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Statistics
Actual highest seaice extend in the last 20 years
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Really? http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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Goes to show the accuracy ( or lack of it) in the sea ice estimates!
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Particularly NSDIC. Politically driven you bet.
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It’s the same dataset, only removing all preceding years with higher sea ice extent to create a misleading impression. Here’s what the full interactive dataset actually looks like: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
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>”It’s the same dataset”
Then that’s a problem because the actual dataset data for the graphs disagrees with both graphs:
Sea Ice Data
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/sea-ice-tools/
1. All daily (single day and five-day trailing average) extent values in one file, updated daily (Sea_Ice_Index_Daily_Extent_G02135_v3.0.xlsx)
Day 114 2013 – 2024
14.054 13.762 13.951 13.493 13.467 13.414 13.221 13.528 13.578 13.761 13.892 13.972 (Apr 23rd 2024)
Charctic Day 114 (Simon): 14.012
Charctic derived Day 114 (Krishna): 14.05ish
So going by actual data Day 114 2024 (Apr 23rd) is highest for Day 114 in the last 10 years – not 20 years as per Krishna.
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Climate Reanalyzer’s graph conforms to Charctic (Simon’s, not Krishna’s) for the Arctic but again the data on the plot disagrees with the Daily source data.
The reason is Charctic and Reanalyzer plot the 5 day trailing average – NOT the actual daily data.
Still doesn’t explain the wildly different plots – Krishna vs Simon – of the same data (but see next comment).
The source data is NSIDC Sea Ice Index V3 which can be obtained in 2 different layouts on 2 different spreadsheets.
The source .xlsx file linked previous provides tabs for firstly the Daily Extent and secondly the 5 Day Extent. There’s several other tabs after e.g. Anomaly.
The data for Day 114 (23rd April) is:
13.972 Actual Daily Extent
14.012 5 Day Trailing Average Extent (Graphed)
The other layout can be obtained via the documentation page:
V3 Documentation
https://nsidc.org/data/g02135/versions/3#anchor-data-access-tools
Scroll down to:
User Guide
Sea Ice Index, Version 3 User Guide [hotlink]
https://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/g02135-v003-userguide_1_1.pdf
On page 28:
Access Files
To access the daily data, click on the links below.
• North: https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv
• South: https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/S_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv
There’s no 5 Day trailing average data, just the actual Daily Extent:
04, 23, 13.925,
The User Guide says this re graph plotting on page 29:
Actual daily is very meaningful over a decade of data for the same day each year as for Day 114 previous.
Next: The 5 Day trailing average data.
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>”The data for Day 114 (23rd April) is:”
5 Day is Day 115, not 114. Doesn’t make much difference.
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5 Day trailing average data from source file.
Day 115 2013 – 2024
14.109 13.795 13.91 13.539 13.549 13.509 13.241 13.525 13.558 13.786 13.944 14.012
I said 2024 was highest in 10 years previously but actually 11 years.
The reason for the difference in graphs – Krishna vs Simon – is that Simon’s link is the default graph where all years are hidden except 2024 and 2012 are switched on (see side bar: Hide all years is the default plus 2024, 2012).
Click Show all years then switch 2024 on and off to see where it is in the spaghetti.
To replicate Krishna’s graph 2013 – 2024 on Charctic click Hide all years. This leaves 2024 switched on.
Switch on 2023 – 2014.
This replicates Krishna’s graph for the last 11 years and yes 2024 is highest. But Krishna is wrong to say highest in last 20 years, it is 11 years. 2013 was higher than 2024.
Switch to Show all years then switch on the years closest but just above 2024 and the year below:
2003 14.206
2002 14.112
2000
1997
1996
1995
1990 14.203 (2024 14.012)
1989 13.909
So it is not as if 2024 is a catastrophe when it comes in between 1989 and 1990 on day 115.
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You are using a three week old graph. The one from Krishna is much more up to date so the sea ice seems to be holding up well.
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Tonyb – No, see #1.1.2.1 above. Neither graph is a plot of the actual data i.e. something wrong with Charctic tool.
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Charctic tool is OK, except plots 5 Day trailing average – NOT Daily data (see upthread). And see upthread to reconcile Krishna’s and Simon’s graphs.
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Either way, it doesn’t seem like the ice is vanishing… or from the Antarctic either. Much ado about nothing.
I think we are like a bunch of kids who have just learned to measure things, lots of astounding accuracy but no adult understanding of what the measurements mean.
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We were told it would be ice free by now.
Children won’t know what it’s like to be struck by an iceberg.
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No cryospheric ice for 90 percent of Earth’s geological history. How did the planet manage?
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KP >”Either way, it doesn’t seem like the ice is vanishing… or from the Antarctic either. Much ado about nothing”
Yes, by the time a hysterical article is printed the situation has changed radically.
Example published 2 days ago but content much earlier:
‘Unprecedented,’ ‘Gobsmacked’, ‘Unbelievable’: Changes in Antarctica’s sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/unprecedented-gobsmacked-unbelievable-changes-in-antarcticas-sea-ice-could-have-dramatic-impacts-says-climate-scientist-edward-doddridge
But 2024 is now about 1.0 million km2 higher than same time 2023 and on a steeper trajectory:
Daily Sea Ice Extent (Show Southern Hemisphere)
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/
Inquiring minds look at the real-time data and laugh at the hysterical articles. Well, mine does but I’m sure others do too.
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A classic case of only supplying half the information by the NSIDC, giving a false impression. The northern sea ice extent show by the Danish Meteorological Society (ocean.dmi.uk) clearly shows the 2024 Arctic ice extent higher than preceding years. But the NSIDC graph carefully excludes the data from the last three years, giving the false impression that the Arctic sea ice is lower, but in fact it is higher.
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And the graph format you have chosen to show us Simon, hides the last few years, only showing the worst case. Why did you do that? Why weren’t you prepared to show us how this year is proceeding compared to the last few years? I’m really sick of folks only giving half the story to distort the truth.
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‘The atmospheric circulation pattern for March 2024 featured a strong pressure gradient across Fram Strait, likely promoting strong winds from the north and therefore strong sea ice export out of the Arctic.’
Wind driven sea ice export and not boiling seas.
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Feels like it, here in N Scotland’s Inner MorayFIrth. Been coldest Late( or all ) APRIL that we can recall & Hearsay from elderly Neighbours , years ago, that 1947 was frozen well into MAY – but then it turned into a “topper of a Summer” and crops were as good as could have been expected.
As I’ve been commenting for some time now on various Blogs: Where does all this cold come from, if the Arctic is melting and the earth on fire.
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Haven’t you hear of “Global Warming” – sorry “Global Boiling”?
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It’s been really bad locally, even the road got blocked yesterday:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://static4.depositphotos.com/1001069/373/i/450/depositphotos_3730262-stock-photo-three-melting-ice-cubes.jpg&opi=89978449&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjT69qK9duFAxU5mlYBHZmbC5sQ5hMIBQ&usg=AOvVaw22ndWswWdJJLoUJn9wG6rA
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Don’t worry – it will be adjusted as what happened with the DMI data in Dec, 2021.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/sea-ice-data-tampering-at-dmi/
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“Febuary 24th 1917—The stunt was over. I wish words were eyes and ears and feelings. We travelled east all day. Cleopatra’s old camping ground awoke to the rumbling of chariot wheels—eighteen pounders! The desert became harder. Excitement rippled among us. We were only a portion of the Desert Column, the New Zealnd Brigade and the Second Light Horse Brigade, and of course our little mascots—the guns. Presently from the screen away out in front floated a wild shout. Our hands itched to our rifles; we listened for the burst of shell and the scream of shrapnel. Men in the screen stood in their stirrups; they turned and waved, pointing excitedly. Surely they must see the Turkish cavalry! We rode on, curious as possible. Presently some shouts from the head of the column—men were standing in their stirrups, pointing across the desert. Our horses pressed on. Then we saw them. Scarlet poppies! Wild flowers and scarlet poppies. They might have been born of the very love of Anthony and Cleopatra: we thought them as wonderful as if they had been. Could this really be the end of the everlasting desert! “
Ion Idriess and the Light Horse, moving up to Khan Yunis, out of the Sinai, and into Palestine, in 1917. From ‘The Desert column’, his diary of Gallipoli, and the desert campaigns 1915 to 1918. It has recently been republished.
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Khan Yunis is now back in the news, for an entirely different reason…
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On the subject of Anzac Day – today – it is noticeable and highly significant that the Google header is not commemorating this most auspicious day in Australia, just as they did not commemorate Australia Day. These left leaning tossers can celebrate Diwali or Ramadan or even Save the Disabled Lesbian Whales Day, but patriotism, pride in your national heritage and history must be erased – because you’re a bunch of white colonialists, eh?
Gary S., proud Scottish, English and Scandinavian man from Corieltauvi country.
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And Touche — about 3 seconds after I turned off the computer last night I realized I meant to add Anzac to the header…
Fixed.
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“The widespread and persistent use of Midazolam in UK suggest a possible policy of systemic euthanasia.”
The curious case of of certain unpopular opinions becoming true but remaining unpopular.
Maybe certain COVID treatments terminated more unwanted by the WEF carbon based lifeforms than COVID.
Like maybe Midazolam.
Which apparently works well to purpose when combined with morphine.
Dr. John Campbell
Midaz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cqo9V2MzM
I think they don’t really care if we know.
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And in Canada euthanasia is offered as a standard medical “treatment” option.
And they want to expand the program even more.
Does anyone not see the overall plan?
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Yes I do – Cloward Piven in its final stage, neocon total global control, depopulation of the weak, WW3 to take over Russian resources.
Why does it feel like everyone’s nodding yes but just don’t understand, and going around in circles????
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Sorry David, meant green.
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I wish data were available to show the difference in outcomes between elderly people with Covid who stayed at home and treated themselves (or were treated at home by their GP) versus those who were hospitalised. We might uncover yet another uncomfortable truth.
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American data supposedly shows 94% of their covid victims died in hospital. Repeated several times in the book, “What the Nurses Saw’, but I’ll have to go through it again to see the source.
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Some of the vaccine dissident medicos believe that the incorrect use of ventilators in the ER wards was responsible for a lot of fatalities that should not have occurred. Remdesevir and Paxlovid – the anti virals of choice – were in many cases harmful, and mostly useless.
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So would it be fair to say that only 6% of those ALLEGED Covid deaths were among those who stayed at home? Or is it simply what we already know – that almost everybody got Covid and, no matter what the actual cause of death, they were classified as Covid deaths just because they tested positive when they got run over by that truck and died in A&E?
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I rate as elderly, and I’ve had Covid-19 for 2 weeks now, and I really liked it!
Would have again!
Uncle Mungo’s Covid-19 chilli sauce that is. 😆
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You have all this going on and the Fentanyl crisis in the US yet various US States still “struggle” to work out how to effectively perform capital punishment. They are very perverse game players.
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War – seems to be ever present around the world.
If humans were smart we would stop it.
Are wars fuelled by corruption and greed?
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Wha … no …
it is about saving Democracy.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/24/house-sgt-at-arms-threatens-gop-rep-to-delete-video-of-dems-waving-ukraine-flags-or-else-1454793/
Every single penny will go into the pocket of a saved democrat somewhere wherever Democracy is being saved.
You KK , of all people, with a close interest is saving the weather, should understand the cost of saving stuff.
If a beach front estate happens to be purchased here or there, so be it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk
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Humanity’s rather widespread urge for power – rather like some drugs, it feels good for the ego, and more gets to feel even better. “Absolute power…..”
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I would suggest that it benefits the the country with the largest military/industrial complex. Keep ’em rolling. The wars that is. Particularly proxy ones.
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UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-study-gay-couples-at-greater-risk-from-climate-change/
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1. Gay couples at greater risk from climate change.
2. There are more gay couples than ever before.
3. Ergo: the risk of climate change must be reducing.
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I beg to differ – Bring it on baby!
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The number of gay couples in an area is a marker for climate change risk. Really?
Do gay couples cause climate change or is gayness a measure of local climate?
More likely, the study failed properly to control the stratified population variables.
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Nature has way of weeding out..
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Nature isn’t the force at work here..
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The “Office of the eSafety Commissioner” (censorship office) was set up by the fake conservative Liberal Party, loved by the Labor faction of the Uniparty, and is run by a pro-censorship activist, Julia Inman Grant.
Did you know Albanese spent $40,000 of taxpayer money sending Grant to the WEF in Davos to indulge her censorship fantasy? I reckon I could get to Davos for a lot less than $40,000.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/40000-of-taxpayers-money-spent-on-online-content-moderators-trip-to-wef-5634275
In the following short video the censor is at the WEF in Davos and says how she believes freedom of speech needs to be “recalibrated”.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/h96g176WnqY
Concerning the terrorist stabbing of the priest in Sydney, the subject of the latest censorship notice, the priest himself doesn’t want it taken down.
How dare Grant tell us what we can and can’t watch or read. And no doubt this is only the beginning. Don’t forget they are trying to extend it to so-called “medical misinformation” and all other areas of human discussion and inquiry. And no doubt scientific discussion such as this blog.
And if it was not for extensive censorship of the truth during the covid lockups far fewer people would have died.
This is my submission about the “misinformation” censorship bill (not related to the present case) where I document many forms of misinformation- from the Australian Government.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
Also see the following in relation to the present case:
“LISTEN: Avi Yemini corrects 3AW ‘eSafety expert’ on terror video ban misinformation”
https://www.rebelnews.com/avi_yemini_sets_3aw_host_straight_on_esafety_video_ban
Even the 3AW commentator agrees with Avi.
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Here’s a Yanks thoughts on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCvbpyp124
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Excellent Hanrahan, thanks for sharing.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13343185/Elon-Musk-vs-Australias-eSafety-Commissioner-Rogue-Senator-posts-church-stabbing-video-brutal-message-cyber-censor.html
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More on Australian censorship and the Chief Censor.
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Where are the calls to ban all knives?? It always happened with guns!
Maybe the actual dead & injured are not that important, its all about censoring the net..
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Ban metal sales, grinders, saws, any sort of fabrication tool or method too to stop people making their own.
We’re already the worst nanny state on Earth.
If a criminal steals a cop’s handgun and commits a crime, what will they do then?
There are items that seem totally innocuous and wouldn’t raise an eyebrow, but if I explained just a bit…
I have a few just in anticipation of future events.😉
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As somebody cleverer than me said, “If we outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.”
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The thin edge of the wedge.
The Orwellian named “e-Safety Commissioner” starts with a knife attack by a soldier of the Religon of Peace but where does such sensorship end.
People voted to allow pillow-biters to get “married” and now we have children being indoctrinated and mutilated in the name of “gender identity”.
Once the genie has been let out of the bottle it is impossible to put it back in.
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Apparently two of the victims in the Bondi attack were security guards and from your religion of peace. Stabbed while trying to prevent further stabbings.
Here is the church event, play at .5 speed. The priest who was also stabbed was the last one there?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XPGq8ZpLsiUN/
The pillow-biting event was not a vote, it was a referendum>plebiscite>opinion, or in your opinion would you let the government have an opinion for you.
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I voted “NO” at the pillow-biting Referendun becuase I knew it would be the thin edge of the wedge
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From David’s article:
Power mad megalomaniac in other words.
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Latest evidence on Planet X (the ninth planet after Pluto’s dethroning), the large solar system planet whose existence is suspected but hasn’t yet been proven.
https://youtu.be/BT8kM6pZ9YA
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I find the idea of Planet X fascinating. NASA released a paper some years ago talking about it. Planet X is sometimes associated with the Black Sun that can be seen on some Masonic Tracing Boards. Notions of the Black Sun heavily impacted political ideologies during World War II, with leaders from both factions subscribing to such beliefs.
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My money is on Planet X to be Altair IV.
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I’ve been developing some sympathy for those that postulate that we live in a simulation.
Mostly because of the Webb telescope.
We had the ‘consensus science’ of the Big Bang, and whoops, we discover there are fully formed galaxies that aren’t supposed to be fully formed under the consensus theory.
I’m given to understand that the expansion that was once slowing down eventually to reverse, then was accelerating, is now slowing down again.
It is as if as the players progress deeper into the game, the background simulated spacescape is refreshed.
And fails at consistency because background consistency is not essential to the game participants experience.
This could also explain the Fermi Paradox.
Perhaps there is looming forced software update, which after, as per usual, I can expect access to most of my functions will become difficult unless I can learn a new pattern of clicks..
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Warning – Government Underground – Something Big is Coming – China Hoarding Material
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90% of Chinese factories facing closure
https://youtu.be/A0FyqCEfD0E?si=0fprfvHjgbZ6KYZv
Massive oversupply, demand is drying up.
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Scott Ritter: Russia has Demilitarized NATO and Putin is Exposing the Truth
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Australia has now fallen.
Australian Servicemen and women died in vain.
Australia is now a totalitarian Communist Country with a Uniparty.
ANZAC day is a relic of the past and the time has come to put it to bed.
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Yep, they fought for freedom and now we have Schwab, the WEF and lapdog anti-Australia politicians.
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Just returned from the Anzac Day service in a very small country town a few K’s from where I live. At a guess 200 plus people, many youngsters, local school kids and scouts layed wreaths. Quiet respect, not a single ringing mobile and the odd tear. Maybe its because the general populations of “little” places are aged and most likely had relatives with a direct connection the the last big conflicts that evokes NATIONAL PRIDE, sadly a fair bit of talk about a ruined country. The very young girl who sang the NATIONAL ANTHEM was rewarded with a quite round of applause. We oldies are dwindling away but where we still have input the kids are learning what being proud of your country means. A single large flag was raised to the top of the flag pole, the Union Jack so proudly sitting in the corner with the Southern Cross
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This is not what they are being taught in our schools by Lefty teachers
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Similar to ours Sambar, although it was an adult lady who sang the anthem for us. 200 service orders ran out, despite the cold, wet conditions. There were children from the local primary schools who were impressive in their dignity and some young defence force members marched with us. A good address too.
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Attack on Anzac Day
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Top 8 Predictions Climate Scientists Got Wrong
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CFACT “Save the whales” stunts for Earth Day:
https://www.cfact.org/2024/04/24/cfact-earth-day-campaign-soars-over-rolls-through-virginia-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cfact-earth-day-campaign-soars-over-rolls-through-virginia-beach&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cfact-earth-day-campaign-soars-over-rolls-through-virginia-beach
Plane banner and billboards. A fun way to protest.
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The Australian Economy under a Communist Government
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/money/article-13343557/metricon-brad-duggan.html
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Excellent but long conversation between John Campbell and Julian Gillespie regarding his attempts to bring court cases against covid vaccine damage.
Now he is trying the GMO angle. Gillespie has a very good grasp of the mechanisms of cell physiology and the potential harm these jabs can cause.
Those of us who remain unjabbed surely dodged a very large bullet!
https://youtu.be/nbh_NB6LNaI?si=CySMZKr7pCUczLIG
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Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting ‘Anti-Hijab Protests’
A 33-year old Iranian activist and rapper who has recently been involved in anti-government demonstrations has been handed a shockingly draconian sentence by an Iranian court. Toomaj Salehi was first arrested in Oct. 2022 for publicly backing the so-called ‘anti-hijab’ protests which swept the ultra-conservative Islamic country. But this week…
“Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court… sentenced Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” his lawyer quoted the court’s ruling as saying. The state laid out its case focused on a highly ambiguous charge of spreading “propaganda”.
The religion of peace strikes again.
Sharia law across the EU and UK coming soon.
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World’s chocolate supply threatened by devastating virus
A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world’s most popular treat.
About 50% of the world’s chocolate originates from cacao trees in the West Africa countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana. The damaging virus is attacking cacao trees in Ghana, resulting in harvest losses of between 15 and 50%. Spread by small insects called mealybugs that eat the leaves, buds and flowers of trees, the cacao swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) is among the most damaging threats to the root ingredient of chocolate.
“This virus is a real threat to the global supply of chocolate,” said Benito Chen-Charpentier, professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Arlington and an author of “Cacao sustainability: The case of cacao swollen-shoot virus co-infection” in the journal PLoS One. “Pesticides don’t work well against mealybugs, leaving farmers to try to prevent the spread of the disease by cutting out infected trees and breeding resistant trees. But despite these efforts, Ghana has lost more than 254 million cacao trees in recent years.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240423155910.htm
Been getting worse for around 10 years.
Maybe chocolate flavoured bugs?
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Molesting children has a price
A Louisiana judge has ordered a 54-year-old man to be physically castrated. This is known as a orchiectomy. In addition to the surgery, Glenn Sullivan, Sr. will also serve fifty years in prison.
https://twitter.com/pafstfrgz/status/1783135341077053505
GOOD! Make it mandatory globally.
Drag queens at kids parties can start squirming now.
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While I dont have an issue with the Judges order, I really doubt it will ever happen. More likely to fizzle out in years or decades of lawfare if funding allows.
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Germany Passes Gender Self-Identification Law Allowing INFANTS To Transition, Imposes Massive Fine For “Deadnaming”
The German Parliament, or Bundestag, passed one of the world’s most far-reaching sex self-determination policies on April 12, despite protests from women’s rights campaigners. The Self-Determination Act (SBGG) establishes ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic and allows parents to change the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth.
Supported by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition and promoted and supported by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the SBGG also creates the potential for citizens to be fined up to €10,000 (approx. $10,800 USD) for revealing a person’s given name and birth sex without their permission – an action that trans activists staunchly oppose and refer to as ‘deadnaming.’
https://reduxx.info/germany-passes-gender-self-identification-law-allowing-infants-to-transition-imposes-massive-fine-for-deadnaming/
Obviously Germany hasn’t learned a damn thing from their history.
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For crying out loud.
Hitler got them out of this 90 years ago.
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Target is locking up all their merchandise and it’s rolling out nationwide
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1782981261541199955
Can’t imagine why.😆
Migrants Gone Wild On Streets Of Midtown Manhattan
A pack of illegal aliens viciously fought each other with sticks, belts, and whatever they could get their hands on outside a migrant hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Footage of the fight was uploaded on X on Sunday. The scenes show parts of Manhattan transformed into what appears to be third-world-esque as law and order lapses under a city controlled by rogue Democrats.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-migrants-gone-wild-streets-midtown-manhattan
Ban “assault” belts and sticks, cry the liberals.
“Wait until they stop housing & feeding them. That’s when the chaos will begin.”
That’s what I said!😆
Meanwhile:
Brink Of Unrest? Migrants “Flood” NYC City Hall In Protest Of Losing Luxury Hotel Rooms.
Won’t be long now. All those well armed non liberals with homes and food…
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“We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces” – Stockman Slams Washington’s Foreign Aid “Clusterf**k”
The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security policy has finally produced sheer madness in a single package. To wit:
. $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that do not benefit America’s homeland security in the slightest.
. An extension of section 702 of FISA that wantonly expands an already egregious affront to the Fourth Amendment.
. The illegal transfer of billions of sovereign assets stolen from Russia to its enemies in Kiev.
. A national security ban on 15-second TikTok videos about dances, pranks, pets and poppycock viewed overwhelmingly by under 30-year-old Americans whose viewing habits are of zero value to the Chicoms in Beijing.
The fourteen GOP stalwarts listed below essentially said, no dice to these tired, dangerous, costly and risible formulations:
Neither Russia nor China pose even a remote military threat to the American homeland, while proxy wars and economic sanctions against “adversaries” demonized by the Deep State actually undermine domestic liberty and prosperity for no justifiable reason of homeland security at all.
Of course, the insanity of $200 billion of NATO funds already wasted; hundreds of thousands dead; millions fleeing the country to avoid the mayhem of war and the cruelty of being drafted as cannon fodder to serve the perverted pleasure of Washington’s armchair warriors; and the civilian infrastructure of one of Europe’s largest countries in shambles—all have nothing whatsoever to do with “freedom fighters”.
The undeniable fact is that there is nothing at stake worth fighting for in Ukraine that even remotely resembles democratic virtue.
It has been a cesspool of egregious corruption virtually since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991, and recently even required a visit from the head of the CIA to tell Zelensky and his fellow thieves to “knock it off” on the corruption front.
To the contrary, as the venerable anti-war writer William Astore put it, the real purpose of Ukrainian installment of the Forever Wars is the enrichment of the merchants of death who have captured the levers of power in Washington:
Of course, this is yet another triumph for the MICIMATT: the military-industrialcongressional-intelligence-media-academe-think-tank complex. Its power and greed are almost irresistible. Add that to AIPAC, threat inflation, and fear-mongering and perhaps it is irresistible until the U.S. empire final collapses under the weight of its own folly.
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The West is about to make a major error in its economic war against Putin
One illegal act – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – is to be countered by another
JEREMY WARNER
There are few monikers more irritating than that of the “Global South” – the fashionable term for countries making up the developing and low income world. Nations of such disparate and often conflicting geopolitical and economic interest cannot be so easily pigeon-holed.
Yet there is one thing many members do tend to have in common, which is a generally anti-Western mindset. This assumes particular meaning when it comes to Russian sanctions.
That these have self-evidently failed is largely because major parts of the “Global South” have refused to be bound by them, thereby providing ample export markets for Russian oil – which after being refined is frequently re-exported to Western markets – and abundant alternatives to the West in meeting Russian demand for manufactured goods.
Lack of attention to the Global South has come back to haunt now that Western interests are threatened by an axis of Russian, Chinese and Iranian authoritarianism.
The developing world believes it owes us nothing.
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Attempts to sequestrate at least some part of the £220bn of Russian assets which are frozen under the sanctions regime, and apply it to the Ukrainian war effort, have further stoked suspicions.
We live in an era of global money which is supposed to be governed by law of contract, yet the West casually disregards its own rules when it suits while still lecturing others on abiding by them. If the West can do this to Russia, moreover, it can do it to anyone.
If you are going to claim the moral high ground, it’s important to be consistent. Yet it seems that one illegal act – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – is to be countered by another in the seizure of Russian assets.
The Global Times, a Chinese state controlled news outlet, had this to say about the matter: “To seize and transfer frozen Russian assets… will set a disastrous precedent against the existing international financial order”.
Nor is it an issue only of concern to Russia, its Chinese allies, and the Global South. “Moving from freezing assets to confiscating and disposing of them is something that needs to be carefully considered”, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said last week, which is understated central bank speak for “this is beyond the pale”.
Central banks are often accused of being essentially supranational organisations with scant regard for the nations to which they belong. Sometimes it’s true. During both the First and Second World Wars, they set out to operate in international money markets as if not a shot had been fired, with regular contact maintained and gold reserves scrupulously curated on behalf of hostile powers.
Yet they were absolutely right to do so, for theirs is the long view that one day the war will be over and order will be restored. Western financial mores must prevail throughout, untouched by human conflict.
That’s why Western powers are tying themselves up in knots trying to figure out a “legal” way in which they can grab the Russian money. It’s complex, and not wholly convincing.
Simply to help yourself to the assets would plainly be an act of unmitigated theft, and though possibly justifiable on moral grounds, would undermine wider faith in global money.
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“Western financial whores must prevail throughout, untouched by human conflict.”
Dead right there!
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Why was the invasion of Iraq by the USA not an “Illegal Act”?
One rule for thee…..
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…and Putin has openly and repeatedly offered peace talks but neocon puppet Zelensky has been ordered to refuse.
The Ukrainians KNOW Zelensky is a puppet and traitor and that they’re all just cannon fodder to slowly drain Russian resources, but it’s not working out that way.
The west is collectively being militarily weakened and destroyed instead. Very soon the west will be seriously screwed and have ZERO choice but to initiate war with Russia.
Maybe that FBI warning about retaliatory terrorist attacks in the USA, as payback for financial backing of the Russian terror attack, is the trigger or false flag.
Maybe that alleged intercepted EMP missile attack on Iran? Jury’s out on that one, but if true, it’s bunker time.
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Stealing Russian Assets Spells End of US as ‘Bastion for Rule of Law’
Last week, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would enable the White House to steal several billion dollars of Russian assets currently frozen in US banks under the pretext of aiding the regime in Kiev and punishing Russia.
US lawmakers’ efforts to confiscate frozen Russia’s financial assets abroad and hand them over to Ukraine does not bode well for the United States in the long run, said financial and geopolitical analyst Tom Luongo.
“Congress is literally throwing the entire concept of foreign exchange into the trash can and lighting it on fire by giving President Biden this power, which no one should have,” he told Sputnik.
“This isn’t about Russia or anyone’s opinion about what they are doing in Ukraine. This is about the US as a bastion for the rule of law as it pertains to business and banking.”
According to Luongo, the US moving to brazenly appropriate Russian assets “will signal to the rest of the world that their money is no longer safe from confiscation if it is held in US banks,” that anyone’s assets could be seized as easily if they earn the ire of “someone in Congress.”
“Every country looking to do business with the US in the future now lives with that.
This one act is what signals the end of the modern era of finance and trade.
From here the world will fracture and the US will lose trillions in future trade,” the analyst remarked.
“This confirms my argument that US leadership [figures] are vandals intent on the collapse of the US rather than having any allegiance whatsoever to the people or what’s left of the ideals on which the country was founded.”
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CENTRAL BANKS
Germany’s central bank just shifted 50,000 gold bars held overseas due to Cold War fears
PUBLISHED WED, AUG 23 201710:08 AM
Germany’s central bank completes transfer of $27.9 billion worth of gold bars back to Frankfurt.
A total of 53,780 bars were being held by the Federal Reserve in New York and France’s central bank to hedge against political and currency risks.
The transfer was completed three years ahead of expectations.
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As per currency wars Rickards-in reltaliation
1 Russia will seize BP ,SHELL,EXON ETC assetts in Russia
2 Will go to CCP controlled Hong Kong and sue the Eurpopean Entity holding 290 billion of Rusian Assets if they appropriate said assetts
Game Set match Russia
Let alone the total loss of global confidence in the US as propert rights location =loss of dollar empire
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You can bet that traitor beta male Albanese will have Australia at the head of the queue to sign on.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/they-think-there-are-too-many-us-planet-alex-newman-warns-tyrannical-un-plans-our
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“You can bet that traitor beta male Albanese will have Australia at the head of the queue to sign on.”
How else can he earn his sinecure with the rest of them at the UN? He’s hoping to stay in charge of Aussie no matter who gets voted in.
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Interesting video, 40 mins
https://rumble.com/v4q7hcq-the-end-of-humanity-as-planned-by-the-global-leaders.html
And on that note:
One Nation are holding rallies in every capital city on May the fifth about the Digital ID Bill.
https://www.onenation.org.au/events
It will probably be in most cities and towns as well, try where the anti-lockdown rallies were held in your local.
Digital ID, CBDC, the surveillance state, whatever, just be there.
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Dr. William Makis: When a Pregnant Woman Receives a C19 Vaccine, in Many Cases the Baby Stops Growing Within 24 Hours
“In pregnant women … the babies are being hit with congenital heart and brain malformations, and nobody talks about it, but it’s in the VAERS reporting system, … He points out that the injections have been linked to deformities, miscarriages and stillbirths.
“When a pregnant woman receives a C19 vascination, in many cases the baby stops growing within 24 hours.
Or growth slows down.
This usually results in premature labour and premature birth, which means the baby is born much too early, usually at least a few months early,” says Makis.
“Of course, this puts the mother at risk, as many women die in labour.
And from complications.
They die from blood clots, they die from bleeding complications.
Mothers suffer cardiac arrest during pregnancy.
They even develop turbo cancer during pregnancy”.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-william-makis-when-a-pregnant
Pfizer ‘CHOSE NOT TO’ Tell Regulators About SV40 Sequence in COVID Shots – Health Canada Official
A senior Health Canada official says pharma giant Pfizer made a conscious decision to not advise regulators that its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine contained a DNA sequence from the Simian Virus 40 (SV40).
This information appears among multiple emails between staff from key drug regulators, including Health Canada (HC), the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The information was obtained through an access-to-information request.
On Aug. 23, 2023, Dr. Dean Smith, a senior scientific evaluator in HC’s Vaccine Quality Division, wrote an email to a colleague at the FDA about SV40.
Health Canada had obtained confirmation two weeks earlier from Pfizer that SV40 DNA sequences were present in its COVID-19 vaccine.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/pfizer-chose-not-to-tell-regulators
Shut down the entire medical sector and regulating bodies, start from fresh, but only with those totally committed to adherence to the Hippocratic oath. The others can go work at McD’s where they belong.
“No evil can be excused because it is done with good intention.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others”
– Pericles
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An EV trend that sort of makes sense to me. Make cheap ,limited range , city shopping trolleys and they may actually find a market.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-winning-big-smaller-evs
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Something to look up to?
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HW4HN7KAXYWW095R37S02CZR.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
“Biden and Rambo entering the jungles
of New Guinea to save Uncle Bosie.”
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But
“COUNTERPOINT
EAT A BIDEN RELATIVE ?
THOSE GUYS ARE SO FULL OF CRAP
YOU’D HAVE TO CHEW ON A SKUNK
TO GET THE NASTY TASTE
OUT OF YOUR MOUTH”
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HW3JMA6VHX4Z60Z33W0V9776.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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Polishing their reputation –
“All the propaganda that’s fit to print”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/all-propaganda-thats-fit-to-print.html
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Viewed from outside
“Australian PM Albanese Is at War With Free Speech, Picks a Fight With Elon Musk – Now Wants MEMES About Him Struck From Internet”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/australian-pm-albanese-is-war-free-speech-picks/
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FWIW
“This strong evidence of the link between covid vaccines and cancer can no longer be ignored”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-strong-evidence-of-the-link-between-covid-vaccines-and-cancer-can-no-longer-be-ignored/
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