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FDA SAYS IT DIDN’T BAN IVERMECTIN – FINDS ITS PANTS ARE ON FIRE
Health Care Workers Cry Foul On FDA Claiming It Didn’t Prohibit Ivermectin For COVID-19
Dr. Yusuf Saleeby has practiced medicine for more than 30 years. He serves patients in South Carolina and until recently had never faced an investigation from his state medical board.
But after Saleeby started prescribing ivermectin to his patients, he was reported to the board, which opened an investigation, despite the state’s attorney general’s promise that his office wouldn’t prosecute doctors who prescribed off-label medications.
Jennifer Wright, a nurse practitioner and clinical director who practices in Florida, but can prescribe across state lines, told The Epoch Times she received a letter from the Office of the Attorney General of New York ordering her not to prescribe ivermectin.
“You know, basically threatened me. If I don’t stop prescribing, then they’re going to fine me,” Wright said about the letter, which threatened legal action with fines of up to $5,000 per violation.
The letter stated that the Food and Drug Administration only authorized ivermectin for use in humans when treating “parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like rosacea.”
The citation in the letter appears to be from an FDA advisory issued in March 2021 titled “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”
That advisory and other anti-ivermectin messaging from the FDA are now the subject of a lawsuit brought by three doctors against the agency. The doctors argue that the FDA illegally interfered with their ability to treat patients. The suit was dismissed but an appeal has been filed by the plaintiffs.
During a hearing in 2022, attorneys defending the government argued that the agency’s missives were just a recommendation.
“They did not say it’s prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not prescribe ivermectin,” Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers for the government, said during a Nov. 1, 2022, hearing in federal court in Texas.
The government’s arguments differ greatly from the reality many doctors faced for prescribing ivermectin. Some lost their jobs, others were investigated by state medical boards, and many received threats from the New York attorney general because they were prescribing across state lines.
Matthew Dark, a spokesperson for Roots Medical and Colorado Healthcare Providers for Freedom, which has more than 275 physicians in the group, stated that several doctors in Colorado are facing investigations by the state medical board.
When asked about the FDA’s new claim, Dark stated: “They knew it was safe for humans, and they made that very accusatory thing if you were a doctor prescribing this, you were an idiot. You were practicing like a hillbilly. So that message was loud and clear.”
Dark referred to Twitter posts from the FDA, one of which said: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
“Pharmacies were responding to the practice and providers trying to write [ivermectin] the same way the FDA was behaving,” Dark said.
Wright concurred, and pointing to her letter from the New York attorney general, said, “It clearly states in this letter that according to the FDA, you must cease and desist in prescribing ivermectin to New York State residents.”
Read More here
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This is the FDA “you are not a horse” Tweet.
https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839
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It links to this page.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
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I still have 2 tubes of apple-tasting Ivermectin in the fridge. Each will treat a 1,250 horse one time. An Apothecary Scale (or similar) would be needed to weigh a human appropriate dose.
Nevertheless, people tried and failed, ending up in emergency rooms. (Or maybe they didn’t bother to weigh out a proper dose. I invoke George Carlin on this topic.)
I think the biggest issue was that Trump mentioned it and then “Trump Derangement Syndrome”™ kicked in.
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You’ll find the plunger has markers and a limit stop adjustable per 100kg body weight.
The concentration and dosage rate for horses is written on the pack.
The dosage rate for humans is easily found on the internet.
Apparently the leeway is generous.
It’s easy as pie so where is the source for your claim people have failed and ended up in emergency rooms?
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I think one idiot in the US took a horse-size dose, went to the emergency room because he felt unwell, and then was released shortly after.
Even a horse dose is apparently not harmful, but might make you feel a little unwell. And probably just because of the flavours they put in it, not the IVM itself.
It’s one of the safest drugs ever developed.
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Big one in the USA that the media made hay over was somebody took a fish tank cleaner – Chloriquine – to supposedly stave off CoVid. Then the horse dewormer crap kicked in from the CDC, FDA, and MSM with the uninformed not knowing that billions of doses of Ivermectin have been given in Africa over decades.
No amnesty holding these people accountable, because they all contributed to the unnecessary death of millions to roll out a profit making mRNA gene therapy. Now the suffering starts from ‘vaccine’ injury.
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Rafe Champion has a post about Ivermectin on New Catallaxy today.
Within the post is a video about Ivermectin and Covid.
It is well worth viewing.
Duration of the video itself is about 14 minutes.
Rafes Post is here… https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/10/the-ivermectin-scandal/
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PS…. Apologies if this has been posted before
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I had to play catch-up through the pandemic in terms of recognising sources of valid information. By mid 2021, after doing some reading I decided that if l heard or read an opinion from anybody that described IVM as a “horse dewormer”, I would be obligated to disregard opinions from that person. Hence, when Victoria’s CHO Brett Sutton made this statement, I was left with no choice but to apply my policy, that guy no longer had any credibility for mine.
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Here’s the link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd8JFggEJjM
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Waiting for the silent millions to descend on Canberra once Morrison makes it to Florida.
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They can have him, hopefully a dose of DeSantis will make ol Scomo a better man.
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Hopefully DeSantis can show Morrison what a backbone is… Morrison surely lacks one.
… and what it is to be a proper conservative rather than a puppet leftist.
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Why would anyone go to Canberra? life is too short
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Total waste of grazing land.
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Why would anyone want to go to Canberra?
It’s full of politicians, public serpents and Pollock’s drunken “masterpiece” Blue Poles.
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It is all about freedom and red ensigns
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“It is all about freedom “
Pity the politicians and pubic serpents don’t understand it, isn’t it, GA. !
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Very strong and shallow M7.0 earthquake hits Vanuatu
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SEISMIC ACTIVITY
Very strong and shallow M7.0 earthquake hits Vanuatu
Sunday, January 8, 2023
m7-0 earthquake vanuatu january 8 2022 location map f
A very strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M7.0 hit Vanuatu at 12:32 UTC on January 8, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 27.7 km (17.2 miles). EMSC reports M7.0 at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).
The epicenter was located about 23.9 km (14.9 miles) WNW of Port-Olry (population 1 951), 71.6 km (44.5 miles) NNW of Luganville (population 13 397), and 347.1 km (215.7 miles) NNW of Port-Vila (population 35 901), Vanuatu.
12 000 people are estimated to have felt very strong shaking, 45 000 strong and 24 000 moderate.
https://watchers.news/2023/01/08/very-strong-and-shallow-m7-0-earthquake-hits-vanuatu/
The dawgs are angry. Best sacrifice another pollie to appease them.
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New Zealand’s Taupo supervolcano has been unrestful since last May, with GeoNet volcano worshippers’ seismic spectral amplitude readings showing much mumbling of magma beneath the crater lake and villagers on alert for infernal outgassing and ground-lifting.
Recommendations for special person-of-appeasement?
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“Recommendations for special person-of-appeasement?”
It would be hard to go past Dear Leader.
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Can we throw a few politicians in to appease the gods, should work ok.
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Somewhere on a South Pacific island
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth. – Hoodoo Gurus
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Growing pains in India (BBC)
Himachal Pradesh: Thousands despair as India Adani plants shut down
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Disgraceful!
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‘It’s the most rewarding work we’ve ever done’: Canadian doctor who’s euthanized 400 people proudly shares how she helped kill man deemed incapable of choosing assisted suicide – as another physician says she’s helped 300 die
A Canadian doctor who’s personally euthanized more than 400 people said she helped kill a man who was previously deemed unsuitable for assisted suicide.
Ellen Wiebe, a doctor who works with Dying With Dignity Canada, boasted in a seminar for physicians working in assisted suicide about the time she treated a patient who did not qualify for the end of life service.
A Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) assessor had rejected the unnamed man because he did not have a serious illness or ‘the capacity to make informed decisions about his own personal health.’
But the man eventually made his way to Wiebe, who cleared him, flew him out to Vancouver, and euthanized him, The New Atlantic reports.
‘It’s the most rewarding work we’ve ever done,’ Wiebe said of MAID during a 2020 event in a video that’s since been shared online.
Obstetrician Stefanie Green, a colleague of Wiebe, also revealed that she’s helped 300 people die in Canada’s controversial MAID program, which eclipses similar programs in the US.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611095/Canadian-doctor-whos-euthanized-400-says-helped-kill-man-deemed-incapable-choosing-suicide.html
I call it legalised mass murder.
This just shows how easily they can justify their crimes to themselves to eliminate the massive immorality issue, so if you’re wondering how the medical profession at large played along with the plandemic, now you know.
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Keep calm John….
If someone wants to die painlessly…let ’em do it. Which sometimes means allowing them access to drugs which are prescription only: available from doctors only.
A couple of my aged relatives have made Advanced Care Directives in NSW which essentially tell the world that if they become veggies, just to let ’em die. THIS is assisting them to die, is it not?
Plus, when / if they are unconscious and “sure” to die….they freely say they would like a nudge in that direction.
FFS, why drag it out?
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I always am…
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Mantaray
To attempt to justify euthanasia by referencing examples of palliative care is hardly a sound and legitimate argument.
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Does she take requests ?
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It does make you wonder why anyone was upset about Covid killing a few hundred elderly..
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American Heart Association Says Spike Protein in mRNA Vaccines May Be Harmful
The American Heart Association invalidated fact-checkers and big tech yet again this week when the organization published research suggesting the spike protein in vaccines can hurt some people.
QUICK FACTS:
A peer-reviewed study released this week by the American Heart Association (AHA) revealed the spike protein used in mRNA vaccines may be harmful to some people.
AHA reviewed 16 adolescents and young adults hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children’s with post-vaccination myocarditis from January 2021-February 2022.
According to the findings, all subjects had “markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein” in their blood, “unbounded by antibodies.”
“Free spike antigen was detected in the blood of adolescents and young adults who developed post-mRNA vaccine myocarditis, advancing insight into its potential underlying cause,” the study found.
https://americanfaith.com/american-heart-association-says-spike-protein-in-mrna-vaccines-may-be-harmful/
Start covering their behinds…
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UK Gov’t whistleblower: Hundreds of Thousands of Brits Dying Because of COVID Jabs
A UK government whistleblower has confirmed that hundreds of thousands of British people have died since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines.
James Wells, a former senior member of the UK Office for National Statistics, joined Nigel Farage on GB News this week to explain how official UK COVID mortality data reveals that over 1,000 people are dropping dead each week due to the experimental mRNA shots.
“These excess deaths have been going on since May, the average is at about 1,000 a week,” Wells told Farage.
https://rumble.com/v23q4t6-office-of-national-statistics-in-uk-demands-inquiry-into-excess-deaths.html
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Switzerland slated to destroy millions of mRNA vaccine doses in 2023, as even the olds have stopped caring, and nobody in the developing world wants the surplus either
Even the oldfolk have stopped caring, and nobody in the developing world wants the surplus either.
scheduled to arrive by the end of 2023. The vast majority of these will sit for some months in freezers before the Swiss Confederation destroys them. The country already binned more than eleven million doses last year, the greater part of them after a deal to supply surplus snake oil to the third world via the failed Covax initiative fell through because nobody in Africa wants this stuff either.
Vaccine credulity may still be the mainstream, politically acceptable position, but revealed preferences show that enormous majorities everywhere are done with mass vaccination. Pharmaceutical executives can sing their doubtful hymns to the miraculous safety and efficacy of their jabs, but the quiet worldwide rejection of their garbage products is a stinging rebuke, suggesting that billions across the world harbour unexpressed scepticism towards the mRNA Covid vaccines.
From here, it is only downhill for the vaccinators.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/switzerland-slated-to-destroy-millions
Downhill for vaccinators and vaccinated…
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Death is the leading cause of coincidence…
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Its been wet in eastern Australia, but not unprecedented.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/08/fear-flooding-forecasting-australias-2022-official-rainfall-statistics/
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When it comes to the weather and who keeps adjusting the records everything is “unprecedented “ .
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I got the vaccine to do the right thing!
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1612092412805132290
😎
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Australia artist sings to build community confidence in receiving Covid19 vaccine
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1610702779877670933/
Should be televised on every tv channel as it would end the desire to get vaxxed! 🤣
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I don’t care what anyone thinks — that’s funny!
Thanks for the link.
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Lunar tidal gravitational force behind ENSO.
‘ … the switch between El Nino and La Nina is caused by a subsurface ocean wave propagating from western Pacific to central and eastern Pacific and then triggering development of SST anomaly. This is based on analysis of all ENSO events in the past 136 years using multiple long-term observational datasets.
‘The wave’s slow phase speed and decoupling from atmosphere indicate that it is a forced wave. Further analysis of Earth’s angular momentum budget and NASA’s Apollo Landing Mirror Experiment suggests that the subsurface wave is likely driven by lunar tidal gravitational force.’
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Which means what exactly?
Here is something for your descent into cold theories.
For this day (today), the extent of Antarctic ice is at its lowest on satellite record (ie since 1979), and it is tracking to break last year’s lowest ever record. Arctic ice for today is 4th lowest – approximately 2 months to see where it ranks for the annual Maxima (ie winter). That seems like a very low maxima if one is ignorant of what is going on up north, and thinks that the (unprecendented!) icy blasts in parts of North America means that there is global cooling and that ice extent should be at the high end.
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*Source https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
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Interactive graph, I like it.
Arctic ice melt is of no concern, snowfall across Eurasia is well below average.
‘Which means what exactly?’
While you were away BoM said El Nino would be back with a vengeance by June, but I think they are wrong.
I pulled the quote from Lin et al 2019, to consider ENSO theories.
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Do you have a source for BOM’s prediction. I can’t find it.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/04/australia-could-swing-from-three-years-of-la-nina-to-hot-and-dry-el-nino-in-2023
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No. You are embellishing what the BOM were quoted as claiming in the article. Nonetheless, their current betting is in the el nino direction.
Good luck with your guess.
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GA, you need to learn to read.
BoM says “to one of the hottest, driest El Niño periods on record”
If that isn’t basically saying “back with a vengeance”, then what is ?
Anyway.. is a BoM climate model .. so take it with a dose of Epsom salts. ! ie.. its meaningless.
They do not have a reputation of accuracy !!
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I’ll humor you since you claim to now know how to read.
The opening paragraph of the article is unattributed, precedes your quote with “could”, and is written by a journalist.
The interviewees who came closest to that statement were not from the BOM but were Cai Wenju (CSIRO) and Agus Santoso (UNSW), who were not responsible for the BOM prediction.
btw this is the BOM’s official word on it http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/
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I’ll humour you because you hate being shown to be wrong, and might get upset.
If you read the nonsense from “the groan”… you soon realise the people concerned have absolutely ZERO idea what they are talking about.
Glad you finally realise that CSIRO and the climate unit at UNSW are a total waste of taxpayer money…
Irrelevant activists with cracked crystal balls.
You have to wonder why the far-left Groaniad would publish such garbage, don’t you. !
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noted.. from your link… BoM also say they are basically CLUELESS. !
You clueless company… birds of a feather… etc
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You might have missed my memo, I’m banking on a La Nina Modoki by June.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-131.92,-21.42,530/loc=-117.186,8.404
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Any mention of the existence of warming and/or sea level rise that may have occurred since the Little Ice Age GA?
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Working through the graph it looks like every year before 2000 was above average sea ice, and every year since is below average. Seeing as the 1970’s were heralding the new Ice Age, (caused by??) and sea ice was at it’s peak, it wouldn’t be unprecedented to see things swinging in the other direction? The last 20 years have been much of a muchness. The average is meaningless. With every blast bringing cold air south, the wavey jet stream sweeps warm air north. How do we explain that if the Artic is much warmer, (“warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet”) and the temperature gradient is reduced, we get more extremes?
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“extent of Antarctic ice is at its lowest on satellite record”
So what !!.
Why do you think Australia has been so cold.
And Arctic sea ice is in the top 5-10% of the last 10,000 years, well above MWP etc etc..
They is absolutely nothing untoward or human caused about the sea ice situation at either pole.
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And then again, GA.
https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-coldest-winter-record
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I for one, will not feel safe until the glaciers are advancing.
Since there are so many settled sciences, shouldn’t the scientists in the settled fields be repurposed to settling the remaining unsettled sciences?
Once we achieve Holy Consensus (and all are vaccinated), George Floyd will return.
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” Further analysis of Earth’s angular momentum budget and NASA’s Apollo Landing Mirror Experiment suggests that the subsurface wave is likely driven by lunar tidal gravitational force.’
What is it about the above that escapes you ?
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Warm water waves cannot travel under cold water?
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Hang on. I thought Arctic ice disappeared altogether in 2013? Surely Gee Aye is not admitting his cult got a prediction wrong?
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Not sure who made that prediction but they were wrong if they did. Doesn’t have one thing to do with what I wrote above though does it?
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LOL.. GA, wannabe climate apostle, has deliberately forgotten all the failed “no sea ice” predictions.
Your priests would not be happy that you have cancelled their predictions 😉
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When the Arctic ice extent reached average (and even surpassed it) in Dec 2021, DMI went offline for a few days and readjusted the ice extent so that it was below average. It’s all here.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/sea-ice-data-tampering-at-dmi/
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And you have to remember, that so-called average was taken when Arctic Sea Ice was nearly at the extreme high levels of the LIA (ie late 1970s)
The 10,000 year Arctic average sea ice extent is WAY lower than the current sea ice levels, which are in the top 5-10% of the Holocene.
That is because the planet is still at a relatively COOL period of the current interglacial, barely a degree or so above the coldest period in some 10,000 years.
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Subliminal grooming & pedophilia at McDonald’s Japan an accident?
https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1611774550391267330/
What do you think?
How can you design something so badly?
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One such “coincidence”, maybe, if the management was too lazy and/or too stupid to check what happens when you stack the cups in certain configurations (as they would obviously get stacked).
BUT – so many coincidences of that nature is grooming and no accident. What are the odds of every single cup being able to be aligned like that?
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I should clarify that I don’t think McDonald’s themselves would have done this. It would have been some degenerate in an advertising agency but McDo management should have checked.
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Blimey, if she’s worried by that she’ll want to nuke Japan all over again if she ever sees their Manga or ‘schoolgirl’ cafe/bar culture.
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M&Ms launches woke female-only special edition candy featuring ‘lesbian’ green and brown chocolates, as well as new plus-size purple sweet who represents body positivity
https://twitter.com/raphousetv2/status/1612095282539556870
Meanwhile in women’s magazines:
p22: how to love your body the way it is.
p35: best diet plan ever
p51: yummy chocolate cake recipe
/sarc
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Perhaps some of Joanne’s followers might perhaps check out this little assemblage that I’ve made in the hope that it might do some damage to the climate alarmist cause?
Observations/criticisms/suggestions all welcome: http://www.galileomovement.com.au/media/SaveThePlanet.pdf
WARNING! Political incorrectness might offend some …..
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One to bookmark: Campfire Wiki
Campfire Wiki is a project to document the details and events of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond simply capturing news headlines, the wiki is intended to sift through the layers of propaganda and partisanship laced throughout to extract the facts and record them for posterity. The goal of the wiki is to aggregate good information in one place where it won’t be censored, thus adding scale, cooperation, and reducing duplication of efforts.
https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=start
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Update: Interstitial lung disease, MDA5-positive dermatomyositis and ties to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
MDA5 is a protein encoded by the IFIH1 gene in humans that functions as an antiviral effector by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). In fact, as a member of the intracellular RNA helicase family proteins, it plays a pivotal role in antiviral immune responses. It likes certain viruses.
Antibodies against this protein, aka: anti-MDA5 antibodies, are associated with amyopathic dermatomyositis and rapidly progressive ILD.
ILDs are a group of disorders that result in lung destruction. The etiology is currently narrowed down to connective tissue disorders, autoimmune diseases or exposures to drugs or exogenous toxins, elements or pathogens.
Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a large group of disorders characterized by thickening of the walls between the alveoli, increased production and buildup of collagen, and pulmonary fibrosis (progressive scarring of lung tissue). The scarring eventually affects the ability to breathe and get enough oxygen into the bloodstream. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath and a dry cough.
Anti-MDA5 dermatomyositis often leads to ILD and inevitably to death by destruction of lung tissue.
This is serious folks. I think the strong links are too strong to look away from here. Once again, the link to collagen defects and/or connective tissue disorders pops up in this context – all linked to autoimmunity. Does the spike protein have a peptide that molecularly mimics MDA5 in humans? Because, that wouldn’t just be evidence – that would explain much of what we are seeing with regard to adverse events being reported in excess in the context of the COVID-19 shots.
I am currently on the hunt for any potential shared motifs but in the meantime, upon closer inspection of the VAERS data, there are 42 reports of anti-MDA5 dermatomyositis12 and 738 reports of ILD in VAERS as of Jan 6, 2022.
There are zero, point, zero, zero reports of anti-MDA5 dermatomyositis prior to 2021, and 2 reports of ILD in the past 5 years in the VAERS domestic data set (and 15 since 1990, prior to 2021)14, as compared with 154 reports of ILD in 2021 alone.
This is big in my opinion. If autoantibodies are being generated due to the presence of spike against MDA5, then Houston, we have a problem. Like, a big one. The fact that this simply doesn’t appear in VAERS before 2021 is also extremely telling.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/interstitial-lung-disease-mda5-positive
Now we wait for cases to explode and the msm to spin the wheel of lame excuses…
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JPMorgan must face lawsuit by Ray-Ban maker over US$272m cybertheft
JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N was ordered by a New York judge to face a lawsuit by the French maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, which said cybercriminals withdrew US$272 million (RM1.1 billion) from its New York account after the bank ignored “red flags” of suspicious activity.
US District Judge Lewis Liman on Wednesday ruled that a Thailand unit of EssilorLuxottica SA ESLX.PA can try to prove that JPMorgan violated a New York law governing commercial contracts that requires refunds of unauthorised payment orders.
Essilor said warning signs of fraud included transfers being made in whole-dollar amounts and through small banks going to unfamiliar entities associated with coffee, furniture and hair care instead of the optical industry.
The company, based in the Paris suburb of Charenton-le-Pont, has said that it was unable to recover US$100 million of the transfers, which were made in the fourth quarter of 2019. Its lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Liman in a 39-page decision rejected JPMorgan’s claim that the Essilor unit had “authorised” the transfers because the bank had received two approvals for each transfer and as a result followed the required security procedures.
The judge also dismissed a breach of contract claim but said Essilor can try to revive it, and dismissed a negligence claim because JPMorgan had no duty outside its account agreement to monitor and prevent overdrafts.
JPMorgan declined to comment on Thursday. Essilor and its lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. — Reuters
https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2023/01/05/jpmorgan-must-face-lawsuit-by-ray-ban-maker-over-us272m-cybertheft/48677
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14 UK schools suffer cyberattack, highly confidential documents leaked
Documents reportedly including passport scans, staff pay scales, and contract details stolen by cybercrime group Vice Society, which has targeted education in multiple countries.
More than a dozen schools in the UK have suffered a cyberattack which has led to highly confidential documents being leaked online by cybercriminals. That’s according to a report from the BBC which claimed that children’s SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details have been stolen by notorious cybercrime group Vice Society, known for disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks in the UK and other countries.
Pates Grammar School in Gloucestershire is one of 14 to have been impacted by the data breach, the BBC reported, with Vice Society hackers using generic search terms to steal documents. “One folder marked ‘passports’ contains passport scans for pupils and parents on school trips going back to 2011, whereas another marked ‘contract’ contains contractual offers made to staff alongside teaching documents on muscle contractions. Another folder marked ‘confidential’ contains documents on the headmaster’s pay and student bursary fund recipients,” the BBC wrote. The hack at Pates is estimated to have taken place on September 28 before data was published on the dark web. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Gloucestershire Police confirmed they were investigating the alleged breaches in 2022.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3684851/14-uk-schools-suffer-cyberattack-highly-confidential-documents-leaked.html
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The ransomware problem isn’t going away, and these grim figures prove it
There’s still huge disruption from ransomware attacks – and there’s no sign that criminals intend to give up.
Up to 1,981 schools, 290 hospitals, 105 local governments and 44 universities and colleges were hit with ransomware in the US alone during 2022, demonstrating how ransomware attacks remain a significant cyber threat to the public sector and civil society.
The figures on the number of government, education and healthcare sector organizations hit by ransomware attacks have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at security company Emsisoft, who analysed disclosure statements, press reports, and information posted to the dark web.
But the figures suggest that the true impact of ransomware is likely much higher because the data is largely based on publicly available reports — and many victims of ransomware attacks don’t disclose the incidents publicly.
In total, 105 state and municipal government agencies disclosed that they were affected by ransomware attacks encrypting files and servers during 2022, an increase from 2021 where there were 77 reported attacks on government.
Researchers suggest that much of the rise in reported ransomware attacks against local governments can be linked to a single incident in Miller County, Arkansas, where one compromised mainframe resulted in malware being spread to endpoints in 55 different counties.
Data was stolen by cyber criminals in just over a quarter of the reported incidents — although Emsisoft notes that if the incident in Arkansas is disregarded, over half the attacks involved data being stolen.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-grim-figures-show-that-the-ransomware-problem-isnt-going-away/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
Unfortunate indeed that software manufacturers like M$ don’t provide critical security updates for legacy products and OS’es.
You can use something like 0patch though…
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The criminal penalties for cybercrimes aren’t enough.
Plus, there should be minimum penalties for such crimes such as ten years imprisonment with no computer access whatsoever.
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Heh..the problem though is that a lot of the hacking groups are state sponsored. eg China, N. Korea, USA, Ukraine, Russia, Vietnam and a bunch of EU countries.
Even if they’re not sponsored, they’re hacking the enemies of their governments so the governments don’t care..
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Don’t forget their “near miss” around Epstein
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So many billions of tonnes of ice gone, wow.
What the alarmists just don’t point out is how this is a fraction of a percent lost even in Greenland. the thin edge losses are a catastrophist’s gift if expressed in % of ice cover.
Even NASA, EPA etc play the statistical narrative.
Every single point for APW evidence on their websites is rubbish.
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They love to point out how much ice melted during the summer but never mention how much ice was replaced over winter .
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Which they is that? I want to check and see if they never mention winter ice gain so I can write to them to complain.
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Again.. you must be just ignoring all your AGW priests.. Careful, you will get climate cancelled !
Find one occurrence of a climate worrier noting that the SMB of Greenland is very often positive.
Show once occurrence of them pointing out just how little ice Greenland mass changed are, (as measured by gravity over moving magma sacs) compared to the actual amount of ice there is.
Find one of the climate glitterati that will note that Greenland ice area is only a small amount down from an 8000 year high during the LIA, being much less than now for most of that period.
You will find that only the REALISTS do that !
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Tony Heller is being extensively shadow banned or censored on YouTube, since the Left cannot tolerate alternative opinions, so it’s best to watch him on NewTube and see his uncensored content:
https://newtube.app/TonyHeller/
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Tony Heller posted this, an except of a video from the World Economic Forum.
Disturbing.
Transhumanism.
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Scientists Just Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate Things
Say hello to ionocaloric cooling: a new way to lower the mercury that has the potential to replace existing methods with something that is safer and friendlier to the planet.
Typical refrigeration systems transport heat away from a space via a gas that cools as it expands some distance away. As effective as this process is, some of the choice gases we use are also particularly unfriendly to the environment.
There is, however, more than one way a substance can be forced to absorb and shed heat energy.
A new method developed by researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, in the US takes advantage of the way that energy is stored or released when a material changes phase, as when solid ice turns to liquid water, for example.
“The landscape of refrigerants is an unsolved problem,” says mechanical engineer Drew Lilley, from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. “No one has successfully developed an alternative solution that makes stuff cold, works efficiently, is safe, and doesn’t hurt the environment.”
“We think the ionocaloric cycle has the potential to meet all those goals if realized appropriately.”
The researchers modeled the theory of the ionocaloric cycle to show how it could potentially compete with, or even improve upon, the efficiency of refrigerants in use today. A current running through the system would move the ions in it, shifting the material’s melting point to change temperature.
A temperature shift of 25 degrees Celsius (45 degrees Fahrenheit) was measured through the application of less than a single volt of charge in the experiment, a result that exceeds what other caloric technologies have managed to achieve so far.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1696
Well, that’s better than Peltier effect or moving Gadolinium blocks I suppose…
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“a new way to lower the mercury”
Try to buy a new Mercury-in-glass thermometer!
Not that such are all that dangerous unless you
break it and cut yourself.
However, “lower the mercury” is a phrase soon to be without context.
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Well, this wasn’t a good career move for an ABC (Australia) reporter….
Their ABC seems to have NOT reported this story.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Funny how these people ONLY speak out once they are injured. Sympathy level: zero.
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“A Breakthrough”: World’s First Vaccine For Honeybees Approved In US
The world’s first vaccine for honeybees has been granted a conditional license in the US, a massive breakthrough in the protection of these insects critical for food production. The vaccine, developed by a US biotech company Dalan Animal Health, will protect honeybees against American Foulbrood disease.
With one-third of the global food supply relying on pollination, healthy commercial hives are essential to secure high crop yields, a press release by Dalan read. Until now, the only treatment method used against the disease was incineration of bees and infected hives.
“Our vaccine is a breakthrough in protecting honeybees,” Dr. Annette Kleiser, CEO of Dalan Animal Health said. “We are committed to providing innovative solutions to protect our pollinators and promote sustainable agriculture. Global population growth and changing climates will increase the importance of honeybee pollination to secure our food supply.”
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/a-breakthrough-worlds-first-vaccine-for-honeybees-approved-in-us-3666681
Do we need bees to protect the cricket food supply? 😎
You can see the future headlines already.
Bees dropping like…errr…flies. scientists baffled. Global food supply at risk…
When the bees are gone it’s game over.
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Do they want to wipe out the bees now?
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No, but if it goes wrong it will.
ie the law of unintended consequence.
Given global bee numbers are in massive decline the last thing we want is for it to go pear shaped…
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Unintended, you say…?
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Always remember, James, that your “surnamesake” was an optimist.
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I just saw an ad for Tango Energy in Vicdanistan who say they are offering double the going rate for solar feed-in and are paying 10.4c/kWh.
How does that work?
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I approached my electricity supplier with a “DEAL”. If they installed solar panels on my roof they could have all the surplus energy that was produced and not consumed on site for free. It seems that no one else has proposed this arrangement to them and they didn’t know how to handle it. The initial enthusiasm to work together quickly disolved into a simple “NO”.
I guess saving the planet wasn’t worth thinking outside the box.
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It works because network charges are typically 16c/kwhour.
So if you have a neighbour on Tango who consumes the kwhour you put it, Tango avoid the 16c/kwhour charge from the network operator.
The real rorte in our high power prices isn’t really the RET (well it has doubled power prices from 4c/kwhour to 8c/kwhour). The real rorte is the gold plating and asset bloat of the network operators – who all have monopolies – charging 16c to 24c for each kilowatthour of energy they allow through.
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Brasil stirring
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/08/thats-not-an-insurrection/
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It would appear that spontaneous proletariat gatherings with pre-industrial night vision and renewable (muscle) powered pronged hay distribution devices, is trending.
( 🙂 Come 0n Jo, I deserve props.)
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For context, I had used disallowed common language to reference unsophisticated villagers making uninvited nighttime visitations to Dracula and Frankenstein’s castle to express disagreement with baronial policy.
I think in Canada they are nowadays called Truckers.
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I should also clarify that the Frankenstein lab leak theory has no evidentiary basis.
GOF/Reanimation research was not being funded at the castle.
The monster was most certainly a natural phenomenon resulting from an unauthorized liaison between genetically marginalized villagers.
This cultural slur on the integrity of elite scientists should be expunged.
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NEXT: Climate Warnings on Food Packaging and Menus
Hopkins University, concludes that “climate impact menu labels may be an effective strategy to promote more sustainable restaurant food choices and that labels highlighting high-climate impact items may be most effective.”
The study’s data comes from more than 5,000 Americans who took part in a nationwide online survey last year. Study participants were instructed to “imagine they were in a restaurant and about to order dinner” from an accurately priced sample menu containing a variety of choices, including hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, plant-based burgers, and salads.
The study asked participants to “order” different foods after viewing one of three types of sample menus online. Outside of a control group, the study presented web users with choices that either disparaged the sustainability of red-meat dishes or touted the sustainability of dishes not containing red meat. Based on the results, which showed people who were more likely to avoid red meat if it had a red warning label and more likely to order other menu items if they featured a green health halo, the authors conclude that “climate impact menu labels [a]re effective” and “that labeling red meat items with negatively framed, red high-climate impact labels was more effective at increasing sustainable selections than labeling non-red meat items with positively framed, green low-climate impact labels.”
https://www.visionnews.online/post/next-climate-warnings-on-food-packaging-and-menus
And liberal climate alarmists rejoice…
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The Joker from Batman is now transgender (sort of) in DC comics in The sense of being a “pregnant man” (sic) but not specifically identified as transgender.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/07/batman-comic-features-the-joker-becoming-pregnant-and-giving-birth/
Batman comic features the Joker becoming pregnant and giving birth to a ‘handsome’ baby
By Gabriel Hays, Fox News
January 7, 2023 | 1:33pm
SEE LINK FIR REST
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Disturbed to the nth degree: men now inserting frozen tomato paste cubes for a mock ‘fem cycle’
At this point, can we please, please admit that ‘transgender’ ideations are a debilitating mental health crisis? Think we’ve finally seen the perversion through to the end? Think these people can’t get any more debauched and twisted? ‘Hold my beer,’ they say.
The author of the first post is obviously a male pretending to be a female and solicits “advice” from the community’s members on how to take his “fem cycle to the next level.” It turns out this aberrant behavior is not an anomaly because the original author received a flurry of responses from fellow men who also mock menstruation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/disturbed_to_the_nth_degree_men_now_inserting_frozen_tomato_paste_cubes_for_a_mock_fem_cycle.html
Bbq or regular I wonder? 🤣
Who are you kidding?
https://twitter.com/Edwin07011/status/1612128443293908993
https://twitter.com/Edwin07011/status/1612145952273453058
When will it stop…
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That’s what you get when you’ve had two generations raised to believe in nothing.
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I believe in the great Nothing.
Yet the pics are distasteful to me.
Do I blame two generations of my ancestors for my lack of taste?
Those who believe in absurdities can commit atrocities.
Satre
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To me, these are people with deep mental problems, who live their pitiful lives in a state of imaginational depravity.
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As G. K, Chesterton put it:
“The man who believes in nothing will believe anything.”
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New Pause gaining recognition and the North Atlantic Oscillation set to weaken.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/01/08/german-renewable-energies-expert-global-warming-is-going-to-pause-as-north-atlantic-cools/
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OMG, a graph showing an averaged increase in tempurature, how did this slip past the mods ?.
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I’m guessing the same way that it “slipped past the mods” every other time that it was published.
Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention .
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The first decade of the 20th century was flat and the present decade will be the same.
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Welcome to the upside down
https://youtu.be/7C3Dk-0ayak
How’d I miss this!
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Interesting tid bit going around about Harry , if you are guilty or convicted of an offence and you’re on a visa in the US don’t they deport you ? Harry has admitted taking cocaine and hooch .
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Hanging bats filmed upside down looks like a Goth nightclub.
https://youtu.be/G9A8PFlqM4U
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UK are drafting regulation to ban petrol generators for business as commercial electricity prices pass 130p/kwhr. Basic petrol generators can generate 1.5kW of power from 1L of petrol – which currently costs 160ppl (106p/kwhr) – making it cheaper than power from the grid.
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Errr ? 130p/kWh…?? ……i dont think so !
https://energyguide.org.uk/average-cost-electricity-kwh-uk/
https://www.businesselectricityprices.org.uk/
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Fear, Flooding, Forecasting & Australia’s 2022 Official Rainfall Statistics
From Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/08/fear-flooding-forecasting-australias-2022-official-rainfall-statistics/
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When we see the average annual rainfall figures, do the calculations also include the area? Rainfall measured in millimetres is not the volume of water that falls. The volume of water also depends on the area over which the rain falls. If 1 mm of rain falls on 1 square metre of area, the volume of water is 1 litre. So 800 mm of rain over a widespread area could produce a higher volume of water than 1200mm of rain over a smaller area.
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Not all rainfall falls vertically into gauges.
Slow, steady falls always give a higher reading.
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Do we have any confidence that they haven’t altered those figures to make them appear “worse” than they really are (in order to more closely fit the narrative)?
I have often wondered if they are also “homogenising” rainfall like they do with temperatures.
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David,
If you compare the rainfall Aust yearly rainfall data in the Climate Summaries reports to the Time Series graphs, there seems to be some adjustments to yearly rainfall totals. They’re not big but the ones I’ve checked on TS are usually lower than the summaries.
Time Series
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/#tabs=Tracker&tracker=timeseries&tQ=graph%3Drain%26area%3Daus%26season%3D0112%26ave_yr%3D0
Climate summaries.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/statement_archives.shtml?region=aus&period=annual
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The catch is that rainfall, per se, does NOT necessarily determine flood activity; it just the input into the terrestrial bit of the system.
Think: Absorption vs Run-off.
Dry soils absorb rainwater until it can’t; then you get runoff. The waterway channels will guide this runoff downstream; but ONLY until the flow over-tops the banks. As with many other real-life matters, dose AND dose RATE are actually important.
Those who have been living in the REAL world will be fully aware of this.
So, as bush and pasture land is steadily covered by “civil engineering”, The absorption per “area” is reduced and the “runoff” increases. If the channels downstream cannot handle the “increased runoff”, guess what happens to the “excess” water.
Again, NOT rocket surgery.
How many Billions of hard-earned taxpayers loot have been and continue to be wasted on the sort of people who cannot and will not comprehend the fundamental reality.
As someone who has lived in and around Brisbane for most of life, I may possibly have a different perspective on this. Going “house-hunting with official flood maps in hand is a given for any sane person.. If the prospective property is “blue” or surrounded by “blue” forget it. And still people ignore this simple caution.
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They see the price, it’s cheap so they buy it, then it floods and they say ‘poor me’.
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If you click on this link you see interest with time for the search term “died suddenly”. You also see a map showing the geographical areas where the most searches are coming from.
Hmmmm….
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=died%20suddenly
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US Government CDC releases official covid vaccine safety data. The results are alarming, as most people here already know.
Hey, Leftoids, not a “conspiracy theory”. This is official US Government data.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Anyone in Queensland have power outs last night ?
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Not I, in Bris.
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Might have been an old comment on faceache .
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Alexander Mercouris on Ukraine – check from about 45 minutes in on his look at the next resupply and what might be the overall aim –
and marvel!
https://rumble.com/v24gsyq-ukraine-admits-heavy-losses-as-russia-takes-podgorodnoye-most-soledar-encir.html
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Can this damage by covid vaccines to the immune system be corrected or will it be corrected with time or is the damage permanent?
SEE LINK FOR REST
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How often will we get that link now ?
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When allergy treatments produce tolerance to allergens, it is permanent. If you get what seems to be a relapse, you have developed a new allergy (something that allergy prone people are prone to).
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ten years ago, the doc after doing sensitivity testing suggested that the allergy treatments of 50 years earlier were likely “less effective with time”
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‘PM mistakes weather for climate.
‘Anthony Albanese has made a simple and common mistake in his understanding of the flood events that have deluged large parts of Australia.’ (Lloyd/Oz)
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Not surprising – Alboeing wouldn’t know his a$$ from his Albo.
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Covid comment
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8L9xP8AaEthNvNdSFGUeFEq_OlbWdwq8KtnNopa6oD5JRN6gI9mexmQNRSi_NWHb2WTbYNkyK9Qk3jo_xO-bntR1i-ESdNnL56tr9NAsY8tgiDTIsY9PaPYSffDZBRvwfZ78x_yBgFzTFBb9dzxeliSz4aS-phbxz18iu9HsXNsNxj-2LILSR-DJL/w375-h400/Meme%20-%20remove%20spiked%20proteins.png
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More on Brasil
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/insurrection-anybody/
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Is commenting broken? I have typed out a couple of comments in recent days and, when I hit the ‘Post Comment’ button, they just vanished. Others got through.
If you don’t see this comment, let me know.
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Nope, can’t see it, so will not comment
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Just what we wanted to hear! (/s shouldn’t be needed)
“CBS- Consider drugs and surgery early for obesity in kids, new guidelines say: “Waiting doesn’t work” ”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/09/put-down-the-cookie-3/
But then
“A Dutch investigative report has revealed that the 2006 study upon which the entire medical experiment of child sex changes is based was funded by a maker of puberty blockers.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/09/transgender-is-a-stalking-horse-for-the-normalization-of-pedophilia-20/
”
Canada’s killer doctors love what they do”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/canadas_killer_doctors_love_what_they_do.html
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Very strong M7.6 earthquake hits Tanimbar Islands region, Indonesia
A very strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M7.6 hit the Tanimbar Islands region, Indonesia at 17:47 UTC on January 9, 2023 (00:47 LT on January 10). The agency is reporting a depth of 105.1 km (65.3 miles). EMSC reports M7.6 at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), BMKG M7.5 at a depth of 130 km (81 miles).
https://watchers.news/2023/01/09/very-strong-m7-6-earthquake-hits-tanimbar-islands-region-indonesia/
Not far off my prediction of an 8.0 early this year.
It’s not a precise science and it’s early days.
How do I do it! 😎
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How did you do it ? My guess is you’ve looked previous data and taken an educated / uneducated guess . I’m predicting a volcanic eruption in Victoriastan in the next 10,000 years .
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Government of Sweden to Stand Trial for Persecuting Vaccine Sceptics
Linda Karlström, age 45, was made sports Coach of the Year in the village of Kronoby in Finland on 26 November 2020. Nine months later, she sued the Government of Sweden for violating her rights according to the European Convention. The trial starts on 7 February 2023.
On 26 November 2020, Linda Karlström, 45, and mother of five, received the Coach of the Year Award, for her work in gymnastics, in Kronoby, a Swedish-speaking enclave on the coast of Finland with a population of 6,439. Normally, the ceremony would have been followed by a banquet. But since 2020 was Year One of the Covid-pandemic, or “plandemic,” as Mrs Karlström puts it, the event was scaled down.
On 16 December 2020, Swedish state television (SVT.se) aired the final episode of a three-part documentary titled “Vaccinkrigarna,” or The Vaccine Warriors, a critical take on vaccine scepticism. The next day, 17 December 2020, the media went ballistic: Coach of the Year is a Conspiracy Theorist and Anti-Semite, their headlines shouted.
“I am holding my breath, waiting for the fallout of this horrendous worldwide campaign of emergency-approved venomous injections.”
The trial against Sweden and its public service broadcaster SVT starts at 9.30 am on 7 February 2023 at the Stockholm District Court on Scheelegatan 7 in downtown Stockholm.
https://newsvoice.se/2023/01/government-sweden-persecuting-vaccine-skeptics/
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New Zealand to Vaccinate People Against Mpox With Unapproved Vaccine, Report Says
New Zealand authorities are preparing to vaccinate the population against mpox, also known as monkeypox, with a vaccine that has not yet been approved, local media reported on Monday.
The authorities want to get a vaccine out as soon as possible, but Medsafe, New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority has asked for necessary documentation from the manufacturer, which means that the vaccine will be rolled out unapproved, New Zealand’s TV channel reported.
Since it is against the law to advertise unapproved medicines, there will be no big marketing campaign and the vaccine’s proprietary name will not be used, media reported.
“That’s right, we can’t [promote or advertise unapproved medicines]. But we are making sure that everyone has the opportunity for a funded visit with their medical practitioner to discuss whether the vaccine is right for them,” Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall stated.
In August 2022, media reports said the country’s authorities are considering the use of the Jynneos mpox vaccine recommended in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The report said only about 5,000 vials of the vaccine that is enough for immunization of nearly 20,000 people were so far obtained. The vaccine will be available from January 16.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/mpox-enough-vaccine-vials-obtained-for-up-to-20-000-at-risk-people-in-new-zealand.html
Is this unnecessary unapproved vaccine for a non-existent threat right for you?
Please refer to the IQ chart below.😎
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MPOX is a venereal disease, essentially. This is a little like “Injecting rooms” – why promote degenerate, dangerous behaviour?
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I doubt this shall pass moderation, but anyway, those at risk from M Pox also like pricks a lot.
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Referring to it as
“Man Hole Pox” seems to have deflated one attempted “pandemic” so far.
Might be time to trot it out again
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That sounds like another vaccination I won’t need as I don’t … ah f-hmm … muck about with monkeys.
I’m in good health and feeling good, so, rather than spoiling it, I haven’t had any of the Covid vaxes and won’t allow any of them near me. I can’t see any need for punkymox, either.
I have noticed that there is a short period of time when it’s raining or has rained when the sinuses are comfortable and I’m not sneezing. I put that down to lack of pollen in the atmosphere — it having been washed out.
I wonder if it’s going to be raining until the schools go back in early Feb? That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
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Exclusive: 6X higher death rate post-vax in Australia nursing home!
I invite every fact checker in the world to fact check me on this one. I have the name of the facility. It’s critically important that this be validated so that the world is informed of the risk.
After I posted a story of a large geriatric practice which experienced a 3X increase in all-cause mortality post-vaccine (all of the excess deaths were attributed to the vaccine), I received an even more extraordinary story of a nursing home in Australia where the death rate post-vaccine skyrocketed by 6X after the vaccines rolled out (from 3 to 4 per year to at least 24 over a 12 month period) which killed 33% of the residents of the facility.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/exclusive-6x-higher-death-rate-post
Go for it, fact checkers!
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Don’t tell me, the answer will be MORE boosters …
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At Last, there’s a bloke on 4BC just now, a Nick Cater, pooh poohing the mad rush to unreliables and the problems it will cause.
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He is not “a” Nick Cater, but “the” Nick Cater. A well-known conservative writer who appears every Monday in The Australian and who is also a regular on Sky TV.
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Biden’s handlers Tweeted that people should get the “update” of the experimental covid vax, just like he supposedly has.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1612519798184763413
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Sounds like Elbow, Bowen et al need the services of this outfit –
“A23hole Consulting
Want to be lied to? Hire a regular consultant.
Want the truth? Hire an a^shole.
https://assholeconsulting.com/
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Ah. That’s Aaron Clarey. Used to run the Captain Capitalism blog. Was a good, fun, snarky conservative blog. http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/
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Today is Tuesday and it has been wet all day, so far.
Temperature is 19 degrees celsius.
Temperature would have been, if the day had been sunny, maybe 24 – 28 degrees.
Cloud: 10/10ths all day.
yesterday 10/10ths until mid afternoon when a bit of sunshine found some short-lived cracks
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Your favourite war-mongers at CSIS in America ran a set of simulations about China invading Taiwan. The outcome was that China would lose but at a great cost to Taiwan and America.
I assume ‘unleashing’ means destroy here, but its hard to tell-
“Chinese invasion of Taiwan will fail but at a huge cost to the US, Chinese and Taiwanese soldiers , such as thousands of dead, at least two sunken aircraft carriers, unleashing Taiwan’s Navy along with its economy.
A war over Taiwan could leave the victorious US military in a situation just as crippled as the defeated Chinese forces. At the end of the conflict, at least two US aircraft carriers would be at the bottom of the Pacific, and China’s modern navy, which is the largest in the world, would have been disbanded.
The United States and Japan are losing dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of soldiers. Such losses would damage US global standing for many years”
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/plisiazei-i-megali-sygkrousi-oi-ipa-etrexan-22-senaria-polemou-me-kina-logo-taivan-vythismena-aeroplanofora-kai-chiliades-nekroi/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Well, I wonder if they’ve run the scenario of Britain sending Challenger2 tanks, Germany their Leopard2 and the USA sending their Abrams to Ukraine? That seems to be next, no time to train Ukies, they’ll have NATO crews-
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/ta-paizei-ola-gia-ola-to-nato-i-vretania-tha-dosei-armata-machis-challenger-2-stin-oukrania-mazi-me-natoiko-pliroma/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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Check Alexander Mercouris and his take yesterday and today on what is actually being supplied
And marvel!
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He does go on and on… But his discussion is very good on how Ukraine is stuck with a disaster in the making by having to take so many different vehicles to maintain and so many are far too heavy and clearly unsuitable for the war they have to fight.
All a big testing ground for the West’s weapons makers!
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Re “weapons testing” – have a read of
“Ukraine Admits Heavy Losses, As Russia Takes Podgorodnoye, Most Soledar, Encircling What’s Left”
from about 40 minutes on about the latest resupply.
I think that is the one that mentions missile resupply by adapting 1960’s Sea Sparrow missiles to be used in more modern Russian launchers.
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