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Sheer chance I came online now! G’day Jo and everybody 🙂
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Well done. You da man.
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GA, you should know, as well as I do, that you cant gender shame someone online. The fact that Annie calls herself Annie doesn’t mean she’s a man. In fact, it’s quite possible she’s a woman or lady or a non male person with a womb. (or whatever you call those creatures now)
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My great grandmother would agree;
https://joannenova.com.au/2011/09/is-another-big-la-nina-on-the-way/#comment-498542
She was really into modelling.
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The Leftoids have made “misgendering” someone a major social crime which will get you banned on social(ist) media.
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It gets teachers sacked in the UK and USA, even jailed for the consequences.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11533581/Christian-teacher-refused-use-gender-neutral-pronouns-remain-bars-Christmas.html
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Jealousy is a horrible thing, isn’t it GA !
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I am glad to confirm that I am a woman, not that most here wouldn’t have realised that after all the years I’ve been coming to this blog! Have you had something interesting to drink or smoke GA?
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No. Was just a jokey greeting. I was not the one exhibiting bitterness.
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Me neither GA!
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agree
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Now that “woman” is woke, do you mean an “adult female person”?
Cambridge Dictionary definition of “woman”:-
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Nah, I’m an old-fashioned girl who defines ‘woman’ in the old traditional sense.
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Can someone please tell Bone Head Bowen and Elbow that price caps and controls just do not work, except maybe in war time. Oh dear, maybe we are in wartime. Wartime with the Guv’ment, the WEF and the Climate Alarmists.
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Daily Telegraph reported yesterday from a FOI request that while in Opposition Bowen MP demanded an early trade-in before lease expiry date of his taxpayer funded electorate Mazda petrol engine car, we wanted a Tesla 3 EV even though they were not on the approved list at that time. After kicking up a fuss according to the report he got his Tesla EV.
Taxpayer’s money value for money overboard, monkey see, monkey want.
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The real cost would have been the upgrade to the electrics in the garage to have a charging point between the Monaro muscle car and the SUV.
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They only work for Commies
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Socialism with Australian characteristics.
‘As the contentious legislation was hurried through a one-day sitting of the parliament, energy giant Santos slammed the “Soviet-style” policy to cap the gas price.’ (SMH)
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GLOBAL COOLING: SUMMER SNOW IN VICTORIA AND RECORD WINTER COLD IN EUROPE
Carbon isn’t making the planet hotter. The sun is making it cooler.
These were the scenes at Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort in Victoria last week.
Remember how when there were bushfires and heatwaves in summer, all we’d hear about from the lying press was climate change?
Whenever it’s a heat event, climate change is behind everything wrong in the world.
Climate change causes inflation. Climate change is why economists are always wrong. Climate change killed the dinosaurs. Climate change is spreading COVID. Climate change is why we won’t have things in shops anymore. Climate change requires more girls in education. Climate change is making summer hot.
But the thing is, it’s not getting hotter. It’s getting colder. By mid-November this year, winter was hitting North America hard early with temperatures significantly below average. The winter we just had here was also colder for longer. In the neighbourhood around our house, locals were running out of firewood before the cold was done with us.
The signs are everywhere for those of us not brainwashed by the global warming propaganda. Australia just recorded its equal lowest-ever summer temperature when it got down to -7C at Perisher last Friday. Our winter this year was so obviously colder than usual that the propaganda had to address it. Temperatures in Australia have been anomalously low all year.
At the same time, the UK Met Office has issued multiple warnings across Britain for extreme cold today, with temperatures across Britain already struggling to get above 0C in the daytime.
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Australia met the Kyoto Agreement emissions targets and exceeded them, and is now on track to do the same with Paris Agreement target.
That’s why it’s cooling.
sarc.
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It feels like the end of a 60 year cycle.
‘As you’d expect, numerous other northern NSW towns also recorded remarkably cold summer temperatures overnight, as this cold, dry, unseasonable airmass with polar origins surged northwards.
Cobar dipped to just 8.0°C, the lowest Dec reading in 67 years
Narrabri’s 5.6°C was the lowest December temp in 60 years
Tamworth’s 4.6°C was the lowest Dec temp in 65 years
(Weatherzone)
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It will be interesting to see how winter continues in Britain. I have quite a feeling of having seen it before, 60 years ago. Time will tell.
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Spent winter 58-59 in Birmingham. Most vivid memories: clammy sheets and warm oil poured into sore ear.
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My most vivid memories of Christmas in the UK, back int’ 50s and 60s, include quite miserable weather, with only the occasional snowfall on the day itself. The worst of course was when cold, wind and rain combined to create truly miserable conditions. Since then I have firmly believed wind to be a mischievous spirit as, no matter which way you turned it always blew straight into your face.
It will do the same whenever you build a garden fire. Move around it wherever you like and the wind will swing around to blow the damn smoke straight in your eyes, like magic.
Loki?
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Winter ‘63 in the UK gave us 8’ snow drifts on the main roads in Norfolk
We were searching for cars by probing with long canes into the snow .
Many houses and businesses had mains water pipes frozen underground.
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If we have to start breaking the ice on the cows water troughs each morning this winter, then the end of this phase may be within sight . But I think we have a few years to go yet.
Since 1999 my farm has stayed green most summers, unlike the period from 1975 – 1998, when brown by Christmas was the norm.
I can’t say that I’m looking forward to two or three decades of droughts.
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Its no coincidence, the Great Climate Shift of 1976 (when the PDO became positive) explains why NZ had brown Xmases up until 1998.
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More Australian cyber attacks
Fire Rescue Victoria forced to shut down system over outage
Fire Rescue Victoria has been hit with a system outage, which may be the result of a cyber attack.
Sarah called 3AW Mornings to report the concerning issue.
“Word is they’ve been hacked, so no paging, all the systems are down,” she told Tony Jones, filling in for Neil Mitchell.
An anonymous source inside FRV has confirmed there is a problem with the emergency service’s systems.
https://www.3aw.com.au/fire-rescue-victoria-hit-by-system-outage/
Developing story so we’ll see…
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TPG Telecom Joins Growing List of Australian Companies Hit by Cyber Attacks
Internet services provider TPG Telecom Ltd. became the latest Australian company to fall victim to a high-profile cyberattack, announcing on Wednesday that the emails of up to 15,000 of its corporate customers had been accessed.
Its shares fell on the news, closing down 2.8%.
At least eight other Australian companies have gone public about hacks since October, prompting public outrage and the government to say last week it is developing a new cybersecurity strategy to tackle threats. It is also considering banning the payment of ransom to cyber criminals.
TPG, Australia’s No. 2 internet service provider with 7.2 million accounts, said the primary aim of the hack of the hosted exchange service was to search for customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information. Its cybersecurity adviser Mandiant discovered the breach during a forensic historical review.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2022/12/14/699462.htm
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MP says his bank details were available on dark web after cyberattack
An MP has said their bank details were available on the dark web after a cyberattack on a water company.
Conservative MP Marco Longhi told the Commons that he, along with “at least 249,000” others, had seen their bank details posted on the dark web after a cyberattack on the parent company of South Staffs Water.
Speaking during an adjournment debate on the issue, he said: “In July of this year, South Staffs PLC, the parent company of both South Staffs Water and Cambridge Water, experienced a criminal cyberattack.
“The incident involved the theft of data from their IT systems. Following the incident, they found evidence that some of their staff and customer data had in fact been accessed.
“With investigations still ongoing, it has now been confirmed that at least 249,000 customers who pay by direct debit, pretty much all of my Dudley North constituents and myself included, have now seen their personal contacts and banking details available on the dark web.
https://news.stv.tv/world/mp-tells-commons-his-bank-details-were-available-on-dark-web-after-cyberattack
It would certainly pay everyone to ensure their financial institutions are switched-on, for as we’ve seen too many aren’t…
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Hacker claims breach of FBI’s critical-infrastructure portal
A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector actors who run U.S. critical infrastructure.
The hacker posted samples they said were from the database to an online forum popular with cybercriminals last weekend and said they were asking $50,000 for the entire database.
The hacker obtained access to InfraGard’s online portal by posing as the CEO of a financial institution, they told independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who broke the story. They called the vetting process surprisingly lax.
The FBI declined to comment. Krebs reported that the agency told him it was aware of a potential false account and was looking into the matter.
InfraGard’s memberhip is a veritable critical infrastructure Who’s Who. It includes business leaders, IT professionals, military, state and local law enforcement and government officials involved in overseeing the safety of everything from the electrical grid and transportation, to health care, pipelines, nuclear reactors, the defense industry, dams and water plants and financial services. Founded in 1996, it is the FBI’s largest public-private partnership, with local alliances affiliated with all its field offices. It regularly shares threat advisories from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and serves as a behind-closed-doors social media site for select insiders.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11539467/Hacker-claims-breach-FBIs-critical-infrastructure-forum.html
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Getting to the point, I don’t even read the hacking alerts anymore. Got one today about a possible hack, and binned it. Pretty sure they’ve been going on for years, but now there is some obligation to report, which possibly wasn’t in place before. Or ( cynical hat on here), it’s great for the media to beat up as another scare tactic.
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Don’t overlook a “hacking alert” to dump you into another hacking attempt.
It can be interesting to first check where emails are actually sent from
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A fair bit has been said about the police killers and their extreme views.
Ok.
There were some very paranoid posts posted by them but on par with what thousands would post daily in Australia. I’m a bit angry that there is an attempt to try and use this to portray right-wing scepticism of the government as dangerous, especially as people like the New Zealand shooter were self-confessed ecoterrorists motivated by progressive ideas of capitalism destroying the Earth along with overpopulation.
Then you have ” even the rains that will fall will not fill our dams” that influenced management of Wivenhoe dam
van den Honert, R. C., & McAneney, J. (2011). The 2011 Brisbane floods: causes, impacts and implications. Water, 3(4), 1149-1173. https://doi.org/10.3390/w3041149
A dumb rant is not dangerous. Psuedo-intellectual garbage is.
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” the New Zealand shooter [was a ] self-confessed ecoterrorist(s) ”
According to his shooting companions , who had reported their concerns to the police , he was more of a nutter.
It is doubtful that he wrote the manifesto ; his handler(s) is unknown.
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The countries he supposedly travelled through prior to Beware The Ides Of March were very similar to the countries Dear Leader [cough!] travelled to as a trainee Young Global Leader: could the girl from the Morrinsville fish’n’chip shop really be a ‘handler’ a la James Bond villain? 🤣
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Spellcheck!
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Listen to Glenn Greenwald’s Rumble Ep3 today – all about how the politicians and media stop at nothing to ascribe political motives for heinous acts, even when the evidence is not yet collected. Lots of good examples.
This trio carried out evil acts, but solar panels and water tanks and living off grid would apply to lots of people in rural Australia. In fact, isn’t this what the government encourages the public to do?
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Can anyone find an aerial picture of the house?
They were up yesterday and I don’t recall seeing an astonishing number of solar panels.
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Have a look at the second last overhead photo here
https://www.couriermail.com.au/breaking-news/photos-emerge-of-property-where-two-police-officers-killed-in-chilling-ambush/news-story/7f779895f19bd2a6fd2d09d6bf74bbfc
Looks more like living off the grid as Great Aunt Janet says
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If anything, being good at their jobs but butting heads against bureaucracy seems to be what lead to paranoia and their actions. From what was written about the brothers, they were on the autism spectrum and not good at humouring people.
They seemed to have broken the golden rule, never attribute a conspiracy to what could merely be incompetence.
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AOC Climate Change Documentary Absolutely BOMBS At The Box Office
Did you know that far left New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a new documentary film about climate change in theaters right now?
No? You’re not alone.
The movie was released in hundreds of theaters this weekend and it absolutely bombed. How awkward!
AOC climate change documentary earns only $80 per theatre despite rave critic reviews
New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new climate change documentary debuted in movie theaters over the weekend, generating an abysmal $80 per theater.
The new film, “To the End,” was filmed over four years and follows four young women, Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas, as they attempt to pass sweeping climate change legislation in Congress.
http://www.domigood.com/2022/12/aoc-climate-change-documentary.html
https://www.totheendfilm.com/
$80 per theater?
At $10 per ticket that’s 8 people.
😆😆😆😆
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The Left have a dilemma.
Either love Elon Musk because he makes EVs.
Or
Hate him because he facilitates free speech through Twitter.
Hmmm….
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Awkward for both sides of politics when someone with a profile doesnt fit tidily in the approved box.
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Hard to like someone who has sucked up so much cash from insane lefty taxpayer subsidy policies. And still doesn’t make an ev car that most normal people can afford.
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Don’t think he asks to be liked by anyone, or cares
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I’m sure he doesn’t, but the topic was love or hate according to your political spectrum, not the fact Musk is so far on the spectrum he’s mentally incapable of caring.
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It wasnt “the” topic, you just deemed it so. The comment has a few facets, as many do.
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Hit the nail on the head there Mr Nasty.
Any committed green/left person would know this, and would have known this years ago, and face no dilemma at all. ie the green credentials are a sham and a pretense.
A committed right person though would have conflict that a person from their side of politics accepts and profits from such subsidies for a product that is ananathema to them.
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“the green credentials are a sham and a pretense.”
As they basically ALWAYS are. !
The whole of the “green” agenda is about making money from the public purse.!
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David, I did see a short comedy video clip of guy outside Twitter headquarters when Elon took over, saying he had just lost his job as an engineer at Twitter, and remarked paraphrased “How am I going to keep up my payments on my Tesla?“
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Baby dies from huge blood clots after hospital “loses” unvaxxed blood
A newborn baby boy named Alex was born in Washington state with a 95% survivable congenital heart defect and was also anemic and needed a blood transfusion.
Because of their experience with their family friend, they wanted to make sure Baby Alex had unvaccinated blood for his transfusion. So they found match through a member at their church and paid to have the proper protocol take place for Alex to receive that donors blood.
However, when it came time for the hospital to initiate the transfusion the doctors and nurses claimed they were unable to locate the unvaccinated donors blood the parents had procured. So without the parents consent they took blood from the hospitals general stockpile.
https://twitter.com/dchomecoming/status/1602834803711156224
All eyes on N.Z.
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I saw the video of Jabcinda’s Storm Troopers kidnapping the NZ baby from its parents who wanted their baby to only receive non-mRNA infected blood.
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The lawyer for Baby Will’s parents has since been arrested, locked-up for 5 hours then released, now is charged with some other legalese mumbo-jumbo… meanwhile some bros who committed a heinous crime are due back in court in 2024. Twenty twenty-four. ‘Transparency’ was never so clear [sic].
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Obviously, that is a tragic, heartbreaking story with enormous public interest. However, I cannot find a single mainstream media report to corroborate it.
Which probably suggests it’s true.
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Moderna and Merck announce new cancer “vaccines” based on mRNA technology
Researchers say they have successfully completed a trial of a personalised cancer vaccine that uses the same messenger-RNA technology as Covid jabs.
The experimental vaccine, made by Moderna and MSD, is designed to prime the immune system to seek and destroy cancerous cells.Doctors hope work such as this could lead to revolutionary new ways to fight skin, bowel and other types of cancer.
Moderna and MSD called it “a new paradigm” moment. Other pharmaceutical companies are looking to run similar studies.
But this is the first phase-IIb randomised clinical trial to test the investigational mRNA vaccine in patients.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63959843
Just in time to treat all the Covid vaxxed. 🙄
Let’s have a full investigation first.
https://twitter.com/JamesfWells/status/1602768194308956160
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WEF announces one of the themes of DAVOS 2023 will be preparation for “the next pandemic” disguised with combatting racial disparities in the next pandemic
https://twitter.com/NWOEXPOSD/status/1603061221149712385
Like I’ve always said, it’s not Covid you need to fear but what comes after it…
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This goes with that –
“I want heads”
“But buried in this story is the reason everyone involved in Moderna, the FDA, Pfizer, the FDA and all public health agencies should be indicted, prosecuted and [Snip]AD following conviction for what is quite-clear evidence that what was done for Covid in the context of jabs was profoundly unsound and utterly unsupportable, at a level of gross negligence and willful misconduct in the context of healthy people.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247621
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Been reported in the MSM now for a few weeks. The possibility that the all wonderful mRNA vaccine technology will now cure cancer. I submitted a comment on a story and suggested it might be wise to not further development of this tech, because we haven’t any safety assurances with the COVID vaccines. REJECTED. The politicians and media all seem to love mRNA vaccines. The Australian govt in particular ( state and federal) love Moderna, funding a factory in Melbourne.
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Australian Cardiologist Calls to Halt mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines, Citing Heart Damage
A growing body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence links heart issues with the mRNA vaccines.
So much so that the CDC and other government authorities in the United States and around the world now recognize that the COVID-19 vaccines are causing myocarditis—heart inflammation which is considered more severe than pericarditis because it causes inflammation of the heart muscle.
In June 2022, the FDA’s Tom Shimabukuro, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., identified as part of the CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Coordination Unit, reported that: “Current evidence supports a causal association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and myocarditis and pericarditis.”
After witnessing as many as 70 cases of vaccine-related heart conditions similar to Eskandar’s, Australian Cardiologist Dr. Ross Walker is now saying publicly that he believes there should be a ban on the use of mRNA booster vaccines.
According to Walker, the mRNA vaccines are “very pro-inflammatory,” he told Daily Mail Australia. “ He contended that The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization should never have mandated mRNA vaccines.
“I’ve seen many people getting vaccine reactions, who get symptoms for about three to six months afterwards,” Walker said. “I’ve seen 60-70 patients in my own practice over the past 12 months who have had similar reactions.”
Cardiologist Dr. Ross Walker called to halt only the mRNA vaccines for young adults in favor of non-mRNA options. But a growing body of scientific literature (some of which has been retracted for political reasons), as well as state data and testimony from clinicians, has shown that none of the existing COVID-19 vaccines is as safe or effective as advertised.
At the same time, with Omicron and other strains replacing the other, more virulent SARS-CoV-2 variants, COVID-19 infection seems to be becoming milder.
Dr. Malhotra said in a recent interview “… this vaccine is not completely safe, and has unprecedented harms”. He concluded in a peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance that a “pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19 is long overdue.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/health/australian-cardiologist-calls-to-halt-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-citing-heart-damage_4924166.html
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Professor Norman Fenton Fact-Checks Igor’s Vaccine/Mortality Analysis… And Makes AMAZING Discoveries!
Professor Norman Fenton and Martin Neil took a close and professional look at the association between “excess mortality” in developed countries, Covid vaccines, Covid, lockdown stringency, and other matters.
Everyone who is numerically inclined MUST READ their in-depth analysis of excess mortality. In addition to fact-checking my past posts, they provide numerous bombshell findings.
Professor Fenton and Martin Neil are statisticians and analysts. Using linear regression analysis and other statistical tools, they comprehensively looked at the impact of Covid itself, Long Covid, vaccines, and lockdown stringency, on total mortality.
Their findings are incredible.
The charts above show that the effect of vaccines on total mortality is worsening over time and reaches extreme levels of statistical significance.
This is the highest grade health alarm possible — sounded by professional data analysts and statisticians. It should send chills down your spine!
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/professor-norman-fenton-fact-checks
Video:
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-devils-advocate-an-exploratory
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Could be fun
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I’ll stick to the air…
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Stephen Fry and the climate of hypocrisy
STEPHEN Fry has announced that he doesn’t understand ‘climate deniers’, implying that such people are selfish and uncaring. He delivered himself of this opinion in a puff piece for his new travel series, A Year on Planet Earth, due to drop on ITVX on December 22.
The series takes Fry to some of the most exotic and beautiful places in the world where he will emote about the flora and fauna. He hopes we will be sufficiently awestruck to help save the world from the ‘climate crisis’ but won’t be lecturing us, he says. This is a relief. But what exactly does he not understand about ‘climate deniers’?
Let’s take a quick look at the views of those crazy denialists. According to William Happer, one of the world’s most distinguished scientists and former adviser to two US presidents, anthropogenic climate change is real – we do have an impact on the climate, but it is small (nothing like a ‘crisis’) and in many ways beneficial (‘global greening’).
Happer and others argue that CO2 (the stuff of life, let us not forget) is a very minor greenhouse gas, and, due to the saturation effect, there is a limit to how much it can affect climate. He uses the analogy of painting a barn door: there are only so many coats you can apply before there is no further impact. In other words, China can build as many coal-fired power stations as it wants, and that may not be good at a surface level, but beyond a certain, not very scary, level, it won’t make any difference to global temperatures.
Added to this, there is the awkward fact that the world isn’t co-operating in the climate crisis narrative. The Arctic and Antarctic have failed to melt away; the Great Barrier Reef, for which an obituary was written in the Guardian, is flourishing, and those pesky polar bears, penguins and whales, just refuse to do the decent thing and disappear. So, to paraphrase Jim Callaghan, ‘Crisis? What crisis?’
Fry says in his article that climate deniers ‘now seem to be diminishing in numbers, thankfully’ suggesting these dreadful people are one species he would be glad to see become extinct. And yet this is manifestly untrue. The WCD (World Climate Declaration) is a campaign group of some 1,400 scientists, engineers and experts led by Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever. Hundreds are signing their declaration every day. These, their key points, even a science ‘illiterate’ should be able to understand:
· Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
· Warming is far slower than predicted
· Climate policy relies on inadequate models
· CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
· Global warming has not increased natural disasters
· Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/stephen-fry-and-the-climate-of-hypocrisy/
Stick to comedy 😎
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He wasn’t even funny and as for his lifestyle… Maybe old Charlie will knight him for his ‘services’ to The Crown and their Bankers™.
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4WD Water Crossings: What You Need to Know
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My most exciting deep water crossing was into a mountain property, the owner had warned me against entering a week earlier and phoned me to advise it could be crossed, enter with care and slowly in low range 4WD (my diesel vehicle had a snorkel, and at the halfway point turn slightly right and then left towards the exit point on the opposite bank, the water was about door handle height. We made it through safely and return a couple of hours later.
But much earlier in time I was heading on a trip to the NT and WA and had two female friends travelling with me, I was asked how I would cope and why two. I replied that after reading what should be taken the advice was to take a spare of everything.
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My son thought it was fun to drive up a river. Then spent the next few weeks with lots of expensive parts replacements and mechanical work. Silly boy.
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SGM World News
@SGMWorldnews
BREAKING: Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Zelensky, reportedly spent €40000 on a shopping trip in Paris while visiting the country to plead for more support for Ukraine, store employees have claimed online.
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Hang on, hang on – Cindy just gave Olena’s hubby, that actor guy with the Israeli passport, 3 million NZ pesos to fight ‘ecocide’, and you’re telling me she’s spending up large in Paris? Viva la revolution! Democracy in action.
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How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker
Early during lockdowns in 2020, when the whole of the media marched in lockstep with the most appalling reach of public policy in our lifetimes, two doctors from Bakersfield, California went out on a limb and objected.
Their names: Dan Erikson and Artin Massihi from Accelerated Urgent Care. They held a press conference in which they claimed that lockdowns would only delay but not finally control the virus. Moreover, they predicted, at the end of this, we would also be sicker than ever because of our lack of exposure to endemic pathogens.
How well I can recall the outrage! They were treated like seditious cranks and new media blasted their comments as somehow radically heterodox, even though they said nothing I had not learned in 9th-grade biology class. It was utterly bizarre how quickly lockdowns became an orthodoxy, enforced, as we are now learning, by media and tech platforms working closely with government agencies to warp public perceptions of science.
Here we are three years later and the headlines are all over the place.
It Seems Like Everyone Is Getting Sick This Winter ~ CNN
Everyone Is Sick Right Now ~ Yahoo
Why Does It Seem Like Everyone’s Sick Right Now? ~ MSNBC
Why Is Everyone Sick? ~ Wired
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-lockdowns-made-us-sicker/
Y-U-P…
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“the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine/BNT 162b2 was granted on the efficacy data of 170 patients. The 162 who received a placebo and 8 patients who were vaccinated formed the basis of the 95 per cent efficacy claims.”
From the Spectator.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/170-patients-that-changed-everything/
read on in the link
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Bumped from Wednesday Open to spread the news
“Via Instapundit: “The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.” ”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/14/learn-to-code-11/
“500K subscribers lost in a year” – can they claim a world record?
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Happy Christmas everybody!!!
At this time of choices of gender, pronouns and names I have decided to change my name to Mary.
It’s the season to be Mary.
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Annie, is that alright with you mate?
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Each to his or her own!
I’m aiming for my Christmas to be Merry 🙂
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I’ll just note the Summer Solstice and leave it at that , I think . If the weather’s any good, I might make some hay to pass the time.
At this stage , there is no chance of haymaking.
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Thursday strangeness – Signalman Jack: The Baboon Who Worked for the Railroad, and Never Made a Mistake
One day in the 1880s, a peg-legged railway signalman named James Edwin Wide was visiting a buzzing South African market when he witnessed something surreal: A chacma baboon driving an oxcart. Impressed by the primate’s skills, Wide bought him, named him Jack, and made him his pet and personal assistant.
Wide needed the help. Years earlier, he had lost both his legs in a work accident, which made his half-mile commute to the train station extremely difficult for him. So the first thing he trained the primate to do was push him to and from work in a small trolley. Soon, Jack was also helping with household chores, sweeping floors and taking out the trash.
But the signal box is where Jack truly shined. As trains approached the rail switches at the Uitenhage train station, they’d toot their whistle a specific number of times to alert the signalman which tracks to change. By watching his owner, Jack picked up the pattern and started tugging on the levers himself.
As the story goes, one day a posh train passenger staring out the window saw that a baboon, and not a human, was manning the gears and complained to railway authorities. Rather than fire Wide, the railway managers decided to resolve the complaint by testing the baboon’s abilities. They came away astounded.
“Jack knows the signal whistle as well as I do, also every one of the levers,” wrote railway superintendent George B. Howe, who visited the baboon sometime around 1890. “It was very touching to see his fondness for his master. As I drew near they were both sitting on the trolley. The baboon’s arms round his master’s neck, the other stroking Wide’s face.”
Jack was reportedly given an official employment number, and was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly. Jack passed away in 1890, after developing tuberculosis. He worked the rails for nine years without ever making a mistake—evidence that perfectionism may be more than just a human condition.
Psstt..Jack, wanna job in government?😆
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Monkey and the Engineer ……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmZMdq-kwM
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Twitter Exposing the Real Threat – Leftist Revolution
From Armstrong Economics –
“The revelations coming from Elon Musk gaining access to Twitter demonstrate that the LEFT is the greatest danger we face to civilization and there is absolutely no reason still stand for the United States to remain as one nation. The hatred of the LEFT is so pervasive it is off the charts – but then again, the LEFT historically always seeks to oppress all opposition.
The LEFT has been the source of countless wars to dominate society. The 1848 Revolutions devastated most of Europe. The American Revolution which lasted 8.37 years and the French Revolutions were against Monarchy – not a LEFTIST philosophy, which rose again during the mid-19th century. What most people have no idea about is that this philosophy of suppressing human nature has been around for a very long time. The 1848 Revolution was precisely on time and our model on LEFTIST Revolutions begins with the birth of Sparta around 889 BC. The very word “SPARTA” means self-restraint. As I have written before, Sparta NEVER issued any coinage. They lived under a rigid oligarchic constitution and this is when they hayed Athens and waged the Peloponnesian War against them for their capitalistic freedom despite the fact that it was Athens that defeated the Persians in 480BC. It was Sparta’s constant LEFTIST philosophy that led to the invasion of Rome in 146 BC and their conquest of the Peloponnese at the Battle of Corinth: The Romans under Lucius Mummius defeated the Achaean League near Corinth. Corinth was destroyed, and the Achaean League dissolved.
Just as the LEFT claimed that Putin interfered in the 2016 election and 70% of Democrats ended up believing that story, even the exposure of ‘RussiaGate’ as a total fraud has not changed the minds of the LEFT – they just ignore the fact. Ironically, CNN went after Trump to remove him from office in 2020 because they were actually manipulating the news back in 2016 always giving Trump more time over 17 other Republicans because they thought he would be the weakest candidate and Hillary would win.
Now we have Musk dumping the Twitter files that reveal once again the LEFT interfered in the election. The latest release of Twitter files reveals that their employees did not believe former President Trump had violated Twitter’s policies. Nonetheless, they yield to the LEFT to ban Trump from Twitter to manipulate the election. This release shows:
“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement.”
They added: “It’s pretty clear he’s saying the ‘American Patriots’ are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?)…”
Another staffer agreed, writing: “Don’t see the incitement angle here.”
“I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” was the comment written by Anika Navaroli, the Twitter policy official.
“I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios for the DJT one.”
In fact, the LEFT rose up again in Paris for another Revolution. They created the Commune Movement in Paris where there was to be no property and everyone would be happy – i.e. Klaus Schwab & the WEF. Indeed, the very term “Communist” was coined there in Paris. Karl Marx was initially a socialist. It was the French who convinced him that all private property should be owned by the state creating a Commune.
Ironically, the last turning point of or Leftist Revolution Model was in 2009. It was at the WEF in 2019 that they release the Build Back Better slogan for all governments to use. The next one is actually in 2032 but it will start to accelerate from 2024. We can clearly see how polarized society has become. This is also the Sixth Wave so we are looking at a major attempt to suppress society under the same philosophy pf the Oligarchy that seized control of Sparta. The elites are behind this own and they always make it sound like they are doing this for us. But in truth, this is all about their power and total control.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/twitter-exposing-the-real-threat-leftist-revolution/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
So from a Twitler (A play on Adolf) with rampant censorship, we are now seeing the emergence of a ‘free speech’ in Twitter.
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Why are you capitalising left? Interesting you didn’t once define what you meant by left. Is the left anyone but you?
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‘Tis easy to define “left”. You read leftist press and anyone not described as “far right” is, by definition, “left”.
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California Unleashing Nationwide Crime Wave
From Armstrong Economics –
“California has infected the United States as a whole for its insane policies have led to contagions that have unleashed a serious crime wave nationwide. Just Google “Shoplifting in San Francisco” and you will find more than 100,000 hits. This has become a real contagion spreading nationwide. You will also find many YouTube videos showing people just walking in and stealing whatever they want. This has escalated to whole gangs walking into an SF Walgreens or CVS and actually emptying the shelves. They are not prosecuted and they just walk out. At least one thief rode their bike into the store and departed the same way.
What is erupting is many current and former CEOs have issued warnings that this crime wave in California has spread to New York and many other cities. They are warning that this increase in retail thefts across the United States will contribute to INFLATION forcing higher prices, but it is also impacting areas as stores just give up and close. In fact, in June of 2021, nearly 50% of small businesses remained closed. Walgreens has been closing down stores in San Francisco on a grand scale. Between this and all the illegal aliens learning they do not have to pay for things in San Francisco, what was a nice safe city has turned into a place that is no longer the hot spot for tourists.
Perhaps this is given new meaning to Tony Bennett’s hit song – I left My Heart in San Francisco.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/california-unleashing-nationwide-crime-wave/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Xmas funny – the 3 unwise men
https://i0.wp.com/politicallyincorrecthumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mcconnell-biden-ukraine-send-more-money-christmas.jpg
😆😆😆
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Elbow has loads of your Taxpayer Money to throw away
Payment was a crime:
Linda Reynolds ‘muzzled’ in Brittany Higgins lawsuit defence.
The Albanese government muzzled former Liberal minister Linda Reynolds in her defence against Brittany Higgins’ multimillion-dollar lawsuit, threatening to tear up an agreement to pay her legal fees and any costs awarded unless she agreed not to attend a mediation.
Ms Higgins reached a confidential settlement with the commonwealth, believed to be worth up to $3m, at the mediation on Tuesday over the former staffer’s claims she was not supported by Senator Reynolds or Liberal Party frontbencher Michaelia Cash after the alleged sexual assault by Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House.
Senator Reynolds is understood to have been determined to defend herself against Ms Higgins’ allegations but in correspondence obtained by The Australian, the commonwealth’s lawyers told her she could not take part in the mediation.
Senator Reynolds was therefore unable to dispute any of Ms Higgins’ allegations about a failure to support her or properly investigate the incident, some of which were contested at Mr Lehrmann’s trial.
Clayton Utz partner Ashley Tsacalos noted a provision in the Legal Services Directions that “settlement is not to be effected merely because of the cost of defending what is a spurious claim” and must be on the basis of written advice from the Australian Government Solicitor “that the settlement is in accordance with legal principle and practice”.
It is not known whether the AGS provided such advice.
The commonwealth’s lawyers had also demanded they take control of Senator Reynolds’ defence – even though the commonwealth had previously claimed it was unable to provide legal advice or act for her, forcing her to employ her own legal team.
Dr Tsacalos questioned whether Anthony Albanese, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus or Finance Minister Katie Gallagher had the power to impose conditions under the parliamentary regulations “in circumstances where all have previously made public statements supporting Ms Higgins and her version of events”.
Click on Link to read full Article from Oz
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‘Not transparent’: Government slammed over Higgins’ compo payout
A secretive compensation payment worth up to $3m to Brittany Higgins has seen the government slammed for a lack of transparency as officials refuse to discuss whether legal advice was sought and claims tested.
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Anthony Albanese’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ Liberal senators who would have opposed Brittany Higgins’ claim for compensation
. Senator Linda Reynolds kept out of Brittany Higgins’ compensation claim talks
. Reynolds disputed Higgins’ claims and reportedly was set to keep doing so
. Higgins arrived at a confidential deal with the Commonwealth in very quick time
. The compensation was for Higgins claim she was supported over r@pe claims
. Reynolds’ lawyers have questioned the authorisation of a ‘spurious claim’
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 16, 2022 at 10:04 am
NACC should look into the hasty Higgins payout CHRIS MERRITT
6:42PM December 15, 2022
On Monday of this week, the legislation creating the National Anti-Corruption Commission came into effect – just in time for Tuesday’s extraordinary financial settlement between Brittany Higgins and the federal government.
It is difficult to see how the Higgins settlement complies with the longstanding rules governing the way the federal government is supposed to deal with monetary claims.
It is also difficult to see how those responsible for this settlement could not perceive that outlaying taxpayers’ money in breach of those rules might trigger the interest of regulators – including the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Handing out public money in breach of the rules fits the definition of a financial scandal.
It might also come within the definition of corruption that has just been approved by parliament at the urging of the Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus.
The rules governing financial settlements and claims against the government are outlined in the Legal Services Directions. But because they are unenforceable, any past settlements that did not comply with the rules had few consequences for the officials involved.
But from Monday, the conduct of public officials who settle monetary claims against the government – like all areas of public administration – has been brought within the jurisdiction of the corruption watchdog, the NACC.
And that is where this week’s settlement with Higgins might end up.
The payout was made without a finding of wrongdoing against anyone.
It was also made without the involvement of former Liberal ministers Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds, who were accused of wrongdoing by Higgins.
Thanks to a report in The Australian on Thursday, it is now known that the Albanese government threatened to tear up an agreement to pay Reynolds’ legal fees and costs unless she agreed not to attend that mediation.
Just consider that for a moment: a former minister was subjected to financial coercion which prevented her from testing accusations that had been made against her by Higgins.
That was reprehensible. It looks like an attempt to nobble this process so it would unfairly favour Higgins and financially disadvantage the Commonwealth.
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Mrs Y and I were mulling over Jennifer Lawrence’s monumentally stupid statement that nobody had put a woman in an action lead before she came along.
We started going through all the ones we could remember, and most of those come up in stories about case study in unawareness.
Mrs Y went way back with one I thought was quite good (and a classic) Katherine Hepburn in the African Queen.
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Diana Rigg?
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Diana Rigg ?
Wonder woman ?
Zelda,..warrior Princess ?
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The recent fusion “breakthrough” was not really a breakthrough at all.
The energy yield was only about 1% of the energy input.
Anton Petrov discusses.
https://youtu.be/1g_A5tEApa0
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Apparently the fusion announcement was timed to coincide with the passage of a large spending bill in Congress.
Not even remotely break-even, once the laser input power is taken into account.
So nothing to do with science, just grift.
There is no science anymore – only politics.
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I thought the announcement was politically timed and motivated, similar claims have been made before anyway. They never stand up to scrutiny or produce dramatic progress.
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But previously it had always been a -ve figure !
So , it was a scientific breakethrough, but certainly not a practical result !
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The BS just gets more unbelievable.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-skipped-covid-vaccine-higher-183148392.html
SEE LINK FOR REST
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I drive now, beeing 70, around 50 years different cars, never had am accident, not vaxxed, had corona last month over 4 days and will now be in car crash risk, because of a psychological harm ?
I’ll tell you who has a psychological harm, these crazy researchers publishing such a BS 😀
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well there are probably more of them alive and not in hospital so yes, per capita, they are probably more likely to have a car accident (or anything else associated with a normal life)
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“Canadian Research Group Finds Unvaccinated People More Likely to Have Severe Car Accidents – Paving Way for Insurance Rate Hikes for Unvaccinated
December 14, 2022 | sundance | 332 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/canadian-research-group-finds-unvaccinated-people-more-likely-to-have-severe-car-accidents-paving-way-for-insurance-rate-hikes-for-unvaccinated/
Read to the end for the funding suspect
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Further on in the realm of spurious correlations:
Per Capita Cheese Consumption correlates with People Dying by Getting Tangled In Their Bedsheets, R = 0.9471.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj84iRTUoAkrnwe?format=jpg&name=medium
That means that Cheese Eaters are 31.5% more likely to die from getting tangled in their bedsheets than Unvaccinated drivers are likely to be involved in an injury auto accident.
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FWIW
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602597934377336834
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Another African president, another corrupt thief.. AS my South African wife says, democracy is not for everyone, it never works in Africa.
Love the Unicef video, a total fabrication written over a pack of lies. As they say, these days those in power don’t even try to hide their contempt for the masses, they forge on ahead while ignoring everything against the meme.
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” democracy is not for everyone,”
The early Greeks dealt with the issue by”pulling names out of a hat ” , to form a governing body, for a once-only term, reducing the possibility of the development of a political class .
It’s hard to see it being worse than what we’ve got.
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If you think transgender procedures are bad, how about this?
“Gender nullification”.
https://www.davisplasticsurgery.com/services/gender-nullification/
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First, do no harm
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In even a semi-reasonable world this doctor would be incarcerated.
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You want to keep that boy soprano. . . .
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It’s way past time that those seeking such disfiguration – and I include ‘gender reassignment’ – are first and foremost treated for mental illness. I have no doubt that, decades from now, people will look back on all this and wonder why the world went so insane for a while.
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Surgery to treat mental illness went out of fashion with the frontal lobotomy, but back in style now, apparently.
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Frontal dickotomy !
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ps.. leaves a scar on his forehead !
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Caption on a cartoon –
“The jabbed telling the unjabbed to get jabbed is like sending
“Wish you were here” cards from the Titanic
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“India experienced a unique, sudden, unprecedented and extraordinarily large excess all-cause mortality event in April-July 2021, which is not adequately explained as a “second wave” or as being caused by a new variant of concern. After an overview of four recently published studies that have quantified the April-July 2021 excess all-cause mortality event, we give ten numbered arguments as to why we conclude that the extraordinary mortality event was caused by India’s vaccine rollout in its early stages. Therefore, it appears that the early rollout of the vaccine in India in April-July 2021 was devastating, causing the deaths of approximately 3.7 million residents, on administering approximately 350 million doses of the vaccine.”
https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2022/12/indias-shock-and-sudden-excess.html
and…
“Africa, where fewer than 6% of people have received the COVID jab, have maintained an extremely low COVID-19 death rate throughout the last three years, likely because they didn’t have equal access to experimental COVID injections
While wholly ignoring the African experience, U.S. media are now trying to scare people into taking additional shots for fall by warning of an incoming “tripledemic” of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
The tripledemic narrative is scientifically implausible. Respiratory viruses tend to interfere with each other’s spread, such that one typically ends up dominating
Pfizer’s and Moderna’s pediatric trials both found RSV infection was more prevalent among children who got their COVID jabs than those who didn’t”
https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2022/12/scientists-struggle-to-explain-why.html
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What they didn’t take into account concerning Africa is the fact that lots of people in several African states are on IVM thanks to Mercks Donation program to eliminate River Blindnis and Elephantiasis.
That’s also one of the elephants in the room much are unable to see…
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Biden roasted for sending South Africa $8 billion to shut down coal plants: ‘Weapon grade lunacy’
The president said coal-fired power plants would be replaced with renewable energy sources
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-roasted-sending-south-africa-8-billion-shut-coal-weapon-grade-lunacy
President Biden proclaimed Wednesday that the United States and other G-7 countries will donate billions to get South Africa off coal and on renewables, to the chagrin of many on Twitter….
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Lunacy.
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Mmm just what South Africa needs rolled into their current grid woes, intermittency and added complexity. I’m from the US govt and I am here to help!
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Has snowed everyday this week in Oz which I believe is “ unprecedented “ .
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Keep your guard up on emails that “arrive”
I just got one saying that I “won a Christmas gift – a TV set from Harvey Norman”
Unopened because the email was sent from “HarveyNorman.com”
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That email address got bobtailed – it was
“HarveyNorman.com “
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Again – the last bit
@actu.planet.fr
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Via “Coffee and Covid” newsletter this morning
“In totally unrelated news, Melbourne, Australia has taken the lead in the war against SADS, by installing defibrillator machines on street corners and outside people’s homes. For no reason. Just safety.”
“And in South Australia, they just passed a new law requiring defibrillators to be installed in most public and many private buildings. You can’t be too safe these days.”
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More on that
“Twitter avatar for @RestartHeartDay
Restart A Heart @RestartHeartDay
We are pleased to see the Automated External Defibrillator (Public Access) Bill passed in SA Parliament on 30th Nov ’22. South Australia has now become the first Australian State or Territory to pass laws that mandate the installation of AEDs in certain buildings.”
https://twitter.com/IscoPar5/status/1602845612923314179?s=20&t=fo_fPLOg0nxgEX54zWMmSQ&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Visitors to Marysville should be heartened (whoops) by the news that there are several AED’s around the town, also Narbethong, Buxton and Taggerty.
Happy Christmas.
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“President Trump Announces Plan to Protect Free Speech and Digital Bill of Rights
December 15, 2022 | Sundance | 176 Comments
This afternoon President Donald Trump released a video outlining a campaign platform position around free speech. {Direct Rumble Link}”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/15/president-trump-announces-plan-to-protect-free-speech-and-digital-bill-of-rights/
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‘George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarian terror 1984 was the bestselling fiction title this year in Russia.
‘The novel, published in 1949, takes place in a dystopian future where relentless propaganda ensures support for brutal wars.
‘It was the most popular fiction download on the website of the Russian online bookseller LitRes and the second most popular in any category, the state news agency Tass reported.’ (Oz)
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Let’s hope the Russkies reading it end up with a better understanding than the Australian’s reporter. Were there actual wars at all? I never thought so. Could you really fight Eastasia one week and then have them as your allies the next? I never thought so. It was never more than an announcement, an example of doublethink. The bombs that rained down on Oceania were surely launched from Oceania. It also seemed likely that the divisions with Eurasia and Eastasia were not real, drawn only to serve as Mencken style hobgoblins to menace the people.
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Australia is Oceania and our political culture is Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism) seems to have come to fruition.
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Going to be interesting to see the sledging from the South African cricketers , I wonder if there’s any truth to the rumour I’m spreading that they will be sponsored by a well known sandpaper manufacturer?
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‘Britain will hit MINUS 18C tonight as Met Office issues Sunday weather warning for ENTIRE UK as canals and lakes freeze and beaches turn white with no let-up ahead in Britain’s big freeze. (UK Mail)
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Oh yes; however did we survive -18C back in the early-ish 80s when we were living in an unimproved Army quarter? It had draughty single-glazed metal-framed windows, those ghastly huge, ugly useless storage heaters and a very small garden. Our youngest son wanted to go and play out in the snow but was refused permission by us as you couldn’t see across the short garden because of the thickness of the blizzard. It was also the time when I could defrost our small freezer and just sling the contents out into the snow overnight!
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Bob Tisdale responds to Willis, is ENSO changing?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/14/response-to-willis-eschenbachs-wuwt-post-how-the-el-nino-is-changing/
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Here- You can “Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley.” ..and get pure propaganda to block out any blips of intelligence occuring.. From the Socialist Morning Herald-
“Labor MP Peter Khalil, the chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, yesterday said it was important to disrupt the “pipeline towards extremism” at its source.” and “it is absolutely clear from events here and around the world that conspiracy theories, disinformation and misinformation problems as old as time are being turbocharged by technology into terrible acts of violence”
ie, freedom of expression on the internet leading to people disagreeing with the official view of life. So the obvious answer is-
“Dutton said the opposition would support the government introducing any measures to make it easier for law enforcement to access encrypted apps, where a lot of discussion surrounding conspiracy theories takes place.”
or in 5 words instead of a paragraph, ‘No privacy for the people’. We already have many websites being banned by the legislation passed a decade ago, you can expect this censorship to widen. We even get this old chesnut being thrown around, the Right-Thinking Australian!
“[That] should be of concern to any right-thinking Australian,”
..and of course, never let a good crises go past without pushing for more gun control-
“Government open to national firearm registry”
…and to pour more oil on the fire-
“He linked them to “anti-vaccination agendas, conspiracy theories and anti-government sovereign citizen beliefs”…. “As a society, we must wonder how these evil collective delusions can thrive in our midst.”……”The unhinged fantasies of extremist conspiracy theories are an increasingly serious threat to society.”…”this account has posted insane claims that the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 was a false flag operation by police designed to justify tougher anti-gun laws.”
Funny how these conspiracy theories turn out to be true.
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Looking below those fusion headlines –
“Don’t Fall For It”
[Comments enabled]
Breathlessly, I tell you, breathlessly, over-unity fusion has been achieved!
Don’t buy that bullshit; they’re lying.
Specifically its crap until you can show me all of the following:”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247626
Conclusion –
“So the laser beams contained 2.05MJ of energy but the unit consumed 300 MJ of energy to produce the 2.05 MJ of laser beams that was aimed at the target.
In other words they produced about 1% of the energy they put in, not 120%.
The blunt word for what was allegedly reported, in other words, is bullshit.”
Seems the announcement coincides with a push for a big money bill through Congress/Senate
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Judith Curry is on the warpath.
‘Extreme weather events have become an increasingly important part of the climate alarm narrative since 2005, but kids didn’t start getting “psychologically injured” until the climate communicators and “educators” took this to the next higher level.
‘The timing of this started around 2017, following the increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric from UN officials and national leaders in support of the Paris Agreement and the coincident formation of the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, etc.’ (Climate Etc)
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Intuitively I sense a bipolar seesaw, captured in the ice cores.
‘The other interesting response of CO2 from Greenland ice cores is during the colder centennial 8.2 kyr and Younger Dryas events. Greenland CO2 decreases 50 ppm below the Antarctic CO2 composite during the 8.2 kyr event.
‘Antarctic CO2 data does not even recognize the 8.2 kyr event and shows a gradual decrease during the entire glaciation stage. No theories are published as to why Greenland CO2 is depleted or lower than Antarctic CO2 during cooling events.’ (Renee Hannon/ CO2 Science)
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Chris Gillham at Scribeworks has proof that Australia’s temperature (ACORN 2.2) is gradually falling.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=7044
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In comments at SDA
“Definition of a liberal??
Some one who’s own interests are not at stake at the moment.”
And for an education in firearms (with corrections in the comments)
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/15/put-your-trust-in-the-experts-8/#comments
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Re Bowens price cap for gas and coal…
Anyone heard if the cap on gas price ($12 per gJ ?) ..will apply to bulk/ bottled LPG ?
Currently LPG is about $2.0 / ltr in bulk for domestic use ($1.20/ltr at the servo pump),.
As 1 ltr is 0.51 kg, or 25 MJ, that is currently $80.0 /gJ ..!!
I am sure there are as many folk relying on lpg for heating and cooking , as there are on mains gas supply .
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A friend sent me this newsletter from Clintel Foundation – anyone up to speed on it?
https://eds6.mailcamp.nl/webversion.php?subid=87418vq97z1ycvm&ccode=wq6joz0v100ot0j3qm5dy960f0l7618x9j7minw33mm8gnxqf6jm18my4o4za6n8y&lid=4ozyo4038&nstatid=nq91ozdee&nid=4o15w42vo&statid=nq91ozdee&info=n9w3d0v
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Anyone know where I can get some of that hallucinogenic spinach that’s being recalled , asking for a friend !
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After SARS, in 2002 the US DoD started a research project to determine the best defense against another coronal virus outbreak.
US defense research found in 2015 that Ivermectin was the best therapeutic defense against corona viruses. The DoD forwarded their research and recommendation to the CDC.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602570327376408576
They knew that Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine worked, in 2015 based on US department of defense research.
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