Tuesday Open Thread

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    Kalm Keith

    The once prosperous, hard working, educated western nations have been driven into an exhausting spiral of crushing enslavement and despair.

    How do we get this monster off our backs?

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      Kalm Keith, this isn’t related to what you say here, so, sorry for butting in, and it was on the last Unthreaded, so you may not have got back to see what I wrote in reply to your comment, but the curious question I asked of you there was ….. what is ‘the six sided pig’.

      Tony.

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        Robert Swan

        He explained just after — Hexham.

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        Kalm Keith

        Yes Tony,
        that suburb of NovoCastria was once the centre of all things dairy at the Oak.

        I’m just fearful that some politician will decide to use the idea and insist on new suburbs going in out there adopt flow on names like PentHam and QuadrHam.

        Number six is definitely a no no.

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          crakar24

          Westham?

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          Hexham ….. now how did I miss that? And here’s me stationed at ‘Billsville’ for ten years all up. Before the Bridge went in, that was the only way into Newcastle, via Hexham, if you wanted to take your car, other than the car ferry, and I think I only used that once. Mostly parked in the Stockton car park, took the passenger ferry and walked around Newcastle.

          Tony.

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            Kalm Keith

            I hadn’t heard it called that before Tony.
            Were much more formal, using William.

            It’s amazing to look back on the old ferry and punt and realise how effective they were; we definitely need the bridge in 2023 because modern politicians mess up everything that moves now.

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      Gee Aye

      An enslavement and despair so subtly entrenched that I have not even noticed it.

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        Hanrahan

        ‘Tis odd what we notice and what we miss.

        I have not noticed ANY climate related degradation, in my 80 years.

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          Gee Aye

          You need to spend a day with an ecologist. I recommend freshwater ecology for accessibility to locations and their ubiquity.

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            TedM

            Could said ecologist prove that any changes were due to climate change. I’ve worked with a few.

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            b.nice

            But none of it to do with human induced “climate change”.

            Waterways are far cleaner now than they were a few decades ago. Still work to do, though.

            … But with the economic pressures being put on everyone by the far-left elite agendas, that may soon reverse.

            Again.. I suspect this is yet another area which you are chronically uninformed about.

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            another ian

            Just saying –

            One of the initiations at the boarding school I went to was to survive the dissection of a rissole. Amazing what a creative mind can find

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            paul courtney

            Mr. Aye: The ecologist who has no training, education, or experience in atmospheric science? Or CO2 in the atmosphere? Thanks for the unhelpful tip.

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          Greg in NZ

          Am three-quarters-and-a-bit of you (guess that equals two climate cycles in WMO-speak) and same-same… I’ve seen this weather before, round and round we go. Though, February was always hot – now BoMshite are calling snow & freezing for your mountains this weekend. Carboniferous!

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          Geoff Sherrington

          Hanrahan,
          No significant change in my 80 years either.
          We used to take max/min daily temperatures at school when I was 7-8.
          How do you convince youngsters that you have something they cannot have, such as experience and observation of earlier life and times.
          Goodness, the typical youth of today are arrogantly ignorant of many aspects of life. Saw one a moment ago wandering central Melbourne, dirty, filthy matted hair, dressed only in shorts, talking and singing to himself while walking among the centre of the road traffic. A voter. Stoned at 10 am.
          Geoff S

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        Kalm Keith

        Of coarse not; there’s an impermeable barrier around the ACT which ensures that anyone in that area is unaware of it.

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        b.nice

        “An enslavement and despair so subtly entrenched that I have not even noticed it.”

        And yet it oozes from your every post !!

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        Graeme No.3

        I’m sorry Gee Aye but I doubt that you are the noticing type.

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    Stop buying the Main Stream Media’s propaganda, promulgated by the World Economic Forum and do your own research for the latest information from independent sources.

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    David Maddison

    Racist Leftists are saying white people shouldn’t use AAVE. What is that? African American Vernacular English.

    But where does AAVE really come from?

    And WHO has any right to use words from another language or vernacular?

    In the following video Amala Ekpunobi examines the origins of AAVE and discovers that it actually originates with white people in the American South, and before that, in the 17th century, white people in southern and western England.

    So who is “culturally appropriating” whom?

    A fascinating video.

    12 mins

    https://youtu.be/eg0i7iw7Ykk

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      Gee Aye

      hmmm… now where have I seen this before?

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        David Maddison

        I posted it before, just before that thread ended so few people would have seen it. I think it is sufficiently interesting that those with inquiring minds would find it interesting.

        Do you have any productive or interesting comments to add?

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        b.nice

        “now where have I seen this before?”

        ie.. GA has absolutely zero counter to what is said. !

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      Hanrahan

      Some of the pronunciations quoted are Irish, “dat” for “that” eg.

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      Geoff Sherrington

      DM,
      I use the kill switch as soon as I hear “music” with that phong Deep South USA black accent.
      Why do Aussie singers use R for I, lurve for love and so on?
      Chunder.
      More broadly, why have we lost musos with technical skills? Does each piece have to start with a loud drum beat? Followed by a narrow, repetitive tonal range? Can anyone compose a symphony any more?
      Is music headed for a sort of reversion to a simple mean, when it will all sound like Xydeco?
      Geoff S

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    John Connor II

    Bills provide for imprisonment for those who doubt vaccines in Brazil

    Six bills in Congress criminalize everything from cutting in line to receive a vaccine to people who spread “fake news” about how vaccines work.

    Authored by Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD), PL 5555/2020 foresees the inclusion in the Criminal Code of imprisonment for one to three years for people who omit or oppose the mandatory vaccination of children or adolescents in a “public health emergency”.

    The project also criminalizes, with a penalty of two to eight years in prison, people who refuse to take the mandatory doses of vaccines.

    The same punishment also applies to those who spread “false news” about the vaccines or how they work.

    https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/bills-provide-for-imprisonment-for-those-who-doubt-vaccines-in-brazil/

    False information – like safe & effective, prevents transmission etc?

    A large amount of Australians are still not getting their COVID-19 booster shot, despite calls from health authorities to roll up our sleeves for a fifth dose.
    https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1619865043780214784
    Waking up at last!?

    Even a dog knows when something is potentially bad for it:
    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rp9akqMmb01ziovfc.mp4

    Good boy! Give it to the liberal. 😎

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    John Connor II

    Tuesday tourism: green China wetlands

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rp8b1hbwhx1s1vn29.mp4

    Well I guess we know where all that green paint the CCP has been spraying on trees ended up. 😎

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    John Connor II

    Sadiq Khan Orders Police To Recruit ‘Non-English, Criminal Immigrants

    London Mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered the Metropolitan Police to begin recruiting officers who can’t speak or write English, and who may have a criminal record in order to meet diversity quotas.

    A 2014 pledge to have 40% of the force be represented by ethnic minorities by 2023 has fallen well short, with just 17% of officers being from ‘diverse’ backgrounds.

    Matt Parr, the head of the organization responsible for inspecting British police forces, told the Telegraph that London, “which will likely be a minority white city in the next decade or so, should not be policed by an overwhelmingly white police force.”

    https://summit.news/2023/01/30/london-police-recruiting-illiterate-officers-who-can-barely-write-english-to-meet-diversity-quotas/

    So criminals in government want foreign criminals on the police force.
    What could go wrong.

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      David Maddison

      Khan is a very dangerous and traitorous individual doing his best to help bring about the final downfall of Once Great Britain.

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        Old Goat

        David,
        There hasn’t been anyone in English politics with a brain or backbone in a long time . Just look at the circus surrounding Brexit . The Westminster system has been eroded from within and democracy has been suborned by the media . A return to reality is coming and it won’t be pretty .

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      David Maddison

      Back in the day it was considered a reasonable expectation that a police officer would be able to read and write English and also not be a criminal or have a criminal record. That would also apply to an immigrant for that matter (or at least a demonstrated preparedness to learn English).

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        David Maddison

        And I should have said, the police officer should be able to speak and understand English as well, apart from being able to read and write.

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      Pauly B

      Will women’s prisons hire convicted rapists as wardens? All in the name of “progress” and “inclusivity”, of course. Maybe even pedophiles to work in child care…..?

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      Ronin

      That’s about as far out on the diversity limb that you could go, is someone going to pull him up and explain that coppers need to meet certain standards.

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      another ian

      “Multiple scandals hit the UK”

      https://rumble.com/v27lgu8-multiple-scandals-hit-the-uk.html

      That sounds like another one

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      william x

      Ohh JC2, where do I begin with this madness?

      “to begin recruiting officers who can’t speak or write English”

      Everyone knows that I work in emergency services.

      Ok, Imho, someone that cannot speak the language of the Service is next to useless.

      Why?… I could list a page long.

      I will give you two.

      How do they communicate with other responders at an incident?… The language used is english.
      How do they know what I, Central Comms or Incident controllers are communicating over the radio GRN?… the language used is english.

      An example of what could happen:

      Imagine if I had a non english speaker as my partner.

      The scenario:

      The patient is unconcious, note that when they recover they may fight us (by moving erratically whilst regaining conciousness). This could damage their spinal column.

      We are now on scene trying to stabilise the patient.

      So I ask in english to my non writing, non english speaker.

      “I need you to keep their head in line, C1-C7 included, with the rest of the spine. Make sure there is no twist between the atlas and axis when he/she becomes conscious.”

      and so on and so on.

      So will we get a good outcome? I don’t know.

      If you think that this is best practice in emergency care, then that is fine.

      Should I and the organisation have to learn 8 or more languages?
      That is what the utterly stupid bureaucrats and pollies would have us do.

      Or should the applicant be conversive in the language used by the organisation?

      Let me know.

      There is a reason why commercial airline pilots and air traffic controllers speak a common language, english.

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    John Connor II

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    https://palexander.substack.com/p/spike-protein-detoxifier-covid-gene

    For those interested…

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    another ian

    “Something’s Buggin’ Tucker Carlson, Food Production Is a National Security Issue

    January 30, 2023 | Sundance | 79 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/30/somethings-buggin-tucker-carlson-food-production-is-a-national-security-issue/

    https://youtu.be/ZkYeOxWiVzs

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    crakar24

    Aboriginals in Alice Springs are wanting to sue the NT government for 1.5 Billion dollars because its their fault the Aboriginals sit around all day in the Todd river drinking alcohol.

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      David Maddison

      The previous Government facilitated banning alcohol on the settlements in cooperation with the Elders I believe?

      The Albanese regime reversed that ban, and despite warnings this would again lead to violence, child abuse and other issues, they went ahead anyway. And all the problems warned about are now back.

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        ozfred

        The alcohol bans in the NT were implemented under Howard’s Liberal government and extended by Labor (2017?).
        Before the last election the Liberals made no plans to further extend the bans. After the election Labor (still) could have extended the bans, but did not.
        A pox on both houses?
        Two observations:
        1- Alcohol usage in northern Australia (not just NT) inflames the social problems in all disadvantaged populations.
        2- The younger generation perpetrators of anti-social behavior likely have no possible incentive to improve their social interaction and likely have no possible punishment which would dissuade them from continuing the actions.

        And while it is possible through preponderance of numbers to assign guilt to a specific ethnic group, I note that I did not do so and the problems are “universal”

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      Ronin

      Well you could say they haven’t done much to stop them, not that it’s their job anyway.

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    crakar24

    Tucker Carlson on the strange destruction of American food processing plants

    Last spring, in March, at a press conference in Brussels, Joe Biden explained that the sanctions he was imposing against Russia, while morally necessary, were also going to cause food shortages around the world, including here in the United States. “It’s going to be real,” he said.

    Now, Biden said this in a very odd way. There was no hint or panic, emotions you’d expect from a leader predicting the deaths of human beings from starvation. None of that. Instead, there was pure, nonchalant casualness. Biden could have been describing the weather or a trip to the dry cleaners. “It’s going to be real.”

    Then Biden continued, recounting a conversation he had with European allies. He told us all about it. When he met with the group, Biden said, they spoke about “how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages.” That’s what Joe Biden said verbatim. It’s on tape…

    We can’t know what Joe Biden was thinking, if anything, when he uttered those words in Brussels. We can only tell you what happened afterward.

    Strange disasters began to beset food processors all over the United States. In April, the next month, the headquarters of one of this country’s largest organic food distributors was destroyed in a fire. Cause unknown. The next month, in a single week, actually, two separate private plane crashes took out two separate food processing centers. One plane hit a General Mills plant in Georgia. The other plane hit a food plant in Idaho. By the way, back in February, a boiler explosion obliterated a potato processing plant in Oregon and so on.

    So even people who aren’t given to connecting the dots, who don’t think of themselves as conspiracy nuts, begin to wonder, “Is there something here?” But no one could tell. The Biden administration had no answers and no way to get to the answers because they had no data.

    If you ask any questions about this, all of the usual suspects in media will call you a conspiracy theorist, rather than trying to answer the questions.

    Why is this happening?

    Perhaps its a good time to quote Buffalo Springfield when they said:

    There’s something happening here
    But what it is ain’t exactly clear
    There’s a man with a gun over there
    Telling me I got to beware

    Connect the dots

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    David Maddison

    Sarah Hanson-Young was invited to Davos but she said no one would tell her where Davo lived so she couldn’t go.

    /sarc

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    Neville

    Amazing how the so called Voice campaign to parliament tells us that Aboriginals need more say today, although they have endless numbers of organisations that already represent them.
    But thanks to Andrew Bolt we can see and hear what some of these people have to say and it’s vile.
    The hate just spews from their mouths and even Senator Lydia Thorpe leaves a lot to be desired.
    But it’s great to see ex Labor pollie Gary Johns joining Warren Mundine to head up the NO campaign.
    Here’s the rally coverage shown on the Bolt Report last night and it’s just clueless but revealing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCG0WfLLNo

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      el+gordo

      Mundine brings integrity to the debate and their campaign strategy should convince most Australians to vote NO.

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    David Maddison

    Video:

    Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen talks about:

    Stop Celebrating Stupidity – The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism

    https://youtu.be/qmFn619GnrI

    15 mins

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      KP

      Ah, the irony.. its on Youtube instead of being written, the absolute bastion of the non-intellectuals!

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      David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz

      Thanks D M,
      I agree with his basic idea, but he passed over the issue of trust in “experts” especially when advertised as such by MSM. Pity, but still worth watching.
      After watching it I was presented with another set of clips that might interest me, and this one did. Russell Brand dissecting Bill Gates visit to Australia, in a way slightly different from what I’ve seen in our press. 16 mins. Enjoy.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-2cnyUShJQ

      Cheers
      Dave B

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        Chad

        For someone who has been (is?) a pretty extreem individual, …( i used ti think he was an unfunny commedian !)….Brand certainly has to be commended for his ability to present an honest summary of many events that the average Joe Blo would not be aware of their significance.

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    RickWill

    It has taken me a few days but I finally got the free body mechanics of the sun sorted.

    I have found that the rotational acceleration and deceleration due to the combined pull of the planets correlates well with sunspots.

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNhH4T-aFhWq1OcceY?e=EocmJo

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      Will Gray

      That’s interesting. 15:1 ratio of x class flares hitting Earth (1) to other planet’s.
      Hope your research explains more data on gravitational interactions between the solar system

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        RickWill

        The ephemeris for Earth does nor include the movement of the sun. So the actual distance can be greater than just the change caused by the orbit eccentricity.

        There is a strong 11 year signal in good temperature records as well as 18 and 28 years. The 11 and 28 years are related to the movement of the sun and the 18 year nutation of Earth’s obliquity due to the moon.

        So I started out with a free body model of the sun to look at the movement then found the abrupt torque changes and found they correlate well with sunspots.

        So the reason the temperature records show the 11 year and 28 year cycles is due to movement of the sun around the barycentre of the solar system. The sunspots are caused by the same gravitational forces. Sunspots may have an influence on cloud formation but I am betting on just being closer or further from the sun is more important.

        There are more than just the 11 and 28 year beats but I have not got them all. Looking at the torque is really interesting because it has a long cycle as well.

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          David Maddison

          Good work RickWill.

          What other longer term cycles have you discovered such as Ice Ages.

          And what is your prediction for the present cooling. For how long and will there be a glaciation event?

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            RickWill

            I set the start parameters for mid January 1900. I let it run for 300 years so I can look into the future but have only focused to 2030.

            The image gives a hint of the longer cycles, You can see the sort of tearing that goes on with the little spikes and there is a pattern to them. 300 years is not long enough to get the sun to track all quadrants around the barycentre once I set up the rotational inertia. That makes it difficult to know if I have the starting parameters right. With just the point model it did what others have observed and the sun did not move much more than its diameter from the barycentre. The movement just as a point mass is well known but is wrong:
            https://www.sunorbit.net/Solar_system_barycenter.svg.png

            The sunspots will increase after the next one and there is a big one coming two cycles out.

            There is no reason for the warming trend to stop. That is required to start glaciation. So far only Greenland and Iceland are gaining ice extent. That is because they are surrounded by warm winter ahead of the boreal fall and winter.

            The next La Nina will likely be average but the one after around 2028 could surpass 2016. I am now focused on that detail.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “A Lightning War”

    https://youtu.be/j7V1MoMAQ1g

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    John Connor II

    Marton Armstrong just posted this:

    Zelensky is an actor and he is playing the role given to him by the West to start World War III. Everything he does is to expand the war and to suck in NATO and the United States to create this war. He is succeeding. I can object all I want, but our computer will be right and we are looking at World War III between 2025 and 2027. So batten down the hatches.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/europe-will-be-destroyed-over-ukraine/

    So 2028 is the real deadline, not 2030 or 2032.
    Now who could forecast that? 😉

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      el+gordo

      ‘Now who could forecast that?’

      Its a load of rubbish, you should get out more.

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      el+gordo

      Hypothetically, the better equipped Ukrainians could push them back to the prewar border, but this is a risky venture and the West know it. NATO could pressure Ukraine to cut off this festering sore, along with its abundance of rare earth, to avoid the potential of starting a nuclear war.

      ‘Pressing for peace may sometimes, however, be started by the winning faction as a means to end the war for several reasons, such as if additional conflict would not be in the perceived best interest of the winning party. In that case, demands might be made, or both nations may agree to a “white peace”, which is a return to the status quo ante bellum (the prewar situation).’
      (wiki)

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    David Maddison

    Have you noticed how when you get emails from government departments, universities and other woke institutions the public serpent or similar carbon-based life form adds its made-up gender pronouns in the signature block?

    And it’s almost a crime if you “misgender” one of these beings. In fact, I have no doubt it will soon be made a real crime.

    E.g.

    zie zim zir zis zieself
    sie sie hir hirs hirself
    ey em eir eirs eirself
    ve ver vis vers verself
    tey ter tem ters terself
    e em eir eirs emself

    You hardly ever see:

    SHE HER HER HERS HERSELF
    HE HIM HIS HIS HIMSELF

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      TdeF

      I cannot say I understood a word of this and English is tough enough even though the verbs, nouns and adjectives do not contain explicit gender and declensions unlike all other European languages and Russian. Who is making this stuff up? And why? If you are confused, just use IT. Like the Addams family.

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      b.nice

      I always respond with the normal human binary gender identification.

      If I offend them…. GOOD JOB, Well Done. 🙂 !!

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    John Connor II

    NZ – if we can do it for Covid we can do it for climate

    https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1620322010302930944

    Horseface is gone but the insanity remains…

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      David Maddison

      Frankly, it’s terrifying.

      I don’t intend to visit NZ ever again.

      I wouldn’t want to be trapped there if they decide to lock down.

      Plus in NZ, I might accidentally express alternate opinions at variance with the official Government narrative. I expect they want only tourists drink the non-thinking community.

      NZ has become too much of a Nanny State for my liking. Even worse than Australia, as hard as that is to believe.

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    Marc Schellekens

    Great to see someone keeping the climate hoax alive.
    When are people going to wake-up to this fraud?

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      TdeF

      He was the only Climate Commissioner who was actually a scientist. He was an industrial chemist and a professor at the ANU. But of course not qualified in meteorology.

      However I did correspond with him because I thought as a chemist he would fully understand equilibrium and that CO2 was obviously in rapid equilibrium at the atmosphere/ocean interface. And also that C14 proved absolutely that there was no man made CO2 in the air (Under 3%).

      But ultimately he just referred me to the IPCC reports which said nothing really about CO2 equilibrium. Except that the half life was standardized at 80 years, which is an astounding fantasy and the whole basis of the story of man made CO2. I felt that knowing his qualifications, this response was basically devious if not dishonest.

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        TdeF

        And now there are no scientists on the Climate Council.

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        Kalm Keith

        Years ago I looked up his academic background and even found the course outline and subjects taken in his first degree.
        I forget the detail but remember being alarmed at the basic scientific material missing from his “qualifications”.

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        Memoryvault

        he just referred me to the IPCC reports

        Hardly surprising – he was a Senior Advisor on many of their committees.
        Together with Flim Flammery, he formed the Climate Council.
        Steffen, Flammery, Karoly and Braganza have been “adising” govt climate change policy since 2007.
        He wasn’t in the video I posted earlier, but he was the university professor who CREATED those idiots.

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      TdeF

      Windmills are near useless random energy. At least solar is predictable. It is guaranteed off completely for half the day. And most of the day in mid winter when you need energy.

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        TdeF,

        At least solar is predictable. It is guaranteed off completely for half the day. And most of the day in mid winter when you need energy.

        Thanks for making me go and check this out. Previously, it would not have been an easy task, but these days, it’s an easy thing to do, and it took me all of five minutes.

        I’m already keeping the daily data for wind generation, but I wondered about solar power plants, not rooftop solar, but the actual Industrial Solar Plants that deliver power to the grid.

        Across the AEMO, there is currently a total Nameplate for solar plants of 6924MW and the total generated power delivered to the grid last year was 11,366GWH. That gives solar plants a Capacity Factor of 18.73% rounded up to 19%.

        Now, I might think that the Australian Photovoltaic Institute would be a reputable enough source for indicating the best case for rooftop solar (RTS) Nameplate, and according to them, there is 28,200MW of rooftop solar installations in the whole of Australia. So, using the AEMO total generated power for RTS, and adding on the generated power shown at the link for WA and the NT, then that gives a 2022 total generated power from RTS of 21850GWH That gives RTS a Capacity Factor of (around) 9%. Now, here, keep in mind that these RTS figures are ‘rubbery’ at best, and the propensity would be to gloat that the total Nameplate is so enormously high. Also keep in mind that the actual generated power from RTS is also a best case guess on behalf of the AEMO, and even that might be on the high side as well. Either way, that CF I calculated would also be just as rubbery as the Nameplate and delivered power, but I might actually suggest that the CF for RTS could be used as a best case indicator. It might even be as high as 11%, and here I’m giving them a humungous benefit of the doubt.

        So Wind Plant generation has a CF of 30%
        Solar Plant generation has a CF of 19%
        Rooftop Solar generation has a CF 9% to 11%

        It would seem to me that renewable power is an absolute failure at delivering power.

        Finally, the most telling thing of all is this:

        Wind Plants, Solar Plants and Rooftop Solar have a total Nameplate of 45,400MW. (double the Nameplate for coal fired power)
        Coal fired power Plants have a total Nameplate of 22,500MW.

        Last year 2022, Wind, Solar. and RTS delivered 55,900GWH of power. (less than half the delivered power from coal fired power, 46%)
        Last year 2022, coal fired power delivered 121,500GWH of power.

        I come across as a pretty ardent supporter for coal fired power, and I’m totally against these three renewables of choice. You only have to look at the numbers to see why I’m against these three renewables of choice.

        It’s because that they just DON’T do what they are supposed to do ….. deliver power.

        Tony.

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          Robber

          Tony, Grid-connected Solar Plants according to OpenNEM deliver an average 300 GWh per week in summer (1,785 MW) but only 140 GWh per week in May/June (830 MW) from that nameplate capacity of 6,924 MW.
          In the last week, peak output was 5,100 MW on one day, and 3,570 MW on another day.
          In the last 30 days, daily output varied from 33 to 54 GWh.
          That intermittency and variability adds costs to the entire network.

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    eNvironment sCeptic

    Capella Science–Immunology (nice) 🙂

    “Leukocyte (BTS Dynamite Parody) | A Capella Science: Immunology I

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFE8HQKpPlI

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    MrGrimNasty

    Anniversary of the 1953 North Sea floods, when the weather was safe yet deadly effective.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953

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    Mealworms can consume polystyrene
    Stanford researchers show that mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic

    Mealworms are not only able to eat various forms of plastic, as previous research has shown, they can consume potentially toxic plastic additives in polystyrene with no ill effects, a new study shows. The worms can then be used as a safe, protein-rich feed supplement.

    May my oppinion be a far away from what is said in the highlighted part of the citation ? 😀

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      Annie

      Chooks (chickens) like polystyrene too. We had to hide old veg boxes from them. It’s not a problem now as we no longer keep any chooks; we’d become tired of cleaning up free-ranging chook poo from the verandahs and carport!

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      Hanrahan

      So, GMO food will kill you but eating meal worms that have been fed plastics and toxins is OK. Got it!

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    Strop

    From the Epoch Times

    Professor of psychology and public speaker Jordan Peterson has announced the formation of an international consortium that would serve as a kind of populist alternative to the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF) and provide a countervailing force against globalist aims and narratives.

    Peterson laid out his plan in an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, telling him that an inaugural event of the group is being planned for the cusp of October/November 2023 in London.

    Peterson listed some of the core ideas that will be discussed at the October/November 2023 meeting, including enhancing energy production and distribution, protecting individual freedoms against tyranny, and pushing back against falling birth rates with pro-family policies.

    “You don’t get to save the planet by making energy prices so expensive that no one poor can afford them. That’s off the table,” he said, adding that the development of alternative sources of energy would be welcome but “you don’t get to impose your utopian vision in the service of your narcissism on the poor.

    “We’re going to try to make the poor rich—try to alleviate poverty,” he said.

    Experts have criticized agendas like the Green New Deal for pushing technologically immature solutions by government dictates and subsidies, making energy less reliable and more expensive, with a disproportionate impact on the poor.

    Peterson said a key discussion point of the consortium will be how to obtain “energy and resources at the lowest possible cost, as rapidly as possible, to the largest number of people around the world.”

    Another is to look at ways to manage governance in order to “stop the march of something like pathological gigantism,” which he described as big and growing power by a combination of corporate, governmental, and media in what he described as a kind of “corrupt collusion.”

    He also said that discussions would involve exploring a “pro-human” view of stewardship.

    “How do we prioritize our attempts to establish our states and our international relationships properly, so that we prioritize human well-being” in a way that’s in harmony with nature to the extent possible, while avoiding the trappings of the Malthusian idea that there are too many “mouths on the planet to feed and that you’re evil if you just think about having children.”

    Further, Peterson said the consortium will explore policies that would counteract falling birth rates by encouraging stable, two-parent families that are “child-centered.”

    “In the West, because we’re very immature, we think that the purpose of a marriage is the happiness of the people who are involved in the marriage, the husband and the wife. And that’s just not the purpose of marriage at all,” Peterson said.

    “The purpose is long-term facilitation of their psychological and spiritual development and the establishment of an environment that’s beneficial to children,” he added.

    He also touched on the primacy of voluntary cooperation among members of societies, rather than top-down coercion.

    “One story is power rules everything,” he said. “But that’s not a very good story. It’s a very pathological story.”

    Peterson argued that taking responsibility at the most local level is key to preventing the rise of tyranny. He said this is based on the idea that personal responsibility should be taken at each step of oneself, family, community, state, and nation.

    “The idea is you have to produce a hierarchy of responsibility, distributed responsibility, as an antithesis to tyranny,” which Peterson suggested could be a model for good governance.

    He said this idea is rooted in Western tradition and is an antidote to the notion that power is the only factor that rules.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/jordan-peterson-sets-up-pro-human-alternative-to-globalist-corporatist-world-economic-forum_5019757.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-01-31&src_cmp=mb-2023-01-31&utm_medium=email&est=%2BtN9w8uZf%2F9dvKQdJH2XvfFB3JC6w0ChlRVwqbkALoVgHHInIrj5MzOSIIVkxwW7

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    Leftist “fact (sic) checkers” have targeted conservative-oriented PragerU.

    NewsGuard—one of the largest and most influential “fact-checkers” employed by Big Tech—is targeting PragerU!

    After labeling PragerU as misinformation, encouraging tech platforms to cancel us, warning users to “proceed with caution” before viewing our content, damaging our reputation, and costing us hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dollars, NewsGuard refuses to leave us alone.

    Political and corporate elites empower third-party fact-checkers like NewsGuard to censor companies they don’t like—companies like PragerU. Meanwhile, leftist, legacy media companies like the New York Times and NPR get near-perfect “credibility” ratings.

    So, who is behind NewsGuard, and why are they controlling what you can and cannot see?

    NewsGuard is partnered with Big Tech companies (like Microsoft), Big Pharma (like the PR firm for Pfizer—the maker of the COVID vaccine), government agencies (like the Department of Defense), and even national teachers unions (like the American Federation of Teachers) “to combat disinformation, especially around COVID-19 and elections” according to the World Economic Forum. So, it’s no wonder NewsGuard doesn’t want open dialogue about COVID-19 and lockdowns.

    They want to stop PragerU from exposing the truth.

    Advisors to NewsGuard include former Directors of the CIA and other government agencies. Their partners, advisors, and staff overwhelmingly support left-wing causes. So, how can NewsGuard claim to be “independent” and call itself “The Internet Trust Tool”?

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    New feminist chemistry class teaches that science is racist
    https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21093

    … One of their goals “was to shine light, through this process, [on] how scientific epistemology and culture have strong links with capitalism, enslavement, colonization, and exploitation of female-bodied folks.”

    Students also learned the definitions of terms such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and systemic racism.

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    another ian

    Just what you need!

    “Leading The Charge”

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/31/leading-the-charge/

    Check the range!

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    another ian

    Don’t be rude to Jordan Petersen

    https://youtu.be/9A2ESnau6jo

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    Here are some good articles and comments from around the internet as I continue to bring over articles and more from my old climate forum, this is one of my forums,

    Blue Marble

    LINK

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    Jordan Peterson’s Announcement Will Change The World

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSfPC0w1qM

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    It looks like Australians can sue ‘healthcare’ providers. The Australian Medical Professional Society (AMPS) has issued a notice to all their members that they may not, in-fact, be indemnified. The Australian government sticks the knife in further by telling the healthcare practitioners that they’re required by law to have gotten privatised indemnity protections from their private insurer: https://8630368.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8630368/Indemnity%20Final.docx.pdf

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