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BREAKING: Iran announces they will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are removed from power...
This is coming months before the midterms; at this rate, Republicans will lose the House AND Senate
He’s going to move the capital to Jerusalem.
NEW: Trump tells Axios he's approaching major crossroads in Iran war
"It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me."
axios.com/2026/09/17/trump-a…
It’d hilarious for AUKUS if auS decided to buy Japanese subs as well.
US weighs buying warships from Japan, South Korea to counter China s.nikkei.com/4iqdDHI
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The last week has seen both Anthony Albanese exposed for a organising taxpayer funded grant to a golf club in his electorate, and Katherine King the Infrastructure Minister, accept a lifetime membership of Qantas despite the inherent conflict of Interest.
This isn’t the first time that these two have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
In late 2024 I tried to obtain a copy of the business case for the Federal Government grant of $100 million to the NSW Government for the upgrade of Avoca Road which was close to Albanese’s newly acquired beach house.
I moved a motion passed by the Senate that asked the government for the business case to justify spending $100 million on Avoca Rd, a road that leads to Albanese's beach house.
The government replied that NSW had done the business case.
I then moved another motion passed by the Senate that asked for the documentation between the Federal and NSW State Government in regard to the funding of Avoca Road.
Catherine King the Infrastructure Minister replied:
"The release of correspondence relating to discussions between the Australian and NSW Governments on projects funded under the Infrastructure Investment Program (IIP) would constitute a risk to Commonwealth-State relations and therefore will not be provided as part of this request."
(See documents in comments).
The refusal to release these documents is a disgrace and a slap in the face to the Senate who requested the Minister release the documents.
Furthermore it only lends credence to the view held by many that Albanese has done this to impress his new girlfriend, now wife.
If the business case was above board what has the Government got to hide?
Clearly Albanese has abused his power and needs to go.
If you want to clean up corruption in politics then please sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au
Replying to @RaccoonHKG
There's 2 groups in HK. Former house slaves and field slaves.
The house slaves LOVED the British as they got civil service jobs and apartments and much better treatment.
The field slaves were treated like crap so hate the british.
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Vibe hardware is here.
I gave Astra my credit card and asked for a Teenage Engineering-style mini DJ controller.
It generated a concept image, sourced parts, read Chinese datasheets, built a CAD model, ordered everything, then made a Blender animation showing how to assemble it.
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It’s often said that there’s no biomarker for ME/CFS, Long Covid, Post Vaccine Syndrome, PSSD, Lyme Disease, etc.
I strongly disagree. However, it helps to have the right data and tools to visualise it.
To help people explore the Born Free disease model and better understand the connections between the minerals deficiencies, metal toxicities and disease model processes, I've added 10 random example pairs of Oligoscan (corrected, skin minerals + toxic metals) + Theriome Aristotle Plus data (296 metabolites) to the Metabolic Pathway Overlay tool.
bornfree.life/learn/metaboli…
Some common patterns to observe across these patient profiles:
1) Elevated toxic metals, with mineral and electrolyte deficiencies, relating to pathway alterations.
2) A reduced total NADP/NADPH pool size and impaired conversion of NADP to NADPH (low NADPH), with broad effects. The reported exception (#4) is where aluminium is not elevated.
3) Constraints on glycolysis and glycogen synthesis, gluconeogenesis.
4) Altered pyruvate and/or lactate levels, ratio.
5) Constraints on the pentose phosphate pathway and downstream PRPP synthesis.
6) Impairments in purine and pyrimidine metabolism, Cell Danger Response.
7) Oxidative stress.
8) TCA cycle alterations and constraints.
9) Issues with NAD+ synthesis and redox.
10) Reduced carnitine synthesis and associated carnitine-shuttle constraints.
11) Elevated glutamate relative to low GABA, except where severe induced malnutrition constrains glutamate synthesis.
12) Issues with glutathione metabolism.
13) Issues involving magnesium and Mg-ATP.
14) Urea-cycle and nitric oxide synthase impairments, with potential effects on vascular tone.
15) Dysregulated neurotransmitter synthesis and degradation.
16) Impaired conversion of choline to betaine.
17) Impaired methylation and associated SAMe, glycine, and cysteine metabolism.
18) Impaired creatine synthesis.
Importantly, you can see coherence between the tests and inferred causality for pathway alterations.
When you consider these metabolic alterations in specific cells / tissues - brain, liver, kidneys, thyroid, immune, etc., it becomes much easier to understand how mitochondrial dysfunction creates systemic impacts and a progressive cascade.
Replying to @NoelWhittaker
With fixed distributions, beneficiaries are effectively owners of a unit trust, no? Won't this remove any asset protection that discretionary trusts provide?
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Replying to @Kaldaris_ @FreedmFightr1
It’s not my ego - it’s cold hard facts. One Nation are just the third arm of the uniparty.
Another globalist puppet that you’re too brainwashed to see
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The question is: what does the average taxpayer get from this?
I'm seeing their living standards get worse, not better - so clearly the cost of those extra hands isn't delivering a worthwhile return.
On the contrary, administrative roles are more likely to hinder productivity than to boost it - which means we're paying people to suppress our prosperity.
Labor has added 28 public servants every day. Is that too much? afr.com/policy/economy/labor…
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Apparently “far right” now means wanting reliable and affordable energy, immigration at a level our housing and infrastructure can absorb, lower taxes and a government that lives within its means. These aren’t extremist ideas. They’re ordinary questions of how competent government is supposed to operate. One Nation is increasingly occupying the political space others abandoned: controlled immigration, energy security, lower taxation and smaller, more accountable government.
Call it whatever you like, I’ll continue to call it common sense.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have reacted after One Nation secured its first seat in WA, labelling the minor party ‘dangerous’ and ‘divisive’.
STORY IN COMMENTS
thewest.com.au/politics/fede…
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Yet more shameful example evidence from RNZ of why Kiwis are so hopelessly BluePilled on China … video footage of the disaster all over state and social media here - example attached.
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That trillion dollar IPO is looking less likely by the day...
If Thomson Reuters can do this, any large company can, which means the enterprise model for all the big AI cos is largely a bust.
That's all their cash flow gone, so good luck paying for all those datacentres... 😉
🦔Thomson Reuters just built its own AI model for about $40 million over two years. The final training run cost $450,000. They started with Qwen, an open-source model from China's Alibaba, and trained it on their own legal and news content from Westlaw, Practical Law, and Reuters. The company said the move is about reducing its dependence on Anthropic. Their CTO compared paying for outside AI to being a permanent tenant versus owning the building. Enterprise customers broadly have been cutting spending on OpenAI and Anthropic and switching to cheaper alternatives.
My Take
I covered the DeepSeek pricing collapse a few months ago and said the frontier labs would have a hard time defending premium API pricing once open-source got good enough. Thomson Reuters just did exactly what I expected someone to do. They grabbed a free model, trained it on their own stuff, and now they're pulling back from Anthropic. $40 million, done. Anthropic charges that in API fees from a handful of big customers in a year.
The $190 to $200 billion revenue projection Anthropic is selling to IPO investors assumes companies like Thomson Reuters keep paying. They just stopped. And Thomson Reuters put their model on Hugging Face for academics to use, which means the playbook is now public. I think the frontier API business has maybe two or three years before most large companies with good data figure out they can do this themselves, and the ones who move first are going to pressure the ones still paying full price to ask why.
Hedgie🤗
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