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Good morning from snowy Minnesota.
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Here in mid western New South Wales ( we were prohibited from having a proper place name) spring is struggling. The ground is very wet and the average max temp for this month is 4.4 degrees celcius below average. The river was out of its banks last week, and 25 to 50 mm of rain forecast again next week.
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So how much rain is that in “Flanneries?
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Love it!. “The rainfall in NSW and Victoria was 10 million Flanneries”. I can just imagine that on the ABC weather report.
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‘Flought’ –
Freudian slip or Hermes precision?
Young, gender-indeterminate, ABC science reporter on radio yesterday: Worsening CCC™ in Australia is exacerbating flought and druds – oops, I mean – drought and floods.
Hold the science! One word to fool them all; one word to rule them all: Catastroph!c Anthropogen!c G!oba! Warm!ng / Cl!mate Cr!s!s causes too much FLOUGHT.
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but none of it got into the dams
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? Really?
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As the Esteemed Flannery said
Tim Flannery must apologise for his climate change fear mongering: Alan Jones
August 13, 2020 – 9:28PM
Sky News host Alan Jones says the “dope” Tim Flannery should apologise for his fear mongering regarding what he claimed was Australia’s severe water crisis.
Mr Jones pointed to Australia’s recent bout of deluge which has relieved drought conditions west of the Great Dividing Range, replenished soil moisture, and contrary to the warnings of Mr Flannery, has filled dams.
“Such has been the rain that they are worried that the Warragamba dam – which was at 42 per cent in February – could overflow and cause widespread flooding,” Mr Jones said.
“Well done you dope, Tim Flannery, who was made Australian of the Year, the global warming apologist who said the dams would never fill again.
But the Idiots in NSW don’t want to raise the height of Warragamba Dam,
No major Dams for Sydney since Warragamba but population has exploded since then
Dorothea Mackellar summed up the Climate Cycle of Australia
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
As sure as Day Follows Night, Drought will follow Floods
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but none of it got into the dams
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155 days and counting since the max daily temp was above 20°C in the Canberra bubble.
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Don’t worry.
That can be homogenised.
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We escaped the severe weather where I am.
Maybe a cm or two of light rain.
Thankfully!
I love a solar powered country,
A land of glistening black,
Of blackouts, poverty & darkness
Where every polly needs the sack!
As sure as Day Follows Night, Drought will follow Floods unless you pay more taxes.
(c) JC II 2022 😄
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BoM was the last to predict this La Nina, but first to call its demise.
‘Experts reveal end date for La Nina.
‘In a long-awaited announcement, the Bureau of Meteorology has revealed when Australians will be able to soak up the sun again.’ (Oz)
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what will they say when the fourth one starts?
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Sorry, accidental red.
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I’m sure it will still be called the hottest october on record.
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Planet Sees Warmest September Ever Recorded: NASA
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Good morning from unsnowing Michigan. At least the part below the bridge without snow.
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WUWT big on Oz:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/14/green-energy-aussie-government-urges-gas-companies-charge-appropriate-prices/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/14/aussie-abc-admits-the-renewable-transition-is-driving-up-household-electricity-bills/
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Following my annexation last week by means of an above the board referendum, of the Champagne region of France (good deals for Jo’s readers) plus Perth and Sydney I am pleased to see that some of my associates have annexed the Russian Ambassadors parking space in Finland after holding a free and fair referendum
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11317037/Russian-diplomats-parking-space-annexed-outside-embassy-Finland.html
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Love it! Regardless of your position on the conflict this is funny.
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And the Ambassador parked his car on it, once the paint dried.
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According to 97% of people in the Champagne region, there is indeed, only one person they can vote for, saying that having one name on the ballot paper saves ink, reduces stress, and Is good for the environment.
The other 3% are thought to be insurgents from the Alsace region, trying to push their dangerous “crémant d’Alsace” ideology, promoting champagne-style wines at generally lower prices.
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Our favourite school truant admits she find romance difficult
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11318471/Greta-Thunberg-NEVER-drunk-finds-romance-hard-bodyguards-Trump-tweet.html
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What a sad existence for a 19 year old.
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Maybe greta will have some luck with someone lacking a couple of senses.
Like eyesight and hearing for example.
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Common sense might be a big one too.
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Chinese Police station in Australia whose aim is to return ‘criminal’ Chinese citizens to China
https://www.rebelnews.com/chinese_police_station_in_sydney_flew_under_the_radar_until_now
A similar story blew up here in the UK yesterday. In Australia’s case I believe you import over a third of your goods from China so appear increasingly vulnerable. At one time you gave a very long lease to China on one of your major ports to China. I don’t know if that was ever reversed?
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A small part of Darwin Harbour has been leased to Ye Cheng for 99 years. Its only a commercial prospect, nothing to fear from the CCP.
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CCP is playing the long game! Darwin is one small chink in our armour the other and larger chink is Andrews’ Victoria.
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There are no reds under the bed, Ye Cheng is only interested in commerce.
China leased HK to Britain for 99 years and that worked quite well.
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…a tired old line.
Not only untrue but turns out they were also in the schools and embassies too (and almost every other institution you might name).
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The white Australia policy is history, but racial discrimination is still imbedded in our cultural psyche.
If we look at Chinese migrant enclaves like Burwood and Strathfield there are bound to be a few Marxists who spy for Beijing. But for the most part the new arrivals are from Hong Kong’s upper middle class fleeing repression.
Ye Cheng saw a small port in Darwin Harbour as a good financial investment over the long term.
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Thing with the WAP is, it worked. The result of its implementation was an astronomical success. Multiculturalism is a theory.
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After WW2 we had to populate or perish, that seems to be working out okay.
Multiculturalism is a way to keep a lid on seething tensions related to race and culture. Australia is a successful multicultural society, with occasional hiccups.
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“Australia is a successful multicultural society, with occasional hiccups.”
..and shootouts in certain racial areas, there are areas where Police won’t go, places where you can look down the street and not see a sign in English, riots where young men of different races are beating each other up… and these occasional hiccups don’t even include the Aboriginal problems.
Better than some perhaps, but if this is success, I’d hate to see failure! Come and tell me about it when the tax payments of the varying racial groups here are equal.
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In the old days there were larrikin gangs, probably with a religious base.
Contemporary gangsterism in Sydney and Melbourne appear to be from a particular ethnic background killing each other. Its a hiccup and the police are on the job.
The incarceration of our indigenous population, in numbers far exceeding cultural norms, is of concern and needs to be dealt with. What do you suggest we do?
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el gordo
That was a very different world
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It was, the opium war had run its course and Britain secured HK with a long lease.
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Show me any developed nation that does not import most of their manufactured goods from China.
Things might have an Italian or Swedish brand but most of the parts or the entire thing was made in China. Had cause to get inside my ASKO dishwasher a few years ago. All major components were made in China. Not sure where the unit was assembled. I bought a new wallet big enough to hold my mobile phone (made in China) – I went to one of the few remaining Australian leather goods makers but bought a Piere Cardin wallet that was made in China.
It appears the UK is at the end of the road making Minis.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/15/bmw-axe-uk-production-electric-mini-relocate-china
Australia’s McIntyre wind farm is installing Nordex wind turbines. Nordex has just shut down blade production in Germany. No country can maintain a competitive manufacturing industry if they are not burning a lot of coal. China now burning more than half the world output of coal; 4,319,921,826,000pa amounting to 50.5% of global annual consumption.
The TRANSITION to Nut Zero relies entirely on China’s ability to manufacture all the stuff. All of Europe will struggle to keep people warm and lights shining this coming winter. They cannot waste energy on making stuff. Australia gave up commercial manufacturing about a decade ago. Any remaining heavy manufacturing lives of government subsidies.
Close to every solar panel installed across the globe was made in China.
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The Uk imports 13% of its goods from china. As you rightly say china makes 85% of the worlds solar panels.
Ironic that minis will be Made in china using millions of tons of coal but still be considered Green.
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I’m a China refusenik.
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I refuse to buy CΗΙΝESΕ grown Garlic at the supermarket … does that count?
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“refuse to buy CΗΙΝESΕ grown Garlic”
Reading The Garlic Ballads can do that to you.
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I think your refusal was noted at the Chinese national assembly being held at present. It might bring about the downfall of the state
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On what basis 13%?
Many manufactured items have deceptive labelling to give the appearance they are not made in China. China produces more than half of the World’s steel. They export everywhere. Steel is the basis of many manufactured goods.
China has 79% of lithium battery production. Musk will have to move his operations to China eventually. Energy prices will make US manufacturing even more uncompetitive.
Your 85% for solar panels is finished product. China makes 97% of the silicon wafers. There is an assembly plant in Australia that label panels as Australian made but the wafers come from China.
China produces 56% of global aluminium. That finds its way into many manufactured goods.
So you need to look through the supply chain to understand where stuff is made not just the label it carries. All developed countries have knobbled their manufacturing and that leaves the door wide open for China to fill the void.
The crunch will come when the wheels fall of NutZero and enough voters realise the stuff needed for transition embodies more energy than it can possibly produce. In the mean time it is lower cost for Australians to have their own solar panels and battery than hoping grid power prices are going to fall.
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How do you count Italian clothes labelled ‘Made In Italy’ when its Chinese companies running sweatshops full of quick-turnover Chinese laborers in over-crowded old factories in Italian slums?
There was a most interesting series of articles about it last year sometime.
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Like the dinki di Oz brand ….. Bonds, and their labels.
Designed in Australia – Made in China.
Tony.
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How about the recent rash of advertising for products “Made from Australia”(Cue a certain ferrous metal product)?
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Rick
I didn’t have a chance to reply to your follow up. Yes, direct imports are one thing and ’embedded imports another. I am continually dismayed how difficult it is to buy things without Chinese content. However, if we in the UK buy 13% from China plus embedded goods then if Oz buys 30% plus embedded items that is a worrying reliance on a non friendly state.
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The USA under Trump pressured its businesses to get out of China or face equalising tariffs on their goods imported to the USA. Seemed to work! I read recently that the EU, expecting to be lectured by the US at some stage to cut trade with China, has told the US to get real. Just in that statement there are grounds to see another big argument between the US and EU in the near future, especially if the Republicans prevail in the mid terms and the next Presidential election. The EU has a very long way to go to reach a stage of being able to catch up and pay to defend itself.
The same story holds also with the trade between the EU and hostile Middle East oil producers that dally with Russia, while the Saudis get US arms and poke Biden up the nose over reducing OECD oil production.
With China, as in all quick growing economies, it will eventually get its people demanding better and better wages and living conditions. Its costs of production will rise and the Uighurs can only do so much, so, unless China subdues other nations and force more to be slaves, that outlet will eventually be too miniscule to carry the load.
Growing enmities with China at a national level are going to create a big chasm between the political and big business classes that currently rely on each other and largely exclude the national interest which politics is supposedly all about. Dogma from international sources brainwashes our politicians of the day to the point the welfare of the citizens is almost totally ignored as they follow the creed that says they control the planet, climate and all.
Work going to China will eventually move on to the next region of cheapest production, possibly Africa. China will find all those resources poured into the armed forces will become very costly. It’s one thing to build; it’s another to maintain and keep improving that situation, especially if the world grows more hostile to it and combines in mutual self defence, as is happening now, all due to China’s premature push to rule the world by the impatient Xi.
The disruption in the post WW2 calm of the world. both within nations and externally between nations is the greatest we have experienced. All sorts of supposedly fixed assumptions and international associations are out the window. Hard to see anything one can reliably put one’s faith in as being stable any more.
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These monthly climate summaries that used to tell us very quickly how far above normal the national temperatures have been seem to have slowed right down since it got cold.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mwr/
It says:
There does not seem to be one for February yet. Let alone a link to the not available yet screen for September. The others back to and including February say:
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With Armidale NSW running just short of 5 Degrees Celsius below max temperature for the current month, it explains why. In fact that rural city has not had a monthly max above the average since August 2021. I told you all it’s all about ENSO, not CO2.
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Exactly the same syndrome happened when the cyclone actuals started going off narrative and showing a downward trend. They just stopped publishing them. I questioned it and got a word salad response that didn’t address the non publishing. I cant have been the only one as eventually months later it got updated but with a long winded explanation that climate change now meant that we would have less cyclones but with greater intensity. Or in another words there may be a big one again someday, as has always been the case.
Amazing organization , the BOM
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‘ … less cyclones but with greater intensity.’
It has become part of the propaganda, almost unfalsifiable.
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Can anyone prove this has not been the wettest drought on record?
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Make it more concerning
News Flash: new reports show that we are drowning in drought.
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The media need a way to spin our latest flood crisis with the headline declaration “LARGEST EVACUATION IN VICTORIAS HISTORY”. Any way to keep the climate panic at top of page.
No doubt the largest evacuation in history simply due to the largest population “in history”
Was watching the news last night and heard the commentator declaring that the flood levels were higher than previous floods. Minor problem was the camera man (person) had the camera pointed at the flood level indicator which showed at that point of time the levels for 1954 and 1973 still clearly visible well out of the water!
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BOM
Bureau Officially Mendacious, might I assume, these days?
Auto
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Long service leave is such a b!tch. The single expert public service person dedicated to the production of this report probably has enought LSL for at least another year so…. dont hold your breath. LOL
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Gone somewhere warmer?
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In Canada and the US there is a serious labour shortage. This lecture by Nick Eberstadt is on the employment patterns beginning in the 60’s through the “pandemic”. There is a highly significant linear trend of increase in working age males who are not working or looking for work. THis trend seems not to deviate with changes in various welfare programs over the years, suggesting that is not a major driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f52xw-FH9QI
The pattern describes one of my nephews who is now in mid 30’s and has never worked or remained in education for more than a few isolated months. He spends his nights video gaming and days sleeping. Over the years he has persuaded a doc to give in ritalin dabbled in soft drugs. My brother & wife have finally sold the house and bought a new one with no room for him except in an unheated shed.
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What’s wrong with that?
A labour shortage is great for our fellow citizens .. It leads to REAL wages growth.
The business owners who complain, are just angry cos they can’t compete. Therefore, they can’t afford to pay a wage that would lure workers who are already out there, but working for someone else.
If a business can’t compete, let them fail — that’s part of the normal business cycle — it frees up capital and labour, to be taken up by a successful company which CAN afford to expand, because of the enlarged pool of customers who used to buy from the failed business.
The Globalists hate alleged “labour shortages” because wage growth eats into their profits.
We can either have (1) workers competing for jobs, or (2) bosses competing for workers.
I prefer (2) .. that’s the moral choice if you care about your fellow citizens… instead of the ones who fly off to DΑVΟS.
PS. I know your real point is your lazy nephew but he will be more motivated to find a job in an economy with high wages, NOT an economy being flooded with cheap, imported labour.
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” he will be more motivated to find a job in an economy with high wages, ” Maybe not, high wages generally mean high prices in the shops.
I imagine this problem comes from “high welfare” in the Western world, it has expanded from the much-touted ‘safety net’ into a way of life for tens of thousands just here in Aussie. Most Western welfare States say they need to import more workers to pick fruit & veges or whatever, while at the same time they have thousands of people doing nothing.
Getting rid of welfare would solve many problems all at once.
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Canadians Beware
From Armstrong Economics –
“Canadians should keep some US dollars in cash. Trudeau canceled high-value notes. As of January 2021, he obtained the power to cancel Canadian currency as they do in Europe. Once that power was exercised, he would do it again. He is entirely on board with Klaus Schwab and this agenda of the World Economic Forum is intentionally pushing for war with Russia.
As I have said, Putin had ZERO intention of conquering Ukraine. This has been a propaganda war. The first thing you do is take down the power grid. I think if war is to come, Putin can wipe out Europe very easily – take down the power grid. With digital currencies and electric cars, this will only leave society extremely vulnerable as never before. So you want cash, for banks can be shut down by targeting the power grids.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/canadian-beware/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Everyone should have cash on hand and enough cash for more than a month IMHO. Also, hold some silver coins and the $1 Kookaburra is a good one to hold. Very useful for buying stuff in times of crisis which is heading our way in 2023.
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Johnny
Tell the 10 million refugees who have fled Ukraine, 130, 000 of whom have ended up in the UK that Putin does not intend to invade Ukraine. Many have had their homes destroyed and to date Putin has annexed 25% of Ukraine.
With regards to your other point, if I were Putin I would wipe out telecommunications. The young in particular are completely reliant on their mobile phones and if the service were cut off would be walking round like zombies unable to access their lives which are held on their phones
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Putin does not intend to take over the whole of the Ukraine and I agree with Martin Armstrong on that.
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They showed no intention of wanting to originally. And its a big hassle for them to include citizens who don’t want to be there since that means pensions and so forth. But Western terrorist behaviour may force them to take it all the way to the Polish border and then do other things to catalyse an agreement. Maybe empower Syrians to take back the Golan heights and other territory? Or other provocations to help slowly make the West want to negotiate. You can’t have a terrorist West constantly trying to persecute Russians. Since the terrorists show no sign of coming to civilised behaviour the Russians may have to keep beating them up until they have leaders who will see some sense.
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Yet, you have the expert commentariat saying that Russia wants its empire back. You know conquer all the Baltic states and Poland. Sheridan at the Australian seems to be in step with the American east coast Neo-Cons and Democrats who want Russia reduced. This war is entirely the fault of US meddling again.
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They don’t have a big enough population to be occupying all these people. They have a demographic collapse underway. To attempt such a thing would wreck their economy by sending them into deficit spending. They need people in the factories and not walking around in a foreign country with rifles, amongst people who don’t want them there. They can smash all these countries given enough time, but occupation would be a catastrophe.. And they can absorb eastern Ukraine very easily since it comes with gas properties that can finance pensions. But if the West is given over to terrorism, how do you persuade them to stop that behaviour? Its like you would have to keep flicking everyone’s nose until you can come to some arrangement. If they could target deep state properties that is different. Find the deep state leadership and bomb them and the problem will be sorted out very quickly. But thats not the normal behaviour in our century.
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Yes just like the dominos falling in Asia in the 70s. Its the propaganda machine not the expert commentariat
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Putin attempted to take over Kiev if you remember with his 20 mile armoured convoy but failed to do so. He said he intended to take all Ukraine as it was an integral part of Russia.
Ukraine did not invade Russia did it?
Putin has nuclear missiles on the borders of 5 NATO countries.
No NATO country has unclear weapons on Russia’s borders.
Putin has been destrOying numerous civilian infrastructure
To call the west terrorists in the face of putins brutal invasion and annexing of 25% of ukraines territory is nonsensical
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No that was just a feint. What happened is that there were about 40 000 troops poised to invade the breakaway states. These guys were provoking a war by increasing the shelling of civilians during the Russian buildup. Thats how the Americans could predict an invasion since they were going out of their way to make the invasion inevitable. Not because they are fortune tellers but because they are war creators.
These 40 000 guys needed to be surrounded and cut off. So the Russians needed to stop the authorities in Kiev sending even more people to stop this encirclement. Hence the feint.
If the Russians had wanted to take Kiev they could have taken down the electricity like they are doing now. There was no issue with taking Kiev. The issue was that if they wanted to take it they would have had to flatten it. Thats why Odessa needs to be left until near the end because they want Odessa surely, but they don’t want Odessa flattened.
“Ukraine did not invade Russia did it?”
Its not about Ukraine. Its about Nato. Nato invaded Ukraine and many other countries and had the open intention of using Ukraine to break up Russia.
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NATO invaded Ukraine? Are you serious?
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(1) The Biden Family ‘invaded’ Ukraine with their Influencing Peddling Operation™. They filled their boots, and stuffed cash down their pants, in exchange for — well, who knows what the Ukrainian leaders thought they were promised… (but we can guess by the Biden Regime’s current stance which is: they are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian — and “don’t talk about negotiating peace!”.)**
(2) Add to the mix Obama and his ambassador there, Victoria Nuland: the three of them had a hand in engineering the 2014 Coup — which led to 8 years of fighting in the Donbass region, and thousands died.
(3) Also, Lindsey Graham visiting years ago (2016?) and promising “your fight is our fight”. Probably didn’t consult the American people before he said that.
(4) And don’t forget NATO provocation: the endless expansion eastwards, none of it called for by the common people of Western Europe and the U.S.
Why should a soldier from Scotland, or a French servicewoman, or a pilot from Texas, ever have to put their lives on the line for Ukraine? Which is what joining NATO would entail.
There are NO HISTORICAL TIES between The West and Ukraine .. NONE AT ALL.
The only rational course for Ukraine to pursue, before this all kicked off, was a NEUTRAL stance but as usual, money talks and the globalists interfered.
Lots of bad actors and blame to go around.
**PS. Sean Hannity would fight to the last Ukrainian too. Did you see his interview with Tulsi Gabbard? He seemed angry when she talked of the need to de-escalate, and negotiate terms for peace, without delay .. Suddenly her video and audio were cut off, and he quickly moved to the next topic.
Maybe it’s all that make-up he has caked on nowadays: it gives off fumes that affect his mind?
I think Ann Coulter P’d him off too, she’s never been allowed back.
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A country can be invaded without employing military force or weaponry. Maybe drop Sun Tzu a line – he can explain all.
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no the Ukraine terrorized ethnic Russians
I think you are allowed to have your own weapons on you own territory, a bit rich from a country with patrolling Polaris submarines (but white hats of course so all OK)
Given the above how would you know?
Of course we don’t discuss Zelensky shelling his own countrymen or the power station in the Russian zone. Yep, civilian infrastructure has been damaged and now following Nordstream and the Bridge there has been and will be a whole lot more. The new military leadership appointed is not famous for subtlety.
Playing black hats and white hats in this sort of conflict is whats nonsensical. There has been plenty of deceit, corruption and brutality to go around for many years. It now has a physical manifestation in Ukraine that is having a lot of simplistic labels thrown at it.
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This is why you need timelines. The targeting of civilian infrastructure is what they did in response to Nato destroying the Nord Stream tunnels, conducting a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, and assassinating a philosophers daughter. Their restrained approach has been going on for seven months before taking this one hand from behind their back. In all that time Nato has been targeting civilians and conducting false flag killings. Doesn’t matter if you don’t recognise this. What matters is that the Russians do recognise this.
Now consider the timing. They have 300 000 people they are training to replace experienced guys all over their vast territories. They need people trained up so that Japan doesn’t take their islands back or so Nato doesn’t invade Saint Petersburg or snatch land adjacent to Alaska. So by about winter they will have maybe 300 000 people ready to clean this all up. Now, they don’t want anything bad to happen in the interim. So down goes the power grid. In goes the cruise missiles into the offices of the horrendous Ukraine intelligence services. With the offices destroyed, the power down, and the trains not running its that much harder to plan more atrocities. So now Nato can’t use the trains to bring in weapons to kill people who have voted to become part of Russia.
Now I don’t like it either. I liked their more patient approach. But they have a responsibility to win this thing against the terrorist West. The time had come when they really needed to hurry up and close this rolling thunder of criminal barbarism down.
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Putin was destroying civilian infrastructure in February, way before Nordstream and the Crimea bridge. Nato invade St petersburg? Japan take back their islands? Snatch land adjacent to alaska?
You are rewriting history
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No I’m not saying they did or were planning any of these. But you have to protect a vast territory. So you can’t just abandon all these areas to focus solely on the Ukraine. A couple of months ago they had these military exercises with 50 000 soldiers in the far east. Indian and Chinese observers. But the Russian people wondered why weren’t these guys in Ukraine??? No Putin was not targeting civilian infrastructure in February. You have been watching too much TV. Certainly if you have people shooting at you from a civilian building you are allowed under any normal rules of engagement to shoot back.
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Location is not important.
Both sides know their opponents have intercontinental Nuclear cabability.
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The French and Germans brokered the Minsk Agreement in 2014 so that Referendums could be held in those Eastern Ukraine Regions. Those Referendums never happened as Ukraine reneged on the Agreement apparently. Then a mini war ensued in those Regions. In the end, Putin lost patience so this is where we are now. The Ukraine is a corrupt mess being egged on by the USA and the EU.
No one seems to be able to compromise and reach an agreement to stop the mess. World War 3 is just around the corner IMHO.
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Jonny,
Those referendums were held . As with the current ones the west denied their legitimacy . The USA needs wars to keep its economy going and this is why they are pouring weapons into Ukraine (courtesy of USA taxpayers ). 115 Billion dollars (annually) is a lot of money…https://www.state.gov/u-s-arms-sales-and-defense-trade/
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And Old Goat if those Referendums were held then what were the results? And were they honoured? It would appear not. I could not reply to your post as there was no reply button.
I agree with you about the USA as they are War Mongers as well as the British. BTW I am English by birth. I am not a War Monger as I rather like the phrase – ‘Make Love and NOT War’………………….
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Br careful what you wish for..The devil findeth mischief for idle thumbs.
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Thats all Nato’s doing. You can only direct your pawns to conduct terrorist attacks for so long. Do you think Russia was going to put up with more terrorist revolutions and another 8 years of terrorism? Just before the special military operation the terrorists tried a coup in Kazakhstan. So the Russians had to put that one down. They West tried to set up a terrorist Caliphate in Syrian and Iraqi terrorism. So that had to be neutralised with help from the Russians. The Russians weren’t able to help out in Libya and we saw what happened there. Did the dog eat your homework on this matter?
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I feel with you but I can’t help you.
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This is what is driving Ukraines desire to be shot of Russian Imperialism.The sheer arrogance of the Ruskies to expect Ukraine to be welcoming to their long term brutal overlords is beyond belief. It would be like us attacking NZ and bombing its schools and hospitals and and being puzzled as to why we weren’t being welcomed for it. https://www.grunge.com/776960/the-truth-about-the-stalin-era-famine-that-killed-millions-of-ukrainians/
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Those who know what is going on around them would rather be run by Russia then by the terrorists. But sure. The Ukrainians would rather have their own country. But they lost that country in 2014. So since then they are faced with a dictatorship administered by a different ethnic group then their own.
About the famine this was not the doing of Russians. Stalin was a Georgian and his team was very thin when it comes to ethnic Russians. Communism was imposed on Russia and not perpetrated by Russians. But I do agree that the Ukrainians may have been duped into thinking that it was the Russians that did this to them. Ukrainians were starved primarily by an ethnic group not their own.
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‘Communism was imposed on Russia and not perpetrated by Russians.’
Marxism was corrupted in Russia at the end of WW1, the dictatorship of the proletariat was a Russian invention.
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Which Russian are you thinking of? Lenin? Lenin had no Russian in him. Trotsky? We know what ethnic group Trotsky was from. Think of the ethnic group of the people who murdered the Romanovs? They weren’t Russians.
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Lenin was born in Russia and Stalin was Georgian, which was also home to ‘Azerbaijanian, Armenian, Russian, and Jewish communities.’
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Clem,
The Holodomor was a massive crime perpetuated by a regime that was headed by a psychopath (Stalin) and Ukraine wasn’t the only victim . Mao was arguably worse and both were “communist/socialist” countries but you could argue the were more fascist than socialist . Fascism – you vote your way in and shoot your way out . The story remains the same but the body count rises as technology improves . Modern Russia is not engaged in gulags and mass murder of its own people and in this case is protecting its own.
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And here is the reason that the Poles have backed the Ukrainians to the hilt. They know as we all do,that Putin is as much a ruthless psychopath as Stalin ever was (contemplating using nukes rather than lose face by being beaten by Ukraine). How many of his political opponents and critical journalists has he had murdered again? OH Im not too sure, I have lost count
https://allthatsinteresting.com/katyn-massacre
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Hard to see what Russia has that most nations would want anymore. Including Russians. Is that Putin’s real problems. Everyone thought the Russian armed forces were very strong. China signed up to a treaty with Russia, had it’s ‘all the way with LBJ’ moment with Putin, but is now running backwards to leave the Russians to Putin’s craziness. It learns every day about Russia’s military weaknesses and doesn’t have much to say to support Vlad. The Siberian front line must be looking vulnerable to China right now! It’s learning about the West’s armoury so probably isn’t in a rush to hit Taiwan just now unless the West exhausts its supplies in Ukraine.
Vlad just has his nukes. He may soon find himself under lethal pressure from within as Russians are increasingly looking on with concern at his war failures; a war it seems few really wanted with a friendly neighbour. Would the armed forces really obey a command to fire off nuclear weapons, with little to gain anywhere but a huge downside after such a strike as the world hit back in unison. Nobody wins and there is no future once that happens, especially for Russia. There seems little chance now for a facesaving exit after the way Putin has hit civilians hard.
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Latest Eco vandalism from the lunatic vegans
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11318913/Vegan-extremists-trash-Harrods-Fortnum-Mason-Waitrose-dumping-milk-protest.html
Don’t they know how much carbon is locked up in the grass That cows graze on or how harmful the alternatives such as soya and almond milk are?
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They must think that rich soil and cow manure are black because of some kind of carbon free cow dye.
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California produces about 80% of the world’s almonds, takes about 10% of their entire water consumption. Water shortages are all the fault of climate change though.
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As you know mr grim, we grow our own coconuts in the UK so that sort of milk is ok. Or so the vegans seem to believe
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Millions of birds are shot and poisoned each year to protect crops such as almonds. Climate saving vegans don’t want to know when you mention this small fact
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What gets me about these mindless protests, is that they get immediate wide coverage. Anyone who doesn’t live under a rock has probably now seen photos, reports of this incident in the last 24 hours. Just like the soup/ Van Gogh stunt. Yet, last week in Melbourne there was a rather large protest by doctors about the power of AHPRA and the the whole COVID thing and it was hardly reported. These stunts will just get more idiotic and I am just waiting for the Australian copy cat to happen very soon.
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Interesting analysis from Igor Chudov, suggesting a high probability that the UK’s increased all cause mortality and reduced birth rate is due to the “vaccines”.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/is-uks-depopulation-caused-by-covid
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When dealing with the Left and their claims of anthropogenic global warming you have to understand that it is NOT a scientific debate.
The Left have taken an ideological position in favour of the destruction of Western Civilisation. It is ” The Great Reset” of the WEF.
Claims of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, the war against “carbon” (sic), are about destroying the inexpensive reliable energy supply.
Likewise, the gross mismanagement of covid (not really mismanagement but part of “the plan”) was about getting society used to living with reduced liberties and rights and more censorship. The denial of treatments such as IVM and HCQ was about destroying the doctor-patient relationship and making the state responsible for your personal health care decisions.
We now have a war against “nitrogen” (sic) which is about destruction of Western agricultural practices and the introduction of “the solution”, eating poverty food – insects (only for non-Elites).
Conservatives and fellow rational thinkers try to apply scientific techniques and arguments to something that is ideological.
Also these positions are being promoted by some of the world’s most evil people, the Elites of the Left; aided and abetted by some of the world’s most ignorant, naive and stupid people, the slave army of useful idiots of the Elites of the Left.
Post modernist though is also part of it, a major part.
Modern Leftist ideology is based on post modernism which believes that there is no such thing as objective reality. Reality is whatever you make it. If a man thinks he is a woman, then so be it. If you think that the world is warming due to anthropogenic influence then it is. If you think Joe Biden won the US election with the greatest popular support ever then it was true. If you think floods and hurricanes are due to supposed anthropogenic global warming then it must be true, even though data shows they are the norm. Etc..
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The left seem to have just one priority. To destroy the West. The incredible part of it all is, the majority of most western nations simply believe anything the left proclaims as moral and scientifically correct and bend over backwards to destroy their own societies. The left get the West to destroy its cheap energy systems and nobody from politician to educated people anywhere considers the future ramifications now coming home to roost.
The left gets western nations to destroy fossil fuel energy systems before they have a workable replacement – except for nuclear energy. The common idea is they do this due to safety concerns (which don’t stand examination). The fact is, they’d outlaw ANY workable alternative. Currently that’s just just nuclear. If such a replacement system was implemented the left lose their ability to impoverish and destroy the Western economies. This is their intent, obvious when the first UN plans for ‘CO2 induced global warming scheme’ became available for reading in the 1980’s. The desired future for the West, severe curtailment, was all laid out in print!
The system has been refined. The left furthers its grip by severely handicapping food supplies, just as the world becomes self sufficient in food production from many technical improvements and even from the climate change we are all supposed to fear. The left don’t care about people dying of cold nor hunger. What more powerful a way is there to control populations than by energy and food restrictions. Add the political ‘big reset’ plan to the equation and the scheming becomes quite clear.
‘You will own nothing and be happy’ is telling. What’s more telling is what it doesn’t say. That is, just how ‘you’ will be controlled by ‘us’ ie the elites of the EU in particular. Now we see obedient politicians forcing this garbage on their people. That’s why we observe so much bending the knee to international institutions and ruling as ‘they don’t care’ for their own people.
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Meghan and Harry
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/10/FeNNw1kUcAAvA28.jpg
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do we have to?
I wish the media would stop giving them oxygen
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I don’t read anything about them on principle.
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More dubious on the medical “behind”
“Hoh Hoh Looking Up The Pooper Eh?”
“The study marks the first time colonoscopies have been compared head-to-head to no cancer screening in a randomized trial. The study found only meager benefits for the group of people invited to get the procedure: an 18% lower risk of getting colorectal cancer, and no significant reduction in the risk of cancer death. It was published Sunday in The New England Journal of Medicine.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247183
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Well, that’s tens of million of dollars of taxpayer money for colonoscopies down the toilet!
I’ve been sent a reminder letter recently but don’t think I’ll take it up…
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The study would have to cover multiple decades to be “meaningful”.
I just lost a friend who put things off until diagnosed with aggressive stage 4 colon cancer at 63.
As well there are rumors of reduced immune responses post the entire covid process which could mean better screening would be much more useful.
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I agree with you Ozfred. I’ve had three of them and several pre-cancerous polyps removed.
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I guess an anecdote will always trump a study when the example is close to you.
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Australia, with some of the most extensive, repressive and brutally enforced covid lockups outside of China, didn’t escape the attention of many overseas commentators, especially the very worst repression which occurred in Daniel Andrews’ neo-Marxist utopia of Victoriastan where voters are about to re-elect him a third time.
In the following just-released video Epoch Times interviews Monica Smit.
Many details are revealed in this video which were not revealed on the Lamestream media or anywhere.
If you still think Australia is a free country, this might change your mind. It only has the superficial appearance of freedom for non-dissenters.
https://youtu.be/WfAUKuxO8kY
(19 mins)
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I can only assume that the electorate like very firm government? The police brutality was shocking
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Most of the Sheeple were quite accepting of it.
Only a small minority protested.
Before that, I could never understand how people could vote for brutal National Socialist or International Socialist regimes.
After that, it was perfectly clear to me.
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David,
Spot on . We are in trouble because you cannot comply your way out of tyranny (or fascism).
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A US Congressthing’s daughter likely dies from the experimental covid vax but he is too weak and values his position too much to speak out about the dangers of this product.
Viva Frei discusses this, as well as other matters such as Twitter censorship of the Florida Surgeon General, in the following video.
https://youtu.be/Ubl9eaE6JNE
(17 mins)
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The great Scottish philosopher Billy Connolly.
Before you judge a man…
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/10/311646649_789384985703246_784304998845991950_n.jpg
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Gregory Wrightstone: How ‘Climate Change’ Is a Lie, Hiding an Agenda for Social Control
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It’s sad the cultural and political changes that have happened in Australia in recent decades. From being proud, brave and relatively free, to people being afraid of their own shadow and a complete Nanny State.
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There are a few factors at play. Some thoughts:
The population is ageing. Boomers are getting old. They were the first generation with birth control and families are smaller as a result. Kids have become more precious and coddled.
Immigration has filled the void in reproduction. Immigrants have given up on the idea of changing the regime they were born into. They are seeking safety. They bring that outlook.
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Hey we have ended up with 9 from 2
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whilst many bring a variety of talent and benefits, and hope they have left their problems behind, Unfortunately the culture they bring is entwined with the religeon , traditions , and beliefs that are the seed of those problems, which often emerge again in the “new land” !
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mmmm the mob rampaging down Flinders St and jacking cars in Point Cook dont seem to be looking for safety.
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The droughts and flooding rains of Australia that have enabled our largest marsupial (kangaroo) to evolve and survive the Flannery periods and reproduce in amazing numbers during non-Flannery times is on show in the Canberra bubble. There is a strong build-up of this wonderful natural resource that will have to be dealt with when the Flanneries return.
They have provided our indigenous residents with protein for tens of thousands of years. They are low impact on the soil, do not emit methane and the leather from their skins is incredibly resilient.
The following is how the ACT Govt treats this resource:
So this non-methane emitting natural resource appears to be “managed” into landfill.
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Australia experienced its highest December sunlight 2,000 years ago of 510W/m^2 at 35S. January sunlight peaked at 510.6W/m^2 500 years ago.
Australia is on the verge of a long term trend to milder weather with summers cooling and winters warming.
The only part of the Southern Hemisphere where recorded temperatures are actually showing the cooling trend is Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
The temperature trends in Australia are stubbornly upward but some have suggested that is due to fiddling records and have some evidence to back that theory:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/14/uncertainty-of-measurement-of-routine-temperatures-part-iii/
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‘Australia is on the verge of a long term trend to milder weather with summers cooling and winters warming.’
What are the natural variables involved?
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You only need one. Sunlight. The peak sunlight over Australia is declining. That will reduce the maximum temperature. To balance that, winter sunlight is increasing July sunlight at 35S bottomed at 185W/m^2 2000 years ago. Currently at 187W/m^2 and will peak at 206W/m^2 in 9000 years.
http://vo.imcce.fr/insola/earth/online/earth/online/index.php
So a big difference over 11,000 years. If there were reliable temperature records over the past two centuries they would be picking up these trends.
Look for the BoM press releases on record July temperature. Coming to your ABC soon.
Sunlight and temperature have surprisingly high (to some) correlation with solar intensity outside the tropics.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/04/surface-temperature-response-to-solar-emr-at-top-of-the-atmosphere/
About 97% of the variation in temperature on land is explained by sunlight. Who would have thought that. Certainly no climate modeller.
Even well informed skeptics believe sunlight is constant. That is not far off the mark for the sun but Earth is constantly presenting a fresh face to the sun. I doubt that at any time in the history of Earth that the sunlight arriving at any location at a set time of the year is the same as another set time of another year. The sunlight is ever changing causing the climate to be ever changing.
Here is one that not many have calculated. With the present equinoxes, the SH spends 180 days pointing toward the sun while the NH spends 185 days pointing toward the sun. The same amount of energy accumulates in both hemispheres but it takes 5 days less for the SH. Land surface temperature lags solar intensity by about a month so the SH land is getting higher solar intensity than NH land at the same latitude.
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‘About 97% of the variation in temperature on land is explained by sunlight.’
Low clouds dim temperature, as seen in Australia over the past few years.
‘ … the SH land is getting higher solar intensity than NH land at the same latitude.’
Yet temps remain below average for this time of year.
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All bit players that contribute to the 3% that sunlight does not explain.
Whare are current temperatures below average? You need to provide examples. The location or region and compare 24 hour averages.
For Alice Springs, average temp for Sep 2021 was 27.9C. This is a tad higher than the long term mean of 27.4. The average for Sep in 2022 is 27.4C. So 2022 spot on long term mean for Alice Springs.
This is the range in sunlight at 25S for 2021:
492 461 405 336 277 249 262 311 377 438 481 499
So swings over 250W/m^2. That results in a monthly average temperature swing of 16.6 degrees C. A bit extra cloud or water on the ground does not make much difference when you are looking at 250W/m^2 variation. The change in sunlight dominates. I have not looked at the thermal lag or regression for Alice Springs but I am betting the regression will be in the mid to high nineties.
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‘Where are current temperatures below average?’
NSW
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So clouds make no difference and oceanic oscillations are bit players, I’m out.
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Rowjay,
At the very least it should be “managed” into dog food – mine loves kangaroo jerky . Not bad on a plate either . If you dump it in landfill it will produce copious methane as it decomposes .
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My sister went to Floriade in Canberra last week and she was amazed how many roos are bouncing around inner city and suburban Canberra.
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and laying on the side of highways in and out having done their bit for the panel beating industry
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When I lived in Canbrrrrrrra, I found the worst hazard to be wombats. those things might be small, but they’re indestructible and the perfect size for taking out your sump and assorted underneaths. Whereas most roo encounters would incur an aesthetic penalty, those little furry tanks would roll under the car before appearing in your rearview mirror along with your gearbox.
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Tom Macdonald comes out, ALL guns blazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgFgnXtF9Cc
lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_FgmIusoA
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Curious,
Wow , that’s good .
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Still a few hardcore Covidiots around hereabouts. Their mask is a religious talisman. They seem to think human bodies were designed to breathe in recycled CO2 with a bacteria chaser. Biology eludes them.
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I am especially amused to see people driving in their car alone, wearing a CO2/bacteria rebreather.
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Going out my drive yesterday afternoon, car driving past had male with mask on by himself in his car
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I was amused by the woman (am I allowed to say that?) who came out of the Supermarket with loaded bags. These were stowed, then she carefully wiped disinfectant on the steering wheel and other parts inside her car that had been previously touched by her (only) before locking her car and going shopping.
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I couldn’t get over one woman (?) on my flight back to Melbourne a few days ago. She had on her airline eyeshades, a mask over nose and mouth and these were covered overall by one of those thin perspex full face masks. It was a bizarre sight to say the least of it.
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Despite all those precautions you can bet she is not takinng any immunity boosting supplements like vitamin C, D,, ZINC etc.
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Did she have an in flight meal or drink Annie, even a visit to that strangely named place, “the bathroom” while on board. The flight from Dubai to Melbourne is a long time to “not go”.
Welcome back Annie hope you brought some sunshine with you.
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I don’t know Sambar. She was a few rows behind me so I saw the sight only when I was able to go walkabout to the ‘bathrooms’.
One of the passengers near me didn’t get out of his seat for the entire flight! He had just two tiny drinks during the time.
Well, that wet weather was a fine ‘welcome’! At least it’s sunny today, after an early frost. I usually rely on some sun to reset the old body clock but it didn’t happen for the first few days.
The Emirates flights to MEL, not to mention other Aussie destinations, are jam-packed; pent-up demand I guess.
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My husband caught cold recently after driving 5 min in a truck cab with a colleague who wore a mask because he had a cold. We reckon the mask directed his exhaled air out the side for maximal effect on the person beside him. Maybe its the dreaded C, but to establish that would need testing. He is recovering fine.
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Rick Scott Demands Action on Electric Vehicles Transformed into Ticking Time Bombs by Hurricane Ian
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/10/15/rick-scott-demands-action-on-electric-vehicles-transformed-into-ticking-time-bombs-by-hurricane-ian/
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Drag them all onto a vacant block and let ’em rip.
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very pragmatic
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The Asia-Pacific is currently experiencing a ” triple-dip ” La Nina, according to climate and meteorological boffins. Three years in a row of La Nina. A rare occurrence – until now – this and quite possibly the earlier Hunga Tonga volcano event could well be behind the floods and cooler weather here. Not carbon emissions from Ford Rangers.
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Triple dip La Ninas are not common, yet they occur periodically for no apparent reason.
The Hunga Tonga eruption has had no discernible impact on Australia’s weather. A negative IOD and PDO, plus a positive SAM coupled with La Nina has produced widespread flooding.
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‘Mother’ Earth puts our puny efforts to shame.
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Taking this a little further, the El Hierro submarine volcano caused the NAO to go extremely negative in 2010.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/nao-index-djf.png
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I try hard to buy Aussie made stuff, but most times I have no alternative than to buy a compromise item, usually, made in the PRC. It’s not that I dislike the Chinese, it’s that I dislike how Aussies have let their own manufacturing base for good innovation and quality product go offshore to cheap labour economies. I’d rather pay substantially extra for good quality Aussie made stuff that lasts longer and supports the Australian ethos of innovation and durability. How does that fit in with the oft applied label of “Designed in Australia and made in China, or wherever, to Exacting Standards”.
Any oldies out there who remember the Sidchrome spanner ditty from the 60’s “You canna handa man a granda spanner than a Sidchrome”? The following link shows that some tools are still Aussie made:
https://knowitsdifference.com/are-sidchrome-tools-still-made-in-australia/
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You can sheet the blame for that right back to Guff Whitless.
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STJOHNOFGRAFTON
Thanks – good site – donwloaded and saved
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It is more about sensible energy policy. China burns more than 50% of the global coal production. That makes them an energy powerhouse – pun intended. The labor component is ever diminishing. The energy intensity of manufacturing is ever increasing. In Germany, it is probably lower cost to use people than robots in assembly plants these days. Robots require more energy than humans. Humans have a conversion efficiency in the mid 20s. By the time you get wind energy to a robot, it will have an overall efficiency in low teens.
Germany’s emerging problem will be feeding its masses.
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FWIW
“So Trump is right”
https://youtu.be/J41T8Yh38mI
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And again
“Margin Of Fraud”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1578483416286101504.html
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/10/15/margin-of-fraud-109/
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Yesterday I mentioned Australian YouTuber, John Plant, with a channel called “Primitive Technology”.
Here’s a summary of his work.
https://youtu.be/-cgQUrdBoaM
Starting with only his bare hands and his brain plus the resources of the Australian rain forest, he has made tools, made fired clay vessels, made a terracotta roof house and even smelted iron.
It demonstrates that Australian natural resources were no impediment to the possibility of a European or other advanced style civilisation with durable vessels, durable houses and the possibility of tools made of iron.
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All that was needed was intelligence.
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Scott Melbye: Even the Left Recognizes Green Energy Transition a ‘Colossal Failure’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2022/10/15/scott-melbye-even-the-left-recognizes-green-energy-transition-a-colossal-failure/
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I don’t like that the Left are prepared to use nuclear energy.
It will be just a cover up for the deeply flawed technology of solar and wind and it just supports the incorrect view that CO2 is a problem.
The Left must support only solar, wind and Big Batteries if they are to continue to promote their anti-scientific views.
Don’t let them use nuclear reactors to keep covering up for flawed “green” technologies, just as today coal, gas and real hydro backs up solar and wind (and nuclear in the more sensible countries, not Australia).
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Even the Swedes have now proposed some more or new nuclear plants. But, I think it’s just a clever stunt in disinformation. A ruse. They’ll talk about it a lot, but it will be delayed interminably by delays etc. Basically what will possibly in Australia. Eventually the ALP will come around to support nuclear but all the plans will be stretched out for decades. I’ve watched too many episodes of Utopia and nuclear will be like the Very Fast Train. Political football at its best.
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David:
their problem is that nuclear is less flexible than coal-fired. On/Off production would destroy the economics (much as renewables are doing to our coal stations). They will have to fall beck on gas and to acommodate renewables that will be Open Cycle gas turbines. That means lower efficiency, higher costs and higher emissions.
No doubt you will have noticed the anxiety of Labor to increase gas supplies lately. They also want it cheaply but no Australian pollie seems to understand Supply and Demand.
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While I believe that there is nothing wrong with continuing to use coal and gas for energy production, and ceasing all further activities in solar and wind, I also believe that small-scale nuclear will provide very good energy sources, especially in remote country locations which currently may be relying on diesel to provide their power.
Perhaps as SMRs are introduced, we can do away with those long expensive transmission lines that blight our countryside.
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I was speaking to a being that identifies as a “computer programmer” the other day and he had never heard of a mercury delay line memory unit.
I was quite surprised.
This memory was also used in Australia’s first digital computer and the fifth stored program computer in the world, CSIRAC in 1949. (Which is also the oldest surviving 1st generation computer.)
Regardless of age, doesn’t anyone anymore have any interest in the history of technology?
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Doing Distinction Physics 1 1962 under Harry M Messel (“I recommend you take No-Doz to stay awake in my Lectures”), I worked on SILLIAC in the Syd Uni Physics Lab
the best Historical Reference on Computing in Australia is
ACS – A Vision Splendid
Graeme Philipson
The History of Australian Computing
356 Pages and an excellent read
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Oops try – https://docslib.org/doc/11381600/a-vision-splendid-the-history-of-australian-computing
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Better approach
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pdf+download+-+A+Vision+Splendid%3A+The+History+of+Australian+Computing&ia=web
Click 3rd Item down to download 356 Page PDF
https://www.acs.org.au › content › dam › acs › acs-publications › ACS-ebook-2017_A-Vision-Splendid_The-History-of-Australian-Computing.pdf
ACS – The Professional Association for Australia’s ICT sector
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I can remember large vertical disc drives, around a metre tall. Forgotten their storage, but think it was only 1 MB. They used to spin the drives up first, then use air to move large floating heads onto each disk side simultaneously.
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I wish I could get an IBM System/3. 64k with all the fruit. 80 col cards, 96 col cards, diskettes, tape drives, disk drives, keyboard, multiplexors & etc. 600 lpm line printer. A most wonderful reliable computer.
I would quite happily give it my lounge room.
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My first job was writing RPG programs for an IBM System 3/Mod 10, 2 removable 2.5MB disk cartridges and 1 fixed 2.5MB Drive, 16KB memory, could only execute one program at a time.. We later upgraded to a S/3 Mod 12, 2 50MB “Winchester” disk packs, 64KB memory and a console typewriter; It could even run two programs simultaneous (though the second program was usually the card/print spooler which left just one program for production work)!!!
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I forgot to mention that both models of the System/3 I worked on had a 96 column multi-function card reader/punch and came with a nice IBM utility that allowed one to sort cards using the card reader eliminating the need for an external 96 column card sorter.
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a) its hardware so he/she/it doesnt care
b) will knowing that help get a job? (about the only history question I ever got at a job interview was “what is Bell Labs famous for inventing?” and perhaps the oddest “why are manholes round”
so yes , they dont have an interest. For most people the world fell from the sky when the Internet arrived and anything that happened before that isnt that important really
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Earth Is Not A Greenhouse
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As noted by Jacques Fournier around 1827 when he coined the phrase Greenhouse but said the Earth couldn’t be an actual greenhouse unless a portion of the atmosphere solidifies WITHOUT changing its optical properties.
Greenies are a bit out of touch with recent science (although I think some have realised that the Earth isn’t flat).
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Dr Robert Malone on “War Room”. Data over last few months is indicative of positive relationship between covid19 vaccinations and hospitalisation and death. This would appear to add credibility to Geert Vandeen Bossche’s warnings. I personally believe that we are in for a torrid time in the near future. Also reference to Dr Joseph Ladapo.
https://rumble.com/v1nzbpm-higher-levels-of-inoculation-against-covid-19-increase-chance-of-death-whil.html
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Blackout fears prompt Britons to buy generators and torches
LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Britons are preparing for possible power cuts by stocking-up on portable generators and torches, in addition to winter clothing, thermal underwear and candles.
National Grid warned this month that Britain could face three-hour planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter if it cannot import electricity from Europe and struggles to attract enough imports to fuel gas-fired power plants.
Comparing data from the first 11 days of October 2021 to the same period this year showed a 203% increase in sales of generators and a 43% increase in sales of torches and head torches, Toolstation, part of Travis Perkins TPK.L, Britain’s biggest building materials retailer, said on Friday.
“Although it’s far from certain that the National Grid will have to resort to blackouts this winter, it’s clear customers are preparing for this worst case scenario,” a Toolstation spokesman said, noting the generators can be used to power electrical equipment such as lamps, fan heaters and TVs.
The Toolstation data chimes with a report this week from market researcher Kantar which said Britons were stocking-up on candles and duvets.
Department store chain John Lewis last week said people were stockpiling thermal underwear, gloves and dressing gowns.
Energy regulator Ofgem said British households should reduce their gas and electricity use where possible this winter to help cut costs and reduce the risk of power cuts.
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My bet is that the torches and generators were made in China using good ol’ Chinese coal.
I wonder where the fuel will come from to run the generators?
I winder how many know the generators will deplete the oxygen from the rooms?
Not much point having a generator if the pipes freeze and the Crapper does not flush.
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Aussies won’t fight China for woke globalism
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Nice article- all about how close we are to WW3 and how unprepared the West is.
“Fifth-column international communists like Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong signed onto the utopian political agenda in their youth, and have probably lost their zeal over the years thanks to their fat salaries and juicy perks. They’re doing everything they can to help China win the coming war – climate policies, open borders, educational dumbing-down, economic vandalism and cultural demoralisation. They probably think they’ll be rewarded with cushy jobs in the new global hierarchy once Western capitalism is done away with.
They’ll be shot. Communists are gangsters, and if there’s one thing gangsters despise it’s disloyalty. “
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An excellent article from 2017, from before the Left’s war against Ivermectin, including proposed “off label” uses.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
“Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations”
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How many researchers would now be prepared to research alternative uses of Ivermectin now it has been demonised by the demons of the Left? And it is doubtful doubtful they would get research grants.
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Whatever happened to Prof Thomas Borody? He was going to be the white knight of IVM. He was going to do for COVID what he done for treatment of gastric ulcers. I can only suppose he was bought off by big pharma, or had his research funds suddenly evaporate.
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I’ve been wondering where he is and what he is up to. Isn’t he based in the USA nowadays?
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I think he’s still in Sydney. No doubt the hard word was put on him about promoting IVM and his certificate was threatened. IVM was a side effort compared to his gastric work.
I was chasing IVM at the time, and just before I organised it with the medical practice involved it was banned.
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Interestingly neither IVM nor HCQ were available at pharmacies in Bangkok or Colombo.
One in the former implied IVM was only mail order from India and HCQ only hospital issue.
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a very good watch
Fluvid-19 (2022) FULL VIDEO RELEASE
https://odysee.com/@SixthSense-Truth-Search-Labs:0/Fluvid-19-(2022):6
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IT WAS ALL STAGED! Pelosi Brought in Daughter, Camera Crew to US Capitol Before the Protest, Son-in-Law Was Set Up Outside to Film
By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, October 14, 2022:
It was all a setup.
From Ray Epps – to opening the magnetic doors from the inside – to the dozens of fed operatives in the crowd – to Ginger Gun – to firing flash bombs and gas canisters on unsuspecting grandmas and seniors – to the mass arrests of hundreds of innocent Trump supporters who were waved into the US Capitol.
Now we have the proof that it was all a setup and the entire thing was filmed by a pre-staged camera crew.
On Thursday CNN released never-before-seen footage of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — the two people who refused to call in the National Guard prior to that day and during the rioting.
Holy sh@t they’re actually admitting it was all staged.
On CNN
@andersoncooper
says he’ll show nearly all of what Alexandra Pelosi documented on Jan 6th about 40 minutes. #jan6
Also notable: This is the first time “off limits” Nancy Pelosi, the official primarily responsible for protecting the Capitol, has made a cameo during a J6 committee performance.
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The Plot to Seize Russia
From Armstrong Economics –
“This work has been made possible by the declassification of the documents from the Clinton Administration. This book contains even the transcripts of phone calls between Yeltsin and Bill Clinton thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. This book will change what we thought was history. NATO even invited Russia to join in 1991 which led to the coup against Gorbachev. Before you sign of to World War III, you better wait until you finish this book.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/the-plot-to-seize-russia/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The World is not what it seems to be. But then again……………………….
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The Graduate is now about to start on SBS World Movies.
A truly great film …………………………..
JR
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There is data now, that the Wuhan-1 spike/first release RNA vaccines is causing: infertility, cancer, heart damage, neurological damage, and so on.
A Tampa Florida, Obstetrics and gynecology, notes, that she has seen a 50% increase in miscarriages, a 50% reduction in fertility, and a 25% increase in unusual/cancer indicating pap smears, in her incoming patients; from the start of RNA vaccination.
https://rumble.com/v1o5nc2-post-vax-miscarriage-rates-up-50-fertility-down-50..html
The Wuhan-1 spikes produced by the first release RNA vaccines, reach all organs, including the ovaries/testicles and brain. The Wuhan-1 spike included biological apparatus to breach the brain-blood barrier.
It has been found that repeat exposure of the body to Wuhan-1 spikes, impairs the body’s ability to defend against Omicron. Negative effectiveness – Youtube discussion of the peer reviewed paper that discusses this finding in the UK covid data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iCapONtDs
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2022/07/11/2022.06.28.22276926.full.pdf
Increasing SARS-CoV2 cases, hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated elderly populations during the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant surge in UK.
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That negative effectiveness. Israeli, for the best part of late 2021 and early 2022 was a great source of accurate information on COVID vaccines. Mainly because they had such a quick vaccine rollout mostly with the mRNA type. As I recall they were the 1st country to start reporting negative efficacy in some age groups. We even had highly regarded health academics in that country denouncing the vaccine push in their country. But lately, there hasn’t been a peep out of Israel regarding all things COVID. Have they been big pharm’d, or is it simply the bots and censors were put into action to nullify all information coming from that country?
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It could be that if they were deeply involved in the operation, then by them being the only ones to seemingly come clean with all manner of damage, that would do for deep cover as to their complicity. I saw video of American women twitching and convulsing and black women getting Bells Palsy. The Israeli footage was different. More just people complaining. Not particularly convincing when seen alongside the American footage. The big drug companies had no compulsion to keep any batch the same as any other. Testing of doses yielded completely variable results even within the same batch. So its not to say that we got the same witches brews as the Israelis.
If part of their faux accuracy and fake transparency was manufactured then its kind of hard to keep that sort of thing up and thats maybe why they could be going silent on us. One of the studies had Amish, Finns and Ashkenazi being less affected by spike protein poisoning then many other populations. So if they did get the poisons it could be a way to rebalance their population favouring one subset over another. With biological warfare its always going to be somewhat race based.
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This is a link to two peer reviewed papers which explain how the Wuhan-1 spike (generated by the mRNA vaccines) damages and interferes with the human immune system and other systems in the body.
Why do the Moderna and Pfizer, new bivalent boosters, both produce Wuhan-1 spikes, now that Omicron is the dominate strain of covid?
Adverse effects of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: the spike hypothesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021367/pdf/main.pdf
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Elicits Cell Signaling in Human Host Cells: Implications for Possible Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccines
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827936/
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What causes very energetic reactions? What is energy? If we are no longer willing to go along with deep state manipulation we may want to bring the concept of energy down to earth and make it less mystical. I think its something akin to leaving a slinky at the top of the stairs. You have created a situation that can lead to a cascade. Like setting up a lot of dominoes. If the nucleus of atoms is built up near the voided area in the centre of the earth, and supposing this is a place of powerful negative charge, then these big atoms can be assembled in such a fashion that may be precarious when they find their way to a less negatively charged environment.
Think of a nuclear fission reaction and one with a very high yield of neutrons. One neutron hits the big unwieldy atoms and releases three more. So you have this exponential growth of neutrons. But when we focus on these neutrons visually, perhaps we have taken our eye off the ball. Surely its exposing protons that is the real problem here. Neutrons have a short life at sea level if they have left the nucleus. They split into an electron, a proton, and (allegedly) an anti-neutrino. So we could say neutrons need to be inside the nucleus at sea level to be stable. Protons must be shielded by neutrons in the nucleus since we notice that as elements get heavier they become more top heavy in neutrons. So what I think is that very energetic reactions are really proton-repulsion reactions.
Think of that heavy fissionable element losing neutrons, exposing protons, and the breakaway, but still heavy atoms, spinning furiously with exposed protons. You could imagine visually how this would lead to a lot of activity and heat. It would have nothing to do with the idea of converting matter into energy. I think thats a better way of looking at things, and if you accept this proton repulsion theory you would not expect fusion to create much energy. You would expect it to be a bit of a dead letter. Because you have very light molecules for starters, and to have fusion you are actually trying to avoid proton repulsion.
How about the hydrogen bomb as a counter-argument? Thats the subject of official secrets and disinformation (legitimate for a change) so this cannot be press-ganged in as counter-evidence. I actually think that such a bomb would be a proton repulsion bomb with the nuclear bomb at its centre designed to strip away the elections leaving the protons exposed.
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Consider pouring molten salt into water. Why is the explosion so powerful? For nationalistic and ethical reasons we need to be the molten salt champions of the world. A clue could be that molten salt is supposed to be a great conductor of electricity. The explosion is way out of proportion to the heat. Its not clear that much of any chemical reactions are going on here. So in keeping with my thesis above, perhaps we are getting exposed protons. Perhaps we have a proton repulsion explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRWQUUUCF0
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“SADS: If I die, you were right”
https://twitter.com/David83823494/status/1581226673013288961
JC II – Right again then. ☺
Probably vaxx exacerbated organ failure from Roid abuse…
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Court Had To Order CDC To Release Data Showing Over 18 Million Covid Vaccine Injuries
According to the CDC’s own internal data, over 18 million people were so seriously injured after their first Pfizer or Moderna covid shot that they had to go to the hospital.
Instead of alerting the public to the dangers of the jabs, or better still completely shutting down President Biden’s mass ‘vaccination’ mandates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chose to keep the information covered up until it was forced to release it.
Everyone in a position of authority at the CDC should be fired for this. What good is a “public health” agency if it fails to alert the public that 8% of vaccine recipients are being hospitalized?
https://www.americanlibertyreportnews.com/articles/court-orders-cdc-to-release-data-showing-18-million-vaccine-injuries-in-america/
Biggest lies in history:
1. The Covid-19 plandemic & vaxxes
2. AGW & Climate doom
3. Ukraine & Zekensky need money and weapons.
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Geez, recently there were stories showing adverse injuries running at between 1 in 500 to 1 in 1000. 18 m hospital visits in a population of 330 m = 5.4%, which is 1 in 18 vaccinated people. But that figure for US in the total population, not the actual vaccinate population which is much less. Hence that 1 in 18 is conservative.
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My bad – missed the 8% figure :-(. So, that’s 1 in 12 people. Which means pretty well everyone should know someone in their family or friends with some bad reaction.
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Yes, I do, here in OZ, and I have a small circle of friends compared to many.
Like most of the un-vaxxed, I find it wisest not to say anything anymore. Then again, I can’t think of anyone who is going to get more shots.
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Elon Musk Alarmed After Apparent Inclusion On Well-Known Ukrainian ‘Kill List’
Elon Musk has publicly expressed alarm over his name and profile appearing to have been added to a well-known Ukrainian ‘kill list’, following controversy and outrage from Kiev over his prior “Russia-Ukraine peace poll” and subsequent threats to cut funding for Starlink satellite internet services deployed in the country.
On Friday, the billionaire SpaceX founder responded directly to a viral tweet by independent journalist Eva Bartlett which claimed “Musk added to Ukraine’s Myrotvorets kill list (which includes 327 children!),” in which he asked her “is this list real?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-alarmed-after-appearing-well-known-ukrainian-kill-list
Kill lists for children.
Why is the west continuing to fund Zelensky?
You’re only making him a billionaire, killing people en-masse and pushing the world closer to WW3.
No more money or weapons of war.
Spend the money fixing your own economies. You sure as hell need that far more…
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See how now the community who goes in for this sort of targeting can blame this behaviour on ethnic Ukrainians. Even though ethnic Ukrainians have no power in their own country. So the deep state can become completely unrestrained at doing those sorts of things they were always wanting to do. Kill lists for children. We all become Palestinians if the Russians don’t win. No person will ever be able to keep his children safe anywhere on the planet.
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Competitive bodybuilder and fitness expert – Million Dollar Mu$cle co-author – Doug Brignole was an ardent advocate for Covid vaccines. He has just passed away in Los Angeles at 62 due to a suspected heart attack.
A rather sudden and unexpected death.
Draw your own conclusion.
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Yes, but he could have had blocked arteries or anything like that. Everyone should get an MR scan on their heart arteries when they get to around age 50 years or so. I did and it identified an issue which is now being treated. And I thought that I was fit as a fiddle and relied on good blood test results to give me comfort. BTW I never got those jabs so that is a plus.
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Steroid abuse would be top of the list.
The vaccines have issues, but they aren’t responsible for every death!
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It’s the vax, Max.
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I heard about that and I thought it was tragic … the key quote can be found here.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/doug-brignole-1960-2022-rip
OK … personally I never got vacksed and I have outlived Doug Brignole … however despite “winning” Brignole’s challenge I certainly do not feel great about the situation, and it requires a large sample size to settle these issues. One or two deaths might be a coincidence. All of this business with the spike protein involves a fair component of random chance, and that is exactly why it should come down to individual choice. Brignole made various choices in life … and he is where is is today because of those choices … I don’t claim to be an expert on what he could have done better.
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Maribyrnong dam ‘would have saved’ hundreds of homes
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/maribyrnong-dam-would-have-saved-hundreds-of-homes-20221015-p5bq0v.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1665872660
Hundreds of Melbourne homes could have been saved from flooding in recent days if the former state Labor government had backed a push to dam the Maribyrnong River, hydrology experts say.
Hydrology and flood warning expert Geoff Crapper, who was responsible for Melbourne’s flood warning service at Melbourne Water from 1989 to 2003, lobbied the Bracks government to build the infrastructure project at Arundel ahead of the 2006 election, but it was rejected on environmental grounds.
According to a presentation by Crapper provided to the government at the time, the infrastructure project would also have eliminated the need for a controversial flood wall protecting Flemington Racecourse, and reduced the reliance on Melbourne Water’s flood warning system.
Crapper told The Sunday Age that the dam, which was proposed six kilometres upstream from Keilor at Arundel, would have likely prevented the flooding on Friday of hundreds of houses in Melbourne’s western suburbs from floodwaters.
“Not only wouldn’t have they had any houses flooded this time, the racecourse wouldn’t have needed a wall either,” Crapper said.
“It would have saved hundreds of people evacuating and billions of dollars in bills and, mostly, it wouldn’t have ruined peoples lives.”
A total of 245 homes in the suburb of Maribyrnong flooded on Friday, the State Emergency Service confirmed on Saturday, far exceeding the 60 affected homes that was initially predicted.
Authorities had issued a watch and act alert for low-lying areas along the Maribyrnong River at 9pm on Thursday, and by 2.30am on Friday the alert had been upgraded to a major flood warning as water levels continued to surge. At 5am on Friday, the SES began doorknocking homes telling people to evacuate immediately.
The dam proposal was originally recommended by the then Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works in 1976 and 1986 as a cost-effective way to prevent flooding.
The plan was rejected by the Bracks Labor government in 2006 over claims it would devastate the river, flood farms and cost millions of dollars. Environment Victoria also criticised the plan over environmental concerns.
Crapper said the $80 million price tag was “chicken feed” compared to the damage bill from floods over the past two decades. He predicts that if nothing is done, low-lying towns and suburbs along the Maribyrnong River – including the suburbs of Keilor, Essendon, Footscray and Yarraville – can expect “more of the same if not worse” in the future.
The Victorian government has repeatedly ruled out building new dams over claims climate change meant not enough water would flow into them. Yesterday, Premier Daniel Andrews reiterated his government’s policy not to build any more dams saying the flood was “not about storage” but “patterns of weather that are unique”.
“I am not here to make any announcements about additional dams, our policy has been to make the best and most efficient use of the water that we have as well as to create a climate change resistant capacity to create water,” he said.
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Stratolaunch Prepares for Reported In-Flight Drop Test of Talon Hypersonic Testbed
World’s Largest Aircraft Seen with Engines Running and New Test Payload at Mojave.
A tip from one of the most accomplished spotters in the U.S. on Thursday, October 13, 2022, led TheAviationist to the Mojave Air & Space Port to find “Roc”, the world’s largest aircraft, the one-off Stratolaunch, outside of its massive hangar. The next day, it’s engines were seen running and the massive, twin-fuselage, six-engine aircraft had been moved well away from its hangar.
According to additional, credible sources close to the Stratolaunch project, the aircraft is being prepared for an upcoming test flight that is reported to include the separation drop-test of an unmanned Talon-A hypersonic mock-up that is being referred to as “Talon-0” for this reported upcoming test.
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The Victorian government has repeatedly ruled out building new dams over claims climate change meant not enough water would flow into them. Yesterday, Premier Daniel Andrews reiterated his government’s policy not to build any more dams saying the flood was “not about storage” but “patterns of weather that are unique”.
“I am not here to make any announcements about additional dams, our policy has been to make the best and most efficient use of the water that we have as well as to create a climate change resistant capacity to create water,” he said.
This bloke is such a dope and has water on the brain. That is, if he has a brain that is………………………
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Seen a spotted owl lately?
“Some things in life are hard to understand and explain. The theory of relativity, for example, or the origins of black holes. Other things are easy to grasp, however.
Such as: California’s wildfire woes. In the past five years summer and fall firestorms have killed dozens of people, wiped out homes, businesses and entire communities, torched millions of acres of forestlands, caused billions in property losses, and swept away untold numbers of animals and wildlife.
The cause of all this wreckage is easy to pinpoint. It’s simple as two words: spotted owl.”
“You identify a “problem” and then destroy a way of life as a means of solving that perceived problem. But then your “solution” creates an even bigger mess, one that causes you to go back to the very people whose communities and livelihoods you trashed, asking them to help you with your latest bright idea. But these small town Americans have themselves become an endangered species.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/15/two-words-explain-californias-wildfire-woes-spotted-owl/
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Weekend entertainment
1. The wind power lobby unveil their new logo:
https://cdn.acidcow.com/uploads/posts/2022-10/1665676067_6.gif
2. Never drive a Lambo through a flood:
https://cdn.acidcow.com/uploads/posts/2022-10/1665501754_10.gif
3. There are stupid drivers and then there’s this person:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1580605576886865920/pu/vid/360×464/rKUQJT-HFMsY_MJU.mp4
4. A kids cartoon going anti-woke! 😁
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1580997622315335680/pu/vid/1280×720/Skq85kqP9cNhrKqz.mp4
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Losing My (Vaccine) Religion.
A Doctors Journey From Hope And Despair.
Act 1: Grief
I am a doctor with a troubled conscience.I am a friend with a heavy heart.
January 2021: I am standing next to an open grave. Rays of sun cannot cheer the depths of pain and loss in my heart. The body of my dear friend, Bruce, is being lowered to its final resting place. Sobs from his eldest daughter fill the air.Age 79 and dead from COVID. Just a few weeks earlier, we shared laughs and bear hugs overThanksgiving dinner. “Doctor, what do you think of this virus?” was the topic of conversation across the table.Bruce was a good man, a special man. The kind of guy who found a way to connect with everyone he met. He had the gift of gab and a way of interacting that made people feel accepted and valued. The fabric of humanity suffered a tear that day, and, as I marked the occasion, I couldn’t help but think — dammit!, if he had just been able to hold out a few months until the vaccine arrived.It felt cosmically unjust — like sinking under the waves just moments before the lifeguard arrived.
https://pdfhost.io/view/~7DMnfFfM_Losing_My_Vaccine_Religion_A_Doctors_Journey_From_Hope_And_Despair_Final
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Science for hire. The full movie.
Science for Hire takes us on a journey through the most critical scientific issues that directly affect our health and well-being, shedding light on the hidden secrets of the scientific, pharmaceutical, and military industrial complexes. Following a long history of systemic corruption across medical organizations and schools, scientific publications and federal regulatory agencies, we enter a world where pseudo-science and misinformation rules.
https://rumble.com/v1nk6tu-science-for-hire-full-movie-a-gary-null-production.html
I extracted the download link:
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/s/Q/N/9/sQN9f.caa.mp4
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Hmmm…a western supplied tactical nuke in Ukraine eh…
What’s the word?
Oh yeah – Incoming!
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West makes plans to avoid panic if Russia uses nuclear bomb in Ukraine
Western officials are engaged in “prudent planning” behind the scenes to prevent chaos and panic in their home countries in the event Russia was to detonate a nuclear bomb in or near Ukraine.
Although a nuclear crisis is considered highly unlikely, the insider said officials internationally were re-examining plans to provide emergency support and reassurance to populations fearful of nuclear escalation.
Hints of the thinking emerged in a briefing by an official on Friday, who was asked if there would be measures in place to prevent panic buying or people fleeing cities en masse in fear of escalation after a nuclear event.
Governments were engaged in “prudent planning for a range of possible scenarios” said the western official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, although they stressed that any use of nuclear weapons by Russia in the war would be abhorrent.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/west-plans-avoid-panic-if-russia-nuclear-bomb-ukraine-putin
1. Russia won’t be first to launch.
2. The morons in the USSA government started it all but it’ll be Zelensky pushing the button first. Remember that.
3. What plans do western governments have to protect the people? Name some nuclear fallout shelters in western countries.
No doubt “prudent planning” means save the pollies first, screw the unwashed.
When the first launch happens it will be panic buying of everything, everywhere, by those only just waking up…
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Doug Casey on the Likelihood of Nuclear War With Russia
As for Zelensky accelerating the bid to join NATO, it’s insanely stupid. Zelensky is a corrupt nothing/nobody puppet who’s being manufactured into a hero. The strutting little megalomaniac has apparently been paid at least half a billion dollars to be an authoritarian, jailing opposition leaders, closing down dissident newspapers, and building a secret police force. Ukraine joining NATO at this point would be asking for World War 3. Of course, NATO should have been abolished after the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991. But now it’s become an institution, almost impossible to get rid of.
The chances of a war between NATO and Russia are extremely high. Instead of talking about getting rid of Putin, the world would be better off if they got rid of Zelensky.
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-likelihood-of-nuclear-war-with-russia/
Doug Casey is always very well informed and tells it as it is, and summed up Zelensky perfectly…
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It can be pretty annoying when its claimed that this is a struggle between democracy and dictatorship. Ukraine has been run as a very extreme totalitarian state. With elections as a pretence only.
But I think its all over for Nato in Ukraine now. I don’t know how they are going to get their weaponry in to cause much more trouble. If Russia is taking down the train systems and the electricity I don’t see how they can get the weapons there. A lot of heavy kit has to go by rail. Or if not it will cost too much in fuel.
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Serious reading here IMO
“Complications of the Ukraine War”
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/92078-complications-of-the-ukraine-war-2022-10-15
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An excellent read-
“Finally, the big transformation that has been predicted for a generation now — that power would shift from the U.S. and Europe to Asia and other places — is now measurably underway. In the 1990s, between the Gulf War and the Iraq War, the U.S. and its Western European allies controlled 70 percent of world GDP; that number is now 43 percent. The West still does relatively well, but not so well that it can count on the rest of the world to rally behind it automatically. Whether in victory or defeat, Americans may be about to discover that you cannot run a twentieth century foreign policy with a twenty-first century society. “
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Has anybody heard from Jennifer Marohasy. Is she OK. She hasn’t posted on her blog for six weeks.
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Probably on the GBR scuba diving and drone flying. Half her luck.
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Was some Facebook posts from her recently, maybe 2 weeks ago .
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Are you allowed to see this in Oz?
Monica Smith … a victim of Victoria?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAUKuxO8kY
Curious to me how Oz and NZ became Mass Formation Central.
Does the dark monolith to your North need bother to invade and conquer you if you just become them.
Of course, most of us are close behind in the assimilation.
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I have felt for a long time that Aussies are afraid of freedom.
It’s not just lately that we welcome nanny-state regulation. We agreed once that there needed to be rules to be obeyed when driving or chaos would ensue. Every year since the rules have become more onerous, the fines more severe and the policing more strict, so much so that traffic fines are a significant line item in state budgets, one they could not live without.
But if anyone were to object there would be almost no support: You just want to kill my kids!
There is no support for relaxing gun laws that say I can’t own an air rifle “just because……” either.
Maybe we are still forelock tugging convicts at heart.
Note: I am the son of sons of free settlers. This may explain why I object.
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I’m an immigrant, and I’m horrified at how obedient Aussies are. The image projected overseas of independent-minded larrikans who thumb their noses at authority is just not matched by what I’ve seen.
I always say that if we were to discover Australia today we wouldn’t build what we have with the people we have…
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Australians aren’t afraid of freedom, they just have no idea what tyranny is.
We’re the Luckiest Country on Earth… perhaps too goddam lucky.
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mmmmm never having been truly oppressed on a grand scale that leads to wide spread civil war, we seem to have accepted incremental controls that have gone way past reasonable at this stage. I used to think not having torn ourselves up in a civil war or independence war was a good thing, not so sure now.
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It depends on what you mean. Australia, the nation, is predominantly the offspring of Britain which did have a tumultuous and bloody revolution. It was, however, a long time ago.
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Civil war is not the point. When was our War of Independence? When was our Pearl Harbour?
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I get that, but who is our? The people here are either white colonists from a place that did have a civil war. The people who really had their pearl harbor are so scarce and fragmented compared with when they were here for more of the 50000 years or so, that they find it hard to galvanise.
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Or Gee Aye, the War of Independence meant that a whole culture trained their children to be wary of the Government and 200 years later, they still think Free Speech matters.
Australians never fought for independence. We didn’t need to. The British largely gave us virtual independence — almost as good as. We just didn’t appreciate how precious it was.
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I wonder if the fallout shelters that used to be mandated in Swiss homes are getting a dusting off right now. They mostly got made into wines caves and junk rooms.
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I never dreamt that we could be on the brink of nuclear war simply because a Russian thought it was a good idea at the time. A Mad Mulla, maybe, but not this.
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You are dreaming now. Your interpretation comes from the television, which is controlled by the people causing the problem.
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You haven’t the slightest idea about me. Please cease and desist making assumptions about me coloured by YOUR fanaticisms.
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I dont think he thinks its a good idea either, but he wants the other side to know its a real possibility and the brinkmanship of the last decade+ is well over. Seems incredible but here we all are apparently.
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Zero chance, Putin knows it’s the fastest way to get himself deposed, it’s just a bluff, yet another attempt to sow fear and uncertainty and chaos.
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Its not a bluff. Its a restatement of Russian doctrine, being misinterpreted by the aggressors.
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What a load of baloney you spout.
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Russia has very well worked out military doctrines and excellent decision-making processed. Which stops the kind of fiascos and evil that we see in the West. The US had terrific decision making under the outstanding husband and wife team Ron and Nancy. But these things weren’t committed to doctrine. So once the old man left town the wheels started falling off.
The Catholic Church has a fine body of work to do with just war theory which would keep people on track. One should stay within the spirit of just war theory. Sometimes you might have to stray a bit from the letter of that body of work, just to get it all over with.
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If Putin was thinking he would not have started this aggression in the first place.
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To understand the situation I want you to consider that the Russian decision-making team were not members of the Skeptics Society. Many of them were KGB. So in other words at the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of knowing what is going on around you. The Skeptics being the clueless wing.
Russia could have responded more forcefully to the Western attack and annexation of the Ukraine back then. But he had not at that stage won the arms race, and he probably thought he could wait for an American President who would see reason. So the response was eight years delayed and you should admire him for his patience
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Did Putin start the Aggression?
Terraforming Earth is actually talking sense. For a rather different and much more informed view I suggest listening to this podcast interview with Swiss Colonel Jaques Baud.
It is long! But it is worth it for those who want to understand both sides of the argument.
https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/jacques-baud/
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On an article in Brietbart on “Scott Melbye: Even the Left Recognizes Green Energy Transition a ‘Colossal Failure’”
I love this comment “This idea that renewables that run only 30 percent of the time can run our electricity is insane.”
It makes the case so clearly.
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It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.
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So, tonight we have the opening games of the T20 World Cup, with some of the lesser teams facing off,
Opening the batting for the Netherlands is Max O’Dowd and Vikramjit Singh.
As they say, funny game cricket.
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Our rugby league and union teams should be renamed South Pacific Islands.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
– Winston Churchill
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Willis E and more on
“Solar Sensitivity”
“For this expedition into global scatterplots, Figure 1 shows the surface temperature as a function of the amount of solar power that’s actually entering the climate system. This available solar power is the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) solar, minus the “albedo reflections”, which are the amount of sunlight reflected back to space by the clouds and the surface.”
And it is an interesting line!
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/solar-sensitivity/
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I went straight to the comments and I’m none the wiser.
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I might be more informative to read Willis’s article first before reading the comments.
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Its above my pay grade and comments are more informative.
‘I can’t find any solid evidence tying sunspot cycles to surface weather changes in temperature, rainfall, cloudiness, or to a number of other variables. Nothing. And I’ve looked hard.’ (Willis)
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Reuters Rushes in to Protect Government, Informing Us Nobody Promised Vaccines Would Prevent Spread of COVID
In an audacious change in the script, Reuters’ latest fact-check informs us rabble we were wrong to think the vaccine would stop the virus.
It is not necessary to rehash much of what we heard over the past few years regarding the efficacy of the COVID vaccines. We were lectured ad nauseam about not only the effectiveness of the shots to halt the spread, but how it was all but required of us to get the shot. Twice. Then the booster. Then the next boosters. All were assured these would stop the outbreak, and anyone daring to question things was considered heretical–and in need of retribution.
Well, now comes some rather shocking news from Reuters: It was all a load of crap. The news outlet performs a staggering. revisionist history fact-check to tell us that it was all our own fault for believing the vaccines would save us from infection. We somehow came up with this conclusion on our own because, according to the news syndicate, nobody promised us the vaccines would work. Imagine everyone’s surprise.
This all stems from a European Parliament committee that called Pfizer executives to testify, and the drug company experts actually came out to declare they had no idea if their vaccine would, in fact, halt the spread of COVID. Testifying was Janine Small, appearing in place of the company’s CEO, Albert Bourla. Unknown was whether Bourla’s absence was a result of his contracting COVID himself–for the second time, it needs to be pointed out.
As a result of this testimony, Reuters has chosen to not explore the history of authorities, medical experts, and the media telling us that we needed to get vaccinated to halt the spread. Instead, they take the easy route of declaring no one made such a promise, and it is our own fault for believing this possibility.
To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. The misleading posts imply that national restrictions such as vaccine passports were based on a promise of vaccines blocking virus spread that neither the companies nor EU regulators made before the vaccines were marketed.
This is quite the revisionist history. I recall Dr. Anthony Fauci touting the need to vaccinate to create people becoming “dead ends” for the spread. Joe Biden repeatedly made the claim the vaccine halted the spread. As for the press itself, there are countless submissions to note, of non-medically-trained journalists lecturing the public in condescending fashion over the effectiveness and need of the Pfizer injections.
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REUTERS FACT CHECK
OCTOBER 15, 20226:33 AM
Fact Check-Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants
Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done.
To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time.
As these results on transmission were emerging in early 2021, national health authorities in many countries implemented or proposed vaccine-passport-style regulations that prompted ongoing debate (here) over the ethical and legal basis of the rules.
The misleading posts imply that national restrictions such as vaccine passports were based on a promise of vaccines blocking virus spread that neither the companies nor EU regulators made before the vaccines were marketed.
COMPLETE NONSENSE’
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A Look Back at the Demonization of the Unvaccinated
Michael P Senger
Oct 14
Social media has been in an uproar since a member of European Parliament posted a video of a hearing in which a Pfizer director admitted the company never tested whether its Covid mRNA vaccine prevents transmission prior to its approval for emergency use.
Though the fact that Covid mRNA vaccines do not prevent transmission was, of course, abundantly clear from the data soon after their implementation, this myth was a primary justification for vaccine passes and a primary cause of the unprecedented venom launched at those who refused Covid vaccines throughout 2021 and continuing through today.
Not only did governments exert this pressure through policy, but in many cases politicians and officials used their office to deliberately stoke the social stigmatization of the unvaccinated. Here’s a look back at some of the unprecedented vitriol that was launched at those who refused Covid vaccines from 2021 and beyond.
Officials in many jurisdictions proposed making the unvaccinated pay more for healthcare.
In Victoria, Australia—where lockdowns were longer than in perhaps any other city in the world—one politician proposed cutting the unvaccinated out of the national health system entirely.
A particularly disturbing idea that began to gain serious traction among the elite commentariat was to have hospitals triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last, or even deny healthcare to the unvaccinated entirely—a fairly clear-cut crime against humanity.
One vocal proponent of the idea of triaging emergency care to disfavor the unvaccinated was David Frum, Senior Editor of the Atlantic, most famous for his outspoken support for the invasion of Iraq. When his infamous tweet on the subject sparked an uproar, Frum doubled down.
bioethics
The demonization of the unvaccinated was, of course, far from limited to healthcare. Vilifying the unvaccinated became a kind of illiberal fad among the elite commentariat. The US CDC even paid screenwriters and comedians to promote Covid vaccines, which in some cases involved paying them to mock the unvaccinated.
In a bout of recidivism to the early 20th century, Austria and Germany introduced the chilling concept of “lockdown for the unvaccinated.”
Most countries, cities, and states across the Western world introduced vaccine passes that their own citizens had to show in order to partake in daily life. The World Health Organization published an extensive document on implementing a digital vaccine-pass system, including an international vaccine status registry and instructions on how to later revoke someone’s vaccine pass.
And of course, who could forget Justin Trudeau’s classic fuhrer-style rant about having to share public transportation with the unvaccinated, despite government documents later revealing that he had no science to back any of these claims.
Like so much of the response to Covid, these vaccine passes and the illiberal fad of stigmatizing the unvaccinated were unscientific, unprecedented, ineffective, totalitarian, brutal, and dumb.
It was never remotely realistic for any government to expect every single person to get vaccinated, especially when the vaccine in question involved a novel genetic-based therapy. Thus, these proposals to impose draconian hardships on those who refused Covid vaccines would inevitably involve the state imposing draconian hardships on a sizable portion of the population.
According to Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, one of the most credible voices on the subject, Covid vaccines likely yielded benefits for the elderly and vulnerable, but it remains entirely unclear whether Covid vaccines have yielded any benefit at all for healthy adults and especially for children. Coupled with the still-unknown risks associated with mRNA technology and the now well-documented cases of death and serious injury from these vaccines, for governments across the world to have exerted extreme pressure on children and healthy adults to get these vaccines is absolutely sickening.
That some healthy young people were surely coerced into receiving an injection that led to their death or serious injury, when the data showed that the benefits did not outweigh the risks, is an unconscionable tragedy.
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Never Forget
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“Must be climate change”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ECF9267E-889A-4E95-8B36-D30D8BE637D9.jpeg
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More “Hip, Hip, Hip Hop-Cracy”
“Rudd acolyte happy to take Rupert’s money when it suits.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/rudd-acolyte-happy-to-take-ruperts-money-when-it-suits.html
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United States Government Has Plans of Creating an AI that Can Expose Anonymous Writers
According to a recent announcement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA) is developing a program to unmask anonymous writers. IARPA will use AI to analyze anonymous writers’ style. According to Cindy Harper of Reclaim the Net, a writer’s style “is seen as potentially being as unique as a fingerprint.”
“Humans and machines produce vast amounts of text content every day. Text contains linguistic features that can reveal author identity,” IARPA stated.
If IARPA succeeds with its venture, it believes that the Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure (HIATUS) program could identify a writer’s style from multiple samples and change those patterns to increase the anonymization of the writing.
“We have a strong chance of meeting our goals, delivering much-needed capabilities to the Intelligence Community, and substantially expanding our understanding of variation in human language using the latest advances in computational linguistics and deep learning,” declared HIATUS program manager Dr. Timothy McKinnon.
On top of that, IARPA said it will create explainability standards for the program’s AIs.
ODNI revealed that HIATUS could have several applications, which includes fighting foreign influence activities, defending writers whose work may potentially endanger them, and identifying counterintelligence risks. Per McKinnon, the program can identify if a machine generated or a human being wrote the text.
However, Harper noted that “it is not IARPA’s work to turn HIATUS into something usable. The agency’s work is only to develop the technology.” Regardless, it’s becoming clear that the ruling class has it in for anonymous writers and those who use pen names.
Writing under a pen name is as American as apple pie. Many of the Founding Fathers wrote under pen names throughout the ratification of the United States Constitution. This is how many controversial writers can defend themselves from the state and private actors who want to do them harm.
Should the establishment have its way with regards to end anonymity, free speech in America will be one step closer to its deathbed.
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FACEBOOK IS SPYING ON YOU: Facebook Suspends Wife of FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend After She Responds in Private Message to Post Asking if Family Needs Help
Miranda Devine revealed the name of the latest FBI whistleblower – Steve Friend – who exposed the FBI’s disgusting lies on tracking domestic right-wing terrorism.
Steve Friend is a SWAT Team member who has been with the FBI for 12 years. He is married and has two small children. According to Miranda Devine,
“He just could not live with his conscience after he was dragged off these very important child porn, child exploitation, and human trafficking investigations he was working on, and put on the very bogus January 6 cases he has been working on… He could see from the ground how the FBI Washington DC Field Office was manipulating these cases to try and expand and pretend the problem was bigger than it was. And he also didn’t want to participate in SWAT raids on people who were being accused of misdemeanors at worst… Steve Friend stood up and said, ‘I will not do this.’”
On Saturday night FBI whistleblower Steve Friend joined Dan Bonginon on his weekly FOX News television show.
Steve Friend told Dan Bongino that his wife was was permanently suspended from Facebook after responding by direct message to a parent’s post asking if her family needs help.
Facebook banned her. Her family is not allowed to get help according to Facebook. They stood up against the FBI so now Facebook is going to punish the entire family.
Facebook is spying on your direct messages.
Agent Friend had this to say about his wife’s Facebook account.
Agent Dan Friend: My wife, an immigrant from Ukraine, her Facebook account is private. It actually does not have her name displayed on there. It’s not in English. She only uses her account to send indirect messages and to look at family pictures. My wife sent her a direct message, identifying herself as Steve Friend’s wife. And within 20 minutes of sending that direct private message her Facebook account was suspended for violating its terms of use.
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Still no forecast for a European winter.
Three autumn Arctic predictors for the NH winter forecast are snow, sea ice and polar vortex.
‘… the unusually early polar vortex disruption that could have very important implications for the upcoming winter.’ (AER)
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If the Arctic Oscillation remains positive there won’t be any cold air outbreaks.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/ao.png
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I’ll get in first then. I forecast that there will be a European winter.
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But will it be bitter in Germany?
Apparently western European civilisation is on the brink, determined by vagaries in the weather.
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I forecast several months of climate change, otherwise know as Give Us More Money.
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Bitter? You’re welcome.
And no. Civilisation isn’t on the brink.
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Of course, a freezing winter not a bitter winter.
Agreed, western civilisation should survive, but NATO might be on its last legs.
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Anyone had a look into RD.SAT which proclaims “How to better deal with future drought and climate risks”?
http://www.drsat.com.au
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Nothing to see there.
‘Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).’
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I think or at least I hope that that we will have the diesel engine for thousands of years to come. The reason I think this is it baffles me what could possibly make it obsolete?????
The best I could come up with is helium 3 production using the solar winds electrical energy, protons, and transported water. Then we send this manufactured product back to earth in bulk. Maybe we could get the engines very small and still have a good stream of protons driving our vehicles around.
Pretty silly hey? Pretty far-fetched right? So yes I think the diesel engine is a multi-thousand year development. Because the alternatives are too nutty. We need our politicians to take a diesel loyalty test. I want to see some tears of gratitude in their eyes when they take this test. We need real emotions here.
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I am still seeking a believable explanation as to why Diesel fuel is suddenly double the price it was 12 months ago leaving it now 25-35% more expensive than even the inflated cost of petrol. ?
It is not the usual supply/demand situation since there is no shortage, it is still readily available everrywhere, and as it is almost a byproduct of petrol refining i see no explanation for the excessive pricing.
I conclude we diesel users are simply being shafted by the refineries/wholesalers etc …
….but why ?
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Russian oil is high in heavy fractions for diesel, Arabian oil is lighter and makes more petrol. So the Yanks taking Russian oil off the Western market has lead to a diesel shortage while petrol is still OK.
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Russia is a minor producer/exporter of oil compared to the US and M East.
Further , dispite sanctions, it is reported that Russian production and exports have barely been affected such that the world supply is inchanged, dispite some European countries having to source supplies differently.
So woothout a “shortage” of supply, and even if the Russian oil is better for Diesel production, it does not explain the huge price differential globally, (especially in the USA ) ?
Several researchers have concluded that the wholesale /retail functions are mainly responsible for the difference,…but why now ?
Petrol is a “headline” fuel product, but economically Diesel is the critical factor as it drives industry, heavy transport, agriculture, heating, and even significant power generation.
Hence it is a prime factor in the cost of living generally.
………It is an Economic handle !
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Excellent insight into contemporary Chinese politics.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/15/xi-congress-enemies-communist-china/
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Emphasis if posted before
https://youtu.be/TMFrOIebS0k
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It is getting serious when –
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/17/site-note-and-recovery-update/#more-238679
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