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Happy new year everyone.
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I second the motion.
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Is it okay if I stay a curmudgeon until things improve?
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Are you a curmudgeon? You don’t normally sound like one to me!
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so how many do you have to drink before you attain that state?
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You may remain our resident curmudgeon, John, but I reserve the title “surly curmudgeon”, given to me by a Sydney businessman back in the 80’s. At the time I had to look it up to see if I was being complimented or insulted.
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There’s something to be said for contrariness and not always
going along with group think. https://beththeserf.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/81st-edition-serf-under_ground-journal/
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We just experienced 3 years of the Greatest Group Think (the GGT) … since witches, dragons, and vampires.
MDs and PhDs wearing masks on Zoom calls.
A garland of garlic would of made more sense.
Just sayin’.
Oh, and warming causes freezing.
Science.
And considering the collapse of the virgin supply chain, we got nothing to appease the Volcano God.
Spock help us.
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Didn’t see liberator below … must stand corrected.
Warming causes freezing and …
wet to be wetter and drier to be drier.
Even Spock can’t help us now.
On the upside, Climate Science is a decent replacement for the decline of comedy.
If three Climate Scientists jump off a tall building, which one hits the sidewalk last …
Neither one, because unlike Climate Science, the laws of physics still apply.
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I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be my kind of year.
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“Nice”? article in the ABC about all of the rainfall we have had over the last year. Lots of statistics! Along with the usual climate change reasoning behind so much rain. despite them also saying it was a combination of La Nina, IOD and SAM
“Professor Janette Lindesay, a climatologist at the Australian National University, says the combination of a third consecutive La Niña, the negative Indian Ocean Dipole and the Southern Annular Mode in the Southern Ocean have “conspired together” to produce the conditions for a wet year.”
She then goes on to state:
“Having said that, it’s highly likely that we will continue to see extremely wet periods interspersed in amongst the dry times,” she says. (lets give it a 50% odds one way or the other)
My bold.
“What we’re really seeing is an increase in extremes, in the frequency of extremes, and perhaps in the duration of those extremes.
“So dry gets drier and wet is getting wetter when it does happen.
“That’s directly attributable to global heating.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/australian-weather-rain-2022-records-broken-flooding/101789262
So I also ask, have we seen a reduction in the sea levels due to so much rain falling in Australia? This was the supposed cause back in 2010 with the dropping of the sea levels then attributed to the amount of rain falling down under?
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My property is on the NSW Mid North Coast and despite the heavy rainfall that began early in 2020 after the 2019-2020 bushfires following the long drought the grass is now browning and patchy. The ride on mower creates a dust storm.
However the weather is perfect with daytime temperatures in the mid to high twenties and just under 20C overnight, a couple of weeks ago as low as 12C
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“NSW Mid North Coast and despite the heavy rainfall that began early in 2020 after the 2019-2020 bushfires following the long drought the grass is now browning and patchy “.
Agree……I frequent the M1 and travel to the family farm every 2-3 weeks on the Mid North Coast…and countryside/land is drying out at a fast rate.
My worry is the idiots maintaining the roads north. Granted, they have carried out clearing of undergrowth and small bushes/trees …BUT
WHY haven’t they “mulched” what they have cleared ????
Whats left on sides of the highway ? …a blanket of dead/dying undergrowth …just begging for a match or cigarette from a careless traveller or opportunist activitist .!
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And here was me thinking that chucking enough water vapour to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools into the stratosphere might make some sort of difference. Somebody needs to tell Bill Gates to scrub his chalk venture given Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai massive effort fail.
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Earl. Interesting link at the bottom of that.
“Follow FakeScience.news for more articles about other so-called “solutions” to climate change.”
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Thanks for that. They seem to have missed Make Sunsets which has been covered by both MIT Technology Review and the guardian. Seems this startup has beaten Bill Gates to the punch with suggestion that they have already released some “reflective clouds” via reusable balloons with a payload of 1 gram of “cloud” mix that will offset 1 ton of CO2 emissions. Cheers
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So what is produced when a calcuim bicarbonate cloud of dust meets water vapour in the air?
Now add lightning.
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It is fast getting above my pay grade but I’m guessing the big bang theory of Ken and Barbie takes second place to (NZ) Kin and Etics….. sorry too much rum in the Christmas pudding and Yes grandad we are still missing a threepence.
Early research from March 1956 KINETICS OF THE REACTION BETWEEN CALCIUM AND WATER VAPOR with the actual paper directly downloadable from link https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4346086/ (hence not linked).
Cheers
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The only element “Make Sunsets” talks about is sulphur for their clouds. There’s no mention of acid rain in their either.. Maybe they’ve decided sulphur never caused that after all.
It seems anyone can do stupid things to the Earth and we cannot stop them, so maybe the next ice age will be from humans changing our albedo.
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‘ … the new climate that we are living through,” Murray Watt says.’
Ah yes, the new normal is the latest catch phrase.
I have been searching the inter webs for months expecting to find something on sea level fall, after three consecutive La Nina, but nothing so far.
We already know the Great Artesian Basin is in rude good health after the big wet.
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el gordo
“We already know the Great Artesian Basin is in rude good health after the big wet.”
We must have encountered a new “miracle of glogal warming/climate change” then – maybe we have met “speedy water”?
“Most recharge water enters the rock formations from relatively high ground near the eastern edge of the basin (in Queensland and New South Wales) and very gradually flows toward the south and west.[6] A much smaller amount enters along the western margin in arid central Australia, flowing to the south and east. Because the sandstones are permeable, water gradually makes its way through the pores between the sand grains, flowing at a rate of one to five metres per year.”
(My bold)
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin
Years ago a fund raising drive sold bottles of artesian water with a wine – style label. IIRC ageing was given as 1000 years.
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As a child, I remember being taught about the Great Artesian Basin in primary school.
I doubt it’s taught about any more.
I also remember being told how the flow rate of the water was worked out. Radioactive tracers were injected.
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Are you sure the GAB is recharged from surface water? That’s not how I understand it, it is ancient water under pressure.
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I was around the on-ground GAB people at one stage.
IIRC as that article says it has recharge beds on the eastern extremity and the water flow has been traced
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Re the water pressure –
When you think about it the GAB has an hydraulic head that goes from somewhat above sea level at the feed beds to around 5000 feet deep at Birdsville (elevation 153 feet).
Better than that of the Bradfield scheme
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“The Birdsville town water supply system consists of an artesian bore reticulated system and a river water reticulated system.
The artesian bore system comprises of an artesian bore, ground level and elevated water storage reservoirs and reticulation system. The bore was drilled in 1961 and has a water temperature of between 97 and 99 degrees and a closed head pressure of 1,200 kPa (174 psi*) and an unrestricted flow of 40 litres per second. Water from the artesian bore is cooled through a series of cooling tubes and a parallel plate heat exchanger. The reservoirs and reticulation system were constructed in 1998.”
Effect of depth on temperature –
Birdsville 1230 m 97 – 99 C 40 l/s 1200 kpa
Bedourie 400 m 45 C 42 l/s 529 kpa
(*My bold and conversion)
https://www.diamantina.qld.gov.au/council-services/water
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There was talk that the GAB is recharged via Papua, but this is controversial.
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ABC sucked in by obvious rainfall errors at Muja Power Station a BoM site
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=7061
enjoy
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MV,
I was once introduced by a politician before speaking to a meeting of a few hundred people as being a mean person, so mean that I would demand a bacterial count on the Milk of Human Kindness.
No doubt about intent there. Geoff S
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Yes a very wet year here, just south of Brisbane, but not a record. That goes to 1893, with 13mm more than this year. Wettest & second wettest just 139 years apart, not much trend there.
I wonder if it was all the CO2 generated by SUVs that made 1893 so wet?
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Hasbeen
This year for our area of south west Qld if I’d been cheeky enough to put in an order for rain I would never imagined what we got.
Starting with green grass continuously from half past January till now. And we haven’t got the sickly olive green colour that says it has run out of nitrogen.
Biggest one day fall was 65.5 mm. Creek has run about 4 times, only once out of the banks and no record. So minimal erosion problems. About 700 mm total with an long term average of about 475 mm.
And, by accident, I have evolved the “White Space Comparison” of rainfall.
2022 has a spread of rainy days over the chart (actually 55 rainy days). The 2019 chart in comparison looks like the overview of a bald man’s haircut – around the edges and sparse (17 rainy days).
I’ve been asking the older generation if they have ever seen a year like this. The answer is basically “No”. (Full confession – I am also one of the current older generation but I never heard of anything like this from my ancestors).
An indication – the most livestock ever run in this area was just before the 1902 drought. But when the DPI researchers started simulating pasture production from climate records they found that the early 1890’s must have been seasons like we’ve never seen – until maybe now.
And ever wary – I remember that the tail end of 1963 it seemed to rain about every fortnight – and dumped us into the 1965 drought. So we’re not depending on a repeat of this year – but could handle it.
Maybe the SOI’s and SST’s will give hints?
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I have heard it said that the much mentioned 1902 drought was a water drought. There was still grass, but no water for the livestock.
I was also told that my grandfather had two haystacks which were requisitioned by the government and sent to the local big station.
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Ted1
Not sure on that.
But remember calling it “the 1902 drought” up here misses the full picture –
IIRC it started around 1896 with one short period towards the end with just enough rain to be proclaimed “not a drought” which disrupts the sequence.
1915 also features in severe droughts here
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Hard to see how there can be an increase in the frequency AND duration. But these types don’t think logically!
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“So dry gets drier and wet is getting wetter when it does happen”
Again, the unassailable logic of science foreseen by the Prophets …
https://youtu.be/X2xlQaimsGg
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My new year’s resolution is to expose more of the elite’s plans.😁
Self-appointed elites want far fewer people in the world and they have wanted this for a long time
Over this last week we have published articles highlighting two popular figures who champion depopulation: Jane Goodall and David Attenborough. For those who would agree with or defend their ideologies, this article is for you. The depopulation agenda has been festering behind the scenes for a long time and now it is coming out in the open and going mainstream. If you don’t recognise it, reject it and call it out, you could become its next victim.
During an interview with the World Council for Health last month, Dr. Mike Yeadon discussed the tyranny and depopulation we are facing and what we can do about it.
“The worst that can happen is we end up as slaves and most of us dead … Unless we are able to hook more people up to this [cause] and if we do that, we can win … We can divert [and] delay their action.”
Around the same time, on Telegram, he shared the video below accompanied by a comment. His comment included the following remarks:
“This is a useful collection of recordings that illustrate that the self-appointed elites certainly wish there to be far fewer people on the planet. They’ve created the myth of overpopulation for sure, since the late 1960s, and that’s been a relentless focus. The Club of Rome’s fake science and modelling is a big component of that. We’re not overpopulated by any accessible measure. The global population is close to or over its maximum in most locations, and it will be falling fast by the century’s end.
“Climate change has been another focus for malign finance. You can hardly move without bumping into another lie about the human impact upon the mean surface temperature. We’re not warming up the planet. Atmospheric CO2 is just off its geological all-time low. Had it fallen much lower, plant life would have failed and with it, animal life. With increased CO2, the only indisputable difference is that the world is slightly greener since the late 1960s.
“The ‘elites’ global plan is unutterably evil.”
[snip]
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/31/self-appointed-elites-want-far-fewer-people/?fbclid=IwAR0Q90trCNTeDYWxRrNz8IQbhTtUDUGSIUmG9hTNkm7PHd6jzMBgEf_NG7w
Fatal Misconception, free download:
One of the most gifted historians of his generation has given us an exciting and thought-provoking new way to understand the making of the ever-globalizing world of today.”―Akira Iriye, author of Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World
https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RavenholtFatal_Misconception.pdf
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Intuitively, a La Nina Modoki should appear later in the year.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-146.87,-21.42,538/loc=-145.966,-34.082
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BREAKING: The World Health Organization Endorses List of Potential Serious Adverse Effects of mRNA Injection: 100% of DEATHVAX™ Recipients Have Heart Damage
Pfizer knew. Bourla knew. Fauci knew. Birx knew. The CIA knew. The DoD knew. The WHO knew. The WEF knew. The UN knew. Everyone involved in PSYOP-19 knew, well before the virus was intentionally “leaked”in order to justify the slow kill bioweapon.
The plan was always to slowly disclose the truth about this bioterror eugenics program. Birx was the first to be tapped on her shoulder.
Dr. Deborah Birx: “I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines …”
Dr Aseem Malhotra
‘Anything & everything that can go wrong with the heart is on that list from heart attacks, pericarditis, arrhythmias, heart failure & that’s what we’re seeing’
At some point these GMHs may turn on the very governments and institutions, and the One World Government’s assets like the WEF may then swoop in with their Great Reset “solution” to the very problems that they caused.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/breaking-the-world-health-organization
Update: Turbo cancer. Dr. Charles Hoffe Says 2/3 of His Patients’ New Cancer Diagnoses are Stage 4
https://rumble.com/v23c0y8-turbo-cancer-dr.-charles-hoffe-says-23-of-his-patients-new-cancer-diagnoses.html
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Why We Question the Safety Profile of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
Last week, along with an international group of physicians and scientists, we published a study suggesting that the risks of COVID-19 vaccines may be greater than previously reported. Using publicly available data from Pfizer and Moderna studies, we found one serious adverse event for each 800 vaccinees. That translates to about 1,250 serious events for each million vaccine recipients. DHHS reports the rate for other vaccines is only 1 or 2 per million.
Many physicians and scientists believe that vaccination programs are the key to ending the coronavirus pandemic. Some warn that our analysis might harm public health by stimulating more vaccine hesitancy. Yet, if some concerns are valid, remaining quiet could also result in harm and further erode public trust in science.
We believe that scientists have a responsibility to report suspected hazards to authorities. Consider a 1 in 800 risk of a serious adverse reaction in the context of other vaccines. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was withdrawn after it was associated with Guillain-Barre Syndrome at a rate of approximately 1 in 100,000. In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine Rotashield was withdrawn following reports of intussusception in about 1 or 2 in 10,000. As widely acknowledged, COVID vaccines prevent hospitalizations, and the clinical trials estimated that between 225 and 625 hospitalizations were prevented per million vaccinated persons. But these benefits are likely to be concentrated among vaccinees who are elderly or have chronic illnesses. It is less clear which groups are at risk for serious adverse vaccine reactions. Those at low risk for hospitalization may still be at risk of serious vaccine reactions. We only considered mRNA vaccines and it is not clear that other COVID-19 vaccines confer the same risk.
COVID-19 vaccines are now among the most widely disseminated medicines in the history of the world. They have cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, rivaling the annual US federal expenditure on biomedical research. There is no legitimate reason why scientists and the public should not have access to the evidence that justified that purchase. Yet evidence is being withheld, which adds uncertainty to our conclusions and leaves lingering questions about the scientific foundation for COVID-19 vaccine promotion. Public posting of raw data is a reasonable response: “Open data” is becoming the norm in science and is now required by many leading journals. The time has come for the FDA and EMA to reopen their investigations, and for Pfizer, Moderna and all vaccine manufacturers to provide the data that will allow scientists and physicians to address outstanding concerns.
https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/why-we-question-the-safety-of-covid
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The vaxx – Catastrophic Outcomes When Given in Pregnancy. Thorp et. al. Call for an Immediate Worldwide Moratorium. Dr. Peter McCullough
There is now more than sufficient evidence of harm to fertility, reproduction, and fetal and maternal outcomes. This new paper, still preprint from impeccable researchers led by maternal-fetal specialist Thorp et. al., details catastrophic evidence of harm. They compared adverse outcomes following Covid-19 vaccines with those following flu vaccines and identified that safety signals were exceeded on all recognized thresholds.
COVID-19 vaccines, when compared to the Influenza vaccines, are associated with a significant increase in AE with all proportional reporting ratios of > 2.0: menstrual abnormalities, miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformation, fetal cystic hygroma, fetal cardiac disorders, fetal arrhythmias, fetal cardiac arrest, fetal vascular malperfusion, fetal growth abnormalities, fetal abnormal surveillance, fetal placental thrombosis, low amniotic fluid, preeclampsia, premature delivery, preterm premature rupture of membrane, fetal death/stillbirth, and premature baby death (all p values were much smaller than 0.05). When normalized by time-available, doses-given, or persons-received, all COVID-19 vaccine AE far exceed the safety signal on all recognized thresholds. Conclusions Pregnancy complications and menstrual abnormalities are significantly more frequent following COVID-19 vaccinations than Influenza vaccinations. A worldwide moratorium on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy is advised until randomized prospective trials document safety in pregnancy and long-term follow-up in offspring.
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202209.0430/v2
Will 2023 be the year of the Great Awakening?
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Hungary bans LGBT propaganda in schools
https://seed132.bitchute.com/7LiZcQregKr5/IqYvqUEmchD1.mp4
The fight back grows.😁
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Our nice global elite have Orban n their sights, as they did Liz Truss, Trump and now Giorgia Milone in Italy. All get total negative press all the time on all issues plus massive pressure from the assorted IGO’s (UN, WEF, IMF, EU etc) to fall into line. Dissent will not be allowed.
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Resistance is not futile.
They WILL fail.
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World Ecommunist Forum – Zelensky humour
Our Agent always wears the same clothes because the washing machines are full with cash. 😆
https://twitter.com/EcommunistForum
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Today is Tony Fauci’s final day as director of the NIAID. Meme time!
https://twitter.com/MyWillowMemes/status/1609187148057518086
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Thought for the day
“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.” ― Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le mensonge
“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/12/29/its-not-a-lie-if-you-believe-it/
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Sunday entertainment: dumb is as dumb does…oh, hang on…how…
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rnidz5Axhs1w5pr9j.mp4
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Apocalypse meow, the purrfect storm. The Simpsons predicted it purrfectly
https://youtu.be/T2F7muYaby0
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Video:
Awaken with JP looks at 2022.
Note: not for sensitive ears or children.
Very funny but based on actual events so rather dad as well.
https://youtu.be/QPgBcWu5WGg
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Sad, not dad…
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Video:
This is an excellent video of John Stossel interviewing Mike Rowe (producer of the TV series “Dirty Jobs”).
Mike Rowe has a US foundation offering work ethic oriented training for people to obtain trade certification for trades such as plumbers, welders and other trades.
It is a refreshing change from the present entitled generations who think the the world (i.e. taxpayer) owes them a living to go to university to do a useless BS degree in “gender studies”, ” critical race theory” or “climate change” etc..
It is excellent and I highly recommend it, especially if you know a younger person that needs some work ethic and future career motivation.
The ideas presented would be equally applicable outside the US.
https://youtu.be/RKIEX3I9lxY 34 mins
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A plumber friend of mine often says, “What smells like sh!t to you, smells like money to me.”
He’s happy to do the sewage stuff and charge accordingly.
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Many years ago there was a short item in Reader’s Digest on this –
“When everyone in USA has a Ph.D. but the last plumber he’s going to make a fortune”
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Nickolas Eberstadt has just updated his book on the growing number of men not working or looking for work. Here he is interviewed by Megyn Kelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1qoUxwMzQ
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Relaxing 5min video on the cost of wind and solar.
…..eventually, sooner rather than later we pray, the investment case folly will be obvious to even the blind. It’s already getting very hard I understand.
https://youtu.be/RqppRC37OgI
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In yesterday’s (Saturday) open thread David Maddison posted a link to a video of John Campbell’s stating “He’s not holding back on this one! This could get him cancelled. Highly recommended.” And I absolutely agree. The figures that Campbell quotes in this clip are the same figures quoted by Dr. Malhotra in an excellent interview with Tucker Carlson which was included in a post on Wednesday December 14 by Brenda Spence. This one is 52 minutes long and this is the link
https://youtu.be/w3MPnBpfrRk
and here’s the link to David Maddison’s of yesterday with John Campbell
https://youtu.be/JYR1wz-Cf_M
This one is 14 minutes 38 sec.
Both are essential viewing in my opinion and thanks to both David and Brenda for posting. ToM
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Thanks for posting, Tides of Mudgee.
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Rick Perry: We can’t let climate alarmists drive us from reality
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I did watch that series. Quite amazing what goes on behind the scenes as it were.
No woke liberals in those fields, that’s for sure!
Another series is called Filth – UK based; goes one step beyond hoarders. Dead cat in the sink for a year?! All in a day’s work.
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Meant for #14…
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China’s Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure
Sweden’s refusal to impose compulsory shutdowns has now, by contrast, been completely vindicated
We will never know how many people are dying of Covid in China. The regime will probably cook the statistical books. The chief executive of an asset management firm in China shared an image last week of a document at a mortuary describing the note you have to sign to get your dead relative released for cremation: “I guarantee that the deceased XXX did not die of #COVID, and I will be fully responsible for any false claim.”
Nor will we ever know how many people died as a result of lockdowns in the almost three years in which they were imposed in brutal fashion on the Chinese people before Xi Jinping’s abrupt and humiliating about-turn a few weeks ago. But those in the know think both numbers will be in the millions. Relying on draconian lockdowns, while failing to vaccinate the elderly or to buy effective Western jabs, has almost certainly ensured that all age groups will have suffered significant excess mortality from both causes.
Then, in December 2021, came the final proof that the lockdown fanatics were wrong. The science establishment tried to bounce Boris Johnson into a Christmas lockdown to prevent the omicron wave. Ignoring evidence that omicron was mild – and not just because many people had been vaccinated – they produced models showing a range of possible outcomes: very high to massively high death rates if we did not lock down.
Egged on by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, Boris called their bluff and refused to cancel Christmas. As Fraser Nelson has chronicled in The Spectator, deaths and hospitalisations never reached a small fraction of even their lowest predicted levels. That emperor had no clothes.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/28/chinas-covid-nightmare-final-proof-lockdowns-total-failure/
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‘effective Western jabs’? Come on.
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“Scientific” American: Telling Black Women To Lose Weight Is Racist
At first glance, one could look at this headline and conclude it must be parody. But no, a leading so-called “science” magazine actually would rather black females drop dead than tell them to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Scientific American on Tuesday tweeted out an article they wrote in June 2020 titled “The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity.” The entire piece gives readers a foreboding look into the future of science.
The article begins by acknowledging a serious public health crisis: four out of five black women are either overweight or obese. But it quickly moves on to complaining about the allegedly sexist and racist roots of black female obesity:
“In the eyes of many medical practitioners in the late 19th century, Black women were destined to die off along with the men of their race because of their presumed inability to control their “animal appetites”—eating, drinking, and fornicating. These presumptions were not backed by scientific data but instead embodied the prevailing racial scientific logic at the time.”
http://www.womensystems.com/2022/12/scientific-american-telling-black-women.html
More anti-science “science”. Total bollox.
This dawg-awful big booty popularity has no part I’m sure.
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I ceased my subscription to Scientific American years ago when it became fully woke. Even before that it had become dumbed-down.
In 1986, it was sold to the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. That is the point, along with editor changes, it became fully dumbed down. Holtzbrinck became controlled by Nature Publishing Group in 2008 when it was no doubt further dumbed down.
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Origin of 12 and 60 used in time measurement from Sumerians:
Each of the 4 straight digits on a hand has 3 segments.
Counting was done with the thumb, so 12 could be counted on one hand.
When 12 was counted one hand, one digit on the other hand could be closed, thus 5 x 12 = 60.
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I wonder what Octal would be like if we were born with 4 digits on each hand David!
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Fascinating.
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I got a finger tip shot off in the war and then got accused of short changing people.
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I must admit that the BOM rainfall for 2022 has some surprises. Here’s some of the data for Australia and a few states etc.
I’ve chosen the anomaly graphs, so showing above and below rainfall since 1900. Australia overall was just over 100 mm above average. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=aus&season=0112&ave_yr=8
Eastern Australia about 198 mm above average. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=eaus&season=0112&ave_yr=8
NSW about 300 mm above average. Victoria about 200 + mm above average. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=vic&season=0112&ave_yr=8
WA about 70 mm above average. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=wa&season=0112&ave_yr=8
And Jo Nova’s area of SW WA about 60 mm below average.
Anyway you can look for yourselves and use total rainfall if that suits. I like the anomaly graph because it appeals more to me and I’ve used the 8
year moving average line over the last 122 years.
BTW MDB is about the 4th highest on record, but 2010 still the highest year.
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How do we know the BoM aren’t altering rainfall data as they do with temperatures?
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The top 5 volcanic eruptions of 2022.
https://youtu.be/-6tSDlfV-BM
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My experience working, New Years Eve, on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (4 times so far).
So what happens on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before and after the New Years Eve fire works display?
Ok, the event is planned like a military operation.
All agencies Police, Fire, Ambulance, Council and Sydney Trains/Transport NSW have a brief of where to place, duties involved and a fairly rigid timeline (within a few minutes).
During the afternoon The Sydney CBD is progressively closed to traffic. From outer areas to inner.
Lanes available on the bridge are progressively closed as needed. Residual traffic will be allowed passage to clear.
This year the bridge was closed to all vehicle traffic at 11pm.
What many don’t know is that the trains still run right up to the event. They do not close the train services down as that would affect the whole network. (Note: Post fireworks, we get a 20 minute window to clear the tracks before the next service)
The electricity lines above the train tracks remain live throughout.
The services/agencies are placed on the bridge deck 300m south of the southern pylons.
These are:
Typically 6 Fire Rescue NSW appliances, 5 Pumpers and 1 Aerial (Ladder platform)
Sydney City Council typically supply 8 street sweeper trucks and 2-3 garbage trucks.
Police 8-10 officers with 4-5 cars and Ambulance 2 crews.
An assortment of NSW Transport officials.
From 11pm nothing happens. We just wait and watch the trains go by.
At 12pm we have one of the best seats in the house.
After the fireworks cease we start our work to reopen the bridge.
What is not known is the amount of firework detrius that is scattered over the bridge and in the arches. About 5-10% is burning.
You cannot walk 3-4 paces without encountering the debris. There are tonnes of it.
A spent cartridge can be up to 24 inches in diameter and 6 feet long.
What we do is form a line across 4 lanes. and advance south to north.
We do that because the train lines are on that side and need to be cleared first.
A ladder platform and appliance work their way up the RHS of bridge clearing the arches of fire and detrius.
When we get to the north end (Milsons Point) we about face and repeat same on the southbound lanes.
It takes roughly 45 minutes to clear the roadway.
We will try to finish our task by 1:00am
The Bridge will then be checked by Transport NSW and reopened at 1:30am
Thats it.
Happy new year all!
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Interesting
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In the UK we used to pay China to take a lot of our plastic waste. China packaged a lot of it into fireworks as structure and separators etc. and then sold us the fireworks for us to explode all over the country. Genius.
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Fasinating stuff. Do the workers on the bridge wear breathing apparatus? I would imagine that the smoke ( toxic? ) envelopes the deck areas for quite a while. Funny how we never think about the immense amount of work required behind the scenes.
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“Do the workers on the bridge wear breathing apparatus”
That is a good question Sambar.
For those working to clear the bridge deck, the answer is no.
The bridge will clear of smoke within a minute or two. It is not a confined space. A half knot breeze is all it takes for it to clear.
I have never worked on the bridge post new year’s fireworks when that has not been the case.
If it was, then yes the bridge would take longer to open.
None of the other agencies have BA. None would go onto the bridgedeck.
None would want a fine from NSW Workcover.
There are too many cameras and too many officials watching.
FYI, our BA sets will last at the extreme 30 mins, before a cylinder change is required. It takes approx 45 min to clear the bridge.
Ok what happens?
The burning debris is in clear air. It is not intense. It is like a cardboard box alight. Little or no smoke.
We can hit it from 20m away with a max of 9 litres per second. A few seconds and it is extinguished.
If it is recalcitrant, when we get to it we stomp it out like a cigarette butt with our boots.
We have limited water on board. 1500 litres per appliance, So we use it judicially.
There is little or no danger. What we try to do is make sure the council streetsweepers do not sweep up lit debris.
A fire in a truck is much harder to extinguish than lit debris on the open roadway.
I did segway a little, but I hope that I answered your question Sambar.
Thankyou for asking, take care.
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Five times increase in deadly Strep A infections in children in UK.
What could be the reason?
Dr Suneel Dhand.
https://youtu.be/xO2_LX8Ilcw 9 mins
Watch it before YouTube censors it.
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Here’s John Campbell on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPD1IVdzvro
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Flu hospitalisations in UK for young people are also far far worse than anything covid did.
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There’s a rare (in the UK) walrus working its way around the coast. He’s not shy.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/wing-walrus-called-thor-brings-28851521
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Imagine what would happen if they all had EVs!
Thousands stuck in cars for eight hours trying to leave Victorian festival in temperatures as high as 37C.
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Other opinions –
“2022 Year In Review”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/2022-year-in-review/#comment-162062
“And, So On To 2023”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/01/and-so-on-to-2023/
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On vaccinations – “Anti-covid-“vaxers” are not “Anti-vaxers”
“Likewise I’m probably not going to say much more about “the virus”, our response to it, and what is likely incoming as a result of our “response.” Those who have and do get hammered the worst fall into two categories generally; those who were fragile originally and thus the virus was nothing really special at all since anything could have been the “last straw” and those who either voluntarily did stupid things or put up with whatever coercive measures were taken, not all of which were personal. The wild credit firehose spraying gasoline on a smoldering economy, as an example, might have seemed reasonable to some but never was; spraying gasoline on a smoldering fire sometimes lights it back up but sometimes it explodes in your face. That risk was foolish and yet everyone in the political sphere played along so they’d “get theirs.” Fine and well, as far as it goes, but don’t kid yourself: The consequences are real, they’re not going away anytime soon and despite myself and a few others warning that these were bad ideas across the board nobody stepped out on the front porch in quantity and said “cut it out right now or else!” Ask yourself this: We all grew up in this nation getting a bevvy of shots — Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Diphtheria, Polio and more. If you were born after about 1992 you got the varicella (Chicken Pox) shot. I had the standard assortment in the 1960s and I don’t regret any of them. How many people do you know who got those shots and then got the disease the shot allegedly protected them from? My count among those I’ve come into contact with across my 59 years on this rock is to my knowledge zero across all of those diseases. If one person you knew drew a short straw, or it was you, then perhaps that could be excused as the one oddball failure because we all know nothing is perfect. But save me your rationalizations when it comes to this round because by far those who took the stabs got the disease anyway after being allegedly “immunized”, some people got it more than once (among the people I know the personal record post-jab is three alleged infections) and everyone knows it. Your ex-post-facto argument of “lesser outcome” is both unproved and an act of personal and public deception you cower behind instead of demanding political and economic heads for being talked into or coerced to accept these things under what is now proved false pretense. Fine; you deal with it, and if you were one of the people who did a personally foolish thing I doubt there’s anything that can be done to change the prize you either have or may get awarded for doing so. I will further caution that as with all such events there will be plenty of people who both deny what happened and why along with those trying to sell you some sort of snake oil they claim will fix it. Both are lies — of that I’m pretty certain.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247764
Other things discussed there too
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For months the media has been telling us that the 2022 floods showed some impact from increased co2 induced climate change, but what are the real facts?
The facts are that we’ve had 3 la ninas in 3 years and also some inputs from negative IODs as well.
But overall Australia has had about 100 mm above average or about 4 inches.
Eastern Aust about the same as Australia. IOW about 100 mm above.
NSW had about 300 mm or about 12 inches above average.
Vic had about 200 mm above average or about 8 inches.
WA had about 70 mm above average or about 2.8 inches.
SW WA had about 60 mm BELOW average or about 2.4 inches below.
Tassie had about about 35 mm BELOW average or about 1.4 inches BELOW.
You would have to believe in Witches or Hobgoblins or Fairies if you think last years Aussie rainfall was unusual in any way.
So what motivates the delusional fools at their ABC or our stupid pollies or our clueless MSM?
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There is a realisation that eco terrorism was becoming more unpopular than popular.
‘The climate protest group Extinction Rebellion is shifting tactics from disruptions such as smashing windows and glueing themselves to public places in 2023, it has announced.’ (Guardian)
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Incidentally, has any of the unvaccinated among you (or you know of) contracted Covid a second time? There is no definitive opinion on this, though many of the dissenting virologists (like Geert Van Den Bossche) seem to suggest it is unlikely. More recently Dr Peter MCullough suggested that the unvaccinated might pick up “shedding” from the recently vaccinated.
But is there a natural mmunity acquired by the unvaccinated who recovered from a bout of Covid? I can’t see that is likely, since a bout of influenza doesn’t protect you from subsequent variants.
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Unvaxxed and haven’t caught it for the first time, fingers crossed 😀
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I would be unsurprised if I caught it again, but it hasn’t happened since the first time 12months back. Then again, its the same for my vaxxed wife & daughter.
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Caitlin asking why Govts are regulating social media at all, never mind how much-
And as all this information comes out we’re seeing imperial narrative managers working to manipulate the debate into an argument about what kinds of government interventions in public speech are acceptable and how far they should go, rather than whether the government should be involving itself in the business of online speech regulation at all. One of main jobs of an empire propagandist is to get people arguing over how ugly imperial agendas should be rolled out, rather than if they should.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/01/02/western-governments-keep-assigning-themselves-the-authority-to-regulate-online-speech/
…and on that subject, one of the eight or so Twitter feeds I read that were banned for not obeying the narrative on Ukraine has come back-
https://twitter.com/geosprinter1
Maybe Musk has some effect!
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