2022: There is some hope the world may rid itself of the inconvenience of ‘daylight saving’: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/daylight-saving-time?rid=0BE1689690A4BEB6E8876A8F4E63485E&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20221106

07/11/2022: Is witchcraft making a comeback: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/was-lola-daviets-murder-motivated

07/11/2022: Trudeau shuts down the Internet – the Left is coming for your minds: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/woe-canada-justin-trudeau-comrades-seek-abolish-internet-freedom-canadian-citizens/

07/11/2022: A new internal combustion engine which is 50% more efficient: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a19909520/gas-diesel-engine-reactivity-controlled-compression-ignition/?src=socialflowFBRAT&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowR%26T&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0X4-eEkVW9-gz91cBUc1QL8s3IbIFSk6eYc9A4JaodpWE6HtC87x_OCQI

07/11/2022: Eschew Soothsayers – no-one knows what the future will be and anyone who claims they do is a charlatan. As an example, 100% of climate models predicted that it would be much warmer than it actually is: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/10/50-year-u-s-summer-temperature-trends-all-36-climate-models-are-too-warm/

The alleged warming becomes even less if you subtract the urban heat effect: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/11/de-urbanization-of-surface-temperatures-with-the-landsat-based-built-up-dataset/

And etc: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/05/how-ipccs-1990-predictions-expensively-failed/

06/11/2022: Tocharus – a fascinating site if you are interested in the importance of ancient history: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/the-diet-of-slaves

06/11/2022: Just in case you were thinking the recent election in Brazil was honest (or that electronic voting might be a good idea): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/11/how-they-count-votes-in-brazil/

06/11/2022: So, how long will it be before more people are killed by lithium battery fires than car accidents? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/saving-the-world-with-lithium-four-times-a-week-an-e-bike-battery-explodes-into-flames-in-new-york/

06/11/2022: Yes we have peak (climate) madness. Australia is about to impoverish its future. We must vote out these climate parties (Labor/Libs/Greens) and elect anyone else: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/04/australian-government-to-ban-all-future-fossil-fuel-projects/

05/11/2022: A real anti-aging treatment – bring it on: https://scitechdaily.com/unexpected-scientists-discover-an-anti-aging-mechanism/

05/11/2022: I see the Chinese nearly lobbed a huge rocket on us (and probably you too). Only luck it did not squash us. Not really good enough Mr Xi – Try to emulate Elon in future: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/good-citizen-china-carelessly-crashes-23-tons-of-space-junk-on-earth-gets-lucky-but-300-flights-in-spain-delayed/

05/11/2022: Bring back Liz! Sunak must go! After re-banning fracking on Day 1 and rushing off to COP 27 which Liz shunned, he now sides with Palestinians and terrorists – how did he even get to be PM anyway? I thought that was decided (by a stunning majority) by an actual plebiscite of Conservative Party members? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/3/uk-has-no-plans-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-pm-office

05/11/2022: Too true: “Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it…Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize these actions: throwing food, spilling milk, smearing paint on the walls, sitting on the ground and refusing to move. Add in the inability to properly dispose of one’s bodily waste, and the pattern is complete. This is the behavior of toddlers.” https://quillette.com/2022/10/30/moral-toddlerhood/

Their attack on the greatest art ever produced (while they are able to produce nothing) is a grim reminder of the ISIS terrorists who blew up Palymyra – again an echo of how much the Greens resemble, indeed emulate the Nazis: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/climate-vandals-mimic-isis-in-their-war-against-art/

04/11/2022: Do we have ‘Peak Woke’ yet: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/woke-must-be-close-to-peaking.html

04/11/2022: Huge differences in Covid 19 between these two countries. Why? https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries-one-with

04/11/2022: The Dangers of Low Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations – from a real climate scientist: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-dangers-of-low-atmospheric-co2-concentrations/

04/11/2022: I realize that it was the Left (Democrats) who were the slavery party and that it was the British people and British navy which (largely) ended it – and at great public cost – but it still amazes me how the ‘elites’ of today are (still) in favour of racist distinctions and preferments whilst using that very word as a weapon against their enemies ie any don’t agree with them – and instead support Martin Luther King’s contention that people ought to be judged solely on their worth as human beings: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/all-the-best-people-favor-racial-discrimination.php

03/11/2022: Nuts! Why we must ‘save the planet’ from our sheep: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/climate-injustice-a-personal-account-from-a-kiwi-farmer/

03/11/2022: The Conservatives’ motto, “Never let go of the old, or harm it in any way, until the new is well and truly in hand.” Take the oil industry as an example. (We are in for a very rough time): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/02/big-oil-small-oil/

03/11/2022: “Australians don’t want the state creating breadlines for kids – they want politicians to lower taxes, stop wasting money, fix the energy grid, get out of their lives, and return all those fines issued to innocent people during the pandemic.” But it’s not what Guy is standing for – if he stands for anything. We must put our wholesale support behind the other conservative alternatives despite some of their shortcomings else we will just have another four years of Dictator Dan, and basically ruin! https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/lobster-bisque/

03/11/2022: It has got to be past time they got rid of Joe. A guy who can’t even remember where and when his own son died is just not all there. But who are they going to replace him with? Not cackling Kamala surely? Do try to remember these folks have their fingers on the nuclear war trigger: https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/biden-again-wrongly-says-son-beau-died-in-iraq-in-stumbling-florida-speech/

02/11/2022: Why am I not surprised: https://www.psypost.org/2022/10/cannabis-use-does-not-increase-actual-creativity-but-does-increase-how-creative-you-think-you-are-study-finds-64187?utm_source=PsyPost+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d652cb89e1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44dd6ef29-d652cb89e1-127440501

02/11/2022: Good Question: Why hasn’t feminism made women happier? https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/why-60-years-of-feminism-has-not-made-women-any-happier/

02/11/2022: China’s CO2 emissions exceed the rest of the developed world (and are increasing) yet we are cutting back on everything (at our great cost). This is just a kind of mass suicide madness: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/china-is-the-luminous-elephant-floating-in-the-kitchen-at-cop27-the-developing-nation-that-builds-space-stations/

02/11/2022: Looks like Bolsonaro will overturn the rigged election in Brazil (which his party won resoundingly) – this is what Trump should have done. In other news Bibi is back in Israel. And looking like a red tide in the US. Can’t wait for the other dominoes to fall (Sunak, Ardern, Albanese…): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-brazilian-president-plans-presser-tonight-will-announce-military-audit-controversial-election-may-arrest-criminal-judges/

01/11/2022: A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Conservative!"

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."

The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Progressive."

"I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault.

01/11/2022: Who needs a weather bureau when we can just use soothsayers instead? Things just get worse and worse. Does anyone (else) care: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/third-world-australian-met-bureau-cuts-back-on-weather-balloons-scientists-say-its-kind-of-horrific/

01/11/2022: Bowen is simply brain dead – he just wants us to live by extracting sunlight from cucumbers, as in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/unfeasible-and-unrealistic-to-have-small-modular-reactors-in-australia-bowen/video/dee65dbfd0a711926a209cd3767baaf8

01/11/2022: Evidently the Brazilian election is also mathematically impossible. Is this the WEF and New World Order folks at work again? Probably. (In Brazil the military may overturn it). PS: I would also like to think ‘we’ did not vote for Albanese – well, only 27% of ‘us’ did actually. Anyway conservatives need to get more involved with the election process –as adjudicators and election officials – it is clearly foolish leaving all this to the Left : https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/coup-team-biden-bragged-rigging-brazil-election-president-bolsonaro-election-day-says-stop-steal-leader-ali-alexander/

31/10/2022: You are what you eat: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/30/food-that-looks-like-family-michigan-mom-makes-hilarious-meatloaf-resembling-her-son/

31/10/2022: House hunting on Mars: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/29/house-hunting-on-mars-has-already-started/

31/10/2022: Sunak wants people dead but Truss did not. The UK’s new PM is not an improvement: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/uk-chaos-its-almost-like-fracking-was-the-biggest-threat/

31/10/2022: Even (and at last) Greenpeace admits plastic recycling is rubbish, but it will not move on to burning it to produce electricity: https://www.city-journal.org/greenpeace-admits-recycling-doesnt-work

30/10/2022: Data shows net zero is a lie: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/eight_graphs_that_prove_net_zero_is_a_woke_scam

30/10/2022: Remember when the USSR crumbled and its super-power status was revealed to have had an economy the size of Portugal’s? I have long suspected that China is much the same. There is evidence of this: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=53072

30/10/2022: Integration, Yes! Well said Gary, (who was an ex-Labor Minister by the way): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/10/reframing-the-debate-in-aboriginal-affairs/

29/10/2022: The ‘Ms Higgins’ case is just awful. This is not anything like the Adrian Baillie/Jill Meagher case, nor is she an innocent schoolgirl being dragged off the footpath in broad daylight and raped at knifepoint in the bushes. The law was intended to ‘protect’ such real victims and to punish the perpetrators. I have long said that such actual crimes merit the death penalty. But to consensually go to you workplace in dead of night, dead drunk, and to have no memory of the incidents is not the behaviour of an innocent. Such behaviour in itself should be punished by dismissal from employment (for both participants). That is about where the matter should have ended. There was never enough ‘evidence’ to bring a charge of rape. If there had been ‘evidence’ at the time Ms Higgins destroyed it. Her too bad. If the case fails, will she be charged with a crime (perjury, wasting police time, defamation, etc)? I doubt it – but in such failed cases where the other person’s reputation and morale has been destroyed for months or years there should be some corresponding penalty. A custodial period at least to discourage vexatious claimants.

29/10/2022: How did Stan Grant (perhaps a quarter or one-eight caste, if any – not so long ago he used to be Irish) get to be blacker than Jacinta Price – or even her mother Bess, or even her (still living) grandmother, one of the very last people to walk out of the Western Desert, meet Europeans for the first time and (in so doing) ‘vote’ to join the rest of the human race. I suspect a lot of it really is down to ‘Nugget’ ie boot polish, which perhaps should be banned and only purple allowed: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinta_price_calls_out_labor_s_woke_federal_budget

29/10/2022: Under Ardern NZ is now ‘The land of the thought police’. Not sure I will be allowed in either. Did plan to go there hiking again next year – perhaps they will have a change of Government before then? https://www.rebelnews.com/i_wouldn_t_be_let_in_under_nz_s_opposing_views_ban_says_andrew_bolt

29/10/2022: “The demand for electric car drivers exceeds the supply”. Instapundit.

28/10/2022: Thomson Dam at 99.8%. It’s going to flow over – tomorrow probably. Second time only – maybe you missed it in 1996. Quite a sight. Plus lunch at the Erica, Rawson or Walhalla Pubs, but book: https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/water-storage-levels#/ PS: It has gone over – view from the power station is the best:

28/10/2022: ‘Farming needs to stop’ to save the planet. Does insanity have a limit? Probably not. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/22/farming-needs-to-stop-thats-the-single-biggest-driver-of-climate-change/

28/10/2022: If you aren’t concerned about this you truly are brain dead: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/australian-inflation-soars-to-73-highest-since-1990.html

28/10/2022: The Green Revolution - in other news: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/

And: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/destruction-of-german-heritage430-year-old-family-craft-bakery-succumbs-to-green-revolution/

27/10/2022: On this day in 2011: "Went to Melbourne to see the Queen...but we weren't as pushy as some...we saw - the backs of people's heads! Interesting to see the many Anglos in the crowd and just how civilised and well-behaved they were. One woman left her small baby with us (total strangers) whilst she took her small daughter to the toilet. Wonderful to live in such a civilised society". I suspect it has all passed now, alas. We both saw her in 1954. At the time Della’s parents lived at Toongabbie (Western Sydney) and our family had come all the way down from Paterson in the Hunter Valley to see her at Toongabbie! Della and I (who met in 1971, 17 years later – though I used to see her every day on my way to work in 1970) must have been very close that day - we have been ever since.

27/10/2022: ‘Free’ Power Bank: 'Waste not, want not' was another of my mother's favourite maxims - one I have certainly taken to heart, as my wife will attest as I has fill our house and sheds up with all sorts of 'mathoms' - hobbit for 'junk'.

I had two 'dead' laptop batteries which I probably ought to have binned or recycled but today (it was raining) I decided to dismantle them instead and stripped off the welded tabs. Each contained 6 x 18650 rechargeable lithium batteries.

Each cell was dead flat. After placing them in the single power bank I recommended here they (surprisingly) all came back 'to life'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/26/free-power-bank/

27/10/2022: "By 2001...a chicken reached the weight at which it would be killed in one-third of the time and after eating one-third of the food compared with the 1957 breed...represents...reduction in waste and in the..land devoted to growing feed per chicken" http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/genetics-bigger-chickens

27/10/2022: The future that the green madness plans for or electricity/energy supply too. Vote for anyone else: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/unplug-the-fridge-uk-gears-up-for-hard-cold-winter-and-bbc-secretly-plans-for-a-national-blackout/

It’s the cold, stupid. The same sort of view is presented here, and the same conclusion: kick as many of our rulers out when we get the chance as we possibly can: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/lets-talk-about-real-climate-cataclysms/

27/10/2022: This new racist apartheid politics is enough (for me) never to vote Labor/Coalition again. Imagine being denied access to any public land in Australia on the basis of my ‘race’ – or ‘tribe’ as it might be! I have never considered myself to belong to other than the human ‘race’, nor I think should anyone else. If we have not even got our humanity in common, what do we have? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/the-grim-warning-of-mount-warning/

26/10/2022: World’s dirtiest man dies (at 94): https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/worlds-dirtiest-man-dies-aged-94-months-after-taking-his-first-shower-in-67-years/news-story/257c86cf8ba484dc5c90add6a5c95136

26/10/2022: O2 is what we should really be worried about. Its percentage in the atmosphere wouldn't have to fall too much before our kind of life found it decidedly uncomfortable (especially at elevation). What is the environmentalists' response to this impending 'crisis': Lock up two molecules of oxygen for every molecule of carbon forever (ie CO2 sequestration). Fortunately life has another way: it is called photosynthesis: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/23/earths-great-oxidation-event/#more-72919

26/10/2022: Farage is almost certainly right - Sunak is not the man: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/globalist-ever-saw-one-believe-conservatives-doomed-nigel-farage-blasts-new-uk-pm-rishi-sunak-video/

26/10/2022: I hope this morning you are beginning to realize how hopeless Labor and the Greens are: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-tough-times-to-get-much-harder-under-labor/news-story/88e1d2c073aa7396ad1c94ec335f036a

24/10/2022: I know it is impolite to speak ill of the dead, but just a reminder (from 2016): The Royal Commission’s findings regarding Kimberly Kitching are that ‘(v) Kimberly Kitching should be charged with and prosecuted for aiding and abetting the contraventions of each of Diana Asmar, David Eden, Darryn Rowe, Nick Katsis, Saso Trajcevski-Uzunov and Lee Atkinson (Chapter 9).’ Yet Shorten’s Labor promoted her to a place in the Senate! Her death was then dressed up as a great tragedy – as if such (corrupt) folks ought not be executed (shot) out of hand.

24/10/2022: Save the Planet’, the ‘great unwashed’ scream, yet we may have already done so (and by the unlikely means of the Industrial Revolution’). Let me explain: Plants need @ 200ppm of CO2 to survive. If the percentage drops below that (ie .02%) life will pretty much cease – yet the pre-Industrial world tilted perilously close to that. The percentage has varied from upwards of 20,000ppm in the time of the dinosaurs for example, down to just over 200ppm over time, during which warm, tropical periods and ice ages came and went completely uncorrelated to its percentage. However, steadily the percentage of CO2 being liberated by volcanism and other processes eg from the carboniferous rocks, coal & peat deposits etc where it ‘ultimately’ becomes ‘locked up, declined until just before the Industrial Revolution its percentage was such that the cessation of life on earth was imminent. The forests shrank and great plains and deserts spread across much of the globe as there was not enough CO2 to build any more forests, and much of life had to retreat to what were really oases to survive. Just in the nick of time (folks of a religious persuasion will see this as predestined) as a result of the Industrial Revolution personkind began to liberate vast quantities of carbon in the form of CO2 and a wonderful profusion of life was the result. The forests spread, the deserts and grasslands retreated and once more a profusion of life saturated the planet: That is the era we are living in: the Anthropocene. It can only get better! In the last @30 years this CO2 has caused the increase of approx two Australia’s of new forested areas in the world. Think how much life that supports. If you are pro-life, get behind CO2! More please.

24/10/2022: I think the most awful part of this story is that the audience cheered: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/transgender-comedian-strips-naked-live-tv-broadcast-plays-piano-penis/

24/10/2022: May be ordering some of these bumper stickers: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/saving-australia-one-bumper-sticker-at-a-time/

23/10/2022: Cruising to the North Pole: https://us.ponant.com/destinations/the-arctic Should you think this voyage is down to ‘global warming you shuld realise nuclear subs have been doing it for a long while: https://theaviationist.com/2016/03/21/watch-this-stunning-video-of-a-u-s-nuclear-submarine-breaking-the-ice-to-surface-in-the-arctic-circle/ and that the Vikings always used the North-West passage in their voyages to Greenland. They had to abandon their Greenland colony when the world became too cold around 500 years ago. It has not warmed much since – not enough to resume farming there or to growing wine outdoors in Northern England as used to be the case: https://notrickszone.com/2018/04/02/during-the-800s-1300s-ad-wine-grapes-were-grown-at-latitudes-where-polar-bears-now-roam/

23/10/2022: SpaceX is really transforming space – not to mention communications here on earth. Rumour has it that Musk will ‘soon’ add functionality to Starlink which will allow cellphones to also act as satellite phones (when away from a conventional tower). That would be a game-changer: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-group-4-36-satellites-launch

23/10/2022: Finally positive proof covid 19 came from a lab: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/blockbuster-fingerprint-genetic-evidence-strongly-suggests-covid-was-bio-engineered/

23/10/2022: Alas, the ‘coup’ in China was for Xi not against him. His opponents are disappearing before your very eyes: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/stunning-video-from-china/

22/10/2022: Hajimari Boomerang Ball – have your kids got this amazing toy yet? https://hajimariball.com/

22/10/2022: Michael Shellenberger has some fine points here including that the ‘climate narcissism’ we see about us (especially in the young) might well be a result of “overprotection and coddling of children by their parents and other adults result(ing) in anxious, depressed, and grandiose adolescents”: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1573370013054128129

22/10/2022: So much for Gillard being against ‘misogyny’. Did you realize she basically abolished women altogether? https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/gillards-guilt/

Meanwhile real women vote on more important issues: inflation, crime, schools, their kids’ futures… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/wayne-root-las-vegas-oddsmaker-says-bet-house-gop-landslide-women-stupid/

22/10/2022: Well played Volkswagen: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/protestors-glue-floor-get-mad-company-doesnt-provide-bowl-urinate-defecate/

No sense warming or lighting climate protesters with fossil fuel.

In other news: https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-climate-activists-vandalize-a-picasso-but-no-one-can-tell

21/10/2022: The Simplest Electric ‘Motor’ – the black cylinder is a battery and the round object is a magnet. There are so many true and enchanting things children can be taught about the world without stuffing their developing brains with falsehoods and creeds: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534051-100-show-children-how-to-make-a-simple-electric-motor-with-a-magnet/

21/10/2022: Even my dead dog wouldn’t vote for you – but evidently she could: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/dead-dog-receives-register-vote-mail-application-mi-dem-party-homeowners-response-priceless/

21/10/2022: China Won’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels Until Clean Sources Can Provide Enough Energy Security – why are they the only sensible nation? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/china-says-cheap-energy-is-more-important-than-climate-wish-list/

21/10/2022: An awful crime and tragedy. 12 such deaths so far. France is in serious trouble from its experiment in ‘multi-culturalism’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/the-murder-of-lola-and-the-failure-of-marconism/

20/10/2022: Remembering that before John Howard and other such nanny-staters people always had the right to bear arms: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/given-back-as-a-gift-that-which-was-taken/ PS: It appalls me that the Port Arthur ‘tragedy/conspiracy’ should have been the excuse used to remove/curtail this right. Remember that if the events of that day really played out as the official version claims the truth would not be locked away from us for 75 years!

20/10/2022: No doubt some people dream of such things: imagine finding 100 naked men on the side of the road: https://www.news.com.au/world/united-nations-demands-investigation-after-100-naked-men-found-on-the-side-of-a-road/news-story/965a04a90628bb83d4a1c17a5a02825c

20/10/2022: The covid vaccine story just keeps getting worse and worse: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/alice-in-vax-land-lets-test-this-on-8-mice-and-force-it-on-50-million-children/

20/10/2022: Albanese lied to Parliament and the Australian people (on a Stat Dec) and should be forced to resign. In yesterday’s Herald Sun he was openly admitting he has been in contact with his brother in Italy for at least 12 years (ie back when Gillard was PM) yet when Turnbull was PM he still claimed he did not have ‘dual nationality’ and did not know who his father was. All others who had such ‘dual nationality’ were forced to resign. He has persisted with this lie. A man who will lie about who his own father was will lie about anything. He should go: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/halfbrother-of-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-reveals-the-bond-they-share-for-first-time/news-story/7155127610c79b9539b3c24c076d5b7a

18/10/2022: Cipolla’s five basic laws of stupidity – they ought to be graven in stone in every public place so we may harken to them: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/are-you-technically-stupid-check-the-third-basic-law/

18/10/2022: Past floods without CO2: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/the-forgotten-floods-of-victoria-from-150-years-ago/

18/10/2022: You wonder why anyone would want to create a virus that was nearly totally fatal: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/arrest-now-boston-university-doctors-create-new-covid-variant-80-kill-rate-funded-dr-fauci-nih/

18/10/2022: Antisemitic ALP at it again. Jerusalem no longer the capital of Israel – after how many thousands of years. Next repeal the law of gravity Albo: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/albanese-administration-drops-australias-recognition-of-jerusalem-as-capital-of-israel.html

17/10/2022: Seems there are folks who can’t distinguish between disagreeing with a culture, and ‘racism’, the newest easy ‘put-down’ – all too distinguishable from ‘thought’. They have forgotten (apparently – did they ever know?) that most of my and my parents’ lives (this is litotes) was spent fighting the dreadful culture of communism, or that some years of my parents’ generations’ lives were spent eradicating the culture of Nazism, or that my generation stamped out the culture of cannibalism in New Guinea (and with it that fascinating parasite – responsible for the dread disease ‘kuru’ – which more than anything I know of proved that ‘life will find a way!), and so much more. Evil must be fought, whether it is politically correct to do so or not. Not all cultures are equal, certainly not all are good, and some are downright execrable. A culture which supports extreme violence and sexual abuse of women and children for example, must not be allowed to remain. There is ample evidence that there are some cultures which do have horribly evil characteristics at their very core: they must be eliminated. (I have no time for the Saudis, for example). Traditional ‘aboriginal culture’ is an oxymoron. I am not (of course) advocating harming or killing any human being when I say this. For example, I had a number of friends who were ‘patrol officers’ in New Guinea in the 50’s and 60’s who were in the front-line in the ‘war’ against cannibalism and ‘cargo cults’. Some even lost their lives. One friend Jimmy, while helping to eradicate cannibalism in the Highlands, married a Chimbu girl, one of the most interesting (certainly the blackest) friend I have ever had (and the only cannibal!) who had the most awesome eidetic memory (as pre-literate peoples are said to do) and could repeat word for word conversations you had with her months or years before!…yet it was immensely to the benefit of her (and their children’s lives) that the culture of cannibalism was ended! Unfortunately we imported the ‘cargo cults’ and there are now millions of Australians who won’t live without this ‘manna from Heaven’ – or from their hard-working fellow countrymen at least!

17/10/2022: Oh Liz…Definitely not another Maggie Thatcher then, alas. Fourth ‘Treasurer’ in three months – have the Brits forgotten how to add up – like everyone else? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/uk-pm-liz-truss-fires-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng.html

17/10/2022: The climate is enormously, inherently stable. The world “has had millennia to settle into those planetary-scale patterns of temperatures and available sunshine…Once the average available solar power is above 310W/m2, you can add up to an additional 50 W/m2 without increasing the surface temperature one bit.”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/solar-sensitivity/

17/10/2022: Peter Smith has a very valid point about imposing a Versailles type ‘solution’ on Russia which will just serve to ignite forces leading to further disastrous conflict. The cessation of hostilities in Ukraine needs to be handled very very sensitively, not with a sledgehammer: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/10/16/more-mainstream-media-mediocrity/

16/10/2022: ‘1883’ – a great new series. Della doesn’t usually share my passion for Westerns but she really enjoyed this. Get it from Pirate Bay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_(TV_series)

16/10/2022: Disappointments of time travel: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/ancient-technology-0017394

16/10/2022: Bring it on: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientists-osteoarthritis.html

16/10/2022: Serial Killer diversity has come a long way: https://www.frontpagemag.com/serial-killers-are-too-white/

15/10/2022: ‘Derry Girls’, the funniest thing to come out of Ireland since ‘Father Ted’. For about the first three episodes you will think it is in a foreign language but you will eventually get your ears around it. Lots of belly laughs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls

15/10/2022: So, Pfizer now admits they never tested to see whether their vaccine would prevent covid transmission. We put such people in charge! https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-exec-admits-under-oath-we-never-tested-covid-vaccine-against-transmission

Meanwhile, Dr Peter McCullough: "Before the Covid jabs, 4 in a million Myocarditis cases, afterwards, 25,000 in a million....Myocarditis at this point in time is due to the Covid jabs until proven otherwise." Myocarditis, a 6,000 times increase – just a coincidence!

15/10/2022: Ian Plimer is great: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/my-cpac-turpitudes/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UNFI%20%2020221012%20%20SG&utm_content=UNFI%20%2020221012%20%20SG+CID_5eacab48e9c8ceeb250824f935714947&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Plimer%20continues%20to%20melt%20their%20fake%20news%20with%20facts

15/10/2022: Bring back the cane for such spoilt vandals. I am sick of being lectured to by half-witted badly raised infants of whatever age: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/climate-activists-throw-soup-on-van-gogh-painting-to-save-the-world/

14/10/2022: Find Your Own Places to Explore An ‘extension’ of an earlier post, Gully Walking

I have always liked Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ even though I realised long ago how much he/it owed toward my even more favourite poet, Edward Thomas. However I too long ago “took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” as Frost reflects, and I urge you to do the same.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

It is all very well (as a beginner hiker/outdoorsman) perhaps to first experience some of the outstanding ‘great walks’ which abound in your country, but soon you will realize that they are both too crowded and have long since stopped providing quite the bliss of solitude and exploration which perhaps their creation envisaged. But you have to start somewhere.

Before you head off on your own ‘road’ you first need to master some bushcraft skills such as I have been talking about here for quite some time. You need to be able to find your way unaided (ie with just your senses and intelligence through the trackless bush (for days at a time) – and this takes study and practice. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/13/find-your-own-places-to-explore/

14/10/2022: Just a small mistake: https://www.wxii12.com/article/suspects-finger-severed-victim-slams-door-hand-attempted-home-invasion/41585440#

14/10/2022: Do you need further proof that EVs will not work: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/dear-neighbour-please-ration-your-electricity-use-so-our-evs-can-charge/

14/10/2022: Glyphosate not the bad guy then: https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/10/11/science-finally-winning-day-glyphosate-cases-16602

13/10/2022: More questions for our time: Did Kosciuszko die of acne? http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65336

13/10/2022: Five compelling reasons why you should reject ‘man-made climate change’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/five-climate-change-smoking-guns-reasons-manmade-climate-change-lie/

13/10/2022: Which came first – Nazism or environmentalism? https://www.encounterbooks.com/features/nazis-embraced-environmentalism/

13/10/2022: ‘Who blew up the Kerch Bridge’ – a question to add to ‘Who blew up Nords 1 & 2?’ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/russian-spy-agency-identifies-crimean-bridge-bombers-reveals-route-bomb-ukraine-bulgaria-armenia-georgia-exploding-russian-bridge/ & https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/who-really-blew-up-the-kerch-bridge/

12/10/2022: A grand old lady passes: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/angela-lansbury-murder-she-wrote-star-and-legendary-hollywood-actress-dead

12/10/2022: Peak Oil Anyone? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/04/the-permian-basin-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

12/10/2022: Clearly they knew about covid much earlier than we were told: https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/chinese-scientist-filed-covid-vaccine-patent-after-contagion-emerged-report/

12/10/2022: Neither do I think this was ‘misinformation’. Such ‘information’ as we got was rather poor and very one-sided. The move by ‘Big Tech’ and Big Gov’ to throttle it was dire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/florida-surgeon-general-advises-men-aged-18-39-not-to-take-covid-vax-twitter-deletes-misinformation/

11/10/2022: Jacinta Price is great. Hers is the kind of ‘Voice’ we need as a nation.: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/the-jacinta-juggernaut/

11/10/2022: How good are EVs in an emergency? Now those which got wet are exploding. Great stuff: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/electric_vehicles_and_the_evacuation_of_florida.html

11/10/2022: An author to check out: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/she-holds-six-of-top-10-spots-on-new.html

11/10/2022: Today’s Left seeks to turn everywhere into Albania: https://notesonliberty.com/2022/08/13/albania-people-and-ruins/

10/10/2022: Merrin’s Wiggly Stick: This afternoon as I came out of the front door after lunch to go work on the tractor I saw the largest red-bellied black snake I think I had ever seen just sliding under the fridge on the verandah then it simply disappeared. I poked around under the fridge, even moved the fridge; yet there was no sign of it. I thought ‘No way such a large snake could be in the rat bait station next to the fridge’ but when I lifted the lid there it was. I suspect it had been there before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/10/merrins-wiggly-stick/

09/10/2022: ‘How dare you do anything productive!’ is pretty much the motto of local councils the world over: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/diddly-squat/

09/10/2022: When renewable electricity becomes so expensive you can’t afford to make solar panels: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/netzero-destroys-netzero-europe-cant-manufacture-solar-panels-due-to-high-energy-prices/

Fortunately we will be able to warm ourselves from EV fires: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/after-the-storm-then-come-the-ev-fires/

09/10/2022: A New Welcome to Country. Yes, ‘Before beginning, I’d like to acknowledge the sovereign land of Australia and the institutions and way of life that ensure our freedoms and liberties; one land, one nation, one people. We stand on the shoulders of giants and as a result of their legacy Australia is a beacon of opportunity, equality and justice in an increasingly dangerous and hostile world.’ https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/a-new-welcome-to-country/

09/10/2022: Remember when 3,000 people used to be killed in car accidents annually and it was a problem requiring various draconian solutions (many of which have been implemented with detriment to our freedoms, alas) but now that 10,000 excess deaths are occurring we should ignore it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/new-cdc-data-shows-7-7-of-10-million-people-needed-medical-care-after-vaccination/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/10000-mysterious-excess-deaths-in-australia-that-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/

08/10/2022: Eating on the Wild Side – cheaper than the supermarket anyway: https://www.amazon.com.au/Eating-Wild-Side-Pharmacologic-Implications/dp/0816520674?asin=B08W9LRC7D&revisionId=e17c26ab&format=1&depth=1

08/10/2022: When the lunatics are in charge of our energy supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/10/05/guest-post-dr-faustus-abide-with-me/

08/10/2022: CPAC underlines the woeful state of the Liberal/National Parties. Truly a new conservative force in Oz politics is needed, soonest: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/cpac-and-its-no-show-conservatives/

08/10/2022: Regarding aboriginal ‘displacement’, one should understand that almost no women came to Australia in the early days. Most male settlers took aboriginal wives who were no doubt just as keen to ‘better’ themselves, and their (joint) descendents farmed and developed practically the whole continent. Many aboriginal orphans were also adopted and raised by the colonists as their own. All this is undeniably attested to by early observers such as Tench. No better rapprochement of two ‘cultures’ could be imagined. There are few of us whose ancestors came here in the C18th or early C19th who do not have some ‘aboriginal’ ancestors as well (though the records may be lost in time). Della and I certainly each have at least one such ‘dark horse’ in our family tree, as well as the odd Jew, gypsy, whatever – but that is all the past. What is important is the glorious egalitarian future which awaits all Australians whenever and wherever they came from: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/unfair-dinkum-history/

07/10/2022: Be Prepared: 'A word to the wise is enough'. Unfortunately for most people 'a word' is not enough. Every year world-wide tens of thousands of poorly prepared people disappear or meet their end in the back country when they should have just been having fun, admiring the view of that far horizon, peering around the river's bend to see what's there and breathing that clear cool air deeply. I hope I can prevent a few such unfortunate events. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/05/be-prepared/

07/10/2022: Men’s Lib Anyone? Yes, we have a problem, eg “We also need a national recruitment drive for male teachers. Boys do better in schools with more men at the front of the classroom, especially in subjects like English. But men account for a shrinking share of the teaching profession: just 24%, down from 33% in the 1980s. In elementary schools, only 11% are men. And in the earliest years, men are virtually invisible. Just 3% of kindergarten teachers are men, which is about half the share of women flying military airplanes. Men, our schools need you.” : https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/why-us-boys-are-failing-at-schooland-men-are-losing-in-life/

07/10/2022: Hard to believe this guy (and Lomberg) used to be the enemy: https://www.amazon.com.au/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts-ebook/dp/B07Y8FHFQ7?asin=B07Y8FHFQ7&revisionId=8daa18d4&format=1&depth=1

07/10/2022: Whatever happened to the notion of ‘treason’? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/if_you_chose_isis_you_are_no_longer_australian

06/10/2022: Might be nice if you like cruising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouzzYmXyhA&t=3621s

06/10/2022: Is there hope? “This is a classic case of the slowly boiling frog. We are frogs slowly boiling as we speak. It is the fate that the great economist Friedrich Hayek warned us of in his best seller of the 1940s, The Road to Serfdom. He argued that totalitarianism can creep up by stealth and not only through revolution. Benign innovations like the welfare state turn, over time, into freedom-destroying, socialist disasters that no one, despite being in democratic systems, voted for. Hence, we get stuck with failed education systems that peddle propaganda and sideline parents, we get stuck with paying for subsidies to windfarms and solar panels, we get woked to death at every turn, we get abortion and euthanasia, we get COVID tyranny and discrimination. We get rule by experts that none of us have ever heard of, and who are, in any case, seldom expert at anything except controlling us. Oh, and we get mass immigration that has never, ever been debated on the hustings and for which nobody had a mandate. We get the Voice, despite Albo’s getting only 31 per cent of the primary vote — about the same as the alt-parties combined. So, we get the Voice but we don’t have a voice… we now inhabit a world where our rights are reduced to nought and the values that we still cherish and which substantial majorities of our fellow citizens once did too, are now minority views scorned by loud voices across the system. The duty to fight against the tyrannies that we have had foist upon us is more important than ever. And the uphill battle has taken on a steepness that will be uncongenial to most of us”. Things look bad, but maybe start ‘turning up’. At least get out there and vote for the Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Freedom Party & etc. Let’s show Andrews and Guy that we don’t want either of them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/the-duty-to-make-a-stand-and-fight/

06/10/2022: And you thought you could keep foxes (not to mention ‘the yellow peril’) out of Oz: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pacific-ocean-world-supercontinent.html

06/10/2022: If they did it once then they likely did it twice: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/flashback-cia-sabotaged-soviet-pipeline-europe-1982-us-software-caused-massive-explosion-siberian-pipeline-seen-space/

05/10/2022: Outback Boats: A New Way to Travel to the Waitutu Lodge (and elsewhere): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN38JuNup8Y You can buy one of your own. Imagine the places you could go. I can think of many such here in Gippsland too but probably they are illegal here like most things: http://www.outbackboats.nz/ Can’t wait to get back to the South Coast Track myself. Next year Jerusalem! See Also: South Coast Track New Zealand

05/10/2022: A great business plan for the next gun amnesty: https://www.wktv.com/news/local/man-claims-he-was-paid-21-000-for-3d-printed-guns-at-new-york-ags/article_8e3be6fc-3eac-11ed-976b-7399515a1395.html

05/10/2022: A Compendium of Climate Lies: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576596964447203330.html

05/10/2022: Thanks Dan: Another $600 million down the drain: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/victorias-white-elephant-covid-quarantine-camp-officially-granted-white-elephant-status.html

04/10/2022: Do you think I was wrong in 2012 when I wrote this: “So, the Reserve Bank is still playing fast and loose with our money: as if Capital was so easy to come by - instead of taking a lifetime of hard work and saving. At current levels the reserve bank's rates barely (if at all) keep pace with inflation leaving savers with no income from their hard-earned money. On the other side of the ledger the punters who want to further leverage their outlandish Macmansions are encouraged to do so to the detriment of those who in the current real estate climate can't afford housing at all and have to continue to live with their parents and grandparents: I know several 'middle class' families of Sydneysiders (all hard workers) who are sharing three generation housing. Higher interest rates would advantage savers (including those saving for a home) and force the outrageous price of housing downwards. It would take probably twenty years of interest rates above 10% to force house prices down to the more modest American level. Question: Why does it cost several times more today to create a block of land and a house than it did thirty or fifty years ago? Where are the benefits to housing of productivity growth and labour saving machinery? In the 1950's, 60's and early 70's a father could afford to be the only wage earner and support a wife and two children whilst paying off a house and car. What happened to that Australian dream? Even though we have had reasonable income all our lives with both of us working and contributing, we have only managed to pay off a modest house (about half the value of a house in Sydney) and we built every bit of it with our own hands - even the bricks it is made from. The people running this economy are fools, swindlers or both!

04/10/2022: Perrottet gets worse and worse. Today he suggested draconian penalties against folk who (perfectly rightly) objected to racist ‘welcome to country’ nonsense at the footie. Let’s just have one country for all without any of this ‘race’ b------t, please! Somehow this has now been suppressed into a news item about maybe one person giving what might have been a Nazi salute and might just have been an awkward hand gesture too. Perrottet’s love of racism is just dreadful. First we have a divisive and frankly offensive flag replacing the NSW flag on the Harbour Bridge (as if someone else built that icon) then the news that he will be handing over all the land in National Parks to a certain race, now this threat to gaol or permanently ban anyone who objects to his racist politics. What next? White slavery anyone? As if this was not already the case when you consider the huge percentage of his beloved ‘folks of colour’ who are ‘welfare dependent’. Who is doing their work for them (or paying their land rates) then? (Of course the way immigration has been going it will be other ‘people of colour’). We must just have one country, equality of all, everyone standing on their own two feet, supporting themselves without any blame games or weak claims of victimhood.

04/10/2022: In case you wonder why the Left want us to move over to electronic voting systems…You should have little doubt who Google (or Goolag as you might prefer to call it) wants to win: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/biggest-victory-patriots-history-brazil-despite-massive-fraud/

04/10/2022: ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’. Imagine being able to completely explain away the fact that women outlive men by seven years: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-that-men-have-a-high-probability-of-outliving-women/

03/10/2022: When life goes wrong: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-richard-hoskins-a-life

03/10/2022: More Nigerian school-women rescued from terrorists: https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/schoolgirls-found-alive-8-years-notorious-kidnapping-case/

03/10/2022: We own the science; we own the truth – even if it is demonstrably wrong: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/we-own-the-science-brags-un-chief-who-works-with-google-to-suppress-climate-skeptics/

02/10/2022: Best strategies for longevity: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-older-adults-factors.html

02/10/2022: Beware: “The Voice is a move to create new constitutional entitlements by stealth. It would jettison the principle that, no matter when they or their ancestors arrived here, all Australians are equal. If it is successful, the real victims will be the majority of Australian voters who will find their country’s long-standing political commitment to egalitarianism and a fair go has been emasculated behind their back.” Giving away our National Parks and other public lands (now 60% of the country) is just creating a new hereditary ‘nobility’ this time based on supposed ‘race’ but which is not subject to the same laws as the rest of us, eg no need to pay rates or lose property because of unpaid rates. We have spent literally centuries getting rid of such evils:

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/international-law-and-the-voice/

02/10/2022: The green movement wants to take food production back to the Middle Ages (and population with it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/29/climate-activists-attacking-fertiliser-use-food-mass-production/

02/10/2022: 140,000 clearly fake votes found in just one county in Arizona (a state which Trump ‘lost’ by <10,000 votes) is just the tip of the iceberg of voter fraud and a stolen election: https://uncoverdc.com/2022/09/27/jovan-hutton-pulitzer-election-day-ballots-may-have-been-inserted-in-maricopa-county/

01/10/2022: So, what’s ahead? “Half a generation of traumatic experiences will eventually make firm rules of monetary stability acceptable. This time round they will have to be strictly and consistently enforced. In most nations, it will be necessary to cut back the burdens of government, although international conflicts will impose unavoidable new costs. And it will require courageous politicians who permit as much competition in capital, labour and product markets as it takes to produce a rise in entrepreneurial creativity. Nonetheless, the core elements of the 1980s recovery—stable money, smaller government, freer markets—and the political courage to oppose particular interests will again have to become the policy priorities if the huge task ahead is to be resolved.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-arduous-path-back-to-stability-and-growth/

01/10/2022: NSW introduces apartheid. Horrifying. This nonsense (evil) must end: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/paying-the-rent-with-our-national-parks/

01/10/2022: Surely you just can’t vote for a mass murderer (Andrews) no matter how bad the opposition – but now there are other alternatives. (One Nation, Freedom Party, UAP, etc) The likes of Andrews are presiding over daily deaths from covid sometimes of hundreds of people due almost solely to their refusal to implement cheap sensible prevention and treatment options which others succeeded with. Compare the Daily Deaths – and think about who is responsible here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ & https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

30/09/2022: Should we live a riskier existence – an interesting perspective: https://www.city-journal.org/bring-back-risk?utm_source=pocket_mylist

30/09/2022: At least Liz Truss is having a go at economic reform. It is a better direction anyway than ‘more socialism’ which seems to be the default position elsewhere: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/trussonomics-revolutionises-the-tax-debt-growth-conversation-20220922-p5bk2h?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3T7qwzQhKTiklmlCYpFokFL61sySOlpAOHhcbQy9ySKJzElZGhTist55o#Echobox=1664080310

30/09/2022: The climate models are just so bad – you would not want to bet your hard-earned on them: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/climate-models-not-good-enough-to-invest-my-superannuation-in-says-modeler-prof-andy-pitman/

30/09/2022: This was a typical ‘first nations’ and victimhood scam: https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-great-canadian-mass-graves-hoax

29/09/2022: This is a profound and important essay. For example, “The self cannot bear such a heavy burden as creating its own happiness. Vitz pointed out that disengaging from institutional legacies reduces the sense of resilience, of drawing from the wisdom of the past, of being connected to others. It creates harm in attacking our respect for rational thought, in our understanding of objective reality, which ties in well with the critical theorists’ undermining of Western thought itself.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-psychologist-who-resisted-the-cultural-onslaught/

29/09/2022: What an evil witch this woman is. (Hopefully she is soon to be gone): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/ardern-tells-un-internet-freedom-is-a-weapon-of-war.html

29/09/2022: “In a unsettled world, countries which don’t have energy security don’t have any security at all”. Can I remind you that we import most of our transport fuel and that ‘reserves’ are only about three weeks. Small modular (nuclear) reactors make more strategic sense than big energy projects: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/as-underwater-gas-pipes-explode-ponder-that-a-third-of-uk-gas-comes-from-an-underwater-pipe/

29/09/2022: Meanwhile, Congratulations Australia you are already at ‘net zero’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/09/congratulations-australia-youre-already-at-net-zero/

28/09/2022: One Pacific island which is definitely not shrinking: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/new-island-discovered-in-pacific-ocean-after-tonga-underwater-volcano-eruption/news-story/2168f014f4b7f78efb2492f1b8a73cfa

28/09/2022: Someone blew up the two Nordstream gas pipeleines ensuring Europe will freeze this winter, but who? Could it really be Biden who threatened to do so: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/nordstream-gas-pipeline-apparently-sabotaged-explosions-and-three-huge-leaks/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/analysis-nord-stream-pipelines-sabotaged-one-country-benefits/

28/09/2022: The new Italian leader seems to be a breath of fresh air – likewise the new Swedish one. The times they are a’changing: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-italy-without-roots-and-an-identity-you-are-a-slave-the-perfect-consumer/

28/09/2022: How China is destroying the West: https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/24/opinion-china-is-laughing-at-us-bastasch/

27/09/2022: It is not just our family of Joneses which arose from this Ely swamp: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65203

27/09/2022: Clearly people were right to be concerned about the MRNA vaccine. Its adverse effects have proved to be worse than any other medical treatment in history: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/we-should-stop-all-covid-vaccinations-says-uk-cardiac-surgeon-who-once-promoted-them/

27/09/2022: Lots of Russians clearly do not support Putin’s war on Ukraine: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/26/total-chaos-russian-mobilization-exodus-accelerates-amid-border-closure-rumors-a78894

27/09/2022: Hard to believe. Sad I can’t apply: https://chaninicholas.com/careers/

26/09/2022: Astonishing images from Jupiter: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11238745/NASAs-Juno-probe-snaps-stunning-photo-Jupiters-clouds-look-like-frosting-cupcake.html

26/09/2022: Who knew? “According to scientists measuring cumulative energy demand (CED), production of the average lithium-ion battery uses three times more electrical energy compared to a generic battery.” So, what happens when the grid collapses? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/25/rafes-roundup-25-sept/

26/09/2022: The EU is the biggest economy in the world yet their fertilizer production is down 70%. We are going into a very lean time for the world’s food production: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/just-like-that-european-fertilizer-production-down-70/

25/09/2022: Very well done: https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/kayak-angler-catches-marlin-hawaii/

25/09/2022: Back from the dead: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-aphrodisiac-0017316

25/09/2022: Just when I got a new Knee: https://newatlas.com/medical/moximed-misha-shock-absorber-knee-implant/

25/09/2022: Two brothers who couldn’t be less alike. Your remember the rabid commie and anti-Semite Jeremy? Well here’s his brother Piers the climate sceptic: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/nothing-do-man-astrophysicist-says-climate-cultists-are-gravy-train-make-money

24/09/2022: It begins, maybe…Big news breaking in China: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/rumors-of-military-coup-in-china-claim-xi-under-house-arrest/

24/09/2022: Just have to hope my wife, Della does not join Peta. Not much risk of that though I suspect: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/peta-calls-for-female-sex-strike-to-save-the-planet-from-storms-caused-by-steak-and-sausages/

24/09/2022: Can anything save Victoria? Guy has to go so that Dan can go too. Guy’s Libs are trailing Andrews’ Labor by 12% in the polls and the state has $170 billion of debt which we will have extreme difficulty financing in future. Don’t believe any spending promises. They will have to be broken. And unless something drastic is done we will run out of electricity and gas.: https://spectator.com.au/2022/09/victorian-politics-a-desolate-landscape/

24/09/2022: Our society cannot survive renewable energy – the wind droughts will kill it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/22/not-enough-oats-in-the-european-power-supply/

24/09/2022: Wow! Covid vaccines have been shown to be 98 times worse than the disease itself in young adults: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/ethically-unjustifiable-new-harvard-johns-hopkins-study-found-covid-19-vaccines-98-times-worse-disease/

But doctors may not warn you: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/vaccine-news-is-so-good-that-california-state-bans-doctors-from-saying-what-they-think/

23/09/2022: How to scan and share old print photos with your phone. Maybe this is a solution? Get the App 'PhotoScan by Google Photos' from the Google Play Store. The App takes several photos of the original and puts them together, finds the edges corrects them & etc. Scan the photos during the daylight maybe on the verandah. You don't want reflected light from an overhead lamp etc. If you have a decent phone camera this will make a beautiful photo in seconds. You will probably have to save it to Google drive and share it from there eg by email. It works: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

23/09/2022: Just a year ago really: Western civilization is sliding off the cliff, and most people in the western world aren't even aware of that…Do you think there's any chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at West Point? It might be a nice change of pace for cadets to learn from someone who actually won a war.” https://www.steynonline.com/12726/dead-superpower-walking

23/09/2022: Maybe we can do something to destroy the green blob after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/winning-antitrust-laws-slow-down-the-climate-plans-of-monster-cartel-of-un-and-global-bankers/

23/09/2022: Without science and engineering we are just children playing with someone else’s toys: https://americanmind.org/features/florida-versus-davos/five-myths-about-china/

22/09/2022: More Michael Faradays please: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-faraday-is-worth-1-000-faucis-science-electricity-computer-dynamo-equity-fairness-stem-pandemic-pew-trust-experts-11663505143?st=p1602fxqywwa5gr&reflink=article_email_share

22/09/2022: And it isn’t just Merkel who is a commie shill. Most of our Western leaders have taken the thirty pieces of silver: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/angela-merkel-kgb-asset/

22/09/2022: I hope the past year’s imbroglio in Ukraine is not akin to the Phoney War at the beginning of WW2. Putin’s escalation today gives a strong hint that things are about to get much nastier. 300,000 more people to become ‘cannon fodder’ perhaps. War is very difficult to understand. Most of the individuals involved on both sides would rather be enjoying a barbecue and a few glasses of beer with those on the other side if only the megalomania of their nation’s leaders did not get in the way: https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/world-leaders-react-to-vladimir-putins-latest-chilling-speech-on-ukraine-conflict/news-story/fd96338e0a1dcc21850479066f452301

22/09/2022: Europe detransitions – and about time too: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/europe-detransitions/

Meanwhile, good news from the US: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/valencia-prime-philadelphia-drag-queen-dies-performance-rcna47893

21/09/2022: Remember when this guy used to be one of them – he has certainly ‘seen the light’: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progressives-undermine-civilization?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

21/09/2022: Things have got bad under Biden – don’t expect better under Albanese: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/greatest-loss-of-household-wealth-in-history/

21/09/2022: It’s not just me who is opposed to the sexualisation of children it seems. What is going on here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/gays-groomers-permanently-deplatformed-paypal-venmo/

21/09/2022: ‘I honour my God; I serve the Queen; I salute the flag.’ We recited this every morning during school assembly. Though I have never been a theist, I do not think it was a bad thing – but alas, it will never be repeated by our children again. Farewell Your Majesty.

And good luck with that republic Albo – maybe you should have consulted your own members first: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/roy-morgan-poll-huge-increase-in-support-for-the-monarchy-from-labor-voters.html

18/09/2022: Thanks Liz & goodbye to net zero. Fracking here we come: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/netzero-takes-a-hit-in-the-uk-fracking-is-on-and-could-eclipse-north-sea-gas/

18/09/2022: Well said Rafe, “Humanity has a destiny out amongst the stars, but we will not reach them if we allow ourselves to be crushed by this secret society of evil, inbred, globalist conspirator families who have been plotting and working towards the destruction of our nations and our enslavement for centuries. We can win this war of elites versus commoners, but only if everyone who knows these truths speaks out in every way possible to awaken those who remain oblivious to it all.” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/17/what-is-happening-and-why/

18/09/2022: When communists engage in this level of cover up you know there is much more to hide (Christo would have been proud) – I wonder what the real GDP is, for example. Remember when the USSR was a super-power yet when it collapsed it was revealed to have a GDP the size of Portugal? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/eco-green-china-is-sprayed-from-a-bottle/

18/09/2022: Trump may be the second most popular public figure on the planet after Queen Elizabeth – but I notice there have been conservative victories in Italy and Sweden lately. Liz Truss in the UK seems to be an improvement too, so the tide may be turning: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/president-trump-speak-youngstown-ohio-700-pm-eastern-supporters-camp-hours/

18/09/2022: The Best Five Backpacking Blogs. Of course we were delighted to have our humble blog chosen to be amongst the best in the world in this comprehensive survey. Feedspot's Best Ultralight Backpacking Blogs. Thank you to Anuj and his staff for their endorsement.

It has been a lot of hard work and is all the more extraordinary in that it is not a commercial site and is pretty much all my own work (with a lot of help and support from Della, my wonderful wife of fifty years. Currently this post is post Number 1573 on our site – millions of words.

I admit my posting has slowed down a bit of late due equally to indifferent health, the demands of other work, the fact that I do not simply publicise every ‘new’ product which comes along whether I like it our not but chose to talk about only those which I like and which I think make a useful contribution to the goals of ‘ultralight’ – but more than anything to the fact that so many of my posts are about my own doings and inventions – and this takes time. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/17/best-five-backpacking-blogs/

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17/09/2022: NASA finds organic matter ‘treasure’ on Mars: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars/

17/09/2022: Viv Forbes (and Geoffrey Chaucer) is so right we are ruled by ‘Parliaments of Fools’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/our-mate-viv-forbes-on-a-nation-ruled-by-fools.html

17/09/2022: Who’s the king of the castle now? Watch out, the Indians are coming: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/bezos-is-about-to-lose-title-of-worlds-second-richest-man

17/09/2022: Big Brother never had mind control as powerful as the mobile phone and Tik Tok: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/the-worlds-biggest-stealth-propaganda-operation-is-conditioning-your-child-through-their-phone/

16/09/2022: Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I had always believed there was no such thing as a free lunch, but this certainly looks like it. There are lots of these devices. I assume the magnet would ‘go flat’ after a while? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-7pm__HXk

16/09/2022: Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore explains how the environment movement was hijacked: https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/09/08/prominent-scientist-dr-patrick-moore-backs-up-claim-that-there-is-no-climate-emergency/ On temperature change, Moore asserts that “the world has been warming since about the year 1700, 150 years before we were using fossil fuels..1700 was the peak of the Little Ice Age, which was very cold and caused crop failures and starvation…Before that, around 1000 A.D. was the Medieval Warm period when Vikings farmed Greenland…[And] before that, around 500 A.D. were the Dark Ages, and before that, the Roman Warm Period when it was warmer than today, and the sea level was 1–2 meters higher than today.”

16/09/2022: Tyranny in America has gone just too far (and we have seen the same things creeping in here too). De Santis has an intelligent response: https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/facebook-spied-on-private-messages-of-americans-who-questioned-2020-election/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/political-purges-in-america-fbi-intimidation-but-hope-against-woke-rises-in-florida/

15/09/2022: Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/down-with-electric-vehicles.php

“If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.”

15/09/2022: This 31,000 year old amputee’s finding shatters so many notions about the past: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/earliest-amputee-borneo-0017238

15/09/2022: The case for recriminalisation: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-09-09/lgbtqc-groomer-roundup-one-fifth-gen-z-now-queer-entire-2nd-grade-class

15/09/2022: And you thought you had a problem being white: https://news.yahoo.com/albino-hunters-accused-kidnapping-butchering-081821692.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKHZ1e1ri7aa-AVTEM4An4qAGzRucvLkR64eEEQoq59zygh9vzKWyuatWwaIJK4-PE0UN7FWF7hf8PWi2Wx8v7Hds0NBSlqA7eaOvDHNru7UuHKw95mfg8d0ZYTwyNYpHrc6XVMANco0RMCB2pRVT8fDLkQ2l8DSKFob9-QaR358

14/09/2022: ‘Rings of Power’: We watched the first two episodes last night and found them surprisingly good (with some misgivings admittedly). I really like Galadriel. The visual feast, especially the NZ scenery is a delight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/

14/09/2022: Is there a serial killer loose in the UK? First Mountbatten was killed, then Diana, now the Queen (not to mention Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, Prince Phillip…). I think we are beginning to see a pattern here. Is Camilla the culprit – more likely Megan? Just a (tasteless) BTW: Don’t they have fridges in the UK?

14/09/2022: Good news indeed – we have needed to do this for a long, long time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/good-news-out-of-canada/

14/09/2022: The Ukrainian counter-offensive is at least a propaganda victory so far: https://www.the-sun.com/news/6211083/russian-troops-surrendering-ukraine-helicopter-blasts-targets/

13/09/2022: I think this is a fair point, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” And that the current ‘energy crisis’ and ‘energy transformation’ will prove the point. I suspect we will have a military takeover of Australia within the next decade, and likely much worse elsewhere: https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/finnish-economist-i-am-telling-you-people-that-the-situation-in-europe-is-much-worse-than-many-understand/

13/09/2022: 200 years since Britain banned it there are still 50 million people living in slavery: https://www.barrons.com/news/50-million-people-stuck-in-modern-slavery-un-01662966307

13/09/2022: I would not have believed it but maybe the Russians bit off more than they could chew in Ukraine: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fdefense-national-security%2Fafter-200-days-of-war-the-tide-has-turned-in-ukraines-favor

13/09/2022: We must save the Great Nullarbor Coral Reef: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/corals-covered-australian-desert-maybe-they-will-grow-back-if-we-screw-in-the-right-light-globe/

12/09/2022: Just when I had a knee replacement they come up with a better option: https://scitechdaily.com/fixing-knee-pain-new-cartilage-substitute-is-better-than-the-real-thing/

12/09/2022: If there really are 70,000+ deaths from covid vaccines it ought to be investigated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/group-doctors-scientists-professionals-34-countries-declare-international-medical-crisis-due-diseases-deaths-caused-covid-19-vaccines/

12/09/2022: The joys of electric car ownership: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/16-reasons-why-you-need-to-buy-an-electric-car/

12/09/2022: On the Pakistan floods, It’s the weather, stupid! UN Chief and pagan witch-doctor Guterres “we are heading into a disaster…we have waged war on nature, and nature is striking back, and striking back in a devastating way.” Such people should grow up and get a real job: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/nature-is-striking-back-fake-saint-guterres-exploits-pakistans-pain-to-sell-his-climate-religion-and-ask-for-money/

11/09/2022: Electricity prices in the UK are already so high that it costs more to re-fuel an electric car than a hydrocarbon one. When you consider the huge subsidies given to ‘renewables’ and the fact that there is also a 90% tax on diesel/petrol etc, such a technology is just not sustainable – especially now that we know that hydrocarbon fuels are largely abiotic and will never run out and that CO2 does not cause any ‘climate change’ and any increase in its atmospheric content is enormously beneficial. Let’s frack! https://justthenews.com/world/europe/british-prime-minister-truss-lifts-fracking-ban-amid-energy-crisis?utm_source=justthenews.com&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators

11/09/2022: A big step forward towards sustained fusion in Korea: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/09/south-korea-fusion-breakthrough-20s-100-million-degree-fusion-plasma-with-no-instability/

11/09/2022: Why ‘personality tests’ are bunkum: https://iai.tv/articles/the-truth-about-the-myersbriggs-personality-test-auid-2235?_auid=2020

11/09/2022: Leave the kids alone for goodness’ sake: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/popular-preschool-animated-series-peppa-pig-introduces-lesbian-polar-bear-couple/

10/09/2022: Icebreaker’s merino wool caps are the best, and they are on special right now. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/08/best-deer-hunters-cap-best-ultralight-cap/

10/09/2022: What a piece of s—t Adam Bandt (and the Greens) is/are. Hopefully we shall soon see the last of them: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/greens-leader-slammed-over-queen-elizabeth-ii-tweet/news-story/2bb699604360612e86f76240796459dd

10/09/2022: Turns out the movement of heat outwards along the meridians is the largest driver of climate change and that ‘greenhouse gases’ have almost nothing to do with it: “Opposite to what is generally believed, when less energy is transported poleward the planet gets warmer. The planet warmed after 1850 due to a reduction in MT, followed by the increase in GHGs since the mid-20th century. While global warming is likely to continue over most of the 21st century, the rate is unlikely to increase, and might even decrease, disproving nearly every climate projection. Recent warming appears to be multicausal, caused by changes in solar activity and MT, besides GHGs. It is thus very unlikely that the decarbonization of the economy will have any significant effect on climate, although it could have a great effect on the transfer of wealth from some agents in the global economy to others, even if its total effect on wealth creation is negative.” Canute imitators are going to make us very poor however: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/04/the-sun-climate-effect-the-winter-gatekeeper-hypothesis-vi-meridional-transport-is-the-main-climate-change-driver/

10/09/2022: I think Tucker nails it here, “The British Empire was not perfect, but it was far more humane than any other ever. It’s gone now, barely even remembered. Queen Elizabeth II was the last living link to a truly Great Britain.

When the U.S. government withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years, we left behind airstrips, shipping containers and guns. When the British pulled out of India, they left behind an entire civilization, a language, a legal system, schools, churches and public buildings, all of which are still in use today.

The British did give the world the Magna Carta and habeas corpus and free speech. They helped end the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the ritual murder of widows in India. The British Empire spread Protestant Christianity to the entire world. It published some of the greatest literature ever written and produced the finest manufactured goods ever made anywhere at any time, including now.” — Tucker Carlson https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/the-queen/

09/09/2022: Farewell you great lady, Lillibet. The very last Seekers’ song just released (for Judith’s memorial) is a fitting tribute I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwhXSsjHz3k

09/09/2022: Who knew? The earliest boomerang was found in Poland: https://www.nature.com/articles/329436a0

09/09/2022: The (new) green solution to being cold – so much better than oil, gas and coal (presumably a bad translation - original is behind a paywall): https://news-universe.com/2022/09/07/europe-is-sacrificing-its-ancient-forests-for-energy/

09/09/2022: Having fun at the expense of the new Puritans: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/dont-eat-the-bugs/

08/09/2022: 10 More Environmentally Friendly Alternatives To Using Electricity: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-more-environmentally-friendly-alternatives-to-using-electricity

08/09/2022: Nigel Farage, Britain’s next PM – you can only hope: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/nigel-farage-cowardly-conservatives-are-letting-the-marxist-woke-mob-destroy-our-free-speech-now-its-time-to-take-a-stand/news-story/ec2ee72fa158d346414edaaf2ee9e247 ‘

08/09/2022: Peter Smith is absolutely right: Labor and the Greens’ ‘Renewable Energy Plans’ are just insane. Read why – and weep: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/09/some-ohm-truths-about-the-great-green-fantasy/

08/09/2022: One big step to fight dementia: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/09/06/step-count-dementia-risk-study/5831662487084/

07/09/2022: Just what I need: Robo-bug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-robo-bug-rechargeable-remote-controllable-cyborg-cockroach.html

07/09/2022: One step closer to growing humans in a test-tube – but won’t we be replaced by AI soon anyway: https://theconversation.com/worlds-first-synthetic-embryo-why-this-research-is-more-important-than-you-think-188217

07/09/2022: The limbo rock of universities: Just how low can ‘university education’ go? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/melbourne-uni-course-certificate-in-how-to-run-aboriginal-welcome-ceremony.html

07/09/2022: The price of lithium has risen 289% this year alone. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium It has gone up from US$2000 a tonne in 2002 to over US$75,000 a tonne in July 2022 mainly fueled just by its (relatively small) demand in consumer electronics. It is rapidly becoming a ‘precious metal: Silver is $800,000 per tonne, copper $33,999, Nickel $21,000, Lead $2200 whilst Iron is $109! Such rises occur because things are rare and their production cannot be ramped up. Estimates are that it would take over 9,000 years to mine enough lithium (supposing deposits existed) to transform the world’s hydrocarbon cars into electric cars - but as they would need to be replaced again approximately ten years later this 9,000 years of effort would have to be reproduced again in ten years. Yet some countries are mandating electric cars in less than ten years time. Does anyone see how this is either sane or possible? I think this is akin to the C17th Dutch ‘tulip bubble’ and is mainly a vehicle for the rich to get even richer at our expense.

06/09/2022: An AI won an art competition – what’s next? https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/09/03/an-ai-program-won-an-art-competition-does-it-matter-n494347

06/09/2022: Just an accident of history that the world was saved for democracy – in reality few people value freedom – as we still see today: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/check-out-this-polling-data-on-wwii/

In contrast we have at least some good news out of Chile: https://www.axios.com/2022/09/05/chile-constitution-referedum-results-reject-rights Hopefully Aussies will be sensible enough to reject ‘The Voice’ outright.

06/09/2022: I think this is good news but I am fearful of having the test – meanwhile I reel from the bad news this morning that one of my cousins has succumbed to this awful blight: https://scitechdaily.com/new-device-can-detect-alzheimers-17-years-in-advance/

06/09/2022: Just another of the contradictions of green policies: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/china_enslaving_uyghur_muslims_to_produce_the_solar_panels_we_import

06/09/2022: Something I did not know: Oil is a renewable resource. Many people do not realise that old oil and gas fields refill (or recharge) over time because much ‘fossil fuel’ is produced by abiotic natural processes within the earth – and will therefore never run out: https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/oilfieldsrefilling10apr05.shtml & https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Are-Oil-Wells-Recharging-Themselves.html

Nothing in the renewable world will work without hydrocarbons: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/05/abundant-abiotic-hydrocarbons-and-useful-idiots/

05/09/2022: Camp chairs have been a thing for a long time: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65004

05/09/2022: Green child Abuse. Thank you Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QnmuAmOgRA

05/09/2022: The ultimate horror movie: A ubiquitous digital panopticon. The greatest tyranny of all time is already being installed. Be very afraid: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/28340/the-scariest-movie-i-have-ever-seen/

05/09/2022: This was a common occurrence in 1929 as the magic bubble burst and a sense of reality re-established itself. Today the world is sitting on the biggest economic bubble in recent history with most of the US dollars ever printed having been in just the last handful of years: https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/bed-bath-beyond-executive-jumps-death-nycs-jenga-building/

04/09/2022: Kim Beazley Snr. in 1970: ‘When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now, all I see are the dregs of the middle class. When will you middle-class perverts stop using the Labor Party as a cultural spittoon?’ For many years now this has been my view exactly. I remember a night at an ALP meeting in Bendigo in just such a gentleman’s house (ie the ‘cream of the working class’) when I began to separate myself from it too, perceiving how the new political class who had never worked with their hands (or minds) to make themselves (or others) better disdained his modest achievements, disdained his working for one’s and society’s betterment - and offered simply redistribution and Government control as the only worthwhile goal. Today’s ALP is way Left of where the Communist Party of Australia was as I grew up. The Greens are even more evilly Left of them, perhaps even left of Mao & Pol Pot in that they would see most of humanity gone. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party is way to the Right of the ALP – I fear even to the right of today’s Liberal Party! Where can a working class Conservative’s vote go? Perhaps the Liberal Democrats?

04/09/2022: Just imagine that: corals have been surviving worse things for countless millions of years: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/its-almost-like-corals-have-been-doing-this-for-millions-of-years-90-bleached-but-recovered-in-just-two-years/

04/09/2022: With a 92% efficacy against death from covid the ban of ivermectin ought to be viewed as a crime against humanity. Dan and like demagogues should be tried and hanged for this crime: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/people-need-held-accountable-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-attacks-biden-regime-blocking-life-saving-treatment-ivermectin-covid-19/

04/09/2022: “If only Europe had an energy policy that wasn’t designed by teenage girls.” – and the rest of us! Why is it that (young) women are so susceptible to the doubtful allures of socialism. Women used to be more sensible, surely: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/russia-turns-off-the-tap-indefinitely/

03/09/2022: Edwardian Britain in colour – there is a series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtW1lqKeNjY

03/09/2022: If you can’t afford a boat, how about a giant pumpkin: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/squash-record-nebraska-pumpkin-grower-paddles-846-lb-pumpkin-missouri

03/09/2022: It’s not about Right and Left … It’s about Right and Wrong. No. I don’t think Greens should be allowed to kill eagles to ‘save the planet’. This is the My Lai solution: https://the-pipeline.org/killing-the-eagles-with-climate-change-malice-aforethought/

03/09/2022: If this is how bad things have to get to ‘save the world’ imagine what would happen if people realised it was all b-----t: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/energy-pain-the-richest-countries-in-the-world-may-not-eat-hot-meals-people-start-burning-their-bills-in-the-street/

02/09/2022: Best Tarp Seam Stitch: If you are joining ultralight waterproof material such as Membrane Silpoly as I am just now to make a new version of my 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp this stitch seems to work better than anything I have ever come across before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/02/best-tarp-seam-stitch/

02/09/2022: Malcolm Roberts takes aim at the cost of the green madness: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/26/aussie-senator-malcolm-roberts-slams-false-net-zero-inflation-claims/

02/09/2022: The world needs ditchdiggers, too: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37958-A-Living-Wage.html#extended

02/09/2022: Longtermism – another interesting ‘philosophy’ which ‘reasons’ that someone else’s rights are more important than your own. You will be hearing more about this. Is this actually any different from communism: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-effective-altruists-fear-the-ai-apocalypse/ar-AA11hiIN

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01/09/2022: You think it won’t happen here? Inflation over 20% in the UK. You voted for it – or at least about 30% of us did: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-inflation-could-top-22-114231529.html & https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/how-name-god-shocked-europeans-post-astronomical-energy-bills-terrifying-winter-approaches

01/09/2022: First California mandates all cars be electric by 2035 then bans charging them because of a shortage of electricity. This used to be called ‘planning’: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/08/31/california-warns-here-come-the-blackouts-dont-charge-your-car-n1625210

31/08/2022: Problems charging your EV. You will note (RACV figures) that the cheapest and simplest option will see your car plug in for nearly 12 hours drawing an additional 2.4-3.7 kW per hour, or with additional wiring you can charge at 7kW per hour for 6 hours or even 22kW per hour for 2 hours. All of you will see immediately that whichever way you cut it you will be using over 40 Kw more electricity per day to charge your EV. Our electricity bill tells me that the average household consumption (at present) is 10 kW (I person household and 16 kw (2 & etc) so charging an EV is an enormous increase in household electricity consumption (2-4 times at least!) that has to be produced basically from ‘thin air! Is this the greatest ‘pea and shell’ game you ever saw? An all of this electricity will have to be provided at night (when there is no solar)! https://www.mynrma.com.au/cars-and-driving/electric-vehicles/charging/ev-home-charge

31/08/2022: Posted this in 2017. Nothing about it has changed; indeed the situation has only got worse: Understand this: Government is force; it is not charity, avuncular, earth mother. Its role is not to succour and support. It is to control and defend. To think otherwise is perversion. This is our prime duty: ‘Support yourself’. Crying out to Government for ‘support’ is always babyish - just some ghastly selfish theft, an insisting that one’s fellow men and women ought support you because you won’t support yourself. Whence comes this ‘owing’, this ‘debt’? I can understand it in relation to care for the elderly (perhaps) as they (surely?) can be expected to have spent a lifetime working, maybe building up some ‘social credit’ (but might they not also have been expected to have put away a little for a rainy day – for just such a certain eventuality as old age)? But the great majority of those who clamour for ‘support’ just want to suck at the public teat because it is there and it is easy, while ‘work’ is a four letter word best not discussed. They are ‘owed’ nothing. A debt presumes a corresponding credit - which they have not built up. Indeed the ‘great’ dependent unwashed clamourers have it the wrong way around: having been raised on a lifetime diet of dependency, eg free education, health care, welfare, public housing, all sorts of publicly provided services and checks and balances, law and order, defence, museums, public transport…the list is almost endless…they have a debt to repay: eg by service to their society: by joining our defence forces, working for the dole, caring for the disabled, child minding, cleaning working folks’ homes, or etc…They have already been well paid for doing nought! Our dusky brethren who clamour for more are the least deserving in this line-up. ‘They’ have enjoyed better than two and a quarter centuries of dependency, of living off the public teat. Way past time they started paying off that debt, instead of shrieking for more!

31/08/2022: The death stats are interesting: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/death-stats-for-israel-are-not-good/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/excess-deaths-rise-in-germany-too-peaking-in-the-same-months-medical-experiments-peak/

31/08/2022: Still enormous doubt over who’s winning or losing in the Ukraine: https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/08/29/russians-its-true-the-ukrainian-counteroffensive-in-kherson-has-begun-n493130

30/08/2022: Must Watch - Neil Oliver continues to call the elites out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ

30/08/2022: Gone are the days when you could just slip a new engine in with a morning’s work and at a cost of a couple of day’s wages (as I did with my Subies for over thirty years). A new EV battery will cost you more than you normally pay for a new car: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/29000-to-replace-batteries-in-chevy-volt-thanks-obama/

30/08/2022: Progress. Instead of growing food they will make this stuff out of food. The people who used to eat the food will just have to adapt to going without. Dieting is good for you, right? https://www.producer.com/news/renewable-diesel-poised-to-overtake-biodiesel/

30/08/2022: Is there another way? I doubt this woman’s views would go down well with the current push to create ever more crèches (al la 1984?): https://americanmind.org/features/rule-not-by-lies/lean-out/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

29/08/2022: 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp: This is an addendum to the post Secrets of Shelter. I know some of you just didn't believe my claims about the 7' x 7' tarp so I dug out my old one for a bit of a photo shoot. This 7' x 7' tarp can be used as a ground or hammock shelter or as a poncho - and weighs just over 120 grams. Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/28/7-x-7-poncho-multi-tarp/

29/08/2022: I know Paul Keating said the same many years ago but “Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree”. Another Greens (commie) policy of course like freezing rents for two years. Duh: https://babylonbee.com/news/hard-working-plumber-looking-forward-to-paying-his-for-his-neighbors-gender-studies-degree

29/08/2022: “The future belongs to the people who show up, as they say. It seems doubtful that will be the greenies.” https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/a-new-devil-of-a-problem-for-planet-earth-vanishing-humans/

29/08/2022: Modern warfare has become more and more like a video game. I know it has always been horrific but some of this technology seems to give soldiers very little chance: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/videos-ground-war-ukraine-ukraine-attacks-thwarted/

28/08/2022: Remember ‘The Precautionary Principle’ which the Left trots out when they don’t want to do something (however sensible)? In one sense it has something going for it – we should not launch into a major change unless it can be proven that it will work! A ‘trial’ or a ‘prototype should be adopted first and its results assessed soberly. This was done before we adopted electrification (believe it or not). Cost Edison big time. But where is the trial, the proven prototype of Net Zero? Where is the island or even a country town which has already been set up and running that way for a decade or two – to prove the concept? ‘Nowhere,’ is the answer. Neither Flinders Island nor the Bahamas nor anywhere else. It just won’t work. That’s why. Every engineer in the world knows this. We are in for hard times indeed when the s—t hits the fan: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/25/you-can-be-sure-that-net-zero-carbon-emissions-from-electricity-generation-will-never-be-achieved-heres-why/

28/08/2022: ‘We the people’ – what a great leader of the free world Ronald Reagan was. We the people desperately need new conservative leaders like him, indeed a new conservatism before there is nothing left to conserve. Make the time to listen to this farewell speech, one of his finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjECSv8KFN4&t=763s

28/08/2022: If the recent floods did not topple Xi maybe the current drought will? Anyway, something must: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/the-extreme-heatwave-wreaking-havoc-across-china/

28/08/2022: Tell me why all this ought not be utterly illegal: https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-parents-of-10-year-old-trans-model-plan-for-minors-gender-surgeries-at-age-16

27/08/2022: Secrets of Shelter: I deem that shelter is the most important primary need which you can supply yourself. You certainly must master the secrets of shelter.

No doubt all of you have heard about Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'. You will (perhaps) note that amongst the four 'physiological' needs he lists is 'Homeostasis', ie being able to maintain a constant temperature, something you may take for granted being a mammal - but that only means you have not been put to the test! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/26/secrets-of-shelter/

27/08/2022: Why we have biosecurity – this is how a rabid fox behaves. Della and I both had our rabies shots before we went to Nepal (where it is endemic) – and you thought I was anti-vax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFdIoCqtH1o

27/08/2022: Is there anything more you need to know about ‘The Voice’ than that Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine are against it and Malcolm Turnbull is in favour: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/woke_elites_racially_abuse_warren_mundine_for_opposing_the_voice

27/08/2022: Sound planning- maybe we should just wait 29,000 years? “To make enough wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles to replace fossil fuels for (just) 20 years, the world would need just under one billion tonnes of nickel.

In 2019, the world only mined 2.4 million tonnes of nickel – meaning it would take around 400 years to produce enough to go net zero at current rates of production.

The same situation faces copper miners.

To replace fossil fuels with renewables, the world would need over 4.5 billion tonnes of copper.

But again, the world only mined 24 million tonnes of copper in 2019 - meaning it would take 189 years to produce enough copper to go net zero at current rates of production.

The situation gets even more dire when it comes to lithium, cobalt and rare earth metals.

It would take 9920 years to produce enough lithium to go net zero at current rates of production.

It would take 1733 years to produce enough cobalt to go net zero – most of which would come from Chinese-owned, child mines in the Congo.

In fact, for germanium - a very rare but very important element required for renewable energy technologies – it would take over 29,000 years to produce enough germanium required to go net zero.

So, going "green" will require the biggest mining boom in history.” – and the Greens will be in favour of that, won’t they? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/it_will_take_400_years_to_produce_enough_nickel_to_run_the_world_on_renewable_energy

26/08/2022: The Disappearance of Delicious Edible Apples. The fresh food situation has always been worse in country areas for some reason. Unless you have your own fresh produce what is available in the (few) supermarkets always seems to be sourced from the same wholesaler (I assume) and generally is about the standard of stock food. Often poor quality stock food at that. Apples, my favourite daily fruit, is a case in point. None of the supermarkets seems able to present the fresh apples in a chiller so that even if they had been top quality before, after a day or so of sitting on a warm shelf being picked over by customers they are just about inedible. I usually try to get around this by shopping for them in the mornings just after they have restocked the shelves and I try to pick from the bottom layer. In the past this usually got me a handful of edible apples – but no more. For the last several months the apples have been parlous. They appear to have been tumbled in a cement mixer. The extent of the bruising means that just about none of the apple is edible. Does anyone have a solution?

26/08/2022: Must get one of these for Della: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-perfect-gift-for-your-hot-conservative-wife/

26/08/2022: Here’s the result of California’s announcement it will ban real cars from 2035: https://babylonbee.com/news/texas-builds-600-miles-of-border-wall-using-u-haul-trucks-from-california

26/08/2022: Dire: Macron warns that the world as we knew it has ended. We certainly have a big fight on our hands to preserve our freedom and lifestyle: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/macron-warns-end-abundance-carefree-time/

25/08/2022: Wonnangatta Murders: So, police claim to have ‘further evidence’ against Lynn but neither he, his lawyer Dermot Dan (whom I know) nor the public knows what it is after nearly a year since he was arrested which frankly is not good enough. The alleged ‘firearms evidence’ is tantalising. Apparently we will have to wait until January to learn more. Terrible. Meanwhile a presumed innocent man (like Pell) is in gaol. I strongly suspect that they still don’t have enough to actually charge this bloke (who may indeed be the culprit, I admit). The fact that they have been unwilling to provide his barrister with the surveillance material or the ballistics’ evidence (after nearly twelve months – evidence which they ought to have had before they arrested him), indicates to me that there is nothing there. I suspect the ballistics will come down to some spent shells near the campsite (where we know Lynn camped as he came forward to admit that years ago) which came from his gun. Most hunters have left a spent shell or two lying around having used the opportunity of being up the bush by themselves to sight in their firearm. I suspect this is the ‘explanation’ the magistrate hints at. As I have said before, Lynn clearly did not admit anything about a crime to police. All police have is some bodies found along/near a route Lynn (and hundreds of others) might have used – but no forensics. They still clearly do not have the trailer, the drone or the phones. I suspect they will eventually be letting this guy go. His wife seems to believe him innocent at any rate which I think is quite telling. I feel she would have abandoned him if he had committed such a vile crime (unless she was involved – she has not been charged with anything): https://www.9news.com.au/national/greg-lynn-man-accused-of-killing-two-victorian-campers-back-in-court/73da5614-359a-40b2-b111-ea196b85df45

25/08/2022: 1971 was the crucial year when everything started to go wrong. Until then I could buy quite a nice house in Sydney or Newcastle (where I lived) for less than annual take-home pay of a labourer (and at an under 4% mortgage rate with zero inflation or unemployment) and simply didn’t ‘need’ to do so. Also up to then we made everything we needed right here in Australia. We were a highly skilled country and invested wisely in those skills eg through the apprenticeship system. Since then we have thrown away all our skills, manufacturing and independence and invested hugely in so-called education so that now the ‘average’ person has a university degree whose meaning is so little they might as well print them on the back of corn flakes packets. Both of us became teachers when we were selected from less than the top 1% of scholars and practiced our craft for many years, so we really do know that the ‘average’ person did not master the analytical and reasoning skills which were necessary for university education in the 1960s and before. But back to the money supply issue. I can remember being astonished (dining with a couple of teaching colleagues in 1971) that they were edging each other on about how much they were paying for their ‘new’ houses. I recall stopping them and saying something like, surely you meant to say how little you have paid for them? If you and everyone else gets into a bidding competition such as you seem to be so proud of, after a while you will all beggar each other and everyone else. I have been proven correct long since. We must have a massive deflation (yes going back to the ‘gold standard for example) which will ‘crash’ the economy I know and force people back into real work instead of the pretend meeting/agenda driven and warm inner glow nonsense that passes for work nowadays. I can’t buy a decent apple (or most quality foodstuffs) because (apparently) there is no-one to pick the fruit/veggies even though we have literally millions on unemployment or some other absurd ‘benefit’ (disability, single parent etc or public ‘service’ job - what a sick joke that is). We may begin to starve even here in Australia because of this (and various absurd ‘green dream and other socialist experiments). Certainly we will be shivering in the dark next winter. It is quite clear to me that even if we largely escape starvation (because we began with 75% pf our produce exported) millions (nay, billions) will not be so lucky. We are witnessing the greens’ depopulation plan in action. They have been telling us since around 1971 – ‘Club of Rome’ etc) – that we need to drastically reduce the world population ‘for the good of the planet’ whatever that is supposed to mean. The vile excuses for evil folks come up with! Before they came up with such garbage it was an accepted fact that the most important thing in the universe was the individual human soul, but folks who make pyramids of human skulls by the multiple millions as the Left are wont to do care, nothing about such niceties. Real science, agriculture and capitalism have enabled the world to feed and provide well for all the folks on earth and any reasonable increase thereof, but 2023 is going to see a reduction in that population because there is not ‘enough’ - though there will still be plenty for the ‘elites’, mark my words: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/weve-been-leading-up-to-this-corruption-crisis-since-1971/

24/08/2022: Japan ‘strikes the right balance’: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/japan-wants-young-adults-drink-more-save-alcohol-industry

24/08/2022: Do you still remember when churches never burned down – or had ‘faulty wiring’ problems? I certainly do. Here in Melbourne we have many churches going up every year with this problem too. It needs looking at: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2022/08/21/faulty-wiring-burns-more-churches-kills-41-more-christians-n1622806

24/08/2022: A weird world our WEF masters want us to live in. I’m glad I won’t be around to see it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/world-economic-forum-recommends-humans-become-cyborgs-implant-brain-chips-solid-rational-reasons-children-microchipped/

24/08/2022: A big ‘Hurrah’ to Ron De Santis, “Never ever give up. We must fight the Woke in our schools, fight the Woke in our businesses. We must fight the Woke in government agencies. We can never ever surrender to government agencies.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/ron-de-santis-fires-a-rocket-at-corporate-woke-media/

23/08/2022: Is this a life-saver or not? Perfect and peelable hard-boiled eggs every time: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37921-Perfect-and-peelable-hard-boiled-eggs.html

23/08/2022: Yarmuk: the day Islam swallowed the West. Read it and weep: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2022/08/20/today-in-history-islam-swallows-up-the-western-world-after-the-battle-of-yarmuk-n1622689

23/08/2022:

23/08/2022: About that ecar…Just a for example, “Car manufacturers admit that there is only enough lithium for 14 million ecars while the World Economic Forum says the world needs 5 billion to get to Net Zero.”: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/lithium-lies/

23/08/2022: “I’ve already seen the best of Australia.” It’s sad when most of your friends are saying this too. Used to be (for ~200+ years each generation proudly watched (and worked to make) things get better, but no longer: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-reason-is-dead-in-climate-debate/news-story/d81d76cfafb7d097f7e1b0bfbf8487e7

22/08/2022: When ‘unknown cause of death’ becomes the leading cause of death (up sevenfold): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/comedy-break-jp-sears/

22/08/2022: Australia too has forgotten how to make stuff. When the mining ‘golden goose’ is finally killed by the Left nothing will remain: “There’s a high-minded and foolhardy theory that posits: in the absence of manual labor, people will be free to pursue “better” work. But how likely is it that we all have the talent or desire to become watercolor painters, novelists, and master tapestry-weavers? It’s a myth that as machines take over people’s jobs or they’re done by people in other countries, Americans will elevate themselves to something “nobler” and more worthwhile.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/america-is-forgetting-how-to-make-stuff/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WORL%20%2020220820%20%20AL&utm_content=WORL%20%2020220820%20%20AL+CID_dcabdeb45c93008948dd57aa78d1ea4b&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=America%20is%20forgetting%20how%20to%20make%20stuff

22/08/2022: Is James Webb going to kill the Big Bang? I have been reading a lot about this lately, for example that folks claim to have already identified galaxies which are (far) older than the universe or that others they are seeing are themselves too old to have begun after the universe did. A fundamental change in physics/cosmology may be about to begin: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/17/astronomers-looking-at-webb-what-if-the-big-bang-didnt-happen-n490341

22/08/2022: Are young women just more gullible, is PC just for girls, or do they yearn to be ‘victims’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/political-correctness-is-for-girls-the-bubble-of-woke-has-a-grip-on-young-women/

21/08/2022: Poem for today. (We have had a grandchildren’s sleepover at our house).

The Childrens' Hour

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Between the dark and the daylight,

When the night is beginning to lower,

Comes a pause in the day's occupations,

That is known as the Children's Hour.

I hear in the chamber above me

The patter of little feet,

The sound of a door that is opened,

And voices soft and sweet.

From my study I see in the lamplight,

Descending the broad hall stair,

Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,

And Edith with golden hair.

A whisper, and then a silence:

Yet I know by their merry eyes

They are plotting and planning together

To take me by surprise.

A sudden rush from the stairway,

A sudden raid from the hall!

By three doors left unguarded

They enter my castle wall!

They climb up into my turret

O'er the arms and back of my chair;

If I try to escape, they surround me;

They seem to be everywhere.

They almost devour me with kisses,

Their arms about me entwine,

Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen

In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!

Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,

Because you have scaled the wall,

Such an old mustache as I am

Is not a match for you all!

I have you fast in my fortress,

And will not let you depart,

But put you down into the dungeon

In the round-tower of my heart.

And there will I keep you forever,

Yes, forever and a day,

Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,

And moulder in dust away!

21/08/2022: Yes, we can take our power back: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/19-us-states-fight-back-against-blackrock-the-political-climate-police-disguised-as-a-monster-investment-fund/

NB: Blackrock is spending big on useless batteries in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/like-a-banker-belt-n-road-plan-blackrock-give-australia-batteries-we-dont-need-with-esg-strings-attached/

21/08/2022: Wise words from Prof Ian Plimer (as usual) about where all the methane comes from but also, “Climate change cannot be understood using computer models that attempt to predict the future with incomplete information and invalid assumptions. The past is the key to the present and destruction of history, archaeology, and geology in the climate wars can only lead to hardship.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/rain-rain-go-away/ NB Biden’s new Inflation Reduction Act (amongst a litany of other evils) gives the EPA the ability to tax methane at $900 per tonne starting 2024

21/08/2022: Let’s just vote to continue to be one nation, not divide Australia by ‘race’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/a-nation-for-a-continent-and-a-continent-for-a-nation/

20/08/2022: "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." Mark Twain

20/08/2022: Back in the 1950s Argentina was the richest country in the world (followed by Australia). Look where socialism has taken them. Our turn next? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/argentina-raises-interest-rates-to-70/

20/08/2022: A major fallacy of the EV thing is thinking electricity is both ‘free’ and ‘clean’. Everything has a cost (not least the quadruple cost of buying an EV – maybe double that when you consider their likely lifetime) but the huge environmental (and human lives) cost of making and then recycling them (well there is no plan actually) almost certainly means that they would not be ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘free’ even if they gave them away and electricity cost nothing. But it currently costs approx 50 Euros to charge a standard 100kw EV battery (which will soon rise by 320%) - and that will get you about 200 km! It gets worse after that! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/18/charging-electric-cars-like-spilling-liters-of-petrolhidden-losses-during-charging-are-huge/

20/08/2022: Our ABC, the porn channel. Shut them down: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/their-abc-outdoing-themselves-with-this-voyeuristic-rot.html

19/08/2022: Laser spacecraft propulsion is coming. “On the eventual upper end, a full scale system (50-100 GW) will propel a wafer-scale spacecraft with a meter class reflector (laser sail) to about c/4 in a few minutes of laser illumination allowing hundreds of launches per day or 100,000 missions per year. Such a system would reach the distance to Mars (1 AU) in 30 minutes, pass Voyager I in less than 3 days, pass 1,000 AU in 12 days, and reach Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.” https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/technology-to-make-interstellar-missions-possible-and-affordable.html

19/08/2022: How can three declining trend periods add up to an increasing trend? Maths is weird: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/17/fun-with-trends/

19/08/2022: Yes, the Libs have to dump Guy and damned soon, but have they got a true conservative they can put in his place? Please come back Jeff Kennett, Bernie Finn: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/matthew-guy-is-literally-history/

19/08/2022: Seems to me that if India (China etc) need to double or quadruple our coal deliveries to them over the next decade we just might not have much say in it: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/business-robbery-etc-99/

18/08/2022: The best female swimmer in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgjc29QCGo

18/08/2022: Maybe there are no higher or lower creatures: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/evolution-march-of-progress/

18/08/2022: The new Concorde – imagine being able to fly return to London in under 24 hours: https://boomsupersonic.com/

18/08/2022: So, why would the presence of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia require more extraordinary travel arrangements than already exist with this whole host of countries?

17/08/2022: Good News – hearing aids may soon get to be ‘self-fitting’ and much cheaper: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/16/23307974/hearing-aids-over-counter-fda-apple-bose

17/08/2022: Frankly I am shocked that ‘the average person tells four lies a day’. I was always taught never to lie: https://www.studyfinds.org/average-person-tells-four-lies-daily/

17/08/2022: Interesting Rasmussen Poll: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/interesting-poll-from-rasmussen/ Here’s Tucker’s take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lDvZ1IPj4 If the FBI (etc) really believed Trump still had the nuclear codes they would hardly have waited 18 months to act.

17/08/2022: Here is a very big whoopsie about human produced CO2 (which I admit I hadn’t spotted. Humans simply cannot have ‘caused’ the increase in CO2 which (if it ) has occurred because human CO2 is only 5% of all sources of CO2 (and clearly ‘stays’ in the atmosphere for exactly the same amount of time as ‘natural’ CO2) so it cannot possible add up to 32% as the IPCC (greens etc) claim: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/16/the-impact-of-human-co2-on-atmospheric-co2-summary/

Also note: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/13/doomsday-climate-predictions-meltdown-arctic-sea-ice-extent-reaches-12-year-mid-august-high/

16/08/2022: Only the modeled climate responds. Why won’t the real climate play along and boil us like frogs: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/08/a-clear-case-of-hot-hotter-hoodwinked/

16/08/2022: With her popularity now at 30% hopefully we will soon see the back of ‘the wicked witch of the West’ aka Jacinda Ardern. You would hope to see the same thing happening to all the vile socialists we have running things over here too…if only so many of the ‘conservatives’ weren’t trying to beat them at their own game: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinda_ardern_tipped_to_be_dumped_as_pm

16/08/2022: Nuclear fusion achieved in the lab at Lawrence Livermore: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/13/breakthrough-ignition-confirmed-at-california-fusion-reactor-n489445

16/08/2022: We spent more money on education, remember? Maybe not good value for money. These people vote too: https://moonbattery.com/education-system-produces-staggering-ignorance/

15/08/2022: The escalating prices of (especially) lithium and cobalt make EVs much more expensive than conventional cars. The petrol F-150 for example costs US$33K today but its EV version will be at least $20K more expensive. And you have to accept that a couple of three poor people somewhere have died in order to produce it! https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/question-of-the-day/qotd-why-arent-evs-becoming-more-affordable-44496610

Good one: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/wisdom-of-the-ages.html

15/08/2022: First they claimed that they were after menus and other silly things but now they have gone even sillier and claim Trump had the nuclear war codes still in his pockets: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/code-red-for-the-deep-state.php

15/08/2022: In the UK theft has becomes effectively decriminalised with the clear-up rate rapidly approaching zero. I suspect the same thing has been happening here though we have experienced a veritable explosion of policing for other matters (ie social control – and wokeness). Many policemen would now like to work from home. I’m sure that would help a lot. If you expected your personal safety to improve after abolishing the death penalty and the right to self-protection eg the ownership of firearms, think again. Like so many things, it will get worse before it gets better: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/how-did-theft-become-effectively-decriminalised-in-britain/

15/08/2022: Vegetarianism is not so great after all (particularly if you are a woman): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/11/vegetarian-women-fracture-hips-study-bone-healthv & https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/plant-based-diet-is-not-so-virtuous-or-healthy-says-new-book/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

14/08/2022: Short season crops, ie things which produce a harvest in as little time as possible are something you should be giving serious thought to. You need to be collecting seeds from such plants (not F1 hybrids from which no useful seeds can be collected). Many varieties of all the common vegetables were long ago developed for use in colder climes or to produce multiple crops in warmer ones. ‘Diggers’ is a good source. The mandated increases in the cost of energy (and the really desperate coming shortage if urea) will mean that food will become scarce or very expensive. We are building two greenhouses which will give us an abundance of ‘summer’ crops over winter and really heat dependent crops (eg melons) over summer here in Southern Vic where it is difficult to grow such things.Our vegie garden is also completely planted out already and will be expanded – as will our orchards. I notice greenhouses and seeds are already in short supply. When the urea finally dries up and the trucks stop bringing the produce down from the North things will get tough. Time to get out into the back yard with a hoe.

You can get your plants started early with a $10 propagator next to a window. Here you see several varieties of tomato, eggplant and capiscum already up. They will be in the greenhouse in a bit over a week. Some will produce crops by the end of September!

14/08/2022: The Ukrainians may be taking awful losses but they are still fighting back it seems: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-long-anticipate-southern-counteroffensive-begin-bang-crimea/

14/08/2022: History almost always beats ‘science’, but let’s hope that the worst times are behind us because we are now better able to adapt. It was much warmer than today in the not-s0-distant past. They used to grow wine in Scotland before the Little Ice Age began (only 600 years ago). Today wine cannot be grown anywhere in the UK: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/the-1540-megadrought-in-europe-rhine-ran-dry-fires-burned-and-no-one-blamed-coal-or-beef-steak/

14/08/2022: After 33 years the fatwa has finally come for Salman Rushdie for the terrible sin of pointing out that the ‘perfect book’ has some truly evil passages in it and that the ‘perfect man’ was anything but – ie a mass murderer and child rapist. I applaud Macron’s statement of support, “For 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side.”: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/author-salman-rushdie-stabbed/news-story/6821ed8e0b9bcf40bba3ad8c3e1eff51

13/08/2022: South Coast Track New Zealand: New Zealand’s South Coast Track is a magical journey through one of the world’s completely untouched forests where no axe has ever fallen or anyone ever lived. I/we have been there four times and plan to go again, maybe in late spring this year if my knee is good enough by then, otherwise next autumn. It is just great. Next time we plan to stay longer at the truly astonishing Westies Hut, have an extensive look at Price’s Harbour and Big River with a view to assessing how difficult it might be for us (as over 70s) at a future time to even venture out to remote Cromarty.

We will definitely take side trips to Long Point (Lighthouse) Hut and the Slaughter Burn Hut on the way to/from the Waitutu River. If the Grant Burn Hut is still available we will also spend a night there between the Waitutu and Westies. We will also probably walk as much as we can along the beach between the Waitutu and Westies (certainly from the Grant Burn to the Aan River as we did last time) because you can and because it makes a nice change. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/13/south-coast-track-new-zealand/

13/08/2022: The temperature data – indeed the whole idea behind it – is faked. It is just not possible to establish an ‘average’ temperature. Walk around your own back yard with a thermometer and you will easily find areas where the temperature varies by 5-10C on any given day then tell me how ‘scientists’ can establish the average temperature of the earth within a hundredth of a degree and determine how much it is rising or falling. What we all know is that the temperature around us varies during the course of any single day by at least 20C – and sometimes by over 40C, yet everything (magically) survives: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/09/numbers-tricky-tricky-numbers-part-2/

13/08/2022: “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” This is the way the global elites actually think, deeming themselves enormously more important (for having meetings) than the folks who grow and deliver our food, care for the elderly or clean toilets etc. Now with their war on farming, energy etc they plan to get rid of that vast mass of unnecessary people who will (if they succeed) all be gone in one season – after which they will virtuously sigh, ‘It was not our fault’, as Nazis always have: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/

Stalin called the farmers ‘the enemies of the people’. By expropriating them, the state took control of food production. 7 million starved to death. A century later, the WEF is opening the ‘war on farmers’. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-8-6-net-zero-is-not-just-for-carbon-emissions-now-its-nitrogen

13/08/2022: This snake Kean (and Matthew Guy et al) are what is wrong with the Liberal Party. A conservative Party has to represent what ordinary Australians think and want: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/green_matt_kean_to_guide_nsw_liberals_to_electoral_disaster

It’s not just a leadership change that’s needed though, but a complete change of direction. As its slogan a re-awakened Liberal Party ought to adopt Tony’s old slogan, ‘Climate Change is Crap’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/matthew-guy-and-a-history-of-lastminute-leadership-switches/news-story/a2ea8d3ee3542f9c4d3df18c9db992cc

12/08/2022: It would be good if we spent more time talking about important matters as eminent physicist Sir Roger Penrose does here: https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/roger-penrose/

12/08/2022: The Greens are no different from this today. Nazis. They have all sorts of policies which would starve (at least) half the world’s people to death while at the same time advocating all sorts of animal libber and national parks nonsense. "At the edge of a forest, German soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish religion. Among them are young mothers clutching their babies. The shots echo through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground. Down the road, while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees. The Nazis conducted horrific experiments on children (I have seen footage so upsetting it can’t be shown on TV) but at the same time they banned medical experiments on animals. The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and homeopathic healthcare. How can we possibly explain this? What was the connection between the inhuman brutality of the Nazis and their gushing idealization of ‘Nature’?" http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history

12/08/2022: The Great Barrier Reef is nearly as big as Victoria ie it is pretty hard to miss, yet it did not exist (where it is now) during the last Ice Age – just a little while ago, and will not during the next, not so far away now either. The sea level was over 50 metres lower then. Corals exist in shallower water than that. So when folks tell you ‘the science is settled’ re some political decision they want make ie to control your behaviour in some way eg whether you can go for a drive in the country, you should be very skeptical indeed. Scepticism used not to be thought a very bad thing not so long ago but rather a default mental state which helped one to navigate to the truths of the world: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/healthy-reef-defies-dubious-science/

11/08/2022: Tony Abbott could well have said, ‘Apres Moi le deluge’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/labors-climate-bill-is-an-economic-precipice/

11/08/2022: Just imagine the urban mega fires we will have as EVs spread – and the toxic pollution downwind (far worse than any CO2): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/100-evs-mysteriously-destroyed-in-fire-in-india/

11/08/2022: Time to go back to your old stainless steel frypan: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/forever-chemicals-linked-to-liver-cancer-in-first-human-study/

11/08/2022: Good Lord – maybe Trudeau is Castro’s son. He certainly behaves like it anyway. In similar news Albo admits he is a bastard (Who knew?) but who is his real father? A prize will be offered: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042

10/08/2022: A fine birthday present from Bunnings. We went in to Midvalley to have a birthday lunch and thought to buy some seedlings for the vegie garden from Bunnings while we were there. As well we scored this excellent load of 4” x 2” x 8’ steel quite free - probably over $500 worth. Well on the way to our next shed right there:

10/08/2022: Way back in 2013 I wrote this. The situation has become worse since then. The Green aim to reduce the world population by half or three-quarters is moving swiftly into place spearheaded by the attack on Nitrogen and farming: Green Deaths per annum amount to millions worldwide: Malaria (where the unnecessary & illegitimate ban on DDT cost over a million lives pa for thirty+ years), support for biofuels (200,000+ pa from starvation as we burn food rather than allow the poor to eat it), opposition to food irradiation (100s of 1000s pa from food poisoning pa), opposition to nuclear power (deaths from radon, Carbon 14, coal mining etc), opposition to GM crops, diversion of money (from eg health, shelter, food) to global warming ‘mitigation’, opposition to Western farming methods (& especially in the Third World = mass starvation), support for national parks before people…These folk are simply the most evil bastards ever (making Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc look like patsies). And it is not just people whom the greens murder in their millions. Animals and plants are destroyed by their policies in their billions: millions of hectares have been destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations and generally to grow ‘Biofuels’. Other millions of hectares are routinely destroyed by wildfires because of their insistence on a completely ‘hands off’ approach to forest management. At the same time vast numbers of creatures are destroyed by introduced vermin such as foxes, cats, pigs which they will not allow to be shot. Add millions of wildlife deaths pa from windfarms and from paving over land with solar collectors & etc… Astonishing that 8% of voters say they will still vote for their policies. How can so many folk fail to be able to distinguish between good and evil?

10/08/2022: Why we should make Ivermectin available to all. This article is by a Professor of Pathology from my old University who really knows his stuff. Currently nearly 100 people a day are dying in Australia from covid (mostly unnecessarily): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2022/08/the-suppression-of-useful-covid-19-treatments/

10/08/2022: The US coup continues – it has become a banana republic. They clearly plan to steal the November mid-term election too (If they can – maybe Kari Lake proves they can’t) : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/what-do-you-do-when-you-cant-win-elections-legally-raid-political-opponents-homes/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/america/2022/08/donald-trump-official-enemy-of-the-state/

10/08/2022: Alexandra Marshall’s article on ‘immortal’ nuclear energy is a ‘must-read’. I am not sure how we will implement it in Australia but constitutional change ie abolishing the Senate has to be at the head of the agenda: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/nuclear-the-age-of-immortal-energy/

09/08/2022: A bad week for female vocalists. Olivia gone now too. I used to run into her for coffee in the student union lots at Newcastle Uni back in the 1960s – this was before she was famous, but just one of the senior staff’s daughters. Her father Bryn Newton-John shared my love of motorbikes. She was just the same age as me. Makes me think about ‘time’s winged chariot’ I can tell you.

09/08/2022: Your Vitamin D levels are crucial: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/handy-tip-vitamin-d-deficiency-causes-chronic-inflammation-which-means-aging-dementia-bad-stuff/

09/08/2022: This is ridiculous and obscene racist cant. How much of ‘our’ country do we need to give away to just one group: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/how-to-give-away-half-a-continent/

09/08/2022: Much as the CCP wants to frame Taiwan as a rebellious ‘province’ the reality is that it has never really been part of China: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/taiwans-inconvenient-history/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

09/08/2022: Remember how Tony Abbott won the largest majority in Australia’s history with his promise to scrap the Mining Tax. Next election Peter Dutton will be able to do the same with a promise to scrap the Left’s Climate legislation. Already this week (since the climate Bill was passed $12 billion dollars worth of coal projects in Qld have been cancelled (including one power station). This is just the beginning of an awful national decline and a flight of capital elsewhere: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/08/the-43-percent-law-spells-the-end-of-new-fossil-fuel-developments/

08/08/2022: The Seekers – the beginning. I just can’t help but post yet another tribute to Judith and her amazing band mates. I know there will not be any Parliamentary Condolence Debate as with Archie Roach. Have we lost what it is to be quintessentially Australian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf41UudAbI&t=184s

08/08/2022: If Ukraine really is losing 1,000 soldiers a day then the war is truly lost and Putin has won: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/new-batches-ukrainian-troops-quit-fight-russia-grinds/

08/08/2022: Civil disobedience against the ‘Green Blob’ begins in the UK. The People’s push-back against ‘the Great reset’ has begun. Bring it on: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/dont-pay-uk-protest-thousands-of-consumers-offer-to-not-pay-their-obscene-energy-bills/

Meanwhile, the Greens here want us to be conquered by communist China. You would have had to be mad to vote for these folks: https://www.theepochtimes.com/australian-greens-party-challenges-ruling-labor-party-amidst-national-security-power-play_4642423.html

08/08/2022: The earth’s thermostat is just wonderful. Just as the human body temperature does not get warmer as the temperature rises, so too the earth sheds heat in the tropics as the temperature rises keeping the average world temperature within a very narrow .5C range. Amazing. Thanks Willis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/07/putting-it-into-reverse/

07/08/2022: Farewell Judith Durham 1943-2022. What a voice. Like most of my generation this is how I will always remember her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd_9l9w4RI

07/08/2022: Curiosity – what a great little rover: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/05/ten-years-of-curiosity-on-mars/

07/08/2022: Just like the bee apocalypse, the monarch butterfly apocalypse that wasn’t: https://www.wired.com/story/is-there-good-news-for-monarch-butterflies-scientists-disagree/

07/08/2022: The Greens – turning the West into the Third World one step at a time: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/06/rationing-is-back-and-britains-authoritarian-greens-are-delighted/

06/08/2022: Time for some good news: https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/cognitive-decline-can-be-avoided-with-simple-everyday-exercises-new-study-suggests/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

06/08/2022: On the origin of TANSTAAFL: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/27/free-lunch/

06/08/2022: Snowy 2.0 (like all the batteries) will be a dismal failure - and now at $22 billion for just 2000 megawatts (Think Hazelwood)! If they really want to replace coal (or petrol) the will have to go nuclear. That is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/03/how-helpful-is-snowy2-0/

06/08/2022: Just maybe communism is on the way out in China: https://www.theepochtimes.com/400-million-cut-their-ties-the-ccp-in-defiance-of-communist-control_4641067.html

05/08/2022: One tough old gal. Nice shooting – this is the way to deal with crooks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/shoot-arm-off-robbers-pick-wrong-socal-liquor-store-rob-video/

05/08/2022: I suspect that if fake meat to save the planet failed because no-one wanted to buy it, fake cars (EVs) will fail too for the same reason: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/planet-saving-fake-meat-burger-meets-hitch/

05/08/2022: I like Viv’s idea of a Repeal Party. Australia is so awash with laws and regulations soon we will have nothing else to export: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/labor-greens-marriage-produces-forty-new-bills/

05/08/2022: The Great Barrier Reef has doubled or tripled the amount of coral. I suppose all that calcium carbonate had to go somewhere. Now, can we count this sequestration of carbon – how many millions of tonnes against our ‘net zero’ targets? That, the vast increase in (savannah) woodlands and huge increases in soil carbon (and other eg marine) life more than meet our net zero targets already – let alone by 2050. See posts 20/07/2022 & 25/05/2022. We do not need to suffer more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/climate-change-causes-record-coral-cover-what-if-we-get-too-many-reefs/

04/08/2022: Personally I love apples, but here’s how they got such a bad press: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/forbidden-fruit-0017084

04/08/2022: Jacinta Price is a gem. Hers is the only type of ‘Voice’ needed: https://www.theepochtimes.com/virtue-signaling-wont-solve-problems-faced-by-indigenous-community-nt-senator_4633153.html

04/08/2022: Why only once a year? Breakfast has a big effect on my gender. No wait a minute. I meant my waistline: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germans-will-be-able-legally-change-their-gender-once-year

04/08/2022: Albanese’s 43% means everything – in case you didn’t know, and/or you voted for it? So it it not ‘just’ electricity but cars, houses, farming – everything. I can just bet too that none of the ‘savings’ Della and I have already made will be counted. We will have to ‘enjoy’ new suffering. The fact that we were forced to give up half of one (long cleared) farm to trees back in 2003 will not count. Or that we have not bought a new car since 1990 (the begin date of all this, rememeber?) but keep repairing 1990s cars which actually use less fuel per kilometer (and did not have to be made and made again since then) will not count. The hundreds and hundreds of trees (usually around 100 a year) we have already planted on our remaining 30 acres (or on other farms) will not count. The fact that we have doubled over and over the productivity of our land and our sheep will not count. We will have to start over. We (and everyone else) will be trying our best to cheat on these absurd targets just so we can survive. The Greens are forcing lunacy on all of us. We must rebel against this. This is the future that the World Economic Forum wants for you – it makes Brave New World look like freedom: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/update-saudi-prince-offers-glimpse-dazzling-500-billion-smart-city-future-will-nothing-happy/

03/08/2022: 78 Years since the Polish Uprising – just one more good reason why you should not give up your guns: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/long-live-the-warsaw-uprising/

03/08/2022: When vast unexplained geophysical happenings like this can occur we should hardly worry about what the human effect on the climate might be: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/earth-just-started-spinning-faster-ever-and-scientists-dont-know-why

03/08/2022: This looks so promising: https://scitechdaily.com/at-last-an-effective-new-treatment-for-chronic-back-pain/

03/08/2022: Nancy Pelosi – Wow! People are never “wholly bad nor good’ (Milk Wood): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/an-important-and-well-written-opinion-piece-under-nancy-pelosis-name-on-visit-to-taiwan.html

02/08/2022: A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).

02/08/2022: I suspect David Archibald is right: large ships and tanks are archaic: https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/we-will-win-chinas-war/

02/08/2022: More links between ancient India and Greece. Fascinating: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/krishnas-heel-and-trojan-elephants/

02/08/2022: Coal production just keeps going up: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/might-be-more-coal-burned-in-2022-than-any-other-time-in-human-existence/

Meanwhile oil just refuses to run out – wherever we are allowed to poke a hole in the ground ‘black gold’ pops up: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/guyana-suriname-oil-bonanza-to-boost-economies-help-meet-global-demand/

01/08/2022: The Terminator is coming to a battlefield near you: https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-unveils-mini-terminator-ground-robot-equipped-machine-gun

01/08/2022: Bring it on - Soon we will be able to buy these things to provide carbon-free power to a few thousand homes safely: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/

01/08/2022: The ‘great’ reset: Turning off the heat. Germany begins to shut down. No beer next: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/german-cities-start-to-turn-off-public-hot-water-lights-fountains-and-may-cancel-beer-too/

01/08/2022: People are daily bombarded with the advantages of socialism, but that is all bunk. The free market is in reality the great liberator. Take these words of wisdom from its outstanding proponent Milton Friedman, “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit…Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own…Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property” https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/31/remembering-the-great-economist-and-champion-of-liberty-milton-friedman/

31/07/2022: NASA’s beautiful Jupiter imagery: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-spacecraft-images-watercolor-vortices-near-jupiters-north-pole/

31/07/2022: James Lovelock (father of Gaia) came to be a supporter of nuclear power: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power-2021/

31/07/2022: This was what salvation meant once, “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” It is wrong to steal other people’s goods. Make your own, or at least do no evil – but that is not what is happening. Great evil is what is happening - in the name of good. Rainbows and gaiety (and especially childhood) ought not to have been so debased. Well said Cassie: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/

Peta Credlin’s take is also worth a read: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/peta-credlin-relentless-push-for-inclusivity-is-what-divides-us/news-story/8d1bd0a0ae3a809dd1365b62666f3015

31/07/2022: I think it’s the biggest insider trading scheme and most useless piece of virtue signaling, white elephant hugging nonsense of all time, but I acknowledge you might make (or lose) a fortune out of discreet investments in it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/30/guest-post-speedbox-electric-vehicles-redux/

30/07/2022: Stunning Footage Of Killer Whales Taking Down A Great White Shark – they are both horrible monsters. I would not want to be in the water with them: https://brobible.com/culture/article/first-ever-footage-orcas-killing-great-white-shark-stunning/

30/07/2022: “Coffee, tea or Bonox?” Maybe you are old enough to remember the ad? In any case it is still available, and it is still delicious. Having a cup right now. Curiously it no longer has instructions on the jar for using it as a drink, but adding a generous teaspoon to a cup of boiling water seems about right!

30/07/2022: In quarter two this year, we were paying an average price of $264 per megawatt hour instead of the $30 we used to pay before they blew up Hazelwood. And it will only get worse.The green dream is just insane, “It would have been cheaper just to build a whole new power plant last year.”: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/blistering-electricity-prices-it-was-the-quarter-the-whole-market-broke-and-australia-spent-12-7b/

30/07/2022: The WEF and all your ‘friendly’ leftie pollies want to destroy your car. Give them the boot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-economic-forum-urges-public-eliminate-ownership-private-vehicles/

29/07/2022: If only you got paid for it…decades after retiring from teaching Della and I still frequently dream about it. I doubt any of our ex-students (some of whom are nearing their 70s) get any subliminal benefit from this nocturnal behaviour– though I admit to feeling a desire sometimes to still correct their spelling and expression in their Facebook posts!

29/07/2022: How can this even happen? Well, whole Ice Ages have occurred when CO2 was much higher than it is today: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/28/climatologists-embarrassed-increase-in-global-co2-levels-accompanied-by-arctic-sea-ice-growth/

29/07/2022: A big ‘hats off’ to these seven guys. Gays might (or not) be ‘proud’ of their particular bent but there is absolutely no reason anyone else should be, quite the reverse. It is only twenty years since homosexuality was officially deemed a mental disorder and a crime in many jurisdictions, something which the consequences of having taken a more lenient approach to it and related behaviour has been shown was a bad idea which will have to be reversed in future – as has already been done in some countries which have been shocked by the excesses: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/australian-rugby-league-players-boycott-game-forced-wear-lgbt-themed-rainbow-jerseys/

For example, when a public health expert has gay unprotected sex with multiple men over a weekend, contracts monkeypox and gonorrhea but blames ‘the system’, are you sure you voted for gay marriage: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/soros-open-society-foundation-employee-brags-sex-multiple-men-pride-event-blames-government-catching-monkeypox-gonorrhea/

I liked this guy’s ‘take’ on the Manly events: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/

29/07/2022: Remembering two heroes of the Left who lost their lives on this day 228 years ago. Saint-Just & Robespierre. Today’s leftists (Bandt, Albanese, Andrews etc) are no better - and also care only about unbridled power and control, “A nation generates itself only upon heaps of corpses” – never mind ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ rather ‘devil take the hindmost.’ Every day around the world thousands of people are dying as a result of leftist policies (scores in Oz) – and it will get worse: https://fee.org/articles/the-two-monsters-of-the-french-revolution-who-were-consumed-by-power-and-lost-their-heads-on-the-same-day/

Bastiat had it better, “Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!”

28/07/2022: Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders: “The nation's leading scientists unveiled a new periodic table of genders to help everyone keep track of the evolving gender spectrum. Experts are recommending the table be rolled out to schools across the nation and added to each state's curriculum for grades 9-12. The gender table features 114 genders in addition to a wild card space that represents the limitless imagination of the human mind.”: https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-unveil-periodic-table-of-genders

28/07/2022: How renewables are killing Europe. We have to stop this nonsense: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/net-zero-policies-produced-the-most-dramatic-fall-in-european-energy-since-the-late-middle-ages/

It will be a very grim winter over there this year. Many will die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/uk-lights-out-for-winter-warning-12m-people-will-be-in-energy-poverty/

28/07/2022: No https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/atheist-labor-senate-president-wants-to-dump-the-lords-prayer.html and Double No: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/no-just-no-double-no-nfw-lest-we-forget.html

28/07/2022: What really drives the climate? Well done (again) Viv, “Man’s coal, cars and cattle are puny compared to what nature can do.” : https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/27900/volcanos-oceans-and-weather/

Meanwhile this is where any warming is coming from – a complete corruption of (climate) science): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/new-surface-stations-report-released-its-worse-than-we-thought/

27/07/2022: Kemi would definitely have been the membership’s choice for PM, but the membership and the people never get to choose. Such is democracy: https://www.commonsense.news/p/englands-new-conservative-superstar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

27/07/2022: The ‘New Puritans’ are everywhere – just as bad as Oliver Cromwell: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/earlier-incarnations-of-puritanism-ended-when-its-proponents-became-laughing-stock/

27/07/2022: Sack Matthew Guy before we are condemned to another four years of Danistan: ‘To lose one election may be regarded as a misfortune: to lose more looks like carelessness.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/liberals-stop-chasing-the-left-into-the-abyss/

27/07/2022: Regendering archaeology, How absurd: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-dare-you-assume-the-gender-of-ancient-skeletons/

26/07/2022: Digital QR Codes will become a requirement for ‘normal life’ - First Sri Lanka, then the world: : https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/digital-qr-code-now-required-access-gas-pumps-sri-lanka/

In China: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/qr-code-required-to-use-public-bathroom/

26/07/2022: Will (underground deposits of) natural hydrogen be the ‘fuel of the future’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/24/could-natural-hydrogen-kill-green-hydrogen/

26/07/2022: 5G is just killing the NBN – just as free enterprise will always outperform socialism I long ago predicted this, before they ever began building Rudd and Turnbull’s wondrous white elephant: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/the-nbn-faces-a-slide-in-demand-as-retailers-ramp-up-the-sales-pitch-on-cheaper-faster-5g/news-story/b494697b1b489a248147d171278414f5

26/07/2022: What a crock of s—t Plibersek’s State of the Environment Report is. Put together by a bunch of groupie Aboriginal activists none of whom has an scientific qualification at all! How a woman knowingly married to a heroin dealer gets to be a Minister of the Crown is beyond me. Is this the most despicable Government in Australia’s history: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-eco-experts-trying-to-hoodwink-us-on-state-of-environment/news-story/274139bbd91dd8d1c0f8450ee1a365c4

25/07/2022: Who invented ice cream - 2500 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani

25/07/2022: Human history is full of surprises: These folk could be claiming castles in Portugal instead. Anyway their genes did not arrive 50,000 years ago: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/07/bird-people-groote-eylandt/

25/07/2022: Things are getting serious: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037405/Fleet-nuclear-submarines-sent-Britain-Australia-warning-China.html?fbclid=IwAR2xbYE3HlPs2ewiET2xGU_aZ2uaKBqJ9Kw09TPO7uJMKlXEzz50z4a99xA

25/07/2022: “If you believe that the world’s weather is becoming catastrophically – no – apocalyptically unstable, why would you spend trillions of dollars converting your energy grid to rely on the weather…?´Alexandra Marshall in the Spectator.

24/07/2022: There are three maxims of wisdom (which we should never forget) engraved on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)

1. Know thyself.

2.Everything in moderation.

3. Certainty is ruin.

24/07/2022: It’s world Ivermectin day. We (Oz) have 50-80 deaths a day at the moment from covid and this has been going on all year now - 11,134 deaths altogether yet most if not all of these deaths could have been prevented with early treatment with Ivermectin which you can still buy without a script as a sheep or horse drench (taking the appropriate amount for your weight - as if you were a sheep each day for 3-5 days) yet it is still banned as a human treatment in Vic though it has had 90+% efficacy in preventing death/disease elsewhere (23/07/2022). This is the greatest crime in Australia’s history yet I will receive a ‘warning’ from Facebook for stating it. I have taken ivermectin multiple times now to cure myself and/or to prevent the disease when I have encountered it. So have a number of my friends. Ignore this advice and die if you must. I have been suggesting this since March 2020: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-ivermectin-day-advice-frontline-doctors-across-nation-stay-healthy-amid-biowar/ NB You can also use quercetin.

24/07/2022: Canada is now going down Sri Lanka’s and Holland’s path of destroying farming. This is the mad new green plan. Get ready to be hungry: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/tyrant-trudeau-moves-forward-plan-reduce-fertilizer-use-bankrupt-farmers-global-food-shortage-emergency/

24/07/2022: ‘It’s a free country’ – remember that refrain? Imagine even having to take such an offence as this to court! I got in to deep trouble myself a few years ago (2016) as I had a credit card knife (a ‘prohibited weapon’ – akin to a machine gun - was the adumbrated charge) in my wallet. Things got particularly heated when I suggested to the officers that they should be out looking for the Beaumont children’s murderer instead of harassing retired farmers about fruit knives. Cost me $3000 in legal fees to make it go away: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feurope%2F2022%2F07%2F23%2Ffree-speech-win-uk-police-told-that-being-offensive-is-not-a-crime%2F

23/07/2022: The world’s greatest adventure – paleolithic seafaring. Imagine homo erectus and neanderthal venturing to cross hundreds of miles of open ocean – yet they did, up to 800,000 years ago: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/palaeolithic-seafaring

23/07/2022: An Australian Hero: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/congratulation-214th-bn-2nd-aif-veteran-les-cook-for-yesterdays-awm-last-post-ceremony-lest-we-forge.html

23/07/2022: The recent ‘heat wave’ in England was largely a natural event: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/21/the-european-heat-wave-and-global-warming/

23/07/2022: Ivermectin is clearly better than anything you can get a script for – but look also at Quercetin (which you can buy from health food shops): https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-study-shows-ivermectin-can-reduce

22/07/2022: The ‘Voice’ must be rejected, “Aboriginal activists now want statehood, self-government and an independent legal system for each self-identifying Aboriginal clan that gains native title. And they want the Australian taxpayer to fund it all. This is obviously a program for a radical revision of the Australian federation — all of it in the interests of Aboriginal people, but with no thought about how it could possibly be in the interests of the rest of us.” The history of all this is very interesting (and in fact casts the ‘colonists’ in a very positive light): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/the-voice-hiding-its-content-from-referendum-voters/

22/07/2022: The situation in China is deteriorating: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tanks-deployed-to-stop-bank-run-in-china/

22/07/2022: South Africa (or Sri Lanka) is what we will be next year: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/south-africa-dystopia-blackouts-vandalism-protests-and-people-in-hospital-from-diy-connections/

22/07/2022: This is a great graph in response to the ‘warmists’. As you can see in reality the world has rarely been much colder than it is now: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/21/climate-alarmists-respond-to-the-global-warming-pause/

21/07/2022: Please come back Tim Smith, Bernie Finn etc. We need an urgent change in the Victorian Liberal Party leadership. “The Western Australia Liberals tried this trick before their state election and now they can fit into a Volkswagen Polo. There’s only two members in the lower house.”: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorian-liberals-power-to-the-people-plan-promises-solar-panel-battery-storage-rebates/news-story/bd62afbcbb619c5796ca1f8d854d7105

21/07/2022: “It takes real genius to have an energy crisis in a nation which is the fifth biggest gas exporter in the world, the highest value coal exporter, and has the largest reserves of uranium. In the race to the bottom, Australia is burdened with more energy per capita than anywhere on Earth — and yet Big Government has succeeded, and wildly, showing that the richest nation on Earth can still be poor”: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/now-its-a-gas-crisis-for-a-global-gas-exporter-aemo-says-there-is-a-threat-to-system-security/

21/07/2022: Pakistan is rapidly heading to becoming the next Sri Lanka but this time run by the Taliban – thanks to ‘Uncle Joe’ Biden. Unfortunately they are a nuclear armed power: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-legacy-taliban-forces-teeming-us-weapons-unite-take-pakistani-government-country-precipice-economic-collapse/

21/07/2022: Save the forest, save the pygmies – yet another reason not to buy the latest iPhone. A few thousand dead in the Ukraine War yet it is in the papers every day (and we simply must send aid) but a few million dead in the Congo – and nothing. Of course they are black: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-forest-people

20/07/2022: ‘Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who only knows what hurts, is a safer guide than any vigorous direction of a specialised character.’ Winston Churchill: Rainbows and rubber bullets | The Spectator Australia

20/07/2022: Aboriginal history or pre- history is now a completely banned topic I know, but it is much ore recent than you may think. For example we may no longer delve into any details about Mungo Man since he has been stolen and reburied even though he was proved by DNA analysis to have no living descendants. This author delves into the facts of aboriginal origins however and finds many of them to be much more recent than the conventional narrative which sees aboriginals as ‘the oldest living culture’ even though the San of Southern Africa must pip them by at least 100,000 years even if they could prove a continuous occupation of Australia of 50,000 years which they cannot (as Mungo man’s DNA revealed). Some of them arrived much more recently (actually after the earliest European visits astonishingly enough) but mostly we are looking at an arrival circa 3500 years ago. The distribution of their languages proves this point with great certainty. These are (three) astonishing scholarly articles: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d

20/07/2022: Origins of Monty Python: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/joseph-arimathea-0017032

20/07/2022: So, as Ian Plimer has also pointed out (25/05/2022) Australia is already at or below net zero, so let’s just ‘chill out’. Nothing more needs to be done, let alone disastrous economy destroying experiments: https://www.beefcentral.com/news/renowned-scientist-says-australia-could-already-be-at-net-zero/

19/07/2022: Of course they should lock her up: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/norwegian-feminist-faces-3-years-in-prison-for-saying-men-cant-have-babies/

19/07/2022: Why stop with the ‘mentally ill’? Why not get rid of anyone you disagree with? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/canadas_expert_panel_recommends_the_mentally_ill_be_candidates_for_euthanasia.html

19/07/2022: I have been reading with interest Mater’s historical pieces on the ‘aboriginal question’. Misinformation certainly seems to have been the order of the day on this issue: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-1-the-beginning/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-2-australian-law-as-applied-to-aborigines/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/

19/07/2022: You can’t have an effect without a cause (and vice versa). The satellite data shows the world is (plus) .06C degrees warmer than the 1975-2022 average though in the tropics it has been (minus) -.36C cooler than the average. This does not mean that an Ice Age is imminent but it does mean that ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ cannot have ‘caused’ anything in the last 50 years – simply because neither has occurred, nor are they likely to occur because of CO2 which clearly has about zero effect on the climate. Note that it was much warmer during the Middle Ages than today (They grew wine in Scotland and farmed in Greenland), and during several Ice Ages CO2 percentages were several times (higher) than they are today. Relax: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2022-0-06-deg-c/ .

18/07/2022: How many crimes are down to drunk and stupid: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-man-arrested-alleged-slaying-fisherman-fear-eaten-bigfoot-aut-rcna38065

18/07/2022: Why would you vote for either of these parties? Just no choice but madness: https://www.theepochtimes.com/centre-right-coalition-in-victoria-says-it-will-match-labors-50-percent-2030-emissions-target-and-legislate-it_4602897.html

Where the materials could possibly come from to achieve these absurd ‘net zero’ aims is clearly never a bother for its proponents: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/17/sp-chronic-copper-shortages-have-killed-net-zero-2050/

18/07/2022: Why you should be concerned about Postmodernism though it “is total garbage, not based on any kind of evidence or facts, but also not based on logical argumentation or rationality… because the postmodernists reject literally all of those ideas and concepts. Nonetheless, this is what many of your children are now being taught in public schools. They are being taught, just like the postmodernists want them to be, that there is no such thing as truth. They want your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends to believe that everything is true, and nothing is true; everything is real, nothing is real; left is right; up is down” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/postmodernism_understanding_the_roots_of_wokeness.html

You could also think about how it impacts on ‘indigenous affairs’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/imprisoned-in-the-oldest-continuous-culture/

17/07/2022: Waterproofing Paper Maps: I know the old John Donne map store in Little Bourke St Melbourne used to sell a brush on (wax?) product for waterproofing paper topo (etc) maps called perhaps 'Map Seal' or the like. I admit I have never used it, or a spray on silicone normally designated for raincoats, boots etc (eg 'Camp Dry') which I know others sometimes use.

I have betimes laminated a paper map eg when traveling in Fiordland etc - but which makes them significantly heavier!) but for several years now I normally either forego a map, place it in a large snap-lock bag or use a phone app such as 'Paper Maps' and downloaded topo maps such as Vicmaps. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/16/waterproofing-paper-maps/

17/07/2022: Floods are what happens when you build your town on a flood plain (without adequate levies) I note Singleton’s and Maitland’s have held recently. Plenty of other towns (Lismore?) are yet to get them - though in Holland they built them centuries ago: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/the-long-forgotten-floods-of-windsor-and-sydney/

17/07/2022: How the ‘real science you can trust’ actually gets done: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/former-pfizer-marketing-vice-president-explains-how-big-pharma-controls-the-medical-establishment/

You can hardly believe something is ‘safe’ when it has this major effect on 40% of women for example: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/surprise-sideeffect-of-the-covid19-vaccine-for-women/news-story/606ed43f418286282123d7a5026d9b31

16/07/2022: Wide Shoes: If life came with a user's manual and we read it (unlikely - given how little we read other such manuals - else we would not have the acronym RTFM) we would probably give up much sooner. Now that I have slipped gracelessly into old age I am constantly coming across things which had they been in the manual would have filled me with trepidation if not despair. But enough of my woes!

Maybe it was because my left knee has been so worn out for so long and I was walking with such a pronounced and protracted limp but my right foot in particular seems to have been growing ever wider. This has been happening for a number of years. I used to wear size 8 UK Keen Targhees which were more than satisfactory when I posted about them here though I moved up from a Size 8UK to and 8.5UK because of toe problems encountered on the South Coast Track in 2014 walking out to Port Craig as I now recall. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/15/wide-shoes/

16/07/2022: How far will this CCP control go and how much will it be copied by puppets in the West: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/beijing-residents-forced-wear-regime-issued-electronic-bracelets-traveled-city-will-track-location-monitor-temperature/

16/07/2022: Weather Dependency. This is the type if world future the environmentalists see as desirable where all our energy for example will come from such unreliable sources – but the sun doesn’t always shine , or the wind blow. But surely this was the situation not just prior to the Industrial Revolution but indeed before the invention of fire more than a million years ago. Am I alone in seeing this madness as a seriously backward step in human evolution? Wake up people and reject this nonsense before your children are poor, cold and hungry. The (human) world has become increasingly a better place as we became weather independent.

15/07/2022: This is the real scientific evidence that there is no problem with CO2: https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-10-22/s71022-20132171-302668.pdf

15/07/2022: Wonnangatta Murders Revisited: You do have to wonder about Greg Lynn when the case was adjourned whilst everyone prepared more ‘evidence’ for yet more months - in the light of the disappearance of yet another person in the High Country (missing hiker Christos Pittas near Mt Hotham on 13 May).

It would be horrifying indeed if police have the wrong man (as seems unlikely I admit – but they have managed it before eg in the cases of Jason Roberts and George Pell recently for example) but what has been revealed so far anyway about the case is (legally speaking I guess) surely purely circumstantial - even if it seems pretty damning.

I have to admit that when they found the bodies it appeared to me that Lynn must have confessed and told them where they were – but if that had been the case not only would police now know more (eg where the trailer, phones, drones etc are) but he would also surely have pleaded guilty – and we would have been told.

The finding of the bodies whilst he was in custody was either a result of information gleaned from his phone (but why did he, an airline pilot who ought to know about such things still have the same phone? And would this be admissible? Surely you have to have the evidence before you arrest someone?) or it may be that they just began to look whilst he was in custody along and adjoining his supposed route – and the bodies were clearly not particularly well-concealed, ie there was a suspicious level of disturbance leading to them, and so they were found at that time. I would have been looking much closer to the Wonnangatta Valley myself – and no doubt the police were too.

This route (via Grant) was also (likely) the route taken by the person in the ‘white ute’ whom police had claimed earlier as the possible murderer. – and likely any number of other people including (obviously) the real murderer whoever that was – if not Lynn, as Parks Vic had not bothered to signpost the Jamieson exit as closed, so many people no doubt tried to get out that way, then when they failed continued on towards Grant.

So far as we know all police have is Lynn’s presence in the Wonnangatta Valley before the murder and his (possible) route via Grant, but maybe not even that – whilst there are possibly dozens of others who also fit that picture. All they have acknowledged is his car’s presence on the Mt Hotham Rd around dawn on the Saturday after the murders (but he may even have camped somewhere else on the Friday night) and they apparently have no (other) forensic evidence and no confession, therefore whether he committed the murders or not they (sadly) have not acquired enough evidence to convict him, and he will ultimately have to be released.

Of course if the Christos disappearance is just the latest in a long chain of unexplained disappearances in the High Country then mayhap the poor old ‘Button Man’ shibboleth will have to be revisited. If more people should go missing things will look even worse: https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/7748362/after-searching-more-than-a-week-missing-man-not-found-search-over/

15/07/2022: The level of outright treason from the Bidens is breathtaking – this is the sort of stuff which used to lead to execution (still on the statutes there): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/end-of-an-empire-what-if-china-bought-the-us-president-unleashed-a-bioweapon-and-no-one-cared/

14/07/2022: There is no place for race in our constitution. People who self-identify as belonging to a race (other than the human race) are the racists. By so doing they invite others to comment on their own appalling statistics of welfare dependency, crime, family violence, drug and alcohol dependency, rent seeking & etc - but that would be illegal in the 'free speech' regime we 'enjoy' - instead of expecting the rest of us to do something other than continuing to bankroll them, they should do something about improving themselves - just as the rest of us quite rightly can be expected to do. Let's have a referendum to abolish the utterly undemocratic Senate instead - that has been long overdue and would do some good – and let’s get rid of the awful ‘preferential’ system too while we are at it which effectively gives some citizens several votes and others only one (depending on whose preferences get counted. It might be a different matter if everyone’s were. For example, in the recent elections none of the Teals would have been elected if Liberal voters’ preferences (a much larger group than any other) were counted (even twice – as compared with some other people’s votes being counted even 8-9 times). ‘First Past the Post’ is fairer.

14/07/2022: Really literally no-one would pay to watch/listen to the ABC, so why do we throw over a billion at it annually: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/virginia-trioli-loses-a-quarter-of-her-radio-audience.html

14/07/2022: Good luck taxing the rich when they’re gone. Pennsylvania is a microcosm – a litotes if you like. Here in Oz we have a similar situation: practically all our (net) GDP comes from exporting carbon (coal/gas) or its analogues (iron ore/minerals/food) etc. This has funded a lifestyle which used to be the envy of the world and prompted a veritable rash of would-be immigrants. But where will this prosperity come from if you strike out the wicked carbon exports? The goose that laid the golden eggs might appear very tasty on your supper table but it will actually make a pretty thin gruel: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/wealth-tax-pennsylvania-population-decrease-20220613.html

14/07/2022: One of the most major mental defects is seeing problems instead of solutions. As an example of this real ‘scientists’ eg agronomists and (electrical) engineers long ago ‘solved’ the food and energy ‘problems’ so that it is (relatively) easy to produce enough food and energy to supply the burgeoning world population with a decent diet and lifestyle, and to do this whilst improving ‘environmental’ values. It is not possible to do so with ‘organic’ agriculture which is disastrously less productive. To feed the present world population by this C18th (or earlier) methods we would have to clear all the remaining wilderness – yet still we would have mass starvation. Such scientists have been improving on this and other similar features of the world (transport, health communication etc) for at least a couple of hundred years. You don’t need to stand in the road and stymie their efforts (as recently happened in Sri Lanka for example or as is foreshadowed in Holland, Canada, Australia etc) in order to bring about a worsening of our living standards (and inevitably then of the ‘environment too!) https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/12/bjorn-lomborg-going-organic-might-be-fashionably-green-but-it-wont-feed-the-world/

13/07/2022: Uvalde only gets worse. Now we learn that a police officer was denied the opportunity to take out the perpetrator before he had murdered any children – but what good would that do for ‘gun reform’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/new-armed-uvalde-police-officer-clear-shot-take-salvador-ramos-entered-robb-elementary-school-fatally-shot-19-children/

13/07/2022: Yes, this red panda story is typical of climate misinformation – of course ‘all of us’ would wish to ‘save’ the adorable red panda, but save it from what, and is it endangered anyway? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/06/how-climate-propaganda-works/

13/07/2022: The world has been being run by clowns. As this energy disaster unfolded Boris was planning to ban wood heating. I think we have a real analogue here with Albanese and Bowen – imagine having a brace of modern-day Caligulas. At least if Anthony ‘fiddles while Rome burns’ it will resonate with the Italian heritage he refuses to recognize officially thus making himself ineligible for office. Gadzooks: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/the-worst-winter-weve-seen-since-the-1970s/

13/07/2022: Senior police certainly can get it wrong but this guy Sheridan seems to luck out rather too often meaning Jason Roberts and George Pell spent rather too long in gaol as a result: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/07/an-acquittal-victoria-police-and-the-pell-case/

The treatment of Avi Yemeni is another case in point: https://www.rebelnews.com/victoria_police_apologise_to_avi_yemini_over_unlawful_arrests

12/07/2022: We are certainly very happy we still have a wood fire – but how long before the green zealots come for us: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/not-laughing-now-wood-burning-stoves-firewood-short-supply-germany-citizens-fear-freezing-death-due-gas-shortages/

12/07/2022: How does your ‘classic car’ such as a 90s Land Rover (where every part is available replaceable by a home mechanic) stack up against a ‘modern’ car or the latest EV? There is just no comparison. Your classic car is enormously ‘greener’: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/07/05/confirmed-again-the-green-agenda-is-taking-us-backward/

12/07/2022: A fairly dramatic fall in the birth rate. Activists may not need to worry about abortion as it seems that the vaccine may do it for them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/where-have-all-the-babies-gone/

12/07/2022: Zulu – one of my favourite films though I agree with Steyn, it is unlikely it would be made today. Rorke’s Drift remains the single engagement where more VCs were awarded than any other: https://www.steynonline.com/12632/this-butcher-yard-michael-caine-and-zulu

11/07/2022: A walk around the world: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/tom-turcich-is-set-to-become-the-10th-person-to-have-walked-around-the-world-his-dog-will-be-the-first/xuh5ani6p?fbclid=IwAR250IjHpnHB2WpWG11dlU_Y48KbVSctVvNs2SXNO1O7lKsHT4-H8W4rljA

11/07/2022: I really hope this is not happening but what experience I have of cyber-bullying and peer pressure amongst the young tells me that it is happening far too much and anyway much moreso than was the case in generations past (eg when people left school at ~15 to take a job as I did) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/the_lost_generations.html

11/07/2022: You get banned for stating the bald truth about CO, ie that it is at practically the lowest level ever and only barely above that level needed to support life on Earth. You might not have heard this. I wonder why: https://climaterealism.com/2022/07/linkedin-bans-scientist-for-presenting-inconvenient-truths-about-co2/

11/07/2022: Just in case you thought the people running the Ukraine aren’t Nazis: https://unitedwithisrael.org/antisemism-in-ukraine-envoy-lavishes-praise-on-nazi-murderer-no-repercussions/ & https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-march-in-ukraine-in-annual-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator/

10/07/2022: The eternal solution. ‘God save us’ from folks who think this way. It used to be ‘limited’ to the religious this having goals which will last ‘for all time’ but the nanny staters and communists who have been/are running the world at the present (and many of those who seek to do so) are forever trying to ‘fix’ things ‘for all time’: legislation, regulations, the environment…on and on to a ‘perfect world’. I don’t think so. I would be happier with an imperfect world with lots of real diversity of thought and organisation where things are allowed to just ‘bumble along’ under the operation of ‘natural laws’ such as ‘supply and demand’ ‘evolution’ etc. I am so sick of the ‘none so pure as the pure in heart’ brigade.

10/07/2022: Get ready for a real boom in Far UVC ‘zappers’ – may be the trendoid investment of the day guys: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/far-uvc-kills-viruses-in-minutes-safe-for-human-skin-and-eyes-and-the-chinese-are-installing-it-why-arent-we/

10/07/2022: Things get worse and worse in Sri Lanka – this is where all your green dreams are heading: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/sri-lanka-falling-apart.html & https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/citizens-hunting-the-rich-in-sri-lanka-wild-video/

And worse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/footage-shows-sri-lankan-president-rajapakse-fleeing-country-ship-suitcase-full-belongings-declares-country-bankrupt/

10/07/2022: What kind of sad mad world are we living in that you can’t even feed the birds? Whoever the neighbours, bureaucrats, lawyers and other low-life are who are responsible for this, they deserve an open season to be declared on them. They are the vermin, not the pigeons: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/a-crime-to-be-kind-south-yarra-woman-who-feeds-pigeons-says-shes-the-victim-of-a-witch-hunt/news-story/4e30ae86642af689122674e72d421b16

09/07/2022: Soon a drug which will allow you to live to 200. Bring it on: https://thred.com/tech/drug-that-increases-human-lifespan-to-200-years-is-in-the-works/

09/07/2022: Leo Maglen may not have fought against it but I have, all my life, with every fibre of my being – and I continue to do so, “As the last of our parents’ greatest generation pass away, we are now the elders of our culture. Their fantastic legacy, built with hard work, stoicism, great sacrifice, and a high degree of consensus about what they stood for, is what we should be taking responsibility for defending, preserving and passing on to subsequent generations. Instead we have squandered our inheritance. Whilst we grew up in the era of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity they made possible, we have failed to grasp the lessons they taught us. We were too busy congratulating ourselves on our good fortune and enjoying its fruits to remember the old adages that good times do not go on for ever, and that no-one owes us a living”. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/07/mea-culpa-my-generation-should-have-done-more/

09/07/2022: The Dutch Government has even decided to expropriate farmers’ land and hand it over to illegal immigrants – this is the sort of evil you get when you toss away your national sovereignty and allow yourself to be dominated by green ideologues. Meanwhile other farmers throughout the EU eg in Germany, Italy, Poland etc are joining the protest. I really hope this is the beginning of the end of the ‘green blob’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/dutch-farmer-protest-update-16-year-old-jouke-freed-document-reveals-government-plans-confiscate-farms-asylum-seekers/

09/07/2022: Dire News: NB: Shinzo Abe was shot with a home-made pipe shotgun. He was giving a speech about the defence of Taiwan at the time. Celebrations have broken out in China: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/china-restaurants-shops-celebrate-shinzo-abes-assassination-weekend-specials-food-milk-tea-clothing-lottery-tickets/ & he was already targeted by the CCP for assassination: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/revealed-chatter-chinese-twitter-shinzo-abe-completing-task-posted-17-hours-shinzo-abe-assassination/

08/07/2022: PC gone mad: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/man-arrested-for-killing-rooster-in-self-defense-hilarious/

08/07/2022:

08/07/2022: “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do”. Jordan Peterson

08/07/2022: Unfortunately the scouts have always had a problem with pedophilia but this is utterly ridiculous: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/26/delingpole-meet-mistress-the-girl-guides-transgender-commissioner/

07/07/2022: Today’s Darwin Award winner – unfortunately the video is missing: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/07/05/san-antonio-man-killed-by-fireworks-after-lighting-one-on-his-head/

07/07/2022: "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum ." Jonathan Swift: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/cern-atom-smashers-discover-3-new-exotic-particles/

07/07/2022: “But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world”. Matthew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’

So, the census now shows that few of us are ‘religious’ and even fewer (still) Christians. Curiously I decided (for the first time this census ) to write ‘Christian’ on my census form because while I am not a believer, I see myself as firmly in the Christian tradition. We have thrown out too much with the bathwater, I think. One of the chiefest reasons for the decline of Christian belief, Christian tradition and ethics is that most of the nominally Christian ‘sects’ have long since been captured by the communists who were long the ‘godless enemy’ – and frankly still are. ‘Wokeism’ in a multiplicity of vile forms has also captured the pulpit (and caused the congregation to flee elsewhere). We now have that situation which Yeats described as ‘The best lack all conviction whilst the worst are full of passionate intensity”. No-one believes anything anymore not least why they should be good – or even understands what goodness is. Seemingly the ‘moral life’ is just a grab bag of eclectic slogans having no logical consistency with each other. There is no underlying ‘rock’ on which a ‘good life’ can be based. The upshot of this is that civilisation will go down into chaos and will not rise again for a thousand years (if ever) - as the vast ruined empty cities which dot the jungles of South-East Asia , the deserts of the Middle East, Meso-America, etc testify is the fate of a civilisational failure.

07/07/2022: I really hope the 40,000 Dutch farmers are the adults in the room who bring the whole evil chicanery of ‘climate change’ crashing down. Just maybe the people would rather the farmers fed them, and that coal, gas and oil producers warmed them, & etc than just wait while the green bureaucrats and pollies bankrupted, starved and froze them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/climate-change-a-religion-built-on-blind-faith/ & https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/

06/07/2022: Poem for Today:

W.H. Auden: Roman Wall Blues

Over the heather the wet wind blows,
I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose.

The rain comes pattering out of the sky,
I'm a Wall Soldier, I don't know why.

The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,
My girl's in Tungria: I sleep alone.

Aulus goes hanging around her place,
I don't like his manners, I don't like his face.

Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish;
There'd be no kissing if he got his wish.

She gave me a ring but I diced it away;
I want my girl and I want my pay.

When I'm a veteran with only one eye
I shall do nothing but look at the sky.

PS: I feel a bit like this old soldier guarding the borders against the barbarians, however I feel that civilization is being overwhelmed.

06/07/2022: This is just such feral madness. BTW Della and I had our triple antigen ten year boosters a few weeks ago. Get yours today. I have had this disease and most of the others (save tetanus) from which vaccination now protects us (including even polio and TB). I am very fortunate to be alive, but I can still remember how sick I was with some of them as an infant. Only someone who was madly evil would wish such diseases on their fellows: https://www.theepochtimes.com/diphtheria-appears-for-first-time-in-new-south-wales-in-100-years_4574743.html

06/07/2022: Most of these ‘traditions’ were invented by people still alive today (like Ernie Dingo for example who admits to having invented the ‘smoking ceremony’). “If Australian leftists want to continue inventing Aboriginal traditions, they obviously need to lift the quality of their research. In fact, we would all be better off if they gave away the whole tawdry game.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/sacred-traditions-invented-yesterday/

06/07/2022: This is the thin edge of the wedge. I certainly hope these Dutch farmers prevail against the ‘green blob’. The ‘madness of crowds’ has to be answered with the sanity of the grown-ups: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/

05/07/2022: I think people were more likely to do this sort of thing 100 years ago even though there is clearly more wilderness out there today: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37769-Canoeing-with-the-Cree-A-cool-American-story.html

05/07/2022: Things you should know. All life in earth basically depends on the tiny enzyme rubisco (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase) which is what drives photosynthesis. Its productivity can be increased enormously (at least to four times) by increasing the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere – as people normally do in greenhouses. When there was much more of it in the past there was a vast profusion of life therefore. The quantum of life has reduced gradually as its proportion in the atmosphere declined arriving at its lowest point during the last ice age. We urgently need to add more of it to the atmosphere to prevent the extinction of life in the future if it falls any lower. Folks who style themselves as caring for the life of the planet (eg the greens) ought to be promoting this by eg an increase in fossil fuel use.

05/07/2022: Russia has been funding these ‘green’ protests in the West for decades in order to undermine us, but now China has gotten into the act too: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/chinese-agents-pose-as-fake-green-protesters-to-try-to-stop-rare-earths-mining-in-the-west/

05/07/2022: What a lot of racist nonsense all these ‘aboriginal’ flags are. We really don’t need to be divided by any such spurious basis as ‘race’ – a vile outdated C19th concept. Let’s just have the one national flag, please: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/what-a-great-idea-get-rid-of-a-flag-for-everyone-replace-it-with-one-for-08-of-people.html

04/07/2022: Fascinating, beautiful noctilucent clouds: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/rare-clouds-that-glow-in-the-dark-are-the-most-vibrant-in-15-years/ar-AAZ5Nks

04/07/2022: The ‘last testament of George Macdonald Fraser published on the occasion of his death (in 2008) – a must read. There is not much here (if anything ) I disagree with: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506219/The-testament-Flashmans-creator-How-Britain-destroyed-itself.html

Another 100 year old veteran expressing much the same view, “the country is going to hell in a handbasket”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/100-year-old-decorated-veteran-breaks-crying-not-country-fought-video/

04/07/2022: A harbinger of things to come – South Africa’s grid collapses. The legacy of Mandela and like leftists. Let’s not forget either that he murdered around 100,000 of his fellow (black) countrymen by ‘necklacing – if you don’t remember what that was, it involved tying them up, placing a car tyre over their heads then setting it alight. It will only get worse from here on in. Don’t let’s have Australia follow suit, please: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/07/02/south-africans-left-in-the-dark-after-grid-collapse-n480287 & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/south-africa-grid-struggling-with-national-rolling-blackouts-strikes-corruption-and-no-respect-for-coal-power/

04/07/2022: When I studied High School Science 60 years ago we learned about the ‘Carbon Cycle’ amongst other such ‘natural’ cycles. But NB they were ‘cycles’. Over a period of time carbon was cycled through the world’s natural systems eventually finding its way back to where it had begun. It would be most unfortunate for life on earth (composed as it is of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) if this was not so – else life would clearly (soon geologically) cease. Carbon does get ‘locked up’ for awesome periods of time (eg in ‘fossil’ fuels and even moreso in carbonate rocks (like limestone). Fortunately there are also natural processes which ‘unlock’ it or after a while there would be insufficient to maintain life on earth. After a long succession of Ice Ages this is just about the situation we find ourselves in. It is a moot point whether life itself could survive another ice age when the CO2 in the air was dissolved in the oceans to such an extent as to be insufficient (in the atmosphere) to maintain photosynthesis. The so-called ‘pre-Industrial’ level of aprox 250ppm is just about the lowest limit consistent with life on the planet. In any case life would not survive its falling a further 100ppm whereas there was a wonderful exuberance of life in earlier geological eras when it was in excess of 20,000ppm…“Bjorn Lomborg…shows clearly that the risk of death from extreme weather events in 2020 is a mere 1 per cent of what it was in 1920” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/the-madness-of-net-zero/

Of course there is also a Nitrogen Cycle (nitrogen composing 70% of the atmospehere if you have forgotten and not .04% like CO2). At present the Dutch Government is so concerned about nitrogen they are trying to shut down farming (just like Sri Lanka). This will not end well either: https://www.news.com.au/national/dutch-farmers-form-tractor-blockade-in-massive-protest-over-nitrogen-policy/video/adbb4e2535f28567319a6d8f6db8c41c

03/07/2022: Who’d have thought – the Jurassic dinosaurs loved the cold, just like the Tuatara. No doubt they were warm-blooded and as woolly as any mammoth: https://scitechdaily.com/study-of-ancient-mass-extinction-reveals-dinosaurs-took-over-earth-amid-ice-not-warmth/

03/07/2022: So the AEMO has a $300+ billion plan to ‘ditch’ coal and replace it with something which any child ought to be able to see would not work! Great! We pay these idiot bureaucrats far too much. Also, whilst there is zero ‘problem’ with (heat from) CO2 which is wholly beneficial in every other way - note the vast increase in forested areas (and life) as a result of adding it to the atmosphere – an area roughly three times Australia so far over the last approx forty years, if you really wanted to reduce CO2 (a most unwise idea as it might lead to life itself not surviving the next Ice Age - which is inevitable anyway) surely the AEMO ought to be able to see that the only (currently) available technology of replacing it with a reliable power supply is nuclear. Idiots!

03/07/2022: Wadeye – what a terrible place. This is not a solution to anything. We really should not keep such hell-holes going. I for one would not be picking up garbage and s—t left behind by my able bodied students. I would never be a servant. They in turn need to learn (whether they be black white or brindle) that if they want to have a living they need to do something for that living otherwise it should be withdrawn: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2008/12/wadeye-failed-state-as-cultural-triumph/

03/07/2022: When I was a small boy Britain, (it’s a small island of Europe you know), controlled around a quarter of the land area of the earth and a similar proportion of its people. Mostly for the good, I believe. But that was ‘colonialism’ and after WW2 it had to go. Now along comes China which now controls more, and mostly it is not good – but who says anything against it? Not colonialism I guess. Not racist either. Poppycock. Like Islam China is an enormous evil. Mordor if you like: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/some-imperial-colonization-is-fine-after-all-china-controls-africa-and-nobody-cares/

02/07/2022: Now the Census shows that the majority of ‘us’ are members of the ‘Third Wave’ maybe it is time for constitutional recognition of this group through having their own representatives. I am myself a member of the Second Wave so a completely downtrodden group nowadays: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/identity/2022/06/a-voice-for-wogs-huns-balts-poms-and-paddys/

02/07/2022: The notion of ‘customary law’ (a vile idea) is just another reason to reject the concept of ‘separate development’ in Oz, or ‘apartheid’ as it was once called. Frankly it made more sense in SA – probably still does, as the country is now dominated by one tribe: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/traditional-culture-is-the-problem-not-the-solution/

02/07/2022: I like what the Supreme Court has been doing in the US ie throwing decision making back to the elected bodies. First abortion, now CO2 (next single-sex marriage?). If ‘the people’ want to destroy themselves (democratically) that is their business,. It should not be done by faceless bureaucrats. BTW – a court has nothing to do with public opinion: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/us-supreme-court-puts-unelected-deep-state-kingmakers-back-in-their-box/

02/07/2022: If there is so much ‘global warming’ why is it getting colder? The Tropics (for example) are registering down .37C compared with the forty year average. The world as a whole is only up .06C degrees. These are very trivial variations from an enormously stable climate. Why is the climate so awesomely stable? Do you suppose the alarmists have overlooked a huge thermostat which controls the weather? Almost certainly: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/01/satellite-data-coolest-monthly-global-temperature-in-over-10-years/

01/07/2022: I wonder whether this space-plane will ever fly? I’m sure Al Gore and his associates will want one though: https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-hypersonic-jet-take-you-anywhere-on-earth-within-one-hour-20220617

01/07/2022: These guys are just getting too big. Soon they will be muscling us out of our homes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/new-bacterium-roughly-the-size-shape-of-an-eyelash-smashes-size-record/

01/07/2022: Is there a solution to our electrical crisis? We should listen to the experts. This guy is an expert: https://latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/2022/06/29/comment-a-look-at-the-current-electricity-landscape/?fbclid=IwAR2VesUFqhVJRc4cKAdaYlIU8Eru40O8Ag-FBkR-HY2NWlopfMSh5tga9j4

01/07/2022: The invasion of the Ukraine is an example of ‘toxic masculinity’? Boris has clearly never heard of Margaret Thatcher (or Golda Meyer). The Brits need to ditch this Bozo: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/boris-youre-an-idiot.html

30/06/2022: Some very big fish still in the Mekong: https://www.popsci.com/environment/largest-freshwater-fish/

30/06/2022: Greta’s mess – this is the rubbish left behind at Glastonbury after Greta’s climate speech. These people really care about the environment: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/climate-freak-photo-of-the-day/

30/06/2022: Interesting to see a graphic of the kind of limits on abortion folks are talking about. Few people would argue against a ‘morning after’ pill. Most would be OK for the first 4- 6 weeks. After that the situation gets increasingly complex. Clearly after around 20 weeks when the baby could survive birth it becomes a very grey area indeed. You are after all always talking about taking a human life: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/europe-has-more-restrictive-abortion-law-than-u-s/

30/06/2022: I completely agree with this (and it’s not an improvement), “Christian doctrines have simply been replaced by hard-line secular ideologies, which are frequently more dogmatic, intolerant, and hostile to non-believers, blasphemers, and apostates… ‘What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/christianity-becomes-a-minority-but-religion-is-on-the-rise/

29/06/2022: Well, 1000km on a single charge – who’d have thought? https://newatlas.com/automotive/mercedes-eqxx-1202km-ev-range-record/

29/06/2022: Thank you Jim Steele. A ‘must read’. An educated layman’s explanation of how the ‘greenhouse effect’ actually works and why CO2 is not a problem at all, “So beware of anyone telling you that increasing CO2 is increasingly trapping heat and causing a climate crisis. They are either ignorant of the science, or dishonestly manipulating your thinking to advance their political agendas” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/28/media-claims-co2-traps-heat-a-big-lie-or-a-big-stupid/

29/06/2022: The head of the British Army speaks out – a long read but a worthwhile one. We will ignore him at our extreme peril: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/british-army-chief-i-intend-to-mobilise-the-british-army-to-deter-russia.html

29/06/2022: Listen up Lysistrata: abortion is not contraception. Instead, it is a very serious decision to kill a baby. Should this be a ‘right’ for just one parent though eg right up to the moment of birth? Imagine the furore if only male parents had the right to kill their children: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/democrats-go-on-sex-strike/

28/06/2022: Not so long ago we measured our standard of progress by how many millions of tonnes of steel and coal we produced (for example), but the West as been giving up such progress, while China has not: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/energy-is-power-but-the-wests-is-starving-itself/

28/06/2022: Mostly from the poor to the rich as it turns out! “At least the leftist Potsdam Institute’s Professor Ottmar Edenhofer has the courage to say out loud what is becoming more obvious by the day. ‘One has to free oneself,’ he says, ‘from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth’.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/perhaps-in-the-next-life/

28/06/2022: I think we can learn from the French police: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/27/climate-activists-discover-french-police-dont-use-glue-solvent/

28/06/2022: What utter bulls—t: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/australias-health-department-provides-78-word-answer-to-what-is-a-woman.html

27/06/2022: Oz is back in the space race – a very long while since ‘Blue Streak’: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/nasa-launches-rockets-from-northern-territory-space-centre/video/5879fe829043008e2766d7c0b5783080

27/06/2022: The Atomic Bomb – it wasn’t just the war against Japan that the bomb ended but also the Soviet conquest of Europe: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/06/24/16-july-1945-the-day-the-a-bomb-stopped-the-war-in-europe/

27/06/2022: Has the great green unraveling begun? One can only hope: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/climate-pledges-vanish-in-europe/

27/06/2022: Yet another ‘aboriginal massacre’ proved an invention: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/risdon-cove-the-truth-massacred/

26/06/2022: Another baby mammoth – soon they will have enough of these little guys to bring them back from extinction: https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike

26/06/2022: Perhaps getting your flu vax is a no-brainer after all: https://scitechdaily.com/flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/

26/06/2022: Justice for Justine? Any day I expect they will declare an open season against Aussies in the US: https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2022/06/25/privilege-somali-cop-who-shot-unarmed-woman-in-minneapolis-to-be-released-less-than-five-years-later-n1608138

26/06/2022: Do you suppose Walt himself would support all this gay stuff? I remember both Mickey and Donald only having nephews rather than children but they did both have girlfriends (who strangely enough only had nieces): https://www.dailywire.com/news/disneys-strange-world-film-to-include-openly-gay-teen-romance & https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399695.php

25/06/2022: The sad decline of English. You can tell neither Della nor I is still there: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/06/the-vicious-circle-in-the-teaching-of-english/

25/06/2022: Great news for the deaf (like me) I don’t think. What, every time I need to change my hearing aid batteries (every few days) I will have to do so with some kind of miniature screwdriver? Great: https://www.9news.com.au/national/new-australian-laws-on-button-batteries-take-effect-today/c5053294-ebd3-48a6-a8e9-145004a69758?ocid=social-9newsP

25/06/2022: This is a British Medical Journal study: “The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively)”. Yet such dangerous vaccines were (and still are) mandated and even inflicted on children at almost zero risk from the disease itself: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239

25/06/2022: In the US they have a coalition of dark political forces people are calling the ‘Uniparty’ and which I long ago called out as ‘fascism’ which defies ‘populism’ or what we used to call ‘democracy’ ie ‘the will of the people’. We have been seeing this in Oz too with the election of the awful ‘Teals’ and ‘Greens’ to so many seats and now with the election of a ‘Labor’ Government by only 32% of voters. These are dark days my friends: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/this-is-how-democracy-dies-not-in-darkness-but-in-plain-sight-live-on-c-span/

Michael Baume explains how all is not yet lost (though it certainly seems that way): https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/business-robbery-etc-95/

Meanwhile the Supreme Court’s decision is to let the citizens decide (what the constitution intended). Of course such an ‘undemocratic’ decision will be met with violence and rioting: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/24/read-it-heres-the-supreme-courts-basis-for-overruling-roe-and-casey-n2609277

24/06/2022: Here’s a neat puzzle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a39818039/missing-square-puzzle/

24/06/2022: The Science is Proven:

24/06/2022: “No good deed goes unpunished.” Why ‘aid’ never works – a must read: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/a-needed-farewell-to-alms/

24/06/2022: The reality is that every day the Ukrainians are losing hundreds of soldiers. They have also irrevocably lost the East of their country which is responsible for 80% of their GDP to Russia. It will be (has already been) annexed. The Ukraine was already an economic basket case before the current war – obviously even moreso now. If what remains of it is allowed to join the EU it will be an enormous drain on its economy for decades – and a source of problems. I suspect Putin has won. It may even be that he had right on his side from the beginning, if there ever is such a thing. I have long thought that the West needed to make a rapprochement with Russia because there were worse enemies (Islam and China presently. In the future other dangers will emerge particularly in Africa): https://weltwoche.ch/daily/this-war-has-been-lost-a-long-time-ago/

23/06/2022: New York sure is a fun place – mostly because of the welfare state I suspect: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/new-york-the-jungle.html

23/06/2022: The Nanny State gone mad: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/eat-crickets-potential-victorian-ban-on-hunters-sharing-meat/

23/06/2022: Chris Bowen is simply nuts. There is no such thing as ‘firmed renewables’ and possibly never will be, however there has been cheap safe nuclear power for over 70 years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/21/aussie-energy-minister-nuclear-advocates-are-dangerously-ignorant/

When times get tough people want coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/europe-wants-coal-austria-netherlands-switch-on-old-coal-plants-poland-pays-for-coal-to-homes/

23/06/2022: The greens have always been vermin. Surely one day an open season will be declared on them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/vermin.html

22/06/2022: 10 Times Socialism Actually Worked: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-times-socialism-actually-worked

22/06/2022: Blame Trump for the recession! I notice we are starting to get the same meme from the Albanese Government here – the disasters they are currently creating were all Morrison’s fault. Of course: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/predictable-democrats-now-blame-trump-historic-inflation-numbers-video/

22/06/2022: Finally we begin to learn that the Uvalde school massacre was down to police failing to do their jobs (rather like the LIndt Café siege) or were ordered not to do their jobs. Just imagine they were standing in the corridor outside with loaded rifles and bullet-proof shields with only an unlocked door separating them from a perpetrator who was massacring children one by one: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/breaking-uvalde-official-admits-policenever-touched-door-see-locked-breached-video/

22/06/2022: We voted for this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/new-labor-senator-i-want-to-normalise-hijab-wearing.html

21/06/2022: Maybe they just got old – we are both having difficulty opening jars now: https://babylonbee.com/news/anthropologists-believe-that-all-female-amazon-tribe-collapsed-because-nobody-could-get-any-jars-open

21/06/2022: Good news I guess, but do I want to know – surely I just forgot where I left my keys: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-brain-scan-alzheimer-disease.html

21/06/2022: It would be very disquieting if one of the purposes of the mRNA vaccines was human sterilisation: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-covid-vaccine-paper-on/comments

21/06/2022: When will Oz realize we can’t get by without fossil fuels and that huge investment is needed to replace those useless ‘renewables’ with a reliable power supply: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-fire-up-coal-plants-as-russia-turns-down-the-gas/a-62182321

20/06/2022: A line by line explanation of the US coup from President Trump: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/president-trumps-response-to-the-democrat-insurrectionists.html

20/06/2022: “If we want the best for our kids, we can’t outsource parenting for 40 hours a week while they turn our children into little Marxists.” – Kirk Cameron

20/06/2022: Great headline: Earth to Bowen – we need the power on 24/7: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin/peta-credlin-insane-energy-policy-makes-power-more-expensive-and-less-reliable/news-story/42b435abbb393f5772d55a98dc726afd

19/06/2022: A robot in your brain: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-microrobot-device-brain-hemorrhages-due.html

19/06/2022: Happy 80th Paul MCCartney: https://quillette.com/2022/06/18/mccartney-at-80/ & https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2022/06/18/happy-80th-birthday-paul-mccartney-n1606221

19/06/2022: Australian prehistory we are no longer allowed to investigate: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d?s=w

19/06/2022: Of course Ian Plimer is right: there has never been a single shred of evidence that human emissions cause ‘global warming’ or that it will even be (again) as warm as it was was in the Middle Ages just 500 years ago when they grew wine in Scotland and farmed in Greenland: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/aussie-life-74/

18/06/2022: Otherwise known as ‘the blood battery’! A very good question: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/08/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-an-ev-lithium-battery-powered-vehicle/

Why not use them to back up ‘the blood panels’? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/06/bidens-blood-panels-suspect-solar-panel-import-restrictions-eased/

18/06/2022: How poor renewables really are: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/global-woe-the-transition-has-stalled-the-world-is-using-more-fossil-fuels-than-ever/

18/06/2022: Who would have thought that Keating’s introduction of compulsory superannuation would be a financial disaster: https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/would-taxpayers-be-better-off-if-superannuation-never-existed-20220617-p5aug7?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QRrHtaIUhpzhcOzQ1aKeCi2tqXi_cnNDAGbJ8OtCPo3IUfEPUyFf8PR4#Echobox=1655449751

17/06/2022: Who would want to be a police officer in these circumstances. The policeman had to respond astonishingly quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09g2tNGHrg

17/06/2022: God is no longer a man – and other woke follies: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/catholic-mass-converting-to-celebration-of-woke-welcome-to-country-god-gets-regendered-climate-refug.html

17/06/2022: These are the guys who brought us ‘stagflation’ last time – see photo (Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden). Nothing to worry about here surely: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/06/15/here-comes-stagflation-n1605413 But consider this, if Joe Biden seriously wanted to destroy America what would he be doing differently? For Oz just substitute Anthony Albanese. Just in the last 24 hours we have had a minimum wage rise of 5.2% (watch your hats folks) , the end of secure electricity and an announcement that China ‘owns’ Taiwan, and now another new insane ‘net zero’ target. These guys are bonkers or evil or both: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/06/08/if-biden-intended-to-destroy-america-what-would-he-be-doing-differently/

17/06/2022: The cost and replacement cycle of renewables is just astonishing. No way can any country afford this nonsense: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/06/16/guest-post-dr-faustus-mondays-experts-on-the-energy-crisis/

16/06/2022: One lucky cat: https://wafflesatnoon.com/cat-on-hang-glider/

16/06/2022: The engineering and economic costs of ‘green hydrogen’ make this ‘solution’ actually impossible. Think again emerald darlings: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/14/hydrogen-is-unlikely-ever-to-be-a-viable-solution-to-the-energy-storage-conundrum/

16/06/2022: Yes, “Mental Toughness is particularly worth promoting among the young, a stance that seems at least somewhat at odds with today’s self-care narrative. Says Chawla, “I would define mental toughness as grit. Tenacity. And a fairly big chunk of that is having some discipline over your own impulses—doing things even when your mind is objecting. This idea is now reviled in mainstream culture in favor of approaches such as, ‘be gentle with yourself.’ [But] if you’re always gentle with yourself you will stagnate and grow weak and fragile.” If our goal is to uphold and not erode mental toughness, it is surely unhelpful to applaud iconic role models for extolling fragility” https://quillette.com/2022/06/12/the-burden-of-the-best/

16/06/2022: Scary: Couldn’t fight our way out of a wet paper bag: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/china-rising-the-adf-have-nothing/

It is all too likely that (as we have almost always done) we are preparing for the last war but not the next: https://richardsonpost.com/adam-piggott/27408/the-paradigm-shift-in-war/

15/06/2022: F Break: F Break is at the end of ‘The Cape’ Road off the Cape Paterson Rd between Wonthaggi and Cape Paterson. This part of the world used to be a great delight but there is much development going on nowadays so it is being spoiled, alas. Still you can see it now before it is altogether ruined.

Mind you, no-one much is walking or camping along the beach itself. You can walk all the way from Phillip Island and continue on all the way to Wilsons Prom if you so desire. Along this section you will find small seeps coming out of the cliffs. These can be wiped up with a cloth, squeezed into a billy the filtered to make drinking water.

It is a very pleasant day walk from Harmers Haven to Cape Paterson where you can buy excellent counter lunches. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/06/13/f-break/

15/06/2022: Vitamin D it appears is good for many things: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/one-in-six-dementia-cases-might-be-avoided-with-vitamin-d/

15/06/2022: As energy prices rocket and shortages increase I suspect for many of us winter will mean huddling in bed together as (poor) folk have done for much of history (or die): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-history-sharing-bed

15/06/2022: The Truth about ‘Aboriginal Culture’ – and what happened to it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/the-voice-and-the-end-of-traditional-aboriginal-culture/

15/06/2022: Tough times ahead. In the US mortgage rates are now over 6% and rising, and in China there are runs on banks: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/30-year-mortgage-now-above-6/ & https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-run/

14/06/2022: Ultralight Towel: Of course the very best ultralight towel is none at all - but you might not enjoy waiting (maybe in a cold wind) to dry off (though you will). It's not so bad in the summertime but can be a tad testy in the colder weather. The same strategy can be applied to clothes washing - and I have done so for many years, ie just put them on wet after I have washed them as best as I can in the river (without soap). Usually I manage to dry them some overnight eg with the clotheslines in my tents, but not always.

They will be dry in around fifteen minutes on your body if they are the (modern) quick-drying type. This is a fairly rigorous regime of a morning I admit. I always dress in my wet clothes immediately before I set out. You do get used to it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/06/12/ultralight-towel/

14/06/2022: When an elephant doesn’t like you, you’d better watch out: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/elephant-tramples-woman-to-death-then-attacks-her-corpse-at-funeral/news-story/015696d8a245a347f8c7f75963dfc494

14/06/2022: There are worse things around than covid, the Black Death for example which could make a comeback anytime: https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/gruesome-nose-bleed-fever-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-18/

14/06/2022: So, do you really think Uganda should build a nuclear power station rather than a coal-fired one? (You have forgotten Idi Amin perhaps?) And they are by no means the only one. A very risky world you are building my friends. https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/uganda-to-build-east-africas-first-nuclear-power-plant/

13/06/2022: Remember ‘Mike’ the computer from Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ who ‘wakes up’? Well, his name is Lamda. Seems to pass the ‘Turing Test’ as a sentient. I can’t tell. Can you? I have known any number of human beings who could not give as good an account of themselves as this. Scary stuff: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/straight-sci-fi-movie-google-suspends-engineer-sounding-alarm-companys-dangerous-sentient-ai-lamda-robot/ & https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

13/06/2022: Ingenious DIY Hobo Blower Stoves: https://timtinker.com/large-single-pot-ultralight-blower-stove/ & https://timtinker.com/ultralight-wood-stove-in-a-coffee-mug/

This ultralight wood stove has been designed to burn damp, wet or frozen sticks with minimal preparation and should burn much better than natural draft stick burning stoves when using wet sticks. The blower creates a very hot fire on one end of the sticks. While providing intense cooking heat, the stove also heats and dries the incoming fuel sticks, so that they will burn easily when they enter the burn chamber adjacent to the blower air jet.

The Large/Single- ultralight blower stove rolls up to fit in its own large pot for backpacking. It will cook one large pot at a time. However, with a bit of rock trickery, it can also heat another large pot. It has an ultralight titanium body and an anodized aluminium pot. The titanium stove can be rolled up and all parts pack up inside the aluminium cooking pot. Read More: Ingenious Ultralight Blower Stoves

13/06/2022: NZ has decided to starve people to ‘save’ the planet. Not long before farming is banned altogether. The wicked witch must go: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/09/new-zealand-introduces-a-climate-change-meat-tax/

13/06/2022: During this cold wet weather it might be good to reflect that bushfire management has been hijacked by the greens so that conservation is gone for good and lives will be lost: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-incredible-international-fire-climate-conference/

13/06/2022: The Ugly Truth about electric vehicles… Raping the earth: https://www.cfact.org/2022/06/07/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-a-lithium-battery-powered-ev/

12/06/2022: DIY Fire Blower: I had been looking at some of erstwhile DIY genius Tim Tinker’s posts, eg Solar Fire Blower, Blower Stoves and USB Fire Blower so I decided to order some 5 volt laptop PC cooling fans from Aliexpress. They cost me US$1.40 each! The 3/4″ (19mm) plumbing fittings were also only 50c or so from Bunnings.

As you can see I have cut one of the fittings down then glued it with Araldite to the cooling fan. I did this so I could attach a roll-up stainless steel foil tube to it (which I did). You could just make the tube by pop-riveting it together as well as pop-riveting it to the fan. This would provide some distance from the heat of the stove you were trying to hyper-oxygenate.

Read More: DIY Fire Blower

12/06/2022: Alas, due to PC ours are no more, but this is how India’s street dogs spend their days. I can remember when I lived in Sydney in the 1970s watching such dogs regularly catching suburban trains by themselves: https://daily.jstor.org/how-street-dogs-spend-their-days/

12/06/2022: And now for the good news: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10902055/Are-verge-cure-cancer-week-scientists-announced-breakthroughs-vaccine.html

12/06/2022: Indeed, enough is enough. Some great suggestions here, “Four decades of failure to invest in the infrastructure needed to supply our growing population with basic services like water, power, gas and fuel while unwisely investing our limited capital in the black hole of so-called renewable energy and climate change abatement has left our economy incapable of competing with the rest of the world.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2022/06/broad-thoughts-on-a-better-australia/

Viv outs the energy madness pretty succinctly: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/planned-chaos-in-australias-power-generation/

12/06/2022: More electric car nightmares – why do people even bother: https://americandigest.org/noted-in-passing-hey-lets-drive-all-the-way-from-chi-town-to-new-orleans-in-an-electric-car-itll-be-fun/

11/06/2022: It is a problem isn’t it? While I do believe people should have the option of escaping an intolerable situation (if they wish to) they certainly should not be pressured to do so: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-potential-danger-of-assisted-dying/

11/06/2022: This is just about always the case with mass murderers ie they are mentally ill, give every indication they are planning to perform such gruesome acts yet nothing is done to prevent them. We already have quite sufficient laws to prevent such things without further compromising the freedoms of sane law-abiding citizens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EzgfBMVwFQ

11/06/2022: The climate disobediently keeps defying warmist doomsayer predictions. Where did this cold come from? Enjoy the snow season everyone: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/expert-scientists-wrong-again-bumper-snow-season-kicks-off-in-australia/

11/06/2022: Imagine if lithium is declared an ‘environmental hazard’ (which it clearly is – much worse than lead): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/10/top-producer-albemarle-risks-shutting-german-plant-if-eu-declares-lithium-a-hazard/

10/06/2022: Just an experiment – apparently Facebook will take this cartoon down as they don’t understand satire, or are just too ‘woke’.

10/06/2022: Long since time to encourage kids to ‘look out the window’ especially at ‘the best that has been thought and said’. If teachers do not ‘lift’ children, maybe no-one will: https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/expert-idiocy-on-teaching-kids-to-read-is-beyond-comprehension/

10/06/2022: Recession. Hold your hats, here it comes folks. (And you probably voted for it). This is what you get from foolish ‘spend-a-thons’ which did nothing to mitigate a (deliberate) yet slight ‘pandemic’. To think there are millions of young people brought up with a naïve belief in socialism who have never known a recession. They have a lot to learn. Maybe time to start that veggie garden, or downsize the house and car. Ditch private education. Forget about foreign travel and eating out in restaurants: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/world-bank-signals-global-recession-saying-essentially-no-rebound-expected-several-years-average-inflation-ahead/ & https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/08/mortgage-demand-falls-to-the-lowest-level-in-22-years.html & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/biden-economy-recession-way-us-gdp-six-months-row-october-2021-last-high/ & https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/australian-residential-land-value-to-gdp-ratio-now-higher-than-japan-at-height-of-1989-bubble/news-story/140872e9ed0fffb9e9a544d3ed68d1fd

10/06/2022: Important thoughts about the Western – a genre I love, “But life for an average citizen of the western community—that is, apart from the railheads, cattle towns, and gold strikes—was far safer than life is today in Chicago, New York, or Baltimore… Importantly, the themes of the American West, self-reliance, individuality, cooperation, trust, perseverance and resourcefulness, remain with us as a nation—must remain, lest our culture and the history that made us, be lost. It is a history of both losers and winners, and all the many that were in-between—the survivors. It is a history that now belongs to my grandchildren and should not be forgotten or destroyed by the political ambition of lesser folk. ” https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/07/westerns-are-us/

09/06/2022: Paragliding could be fun - a young bird I guess: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nature-is-awesome/

09/06/2022: A long trip in an EV is just about impossible (and probably always will be). You have to think about that (greater than 50%) reduction in range, then how long it takes (relatively) to fill the tank. Think of miles long queues at the roadside servos. And then if it gets very cold there will be frozen dead folks huddled in stalled EVs all along freeways. Incidentally they also ‘save’ actually zero carbon when you figure our their total ‘footprint’ – as if that mattered anyway and the world was actually (negatively) affected by CO2. It was much warmer (and colder) in the past with and without it. Think 20,000ppms during Ice Ages or the Vikings living happily in a (forested) Greenland in the Middle Ages for example. This is true: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/trip-in-ev-saves-100-but-costs-hours/

09/06/2022: Unfortunately there is an increasing need for self-protection. The boom in home security products highlights this fact. Police only ever come along and pick up the pieces. They do very little to prevent such incidents if in fact some ‘woke’ police practices don’t even encourage them. I agree that you need a weapon which will deliver multiple very damaging shots quickly. A larger caliber semi-automatic or heavier gauge shotgun are obvious choices. For everyday carry clearly a pistol would be a great idea – but we have been unable to protect ourselves in Vic for nearly a century (after having been able to do so for hundreds of years). During this time crimes against the person have increased hugely. In (future) occasions of heightened (economic) and other insecurity the situation will only worsen. The government does nothing to protect us (quite the reverse) when it denies us the opportunity and right to protect ourselves. Too often the government is the problem, not the solution: https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/07/because-the-ar-15-can-deter-a-mob/

09/06/2022: SADS = Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. This may have something to do with that sudden 21% increase in the death rate I posted about yesterday. You will be hearing more about this: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-because-young-people-die-just-like-that/

08/06/2022: Interesting visual illusion. I’m sure the ‘blob seems to grow for you too:

08/06/2022: Why are so many of us suddenly dying – a 21% increase in the death rate would have to be worrying, surely. No wonder the hospitals and ambulances are overwhelmed: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/overall-deaths-in-australia-where?s=r I guess over 1,000 excess deaths in Vic so far this year. Not so many as the 1919 ‘swine flu’ perhaps but when we add up the totals world-wide for this artificial bioweapon (when the final tallies are in – whenever) we will see many millions – all down to the CCP and their ‘running dogs ‘ in the ‘capitalist’ West who sought to profiteer and/or gain prominence via them.

08/06/2022: I always find Bettina Arndt to be interesting and refreshing, “Somehow, we need to convince Coalition politicians that they have long been bleeding votes from ordinary folk who have had a gutful of seeing women endlessly privileged whilst the men they love, their fathers, sons, brothers, and friends, are pushed to the back of the bus and at every point denied fair treatment” https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/pandering-to-women-wont-save-the-libs/

08/06/2022: Stranger and stranger: Apparently the BBC has some difficulty with the concept that if you are a lesbian you can be raped by a ‘woman’ with a penis: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/rape-victims-testimony-changed-to-avoid-misgendering-attacker/

07/06/2022: Oldest most famous baby passes: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ann-turner-cook-original-gerber-165519712.html

07/06/2022: 1,000 Starships to Mars. Elon thinking big. Maybe time you read Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ Trilogy too ($6.52 from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B000QCS914) : https://www.theepochtimes.com/musk-plans-to-build-1000-starships-to-transport-1-million-people-to-mars-a-fleet-of-modern-noahs-arks_4513578.html

07/06/2022: The covid death data is very strange (https://www.covid19data.com.au/deaths). For example, can anyone explain why Vic has (if anything) a higher death toll than NSW and indeed nearly half the nation’s daily toll whilst having only one quarter of the population? Is maybe Dan’s wonderful Health Dept not doing such a great job? Indeed, could more be done to reduce this awful toll? Is there any reason really for not ensuring that people have adequate Vitamin D and Zinc levels or are treated expeditiously with Iodine (nasal spray and gargle) on earliest infection and with Ivermectin, Hydrpxychloroquine etc to reduce these terrible numbers. Could Dan actually want us dead? We are up to an average of nearly 20 a day in Vic now (an annualised toll of over 7,000!) https://infogram.com/1pk2mjgqvrqwv0t9r2nn6k3qnlb51w6gdg

07/06/2022: The WEF, “You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.” So full of creepy ideas (and people of Scottish backgrounds!) Let’s cancel this awful talkfest: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-10-creepiest-and-most-dystopian-things-pushed-world-economic-forum-wef

06/06/2022: Amazing behaviour from bison – I have witnessed similar ‘grieving’ with our sheep. They are not ‘just dumb animals’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twN5udogfwc&t=67s

06/06/2022: What sort of state/world are we living in where 2537 children are being completely neglected and 65 have even died? It is easy enough to fix this. It does not need a huge injection of cash, just a return to common sense: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/concerning-backlog-impacting-vulnerable-victorian-kids/news-story/4f36dd5a2745085ed5fdb55430169148

06/06/2022: This young ‘lady’ is going to find getting ‘dates’ a whole lot harder: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/how-class-snobbery-put-a-tradie-on-trial-for-rape/news-story/d03a9e95bda665418305749389cf8119

06/06/2022: This is bizarre: Why for the UN is one mosque massacre so much worse than countless church massacres? When Moslems have killed 60,000 Christians over the last ten years: https://richardsonpost.com/raymond-ibrahim/27256/which-massacre-is-more-important/ Here is (just) the latest massacre in Nigeria (alone) https://torontosun.com/news/crime/at-least-50-killed-in-massacre-at-catholic-church-in-southwest-nigeria Another 50 people dead. If you Google ‘massacre in Nigeria’ you will see that this is by no means a rare occurrence.

05/06/2022: Taking ‘bending over backwards’ to new extremes: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/a-mongolian-contortionist-broke-the-guinness-world-record-by-performing-the-marinelli-bend-for-over-four-minutes/

05/06/2022: A mother showed the kind of courage (and rationality) the police are paid for. Listen to what she says: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/guts-plus-mum-should-be-compulsory-viewing-for-all-police-recruits.html

05/06/2022: The whole green energy boondoggle is a dangerous fantasy: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/green-energy-chickens-coming-home-roost-bruce-thornton/ & https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/australian_voters_have_set_themselves_up_for_a_green_nightmare.html

05/06/2022: Tiananmen Square Massacre 33 years ago today: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tiananmen-square-massacre-33-years-ago-today/ Today the CCP dictatorship (and its ‘running dogs’ – such as Albo) are as dominant as ever.

04/06/2022: Why did ‘global warming’ stop as long ago as last century. It’s such a spoil-sport. At least it could wait around until all the suicidal economic measures fail to have any effect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/evidence-suggests-global-warming-ran-steam-years-ago-experts-argue-global-temps-remained-flat-20-years/

04/06/2022: Demographic change is a killer. Actually I am astonished that ‘average’ family incomes anywhere are nearly $120K – where did we miss out? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/progressive-parties-are-the-party-of-the-rich/

04/06/2022: “The US government has been arming Ukraine, because they're allies. The US government has been seeking to disarm Russia, because they're opponents. In totally unrelated news, the US government seeks to disarm you.” Spike Cohen.

04/06/2022: “It follows that, if it happened now, net zero emissions would result in death by starvation of several billion people.” John Reid: https://blackjay.net.au/managing-austerity/

03/06/2022: Happy Birthday Pebbles: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/south-carolina-dog-oldest-living-world

03/06/2022: Hundreds of elderly patients are presenting and many dying from hypothermia (in their own homes) in Melbourne because they cannot afford heating due to the Teal/Green ‘climate’ policies. This evil has to stop: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-vulnerable-suffering-at-hands-of-climate-catastrophists/news-story/1f6e7d60ff14b3f37989a79ff294d011

Now Dan’s fracking ban starts to bite as well: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorias-gas-supply-problem-wont-go-away-quickly-according-to-industry-leader/news-story/95eac6f7a18e3ef5cf1a77813fa7ae16

03/06/2022: Once we could have saved ourselves in 15 years – now, I’m not so sure. We have not trained a single nuclear engineer this century: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/amazing-what-the-west-could-do-france-went-from-0-to-56-nuclear-reactors-in-just-15-years/

03/06/2022: Yes, when 19 people are murdered the real facts are important: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-some-things-in-uvalde-dont-make-sense/

02/06/2022: Go, Johnny, Go: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/johnny-depp-wins-defamation-case-against-amber-heard/video/a0422c89d6581ff7dabcfaa6e3391b81

02/06/2022: Divide and rule in ‘Paradise’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/samoa-signs-bilateral-cooperation-agreement-with-china-backs-china-on-taiwan.html

02/06/2022: A painful birth? Is there anything you can not do to ‘save the planet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/follow-the-science-painful-births-might-improve-the-weather-if-we-go-anesthetic-free-will-we-hold-back-the-tide/

02/06/2022: Auron MacIntyre’s ‘Rise of the Midwits’ is an astonishing revelation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agM261CSJU&t=549s

01/06/2022: Even France is now running on low, like the rest of Europe (and Oz) – and all for the same silly reasons (climate etc). Our parents realized that the foundation of their prosperity was cheap and abundant energy – why can’t we figure that out any more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/half-the-french-nuclear-fleet-is-down/

01/06/2022: After the sausage finally dies… “land no longer needed for meat production could be used towards progressive ends, such as the creation of worker-owned farms, returning land to Indigenous nations and peoples, rewilding, and other conservation uses” It is unclear though whether these good folk will be paying us for our Jeeralang hills or whether anyone else actually wants to do the work of looking after them: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/31/the-misguided-meat-vortex/

01/06/2022: Why can’t the folk of Melbourne. Kooyong etc who actually vote for this renewables craze actually have them in their neighbourhood and have to gain all their energy from them: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/31/gee-whiz-residents-do-not-like-wind-turbines-ee-news-report/

01/06/2022: It is a very different ‘diverse’ Australia to the one I grew up in – see pic. Only one blonde (maybe from a bottle?) out of 22. Let’s hope those (10?) ‘diverse’ folks really are the very best that Australia has on offer. Does anyoe else really believe that: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/32-sorry-therapeutic-albo-2-out-of-3-aussies-dont-want-you.html BTW: Will Albo’s anti-corruption commission finally arrest and gaol Gillard, Wilson and Shorten for example? Don’t hold your breath!

31/05/2022: Destroying a 1,000 year old forest to build wind turbines to protect us from an imaginary (CO2) threat makes me both sad and angry: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/cult-of-green-because-no-1000-year-old-forest-is-complete-without-industrial-wind-turbines/

31/05/2022: Undoubtedly the worst thing the Liberal Party has done recently is to expel Bernie Finn. It needs more such principled conservatives, not fewer. The National’s dumping of Barnaby is another such folly: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/a-tough-week-to-be-a-victorian-liberal/

31/05/2022: 14 lessons from the Uvalde tragedy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/wayne-root-14-lessons-every-conservative-patriot-learned-tragic-texas-school-shooting-hint-democrats-will-shocked-horrified/ Even more significantly: https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/we-overlook-a-significant-factor-in-mass-shootings-fatherlessness/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=android_nyp

Of course schools can be protected (like banks): https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/there_is_a_way_to_stop_school_shootings.html

31/05/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years: Man dressed as woman in wheelchair shouting "think of the earth" hurls cake at Mona Lisa painting.

30/05/2022: Not nearly enough data (yet) really – eg the average age/health status of the victims. Still 1740 dead this year (only four months of 2022) is a lot: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/professor-peter-doherty-theres-no-zero-baseline-for-determining-vaccine-efficacy/news-story/cab6080a3d67b4590d80770cb4890629 The greatest wickedness is that (still) long-established prevention and treatment are not being widely used. These elderly people are often still poor in zinc and Vitamin D for example which would help prevent respiratory infections. They also do not have access to cheap effective remedies as the first line of action ie, Betadine nasal spray and gargle (to reduce viral load) and eg ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine which have both been shown in hundreds of studies to reduce illness and death rates.

30/05/2022: Cannon-Brookes really intends to close down the remaining coal-fired electricity generators ASAP. He has clearly got control of AGL today. This is the same strategy which eliminated the mountain cattlemen in Vic, ie basically greens buying up assets then closing them down. Unless there is public or government intervention (unlikely now) this will quickly result in electricity shortages and economic collapse which will blight the rest of our lives. Wake up Australia. The Teal-Green enemy is inside the gates.

30/05/2022: God (or the Govt) help us if MIT don’t know: “To enable economical long-duration energy storage (> 12 hours), the DOE should support research, development, and demonstration to advance alternative electrochemical storage technologies that rely on earth-abundant materials. Cost, lifetime, and manufacturing scale requirements for long-duration energy storage favor the exploration of novel electro-chemical technologies, such as redox-flow and metal-air batteries that use inexpensive charge-storage materials and battery designs that are better suited for long-duration applications. (Emphasis in original.). The feds will “support research” into “novel technologies,” of course using the infinite money pile, and the technology will magically appear. And what exactly is the technology that will then emerge to rescue us? They have no idea” : https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-5-26-mit-weighs-in-on-energy-storage (Long) before you decide to mandate something you need to know that is actually feasible. To power a large city (new York, Melbourne etc) for a solar and wind drought of eg a week (a regular occurrence) you would need a battery a cubic kilometer (or so) in dimension. Imagine the fire if such a battery ignited! But where would you access the materials to build such a battery, how long would it last, how reliable would it be – and how much would it cost? This needs to be compared with the alternatives, eg new fossil or nuclear powered stations.

29/05/2022: Another problem with electric windows. I think people are just too enamoured of electrical gadgets. I predict that the fear of being incinerated/drowned will seriously affect the uptake of electric vehicles: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tesla-catches-fires-at-intersection/

29/05/2022: Still (Always?) playing ‘catch-up’ on Defence: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/if-threats-of-a-pacific-war-became-reality-how-prepared-is-australia/news-story/b77751f7d2b40b06be70e5f60695b1bf

29/05/2022: How much truth is there in the story of North Korea’s low covid fatality rate: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/north-korea-accused-lying-tiny-covid-death-rate-urging-public-treat-symptoms-tea-salt-water-ibuprofen/

29/05/2022: One week out and the Labor Party still doesn’t have a majority. It is looking more like an awful Labor-Greens coalition: https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HousePartyRepresentationLeading-27966.htm

28/05/2022: Fawcett’s lost cities of the Amazon really did exist: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/

28/05/2022: If only we were a little more like Finland: https://www.rferl.org/a/finland-russia-nato-analysis/31869756.html

28/05/2022: Forget about giving more power to commie shill Tedros: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/who-chief-wants-to-run-the-world-for-china-biden-boris-albanese-is-ok-with-that-but-africa-puts-the-brakes-on/ & https://www.facebook.com/100059886518825/videos/584238123039468

28/05/2022: In Oz our security services manage to prevent many of these horrific incidents because just like these latest two incidents in the US there is frequently prior warning, but we are now 24 hour surveilling around 1,000 folk (that we have been told about): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/retired-federal-agent-regular-communication-buffalo-shooter-may-advance-notice-gendrons-plans-murder-black-people/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/two-unnamed-boys-age-shooter-arrested-2018-planning-columbine-style-shooting-uvalde-school-2022/

Wow! That was close! What a hero though: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/photos-of-off-duty-border-agent-who-killed-salvador-ramos/

27/05/2022: A Japanese man now identifies as a dog – you can be whatever you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpyUgXyTXhc

27/05/2022: What the world ‘needs’ right now – a carbon footprint tracker and carbon ‘rationing’, but not of course if you need a personal jet to fly to Davos: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/alibaba-president-shares-world-economic-forum-carbon-footprint-tracker-technology-individuals/ Remember back in 1972 when we had ‘just’ 10 years to save the planet: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/climate-nazi-wants-to-track-your-climate-footprint/

27/05/2022: You thought it was over? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/south-australia-has-gone-mad/ PS: You can now have Novavax as a booster if you refuse mRNA vaccines.

27/05/2022: Realistically the DIY FGC-9 semi-automatic spelled the end for gun control measures. Mental health measures (as well as better - especially school - security) might just be more useful in preventing awful disasters like Uvalde. We are not immune here in Oz: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/building-the-fgc-9-getting-started-with-3d-printing-part-1/ Imagine there being no-one (and no thing) in the school to prevent (or respond to) such an event. Imagine also the police waiting outside preventing eg parents from entering – remember the Lindt Café siege - (for an hour) while the maniac murdered the children until he was shot by an off-duty border officer!

26/05/2022: The Thanatosdrakon “dragon of death’ with a 30 foot (10 metre) wingspan – sure glad this guy isn’t still around here: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/05/24/argentina-scientists-discover-dragon-of-death-fossil/8821653431164/

26/05/2022: Can you believe Bob Dylan is 81? Oh, we are getting ancient here at Jeeralang Junction too: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/not-dark-yet-contd-6.php

26/05/2022: More about the Jan 6 conspiracy – the USA really did suffer a coup in 2020: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/its-the-cover-up-that-gives-it-away-the-jan-6-rioters-the-fbi-dont-want-to-catch/

26/05/2022: The tyranny of climate compliance: The cheapest new car in Australia (at present ie May 2022) is the Mitsubishi Mirage (Drive away A$17490) approx 700 km range: https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/the-10-cheapest-cars-on-sale-in-australia Say you drove it for twenty years (300,000km) then threw it away. Annual (capital) cost is $1500 per year. Most of us can afford that. For comparison, the Jones family ‘normally’ buy a second-hand (often damaged eg by hail) car for around $1500 with around 150,000km on the clock. We usually have little trouble driving them for a further 150,000 km (or ten years!) without spending any money except on tyres, oil, spark plugs, filters, brake pads, shockers perhaps – all work done myself. I have a paddock full of them as proof! They are probably still worth $500-$1000 so let’s say an annual cost of approx $100 per year – at most $150! We have been doing that for forty+ years! The cheapest electric car in Australia is the Renault Zoe at $40990 plus on road costs so approx $44,000 drive away (Range maybe 300 km). Of course there will never be ‘cheap’ second-hand electric cars because once the battery needs replacing it is ‘cheaper’ to replace the car! It is unlikely you will get more than ten years out of the battery anyway so the annual cost of an electric car is $5000 per year, around 50 times what we normally spend! Apart from not being able to afford electricity, cooking or heating (and probably food) ordinary people are not going to be able to afford personal transport under the teal-green agenda.

25/05/2022: Cats: I have been wondering about them. We haven’t had one for very many years ourselves (though I quite like them personally) and also have a vermin-proof fence so foxes are excluded (even though I admire foxes but do not appreciate them eg eating all our lambs). Like everyone else we have had a rodent plague (especially this year) which other predators (owls, hawks etc) have not kept up with. I have been wondering whether the ‘demonisation’ of cats is at all justified. A few years ago I discovered (evidence from the WA government’s cat and fox baiting strategy) that targeting foxes alone ended up causing a larger (90%!) drop in native critters (because of the build up of cats whom foxes also predate) than actually doing nothing. This rather surprised me. Over there they decided to target both together and developed a bait for cats (unavailable in the East apparently). I have always noticed that cats kill a really lot of rodents – at least ten times (I reckon) the number of birds they also unfortunately do take (one of the reasons we don’t have one). However, we have had this dreadful build-up of rodents and possums (and because someone is feeding them) of kookaburras. All these things are known dreadful predators of birds. Many small birds have almost disappeared from our garden (despite the vermin-proof fence). Eg we have not seen a wagtail for nearly two years. The last one/s we saw were disappearing down the maw of the kookaburras. I am actually wondering whether the anti-cat strategy is actually harming birds because of the build-up of these other nasty predators which cats would help to control. Rats and possums (particularly) eat a huge number of eggs and baby birds. PS: I notice the emerald folk are now calling for the banning of rodent poisons – if successful, that should add a further disastrous element to this ecological apocalypse! I really hope Australia doesn’t become like NZ (where they now have less then 1% of the native bird population they once had) through misplaced ‘conservation’ strategies.

25/05/2022: Apparently there are people who didn't realise this was satire.

25/05/2022: Another Earth – maybe somewhere to go to get away from this mess: https://www.sci-nature.com/2022/05/its-official-astronomers-have.html?fbclid=IwAR3zPXnPmL5ewNYo3fxIxfmkCZ-3Yefg6YlV8yzp9q9l-5tp0tFPYHSSwlU

25/05/2022: Demographic change is a killer – in the long run it will be more of a killer for Labor if the Libs decide to man up and concentrate on winning the hearts and minds of real working Australians, “the Coalition now holding 16 of the 20 poorest federal seats. From the UK to the US and in Australia the rich are voting for Leftist options while the working and middle class are turning to conservative parties. In Australia Labor holds more of the top 20 wealthiest electorates than the Liberal party while the Coalition dominates in the seats with the lowest average household incomes.

These are people who weren’t born into wealth but work hard to create financial security for their families. They care about energy costs more than emission targets. They care about their children being properly educated rather than indoctrinated in school. They love their country and are not embarrassed by it like so many privileged and self-loathing Greens and teals” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-the-teal-mps-were-expecting-to-wield-enormous-power-but-are-now-redundant/news-story/9d77556decdce4322387d36109d00221

25/05/2022: Astonishing: Australia is already well ahead of net zero yet for bizarre ideological reasons we must suffer more. Australia already sequesters some five times as much carbon dioxide as it emits. A genuine scientist (Prof Ian Plimer) explains in great detail how this works: https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/australia-is-already-at-net-zero/ (PS: You may have to get a (free for three articles per week ) subscription to read this.

24/05/2022: The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ Why you should subscribe to The Spectator even just the free to read three articles per week edition (however it only costs $4 a week for full digital access). If you had you would have received this (Double Shot) gem today by Alexandra Marshall,

“The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ If nothing else, this federal election served as a reckoning against the soggy, wet, gangrenous Liberals sitting in wealthy Sydney seats. The ‘we’re so much smarter than everyone else’ MPs who ran election campaigns that looked as if they were copied straight off the Climate 200 website lost en masse. The Sharmas, Zimmermans, and Frydenbergs.

As for voters, what happened on Saturday was entirely predictable. It has long been said that Climate Change is a death cult. Its architects have spent years terrifying children and guilt-tripping their wealthy parents. The only thing left to do was sit this guilt-ridden privileged class in front of a polling booth and offer them a way to ‘virtue signal’ out of sin. It was like dropping a coin into the collection plate. One vote – guaranteed saviour status. The consequence of this selfish action will be felt by the poorer electorates next door who already struggle to afford the necessary energy to heat their homes in the freezing Winter that isn’t supposed to exist.

All of us must pay extra tax to sate the original sin of fantasy climate guilt, but when the apocalypse fails to manifest and all the sacred relics and priests are de-frocked, a different sort of blue sea will rise. Editor Rowan Dean said it best on Sunday morning, ‘Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when Scott Morrison stood in front of an adoring crowd of climate cultists in Glasgow and committed Australia to the ridiculous pledge of “Net Zero by 2050”.’

Conservatives have tough years ahead of them, but according to some commentators, this may have been the election they needed to lose in order to expel the wets and rebuild the base. As for the Teals, Greens, and Labor, the problem with building the foundation of a political party on a fiction with an imminent deadline is that the deadline will come to pass – and then what? As Andrew L. Urban writes, Climate Change is the wolf that isn’t there. While Climate Change’s use-by date sits a few years off, Kristina Keneally finally failed her way into oblivion (we hope), managing to lose one of the safest Labor seats around. Thank heavens for small miracles”.

You would also be able to read this subsequent excellent piece by Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/decarbonising-the-liberal-moderates/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK+CID_e903cc33f023769f15f174016ae820a0&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=De-carbonising%20the%20Liberal%20moderates

24/05/2022: Steve Kates is also always worth a read. I particularly liked his quote from ‘Bruce’ from Newcastle today, “Unfortunately to some extent both parties are channeling the insanity of the voters. I was reflecting last night that I’ve been opposing the climate craze for nearly 15 years now, and in that time it has just gotten worse and worse. There’s still nothing much happening in the real world – no actual global warming, none of the dire prognostications. Yet this election is a choice between the totally bonkers Libs and the beyond insane Labor Party. Both are falling over themselves to destroy our country for a myth.

That’s because the voters demand this stupidity. The MSM demands it. The whole of the nation is stuck in a lemming-like race to disaster which only a literal disaster will crack the people out of.

The Covid arc illustrates this. You had guys like McGowan immensely popular for converting his entire state into a prison camp to save the people from a virus so innocuous that people often don’t know they have it. It took two years of disaster – closed businesses, lost jobs, lockdowns, vaccine injuries, masking and elderly parents dying alone for the people to suddenly, overnight, get over it. Now the pollies don’t mention the virus and it’s like it never existed.

The people haven’t yet gotten to this point on the climate scam, but they will once the pain really amps up. Which it is just starting to, particularly electricity and fuel prices. But with the elites all Believing like religious fanatics even that’s not going to be enough. Saving the world syndrome is a very powerful hubristic drug. It may take a full-on political apocalypse to stop these people saving us from an apocalypse which isn’t happening”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/22/about-as-bad-as-it-could-have-been/

24/05/2022: You have some power after all, How to hide your house on every map app: https://www.popsci.com/diy/hide-home-map-apps/

24/05/2022: Already – a link between Monkeypox and the Wuhan lab: https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/22/wuhan-assembled-monkeypox-strains/

23/05/2022: The Life & Adventures of John Nicol Mariner, 1822. You should read this (for free) He came on the Lady Juliana (1791) so has interesting first hand observations of early Sydney Town, particularly the behaviour of our ‘indigenous’ denizens whom he found utterly reprehensible: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600031h.html

23/05/2022: They told us this?

23/05/2022: A (bare) majority Labor government with less than one-third of the primary vote! I think this though really was ‘the elephant in the room’. There was zero mention during the election campaign about the ‘climate’. Had there been the outer-suburbanites and rural folk who need to be able to drive cars, have electricity, air cons, wood fires, sheep and cattle and maybe a holiday somewhere else some day would have shouted a big negative ‘No!’ against the greens and like-minded dim-witted people, just as they did when Tony famously admitted that ‘climate change is bullshit’ – as it is. We need a seismic shift to the right in politics, and a lot more truth. Perhaps now the Libs have divested themselves of most of their green fifth columnists it may happen. The older I get the less I want to live in what the world has become. : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/the-secret-climate-election-we-didnt-know-we-had/

22/05/2022: Should we send them a reply? https://notthebee.com/article/fifty-years-ago-astronomers-detected-what-is-considered-the-best-evidence-of-an-alien-radio-signal-from-space-now-one-astronomer-says-he-may-have-found-out-where-it-came-from

22/05/2022: Monkeypox (a smallpox variant). Is it another ‘gay plague? Anyway the WHO missed it: https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-health/monkeypox-spreads-in-west-baffling-african-scientists/amp/

Just so sanitary. Forget hand sanitisers and masks: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/18646557/monkeypox-outbreak-europe-cases-island-festival/

22/05/2022: Remember how they tried organic agriculture in Sri Lanka (and starved)? Imagine what would happen if we abolished farming altogether, but under the teal-greens such a scenario is all too likely. I can’t imagine managing our steep hillsides without sheep – or what more useful product could be produced from them. The good news from the election fiasco is that the ‘conservative’ side of politics has actually lost all its most ‘green’ members. It will not take long for the resultant ‘government ‘disasters to convince the public that a move to the right is what is needed. Expect the next government (after Albanese) to completely reject this green madness: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10828875/George-Monbiot-says-farming-ABOLISHED-save-planet.html

Will our next PM be Dutton or Hastie?

21/05/2022: The ‘democracy snags’ at Yinnar were so good I may go back and vote again a couple of more times. In retrospect I see I should have bought a lot more of them – before they are banned because…cooked on gas, made from beef, methane emissions, etc, etc

21/05/2022: It begins - if you haven't voted yet , do so now. Remember back in 2013 (under Labor) how there were over 100 illegals arriving every single day. since Scott not a single one: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-live-updates-from-key-electorates-polling-booths/live-coverage/2848ff10c6528c74baf9a400c613af24

21/05/2022: The Voyage of Pytheas: https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/05/29/pytheass-voyage-to-the-arctic-in-325-b-c-and-account-of-thule-the-strange-land-beyond/?fbclid=IwAR0WGF4bVpsLtXjIVqSf8qGdcJ8b1qsP1qLBb7Bq-4AsUx0a-gXiXP-uYDs

21/05/2022: Just a nonsense idea in the first place. We have been able to manage (approx 50-80 year) rotation of sustainable logging in state forests for 150 years whilst preserving the very critters which are now being moved into ‘National Parks’ protection just to be destroyed by vicious uncontrolled wildfires. The greenies really do hate the bush: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/110m-plantation-bid-fails-victorias-timber-shortage-to-worsen/news-story/f9d63028249a536e6acc44832b962f04

21/05/2022: That was a good idea then (This is no ‘junk’ study either). New Study Finds mRNA Vaccines Actually Hurt Long-Term Immunity to Covid Compared to the Unvaccinated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/new-study-finds-mrna-vaccines-actually-hurt-long-term-immunity-covid-compared-unvaccinated/

Furthermore those awful masks actually increased your risk of death. Great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/another-study-confirms-wearing-masks-increases-infection-covid/

21/05/2022: Even on election eve the almost the largest single voting bloc is people who say “a pox on both your houses”. 29%. A record by a long shot. Neither the pollsters nor anyone else can say where all these people's preferences will end up. I am one of them and I know but there are several million others and only a handful of us need to swing one way or another. It is obvious to me that we cannot risk another government dominated by the Green nightmare but it will be an interesting night tonight: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/election-day-anything-but-the-uniparty-majors-a-record-29-of-australians-want-another-choice/ One thing I note, the changes to the Senate voting system (clearly intended to make it harder for minor parties to obtain a ‘quota’) could just as easily lead to the last couple of Senate places failing to get a quota at all! So what happens when (after successive half-Senate elections) the Senate is still undecided? I for one am heartily sick of the two major parties colluding in this way (as they have with several changes to the voting system over the last few years) to ensure that one or other of them has to form government. Such collusion is in fact fascism.

Unfortunately Steve Kates is right. Let’s hope he is not also a Cassandra: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/21/it-would-be-a-madness-to-allow-labor-to-govern-if-it-is-at-all-possible-to-prevent-it/

20/05/2022: Soon from Apple ‘augmented reality’ ie the reality they want you to see: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/19/apple-gave-mixed-reality-headset-demo-to-board-of-directors-report.html

20/05/2022: How would we fare in an intergalactic war? I think Stephen Hawking was right – we should keep a low profile: https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-stop-alien-invasion

20/05/2022: After electing left-wing governments in the US they are having critical food shortages (eg baby formula) & in Sri Lanka they have not only food shortages and economic collapse but have also run out of fuel. And just look at what has happened to US borders. We will also be back to hundreds of illegal immigrants a day coming (folks who demand welfare) instead of legal migrants who are employed and pay taxes: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/05/18/border-arrests-rise-to-234000-in-april-n1598961

Do you want a liar as PM, someone who isn’t even eligible to stand (because of his dual citizenship): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/the-abc-publishes-photo-of-mr-and-mrs-carlo-albanese-to-help-their-son-with-section-44-citizenship-d.html Someone who has never had a job (other than with the left wing of the Labor Party)? https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/history-stands-against-albanese/

20/05/2022: So it seems our ‘masters’ pocket huge sums in Swiss bank accounts so Pfizer & etc can experiment on us: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/would-350-million-from-big-pharma-be-enough-to-buy-fauci-and-nih-approval-who-knows-its-a-secret/

19/05/2022: When a frog tries to mate with your boot we know something is wrong but when a human male tries to mate with someone other than a female we see it as the ‘new normal’. Oh come on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frogs-keep-mating-with-the-wrong-things/ar-AAXnLCy?ocid=BingNews

19/05/2022: Elon will need to get a much better bargain if he buys Twitter: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/quick-tell-the-investors-twitter-is-a-kindergarten-for-communists-not-there-to-make-profits/

19/05/2022: This ‘pandemic treaty’ will end our national sovereignty and hand control of us over to faceless WHO bureaucrats – not to mention the CCP: Australia set to sign Geneva’s Global Pandemic Treaty | The Spectator Australia & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/another-un-who-power-grab-global-pandemic-treaty-is-a-trillion-dollar-business-deal/

Notice how the WHO has stopped the spread of monkey pox for example: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/18/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk

19/05/2022: Morrison on Government: “It’s time to get the hell out, time for you to get your life back. You’re in charge again, you’re back in the driver’s seat, you’re sick to death of state governments and everyone else telling you what to do.” Exactly. You know that’s all you’ll get with the socialists. A reminder: Penny Wong as Number 2! “Australia did better than any comparable advanced country through the pandemic, with the lowest fatality rates, the fastest economic recovery, and has one of the lowest inflation rates at a time of rising costs of living globally.That doesn’t happen by accident…You just have to see the disasters Joe Biden has wrought in America after 16 months to see how fast an incompetent government can wreck your life. ” https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine-scott-morrison-could-see-winston-churchills-fate/news-story/c94d3746b56d93a8662999db3eccdd13

18/05/2022: Is it a doorway on Mars – sure looks like one but they would have to be tiny people. Nature is full of surprises: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-spots-a-doorway-on-mars/

18/05/2022: When diversity isn’t so good: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/diversity_isnt_always_good.html

18/05/2022: Classic Albo: “I don’t run away from Press Conferences": https://scontent.fmel16-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-4/280784471_1160895668077891_6343683890560388774_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&_nc_ohc=7Gdpg9o657kAX_rRC_E&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel16-1.fna&edm=AN6CN6oEAAAA&oh=00_AT8Q1doIlHNZcxT8M0yhvenJI6QvZy_rxyfGyb26L-tDlw&oe=62844D38

18/05/2022: Long-term climate data such as the Central England temperature Series (1661-2021) clearly shows there is no ‘climate crisis’ – indeed no man-made climate change at all: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/17/wuwt-contest-runner-up-general-is-there-really-a-climate-crisis/

18/05/2022: Choose freedom not socialist control on Saturday. Surely you recall the difference in approach between the Liberal and Labor states over covid (NSW vs Vic for example) . Dictator Dan here in Vic is just Anthony Albanese writ small if we give him the power federally: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/we-re-all-paying-for-a-new-world-of-big-government-20220512-p5akua?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1AzB6yMM3S6fOw4st69MPUCMkkVpoEne8gfh7L3nHFPMMmzK6tL-zI-98#Echobox=1652428920 I liked Tony Abbott’s new motto over the weekend: Vote Lib for “lower taxes, more freedom, better defence”.

17/05/2022: What a gutless incompetent tool Albo is – he won’t release his costings (Thursday) until the Libs can’t reply with any advertising about it. How contemptuous of the Australian people can you get? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/anthony-albanese-grilled-by-reporters-over-transparency-around-budget-deficit-before-scrambling-out-of-press-conference/news-story/878123cb0767e71870605423c041237e

17/05/2022: Food shortages – something real to worry about for once: https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/india-bans-wheat-exports-food-security-threat

17/05/2022: It’s not just his memory: Albo is seriously dumb and just can’t do sums. Why would you want this retard in charge of your country? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10817387/Anthony-Albanese-confuses-minimum-pay-rise-1-hour-1-week.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR0we-rC_mnPMMqnVsYGBuqPS90n6IlIB-_lW8eH4GxVoqn6mGFY9s_s-YM

17/05/2022: Sky News host Sharri Markson says this election is “neck and neck” and it is not a “certain victory” for Labor. I hope she is right: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/this-election-is-neck-and-neck-sharri-markson/video/b998882dfcaf5b77218361945fad755d

17/05/2022: The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto. This stuff is scary, but one cannot help but notice that it is also a frightening response to ‘multiculturalism’ and other such social experiments aimed at the break-down of what had been our civilization to this point (the Western tradition, the rule of law, Christianity, the family, etc). ‘Other races’ are not the issue but ‘other cultures’ or the decline of culture and civilization generally. He is without a doubt (like Tarrant, etc) a creature of the extreme Left though he has been characterised (as is also usually the case) as ‘right-wing’. He went to the supermarket to shoot ‘black’ people but ended up shooting ‘whites’ as well. NB though this guy threatened such an attack nearly a year ago – ergo, it should have been prevented. Mainly (by a long way) you should realize it is blacks (and Moslems) shooting other people though. Much less is made of such devastating events: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/mass-shooting-at-buffalo-supermarket/ & https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/05/15/heres-what-the-buffalo-shooters-alleged-manifesto-actually-says-n1597997

This guy is quite right though – such crimes certainly merit the death penalty, quickly and without undue fanfare: https://www.city-journal.org/execute-buffalo-shooter

16/05/2022: A million-fold increase in computer speeds would see the human race become redundant: https://scitechdaily.com/laser-pulses-for-ultrafast-signal-processing-could-make-computers-a-million-times-faster/

16/05/2022: Don’t you just love ‘anachronisms’? eg: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ancient-wheel-0010997?fbclid=IwAR1cGl2FJYQTXLBHFT4O3dF8HKdOPfEsy8iMFyRyOXlUMVP76VrQZ3ItmZE

16/05/2022: That YouGov poll the other day alarmed me too but with a sample size of 125 per electorate it is just a nonsense – besides who answers the phone to these anonymous people any more? Labor voters apparently, probably because they are more credulous. The election will be decided by those ‘undecided’ voters who certainly don’t vote early. Besides, as the Lib’s ‘campaign opening’ yesterday shows, Scott still has a few tricks up his sleeve: https://www.news.com.au/national/voters-should-take-new-poll-predicting-labor-victory-with-a-pinch-of-salt/video/d05cec9c519b9ac22d2a7f5a3f84baf6

16/05/2022: “This pandemic treaty is the greatest power grab any of us has seen in our lifetime”, Neil Oliver. If you did not know, we are rushing to sign up to yet another international treaty ceding our sovereignty to unelected international bureaucrats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafV6YhhnAQ

15/05/2022:

15/05/2022: 45 years: Gone for a very long walk indeed: https://indefiniteleave.com.au/story-john-the-highway-man/?fbclid=IwAR3LspqrjpCuyOTPAmjPvhty1EAkvd2I2GtKeAQVelXR0NPON8oJ0gxQ-h8

15/05/2022: Seriously worrying: Are the Covid vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/are-the-covid-vaccines-killing-people-over-time-the-data-suggests-yes/

15/05/2022: That Bastard Albanese? A man who still lies on his electoral nomination form that he doesn’t know who his own father is - even though he has explained extensively to the ABC that he does and has met him and now claims to be Italian - is not fit to be PM: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/albanese-now-openly-italian-good-thing-for-the-court-of-disputed-returns-to-know.html & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/compare-contrast-albaneses-electoral-nomination-form-dated-15422-with-what-he-told-the-abc.html NB: Several years ago (You remember?) every other ‘dual citizen’ had to resign &/or repudiate their other ‘citizenship’ or they were not eligible to hold office – but not Albo apparently.

14/05/2022: A magic weight-loss pill? Maybe not. I know that for me (most folks I suspect) it's always too many calories: https://doctorbuzz.substack.com/p/a-new-drug-will-help-you-shed-50?s=w

14/05/2022: China and India are both doubling coal use. Oz accounts for less than 1% of global CO2 production (which does no harm anyway) but we may not have any coal fired power stations or a reliable energy supply? This is complete BS people: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/12/net-zero-india-plans-to-double-coal-use-by-2040/

14/05/2022: ‘Too dumb to be PM’ - Of course this is true Michael Kroger – the guy can hardly talk and can certainly not hold a fact in his head for a minute. You would have to be as dumb as dog s—t yourself to vote for such a Bozo. My guess is that the huge ‘undecided’ mob (27% at least) are not that dumb: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/michael_kroger_says_albanese_is_too_dumb_to_be_prime_minister And have you thought for a minute about the nightmares life would be like under a Labor-Greens Government. Here’s just two examples: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_is_locking_up_cattle_stations_and_turning_them_into_carbon_farms & https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/aussie_manufacturers_are_shutting_factories_because_of_expensive_and_unstable_energy

14/05/2022: “Keeping you safe and sorting out the lies is your job” (not Twitter’s), Bill Maher. We have always been surrounded by lies and propaganda of one sort or another. Each ‘side’ will always say that the other’s ‘lies’ are ‘false’. Up to now you had (and were allowed) to make up your own mind – a difficult process I admit, but your essential freedom to choose; now Facebook, Twitter, Google etc can do that onerous chore for you. Some thoughts from Victor David Hanson to make you wonder: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-imagine-unimaginable

13/05/2022: You know the world has gone completely mad when Madonna gives birth to a tree: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/11/madonna-scanned-her-whole-body-for-charity-including-her-you-know-n1597043 You can even ‘win’ a 3D model of her vagina: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/madonna-selling-3d-model-of-her-vagina-in-nft-graphic-auction/news-story/d5af9f9f06025440ce61aa33ecb1e87c & Yes, it’s true: https://motherofcreation.xyz/

13/05/2022: Do we want to become like Sri Lanka? We are well on the way: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/sri_lanka_shows_what_happens_when_we_follow_radical_environmentalist_principles.html

13/05/2022: Good advice, “Never trust people who are called experts by others or who call themselves experts. Almost all have an agenda. People should question everything they are told, especially if the source is the media, the government, entertainers, or educators” : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/why_does_anyone_continue_to_treat_people_as_experts_when_they_are_so_consistently_wrong.html

13/05/2022: The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates yet we have wasted billions and lost our precious freedoms over them – all for nothing! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-evidence-keeps-pouring-in-showing-the-utter-failure-of-all-covid-mandates/

12/05/2022: A New Knee: As you may know I have been having trouble with my left knee (especially) for quite some time – around nine years in fact. I have tried just about everything to make it better as the posts I Kneed You, A Cure for Knee Pain, & Knee Cure News will make clear to you, but finally it became too much and I just had to ‘bite the bullet’ so to speak and go for a complete replacement. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/12/a-new-knee/

12/05/2022: "The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks." - C. S. Lewis.

12/05/2022: May have to get one of these jet-packs as I am certainly not walking up mountains as quickly or easily as I once did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8

12/05/2022: The perfect murder - if only he had hired an excavator: https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-heart-attack-killed

12/05/2022: Personally I just can’t believe the polls – an Albanese Government would be an economic disaster, just as the Andrews Government has been for Victoria. We will be paying for the cost of these mistakes for decades: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/terry-mccrann-brilliant-on-the-pending-albanese-disaster.html Just a reminder of what I said about the last Liberal Budget back in My 2014: After four years of fiscal restraint, the Victorian Government has wound back Labor’s profligacy (always wasted on urgent needs such as employing innumerable public servants to hold meetings!) and has a whopping surplus which they are going to invest in a further $27 billion of infrastructure projects, another $45 billion already ‘on the books’ for like investments. Every other state is still ‘in the red’. These guys deserve another term, and another, and another…

09/05/2022: Holy Cow: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/helicopter-catches-space-rocket-booster/video/fa8c73c26517148012e6a8ca397e937b

09/05/2022: New UK government data shows the COVID vaccines kill more people than they save. If true, we should stop right now (and begin the prosecutions): https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/uk-government-data-shows-nobody-should?s=r

09/05/2022: Ask yourself: Do we want a repeat of these clowns – and a leader even worse than Ju-Liar? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-tony-windsor-rob-oakeshott-reject-independent-chaos-fears/news-story/6e5c831a98ea96eed8c80d560598733e

09/05/2022: How China is conquering the world one failed state at a time – you have already seen the ocnsequences in Sri Lanka and the Solomons but not yet in Victoria. “Take note, Australia; an empire built on debt cannot survive for long” : https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/china-an-empire-of-debt/

07/05/2022: What if we have been profoundly wrong about children: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/05/05/what-if-weve-been-profoundly-wrong/

For example: https://freemansperspective.com/children-must-be-made-to-work/

07/05/2022: Should we have a nuclear war over Ukraine – apparently we are already at war with Russia: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/experts-even-small-nuclear-war-us-russia-will-likely-cause-billions-deaths/

07/05/2022: Lakes Entrance: It’s lovely to take a day off during the warmer months and spend it driving up and back to Lakes Entrance (Gippsland). Because of the awful fence they have now built down the middle of the road between Sale and Bairnsdale we always take the Sale by-pass then when we hit the highway again we go straight ahead via Bengwarden to Bairnsdale to avoid it – a much more pleasant drive indeed. There are many spots you can drop off to look at the scenery along the way (Roseneath, Wadi Point, the Sand Jetties etc).

A refreshing walk across the bridge at Lakes to look at the beach and study the bird-life is just about de rigeur but mostly we go up so we can buy a heap of fresh school prawns from the fishing boat there. They usually cost around $25 a kilo but they are the very best prawns you have never eaten. We always by a few kilos so we can have a few really good feeds over the next few months. Somehow we never buy enough and always run our before the next summer! Della and I managed to eat a whole kilo between us for tea! https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/07/lakes-entrance/

They are so much more delicious than the ‘cardboard’ prawns you are used to eating from the supermarket or fish shop. They take my mind back to when I was a small boy growing up around the shores of Lake Macquarie NSW nearly 70 years ago. On balmy summer nights I remember going out in the moonlight trawling for ‘greasyback’ prawns in the shallows with a purse-net strung between two tomato stakes in the tepid water with my father, Lawrence and his brother Ken – both now gone over fifty years ago. We would boil them (lightly) up in an empty 60 lb honey tin over a driftwood fire and devour them (with a billy tea accompaniment) until we were utterly and delightfully replete and then fall asleep on the seagrass along the foreshore – all houses now of course, but you can still do this sort of thing in less developed spots around the Gippsland Lakes which hopefully will never be spoiled as those beautiful lakes along the NSW Central Coast have been.

07/05/2022: A print of this painting has been on my bedroom wall for maybe 75 years. I had never been able to determine what it was before but now (thanks to the magic of Google – and Della) I know it is by this guy George Philibert Charles Maroniez 1865-1933. I can see that I can buy a hand-painted reproduction (not this painting) for A$433.85 delivered which I think I will go with – though I would dearly love a better copy of the one I have which my mother must have cut out of a magazine when she was decorating my bedroom before I was born. https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Georges-Philibert-Charles-Maroniez/Sunset.html He did many similar paintings some of which can be bought for $5-10K. I may also consider that. It is unlikely that they will reduce in value after all.

07/05/2022: Interesting thoughts about ‘the spectrum’: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/is-autism-really-a-spectrum/

07/05/2022: Yes, Pauline is right about Albo’s ‘housing plan’. It is a plan to remove home ownership, not to enable it: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/26876/pauline-hanson-is-right-labor-housing-plan-is-great-reset-down-under/

07/05/2022: Can’t afford to buy in Sydney? Maybe buy this house in Goa for $312,000: https://www.99acres.com/4-bhk-bedroom-independent-house-villa-for-sale-in-navelim-south-goa-1163-sq-ft-r1-spid-T60129442

07/05/2022: More bad news about mRNA vaccines (like Pfizer and Adenovirus vector vaccines like Astra Zenica) - stuff that was concealed all along behind a push to conform. This has so harmed the traditional vaccine approach which is what should have been used all along. Too much new stuff rushing at us from all directions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/pfizergate-new-documents-confirm-vaccine-goes-to-liver-spleen-and-ovaries-in-animal-studies/

PS: We are apparently still seeing that ‘excess mortality’ - in younger groups: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/shock-video-equity-investment-executive-dowd-excess-deaths-running-around-20-first-quarter-2022/

07/05/2022: Sterilisation yet? Don’t I remember safe, effective and available contraception happening somewhere back in the 60s? Did I miss something? Isn’t there a huge unmet demand (from already sterile couples) to adopt ‘unwanted’ babies and to provide them with very good lives – and hasn’t this been the case in fact for generations? I can agree to a ‘morning-after’ pill (especially if women have been raped), even to procedures up to say a ‘fetal heartbeat’ point (ie about six weeks in – usually plenty of time to find out whether you are pregnant surely? - If you did not know, not just if you changed your mind) but there comes a time (then) when the child within also must be deemed to deserve protection (from homicide) just as other human beings do. A baby (let’s please call ‘it’ that) can survive from around 20 weeks (if born). This will become earlier with the perfection of ‘artificial wombs’. After that point surely only the lives of the two people concerned are relevant (not ‘wishes’ or ‘convenience’). I get that women ought not be forced to continue with a pregnancy if it will actually kill them, but then maybe often the baby can be induced and raised rather than being chopped into pieces and killed (for preference). The ‘pro-abortionists’ have to move away from the issue of ‘women’s rights’ and consider ‘human rights’ (ie the rights of the child – and father too) and face the fact that what we are arguing about is whether any form of murder (Yes it is) should be legal: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/female-sterilization-options-roe-decision

06/05/2022: It was not an ambush: Rachel Bexendale & Greg Brown in the Australian today: “Ahead of a lunchtime speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in which his team had indicated it planned to speak of building upon Labor legacies such as the NDIS and after he made reference on Wednesday to Labor’s ‘six-point plan’ Mr Albanese was asked to outline the six points.

“The six points are what we will do, in terms of, was outlined by Bill Shorten,” (sic) Mr Albanese replied.” As I said before, ‘Not fit to shovel shit upon a Bombay lugger”: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-anthony-albanese-is-grossly-underprepared-to-be-prime-minster/news-story/35c555c875abd090f07e7be6126286a4

06/05/2022: The war on childhood – ain’t it the case: “The ancients sacrificed children to the fires of Moloch while progressives sacrifice them to their passion for wokeness”: http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/04/the-lefts-war-on-childhood.html

06/05/2022: Andrews’ deficits – did you take a serious look? He took Napthines’s $17 billlion surplus to an $18 billion deficit in one year and has since then nearly doubled it. He has doubled the spend on public servants (again from $17 billion to $34 billion – easy to see where some savings can be made there folks, and how to get rid of the deficit!) We now have (from no debt) a whopping $167 billion debt, already $10 billion in interest payments per year – god knows how much in future as interest rates soar, as they must. We simply no longer have the money to build new power stations (even though we have not built one since 1983, probably in your entire lifetime) and soon they will all have to close because they are worn out – and then where will the electricity come from – from ‘extracting sunbeams from cucumbers’ as Gulliver observed? We need to build four simultaneously - imagine where the money or the workforce for that could come from. There will be blackouts for the rest of your lifetime. And you are maybe thinking of electing an Albanese government which will be worse –worse even than Ju-Liar’s and dominated by the same ‘Teals’ and Greens as hers was. This man cannot even name the key points of his darling NDIS scheme – an area of the budget his last awful Labor government under Ju-Liar thrust on us out of nothing, but which now consumes more than Defence! If you can’t actually explain the barest details of your largest spending area of your budget you are “unfit to shovel shit upon a Bombay lugger” and need to be conveyed as quickly as possible to the “dustbin of history”. If you actually still had any doubt whether you should vote for Albanese just notice that this morning Malcolm Turnbull is urging you to do so: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/yesterday_energy_prices_spiked_10_000_in_an_hour_after_solar_and_wind_failed

06/05/2022: Mass starvation – that’s what the Greens want (No animals, no fishing or fish farming, ‘organics’, an end to scientific agriculture…sure that will work out really well): https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/green-nightmares.php

06/05/2022: ‘2,000 Mules’ is out. Surely after seeing this no-one will be able to deny that the US election was rigged and stolen – the greatest threat to democracy in modern times. Loath him or love him Donald Trump did win and should be President. Eventually this massive wrong will be undone, but with a demented Biden/Harris in charge will it happen in time to save the world from WW3? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/2000-mules-the-election-was-organized-crime/

05/05/2022: So you want to skydive from space. Alan Eustace jumped from 40 km up in 2014 – and lived: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a39877685/how-to-skydive-from-space/

05/05/2022: Can you still remember when our (scarce enough) water resources were used to boost agricultural production – and foreign exchange. (That's enough water to irrigate 4,000 acres - 20 square km by - the way): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_sells_huge_water_licence_to_alleged_ccp_linked_company_after_one_day_of_consideration

05/05/2022: Should you ‘be kind’? “The Nazis, in one of the great ironies of history, believed that what separated the Aryans from other races was their kindness to one another and to animals… While kindness is the slogan, the Trojan Horse of the ideology is the triple strategy of equivocating speech with violence, subjectivism and the weaponising of mental health… This is why statues are being pulled down around the world; why people with what were, until about five years ago, moderate views are called bigots; why supporters of free speech are called Nazis” A very thoughtful essay: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/05/some-harsh-words-about-the-cult-of-kindness/

05/05/2022: You can have the crippling debt of the NDIS (up $10 billion every year for the next four according to the budget, ie more than the projected total cost when it was introduced less than 10 years ago) or you can have this – or just maybe there is another way. (‘Everyone’ works). Strangely I remember that in the 1950s when one could have expected that there would have been a larger proportion of ‘invalids’ because of WW2 but it was lower than 3% instead of the greater than 10% it now is – and that’s not to add in the large cohort on ‘unemployment’, ‘supporting parents’ etc: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-

04/05/2022: DIY Tents: In this post I thought I would pull together my ‘adventures’ with making my own tents/shelters over the years. My experience has evolved from utilising simple tarps/ponchos as shelters to creating a variety of tent ‘prototypes’ in Tyvek often followed by a lighter silnylon model (which I then take up the bush to try out).

I have learned a lot in the DIY process which I highly recommend to you. It will save you lots of money and (finally) result in a better shelter than you would otherwise own from a camping store. It is also very likely to be lighter and more functional, as well as being easier to put up and harder to fall down! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/03/diy-tents/

04/05/2022: How many times do we have to prove there is no climate emergency: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/03/a-sense-of-proportion/

04/05/2022: Australia made a safe protein based vaccine but apparently every effort has been made to ban and suppress it. What is going on here: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/dont-mention-the-australian-vaccine-the-tga-bans-aussie-proffessor-from-talking-about-his-work/

04/05/2022: Stop worrying about whether your kid is gay – is s/he even human? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-not-an-onion-headline/

04/05/2022: ‘We’ are at war with Russia – and unfortunately the leaders of both Russia and the US seem to be suffering from dementia. This will not end well:: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/video_tucker_exposes_the_democrats_desperate_desire_for_war.html & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PC7DzTRS7A

03/05/2022: A Cool Dry Back: The Vaucluse Cool Dry Frame. This looks like such a good idea and may well work. It is a open hexagonal frame intended to sit your pack of from your back an inch or so to allow air flow and (hopefully) prevent that nemesis of all backpackers, a wet back. You will have to pay for a dry back. It is US$97.95 plus shipping (May 2022).

Rather more than the $3 model I tried out here A DIY Dry Back Hiking Pack (which also worked by the way, but it was a bit awkward). I bought some approx 3 mm carbon fibre tubes intending to make a lighter, slightly more functional model but it has not happened yet. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/01/a-cool-dry-back/

03/05/2022: Pegasus – scarier than a flying horse: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-spyware/14604/ & https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-spain-says-mobile-phones-of-pm-and-defence-minster-infected-by-pegasus-malware

03/05/2022: How prescient Margaret Thatcher was 40 years ago: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/40-years-ago-maggie-thatchers-brilliant-warning-on-lefty-teachers-indoctrinating-children-.html

03/05/2022: It is hard to imagine anyone worse than the Greens, but here they are – and they may well determine who is the Government after the election: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/greg-sheridan-brilliant-on-the-threat-from-simons-wealthy-white-women-collective.html

03/05/2022: Just so many mysteries in life: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/ive-had-a-penis-on-my-arm-for-six-years-now-i-finally-feel-like-a-real-man/news-story/083b66b0499a65a6f7c84dc2b79db875

02/05/2022: Wow! How promising is this: https://www.studyfinds.org/plant-virus-may-cure-cancer/

02/05/2022: Yes, one should ‘blame the victim’. It is a person’s behaviour which determines his/her life. Little else (but luck). The Dunedin study is particulary telling. One should always remember the last two lines of the famous poem (below), “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” NB also “The vision of the Left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom—whether black or white—who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior,” Thomas Sowell: https://www.city-journal.org/behavioral-poverty

Invictus

William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

02/05/2022: Those future food shortages just got a bit more real. You only have to look at what has happened in Sri Lanka to see that ‘organic’ would mean widespread starvation ie approx 30% less food world-wide: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/never-let-crisis-go-waste-samantha-power-celebrates-fertilizer-shortages-will-force-farmers-transition-natural-solutions-video/

Further, Get ready to give up lamb and beef: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/01/the-world-has-gone-bonkers/

02/05/2022: Not news really but this Chinese virologist confirms the CCP deliberately released the virus and did so in order to destroy Trump and the American economy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-bombshell-exclusive-dr-li-meng-yan-says-china-released-covid-19-intentionally-not-accident/

01/05/2022:

01/05/2022: DVOs are issued too easily without any attempt to see the other side – sometimes they actually exacerbate the problem. You would think that the party they are being taken out against would have some chance of defending themselves at the outset and/or that the allegations being made have some truth in them – but this is not so. I know about this as we had an unstable neighbour last year issue one against us because they did not want to pay their share for a dividing fence destroyed by a sudden flood event – even though it was covered by insurance. The proveably false statements on it (which were not investigated) could have even resulted in their being gaoled (if we proceeded to a court trial) but in the end we negotiated a settlement with them when they realized that and that they would suffer enormous financial harm if they persisted. The whole process anyway cost many times more than a new fence would have and delayed the replacement fence for many months. Also we were denied access to our firearms for months (during lambing) and lost many lambs we ought not have and had thousands of dollars of other unnecessary costs. We were also subjected to daily police checks. We could be very bitter about this. I can only imagine how much angrier one might be when such actions are undertaken by someone whom you had until then trusted and loved. Bettina’s article (about the awful Hannah Clarke murder/suicide) is very worth reading, eg “Last year I interviewed a former police officer Evelyn Rae, who explained that she dealt with many more false allegations of violence than real cases. Rae said police everywhere are aware that most protection orders are issued to women falsely claiming to be violence victims to gain advantage in family law battles…The shameful secret carefully hidden by our mental health authorities is that family breakup is the number one cause of suicide in this country” : https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/04/lessons-from-the-hannah-clarke-inquest/

01/05/2022: After Wentworth & etc where are conservatives going to pick up seats to win government? (Perhaps where Labor is losing them in the outer suburbs). Or is it ‘The Deluge’. Anyway, God save us from Penny Wrong and Adam Bandit. NB: “Values aren’t buses … They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/28/a-farewell-to-sharma/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/wenworth-diary/2022/04/vote-with-one-hand-hold-nose-with-the-other/

30/04/2022: Clever - Printed Circuit Bird Synthesizers: https://laughingsquid.com/printed-circuit-bird-synthesizers/

30/04/2022: President Zelensky Insulted By Biden’s Offer Of Only $33 Billion In Weapons When He Gave The Taliban $86 Billion: https://babylonbee.com/news/ukraine-insulted-by-bidens-offer-of-33-billion-in-weapons-when-he-gave-the-taliban-86-billion

30/04/2022: Love them or hate them, the Libs are good economic managers: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/australias-economic-indicators-amongst-worlds-major-economies.html

30/04/2022: When the government creates a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ you don’t need to think ‘conspiracy’ is just a ‘theory’: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398907.php

29/04/2022: What a Bogler: I just bought a new trowel which I am very happy with, a Bogler Ultralight Trowel. Mine weighs 13.45 grams on my scales. It is made from (hardened) aircraft-grade aluminium. It is intelligently designed so it does not wear a hole in your hand which is a decided improvement on most such things so that if you ever need to use it to dig for water in a dry river bend or behind the dunes or dig up tree roots for water & etc you may actually not die of thirst (or bleed to death!) before you succeed. Also good for digging for fish bait (worms, beetle larvae, etc.) Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/28/what-a-bogler/

29/04/2022: Back to Nepal? We walked the EBC in 2019 and would like to go back. Too soon for my new knee right now I guess but late Oct-early Nov will be penciled in: https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-tourism-eyes-new-start-as-covid-19-departs/a-61618629

29/04/2022: Elon Musk’s reflection on the direction politics has been going – indeed this has been happening pretty much all my life:

29/04/2022: Just look at how much coal China uses (34 times ours) for its ‘energy security’ yet we are only looking forward to electricity shortages and high costs: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/china-boosts-coal-again-set-for-record-in-2022-official-says-energy-security-trumps-carbon-neutrality/

29/04/2022: When I read in the papers Hanson would be preferencing against the Liberals I thought she had lost the plot…then I read her explanation. Time to wake up conservatives and be true to yourselves instead of trying to chase the socialists down their own rat holes : https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/one-nation-preferences-targeting-left-leaning-linos-like-trent-zimmerman-tim-wilson-etc.html

28/04/2022: Nanny State sadists just want us to suffer. Try spinal fusion or a knee transplant without such pain relief: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/the-strong-pain-relievers-you-will-have-to-do-without/news-story/b6f5893de355a25ddaaf8096a3724e48

28/04/2022: Peter Dutton is right, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/26/igitur-qui-desiderat-pacem-praeparet-bellum/

28/04/2022: I don’t think I will be swapping any of my Landies (with 1000km range plus jerry cans) for 350 km: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-land-rover

28/04/2022: In praise of Longfellow: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/04/longfellow-wrongfellow/

The Village Blacksmith

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
     The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
     With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
     Are strong as iron bands.

His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
     His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
     He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
     For he owes not any man.

Week in, week out, from morn till night,
     You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
     With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
     When the evening sun is low.

And children coming home from school
     Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
     And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
     Like chaff from a threshing-floor.

He goes on Sunday to the church,
     And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
     He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
     And it makes his heart rejoice.

It sounds to him like her mother's voice
     Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
     How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
     A tear out of his eyes.

Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
     Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
     Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
     Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
     For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
     Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
     Each burning deed and thought.

27/04/2022: I would probably prefer a .410 shotgun-cane myself but this might do in a pinch: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BYDC5ZL/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07BYDC5ZL&linkCode=as2&tag=helentag-20&linkId=b539432b77c44daace90749f71b7208d

27/04/2022:

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27/04/2022: Understanding the importance of coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/rafe-champion-guest-post-tasmania-burning-oil-in-prolonged-wind-drought/

27/04/2022: How long before all of us live this long: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094630648/the-worlds-oldest-person-japans-kane-tanaka-dies-at-age-119

26/04/2022: After twenty years and many billions on ‘immortality research’ we are still dying: https://bigthink.com/health/immortality-race-to-live-forever/

26/04/2022: Let’s talk about the immense benefits (to life on earth) of increased CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/23/increased-plant-productivity-the-first-key-benefit-of-atmospheric-co2-enrichment/

26/04/2022: I agree with Rowan Dean, “When asked what people wanted of their leaders at the next election, overwhelmingly the answer was ‘to be left alone’” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/23/the-libs-are-only-around-45-socialist-while-labor-is-90/

26/04/2022: “Not a single ‘environmental prediction’ of the last 52 years has come true”. Time we stopped paying any attention to these loonies and just got on with it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/24/earth-days-failed-predictions-of-52-years-ago-the-amazing-environmental-improvements-that-have-occurred-since/

25/04/2022: The CCP certainly does endorse Albanese (as the Lib ‘attack ads’ indicate) and this is because he has always been a communist stooge: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252207.shtml

25/04/2022: “It turns out that the impact human emissions on the CO₂-concentration is relatively small. In his calculations, only 17 ppm (less than 15%) of the total increase is due to human CO₂. The vast majority of the increase is the result of the increased global temperature” : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/22/why-is-the-co%e2%82%82-concentration-rising/

25/04/2022: Strange bedfellows: Putin’s soldiers celebrate conquest of Mariupol shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putins-soldiers-celebrate-conquest-of-mariupol-shouting-allahu-akbar/

25/04/2022: Fighting above our weight – remembering the Battle of Kapyong (71 years ago yesterday): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/the-battle-of-kapyong-when-australia-went-to-war-with-china-and-won-lest-we-forget.html

24/04/2022: Maybe Elon will manage to bring down the Big Tech conspiracy to rule the world: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-hiding-dont-forget-dr-shivas-mindblowing-lawsuit-big-tech/

24/04/2022: The dragon is no longer sleeping: “The simple, chilling truth is that the CCP is doing everything in its power – mostly via economics, technology, diplomacy, and the media, not yet via military power – to destroy our way of life”: https://richardsonpost.com/robert-spalding/26730/chinas-rules-of-war/

24/04/2022: As if you didn’t know, “Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people”: https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/earth-day-truth-fossil-fuels-make?r=5c3gj&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

24/04/2022: Tetanus vaccines last at least ten years (and up to 60) but the fake covid ‘vaccine’ does not even last two months (and seems to be even doing a lot of harm, possibly more than the disease): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/tetanus-vaccines-work-so-well-we-may-not-need-the-ten-year-boosters-only-a-30-year-one/

23/04/2022: Important new information for men: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/21/bacteria-prostate-cancer/5541650549768/

23/04/2022: Jennifer has a very sound point about sea level fall here. You only have to open your eyes just about anywhere to see it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/21/washed-away-a-short-film-about-sea-level-fall/

23/04/2022: Electricity prices have doubled. Without coal (or nuclear) we may not be able to afford electricity in the future. These green crazies pushing this insane agenda must be stopped. Build new baseload now: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/australian-electricity-price-doubles-ceo-explains-prices-up-due-to-lack-of-coal-power/

23/04/2022: Viv Forbes is totally right – we must win the war against the ‘green slime’ now or be lost forever: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/26698/its-time-for-australia-to-vote-for-change/

Just a ‘for example’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/cost_of_net_zero_500_000_jobs_and_a_massive_hit_to_the_economy

22/04/2022: Sounds very promising: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-tumors-partially-dont.html

22/04/2022: You don’t say? So, no climate crisis then: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/2021-state-of-the-climate-report-empirical-observations-show-no-sign-of-climate-crisis-snow-cover-stable-sea-ice-levels-recovering-no-change-in-storm-activity/

Even Greta agrees: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/a-puppet-slip-of-the-tongue-did-she-really-just-say-that-monday-mirthiness/

22/04/2022: I find this quite sickening – a harbinger of the West moving to adopt China’s nefarious ‘social credit’ system: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-social-credit-app-to-reward-italian-citizens-for-virtuous-behavior/

22/04/2022: In Germany the highest inflation since WW2. Seriously unhappy times ahead. The cause is socialism my friends: the green revolution and the weird statist response to covid. The cure will be the same as ever: belt tightening, smaller government etc. Beware politicos promising to shower you with the largesse of ever more large tranches of your own money: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/germanys-inflation-surpasses-30-percent-highest-since-1949/

20/04/2022: I have long noticed that the left seems to want a return to some ‘golden’ past (such as medieval times - or anyway pre-industrial). This Rouseauean ‘noble savage’ nonsense is really quite dangerous. The Agrarian Revolution, industrialization and capitalism has issued in an era of incomparable benefits to mankind: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/the_medieval_era_is_suddenly_calling_out_to_leftists.html

20/04/2022: Canada has stopped having a free press. Watch this catch on everywhere – already in the USA) : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/trudeau-invents-license-for-journalists-so-readers-can-spot-fake-news-everyone-with-a-license/ & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/18/usa-and-canadas-plan-to-silence-independent-media/

20/04/2022: Thank goodness someone (Katherine Deves) is willing to stand against transgender nonsense. (and well said Jacinta Price). “Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?” (David Mamet in American Occupation): https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/deserve-to-have-a-voice-controversial-liberal-party-candidate-katherine-deves-finds-support/news-story/06db84bb658225363a96a368fa520939

19/04/2022: Nice bit of gear. I see some civilian uses for them too: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/

19/04/2022: The truth is hard to take - “Murray aims to revive what he calls the “American creed,” a set of ideal commitments to foundational freedoms, human dignity, individualism, equality under the law, and the use of neutral, colorblind measures of individual talent and competence to assign economic and social roles. Central to this code, still supported by Americans, is a meritocratic and impartial standard for all…Murray disputes the fashionable assumption that racial discrimination creates social inequities. The reality, says Murray, is that racial inequalities in America between European- and African-heritage people in health, wealth, position, status, and income can be traced to a significant disparity in African Americans’ cognitive ability and criminal behavior”: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/charles_murrays_wake_up_call_on_race_problems.html

19/04/2022: Shanghai again. Something very strange is happening here. The Cantonese have always been the soft underbelly of the communist regime. Maybe that’s what’s going on - a harbinger of regime change? You may remember that the Delta variant arose in Botswana allegedly brought there by Chinese diplomats. In any case it seems implausible that since covid arose in China (nearly three years ago) they have successfully locked it down (when no-one else has). Some time ago too there were rumours of a worse virus about in China – let’s hope that’s not what’s happening. Authorities claim it’s just omicron, but if so why the panic? https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/something-rotten-state-shanghais-latest-covid-lockdowns & https://quillette.com/2022/04/18/shanghai-at-the-edge-of-madness/

19/04/2022: George Washington: ‘Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master…Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth…The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments…The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves…’

18/04/2022: Ah Bess, what a great lady you are: “In contrast to the current crop of pygmies we have as world leaders, she is the last remaining island of permanence and stability in our age. She will leave a yawning chasm when she is gone”: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine-queen-elizabeth-ii-a-giant-among-world-leaders/news-story/dff90a02372dc4ccf43848cccafe4030

18/04/2022: Obviously not farm kids: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/15/children-farm-animal-same-as-pets/8071650031160/

18/04/2022: Just saying, but I suspect castration (or death) would work better as a deterrent (and be a fairer punishment): https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18287591/child-rapists-escape-punishment-apologise/

18/04/2022: When Age Poll discovers you are a dead duck: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/ninesmhage-poll-finds-voters-have-woken-up-to-therapeutic-albanese-the-hollow-man.html

17/04/2022: New tricks in electronics: https://scitechdaily.com/the-future-of-electronics-new-fermi-arcs-discovered/

17/04/2022: Sri Lanka is to declare bankruptcy – if this works it could become a popular way out of national debt traps created by over-zealous leftist economists, but I somehow doubt it will. We should be warned however: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/sri-lanka-government-suspends-external-debt-payments-signaling-bankruptcy-due-impacts-covid-19-ukraine-war/

17/04/2022: I want my country back too. For example, our feed and grain store in Morwell (MacRoberts - a third generation business which heretofore had not missed a single day) has been closed for weeks because of a completely spurious useless onerous vaccine mandate: https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/i-want-my-country-back/

17/04/2022: Too true: Peta Credlin's great expose on Anthony Albanese: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/peta-credlins-great-expose-on-anthony-albanese.html

16/04/2022: Watch out – carnivorous horses: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/carnivorous-horses-0016638

16/04/2022: Yes, time to take cobalt out of lithium batteries: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/13/cobalt-free-lithium-ion-auto-batteries/1731649255014/

16/04/2022: Modelling vs reality: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/15/roaring-and-screaming/

16/04/2022: So, not enough that the cops let the protesters in but they were led in by undercover Feds: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/14/yet-another-conspiracy-theory-comes-true-at-least-20-feds-embedded-at-capitol-on-jan-6-n1589815

15/04/2022: Taking a balloon ride to the edge of space. Same view – much more affordable: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/12/space-perspective-unveils-spaceship-neptune/4201649795426/

15/04/2022: “You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.” Besides, Albo could not lie straight in bed. Unless Labor can come up with something/someone better than this before May 21 they will spend another three years in opposition (but God save us from Penny Wong!): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/each_way_albo_s_top_ten_political_each_way_bets

15/04/2022: Trust the expert: https://www.rebelnews.com/leading_australian_cardiologist_slams_push_for_mrna_vaccines

15/04/2022: The green energy transition which will not work. Already we have backup household generator/s here at Jeeralang Junction because we regularly lose power (about once a week for some time, and at least once a year for days!) This has been brought about because of the failure to replace Hazelwood with reliable base load generation (coal/nuclear – there is currently no other alternative). The situation will get worse as other coal generators close (Liddell, Yallourn etc). Then we will have brown-outs and blackouts everywhere very, very often. This situation will continue for years as it takes years to build base load generators even after the decision has been made – if it is ever made. The lunatics have been and still are running the asylum. This has to stop: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/guest-post-by-rafe-champion-energy-security-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff/

14/04/2022: Albanese – so smart: “Solar panels on the roof charging your vehicle overnight.” Thank goodness the Labor Party has a leader as useless as this guy – else they might have some chance of winning. Even that old Leftie Tom Uren described him as a ‘young Trot’ in his autobiography. Look, Albanese is an unreconstructed commie whatever ‘conservative’ disguises he may try to put on. Worse than that (even) is that he is clearly an idiot who struggles to talk: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/04/therapeutic-albaneses-solar-panels-charging-the-electric-car-overnight.html

14/04/2022: What a great idea – and to think, once I didn’t believe in censorship: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-say-gay-florida-raise-kids-homosexual_n_6245acc7e4b03516d42d0400

14/04/2022: I suspect these 1,000 dead athletes (including Shane Warne) are only the tip of the iceberg – what we don’t know (for sure - yet) is whether ‘the cure is worse than the complaint’. Hopefully it is not, but remember this, ‘Hope’ was the last of the evils to be released from Pandora’s box: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/the-year-of-collapsing-athletes-890-athletes-collapse-or-die-and-counting/

14/04/2022: Social ‘experiments’ have real-world consequences. Vote for the Left and you will get economic chaos (as the figures out from the US show). We are already getting a ‘trickle-down’ effect of this here – and have supply-side issues (have you tried to buy any lumber from a hardware store recently?) Most of the world was gulled into a massive over-reaction to ‘The Pandemic’ (no doubt what Xi intended when he deliberately released it as part of his push for world hegemony). Unfortunately Morisson and his Liberals were no exception here, and we will have to live with the trillion dollar debt for more than a generation. This is a worse economic situation than our spending on WW2 resulted in! (but we simply had to oppose the Axis with every breath of our beings). However we need to put such recklessness behind us, not draw even more dire happenings on ourselves by electing a left-wing government (such as they have presently in the US) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/biden-economy-truly-bidens-inflation-look-comparison-prior-years-using-cpi-data/

13/04/2022: Sustainable nuclear fusion edges closer and closer: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-shatter-record-for-the-amount-of-energy-produced-during-a-controlled-sustained-fusion-reaction/

13/04/2022: Putin’s energy policy and strategy over the last 20 years makes him look a lot smarter than most of NATO: https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/germany-russia-energy/

13/04/2022: The Bee is right – this trans evil must end: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-groomer-9-things-to-look-for

13/04/2022: 536 AD: Something like this can happen again any day and no amount of ‘global warming’ hype or hysteria will have any effect on it whatever – imagine across China alone 80% of the population died: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/climate-cataclysm-001360?fbclid=IwAR3L-CxaiHq4Pji3gD7TK5Sx1-HM0xGywdoIIy-xvSU784YBozVPd_t8NPE

12/04/2022: It is not getting warmer stupid. It has not been for thousands of years. This was always a commie lie. Let’s all move on with our lives, build some new power stations, buy an SUV and an aircon and have a nice holiday somewhere via jet travel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/11/new-study-arctic-was-much-warmer-6000-years-ago-90-of-glaciers-ice-caps-smaller-than-present-or-absent/

12/04/2022: The Touch of Contagion. One thing I really liked about ‘the pandemic’ was the way people stopped touching you. I have always been stand-offish from when I was a child, so this suited me just fine. I value my personal space and am very choosy about who is welcome in it. My wife of 50 years for example. My (grown up) children on special occasions. Pretty much no-one else. I really valued not having to shake hands. I have always hated that ‘trial of strength’ thing which so many men (particularly) want to turn it into, and my increasing finger (and thumb) arthritis has made it mostly a painful and unpleasant custom. The faux hugging which (what?) morphed out of English soccer/gay culture (I don’t know) I have always found utterly repellent. I rarely hug (anyone) so why I should want to hug (pretty much) total strangers or simply acquaintances (when I would pretty much never hug my trusted long-term friends and rarely even family) is a total mystery to me. I deplore the pressure to conform to this particular unpleasant tactile torture. One should not be thought ‘unfriendly’ if one simply does not want to embrace. I believe I can show that/if I trust and like you without such superficial shows.

12/04/2022: Steve Kates is quite right – if we want to throw our country away we should elect the (pro Chinese) communist Albanese who will flood the nation with illegal immigrants and so weaken our defence we will soon not have a country at all (after he has wrecked it some more with other crazy leftie/welfare & etc policies): https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/11/are-australians-stupid-enough-to-elect-our-own-version-of-joe-biden/

12/04/2022: There has never been so much media, it appears to be so much more live and immediate than in the past, but the Left’s ‘march through the institutions’ has destroyed its credibility, making it almost worthless – a vehicle which could have been so transformational in human betterment lies in the gutter. The average (conservative) citizen’s trust of the media is unlikely to be very different from what we see in the US. Polling is also increasingly fraught. This makes anticipating how the people will vote a completely spurious exercise (it probably always was). Let’s hope our voting system has not been so dreadfully compromised (as in the US) as to make an honest result impossible. I am not in favour of early and absentee voting (except for people with proven serious need). We should all vote in person on the same day (with proof of identity) so that we see that the result is indeed a reflection of what the people want when they all have access to the same information. That being said, we need to remove the dreadful undemocratic impediments to an honest result that the distortions of the Senate (where eg a Tasmanian voter still counts ten times a NSW one for example – the situation is even worse in relation to the Territories): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/can-anyone-still-pretend-the-media-are-not-a-wing-of-the-democrats/

11/04/2022: On Peter Walsh’s Death on this day in 2015: He was Finance Minister in the Hawke Government. He was possibly the last economically literate Labor leader. Comparing him to the commie rabble running the party now evokes the cry, ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’(Dante)‘Walsh was not selective in his hatred of rent-seekers and protectionists: He despised trade union leaders as much as he despised farm and business leaders for their special interest pleading. And he was just as withering in his critiques of the environmental movement’s anti-growth agenda….He abhorred the rising influence of the environmental movement on the Labor Party and wrote that “since the 1980s Australian Labor Party policy has been incrementally hijacked by well-heeled, self-indulgent, morally vain and would-be authoritarian activists whom the media often describes as the intelligentsia”.’ From his obit in the Australian.

11/04/2022: E-ink displays for your phone are just around the corner promising huge improvements in battery life: https://newatlas.com/electronics/e-ink-kaleido-3-epaper/

11/04/2022: Maybe not so bad after all - Scientists Finally Have Clues About What We See When We Die: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39454993/dying-brain-waves/

11/04/2022: The 1911 9mm is a classic gun for self-defence – why can’t we all own one here in Oz: https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/dear-9-mm-1911-i-you/

11/04/2022: One thing Putin did right: https://www.popsci.com/space/astronaut-mark-vande-hei-russian-soyuz-landing/

10/04/2022: Mysteries of aluminium foil: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-aluminum-foil-has-a-shiny-and-a-dull-side/ar-AAKizNQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3a604cdb7bb2495fb21b9344e709bb69

10/04/2022: Private space travel (at US$55 million a ticket). I guess I won’t be going soon: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/08/spacex-axiom-private-astronaut-international-space-station/5351649362926/

10/04/2022: She’ll be right mate: In 2021 coral cover, snow cover, forest cover, rainfall and river inflows increased: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/in_2021_coral_cover_snow_cover_forest_cover_rainfall_and_river_inflows_increased

10/04/2022: We have needed to implement something like this in Oz for nearly fifty years. Let’s do it now: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/how-the-uk-combats-activism-in-the-classroom/

See Also: Why Australian Teachers Preach Green Rubbish: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/why-australian-teachers-can-preach-green-rubbish/

09/04/2022: This could be the biggest (and smallest) discovery of the C21st: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523

09/04/2022: Aussies are not convinced by climate alarmism, so let’s ditch it: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/no_surprise_72_of_aussies_say_cheap_reliable_power_is_more_important_than_net_zero

09/04/2022: Sri Lanka demonstrates the practicality of organic agriculture by starving. This follows on from their destroying their economy by selling themselves to China. Please wake up world. The Left is barking mad – and evil: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/

09/04/2022: Probably illegal even to say so but long since time we recriminalised non-hetero sexuality in public – as well as its advocacy and support. This woke agenda has already done enormous damage to society (as I long predicted it would). This evil cant be allowed to continue to destroy our children and our society any further: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-disney-must-stop-promoting-radical-gender-ideology-to-children/news-story/02994113cd7b65dd29f766e550d18077

08/04/2022: Another threat to diesel supplies – this will have vast downstream effects if it plays out: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/26229/gas-stations-will-run-dry-catastrophic-scenario-for-diesel-emerging-according-to-worlds-biggest-energy-traders/

08/04/2022: Everything about the pandemic was BS but we just had to destroy our economy, our future prosperity, our freedom – you name it – and it should never end: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaxxed-australians-cant-leave-the-country-because-of-a-who-treaty-were-protecting-the-world/

08/04/2022: Who knows what the truth is about what is happening in the Ukraine? Just this morning we learned about Ukrainian atrocities against Russian soldiers for example: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/dog-aint-barking-ukraine/

08/04/2022: Folks have been in gaol for this for well over a year but now the first accused is acquitted because police invited the invaders into the Capitol building: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/07/first-january-6-defendant-acquitted-n1587832

07/04/2022: Just as global warming goes away in Europe they have to contend with no electricity and no fossil fuels as well – a perfect storm: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/climate-change-causes-frosts-now-french-winegrowers-lighting-fires-candles-to-protect-crops/

07/04/2022: Yes there were war crimes, but why were there: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/05/there-were-war-crimes-in-bucha-whether-you-choose-to-believe-it-or-not-n1587045

07/04/2022: What possible reason could there be any more for this draconian restriction. Surely our nation is not a prison colony any more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaccinated-australians-cant-leave-australia-unless-they-escape-is-that-swim-paddle-or-dingy/

07/04/2022: What’s happening in Shanghai? “Will the proponents of such lockdowns eventually be prosecuted for the horrific damage they have done to society”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPy3aF3LgP4&t=211s

06/04/2022: Ultralight Windscreen or Chimney Closure: This is so far a 'proof of concept but it will soon be a new model of my diy ultralight roll-up titanium stove/windscreen and may be incorporated into sections of chimney for my ultralight tent stove as it will be so much easier to roll up - and there is nothing to get lost. We will see.

I will make the tags longer than this. I stupidly cut it off. I also needed to allow another 1/2" of overlap. You can cut the slot with the super-scissors/snip they sell everywhere after you have drilled two 1/8" holes the correct distance apart. I needed to be a bit more careful about this.

Nonetheless I am very pleased with the idea. it is simple yet strong. It would work fine in .05mm foil which is all you would need for a windscreen alone and would make a pot screen less than 10 grams weight.

I think for my 4" high hobo stove three of these tag and slot joiners will make a very solid connection. I can add additional slots so that the stove can fit outside the pot or inside the pot.

A little experimentation has shown me that the .1mm foil is more than strong enough to support the weight of a 2 litre pot full of water. I use an 1100 ml pot. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/05/ultralight-windscreen-or-chimney-closure/

06/04/2022: Clearly the Libs are way ahead on Defence – the big one that really matters (watch China!). Do you want to have a country? Those subs too are going to be here sooner than 2030, and need to be: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/australia-to-build-hypersonic-missiles-other-new-weapons-under-aukus-agreement.html

06/04/2022: “With enough demographic change, it is possible for new countries to take the place of old ones, and new countries require new histories.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/multiculturalism_and_history.html

06/04/2022: ‘Everyone’ is upset about the ‘end of democracy’ in Ukraine but let the real destruction of democracy in the 2020 US election just slip by – but there is vast evidence of a stolen election, millions of votes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/719657/

06/04/2022: 40 years of satellite records show the average temperature almost never varies by more than half a degree, usually by no more than one tenth of a degree – clearly the earth has a thermostat,: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-march-2022-0-15-deg-c/

05/04/2022: It’s the sun stupid: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/27/atmospheric-fingerprint/

05/04/2022: You would hope so anyway: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/03/a-victim-too-far-how-transgenders-will-bring-down-the-lefty-marxists-who-want-to-destroy-america-n1586542

Anyway better that than this: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/02/california-city-approves-program-to-give-trans-non-binary-residents-guaranteed-income-n1586462

05/04/2022: Interesting read - The war on gold: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/26405/putins-other-war/

05/04/2022: Maybe we just don’t understand Putin’s strategy – an alternative view: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/03/an-unconventional-analysis-of-putins.html

04/04/2022: Some hope this morning that common sense will prevail: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-orbans-12-year-rule-tight-ballot-overshadowed-by-ukraine-war-2022-04-03/

04/04/2022: Governments (everywhere – except perhaps Sweden) completely bungled the covid ‘pandemic’. Racking up this level of debt outside of wartime was economic lunacy (as I said at the outset in January 2020) Now look in detail at the consequences: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/your-personal-debt-courtesy-of-the-federal-government-.html

04/04/2022: “But despite his past as a left-wing warrior, the Albanese opposition is playing the small target game (and getting away with it) by “me-too-ing” everything, from nuclear submarines to tax cuts.” – just like Kevin Rudd did too, if you remember. But please remember how, once he was in power all that changed, then morphed into Gillard and the Greens, the whole silly season mess! Let’s vote conservative, then Liberal second with the Left very far down the ticket: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-peta-credlins-sky-doco-explores-how-the-campaign-battle-will-unfold/news-story/842864638dcb6054520e3c3a25fdf92d

Note for example these two (same day) ‘news items’. Albanese wishing us ‘Happy Ramadan’ – thanks a lot for that: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/therapeutic-albanese-wishing-you-all-a-happy-ramadan.html contrasted with Tony Abbott reflecting on the real achievement and importance of (yet another) free trade agreement (none of which would ever have happened under Labor) this time with India: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/tony-abbott-on-our-trade-deal-with-india.html

04/04/2022: Our greatest PM on the way forward in the Ukraine. With the discovery this morning of hundreds of civilians murdered by the Russians (if proven) the relative merits of each side become clearer. We cannot just stand by and allow such things. It is always a question of ‘Who’s turn next?’ https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/tony-abbott-on-the-russian-dictators-war-of-subjugation-in-ukraine.html

03/04/2022: I could add a few dot points to this agenda (to save Australia) but these 10 have to be a good start: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/an_open_letter_to_josh_frydenberg_include_our_10_policies_in_next_week_s_budget_and_win_big

03/04/2022: Our best PM on war: “We have to make the war that’s unthinkable to us for moral reasons, unthinkable to them for prudential reasons. We who shrink from war because it’s morally wrong have to make others shrink from war because they’d likely lose” (delivered three days before the invasion of Ukraine): https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/04/putins-war-and-the-lessons-of-history/

03/04/2022: Bushfire management – how the ‘experts’ are so often wrong – and with what disastrous results. The people tasked with protecting our crown lands are effectively destroying them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/academic-expertise-so-thats-what-its-called/

03/04/2022: Scary stuff – our ‘education system at work, “A survey commissioned by the IPA published last week asked 1000 people “if Australia was in the same position as Ukraine is now would you stay and fight or leave the country?”

Forty six per cent said they would stay and fight, 28 per cent said they would leave the country and 26 per cent were unsure. Just 32 per cent of those aged 18-24 said they would stay and fight and 40 per cent said they would leave the country, 28 per cent said they were unsure.

Slightly more (35 per cent) of those aged 25-34 said they would stay and fight while 38 per cent said they would leave the country, 27 per cent were unsure. A clear majority in those age groups therefore indicated they would either run or were undecided about defending Australia. I only wish they would leave now” https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/piers-akerman-disappointing-number-of-young-people-would-choose-flight-over-fight/news-story/eedaa2e77393ed5387a77fac3b5bdf84

02/04/2022: Announcement: Liberal Fact-Checkers Have Ruined April Fools' Day – and a lot else besides. Just about every day the news headlines sound like April Fools Day: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/01/announcement-liberal-fact-checkers-have-ruined-april-fools-day-n1586136

02/04/2022: Rat Colony Beneath D.C. Disgusted To Find City Infested With Politicians: https://babylonbee.com/news/rat-colony-beneath-dc-disgusted-to-find-city-infested-with-politicians

02/04/2022: Le Pen may get over the line this time – that would be an early swallow: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220329-french-far-right-leader-le-pen-closing-gap-on-macron-polls

02/04/2022: A little war in the Ukraine and suddenly nuclear is popular again - and renewables stink: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/japan-flips-on-nuclear-it-tried-to-go-green-without-it-but-now-wants-to-reopen-closed-plants/

01/04/2022: Ultralight Survival Made Easy: I decided here to update the post The Complete Survival Guide (which you should still read) as it had become a little out-of-date in the three years since I wrote it and I had since written many other useful pieces of advice which I could incorporate in a new post, which this is.

I might have also called it, ‘I tell you we’ll astonish the new chums to see how we travel the land’ after the refrain from the old bush song The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing. (I also mentioned this song in the post Johnny Cakes – which you should try).

And it is a good point because these itinerant C19th bush workers with their swags (or blueys) were wonderful experts at ultralight journeying over the vast distances of the Australian outback which would put to shame any of our current generation. Suppose you wanted to make your own.

I remember reading ‘The Cattle King’ by Ion Idriess when I was a youngster about our great Aussie icon Sidney Kidman – and you should too. You can buy it from Amazon from $8.99. It is just quite wonderful. I believe Nicole is a remote descendant. I think Gina now owns much of the remaining Kidman ’empire’ – another wonderful ‘self-made Aussie hero, so it remains in Australian hands.

Even as an old man (like me) he would regularly leave Adelaide with just his saddle horse, pack horse and his cattle dog and within a few short weeks have crossed the entire continent through the trackless (often waterless) wilderness to the Gulf of Carpentaria – all by himself, and did so many, many times. Old hands still tell of how he would just appear in the darkness sitting by their campfire as they yarned over the billy. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/29/ultralight-survival-made-easy/

01/04/2022: Why you should not try to rob a gun store: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/security-camera-captures-gun-store-owner-opening-fire-on-two-thieves-who-came-in-shooting-video/

01/04/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years – the UK’s Opposition leader can’t say whether women have penises. Is he a grown up, or even a human being: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/34109

01/04/2022: A Missing Link - I have often wondered at some similarities of ideas amongst the Pre-Socratics and both Buddhism and Confucianism. No we learn that there was indeed intellectual contact at the time (c250 BC): https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/greek-buddhism-0016584

01/04/2022: What is truth? I don’t know Scott, you described Zelensky who came to power in a coup in 2014 and has recently outlawed opposition parties as a ‘beacon of democracy’ but figures seem to show what the Russian people are 80% behind Vlad Putin: https://extra.cw/putins-popularity-up-since-start-of-ukraine-conflict-poll/

31/03/2022: Hunting Tales: You will find many, many posts in this blog which mention hunting (particularly sambar deer hunting which has been a passion of mine for much of my adult life) but there are many more which are relevant to the art and skill of hunting.

I have been a hunter since I could walk over 70 years ago now as were several generations of my family before me. Hunting is a great good. It has been valued as such by most of the people who have ever lived for over a million years now. You can ‘deconstruct ‘ values all you like – it would be mighty strange indeed if they were wrong!

Some other posts which you might explore which are relevant to hunting are my many posts about woodslore and survival, my posts about DIY gear, some of my canoeing posts…often other posts contain anecdotes about hunting or relevant advice.

These posts will not be your ‘conventional’ hunting yarns with a dead critter at the end. While that might be the ‘end’ of hunting. It is only a small part of this great sport. They will very often be something quit different from what you are used to, but I hope you enjoy them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/hunting-tales/

31/03/2022: Energy from nothing – what we have long thought impossible has apparently been done NB: his may one day work for your phone but it is unlikely to ever be grid scale. However, it does reveal that nature still has many surprises in wait for us: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene

31/03/2022: “The IPCC statement that “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible” appears to be true: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/28/the-100000-year-problem-and-earths-chaotic-non-linear-climate/

In a similar vein, the climate past is far from settled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/30/climate-past-far-from-settled-7-major-temperature-reconstructions-find-no-agreement/

31/03/2022: “Of the 32 (kindergarten) students I teach 20 of them have come out as LGBTQIA and have come out to me” – I seriously question the ‘right’ of teachers to discuss such private (and adult) issues with their students. I think I would be more in favour of removing such teachers from the classroom altogether. Surely there is no sane society where such matters are core curriculum: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398431.php

31/03/2022: My sentiments exactly - Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for, “Put simply, when ideologues demand power but cannot maintain it politically because they are cruel ideologues that destroy what they touch, expect more of their insanity to follow.”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/29/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-vote-for/

30/03/2022: DIY $4 & 20 Gram Roll-Up Titanium Stove: I have just completed making this titanium version of my roll-up hobo stove (as threatened here) and the carbon fibre cosy to go with it. I started with a 500 mm by 100 mm piece of titanium sourced from Aliexpress for less than US4. As stated in my earlier post You can buy the titanium foil to make the 20 gram one from Aliexpress for A$3.87 delivered. I have marked off the circle/hexagon for the fire door here. Note the ‘V’ at the bottom and top so it will roll up and fit in the billy. The circle is 2 1/2″ (62mm) in diameter. The door is 1/2″ from the bottom. You can build it with just a pair of craft scissors, a drill and a pop riveter. I use stainless steel rivets so they will not melt. Here it is complete. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/diy-4-20-gram-roll-up-titanium-stove/

30/03/2022: The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife – we will be hearing more about this in the future depending on how much info is suppressed: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/ariel-sabar-what-happened-to-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife/615160/ As in https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-scandals-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ So much we still don’t know about the origins of ‘the world’s greatest religion’ and about the historicity (or otherwise) of Jesus himself.

30/03/2022: You would have to be nuts if you think there isn’t a ‘Deep State’ actually running things and that our ‘democracy’ is a fraud: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/fbi-didnt-want-the-hunter-biden-laptop-then-sat-on-it-then-whistleblowers-life-is-destroyed/

30/03/2022: Is Russia losing in the Ukraine? What is the truth? Who can know? They certainly have not succeeded as quickly as I assumed they would (which may be a deterrent to China vis a vis Taiwan in future) but they have certainly not withdrawn either: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/russia-ropes-ukraine/

Meanwhile, sanctions that work? https://instapundit.com/511785/

30/03/2022: When the Japanese arrived in the Solomons (during WW2) Australia was (rightly) deeply troubled – as we should be today by the Chinese: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/beijing_plans_on_a_military_base_off_the_coast_of_queensland

29/03/2022: Other Uses for a Garbage Bag: Many of you no doubt use a trash bag as a liner for your pack – which is a great use for them. As a spare ultralight raincoat is another. Still another is re-purposing one as a pad inflator (bag). I almost never carry the inflator bag (because of the weight which came with my sleeping bag, preferring to dry it out properly when I get home and taking the chance that mould etc will shorten its life – but I am incurable.

You may prefer to make yourself a less than one ounce bag inflator with a trash bag and a bottle cap. You can use an ordinary drink bottle cap or if you hunt around you will find an even lighter alternative. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/other-uses-for-a-garbage-bag/

29/03/2022: Mighty Oaks: A lot of PC here (as compared with a single C19th French shepherd who famously reforested tens of thousands of acres with oaks in Southern France), but they are great trees which will grow practically anywhere. We have planted many (and particularly quite a few of evergreen varieties) though we will never see what becomes of them. A mature English Oak takes approx 800 years to grow and will cover about an acre and provide an understory for other splendid trees such as chestnuts. Some of our holm oaks planted thirty years ago are around sixty feet tall now and amongst the most beautiful trees on the property: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60617810

29/03/2022: If the mRNA ‘vaccines’ were never vaccines (as is now revealed) what was their purpose? I am so glad I resisted them. We stuck to Astra-Zenica and would now choose Novavax, if indeed we would not have been better off to just simply stick to known preventions and cures (some of which were made illegal in some jurisdictions by their medical establishments). I suspect what I had for months last year and which I cleared up with Ivermectin was in fact covid anyway. Lots of similar symptoms anyway. Likely Della had it (asymptomatically) too. We will never know. What a boondoggle this whole farrago was. There are certainly rumblings (of info) that these vaccines are having some very unpleasant downstream effects indeed (increases in cancers, AIDS-like symptoms etc particularly after multiple jabs). Let’s hope it doesn’t pan out to be true: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/what_if_the_covid19_vaccines_are_not_really_vaccines.html

Surely this is proof that it is weakening their immune systems too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/latest-cdc-data-shows-vaccinated-children-aged-5-11-now-likely-catch-covid-unvaccinated-peers/

No doubt Clive is right (ie he would have died). How many other less fortunate folk have indeed died because of unnecessary and draconian interventions by the likes of Dictator Dan who should be indicted and executed for crimes against humanity: https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_mining_magnate_s_controversial_covid_treatment

29/03/2022: Has to be a good news story, surely? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-zealand-massey-universitys-queer-fat-studies-lecturer-fatlicious-feminist-dies-suddenly-sleep-42/

29/03/2022: Absolutely right Alan Moran, You can't save the world with Net Zero. Such green fantasies will have exactly the opposite effect: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/you-cant-save-the-world-with-net-zero/

70% of Australians don’t even want to send $1 a week to reach net zero yet such a policy would cost trillions be hugely economically and socially destructive. We must cease this madness forthwith: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/70-of-australians-dont-even-want-to-spend-1-a-week-on-net-zero/

28/03/2022: Ultralight Ratchet Tie Down: Here’s a handy little gadget I picked up from Bunnings yesterday for A$14 per pair (Mar 2022)

Each 6′ (1.8 metre) tie down weighs 44 grams. Each metal hook seems to weigh about 10 grams whilst the plastic ratchet itself weighs only 14 grams so that if you wanted to dispense with the hooks for weight you could. You could also substitute a different length/weight of 3 mm cord if you wanted a device which was longer/shorter. I can envisage numerous uses for such a device including a secure means of attaching your pack to your pack raft or hauling your shower into the air from a branch.

They also come in 2.4 metre lengths. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/ultralight-ratchet-tie-down/

28/03/2022: Further evidence Russia may be losing in Ukraine: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-702428

28/03/2022: Fortunately other things have eclipsed the ‘climate strike’ but I have to agree with the author about the quite dreadful manipulation and corruption of the children involved: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/27/lord-of-the-flies/

28/03/2022: An interesting anniversary I missed a couple of days back. Reminiscent of events in that part of the world today? https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/03/24/on-this-day-in-history-turco-mongol-emperor-timur-sacks-damascus-on-mar-24-1401/?fbclid=IwAR04ma_pgtFjmZXvFFh6VL0Xzm9tWbuAHjNO_I77Zhk6st8nFEarlstbwrA

28/03/2022: 3,000+ Years! You just can’t challenge Israel’s right to exist: https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologist-claims-to-find-oldest-hebrew-text-in-israel-including-the-name-of-god/

27/03/2022: Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting: As I recover from my total knee replacement operation (five weeks now -and going well so far, thank you), every morning my attention is drawn to this sight outside my kitchen window. I know as a responsible farmer I should not allow this guy even to exist, but no-one is perfect - and it is so cute and will soon succumb to some awful disease anyway. (The blackberry also craves attention).

NB If you took a second or two to see the rabbit (I would have seen it instantly) it is because you are not ‘looking through’ but ‘looking at’. This is the most important hunting skill, and the first you must master.

He first cleans himself diligently then lies in the sun on his tummy like that for over an hour every morning on a little platform he has constructed under a shrub on the slope behind the house. This is a well-established habit. All creatures fall into a pattern of such habits - even human beings. A moment's refection of your daily routines will cause you to admit that you are no different in this than your wild brethren. The successful hunter can utilise careful observation and such recurring habits to ensure success in harvesting nature's annual bounty for the table.

And that is what responsible hunting is - it is not pest management. Its goal is not the eradication of some undesirable feral species but the careful nurture and management of a noble creature and desirable food source. Just as a farmer (such as me) manages his flocks to ensure that they increase and multiply each year (and are healthy and content) to the maximum extent of the available food source so that in autumn when that food supply begins to decline they will be sent off to market for the benefit of other people's tables rather than slowly starve as the lean times of winter hit. This is nature's cycle.

27/03/2022: Golden Earrings (1947) – what a ripper of a film. Ray Milland’s segue of facial expressions on seeing the earrings in the first minutes of the film is one of the greatest acting feats of the cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earrings PS It is available on Pirate Bay.

27/03/2022: A New Birth Control Pill for Men. This could be interesting – but will women accept that you have taken it? https://scitechdaily.com/new-male-birth-control-pill-effectively-prevents-pregnancy-without-side-effects/

27/03/2022: Now seems clear the Bidens (father and son – 10% for ‘The Big Guy’ if you remember) actually funded the biolabs in the Ukraine: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/not-only-were-there-us-bioweapons-lab-but-the-presidents-son-put-half-a-million-dollars-in-them/

Also note How the ‘Trump Won’ Movement Will Be Vindicated: https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/25/how-the-trump-won-movement-will-be-vindicated/

27/03/2022: Of course I think they are useless bird and bat chomping monsters which will never produce a net watt of electricity but absurd isn’t it? We lived nearly half our lives within 5km of the (late - alas) beautiful Hazelwood Power Station (when will we have the courage/sense to build a new one?) which was definitely a noisy old (1956) thing. I could often hear it roaring from our house (not quite all the time, though when we first came here my hearing was such that I could hear a low moan from its chimneys most of the time) but I accepted the small inconvenience as the price we paid for having such a wonderful service (electricity) at our fingertips – and all the economic and social benefits for millions of Victorians that ensued: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/26/its-a-disaster-aussie-noise-nuisance-court-defeat-panicking-renewable-energy-investors/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/victorian-windfarm-loses-court-case-on-noise-must-turn-off-turbines-at-night/

27/03/2022: You would think the Government and the IPCC would have been on top of data like this (as with similar unreconstructed thermometer records going back to the C17th some places – and other historical data, some much older), but they are captive to a climate change scenario and myth so it is up to citizens to correct the record. You will note that the record wet and dry years are now pushed back to the 1850s. I have no doubt that the same thing would happen with temperature records if earlier records were counted in. We can see this already eg in the Cape Otway Vic historical data and in the earliest Sydney (1790s) temperatures, as I have mentioned before.: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/26/rescued-victorian-rainfall-data-smashes-former-records/

26/03/2022: Visual Hiking Oxymoron- please don't make these bizarre ankle breaking wildfire causing stone cairns - and why in an isolated spot would you need a chainsaw?

May be an image of tree, nature and text that says 'THE CLOSER YOU GET TO NATURE THE FURTHER YOU ARE FROM IDIOTS'

26/03/2022: Are you a woman – twelve signs to look for: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-woman-12-signs-to-look-for

If only it wasn’t so sinister: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/25/think-you-know-what-a-woman-is-usa-today-says-science-should-make-you-think-again-n1584248

26/03/2022: Aside from the ‘mean girls’ fiasco and Albo’s massage parlor antics the Labor Party has other chickens which have still to come home to roost: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kathy-sherriff-announces-shes-launched-a-civil-action-against-bill-shorten-alleging-rape.html

26/03/2022: Now even the New York Times admits that the Bidens are crooks surely their demise is imminent. This dreadful fake ‘Presidency’ will not last beyond the mid-terms (in November). (I include the awful Kamala Harris in this). Democracy may even re-emerge in the ‘Land of the Free’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/america-is-finding-out-the-presidents-son-cheated-the-media-buried-it-the-fbi-hid-it/

26/03/2022: Once you go to the ‘real science’ you can trust it. Understanding it is more difficult! However, in this example, “IPCC’s goal (aside from frightening the public) is to determine the ECS, the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, which is the surface temperature rise (∆Tsurf) due to a doubling of CO2 concentration. They are free to speculate, of course, but they are intellectually obligated to see whether their ECS makes sense. All they have to do is to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their predicted temperature rise.

If they do so, they will find out that 16.4 W/m2 (for a 3oC) rise in radiative flux is violently in contradiction to the 3.71 W/m2 of “radiative forcing” that their models say causes that 3oC temperature rise. They are free to come up with an explanation, but they first have to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their ECS. Maybe in a few more decades, IPCC will make this discovery.” One thing is certain: ‘The Science’ certainly seems to cause mass hysteria: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/24/basic-climate-physics-10/

25/03/2022: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia: https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-new-womens-swimsuit-with-extra-space-for-male-genitalia

25/03/2022: This Romanian MP is (unfortunately) so right. You can’t be a great light for democracy when you threw it all away over covid. Much of the West’s reaction to Putin is of this nature. You have a very short memory if you can’t recall Dictator Dan’s treatment of our citizens and ‘freedoms’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/trudeau-roasted-as-a-dictator-in-the-eu-we-watched-you-trample-women-with-horses/

25/03/2022: An outstanding family – putting your money where your mouth is: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meals-ukrainian-refugees

25/03/2022: It appears as if for one generation at least, the covid mandate was worse than the Vietnam War: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/shocking-millennials-experienced-worst-ever-excess-mortality-history-84-increase-deaths-causes-vaccine-mandates-introduced-video/ PS: I recently lost a (young) friend in this way - a few (older) in Vietnam too, of course in the ‘normal’ way, & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/additional-data-corroborates-excess-deaths-among-millennials-since-experimental-vaccines-mandated-confirms-covid-not-cause/ It certainly appear as if it was the vaccine (mRNA) and not covid. Let’s hope this technology is not a ticking bomb.

I don’t know what to make of this message I received from a friend. It would be truly horrifying if true, but there is a lot of this stuff out there: https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=1487568149&attachment_id=708801196780080&message_id=mid.%24cAABa89gvkI-F1qKixF_pV1ZJQJJ9

24/03/2022: Now two advantages of Antabuse: you don’t get blind or blind drunk: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antabuse-revive-vision-people-disorders.html

24/03/2022: A very interesting new drug – good news for the elderly: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-oral-drug-death-covid-mice.html

24/03/2022: Giving a big cheer to the Daily Wire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/cancelling-cancel-culture-when-being-anti-woke-is-not-a-secret-but-a-selling-point/

24/03/2022: No way to confirm this story, but hubris and over-reach are the bare bones of tragedy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10641565/Russian-execution-squads-orders-kill-defectors-writes-IAN-BIRRELL.html

24/03/2022: Vlad ‘fueled’ the greens’ war on fracking (even though just about everywhere is sitting on a virtually infinite supply of cheap gas). They are gullible fools after all, eager to take anyone’s money so they can destroy ‘capitalism’: https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/putins-fake-fracking-news/ & https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/frack-to-the-future/ Who is in charge of our governments? Vladimir Putin or the people of Australia? I see news this morning that Vlad is insisting Europe pays for its gas in roubles. On the other hand there are rumours of mass defections amongst Russian troops. Where is truth? If Vlad falls (and the greens lose their cash cow) will they fall with him?

23/03/2022: How Randomized Control Trials really work: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/

23/03/2022: 5,000 exo-planets so far – how many more once James Web becomes fully functional? Still only the tip of the iceberg but what is becoming clear is that planetary systems (around solar masses – and elsewhere even) is the norm. It would be hard to imagine that life has not arisen on some of them and that indeed in some places that it has not evolved into intelligent life (even on earth?): https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-milestone-nasa-confirms-5000-exoplanets-it-is-inevitable-that-well-find-some-kind-of-life-somewhere/

23/03/2022: Proof: All for nothing – no change in human CO2 enmissions will make the slightest difference to the climate: “Anthropogenic CO2 is virtually constant compared to the seasonal variations of the natural sources and sinks. The monthly anthropogenic flux change is much smaller than the uncertainty in the net global monthly flux changes. Therefore, there is no support for the claims about anthropogenic CO2 driving the annual changes. The seasonal natural source fluxes swamp the anthropogenic sources. Eliminating anthropogenic CO2 would have a negligible impact on annual increases, which is why the pandemic lockdowns had an imperceptible effect on the global atmospheric concentrations. I do not expect even draconian reductions in anthropogenic CO2 to have the kind of results claimed to justify eliminating fossil fuel use. The annual growth in CO2 is a result of increasing natural sources that is not compensated by commensurate increases in sinks.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/22/anthropogenic-co2-and-the-expected-results-from-eliminating-it/

23/03/2022: Good Lord – the Ukrainians are castrating captured Russian soldiers, but they are ‘the good guys’? That’s about as bad as it gets. When did you last hear of prisoners of war treated thus? As I have said before I’m not about to throw away any of my lives fighting for either side in this war, however if you really expect ‘right’ to be on your side you should perhaps make a little more effort to distinguish yourself eg as being pro democracy (instead of outlawing all opposition parties - some with 43 member in Parliament and also fighting the Russians) as Zelensky has just done. One should note that he came to power in 2014 in a coup ousting the elected government and has failed to have ‘free and fair’ elections since (particularly in the ‘disputed’ territories). Then there is the issue of his secret NATO bases, the Biolabs, and work being conducted on developing nuclear weapons – all these things clearly aimed at making an attack on Russia in the future (under the aegis of Nato etc). At present I see Zelensky as somewhat of a Macbeth figure willing to see his country destroyed (less he be) or ‘wish the estate o' the world were now undone’ as Macbeth says. Vlad is certainly not a good guy’ either and ought not be visiting the horror we see daily on the people of Ukraine, but there are always at least two sides to any conflict : https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-carlson-is-ukraine-really-a-democracy/ & https://nationalinterest.org/feature/true-solution-tragedy-ukraine-201302 I suspect that this is too much to be hoped for, “There is, therefore, only one true solution to the cycle of tragedy. As the famed Welsh social critic Raymond Williams wrote in his classic, Modern Tragedy, it is a “quite different peacemaking that would attempt to resolve rather than to cover the determining tragic disorder. Any such resolution would mean changing ourselves, in fundamental ways.”

22/03/2022: Adventures in Plumbing – be a little more careful what you flush: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/adventures-in-plumbing/

22/03/2022: A great essay by Keith Windschuttle on the causes of war: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/03/the-causes-of-war/

No, I am not generally in favour of war but it would be nice to think that one’s ‘own side’ were the ‘good guys’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/21/what-was-the-2014-euromaidan-coup-in-ukraine-and-why-does-it-matter/

22/03/2022: The (‘Liberal’) loss in SA surely gives a clear lesson that you do not defeat socialists by aping them (as Marshall sought to do) Behind a paywall but well worth a read. (Andrew Bolt) It had already happened in WA after all: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-liberals-can-learn-a-valuable-lesson-from-steven-marshalls-election-loss/news-story/441c33d662e035bfa16480ebfae696db) Oh Yes: “The next Liberal government, with the support of such independents, must purge itself of the fifth column of climate cultists within its ranks if it is to have any hope of keeping this nation strong and safe.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-rope-the-chair-the-noose/

22/03/2022: Can Civilisation Be Saved? Substitute for the subject term ‘The West’, ‘Australia’, ‘The World’, etc the problem remains the same. We are beset by enemies all around –and within. They are foes both physical, intellectual and spiritual – and they are very, very potent – and persistent. I have long since given up on understanding what their aims might be. I’m not sure that they have any - save naked power (control), nihilism, the absence of any values, the destruction and abolition of everything which has come before, the replacement of everything with something else or indeed with nothing at all. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” – as Yeats termed it (‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’). I see this trend in every smallest aspect of our lives, and though I fight it with the last shred of my being, I fear that the end is nigh, that the forces of darkness are on the cusp of ultimate victory and that the world will go down into a darkness from which it might never arise again, certainly not in my lifetime. We will not be rescued from this fate by a King Arthur or a Lancelot – we must cleave to much more flawed heroes I’m afraid: the Donald Trumps and Scott Morrisons, even Clive Palmer. Tony Abbott is needed here now more than ever, but I fear we have lost him. Maybe Eric Zamour in France. A new leader must arise in the UK. Nigel Farage perhaps? We must watch and wait with our fingers crossed. If Morrison wins our election in May & Donald Trump is returned (as Speaker and then President) in November, and Zemour takes France, and Johnson is replaced with a real conservative in the UK, then there is hope. If all of these things fail, there may not be any. We are watching ‘The ‘Great Battle of Civilisation’ – as Yeats termed it, not unlike the final battle in the ‘Lord of the Rings’: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-legged-fly/

21/03/2022: “I have no reason to believe that he who would take away my liberty would not when he had me in his power take away everything else,” John Locke.

21/03/2022: What’s The Long Game Behind Fat Pride? I don’t know whether to join this movement or go on a crash diet: https://www.iwf.org/2022/03/17/whats-the-long-game-behind-fat-pride/

21/03/2022: Taiwan may indeed be more difficult to conquer than the Ukraine (and it is likely the Taiwanese would have significant help eg from Japan): https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/china_may_find_that_taiwan_is_a_hard_nut_to_crack.html

21/03/2022: Meanwhile this is very like the capitalists selling the communists the rope with which to hang them(selves): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/19/germany-france-other-eu-members-sold-huge-stocks-of-arms-to-russia-before-invasion-despite-embargo/

Mind you that great ‘democrat’ Zelensky has now decided to institute a one party state in the Ukraine: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/sovereign-democracy-ukraine-zelenskyy-suspends-11-opposition-parties-becoming-head-one-party-state/

21/03/2022: I will extinguish these folks properly if they come to let my tyres down – so over holier than thou bullies and save the world cranks who have no idea how the world actually works. As an example also the anti duck hunting brigade who are so out of touch with the natural world they refuse to understand that seasonal breeding each year creates a surplus of creatures which must be humanely harvested or else they starve the following winter when there is not enough food to sustain them. Who would have thought anti-theft valve locks would be a thing? Who steals air? Well, these people just by breathing. If only we could charge them for it there would soon be many fewer of them (as welfare may not necessarily provide free air – at least not if I was in charge): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/climate-vandals-are-coming-to-let-down-your-suv-tyres-if-only-they-had-evidence-to-persuade-you-instead/

20/03/2022: Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation. The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun: https://www.wired.com/story/living-in-a-simulation/

20/03/2022: Putin really does have a hypersonic missile, ergo he can ‘afford’ to have a nuclear war. Very disturbing news. Maybe we should stay out of this: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/russia-deploys-hypersonic-kinzhal-superweapon/

Now just exactly how many wars are going on right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

20/03/2022: Really strange the way the Left has come out on the side of Zelensky (and eg the awful Azov Battalion) until now clearly a ‘white supremacist’ and indeed ‘Neo-Nazi’, instead of Vlad Putin until now clearly the obvious heir of the (communist) USSR – which should have inspired them. Mind you they have never been very clever, but ‘politics makes strange bedfellows’. Next thing you know the Left will be backing capitalism – and Donald Trump. I go too far! No matter what happens they will not become sane.

20/03/2022: What does inflation mean? Tucker’s take. “The standard of living is plummeting”. It is deeply worrying, yet our masters do not seem deeply concerned about this, yet the average housewife and wage earner must surely be. You don’t think this could be(come) the major election issue come May? (Video starts about 20 seconds in) eg, “The internal combustion engine is a miracle upon which all civilization depends”. Oh Yes: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-tucker-carlson-opening-statement-3/

In the same vein: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_us_must_face_an_existential_threat_but_its_not_climate_change.html

‘You know there’s a problem when the price of beer is up 5 percent’… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/you-know-theres-a-problem-when-the-price-of-beer-is-up-5-percent/

19/03/2022: I usually hate music (and particularly as sound effect or score/background in films which ruin the dialogue for me - being substantially deaf) but this was really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGzK2SwG5io&t=120s

19/03/2022: So True: In his science fiction novel Nemesis, Isaac Asimov describes a female character as possessing the "unloveable virtues": Serious, Practical, Responsible, Dutiful. My wife is also beautiful.

19/03/2022: Two sides to what’s going on in the Ukraine? Surely not: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/17/in-the-ukraine-there-are-apparently-two-sides-to-the-story/

19/03/2022: This is what your elite leftist masters have in store for you (and me). Hair shirts for the hoi poloi and dachas for the commissars – it was ever thus. We need to make a huge effort to avoid this. Our traditional Oz complacency (‘She’ll be right mate’) will not cut it. The coming elections must be a wholesale rejection of these left-wing notions including those who have infiltrated the Liberal and National Parties. Where that is the case those members need to be replaced by more conservative folks such as Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Fishers & Shooters & etc even if some of these people may seem to lack the competency to run the country. I had not noticed that the two main parties actually overflow with outstanding competency either! https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/iea-wants-energy-lockdowns-drive-slower-ban-cars-on-sunday-ride-share-and-blame-putin/ (PS: IEA = International Energy Agency)

19/03/2022: Maybe at the 11th hour the world can pull back from the Green Armageddon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/a-kalibr-missile-just-hit-net-zero-germany-wakes-old-coal-plants-uk-talks-of-backflip-on-gas-oil-fracking-too/

Add these into that equation. For example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence/ & https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-3-14-no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/green-fuel-folly-forest-thinning-for-wood-pellet-production-has-a-profound-surface-warming-impact/

18/03/2022: Just a reminder: how burning fossil fuels is greening the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nsU_DaIZE&feature=player_embedded#

18/03/2022: Mark Twain, “I was educated once and it took me years to get over it” So true.

18/03/2022: You can’t even imagine these shrieking nutters choosing such a logo – have they never seen a set of male genitals? Well, probably not: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/controversial-womens-network-logo-taken-down-after-twitter-backlash/news-story/fd5e2d01baa384d2d5b4e20fe86fe0e1

18/03/2022: “This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper,” TS Eliot ‘The Hollow Men’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/saudi-arabia-to-accept-yuan-for-chinese-oil-sales/ Maybe time to invest in gold. I have been studying up on what’s available from the Perth Mint. They sure have some pretty coins and do home delivery: https://www.perthmint.com/shop/bullion/bullion-coins/?archived=false&page=2&pageSize=12&query=&sortValue=0

18/03/2022: You might not have heard much about the ‘global cooling’ era we are entering or its impact on the food supply but this article is a reminder of the importance of successful home gardening. I already warned about the dangers of the coming ‘stagflation’ event last week so get your finances in order – times are likely to get tougher and governments world-wide have shot their bolts over the imaginary enemy (covid) and have nothing in their war-chests for the very real dangers ahead. In any case, as I have observed many times before government is the problem, not the solution. We will (thankfully) have to get by with less and less of it in the decades to come. My suggestion has long been to wind it back by 10% per year until it disappears up its own fundament. BTW If you haven’t noticed that government kills more people than any other single thing you just haven’t been watching: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/food_shortages_soon_come__what_to_do.html

17/03/2022: SSDs: Have you bought one of these yet? 40 Grams. Still working out how to get stuff in/out of it to my Android phone – but you can https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-1tb-e30-portable-ssd-black-sde30ss1tb I teamed mine with one of these: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/23/ultralight-charging-cable/

Mind you 1 Tb Micro sd cards are now $214: https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk-Ultra-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08HCPTMJG/ref=asc_df_B08HCPTMJG?tag=bingshopdesk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676739598376&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276306375179&psc=1

17/03/2022: Many Thanks. A friend of mine (Brett) has solved a mystery for me (from 28/02): “This video explains there’s a hidden device in its base: https://youtu.be/Y5dylh2aOiw”

17/03/2022: While we are on the topic of reparations for past wrongs (I want some too) No, really I don’t. Though it is true that my ancestors were forced off their ancient lands (eg by the ‘Enclosure Acts) and then many transported for life to Australia Felix in the early C19th (and so on), I have enjoyed a wonderful life right here with the greatest woman imaginable. No-one ‘owes’ me anything.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/john-cleese-the-romans-the-normans-need-to-pay-reparations-to-the-british.html

17/03/2022: How aboriginal (and mountain cattlemen) fire management really worked – and why it is a disaster to abandon it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/blackfellas-whitefellas-greenfellas-and-fire/

17/03/2022: Move over Buck Rogers, Neil Armstrong, Elon Musk etc, etc. You are just so patriarchal: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/feminisms-final-frontier-spaceships-are-too-phallic-so.html

16/03/2022: DIY Ultralight Shoulder Pouches: I sewed up a couple of shoulder strap pouches (for Best $20 Backpack) from some 2 oz/yd2 ripstop nylon. I guess these are about 3/4 of a litre each, maybe a litre. They can contain an interesting assortment of items you might want to access quickly as you walk along. Spare ammunition, chewing gum etc.

I attached them with an ingenious method I ‘stole’ from Joe Valesko (Zpacks) though I have no idea whether he still uses them. They came on my first old pack from him – a long since discontinued model, worse luck. Simpler is frequently better – and certainly cheaper. Anyway it is a simple ‘button and loop’ design with a length of cord which works to stop them slipping down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/15/diy-ultralight-shoulder-pouches/

16/03/2022: What a hero she is: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/her-majesty-the-queens-message-on-commonwealth-day.html

16/03/2022: ‘Why study English’, they say. Because it is utterly astonishing and you don’t know what you are missing if you don’t: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa-corbies/ Warning: may actually take some effort. Sorry. No, not sorry. I can’t see that AR or AI can ever replace the intelligence needed to study and understand a text. Comprehension is key.

16/03/2022: Banning Rail Guns just seems to me like so much virtue signaling. These things are unlikely to become anywhere near as effective as DIY pipe guns (that anyone can make with a few basic tools for probably $10) anytime soon. Eg: https://hackaday.com/2015/11/09/the-most-powerful-diy-railgun/ especially when you should understand that it is already a damned sight easier and cheaper to buy an illegal firearm (eg a Glock) than it is to buy (and licence) the legal alternative. Have a nose around docklands, western suburbs and other sleazy pubs and you will see what I mean. If you have a lazy grand you can have a pistol pretty much the same day. And this at a time when I would advocate for making the compulsory ownership of military semi-automatic weapons pretty much compulsory for lawful citizens as part of any sane defence strategy.

16/03/2022: If you have to choose between these two, there really is no choice. Anthony Albanese has really never even run a billy cart with a pig net over it let alone a country. He can also barely speak in case you haven’t noticed! He should be PM? You would have to be kidding: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/righto-fact-checkers-lets-hook-into-this.html

15/03/2022: Best $20 Backpack: Modifying Amazon’s G4 Free. Inflation has bitten a little since I wrote the previous post (below) such that now this excellent backpack costs $US 22.99 at Amazon instead of the US$19.99 I paid back in March 2018. That’s inflation at 3.75% per year by the way. Still a lot cheaper than a plus $300 backpack which will do nothing more – or even do it half so well.

Since then I carried mine to (beyond) Dingboche on the Everest Base Camp trail – and many other places besides – though our travels have been somewhat curtailed recently like everyone else’s by covid, or at least its restrictions.

You can see in this post EBC Gear List me carrying mine just outside Pangboche over 5 km up in the sky. The backpack carried everything we needed for a ten day walking trip (including rain gear, spare clothes, survival, satellite communication (2) cooking, sleeping and shelter equipment (for -20C temperatures). It weighed a little over 6 kg. Della’s was nearer 5kg. Almost no food and minimal water. You can buy it on the way And was outstandingly comfortable.

I hardly noticed I was carrying it (at 70+ years old) though my worn out knee was ‘killing me’ back then – which is why I had it replaced last month. It had been causing me significant pain for nearly a decade now. This used to be called ‘manning up’ and was considered a virtue. See I Kneed You

15/03/2022: Thank goodness Zachary Rolfe has been acquitted of shooting a mad dog. He should never have been charged in the first place. What do people think we have police for? So they can just stand aside and watch crazed idiots maim and injure people – including fellow policemen? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-14/nt-police-association-rolfe-not-guilty-independent-investigation/100905574

15/03/2022: An interesting speculation – one thing is sure: most weather has a natural cause. Haven’t seen a blue moon or a ‘year without a summer’ for a while as were caused by previous mighty eruptions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/did-volcanic-dust-from-hunga-tonga-cause-flooding-in-australia/

Cause and Effect are wonderful: The eruption of the Indonesian island of Tambora in 1816 plunged the world into ‘darkness’ for around a year, causing massive crop failures, the year without a summer, and widespread starvation in Europe for example. It also brought us blood-red sunsets and ‘blue moons’ on account of all the red dust in the sky. Also surprisingly it brought us the wonderful novel ‘Frankenstein’ on account of Mary Wolstencraft (Shelley) having to stay indoors all summer due to the colder than normal weather - and needing something to do!

15/03/2022: Prospero : “O brave new world That has such people in't!” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/transgender-serial-killer-shopped-99-cent-store-murder-victims-dismembered-leg-video/

15/03/2022: Three days’ training and then off to war! I know you will say, ‘This will never work’ but you should remember that the boys who saved us at Kokoda were taught to fire .303s on the ships sailing up to Moresby, yet then they stopped the toughest most experienced jungle fighters in the world who had overrun trained soldiers all over SE Asia. One thing is sure, you will never win a war unless you have soldiers who are willing to die. If you have sufficient numbers of them you will win. There are lessons about this from recent Russian history for example (which Putin ought to have remembered). Napoleon’s and Hitler’s invasions met vast numbers of (ill-equipped) Russians who were willing to die. They died in dreadful numbers, but the invaders died too – and failed. Both Napoleon and Hitler lost whole armies, and ultimately their empires too: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60724560

Mind you they are in dire straights and may well lose: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/clear-situation-ukraine-desperate-video-week-ago-getting-worse-zelensky-hanging/

14/03/2022: Zpacks Solo Plex Tent: This morning I received an ad for this tent on Facebook (as you do). Zpack Plex Solo Tent. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. I’m sure this is not the case here but this tent is so, so , like my original Deer Hunter’s Tent which evolved from my Tyvek Solo Fire Shelter that the similarities are eerie – and at the time (last century?) nothing like this existed.

Of course this is most likely because the laws of physics/geometry are immutable so that (eventually) you find there really is only one way to do any thing. I did however (originally) post the design, measurements and instructions (on my old website) then deleted them as I realized: 1. I might want to commercialise them in future and 2. Someone else might do so first.However, no doubt they can be found on the Wayback Machine.

I notice Six Moon Designs have a similarly designed tent so it is probably just ‘parallel evolution’. They are welcome to my design now anyway, as Della long since decided ‘we’ would not be launching any new business ventures, but just enjoy life instead – and she’s the boss, as in most homes I’m sure.

I am not so keen on Dyneema as Joe is (though I understand he has made it his trademark material). It is (slightly) lighter (at from .48 oz) than the best silnylon materials (Ripsopbytheroll’s .77oz/yd2) but I am not convinced that the very slight weight advantages are worth the risk of using such very delicate materials. That being said, it is enormously easier to repair with sticky tape! It is tricky to cut and sew,but Joe has been doing it so long he has no doubt worked out all the ‘wrinkles’ in doing it.

A very slight hole in the plastic film covering is very hard to find and spot though. Non-woven dyneema material does also tend to ‘shred’ away with use , something I am not very fond of. I have had this happen with a number of packs which if they had been made from a slightly heavier woven fabric would have lasted several times as long. You are paying very big money for this special material (something like $25 a yard – and it is narrower) as compared with $5-7 a yard for (‘ordinary’) silnylon.

14/03/2022: Putin’s crossing the Rubicon was an enormous financial mistake – but not just for Russia. I said this before he made the move and it is certainly playing out. Ukraine was (economically) worthless to Russia. This is bad news for Russian housewives, some of whom are too young to remember queuing for empty shelves. Unfortunately for the rest of us it is bad news too as shortages, supply chains and prices ramp up. Many of you are too young too to remember the stagflation of the 70’s and etc. If you have not already got your debt under control do so now. If long-term fixed interest home loans are still available get one. If not, sell now and buy something you really can afford. (note my yesterday’s post about home ownership). Plant a veggie garden. Sell your new car and buy a 90s era mechanical vehicle which you can fix yourself – a Land Rover would be a good choice. Learn to hunt. Tough times are likely coming: https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/russians-wanted-the-soviet-union-back-they-got-it/

14/03/2022: Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’. I haven’t been there but I suspect this is a swindle – as with so much green bull. Because of an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere over the last little while there has been an enormous mushrooming of greenery world-wide - more than the area of two Australia’s intoto (as seen by NASA satellites). I have posted about this before (eg 07/11/2021). There is no need to plant trees massively when they are sprouting all over the place even more massively – but if it makes you feel good… https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/africas-great-green-wall-begins-rise

14/03/2022: Imagine warning that having a nuclear war might cause a climate problem – are we back to the ‘Nuclear Winter’ scenario which we were all supposed to fear back in the 70s: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-atlantic-warns-that-nuclear-war-is-a-climate-problem-and-you-thought-bombs-were-ok/

14/03/2022: President Trump is just great – I just can’t wait to see him back in the White House for another six years come November: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/president-trump-biden-is-crawling-around-the-globe-begging-for-oil-from-saudi-arabia-iran-venezuala.html

13/03/2022: This is as true today as it was in 1854: "Most men are needlessly poor all of their lives because they think they must have such a house as their neighbors have." Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden’ - one of my favourite books. You can still build a small modest house yourself for perhaps $20K. Also so far as I know the ‘minimum’ house is still only a bit over 2 squares ie 25 square metres which should not cost more than about $5K. I have been working on designs for wilderness accommodation (for four) which are much smaller than this (around 6 square metres) and well under $500. I will be posting my designs soon. Of course you have to find a block of land too – blocks still exist out there for under $40K, some even under $30K. Some of these are quite large and have power and water. The one at McMahons Creek looks nice: https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/property-land-between-0-50000-in-vic/list-1 NB There are still probably ways to get your hands on some land for less than this – as Thoreau did after all. We (now) have a very big house (it grew over the years to over 200 square metres plus verandahs) but I doubt it cost us much more than $40K. I would think I could still build it today for under $100K.

13/03/2022: When they thaw Walt’s head out and bring him back to life – it can’t be long now – there will be big changes at Disney World.

13/03/2022: It is coming. Beware: You don’t know what ‘cancel culture’ means until they cancel your credit card and ID card: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/coming-to-a-civilization-near-you-the-totalitarians-wet-dream-a-central-bank-digital-currency/

13/03/2022: This could very easily get worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4-vqO0oQ4&t=97s

12/03/2022: If you are a patriotic Australian who doesn’t want to part with too much of your hard-earned to outfit yourself, try these folks. I am looking very smart at present and for about 2/3rds of the cost of local stores. This is all good gear too which employs Aussies and will last. The King Gee Cool Work Trousers in a super tough ripstop cotton come in a beautiful green (as well as black, blue and khaki) for example for A$56. Cheaper and more durable than any pair of jeans: https://everythingaustralian.com.au/

12/03/2022: A (climactic) voice of sanity: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/09/wuwt-contest-winner-professional-2nd-place-is-there-really-a-climate-crisis/

12/03/2022: They work for us – that’ll be the day: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33561

12/03/2022: Whoa! Let him walk home or see if Elon can fetch him? The pronouns are more important anyways, surely? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/11/russia-might-abandon-a-u-s-astronaut-on-iss-but-nasa-is-worried-about-pronouns-n1565829

12/03/2022: The same people who tried to hide the truth about Pfizer vaccines (1223 died during the 3 months ‘trial’ - to ‘prove’ it safe) also tried to hide the origins of the virus (probably because they had a part in it). Now they try to hide the truth about Ukrainian bio-labs (probably have a part in that too). I am so over this wicked obfuscation and obscurantism. The ‘information revolution’ was supposed to be about ‘free speech’ or freedom of information anyway – but the ‘black hats’ are (currently) winning. This is a simply awful situation. I suspect it will eventually lead to (worse) authoritarianism or a revolution. Hard to know which of those is worse too. Whatever happened to the Australia I grew up in which was nothing like any of this – though you may make fun of it? I just want my country (my world) back, please. I begin to understand why older people sometimes say they are tired of living. That is not what they mean at all. They are just tired of what their world has become. Some links: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/not-informed-no-consent-1200-people-died-in-the-first-3-months-of-pfizer-vax/ So, the US now admits (under oath) Ukraine really do have secret bio-weapons labs: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/surreal-fake-russian-claims-of-bioweapons-labs-not-so-fake/ The plot thickens: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/surreal-fake-russian-claims-of-bioweapons-labs-not-so-fake/ Maybe watch the doco. (The Russians are once again claiming to have found lots of American bio-labs). Nothing is ever the way it seems in geopolitics: https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html Can it get any more surreal than this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-exclusive-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-firm-tied-ukrainian-biolabs/

Tucker’s Take – yes, it is ominous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2cwGscanAg&t=284s

11/03/2022: Just wow – if only they had found it twenty years ago when maybe 1-2 of the survivors was still alive: https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found

11/03/2022: This is democracy? Any way the two main parties can lock you out of voting for someone else they will use. A ‘plague on both your houses’: https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_democrats_lose_high_court_bid_but_lib_dems_march_onward

11/03/2022: And there goes Duckduckgo too. The Ministry of Truth wins again: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/ceo-says-duckduckgo-manipulating-search-results-to-down-rank-russian-disinformation.html

11/03/2022: People - for God’s sake! I’m sorry: it’s just so sexist: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kamala-harris-the-future-of-our-world-is-being-built-by-women-and-girls.html

10/03/2022: That time of year again – ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’, Pieter Bruegels: https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/pieter-bruegel_1559-1559_pieter-bruegel-the-elder-the-fight-between-carnival-and-lent.jpg

10/03/2022: The awful game of ‘marriage chicken’ - and the dismal future feminists have created for themselves (and men): https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-game-of-marriage-chicken/

10/03/2022: It was not always thus – I am not suggesting we go back to this. One (wonderful) wife is all I need: https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success

10/03/2022: The ‘truth’ about the Ukraine – is there ever any truth? Is there ever a war we did not have to have? I am reminded of the Boer War in my grandfather’s time (I have a photo of him proudly in uniform for it). What was that all about? Both sides (it seems to me) were the same people. After the British ‘went away’ they decided to ‘bury’ their differences in a ‘Union’ of SA which might have included a very much expanded SA if things had gone differently and been more (economically) beneficial for all of Southern Africa. I don’t know. I do know that people are not necessarily ‘ready’ for ‘democracy’ as we style it ie one person = one vote - & etc. We do not have that in Oz (yet) anyway given that a Tasmanian vote (for eg) is worth more than ten NSW votes. Earning or qualifying for the franchise is still an important moral point which we largely ignore (at our peril). One thing is sure, war is enormously destructive and only allows someone else (the true enemy?) to build up strength while you ‘squabble’, which is no doubt what is happening during the current conflict. China, Iran etc become much more dangerous and ‘we’ lose the opportunity to form a ‘common front’ against them: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/heres_the_truth_on_ukraine_as_far_as_i_can_tell.html

09/03/2022: Could Russia be losing in the Ukraine? They lost in Afghanistan remember. “Destroy Putin Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJrPccGpP08

09/03/2022: Strapless Backpack: I have been thinking along these lines too (just a thought at present) but my ‘solution’ was more a U-shape (like carrying a bag of grain on your shoulders). The hobo’s swag is another example I suppose. This one looks a bit complicated. However, the point is good – one should try to carry the load perched on ones callipygous bottom - as the Bushmen (or women) do. Packs need to be shaped more to fit in to the curve of the spine (the lordosis – two new words for you, perhaps) more, as Mountain Laurel Designs packs are shaped to. I will be making myself a new pack sometime in the future which incorporates this idea, and also the enormous improvement of the horse collar over the yoke (which I suspect most backpacks have not realized yet): https://www.noshoulderstraps.com/

09/03/2022: I love this poem (much as I hate the war that stole the poet from us!) I so agree with the sentiment. It is the small acts of conservation count most. We have an archway I constructed 20+ years ago harbours many fine birds who are maybe our friends. The wrens and antechinus love the blackberries I labour to destroy. The pardalotes find a home in a raw bulldozer cut on the hillside. The sea eagles nest in the open cut, finding the cliffs to their liking. The peregrine sees the Station stacks as merely an eyrie. The whistling kites hunt the ‘pest’ tilapia in the Pondage. Marsh warblers sing from the cumbungi in the roadside drains. The thornbills love spiders in our old sheds. Many birds collect our sheep’s cast wool for their nests…life will find a way: we do not need vast National Parks to destroy nature with vicious wildfires. Such ‘conservation’ is folly:

Fifty Faggots: Edward Thomas 1878-1917

There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots

That once were underwood of hazel and ash

In Jenny Pink's copse. Now, by the hedge

Close packed, they make a thicket fancy alone

Can creep through with the mouse and wren. Next spring

A blackbird or robin will nest there,

Accustomed to them, thinking they will remain

Whatever is for ever to a bird:

This Spring it is too late; the swift has come.

'Twas a hot day for carrying them up:

Better they will never warm me, though they must

Light several Winters' fires. Before they are done

The war will have ended, many other things

Have ended, maybe, that I can no more

Foresee or more control than robin and wren.

09/03/2022: Gold is shooting up – time to reach for it, and iodine (for radiation sickness)? https://goldprice.org/

09/03/2022: We need to understand to what extent we are still being obfuscated by the legacy of Herbert Marcuse: “The prepackaged opinions and talking points of political camps, both left and right, are not thought. True thought, rather, is a journey whose destination is unknown. Everything I write wills itself as a step on that journey, a journey that considers nothing too small, and nothing too great, as an object of our sightseeing, a journey where the posture of a statue or the detail in a façade make us pause and look, just as much as do the demise of armies and the rise and fall of civilizations. If you refuse to look at certain sights you come across on that journey—no matter how ugly and hateful they may appear to your imperfect being—then you will quickly get lost on the road and dizzy yourself in a labyrinth of solipsism.” A very thought-provoking and well-written essay: https://quillette.com/2022/03/02/herbert-marcuse/

08/03/2022: This is an otter fisherman. Because they exist it lends credence to the ‘legend’ of wild otters in NZ, a creature the Maori also had a name for (though no-one has yet captured a photograph of one). They have (allegedly) been seen even recently near Tautapere for example. However that may turn out, I feel that there is no doubt Chinese sailors explored the East Coast of Australia (and NZ) long, long ago and that archaeological evidence is out there. Waiting. Even longer ago I suspect Australopithecus (and the like) early men most likely found there way here half a million years or so ago. ‘First Nations’ indeed! What a turn up for our understanding of prehistory their remains will make. They have been found already on utterly unlikely islands in Indonesia (c 800,000BC) where they could only have made their way if they were ocean travelers! https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/536017841085513

Here is a possible example: https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/536017841085513

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-navigation-00963?fbclid=IwAR0q0xpwHIKcXV-zn3CUNgmVoq72AgpP4Z4Ot4N_Pz7Xu6TIA25fZbBIdQk#!bywGL1

08/03/2022: The Modern Headhunter: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/box-human-heads-stolen-truck-denver/

This has been happening in Melbourne recently too – what is going on?

08/03/2022: Maybe it will turn out to be a different ‘great reset’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/two-weeks-of-war-undoes-thirty-years-of-energy-propaganda-everyone-wants-fossil-fuels/

08/03/2022: I have been wrong before. Maybe soon we will be talking about a Ukrainian invasion of Russia? https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/russia-ukraine-conflict-live-updates-fighting-ramps-up-as-invasion-enters-12th-day/news-story/45c9a5c9666f1ee992c81dda4e306f0b

This is how it’s done: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/how_technology_has_saved_ukraine.html

07/03/2022: Why are we destroying our men: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/2020-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i/

07/03/2022: Step Back in Time – a ‘Told You So’ moment. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine’: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President/

07/03/2022: Make the Nimbys pay for their own boondoggles. Absolutely. I wonder how many young Greta followers would choose to opt out of paying more tax? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/05/british-government-young-people-should-pay-for-climate-action/

07/03/2022: Stop – before it is too late! “Reality -- like truth and goodness -- is not fungible. Whether we wish it to be or not. We did not ask to be born. None of us. No living being. No one ever arranged their own birth. That is the truth, a fact. Impossible. Yet here we are. Therefore, it is simply impossible that our rights come from other humans or living things. Or that reality comes from Mark Zuckerberg.” (‘Fungible’ = ‘interchangeable’) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_metaverse_artificial_intelligence_and_the_assault_on_reality.html

06/03/2022: China’s ‘defence’ spending up another 7% - some of you will remember the dysphemism ‘Pig Iron Bob’ re Menzies’ allowing the sale of iron to Japan pre WW2. We have to just hope that our (record) sales of iron ore to China is not returned in warships, tanks etc in the near future? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/china-announces-massive-military-budget-boost-up-71-to-usd-229-billion-in-2022.html

Fortunately Morrison has already stepped up our defence spending: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin-australia-must-turbocharge-its-defence-capabilities/news-story/6c70cd7398b348c16fbe2b9dca97f9da

06/03/2022: The Covid Crimes Trials. You can only hope there will be so that the (now) millions unnecessarily killed by covid because of wicked restrictions of cheap effective drugs can receive some justice and monsters like our Dictator Dan can be put to the wall: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/dr-andrew-hill-how-many-people-died-because/

06/03/2022: Whatever happened to this: Article 19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

However, I can see his point: Tommy Robinson, “Russia has banned Facebook. Meaning Twitter, the BBC and now Facebook gone out of the country. The world would be a better place if everyone followed suit”

06/03/2022: The Citroen Ami a $12,000 EV (unsuited for most roads) – how this is better than a Suzuki A lot is beyond me. Ah, the future…almost glad I won’t be around to see it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-citroen-ami-mini-ev-the-covered-mobility-scooter/

05/03/2022: Time for a good news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=PVPyLoYyUVk&feature=emb_title

05/03/2022: Watermelons: I have been saying for years that they are green on the outside and red on the inside – ever since Patrick Moore a Greenpeace founder revealed that the (‘disappearing’) communists took over the ‘environmental’ movement when ‘The Wall’ came down, so long ago now. All that time they have been taking money from the (ex) communists (Putin et al) to destroy the West in every way they could think of, just as ‘fellow travelers’ had been doing amongst us ever since the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov 1917). The enemy within. I know my University days in the 60s were full of them. How many I knocked down with my fists back then, but not enough – and not permanently enough. We let them win. Don’t just think of their ‘environmental’ plans here. Their social (‘marriage equality’, gender identity etc) and economic (welfare, social justice, social housing…) have been just as important - and perfidious. They want a people who are secondary and subservient to ‘The State’. They always have. They are terrified of the idea that the State is a social construct which ‘The People’ implement from time to time for (clearly defined) purposes and ought itself to be secondary and temporary in nature. Primacy is an independent self-sufficient populace going about their own business with as few (external ) rules and controls as possible ie Freedom. They absolutely hate the very idea of freedom. Their money trail and agenda has become clearer in the last little while: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/russian-linked-groups-donated-to-anti-frakking-green-groups-because-they-love-the-planet-right/

05/03/2022: I suspect also that Putin will succeed in Ukraine – whether we like it or not – and I do not like it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10569141/Putin-NOT-crazy-Russian-invasion-NOT-failing-writes-military-analyst-BILL-ROGGIO.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

05/03/2022: However, sometimes a cheap (new) weapon can change the outcome of a war. This may also happen with submarine warfare. This was (after all) Howard’s ‘solution’ to making Australia impregnable (with missile defences) thirty years ago: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/britishswedish-anti-tank-missiles-a-game-changer-in-defence-of-ukraine.html

04/03/2022: A Balloon Eclipse: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/bill-thompsons-celestial-numbers-come-up.html

04/03/2022: What can you do with such people? https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-saw-amputation-victim-suffered-an-undiagnosed-medical-condition-family-believe/news-story/2304a58be2dd0a3975a269d380598f57

04/03/2022: Another truly remarkable essay by Lord Monckton which makes so many puzzling evils so much clearer. It has made up my mind on a host of issues, not least which side I should be supporting in the current Ukrainian ‘situation’. A must read. Really: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/03/the-strategic-threat-from-net-zero-emissions/

04/03/2022: Who are the real enemies (of the West?) Surely: the Left, Islam and China are the real biggies. I have wondered whether we should even be on the same side as Putin whom I confess I kind of ‘like’ –anyway in a way I do not like Biden. A decision probably more based on the ‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’ or similar contradictions than any other reasonable process of thought. Don’t know whether he really did ride a bear but he sure looks good in the (photoshopped) images doing it. Just saying: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/is-the-west-cannibalising-itself/

03/03/2022: Andrew Hastie making it clear we should send more than pronouns or pronunciation. I like this guy – can we have him as PM some day. Well, today? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/andrew-hastie-mp-on-sending-australian-ammunition-missiles-to-kill-russians.html

03/03/2022: Apparently when the Russians actually invade it might be time to realise (too late) you might need energy independence – even if you are a Green nut-job - over to you Scotty: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/01/german-green-party-embraces-coal-lng-and-nuclear/

Another way to put it: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered?utm_source=url&s=r

03/03/2022: Interesting data. BTW: We are triple vaccinated (Astra Zenica) for one reason or another – eg having needed a knee replacement). Covid certainly seems to have slipped from the front page (before we died of boredom instead) but disquiet about mRNA vaccines continues to increase (in the background). Clearly evidence now of long-term DNA effects which were specifically denied possible at the outset. Novavax has now been approved as a booster (if you still want a vaccine): https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/01/russia-distraction-uk-gov-revealed-triple-vaccinated-account-9-in-10-covid-deaths/

03/03/2022: Maybe long since time we thought about moving Brisbane – building a city in a swamp was never a good idea anyway surely. It just keeps happening – eg three times in 1893 and worse than today: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-devastating-floods-of-brisbane-in-1893/

03/03/2022: Selective Crisis Enhancement (SCE) – we need a new acronym surely? We seem to move or be moved from one ‘crisis’ to another as recently from Covid to the Ukraine. I’m not sure either of them were (worthy) crises) really, but someone (in charge?) is picking these out from the bundle and ordering that they be accentuated as if they were the sole challenge facing humanity – and so that we don’t get to thinking about other things. The folks fighting the war in Mali for example must feel a little left out of this. I might also have been unaware of it too except I was talking to chap at my grandson’s sixth birthday recently who was training soldiers for this conflict, no doubt a worthy cause (though maybe pointless, like most of them). No wonder veterans get to feeling a bit left out when no-one even knows they were fighting (for us/right/etc) in some “s---hole of a county” as Donald Trump styled it, which would probably be better left to its own awful devices anyway! Especially when ‘our ABC’ and other such ‘witch-finders’ seem hell-bent on persecuting then afterwards for perceived nastiness (what soldiers are trained to do after all) they may have performed there.For example: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-tucker-carlson-opening-statement-3/

02/03/2022: You might think the battle for Kiev (Armageddon, Ragnarok, etc, etc) is/are ‘the ultimate battle’, but that accolade must always reserved for the battle for the mind. “That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost” as Yeats writes about it in “Long-Legged Fly’ (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-legged-fly/ ) is the ultimate imperative. The role of ‘dissenters’ in underlining this conflict is crucial (and so often ignored/repressed by the media). You do not have to resort to some arcane and difficult text to understand this. I am a lover of the Western (I have to confess). Sometimes this genre has managed to showcase ‘dissent’ better than any other. ‘Friendly Persuasion’ 1956, ‘Sergeant York’ 1941, and ‘High Noon’ 1952 all starring Gary Cooper & ‘Shenandoah’ 1965 starring James Stewart are cases in point. In each case the central character manages to completely challenge the orthodoxy. “No man is my enemy” is the central Quaker meme in ‘Friendly Persuasion’ for example. Perhaps the Ukrainian people will be able to persuade the tanks to stop in a way that the hero of Tienanmen Square did not? Maybe like in ‘Kelly’s Heroes’?

02/03/2022: At least plastic supermarket bags were recyclable but we have rushed into flooding the world with worthless products which are not: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/americas-national-renewable-energy-lab-warns-a-tidal-wave-of-wind-and-solar-waste-is-coming/

02/03/2022: Completely agree with Neil Oliver: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33178

01/03/2022: This guy was great: Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956): "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."

01/03/2022: One thing I notice (and have railed about for years) is that ‘statists’ do seem to believe that the whole ball-game is ‘for the good of the state’ something which we and ours are all just property of - like it was stamped on our bottoms at birth. One thing which really stood out (to me) about 1776 was the Declaration that it was (instead) all about ‘The People’ who could (rightfully) take up arms to remove an unjust government and whose inalienable rights could be removed by such a government but not guaranteed by one. The state needed to be kept within quite narrow circumscribed limits. I still think this is an important watershed moment in history. Government always and everywhere needs to be wound back with power and wealth kept firmly in the hands of The People.

01/03/2022: What is really going on In the Ukraine? I don’t pretend to know but it is likely to be something different than the Big Tech Newspeak junk we are getting from the mainstream media. The Russians seem to avoid killing civilians or widespread destruction for one thing and may be surrounding and negating Ukrainian forces. Putin claimed all along that his intervention was to counter Nato expansionism and Nazi (sic) undemocratic elements within Ukraine. (The ‘Azov Regiment’ do sound pretty sinister). You could read this on eg Infowars but I can’t even paste a link, so who is more into control ? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/really-going-ukraine-alternative-scenario/

Surely (for example) this ‘news’ story could not be true: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/25863/putin-destroys-7-u-s-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine/

01/03/2022: Well Said Andrew Bolt: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-ukrainians-are-heroes-to-all-of-us/news-story/389f6056f6f443bbe104e1cbb98d11c5

01/03/2022: The Importance of Men:

28/02/2022: Thank goodness at least the Stock Market is setting new records – I would hate to think the good burghers of Kiev were dying for nothing. Ah, the lovely dividends!

28/02/2022: I have to own one of these: https://www.atiki.shop/products/kinetic-art?st=&fbclid=IwAR1cVv-uuhn706xHsCORB9T1dy70xuLvXEJCSsdpiKM7rEBhTRt2VOlgmbk

PS: The more I look at and think about this object the more I feel that It can't possibly exist. Surely it defies the laws of physics. Once I could have written out the equations ot show this. By the same token someone once said the same thing about whether bumble bees could fly yet I have seen them doing so. Will I have to purchase one to see whether it is a fake - or a new source of energy? You have to click on the link and open it then scroll down to see the video.

A friend of mine (Brett) explains: “This video explains there’s a hidden device in its base

https://youtu.be/Y5dylh2aOiw”

28/02/2022: Knee Update 3: Good to know Putin is better than Hitler (at conquering the Ukraine). Four days (to Kiev) as against two months (Barbarossa) has to be a big improvement. I guess in the future this will become something like a competition – the best contenders will be able to completely crush the Ukraine in 24 hours – or less. Good to know (at least) that folks have been practicing this war so many times for the last few thousand years. I suspect that there is something about having names of six or more syllables which angers people. After being told (boorishly) to ‘love one another’ so many times over the years people are still plenty good at hate. This may be related to my current (non-ambulatory) status – on account of the knee replacement, but I can’s get excited about throwing away any of my numerous lives dying for either the Ukies or the Ruskies. Well, I own that I haven’t much of this life left to throw away at all really. I am more about planning seeing (supposing the knee gets going again – soon, please) whether I can still toddle to some out of the way spot to admire the view and listen to the wind in the trees. I am currently researching (isn’t the internet wonderful?) whether I can use cargo drones or ultralight aircraft to assist me. Once I am chasing Della around the house and yard (soon again I hope) such silly plans will soon evaporate. Meanwhile the sheep are simply adoring the month’s hay we put out for them before the op and have already devoured more than half of it, so plans are afoot to see how this can be replaced without me being able to walk or drive a tractor (Round bales of hay are too heavy for drones and would blow away!)

27/02/2022: Many Ukrainians have (unsurprisingly) not forgotten the Holdomor. There exists an excellent 2019 film about it (eponymously) ‘Mr Jones’. You should steal a copy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/

27/02/2022: Those of ‘us’ who thought (again and again) we just could not have another war were wrong again – and will continue to be so! If folks think they can have a ‘quick war’ (and win) they will give it a try most every time. Your prayers will do nothing to prevent that. Bullies need to be convinced before they start that they will have neither. This used to be called ‘Defence’. Older people must be reminded of the ‘Phoney War’ period at the beginning of WW2 – let’s hope this is not a repetition. A reminder, real people are dying. I am waiting for major leaders to tell Vlad very loudly to ‘Back Off’ eg ‘Tomorrow we will destroy the Kremlin’.

26/02/2022: What could go wrong: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333751-700-meet-the-robots-that-can-reproduce-learn-and-evolve-all-by-themselves/

26/02/2022: “The peoples of autocratic countries don’t get to choose their governments; that is their tragedy. The peoples of liberal democracies get a choice, and that is theirs. The fact that the people of the United States have chosen to be led by a geriatric incompetent, at this moment in time, is more than a tragedy for America; it is a tragedy for the entire world” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/1939-revisited/

26/02/2022: The dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar panels: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/24/standing_up_to_putin_means_ditching_net-zero_818493.html

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18/02/2022: Harry Cummins make a fine case for why I believe in ‘discrimination’ or ‘discernment’ as I prefer to call it, particularly in relation to immigration but also (for example) in relation to the franchise. ‘No taxation without representation' formed the cornerstone of American democracy you might remember. I would probably prefer to turn that on its head, ie ‘No representation without taxation’ so that you only get to choose who is the government and what the government spends (your) money on if you have contributed (financially) to that government. A very thought-provoking essay anyway: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-common-cause-of-china-and-islam/?fbclid=IwAR3RijMTcM2IeC6Sak3AUePXGXeNwHfsDjRfj4O9TZ1imw4slF4RRTAQrqE

18/02/2022: Knee Update #2: I have walked to the toilet and shower (using a walker) and am now all clean and sitting in a chair. All going well so far - and thank you all very much for the kind thoughts and well-wishing. Already planning future hikes - Vic mountains (hopefully by May), Mt Bartle Frere (alternate route) late June, EBC and surrounds late Oct and back to the Dusky (Fiordland, NZ) in Feb/March. An example of where we would like to be: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/everest-days-1-2-lukla-to-namche-bazar/?fbclid=IwAR1R3V36ZjmJYb0cU-Zq0qKl8MfaiP8uVNkhhuGpmb4ZRtmogowldqcOj1o

17/02/2022: Knee update: Just to let you know that 5 hours after going down to surgery I am siting up in bed and still have ten toes. Time will tell how well all this went. Many thanks for all your good wishes. I will keep you posted,

17/02/2022: Ain’t it the truth: Aussie beer tax slammed as ‘sexist’: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_beer_tax_cut_slammed_as_sexist

17/02/2022: If I am a bit quiet for a few days it is because I am in hospital having a knee replacement. Hopefully this gives me a whole new lease on life!

17/02/2022: On the persistence of bad ideas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/2/firing-the-canon

17/02/2022: Terrible news P.J. O’Rourke is dead. Laughter died with him: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pj-orourke-passes-away/

‘Eat the Rich’, an example of his greatness: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke/dp/0871137607?asin=0871137607&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

16/02/2022: Why SpaceX is going to dominate air freight: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket-costs-versus-airplanes.html

16/02/2022: The revolution really has begun: 81% of Canadians (already) oppose Trudeau’s response to the trucker protest: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32561

Trudeau goes full Nazi: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/trudeau-declares-all-truckers-donors-and-honkers-are-terrorists-seize-their-bank-accounts/

16/02/2022: Notice how the Greens and the Left’s vote is collapsing. Conservatives are several points ahead: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/adam_bandt_s_greens_circle_the_drain_as_voter_support_collapses

16/02/2022: Meanwhile Russia is withdrawing its troops from the Ukrainian border – there was zero chance they were going to start a war in Europe anyway when their real enemy is China. The West should be allied with Russia against Islam and China.

Seems that news was highly exaggerated!

15/02/2022: This pub survived the Black Death but could not survive covid lunacy. Let that be a lesson to you all: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/oldest-pub-in-britain-closes-after-1229-years/

15/02/2022: The truckers have brought about a massive change in public opinion in just a month. This indicates the potential for a ‘revolution’ at the polls here in May where it is still possible that a coalition of (mainly new) commonsense elements (some splintering away from the main parties) but including Lib Dems, One Nation United Australia etc could still change Australia permanently (for the better). I’m sure I am not the only person who is utterly tired of the politics we have had forced on us for so long by the two main parties, bureaucrats, unionists, pressure groups & etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/more-canadians-support-truckers-freedom-so-trudeau-may-launch-national-emergencies-act/

15/02/2022: What do greens really want? We must not bow to this sort of climate madness: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/amid-energy-crisis-uk-government-uses-regulatory-death-curse-on-massive-local-gas-industry/

15/02/2022: Last Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — Now They Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/wow-last-week-experts-admitted-lockdowns-not-reduce-mortality-rates-now-admit-masking-mostly-worthless/

May be useful advice: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-how-to-detox-from-the-covid-spike-protein-from-the-jab-or-the-virus/

14/02/2022: Who needs Netflix, etc? The Internet Archive has thousands of fine movies and TV shows for streaming (without ads) for free: https://archive.org/details/feature_films

14/02/2022: Useful Instructable: How to open a locked door without a key: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a25318691/how-open-locked-door/

14/02/2022: Well said Joel – everyone needs to step back from trying to steal votes from the extreme Left. Instead these evil forces need to be rejected and exorcised: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-mp-says-party-is-better-off-in-opposition-than-doing-deal-with-greens-in-event-of-hung-parliament/news-story/7a63587e1ddaed778ea38c20917bb051

You should try to understand the cost of green lunacy: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/here_s_the_cost_of_a_labor_greens_government

14/02/2022: When you are punished for doing a public service: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/i-have-no-problem-with-this-murder/

13/02/2022: Nature is awesome: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/massive-swarm-of-birds-plummet-to-the-earth-dead-very-bizarre-video/

13/02/2022: Amid the witch-hunting of our greatest warrior and hero Ben Roberts-Smith VC please try to understand why we have a military, (Clue: It is not to push some bizarre woke agenda): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-retired-marine-3-star-general-explains-critical-military-theory/ar-AATHzEt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

13/02/2022: What if a revolution had already started and no-one even noticed (because the media are part of the system). Remember how the collapse of the USSR took us all by surprise? Is that what is happening in Ottawa (and now Canberra)? David Evans, “The great political realignment continues. The ruling class have coalesced — with the establishment right joining the bureaucratic left. They are all college-educated (but not too bright, you understand), and they love well paid government jobs and government money, and being aligned to the dominant political ideology so they can name-call anyone else and dismiss them without having to actually engage with what they are saying — without having to actually think. But they left behind most of society. We can’t all be overpaid non-productive consumers of government money.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/trudeau-is-panicking-its-the-biggest-human-rights-protest-in-a-generation/

13/02/2022: A huge crowd in Canberra. I cannot recall ever seeing anything of this magnitude in Oz: https://www.rebelnews.com/australias_biggest_convoy_descends_on_the_capital When the first Russian Revolution occurred it was just a massive upwelling of popular feeling which ushered in a democratic change. No-one was in charge. It was later that the communists took over from that democratic government. Much the same thing happened earlier in France.

12/02/2022: Parasocial – a new word for you today. Apparently it’s about illusory relationships. I suspect lots of folks have these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

12/02/2022: You betcha – no such thing as a free lunch: https://www.city-journal.org/free-lunch-economics

12/02/2022: We have often said, ‘But it ain’t the Black Death’ but now it turns out the Black Death wasn’t either: https://scitechdaily.com/black-death-mortality-not-as-widespread-as-long-thought-bubonic-plague-had-no-impact-on-parts-of-europe/

11/02/2022: The remarkable Anthony Hopkins: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/02/10/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-8/

11/02/2022: The debate about euthanasia quickly slips from (not) forcing people to live with intolerable conditions to forcing them to end their lives because (such) lives are ‘worthless’. Many would have seen Helen Keller’s whole life for example as ‘not worth living’ (if it were them, they think) but she and millions of others do not agree: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-political-shifts-that-embrace-euthanasia/

11/02/2022: Innumeracy and ‘aboriginal genocide’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/aborigines-and-the-question-of-genocide/

10/02/2022: Wild surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZoPR4pCwm0&t=66s

10/02/2022: Election fraud. Just one state. As if it was not enough that the Arizona audit found 700,000 dubious votes there are over 700,000 votes lacking any chain of custody: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/huge-maricopa-county-investigation-finds-additional-740000-ballots-no-documented-chain-custody/ Election officials have been caught deleting records: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/exclusive-election-fraud-video-maricopa-county-election-workers-caught-red-handed-deleting-archived-files-server-delivery-auditors/ Meanwhile Rep Finchen introduces a bill to decertify the election results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/breaking-big-arizona-state-rep-mark-finchem-introduces-resolution-set-aside-decertify-three-2020-county-elections/

10/02/2022: World’s most massive experiment - mRNA Vaccines just became even more worrying: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/spike-protein-still-being-produced-60-days-later-after-mrna-vax/ PS: We have just had our third shot of Astra Zenica.

PS: Astra-Zenica has (at last) been approved a a booster this morning, so there is a choice. Soon Novavax will join it.

09/02/2022: Tali Karng - a Gippsland Gem: A friend of mine (Leanne) walked there last weekend reminding me of our trip there twelve years' ago, not long after the 2007 fire. The bush has changed a fair bit since then. She kindly shared her photos with me, so I have been able to construct this photo essay about the trip for your edification.

Leanne started her trip (as many do) at the McFarlane Saddle on the Moroka Rd and finished at the Wellington River Bridge. She took three relaxing days for the 29 km trip. Walking in this direction makes most of the trip flat or downhill. It is approximately 12 km in to Tali and a further 17 km to the Wellington River Bridge (including 16 river crossings).

Many people just walk up from the Wellington Bridge (or the B1 Track - shorter) and back again as Della and I did. If you are young and fit you can walk and back from the B1 in a day though why you would be in such a hurry I can't imagine!

It is only a thirty or so years ago that we used to drive in along what were then 4WD (logging) tracks deer hunting. I have even been in there in my old (1981) Subaru Leone circa 1984 with my foxhounds. It is (alas) just a pile of rust in the paddock today (and the beloved hounds but a memory) but on that day I towed a Toyota Land Cruiser through a couple of difficult sections with it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/02/08/tali-karng-a-gippsland-gem/

09/02/2022: Women (and men) just became redundant: https://interestingengineering.com/an-ai-robot-nanny-will-care-for-human-embryos-in-artificial-wombs

09/02/2022: The ‘nuclear family’ was a mistake? An interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2smYKHi_Ud2csYitXDLm954scVyE3hsHEdgR9AG2ZfW2egbKi2ZCdDJjc

09/02/2022: Some ‘religion’ where it is ‘honourable’ to murder women: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10488629/Iranian-husband-carries-severed-head-wife-decapitating-honour-killing.html

08/02/2022: Men have been boss in the Orkneys for a long while: https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-rewrites-the-history-of-prehistoric-orkney-britains-ancient-capital/

08/02/2022: Seems like the Shoshone have busy been in Wyoming for quite some time: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/01/31/novel_dating_method_yields_new_discovery_about_north_american_rock_art_814419.html

08/02/2022: Another great green idea: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/germany_to_raze_a_1000yearold_forest_in_the_name_of_going_green.html

08/02/2022: From Anon:

Dear Complier,

We’ve met, but you probably don’t recognise me. You may remember referring to me as a “conspiracy theorist”, “racist”, “sexist”, “bigot”, or “anti-vaxxer”, but in fact I am none of the above, and much more to you than you realise. I am your friend, family member, colleague, lover, acquaintance and neighbour. I am everywhere, but I don’t self-righteously disclose where exactly.

You’re wearing a mask so I can’t see the scorn set on your lips, or even your smile (if it’s there). Your eyes are visible, but in them I see only compliance, fear, shame and defeat. I don’t judge you, as I know you are a victim. You have been efficiently conditioned, the result of which has left you stripped bare of self-confidence, dignity, power and compassion.

Your only strength is to attack those unwilling to join you in obedience. It’s okay – I don’t feel mad – I feel sad for you. I will allow you to direct your fear at me and I will accept it, because the battle I am fighting is for you as well as me. It’s for your children and grandchildren, as well as mine.

You and I both had a choice to make, and I decided to fight for freedom. You submitted instantly, and attempted to shame, intimidate and coerce me into the same, becoming outraged at my independence and my belief in “my body, my choice”. You disagree with my striving for a fair and just society, free from fraud and deception. You call me a “fascist” for arguing against government overreach. Do you see this irony?

While you continue to angrily comply, to follow those who have continuously lied to you, I will continue to push back. I will continue to value my autonomy and I will use my strength to free us both from the path you are blindly walking down.

One day you will see how much your compliance almost cost us, and hopefully you will see that I was never your enemy. I look forward to this day, and I will celebrate it with you. Until then, I will be here propping you up and preventing you from falling, anonymously of course.

Sincerely, Anon.

07/02/2022: Let’s break the cycle:

07/02/2022: Is this the first chink in the narrative? Will there come a rush to say, ‘It wasn’t us’. For example here in Vic literally thousands of people have died because Dictator Dan banned simple safe effective treatments for covid which would have saved many of them (instead of promoting them). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/failed-danish-newspaper-apologizes-not-questioning-governments-covid-19-narrative-video/

06/02/2022: “I did but see her passing by…” a happy Jubilee to our wonderful Queen today: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-monarchy/2022/02/long-live-our-platinum-queen/

06/02/2022: Gobelki Tepe continues to rewrite history: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gobekli-tepe

06/02/2022: The purpose of education: https://www.city-journal.org/html/self-reliance-vs-self-esteem-12493.html

06/02/2022: Ivermectin now shown to cure cancer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ivermectin-has-powerful-anti-cancer-effects-study/

05/02/2022: Freedom Protesters in Canberra today – don’t you wish you were there with them: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32154

05/02/2022: I don’t think it is fine to shoot people for jumping the queue, or spitting on the footpath...Shooting is so noisy (and frightens small children and horses. Garrotting is fine). The essence of all crime is folks who forget the ‘golden rule’ (had they ever heard of it? Viz: ‘Do unto others…’). ie Folks who think they are more important than other folks, so that it is only the latter who should stand in line! People need to learn to ‘keep their place’; if they do not, then ‘off with their heads’!

05/02/2022: The Roman, Scipio Aemilianus. His name is hardly a by-word today – yet it should be. During the course of the Third Punic War he was famous for repeating, ‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed!’ which they did most efficaciously when they won, executing all the menfolk, enslaving all the women and children, razing the city to the ground, ploughing salt into the fields & etc. Not much sign of Algeria resuming super-power status today. Less well known is that when he returned to Rome he expeditiously carried out his next plan. It had rankled him that bankers had grown fat lending money at interest to enable the pursuit of the war. So far as he was concerned this was a breach of a patriotic duty. (Usury, which is what this used excellently to be called was punishable by death right up to a couple of centuries ago!) His motion in the Senate on Day 1 of the peace was that they ALL be put to death (by garrotting) that very day. And they were! We need more of Scipio’s ‘remedies today: To bankers I would add: lawyers, insurers, facilitators…

05/02/2022: Natural immunity is still better than anything we have engineered: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/natural-immunity-still-strong-and-durable-20-months-later-no-boosters-needed/

Meanwhile they are conducting random covid tests because 90% of folk have no idea they have it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/02/not-enough-sick-people-to-keep-the-covid-machine-running-now-its-random-covid-tests-for-more-victims.html

05/02/2022: Maybe you think you should hate plastics but you are going to love this stuff: https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/

04/02/2022: And I thought lizards laid eggs! https://www.facebook.com/abccanberra/videos/691947541798182

04/02/2022: Chernobyl Wildlife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE

04/02/2022: The people are winning against covid tyranny in multiple countries. Hold the line peeps: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/major-win-uk-govt-backs-down-on-mandatory-jabs-for-healthworker-jabs/

04/02/2022: A mysterious cancer cure: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-cancer-treatment-makes-leukemia-vanish-but-creates-more-mysteries/ar-AATpelW?ocid=msedgntp

04/02/2022: 2000 Mules: It’s normal in elections for one person to make 53 trips to 20 drop boxes…and this is only the tip of the iceberg in the most fraudulent election in ‘democratic’ history which must be undone lest the West is lost: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/2000-mules-its-normal-in-elections-for-one-person-to-make-53-trips-to-20-drop-boxes/

03/02/2022: “Koalas don’t need saving. Indeed, they are in much higher numbers across a much wider area today than when Europeans arrived in Australia”: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/01/the-great-koala-extinction-that-never-happens/

03/02/2022: Official (office of national statistics) figures that over the last two years 17371 people in the UK actually died ‘from covid’ as compared to ‘with covid’ ie about 10% of the total normally attributed to it. This is no more than would ‘normally’ die ‘from’ seasonal flu over the same time period. It also begs the question of how many might have been ‘saved’ if readily available proven prevention and treatment had been applied (instead of in some case banned). The average age of these folks who died was mid 80s, ie above the ‘normal’ average age of death. This leads one to question how many years of life have been saved by ‘health’ and economic measures compared with the cost in years of life expended (lockdowns etc). Clearly you could hardly argue that more than a year of life was ‘lost’ by every person who died - or 17371 life years, but just as clearly locking up 70 million people for perhaps a year ‘cost’ 70 million life years a ratio of over 4,000 years of life expended for every year of life ‘saved’. Similarly if you divide the economic costs by the ‘life years’ saved it just doesn’t add up. https://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2022/01/23/ons-data-shows-17371-covid-19-deaths-with-no-underlying-conditions-from-a-total-of-152872-recorded-as-died-within-28-days-of-testing-positive/ NB: I strongly suspect if these ratios hold up for Australia we have in fact lost only approx 300 (not 3,000) 85+ year olds to covid in two years so probably costing us at most 300 life-years. We have lost more lives in total and orders of magnitude more life years to suicide due to the lockdowns. Here in Victoria (alone) we locked several million people down for approx 2/3rds of a year, so several million life years wasted in Oz altogether. Probably about half the lives lost could have been saved by making cheap Vitamins and Zinc available pre infection and Hydroxychlroquine and/or Ivermectin & etc after at a cost of perhaps $100 or less per capita. Instead our governments have squandered somewhere above a trillion dollars or $40,000 per capita, a debt which will take a long while to pay off, if ever – and nothing left for a real emergency round the corner. This is economic (and health) innumeracy on a vast scale, not to mention the tyranny!

03/02/2022: The Rape of Britain – this is what ‘diversity’ politics have created in the UK (and probably in a city near you too): https://gettr.com/streaming/pra8hy1aa0

03/02/2022: This would be so nice – bring it on: https://newatlas.com/medical/osteoarthritis-pain-treatment-molecular-pathway/

02/02/2022: A dog who can teach us a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvwYZuBttQ

02/02/2022: “Since (just) 2019,there have been over 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers published showing no warming in the modern era and/or much warmer temperatures than today when CO2 levels ranged from 180 to 280 ppm” Remember Einstein’s observation, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/31/105-more-non-global-warming-non-hockey-stick-temperature-records-added-to-the-database-in-2021/

02/02/2022: Just imagine if people did not want to buy woke propaganda: https://pjmedia.com/culture/matt-margolis/2022/01/28/dc-comics-bisexual-climate-change-fighting-superman-is-kryptonite-to-sales-n1553849

02/02/2022: It is long since time we started to build nuclear power stations, stopped scrapping coal but ditched useless and costly ‘green’ energy. The woke left are destroying us. Fight back like the Canadian truckies are showing us how to do: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/suddenly-the-world-shifts-back-to-nuclear/ PS: I notice the socialists are condemning the workers of the world for uniting!

01/02/2022: Maybe you thought it was whalers who nearly drove the blue whale to extinction: https://gizmodo.com/horrific-observations-confirm-that-orcas-feed-on-blue-w-1848442007

01/02/2022: If these side-effects of MRNA vaccines are general the cost will be appalling – and our governments mandated this stuff. NB “The increase in medical reports didn’t happen during the first year of Covid, only after the vaccination program was started. In other words, Covid itself didn’t cause this”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/whistleblowers-reveal-dod-medical-data-showing-military-cancer-diagnoses-tripled-since-rollout-experimental-vaccines-along-10x-increase-neurological-disorders-near-5x/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/

01/02/2022: Elon Musk, “ if the government had the mandate of the people there would (not) be a significant counter-protest. There is not, therefore they do not…“It would appear that the so-called ‘fringe minority’ is actually the government…Protesting in a Canadian winter shows real commitment!”

01/02/2022: Vitamin D supplements really do reduce the risk of auto-immune diseases: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306132-vitamin-d-supplements-really-do-reduce-risk-of-autoimmune-disease/

31/01/2022: A Billion Years of Time is Just Missing – did they look under the sofa cushions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdzzb/a-billion-years-of-time-are-mysteriously-missing-scientists-think-they-know-why

31/01/2022: Astra Zenica Booster (if you don’t want a Pfizer/Moderna and can’t wait for Novavax): You can still get one if you get a certificate from your doctor. We have. It is (if anything) even more effective than the alternatives: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shot-third-dose-works-against-omicron-study-2021-12-23/?fbclid=IwAR17-sPdF_iZLr-eyp4deAoU5OmSb2w-owBiSph3FQ-RT5vCb16RvPu8zuQ

31/01/2022: We Are a young country: I have lived nearly a third of our country’s history (73/234 years). My grandfather George (b 1872) had lived half of its history to date when he died in 1955. He used to claim he had met someone who was on the First Fleet which may have been true (but he was a notorious story-teller). His grandfather Thomas Westbury who was transported here in 1828 would have. Also certainly Della’s mother, Dorothy who passed away in 2013 could rightly say that her grandmother had too. Her grandmother, Fannie was born in Tiverton Devon in 1844. She lived next door to her grandmother Mary (Madge) Richards (d1855) who was not only on the First Fleet (as a soldier’s wife) but gave birth to a son, William on the voyage out! You can understand perhaps why I am annoyed that (it seems to me) we are just throwing our country away – if we have not done so already.

30/01/2022: Ice Travel: Sometimes in winter on trails like the EBC etc there are dangerous patches of ice which need to be traversed. Obviously if you were expecting this as a constant situation you would be using more serious crampons. Vargo have just updated their ultralight pocket cleats (62 grams each) which can be quickly attached to your shoes for extra traction in such situations. They are now simpler, more elegant and look more reliable than their earlier product and with a weight saving of about 5 grams. Rea More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/27/ice-travel/

30/01/2022: Faraday Bag – What a world that we should need such things. Alas that we do: https://godarkbags.com/collections/faraday-bags/products/godark-faraday-bags-phone-small-bundle PS: Clearly if you are going to murder a couple of senior cits in the Wonnangatta you will need one of these!

30/01/2022: Ask yourself this (if you supposed there was some runaway ‘greenhouse effect’) how does the world maintain such a perfect constant average temperature (within 1C) for centuries? There simply has to be a (very good) thermostat: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/29/some-models-are-useless/

30/01/2022: Why waste a billion on a Reef which has never been bigger or better – so over woke ‘conservative’ governments: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/the_media_admits_peter_ridd_is_right_great_barrier_reef_coral_cover_is_at_a_record_high

30/01/2022: Maybe the truckies will succeed in ending the mandates: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/canadian-truckers-for-freedom-growing-fast-11-convoys-5m-one-convoy-said-to-be-150km-long/ Our truckies join in: https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_truck_drivers_join_the_convoy_for_freedom

28/01/2022: What is Vanguard (or whoever) up to in fomenting WW3 in Ukraine which has been part of the Russian Empire for centuries and where no doubt more than half the people would vote to rejoin if they had the choice? I also don’t really get why Russia would want to re-conquer the Ukraine which has become an economic basket case and which could only drag the Russian economy down (by approx 20%). Meanwhile Putin will simply turn the lights off to Europe (and now that the US is importing so much oil from Russia thanks to Biden closing Keystone & etc) he has that leverage too.

28/01/2022: Islamic extremism in decline? We can only hope so: https://quillette.com/2022/01/21/in-the-muslim-world-islamism-is-going-out-of-vogue/

28/01/2022: This level of tyranny is just dreadful: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/quebec-canada-bans-unvaxxed-buying-groceries-major-retailers-unless-accompanied-health-warden-will-ensure-buy-food-medicine/

27/01/2022: Why aren’t we using an Astra Zenica booster (if it is more effective): https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shot-third-dose-works-against-omicron-study-2021-12-23/?fbclid=IwAR17-sPdF_iZLr-eyp4deAoU5OmSb2w-owBiSph3FQ-RT5vCb16RvPu8zuQ

27/01/2022: Our BOM is totally out of control: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/26/australias-broken-temperature-record-part-1/ & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/27/statistical-analysis-can-provide-evidence-that-the-official-australian-acornsat-2-1-temperature-analysis-has-added-non-climatic-warming-to-the-record-1910-to-2019/

27/01/2022: Paul Collitts suggests Tony Abbott for PM of the UK – why not Australia? The muppets we have on offer at present are woeful: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/01/tony-abbott-for-pm-of-britain/

27/01/2022: About time we had a second Crimean War. We need more Australian place names memorialising such faraway places: Balaclava, Inkerman, Alma, Sevastopol etc.

26/01/2022: It begins at last– the undoing of a crooked election. Arizona will be next, then Georgia and Pennsylvania. Trump will be vindicated and returned as the elected President: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/huge-breaking-news-wisconsin-assembly-votes-withdraw-10-electors-joe-biden-2020-election-video/

26/01/2022: Terraforming the Sahara. An ambitious project. Thinking big can bring huge rewards. Remember Lang Hancock’s dream of a canal across the middle of Australia and the Bradfield Scheme: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/24/terraforming-the-northern-sahara-will-save-the-world/

26/01/2022: This just can’t be happening: The Criminalisation of Christianity in Finland: https://spectator.org/the-criminalization-of-christianity-in-finland/

26/01/2022: The ‘Aboriginal’ Flag. What is it with the government of Australia buying this piece of racist rubbish? Such objects have no more place in society than the Swastika and KKK symbols. There is but one race, the human race. To think otherwise is just dreadfully evil.

26/01/2022: How China bought the West. The Bidens are just a part of the story. We need to bring back hanging for treason: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/biden-family-gained-31m-in-deals-with-high-level-ccp-operatives/

25/01/2022: Just reading a recent speech by Putin . Seems like we would be picking the wrong side if we opposed his ideas. Do read: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/01/putin-on-the-wests-loss-of-values-in-the-quest-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion.html PS: Does every Democrat President feel it is necessary to start a war? Surely the only beneficiary of such a war would be China which really needs to be curtailed!

25/01/2022: Freezing in EV’s. Great idea: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/ev-needs13-freezing-hours-to-get-650-km-with-3-charging-stops-and-no-heater/

25/01/2022: What happens when the tidal wave (of public opinion) turns? Neil Oliver is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNmdDv48xE&t=564s

25/01/2022: Norway should stop wasting money on this monster. Put him down like any other mad dog: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/norways-worst-mass-murderer-seeks-parole-from-his-cushy-confinement/

24/01/2022: Is It Still Australia? Jolly Swagman’s death is now recorded as COVID19 caused: https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/is-it-still-australia.html

24/01/2022: “The Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold” (Byron). Might be worth a watch. They created a civilisation that makes Medieval Europe, 2000 years later, seem like a barbarian place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAphcaVJIs

24/01/2022: How science actually works – a great article Christopher: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/science/2022/01/the-curse-of-scientisms-domining-paradigm/

24/01/2022: Archaeological evidence of time travel – there are some interesting conundrums/mistakes/frauds in the records, like these: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/controversial-origins-maine-penny-norse-coin-america-020241 & https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/swiss-ring-watch-003312

23/01/2022: Thousands still protesting vaccine mandates in Melbourne – and rightly so too. What lunacy allows covid positive asymptomatic vaccinated people to work but bans the disease free unvaccinated who are likely immune and less risk anyway? https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_closed_thousands_march_for_freedom_in_melbourne

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23/01/2022: The most astonishing thing about ‘trust the science’: The British Medical Journal “Today, despite the global rollout of covid-19 vaccines and treatments, the anonymised participant level data underlying the trials for these new products remain inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the public—and are likely to remain that way for years to come. This is morally indefensible for all trials, but especially for those involving major public health interventions.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/top-british-medical-journal-tells-pfizer-give-us-the-data-its-morally-indefensible/ It is not a ‘conspiracy theory’ to question: https://the-pipeline.org/something-wicked-really-does-this-way-come/

23/01/2022: Why not? Michigan school put litter boxes in the bathroom for students that ‘identify as cats’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/michigan-school-put-litter-boxes-in-the-bathroom-for-students-that-identify-as-cats/

22/01/2022: Our political class today – the advanced ostrich position:

22/01/2022: Trump was right about hydroxychloroquine – of course this might be why Merck’s new treatment (approved by the TGA yesterday is basically just relabeled hydroxy): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dr-zelenko-gets-the-last-laugh/

22/01/2022: Clearly, the cheapest way to stop global warming would be to sack everyone at the BOM : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bom-cools-history-and-warms-the-present-version-2-2/

22/01/2022: If you are a retired teacher who still has nightmares about having to face 9d at 9:00 am this morning your dreams are about to come true: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/education-victoria/retired-teachers-called-to-cover-as-covid-hits-victorias-schools/news-story/dace3b9d5b39244bf37c04d58975dc33

21/01/2022: Gun owners annually save more lives than are lost to any disease. This does not happen in Australia where their use for self-defence is banned. At the time I reflected eg how long would Man Monis have lasted if some people in the Lindt Café were armed? https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-too-often-untold-story-armed-self-defense-and-the-lives-saved-every-year-by-gun-owners/

21/01/2022: Goebells was right after all. Keep telling lies and the people will believe you. A US poll shows Democrats want covid skeptics locked up and their children taken away from them: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/shock-poll-half-of-democrats-want-covid-skeptics-in-prison/

21/01/2022: “We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence." Few know that Jefferson mentioned Sidney as a source and/or inspiration for the Declaration of Independence. It can hardly be more true today, as "credible" news sources spread lies masquerading as truth based on nothing other than these sources own claim that they, themselves, are "credible." Credibility is in the information, not the source - and we have precious few truly credible sources of news today. https://fee.org/articles/algernon-sidney-forgotten-founding-father/ Rally for freedom on January 22: https://australiafreedomrally.com/

PS: Sidney was a supporter of the Roundheads during the English Civil War, and a member of the Long Parliament. Despite his opposition to the king and support for the forces opposing him, Cromwell found it necessary to have Sidney removed, as Sidney had become critical of Cromwell's authoritarian nature. His refusal to leave his seat led to Cromwell ordering the parliamentarians removal and Sidney fled England.

21/01/2022: Tucker: We’re watching civilization collapse in real time. If you are attention span short go to about the 15 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREmnsungVM&t=122s

20/01/2022: This is what really happened when a group of schoolboys was marooned on an island for 15 months. Why do we focus on Golding’s quite false ‘Lord of the Flies’ narrative instead: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

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20/01/2022: 4th Booster fails in Israel. Israel has shattered all of their previous case records, despite mask mandates, vaccine passports and rolling out a 4th dose: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/4th-booster-fails-in-israel-check-the-chart/

20/01/2022: It is apparently very lonely ruling the world. Frankly when they ‘fact-check my posts or downgrade my Google rankings (& etc) they don’t get much sympathy from me: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/workers-at-big-woke-tech-monopolies-are-miserable/

19/01/2022: Flying Deer? Why you need really tall fences for deer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/michael-jordan-has-nothing-on-this-flying-deer/ Mind you I suspect I could move much faster if a big cat was after me too!

19/01/2022: Hunting has been around a long, long time yet some ‘New Age’ folk want to tell me they have discovered it isn’t a good. They are quite simply wrong. Ethics don’t change: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-hunters-0016305

19/01/2022: We would have done much better if we had followed El Salvador’s lead: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/if-only-our-covid-healthcare-was-as-good-as-el-salvador/ Or Uttar Pradesh’s (where they have eliminated it (without vaccine – thanks Ivermectin + Zinc): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-robert-malone-posts-irrefutable-proof-ivermectin-uttar-pradesh-india-success-story/ We could have spent $100 per capita instead of hundreds of thusands! I have been saying this since way back around Xmas 2019!

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18/01/2022: The Joy of Small Streams: This is the Morwell River somewhere neither you nor I (probably) ever thought to canoe. I present it here as an example: The great adventures are mostly over. People have crossed all the continents and seas, plumbed the deepest depths and ascended the tallest mountains – but they haven’t been everywhere. There is oft surprisingly a largely unexplored wilderness right next door which will reveal many delights if you ‘take the road less traveled’ or preferably no road at all, as I prefer to do.

A couple of earlier posts such as Travels in a Donkey Trap & The Commute may illustrate this better.

You will have read that Della has a new Alpacka Scout which we are keen to try out, but it is difficult to do much with this knee (agonising) as it presently is. Less than a month to go and I will have a new one, and hopefully a new lease of life to go with it – but there will be quite a few weeks of recuperation and restoration I’m sure before I travel far and wide.

The Morwell River is a very small river which rises behind the village of Boolarra in Sth Gippsland. The canoeable section (paralleling the River Rd) is (roughly) from the East Branch confluence (bridge) down to Fox and Fanke’s Road – though you can go down to the next bridge (a private driveway – luckily owned by a couple of friends of mine!)

This trip will take about three hours when the river is clear and will be just beautiful at river heights on the Boolarra Gauge of between .5 and .6 metres. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/the-joy-of-small-streams/

18/01/2022: So, panspermia is a thing – maybe all life on earth is alien in origin? The corollary anyway is that life from here will have colonized many other places by now: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-vertical-bacteria-altitude-120km.html

18/01/2022: What do you see when you actually measure ‘anthropogenic CO2: “Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/16/how-much-manmade-co2-is-in-the-atmosphere-really/

18/01/2022: ‘The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ Ian Kerhsaw.

17/01/2022: A Good Scout: This is the Alpacka Scout which I bought for my wife Della (or was it for myself?) for a Xmas present – here modeled by my daughter and grandson in the farm dam.

Pack Raft Australia are the Australian agents. Their prices are as low as you could possible get it from the US anyway but the rafts will arrive in less than a week. They also have lots of spares and accessories – and also stock Hyperlite Mountain Gear. I highly recommend them.

My daughter (and my wife are around 5′ and 40 kg sort of people. This raft (at 1.5 kg) is ideal for them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/a-good-scout/

17/01/2022: “When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty”. Thomas Jefferson.

17/01/2022: Trump can still draw the crowds like no other – what sane person can believe that this man did not win the US election? It shocks me to the core that the world’s greatest democracy has been overthrown by massive corruption backed by the CCP. I still hope that this awful evil will be undone without civil war: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/wow-419000-viewers-tune-watch-trump-florence-rally-rsbn-rumble-youtube-gettr-channels-live/

17/01/2022: “The Chinese regime has taken to heart the Leninist slogan,“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Important messages from Ronald Reagan the greatest US president to date: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/14/quiet-men-and-bamboo-cages/

17/01/2022: The world’s greatest tennis player is not allowed to win the Australian Open because of his beliefs even though he is zero risk of causing any health problems amongst us as we record 100,000+ new cases per day and he is ‘recovered’ status anyway. I’m sure you all know that I have no interest at all in spectator sport but I am passionate about our freedoms. I am quite frankly ashamed by this stupid, illiberal decision.

16/01/2022: Are 3D printed rockets the future of space exploration: https://www.space.com/relativity-space-company-terran-1-launch

16/01/2022: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years...When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education...the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint...It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold...they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters." Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)

16/01/2022: Epstein-Barr – another nasty virus: https://scitechdaily.com/compelling-evidence-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-epstein-barr-virus/

16/01/2022: AI news reader has been live for 70 days and no-one noticed the difference. I suspect this has happened with many of our political leaders too: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/china-reveals-ai-news-anchor-almost-indistinguishable-real-human

15/01/2022: It’s impossible to ‘save a life’. I for one am fed up with the hype that always surrounds all the ‘nanny-state’ nonsense which goes with all sorts of attempts to do so. Everyone has exactly the same numbers of lives and deaths, ie one. Nothing, save the discovery of the secret of immortality can change that. However, though the date of your birth is petty much fixed, the date of your death may not be. I’m sure we have all had close shaves. Death cannot be indefinitely postponed however. All that can happen is that we can be granted a little more time – mostly this is spent slumped in a wheelchair pooping oneself! So not much to be gained really. A more reliable measure is to add up the relative savings in (life) times that any particular proposal might make as compared with the cost in (life) times that it will entail. For example, it is sometimes argued that reducing the speed on a particular road will ‘save’ a certain number of lives. All that can (possibly) be ‘saved’ is the remainder of any particular ‘victim’s’ life which was foregone by his/her earlier than expected demise. Set against that quantum of time you have to count the ‘cost’ in time of slowing down all the drivers on that road - possibly several (life) times per year here - and the cost in time of caring for the geriatric period of the person who had died ‘prematurely’. If the second set of ‘times’ exceeds the first then the proposal is not worth doing. Everyone’s life is equally worthless or worthwhile in this cost accounting, which may not be the case!

15/01/2022: What the other epidemiologists (60,000 of them) say: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/

15/01/2022: Maybe if we gave up washing our skin could take care of itself: https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/skincare-science-cleansing-dermatology-truth.html

15/01/2022: Will space anaemia strand us on earth forever or will a solution be found for future star trekkers: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/we-dont-know-why-but-being-in-space-causes-us-to-destroy-our-blood/

14/01/2022: Buster Keaton was the funniest man ever, as you can see in this clip from his 100 year old movie ‘Cops’ (1920): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1_zJngNak&t=366s You can download the complete film for free from archive.org

14/01/2022: This is really bad news: US inflation has hit 7% https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/inflation-went-up-7-in-december-from-a-year-earlier-fastest-pace-since-1982/ 80% of all US dollars were printed in the last 22 months: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/inflation_is_here_80_per_cent_of_all_us_dollars_were_printed_in_the_last_22_months What could go wrong? Weimar. That’s what.

14/01/2022:

14/01/2022: Now both the EU and the WHO warn against taking continual ‘booster’ shots on the grounds that it may permanently damage your immune system – and of course they don’t work either: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/frightening-joins-eu-changes-direction-suddenly-warns-taking-continued-covid-booster-shots/

Meanwhile cannabis and licorice are the new covid cures: https://scitechdaily.com/cannabinoids-from-hemp-prevent-covid-19-coronavirus-from-entering-human-cells/

13/01/2022: Interesting. The lost habit of two sleeps – so many everyday things scarcely make it into history. If you have ‘problems’ sleeping, you should read this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

13/01/2022: The Redneck Guide to Children’s Rights – some interesting insights here: https://cbradleythompson.substack.com/p/the-redneck-guide-to-childrens-rights

13/01/2022: Our shameful climate alarmists just keep inventing new climate records whilst ignoring the reality that the world has been cooling now for 8,000 years and will continue to do so until we enter the next Ice Age for circa 100,000 years. That would be a big story: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/magical-seven-year-record-wins-the-hottest-ever-bingo-of-2021/

13/01/2022: If this is authenticated (likely) it is an absolute bombshell and reveals awful evil at the highest level: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/premeditated-manslaughter-millions-people-coordinated-highest-levels-naomi-wolf-dr-malone-respond-project-veritas-bombshell-video/

12/01/2022: A surfing swimming cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBUxmWeoc0

12/01/2022: This new robot is spooky – time to put a stop to this? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dont-let-this-humanoid-robot-within-100-feet/

12/01/2022: Meanwhile it looks like China has been tinkering with bioweapons again but this one is far worse with maybe a 50% fatality rate. Shut the door to this yesterday Scott.: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-malone-mentions-possible-outbreak-china-ebola-like-hemorrhagic-fever-virus-marburg-virus-50-survival-rate/

11/01/2022: “I see thy glory like a shooting star.” Richard 2. There really are ‘shooting stars’: https://www.popsci.com/space/real-shooting-stars-look-a-lot-different-than-youd-expect/

11/01/2022: Does this mean we have to say, ‘Goodbye’ to the Bussard Ramjet: https://scitechdaily.com/science-fiction-revisited-ramjet-propulsion-for-interstellar-space-travel/

11/01/2022: I realized the vaccines had problems but I did not realize they were this bad: “Instead of bringing an end to this pandemic as promised, the widespread rollout of the experimental vaccines has actually caused a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths across the world, the jab has caused a whopping 38% more Covid cases per million – and an even more astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million”. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/massive-145-country-study-shows-sharp-increase-transmission-death-introduction-covid-vaccines/

Meanwhile Ivermectin even at very low doses saves a huge (70%) percentage of sufferers: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bizarrely-low-dose-ivermectin-still-cut-infections-hospitalization-in-half-deaths-by-70/

11/01/2022: We must reject the racist apartheid politics of the anti-Australia Day crowd. We are all Australians who belong only to the one (human) race. That is all: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/01/the-violent-politics-of-australia-day/

10/01/2022: A good news story about a baby hummingbird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9MxTo1W2PY&t=224s

10/01/2022: Slow-Mo Supernova: https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-we-ve-seen-a-red-giant-star-transition-into-a-supernova

10/01/2022: James Webb out at L2 which we might colonise one day bit until then e will never see this amazing piece of technology again but (hopefully)it shows us a universe we could otherwise only have dreamed of: https://www.sciencealert.com/enjoy-ariane-5-s-last-view-of-webb-as-it-sails-off-into-deep-space

10/01/2022: Dispelling Progressive Fantasies About a World Without Guns: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/first-do-no-harm-dispelling-progressive-fantasies-about-a-world-without-guns/

09/01/2022: Shameful: Is it any wonder that there are 7 dead and 32 injured when clearly everyone fled instead of rushing to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcsVi2y83w

09/01/2022: The immense bravery which still exists despite decades of theocratic totalitarianism inspires me. One should not forget that ‘the ‘Western Civilisation’ of which we are so justifiable proud (I hope) actually stands on the shoulders of an Arab civilisation which preserved it for close to a thousand years when it was thrown away into barbarism in that very West. ‘Algebra’ for example isn’t just called that by accident. Alas that ‘Arab Civilization’ has itself largely descended into barbarism: https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/iranians-set-fire-to-soleimanis-statue-hours-after-unveiling/

09/01/2022: Why humans suck at thinking. I must because I still think the real answer to the Monty Hall problem is ½: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/gamblers-fallacy-and-the-regression-to-the-mean/

09/01/2022: You have to hope this does not come to pass: “Are we headed for the situation where the ~30% unvaxxed will be devoting their lives to operating whatever is left of the economic infrastructure and serving as caretakers for the vaxxed? in the USA, where ~200M people have been fully inoculated, the number of deaths will not be the 10,000 or so reported in VAERS, or the 150,000+ scaled-up deaths from VAERS, but could be closer to tens of millions when the inoculation effects play out! https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bhakdiburkhardt-pathology-results

09/01/2022: Stuart Schneiderman is always refreshing. “When government fails the movement toward populism accelerates. And it tends toward conspiracy theories, because who would possibly believe that the people who are running government are just plain stupid. In truth, it's easier to deal with evil than it is to deal with stupid…A lot more of this may be on the way if the developed world keeps playing Russian roulette with its energy supply, a vital underpinning of a modern society and foundation of every voter’s well-being” http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/01/climate-change-sanity.html

08/01/2022: Blame the hedgehogs: https://www.sciencealert.com/origins-of-drug-resistant-superbug-weren-t-what-we-thought-surprise-discovery-shows

08/01/2022: Long past time politicians (and others) focused on things that actually matter. Tucker’s opening statement is worth a watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ka7zKnzEfs

08/01/2022: Protecting the grid (rather than forcing it to collapse) is a case in point: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/deaths-from-1-degree-of-warming-nothing-compared-to-an-electricity-grid-collapse-for-a-year/

08/01/2022: January 6 Remembered – It’s only when conservatives do it (and do no harm) that it matters: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/07/8-times-left-wing-protesters-broke-into-government-buildings-and-assaulted-democracy/

07/01/2022: Virtue signalling is all very well but not if it costs me a single buck: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/its-just-a-fashion-most-climate-worriers-dont-want-to-fly-less-drive-less-or-eat-less-meat-either/

07/01/2022: Viagra — is there anything it can't do? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/viagrais_there_anything_it_cant_do.html

07/01/2022: How things work –unfortunately: https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/errors-forced-and-otherwise

07/01/2022: China has sustained a fusion reaction for 17 minutes. The race is on. Cheap safe fusion power is just around the corner. We can stop fretting about carbon and renewables. Nuclear is the way forward: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/developing-nation-china-makes-artificial-sun-nuclear-fusion-at-70-million-degrees-for-17-minutes/

06/01/2022: We must ‘follow the science’: scientists teach fish to drive: https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-robotic-aquarium-allows-fish-to-drive-around-on-roads/

06/01/2022: “They have suppressed many safe, useful treatments: People deficient in Vitamin D3 are 14 times more likely to get severe Covid. Why aren’t the Health Departments telling us all to get our D3 measured and why don’t they hand out free samples at every corner chemist? Vit D3 reduced hospital deaths in Turkey by 60%. Most of the sickest Covid patients in Spain were deficient in Vit A. And 42% were deficient in B6, which helps reduce cytokine storms. Think that’s an “accident”?

Melatonin reduces deaths by maybe 90%, good old antihistamines saved nursing home patients, Iota-carageenan nasal sprays reduced infections by 80%, Mouthwashes reduce covid deaths by 80%. Asthma drug Budesonide reduces Covid hospitalization rate by 90%. Even cough syrup with Bromhexine might help.

Indonesia cut Covid by 98% with Ivermectin while Australia grew cases 500% with Lock-n-Vax, Uttar Pradesh, India, wiped out Covid with ivermectin. In Peru, Ivermectin cut covid deaths by 75% in 6 weeks. The virus mysteriously disappeared in Japan. Can’t we copy them? Meanwhile countries that use hydroxychloroquine appear to have 80% lower Covid death rates. Maybe that matters. If the Health Dept cared about health, if hospitalization rates were important at all, they’d be acting differently” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/why-suppress-early-safe-treatments-for-covid-heres-24-billion-reasons/

06/01/2022: A must read – mass formation psychosis explained: https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-how-have-we-gotten-here-mass-formation-psychosis-explained/

06/01/2022: How the 1960s institutionalized us. Roger Kimball is great. “The long march of the cultural revolution of the 1960s has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of all but the most starry-eyed utopians. The great irony is that this victory took place in the midst of a significant drift to the center-right in electoral politics. The startling and depressing fact is that supposedly conservative victories at the polls have done almost nothing to challenge the dominance of left-wing, emancipationist attitudes and ideas in our culture… It is both ironical and dispiriting to realize that the counterculture may have won its most insidious victories not among its natural sympathizers on the left but among those putatively conservative opponents who can no longer distinguish between material affluence and the moral good…” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/institutionalized-long-march-marcuse-sixties-revolution/

05/01/2022: Terraforming Mars – I used to think it was only Sci-Fi but maybe someday it will happen (especially if Musk has anything to do with it): https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/02/nasas-retiring-top-scientist-says-we-can-terraform-mars-and-maybe-venus-too/

05/01/2022: Another Elon Musk first: https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/why-cats-are-cozying-up-to-elon-musks-starlink-satellites/

05/01/2022: What is happening here? A 40% increase in the death rates of working age people would have to be very worrying: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/highest-death-rates-history-indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-whopping-40-among-people-aged-18-64-2020-fraction-covid-deaths-video/

05/01/2022: French Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s Christmas message. He would get my vote. If only our Oz leaders had half his belief in the worth of our civilisation instead of being so eager to throw it away. “Christmas Eve begins the celebration of a civilization – ours – that has enlightened human history. A civilization that believes man is absolutely free, whatever his birth, his past, his environment, his path. In the Christian world, liberty has a divine nature and must be protected as the most precious treasure. A civilization that believes men are equal in dignity…: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/01/a-belated-christmas-message-from-eric-zemmour/

04/01/2022: Increasing Tyranny World-Wide. Just a couple of ‘incidents’ to underline this. Once the ABC’s 7:30 report or the Herald Sun (the mainstream media generally) would have headlined such things but they are now complicit in concealing the news (and the deteriorating situation). Dr Malone (the inventor of the mRNA process which underlines some vaccines (he actually specifically warns against) gave an interview the other day explaining the phenomenon of ‘mass formation psychosis’ (mas hysteria) and its role in advancing totalitarianism. This search term ‘broke’ Google for over 24 hours as the people behind the manipulation of information scrambled (unsuccessfully this time) to cover it up. You could find out about this at ‘Infowars’ for example (and many other sites) but I would not be able to post links to them without being banned permanently from Facebook & etc. In a like way Tommy Robinson has just completed a documentary about UK child rape gangs entitled ‘The Rape of Britain’. As you can see he has had his car fire-bombed today. I fear he will be killed. He has also had to organize (huge) teams of volunteer (dads) to protect the witnesses he interviewed from the criminals who carried out these rapes (who are protected by the police and MPs!) You have already seen how the US election was (hugely) stolen so that (de facto) democracy has all but disappeared from the world. These are dark days my friends. I hope to live to see the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’, but we may not - for even a millennium. Such has been the case in the past. Be warned and be vigilant: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-tommy-robinsons-car-firebombed-release-documentary-trailer-grooming-gangs-video/

Check out the follow-up to these ‘incidents’ here: https://t.me/s/TommyRobinsonNews Not so long ago we would have (rightly) insisted that perpetrators of child (any) rape would be hanged from the nearest tree. Now the police (society?) has become complicit in such awful crimes.

04/01/2022: This is normal: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/01/new-annual-temperature-data-show-no-warming-in-tokyo-in-45-yearshachijo-jima-island-no-warming-in-71-years/ You can check the BOM temperature records at our longest most remote Oz sites (eg Cape Otway and Wilsons Prom) yourself to see that temperatures actually declined during the C20th and that all the highest temperature records actually occurred in the C19th. If you are too lazy to do so you are not ‘entitled’ to an alternative opinion. That being said however I see that the BOM has been hiding the data and will no longer respond to a search for these station names. Here is a list of the station numbers: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/ca_vic_names.shtml The data can still be found. Here it is: http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_stn_num=090015 More instructions can be found here: http://www.finnsheep.com/CLIMATE%20CHANGE-%20CARBON%20SCAM.htm

04/01/2022: Life will find a way – for thousands of bugs ‘plastic pollution is just food. They will soon have gobbled it all up. Like so many things, not a problem: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/plastics-are-not-forever-bugs-evolved-30000-new-plastic-eating-enzymes-already/

04/01/2022: Abortion was the world’s leading cause of death last year (by a long shot). Over 40 million! For comparison World War 1 killed around 20 million, World War 2 perhaps 60 million but each was over a period of several years. This is homicide on a grand scale, not advanced health care. For most of my long life we have had safe cheap contraception and have been able to ‘plan’ our families and enjoy our (sex) lives. I understand that the ‘parents’ of these aborted babies do not want them (any more than murderers generally want their victims to live). There are more than sufficient other people who do want these babies though – and one might have thought the babies themselves ought have a stake in this, ie what once was called a ‘right’ to life? For most of us it is a wonderful boon after all. In most countries there is a drastic declining population and a shortage of workers which will cause all sorts of problems in the future. Making sure that these ‘unwanted’ babies have a loving home and a rewarding future instead of death would go a long way to solving both these problems as well as help to confirm our humanity. https://www.worldometers.info/abortions/

03/01/2022: And Now For the Good News: Dear IPCC, First get the science right…If you have a great big hole in the roof it will be impossible to heat your house…if all the heat ‘leaks’ out over Antarctica for example, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about or to be done about it. (PS: For me at least ‘advection’ is a new word – joy!): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/02/advection/

03/01/2022: Canoeing into the New Year: There was 2.05 metres of lovely water on the Waterford gauge and 1.60 on the Crooked River gauge and several above 30C degree days to look forward to so we filled the 15 litre Esky keg with ice (and some celebratory cans of champagne for Della) tossed all our gear into two cars and headed off (of course with the two dogs) to Eaglevale intending to canoe down to Kingwill Bridge over a (very) leisurely three days. This is an excellent height but we enjoyed the trip before with only 1.75 on the Waterford gauge.

It is (roughly 2.5 hours down to Bullock Flat then a further 2.5 hours down to (unsignposted) Neates Track thence a further 3 hours down to the Kingwill Bridge. There are several other intermediate camping spots where you can enter or exit the river, some of them so well concealed that no-one at all was there even though both at Eaglevale and Kingwill Bridge folks were pretty much ‘cheek and jowl’ having at long last escaped the covid tyranny for a brief respite.

This trip could be achieved in one (hectic) day if you were of such a mind or you could take your time, enjoy lots of refreshing swims, picnics under shady trees and etc and just take your time. ‘There is nothing quite like messing about in boats’ as Ratty (or Mole) opined in ‘Wind in the Willows’. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/02/canoeing-into-the-new-year/

03/01/2022: Three inches of rain coming but the BOM is still calling it ‘Showers’!

03/01/2022: The Perfect Husband? Well, probably not but I am a hero today having fixed Della’s (long-suffering) stove problem. Several years’ ago I installed a new Westinghouse GSP 627S gas stove for her. After a short while the door started to give problems and would not close properly. Repeated efforts to gain warranty failed as did various jack-leg work arounds so that we mainly reverted to propping the door ‘closed’ with a short length of broom handle or similar. Lately I decided to have another go and discovered this wonderful lady’s ‘review’ of her own experiences. https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/westinghouse-gsp627s This led me to the people who sell the improved door support bracket (https://allfixelectrical.com.au/products/westinghouse-4u600-series-improved-oven-door-hinge-support-bracket-kit-part-0133002227k?_pos=2&_sid=e0b4fc722&_ss=r – a whole $21!) It really took no more than five minutes to install them and now (after many years) the door closes perfectly – much more perfectly than it did from new. Della will now have to master a whole new set of cooking times and there will be huge savings no doubt on our gas bill. There (sometimes) is progress after all!

02/01/2022: Happy New Year: We have been away from people canoeing – more about that in a later post. Occasionally coming upon the (literally) hordes of benighted campers confined to ‘camping grounds’ along the river whilst we enjoyed mile after mile of solitary bliss led us to reflect that (at now over 70 – me) we have enjoyed the best of all lives, and we are still doing so. Those who come after have very much less to look forward to largely because of the proliferation of government and other big controlling entities. Still there is even more wilderness to enjoy than there ever was. The world has added an area of a couple of Australias of forest in just the last quarter century or so for example, and as people crowd more and more into urban areas and access roads and tracks are closed the bush is more and more thinly populated. It is really no use buying one of the Thai 4WD dual cabs. The only way to access the bush is by canoe or shanks’ pony. Get out there and enjoy before it is banned too.

02/01/2022: Great lines from old films. The 1930s was a golden era. Mae West stands out even there. Here is one from ‘Dinner at 8’. I doubt cinematographers would be allowed to go even this far today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tCDHgK9J4&t=28s

02/01/2022: It has been raining fish in Texas. Such weird events as Charles Hoy Fort documented long ago do reignite his speculation that we ourselves are ‘fished for’ by aliens. Certainly our governments are encouraging us to become more and more credulous under the constant refrain, ‘Trust the science’ or ‘Trust us’ for short. But why would you ever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99h3rsslmYg&feature=emb_title

02/01/2022: Inflation. ‘Nothing to see here’ is the standard government lie, but all along they devalue the currency again and again with this device, punishing savers and rewarding the profligate. The result for most of us is that we become relatively poorer whilst ‘enjoying’ a larger and larger swag of government of all sorts. This is disguised by many people having heaps of cheap Chinese toys to play with (funded by our only profitable industry - primary) and increasing debt mountains. The whole world has rapidly become Argentina or Greece. Technically or really insolvent. https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/2022-the-year-of-inflation/

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