Steve’s Blog
See also:
The Ultralight Hiker - Hauroko Burn, Dusky Track, Fiordland NZ
31-05-2025: This spells the end of Australia really: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-secures-slim-super-majority-in-the-senate-with-the-help-of-the-greens-as-one-nation-gains-four-seats/news-story/75c9c7b86b6363a1048a041f52ad18ad
31-05-2025: Some sound ideas on how we can
‘de-bankrupt’
31-05-2025: Ivermectin seems to have potential to cure
many woes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/20-studies-show-cancer-fighting-potential-this-low/
31-05-2025:
And this tiny KG at $7000: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/this-tiny-7000-electric-car-is-more-popular-in-japan-than-toyotas-evs/ar-AA1FJjGT
30-05-2025: Planet Nine? https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart
30-05-2025: Was
30-05-2025: Thou shall not tell the truth: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/uni-police-lecturer-cancelled-over-dv-claim/news-story/fdacddb73068f1f4cb1d68bf9dff8a18
30-05-2025: Of course, if they don’t repudiate Net
Zero and other woke BS they (and we) are doomed. Clearly too, in Vic Battin
must go: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/the-toxic-topic/
29-05-2025: Thomas Jefferson: A good government is one
‘which shall restrain men from injuring one another (and) shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits.’ And that is all! Let’s
leave out the rest, shall we?
29-05-2025: Exactly Andrew, “You might wonder why useful tools freely
sold for centuries are suddenly so dangerous that we can’t have them…. Is it
machetes that should be banned, or immigration from some tribal and war-torn
countries?” I note too that most of the attackers at Northland were out in
bail and that they were bailed straightaway again: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/every-report-of-a-machete-attack-in-victoria-makes-people-assume-african-and-every-shooting-in-western-sydney-screams-middle-eastern-even-when-thats-unfair/news-story/a6c2f75d19940bcf3719932d5074a39d
29-05-2025: Remember back in 1970 how we were to run
out of fossil fuels long ago now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/woodside-gas-approved-north-west-shelf-2070-watt/105347520
29-05-2025: A ‘Ley’ Down Misere. Eg Joyce and Canavan
absent from Cabinet – what? “The problem is the Liberals lack the
courage of their convictions – to mount a serious critique not of climate
change but of the net zero target and to campaign for an alternative
passionately. But they also lack the courage of their lack of convictions – to
pretend convincingly they believe in net zero.“
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/greg-sheridan-on-sussan-leys-shocker-of-a-shadow-cabinet-a-bad-position-made-even-worse.html
28-05-2025: What a fascinatingly insightful essay: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/everyone-has-lost-control-of-the-digital-age/
28-05-2025: This vast database certainly should not be
destroyed: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/the-killing-of-qovax/
28-05-2025: At least someone is doing the right thing:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-first-time-firms-polling-history-majority-americans/
28-05-2025: Promising: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/26/first-new-antibiotic-in-50-years-to-tackle-superbug/
27-05-2025: DIY Machete: Allen will only create a
black market amongst the thugs who wnt to carry them as a weapon. At least
a couple of them will learn some useful metal-working skills: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-your-own-Machete/
27-05-2025: Forget about energy saving globes etc. It’
s not your home which is gobbling up all the electricity: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/05/new-ai-data-centers-will-use-the-same-electricity-as-2-million-homes/
27-05-2025: Iodine – the importance of micronutrients.
When I was a child every child was given iodine tablets to prevent retardation
and goitre (as many Ausralian soils are low in iodine), then we all started using iodised salt (the green one). More
recently salt has been demonised: https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2024/02/28/kocupilla-iodised-salt-dies.html
& https://sciencelens.co.nz/2012/11/06/david-marine-iodisation/
27-05-2025: Is there anything
26-05-2025: Hard to believe Bob Dylan is 84 today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeP4FFr88SQ
(At Newport 1964: introduced by Pete Seeger).
26-05-2025: The
26-05-2025: Don’t drive. It’s coming: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/reduce-need-personal-vehicles-top-massachusetts-democrat-wants/
26-05-2025: ‘Cultural Enrichment’ is the real reason
for the machete ban. You’d just think the authorities could do something else!
NB
25-05-2025: We pay them to breed: https://www.the-sun.com/news/6623939/the-whittakers-inbred-family-grunts-filthy-home/
25-05-2025: Which treatment should we have chosen? https://richardsonpost.com/the-vigilant-fox/39703/covid-vaccine-safe-and-effective-narrative-collapses-on-camera/
25-05-2025: Progressives Progress Beyond Polyamory: https://moonbattery.com/progressives-progress-beyond-polyamory/
25-05-2025: ‘Hermeneutics’ – a new word for me, but I like it. Also an excellent essay: https://newcriterion.com/article/the-clash-within-civilizations/
24-05-2025: Happy Empire Day – how many can remember this, or the words to Kipling’s
Recessional? : https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Empire-Day/
24-05-2025: Net Zero has already cost the average
British family 13,000 pounds (over A$25K) – YET ‘Sussan’ refuses to repudiate
it: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/05/if-uk-had-never-tried-renewables-each-person-would-be-3000-richer/
24-05-2025: The JFK assassination hearing shows that
the President was shot four times: https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1925323199224398030
24-05-2025: Well done NZ. I think we can do the same
‘Sussan’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/22/new-zealand-abandons-jacinda-arderns-net-zero-push/
23-05-2025: Another delusion gone: I had always
believed rhubarb had to be cooked (as it was poisonous) but apparently you can
eat raw rhubarb stalks – and it’s delicious: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/14293-Fun-with-Rhubarb.html
23-05-2025: Holy Cow: “Cherylee and Margaret are two of 67 women and children murdered or
reported missing between 1977 and 2009 on the NSW North Coast whose cases
remain unsolved.” https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/third-murder-victim-linked-to-william-tyrrell-person-of-interest-frank-abbott-according-to-inquest-evidence/news-story/1206f747e7e9357c6b73041b5fc9af07
23-05-2025: Incredible overspending. I don’t know
whether you noticed the Victorian budget is around $200 billion in debt on an
income of a little over $40 billion. Even at today’s historic low interest
rates it will never be able to be paid off, but what happens if interest rates
go up? They would only have to quadruple (to the level we had to pay on our
mortgages in the late ‘80s – Yes!) for the interest to be greater than the
income! The Federal Government faces the same challenges (with around a
trillion dollars of debt - again more than income). The most urgent thing is to
get these debts paid down as quickly as possible before we become beggars: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/victorias-basket-case-a-harbinger-for-albos-australia/
23-05-2025: Domestic violence is all perpetrated
by/upon men? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/woman-doused-friend-in-petrol-set-him-alight-after-sexist-remark/news-story/2457ec75456f5c477e085f1d66cdf05c
22-05-2025: A long way from home - how
insignificant we are, yet some still believe there is an omnipotent God who
watches over every one of us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
22-05-2025: Spider Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItkRLVlf-c&t=39s
22-05-2025: Trump calls out the real racists: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fireworks-kill-boer-farmer-trump-plays-video-south/
22-05-2025: Renewable" Electricity Champion
22-05-2025: “We have imported knife violence.” Well,
you don’t say? So, when do I get my machetes back? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-have-imported-knife-violence-wave-attacks-shakes-germany-once-again
21-05-2025: Air Chair: Sea to
21-05-2025: The only question is, ‘Should they be
castrated before or after death?’ https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/bit-of-a-weird-sex-obsession-there-old-mate.html
21-05-2025: Past time we each tossed in a dollar to
save a great Aussie hero: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/terrific-editorial-on-ben-roberts-smith-vc-mg-by-veterans-advocate-and-vietnam-veteran-ray-payne-oam.html
21-05-2025: Idiot. Should have just filled in the
hole: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/moment-beachgoer-is-swallowed-by-quicksand-in-25-metre-hole-hed-dug/news-story/43896f274e102185b84708fb6e981d31
21-05-2025: ‘Susan Lee’ has taken just a week to completely destroy the once great
Liberal Party. A ‘New Age' world record. Now, can we have a new coalition of
conservative parties and members, please?
20-05-2025: Graphene salt water filter . This could be
a game changer – now to miniaturise it for hiking: https://research.csiro.au/graphene/
20-05-2025: Pretty steep charges coming for
20-05-2025: Come on Nigel. If only One Nation and the
Nats would merge: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2054478/reform-nigel-farage-prime-minister-odds?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1747133964
20-05-2025: This is a really great article; to
paraphrase: ‘(Leftists) have a new word for what normal people call “success”.
They call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the result of
some magic process…We can’t have the (Australian) people thinking that hard
work leads to success; people might start asking why (Labor) constituencies
don’t just work harder instead of demanding more money from those who actually
produce something…What they say is privilege is what we say is a reward for
doing more with our lives than waiting for Uncle Sucker to refill our EBT
cards. “Privilege” is a result of not being a human sloth, of not doing drugs,
of not having kids we can’t afford them, and of not living our lives as a
practical exercise in chaos theory.’ https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2014/05/we-cant-have-american-people-thinking.html
19-05-2025: Good thing that the responsible ‘Health’
authoriies have your back – you might die otherwise: https://richardsonpost.com/rebekah-barnett/39632/exclusive-35-people-died-the-same-day-as-their-covid-shot-authorities-did-not-investigate/
19-05-2025: If it has been happening in the
19-05-2025: Do women commit domestic violence too? You
betcha: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/tasmanian-police-resist-feminist
19-05-2025: I’m sure we are due for a Moody’s credit
downgrade soon too as we borrow more and more just to pay debt. Our governments
are ‘spending’ 20% (or more) of their ‘income’ just in paying interst on
debt which will hang around our grandchildren’s necks like a a stinking
albatross: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/moodys-downgrade-intensifies-investor-worry-about-us-fiscal-path-2025-05-18/
18-05-2025: Beautiful to watch: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/respect.html
18-05-2025: Nuclear fusion may soon be the ‘Norm’:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/16/will-nuclear-fusion-soon-be-the-norm/
18-05-2025: A Stat Dec means nothing to Albo: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/therapeutic-albanese-invites-his-italian-half-brother-to-the-popes-inauguration.html
18-05-2025: The new ‘Emergency Services’ Levy is an
obscene and discriminatory impost on rural Victorians. On what basis can city
folks be charged $0.17 per $1000 and country folks $0.72 per $1000? https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/sicktoria/in-victoria-a-burning-issue/
16-05-2025: Elon has us covered (anywhere): https://www.starlink.com/au/roam
16-05-2025: Oh Great. She’ll be the bees knees: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/sharri-markson-exposes-sussan-ley-for-failing-to-declare-trip-funded-by-palestinian-authority/video/011bd694ab960972bd6fe8af6d37c986
16-05-2025: Why we are buying Viktron chargers and
inverters to go with our new batteries: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/05/secret-comms-devices-radios-hidden-in-solar-inverters-from-china-would-you-like-a-blackout-with-that/
16-05-2025: And you thought we should spend more money
on ‘education’? https://moonbattery.com/an-ecolesbian-manifesto/
15-05-2025: What we can look forward to: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/page-research-centre-on-the-implications-of-a-second-albanese-government.html
15-05-2025: If only rewriting history was all we had
to worry about: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-our-archives/just-another-fabrication/
15-05-2025: Astonishing – but it probably is coming:
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/08/globalist-traitor-luxon-to-lock-down-motorists/
15-05-2025: Another reason why men are bad – in case
you needed one! Just joking: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/05/lse-junk-study-says-if-toxic-men-didnt-eat-so-much-meat-wed-have-nicer-weather/
14-05-2025: Thanks Elon. Telling it like it is. https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/elon-musk-on-the-widespread-slaughter-to-come-from-islamic-terrorism-in-europe.html
14-05-2025: These are the refugees
14-05-2025: Turnbull in a skirt is right (Thanks Rita
Panahi). Ley is a nothing to no man. The sooner she is gone, the better. Jacinta/Canavan
for PM. The Libs and Nats keep going from bad to worse. Top conservatives need
to switch to One Nation an create and Aussie Reform Party : https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/battle-of-the-duds-liberal-party-showdown/news-story/c77202d3be4643a620ca5d93dc328289
14-05-2025: Why Albanese’s super tax will crash the
economy – but he has much worse things up his sleeve: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/how-albaneses-super-plan-could-lead-to-capital-flight/
13-05-2025: Forget solar scammers. First buy your
batteries. We have just taken delivery of 48 Kilowatts of sealed lead-acid
batteries from Ciyi Battery Co in
13-05-2025: The Nats stupidly (temporarily) chose
Littleproud over Canavan – just watch the Libs go for woke (broke) too.
Meanwhile in the
13-05-2025: The world trade system is being redone.
First the
13-05-2025: Bring back coal: https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/39583/coal-is-cheap-and-reliable-and-growing-in-demand/
12-05-2025: Saving the unicorn: https://www.sciencealert.com/ultra-rare-asian-unicorn-has-genome-sequenced-and-it-could-mean-everything?no_cache=1
12-05-2025: Time
to think more about your nose: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250507-the-surprising-power-of-breathing-through-your-nose
12-05-2025: Has the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Changed
Significantly Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century? Giles Slocum
Monthly Weather Review October 1955: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/083/mwr-083-10-0225.pdf
12-05-2025: ‘God’ so loved the number three: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/nasa-may-just-pinpointed-exact-day-jesus-died/
11-05-2025: A young friend of mine needs help. Steve Hutcheson who I met on the
Dusky Track Fiordland NZ back in 2012 has been diagnosed with a deadly
condition known as Chronic Schistosomiasis which he picked up in
10-05-2025: Celebrating 80 VE Days: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-a3676481-925a-4f4b-a7e4-28804ab11176
What the Queen did on VE Day – she was
the best: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/history/queen-elizabeths-ve-night-on-the-town/
10-05-2025: Is
10-05-2025: I have long suspected that years before
they are built ‘our’ submarines will just be expensive ‘white elephants’: https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/39558/warships-are-becoming-relics-of-the-past/
10-05-2025: Seem like a good idea to you? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/statues_of_unremarkable_and_unrecognizable_black_women_replace_western_civilization_greats.html
09-05-2025: The ‘fountain of youth’? Bring it on: https://studyfinds.org/fountain-of-youth-protein-klotho-anti-aging-mice/
09-05-2025: There is hope: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/health/conditions/dementia/drug-that-stops-dementia-to-be-trialled-in-australia-next-month/news-story/11624b44ecead8c771624bc7e3816619
09-05-2025: Churchill, the man who saved the world: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/history/ve-day-and-the-man-who-made-it-happen/
09-05-2025: Trump’s new world trading system has
begun: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-britain-expected-announce-tariff-deal-thursday-2025-05-08/
08-05-2025: The last of the ‘few’ have now disappeared
into history but we should continue to remember just how much we still owe
them: https://www.steynonline.com/15260/truth-myth-or-both-getting-history-right-in
08-05-2025: University is not for everyone – indeed it
really needs only to be for a few. Most need practical education: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/college-all-fallacy
This is what I mean: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257
08-05-2025: Yes please: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/07/the-rise-of-the-first-smr-in-the-us-a-new-chapter-in-pragmatic-energy-innovation/
08-05-2025: Without fossil fuels there would be
billions of us dead and further billions living in misery: https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/39513/fossil-fuels-feed-the-world/
07-05-2025: “What one generation tolerates the next
generation will embrace”, John Wesley.
07-05-2025: There is hope: https://lite.cnn.com/2025/05/05/health/immunotherapy-cancer-patients-study-wellness
07-05-2025: Thanks Bettina. Guys, “The key message was clear: TIME TO PUT
LABOR LAST. The Albanese government has been the most anti-male government our
country has ever seen, and I shudder at the thought of what will happen to
men and boys in this country if we give them another three years in office. We
included a thumbs down for the Greens and Teals who have even more draconian
measures planned to denigrate and demonise men.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/election-truth-truck-exposes-labors
07-05-2025: Indeed conservatives, time to reassess
your values and be able to articulate them. Do read this article even if
you find it hard going: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/dear-lnp-think-of-haidt/
06-05-2025: Absolutely: “Booing is as Australian as meat pies, mild
sunstroke, and pretending you’re fine when you’ve been bitten by a snake.”
Obviously it must be banned. https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/whimsy/bring-on-the-boo-laws/
06-05-2025: Better times ahead for the
06-05-2025: Banning the AFD surely shows the end of
democracy in
06-05-2025: Maybe smoking tobacco was better – if only
they hadn’t banned or overpriced it? https://www.unilad.com/news/health/health-warning-vaping-popcorn-lung-irreversible-545983-20250503
05-05-2025: Mars, here we come: https://newatlas.com/space/pulsar-fusion-rocket-design-slash-space-travel-times/
05-05-2025: Sinister. How not to vote for the Greens.
I did not know this. Never vote above the line or fail to fill in all the
numbers below the line ever again. Our franchise has been sold from under our
feet by the pollies. PS: Our own votes were likely not counted in the
weekend. Never again: https://richardsonpost.com/hunni/39489/how-to-not-vote-for-a-marxist/
05-05-2025: Yes, Dutton’s failure to be a conservative
(and Nigel Farage’s success at the same time in the
05-05-2025: Exactly, “If China is indeed the biggest strategic threat confronting the West,
then breaking dependence on China for critical supplies in favour of autarky
becomes an economic price worth paying for the defence of freedom and
sovereignty.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/making-sense-of-trumps-tariffs/
03-05-2025: Tony Abbott on Wong’s reintroduction of the Voice:‘This is a giant
two-fingered salute to the voters of
03-05-2025: “Why is it that Sweden, a country of 10.5 million people with six
nuclear reactors and a GDP of $US585 billion, can build cars, guns, military
and commercial aircraft, naval vessels, submarines and intelligent ammunition
yet
03-05-2025: Labor, ripping off the savers to give it
all to the spenders: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/05/labors-superannuation-tax-grab-will-hurt-us-all/
03-05-2025: 100 million dead yet still they celebrate
(and vote for) it: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/05/01/hayward-may-day-celebrated-worldwide-as-death-toll-from-communism-approaches-100-million/
02-05-2025: The secret of happiness discovered. Thanks
Della: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/magazine/happiness-research-studies-relationships.html
02-05-2025: Incredible. Something must be causing
this: “Autism in 1970 was 1
in 10,000 Americans. Today, it’s 1 in 31. In
02-05-2025: DNA evidence could solve a very old crime:
https://www.thefp.com/p/lindbergh-baby-killing-new-dna-evidence
02-05-2025: Interesting policy matrix from Jo Nova,
especially if you are planning to vote conservative (maybe putting Lib/ats at 7th
or 8th place (but ahead of Labor).:
01-05-2025: There is no cure for stupid: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/tourists-thinks-crocodile-at-zoo-fake-attacked-while-taking-selfie/news-story/091a14bbceb888f43cc7f160d1cdb6bf
01-05-2025: The times they are a’changing: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/05/bombshell-sir-tony-blair-says-climate-policies-are-unworkable-irrational-and-everyone-is-afraid-of-being-called-a-denier/
01-05-2025: If only our next government would keep its
promises as Trump has: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-administration-100-day-achievements-promises-kept/
01-05-2025: The first of the dominoes to fall. Watch
others step into line: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/29/india-us-deal-signals-energy-sovereignty-and-climate-cults-demise/
30-04-2025: Two fresh moose sightings in Fiordland
this year. I am hoping to be light enough and fit enough to have another
(last0 look for them on the Dusky Track next autumn: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fiordland-moose-sighting-reported-by-canadian-hikers-on-kepler-track/PWE2KP5AVVBM7CFTZWR7V6PPZ4/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1745876637
Read about my own moose hunting adventures
here: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/12/19/the-lure-of-the-moose/
30-04-2025: Socialism: why you can’t afford chocolate
anymore: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/the-cocoa-price-crisis-is-a-big-government-price-fixing-disaster-not-a-climate-change-one/
30-04-2025: Please don’t fall (again) for Labor’s
lies: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/labors-litany-of-lies/
30-04-2025: Certainly needs a detailed public
investigation: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/virginia-giuffres-father-denies-suicide-narrative-demands-full/
29-04-2025: Who will keep us safe? Not Albo anyway: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/russia-and-china-will-be-laughing-at-anthony-albaneses-reliance-on-journalists-pilots-and-ship-captains-to-keep-australians-safe/news-story/772a63bb76f2e684357f27ea5a199f45
29-04-2025: We should join the
29-04-2025: What
29-04-2025: 100,000 homes simply being knocked down
amid a housing crisis because of the regulatory difficulty of moving them
cheaply to new locations then renovating them: https://www.realestate.com.au/news/aus-demolition-hotspots-revealed-as-demand-for-new-housing-continues/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=herald_sun&campaignPlacement=spa
28-04-2025: We create much more than we consume: https://humanprogress.org/the-simon-abundance-index-2025/
28-04-2025: What can we learn from the Canadian
election? Their greatest threat (too) is their leftist government: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/canadians-need-saving-from-mark-carney-not-donald-trump/
28-04-2025: More changes to your super, more welcome
to country, more immigrants, more blackouts and no defence under Labor –
and that’s not all: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/finance/lifeblood-of-australia-under-threat-from-labors-proposed-super-change-and-tax-on-unrealised-capital-gains-geoff-wilson-warns/news-story/eb26e55e6b53ef96ed95becd6576a6d9
We should be warned too by events in
28-04-2025: A life without kids is not a ‘dream life’.
It is actually a nightmare and indeed ultimately only death: https://www.businessinsider.com/child-free-millennials-dont-want-kids-to-hamper-travel-life-2024-9?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-sf
27-04-2025: Here’s
what 0patch has been doing with my computer after only one week. This is
clearly more reliable than Windows Update and will keep your old computer going
after end of service in November: https://support.0patch.com/hc/en-us/articles/202800921-What-is-0patch
PS: I have successfully installed Linux Mint on a couple of old laptops
which no longer even ran on Windows and they are now as good as new.
27-04-2025: You got a licence for that? The
criminalisation of everyday life: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/12/you-got-a-licence-for-that/
27-04-2025: Poor taste: I took a selfie with the Pope
in his coffin: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/no-common-decency-controversy-among-faithful-as-multitude/
27-04-2025: Seems like (at least) two-thirds of us are
‘Neo-Nazis’ then: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/aussies-overwhelmingly-reject-welcome-to-country-in-staggering-poll/news-story/08223d6ed989857aafb9352cc75c5d33
How much ‘respect’ did (welcomer) Mark
Brown show our country? https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/aussies-overwhelmingly-reject-welcome-to-country-in-staggering-poll/news-story/08223d6ed989857aafb9352cc75c5d33
26-04-2025: Why growth is good – too important to
ignore: “Rather than viewing human progress and environmental
stewardship as opposing forces, we should recognize them as complementary goals
achievable through continued innovation and economic development. The evidence
is clear: human ingenuity, when coupled with economic freedom and technological
advancement, has consistently overcome environmental constraints while
improving living standards. Our challenge isn’t to limit growth or population
but to foster conditions that allow human creativity and enterprise to
flourish. Far from being madmen, those who believe in humanity’s capacity
for infinite growth understand a fundamental truth: our greatest resource isn’t
the finite materials beneath our feet, but the infinite potential of the human
mind.” https://humanprogress.org/growth-is-good-a-tonic-to-anti-growth-environmentalism/
26-04-2025: 5.5% growth! Incredible achievement from
Javier Milei – ending socialism works: https://x.com/IMFNews/status/1914839139184468222
26-04-2025: Labor’s defence plans are woefully
inadequate: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/lest-we-regret/
26-04-2025: I admit it was a good trick but I have my
doubts - like ‘Doubting Thomas; (who surely should have recognized him,
unlike Saul/Paul who had never met him) and other gospels who attest to his
never having been crucified at all and living a long (even married) life before
finally dying perhaps in Srinagar, Kashmir where he has a grave. Still some
interesting ‘evidence’. Mind you after attending a magic performance at
Midvalley Shopping Centre last week I’m still trying to figure out where the
doves and rabbits came from: https://caldronpool.com/20-reasons-to-believe-the-resurrection/
25-04-2025: Why wouldn’t you boo the racist ‘welcome
to country’ BS on Anzac Day of all days? Differing slants on this in the
media. Dutton clearly didn’t get it: https://www.news.com.au/national/australians-reflect-on-110-years-since-gallipoli-at-dawn-services-throughout-the-country-this-anzac-day/news-story/8870fe85d668043e287f4a8c837efa35 & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/tens-of-thousands-of-melburnians-pay-tribute-at-shrine-of-remembrance-for-the-dawn-service/news-story/cf2bc770afd0177934cdf95f121721ac
25-04-2025: We were never asked. Interesting graphic: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/weve-never-been-asked-uncomfortable-truth-about-immigration-debate/news-story/b3078c332083c667d0811f93ec231dd2
25-04-2025: Things you did not know about nuclear
power: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/23/the-nuclear-imperative/
25-04-2025: Let’s have another ice age soon, shall we?
https://moonbattery.com/uk-plots-to-blot-out-the-sun/
24-04-2025: True ideas which you can no longer speak
out loud: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/french-great-replacement-philosopher-renaud-camus-banned-entering/
24-04-2025: Animal fats are making a big comeback.
Actually ‘tallow’ is mutton fat. Now very hard to buy in
24-04-2025: Too true Malcolm Roberts: “There are so many young couples, especially
in our cities, who cannot afford to have children. They live in tiny
apartments with no room for children to grow and thrive, designed as nothing
more than human filing cabinets. They travel for hours to get to work… Mass
migration is the problem and reversing it is the answer. One million homes are
taken up by temporary migrants. 75,000 are living illegally in our cities in
breach of their resident visas… We want to see $90 billion in savings made by
cutting government waste.
“ I will be voting for One Nation again – as I have done for a generation,
since whatever evil the government was responsible for at
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Don’t
forget
23-04-2025: Windows scam. I have scarcely managed
to get Windows 10 working (having been quite happy with Windows 7) than we are
being required to scrap it (and buy new computers) and move to Windows 11. We
don’t happen to have a lazy few thous to squander on such nonsense. As a five
year stop gap I have installed 0Patch and am working at figuring out how Linux
Mint works. Have managed to install it on an old computer. Looks good. In the
meantime 0Patch is keeping my computers safe. It will even do so if you have
not updated from Windows 7. Try it. More updates to come. https://support.0patch.com/hc/en-us/articles/202800921-What-is-0patch
23-04-2025: We are in a bad way, “We have
fallen for the carbon dioxide sham.
23-04-2025: Cold is the great enemy. It has rarely
been colder than it is right now. We certainly don’t want it to get any
colder. Burn baby, burn: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/blame-the-vikings-moss-found-in-east-antarctica-lived-in-warmer-summers-a-thousand-years-ago/
23-04-2025: Stand up for the forgotten people Pete: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/the-forgotten-people-have-they-been-forgotten-again/
22-04-2025: Oh No! We would never want to learn the
truth: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/nothing-says-safe-and-effective-like-destroying-all-the-data-from-australias-giant-abandoned-vaccine-study/
22-04-2025: The green tariffs are the worst: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/the-monster-green-tariffs-we-put-on-ourselves-are-worse-than-a-foreign-trade-war/
22-04-2025: Just what the West needs: https://moonbattery.com/islamic-paramilitary-units-already-in-place/
22-04-2025: Farewell Apple and Samsung. You don’t
see many horse drawn carriages anymore either: https://elonbuzz.com/2025-tesla-pi-phone-under-317-is-here-elon-musk-unveils-7-features/
21-04-2025: The role of great men in history is so
important. Marxist historians have fed us BS for too long: https://richardsonpost.com/daniel-jupp/39317/you-shall-not-have-greatness/
Dutton is certainly head and shoulders
beyond Albanese: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/crying-out-for-new-leadership/
21-04-2025: Looks like you are what you eat after all:
https://archive.is/sgDr3
21-04-2025: A new colour? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq0n3em41o
21-04-2025: So true “We of the West are in the position that
20-04-2025: More not so disappearing forests.
20-04-2025: Well Duh! https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/a-woman-is-a-woman-uk-supreme-court-hands-down-transgender-ruling/video/20d81dbf3ba8937526a624eba4a02da6
20-04-2025: We should just die already: https://www.realestate.com.au/news/two-thirds-of-victorian-empty-nester-have-no-plans-to-sell-experts-call-for-stamp-duty-cuts-pension-incentives/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=herald_sun&campaignPlacement=spa
20-04-2025: I fear we will not see their like again: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/how-service-changed-the-lives-of-the-kings-and-queens-of-local-rsls/news-story/a48746dfc8fb2e8fe31a9dbbc5ec58e1
17-04-2025: I think this is a weird photo. What is
wrong with girls today? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/bipartisan-bill-aims-keep-men-sororities-protect-womens/
17-04-2025: Did you see this story? Could it even
possibly have a grain of truth in it? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/viral-cia-document-describes-lethal-confrontation-between-soviet/
17-04-2025: The great generation passes. We shall not
see their like again: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/oldest-survivor-pearl-harbor-attack-dies-age-106/story?id=120820811
17-04-2025: Good on you Pauline (and Jacinta): https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/ill-keep-saying-it-pauline-hanson-fiercely-defends-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-for-echoing-trumpstyle-campaign-slogan/news-story/3636f631ad9d7519edf52ba6f28c8a20
16-04-2025: Much to look forward to here: The
first 100 days of a Dutton Government: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/what-peter-dutton-would-do-in-his-first-100-days-in-power-to-fix-labors-cost-of-living-mess-reduce-waste-and-make-australia-affordable-again/news-story/85570c1c8beeb668221a90dbfcf7ac33
14-04-2025: Old King Coal is back. Time to replace
Hazelwood (and Yallourn) with a new power station: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/trump-goes-gangbusters-on-coal-your-data-centers-will-be-powered-with-coal/
14-04-2025: Is it too late for the Opposition to offer
a viable alternative government? Probably – but here are some sound proposals: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/brown-study-307/
14-04-2025: Saying ‘Speak English’ is a hate crime: https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1911322052293775608
14-04-2025: Where did our freedom go? https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/12/you-got-a-licence-for-that/
12-04-2025: Where do I get a script? https://scitechdaily.com/new-anti-aging-compounds-show-promise-in-treating-alzheimers-disease/
12-04-2025: The end of civilisation: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/birth_rates_and_the_future_of_civilization.html
12-04-2025: Certainly are: ”By 2023, a
period preceding the Albanese government’s failings, Australia’s per capita GDP had risen 67 per cent to $59,553, still
a substantial increase. However, over the same period,
12-04-2025: Radical feminists (and associated
leftists) have captured so many important institutions (like the public
‘service’) but Dutton has backed away from his promise to trim their sails:
https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/former-family-court-judge-spills
10-04-2025: Interesting C17th sexual advice column: https://archive.is/ivmKx
10-04-2025: Christianity fights back: https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/quiet-revival-uk-bible-society#:~:text=Data%20was%20compared%20to%20a,from%204%25%20to%2016%25
10-04-2025: Meanwhile the great greening goes on…the
world has added several areas of forest the size of
10-04-2025: Vale Keith Windschuttle: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/tribute/313194/
09-04-2025: I suspect the bears know what they’re
doing though: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250407-the-polar-bears-living-in-an-abandoned-arctic-weather-station
09-04-2025: Holy Cow! Now I wonder will guys be
clamoring to be recipients too? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o
Something else for the guys at least: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14580195/first-global-human-sperm-transplant-reverse-male-infertility.html
09-04-2025: When old age is not a disease – an
interesting article. I will now take some of my test results with a grain of
salt! https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/07/getting-older-is-not-a-disease/
09-04-2025: Yes: “The Coalition can win this election, but only if the electorate understands that a vote for Labor is a vote for a Voice that will put our prosperity at the mercy of a crazy clique of self-appointed custodians who will hold the rest of the country to ransom. We can’t afford that; unless we develop our resources we can’t pay for our national security, which can only come from being adequately armed to defend the nation.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/voice-by-stealth/
08-04-2025: Return of the dire wolf after10,000 years.
Is this what de-extinction is about? https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-brought-back-dire-wolf-deextinct/
08-04-2025: God alone knows what this obscene new Bill
means for ‘free speech’ in
08-04-2025: What the trade war is all about – who
wants to be a loser? https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/we_didn_t_start_the_trade_war_we_ve_just_finally_joined_it.html
08-04-2025: Please understand what DOGE is really up
to. We desperately need one here too: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/from_hero_to_zero_in_75_days.html
07-04-2025: Labor’s battery bonanza will only be for
‘approved’ lithium battery systems you can bet. We have just bought 48 Kw of
sealed lead acid batteries from http://www.ciyibattery.com/
07-04-2025: Are those Trump tariffs working? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/winning-more-than-50-countries-have-contacted-white/
21-3-2025: Good luck with fixing Whyalla Albo: https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/whyalla-steelworks-losing-15m-a-day-before-collapse/news-story/ca288eef5187299e1aeb2aa7e89d56b7
21-3-2025: Constantly changing the goal posts: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/18/how-a-heat-pump-destroyed-one-consumers-perfect-energy-rating/
21-3-2025: Long past time to ‘like it or lump it’
folks: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/did-multiculturalism-cost-australia-free-speech/
21-3-2025: Putting ‘science’ on trial: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-junk-science-that-gets-parents?utm_campaign=260347&utm_source=cross-post&r=2k67t&utm_medium=email
19-03-2025: Time Dutton followed suit on Net Zero: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/uk-opposition-leader-dumps-impossible-climate-plan-net-zero-fantasy-will-bankrupt-us/
19-03-2025: John "Paddy" Hemingway: The Last of the Few: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/the-last-of-the-few-lest-we-forget.html
19-03-2025: Paying people to breed, vote and invade.
Labor has been doing this here for too long too. It must stop. Good on you
Elon: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/the-almost-coup-giving-away-the-nation-to-attract-future-democrat-voters-with-the-entitlement-magnet/
19-03-2025: Why no offer to stop the genocide in
18-03-2025: Jetson One – the flying car is here. Going
to order one? https://jetson.com/jetson-one
18-03-2025: Meanwhile on Mars 140 million miles away.
Will our descendants see it terraformed into a green world? https://x.com/i/status/1901379697054994861
18-03-2025: Taking down the wind farms (after 15
years), yet the electricity ‘problem is due to ‘aging’ coal-fire power
stations with a life expectancy of 50+ years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/16/germanys-first-offshore-wind-farm-to-be-dismantled-after-just-15-years-of-operation/
18-03-2025: Interesting: What it feels like to die:
https://dumbed-down.com/what-it-feels-like-to-die/?
16-03-2025: The future of the idyllic English
countryside: https://www.thefp.com/p/english-village-migrants-outnumber-locals?utm_campaign=260347&utm_source=cross-post&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email
16-03-2025: What a real climate scientist says, “
16-03-2025: I fear Dutton is merely Labor-lite like a
bevy of (failed) Victorian Liberal leaders: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/dutton-must-embrace-trump/
16-03-2025: “The barbarians are no longer at the gates, they have taken the
citadel.” – and gobbledegook is king: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/education/teachers-the-real-class-clowns/
15-03-2025: Living the dream? I suspect it would be
even worse than this – why Della and I mainly go places on foot or by canoe
(and sometimes in our Land Rover). We long ago discovered that weekdays are
better than weekends: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/grey-nomads-nitpicking-cliqueforming-and-as-tightarsed-as-they-are-at-home/news-story/868d6c4f6202b832bc8bc0229ac809fa
15-03-2025: About the ‘land rights’ scam, “None of the witnesses said that in the days before the Mission he lived chiefly in his clan territory … The people of each clan were deeply conscious of their clan kinship and of the spiritual significance of a particular land to their clan. On the other hand … it was of no importance whether or not the members of a band had any relationships to each other, or conducted their food-gathering and communal living upon territory linked to any particular clan.
In short, the indigenous culture of the
clans of the
15-03-2025: What’s in our food that’s making us sick
(and fat)? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-ends-fda/
15-03-2025: Are we living inside a black hole? Seems
like it sometimes: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/is-our-universe-trapped-inside-a-black-hole-this-james-webb-space-telescope-discovery-might-blow-your-mind
14-03-2025: Storm in a teacup. Actually I’m surprised the
wombat didn’t rip her leg off – have you seen the front teeth on those things? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/us-influencer-sam-jones-says-hate-is-too-much-and-questions-why-she-is-getting-death-threats-for-picking-up-wombat/news-story/e987a6eaaf458ac3e44204291f5e8044
14-03-2025: Away with machetes: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/crime/the-cutting-edge-of-multiculturalism/
14-03-2025: Changing the past, changing the future: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/holding-court-over-culture/
14-03-2025: Why we are in an Ice Age finally
explained: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/12/celestial-driver-for-late-miocene-cooling/
13-03-2025:
13-03-2025: That’s right – blame the sheep, not the
rats: https://www.sciencealert.com/ancestor-of-black-death-has-been-discovered-in-bronze-age-sheep
13-03-2025: Of course this is true – our government’s
response: ban machetes: https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/11/study-concealed-carriers-do-a-better-job-of-stopping-active-shooters-than-police/
13-03-2025: Climate shamans and their crazy
predictions. NB Anyone who claims they can foretell the future is a fool and a
liar: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/climate-astrologers-forecast-global-weirding-and-climate-whiplash-will-hit-the-worlds-biggest-cities/
12-03-2025: Perhaps the most important essay I have
read this year: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/finally-the-truly-superior-moral-justification-for-selfishness/
12-03-2025: A return to true education? https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/good-bye-department-of-education
12-03-2025: Before the Stone Age: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/20/oldest-wooden-structure-discovered-on-border-of-zambia-and-tanzania & https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/05/science/oldest-bone-tools-hominins/index.html
12-03-2025: Farming as climate ‘solution’: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-are-we-ignoring-most-powerful-climate-solution
10-03-2025: "Blessed are the cheesemakers," https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/king-island-dairy-sold/105021662
10-03-2025: The Libs better come
up with a better strategy than they had in WA damned quickly. Get a backbone
Dutton: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/what-did-the-wa-liberals-do-wrong/
10-03-2025: Cancer? Bring on the
sheep drench: https://makismd.substack.com/
10-03-2025: Democracy(?) in
09-03-2025: Just how silly is the
whole ‘cage free’ virtue signal: https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/opinion/why-cage-free-eggs-are-not-all-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/
09-03-2025: Could the depression
epidemic have been cause by folks being encouraged to give up butter and the like? https://www.psypost.org/metabolic-signature-of-depression-found-in-blood-revealing-biological-links-to-the-disorder/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawIy7mJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHULW-oIsb9qMQHcDdCn88ZyDp8XexYb4tsAyfm3FWmODU61V_VxB6aWrJw_aem_NAZ6CSq0Y7O7CMla7qkpPw
09-03-2025: Confused. Is this
Islamophobia? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/taking-out-the-middle-easts-trash.html
09-03-2025: The Yamnaya:
Don’t think it can’t happen again,
“For the peoples living in
08-03-2025: Essential Knots: There are a few essential knots (for hiking etc) some of which can save your life. A piece of string and the knowledge of how to form such an essential knot may be the ultimate ultralight 'tool'. One such knot is the Taut Line Hitch or Midshipman's Hitch (shown below). It is an adjustable knot which can be used to tighten the guy on your tent in the absence of a guy tensioning device (such as a clam cleat).
I find it particularly useful in association with a 'tent safety anchor' ie an additional length of guy used to secure the (first) tent peg against lifting, a strategy which is particularly appropriate in windy weather or when the 'ground' is loose as with sand/snow. Of course (in such cases) the judicious use of rocks (if available) or (buried) 'ditty' bags can create additional 'purchase'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2025/03/08/essential-knots/
08-03-2025: Interesting facts
about narwhals: https://www.sciencealert.com/remarkable-drone-footage-reveals-how-narwhals-use-their-tusks
08-03-2025: Ban the tool, not the
bad people. Do you remember when you were at school that
the bad teachers were the ones who couldn’t tell the difference between the
good kids and the bad ones – and that’s why their classes were out of control?
I use a Fiskars or Gerber machete all the time for track clearing and on
blackberries for example. It is simply the most wonderful hand tool. The only
thing which will cut hanging blackberries. Similarly I use a firearm for its
lawful purposes. I never even think of using either as a weapon against another
person. I would have thought there are already laws against those who do.: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victoria-may-be-forced-to-outlaw-sale-of-machetes-in-bid-to-combat-rising-crime-crisis/news-story/895e63161dc7a41b7a7cb1b4f064e9ba
08-03-2025: Mystery solved – not
sure what this says about Occam’s Razor: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/officials-to-give-update-on-gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-death-investigation-what-to-know/
08-03-2025: Interesting – cut microplastic intake by
95%: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/making-single-change-cut-microplastics-190321429.html
07-03-2025: Can’t wait: https://www.newsmax.com.au/
07-03-2025: Yay: They fought the
carbon and the carbon won: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/05/they-fought-the-carbon-and-the-carbon-won/
07-03-2025: It will happen here
too: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/had-to-happen.html
07-03-2025: The Queen must be spinning in her grave:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/defender-of-the-faith-but-which-one.html
06-03-2025: Clearly a great
speech: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/approval-president-trumps-joint-session-address-is-through/
06-03-2025: Such a punishment (of
a journalist) is something you remember from Soviet era
06-03-2025: You have to realise
though that (whatever the problems) it will increase the risk of being caught
and punished. This will serve as a deterrent to crime: https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/04/citizens-arrest-laws-raise-red-flags-for-experts/
06-03-2025: It’s just crazy
squandering hundreds of thousands per annum on folks who could not hold down
the simplest job or ever pay their own way. Their
situation might be sad but the cure is worse than the complaint: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/are-you-on-the-infinite-money-supply-ndis-teat-yet-climb-aboard-the-financial-gravity-defying-perpet.html
06-03-2025: Read this essay by Roger Kimball: “Throughout Civilization, Kenneth Clark hailed “energy” and
“confidence” as hallmarks of a vibrant civilization. In his last episode, he
identified “lack of confidence, more than anything else,” as that which “kills
a civilization.” The spectacle of Donald Trump’s boundless energy, and the
energy he calls forth from others, is heartening. Among other things, it makes
us appreciate how his “revolution of common sense” might not only spark a
political restoration, but also a new cultural golden age” https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/restoring-american-culture/
05-03-2025: Good morning Blue
Ghost: https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/sunrise-on-the-moon-private-blue-ghost-lander-captures-amazing-shot-after-historic-lunar-touchdown-photo
05-03-2025: Labor, the war party.
What kind of clown is Albo - Why not take on
05-03-2025: Zelensky’s quick about-face on a peace deal
(and minerals) once US aid was cut off: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/breaking-zelensky-grovels-trump-after-us-pauses-all/
05-03-2025: Why does
04-03-2025: A voice of sanity on
CO2 ‘endangerment’ (from a world-leading climate scientist): https://www.drroyspencer.com/2025/02/reasons-why-regulating-co2-emissions-needs-to-be-reconsidered/
04-03-2025: Milei is set to
expose the last Nazis: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/02/the-reason-javier-milei-is-releasing-argentinas-secret-nazi-files/
04-03-2025: Very insightful James, “I’ve
been asking the pro-keep-fighting crowd for ages what their end game is. No one
can say. Wars only end in one of two ways. You cut a deal or you go on to crush
and obliterate the other side forcing unconditional surrender. Anyone
advocating the latter is advocating for a third world war… This year, year
three of the
Some very thoughtful talking points here too: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/a-diplomatic-dust-up-for-the-ages/
Pay attention to what
04-03-2025: Good luck Starmer
with getting people in the
03-03-2025: Looks like the
03-03-2025: Things they will make
you eat: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/nanotech-nightmare-this-tiny-weapon-could-end-us/
03-03-2025: Back to the moon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/busy-lunar-season-kicks-blue-ghost-lander-touching/
03-03-2025: Having it both ways: “The EU is spending more money on Russian
fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report
01-03-2025: The search for MH370
has (already) resumed. Hopefully they resolve this enduring mystery this time: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/new-search-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-resumes/
01-03-2025: Should you do a DNA
test? I probably won’t: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/man-falsely-accused-of-cold-case-murder-after-father-shares-dna-sample/news-story/98cf685d44605b2a555330f354d68c5e
01-03-2025: Let’s just scrap the
NDIS. Gillard should never have launched it: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/health/ndis-set-to-cost-more-than-defence-as-ceo-paid-more-than-the-prime-minister-and-top-exec-salaries-revealed/news-story/e3b7903a2c9eed5f7132aa96c7c4ead5
01-03-2025: Trump and Vance really are the adults in
the room on
27-02-2025: Woodhenge: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0226/1499020-denmark-archaeology/
27-02-2025: Away with the
‘endangerment’ finding, “Trump should not only set up
a scientific group to investigate whether CO2 causes any harm, he should follow
the evidence all the way. If the scientists consider the total cost-benefits of
CO2, they’d easily show CO2 is an asset that feeds the poor, restores the
forests, and improves life on Earth. Obviously, those companies and
countries emitting CO2 are doing the world a favor. Coal, oil and gas plants
should get tax deductions for their contributions.” https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/like-dropping-napalm-on-the-whole-climate-blob-us-epa-recommends-dropping-endangerment-finding/
27-02-2025: A different perspective about the
26-02-2025: We are going to have to deport a whole lot of
them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/disturbing-times.html
26-02-2025: The ‘green energy transition’
comprehensively debunked: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/19/unraveling-the-narrative-supporting-a-green-energy-transition/
26-02-2025: Why did the temperature
drop like a stone? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/20/uscrn-data-throws-a-curveball-second-biggest-month-to-month-temperature-drop-since-2009/
26-02-2025: Is Lionel Shriver
right: Should we scrap the whole ‘asylum’ scam? A rethink anyway. It
certainly only seems to serve certain classes of folk; not South African whites
for example, or Christians generally even though they are the most persecuted
people in the world : https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/02/its-time-to-scrap-the-asylum-system/
For example: https://caldronpool.com/hungary-condemns-the-murder-of-70-christians-in-congo-as-the-world-stays-silent/
26-02-2025: It is not illegal to burn a Bible anywhere
((though there are many countries which ban the book altogether – Google the
sentence above) but it is a gaolable offence to ‘desecrate’ the Koran (through
its use as toilet paper for example). Religion of all kinds is just such
mindless gibberish: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/british-offer-citizen-radical-islamists-execution-burned-quran/
23-02-2025: Not everything in the
23-02-2025: Send them back! Couldn’t agree more. (Yet
Burke hands 12,000 of them instant citizenship so they’ll vote Labor). Evidence
is now out too that they strangled the two babies. Fortunately Dutton has
figured out this one too: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/send-them-straight-back-one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-demands-gazans-visas-be-revoked-after-hamas-abhorrent-hostage-handover/news-story/ef68df44a4731733d51c716e099d133f
23-02-2025: Don’t remember voting for this either: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/future-victoria/future-victoria-how-the-states-most-common-surnames-are-changing/news-story/6158e2007dbd7faf9eff56629d6edf09
23-02-2025: Follow the lead Dutton. Just so sick of
‘Labor-Lite’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/20/farage-trashes-net-zero-promises-to-re-industrialise-britain/
22-02-2025: Certainly, “The Coalition has called for taxpayer
funding to be revoked from Muslim organisations linked to signatories of a
statement condemning the response to two Bankstown nurses who were sacked over
antisemitic comments” https://www.rebelnews.com/demands_to_defund_muslim_groups_over_support_for_antisemitic_nurses
22-02-2025: A fair point on bird flu and the egg
shortage – an additional point is that caged birds would be far less
susceptible: “Is it possible to break out of USDA groupthink and
consider a different approach to the problem of “Bird Flu”? Like breeding H5N1
- resistant flocks by selecting birds from infected flocks that didn’t get sick
and die? That is the ONLY way we can resolve this” https://www.malone.news/p/fox-in-the-henhouse-mrna-bird-flu
22-02-2025: Just so sick of ‘planning overlays’ which
effectively confiscate private property without due compensation: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/aussie-town-where-land-is-worthless-due-to-sea-level-guidelines/news-story/93f814011efa5a439cfe8630e9926301
22-02-2025: 63 years since John Glenn’s flight: https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-john-glenn-the-first-american-to-orbit-the-earth-aboard-friendship-7/
21-02-2025: There really are crystal caves: https://thatcrystalsite.com/most-beautiful-crystal-caves-in-the-world-with-pictures/
21-02-2025: JD Vance’s cold hard facts about the war
in
21-02-2025: The
climate racket – a huge corrupt money machine: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/not-a-government-but-a-giant-money-laundering-racket/
21-02-2025: Never give up without a fight: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/woman-shot-dead-in-violent-struggle-after-trying-to-gun-down-exhusband-at-work/news-story/6443093eb887739cd4955e7ae99c130b
20-02-2025: Amazingly some of the passengers on the
Delta crash in
PS: I suspect this is true ie that the
flight crew were DEI hires: https://babylonbee.com/news/delta-adds-a-little-hanging-tennis-ball-to-the-end-of-the-runway-for-female-pilots
20-02-2025: How earth got its ice caps, “The important implication here is that the
Earth’s natural climate regulation mechanism appears to favour a warm and
high-CO2 world with no ice caps, not the partially glaciated and low-CO2 world
we have today” https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1073159
20-02-2025: Thanks Albo. Once we used to make steel: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/what-a-humiliation-for-south-australias-premier-peter-malinauskas-and-the-almost-lunatic-federal-energy-minister-chris-bowen/news-story/7c3a573af09a55b45c0909e68fca7c43
20-02-2025: Apparently you can still gaolbreak Kindle
books – but it is awkward: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-making-it-harder-to-move-your-e-books-around-2000564129
18-02-2025:
Absolutely: https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-posts-pic-of-her-dinner-for-benefit-of-friends-whove-never-seen-spaghetti
18-02-2025: It
pays to live to be 100 in the
18-02-2025: The enemy within: Fifty Muslim groups & leaders have come out in
support of the NSW nurses: https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1891411937184931975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1891411937184931975%7Ctwgr%5E5bb3eb92443500758bf93a9c447b0894e2bd5733%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
18-02-2025:
Abolishing the income tax. Let’s do it. As I recall it was brought
in as an ‘emergency’ WW1 measure anyway. War’s over folks: https://instapundit.substack.com/p/abolishing-the-income-tax?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1281686&post_id=157291290&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=l9hpt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
17-02-2025:
Making
17-02-2025: Well
said JD Vance, “Of all the pressing challenges that the
nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass
migration,” – yet EU leaders cried when they heard this: https://caldronpool.com/vance-nothing-more-urgent-than-mass-migration-calls-for-a-new-direction-for-western-civilization/
16-02-2025: Men
really are different – and poorly understood: “Male patients
consider it all to be insulting and they react negatively to the injunction to
get in touch with their feelings. Woman therapist are likely to ask this: But,
how does that make you feel? No man thinks in those terms. No man has any idea
what you are talking about when you ask such a question. It feels like being
mothered, diminished and demeaned. It does not provide any therapeutic benefit…a
process where men intentionally distance themselves from traditional masculine
ideals, is linked to poorer psychosocial functioning, including higher levels
of distress and anger” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/making-men-crazy
16-02-2025:
Understanding fire risk. BTW A great source of independent news: https://arr.news/2025/01/17/debunking-false-claims-about-bushfire-risk-and-native-forest-logging-in-australia/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIOYt5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcVLQvk5kFWOEkww1FXXovXSS_JN149RGSrrvy9Gg42ePYDPWApuYzXP-Q_aem_8D6iSsSh4xYuchA8_prn-A
16-02-2025: At last a political party which promises real change: People First will abolish the terms Climate Change, Multiculturalism, Acknowledgment & Welcome to Country in Government organisations. These terms are designed to waste taxpayers money and undermine national unity. The waste must end.
16-02-2025: “The simple truth is that there must be overwhelming military might to force an unconditional surrender by Hamas, the return of all hostages dead and alive, and criminal arrests and public trials for every Gazan terrorist or citizen involved in any aspect of the horrors of 7 October including holding the hostages or shielding terrorists.
The
world has tried and failed for decades to use the concept of moral equivalence
to bring peace to the
In
fifty years, the world has gone from ‘never negotiating with terrorists’ to
tolerating and even excusing the barbarity of Hamas. That now ends. The lesson
for the Arab communities within Judea and
13-02-2025: Canoeing With Dogs #2: Just to prove that all of our trips don't end in disaster: As the rainfall forecast for the rest of the summer is dismal and the river heights are rapidly falling we seized (maybe the last) opportunity to shoot one of our favourite sections of the Wonnangatta, ie Black Snake Creek to Waterford (Meyers Flat) last weekend. This is really only a two day trip (and could even be completed in one hectic day) but we chose to spend a leisurely three days at it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2025/02/13/canoeing-with-dogs-2/
13-02-2025: Ouch: https://x.com/nypost/status/1889405074524225770
13-02-2025: If you had any doubt we should expel every
Moslem who thinks this way: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-mass-immigration-has-imported-hatred-and-its-tribal/news-story/b3e24c99ba7f1ba17859419d9eced279
13-02-2025: Coming soon to
13-02-2025: Why we should forget about judicial supremacy. To paraphrase: They are not the government we elect (or even the constitution we create by referenda. The same is equally true in Oz. We should reject the High Court’s attempts to ‘make law’: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/no_trump_does_em_not_em_have_to_abide_by_a_mythical_judicial_supremacy.html
12-02-2025: The end of ‘woke’? A fair conclusion, “Such is the destructive and nihilistic
impact of woke ideology it’s understandable why Donald Trump achieved the
victory he did. People are saying enough is enough and yearning for a
sense of community, social cohesion and stability as well as a return to
civility, common sense and national pride.” https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/society/the-genesis-and-toll-of-woke/
12-02-2025: Why they still need to clean up the
democratic process in
12-02-2025: Together, Lomborg wrote, they suggest that
the global costs incurred by anticipated “climate change… will be more than
offset by the advantages conferred by the industrial and technological
advancement that is supposedly causing the change in the first place.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/top-skeptic-climate-fanatics-spotlights-studies-torpedo-5/
10-02-2025: “The loveliness of
The glory that was
10-02-2025: Diversity dividends coming to a public
swimming pool near you: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/diversity-dividend-great-cultural-enrichment-success-story.html
10-02-2025: In just three weeks Musk’s DOGE has already exposed 3 trillion dollars
worth of government waste/fraud. If we estimate our government as being
around 10% of the
10-02-2025: Exactly, “Even now, that a man might actually feel a profound emotional connection
to his unborn child as it lives—or dies—inside someone else’s body is not a
truth we’re especially comfortable with.” https://www.thefp.com/p/how-men-feel-about-pregnancy-loss?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
08-02-2025: Dr Dolittle may have been on to something.
I certainly notice some of this communication with the animals I am most
familiar with: sheep and dogs: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250204-the-linguists-studying-how-cows-talk-to-each-other-in-language
08-02-2025: Such humbuggery! Not this little black
duck: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/fauxborigines/black-duck-red-ink-white-mendicant/
08-02-2025: You must read this: how real government
gets things done: https://eko.substack.com/p/override
08-02-2025: Trump unbans plastic straws – this guy is
fixing everything. Fast. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14373181/donald-trump-end-paper-straws-plastic-ban.html
07-02-2025: The BOM’s appalling temperature collection system – completely unfit for purpose. Read a detailed explanation why: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/04/changing-data-to-agree-with-the-narrative-the-sad-story-of-acorn-sat/
07-02-2025: When you have a country to be proud of: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/u-s-army-shatters-recruiting-records-under-trumps/
07-02-2025: Get behind Pauline’s plan Peter: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/pauline-hanson-takes-lead-from-elon-musk-in-bid-to-cut-government-spending-by-90bn/news-story/d6bc6eb0bb494f3e3b83320e3b0ab5cf
07-02-2025: Where is Bruce Willis when we need him? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-2024-yr4-chance-hit-earth-what-to-know/
06-02-2025: Closing down all these corrupt organizations which have been working
hard to destroy civilisation is going to make a big difference. Think
USAID, WHO. CIA, FBI, UN etc, etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/ngos-emerge-as-the-shadow-government/
06-02-2025: AEB – more nanny state b------t. Who needs
a car to take control? You know very well it will do so sometimes at just the
wrong time too: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/suzuki-stops-sales-over-red-tape/news-story/5dfbabefba1abee5a059ef0e19cc5220
06-02-2025: You betcha, “There is better way, one that involves a
collaborative approach to park management which takes into account the whole
Australian community, not just a small segment… a new model for Aboriginal
joint management of NSW national parks. The model will see the potential
handing the title to every NSW national park to Aborigines over the next 15 to
20 years…The bulk of consultation will involve only Aborigines! Given the NPWS
past history of stakeholder engagement I was not surprised to see the general
public has been excluded from the process and will only be involved at the end
— once the model is complete and decisions have been concluded” https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/aborigines/welcome-to-the-new-apartheid/
06-02-2025: Islam is undoubtedly the most evil and
dangerous ideology in the world today (making communism seem quite effete by
comparison) but to criticise it (even mildly) whilst allowing the most
outrageous vilification of say Christianity or Judaism is likely to become
illegal everywhere: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/04/will-angela-rayner-ban-criticism-of-islam/
05-02-2025: Our national debt and the Net Zero
insanity, “Suppose we had a
trillion dollars and we wasted a million dollars a day on climate starting
today. In that case, we’d waste the last million around October 30th of the
year 4762AD … surely we have better things on which to spend a million
dollars a day for the next 27 centuries. For that amount, we could turn the
world into paradise” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/03/california-blows-it-again/
05-02-2025: Melbourne’s fire risk matches LA’s: “About 2 million people and 800,000 homes in
nine outer Melbourne local government areas (LGA’s) are at risk of destruction
from ember attack, power outages and/or water restrictions for months (e.g.
Canberra in 2003). There is ample precedent. The
05-02-2025: Whilst the fires rage, we are paying more
for less. CFA volunteers down 25%. The socialist way: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorias-volunteer-firefighting-force-shrinks-to-new-low-while-bill-for-paid-staff-soars/news-story/f95e7a8213a25e7f7fe4e3c2711adca9
05-02-2025: Exactly Rita. Stand for something Dutton.
Grow a pair. Forget Labor light. “Conservatives win when they argue
from a position of strength and moral clarity whether it’s arguing against
enshrining racial division into the Australian constitution or arguing for
tough border protection policies.”
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-peter-dutton-should-resist-temptation-to-play-it-safe-before-election/news-story/dbc6488efdd815e0c58b565f34e037c6
04-02-2025: Breaking the lock-step on new coal-fired
power stations. Come on Dutton. Get on side: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/bang-food-industry-says-theres-a-national-energy-emergency-and-calls-for-labor-to-drop-the-ideology-and-fast-track-coal/
04-02-2025: Trump is moving so quickly to fix the mess the world is in that most of
his actions leave no time for even reporting them. For example, his tariffs
against
04-02-2025: Say ‘Goodbye’ to acne: https://nypost.com/2025/02/03/health/acne-fighting-serum-infects-bacteria-that-causes-acne-with-a-virus/
04-02-2025: Musk will slash at least a trillion from
the deficit in the next year. If
Waste like this: https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/posts/113930398236931509
03-02-2025: Too many kangaroos in this ‘court’. A
shocking abuse of process. Seems to me we have also heard about the
swimming pool complaint before and it had been disimissed as fallacious: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/andrew-bolt-slams-process-surrounding-awarding-of-compensation-to-two-men-who-claimed-they-were-abused-by-george-pell/news-story/a74bec1d27227f0efbc341374345b27d
03-02-2025: Well, (like every other government funded
boondoggle) that worked out well: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/worlds-largest-concentrated-solar-boondoggle-is-going-out-of-business-after-just-11-years/
03-02-2025: Understanding the Murray-Darling by a
modern swagman: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-our-archives/camped-by-a-billabong/
03-02-2025: Just too many rules and regulations: We need this too, “whenever (a) department…promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed…(further) any new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall, to the extent permitted by law, be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/just-president-trump-signs-executive-order-requiring-agencies/
01-02-2025: Why the Blackhawk crashed into the jet.
Makes perfect sense: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/wayne-root-here-is-best-explanation-ive-heard/
And: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pilots-long-worried-dcs-complex-010034423.html
01-02-2025: A terrible tragedy. The war in
01-02-2025: Something new for pain: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-new-type-nonopioid-painkiller-acute-pain-rcna189871
01-02-2025: Dark Oxygen – what is going on here? https://www.earth.com/news/dark-oxygen-discovery-deep-ocean-rocks-upends-centuries-of-scientific-beliefs/
31-01-2025: The great replacement – move over human
beings: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-time-in-history-agi-asi?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=347533&post_id=156002579&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4zpuw1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
31-01-2025: The sudden death of ESG, Net Zero (DEI
etc). Thanks Don: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/thank-us-voters-australian-pension-funds-are-backing-away-from-climate-pledges-too/
31-01-2025: Somethng very strange about that
helicopter’s flight path: https://x.com/Uncensorednewsw/status/1884897095368552893
but Trump blames diversity hires: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/united-states/multiple-feared-dead-after-plane-crash-in-washington-dc/live-coverage/9909335dd1b07c051f69201d89d5bbee
31-01-2025: Well I think you can tell from their photo
that these two weren’t the ‘masterminds’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/jigsaw-puzzle-investigators-seek-out-masterminds-behind-dural-caravan-plot/news-story/dc8cb300f0660c9b8cb52c4ae954b9d9
30-01-2025: Definitely
30-01-2025: Just what the world needs. (Unsurprisingly “the mice had
“significant developmental abnormalities,” but some lived until adulthood.”) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/scientists-china-genetically-engineer-mice-two-male-parents/
30-01-2025: Revenge of the giant sturgeon: This guy
clearly resents the caviar culture: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/shocking-moment-giant-fish-attacks-mermaid-performer-at-chinese-aquarium/news-story/bbc40d391a7f06432bf7ecd40e8027ce
30-01-2025: You don’t suppose the answer is that kids
spend a lot more time reading (rather than looking at junk on screens)? https://archive.is/Lhc0h
29-01-2025: Understanding why headlights have become
so bright. I must admit we have installed LEDs on all our cars so we can
see to drive at night. The Narva brand are outstanding. Stick to a max of 4000
lumens out front: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/headlight-brightness-safety-us-europe-led/
29-01-2025: I like the idea: This day is also a time for aboriginals to reflect on their past and
give thanks for having been lifted out of the Stone Age by benevolent British
colonists: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/aboriginal-gratitude-day.html
29-01-2025: Well done Thai police: https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/police-allow-thai-parents-to-attack-alleged-pedophile/news-story/6f016efb453965897013e126aeac20ab
29-01-2025: Quite a story: https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/01/27/the-woman-who-has-lived-her-whole-life-in-auschwitz/
28-01-2025: Yesterday in the 38C plus heat we spent
most of the day trying to ‘fix’ first one then two water pumps. The creek
pump which supplies our garden etc had run dry. It had pumped one dam dry
before failing. Then we discovered that a hugs tree which fell three years ago
during a massive flood had been gradually squashing the delivery pipe from the
main dam. Two chainsaws later we had it (and the house pump which failed while
delivering prime to the creek) running again and had just got several
sprinklers going when we had a huge thunderstorm which just about drowned
us. Shades of Virginia McKellar. Perhaps a more relaxing day today?
26-01-2025: The first jumbo jet of illegals departs. When will we get to work on
this? https://www.zerohedge.com/military/deportation-flights-begin-white-house-announces-first-jumbo-jet-illegals-departs-america
26-01-2025: Don’t bet your life. Understanding statistics. It’s important you do: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/24/margins-of-error/
26-01-2025: “Nothing but good can come from more atmospheric CO2. The Earth has
experimented with much higher CO2 concentrations than today many times over the
Phanerozoic eon, the last 540 million years or so, where the fossil record of
life is especially good. Life flourished at four times more CO2 than today.
There is no geological evidence that more CO2 will be anything but good for
life on Earth.” Dr. William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at
26-01-2025: Who do the old parties actually represent?
Afd looking good in
25-01-2025: Double Hammock #2: We were feeling the need to perfect our double hammocking skills as preparation for yet another wilderness trip. As we often hike in Fiordland NZ where it is apt to rain on average an inch a day and it can be difficult anyway to find a level spot for a tent, it is well to be prepared with a tarp and a hammock. I/we have never ventured there without this ability.
We used to sling one hammock underneath the other (which is a tad awkward, but works) until I hit on the idea of using a couple of rods to separate the hammocks from each other. The post Simple Hammock Double Up outlines my first attempt at this. It works, but you need a couple of short lengths of string to hold the two pieces of stick inside the poly pipe so they don't fall out. We already had the Hummingbird Hammocks. Unfortunately they no longer make them so maybe you should order your hammock from Simply Light Designs
In the current version I am using a couple of lengths of carbon tube so that everything is in my kit ready to just be hung from the two trees. In this version I have a cord which has an overhand knot tied in either end passing up the centre of the tube. The hammock suspensions are attached around the tube and through a loop of the cord so that the hammocks cannot slide towards each other. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2025/01/25/double-hammock-2/
25-01-2025: In other news, now we discover 2024 was
not abnormally hot. Indeed we have been living though the coldest period in 485
million years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/17/no-cnn-and-bbc-2024-wasnt-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-all-of-the-available-evidence-is-considered/
25-01-2025: The ‘science’ behind extreme longevity was
a fraud: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/22/about-those-blue-zones/
25-01-2025: When prominent Lefties like Phillip Adams
find it hard to maintain their firearms licence what hope is here for the rest
of us? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/man-fills-in-permission-slip-for-guns-has-guns-confiscated.html
25-01-2025: The high price of electricity:
24-01-2025: Let’s turn off the tap. There is no net benefit to mass migration:
“Import the third world, become the third world…Australian
statistics from a 2021 Treasury report show the net lifetime fiscal
benefit of skilled migrants is $198,000/capita, but that of family and
humanitarian migrants is minus $126,000 and $400,000, respectively…I mmigrants
often bring inherited hatreds and conflicts which caused them to flee their
homelands in the first place, creating major problems for their adopted
countries whose values they neither understand nor respect.”. https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/importing-the-third-world/
24-01-2025: Go figure: A citizen scientist discovers, “Using the CERES satellite data, it is
shown that over the last ~ quarter century, the increase in greenhouse gases
has had no detectable effect on
the global average surface temperature. On the contrary, the overall
increase in available solar energy after albedo reflections is shown to be
sufficient to explain the warming. In support of this, variations in available
solar energy are shown to agree quite well with the variations in the observed
temperature” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/22/greenhouse-efficiency-2/
.
24-01-2025: You may worry about the world warming a
little but I worry about the cold returning. Think about The Great Frost of 1709 for example: https://malevus.com/great-frost-of-1709/#google_vignette
23-01-2025: Cut government again and again. If
23-01-2025: Why does
23-01-2025: The ‘false flags’ coming down now. So
many good things coming from Trump’s victory. Let’s get rid of this rubbish in
Oz too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/trump-orders-one-flag-policy-across-all-u/
23-01-2025: 30,000 people who should have their
citizenship cancelled on
22-01-2025: The science behind CO2 ‘saturation’ is a
game changer. According to this evidence a doubling of CO2 (from the current
400 ppm to 800 ppm) would produce almost no warming at all: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/18/the-saturation-effect-questions-the-prevailing-narrative-on-co2/
22-01-2025: “It seems that the frequency of these spontaneous fires increases with
the size of the battery.“ Della and I are building an of-grid
solar-wind-battery storage system to see us through the likely future
black-outs everyone else will be troubled by. After much agonizing we have
settled on OZPV lead-acid gel batteries which can be drawn down 100% but we
intend to draw them down only approx 25% so that we get many decades of safe
use from them: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/19/the-energy-storage-fiasco-how-soon-will-it-be-abandoned/
22-01-2025: Freedom of speech: “Uncomfortable chit-chat is exactly what
society needs. There are a number of substantial social problems that
require discussion among ordinary people, not the halls of privilege and
power.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/the-pub-test/
22-01-2025: Donald Trump. What a hero. Getting it done
from Day 1. If only all politicians were as good as their word: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/here-is-full-list-presidential-actions-trump-signed/
18-01-2025: Removing citizenship.
18-01-2025: Not such a ‘conspiracy theory’ once
Congress vindicates it then: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/congressional-report-validates-covid-alleged-conspiracy-theories-part-2/
18-01-2025: Anthropogenic climate change after all –
but clouds rather than CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/16/cloud-reduction-global-warming-crgw-101-a-competitive-theory-to-co2-related-global-warming/
18-01-2025: What do Russians think of the war? https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-what-do-russians-think-of-the?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
17-01-2025: Let’s ban cans of dog food as they may be
used as weapons: The absurdity and over-reach of this move by Coles are just
mind-blowing: https://au.news.yahoo.com/coles-announces-major-nationwide-ban-on-popular-kitchen-staple-020820248.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGjcLpx4-lbGy5AmssCALPMdGjU3yrNfsGevGMpdesM88TpnjQ4o3iXzbe4GuCJ9nSKTW6CyZyyMtxb4bgskqRvWct6KCHHwuZpR7eWwM-DGgCX6Ih4lCrQCI9JYFgGnJEhlArnTAFko5-pK0vu6_cIHbNlOszf_Wm_oGmZ_GLs5
17-01-2025: Just a reminder of what right-wing and
left-wing actually mean: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/being-called-far-right-is-like-being-called-a-witch-in-the-middle-ages/
17-01-2025: Preparing for WW3: https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/china-plans-to-blow-starlink-out-of-the-sky-in-a-taiwan-war/
17-01-2025: Exactly, “In Britain, as in many other
Western countries, there is hardly any issue…that isn't made more difficult by
mass migration and the festering resentment of working-class communities who
have to bear the unwanted consequences of a policy that they were never asked
to approve.” https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/mass-migration-is-finally-getting-the-scrutiny-it-deserves-after-elon-musk-populist-leaders-shone-a-spotlight-on-the-issue/news-story/b95ce5e1f3402eac626064f01e29c8e5
16-01-2025: Mind-boggling: In
16-01-2025: Let’s ban cans of dog food as they may be
used as weapons: The absurdity and over-reach of this move by Coles are just
mind-blowing: https://au.news.yahoo.com/coles-announces-major-nationwide-ban-on-popular-kitchen-staple-020820248.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGjcLpx4-lbGy5AmssCALPMdGjU3yrNfsGevGMpdesM88TpnjQ4o3iXzbe4GuCJ9nSKTW6CyZyyMtxb4bgskqRvWct6KCHHwuZpR7eWwM-DGgCX6Ih4lCrQCI9JYFgGnJEhlArnTAFko5-pK0vu6_cIHbNlOszf_Wm_oGmZ_GLs5
16-01-2025: Just a reminder of what right-wing and
left-wing actually mean: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/being-called-far-right-is-like-being-called-a-witch-in-the-middle-ages/
16-01-2025: Preparing for WW3: https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/china-plans-to-blow-starlink-out-of-the-sky-in-a-taiwan-war/
13-01-2025: The most important thing the Left will not
forgive Bob Dylan for is his abandonment of their extremism. How can these
people (for example) still be proud of their opposition to the Vietnam War
after the murder of 8 million Indo-Chinese by the triumphant communists? https://www.thefp.com/p/truth-about-bob-dylan-pete-seeger-complete-unknown-timothee-chalamet-edward-norton?utm_campaign=email-post&r=l9hpt&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
13-01-2025: Forget about buying a real puppy, get a
robotic puppy instead: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/01/10/robotic-puppy-mental-health-Tombot/7151736519877/
13-01-2025: When lesbians will save your home – but
not your husband, "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the
wrong place." https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/las-woke-pretend-fire-brigade-am-i-able-to-carry-your-husband-out-of-a-fire-he-got-himself-in-the-wr.html
13-01-2025: If you think Islam can be reformed you are
a fool. It is wholly evil and must just be expunged from our society: https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/religion/reform-islam-tell-him-hes-dreaming/
Other countries have already begun the
process: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/when-will-britain-wake-up-to-the-islamist-threat/
12-01-2025:
12-01-2025: Make sure your son doesn’t marry a hot
robot: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1878155162159616471
12-01-2025: Misinformation officially scrapped: https://brownstone.org/articles/free-speech-win-down-under-as-misinformation-bill-is-officially-binned/
12-01-2025: NDIS rorts. It must be scrapped.
12-01-2025:
11-01-2025: Just imagine this. 1 in 7! Islamophobia of
course. Jordan Peterson: “The first case is that 40 out of 50
Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hell holes, and only
three of them are democracies. And that’s
Nothing to see here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-as-directed-failing-british-pm-starmer-labour/
11-01-2025: Why aren’t objectors just breaking,
dumping or throwing the bloody things into the sea? It would stop overnight if
they did: https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/beach-turf-wars-are-dividing-australia/
11-01-2025: Well, Duh! I recently bought a pack of
Haldiram’s All Bhujia (to try out for hiking). It is potato noodles at 6
calories per gram (almost more than pure butter). I have been unable to find
any ‘food’ which is higher in calories than this: https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/ultra-processed-food-is-causing-the-obesity-epidemic/
11-01-2025: How much is
10-01-2025: The truth is, “Mass immigration and multiculturalism have
been a disaster. It is horrible to face this, but we must.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/the-grooming-gang-scandal-needs-to-change-our-entire-worldview/
10-01-2025: With the present (and ‘eternal’) debt we
have I can’t see how we won’t just sink
further and further into poverty. “Sure governments in the past have
erred and Labor governments have always been fond of inventing new unaffordable
welfare programs and of over regulating, particularly in the labour market. But
nothing like this. Destroying cheap reliable energy on which business depends
and, worse, replacing it with energy systems which are intrinsically expensive
and unreliable and which, to boot, effectively prevent cheap and reliable
energy systems from ever being rebuilt. That scale of deliberate national
self-harm is unique in the annals of time…Major political parties on both sides
of the aisle across all levels of government are suffering from the mass
delusion that they can and must play a part in altering the climate. It brings
the apocryphal tale of King Canute’s demonstration of his limitations into
sharp focus. And to twist the metaphor, is it too late to turn the tide? Even
if Dutton were to win, the Libs are too weak and comprised to ditch the
climate-change madness. Plus the Senate will stymie any material pullback” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/01/04/is-prosperity-slipping-away/
Just a bit of loose change after all – I
don’t suppose we could make any savings by getting rid of a lot of them? A reminder:
Milei in ASrbentina abolished over half his government’s departments on Day One
– and the country has not looked back since: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/albanese-government-faces-74-billion-budget-blowout-over-unbudgeted-public-servant-wage-increases/news-story/523488364c9cd6bf53be093955da4653
10-01-2025: Things really are going to change under
Trump – and his successor Vance. The West really will be saved. Right here
Albanese and Allan are doomed: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/the-last-american-banker-rats-are-leaving-the-un-net-zero-banking-club/
10-01-2025: Things to rid ourselves of “Woke DEI, Climate
Extremism, Homelessness, Vaccines, Open Borders & Ukraine : Woke DEI, Climate Extremism, Homelessness, Vaccines, Open Borders &
Ukraine
Check it out: “This
is the fire chief, assistant chief, and training commander in
09-01-2025: No new windmills during my Presidency –
what a good idea. Come on Peter: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5071767-trump-were-going-to-try-to-have-a-policy-where-no-windmills-are-being-built/amp/
09-01-2025: Why do
09-01-2025: Why not? One in five deaths are now due to
euthanasia. These people are obviously worthless alive anyway: https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/08/canadian-doctors-suggest-harvesting-organs-from-euthanasia-patients-before-theyre-dead/
09-01-2025: Poliviere has a few lessons to teach
Dutton: https://twitter.com/i/status/1876571770662289480
08-01-2025: Too true: “Ten years on, here’s
what’s horrifying: the killers have won… their grim, despotic ideology still
stalks
08-01-2025: A big win for free speech – Zuckerberg
dumps ‘fact-checkers’: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/tipping-point-zuckerberg-dumps-fact-checkers-allows-immigration-talk-copies-x-and-moves-team-from-ca-to-texas/
08-01-2025: Elon Musk, “The scandal started with the onset of mass migration. Importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women, brought us here. And after 30 years of this disastrous experiment, we now have entrenched sectarian voting blocs that make it electoral suicide for some MPs to confront this. This scandal shows why we must end it.
‘The foreign nationals responsible must be deported. No ifs, no buts. And the officials that covered it up must be sent to jail for their appalling cowards. Even that won’t be enough for the victims.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/rotherham-why-now/
08-01-2025: Maybe, just maybe they will eventually get
these things to work – but at the moment it is all Sci-fi: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/game-changer-carmakers-race-to-revolutionise-ev-battery-and-recharging-technology/news-story/22540003f422ef65205596546cdac399
06-01-2025: “Get ready to be horrified Charlene
Downes was 14 when she was killed, having been repeatedly raped. Iyad
Albattikhi and Mohammed Reveshi stood trial in 2008, but the Crown Prosecution
Service decided there could be no case due to errors in evidence gathering by
police. Prosecution said the men planned
turning her into kebab meat to get rid of evidence She has never been found
They walked free.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/rape-gangs-in-great-britain
06-01-2025: “Here a little straight thought would be useful. In truth, the role of
father in a patriarchal society requires a man to protect and provide for women
and children. When men sit idly by and allow their daughters to be raped and
sex trafficked, they are failing at one of the most fundamental manly tasks.
Nations countenance rape culture when they are turning away from patriarchy, when women insist that they do not need to be protected or provided for. You know the old statement: be careful what you wish for, you might get it” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/rape-culture-in-india-and-great-britain
06-01-2025: You would be a fool if you think that
these rape gangs are not at work in
06-01-2025: How to find out the truth about
vaccination (and anything else): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/04/use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-research/
05-01-2025: Unless we change course very soon Australia is doomed, “when the feelings of the ‘Jidirah Spirit Whale’, which tells all the fish in the sea what to eat, when to mate, and where to migrate, overrides an $18.7 billion Woodside offshore gas project with the capacity to power 8.5 million homes for 30 years.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/why-invest-in-australia/
05-01-2025: 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!
05-01-2025: What the British Government has done to
Tommy Robinson for his expose of the (unpunished) rapes of over 250,000 English
girls is absolutely dreadful. You cannot believe that such systematic abuse
is not also happening here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/04/when-working-class-girls-were-sacrificed-to-ideology/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/theyre-trying-break-me-tommy-robinson-speaks-prison/
05-01-2025: Elon Musk has called for King Charles to
call for a fresh election over this issue: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/freetommyrobinson-trends-as-elon-musk-calls-king-charles/
04-01-2025: Fascinating The tree which survived
04-01-2025: Will rape supporter Starmer arrest Elon
Musk too? Free Tommy Robinson: https://caldronpool.com/elon-musk-brings-renewed-focus-to-uk-rape-gangs-scandal-and-tommy-robinsons-imprisonment/
04-01-2025: 250,000 English girls raped (mainly by
Moslem men). Where is the outrage? https://tlgrm.eu/channels/@TommyRobinsonNews/59287
04-01-2025: Maybe using convicted criminals for spare
parts might not be an unalloyed plus then? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14182585/heart-transplant-transfer-memories-personality-changes.html
03-01-2025: On human ‘rights’:"Government is our servant. The central, really very new concept on which this country was founded is that an individual's rights do not flow from government, but are inherent to man. That government in fact only makes sense to the extent that it is our servant in the defense of our rights, rather than as the vessel from which these rights grudgingly flow. Statists of all stripes have tried to challenge this assumption over the last 100 years. While their exact details have varied, every statist has tried to create some larger entity to which the individual should be subjugated: the Proletariat, the common good, God, the master race. They all hold in common that the government's job is to sacrifice one group to another. A common approach among modern statists is to create a myriad of new non-rights to dilute and replace our fundamental rights as individuals. These new non-rights, such as the "right" to health care, a job, education, or even recreation, for god sakes, are meaningless in a free society, as they can't exist unless one person is harnessed involuntarily to provide them to another person. These non-rights are the exact opposite of freedom, and in fact require enslavement and sacrifice of one group to another": http://www.coyoteblog.com/.../2005/06/i_dont_necesari.html
03-01-2025: Good News: The big banks are jumping ship
on woke BS and the Net Zero nonsense: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/01/bankers-quietly-exit-from-the-global-climate-cartel/
03-01-2025: You would hope that 2025 will be the end
of it here too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-welcome-to-2025-the-year-woke-finally-dies/news-story/33de1befe0c7f541e0ef7c651b989e1f
03-01-2025: More good news.
01-01-2025: Enough of this woke b------t: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/viewers-slam-governmentfunded-abc-for-its-woke-and-divisive-messaging-during-sydney-new-years-eve-fireworks-coverage/news-story/b516f334df99eae39016d7e1e6261e6a
01-01-2025: Is
01-01-2025: The coup in
01-01-2025: Can we get manufacturing back? How a
$12.98 T-shirt is made in the
31-12-2025: Canoeing With Dogs: I'm sure you know we have been doing this for very many years - but it is getting harder. Because of Della's eyesight she is less comfortable with the plastic boats we have used in the past: the Perception Minnows she/we used when the kids were little (over thirty years ago) , the Nylex Pioneers we used for many years and the New Town Anglers we have used for the last few years.
The Minnows (13 kg) were too small for dogs. The Pioneers (at over 35 kg) have become too heavy for either of us (not sure how we loaded two of them on the roof racks. Youth I guess.Where has it gone?) - why we chose the Anglers (13 kg) actually a few years back (though they are not so suitable for white water).
She is much more comfortable with the pack rafts we have (mostly Alpackas but also a Naturehike Double - especially this one) but I worry that Honey particularly will be able to scratch a big hole in one as she leaps out of the boats constantly, then scrabbles to be lifted back in. She just adores the swimming and diving. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/12/30/canoeing-with-dogs/
31-12-2025: This waterfall would have
to be even bigger than the one at the ‘Pillars of Hercules’ which created the
31-12-2025: It all seems to happen just like magic but someone is responsible: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-the-most-indispensable-machine-in-the-world-and-it-depends-on-this-woman/ar-AA1wHmvg
31-12-2025: How to put the
30-12-2025: Black
Saturday 2009 remembered – yet we have even more fuel today, thanks to
Government policy and/or neglect.
No way could we allow a few cows to eat some grasses in the High Country or a
few loggers to harvest some timber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Uz8ltWOGU
.
30-12-2025: Top marksmanship: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/40141-Joke-du-Jour.html
30-12-2025: When diesel is better than coal: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/fiasco-albo-cant-deliver-on-green-promise-for-hunter-power-project/news-story/2808a59cb7fc46b4ca3e6ce003cf289b
30-12-2025: The Bounty: Is this good news? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07gv3j818ko
27-12-2025: Multiculturalism anyone? A plea for moderation: “To endure, a rights-protecting or liberal democracy needs citizens who regard themselves as engaged in a common enterprise. They must share a language. They must respect basic moral and political principles. They must take pride in their nation’s accomplishments while facing up to and correcting their country’s flaws by upholding the best in the nation’s traditions and heeding justice’s enduring imperatives. They must trust that as they generally follow society’s written and unwritten rules, so too will others. And they must partake of a broad commitment – that receives expression in the exercise of toleration and civility – to securing a freedom for each consistent with a like freedom for all. “ https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/multiculturalism-fails
27-12-2025: Vernix and the ‘aquatic ape’ hypothesis: https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/unexplained-biology-how-humans-are
27-12-2025: In
27-12-2025: And end to black rooves - at last: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/heatwave-sparks-renewed-calls-for-outright-ban-on-black-roofs/news-story/9b525274a3617e9328e7bf41d59e42ef
26-12-2025: Gene therapy: The pluses vs the minuses: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/vic-researchers-ramp-up-experiments-to-treat-blindness/news-story/0a2913a2d381e71a9b4ec99ba7b45274 vs https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/rise-of-geneediting-technology-in-australia-and-beyond-could-have-profoundly-devastating-effects-on-western-society/news-story/217b7039791dac8ab30832b705e646ca
26-12-2025: Who knew? CO2 turns out to be all positive: “Two recently-published papers found that doubling CO2 in the atmosphere led to minimal temperature increases…found that the sensitivity of the climate to a rise in CO2 atmospheric levels from 100 to 400 parts per million (ppm) was “negligibly small” at 0.3°C…The saturation hypothesis would appear to explain how CO2 has been 10-15 times higher in the past without runaway temperatures” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/24/science-shock-co2-is-good-for-the-planet-peer-reviewed-studies-suggest/
And forget about not being able to feed the world: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/24/genetic-tweak-to-three-key-crops-massively-boosts-their-growth/
26-12-2025: The ‘benefits’ of
26-12-2025: We need to drastically
reduce government as Milei has in
24-12-2025: I agree, “We need to recover the sacredness of sex. That it is a profound and precious union which in particular unites a man and woman in such a way that children can be produced. This belief which has been one of the bedrocks of every civilisation which has ever existed. And it’s one which we all need to defend for the protection of women and the greater good of society” https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/society/tis-a-pity-shes-a-whore/
24-12-2025: The happy land of
24-12-2025: Watermelons: Guess who’s being paying the Greens? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/for-years-the-ccp-has-been-sending-millions-to-us-universities-and-ngos-to-promote-green-energy/
24-12-2025: Bastiat, “Government is
the great fiction through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of
everybody else”
23-12-2025: Stone Age thieves – definitely not a drive-by: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241220-the-archaeological-mystery-of-stonehenges-long-lost-megaliths
23-12-2025: MH370 – hopefully they
find it this time: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/malaysia-announces-new-search-for-mh370-with-ocean-infinity/news-story/7b81a376d905338b1ae28be0290246f6
23-12-2025: Latest episode in a dreadful woke saga: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/irish-high-court-orders-immediate-release-enoch-burke/
23-12-2025: Did you notice that after
her last cabinet reshuffle Jacinta now has 6 men in a cabinet of 23 – so much
for 50:50!
22-12-2025: Where has
22-12-2025: Let’s just have some more
immigration. OK? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/fanning-the-flames/
Another immigrant ‘culturally
enriching’ us – well,
Exactly Geert: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/im-with-you-geert.html
22-12-2025: Merry Xmas, But…Beware of your penis looking like an eggplant. "Go gentle into that good night": https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/wild-sex-act-prompts-huge-warning/news-story/631197a24cd663a532b934ce758006cc
22-12-2025: Forget about Net Zero. More coal-fired power stations NOW, please: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/nick-cater-antiquated-concept-of-base-load-power-is-more-relevant-to-australias-energy-future-than-zali-steggall-would-have-us-believe/news-story/cba848895e6dadbf22fe7fcd11ea913e
21-12-2025: Making calls to satellite phones has been restricted, though most will not know. Because we have cause to use one (both a satellite phone and satellite messenger) This is deeply worrying for us. About a year ago Telstra decided you now have to have a new dedicated SIM for your sat phone (without telling us) or it will only be able to make one minute of calls. Previously we had a normal 3G SIM (which Telstra had installed) in ours. It worked both in and out fine for years. Now I discover that many other people (whom I can call with my sat phone) cannot call or message me back depending on who they have as their carrier. Unfortunately this applies to all my children. Similar difficulties arise with satellite messenger messaging.
I will complain to the Minister of Communications about this situation
(because it is dangerous) but don’t expect anything to happen. Fortunately you
seem to be able to make outgoing calls and messages. It is just incoming which
are affected. You can imagine that this will create problems though in
emergency situations and require one to leave the satellite phone switched on
for longer unnecessarily (while the battery goes flat) or having to make more
outgoing calls when awaiting rescue/helicopters etc. I expect people will die as a result of this. Hopefully not me.
I was just about to make the switch from Telstra as I could have saved half my mobile phone cost by switching to Aldi or Boost both of which use pretty much the same (Teltra) network (though only Boost has all of the coverage) as well as much more free data – a saving of $300 per year for each of us when I noticed (in their fine print that the ’included service’ did not include calls to satellite phones. This did not just mean that you would be charged extra for them (what you would expect – and what used to happen). What it meant was that you would not be able to call or message them at all. Boost confirmed this. I checked this out with my son’s phone (Aldi) and found that he was completely unable to call or message my sat phone and had some difficulties with my Sat Messenger as well. You can see that this is true by scrolling down to ‘What’s Not Included’ eg here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0490/0896/7844/files/CIS_MOSC2134-22102025.pdf?v=1730060345
PS: Apparently you can cure this by transferring your satellite phone to Pivotel: https://www.pivotel.com.au/plans-iridium-satellite-phone-plans.html
21-12-2025: Deeming for Premier –
Pesutto must go. What’s wrong with the Libs? She is the only Western suburbs
Liberal: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/peta-credlin-christmas-has-come-early-for-jacinta-allan-as-contemptible-john-pesutto-destroyed-his-electoral-hopes-with-shameful-vote-to-continue-moira-deemings-exclusion/news-story/33484410c36144087c43b228bccdbfa2
21-12-2025: Commercial nuclear fusion
in five years time. These guys must know something we don’t: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/us-state-of-virginia-announces-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-to-be-running-by-early-2030s.html
21-12-2025: Sinister legislation but
a useful fact about AI: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/ai-finds-the-legal-bombs-the-blob-cant-hide-things-in-1000-page-omnipork-bills-anymore/
20-12-2025: Scientists who were surprised by carnivorous squirrels had just never been hunters (or very observant): https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/12/18/scientists-stunned-by-vole-hunting-predatory-squirrels-n2183389
20-12-2025: I was deeply suspicious of mRNA vaccines all along – why we never had them – now it turns out we were right: https://richardsonpost.com/rebekah-barnett/38221/bombshell-australian-drug-regulator-knows-dna-fragments-in-mrna-vaccines-can-enter-nucleus-and-integrate-into-genome-internal-emails-show/
20-12-2025: This would have to be a popular move - except amongst public servants: https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/president-milei-announces-that-he-will-reduce-taxes-by-90/
20-12-2025: C’mon guys start wearing it. Oz has millions of bales of unsaleable wool: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241210-how-ultra-traditional-tweed-found-a-new-fanbase
19-12-2025: This is amazing: https://www.myheritage.com/livememory/?source_caller=ui&_p=4&shortlink=fix1htc5&c=LiveMemory%20is%20ready&pid=Email&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fmyheritage.com%2Fmobile%2Fmain&af_xp=email
19-12-2025: Respecting (?) the dead: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna179788
19-12-2025: Weather indicators which have been overlooked up till now: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/03/interesting/
19-12-2025: Novavax was better: https://www.vox.com/even-better/391511/novavax-covid-vaccine-booster-mrna-pfizer-moderna
19-12-2025: Looks like our neighbour,
18-12-2025: Could be interesting: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-man-who-wanted-to-see-it-all
18-12-2025: Already Bovaer ‘climate milk’ is being replaced by good old f—t milk: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/16/tampering-with-milk-the-backlash-against-bovaer-and-the-hubris-of-climate-zealots/
18-12-2025: Beatrix von Storch of the AFD nails it. Be warned: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/beatrix-von-storch-speaks-for-me-every-word.html
18-12-2025: At last some acknowledgement that DV is a 50:50 problem: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/miracles-do-happen
17-12-2025: Whoa! Concerns grow about so-called endocrine disrupters, found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics: https://archive.is/BeXyT#selection-2351.0-2351.116
17-12-2025: The Marxists have done such a wonderful
job in
17-12-2025: Six
senior men, four of them born between 1919 and 1924, speak of the way the
forest and coast used to be managed with fire and stock to keep combustible
bio-mass in check, resulting in fewer wildfires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpPxwPzbFA
17-12-2025: “The only sector booming
here is bureaucracy” ‘If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets
in the sea’. Furthermore, Cigarettes cost $4 a packet in
16-12-2025: President Trump on the climate hoax! "We have to defeat the climate hoaxsters once and for all…One of the most urgent tasks... is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax…The radical left's fearmongering about climate and our future is... destroying America's economy”
16-12-2025: Just a tad high don’t you think? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po
16-12-2025: More bizarre Frankenstein ‘research’ which ought to be banned: https://archive.is/YEK9B
16-12-2025: Sharri Markson calling out the dreadful Fifth Columnist quisling Albo: https://x.com/HashemAllMighty/status/1866859027445191124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1866859027445191124%7Ctwgr%5E4fbd4345db9df2cb58aac10ff4f01ec0cafe9231%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
15-12-2025: I would like to see some modeling of the cost of building some new coal-fired power stations too – after all, everyone else is building them and with our coal too: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/sources-reveal-120-billion-nuclear-build-under-coalitions-ambitious-energy-plan-to-achieve-net-zero-by-2050/news-story/1fcef24192a8369dcbca3e8c16234eaa
15-12-2025: Maybe just 100 lashes or so right now – or for serious offences instant termination: https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/cctv-shows-moment-woolworths-worker-is-flykicked-as-warning-is-issued-ahead-of-christmas/news-story/1386f6f2025f45be858112a1837fbcdd
15-12-2025: Thought provoking, as usual: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/philosophy-ideas/simulacra-and-panopticon/
15-12-2025: Wong even expects
14-12-2025: The Little Star – a great little tent: If you are not into DIY. Also a great weight (390 grams in silnylon – even lighter in DCF which I eschew) and price (US$220 Dec 2024). What’s not to like? It is very like my Siligloo (but a little simpler). I have MLD‘s ‘big brother’ the Supamid which I can attest is well made and well thought out (but too heavy for me nowadays – though I carried it across Tasmania in 2011). It provided abundant shelter (for three) in wet, windy conditions there though (what it is designed for). The Little Star sets up with two trekking poles (as shown). Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/12/13/the-little-star-a-great-little-tent/
14-12-2025: Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously? https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/america/farewell-america-hello-victorias-swamp/
14-12-2025: Of course you should have to earn your citizenship – a stint in the military might help: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/ingrassia-president-trump-doubles-down-pledge-end-birthright/
14-12-2025: What a hero! ‘I derive
pleasure from removing the state,’ he says. ‘I feel, that way, we become more
free, that I am giving freedom back to the people… ‘We [are dismissing]
about 50,000 civil servants; we terminated about 200,000 contracts.. .We have
123 years of history that that doesn’t work, that the state is not the
solution, that the state is the problem… The best way to see if I’ve given
people the power back or not is to see whether I’ve shrunk the state… and I have shrunk the size of the state by one
third… The local stock market has surged by 130 per cent, as investors grow
increasingly confident about
13-12-2025: Move over ‘Deep Thought’ – at last we may learn the answer: https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/google-willow-quantum-computing-chip-solved-a-problem-the-best-supercomputer-taken-a-quadrillion-times-age-of-the-universe-to-crack
13-12-2025: You can guarantee it. Imagine painting the triumph of Islamic fundamentalism as ‘freedom’ - Do you see the CIA's hand in this? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/syrias-nightmare-isnt-over-yet/
13-12-2025: On the other hand, “Maybe when a bloke gets murdered once every four days by his partner we should start thinking seriously about it…Or maybe when men won’t go to court in the event that they have been sexually assaulted because they don’t want to go through the process of giving evidence about their female attacker.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/striking-a-blow-for-men-and-against-media-bias/
13-12-2025: Do you wonder why you hadn’t heard about Australian pymies? https://aussienationalistblog.com/2018/04/26/a-past-existence-of-australian-pygmies/
12-12-2025: If only it had worked. It would have been your shout: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/urine-into-electricity/
12-12-2025: They will come up with something, “So, with the death knoll sounding on the climate change narrative, the question becomes: What will be the next manufactured global crisis employed to ‘fix’ the problem of humanity?” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/the-turning-point-that-shattered-the-climate-change-narrative/
12-12-2025: When I was a kid the
Postmaster General was paid much less than the Prime Minister yet the Post
Office (
12-12-2025: Yes Tony. Let’s have a debate about immigration and the quality of people we want Australians to be: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/great-speech-from-tony-abbott-ac-on-immigration.html
11-12-2025: Mt Darling - an Emerging Inferno: I have been visiting/exploring various parts of this vast Wilderness area over the years but mainly along the rivers and streams lower down (along the Wonnangatta/Moroka) as I prefer to camp by a stream rather than on a windy mountain-top but I have made several attempts over the years to wander out along the old (closed) road to Mt Darling which begins about fifty metres before Dimmicks Lookout (off the Howitt Rd above Tamboritha). It was (still) reasonably easy to walk out there ten years ago (in 2014). Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/12/11/mt-darling-an-emerging-inferno/
11-12-2025: If only we’d known – Jesus was a Moslem. This Pope is a joke: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/the-pope-recognises-jesus-status-as-a-muslimwhat-a-joke-is-this-pope.html
11-12-2025: Unexpected improvements in technology can spell ruin. (If only we didn’t have trillion dollars of debt we might be saved): https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/new-china-tech-that-will-ruin-australia/news-story/e1314f30fba1fe81dfbf749665faa057
11-12-2025: Move over iPhone: https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/oppo-find-x8-pro-review-one-photo-that-absolutely-blew-me-away/news-story/254affac0092ae18a96b49d7332f9073
11-12-2025:
10-12-2025: Back at the end of WW2 Australia was able to build our first nuclear reactor (Lucas Heights – still operating) in about five years without computers or even power tools but now the CSIRO reckons it would take 15. Get rid of the CSIRO.
10-12-2025: Greta Thunberg (and her followers) are seriously deluded: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/net-zero-is-communism-and-it-wants-to-overthrow-our-parliament/
10-12-2025: You guessed it: Every Single Human Behavior Now Classified As Autism Or ADHD: https://babylonbee.com/news/every-single-human-behavior-now-classified-as-autism-or-adhd
10-12-2025: Isoprene, a molecule the climate models ignored – but it is very important. Let’s make more of it: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/amazon-forests-really-are-cloud-machines-and-the-climate-models-had-no-idea/
08-12-2025: During the French (and Russian) Revolutions – if you remember - they famously put the ‘nobility’ to the sword for just this sort of thing, ie levying onerous taxes on us to support extraordinary emoluments for them. The growth (and rewards) of the bureaucracy are just incredible. We need just a little more than a winnowing of them. They need turning into chaff: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/welcome-to-feudal-britain/
08-12-2025: Indescribable. When blackouts are ‘virtual power plants’: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/grid-not-fit-for-purpose-on-a-warm-day-crazy-australia-paid-3-5m-to-industry-to-stop-working/
08-12-2025: Well said Josh- of course it was terrorism: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/great-letter-from-josh-frydenberg-to-the-pm.html
08-12-2025: Interesting: Tucker interviews Sergei Lavrov: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1864804141735842253?t=4388
07-12-2025: “If wind, solar and storage can’t keep the beer cold in a small city like Broken Hill, how will it perform when called upon to power the rest”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/06/wind-and-solar-cant-support-the-grid/
07-12-2025: ‘Brighthope’ more than by name: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/australian-medical-icon-breaks-down-tears-during-debate/
07-12-2025: A 90 second mud cake – worth a try? https://www.taste.com.au/food-news/magic-90-second-mug-cake-rises-minute/chfmymwo?utm_medium=nca&utm_source=newscomau_campaign=en_pos14&utm_content=taste
07-12-2025:
06-12-2025: In today’s
06-12-2025: Come on. Someone knows who this creep is – and you say you don’t believe in sexual reassignment surgery? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/police-investigating-after-a-boy-was-approached-by-a-man-driving-a-white-van-in-boronia/news-story/cb60f027abd4b1a8d385f650d072fa0d
06-12-2025: Thanks to the Greens:
“Let’s look at Bovear and how it came to be in our milk.
Bovear is a toxic substance. It has to be handled wearing PPE. It causes cancer, deformities and male fertility issues. It can shrink testicles and turn you sterile. Its most minor effects are eye and skin irritations and breathing difficulties. Here’s a description following tests elsewhere:
“
06-12-2025: Big changes happening in
Europe – not just
05-12-2025: How we lost the Korean War: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/hug_a_south_korean.html
05-12-2025: Which would you drink to
–
05-12-2025: Vive? La
05-12-2025: Surely you can get 100% PS: I think some of the questions are really silly: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/victoria-education/are-you-smarter-than-a-year-9-student-take-the-quiz/news-story/1f309530fa0fc019ddd5f2a4c2592608
04-12-2025: More and more ancestors: https://www.yahoo.com/news/large-head-people-mysterious-form-063259322.html
04-12-2025: I see Attenborough has called for ‘Wind in the Willows’ to be banned as ‘misinformation' – apparently badgers don’t smoke pipes, wear slippers or use cudgels and boating is unknown among water rats.
04-12-2025: What happens when you declare children cannot be criminally responsible: https://www.thepiratescove.us/2024/12/03/sweden-sees-children-carrying-out-contract-killings/
04-12-2025: Listen up: Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of blood’ was prescient - I must admit I never accepted the Left's rejection of it back when: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/tyranny_in_britain.html
03-12-2025: Herodotus was right: https://greekreporter.com/2024/11/22/egyptian-shipwreck-proves-greek-historian-herodotus-right/
03-12-2025: Reflections on Anne (of Green Gables) a forgotten early feminist: https://archive.md/yhRT8
03-12-2025: How to bring up boys: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/well-done-that-boy-here-theyd-probably-charge-him.html
03-12-2025: When an icon of the left such as Chris Uhlmann shoots down your energy policy it is doomed: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/energy-illiterate-politicians-have-undermined-our-power-grid-and-will-leave-our-nation-poorer-and-weaker-chris-uhlmann/news-story/336468163de5e619e9795979e5890ea6
02-12-2025: Good on you JK: https://gatewayhispanic.com/2024/11/j-k-rowling-the-triumph-of-truth-over-cancel-culture/
02-12-2025: Never give up: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde78p3zx5ro
02-12-2025: Interesting memories of Broken Hill – soon to be a ghost town?: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/no-light-on-the-hill/
02-12-2025: A fascinating article on how forests actually work. We certainly need to rethink our forest strategy in Australia – taking it out of the hands of greens would be a good start NB Point 7 “The very real possibility that in the future we will need to rely upon our domestic forested areas to meet the wood products needs of our nation.”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/30/the-forest-management-conundrum-in-the-united-states/
01-12-2025: I suspect Elon Musk intends to be the first asteroid mining trillionaire: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/why-mars-because-the-first-trillionaires-might-be-mining-100-quadrillion-dollar-asteroids/
1-12-2025: If druggies can afford subs why can’t we? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/colombian-navy-intercepts-narcosubmarines-shipping-cocaine-to-australia/news-story/30b4eeb3f6adfb2dfdc8dbd456b63922
01-12-2025: Can Kennedy fix the nation’s health? Seems to be on the right track anyway: https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/19/world-renowned-vaccine-scientist-rfk-is-right-lets-study-vaccine-risk-factors/
01-12-2025: Exactly: https://x.com/Salwan_Momika1/status/1862390583433572398
30-11-2024: What it’s like to be lost and alone: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/lost/
30-11-2024: The green conspiracy is real: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/11-us-states-sue-blackrock-statestreet-and-vanguard-for-working-as-a-cartel-to-reduce-coal-and-increase-electricity-prices/
30-11-2024: Well said Billy Bob: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/scene-billy-bob-thorntons-new-show-goes-viral/
30-11-2024: A world filled with monsters (and you know
it’s not just in the
29-11-2024: I would have thought childlessness was (correctly) part of the punishment – after all who wants more of these people? Next I guess all the men will want to become fathers whilst in gaol too. That will work out well: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/herald-sun-readers-anger-after-convicted-murderer-approved-for-ivf-treatment/news-story/f989a4a06510cba0c24df5e09ef04fc2
29-11-2024: Listen up: Karl Popper “If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/from-our-archives/illiberal-left-rise-political-islam/
29-11-2024: Where’s John Connor when you need him? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL833P0Vino
29-11-2024: All the propaganda and ‘education’ in the world will not stop people discovering the truth: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/i-hate-to-say-i-told-you-so-but-i-was-right-about-australias-renewable-transition-caleb-bond/news-story/0ae3f255ec81272690b41f7a9dd19551
28-11-2024: I agree, ‘The Desert Column’ is the
greatest book ever to come out of
28-11-2024: Over-reach: The social media age limit bill is just another thing for Dutton to draw a line in the sand over: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/how-the-online-safety-amendment-under-16-bill-erodes-trust/
28-11-2024: Should the
28-11-2024: Moving the Doomsday Clock a few seconds closer to midnight: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/senior-nato-official-says-prepare-wartime-scenario-as/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/military-chairman-nato-preemptive-attack-russia-should-be/
27-11-2024: Wilderness Exploration: I have always loved Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias' which showcases the futility of Pharaoh Rameses' efforts to secure his immortality. Many people these days are obsessed with mankind's (supposed) destruction of nature, an observation which I do not wholly disagree with, but nature has a way of coming roaring back, all but obliterating mankind's works.
For
example, along the eighty or so kilometres of the
27-11-2024: If only you could have a recall election. Time we placed this and citizen initiated referenda in our own constitutions: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/petition-general-elections-uk-surges-past-1-million/
27-11-2024: The ‘truth’ about the
27-11-2024: “Few have heard that doubling atmospheric CO2 from its current concentration of 420 ppm would significantly increase agricultural productivity and have little effect on the climate”. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/25/lets-make-co2-great-again/
26-11-2024: Another way to look at the population decline: “We propose a new measure of the number of surviving children per female, which we call the effective fertility rate (EFR). EFR can be approximated as the product of TFR and the probability of survival.”
“We specialized EFR to measure the number of daughters that survive to reproduce (reproductive EFR) [EFRR] and the number children that survive to become workers (labor EFR) [EFRL].”
“We use three data sets to shed light on EFR over time across locations. First, we use data from 165 countries between 1950-2019 to show that one-third of the global decline in TFR during this period did not change labor EFR [EFRL], suggesting that a substantial portion of fertility decline merely compensated for higher survival rates.”
… “In the advanced nations, these are running far below the necessary 2.1 replacement rate but have stabilized (no longer dropping) since about 1990. “ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/24/about-those-plummeting-fertility-rates/
26-11-2024: Duh: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/spot-on.html
26-11-2024: Hard to believe: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/youtube-will-but-pornhub-wont-fall-under-albaneses-social-media-age-bill.html
26-11-2024: Looks an interesting read: https://www.amazon.com/North-Woods-Novel-Daniel-Mason/dp/0593597036
25-11-2024: Can You Have the Best of Both Worlds? I can't imagine just how much ink and energy has been wasted on the conundrum, 'What's best as a camping option a tent or a hammock' (plus fly)? But you can indeed have the best of both worlds - as the saying goes. You can carry a tarp which can be used either for sleeping on the ground or sheltering in your hammock as you take to the trees to avoid rough ground or too much water - as I have had to do many times. One of the reasons I am still alive really. A word to the wise: I have encountered people who are not because they could not. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/11/24/can-you-have-the-best-of-both-worlds/
25-11-2024: What a mess the situation
in the
Cui Bono: Follow the money: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/former-polish-minister-least-half-us-aid-was/
25-11-2024: The threat of nuclear war has long been deeply worrying but it just got a lot more so. No-one has the ability to intercept or destroy these hypersonic missiles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14114025/putin-missile-europe-minutes-armageddon.html
25-11-2024: ‘Australia First’: Bowen has signed up to our paying a share of $450 billion to Third World rent seekers who refuse to clean up their own acts or stand on their own two feet – as the West did centuries ago. This is so much like Gillard’s NDIS bottomless pit which improved the lives of no-one in need but now (as I predicted) costs a lot more than defence such that we now have none of the latter. If Dutton grows a pair (as Trump surely already has) he will deny this massive transfer of our cash. ‘Australia First’ will be a pretty good catch-cry for the next election: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/23/cop29-on-verge-of-collapse/
24-11-2024: This is happening now: https://babylonbee.com/news/post-menopausal-lesbians-flee-america-over-concerns-about-forced-pregnancies
24-11-2024: Abolishing any government department is always a step ahead but there is a long way still to go: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/senator-mike-rounds-introduces-legislation-abolish-department-education/
24-11-2024: Jesus: “The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John do not portray his followers as believing him to be divine – at least, not until after he had died.” So how did he become God? https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/key-jesus-question-finally-answered-with-ancient-discovery/news-story/52727f6ebaa1e759671bbe6dc4a9996f
24-11-2024: So, were we right to so demonise smoking after all? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/queensland/lung-cancers-shock-rise-among-women-who-have-never-smoked/news-story/2d84b60fe6e9bfc910ed8121bccb9c21
23-11-2024: And we thought we had
outlawed bioweapons years ago: “Robert Redfield, the former head of the
Centres for Disease Control (CDC), now says COVID-19 was ‘intentionally
engineered as a part of a biodefense program. More radically, it may well
have been a
And it turns out that the vaccines did actually kill people too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/shocking-study-censored-lancet-finally-published-reveals-high/
23-11-2024: Complete bloody airhead – and all at the taxpayer’s expense. Too many public servants? Too bloody right mate! Let’s sack most of them and demote what’s left to a reasonable level of pay: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/aussie-official-roasted-after-performing-welcome-to-country-before-climate-change-conference-in-azerbaijan/news-story/f79c28014f89786722e8f761b0497b32
Your taxes at work – a few millions
of our dollars going up in smoke at
23-11-2024: The ‘Under 16’ rule – it’s totally BS – especially when the Greens (and Labor) think 16 year olds should have the right to vote, divorce their parents and change their sex – and who knows what other rubbish, for God’s sake? And now we are all going to have to prove our own ‘Digital ID’ if we want to continue using social media ourselves! Enough of all this ‘Big Brother; crap: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/missed-the-train-andrew-bolt-questions-labors-under-16-social-media-ban/video/7da4ec670089704a3ea2a0efaf7d0fb7
23-11-2024: How can it be legal let alone unpunished to castrate your own son? https://moonbattery.com/california-to-castrate-texas-mans-12-year-old/
20-11-2024: Now this is interesting. Make a submission if you value your bush: https://engage.vic.gov.au/the-future-of-state-forests
20-11-2024: Is your doctor killing you? Thankfully mine isn’t, but I have had some bad experiences with others. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-11-18/death-doctor-grizzly-data
20-11-2024: Nuclear goes green but Albo says. ‘No’: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/big-news-the-climate-blob-finally-goes-nuclear-to-save-the-world-us-and-uk-offer-nuclear-secrets-and-australia-says-no/
20-11-2024: ‘Cry-bullies’. What a great new word: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/cry-bullies
19-11-2024: Sounds like it’s all
quite natural: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/16/antarctica-sea-ice-has-slowly-increased-since-1979-science-paper-finds/
19-11-2024: Czechs celebrate the 35th anniversary of the death of communism – at least it started out well: https://praguemorning.cz/november-17th-is-twice-as-important-for-czechs/
Here’s a reminder of what 1968 brought to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrXCW-bS7Y
19-11-2024: We must pull back from the blink of this renewables disaster if we are to have a nation left to live in: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/blockbuster-labors-weather-control-renewables-plan-turns-out-to-be-half-a-trillion-more-than-expected/
19-11-2024: This is just insane. Is there anyone who does not agree with the Qld Premier’s motto, ‘Adult crime, adult time’? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/detective-anyone-who-keeps-doing-this-should-not-be-on-the-streets/news-story/70689c1db1ec6c25a36dd882763b1781
18-11-2024: Quite right. Let’s end ‘perverse incentives’ like subsidising single parent families, subsidising benefits over effort, etc: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/fixing_government_starts_with_ending_dependency.html
18-11-2024: Let there be light: https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-stem-cell-transplant-restores-vision-in-multiple-people?fbclid=IwY2xjawGjWPNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUscDtaxLjnJZFRjCnUb9pLBzXimwt1GbUc1h19JoRkD9LD2d1rMCLibog_aem_9P2hnRk-6vYzB8JN52mMTA
18-11-2024: Joe decides he will start WW3 before Trump takes office: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-joe-biden-authorizes-ukraine-strike-inside-russia/
18-11-2024: They are very distant relatives of Winnie the Pooh: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/16/blaming-bears-wont-help-you-get-away-with-murder-experts-say/
17-11-2024: Is this the beginning of the next Ice Age? https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/emperor-penguin-discovered-on-wa-beach-3500km-away-from-home/news-story/b936c327b961c57b05b5a83b9fcb2827
17-11-2024: Slash welfare and bureaucracy and spend big on Defence before it’s too late. Make the freeloaders work for a living. Offer and inspire energetic and patriotic young people into a decent career in the armed forces.: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/the-donald-trump-effect-australia-must-summon-a-real-commitment-to-defence-as-the-us-switches-back-to-americafirst-foreign-policies/news-story/59a91b452d5391ef4281512fe680e8ea
17-11-2024: As if it wasn’t enough
that we are just about the only place in the world where people are excluded
from their water catchments we now have this Big Brother escalation. Before
the declaration of the Yarra Reservoir the Upper Yarra Track and its (once)
famous
17-11-2024: The absolute economic insanity of Net Zero – Yes, let’s spend 30+ times our total GDP on it (to produce no result): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/14/keith-starmers-climate-madness/
16-11-2024: If only it wasn’t true? https://babylonbee.com/news/department-of-government-efficiency-identifies-535-government-workers-who-havent-done-any-work-for-years
16-11-2024: Supplements can solve problems: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/lets-spend-200m-on-an-rsv-vaccine-for-babies-but-nothing-on-low-vitamin-d-which-dramatically-increases-risks/
16-11-2024: I think more people would want to end having Palestinians in Australia than ending Christmas: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/myer-cancels-christmas-window-reveal-in-melbourne-amid-concerns-event-will-be-hijacked-by-propalestine-protesters/news-story/a7b108f73de623aeed14f56c271cd833
16-11-2024: No doubt once (in Labor’s
‘
15-11-2024: It ain’t over till it’s over – and you wanted euthanasia? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/22yo-backs-out-of-euthanasia-at-the-last-second/news-story/f4113fe0b7a5ee92ab35f486f84fe857
15-11-2024: The largest creature on earth discovered – and it’s not Donald Trump: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sea-creature-big-visible-space-044345061.html
15-11-2024:
15-11-2024: Celebrating ‘culture’: https://www.rebelnews.com/spears_fly_in_chaotic_scenes_in_remote_aboriginal_community
14-11-2024: Nanny is coming for your motorhome – and I suspect your caravan too soon: https://www.rvtravel.com/rv-industry-responds-6-state-motorhome-ban-controversy/
14-11-2024: What really ‘caused’ the Spanish floods? Could removing flood mitigation dams be a factor? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/to-stop-spanish-floods-should-we-add-more-solar-panels-or-more-dams/
14-11-2024: “Misinformation is not a real phenomenon; it is a rhetorical tool used to discredit opposition and enforce conformity.” It is no coincidence that the acronym for the government’s new ‘misinformation’ bill is MAD: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/12/misinformation-the-fictional-foe-of-free-thought/
14-11-2024: At last men are fighting back, “A 32-country survey found a majority of world citizens – 54 per cent – believe that ‘when it comes to giving women equal rights to men, things have gone far enough in their country’ – and hopefully winning: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/winning-against-the-feminist-machine/
13-11-2024: Will COP29 be the last of these cop-outs now that Trump promises to dismantle the ‘climate change’ boondoggle, the ’greatest hoax of all time’? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/12/cop29-will-be-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-the-president-yet-to-come/
13-11-2024: Albo will have small chance of winning against this chart: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/thank-you-matt-we-want-our-collective-heads-read.html
13-11-2024: Hats off to Private Richard Nordern VC: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/his-majesty-the-king-approves-the-awarding-of-the-victoria-cross-for-australia-to-the-late-private-r.html
13-11-2024: ‘Crystal Night’ all over again – when will the world learn? https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2024/11/08/america-rises-as-europe-falls-n4934101#google_vignette
12-11-2024: “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast”. “Recent research shows users of sleeping pills appear to have lower levels of amyloid proteins in their cerebrospinal fluid, which washes the brain clean at night. But these medications come with side effects; they may also lull people into shallow bouts of sleep rather than deep sleep phases. Instead, to set yourself up for a good night's sleep, Zavecz suggests cutting out coffee late in the day, doing some exercise, avoiding screen time, and taking a hot shower before bed.” https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-critical-thing-we-can-do-to-keep-alzheimers-symptoms-at-bay
12-11-2024: I would say not: 400 years of failed ideology (not to mention mass murder) is more than enough: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/is_the_left_worth_saving.html
12-11-2024: Let’s have another ‘No’ vote please: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/let-the-australian-people-decide-shadow-housing-minister-michael-sukkar-frames-election-as-referendum-on-labors-plans-for-a-big-australia/news-story/22ee5b5859874132227fc8aa3b5b1121
12-11-2024: Welcome to world government, “We must urgently counter and address… all forms of hate speech and discrimination, misinformation and disinformation… We will establish and maintain robust risk mitigation and redress measures…” https://moonbattery.com/globalist-attack-on-american-free-speech/
11-11-2024: Remember when we had free speech? Trump is bringing back free speech just as Albo (& Dutton who supports Albo’s social media age limits) are destroying ours: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/trump-will-dismantle-the-censorship-cartel-just-as-australia-tries-to-set-one-up/
Yet this ‘creature’ should be preferred to Pauline? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/our-enemy-within.html
11-11-2024: They don’t give a stuff about kids (or they wouldn’t be forcing all the woke BS on them & etc); They just want your ID: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/the-reality-of-a-social-media-age-limit.html
11-11-2024: Debt is a Damocletian sword hanging over all of us. It must be curtailed, but how?: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/governments-confront-unsustainable-debt/
11-11-2024: Yes please. “We need a major political campaign, exposing Labor and the Green’s antagonism to men and urging opposition parties to finally step up and prove they will govern for all, rather than continuing to pander to the feminist lobby.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/winning-against-the-feminist-machine
10-11-2024: If the 2020 election was fair how can it
be that Trump’s totals have continued to grow and now we learn Kamala received
12 million fewer votes than Biden. I notice that the crooked states of
10-11-2024: Apart from our unwelcome ‘guests’, is there anyone really who doesn’t want this? Anthony has been swelling our numbers by the million against our express wishes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/standing-firm-trump-confirms-he-has-no-choice/
10-11-2024: Charming people. We fought a war for this?: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/muslim-savages-in-iraqs-parliament-voting-to-lower-girls-age-of-consent-to-9.html
10-11-2024: Draining the swamp. We need some of this
here with our 2.5 million bureaucrats who are costing us 250 billion pa.
Did you notice that (unlike the rest of
09-11-2024: A new use for TEGs. I am working on an ultralight device which allows me to charge my electronic devices on hiking trips: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-shelf-thermoelectric-generators-chemicals-aid.html
09-11-2024: A special little boy and the real Donald Trump: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/watch-heartwarming-moment-8-year-old-rare-brain/
09-11-2024: Welcome to the 4B movement – the latest Leftist craze. Definitely not an ‘A’ movement: mhttps://moonbattery.com/she-moonbat-cuts-off-hair-to-fight-patriarchy/
09-11-2024: Well said Rita. Best headline ever: “The Australians losing their teeny-tiny minds are almost all low information dimwits who’ve swallowed the BS the media has fed them.” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/australians-losing-their-teenytiny-minds-are-almost-all-low-information-dimwits-whove-swallowed-the-bs-the-media-has-fed-them/news-story/6ad4e5562cb056f17dd6d3d64e122ad6
08-11-2024: On the same day Trump was elected in a landslide Albo imposes his draconian ‘misinformation’ bill on all of us. This man and his dreadful government must go. John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt, “When the government becomes the sole arbiter of truth, it opens the door to corruption and tyranny. When citizens are too afraid to speak out, the government with its cheerleading bureaucracy and corporate sector can operate without accountability, leading to an erosion of trust in institutions.” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/help-us-elon-youre-our-only-hope-the-australian-government-is-sneaking-in-misinformation-laws-and-id-rules/
08-11-2024: 2.5 million pigs at the trough! Not hard to see where we can save a lot of money. If was put I charge I would cut this (at least) in half overnight: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/finance/wages-bill-for-government-workers-surges-past-230-billion-following-36-per-cent-increase-in-public-sector-employees/news-story/a2e0ca9048f32ed7f314a0abde56b016
8-11-2024: Well done replacing Joe Biden with Kamala: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/holy-smokes-literally-nothing-jake-tapper-shocked-map/
Joe looks like he agrees: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/after-repeatedly-sabotaging-kamala-harris-joe-biden-looks/
Could we now discuss what happened in 2020? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/good-news-conservatives-finally-feel-safe-enough-discuss/
08-11-2024: Well said Andrew, “Kamala Harris’ defeat is also a defeat of the horrendous woke army that’s run riot in the West for years.” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-donald-trumps-win-marks-defeat-of-kamala-harriss-horrendous-woke-army/news-story/0307747fa52efcfff3e4329daab2fbe6
And again, “Having been so ludicrously over-the-top in this campaign, who’ll believe their hysteria in four years when Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, will almost certainly be the Republican nominee, having starred as the most impressive candidate of the four in this campaign” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-monstrous-democrat-lies-told-about-donald-trump-will-now-be-revealed/news-story/b822c03a60f112a38bc9c26307af66a6
07-11-2024: Can you tell which is the real news and
which is the
07-11-2024: A quadrella for Trump. He has won the Presidency, the popular vote, the House and the Senate. There is hope again for the ‘free world’. Hopefully his excellent choice for Deputy (J.D. Vance) can carry his legacy forward a further eight years. I am looking forward to at least a decade of good times. It is a new dawn. https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/donald-trump-this-will-be-a-golden-age/
07-11-2024: “However, it also shows that well-known solar cycles, combined with internal variability can explain recent global warming; CO2 is not required to explain it…The value of the study is only to demonstrate that CO2 is not necessary to explain recent warming.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/05/natural-climate-change-factors/
07-11-2024: Absolutely. Enough is enough: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/consider-just-how-much-nonprofits-government-bodies-and-corporates-pay-for-these-ceremonies/news-story/ebeeec8065436b2e3f575035407b0c20
07-11-2024: Yet another reason to ‘hate’ feminists (and lawyers). This DVO stuff is just terribly unjust: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/whistleblower-police
06-11-2024: At 1:30 am Fox News had Trump winning
06-11-2024: Great headline: https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-warn-that-if-trump-is-elected-it-will-be-an-end-to-bureaucracy-as-we-know-it
06-11-2024: Well done Kemi. When the ‘victims’ rise up and stand on their own two feet it is too much for the Labour Party: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/kemi-badenoch-isnt-the-black-face-of-white-supremacy/ & https://caldronpool.com/uk-labour-mps-help-smear-new-opposition-leader-as-white-supremacy-in-blackface/
06-11-2024: The latest ‘thing’ a “Phallus Preserving Vaginoplasty”: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-11-04/lgbtqtm-roundup-phallus-preserving-vaginoplasty
06-11-2024: “The British people used to have many great heroes that young boys could admire and strive to emulate: Horatio Nelson, Arthur Wellesley, Richard the Lionheart, Ernest Shackleton, James Cook, Oliver Cromwell, Alfred the Great, and many more. Now British boys are presented with Billy the Nonbinary Butterfly for their role model.” https://moonbattery.com/scouts-uk-indoctrinates-8-year-olds-in-lgbtism/
05-11-2024: Another great idea Albo: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/7bn-essential-defence-satellite-system-gets-cancelled-to-pay-for-16bn-albanese-election-student-debt.html
05-11-2024: Another study reveals ‘scientists’ have underestimated CO2 absorption by 38% - throwing the whole warmist fantasy into disarray: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/02/for-the-second-time-in-a-week-climate-scientists-surprised-with-an-increased-co2-absorption-mechanism/
05-11-2024: A swathe of fake Dem polls would have
Kamala winning at the end, but the trend is all the other way. Is this just
cover for the largest swindle in
05-11-2024: Well said Alexandra Marshall “It’s hard to
think of a worse thing that could happen to the Democrat presidential campaign
than the murder of internet stars Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon.
Killed by an overzealous State Authority, their fury deaths have sparked a wave
of outrage that has motivated people who previously had no interest in voting
to head to the nearest voting booth. Government overreach is never more obvious
than when it’s standing over the bodies of rescued animals.
They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re killing the pets.
Yes, this is the sort of detail that gets under an election and starts shifting
the polls.” https://televisor.tlgrm.dev/001/ZeUAALs9KlgAAAAAZAn4PJUsaOU/stream.mp4?hash=DlpEwaJbLKyrcDqJnPRQEg&ts=1730800581
“When armed brownshirts
ransack your house for five hours, and terrorize your wife with the subtle
implication of deportation, they aren’t looking for a frigging squirrel. They
are telling you who’s in charge of every breath you take for the rest of your
life.”
James Woods.
Let’s hope Rasmussen is right tomorrow: https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/11/02/exclusive-rasmussen-head-pollster-predicts-trump-landslide-likens-to-1980-reagan-carter-election-major-political-realignment/
04-11-2024: The communists take over British farming: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/labours-farm-tax-makes-no-sense/
04-11-2024:
04-11-2024: Big Government (sadly) comes for Peanut the Squirrel: https://moonbattery.com/big-government-comes-for-peanut-the-squirrel/
04-11-2024: Shedding a bit more light on Pauline’s
woes…as I said before, ‘Who doesn’t agree with her on this one? Queen Elizabeth
was loved by all. This is what Pauline replied to Faruqi’s awful sledge of our
beloved Queen, “Your attitude appalls (sic) and disgusts me. When you
immigrated to
02-11-2024: An end to whale (and bat) deaths? If Trump wins (against all the Democrat cheating): https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/new-report-suggests-whale-psychiatrist-trump-may-be-right-about-wind-farms-and-whales/
02-11-2024: ‘Raid on
02-11-2024: An absurd law: Who does not agree with Pauline? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/watch-live-federal-court-hands-down-decision-in-racial-discrimination-case-between-mehreen-faruqi-and-pauline-hanson/news-story/5db94bb54a1395707dc9b2e4465a924b
02-11-2024: Put this creep behind bars: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/daniel-andrews-triple0-call-from-car-accident-involving-wife-and-ryan-meuleman-revealed/news-story/ba541a80d142f2661a56ef09938d55de
01-11-2024: At last an e-ink smart phone with a 6 day battery life: https://newatlas.com/mobile-technology/compact-e-ink-phone-mudita-kompakt/
01-11-2024: Sounds good: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/florey-team-discover-gamechanger-to-reverse-alzheimers-disease/news-story/af71f00269924eda64f493c1bed50879
And good news too if you are a (forgetful) zebrafish: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-common-eye-medication-could-outsmart-alzheimers/
01-11-2024: Our government’s ‘science’ is unfit for purpose: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/seven-years-to-go-extremely-bad-science-is-the-new-normal-for-the-climate/
01-11-2024: You have to like Trump’s response to
having his supporters (ie half of
31-10-2024: As if their anti-semitism and hatred of the West were not bad enough, “in September, the UK Office for Budgetary Responsibility published figures to show that low-paid migrants cost an average of £150,000 by the time they reach state pension age…(in addition) the rate of incarceration of foreign nationals in UK prisons is 27 per cent higher than British citizens…While the British average is 14 per 10,000 people, Albanians’ is 232 and Indians’ just 6.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/four-simple-truths-about-israel/ .
31-10-2024: A trenchant case of ‘The People’ vs the Machine: https://caldronpool.com/the-pfizer-papers-pfizers-crimes-against-humanity/
31-10-2024: Hard to imagine how Western feminists and the Left generally are not outraged by these evil monsters: https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/no-limits-new-taliban-edict-bans-women-from-hearing-each-others-voices/news-story/e20fedf9f25088b4fbcd52175ea4d788
31-10-2024: About right: https://babylonbee.com/news/report-millions-of-garbage-bags-seen-lining-up-outside-polling-station
29-10-2024: Dick Smith talks so much sense on our energy future: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/entrepreneur-dick-smith-makes-scathing-assessment-of-latest-renewables-woes-hits-out-at-labors-unaffordable-energy-plan/news-story/8d5880a6e7750782d11a0f47f1bd559c & https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/dick-smith-nuclear-energy-is-the-only-answer-for-australias-future/video/5de96b5782d946a650035fd422da9aa4
29-10-2024: Who needs to buy hearing aids then? Just buy an expensive Apple phone instead. Coming soon to Android I hope: https://gizmodo.com/the-airpods-pro-2-finally-receive-its-hearing-health-features-2000516497
Yes: https://news.samsung.com/global/galaxy-buds-pro-effective-for-people-with-hearing-loss-study-reveals
29-10-2024: You have to admire the courage Tommy Robinson shows in standing up for the truth: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/uks-tommy-robinson-jailed-for-18-months-for-showing-this-movie.html
29-10-2024: A big error which throws most carbon policy into question: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/29/oops-science-was-settled-until-it-wasnt-plants-absorb-31-more-co%e2%82%82-than-we-thought/
28-10-2024: The West Australian has it about right: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/lifelong-freeloader.html
28-10-2024:
28-10-2024: Iranians (and Israelis) celebrate Cyrus the Great Day: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/congratulations-to-the-real-iranians-long-may-the-persians-prosper.html
28-10-2024: One wonders whether the
27-10-2024: At last ‘buyer’s remorse’ hits the Greens. May they disappear altogether – the sooner the better: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-and-coalition-label-greens-extremists-as-the-minor-party-suffers-devastating-blow-in-queensland-election/news-story/6e693435fe1eb77b5c4a736a2ac3987b
27-10-2024: The high life is all right for some: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-stands-firm-on-travel-declarations-after-flight-upgrade-claims/news-story/18db43a6278d3d9205a766e7368e4396
27-10-2024: I suspect Joe Rogan’s interview (and its 26 million viewers – so far) will cement Trump’s chances of the Presidency: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/joe-rogans-explosive-trump-interview-shatters-records-26/
27-10-2024: Unfortunately this is how the Left (and their lies) wins: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/10/as-retirement-approaches/
26-10-2024: The Big Bang is a mirror, hiding another universe behind it: https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-is-a-mirror-hiding-another-universe-behind-it-auid-2978?_auid=2020
26-10-2024: Is Lidia the future? Are we becoming a nation of tribes? https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/37676/lidia-thorpe-is-the-future/
26-10-2024: Neil Oliver on the ‘elites’ who (increasingly) control everyone, “Ask yourself, as I increasingly do, who are these people? Where on Earth do they come from? And what on Earth did we ever do to deserve them? Put simply, they are not like us. They do not like us. In fact, they regard us with contempt. The distance between us and them has long since grown too wide ever to be bridged. There are simply two tribes now: one very small and very odd, and one very large indeed. If it’s finally about dog eat dog, my money is always on the great big hungry dog.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/25/neil-oliver-who-are-these-evil-jokers/
26-10-2024: Remember Brave New World’s slogan “'War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.”? You won’t see this on the ‘mainstream news’ – I wonder why? Starmer’s government has (once again) arrested journalist Tommy Robinson - - under the Terrorism Act this time. “Tommy has been remanded into prison for a breach of the terrorism act - because he refused to give police the code to gain access into his phone. It is worth noting that Tommy held information of child rape victims on his phone, which he told the police at the time, and as they are 'confidential journalistic sources' they had no right to snoop or gain information about them. Tommy has a duty of care to ALL of his sources, as does any other journalist.” https://www.rebelnews.com/tommy_robinson_s_rally_sees_thousands_of_protesters_converge_in_london_over_two_tier_policing
25-10-2024: Of course you should be allowed to say you
hate things. Who doesn’t? “The American system recognises what
25-10-2024: Fair point Michael Baume, (on Moslems in Austraia) “in reality a hugely divided, both ethnically and spiritually, local Muslim cohort; there are now more Asian and sub-continenalt followers of Islam in Australia than from the Middle East” In the past we vowed to eave all these divisions (the Orange and the Green etc) behind in our new nation under the Southern Cross: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/business-robbery-etc-128/
25-10-2024: No doubt something is causing it but these results are a scam. It is more likely due (if related to air) to the increased use of air conditioners and that homes are now dreadfully sealed up against ‘fresh’ air: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/melbourne-scientists-reveal-whats-behind-the-rise-in-peanut-allergies/news-story/1f2ac6e1dcf3fb08eba88c1fac6e096f
25-10-2024: Not all doom and gloom: “We are currently experiencing a small warming blip from the coldest planetary temperature in half a billion years. Our global temperature today is low, and temperatures this cold were last observed 300 million years ago…over the past 140 million years, CO2 levels have fallen to dangerously low levels. Specifically, current levels are within 30 parts per million (ppm) of the “line of death,” the limit for plant survival. Once CO2 is below 150 ppm, plant life, and subsequently animal life, cease to exist. What’s interesting is that CO2 levels have been steadily declining over the past 140 million years.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/globalist_misinformation_no_the_earth_is_not_warming.html
25-10-2024: Kite racing is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsfMblljCOw&t=17s
25-10-2024: Teacher training institutions:” It is not as though they are hiding what they are doing. They are quite openly in the business of destroying our country… We must move back to a system of teaching apprenticeships where trainee teachers are attached to a succession of master teachers to learn directly on the job.” - Good luck finding them any more though. Perhaps enlist retirees? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/take-teacher-training-away-from-universities/
25-10-2024: Remember when ‘enviromentalists wanted to ‘save’ whales? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/the-mystery-of-a-thousand-dead-whales-and-dolphins/
25-10-2024: Easy come, easy go: World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24B in funds fighting climate change: ‘Could be twice or 10 times more’ https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/just-like-that-world-bank-bureaucrats-lost-track-of-24-to-41-billion-fighting-climate-change/
24-10-2024: Time to overturn your preconceptions about colonialism: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/nearly-everything-you-assume-about-colonialism-and-slavery-is-wrong/
24-10-2024: Does ‘common sense’ actually exist? Surprisingly not. So much undermining has been going on – the (long) march through the institutions I suspect: https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-demonstrates-that-common-sense-is-not-so-common-after-all/ & https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335100-100-the-fascinating-truth-about-why-common-sense-isnt-really-that-common/
24-10-2024: An end to Ice Ages (and an explanation of their occurrence): “In about 120 million years we will finally cross the Sagittarius spiral arm. We will exit this Ice House with its periodic glacial ages and enter the next Hot House “ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/23/its-a-mystery-to-me/
24-10-2024: Mind you, having admitted to the ‘hairs’ she is not legally sworn as a Senator and can be forthwith ejected: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/lidia-thorpe-confesses-shes-not-legally-sworn-in-as-a-senator-she-must-stand-down.html
24-10-2024: Mind you, having admitted to the ‘hairs’ she is not legally sworn as a Senator and can be forthwith ejected. If we ‘forget’ the importance of oaths we dismiss a millennium (at least) of Western civilisation – and much else besides: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-politicians-cannot-let-lidia-thorpe-get-away-with-breaking-her-oath/news-story/7e064492874fad2c1c058671e34a903c & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/lidia-thorpe-confesses-shes-not-legally-sworn-in-as-a-senator-she-must-stand-down.html
23-10-2024: Welcome to Star Wars: https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-missile-laser-downed-100-091935787.html
23-10-2024: Wow! Even growing your own veggies will ‘destroy’ the planet – better to starve to death and have yourself composted (professionally is ‘better’ for the planet): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/15/greens-declare-war-on-growing-your-own-greens/
23-10-2024: You need to know: How do people die of the flu? Stock up on your Tamiflu – and take it early: https://www.livescience.com/health/flu/how-do-people-die-of-the-flu
23-10-2024: Our energy future. BTW It is nuclear. Some interesting points, “The globalists would rather we cooked our insect protein ration on a single plate induction cooktop. The transfer of the contained energy from natural gas to the food being cooked is 90% on a gas stove. Using an electric stove lowers that to 36% – less than half…“A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life…When a low-energy society comes in contact with a high-energy society, the advantage always lies with the latter…If we start to plan now, we may be able to achieve the requisite level of scientific and engineering knowledge before our fossil fuel reserves give out, but the margin of safety is not large.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/19/our-energy-future-conserve-to-convert/
22-10-2024: “Electrostatic motors are up to 80% more
efficient than conventional motors.” Where do I invest? https://www.c-motive.com/
22-10-2024:
God help us if anyone should think
22-10-2024: Aussies can’t afford to have children: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-proof-the-identity-of-australia-is-being-destroyed-by-high-immigration/news-story/2ae753f803c2d040d79e508e5a0d539d
22-10-2024: Or do you want the ‘great replacement’? “To cut to the chase. The first duty of a woman, if she is able, is to marry, have children, at least two and desirably three or more, and to nurture them. The first duty of a man is to marry and provide for and care for his wife and children. Without this, nothing works. Everything else in comparison is embroidery, including so-called women’s rights. Women’s rights effectively only begin when their first duty is accomplished, as do men’“ https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/10/19/womens-rights-vs-scarce-babies/
21-10-2024: And they will be invading Oz next! Watch out this summer: https://genesiustimes.com/breaking-korean-flamethrower-squirrels-have-reached-the-us/
21-10-2024: Perpective is
everything, “I am a Palestinian and I agree with the majority of Gazans that
Hamas’s decision to launch the attacks of 7 October was incorrect, and I
oppose their continued rule in
21-10-2024: Ain’t it the truth? “Bureaucrats are not even pretending to serve the people anymore, they just serve themselves” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/in-deep-state-warfare-space-rockets-need-to-show-they-dont-hurt-sharks/
21-10-2024: Whoa! Is this your worst nightmare? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/kentucky-man-declared-brain-dead-wakes-up-during/
20-10-2024: An incredible journey. Just goes to show that the great era of exploration is not yet done. A Solo Fiordland Traverse (if only I wasn’t so old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9auUFK42N5o
20-10-2024: Ganesha Folding Gasifier Hobo Stove: I recently encountered this little delight. If you are in the market for a fuel stove which burns clean and won’t scorch the ground (and sets up in a jiffy) this may be the solution for you. It unfolds (out of its bag) from its flat-pack form in less than five seconds. Another few seconds can be spent tossing in some kindling – leaves and small twigs. Light,then keep on adding small sticks. It couldn’t be simpler. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/10/19/ganesha-folding-gasifier-hobo-stove/
20-10-2024: Starmer’s Brave New World. Rewriting History:: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/philistine-british-pm-starmer-removes-shakespeare-portrait-downing/
20-10-2024: No matter how much the
Left badgers the young they will rise up and overthrow them as they did in
18-10-2024: Curse you Nivea – I have been using the same hand and face cream for 50+ years but they have obviously changed its ingredients as nothing seems to want to dissolve the wrinkles any more.
18-10-2024: Kamala getting that last vote – but will it be enough? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/democrat-standard-operating-procedure.html
But a woman who will authorise the military to shoot you if you do not vote for her will stop at nothing: https://moonbattery.com/kamala-confirms-she-will-use-military-against-us/
18-10-2024: Where the tech giants lead why shouldn’t we follow? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/google-amazon-give-up-on-national-grid-ignore-renewables-and-buy-their-own-nuclear-plants/
18-10-2024: Well said, “There is nothing moral about slowing down growth for the planet’s sake or of rebalancing our relationship with nature. Growth is not some abstract thing that greedy capitalists have made a deity of. Growth means more wealth for people in the form of lifesaving and life-enhancing technologies, from shelter to protect us from the violent forces of the Earth to mass food production to bring starvation to an all-time low.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/16/six-ideologies-threatening-civilization-the-unified-assault-on-progress-and-freedom/
17-10-2024: Imagine if the Jews were declared
‘indigenous’ (to
17-10-2024: Just a few months ago the Australian public decisively voted this sort of nonsense down: https://www.rebelnews.com/backlash_over_white_privilege_training_for_victorian_public_servants
17-10-2024: And this – what sort of bizarre precedent is it ceding private property to distant (racial) descendants as if such inheritance practices were part of pre-colonial ‘aboriginal law’: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/caring-for-country-queensland-town-reserve-granted-as-freehold-to-aboriginal-owners-in-landmark-ruling/news-story/ae0305170b14806b9c2716ccc9e265b7
17-10-2024: After swearing fealty to the Crown our Premiers ‘moon’ our King Charles. (Their ‘word’ is worthless). This is tantamount to treason – and would have been once. A reminder, we did not vote for a Republic (indeed support for the monarchy has grown under Charles) any more than we voted for a ‘Voice’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/are-australias-childish-premiers-jealous-of-the-kings-popularity/
Further thoughts, “In other words, Labor has admitted that its only path to victory is one that involves cheating the public out of its voice.”: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/no-means-no-one-year-on-from-the-voice-to-parliament/
16-10-2024: You would hope so anyway: https://quillette.com/2024/10/14/the-israeli-sword-of-damocles-iran-nuclear/
16-10-2024: The cult is truly driving people mad: https://www.thepiratescove.us/2024/10/14/cult-crazy-almost-40-would-be-up-for-wwii-style-rationing/
16-10-2024: Legal murder just became even more insane: https://moonbattery.com/uk-law-could-criminalize-praying-in-your-own-house/
16-10-2024: I suspect his mansion will bring this welfare housing kid’s castles in the air crashing down: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-colleagues-gobsmacked-by-prime-minister-anthony-albaneses-43-million-clifftop-house-purchase/news-story/fcb1fc5367f8656d7f22d7e133ecc518
15-10-2024: Pretty close to the truth – or if they succeed in assassinating Trump https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-say-kamala-can-still-win-if-she-doesnt-appear-in-public-again-between-now-and-election-day
15-10-2024: DNA contamination of MRNA vaccines by 145 times the permissible amount has likely led to an explosion of deaths and cancers: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/an-australian-local-council-calls-for-suspension-of-all-mrna-vaccines-due-to-dna-contamination/
15-10-2024: However, sheep drench to the rescue – a research proven treatment for many (incurable) cancers: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/new-cancer-treatment-protocol-featuring-horse-dewormer-ivermectin/
15-10-2024: Forget ‘sticks and stones’ the government is out to get you (should you ‘dislike’ something or someone): https://richardsonpost.com/rebekah-barnett/37591/up-to-five-years-in-prison-for-hate-speech-under-victorian-governments-proposed-anti-vilification-laws/
- Unless you are the Greens: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/powerful-joint-statement-against-the-greens.html
14-10-2024: We may yet learn whether Mallory and
14-10-2024: Elon Musk on Starship, “This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket.” – yet they aughtit. Truly amazing , and uplifting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUgLKK_S5k&t=904s
14-10-2024: ‘Je Suis Juif’ - I am Jewish. Let the cry ring out: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/je-suis-juif-non/
14-10-2024: Justifiable homicide? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/us-father-arrested-after-allegedly-killing-man-found-with-his-missing-daughter/news-story/2c04b4a9a31516c989eef8f2e37849b2
13-10-2024: The good news: Rasmussen has Trump two points ahead for the fifth straight week. He never led in 2016 or 2020: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/pollster-trump-maintains-slight-lead-kamala-harris-fifth/
13-10-2024: Cloud cuckoo land. Bowen’s ‘green hydrogen’ will be run on semi-trailer loads of diesel instead: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/chris-bowens-green-hydrogen-dream-is-all-but-dead-after-origin-energy-dropped-out-of-hunter-valley-hub-over-market-fears/news-story/fa0bb1aac2a3d8f2ae206e398fc8fb55b
13-10-2024: Finding out what is really going on in
13-10-2024: Shaun Micallef writes some sense, “Long story short: we all, regardless of race, need to embrace the principles of the market economy, press our advantage, and bring to heel the weaker among us if we ever want to survive as a species. I know these views are not popular. But I have never courted popularity“: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/let-freedom-ring-out-and-go-through-to-voicemail/
12-10-2024: Not so long ago the ‘criminally insane’ could look forward to life behind bars – but no longer: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/melbournes-notorious-werewolf-killer-commits-more-violent-crimes/news-story/ae456b01063654fb232341d7bf96372e
12-10-2024: Troubles with communism…Either an excess
or a shortage of ‘renewable’ energy: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/australian-grid-risks-an-overload-at-lunchtime-as-solar-power-floods-the-system/
12-10-2024: Netanyahu, the man: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-sits-down-with-sky-news-host-sharri-markson-ahead-of-likely-strike-on-iran/news-story/8b59b33030e97136761da434314e310f
12-10-2024: The gender wars just get worse and worse: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/airline-fake-rape-crisis
11-10-2024: Ian Plimer’s new book looks like a beauty, “He pointed out that our current ice age, the Late Cenzoic Ice Age, started 34 million years ago, and still holds the world in its grip…Why is there so much anxiety about climate change? Is the world really coming to an end? Should young people be afraid? In an era of remarkable human achievement, this book challenges the prevailing narrative of doom surrounding climate change. It argues that while young people in the West grapple with anxiety, many others around the globe face far more pressing concerns. This provocative exploration shows how wealth, innovation, and resilience have historically led to human flourishing, even amidst environmental changes. The book dismantles myths of impending catastrophe and advocates for a rational approach to adaptation instead of fear-driven policies. https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/The-End-of-the-World-Climate-Change-and-Its-Anxieties--Edited-by-Ian-Plimer_p_623.html
11-10-2024: At last Qld is being given a real (adult) choice: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/rita-panahi/david-crisafulli-vows-to-keep-queenslands-coalfired-power-stations-open/video/e6e4d5852a27d02ba3403286fbdfae28
11-10-2024: Meanwhile in Vic Jacinta apologises to folk whom a Royal Commission was unable to find a single one of: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/jacinta-allan-apologises-to-victorias-stolen-generation/news-story/25ae3dfeac4971787661cfd55fdc88eb
11-10-2024: Duh! https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-perplexed-why-candidate-that-nobody-ever-voted-for-is-slipping-in-the-polls
10-10-2024: And you thought you were old: https://www.sciencealert.com/microbes-found-alive-sealed-in-rock-for-2-billion-years?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzCbBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHd79uySJ3oYuAOhbjNN6mTNVzy0TN-W-svBRykULTDZgCYSvIMfroXeQkQ_aem_FqQ70ZyiGAvXI20bHlt3Wg
10-10-2024: Maybe you don’t have high blood pressure after all? https://www.yahoo.com/news/arm-position-during-blood-pressure-174903799.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnN0YXB1bmRpdC5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFrHi8LQqF9uXsLRCbWOje6zIvCAbIcfv8DdYdif9gnH2GMLYUJG9-JiGEkx9V_ufyFQuhQvuui9A83uumn0HjHw6ups2DEqKI0aQ7pwfgIMnXCc5b4b4zmnxNWUUDTbxlWW5r1n6KnaAFa159f5c3ErGWjdHOT3qxge2Csi2Eo3
10-10-2024: So many people. I guess something has to give: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/singapore-horse-racing-final/
10-10-2024: Falling for the CCP’s spin. Have you
noticed that the
9-10-2024: This is for me: https://scitechdaily.com/workout-in-a-pill-scientists-develop-molecule-that-mimics-the-benefits-of-exercise-and-fasting/
9-10-2024: Are you in a hurry to have a holiday? https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/hypersonic-jet-could-slash-flight-time-between-new-york-and-london-to-just-1-hour/news-story/32894b66d76456da15c7af04addaf3e6
9-10-2024: Welcome (back) to a wind up world: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/lets-burn-money-ed-flywheels-could-power-the-uk-for-half-a-second-at-a-million-dollars-a-megawatt-hour/
9-10-2024: Under Starmer the sun finally sets on the
8-10-2024: The Fisher says ‘Hello’ again 200+ years after it went ‘extinct’: https://petapixel.com/2024/10/07/trail-camera-captures-rarely-seen-almost-extinct-pennslvania-fisher-animal/
8-10-2024: Biggest DEI fail? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/dei-lesbian-navy-captain-crashes-100m-naval-ship/
8-10-2024: So Snowflake, maybe don’t be such a Trump hater: https://moonbattery.com/how-to-prepare-a-trump-vance-yard-sign/
8-10-2024: A year of war as Israel fights alone to defend the West, Losing another 728 soldiers on top of the 1200 citizens murdered by Hamas a year ago. We used to think of ourselves as Judeo-Christian, but where are the Christians fighting the Fifth Crusade now? : https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-year-of-war-idf-data-shows-726-troops-killed-over-26000-rockets-fired-at-israel/
7-10-2024: The newest coal-fired plants are way ahead of anything we have in Oz: “Out of the top 100 Chinese coal plants, 90 are ultra-supercritical units. Having improved on USC technology, Chinese plant efficiency is around 44%. The new 1,350 MW Pingshan Phase II plant achieves 49% efficiency!” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/05/u-s-swings-and-misses-in-energy-competition/
7-10-2024: Dutton once again showing leadership: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/peter-dutton-is-spot-on-we-need-action-now.html
7-10-2024: Finally Pesutto is toast. Victorians might just be given an opposition they can vote for: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/04/spill-or-no-spill-victorias-liberal-party-can-agree-on-one-thing-no-more-messiahs
7-10-2024: Things have changed in
6-10-2024: Grid-scale lithium ion batteries are such a better option than coal-fired power stations – I don’t think: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/04/grid-scale-battery-fires-loom-large/
6-10-2024: In case you were wondering about our own Naplan data: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sweden-could-soon-have-1-million-illiterates-largely-due-mass-immigration
6-10-2024: Well said David Penberthy, “If you think you’re progressive holding up a Hezbollah flag, you need to go back to left-winger school and brush up on the tenets of socialism…What happened on October 7 last year was not some act of resistance against colonisers or some romantic Che Guevara-style attack on a fascist regime. No-one was setting out to kill soldiers. They weren’t trying to target military bases or infrastructure. This was a sickeningly successful plot to kill as many civilians as possible, simply because they were Jewish.The entire focus of the operation was to kill kids at dance festivals and elderly people working on their farms. Little kids were included in the death toll. Many young women who survived were so defiled they probably wish they had perished.” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/socalled-leftwing-protesters-need-to-sit-down-and-listen-to-the-adults-david-penberthy/news-story/a399d84b5ae088838c58f53881f51bc0
5-10-2024: According to the ‘Climate Council our property is uninsurable and we can be compulsorily removed from our home – probably you too. How do these freaks get such power over us? https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/climate-risk-map/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFsCsVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdR83u2iiSBRTiKp_B-wfu-vauLnNmUmsL6lB3OJMd2O0t22nlMb-ajyjg_aem_-YpoX-Acbn9JkQk2GhpLQg
5-10-2024: Liz Truss’s book title, ‘Ten Years to Save the West’ says it all: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/10/liz-untrussed/
5-10-2024: You can become a ‘toxic masculinity‘ spotter if you really try hard: https://babylonbee.com/news/can-you-spot-all-the-signs-of-toxic-masculinity-in-this-picture-of-jd-vance
5-10-2024: This one (miraculously) freed Yazidi girl underlines the fate of thousands of others like her stolen as sex slaves by a monstrous ‘religion’: https://news.yahoo.com/news/yazidi-woman-freed-gaza-u-124022878.html
4-10-2024: Get ready for another aurora: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/aurora-watch-sun-unleashes-biggest-flare-of-this-cycle-x9/
4-10-2024: “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”— Leonardo da Vinci
4-10-2024: An ‘Islamophobia ambassador’? Tosh. Just a little problem with rape (among
other things eg anti-semitism), “For Muslims, non-Muslims are in every way
inferior and the freedom enjoyed by their womenfolk is the worst aspect of that
inferiority. In consequence non-Muslim women may be attacked and exploited
without compunction. There is a direct link between the insistence on the
wearing of a hijab for those within the fold and the raping of those outside,
between an obsession with modesty for those women who are family property and
the utter disregard for the rights of those women who are free. They are the
two sides of the same Islamic coin.” Let us remember this, both
4-10-2024: Our children are apparently now never required to read (if they can at all): https://instapundit.com/675462/
2-10-2024: How is it that the Left does not understand the civilisational risks of supporting the terrorists in the Middle East – would they think differently if they had suffered the 8,000 rockets Hezbollah fired into Israel in the past year alone?: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/30/why-is-the-west-so-anguished-over-the-death-of-hassan-nasrallah/
2-10-2024: Big Tech switches to nuclear: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/first-energy-squeeze-and-big-tech-drops-the-wind-and-solar-purity-and-launches-into-nuclear-power/
2-10-2024: Thomas Jefferson: “I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
2-10-2024:
01-10-2024: The real news: We are in the coldest period in 485 million years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/25/media-confirms-the-earth-is-not-abnormally-warm-rather-it-is-in-its-coldest-period-in-485-million-years/
01-10-2024: Fair point, “Do you want to talk about privilege? This is one of the few countries in the world where someone can sit around on their overpaid posteriors all day and make bank by complaining about white people. You, dear Leftists, are the essence of privilege” Furthermore I would celebrate the arrival of a black Shakespeare but it has been a long time coming: https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2024/09/27/weekend-parting-shot-shakespeare-so-white-and-stupid-cruise-ship-tricks-n4932875#google_vignette
01-10-2024: Lay down misere for Pesutto? https://www.rebelnews.com/check_mate_pesutto_admits_to_defamation_under_brutal_cross_examination
01-10-2024: Get this: Elsewhere (than in Lakemba etc)
Moslems are celebrating the Israelis taking out the Hezbollah leadership whom
they know (rightly) to be evil tyrants whom they dared not oppose. Regime
change imay be on the way for
Netanyahu thinks so: https://www.politico.eu/article/benjamin-netanyahu-iran-regime-change-video-israel-hezbollah-war/
30-09-2024: The ‘problem’ with Gen Z vs the future of the ‘free’ world: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/firing-gen-z
30-09-2024:
30-09-2024: An amazing political turnaround in the young – bring it on: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=twitter
30-09-2024: “Remigration! I have absolutely no problem
to say that word."
Herbert Kickl of the Austrian Freedom Party, who are projected to win the nation's elections, openly says he supports remigration.
29-09-2024: Things to look forward to. When I was
young
29-09-2024: You go girl: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/28/style/miss-universe-korea-choi-soon-hwa-hnk-intl/index.html
29-09-2024: Milei is a class act; one of the few world leaders still carrying the beacon of freedom: https://caldronpool.com/javier-milei-slams-the-un-for-ditching-freedom-for-socialism-calls-lockdowns-a-crime-against-humanity/
The full text here: https://quadrant.org.au/features/world/a-dose-of-unwanted-truth-at-the-un/
29-09-2024: Elon Musk really dares to dream. Though I doubt I will see a colony on Mars, maybe he will: https://archive.is/HouV0
28-09-2024: Phew! This is even worse than I thought. These covid vaccinations should be withdrawn immediately… “With over 140,000 adverse events and over 1000 deaths reported to the TGA for these injections” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/federal-mp-calls-for-urgent-suspension-of-vaccines-following-release-of-lab-report/
28-09-2024: There is hope for the ‘free world’ yet, but it is daunting to watch Donald Trump almost single-handedly fight for our cherished freedoms against all the forces of (leftist) darkness: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul-murray/presidential-polling-shows-donald-trump-up-almost-across-the-board/video/6fe06e366cd2a93b9df0588c52b1e2a6 & https://www.dailywire.com/news/gallup-for-the-first-time-in-decades-more-voters-identify-as-gop
28-09-2024: A large turd cast in bronze – who would not yearn for such a thing? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/move-to-honour-daniel-andrews-legacy-as-premier-in-bronze-statue-slammed-as-insulting-and-disrespectful-to-victorians/news-story/bc491662a0dbc9de55d66de319d56d96
28-09-2024: Kamala (& Anthony) have lost control of our borders. Does anyone seriously think that none of the thousands of Gazan ‘refugees’ (for example) are not ‘bad apples’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/treason-ice-report-reveals-13000-murderers-15000-rapists/
27-09-2024: Definitely worse than Whitlam – and without any of his redeeming features: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/09/21/worse-than-whitlam/
27-09-2024: Remember (and understand) this: Hezbollah (and Hamas) are (rightly) terrorist organisations under international and Australian law. It is a crime to support them as people are openly doing here. Why aren’t the police/government upholding the law against this obvious evil? : https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/melbourne.html & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/overtly-and-obviously-supporting-the-terrorists-hezbollah-outside-sydney-town-hall.html
27-09-2024: Rebrand babies: a good idea especially considering the disastrous population crash occurring just about everywhere: https://americanmind.org/salvo/end-abortion-rebrand-babies/
27-09-2024: Tony Abbott – If only we had an adult still in charge: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/tony-abbott-calls-on-australian-govt-to-make-practical-contribution-in-middle-east-instead-of-acting-like-a-helpless-bystander/news-story/5485fbba496aa33d882c1e3d66e30a1a
26-09-2024: Exactly. Who started it – and who has to finish it? https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/24/the-wests-reckless-dishonesty-over-lebanon/
26-09-2024: Say, ‘No’ to the Greens. The good news: Germans have already: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/suddenly-everybody-hates-them-german-leaders-resign-after-crushing-greens-election-loss/
26-09-2024: A reminder: You have only four more days (of a week altogether!) to make a ‘submission’ about the government’s new ‘misinformation’ legislation. I doubt you could do much better than this: https://caldronpool.com/our-submission-opposing-the-australian-governments-misinformation-and-disinformation-bill/#google_vignette
26-09-2024: Good on you Pauline – a true leader: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/over-it-one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-doubles-down-after-turning-her-back-on-tokenistic-welcome-to-country-ceremonies/news-story/d7a2cdf1589d2593ee85209ed7811e74
25-09-2024: Vive Kamala: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/superb-1.html
25-09-2024: Absolutely, “While Your Family Members Died Alone, Lockdowners Had Sex Parties” https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/09/23/while-your-family-members-died-alone-lockdowners-had-sex-parties-n3794905
25-09-2024: This science might be ‘new’ to you. First the ‘warming’ since c1850 has been less than the IPCC says ie only .55C per century and secondly increasing amounts of CO2 do not correlate (well) with warming and cooling periods in the instrumental record: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/a-basic-flaw-in-ipcc-science/
25-09-2024: The government’s new ‘misinformation; bill, If this passes I/you won’t be able to say anything about it or practically anything else. (I notice BTW that ‘age’ is not a protected class, so you will still be able to call me an ‘old fogie’ – or presumably even advocate my death, which would of course not constitute ‘harm’). Maybe talk to your local MP today?
The proposed legislation defines misinformation
as anything “reasonably likely to cause or contribute to serious
harm”… For the purposes of this Schedule, serious harm is:
(a) harm to the operation or integrity of a Commonwealth, State, Territory
or local government electoral or referendum process; or
(b) harm to public health in Australia, including to the efficacy of
preventative health measures in Australia; or
(c) vilification of a group in Australian society distinguished by race,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status,
disability, nationality or national or ethnic origin, or vilification of an
individual because of a belief that the individual is a member of such a group;
or
(d) intentionally inflicted physical injury to an individual in Australia; or
(e) imminent: (i) damage to critical infrastructure; or (ii) disruption of
emergency services;
in Australia; or
(f) imminent harm to the Australian economy, including harm to public
confidence in the banking system or financial markets;
that has:
(g) significant and far-reaching consequences for the Australian community or a
segment of the Australian community; or
(h) severe consequences for an individual in Australia: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/only-a-government-pushing-lies-has-to-censor-the-people-the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-bill/
24-09-2024: Truly horrible news about ‘green hydrogen’ – just like other ‘green’ scams: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/01/shock-new-claim-green-hydrogen-produces-37-times-more-global-warming-than-carbon-dioxide/
24-09-2024: When ‘thoughtcrime’ becomes real crime: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/on-trial-for-spectator-australia-posts/
24-09-2024: 200,000 homes up in smoke? Pink batts on steroids: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/what-if-a-foreign-hacker-could-turn-home-batteries-into-pager-bombs-but-7500-times-bigger/
24-09-2024: And she is not. “Victory for the Democrats will depend on the perpetuation of the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States.” https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/22/levitation-101/
23-09-2024: Sadly our society ie becoming evermore like that portrayed in ‘1984’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/british-woman-caught-up-prime-minister-keir-starmers/
23-09-2024: DNA unravels the (pre) history of our Neanderthal relatives: https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/deeply-isolated-neanderthal-groups
23-09-2024: Bizarre. Also, I suspect that what this gal misunderstands is that she is probably behind in her sexual ‘competition’ as compared with the average woman – except the ‘average’ woman chose to have sex 300+ times with the same man. Lucky fellow! https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/aussies-update-on-challenge-to-sleep-with-600-people/news-story/d637bc977a217a5ca8aa510f687179a7
23-09-2024: Sampling ‘the good life’ for your next holiday? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240917-norways-simple-answer-to-greener-cleaner-living
22-09-2024: Well said Jordan Peterson; "I think
every single medical and psychological professional who has played a role in
the trans butchery of minor children should be put in prison for the rest of
their lives for crimes against humanity."
22-09-2024: The coming housing crash. Any further deterioration in the terms of trade will bring it on: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/housing-crash-is-now-inevitable/
22-09-2024: So they were/are eating the pets: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1837257775115542645
22-09-2024: The return of the Shah? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/irans-crown-prince-is-spot-on.html
21-09-2024: What the Left want: http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/09/an-iron-curtain-is-descending-on-us.html
21-09-2024: I think that being forced into the company of awful people is likely to cause more problems than ‘loneliness’: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-loneliness-diseases.html
21-09-2024: Why you should eat them too, “Rats fed a diet of Ruspolia nitidula, a type of edible grasshopper common in Cameroon, experienced significant improvements in several health markers compared to rats on other diets.” https://moonbattery.com/experts-push-grasshopper-based-diet/
21-09-2024: Forget about donating to WWF (and other ‘green charities’): https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/the-green-industrial-complex-the-ceo-of-wwf-is-paid-up-to-a-million-dollars-to-save-nature/
20-09-2024: Will the positives: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/nt-betaloo-basin-has-enough-gas-to-supply-australia-for-the-next-400-years-company-about-to-start-drilling-the-region-says/news-story/cb2b29ed24e43decde8dd7fea3c9ed53
20-09-2024: Outweigh the negatives? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/economy/worse-for-australia-grim-warning-as-brutal-financial-crisis-engulfs-china/news-story/2f1bc5455afef7b07e7c667920b29570
20-09-2024: Only 27% of young Australians would stay
and fight for
20-09-2024: The other side of ‘domestic violence’: https://quadrant.org.au/features/the-law/the-use-and-abuse-of-dvos/
19-09-2024: I think Alexander Downer is dead right.
Kids just don’t benefit from ‘smart’ phones: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/social-media-bans-dont-go-far-enough-parents-should-ban-smart-phones-like-my-parents-banned-tv-in-the-60s-alexander-downer/news-story/83fea23ca0b42a96d3b97e91e6a2a8bd
19-09-2024: And she should know, “The woke left is
the enemy of civilisation, and they say so themselves. They’re deconstructing everything. On the other hand, the Islamists
are also clearly an enemy of civilisation – our Western civilisation in
particular. We’ve got to stand up to these two forces now. The silent majority
has to stand up and stop this before they stop us. And the only way to do that
is through freedom of speech, which is exactly what they want to take away from
us.” https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/16/islamists-and-the-woke-left-are-the-enemies-of-civilisation/
19-09-2024: Absolutely. Just go, no matter what it costs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/europe-against-mass-migration-sweden-now-offers-34k/
19-09-2024: I was wrong. Yesterday I thought that exploding pagers would be a hard to repeat ‘trick’ but today hundreds of walkie-talkies go off like crackers. Well done guys.: https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1836424399525683504 & https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-more-hurt-9-killed-in-lebanon-in-2nd-wave-of-hezbollah-device-explosions/
18-09-2024: Aussie Life (and death). Vale our cousin
Ken. Last weekend we travelled to the
Figure 1 Ken & Delma Jones c 1960
Our
(Jones) family history in
(Our
great great grandfather (William Davids’s own father - another David) lived the
entire C19th - all of it in the vicinity of the small town of
Figure 2 William David Jones
Figure 3 Emily (Westbury) Jones
They had ten children one of whom,George Jones was our grandfather.
Figure 4 George Jones – in Boer War uniform.
George
married Pauline Sanlaville, daughter of
Figure 5 c 1924 Pauline Sanlaville with son, Basil Jones
Figure 6 Marius Sanlaville & daughter Alice (plus Basil again).
Figure 7 Emmeline (Mills) Sanlaville & daughter Pauline Sanlaville.
(Besides Basil) George and Pauline had three other children, Emmeline, Ken & Lawrence. Altogether these four (Jones) children produced 19 cousins between 1930 and 1962: Emmeline 6, Ken 5, Lawrence 3 and Basil 5 - of whom 14 are still living (September 2024), though our average age must be around 80 years. Many (often from faraway) made the effort to attend Ken’s ‘send off’.
Figure 8 c 1917 Ken, Lawrence (centre) and Emmeline Jones
We 19 cousins alone no doubt have currently over 100 living descendents, so William David Jones and his wife Emily have well and truly contributed handsomely to the population (and development) of Australia – that is without considering the many descendents of their other nine children!
Funerals are sad affairs and I am not ashamed to admit I shed a tear or more for Ken. Though he was 88 he will be missed, and should have lived much longer. However he lived a long, productive and adventurous life. It was a time to share our grief with Delma and reacquaint ourselves with their two sons and to get to know three very handsome grandsons who will proudly carry his name and legacy on into the future. Farewell Ken.
18-09-2024: Well done that gal: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/shock-video-italian-socialite-slams-car-alleged-moroccan/
18-09-2024: Blackrock’s assassination team: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/erik-prince-trump-assassins-appearing-blackwater-commercials-statistical/
18-09-2024: The world will suddenly be a much better place if/when Trump wins: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/such-is-the-aura-citizen-trump-stymies-the-un-climate-talks-without-even-trying/
18-09-2024: How did they do it? Place an ad for ‘Free IEDs’ in the ‘Arab Times? Attempts to duplicate the feat may be thwarted by the low literacy rate over there but clearly will not be hindered by the low intelligence: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/breaking-1000-wounded-including-hezbollah-terrorists-as-pagers/
17-09-2024: When the only way to stop Trump becoming President again is to assassinate him: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/16/we-need-to-talk-about-the-violent-hatred-for-donald-trump/
17-09-2024: Understanding the nickel ‘crash’: https://archive.is/qP9GN
17-09-2024: When ‘misinformation’ goes wrong.
“It’s also ‘disinformation’ when our government does it…Our government is not
trying to protect us from disinformation. They’re trying to maintain a monopoly
on it,”
17-09-2024: Life after ‘death’, “In humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after organismal death. In mice, skeletal muscle cells can be regrown after 14 days postmortem, while fibroblast cells from sheep and goats can be cultured up to a month or so postmortem.” https://theconversation.com/biobots-arise-from-the-cells-of-dead-organisms-pushing-the-boundaries-of-life-death-and-medicine-238176
14-09-2024: Whatever happened to Kodak – a lesson in keeping up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#
14-09-2024: A big problem with only a ‘racist’ answer: https://quadrant.org.au/features/australia/we-looked-and-there-was-no-safe-family/
14-09-2024: I wonder how many people you could deport on jet planes for $30 million? At $1000 per seat that’s 30,000. Maybe a good start? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/victorian-taxpayers-forced-to-cough-up-30-million-for-police-to-patrol-and-manage-antiwar-activists-protesting-land-forces-expo/news-story/80cd29b74b7039e78d0cbdbdc6c85749
“Each
week, tens of thousands of protesters go out into the streets of Western
democracies around the world and make this story all about the Palestinians. Not the murdered babies. Not the
beheadings. Not the rape. Not the kidnappings….The size and scope of these
demonstrations should be disturbing to those who so generously allowed these
people from the
14-09-2024: A story which says it all. Can you believe that there is no legal protection for babies born live following an ‘abortion’? They can be simply killed or ‘allowed’ to die. Such terrible evil is mind numbing: https://babylonbee.com/news/a-fetus-should-not-be-treated-like-a-human-says-woman-with-cat-named-dave-that-wears-a-sweater
13-09-2024: If only more communists shared Matthy’s fate, “Matthys’s ever-more-radical Anabaptist commune lasted about six weeks, until the tyrant of this theocratic utopia was cut down in battle and dismembered in early April—on Easter Sunday—with his head erected on a pole above the town to discourage future radical experiments.” https://quillette.com/2024/09/10/where-virtue-meets-terror-communism/
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals” Clare Booth Luce
13-09-2024: Dreadful over-reach. No freedom any more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/have-i-broken-the-law-ugly-cop-clash/news-story/52767b523782faff688aff24a9f9470e
13-09-2024: Why isn’t it as hot as it was in the 1930s? Isn’t the world listening to the alarmists? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/11/year-2024-contiguous-u-s-maximum-summer-temperatures-fail-to-reach-levels-achieved-90-years-ago-in-the-dust-bowl-era-despite-climate-alarmists-record-high-election-year-hype/
13-09-2024: “Thou shalt not criticise the government” – the 11th commandment: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/just-frightening-this-cannot-pass.html
12-09-2024: ‘Emulsifiers might just be a big problem: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13830089/doctor-healthy-foods-fueling-colon-cancer-crisis-young-people.html
12-09-2024: Not so long ago sex was normally between consenting adults - and within matrimony: https://www.rebelnews.com/sex_guidebook_aimed_at_kids_shortlisted_for_prime_minister_s_awards
12-09-2024: Supporters of the Hamas murderers reveal
their true colours (though behind masks) during the
12-09-2024: “The biggest industrial ‘accident’ in history (millions dead) but…have we sold our souls, our universities, our health, for cheap fridges and trade deals?” https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/there-is-now-no-doubt-that-covid-leaked-from-a-lab/
And furthermore: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/trump-was-right-new-study-shows-countless-lives/
It’s all about
11-09-2024: You have to hope Trump can save the West: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/kamala-trumped-by-lefts-curious-silence/
About right: https://moonbattery.com/open-thread_240909a/
11-09-2024: Solitude vs the family dinner: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/overcoming-loneliness
11-09-2024: “Be open-minded but not so open-minded that your brains fall out” Groucho Marx.
11-09-2024: Way to go: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/couples-plan-to-die-in-aussie-suicide-pod/news-story/1677e8dbd0582d1885fde318dce1c9b0
10-09-2024: Good. About time too: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/greenpeace-usa-may-be-wiped-out-by-300m-lawsuit-from-pipeline-tycoon/
10-09-2024: The secret of invisibility: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent
10-09-2024: Is there anything worse than Japanese Knotweed? https://archive.is/P5x76 & https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/weeds/state-prohibited-weeds/knotweed
10-09-2024: Oh, well done Albo: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/albanese-walks-out-on-veterans-motion.html
9-09-2024: Whatever happened to ‘green nuclear’? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/thorium-green-renewable-nuclear/
9-09-2024: Indeed, “It's difficult to have a one-sided proxy war. At some point, the logic of the US, UK, France and Germany gifting Kiev with an arsenal they could never have accumulated on their own and then permitting Zelenskyy to lob his freebies deep into Russia will lead the Russkies to conclude that a state of war exists between them and Nato. What then?” https://www.steynonline.com/14610/drifting-to-armageddon
9-09-2024: Just about right, “The real reason we have not been to the moon since 1972 is that we cannot any longer do it. Humans have lost the capability.…So what happened? According to Professor Charlton, in the 1970s "the human spirit began to be overwhelmed by bureaucracy". https://www.steynonline.com/14620/the-lost-frontier
9-09-2024: Should we pay Moslems to come here or to leave? You decide by voting Labor out: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/this-is-the-multicultural-dystopia-thats-left-australia-racially-and-ethnically-divided/news-story/3e294920ff7770aa95958d2d053e93e9
8-09-2024: After an (antenna etc) upgrade last week our wireless NBN service is now averaging over 100 Mbps – way up on the 7 Mbps we used to have with ADSL. Actually I do nothing which could use this sort of speed but it is symptomatic of the way that life just keeps getting better.
8-09-2024: Crazy leftie ‘experiments’ – don’t get me started on the NDIS; what a boondoggle: https://richardsonpost.com/paul-joseph-watson/37226/1-6-million-migrants-in-uk-are-unemployed-costing-taxpayers-8-5-billion-report/
8-09-2024: “Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder” Arthur J Toynbee
8-09-2024: Where do environmentalists want electricity to come from? https://moonbattery.com/destroying-our-dams-is-not-about-saving-salmon/
7-09-2024: Just another example of the Left’s war on the poor: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/09/starmers-war-on-the-pensioners-and-the-poor/
Or as Milei says, “"The
only ones who can generate wealth in this country and the world are
entrepreneurs, not politicians. Politicians
don't know how to create wealth and have no incentive to do so. When they try,
all they create is corruption." https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/spot-on.html
7-09-2024: Watermelons: ‘Friends of the Earth’ is a
very different organization to the (anti-nuclear bomb) group ‘Grenpeace’
founded by Patrick back in the 70s (https://opentheword.org/2020/04/28/why-i-left-greenpeace-patrick-moores-story/comment-page-1/)
: “With 18 full-time-equivalent workers and 90 volunteers, FOE
7-09-2024: Immortality anyone? Progress at last. In the meantime take anything which anti-inflammatory: https://scitechdaily.com/age-defying-health-benefits-new-research-unravels-secrets-of-the-longevity-gene/
7-09-2024: Suddenly Abbott’s solution to asylum
seekers takes off in
6-09-2024: If your own family won’t vote for you why should anyone else – could be they know best: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/walzs-trump-tim-walzs-family-snubs-harris-walz/
6-09-2024: Eventually these fascists will come for you too: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/australian-government-floating-controversial-curfew-on-pet-cats/news-story/2608027acef750b40fb3ba5686afeb16
6-09-2024: Wow – This is for me: https://scitechdaily.com/one-treatment-lasting-relief-groundbreaking-ultrasound-device-successfully-treats-chronic-pain-in-clinical-trials/
6-09-2024: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leave behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall of deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed… For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than a malicious one.”
5-09-2024: Netanyahu, “These murderers executed six of our hostages. They shot them in the back of the head. That’s what changed! And now after this, we’re asked to show seriousness?! We’re asked to make concessions?! What message does this send Hamas?” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/executed-in-gaza :
5-09-2024: Do you believe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIxT6rK02lk Neither do I: https://myelectricsparks.com/toyota-presents-the-first-water-engine-2500-oc-and-dual-injection-to-outperform-hydrogen/
5-09-2024: Gaoled for wanting to do his job: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/irish-teacher-enoch-burke-jailed-again-after-student-pronoun-culture-war/news-story/77a3b6aad20a1376afbe65d85c9b6517
5-09-2024: Leading Green Kim Jong Un gets really serious about ‘climate change’: https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/world-news/kim-jong-un-executes-30-officials-over-deadly-floods-report/
04-09-2024: 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 the 1970s in Rochester in just such an outstanding gentleman’s house when I began to separate myself from the Labor Party 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 him simply redistribution and Government control as the only worthwhile goal – not what he wanted either. Today’s ALP is way Left of where the Communist Party of Australia was as I grew up. The shearers and agricultural workers who founded it would not recognize it and would have no place in it. The Greens are even more evilly Left of them, perhaps even left of Mao & Pol Pot in that they would see most of humanity extinguished. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party is way to the Right of today’s ALP – I fear even to the right of today’s Liberal Party! Where can a working class Conservative’s vote go? Perhaps One Nation or the Liberal Democrats?
04-09-2024: So Big Brother really is watching you – listening anyway: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13805393/Facebook-partner-brags-listening-phones-microphone-serve-ads.html
04-09-2024: Really? Erotic asphyxiation has become mainstream among under-35s. How did we get here? Bizarre: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/02/i-think-its-natural-why-has-sexual-choking-become-so-prevalent-among-young-people
04-09-2024: “Germany already had nuclear power in 2002, if they just kept it and didn’t build all the wind and solar plants, they wouldn’t have had to spend 697 Billion Euro on subsidies, and would have cut their emissions by 73% more” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/renewable-fiasco-if-germany-just-kept-nuclear-power-it-could-have-saved-600b-and-cut-emissions-by-73/
03-09-2024: Gender confusion? https://moonbattery.com/state-of-the-art-in-transsexual-absurdity/
03-09-2024: Will approving mass migration of
03-09-2024:
03-09-2024: ‘Climate’ Chicken Littles will keep on thinking up newer and more bizarre reasons we should panic. Quick, run in all directions: https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/is-the-next-big-pandemic-sleeping-in-glaciers/ar-AA1pPKmx
02-09-2024: The truth about the efficacy of anti-smoking laws (apart from the obvious fact that banning it has just handed the whole thing over to massive criminal gangs): https://thecritic.co.uk/the-poverty-of-anti-smoking-laws/
02-09-2024: Why does such a prominent Democrat back Trump? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-reveals-real-reason-behind-endorsing-trump-personal-me
02-09-2024: So many bad actors – the
Time the Left worked out who are the ‘bad guys’: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/01/the-deaths-of-these-hostages-shames-the-western-conscience/
02-09-2024: Capitalism grows tired of woke: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/how-it-ends-96-of-big-corporations-are-quietly-abandoning-their-climate-commitments/
01-09-2024: Well said Teddy: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/lest-we-forget.html
01-09-2024: Who knew? “Since 1750, additions to the atmospheric CO2 concentration derived from natural emission sources associated with biological processes are about 4.5 times larger than the contribution from fossil fuel emissions” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/30/new-study-co2s-atmospheric-residence-time-4-yearsnatural-sources-drive-co2-concentration-changes/
01-09-2024: Will the ‘gender’ question be ‘optional’ like the religion and ‘aboriginality’ questions? I will probably not be answering it anyway: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/albanese-gets-rolled-on-lgbtqi-census-question.html
01-09-2024: The love of bacon: https://www.news.com.au/world/africa/south-african-farmer-employees-accused-of-feeding-women-to-pigs/news-story/4c9327bb60f5d0d6406eb0c6d1b85475
31-08-2024: My job is something to die for: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/wells-fargo-employee-died-her-desk-staff-didnt/
31-08-2024: There is hope. Why should you stay dead? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/if-i-have-a-heart-attack-tomorrow-why-should-i-stay-dead-the-doctor-taking-on-death/ar-AA1ps79F
31-08-2024: Indeed, “This line of argument assumes that there is no such thing as an objective reality. It assumes that reality is what everyone thinks is real. But, in that circumstance we cannot judge a hypothesis against reality, or against an experiment. Rather than apply a reality test, we try to force everyone to believe it“ https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/does-reality-still-bite
31-08-2024:
The end of free speech in the
30-08-2024: A Gibbo Memory: Recently I drove to Corryong and back to scan a heap of photos and documents which had been collected by my (late) first cousin which had become the property of his son on his death. It turned out there were 614 family photos and about 200 family documents - quite a trove, so as you might imagine it took some time to copy them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/08/28/a-gibbo-memory/
30-08-2024: No wonder folks object to ‘renewables’, “On this land use basis, Sizewell C, now under construction, can plausibly claim to be 1,000 times more productive than solar and 3,000 times more so than onshore wind. That is typical for conventional power stations: they are small and highly productive compared to renewables” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/the-terrifying-scale-of-the-green-revolution/
30-08-2024: Malcolm Roberts is quite right to ‘call out’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess, who said, “Extreme right-wing propaganda used Covid to portray governments as oppressors, and globalisation, multiculturalism, and democracy as flawed and failing” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/far-right-or-just-right-about-everything/
30-08-2024: Indeed. Milton Friedman, ‘Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.’ And what a great way it is for transferring wealth from savers to spenders: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/eyes-wide-shut-2/
28-08-2024:
60th Reunion: On the
weekend we traveled to Morisset (&
Below: Steve & Della Jones (spouse), Ross & Evelyn Tipper (spouse), Evelyn (Wallwork) Ashcroft (teacher).
Jim Simmonds & Willy Chow far left.
My
old house at
28-08-2024: Hunting the Wonnangatta Again: I guess you realise I have been haunting this wonderful valley for decades, but now that I am over half way though my eighth decade I suppose I will be doing such big tough trips less than I used to. However I was up there for a few days a couple of weeks ago. I did not venture quite so high up as I used to do though, mainly because I had a bad cold. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/08/27/hunting-the-wonnangatta-again/
28-08-2024: There is absolutely nothing wrong with this question – the ABC is just deranged: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/beat-up-the-white-guy-aussies-claim-about-multiculturalism/news-story/3e12e2f441fc63df5756b78332c35296
28-08-2024: It’s definitely not licenced firearm owners who are the problem. “It’s the latest in a series of high-profile stabbings in the UK, which has seen a nearly 80 per cent increase in knife crime since 2015”: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/he-dead-fam-onlookers-laugh-as-man-bleeds-out-on-birmingham-street-after-being-stabbed-in-neck/news-story/b53ea7b0c543f0bc8f14b2d1520dd640
27-08-2024: I would love to own a new one: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/25/style/volkswagen-beetle-mexico/index.html
27-08-2024: Good question: If the Big Bang wasn’t the first thing ever, what caused it? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-first-thing-cause/
27-08-2024: Yet another prominent Democrat is backing Trump: https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/26/breaking-ex-dem-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-endorses-donald-j-trump/
27-08-2024: Albo has moved beyond parody in his embrace of dangerous jihadists: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/antiisrael-greens-senator-mehreen-faruqis-substitution-onto-antisemitism-committee-makes-mockery-of-inquiry/news-story/a749393dba65eb375b1e4fb43cf33a0a
26-08-2024: I take them too – just like practically everyone else – but is it true? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-23/statins-are-pharma-trash-research-mounts
26-08-2024: Why hunting is good for you – you don’t have to run very fast to catch a bagel: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/37141/green-foods-fail-olympics/
26-08-2024: But when will the Chinese dictatorship be made to pay? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/covid-19-preventable-pandemic/
26-08-2024: So much to be gained from multiculturalism: https://moonbattery.com/walking-while-white-in-once-great-britain/
25-08-2024:
Bobby Kennedy (&
25-08-2024: Do you need this enzyme (yet): https://scitechdaily.com/rewiring-the-aging-brain-key-enzyme-could-be-the-secret-to-sharper-memory-in-old-age/
25-08-2024: Legalising murder – just what we need as our birth rate drops below replacement level anyway. Reprehensible: https://www.rebelnews.com/senate_vote_rejects_motion_to_protect_babies_left_for_dead & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/abortion/2024/08/who-gives-a-damn-for-the-life-of-zye/
25-08-2024: Diversity is our strength: https://moonbattery.com/multiple-murders-at-festival-of-diversity/
23-08-2024: As good as it gets: https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-man-at-dnc-thinking-he-was-in-line-for-food-truck-accidentally-gets-vasectomy
23-08-2024: Rowan Atkinson on freedom of speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxWMhB4Cfm0
23-08-2024: Whatever happened to the population bomb? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/the-global-fertility-crisis-is-worse-than-you-think/
23-08-2024: CO2 is not such a big problem as Elon thought, but I am surprised that people are experiencing levels over 1,000ppm in various daily life situations due to poor ventilation. Once remember, windows used to be left open: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/dear-elon-1000ppm-of-carbon-dioxide-is-safe-we-breath-it-every-day/
22-08-2024: Apocryphal sightings: the tin-foil hat brigade. Miraculously I managed to snap a pic of one of these elusive creatures in Churchill last week. Where are all the mobile pohone snaps of ghosts, demons, yetis etc?
22-08-2024: So, definitely not enough electricity for EVs then: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/australia-is-running-out-of-electricity-to-charge-electric-cars-and-theyre-only-0-9-of-cars-on-the-road/
22-08-2024:
A Christian’s ‘answer’ to ‘welcome to country’, “The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who
live in it” https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/37074/dave-pellowe-vows-to-fight-human-rights-commission-over-welcome-to-country/
& https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/defending-dave-australias-biggest-online-rally-for-free-speech/
22-08-2024: True grit: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/nothing-will-stop-her-how-australian-schoolgirl-laila-johnson-11-survived-london-stabbing-attack/news-story/d0bc7551d374cd70435305715c1c4425
21-08-2024: A fresh look at 2,000 year proxies dispels fears of ‘global warming’: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/paper-finds-the-world-was-cooling-for-most-of-the-last-2000-years-and-started-warming-long-before-big-coal-arrived/
21-08-2024: Vote for Kamala and get communism: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/vp-harris-first-economic-plan-proposes-federal-price-controls-combat-inflation
21-08-2024: What causes forest fires? “acres burned tracks fuel load rather closely, while the small change in temperature is barely noticeable” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/19/fuel-load-and-forest-fires/
21-08-2024: The war against free speech goes into overdrive: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-war-against-free-expression & https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-war-against-free-expression-part
20-08-2024: How can refugees manage to safely visit the land from which they fled? Perhaps their status should be revoked? https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/08/afghan-asylum-seekers-in-germany-make-sneaky-visits-home-broadcaster-says/
Join the petition to reject all Gazan refugees: https://www.rebelnews.com/no_gazans_petition
20-08-2024: Pernicious b------s. Away with them. “Adam Creighton probably summed it up best when he wrote: “the Greens’ “No coal. No gas. No nuclear” campaign has a next logical step: “No economy”.” https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/its-high-time-to-apply-the-blowtorch-to-the-greens-agenda-as-their-sovietera-blueprint-seeks-to-impoverish-australians/news-story/4acf7b145d308014cc985bd91723f531
20-08-2024: Is it time to begin to pray for the end of Islam (and communism)? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/amazing-jesus-revolution-reported-iran-mosques-close-muslims/
20-08-2024: You can see how the next war could be a cyberwar: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/the-solar-panel-cyberthreat-dutch-hacker-gets-into-4-million-panels-in-150-countries/
18-08-2024: Yes, something must be done, “For at least two decades, parents have watched with increasing concern as their children face relentless left-wing political indoctrination on an industrial scale within secondary schools, universities and, increasingly, junior schools and even kindergartens. This leftist indoctrination is now so severe that it eclipses traditional areas of learning with a veritable grab-bag of socialist and neo-Marxist ‘causes’ that if taken literally can only do harm to impressionable young minds.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/trapped-doomed-and-unwelcome/
18-08-2024: Coming to Oz soon too I expect – hopefully not for this little black duck: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/unretirement-massive-troubling-phenomenon-plaguing-seniors-victimized-bidenomics/
18-08-2024: Starmer let thousands of real criminals out of gaol so he could lock up citizens for voicing opinions: https://moonbattery.com/alarming-suppression-of-free-speech-in-uk/
18-08-2024:
“The old line… is that, if you import
the Third World on the scale western nations are doing, you become the
17-08-2024:
Similarly, “Name one advantage that mass
immigration from third-world countries has brought to any Western nation,
anywhere, at any time. I’ll wait… Diversity in and of itself is not a
benefit. When I speak of benefits, I’m talking about a raised GDP. Safer
neighborhoods and lower crime rates. Higher test scores. Stable labor markets.
Respected liberties.
17-08-2024:
One would hope they would only choose
Nobel Prize winning ‘aboriginal scientists’ rather than the reality that they
could (at best) only count to five: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/science/2024/08/the-seriously-silly-science-of-making-stuff-up/
17-08-2024:
Hear, hear: “We should be saying that
everyone in
17-08-2024: A really excellent article about the fall of Hamas with a great quote by Jonathan Swift, “As the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers, And it often happens that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/is-the-west-finally-seeing-through-hamass-lies/
16-08-2024: The mystery of Kaspar Hauser persists: https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-from-lost-european-prince-solves-a-200-year-old-conspiracy
16-08-2024: We have a government which is basically treasonous – who are (for example) importing Moslem terrorists hand over fist, as if there will never be any consequences. Germany is deporting Hamas supporters: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/its-lunatic-enough-that-this-albanese-government-is-wilfully-letting-in-palestinians-from-gaza-who-say-they-support-hamas/news-story/c73e8290456882dac8baaa78c425635e
16-08-2024: One tough little girl: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-brave-little-girl-beats-violent-robber-baseball/
16-08-2024: The percentage of ‘unemployables’ has been exploding thanks to bizarre leftie ‘experiments’: https://www.city-journal.org/article/unemployable?skip=1
15-08-2024: The Naplan results are a national disaster yet our socialist government says ‘All is well’: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/dire-naplan-results-show-one-in-three-children-not-meeting-baseline-for-literacy-and-numeracy-at-least-400000-need-catchup-tutoring/news-story/f720e338649363d19c1de98ee50b87de
15-08-2024: What this decision actually shows is that we must ditch the renewables pipe dream: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/smart-but-deceptive-nsw-govt-keeps-big-coal-plant-on-until-just-after-the-next-election-to-avoid-3b-electricity-bill-shock/
15-08-2024:
Perhaps we should stop cosying up to
15-08-2024:
Couldn’t agree more, "I've had a gutful of the welcome to
country bulls**t,": https://www.rebelnews.com/veteran_mayor_condemns_divisive_welcome_to_country_ceremonies
And I applaud this guy: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/identity/2024/08/fined-for-climbing-while-white/
14-08-2024: The Trump Musk conversation broke the internet with over a billion views whilst Kamala managed 15,000: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/trump-musk-break-internet-72-million-views-x/
14-08-2024:
14-08-2024:
The second Battle of
14-08-2024: If Walmart can’t make a profit it’s time for socialism: https://moonbattery.com/chicago-moves-closer-to-government-grocery-stores/
13-08-2024: Who are the folks who show up at a Kamala Harris rally? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/who_are_the_folks_who_show_up_at_a_kamala_harris_rally.html
13-08-2024: This Great Barrier Reef temperature reconstruction reveals the very hot period that our First Fleeters also experienced and recorded – hotter than now between 1720-1820 (Scroll down for graph): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07672-x?fbclid=IwY2xjawEnbztleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHblSp-3_QSzTdH2htS3tRHftNClNEtAu5GdaIGDfgKXpw9jp_Pe2Xdvg2Q_aem_0utr4SszekOEV1plKGfk3Q
In other news
13-08-2024: Not so long ago I didn’t need (or have) any ID. I was just me. That was (and dare I say IS?) enough: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMzQ3MzA2NSwiZXhwIjoxNzI0MDc3ODY1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSTNOU0lEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5MTM4NzMzNDcyQkY0QjlGQTg0OTI3QTVBRjY1QzBCRiJ9.igiQsa7rx_8KqyNgY1qY_rvBsIP5Y9-1uytMgNOBxAM
13-08-2024: Well how about that? Sex is good (for men): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13735387/men-masturbate-prostate-cancer-risk-major-review.html
12-08-2024: Maybe on the way to a cure at last: https://www.yahoo.com/news/drug-restores-lost-alzheimer-memories-143056932.html
12-08-2024: I agree that Albanese is nothing more than a Stalinist thug in his calling people to report people with ‘extremist views – like me and you – to the authorities. Whatever happened to free speech? https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/anthony-albaneses-terror-alert-announcement-echoed-george-orwells-dystopian-1984-as-he-urged-aussies-to-report-those-with-extremist-views/news-story/aa1f5bddb54ba36be2508f70b570ce75
12-08-2024: I don’t think we can. I think we are in for 10-20 years of rolling blackouts and falling living standards – why we are investing in our own home (very expensive) power supply. We are fortunate though: with thirty acres and access to all of solar, wind, hydro and biofuel, as well as being self-sufficient in food we might not suffer like the rest of the country. “Imagine that: our competitors humming 24/7 on nuclear power while we’re keeping our electric cars in the garage to keep on the flickering wind-powered lights. It’s a ridiculous. But can Albanese and Bowen be stopped in time to save ourselves from the consequences of their delusions?”
12-08-2024: The ‘upside’ of multiculturalism is not souvlakis: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/new-social-media-page-documenting-melbournes-youth-gang-war-shares-horrific-footage/news-story/ab65d9ba5382366bb2d39c8546695134
11-08-2024: Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone. I had a lovely day with the family. Three quarters of a century. Who would have believed it? I have recently been helping organize a 60th reunion of our high school graduating class which has made me understand just how lucky I am to have survived the vicissitudes of life so lightly whilst others of my cohort have sadly succumbed. But as Della said, I am still constantly planning various ‘adventures’ as if I was still 20, though it takes a little longer to complete an eight hour walk (for example) than it once did.
11-08-2024: I think Stuart has a point: too many people just don’t know how to behave as human beings: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/in-crispins-case
11-08-2024: You would think we could agree that DNA was pretty decisive – even if you didn’t see those punches: https://moonbattery.com/ioc-president-cancels-chromosomes/
11-08-2024: Hubris, Over-reach and global tyranny. They will be coming for me next: https://moonbattery.com/london-police-chief-issues-global-threat/
11-08-2024: Things I never knew: the real ‘Clancy of the Overflow’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/07/clancy-of-the-overflow-how-squatters-made-australia-rich/
10-08-2024: Once ‘work’ used to be about moving stuff around (heavy stuff like bricks and sacks of potatoes say) but now it is about moving a ‘mouse’ around and you can even ‘employ' a programme to do it for you as many WFH ‘workers’ have found. Let’s make the b------s do some real work – like planting trees or clearing walking trails say: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/mouse-shuffle-worrying-new-trend-emerging-among-remote-workers/news-story/b7a7d9256525fb88ccfdcf4fe31317d4
10-08-2024: What a brave woman! Starmer will gaol her (& me too apparently) for this ‘thought crime’: https://moonbattery.com/the-second-battle-of-britain/
A return to the tyranny of the Nazis and the Soviets under our ‘one world’ government: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/king-charles-steps-in-as-fear-grips-britain-amid-looming-chaos/news-story/854cc8dfc920323f9f8e06dc684d84b6
10-08-2024: Once again ‘The Bee’ has it about right: https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-concerned-if-he-beats-kamala-in-debate-they-might-replace-her-with-someone-good-this-time
10-08-2024: So an email now ‘weighs’ around 4 grams of carbon according to a
Scientist’ from Loughborough ‘University’ where my great grandmother came from (when they used to make something useful there – like agriculture and cloth). Curiously this is almost the same as a sheet of A4 paper weighs ie 5 grams: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/now-your-emails-and-memes-are-destroying-the-planet/
09-08-2024: You Ripper: Euripides – what other treasures are hiding out there?: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/08/02/new-fragments-of-euripides-discovered/
09-08-2024: Weird stuff! Another ‘husband’ falsely accused, as it turns out: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/american-woman-found-chained-to-tree-in-india-admits-she-did-it-herself/news-story/bf6f85a73c605b9dfdd8c1c2977617ca
09-08-2024: Now he knows: https://www.rebelnews.com/former_nsw_premier_finally_admits_authoritarian_vaccine_mandates_were_wrong
09-08-2024: Child ‘Care’. Instead of motherhood we have this bizarre way of recycling taxes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/because-money-grows-on-trees-every-child-player-wins-a-prize.html
08-08-2024: Mesmerising. Spot would love this – imagine how good they would be on rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-_tqd7e_D8
08-08-2024: Good question: Can you really get the world’s best scotch whisky for $40? https://www.insidehook.com/whiskey/worlds-best-scotch-2024
08-08-2024: Why you should watch out closely for beginnings. This was the first press release about Hitler (1922): https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/21/98786796.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
08-08-2024: ‘Equal justice’ for all? Or ‘two-tier’ policing?: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/coming-to-your-3rd-world-developing-shit-hole-soon-thanks-to-rampant-immigration.html
07-08-2024: Is it any wonder people are developing ‘EV Phobia’? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/ev-phobia-spreads-in-south-korea-after-a-mercedes-ev-spontaneously-combusts-in-the-basement/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/german-ev-sales-down-37-the-market-has-lost-all-momentum/
07-08-2024: Remember when
Get the facts here: https://www.rebelnews.com/tommy_robinson_speaks_out_amidst_uk_unrest
This is how it works: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/spot-on.html
07-08-2024: You can be to the left of Kamala. Tim Walt, Kamala’s VP pick, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighbourliness.” Trump’s response, ‘Thank You’. https://moonbattery.com/dems-pick-hardcore-leftist-tim-walz-for-vp/
07-08-2024: The Last Rat Passes. A sad day - I’m
sure many members of your family too served in
06-08-2024: Will rapamycin end female infertility? https://www.sciencealert.com/common-drug-may-extend-womens-fertility-by-years-early-results-show?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUDnBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWSpW8CmBchsMKL9WRCmvUzHe-umTcu7XxmxMFwRKNZ27dv7rGJ3y20k-g_aem_SIUnWQ86YpyPgnDWBWILUw
06-08-2024: Things you can’t post on Facebook (without being banned). Try a Google search such as ‘President Donald’ and see just how the tech giants are controlling us. Elon did: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1817765530255659127 If you want to go further read this article, but type ‘https://www.infowars.com’ in front of
‘/posts/suppression-engines/’ – leaving out the quotation marks. As I said, Facebook will not allow posts from certain websites.
06-08-2024: Are ‘radical feminists’ just totally
crazy? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/is-radical-anti-feminism-really-the-most-prevalent-extremism/
06-08-2024: When the white working class rise up
against the elites, “In
Don’t understand? “Eight men have been charged in connection with child sexual exploitation in Calderdale. All the usual suspects, 3 named mohammed,” Tommy Robinson. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/eight-men-charged-sexual-offending-against-child
05-08-2024: Karahan Tepe may be even more astonishing
than Gobelki Tepe which revealed so much about ‘neolithic’ civilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan_Tepe
05-08-2024: Too true: “Few in the ALP or the Greens have any affinity with the rural and regional people to whom they owe their incomes. Most will promote resistance to mining and agricultural developments and thereby fan those flames seeking to progressively close down this heartland of productivity.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/bleeding-australia-dry/
05-08-2024: Can
05-08-2024: The headline says it all. Will we have ‘the great replacement’ or ‘the great deportation’? I vote for the latter: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/britain-burning-muslim-mobs-roam-streets-knives-machetes/
Musk predicts ‘civil war’ and I suspect he isn’t wrong: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/elon-musk-warns-civil-war-is-inevitable-uk/
04-08-2024: “That is a most interesting graph. It shows that whatever has caused the temperature increase over the last two decades … it’s clearly not due to an increase in the amount of surface upwelling thermal radiation that is absorbed by atmospheric CO2.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/30/the-return-on-your-investment/
04-08-2024: I imagine it would be perfectly legal to refuse you service if you were a hunter say: https://www.rebelnews.com/you_won_t_believe_the_pathetic_response_from_officeworks_after_refusing_to_serve_jew
04-08-2024: We voted for this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/who-voted-for-this.html
04-08-2024: Is hiring ‘wimmin’ to ‘fix’ education a good idea? https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/the-intersectional-feminist-rewriting-the-national-curriculum/
03-08-2024: Quilt Modification and Comparison: I recently modified my Waratah Quilt and Zpacks Quilt so that they would better fit me, would be easier to enter and exit, and in the case of the Waratah be fractionally lighter as well.
I found Kam Snaps to be just the trick for these mods. As I said in that post I will be finding many many more uses for these wonderful gadgets.
These mods are amongst the easiest 'sewing' projects you could undertake, so they might be a good place to start before you launch into making your own tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, (hiking) clothes etc as I have done. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/08/02/quilt-modification-and-comparison/
03-08-2024: Never thought I would say it but ‘Well done ABC’: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/deer-hunters-game-meat/103974062?
03-08-2024: Interesting review of communism’s
opposition to the family. Nothing in society happens by accident: https://fee.org/articles/black-lives-matter-s-goal-to-disrupt-the-nuclear-family-fits-a-marxist-aim-that-goes-back-a-century-and-a-half/
03-08-2024: Women are great at coercive control (too), “There’s never, ever any mention of female perpetrators controlling men. Never any mention of men who spend their lives being coerced by vindictive partners. Men who don’t dare leave the relationship because that would mean putting their children at risk by leaving them with a frightening mother.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/women-are-great-at-coercive-control
02-08-2024: We abandoned the virtues of manliness at our extreme peril: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-great-estrangement
02-08-2024: Absurd: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unjust-female-boxer-quits-olympic-match-melts-down-tears-after-biological-male-brutalizes & https://x.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/1818992263890182416 & https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1819007216214573268
02-08-2024: Looking more and more like a
02-08-2024: For years we have seen this acting out – but what do they want to put in its place? : https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/clowardpiven-strategy-cps/
01-08-2024: “Once again
01-08-2024: And it gets worse: https://moonbattery.com/california-school-forces-girls-to-sleep-with-boys/
01-08-2024: Here is what an ancient Scandinavian
legend says:
A
long time ago
the universe was made of
ice.
Then one day the ice began to melt,
and a mist rose into the
sky.
Out of the mist
came a giant made of frost,
And the Earth and the heavens
were made from his body.
This is how the world began
and that is how the world
will end,
not by fire
but by ice.
The seas will freeze,
and winters will never end.
01-08-2024: The great replacement theory is no longer a theory, it’s reality: https://moonbattery.com/lefts-war-of-eradication-is-well-underway/
31-07-2024: Converting a Sleeping Bag Into a Quilt:
There is much debate about which is better, a sleeping bag or a quilt? But why
not have both? In most cases it is easy to convert your old bag so you can use
it as a quilt. I just did this with my old Montbell bag - and it works a treat.
The conversion cost maybe $1 and weighed 3 grams! It took only a few
minutes. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/07/31/converting-a-sleeping-bag-into-a-quilt/
31-07-2024: Surtsey turns 60: ‘Life will find a way’: https://earthsky.org/earth/surtsey-and-the-birth-of-new-islands/
31-07-2024: Even gladder we had it now: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-shingles-vaccine-does-even-better-job-of-delaying-onset-of-dementia?fbclid=IwY2xjawEVgmBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSagh1H1Vy2qbU_SK_uQEK7VICoPHqnqiko-MjOkP6cjiozoiXZUOtD2Qw_aem_IvQbDFRXqlqGz0pkO7mMcQ
31-07-2024: Hopefully the Olympics opening ceremony marks the beginning of the end of the ‘transgender’ movement and wokeism altogether: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/a-civilizational-suicide-note-on-the-seine/
31-07-2024: The people of
30-07-2024: For quite some time ‘More land for man’
has been the (unquestioned) agenda. Now it seems to be ‘More land for
nature’ – whatever that may be/mean. The latter motif seems to be (mainly) held
by inner-urban types who have never grown a single calorie of their own food
and seek to constrain those (like ourselves) who have spent their (long) lives
feeding dozens (usually hundreds) of others – generally thanklessly and
pointlessly, it must be admitted. Meanwhile though CO2 has promoted a ‘great
greening’ world-wide adding several areas of forest the size of
30-07-2024: No wonder when a real crime is committed the police don’t attend – this is just crazy, “Across the country our police and our courts are struggling to cope with the level of unproven domestic violence accusations, which, in NSW take up 50-70 per cent of police time, and 60 per cent of local court time…The floodgate is now open for a woman to allege her partner has been emotionally controlling and that may be enough to get him sent to prison” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sexual-politics/2024/07/restoring-the-presumption-of-innocence/
30-07-2024: How dare she say such dreadful things? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/the-real-reason-for-the-growth-in-violence-against-women.html
30-07-2024: How much longer do you suppose this can go on? https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/26/76-of-us-income-taxes-is-just-servicing-our-debt-n4931109
28-07-2024: Kam Snaps: If you are into DIY (as you should be unless you want to be a perpetual victim/pauper) then it's about time you discovered these wonderful plastic gadgets, an amazing (ultralight) improvement on the traditional press-stud. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/07/28/kam-snaps/
28-07-2024: Great satire: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/satire-is-the-ultimate-weapon/
28-07-2024: We should have a referendum to abolish the Senate: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/senator-for-hamas-was-elected-with-just-1681-votes.html
28-07-2024: Unwinding the hockey stick ‘trick’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/29/mining-for-hockeysticks/
27-07-2024: We voted to end this evil racist b------t. Let’s sack every bureaucrat and pollie who is still imposing it on us - and our kids: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/media/2024/07/todays-aboriginal-myths-and-legends/ & https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/students-told-to-put-hands-on-the-ground-repeat-always-will-be-aboriginal-land-before-assembly/news-story/f9cc92278da3f403b4a533bcb791490d
27-07-2024: My guess is you can expect Google to get behind nuclear – or ditch the whole climate scam: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/google-emissions-surge-nearly-50-as-demand-for-ai-sets-fire-to-their-net-zero-plan/
27-07-2024: Can you really trust the Therapeutic Goods
Administration? https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fdas-disastrous-war-against-sleep
27-07-2024: We really need to sack Julie Ingman Grant –or something even worse: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/esafety-commissioner-no-longer-pretending-to-hide-political-bias/
26-07-2024: It had to happen: https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-piece-of-ear-shot-off-trump-begins-to-grow-into-second-trump
26-07-2024: Long past time to listen to older, wiser heads on ‘climate change’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/07/the-road-to-climate-atheism/
26-07-2024: Exactly so,” Until we have elected leaders brave enough to drop the pieties that imply that our country belongs to some of us more than to all of us; and to stop flying the flags of some of us co-equally with the flag of all of us, there’s really no hope of reversing the cultural decay that’s behind the abuse of legal process and much else.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/07/when-the-rule-of-law-becomes-the-rule-of-lawyers/
25-07-2024: I suspect people will be demanding the
return of cash (and especially cheques) after the latest global tech outage.
25-07-2024: Just terribly sinister: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sicktoria/2024/07/victorias-expanding-aboriginalempire/
25-07-2024: We have to think of some more reasons for banning nuclear energy - instead of just building perfectly safe thorium plants: https://www.theverge.com/24201610/next-generation-nuclear-energy-reactors-security-weapons-proliferation-risk
25-07-2024: Poor
24-07-2024: This gal really knows how to sink the boots into Ursula von der Leyen: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1815579669493653620
24-07-2024: Great headline: ‘Global greening becomes so obvious that climate alarmists start arguing that we need to ‘Save the Deserts’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/21/global-greening-becomes-so-obvious-that-climate-alarmists-start-arguing-we-need-to-save-the-deserts/
24-07-2024: So true, “The grandees of the Democratic Party are lining up to support Kamala Harris. Apparently, they could not find anyone who was more stupid and more incompetent.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-kamala-harris
24-07-2024: “One inevitable consequence of displacing
the native population with the dregs of the
23-07-2024: Our Marxist Vic Government has decided to ban lead bullets. As a firearm owner I have just filled in a ‘compulsory’ survey about it which mostly asked me how soon it should come into effect. Nobody seems to have noticed that such a ban would mean a de facto ban on firearm use per se as there is currently no other type of bullets nor any likelihood that major ammunition manufacturers will ever begin producing such an alternative.
23-07-2024: I’m just hoping he got his phone back: https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/teen-phone-thief-immediately-killed-by-bus/news-story/3851ad1b5d7777bc0f679676a52229cd
23-07-2024: The solar crash gets worse: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/the-solar-boom-has-busted-in-the-last-six-months-europes-solar-manufacturing-has-collapsed-by-half/
23-07-2024: Extremes of moonbattery: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02365-x
22-07-2024: Jill Biden has this about right: https://babylonbee.com/news/jill-biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race
22-07-2024: We old guys are tough: https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/grizzly-attacks-berry-picker/
22-07-2024: With teachers like this maybe it is unsurprising that you graduate to be an assassin: https://moonbattery.com/educator-weighs-in-on-crooks-missing/
22-07-2024: In case you never understood,
21-07-2024: Who guards the guardians? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/choose-one-law-enforcement-trump-shooting-was-either-incompetent-or-complicit
21-07-2024: History can be made quite fascinating: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2024/07/what-really-happened-in-the-sixties/
21-07-2024: I just love cops: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/andrew-rule-the-brazen-st-kilda-drug-dealer-with-a-green-light/news-story/8d7688c3468c78684c9f1aa5cae034fa
21-07-2024: Unsurprisingly they have it back to front – changes in temperature cause changes in CO2 concentration: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/causality-analysis-finds-temperature-changes-have-determined-co2-changes-since-the-phanerozoic/
20-07-2024: He comes from a good family; when his grandmother died they found 19 loaded handguns in her house: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1813789303564378143
20-07-2024: The ‘green hydrogen’ dream bites the dust:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/the-hydrogen-titanic-just-sank-in-australia-because-renewable-electricity-costs-too-much/
Hard to beat Leak’s ‘take’ on this
nefarious issue: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/brilliant-leak-on-twiggy-blackout-bowen.html
20-07-2024: With electricity from brown coal (often) at 1 cent per kilowatt hour, why would you try to make something better? Of course, at that price how could the poor power stations even make a profit – they might have to close down: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/inflation-be-damned-brown-coal-power-is-just-1c-per-kilowatt-hour-in-2024/
20-07-2024: This is central
19-07-2024: The last of the few turns 105: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/happy-birthday-to-the-last-of-the-battle-of-britain-pilots-group-captain-john-paddy-hemingway-dfc.html
19-07-2024: True grit: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wwii-d-day-veteran-brings-house-down-rnc/
19-07-2024: Resign, be sacked or be arraigned for
treason? “Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas
Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the
rally in
The difference between life and death in two images: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1813750727346376900
19-07-2024: Worse than eating maggots, Let them eat pollution butter: https://moonbattery.com/let-them-eat-pollution-butter/
18-07-2024: Why you should forget about hydrogen: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/hydrogen-gas-another-climate-cult-myth-busted/
18-07-2024: Yet another (racist) evil for the next government to undo: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/first-peoples-assembly-of-victoria-declares-it-is-officially-ready-to-negotiate-treaty/news-story/6e36d92315c876de072bbdc07dd2b26b
Just terribly sinister: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sicktoria/2024/07/victorias-expanding-aboriginalempire/
18-07-2024: One should definitely put the stress on the word ‘artificial’ in AI. It somewhat lacks the latter: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/wobbly-apocalypse-humans-to-blame-for-making-days-longer-throwing-planet-off-balance/
18-07-2024: Too many lies from Security Services, first about how the ‘lone shooter’ managed to get himself on the roof; second why his parents’ warning telephone calls were ignored; third, where did he get the bomb?: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-crooks-impossible-path-roof-butler-pa/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/developing-crooks-parents-called-police-about-their-son/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/police-find-remote-bomb-detonator-next-trump-shooter/
PS: I really liked Sky News’ take on all the leftie moonbats’ reaction to the attempted assassination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HotPL809GKo&t=251s
Remember “Sherlock Holmes’s dictum: “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/the_trump_shooting_inexplicable_facts_lead_to_a_plethora_of_theories.html
17-07-2024: Trump behaved like a true President behaves: https://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking
17-07-2024: You said it all,
17-07-2024: Trust the ABC to be onto it – they would prefer we just freeze to death because of ‘global warming’ I suppose: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-16/firewood-illegal-logging-cost-of-living-protected-forests/104099212?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0rmWsjAPK--XcCgHg1gyK1aK5Z7RjpdUbtIK78wIG_tcRcSriqaHH3ZOE_aem_zAGMblWn3KrxuaNwn6qyeQ
17-07-2024: I daresay Secret Service Director Cheatle will be one of the first ‘Deep Staters’ Trump sacks, and deservedly so: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wth-secret-service-now-saying-they-didnt-put/
16-07-2024: Why Trump picked JD Vance – a winning team (hopefully) and 8-12 years of republican leadership. Maybe the free world can be saved? PS: The Left will now have to assassinate two candidates if they hope to prevent a Republican victory: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wayne-root-my-trump-vp-pick-was-jd/
16-07-2024: Ignoring the assassin for half an hour is beyond incompetence: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trumps-would-be-assassin-spotted-roof-officer-half/
Did he ‘act alone’? They have not been able to crack his phone yet so it is presumtuous to say, but… https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-rally-shooting-07-14-24#h_e3b77ce122987eb5d2059a2dff21a270
16-07-2024: Setka, Andrews, Allen, Albanese, Shorten,
Gillard…you don’t have to look hard before you find just how crooked Labor is: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/john-setka-wouldnt-have-these-problems-if-his-mistress-became-prime-minister.html
16-07-2024: Remember Hunga
15-07-2024: An Ideal Cheap Pillow: While we are on the topic of sleeping (which we are), I have also really ‘lashed out’ and added an excellent $2 pillow to my sleeping arrangements from Aliexpress.
I should add that I have modified my Waratah Quilt so it is a little lighter and easier to enter and exit. It is already delightfully warm and comfortable. I am very happy with it on those sub-zero nights.
I buy half a dozen of these pillows at a time as they are not outstandingly robust though I have used one for dozens and dozens of nights whilst I have burst much more expensive pillows in less time. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/07/13/an-ideal-cheap-pillow/
15-07-2024: Who’s ‘fake news’? Check out this CNN headline, “Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally”… “They won’t give Robert F Kennedy Jnr secret service protection, even though his father and uncle died by assassination and he is third most popular candidate for the Presidency” https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/trump-survives-assassination-attempt-is-defiant-cnn-says-he-fell-on-stage/
And this was DEI in action: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/ponytail-brigade-utter-humiliation-gaggle-female-secret-service/
BTW: And you’re not a conspiracy theorist yet? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/what-trump-shooter-was-featured-blackrock-ad-2023/
‘You had one job? And it gets worse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/profiles-cowardice-local-police-officer-confronted-would-be/
Here is the real fake news: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/list-ten-most-dishonest-mainstream-media-headlines-after/
15-07-2024: Edwin Hubble – until exactly one hundred years ago there was thought to be only one galaxy, until Hubble worked out that Andromeda was another. Now we have ‘counted’ over 2 trillion of them in roughly 46 billion light years of ‘space’, yet there remain those who look up at the sky and still imagine a grey-bearded old man looking down and caring for them – and (alas) enjoining them to all manner of evil acts towards their fellow men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
15-07-2024: Evil is still evil. You can’t just give
up: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/what_if_the_u_s_had_been_told_to_stop_fighting_japan_during_wwii_the_way_israel_is_being_told_to_stop_fighting_hamas.html
15-07-2024: Imagine no longer being able to afford to
be a ‘Grey Nomad’: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/how-the-grey-nomad-lifestyle-may-change/10599340
14-07-2024: He will almost certainly win now: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/democracy-under-fire-donald-trump-shot-at-rally/
And
here is the (iconic) photo which will win
him the election and ensure his place in history - liken it to the raising of
the flag on
Reuters’ (leftie) Headline, “Trump shot in
right ear at campaign rally. Shooter dead”. Shooting with a rifle from
perhaps 100 yards the bullet missed killing/maiming him by perhaps 2” (50mm),
actually quite ‘good marksmanship’. He must have a charmed life. You may
remember a similar bullet exploded JFK’s head ‘like a ripe melon’, as they said
at the time. Remember too that only a
week ago Biden said, “It’s time to put Trunp in the bullseye”.
You don’t have to be a ‘conspiracy
theorist’ to see that this is not just a case of mistakes being made. No
such rooftop vantage point could possibly be overlooked by any responsible
security service (particularly when they were warned by witnesses of the
presence of an armed man on the roof). They were clearly ordered not to look
until after Trump was shot – and by whom? I was present at the 1990
The assassin was right on target. Fortuitously Trump moved his head 1/10th of a second before the shot. God? https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1812342364431642844
14-07-2024: XTherm or Bust: So, as you know I bit the bullet and bought myself a new Thermarest XTherm at 440 grams for its standard 6′ model. Though I definitely did not ‘need’ a new pad I wanted to see whether I could reduce size/volume in my pack – and I was just curious whether the improvement in the Nxt range from 2 1/2′ to 3″ thickness really did make a significant (enough) difference to comfort. Besides, ‘you can’t take it with you’. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/07/13/xtherm-or-bust/
14-07-2024: Do snakes like to drink milk? Interesting speculation: https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/can-snakes-drink-milk
14-07-2024: Yet another reason not to buy an EV why ever did they replace manual window winders anyway? https://moonbattery.com/people-are-getting-locked-inside-evs/
14-07-2024: The truth about corals – they like it hot (Our GBR is one of the coldest in the world): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/13/the-coral-endures/
13-07-2024: Thank goodness for erythromycin! I have had this respiratory infection (non-stop/off and on?) since I was on The Everest Base Camp Trek back in November, but one hour after I started this stuff I am on the mend. A second ‘Thank Goodness’ to Dr Google (whom some doctors doubt): https://www.verywellhealth.com/antibiotics-for-pneumonia-5185264
13-07-2024: Bizarre green fantasies to the nth power – haven’t these people ever heard of plants and corals?: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/worlds-largest-vacuum-to-suck-carbon-out-of-the-sky-and-money-out-of-wallets/
13-07-2024: The triumph of democracy – “Four out of every five eligible voters either refused or else failed to vote for Starmer’s Labour. Starmer won 3.2 million fewer votes than Corbyn in 2017.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/reform-takes-off/
13-07-2024: Please explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsHQQjVvPhg&t=138s
We can make it better, “Elon: "If somebody has lost their arms or legs, we can actually attach an Optimus arm or leg during the Neuralink implant so that the commands from their brain would go to their robot arms or legs."
13-07-2024: “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons”. https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/francis-cricks-depressing-hypothesis
12-07-2024: Farage won 14% of the
12-07-2024: Watching Christendom burn (again): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/breaking-1000-year-old-notre-dame-cathedral-normandy/
12-07-2024: Something to celebrate – DIY cryonics: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a60887514/diy-cryonics-frozen-dead-guy/
12-07-2024: How much hotter it was in the Holocene 7,000 years ago without CO2 to warm us: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/giant-oyster-shell-shows-taiwan-sea-levels-were-up-to-3m-higher-water-several-degrees-hotter-7000-years-ago/
11-07-2024: Well done that man! https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/babies/betrayed-the-sperm-donor-with-1000-children/news-story/9ee65bcd7fc6fd15dfe2e983e80149f5
11-07-2024: You don’t own the government, the government owns you: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-ev-battery-plan-latest-crackpot-global-warming-scheme/news-story/917c449c40647e5e2f8a806709ae7931 & https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/you-will-buy-the-batteries-that-unreliable-wind-and-solar-need-but-the-government-will-own-them/
11-07-2024: New Samsung must-haves – whatever happened to using phones to make calls? https://www.news.com.au/checkout/tech/gadgets/samsung-unpacked-july-2024-everything-announced/news-story/4d2dfd2401263f4bd0f640a5b2aade12
11-07-2024: A conservation success story in
09-07-2024: Hard to believe this is happening: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-admin-to-kill-470000-owls-to-save-the-owls/
09-07-2024: Yet us Aussies still burn a wicked amount
of coal almost 2% of
09-07-2024: So hippies haven’t died out, they’ve just gotten older: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/100-miles-south-salt-lake-city-new-type-grid-community
09-07-2024: This happened in
08-07-2024: Ditching a successful leader as with the Libs replacing Tony with Malcolm is never a good idea: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/we-wouldve-won-with-boris/
08-07-2024: It is an evil political movement bent on world conquest. As Nazism was, so too Islam must be banned: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/i-believe-islamists-when-they-warn-us-this-is-what-they-want-theyll-kill-us-to-get-it.html
08-07-2024: Good question – and do we really need a couple of million of them? I think not: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-much-are-state-and-local-government-workers-overpaid
08-07-2024: Whoops – maybe circumcision was a good idea after all? https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2024/07/04/what_you_need_to_know_about_the_global_rise_in_penis_cancer_1042278.html
05-07-2024: Woohoo! Bring it on: https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-synapse-damage-130029639.html
05-07-2024: If your school is not quite cutting it for your bright kid, maybe try this? https://brilliant.org/home/
05-07-2024: Piltdown Man Anyone? Another interesting archaeological fake: https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2017/11/fuente-magna-bowl-not-cuneiform-not-sumerian/
05-07-2024: Implanting artificial memories - what could ever go wrong? https://thehighwire.com/editorial/the-artificial-womb-guy-plans-to-implant-artificial-memories-to-transform-criminals/
04-07-2024: Absolutely the Lightest Sleeping Pad Inflator:
The Pad
Pal weighs only 9 grams, costs a mere US$48 (July 2024) and will pump your
pad up in a little over 30 seconds. This tiny device will revolutionise
how you inflate your sleeping pad. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/07/04/absolutely-the-lightest-sleeping-pad-inflator/
04-07-2024: Interesting. Perhaps the ‘lady of the lake’ came for it? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/durandal-legendary-sword-roland-known-as-french-excalibur/
04-07-2024: Forget
04-07-2024: We don’t need Tucker to tell us this; End immigration and begin deportation now! https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/economy/tucker-carlson-says-immigration-the-one-reason-for-australias-housing-crisis/news-story/48a41e9ac3f2e5c9cc59239eb96f3136
04-07-2024: Be warned. Like land, they aren’t making any more gold: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/even-nigeria-plans-bring-gold-reserves-home-minimize-risk?
03-07-2024: "Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers."
03-07-2024: Even hydro has to be backed up uneconomically by fossil fuels yet the Labor Party debunks a move to nuclear: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/100m-wasted-gas-plant-revved-up-after-five-years-on-standby-another-hidden-cost-of-renewable-energy/
03-07-2024: Marx (and Loyola) were wrong that having
access to the young would win them over to their cause for life as the 1956
Hungarian Revolution famously showed when it was the (most indoctrinated)
teenagers who took on the Russian tanks with their bare hands. The Green Left
have been proselytising the young for too long, but the young will wake up and
fight back. Looks like they are already beginning to do so in
03-07-2024: I think we can say that the El Nino is officially over – temperatures will likely plummet to well below their 30 year average as they have (eg after 1998) with previous El Ninos: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2024-0-80-deg-c/
02-07-2024: Don’t welcome me to my own country (either): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuG3z4cr18
02-07-2024: Just where is all that bad CO2? https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/06/global-co2-emissions-are-tracking-well-below-the-climate-scenarios-used-to-scare-people/
02-07-2024: At last a win against the bureaucratic ‘state.’ Will there be a (slow) return to democracy starting now? : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/30/the-end-of-chevron-deference/
02-07-2024: ‘Feminists’ should listen up to Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, “In the spirit of “intersectional” rankings, I want to begin by
examining the first paradox of luxury feminism: that race trumps sex. “Taḥarrush
jamāʿī” is an Arabic term describing “collective sexual assault”
or mass molestation. It is a traditional form of plunder in Islam, often (but
not necessarily) in the context of war. “Kafir” (nonbelieving) women are
particularly targeted; taḥarrush jamāʿī was inflicted on a
group of women protestors in
01-07-2024: Surely things haven’t become so bad that even robots are suiciding? https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-commits-suicide-south-korea
01-07-2024: The official Newspeak dictionary: https://moonbattery.com/interior-department-updates-to-newspeak-dictionary/
01-07-2024: Why won’t the Reef simply lie down and die? https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/after-a-trillion-tons-of-co2-the-great-barrier-reef-hits-record-coral-cover-third-year-in-a-row/
01-07-2024: Did World War 3 begin on October 7? “A photograph held by the Alma research centre which focuses on security threats to Israel’s northern border, shows senior military figures from China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas with their Syrian hosts. This is Team Apocalypse, a knotting of the malevolent strands in the web of evil confronting Western liberal democracies.The only party missing is a representative of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/in-the-footsteps-of-terror/
30-06-2024 A noble profession: https://ruralhistoria.com/2024/06/04/from-dark-alleys-to-the-cities-the-rat-catchers-of-britain/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0EnIDIWQlVnOswG8pseJEcwaBNFsNxR70UBC42ever0m1cr_KXrYFsS2g_aem_Ui5fLvkWHVp7P6N5r7lHGQ#google_vignette
30-06-2024 Lessons from Aesop: https://notthebee.com/takes/the-aesops-fable-that-affluent-white-female-liberals-completely-forgot-to-read
30-06-2024 Sure doesn’t look like it. Why aren’t we building some new HELE coal-fired power stations? It isn’t as if we haven’t got the coal or it isn’t going to be burned anyway: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/27/this-energy-transition-thing-really-is-not-happening/
30-06-2024 Hard to see that this was the wrong decision: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jjq2vynq7o
29-06-2024: Kinetic Log Splitter: My son-in-law alerted me to the reality that there is another quite different type of splitter which does not use hydraulics. The hydraulic splitter (even when new) would just refuse a really tough billet of wood which I could hammer away with my (manual) block buster and split by hand.
This 'kinetic' type of splitter utilises the energy of a flywheel which can repeatedly hit the billet of wood until it splits. It claims an 18 tonne 'punch' at the outset anyway, so you don't often have to give the block a second hit but if you need to. The machine is amazingly quick. I could never have swung a block buster as fast as this. The hydraulic one was ponderously slow in comparison. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2024/06/29/kinetic-log-splitter/
29-06-2024: I was wrong. Improbable as it might be
Greg Lynn could indeed be innocent. We have watched his extraordinary
interview
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-28/greg-lynn-murder-police-interview-tapes-carol-clay-russell-hill/103997152)
where he certainly gives a lucid and believable account of what happened. The
whereabouts of the three missing 12 gauge slugs (around 500 grains or half an
ounce each therefore easily discoverable with a metal detector) is the key to
whether he is innocent or not (though the jury certainly did not have the
evidence to find him guilty – this verdict is likely to be overturned). Yesterday
I said he perhaps dug the slugs out of the bodies but the figures for
penetration of such slugs (say 14-21”- anyway over a foot) makes certain that
they would never have remained in the bodies. If they passed through the bodies
they would have lost so much energy that (as with the recovered slug) they
would be found in the vicinity – but they were clearly not, (indicating indeed
that he was telling the truth). Even if fired into the air (as he said) they
should have been discoverable at a range somewhere between 200-400 yards away
when their type etc would have ascertained they came from his gun. The
ballistics evidence (like so much of the police handling of the case) was
flawed. Those slugs remain the crucial ‘nail in the coffin’ for this case. ‘Someone’
should go find them. Shotgun (slug) penetration https://www.bevfitchett.us/ballistics/shotgun-slugs.html
and trajectory: http://forum.saiga-12.com/uploads/monthly_06_2009/post-3313-1244018344.jpg
Curiously he told them where the phones and the drone were too…
29-06-2024 There is no doubt (now) Biden is toast – so who will be the real Democrat candidate? Will it be Michelle for a fourth Obama presidency? https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/28/can_democrats_replace_biden_its_complicated_151181.html
29-06-2024 Why aren’t all the islands shrinking because we said they would? Must be ‘climate change’: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/six-years-later-new-york-times-mentions-that-the-maldives-is-not-sinking/
29-06-2024
28-06-2024 The times they are a’changing - get ready to be a prepper: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/odds-are-high-youre-going-need-your-survival-supplies-next-few-years
28-06-2024 Tucker meets the (corrupt) Oz media - and they come off second best.” I particularly liked his depiction of one of them as ‘dumb and stupid’: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1806034521369776406
28-06-2024 Another (straw) hero of the Left, “‘He recklessly released information that put
counterintelligence and intelligence communities at risk, and more importantly…Those brave Afghani
and Iraqi members of their public, that were working towards bringing down
their totalitarian regimes, that were working with coalition forces, were also
put at risk. He left them out there and I don’t know how many lives have been
lost. I don’t know whether we will ever know that. But we certainly know that
the last 14 years for those people, if they are still with us, has been a very
difficult and frightening experience and that’s because of a choice that Julian
Assange made. And a law that he is now admitting that he has broken.’”
Disgusting that even our PM fails to treat him as the (convicted) spy and
traitor that he is: https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/many-australians-are-revolted-by-julian-assanges-return/
28-06-2024 Of course he did it – that much was clear
from the minute Russell’s phone pinged the Hotham tower from within Lynn’s car,
but police have indeed failed to prove that he was lying and the jury’s
verdict was wrong (in fact and law) and will be proved wrong on appeal, so that
he will have to be monitored for life to protect the public (like so many
others). Curiously one of his mutterings (about the ballistics) clearly gave
police the clue where they needed to look for the proof that he was lying (as I
said at the outset of he trial) but they failed to follow it up. Where indeed
were the other bullets?
27-06-2024: Just wonderful: Strandbeest Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g&t=46s
27-06-2024: If she wasn’t a Mossie she would be out. Too much pandering to minorities who should be deported: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/brilliant-1.html
27-06-2024: Unbelievable. If you liked the idea of cockroach milk, you will love maggot milk. “Not this little black duck” https://moonbattery.com/let-them-drink-maggot-milk/
27-06-2024: Couldn’t agree more: “Sexual perversion is not worth fighting for, nor is a military that systematically promotes it worth fighting in.” https://moonbattery.com/lgbt-patches-to-demoralize-and-politicize-military/
26-06-2024: Well said Bettina, “The law is clear – intoxicated women may be able to give consent to sex, even if later they can’t remember what happened.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/drunk-sex-and-consent
26-06-2024: Bureaucracy is the most terrifying arm of government: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/bureaucratic-punishment
26-06-2024:
You only have one job. Remember the BOM
and CSIRO were supposed to do science, (not proselytizing). Their records
ought to be as near to a perfect reflection of actual conditions on the day of
record (temperature, wind speed rainfall etc) as possible. This data is a vital
historical record which can be and is used to make predictions about future
weather. If the data is corrupted (as it undoubtedly is), then the predictions
become junk. GIGO remember = ‘garbage in, garbage out’. When a change to the measurement
system is implemented it is a vital scientific principle that the two
measurement systems are correlated with each other to show that they are both
measuring the same thing. This was a scientific principle understood by and
implemented on the First Fleet.
Usually this will require running with both systems in parallel for a certain
time in order to ascertain if there are differences. The BOM record (for
example) now contains several step changes where the methodology was altered
without assuring that the new system was measuring what the old one was.
In the temperature series for example the Glaisher Screens were replaced with
Stevenson screens generally in the 1890s. It would be fairly simple process
(even now) to see what difference that change made and to adjust the data
accordingly. Instead the BOM just throws out all the old data (before 1910!) We
have continuous temperature series from eg
During the 1990s several changes were made to the Stevenson Screens (used to
record temperature). First they changed the paint used (after 100 years)
without checking whether this would make any difference. Independent researchers
indicate that this change alone increased the temperatures recorded by between
.5- 1C. They then made the boxes smaller (again without cross-referencing) and
replaced the manually recorded thermometers with electronic probes (again
without keeping parallel data). A vast number of other adjustments have been
made to the data such that it can no longer be used to make accurate
predictions. The BOM has bigger and better computers all the time but if they
are working from actually false data they cannot do their jobs.
Basically we have thrown out all of our
temperature data after over two centuries of collecting it! NB Quite a few
places in the world have continuous temperature records going back to the late
1600s that are not used by our weather gurus. The rainfall and wind data is
also suffering from similar unreliability, making future accurate predictions
well-nigh impossible. This is just not
science. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/20/parallel-temperature-data-except-for-cape-otway-lighthouse/
26-06-2024: Any other vaccine would have been banned after many fewer than these 325 confirmed (peer-reviewed) deaths: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/lancet-journal-study-finds-73-9-deaths-following/
25-06-2024: Good question: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/why_do_people_think_cleopatra_was_black.html
25-06-2024: Numbers 5 through 10 are still pretty sound though, surely? https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/welcoming_back_the_ten_commandments.html
25-06-2024:
25-06-2024: “We recall the immortal words of a fourth century bishop of Milan-- that would be St. Ambrose: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/when-in-rome-do-as-the-romans-do
23-06-2024: Hamas celebrating pride month: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/backing-the-wrong-horse.html
24-06-2024: No-one wants and EV: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/22/huge-percentage-of-ev-owners-want-to-go-back-to-normal-cars-study-finds/
24-06-2024: It had to happen: https://babylonbee.com/news/walt-disney-posthumously-fired-by-walt-disney-company-for-being-white-male
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.
· The mainstream media is your enemy.
· 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
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
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
16-06-2024: Buddhists on Islam: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/wisdom.html
16-06-2024: “If the bell tolls for
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
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
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
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 1/10th 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
I
acknowledge and welcome to modern
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
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
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
04-06-2024: Why
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
03-06-2024: 21 Facts About
03-06-2024: Has this ‘Old
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
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
24-05-2024: ‘
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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:
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
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:
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: "
11-05-2024: “But
arming
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
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
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
09-05-2024: Susie Linfield: “The Israelis pulled out of
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
We
had time for a quick look at
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
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
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:
30-03-2024: Where are the adults in the room? “It isn’t hard to picture an
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: “
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
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
25-03-2024: Snow in
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/
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
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
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
17-03-2024: Obviously if you expect students to learn
they must have discipline. Why did we ever go wrong on this. In
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
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
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
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
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,
10-03-2024: The worst government in
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
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
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’ (
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
18-02-2024: Paddling into History: Last weekend we
again completed one of our favourite sections on the
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
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
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
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
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
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 6th: 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
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
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
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
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
05-02-2024: How dangerous is
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
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
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
27-01-2024:
The ‘great replacement’ is no myth.
Beware
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
17-01-2024:
Meanwhile in
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
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
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:
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