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Bill Maher rant on America's biggest problem.
Bill Maher: Before I demonstrate how sadly easy it is to prove the dumbness that’s dragging us down, let me just say that ignorance has life-and-death consequences.
On the eve of the Iraq War, 70% of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. Six years later, 34% still did.
Or look at the healthcare debate going on now. At a recent town hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his congressman, “Keep your government hands off my Medicare,” which is kind of like driving cross-country to protest highways.
This country is like a college chick after two Long Island iced teas. We can be talked into anything, like wars, and talked out of anything, like healthcare. We should forget the town halls and replace them with study halls.
Listen to some of these statistics. A majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government or explain what the Bill of Rights is. Twenty-four percent couldn’t name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. More than two-thirds of Americans don’t know what’s in Roe v. Wade, and two-thirds don’t know what the Food and Drug Administration does.
Some of this stuff you should be able to pick up simply by being alive. You know, the way the Slumdog kid knew about cricket. But not here.
Nearly half of Americans don’t know that states have two senators, and more than half can’t name their congressman. And among Republican governors, only three got their wife’s name right on the first try.
People moan about taxes and spending, but they have no idea what their government spends money on. The average voter thinks foreign aid consumes 24% of our federal budget. It’s actually less than 1%.
A third of Republicans believe Obama is not a citizen, and a third of Democrats believe George Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which is an absurd sentence because it contains the words “Bush” and “knowledge.”
Sleep tight.
Sarah Palin says she would never apologize for America, even though a Gallup poll says 18% of us think the sun revolves around the Earth. No, they’re not stupid. They’re interplanetary Mavericks.
And I haven’t even brought up religion. But here’s one fun fact I’ll leave you with: Did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older religion than Christianity?
That’s right. Half of America looks at books called the Old Testament and the New Testament and cannot figure out which one came first.
I rest my case. Thank you.
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People genuinely don't understand this:
1. The global average IQ is 84. It's not the only factor but it's a major one.
2. Most successful ethnic groups have an average IQ of 100-105. The highest (Ashkenazi Jews) sit at about 107-112.
3. In order for a society to thrive, it needs to have an average IQ over 100. 103-105 or so seems to be the threshold.
At 103-105, you get peak England, the Scandinavian countries or peak Germany. At 100 you get France, and at 98 Spain.
The difference between global domination and also-ran is surprisingly small; just 2-3 IQ points. Another 4-5 and you're a basket case country like the Philippines or Bulgaria or modern Greece.
4. IQ can, within a population, shift solely through genetics, by 0.5-1.0 points per generation.
Social factors can magnify that effect by 5-7 points.
Consequently, the functional IQ of a population can change enough in one generation for a society to go from "world domination" to " basket case."
A more realistic outcome is that this can take 2 or 3 generations to happen. Well, that is what happened.
People often misinterpret the Flynn effect and think that IQs are rising but they're not. They're declining.
5. America is now too low IQ to maintain its position as world hegemon. More so, current birthrate trends have us rapidly entering not just "also ran" territory but "basket case."
The only reason we will stay on top is because we're absurdly rich compared to the rest of the world so we have a long way to fall before anyone catches us.
6. Successful countries become successful usually through a long process of breeding themselves into a higher IQ and then matching that with a social organization that maximizes it.
All it takes is one bad generation to destroy what took centuries to gain.
This is why today's Greeks aren't like the Greeks of golden age antiquity, and today's Romans aren't like the Romans of old.
7. The highest IQ populations today are both not reproducing but also replacing themselves with low IQ populations.
Even Israel is only 1/3 Ashkenazi with lower IQ groups making up the majority of the country. It is worth noting that the Haredi (the cohort with the highest total fertility rate) is about 80% Ashkenazi, but I have no available data on their average IQ.
My point is that IQ does not appear to be an evolutionary advantage in the modern age and as such, it isn't being selected for.
This suggests that we're in a race against decline. We need to solve the IQ problem through technology before we simply run out of smart people living in functioning societies.
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Someone shared this with me, it is the truth! 🙏🇺🇸❤️🌎🙏
The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races.
Last month I attended a training. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs.
I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video.
After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers. When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Muslim and asked:
'Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?'
There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, " Nonbelievers"
I responded, 'So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?'
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.'
He sheepishly replied, 'Yes.'
I then stated, 'Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine The Pope commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!'
The Muslim was speechless.
I continued, 'I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question:
Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?'
You could have heard a pin drop.
Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the 'Diversification' training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs.
In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the US. to elect the President.
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.
Just Copy & paste.
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How do I know the climate “crisis” is a scam?
Here are five reasons:
1️⃣ None of the politicians, celebrities, or “scientists” talking about it have changed their own lifestyles in any way. If they actually stopped using oil and gas products, I’d take them seriously. Actions speak louder than words.
2️⃣ Climate conferences still aren’t held on Zoom using their large meeting extensions. Instead these gremlins keep flying around the world lecturing us about shrinking our carbon footprints while doing nothing to shrink their own.
3️⃣ Wealthy alarmists are still living on or buying oceanfront property. If sea levels were rising at anything close to a catastrophic rate (instead of the gradual increase we actually see), they would be moving inland and banks would stop writing loans for those properties.
4️⃣ The same people never criticize China or India. They always have a ready list of excuses for why the world’s biggest and fastest-growing CO₂ emitters get a free pass to keep burning fossil fuels.
5️⃣ The only “solutions” they ever offer involve more government power. Higher taxes. EV mandates. Restrictions or bans on the energy sources they don’t like.
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Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green, with a slightly sore jaw for your trouble.
Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose, and it will tell you so for two days.
Eat acorns and you get tannins, a bitter mouth and a very long afternoon.
Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen with a view.
Eat nettles, thistles, gorse, rushes and heather and you get a mouth full of blood and not one calorie.
Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the sweepings the factory could not sell to a human at any price.
Now put the whole hillside in front of a cow.
She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a leather coat, on ground that will never grow a lettuce, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you were not issued.
The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a slope nobody can plough, and she walks up it herself.
She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is, and she does it while being told she is the problem.
She is eating the 90% of the planet's plants that you cannot. Nobody at the table was going to touch them.
Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the chewing.
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【衝撃】イーロン・マスク「世界中から批判されてもXは手放さない」その理由が考えさせられる。
記者「なぜそこまでXにこだわるんですか？」
イーロン「どういう意味だい？」
記者「買収してから批判ばかりじゃないですか」
イーロン「そうだね」
記者「政治家からも批判されている」
イーロン「うん」
記者「規制当局との対立もある」
イーロン「そうだね」
記者「正直、売却した方が楽じゃないですか？」
イーロン「なぜ？」
記者「テスラもSpaceXもあるでしょう？」
イーロン「あるね」
記者「わざわざ論争の中心にいる必要はないですよね？」
イーロン「でも、それで何が解決するんだ？」
記者「……え？」
イーロン「僕は自由に意見を交わせる場所が重要だと思っている」
記者「でも嫌な意見もありますよね？」
イーロン「もちろん」
記者「間違った意見もある」
イーロン「そうだね」
記者「だったら制限するべきでは？」
イーロン「どこまで制限する？」
記者「それは……」
イーロン「誰が正しい意見を決めるんだ？」
記者「……」
イーロン「自分が賛成する意見だけを守るのは簡単だ」
記者「はい」
イーロン「でも、反対意見が出てきたときは？」
記者「……」
イーロン「そこで初めて、言論の自由に対する考え方が試されるんじゃないかな」
これ考えさせられる。
もちろん言論の自由と誹謗中傷や違法な投稿への対応は別問題。
Xの運営方針についても賛否が分かれている。
ただイーロンが掲げる「自由な議論の場」という理想には一つの問いがある。
自分と違う意見をどこまで受け入れられるか。
自分に都合のいい意見だけを歓迎するのは簡単。
でも本当に難しいのは自分が不快に感じる意見と向き合うこと。
これはSNSだけじゃなく組織運営でも同じだと思う。
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The year is 1956. Your mother is expecting you, and her doctor smokes through the appointment. More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand, the adverts say, and he tells her a few a day will settle her nerves and keep the baby small for an easy birth.
The year is 1960. Your first proper shoes come from a shop with an X-ray machine in the corner. You slide your feet into the slot and watch your own toe bones wriggle, green and glowing, while the assistant checks the fit. You go back every time your feet grow.
The year is 1961. Your mother is expecting your sister and the sickness is bad. The chemist has a new tablet, advertised as completely safe in pregnancy. Your sister arrives the next year alongside 10,000 other babies whose mothers took it, and some of them arrive without arms.
The year is 1964. Three sore throats, so the tonsils come out, as they do for over a million children a year on both sides of the Atlantic. Twenty beds, and the promise of ice cream. Nobody asks what the tonsils were for. They were the immune system, and the operation never did much for the throats.
The year is 1972. You are sixteen and every car on earth runs on leaded petrol. The lead comes out of the exhaust and settles on the playground, the vegetable patch and the blood of every child walking to school. The men who put it in the petrol knew what it did to a brain in the 1920s. The ban arrives in your forties.
The year is 1981. Your mother's hands have gone stiff. The doctor has a new arthritis tablet with the biggest launch the drug industry has ever mounted. Two years later it is pulled on both sides of the Atlantic, with dozens of pensioners dead whose kidneys could not clear it. She gets off lightly: the sun burns her on it, and she spends a summer behind the curtains.
The year is 1991. Your father is diabetic, and the dietitian hands him a sheet. More than half his calories are to come from carbohydrate: bread, potatoes, pasta, cereal. His sugar goes up on it, so his insulin goes up with it, and his waist follows. He does as he is told for twenty years.
The year is 1998. Your back has gone. The doctor has a new opioid, and the rep carries a letter from a medical journal saying addiction on it is under 1%. The letter is five sentences long. The company pleads guilty twice, and by the second time more than half a million Americans are dead.
The year is 2002. Your knees hurt, and the doctor has a new pill that is kinder on the stomach. You take it for two years, the same two years the maker is sitting on its own heart data. It is withdrawn with as many as 140,000 heart attacks laid at its door. Your heart was fine. The man next door's was not.
The year is 2008. Your wife has a prolapse after three children, and the surgeon fits a strip of plastic mesh. Once the tissue grows through it, it cannot come out. Australia apologises to its women in 2018, America bans it in 2019, Britain apologises in 2020. Your wife gets hers by press release.
The year is 2026. You are seventy, and the new doctor has a screen and a number for everything. The meat on your plate is a hazard. The oil in the bottle is good for your heart. The injection is for life. He is the age the first doctor was when he lit a Camel in front of your mother, and every bit as sure.
Not one of them was a rogue. Every one was the standard of care, taught to the next doctor, printed on the leaflet, and handed to a family with no way to check it.
You have spent seventy years as the experiment. The results come out after you are gone, under somebody else's name, and the chair you are sitting in is where they recruit for the next one.
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THE ABSOLUTELY INSANE REWRITE OF THE CENTURY!
Australia’s taxpayer funded human rights watchdog (AHRC) has officially lost the plot. They are actually demanding we STOP prioritizing radical Islam in terror prevention and focus on, wait for it, the online “manosphere.”
Let’s do a quick reality check here: When was the last time the “manosphere” gunned down 15 people at Bondi Beach?
Oh, that’s right, NEVER.
Yet, the far left bureaucrats at the AHRC are genuinely trying to tell a parliamentary committee that podcasts and online gender grievances are a bigger, more urgent threat to your safety than literal religious extremism.
They want to completely scrap “belief and ideology” from the definition of terrorism. You cannot make this level of delusion up.
This is a direct spit in the face of reality:
Fact: Federal Police warned that 46% of radicals investigated recently were religiously motivated.
Fact: ASIO chief Mike Burgess explicitly stated after the horrific Bondi massacre that Islamic extremism remains the dominant terror threat to Australians.
But instead of listening to actual spy chiefs and cops, the progressive elites want to police memes, regulate climate “misinformation”, and pretend that gym bros on the internet are the true national security crisis.
The clown show is officially running the circus.
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British Politician Fires Back at Mehdi Hasan: “If Islam Is So Peaceful, Why Does Saudi Arabia Execute People for Apostasy?”
Speaker: My side of the argument is regularly told that we are demonising Islam and whipping up fear of Islam.
But let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam.
9/11. The London bombings. Madrid. Mumbai. Bali. Death for apostasy. Death for blasphemy. Death for adultery. Death for homosexuality. Gender discrimination. Child marriage. Beheadings. Imprisonment for being raped.
The murder of Theo van Gogh. Death threats. Sharia patrols. Polygamous marriages.
This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me.
We'll be told this is just the extreme fringe of Islam.
Well, look at Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and custodian of its holy sites.
People are executed for blasphemy and apostasy.
But apparently, that's the extreme fringe?
Calling Saudi Arabia the extreme fringe of Islam is like calling the Vatican the extreme fringe of Catholicism. Sorry, it just doesn't work.
Then we're told violent Muslims have misunderstood Islam.
Saudi Arabia has misunderstood. Iran has misunderstood. Yemen has misunderstood.
Has there ever been a more spectacularly misunderstood religion than Islam?
I'm constantly told that I need to respect Islam. But I'm under no greater obligation to respect Islam than any other belief.
I am under no obligation to make compromises with an ideology I simply don't see as peaceful.
Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence.
If I look around the world and see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state.
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Elon Musk was asked at a conference whether we might be living in a computer simulation. The audience expected a polite deflection or a joke. Instead he delivered the most unsettling answer any public figure has ever given to a philosophical question, and he delivered it with the calm of a man who has already accepted the conclusion.
He said: "The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following. 40 years ago we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. Even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. Then you just need to say, okay, let's imagine it's 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing in the evolutionary scale. Is it possible that civilization could create a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality? The answer is clearly yes."
Then he delivered the line that went viral: "So given that we're on that trajectory and games are becoming indistinguishable from reality, the probability of us being in base reality is one in billions."
The audience laughed nervously. The laugh was a defense mechanism. The argument was airtight and they could feel it. The progression from Pong to photorealism to indistinguishable simulation is not speculation. It is trajectory. The only variable is time. And the conclusion, if you follow the trajectory honestly, is that the number of simulated realities vastly exceeds the number of base realities. Which means we are almost certainly inside one.
He then added a line that nobody quotes but that reveals more than the famous one: "Either we're going to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will cease to exist. Those are the only two options."
The answer was not a thought experiment to him. It was a probability assessment. The same man who calculates the probability of rocket failures and production timelines applied the same calculation to the nature of reality and arrived at the conclusion that reality is probably not real. The tone was not dramatic. It was the tone of a man reading a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet said: base reality is statistically unlikely.
The most disturbing aspect is not the answer. It is that the man who gave it continued building rockets and cars and neural interfaces as if the answer changes nothing about what you should do. If reality is a simulation, the correct response is apparently the same as if it isn't: build. The simulation, if it exists, contains everything he cares about. The question of whether it's "real" is less important than the question of what he does inside it. The philosopher asks whether we're in a simulation. The engineer builds regardless. Both questions are correct. Only one produces a rocket.
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On Sunday 1 November, a husband and father to two young children was allegedly attacked with a baseball bat outside his home in Torquay, Victoria, after confronting two people who were damaging One Nation signs on his property.
He is now in hospital with multiple facial fractures and bleeding on the brain. He faces a long recovery.
He runs his own business and is the family's only income earner. While he is recovering, the family has no money coming in. His work vehicle was also badly damaged in the alleged attack.
His family should be able to focus on his recovery without the added worry of lost income, medical costs and everyday bills.
We are keeping his name private to protect him and his family.
All funds raised will go directly to the family to help cover these expenses and support his recovery.
I will be donating personally, and encourage others to please do the same. Any contribution, large or small, will help. If you cannot donate, please consider sharing this page.
Thank you for standing with this father and his family.
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TAXPAYER FUNDED DEPRAVITY: Peta Credlin exposes the Albanese Government’s latest disgrace.
Quietly in April, the Albanese government spent roughly $10 million of taxpayer money launching StopItNow Australia, a website aimed at would be pedophiles.
It doesn’t just offer help. It normalises sexual fantasies about children.
From the site itself:
“Don’t beat yourself up. For many people, it simply does not feel realistic to never have sexual fantasies about children or to end masturbating to the thought of children”
It tells users that replacing a child in a fantasy with an adult “may not work for you,” so instead of changing the sexual interest, the task is to “learn how to best manage your sexual thoughts, feelings and fantasies”
Fantasies about kids are just “a wave” that will pass. Advice includes going for a walk, doing a puzzle, and closing your laptop.
It even offers “compassion and self acceptance” because having a sexual interest in children “can feel lonely” and “society doesn’t understand your situation”
It’s hard to believe what I was reading was actually funded by us the taxpayer.
A linked module notes that some people want to change an attraction to children, then immediately undercuts it by comparing any attempt at change to historical efforts to alter homosexual interests.
Where is the flashing light warning that acting on these urges is a serious criminal offence? Where is the clear, urgent direction to seek real professional help before a child is harmed?
The government is defending this as part of a broader “strategy to reduce abuse”
Opposition child protection spokesman Senator Matt O’Sullivan said:
“The protection of children must come first, child sexual abuse is reprehensible and criminal. Anyone at risk of offending needs immediate, unequivocal professional support, not taxpayer funded self acceptance modules”
Credlin is correct. This website is wrong and depraved.
I do not support my taxes paying for this and It must come down.
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A BRILLIANT POST SHARE IT EVERYWHERE
Many years ago, Australia was a wonderfully relaxed place. A bit laid back, laconic even, and sure, we had political and religious differences with each other and there were some minor isolated racial tensions (Vietnamese crims, and Lebanese gangs etc) but on the whole, we mostly got along with each other.
Kids gave as good as they got, teenagers were teenagers and young people made mixed racial marriages and had babies, precious babies. We had sporting heroes who did us proud and as a country, we punched above our weight around the world – in almost every endeavour.
In 2007, we lost our way, when incivility raised its head as a result of the Rudd/Gillard Labor years.
In late 2015, the Conservatives, after winning back government, then betrayed its supporters by backstabbing Tony Abbott and replacing him with Malcolm Turnbull, the most destructive, socialist Liberal leader in Australia’s history. This set the tone for where we are now. It’s one thing for a politician to be either a socialist or a conservative, we accept that and manage it, but when a Liberal Party Prime Minister pretends he is a conservative, but underneath is really a socialist, then his true character is revealed, and the damage has been done. His betrayal stung loyal conservatives and allowed Labor into government due to the fracturing of the Liberals. The blame for Labor destroying the country, started with that treachery.
The reality is, that this country’s confidence has degenerated to its lowest point and is in dire straits; politically, socially, morally and economically.
The Labor Party in power in 2026, is the most incompetent, inept, dishonest and immoral government we have ever experienced. Whitlam was a boy scout in comparison. The incompetence of this Labor government, and its Prime Ministers deliberate propensity, to deceive and lie to avoid any responsibility for anything tells you all you need to know.
The first thing any decent elected governments duty is to protect its citizens.
Rudd and Gillard allowed unfettered boat people.
The Liberals after Abbott and then Labor since 2022, have failed miserably on border protection and wickedly, have betrayed us and left us weak, defenceless, and divided.
Australia’s Diggers, its sportsmen and sportswomen, its creators, its inventors, its academic achievements, and hard-working citizens were admired around the world, yet today we are seen as second rate. Why?
These last ten years of economic destruction, and moral sapping, social division; has been caused by two deceitful politicians – Malcolm Turnbull initially, and now Anthony Albanese.
Morrison was just a bumbling fool.
Australia today, is defenceless, and spiritless; we suffer from social disharmony, we are religiously and racially divided, we see hopelessness, and we are economically, socially and morally bankrupt.
These past four and a half years, and all because of just one vulgar, deceitful and immoral person, since I refuse to describe him as a man, which demonstrably, he is not. Men do not behave like this grub.
His total dishonesty and his vulgarity, earns him the distinction of being the most despised politician in Australia’s political and social history.
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Anthony Albanese has done something no Australian prime minister has ever done before.
He's taken a free trade agreement — a document that is supposed to be about buying and selling — and he's stuffed it full of climate ideology until it's barely recognisable as trade at all.
This isn't a free trade deal. It's a climate agreement wearing a trade deal as a disguise.
Here's what his own government's documents admit. DFAT published a paper titled "Benefits for Trade, Environment and Climate," and buried in it is this line: for the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia has made a binding commitment to implement the obligations under the Paris Agreement.
Not a reference. Not a nod. A binding commitment. And the same document says the agreement can be suspended over serious violations of climate obligations.
So if a future Australian government — any government, Labor or Liberal — decides the Paris targets are too expensive, too punishing, too destructive to our economy, Europe can drag us before a dispute panel and suspend the deal. That's not sovereignty. That's a leash.
And Albanese knows exactly what he's doing. Ursula von der Leyen stood in our own Parliament and said she was proud to have made decarbonisation a defining pillar of this agreement. A defining pillar. In a trade deal. The woman running Europe didn't hide it. She celebrated it. And our Prime Minister sat there and smiled.
Now let's talk about what these targets actually mean for ordinary Australians. The 2030 target is a forty-three percent cut below two thousand and five levels. The Climate Change Authority itself admits emissions need to more than double their current rate of reduction to get there in four years.
The Institute of Public Affairs ran the numbers and found that meeting the twenty thirty-five target of sixty-two to seventy percent would require the equivalent of a two hundred and ninety billion dollar tax burden over a decade. That's not a rounding error. That's a generation of wealth confiscated in the name of a theory that Europe itself is quietly walking back as its own industries collapse.
And here's the kicker that should make every Australian furious. The European Union has told us point blank — once negotiations are done, they're done.
Don Farrell repeated it. There is no reopening. There is no amendment. Whatever is written in that text is written in stone, and it binds not just Albanese but every prime minister who comes after him.
This is a man who can't win a debate on climate policy at the ballot box, so he's outsourcing it to Brussels.
He's taking the most contentious, most divisive policy in Australian politics and locking it into an international treaty so that even if the people vote him out, the ideology survives him. That's not governance. That's entrenchment.
Why is any of this in a trade deal in the first place? Because the far left has learned that you can't sell climate destruction directly to voters, so you smuggle it in through the back door of agreements nobody reads.
You attach it to something people want — cheaper wine, more beef exports — and hope they don't notice the poison pill. And when the Coalition objects, Albanese calls them nativist and protectionist. He turns legitimate sovereignty concerns into a culture war so he doesn't have to answer the actual question: why should a future elected Australian government be unable to change its own energy policy without asking permission from Europe?
But before we get to the treaty, let's look at what the green agenda has already done to this country on its own. Because the damage isn't theoretical. It's on every power bill in Australia right now.
Household electricity bills are up thirty-five percent since the start of twenty twenty-two. Gas is up forty-nine percent.
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AUSTRALIAS “FUTURE FUND” IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SLUSH FUND FOR BUREAUCRATS.
IF IT’S MEANT TO BE A SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND THEN IT SHOULD BE FOR ALL OF US.
This week it was revealed that there are now 17 bureaucrats paid over a million dollars each to manage your taxpayer dollars that will fund the very same bureaucrats pension.
While hard working Aussie battlers have their pension capped at around $30,000 subject to a miserable income and assets test, elite bureaucrats will be paid much more with no means testing whatsoever.
As per figures released by the Finance Department the cost of the bureaucratic gold plated pension scheme was going to be $334 billion for just 164,000 bureaucrats, or just over $2 million each.
Western democracy began when the people rejected the hereditary rights of the aristocrats, yet here we are in the 21st century with unelected bureaucrats enriching themselves at our expense.
There is very little between the feudal aristocracy and the unelected bureaucracy.
People First is the only political party that is prepared to end this massive rort by means testing retired bureaucrats just like the rest of us and use the savings to find income tax cuts.
To help us put the People First sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au
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“The high earnings of some senior public sector executives have dominated a number of Senate Estimates hearings this week, with revelations of massive salaries and even payouts and bonuses.
There are now 17 public servants from a single agency, the Future Fund Management Agency, earning more than a million dollars a year, with one being paid $2.2 million (including incentive bonuses) in the last financial year.
There were a mere 11 executives earning more than a million at the Future Fund the previous year, but they’ve now been joined by another six top-earning executives.”
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“FUTURE MADE IN AUSTRALIA” ?
As Chris ‘Blackout’ Bowen rests up ready to jet off to Turkey after having spent $20 million on his failed Fijian climate junket held in 5-star tropical resorts – back in the heart of his Western Sydney electorate, Fantastic Furniture is shutting its last onshore manufacturing facility, which will cost about 100 employees their livelihoods, as it plans to relocate production to China and Vietnam because of the increasing costs of manufacturing in Australia.
Meanwhile, as Vietnam has 8.5 GW of new coal-fired power stations under development and China 533 GW – as Bowen and Albanese plan to shut down Australia’s remaining 20 GW of coal-fired power stations – they ludicrously boast about “Future Made in Australia.”
With Albanese’s "Future Made in Australia" - we are headed to be a nation that won’t even be able to manufacture a can of peas.
Never in our nation’s history have we had such a clueless lot of incompetents destroying Australia to such an extent.If this Labor regime is re-elected at the next election, giving them power to at least mid-2031, the Australia that we once knew and loved will be irreparably destroyed.
The next election is our last chance to save Australia.
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Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
Yes, created by God.
Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
"Yes, sir," replied the student.
The professor asked :
If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
Professor, is cold a thing?
What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees
Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.
Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness.
We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
Sir. does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
To this, the student answered:
Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light.
The student's name was Albert Einstein.
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.
“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”
The shepherd cut the rope.
The next night, three lambs were gone.
Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.
An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”
The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”
That’s the lesson.
Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.