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Who’s on First?
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Aren’t you from the wrong duo? That line’s from Bud and Lou, not Stan and Oli. Or should I say “Certainly not, Stanley”.
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Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!
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nyuk nyuk
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Who’s on first?
The climate situation is clearly a comedy routine.
In the fullness of time a future edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds will have a new chapter on the Western fear of carbon dioxide. The West encourages economic decline while the rest of the world enthusiastically embraces fossil fuels.
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Date line: USA Southern Border
According to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), encounters with migrants from Mexico and Central America were down for the third month in a row, accounting for just 36% of unique encounters, while 55,333 unique encounters were from the totalitarian regimes of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, a 175% increase over last year.
Of the 203,598 crossing, 157,921 were unique migrant encounters, with the rest attributed to those who had multiple encounters with officials.
Cities, states, and the national government are sending — in increasing numbers — some of them to large cities elsewhere.
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while 55,333 unique encounters were from the totalitarian regimes of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua,
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Wouldn’t it be funny if they voted for Trump.
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Venezuala? That reminds me, “Trump’s recently retained counsel, Christopher Kise, registered in 2020 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent Venezuela in negotiations with the Treasury, which should preclude him from getting even a temporary security clearance to examine the documents at issue.” AP
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*apologies not AP. Was independent journalist Marcy Wheeler.
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Well she would say that wouldn’t she.
She campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, and is a former vice chairwoman of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party.
The commos stick together GA. Some are green on the outside, and never do their homework.
Hello?
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A long bow there ss. Except she is stating a fact and an opinion – let’s see what pans out.
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Fact is that the media, en masse, are reporting negatively on Trump hiring a good lawyer to fight a taxpayer funded bunch of brown shirts. They make a lot of Trump needing to spend $3M on him and nothing of the costs to stop him from exposing Russiagate that the taxpayer will foot.
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Surely, they have to be US Citizens to be able to vote? Maybe Dribbling Joe is going to sign an Executive Order to make them ALL Illegals Citizens before the November 2022 Mid Term Elections…………………Hoping that most will vote for the Democrats.
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They ARE allowed to vote in NY but why do you think the dems are so opposed to voter ID?
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On this day in 2019 Students from 185 countries stage the world’s largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
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Seems they wanted to destroy their own futures by getting rid of fossil fuels.
And from the look of Germany now, they have succeeded remarkably well… 🙂
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Which demonstrates their capacity to pretend not to know things.
Or, perhaps, they really don’t know. Greta clearly doesn’t.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02243-9.pdf
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Does this mean we’ve not got three less years to avoid climate catastrophe or has the deadline again just been put back three years?
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now got three less years …. not “not got”
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fewer
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You can say that again. What a relief that three years on nothing has changed.
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It doesn’t matter as Energy Reality is already here and has never really ever gone away. This coming Winter will really show the EU (Germany) the folly of its ways. People don’t like getting cold. It’s bad for their Health.
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Key word “ägain” pushed back. It’s called “theory inoculation” It means “not allowed to be be falsified.”
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And thanks to blogs like this, nothing has changed
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yes, because as any rational, thinking person knows blogs control the world.
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Well, one thing that has NOT changed in recent history is, the general climate of the planet.
Also ‘Science’ has not changed because it is settled.
Reproductive phenotypes have changed, in fact there are new ones weekly.
Definitions of words have changed.
Kids are graduating from school unable to make change, so that’s a change.
Jacinda Ardhern now believes in the freedom to make personal health choices.
That’s like a 180 change.
As a participant on this blog, I would like to apologize to the people of NZ for standing in the way of change like a Spartan at Thermopylae.
Or is it a Texican at the Alamo?
Can’t tell if our anti-change cause is lost yet.
The pixel is mightier than Joe Biden’s F-15s.
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Unfortunately we have been unable to address the overwhelming cluelessness of the AGW cultists.
They have infected everywhere, and are in the process of destroying the future for at least the next couple of generations.
Societies are being pushed back to before the industrial revolution, and the cultist think they will survive it.
The anti-CO2 crusade will bring great hardship to once developed countries.. its already started.
The AGW cultists are destroying their own futures as well as everyone else’s.
I wonder how bad it will get before rational thought returns !
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“And thanks to blogs like this, nothing has changed”
Wow… I didn’t know blogs like this were responsible for the incredibly stable climate we currently have.
You are correct, reality has not changed.
The Climate is doing absolutely nothing untoward.
There is no sign of any “climate emergency” anywhere, in any data..
All thanks to this blog? Praised be to us. ! 🙂
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I suppose a blog is just as likely to be controlling the weather as eating meat or burning coal. Good news is that PF seems to be parodying himself.
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Gee I bet that taught the climate a thing or two.
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In as much as a sad event such as a funeral can be classified as excellent, I think The Queen’s funeral was outstanding.
Some observations and questions:
-The Queen was involved in planning the funeral.
-The coffin was built for her about 20 years ago.
-The coffin had a sealed lead lined box on the inside and the whole assembly weighed about 300kg.
-When the soldiers picked up the coffin my thought was “don’t drop it guys”…
-It was a nice touch bringing out The Queen’s horse/pony Emma to watch the precession and its mistress pass by.
-The Queen’s two remaining corgis were also brought out to watch the precession.
-King Charles III said he’d ask Parliament to change legislation to write Andrew and Harry out of the line of seccession as they are non-working Royals.
-One of the commenters on TV said the R after Elizabeth’s name stands for Rex, but that of course is wrong. It is Regina for a Queen and Rex for a King. (Most people would have once known that even from basic Latin.)
-Canadian PM Trudeau again embarrassed himself and country.
-Joe Biden has so diminished the status of the United States that the US President was seated 14 rows from the front.
-Australian war hero Ben Roberts-Smith had no one to pick him up.
-The Australian PM didn’t invite opposition leader Dutton (someone told me that, not sure).
-Who was the extremely tall guy walking near the gun carriage? He must have been about 7ft tall.
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Assistant Minister for the Republic, so who is the Minister for the Republic?
The Prime Minister maybe?
So how can the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, Constitutional Monarchy, be Minister for the Republic that doesn’t exist?
And if so why swear allegiance?
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Matt Thistlewaite is Assistant Minister for the Republic and Albanese is preparing for an Australian republic if/when Labor is elected for a second term.
I agree Dennis, who is the Minister for the Republic? That has not been specified. I assume it is Albanese.
Given that Thistlewaite has a Diploma of Modern Languages in Chinese, I also expect he will ensure we have a VERY close relationship with the Chicomms.
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Dennis, we already have a republic! Our government is elected by the people!,
All of this hullabaloo about s republic is big tiime BS!
And people fall for it.
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Australia is not a republic.
noun: republic; plural noun: republics
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
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GA.
Suggest you tell it to all the Republics that don’t hold free and fair elections, and whose ultimate leader holds his position by force of arms.
Ok…. “Republic” and “Democracy” come from the same root meaning in two different languages. Latin and Greek. The names have nothing to do with what we call our most senior position or how we choose them… and everything to do with whether they are there by the will of, and with the support of, the people.
As you should know, the Monarch is held to represent or “embody” the whole of the people, while the Parliament determines what the law is, to which both Monarch and citizen are subject. (Some of our ancestors chopped the head off another Charles to demonstrate with the utmost possible clarity that the Monarch is as subject to the Law of the land, as anyone else.
Australia is a republic in fact, retaining the name “Commonwealth”, which was used of England during the interregnum when no monarch held sway.
Really, you should know better.
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Correct. Many countries label themselves incorrectly. Can you tell me how I tell a country something?
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Oh and incidentally, the balcony appearance of the Monarch is not just for show.
It is a longstanding part of the British tradition that – well before any idea of the popular vote – the Monarch had to be “of the people”. That was ensured by requiring the Monarch to appear before the assembled free men of London and England, to receive their acclamation.
Ironically, and if we go back far enough for it to matter, a “free” man was distinguished by his right to bear arms. A free man could not be ordered to give his support where he did not want it. A serf could mot be trusted with arms lest he rebel against his Lord….. and a good free man was no threat to a good monarch, whether armed or not.
Or so went the prevailing doctrine.
Whether we are either free or trusted, these days, seems open to question.
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Still not a republic.
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Quote
“A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with “republic”. The noun “commonwealth”, meaning “public welfare, general good or advantage”, dates from the 15th century. Originally a phrase (the common-wealth or the common wealth – echoed in the modern synonym “public wealth”), it comes from the old meaning of “wealth”, which is “well-being”, and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica (republic). The term literally meant “common well-being”. In the 17th century, the definition of “commonwealth” expanded from its original sense of “public welfare” or “commonweal” to mean “a state in which the supreme power is vested in the people; a republic or democratic state”.”
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Who paid for the extra clause?
And where is it recorded?
How many more clauses are out there?
The really significant thing about this issue is the number of communist dictatorships that claim to be republics.
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Lots of ink wasting here.
We do have a republic, albeit a slightly untidy one.
I used to say, only half joking, that I could imagine few things more satisfactory for an Australian than having the big boss living at the furthest point of the globe, whence we were not likely to hear from him/her too often.
I saw the “untidiness” in the system as demonstrating our confidence in ourselves and each other to manage any problem that might arise.
If Gough Whitlam had told John Kerr to go to blazes it would have been the High Court of Australia, not an army from Britain, which sorted it out.
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just the diff between academia and reality
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Yes I knew that.
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If you have read the website stopturnbull one of the history and timelines covers the republican movement before and during the referendum, very cleary the primary objective is to make major changes to the Constitution without telling voters what would be changed, amended, etc. Turnbull referred to the Constitution as being out of date compiled by out of touch politicians.
More recently PM Albanese referred to the Constitution as being “archaic”.
The political propaganda is a side show crafted to fool voters into believing that Australia is governed from the UK by the Monarch as you pointed out, “BS”.
Same applies to the voice referendum proposal, no details provided for constitutional changes.
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‘Who was that extremely tall guy …
Matthew Magee.
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Thanks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11227893/Who-Matthew-Magee-Queens-funeral-height-7-2-tall-man.html
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That would have been the long and the short of it.
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I’d heard the tall fellow was called Tall Pall by the Queen.
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Think that was the second-tallest gent, her footman for 44 years.
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The way that Ben Roberts-Smith has been treated during this momentous occasion is disgusting. He has not been found guilty of any misdemeanour and is trying hard to clear his name after a range of, so far, unsubstantiated claims have been made against him. I believe he did not have his air fare paid, as the other VCs and George Cross recipients did.
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You’re only a hero while you hide what those in power want hidden. If it comes out, they throw you to the wolves without a second’s hesitation.
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The ABC was doing an attack piece on the Commandos, tonight.
They were replaying selected clips from some of the Digger’s published vids, and getting all self-righteous over the fact that the journalist – who didn’t even have the context for the clips , let alone military training and experience, “didn’t know” whether someone in the target area might have been unarmed.
No mention of the Rules of Engagement… just assume that our troops are evil.
I turned it off very quickly.
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Louis Armstrong got his royalty right. In 1932, at a command performance for King George V, he astutely observed the protocol of not referring directly to the king by dedicating his next number with” “This one’s for you, Rex.”
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I was most impressed with the bladder control of the attendees. Some had been in place for hours! I wonder how many toilets Westminster Abbey has?
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It has many chambers I hear.
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But how many chamber pots?
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Depends
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Nowadays, a funeral tends to be all about the person who died. Not this one, though. It was run by and only for the church (the indoor sessions, that is).
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Well Mike, Her Majesty was Church of England.
Would you expect the Church to include all and sundry Calathumpians in a Church of England service?
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She WAS the Church of England – Defender of the Faith.
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To the church, maybe that’s all she was. To citizens of Britain and the Commonwealth and beyond she was much much more, but the church ignored all of that because it is so pumped up with its own importance.
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The Queen was deeply involved in the planning of her own funeral. What you saw was very much the traditional Anglican funeral, which is obviously the way that she wanted it.
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Joe Biden’s seating was not lack of respect for the President but his arrogance. He wanted his own tank/car, so he arrived nearly 15 minutes after the final time for seating and his place was gone.
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I guess the once and true POTUS, the one that pulled the sword from the stone*, the one that is fending off a corrupt palace court, was not invited.
I didn’t know that funerals were by invitation only.
But I’m a deplorable.
It is good that world elites only recognize the POTUSes that they approve of.
Anything else would be gauche.
In America we learn early on that we are a gauche and everything British and European is not.
We’re not supposed to even know what gauche means.
(I had to look up the spelling.)
We for sure can’t pronounce it properly.
You can’t have anyone that puts catsup on steak at the Queen’s funeral.
*(I should note, that strange womxn, lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis on which to form a system of government, that’s why we have the FBI.)
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It’s popular to describe the Amazon rainforest as “the lungs of the earth”. Aren’t the lungs “out with the bad air, in with the good”?
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That line id just eco-nazi agit-prop.
The REAL “lungs of the Eartgh are the top couple of feet of the worlds oceans Sunlight is ALWAYS falling SOMEWHERE on a huge mass of phytoplamktom. The oceans also cover approximately 2/3ds of the surface of the planet.
Just for giggles, mature forests are also pretty much transpiration-wise “neutral”; in the absence of sunlight, (every night), they switch to reverse cycle, but at a lower speed.
There is a LOT of toxic “Political Science” out there.
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Correct.
https://newportbay.org/ask-a-naturalist-do-phytoplankton-produce-more-oxygen-than-a-rainforest-if-so-does-the-oxygen-they-produce-go-into-the-atmosphere-or-does-it-just-remain-dissolved-in-the-ocean
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I wonder about the seasonal variation though. When it’s winter in one hemisphere it’s summer in the other.
However 61% of the northern hemisphere is covered by ocean and 81% of the southern. The proportions are not even so you would expect variation.
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Those living up over have 10 to the factor of 50* autumn leaves returning their CO2 to the atmosphere over winter.
* 83% of statistics are made up.
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“Australia Melting”
“Experts predict Australia will be ice-free within six months, unless you purchase an electric vehicle.”
https://youtu.be/5PM-ttL_S_Y
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/09/australia-melting/#comments
Via SDA
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Australia is usually “snow free” in mid summer.
But the last few winters there has been plenty of the white “global warming” powder.
Too much snow at Selwyn closed the resort.
https://snowbrains.com/selwyn-resort-closed-third-year-too-much-snow/
[June 2022]
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At this rate Alice Springs will be completely ice free by 2030 unless they pay more taxes…
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How will the Polar Bears cope ?
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DM at #23 below is going to divert water which can then be frozen using solar panel energy.
“No, I’m going to stop this sketch as it’s getting too silly.” 😆
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Another “Whodathunkit”
“Sulfur: A Potential Resource Crisis That Could Stifle Green Technology and Threaten Food Security as The World Decarbonizes”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/19/sulfur-a-potential-resource-crisis-that-could-stifle-green-technology-and-threaten-food-security-as-the-world-decarbonizes/
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Or should that be “Whodidn’tthunkit”
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“. Over 246 million tonnes of sulfuric acid are used annually. Rapid growth in the green economy and intensive agriculture could see demand increase to over 400 million tonnes by 2040. Today over 80% of the global sulfur supply comes from desulfurisation of fossil fuels to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas.”
Ah.. the unintended consequences! Mind you, I feel that stopping the peasants driving internal combustion motors will not stop oil usage. We must be close to the stage of Govts using all the oil produced for their own ends, or at least reserving it for themselves into the future. Those jet fighters don’t run on fairy dust….
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So along with a shortage of nitrogen fertiliser, we have a shortage of sulphur and phosphorus, two other major essential nutrients for plant growth.
Somebody’s going to get hungry.
“Eat more Greens” may yet become a political slogan.
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Pope Francis Warns ‘Our Planet Is Gravely Ill’
As he has said on numerous occasions, the pope declared that it is not enough to tweak existing systems, insisting that politics and the economy need to be rethought and completely overhauled.
The drama of land fires in southern Italy “is connected to the many dramas that the earth suffers from,” Francis said. And our mistakes “fall on the little ones, from whom we are stealing not only the future, but also the present.”
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/09/18/pope-francis-calls-for-urgent-attention-to-our-gravely-ill-planet/
Save the little ones eh…
Clean your own house first!
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“‘Our Planet Is Gravely Ill’”
Yep, it has a massive infection of ignorant and irrational leftist totalitarian ideology. !
And Francis… you are part of that infection.
The dismissal of fossil fuels will destroy the future of every country that goes down that road.
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And read the gospel truth:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02243-9.pdf
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This attributing every bad weather event to climate change is the reason I know they’re wrong, because only fools can make such assumptions, it’s a kind of give away. Anyone who has studied biostats 101 and understand statistical significance should know this.
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Still wanting a Leftoid to explain to me how you can economically smelt aluminium ore with wind and solar or smelt iron ore using direct reduction with “green” hydrogen.
Do any of the proponents of these production methods actually understand the physics and chemistry of what’s going on?
Do they care?
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How to Smelt Aluminum Without Coal, for a Greener Industry
A metal giant is investing millions in its aluminum smelters located in the Quebec region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada, to make its production greener by trading coal for hydroelectricity.
“We’ve got hydropower, and we’ve got the lowest carbon aluminum smelting technology in the world,” says Ivan Vella, chief executive of aluminum at Rio Tinto. “You put those pieces together and we think that’s something we should invest in.”
Indeed, the AP60 technology the mining group uses emits less than 2 tons of greenhouse gases for every ton of aluminum produced, compared with 10 to 14 tons of emission as per the industry average. The 16 new smelting cells added to Saguenay’s AP60 plant will come into production in 2023 with hydropower replacing coal as the energy source to smelt aluminum. As the world’s demand for aluminum could grow some 3.3% per year – the material is used in construction, for electric vehicles, and solar panels – this Canadian natural resource will likely continue to attract investments as a new and more sustainable economy is developing.
https://montrealgazette.com/commodities/energy/renewables/betting-against-coal-rio-tinto-taps-quebecs-hydro-power-to-produce-green-aluminum/wcm/f8dcf2a3-7b6c-4335-9f33-5cfa478e4809
Or the UAE going down the solar smelting route.
Will be interesting to see how well they work out.
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So they’re just using hydro electricity instead of coal. The problem with that is that there is a limited amount of hydro and in Western countries there are very few if any available new sites.
As well, as coal and gas power plants continue to be destroyed, there will be huge demand for hydro from elsewhere.
Also, in California they are actually dismantling hydro dams.
So I don’t think hydro is the answer for aluminium production and -gasp- certainly not nuclear.
So where is the power going to come from?
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There are huge aluminum smelters in Iceland. Lots of water, few people, mountains. All hydro of course.
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Did anyone ask them how much CO2 was released in the production of the cement and the running of the machinery to build those dams?
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shhhh someone might twig about the tonnes of concrete and rebar under 10’s of thousands of wind turbines
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Tuesday funny. The Chinese are just waiting until there’s enough of them.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/2e5d65b31c89232d19a9902f745dc4c8/81c34596259757e7-aa/s1280x1920/9daef29f9bf06b9372374f5fec269a6ee43982cf.jpg
Won’t be too long a wait…
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Like all Leftoids, Trudeau has named everyone opposed to his policies, in this case his health policies, as “extremists”.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/according-to-trudeau-im-an-extremist-campaign-goes-viral
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Alzheimer’s Might Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Says
In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer’s, may have been based on fabricated data.
One year earlier, in June 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimer’s, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.
Based on our past 30 years of research, we no longer think of Alzheimer’s as primarily a disease of the brain. Rather, we believe that Alzheimer’s is principally a disorder of the immune system within the brain.
We believe that beta-amyloid is not an abnormally produced protein, but rather is a normally occurring molecule that is part of the brain’s immune system. It is supposed to be there.
When brain trauma occurs or when bacteria are present in the brain, beta-amyloid is a key contributor to the brain’s comprehensive immune response. And this is where the problem begins.
https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-might-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-says
Which is what I posted weeks ago.
Plaques aren’t the problem…
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There are also suggestions that ketogenic diets improve Alzheimer’s outcomes.
https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-021-00783-x
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Yeah, nah! Beware false prophets.
We started a shift into keto MANY years ago, long before I knew the word, when we went to salted butter, reduced bread etc. Mrs H still suffers Az.
OUR health is generally good. The Lady, at 79, only takes a prescription anti-depressant sleeper.
There are a thousand good reasons to go keto, but this ain’t one of them.
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why not? you just may be ahead of the game. You will never know the non keto outcome in your case.
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Nuclear weapons have an expiration date like food, so what about expired nuclear weapons?
According to relevant data, one-third of Russia’s annual military spending is spent on maintenance of nuclear warheads, while the United States alone allocates about $40 billion as maintenance costs for nuclear warheads. . Why is the cost of maintaining nuclear weapons so staggering? The main reason is that the total number of nuclear warheads in the world today is about 15,000, China, the US and Russia make up the majority, the larger the number, the higher the natural maintenance costs.
Therefore, not only the development of nuclear weapons requires a huge investment, but the maintenance and preservation of nuclear weapons also need a great investment to maintain the daily cost of nuclear weapons, this is also a huge national budget.
https://scienceinfo.net/nuclear-weapons-have-an-expiration-date-like-food-so-what-about-expired-nuclear-weapons.html
Just adopt the WEF food approach and change the nuke “Use by” tags to “Best before” or “Not fresh but still good” 😂😂😂
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The nukes could be used for civil engineering projects, e.g. Project Plowshare as was proposed back in the day.
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There are few thing more expensive than having a good deterrent….. but one of them is NOT having a good deterrent.
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Dictator Dan bans walk in the park
Those walking off a trail, swimming in a waterway or conducting research in a park could face hefty fines under new rules.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ new rules, which have been slammed as ‘nanny state’ by the opposition, would apply to more than 50 parks across the state.
Changes include a fine of up to $924 for walking off a park trail, which is set out by the land manager.
Victorians conducting ‘intrusive research’ at a park such as a scientific study, could be hit with a $1,472 fine.
Those wanting to swim in a body of water at a park will require a permit unless that waterway has been clearly designated for swimming.
https://xyz.net.au/2022/09/dictator-dan-bans-walk-in-the-park/
Time for #AndrewsMustGo before Victoria becomes tumbleweed world…
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Can I still climb trees and smell the flowers or is that out as well?
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do you have permit?
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If I were to repost that elsewhere I would be abused by messenger assassins. Is there a more “main stream” source?
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Absorbing the awe-inspiring atmosphere of the Queen’s funeral, inside Westminster Abbey with the choir and hall in full song, organ and horns blaring, beneath the overtly ornate arches stretching high, it struck me that you don’t get this out of atheism. There is nothing like it.
Atheism would deliver cold flat walls with flickering fluorescent lights and plastic chairs. They’d probably play a Beatles song or something.
Even the most ardent atheist experiencing that ceremony would feel something previously unknown to them.
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Im an audio type, I write music, play it, seen big shows and impressive musicians, have been moved by music many times. But the musical theatre of that funeral was the most amazing experience I have ever had.
Strangely perhaps the highlight for me was the singing of God Save the King, a rousing performance that I found hard to maintain composure, but you felt you had to given everyone there was. Especially Charles, how he kept it together I have no idea.
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didn’t realize it was some kind contest
not all religions require ornate and expensive rituals either
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Yarp…
It’s not a contest, it’s a contrast.
The Anglican funeral is not expensive. The poorest person in England can get the same Anglican funeral with the same rites if they are a member of the Church of England.
All the expense was because the deceased on this occasion, was someone uniquely valued in Britain and large parts of the world.
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I just liked the assumption that an aetheist funeral would be “Atheism would deliver cold flat walls with flickering fluorescent lights and plastic chairs. They’d probably play a Beatles song or something.”
When in fact , because you arent constrained or required to fit into religious models and expectations it can be anything you want it to be.
There seems to be this weird logic that because others arent caught up in your belief system their lives are some barren void. Its like people really need to convince themselves their grass is greener.
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Philip
Awesome music. In particular that lone piper walking away at the very end at St Georges Chapel. The Beatles? How about this from the very end of the white Album’ Her Majesty’
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=her+majesty+the+beatles&docid=607990292382351451&mid=DAE3D421A3AB440FB2AFDAE3D421A3AB440FB2AF&view=detail&FORM=VRAASM&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dher%2Bmajesty%2Bthe%2Bbeatles%26qpvt%3Dher%2Bmajesty%2Bthe%2Bbeatles%26FORM%3DVDRE
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One of my stray thoughts while watching that was “How on earth did they build something so tall and with so much light and air, and so utterly beautiful, out of stone?”… and they did it with the technology available nearly 800 years ago.
….. and there are people who write our ancestors off as primitive and stupid.
It was built and paid for by people who WANTED to create something beautiful, because they believed in a God who appreciated beauty and that our appreciation of beauty reflected the divine and the profound. Contrast that with those moderns whose only contribution is to tear down the work of others, and whose idea of “art” is that which disgusts.
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Exactly so.
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Another week starting – on a Tuesday after a long pause in the Chapter of Elizabethan history…
from Climate Realist @ClimateRealists a Poll: On average how much CO2 do humans exhale.. well I dunno, I just don’t keep that figures in my head – have to breathe and that’s that. So over Breakfast, Gorgle it and ! most results “lbs of CO2 over the course of a single day” and results to that effect. so wottabout ppm CO2 ? and then fell over this interesting article – was going to hiss and spit https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/environment-quirky-science-you-asked/humans-and-animals-exhale-carbon-dioxide-every-breath-why-not-considered-be-problem-far-global ….’ .. does not contribute to global warming for the simple reason that we also take up an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide from the air,’ Eh? read on! and then, ‘ …But can we help reduce global warming by dying? Probably. ‘ ! – but you wouldn’t know that if you watch / listen to UK Media. … THe number of funerial adverts for CREMATIONS. – am I Missing something? I mean the MSM likes to tell us all about COvid or Global warming …. and then tell us to get cremated ? Takes more diesel to cremate than to dig and refill a hole!. Separating Sense from Nonsense.
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Paul Miskelly, I answered your question to me in the last thread.
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Why is Australia’s official day of mourning for The Queen after the funeral?
Why isn’t it on the day of the funeral?
Being a Thursday, people will just call in sick on Friday and make it just another excuse for a long weekend.
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And 5,000 cases of elective surgery will be cancelled, a disaster when you consider how long people have waited. Why not just take the whole week off? This granting of holidays is madness, especially Daniel Andrew’s day off the day before the Grand Final. There is no reason at all for it. The city is empty. But he gets the day off with full pay, as he did for six months when he vanished.
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Especially in the Public Service.
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You scorn Australians. We are NOT the land of the long weekend. We are actually hard workers, outside certain protected unions/industries.
You wouldn’t say that in a pub where hi-vis shirts are obvious, unless it was in Canberra.
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A few people might be projecting H
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If they put the holiday on Tuesday people would call in sick Monday, making it no better than Thursday.
That only leaves the option of putting the holiday on Wednesday … which would be a disaster because it’s the only day Australians actually do work!!!
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If it was the day of the funeral Albo would have missed his day off.
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Taupo Volcano is stirring, but nothing to worry about.
‘Taupo is believed to have caused the largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past 5,000 years when it last exploded about 1,800 years ago and spewed more than 100 cubic kilometres of material into the atmosphere.’ (Aljazeera)
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White Island Volcano is stirring, but nothing to worry about… I’m sure someone said that!
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I am hoping the Germans get on with restarting nuclear and coal.
The UK is well underway. Coal, fracking, pumping more oil.
The weasel politicans who follow the Climate Crisis crowd will be out of a job if the country runs out of power. And that’s because freezing to death to prevent warming is a level of idi*cy which everyone understands. That will hit hard all over Europe this winter. Possibly in Australia too, as Daniel Andrews has crippled Victoria, no gas and closing coal and not even wood and briquettes. Heating will soon be illegal like manufacturing.
My hope is that the whole stack of cards collapses on itself, including the EU/UN. We do not need them. Hundreds of thousands of highly paid public servants decided what is good for everyone else and answerable to no one. Plus a retirement home for old politicians.
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Ezra Levant: What does Pierre Poilievre’s CPC leadership victory mean for Canada?
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Instead of throwing money away on useless wind, solar and Big Batteries, Australia could for once do a useful project and irrigate the desert.
Different ways have been proposed to do this over the years such as reversing the flow of northern rivers that flow out into the sea or using nuclear powered desalination plants or a modified form of the Bradfield Scheme or various combinations of the above..
Once the desert is green it might even become self-sustaining with its own climate and rainfall caused by plant transpiration.
The interior of Australia was green about 10,000 years ago so there is nothing new about this.
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I’d still like to see a canal cut from Lake Eyre to tge sea. Keep the lake permanently full as it is below sea-level and use it as a big evaporation basis to generate more moisture to precipitate on the western slopes of the Great Divide.
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Just a dam would do, somewhere in the land of droughts and flooding rains instead of yelling Climate Change. That is the climate.
The 26 dams on the Murray river built before WWII saved everyone in the Millenium drought. Now even in the Uk, the spectacle of drought followed by floods continues as the government lets the canals clog up, to create Wetlands. Waterfowl are more important than people.
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Not to mention salamanders!
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Taupō Volcano – Volcanic Alert Level raised to Level 1, New Zealand
The unrest is causing earthquakes and ground deformation at the volcano. The last eruption of this volcano took place in 260 CE.
GNS Science, through the GeoNet program, reports an increase in earthquakes and deformation (ground movement) at Taupō since May 2022, indicating volcanic unrest is occurring.
https://watchers.news/2022/09/20/taupo-volcano-volcanic-alert-level-raised-to-level-1-new-zealand/
The ever accurate experts say low risk, therefore…it probably is.
The weather forecast for NZ is cloudy with a chance of pyroclastic flows.
That’d almost be a relief for them.
The “big one” in Cali is not on the cards either for tonight either as some are claiming. It’s next Friday 3pm.
Residents are advised to move to Martha’s Vineyard in anticipation.😆
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Two of the three largest known eruptions on Earth in the last 2 million years involved the Taupo volcanic zone (Whakamaru eruption 340,000 years ago and Oruanui eruption 26,500 years ago)
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They are drilling for geothermal energy, but that is unlikely to be a contributor.
https://www.geonet.org.nz/vabs/6WkpJjHluMfBLGRAymIQjX
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Denver Tests The Basic Income On The Homeless
From Martin Armstrong –
“Governments love to conduct social experiments on the masses. What would happen if we gave the most financially vulnerable in our population cash every month? The Denver Basic Income Project just approved a new general basic income program for a select number of homeless people who will now receive $1,000 per month in cash. The money came from the American Rescue Plan Act at the cost of $2 million.
Cash, as in the government is actually not tracing these purposes for a reason. They are targeting around 140 people, meaning this is an experiment. Do they plan to address why these individuals became homeless? Will there be mental health or drug evaluations? Will people have access to information and tools such as learning how to budget or re-enter society? Throwing money at problems is never the solution. Are there any tools to help people re-enter the workforce?
At worst, they will expand this program and continue to reward people not to work. Once they begin to hand out free cash, people will continue to expect free cash. We saw it with the COVID unemployment benefits, where people chose to leave the workforce as it was more lucrative than participating in society. The University of Denver’s Center for Housing and Homelessness Research plans to study this experiment funded by you.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/socialist/denver-test-basic-income-on-homeless/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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they will get it right this time
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Another post covid injection “nothing to see here” moment.
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I searched Jo’s blog and couldn’t find anything, however…
Many have mentioned the “normalising” of shingles – TV ads, etc. Not to mention people I know that “caught” shingles soon after their injections.
My other half also mentioned that she’s seen some similar stuff in the last few days regarding gout – I am so thankful I stayed in the covid vaccine trial “control” group.
Now to my point:-
First child myocarditis ad I’ve ever seen
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It’s so rare that everyone needs to know about it.
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‘Coalition split over Labor’s climate target.
‘The Coalition is divided over whether to back Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030, with investors warning a lower commitment will divert capital to other countries.’ (Oz)
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We’ve already driven most capital out of the country by driving up operating costs, including energy. Why do those retards think we have so little manufacturing capacity left?
We are reliant on exports, a very long way from our markets…. and these syphilitic lunatics think that the way to get people to invest in industry is to make it even less profitable?
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If these “investors” genuinely want to throw their own capital into the German glassmaking industry right now … well I suppose that’s their business.
Of course … entities like Blackrock are not playing with their own capital … it’s pension fund money entrusted to them to look after … economists call this “The agency problem”.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/agencyproblem.asp
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within the realms of people control, under the guise of Safety / health, just fell over a guy in Germany :Peter Schuster’s research Crash Dummies. Gurgling I fell over this: “Outdated crash test dummies blamed for roadway deaths” see more here: https://www.grossandschuster.com/outdated-crash-test-dummies-blamed-for-roadway-deaths/
THought you all aought to know this too. ( like seatbelts and smoking, etc )
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“I Do Not Think I Know”: Scott Morrison’s Submarine Deception
Written by Binoy KAMPMARK on 20/09/2022
When it was revealed that former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had not only shown contempt for his own government in secretly appointing himself, via the Governor-General’s approval, to five portfolios, the depths of deception seemed to be boundless. His tenure had already been marked by a spectacular, habitual tendency to conceal matters. What else would come out?
The latest revelation in the Morrison Mendacity Roadshow came in a leaked document authored by a former Department of Defence deputy secretary, Kim Gillis, a key figure in submarine contract negotiations with the French Naval Group. The contract to build twelve French-made diesel-powered Attack class submarines was spectacularly scuppered by the Morrison government with the announcement last September of the AUKUS security pact. A key provision of that agreement between Canberra, Washington and London was that Australia would be acquiring nuclear-propulsion technology for submarines sourced from either the United Kingdom or the United States.
France was kept in the dark of both the AUKUS negotiations and the fact that their treasured, lucrative submarine contract would cease to exist after September. It ruined, for a time, the relationship between Australia and France, and led President Emmanuel Macron to publicly accuse Morrison of lying. “I don’t think,” he memorably responded to a journalist’s question when asked about the conduct of Australia’s prime minister, “I know.”
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Some interesting reads – https://orientalreview.org/about/
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New element discovered – Governmentium
The new element has been found by Scientists known as Governmentium (symbol=Gv), which has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles, called usifulius idiotas, are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks and the occasional anomaly called noddies.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction it comes into contact with. Making it somewhat of an anticatalyst.
For example, a tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take anywhere from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a half-life of 2 to 6 years.
It does not decay but instead undergoes restructuring, during which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time since each restructuring causes more morons to become neutrons, which in turn form isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion has led scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever a collective of morons reaches critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
Governmentium, when catalysed with money, becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, due to having half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.
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Its on the woke Periodic Table between Inertium and Stupidium.
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‘Here we go again’! Politico’s report about what ‘we may not know’ on Election Day sure sounds familiar
There are only 50 short days between now and the midterm election and Politico has been spotted helping do a bit of preparation for the occasion:
They’re trying to prepare us this time. From the Politico article:
Many of the same factors in the same battleground states are at play in 2022, starting with races that could have very slim margins. Add in the continued popularity of mail voting and state laws in Pennsylvania and elsewhere that can delay processing of those ballots, and the chance of another waiting game is distinct — possibly with control of the Senate up in the air.
And the possibility of broken water pipes! Don’t forget about the possibility of broken water pipes.
– Bring on ALL the facepalms!
Remember the good old days when we knew who won midterm elections before the next day (or week, or month, or…)?
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Is DeSantis being given the Trump treatment?
Just yesterday, Texas sheriff Javier Salazar announced that he is investigating the legality of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s flying of illegal migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
Salazar is a Democrat but, like all Democrats, he insists that his probe has nothing to do with his political affiliation.
Salazar said the following:
“Somebody saw fit to come from another state, hunt them down, prey upon them, and then take advantage of their desperate situation just for the sake of political theater, just for the sake of making a statement”.
“I believe people need to be held accountable for it to the extent possible.”
Salazar could not cite specific federal, state, or local laws that may have been broken by relocating the migrants, yet he says that his office will be investigating what he called an “abuse of human rights.”
Salazar isn’t the only one going after DeSantis.
If Trump decides not to run in 2024, the Democrats know that DeSantis is their primary challenger.
These investigations must therefore be seen as Democrats sharpening their knives to go after DeSantis.
They also hope they could hurt DeSantis’s reelection bid in Florida.
They probably hope it deters DeSantis and the other GOP governors from dispatching more migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
The tone and content of the probe demands and the investigations seem reminiscent of hoaxes against Trump.
The goal is most likely to take DeSantis out.
DeSantis may have huge popular support and may even win the presidency in 2024, but the potential verdict of the public seldom deters the Democrats.
This should end the argument that some conservatives make that Trump has too much baggage owing to the multiple allegations and investigations and that a clean candidate would serve the GOP better.
Make no mistake, any GOP candidate, even if it is their current useful idiots such as Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger will be demonized and any MAGA GOP candidate will be gratuitously probed in addition to being demonized.
That’s how they roll.
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The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It’s Out of Control Now
The current Trump investigation is just the latest chapter of a long-brewing civil liberties nightmare.
Matt Taibbi
Extremely long but well covered History up to present today
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Shades of Mengele
Paul Dowling
Is a Doctors’ Trial needed in America?
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‘Not possible’: Climate emergency disputed by scientists
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“Hallelujah” – The Penny finally drops – B’Obvious
Lockdown-loving premier Mark McGowan unleashes on ‘laptops in the kitchen culture’ in extraordinary rant demanding workers return to the office – but does he have a point?
. Mark McGowan says working from home is ‘not good for community or society’
. He said he would prefer for people to stop working from home as less Covid risk
. WA premier argues working from home does not generate collaborative culture
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The Hermit Kingdoms leader has made a screeching U turn and its about time you all caught up!!
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I’ll have a side of fries and wokeness with that burger
With recent “yuge” changes in commercials, Robin Itzler reached out to a leading marketing company and asked if she could sit in on a commercial planning meeting with several of advertising’s best and brightest participating. She taped the meeting to share with American Thinker readers. (This is satire.)
“Good morning. We’re here to create the special 90-second commercial that will run during the October World Series. Now, remember, our burgers are the best tasting thanks to our unique secret family sauce. Plus, we have a 99% satisfaction customer rating. Okay, any ideas for the commercial?”
“Let’s have the restaurant filled with happy customers eating their delicious burgers.”
“Sounds good.”
“An average restaurant can seat 45 people so let’s make sure there are at least 20 Black customers.”
“But Blacks are just above 13% of the population.”
“Doesn’t matter. We don’t want Black Lives Matter protesting.”
“What about focusing on the mouth-watering hamburgers?”
“I think at least 10 people should be Asian.”
“No, they should be Hispanic.”
“I need at least one transgender. Will someone trade me a Black, Asian, or Hispanic for a trans?”
“Will anyone even know this commercial is about our burgers?”
“This could be an award-winning commercial.”
“Just make sure you run the script by our Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Safe Spaces Department.”
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Here is an extremely disturbing street interview of Gen Z’s in the US testing their basic knowledge.
It’s amazing that these people are capable of working or functioning in society at all.
If any of them bother to vote, I bet it’s not for the GOP.
Who is Left in America to do the working and thinking?
https://youtu.be/OkzNZu_Nn4s
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I like the ones where they tell them something Obama or Trump said but reverse the source, then ask them if they agree or disagree. You can guess how it plays out.
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meh, too easy to cherry pick this stuff
I get similar results in my grey haired car club if I pick the right people
I feel sorry for the individuals but doubt it says much about a nation
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An odd Tuesday morning thought…
Looking across the pond at Europe.
The folks who decide things don’t really know how to do anything.
The folks who know how to do things don’t seem to get to decide much.
So lots of the folks who do things are being eliminated from what has been the economy by the folks who decide things.
What will they do?
In the states, lots of people are out of a job because they wouldn’t get a shot.
What will they do?
An historical note: the largest burst, per capita, of entrepreneurial growth in the US happened in the second and third year of the great depression.
Capital and labor will go to where they are well treated.
Failure of the grid, and of the commercial sale of power, does not imply that the majority of the generating capacity is offline.
It will return to and older era, before the grid, when power was local. All three colleges I attended five decades ago had their own on campus power plant. Two of the first three companies I worked for had co-generation plants, making their own power, and selling the surplus locally.
The cockups of green energy have destroyed the economies of scale; localities that will permit local generation of dispatch power using local fuel sources will attract investment and workers. It is becoming increasingly hard to shut these down.
Small local projects, especially those that can claim to be remodels or rehabilitation, can be put in place far faster than big projects.
Permitting interferance from a federal authority is likely to be met with a polite “pound sand, see you in court” now that said authority has failed and the China model is apparent.
I’ve had most folks tell me this kind of resistance can’t happen. It has been happening for years. If you don’t know a few folks who have a side hustle at home, usually all-cash, you probably have chosen to to look. The gig economy had no problem finding hundreds of thousands of folks already psychologically suited to it; and not the massive frustration of liberal bureaucrats that they can’t control it; before Uber there were Gypsy cabs.
The scope of system failure will increase the scope of the gig to where mayors and governors defy authority, much as they tolerated gambling abd red light districts long before such things were ‘legal’.
A failed government has failed. There is nothing much about the European community that the constituent countries need, and not much in Washington that helps the states a lot.
Add to the energy failure a debt service crisis as interest rates rise — A government that can’t pay its bills and can’t keep the lights on will usually make one last effort to stay in power through use of force.
What force?
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Just make sure the police and the army keep getting paid
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He led UK’s covid lockups but there was no conflict of interest.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/23/revealed-sir-patrick-vallance-has-600000-shareholding-firm-contracted/
Revealed: Sir Patrick Vallance has £600,000 shareholding in firm contracted to develop vaccines
Government denies claims of potential conflict of interest, maintaining he is not involved in commercial decisions on coronavirus vaccines
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has a £600,000 shareholding in a drugs giant contracted to develop a Covid-19 vaccine for the Government, prompting claims of a potential conflict of interest….
(PAYWALLED)
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He also claimed Vitamin D was ineffective in the deficient for preventing or minimising the severity of covid.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/speech-by-sir-patrick-vallance-at-policy-that-works-2022
Presumably the study cited was designed to fail because other studies show that it is effective.
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I think that it has been proven that vitamin D supplements to people who were deficient (or low) benefited from vitamin D supplements.
Most Australians fit that description in the winter season.
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Only in Canada.
Frost advisory in effect for:
Avalon Peninsula North
Frost may damage some crops in frost-prone areas.
Locations: most areas of Newfoundland (away from the immediate coast).
Minimum temperatures: -4 to +2 in low lying areas (coldest in central Newfoundland), and +3 to +8 elsewhere (mildest along the coastline).
Time span: overnight into early Wednesday morning.
Remarks: A combination of clear skies and light winds will allow temperatures to fall to near or below freezing by Wednesday morning over most locations away from the modifying influence of the ocean.
Cover up plants, especially those in frost-prone areas.
Frost advisories are issued when temperatures are expected to reach the freezing mark during the growing season, leading to potential damage and destruction to plants and crops.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or tweet reports using #NLwx.
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The next information statement will be issued by 9:00 p.m. ADT this evening with regular 6 hourly bulletins beginning 9 a.m. ADT Wednesday.
Note: this update is to include Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick that was mistakenly not included in the original statement. Remainder of text unchanged.
Hurricane Fiona expected to impact Atlantic Canada land areas Saturday and southern offshore areas Friday.
The CHC is monitoring category 3 Hurricane Fiona east of the Bahamas as of Tuesday morning. This storm is expected to travel northward this week and transform into a large and potent post-tropical storm by Saturday. Most computer weather models are predicting this evolution. Currently the range of uncertainty with regard to the centre of the low when it approaches is approximately an 800 kilometre wide zone (cone of uncertainty) centered near eastern Cape Breton. Since we expect the storm to become quite large, the impact area will be very broad. The CHC will begin regular 6-hourly bulletin updates tonight or early Wednesday.
Forecaster: Fogarty.
Please continue to monitor alerts issued by the Canadian Hurricane Centre and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
https://weather.gc.ca/data/hurricane_images/track.png
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Tesla problems
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/canadian-man-says-tesla-locked-out-until-changes-battery
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Bosch Warns Electric Vehicle Industry over Reliance on Battery Cells
Bloomberg reports that Markus Heyn, the head of mobility services for Bosch, has warned the electric vehicle industry over its overreliance on a single fuel source — battery cells — as Europe’s energy crisis worsens.
Heyn, who’s also a board member of the auto parts giant, told the Monday edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung: “We’re currently seeing the consequences of the gas shortage for Germany and Europe because we prepared too few alternatives. In the automotive industry, we should use this occasion to ask ourselves what we can do if there should ever be too few battery cells.”
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Deja brew: US could face ANOTHER beer shortage after extinct Mississippi volcano contaminated the country’s largest CO2 reserve – causing shortage in the sector that could see prices quadruple
. The price of carbon dioxide – a vital component for beer production – has risen fourfold, Axios reported on Monday
. CO2 has been in short supply for several years as the pandemic forced people to drink from home: CO2 is needed in beer and sodas
. Now raw gas from a mine has seeped into the Jackson Dome, an extinct volcano in Mississippi that provides much of the country’s supply of CO2
. The contamination at the site, operated since 1977, has reduced the amount of food-grade CO2 available
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Our biggest peacetime policy blunder ever
Rafe Champion Posted on September 21, 2022
Epic Failure of Planning for the Green Energy Transition
Briefing Note 22.9 September 2022
Purpose: To signal that the transition from coal cannot go any further without nuclear power.
The critical issue.
The combination of wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage dictate that any further loss of coal-fired power capacity will pose serious dangers whenever the wind supply is low.
This means that the green power transition cannot accelerate and it may have to stop until nuclear power is up and running.
An epic failure of planning
Readily available evidence on the frequency and extent of wind droughts across SE Australia (the NEM) was apparently ignored or discounted.
Billions of dollars have been spent on assets which cannot replace conventional power in the grid and would be stranded without subsidies and mandates to use wind and solar power.
Imagine a gigantic irrigation scheme with no reliable water supply!
Many billions more will have to be spent to keep coal and gas facilities on line until nuclear power is available.
Conclusion.
The decision to allow subsidised and mandated intermittent energy to connect to the grid is probably the greatest peacetime public policy blunder in Australian history.
Supporting information.
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Australia’s Future shown by California
Here’s California Flooring It to the ‘Clean’ Energy Future … With Its Transmission Slipping Badly
By Steve Miller, RealClearInvestigations
August 25, 2022
CALIFORNIA CITY — California’s precariously out-of-date hybrid power grid can’t handle the state’s growing amounts of solar and wind energy coming online, with system managers already forcing repeated cutbacks in renewables and a continued reliance on conventional energy to keep the grid stable, according to state data.
The shortcomings of the transmission grid, which energy consultants in this bellwether state have warned about for years, raise the prospect that marquee products of the growing battery economy such as electric vehicles – “emission free” on the road – will be recharged mainly from traditional electricity-generating power plants: energy from fossil fuels, some of it from out of state.
Writ large, the transmission problem threatens the zero-carbon future envisioned by green advocates nationwide. “We’re headed toward duplicate systems whose only benefit is to permit the occasional use of ‘clean power,’” said Grant Ellis, an independent electrical engineering consultant in Texas.
California, along with the rest of the desert Southwest, is adding solar and wind installations at a rapid pace. The state is projected to add four gigawatts of utility-scale solar energy this year alone, enough to power 2.8 million homes. The question is whether that’s going to be enough.
So-called “curtailments” of renewable power have become much more frequent for the state’s blackout-prone power grid because the state hasn’t constructed enough transmission lines, transformers, poles, and other infrastructure to keep up. The amount of renewable energy curtailed in California tripled between 2018 and 2021, according to operator statistics.
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If he thinks the issue is that the “state hasn’t constructed enough transmission lines, transformers, poles, and other infrastructure to keep up.” then he doesnt understand the core problem. Either that or he is dumbing it down to talking about poles and wires rather than talking about the nightmare buried in the “other infrastructure” part.
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Achtung! Producer Prices in Germany Jump 7.9 Percent in August to 45.8 Percent, Highest Jump in Prices in History of German Economy
September 20, 2022 – sundance
The statistics behind the energy impact upon the German economy, the largest economy in the European Union, are almost unfathomable in scale. There is no way for the German industrial economy to continue with this level of price pressure. Stick a fork in the current creation of German industrial products and exports, the inflection point of feasibility for continued production has been crossed. They are done.
According to release statistics from the German economic ministry, energy prices in August were more than double the same period last year, up 139%. The monthly increase was more than 20.4% higher than July. Additionally, producer prices for electricity rose 174.9% compared with August 2021 and by 26.4% in a single month.
This jaw-dropping increase in energy cost has resulted in German manufacturing prices for industrial goods jumping 7.9% in August alone, with a year-over-year increase in the cost to manufacture goods at 45.8%. That is the highest rate of price increase since Germany began recording their statistics in 1939.
What does this mean in practical terms?
Firstly, it means the people within Germany and the larger EU will not be able to afford goods if the increased price to manufacture them is passed on to customers. German industrial goods, including the heavily dependent auto sector, will hit the market at double the price from last year. Exported goods, again assuming the government doesn’t provide some sort of subsidy to offset, would also double.
Secondly, it means the prices of used goods will increase in value. With imported vehicles holding that scale of increased manufacturing price, I would expect to see German automobile dealers in the U.S. sending out incentives to purchase used BMW’s, Audi’s and Mercedes for the products that are not produced in North America.
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Well worth reading IMO
“The Great Pretending – Denial of Truth Allows Easier Trespass
September 20, 2022 | sundance | 236 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/20/the-great-pretending/
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More Martha’s Vineyard
“Hypocrisy So Thick, You Could Build a Wall With It!”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/09/20/hypocrisy-so-thick-you-could-build-a-wall-with-it/
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SAY HIS NAME: 18-Year-Old Cayler Ellingson Murdered by Angry Democrat Two Weeks After Joe Biden’s Demonic Speech Declaring Republicans Enemies of the State
By Jim Hoft
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Time to check-in on the Republic of Ireland: How are they coping under the strains of forced multiculturalism?
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Top Endersays:
September 21, 2022 at 8:21 am
Governmental incompetence:
Sort of like the Pell case, and the Dawson case, and the VikPol being used for political cases, and the climate change rorting, and the pushing of EVs and….
They knew it was dubious but didn’t say a word
HEDLEY THOMAS
Scientists who use clumsily complicated explanations of the process of taking and testing DNA are apt to baffle the rest of us.
Instead, Queensland Health scientist-managers in charge of the lab take it upon themselves to play god with the potentially incriminating evidence.
These public servants – who would be stood down for incompetence if they were in the private sector – have put the lab’s KPIs and obsession with backlog and waiting lists ahead of the safety of the wider public.
The effect of their wrongheaded decisions to minimise testing and mislead the criminal justice system with untrue reporting about the potential presence of DNA in crime scene samples will be obvious.
The effect, inevitably, is that dangerous criminals walk free. To offend again.
We’ll soon hear from some of the scientists who have been in charge of the laboratory as it got away with bad science for years. They will surely be compelled to give evidence in this inquiry.
Victims of crime stood no chance. The scientific managers even bamboozled heads of the Queensland police into accepting a substandard, unforgivable model of DNA detection.
And they, or more senior bureaucrats in charge, succeeded in spinning the Health Minister, Yvette D’Ath, and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk as The Australian and the Shandee’s Story podcast series were exposing the dire situation since late last year.
The public servants would have continued and got away with it too, were it not for the courage of forensic biologist Kirsty Wright. Dr Wright started out by highlighting in the podcast alarming problems with the testing of DNA in Shandee Blackburn’s 2013 murder. Then she kept going to prove gross negligence in numerous other cases.
Dr Wright told me in January this year when the politicians and bureaucrats were still hosing down calls for a public inquiry: “I said to you a few months ago, I think Shandee’s case is the tip of a really large iceberg. I really did not want that to be true.
“I feel sick to the bottom of my stomach that this is going on. And I understand the gravity of these findings. Something has to be done. This can’t be swept under the carpet.”
All those boffins and managers who tried to silence Kirsty Wright, who worked to undermine the concerns we were raising in Shandee’s Story, are arguably complicit in the attempted cover-up.
Why have other highly qualified scientists, who are still employed in the lab having adopted processes which they must have known were defective and certain to let criminals walk, not spoken up before?
What about the senior police with their own longtime misgivings? The state’s Ombudsman? The Crime and Corruption Commission? The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions?
If the watchdogs and pillars of the system have failed too, Walter Sofronoff’s inquiry might tell us why.
In 2005 after a commission of inquiry run by former Supreme Court judge Geoff Davies into the dysfunction in Queensland Health, he described “a culture of concealment”. The problems were ingrained. Systemic. History repeats itself. Poor DNA detection rates from the DNA lab have been talked about behind closed doors by cops and lawyers and scientists for years.
They knew the lab was dodgy, perhaps broken, but they couldn’t get behind the screens to work it all out. They didn’t speak up.
As a result, a hidden crisis gathered momentum, affecting more cases – until Dr Wright, with a bit of spare time on her hands, agreed to help me understand a suspicious lack of DNA evidence in the brutal stabbing murder of Shandee Blackburn as she walked home from work in the sugar and mining town of Mackay in central Queensland.
The inquiry head, Mr Sofronoff, and his team of lawyers and investigators are all over it now.
Let his public inquiry remove the deeply misleading scientific veil and tell Queenslanders, in blunt terms, what has gone wrong, who is responsible, why they got away with it, and how the system gets fixed.
With proper retesting of the DNA at major crime scenes, there’s still a chance the police can arrest and charge the criminals who were permitted to get away with their violent deeds for years.
That should become the unrelenting focus of the cops for years ahead.
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“Until we meet again”
“Red roses hit the side of the state hearse as the Queen’s coffin was driven from London to Windsor at the conclusion of the funeral. By the time the procession reached Windsor Castle, many flowers had caught against the windscreen and lay atop the glass body of the vehicle, held in place by nothing except the grace of fate. They were left there – an unplanned tribute in an otherwise meticulously orchestrated event.”
More at
https://spectator.com.au/2022/09/until-we-meet-again/
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Lemon squeezed! CNN host is stunned into silence when royal commentator says African kings – not British royals – should pay reparations for slavery because ‘THEY rounded up their own people and had them waiting in cages on the beaches’
. CNN host Don Lemon was stunned into silence by royal commentator’s remarks
. Lemon interviewed Hilary Fordwich last week, in a clip that went viral on Tuesday
. CNN host asked whether the British royal family should pay slavery reparations
. But Fordwich questioned his reasoning and placed the blame on African leaders
. She argued that any reparations should be paid by descendants of ‘African kings’
In in interview, Lemon had asked Fordwich: ‘Well, this is coming when… all of this wealth, and you hear about it, comes as England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on.
‘And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there.
‘Some people want to be paid back and members of the public are wondering, why are we suffering when you have all of this vast wealth? Those are legitimate concerns.’
Fordwich answered: ‘Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of if people want it though. What they need to do – is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain, where was the beginning of the supply chain?
‘That was in Africa, and when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place. Which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? The first nation in the world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British,’ she said.
Britain in 1833 passed the Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies.
Fordwich continued: ‘In Great Britain, they abolished slavery. Two thousand Naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery.
Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people, they had them on cages waiting in the beaches, no one was running into Africa to get them.
‘And I think you’re totally right. If reparations needs to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages? Absolutely. That’s where they should start.
‘And maybe, I don’t know, the descendants of those families where they died at the in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, that those families should receive something too I think at the same time.’
The royal commentator’s response immediately silenced Lemon as he decided to conclude the interview.
‘It’s an interesting discussion,’ Lemon said. ‘Thank you so much, I appreciate it. We’ll continue to discuss in the future.’
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https://youtu.be/uBBLNeCFl80
The British Empire on slavery
https://youtu.be/TiSekII0sjw
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NoWIZv96KU
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“Our biggest peacetime policy blunder ever”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/21/our-biggest-peacetime-policy-blunder-ever/
Mods – delete if considered “political”
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New study finds that CO2 is unrelated to the big wet in Oz.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/09/20/natural-oceanic-cycles-behind-heavy-east-australia-rains-new-study-finds/
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“Important New Paper Challenges IPCC’s Claims about Climate Sensitivity”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/20/important-new-paper-challenges-ipccs-claims-about-climate-sensitivity/
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Hanrahan
More on the Canadian oil patch upgraders
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/09/19/devines-upgraders-part-5/
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/09/20/devines-upgraders-part-6/#comments
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Part 6 gives a lesson on how “success” can be manipulated by the end points selected
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