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“Cheer” woke cheese going broke
https://youtu.be/oaTe-oI5_jc
An awful no-thought product name probably conceived of by some lowly grunt during his coffee break (or a “marketing expert” 😆)
They fell prey to marxist social justice warriors and now their employees get to pay the price.
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There would have been high $ marketing consultants and high level management groups that all agreed that was a good idea.
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Yes, an easy decision.
Today: speak out for woke or not have your finance roll over.
Tomorrow: run your plant and go broke as you thumb your nose at your loyal customers.
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They seem to believe the screeching woke minority is representative of the general population.
Given most of the younger management group have heard little else during their education and probably believe it themselves it probably was an easy, but wrong, decision. They may learn a lesson come bonus time.
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hmmm. I’m about to drive from Springsure in Qld to Dubbo in NSW. On the Carnarvan /Newell Highways, it’ll mean passing through Coonabarabran, while taking the alternative route past Lightning Ridge will require visiting Coonamble.
Though there’s no feasible way to avoid this, and despite my many many protests over the years at the sheer racism of these places, both towns refuse to change their names. Refuse point blank.
What should I do? Ask for $30 million to forget it?
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What should you do? Watch our for flooded and/or damaged roads. If necessary blink when you see the town names.
Cheers
Dave B
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Excellent- NZ changed the name of Niggercreek and several similar names a decade back. That was done by a Govt Dept with no recourse once they had pretended to confer with the public, so maybe a Town Council is more directly responsible to its ratepayers.
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Better take a Nulla Nulla and some spears. Crossing the Queensland Border will be the easiest of your obstacles. You will probably cross multiple tribal and racial boundaries requiring ceremonies or battles to progress on your journey. Also pay heed to your parents choice of circumcision methods as this may assist in identifying you as friend or foe as you cross cultural boundaries.
Good choice the inland route as a coastal route would have been one barney / invasion after another.
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Oh dear I’ve overdone it.
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Remembering that they were closing down a factory I took note of cheers cheese y’day. Much dearer than the standard block I normally buy. Passed it up.
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It’s probably still charging for the Halal tax imposed on Coon cheese, which started the whole fiasco some time before the brand name “Coon” caused “woke “ reaction.
Does the new cheese still carry the Halal approval icon?
Some CEO at company seems to have a business suicide fetish!
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The activist was an aboriginal PhD who said he did not believe that the name of the inventor of the cheese was Dr. Coon.
Coon in the US is not a word for racoon and that a word for black people. It is a family name. It’s all an urban myth, but give someone a PhD and they become all knowing.
And yes, Dr. Coon’s patent was 1926 and is shown in the list of patents, a patent for a technique for rapid fermentation. The Cheese slicing was invented in WWII for GIs. But this one Australian activist was convinced it was racist, so the name had to go. The new post modernists see racism in everything, including cheese.
Cheese can be an offensive name too. Monty Python comedian John Cleese was original John Cheese. He clearly had white privilege.
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And names can be offensive, like people with the names of vegetables like the comedian Jasper Carrot. Or the famous author Boris Pasternak, Pasternak being slavic for parsnip. Once people start to take offence, you have to cancel the whole language along with the cheese.
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That’s the problem. People WANT to be offended or feel they should be.
It gives then a cause to follow in their empty lives.
Interesting how “Gay time” icecreams are still on sale…
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The problem with offence is that it is always an educated do-gooder taking offence on behalf of someone who is too damn dumb to know that they are being offended.
The “native Americans” never called for Washington’s football team to change its name.
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And Diana Dors. Her real name was – Diana Mary Fluck…………………..
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Do we know the name of this PhD? We need to start making it our business to know the names of these people that if we encounter them we know who we’re dealing with. How many people are going to lose their jobs because of one over-trained imbicile who probably still don’t have a proper job but makes a heap off some “consulting” to leftard causes?
Change of Topic: Is there any way a staff buy-back can happen and they can sell Coon cheese again out of the same factory once the Canadians have walked out?
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TdeF: Coon is most definitely also a reference to racoons as in “coon-hound”, “coon hunt”, “coon-skin-hat” and “sail-coon” (road kill). I was not aware of its use in a derogatory way until I was a teenager and travelled to the southern US states.
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Also used to be a well established Coons shoe (I think) store in Bourke St in the 80s when we first moved to VIC.
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There is also the Coon’s sit and sleep store! They are the sit and sleep experts, according to their advertising!
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In Corning, NY!
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On the side opposite Coons was Whites shoe store.
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I stopped buying Coon cheese after that insanity.
Get woke, go broke!
Now that the manufacturer is broke, can we get Dr Coon’s cheese back, the product of the rapid maturation process he invented, which is called Cooning BTW.
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https://firstfactcheck.substack.com/p/stalinist-cop27-edits-out-blasphemous
COP27 websites have been editing out their blasphemous 10 Climate Commandments in response to criticism from wattsupwiththat and other websites.
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Consumers REJECT Beyond Meat fake processed imitation meat products; company massively downsizing
Things are not looking good – at all – for Beyond Meat, which reported a wider-than-expected loss for its third quarter.
The company has been struggling for a while amid plummeting demand for fake meat products – it turns out most people want the real thing. (Related: Learn more about the rise and fall of Beyond Meat.)
Quarter over quarter, Beyond Meat’s losses have been compounding. And this latest quarter is no exception, though the company’s most recent losses were higher than analysts expected.
CEO Ethan Brown called the results “disappointing,” claiming that the reason people are not buying fake meat is because it costs more than “cheaper proteins.”
The day of third quarter earnings, Beyond Meat’s stock price plummeted by nine percent. In after-hours, Beyond Meat shares traded relatively flat after falling throughout the day.
Give it up, Beyond Meat: Nobody wants what you’re selling
Wall Street analysts were expecting a loss per share of $1.14 and revenues of $98.1 million. What actually happened was a $1.60 per share loss and revenues of only $82.5 million.
This represents a 22.5 percent net loss in sales for the third quarter, which is dismal, all things considered.
In an attempt to revive the company somehow, Beyond Meat executives tried to peddle the synthetic meat products to restaurants and grocery stores at an added discount. This, too, failed.
“The company said total pounds sold fell 12.8%, and net revenue per pound shrank 11.2%,” reported CNBC.
http://www.hideoutnow.com/2022/11/consumers-reject-beyond-meat-fake.html
One piece at a time the WEF’s agenda is falling apart as predicted.
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Go Woke,
Go broke.
Go Fake,
You will break.
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Maybe chairman Dan or the moron that identifies as the energy minister will organise a subsidy or two!
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State or Federal? oh wait, doesnt matter. Carry on.
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Well I certainly won’t buy it. How on earth can a very highly processed product with dozens of ingredients that nobody has ever heard of be healthy.
I prefer my food as close to natural as possible.
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I ate A tin of soybean compound called NUTMEAT, made by a well known religious group in the 1970s. Hamburger with ersatz meat and a topping of alfalfa and beetroot (raw). NO problem when listening to John Lennon “Imagine”.
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It’s beyond sick that they’re trying to flog this stuff with the word “meat” connected to it, while is GMO rubbish out of a lab. But all of a sudden processed, lab modified stuff are not to be frowned at any more.
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Rather like genetically modified food that doesn’t need a GMO label it seems.
Meanwhile we have the highest rates of non-communicable diseases ever.
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Coming to a meat tray raffle near you? I doubt it! Faux Tray Towers.
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Even at the height of the Covid panic buying of meat , the vegetarian section remain fully stocked. That summed it up for me. Widely touted, presented as a fait accompli but in reality a tiny market.
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NASA might launch the SLS on Wednesday afternoon (Australian time).
I know that a lot of taxpayers in the USA think it’s a waste of money, and others think it’s not modern enough (mostly SpaceX cultists who think they should be the only rocket company to exist), but me, I am pretty excited to see the first steps towards getting back to the moon and beyond.
Human rated rocketry to carry people, life-support, and a lunar lander of some sort is just really expensive, no matter which stickers are on the hardware. Should it be as expensive as NASA makes it? Probably not, but I don’t really don’t know.
There is slow but steady progress towards Aussie made and owned orbital launch capability by Gilmour Space. I hope their timeline doesn’t slip further.
https://www.gspacetech.com
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James M:
Here is a solution to the cost. Start a ‘selection process’ in which contributors can (for a moderate fee) list those they want to send to the moon.
Could well raise millions, and when Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires find the votes running for them getting a (non-returnable) trip to the Moon (or Mars) then there will be a surge of votes (and money) pouring in.
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The Moon?
You got something against Pluto?
The neo-Golgafrincham for the “elite” 😆😆
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But John Connor – the horror.
Pluto has been downgraded from planet status and those selected are all convinced that they will rule a planet.
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Well…technically it’s a dwarf planet now.
WEF = World Econonic Forum, not PEF.😉
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NASA is so yesterday. They dont have slim fit space suites and swoopy design helmets. I bet their diversity is better than Space Xs diversity though, because that is what is really important.
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We all had friends called “Apollo” back in those years He was “out there”.
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And after the Harpic slogan –
“Clean round the bend”
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Question …
why wasn’t the Space Shuttle able to hang a left and sail to the Moon, orbit it once or twice and return?
Wasn’t that the original sales pitch?
There was ‘Airplane II”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_II:_The_Sequel
Not only have we abandoned the dream of human space travel, we’ve abandoned logic and non-emotional rationality for woke hysterics.
And an unfunny Leslie Nielson is POTUS.
And a Bond movie villain is running a sinister ‘Save the World’ organization, supported by dim-witted rock star sycophants, that wants us to all own nothing and eat bugs.
NASA was never a ‘science’ organization, its’ Prime Directive was propaganda.
IPCC, WHO, CDC, NIH, and pretty much the entirety of Academia … same thing.
‘Science’ is no longer a logic process for determining truth.
It is synonymous with agitprop.
CHOOSE LIFE RENOUNCE CARBON
https://chooselifenow.globalgoals.org/
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in reality, the Space shuttle didn’t have the “oomph” to get to the moon without theoretically keeping the external tank and somehow refuelling it in orbit.
Here’s a video examining the topic: https://youtu.be/5mIRFxYYaC0
Speaking of Airplane style movies, I always thought “The Big Bus” was funny in its ridiculousness!
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Nevada just voted a law into existence that will make it a CRIME to criticize transgenderism, even for children
By a margin of 57.1 percent to 42.9 percent, Nevada voters passed Nevada Question 1, which constitutionally enshrines sexual orientation and gender identity as specially protected classes that cannot be criticized or otherwise discriminated against.
Question 1 was branded by proponents as “an equal rights amendment” that simply aims to protect all people, no matter who they are, from unfair discrimination (which is already covered by the Constitution). Hiding in the details, however, is a sinister plot to make transgenderism and everything that comes along with it, including child grooming, a constitutional right.
As far as we know, Nevada is the first state in the country to pass a constitutional amendment like this. It inserts and enshrines LGBT perversion into the same protected category as race, sex, color, creed, disability, ancestry, and national origin.
What this means for Nevada is that having a drag queen fetish, being a pedophile, or expressing some other LGBT color of the “rainbow” is something a person is born with and cannot change, and that must be protected constitutionally.
“This is extraordinary,” tweeted one LGBT activist in celebration of the move. “Nevada is about to add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity into its constitution. I believe this will be the first state to explicitly do so and they did by popular vote.”
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2022/11/nevada-just-voted-law-into-existence.html
But at the same time:
Federal Judge Rules Biden’s Decree Forcing Doctors To Treat Patients Based On “Gender Identity” And Not On Science Is Unlawful
Following a class action lawsuit filed by the America First Legal (AFL), a Trump-appointed federal judge ruled that Biden’s order forcing doctors to treat patients based on “gender identity” and not based on science is unlawful.
“HISTORIC VICTORY FOR SCIENCE,” AFL wrote on its Twitter account. “Federal court ruled that Biden’s edict forcing doctors to treat patients based on “gender identity” (i.e. providing “puberty blockers”, hormones, referrals to genital mutilation surgery) is unlawful, following AFL class action lawsuit.”
http://www.womensystems.com/2022/11/federal-judge-rules-bidens-decree.html
The global backlash against this form of WEF-centric child mutilation and lefty-perversion promotion is quite significant and growing and any government pushing this woke anti-science will pay the price in due course as the novelty factor woke agenda will die out like fidget spinners.
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Lot of people moved from California I assume
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Yes, bringing their ‘baggage’ with them.
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And that is the irony. People move to different parts of the world for a better life which implies certain conditions in the place they originated from that are push factors, and then do their best to create the exact same circumstances where they land. The ones driving “diversity” seem not to grasp this.
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I don’t think that there has ever been a time when people decided that the best way to solve a child’s problems was to chop off their genitals.
Over the last hundred years we have been trying out a number of new social conventions.
Some of these have turned out to be harmful on balance.
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Its the depopulation agenda.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/nevada-pageant-winner-become-1st-transgender-miss-usa-contestant-rcna1298
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Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history
What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?
It’s where the US raid that would result in Osama bin Laden’s death was first announced. It’s where people get updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s where news of the downing of flight MH17, a Malaysia Airlines plane that was likely shot down by pro-Russia forces in Ukraine in 2014, first surfaced. It is a living, breathing historical document. And there’s real concern it could disappear soon.
One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.
“If Twitter was to ‘go in the morning’, let’s say, all of this—all of the firsthand evidence of atrocities or potential war crimes, and all of this potential evidence—would simply disappear,” says Ciaran O’Connor, senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a global think tank. Information gathered using open-source intelligence, known as OSINT, has been used to support prosecutions for war crimes and acts as a record of events long after the human memory fades.
Part of what makes Twitter’s potential collapse uniquely challenging is that the “digital public square” has been built on the servers of a private company, says O’Connor’s colleague Elise Thomas, senior OSINT analyst with the ISD. It’s a problem we’ll have to deal with many times over the coming decades, she says: “This is perhaps the first really big test of that.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/
How many people out there collect everything they can? Every story, every video, every article, every document they see?
The JC2 archives run to 10’s of Terabytes spanning decades but utterly pale beside data stores like the US gubermint has.
It may well fall to individuals to provide the “lost information” to rebuild society’s “truth and history base”.
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Now we have a motive, a culprit and a weapon.
The game is called ‘NoCluedo’ where the statements by our elite are memory holed.
My guess is, ‘Musk in the Boardroom wielding an option’
Your turn?
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but on the other hand, getting rid of petabytes of absolute rubbish spewing from the brains of billions of semi-humans is a good thing!
I can’t think of anything I’ve seen on there worth saving. Certainly the videos they faked of Russians doing shit can be faked again anywhere, and Telegram has taken over anyway.
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Twitter as a repository of actual useful knowledge? seriously? is this from the Babylon Bee?
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Twitter is often the first place to notify of papers that go against the consensus. Despite the cancellations of people like Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, Juan Chamie, etc. Many stories of vaccine harm, election fraud, — you have to know how to find them among the river of repeats, memes, and trash.
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Hopefully all those scientists cancelled by the previous Leftist Twitter will be uncancelled by the new free speech Twitter.
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Papers that go against the consensus are seldom proven to be correct. Those that are become the new consensus.
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How would you know? Just making junk comments up again ?
They hardly ever get to be published because of consensus gate keeping,
… and when they are published, they are only argued against by non-science calls to consensus.
You have NO SCIENCE to back up the AGW meme… and you know it.
The facts and figures are very much on the realist side. !
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Consensus is a meaningless term in the context of the scientific method.
Where do Leftists get the idea that scientific fact is decided by consensus?
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So their idea of a “fact” can be made up and then never questioned.
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As Michael Crichton has pointed out, consensus is a political term, not a scientific one. We should be thankful that over the years, some of our greatest scientists went against the prevailing consensus and developed a new line of thought that was eventually proved correct. A recent example is Barry Marshall and stomach ulcers.
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Yarpos, there are numerous important news events that have been reported on Twitter first over recent years. That’s why all the journos use it and it now is the basic “go to ” tool for writing any article. Forget sources, the journos go to Twitter first, then possibly the other social medias after that. In terms of developing stories I would estimate MSM are at least 1- 2 days behind most news events.
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sure and all that is just comment and news on one channel. Its theoretical loss does not mean knowledge is lost everywhere for all time. Seriously its just one site , not the national/global archive
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Must’ve meant suppository.
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Ukrainians Fly EU Flag To Celebrate Russian Retreat
Ukrainian officials raised the Ukrainian flag on Friday over the contested city of Kherson, two days after Russian forces commander Gen. Sergei Surovikin announced a withdrawal of his troops.
Gen. Surovikin had earlier in the week said that all civilians who wanted to evacuate, which the Russian side has estimated at 115,000 people, have been successfully brought to the left bank. This as Ukrainian forces had reportedly reclaimed dozens of settlements in the southern area while moving toward Kherson.
https://summit.news/2022/11/12/ukrainians-fly-eu-flag-in-kherson-to-celebrate-russian-retreat/
I doubt they’ll be celebrating by this time next month. 😉
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Butcha type retaliation expected against those seen as Russian enablers,
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I wonder what is going on. The Russians fled because of a threat to blow up a dam (not MSM news). The Ukrainians then blamed Russia for trying to blow up the same dam when they fled (MSM news). Tried to and failed?
Footage of celebrations using usual techniques to hide low numbers, and no reporting of how many fled to Russian controlled areas.
I could understand the propaganda if the west were actually at war with Russia. If it’s a proxy war that is causing half of a regions population to flee ‘our’ side, then there are problems with the MSM.
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How about a strategic withdrawal to amass forces for a one-punch knockout by Russia in early December.
They’re getting sick of this girly fight in Ukraine and are going to end it.
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That’s where the smart money is, John.
Clayton Morris discusses on Redacted. – ten minutes.
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The locals always suffer badly when a town is re-captured. Anyone not enthusiastically waving a Ukies flag in Kherson would have been butchered immediately.
The Russians didn’t try to blow up the dam, they blew up the vehicle bridge over it. Seeing the Ukies blew up the other bridges earlier because the Russians used them for re-supply, there are no crossings now. The Russians gave it away because of this impossibility of moving enough tonnage over the river, and now its up to NATO to try it.
It also gives both sides a chance to re-deploy tens of thousands of soldiers to the other fronts, where Russia is pushing halfway up at Bakmut and the Ukies pushing right up North for the road to Kreminna. The Russians say as well as Yanks with boots on the ground there are over 5000 Poles in the Ukie army, replacing over half of one regiment after its Kherson losses.
I don’t think Russia will go back over the Dniper river, if they can take all the land up to the Eastern bank they have done all they set out to do.
A lot of news I don’t find in Western or Russian propaganda comes from here, Greek media of all things!
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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An interesting piece on the situation and options around Kherson
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/surovkins-difficult-choice
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What lies beneath: the dormant police state. Western Australia’s new nanny state normal, for the time being.
In what is essentially a rebranding of the Public Health Act 2016 SoE powers, the new Emergency Management Amendment (Temporary COVID-19 Provisions) Bill 2022 allows the government to renew its emergency powers on a three-monthly basis over the next two years.
McGowan has already foreshadowed its use, stating just days before the SoE expired, “If we have a spike, a new variant comes along, something occurs that we haven’t foreseen, it’s there as a back-up measure should it be required.” And sure enough, a new wave of ‘grandchildren of Omicron’ variants is expected right on time for Christmas. There are many problems with the legislation, and with the way in which McGowan rammed it through.
The key difference between the new legislation and the former is that the Covid pandemic response been removed from the purview of qualified medical and health professionals and put into the hands of the Police Commissioner. The Amendment uses the term State Emergency Coordinator, which refers to the Police Commissioner.
This is problematic on two counts.
1. The legislation stipulates that the Police Commissioner must consult with the Chief Health Officer (CHO), that the CHO must give advice in writing, and that the advice must be considered. However, there is no requirement for the Police Commissioner to follow the advice of the CHO.1 The Police Commissioner is therefore free to act contrary to the recommendation of the CHO.
2. The Police Commissioner is not an elected representative and is not answerable to the public or the Parliament.
Under this legislation, the locus of power shifts further away from demos, the people, and into the hands of a single, unelected bureaucrat.
WA Senator Dr Brian Walker voiced similar concerns when he spoke at a protest outside Parliament House on 11 October 2022. As a medical doctor, he expressed dismay at the move to put matters of public health into the hands of the Police Commissioner:
“This bill stinks… taking [the pandemic] out of the hands of medical practitioners… putting it into the hands of a policeman. And I don’t know about you, but I do not want to live in a police state.”
https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/what-lies-beneath-the-dormant-police
Qualified health “experts” are/were atrocious and disastrous enough, but police, given what we’ve seen in the past 3 years, should be kept well away…
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Police Begin Arresting Journalists for Covering Just Stop Oil Protests as a ‘Warning’ to Others
Stop Reporting on the do gooders or else face arrest and imprisonment says Police Chief.
The M25 has been targeted by eco-terrorists all week, with more attacks planned but rather than arrest the protestors, Metropolitan Police have arrested the journalists reporting the attacks.
Police get to decide who can report on what.
A reporter and photographer for LBC were arrested by Hertfordshire Police who later claimed that they did so because ‘journalists should stop reporting on it’. These actions were described as ‘chilling’ by other journalists as freedom of the press appears to have given way to authoritarian censorship.
Journalists get arrested for the same offence as protesters.
Charlotte Lynch, a reporter from LBC radio, was a considerable distance from the protesters on the gantry, and was in possession of an accredited press card which a two minute telephone call would have verified. Nonetheless, she was apprehended by officers on “suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance” and subsequently imprisoned for five hours. Lynch was arrested for exactly the same offence as the protesters.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/police-begin-arresting-journalists-for-covering-just-stop-oil-protests-as-a-warning-to-others
You just can’t arrest enough journalists now can you.
They’re just expendable useful idiots like I’ve said. When will they wake up…
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Well at some time you’ve gotta stand up for what you believe in (freedom of expression). SAdly, the press have cooked their goose and now they’ve got to lay in it. Sorry Jo BP.
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Yes you do have to stand up for what you believe in because even a dead fish can go with the flow…
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Why dont those journalists just “Lawer up” and sue the police for wrongful arrest etc !
….or is there maybe more to this than has been told ?
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I do to a degree sympathise against the press here. Ever noticed how these “protests” get very sweet and straight, but frequent publicity on all outlets (like you would expect from the press to an extent mind you), but then other protests, events etc. that does not flow with the press corps’ preferences gets no coverage at all. Case in point things like march for life, Dan’s corrupt dealings etc…you do not hear a word about it, or if you hear something it always has the words “far right” or some other smears like “disgraced” etc associated with it.
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..just look at the difference between Antifa and the ‘Invasion of June 6th’. One just a demonstration that rioted and burned down buildings for months, the other the end of civilisation when people walked into Govt offices for an afternoon.
I don’t see a need for ‘professional’ propaganda pushers now we have the internet, we may all be better educated if they closed the Journalism degrees down.
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In Australia we go into overdrive when a female senator sitting on a committee that gets secret drug information is found to have dated a bikie boss. In America, well as they say “It could only happen in America”.
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Overdrive? Have we really? depending on who “we” is. Heard much lately? think the average suburbanite knows or cares?
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All easy to dismiss if you claim to be of a certain heritage ( at least 50% Greek ) and of a certain party claiming it wants to save everyone, inspite of themselves,
Now if this was a Liberal politician the criticism would be relentless and the calls to resign screached loud and often.
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I think he is criticising the lack of concern by the media.
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Head of the class stuff right there. Thank you. R and B mix nicely with _ightly _right. Cheers.
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Been reading about this movement that started as a bit of a joke linking like minded States and Provinces in the US and Canada. As things get more and more polarized it seems to make sense. I have trouble believing the US will survive as one country long term.
https://www.antihate.ca/diagolon_movement_militant_accelerationism
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When we are ruled by people without the mental capacity to recognize satire, devoid of humor, and frightened by bumpy noises in the night, you get ridiculousness like this.
And creation of stupidity like ‘militant accelerationism’.
Is Extinction Rebellion ‘militant accelerationism’?
God help us.
Canada s gone.
Once they count the ‘absentee’ votes of the dead here in the US … same.
The Ouija board is a little slow.
And it takes a while to figure out how many spirit world votes are needed.
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Biological male wins female beauty contest in the US.
It didn’t even change its name from a male one. (I call it “it” so as to avoid the serious social crime of “misgendering” this being.)
It is also winning the associated scholarships intended for women.
https://www.outkick.com/biological-male-wins-miss-america-competition-for-first-time/
SEE LINK FOR REST
ALSO, Matt Walsh comments:
https://youtu.be/4dISgCPeg64
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Agree with you on the ” it ” but something on the tv last night, … a guy cupple, referred to ” their ” husband ….. eh ? had to look around to see what they were talking about. Hadn’t been aware at the time that it was such a couple being referred to. Sickened by the way this kind of stuff gets rammed home in MY house in the name of normalising these issues.. Dog! where’s the Red Button? Duck’s got it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku21cXbPmYg
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was
Looked on as something shocking
Now heaven knows, anything goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7A&ab_channel=nata
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There is a toast that begins:
Thank heaven for the breezes that rustle the treeses
And blows women’s dresses above their kneeses…
It goes downhill from there.
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Has that contest got anything at all to do with beauty? “It” doesnt get any uglier than that!
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Lithium. Being subjected to the same rubbish and eco adverts on TV ( tring to avoid breakfast news propaganda and lifestyle topics), got me thinking. All those CORDLESS household tools wher you are never too far from a wall socket. Sure a cordless Vac cleaner is handy – but do we need MORE TAHN 1 battery? and such a big one – capacity to do some unreachable areas should be sufficient, in the same EU meme about limiting Vacuum cleaner motor size. Now when / if we are ranting about the Supply and production of the world’s Lithium and cobalt for EVs, then why are we encouraging the use of an even more, simply for domestic household use. Small compact devices as Phones and small cameras, etc, then fair enough, but the rest? robot mowers and hooverz, really necessary ?
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Whilst i recognise the convenience of “cordless” (battery powered”) devices such as drills, saws, even those “stick vacs” … i am amazed how many people think a cordless vacuum cleaner can possibly be as effective as a mains powered equivalent.
Fundamentally it comes down to suction power..and no matter what Dyson etc claim for their “super turbo rpm” devices, the sad reality it is always limited to what power the battery can provide..which is currently way less than 500W. Any half decent mains vacuum can draw on 1500-2000+Watts, IE :- 4 times as much suction power, and of course infinitely more run time !
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Sort of makes innovation pointless doesnt it? do all 2ltr cars have the same power also?
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Careful now! the EU in its magnifence, has limited Vac power to much less than you quote.( So you’re right about half decent mains vacuum can draw on 1500-2000+Watts ) Our new `ENri, instead of 2 settings has a single speed and around 600W (from memory) and our Mill-walky (! ) Cordless grinder must have a power level around 1kW ( compares favourably with 110V 5″ workshop Pro Grinder ~ 1.5kW) I’ve said manys a time before how annoying to find that cordless tools seldom state POWER output, preferring instead the nonsense value of Battey voltage. – maybe to suit the Ignorant Classes like the Gang Green Blob .
So reflection, what HAS the EU Gangreen mob done for the planet ? Hmmm? THey’ve encouraged CHILD LABOUR to mine for minerals to help solve the World’s demand . I mean, If a Corded machine is not very powerful, well what the Hull, may as well use a cordless and waste even more Power in the Charge cycle use of scarce electricity. Bampots.
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It’s easy to work out
Volts X Amp Hours = Watts
My Ryobi 5Amp Hour battery is 18 Volts
Which equates to 90 watts
The tool determines the effectiveness and how long it will work.
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noooh! for the record: 5Amp Hour battery is the SIZE of the battery, it can intermittently offer much more than that. so unless yo DO KNOW the current draw of the drill motor, you just cannot measure the power. Look at a 12v car battery: say a largish one 90 or 110 Amp Hour. It can offer several HUNDREDS of Amps x 12Volt = multiples of `12Hundreds of watts. often at least giving you 2-3 kW of power for quite a few seconds. Hope this clarifies.
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Dave, its all about the units..
Volts x Amp hrs = Watthrs…energy capacity.
Volts x Amps = Watts……power
And the ultimate limiting power factor is the batteries ability to discharge high current.
For most potable tool packs that limit will be about 5-10 times the pack energy capacity.
So, with a 5. Ah, 20v pack, that max power would be 500-1000 W
But for cost reasons, most stick vacs etc use packs at the lower end of that, and mostly only 2 Ah !
So,..250 W if you are lucky….and last only 1/5 of an hour…12 mins !
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Och and as for rubbish eco adverts – CREMATIONS: on the tv, on the radio, don’t THEY use a lot of power to do the job? – more waste. A drop of Superglue on the Crash barriers or pylons should do and call it modern eco art…. see where I ‘m pointing ?
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Matt Walsh video. The first part is about how the Covid Tyrants want forgiveness. He says they deserve punishment instead.
https://youtu.be/VHSPJ8NIhlU
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I don’t get it, they are asking for amnesty while STILL imposing unscientific mandates.
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Its just another way of mocking the peasants.
There is a LOT of it about.
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My latest on the unfolding “loss and damage” fiasco.
COP27 — Will “loss and damage” extremism kill national alarmism?
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/12/cop27-will-loss-and-damage-extremism-kill-national-alarmism/
The beginning: “The extreme rhetoric of “loss and damage reparations” could backfire, causing developed countries to question the developing country claims of human caused damage. The best defense against a ruinous liability claim is innocence.
Until now the alarmist governments of America and the other developed countries have gleefully touted the emergency threat of human caused climate change, because it gave them immense power. They happily boasted of transforming our society and transitioning our energy system, all to save us from the ever increasing greenhouse gasses.
Central to this alarmist narrative is the theme that the world is already suffering heavily from human caused climate change. Every weather disaster is now called a “climate event” or some silly such.
Well as we say in the mountains: “What goes around, comes around”.
The climate damage narrative has now come to bite the developed countries, and bite them really hard. In principle ruinously hard.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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“Rex Murphy: COP27’s great pyramid scheme”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cop27s-great-pyramid-scheme
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/13/y2kyoto-pharaoh-way-places-2/
And
“To be green is to live without mirrors.”
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I made this post as the last on Saturday’s so I will refresh it.
Sounds as if WA is going into lockdown again. FIFO miners are being told to go west ASAP and rotate out of Perth.
FIFO life is tough at the best of times, you miss two thirds of family and national celebrations [They don’y fly you home for Christmas.] so this will just make it harder for them.
Maybe the pollies should walk a mile in heavy hivis gear and safety boots.
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Hanrahan, this is news to me. I can’t find anything on FIFO in WA on the news either. Where are you getting this info?
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He’s probably looking at 2021 news articles…
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How do you know my pronouns?
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I humbly apologise madam.😆
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Jo, I’m betwixt and between.
My son is active an a forum where members are far more open about their professions than here. He doesn’t want me there and won’t tell me what it is: Don’t ask, don’t tell.
It was FIFO miners who posted this.
I Should be more careful to label things scuttlebutt I guess. Sorry.
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Just checked with my son, a mining consultant that’s currently on site this week. His comment was: Not as far as I know. We have been ramping up the east coast personnel since the borders opened. Someone said that we are heading back to masks again since this new variant came out. Don’t know if it is part of this.”
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FIFO is a lifestyle that has positives and negatives. It’s really not for everybody.
I did it for many years on oil rigs (on land, and offshore), and, on balance, enjoyed the lifestyle, and the money. I worked a lot more than the “even time roster” I was supposed to, (Just shy of 300 days in a calendar year at most) because we were almost always short-handed, and I kept saying yes when asked to work more. I have not had the pleasure, but people working offshore in Norway work 2 weeks on, and 4 off, and tampering with the schedule is almost treated like a criminal act.
I met a lot of good people (and quite a few crazy people), and learned a lot, and went to, places I had no idea I’d ever see. It’s not all wonderful though, relationships are strained or lost, and I am not ashamed to admit, after working so long in remote areas with only a handful of people, I once had a mild panic attack in a supermarket when I was home, because I couldn’t cope with having so many people around me. Nothing crazy, I just had to walk out and sit in my car to gather my thoughts for a few minutes, and it was only once.
I also saw people who were doing it solely for the money, and they were generally the ones who suffered the most (mentally) and most didn’t stick around too long. What makes it worse for these people is that they tend to talk about how much they miss being at home, and are somewhat… depressing to be around, so, this doesn’t help them because no one wants to hang around after their shift with someone like this. There are a lot of “unwritten rules” for FIFO people, and not complaining about being at home is definitely one of them. People would talk to each other about what they will do when they get home, not what they missed, unless it’s something generic like a grand final, or Grand Prix, or concert.
Having internet changed things a lot too, some for the better, some worse. Before internet, people would socialise together somehow, in the TV room, or some other activity. On land rigs, even though no alcohol was permitted by the time I started, there’d be some crazy attempts to do things that probably aren’t permitted today, but were usually really entertaining and stupid in a good way. Once internet started being freely available, people disappeared into their rooms and about an hour after the end of the shift, the place becomes a ghost town, which might seem impossible when you’re in the middle of the ocean on an oil rig with 100, 200 other people, but it’s very much the case.
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FIFO is also where I saw first hand, how quickly morale and teamwork can fail when the quality of food is less than expected. No one expects Michelin star food, but there is a standard below which, things start falling apart, fast. A petition and an ultimatum was raised, either the cook goes, or the whole crew goes. The cook went. Things improved faster than they declined
To paraphrase a movie (I think) “Never mind who called the cook a b@stard, I want to know who dared to call the b@stard a cook”
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I think that cook comment is from an old WW I Australian army cartoon.
Cheers
Dave B
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It is the title of a book.The author was involved in military catering.
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It is the title of a book.The author was involved in military catering.https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31249478280&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dwho%2Bcalled%2Bthe%2Bcook%2Ba%2Bbastard&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1
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It prolly started with the Roman legions. It was certainly well worn by the time I enlisted in a previous life.
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I’m sure it’s as old as the hills, just like complaining about the pay, managers, and of course, the laziness, poor workmanship, low IQ, and the parentage of the people on the other shift.
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Balloons and satellite are in agreement, but the models are simply wrong.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.al.com%2Fnews_huntsville_impact%2Fphoto%2Fjohn-christy-climate-change-chart-0a201a1637955761.jpg
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Might be nice if was more up to date.
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Yeah, I’ll look about.
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AGW hypothesis falsified.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ChristyJR_20210121_v2_CMIP5_models.jpg?ssl=1
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Clearly an increase in CO2 is no need for alarm.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/04/29/climate-models-hotter-than-reality/#iLightbox%5Bgallery37945%5D/0
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Disabled by mid-wittery and conspiracy mindedness …
I have a question for the greater minds of JoNova.
Were I a passenger on Galileo 10,000 miles out from Pluto, and I’m looking at Pluto, the big (totally irrelevant
to Earth climate) bonfire behind me …
would I be able to see stars?
I don’t quite get why space is black in the images.
If Hubble images are adjusted to simulate human eye perception why not these?
Oh wait, CO2 enables us to see the light of the Universe, and once we leave corrupted Earth, we see the true purity of the void.
Now I get it.
No, really serious question, a good link would be appreciated, but not NASA or Johns Hopkins.
NASA ‘destroyed’ the technology to go back to the Moon, and Hopkins … well never mind.
https://youtu.be/lm220Urp6SU
My searches have not produced clarity.
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It’s purely exposure time. If you stand on the moon during the day you can’t see any stars because the reflection of the sun off the ground is so bright your eyes adjust incoming light directed by closing pupils whichever makes the stars invisible.
However if you on the dark side, and turn the lights off in your space ship, yes the entire sky lights up with stars just like on earth at night , many astronauts wrote about this. The difference is in space the stars don’t twinkle.
You can take pictures of stars during broad daylight if you have a sensitive enough camera.
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Prof. Norman puts the UK Statistics Regulator on Notice for Allowing Flawed Statistical Analysis to Influence Public Health Policy
Following on from our latest report highlighting multiple anomalies in the most recent ONS covid vaccine mortality surveillance report we have written the following self-explanatory letter to the Statistics Regulator ([email protected]):
Dear Sir/Madam,
Since the ONS began producing its covid vaccine mortality surveillance reports in 2021, we have been highlighting various anomalies in their datasets. This includes strong evidence that many of those dying shortly after vaccination were being misclassified as unvaccinated (https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12472.42248) and systematic undercounting of deaths occurring within first two weeks of vaccination (http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12472.42248).
We are especially concerned about the latest ONS dataset (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland) and have produced a detailed analysis which highlights the multiple glaring anomalies in it.
We show that, in addition to further definitive evidence of the misclassification and missing deaths, there is: a) gross underestimation of the population proportion unvaccinated, and b) mortality rates that are both nonsensical in various categories and completely incompatible with historical rates.
We believe that there are multiple violations of your code of practice (https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Code-of-Practice-for-Statistics-REVISED.pdf). In particular, the dataset breaches the Quality and Value criteria numbered: Q 1.1, Q1.4 – 1.7, Q 2.4, Q 2.5, Q 3.2 – 3.5, V 1.1, V 3.2 – 3.3.
All of the anomalies in the dataset introduce bias in favour of analyses supporting vaccine ‘safety and efficacy’. The fact that these data are being used as continued justification for the efficacy and safety of the covid vaccines is therefore now a matter of national concern and scandal. We believe that an investigation into how and why the ONS dataset is so flawed and corrupted is required. In the meantime, we call for
1. the public withdrawal of the ONS dataset and
2. the retraction of any claims made by others that are based upon it.
Yours
Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig and Scott McLachlan
https://metatron.substack.com/p/prof-norman-puts-the-uk-statistics
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They correctly note that the data stops at May 2022 ?!
The ONS showing no desire to be timely.
Where’s the mortality data for June? .. July? .. August? .. September?
And I still don’t trust their “ever vaxxinated” mortality rates.
Will they ever bother to do a Health-standardised Mortality Rate so we can have something to compare to the ‘age-standardised mortality rate’?
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They “fixed” that some time ago. These days if something happens to you within 14 days of being vaxxinated you are counted as “unvaxxinated”. The official reason for the change was that takes 14 days for the vaxxine to work. We don’t do this for any other vaccine.
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I already did a couple of posts explaining how, for each month, I merged the ASMR values of the Vaccinated groups into a single rate that I could compare to the Unjabbed rate.
So I won’t repeat myself … but my merged ASMR rate was always higher than the ONS’s “ever-vaccinated rate”, so that’s a mystery inside a riddle, waiting to be unwrapped by future mathematicians, if they ever get really bored.
Hopefully I didn’t fall into a trap like “Simpson’s Paradox” but if I did no one has corrected me.
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It may take 14 days for the vax to work but it can kill in less than that. Anaphylaxis, for example, only takes minutes.
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First people were softened up and conditioned by covid lockups.
Now comes climate lockups.
The so-called “15 minute city”.
Oxford in Once Great Britain is
leadingregressing the way.Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen discusses.
https://youtu.be/jxV7cIuHZVA
Not a “conspiracy theory”, it’s a real thing.
SEE also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city?wprov=sfla1
In the Wiki article Melbournistan, Australia is listed as one of the planned 15 minute cities.
Australian
leadersfollowers just love the globalist anti-freedom agenda and follow it fanatically.The insanity and anti-freedom policies of the Left just never ends.
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The idea is not new, David. Our native globalists having been pushing it for quite a while now. Check out “multifunction polis” on Wiki.
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Yes, I remember the BS of the “multifunction polis”.
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David, that’s quite an ‘Agenda’ –
“The climate crisis [sic] and global C-19 pandemic combined to accelerate… the 15-minute city… C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group published… ‘build back better’ using the 15-minute concept… to encourage dense… communities.”
‘Dense’ as in thick? Or overcrowded? C40CCLG also released a manifesto – shock horror – only extremist nutbar patsies release ‘manifestos’ don’t they? But don’t panic, this new world order is all about de-carbonisation and de-growth… uh-oh.
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It not a new idea its a return to old ideas and ways of living that dont work at scale. Good for town planners and social engineers to spend a career waffling about though.
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A few years back now an experiment was conducted with lab mice. The density in a number of cages was progressively increased, not a sudden increase.
At a certain level of crowding the mice started killing each other.
15 minute cities sound like a similar experiment.
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That was Calhoun’s “rat utopia” experiments, later done with mice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DIn_the_experiments%2C_Calhoun_and%2Cwater%2C_enabling_unfettered_population_growth.?wprov=sfla1
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Without a rooster sufficient chooks enclosed in a small enough space will do the same thing. I discovered this quite by accident many years ago. 54 chooks in a cage six feet by 24 feet. Nine dead and 13 injured beyond saving.
Marilyn had me in the dog house for a month.
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That’s where the term “pecking order” comes from. I learnt about it at Ag College 60 years ago.
This is why I buy the cheaper “caged” eggs. I somehow doubt that “free range” hens would be given enough space to be truly comfortable. Any thought that free range hens have some grass, worms and insects to peck on is absurd.
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Looks like this completely blows the entire theory of CAGW out of the water because humans may NOT be the cause of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere after all . . . go figure.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/11/07/new-paradigm-shifting-study-finds-annual-co2-flux-is-driven-by-temperature-dependent-sea-ice-flux/
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Colder water dissolves gas, warmer water releases gas.
Stick a stubbie on the dashboard of your car in the hot sun.
Put another in the freezer until icy cold but not freezing.
Open both and observe result.
Henry’s Law.
High school stuff 60 years ago.
Apparently not even covered at uni today.
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That part is obvious, but given that the correlation between ice melt and ACTUAL carbon dioxide measurements is close to perfect then presumably one can PREDICT carbon dioxide levels and then compare that prediction to one using human carbon emissions and compare the two predictions. Would such an experiment not prove that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are the RESULT OF temperature and NOT the RESULT OF human emissions?
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Very little in science is established as an absolute. Even gravity is still only a “theory”. The Gas Laws are the Gas Laws because they are established absolutes. Devising experiments to “prove” a law of physics is akin to “proving” 2 + 2 = 4.
The major commercial fishing grounds are in the North Sea and the Antarctic Ocean because the water is colder. Colder = more CO2 = more plant life = more small critters = more little fish = more bigger fish like tuna.
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As the oceans warm, as they have done for the last 100 years or so, they outgas CO2 and atmospheric CO2 levels go up. As the oceans cool, as they will now, more will be absorbed in the ocean waters, and atmospheric levels will go down.
Great news for fisherman but sad news for crops.
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Been digging into this idea more and here is some interesting data. First I found a study in Barrow, AK where scientist tested carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hourly. The pattern they showed a cumulative gain of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the period 1973-1979. More importantly the changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide could only have been explained by changes in ice levels not human emissions and not terrestrial sequestration. The same can be said for the Antarctic where there is data from 2994 to 2009 and there the atmospheric carbon dioxide also was increasing and decreasing in cycle with ice and of course 6 months out of phase. This too supports the idea that it is ice melt and not human emissions that are adding carbon dioxide since levels in the Antarctic do not follow the Mauna Loa time pattern, but rather are out of phase so no way the carbon dioxide increases being measured are coming from global mixing of human emissions. It seems obvious to me that human emissions have almost zero correlation to measured carbon dioxide level increases, but ice melting at the poles is highly correlated. Furthermore this would explain the isotope issue as well since carbon dioxide released from ice is of the same isotope as human emissions. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1982.tb01804.x
https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/Jubany_thru_2009_Daily.JPG
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We had proof that human activities have no effect on atmospheric levels during COVID in 2020 and 2021. Significantly less CO2 emitting human activities during that period and there was not a jot of difference in the recorded CO2 levels. In theory they should have either reduced or at least flatlined.
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‘ … atmospheric carbon dioxide are the RESULT OF temperature and NOT the RESULT OF human emissions?’
Good point, but of course its been known for quite some time that temperature leads and CO2 follows. The Antarctic ice cores show this accurately and yet we hear nothing from the MSM on this vitally important question.
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Bob Carter made the point that there is a long lag between any temperature change and the dissolved CO2. I think it was 20 years.
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The average CO2 residency time in the atmosphere is around four or five years, but obviously there is more to this.
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Antarctic ice cores show a 800 year lag.
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Don’t you wish the leftists had cured covid as well as they can cure ballots?
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Interesting video about making oil filters in Pakistan.
Absolutely no safety shields or interlocks on any of the equipment.
On the other hand, unlike Australia, at least they have an industry left and inexpensive power due to no unnecessary CO2 emissions targets.
I would guess the level of technology and working conditions is equivalent to the West about 150 years ago.
This is where yiur car oil filters come from.
https://youtu.be/uGP5BWnRHUY
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Yay! The West has Workplace Safety laws, Environmental Protection laws etc., but it’s okay to send jobs overseas to places that have NONE of those impediments.
The globalist dream, coming true: Western nations turning into little more than Workers’ Hostels — i.e. places where GlobalCorp can ship in cheap workers, as required, or send the higher-paying jobs off-shore to the sweatshops of Asia.
Look at the way the E.U. ratted on the UK’s workforce, subsidizing major industries to shutdown and set up new factories in Eastern Europe.
There are numerous examples, I can’t remember them all.
Presumably the WΕF loves all that. “Gott in Himmel, das ist gut!” – K.S.
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Fascinating David. Nobody was even wearing gloves! And children playing around the unguarded machines. The following piston manufacturing video was also great.
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“This is where yiur car oil filters come from.” I doubt it
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“Sir, I can’t imagine how that sandy floor grit got inside your oil filter and into your bearings..”
That video explains perfectly why I decided some years back to pay the extra and only buy Toyota oil filters from the dealer.
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-big-money-behind-the-teals-big-victory-20221106-p5bvxb.html
REST IS PAYWALLED
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I wonder if the Liberals (pretend conservatives) really want to win the forthcoming Vicdanistan election?
Electioneering is hard. Opposition is easy.
Plus Labor, Greens and Teals have massive election funding.
And the dumbed-down electorate expects lots of “free stuff”. Also, the massive state debt of $226 billion is rapidly increasing with no spending restraints whatsoever.
The massive debt problem is beyond the comprehension or care of the Sheeple.
So the Libs can’t offer free stuff because presumably they are slightly less inclined to spend other people’s money, which in any case will soon run out.
And most state assets have been sold off to pay for the last massive Labor debt incurred by the Kirner regime.
Reference for debt figure:
https://adepteconomics.com.au/australian-state-debt-ever-increasing-latest-interstate-comparisons-slide-deck/
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I’ve commented on this a few times. If you’re the LNP why would you be interested in governing Victoria? They always get voted in to ” save” the state and when they do, get immediately voted out. They get no thanks for fixing up all the Labor messes left behind. Why bother? The media, the unions and the public service are against you, so any policies or fixes you try to implement get white anted. At the next state election all I want is for Andrews to lose Mulgrave. If Labor still retain power ( and are without Andrews) I think they will turn into a rabble really quickly.
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Never going to get paid off… Just NSW state debt is over $20K per person and increasing, so every person would need to work harder get an extra $20K to give to the Govt, PLUS more above that for all the children, unemployed and retired. How many people can find an extra $30K to give to Govt?
Now lets talk about Federal debt on top of that…
..and people STILL believe in democracy!
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“Trump -vs- DeSantis, a Shiny Thing to Set Aside
November 13, 2022 | Sundance | 117 Comment
The old axiom where someone yells, “look over there folks, shiny things“… as a process of distraction, is entirely apropos of how corporations that are running our current election systems are using the Trump -v- DeSantis discussion; with the backdrop of the 2022 midterm election as context.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/13/trump-vs-desantis-a-shiny-thing-to-set-aside/
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Certain island nations will be looking on with great interest at the resourcefulness of the Ukrainians and their development of jet-ski based drone boats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY2TzLfhbcw
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FWIW
“More Doom Porn, Election Edition”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247402
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FWIW
“Cult of the Government”
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/cult-of-the-government/
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Excellent news!
Matt Walsh announced that he has been shown draft legislation from Tennessee that bans mutilating and sterilising surgical and hormonal transgender procedures on children. The legislation also enables previous victims of such procedures to claim compensation, not that it restores their bodies, sadly.
Matt Walsh was the one that exposed these procedures in his home state of Tennessee.
https://apnews.com/article/health-business-tennessee-nashville-vanderbilt-university-6deb93f7dea92f1b2082c39f72b59766
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They’re talking about banning this BS down in Tassie now too.
Maybe the rest of Oz will follow…
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Did a quick search of your site but did not find anything on the Burrup Hub . Is it as bad for CO2 emissions as they say?
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Talked to somebody working up there. It appears that there is sufficient spare gas processing capacity to process the new gas wells off the coast. As for CO2 emissions, frankly, who cares?
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I wonder if this is true or official government disinformation or manipulation of data?
SEE LINK FOR REST (PAYWALLED)
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Easy to understand David.
The grubbymint screwed everybody and everybody followed the grubbymint’s example.
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Official Government Disinformation definitely
The real story is here:
Births drop 72% barely 9 months after vax rollout
https://eurekafreepress.com/births-drop-72-barely-nine-months-after-vax-rollout/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Story courtesy of George Christiansen and Eureka Free Press
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There has been a general decline in birthrate for many years.
‘The current birth rate for Australia in 2022 is 12.244 births per 1000 people, a 1.28% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Australia in 2021 was 12.403 births per 1000 people, a 1.26% decline from 2020. The birth rate for Australia in 2020 was 12.561 births per 1000 people, a 1.25% decline from 2019.’ (Macrotrends)
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A “72% drop in nine months” is not a “general decline”.
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The 72% figure is bogus.
‘The AIHW report, Australia’s mothers and babies captures data from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and shows that the number of babies born declined by around 7,100 (2.3%) between 2019 and 2020.’
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The bogus figures come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics!
22,000 live births on Oct 21, then 18,000 in Nov 21 followed by 6,600 in Dec 21, the latest month available. That is a huge drop.
ABS advises the figure may be revised up due to late registrations!
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Utterly irrelevant. What is being claimed is a decline in babies BORN after the vaxxine rollout, NOT after the start of the alleged pandemic.
The vaxxine rollout didn’t start until late September/October 2020, so any claimed reduction in births would not even start to show until nine months later – June/July 2021.
The figures you quote to support your claim of minimal effect, 2019 to 2020, are therefore prior to the time any such effect of vaxxines would become apparent.
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You would think that after people being cooped up together for so long, the birth rate would climb !
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Still can’t see 72% decline after the tax.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/births-australia/latest-release
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Dr. Michael Yeadon: “This Is the Cleanest Signal of Reproductive Harm After C19 Vaccination I’ve Seen to Date”
This is directly pulled from VAERS with no manipulation. Therefore it can & MUST be shared widely.
The minimum benefit I anticipate flowing from this is that individual women will decline any further injections if they’ve had any to date.
Best case is that people begin to draw conclusions that I think are starkly obvious:
1. Young women were never in the elevated risk category, so administration of these so-called vaccines was never indicated.
2. In any case, for 60 years, since Thalidomide, we’ve never administered novel medical procedures to pregnant women.
3. The manufacturers hadn’t even completed basic, required reproductive toxicology studies. They might have argued that, by convention, these studies have never been required by regulators for injected vaccines. Perhaps, but these agents are in no way related to old style products.
4. Third parties had publicly warned about potentially toxic mechanisms built into the very design of these agents, warnings which triggered attacks & censorship.
5. VAERS has many flaws but it cannot even be pretended that the truly enormous increase in stillbirths & miscarriages after c19 injections compared to the track records of all other vaccines since VAERS was founded, 30 years ago.
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/reproductive-health
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OK, so the NSW Premier now has a new “Energy advisor /consultant”..Paul Broad.
Previously CEO of Snowy 2.
But what do we know of his views on the “transition “. Etc ?
And how will he fit between the Premier and Mad Matt K ?
Anyone have the skinny on this guy ?
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According to Senator Jane Hume he was sacked by “Energy” Minister Chris Bowen.
https://www.senatorhume.com/media-folder/latest-news/bowen-sacks-snowy-executive-1
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Well, in my book thats one in his favor if he is at odds with Bonkers Bowen !
He seems to a little more realistic about practicalities of energy supply.
Lets see how this goes with Mad Matt K. !
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I thought he wanted more reliable generation available for when the next coal-fired plant shuts down, i.e. gas-fired open cycle ones.
Morrison approved one built and operated by Snowy Hydro (who already have a set running) but Paul Broad wanted at least 4 to bring the capacity to around the same as supplied by coal (indeed suggested an extra).
OCGTs are the only reliable generation that could be built in time.
Bowen believes that wind supply is cheap and is against gas as that releases CO2. He is completely Bonkers but he has set into place a massive blackout just before the next election.
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OCGTs are less efficient than CCGTs but quicker to spool up when a cold front crosses Vic.
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or when sun and wind die away going into a hot summer night
or when something breaks
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Indian banking sector at forefront of cyber-attacks
The government data has established the sharp rise in attacks on the banking and financial sector. Between June 2018 and March 2022, India’s banks recorded 248 successful data breaches by hackers and criminals, central government notified Parliament on 2 August.
A carding website on the dark web called BidenCash entered the limelight after hackers uploaded the credit card details of over nine million individuals for free on the website. Most compromised cards came from the United States, according to data analysis. However, a massive data dump included India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, Italy, and China.
The Indian Banking Finance Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector has been at the forefront of cyber-attacks – targeted at the Asian region. Even the government data established the sharp rise in attacks on the banking and financial sector. Between June 2018 and March 2022, India’s banks recorded 248 successful data breaches by hackers and criminals, central government notified Parliament on 2 August. Of the 248 successful data breaches, 41 were reported by public sector banks, 205 by private sector banks, and two by overseas banks.
CloudSEK, a Singapore headquartered cyber security firm, in its Whitepaper, said 7.4% of the targeted attacks in the year 2022 were towards the Indian subcontinent. Whether it is on account of Nationalized banks, Crypto exchanges or wallets, NBFCs, or Credit card information leaks, India has emerged as the newfound hotbed for cyber-attacks in Asia.
The cyber intelligence firm attributes growing digitalisation and online banking systems for catapulting crime instances. “Digitalisation and ubiquitous banking services have accelerated the growth of threats against the banking sector. The unprecedented growth of blockchain and cryptocurrency has further given threat actors access to the sector like never before. This, coupled with newer and evolving phishing mechanisms, have given access to targeting the banking industry with new and improved Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). The scattered nature of stakeholders also makes the Banking and Finance Industry a risky proposition,”
You’ll note the bolded paragraph.
As I said before, pushing everyone into a digital world is going to make your futures and finances LESS secure.
And now das gubermint’s formation of a cyber taskforce which is going to “hunt down the Medibank attack scumbags” will result in SEVERE retaliatory attacks by hacking groups. Don’t make it personal!!!
Actions have consequences, stupid actions have bigger consequences.
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…and there appears to be a mass panic bank-run exodus from crypto happening right now…
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In October 2019 the WEF held a three day exercise playing “what if” there was a coronavirus pandemic. Then lo and behold, by sheer coincidence in March 2020 we had a coronavirus pandemic exactly as imagined by the WEF. The response was a major departure from established practices, and included lockdowns and mandated vaxxines, just as was formulated at the WEF exercise.
In December 2021 the world’s major central banks had a ten day conference where they played “what if” there was a series of concerted cyber attacks on the banking industry worldwide. Their formulated response was a departure from established practices and included freezing of bank accounts, “bail-in” of depositors’ funds, and implementation of a CBDC.
As the Chinese curse goes – we live in interesting times.
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Yup.
I went to an AFP/Australian banking sector conference on security years ago and it was an eye opener.
People have no idea what goes on and how bad security is for the vast majority of businesses.
As to what’s coming, I’d have to check with CNN…
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I’m wading through the new global cybersecurity report and all my hairs are standing on end.
I need some more red wine! 😁
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Watched Sky the other night. Chris Smith (i think) was interviewing a farmer affected by the proposed Hume link. Its 380 km and will involve a thousand pylons. He said that it will involve clearing a lot of land. My detector went off. In NSW farmers are prevented from clearing their land by law. Yet along comes Transgrid and because of “CO2” and climate, climate , climate, they are free to clear as much as is necessary. No fine, no compensation.
The hypocrisy is mind blowing, but the actions of Kean and other leftists is predictable.
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Same sort of deal applies for Snowy V2.0 – massive clearing in the national parks with nary a whimper from the Gummint or Greens. Yet, if you or I have the temerity to remove a stick from the same national park, we would end up in the Bastille.
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Yes.
Destroy the planet to supposedly “save” the planet.
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The Greens were once an environmental group, but alas that is no longer their concern.
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In the film ” Planet of the Humans” by Michael Moore, there was an area of forest depicted, that had been felled to make way for wind turbines.
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Be mindful, in elections, of “votes” versus “ballots”.
Votes occur when a Citizen presents him/her self with identity in order to produce a “ballot”.
“Ballots” occur whenever “data” describes the “person on the ballot” as a Citizen who then receives a “mail in ballot”.
For instance, Jane P. Doe gets a driving license. Then she moves and buys a new cellphone. Then she gets married and sets up a new residence. That is now 5 identities of Jane P. Doe. Or 10 identities of Jane Doe and Jane P Doe. or 20 identities if Jane Paula Doe. or 40 identities if Jane Pamela Doe. All because each instance of a single change in data reference “creates” a “new” Jane Doe variant with a provable, digital, identity.
This is how “Ballot Harvesting” swings elections. True identities are “cloned” onto “new identities” for the purpose of vote fraud, but the action of doing this is hidden behind the provably different identities of the cloned individual. This is how “Mail In Ballots” in the USA change elections. The “Original Jane P. Doe” votes one time. But the “cloned” Jane P, Jane Paula, and Jane Pamela, Doe, vote 39 times. And each “ballot” can be proven to be “different” by virtue of cell phone number change, address change, name difference, etc.
This is why verified voter ID is necessary. Computers allow for “phony” voters to be allocated “ballots” that are false, but still get counted.
This is how nations are subverted, legally, and with digitally provable references that avoid scrutiny.
This is why paper ballots with verifiable ID and fingerprint augmented signatures are necessary. To prevent Fraud.
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That’s a lot of work to just get the same incompetent, self-serving, corrupt bunch of leaders in power over us. It doesn’t matter which side is in power, as any person over 35 has learned.
Cheaper & easier to just run a national lottery and put the winners in Parliament!
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Agreed, KP.
But in this modern, technological age, why have a “parliament” with elected “representatives” at all? Simply have a website where issues can be raised, left for a month for discussion, and then people can vote in favour, or not vote at all, as they choose?
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Yes! First, local Councils put up their new law, send a copy out with the rates demand and ratepayers vote accordingly, either on paper or online. They put out a detailed budget and we get to pick where the money goes!
Once its running at a local level we move onto the State level, same system- Put a detailed budget up and we will vote where the money goes. Put up your new laws and we will pass them or not!
Finally we hit National level and get voting to really mean something.
Only time I’ve ever seen any real contact with ratepayers was at the Mudgee field days. Council gave you half a dozen marbles, representing your rates, and you put them in different jars according to you whims. Great idea!
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Ah, 50% + 1 democracy. You are not a conservative and certainly NOT a Thatcherite. “Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money”. The US Founding Fathers thought this abhorrent and went for a representative democracy.
Do ya reckon you could outvote the boomers? Do you want them picking your pocket?
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From the top:
Australia is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Monarchy.
America is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic.
In a democracy mob rules provided that the mob is 50 + 1% of the vote. What is supposed to happen both here and in America is that the power of both the government and the mob is constrained by the limits imposed on them by the Constitution. It has stopped working because governments have subverted it by sidestepping the Constitution with things like UN inspired international treaties.
And Maggie Thatcher was the biggest socialist of all. It was Thatcher who gave legs to the whole CAGW con job in the first place.
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So it seems the SA-VIC interconnector is down , or perhaps more correctly severely restricted. Interesting times if it goes on. It will test if they got enough gas/diesel generation in place in the dying days of the Weatherdill government.
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The claim recently (by the Premier) was that this blackout will take longer than the 2017 one.
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Fascinating- the solar on your roof has been remotely turned off so you don’t even get power from that! Which means even if you have those billion-dollar batteries as backup you can’t charge them!
I’m glad SA is putting itself up as a test case before we all try this, I’ll be wanting solar panels that I can use when the power is off.
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That’s a reality problem. Your piddlin inverter can’t power the street and would not be synched with your neighbour’s anyway.
To run off grid you would need automatic disconnect from the grid. That is not included in a standard installation.
There are safety issues as well.
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Hanrahan I was wondering just how to do it. I think a manual switch for situations like this, so you can isolate your house from the grid. So they disconnect you from the grid remotely and then you throw the switch that bypasses the ‘outflow’ cable. You both have to reset switches to get back on the grid again.
I’m not really up with it, not having solar on the house, but I expect one day I’ll have to get it just to have electricity.
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we are wired like that at the moment but its for a generator connection. when we switch off grid the solar is isolated (actually that happens first when the grid fails)
I like being isolated from it when the power comes back and we dont see ant spikes or fluctuations.
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I glossed over the safety issues. Your supplier would not want you to make an error and forget to isolate yourself and power up your feeder while they were doing repairs/maintenance on it would they?
Like everything it’s doable but must be done right at a relatively high cost for the odd hour your power may be off. I’m not such a pessimist that I foresee regular power failures.
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Really ? But SA still is importing power according to nemlog ?
Maybe , only one of the interconnectors is down ?
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yes really, the whole sentence ended ” or perhaps more correctly severely restricted.”
look at the numbers
there is a small interconnector from eastern vic that is still running , the main 400-500MW line is currently severly restricted (when I looked just now maxed out at 77MW)
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AEMO has detected there is an elevated risk of the contingent disconnection of Distributed PV (DPV) with the loss of scheduled generation exceeding secure thresholds in the South Australia region from 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs 15/11/2022. The maximum forecast DPV contingency is 126 MW at 1230 hrs and the secure DPV contingency trigger is 36 MW.
AEMO is seeking a market response.
An insufficient market response may require AEMO to take action or intervene to maintain power system security in South Australia. This may result in action such as the direction of scheduled generation, curtailment of non-scheduled wind generation, and/or an instruction to maintain DPV generation below a secure DPV generation threshold.
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Don’t have bad thoughts about those 400-odd private jets –
“The BBC Defends Special People Flying Private Jets to COP27”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/12/the-bbc-defends-special-people-flying-private-jets-to-cop27/
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Love it! The pigs in ‘Animal Farm’, just so blatant.
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4 wheels bad, 2 wings good
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“Negotiations between the Russian and American delegations are taking place in Ankara, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin has arrived in the Turkish capital, Kommersant writes.”
https://t.me/s/intelslava
Maybe the beginning of the end of the war.. ‘All war ends in diplomacy’ or was it ‘War is just another tool in the diplomacy toolbox’..
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Diplomacy prevents wars, only defeat ends them comprehensively.
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Maybe.
But I wouldn’t be betting any money on it.
I don’t think Putin just moved 300,000 troops to the border to discuss peace.
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‘troops’, that’s gotta be an offence under the trades description act.
Putin can spitefully bomb the hell out of stuff, but his army simply does not have the quantity of professional soldiers required to hold the ground.
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seriously doubt Vlad is calling the shots. He has people.
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Ooh my little catchy one, catchy one.
When you gonna come back this time, Corona
Ooh you made me take the jab, made in lab
But i still caught ya 3 times Corona!
Never gonna stop, till i drop
My compliant mind, taking every shot
Taking it from behind my my my i ya woo!
Govern me a little harder huh, ill obey yah.
Hard enough to lock my inside Corona!
Keeping our democracy, is nothin’ to me
So i’m gonna dob all the time Corona!
Never gonna stop, till i drop
My compliant mind, taking every shot
Taking it from behind my my my i ya woo!
When you gonna give it to me, microchip me
It is just a matter of time Corona
Is it really destiny, necessary?
Or have you programmed my mind, Corona
Never gonna stop, till i drop
My compliant mind, taking every shot
Taking it from behind my my my i ya woo!
Never gonna stop, till i drop
My compliant mind, taking every shot
Taking it from behind my my my i ya woo!
M M M My Corona
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The Knack were a good band – well, one hit wonders back in 1979. ( back when I was a high school)
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Good analysis by Tim Pool about the election result.
https://youtu.be/pCv_TgQ85Ts
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The Demon-rats have destroyed American democracy.
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I just received a letter from my old university asking for money for a race-based scholarship.
I believe merit should be the basis of a scholarship, not race, so I won’t be giving for that particular cause.
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Is Jo ok?
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“Graham
November 12, 2022 11:49 pm”
In comments at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/12/the-bbc-defends-special-people-flying-private-jets-to-cop27/
“One rule for us and a special rule for the ELITE.
I received an email from England last weekend from a dairy farmer in Cornwall and this was the gist of it .
In 1950 there were 10.6 million cattle in the UK.
There were 50,225.,000 people.
There were 4 million registered vehicles.
There was no record of commercial flights
In 2018 there were 9.9 million cattle .
There were 66,400,000 people.
38 million vehicles on the road.
In 2004 there were 23 million commercial passenger flights in the world.
In 2018 there were 38 million passenger flights which did not include private or freight flights.
He then said .”I really would like to see the data that conclusively proves that cattle are the game changing contributor to global warming that the media would have us believe.”
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“The FTX Superscandal”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/14/the-ftx-superscandal/
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https://slaynews.com/news/ftx-laundered-billions-through-ukraine-funneled-funds-democrats/
SEE LINK FOR REST
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On “Things” – particularly lockdowns and myocarditis
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247410
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I wonder if the Medibank hack of personal data might be all the excuse the government needs to introduce a biometric digital ID that traces and tracks your every move, even more so than you are already traced and tracked? Something that they and previous governments have always wanted to do.
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Australia – a land where the non-productive (politicians and public serpents) tell the productive how to conduct their business.
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That’s what fascism is David. In communism the Govt owns the factories and tells you how to work, in fascism the people own the factories and the Govt tells you how to work…
Apart from every serving civil servant in the 1960s being an enthusiastic proponent of increasing their powers, it has been used as a way to soak up the unemployed after we automated our factories. Far more people just push paper than actually make anything useful now.
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I wonder how Bali is coping with all the private jets, as for Elbow meeting Xi Ping Ding, we should be going all out to replace our trade with China with someone more reliable.
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FTX & Crypto-Implosion
From Armstrong Economics –
“The collapse of the FTX Exchange is pretty straightforward insofar as this is the same lesson that constantly repeats in finance time and time again. Basically, FTX lent US$10bn of client funds to their trading arm Alameda, which used it for leveraged their own crypto speculation because the crypto market has been collapsing. Typically, someone like Sam Bankman-Fried had his whole life wrapped up in this venture. Lacking financial controls operating from the Bahamas, moving the money from client funds to his trading arm Alameda was possible. Historically, someone in this position sees his world collapsing but is not prepared to see that unfold for it requires admitting that he was wrong on crypto, to begin with. Consequently, such a person is not trying to actually rob clients’ money, they most likely see it as a temporary loan to save the company and the market will bounce back – or so they believe.
The collapse of FTX will now become a contagion for the crypto world. This 20-something group of inexperienced traders has signaled the demise of an industry that was getting all the hype with no substance. This crypto world will be seen as the DOT COM Bubble of 2000. With a recession on the horizon, the collapse of sovereign debt, and the monetary system as a whole, people will be looking for more of the safe bets rather than roll the dice on crypto. Nothing ever goes straight down. But by year-end, the volatility should perk up everyone’s view of the world.”
Much more to read here –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/cryptocurrency/ftx-crypto-implosion/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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I recently had success in appealing against a police-issued parking ticket issued to the registered owner of my car (me) when the car was in possession and control of a mechanic.
It was in Vicdanistan.
It took multiple phone calls and letters to sort it out plus stress and worry.
I got the impression that the people I was dealing with, which were actual police, were incapable of understanding the essential issue and lacked basic English comprehension skills, and even knowledge of basic law. They even claimed not to be able to identify the mechanic shop where the car was, even though I gave them the exact name, address and ABN and they were a member of a famous retail chain with hundreds of Australian outlets.
I felt I was trying to fight the legal system in some corrupt Third World dictatorship, which I suppose is more or less true.
It’s what happens when you have police and public serpents who are the personal servants of Dan Andrews (Victorian Dictator) and are no longer there to serve the people, nor do they feel any compulsion to do so.
These are EXACTLY the sort of people who will be willing to “just follow orders” and demonstrated their willingness to do so with their brutal violence against peaceful protestors during the covid lockups. It’s scary, inhumane and un-Australian.
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Here’s Bolt’s interview with Lomborg about the fraudulent COP 27 and his take down of the latest BS about so called heat deaths numbers etc.
Lomborg calls out these con merchants and actually shows that cold deaths will decrease by a much bigger number if there was some more warming by 2150 etc. IOW a big WIN, WIN for all of us.
But the new crazy shift of TRILLIONs of $ reparations instead of billions is just more proof that these loony COPs should be cancelled ASAP.
Here’s the link and the sound has to be unlocked on the video and there seems to be a re-start on the video, but is then ok.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/we-are-being-misled-on-the-climate-change-crisis/ar-AA145cMu
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Sorry above should be 2050 above, not 2150.
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It’s official that the world has now reached 8 billion people and yet that’s the same world that’s supposed to be heading toward the apocalypse for all Human life.
In 1970 the crazy Ehrlich Malthusians told us that the then 3.7 billion Humans would soon be starving to death and this included wealthy and poor countries by 1985.
Surprise NOT that it didn’t happen and today 8 billion Humans have a life expectancy of 73 years compared to the 56.5 years in 1970.
This is proof that we live in a much healthier + wealthier + SAFER world today. Just look up the UN DATA for yourselves and WAKE UP.
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Well it is, but not for reasons of supposed global warming.
Many will die from starvation and cold because of the Left’s war against energy (what they call “carbon” (sic)) and fertiliser (what they call “nitrogen” (sic)).
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David you’re referring to the clueless OECD countries, NOT China or India or the other so called developing countries.
I doubt they’ll follow us down the drain, but they’ll clean up big time through increased reparation pay-outs from the so called wealthy countries who’ve actually made the world a healthier, wealthier and safer place for all of us.
Does this make any sense to anyone? DUH?
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ABC news this morning:
There is a new outbreak of Covid.
It is driven by new sub-variants.
There were ca. 54,000 positive tests.
This is a 47.3% increase.
cases doubled in QLD.
Masks are advised in some settings.
Numbers have spiked in NSW, too.
There were ca. 19,000 positive tests in NSW.
That’s a 7,350 increase since last week.
Cases are likely to be under-reported.
People are less likely to test and report.
Actual cases could be 200% higher than the data shows.
It’s hard to predict “how bad it could get”
It’s hard to determine how effective the vaccines are against these new sub-variants.
Isolating could control the spread.
Pretty comprehensive, eh? But do you see what they left out – again?
They ‘forgot’ to mention that these new variants continue to be less likely to actually make you sick. Which is kinda the whole point, isn’t it?
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I’m trying to understand how poor Africa can now increase their population by over 30 million every year and much fewer infant deaths and higher life expectancy as well?
We’re facing a Human EXISTENTIAL THREAT according to the loonies like Biden and “the highway to hell” UN president.
Africa is our poorest continent ( 53 countries) and now has a much higher life expectancy of 64 years compared to 46 years in 1970 and just 36 years in 1950.
Our global climate seems to be very BEBIGN today, YET the crazy COP 27 loonies want to increase reparations to TRILLIONs of $ per year?
Does this make any sense to anyone? Here’s the Macrotrends link for Africa, or 53 countries.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFR/africa/population
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I think i heard on the TV news, that the world has reached “Peak Population” with the birthrate below the deathrate .
I suspect that the majority of births is in the developing countries, Africa, India, Asia etc,…and the compensating deaths will be in the westernised societies, Europe, USA, etc ?
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Chad the entire world birth rate has been declining since about 1963 and even Asian , Muslim countries are now changing , but Africa will increase their population for more decades to come.
Countries like China have lower birth rates and India will exceed China’s population within the next 12 months.
Japan is aging very fast and has an average age of about 45, but Africa has an average age of 20 and Aussies about 37. Ditto USA, Canada, EU etc.
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Neville, we are both wrong apparently !
The world population is still growing at 70m/yr..(2021)
And the birth rate peaked in 2016 at 142m/yr, but reducing since then to 134m/yr (2021)
Deaths are at 65m/yr..(2021)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-births-by-world-region
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Here’s the new successful election strategy – play dead, and have an overwhelming media campaign! It’s working a treat. Biden hid in a basement, and give speeches to a car load of people. Fetterman is being championed as a candidate for 2024 president! Kari Lake is going to lose to someone whose election strategy involved coffee with friends. Was the Republicans problem their message, or the onslaught of negative advertising? It might have helped to have some though through policies to solve problems, rather than just highlighting the problems? With the imbalance in funding, probably not.
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Furiously C:
That NEW Slogan didn’t work — Ban shredded cheese and Make America Grate Again.
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Some people would observe that some Americans have been grating for a long time
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Paul Joseph Watson’s short video (2m 38s) on carbon dioxide quotas:
He said the quiet part out loud.
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DD thanks for that link and I think the senior Johnson was just having a very stupid moment.
But he’s even loonier than his son and that’s saying something.
But he really loves the extinction rebellion layabouts etc and really he’s just a waste of space.
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When the First Fleet sailed south of Van Diemans Land they saw snow on Mount Wellington, which they thought odd at that latitude in summer.
What is happening now is not unprecedented.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/heavy-tassie-snow-two-weeks-out-from-summer/927161
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So the climate madness continues unabated in Egypt
https://kleinefeldmausorgnz.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/cop27-1.gif
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Cop 27
<a href=https://kleinefeldmausorgnz.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/cop27-1.gif
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When the lions escaped their den at Taronga Park Zoo the alarms went off.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7980392/watch-as-cheeky-lyrebird-impersonates-zoos-evacuation-alarm/
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Pointman has a look at the US mid terms and particularly the Republicans
“WHAT TO MAKE OF THE MID-TERMS.”
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/what-to-make-of-the-mid-terms/
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