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For CFA training we used a prop that simulated a car fire. We discussed procedures for an EV fire and the issues involved were particularly frightening for a rural brigade of volunteers. I worry that as these cars age and batteries become damaged or corrode the potential for catastrophic fires on country roads increases.
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Massive bushfire risk.
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Climate Change forced the development of EVs.
EV causes bushfire.
Ergo bushfire still caused by Climate Change.
Is that a positive or a negative feedback loop?
At the very least it is an anthropogenic bushfire.
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A lot of anthropogenic bushfires are lit by discarded cigarette butts.
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We do seem to have far less bushfire alerts on non tourist days.
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Drivers instinctively pull to the side of the road, closer to grass and brush, when they should stop in the middle.
Add “stop in the middle” to the training manual to get a driver’s license.
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So happy that tomorrow is the weekend
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Every day is ‘the weekend” in Canberra.
🙂
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As you are always looking backwards, then yes, it will be the weekend (Sunday) for you.
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“As you are always looking backwards’
“meandering aimlessly” …would be a better description
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Blessed be the lifters.
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The On-Going Case for Abandoning Homogenization of Australian Temperature Data
Dr Bill Johnston
Former weather observer and NSW Department of Natural Resources research scientist.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/15/the-on-going-case-for-abandoning-homogenization-of-australian-temperature-data/
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Why does there even need to be a “case” for data homogenisation?
The whole concept is scientifically invalid and indeed, fraudulent.
There is no argument to be made.
It’s just wrong. Period.
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Contra Richard Feynman, for those living in the Age of Virtual Reality,
data doesn’t trump theory… no-o-o, if the data invalidates theory, then the data
is wro-o-ong!
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Worth seeing again, (especially in The Age of Virtual Reality.)
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=richard+feynman+definition+of+science&ei=kOzEY5jxArys4-EPj6yV-A0&oq=richard+feynman+lescience&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQARgFMgcIABCABBANMgcIABCABBANMgcIABCABBANMggIABAIEB4QDTIICAAQCBAeEA0yCAgAEAgQHhANMggIABAIEB4QDTIICAAQCBAeEA0yCAgAEAgQHhANMgUIABCGAzoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgCOg8ILhDUAhDIAxCwAxBDGAI6BAguEEM6BQgAEIAEOgUILhCABDoFCCEQoAFKBAhBGABKBAhGGAFQggZY6T9gjlVoAXABeACAAdEBiAGEEZIBBjAuMTIuMZgBAKABAcgBEcABAdoBBggBEAEYCdoBBggCEAEYCA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e3864539,vid:EYPapE-3FRw
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….”Ages on ages . . . before any eyes could see . . . year after year… thunderously pounding the shore as now. For whom, for what?… on a dead planet, with no life to entertain.
Never at rest. . . tortured by energy . . . wasted prodigiously by the sun . . . poured into space…..” ….
Yes indeed, as I often say rhetorically… ‘ W H Y’
ALL those bodies in the Universe acting out the laws of physics, and Mr Global comes along.. the molecules will continue to gyrate long after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTxVhYpoDw&list=RDEMLnAGP7m2wTKkMh03t-0ZbA&index=28 and thereafter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKtmiLeV6A
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BTS Thank you!
When women were women and science was science.
“You cannot prove a vague theory wrong.”
Hmm?
That freezing was definitely caused by warming, and drier causes wetter.
In theory I should be able to buy a dryer to wet my clothes.
If only there were a non-human Earth, nature would be able to operate naturally and behave that way humans think it should.
Got to listen to some Tuvan throat singing today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98
I’m given to understand that the US gubmint now officially disagrees with him on flying saucers …
but supports AGW theory.
Hmm?
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It’s ‘tweaking the data to suit the models’.
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You mean torturing the data.
BoM badly needs an audit.
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They need to learn about the Weather.
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Tony Abbott, when he was PM, called for an audit of the BoM but Greg Hunt of WEF fame, when he was environment minister, blocked it. I wonder why?
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The whole ACORN process is just data mining looking for a result that pleases them – no worries how many km away the new “data gem” is.
There should be mass sackings.
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Pretty sure that homogenisation just makes the station look like the regional temperature so that the latter doesn’t look like it was just pulled out of the proverbial.
That nearly every station with a good record needs homogenisation to look like the regional trend is the concern, especially as the record is so poor.
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Dear Blair, what a sad man. A shadow and nothing of consequence. If ROM was still with us( wink)
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21014603/dead-bodies-make-shift-morgues/
Hospital morgues in the UK are running out of room in their morgues, Lots of things are blamed except for the dead elephant in the room.
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Only conspiracy theorists see dead elephants.
Possible movie script idea?
You know, a therapist starts treating a conspiracy theorist …
sorry to make a joke, I actually don’t think it’s funny.
https://youtu.be/qNgCGIBrK9A
Desperately hoping to turn out to be a conspiracy theorist.
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It’s Climate Change don’t cha’ know……..sarc.
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The people didn’t see
https://youtu.be/RymIlSDfcFo
The first to arrive were the cameras
Installed to protect both you and me
In places where we weren’t that threatened
And yet the people didn’t see
What followed were traffic restrictions
To keep the roads quiet and clean
The maths didn’t add up, or the science
But still the people didn’t see
Next came the 15 minute neighbourhoods
Make our lives easier, decreed
To some, it seemed like restrictions
But still the people didn’t see
Then came the Digital ID
So convenient, easy and free!
Your life in one chip on a mainframe
And still the people didn’t see
The cars they sold were electric
All wired to the government PC
They switched off the driving on Sundays
Yet still the people didn’t see
The banks moved their money to digital
The government banned cash the next week
The ability to fly was restricted
Yet still the people didn’t see
They linked up your money and profile
To the ID on the government PC
Connected it to social media
Yet still the people didn’t see
Then came a new cure, a new virus
Safe and Effective, and free
They linked these jabs to your profile
And connected to the government PC
When the people were locked up in cities
Policed by their digital ID
Unable to visit their loved ones
Now finally the people can see
Restricted and tracked with no money,
To go further a permit you’ll need
Contained in your digital city
Oh why did the people not see?!
These steps they sold us as progress
Never looked to be quite what they seemed
If you don’t ask the questions and protest
Then your children will never know FREE.
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And the “Miss” Universe winner is…
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1614473139530141698
While we’re at it, go Ukraine! 🤣
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1614458649346285570
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Legalise crackpots! End the discrimination against We-men! People are so judgemental.
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And man with a beard dressed as a fairy with mechanical wings and sparkly trousers wielding a shiny sword is quite apt. Or perhaps it’s St.George with the Drag-on.
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So, I’m a bigot.
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Bigots are entitled to their opinions. I think they are very unfairly treated and victimized. Bigot bigotry is commonplace.
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JC2 tip of the day
1. If government is involved, avoid it
2. If government supports it, reject it
3. If government says it’s safe, it’s not
4. If government says it’s true, it’s false
5. If government wants to help, it won’t
6. If government says you need it, you don’t
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And remember, when we vote we end up with a politician.
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“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan.
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Monday humour: Urgent advisory for gas stove owners
To ensure your safety and those around you, please fit the approved safety devices as shown:
https://i0.wp.com/clownuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/10E5CD02-1662-4790-8B39-96D8DB46B2F9.jpeg
…and stand 1.5m away…
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Monday humour: how do I know if I’m fully vaccinated?
https://i0.wp.com/clownuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/17084D2E-0B14-4ABC-93F0-1C09C19B24C3.jpeg
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absolute classic John C.
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I just heard today about the husband of a friend of my wife who died suddenly a couple of days ago. In his 50s.
I am too frightened to ask when his last vaccination was.
It is happening too often.
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Sorry to hear that, John.
Yes, it could be quite confronting for the relatives of the deceased to be asked that, especially if they had no clue already how dangerous the covid vaccines are.
And especially if you are in NZ where you might be labeled an “enemy of the state” or “far right conspiracy theorist” for questioning the safety of the vaccine.
Because Jabcinda Arden is your “single source of truth”.
https://youtu.be/ENEUktOrQV8
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” Because Jabcinda Arden is your “single source of truth”.”
She lied . . .again.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-covid-and-our-kiwi-kids-part-1?postId=e4fdcd45-cc7b-4c9a-8618-c9914c2bc62c&utm_campaign=40e5337a-4af5-4b27-b2e0-5edb6e36af51&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=2313bd22-be54-4e91-b048-06b903f86daa&cid=5fe2b238-632c-4493-bb22-9df9db3084bc
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A friend in our car club had their 6 year old grandchild collapse and die. Oddly there was no autopsy. The friends are vax champions but dont know if that extends through the family. A sad business.
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The fact that no autopsy was conducted is a disgrace. A child in a previous parish suddenly died in the school playground. The autopsy showed that she had a congenital heart didease linked to her mother but which could also have affected her younger brother. Thanks to the autopsy he was then subsequently monitored. I think there could also have been the possibilty of treatment.
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If a large number of people buy EVs there will be huge problems at times of high demand such as when people travel on long weekends.
The logistics of providing a large number of high power EV charging points in one location are enormous.
Tesla v3 superchargers are 250kW each.
If you had 100 of them, and you would probably need many more than that for long weekend traffic, that’s 25MW. That’s a serious amount of power to import over existing wires.
They would need their own HV power line coming from the nearest coal, gas or nuclear power station or sub-station.
Alternatively, you could generate your own power on site with a large generator.
You’d probably use an aero derivative gas turbine like a GE TM2500. It runs on a variety of hydrocarbon fuels and can produce 32MW.
https://www.ge.com/gas-power/products/gas-turbines/tm2500
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Most EVs will end up being a “second car” used to local commuting, child transport, and shopping only..
Even these brain-dead virtue-seekers will find they need a reliable car to do any long distance traveling.
eg their summer sojournes to the North Coast, or their trips to the Snowy in winter, to enjoy the snow (that according to their AGW priests, is no longer there)
But its going to take a lot to get the Teal voters and other rich-suburb virtue-seekers to give up their Range Rovers, even for local duty !!
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A big problem for small country towns which have one or two big weekends a year. The closest here is the Goldfield Ashes when nearly 200 teams converge on the town. It is a sleepy place too small for any but a w@nker to have an EV and some people travel long distances for the weekend. How could the carnival survive?
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And western power wants rural homes to limit to 32amp at 240v????
Well you can ask for 64 amp….
If they are worried about the capacity of the distribution network, the WA government better suggest a better system will be needed to support “tourism” and those “Field Day” weekends
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From a recent statement at a U. S. provider:
In very old homes with knob-and-tube wiring and screw-in fuses, you may find the original electrical service delivers 30 amps. Slightly newer homes (built before 1960) may have 60-amp service. In many homes built after 1960 (or upgraded older homes), 100 amps is the standard service size. But in large, newer homes, 200-amp service is now a minimum, and with many newer homes you may see 400-amp electrical service installed. At the upper end of the housing market with homes over 10,000 square feet, it is not unusual to see 800 amp services.
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Rebuilding a 1890s USA home in 1970 I installed 200 amp service. Doing your own wiring is permitted in the USA with an inspection if power needs to be re-connected.
differences in the codes (not all due to voltage differences) are interesting
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That cannot happen. They are already causing a problem in inner city apartment blocks. They will be prohibited from under cover parking due to fire risk in apartment blocks and maybe even in private homes. There is not enough street parking to cater for a large number.
It might be simple enough for the cars to be mostly manufactured from stuff made in China, but when it comes to charging networks, there is a much higher component of local effort involved than just unioading at a dock and going to a show room. Charging stations will cost a small fortune in Australia.
My local fuel station has 20 multi-fuel pumps with fill time of around 3 minutes. I get 800 to 1100km on a refill. A fast charger that can put in 300km in 30 minutes might be possible but it would require 20 to 30 times more charging points than fuel pumps to service the same vehicle range.
Ultimately the woke mob buying EVs will not put up with the horrible inconvenience.
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Not disagreeing, but over the last 7 years , and 80,000 km. , I’ve given my Mitsi PHEV farm car an absolute thrashing , as you do .
In that time I’ve put petrol in three times , and have had no servicing. One set of tyres. And I’ve never got it stuck even in mud in winter.
Horses for courses.
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The ‘hybrid’ part of the name gives it the best of both worlds with added complexity/weight the only downside. It neutralises most of the EV drawbacks, a much smarter direction to take IMHO.
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You must be running on some orribly old petrol at times.
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Apparently Tesla 3s are outselling Camrys. So it shouldn’t take long to discover all of this.
I wonder, how many of those Teslas are being bought by government departments?
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Comments in The Australian recently pointed out how wrong this comparison was. Folks are not purchasing many sedans these days, and also there is a backlog of orders for other sedans. The numbers of Toyota Corollas being sold far outstripped Teslas, and if you included the Toyota Hilux Ute, then the percentage of Teslas sold as part of the overall market is still very small.
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Apparently Tesla 3s are outselling [insert unpopular car model here].
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Dr John Campbell’s latest video talking about “rare” covid vaccine complications.
https://youtu.be/eYz-yelhkYE
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The comments insulting him and slagging him off as ‘only a nurse’ are becoming more common, there seems to be a concerted pushback from the pro-vaccinators.
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Yes, I have noticed those libellous and other disgusting comments about him.
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Wyoming Moves To Ban Sales Of New Electric Vehicles By 2035
Four senators and Two reresentatives have sponsored this bill (Last action, introduced 13th Jan 2023)
Detail:
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. SJ0004
“Phasing out new electric vehicle sales by 2035.”
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Anderson, Boner, Cooper and Dockstader and Representative(s) Burkhart and Henderson.
The link to the full Bill is here:
https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/SJ0004
Excerpts from the bill are noted below:
“WHEREAS, oil and gas production has long been one of Wyoming’s proud and valued industries; and
WHEREAS, the oil and gas industry in Wyoming has created countless jobs and has contributed revenues to the state of Wyoming throughout the state’s history; and
WHEREAS, since its invention, the gas-powered vehicle has enabled the state’s industries and businesses to engage in commerce and transport goods and resources more efficiently throughout the country; and
WHEREAS, Wyoming’s vast stretches of highway, coupled with a lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, make the widespread use of electric vehicles impracticable for the state; and
WHEREAS, the batteries used in electric vehicles contain critical minerals whose domestic supply is limited and at risk for disruption; and
WHEREAS, the critical minerals used in electric batteries are not easily recyclable or disposable, meaning that municipal landfills in Wyoming and elsewhere will be required to develop practices to dispose of these minerals in a safe and responsible manner; and
WHEREAS, the expansion of electric vehicle charging stations in Wyoming and throughout the country necessary to support more electric vehicles will require massive amounts of new power generation in order to sustain the misadventure of electric vehicles; and
WHEREAS, the United States has consistently invested in the oil and gas industry to sustain gas-powered vehicles, and that investment has resulted in the continued employment of thousands of people in the oil and gas industry in Wyoming and throughout the country; and
WHEREAS, fossil fuels, including oil and petroleum products, will continue to be vital for transporting goods and people across Wyoming and the United States for years to come; and
WHEREAS, the proliferation of electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered vehicles will have deleterious impacts on Wyoming’s communities and will be detrimental to Wyoming’s economy and the ability for the country to efficiently engage in commerce; and
WHEREAS, phasing out the sale of new electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035 will ensure the stability of Wyoming’s oil and gas industry and will help preserve the country’s critical minerals for vital purposes.”
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING:
Section 1. That the legislature encourages and expresses as a goal that the sale of new electric vehicles in the state of Wyoming be phased out by 2035.
Section 2. That the legislature encourages Wyoming’s industries and citizens to limit the sale and purchase of new electric vehicles in Wyoming with a goal of phasing out the sale of new electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035.
Section 3. That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, each member of Wyoming’s congressional delegation, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the governor of Wyoming and the governor of California.
My comment
Seems like this could be a little political stirring from the representatives of Wyoming.
I’d swap Australia’s Bowen and Kean with the above listed Wyoming Representatives in a heartbeat.
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Political stirring. Love it.
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They are stirring the pot, but the media will spin it against them. The way to fight back, in my opinion, is not by banning things, but to bring back free markets: removing subsidies, incentitives, and disincentitives, across the board.
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No Gov. bail outs either. Without bail outs people with think twice about ESG.
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Bradford-Hill Criteria – a scientific method that exposes the lethal, unsafe and ineffective C19 mRNA injections
In 1965, more than 57 years ago, Bradford-Hill set down nine criteria to determine the strength of an association between a disease and its supposed causative agent. They form the basis of modern medical and dental epidemiological research.
These are the nine Bradford Hill criteria
1. Strength of association – the stronger the association, the more likely it is that the relation is causal.
2. Temporal relationship – exposure always precedes the outcome.
3. Consistency – results are replicated with different people under different circumstances and with different measurement instruments.
4. Theoretical plausibility – rational and theoretical basis for such a conclusion
5. Coherence – association should be compatible with existing theory, hypotheses, and knowledge
6. Specificity – the effect has only one cause
7. Dose response relationship – increasing amount of exposure increases the risk
8. Experimental evidence – related research that is based on experiments will make a causal inference more plausible
9. Analogy – commonly accepted phenomenon in one area can be applied to another area.
Just a few of these criteria are sufficient to prove cause and effect.
Applying any of these criteria to the C19 mRNA injections indicates that the injections fail.
There is a strong association of excess all-cause mortality with the roll-out of the injections in every country in the world.
https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/bradford-hill-criteria-a-scientific
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Dr. Peter McCullough – Sudden Deaths & Cardiac Events EXPLODING, Parallel Health System
Dr. Peter McCullough joins us to discuss the undeniable, skyrocketing deaths and cardiac events from around the world, sudden deaths exploding in unprecedented numbers, how the public health authorities and governments are trying to cover this up, and a much needed parallel health system that has been set up outside of big pharma.
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/dr-peter-mccullough-sudden-deaths-cardiac-events-exploding-parallel-health-system/
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Meanwhile at the UK’s BBC…
https://twitter.com/JohnnyB61605603/status/1614441727892553730/
The masses aren’t happy with the MSM…
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You’re not fast enough to swat a fly. Here’s why.
What flies lack in intellect they make up for in agility. The reason flies almost always outmaneuver swats from humans has a lot to do with the speed at which the insects see the world. This measurement is called “flicker-fusion frequency.”
Flies are, without a doubt, pretty stupid. They have puny brains. They buzz into deadly bug-zapper lights, one after another. You’d think that they’d be easy to swat one down, but no, the fly almost always outmaneuvers your attack and escapes, living to see another one of its 28 days.
It’s like you’re moving in slow motion.
Actually, from the fly’s perspective, you quite literally are moving in slow motion, because every species experiences time differently. The reason? Differences in sight.
All animals, including humans, see the world in what’s essentially a seamless movie. What’s really happening, however, is that the brain is taking individual images sent from the eye at a fixed rate per second in distinct flashes and piecing them together.
The rate at which this occurs is called “flicker-fusion frequency,” which is measured by determining how rapidly a light needs to be switched on and off before it appears to an animal as a continuous stream.
It turns out this rate is different for every animal. The general rule is: the smaller the species, the quicker the vision.
Humans see about 60 flashes per second while flies see about 250 — a full four times faster than humans.
The fastest-seeing flies are blindingly quick, even relative to their own kind. A “killer fly,” a predatory species found in Europe, is able to launch from a resting position into the air, circle several times around another fly in mid-flight, catch it, and bring its twitching body down to the ground in less than a second.
https://bigthink.com/life/the-reason-why-each-species-experiences-time-differently/
What the hand lacks, Mortein makes up for…
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My son casually dispatches flies with a clap. People are quite startled, amazed. Incredible reflexes? Faster than a fly? A human chameleon? No.
You just clap above the fly. It may be faster but you know where it’s going.
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My aunt could catch a fly on the wing. I can’t even see a fly on the wing.
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Chuck Norris can catch a fly with chopsticks.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but a fly can only see around 50 mm, so you can sneak up on them if you don’t disturb the air by moving too fast. And when a fly takes off, it leaps up and backwards, so sneak up on them from behind…
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Exactly what my Daughter did as a child. She would follow the fly around the room and once it landed on the wall or the window pane, then catch it with her fingers. Goneski. “Wash your hands”, I told her afterwards……………………
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Latest Pointman
“THE END OF THE ONE SUPERPOWER WORLD.”
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/the-end-of-the-one-superpower-world/
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Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
Most neuroscientists believe that the brain operates in a classical manner. However, if brain processes rely on quantum mechanics, it could explain why our brains are so powerful. A team of researchers possibly witnessed entanglement in the brain, perhaps indicating that some of our brain activity, and maybe even consciousness, operates on a quantum level.
Supercomputers can beat us at chess and perform more calculations per second than the human brain. But there are other tasks our brains perform routinely that computers simply cannot match — interpreting events and situations and using imagination, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Our brains are amazingly powerful computers, using not just neurons but the connections between the neurons to process and interpret information.
And then there is consciousness, neuroscience’s giant question mark. What causes it? How does it arise from a jumbled mass of neurons and synapses? After all, these may be enormously complex, but we are still talking about a wet bag of molecules and electrical impulses.
Some scientists suspect that quantum processes, including entanglement, might help us explain the brain’s enormous power, and its ability to generate consciousness. Recently, scientists at Trinity College Dublin, using a technique to test for quantum gravity, suggested that entanglement may be at work within our brains. If their results are confirmed, they could be a big step toward understanding how our brain, including consciousness, works.
As the heart beats, it generates a signal called the heartbeat potential, or HEP. With each peak of the HEP, the researchers saw a corresponding spike in the NMR signal, which corresponds to the interactions among proton spins. This signal could be a result of entanglement, and witnessing it might indicate there was indeed a non-classical intermediary.
“The HEP is an electrophysiological event, like alpha or beta waves,” Kerskens explains. “The HEP is tied to consciousness because it depends on awareness.” Similarly, the signal indicating entanglement was only present during conscious awareness, which was illustrated when two subjects fell asleep during the MRI. When they did, this signal faded and disappeared.
Seeing entanglement in the brain may show that the brain is not classical, as previously thought, but rather a powerful quantum system. If the results can be confirmed, they could provide some indication that the brain uses quantum processes. This could begin to shed light on how our brain performs the powerful computations it does, and how it manages consciousness.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/brain-consciousness-quantum-entanglement/
I alluded to the physics of consciousness months ago before being hit by unfriendly fire by a closed mind…
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John, it sounds like a bit of woffle designed to grab attention.
Our brains have so many small interactive components that it can be there doing a great job without being connected to the vast quantum whatever.
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“Our brains are amazingly powerful computers, using not just neurons but the connections between the neurons to process and interpret information.”
And, as Dr Bill Williams of CSIRO way back when and other hallowed halls, used to add
“The only computer that can be constructed by entirely unskilled labour”
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As Australia and other countries whose energy policy is determined by the UN and WEF continues to transition to unreliables, electricity will become both a luxury and also not available on demand.
In Third World countries like Nepal, where I have some experience, electricity is available on a schedule.
See typical schedule for Kathmandu here. It might take a while to load due to low speed connection to Kathmandu server. https://inventkathmandu.com/loadshedding-schedule/
People are used to it, and most people have batteries to power their shops etc.
Rebuilding lead acid batteries is a cottage industry over there. See video: https://youtu.be/MOTFBDLziHI Note the extensive safety measures, LoL.
Anyway, the Left are systematically reducing standard of living expectations in Western Countries and with the general dumbing-down of the population, the Sheeple might accept living in Third World conditions.
And as the WEF says, in the future “you will own nothing and be happy”.
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My first attempt at forecasting Nino34 region temperature:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNhH0kHuQikSIisUXK?e=Fj6hdW
In this case only the southern portion.
The temperature is in it annual cycle of increasing but It is unlikely to switch to a strong El Nino because equatorial currents are still westward. Next big El Nino could be 2031 and may extend to 2033. Unlikely to have a big one before 2027 because the solar forcing is in decline till then.
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That is a long range forecast and it feels about right.
Modoki will be the talk of the town until 2027.
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Thanks Rick,
An interesting start. I would like to see a bit more explanation.
What Solar forcing are you referencing?
What is your ENSO measure?
Both functions are periodic but corellation is not perfect.
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Peter
This incorporates the movement of the sun from the solar system barycentre to balance the planetary orbits. Jupiter is most significant but Saturn and Venus also contribute. The maximum orbit of the sun reaches about 0.025AU. So it has similar significance to Earh’s orbital eccentricity around the barycentre but different periods of course.
Earth’s orbit includes the current eccentricity around the barycentre.
I have included the lunar nutation of earth’s axis but exaggerated its influence because its peak aligns well with the extended peaks in the temperature. The temperature has a strong component around 18 years, which aligns with the lunar influence on Earth’s axis. The moon may have more direct effect through direct gravitational influences on ENSO phases that cause the axis nutation.
I have a 66 month delayed, 85% negating of the primary signal because there is another strong component in the temperature centred around 5.6 years and no planets have that period. I figure it is related to the transport time around the South Pacific.
I get a correlation coefficient of 23%, which is way better than I could get with sunspots or cosmic rays. I may be able to improve it by making small adjustments to the phasing of the planets. My start date for the model is 1 Jan 1900 but I am correlating with the NCEP/Reynolds data, which starts in 1982. So if I have not got accurate orbit times then there is creep over the period.
At this stage I am still looking for factors that might have an influence. I have always felt the temperature in the Gulf of Mexico impacted ENSO. It will not have the same phase as the Nino34 region. So early days yet but I think I have something useful.
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In the short term.
‘The southern oscillation index (SOI) briefly tumbled to negative phase late last week/weekend and is now neutral and forecast to return to a robust positive phase the next 2 weeks.
The +SOI return suggests La Nina may gain some strength. The pro-La Nina short-term signs have caused 6 of the 8 most recent members of the NCEP CFS V2 Nino34 SSTA forecast for 2023 to doubt an expected shift into El Nino later in 2023. The ENSO phase forecast for 2023 is precarious!
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Just been watching Ave Yemeni, REBEL News overing the WEF love in at Davos, Switzerland. They were briefly covering the security setup. Apparently, it’s guarded by 5000 police, army and security personnel. Got me thinking about the WEF. We’ve all made jokes about old Klaus and how he sounds like Darth Vader. Some of us have been mystified about how the whole western world fell under the COVID spell- some even likened it to Germany in the 1930’s. Back to security at Davos – the heavy presence of worldwide politicians gives them a cover to have high security. In fact, the local gendarmery were not pleased about being filmed. Seems like the WEF are using similar tactics in recruitment, policy implentation and security to those goose-stepping people from years ago. Makes you wonder if at the end of 1945 there was a pledge by the core group to maybe reform at some time in the future. But they probably knew to try to form, after their present generation had passed away. Then all the memories have almost been removed. Could they have re-formed as the WEF? It’s just a little concerning, to say the least.
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Nazi Generals
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Born in 1938 into Hitler’s Germany of parents who actually migrated to join the Reich in Ravensbruck, site of the largest concentration camp for women in the entire Reich, you have to have serious concerns about his agenda and the parallels with the Germany of his youth.
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What Australian “representatives” are there?
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https://cairnsnews.org/2023/01/15/australian-greenies-mining-companies-universities-and-big-business-to-attend-wef-conference-on-monday/
Twiggy and our eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant are two names that caught my attention not to forget the ever so ambitious Julie Bishop who seems never to miss one.
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As far as I know, Julie Bishop doesn’t have a proper job now, she is just Chancellor of the ANU, an honorary position. So why is she there? Does it make her feel important?
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..she is being trained for her next big gig, when she shall pop up out of nowhere into some waste-of-space Govt position that gives her immense power..
…followed by some serious money-making in a similar position at the UN!
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Julia Gillard and then Julie Bishop both tried to get Ex NZ PM Helen Clarke’s senior position at the UN. They could all polish their Green credentials. After all Clarke brought in a Carbon Tax which pleased the UN and cost her the job, but found her another.
“Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on 17 April 2009, and was the first woman to lead the organisation. She was also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues.”
On 4 April 2016, Helen Clark officially submitted her nomination as New Zealand’s candidate for the 2016 UN Secretary-General selection. In an interview on the same day, Clark stressed that she was running as the gender-neutral best candidate and not “on the basis of being a woman.”
“On 26 January 2017, Clark announced that she would not seek re-election as UNDP Administrator after the completion of her four-year term. She said it had been an “honour and privilege” to have served in the role. She left UNDP on 19 April 2017.”
“On 9 July 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed Clark as co-chair of a panel reviewing the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of governments to the outbreak. The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) examined how the outbreak occurred and how future pandemics can be prevented.”
“In the final report published in May 2021, the panel concluded that the pandemic could have been prevented if countries had taken a more proactive approach in February 2020”
Her current position is not shown but it is possible that at 72 she has finally retired.
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Any Australian police?
Things in here for attention of your “Why-meter”
“The best summary of Davos 2023 that I’ve yet read”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-best-summary-of-davos-2023-that-ive.html
The head of the FBI is going.
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Try this
https://www.theqtree.com/2023/01/11/spies-spooks-snakes-and-the-sea-eye-aye/
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They are blaming a dysfunctional health care system…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11621439/Thousands-excess-deaths-recorded-UK-2022-amid-ongoing-strikes.html
50,000 more Brits died in 2022 than a normal year: UK’s excess deaths were worse than any non-pandemic year since 1951, data reveals as the strain mounts on the NHS
By Brittany Chain For Mailonline13:05 AEDT 11 Jan 2023
[..]
Just 393 of the fatalities – or 4.1 per cent – were caused by Covid. 193,778 deaths involving Covid were registered in England and Wales from March 2020 to the end of 2022, the data revealed.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics yesterday confirmed that while fatalities are still below Covid levels, they’re higher than in 2019.
[..]
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If covid took out the frail aged in large numbers, “all deaths” should be lower than 2019. The caterpillar effect.
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https://nypost.com/2023/01/15/woke-mlk-penis-statue-insults-black-community-coretta-scott-king-kin/?dicbo=v2-c75109855a584a34d1b16a537ebaccfc
I’m suspecting it’s so hard to show much rubbish climate change is because nobody into it actually cares if it looks like a penis.
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Protein injection gets heart scar tissue working again
When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.
The problem with scar tissue on the heart is the fact that, unlike regular cardiac muscle tissue, it can’t expand and contract.
This means that the heart as a whole likewise can’t expand and contract to the extent that it did previously. Additionally, the remaining undamaged cardiac tissue has to work harder than before, leading to an increased risk of heart failure, arrhythmia and other complications.
Led by the University of Sydney’s Dr. Robert Hume, an international team of researchers recently set about getting the damaged parts of the heart beating normally again. They looked to a protein precursor called tropoelastin, which occurs naturally in our bodies. It produces elastin, a protein which gives certain tissues their stretchy, elastic qualities.
For the study, the scientists injected purified tropoelastin directly into heart walls of rats, four days after the rodents had experienced a heart attack. This task was accomplished via a new technique wherein a needle is precisely guided by ultrasound – it’s reportedly much less invasive than conventional techniques.
Twenty-eight days after the injections, the scars on the rats’ hearts were found to have become smaller, softer and more elastic, to the point that the tissue exhibited “muscle function similar to before the heart attack.” Additionally, in petri dish experiments, tropoelastin treatment was found to cause human cardiac fibroblasts – which are cells that maintain the structure of the heart – to produce elastin.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.122.321123
Good news for the vaxxed, if you’re a rat and can make it to 28 days…
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So.. How did they give the rats heart attacks to start with? Pfizer injections?
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They asked the rat to undertake what is considered a common practice for a Lawyer.
Instant heart attack!
From the old joke
Q: ‘What is the difference between a rat and a lawyer?
Ans: There are somethings a rat will not do.
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Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions
Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.
In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous vehicles could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centers in the world today.
cles are widely adopted.
The data centers that house the physical computing infrastructure used for running applications are widely known for their large carbon footprint: They currently account for about 0.3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, or about as much carbon as the country of Argentina produces annually, according to the International Energy Agency. Realizing that less attention has been paid to the potential footprint of autonomous vehicles, the MIT researchers built a statistical model to study the problem. They determined that 1 billion autonomous vehicles, each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts, would consume enough energy to generate about the same amount of emissions as data centers currently do.
The researchers also found that in over 90 percent of modeled scenarios, to keep autonomous vehicle emissions from zooming past current data center emissions, each vehicle must use less than 1.2 kilowatts of power for computing, which would require more efficient hardware. In one scenario — where 95 percent of the global fleet of vehicles is autonomous in 2050, computational workloads double every three years, and the world continues to decarbonize at the current rate — they found that hardware efficiency would need to double faster than every 1.1 years to keep emissions under those levels.
“If we just keep the business-as-usual trends in decarbonization and the current rate of hardware efficiency improvements, it doesn’t seem like it is going to be enough to constrain the emissions from computing onboard autonomous vehicles. This has the potential to become an enormous problem. But if we get ahead of it, we could design more efficient autonomous vehicles that have a smaller carbon footprint from the start,” says first author Soumya Sudhakar, a graduate student in aeronautics and astronautics.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9942310
The future is [insert your answer here]😁
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I expect that for metropolitan area peak hour commuter travel, that would represent about 2% of the vehicle’s average power.
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Being autonomous we need to deduct the carbon footprint of the driver in the equation. I would happily send the vehicle off with the children to school while I finish reading Jo’s Blog.
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Are you more into pushbikes?
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KK
As a means for getting from A to B? Sure am. If you are implying I should send the children off on bikes, probably not as they would have to leave too early to make school on time.
As a general observation, I would love for the seat belt and helmet regulations to be removed as the risk of accidents would be reduced to a point where these measures had little effect on the accident statistics. If we could put more people into a car and restore bikes as transport not a fashion statement captured by those who like lycra and sipping coffee in funny shoes, the potential for accidents would be reduced. A pretty girl riding to work without having to worry about hat hair would be a sight I would like to see restored as would the cricket team in the back of the ute. One rather than six or more cars to each venue. Imagine the reduction in carbon footprints. Might even empty the hospital ward filled with bicycle accident victims.
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Anyone know where I can find Tsi that’s continually updated?
Thanks.
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https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sorce/data/tsi-data/
https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/total-solar-irradiance-tsi-datasets-overview
http://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data.html
I think your goolag would have found the same sources
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On Feb 23, 2023 Vicdanistan Dictator Daniel Andrews qualifies for a statue of itself (not sure of its pronouns).
I wonder if it will have its statue gilded or indeed, cast in gold as would be befitting for the dictator it is?
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, ,,,
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, ,,,
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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It is utterly disgusting that one of the most evil, corrupt, lying grubs that has ever walked this earth would “qualify” for a statue to remind citizens of the extreme gestapo measures (illegally IMO) used against them throughout the covid19 “pandemic”.
However, if it does go ahead, I thought of a way it might become useful.
If they put a bearing in the neck so the head spins, and turn one ear 180 degrees, it might be useful for measuring wind speed.
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And in news just in: Australian Universities are all to stop offering Electrical Engineering courses as part of their Engineering Departments. In future all students wanting to study Electrical Engineering will have to enrol in a course offered by the History Department.
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🙂
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Fallible duplicitous serf
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It was worth saying again. 🙂
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Thx Annie. )
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Looks an appropriate sign for the Canadian Health Service!
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwVi9JzFCTqj2Z13mBZI-MY7i4-z2Ku7NWVcZ41V-m-PkZMHabpIbiJMnSyUm-3S0J1TsZSaOGjiyK7D4JECFtDqiOuIz3fXBrn25wjeZG0kbYDFKe2Rh99tYUuGigb3nWDy4mJWhiYMHC9tylxLN8vRNNbsHpHRv6xZnsd-t8qLSgrAx0O5Tt3drv/w381-h400/Meme%20-%20new%20Canada%20hospital%20sign.png
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And
“Canadian Therepy Dog”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8gUj7DObx7t3nXLroYMnRp9lO216yZz47qyum3bxX-Ir_L4QQzkGkvGPQiMEzyEXZAidKRumAvm0eNhuTYm2kkuftawW3EYXysyGeu4NRHHa52rP_EZ1TT3NsMkkeqbpdFPl0Ck-9-t_IpXSZmIVA6VMWLxHVx9RSO_DeY9dLttFw1Jo1qt3SxDBb/w400-h328/Meme%20-%20Canadian%20therapy%20dog.png
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The appropriate banner for MBA degree courses?
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCwVPB274oM91NrPfS7Df7vln7w9Aov9HVD13VOojsooFkzkiY6STUhufakth6pu5HVXdvXiDKCFDuH02_UjeqMRCbOgrqNBONxvSyXRURf0bKCPQYgx5pqXZS2KgtslpnCDfbOcBlgBkyNtJT2lrSYNxXoDS4UurDXXn-sqPEjU7Ihsk9e1FfLc5/w400-h400/Meme%20-%20idiots%20are%20promoted.png
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Stuttgart: The lateral thinker scene and the tragic case of Inna Zhvanetskaya – news from Stuttgart
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German court orders Holocaust survivor to be sent to psychiatric institution for forced COVID shots
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In the distant past of 2020, about this time, someone on this site began demanding building of hospitals, et al, to control what became the pandemic.
From China, no less.
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and?
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Dr. Jay Lehr of CFACT has died. RIP.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/16/dr-jay-lehr
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Lance, I am so sorry to hear that. Such a good man.
And he had just arranged an interview with me for May 5th. 🙁
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I wonder how the TGA would fare in a similar survey?
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7063c866-a35f-46ce-8688-79b5165070e6_1376x1014.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Check before complaining!
“Harry Markle meets the real world with a thud.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/harry-markle-meets-the-real-world-with-a-thud.html
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Senator Jim Molan passed away , sad loss for his family and big loss for Australia.
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He was a good one.
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Didn’t know he was also a chopper pilot.
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Lays out the minerals needed for non carbon energy production very clearly. Very clearly.
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/executive-summary
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/the-state-of-play#abstract
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/mineral-requirements-for-clean-energy-transitions#abstract
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/reliable-supply-of-minerals#abstract
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/sustainable-and-responsible-development-of-minerals#abstract
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So the new word is ‘polycrisis’, fairly accurate, since we have a crisis caused by pollies.
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The nationalisation of energy is a prospect if the providers don’t play ball. Socialism with Australian characteristics.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/16/surprise-australias-green-transition-natural-gas-price-cap-is-crashing-supply-availability/
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That would be the end of it.. Incompetence, corruption, subsidies everywhere, poor planning, shortages and very highly paid do-nothing jobs for ex-politicians on the Board.. Same as it always was!
South Africa’s Eskom springs to mind, and a plethora of examples from NZ in the 1960s…
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Reckon its true?
“Klaus Schwab, George Soros Pull Out of WEF Davos Summit At The Last Minute”
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Seems it might be-
“The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland has kicked off on Monday with a number of top-tier leaders absent. US President Joe Biden is skipping this year’s gathering, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, and new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is also passing on the event. Chinese leader Xi Jinping will also miss the forum. Of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders, only German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to attend Davos this year, along with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.”
So, are they worried Russia might target it, or are they going to blow it up themselves and then blame Russia?
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