Saturday Open Thread

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    OldOzzie

    WHAT IS A WOMAN?

    Gender confusion has swept across the land, with the prescient lyrics of “Lola” now taken by academia as aspirational. Man today, woman tomorrow: you got a problem with that? Well, yes, most of us do. But not many have the courage and skill to fight back effectively. So far, the most powerful pushback has come from Daily Wire, in the film “What Is a Woman?,” starring Matt Walsh and produced and directed by Justin Folk.

    Matt Walsh had the brilliant insight that the simple question–what is a woman?–is unanswerable by the trans lobby and exposes the incoherence of the radical gender edifice. Senator Marsha Blackburn put the principle to use in her questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who professed herself unable to solve the riddle because she is not a biologist.

    As “What Is a Woman?” shows, being a biologist wouldn’t help if you are a gender ideologue. The film is brilliant.

    Walsh goes from place to place, trying to find someone who can tell him what a woman is. You might think that at a “women’s march,” everyone would know the answer to that question. No such luck. You might think that distinguished academics, therapists and surgeons who make lots of money from the trans zeitgeist would be able to tell us. Nope.

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    OldOzzie

    The Media’s Rank Dishonesty About ‘Climate Change’ And Hurricane Ian

    Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, has documented that the mainstream media reliably jumped on Hurricane Ian to play their role as the climate hysterics’ echo chamber. The Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and ABC News all ran stories claiming hurricane frequency is on the rise, and that climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes.

    Shellenberger insists that all such claims are false. “The increasing cost of hurricane damage can be explained entirely by more people and more property in harm’s way,” he wrote in a blog piece entitled, “Media Lying About Climate and Hurricanes,” published on his website. “Consider how much more developed Miami Beach is today compared to a century ago. Once you adjust for rising wealth, there is no trend of increased damage.” Shellenberger also charges that both the Financial Times and the New York Times misrepresented data from the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), purporting to show rising hurricane frequency in landfalls hitting the United States.

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      Graeme No.3

      OldOzzie:
      The old newspaper headline
      Miami Sept 1926 50 miles of coastline destroyed by hurricane, about 50 dead and 38,000 homeless.

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    Fuel Filter

    Good enough for government work…

    Old Joe Biden suddenly cares if something is made in America? What’s next? Is he going to put on a Make America Great Again hat? The cynicism of all this is astounding, because the last thing Joe Biden and the Democrats are going to do is ever govern like “MAGA Republicans.” They’ll sound all the right notes for the next few weeks, but as soon as the election is over, they’ll go right back to implementing their socialist internationalist program.

    So here are two words for Joe Biden: You’re a liar. (That’s using Biden Math, not the real thing.) You don’t care if anything is “made in America,” and your craven attempt to fool the American people is yet another blot on your record, as if it weren’t already stained beyond belief with the fifty-year record of your dishonesty and corruption. Two more words, Joe, in real math: Resign. Now.

    @ https://coldfury.com/2022/10/08/good-enough-for-government-work/

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      tonyb

      Do you remember those days when Biden was vice president to Obama who said he would make a terrible President. Thank goodness Biden never achieved that Rank….He what? You’re not serious?

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      Graham Richards

      If I didn’t know better I’d say you were talking about Each Way Albo.

      Where’s my $275.00 for my power bill, where are the tax cuts going, where is the cheap energy from the moron that identifies as an energy minister.

      Before you can say “next election” the country will be an economic mess in true ALP tradition. This time the LNP won’t be able to fix it either because they have been doing their level best to out perform the ALP in the race to the bottom with their version of SOCIALISM!!

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      Terraforming Earth

      Made in America was doomed once Kissinger put the petrodollar system together. This system gave some New York banks immense power, robbed the small towns of monetary base, and kept the dollar perpetually overvalued. Its amazing they have been able to survive as long as they have. With such a permanent handicap to exporters hanging around their neck the whole time. People have gotten so used to this system that there is a rumour going around that the country who has the international currency has to run trade deficits. This is complete nonsense. If they want to hold the currency in a sustainable way they should have run trade surpluses. they should have lent more than they borrowed.

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      Zane

      Biden and the demon rats do what the deep state and oligarchy tell them to.

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    OldOzzie

    The Price of Biden’s Winter

    Less than two years into Biden’s term, such generosity of spirit exhibited by the twice-denied quasi-Democrat is no longer puzzling. We see that although it’s Joe’s butt occupying the Oval Office chair, the policy shots being called are strictly from the Sanderista playbook. Consequently, this winter we stand to be the unwilling eggs broken in a Bernie omelet; one that finally road tests his previously considered crackpot beliefs in socialist economic theory and strong-armed environmentalism.

    The bill for maintaining peace in the Democrat party and the nomination of the appropriate “winning” cutout will finally come due amid winter’s freezing temperatures, accompanied by potentially dangerous food and fuel shortages and prices climbing too rapidly to be painlessly absorbed by any other than the wealthy.

    But an unwelcome visitor named Vladimir has crashed the Bernie-Biden “transition”; dumping a bucket full of fittingly cold water on the dream-like leftist abstractions guiding their way forward. And he’s driving a tank, not a Tesla.

    It’s a great historical irony that Russia, the site of the most momentous collapse of socialism/communism to date, is the nation that’s thrown the biggest monkey wrench into the fossil-free plans of Euro-American neo-liberals.

    Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – hopefully an ill-fated venture, but still more an expression of tsarist, rather than communist nostalgia – by multiplying the damage done to Western economies begun by their own short-sighted leaders, can ultimately act as a sort of October Revolution in reverse: painfully and with growing hardship illustrating the bankruptcy of half-baked theories of an uplifting socialism featuring “renewable” energy and unrestrained social spending that makes it unnecessary to seek work.

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    OldOzzie

    It’s Biden Threatening Nuclear Armageddon After Six Years of Media Freakout Over Trump Tweets

    Joe Biden is not a real president.

    Did anyone else burst into a bout of uncontrollable, psychotic laughter upon reading the report that President Biden just told a room full of Democrat donors that the risk of nuclear “armageddon” has arrived?

    I can’t be the only one. Here are some headlines from the not-too-distant past that immediately came to mind:

    “We must Trump-proof the nuclear codes before 2024″— NBC News, March 12, 2022

    “Gen. Milley feared Trump might launch nuclear attack, made secret calls to China, new book says”— USA Today, Sept. 14, 2021

    “Trump is leading us into nuclear war, says Daniel Ellsberg (and he should know, he used to plan them)”— Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Feb. 1, 2018

    “Donald Trump’s Nuclear-War Threat”— The New Yorker, Aug. 9, 2017

    “Clinton Says Trump Could Lead US Into Nuclear War”— Roll Call, June 2, 2016

    So, wait a second. You mean we just spent the last six years with all of Washington and the national media swearing to voters that Trump had us on the brink of nuclear annihilation, only for it to be Biden, their choice for president, to get us right up on the cliff’s edge?

    If that doesn’t have you pulling tufts of hair out of your scalp until it bleeds, check your pulse.

    This can’t be real. Biden has to be fake. This must be a computer simulation.

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    Fuel Filter

    Mangled Experiments of the Psychotics…

    “Those who claim this is not a communist country can’t explain why, despite all of the evidence, the conviction of Ghisaline Maxwell, the death of Epstein in jail, where cameras record everything, but were “off” during that moment, has produced not one indictment of their clients. They can’t explain why, despite all of the evidence on Hunter’s laptop, that not one indictment has taken place, despite the rampant criminal activity exposed there from payoffs, pay-to-play schemes involving not only Vice President Joe Biden, but current officeholder Joe Biden. Child sex trafficking and victimization are exposed, but not one indictment. They can’t explain why, despite all of the evidence, not one indictment has been brought concerning the massive influx of ballots from Zuckerberg financed drop boxes, despite video evidence and GPS locations tracking the mules stuffing the ballot boxes. Not one election-related indictment has been brought, even though Zuckerberg admits that the FBI asked him to interfere in the election by silencing one of the candidates and censoring truthful claims about Hunter’s laptop. There has not been one indictment, despite all the evidence that an invasion is taking place on the southern border, that drug trafficking and sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking is facilitated by the open border.”

    “This does not happen in a republic where all are equal before the law, where the rule of law and specifically NOT of men are enshrined. This sort of politicization of the law only takes place in a totalitarian/communist regime where the media is either intimidated into cooperation or are totalitarian communists themselves.”

    RTWT@ https://tldavis.substack.com/p/mangled-experiments-of-the-psychotics

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      Zane

      I doubt very much that Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He’s either sunning himself in Mexico or wearing a baseball cap and chowing down on a Reuben’s at a deli in Montreal right now.

      The CIA takes care of its own.

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    OldOzzie

    Las Vegas stabbing spree suspect in US illegally, has criminal record: report

    The man charged with fatally stabbing two people and wounding six others during a crazed rampage on the Las Vegas strip was in the United States illegally and has a criminal record, according to a report.

    The 32-year-old alleged attacker, Yoni Barrios, is a Guatemalan national with a criminal record in California, a source with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox News.

    Barrios was charged with two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder in the senseless broad-daylight attack.

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    Fuel Filter

    November Surprise?

    “It is obvious in everything they do, from the FBI swat-team home invasions of select opponents and the gross mistreatment of the January 6 defendants, to the craven censoring of public speech, to the imposition of medical tyranny and the deadly fraud of Covid shots, to the degenerate insults of their race-and-gender hustles, to their assault on the value of our money, to their sabotage of the oil-and-gas industries, to their treasonous abandonment of border control, to the deliberate perversion of policing and public order, to their promulgation of a faithless and unnecessary war, sharply against our national interests, in faraway Ukraine.”

    “I’m strangely confident that there is a hidden column of people that love this country who will not allow this final insulting scam to succeed. Its appearance among us will shock and amaze the multitudes. The rule of the Woke Jacobin maniacs will end. And even though we’ll have to live through the wreckage they brought about, we’ll move about this strange new landscape of hardship in the light of reality-made-visible, seeing clearly what has happened and knowing what we must do to revive our country.”

    RTWT @ https:/Kunstler.com/cluster(you-know-what)-nation/November-surprise/

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      GreatAuntJanet

      Re-reading Gulag Archipelago at the moment and struck especially by the vivid descriptions of the oppression of the citizens. There are so many match-ups with today’s western dictatorships occupied by the power-grabbing elite, sure of what we need ‘for our own good’.

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        Kippax

        One of my favourite books. IMHO, it should be taught at school.
        I’m a big fan of Solzhenitsyn’s writings. I’ve just read ‘In the First Circle’ for the first time.
        The most poignant lesson for me is that all ideology is evil.

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        Terraforming Earth

        Same networks. The leopard never changes his spots.

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    Fuel Filter

    Two more on the vaxxxes…

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-07-mrna-covid-vaccines-increase-hospitalization-death-risk.html

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-big-fl-surgeon-general-finds-84-increase-cardiac-related-death-males-18-39-following-mrna-vaccine-recommends-young-males-refrain-receiving-covid-vaccine/

    I’m happy to say I never took ANY of those jabs and got along fine in Arizona. I never even put on a face diaper! Told places where I shopped I had COPD (which I actually do) so no masks for me and I got along fine.

    I am soooo glad I left California when I did six years ago.

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    Heartland weighs in on whales versus wind.

    https://www.cfact.org/2022/10/07/james-taylor-on-oann-dominions-wind-project-nail-in-the-coffin-for-right-whale/

    We are getting noticed. Dominion has even attacked us in the press.

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    Here is Dominion Energy’s hit on our “Save the whales from OSW” campaign:

    “Dominion Energy spokesperson Jeremy Slayton said in a statement, “These groups lack credibility on environmental issues. They are climate change deniers and oppose offshore wind for political purposes. Dominion Energy is a leader in protecting the environment. We are investing in numerous zero carbon and low carbon technologies for our customers’ benefit.”

    Slayton listed protections including NOAA restrictions on pile driving foundation in the water during right whale migration through Virginia waters, bubble curtains to mitigate sound waves from pile driving, and certified Protected Species Observers. The utility also touts collaboration with Duke University and the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative as it considers mitigation measures.

    He said, “For our Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, we have taken concrete steps to protect the right whales and their migration path. No underwater construction will occur during the migration season, and the turbines will be spaced about a mile apart to avoid disturbing their path.””

    Here is my reply:
    Re 1 mile spacing. The study I reference in “How to kill whales with offshore wind” says that the excessive noise from a smaller 10MW turbine carries over a mile. Thus the noise from each of Dominion’s 15 MW turbines will overlap with multiple others. This will create a veritable wall of noise the whales are almost certain to avoid, pushing them into heavy traffic.

    https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/27/how-to-kill-whales-with-offshore-wind/

    Re bubble curtains in my Noise article I cite the federal science site that says pile driving is still “incredibly loud”, so that measure is useless.

    https://www.cfact.org/2022/07/26/threat-to-endangered-whales-gets-louder/

    Dominion’s primary mitigation strategy seems to be watching out for the whales. But the number of sightings is very small compared to the population that migrates thru twice a year so that strategy is ineffective.

    As for not pile driving during migration, BOEM’s own research shows that whales can be present year round. There is no narrow migration season.

    As for slandering CFACT et al, as skeptics of OSW they are able to take the hard look necessary to protect the whales. OSW is an environmentalist cause and to date no environmentalist whale protection group has even publicly spoken about the OSW issue. These skeptics are the whales best hope.

    In fact Dominion’s assessment of threats to the whales is secret!
    https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/15/dominion-hides-osw-threat-to-whales/
    One wonders why?

    Wind versus whales is a very serious issue.

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    Fuel Filter

    TEOTWAWKI Stuff

    A few quotes. There’s also a 1:30 vid that all should first watch at the top of the post.

    “It’s estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food on hand. In poor minority areas, it may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but ERROR? This could also be the result of deliberate sabotage by hackers, or other technical system failures. Alternatively, the government might pump endless digits into the cards in a hopeless attempt to outpace future hyperinflation. The government can order the supermarkets to honor the cards, and it can even set price controls, but history’s verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or blinking digits, the food will stop.”

    “When the rule of law ceases to exist, and damn son we are close to that point now, the worst dregs of society won’t hesitate for even a moment before they kick off an orgy of theft, assault, rape and murder. They are already mostly out of control but when the rule of law ceases to function, it won’t be long before the chaos really kicks off.”

        

    “This will of course be most pronounced in urban areas where the rule of law barely exists as it is. There will be a tipping point where the remaining cops will be overwhelmed and so outnumbered that they stop responding to calls at all. The ferals will sense this long before media reports it, the word will spread like wildfire among the ghetto-dwellers that they capped Da’Lishush and the cops never ever showed up.”

    “The important takeaway here is that the response time to WROL [“Without Rule Of Law”] will be far shorter for people operating on the fringe of lawlessness or already over the line anyway compared to suburbanites and others who fall under the umbrella of “law abiding.” Those who hold up “The Law” like a talisman to keep them safe will take much longer to abandon that mindset and that delay might be fatal.”

    RTWT @ https://www.libertystorch.info/2022/10/07/teotwawki-stuff/

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    John Connor II

    Saturday Open Thread

    I’m not falling for that one!

    Is it Sunday already? 😆

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    Fuel Filter

    Two more. Very dark but quite plausible in America’s near future.

    If we win big in November count on it. If we lose, a lesser probability but in slower motion. AntiFa and BLM will then have a green light to do whatever they want. Thank God we still have our 2nd Amendment to protect us from them. Which is why I moved from a big city (Phoenix) to a **much** smaller AZ city with only about 20,000 folk with a heavy concentration of American patriots.

    https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/05/when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/

    https://www.arthursido.com/2022/10/proactive-pest-removal.html?m=1

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    Fuel Filter

    US Intelligence Warning: China Escalating Influence Operations (right here in my country…)

    “In reality, the organization is actually a front for the foreign influence efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It has been operating successfully in the US for decades, especially by forging numerous sister-city relationships with US cities to influence local US political, business, media and educational leaders. There are more than 200 sister city pairs and 50 sister state/province partnerships between the US and China, and such partnerships, according to US intelligence, can also include business, technical, cultural and educational exchanges between US and Chinese communities.”

    RTWT @ https://www.americanpartisan.org/2022/10/us-intelligence-warning-china-escalating-influence-operations/

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      KP

      “according to US intelligence”

      Cuts both ways…Why would you need ‘US Intelligence’ if you weren’t trying to influence others countries all around the world. I’d say the USA has been the biggest ‘influencer’ since WW2, picking certain people to rule in almost every country except those that resist, and THEY end up on the ‘naughty list’ like North Korea, China, Russia, Iran…

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    Fuel Filter

    FRED REED: A Diagnostic Letter To Our Euro-Peon Vassals, Who Are Dumber Than The Better Class Of Nematode

    “Well, I declare. I hear you Europeans bleating and hollering about how unfair life is and you don’t have gas to keep warm if it gets cold in winter, which generally it does, and everything costs too much. Fact is, you deserve it. To be honest, which we journalists sometimes do, I think it’s amusing. It’s like watching a man beating his thumb with a hammer and saying, oh ouch, oh ouch, it hurts, oh ouch, it hurts and can’t figure out why. It’s because Europeans are so easily led, managed, dominated by the fetid Yankee Rome in Washington, which regards you as trained seals. I’ve known fire plugs, even toaster ovens, more intelligent than you are.”

    “But the funniest part was blowing up the pipelines. Yes. See, Washington couldn’t let Germany, the only potentially serious country in Europe, except it really isn’t one, trade with Russia and China. So it gets the war going in Ukraine, easy with malleable European dimwits, and then…blows up the pipelines! Simple, direct, and effective. The amusing thing is that everyone in Brussels knows perfectly well that America did it, as must every European with the IQ of a doorknob, but none of you weak sisters has the dangling ellipsoidals to say so, because then you would have to do something about it, and you are scared unto death of the United States. Of which the United States is well aware and so, reasonably, holds you in contempt. I do too. I mean doesn’t everybody?”

    RTWT (outrageously funny!)@ https://barelyablog.com/fred-reed-a-diagnostic-letter-to-our-euro-peon-vassals-who-are-dumber-than-the-better-class-of-nematode/

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    WHY CLIMATE HYSTERIA IS FAKE AND WHY DOLLAR DEPRECIATION IS REAL
    COMPARING HURRICANES IAN AND ALICIA TO HURRICANE BIDEN

    I was in Hurricane Alicia in Galveston, TX in 1983. Its an awesome sight to see a 12meter(40ft) sailboat on a major freeway laying on its side 10 miles inland from the coast. The sailboat halted freeway traffic for four hours.

    I would categorize the Hurricane Biden a Cat198 hurricane compared to the Ian Cat4 as Biden has done more damage as a career politician than any hurricane in the past 50 years he has been in politics. The purchasing power of a USD has been destroyed to the point where a USD buys 198% less than it did in 1983. This is the real reason why the dollar damage is higher now. Its not climate change! In fact instead of “climate change” we need a “regime change” even more. No more Biden. No more DNC and no more Davos!

    IAN = CAT4
    ALICIA = CAT 3 w/209KPH GUSTS

    IAN IN FLORIDA 2022
    ALICIA IN TEXAS 1983

    US DEBT 2022 = $31TRIL DEBT TO GDP 123%
    US DEBT 1983 = $1.37TRIL DEBT TO GDP 37%

    MEDIAN US HOME PRICE 2022 = $346,900USD
    MEDIAN US HOME PRICE 1983 = $75,300USD

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      Rubbish. All other Currencies are falling down while the US Dollar rides high. And maybe the Rubble is doing OK, errrrrr, I mean the Ruble but only with those silly Sanctions.

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        John Connor II

        Correct. The USD is still a “safe haven” for now at least. If in doubt watch the EU in the next few months.
        Idiotic claims of its imminent demise have been spouted for decades, especially by the likes of Alex Jones and his ex-expert “insider” Lindsey Williams who claimed “the USD will be dead by the end of 2012” and which I called BS to back then.😁
        As for the future, a basket of currencies and SDR’s seems certain.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Happy birthday Putin.
    Crimea bridge explosion.
    https://youtu.be/fxgWCsampJg

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      Terraforming Earth

      What a great precedent …….. (not). The Russians could take out London bridge one day and Sydney Harbour bridge the next. We don’t want to be celebrating the destruction of infrastructure as a valid war aim. Thats a good way to send us back to mud huts in a jiffy.

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      Oct 9, 2022 President Vladimir Putin has gifted Russia something big on his 70th birthday. He has just snatched a huge oil and gas project from the United States of America. Putin signed a decree on the 7th of October that will make Russia take over the operations of the Exxon Mobil in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project. Exxon Mobil is an American energy giant. Russia is now the biggest operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project, located off the coast of Sakhalin Island in Russia’s far east. The takeover of Exxon is yet another of Vladimir Putin’s signature moves to grapple and choke western energy properties in Russia. Watch to know more

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzpkehcFG4

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    william x

    Great news, a major airline is fixing the contrails problem in aviation that is causing global warming.

    Header from website:

    “Etihad Airways performs 42 EcoFlights including 22 contrail flights over five days.”

    https://www.etihad.com/en-us/news/etihad-airways-performs-42-ecoflights-including-22-contrail-flights-over-five-days

    The results and data from Etihad’s Earth Day EcoFlight and Contrail flight testing programme will be formulated and analysed over the coming weeks,
    to be added to the knowledge base it has built to support the aviation industry on its journey to decarbonisation.

    (Ok my comment: how does reducing contrails link with carbon or decarbonisation?)

    747 Pilot, Kelsey from “74gear” responds to contrails causing global warming on his video blog.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psudp2wcGu8

    Titled: “The REAL Danger of Aviation”

    “I am always interested to see people come up with solutions to help protect the environment as I like to do my part,
    but this is one of the worst ideas I have read.”

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    CHRIS

    Hey Fuel Filter…get a life!

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    First it was Nasty Socialists and Soviet Socialists, now its Mass Murder by a collaboration between nasty left-wing Socialists and money obsessed Big Pharma criminals in a war against science and scientists.

    After millions of people have been vaccinated as often as four times within a year, the effects of these vaccinations are slowly
    becoming apparent. This review has been written from an Australian perspective with the main focus on the COVID-19 mRNA
    vaccines: https://opastpublishers.com/open-access/covid-19-vaccines-an-australian-review.pdf

    As scientists we put up hypotheses and test them using experiments. If a hypothesis is proven to be true according to current
    Knowledge it might still change over time when new evidence comes to light. Hence, sharing and accumulating knowledge is the most important part of science. The question arises when and why this process of science has been changed. No discussion of new knowledge disputing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines is allowed. Who gave bureaucrats the means to destroy the fundaments of science and tell scientists not to argue the science?

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    First it was Nasty Socialists and Soviet Socialists, now its Mass Murder by a collaboration between nasty left-wing Socialists and money obsessed Big Pharma criminals in a war against science and scientists. After millions of people have been vaccinated as often as four times within a year, the effects of these vaccinations are slowly becoming apparent. This review has been written from an Australian perspective with the main focus on the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: https://opastpublishers.com/open-access/covid-19-vaccines-an-australian-review.pdf

    As scientists we put up hypotheses and test them using experiments. If a hypothesis is proven to be true according to current
    Knowledge it might still change over time when new evidence comes to light. Hence, sharing and accumulating knowledge is the most important part of science. The question arises when and why this process of science has been changed. No discussion of new knowledge disputing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines is allowed. Who gave bureaucrats the means to destroy the fundaments of science and tell scientists not to argue the science?

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      Terraforming Earth

      There is a nasty strain of bad epistemology around that privileges whoever claims the mainstream view with enough media noise. I think of it as bipolar Popper extremism. So vaccines stay “safe and effective” in the mainstream when they never were either of these in reality. We have to believe that gravity is space bending because of some mischief with Mercury, even though nothing Mercury could ever do could justify this contention. And even though this is part of a confluence of error that completely alters our view of cosmology. Bad ideas get in the way of better ideas, but this dark epistemology tells us that the better ideas must be proven to the nth degree before we can deep-six the stupid notions claimed as mainstream. Actually the opposite is true. The bad ideas must be sent to the fires before we can find out what is actually going on. David Stove was a much better philosopher then Popper and did great takedowns of Poppers foolishness.

      I think the conservatives latched onto Popper because he had some kind of dialogue going with Hayek. But his silliness locked in the worst science lies imaginable. His ideas are so bad they come across as akin to a psy. op like with that conjurer who was big in the skeptics society. The amazing Randi used to have this website where all bad mainstream ideas were championed as holy writ. The phrases “Dunning Krueger” and “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” were always on the fingertips of the stupid people there.

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    OldOzzie

    Other fun thing with hurricanes is what they do to wind turbines and solar panels. 1 min 21 secs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAHJs-j3uw

    That’s from 2017 in Puerto Rico, which is a very lefty US territory. They love their green icons. Be interesting to know how the rebuilt turbines and panels did during hurricane Fiona which went through there on 18 Sep. Seems rather pointless to build a bunch of wind turbines and solar panels only for them to be blown away every five years or so.

    9-22-17 Puerto Rico Wind – Solar – Cellular Structures Destroyed – Aerial – 1 min 21 secs

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    OldOzzie

    Having Watched Ford vs Ferrari last night this brought a smile to my face this morning

    Ford F-150 Lightning Electric Truck

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      OldOzzie

      Rivian Recalls Nearly All Vehicles Due To ‘Loss Of Steering’ Threat

      Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is recalling nearly all of its vehicles delivered to customers for a structural defect that could cause drivers to lose steering control.

      Bloomberg said Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe sent a letter to customers about the recall. He explained a fastener “may not have been sufficiently torqued” and, in “rare circumstances,” could loosen fully.

      WSJ explained more about the “fastener connecting the upper control arm and steering knuckle may have been improperly installed … and could lead to a loss of steering control.”

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    Zane

    With one million Labor-voting immigrants pouring into Australia every 4 – 5 years and the loss of blue chip seats to the Teals, the LibNats may never win a Federal election again.

    Such is politics.

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      Terraforming Earth

      “It’s a pity both sides can’t lose” (Kissinger).

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      el+gordo

      Immigrants tend to be conservative.

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        KP

        “Immigrants tend to be conservative.”

        Absolute rubbish! Immigrants vote Left! Can you really believe the Left, who let immigrants flood into all the Western countries they control, would flood in voters who vote for the Right?

        Immigrant voters who would vote Conservative are sitting back in those immigrant countries being rich.

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          el+gordo

          This is a few years old, but is still valid.

          ‘ABC analysis of voting trends and Census data has revealed last election, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) polled strongly in electorates with the highest percentage of migrants in Australia, despite campaigning against further immigration.’ (ABC)

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            Terraforming Earth

            Thats happy news isn’t it? Fewer years being mentally abused by the Western Pravda. Well … Bravo.

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        Zane

        They live in Labor-voting areas.

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    “The SKY IS FALLING at the PNAS”

    “Professors call for more research into climate-change related threats to civilization”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/08/the-sky-is-falling-at-the-pnas/

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    OldOzzie

    MILITARY AFFAIRS – Ukraine SitRep – October 7

    The Russian army is leading globally in its abilities to wage electronic warfare. It can disable ground based radio traffic on any frequency. It has now found ways to also disable ground to satellite connections as used by the Starlink constellation.

    At the beginning of the war the Ukrainian military was supplied with thousands of Starlink ground terminals that can connect to the swarms of small Starlink satellites, which were financed by the Pentagon, but managed by Elon Musk’s companies. They allowed for communication between Ukrainian ground units as well as for general command and control of larger operations. Without Starlink the Ukrainian command will depend on cable based field telephone, runners and couriers. All of which are extremely vulnerable in an artillery rich environment.

    Since 2001 Russia developed the Tirada 2 electromagnetic system which can disable ground to satellite traffic in specific areas.

    The fact that the Russian Federation is working on the creation of weapons to suppress satellites was announced on November 30 last year by Oleg Achasov, deputy head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “46 Central Scientific Research Institute”.

    In November 2018, the FSB called the “threat to national security” a project to cover the globe with high-speed satellite Internet.

    The disablement of the Starlink communication traffic was only a question of time. The traffic had to be analyzed to identify the frequencies and algorithms used by the transmitter and receiver. Software had to be written to implement a matching radio jamming pattern. The hardware of the Tirada system was likely already sufficient to emit the appropriate patterns on the identified frequencies.

    As this system has now been proven to be effective in the field it will likely be made available on a wider scale. Russian electronic warfare equipment can already disable all ground radio traffic in specific areas. Soon all frontline communications of the Ukrainian forces will be disabled.

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      MrGrimNasty

      Straight from Putin’s mouth.

      Electronic warfare is nothing new, but Russians are well behind the game.

      They didn’t stop the bridge attack. Probably why they are claiming it was a car/truck bomb, it wasn’t.

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        Terraforming Earth

        Its pretty hard to stop stupid. You can only retaliate and try and reason with people that such targeting is bad for both sides. But if the other side doesn’t see reason and continues with their nihilism then you just have to punish the elites. Which Russia is quite capable of. They can put the horses head in anyones bed. They have missiles that can’t be intercepted and won’t be intercepted until there is ubiquitous laser coverage. They could target any bankers household until someone gets a clue about what is and isn’t valid warfare.

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      KP

      They’re too slow with it.. Last I read the Yanks put a screen in every Ukie vehicle that hooked into a satellite and gave a map of the transponders on every other Ukie APC/truck etc. Basically instant friend-or-foe discrimination in a war where both sides use the same equipment.

      Then they went and over-ran the Kherson area. Pro-Russian sites said they had painted the Z on their vehicles and the Russians couldn’t tell the difference until too late.

      The Russkies have always been slow with sophisticated high-tech ideas so they’re busy playing catch-up as the Yanks try out all their new toys. Warfare will be re-shaped after this.

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        Terraforming Earth

        When Nato went into Kherson they were punching air. The main Russian army had already vacated, but they were still able to shell the Nato forces and thin their numbers. So this was another loss for Nato. Trumpeted as a win on the television but a clear loss just the same. This is what happens when you put these ethnics in charge of a country. Instead of fighting a war they practice human sacrifice and media hype.

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          KP

          “media hype.”

          So much of it!! Just impossible to find a reasonable view of the war in any mainstream media, the propaganda and lies are right up there with the Covid story & vaccines.

          Defence Politics Asia on Youtube is my go-to now, they just agglomerate news snippets from both sides and lay it out on a map each day. Then its off to Telegram to get individual little stories of what is happening on the ground.

          Both sets of Govts must be running in circles trying to clamp down on social media releases while sucking up more information than their armies send back. That’s a real double-edged sword for them, mobile phones in the field are telling stories they don’t want to get out.

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            Terraforming Earth

            “….Both sets of Govts …” Just the one. Unless you speak Russian. There is only room for one banking/terrorism/media network in the West. They own youtube also, since google bought youtube. What strikes me as amazing is that the same aspirations as they had during the cold war are still there. Last time they wanted to steal everything through communism. This time they are stealing everything using banking. But the problems with stealing everything and communism didn’t go away. Some communists recognised the Von Mises contribution which said that pure communism was impossible because the price system information wouldn’t be there. So they thought they could put their faith in the then nascent computer revolution. And here it comes again. They want sensors everywhere measuring how the plants are growing. They want cameras everywhere watching us at work every moment and they’ve got them. The same degenerate losers are still there and they haven’t changed their spots. Its not only communism 2.0. Its mouse utopia all over again but this time with humans.

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        OldOzzie

        The Russkies have always been slow with sophisticated high-tech ideas so they’re busy playing catch-up as the Yanks try out all their new toys. Warfare will be re-shaped after this.

        Space Armageddon: Why the Pentagon fears Russia and China’s star wars weaponry

        Russia and China are both in a race to catch the US with their space warfare capabilities

        The Russians believe that taking away what they perceive as the technological “crutch,” could paralyze U.S. forces psychologically and disrupt the “kill chain,” preventing our weapons from reaching their targets. Chinese strategists call these disruptive technologies an “Assassin’s Mace,” a concept that conveys an inferior military countering superior one by leveling a playing field with much less expensive options. Remember when insurgents in Afghanistan destroyed expensive U.S. military hardware with homemade IEDs? At approximately $1.7 billion a pop, American space birds present attractive sitting ducks. Even the former STRATCOM commander Gen. John Hyten called U.S. space birds “big, fat, juicy targets.”

        Russia and China are developing and fielding a broad range of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. These include jammers, lasers, and orbital interceptors that cozy up to an adversary’s satellites to inspect or attack them. The advantage of less destructive options such as jamming and electronic warfare is that they can be used at the inception of a conflict to destabilize the opponent’s society and create chaos. Imagine not being able to get cash out of an ATM, fill up your car with gas or being stuck in traffic jam on the way to an emergency room.

        The most destructive ASAT is a ground-based direct-ascent mobile missile, such as Russia’s PL-19 Nudol, which is capable of permanently destroying spacecraft in low-earth orbit. Russia tested Nudol in November 2021, against a live target, a Russian satellite COSMOS 1408, destroying it and creating 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris. Last year, China performed a dual test of a hypersonic weapon and a fractional orbital bombardment, the capability that the head of U.S. Strategic Command described as “never before seen in the world.”

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          John Connor II

          The Russkies have always been slow with sophisticated high-tech ideas so they’re busy playing catch-up as the Yanks try out all their new toys

          Typical western lefty garbage news.
          The Russkies are YEARS ahead of the decrepit USSA.
          They also built a huge number of nuclear shelters for their population years ago, not just DUMBS like the USSA has.
          USSA citizens are expendable come d-day.
          If only the corrupt MSM had enough brain power to work that out.

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            Zane

            Russia is a failed state. No amount of hypersonic hoohah will change that.

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              Terraforming Earth

              You may be out of date here. I think you are up to date generally. If you say that about Russia in the absolute sense I will say “sure they suck”. But if you are comparing them to everyone else, they are kicking ass. In fact the rest of us are just mucking about, in comparison to Russia.

              Who is doing well? Singapore, Liechtenstein, Finland, Switzerland, Holland if they don’t have their agriculture destroyed. …… how many others? Russia is not best pound for pound. But Russia is best in their weight division for the moment. France is at least being responsible from the point of view of defence and energy production. But France can’t seriously go toe to toe with Russia.

              And the Russians have for the moment won the arms race. The Russians are the leading military power in the world. Not as a result of their personal excellence. But just because our American allies are so useless now.

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        Terraforming Earth

        “They’re too slow with it.. Last I read the Yanks put a screen in every Ukie vehicle that hooked into a satellite and gave a map of the transponders on every other Ukie APC/truck etc. Basically instant friend-or-foe discrimination in a war where both sides use the same equipment.”

        Just more wasted money since it doesn’t stop the Russians from smashing these vehicles and the screens in them. Post 2008 US isn’t the same innovative country it was prior. Why innovate when you can make money trend-following with all this ponzi-loot flushing around? Innovation comes from the ground up. But with industry monopolised by the financiers the innovation tap is slowly turned off. Cheer leading has now been monopolised in the United States. Thats how extreme the parasitical class is about creating and adding debt to economic rent. The Soviet Union couldn’t innovate. They could only back-engineer what they got from the West. But Russia is a different story. So the Americans have lost the arms race with their funny money, their huge deficits, and a finance-welfare queen owning every aspect of military procurement. The only reason some of us don’t see it yet is that Russia is trying to stay within sane rules, and takes a long time to retaliate against Western acts of aggression. They could have retaliated ten times over against the Nord Stream and bridge attacks. One has to admire their patience.

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    FWIW

    “New system retrofits diesel engines to run on 90 per cent hydrogen”

    https://www.beefcentral.com/news/new-system-retrofits-diesel-engines-to-run-on-90-per-cent-hydrogen/

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      Graeme No.3

      90% hydrogen as fuel stops nitrogen oxides forming and reduces CO2 emissions by 86%???? Hydrogen increases CO2?
      Sounds like something invented in a University that “just needs more funds”.

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      Chad

      Didnt JCB already do this on their construction equipment a while back ?
      ..and what do they mean by “does not require pure hydrogen “ ?
      And, ..as always,… they still have to ..
      A) produce green hydrogen economically..
      B) fid a way to practically store and distribute hydrogen .
      Fact:- the energy equivalent of one tanker truck of Diesel, requires 16 (SIXTEEN) trucks of pressurised Hydrogen !

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    Graham Richards

    Read this & digest the obvious brainwashing we are being subjected to.

    Only one way to combat this BS is to react the way the public did when Coon Cheese decided to go all Halal with the Halal approval mark and their decision to pay a tax for the privilege. Of course we, the consumer paid the tax. Wonder what happened to Coon Cheese.
    Didn’t end well did it.. time to do it again but on a much bigger scale.

    Marketing & Advertising should focus on getting the largest market sector to buy their product.. today’s advertising seems to be concentrating on the smallest market. I hope they win because they need to re learn that the smallest market revenues won’t even keep them in toilet paper & staff coffees.
    The largest markets will desert these advertisers en mass. Spread the word!,
    https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/10/and-now-a-woke-word-from-our-sponsor/

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    KP

    If anyone would like to expand their ignorance there is a lovely, very believable piece in the SMH explaining how lucky we are to live in Ozzie and how inflation will cripple the world… by blaming everything else EXCEPT Govts printing money!

    The helicopter money since 2008 is now coming home, and those in power will do their best to make sure the Sheeple have no education about cause and effect in monetary policy!

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/you-thought-the-cost-of-living-was-bad-here-take-a-look-at-what-s-happening-elsewhere-20221006-p5bntb.html

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    OldOzzie

    Surveillance State USA… Biden quietly unleashes spymasters in dramatic Executive Order…
    October 7, 2022 ( ago)

    Orwell would be proud. Deliberately buried in the Friday evening news cycle, Biden released an Executive Order with dramatic implications for how signals intelligence is collected on individuals throughout the world.

    Specifically, Biden’s directive repeals restrictions on the use of signals intelligence collection (read: spying on you) implemented since the Obama Administration

    So what was so problematic about the Presidential Policy Directive 28 that Biden Admin had to repeal?

    We encourage you to read the entire directive, but the following passage strikes us as interesting in light of the fact that Biden just repealed it:

    The collection of signals intelligence shall be authorized by statute or Executive Order, proclamation, or other Presidential directive, and undertaken in accordance with the Constitution and applicable statutes, Executive Orders, proclamations, and Presidential directives.

    (b) Privacy and civil liberties shall be integral considerations in the planning of U.S. signals intelligence activities. The United States shall not collect signals intelligence for the purpose of suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent, or for disadvantaging persons based on their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. Signals intelligence shall be collected exclusively where there is a foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose to support national and departmental missions and not for any other purposes.

    (c) The collection of foreign private commercial information or trade secrets is authorized only to protect the national security of the United States or its partners and allies. It is not an authorized foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose to collect such information to afford a competitive advantage[4] to U.S. companies and U.S. business sectors commercially.

    (d) Signals intelligence activities shall be as tailored as feasible. In determining whether to collect signals intelligence, the United States shall consider the availability of other information, including from diplomatic and public sources. Such appropriate and feasible alternatives to signals intelligence should be prioritized.[Obama White House Archives]

    What could the Biden Administration be gearing up for? Why would they want to relax restrictions on intelligence collecting? Are they planning escalation in Ukraine, escalation in their Domestic War on American Patriots, or both?

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    How variable is variable renewable energy generation at the evening peak in SE Australia? Peak output for 2022 up to the end of September is graphed here.

    Turns out that it is worse than I thought – for the last 3 months it’s like cycling up to 3 Bayswater Power Stations on or off on a daily basis!

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      Graeme#4

      May I suggest that it may be better to focus on the long outages – the Dunkelflautes. If you say to folks, “oh, renewables can only provide on average 30% of our power”, naturally their answer will be to simply increase the amount of renewables. But the long Dunkelflautes cannot be compensated for, and these are the problem areas that require storage backup. To accurately define exactly how much storage is required to backup renewables, we need to know the parameters of the Dunkelflautes.

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        Hello G4

        Step #1 is define and quantify the problem. I suspect that wind behavior under La Niña conditions is vastly different to El Niño, so my next step is to have a look at the same data from 2019.

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    Terraforming Earth

    Any sane management of Australia has us aspiring to be the molten salt global experts. A weak AUD combined with tight money combined with molten salt expertise has us never worrying that our people can’t make their way in the world. Molten salt expertise is not only the key to safe nuclear. Its the key to distributed war-safe electricity as such. Its the key to battery power, if batteries are in basements and not in cars and if batteries are all about those elements of the periodic table that are most plentiful.

    Our grid was never war-ready. We put our faith in planes, submarines and allies. Thats all over now. We need a grid that will hold up under the challenge of bombing. We need every town to have a backup electricity supply. We need to export energy and still have unlimited energy for our home, without squandering our hydro-carbon paternity. What the Russians have shown us is that some old technologies are important. Steel manufacturing. Diesel engines. Rail lines. Energy supremacy. All important and artillery is still the God Of War like it was when Clausewitz said it was.

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    John Connor II

    The Paypal fiasco. People cancelling in droves.

    PayPal’s New Policy will Fine Users $2,500 Directly from their Accounts if they Spread “Misinformation”

    On September 26th, the financial service announced some changes to certain agreements.

    Starting November 3, 2022, PayPal is expanding the existing list of prohibited activities to include the sending, posting, or publication of messages, content, or materials under its Acceptable Use Policy.

    “Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement and may subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account(s) as outlined in the User Agreement,” said PayPal.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/paypals-new-policy-will-fine-users-2500-directly-accounts-spread-misinformation/

    Twitter feedback says it all.
    Abandon Paypal!

    https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BoycottPayPal&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

    We need more good non-pc providers and more businesses switching to non-pc services.

    https://alignpay.com/index.html

    Go woke or pc, go broke.

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    OldOzzie

    PayPal says its language on fining users for misinformation was ‘never intended’ to be inserted in its policy

    As Twitchy reported earlier, The Daily Wire on Thursday reported that PayPal’s new user policy included language that PayPal could pull $2,500 from a user’s account for “misinformation” or content that could hurt someone’s well-being. Now, a day later, PayPal has released a statement saying that the language about misinformation was misinformation and was never intended to be inserted into its new policy. And yet it was.

    How many lawyers did this have to go through before it was made public?

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      OldOzzie

      Is it time to ditch PayPal?

      PayPal is a very efficient and convenient way to transfer money, whether it’s for product and service sales, donations, or other transactions. The company has long offered a valuable service in an internet world, one in which transactions between strangers can span the globe. However, with its latest Acceptable Use Policy announcement, PayPal risks ceasing to be a service provider and is, instead, becoming a woke enforcer that will help itself to the contents of its customers’ accounts—the money they earned—if they offend its sensibilities.

      The financial platform just announced an updated Acceptable Use Policy that is set to take effect on November 3. According to the update, if you advance “misinformation” or present a risk to a user’s “wellbeing,” the giant financial service company can swipe $2,500 from your account. Thus, the policy states in relevant part:

      You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:

      It’s worth noting that, when it comes to PayPal, these threats are not hypothetical. PayPal has already proven itself to be very, very woke. Just recently, PayPal summarily closed the account of a gay group that fights against child grooming.

      And when it comes to so-called “misinformation,” last month, PayPal closed three accounts linked to Toby Young, who has been skeptical of COVID vaccinations. (The leftist outlet to which I linked, above, analyzing PayPal’s reason for shutting down Young’s accounts approves of PayPal’s decision.) That the so-called “misinformation” has consistently proven to be true or reasonably open to debate is irrelevant.

      I was stunned when I went to my account how many sites PayPal had linked and based on above have cancelled my PayPal Account

      As – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/paypal-reverses-course-says-company-will-not-seize-money-people-promoting-misinformation

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        Peter C

        I was alarmed to read that PayPal could fine users for misinformation among other offences.
        I signed up about 6 years ago because I thought I would have better security. That was probably an illusion.
        I am probably better off using a debit card with a small amount of money on it for internet transactions.
        Jo’ chocolate fund could be a risk.

        I think I will cancel my PayPal account.

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        PeterPetrum

        My understanding is that PayPal have now removed the reference to “misinformation” from their new rules and said the “draft” copy was posted in error and it was never intended to be published or intended. Believe that if you like.

        But Jo needs PayPal.

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          Annie

          You don’t need PayPal to send chocolates. Check above. It’s time we sorted out which variety of chocs to send. When I finally get back home.
          I’ve been favouring some of the Aldi ones lately although the Lindt 78% and 85% are usually good too. I went off G and B’s a few years ago, after a takeover seemed to lead to a reduction in quality. Some of the Lindt I’ve tried in England and Dubai seemed to taste a bit ‘cheap’ and greasy these days; disappointing to this chocaholic.

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    John Connor II

    Ebola Is Back: US To Screen Passengers From Uganda

    US-bound travelers who have been to Uganda within the previous 21 days will be redirected to five major American airports to screen for Ebola, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued an alert to healthcare workers to raise awareness about the current outbreak.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ebola-back-us-screen-passengers-uganda

    Yawn…

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      Terraforming Earth

      This is why democracy has become outdated. A good King would have rounded up the CDC employees by now. Only letting them out one at a time. You need arbitrary power as a sort of uber-RICO.

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        John Connor II

        A good King

        Or Queen, or King that got transed and became a Queen, or a King that got transed, realised his mistake and went back to a King.

        Gotta factor in the modern world. 😆

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          Terraforming Earth

          Well you may be pointing to a problem here because Kings are prone to degeneracy because they tend to marry cousins. And because they come from generations of pampered people. So while we need to bring back monarchs, without any doubt at all, we may have to stipulate that they sire children to girls whose ancestry has recently survived hardship. Lest the logic of Mouse Utopia takes over.

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        KP

        ” A good King would have rounded up (ALL) CDC employees by now. “…. and dropped the whole lot into a volcano!

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          Terraforming Earth

          Not even a good King could evade the taint of anti-semitism if he acted in such a pre-emptive fashion.

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    OldOzzie

    Russian propaganda video taking the piss out of America.

    From the Comments

    – Sorry can someone point out the propaganda part to me?

    – It looks pretty accurate to me, and it is not just in the US, this can apply to all of western society.

    – There is more truth in that video than propaganda.
    The SJWs will be outraged!
    …”How dare Russia use truth against us”!

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      John Connor II

      How dare Russia use truth against us

      Ha. Every time the truth is revealed a liberal’s head explodes.
      MOAR truth! 😆

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    John Connor II

    Putin – the art of war

    After shelling your own nuclear power plant, blow up your own gas pipelines and then to ensure victory blow up your own bridge to cut your own supply line.

    Sun Tzu clearly had no idea.
    Just like Biden.

    🤫

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      Sooo funny! Obviously played at Trumpie’s recent address. What a buffoon Joe is. He is bad enough when trying to read his prompts …. He is excruciating when he freelances.

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    John Connor II

    Professors call for more research into climate-change related threats to civilisation

    An opinion piece published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences urgently calls for more research into the specific pathways by which civilization could potentially collapse due to climate change.

    “Scientists have warned that climate change threatens the habitability of large regions of the Earth and even civilization itself, but surprisingly little research exists about how collapse could happen and what can be done to prevent it,” says Dr. Daniel Steel of the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

    “A better understanding of the risks of collapse is essential for climate ethics and policy.”

    https://phys.org/news/2022-10-professors-climate-change-threats-civilization.html

    So…the science is settled but we don’t understand it so MOAR research?
    More BS by the loony left spout-any-old-nonsense-to-keep-our-jobs cardboard cutout “experts”..
    Dump/arrest the loony left en-masse and watch Earth’s “problems” disappear overnight…

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      el+gordo

      Yep, nothing to see here, move along.

      They start with a false premise and have no idea what the future will bring.

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    el+gordo

    A fourth La Nina is highly unlikely.

    ‘Current predictions are for the current La Niña to end by February next year. Four La Niña events in a row has never happened before.

    ‘All the experts Guardian Australia spoke to said it was too early to be able to forecast what might happen across the Pacific next year, but all thought the chances of another La Niña were very low.’ (Guardian)

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      robert rosicka

      How do you know 4 of these events have never happened El Gordo .

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        el+gordo

        Its what the experts say.

        Around 50 years before the arrival of the first fleet there was a paleo flood in the Murray Darling Basin. When the two rivers came together it was as wide aa the Rhine in flood.

        I reckon that might have been four La Nina in a row.

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    So.. the problem the Ukies have with their Starlink communications dropping out are ironic-

    “Roman Sinitsin, who runs a nonprofit that directs Starlinks to the Ukrainian military, said the problem may have been due to Musk’s SpaceX having a block on the signal in Russian-held areas.

    “It is absolutely clear to me that this is being done by representatives of Starlink to prevent the usage of their technology by Russian occupation forces,” Sinitsin told the FT..”

    So, break the Russian lines and then as you cover more territory you go into Starlink banned areas… Don’t people ever think these things through? Of course Elon can’t get on the right side of the propaganda, he’s too honest-

    “The news triggered concerns that Elon Musk may have done something to the service in response to Ukrainian denunciations of his peace plan, but the SpaceX magnate called the newspaper’s article “bad reporting.”.. “Bad reporting by FT,” he tweeted on Friday. “This article falsely claims that Starlink terminals & service were paid for, when only a small percentage have been. This operation has cost SpaceX $80M & will exceed $100M by end of year. As for what’s happening on the battlefield, that’s classified.”

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      John Connor II

      Heh heh…wait and see what this week brings…oh boy oh boy…

      January is 3 months away but…

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